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»t)NMHi|lb Rxperlenees via W«b14> be Writer*. There will doubtless never come * flbae wlieri tbe author shall cease to i regard the publisher as the intellectual World's greatest enemy. The publisher, kjpking at the mouey value of a child of fancy, attache* fio importance to the UJtea •sited: * : "Who is hef .":V5ArV;":< "Oh, he's a man; I tell yott. Be is onr bowi agent and sells the 'Universal i Horse Doctor.' "--Arkanaaw Traveler. Tactic* of tike Clerks. She was tgll, tough, stiarp-edjjfed, hollow-cheeked, sunken-chested and . saucer-eyed, with shoulder-blades that author's deep love for the offspring; j projected "like rudders. She hadn't f But let me read you a passaged **1 really havon't time to listen nen' if t," •w the author, thrilled with the ex­ cess of his own sentiment, looks upon the publisher as a brutal buyer of •onIs--as a Satan that would toss an fagel upon tbe bloody slab of a meat market. « I was sitting in tbe private office of a publisher, assuring him that my book oould not help being the literary sensa­ tion of the day, when a tall young woman entered. It seemed to be » •ort of free-for-all day--a day when every one might come in and offer a book or present advice. The publisher had patiently listened to me with a smile that called me a poor fool, and I was on the eve of losing my temper when the yonng woman entered. Her eyes were bright with the dew of a fond liope and her face was flashed with suppressed joy. She held a bundle of M8. pressed close to her bosom. "*I have a novel," she l>egan, but the odd smile on the publisher's face tiaused her to hesitate. "Yes, goon." ; I have a novel that I know ytra will be delighted with." She began to un­ wind a string. "I have worked on it so carefully that--" The cold smile froze tile warm current of her words. "Well, leave it, and I will, submit it to pur reader." Her face underwent a change. Dark­ ening ashes had fallen on the glowing coal of hope. "Won't you please ex­ amine it?" she asked. "Oh, I haven't the time, and doubt­ less couldn't tell anything about it even if I should take all the after- noon. f ' «*'Oh, it won't take but she pleaded. Well, go ahead," he answered, sigh­ ing. The young woman east a qurck glance at him and thus began: W' "The sun was slowly going down be­ hind a western hill--" "Hold on a moment!" he interrupted. -The sun usually goes down slowly, don't it? I don't know that the sun is given to freaks of any sort, cr that it goes down fast at times and theu changes its mind and goes Blow for aWhiie." ' , "Well," she replied, with the merest suggestion of a gasp, "1 will leave out the 'slowly.'" "It would be a good idea, I think," he rejoined. "Hold on; there is an­ other thing that I want to speak about. You say that the sun was going down behind a western hill." "Yes. Is there anything wrong about that?" ' A "No, not particularly wrong, but did you ever see the sun go down behind ttn eastern hill? Now, I don't know much about the sun, except that it is pretty hot sometimes, but it strikes me that being of regular habits, it always goes down in the west." *'Oh, can I leave that out, too!" she exclaimed, swallowing a lump that had once been sw^et vanity, but whidh was now bitter disappointment," r? "All right, go ahead." i.. "The sun was going down*" she went SB, "and the chickens were • thinking about going to roost, when a dust down the road proclaimed the fru*t that a horseman was approaching. The--" "Hold on, please. We really cannot tell what the chickens were thinking about. They may have been thinking about going to roost, .still, they may have been thinking about going out and enjoying a few more scratches in the garden, but we will let that go. But there is one thing that I'd rather you'd make a little clearer. You say that a dust down the road proclaimed the fact that a horseman was approach­ ing. Jfow, how do you know that it was not a muleman instead of a horse­ man? I don't know much about country life, but I have been told that a mule kicks up quite as much dust as a horse, and that a mule's dust pro- claims about as loud as a horse's dust." She bit her lip, remained silent for a few moments and then said: "I don't think it makesany difference, sir. Gentlemen do not often ride mules." "Oh, it wa*a gentleman mt a horse, a '**8 it?" : "Yes." "But the dnst didn't .proclaim that fact. Why don't you say that the dust down the road proclaimed the fact that a gentleman came on horseback?" She began to tie up the MS. "I see that yoa do not care to prirt books that are full of thought and suggestive fancy. I will go elsewhere and one day you will regret that you had not more in­ sight." Just as she went out a puffy man en­ tered. "I have a book that yon may have as cheap as dirt," said he. "What sort of a book is it?" "A world-beater, that's what sort of a book it is. I have worked On it for three years and now I propose to sell it for five thousand dollars. What do yon %ay?" , "I say good morning, sir." v * What, you don't want it?" . jb *No." "Do you understand you* badness, I "I hope so." . , • "You inay hope so, but I see that yott 4o not." *1 think I do. I have all the great . novels I care to handle." "This is not a novel." fc: "I don't care for any more poetry;" *This is not poetry." >; ' "I don't care for any scienee.* W *This is not science." •What is it, theu?" •It is a treatise on base ball with •core-cards scattered throughout the book." "Ah, that's a different mattfb I guess I'll take if ' When he had gone a man of thought entered. Anyone could see that he was a student. The publisher scarcely no­ ticed him. "I have called," said he, •to ask how my book is getting along." "Not getting along at all. I wish I had never seen it. It has cost me money and I haven't made a cent out of it--have lost. Such fellows as you are a curse to.the book publishing business. "Why don't you write something worth leading?" The poor fftHttr. went away. "Who i it is he?" I aslgJH. He'Vaa the writer of . one of tfreHeepest, one of the intellec­ tual marvels of the age. *' Suddenly the publish^: sprang to his feet and rushed to me#!* *jj&u<l-dressed fellow that entered in a lordly way. The fellow sat down and put his feet on tbe desk. The publisher actually tuxgged him, and when the distinguished I'J* teeth enough to go round and her hair matched a red-rash complexion that was more suggestive of sand paper than water. Her nose was long and saga­ cious and gilded hoops tested the elas­ ticity of her ears* Her vowels escaped throughtlier nose and her diphthongs were brought out with feline intensity. Sho was at the silk counter, and had selected for a dress pattern seventeen yards of dark-bine India silk, well flowered with ripe cherries. " What name, please ?" asked the ur­ bane salesman, dating a check. "Baker." , > "Initials, please." •• "M. A. Baker.*'< . "Address?" > , ^ "No. 261 West --' "Thank you," paid the 'clerk, care­ fully tearing the leaf from the stub and placing it between tbe folds of the goods. "Now, Mrs. Baker, isn't there some­ thing else this morning?" A radiant smile flashed across the long, red face, the high shoulders squared themselves, and there was a perceptible straightening of her whole being, as she said.: *1 guess nof The shrewd clerk took his cue, talked bargains, waning season and good serv­ ice, brought specials from remote shelves and remnants from under the counter, and in less than five minutes the bony spinster Was in a bewilder­ ment of short lengths. Thetnan seized every opportunity to call her "Mrs.," and when she left he had sold a blue check of ten yards for a house dress, three two-yard lengths for sofa cushions and two^yl three-eighths yards of plain blewfgros grain for waist trim- ming. p" * **How did I know she was married? I was dead certain that she wasn't. That's why I called her "Mrs." It takes a very small amount of diligence to master a woman. If she is not mar­ ried it pleases her immensely to be taken for a wife--that is, after she has passed the charming period. If she is marjied it flatters her to be taken for a girl. "I rarely make a mistake. • There is prim coquetry and a disappointed looic about the unwooed Woman that is as self-evident as her features. A mar­ ried woman gives herself away by her aeathy. If she if? tired she looks it and if she is discontented she shows that. "The stern, stately customer I never meddle with. She always knows what she wants. Argument is useless, but if it becomes necessary to use an address, madam is the word. "The upstart I generally can master with 'Lady.' If a woman comes to the counter ancf shows a hand with big rings and neglected nails all I have to do is to spread out my goods, lower my voice to a confidential point, ring in the 'Lady' and if she has the monev she will bay."--N. Y. World. A Thieving Mwik. A picturesque story, worthy of the author of "Gil Bias,* comes to us from Naples, says the New York Herald,, Last, week the superior and two of the- friars of the Monastery of San Giacomo had reason to suspect a singularly pious monk of being the thief who had stolen divers sums of money belonging to them. Being determined to catch him in the act the victimized friars spread a report that in the superior's cell was concealed a box of money, The news reaebed tlie ears of the dis­ honest monk and he easily fell into the trap. Meanwhile the defrauded friars hid themselves, and having witnessed the robbery, suddenly faced the de linnuent, who, falling on his knees, con­ fessed his manifold sins. Pretending to pity him, they simply turned $he key and locked him in the cell, and ran off to the superintendent of police, who promptly arrived on the scene, but to the amazement of the monks the robber friar had mysteriously disap peared. In fact he had managed to squeeze himself through a very narrow window. Thence he alighted on a roof and ran along the parapet until he reached the skylight of laundry. He broke two or three panes of glass, and, to the consternation of the washerwoman, fell in their midst, He pleaded earnestly for assistance, said he had been grossly maltreated by the stiperior and *monks, and was now flying from their further persecution. The good women believed this story, furnished the monk with a petticoat and jacket and a handkerchief to throw over his head, and thus abetted his es­ cape. All the researches of the police have been vain to arrest tbe thief, who has made off with £150. The affair has caused no little amusement Naples. , > ' . KypauaUsiug; « Men. Within the last month I have made an interesting experiment with a fowl. Home choice eggs being sent me for hatching purposes (having no hen at that time broody and no iuenbator), I determined to set <5ne of my bens on these eges and keep her them by the force of mesmerie power. The eggs were not fresh when I received them, and to keep them with the uncertain hope of a hen becoming broody might have been fatal to their hatching, I therefore went against nature and sat my hen upon these e^gs; she was in full lay at the time, and remained so throughout the three weeks that she was sitting, laying according to her wont, two out of three days. Those who understand poultry will appreciate that no hen will do this, having become naturally broody, although for the llrst day or two after being *et on * eggs I have had hens lay once, or even twice. Marking the eggs I set her upon, I was able to know and withdraw the eggs she kept laying. The first day I placed her on the eggs it took me half an hour to bring her iuto a hypnotic condition, but each suc­ cessive day, after having routed her to drink and eat, I was able to sooth her to drowsy placidity in much less time; also, there were days, for which I can give no reason, when I had to go to her more than once a day, she being in a restless, excited st&te, trying to get off the nest. The result has been, much to my own astonishment, that four out of seven of tiie^e eggs have hatched, and are healthy, happy little chickens. At night I can still influence their mother to her maternal duties, but in the daytime she takes no notice of them. --London Spectator. TBE jeweler's wife can afford to wear a diamond ring; but she can't always afford to wear the same ling all her life.--Somervill* JnurnaL IbC ]Be!lev» Wrath That Kadi Uu» D*. . . aired Kffwt on the Regulator*. In 1842 Sam Houston, then filling the Presidential chair of the Kepublic of Texas for the second term, had, on ac­ count of frequent Indian and Mexican raids and the exposed position of Austin, on the extreme frontier, temporarily re­ moved the seat of Government to the city of Houston. For a year or two prior to that time the regulators had been rampant in Liberty and other eastern counties of the Republic. The President had frequently been appealed to by persons who had suffered from the bauds of the regulating mob. He was, therefore, bitter against the organ­ ization, and threatened to use the power of the Kepublic to exterminate the whole clan. I had been on a visit to Liberty, at­ tending the sessions of the District Court. Two of the citizens of that ^county returned home with me. Th8y "were both clever, honest men, but had been, through fear, no doubt, induced^ to act with the regulators. Walking the streets in company with these men we met the President, who, after the usual compliments and introductions, said he was glad to meet me, as he understood I was just from Liberty, and be wi-hed to hear the latest news from the regulators and what they were now doing. I replied that they were in daily attendance on the court during tho term; that they were armed and officered; that they came and went in military array. While making these re­ marks I gave a slight nod of my head in the direction of the two men who were with me. I saw in a moment the President caught my meaning, but I was unprepared for what followed. The President said : "You say they attended the sessions of the " court daily?"* I answered affirmatively. "What was their object?" asked the President. "There could have been but one ob­ ject, namely: to resist the mandate of the coutt, if any of their number had been indicted." "That is true; I can see no other ob­ ject they coftld have had in view." Up to this time the President had kept cool. Now he bfjpgan to show ex­ citement. • ( "Yes," he went on, "the infernal vil- lians would overthrow the constitutional power of the courts and set up their own will as its substitute," with rising rage. "O, the d--d villiaus!" His anger continued to rise as he uttered expletives more and more profane. He clinched his hands; he tiptoed; raised his huge lists high in air; his large form seemed to dilate; he trembled all over; and his aspect became fearful to behold, as he poured out a volley of oaths upon the heads of the regulators. He wound up--culminated rather--with the assur­ ance that he would hang the last one of them higher than Hainan, pronouncing the lirst syllabic of the name with a prolonged rising inflection that for absolute fury, would throw into the shade the screech of a panther or the howl of a hyena. I was tilled with apprehension lest the President might fall into an apoplectic tit, a victim of his own fury. Moreover, I had been often in his com­ pany and had never before heard him use a word that would have been ob­ jectionable in a lady's parlor. I was overwhelmed, therefore, at the force and extent of his profane vocabulary. The poor regulators, meantime, thought their day of reckoning was at hand. They said afterward that they felt that all I had to do was to say, "Here are two of them," when they would have gone up as high as "Ha--a--a--man1 aforesaid. The President went up by gradation he came down with a leap. In a mo­ ment he assumed his natural serenity, made a polite bow, and bade us good day as if nothing at all unusual had oc­ curred. What was my surprise to learn, the next day, from the President's own mouth, that he was not angry at all, and that his apparent rage was simply h bit of acting to give the two men, whom he understood me to designate as regulators, a fright. He succeeded. New Orleans Times-Democrat. THE AX frHPWiP Aurr. & Our ttniti Cantos .ts and Cjnolon«%. A Fire Bxttngnloher for Coal Teasels. The generation of carbonic aeid gas on shipboard for putting out fine or re ducing heat in a coal cargo was decided some years ago to be impracticable. The plan would mak« necessary the carrying of a large bulk of hydrochloric acid and chalk, while the gas generated could not be so applied as to produce any considerable effect. A more prom­ ising extinguisher and cooler was sug­ gested at a recent meeting of tbe Lon­ don Institution of Naval Architects. Prof. Vivian B. Lewes proposed dis­ tributing through the cargo cylinders of liquified carbonic acid gas, which are now prepared on a large scale, and can be obtained at a comparatively low price. In a steel cylinder one foot long and three inches in diameter one hundred cubic feet of gas can be con­ densed in a liquid state, and this would fill the air-spaces of, and be sufficient to carry for eight tons of coal. Fusible plugs would automatically liberate the contents of the cylinders on a danger­ ous heating of the coal. Not only would a combustion-stifling gas then be forced through the cargo, but the return of the carbonic acid to its gase­ ous state would produce intense cold and greatly lower the temperature of the heated mass. The inert gas con tained in the pores of the coal, more­ over, would prevent any further tend­ ency to heat. rivwlng In Peru. The land is plowed in the feillewfag manner: From six to a dozen teams of oxen are put at work in a single field of twenty or thirty acres. The oxen are "yoked" by tying.a heavy beam across their foreheads. To this beam the plow is attached, all the force being applied by the head instead of the shoulders. The plow is a crooked stick or branch of a tree, the point faced with iron. The Hebrews, when they tilled the soil in the time of Mose«, had a plow made in the same way. Intelligent Peruvians contend that they do not need to plow more,than two or three inches deep-- pimply enough to loosen the soil so as to enable the seed to take root. The water used in irrigating is said to be rich in plant food, further obviating the necessity of deep plowing. It may also be added that improved plows, suitable for this country, are now manufactured in Europe and the United States, but it goes without saying that they are very different from the plow used by an American farmer. They are light and arnaFl, having a close resemblance to the original crooked stick. Another peculiarity of every Peruvian plow is that it has only one handle. The driver carries in one hand a large goad, twelve or fifteen feet in length, with which to touch up his team, and he manages the, plow with the other hand. The jDe*trantl»n floods Dron Floods, cyclones and draughts belong ' |o the same family. . , The ax is father of them all. Hu- toan stupidity is their mother. Nature is no more to blame for ttiom than the blind earth which the digger under­ names till it falls on jiim. , The ax kills trees. With tbe trees killed, the snows of wintef melt more quickly under the rain and. snow of early spring. With the trees killed, swamps, fallen logs and leaves that once held back the. waters , for months, no longer act. The waters rush to their natural outlets without opposition; The rapid transit Of the waters clogs the natural channels, and they over­ flow into new; ones, carrying devasta­ tion wherever they' rush. The "more the ax is used the higher rise the waters. Bad goes on to worse. The end no human wit can foretell. The destruction of the forests has eliminated the principal factor in modi­ fying the movement of the air currents. Like the trade winds of the ocean, the air currents over sections denuded of forests flow freely and persistently for long periods without change. " As change is necessary in ,the movements of the air in order to have change in the rainfall, it follows that persistency in air currents caused by forest destruc­ tion means long "spells" of dryness at one period and long "spells* of wet at another. Thus floods are sometimes aggravated as much by unusual wet "spells" as by the rapid transit of the waters to their natural channels iu con­ sequence of conditions just mentioned. When both causes conjoin terrible floods are inevitable. Destructive droughts must follow excessive rain­ falls, for the average rainfall varies but little from year to year in a given lo­ cality. An excess at one time means a scarcity at another. So, too, cyclones, like Hftnoons, are only possible where enormous areas of country "unbroken by forests exist. The winds gather force as they go, or rather freedom to move easily, which means that they will go quicker than if obstructed. "A point of refraction means that the surrounding atmosphere will rush in to restore equilibrium. If there is nothing to oppose the oncom­ ing air it will move rapidly. The forest is the greatest of modifiers to wind-storms, holding them back and checking them, aud, doing so, tend to modify Budden and rapid eases of rare­ faction. The flood, drought aud cyclone ad­ monish the people of the United States to be wise. If they heed not the admo­ nition they must pay the penalty. The spectacle presented in the valleys of the Mississippi and its tributaries, and along the track of the cyclone that de­ vastated Louisville should be enough to cause some serious thinking. Thes9 spectacles can be excelled. Give the ax time and bribe it to do its uttermost and horrors now seen will be mercies compared with horrors' thai will inevi­ tably follow. Ancedotfl of Napoleon Le Petit. When Napoleon IIL was Pmperor, he sat one day at Longi hsmps, sleepily re­ viewing his army., Kegiment after regi­ ment passed, but nothing seemed to stir the Emperor from his lethargy. At last, however, as a regiment of dra­ goons rode by, he suddenly fixed his attention upon the front • *.- "What is that lancer doing there among the dragoons?" he asked his Ohief-of-staff. The Clnef-of-staff looked at the lancer and galloped away to the division com­ mander, while the Emperor sank back into his customay impassiveness. "The Emperor demands to know why that lancer is among the dragoons?" The General looked shocked and called out sharply to the Colonel of the regiment. "Colonel, what have you, got that lancer among your men for?" The Colonel was dumbfounded and appealed to the commandant of the squtdron: "What's that lancer doing here?" "I don't know, sir," exclaimed the commandant of the squadron, and he called the Captain. - "Look here, Captain, why have y<* got that rascally lancer in your com­ pany ?" The Captain pleaded ignorance. Ol ask the Lieutenant." he said. By this time, the inquiries began t<L be garnished with oaths and abuse; The Lieutenant, apparently surprised beyond expression at the presence of the lancet, hurled question and impre*' cation ail at once at the bead .of the orrderlj--sergeaut. "What in the world is that laucet here for?" Then the orderly-sergeant rode up to the lancer himself, as if he were about to cut him through the saddle. "You villain! what are you doing here among the dragoons? The Emperor is after you. You'll be shot at the least "But, sergeant,^ the soldier stam­ mered, "you know l've permuted, sir!" •(Permutation iu the army means trans­ fer, by authority, from one corps to another. "Permuted, eh?" said the sergeant; "well, that won't help veta now." T h e o r d e r l y - s e r g e a n t w e n t t o t h e Lieutenant with the report that the man had permuted; the Lieutenant told the Captain the commandant of the squadron, and the commandant of the squadron the Colonel, and the Colonel the General, and tbe General the Chief- of-staff, and the Chief-of-stafl came to the Emperor. "Sire." he began, "the lancer has permuted." "• "What lancer?" "The lancer whom your Majesty noted among the dragoons." Oh, yes! He's permuted, eh?" said the Emperor, sleepily; "well, he looked like a good man. Let him have a medal 1"--The Argonaut. ^ Katlivr Mixed. Officer--You are my prisoner, Smartle (who lives by his wits)--Eh? On what charge? "Using the mails for fraudulent pur­ poses. Yon have been advertising counterfeit money for sale." I haven't. I advertised ,*gjreen goods.'" It's all the same." But I have no counterfeit never did have. When fools send me the cash for the 'green goods' which I advertise, I don't send them counter­ feit greenbacks. I send them green calico." Well, if that isn't a fraud I'd like to know what is. Come along."--New York Weekly. A LITTLE chicken, Which, though healthy and flourishing^, will always have to be fed by human hands, at­ tracts attention in North Plainfield, N. J. The upper half of its bill is rolled back in a tight ball between the eyes. very I The lower half is natural and tne eye perfect. There is a new kind of girl who fre- 'qneAtt'tKe plauas of the summer hotel in these degenef»t« days, however. She's the knowing damsel who doesn't object to a dash of spirits "on the quiet" and Who openly avows a passion lor cham­ pagne. Tbe highest aim in her life is to be called a "good fellow. She thiuks her father "awfully slow" and wonders "how on earth mamma can be so patient with such a bore." She imagines herself tre­ mendously worldly wise, but she usually contrives to make a goose of herself in some way ftr another before the season is oyer, Then she flies to "poor old papa" for sympathy, and she generally gets it. But the slimmer girl is not to be lightly laughed out of existence. She is oue of the pillars of our American institutions. Her ideas on the sobject of churning may be vague, but they are no more hazy than her brother's notion of the manly art of wood-sawin?. She certainly has an in-* satiable love of the seductive ice-oream bowl, but her predilections in that direc­ tion are no stronger than her brother's infatuation for the cheerful mint julep. She is addicted, if we may beliave the comic papers, to making long excursions in the damp grass with hor feet encased in thin French flippers, and she will not be persuaded that every cow is not a vin­ dictive enemy whose only aim in life is to compass her death; but .these are all delightful faults--innocent foibles which serve as a peg for the needy wit to hang a joke upon--and the summer girl is the girl we love. "A girl seems altogether different in the country, some way." confided a hopeful swain. "You don't feel so atraid of her. She's more get-at-able, and not so--wqllj, not so whalebony, don't you know." * Peace on Earth . Awatts that countless army of martyrs irhoge rank* are constantly recruited from the victims of nervousness and nervous diseaaes. The price at tbe boon is a systematic cotarse of Hostet- ter'a Stomach Bitters, the finest and most genial of tonic nervines, pursued 'with reasonable per­ sistence. Easier, pleasanter, and safer this than to awash the victualing department with pseudo-tonics, alooliolic or tbe reverse, beef ex­ tracts, nerve foods, narcotics, sedatives, and poisons in disguise. "Tired Nature's sweet re­ storer, balmy sleep," is the providential recu- jierant of weak nervea. and, this glorious fran­ chise being usually the consequence ol souud digestion and increased vigor, the great stom­ achic which insures both Is productive also of repose at the required time. Not nnrefroshed awakens the individual who uses it, but vigor­ ous, clear-headed, ftnd tranquil. Use the Bit­ ters also iu fever and ague, rheumatism, kidney troubles, constipation and biliousness. A Pretty Story. The Germans have a story whioh the home-loving people love to repeat. A father, when his daughter became a bride, gave her a golden casket with the injunction not to pass it into other hands, for it held a charm, which in her keep­ ing would be of inestimable value to her as the mistress of the honse. Not only was she to have the entire care of it, but •he was to take it every morning to tbe cellar, the kitchen, the dining-room, the library, the bed-room, and remain with It in eaoh place for live minutes, looking carefully about After the lapse of three years the father was (o send the key, that the secret talis­ man might be revealed. The kev was sent. The casket was opened. It was found to contain an old parchment, on which was written these words: "The eyes of the mistreat are worth one hun­ dred pairs of servants' hands. The wise father knew that a practice of inspection followed faithfully for three years would become a habit and be Belf-perpetuated --that the golden casket and the hidden eharm would have accomplished their mission.--Exchange. E. B. WALTHALL it Co., Druggists, Horse Cave, Ky., say: "Hall's Catarrh Cure cures ••wry one that takes it. * Sold by Druggists, 79a THE English crown is made up of monda* rubie dia- a, sapphires, pearls and em eralds, set in. silver and gold bands. It weighs thirty-nine ounces aud live penny weights, troy. In it tiiere are 3,452 dia­ monds, 273 pearls, 9 rubies, 17 sapphires and 11 emeralds. HAVE you ever tried Dobbins' Electric Soap? Itdou't cost much for you to get one bar of your grocer, and see for yourself why it is prnUetf by so many, after 2i years' steady sale. Be sure to get no imitation. SEVERAL yonng men on Mackinac Island have formed a society with a cap­ ital ctock of $(i,000, which will be spent on a visit to the World's Fair and a trip around the earth in 1893. . BEKCITAM'S PILLS aet like magic on a weak btomach. QjjAWs in the will--Fingers of the law­ yers.--Boston Herald. "WELL BEGUN is half done." Begin your work by buying a cake>of SAPOLIO. 8a- polfo is a solid cake of Hcourine Boap. Try a cake of it and judge for yourself. Get The Best Is a Rood motto to follow in buying a medicine M well SB in everything else. By the universal satis­ faction it bas eiven.and by the many remarkable cures it has accomplished. Hood's Harjaparilla has proven itself unequaled for building uv and strengthening the syt-trim. aud for all diaeaaas arising from, or promoted by. impure blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggists. $1: six for $5. Prepared only by C. 1. HCMJIJ A: CO., Lowell. Mass. ton Dos«s One Dollar and Government claims of *0 , iniUi'iOFwuted byTnoa.McSHKEHT, aw, Washington. D.O.. and FremoDt, O. •lablt. The only oertalc and easy cure. Dr. J. 1.. Stephens, Ijfbannn. Ohio. "HON THIS PAPER WV*« WHM OPIUI 3EP«3:s3i,8SS±o:«x 2Laet>*w ! ! \*00.000 names to b<» added to the Pension lint. Bcjectcd and delaved Claims allowed. Technicali­ ties wiped out Haw Your claim settled without de- la?. I'ATKICK O'FAKKHIX. Washington. I). C. P I 3 ir us cinm^cK iv .jrioRRtst EbIw O I Iw Washington, D.C> Successfully Prosecutes Claims. ate Principal Examiner IT 8. Pension Bureau. 3 VTH iu last war, 15 abjudicating claims, atty since. for an invigorntor will „ be found the most satls- >ry arable ever offered the public ($1.00 per box). be Mars' OVU1UK for private disease unsurpassed box). Treatment and correspondence btrictly roaAtk'iitia . I>K. WE MARS, i:* (*.H. Examining Sttmeon.SSaiMi M) ImperialBldii. vHx)Clark st„Chicago PASTILLE OE MARS factor}' ara< le ever oflered t RADWKVi RELIcr READY RELIEF GPriced) <CSO Cts}. Instantly Stop Pain , Ay-., AMTSmOICrCURCAU. tfUOUS COMB/ A representation of the engraving on oar Wrappers.--EADWal A 00. BBWYOWL Some Communistic Failures. After the revolution of 1848, Louis Blanc started a workshop where princi­ ples of equality were practiced. Ihe wages were the same lor all, bnt the names of idlers were written upon the walls. All work was very well paid for, as he had on order from the state to sup­ ply uniforms for the national guard. At the outset all went very well. The work­ men w ere sincere and ardent Socialists, who made it a point of honor that the ex­ periment of the new system should be a success; but very Boon this good under­ standing came to an end. Those who were more industrious or quicker than their companions accused tne latter of idleness; they felt themselves victims of injustice, for the remuneration was not in proportion to the zeal and activity dis­ played. They were being "cheated and duped," and this was intolerable; hence, quarrels, arguments and fights. The temple of brotherhood was scon trans- iorn^d into a sort of boxing booth-- "boite aux giffles," which is, as is known, the name given to the building where the citizens of Geneva meet together for the exercise of their sovereign right. Another example: Marshal Bugeand founded at Beni-Mered, in Algeria, a mil­ itary colony on a communistic footing. The settlers were all picked men, and he supplied them with all they needed for the cultivation of the soil. Land, eattla, agricultural implements, the produce of the harvests, everything, in fact, was to be owned and all work carried on in common for the space of three years. The plan was excellent. It nevertheless turned out a failure. Althoagh the colonists were soldiers, accustomed to discipline, passive obedience and equal pay, and without private home or family.'still they conld not go through the commtinistic novitiate to the end. As thev were en­ gaged in pursuits other than their mili­ tary exercises, the spirit of innovation and the taste for amelioration soon made themselves manifest. Each one wished to cultivate according to his o"wn notion, and they reproached each other with not doins; the work well. The Marshal vainly explained that it was to their advantage to work in common, in order to overcome the first difficulties of starting the settle­ ment, and to realize the economies in- siuedby a wise division of labor. It Was of no avail; the. association had tp be dissolved, although it had so far brought in profits.--Contemporary Review. Confirmed. The favorable impression produced on the first appearance of the agreeable liquid fruit remedy. Syrup of Figs, a few years ajro, has been more than confirmed by the pleasant experience of all who have used it; and the success of the proprietors and manufacturers, the California Fig Syrup Company. PxopiiB go to the mountain* and the seaside to do nothing and yet where young couples are congregated business is usually pressing in the evening. DOK'T urge children to take nasty worm oils. They enjoy eating Dr. Bull's Worm Destroyers and will usk for mo.-e. "WHICH do you love, my money or my­ self?" "Both. I cannot get the one with­ out the other. * Ir afflicted with Sore Eyes, use Dr. Isaao Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it 25e. THE best coupn medicine is Piso's Cure for Consumption. Hold everywhere. 25c. RICHI fragrant! fine! are expressions of those who use "TunsiU's Punch" 5c. Cigar. PATENTS F. A. r.KHM VXIf, Wanlilncton. 1). C. eartSeud for circular. MENTION THIS rATXR wm wamm «• itnmiu. Try BEECHM'S PILLS. 25cts. a Box. OF ALL DRUGMJISOS. I LIKE MY WIFE TO USE POZZONI'S MEDICATED COMPLEXION POWDER. Beoause It Improves Her Looks and is ae Fragrant as Violets. SOXJD BTBRT PENSIONS] I Write ua for new laws. Rent free. Deaerttri r«- I tiered. Sacceu or co tea. 16 yr» experience. A.W. KtOwmiek* Baai.Waalilaftaa, ID. O., aoinclooktl, 0. > XUIM$>«0S£CtJTE0 UNDER Mil .llln. Circular Bliowiiid wlioaro leu iHItu sent iimic- IcPK-tlil Otll'TWIH • QotllltlK . AdV it t'I'iOHKO.lli AI'KH every_tiuie you write. TbouumvlK EVTJTTjED under tho IOiW ACT. Writ • immediately for HI. AN KM f.->r applica­ nt CO.,Wafilnrutoi]. D.C. PENSIONS ! EXPERIENCE. STEVERS • CO.. A«YK, HIS F st..Waah- ictiomces, Cleveland, Detroit.ChieagO tion. Apply to IIIS iiiKton,D.C. Branch PENSIONS lathers are entitled u» Si:: a month, you sret your niouer. Blanks f Hunter, Att'y, Washington, D. C. The frreat Pension Bill haa panned. Soldier?, their wid­ ow, mothers, and Fee $10, when iankrt free. Joseph H. Grants pensions to Noidiern. Sailor*., .ml their Widows and Children. Tranent l'EXSI()S8 XNCRKASKI). Writeimiuxllately.Ktatineyourca«e jr. V. IlKKJiODV. Att'y-at-I.aw. CJiauncoy ISuildniK. WASHINGTON. I). C. NTHOUSANDS NOW KNTI I J.KIJ WHO HAVK NOT HEKN KNTlTl,i:i>. Address 4or tonus lor application and full information WM. W. 'DUDLEY, Maris COMMINSIOXKK OF I'KNSIONS, Attorney at Law. Washington, 1>.C. (Mention tlnn Paper.) IEW PENSION LAW THOUSANDS NOW KNTI'I J.KD WH( WM. FITCH & CO., 102 Corcoran Building. Washington. D.C., PENSION ATTORNEYS ES8FEL. of over 25 years" experience. Successfully Den alone and claimaof *11 kind* in ahoi time. «Sr No IKE USLEdS SUCC."" Now. are Dont read! Don't believe! better? You women who think that* patent medicines are a hom-j bug, and Dr. Pierce's Favor4 ite Prescription the biggest| humbug of the whole (because it's best known of all)--doesj your lack-of-faith cure come? It's verv easy to u don't" inf" this world. Suspicion always^ comes more easily than con-• fidence. But doubt -- little faith -- never irtkde a sick woman well--and the " Fa* vorite Prescription " has cured thousands of delicate, weak- women, which makes us think that our " Prescription" is better than your don't believes,- We're both honest. Let uf come together. You try Dr* Pierce's Favorite Prescription*,} If it doesn't do as represented^ you get your money again. 4 Where proof's so easy, caif you afford to doubt? < 'SfH w f/- '1 l Little but active--are Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. Best Liver Pills made; gen* tie, yet thorough. They re late and invigorate the li stomach and bowels. FOR MALARIA, BILE BEANS It affords me great pleasure to add m testimony to the value of Smith's Bile Be*m they are certainly an excellent medicine f< bilious attacks and oold. I have given thcx* a thorough trial and can conaclentioaaly recommend them. W. J. CAKDWXI.&, Irondalo, Ate. Try "BILE BE AN S SMALL"(4o little be arts in each bottle). Very small--' easy to take. Price of either size, 25c. *3TBUY OF YOUR DRUGGIST. • -4 f< til C M C I f l H C NIVW LAW. sno/w scidiera, CHelVHe widows and relative* entit: Apply at once. SOUCKS « CO. Blanks an l instruction free* Atfjrii. Washisigtoa, IX CW fe^ASTM^ maii. StoweilJtOfc 'xiestown,!' W9DERj8M8TUi^ MENTION TH)sTnf!^nwMriftii«» to ^DEPENOEMfPEHSIpNBILE' fcaa become a Jaw. Oil rKK MONTH to all honorably discharged Soldiers and Sailors of the late war; who are incapacitated from earning a aop- Sort. Widows thp same, without regard to cause ot eith. Dependent Parents and Minor Children alao Interested. Over au.vp-jrn' experience Reference* 1& ail parts of the country. No chanre if unsuccessful. Write at once lor "Copy of Lavr," blauk«. and foil If* * tractions, ALL FHKE. to K. MeAIUSTKK A CO. fsuceeaeore to Wm. Conard & Co.). P. O. Box 7IS* WaaltlnjEtnn, D. C. PENSION I'be Disability Bill is a law. Soldiers dii the war arc entitled. Dependent widows HOW dependent whose sona died tiMn"" service are included. If .von wtabjrg| ily and succeasfuUjr proaa- IJMBVI ecnted. address ' JHMM Late Commlssionerof Pensions. VUIIIC If^You Want to Kiiwi 1.001 eodeilll nilnta-ulignithefcwaa ayatem. . t*i. Mrift iawrf. ditwn fcifc--^: * fodtaeraMga, t • •' . Iltote to all forma o/tfiMoaa, IBote to eiiACTIwOW ftw. R*pt*re. ntntmf, t I How to ma(KVi hapfiy <» JTarria#* oh«J Man prtm I • and anortdSlfltflt Doetor>s Droll Jokes, profnsal} liEw^r-Send ten eenta for new bntgh-Car* r JtEDICAL SENSE AND N0NSEI «urray KIILPsik. €•*!»& £3tU Sl.,K» FOWBSUB 4m pumni (raTXirrED.) Tho *tron<je»t and purest ILtfm made. Will make the BKsf. Perfumed HARD SOAP in twent f * linutes without boiling. It lie host for disinfecting sinlM* tloseta, drains, washing bOtU«a» itarrels, paiuta, etc. PENNA. SALT MANlfFG. Gen. Agta., PUila., Pa. r» TOW WISH A i oooo REVOLVER. pnrcbaae one of the cele­ brated SMITH & WESSON arms. The finest email arms ever manufactured and the first choice of all exj>erte. Manufactured in calibres 32, SB and 44-lOOt. _ fie or double action. Safety Hammerleca 1 5'a rtret models. Constructed entirely of tx Itr ws-ouirht Merl, carefallr inspected (uaimhip and stock, they are unrivaled fc durability and accuracy. Do not bed cheap malleable cau.lras Imltail are often sold for the Pennine article a onlv unreliable, ibut dangerous. The WESSON Revolvers are all stamped rels with firm's name, address and dutes and are giiarntiteed Sistupon having the genuine artioli), an ealer cannot Rupply Tftm an order a-nt below will receive prompt ^Descriptive catalofrue and price® f 1: and careful at rice* furnished 1 plication. S M I T H & W E S S O l gWMeqtton this paper. Springfield, Utah Red •t". Ladles, aak . »o»<i Hr«ua4.U red aS with blmrttihia. : £a every CHICHESTER'S tWGU fclSlSL-* Mf doalybytlft QttstaiXQOa I prescribe and dorse Big U as specific for the certain of this disease. 1 G. H. IKiiRAHAJfrXwifc. H.K We have sold Bte G far many years, aad tt ha* given the bttt ot aal-- (action. B. R, DYCHEACd. tl,N. SoldbyQniggis WHEi WKITISG TO ADVERTISERS*if"' hrsicians. ible to the druggists Cures where all else fails. Pleasant taste. Children take it without objection! mar WATERPROOF COLLAR on a No. 30 -tK» BE UP TO THE MARK • ^ vs5, * THAT CAN BE RELIED OH *<a. 1 ' Wot to sputl tJ> • • Wot to Dlaoolor i BEARS THIS MARK. #*>• i ,-ifv . £ v TRADE i 4 -^5 ; ^ J ^ ^ X t NEEDS NO LAUNDERING. OAN BE WIPED OUAN IN A MOMENT. THE ONLY LINEN-LINED WATSRPROOI? « COLLAR IN THE MARKET. "i? . ; : 1 • " "i vj; • '0® W-M r' ilC \ Jia,_ * :H 1