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m T %k;i> GEN. PftjEETtf (She Vandr t«rew Both tha Mm And th« Gray. Mrs. Geo. George Pickett, who now holds a clerkship in the United States pension office in Washington, has a his­ tory which ia particularly interesting. To her belongs the great honor of bring­ ing about a fraternal union of the blue and the gray who survived the civil war. She is a truly beautiful woman. She is above medium height. Her figure ia all soft lines and curves. Her eyes and her hair are black, the first large, melting or flashing, as is lier mood. Her hands and feet are small, and her taste in dress is good. She is still in her early forties and as charming as when she became a bride at 15, with that additional grace of manner which comes onlv with maturity and experi­ ence. Mrs. Pickett has, ever since she was married to the brave Confederate Gen­ eral, been an ardent lover- of the blue and the gray. Recently she told the following to a reporter: * "I was only 15 when I was married; my home was in possession of the Yan­ kees. My lover was on the other side --Gen. Pickett. Our wedding day was at hand and he could not come for me, but he managed to communicate with me. All strategems ye fair in love and war. My family got permission to go through the lines, and Gen. Pickett with a guard came as far on the way to meet me a* he dared. We met half way, and were married at Petersburg by Rev. Dr. Piatt. We at once went into the field, and I must say I, was happier in the midst of 'war's alarms' than I was while at home with absence and anxiety for companions. "I was as arrSnt a little rebel as the South ever provided. 1 did not believe a Yankee could be as refined and in­ telligent a gentleman as those on our side; nor did I think them as well edu­ cated or as brave. I would scarcely look at one, much less shake hands. All this amused my husband, for he was educated at West Point, was a cosmo­ politan, and looked upon my opinions as the ill-formed ideas of a mere girl. A change in r;iy sentiments came about after the war in this wise. We had be­ come self-imposed exiles, because we supposed all active participants, such as officers, would be punished for treason. We fled to Canada under my husband's mother's family name of Edwards, and we were as poor and obscure as church mice. After various vicissitudes and remaining there a year and a half, Gen. Grant heard of our case, and he tele- : graphed to Gen. Pickett that he could return to the State**, as the 'terms of C the surrender would be carried out.' ; We returned to New York, and a recep­ tion was given to my husband by old • comrades in the city, and so many Union officers came to see us, and .treated us so kindly, were so well educated, so refined, I was heartily ashamed of my former estimate of a Yankee, especially after Gen. Grant . offered to make my husband marshal of "Virginia. "I have seen a great variety of life-- had as many ups and downs us the ~ , heroine of a romance; but I was most touched by my reception at Gettys­ burg, July 4, 1887, when the soldiers' . monument was dedicated, and the blue and the gray veterans met there. My husband's old comrades, and the cour­ tesies shown me by the Pennsylvania ' troops obliterated all bitterness of feel- ing, and I now feel that for me there is "X no North nor South, but my country •: and my countrymen, as all are equally btav« ttd generous." '* Caused bjr a Pag Do*;- There lias been a coolness in the * family of a certain well-known young man living at the West End for some >; time. Very few people know the cause, but it is whispered about that a pug dog is responsible for it. This is the way it happened. Both the young man and his wife have affec­ tionate dispositions, and the young man is excessively sensitive. They were married over a year ago, but married life has been one continual honey-moon to them until the advent of the above mentioned pug dog. The animal was purchased by the young man as a birthday present for his wife who was very happy at receiving such a gift, as she is passionately fond of dogs. The dog has been dead some time now, and the young husband, who made way with it, is looked Opon by his wife as a red-handed murderer. In telling his trouble i to a bachelor chum the young benedict said: "You see, old fellow, it happened in this way. One morning after the dog had been in the house about two weeks, I got up as usual to go to work in the morning and as I was going out of the door, I kissed my wife and said *Good-by, dear,'and she, as has been her custom, threw her arms about my neck and said 'Good-by, my own pet,' kind of soft, perhaps you will say, but that was our way and we liked it. Well, I got down the street a little way when it commenced to sprinkle,and I turned back to get mv umbrella, and coming in upon my wife suddenly I caught her kissing that blamed dog and calling it 'her own pet.' The idea of her, the woman whom I loved and es­ teemed abovB everything else in this world, talking to that homely-looking brute in the same endearing tones that she had used in talking to me, drove me nearly wild, and I grabbed up the brute and taking him down to the dock J patched him overboard; And now my < 'wife won't speak to me at all, unless it is to call me a mean, contemptible brute. I think it's too bad when a fel­ low is supplanted in his wife's affections by one of these homely-looking curs, lAna't ye«?"--Boston Blade. A Ship or Ice. CttTJt. Baker, of the whaling bark, Reindeer, just arrived at San Francisco, states that the whaling bark Young Phoenix, which was lost in the Arctic over a year ago, was see again lost May. The. Young Phoenix left San Francisco in December, 1887. She crnised in Southern waters for several months, and in the early spring of the following war sailed for the Arctic. Capt. M. \. B. Millard was in charge of her, and he, in company with the Fleetwing, Mary and Susan and the Jane Grav was caught in the ice nine miles r.orth of Point Barrow on August 5, 1888. He and hi3 crew stayed with the vessel for three days, when, finding that they could do nothing to save the vessel, y.\ they abandoned her and made their way out of the ice to Point Barrow. The f ' .. Jane Gray was afterward picked up by the Bear and brought to this eitv, while lift;? the other vessels were reported lost. tA man named Leavitt, has charge of the Pacific Steam Whaling Company's ;; * Station at Cape Smith.' which is nine miles to the southward of Point Barrow. He spent la-t winter ia the ice. One morning last Mny -w ps thought he saw a specter; but there was the Young Phoenix, jest as she had been left when abandoned. Her deck was above the ice; from her houses and rigging depended icicles; two sails flapped idly in the breeze, while the rest were furled and frozen to the yards. She looked like a ship of ice. Leavitt went out to the vessel and found several articles, which he took ashore. The Young Phoenix remained in sight lot several days and then drifted away and has not since been seen.--Portland Oregmi ian. ~; Eye-Stairs and Headache. Pain is often caused by an irritated nerve far distant from tlie seat of tk« pain, especially in the case of person* who have inherited a very susceptible nervous organization. The Medical Record, June 22, 1889, has an article on eye-strain as a cause oi headache and neuralgia, by the eminent expert, Dr. Ambrose L. lianney, in which the writer gives a record of fifty consecutive ca°es of headache and neuralgia which he trealed exclusively by correcting a visual defect. The suc­ cess of this treatment was signal, and in many cases marvellous. '"•Doctor Ranney's special attention was drawn to the subject by his own experi­ ence. Ten year« ago he was almost in despair from continual headache. Two able physicians had treated his case without result. As his sight was ap­ parently porfect and unusually acute, no defect of vision was thought of. At length, however, he requested that atropine be instilled into his. eves. This revealed a defect, which was at once relieved by appropriate glasses, With the immediate and permanent ces­ sation of his headache. It seems that this eye-strain may ex­ ist and be the sourctf^of most painful neuralgia, not only in the head, but elsewhere, and the person -be utterly unconscious of defect of vision. Some cases require not only glasses, but the severing of some ocular muscle--ten­ otomy. One of Dr. Ranney's patients was a young lady who for five years had been unable to write, read, sew, or to see her most intimate friends. A constant pain in her head was rendered intolerable by any use of her eyes, or any excitement. She could not walk across the room without difficulty. Tenotomy was per­ formed on three of her ocular muscles, a rapid improvement followed, and 9W BICE'S START* of the IT after several weeks she returned home cured. Another patient had succumbed to headaohe, insomnia and nervous pros­ tration ; he was compelled to abandon business, and took a trip to Europe without benefit. No medical treatment helped him. His brother, a prominent physician in New York, advised him to consult Dr. Rannev, who, treating his eyes, restored the man's health, strength, and mental vigor within six weeks. Two years have elapsed with­ out a return of the symptoms. A distinguished theological professor in the vicinity of Boston, who suffered severely at the base of the brain, went to Europe and consulted eminent spe­ cialists of Germany without any re' ief. After his return home he was at once perfectly cured by the use of glasses adjusted to his eyes. Xr. Lo's Favorite Beverage. One of the far West Indian agents was at the Tremont House the other day. He did not look like an Indian agent. He didn't wear long hair and carry guns in a wampum belt.' On the contrary he was dressed like a tailoi's model. When asked as to the present condition of the gentle savage he un­ bosomed himself as follows: "The In­ dian is to all intents and purj>oses a daisy. To know him thoroughly yon must reside in his vicinity. The height of his ambition is to acquire a 'jag' which shall be the envy of his fellows. We are not allowed to sell him liquor from our bountiful store for the simple reason that we are not allowed to sell 'booze' to the redskin. But he seems to get there just the same, and he gets full on cologne or stomach bitters. My experience has led me to observe the various effects of the different odors. Now, 'lily of the valley' gives an Indian a 'romantic 'tide,' while 'white rose' leaves him in a trance for days. The most lasting odor seems to be the 'for­ get-me-not,' and an Indian who gets loaded on that brand has cause to re­ member the fact for days afterward. Violent redskin drunks are contracted by the various vintages of stomach bit­ ters. These drinks may be thinned by benzine to Buit the taste. Taking it altogether," said the Indian agent, feel safe in saying that I believe the inebriations /erected out our way can discount th^ 'jags' of your later civiliza­ tion in both excitement and durability. --Chicago Herald. Hitting the Biiilseye at Random, Three years ago a promineut citizen of this city, and an owner of a block of buildings on Main Street, lost a crow­ bar, and up to this morning never had any trace of it. He accidentally stepped into a business place, and over­ hearing a conversation about a crowbar, it reminded him of his lost treasure, and for fun he suddenly said to the proprietor: "Uncle , I wish you would send home my crowbar. Isn't three years about long enough?" "Upon my word and honor," said the proprietor, "1 have put out that crow­ bar no less than twenty times to bring home and have forgotten it each time. Here, John, you go up to my hou*e and bring Mr. F.'s crowbar home, and don't let the grass grow under your feet."' No ene has a sufficient vivid imagina tion to picture to himself the surprise of the owner of the bar. He thinks it was the biggest hit he ever made in his life.--Danbury News. S""• see a ship standing fron* shore, he was astonished to a mi'e ice. He Not His Lookout. A horse attached to a wagon loaded with light wood was slipping and sprawliug along State street in the heavy frost of Saturday' morning, when a pjliceruan halted the rig and said to the colored driver: "Your horse hasn't got a shoe on any foot." "V "No, s&h. He's jist like the Lawd dun made him." "But how do you expect he's to get along in this frost ?" "Dat's not my bizness, sah- H de Lawd makes a hoss widout shoes an den brings a • frost and make him slip down, it hain't for me to find fault. Reckon dar's an objeck in it, an' it's good 'am. Hev, Douglass--hole yer head up higher!"-- Detroit Free Press, Fashion makers are the only ones who are not afraid of the signs of ap­ proaching age. They are always try­ ing to get up some new wrinkle. Premium (Crumpton, Md.) writes: "What is the value of a United States copper cent of 1811 ? ' Answer--Coin collectors value the ecin at 3i cents. Smm iBlctntiiig KcmiuUcenOM Slionnmn. An old resident of Reading, Pa. , gives some interesting reminiscences of Dan Rice and the way he got his start, says a New York Sun correspondent. "1 don't believe that it is known to many nowadays that Dan Rice's first public appearance was as a prize lighter, but such was the fact. Fifty-one or two years ago he was a sort of groom or stable boy at race courses about the country, aud was known as 'Dusty Dan.' He was probably then 18 or 19 years old. He was very athletic, and his acrobatic capers were the amusement of all the jockeys and horsemen. I think it was in 1838 that he was in Harrisburg with some horses. A well- known prize fighter of that day was a man named Gerge Kensett. He was in Harrisburg, and Dan McLarren--or Rice, as he afterwards was known--had the temerity to challenge Kensett to fight him. Kensett accepted the challenge, and the fight was arranged. The Legis­ lature was in session, and on the day of the fight it adjourned--some said so that the statesmen could witness the fight which took place on an island in the Susquehanna River, near Harris­ burg. I was but a lad then and did not see the fight, but I have often heard persons who did see it tell about it. It did not last long. Dasty Dan made a game fight, but he was no"match for the science of Kensett, and soon had to throw up the sponge. "Ou6 of the famous showmen of that day was Hugh Linsley, who traveled about the country with a most remark­ able puppet show. Either in 1839 or '40, Liusley was showing in .central Pennsylvania towns, and made his ap­ pearance at Sliillington, then a noted spirting resort near Reading. At the same time there were, races in progress there, and Dusty Dan was among the stable following. He took a fancy to Linsey and the show, and finally agreed to go with the showman as a sort of general utility man or man-of-all-work. I have heard Billy Lyon, now a noted detective and resident of Reading, say that he was present when the bargain was made, and that Dan was to get $4 a month and his board and washing. Dan hadn't been long with Linsey before his utility became so great that he was made a card of the show as a tumbler and clown. The show made quite a stay in and about Reading, and before it left the locality Dan, who had taken the name of Rice, educated a pig to play cards, and that also became a great card of the show. A well-known citizen named Heiden­ reich--who subsequently became Judge of the county, having been defeated only this fall for another nomination-- was a great friend and admirer of Dan Rice's, and when the show left Reading to exhibit in surrounding small towns, Heidenreich had no hesitation in grant­ ing Dan's request for the loan of a horse and wagon for a week or so, as Dan wanted to travel in becoming style. Heidenreich never saw or heard of his horse and wagon for seventeen years. In the meantime Dan Rice had become rich and famous, and the head of his great show. In 1857 he visited Reading with his show. The first thing he did was to buy a £300 horse and $250 wagon of local dealers. He drove the rig himself to Heidenreich's house, and apologizing for keeping the horse and wagon seventeen years before, which he said he was impelled to do by poverty, he made restitution by presenting Heidenreich with the fine turnout he had bought for the occasion. Dan had a memorable reunion with his old-time friends in Reading, and it is doubtful if a bigger time was ever known in the old Dutch city." Abandoued tlie Girl When He Saw the Old Man Coming. Peter Pensonneau is a farmer living on the San Pablo road just beyond West Berkeley. He has an adopted daughter named Mary, aged 17 sum­ mers. Mary fell madly in love with a bar-keeper named John Myers, residing at Golden Gate, a suburb of Oakland. They met often and were determined to marry. Her fall&r, however, did not take "kindly to Myers, and he forbade him to enter the Pensonneau house- bold. Myers paid no heed to the old man's objections, and the lovers ar­ ranged a plan of escape from his irk­ some authority. The young people agreed to elope-- not by any commonplace method, but at night they were to mount horses be­ longing to the old gentleman and ride to Oakland and engage a Justice of the Peace with all convenient rapidity. Pensonneau has a housekeeper named Mrs. Kiel, who has a twelve year-old daughter. It was decided to take two horse3 from the stables,the Kiel girl to ride one, while Mary and Myers were to ride the other. Their plan matured so well that on Sunday even­ ing they were riding toward Oakland. When a short distance from home they heard the clatter of hoofs behind them, and in short time the angry father was upon them. The Kiel girl began to cry aud pulled up her horse. Myers, cast­ ing a look backward and seeing Pen­ sonneau, leaped from his horse and took to the fields, leaving the fair Mary in tears and alone to meet her father's wrath. Pensonneau took the weeping girls home, administering kindly advice on the way as to* the evil results which have been known to follow filial diso­ bedience. When he had them safely housed, he informed the authorities, and at 2 o'clock yesterday morning young Myers was arrested. Yesterday Mr. Pensonneau was clos­ eted with the District Attorney. As the horses were found in the possession of the girls, Myers could not be arrested for grand larceny, and, although Pen­ sonneau talked of having him arrested for abduction, he evidently changed his mind, for Myers was released from custody during the afternoon,-- San Francisco Chronicle. take o! tha operator. He determined to find out who was responsible, and made complaint to the president of the telegraph company. The matter was investigated and a volume of correspon­ dence was the result. It was found that the number of words in the message delivered were counted the same by the two operators. The New York operator said that he asked the Brooklyn man three times whether the first word was mosquito or not, and re* ceived an affirmative reply three times. The matter was settled by the dis­ charge of the offending operator.--* Brooklyn Citizen. "•••« An Underground Fairyland A new grotto has been recently dis­ covered and opened to the public, at not quite twenty minutes distance from the , Prevented. ̂ The vole© of sentiment is sometimes quite as commanding as the voice of con­ science. A mfln cannot feel an act to be right, though, on grounds of reason, he knows it cannot be wrong. During the first clay of the battle of Gettysburg the men of the Ninth Massa­ chusetts Regiment were somewhat short of provisions, as the wagons were at some distance in the rear. "After we had lain down at night," says Capt. Macnnmara, "one of our fellows, more hungry and wide-awake than the lest, rose, and approached a dead sol­ dier, by whose side lay a well-filled hav­ ersack. " Kneeling down by the body, he opened the haversack and taw, revealed by the clear light of the moon, a goodly feast of Hour rolls,'temptingly brown and nice, which the poor fallen soldier had pur- _ chased on the march, but had not had famous cavern of Stalactites, at Adels"- \ to eat before en^g^g ^ his last berg, in Carniola. The province of! "One by one, our boy transferred them Austria is very rich m grottoes and ' • • - caves, but the one just discovered seems A Mosquito's Illness. An amusing mistake of a telegraph operator, which might have been at­ tended with unpleasant results, was brought to my notice recently. The son of a wdll-known gentleman living on the Heights has been seriously ill, and his father was, of course, anxious about his condition. W hen he left the house in the morning, he left instruc­ tions that should the condition of Amos, the son, become worse during the day, a telegraphic dispatch should be sent him Amos grew worse, aud the fol­ lowing dispatch was sent: Amos is quite ill. Come home at once.^ The Brooklyn operator sent the dis- ?fetch, which, when it reached New ork, read like this: A mosquito ill. Come home at once» The father received the message, and as lie did not understand it, he did not go home. At night the father made inquiries at home about the meaning oi Hie message, when he learned the mis* to be superior to all the others, and is likely to be more renowned than the Adelsberg Caves, the largest and most magnificent hitherto known in Europe. The new grotto to, in the first place, , better connected than the old one. Cave follows cave, without passages or corridors in which the visitors can see nothing: and when it is added that a walk through the new grotto occupies rather more than two hours, it can be imagined how rich it is in variety and sights. _ It is snow-white in, color, re­ lieved only by portions of grayish hue, whereas at Adelsberg, the prevalent color is yellowish. The grotto opens with a deep ravine and a number of comparatively shallow caves, in which the stalactites take the form of curtains, or widely spiead wings, and the drops and stalagmites have the appearance of huge cactus plants, with beautifnl white, glittering j eadauts. The next caves show forms of various animals, the find­ ing out of which is an agreeable occu­ pation for the imagination of the vis­ itors, of whom certaiuly not two will agree as to what they have seen. Going further, the visitor walks through a succession of lofty domes, until the "ball-room" is reached, three time j as large as the corresi>onding "dancing- room" at Adelsberg. In all these caves the ornaments formed by the stalactites are much lighter, more transparent and therefore more fit for color-contrasts than those of Adelsberg. The roof, for instance, of the "ball-room" seems to be adorned with hundreds of flags and streamers, each flag having its staff formed of pendant tubes, around which the standards or banners are wound. The walls are formed of myriads of diamonds, and if the "ball-room" is lighted, a variety of oolors, from ala­ baster white to deep red, seem to shine from the flags, or streamers, or curtains -- a fair sight, which excites the admiration even of those • who have already seen much of that kind of thing. The most remarkable cave is the last one. Its roof is vaulted; itsjfurthest wall is formed by a snow-white rock of limestone, which divides the grotto from the mountain river Poik, which rushes behind it, and the two side-walls are covered with in­ dentations, mostly formed of single drops. The visitor may imagine him­ self to be in a toy-shop, so various are the litti-i figures which protrude from the walls, but that his attention is drawn to a number of enormous trees in the center of the %ave, some rising to a height of forty or fifty feet, each with numerous branches strewn with drops instead of leaves, in wonderful regu­ larity of form.--London Standard. - fci) • i" • i • i»» i 'Or':; Hurried Lire in Uwaff "Observer"--a lady--out in Boone, Iowa, sends me . the subjoined pretty sketch. Pretty because of its simplic­ ity: Those who oonsider marriage a failure ought to hare witnessed a little scene that occurred at one ot our hotels this morning. A farmer's wife who had been to Nebraska on a visit arrived on the night train and made her appearance at breakfast. She was no longer young, and on her plain face care and hard work had left their mark. Her dress, too, was of a remote fashion, having nob even the charm of simplicity, for she had donned*, several articles of anti­ quated finery. She had with her boxes aud bundles innumerable, a big market basket filled with plants, and a huge wire cage, partially covered with white cloth, containing two jack rabbits. Soon a farm wagon with her husband and lit­ tle daughter drove up, the farmer, a big, rough man, in his working clothes, but the smile which radiated his face on beholding his wife made him pos.tively handsome. The woman hugged and kissed the child, and then, with in­ creased fervor, she hugged and kissed the man. and laid her head on his shoulder and cried a little, pulling her old hat down to conceal the fact. I thought, wait until he sees those rab­ bits, 4here will be a change. Not so, however. What misgivings he had re­ garding his young fruit trees and early vegetables must have been completely overwhelmed by more joyful emotions, for, after carefully placing their new acquisition in the wagon box, along with butter jars and egg baskets, the trio drove off with the smiles of greeting still lighting their kindly faces. Verily "wealth and contentment belong to no estate," even if I don't quote correctly. --Chicago Tribune. Laws Which Burden the Farmer. If an eight-hour law is enacted, its maleficence, not its advantage, falls on him. The milking hour and the har­ vest will not be postponed in obedience to any legislature. So far as it makes the day's labor light, so certainly it ex­ tends his own labor from twelve hours to fourteen. Notice, too, how every tax system now uppermost puts the heavy end of its incidence on the farmer. In the State, county, and township allot­ ment of fiscal burdens, the tax is direct. It falls upon what can be seen and dis­ covered with greater weight. But it never fails to discover the farmer. His broad acres cannot be hidden or sworn away, while his neighbor, rich in per­ sonal holdings, can cunningly suspend his own tax by evasions--and sometimes by an^irtful change of confusion of resi­ dence--so as to add his tax, too, to the tax of the beridden farmer. But worse than all this is his relation to the national tax system, which exploits away his hard-earned profits, small in percentage, almost invisibly, and then adds abuse to injury by successfully persuading him that it exists for his supreme advantage. He pays for a paper, as likely as not, which tells him and has been telling him for a generation or more, that the beneficent system which prevents him from buying 4,500 articles as cheaply as he might, and compels him to sell his own products, minute in number, at the lowest price which ingenious legal arti­ fice can dictate, is a measure for his particular Science Monthly. +*. * .<* » vwf# -- „ ^ 4'« »'•;*> i to his own haversack, and rose to move sway. He moved about two paces, and suddenly stopped. "Pausing a moment in evident medita­ tion, he turned ngnii* to where the dead soldier wns lyiDg, his pale face revealed by the moonlight. The hungry fellow kneeled gently by his side, and* one by one took the rolls from his haversack and put them back whence ho had taken them. Then he carefully drew a blanket over the dead man's face, and went Blowly back to his old position. "He needed tbe food; it wouldhelp him to serve his country in the next day's fight; bat he could not rob the dead. * Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup. There is certainly something remarkable In this preparation, as it is meeting with a success never sittaiuo I by any other medi­ cine. It never tails if used as directed. ' For over twenty years I have been a great auffer«r from the efloats of a diseased stomach, and for three years past have been unable to do business. Two years ago my case was pronounced incurable. f visited difT<sreiit waiter cures and climates, all to no purpose. Last Juno I besran tak­ ing Hibbttrd's liheumatic Syrup (prepared by Uheuniiitic Syrup Co., Jackson, Micli.). and at once be^ran to fe*?L better. I have used thirteen bottles and am a well man. Edwakd Uaker, Vaster Mechanic and Blacksmith, 902 Jackson street, Jackson, Mich. Two or More. A Portland (Ore.) girl had two fovers, and she liked them both so well that she didn't know which one she really wanted. The lovers finally agreed to fight it out according to the prize-ring rules. The challenge came from the smaller of the two, and the big one accepted it gleefully. ?hen they repaired to a quiet spot with their seconds and a referee, and the smaller man licked the big fellow to a standstill in nine rounds. The victor was accepted by the girl, and all is supposed to be lovely. But there is trouble ahead for the successful claimant. A girl who doesn't know which one of two lovers she loves doesn't really love either, and it may be set down as a trnth that the man who gets her is the loser. In the per- verseness of feminine nature she is very apt to discover after marriage that there is still another, or a half-dozen others, for whom her heart yearns. Then the husband will wish that in the contest for her hand he had bsen knocked oat.--Chi­ cago Mail. ^ j> Entitled to the Best. 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While for thou­ sands of m les nround Shanghai the coun­ try is flooded, yet tho province of Fo Kien is suffering from drought, no rain haviug fallen since the early part of August in that district. The tielus are literally baked, and many people have died for wsnt of water. . _ A Pimle. "Why grown men and -women with matured re­ flective powers should neglect their KioaH ail ments is really • puzzle. Hosts of otherwise sensible people thus bewilder conjecture. It 1b on« ot the things which, as the late l&mcaQpd Lord Dundreary exclaimed, "no fellah can find out.* Diseases grow (aster than weede, aud, moreover, beget one another. Incipient indi­ gestion, a touch of biliousness, slight irregu larlty in the habit of body--what complex and serious bodily disturbance, not local, but gen­ eral, do they beget, it disregarded. BaSle and drive off the foe at the first onset with Hostet- ter's Stomach Bitters, sovereign among pre- ventives. A constitution invigorated, a circula tion e»riclied, a brain and stomach tranquilized by this national medicine, Incomes veil tiigh invulnerable. Tlie Bit lers counteract malaria, rheumatism, and kidney complaint. Mrs. Kot So Tough as That. Toungwife--Well, Harry, We sruar»nt*>e a stood J, position to every fp American School oi Telegraphy. Madison. " MENTION" THIS FAPKR .»• ».m«. to uum #%n|| | n|| Habit. The only IYI ;AR,! .EASY I,R- J-1*. emedy Co., Omaha, N»'b. URVnON Tins PAPER «n» mtom to MAGIC REMEDY only hy f *»>ok Ren iiKMiON THIS FAPE PATENTS M F.N TION THIS PAPER warn* Will care Blood Poison wImsm nieronrv fa.Is. Wfttk \* a*bin CAT0H'SKg™'Fi5S»n£2 P bfciUty Mid Lm( »tt*h»y A first dinner party will be a great Bueeoss, I think. The dinner, I am sure, will be perfect. Harry--I hope so. "What's the R«»me? "Boast dncks with currant jelly."' 'Gracious, Eleanor, the one thing I can't carve. / They'll be tough, too, I'll bet." ., . "Oh, no, they vron't. . I took care not to get canvaea-baeks. "--Utica Observer. The People are not alow to understand that, tn ord«rto warrant their manufajturera in Guarantee­ ing thorn to benoflt or euro, medicines must possess more than ordinary merit and cura­ tive properties. Dr. Tierce's Golden Medi­ cal Discovery is the only blood medicine sold, through druggists, under a positive guarantee that it will beneilt or cure or money paid tor it will bo returned. In all blood, skin and Bcalp diseases, and tor uli scrofulous affections, it is a specific. $500 Reward offered by tho proprietors ot Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy for an incur­ able case. In the township of Pembroke, Genesee County, N. Y., the farmers are wildly ex- eited over a panther that is alleged to be at lnree in the neighborhood. About a week ngo it was seen for the first time by some children returning to school. It sprang across the road, easily taking twelve-foot leaps, and leaving footprints in the mud as large as sancers. A dog which followed ;t into an adjacent thicket soon returned howling with its body scored with scratches inflicted by the animal's claws. Huuter* pursued it into a swamp, bat had not found it at lost re­ port*. • HIbbartPs Khcnmatic and Llrer Pills. These Tills aro scientifically compounded, uniform in action. No griping pain so com- monlv following the use ot pill*. They aro. adapted to both adults and children with£ perfect safety. We guarantee thoy hav«* no equal in the cure of Sick Headache, Con­ stipation, Dysrpapaia. Biliousness; and, as ,an appetizer, tney ex tion. DETECTIVES shrewrt raca ;<t ut unJfr innrvettM* la Wttrk. K». rt.'MsH-.K r«vi™ the IawrsatkHnl PiMiMwy fltMDtn'iWwnini Aptlnitt F-twi. Rrnut't PoeUtQlBwi S-it«d Crimson:*. Tho..1 interest^'! !*><!<>or 6a«i*- Inc tn h* iti-iKtirvo. namp ft* parties!*™, rn iilwi mill tm eil. «aAKNAJt DETCCf 1 YE BCRKAC GO. InkMMlli NORTHERN 11UW PRISE RAIL 19V PRICE RAILROAD U«9S» FREE Government LANDS. MILLIONS o! Aore< in Minne>n;a, KwthBk- kota.Monlanii.hfHho.AVa'liiii^loti and Of iroa. cmil ri)J}Pu!>iic*UotiR witu mapKdwctibinvni pLIlU I ImttST Ajmculturtd. WraziPK nod JimMr E*nda now op* > to Settlors. SEST FliBK. CMS. B. UNBORN. F?OF THKATED FKKE. Positive^ Cured with Vegetable II»ve euivd rn»nv thousand Cure ptliaal* i>rouounceil hoiielet-s bv tlie best iili.reiclana. Fn>» rtret dose Rvmi'toms rapidly di£xw>ear, and tn itavKat leant two-thirds o£ all symptom* trenmevedL Send for free Imok of testimonials of Htiraealoas cures. Ten <l«vs treattuent furnished fr*« hy KUkii. If rou order trial, send 10 cent* ill stamps to IMT p<wt«*e. DU. U. H. GREEN & SONS, Atlanta. <fiT The Oidtst Medicine in the W or hi is i DR. ISAAC THOMPSOI Th£«r ecription, century. There are few o to • aro kubjeot more distressing tlian t* re eyefc none, perhops, for wliteh irore remedse* ha*« tried without Bueeess. For all external tofhuwewttnB of the eves it is an Infallible remedy. If the <ir*o tion* nre followed it will never fsll. Wepartlfeulartor Invite thf attention of physicians to Its merit*. s*le hv nil druirgl-sts. JOHN 1,. THOMPSON, ' ft CO.", Taor, N. Y. Established 179T. Biliousness; :ie'y excel any other pro par a- Born with a Silver Spoon in His Month. Such is tho manner of explaining the luck which attaches to the son of a rioh father, who looks with pity if not con­ tempt npon a boy born with an iron or even a silver-plated spoon between his gums. Bat it is one of the compensa- tions of birth in America that the boy who comes into the worl 1 with no ac­ quaintance with spoons of any kind, may find himself in possession of spoons of gold before he has reached his prime. In a great majority of cases the rioh man of to-day began life a poor boy. Bat enterprise and industry, together with the desire to do better by his son than his father had done t'V him, won the day. How about the beneficiary and in heritor of his wealth, however? Can he be expected to grub like hie father--to live frugally and save money? Kot at all. It isn't in the nature of things The conditions nre different and the re­ sult must be. His youth is pampered and his young manhood given over to in­ dulgence. Many a rich man's son who has turned out badly might have made a man of himself had hu parents been poor, no matter whether they were hon­ est or not.--TCXOM Si flings. $100 Reward--$100* 11m readers of this paper will bo pleased to learn that there i3 at least one dreaded disease that science ha* teen able to euro in all its stages, and that ia Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure 1h tfte only positive cure now known to tho medical fraternity. Catarrh beina constitu­ tional disenae, requires a constitutional treat­ ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken iii;eraaUy, acting din ctly upon the b:ood and mucus sur- face* of the BTs-teui, therely destiovin? the foundation of thelliseaee, and siving lb * patient erenjth by building up tbe constitution tnd as­ sisting nature in doii g its The proprie­ tors have bo much fni h in He curative powers that they offer One Hundred I>.liars for any case that it fails to cure, fcend for list of testi­ monial*. Address F. J. CHENET 4 CO, Toledo, O. 49"Sold by Druc<:ats. ?:•«. Not for the Old Man. "-Any arsenic?" softly asked the little woman as the droggist came forward with his usuil letail smile. •Yts'm." "I'd like a quarter's worth, please. "Yes'm. How are jou going to ad­ minister it?" "Whv --why, on cheese or bread, I sup­ pose. Isn't that the general way?" "Sqjne give it in coffee." "Why, rats don't drink coffee, do they? "Oh! it's for rats, eh? Then cheese is the proper thing?t" A Great Surprise le in store for all who use Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs, the great guaran­ teed remedy. Would you believe that it Is sold on its merits and that any drucrpist ia authorized by the proprietor of this wonder­ ful remedy to give you a sample bottle free? It never fails to cure acute or chronic coughs. All druggists sell Kemp's Balnnm. Large Bottles 50c and $1. i Answered Correctly* A teacher in one of the public school* ! of Detroit was giving a lesson on patriot­ ism. Tbe children seemed to know very little about Washington except the hatchet story and the fact that he was a great man, which they had read in the second reader. At last the teacher said: "You stay home from school on Wash­ ington's birthday, but you never do so on my birthday. VhvnotV" And with snrprisiDg emphasis came the answer: " 'Cause he never told a lie."- Detroit Free Press. I Thxe* is nothing (unless it be the sewing machine) that has lightened woman's labor as much as Dobbins* Electric Soap, constant ly sol 1 since 1WM. Ail grocers have it. Have you made its acquaintance? Try it. i ̂ j ! By the resurvey of the boundary linfc between Nevada and California the lattiir gains a strip over two hundred miles long and three-quarters of a mile wide. The hangman may not be much of * theoretical musician, bnt h) is great on v | execution.--Washingtom Caj **' Ot t at sea a ship occasionally heaven in eight, but a seasick passenger prefers to heave out of sight. Use Bbown% Beonchial Troches for Coughs. Colds, tad all Throat Troubles. "Pre-eminently the best."--Hev. Henry Ward Beecher. The swallow toil is occasionally seen in the pigeon-cote.-- Yonkers' Gazette. Oregon, the Paradise of FsrmsA> . Mild, eqnable climate, certain and abundWtf erops. Best fruit, grain, Rrass, and stock corns' try in tee world. Full information frw. Address tbe Oregon Immigration Bowxl,Fortlimd,Oregon. Entire freedom from injurious drugs make "Tansill'a Punch" 5c. Cigars most popular. The best cough medicine is Plso's Cum for Consumption. Hold everywhere. 25c. A 8 T H , Fophaa'a Astfcnaf Relief tn T** XUK PlTTF-l D. SWOTU. N. 0.1 town. "1 Asthma fur $oywtst|wseeei» relief until 1 tried T«er*pw*. ftc.vriiirl' relieTeaBMlBNS*^- dintely." Sol.l by *11 Bm*- friata. t' bet.br •islfcssO mid. Till AI FAf KAGK fUB». Addrwsc, T. I'OPHAJI. POTHERS Helpless 40 Days The Krest apony «ansed by rheumatism Is inde­ scribable, and the graUtude of those who take Hood's Barsaparilla and are cured is often beyond expres­ sion. The following is frotu a well-known Wisconsin farmer, and 1b indorsed by the editors of the NtiHs- Tllle (Win.)Times as entirely true: "For twenty-Are years I have suffered with sciatic rheumatism. Last November I was taken worse than ever, and was nnable t<> get out of the house. I was almost helpless for forty days, suffering great agony all the time. In December I commenced taking Hood's Sareaparilla. After the second bottle I was able to be oat and around and attend to busi­ ness. I took five bottles, and am now so free from rheumatism that only occasionally I feel it slightly on a sudden cbcugeof weather, I have great con­ fidence in Hood'ii Sarsaparilla." Charles Hannah, Christie, Clarke Co., TVIb. N. 13. If you make np your mind to try Hood's Sar- Mparilla. do not be induced to take any other. Hood's Sarsaparilla fold by all druggist*. $1; Rix for 93. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD it CO, Apothecaries, Lowell, Maw. IOO Doses One Dollar AUE CTIinV Bookkeepine,Business Forms, URIC w 1 UUI iPenni.innliip.Aritlimeti'-.Shorb' hand, f ie., thoroughly tnupht !>y mm'/. Circulars free. Uukinkns Coi.i.eok. Buffalo, N.Y,. KIN THIS PAI'KK »m< v.n u TO H moDEK's p^s'nitEagEISS Uas*. MENTION THIS t'Al i.u hj mhhtioo. MONTH AMI HOtRI) PAID. li'L'li-st c -niuiiM-ion aud JO HAYS* $65^ J.*. ZKHil.KK KlilT to A6£RTS on our KEtV . \IU CO., Qu.iu-V u:«lg„ Chicago Hi. PRICE-LISTS OF RUG MACHINES, Patterns and Yarns, and Colored Pattern Book free. AgetU* Wanted. E. KOsi & CO.. Toffedo, Ohio. *LL DRILLS Tor all purposes. •|S«»d 3 Oeta. for mailing /catalogues wUn particular® ST. AND CARROLL AVt/ MENTION THIS PA l*KR mil* wftmn* to advbstiuma. WHY YOU SHOULD U8E SCOTT'S E M U L S I O N o»COD Ilf£E Oil*™ HYPO PHOSPHITES. Xt is Palatable as Milk. It is three times as efficacious as plain Cod Liver Oil. It is far superior to all other so- called Emulsions'. It is a perfect Emulsion, does not separate or change. It is wonderful as a flesh producer. It is the b:ct remedy fcr Consump­ tion, Scrofula, Bronchitis, Wast­ ing Sissascs, Chroni: Ccugh. Colds. Sold by all DruffffM*- %w'"MiiTHBar\pS ' mtuafMX ' BRADFIELD REGULATOR saittsrjui Tim IB TBI WESSON i;.'v.-;v< rs are trcssM and 44-lfti. KTn ;i!nm«*rlttea ami nuine article SELF C l>rlU drop* (tUHttaut; a Mint*. 6ATALQ8UE FREE. LOOMIS & HYM&M, TIFFIN. OHIO. Fyott wish a tiOOO REVOLVER purchase one of tb<» cele­ brated SMITH & VKSsi Wf arm a. The finest mall anna ever maniifactuivd and the first choice of all experts. Manufactured in calibres 3% 3 gleor double action. Safety I_ Target models. Constructed cutirvly of Hy vrroutf lit ateel, carefully ipxiMK* manshipand stock, t hey are unrivaled . durability nndaccuracy. l>onotbe cheap mallsaWe cart-lrss ••'•ti are often, sold for the genuine artics onlv unreliaMo, fbut aan| angerotta. all ataia relswiihfiriu s name, address and dates and arc eiinrnuieci perfect teereiyi aistuium having the genuine article, ai dealer cannot supply you an order below will receive prompt and oai Descriptive catalerne aud prices fur _ plication. SMITH & WE8S01 •Wentton this paper. »»flsii«W. fteiMter below Fnofef and a tierce »u>.m u. ..ecc whicii suikm I face like a thousand needle*. Wind forty miles tour. You say a man couldn't Mar.i such « posure? No, he couldn't, without just the prog Clothing. And there's ocly one ouifit that keep a man both warm and dry at such a that is the " Fish I.rand Shcker." guaranteed rtorm jironf, waterproof, proof. Inside one of them, you are as the weather as if in'luors. They are war ai. Hein» re-en forced tliroughuut, yip; and the buttons are wtre-iastened. load ram who h«» once tried cue would be it for ten limes i(s ecst. Beware of wo, ckltSS itations, every farmer, stamped with " Fish Bn«4* Trade Mark. 1'on'; accept anv inferior cMI*lslk you can have the " Fi*h Hranu Slicker " dsliiSndl without extra ccst Particulars aad illustrated alogtie free. A. J. TOWEft, - Boston. • CHICHESTER'S CNGUWt PENNYROYAL PSU& Ked CruM Hll»l Theomt *IU feTttla •ore. tu»k iWogglftt rM«4 iiruuth ;« rt4 • iibtluei.Mioa. TkkeMtlkfVi • : r p»rti<«Ur« *nd inrfiw,'* » Utter, by niUL P ISO'S c Best Cough Medicine. Cures where all else f ite. Children take tf. '.1 ."Viaw... :}z">.<aC4 • 4i ~ " •>< tVV"-* *• ?|:g- •7-L 1 '"VV'\VJ>r : JX-J ritV V1" J * l'.i w ^.s.. ,1..,..*, s : ~ J J k 1 ^ . - 4 # . . . ' v I prescribe a»d NV) *»• Llorse Big ti to Ik* upocitie fur the cvrtaUIWM* ( t'.iis disease H.lNtiNAHAW Aiust- tdasa. We bars said r.i»nt yea s;H"en tUo faction _____. 0. ii. Z>YCT|** Si.QO. SoW by days C.N. U. WHKN WRITING TO • ii leave say ) <M sa* IM ail ia thin j»at'cr. Recommended by Physic ree&bte to* without objection. B.r dr«s f̂c% -mm C O N S U M P T I O N