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of light filled the m j eyes, till mm were more blinded Himself the tdi I fastened se- a koatd of my ©war eyes, secure^ in a crarely round my neck aad wai*t under my clothes wit® a oouple o£ light but «mat wio )0)^ Lenoir' MlMiM . r, i / » f \ | - <P' r * ® ^ ? » i*(! | WiadMpM in* linwnrivwr LetKbeatfttinar, Baaa kissed i&e to-44V Bnt tbs »4enstu-e gtf» waj Toassvnraf sorrow; Kof e kissed Boa to-d*y, win *b* UK at« fc»««Nt|aw h the school of coquette* Madame It >te is a scholar-- O, th«g' 8f-h wlih ail note In S»e tetwoi of coquettes 1 When her b.«oocb she forget?, 'Us to show her new collar; k* In the mbod of ooqfuettes MidOe Boseisai P«l I Intsnded sa ©da, *• And it tataed to a Honatt. It began a la mode, I intended an ode ; But Rose crowed the rftad Iu her latest mew bonaet; J intended an ode, . And it t >rued to a sonnet. %y. ̂ * -Wife strong steel rthains. In effect, the parure was absolutely safe from secret theft -- effectually from any violence short of downright murder. 1 had bid­ den my mother and sisters a hurried rl-by, without even telling them of invaluable charge I carried about me. And I arrived at one of the first hotels in Paris without the smallest ad­ venture of any sort or kind. To imag­ ine that any of the fraternity of dia­ mond hunterp, male or female, had been watching my journey, or could oven be Mr are of it, was simply absurd. To all with whom I came<into any slight con­ tact en route I must have befen an ordi­ nary Englishman, making an ordinary * to Pari; trip ?aris --nothing more. And, for HOTS Willi, A Bt- m m ; " " * - \j * -- %:' ' O Naturally. considering th* nature of my name couia possil |ny callmg I have been always partieu- j him, seeing that f had but jusfe arrived, lariy attracted by the scores of stories-- and had not eve that matter, except with booking-clerks and so forth, I don't think I bad ex­ changed a word with a fellow-creature all the way. That I had never once dosed my eyes, I know. IL ' "Iliad jnat oaderedlome refreshment after my journey before proceeding to lies Bosquets, when-- "M. Alfred Morris, from London ?" asked one of the waiters. •"Yes," said I, though wondering'how my name could possibly be known to Mi, I c Pot, I am inclined to think, always based "••v- *' upon actual occurrences--which tell of the ingenious plots contrived by scoun- |fe;i.-v.'Mdrels to gain possession of other people's 5. "jewels, especially diamonds. In many ^ " cases such, stories are, of course, but . ? l,ure fiction. But as to those which rV< profess ta narrate facts, whether plain colored, I have only too much reason, rom perHonai experience, to suspect to# % ?hfti rea^ owners of jewels have, very ^ often, more to do with their disappear- I' «nce than easily-imagined brigands, V •swindlers or thieves. Nevertheless, v there is enough substratum of truth to fiAft* %uake even purely-invented stories of , this kind probable. Mine is not an in­ dented Btory j but my reason for telling not so much its truth as its su- lely extraordinary character. Its in any single detail, never hap- to anybody else in the world, it not for this I would assuredly 'i f. from adding to the pile of jewel stories m which some jeweler's" agent ,? part of hero or victim. For I ; was myself agent to a very great firm of * t f;|ewelers in London--I need not say to \ ' - > - Whom--when there happened to myaalf " that terrible experience, terrible almost v. beyond the power of words to describe, * wmch I am, for the first time in my life, i^liwxrat to tell in words. , -'f J I remember, as if it were yesterday, ,ow one of oar partners called me into rivate xoom and said to me: [orris, I must ask you to be good _li to start for Paris this very even­ ing--4hat is to say, by the very first ible tram. You know that parure the Princess Mouranov that we had into new settings ? " "Of course I do." "Well, you know4 the Prinoess as a stomer; she is rather flighty' but to's too big a gun for us to disregard whims. The parure is just out of and, and was to have been delivered to er in Portland place to-morrow mom- g; but--it's just like her--she's taken jit into her head to set off on a voyage to and, an hour after she took the into her head, she was off, so I It's just like her anyhow. I ben use ah© goes to Patagonia, where her •nds-- that is to say, her parure-- thinks, will be indispensable to her. ahonldn't have thought so myself, but suppose she knows. Anyhow, she's J&ff to spend the whole of to-morrow jfpn Paris, and her diamonds must be de- > livered to her there, and paid for--you understand. If we don't deliver the pa- i, she'll never forgive us; and if she [oesn't pay before going off Heaven OWB where, why, we shall never for- ve ourselves. You'll have to be sharp, 'or it doesn't follow that she'll stay in ,and you'd better avoid having to her, if you poesibly can." Naturally! Where is Madame to be ' _-^<#ound?" |'r;. "At a place calleA Les Bosquets. It*s outside Paris; bat here's the address written down. I needn't tell yon to be sfxmutious--" "Why?" asked I. "It all seems ^pitoimple enough. I've only got to give V «^the oar ore to the Princess--mto her own '̂'v^ybanas, of eourscj--receive the money, " ^«irive and take a receipt and come away, than will be no difficnM ft built, otiMT d part were at ringing or wafting. ducted me up a staircase passage, both scarcely half light«l, a room so dark that I ooold ecarwlv see where I was or anything at all. "Iml>ecile8!"cried Mile. Lenoir. "Not a light in the salon, not even a candle ! That is how one is served when one has twenty servants, Monsieur, each with his duties; we must h»ve a twenty-first to do nothing but see that the scoiioes shall not be empty in the salon-- unless, perhaps, it shall be some fancy of Madame for nobody to know you are here. I will see. Monsieur is a brave man ? He is not afraid of being left alone in the dark till Madame shall ar­ rive ? It will be in one moment, mon­ sieur. Madame is anxious, very anxious, far the " I thought my being asked to wait in pitch darkness a little odd, but I oould only say: " It is many years since I believed in Bogy, Mademoiselle." " Men, It shall not be long." And she was gone, closing the door behind her, if my ears to'd truly. Belle was beginning, wl grasped tightly behinc man's stern, slow voic< Without believing in Bogy, it is pleasant thing to be left atone in a strange room in the dark, all the same-- , fancies will come into one's head, espe­ cially when the seconds grow into min­ utes without counting themselves on a visible watch-face, and when one has on one's person diamonds worth thousands of pounds. Everything was all right, of course; and yet I conld not help wish­ ing that the Princess Mouranov had re­ ceived me at'Les Bosquets by the light of at least one candle, if not of day. And, though I was but a tradesman's employe, common French courtesy should not have kept me quite so long waiting for a light, even though a fine lady might not be ready to see me the very instant I arrived. I felt my way to a very comfortable sofa, on which I sat down, and feeling rather like a prssener condemned to the dark cell. Manners forbade me to doze or whistle, and But impatience was soon to change into something more. Was that sound of voices in the room or not ? If not in the room, close to the room it must have been, for I heard them plainly--sometimes darkness itself will strangely sharpen our ears, and there are certain words which, once heard, sharpen them yet more keenly. -1 heard three voices. One was Mile. Lenoir's. One was a strange woman's. The third was a man's. "Neatly trapped enough," said the last, so slowly in the German manner that they brought their whole signifi­ cance home to my dull British ears. "But for the rest," said Mile. Lenoir, "what ought one to do? If he goes back to England--" "He must not go back to England," said the voice of the other woman--it was singularly cold, firm and clear. " He must not leave France; he must not leave Paris till we are safely gone. Those diamonds--" "if the worst cranes to the worst," said the man, "what then? We are man to man. If he does not behave himself he will have to reckon with me. These things are awkward, because of the police: But--" v " He will not resist," said Mile. Le­ noir. " And if he does--" I thought I heard a sigh, so sharp had my ear grown. But from whom came the sigh ? Whether from Mile. Lenoir or the other woman, I could not tell. " If he does," said the man, " be it on his own head, whatever comes. You understand me, my friend, I do not like too much blood; but if there be resistance there must be--what there must be. He must not trace the diamonds, nor you." It had all passed through my ears to my sinking heart long ago. Fool that I had been to listen to a woman's story, however plausible it might seem ! Some plot, invented and carried out with fiendish cunning, had brought me into a den of robbery and Inuruer. I was to wait for death in that lonely house and in that horrible dark chamber 1 What in the name of heaven, in the name of desperate helplessness, wosl to do? The voices grew confused, then ceased altogether. I was alone. Nobody knew me in Paris; nobody would miss me there. If I did not return my em­ ployers would have set me down as hav­ ing run off with the jewels ; my mother and sisters would beMeve me guilty, and break* their hearts and starve. Could I escape from the house? Impossible-- through unknown passages and a locked door! Instinctively I felt for my revolver, useless as it must be in a dark room The murderer or murderers, knowing the premises, could be upon me at any moment and have me down before i «ould know of their approach, and one must have some faint light for an aim. I had known that all sorts of atrocities are even more common in Paris than in London ; but how could I dream that such a doom as this, all for believing tho smooth tongue of a pretty serpent, would ever be mine ? I say I felt for my revolver, though kngwing all the while how vain a toy it would be now. A knife for close quarters would have been ten times its value, and that, too, would have been vain. I don't think myself less brave than other men, yet I could in Bogy, it is not a ¥ |$oharge and had not even written my name on the list of persons stsying in the hotel. Was my "Yes" a piece of imprudence? I hardly know to this hour. • " A voung lady," he s*id in English, '* has been waiting for one hour to see monsieur." A young lady, in Paris, waiting to see me ! What could that mean ? My em­ ployer's warning came instinctively to, my mind. But I could not very well re­ fuse to see her; indeed, it might prove important that I should see her. And certainly no possible harm oould come of my seeing her in a large and crowded hotel. " Mademoiselle waits in the salon," said the waiter. So to the salon I went, more curious than oilxious about who the young lady might be who expected me in Paris and who knew my name so well. She was a stranger--a young French­ woman, rather pretty and exceedingly well dressed, and yet with something about her that showed that she did not wholly belong to the beau monde, if that be the right term to use, for I don't pre­ tend to be a French scholar. " M. Alfred Morris, from London?" asked she, in precisely the same words as the waiter, but in a voice and accent which made the words sound very differ­ ently indeed, and made the girl herself look reaVy insfead of only passably pretty. Indeed, here was one of the sweetest voices I had ever heard. "At your service, Mademoiselle," said I, with a bow. She smiled; and her smile was very sweet indeed. "I am truly fortunate," she said. "I was beginning to fetfr you would never come." "And may I ask, Mademoiselle, with whom--" > "Assuredly, Monsieur. I am Mile. Lenoir, principal demoiselle de cham- bre of Mine, la Pripcesse de Moura­ nov--" "Ah!" sighed I, a little disappointed. It was no adventure, then-- only the af­ fair of the parure, after all. Stul--well, considering everything, that was, per­ haps, all the better. Adventures, till the receipts were exchanged, would certain­ ly be mal a propos. " Yes, of Mme. la Princesse de Mou­ ranov," repeated she. "I am in all the confidence of Madame's toilet--you comprehend?" She was speaking in very good English, with an accent that improved my native language, it seemed to me. " Madame received a telegram from London from your firm, saying you would be here to-day. It was a careful telegram, and that was well It is not prudent to let all the world know w^at you carry--without a whole day because she sayi she i £>uot nearest your heart, Monsieur I on/1 vmi'/l luittAV Airni^ Yiavi-nff fn HftV6 I liofc rGftSOU I f Bllt M&dftQ16 has changed her plans--that is the hab­ itude ov Madame ! I always know what Madame will do next, for it is always what she will not say. She was tor America List night; to-day she is for Bi­ arritz. But she will want the pa--the affair Monsieur knows of--all the same, all the more. Even so, she was going to Les Bosquets: in fine, she is not at Les Bosquets, but at the Villa Stefania, her own little house, where she goes to be alone. Ah, Madame will love to be alone at times--sometimes f^r one whole half hour. Monsieur! But she must have tne parure on the instant and in her own hands, so I come from Madame myself to conduct yon to Villa Stefania without delay." All this was fully in accord with all that I had ever heard of the eccentric restlessness of the great Russian lady, nor had I the faintest reason, after hear­ ing of the telegram from my employers, to doubt the simple good faith of so pretty and altogether attractive a young lady as Mile. Lenoir. Still there was one obvious precaution that I ought to take, and I did take it, for I wish to make it absolutely clear that I acted in all respects as the most prudent man could have done. "Mademoiselle will permit me to ask," said I, "simply as a matter of business form, if she has the written au­ thority "-- " Of Madame la Princesse ? Assured­ ly," said she, with a bright smile. " It I is good to treat with a Monsieur of the ! prudence of Monsieur?" She handed j me at once a little sealed note, per- j fumed and gracefully written, that ran | as follows^ I VRLT.A STKFAXIA, Jan 18, M. Alfred Morris, on the part of Messrs , will have the goodness to accompany lty about the toootjj I suppose ? " But, don't yon see, I'm afraid jPrinoeas' i "No. fjron're «tQl a trifle young, Morris, i Those Mouranov diamonds are as well j known to all the diamond-hunters in JjQuropc--and they swarm abroad--as 'they are to me. Better than they are to %on, by a long way. By some means or other, you may take your oath, one of these gently will know you have the of them. It's no use taking pre- st that; they'll know all t be isame, and precautious pxe only a wi-.v of putting people on the trail. Take care you go to tne right house, my friend. Take care that yon ««« th^ riylit Pont eat and don't drink, howevermuch «oa may be pressed, till you're safe back at your hotel Don't shut your eyes till - it's all over. If a strange woman speaks 4to you,cut her dead; if astrange man, st •' knock him down, And-- " ^ " Well, what else ? But HI take care , . ,'of myself, never fear." You're an unusually handsome man, know," said he, with a wink and a smile, "and I suppose, like all _ m men, you're a bit of a lady- f Jrflfefr--without meaning it, you know. ' A nod is as good as a wink, you know; j and you're not a blind horse, whatever ; you may be. Paris is a lively place, \ vou know, for a man of your make, with '̂ 4- ofraui of in your -- 'v -i Every man likes that sort of chaff, - V and I was really weak enough in those X, days to take an especial pride m what 'i&tA I could not help knowing to be my per- sonal advantages. So I was in the best temper as I answered modestly: " Well, sir, nobody knows everything If about all women; but I do think 1 }] know enough about a fe*- to guess a good deal about what the rest may be fi up to. I don't think I'm likely to be % pome over that way. And I should i? think this little fellow," I added, show­ ing Hm a new revolver, " will be ^ enough for common odds, not in petti- .<•» * ©oats," "Don't pat youreelf in a position sm that'll oblige you to use it," said my ^ " employer. "And you won't if yon ' , keep clear of common odds--in petti- l?;:-8! coals, you know. I must be off now; " ; | Call at my house for the parure in an | hour." 1 Foil of confidence in my own re sources, rand of the trust that had been placed in me, and altogether in a weU-satistiwi and fearless frame of I started with the Mouranov by the next train for Dover. &•/ • ••• the bearer, Mile. Lenoir, to the Villa Btefama, without any delay, there to execute the oon- Biaaion with which he ie charged. 8TM>IIAMIC DB Xoraaxov. I have that note still, to remind of . But the end has not yet com Suffice it that doubt, under the eirenm- stances, never entered my mind; nor. I daro swear, would it have entered the reader's, had he to judge before the event, as I had to do. I found Mile. Lenoir an exceedingly Sleasant companion on the way to Villa tefania, which fancifully-named resi­ dence we reached in about an hour and a balf, partly by rail and partly en voitare. I supposed it some eccentricity on the part of the Princesse that she did not, as she certainly might have done, send us a carnage to convey us the whole way. Perhaps she was one of those people who take a pleasure in lit­ tle mysteries and pointless conspiracies. Mile. Lenoir talked the whole Mme about all sorts of things and places, and I found her sympathetic, intelli­ gent and singularly well-informed, as well as charming. I even began to flat­ ter myself that I had made a by no means unsatisfactory impression upon Mademoiselle. < Villa Stefania, where we arrived after had Mien, I could not very see; but I made out thai it is here ?" cried a other woman's, not 'a. "OS O! O! My poor, dear, beautiful boudoir! Send for the GENDARMES 1" Was I aHve? . I suppose so, since I could still hear and see. And how can I describe the scene that I beheld ? I was in an degantlj-fumished room. On my left Hand, with clasped hands, gazing at me with a face full of amaze­ ment, was Mile. Lenoir. On my right, looking at me with wild looks of mingled anger, despair and I, . or, was a hand­ some lady, who Resembled a queen of tragedy. " O Amelia IM cried the lattsr. "O Madame la Prinoesse 1" echoed Mile. Lenoir. 44 My iavorite deck!" moaned the right-hand lady. And three whole mir "--Mademoi- whenl felt my arms nd my back, and a stern, slow voice in my ear : " Who are yon ? Are you madman or brigand? What does this mean ? Who are yon that make havoc with the DOU- doir of Madame la Princesse de Mour­ anov? Who, I say?" I must confess it at last! I am a lit­ tle near-sighted, aadj by (he Jim light of the match, had mistaken the sixfold reflection of myself in the panels of an octagonal room lined with large mirrors for a band of murderers. And that talk of death and diamonds, behind the wail? Well, as I learnea afterward, the Princess Mouranov was, as it seemed half the world knew, busily occupied in flying from the pursuit of a husband from whom she was trying to keep not only herself but her famous diamonds. Her eccentric movements had baffled him, for long, but the tempo­ rary sojourn of her parure with our firm had nearly put him on the traces. Bead the talk by the light of this and you will understand--even the big talk of Madame's last champion, a German Baron, who did meet the Prince in mor­ tal light with swords, and came off second best with a gash that went through his sword arm. Who has got the diamonds now; I neither know nor care. . But as for revolvers--well, if you must keep such awkward things at all, you can t spend three shots from buttT than In obeying the precept: ^ Brise 1© inoiroir infidele Qui vou# cache la rerite. >*' Smash every looking-glass, whether it tells you you are a murderer, or whether--as is more common--it tells you, as my own once upon a time used to tell me, that I was a handsome as well as a near-sighted man. Alas, since that terrible night no looking-glass dares to tell me that I am handsome any more, for I never saw an uglier rufiian in my life than my own double seen by the light of that fusee. A Fool Once iTIore. "For ten years my wife was confined to her bed with audi a complication of ailments that no doctor could tell what was the matter or ciw her, and I used up a small fortune in hum­ bug stuff. Bis mouth* ago I saw a U. S. flag with Hop Bitters on it, and I thought 1 would be a tool once more. I tried it, but my folly proved to be wisdom. Two bottles cured her. She u now as well and strong as any man's wife, sad it only ooatme two dollars, bach fol­ ly pays."--H. W., Detroit, Mich.--Frm Pros. r. -- that ̂ aoukl be dfansnsad with, *hasgr w«ce fefceptioal; bat proof of iu m«rt«bryaetaal trial has dispelled all doubt, and to-day the dteoovereni of that gnat medf- cjne, Hop Bitten, are honored and hleeaed by all as benefactor*.--Democrat. Stinking Pride. Some of the upstarts of to-day can not carry a package. .The late Chief-Justice Marshall, the first biographer of Wash­ ington, was once in market in Washing­ ton, when an insurance agent, with a waxed mustache, was pricing a turkey. I'd buy it," he said, "but I've no way of carrying it home." " How much will yon give ?" said the Chief-Justice. "Twenty-five cents," was the reply. " Give me an order to your wife, then, for the money," replied the Chief-Jus­ tice, whom the agent did not know. The man holding the highest position in the United States oarried home the turkey and got the twenty-five cents from the agent's wife, wliotaiew the Chief-Justice,• and war horrified at the lesson her airy husband had received. FROM the Wilmington (Del.) Republican: Mr. J. M. Scott, comer Third and Madison streets, hod a remarkably fine horse cored of the scratches by St. Jacobs Oil. A Smsrt Editor* "An old and experienced eiitor of a Cincinnati feligious paper," indignant at the other idle passengers who w.ould not help the conductor and driver push the street ear across a deep hole in the road­ way, arose and, though still inside, put his hands and shoulders to the door casing and pushed and fumed and pushed, thinking he did the most of the job of getting it across the chasm. The editor of a religious newspaper cannot know everything. That keeps even the editor of the daily paper pretty busy. He Effect of Indulgence in strongdriok can be removed from the ITI- tem by Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Core. THB White House has had no general overhauling siuce it was rebuilt in 1815, after it had been destroyed by fire by the British troops, on the occasion of their raid upon Washington in the war of 1812. THE most stubborn canoe of female yield when the patient taken Lydi* E. Pink- nam's Vegetable Compound ̂ A GENTLEMAN once laid a wager that he would stand for a whole day on Lon­ don Bridge with a tray full of sovereigns, fresh from the mint, and be unable to find purchasers for them at a penny apiece. Not one was disposed of. KIBHET-WORT cores piles. It has a soothing and healing action that in very potent, NATOKK intended that man should breathe through his nostrils. People who habitually breathe through the mouth have the sense of smell much weakened or lose it altogether. •v^ nbt help a groan of despair at the thought that I was about to be mur­ dered so helplessly, so hopelessly. How soon would it be ? I drew out my revolver, and in doing so a little fusee-box, with a few wax matches in it, fell on the floor. One moment's liglit would be something, though the last gleam I was ever to see. I groped for the box, found it at my feet and struck one of the mat,ha. Heaven! what met my eyes? The gleam of flame had indeed come not a moment too soon. Straight in front of me, coming towards me through an open door, was as evil-looking a ruffian as I had ever seen ; a murderous ruffian, if ever there was one, hideously livid, and with eyes that, glared toward mine. Thank heaven for that one gleam of light! It might be enough foi a straight aim. No time must be lost. I am no fighting man, heaven knows. But--I fired. For a moment the smoke clouded my eyes. But I heard a cry. The flame from my match had not wholly died. And by its light I saw Great heavens ! I had not had one murderer to deal with. A whole gang of brigands were upon me and my diamonds. What was to be done? Five more brigands at least were there. Well, I dared not pray for so hopeless a thing as life, but I would at least be true to my trust and sell it dearly. My name, my honor, might yet be saved. First to the right, then to the left I fired and fixed again--twice --three times-- And then the match went oat, and left me to the me»j of the robbers and cut-throats into whose hands I had been drawn by a woman's words. ux The Nocturnal Cow. Tears, mad tears, and heated words, follow in her wake. Sorrow and a deep- settled melanchslv seme down upon the faces of the female Aembers of the household when they arise and, as is their wont, go forth to look' upon the beauties of nature, and find that its fairest feature have been despoiled. There is nothing peculiar about the noc­ turnal cow. She is like her sisters in mind and habits. She appears to have a good countenance, a kind eye, and an easy conscience, but in reality she is as sly as a fox, and in the after part of the night she is as restless and sleepless as the principle of evil itself. She is no country Susan. She lives in town and harbors upon the outskirts, but always remains in easy access to gates, for which she manifests remarkable famil­ iarity. She is a brute of a cultivated eye and a refined stomach. She selects the yards where the grass is green, the flowers are blooming, and the gardens are iu a fine state of cultivation. She sweetly sleeps in the forepart of the night. Then in the small still hours of the morning she gets up and "mean­ ders" forth. She is never in a hurry, and the passer-by wculd never mistrust that she was bent on any mission of destruction. She travels slowly but never misses any place. She goes all around before daylight, and will occas­ ionally find time to lie down in yards for a nap. She never wastes any time in looking up weak places in yard fences. She is a sagacious animal, and makes directly for the front gate. She goes as unerringly to it as a boy does to a water­ melon patch. It makes no difference about the kind of latch on the gate. She has a combination arrangement, fur­ nished her by nature, which will open the most complicated gate-fastener de­ vised. When she enters the yard, she • slips around to the garden, tangles her­ self up in the tomato bed, walks down the ftean row, bites off the promising cabbage heads, and makes a promiscuous tread over all parts of the vegetable plat. She rettgjnis to the front yards and de­ light herself with the flowers. She has a taste for the beautiful, and consumes whatever is most idolized by the family. Having completed her work of havoc with the useful and the beautiful, she slowly retires, resolved to come again. The morning dawns and the mothers come forth to get breakfast. When it is ready, the daughters arrive on the scene. By this time the "old mau," if he has not too much rheumatism award, has found out that the "cow has been in the vard." She has left traces behind, but sfie has silently fled and joined the lowing herds in remote parts of the city, and is there chewing her cud and breathing forth the perfume of flowers and garden sass. There is nothing left for tha family to do but to mourn and get mad.--Indian- apoli8 Herald. THE use of sawdust in mortar is recom mended as superior even to hair for tlu prevention of cracking and subsequent pealing off of rough casing under th< action of storms and frost. A house, ex­ posed to long storms on the seacoast, had pieces of mortar to be renewed each spring, and after trying without effect a number of substances to prevent it, the owner found sawdust perfectly satisfac­ tory. It was first thoroughly dried and sifted through an ordinary grain sieve, to remove the large particles. The mor­ tar was made by mixing one part of ce­ ment, two of lime, two of sawdust, and five of sharp sand, the sawdust being first well mixed dry with the cement and •and. AM Indianapolis exchange mentions that St. Jacobs Ou cored Mr. J. H. Mattern, a letter-carrier of that city, of a severe sprain contracted in the war.--Detroit {Mich.) Western Home Journal. 'M Don't Die in tka^onne. .• >, Aak Druggists for "BoughtRats." lt*Ma out rata, mice, roachea. AIM. IWl-bugs. 16a Da. WtaCHEU.'s Teething Syrup has never failed to give immediate relief when used in cases of Bummer Complaint, Gholera-infantum, or pains in the stomach. Mothers, when yonr little darlings are Buffering from these or kin­ dred cannea, do not hesitate to give it a trial. Ton will merely be pleased with the charming effect Be rare to buy Dr. WiucheU's Teething Syrup. Sold by ill druggists. 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CHILLS, Dnmb Ague and Malarial Fever never fad to yield unto a permanent cure under the absorption treatment of the HOUCAK FAD CO.'S RKXEDIBS, FOB Rheumatism, Sprains and Braines, ane Uncle Sam's Nerve ana Bone Liniment, sola by all MnCVKD FROM DEATH. WUUaa J.fVi--hlta.ot B--r»llla, Mass, «ay»; la tba (all of llN 1 was taksa with blawllncof U» longs, fcl- l«w«J by a i»tn ocngh, I lost my appetit* and ftwb. aad ins •onfitisd to MY bad. la ItR i BIS admitted tfc* hospital. Thsdoetore said I bade ho!® to my iaagas bin as a ti«11 dollar. At oea a rspoti wwat, an>un4 that 1 was dead. I gsv® ep aop«, l'«t a friend eoid m« of Its. WILLIAM HALL'S BALSAM roa TBS Lu«ee. I net S botUe, whan, to mi' eurprl##, I eommanewl to lea) b»'- bw. aad to-day I t<wl tesUej than for tarsus yaan past, k wrtta this hoptaur mif on* crfil >ct«d with dfoutd lun«* wttt laha OA. WILLIAM HALF'S BALSAM, and BA eon- ttooad that oossmcnioH aax HE CUCED. 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Are ani­ mals aware, by a kind of intuition, that | they are in the company of those who j like them? or have animal lovers some ' peculiar knack of voice and touch which ! gives them this power of control over ! the creatures? j Soldiers and sailom are generally great lovers of pets, and very successful ani­ mal tamers. Many a regiment has its favorite animal, which has accompanied the oorps for years, and even seen " ac­ tive service. If I remember aright, a goat went with a Welsh Fusilier regiment to^ the Crimea, and survived the campaign. A sailor returning home, after a cruise, is tolerably cer­ tain to have a parrot or monkey among his baggage. The Spitalfi. lus weavers , used to be great bird fanciers, nearly every garret exhibiting a cage or two at the window. | The love of pete is an ancient and uni­ versal one, shared by King and subject, great men and obscure toilers. Walter of the Yogelweide, the celebrated thir- teenth-century minstrel, left a bequest to the raonks of Wnrtzburg, on condition that they daily fed the birds of the air on his t mbstone, giving as a reason for his charity that the feathered songsters had taught him the art of minstrelsy. Other poets and writers have not for­ gotten to acknowledge their indebtedness to various " friends in fur and feather."-- London Qlobe. NEW - rMi.au.' riimultvd- niiiio New i'ion Blood, and win complotolv rhausie the blood iu the entire axutoin in tbno mouthn. Any person who will take one pill < boIi niHht ironi 1 to 12 week" tnav be restored to sound health, it mu-li a tUiug be ix*sibl6. Bold everywhere or sent by mail tor 8 letter atamre. jLjM. J Ml a MOM Jt CO., BostM, AIm£ Csrasrrly Hanger, Die. ̂ 5.NO Agwti Wanted Mr lift sf GARFIELD n contains tba foil hist<"-r» of his noble and eventful life MkfflsstaidlysBsaashMtion. MilUoasof people nte wait- lac (or this book. The bmt ehamos of yonr life to mate nMOSy. Bawareef **eatehpe(Ussy"taStnttQiui. Thisistbo oafcr aatbsntfo and folly tthistntad life of oar martyred President. Send for circulars and extra, term* to Agents. Addrsss HATIONAL Fcwamira Co., Cbtoanoifll. lender, Ihq* As if there were. at the usual the turf neaJfy'if steeple chaise. Thfci all th? witeriieBtof tor! the super-added elei! seems to give forth** Set* '• Horses, and gx»d onesatt severe injuries, w bid* 1 cally useless !br „ this was the state dif a&irs until and breeder? of tee sffl use»ST. JACOBS OIL, the' Remedy for 'nan and beasL able article tofeafsetnen basso*! favor on account of it in diseases r»f f the horse, that It wtMd to discover -i horsemen i its magical potency. Tht Easy H<mr, in * recent issue one of tho most important! concerning ST. JACOBS On. is the< that it ha? properties which am 1 to the animal as well as to the hnma* species. It has, of late, bara inactive de­ mand among livery men and others for uae on horse® suffering from stmias Of abm- Bions. The most prominent wstaacttap of in tfiis connection, is that idsfodjc David Wilton, a well-known $nef " keeps a livery stable at 1245 JffctA ' 6treet. Mr. Walton states that boarding a valuable horse Benjamin McChirg, also a North Twelfth street. A few weikl' the animal slipped and badly sprain leg, ma'dng him very lame. Mr. Iff used two bottles of ST. JACOBS Off." ON;1 animal and found within less thai week, that there was no need for any i far the animal was as well as ever. GEORGE WOQDLEY, Invest Your Earnings g&k In the atock of the Denver Land sod Improvement Oo.; ! profits immense; p ld in div.dep^f «ww 10») per cent, in ' >"!>onil linni'ity; six month*; absolutely s 'fe; tig only in Denver real «•»;•»to; ' Refer to au<y of t'm banka ntfl Any numl er of shnres at Tfl _ bvmail on receipt of ttie mone. Ad.l'es® ARCHIF. C. 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