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'i v _ of the Captain? IBM^B Oomnwrciai Bulletin.] The city fodee away in the distance; and then we Mettle down onoe more to the sea roatme of a miiHrf-intr. We expniettided fait winds and weather, and tiie next day uncouple the propeller and Ibeep under sail alone. Kow comes the ideal time dear to the sailor's heart, when seated in some oosv nook he can smoke his pipe in peace and spin yarns without end. Are any of them worth recording? Yes; if you can get an old quartermaster to talk to you you will often hear of strange ad­ ventures as wonderful as any Clark Rus­ sell has recorded. "lam not a believer in ghosts or afcpernatural appearances," says he, "any more than you may be"--this to toe--"but a very strange thing happened in a ship I once sailed in. "The Captain was very fond of fish­ ing--that is, of throwing the grains and harpoon, which he did well; and if a fish came fairly under the martingale he rarely, if ever, missed him. One day we had a number of porpoises come snorting round the ship, tearing about bolder than ever I saw them, and aeemed to look up at the Captain as Bunch as to say, 'Catch us if you can.' "Well, he was a spicy little fellow and didn't like any chaffing and nonsense ; ao says he, looking at them over the quarter: 'You'd better not tempt me tod far, for I want oil and I don't like to be jeered at,' upon which one of them about the biggest I ever saw--pushed his nose above the water and gave a sort of sputtering snort, just as if he'd been laughing to himself but couldn't hold in any longer and was obliged to fcfrrst out. " .-"Well, the Captain couldn't stand be­ ing made a joke of by a porpoise; so he says: 'I'll makfe you laugh on the other aide of your pig's face before I've done •with you, my boy.' And then he called to the second mate, and says he, 'Just bend on the line to the harpoon and Til strike that fellow if he comes within ?$ach again, if he is the devil himself!' "Well, there was no poop in that Vessel, so the Captain took his stand on the quarter-boat, and had his harpoon .all ready, and the line coiled free and all clear for the first porpoise that came near--but especially the big black one if possible. There he was--the mate looking at him, the man at the wheel looking at him as well as he could while minding his course, and two men look­ ing at him who were mending sails; and another man looking at him as he rigged a Scotchman on to the backstay. I was on deck, too, but not looking at him constantly, because I was attending to the ship's course and looking up at the ship's sails. "All of a sudden somebody sung out, '"Where's the Captain?"' and we all looked about and nobody could see him; so I jumped into the boat, thinking he might got down in her for something, but sure enough, he wasn't there, nor the harpoon, nor the line, but only about a fathom of the end of the line that was bent on to the standing rigging. And nobody heard any splash in the water, nor saw him strike at a fish, nor fall overboard, but overboard he certainly was. "Well, we couldn't be convinced that he Was out of the ship, so we searched the cabin, and the 'tween decks, and even the hold, but we bever saw him again. "Well, we were very down-hearted at this, and the men thought it a bad sign; but that, of course, I knew was all nonsense. However, the mate took command of the ship, and brought her into Bombay, and there most of the hands left her; they never were recon­ ciled to the ship after the Captain dis­ appeared, because they said every night, as sure as eight bells struck, they saw the Captain standing up in the boat with the harpoom in his hand, and heard him say, '111 strike him if he's the devil himself,' and then there was a ttiorting and a half-choked laughing noise in the water all around the ship, but especially under the star-board quarter, where the Captain disappeared: and this I could have sworn I heard often enough myself." Rothschild Posing as a Beggar. Eugene Dalacroix, dining one day in Baron James de Rothschild's house, fixed his eyes repeatedly on his host in so searching a manner that the latter could not help asking his guest, when they left the dining-room, what it was that had to such a degree riveted his at­ tention. Dalacroix acknowledged that, having for some time been vainly search­ ing for a head such as he would like to have for a prominent beggar in his new picture, it suddenly occurred to him what a splendid model the Croesus would make who was entertaining him «t his table. Would it be to great a favor to ask the Baron to sit for a beggar? Roths* child, who was fond of art, and not displeased to be reckoned among its chief protectors, gracefully assented to act a part probably never performed be­ fore by a millionaire, and appeared the next morning in the celebrated painter's studio. Dalacroix hung a tunic on his shoulders, placed a small staff in his hand and assigned to him a posture as if he were resting on the steps of an ancient Roman temple. In this attitude he was discovered by a young friend and pupil of the painter's who alone had the privilege of being admitted to the studio at all times. Surprised at the excellence of the model, he congratulated his master at having at last found exactly what he wanted. Not for a moment doubting that the model had just been begging at the porch of some church or at the corner of a bridge, and much struck by the features, the young man, espying a moment when the artist's eyes were averted, slipped a twenty-francs piece into the model's hand. Rothschild kept the money, thmting the giver by a look, and the young man went his way. He was, as the banker soon found out, from Dalacroix, without fortune and obliged to give lessons in order to eke out his living. Some time later the youth received a letter, men­ tioning that charity bears interest, and that the accumulated interest on twenty francs which he, prompted by a gener­ ous impulse, had given to a man in ap­ pearance a beggar was lying at his dis­ posal in Rothschild's office to the amount of 10,000 franca, having borne 500 fold, like the seed in the parable.-- London Tid-Bits. Careful. "You went to see the Battle of Gettys­ burg when you were in the city, didn't yon, pa?" asked old Farmer Clovertop's wife when her husband returned from a two days' stay in Boston. "No, Clarindy, I didn't," was the re­ ply given in a tone of deep solemnity. "I callated on goin' much as could be. I even went up an' looked at the buildin' an' bought my ticket an' started in, when it eome acrost me all of a suddent that it was fer all the world like theay- ter-goin', an' I jest turned 'round an' kem out and sold my ticket for forty cents an' kem away. "Mebbe it an' the theayter aint an­ onymous an' the same, but it struck me that it was, an' long's Fm an elder it's my dooty to have a .keer what sort of example I'm settin' in the world."--De­ troit Free Press. llauip Cellars. _ The most prominent causes of damp cellars are: 1. Dampness permeating the walls. 2. Dampness from saturated soil ap­ pearing below the walls. 3. Dampness from imperfect plumb­ ing- 4. Moist ground air permeating cellar bottom, forced in by air pressure. The first is an evidence of either poor workmanship and material cr imperfect drainage. Should it be the former, and discovered in time, a compulsory re­ moval of the work is the best remedy. A good wall (stone is here understood) should have every space completely filled. Small, flat stones make the best work when carefully bonded and fitted^ Look out for walls showing nothing but large, flat stone on the outer faces, ad such are often but dry concrete in the center. If the work has progressed too far to allow the wall to be taken down, the remedy is a thorough coating of cement on the outside, from grade to footing, backed by a careful drainage of the immediate vicinity. Great care is necessary to keep the surface water from the building on all sides. It will not. suffice to keep it five, ten, or twenty feet away,. and then allow it to cool, as the ground will absorb it, and if the strata should happen to incline in the direction of the cellar, conduct the moisture to the wall, where, although perhaps not appearing in drops on the surface, still keeping the joints damp enough to effect the atmosphere and cause the mortar to decay. Good, clean, yellow clay, well puddled and rammed around the walls, is an ex­ cellent protection, and that should never be omitted. Frequently, in neighborhoods thinly settled, where the sewage system is im­ perfect, or, rather, not completed, the ground becomes waterlogged, or so saturated with moisture as to cause any shallow excavation to collect water, and it will be noticed in such ground that after a rain all these depressions hold the water with great tenacity. In fact, the soil seems unable to absorb any­ more. Cellars sank in such ground will l>e damp at the foot of the wall, the moist­ ure extending out on. the cellar floor, while any small knoll, caused by uneven excavation, may be perfectly dry on top, and even, as has occurred in my prac­ tice, the clay opening in seams from contraction in drying, while but a few feet away the mud was three to six inches deep. This has been noticed even in a house situated on a small plateau with rapid drainage to all sides. --Building Trades Journal. The Water Question In Japan. Like a terrapin which the rain kills, al­ though they live in water half of the time, the Japanese afford contradictions on the water question. They never drink water, and the men who have been work­ ing in the lotus ponds at Shiba, grub­ bing out the old stalks and leaves from the muck in which the sacred plant grows, standing meanwhile in water up to their waists and shoulder, will not work in the pond on rainy days. In Yo­ kohama liarltor on the nicest days, the coolies who load and unload cargo- lighters and are in and out of the water continually often refuse to work if rain begins to fall. The little boys and girls and the other unoccupied women, with babies tied on their backs, who are al­ ways gadding about the streets with the aimless unconcern of hens, take no ac­ count of the weather and enjoy the open air, regardless of the barometer. Jin­ rickisha coolies pay no heed to the rain, and, although they draw the hoods and tie their passengers in snug and dry with oil paper or rubber aprons, they trot along themselves in their two scanty cotton garments that are more abbrevi­ ated than ever. Their substitute for an umbrella is a huge flat straw plate of a hat, and instead of putting on goloshes they take off even their straw sandals and run barefooted. They show some consideration for the big toe by tying that honorable member up with a bit of rag or wisp of straw, but this amounts to nothing more than a decoration. Those pedestrians who wish to be stately and dry shod thrust their bare feet into a half slipper arrangement of wood and oil paper, that is perched on two wooden rests three inches high. This adds so much to their stature that one often thinks he has been favored by passing an unusual number of stately and dignified looking men, and concludes that the Ja­ panese are not such a race of pigmies after all.--Tokio letter. A Woman Who Was Afraid. A man was once walking along one road and a woman along another. The road finally united; the man and woman, reaching the junction at the same time, walked on from there together. The man was carrying a large iron kettle on his back, and in one hand he held by the legs a live chicken, in the other a cane, and he was leading a goat. Just as they were coming to a deep, dark ravine the woman said to the man: "I'm afraid to go through that ravine with \\ n; it is a lonely place, and you might overpower me and kiss me by force." "If you were' afraid of that," said the man, "you shouldn't have walked with me at all. How can I possibly overpower you and kiss you by force when I have this great iron kettle on my back, a cane in one hand, a live chicken in the other, and am leading this goat? I might as well be tied hand and foot!" "Yes," replied the woman, "but if you should stick your cane in the ground and tie the goat .to it, and turn the kettle bottom-side up and put the chicken into it, then you might wickedly kiss me in spite of my resistance." "Success to thy ingenuity, oh, woman!" said the rejoicing man to himself: "I should never have thought of such expedients." And when they came to the ravine he stuck his cane in the ground and tied his goat to it, gave the chicken to the woman, saying, hold it while I cut some grass for the goat," and then, lowering the kettle from his shoulder, imprisoned the chicken under it, and wickedly kissed the woman, as she was afraid he would! --Notes And Queries. To BE pitied--"How is it, old fellow, that ever since you were married you come to the club so hungry, and yet your wife has a really excellent cook ?" "Oh, yes, but just as soon as I /dish anything she becomes jealous.--"Fleie- geiule Bln"*r. "THE corner loafer must go!" shouts temperance exchange. Well, he WIS. usually does go--to the sta is a lynx-eyed cop around. •to the statioa, if there 11K WUU Î M Hea. ,. Let us put our flc^ txndei; the micro- i clothed in a sort rown, overlapping Bedinirly tough as _ly tougl ble. Its head is scope. It seems to of armor formed of plates that are so to be almost ind< small and very thin, an<J it ha«? a angle eye upon each side. ;This eye is black, and the rays 6f light scintillate within it like sparks of fire. Pnget managed to look through one pf these 4syes, and he found that it diminished in size, while it multiplied them in number--a man appearing like an army of fairies, and the flame of a candle becoming a thousand tiny stars. From the shap£ of its head, and for other reasons, the flea is supposed to use only one eye at a time. The offen­ sive weapon of the flea is composed of two palpi, or feelers, two pierces and a tongue. When it feeds it- stands erect, thrusting this sucker into the flesh; and it will eat without intermission until disturbed, for it voids as fast as it swal­ lows it food. It is interesting to put several in a glass, and. giving them a piece of raw meat, see them all standing on their liind legs to suck up its juices. Their manner of breathing is still un­ determined, but .it is thought most prob­ able that they receive air into their Iwdies through small holes at the end of the palpi. The legs of a flea are marv els of strength and elasticity. They are joined to the body by long tendons that act like wire springs. In making its leap, which, it is said, can cover 200 times its own length, the flea draws the leg close up to the body and then throws it ont with great force; but the impulse pro­ ceeds from the first joint alone, the others only increasing it by their stretch while the leap is being made. Fleas are possessed of great strength. Mouffet tells of a mechanic who made a gold chain, as long as his finger, that a flea dragged after him. and a golden chariot, which he drew also. Bingley writes of a watchmaker in the St rami who had an ivory, four-wheeled chase, with a coachman on its box, drawn by a flea. The same man afterward made a carriage with six horses, a coachman, four persons inside, two footmen behind and a postilion on one of the horses, all of which was drawrf by a single flea. Latriella mentions a flea which dragged a silver cannon of twenty-four times its own weight, mounted on wheels, and showed no fear when it was charged with gunpowder and fired off. Rene sajs that he saw three fleas draw­ ing a tiny omnibus; that a pair drew a chariot, and that a brass cannon was dragged by a single one. There are several varieties of fleas, but they are so much alike that their differences are interesting only to scien­ tific people. The cat flea will do as well as any to show us the process of breed­ ing. During the spring and summer months she simply drops her eggs into the fur of the cat; but in the antumn and winter she glues each firmly upon a hair. These eggs are so small as to be barely visible to the naked eye, but under the microscope they are very beautiful, looking like the loveliest pearls, and are perfectly translucent. The flea deposits nearly 200 at a time, running about and dropping them here and there. They soon hatch into small, white, footless worms. In from one to two weeks they go into cocoon. Noth­ ing can be prettier than this cocoon. I wish I could show it to you, but will try to describe it. It is like a flask of clear glass, tinged at the edge with pearly tints, and dotted over with gold. The little sleeper within lies in a circle, is rose-colored, and looks like the delicate petal of a flower. In about six weeks he reaches maturity. At first he is not larger than a mite, but when well fed grows quickly in size and strength. Fleas are quarrelsome and great fighters. When several.are confined in a glass they will stand on their hind legs striking at their opponents with the others, and roll over and over each other, losing legs and antennte, and at last giving up their lives in the fight. There is a record of a flea which lived ten days after such an encounter with no antennae, three plates of his side broken intone eye gone, and with only four legs, and, these cut off to the first joints. Fleas are supposed to feel a great an­ tipathy to wormwood and other bitter herbs; and in England the country peo­ ple have a habit of placing these about their cottages for the purpose of banish­ ing the little pests.--8. L. Clayies, in tlie Swiss Cross. Cage Birds. j Cage birdB are found in almost every home. They are more associated with the pleasant labors of women outside of their regular .routine duties than even the keeping of poultry. The breeding of canaries is not so often indulged in as it should be. Vinton's Gazette offered premiums for the best essays on the subject, and from one of them we ex­ tract the following, which will be inter­ esting in relation to the feeding: The staple food of canaries should be white canary seed, with which the drawer should be filled, and not with mixed seed, for in order to obtain the sort they like the best the birds will very soon scatter the contents of the seed vessel, and in five minutes waste as much food as ought to serve them a day. Where a number of birds are con­ cerned the food question is a matter of serious consideration. A very good mixture of seeds is made as follows: Lettuce, oat grits and small linseed each one part, small hemp seed half part; mix, and keep in a tin for use. A table- spoonful of this mixture may be given to every three or four birds twice or thrice a week--during 'the breeding season it may be given ever day; put into a separate vessel, or throw it on the bottom of the cage. Egg food is prepared as follows: Boil a fresh egg ten minutes; when cold re­ move the shell, and either chop up the egg (yolk and white) or press it through a colander, or similar article; mix with three tablespoonfuls of powdered bis­ cuit or stale bread crumbs. This food should be made fresh at least once a day. During the hottest weather it is better to make it twice a day, for noth­ ing tends more to disarrange birds than sour food. i Green food may consist of any of the following: Groundsel, duckweed, dandelion leaves, lettuce, inner cabbage leaves. Whatever the sort of green meat selected it must always be fresh, young, and free from frost. During the early breeding season it is necessary to be very careful in this matter, and a good plan to follow is to always soak your green stuff in warm water for five or ten minutes, and allow it to stand until quite dry before giving it to your stock. As the season advances this pre­ caution will not be necessary. Moulting food for color is simply egg food mixed with certain coloring matter, such as cayenne, common pepper, tumeric. The proportion is usually one cart o ' „ ing to two parte egg foo& U i~ THE average Mexican laborer supports his family on 10 cents per diem, invested in corn and beans. JAPANESE engineers propose td adopt a system of earthwork defences pro­ tected by an iron shield one foot in thickness, and extending twenty-five ieet on each side of the gun. AMERICAN authors are more read than the English in Japan. Last year 86,000 English and 119,000 American books were imported into that country, so that the old question. " Who reads an Ameri­ can book?" was fairly answered. A CITIZEN of Douglas Countv, Kansas, has hit upon a new way of destroying wolve3. He puts a chunk of beef where the wolves will find it, and in the fight resulting for its possession one or more are sure to be left dead on the field. M. PAUL LEROV-BEAULJEU gives fig­ ures showing the quantity of tobacco consumed in the different countries of Europe. The rate per 100 inhabitants is, according to him, as follows: Spain, 110 pounds; Italy, 128 pounds; Great Britain, 138 pounds, Russia, 182pounds; Denmark, 224 pounds; Norway, 229 pounds; Austria, 273 pounds. IT is reported from Detroit that, a lad named Frank Bailey, 16 years told, has such a mania for thrusting pins and needles into the right side of his face and neck that it has become necessary to send him to a lunatic asylum. At the time of his departure he had from thirty to forty pins buried to the head in his cheek, besides an unknown num­ ber of needles that were out of sight. THE average watch is composed of 175 different pieces, comprising upwards of 2,400 seperate and distinct operations in its manufacture. The balance has 18,- 000 beats or vibrations per hour, 12,- 960,080 in thirty days, 157,680,000 in one year; it travels 143,100 inches with each vibration, which is equal to miles in twenty-four hours, 292$ in thirty days, or 3,558} miles in one year. IT has been legally settled in Texas that the moon has an immense influence in enlarging the brand on cattle. , A lawsuit was pending relative to the ownership of a herd of cattle, and the solution depended upon the proof of the brand, which was found on comparison -jto be three times as large as the brand­ ing iron which the claimant used. Thir­ teen witnesses were introduced, all ot them experts in branding and cattle herding. They all swore that when cattle were branded in the dark of the moon the brand will never, no matter how large the animal may grow, get larger than the dimensions of the iron used. On the other hand, when either grown, cattle or calves are branded in the light of the moon the scar will spread, and the lighter the moon the larger will be the spread. And the suit, involving several thousand dollars worth of cattle, was settled on this testimony. So the question is legally settled that it is the moon that does it. N«Vw for Conquerors. After all there are greater possibilities awaiting the boys of to-day than ever awaited the yonng son of Philip Macedon. Every American boy has possibilities that Alexander never had. There is a chance for him (and Alex­ ander only had a chance) to become the founder of new states, the developer of new regions, the leader of new move­ ments, the preacher of new creeds. When Cyrus Fields laid the first At­ lantic cable he did a bigger work for the world than did Alexander when he con­ quered Darius. When Morse invented the telegraph he laid the foundation for tremendous and unheard of progress. When Alexander conquered the Persian Empire, he laid the foundation for wars and bloody rapine for countless genera­ tions. Napoleon was the last of the modernB who attempted to gain any great extent of empire by conquest. When Thomas Jefferson bought Louisiana of Napoleon, he showed the great Corsican a better way of conquest that his genius had ever suggested. Where is Napoleon's empire now? But the Louisiana of Jefferson, embracing nearly all our territoigr between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains-^ and beyond--is already one of the great­ est empires on earth and destined for untold strides of progress. So the occupation of oonqueror is gone, and the modern boy who reads the life of Alexander the Great need not envy that reckless and dissipated young king. He was a great king in his day, but there is a possibility for the modern American boy to do more good in the world than he did.--Yankee Blade. The Indians of Ecuador. While the Indians are under the rule of the priests, and have accepted the Catholic religion, three hundred and fifty years of submission has not entirely divorced them from the ancient rites they practiced under the pre-liistoric civilization. Several times a year they have feasts or celebrations to commemo­ rate some event in the Inca history. They never laugh, and seldom smile; they have no songB and few amuse­ ments ; their only semblance to music is a mournful chat'which they give in uni­ son at the feasts which are intended to keep alive tlje memories of the Incas. They cling * to the traditions and the customs of their ancestors. They re­ member the ancient glory of their race, and look to its restoration as the Aztecs of Mexico look for the coming of Monte- ] zuma. They have religious relics which they guard with the most sacred care, and there are two great secrets which no tortures at the hands of the Span­ iards have been able to wring from them. These are the art of tempering copper so as to give it as keen and en­ during an edge as steel, and the burial place of the Incarial treasures.-- Will­ iam Eleroy Curtis, in the American Magazine. ------ -- i( • Ail Unsatisfied Longing, How impossible it is to please Mime people. Railway train in Pennsylvania, spinning along about thirty-five miles an hour. Landslide lets a rock as big as a house fall across the track. En­ gineer reverses, puts on the air, stops the train with, a jerk that sprains a man's back, and stopped about twenty feet on the safe side of the rock and eternity. Now the man with a sprained back sues the company for damages. Because the engineer didn't go on and break his neck instead of spraining his back.-- Burdette. _ Single Admission Only. Rastus (a late acquisition from the cornfield presenting a visiting-card to his mistress)--Mum, there's two of 'em waiting at the door. Mistress--Why on earth don't yon in­ vite them in ? Rastus--Sartinly, mum, yotl didn't want two to come in on one ticket, did jurat--Harper's Bator. • • jp: . MBMSWSBmsm* mi. The Terrible Mistake of • Mew Enflud 8«n{flw In Danger of Capture. "Has smuggling as a trade died out?" "Not at all. Will Watch, the bold smuggler, is not as daring as he used to be, bnt he still plies his trade in sail- ing-vessels on the coast. I have seen ladies of the highest social rank in sum­ mer resorts of Jersey receive visits from women bringing silks and laces which the purchasers knew to l>e smuggled. Their husbands would say: 'Take care, my dear. It means a thumping fine if you are caught.' 'We'll risk it,' they would reply. 'We make profit enough by the transaction to cover far more than the fine.'" A Custom House officer was relating some of the experiences incident to the calling for the benefit of a Chicago Tribune reporter, who followed up his first* question with: "Where do the Jersey smugglers uve?" "They "have cottages on tlie shore; bleak huts which a sea-gull would dis­ dain to alight upon. I rememl>er how we raided Jim Alden's place--'Casso­ wary Jim,' they used to call him. We saw him enter the hut with three compan­ ions, all carrying bundles of smuggled cigars. We broke into the hut, but Jim and his friends were gone. Where? There was an outhouse connected with the hut. It was as empty as the hut itself. It had no article of furniture but a seaman's chest. There was no trace of a hiding place." "How did the smugglers escape?" "I sent my menway, bidding them make as much noise as they could. Then I waited in the dark; waited for hours; waited as silent as death. At last I heard a scratching. The sound came from the chest in the outhouse. The bottom of the chest was lifted. Cassowary Jim's head appeared. 'The coast is clear, boy a,' said he. I waited for no more. I escaped in the dark­ ness." "What happened ?" "We raided the hut next morning. The bottom of the cliest concealed a trap. The trap led to a subterranean vault. There we found stores of cigars and gallons of the best French brandy." "Are these hiding places common?" "Quite common. One of them he opened by a ring in a stable. The horses had been tethered to that ring for years, and nobody had sus­ pected what was behind it." "And are the tragedies of smuggling as frequent as of old ?" "No, I only witnessed one real trag­ edy. That was at Bar Harbor, Me. Among our revenue officers was a young fellow named Harry, handsome and bright, who had run away from home, somewhere down South. "\Ve had heard that a family of smugglers had just set­ tled down in Bar Harbor, and we were on the watch for the head of the family, whose name we never knew. It was an awful night. Through the storm I could see the forms of women standing oil the rocks of Mount Desert^" "What were they doing?" "Watching for the smuggler's vessel. I reached their hut alone just as they got home; found they wfere the smuggler's wife and daughter; said I was a stran­ ger and asked shelter for the night. A few minutes later the smuggler burst into the room--a fine, healthy old man. His wife rushed into his amis. He threw her away from him. 'Let me alone,' said he, 'there's blood upon my hands.' A clamor was heard at the door. The revenue officers rushed in a:ul arrested the smuggler. 'What has he done?' I cried. He has killed one of our boys.' 'Not Harry ?' 'Yes, Harry.' The Wife and daughter shuddered at. the name. Harry's body was brought in, his long hair tossed over his white forehead, as handsome in death as in life. The smuggler's wife looked at him; then utterred a shriek. 'Harry!' she screamed, 'my son.' Then, turning to the smuggler, she cried: 'Murderer, yon have killed your son.' The smug­ gler said not a word. He put a pistol to his forehead and blew out his brains." The Best Test of Success Is Success. 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But I will gludly be your sister to the extent of a loan now and then, you know, or some other girl's bridesmaid any time you chose.--lion- ton Beacon. "Had Been Worried Eighteen Years." It should have read "married," but the proof-reader observed that it amounted to about the same thing, and so did not draw his blue pencil through the error. Unfortunate­ ly there was considerable truth in his obser­ vation. Thousands of huebandH are constant­ ly worried almost to despair by the ill-he Uth that afflict* their wives, and often roba life of comfort and happiness. There is but on« safe and sure way to change all this for the better. Tlie ladies should use Dr. "Pierce's Favorite Prescription. WITH $30,0(10,000 Russell Sage has as strong regard for a dime a» he aid when a few hundred of them constituted his entire capit al. **GIvc Him $2, and Let Him Guess/' We ouco heard a man uotnplain of feeling bajJy, and wondered what ailed him. A hum'orom friend said, "Give a doctor #2, and let him guetss." It waa a cutting satire on Boiue doctors, who <ion't always guees rig lit You nee 1 not puesa what ails you when your food don't digest, when your bowels and stom­ ach are ina.ct.ve, aid when your bead ache• every day, and you are languid and easily fa­ tigued. Kon are bilious, and Dr. Pierce's P.ea^ant Purgative Pellet* will bring you out all r.giit Small, sugar-coated, easy to take. Oi druggists. WHO bravely dares must sometimes r&k a fall. ORANGE (New Jersey) blossoms--mos­ quito bites.--Epoch. BUSINESS blocks--jsms in the •toast-* Burlington Free Press. ? -' h iSSjKartlwii MtSum.1 iMeeiliiui IStr tawnrm. . DIWMI i*. out o*. m a is RITtMG H0HTHA1D K. A. (HM. :t* Chicago Oymt Hyu •* '£ss£iffnaL *Ofc The Fvtnre of the Typewriter. A young man who has had a great deal to do with typewriters as an oper­ ator, and who is acquainted with all the improvements which have been made in the machines during the lafft ten years, declares that they are still in an experimental shape, and that the next few years -will see still further and most marvelous improvements. Hiw belief is that the machine of the future will not only be capable of much great­ er speed than the present one, but that it will be much simpler in construction and far more durable. One of the simplest and cleverest of the devices to be introduced in the machine in a short time is the addition of ftalf a dozen keys which will strike combina­ tions of letters. The most natural combinations are, of course, "th," "ng," and "bi." This, with some,other labor^ , ^ saving devices, it is expected will «u<i iU«. B. F7 enable an expert typewriter to do sev- 1 *oM * cw" lola "*** enty words a minute. The putting of new machines on the market will, of oours?, break the high price at which the best have heretofore been sold, and when that occurs they will, of course, come into much more common use than heretofore. The last machine put on the market, which seems to be capable of as good work as any of its prede c ?ssors, is sold at $75, a reduction of $25 from the price of some of the older ma­ chines. It is understood that the in­ ventor of one of these older machines receives $25 for every machine sold. As their advertisements claim that 40,- 000 of them have been manufactured up to date, the inventor's income woulcl appear to be so far a clear fl,000,000. --New York Mail. From Birth to the Grave We carry with us certain physical traits, as we do certain mental characteristics. Insomuch that psychologist* have striven to designate by generic titles certain temperaments--as the bil­ ious, the nervous, the lymphatic. . The individ­ ual with a sallow complexion is set down as bil­ ious, often rightly so. If the saffron in the hue •f his skin is traceable to bile in the blood, its presence in the wrong place instead of the liver, Will also be evinced by fur on the tongue, pain beneath the right ribs and through the right shoulder-blade, sick headache, constipation, flat­ ulence, aud indigestion. For the relief of this very common, but not essentially perilous com­ plaint. there is no more genial and thorouch remedy than Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which is also a beneficent t onic and strengt h promoter, and a widely esteemed remedy for and preventive of fever and ague, rheumatism, kidney mil der troubles. Coming Down in a Balloon. After an enjoyable voyage we deter­ mined to descend; came down with a good bump in one field, and bounding over a large hedge, in which the grap­ nel took a firm hold, landed softly in a grass field. A pack of harriers imme­ diately surrounded us and looked rather surprised at the huge, strong smelling monster, while some rustics puzzled us with their anxious inquires. "Had an accident?" "No." "Lost your way?" "No." "Then why do you come dowm here?" The balloon was soon packed up by willing hands, not with­ out some merriment, especially after I had requested a small boy to get in­ side, which he willingly endeavored to do. Those only who have experienced inhaling a good montful of gas can ap­ preciate the lad's sensations. We had a curious journey to the nearest station, eight miles off. One stout cob drew a cart containing us three--the driver, the balloon, and apparatus--and trotted the wliole way, and the man was de­ lighted to receive life shillings.--Tent' pie Bar. ( A Ti emend ens Sensation -i Would have been created one hundred years ago by the sight of one of our modern express trains whizzing * along at the rate of sixty miles an hour. Just think how our grand­ father* would have stared at such a specta­ cle! It takes a good deal to astonish people now-a-days, but some of the marvelous cures of consumption, wrought by Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, have created wide­ spread amazement Consumption is at last acknowledged curable. The "Golden Medical Discovery" is the only known remedy for it If taken at the right time--which, ljear in mind, is not when the Jungs are nearly gone --it will go right tp the seat of the disease and accomplish it* work as nothing else in the world can The Difference. "I see," said the sporting editor, climbing out of,his own department, that they are claiming that funerals don't pay." "Yes, said the telegraph editor, looking up from a base-ball score puz­ zle, "and that's wherein funerals differ from base-ball teams." "How's that?" asked the sporting editor. "Funerals don't pay the man in the box," was the ghastly reply.--Pittsburg Dispatch. A HISS is as good as a mile--if she's rich and uninenmoered by parents. Washington Critic. aioo to $3ooXr£s<?s us. Agents preferred who can famish their UM> horars and eive their whole time to the " Mala NORTHWESTERN MHJTMT i Twenty-three mil^t north of Chicago: has a fait corps of exueri-ncfd instructors. five course* eC rtiidy, and musiirpawwd facilities for instrnc kMfc. health, home corn torts, and Christian Send tpr catalogue to Highland Bark, 111. AGENTS,! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN^. Tlie BURTfS MOP, PAH*. AND WRINGER is wantSF bv every fumtr. Katiil*ior _ ... „ - $:."A Bi; profit* to aventK. The W IZARD HAT HACK sell* Hke lightning*. your hat on m-rrnr. or aide of the hoatK. 8[>ectators won-ler how. Sample and airents'term* ICo. I.. K. CruixlHll & Co.. ChicawK DR. WINOHCU't T e e t h i n g S y r u p FOR OHILDREIT Retralatei the bowels. a»«Uta dentition, cure* 4iar>- rhtea and dysentery in the wont foras, cure* eefiee- •ore month, is a certain pravantiTs of illiililhaila quiets and soothea all p tin, tnvifforatea the and bowels, corrects all a^ft" aid rintMaS- and tone to the entire system. Sola br au dronriata. KM^ffTrBUPIlTAHT CO, TTftiragr. m. EATING; RIFLE &SUN1P Vtet 88 it 44 Mi. M'tncfceJCer Work* eatitr. it rifflfhr, nrvngtr,lighter, tkmmunntftm, ton *T nnr iu YOV aaa IT. BALLARD 6AUHT, NMTIM AMI TAMtT « Send for 1HMtrttc4 Catilft. _ MARLIN riSE ARMS Ct..BumD.KVRAWS.CT HAY HID STRAW NESS. 1 will fltlp it out on trial. It four nia and <m* team cannot press 15 tons of hay in oae day <10- hours). NO SALES. For conditions, addreas J. A. SPENCER, ftHM, III. ELECTRICITY lilt HTTU. wtaroiutintc c£l 11̂ _ THIS WBMT J iai WaaklaatM SUMt, R A D W A Y ' J t 1 H"g=»TT ,T -gal* ; i In General Debility, Emaciation, Consumption, and wasting in children, Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with llypo- phosphites is a most valuable food aud medi­ cine. It creates an appetite for food, utrength- ena tlie nervous sy«t«m, and builds up the body. Please read: "I tried Hcott's Emuleion on a young man whom physicians at times gave up hope. Sine i he began uttiug the Emulsion his cough has ceased, gained fleab. and i>ti-ength, and from all appearances his life will lie prolonged many years."--JOHN SULLIVAN, Hoapital Steward, Morganaa, Pa A DOGMA that cannot be disputed--0a» nine bark frequently gives a man ohilla.-- Motel Mail. IMoxie has created the greatest excite­ ment as a beverage, in two years, ever wit­ nessed. from the fa<*t that it brings nervous, exhausted, overworked women to good pow­ ers of endurance "hi a few days; cures the appetite for liquors and tobacco at once, and has recovered a large number of cases of old, helpless paralysis as a food only. Thi Great Lhrar imI StNUdi ftmfr of Appetite, keajgche, OovUvenew. todtowti.*.. Biliousness, Fever. laflaauaattOB of flas Bowels.. PUeH, and ail deraoremeaita ot die intenuU vteer^ sysfessssssf"™" ~ Pri<*, cents per bo: PMOTirrpMiEi m^^TaST&r fwllWh DYSPEPSIA. . KADVAPaniUniam IHM. »int. They restore stra«th to the stoaidk table it to -- of Drape] OR. compl and en. ton is liability ot medicine we say extracts le it to perform its functions. Thi syrap- Dyspepsla disappear, aadwlt* them tfa* >t the system to contract diaease. Take tk» eeivingt Dr.A.C.Middlefarook.Doraville.aa.: 1 osatheaa in my practice and family In preference to afl other-PillR.' Mrs. Caroline Monteith, Deer Oeek, lad.: 1 ba> lU ve my life has been eared by your medictee. Ham • lon^been suffering with Dyspepsia and Liver Ooo*-- PHUAl Oarr.P.M„Escambia. Ala.: "BeatPillsb*bsa> ever used. XJured him whan dOb Siii IT Ohaver. ^Uumme^ Boonville, Mo. ° Alice E. oi* say that Radw FRAZER^f, A SPRING garment--tha New Haven Netrs. wire bustle.-- Weak and Weary Described the condition of many people debilitated by the warm weather, by disease, or overwork. Hood's Sarsaparilla is just the medicine needal to overcome that tired fwlins. to purify and quicken the alumrish blood, and restore the lost appetite. If you need a good medicine, be sure to try Hood's tsamaparitla. "My appetite was poor, I could not sleep, hal head­ ache a (treat deal, pain* in my hack, my bowels did •ot move regularly. Hood's Sarsaparilla in a short time did mc so much good that 1 feci like a new man. My pains and aches are relieved, my appetite improved." UIOKGK"F. JACKSON, Koxbury Station, Conn. 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