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THE NIOET BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
st curmjrr o. hoc ma.
Twu the night before Christmas, when all throagh
the house
Ket 1 creature wu stirring, not era a mouse;
The stockings were hong by the chimney with
cere.
In hope that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
The children were nestled all snng in their beds,
While visions of sngar-plams dand in their heads,
And mamma in her kerchief, and 1 in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter's
nap
When oat on the lawn there arose inch a clatter,
I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a fash.
Tore open the shatters and threw tip the sash.
The moon, on the breast of the new-fallen snow,
Gave a luster of mid-day to objects below ;
When, what to my wondering ey should appear.
Bat a miniature sleigh, and eight t ny reindeer,
With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles bis coarsen they came,
And be whistled, and shouted, ani called them by
name
Xow, Dasher I now, Dancer! now, Prancer and
Vixen I
On, Comet! on, Cnpid! on, Bonder and Blitzen
To the top of tie porh, to the top ot the wall !
. Now, dash away, dash away, dash uway all 1"
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly.
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky,
Bo, op to the house-top the coursers they flew.
With the sleigh fun of toys and St Nicholas too.
And then in a tv Inkling I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my bead, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St. Nicholas catie with a bound,
Be was dressed all in fur from his bead to his foot.
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and
soot
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And be looked like a peddler just opening his pack.
His eyes bow they twinkled! hs dimples how
merry!
Bis cheeks were like roses, his note like a cherry
liis droll little month was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard on his chin was as white as the
snow.
The stump of a pipe he held tight l i his teeth.
And the smoke, it encircled his he id like a wreath.
Be bad a broad face and a little ron id belly
i iMriQfin, wnen ne uugnco, iuti imwi iuu ui
jelly.
He was chubby and plump a right jolly old elf
And I laughed when I saw him, in apite of myself,
A wink of his eye, and twist of his lead,
Boon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.
Be spoke not a word, bat went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings then turned with a
jerk,
And laying his finger aside of his nose.
And giving a nod, np the chimney te rose.
Be sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the dow n of a thistle
" But I heard him exclaim, ere he dove ont of sight,
" Happy Christmas to all. and to all a good-night '."
A Little Figure in Black.
BT MBS. U. Iu BAI KS.
We were as poor as Job's turkey, or
that other mythical creature, a church
mouse, and to add to our misfortune,
had moved into a strange place, pend
ing the settlement of an estate which, if
we gained it, would give as a compe
tency, and if we lost could not leave us
any poorer. I had made the change in
order to get mother away from the ead
associations of her loss, and thinking to
secure the winter school for myself; it
was one day too late, but it might as
well have been a hundred years, only in
that case I should have lot t the school
and gained what? Well, I would not
have suffered from either hunger or
cold, that is certain !
One day the minister called. He had
seen us at church, where we sat in a
back pew and had " poor " and
"stranger " written all ovtr us in un
mistakable characters. Our reception
room was parlor, library and kitchen ;
but when I introduced him to mother,
sitting there so dignified and lady-like
in her sorrowful widowhood, I felt a
superiority to grand furniture or fine
clothes. What were these paltry things
in such a presence as hen, the grand,
true woman who had put al the world
beneath her feet ?
The minister was a simple, child-like
man, who carried himself w ith the air of
man whose ehouldera ware need to
bearing the cross. He di 1 not dese
crate his holy office by asking imperti
nent questions, nor did he seek to prose
lyte ; he was kind without being
condescending, and talked pleasantly of
the advantages of the place from a
hygienic point; then he hiited, rather
than asked to know, if Mrs. A.., B. or G.
had done themselves the pleasure of
calling upon us.
I presumed that these ladies were
shining lights in the churcli ; no, they
had not so honored us. id we know
our neighbors ? I smiled, n.ther super
ciliously, I am afraid, for ho w as look
ing at a house across the wt y, that was
occupied by at least three families !
" You ought to know Mrs. Simpson,"
he said, indicating a room with white
muslin curtains, between wlich we had
often seen a child's small sleek head in
serted, " you would like her very much;
she is a wash-lady !"
Heavens! had we come down to this?
Nothing but his "cloth," as :father used
to express it, saved him from my spoken
indignation. "Wash-lady!" "No, we
didn't have the honor of her acquaint
ance," I said, "neither had tie ash-man
nor the scrub lady called yet."
It was pert and hateful, but did he
know that we belonged to the . old
Knickerbockers and Van Eeiseelaers of
New York ? I was boiling over with in
jured pride, which was not xthed any
by the calm smile with which the good
man elaborated on the merits of the
"wash-lady."
"She belongs to a family' he said, as
reading my very thoughts, "which is
eighteen hundred years old, even the
family of the gentle Nazarene; her life
has been one of heroic self-abnegation;
for years she took care of an infirm and
paralytio father and an invalid husband,
and earned the money that supported
them; every day she thanks Qod for the
health and strength that have kept her
np; she is now devoting her sole ener
gies to educating her little girl, that she
may be able ,to support herself with
ease andrespoaability- I am not ac
quainted with a lady I respect more
heartily than Mrs. Simpson."
When he had delivered this eulogy he
left, and in a few days other members
of the church called, and ve were in
vited to a Dorcas society aiid a vestry
sociable, but somehow we did not care
to emerge from obscurity, and lived
quietly , for ourselves, happier even in
of these good commonplace people.
So it happened, that much of my time
was spent at the window where, like
Mariana of the Moated Orange, I was
a-weary, and by degrees I fell to watch
ing a swift little figure in black running
in and out from the house opposite
some seamstress, I though f, that has
seen better days, and from t.er I would
glance to the pale, wistful face of a little
child pressed against the window-pane,
the child of the wash-lady whom I had
never seen. ' Well, : if the mother was
rough and brawny, the child was deli
cate and dainty enough to be a lady,
and somehow, from looking at and
watching her, I got to making; Bigns and
trying to coax her over she was alone
bo much I pitied her but she never
ame. I would hold np a book of
pictures, or place a flower on the
window-sill, and she would smile and
clap her little hands, l?ut never came,
and at last, I, one of the old Knicker
bocker line; crept across the street on
Christmas evening In te dusk, and ran
np to the " wash-lady's " room to ask
her humbly for the loan of her little
C fcild. I rapped on the door and it was
opened quickly by the little woman
in black, the seamstress, as I supposed.
"Oh!" I said, rather confusedly, "I
suppose her mother has not come home
yet; I came over to see if 1 could borrow
the little girl !' )
"Come in," said the little woman;
"you have been very kind to notice her
so much, and she has grown really fond
of you; come here, Mabel."
"But but," I stammered, "are you
her mother the the "
"Washwoman ! Yes; do not be afraid
to say it; you see I am not," and she
laughed, rather sadly, I thought
I hid my confused face over Mabel,
who was easily persuaded to sit in my
lap. She was a lovely child, but so
delicate, so frail, that the blue veins
could be traced on her temples and
hands with threatening distinctness,
and she was as light as a bird. So this
was the woman, whose society I had
disdained, gentle, patient, lady
like, almost girlish woman ; but then,
how could she wash ? such hard, dis
agreeable work. Later, she told me
that it was all she could do.
"I dare say our minister has told
you," she said, " that I was the young
est child of a Southern clergyman, and
brought up to do nothing and know
nothing useful. Look at these hands
almost parboiled, ain't they? Well,
they've been a fortune to me."
Poor little wrinkled hands ! I am
naturally impulsive, and I took them
both and pressed my lips to them, he
roic hands ! and the next moment we
were sobbing in each other's arms.
Shades of the Knickerbockers and
Van Eensselaers ! We went into part
nership that very winter, an
the fine starching and
hired a boy to carry the clothes honlcT
Mabel stayed with mother, who gave
her lessons, and took her out walking
every day for her health; Mrs. Simp
son Virginia, as we soon learned to
call her thrived on companionship,
and that winter of servitude was
the happiest of my life. In the spring
I was offered a position as organist, not
a pecuniary emolument, but better than
ironing, but I would not dissolve part
nership with my washlady, and one day
we were both in the suds when brother
Tom came hurrahing in, having left his
own drudgery and traveled night and
day to bring the good news that we had
won the estate I And how we laughed
over the rest of the wash, and made the
handsome Tom hang out the clothes.
But it was the last we did, and to-day
Virginia that is she practicing Beeth
oven's Sonatas in the next room is my
sister; and come here, you blessed little
romp of a Mabel till your auntie hugs
you. Detroit Free Prest
"Yon Tay Mel"
The Chinese have been called the
Yankees of the East They learn rapid
ly Yankee methods of doing business,
and use such as promise them any ad
vantages. When Chinese merchants
first arrived in San Francisco, they
made their purchases for cash. Learn
ing, however, that cash sales meant, ac
cording to San Francisco usage, pay
ment on the day a steamer sailed, which
was semi-monthly, they availed them
selves of this credit Subsequently they
bought on sixty day's time.
But while they were willing to so far
adopt an American custom as to buy on
credit, they declined to sell on time.
They were so cautious as to regard as
safe only such transactions as resembled
a jug the handle on one side and that
side turned towards them. An anec
dote, told ia the "Recollections of an
Old Pioneer," illustrates this excessive
ctmtioa.
A San Francisco merchant thought he
would buy ap all the rice in the city.
Going to a Chinese rice-house, he said
to the merchant :
"Suppose I should wish to purchase
two thousand bags of rice, could you
supply me with that number ?"
"Yes, me sell you that number."
"Could you sell me four thousand ?"
"Yes, me sell you four thousand."
"If I should conclude to take six
thousand, could you supply that num
ber?" "Yes, me sell you six thousand."
"Would you give me any time ?"
"Me know you one very rich Melican
merchant Me give you time. You
pay me one-half when the rice is weighed,
and the other half when it is on the
dray."
The new fashion of short dresses is
very pretty, bnt hard on the Main
street clerks. They have to sweep off
the sidewalks every morning now, and
one very fashionable dry goods house
was compelled to buy a broom this
week, a thing they hadn't done in years.
Evansville Arffu.
How Sothern Got a Wig.
When Sothern played the " Crushed
Tragedian " in Philadelphia for the first
time his wig was stolen from his dress
ing room after the second performance.
The loss was not discovered until three
o'clock the next day. Bach was sent
for. " I must have a wig made before
seven o'clock this evening," said the
comedian.
"It is impossible," replied the
perrnquier, "to-day is Christmas and
my men are not at work."
"It is not Fix your own price for
your work, but have the wig at the
theatre this evening."
"But, Mr. Sothern "
" It must be there," interrupted the
actor. " I shall depend upon it You
are wasting your time now."
Buch got a description of Fitz
AUamonfs flowing locks and went
away. Five minutes before the ap
pointed time he appeared at the theatre
with the wig complete.
"What is your bill?" inquired
actor.
" Thirty-five doliars," replied the wig
maker. "There is 30," said Sothern, hand
ing Bach that amount of money. " Now,
never tell an actor you can't make a wig
in three or four hours."
The Contribution Box.
On Sunday morning Henry Ward
Beecher asked for a collection in aid of
the Women's Sewing Society cf the
church. While the baskets were passing
he said: "I dislike to take a collection
for any object, as I think it demoral
izing. It gives many people an excuse
for evading their duty. Many men of
ample means avoid their full obligation
by putting in a ten cent or a five-cent
piece. Now, I like to see pennies in
the basket, because I know that they
are put in by children, but when I see
the dimes and nickels I say 'Here come
the army of mean men.' We ought
never to take a collection here of less
than $1,000, and from that to 5,000,
and it is my duty to say that if you
don't do better in this respect than you
have done, I shall not permit you to
have a collection at all." (Laughter.)
A Maniac. In an Erie, Pa., school,
a little boy, being locked in an nnused
room as punishment for some slight
fault, was attacked by sewer-rats, over
powered and nearly killed before as
sistance arrived, summoned by his
cries. The terror abd pain have made
bim a maniac, and it is feared that he
will never recover.
A Happy Home.
From the German.
A pretty story about a German family
discloses the secret of a happy home,
wherein joy abonndeth,' though there
are many to feed and clothe.
A teacher once lived in Strassburg
who had hard work to support his family.
His chief joy in life, however, was in
his nine children, though it was no light
task to feed them all.
His brain would have reeled and his
heart sunk had he not trusted in his
heavenly Father when he thought of
the number of jackets, shoes, stockings
and dresses they would use in the course
of a year, and the quantity of bread and
potatoes they would eat.
His home, too, was very close quar
ters for the many beds and cribs, to say
nothing of the room required for the
noise and fun which the merry nine
made.
But father and mother managed very
well, and the house was a pattern of
neatness and order.
One day there came a guest to the
house. As they sat at dinner the
stranger, looking at the hungry chil
dren about the table, said compassion
ately: " Poor man, what a cross you have to
bear !"
"I? Ia cross to bear !" asked the
father, wonderingly ; " what do you
mean ?"
"Nine children, and seven boys at
that !" replied the stranger, adding
bitterly: "I have but two, and each
one of them is a nail in my coffin."
" Mine are not," said the teacher,
with decision.
noble art of obedience. Isn't that so,
children ?"
" Yes," cried the children.
"And you obey me willingly ?"
The two little girls laughed roguishly,
but the seven youngsters shouted:
" Yes, dear father, truly."
Then the father turned to the guest
and said : " Sir, if death were to come
in at that door, waiting to take one of
my nine children, I would say," and
here he pulled off his velvet cap and
hurled it at the door, " 'Kascal, who
cheated you into thinking that I had
one too many V "
The stranger laughed ; he saw that it
was only disobedient children that make
a father unhappy.
One of the nine children of the poor
school teacher afterward became widely
known ; he was the saintly pastor Ober
lin. The Yule Log.
The ancient Goths and Saxons ob
served a festival at the winter-solstice.
As it celebrated the turning-point of
the year, or the day when the sun be
gan its northern journey, they named it
"Jul" or "Yule." The name is sup
posed to have been derived from the
Gothic giul or hiul, the origin of the
word "wheel," and bearing the same
signification. The name is preserved in
the phrase of the "Yule log," the burn
ing of which is an old Christmas cere
mony. The Scandinavian ancestors of
the English used, at their feast of Yule,
to kindle large bonfires in honor of
Thor. The transmitted custom was
formerly observed in England with
pomp and circumstance.
On Christmas eve, after the religious
services, a huge log, sometimes a rug
ged root grotesquely marked, was drawn
from the woods with much merriment.
As it passed the wayfarer, he raised his
hat in honor of the venerable black-log,
which was destined to support a fire
that would crackle a welcome to all
guests and burn out ancient feuds.
Formerly the custom was for each
member of the family to sit in turn on
the log, after it was rolled to the hearth,
sing a Yule song and drink a merry
Christmas. When the fire was kindled,
large Christmas candles were lighted
and the sports began. The log was kept
burning till Candlemas, Feb. 2d, and a
small portion of it was carefully pre
served to light the Yule log of the next
Christmas. Herrick sets forth the cus
toms in the following stanzas:
"Come bring with a noise
My merry, merry boyf ,
Th9 Christmas log to the firing ;
While my good dame she
Bids yon all be free,
And drink to your heart's desiring.
"With the last year's brand
Light the new block, and
For good success in his spending,
On your psalteries play
That sweet lnck may
Come while the log is a teending."
Burning.
A Record of Theatre Disasters.
The loss of life by the burning of the
King Theatre in Vienna will probably
be found to be as great as that at any
similar catastrophe. The following is a
record of the most disastrous theatre
fires of modern times:
Number
perislml.
1772 Amsterdam 800
177a Saragossa 1,000
1781 Pari, Palais Itoyal 500
179 Pisino. Istria 1,000
1807 London, Sadler s Wells (false alarm) 18
1811 Richmond, Va 61
1840 Quebec, Itoyal Theatre 48
1853 London, Coberg Theatre (false
alarm) 16
18U5 Edinburir, Theatre Koyal 28
1867 Philadelphia, American Varieties . . 15
1876 Brooklyn Theatre 234
J 876 Iioucn.' Theatre des Arts 10
1876 San Franci-co, Chinese Theatre
(false alarm) 17
1878 Calais, France 10
1878 AhmednngfTPr, India 40
1881 Cronstadt, lUi-bia 8
1881 Nice, France . 61
Statistics supplied to the Insurance
Institute). Marj.li"if.i nbnw flW:
36 per cent, have occurred during the
night. The average age of theatres
which have been burned was twenty
two years.
Forgetting the Password.
Numlerles8 amusing instances might
be related of the fix officers occasionally
find themselves in by forgetting the
password. Two sentries were mounting
guard inside the walls of the prison at
F , one ta each angle, with strict or
ders to detain any one attempting to
pass without giving the sign. The Lieu
tenant on his round of inspection passed
th efirst sentry, giving the word cor
rectly enough. When half way between
the sentries a Bound on the outside of
the wall attracted his attention, and,
while endeavoring to investigate the
matter, the word quite slipped his mem
ory. Finding his suspicion groundless
he approached the second sentry and
was again challenged, bnt, in spite of
his utmost endeavors, he could not re
member the word. " Can't pass with
out the word," was all the reply given
him. Returning to the first sentry he
was challenged as before,, but, as he
could not give the word, was not allowed
to pass him either. No entreaties could
prevail. The sentries, not knowing but
that he was testing them, and rather en
joying the joke, it the truth must be
told, proved obdurate to all persuasion.
Here, then, he was kept all night be
tween the two, shivering and cold, till
the gray dawn appeared, when he was
relieved by the change of guard.
Vhamberz' Journal.
Bed paper fishes with blue eyes are
the latest novelies in Japanese hanging
ornaments for rooms.
Christmas Evergreens.
The use of evergreens and flowers as
a means of decoration seems an instinct
of human nature. Green bcughs were
used by the Jews at the Feast of Taberna
cles, and the Bomans ornamented their
temples and houses with them, during
the Feast of Saturn. The ancient
Druids hung green branches and the
mistletoe over the doors as a propitiation
to the woodland sprites. A survival of
this superstition was found among the
English peasantry, not two hundred
years ago. They hung up evergreens
in their cottages, in the belief that the
sylvan sprites would flock thereto, and
so the boughs would remain unnipped
by the frosts till a milder season. The
English custom of decking houses and
churches with evergreens at Christmas
springs, therefore, from an ancient
practice and a human instinct. The
favorite plants are holly, bay, rosemary,
laurel and ivy. Objection was formerly
made to the use of ivy in church decora
tions on account of its associations with
the orgies in honor of Bacchus. The
mistletoe was also excluded because it
was the plant most intimately associated
with the heathenish rites of the Druids,
Though excommunicated from the
church the mistletoe was the popular
plant for decorating English homes,
When Drnidism was the religion of the
Britons the mistletoe was held in great
veneration. It was gathered with mystio
rites from the oak on which it had
grown, and then, divided into small
pieces, distributed among the people.
They hung up the sprays over their
dwellings as a propitiation to and at
shelter for the woodland deities, during
.in of frost Even as late as the
nth century a piece of mistletoe
suspended from the neck was supposed
to guard the wearer from the baleful in
fluence of witches.
In modern times the mistletoe has a
tendency to attract men toward witohes
of a fairer face and more amiable nature,
A branch of the mystio plant is at
Christmas hung from the ceiling. If
any man or boy can by coaxing or
cunning induce a fair girl to come under
the spray, he is entitled to kiss her,
Gossip does report that maidens have
been known to pass on purpose under
the salute-provoking branch.
Among the old Christmas carols may
be found some in praise of the ever
greens used in decorations. Of the
holly it is said :
"Here comes holly that is no gent,
To please all men is his intent,
Allelujah?"
The ivy is praised in these lines :
"Ivy is soft and meek of speech.
Against all bale she is bliss.
Well is he that may her reach."
Carrying Pure Air in a Knapsack.
Successful experiments have been
carried on by Mr. Warrington Smythe,
At the New Seaham Colliery, near New
castle, England, with what is termed
the Fleuss breathing apparatus. The
importance of this invention will at
once be apparent to those who are in
any way acquainted with the risks from
siiffocation run by firemen and those
employed under ground, where poison
ous fumes are so liable to break forth
and suffocate those who may be subject
to them. With the aid of the Fleuss
machine men can work without danger
under all these inimical conditions.
The apparatus has the size and shape
of a soldier s knapsack, its principal por
tion being a case of sheet copper, twelve
inches long, twelve inches wide, and two
and a half inches deep. The case is in
ternally divided into four longitudinal
compartments, fitted up so as to secure
the complete circulation through them
of the air that has been robbed of its
oxygen by passage through the lungs.
Each compartment is fitted with small
cubes of India rubber sponge, coated
with specially prepared caustic soda. The
air that passes from the lungs of the
man fitted with the nprratna passes
through one side of n xuotitbpiece and
down the corresponding short length of
pipe over his left shoulder to the first
compartment of the case. There it goes
through a finely-balanced valve, which
gives way to the softest breath passing
from the mouth, but is immovable to
anything from the inside of the case.
The partition of the first compartment
fits closely up to the top of the case, but
is about one inch open at the bottom.
This arrangement thus permits the re
spired air to pass down the first
chamber and to enter the second
at the bottom. Here it circu
lates to - the top, w here an inch
opening in the next partition gives it
passage into the third compartment,
which it descends, to find a similar out
let at the bottom into the fourth cham
ber. Rising to the head of this com
partment, the air thus purified from the
deleterious matter that it has carried
from the lungs passes through a valve
into a pipe laid over the right shoulder
of the operator. Oxygen is added by
means of a small pipe that runs from
the cylinder at the bottom of the case,
and finds its opening close to the june
tion of the clean air-pipe and the before
m.?Etioned India-rubber bag. This lat
ter performs the part of a reservoir of
pure and properly oxygenated air, and
by its presence the act of breatUmg is
rendered easy and natural. In fact, tha
only limit to the space of time during
which the apparatus enables the man to
move about iu the midst of poisonous
gases is the capacity of the oxygen cylin
der and the individual's physical ability
to carry the copper knapsack about with
him. The capacity of the cylinders at
present in use is one -fourth of a cubio
toot, and as the oxygen is pumped in
under pressure of sixteen atmospheres
they hold four cubic feet of gas. The
supply, which can be regulated through
the medium of a valve, is calculated to
lsit for a four hours' shift of work al
though no man employed under such
conditions of danger as require its use is
kept at labor more than three hours.
An essential portion of the apparatus
is the mask, to which is attached a
mouthpiece screwed on one side to the
pure-air pipe and India-rubber bag, and
on Ifce other to the pipe conveving the
expired air back to the compartment in
the knapsack case L'ubbcr Era.
He Explained.
" Now, then, Mr. Cashmere, are von
ever going to get those trowsers done?'
exclaimed the promising youth hurriedly,
entering the establishment of his
favorite tailor.
"They'll be done to-morrow, sir,"
replied the gentleman of fits quietly.
" That's what you said yesterday "
"Exactly!"
" Well, isn't this to-morrow ?"
" Certainly not !"
"Well, wasn't to-day to-morrow
yesterday ?"
" It was, but it isn't to-morrow to
day." "Well, when in creation will to
morrow be, then ?"
" Don't you know ?"
" No."
" Do you remember the last suit I
made you?"
"Yes."
" Yon remember when I called for my
money you always said you would pay
to-morrow. I discovered then that to
morrow never comes. Do you under
stand?"
The youth sought the street, and by
the gentle slam he gave the front door
it was quite evident that he did.
Didn't Cabe. In the examination
before Coroner Herrman into the fall of
the tenements at Grand street and
South Fifth avenue, New York, it was
shown that the owner had ample warn
ing of the peril in which the occupants
were, and that he said he "Didn't care "
as he "didn't have to sleep in the buildings."
Parental Love.
A pathetic stobt of ibelakd.
In our party, writes Mr. Locke, was
an American gentleman who was blessed
with an abundance of boys, but no giris,
and he and his wife had been contem
plating the adoption of a girl. Here
was an opportunity to secure not only
a girl, but just the kind oJ! a girl that
he would have given half his estate to
be father of ; and so he o;ened nego
tiations.
An Irishman who knew him explained
to the father and mother that the gen
tleman was a man of means ; that his
wife was an" excellent, good woman,
and that the child would be regu
ularly adopted under the laws of the
State in which he lived, and would be
educated, and would rank equally with
his own children in the matter of inher
itance, and all that In short, she was
made to understand that Norah would
be reared a lady.
Then the American struck in. She,
the mother, might select t. girl to ac
company the child across the Atlantic,
and the girl selected should go into his
family as the child's nurse, and the
child should be reared in tha religion of
its parents.
The father and mother consulted long
and anxiously. It was a temble strug
gle. On the one hand wasi the child's
advantage, on the other parental and
maternal love.
Finally a conclusion was irrived at
"God help me," said the mother.
" You shall have her. I know you will
be good to her."
Then the arucgements were pushed
very briskljJTiJeguliur American
business-like -oe. The girl se
lected to act as nurse was the mother'
sister, a comely girl of twenty. The
American took the child and rushed out
to a haberdasher's and purchased an
outfit for her. He put shoeu and stock
ings on her, which was a novel experi
ence, and a pretty little dress, and
little hat with a feather in it , and a little
sash and all that sort of thing, and he
procured shoes and stockings for the
elder girl, a tidy dress and hat and
Bhawl, and so forth. An I then he
brousht them back, instructing the
mother that he should leave with them
for Cork the next morning at eleven
and that the girl and child should be
dressed and ready to depart.
The next day came, and the American
went for his child. She was dressed.
thousrh very awkwardly. The mother
had never had any experience in dress
ing children, and it was a wonder that
she did not get the dress on wrong side
up. But there she was. The mother
wailed as one who was ptirting with
everything that was dear to her, the
father lay and moaned, looking from
Norah to the American. Time was up,
The mother took the baby in her arms
and gave it the final embrace and the
long, loving kiss, the father took her in
his arms and kissed her, and. the other
children looked on astounded, while the
girl stood weeping.
" Good-by," taid the American.
will take irood are of the baby," and
taking her from the mother's arms he
started for the door.
There was a shriek, the woman darted
to him just as h was closing the door,
and snatched th baby from Jus arms.
" Drop the ctilU !" said the father,
" You can't have her for all the money
there is in Ameriky V
"No, sor," ejaculated the mother,
half way between fainting and! hysterics,
"I can't part widaer 1"
And she commenced undressing the
baby. '
"Take back jour beautiful clothes,
give me bask the sags that was on her,
bnt ye can t have he child.
And the girl commenced undressing
too, for she did rot want to obtain
clothes under false pretenses, but the
American stopped the disrobing.
"It's bad for the child," he said,
but somehow I can't blame you. You
are welcome to the clothes, though."
And he left as fast as he could, and I
noticed he was busy with his handker
chief about his eyes for some minutes.
Barnum and Liquor Licenses.
PODJTTNa OCT THE ADVANTAGE OF RE
STRICTING THE JiCKBEB AND INCEEAS
ISQ THE PRICE.
P. T. Barnum has addressed a letter
to the Commission oi the Revision of
the Liquor Laws of Connecticut, ap
proving the suggestion made by the
Hon. William Hamersly, that the num
ber of licenses should be limited in each
town and the price increased. Refer
ring to his own town of Bridgeport, with
a population of 30,000, he says there are
now 200 licensed places wheM liquors
are sold, each paying 8100, or $20,000
all told. If the number could be re
duced to sixty, or one to every 500 in
habitants, and the license fixed nomin
ally at 300 and put np at auction, the
revenue would, in his judgment, be in
creased largely. The reduction of the
number of saloons would have an excel
lent effect unon oroDertv interests. He
says he can point ont places in Bridge
port where a single liquor shop in jures
property in the immediate vicinity more
than $20,000.
He adds : "It ia quite safe to say that
on the average eaoh liquor saloon depre
ciates adjacent property 85.0CU, to say
nothing about the injustice of thus in
juring the property of thsse who pay
taxes for the protection of their person
and property. It is evident that it
Bridgeport had but sixty liquor saloons,
instead of 200, the taxable real estate of
the city would be enhanced as much as
$700,000, and I." ?50,000. If the
number of licenScSmBridgt port was
fixed at thirty, being one liquor saloon
for each thousand inhabitants (enough
in all conscience) the financial advan
tages to the publio would be at least
twice as great as above indicated, to say
nothing of the increased peace and
prosperity cf our city. I nav0 confined
myself to the money phM ' ;1e ques
tion only, although it is obvious that
this is of comparative insignificance
when the great moral admntages of re
ducing the number of drinking places
are considered. I am perfectly confi
dent that if our Legislfttnre will try for
a single year the limiting of liquor li
censes to one for each tbonsar d inhab
itants, the good resulted oue twelve
month will hA an valuable that the ratio
v I 1
of drinking places will never
creased in our Commoneft'tu
be in-
Didn't Appreciate IIoe Comforts.
A young man advert-teea for private
boarding-house where be !LouId P6
treated as one of the family- Ho got it.
But after he had stayed tome fourteen
nights in succession, tobe care of the
baby, had been utilized "ld "0mgs
to build the fire, found V mmus
towels eight or nine time n ?hlon oc
casions he wiped his ban n(1 face n
his night shirt, and sevtf1 othBr 'K9
not worth mentioning, 1 becama dis
couraged and left, whae6 rest of the
family sagely agreed tbt Bm,) PP1
so deteriorate by contact ith world
that they are unable to appre0,,lle borne
comforts. Oil Oity Deffl'
SMALL BITS OF SCIENCE.
A Gebmam chemist, Dr. Sohal, has
established the useful faot that wood
paraffine is preserved from rot
According to a French medical jour
nal whooping cough has been successful
ly treated by Dr. Barety, of Nice, by
turpentine vapor.
It is said that benzine may be freed
from all offensive odor by shaking it np
well with quicklime, about three ounces
to the gallon.
In preparing phosphor brass, about
one-tenth of one per cent of dry phos
phorus is introduced into the melted
metal (good red brass) in a covered cru
cible. A Swiss loom-maker, Hennegger, has
invented a loom in which the shuttle is
not thrown, bnt is handed over from
side to side by hook, much in the same
manner as the silk-loom handles.
To rrrnjizE old rubber the pieces are
heated in contact with steam, when the
sulphur is volatilized and the caoutchouc
melts, and is collected as a liquid, used
in preparing water-proof covers, etc.
SevseaIi years ago Ericsson predicted
that the Nile and the Ganges would be
lined with cotton and other factories
driven by solar heat A French engi
neer in Algiers is already contributing
to the fulfillment of this prediction by
pumping water and making it boil by
solar force alone.
Bbaue recommends the use of baryta
in place of sodium-carbonate and char
coal in the ordinary dry test for arsenic.
If arsenious oxide is heated with bartya
a mirror is obtained existing partly of
metallio arsenic and partly of barium.
arsenate The test does
well with arsenious sulphide,
Every one knows that the very feeblest
currents produce audible sounds in the
telephone, which is more sensitive
than any galvanometer to feeble cur
rents. M. Pellat lately declared that
the heat necessary to warm a kilogramme
of water one degree would, if converted
properly into the energy of electric cur
rents, suffice to produce in a telephone
an audible sound for 10,000 years con
tinually. A Well-Selected Jury.
THE SHREWDNESS OF AN ARKANSAS LAW
YER A STOLEN HOG.
The Little Rock Gazette says: Down
in an extremely rural district of Arkan
has, an old man was arrested for steal
ing a hog. The proof was positive, and
the Court was surprised when the plea
of not guilty .was introduced. The
lawyer for the defense, a man well
known for his trickery rather than his
ability, seemed particularly desirous of
selecting a jury that would not show
partiality in its decision. The prose
cuting attorney, a young and inexperi
enced man, agreed to every juryman
selected by the defense, and the judge,
although he might have thought the
defense stepped over the bounds of
judicial courtesy, said nothing. The
arguments were concluded, leaving in
the minds of the people no doubt as to
the verdict, for one of the witnesses,
man whose word no one could dispute,
swore that he saw the defendant when
he stole the animal. ' The jury retired,
and, after a few moments, returned
verdict of not guilty, in exact opposi
tion to the charge of the Court.
When the Court adjourned, the judge
approached the lawyer for the defonse
and remarked :
"Look here, my friend, I never heard
of such a verdict I cannot, as an im
partial disseminator of justice, allow to
flagrant an outrage to be perpetrated on
this community. That man is as guilty
as Judas, btit if you will tell me the se
cret of the acquittal, I'll allow the ver
dict to pass."
"You see, judge, some of the jury
men were rather young and some rather
older,"
"Yes, but what does that signify?"
"It signifies that I run in the old
man's twelve sons on the jury."
Well Served.
It is singular how men will lie in order
to shift a burden from their own to an
other's shoulder. A servant being dis
missed for some grievous fault, asked
for a "character." His master wrote
him one, which was so commendatory
that the man said, with a touch of sar
casm : "Don't you think you had better
hire over again a servant who has such
a 'character'?" A church was once
taught a similar lesson in veracity :
The church of a Maine town, after
much discussion over tea-cup s and the
counters of the country stores, decided
to dismiss Deacon X, from membership.
No especial misdemeanor could be
brought against him, but a general
faculty of making himself disagreeable,
of causing gossip and of beirg uncom
monly stiff-necked, made the good folks
anxious to be relieved of him.
The matter was brought np before the
church, and as no crime was charged
upon him, Deacon X. insisted upon re
ceiving a letter of recommendation.
Elated, perhaps, by the prospect of
being rid of the troublesome member, the
clerk of the parish wrote a very pleas
ant letter, commending the brother to
the good-fellowship of whatever church
of the faith to which the letter might
come. . .
Imagine the consternation of the con
gregation when at the next church
meeting Deacon X. presented his letter
of recommendation and insisted upon
being received back again ! And he was.
A Model Mother.
A Brooklyn lady was recently fol
lowed home by a man she had never seen
before, she naturally was frightened
and left the fellow to her mother, who
had opened the door.' Under such cir
cumstances the ordinary mother usually
slams the door in a frightened sort of
way and hurries to the parlor window to
peer cautiously through the curtains or
blinds to see what sort of an animal it is
that has broken loose. Bat what the
Brooklyn mother did was to invite the
nuisance into the house and pretended
to send for her daughter, to whom the
fellow had asked to be introduced.
First, however, she rang her burglar
alarm. Results A policeman, an ar
rest, a night in the station house and a
ten-dollar fine, but no introduction to
the lady. If there were more of such
women there would be fewer complaints
about insolent men. Women should re
member that it is perfectly safe to take
suoh cases in their own hands, for a
man who in any way annoys a lady is
sure to be a sneak and a coward. JScw
York Jleruld,
Bv way of apology for allowing a
woman passenger to retain her money,
one of the perpetrators of the reoent
train robbery in Missouri said: "The
next time we undertake a job of this
kind we will have a lady to search the
lady passengers." The woman was not
too frightened to express a doubt
whether the robbers could secure the
services of a lady in that capacity.
Wrinkles disfigube a woman less
than ill-nature.
A CHAEGE AT FREDERICKSBURG.
A Story of
the War as
Quad,
Told by M.
Sumner was on Burnside's right
Longstreet faced him on Lee's left
Franklin was no sooner repulsed on tne
left than Sumner was ordered to attack
on the right The key of the Confed
erate right was a hill which could be
defended against the world. The key
of the Confederate left was just such
another place. Jackson held the one
Longstreet the other. From the battle
lines formed under cover of the houses
and walls, men looked across the open
commons to Marye's Hill and realized
that perhaps not one out of five would
nve to cross the space, but wnen tne
order came every man was ready. It
was a terrible blunder to push those
legions against such a position. The
Confederates charged Bond Top at Get
tysburg in the desperation of despair.
It was gain all or lose all by that one
charge. The Federal's charged Marye's
Hill when they could have flanked it
when defeat was assured before a man
moved. The Confederate artillery had
a direct fire from sixteen different
points, and at the foot and at the slopes
of the hill there were enough infantry
to hold it against the grandest army
ever marshaled.
Look there to-day and you can find
every point and particular. Over the
crest or top of the hill runs the old
plank road to Salem Church and Chan-
cellorsville. At the base of the hill.
and bearing around it to the left, is the
Telegraph Road. Along this latter road
is a stone wall four feet high, built
against the base of the hill. If that
wall had not been there the hill was yet
too steep for soldiers to climb. But the
wall was there, and behind it was a
brigade of Confederate infantry. I
walked slowly along the length of this
rxojivjAeA the "chips made
lriam h tnn ah.
IfII3SKside, the boys from
the town were digging out bullets where
thousands had been found before. Had
the wall been carried the hill could not
have been, but Sumner dashed his men
at both as if a single dash would route
Lee's left wing. One historian locates
this stone wall "midway up the hill,"
and puts "hosts of the enemy behind
it." It is at the base of the hill, and
hardly long enough to cover one bn
srade. Hooker thought there were 30.
000 behind it. Lee had only about
50,000 men all told to defend his entire
lines. Lees than 2.000 Confederates
held the wall, and 2,000 men can hold
it to-day against 10,000.
Marye's Hill and this stone wall were
the objects of Sumner's dash, but his
men got no nearer than 200 feet to the
wall. The artillery on the heights cre
ated the most terrible slaughter as the
troops rushed across the open space,
and as they came within stone's throw
of the wall the musketry swept whole
companies away. At the centre of the
wall is a street a hundred feet wide lead
ing up from the town. Up thU street,
affording no cover whatever, the Feder
als charged in column of brigades,
They could not go forward and they
would not go back, and while the artil
lery above had a plunging fire on them,
the infantry behind the wall mowed
them down with the scythe of death. In
ten minutes Sumner was hurled back
but he charged again, and it was now
that the Irish Brigade made its heroic
charges. with bayonets fixed they
dashed at the stone wall again and
again, but never to reach it That
night when the roll was called only one
man out ot three answered to his name.
The rest were lying dead in the dusty
lane. Along this lane, nearest to that
stone wall, you can sit on your horse
to-aay and count over two hundred
bullet holes in sheds and houses.
"I was sergeant of a gun which was
tationed just there," said an ex-Conled-
srato to me, as we faced the height.
'We did not believe the Federals would
charge the hill, and when they name
the second time we cheered them. Such
bravery I never saw on a battle field.
Some of the men who wete hit way
down tne street hobbled and limped for
wsrd and were struck down within 100
feet of the wall. This road was the
worst spectacle of the whole war. Our
artillery created horrible slaughter on
the heavy lines of men at such close
range. That tree down there at the
corner of the garden stood in an open
field then, and just beyond it was a
slight swell. As Sumner's troops came
over that swell m their second charge I
fired into the lines just to the right of
the tree, and the shell killed or wound
ed nearly every man in one company.
I saw grape and canister open lanes
through the ranks, and yet the blue
lines closed np again and dashed at the
base of the hill. We thought they
were mad men.
"Down where the old shed stands I
saw a curious thing that day. When
Sumner was driven back the second
time a single Federal soldier was left on
his feet among the dead there. Instead
of falling back with the rest, he stood
there and loaded and fired as coolly as
if at target practice. He wounded one
man in my company, killed a corporal
further ud the hill and shot a lieuten
ant there where the wall curves. He
fired as many as six shots, being fired
at in return by a thousand men ; bnt as
he turned and walked away, our men
ceased firing and gave him cheer after
cheer."
Torktown.
The scene of the surrender has long
Imari a mnnll-TKirrl fniji BTinf,. VorlftOWn
is not reached by railway, and is off the
lme of progress, borne day it may re
vive its old-time prosperity ; at least it
ought to become more accessible as a
point lor mture pugnmage. xeioro m
Revolution the town was quite an empo
rium, the only port from which the Vir
ginia planters shipped their tobacco to
England. Baltimore and Norfolk grad
ually reduced it by competition. Some
two centuries or more ago we first hear
of it as one of the few outposts or torts
in the colony. In 1725 it was the center
of a thriving county an Episcopal par
ish of sixtv communicants, with a
church. Williamsburg, the capital,
with its House of Burgesses and grow
ing college, attracting thither the wis
dom and fashion of the Dominion, was
scarce a dozen miles away. Until Corn-
wallis stationed himself there, Yorktown
had escaped the ravages of war on the
Virginia coast, and after its surrender it
still contained about seventy houses, not
more than two or three having been
IIjijstrQT-od. Eiipen years later it
xteutdiTs limits, and we find
its population, more than half of which
was composed of negroes, numbering
about 800 souls. The last war, it need
hardly be said, left it in a depressed con
dition, almost beyond recovery, and to-
dav it contains not more than 300 inhab
itants, among whom are to be found but
few descendants of the ancient proprie
tors. In fact, it seems to be the lot of
Yorktown that the more it becomes a
historical spot, the less it becomes any
thing else. nervry ". Johnston, in
JIarper'a Magazine.
Steel beads are passe, all others are
worn.
Tin? Nfbbaska City (Neb.) Press
says: St. Jacobs Oil strikes heavy blows
for good all around, and its virtues for
rheumatic pains are landed upon every
hand. Try it, all ye who sutler.
Zbatj, if not heeded, is more vicious
tbau virtuous.
Indulgent parents who allow their children
to eat heartily of hieh-seasoncd food, rich pies.
cake, etc., will have to ue Hop Bitters to pre
vent indigestion, sleepless nigiita. sieuness,
pain, aud, perhaps, death. No family is sale
without them in the house.
Question thb sincerity of a friend who
natters you.
Throat, Broncblnl and I.una Diseases.
a specialty. Send two slamps for large trea
tise giving self treatment. Address World s
Dibvknsabv Medical Association, Buffalo,
N. 1'.
Rb3Pect a man for what he is, not for
the clothes he wears.
New York Amusement.
At the Casino, Broadway and 41st street, on
Monday, and until further notioe, will be pro
duced "the aesthetic craze, "Patience,' which
has had such wonderful success. We predict
full houses. Don't fail to see it.
Why Should Americans Interest Them
selves In Irish Matters 1
Petroleum V. Nasby writes : There
are 10,000,000 of Irish in America, and
every one of them is earning money.
They are in every walk in life, from the
professions down to railroad shoveling
and servants in kitchens. The wealthy
have, of course, brought their families
all over, and have no tie bnt that of
sentiment to connect them with their
fatherland. But the vast army of hand
workers, male and female, cannot do
this except by Blow and painful accu
mulations, and these they are not al
lowed to make. Why? Because My
Lord in England's mortgage on the
Irish reaches across the Atlantic, through
the love that every Irish man and woman
bears bis kindred, and the infernal grip
of his iron hand is upon the heart
strings of every girl in every kitchen
and every laborer in America.
I used to wonder why the Biddy in
my kitchen came to me regularly once a
month for a draft for the full half of
her wages to Bend to the old country.
I wondered why she did not save her
money against the day she married,
that she might not come to her husband
empty-handed.
I found the reason in Ireland. Biddy
could not see her father and mother
turned out into the cold for the non
payment of the infamous rent, and so
her money, which should nave stayed
in America, and be finally used in build
ing a home of her own, went regularly
across the Atlantic to help them out
But the infernal ingenuity of the soul
less grinders permitted it to do them
very little good. For when an agent
lound than an Irish boy or girl was as
sisting his or her family, it took him
very little time to discover the amount
of the regular remittances and the rent
was promptly raised to just that amount
A Story of Paris.
A stranger enters the shop of an
obliging grocer:
Stranger Owing to the extortions of
the gas companies I have about de
termined to light my premises with can
dles, only, you see, I am at a loss to
decide what to select. I want some
thing realy good, you know.
Grocer Certainly, sir Step this way
uiuuieuii, Bin ion can see lor your
self, sir! (Lights fifteen different sorts
of candles and places them on the
counter.)
Stranger (after having walked np and
down before them for five minntes, with
his chin in his hand, immersed in deep
reflection) Well, I guess on the whole
I prefer the gas! Good afternoon!
t&xit hurriedly!)
Grocer Hurling a bar of soap after
iuiu jn, J J
IN Michigan. An incident related
by the Rev. William Herbert Smyth
auswu, imcmgan, a nome mis
Hionary wnose cirouit embraces a part
u uuriit uisirici, jorciDiy illustrates
the destitution which exists there.
Writing of the case of a woman to whom
he gave $5, he adds: " In a moment she
fell on her knees, held vo thn hill
nana, saying: u liod, this is too good
of you :' then begged me to talra hif
the amount and give it to a poor neigh
bor a mile away, but fortunatelv I had
$5 for her, too."
Rather Enthusiastic.
The Wilmington (DeL) Daily Repub
lican lately contained the following
item of popularinterest: Dr. J. F. Speck,
who is connected with the Wilmington
Fvery Evening, speaks rather enthusi
astically of St Jacobs Oil. Dr. Speck
states thst he uses the Oil in his family
as a household iemedy, a sort of univer
sal panacea for all aches and pains, and
has always found it to act most happily.
His attention was called to it by the
many testimonials in its favor, and he
one day used it upon himself for sore
throat Two applications were sufficient
to effect a cure. He also used it on his
little girl for sore throat with gratifying
success. The same child had scarlet
fever this winter which left the tendons
of one leg much contracted. The little
prattler conldn i w alk without assistance
and suffered much inconvenience and
pain. Several applications of St Jacobs
Oil restored the limb to its normal con
dition and she has not experienced any
trouble since. Dr. Speck states that
he has also s?en the Oil act charmingly
in toothache. He thinks St Jacobs
Oil is a sterling remedy, and does not
hesitate to recommend it for rheuma
tism, etc
Too long courtships are not
judicious. The partys often tire out
skoremg 'lore the trot begins.
Get Ready for the Holidays.
Sheppard Knapp. the great Carpet
man, cor. 6th ave. ana lata street, new
York, has been wide-awake enongh to
capture an enormous importation of
Lace Curtains, comprising an grades,
for less than half the cost of importa
tion, and is soiling at correspondingly
low rates. Such an opportunity may
never occur again. The bargains he of
fers seem to be appreciated for his mam
moth establishment is crowded irom
morn till night His advertisement
reads, "5,000 pairs Lace Curtains from
$1 per pair upward, at less than cost oi
importation.
An enthusiast is an individual who
believes about four times as much as
anybody believes.
" First a cough, carried me off,
And then a coffin they carried me off in !
ThU will not be vonr finitanh if von takn vnnr
coush and Dr. R. V. Pierce's " Golden Medi
cal DL-coverv ' in time. It ia specific for weak
lung, i-pit tmg or blood, nigm sweats, and tue
early stages of consumption. Uy all druggists.
the sasstest man x ever met is a
hen-pecked husband when he is away
irom nome.
wrssTos, rorsytn jo . v.
Gests I desire to express to vou mv thank?
for your wonderful Hop Bitters. 1 was troubled
with dyspepsia for five years previous to oom-
meuciug the use of your Hop iiitterj some six
months ago. My cure has been wonderful.
I am pastor of tile First Methodist Church of
tins place, and my whole congregation can
testily to the great virtue of yonr bitters.
very respeetruiiy,
Kev. H. Febebeb,
Gbatittjde
is the memory of the
heart.
Lord Byros, in reference to a beautiful ladv,
wrote to a friend " Lady has been dnn-
gerouxly ill, but now she is ctarweroug!; we'd
again. Amerioau belles, wheu attacked by
any of tne ills tnai ne.-n is neir to, may De Kepi
killing, and avoid being killed by taking Dr. ii.
V. 1'ierce's " Favoritu Prescription," which
banishes feminine weaknesses, and l estorcs the
bloom of health. By all diuggit-U,
Owe no max a cent that you are able
to pay him.
fnnE Cou-Ljvek Oil. mada fron selected
lifers, on Iho sen-snore, by Casvre), Hazii'd S
Oo.i New York; it is absolutely pure and
swet. IViisuta who hv8 i,noe taion it prcfir
it to fill others. Fhysioians have decided, it
superior to any of the oilier oils in aiwavU
Save small sums if you want to own
large ones.
ICbeiiuiucism.
The editor wishes to know if there is one ot
hi i readers suffering with thenmatism. If so
let him try a bottle of Durang s Bhenmalic
Remedy. It is taken internally; never has
failed, aud never can fail to enre in the short
est time. It can be had at all drng stores.
Bond for free pamphlet to It. K. Ualpeuatiue,
di UL'inaL WaHliiimton. X). C
Ho, Ye Baldheads ! There is jnst one way,
aud no more, by winch you may be enred use
Cabbolise, a deodoiized extract of petroleum.
It, will nositivclv produce new calr; mere is no
substitute for this marvelous petroleum ba r
renewer.
Boils, pimples on face, salt rheum, old
soree, and ail ouianeons eruptions disappear
like mngio when "Lindsey's Blood Searcher"
is used.
Ton bet. when conghs and colds are flying
about like guats in a storm, " Dr. Sellers' Cough
8 rup" is a sure cure.
ImDortant to Traveler.
Special Inducements are offered von by tho
Burlington Route. It will pay you to read
their advertisement to be found elsewhere in
this issue.
Oflmnn'a Preen reil Cnd f.lver Oil ami Mm.
The be! medicine for the LunL'-fi. Snltl hi &il liru
ibts. Depot. 13 th ave., Nsw York.
It afflicted with sore eyes, use Dr. Traao Thompson's
EVfi WA'lER. DrutwUt tell it; feo. a bottle.
Reucs. In their seal to show tha
complete restoration of good feeling the
managers of a Soldiers' Home fair in
Boston begged for the loan of the Con
federate flag that floated over Fort
Sumter during the war and other " rel
ics" for exhibition, and were refused.
their present custodians, the. Washing
ton Light Infantry of Charleston, S.
C, replying: " These are preserved in
their armory in sad and tender remem
brance of their comrades, by whose life-
blood they are hallowed, and with the
kindest wishes for the success of the
fair of their Boston friends, the corps
feel that the display of the relics in
Boston, or anywhere else, North or
South, would be unbecoming."
Bad fob the Boys. Eastern, Pa.,
counts up twenty-five boys who have
been rendered permanent cripples by
attempting to jump on railroad trains
while in motion.
ALWAYS KEEP COOL
To stick to yemt
subject nnn the
truth is an excel
lent plan, and
whether it be in
questions of
'linanceor fishing-,
or any topic what
ever, civil or polit
ical, always keep
cool and tell tha
truth. However,
, t here is a cer-
Ajv-Ttain mareia al
ii lowed for lying.
Mined in no other
subject, and no
doubt our friends
In the picture ara
indulging in that
special employ
ment, as well, per-
I scientific swear-
illK.
Their bodies
tempers ar
I And
hot and the air is
I rool'asthevshould
be.but are not , ia uu
I they are appnrent
ly in tbecondltion
when it is much
easier to catch
rheumatism than
fish, in which cs
it would be well
lor them thattbev
be provided with
a bottle oi bt.
acobs Oil, tha
Great German.
Bemedy for this as well as other painful ai 1 menu.
WE'LL NAIL ITS COLORS TO THE MAST, i
"Hclla, Denny I what is the trouble?" "Oh,
Tm all broke up," was the response to the in
quiry of an old shipmate of William G. Dennis
ton, one of Farragut's war-worn veterans, well
known in the southenvsection of this city, who
came limping into the American office yesterday.
"I thought I would go under the hatches this
time," continued Denniston. "I never suffered
so much in my life. I had the rheumatic gout
so bad that I could not get off the bed or put my
foot to the floor, and would have been there ye
if a friend had not recommended St. Jacobs Oil,
to me. I hesitated some time before getting a
bottle, thinking it wasanother one of those adver
tised nostrums, but was finally induced to give it
a trial, and a lucky day it was for me. Why,
bless my stars! after bathing the limb thoroughly
with the Oil I felt relief, and my faith was pinned
to St. Jacob and his Oil alter that. 1 freely sar
that if it had not been for St. Jacobs Oil I should,
in all probabilty, be still housed. My foot pains
me but little.and theswelling hnentirely passed
away. It beats anything of the kind I have ever
heard of, and any person who doubts it send then
to me at l'.l South Tenth bLrhiiadclplua Timet,
The Best Con eh Syrup Is
Plso'i Cure for Consumption.
It acts quick and It tastes good, f '
Doae small, bottle large.
Therefore the cheapest as well
i as th best. Sold everywhere.
25c. and St. 00 per bottle.
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