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VOLUME XL.
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IN HOSIERY the same offer holds good.
We have a few odd Rugs and Hassocks left which MUST BE SOLD
before our new stock arrives.
In Curtains, we are offering the odd lots at about half price; some
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These odd lot prices hold good in Clothing, Overcoats and Odd
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We also have about a dozen Capes, Jackets and Reefers to go at
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MOONLIGHT IN MUSIC. 3
Story of Bow Beethoven Created His.
Wonderful Sonata.
Beethoven’s famous composition, ttHf 5
“Moonlight Sonata,’’ is said to hgvej
been composed under the following oLcm
cnmstances: |
One evening, as Beethoven and
friend were hurrying through. tbeJ
streets of Bonn, they heard the familiar!
notes of the “Sonata In F. ”
in the musician’s touch attracted ttrer
attention of Beethoven, and he
and listened. Suddenly the music etop*
ped, and the despairing words of the
musician came to them through the*
open window, “Oh, if I could but hear
some really good musician play this
wonderful piece!’’ and the words ended
in a sob.
“Let us go in,” said Beethoven.,
They entered and found the player a.'
young girl, poor and blind. Beethovea,
sat down at the old harpsichord and
played as he had never played before.
His listeners were spellbound. “Teltf
us,” they begged, “who are you?” For 1
answer be played the opening bars in 1
the “Sonata In F. ” “It is Beethoven I” J
they exclaimed in awe and
Suddenly the candle flickered antra
went out. Beethoven ceased playing!
and bowed hie head upon his hand. His]
friend threw open the shutters. A flood !
of beautiful moonlight entered the]
room. Its transfiguring light touched!
up the poor old instrument and rested]
upon the noble figure bowed before it. ’
The profound silence was broken at last |
by the mnsician, who said: “Listen! I
will improvise a sonata to the moon
light. ” Then was created this wonder
ful sonata, beginning in a sad, tender
movement, the embodiment in sound of!
the gentle moonlight transfiguring and
glorifying the dark earth.
Suddenly the music ceased, and with
a brief farewell Beethoven hurried
home to put upon paper this famous
composition.—Philadelphia Saturday
Post.
A REALISTIC ACT. 4
An Amusing Story of Jefferson mj
_ Rip Van Winkle.*
While he was playing Rip Yarn
Winkle at Chicago Jefferson once
went to the theater very much exhaust
ed by a long day’s fishing on the lake.
As the curtain rose on the third act itl
disclosed the white haired Rip still deep
in bis 20 years’ nap. Five, 10, 30 min
utes passed and he did not awaken. The
audience began to get impatient and
the prompter uneasy.
The great actor doubtless knew what
be was about, but this was carrying the
realistic business too far. The fact was
that all this time Jefferson was really
sleeping the sleep of the just, or rather
of the fisherman who had sat eight
hours in the sun. Finally the gallery
became uproarious, and one of the
“gods” wanted to know if there was
going to be “19 years more of thia
snooze business!”
At this point Jefferson began to
snore. This decided the prompter, who j
opened a small trap beneath the.Btage
and began toprod Rip from below? The
fagged comedian fumbled in his pocket
for an imaginary railway ticket and
muttered drowsily, “Going right
through, ’ductor.”
At this entirely new reading the au
dience was transfixed with amazement,
when all at once Jefferson sat up with
a loud shriek, evidently in agony. The
exasperated prompter had “jabbed”
him with a pin. Consciousness U the
situation came to him and the play
went on after that with a rush.—Phila
delphia Post.
A Binding Chinese Oath.
We are accustomed to all manner of
swearing—that is, of course, legal oath
taking—in this country, but we do not
recollect bearing of so queer a medium
of attestation as a “guillotined black
cockatoo.” That is what the police of
a country district in New South Wales
had to provide the other day for a fin
icking Chinaman, who obstinately de
clined to swear on anything else. Head
less fowls were brought, but in vain.
Even a black swan, a luxury surely for
a Chinese witness, was declined.
After many days a dead cockatoo of
the required hue was discovered in a
hut of one of the other “heathen, ” as
they call the Celestials, who muleted
the officials 10 shillings for a fast decom
posing bird. Then the solemn and pe
culiar oath was duly administered, when
the difficult witness blandly declared j
that he knew nothing about the case ■
and sat down smiling.— London Chron
icle.
Revised Geography.
A correspondent reports an occurrence
which took place at a night school.
“Williams,” asked the instructor,
“which is the largest island in the
world?”
“It’s either Asia or Africa, ” replied
the young man to whom the question
was addressed.
“lam speaking of islands, Williams.
Those are continents.”
“I think not, sir,” drawled Wil
liams. “When the Suez canal was cut,
it made islands of both of ’em, sir.
Come to think of it, sir, the largest is '
Asia and Europe. It’s all one piece of
ground.”—Youth’s Companion.
His First Client.
In an address delivered at Hartford
the Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale told
the story of James Russell Lowell’s first
client as Lowell had told it to him.
Lowell had hardly opened his law office
when a stranger appeared. The young
lawyer deferentially offered him a
chair, took out bis notebook, talked of
the weather, and when he finally
to business found the stranger was a
bill collector.
“What will be the cost of the war?” 1
asked Queen Augusta when French and
Germans grew belligerent. “Only a
Napoleon, ” replied Bismarck.
A fine ostrich is calculated to yield
$2,000 worth of feathers.
For LaGrippe.
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ave., corner Jackson street, one of Chi
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The woman who discovers disa
greeable traits in the man she thinks
perfect is happy if her awakening
comes before instead of after mar
riage.
Carlyle as a tutor
jAN AMUSING ANECDOTE Or THE
| GREAT AND GLOOMY MAN.
ffH* Had a Frown That Terrified and
a Laush That Startled His Pupils.
X The Day the Donkey Came to School
i- Against His Will.
A .A writer in The Scotsman has un-
Jbarthed an amusing anecdote of Thomas
•Carlyle as a country “dominie, ” for
.the accuracy of which he vouches. It
was told in 1853 by a Cupar Fife law
yer and provost who had been one of
Carlyle’s pupils at Kirkcaldy, to the
writer and Hugh Miller. The interest
of this gentleman’s reminiscences of
this schoolmaster was heightened by his
utter unconsciousness that has old do
'minie was the Thomas Carlyle who was
then beginning to be known to fame.
The old gentleman described the older
race of Scottish schoolmasters as always
1 during school hours wearing their hats
f —at least keeping their heads covered—
land many of the boys, viewing the pe
pculiar angle at which the hat stood up
ron the head and how near it came to the
■eyebrows, could conjecture if the sav
[ age mood were to be that day predomi
i nant.
L “But my teacher,” said the provost,
*“a strict and gloomy disciplinarian
j with the name of Carlyle, never wore
j his hat in the school, and indeed his
i brow was so overhung with dark threat
ening that no extra expression to alarm
us was needed from his lum hat! He
did not thrash us either very often or
.very severely, but we had a fear that,
provoked, he would go great lengths
in punishment. I have seen his mere
scowl hush at once the whole school.”
Hugh Miller here interposed by ask
ing, “Did your teacher ever burst into
a strange laugh in school?”
“That is a very odd question,” re
turned the provost. “Why do you ask?
But now that I remember, he had at
■ times a very extraordinary laugh that
I made us all stare. It had a train of
queer chuckling which exploded in a
succession of loud and deep guffaws that
shook his whole body and displayed all
his teeth like the keys of a piano. He
then clapped his hands on the book he
. held against his knees. Yet none of us
” never knew at what he was laughing.
He had a grim smile in reproving pupils
and a habit of tapping their heads with
his knuckles as he told them that the
heads would never be worth the price
of hats or the charge of a barber, though
mammas and aunts had that morning
oombed, kissed and blessed them, as if
they were teeming with the sublimest
inventions and designs!”
The provost saw that Hugh Miller
and some other guests were listening
eagerly, and he proceeded:
“One morning, a few minutes before
the school hour, when most of the pu
pils had arrived, and, as rain was fall
ing, they had gone into the school, a
donke_y, which had broken loose from
'fie tether oa a grassy spot near, was en
tering theiplayground. Bill Hood and I
were so far on our way, and Bill, who
was a stout and frolicsome lad—the
ringleader in many sports and tricks—
rushed to mount the animal and began
to guide and force it into the school.
“With desperate spurring the donkey
was induced to carry its rider over the
thresbhold, and what a reception both
of them got from the juvenile crowds!
Bags of books were at once fastened to
the tail and around the neck of the ass,
and so busy were Bill and half a dozen
companions inaurging the animal to a
oauter around the school and to ascend
the short stair es the master’s desk that
they did not notice how time was speed
ing, and before they could remove the
stranger Mr. Carlyle appeared.
“We expected a tremendous exjjosion
of wrath, but he burst into a roar of
laughter—such a roar, however, as, in
stead of tempting us to join in it, pro
duced a sudden and complete hush, and
that roar was renewed again and again
when the ass, withdrawing its forefeet
from the first step of the desk stair and
turning round, took a pace or two slow
ly toward the master as if to salute him.
“ ‘That, ’ exclaimed Carlyle, ‘is the
wisest and best scholar Kirkcaldy has
yet sent me. He is fit to be your teach
er.’ He tapped the donkey’s head as he
was wont to do ours and said, ‘There’s
something here far more than in the
skulls of any of his brethren before me,
> though these skulls are patted in fond
■ admiration by papas and mammas, and
though that far grander headpiece meets
only with merciless blows.’
“He then gave some hard taps on
Bill Hood’s head, and would not allow
him to dismount, but for a penalty or
dered him to ride up and down the
school for an hour, while those boys
who had been most active in helping
Bill to go through the farce had to
; march in pairs before and behind the
perplexed looking ass. He did not re
quire the other scholars to attend to
their several school lessons, but silently
permitted them to stand as spectators
of the grotesque procession. Then he
himself, seated within his pulpitlike
! desk, surveyed Bill and his company.
“I have not for years thought of this
scene,” continued the provost, “but it
has now come back to me freshly, and
I remember that my old master had a
very strange laugh. I don’t know whas
; has become of him, nor indeed have I
heard of him since I left Kirkcaldy
school.”
No Open Dates.
“You have an elegant and spacious
home,” said the pastor. “You have
books, a piano, a daughter who can
. sing and play and everything to make
home alluring. Why don’t you throw
your bouse open some evening in the
week for the benefit of the homeless
young men? You might save many a
one from the club and the saloon.”
“Young men?” said the wealthy
member. “There’s one of them who
comes to my house six evenings in the
week. What are you talking about,
doctor?”—Chicago Tribune.
Making It Clear.
Somebody has discovered that a Ber
muda onion eaten raw will clear the
head. A Bermuda onion eaten raw will
do more than that It will clear an en
tire room. An active Bermuda onion is
a complete clearing house all by itself
Take one Bermuda onion—only cue—
and let the lips of beauty close upon it,
and love will turn to hatred and honey
to gall and bitterness.
Clear the head? Why, a Bermuda on
ion in fairly good health will clear the
head of navigation!—Exchange.
A two or three weeks course of Dr. M.
A. Simmons Liver Medicine will so reg
ulate the Excretory Functions that they
will operate without any aid whatever.
SURPRISED HER HUSBAND.
Why the Young Wife Spent an After
noon In His Office.
Young Airs. Smith, who lives down
on Prairie avenue, is very fond of her
husband and also very jealous of him.
Mr. Smith knows this and enjoys it im
mensely Before the Smiths were mar
ried he used to know a Minneapolis girl
who visited his sister in Chicago. Mra
Smith knew her very well too The Min
neapolis girl came down not long ago,
and Mrs. Smith called on her A few
days before the Minneapolis girl went
back she called on Mrs Smith, and
they had an enjoyable quarter of an
hour thinking things about one another
and talking about Mansfield.
When the Minneapolis girl rose to
go, she said sweetly. “Oh. by the way,
I want to see Charlie before I go back,
and I think I may just drop into his
office this afternoon. ”
“Oh, do; Charlie will be delighted,’
returned Mrs. Smith. The door had
hardly closed on the guest before Airs.
Smith executed a sort of war dance.
She dressed as fast as she could, put on
her bonnet and announced her intention
of going down to Mr. Smith’s office.
Her grandmother remonstrated in vain.
Mrs. Smith is only 18. and she is jeal
ous.
“I thought I’d spend the afternoon
with you, ’ ’ she announced to the aston
ished Charlie as she swept into the
office.
“But. my dear"— he began, when
Airs. Smith ensconced herself at ths
side of his desk and intimated that ths
most violent arguments would not
move her She sat there all the after
noon The Alinneapolis girl enjoyed
herself shopping, and forgot to call in
to tell Charlie goodby Mrs. Smith broks
down and confessed as soon as she got
home, and her foolish young husband
told her to go down next day and buy
herself the prettiest hat she could fincl
—Chicago Inter Ocean
JOHN HAY’S BIG APRON.
O«e of the Canea Where Dishwash
iiiK Produced a Poet.
Colonel Hay was when a boy a regu
lar attendant of the Presbyterian Sun
day school at Warsaw, Ills
The Sunday school lessons partly con
sisted of committing to memory Bible
verses, and to attain supremacy in this
created quite a rivalry among the schol
ars John Hay was sure to come out
ahead from two to five answers, some
times more, causing those of his com
rades who were always behind him to
regard him with envy
Consequently when some of those boys
heard that John had to wash dishes and
do the churning for his mother and,
more than all, that he wore an apron
while at these duties his jealous com
rades fairly crowed.
One morning it was agreed by his
comrades to get him out of doors while
he had his apron on and humiliate him
by having two or three girls whom ha
rather liked ask him questions in re
gard to his housework.
Young Hay came out to where the
boys were and answered the questions
by saying that he washed dishes as his
mother taught him. and then, with
twinkling eyes, he gave the dishpan
which he had with him a tremendous
fling, contents and all, drenching who
ever happened to be near enough, and,
laughing loudly, ran into the kitchen.
Hay and his big apron were never mo
lested after that. —Christian Endeavor
World.
A KisninK Nation.
In no other part of the world is kiss
ing so much in vogue as in Russia.
From time immemorial it has been the
national salute. Indeed it is more of a
greeting than a caress.
In public affairs, as in private, the
kiss is an established custom. Fathers
and sons kiss, old generals with rusty
mustaches kiss, whole regiments kiss.
The emperor kisses his officers. On a
reviewing day there are almost as many
kisses as shots exchanged. If a lillipu
tian corps of cadets have earned the im
perial approval, the imperial salute ia
bestowed upon the head boy, who passes
it on with a hearty report to his neigh
bor, he in his turn to the next, and so
on, through the whole juvenile body.
On a holiday or fete day the young
and delicate mistress of a house will
not only kiss all her maidservants, but
all her menservants, too, and if the
gentleman does not venture above her
hand she will stoop and kiss his cheek.
To judge also from the number of
salutes the matrimonial bond in these
high circles must be one of uninterrupt
ed felicity. A gentleman scarcely enters
or leaves the room without kissing his
wife either on her forehead, cheek or
hand.
Heroes of the Pan.
The intensity of application with
which the mind follows whatever It
lays hold of in lite.rary pursuits is ex
emplified in the case of Robert Ains
worth, a celebrated writer and anti
quarian of the seventeenth century. He
had been for years engaged in a volumi
nous Latin dictionary, and while fas
cinated with this heroic work gave so
little time and attention to his wife
that he incurred her bitterest jealousy,
and before the work was quite complete
she committed the whole to the flames.
Instead of abandoning bimself to de
spair, Ainsworth set to work and re
wrote it, accomplishing the entire work
in time. The same bitter disappoint
ment was endured with similar heroism
by Carlyle when the manuscript of his
“Frederick the Great” was destroyed
by fire.
Unexpeete!.
The tramp had been very impertinent
and dictatorial until the hired man un
expectedly made his appearance and in
quired, “Are you lookin fur a scrap?’’
His manner changed entirely, and at
once he answered, “Yes, sir, that’s
what I’m lookin fur —a scrap o’ cold
turkey er cold ham er anything that
happens to be handy.”—Washington
Star
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The woman who desires to create
a good impression doesn’t monopolize
the conversation even though she
considers what she has to say of ever
so much greater interest than the
taik going on about her.
#1 .OU Per Annum in Advance.
ANCIENT MONUMENTS.
A Prehistoric Race That Built Hill* of
Their Own.
Within an hour’s ride of the City
ol Mexico the traveler can reach one
of the many ancient ruins that dot
this country and whose history was
as mysterious when Cortes landed
as it is now. The pyramids of the
Bun and moon are near the little
city of San Juan Teotihuacan, on the
line of the Mexican railway. From
the evidences that are still to be
found about these ancient monu
ments they once stood in the midst
pf an extensive city extending at
leaat*several miles from them m ev
ery direction. Viewed from the
railroad, the .pyramids do uot ap
pear very formidable because the
eye compares their height with that
of the small mountain, Cerro Gordo,
near by. Janvier gives the follow
ing detailed information about these
evidences of a prehistoric civiliza
tion: The pyramid of the sun, ac
cording to the very careful meas
urements of Senor Garcia Cubas, is
216 feet 8 inches high, with a base
761 feet by 721 feet 7 inches square.
The platform on the top is 59 feet
from north to south by 105 feet
from ease to west. The pyramid of
the moon is 150 feet 11 inches high,
with a base 511 feet by 426 feet 5
inches and a crowning platform 19
feet 8 inches square. The only en
trance as yet discovered is found on
the southern face of the pyramid of
the moon at a height of 65 feet from
the ground. This gives inlet to a
narrow descending gallery, inter
rupted by a deep, square well, the
walls of which are laid up with
carefully squared stone.
The axis of this gallery (observa
tion of Senor Garcia Cubas) coin
cides exactly with the magnetic
meridian. Beyond the gallery the
interior remains unexplored. The
pyramid of the sun has not been en
tered at all. To the south of the
pyramid of the sun is a large earth
work known as the ciudadela (cita
del), a square inclosed by a mound
averaging 262 feet thick by 32 feet
high. In the center of the inclosed
square is a small pyramid, and upon
the inclosing earthworks are 14
small pyramids disposed at regular
intervals. In the neighborhood of
the pyramids are great numbers of
tumbuli, isolated and grouped. The
most notable group of tumuli is that
which borders the so called oalle de
los muertes (the street of the dead).
This curious causeway begins near
the citadel and, passing the west
ern face of the pyramid of the sun,
ends at the southern front of the
pyramid of the moon, there widen
ing out into a large circle, in the
center of which is a tumulus. Many
of the tumuli have been opened, dis
closing in some cases boxes of
brought stone inclosing a skull and
ornaments of obsidian and pottery.
In other cases (in the tumuli along
the sides of the streets of the dead)
only empty chambers have been
found. The conclusion arrived at
by Senor Orazooy Berra in regard
to these very curious remains,
mainly based upon the wide diver
gence from any known types of the
clay masks found in what may be
assumed to be the older of the
tombs, is that they are the work of
a race older than either Toltecs or
Acolhuas, of which only these mon
uments now remain.—Modern Mex
ico.
Tithes In Eqglish History.
Tithes were not uncommon among
the Jews, but they were chiefly con
fined to- a tenth part of the spoil
taken from the enemy. Bishop Bar
low, Seldon and others have observ
ed that neither tithes nor ecclesias
tical benefices were ever heard of in
the Christian church or pretended
to be due to the Christian priest
hood, and, as that bishop observes,
no mention is made of tithes in the
grand codex of canons, ending in
the year 461. Seldon contends that
tithes were not introduced into Eng
land until the end of the eighth cen
tury—that is, about the year 786.
About the year 794 Offa, king of
Mercia, gave unto the church the
tithes of all the kingdom (Mercia)
to expiate for the death of Ethel
bert, king of the East Angles, whom
in the year preceding he caused to
be murdered. This was one way of
endeavoring to appease the wrath
of God. Tithes were before paid in
England byway of offerings, and
about 60 years after Offa’s estab
lishment Ethel wolf enlarged it for
the whole kingdom. Charlemagne
established the payment of tithes in
France in 778 and made the famous
division of them into four parts, one
to maintain the edifice of the church,
the second to support the poor, the
third to the bishops and the fourth
to the parochial clergy.—New York
Ledger.
Why He Fled.
“What made Kladderfleisch in
such a hurry to get out of Ger
many?’’
“He happened to bear a close re
semblance in personal appearance
to the Emperor William."
“There was no harm in that.’’
“No, but there came a boil on the
end of hie nose one day, and he was
afraid of being arrested for leze maj
esty."—Chicago Tribune.
Unhappy Hlnioo Women.
The Hindoo holy books forbid a wom
an to see dancing, hear music, wear
jewels, blacken her eyebrows, eat dainty
food, sit at a window or view herself in
a mirror during the absence of her hus
band and allow him to divorce her il
she has no sone, injures his property,
scolds him, quarrels with another wom
an or presumes to eat before he has fin
ished his meal.
A Newcastle (England) man wrete
this to the editor on a postal card:
“What ho, Mr. Editor, what price this?
If the mouth is the window of the in
tellect, toothache must be a sort of
wtadew pain. ’’
NUMBER 7.
A SONG OF FORGETTING.
The hours as playthings were—ah, me!
And laughter Lived in every word
What time thnt love was y« ung and glee
In every pulsing heart throb stirred.
The wild plum blossomed in the glen.
The rabbit raced across the plain.
And frightened birdlings flurried when
Our hounds and horses tramped the grain.
Down in the grove beside the spring
We rested when the race was won.
And listened to the wood bird sing
A lullaby when day was done
But, ah. you wandered from my side
And paved the long lone iaue of years
With memory stones and loss too wide
For sobs to soothe with memory tears.
And now you coma—come back to me
To fill, as then, the old time place—
Where is the magic of your plea?
What change has come upon your face!
Oh, friend, to lose and still love on
To live on obaff instead of grain
Is better than to feel love gone—
Forgetting is the keenest pain
—Atlanta Constitution
CHARLES STEWART PARNELL
How the Great Irish Lender Came to
t-lnter Politics.
Charles Stewart Parnell was 28 years
old before he made his entry into tha
political arena How the step was taken
is thus described by Mr B Barry
O'Brien in . his biography of great
Irish leader
“One night during the general elec
tion of 1874 Parnell dined with his sis
ter, Mrs. Dickinson, in Dublin After
dinner Captain Dickinson said ‘Well,
Charles, why don’t you go into parlia
ment? Why don’t you stand for your
native county?
“To the surprise of every one at ths
table. Parnell said quickly *1 wilt
Whom ought 1 to see?
“ ‘Oh. said Dickinson, ‘we will sea
about that tomorrow The great thing
is you have decided to stand.
“‘I will see about it at once, said
Parnell. ‘I have made up my mind, and
I won’t wait Whom ought Ito see?
“ ‘1 think Gray of The Freeman's
Journal. ’ said John, who was also pres
ent.
“ ‘Very well, said Parnell, rising
from the table. ‘I shall go to him at
once. Do you coma with me, John.
“The two brothers then went away to
gether It was now 11 o’clock, and they
found Gray at The Freeman’s office.
He was amazed when Parnell entered
and said. ‘1 have come to say, Mr
Gray, that I mean to stand for Wick
low as a Home Ruler ’
It was only the year after that, bn tlifl
death of John Mitchel, Parnell was re
turned for Meath At first it is plain
that Parnell had few if any followers.
The ability of the representative from
Meath was questioned Butt was then
the controlling power It was only in
1880 that Parnell became the leader
Bruges.
The chronicles of 1456 speak of 154
vessels in its basinsand of German mar
chants carrying away over 3,000 pieces
of cloth to the distant lands of Russia
and Poland. It was the exchange of Eu
rope, possessing in the fourteenth cen
tury 52 guildsand 150,000 inhabitants,
more than three times as many as il
now contains Among its wares we read
of leather from Spain, wool from Eng
land, silk from Italy and Persia, linen
and cloth from Brabant, hemp aud flax
from Holland, wine from Portugal,
Greece and France and hardware from
Germany, which included every variety
of object in ivory, bone, wood, glass,
tin, copper, lead, iron, silver and gold.
It had its factories, its curriers, its dy
ers, and its taxation considerably ex
ceeded that of Ghent But at the com
mencement of the fourteenth century itl
troubles began troubles from within
and from without
The Suene was rendered useless by
the invasion of sand as far as Sluil
(Ecluse), treachery, slaughtsr and po
litical jealousies and rivalries completed
the fall, and in 1544 its inhabitants had
diminished to 7.696 Then came the re
ligious wars and persecutions from 1567
to 1584, the fanatics and the Gueax de
stroying what remained, leaving little
for the French revolutionists. —-Good
Words
Tbe Swiss Parliament.
Switzerland differs from other coun
tries in many things, and one of the
most remarkable is the way in which
its parliamentary debates are conduct
ed A Swiss member of parliament can
express himself in French, German or
Italian, and the privilege is freely used.
When the president of the federal as
sembly speaks in German, his remarks
are translated by a secretary in close
proximity to him. All the laws and
resolutions, before Jieing voted upon,
are drawn up in French, German and
Italian, and every official report is pub
lished in these three languages. Bir
mingham Post
A Haunted House.
“The haunted house in this cas»,"
•aid the old college man. “was occupied
by a very estimable and intelligent
gentleman He did not believe in
ghosts, but two nights had made him
look old and careworn, and there were
certainly loud, strange and startling
noises in his attic. They would continue
right up to the time that some one en
tered the haunted room, but the open
ing of the door was the signal for a
meet oppressive silence.
“Half a dozen of us college fellows
asked p< emission to investigate, and it
was gladly granted. We waited till we
heard the noise, and I assure you that
there was plenty of it It continued un
til we had crept up stairs, but ceased
when we entered the attic. We waited
there without result till big Hicks of
the football team, carried out a plan
We closed the slide to the dark lantern,
slammed the door noisily, as though
leaving, and then settled down to wait.
Presently the noise began. We flashed
the light in its direction, and there was
a jug rolling back and forth rapidly,
the handle striking the floor with a
loud thud
“ ‘Must be spirits in that jug,
laughed big Hicks, but his laugh was a
tremolo. ‘We’ll see, ’ and he let go with
one of his famous kicks that shattered
the uncanny vessel Then every fellow
let out a yell and jumped as though
trying to knock a hole in the roof. A
rat had crawled into the jug and had
been frantically trying to get out. ’’ —
Detroit Free Press
If new difficulties arise we must
only put forth new exertions, and
proportion our off >rts to the exigen
cy of the times.
about your health. Do not
" allow scrofula taints to develop in
your blood. Take Hood’s Sarsapa
rilla now and keep yourself WELL*