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THE FOUR SUNBEAMS; GOOD BEAR STORY. I Can't Sleep I have a tired, worn-out feelirg. This jbeans that the nervous system is out of ^rder. When this complaint is made, food's Sarsaparilla is needed to purify, Vitalize the blood, and thus supply ner­ vous strength. Take it now. Remember 'gSarso- pariUa and only Hood's. Hood's Pills core all liver ills, biliousness. ;4_,1 as Turks at the Holy S3f,u'cher. One of the most incongruous eights •t the Holy Sejaulcher is the Turkish Bivan just inside the entrance, on Irhich a couple of indolent Moslems f sciine, gadnsr with apparent indifler-nce at the devout pilgrims who pass jShrough the gate, but really scrutin- #.ing them with a view to soliciting baksheesh. These men may ba styled tfce jailera of Christendom, Tor they possess the right of opening and clos­ ing the Basilica. This privilege has been hereditary in two families for Centuries. To one of them belongs the rtght of keeping the key of the gate. .Hud to the other one the privilege of Opening it. When any one of the three Oommnnities living inside the Basilica qjesires the gate to be opened, a serv­ ant is signaled to call the representa­ tives of the two families. After a long delay--because an Oriental is never in *' hurry except when he wants a favor *-the two men appear. Tee gate can be unlocked enly in the presence of the two, the old regulations prescrib­ ing the attendance of both, as the one holding the kej is not allowed to open the gate, and vice versa. After having performed their duty they repair to the divan and proceed to light the nargileh and fan the brazier upon which they make their coffee. Char­ coal and coffee have to be furnished them by the fathers, besides a stipend Of money, the price of all reaching $1 for each opening. The gate only re- xnains open till about eleven o'clock in the forenoon. On festivals, when any 0|f the patriarchs make their solemn entrance, bo:h wings of the gate are thrown open, and the price of this fanges from $5 to $10, Consuls and other distinguished visitors being ex- f eted to give extra baksheesh.-- orth-American Review. VmrttUl* INABMMS cams EARTHWARD OM DAY Shining and dancing on tbeir way, BMMIVWI that tbeir coura* sbonld be Meat. *1«t na try," they all whispered, "tome kind­ ness to do Hat to seek oar own vtewrase all tt» day through Then meet in the ere at the west." Obp sunbeam ran in at a low cottage door. And played "hide-and-seek" with a child on the floor, Till baby latighed lond in his glee, And chasel with delight hi* strange playmate BO bright. The litt-'e y«r r.rrlr.r: • * -, - 'jnpt over beforo theln #ould flee. One crept to a conch where an invalid l*y, . And brought him a dream of the sweat summer day. Its bird-song, and b°auty, and bloom. Till pain w»« forgotten and weary unre*t, And in fnucv, he ruamed througu the sccnsa he loved be-t. Far away from tbe dim. darkened room. One stole to the h art of a flower that was •ad, And loved and caressed ber until she was glad, And lifted her white face again; For love brines com ent to ti<e iowliest'lot. And finds lomethlng sweet n the dreariest spot. And lightens all labor and pain. And one where a little blind girl sat alone Not sharing the mirth of h»n l >yfel ows, shone On hands that were folded and I ale, And kissed the poor eyes that had never known sight,. ,/ That never would ga^eon the beautifuljlight Till angels had If ted the veil. . \ At la6t, when the shalows of evening were fall­ ing And the snn. their great father, his children werecallicg, Four suubeamr, pass in ;o the West. All said, "We have fouud, that in seeking the pleasure- Of others, we fill to the fn'l our own meascta." Then softly they sauk to tbeir rest. manifest to the most casual eye that he was the more "skeered;" but he shouldered the hoe and accom­ panied his tousm to tbeir shanty, which was distinguished from the others by a climbing rose running? in scraggly luxuriance over the door. "There they come back now, the same fellers--five ot 'em!" sheqried, as they reach *d the door. Jim's face lost its last trace of color, hut be ruillfd h#p j- "What, wo coin;* "> Ho Jijji"" asked, retreating to the fireplace and lingering her apron nervously. Jim apparently did not hear. He was shaking cartridges into the cylin­ der of his Winchester, and muttering Value of Irrigation. ji? ̂ -President Harrison, in one of his messages to Congress, took up the •eat problem of irrigation, and in the course of his paper used the following language: "The future of the territories of New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah, in their material growth and in the independ­ ence and happiness of their people, is very largely dependent upon wise and timely legislation, either by Congress or their own Legislatures, regulating tbe distribution ot the water supply furnished by their streams. If thfs matter is much longer neglected pri­ vate corporations will have unrestrict­ ed control of one Oi the element; of life and the patentees of the arid lands will be tenants at will of the water companies. "The improvident granting of fran­ chises of enormous value without rec­ ompense, by the State or municipality from which they proceed and without proper protection of the public inter­ est, is the m ist noticeable and crying evil of present legislation. This fault should not be committed in dealing with a subject that will, before many year*), afleet so vitally thousands of our people." London's Finances. London's debt was increased last year by $6,000,000 and now amountB to #150,055,001). The revenue of the city for the last fiscal year was $23,lti5,000. UNTIL about forty years ago. the Persian Government levied a tax on cats. Woman's Best Friend It is the greatest of all rewards to receive such letters as the fol­ lowing from: -- . Miss Louise Muller, who lives at 44 Michigan Ave., in Evanston, 111. She says: -- THE HEROIC COWARD. Jim was a coward. He had always been a coward. In youngest toddling childhood he had been vanquished, after languid, hostile demonst.atlon on his part by a sitting hen. At school he fulfilled to the letter any act of humiliation his fellows pro­ posed, even standing up to be knocked down by ten or his classmates, who threatened, iwith a keen sense of irony peculiar to boyho:d, to "lick" him if he refused. A passing thun­ derstorm threw him into a shaking palsy of terror, and the sight of deep, water caused a remarkable agitation of his knees. Yes, Jim was a coward, and his cousin, Molly Gaines, who LVS "As I have used Lydia E. Pinkhavis Veg­ etable Com­ pound, and have thereby become entire­ ly well, I am recommending all my lady I am sure it will of womb cases friends to use it. help them in all trouble, leucorrhoea, irregular or painful' monthly periods.' " I am sure it is our best friend. I am so thankful to Mrs. Pinkham for the good she has done me that I wish every sick woman in America would write her at Lynn, Mass., and get her advice, or get her Vegetable Compound at any druggist's." W. L. DOUCLAS CIIAE" ISTHCBC8T. ^19 QflVL NOSQUEAKIN& #5. CORDOVAN, ! FRENCH&ENAMELLED CALF *4.toFlNECAlf&WU»il $ &5P P0LICE.3 SOLES. BOYSSCHOOLSHQES. •LADIES* ̂K SEND FOR CATALOGUE W*l_* DOUGLAS, BROCKTON, MASS. YOB can save money by wenrtng the We L. SonsMc 83.OO Shoe* Because^ we arc tho largest r:anufaetmw» ol thi™ shoes is, kl.tauti guarantee their value fey stamping the name and price on tho bottom, wfclch protect you against high prices and the middleman's profits. Our shoes equal custom •work In stylo, easy fitting and wearing qualities. We have then* Bold everywhere at lower prices for the value (riven than any other make. Take no sub. ttltutc. It your dealer cannot supply you, we can. FREE! Ruppert's FACE BLEACH A^precistSajg the fsctthslthetteaiKtooflatie of th<e U. S. bare not uard Face Bletc^oo accouDt of price, which U $t per bottle, and in order that all may give it a fair trial, I mill ttnd a Sample Boilie, safely parheri, all rksrpm prepaid, on receipt of "f&c. FACE [ BLEACH remove® and cure# absolutely all I fr*rklet, phnple*. tooth, blackheads, sallow. SJ?*, crnm^ wrinkles, or rooghaen a£ pkin.aod beactlfle* the complexion. A<idr«a§ WweT X. BUPPEBT. Oept. E. 6 E. 14th St.. N. Y. City lELY'S CREAM BALM CURES CATARRH 1PRICE 50 CENTS. ALL DRUGGISTS nVODCDOLl A former sufferrr will Ken<) you the llfdr rrAFa prescription tlm-t cured him. Ad- HdfeWUfeiS driaaM. J. »erfcjr.ik!re.O-«l-«.U, tt. is. «• U. No. 31--94 "THERE TBET COME BACK, NOW." was the belle of the district, only lautihed.when Jim solemnly perpetrat­ ed his initial and only act of boast« in#. He had said: "To purtect yo' honah an' happiness aifaiost every evil"--Jim's manner and speech, which was ordinarily unpolished and provincial, rose to the diirmtyof the occasion--,4I wuld give my wuthiess life." She knew Jim haa always been a coward, and it would he quite safe to predict he would always re­ main one if he lived. But Jim is dead, and the following is a brief and imperfect narration of the manner in which he elected to account for himself to the posterity of Dolby- •ille. , ^ During the war Dolbyville, whose political importance consisted of a siding and two or three log shanties without special pretension to any architectural dissimilarity, was fre­ quently passed and repassed by the troops of both armies. Jim was a native of Dolbyville and lived with his father in one of the cottages. In another lived Molly Gaines with her mother. Jim's father was a patri­ otic souvhron of hot blood, and en­ tered the list at first call; but Jim was timid, fearful of the smell of gunpowder, and refrained from active participation, preferring to suffer the approbrious epithet of 4sneak,M which was liberally bestowed on hio) by tbe octogenarian postmaster of the next village, and the contempt o.J his fellow-man generally. Jim was i ot a philosopher and could not plead in extenuation of his Deutrality that the martial slaughter of his fel­ low was a crime, that the arbitra­ ment of the sword was a survival of ' the most irrational of barbaric insti- j tutions, that the sacrifice ot any j human life was immoral. Jim was i simply content with being a%oward, | accepting without speculatiou the j oblo <uy which that condition in­ vited. Not even the taunts of Molly ; Gaines could rouse the insinct of battle in his snul. j During the war Molly's mother was gathered to her fathers, and was 1 buried with the passing comment of the two remaining neighbors. Then Jim toiled late and early at tbe few sterile acres which afforded him and Molly an unvaried iiveiihood of cora- j cake, sweet potatoes and bacon; some- j times corncake and sweet , potatoes without the embellishment of bacoc. ; particularly when a hungry foraging ! party passed that A.ay. Sometimes ; Jim's Winchester, which was not his but belonged to Mollie's brother, who \ had also offered up his body on the altar of the cause and had left this j weapon as Mollie's safeguard against domestic invasion of Yanks, woke | the echoes of the woodland--Jim was a rare shot--an I brought to bag- squirrel or a rabbit or a pheasant. One day Jim was hoeing potatoes j in an arid open near the house when j Molly came out to him in troubled haste "Ob, Jim, I'm skeered!" she said. "Skeered o' what?" he asked, with­ out remission of his bent labor. "Some soldier fellers went by, an' they spoke to me " She did not continue, and Jim looked up. Her pretty face was soar- j let, and her brows were bent in angry lines. ] "Well, what did they say?" he j asked, in his slow way. after waiting in tain for her to proceed. ; "They said they was com in' back," j she vouchsafed. "Who was they?" interrogated Jim, his fat e paling in apprehension of this threatened clooiicilary visit. "They was Mcsby'smen, IrecJton.*" she replied. ••Our fellers, eh?" he said straight­ ening up and leaning heavily on his hoe handle. "Come on,back to the house. Molly. Don't be skeered! 1 reckon they wunt do nothin'." Of the two it would hate betn to himself as in an act bf incantation. "Hey, thee." came the wood's, accompanied by a 16,ud Doun^lnjt^n the door. • Open up!". ,• •\v For answer went t^ e sharp- crack of Jim's Winchester, Awhicd wis fol­ lowed by a howl of pain, some ple­ thoric curses, and sound of footsteps in rapid retreat. Jim went to the window, and raising the sash high enough to admit passage of hr$. rifle barrel, again spoke with decisive leaden smphas's; and when the smoke cleared from before the pane beheld one of the retreating party of Hve strctched at length in tbe potato patch, while another limped pain­ fully in the r?ar of the surviving quartette. They became lost to view in the brush, and Jim waited. Pres­ ently from tbe rear of the house came the.deep-thioated summons: "You cowardly sucker in there, come out and tight like a man! If you don't we'll burn the shanty, an' you an' the teal with it D'ye hear? Give you jest three minutes!" There wis no window or opening in the rear or the shanty; the loirs were thick, and Jim could return no leaden death messeneer to this chal­ lenge. He was in a trap. He sho k two more cartridges into his Win­ chester and looked at Molly. "Oh, Jim, don't go." she pleaded, meeting the gray eyes full of gravity that were bent on her from beneath Jim's frowsy slouch hat, "I ain't askeered to burn." "To purtect yo' honah an' happiness against every evil I would give my wuthiess life," came from Jim's blanched lips. She found no laughter in her soul now at these grotesquely sententious words, which broke in husky mono­ tone on ber hearing like a prayer. "Well, what do you say in there, you feller? Time's up!" rang the im- "l SAID--I WOUI.D GIVE--MY--WUTHL88 LITS --AN' I DONE IT." patient admonition through the logs of tbe shanty. Jim became sublime. His stature grew Promethean. His head struck tbe stars. The moment of his ap­ pointed heroism bad come. "I'm comiu' out," he called, shov­ ing back the bolt. "He's com in', boys. Fall back a little an' give him a show," said t. e deep voice in command. "Jim, don't. Please, Jim!" she pleaded, catching his arm. He brushed her off gently. "They're four to one," she urged, "Don't go!" "Bolt tbe door be ind me," he said slowly, as he passed out She cowered back in the room and covered her face with ber hands, wait­ ing for it to begin, and when it be­ gan it would b' over. Jim draw back t e hammer of his rit er and turned the corner. Then four carbine* barked with one voice, and Mollie felt a weight fall against the side wall of the house. Then capie the sharp, clear utterance of a Win­ chester. then again, again,stillagliin. One carbine answered, then the hush of nature fell upon the afternoon arid a thrush in the maple at the house door trilled out a fragment of song. The frightened girl beard a feeble rapping at the door, and in the ex­ cess of her anxiety, whieh conquered her terror, she drew back the bolt and flung it wide. There on his knees, which had al­ ways trembled at sight of deep water, was Jim,xgrasping nervelessly in his right hand the trusty Winchester. Weeding,shattered, he crawled to her feet like a faithful old dog. He raised to her again the grave inquiry of his gray eyes, in which tbe light of a passing exaltation of his spirit tri­ umphed over tbe shadow of the death which alread) darkened them, and bis lips moved in the contortion of a smile that broke into a halting, articulate murmur: "I said--that--to purtect yo' honah an' happiness against every I evil--1 would give--my--wuthiess life--an' 1 done it." Thus Jim, in the crimson glory of his "wuthiess" life's blood, passed to the judgment reserved to him from the beginning of things. The sone bird shivered out his sweet fragment of Heaven, the dead perfume of the climbing rose tilled the loom, and the setting sun Hood­ ing through the narrow door wrapped the still figure of Jim in tbe ri.lv splendor of a god.--Blue and Gray. •Mr Thty Bunted Brain tm tlu Wilds at WI*eon«ln. A correspondent writes from Min­ nesota as lollows: Some time aeo while fishing in the wilds ot W isconsin, my attention was attracted bj the loud barking cf a dog in the woods near by, and think­ ing something unusual was going on, SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION. NlUMfwIt RmrM llltMMM of Bodies Going Up In Smoke. Medical literature of this country, as well as that of England and con­ tinental Europe, relates many re­ markable instances Of the spontan­ eous combustion of the human body, says the St. Louis Republic. J.n all WHICH WAS FOLLOWED BY A HOWL . ... . .. .. which arc all the ' iU ot ine | interesttmr on account of their coin-• -vkuw auu suuu mine to two men and a dog with a bear up a tree Tbere was no gun in the party, and bow to get bruin down was tjtoe ques­ tion of the hour, as he was high up in the tree. One of the men said he thotrsrht he could "borrer" a ri. e of a neighbor several miles away, so he started leaving us "to watch the bar.'* After a tedious wait of nearly two hours ho returned with a long, heavv old-'ashioned rifle and a bundle of strinsr. The injuiry, "what in the world aie you going to do with that string?'* was answe ed by saying, • that string goes with the gun," and he proceeded to explain: "Now," he says, after tying the string to the hammer and getting a good rest over a limb of a tree, '"one er yur fellers pull and tuther cut tbe string when I say cut, so get your knife ready." Everything leing in readiness the above program was carried out, and after a deafening report and clearing of smoke, the bear could be plainly 6een, although in a somewhat al­ tered position, having settled down into the crotch of the tree. Four­ teen times the rifle was Area at the bear this way with apparently no re­ sult, when our companion of the rifle declared if "he couldn't shoot that thai bar he'd climb the tree and dri\£ him down," which he proceeded to da » It was quite an effort, however, as the tree was bare of limbs for some distance up, but he finally reached the vicinity of the bear, which he ap­ proached with caution, but tbe bear didn't move. Kearer and nearer. The excitement was intense, we on the ground momentarily expecting a demonstration of somu kind. All at once the excitement was ended by a remark from our hero, "say, boys, the bar's dead." Nearly every bullet bad hit him, and one through the brain explained the fact that the first shot had Killed him. And famous to this day in all that country is the old rifle with the string attachment. A FABLE OF TWO BROTHERS. Why One Got His Neck Broken md the Other Out Kloh. A certain ifian was hanged, that he died. And be left two sons, honest men. Now one of these sons was a black­ smith. But the other became a phy­ sician. And after that their lather had been taken troru them;" these broth­ ers made their homes iu other lands. And the blacksmith would have prospered. i3ut it befell that one asked him how his father made end. And the blacksmith looking angrily at him, answered: "He was hung." For the blacksmith was an honest man. Howbeit, presently, when a horse was missing, men gathered and banged the blacksmith, saying: "This man must take after his father." So the blacksmith did take arter his father; but whether he caught up with him the tale telleth no* And at the same time, in his own city, one inquired of the physician by what means his father died. And the physician covered his face and wept But whilst he wept he considered, sayiug within himself: "If 1 say he was banged, then shall I shock this man and give bim pain. Neverthe­ less 1 must tell the truth." He said, therefore: "My father died of heart failure." And again be wept, the questioner weeping with him. Then this being told, men said: '*Doubtless, since his father died of heart failure, this good physician and loving son bath made study ot kindred diseases." So they resorted unto him. And the physician became a spec­ ialist. Aud he looked at them who came and c ughed once and sneezed twice, and demanded $100. And they gave gladly. For the physician was an honest man. parative rareity, the victim has been a person addicted to the immoderate uso of spirituous liquors, either as a beve ace or in the form or a bath. Little by little all the water and other liquids of the body are replaced by alcohol, aud then all that is nec­ essary to cause a catastrophe is to And some means of applying fame to spirituous gases which a.e escaping from every pore. Occasionally tbe breath of the poor victini is tired while lighting a pipe or a cigar, or tt may be that a Dame comes in con«: tact with and lights the alcholic va­ pors which are escaping from some other portion of the body. When once the fire is applied a bluish flame extends very rapidly to all parts of the body, leaving it a shapeless mass of charred flesh and lalcined bones, lu many instances attempts have been made to extinguish the flames with water, but always without suc­ cess. When the affected parts of the victim are touched a fatty matter at­ taches itself to tht^finger, still con­ tinuing to burn, and giving off avery disagreeable odor, something similar to that which arises from burning a mixture of horn, hair, and wool. During all this time a thick, black smoke arises fr m the body and at­ taches itself to tbe surface of all ob­ jects with which it comes in contact the ' settings" from it being in the form of a sweat, unctuous to the touch, and of an unbearable fetor. In the majority of such cases com­ bustion is only arrested when tbe flesh has been reduced to cracklings and the b ne to powder. Vincent in his "Curiosities Respecting Man," says: "Commonly the feet and por­ tion of the head are not burnt but usually when the combustion is fin­ ished it is difficult to believe that the incinerated mass is all that is left of a humen body." Cost of Civilising Africa. The peaceful partition of Africa, of which so much has been said, is evidently going to be carried out amid a constant sputter of little wars. . Even tbe peaceful partition- ers are falling foul of eaoh Other by accident, for want of frontieis marked as clearly on the surface of the continent as they are upon the maps at home. The mistake French troops made in British territory on Christmas Eve, British police have, it is alleged, repeated on French <soil. And the strong tribes already in pos­ session are not going to be ousted or crushed without a struggle. On Jan­ uary 12, two days after* a French column had calmly appropriated Tim- buctoo, its commander and a detach­ ment which had gone reconnoiteriug with him were simply wiped out by the Tuaregs. Tbe serious disaster which Fodi Silah inflicted upon Brit­ ish troops on tbe Gambia on Febru­ ary 22 is another proof that despite all treaties and international pre­ cautions, the slave trade means to die hard. Fifteen men killed and forty wounded, with the loss of ar­ tillery and the repulse of a gun-boat make up a heavy bill for a single raid. Yet whatever it costs to wipe Afriea clean of slavery, it is the amends civilization is bound to make. That Moroccr) has at last yieldedf to the ultimatum of the Spanish court is accepted as a sign of the dose of the Melilla difficulty. The flames of religious war are happily not to be rekindled there. --Heview of Reviews. All the Rage. The recent death of Louis Kossutb revives tbe remembrance of an inci­ dent which at this t.me is interest­ ing. It will be remembered how Kossuth was received with boundless enthusiasm when be visited this country in 1851. Among the thou­ sands going down to tbe Battery to welcome tbe great orator and patriot was a member of a firm largely in­ terested in the hat manufacturing business. Noticing Kossuth's pecu­ liar headgear, adorned w.th a feath­ er, he conceived the idea of manu­ facturing a new style of soft hats, and to piac^ them upon the market under the name "Kossuth bat" The new style made a tremendous hit Kossuth hats were all tbe rage. Frem this little incident dates the fashion of all sorts of soft hats un­ known heretofore in the American hat business. Feminine Measurement. Ten thousand women having been measured by scientific authority, it is discovered that English women are the tallest, the Americans next, and the French last American wo­ men, however, had the greatest weight which will surprise a good many, while the English came second, and tbe French again last The sa­ vants who made inquiry into these delicate matters did not regard the age of the ladies, nor did they meas­ ure their waists. Singularly enough, Americans are said to have the larg­ est waists and tbe narrowest chests, while women of the Latin races have precisely the reverse. The Viennese ladies and women of the lower classes are proverbial "lacers," but the pull­ ing of tbe corset string does not seem to impair tbeir health, or in any way affect tbeir appearance, beyond giv­ ing them figures renowned in song and story. A superb pair of sh ul- ders, the deep-bosomed beauty of tbe peasant girl and a tapering waist as­ sociated with youth and refinement are characteristics ot the women of European centers. It will be con­ ceded bv statistics that these women live quite as long as American wo­ men, whose average shape represents no such specific charm of outline.-- Boston Herald. Highest of all Jn-Iosrenifig strength.--Latist U. S. Gcr. 1M lfp«£ ARSQUJt-EUr Economy inquires that in every receipt cdllin for baking powder thie Royal shall be used. * j| - v WJII go further and make the food lighter, sweeter^' °f i??er yflavcl^ more digestible and wholesoqae, SIXTY ROWOEFT ca, MS WAU. DR., NEW VORK. R YEA The Record of an Oct»K«E"i(iu fnitui ter In the itackey* StAt*w Postmaster General Bissell has found a man in the postal service whose ex­ perience hasF-iotefested him so greatly that he contemplates making use of a recent letter written by .^his man in preparing his annual report, says a writer in the New York Times. W. H. Wallace, Sr., postmaster at Ham- mondsville, Ohio, now 82 years of age, wrote two fair pages of letter paper re­ cently without noticeable error of composition and in g6od. firm hand, to give the Secretary his experience in brief. He has beeti sixty-four years in the postal service', having held office under thirty Postmaster Generals. He began when he was still & boy, and has been the postmaster Aft Hammondsvillo many years. When lie was first post­ master, and the chairge letters was 25 cent J for 40.) Or'ofer, he had taken two bushels of o&ts, '6^ two bush­ els of potatoes, or five dteen of eggs, or four pounds of bnttei1, Or two-thirds of a bushel of wheat: or btie and one- thi.d pounds of common wool as a fair compensation* to kiwi for the postage. The postage on thutyttwdsuch letters, he says, would b^atjtiot, equivalent to the price of a good milch cow. The postmasters were expected to look out A Word for Parent*. Some parents compel their chil- Families in'the United States. The United States had at the last census 12,691,052 families, in 18H0 the number was 9,945,918. drento eat against tbeir will, as when they con e to the breakfast table without an appetite or have lost it in prospect of a visit or a ride, or'for the sake of "eating their plates clean" in discouragement of wasteful habits. Unless we are thirsty we cannot drink the purest water with­ out aversion, and, as for eating when tbere is no appetite, it is revolting, as anyone may p ove to himself by attempting to take a second meal in twenty mitutes after having eaten Beggars in China. In China the beggars are organized into companies, each bavin? its owu district and ail owing allegiance and paying tribune to a "king of the beg­ gars," who lives in almost regal splendor. Every beggar has bis own beat beyond.ywhich be is not al­ lowed, under penalty of severe pun­ ishment, to go. He is permitted to visit each house on his beat once, and but once, every day, and on mak­ ing his appearance at the door if his appeal for charity be not at once at­ tended, be may shout sing, ring a bell, or make any other noise he pleases until he has received one ."cash," tbe smallest copper coin in use, after which he must move on. Some mertbants, to save time and trouble, have a frame bung in front of their houses with as many nails driven in it as there are beggara in tbe district Every mo ning a terv- of paper; if they were on two sheets the postage was to be ^double. Mr. Wallace gives some entertaining ac­ counts of his many long trips over the mountains before tho railroads were constructed, indicating that he was a traveled man many years before there was much traveling between the East and the West. That he is a pretty capable citizen at his age is plain from the fact that, besides being postmas­ ter, he is the station agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad at Hammonds- ville. ' A Sailor's Experience with Disease. A veteran seaman now residing at Portland is a promi sing candidate for the honors of having survived the most epidemics of any man in Maine. When lut 16 years tid he caught the small­ pox and was very sick, but lour years later had fully i*ecovered and shipped from Portland for Savannah. There he contracted the swamp fever, and for two weeks hovered between life and death in a Savannah hospital. He finally was sent to New York by the hospital surgeon, and from there got to boston a-* a ttowaway, and thence home on a boat 'where he had friends. It took him a year to recover from this experience. In lHti4, when 28 years old. he reached Cuba just as the yellow fever was raging, and of course took the diseasa. The man in the bunk next to him died, but he recov­ ered. Three years later, while at New Orleans, he caught the cholera, and was in acute distress for several hours, but his strong constitution pulled him through. Even with all this expe­ rience he is yet strong and vigorous at 58 years, and ready for whatever comes next. Four years ago he left off using tobacco, a habit which he began in boyhood.--Lewiston Journal. On the Safe Side* Everybody knows this is a good place to be, bat everybody does not t&ke measures to be there.DAn efficient preventive places as on the safe side of incipient diverse, and there is no one more reliable than Hostetter's Stomach Bitters in cases where tbe kidneys are inac­ tive, which is bat the preliminary to various destructive maladies, which, disregarded, have a fatal termination. Itrtght'sriiflease, diabetes, dropsy, oedema, are but tb^iiontgrowths of neglected inaction of the kidneys and Dladder. They should be checked at the outset with the Bitters, which will prevent' their progress by arousing the renal organs to activity, and thus place those who resort to this, saving medicine on the safe side. This preservative of safety also conquers oonstlpation. llver complaint, malarial fever. nervousness ami dyspepsia. Chinese Widows. According to the laws of good society in China young widows should not re­ marry. Widowhood is, therefore, held in the highest esteem, and the older the widow grows the more agreeable her position becomes. Should she rejach .">() years she may. by applying to the Emperor, get a sum oi inoney with which to buy a tablet, on which her virtues are named. The tablet is placed over the door at the principal entrance to her house. , .. How to Make Yearly |BOO With twelve hens.' Forty-five medals and diplomas awarded Prot Cof\>«tt, 270 West 113th street, New York. <Send stamp for particulars. ; THE man who knows1 & great deal knows batter than to try tb'tell it. •t n'W More Relics of Iiincoln. i:;/ Two relic of Abraham Lincoln ef t very exceptional interest have just been added to the museum at the house in which he died, No. 5u» Tenth street The first is the Lincpln fam ly Bible, owned by the President's parents, and having his name on the inside of the cover, in a childish, scrawling hand. It is of a rare edition of 1795). From this book Mr. Lincoln derived that wide and accurate knowledge of the Scriptures that marks all his speeches and state papers to an extent unequal- ed by any other American public man. This book bears the evidence of much use, but is in a good state of preserva­ tion. The second relic is a deed, all in Mr. Lincoln's hand, bearing date the 25th of October, 1841, and in a per­ fect condition as to legibility. This is one Of the most interesting autographs of Mr. Lincoln in existence. These articles have become the property of the Memorial Association of the Dis­ trict of Columbia, through the gener­ osity of one of its members, Mr. Gar­ diner G. Hubbard.--Washington Star. A Winged Samiow. A bae sharo has figured out a good many interesting features abjut the honey bee, and here are some of them: "Careful weighing shows that an or- ciinary bee, not loaded, weighs the that letters were wHtten op one sheet one-five-thousandth part of a pound, so that it takes J bees, not loaded, to make a pound. But the loaded bee, when he comes in fresh from the fields and tiowers, loaded with honey or bee bread, weighs nearly three times more » --that is to say, he carries nearly twice his own weight. Of loaded bees there are only about 1,1*00 in tho pound. An ordinary hive of bees con­ tains from four to five pounds of bees, or between l!0,000 and -",000 individu­ als: but some swarms have double this weight and number of bees." To Cleanse the System ' , Effectually, yet gently, when bilious, or when the blood is impure or sluggish, to permanently cure habitual constipation, to awaken the kidneys and liver to a healthy activity without irritating or weakening them, to dispel headaches, colds or fevers use SjiTup ©! Figs. • « • All a Matter or Taate. , ; Americans drink tea hot and WUNP^ cold. The Chinese drink tea cold sn4 wine hot - • Hall's Catarrh Cure " Is taken Internally. Price 75 ceata ' THERE world to rich. isn't gold enough ia tha make a discontented man HE was madly, paasiooately in love---won by the matchless beauty ot her complex­ ion. Glenn's Sulphur Soap had imparted tbe charm. PARTY platforms make poor rafts. DR. KILMER'S a regular dinner., The appetite the j ant, hangs a "cash" on each nail, and hunger, is excited by the presence of j each beggar comes in turn, takei one gastric juice about the stomach, but if tbere is no gastric juice there can be no hunger, no appetite, , and to compel a child to swallow food when it is distasteiul Is an absurdity and a cruelty. Wood'Dyeinjcv A process of dyeing wood "that if largely used in Germany, and partic­ ularly in Bavaria, has been success­ fully tried by a firm of Oar «dian lum­ bermen. • coin and moves on. o l3K Ready for Business. Practical Aunt" Do you think are qualified to becomo the wife poor man? Sweet Girl--O, yes, it's all fixed. We a:e to live in a cottage, and I knowhow to make cottage pudding.*' --Life. 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They're the smallest, the pleasantest to take, afid the most thoroughly natural rem­ edy. With Sick or Bilious Headaches. Sour Stomach, Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Dizzintsss, and all derangements of the Liver, Stomach, and Bowels, t&ey give you a lasting cure. Headache; obstruction of nose; discharges falling into throat; eyes weak; ringing in ears: offensive breath; smell and taste un­ paired, and general debility--these su e some of the symptoms of Catarrh. Dr. Mgn Catarrh "Remedy has cured thousands <X the worst cases,--will cure you. S-S S S'S/S/S/S. 'S/S/S.///f/s-jrsf/s/f, Dr. J. H. McLean's Liver and Kidney Balm THE Paaaucas RBMBDY ran Jfcight5 Disease, Diabetes, BUkmsaess, Torpid liver, Ete. , - Sold by Druggists Evaywken. One Dollar a Botth. , | Manufactured by THE 01. J. H. Wet ELL ME8ICINE GO., St loiiis. Mo.fl- PURE YOURSELF KKK\('H SPECIFIC nw«r (alls to cure all jSSf the urinary organs, either sex or SSnjJlt'*S"1 11 directions witheaeh bottle pnnm Sl.OO. Sold br K. 1„ STAH1, Drunist, lV* v«a Buren Street, corner Fifth Avenne.Chicago, tlt'i Tta bent by express on receif t ot price ««««•» j*' f No. 31-t>a hi writing to AtlvrrliMrm iilraM* «lo not fM to mention this paper. Advertisers like la •sow what mediums pay them Ik**W