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AytiONG OF LOVE,
1 was as poor as tho poorest, dear, an 1 the
world—it pa< 1 me by ;
But not that day when yo ^ rrij w.ij,
s with th« love-light In your oye.
Ah! not that day when the fragrant May
Wnt over the world h«r skv!
l Was ns lono as the loneliest love, with
never a dream of bliss ; j
tint not thnt day w! urn you passed my way
ntid loaned to my thankful kins!
Kay 1 not that day, while my lipi can say : I
never a joy like this!'
boar, It Is something to know this love lot
th< klos be black or due ;
It is 'moili ng lo know that you Jove mP
w tli lender, the sweet, the true ! ,
ly h rt will boat for that love, my
sweet, til! I dr n In the dust with you.
-F. 1) Canton, In Atlanta Constitution
AN ECCENTRIC LADY, !
i.y iiM.r.v rouKK.sr o haves. I
r- ta ^A ESSIE SPARKLE
/ % l‘ n, l 1,0,1 better
(» 4 JB days. until her It eyes was not be! ;
4. y 1 j ‘ "ijBwrfo gnu to fail her with j
Pi wi ir '©i such idity omiuous that rap-j
. \ -^r.) ffl the doc- !
L / tors bade her lonvt
T' yj “ ff her profession ;
f typewriter and
nry stenographer and ;
devote herself to ,
n it something that she realized else,
bow ort ms was her position.
YYlmt, then, should that “some¬
thing else” be ?
“I’m not voting,” meditated Miss
Sparkle. “And I’m not particularly |
iitt raci i ve. Ami I lon’t know any
tiling but stenography and I have no
money laid up. 1 nder these eircurn- j
st niters, what is something else? I I j
womb r it I did it aviso thing, t m years )
ago, when I refused to be Huber Mel
leu’s wife, because t preferred the ex¬ I
citement < 't a city life to settling down j
on a farm? Huber was a nice fellow, j
ftud I do believe he liked me. Wlmt a
pity it, is we can t live our lives twice
over! Well, lie’s married to Candace
Meriam now, and 1 hope they’re both
very happy.”
And Bessie would have shed a few
tears if she had not remembered just
in time that the eye-doctor had strict¬
ly prohibited the luxury of crying.
(ufitead of that, she fitted on a pair
of very unbecoming spectacles and be¬
gan to scan tho “Wants” column of
the newspaper.
ll was, however, through Mrs. Mon¬
tagu, the district visitor of a neigh¬
boring “Ladies’ Benevolent Associa¬
tion,” that Miss Sparkle finally heard
of a situat ion which she thought might
possibly “suit.”
Mrs. Montagu had eome to ask for a
monthly donation which the little
typewriter had always given of her
small income toward the wants of those
who were poorer than herself.
lb shic forgot, all about the oyc-doc
tor when she t-aw the district visitor,
and burst, into tears.
“I’ve no more money for you, Mrs.
Montagu,” said she. “In truth. I
don't know whether I’m not a fit subjedl
for charity myself. ”
Mrs Montagu heard the story. She
smiled.
“Don’t fret, Miss Sparkle,” said
she. “1 kr ow of the very place you
need. Companion to an eccentric
lady in tho country. It’s been on my
books for six months, but I cottld gel
no one to take it, because of the soli
tude of the place. It’s astonishing
how desperately city people hate to go
out of the city. You don’t mind?”
“I'd go to—Mars, to get a situa
tion," said Bessie.
Mrs. Montagu nodded encouraging
ly, aiul consulted her tablels on the
spot.
“Mrs. Edgecumbe,” said she, road
inf; out the data in a monotonous ntaii
her. “Wliite Rocks, New Jersey.
Companion. Twenty dollars a month
and found. One month’s vacation,
salary to go oil. No Sundays, No
extras.”
“What docs that mean?” gasped
Bessie.
“Simply,” explained Mrs. Montagu,
“that she is a very eccentric lady.
But she’s substantial. I used to know
her years ago, and I think—I’m quite
sure-- that when you become used to
her oddities, you’ll like her. Well,
what do you say?”
“l say yes," Bessie answered.
For, even white Mrs. Montagu had
been speaking, her mind had revolved
tho pros and eons, and she had decid¬
ed to risk everything.
“Good!” said the district visitor.
“Central Railroad of New Jersey to
Bariev Station. White Rocks is five
miles beyond. I’ll telegraph to-day,
and some one will bo there to meet
you. Pack your bag. Go at once.”
So Bessie Sparkle packed her bag,
and wont.
At Barley Station there was no one
to meet her.
"What am I to do?” she asked, a
little discomposed.
“ Tain't fur across the fields,” said
tho ticket agent, shrugging his shoul
dors. “F.dgocumbc's folks never does
anything like any one else.”
“But they wore telegraphed to.”
“Telegrafts don't make no differ
once to Iklgeoutube’s folks,” said the
“gen^yiuJiltily slipping . time-table
a
vb-H^P’d er^WyeHow on lus envelope desii, and that saying lay uu- to
himself:
“\ swan to goodness, I forgot all
about it!
And Bcssio Sparkle, ^ carrying her
hand bag, h aving her little trunks to
ho sent for, walked valorously across
the fields aud through a rocky gorge
or glen, through which brawled a lit
tic Stream, until she came to a pictur
t squo old stone house, which seemed
to be balancing itself on the edge of t
ray precipice, it- chimneys crim
soiled with the last light of the dying
day, its foundations burned iu fu
neroal ivy au J masses of blue-gray
hemlocks.
She rang au 1 she knocked, and she
hnocke land she rang, until she was
almost inclined to go away again iu
despair, when at last a shuffling foot
fall was heard in the hall, and a tall,
gaunt female iu blue spectacles, and
oerr\ in u lamp in out* baud, came to
the door.
“Wh are you?" said the
who.'e Urge features and awkward
mien nearly set poor little Bessie off
into a hysterical giggle.
“I Miss Sparkle, the new cm*
niH MONROK ADVERTISER, FORSTHY OA.. TUESDAY, AUGEST II, 1801. -EIGHT PAGES.
pnnion,” stii-l ahe. “Racommened bw
Mr«. MonUgn, of St. (’ristoforo’s
Church. ”
t ‘I ldtie ‘^ ol1 spectacled 1 ^ant a companion," after said
brief interval personage,
a of silence,
“ j r.«, you do," said Bessie,
remem
boring what the district visitor had
l 10r ftH to the eccentricity of this
Mr*. Edgecumbe. "Bet me come in,
ph ase. I’m tired and hungry.”
The blue spectacled woman seemed
to brighten tip at this allusion,
“Can you cook?” said she.
“A little,” Bcssio answered.
‘Why?"
“Because the servant is gone,” said
this very eccentric lady, “and I haven’t
had my supper.”
“But,” stammered Bessie, “I didn’t
engage ns cook.
“No, I know that,” calmly assented
the eccentric lady; “but I thought on
a pinch— You see, I don’t know how
to cook.”
^ n ’l withdrew into a side room
hung with black-a-vised family por
traits and folds of beautiful old tapes
try, and sat down, with the lamp on a
table beside her.
“Show mo to ray room, please,”
said Bessie. “And when I have re
moved a little of the dnst of travel,
I’ll see what I can do.”
Mrs. Edgecumbe jumped up again,
seized the lamp, and conducted her to
a pretty room furnished in pink-and
white chintz, with a view over the tops
of the hemlocks toward the river,
“Think you’ll like this room?” said
she, insinuatingly.
“Dh, it’s delightful!” cried Bessie.
But, when the lamp had gone bob¬
bing down tho stairs again, her heart
sank within her.
“I don’t think Mrs. Montagu could
have known it,” pondered she, “but
that woman is certainly touched iuher
mind. 1 never saw such a coarse face
in my life, and she wears a wig, and
an ill-fitting one at that, And she ue
tually behaves as if she were afraid of
me—me, Bessie Sparkle ! And I won¬
der if this no-servaut business is only
«u emergency or a permanent arrange
ment?”
But she washed away tho dust,
brushed out her brown hair where a
streak of gray was beginning to ob
strude itself here and there, pinned on
a clean collar and cuffs, and boldly de¬
manded the way to the kitchen.
There she cooked a dainty little
supper with tho material she found on
hand.
“That’s capital!” said Mrs. E.dge
ettmbo, as she ate and drank like a
very hungry person.
“I wish site wouldn’t drink her tea
so noisily out of the saucer and put
her knife so far into her mouth,”
thought Mrs. Sparkle.
“I say,” proclaimed Mrs. Edge
ettmbe, as slio pushed her chair back,
“I’ve got a headache!”
“Have you? I’m very sorry,” said
Bessie.
“And I think I’ll go to bed.”
“Won’t you have sumo of my smell
big salts?” timidly asked Bessie.
“I can always sleep ’em off best,”
said her employer. “And if any one
comes, tell ’em I can’t be disturbed.”
So saying, Mrs. Edgecumbe, accom¬
panied by her lamp, vanished from
the scene.
Bessie followed her with grave,
questioning eyes.
“It’s very strange!” observed she
to herself. “Such tv supper as she ate,
loo! Mrs. Montagu said flie was a
very eccentric lady.”
And she busied herself clearing
awav the table ‘essivo silence,
It was nearly nine o’clock, and she
was just going to her own little pink
and-white nook, when there came a
terrific knocking at tho door,
She lighted a lamp, during which
time tho knocking went on in a nerve
racking manner, and hurried down
stairs.
“Please, who’s there?” said she.
1 1 Because the key is gone, and I can’t
open the door.”
“Is Mrs. Edgecumbe at home?” de¬
manded a voice.
“Yes—but she has gone to bed with
a headache, and can’t be disturbed,”
Bessie answered, with au air of com¬
mand.
“Who is it that is speaking?” the
voice still questioned, in a puzzled
tone.
“It is T, Miss Sparkle—the new
companion.”
A brief silence followed,
“Will you ask her,” tho voice once
more resutneed, “if any one looking
like a tramp has passed this way since
noon?”
“I'll ask,” said Miss Sparkle; and
she slowly toiled upstairs again.
“I don’t know which room Mrs.
F.dgecumba’s is,” she thought; “but
1 can knock at all the doors until I
find out, I suppose.”
She knocked—at one and at all—
but with no response.
Next she ventured to open nil the
doors, revealing half a dozen hnud
> 0 : 110 , solidly furnished rooms, but all
were empty as the apartments in an
enchanted palace, and Bessie shrank
from the shadows, that seemed to
reach at her with their black fingers
from the distant corners,
1’rosently she came back again, very
much discomfited.
“I—I can’t find her,” faltered she;
“but I know she has a headache.”
“I must see Mrs. Edgecumbe ber
self, said the voice, growing more
and more imperious in its accents.
“Open the dvtor, please. ’
“leant, said Bessie, in despera*
tion. “The key is gone, I tell you.”
“Then open a window. At once,
please. Matters aro becoming a little
suspicious,” she hoard the unknown
claimant say to some one outside.
“I won’t,” said Besrie, valiantly,
"My orders aro to—”
“Will you be so good as to stand
aside?” interrupted the voice. “lam
the constable!
There was a sudden sound of break
ing glass and splintering wood; the
big stained glass window in the hall
was shivered to atoms, and two men
s P ran 3 in
“Beg your pardon, I’m sure,” %aid
the foremost of the pair; “but we’re
in search of an escaped convict—a
burglar — who is concealed somewhere
in this neighborhood, and it is our
duty to leave no stone unturned to
capture him. You, at least, with a
smile, “are no villain in disguise."
Miss Sparkle gave a gasp.
“What is Mrs. Edgecumbe like ?”
said she.
“Short and stout, with light blue
eyes and very white hair,” was the
surprised answer. “Where is she?
Have you called her?”
“She isn’t here at all," said Bessie.
“And—ami I’m almost certain that
the burglar is up stairs, in ‘woman's
clothes. Oh, dear! oh, dear! I wonder
I’m not murdered! Go and look in
all the rooms, I looke I, but it was su
gloomy, and— Oh, please hurry !”
But their search revealed ouly a
heap of women’s clothing and a pair
of spectacles lying close to the base
ment door. A draught of evening air
was floating through an open cellar
window, and the imitation Mrs. Edge
cumbe was gone.
“But,” said Bessie, growing hystcri
cal again, “what is to become of me?”
The constable eyed her rather
dubiously. He hi 1 not yet heard that
the burglar had any accomplices, but
j circumstances were beginning to look
' strange.
very
“Here,” said a quiet voice, close
' to them, at that moment, “what is
my house all open for at this time ol
night? And what are you doing here,
j Sam Wiggins?”
! “It’s Mrs. Edgecumbe!” shouted
* the constable,
“Why, who should it be?” demanded
the newcomer. ‘ I got a letter this
morning, begging me to go up to my
sister’s, at Deephaven, with my house¬
keeper, and when I got there, it
seemed that it was a false summons.
I returned at once, and find a lot of
people in possession. Now what does
all this mean ?”
Between the constable and the con¬
stable’s deputy and Miss Sparkle, the
question was soon elucidated.
The telegram had been sheepishly
handed Mrs. Edgecumbe as she drove
past the railroad station, and she was
prepared to see the New York visitor.
But the burglar had made his eseape.
“With my best silver forks and
spoon3—the scoundrel!” cried Mrs.
Edgecumbe, as she opened her safe.
“The insolence of the wretch--trying
to pass himself off as me!”
“And such a good supper as T cooked
him !” said Bessie, ringing her hands.
“We’ll capture him yet, never fear,”
said Sam Wiggins, encouragingly.
“He can’t have got much of a start."
And he went away with his subordi¬
nate, leaving Miss Sparkle and Mrs.
Edgecumbe to cultivate each other’s
acquaintance at their leisure.
At about noon the next day the con¬
stabulary wagon drove bv, with the
burglar comfortably seated on the
back seat, decorated with handcuffs.
“Your forks and spoons are all right,
Mrs. Edgecumbe!” called out Bam
Wiggins.
The burglar looked up and met Bes¬
sie Sparkle’s horrified gaze.
Was it only her imagination, or did
he actually wink at her?
“Well,” she cried, hurriedly with¬
drawing her head from tho open win¬
dow, “that was really an adventure!
If I had known who he was.”
Mrs. Edgecumbe laughed. She and
Bessie had become excellent friends
by that time.
“Yes,” said she, “you must have
thought I was a very eccentric lady,
indeed.”—Saturday Night.
Curious Grafting,
Some curious specimens of the arl
of grafting may be seen in the orchard
of Edwin Eames, in South Framing
bain, Mass. The most remarkable
sight is a lady apple tree, of which the
main trunk had decayed until it
seemed that the tree would be lost.
But a number of sprouts came up
about the trunk, and ten of these were
grafted to some of the lower limbs of
tho tree. Indulging in his taste for
the fanciful and unique, Mr. Eames,
instead of the simple, straight grafts,
placed the grafting sprouts in all con¬
ceivable curves and positions, tying
two of them in knots. When the
main trunk decayed it was cut away,
leaving the upper portion of the tree
supported by the ton oddly shaped and
twisted sprouts.
Another tree, bearing a Canada ap¬
ple, was treated in a similar way, eight
root sprouts having been grafted up¬
on one of the upper limbs, after
which the trunk was cut away.
One quite large red Astrachan tree
was originally a greening, but the
trunk was broken off and two shoots
came up. These Mr. Eames joined so
that as they grew they would not
spread apart; but instead of using an
iron bolt as is sometimes done, the
two shoots were joined by intergraft¬
ing. Graftiug was also done higher
up on the trunk, and several succeed¬
ing grafting have been performed,
joining limb to limb. The grafts
were of the Astrachan variety, and
some portions of the tree bear one
year and others the next year, pre¬
sumably because the grafts were from
different stocks. —Massachusetts Plow
man.
Jlilk an! Cheese Brain Food.
Is skim milk or chea3e brain food?
A jmper by M. Beeamp, which M.
Freidel has just read to the Paris
Academy, gives an affirmative answer.
M. Beeamp has for some time been
devoting himself to the study of
caseine. Ho has found that it
chemically differs from all other
albuminoids with whioh he is ac
qnainted. One of its properties is,
when burned pure, to make no ashes.
He experimented on burned caseine,
not with the view enunciates^ ot coming to the
! conclusion ho now but to
1 an opposite namely, that there is
one,
I no phosphorus in caseine. In a num*
j j ber absolutelr of experiments caseine he found that
pure contains 753
parts out of 1000 of organic phosphorus.
He has also demonstrated the presence
i n caseine of sulphur, and, therefore,
that this substance is made np of car
bon, hydrogen, nitrogen, " phosphorus,
sulphur and oxvgen. Milk andchees«
are York accordingly World. brain restorers.— New
___
Enormons Strength ol the Condor.
The enormous strength of the con
dor is only equaled by his voracity and
boldness. This immense bird often
pounces upon small animals, , but,
from the shape and bltlntuess of his
claws, he is unable to carrv anything
j very fixing* heavy, so he contents himself
with it against the ground with
j one of his claws, w*hile with the other
5 and his powerful beak he rends it to
| pieces. Gorged with food, the bird
: then becomes incapable of flight and
may be approached, but anv attempt
! at capture Herald. is farionjdy resisted,--Chi*
cage
'The Question of Ivory.
The ivory question is important, be¬
cause ivory is the wealth of the slave
trader far more than are his slaves.
Ivory is now found almost exclusively
in the Congo state. The elephant is
exterminated in Uganda and in Nyasa
!and. Some 500 tons of ivory reach
London yearly, but the supply is de¬
creasing. It is estimated that 75,000
elephants are being killed every year,
and if this is true even the Congo
herds cannot long survive such
slaughter.
It is generally agreed that as the
-he elephant- lias only one calf every
two or three years the destruction is
going on much faster than the breed¬
ing. Meanwhile it is to be remem¬
bered that ivory is essentially a slave
trade product and comes from the
land of Tippu Tib. The sale of arms
and ammunition must be prevented
from all sides. The sale of spirits
offers less temptation to the European
trader, because these Arabs are Mos¬
lems and do not drink .—Edinburgh
Review,
A DETROIT BUILDER,
Mr. TELLS A KKMAKKABI.E STORY
OF Ills l.l KK.
Cnnip to Rclruit About Forty Years Ac«.
Lr.vi ELSEY’S KXrr.RTEXCR WOETHY SERIOUS
ATTEMIO".
(Uroai -V Detroit Evening Kci r.«.)
Away out Gratiot a venae, far from tiio Din
.m l turmoil of tho business centre, there aro
many attractive hon^s. Tho intersecting
streets are wale, clean an i ohs lei by largo
lenf-covere l tree*, an 1 the people you meet
nretypienl ot in lustry, economy and honest
toil. There are many pretty rest ieneos, but
none more inviting in its neatness an l horn >
like comfort than that o’ Mr. Levi Elsey, tho
well-known builder an l contractor, at 71
Moran street, ju«t off Grit'O*’. Mr. EUey is
an old resident of Deiro't, having moved
here at out forty years ago. Ho has orecte l
hundreds ot houses in different pirts of tho
city, an 1 po : nts with pr do to such bull lin rs
as tho Newberry & .Mcfvlutlan tin 1 C imp nv
''locks, in which he displayed his ability as a
superintendent.
*‘I have seen Dotro’t grow fro n a village
to a city," he observe l yc3ter 1 iy in conver¬
sation with the writer, “.ini I don’t think
there nro many to.vns in A norici to-lav
equal to it in point o'beauty. I kaowahnoit
everybo ly in the city, an l an in ti lent which
recently happened in my life lias interestol
all my frion is.
•‘It Is now about eight years a;i sines 1
was stricken down with my first case of ill¬
ness. One cold, blustering day I was down
town and through my natural carelessness
at that time I nermitto 1 myself to get chille l
right through. When I arrive 1 homo that
*wening I folt a serious piia in my loftier.
I hathoil It that night, but by morning I
found it had grown worse. In fnet it w;iS30
serious that I sent for my family physician,
and ho informed mo that I was suffering
from varicose veins. Mv leg swelled up to
double its natural size an 1 the pain increased
iii volume. The agony was simply awful. I
was laid up and never left my bed for eight
weeks. At times I felt as though I woul ’
grow frantic with pain. My leg was Pan
daged and was propped up in tho bed at aa
anglo of thirty degrees, in order to keep the
blood from flowiugto my extr«mi%s.
“I had several doctors attending me, but
I believe my own judgment helped me better
than theirs. After tv siege of two months I
could movo around, still I was on the sick
list and hadto doctor myself for years. I
was never really cured and suffered any
amount of anguish.
“About two years ago I noticed an article
In tho Evening Ncies about my friend, Mr.
Northrup, the Woodward avenue merchant.
In an interview tvith him he stated that ho
had used Dr. Williams’Pink Pills for Talo
People and that they cured him. I knew him
very well, having built his house out Wood¬
ward Ave., and I thought I would follow his
suggestion. I must confess I did so with
marvelous success. From the time I begau
to take the Pink Pills I folt myself growing
to be a new man. They acted on me like a
magical stimulant. The pain departed and
I soon was as strong and healthy as evr.
Before trying the Piuk Pills I had used any
amount of other medicine without any no¬
ticeable benefit. But the Pills cured me an t
I was myself again.
“When a p-rsoa finds himself relieved and
enjoying health he is apt to expose himself
again lo another attack ot illness. Some
three months ago I stopped taking the Pink
Pills, and from the day I did so I noticed a
change in my condition, A short time since
I renetved my habit of taking them tvith tho
same beneficial results waich met me ior
merly. I am again nearly as strong as ever,
although I am a man about fifty-six years o.
age. 4 tell you, sir, the Piuk Pills tiro a most
wonderful medicine, and it they do as well
in other cases as they did in mine they are
the bestjn tho world. I freely recommend
them to any sufferer.”
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills contain, in a eon
densed form, all the elements necessary to
give new lile and richness to tho blood and
restore shattered nerves. They are an un
falling specific for such diseases as locomotor
ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ dncee,
sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous
headache, the after effect of Ja grippe, pal¬
pitation of the heart, pale and sallow com¬
plexions, all forms of weakness, either in
male or female. Pink Pills aro sold by all
dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt
of price (50 cents a box, or six boxes for
$2.50—they are never sold in bulk or by the
100), by addressing Dr. Williams’ Medicine
Do., Schenectady. N. Y.
A Compromise.
It was after dinner and he was say¬
ing sweet nothings to her out on the
piazza.
“Do you know whatl think of you?”
she asked in the pleased-reproving
tone women affect on such occa¬
sions.
“I hope it is nothing bad,” he an¬
swered, after the manner of men when
that question is put to them.
“Well, I think you are a hollow
mockery.”
He folded his hands across himself
composedly.
“A mockery, possibly,” ho admitted,
“but not hollow,” and then the lights
went out in the dining room .—Detroit
Free Pres*.
According to the latest reports the
railroads of the country have liabiii
ties amounting to $11,000,000,000.
This is four times as much as the pub
lie debt of the United States in 1865,
aQ d goes to prove that with all their
great value and usefulness railroads
are the most wasteful and worst man
aged business concerns in the world.
I Can’t Sleep
I have a tire!, worn-out feeling. This
means that the nervous system is out of or¬
der. When this complaint is made. Hood's
Sarsaparilla is needed to purify and vitalize
the blood, and thus apply nervous strength.
Take it now. Remember
Hood’s Sarsa -
parilla
Be and sure only to get HooT*. Hooi’s f^ures
hwi i Pills ears Ml lrr*r aa, paioossesA
v Y
>
~-£M
is All other powders
m are cheaper made S
B&kintr and inferior, and
^ Powder leave either acid or
JIbsoldfely Pure alkali in the food.
> <j
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 106 WALL ST., NEW-YORK.
IS
FLOATING FACTS.
The coldest place in the world isl'a
kutch, Russia ; the thermometer some¬
times falls to 73 degrees below zero.
Tho falling snowflakes bring with
them all the floating dust in the air,
leaving the atmosphere ext remely pure.
The first furrow plowed by electric
plows in America was on March 20,
1892, at the Kansas Sorghum Experi¬
ment station.
The deed for what is now eastern
Pennsylvania, given by the Duke of
York to William Penn, is for the term
of 10,000 years, at five shillings rent.
The Vatican at Rome contains a
marble statue with natural eyelashes.
It represents Ariadne asleep at the
moment she was deserted by Theseus.
There are some vegetables that can
scarcely be distinguished from ani¬
mals, and some animals that seem to
have all the characteristics of a vege¬
table.
In the sixteenth century no lady
was considered in full dress unless she
had a mirror at her breast. It was
oval in shape, about four by six inches
in size.
In Spain it costs £20,000,000 to
maintain the army and only £300,000
to educate tho children. It is the
exception to find a Spanish farmer
who is able to read or write.
In lower Canada the ardent lover
begs a wooden shoe from his sweet¬
heart to keep his tobacco in.
There are now about 5,300 Indians
in the state of New York. Of these
about 2,700 are Senecas.
The gannet, or solan goose, is pro¬
vided with an air cushion under his
i ■ tt- Hie i body -i contains . • about , . 1G0
cubic inches of air.
London bridge is 920 feet long, 56
feet wide . 5-5 f°et in height. . It
auu
has five semi-eliptical arches, the cen
t ter on( Lefiio- Dem 8 1 loU DO feet ltet -
Evaporation is two or throe times
greater in the sunshine than in the
shade, and five or six times as great in
summer as in winter; is greater dur¬
ing a breeze than in a calm, and is
greater from fields of melting snow
than from an equal surface of the
ocean.
The great lakes and the St. Law¬
rence valley have more storms per an¬
num than any other portion of this
country. This is due to the fact that
storms originating west of this district
move directly east, while many origi¬
nating further south move to the
northeast.
Amusing and Instructive.
Did you ever think that the same
syllable is often used in a great many
words? If not, suppose you learn it
by playing the following game : Write
several words on a long slip of paper,
leaving the space of half an inch be¬
tween the syllables of each word.
Then ent out the syllables,assort them
and let each player draw three sylla¬
bles at random. From these three or
f rom ftD y two of them he mixst try to
construct . a word. , If T , unable , , to , do so,
he must returu two to the pack and
wa i t until his turn comes again, when
i be may draw xl three more slips and try ,
again. — Ex.
If all that has been said by orators
and poets since the creation of the
world in praise of woman was applied
to the women of America, it would not
do them justice for their conduct dur¬
ing the war.—Lincoln.
Banish Tare,
But do it consi tently, wisely, and not with
a coholic stimulants, but by the reinforce¬
ment of energy, the renewal of appetite and
the ability to digest, which Hostetter’s Stom¬
ach Bitters, foremost among tonics, produces.
Malaria, rheumatism, kidney complaints,
constipation and nervousness are conquered
by this victor over many ailments.
The prince of wails is the wail over lost op¬
portunities.
Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root cures
a’l Kidney and Bladder troubles.
Pamphlet and Consultation free.
Laboratory Binshamton. N. Y.
When you want to drink to your friend’s
hr all h. drink water.
Pure and Wholesome Quality
Commends to public approval the California
liquid laxative remedy, Syrup of Fi^s. It ia
pleasant :o the taste and by acting gently on
the kidney , liver and bowels to cleanse the
system effectually, it promotes the health and
comfort of all who use it, and with millions u
is the best and only remedy.
No work is a drudgery in which you put life
and enthusiasm.
Attention, Tnnrist.
The mod pleasant New York, an and t cheapest the Fast way is to
reach Boston. St»am-hip C'oin- via
Central Railroad and Ocean round trip.
pinr. The t ate i« for the
$2100 straight. Ticket- ine'ude meals and
stateroom. Tables supplied with al the deli¬
cacies of the season. For informa i >n call on
or address any agent of C ntral R. R.
Wbat is Tetterine?
It is a fragrant, unctuous ointment of great
cooling and heal;ns power. It is good for
Tetter. Ringworm. Eczema and all rougfcnes ;
of the skin. It stops itching at enoe an ! if
persistently u=ed wiii positively cure even the
worst of chronic cases. 50 cents at a drug
store or by ma.l from J. T. Shuptrine, Savan¬
nah, Ga.
_
Do ton desire a clerkship in the citv or with
a railroad? If so send ns tour nym-. State
qualifications. W- fin 1 situations for both
iodics and gentlemen. Address Businc-s, S»
v-ina^h, Gx.
Unit’s Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally- Price T5e.
Kari i Clover Ro >t. the great b’ood the eouqdez- purifier,
gives freshness and clearness to SI.
■in and fi’i’cs constipation, 25 Lts.. 59 cts.,
A Valuable Discovery.
Mexican advices announce that a
discovery of a great scientific interest
lias been made in excavations being
carried on in the district of Tlaxiaco,
state of Oaxaca.
A number of small images, formed
in metal, were uncovered by workmen
digging in one of the oldest ruins.
These images are said to represent
people of oriental appearance—in
Chinese or Japanese dress—some of
them resembling Budhist priests in
their robes of sacrifice. They bear
hieroglyphics of unknown characters,
and are elaborately wrought with fine
art lines shown in every curve, The
images are of gold, either wholly or
in part, and are coated with some un¬
known enamel, which lias preserved
them splendidly. They are to be sent
to the city of Mexico and placed at
the disj)osal of the scientific world for
further study and discussion.
The find is believed to be the most
important of the year in the domain
of antiquities, and preparations are
now being made, I understand, to con¬
duct a complete exploration of the
Tlaxiaco ruins for further evidence of
this ancient civilization, which flour¬
ished in southern Mexico and Guate¬
mala centuries before the arrival of
the Spanish conquerors.
'Wliat They Mean.
Tennyson could take a worthless
sheet of paper, write a poem upon it
and make it worth $35,000-—that’s ge¬
nius. Vanderbilt can write a few
words on a sheet of paper and make it
worth $5,000,000—that’s capital. The
United States can take an ounce and a
quarter of gold and stamp on it an
eagle “bird” and make it worth $20—
that’s money. A mechanic can take
material worth $5 and make it into
watch springs worth $1,000—that’s
skill. A merchant can take au article
worth 75 cents and sell it for $1 —
that’s business. A lady can purchase
a 75 cent hat, but she prefers one that
costs $27—that’s foolishness. A ditch
digger works ten hours a day and han¬
dles several tons of earth for $2—that’s
labor. The editor of this paper could
write a check for $30,000,000, but it
wouldn’t be worth a dime—that’s
rough. — Exchange.
A Salmagundi Party.
As the word implies, a salmagundi
party is one in which a variety of
forms of entertainment is sought and
may include games, cards, dancing,
etc. At a salmagundi party held in
New York cooking was a form of en¬
tertainment, each guest being called
upon to prepare some dish for supper.
A Fine Opportunity
For loom Mon With Small Capital.
Every town needs and
will support a barber
0 0 sliop,cspi dally if it be
V clean and well man¬
aged by a white man.
Clean, respectable
m business, and pays a
big profit.
We furnish barber
shops with chairs,
fixtures and supplies
of all kinds at factory
prices. Send for cat¬
alogue.
LOWRY HARDWARE CO ■j
ATLANTA, GEORGIA.
FEED*
m
STEEL—Out and out.
COST LESS MONEY and cut more
lumber than any Saw Mill in the U.S.
M&MLY MACHINE CO.
BOILERS, ENGINES, DALTON, GA.
CASTINGS.
$ | 1 0 TO MKff’SSS’.t.’SSfiKSS o nn-l travel
t “ T ” furnish a horse
through the country; a t*arn,
ih lusrh. Is not necessary. A
few vacancies in town* and
cities M. n a nd ivo urn of good character will find
this an ex ceptiona 1 opportunity f »r profitable em
p oymeut. Spare hours mav b? use i to good adran
tage. B. F .JOHNSON CO..
11th and Mr.iit Sts., Richmond, Va.
Buyers cl Machinery, Attention!
Deal direct y with manufacturers and
write us for prices.
ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MILLS,
Grist Millls, Cane Mills, Cotton
Gins and Presses,
And anvthing wanted in the machinery line.
SCHOFIELD’S IRON WOKKS.Mneon,(Ja.
For Bowel Troubles
cse
Royal Ger met tier
IT IS SAFEST AND BEST.
JON'S jS
g/Tonic
TRE ATM ENT
At »H »'ores,or bj m*i 25c. doable bo* ; 5 double
BROWN .'IF!, VO.. New York City.
mm K gas asm | CATALOG,
■ 2 * SB f a full de-eriptio
vaes ■ of thaehtapest
best IRON FENCE m*d9 for
ass. J. W; RICE, Atlanta, Ga.
rV 7
Father ami Home.
The father w ho plunges into business
so deeply that he lias no leisure for do¬
mestic duties and pleasures, and whose
only intercourse with his children con¬
sists in a brief word of authority or a
surly lamentation over their expen¬
siveness, is equally to be pitied and to
be blamed. Money is not the only de¬
sirable bequest which a father can
leave to his children. Well cultivated
intellects, hearts sensible to domestic
affection, the love of parents, a taste
for home pleasures, habits of order,
regularity and industry, hatred of vice
and a lively sensibility of the excel¬
lence of virtue are as valuable an in¬
heritance ns a legacy of property. One
can be dispersed, and the others can¬
not.
A recent English invention has tho
nursery is a “patent veiled sheet.” It
is an ordinary sheet in which a square
of gauze net is inserted. This is in¬
tended to be thrown over the face of a
sleeping infant, protecting it from
flies without impeding the respiration.
=5
THE WAY IS OPEN
to health and strength, if you’re a nervous,
delicate woman. The medicine to cure you,
the tonic to build you up, is I)r. Pierce’s Fa¬
vorite Prescription. You can depend upon
it. Tbo makers say it will help j-ott, or cost
you nothing. They guarantee it,.
As a sate and certain remedy for woman’*
ailments, “ Prescription.” nothing It’s can compare invigorating, with the
an re¬
storative ing nervine, tonic, perfectly and a harmless soothing, in strengthen¬
dition of tho female any con¬
It’s marvelous system.
a remedy Vitus's for nervous and
general Spoils, debility, St. Dance, Fainting
Dizziness, disorders Sleeplessness, functional and all the
nervous It due to derange¬
ments. has often, by restoring the wo¬
manly functions, cured cases of Insanity.
PIERCE £- antees Guar¬ a CURE
OK MONEY RETURNED.
1CL1P. .SAVE m SEND I0DI
Do we not present a umiling oonnter.ance? Why ahon)4
we not? It is true we have been overworked and even with
our greatly mere* jert facilities, have had to work niphte, to
supply ly the deman ds made upon us for Aermotors, tanks and
towers This ev cr increasing, never ceasing demand for onr
goods, even m times of great business depression, in»ke» tie
tired, but happy, as witness the smiling countenance Id
our glittering Aermotor. While others cannot get work to
do, we are overwhelmed with it. Whv? Because we make
the best thing thhtcan^^t- J be made, of the h««t
material price that that is y\\ yc_Vt" \\ I //V made, WM at m*de, the low ven and
ever \ ST
back best reputation it all by tho / / ^
ever made for /
knowing what ERM0T0R
to do, how to * — I ^ jL i?
do it .tii"! and in- CHICAn
variably occorn- v-- C"
plitthing the re- \ s\/ world knowa
suit. All the Co.
that the Aermotor y alone knows
how to make Wind- r mills, steel towers
and 1 tanks. Orders for them pour in up¬
on us from every nook —■ ■■■ and corner of the earth.
A business depression world in /a! \ j A \l \ any i» one field. locality it, is there¬ not
felt by us. The 1 // f U our busy and
fore, any wonder that A V \\ are
doubling our last year’a J output, even in these
tor days premises, of depression? from the \u \\ / I tl \ Ml \\ Everyone office boy on to the the owners, Aermo
All present* this well fed, jf | ] I \j\ l\ smiling busy, happy—work countonanee. it
are prosperous, #1 ill U ty attends the design¬
plenty, and prosperi- and sellers of Aermotors. Even the
ers, makers, managers wide awake, intelligent,
purchasers of Aerraotors are the up
-to-thetimes cash buyers in any community. Aermotof
people have no forebodings ot disaster and herd times.
Aermotor employes never strike. They are prosperous end
contented, j Even in the civil commotion and great upheaval
recently raging in Chicago, the Aermotor people were at wo'k,
radiant with smiles and good cheer, and ready to help bring
and welcome back the general prosperity, which must, at
once, inevitably return to our land.
AERMOTOR CO., 12th. Rockwell and Fillmore Sts.. Chicago, III.
(Preierv« this as No. 8 la tho series of ]!•)
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IS THE ECST.
NO SQUEAKING
$5. FRENCH CORDOVAN, & ENAMELLED CALF
-V
*4. ? 3. 5 - 0 FiNECALFM6AR(Jl
$ 3.50 P0LICE.3 Soles.
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S2.V-SBOY5SCHOOLSHOE3.
‘LADIES
m%,SEN bIstdonmu.
§gf? D FOR CATALOGUE
*rV Y/’L’DGUSLAS,
■ BROCKTON, MASS.
Yon can eavo money by wearing tho
XV. t. Douglas §3.00 Shoe.
Because, wo aro tho larpr-st manufacturer* of
thi3 gradeof shoes In tha world,an ! guarantee th»lr
value by stamping tho name and price on ths
bottom, which protect you against high j. rices *011
the middleman's profits. Our shoes equal custom
work In style, easy fitting and wearing qiiafitlr*.
We have them sold every wh r'ro at lower - prlf-r* for
the value given than any other mnke. T ike no sub
stltute. If your dealer cannot supply you, wo can.
For Engines, Boilers, Saw
Mills anil Machinery, all
kinds, write MALL ARY
BROS. A CO., Macon, Ga.
HALMSiliilEiGtieiiiinffGiim
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■' Cures anil Prevent* Kheiima’lxm, In"lge tton, S ”
A Dyspepsia, Heartburn, Cauirri: anfi As hma. t.«T
▼ Useful in Malaria ana Fever*. Cleanses
A Teeth an-1 Promote* the Appetite. Sweeten* * A
r the Breath. Cure* t he Tobacco H a bit. Endorsed
-by the Medical Facu ty. Seud for 10. If, or 25 -•
a cent rocka.' . SUver, .'.tamp* or Io*>al Sote. A
F GEO. P-. HALM, HQ Wert 2Vth SL, Near York. 7
A
SI 000 in monc v; be-i'le* other valuable
premiums to g-.od gun eer«.
Base-Hail Rooter-, catch on.
See oflier ill Home find ( otintrv tlngnzlne.
Price 25 cent* Samp e Magazine cap tie seen an! full
. dealers,or,
rar:icalar3 obtained at th'* office. ■ II N *w
53 East 10th Street, New Y r< City
AGENTS, local and county, for «r>eci»ltte*. Beply
Hw'.th stamp. Adam; Adv. Areucy. Lawrence.
■•v l risers C8RE- for
Consoraptlve* and people
who have weak lungs or Asth¬
ma, should use Piso’sCure for
Consumption. It has enred
thousand*. It has not injur¬
ed one. It is not bad to rate.
H is the best cough syrup.
Sold everywhere. S«Sc.
•consumption.
k. N. ...... Thirty-t wo,