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A BACKWOODS SUNDAY* AS HfcMeritMd by OtU* F. BmA la tb* ^ ,-t • • AriUmaaw tnTctor, • xS ' • A 8tin day m the backwoods of Ten- f, •• * '••:MMoo, viewed by one whose feet rarely from the worn paths of active life, I * nifty hold nothing attractive, but to the men and women--the youth and |maiden of the soil--it is a poem that 1#'oomes once a week to encourage young l°ve with its soft sentiment and soothe £•" . / old labor with its words of promise. ^ ' ' 1° the country where the streams are •4 / BO pure that, tbey look like strips of **• sunshine, where the trees are so aucient fe" one a^moa' stands in awe of them, ffir 4 "where the moss, so old that it is gray, r -A and hanging from the rocks in the ravine, looks like venerable beards $k>v Kr°wing on faces that have been hard- •t ®ned by years of tronbje--in such a jfesS oonntry, even the most slouching clown, || walking as though stepping over clods pf- - when plowing where the ground breaks ^ , up hard, has in his untutored heart a pe,V':.\"*love of poetry. He may not be able to read--may never have heard the name p' JfV'«f a son of genius, but in the evening, &'-*r when lie stands on a purple "knob," jl® ' C watching the soul of day sink out of trV* * sight in a far-away valley, he is a poet. 5' " When the shadow of Saturday night falls upon a backwoods community in fcV Tennessee, a quiet jov seems to lurk in V , the atmosphere. The whippoorwill has i;;~ «ung unheeded every night during the week, but to-night his song brings a f-' . promise of rest. The tired boy sits in , the door, and, taking off his shoes, |< , , strikes them against the log doorstep to knock the dirt out, and the cat that has followed the women when they went to milk the cows, comes and r'tbs , against him. The humming-bird, ' looking for a late supper, buzzes among -.the honeysuckle blossoms, and the fc" ' ' - tree-toad cries in the locust tree. The boy goes to bed, thrilled with an expecta­ nt- *i°n- rouses; "I •will %ee somebody to-morrow." '* On the morrow the woods are full of >~> y; music. The great aoul of day rises ; <' with a burst of glory, and the streams, bounding over the rocks or dreaming |.i' : among the ferns, laugh more, merrily ^ . and seem to be brighter than they were fv' * yesterday. Horses neigh near an old -1' church and a swelling hymn is borne away on the blossom-scented air. The " ,, plow-boy, sitting near the spring, heeds , 9 ' not the sacred music, but gazes intently ' down the shady road. He sees some %• one coming--sees the flutter of a gaudy j ribbon and is thrilled. A young woman 'comes up the road, coyly tapping an > old mare with a dogwood switch, and eager lest some one else may perform the endearing office, he hastens to help r ' the young woman to alight. He tries , to appear unconcerned as he takes hold r of the bridle rein, but he stumbles awkwardly as he leads the animal '• • towad the horse-block. When he has helped her down and has tied the norse *if .V. ^ *3 hi3 blessed privilege to walk with / \> the girl as far as the church door. \j. "What's Jim a-doin'?" he asked aa v they walk along, under the embarras- sing gaze of a score of men. t* "Plowed yistidy; ain't doin' nothin' i~V; •*v to-day. "Be here to-day, I reckon," he re- .. joins. £ "No, went to preachin' at Ebenee- mr." "What's Tom a-doin'?" >il-~ "Went to mill yistidy; sin't doin* j'f nothin' to-day." V "Be here to-day, I reckon." "He 'lowed he moat, bat I don't know ; whether be will or not." < "What's Alf a-doin'?" "Cut sprouts an' deadenaA- feees %y;t fistidy; ain't doin' nothin' to-day." "Be here to-day, I reckon." I;':,"; "Yes.'lowed ha was a comin'with Sue Prior." • •. ; " A n y b o d y g e m * h o m e iri\h you, pA^Liza?" | -, "Not that Pknow of." "Wall, if nobody else ain't spoke I'd ^^""like to go." "We'll see about it," she answers and then enters the church. He Bauifters off and sits down under a tree where a it, number of young men are wallowing AnJ shawls, spread on the grass. Tile preacher becomes warm in his work and the plow-boy hears him exclaim: "What can a man give in exchange for his own soulbut he is not thinking of souls, or of an existence beyond the horizon of this life; bis mind is on the girl with the gaudy ribban, and he is asking his heart if she loves him. The shadows are now shorter and hungry men cast glances at the sun, but the preacher, shouting in broken accents, appears not to have reached the first mile stone of his text and it is evident that he started out with the intention of going a "Sabbath day's journey." One voung fellow places-hii straw hat over his face and tries to sleep, but lome one tickles him with a, spear of grass. An old man who has stood it as long &8 he could in the house, and who has come out and lain down, gets up, stretches himself, brushes a clinging g§ 5/ \ leaf off his gray jeans trousers and declares: "A bite to eat would hit me ^ | y harder than a sermon writ on a, rock. B, .. - Don't see why a man wants to talk all >f§.sr '%-• day." "Thought you was mighty fond of jf'P. preachin', Uncle John," some one ; r i * remarks. "Am, but I don't want a man to go over an' over what he has already dan •aid. If my folks want in thar I'd mosey off home an' git suthin' to eat." "Good book gays a man don't live by bread alone. Uncle John." "Yas, but it don't say that he lives by vgff'-.l* preachin' alone, nutlier. Hoi' on; they are singin' the doxology now, an* I ' reckon she will soon be busted." The plow boy goes home with his divinity -- Uncle John's daughter. "Reckon Jim will be at home?" he asks as they ride along. "He mout be. Air yon awfal anxious to see him ?" "Not so powerful. Jest 'lowed I'd ask. 1 know who's yo'sweetheart," he «ays after a pause. .v.., „ "Bet you don't." -Bet I do." "Who is it, then, Vr. Smarty?" "Aleck Jones." "Who, him? Think I'd have that freckled-face thing?" "Wa 1, if lie ain't I know who is." "Bet you couldn't think of his name In a hundred years." ^You mout think I can't, but I can." "Wall, who, then, since you are so mart?" "Morg Atcherson." i- "Ho, I wouldn't speak to l'*m II1 was to meet him in the road." "But you'd speak to some people if c4Y* «you was to meet them in the road, ; wouldn't you?" - ; S "Yes, of course I would." v ^ "Who would you speak to?" - ^ - •"/ / "Oh, lots of folks. Did you see that '.fts bird almost hit mef she suddenly * exclaims. i t "I reckon he lowed you ft turner." % + be £4*% .m - : waa a Ton ought to be ashamed of yoWl to make fun of me thater way." ""I wa'n't makin' fun of you. Ho. if 1 was ter ketch anybody makin' fun ol, you it wouldn't be good for him." "What would you do?" " " , "I'd whale him." *, , '"You air awful brave, ain't ywifiP^f "Never mind whut I am; I know that if any man was to make fnn of you he'd have me to whup." A number of people have stopped at Uncle John's house. They sit in the large passageway running between the two sections of the log building, and the men, who have not heard the ser­ mon, discuss it jrith the women who were compelled to hear it from halting start to excited finish. The sun is blaz­ ing out in tho fields and the June-bugs are buzzing in the yard. It is indeed a day of rest for the young and old, but is it a restful time for the housewife? Does that woman, with flushed face; running from the kitchen to the dining- room and then to the spring-house for the crock jar of milk, appear to be rest­ ing? Do the young men and women that are lolling in the passage realize that they are making a slave of her? Probably not, for she assures them that it is not a bit of trouble, yet when night comes--when the company is gone-- she sinks^down, almost afraid to wish that Sunday might never come again, yet knowing that it is the day of her heavy bondage. Old labor lias been soothed and young love has been* encouraged, but her trials and anxieties have been move than doubled. It is night and the boy sits in the door, takiug off his shoes. To-morrow he must go into the liot field,, but lie does not think of that. His soul is full of a buoyant love--buoyant for the girl with the gaudy ribbon has promised to be his wife. An Important Official. A most important personage in mag- zine work is called the "reader." To him is submitted all manuscripts sent for publication, and his opinion of their merits largely influences the editorial decision. The editor may occasionally read some of them, but he has little time for such work; so the manuscript under consideration goes first to one reader, and then to another, and per­ haps a third. They do not pit together like a legislative committee, or a jury. They may not be known to each other; but the editor receives from each a writ­ ten opinion about the article, in which is embodied usually a graphic description of its plot, style, and various qualities, to­ gether with an account of its upshot or conclusion. With these documents in hand he can decide whether he wishes to use the article, and decide intelligently without having read himself a para­ graph of it. If he has, as it frequently happens, a marked division of opinion to reconcile, he may allot it to a "special" reader, stating or .withholding, as he chooses, this fact; or he may think it important enough to dip into it far enough to see for himself why any dif­ ference in judgment should exist But whatever is done, he is himself the oourt of appeals, and no doubt balances sometimes by a mere ounce of evidence or persuasion the fate of the article. This careful scrutiny is observed mainly when manuscript is submitted by writ­ ers unknown to fame. When a story comes from the pen of a well-tried au­ thor, the reader's unction is merely formal, as the editor has committed himself in advance to use the story ordered, afij knows its writer's name alone will make it successful. The reader calls at the office for his bundle of manuscripts to read, or has them sent to him. But he keeps as "shady" as a detective, and makes quite as many discoveries as one of that fraternity does. Many articles sent for inspection have no merit whatever, and are not even shaped to presentable form; for there is a mass of Would-be writers al­ ways arising who do not consider au­ thorship a profession, and who suppose that ink and paper being given, they jean surely prepare what the editor is eagerlv waiting for. 1+ is only the writer who does and tail get his work printed, who feels auy doubt of his article's acceptance. J v,! -A.* ' ' A Modern BluebeanL A man, whom his neighbors call a Bluebeard, has been discovered and im­ prisoned in the vicinity of Belgrade. His name is Buja. For the last twenty years he has been a considerable land owner and the proprietor of the largest tavern in the suburbs of the Servian capital. Buja was living with his first wife when lie made his first appearance among the Belgraders, in 1869. Two years later she vanished. Buja adver­ tised for her, paid detective^ to try to find her, and apparently mourned for her deeply, after all his efforts had proved vain. Two years elapsed and he married again. The second Mrs. Buja lasted until the middle of 1874 Then she, too, dropped out of sight. Buja did as he hkd done when the first Mrs. Buja vanished, and was just as unsuccessful as before. With 1875 came another Mfrs. Buja who could not be found after July, 1876. In the spring of 1877 a fourth Mrs. Buja shared Mr. Buja's bed and board. She was voung and pretty, and as devoted to her husband as he seemed to be to her. After a ball one evening in 1878 she started for home alone in a cab. She was never seen alive afterward. Her husband ran­ sacked the country for her, mourned with unusual vehemence, and swore he would never marry again. He remained single until 1884, when he took a fifth wife. He has lived with her ever since and has had three chil­ dren by her. He had bad luek in land speculation eighteen months ago and was obliged to sell part of his farm. Six weeks ago the purchaser broke ground for a cellar. Two feet below the surface he came upon a sealed beer barrel. In it he found the skeleton of a woman attired in a ball dress. The wrists were tied and the legs were twisted back against the body. Some jewelry that had dropped from the wo­ man's neck and ears gave the clue to the fact that the skeleton belonged to the body of Buja's fourth wife. Buja was arrested, and confessed that he had throttled her, packed her in the cask, and buried her on the night of her re­ turn from the ball. His only reason for the murder was that he was weary of her. Buja refused to say whether or not he killed his other three dead wives. The police are having the Buja farm carefully examined with pick, shovel and plow, in the hope of find­ ing the skeletons of the rest of the wo­ men Buja is suspected of having put out of his way. A FARM journal says a oow can be prevented from kicking by tying her hind legs together. Perhaps so; bnt a man can't be prevented from kicking by tying his hind legs together. He would "kick" if he had no legs. That's hia natw^~2fvrri*towu MttroUL "A LIGHT IS THE WINDOW." Th» BMBlirat Story <>« Which tho Well Known SOUK' WM Peundtf". Few are probably the persons who have not one time or other heard the Sunday-school song, A Light in the Window." Unless I am mistaken it is founded upon a story told upon the lit­ tle Island of Sylt, but which might easily have its exact counterpart on al­ most any seashore where a mother's heart beats with yearning love for her sailor son Find keeps its fond promise from night to night. I Among the simple fisher folks on the Island lived a woman and her son. He V&s her only child, the pride of her heart as well as the source of constant the | impression that for a pfttt of thi time she was asleep in the water. At length, after being for twenty-foul hours altogether alone in Torres Straitt she was picked up in an almost ex- hansted condition by a boat belonging to the search steamer Albatross. Ifoi some hours after her timely rescue slii was delirious and fancied herself living in a submarine hotel. No more signal proof oi the value of swimming as s lady accomplishment has been furnished for many a day than this extraordinary experience oi Miss Lacy Gazette. ; _ .SHE DAT OF BIB TH1XG& Srhool OmposItions. ' ' A venerable merchant in the city ol ^ New York said lately, "I have gont dread, for the boy loved the nea as his i through many humiliating experience! father betore had loved it, and nothing i in my life, but the most painful, I tliinfc pave him SQ much pleasure as to watch j was my eftort to write essavs or compo- the incoming tide tumble its curling j sitions when I was a school-boy. Ho* waves over the sands. No sooner was many hours I have sat, pen in hand. he strong enough to wield an oar and steer a boat than he joined the men in their fishing expeditions. The mother, with all her fears, and the fate of a long line of sailors in her miud, yet would not have it otherwise, for it would have been deemed dishonor among the hardy coasters to have kept the boy at home or sent him safely at work for some farmer. Whatever the dangers, they must be faced for the sake of family pride. Had not the boy's grandfather been a captain when he went away the last time? Had not his father sailed his own ship when he staring at the sheet of paper on whicl: was written the given theme--'Virtue, or 'Honesty,' or 'The Seasons!' "My mind was as blank' as the paper. Why, I used to ask, was there no text­ book to teach me how to write! Every thing else was taught in books; wli} not the art of expressing our thoqghti in words!" Perhaps many school/boys ask the same despairing question now as, onct each week, they sit vainly group ing for ideas and words to make up the "composition" exacted by their teach era. Grammars, spelling-books auc went down in a great storm ? The child rhetorics they have in plentv to teact £9 4 1 A a J* /\^* ll la WA AA \tlk i It A jl 1 . i " . . . . was the last of his race, but he must not dishonor it bv tame and cowardly safety on shore. So the boy grew up, tali of his age, straight as a mast, nim­ ble as the fleetest and handiest boat, blue-eyed, fur-haired, true-hearted, a | real son of the sea. The fishermen j taught him the tricks of bis craft until i he knew how to sail a boat, splice a ! rope, or do many little things which a j sailor must know. Whenever a ship was in the offing he was soon aboard, ' learning the rigging and how work was j performed upon her. He was a great j favorite among the longshore folk and ' with the sailors, and when at last his thirteenth year came around and he ob­ tained the consent of his mother to go to sea, he easily found a good ship and captain. Then there was parting, and tears shed by the mother which looked forward into the great, wide world with all the joyous eagerness of a boy. But with her last blessing the widowed mother promised that every night a light should burn in the seaward win­ dow of her cottage to light him home­ ward and to show him that she still lived, awaiting his return. The ship sailed. Six months passed and sailors dropped into the village and told how she had. been spoken and all was well, and the neighbors came to the cottage and told the pleasant news to the i waiting mother, >yho nightly trimmed the caudle, lit it and set in the _ window to make a bright path upon the ' power to him. sands. Again six months elapsed, and ^ The owner and them how to write proper'y, that is, how to marshal the words ; but wher they look into their brains, there are nc ideas there to put into words! We would whisper a suggestion that the reason of this failure is that th« thehies usually chosen by boys anc girls are unfamiliar and above their reach. What boy of ten has meditated on - Liberty" or "The Franchise," oi what do little American girls know o: the Italian palaces, or nightingales, oi larks concerning which they are apt'tc write verses and tales ? No man or woman can write strongly or nobly of a subject of which he oi she knows nothing; how much less likely then is a child to do it? Let John or Jennie, sentenced tc "write a composition" for next week, take some matter which is perfectly fa­ miliar and also interesting to them,--e game of foot-ball, the peculiarities ol their pet horse or dog, or some subject of village or school dispute, and can­ didly set down their secret opinions about it. If they have any common- sense, imagination, feeling or any intel­ lectual talent, it will be manifested on this we'.l-known ground. * The scholar will thus unconsciously learn to express himself simplj and forcibly upon every-day matters, which though he may never be called upon in after life to write for publica­ tion, will always be an invaluable publisher of one ol the largest newspapers in this country --a man of extended knowledge, great shrewdness and skill in managing men - -wished, a few years ago, to write o dozen lines for his own paper upon a business matter. He was obliged tc baud them to an editor to put them intc shape, observing, "One must 'learn how' even to speak I" Our boys and girls would learn how to speak much more quickly if tbey spoke only of matters which they al­ ready thoroughly understaud. -- Youth's Companion. A queer - The funniest thing out happened to toward the sea at every gloaming, and H»« on the last passage to Honolula. It burned steadily through every night. happened in this way: We have a Years came and went. The children j patent self-registering log. The regis- who had played with the sailor lad had ! ter is attached to the taffrail, and the grown to be men and women, her own I propeller is towed a-tern. We had head had been silvered with age, her j about 300 feet of line out. It was just form was bowed, yet no one dared to j about seven bells and the Bessie was cut the cables of her hope. Tender . going about six knots. Presently the words cheered her and tender hands i iog-liue became as taut as a wire stay, smoothed her way for her as she j and there was a terrible Slurry hear the patiently waited for the home-coming of : propeller. I happened to be on deck, her fair-liaired bol, and every night the | and seeing the trouble, ran to the taff- glow of her candle streamed out to sea- ! rail. What do you think I saw? Why, ward and told the story of the loving i I'm blamed if a great big blue shark heart waiting at home. j hadn't swallowed the propeller. I How many years did she watch and > called some hands aft and we started to wait? I do not know. But one day, j haul in the line. There were seven 8i' eventide, there was no gleaming j hands pulling on the line beside niy- patch of light across the sands. The i self, and yet we had a hard time pull- window remained dark, and the accus- ] ing the fish in. But, by thunder, sir, tomed beacon failed the fisher folk, and j we hauled 890 feet of that line in, until when they wondered and went to the the shark was right under, our counter, cottage they found that the mother's He was quite 30 feet long, and in a ter- soul had gone out to seek the son.-- j ribie rage, lashing the water into foam. Louisville Times. . j Wo were just beginning to think thai j we could get him on board, when the A Twe«ty-F«ur H«»r Swim. line snapped, being bitten tbrough by By Australian mail we have for the! the shark. Just think of it, however, first time full particulars of the Quetta j pulling a shark in 280 feet on a log line, disaster, and the narratives of the sur- ' " * - - - vivers. We subjoin the principal poiuts in the graphic statement of Miss Lacy, undoubtedly the most interesting figure in the events of that calamitoss night in Torres Straits. Mia? Lacy says she was sitting in the saloon writing a let- other sailors arrived from far-off lands, but they had no news to tell of the ship. A great storm had happened and she was overdue. She might yet make port, but--and the people shook their heads and carried no tales to the widow, wh6se candle burned brightly every night and cast long streamers of light out upon the sea. Another year passed, but the sailors going or coming brought no news of the ship, and the neighbors whispered apart and shook their heads whenever any spoke of the widow's son, but no one was cruel enough to out the slender threads which held the anchor of her hope. And thus the light continued to glow out Monitor* *I the Mechanical Md Electric­ al World. There ii a notable tendency in indng. trial enterprises in recent times, not only to concentrate capital into large concerns, bnt to have structures and machinery of the largest possible kind, and to drive it with extreme rapidity. This is pre-eminently the day of bis; things, using the word in its ordinary sense to mean large, mas­ sive, heavy and^bulky. Ocean steamships are growing larger and more powerful. Locomotives, cars, railway tracks, bridges, •re all made heavier. Blast furnaces 'have increased in size, and their oatput has increased enormously, so that a product of 300 tons a day is no more un­ common than one of 300 tons a week was 20 years ago. A Bessemer steel works has recently made the record of 30,: 0;> tons of steel in one month. Open hearth furnaces are now erected with a capac ily of 30 tons, or three times the capacity of 10 years ago. In rolling mills the same progress has bten shown. A plnte was rolled in Pittsburgh 30 inches wide by 85 feet long, seven-eighths of an inch thick, weighing 7,480 pounds. In steam and electric engineering th6 same tendency is seen. At the Horiie- stead Steel Works. Pittsburgh, there is a^out to be placed one of the largest Corliss engines in the world, with a hori- sontal cylinder 54 by "2 inches. The fly wheel will weigh 200,000 pounds. The whole weight of the engine will be over 5(0,000 pounds, and it is expected to de­ velop 3,500 borce power. The Corliss engine, the largest in the world, was built at the Soho Iron Works, Bolton, England. . It is of 5,Ot!0 horse nowar, of the vertical type, and stnnds 48 feet high. Tho West End Electric Railway station in Boston is to have 13 engines of 1.0D0 horsd power each. They nro to be triple compound, with cylinders' 21, 30 and 52, inches in diameter. The } ower tran6-. mitted by two belts for e CJ engine, each belt five feet wide. Steam will be fur* nished by 24 water tule boilers, ench rated at SCO 1-orse power. The new cable railway station of the West Side Cable Railway, in Chicago, has two Greene en­ gines, each 3ti inches by 72 inches; each engine weighs 238,000 pounds, and has a capacity of 1,200 horse power. We have description of a new water-tube boiler designed by T. F. Morr n, of Jersey City, which is located at the Westingbonse electric light station In Twenty-fourth street, New York City. It contains 3-inch water tubes of a peculiar bent shape, expanded at each end into an in» ternal cylinder 48 inches in diameter. The aggregate length of the tubes is 7,200 feet, or about a mile and a half, and thj boiler has C,000 feet of heating surface, and is said to be capable of de» veloping 1,000 horse power. In foreign countries the Bame tendency toward biguess is shown, and in electric­ al engineering they have even surpassed us. The Ferranti dynamos used in the Deptford lighting stations near Loudon weigh 500 tons each, stand 45 feet high, run at <>0 revolutions per minute, and can each supply about 200,00,1 inc.indts- ent lights. Two dynsmos of 10,000 lamp capacity are being made for Berlin, eacn ot which will require about 1,000 horse power. Dtiil Gently with the Stomach. It It proven refractory, mitd discipline is the thing to set It right. Not all the nauseous draughts and boluses ever invented oan do half aa much to remedy its disorders as a few wine- glassfuls -- say threo a day -- of Hostetter'a Stomach Bitters, which will afford it speedy ro­ ller, and eventually banish every dyspeptic and biliouB symptom. Hick headache, nervousness, sallowuesa of the complexion, fur upon the tongue, vertigo, and those many indescribable aud disagreeable sensations caused by indigestion, are too often perpetuated by injudicious dosing. An Immediate abandonment of such raudom and Ul-eidviHed experiments should be the tirst step ia the dir«ctiou of a cure; tho next step the see of this standard tonic alterative, which has •roehred the highest modical sanction and Won Unprecedented popularity. A Great Controversy. Office of magazine. The editor intro­ duces two men. ^Gentlemen," says the editor, "I have sent for joa, thinking that you might want to know each other, as you are down for a spirited contro­ versy. * "Ah, thanks," one of the men re­ sponds. "By the way, what are we to discuss?" "Oh, just suit yourselves about that. Let me see. The tariff won't do--has been worn out. There is really no issue --hold on, a moment. We'll take relig­ ion. ' That never wears onL Mr. Jones, you fight all creeds and Mr. Smith will denounce you as an infidel.--Arkansaw Traveler. and he did not bite it until within 20 feet of the taffrail! Of course, by los­ ing the shark we also lost our propeller, but it must have been pretty hard to digest and his inside must have been pretty sore from the strain. ^ The funniest part of tine thing was ter, the other ladies being practicing i action of the register. When the for a concert, when, without a moment's j weight of the shark got on the line the warning, they heard a loud, grating • the blamed register showed a speed of sound, the ship rocked violently, and a i 00 miles an hour, with only a six-knot chorus of confused noises broke out on i breeze. Well, sir, " deck, j Miss Lacy rushed on deck, and al­ ready the ship was sinking. "Going aft," she says, "was like walking up a hill. The part to which I was making j my way was high above the water." J3ut hardly had she reached the aft I part of the vessel than it rapidly sank, j when the mate looked at the register first and then at the sails he nearly fainted. It was not for several seconds that he realized there wa> so much dead weight on the rope.--jSan Franrixco Alia. Amen. Miss Larcom, in her "New England and in a moment 200 human-beings and I lua" ™ B"e a large number of sheep "were all in ! !ie"' minister read the text, "Cat Q . » . 1 1K nnnrn* tt'nv /»nmnnrotn *t fna the water in a heap, the people strug­ gling and shrieking terribly." Miss Lacy with great difficulty managed to extricate herself from the confused mass, $nd, beiner a practiced swimmer, . . , .T , - » , .. succeeded in getting clear of the whirl- I in«ide the heads of chilren. pool caused bv tl.e sinking ship. She .. ™®f.' . ,me!\ it down; why cumbereth it the ground?" she always supposed that he had made a mistake. He ought to have said, she thought, "Why cucumbereth it the ground?" Strange things go in mean ?" then relieved herself of all superfluous | Phil,ip * his .older hr°\her> who anrl ahnnt fnr i.n,,™ 1^ reached the wise age of six. "It means musn't touch it, Philip, was the unhesitating reply. Ernest!" exclaimed the boy's mother, clothing, and swam about for two hours in the hope of coming across some of the survivors. d At midnight she heard a cry from a distance, and swimming toward it found that it came from a raft rndely and hastily constructed by the chief officer. She availed herself of this temporary refuge and remained on the raft until noon next day, when finding that it was making no progress, and fancying that she saw an island on the verge of the horizon Miss Lacy deter­ mined to trust once more to her swim­ ming powers, and in spite of strong re­ monstrances of the chief officer she dived into the ocean and struck out for herself. But she had grievously mis­ calculated the distance of the island. All that afternoon and far into the night she was in the water without lifebelt or support of auy description, relieving herself by swimming altern­ ately on her face, back, and sides. She said she felt no fear of the sharks that abound in these tropical waters, but the fearfully hot sun scorched her terri­ bly, and every now and then she had to thrust her head under water to save iH^lf lsom sunstroke. She who had overheard the question and answer, "why do you tell your little brother that ?" "You told me so, mammfe," answered Ernest. "Why, no; think what yon are say­ ing. I could not have told yon that," urged the astonished mother. "But you did, mamma. I asked you, and you said, 'Amen means musn't touch it,'" returned the little boy very positively! His mother was greatly puzzled until she remembered that she had Baid, "Amen means, so let it be." Little Ernest, in his raids on the work-basket, the books, and the bric-a- brao, had learned past doubt, that "let it be" meant, musn't touch it. A GOOD many people are like the birds; they have to eat their cherries before they are ripe in order to get them. A MAN of tioneer. -- morbid tastes- The auo- Taking Time by the Fetlock. Everybody in Spokane, says the Spokes­ man, knows Msjor Stout, the genial yonng attorney, who is as m ld-maunered as fttwu H\HI polite as a college boy. And yet everybody does not know that tho Major was once a fierce wnrrior with the vigilnntes when Spokane was a babv. It was when Major Stout tirst shook the dust of the East from biB trousers nnd braved the wild Xorthwes: nloug in '82. Spokane was th«u infested with a crowd of desperadoes, and Bob Knox was the fiercest of the iot. He had had some trouble with James Glover on recount of being ordered out of town, nnd rumor reached the Spokanites that Bob wns up in Westwoods and had announced his in­ tention of coming to Spokane i nd send­ ing a streak of bad through Mr. Glover aud some other good citizens. So vigi­ lantes were organized, and Major Stout add essed them. "If Bob comes," said the Major, "ho will kill one or more good citizen, and then we would take him out and han^ him up. In my opinion that would be :i waste of good citizens. We know what Bob will do, nnd if we just meet Bob «n<1 Btriug him up before he kills th* citi­ zens they can toe on hand to act as his pall-bearers." This was a novel plan. It was di­ gested with the same ease as if it had been a spring chicken, and the plan WDB formulated. There was to be a commit­ tee to wait for Knox, and when he en­ tered a saloon to till up with oiled light­ ning he was to be surrounded and ar­ rested. That night the church bell w»s to be rung as a signal, and before the mothers had repeated the prayers to the childien Bob Knox was to have been floating with the angels. Of course Bob didn't swing. Some one pave him the lip and he went through the town on a f*st freight and never returned. But it shows what earnest, energetic, and enter­ prising citizens Spokane had in her early day*. A. M. PRIEST, Druggist, BhelbyviUe, Ind says: "Hall's Catarrh Cure give the beat t>t satisfaction. Can get plenty of testimonials, as it cures every on* who takes it." Druggista sell it* 75c. SOMETHING new in the line of strikes is presented by the be<-r drinker-* of Munich. Soldiers, railway employes, tradesmen and workers in the factories have signed a pledge not to drink any Munich beer because the proprietors of the breweries have raised the price. In order to biing them down to the old fig­ ures the strikers drink Strasburg beer, Frankfort beer, Dortmund beer, or any kind of beer that does not come from the Munich breweries. This strike ha<t been in lull force sin -e April 1. and it is .believed that the offending breweries must come down or shut up. Six Novels Free, will be sent by Cragtn St ( o.. Fhilada., Pa., to any one in tho U. S. or Cunada. postage paid, upon receipt of 25 Dobliinn' Electric Soap wrappers. See list of novels , on circulars around each bar. Soap for sale by all grocers. THT homes of rich Mexidns are said to be palaces, and the grounds around tbem are gardens. There is an Oriental splendor around them that is not found in the United States. There is an ex­ panse about everything nnd a retinue of servants tbat is bewildering. A JAPANESE editor, for writing disre­ spectfully of Jimmu Tenno. has been condemned to four years' imprisonment, a fine of 150 yen and two years' pobce surveill nee. Jimmu Tenno was an an­ cestor of the present Emperor. GET the Best! Dr. Bull's Worm Destroy* era are the best. They taste good, 'lhey are safe. Tney are sure. "HE is a man of moist habits," is the modest way of saying a man is a drunk­ ard. BAIIIBOAD corporations an retioent-- : i£*:- Two OLD gentlemen, one eiphty-two and the other seventy-eight years old, had a standup fight a few days aso in Portland, Oregon, over a young widow. BsoNcnrns Is cured by frequent small doses ot Plso'a Cure for Consumption. : ~ OLD smokers prefer "TansiU's Pgn<A.w -i-- Peculiar Th*t Hood'B S»r?sp»rnia does possess curative power Peculiar to Itself is conclusively shown bjr tlie wonderful cures it has effected, unsurpassed in the history of medicine. This absolute merit it possesses by rrason of the tact that it is prepared by a Combination, Proportion, and ProceM Peculiar to liood's Sarsaparilla. known to no other medicine, and by which the full medicinal power of all the inuri'dients used is retailed. If you have never takrii Hood's Siir-arartlla, a fair trial will conv.cce you of its merit*. Hood's Sarsaparilla Kold b>- all dru««l8tfi. |i; six for Prepared only L) C. 1. IIOOD » CO.. Lowell. Mass. ,100 Doses One OQlÎ jr ONE BNJDIM Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acta gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses tho sys­ tem effectually, dispels colds, head­ aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its Kind ever pro­ duced, pleasing to the taste ana ac­ ceptable to tlio stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial m its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and asrreeable substances, its many excellent qualities com- •tnend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50o and $1 bottles by all leading drug­ gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro­ cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FW SYRUP CO. SAM FRAH01S00, CAL. lovmvtus. AT. #£* VOML 0.9. PATENTS-PENSIONS 8esi<> forditrest of Pension and Bounty Uw«. Send for Inventors' 'Snide or How to C« N I'ateiit. PATRICK O'KAHIU:!,!,, Aiturney Law, Wttliiutfton, D. C. FKCMICL ARI'I(>E"V U .ITIORHIS, ILnlOlUll tV»Rltir!£ton, I».C. 'Successfully Presocutes Claims. Late Principal Examiner tj. S. Pension Bureau. 3 yrs iu l.ist war, IS adjudicating claims, atty siiio*. •SSMHHBMBMIBBWS; relief inrpTnT a KIDDER'S PASTII MENTION THffi FAFEK OAN LAY BY S500 TO a yon r by working for us You can't <\o i tin utiy nur-r or simiil-r way.uo matter bnw •m t \. WVfuruiKh CM i'al & pavliberally ttiosp who vork.•: the •• wlmlcor part tiiii'-.stamp not lequirt'd tor LIK-V..•r..!>io.O.Winnto:I 0'o.,l:H\'aiiUnri*n Kt,( liicajjo FOLKS* binjf ^Anti't/urpulene 1VU»*' l«lka.a <'nth. Th*v rauic no ck'kna«B, contain no iioitoa and ns*at fall. Sold bv PrugfUtseverywhere or tentby mail. Partio- (mia) «*. sr.wUcox'i Specific Co., Plula., P*. MOtHEBS'FBiENB MAKES OMSLC BIRTH EASY IF USED BEFORE CONFINEMENT. BOOK TO "MOTHEIIS" MAILED-FUEE. BBiDtlKMI JtfcU! I.ATOIt CO.. ATLANTA. «»A. BOLD MY ALL DRUGGIST*. I EWIS' 98 ^ LYE! I PCWDEEID AITS pssmxs. (PATENTED.) Thd gtromient and purest I.ye made. Will make the BK*T Perfumed HARD SOAP in twenty minutes without boiling. It is the best for disinfecting siuka, closets, drains, washing bottles, barrels, paints, etc. PENNA. SALT MANUF'G. CO., Gen. Agts., l'Uila., Pa. Tho Soft Clow of The TEA ROSE Is Acquired by Ladies Who Use POZZOMI'S MEDICATED COMPLEXION POWDER. TRV IT. SOLD EVERYWHERE. I I Cures C U T 8 ? " BALL SPRAIN8# * BRUISES* RHEUMA TISBI. OPIUM teteuhsn*, Lebanon. Mfc.NlION TILLS FAPtK win *smn« 1 BABY $N PENSIONS ;-Mv v\'r'rL '* >r'Esi< E5; UifMk terwy m IM mi F R E E • »' • • I Ii of Josi rH n. WMhlnglon, I>. C. If yon want roar pension witboM delay, put 7«*r ip theh*ad« HCHTCS, Attonwr, f ROAD CARTS ONLY $10 (The lKe«t and pst JfMkt of any Carte Male* , *1*, *20 and IU. • Top Beetles «alr fllarneftft $?.r»0 and StO.09. "Ha. Vi*ca, Stwist «-f a'.i vsri^tW*. . .. . ... and wml for Pru* tM. CHICACO SCALE CO., Chicago, lllfnef*, V. ft* A* r\R. T. mix tJOTKAriVS ORIENTAI. JJ CKEAM* OR MATILCAL BEAV TIFIKR. •V ^ femowTM.Hih •5 T fles, Freek!«s W a • MOTH P&TCH«SSRJAB ^ J «•** dMMM, N ^ co *V».TV bt4*ni* M U 3** H hn» it.xni the tactef 4$ year*, and Ii as \e*s we t«tl St to be sur- it ia prep* M ef 1 •iirul&r name* Dr. L. A. Sav«r mid t» t l**\y r>f iH* bnw Ion "A* yfn will u-- >Cra«i* Urmhi ;he aratiAi**.'* For sat - 1>\ j\n ?>mrgiiu and F*ncr Good* th* U. S.. Cannes1-, ;\n<i Europe, FEIID. T. HOPKINS, i-rop'r, 3? Qr»»t Jones St- K. T. OR OWEN'S ELECTRIC BELT StTSFElTOORT. PATENTED AUC. 16, 1887, IMPROVED JULY 30.1889. OWEJi'S ELXCTRO- P -i 'S o 00. c ALVAKIC BODY BEIT ^AHD SUSPENSORY \jeura All Khsuraatis Com- 'plaiat^Xumtmgc. G;reral jul B« vans Debility, Cottrreiiesr* Kidsey SiMtset, B^reoesraejs, Trembling) Semil Kx- ^ haaatioa, "Wasting of Body, Ducues canted fcy Indiscretions sm Youth, An Kuried or Single life. .. . _ C;?-HKSTTO MSFOKSWIB FAKTTESOS M DATS TKUU. THY A PAIR OR ci coTDin ivcni co #1 DR. OWEN'S ELECTRIC INSOLES OWXH EMCTOXO BELT A APPLIAHCE CO. 306 North Broadway. ST. LOV1S. X<X eea Broadway. M1W YORK OiTT. Webster's flii The Ccpyri ht on the Original Webster's Bic- *. tionary Expired with the Year 1889. Por forty-two years the people have paid royalty to the nr at publishing Urn who have Mi tbc monopo v on tliis the mout necessary and im- ' .' portaut book iu tlie English lauuaatce. XoAmnricaa parent lias been lx-riuittrd to educate his boy orgirt nitbont paying tribute to this «>&!«& lima iifc- erall)* placed a toll-gate acrom the highway of edu­ cation. The gateway is now dismantled. This new , edition ol YVEBsTliK'S DlCIIONAltY is a complete i reprint of the oriRiuat work, which heretofore sold for $10.U» per copy. It is not a cheap,guide aflair, hot a bona-Bde NOAH WKBSTISK 8 DICTIONARY, plain­ ly prii.ted on nice white paper and Mrviceabiy bound in leather. Upon receipt of IM.OO we wiE wnd to any »dinm . by express the Dictionary above de«>otil>eU. . As to out- reliability, we refer yon to ihe l>u' "i*te> of the paper in which this advertisement is printed. Money should be sent by express or poatoltti* , order, bank dralt, or rvgistered tetter. Addra«a alt communication* to THK SEWSPAPER I X.'OS. #"'1 -STa Franklin Stivet. Cliinu'O. fl-. PASTILLE DE MARS tttotorv ar icle ever ofieiv 11 for an iimjjorat>r will be found the most satis- - the paolict#1.00|.cr ItoxK DT> Mars' OVOIDS for priv ite « ' uusun>aK>e<| (»2per box). Treiitiii^nt aud«"orio»p "!de ic->trittlr contldeutia'. DN. 1>E MAUK .v I'o.. Ex (T s. Kxammiu* SnnnH>ns.28amt !«i Imperial Uldjf.'^k C.arkKt^Chieaao I prr«cr!bp and folly tt» dorse BI(r H as the wljT specific tor the ceruu n cm of this disease. G. H. I.NliRAHAM, M. D., Amsterdam, N. Y. We have sold Big G foe many year*, and it baa Riven the best of «ati»- faction. D.K.DYCHKAOO.. Chicago. JUL St.Oft. Sold by PraggiaMk CnntlD urdenl; br tk« \yHEN WRITING TO Al>Vl:UTISERh , * ' please nay you u» the advu ti>cMH In thu iNii'cr. PISO's* HEME I) \ t'OH CATAKitli.--iiesi. Umitst to use. <*ll«inest K/1!i#>f In A i-m-u la «jirrui>i k'.i. It is an Ointment, of which a small particle is appli " ")c. Sold by druggists or sent by mail. Address, K, T. HAZKI.I'INK. Wsm Thrif-f is a. v dood revenue. SAPOUO9 resu^s fro cleanliness ajict̂ Iris a soli d c&ke---^ol-scou ri ng SOAJX Try iHnyour next house-cleajiing a.nd be hapgt f CHEAP "COMFORT , ,3 Can b& secured by the smaU investment tn one fur? of | SAPOLIO when you have a house or kitchen to clean* % From the paint to the pots and pans, and including windows and floors, it is the very best labor-saving soap for (facing* ML if fW -crt ^ : -'is -