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0 T1IE MYSTERIES OF A DAY. STRANGE, CURIOUS AND STARTLING THINGS WAS tiEU ABU JT VS. A Timid Woman It ini a Chicago Woman A Fireman's Turtlts A Boy's War On a Prussian Railroad, Etc., Etc. The history of John Lannon. of Alex andria, Va., who recently died, is worth repeating. He came from Ireland with 1 is mother when a child, and early had 10 worn lor a living. He got a place m the store of Joseph Broders, who, when the Federal troops occupied Alexandria iu 1SU1, ran away, leaving young Lan non, then 16 years old, in charge. Brod ers hoped that the boy would sell the goods in stock and make an honest re turn of the proceeds; he was therefore much surprised when he returned at the end of three years to find that John had increased the business, had on hand a larger stock of goods than when Broders rarf away, and had made $6,000, which he had in bank. The merchant gave younjr Lannon half of the money and took him into partnership, and before he died John had accumulated $100,000, built the Opera House at Alexandria, and the largest wharf there, and was one of the most respected citizens of the town. Some friends seated together a few evenings ago were relating funny expe riences, when one of. the party told an incident about his mother, at the same wishing it understood that he meant no disrespect to the good old lady. He had been brought up in a certain part of the State to which nis parents had moved "".when he was an infant. A few years later a railroad was put through that section and though it went straight to their nearest market town, the old lady could never be induced to go on a train. Bain or shine she would have to be driven, for, as she stated, she would not trust herself on any such contriv ance. One day, however, circumstances were such that she had to go by rail, and, for an actual fact, the train hadn't gone a mile before it was in the ditch, although such a thing had not occurred on the line before in ten years. Now she says a present of the road wouldn't be a temptation to go again. Jeremiah Lojg, of Fairfax county, Ta., has sent a bill of sixty cents for mending two canteens aad a candle stick at Fairfax Court House on Sep tember 7, 1861, while the confederate army was at that place, to Mr. J. T. Hill, of Alexandria. He calls Mr. Hill's attention to the fact that there is also interest due on the bill, but he leaves the amount to be paid for such interest with him. He states that about the same time he did work for some of the "dignitaries'' of the army amount ing to about $5, but was unable to col lect his bill, and last fall he saw Gov. L e and mentioned the matter to him, when the governor promised that he himself would pay him. Under these circumstances he thinks Mr. Hill should pay the sixtv cents, if not the interest also. Mr. Hill will pay the bill with interest. , Let the timid women who are in clined to jump from a carriage every time the horse pricks up his ears read this story of a "YYestfield, Mass., girl. She was drivinar a spirited horse, when the headstall broke and the bit came out of his mouth. Of course he ran. The girl, perfectly powerless to restrain him, sat upright in her seat, while the frightened animal ran wildly through the streets She never said a word, even when a daring man caught on behind and climbed into the buggy, only to find himself quite as powerless as the fiirl. But his atfdei weight helped, for after a half a mile run the horse was tired enough to admit of his being caught, and the girl jumped out of the buggy, not much frightened, and not a bit hurt. Joseph O'Neil, a sheet car conductor of Chicago, who has four motherless children, the eldest but 11 years old, found in his car a hand bag containing nearly $1,200. 'l'd tell you a lie if I said it was no temptation," he afterward said, "for it was; for I have to work 363 days to keep the wolf from the door." But the temptation wasn't strong enough for Joseph, and he at once turned the money over to tne com pany, and soon the woman who owned it was lound. She was very giaa to get her money, and said that she would never forget Joseph as long as she lived. He was an honest man and a gentleman, end honesty always prospered. Chicago women may have big feet, but some of them have small souls. Jake Becker, a Louisville fireman, bought two snapping turtles, and was carrying them to the engine house, where they were to be converted into turtle soup. As he passed a negro one ; of the turtles . snapped at him and grabbed his coat. Jake tried to tear the turtle from his hold, and while do ing this the other turtle grabbed his hand. In the struggle that followed turtle No. 1 grabbed Jake's free hand, aud there he was. Ee ran to the en gine house, a turtle dangling from each hand, and their heads were cut off. Still they clung, and they were torn away with great difficulty. Jake's hands were so lacerated that he was laid oil from duty. "When Robert Houston was buried at Coultersville, III., the other day, he was laid by the side of his second wife, while his first wifa stood by among the mourn ers. It happened this way. Houston married in Scotland, where he and his wife were born. They reared a family of five children and then were divorced. Each married again, and his wife and her husband died. After years had passsd. Houston again married his first wife, and again they separated. When the woman heard of Houston's illness she volunteered her services,' and nursed him. All of their five children have married and all have separated from their spouses. A Pennsylvania newspaper tells a comparatively able lie about a rat. The rodent, while attempting to escape from human enemies in the electric light sta tion in Beading, Pa., a few weeks ago, jumped directly from the floor on one ot the brushes and was thrown back on the ground. He lay motionless, ap . parently and certainly dead, but with out even a hair turned. One of the em ployees was sent with a shovel to gather it up, but as soon as the shovel touched it the rat fell to dust with a little cloud of particles rising from the place where the body had seemingly lain. There was no vestige of hair, flesh or bones remaining. The cows down at Empire, on the Carson River, says a California paper, feed on the numerous sina 1 low, flat Mantis at that point, which divide the river up into many meandering sloughs and branches. A short time ago, when the river was high, these islands were completely submerged, but now they are above water again and covered with short sweet grass, which the cows eager ly sefk. They are so used to wading and swimming from one island to an other that their feet have become brond, with a strong, thick web like sole leather formed between the toes. Any one of those cows can out-swim a rowboat or an alligator. John B. Smith, of New Britain, Conn., had more app'es than he knew what to do with last fall, so he stored 400 bar re's in a neighbor's large ice house. In the winter the house was filled with ice, all around the apples, which were solid ly froen. To Mr. Smith's great sur prise the fruit, a few days ago, was found to be in perfect condition. He " shipped twenty-five barrels to New York and they sold readily at $3 a barrel. More were called for, and now the whole 400 barrels of hard, fresh, sound Bald wins have been sold at that price, right in the middle of June. A woman with a five-yeir-old boy in her arms attracted no attention in San Francisco the other day, until in at tempting to get on a boat the woman tumbled into the bay. Both were fished out and sent to a hospital, and there the woman was recognized as a notorious child stealer. The little boy was one that she had stolen from an insane syl in two weeks before The Prussian State railways have for some time past employed women as guards at crossings. In order to enable the male guards to give their whole at tention to the good condition of the roadbed, the service has been divided into two parts, namely, in track an I crossing service. While the former is only done by men, the latter, consisting chiefly of the closing and opening of bars and the lighting and sweeping of crossings, is done by women in most cases either the wives or widows of guards. On the passing of trains these women, having black and white scarfs round their waists and arms, and hold ing a Hag in hand, are to stand at the crossing. Their daily wages are from 50 to 75 pfennings (12 J to IS) cents U. S. currency . Judge Samuel Randall of Callao, Mo., while driving recently saw a big black snake stretched across the road in fiont of him. He tried to drive over it, but coiled, and the buggy passed over it without touching it. He stopped his horses and struck at the serpent over the back of the buggy with his whip. The snake wound itself around the spokes of a hind wheel, squirmed up to the seat, and drove the Judge out of the buggy. ' It coiled on the seat and stayed there, dodging the Judge's blows for some time, until at length he killed it. It was over six feet long. Thomas Murry and Emily McKcn zie of Chicago were married recent!', and that night the boys of the neigh borhood gave him a charivari. When Murray asked" them to go away they threw stones at him, whereupon he heavily loaded an old single barreled shot-gun and blazed away at the tor mentors. Part of the charge went out of the muzzle and filled a boy with bird shot; the rest of it went out of the side of the barrel, when it burst and blew off two of Murray s fingers and broke his wrist. A young man of Lewiston, Me., drove to the house of his bride elect on Satur day, expecting to be married, according to previous arrangements. He was therefore naturally surprised to be told by the young woman that she guessed she wouldn't be married just then, that she had decided that she didn't want to be tied down to married life so early. But he made the best of it and departed with the wedding cake, on which, that evening; he and his friends feasted. An elaborate table just compiled for Lloyd's, in London, shows that lust year there were built throughout the world a grand total of 693 vessels of over 100 tons each. Of this number 382 were built in Great Britain, and 03 more in British colonies. The total tonnage of wood, iron and steel was 624,053 tons, and out of this England, apart from its colonies, turned out the large total of 440,825 tons. 51 r. Robert Skeoch of Coral, Mich., after bending over the wash tub until tired, sat down to rest, taking her baby boy on her lap at the time. She felt faint, rose to go to another room, faint ed dead away, dropping the baby into a tub of water as she tell. Her nus band, coming in soon after, found the mother unconscious on the floor and the little one drowned in the tab. FESTS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. The Enemies that Infest the Growing Crops. The result of the investigations re cently made by the two entomologists employed by the Department of Agri culture at Washington to visit the Or ange County onion fields and leport upon the nature and habits of the worm which first appeared hereabout last sea son, and has proved a destructive en emy of the crop, will be made public in the Commissioner's forthcoming annual report. Mea i while the accounts given to the press are in most features incor rect, inasmuch as the writers confound the new pest with the familiar cut worm, which happens to be unusually destructive this year. It is the latter grub that works above ground, and by night only, and that the growers pick and destroy by lam pi ght. The new comer first appears in active form as a fly, which deposits its eggs on the shoots of ihe young- onion. In a few days a liny white grub is hatched, which proceeds to bore into and feed upon the bulb of the onion, killing the plant. Having fulfilled :ts mission, and at amed a maximum length of about half an inch, the worm leaves the de cayed onion for a refuge in t.e soil near by, where its skin hardens and it takes the pupa form, and this in turn gives birth to the fly. The process of development from the deposition of the eggs to the appearance of the perfect fly is so speedy ihat three or four broods are generated in the one season. In fact, their ravages are continued by fresh swarms until the onion grows too hard for the grub to penetrate it. Most of the crop in this section is still vul nerable, and he various remedies tried. among them frequent sprays of the I p ants with salt water or lye, have failed to noticeably abate the plague. Cur- j rent estimates of the damage in this county place the loss at one-third of an ! average crop of 400.000 bushels. The fly has also attacked he leaf of the beet, depositing its eggs beneath the epidermis, where the grub feeds upon the green matter until it reaches ma turity and seeks a hiding place in the ground. Many good housewives have been shocked by finding their kettle of boiling beet " greens " covered with a scum of loathsome worms. This season, for the first time so far as is known, a well-known greenhouse pest, the little red spider, has extended its depredations to the corn fields in certain local. ties. It has been discov ered feedins on the soft inner surface of the blades of young corn, of course destroying the plant. The various i branches of the family of beetles that ' feed on herbacious plants have also been more numerous than ever before, but an industrious resort to the custom ary precautions and remedies has pre vented serious harm. How (Jen. Lee Courted Death. A Washington letter says: Mr. Rea gan gives me a new fact in Gen. Lee's history which is not generally known in the North. He said that towards the close of the downfall of the Confeder ate Government there was a very gener al impression among the high ollicial of the Confederacy that General Lee intended to lose his life on the field of battle. This impression was shared by the officers of Lee's army. Gen. Lee never lost, an opportunity of placing himself ia a position of danger. Gen. Reagan says that he drove out from Richmond to see Lee upon the day the principle battle of Cold Harbor was fought. As he came up noar where he could see Lee's headquarters he saw the shells bursting continually around his lent and plowing up the ground in front of him. Some of the officers asked Mr. Reagan to try and persuade Gen. Lee to move his headquarters behind a piece of timber near by. All felt that he was exposing himself" too much. Mr. Rea gan said to Gen. Lee: "I do not pre sume to navise any general in the midst of a battle, but are you not exposing yourself too much? Ought you not go back nearer your reserve';" "Gen. Lee said he had no reserve. He hi:d only one 1 ne of men. He did not dare to shorten his line for fear it would be turned, nnd did not dare to thin it for fear it might be broken. Gen Lee evi dently Kou'.iht death many times during the closing days of the war. That was the view of the Southern leaders, then and is still believed by many. Florida Boys. If Florida has many more boys like Mortimer and Roland Bunting, of Madison, her future is as sured. These little fellows they are 13 and 11 years old have this year rented twelve acres of land and planted it with corn and cotton, have worked the crops carefully, and have good pros pects of an abundant yield. This be sides raising enough vegetables to sup ply the large family of their father, who is an invalid. People going on excursions are so happy to get home that they are glad they went. THE BULL ATENGED THE CALF. Bruin was In the Midst of His Dinner, but He Didn't Live to Finish It. Harry Stever, the twelve-year-old son of Farmer Delos Stever of Tobyhanna, Pa., was sent after the cows Monday, about sundown. He had to go down the road and through a lane more than half a mile from the house. When milk ing time came the cows had not arrived, and Farmer Stever, who had just driven home from the village, started toward the pasture in search of them. On his way through the lane he heard a terrible bellowing over in the pasture. When he reached the pasture he saw the catt le, with their heads and tails up, and bellowing as though they were in great distress about something. Farmer Stever hurried toward the spot, yelling, "Harry!" with all his might. "Here I be, pa, up in this ere tree. A bear's killin' one o' the calves, and I had to git up here out o' the way," said Harry from his safe perch among the limbs of a small map! tree. In the centre of the ring of cows Farmer Stever found things just as Harry had told him. A big bear had come into the field, seized a sma'.l calf, and crushed it to death just as Harry was about to start the cattle for home? The lad climbed up the tree, and the cows began to bellow. When Farmer Stever rushed in anionrthe noisy herd the bear was eating the calf as fast as he could. Farmer Stever excitedly sprang forward and kicked the bear in the side. He regretted it a second later, for the hungry animal turned upon him and nearly broke one of his arms with a blow; from one of his big paws. The farmer immediately took to his heels, nnd, after growling savagely at the farmer, the bear returned to his meaL In a lot adjoining the cow pasture Farmer Stever kept a ferocious five-year-old bull away from the rest of the herd. The bull was pawing up the earth and bellowing like a wild beast when the farmer ran away from the bear. Every now and then the bull tried to get over the fence. He tried to lift the top rails off with his horns, but heavy stones had been placed on them to keep the wind from blowing the rails away, and the bull was unable to move them. Farmer Stever was trying to think what to do, when Harry replied from the tree : "Pal Go'n' let the ol' bull out an' see 'f he won't go fur the bear.:' The lad's suggestion struck the farmer favorably, and he instantly ran over to the fence, threw off the stone and tore oft the top rails. 'Ine bull leapea into the pasture, and, still bellowing with rage, ran toward the noisy herd, with his tail in the air and his head lowered. The cows separated as he plunged for ward, and gave him a chance to get at the bear. The moment the bull got a glimpse of the big black animal he seemed to become wild with fury. With a terrific roar he rushed at the bear, struck him squarely in the right side with both of his horns, and knocked him three or four feet away from the carcass of the calf. The bear was partially stunned by the blow, but he staggered to his feet and groaned with pain just as the bull came up to hook him again. The bear under took to defend himself, but the bull gave him another tremendous thump in the ribs, making the blood run. Then the bear tried to run away from his un expected and very powerful antagonist, but the bull followed him up and gored him till he moaned piteously. Harry up in the tree had Jots of fun over the en counter, and lustily applauded the bull. A minute later the bull got the bear down and soon gored him to death. Then Harry came down from his roost, and he and his father put the bull back in the enclosure and drove the cows home. End of a Romantic Wedding. A sensation was created at the Queen's Hotel, at Niagara, Ontario, when Mrs. Best Dickson, a handsome young lady, walked up to her husband and asked him to come home. Dickson is the prince of Buffalo dudes and his folks are very wealthy. His grandfather is Ira H. Best, of the United States Ex press Company, and has kept him liber ally supplied with money. 'TaKe that person away," said the dainty dude, "and call a policeman, for she annoys me." Then be walked into the barroom. Mrs. Dickson asked for an officer to arrest her recreant husband for deser tion. The country magistrate inclined toward the pretty wife, and people in the hotel sympathized with her. No arrests were ruaae, and a truce was de clared until the Hon. Daniel N. Lock wood, Best's lawyer, and Josiah Cook, the wife's attorney, could be sent for to go down from Buffalo. The marriage was romantic in some respects Best was a petted darling of society, and fell in love with pretty Ida Stiles, the daughter of a policeman and the elle of Cold Springs She was poor, and Best's mother objected, though un successfully, to the match. As a final measure Bes. was incarcerated in the Bu-t'alo State Asylum for the Insane to recover from the effects ot a dissipation including billiards, cigarettes and lem onades. Really, it was done to keep him away f r mi his inamorata. Best then was constancy itself, and when liber ated whs more in love than ever. On the night of November 27 Policeman Stiles's house was raided by other po licemen, and his wife, daughter and some visitors arrested '1 hey were charged with disorderly c nduct aud fined. An appeal was taken to the Court of Sessions and conspiracy was charged. On December 9 Best and Ida were married. They lived haj pily a few weeks, when Best disappeared, to be found on the occasion above referred to. Meanwhile Mrs. Dickson sued her mother-in-law for $25,000 for taking her husband away. That suit i - still pend ing. Policeman Stiles is greatly rieved at the treatment of his daugh ter, and there is much sympathy lor him and his family. The suits ro brought more to secure happiness foi th girl than to recover money from the dude's rich relatives. Mrs. Dickson is unable to account for her husband's change of feeling toward her. Men Killed by an Elephant. A terrible elephant story comes from India. It appears that on the morning of the 8th of April laBt, while an ele phant was being ridden by its k eper in the district of Sultanpore, in Oude, the animal resisted " prodding " with a spear by pulling the man from his back and throwing him some distance away. Fortunately the man fell in a hollow, and remained there undiscovered by the elephant, who went to a neighboring village. There he chased an old man into a house, then broke down the walls, pulled the man out, and dashed him to pieces. The same night the elephant knocked down several houses in quest of human beings in the villages of Sardarpur, Bargaon, and Jaisingpur. He killed six men in Bersoma, three in Sota, four in Gangeo, a d four in Mar dan. He likewis; killed a bullock and a pony, and also completely destroyed a new carriage. The animal used to stand a": the doors of a house, force his entry by demolishing the walls on either side, and would then kill as many of the inmates as he could, pur suing others who tried to run away. He mangled the corpses terribly. After souring a victim, he sometimes re turned to the spot to see if life was extinct, and would commence muti at ing the body afresh. He carried s v eral bodies long distances and threw them into ravines, etc. The elephant found his way to the Dchra Rajah's palace, where he tried to enter the house of a gardner ; but some men mounted on three elephants, assisted by spearmen, drove him off. He then returned to Bebipur, where he t ied to break down his master's house, in which several persons had taken refuge. The police got into the house from a back window, and were obliged to send for help to the Dehra Rajah, who sent three elephants and some spearmen. The animal received two enn shots on the head at Bebipur, which, how ver, only temporarily drove him oil. Ho was ultimately captured at imminent risk by the Bajuh's three elephants and men. 1'all Mall GatetU. GEMS FROM SAM JONES Paragraphs from Sermons Preached In In dianapolis by the Gieorcia lleyivallst. Here is my theology; it is all I need. If you want to do good God will help you to do good, and if you want to do bad the devil will help you. That's enough theology for anybody. I have hcard of churches which claimed to be the only church of God. The old hard shells do it I believe. I don't know how they are up here, but if they are the same as they are down in Georgia the Lord has turned over the whole business to a mighty ignorant crowd. Sympathy is a good deal better than dignity. I've seen some old preacher get up in his pulpit, and he looks like he is five miles away, and he has got dignity enough to fill two worlds. Dig nity is the starch of a shroud. When I die and am lying stiff and cold in my coffin, I'll have as much dignity as any body, but I am never coins to be digni fied till I do die. Now, some sister, I expect, will turn up her nose at me because I am not dig nified. Bless you, the devil has got a mortgage on that nose, and he will fore close it some of these days, and get the old gal with it, too. . We have got to learn that money will help a man to heaven just like it will help him to New York. I can get to New York city without a cent, but I will have to "walk every step, and beg my bread along the road. You can get to heaven without a cent, but you will find Jordan a hard road to travel. A man who ives under the cook stove and sleeps in the pantry belongs to the animal tribe. A man who lives in the library, with the finest authois, is an in tellectual man. A man who walks arm in arm with God is a spiritual man. It is not the mysteries of the Bible that bother me. It is the Ten Com mandments. It is so hard to live ud to them. It is not the mysteries of the Bible that hurt me. It is the Sermon on the Mount. . Many a little cimblin'-headed fellow the main object of his life is to find out who is the father of Melchisedek if he only knew that, would be elected for all time. There is a little, old, dishonest man out there with a thimbleful of brains, who says : If God shoots that big cannon at me I'm going to be conveited." A little old sparrow sits on a rail, saying: When a cannon ball hits me I'm going to fly." There will be neither flesh nor feathers left of the little sparrow when a ball like that hits. God doesn't shoot cannon balls at snow birds. Your papers copied with a good deal of gush, what a preacher in Baltimore said about me. A preacher jumped on me and went for me with his spurs on. Well, sir, the next day I said: "Who is this old case jumping on me here?" And they said: "He's the preacher that the liquor dealers hired to deliver a lec ture for them. "Well," I said, "L un derstand the old coon, now. He is hired on the other side." Don't you see. What is slang? I will tell you what it is. It is three or four of our English words run into one concentrated. Slang is nothin' without a "g" on the end of it but concentrated English language. You great old dunce. That is some more slang, ain't it? That is one of our finest, purest English words. Some of you think that tote is slang. There is not a purer, better English word in Webster's Dictionary. I believe here you all "pack" it. I can beat you all to death pleasing the folks. Do you know how? I do not care whether I please them or not. But they just run in here by the thous and. If every preacher would preach just like he thinks. . One trouble with you Indianapolis folks is that you are hide-bound, like an old Texas steer. He will never fatten while the sun shines until you can loos en his hide. Laughter loosens the hide so that you can grow religious. You all need the currycomb more than you need corn. There is just as much -e-ligijn in laughing as in crying. But if you don't live right, be solemn as the grave every day, for you ought to be solemn. Would Argue with the Highwayman. From the San Francisco Post. Mr. McRoberts, now editor of the Leeds (England) Afercury, was at one time a reporter in this city. He was the most argumentative, and, at the same time, the calmest man that ever struck the town. He would stop work at a fire to argue. Mr. McRoberts was on his way home early one morning, when an American citizen suddenly popped up with a pistol levelled at his head, and said: "Throw up yer hands 1" "Why ?" asked Mr. McRoberts, un disturbed. "Throw them up." "But what for!" "Put up yer hands," insisted the foot pad, shaking the pistol. "Will you do what 1 tell you ?" "That depends," said Mr. McRob erts. "If yo can show me any reason why I should pit up ma hands, I'll no say but what I weell, but yer mere re quaist wad be no jistification fur me to do sae absurd a thing. Noo, why should you, a complete stranger, ask me at this 'oor o' the mornin', on a public street, tae put up my hands !'' "Dash you!" cried the robber; "if you don't quit gabblin' and obey orders, I'll blow the top of your head oil!" "Whaat! Faith, man, ye mustbeoot o' yer heed. Come noo puir buddy." said Mr. McRoberts, soothingly, coolly catching the pistol and wresting it with a quick twist out of the man's hand; "come, noo, an' I'll show ye where they'll tak care o' ye, Hech! Dinna ye try tae fecht, or ecod I'll shoot ye. By the way, ye miht as weel put up yer ain hands, and jist walkahecd o' me. That's it. Trudge awa noo." And so Mr. McRoberts marched his man to the City Prison, and handed him over to Capt. Douglass. "It wuddna be a bad idea tae pit him in a strait jacket," he said, serenely, to the officer. "There's little doot but the body's daft." And he resumed his interrupted home ward walk. Victoria's Lot Not A Happy One. A New York letter to the Boston Herald says : I hear hat the somewhat ce'ebrated love match between Victoria Schilling and her stable husband is not quite as rosy as it was. Indeed, they do say that the wedded life of the coachman and his bride is rather more spirited than affectionate. Mrs. Schil ling looks thin and anxious. She was plump and rather light-he irted when her runaway marriage occurred. Now the girls in the Casino are telling that Mi cries in ner dressing-room between the scenes on the stase, and there are rumors that she is badly treated at home. Her father, I understand, would take her back to his home if Bhe would get away from her husband, but she is not quite ready to do that. She is, however, beginning to think that she has made a great mistake in life, awl to feel her humiliation very keenly. But she is too full of pluck to acknowledge the error publicly, and so she grows pale and thin, and goes away by herself to weep. She now gets sixty dollars a week at the Casino, and the people in the company like her and have sympa thy for her apparent distress. She will never be very much c-f an actress, but she sings well enough and looks well enough to be sure of earning a good living on the stage as long as she mav chocse to stay there. A Willow Farm. Near Macon.Ga , there is a large ozier willow farm. At the end of two years the willow switches are from four to seven inches long. They are then cut, stripped of their bark by machinery and put away to dry. The farm is a profitable one," as the average yield is a ton to the acre, and tho wil lows find a ready market at !f000 a ton. Tho bark and leaves of the willows are sold at the rate of twenty-five cents a pound for medicinal purposes. BAFFLED BY A BULLDOG. A Brave Animal Dies Defending His Mis tress' Honor. Plumsack is a hamlet in the Sussex county mountains near Deckertown, N. J. There are only a few houses in the place, and they are occupied by farmers. Early on Saturday morning, just after the men had left for the field, a tall, swarthy tramp, clad in rags, approached the residence of Wesley Gould and knocked for admittance. Mrs. Gould is a powerfully built young woman, brave and determined. She opened the door, and the tramp peremptorily de manded something to eat. He stepped within the doorway,, but Mrs. Gould slammed the door in his face and sent him sprawling on the stoop. Infuriated at this sudden attack the fellow kicked in one of the panels of the door. Mrs. Gould seized a kettle of hot water and rushed up stairs. From a second story window she emptied the contents of the kettle on the tramp and scalded him severely. Cursing and swearing, the fellow left the place and walked through the vil lage until he reached the suburbs where the cottage of Whalen Green stands. Green was absent in the fields, and his wife, a delicate little woman, was alone. The tramp knocked at the door and de manded food. Mrs. Green was too much frightened when the fellow walktd in to offer any resistance. As soon as he was inside the house the tramp slammed the door and locked it. "Open the door," cried Mrs Green, almost fainting with fear and excite ment. The fellow walked toward her and made an insulting remark. "Help I Help!" screamed the thor oughly terrified woman. With an oath the tramp seized her by the throat and threw her violently to the floor. Her head struck an iron weight used to keep the door open, and a deep sOalo wound was made. But the woman con inued to scream until the tramp almost strangled her. She was almost choked, when a large bulldog, owned by her husband, bound ed through an open window and sprang at the rascal. The fellow did not re lease his hold on Mrs. Green, but struck at the dog with one hand. The animal attacked him savagely and seized him by the calf of -the leg. The animal was beaten back, but it sprang at the tramp with redoubled fury. Mrs. Green fainted away, and when she came to, her hus band was standing over her. The dead dog lay in the middle of the room and the furniture was smashed and broken. Everything bore evidence of a terrible struggle. The dog was brained with a heavy piece of cord wood. When Green heard what had happened he secured his gun and alarmed the neighbors. A trail of blooj was dis covered leading toward Lake Shipcong, a distance of two miles. On the way several farmers were met who had passed a tramp who was terribly lacerated and bleeding. His clothing was literally torn from his body, they said, and he had a handkerchief stained with blood bound around his neck. They offered to give him assistance, but he refused, saying he wanted to hurry on and meet some friends. He was bleeding from a terrible wound in his leg. The party followed the trail to the edge of the small lake, and there lost all track of the fugitive. Since that time every tramp who walks along the road is stopped and questioned. Mrs. Green's wounds are not dangeious, but she is prostrated by the nervous shock. The noble dog was buried in front of the house, and it is probable that the villagers will mark the grave with a marble slab. David Davis Sensitive About Hij Size. From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Judge Davis was quite sensitive as to his huge proportions. Said a gentleman yesterday: 'T had known the Judge, in a casual way, for many years, having been at his house in Bloomington and called on him at the Grand Pacific Hotel in Chicago two or three times.' One afternoon, some four years ago, I called on Wilfcam F. Storj, of the Times, in his editorial rooms, and found him en gaged in conversation with Judge Davis, who greeted me cotdially, but I was so struck with the grgat reduction to his size since I had last seen him that 1 made an involuntary observation upon it, intended to be a compliment. In stantly the Judge changed his manner and addressed himself to Mr. Storey, giving me to understand that he was of fended. "That evening I met Long John Went worth, and related the occurrence to him. 'You made a bad break,' said he. 'Why, as well as I know Davis, I would not think of alluding to his size. Two or three years ago I took him out to my farm at Summit. I have there a buggy with a pretty high seat, built expressly for me. Without thinking of the dif ference in the length of Davis's legs and mine, I seated him in the buggy beside me and we started out to drive over the farm. Presently I noticed that Davis was wobbling about uncomfortably, and that he was like a small schoolboy on a bench, his feet being several inches above the floor. Making some excuse 1 returned to the stable and told my hostler he had forgotten to put in my stool, and that he kne v deuced well I couldn't ride without it. The stool was put in; it just fitted Davis and he was comfortable, but it brought my knees up so near to my chin that I was miser ble. Still I endured the torture without a word, and drove all over the farm. Then, to emphasize mv success at- self control, when I got back to the stable I blamed the hostler for havincr forarotten my stool at first, and told him never to do it again.' Long John told me at this time that Judge Davis had been undergoing heroic treatment for cbesity, and while he heartilv congratulated himself on his success he couldn't bear to have anybody else congratulate him." A Trick that Failed. If the following story is not true, the responsibility rests with Mr. William H. Harley, the contractor who is building the main edifice of the new Soldiers' and Sailors' Home at Quincy, for he vouches for its truth, says the Chicago News, Mr. Kuhn, the proprietor of KuhnVGaiden, was thrifty in money matters, but cared little for his own personal appearance. He had worn the same old greasy overcoat until his sons were ashamed of him, and tried to in duce him to buy a near one. "Oh, no," the old gentleman would always say: " I would rather have the $50 that it would cost." One day the sops determined that he should wear a new coat, and, believing that if he could get one at a good bar gain, he would buy it, arranged with a tailor to sell him a $50 one for $10. they to pay the difference. Then they went home and told their father what a hand some coat they had seen, and what a bargain it would be to buy it. So the father went and looked at it, and, after beating the tailor down to $9, took it and started for home. But when he reached homo he had no coat with him. "Didn't you buy the coat, father?" "Yes; got it for $9," replied the old gcntlemau. " Where is HI" "Oh, I was showing it to a friend in the street car, and when he offered mo $15 for it I let him have it. I cleared $0 on tho transaction." lr. Harley assured us that the young men never tried to play that triok on the old father again. A Fortunate Salvation Girl. The Boston Gazette says: The lines of one member o ' the Salvation Army have at h ast fallen in pleasant places. One of the brightest and prettiest hav ing gone to Plymouth to convert the town, met with siu h success as a preach er that, at the suggestion of many prom incut citizens, she has been induced to leave the army and to establish herself as an independent minister iu a church of her own. A gentleman who offered to escort her home was rather taken back with the response: "I havo come to Plymouth to catch souls, not beaux." THE CARDIFF GIANT. The Story Told by the Author of the Hoax, Who Afterward Hold Out. From the Detroit Free Press. George Hull, of West Superior, Wis consin, inventor of the "Cardiff Giant," relates the history of its creation and downfall as follows: "Down near Fort Dodge I got to speculating in that gypsum business. Looking over some of the large pieces one day there was one which appeared in a good deal the shape of a man. I got interested in the dark lines, which looked very much indeed like the veins in the limbs of a human being. A grand scheme struck me, or I struck it. I se cured the largest, most solid piece that could be found and shipped it to Chi cago. After some time I got hold of a man said to be a first-class marble cut ter. I told him my scheme was to get out of the block of gypsum the petri fied remains of a tremendous giant. The fellow caught on, and we studied over the prospect for some time. When the arms and hands were marked out the veins showed up in fine style. Gad, you never saw anything more complete in your life. They were also visible in the temples and forehead. It cost me a heap, though, to get the artist at his work. He had my secret and handled me as he pleased. Sometimes he'd get on a spree for days and weeks. Several months passed before the concern was finished ; it was a grand piece of work. I boxed it and shipped it eastward as a block of marble. Its weight was 2, 996 pounds. I took charge of the great wonder. At first I did not know ex actly what to do to bring it before the people. When I reached New York State I seized upon a plan of burying the giant in a secluded spot, a romantic nook by a mountain side. I finally se lected Cardiff, a village on the Onan daga creek, Onandaga county twelve or fifteen miles south of Syracuse. I con fided my secret to a lone farmer. He appeared to be all right in the matter. I gave him money and promised him more. We dug a grave by the river and, as luck would have it for petrifica tion purposes, at the depth of about six feet we struck pure moving water. The giant was inclosed in a rough case and deposited in the grave. "No one but the farmer, his wife and myself knew of this transaction. The agreement was made between us that in one year the farmer Ehould accidently find the eiant; word would reacn me I would make a great ado about it take people to the spot, taking caie to lose my way several times before reaching said spot. The arrangement worked all right. News of the finding of petrified remains of a human being near Cardiff was spread over the neighbor like wild fire, and in a day or two newspaper men were there and then the whole world knew of it. I purchased the petrified remains and proceeded forthwith to erect a tent over the grave, the remains staving undisturbed. Hundreds and thousands visited the place, I charged a fee. of course, to get inside the tent, just to pay expenses. In a few days the crowds could not be accommodated In one week soon after the discovery I took in $2,000. The rush kept increas ing. The most scientific men in the country were present and they made critical examinations of tbe giant as it lav in its restinar place." Hull sold a third interest for $30,000 and soon after the secret leaked out, Hull was formerly in business in Madi son. A Paper Railroad Tie. DUTIABLE, LIGHT AND ELASTIC HOPES OP ITS INVENTOR. "That is a railroad tie." It was of the regular size and polished as smooth ly as a piece of Italian marble. The grain was so fine and the whole appear ance was so artistic that it might easily have been taken for a chip from a pillar of a Grecian temple instead of such a piactical thing as a railroad tie. The speaker was a short, stout, sad -faced man with a large head and overhanging brow, and was the inventor of this ast betic sleeper, and in his little office in Fulton St. there were many models of cars and railroad tracks scattered about. "This," said he as he patted the rail road tie lovingly, "is the result of years ot labor and 1 believe now that it is per fect. It is made of paper, which I be lieve is to enter to a large extent in all building operations at no distant day. Tho great enemy to many things is moisture, and in my invention, of course. a means had to be discovered to prevent dampness irom Having tho slightest ef fect, as a railroad tie being in the ground is subjected constantly to it, and a rotten tie might cause the loss of many lives and much property. The process oi manuiacture is secret to a certain ex tent, but the tie is absolutely fire and water proof. There; I will throw a piece of the prepared paper into the fire. You see it will not burn. I have sub merged it for weeks and months in both hot and cold water and the moisture has never been found inside the sur face. Consequently, it cannot rot. Though apparently as hard as iron, an ordinary spike can be driven into it without difficulty, and when the spike is in position tne material is of such a nature that it closes around the iron and holds it so firmly that it can never be loose. There is also a certain amount of spring in the tie, and when there is a load on it it operates as a sort of cush ion and takes away a certain amount oi jar from ruaning cars. Under certain conditions, by slightly altering the com bination of materials, the paper can be made so hard that it will turn the edge of the hardest tool without being more than scratched. The ordinary wooden tie will last about five years under the most favorable conditions, while this paper tie will stand any kind of weath er for at least thirty years. Live and Dead Ivory. OSB SORT 13 TOCGH AND DURABLE AND THE OTHER IS BRITTLE AND WEAK. "That knife handle is worth twice as much as the other," said an ivory dealer to a reporter as he pointed out two handsome knives in a case. They looked exactly alike, so the reporter asked in what the difference lay. "Well, one handle is formed of live ivory and the other of dead." replied the merchant. "By live ivory I mean ivory taken from an animal recently killed. That sort of ivory is expensive, because it is hard to get. It is strong, because there is life in it, and it ia used for the handles of the best knives, and where dead ivory could not be used. When an elephant loses a tusk that tusk becomes what we call dead ivory. He sheds the tusk, and it has no strength in it. It is brittle nud breaks easily, and can only be used for the handles of pocket knives, or in other forms whero the ends are protected. If they were not, the ivory would split and crack in a very short time. The ivory taken from the tusks of the antideluvian mammoths buried in the soil of Siberia is, of course, all dead ivory. Its uses are, therefore, limited. If you ever want to buy any ivory goods, be sure to ascertain whether it is live or dead ivory before purchasing. If the former, it is strong and durable, if the latter, it is brittle and liable to crack, even whero fastened. "The same rule applies to horn. Deerhorn nnd buckhorn, so com monly used, especially in the handles of pocket knives, is much of it made fiom the horns shed by the deer, and of little value. The live horn is more expen sive." JV. 1'. Sun. Mr. Wehster used to tell a story at the expense of Peter Little, who had in early life repaired clocks and watches, but who had for some years represented a Maryland district in the House. One day he had the temerity to nove to amend a resolution of John Randolph on the subject of military claims. Mr. Randolph rose up after the amendment httd beeu o"'ercd. nnd drawing his watch from his fob, .-.sked the Hon. Peter what o'clock it v as. He told him. "Sir," replied the orator, "you can mend my watch, but not my motions. You un derstand tictics, sir, but not tactics!" A MAD KING. Stories 'Bold ot Kins Louis of Bavaria. The Door mad Kinrr Louis of Bavaria will never again astonish Paris by one of the flying visits te was so fond of paying to the French capital. It is now a well-authenticated fact that he used often, when supposed to be secluded in one of his country palaces, to indulge in a trip of a few days to Paris, to go to the theatre and the Opera and to go shopping. Sometimeshe would give way to the wildest vagaries, to the infinite worriment of the unfortunate officers that he had selected to accompany him. Once he bought out the entire contents of a famous florist's shop on the Boule vards, had all the flowers transported to his rooms at the hotel, and suffered them to wither piled up in a corner. On another occasion he ordered a fac simile of the royal standard of Bavaria, the i ize of the original, to be executed in precious stones by a prominent jew eler of the Boulevards. But that gen tleman had some suspicion of the real state of his strange customer's mental condition, and he never fulfilled the order. The diamond swan, made in Munich, for the helmet of the king's "Lohengrin" costume, cost some thou sands of dollars. There was no end to his follies and extravagance. But within the last year his mania for regal mag nificence had turned into a bloodthirsty Neroism. He was continually ordering off persons to immediate execution, and refusing to be pacified till he was con vinced that his orders had been obeyed. One day one of his lackeys, in the acS of presenting him with a glass of water on a salver, made a false step and spilt a small quantity of the water on the king, who instantly flew into a violent passion, summoned the colonel of his guard in great haste, and orde.edhim to run the insolent scoundrel at once through the body with his sword. "Ple beian blood should not be shed in your majesty's presence," quoth the colonel, and, seizing the affiighted servant by tho collar, he dragged him from the room. "Now," run for your life!" he whispered, as soon as the door was closed behind them, and while the re leased culprit went off at full speed in one direction the colonel hurried away in another. He dashed into a butcher's shop, stabbed several times a leg of mutton that was hanging against the wall, and then returned as fast as possi ble to the palace. Placing bis blood stained sword before the eyes of the king, he said, mournfully and simply, "Sire, your wishes have been fulfilled," And King Louis fell upon his neck and instantly appointed him his prime min ister an appointment which, it is need less to remark, was never carried into execution. Paris Correspondence Phila delphia Telegraph. Ignorance of the Yankees. Old Bob Toombs made a speech in which he declared that the Yankees did not know which end of a gun to hold to their shoulders didn't know how to shoot a gun. In one of our first engage ments down the Shenandoah alley the Federal troops got at us hot and began giving us the deuce. As they poured the shot into us and began to drive ua back, one of my men said to me: " Cap tain, do you remember what old Bob Toombs said about the Yankees not knowing how to shoot a gun?" " Yes," I answered. "Well," said he, "doesn't it occur to you that they are learning pretty fast?" At the breaking out of the war I spoke at a war meeting, and held that the South was not prepared for war. I had been at a military school and haj accumulated a few ideas on the subject I declared that we had no cannon and no facilities for making them. Mr. B. got up and made a fiery speech. He said the assertion was nonsense. " What do we want with cannon? Ve want no cannon; we will cut their bowels out with our bowie knives." That is about the idea of the war many of our people had. The first time we were under artillery fire that same man lay by my side. It was an awful sensation to be fired at for the first time with cannon. The shells, shrieked over us and crashed through the trees, and we were fright ened out ' of our wits. We lay on our faces, and probably all of you had ex perience of how close you can get to the ground under fire. I don"t think I was an inch thick. Just after a tre mendous crash and roar, B. reached out and touched me and said: ' Captain, I guess you were right about those can non. We ought to have fought thi3 out inside of the Union." I was captain of a battery soon after that, and was engaged ia a fierce fight where many of my men were killed or wounded. During the fighting I often admired the cool, brave conduct of a stalwart six-foot gunner named Jones. After the fight I said to him, " Jones, where are you from?" "From Vermont," he answered; "I have recently settled in the South." "Vermont!" said I in amazement. "Are there any more soldiers like you iu Vermont?" "Yes, captain, there are plenty of them, and, seriously, don't be deceived by these stories about the Yankees not fighting. The North is full of just as good and better so diers ihan I am. They'll give you all the fighting you can attend to." "That made me rather weak in the knees," said Captain Howells. laugh ing, " and I began to question as to whether we had not bitten off rather more than we could chew. "While I thought, in the beginning, that one Southerner could whip ten Yankees, before we got through I was willing to tackle one at a time, and I didn't mind if he had been in the hos pital. Cincinnati Commercial Gazclte. Cheered a Warrior's Mind. . General Sherman, in his memoirs, says: "I can see in memory a beautiful young city-bred lady, who had married a poor second lieutenant and followed him to his post on the plains, whose quarters were in a 'dug-out' ten feet by about fifteen, seven feet high, with a a dirt roof; four feet of the walls were of the natural earth, the other three of sod, with holes for windows and corn sacks for curtains. This little lady had her Saratoga trunk, which was tho chief article of furniture; yet, by means of a rug on the ground floor, a ew candle boxes covered with red cotton calico for seats, a table improvised out of a barrel head and a fire place and chimney excavated in the back wall or bank, she had transformed her 'hole iu the ground' into a most attractive home for her young warrior husband, and she entertained me with a supper consisting of the best of coffee, fried ham, cakes and jellies from the commissary, which made on my mind in impression more lasting than have any one of the hun dred magnificent banquets I have since attended in the palaces and mansions of our own and foreign lands." When to Cut Corn For Ensilage. Corn to be used for fodder or ensilage is in the best condition for cutting when the blossom has dried. The plant then contains the largest quantity of nutri ment and the most digestible matter; after that tho starch and sugar are changed into cellulose or woody fibre, and the proportion of digestible sub stance is continually reduced. In cut ting the corn for ensilage this should be done when the corn is dry and free from surface water; tho less water there is in the silo the better the ensilage will be and it will keep better, as rain or dew always contains ninny germs of fer ment or putrefaction which are washnd from the atmosphere. The cutting and packing in the silo should go on as rapidly as possible until it is finished, as exposure to the air increases the apti tude to fermentation. A utti.k newsboy or Orlando, Fla., being suddenly told of his father's death, dropped his papers and hurried horn-. A citizen, picking them up, sold them through the town, telling the circumstance, and realized $ 70, some of (hem fetching $0 apiece. Hearst find the Drunkard. Senator nearst is not mean : on the contrary, he is generous with his money, but he is not in the habit of releasing his grip on a dollar until he knows where it is going. For instance: "Please, sir, will you assist a poor man who is out of work and has a fam ily depend n' on him?" This inquiry was made by a fellow who darted out of a dark doorway, near the Senator's newspaper office, one even ing last winter. The Senator turned a watery eye on the beggar, saw his unshaven mug, his shabby raiment, and unwashed,ishaky ha"So you've got a family, have you? Where d'ye live?" . "Round on Pacific stre t, sir. "Go ahead and take me there. If you ain't lyin' I'll do the square thing, pardner." , The man had a family, sure enough, ne showed the Senator into a foul room in the third story of a rookery. There were three children, a decent looking woman, and a sewing machine. The woman wept when questioned- They were very poor and often hungry. All their trouble came from the drunken ness of the husband. That culprit sul lenly owned to the truth of this state ment. "All right," said Uncle George, ris ing. He gave the woman a sum of money that made her speechless. "Come along with me," said Hearst to the husband, who obeyed with alac rity. At the next corner the Senator turned the amazed man over to a policeman. "Book this fellow for vagrancy," said the philanthrophist. "I'll appear against him to-morrow. He's been striking me for a piece." "Now, vou," said Uncle George next day, when he had secured a sentence of three months for the loafer, "if you've a mind to be decent when you get out, come to me and I'll give you a Ehow." And the man, three months later, did come. Uncle George sent him and his family to one ol his ranches, where, to do the fellow justice, he has avoided tho bottle and behaved himself. "I ain't opposed to drinkin'," the Senator is given to remarking. ' "If a man can afford it, all right, but when he can't I go in for sendin' him to jail." San Francisco Post. According to the testimony of physicians and coroners, in all parts of the Union, deaths have resulted from the use of cough syrups, containing morphia, opium and other poisons. In this connection. Dr. Sam 1 Cox, of VN ash ington, after careful analyses, endorses Ked Star Cough Cure as being purely vegetable, and absolutely free from opiates, poisons aud narcotics. Price, twenty-five cents. " How to Send a Hoy to Sea " is th e name of a new book. One pood way is to work hira on the farm from daylight to dark three hun dred and sixtv-tive davs in the vear. and then thrash him with a trunk strap w heu he asks lor a nail noiiciay in leap year. Dr. R. Butler, Master of Arts, CambrMpa University, England, savs: "St. Jacobs Oil acta like magic." Mr. T. V. 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It contains blood-making forcvnerating and life-siistainint properties; invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nerroos prostration, and all forms of central debility also, in all enfeebled fonditions, whether th result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, orer work or acute disease-, particularly if resulting from pulmonary complaints. C awell.IIazard Co., Proprietors, New York. Bold by druggists. Th best cough medicine Is TUso's Cure for Consumption, bold everywhere. Sic. Fob Bpboiai. Batks for dTertllug in this rPr ni to thA nnhlUher of the iaper. I v y. -- - -- ,M Pemoniof a dysp-ptle tendency are of tea "outoe f Jrts," cross and peevish. The failure of tbs digest Ive organs to do their duty, the severe headache distress In tlis stomach, heartburn or othT indica tions of dyspep.ia, cause lrr.tabuity, confusion oC mind, and a miserable feeling it Is impossible ta i f scribe. Hool's Barsaparllla tcnei up the dlircsUoa and rouses the kidnoj ana liver to prompt sad reg ular action. j "I havs used Hood's Sarsaparllla for sick headache and Indigestion, and It has relieved mi of days an weeks of sickness and paln."-MiBT C. Smith, Cam Bridgeport, MaM. "Voi the past two years I have been afflicted with' severe headache snd dyspepsia. I was Induced W try Hood's Sarsaparilla and havln found creaSi relief, I cheerfully recommend it to all similarly afnieted."-MHS. K. F. Askaslk, Sew Haven, Ct Hood's SarsaparHIa Bold by all druinrl.'ts. 1 ; sir Tor $.1 Prepare onlf by c. J. HOOD A CO.. Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass, - I OO Doses One Dollar j Si "Jones! Whatarcyoo talking oboiiff" What every bo-ly talks about. , TheysaytliHtforBrigbts' V- ltiurtu.. Kiilnpv. l.ivror liladcier complaints, thit o, remedy has noeiimi. Tl Itsocarlvhttatkehpat. r-Y'ri-Tiftrrd at Itr. Kilmer! DlsprrM-'Al'.T.ninphaTnton.tvY. IF IM Ouiilu to Hcallii Sent 1 roa), liSS Pimples. Blotches, Ncnly Oily Pain, Blemishes and all Skin Diwases Curea I and Complexion Beautified by Beszoa's Aromatic Alum SulDliiir Scan. Sold by Drugrdits or sent by mall on receipt of I j utii l. v)j .11. 1, ile, I, LF-i-r.jjt manu facturer, '.iOi North 1 rontst., Philadelphia. P. MSUf.lPTION. I h ft poiltlr r-amtdy for th bor, dlM-m ; by Itfl .thnaaaii.lofcuof In von. kind and of hum ttadlDK tta bMncurcd. l!id,,ottrnlnm-rl'5 Im UscfflCKf-r-thKt 11 I nil TWO BOTTLES FRIL ftofvtbar wltn A 1.C A BM,TltEATISB on thin diMM teftaj Bff-rer. OlTAtxnrMiindP O. s-Jdr it. P - A. BLOC U M, lai faviltl Tm II XMnflRim .persons abouid Join the K. W, HfllHnniCU iflutiiRl Kndowmrnt SorirtJ w aud receive si.uki when married, circulars Inm P. O. Box 42, niinneavolis, Minn, tiEfl with small capital make 1 to per 6) with our amateur Photo outfits. No ex Berienre rvfinlrpri1. evervthlna sold read 4 simps, at bouie.or iromhou-e to house : affords stea ty work; pays 300 gl)n per cent profit, we also copy and en- Htre atl styles an graces of For- Hi ill trait. Work frnarao teed, no risk, par " tlrulan free, or sti pw boo',,,foie to Make Photographs," ni Bsmple Phots made bv Empire AmateurVamera ent pif ralf. nrt 12 cts. Write to day. name this t"JftF'CI paper and address Empire Photo ptf 1 1 t1 f J Equipment Co., Sll Can il St., N.Y. (I U lit VI STANDARD AWARDED FIRST PREMIUM AT THK WORI.ICS tAI'OfilTIO.V. flew Orleaaa. (Four Cold Medals. A" other principal makers roinpetitiKJ. TrarE fr-aU', Hay R'-n!.. Platform fvrules.elc Important nateated IMI'milErtMl. BEST VALUE for TOUR KONET. ft. p'art'lKod UFFALO SSALE CCMPANY, BUFFALO, N.Y.' ASK FOB TUB L. DOUGLAS lr Pfr warranted. Tkn none onicst tanipd COUtfrcM, puuod inn Lace. Jioya auk ior mo v. M-.. JoUlar' tyiraaa cannot f ine s.uu snoe. 11 vou r era annii aridrMl on tiostal Q mrt ut m. WU, HJ BO-s XV J DsAAb... af ... r H P C II T C "n make Siio.tw and over a moutu All til I Ose linn the ltet books published. Best terms ever oil. red. For .,e,ut,ri is ' SSfl and nori'lnne. Ilnblt curea m iv to:irtav.Kef'-rto iiDMputl- nttrm-ed til lnallpart-. ta. MaatH,vuin y.Mlch. l.,n.-"s not uiNl -r the horses feeC Address QfcJ Bitf W-n-KK,r.:TY hki Homi'R. Holly. lik-h. . rr i "T O ootamsa. awna stamp ro P A I E N T O lu yutorV Quia 1 iUaa Bam. Patent lawyer, Washiugiua. It, O. a . u Ramnlea worm Pt.O' rt.r.ft No nope to uvt im nurses" oiinoj Celebrated bVLI l" r, niuisii aad HltlULib l oinintieu. '.itm be slipped by any hore. waiupi Halter to any part of U. 3. froo, oa receipt of tl- Sold by all Sa l.llery, Hardware and Harness Dealers Special auoouni to uie iraua. end for Prloe List J. c. I-Kllt THOtJSB, Koches'.er, ct. a. HOOK. AUT!" WAA'CKil lor PLATFORM ECHOES w LIVING TRUTHS FOtt BEAD AA1 BEAUT, By John B. Gough. : His last and erownlwr life ver. brim full of thrilllnr InteR est. humor and patiioa. BriKl.t. pure, ud rood, " ' "J lauehtepand tears. ' it at .ijalfo nil. 1 o It sddej the Lite and Dentil ot Mr. Gouih. h; Kev. IA AJ Att BOTT. 100 ARnU Wanted, Menud ome. ! lotttOOa month made. (Lt" isfne " ,,,"'lr''',"V ri't Krlr T-rrn, snd P wf.. Write fol eirrtilars U A. I. WOK I'UINUTON llartlord. Csw , Prinl ycur own Bcn9 UliU aj,.i, OvaTer Bhella, MGHAHAM Flour n" Jjln the llAWDMTIilJ (kfcAlF. Wilson's raleau. " r- -5" i-ent. more made la keepina pout- JAMS VwfiJu'.'- J E LL Y w.thcterv dmie p ok of U Turnip See l i) Lmii. JAMES II ASfiKY. Bt'tMl Ciowcr, Mwlwn, Ar. I Q i-OM.AKS earh for Awnd : m rerrecf ?w. 11 jm At 11 r.n. I M WtmnlM fa-vtr.Sfntm lrilifd--I .Haired. But dir t ai:d Mr $15 l 9 5. Or fA.it pi vtri at 'Tiiiiiiini. Writ far r RF.E:lr ciltur with IQU0 tatlltiionttt from Tftyrit. fikXXlAYMi A CO. 44n.KoTMScM(blratr, if, BF.ST IX THK WflB I.D IFQt the Genuine. Sold Evervwnere. KA3IT CU3ED. MCW MF.TIIO.O. .Ten-rnTi, vt"'on. n. DR. J. C. HOFFMAN. ni:"- OI!! Great Enqllili Cou! tn ll 2ir S I IKS. Rheumatic Remtdy. , Oval Kmx, 1 .lKj rannj. ZtO eta. . n to Soldier, a Heirs, baudita-ns tSAJaSIrtfllSi ' r t:ir.:uirs. COL. U iili. FWll3liJ.saU.il. Ail'.. Wasuiim.ou. 1.Q? SURE 00H5SSS1 THDRSTOFS KTO jTHPOOT ! fTolh rer fcrr andjUunas Health TVhKVOl fcVjif 4Al.r or k JA HkAKM.NS AAi WliKKIMTY SKK.lULKiar ItK( AY, A lifa experience, firm ark Kb ic aoJ quick enrea. Trial ptfea get. Conciliation ami B"ok by mail FHKK. A'HrtM Dr. WARD & CO., LOUsiA.VA, mu. CURES wHEHE AU f LSC FAILS, f-J, !St tV il Syrup. Tn.Ht t p. -wh. TJse TA I In time. NtM h- dentist. I "4 tVi f ; p. TTT-r? . i a. Uq . ha taken tr, . Ill 1.U-. ot that cUu H reirr iiel, im ,Vesj Simott ait.iul uuuie tvl, Ait'RriiY rmrw., .r.nsV.s 3 lusooa the Uvor ol thr puun. and pew rtnks Smfillf tN. Irai'.mr Mul Cur. 1 .iawUa.f'a.AfMf . 1 TO A r; a - w stricture. Mf 4 anlr h lb. . vine lull atl D -a rthia A. 1- hM! i H. . . I'ralo; fa, SoMhv r:u, mufc I'uiC tl.OU. , Is TUB Best m Ever Mb. lickkm an.l taaV-.r. U1wm Morn, BEST IN THE" WORLD. r Out of Sorts (A r JlffTK " SCALES A I .SI 1 1 J3L I ' .y STEP IN ADVANCE 1 - . ? 3 TTT e n INSTSUMIMTS a ftAnntyli-owtH pbich. ufiTwaawrA.J,. J9 e.hrTc INCLOsiNaSaJWyr" pr? 1 Yct, Stamp ran fjk&As-A Fun. Particulars. a,3 . f'Yi BEIN BROS. A CO. SaglS. T NEWARK, N.J. .JSP 3. c 1 a- 1.1 a ItsTIWIS FEB EiFl I