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’ s s f 5'“ vim-"e. a. 9 it 4E a»: m...-»..._m~.v-._ :‘4 A -» .v» wan». We . . .. . .i... ,. . .. . .. (Com-mun.) “ ‘ Cballong,’ he says, ‘ there's too much traffic here, and that’s why the water’s so streaky as it is. It's the junks and the brigs and the steamer} that do it.’ he says ; and all the time he was speaking he was thinking, "‘Lord, Lord, what a crazy fool I am !' Challong said noth- ing, because he couldn’t speak a word of English except say, ‘dam,’ and he said that where on or me would say ‘yes.’ Dowse la (in on the planking of the Light wit his eye to'th'rcrack, and he saw the mudd water strgkin' below, and he never sai a word til sla‘c water, because the streaks ke t him tongue-tied at such times. At slack water hemaysp‘Challcng.’ we must buoy this fairway for wrecks’ and holds up his hands several times, showing that dozens ofewrecksvhad come about in the fairway ; and Challong says, ‘ Dam.’ V “ That very afternoon he and Challeng' goes to \Vurlee, the village in the woods that the Light was named after, and buys cancerâ€"stacks and stacks of canes andwcoir rope thick and :fip'ef i'sprts,-;§and ‘ they sets to work ,'in'akipg tequare: Boat; by lashin of the canes together. Dowse said 1e took longer over those floats than might have been needed, because he rejoiced in" the .éorners, they . being square, and the streaks in his ,head all running longways. .. He lashed, the 9P canes together. cries-cross and thwartways,‘ â€"-â€"any way but longwas,-â€"and they made up twelve-foot-square floats, like rafts. Then he stepped a twelvefoot bamboo or a. bundle of canes in the centre, and to the head of that he lashed a big six-foot W letter, all, made of canes,‘hii"d pairifedthe float darlr green and the W white, as ‘a wreck-buoy should be paiiited'. Between" them two they makes a round dozen of these new kind of wreck-bouys, and it was a two months’ job. There was no big trafiic, owing to it being on the turn of the monsoon, but what there was Dowse curseda'atfiand‘the’ streaks in his head, they ran with'the‘ tides, as usual. “ Day after day, so sofin as a‘buoy was ready, Challong would take it out, with a big rock that half sunk the prow and a bamboo grapnel, and drop it dead ‘ in the fairway. He did this day or night, and Dowse could see him oft}... clear night, when the sea brimed. climbing about the buoys with..the sea._.fire dripping oflihim. They was all put into place, twelve’of them, in seventeed-fathogrwater ;, nqgin a- straight line,“on account of a well-known shoal there, but slantways, and two, one behind the otherrmostly in the Centre, of thefairway. You must keep the'cen’tre‘nf those Javva urrents, for currents at the side is different, and in narrow water, before you can turn 8. spoke, you get your nose took~rouiid-"and rubbed upon the rocks) and, the woods: Dowse knew that‘just as well as any skipper. Likeways he knew that no skipper dare n’t run through iiiichartered 'dvrecks in a- six- knot current. He told me he used to lie outside the Light watching his buoys duck- ing and dipping so friendly with the tide ; and the motion was comforting to him on ac- count of its being different from the‘ run of the streaks in his head. “Three weeks after he’d done his busi- ness up comesa. steamer .through Loby Toby Straits, thinking she’d run into Flores Sea before :night. He. saw her slow down ; then-she backed. Then one man and another come up on thebridge, and hecould see there‘ was a regular powwow and the flood wasidriving her right on to Dowse’s wreck-buoys. After that she spun round and wenlr back south, and Dowse nearly killed himself with.-laughing. Buta few weeks after that a couple of junks came shouldering through from the north, arm in arm, like juuks go. It takes a good deal to make a Chins-man understand danger. x. g :1“ k WWW“... â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€" .-â€"â€"â€" THE DlSTURBER 0F TBA F 1C. 'scarcd them away. By and by the Ad- miralty Survey shipâ€"the BritOmarte I think she was -lay in Macassir Road off Fort Rotterdom, alongside of the Amboina. adirzy little Dutch unboat that used to clean there ; and the ntch captain says to our captain, “ What's wrong with Flores Straits 2' he says. ‘ " ‘ Blowed if I know.’ says our captain, who'd just come up from the Angelica Shoal. “ ‘ Then why did you 'gg‘andlbu‘oyit 3‘ says the Dutchman. ‘ ' " ' " ‘Blowed if I have,’ say; our captain. ‘That’s your lookout.’ . , f In; _ “ ' Buoyed it is,’ says the Diitch captain, ‘according to what they tell me; and a whole fleet of ewreck~buoys, too.’ “‘Gummyl says the ca tain. It’s a dorg's life at see. any way. I must have a look at this. ~You come along after me as soon as you can ;’ and down he skimmed that very night, round the heel of ~.Ce"_lebes, three days' steam to Flores Head, and he meta Two-streak liner, very angry, back- ing out oftlie head ofthe strait; and the merchant captain ,gave 5 our jsurvey ship something lot. his mind leav‘iiig;wneeksl ’uucliarted in those narrow waters andwmt~ ing his company’s coal. “ ‘ It's no fault o’ mine,’ saysour captain“ ' ‘~.‘ ‘ I don’t care whose faultfit‘is} says the merchant captain, who had come abroad to eak-.to’rliim just at dusk.~ ‘ The fairway’s ch'oke‘d with wreck enough to knock a hole through a dock-gate. I saw their big ugly masts sticking up just underimytforefoot.‘ Lord ha mercymn us !’ he says, spinning round. ‘ The place is like Regent Street of a hot summer night.’ . ‘ "“ And‘ sci it was. They twolooked at Flores Straits, and they saw ligblg one after the other stringing across the fairway. Dowse, he had seen the steamers ,.~hanging. there before dark, and he said to Challong : ‘ We’ll give ’em something to..'remember.-- Get all the skillets and iron pots you can and hang them up alongside o"the.regular four lights. We must teach ’ern to go round by the Ombay Passage, or they’ll be streaking up our water again 1’ Challqu took a header of the lighthouse, gotab’bard the little leaking prow, with his coir_soaked in oil and all the skillets he could muster, and he began topshow hislights, four regula- tion ones and half a dozen new lights hung on that rope which was a. little above ,the water. - Then he went to all the splire buoys“ with all his spare.coir,“snd hung-,‘a skillet- iflare on 'eiery pole that he could get at,5-â€"' about seven poles. So you see, taking one with. another, there was the “’urlceiLight, four lights on the rope between tlie'three cen- tre fairway wreck-buoys that was hungout as, a. usual custom, six or eight extry ones that » ~Challong~had>hung up on the same rope, and seven dancing flares that belonged to seven wreck-buoys,~eighteen or twenty lights in all crowded into a mile of seventeen-fathom water, where no tide’d ever let a wreck rest for three weeks, let alone ten or, twelve wrecks, as the flares showed. - . .' ‘ .' “ The Admiralty captain, he saw th lights come out one after unotherfisamex as the merchant skipper did who was standing at his side, and he said :-â€"- - ' 5 “‘There’s been an international cata- strophe here or elseways,”. and then. he whistled. _ all night till the utchmsn comes,’ he says. ' i “ ‘ I’m off,’ says the merchant skipper.- ‘ My owners don’t wish for me to watch illuminations. That strait’s choked with wreck, and I should n’t wonder if a typhbon hadn’t driven half- the juuks. 0 China there.” With that he went away; but the Survey ship, she stayed all night at the head 0’ Flores Strait, and the men .ad~ mired the lights till the lights was burning out, and then they admired more than The juuks set well in' the current, andever. . were down the fairway, right among the buoys. ten knots an hour, blowing horns and banging tin pots all the time That made Dowse very angry; he hav- ing taken so much trouble to stop the fairway. No boats run (Flores Straits “A little bit before morning the Dutch gunboat come flustering up, land the two. ships stood together watching the lights burn out and out, till there was nothing left ’cept Flores Straits, all green and wet, and a dozen wreck-buoys, and \l‘urlee Light. words together-as he come on the quarter- deek, and he says to the captain very slow- ly, ‘ I be damned if I are mad,’ but all the time his eye was held like by the coils of rope on the belaying pins, and he followed those ropes up and up with his eye till he was quite lost and comfortable among the rigging, which ran cries-cross, and slope- ways, and up and down. and any way but straight along under his feet north and south The deck-seams, they ran that way, and Dowse‘daren’t look at them. They was the sameas the streaks of the water under the planking of the lighthouse. “Thenfhe heard the captain talking to him very kindly, and for the life of him he couldn’t tell why; and what he wanted to tell the captain was that Flores Strait was too streaky, like bacon, and the steamers only made it worse : but all he could do was to keep his eye very careful on the rigging and Sing :â€". ' I saw a ship aâ€"sailing.' Aosailiug on'thc sea; And. oh. it was all laden \Vithr pretty things for’mol’ Then he remembered that Was foolishness, and he started ofl‘ to say something about the OmbayPassage, but all he said was: ‘ The captain was a (incline-meaning no offense to vvou.,sir,â€"but there was something on his back thbt I’ve forgotten. ‘ And When the ship began to move The captain says. “ Quack-quack.‘ ' ' , , V “ He noticed the captain turn very red and angry, and he. says to himself, ‘ My foolish tongue‘s run away with me again. I’ll gorforward ;’ and he went forward, and catclied the reflection of himSelf in the binna:le’-.- brasses; and he scan that he was standing there and talking mother- naked’ in front of all .them sailors, and he ran into the fo’c’s’le howling 'most grievous. 'He must ha’ gone naked for weeks on the Light. and Challorig 0’ course never noticed it. Challong was swimmin’ round and round the ship, sayin’ ‘ dain’ for to please the men and to he took aboard, be- cause he didn’t know any better. f‘ Dowse-didn't. tell what happened after this, but'seemingly ourSurvey ship lowored two boats and. went over to Dowse’s buoys. GONVIO’I‘ AND SOLDIER- .l Tragedy of Siberia. There comes from Vladivostok a story re~ pathos and tragedy even. the dark tales that make up the re- l At that city, as hasl markable for its among cord of Siberian life. already been announced, the cohstrnction of i the trans-Siberian railroad was begun some months ago. The work was formally enter- ed upon with imposing formalities at the time of the visit of the Czarewitch. For this purpose a number of convicts were‘ taken thither, as laborers, under a strong military guard. Amon these convicts was one white-haired 01 man, of atriarchal aspect. He was a native of Kooroi, and had always been a law~abiding subject. But on one occasion the GOvernment surveyors were measuring off a slice of his ground, which they proposed to seize. He protested, and in his earnestness, chanced to step upon the surveyor’s chain, as it lay on the‘ ground, before him. N ow, the surveyor was the re- presentative of the Czar, and his chain for the time. being represented the Imperial sceptre. The peasant’s misste , therefore, was an act not only of gross isrespeot to the Little Father, but high treason itself. The culprit was instantly arrested, put in irons and locked in a cell. On being brought to trial, however, he succeeded in convinc- lug his”judges that his fault was accidental . .. .. . ........ .. . a“... “seams... v~kpm><luvvn m. s... .. m~.. King of A' ! Medicines .4 Cure “Almost Miraculous.” “ When I was 14 years of age I had a severe attack of rheumatism, and alter I recovered had to go on crutches. Ayear later, scrotula. I in the form of white stvelllngs, appeared on various parts or my body, and for 11 years I was an luvalld, being confined to my bed 8 years. In that time ten or eleven sores ap- peared and broke, causing me great pain and suffering. I feared I never should get well. “ Early in 1886 I went to Chicago to visit a sister, but was confined to my bed most of the lime I was there. In July I read a book, ‘A " Day with a‘Clrcus,’ in which were statements of cures by Hood‘s Sarsapai-llla. I was so lm~ pressed with the success or this medicine that I decided; to try it. To my great gratification the sores soon decreased, and I began to feel better and in a short time I was up and out ‘01 doors: " I continuedto takerltooil’s Sar- ' saparllla for about a year,,when;.liavlug used six bottles, I had become so fully released from tlic‘dlseasc that I went tenant for the Flint & Walling Mfg. 00., and since then -.‘ HAVE NOT LOST A 8130148 DAY and not intentional, and“ accordingly the r on account of sickness. I believe the disease utmost leniency of the tribunal was extend~ ed to him. ’ He was not sentenced to~ death, but was~ -3 expelled from my system. I always feel well, am nigooilsnlrlts midliave a good appetite. I am now 27 years cringe and can walk as well sent to toll in a Siberian chain-gang for the as any one, except that onifllmb is a little remainder of his life. this soldier who, with loaded \rifle,‘ acted as guard over him and his companions. The soldier looked wonderfully familiar'to him and the old man gazed at him so steadily as to neglect his work and__to bring upon him? self rom the overseer a reprimand and a threat of the knout. Aftér '5 time, the work man edged his way so close- to the guard that he could speak to him, and he asked him who he was and whence he came. The soldier, of course, made no reply, and did ,__d,,mi an among the wake of the screw, l the threats of the overseer, he threw down ' joining his webby-foot hands together. He ‘I’m goin to stand on and off , They took one sounding, and then finding it ! not 8“? POW“?- th W33 addljes-‘ling hi3“. was all correct, they cut, the buoys that; The military law absolutely forbids a soldier Dowse and Challong had'm’ade, and let the l to Speak ‘30 3- 00mm“ 0? to, “once hm" "1 any tide carry ’em out through the Loby Toby - “I'D-Y» PUIGSS “3.511005 him If he try t1033984)“: end of the strain; and the Dutch gumbo“; . But tiiose of.his comrades who‘st‘ood near she sent two men ashore to take care of the saw the, 501m?“ tun} deathly , Pale, andfilwn \Vurlee Light, and the Britomarte, she bf'a'F? hlmself‘ “P ‘Vllih more than 0mm“? Chg]. rigidity. 'th D L le " WI owse’ M mg But the old man persevered. Hccdless of went "away long to try. to follow them, a-calling ‘ dam and half heaving himself out of water and his 1:0015: 10ft 1113 W0Â¥ki an? Staggered “P to the guard, who remained silent apd niotiqn-. . dro ped astern in five minutes, and I sup- , .. _ , _ p055 he wentbsck .to the \Vurlee Light. mg With tears» the “Idle? 3 (117» and fixed You can’t drown an Orange~Lord, not even l as those 9f the dell-d- _ . ' . in Flores Strait on Hondltide‘. “ Alexis, my son ! It IS thou ? It IS thou?” 1‘ ‘.‘ Dowse come across me, when he "came 3 cried the hom‘Y'headed convicc- ' ' to England wit-h the Survey ship, after being . , I . more than six mom-,1“, in her, and cured “of 1 Silent and motionless as a statue. His‘face his streaks by workinghard and not looking 3 “79-3 _“ Plth‘e 0f mortal rtolffnenii- “lime over the side more than he could help. He ; desj’lue 1115 9501‘“ W C°ntr°1hlmgelfi in“ 11P5 told me what I’ve told you, sir, and he was?i‘lu1"el‘edi'hls knees tremlllefl- He mycid very much ashamed of himself ; but the i t0 and fw- ,He grasped 1313 “He convulswcly trouble on his mind was to know whether and drew hlmself “I? as If 0‘1 dresaTa‘Za-de- he hadn't ._ sent, something or other ,to the I The next moment his arms fell to his sules, bottom with his buoyings and his liglitings . his rifle dropped to the ground. and without and such like. He put it to me many times, i a: Ford: 01‘ 8V9“ a Small, he fell at? ills fath- and each time more and more, sure he was ‘ er 5‘ feet: apparently 1" QOrPBe- _ , that something had happened in the straits 1‘19 0°“V1_°t threw hmlself “P0n his SOP 9 because of him. I think that distracted him, b91137: covering “3 With 1‘55” and,“tt°““lÂ¥ because 1 {Quad him up at Franc" one day, Wild cries of endearment and ref grief. The in ared jersey,a-praying before the Salvation , oversee” and the Other guards» 386mg, WhP‘t Army,‘wliich hadp'rod'ucedh'im in theirpapers ; had haPPB‘w‘l, 131117 “Ob undersmudmg 1t. as a Reformed Pirate. They knew from I “15th t9 the E‘POt- The)’ supposed that the his mouth that'he had committed evil _ on T old conthhad attackedtlwsoldicr. perhaps the deep waters, __ that was what he told ' killed him. It; was their business to suppose them, â€" and piracy, which no one does now i that?» MEYWaY- ‘ SP they raised the butta 0f except'Chineses, was all they knew of._ I i the” “lies and 1“ a moment? WOUId have says to him , .i Dowse, don’t be “001. Take knocked out the old man’s brains. But one off that, jersey and come along with me) suggested that they should first drag the I H", says , ( Fenwick’ I’m wsavifig of mygsoui; 3 conyict from the soldier’s body, lest some of l for I do beélieve tlipt I blew? killed, mprc men :Eelrgfigzlszofld'fQ-u :Pogoihcéragtenhahfi ‘ in Flores trait t ian ra algar. says : ey ‘3 1 "am 0 ' °ug “- ‘A man that thought he’d seen all the i “ d°zen Of them tugged at them: they COUId naviesof the earth, standing round in aring i not Separate “[9 tWO bOdieS) and the Old to watch his foolish false wreckimoys" 1 man never noticed them even, but kept on less. Their eyes met, .tlie'old' man’sstrdam-l 'fi (those was the‘very words I used) ‘ ain’t fit to have a soul, and if he did he couldn’t kill a. lies. with it. John Dowse, you was mad theiigbut you are a'damn sight inadder now. l Take off that there jersey.” kissing his unconscious son and uttering his wild, inarticulate cries. A cart was then brought, and the two bodies, inseparably clasped together, were laid in it and taken, under a strong guard, byuii ht, but it seemed .to Dowse that “Dowse had slept very quiet that night, if Jun ‘5 'd do that in the day, the Lord and got rid of his streaks by means of think- knew but what a steamer might trip OVer ing of the angry steamers outside. Challon his bouys at night ; and he sent Chal- was busy, and didn’t come back to his bunk long to run a coir rope between three of till late. In the very early morning Dowse the buoys iu the middle of the fairway, looked out, to sea, being, as he said, in tor- and he fixed naked lights of coir steeped in ment, and saw all. the navies of the world oil to that rope. The tides was the only riding outside Flores Straits fairway in a things that moved in those seas, for thenirs half-moon seven miles from wing to wing, was dead still till they began to blow, and most wonderful to behold. Those were the . H He took it, off and come along with me, to the hospital, where the surgeon would but he never got rid 0’ that suspicion that l qlllckly cut 0f” the 01‘] man’s arms and thus g he‘d sunk some ships accuse of his foolisli- ' Part the two- Bl“ When the surgeon flu-W nesses at Flores Straits; and now he’s ,1, them. the truth dawned upon him. He told wherrymian from pormmouth to Gosporb’ the soldiers, and they, who had been eager where the tides run crossways and you can’t to toss the old man on their bayonets, march- mw Straight for ten strokes together. . . I ed Off With tears flowing down their cheeks. ' 1 t 11 t1 ' g L k g" Presently the doctors got the old man to SO a 'c as “a us 00 loosen his hold upon the soldier’s body, and, then iliey‘would‘ blow your hair off. Chal- iong tended those lights every night after the junks had been so impident,â€"four lights in about a" quarter'bfa mile, hung up in iron skillets on the rope ; and when they was aliglit,â€"and coir burns well, most like a lamp wick,â€"the"fairway seemed more maddcr than anything else in the world. Fust there was the \Vurlee Light, then these four queer lights, that could'nt be riding-lights, almost flush with the water, and behind them twenty mile off, but the biggest light of all, there was the red top of old Loby Toby Volcano. Dowse told me that ho used to go out into the prow and look at his handiwork, and it made him scared, being like no lights that ever was fixed. “By and by some more steamers came along, snorting and sniffing at the buoys, but never oing through, and Dowse says to himself : ‘ I‘hauk yoodncss. I've taught them not to come sti'cs 'ing through my water. Omliay Passage is good enough for them and the like of them.’ But he didn't remember how quick that sort of news spreads amon the shipping Every steamer that fetched up by those buoys told another steamer and a l the port oliiccrs concerned in those seas that there was something wrong with Flores Straits that hadn‘t been charted yet. It was block-buoyed for weeks in the fairway, they said, and no sort of passage to use. Well, the Dutch, of course they didn’t know anything about it. They thought our Ad~ miralty Survey had been there, and they thought it very queer but neighborly. You understand us English are always looking up marks and lightening sea-ways all the world over, never asking with your leave or by your leave, seeing that the sea con- csrusus more than any one else. So the news went to and back from Flores to Bali, and Bali to Probolingo, where the railway is that runs to Batavia. All through the Javu seas everybody got the word to keep Clerc o' Flores Straits, and Dowse, he was left alone except for such steamers and mall craft as didn‘t know. They’d come "up and look at. the straits like a bull over l backwards. words he used to me time and again-in tell- ing the tale. ' “ ’l'lien,'he says, he heard a. ‘ gun fired with amost tremenjus explosion, and all them great navies crumbled to little pieces ' of clouds, and there was only a man-o'~warfs boat rowing to the Li .ht, with the cars go.- liig sideways instead 0’ longways as the , morning tides, ebb or flow, would c0iitinu~ f ally iun. ' ‘ " ‘ What the devil's wrong With this strait ‘2’ says a man in the boat as soon as they was in hsilihg distance. ' Has the whole English Navy sunk here, or what?" “ ‘ There's nothing wrong,’ Says Dowse, sitting on the platform outside the Light, and keeping one eye very watchful on the streakiuess of the tide, which he always hated, ’specially in the morning. ‘ You leave me alone and I’ll leave you alone. Go round by the Ombay Passage, and don’t cut up my water. You’re making it streaky.’ All the time he was saying that he kept on thinking to himself, ‘Now that’s foolish- ness,â€"now that’s nothing but foolishness ;‘ and all the time he was holding tight to the edge of the latform in case. the streakiuess of the tides ould cary him away. “ Somebody answers from the boat, very soft and quiet, ‘ We're going round by Oin- bay in a minute, if you’ll just come and speak, to our captain and give him his beer iii s.’ g‘Dowse, he felt- very highly flattered. ml he slipped into the boat, not paying any attention to Challoug. But Challong swam along to the shi after the best. When Don'se was in tie boat, he found, so he says, he couldn't speak to the sailors ’cept to call them ‘ white mice with chains about their neck,'and Lord knows he liaud't seen or thought 0’ white mice since he was a little bit of a boy. So he kept himself quiet, end so they come to the Survey snip ; and the man in the boat hails .the quarter deck with eomethin' l word he spelt out again and agaiu,-â€"-in-a-d, ~msd.â€"and he heard some behind saying it fared- severely. So he had two words,â€"in-a-d, Fenwick left his chair, passed to the ; Light, touched something that clicked, and f the glare ceased with a suddenness that was pain. Day had come, and the Channel need- i ed St. Cecilia no longer. The sea-fog rolled ‘ back from the cliffs in trailed wreaths and; dragged- patches, as the sun rcse and made} the dead sea alive and splendid. The still- ‘ ness of the morning hold us both silent as we stepped on the balcony. Alark went up from the cliffs behind St. Cecilia, and we . smelt a smell of cows in the light-house l pastures below. . So‘ you 'see we were both at liberty to thank the Lord for another day of clean and wholesome life. RUDYARD Ki PLING. ['riiii 1mm] A Send-Off or a Stand-Off. Parkly Sauntcrs.â€"I~I-â€"-I want ' your daughter, sir, to be. my wife. Old Dukkets.â€"\Vait a year ! ' Parkly.â€"It's a lou time to wait, sir ! Dukkets.â€"â€"Oh, I ( on't mean for you to wait here. Call again in about a year.â€" [l’uck. ' A Cool Suggestion. Checkley Spatts.â€"â€"Deah me ! I weally don’t know what to do this Summer to oc- n copy my mind i ‘ ‘ ' Sally de Witt.-.-Why don't you-take a trip to the Antarctic Ocean 2 There‘s abso- lutely nothing going on there.â€"[Puck._ ‘ __.. Member or the Leglslslnreo... In add'tion to the testimony of the Gov- ernor of e State of Maryland, U'. S. A., a member of the Maryland Le ‘ lature, .Hon. Wm. C. Harden, testifiesns allows: " 746‘ Dolphin St., Balk», qui'UKS. Asp-Jun 18," ’90. Gentlemen: ' I jute!» with a “even that‘ Dowse could accident by falling do'wii the back stair-sol not rightly understan , but there was one my residence, in the darkness, and was bruised badly in my hip and side, and suf- Oue and a half bottles of St. Jacobs Oil completely cured me. WM. ., pm, but than nodding wreck~buoysluisd, d-a-m, dam; and he put those two C.Hsnnss'.” Member ofState Legislature. dreadful to relate, lie was instantly taken back to the railroad and forced, under the lash, to resume his work. Then they turned their attention to the soldier. Under their efforts he soon regained consciousness, but not reason. He was incurany mad. They i took him that night to an asylum, The next l morning the old mah'was marched out to I work again. “ But, my son !" he cried. “ How is my son this morning}? Is be living or dead 1'” shorter than the other. owing to the loss of Working on the railroad at Vladivostok â€"â€"bon‘e, and the sores formerly on my right leg. poor old man ‘onegday noticed the M'To my friends my recovery seems almost miraculous, and I think Hood's Sarsaparilla is the king of medicines.” WILLIAM A. LEE'R, 9 Nr'Itallroad St., Kendallvllle. Ind. Hood’s sarsaparilla Sold‘by all drugglsts. 51; six for 55. Prepared only by C. I. l-IOOD it: 00., Apotliecarios. Lowell. Mass. lOO Doses One Dollar No Chickenâ€"Teacher: Parse “eggs.”â€" Pupil: Third person, plural numberâ€"after a moment’s pauseâ€"one might be one gender, and one the otherâ€"more hesitation, and then a triumphant finishâ€"and objective case unless they are fresh. ~ , Theire'port of the Grand'Trunk Railway Conipanijgts issued in Lon don, England on Tuesdity. It attribu‘testhe‘poor business of the past half year to low freight and pas- . . . . . , ,, . , ‘seng’er rates and the deficient harvest of the Shu‘mlllml‘y dXSCIPlme kept the guard 33 previoiis' autumn. ~Wlicreasthe real cause is theaotive, stirring rivalry of the Canadian Pacific and poor management of the Grand Trunk. No railway can be successfully managed by a. president and board of direc- tors three thousand miles away who have neither knowledge nor sympathy with the requirements of the road and the country through which it passes. .‘i‘German Syrup” We have selected two or three lines from letters freshly received from pa- rents who have given German Syrup to their children in the, emergencies of Croup. You will credit these, because they come from good, sub- stantial people, happy in finding what so many families lackâ€"a med- icine containing no evil drug, which mother can administer with conâ€" fidence to the little ones in their most critical hoursf’safe and sure thatitwill carry them through. En. L. WILLITS, of Mrs. JAS.V/. KIRK, Alma, Neb. I give it Daughters’ College, to my children when Harrodxbur , Ky. I troubled with Group have depen ed upon and never saw any it in attacks ofCroup preparation act like with in little daugh- It. It is simply mi- ter, an find it an in- raculous. valuable remedy. Fully one-half of our customers are mothers who use Boschee’s Ger- man Syrup among their children. A medicine to be successfulwith the little folks must be a treatment for the sudden and terrible foes of child‘- Croup. . Then one of the soldiers for the first time ' hood? whooping cough, crou (,fdiph- broke military discipline and incurred the theria, and the dangerous m ammaa risk of heavy punishment.‘ “ Your son,” he said, “ lives ; but he is hopelessly insane.” At the word the old man stared, burst into a peal of fearful laughter, and fell for- ward in convulsions. They carried him away to the hospital, and from there to the asylum, where they put him into the cell next to his son‘s. There were then two hopeless maniacs in that madhouse. ,....._-.â€"-â€".. TEACIIER--“ Johnnie, you must bring an excuse for being absent yesterday from the head of your family." Johnnie-â€"-H She’s away, ma’am ; I’ll have to get it from my fader." ‘ Clocks are too cheap for the tired house- wife to spend her time and strength in run- ning from the kitchen to some other room in v-msult (no. tions of delicate throats and lungs. ' ® Of the three principal grainsâ€"com, wheat, and oats-â€"grown in the United States, the total yield this year is estimated by the Department of Agriculture at not less than 3.400,000,000 bushels. That is equivalent; to more than fifty bushels for every man, woman, and child in the country, or about fifty pounds a week aplcce. When dun allowance is made for infants, who do not count for much, it is easy to see how plenty of seed grain can be saved out of siicl‘ bounteous crops and abiindantfood provided for all 'the domestic animals that need grain in any form and still enough breadstiilfs remain to help Europe through a very bad year. Sprains, Bruises, analan Depot: THE CHARLES A. VOGELER COMPANY, Baltimore; E4. ll CUREO ensures-rials, NEURALGIA, Lumsaco, IN sciA'ricA‘, Burris, Swellingee ronu'ro, our. .. . wwflufixvslv-A .a...~ . a? 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