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tt\ * i f . t e - : _ „ -*^L- J " Pledged but to Truth, to. Liberty and Law| No Favors Win us and no Fear Shall Awe." * v , VOL. 19. M'HENRY, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1893. NO. 9. & •' II:. gcfleirj Jluiietlef. tmu BBO Kvsmr WmmuT p| "" rA . O . R U P P , - " . VvfcCs ',"3 'r- * . ' ; IDItOB AH© PKOPKIBTCm ^ ^ y -, • ; • . • - Office in the Nichols Blocks Tiro Do>ra North of Perry A Owen's Slori >r %' * StlfrlMmiis or SUBSOR1PTIOK. . \ One year (in advance) • •••! ®® If Hot Pain within Three Months.. * Subscription* reeciveri for three or aix months in the same proportion. Rates of Advertising* /' v«i annonnoe liberal rates for advertising id Hie PLAtwuEALBB, and aa^e*Tor tq sUte them so plainly that they will be readily un darstood. They are *s follows: 1 Inch one year - ,52 8 Inches one year .« *X ^* - WJ® 8 Inches one year-- ~ J «- £00 ii Column one yea* » •/ • , •» i- V JO™ X Column one yea*. ' • • «°oo Column one year - - - . - • mow One Inch means the measurement of one ineh down the joUimn, single column width. Yearly a.lvertisersfat the above rates, have the privilege of ohanging as often as they choose, without extra eharg®. Regular advertisers (meaning those having standing cards) will be entitled to insertion of local notioes at the rate of 5 cents per line each week. All others will be charged 10 cents per line the first week, and 5 cents per line for each subsequent week. Transient advertisements will be charged at the rate of 10 cents pe line, {nonpareil type, same as this is set In) the first issue, and 5 cents per line for subsequent issues. Thus, an inch advertisement will cost • l-W for«one week, #1.60 for two weeks, §3.00 for three weeks, and so on. The PIAIHDBALM will be liberal In editorial notioes, but, as * business rule, it will require a suitable fee from •••rybody leeking (to nn of lis columns tor ps#nai*ry Iftin. BUSINESS OARDSl F. O. COLBY, D.D.S. DBHTI^T. Woodstock, 111. Special atten-tion paid to regulating children s teetft Parties coming from a distance would dowel to stive timely notice by mail. Office, Kendal - toisd Main street and li wicS|yjft a J. HOWARD, K. B. " PHYSICIAN ASD 8UBGKON. OfflM at ths ersidence of B. A, Howard, West M«Benry,lll. »M. f » : • • • ' I fe' fcr Ife ? - fev f c : • ? C.H. rsasR8, M. D- r^HYStdlAK 'AMD SURGEO*. Mllun t ills. Office at ttetldenoe. F. E- PILCH Eft* - Dental - Surgeon. » 4 QffleewiOt Dr. AwrUtfer, Wei Mekemw. IU. Crown, Plate and Bridge Work artistically executed at reasonable prices. Special atten tion given to the care of Children's Teeth. OOltDLTATlOH FSBS. Am Nk CHURCH, Watchmaker and «Teweler NO-On i HuodredTwenty-Five State At Chi­cago, HI. 'Special attention given to re­ pairing^ me watches and Ohroncme ters. •arA r uii Assortment of Goods in his line w. p, ST. CLAIR, ^ Justice of the Peace. Insurance and Collecting Agency. OrriOB ON RAILROAD ST., MBit P. O. RUNDA, III. ' i. H. C. MEAD/ ' Justice of the Peace and General In­ surance Agent Jncluding Accident and Life Insurance. OrriOB WITH- B. GIT.BRRT, VEift DBPOT,•' WBST MCUKMBY. III. M®|ienry House, McHENRY. ILL. JOB. BK1MER. Proprietor, Being situated on the banks of the Fox River, in the Vill ige of Mcflenry, special at tention will be Riven to the entertainment cf Hunters, Fishermen and Pleasure Seekers fSDCxaUy, Sportsman Supplied with oi«*» outfits Com I. NEAR THE DEPOT. * WEST MoHpNRY, 'H-L Keeps open for the Accommodation of the Public a First-Class Saloon and Restaurant, Where lie will at all times keep the best brands of Wines, Llqucfrs and Cigars to be found in the market. DR. A. E. AUR1NGEB, PHYSICIAN ANDSURGEON. Offlcei n Dr. Oblids building, West McHenry^Ill » J UUIIU4UBI ITVBB J | -.r. Residence, bouse formerly occupied 4>y Osborne, All professional ealls promptl] tended to. * -# -- Dr-y at- » BHEFABD W. L, MUrABD ^ SHEP/CflD A 8HEPARD, ATTORNEYS.AT LAW. suite sis, Notth-em Office Building, 86 Ua8alle Street Chloago, III 45-ly KNIGHT A BROWW, A TTORNBYS AT LAW-U. 8. Kxpres# O0.lS A. Bulldlflpg. 87 and ^Washington St. CHICAGO, ILL. •y, S. LUKLBY. 'TOBNJBY AT LAW, And Solicitor la OI~™»boD9TOOK.-ILa S Office to Park House, first floor. r % > ; ^ PABST'S ' kiimnkst . Lager Btn. At Wholesale and Retail. *Beer in Large or Small Kegs or Bottles al­ ways on hand, cheaper than any other, quali­ ty considered. Orders by mall promptly attended to. GOOD 8TABL1NQ FOR HORSFV ITOall and see «s. Robert Sohlesale*. West HcHenvy. XIL CHARLES C. BERNKR, Boot and Shoe Maker, Cvir jBeman Bros. Jewelry Store. Ojp- * posite Bishop's Mill. Mc Henry, Boots and Shore nmnuf»ctared ofLthe beat material and a fit guaranteed. REPAIRING • Promptly attended to. Fine Boots and Shoes a specialty. Call and see me. • CHARLF9 G. BKBNER. McHenry, 111., Aug. IB, WW PIONEER HEROES AHD | DARING THEIR 1 QEEDS I The thrilling exploits of Amnricar border heroes and heroines, with Indians, outlaws tnd wild beasts. Ii^m the earliest times to now. Lives and fanons dee-is of DrSoto, Staadisb, Bo^v-e, Kcator.. Bratiy, C™ristt, Oarson, Onstor, Oomstofk, Wild Bit!, BuflGslo Bill, (lens. Orook and Miles, Gor niimo, Slt- tijiK Biil>, and other great Indian Chief?, etc History of the War with Ihe GhosuDancers. and *11. 250 Eugrav.ngs. Young boys not lowed agents short of Agents Wanted funds PLANBT PUBLISHIS3 CO. • Box 5001, St. Louis, llo. Think Deeply* ; ^jlben you are contemplating a V . purchase of anything in the fine "* of -Fewelry, no matter horw swiall may be the amount Involved Act Wisely fly coming to look over oar large and well assorted stock of all that is new and sepspoab'e. Decide Quickly To buy of us. After seeing the prices andeximlnlngthe quality of our goods *vou can't resist .. them. It Is impossible to do • better elsewhere. Hol^etter Values Can be found. We get none but tbe choicest orths best goods on the mp"fcet. Prices Wonderfully Low. We are always ready to see you and show jou our astonishing bargains. J. R. SAYL0R & SONS, S K tion. JOSbYN * OASKY* . TORNKYS AT LAW. Woodstock I1L business will receive prompt atten- v a P. BABHB3, TTORNEY, Solicitor, «nd| 4Jonnseior, L Oolleetionsia specialty. • WOODSTOCK, iu.mots. JOHN P. SMITH, WatokLixieOcei* Jc J ewelet4 MeHENRYt ILLINOIS^ A FINK stock of Clocks, Watches and Jewa elry always on hand. Special given to repairing fine »./*tehes. Give me # ? ;• ' JOHN P. BMJTJB. i i0 Horsemen, Look Here, I have a fine stock of H -rses, among which are •' Yonng Green Mountain Morgan, "Mor. rill Oharies," and others. , Call and see these Horses before making arrangements else- """• JT.S. COLBY. MoHenry, 111., May 10, IflSS. • -WM States ffar Claii Am OF---- ' i gSwjf. H. COWLIN, Woodstock - •; Illinois. Prosecutes all elassss and kinds of claims against the United States for ex-Soldiers, ' their Widows, Dependent Relatives or Heirs, specialty is mads in proseouiisg old and rejeoted claims. All communications Featage Stamps are e^ promptly answered If osed for reply. W M , H. COWLJM OStce at Rssidesee, Madison SU yood#IP»f« Illinois. f Land in QalifornU Free,. Cgr'That can grow, if iirigated, Oranges, Grapes, or apy fiuit jn grow by ir- i* \ • s ' t - i % CaliforniiEi that will figation. This laqd has no mar- |p^t value without irrigation. W« will Plant the Trees Prsi ' Take care and cultivate them for 5 years for half the profit, pay .the taxes, labor and other charges, will pav you back the <rst year alter irrigation one-third of year investment if you will help get irri­ gation. Price $35 for 5 years, payable $5 per aonth till $25 is paid. FREE DEED to fjfce land, no charges to you for tmm or labor or trees. Address U»|ifornta Land and Water - Exchange ^wtj^nvvwi BRBKDER9 Of • , Morgan:: Horses, Embfaclng the celebrated General Giftord, Green Mountaio and Morrill blood. STOCK FOR SALE. Stallions and Fillies, dendfor pedl- rooBs gssez Slid Begfstersd Poland Chins --SWINE.-- Choice Merino Sheep* Mammoth Bronze Turkeys. High Grade Jersey Cattle. For sale. Come^snd inspect stock or address. ^ f J. Jl. SAILOR $ SONS West Mcbenry 111 '••••eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I R I P A N S ^ g^TABULES I ^EMULATE THE STOMACH, UVER AMD BOWELS' AND PURIFY THE BLOOD.. BXPAKS TABCLES are tl^ beat X«U> else k«*«i for Iidlcertln, BUtoaueH. HeiAwkt, Oaaatlpatlon, Dyepepat*, Ckronle Liver Troablr*. IMcslacss, Bad Complexion, Siwitcrr, Offensive Breath, and all die- •rdepa «f the Stoaach, l<lver end Bowel*. Ripaas Tabulea contain notMni? inluriong to the most delicate constitution. Are pleasant to take, safe, effectual, and give immediate relief. Price--Box (8 vial s), 75 cent s; Package (tboxes^ §8. May be ordered through nearest drug or by Sample fre© bv snaiL Address THE RIPANS CHEMICAL CO » | :* j t 10 SPEtJCE STREET, KEW KOUK CITY itmMWMwwm-->«»«»> PATENTS Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained, and all Pat­ ent business conducted for MODCRATC Fees. OM OFFICE 19 OPPOSITE U. 8. PATEHT OFFICE and we can secure patent in less ume than those remote from Washington. Send model, drawing or photo., with descrip­ tion. We advise, if patentable or not, free of chars*. Our fee not due till patent is secured. A PAMPHLET 4'HOW to Obtain Patents* witn^ cost of same in the U. S. and foreign countries J, sent free. Address, . < | 0« An SNOW &CO. « A a A , I OPP. PATENT OFFICE, WASHINGTON, O. C. _j Repairing of all Mnda Promptly Attended to. HOW IS TH* TIM* TO BtTf A Sewing Machine! Only $5 a month until paid. HEAMAN BROS. <Z> (U u v... C/D V o o A k ft 0 i V pfi 0) 68 Q h V S- tnt 111 King of llcBenry and Lske Coaotles. Has the fastest record of any Stallion la Northern Illinois Has won more races than auy Stallion in McHenry or Lake Co. And can go a X, tf, & a mile or a raeeS In 6 faster than uy other lUllbn In the two counties. He h\s won 35 races in 3 seasons. Started against and staid In race with Storm, 2:08»4 ; &!mont Bashaw, 2:1 X\ won two races from Ethel B. 2:18&; started 12 times in 1892, won 13 races Below you will find a few that are recorded in year b ok Ae an individual no horse can outshow him. As fine and as game a head as ever wore a b»idle Kind in and out of harness; is no jumping jack when speeding, in fact never makes any mistakes, He is a natural pacer, and Brace horse that no man can find fault with; good bone, and Ihe !>est muscled horse I ever saw. Color bl.tck; stands 15% hatidH high; weighs 1075 lbs. He was never hitched to a bykeland always had a uriver that weighed 210 lbs. Midnight paced an exhibition mile at Mason city, Iowa last fall, in 2;!l; last half in l;0t; last quarter in 31 seconds. 1 will Match him against »ny psrlne or • trotting stallion, msrs.or gelding In McHenry County. t also have in my barn * two-year old'paelna illlv sired by Midnight, out of » common mare, that 1 will show against any twe-year old for points o: speed, AS a proof that t' e public like lilm, thirty days from the day I got him home 1 booked 38 mares, I think Midnight s service fees less than any h rse in the ntate with a record of 2;17?i, or any bettor than 2;20 FEE. $20. imM Look for speed where speed has been foun't. Midnight will start th s fall to lower Als ree. ord, and those who have seen him in UTB races bay that he will take a mark better than 2:12. BRRHIMNG OF MIDNIGHT, 2:17X--- Black horse, 15% hands high; foaled 1806; bred by R. H. Pooler, Sernia, III. Sired by Nigger lloy, he by Plymouth Kock, 2:3I, he by Hill's Black HaWk, l»t (lam Starlight, could pace In 2:27, by McKay horse. Vlam of Midnight "4L17X; 2d dam pacer,* by Pbaraoh, paccr; sire liichtail tiltMt 3d dam Dy Btban Allen. Midnight will m<«ka the seat on of IMS at the stablesof the undersigned,at Nunda. H. B. THHOOPt Nuoda, III., April, UK T. J. BARBtAK, J .T„ BA1 BliJI BARSIAN BROS. * ' Wholeale and Betail MUlll IX FINE CIGARS, MeHENRY ILLINOIS. Being now pleasantly located in our n*w store, formerly occupied by Althoff Bros., we are now prepared to offer to the smoking pub lio a flpe line of Cigar* of oar own manufac. tare, together with Smoking and Chewing Tobacco of the best brands, Tipes a Specialty. We bars a Tary large hasAiecme patterns. iliUOUk CALL AND SEE US. | •; > ••ABBTAvvaoa MoHenry, III.'. June 20,1892. WITHOUT PAIN Teeth Extracted WHEM rLATES ABB OBDBBKDBf BT DR. F.C. COLBY, Woodatook, 111. I WILL BE AT RIVERSIDE HOTEL, McHenry, AMD • At the Morton House. Algonquin. At dates to be named hereafter. YOCRS RKBPECTFOLLY, F.CXOOLBY, D- D. 8, HAUPEISH'tf MoHenry, III. Having just'put in a new Ironing and Polishing Machine, also STEAM APPLIANCES I am now prepared to do all work lo tbe Laundry line on short cotlce.' and guarantee satlslactloo. 3^b> All work left wltb me will be promptly done.as the uew machinery put in enables me to do my work mucb fatter and better than heretofore. All Laundry will be called for and delivered when done, if word is sent me. JOHN HAUPRlSHi FRED. M- RYD&R, HOli&E, SI6X AND Carriage Painter, MeHENBY. ILL. Having leaeed the shop of F. ftanprlsh, in the village of McHenry, I am now prepared to do all kinds of Painting on abort notice and guarantee satistactiou. Carriage Painting a Specjalty. W A l l w o r k d o n e p r o m p t l y a n d p r i c e s reasonable, Wye me s call, FRKD. lit, BY DEB. MoBenry. Ang. L IMS. 0. L. HUEBARB, Harney - Maker AHD DEALER IN HARNESS, SADDLERY. Bridles, Blankets, Whips; CUTTERS, «co» All GOODS AT COST! Stock must be closed out in ten days from date. Single and light doable har­ ness at 30 per cent off. Heavy double harness 25 per cent off ' 4 Several sets of second-hand double and tingle harness at al­ most nothing. All goods must go t If chance of a life-time, i . C. L. HUBBARD. Nunda, 111*, 1893. * ^ \ "j * . , . .LJLjJ Kntertalntng a Slater's Friends. A young fellow the other night rue­ fully told me that he had started the day with $25 in his white flannel pockets, and at 10:80 at night had only 70 cents to show for it. "Gambling again?" I asked. "No, sir," he replied, with much feel­ ing. "Merely been cliivalric. Yon see, my .sister invited-five girl friends down to spend a week with her, and I am de­ tailed to help entertain. I took* th# whole crowd bathing in the morning, sailing and fishing in the afternoon, then merry-go-rounds, salt water taffy, tin­ types, pier, switchback, cream, soda water, coaches, and heaven only knows What. Twenty-four dollars and thirty cents have just melted away since 10 o'clock this morning. And those girls are here for a week. Got a lead pencil?" And I left him making figures on the woodwork of the pavilion, trying to find 'out how much money he would spend on his sister's friends "in a week if one girl took a nap in the afternoon and only left five for him to escort, or if two girls wouldn't .bathe in the morn­ ing and' one girl wanted to walk to the inlet while the others wanted to ride, or if it would rain so hard one day that they couldn't go out, or--well, a lot of other possible combinations. He still has the lead pencil.---New Tork Cor. Philadelphia Stageland. A Burglar Alarm. The Other night people living near King street were awakened by cries of "Help," "Thieves," "Burglars," etc., in a female voice. The bold men hurried on their clothes and rushed out into the night.* There on a tin roof stood the figure of a woman clad in a light wrapper, and in tremulous tones she declared that there were burglars downstairs. As she would not venture down to unlock the door, the men secured a ladder, and arming themselves with clubs went up on the roof and in through the window and down 'the stairs. But the burglars did not show up or even the slightest trace of any. Down in the cellar, however, they found a lighted lamp which the lady had left there herself in the early evening and forgotten about. A grown daugh­ ter, who was the only other occupant of the house, had looked out of her window in the night, and, discovering a stream of light out across the lawn, called her mother, who took it to be light from a burglar's dark lantern, and so gave the alarm.--Springfield Homestead. Bigness of the Fair. To visit the fair with profit or com­ fort you must leave your sense of duty behind. Whoever goes there with intent to thoroughly "do it" is laying up for himself anguish of mind and the com­ plete annihilation of his muscular and nervous force. It is far too big for any question of conscience to be allowed to enter in. Its bigness is beyond description. No words or pictures can tell the story of its size. Experience alone can teach it. You must go there day after day, to re­ turn at night with tired eyes and aching limbs, and with the bitter and ever in­ creasing knowledge that as an exhibi­ tion you can never grasp it. Where oth­ er exhibitions have been satisfied with a display of 100 pubic feet of any special article, Chicago must have at least an acre. Of whatever the world has seen before this time, it now sees larger spec­ imens and more of them. This means for the visitor more steps, more fatigue, more confusion, more time and more money. --Scribner's. Revealed In a D^eam. Two years ago John P. Elmborg of St. Paul was injured while boarding a cable car. He sued the company for damages, but lost his case owing to insufficient witnesses. A few nights ago he dreamed that he met a friend who told him that the names of the witnesses of the acci­ dent would be found on the back of a letter received two days before the acci­ dent occurred, together with the state­ ment that the casualty was the result of the gripman's carelessness. Ho also dreamed that all the witnesses against him would commit suicide. The follow­ ing morning Elmborg found the letter described, and on its back w^ere the names of 10 witnesses. Four of these have committed suicide, and two more witnesses have died natural deaths.-- Philadelphia Ledger. - Pumping Oat a Lake Tor Ore. Under what was once Lake Angeline, near Ishpeming, Mich., are said to be the largest iron ore deposits ever discov­ ered in the northwest. To get at these deposits all the water in the lake, which covered 160 acres and was 70 feet deep in places, has been pumped out. It took a pump delivering 20,000 gallons per minute from April until July, running night and day, to empty the lakek Now there is a bed of inud from 2 to 40 feet deep, which it will take 16 months to dig and pump ont.--New York Tele­ gram. Hunting For • Brand. They have got hold of a report down south that there is a fellow up in Minne­ sota who, whenever he goes on a spree, insists on paying a year's subscription to his town paper. He has already paid for the paper until Jan. 1, 1937, and the press association of Alabama is making frantic efforts to find out what brand of liquor he drinks.--New York Times. Wobodjr to Bay Her Stamps. A Baltimore woman has collected 1,000,000 stamps within three years. Her'motive was to sell* the stamps to a person who advertised that he would pay $300 for 1,000,000 stamps, but now that she has succeeded in getting the stamps together she cannot find the per­ son who wished to purchase them. During the late high water on the Grand river in Missouri a fence post of an inundated farm bore this truthful legend, "This place for sail." Do not miss seeing tbe Clothing at J. J. Miller's, line in West McHenry. -. 'v;v: - World's fair It is the finest m- OLD WINTERS ON THE FARST*" I've Jest about decided It'd keep a town boy hopptn j; ',•< - Fer to work all winter choppln Fer a old fireplace, like I did. , Laws! Them old times was eofttrairjM* « is Blame backbone o' winter, 'peared like " Wouldn't break, and I was skeeredlike Clean on into Feb'uary. - * • Nothin ever made me madder i »•>. Than fer pap to stomp in, layin : f On a extra forestick, sayin, , "Groun'liog's out and seed his shadiM*." --James Whitcomb Riley. Wnate That Is Now Valuable. A generation ago there was hardly a mill of any kind that was not troubled with a heap of rubbish or waste material that it did not know what to do with. Silk manufacturers saw the rise of this heap with annoyance, and they took it as 'a favor if any one would cart it away and *use it as a fertilizer. An English in­ ventor guessed at the possibilities in this pile of refuse and set about invent­ ing machinery to utilize it. Today, as a result of his foresight and genius, 5,000 persons are employed in making the finest silk plushes, ribbons and velvets from the refuse piles of silk' mills, &n& the inventor has grown rich. The cottonseed oil industry'is abet­ ter known illustration of economizing waste, but the dimensions to which the industry has grown are not so generally known. The annual product in oil, cake, lint and hulls from cotton seed, which a generation ago was allowed to rot, is $27,000,000, and it conld be made greater if there was a marjket for the product.--Philadelphia Press. The Arab's Donkey. One sees Arabs coming into Constan­ tinople with a donkey load of wood, which they sell for 3 francs. They have come 23 miles with if, sell it, and next day ride the donkey back. As a meal costs them but 2 " cents, the wood nothing, and the donkey does all the work, what seems a small profit is really a good one. And who is it that earns it? All saddle beasts in the east go what our Anglomaniacs call "artificial" gaits; in fact, three-fourths of all the animals in the worldt do so. Mules which are ridden always "sidle" or amble, all don­ keys running-walk, rack or amble. But nowhere except in our southern states have these gaits been studied as an art, improved on and bred from.-^-Colonel T. A. Dodge in Harper's. ' Marrying For Pity* A fair maiden who had weathered the blasts of some 85 summers was in­ formed by a booby that unless she mar­ ried him he .would blow the top of his head off. It's a pity she didn't let him do it. Heads of that kind ought to be blown off every time. That is what they are for. But Desdemona pitied Othello, and this fair maiden pitied her lover and went to the parson's with him. That was only a month ago, and now if he wants to Mil himself she will present him with the best silver mounted pistol in the market. Marriage is a solemn' contract, and it is better to think twice before signing it. --New Yofk Telegram. >f* All Right. Two men became engagect in a in the street. Instantly their hats went off and rolled in the dust. One of the men was entirely bald, and the other had a thick head of hair. .The bald man seized the oiher by the hair and began to drag 1iim about. "Stop"him!" cried a bystander. > "Why should you stop him?" asked another. "He's only practicing the gold­ en Irule." "The golden rule? What do you mean?" "Why, he's doing to the other man what he wishes to goodness the other man tnight be able to do to htmlf-- Youth's Companion. Anticipatory. Lady of the House--Aren't you asham­ ed of yourself--a great, strong man like you to be idling your time away? Transient Individual--Ah, mum, bat you forget the business depression. Lady of the House--Bother the •busi­ ness depression! To my knowledge you haven't done a stroke of work for years. Transient Individual--Of course. I was merely anticipating the panic, you know--getting used to loafing so I shouldn't mind it when there was no work to be had.--Boston Transcript. Good Enough For m Beasts A droll little story is told of Mr. W. S. Gilbert. He put up his horse one day at a small country irfn, on the signboard of which was painted conspicuously the notice, "Entertainment for man and beast." When his lunch was brought, he looked dissatisfied, and surprised {he waiter by saying, "This is all very well so far, but where is the entertainaawit for the man?"--London Tit-Bits. His Way of Settling Debts. While I was reading the London pa­ pers in a comfortable chair at the Colo­ nial club not long since two studious looking visitors went by. One said to the other: "Yes, he's a good fellow', but SQ eternally mysterious, though syste­ matic, yet unreliable. Take the way he settles, his bills, for instance, just like clockwork--tick, tick, tick."--Club; The'sun and the earth are both prac­ tically spherical in shape, and the earth is evidently only a small, cooled off or frozen sun. The sun has a shell of glow­ ing metallic clouds; the earth has a shell of solid opaque rocks and metals. The telephone was first practically' used in England in 1876, when over 115 miles of wire existed between London and Norwich, but no telephone exchange was established until 1879, when 10 of­ fices were established. In the jewel house of tbe Tower of London there is a book bound through­ out in gold, even to ttfe wires of the hinges. Its clasp is two rubies set at op-' posite ends of four golden links. Piles ofpeople have piiee, but DiWitt'8 Witch Hazel Salve will can them.' Julia A. Story. "DISCIPLINE AND CHARACfflCS A tribuA to the Austere ^ralnlag WkMl ; Produced a Man Like Try on. To our minds the»charm of Admiral Tryon's_bearing in the4ionr of his rate is the perfection of the system Avhich for centuries has bren men capable of his conduct and bis dor.tb. They have not had his opportunity of being visible,"not , his strangely scenic surronndings, not perhaps the temperament which could have inspired them to that farewell la­ the moment of disappearance, but there have-been hundreds of men in the navy, and even in the merchant service, who would have died as bravely as he did. It is the tradition of both services-- not, we think, the order--that the high­ est in rank on a ship in peril must be the last to quit the vessel; that, as occurred a *few years ago, even a stowaway, wbo is almost a criminal in sailors' eyes, must take precedence of the captain m secur­ ing safety. The origin of the rule is, wo fancy, policy--that the state oi; the own­ er be protected by the captain's author­ ity to the last--but it has become an eti­ quette and a pride, and in the records of hundreds of wrecks you will find few in which it was ever broken. "The cap­ tain was the last to leave the ship" is the end of almost every telegram of disaster. In other words,discipline baa continued for centuries under the pressure of same necessities, and the same ideas, has extinguished in a class by no means 4s* void either of faults or vices, a most Na­ tural and tempting form of selfishness has induced a whole series of men, many of them hardly educated, to face a slow and painful form of death rather than fail in the performance of a professional duty. Tliat is a wonderful result of train­ ing, and it is one which makes those who see it clearly doubt whether the modern world is altogether in the right path. The old idfeal for the formation of character was discipline, hardship, pres­ sure, alike from the law and from teach­ ers and from opinion, and it certainly produced many of the virtues, especially that one of obedience, which the work! everywhere, but on shipboard--where there are few unrealities and men carry their lives in their hands--has taken to despising. The modern idea is that dis­ cipline even for Children is an oppressive thing; that it turns men into machines, and it quenches individuality--that it is, in short, unpleasant, whereas pleasant­ ness is the end of life. We see the result of the change in tho disappearance of many forms of oppres­ sion, and a lighter atmosphere for men to move in, and we see it also in the slow disappearance of manv noble ments in character. The old syst working with good material, produces as its perfect result Admiral Tryon. The new. working also on the right material, produces the British agitator. Admiral Tryon was no doubt a hrato man and gentleman without help from. the service or its traditions, but tho service had annealed his character into what it was, something for a nation to * be proud of, which would Hardly have been exhibited or have existed amid the indiscipline and softness of* civil life. When one hears of such a man so meet­ ing such an end, it is difficult not to doubt whether liberty as now inter­ preted is such a perfectly good thing; whether instant obedience to command is not better training; whether pteesure from all sides, from service rules, Opin­ ion and hardship together, does not weld men into something worthier of the as­ pirations which, while men have con­ sciences, they never quite get rfd o<.--? ; London Spectator. Caste In a Bootblack. The idea of caste and class extend? even to the boothlacking fraternity* This is illustrated by a recent occurrence in Broad street. * An Irish shoe polisher has a stand in front of Delmonico's old restaurant. Not long since he entered a broker's office to, render professional services^ In his ab­ sence a dandy young negro seated him­ self in the chair and awaited his return. When the bootblack1 again appeared on the scene, he was horrified. As lie approached his stand the negro said, "Shine 'em up, please, and be quiok about Jt." • "Not if I know myself," replied the bootblack, with an oath* "Get o«t of that chair," he continued. "It's bad enough for me to be shining bctbta all me life, but Eve got this to say--I never shined shoes but for one of mufkosie- or."--New York Herald. *-'"4 -- / $ « Points About Xeedlea. •. " '5 The great sail needle, which has to lw $ pushed with a steel palm, would puxslo - ; „ most people; so, too, the broommaker's needle, which must also be pushed with a steel palm. The curious knitting ma­ chine needle, with us latchet; the am* sene* and crewel needles, and the needle for shirring machines; the weaver's pin for picking up broken threads, with an open eye in the hook. . The needle, as we see it today, is the evolved product of centuries of invention. In its primi­ tive form it wa% x^ade of bone, ivory or. wood. The making of Spanish needles * was introduced into England during the neign of Queen Elizabeth. Point by ̂ point the manufacture has improved.-- J L. G. Vance in Ladies' Home Journal. ^ . /* The Christian Nam®. • , ^ The term "Christian name" is uasd in England aad America only. '"Baptisms! name" is used in other countries. Th» terms 'seems to have been used first after the reformation, when Biblical namss were used as a reaction against the use of the saints' names in the calendar. H is evident that all Biblical names an m4 Christian, but the reaction wents* tar as to consider everything in the TflMI SB Christian and everything not in ble as pagan or certainly New York Evening Sun. Of "FLY NETS the beet makes tor largo •j#1' horses, in leatherand work team. Colored and wbitiDOSf Si fifink nets of all kino** WMW pads, whips, etc. Stock largo very low at Simon Stoffel s. " i r ' slls