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tW 1* IS TOO OrVKN THK CASS* Togetbet at the garden gate Tbay stood nntll the hoar was la«|p*. , > And bugged and kissed and sighfiL A maidan fair with golden hair, A stalwart youth with many air Who sought her (or his bride. i< , : *5"* And they were wed. Btill at the MM* Bhe stands until the hour it late, But he is -with her not. She waits, the while her heart It IWW, To guide him in when he return*, About three-quarter* shot. Too often is.it thus, alas! The honeymoon they quickly pase And then the little wife At home in left alone at night, The husband at the club gets tigbt And then--But each it life! *-iBotton Courier. tOST DIAMONDS. •*;_& -- ; i$ie Story of an ©M Detecttre. |rr H. C. FCLTOH. ; : ' Dorm^rav twenty years* C^fSS^fiehce AS a detective I liave had a great many very complicated, mysterious and ex­ citing cases; bat when you ask me iabout a strange case, I can give you one that is not very old. It was a cold day, and the jrronnd was covered with snow, when a servant entered my office and handed me a let­ ter written by a lady for whom I had idore business. I will call her Mrs. Hariis. for she is a prominent woman in .New York society, and I don't care to give her true name. She is very wealthy, and lives on Fifth Avenue. The letter informed me that her 'diamonds had been stolen, and asked Die to acoompany her servant to lier house at once. I looked atvthe servant, and fell to thinking, without being in any apparent hurry. It don't do for a detective to be too mucli in a hurry. Something may be overlooked, if he is. Of course, as yet I knew nothing of the particulars, but before me stood a man who might have had an opportunity to steal the jewels. "Can't you come?* asked the man. "Were you told that I was to go with you?" I said, quickly, and looked him straight in the face. "No, I only thought so," he answered. I knew that he was lying. I looked at the envelope that he had brought tome, and could see that it apparently had been opened with the r>int of a peucil and then sealed again. thought that he was entirely too in­ quisitive. * I then bundled up, and, going to the street, entered a carriage in waiting, and was soon in Mrs. Harrii' drawing- room. When she entered I asked her to give me the full particulars, which she did by saving: "I knew it was very careless, but I left the diamond ear­ rings on the table in the hall last night, wrapped in my handkerchief, and this morning the handkerchief was found on the floor, but the diamonds were gone." "Arc you sure that yon left them there ?" I asked. "Yes, certain," she paid. "How did you happen to do so?" I inquired. "It was just this way," she answered. "As 1 got from the carriage last night after the theater, I caught one of the earrings in the lace on my sleeve, and couldn't unfasten it until 1 came into the light of the hall, and, to loosen it, I had to take it from my ear. When it was out I thought I would take out the other one, which I did. Then I wrapped them both in my handkerchief and laid it on tftee table beside my fan. Wheu I retired I lorgot about the diamonds, and now they are gone." " Who saw you place them there?" I asked. "No one." "Who was first in the hall this morn­ ing?" "Either William, the man I sent for you, or Mary, who sweeps on this floor. But, dear me! I would never suspect either of them," she answered. "Yet they may be able to give infor­ mation th&t will aid me. Send for William," I said. I don't believe that I had so much confidence in William as Mrs. Harris had. When William came I allowed him to stand for a moment before I spoke, and he appeared to be very iily at ease. Then I asked: '"Was Mary the first one in the front hall this morning?" "I think she was," be said, "for I saw her there sweeping when I came down. But, I tell yon, she never stole any­ thing." I was a little surprised at his answer, for I had about concluded that he would want me to think that Mary had taken the jewels. "Have you searched for the ^dia­ mond* ?" 1 asked. "Indeed, we all did, and poor Mary bas been crying her eyes out because she might be suspected." "Send her here," I said. Mary came, and it wan quite apparent that she had been crying; but I have had considerable experience with wo­ men's tears. She said that when she went to sweep the hall she found the handkerchief on the floor, but Saw nothing of the diamonds; and that she was still sweeping when William passed her on his way to clear the snow from the front walk. I concluded that Mnry knew nothing about the diamonds, but was uot quite so snre of William. "Did William go to the table?" I in­ quired. "No," she said. "He walked apastit, on his way to the door." "Did he pick up the handkerchief for you ?" "No, be did not, I had picked it up before he came. He didn't pick up any­ thing. And if he had picked up the diamonds be would have said wx* The girl was evidently shrewd enough to see the purpose of my questions. And her very shrewdness aroused my suspicion. "Now, Marv," I said, "do you say that William passed through the hall with­ out stopping?" "No, I don't," Bly^ answered, and I noticed a little color come to her cheeks. " W hat did he stop for ?" I asked. "Perhaps because he wanted to," she answered, snappishly. "Mary," said Mrs."Harris, "yon must answer the question. If " William stopped in the hall this morning you must tell the gentleman what for." "Then, if you must know, he stopped to kiss me." With this she ran out of the room. I now understood the relationship be­ tween the two servants, and why each thought the other incapable of stealing.' I also saw a motive for William wanting the money that the earrings might bring him, and felt that it would be difficult to either recover the dia­ monds or discover evidence enough to convict the thief. The first thing was to put an assist­ ant on the track of William, and to pump the pawn-ahop-t. He night hare MSk Tinted one on his way to my offien. I told Mrs. Harris that I would return by ear, and that she might expect soon to •ee me again William showed me to the door. After he had closed it behind me I stood a moment on the step, and glanced at the front of the house. As I did so I caught sight of a woman's head at a window in the house next door. "When she saw me looking toward her she •prang back and closed the blind. I must have frightened her. I rang the bell at Mrs. Harris' door, and surprised William by my sudden return. I asked for Mrs. Harris, and inquired of her how the door had been locked the night before "It was only on the night latch," she •aid. " Mr. Harris is out of the city, and I thought he might return, and I left the door so that he could get in." At my request Mrs. Harris gave me the night-latch key, and again I left the house. I looked at the win­ dows of the next house, and caw no one. Then, stepping to the front door, I inserted the Harris-house key, and was able to open the door with it. I knew that the key of that lock would open Mrs. Harris' door. The key was put in my pocket, and I rang the door bell. Then I heard a slight noise inside, as though something had fallen to the floor. The door was opened by the same woman who had been at the wiqdow. I walked iu.' On the floor was a silver-plated card-receiver and a number of cards. The girl had evidently thrown it from the table near by. I inquired for the lady of the house, and said that I would take a seat in the hall until she came. The woman took my card and ascended the stairs. The mistress of the house appeared to be in no hurry. As my card showed me to be only a detective I suppose she thought that I could wait. I wanted her to know who I was. The minutes began to pile, and I amused myself by reading the names on the cards scattered about the floor and on a steel-wire mat that was just inside of the front-door. I did not read the names of any of the "four hundred" on them. One card on the mat that seemed to bear a remarkably long name, attracted my attention, and I picked it up. As I raised it I dropped to my knees, for near it, in the meshes of the mat, was one of Mrs. Harris' diamond earrings. It was no sooner in my vest pocket than the lady of the house descended the stairs. I told her of Mrs. Harris' loss--the fact of which she had heard before through the servants. She proved to be quite talkative, and answered all of my questions, and, at my suggestion, she sent for the woman who had ad­ mitted me to the house. Her name was Margaret Newell. Margaret was also ready with inform­ ation, and, in the course of her remarks, she informed me that "the Harris help was a thieving set." I made up my mind that I would learn something more of Margaret. After expressing my thanks for the info<mation 1 left the house, and, walk­ ing to Broadway, entered a south­ bound car, which soon took me to my office. When I had removed my boots, which were wet from the snow, and placed them under the wash-stand, in the place of a dry pair, I sent for Wal­ ler Savage. Walter is the smartest voung man that I ever had in my em­ ploy. I soon acquainted him with all the facts that I knew, and also with my suspicions, and started him off to look up the pedigree of Margaret Newell, and to do any work that his fertile mind might suggest. A week passed, and Walter said noth­ ing to me about the case, i was a little surprised, for I knew he would come to me and report any new develop­ ments, and ask my advice before taking any action. In the meantime Mrs. Harris was kept in ignorance of the fact that I had one of the diamonds. It was about eight days after my visit to the Harris house--and just such an­ other day--when I jumped trom a car in front of my office, landed in a pool of slush, and entered my room with wet feet, as Walter was about leaving. He turned back. . "There is nothing in it," he said. "In what?" I asked. "In your theory about the Harris dia mondcase," he said. "Do you think I am wrong?" I in­ quired. "Dead wrong. I have worked on your theory until there is nothing left of it. You are away off." "Do you know any more about it than I told you?" I asked. "No," he said, "there is no accounting for the diamond you found iu the hall or for anything else in the case. I am entirely beat." "Haven't you struck any clew at all?" I asked him. "Not the shadow of one. It beats any ca«e that I ever touched. I can't-even find a smell of a suspicion." "It won't do to give up," I said. "Here, help me off with these wet boots, and get me that pair under the wash- stand, and we will start new on thii matter." He helped me off with the boots, and, as he got the other pair from under the wash-stand, he rolled upon the floor, laughing at the top of his voice. "What's the matter?" I asked in alarm. "I see it! I see it! I see it!" he cried out "See what?" "The Harris case. Thediamonds. Oh, I will burst! I know the thief!" he cried. "Who?" I asked. "You!" he answered, and laughed agaiu. "See," said he, "here is the other diamond," and he held it in his hand. Sure enough. There it was. though the pold was battered about the stone. "Where was it?" I asked. Before an­ swering he rose from the floor, and with an effort calmed himself enough to say; "It was under your boot. You brought it here with the snow on your sole, when you came from the Harris house. I see it well enough now. The handkerchief acd diamonds had fallen from the table, and Mary picked up the handkerchief, auA swept thediamonds out of the door, and William shoveied them over the ciy-b. You picked them up on your foot, and left one on the wire mat when you went to see Margaret, and brought the other one here." That was evidently the cortect ex­ planation. And I think the case was, indeed, a very strange one. STAMPEDED ON THE PLAINS. A. Wild Bare in the OaiftaeM wlthsBftd Of 1,700 rr»niie<t Cattle. 'rounding up,* "eut- >rki THE difference between a starving man and a glutton is that one longs to eat and the other eats too long.--tiing- ham ton Leader. THE man who cau get no credit bas the satisfaction of boasting that he does not owe anything.--Terre Haute Ex­ press. After weeks of ting out," branding and marking, we had gotten together 1,700 head of the finest steeVs to be found on the banks of the muddy Pecos, in New Mexico. Two days later the "boss" rode into camp, consulted with his foreman, and eight men, including the writer, wero chosen to drive the snorting, bellowing herd to Springer, N. M., a distance of 250 miles. The evening of the sixth day was cloudy and cool, and indications of an approaching storm were visible. "Have ter watch 'em putty close to­ night, boys," said our foreman. "Looks like we're goin' ter have some rain." The writer was on first guard The cattle were restless, showing a decided disposition to run, and instead of walk­ ing our horses around the herd we were oompelled to travel at a sharp trot. Daylight faded out and pitchy darkness succeeded. The cattle were indistin­ guishable at a dozen pace*, and fre­ quently we were compelled to pull up short to avoid colliding with a steer or with each other. This continued until the arrival of the second guard, when the increased forces succeeded in quieting them somewhat, and the writer and his mate started for camp guided by the light of the camp fire, which shone like a star on a little elevation about a mile away. We had scarcely turned into our blankets, fully dressed as usual, with the exception of our boots, when the rain commenced to fall, in drops at first, but steadily increasing to a downpour. Blankets were drawn over heads and grunts of displeasure were heard on every side, when a rumbling and shak­ ing of the ground was heard, mingled with hoarse shouts. "The're runding, by !" yelled the foreman, jumping from his blankets. "Mount! mount! every one of you," running to.his horse as lie spoke, which was picketed a short distance away. Not waiting to don boots, the writer sprang to his horse, vaulted into the saddle And tore oft after the foreman, the flickering light of the camp fire, fast being extinguished by the rain, re­ vealing the remaining men hurriedly preparing to follow. Guided by the thunder of hoofs the herd was soon overtaken, and, in obedi- t ence to the foreman's yells, I strove to •"get in front of 'em." I could faintly discern in the darkness a line of bellow­ ing, Rnorting beasts, and, urging " Nig­ ger ̂ Jaby" to his utmost, reached the end <n the line and there found two of the boys galloping in the lead, shouting and waving their oil coats or "slickers" and trying to stop the headlong flight. The confusion of the scene was inde­ scribable. The terrified snorts of the cattle were almost drowned by the clash­ ing of horns, thunder of the hoofs, and shouts of the men. My oilcoat was strapped to mv saddle, not having had time to unfasten it. I tore at the leather straps, succeeded in loosening them, and turning in my saddle, shook it be­ fore the leaders, adding my shouts to the din around nae. As well to try to stop the torrent of Niagara. The wild race was unslack- ened, and from traditions, 1 knew thnf a misstep of my horse sufficient to thr< me, or his fall meant that I would ke cut to pieces by the sharp hoofs of the cattle. Then an unexpected event occurred The herd divided into two sections, one of which I was the sole leader of, while the other portion galloped off at right angles, led by my two companions. For a few minutes I could hear their shouts, then they grew fainter and fainter, and were finally lost in the gallop of hoofs around me. On we thundered. My throat was raw and swollen from shouting, and mv "slicker* had fallen from my hand. Tim rain had ceased, but I was wet to the skin and numbed by the cool air. I thought the sound of hoofs was not so deafening, and as the clouds blew away so that I could see a few yards in front of me, I found that I was leading about a dozen steers that had become separ­ ated from the herd. I had just made this discovery when they slackened speed and finally stopped, panting and quivering, all the run knocked out of them. Of what use was a handful of steers out of 1,700? Biding off a few yards I listened, but could hear no sound of my companions. Becoming conscious of a severe pain in my left foot I reached down and found that I was literally pincushioned with the sharp needles of a cactus, having ridden through a bed of the pricky stuff, my foot unprotected by boots. In the excitement of the run I had not felt it, but now the pain was intense. I plucked such as I could and then de­ liberated what was best to do. My loue dozen steers had wandered away and I made no effort to overtake them, know­ ing the ueelessness of the undertaking. Here was a predicament. in middle of the prairie, shoeless shivering with cold, not knowing in what direction to go to reach camp and my horse blown with his fearful run. Knowing the instinct of hcrees I dropped the bridal reins and suftered him to go where he would. He promptly wheeled around and started off on a slow trot, which he kept up for about fifteen minute*. I knew we were camped on the bank of the river, and supposed that lie would go in that direction, but Wishing to test his instinct, I turned him from his chosen course, and to my dismay he complied and started off in the new direction just us willingly. I tested him from every point of the compass, and he seemed to go in any direction just as willingly. I gave up in despair then, ana con­ cluded to keep him moving till day­ light, when I knew I could find the river. On he trotted, while I began to curse the fate that ever led me to be­ come a cow puncher. After riding I should judge an hour I was delighted to find myt>elf on the river bank; but then a new qtiestion arose: Was the camp before nie or behind me? Again I tested the horse. He would go up or down, just as I pleased. I peered through the darkness, ttying to look for anything that served as a guide, when afar off in the distance I caw a faint light which, grew to "a tiny blaze and then died out. Where there was a light there must be life, and with re­ newed hope I galloped off in that di­ rection, and about ten minutes later had the satisfaction of seeing the can­ vas top of the mess wagon looming up before me. The light I had seen was a match in the hands of one of the bovs, who had struck it to light the lantern, which had burned out. " Its last flickering gleam had been teen by me quite accidentally, and his providential lighting of a match had guided me aright. We were the only two of the outfit who reached camp that night. The others, like my*elf, had <*hased the the cattle until they scattered, and had spent the night is a vain search for camp. Daylight" found many of them traveling in an entirely opposite direc­ tion, ^nd one nearly, ten miles from his destination. Messengers wero- dispatched to a ranch aoross the river and to another twenty miles away. Men were sent to onr assistauce, and with a force of" twenty cowboys the scattered cattle were rounded up in two days, and we continued our journey, haviug lost but six head in the wild stampede. Evidence of the wild rush of the cattle were plentiful in the broken horns, and two carcasses were found almost trampled to a jelly. The poor brutes, exhausted, had fallen to the ground, only to be cut to pieces by the sharp hoofs of their companions. Four times they stampeded before Springer was reached, but the stampedes for­ tunately occurred on clear nights, and were stopped with little difficulty.--: Galveston News. ; . • . I - Justice to Mrs. Job. • Job was a wonderfully afflicted man, but, as a partial compensation for it, he has had the sympathy of the human race for 4,000 years. But it has uot been so with Job's Wife. Nobody has ever spoken a kind word of her. On the contrary, she has been held up for forty centuries as a horrible example. But for all that, we are confident the poor woman deserves a better place in history than she has ever occupied If she was sour tempered, she had enough to give an acid tinge to her disposition. She was made to drink the dregs from a very bitter cup, and it is possible that she bore her troubles with about as much equanimity as the average woman would do. In the first place, she was suddenly reduced from luxury to penury. Any unfortunate woman who has suffered this ordeal knows just the frame of mind Mrs. Job was ir. In the next place, she was bereft of her children. There is no grief so bur­ densome as that which falls upon a mother's heart when the grave hides her children from sight. In addition to this accumulation of sorrows, she was left with an invalid husband on her hands. Job was cov­ ered with boils, and experience has taught us that there is no more exas­ perating patient than a man with a boil on him. There are wives, and good wives, too, in this Christian land of ours, whose lives have been made most miserable for days and weeks at a time by a husband aud one boil. Just think, then, what this poor woman had to en­ dure with a husband with perhaps 500 to 1,000 boils on him! Is it any wonder that the woman encouraged her hus­ band to terminate his existence? The only wonder is that she didn't cut her own throat in despair. But these were not all the troubles that Job's wife had to bear. Her hus­ band's friends came on a visit to him, and took possession of the house six weeks at a time. Other women, and good women, too, have had to endure the same affliction, and they can very easily account for Mrs. Job's exhibition of bad temt>er. Job got worried with the three visitors himself, and yet he didn't have to wait on them, to clean •ip their rooms, to wipe the tobacco nice from the parlor carpet every day, to sweep out the mud they carried ia on their boots, and to submit t > the thousand and one annoyances that a male visitor cives the housekeeper. It is about time that some one was raising a voice in defence of Job's wife, and saying a kind, wprd^jjor, the poor woman who, tor 4,000 years, has suffered the slings of unjust criticism in uncoin plaining silence. There are a great many Job's wives in the world to-day; we meet them every day. They may not have hus­ bands with boils on their bodies, but they have husbands who go the clubs of evenings. They have husbands who are Belfish enoutrh to devote all their time to business and pleasure without considering that a portion of that time of right belongs to the woman, the charm of whose existence is his com­ panionship. The Job's wives of to-day are the women who are burdened with the care-i and sorrows of this life, and who get no sympathy. And their name is legion.--Exchange. Tile Kfl'ectof Two l.nltcrn. She was a little old woman in black, with the least bit of white ruching about her neck--just such a creature as it takes to bring one down to the real thought of humanity, out of the liurly burly of everyday existence to the little sorrows and little rays of sunshine that go to make up life as it is. Everybody noticed her as she came iu the car. Her sweet old face didn't have many wrinkles in it, and the passengers wondered if she wasn't the prettiest girl in her crowd when she was young. The little old lady had two letters in her hand, and after she had given the conductor her nickel she opened one of them, at the same time adjusting a pair of steel rimmed spectacles to her nose. As she read the letter a smile gathered all over her face and then broke into a laughing chuckle that everybody iu the car noticed. Another smile came, then a laugh and more smiles, and the letter was finished. The little old woman was the happiest person on the car and she seemed to want to say something to somebody. As she put a\}'ay the first letter and began opening the other one she turned to a lady sitting by her and said: "That letter is from Johnny, my boy, I mean. He's beeu gone a long time now, and every Saturday I get a letter trom him. He never forgets his old mother, John doesu't, and some day he will come back to see me. You don't know the comfort of such a son, young laify." The second letter was taken from the envelope and the little old woman be­ gan reading. In a moment she started and theu jumped to her feet, staring wildly at jthe sheet she had in her hands. "No, no!" she screamed. "No, it is not so--it can't be so." The little old woman reeled, and a big, burly home going laborer caught her in his arms. She was taken from the car, accompaniod by a number of the passengers, aud lifted to a drug store. When i-he was finally laid down one of the passengers put his ear close to her heart, and then rising shook his head. The little oid woman had died In one of her hands a letter was clasped and in the other she clutched a rumpled sheet The bit of paper was taken by one of the passengers, who read aloud to the others: "Dear Madam--It is with pain that we disclose to you sad news concerning your son. As he was returning to the mining camp from the postoffice last night his hoise threw him against a rock aud he never spoke again. He ( died thie morning."--Pittsburgh Dip- j patch. K«w Dirkeitn Wiei* "Our Mutual Frtend. ** Dickens told me (writes Mr. George W. Childs) that before beginning any of his works he thought it out fully, and then made a skeleton from which he elaborated it. Th" most interesting and valuable memento I have of him is the original manuscript of "Our Mutual Friend." It is the only complete manu­ script of any of Dickens' novels outside of the Kensington Museum: though one or two of his short Christinas stories, I believe, arc to be found in America and in England. A skeleton of the story is prefixed to each volume, the first covering sixteen, the second eighteen pages of quarto pa­ per. These skeletons show how,Dickens constructed his stories. They are very curious. Here is a sample page: "Our Mutual Friend," No. 1--Chapter I.--On the Lookout--The Man, in his boat, watching the tides. The Gaffer-- Gaffer--Gaffer Hcxam -- Ilexam. His daughter rowing. Jen, or Lizzie. Tak­ ing the body in tow. Hts dissipated part­ ner who has frobbed a live man'." liiderhood--this fellow's name. Chap­ ter II.---The Man from Somewhere-- The entirely new people. Everything new--Grandfather new -- if they had one. Dinner party -- Twemlow, Pod- snap, Lady Tippins, Alfred Light­ house, also Eugene--Mortimer, languid, and tells of Harmon, the Dust Con­ tractor. Then follow sentences, written every­ where on the page, like this: "Work in the girl who was to have been married and made rich," etc. A Reprieve for the Condemned. Wretched men and women long condemned to Buffer the tortures of dyspepsia, are filled with uew hope after a few doses of Hostetter's Stom­ ach Bitten. Thia budding hope blossoms into the fruition of certainty if the Bitters ia per­ sisted in. It brings a reprieve to all dyspeptics who seek lta aid. Flatulenoe, heartburn, sink­ ing at the pit of the stomach between meals, the nervous tremors and Insomnia of which chronio indigestion is the parent, disappear with their hateful progenitor. Most beneficent of stomachics! who cau wonder that in so many instance it awakens grateful eloquonoe iu those who, benefited by it, speak voluntarily in its behalf. It requires a graphic pen to de­ scribe the torments of dyspepsia, but in many of the testimonials received by the proprietors of the Bitters these are portrayed with vivid truthfulness. Constipation, biliousness, mus­ cular debility, malarial fevers and rheumatism are relieved by it. From Jiew York to London by Kail. The project of bridging Behring Straits, which is said to be attracting discussion, is a somewhat startling one, but there do not seem to be any in­ superable difficulties in the way. The distance between Siberia and Alaska is between fifty and sixty miles, but this distance is broken into convenient sec­ tions by three or four islands, which would form stations in a route from Cape Prince of Wales on the American shore to East Cape on the Russiu«. The under­ taking would, of course, bo an enor­ mously expensive one, but who will say it will never bo accemplished? With a railway to Alaska, another across Si­ beria and a tunnel under the Hrjlish Channel, our descendants, if they do not succeed in bridging the Atlantic, may yet journey by rail from New York to London.--WV#fcm World. A Well-Bridged Town,^ No city in the world presentis such a variety of bridge architecture as Pitts­ burg. Within the city limits fourteen bridges span the two rivers--seven over the Monongahela and seven over the Allegheny. There are three more in prospect, already chartered. Of theso the Monongahela will get two and the Allegheny one. The former river will be crossed by a new bridge at Ross street and. another at South Twenty-seventh street. The new Sixth street bridge will bo tho crowning glory of the river.-- Pittsburg Post. M. L. THOMPSON A CO., Druggists, Coudsrs- port, Pa., say Hall's Catarrh Cure is the beat and only sure oure for catarrh they ever sold. Drwggtas sell it, 7fc, THE Carson (Nev.) Appeal says that from the fact that the sage hens aie six weeks behind in their hatching and numerous other signs, the Indians pre­ dict a short, mild winter, and will not begin stealing wood until November. DR. JOHN BULL, of Louisville. Ky.. show­ ed his love for little children when he in­ vented those dainty little oandies ho named Dr. Bull's Worm Destroyer's. It's fun for the children but it's death to the worms. WITH the blind there is but on* test of faith in an oculist--seeing is believing.-- Texas Sifting a. " 'TWILL PROVE that wisdom is worth more than strength." Are you weak? Save your strength by using 8APOLIO. Try a cake of it and judge for yourself. THK American Congregational church­ es have resolved to give £2,000 annually for evangelical work in France. Distress After Eating Indigestion And Dyspepsia Are Cured by Hood's Sarsapariila ONE ENJOYS Both tli© method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasan t and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys­ tem effectually, dispels colds, head­ aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro­ duced, pleasing to the taste ana ac­ ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities com­ mend it to all and have mado it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50c and *1 bettles by all leading drug­ gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro­ cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA Ft$ SYRUP C& MM FSAMMQO, CAL ummM. *r. new ran; Ip addition to the splendid paaeeager equipment now furnished by the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, the manage­ ment have arranged to run Vestibuled Parlor Cars on the through day trains, com­ mencing with Sept. J. These cars are the product of the Pullman Company shops, and are considered by many railroad men to surpass in elegance and completeness any parlor cars which have as yet been placed on the rails. Before the winter travel commences, all passenger trains will be provided with safety steam-beating apparatus, wliich Is Connected with the engines and receives its steam from this source, thereby obtaining an even temperature in the car at all times. These improvements are made for the con­ venience of the traveling public and reflect credit upon the liberal policy adopted by the management of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad. A Round About Way. "That's a funny thing," remarked the veteran telegraph operator in a down­ town newspaper office one night last week, as he bent over his key listening to the clicking of tho instrument. "The operator in the office of the Boston Globe wanting to speak to his chief in the main office in Boston, a few blocks away from him, talked to him through a New York newspaper office. The message traveled 500 miles to get a few blocks. But such things often happen in our business. In the great blizzard of 1888 a man in this city who wanted to assure his family iu Boston that he was safe sent a cable dis­ patch to them by way of Europe, and what is more, got a reply by cable."-- New York Tribune. The Rqm«llMt Man In This TOTMM, As well as the handsomest, and others, are invited to call on any druggist and get free a trial bottle of Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs, a remedy that is selling entirely upon its merits, and is guaranteed to relieve and oure all Chronio and Acute Coughs, Asthma. Bronchitis, and Consump­ tion. Large Bottles. 50 cents and $L EXTRKME ugliness is on the list of dis­ qualifications laid down by the medical department for French conscripts. "Ex­ cessive ugliness," says the chief of the department, "makes a man ridiculous, prevents him from having authority over his comrades, and leaves him mor­ bid and sensitive." "Male hysteria" is another valid plea for excuse from mili­ tary service. The army doctors say it exists among French conscripts, ami it is the more objectionable as it is con ­ tagious. A BOAP that is soft is full of water, two- thirds its weight probably; you pay seven or eight cents per pound for water. Dob-, bins' Electric Soap is all soap, and there­ fore the cheapest and best Try Bobbins'. A tex-dolIjar loan that was never re­ paid, caused Foots to speak of the bor­ rower as his X-friend. We've heard of a woman who said she'd walk five miles to get a bottle of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription if she couldn't get it without That woman had tried it And it's a medicine which makes itself felt in toning up the system and correcting irregularities as soon as its use is begun. Go to your drug store, pay a dollar, get a bottle and try it--try a second, a third if necessary. Before the third one's been taken you'll know that there's a remedy to help you. Then you'll keep «a and a cure 11 come. But if you shouldn't feel the help, should be disappointed •.j •.vH «*Ay, id < guarantee printed on the bot­ tle-wrapper that'll get your money back for you. How many women are there- who'd rather have the money than health ? And " Favorite Prescription ** produces health. Wonder is that there's a woman willing to suffer when there's a guaranteed remedy in the nearest drug store- Dr. Pierce's Pellets regulate, the Stomach, Liver and Bow­ els. Mild and effective. inoufcandB KNTr under tho NEW PENSIONS FOB a disordered liver try BESCHAM'B •Tills. OLD and full' of days--an ancicnt al­ manac. BKST, easiest to ate and ohsapest. Plso's Remedy tor Catarrh. By druggists. 60o. IF afflicted with Bore Eyes, use Dr. Isanc Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it 25e. r widow* and relatives entitled. Apply at once. Blanks and instruction free, bOLLES & CO., Att'ys, Washington, IX Ca •Ufftie IAMJOH!V W.MOBHIS, IKIIOIUII Waahlmtum, D.C. • 3 yr» in last war, ir> adjudicating claims, Attysiuoe, FOR ©LB 1MB YOUNG. Tntt's I.iver Fill* not as kindly on the clilld, the delicate female or Infirm old inja upon tho vigorous man. Tutt's Pills ffjvp tone and strength to the weak atom- bowels, kidneys and bladder. MOTHERS' FBIENlf HUES CHILD URTHJ1! IF VJSBO BKFOHB CONFINEMENT BOOK TO "MOTHERS'* MARLSNSFRIIA. IUWIILD RKGT LATWK CO., ATLAATAtSi. •OLD BT ALL Dmuoauxa. V>'rit. immediately for Bl A>'K> for appllca< Si CO.,Wasliington,D.O. NORTHWESTERN MILITARY ACADElT IIHiHr.ANI> r\RK, ILL. COI.ONEL H. 1*. PAYIP^ON, Superintendent* Uraduates commissioned ia State • OLD OLHIMS Settled nnder SHEW law. Soldiers, Widows, Parents send for blank a»» plication* and information. Patrlek OTatlUlt Pension Agent, Washington, I». C. WM. FITCH &ncoT 102 Corcoran Building. Washington. D.C., PENSION ATTORNEYS of over S&fi years' experience. Sueeesrfuliv prosecute pensions and claims of all kind» in sliorfpst possible Ene^JHTNO FEE UXLESS SUCCESSFUL. P E N S I O N S ! Tk* Disability Bill is a law. Soldiers disable* li»o» tfa6 iv ar asv entitled. Dependent widows and parrolB now dependent whose son* died from efiSsoti of a ^ $ icd from effects of anny service's™ included. If you wish/ourclalin speed* Uy and successfully pros- IllirC TllliD ecuted. address JHlrlLu InlUlLIt, Late Commissioner of Pensions, WHSilltTII. I. C. Ask Him! Who? JONES OF BINfiMMTO^ . B I N G H A M T O N , N . Y . ; What ? Why on Scales " He Pays the Freight." TTVB. T. FELIX UOl'RAUU'S OBIENTAI. 11 in WIT AM, OB MAGICAL BEAU TIF J ER. "7"' . VI • i -j . -,'5j * ;|H m f!e», J'rtcklak Moth PstcbM,Rau" tot! Bkin dlMMM* , x::c. bfalhh * oil beauty, ttd 4*. . Am dctortfc*. 11 huafcwdtfetat*# 40 ran, rod Is iutrmfeu w< twto H trlj •»<!. ArMf > at noMM 4 dmilarstBM. Dr. L. A. SmraaMta • My of t)» haai- ton(«f Ihm); "As na teUawffl aw TB«N, 1 RW NMMIAJI •Qounad'tCna^ antiocs," For ial« by *11 Draggiita «a1 ftoey tioods : the U S.. CIUIADU, and Europe. FEED. T. HOPKINS, Prop'r, STOreat Jones St, V.S M M ;, i*3b: Ca m THE POSITIVE CURE. ELY BROTHERS, M Warren St, New York, Price 60 cti FAT FOLKS REDUCE*. a*. a»M a--i t MmrMMarw | / I WM tw--ami iminia * ' ife I tmt wtmmt >i ww w*. 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AddMM for tonus tor application and full information WM. ¥, DUDLEY, • XaAXib COMMISSIONKK OF PKNUON& Attorney at Law, Washington, IkCk (Mention this PaperJ J£S»L UWKK'B E^CTRiaBEtT PATENTED AUO. 14, 1887, iMPHfYta JlftY 30. Its* DR. 0WMP8 mono. GAXTAINC BOBYTTLT «AHS SUSPIVSOKY ' » All Rlutmatie Cs«- EI TEA, XILIVR 6EQ, E. 6LINES, I West Broadway, K. Y. EWIS98o°LY£! • MWSE&ES AND FEIfTOXO. LA (PATENTED.) The strongest and purest Lye made. Will make the HKST Perfumed HAEI> SOAP In twenty minutes without boiling. It is the best lor cisinfectlnc sink* closets, drains, washing bottle^ barrels, paints, etc. PENNA. SAL" MANUF'G. CO., Gen. Agts., Phila., Pfe CeatiTecMS, Diseases, BMNHMM^ fYembliag, Sexual _ _. ianstien, Wasting at Body, Piramf: sues named by u&BitiHi ia M BITS TmUU dr. owcn^ ELECTRIC INSOLES Also an Electrie Truss and Belt Combined* LAD Be. PNUN for RAN illatt'D FCO«KT tH PT|W, vfclefc WTUB# Mt you IB pliuB envelop*. Uentka this paper. AttriS OWXN SU0TX10 BELT ft APPLIABGZ OQU >06 North Broadway, St. Louie* 826 Broadway* New York Citlb I prescribe and fully dorse Big G as the oaly specific for the certaia^ora. of this disease. _ G. H. IXGRAHAM, M. Amsterdam, N. T. We have sold Big G ft*- c| . Cam la 1 TO » DATS, BO& M CtealttlO*. Clhmliinart many years, and it haa _ atren the best ol satla- • faction. . D. B. DYCHE * CO. , Chicago, 11L. iSl.O*. SotdbyDruggMfc. i-.S C. St. u. No. 39- WHEN WHITING TO ADVERTISERS. " ' please aay yoa MOT the adTertisem--T in this paper. PISO'S KEMEDY FOR CATA1UUL--Bfst. Easiest to use. Cheapest. Kellef is immediate. A cure is certain. For Cold in the Head it has no equal. C AT A R R H It Is an Ointment, of which a small particle is applied to the MetrOs. Price, COc. Sold by druggists or sent by mall. Addraee. IS. T. HAZILTINK. Wan Warren, Px -- Who wins rireeyes.wins a.il."-- If you regard pEAi^^S certainly use SAPO LI 0 * in house-cleaning-Sa^olio is & solid cake ofscouring- so&p -Try "SrOTT -A.RE JTJ3DC3-ED i4 by your house just as much as by your dress. Keep it neat anS dean and your reputation will shine. Neglect <1 and your name will suffer. Do not think that house-cleaning is too trouble^ tome; it is worth all it costs, especially if you reduce the outlay time and strength by using SAPO^/ntO* "IP tfi ? • . . . . . . . . . f e , . . . . . . . .