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M S U M P T ION roaring water, that leaped savagely against the walls, bit and tore at the foundations, caught • every movable thing, as in the grip of a giant, and whirled and ground it to utter odestruo- tion. • V "The cloud!' The cloud has burst:" came the cry oh' every hand. With one impulse, everybody rushed to the corridor, there to huddle and hold to anything steady, half-rued with the sudden and perilous shock. Then some one shouted for the wo­ men and children to run within the office. We had hardly gained it when the back door gave way; the leaping flood rushed through the hall and par­ lors, and whirled . their furnishings -about like drift sticks in a swollen stream. We crouched there, watching them to fear and trembling. The office had thick stone walls and but one door. Therein lay our hope of safety. Thought of succor was vain. No outcry we might make could possi­ bly pierce through that elemental clamor, and summon the neighbors 10 our rescue. Earth and sky seemed to call and answer, one to another; earth in deep sinister rumblings, as though all it's fountains were broken up. and the sky in an overtone of singing WaWr, murderously swishing and thundering about our.refuge. It was over at last; the roars and hissing died down to -the plash and pouring of rain. But still the house stood; we had a roof between us aud the angry sky.. Comfort is largely a matter of comparison. Now we re­ joiced, though the place was full of wreck and ruin, and though the mud lay a foot thick wherever the flood had rolled. By dint of hard labor one room was made habitable, and there, that night, we huddled about the stove that had somehow been groped for and dug out of the uiud and then set up to warm us through the bitter chill that had come in the wake of the storm. NEW AND CURIOUS MIRROR. Invention of a German Chemist Which Is More Oild than Useful. An ingenious German chemist has patented a process for making the most curious mirror in the world. Looking Into it from one side you see your re­ flection. Looking into it from the other side it seems transparent. Its usres are likely to be uf^uifold. It may be pm up in front of the prescription Coun­ ter of a drug store, for instance, and tl e outsider cannot see behind the case, but the pharmacist can see out into the t> ore readily. The magician Hermann is said to have ordered the importation of several for use in some new illusions he is pre­ paring for the astonishment of the pub­ lic. Holding it up in front of him he will be hid from the view of the audi­ ence, but he can see them through it readily. The process of manufacture, as remarked, is patented and has been given out as follows: Dissolve one part by weight of silver nitrate in ten parts weight of water and label "No. l."~ Prepare another 10 per cent, solution of silver nitrate, but in larger quantity. To this add ammonia water, drop by drop, stirring carefully until the precipi­ tate formed at first is completely dis­ solved, and label "No. 2." Now add solution No. 1 to solution No. 2 until the odor of ammonia is no longer recognizable and the liquid has again become very turbid. Next add 100 parts by weight of dis­ tilled water for every part of silver nitrate originally used in solution No. 2. and filter until it is clear. Label this "No. 3." Prepare a reducing solution by dis­ solving eight parts weight of roehelle salts in 384 parts by weight of distilled water; boil and to the boiling solution add gradually a solution of three parts of sliver nitrate in ten parts by weight of distilled water, and filter when cool and label "No. 4." Clean the glass to be coated thorough ly, lay it on a perfectly level surface in a room of the temperature of about 23 degrees C. (77 degrees F.). Mix equal parts of No. 3 (the deposit­ ing fluid) and No. 4 (the reducing fluid) and pour over the glass. The glass may, if preferred, be dipped in the solution. The time required for the deposition of the layer of just the correct thick­ ness has to be determined by the judg­ ment of the operator in each case. This* may be aided somewhat by observing a piece of white paper laid below the glass. When a sufficient deposit of silver has been made (and much less Is re­ quired than for an ordinary mirrort, pour off the slivering liquid and rinse thoroughly with the distilled water and stand the mirror on edge to dry. Coat the silvered side with a solution of shellac, colorless, In alcohol, and liual- ly frame the mirror with a backing of clear glass to protect the mirror surface from being scratched. Mineral Fertilizers for the Cherry. In no one of our fruits is the stone or seed so large in proportion to the whole as it is in the cherry. For this reason, and also because it perfects its fruit in very short time, mineral fertilizers In available form are always needed for the cherry tree. Some of the most productive and largest kinds of cher­ ries are very apt to rot before they ripen. This is almost always an indi­ cation that mineral fertility, especially potash, is needed. It is the potash In the soil that not only perfects the seed, but Is necessary also in giving the color to the fruit that makes it attractive. The most highly-colored fruits require, therefore, liberal supplies of the potash fertilizers. Woman's Experience on a Jury. Mrs. Warren, who recently served as foreman on a jury in Denver, says: "As a matter of interest to the public, and particularly to ladies who in the future may be called upon to serve upon juries, I will say that in my own experience there has been noth'ng which should deter any lady from serv­ ing on a jury." Boston's Badly Planned Library. The great new Boston public library has already been found to have been 111 planned and inadequate. It cost $2,500,000, and now $25,000 is about to' be expended to construct a "suitable reading-room." When you think of the worthlessness of some people you cannot wonder at their poverty. It Is age that makes a man look old; In a woman's case, it Is "trouble." CIVILIZATION HAS PERILS. A POSTMASTER'S WIFE Old Pioneer Prefers to Take Hii' Chances on the Plains. 1 "So you were a pioneer in the early days of the West?" "I was," answered the graybearcL 1 "And you lived out among the hostile Indians?" - ' ' * "Yes." "Lived with a rifle in your hands and in hourly expectation of being the mark for a hidden enemy's bullet?" "It was something like that." "Do you know, I often think that a life like that must be terrible. I should think the mere strain on the nerves would kill a man in a short time--hold­ ing your life in your hand all the time --always conscious that a moment's relaxation of vigilance may >mean death." "Oh, I don't know," replied the gray- beard. "When I came back from the West I was GO years old and did not have a gray hair. I got off the railroad train and started to walk across the street. Half way " over I, heard the dingedest clanging and yelling right on my heels I ever heard, and sothe- body gave me a push that sent me clear to the curb. Then when I looked round I saw I'd come within an ace of being run over by a trolley. Never had' so narrow an escape trom Indians. "I went into a saloon close by to get a drink and settle my nerves. While I was standing at the bar a couple of fellows got into a scrap and one of them threw a heavy beer mug. Didn't hit the other fellow, but came within a six­ teenth of an inch of my right temple. "I started to walk up town, and the first crossing I came to a policeman grabbed me by the shoulder and jerked me across so quick that it made my head swim. 1 looked to see what was the matter, for there were no car tracks on that street, and j'^aw that I had just escaped being rim down by a hack- man who was hurrying to catch a train. "Up street a little farther somebody yelled 'look out!' at me. and when I jumped a big icicle fell off a roof and struck just where I had been standing, "I got to my hotel and was heading for the door when somebody grabbed me and asked me if 1 wanted to be killed. They were hoisting a safe into a second-story window over where I'd been trying to go and 1 hadn't more than got out of the way before a ropt- broke and it dropped. "I went to bed and about midnight I was called up by a bell ringing over my head and found the place on lire. I had to slide down a rope to escape. Being a sound sleeper they had hard work to wake me and I had barely touched the ground when the roof fell in. "When I looked in the glass next day I saw the first streaks of gray that had ever showed themselves in my hair. Oh. there's dangers in civilized life as well as out on the plains!"--Buf­ falo Express. „-/A- - • A LEEDS WOMAN WHO ASTON, ISHED HER FRIE_NDS AND NEIGHBORS. my-- just think -- every bottle ot Rood's Sarsa- parllla contains 100 doses. This is true only of Buy $1 worth Dobbl trrocer, send wrappers adelpbla. Pa. They wl paid, a Worcester Pock w.iind; profusely lllnsti Sarsaparilla The One True Blood Purifier. All drugpist*. $i, Hood's Pills cure biliousness, lieaiiaohe. Improving the Telescope. Prof. C. S. Hastings, of Yale, has de­ vised a method of shaping and combin­ ing two lenses of ordinary optical glass In such a manner as to do away with the outstanding color due to chromatic aberration, which has always been a source of more or less trouble, even in the best of modern telescopes. It is es­ timated that the Improvement will in­ crease the effective power of telescopes about 10 per cent Odors and Photography. Every photographer knows that sin­ gular differences exist in the actinic ac­ tion of light on succeeding days which, so far as general appearances go, seem to be equally favorable for photograph­ ic purposes. This? may be partly ex­ plained by the decent discovery by Monsieur Declaux of Paris, that the odors arising from vegetation and, dis­ seminated through the air diminish the actinic power of the sol^r radiations which reach t he surface of the.ground. Texas Sulphur.- The best known sulphur deposits in the world are those of Sicily, but ac­ cording to Mr. Eugene A. Smith, of the University of Alabama, Texas may pos­ sibly enter the field as'a producer of commercial sulphur. The deposits ex­ amined in Texas are situated in a large basin some forty miles northwest of Pecos, but others are said to exist both to the west and north of this locality. The nearest.-jrailroad is twenty miles from the sulphur basin, and the sur­ rounding country contains no fuel aud very little surface water. A Hiding Plant. Many insects and other members of the animal kingdom mimic the forms and colors of plants and other natural objects, for the supposed purpose of concealment from enemies, but it is rare to find a similar peculiarity in plants. An Instance of this, however, has been noticed at the Cape of Good Hope, where a species of mesembryan- thernum, or fig-marigold, so closely re­ sembles the stones amid which it grows, both in color and form, that it frequent­ ly escapes the attention of cattle and other browsing animals. South Africa presents other instances of what is called protective mimicry in plants. Ingenious Chimpanzees. A recent report by Prof. O. F. Cook on colonization in Liberia gives some interesting facts about the chimpan­ zees living in thai country. It appears that these auimals, which bear such curious resemblances to men that the natives call them "old-time people," are very fond of the flesh of laud crabs, which they dig out of the burrows. To crack open the shells of the crabs they dash them against rocks. They also crack nuts with stones in the regular human fashion; and most curior of all, perhaps, they kill pythons by grasp­ ing the huge serpents about the neot and beating their heads with stones. Going Astray at Sea. The difficulty of keeping a modern steamship on a straight course is point­ ed out in the Scientific American. The helmsman steers by the compass, and while a single degree of deviation ap­ pears very small on the compass card, it would, if continued, carry a fast steamship four miles out of her course in a single day's run. Yet the compass gives the course more accurately thau the slip can be steered. Owing to the deflecting power of the waves and the rolling of the ship, which causes first one of her propellers and then the other, if she be of the twin-screw type, to exert the greater effect, the course is continually shifted a little this way and that, despite the helm. The only safety is in correcting the compass course by frequent observations of the sun, moon and stars. .Sun.'lay in the Country. Cheap excursion tickets to Wisconsin resorts are sold every Friday and Satur­ day by the Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. Burlington, Delavan, Waukesha. .Milwaukee, Lekhart, Ocono- mowoc, Madison and many other attrac­ tive places are within easy reach of Chi­ cago. For rates and other information, apply at ticket office, 5)5 Adams street, or at Union Passenger Station, Canal, Mad­ ison and Adams streets. The Main Street a Dead Line. Hill City, the County seat of Gresham County, in Western Kansas, is a very small place, but large enough to con­ tain a feud that for deep hate and wild fury passes anything ever heard of in the wilds of Kentucky. The feud di­ vides- the town into two factions that relent not day nor night. The rivalec­ tions center each about a leader who is rich. On the one Side is Pomeroy;- on the other McGill. The principal street of the town is the line between the two. No Pomeroyite ventures into the terri­ tory of the McGillites, and no McGillite ever crosses into the Pomeroy regions. This main street is a frequent battle­ ground, aud many a fray has been waged there, with the town officers divided between the two contending parties. A Paris shopkeeper vyho does not smok£ is trying to get a divorce from his wife, the only evidence he offers of her infidelity being that her clothes always smell of tobacco. S* «V7 BIAS ^ VELVETEEN! Vc SKIRT BINDING question. •' *?'-'• . " |f he will not supply you we will. " Home Dressmaking Made Eisy." a new book 4>y Miss Emma M. Hooper, of the Iladfcs" H«at«' Journal, sint for 25c.. postage paid. . j S. H. & M. Co., P. O. Box 699, N. Y. City. A Child Knjnyii The'pleasant'flavor, "gentle action and soothing effects of Syrup of Figs, when in need of a laxative, and if the father or mother be costive or bilious, the most gratifying results follow its use; so that It is the best family remedy known, and every family should have a bottle. AH evidence of the striking uniform­ ity of size among the Japanese is found in the fact that recent measure­ ments taken of an infantry regiment showed no variations exceeding two inches in height or twenty pounds in weight. BICYCII8T8 SHOULD The flags to be hoisted at one time In signaling at sea never exceed four. It is an interesting arithmetical fact that with eighteen various colored flags, aud never more than four at a time, uo few­ er than TS.^L' signals can be given. AN OPEN LETTER, WHAT MRS. I. E. BRESSIE SAYS TO AMERICAN WOMEN. Speaks of Her Melancholy Condition After the Birth of Her Child. "I feel as if I was doing an in­ justice to my suffering sisters if I c^id not tell what Lj dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com- pound has done for me, and its f worth to the world^ women were ings, until I w jj obliged to give up. My • disease baffled the best doctors. " I was nervous, hysterical; my head achcl with such a terrible burning sensation on the top, and felt as if a band was drawm tightly above my brow; inflammation of ^he stomach, no appetite, nausea at ^he sight of food, indigestion, constipation, bladder and kidney troubles, palpitation of the heart, attacks of melancholia would occur without any provocation what­ ever, numbness of the limbs, threaten­ ing paralysis, and loss of memory to such an extent that I feared aberration of the mind. "A friend advised Lydia E.Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and spoke in glowing terms of what it had done for her. "I began its use and gained rapidly. Now I am a living advertisement of its merits. I had not used it a year When I was the envy of the whole town, lor my rosy, dimpled, girlish looks and perfect health. " I recommend it to all women. I find a great advantage in being able to say, it is by a woman's hands this great boon is given to women. All honor to the name of Lydia E. Pinkham ; wide success to the Vegetable Compound. •'Yours In Health, MRS. I. E. BRES- BIE, Herculaneum, Jefferson Co., Mo." "The American Dollar Dog." The San Francisco Call prints an extended obituary notice of Tony, a dog, who died at Cheyenne, Wyo., recently aged S years. He was locally famous, it appears, and not-without reason, if all tiiat is said of him is true, lie, if any one. deserved to be called a silver- ite aud a monometallist. He believed in but one kind of money, unlike most of us, who are glad to get any money that \Vill pass', llere follows the Call's biographical sketch: When Tony was a year old lie was found to have an unaccountable crav­ ing for American silver dollars. He would refuse to touch any other kind of coin, and as his peculiar taste was fos­ tered by his owner, George \Y. Brown, he soon became an expert in discrim­ inating between a good dollax and a counterfeit. Tony would refuse to pick up a coun­ terfeit dollar, a Mexican dollar, a flve- franc piece or a twenty-dollar gold- piece, but would catch a good Ameri­ can dollar in his month before it could reach the ground whenever one was thrown to him. He became the talk of the town, and was always showu to visitors as one of the attractions of the city. Hundreds of visitors were Incredulous of the stories told of Tony, but went away convinced after trying him with good and bad coins. The dog's wonderful faculty was ful­ ly tested when he was about 2 years old, when he was taken to Denver, and In the presence of a number of bank officials and other coin experts tested with coins by the United States Treas­ ury Department. Scores of counter­ feits, some of them excellent enough to deceive the ordinary bank cashier, were thrown to him, but he refused to pick them up, while he would jump for joy and eagerly snatch up every good dollar. Upon oue occasion a dollar of doubt­ ful appearance was given to Tony's owner. Thinking it was counterfeit, Mr. Brown tkrew it to Tony, who with­ out hesitation picked it up. Mr. Brown accepted the coin as good, and included it with his next deposit at the bank. The bank cashier threw; it out and de­ clared it counterfeit. Mr. Brown then sent the coin to the Treasury Depart­ ment, where it was found to be genuine. The wonderful faculty of the animal led his owner to utilize him for money- making purposes, and for almost a year Tony was a dime-museum star in Den­ ver, Salt Lake City, Butte and other Western cities, always attracting atten­ tion and never falling to discriminate between good and bad coin. The constant work of picking up coins wore out his front teeth, and he had to retire from the stage. But though his teeth were almost gone, Tony's love for silver dollars did not diminish, and even in his latest sickness he &ould only be kept quiet by allowing him to play with an American silver dollar. Ills death was caused by dropsy and a cold eontracter on a recent trip to Denver and Salt Lake City. You have run up against a Good Thing, History in a Tree. In the British Museum of Natural History there is a section of the trunk of a large fir-tree from British Colum­ bia, the growth rings of which indi­ cate that is was more than 500 years old when It was cut down in 1885. A correspondent of Nature calls atten tlon to the fact that about twenty of the annual rings of growth, making the latter part of the first hundred years of the tree's existence, are crowded to­ gether in a remarkable manner, indi­ cating that during those twenty years some cause was in operation greatly re­ tarding the growth of the tree. On look­ ing into history the correspondent found that, nearly at the time when the tree in question was evidently suffer­ ing from very adverse conditions. Asia and Europe were undergoing extraor­ dinary disturbances from earthquakes, atmospheric convulsions, the failure of crops, pestilential diseases, etc. China, In particular, suffered even more than Europe. He therefore suggests that possibly the crowded rings in the trunk of the tree may be a record of ttie ex­ istence of the same unusual conditions affecting animal and vegetable life at that Ume in North America also; and he shows that if the tree had reached its full growth, and ceased to form new rings a few years before it was felled in 1885, the correspondence in time would be complete. The Greatest iledical Discovery of the Age. KENNEDY'S MEDICAL DISCOVERY. A Successful Horseless Carriage. Foreshadowing* of the horseless age may be seen every night 011 the boule­ vard. in New York, and frequently 011 5th avenue. A motor carriage makes regular trips to the wonderment of those out to see the wheels. It Is sim­ ilar to a small runabout with room for two, and the wheels are rubber-tired. Tne machine is noiseless save for the slight "Puff! puff!"jof the exploding gasoline which, furnishes the power. It can stop within its own length and go backward at the!will of the occu­ pants. "Wash us with Pearline! " That's all we ask. Save us from that dreadful rubbing-- It's Wearing us out! "We want Pearline--the original washing-compound--- the one that has proved that it can't hurt us--Pearline! Don't experiment on us with imitations! We'd rather be rubbed to pieces than eaten up." « Colorado Cloudburst. A writer In Travel describes a cloud­ burst which came without warning, one hot, stifling day, upon the dwel­ lers at Magnetic Springs, in Southern Colorado. The clouds gathered in the hills be­ hind the turn, and came drifting like frightened sheep before the breath of a strong west wind. No thoughc of danger occutTed to us until, in an aw­ ful hush, with no liglitning-flash. no thunder-peal, they broke, and death came down. The flood seized the canon like a channel; flume-wise it bore to the val­ ley the cloud-sent torrent of the hills. The hotel stood full in the path of th? flood. If the builder had not wrought better than any man knew, not one of us would have lived through the stress­ ful time of boiling, foaming, hissing, Homeseekers' Excursions South. j On the 15th and 10th of June, also .Inly j 0. 7. 120 and 21,-and sereral dates during j August, September and!October, the Chi- j cago and Eastern Illinois Railroad will sell first-class round-trip tickets, good .'51 ; days from date of sale,tor one fare, plus 1 $2.00, for the round trip, m-ah! points in Florida and the SouthJ Traces, trains, time'all the best. Forjfurther informa­ tion address C. W. Humphrey, N. P. A., St. Paul. Minn. City ticket office, "182 Clark street, or C. L. sfone, G- P. & T. A.. Chicago. L An Accommodating Texan. A stranger In New York, who seemed to be lost, asked Gus de Smith: "Say, how do I get to the railroad depot?" "Say what?" "Say, how do I get to the railroad depot?" "How do I get to the railroad depot? Anything else you want me to say?"--• Texas Sifter. When you comc in hot and thirsty,--HIRES Root- beer. lfada ONLT br The Charlea E. Hir»« Co.. Philadelphia. A 16c. package makes 5 gaUom. Sold everywhere. A Fair Face Cannot Atone foi An Untidy House." • . Use IN writing: to Advertisers, please do not fail to mention this paper. Advertisers like to know what medium* pay them best. Barney Baruato gave a dinner in ; London recently, to which a small pur- j ty was invited. Every! Indy was pre- i sented at dessert with a large uifviit'j diamond from the south African mine j In which the millionaire was interested. I It sometimes happens that those who die for love are better off than those who marry for It. t>- SAPOLIO As people grow old, their ideal woman becomes one who is a good nurse