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By the Publishing- Company. VOLUME XL. Andoe & Co., Never Carryover Remnants. The reason why is told below. This is our REMNANT SELLING season. In Knit Underwear we have broken suits, Vesta without Pants to match, or Pants without Vests to match, or an odd Suit in small or extra size, and where such is the case we are making prices that sell them. 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 lots have one curtain only, others have more. The prices range from 39c to $5.00 per pair. Some of these lots may be just what you want. How about a real good pair of Blankets at YOUR PRICE, to close them? We also have a few pairs of cheaper ones left. These odd lot prices hold good in Clothing, Overcoats and Odd Pants. We also have about a dozen Capes, Jackets and Reefers to go at just half price. Just received a new lot White Goods, Embroideries, Dress Goods, And Shoes. Come and see them, glad to show you. R. E. ANDOE & CO.. 14 Main St. Telephone £>. Waterman, Burnett & Co., I C EXCLUSIVE lotlm, Tailors, GENTS’ FURNISHINGS and SHOES, GAINESVILLE, GLA-. ——The Time to Plow. The season for sowing grain is now here, and it is to your interest, to have the'very best implements. We have a large stock of < Wro/ 1 '■ r -l A 1 Fl? -aaLahdb’' < v ♦’w.i-ifc -a CUTAWAY HARROWS,B*- Torrent Harrows. 1,2, and 3 Horse Plows: AVERY’S STEEL, SYRACUSE, SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL WORKS, OLIVER PATENT. ’/s? [ 4 I) Th e largest lot ever brought to Gaines- ±Lv7OJIjO» ville, from the cheapest to the finest. I^ =, QTT/\ r r’ / Q A big stock. All styles—all prices.— erOllUl ULIAO. Breech and muzzle loaders. A new era in prices. Everything cheaper than ever before. Come and see us. S.C. DINKINS & CO THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE. COLOR and flavor of fruits, size, quality and ap pearance of vegetables, weight and plumpness of grain, are all produced by Potash. Potash, properly combined with Phos phoric Acid and Nitrogen, and liberally applied, will improve every soil and increase yield and quality of any crop. Write and get Free our pamphlets, which tell how to buy and use fertilizers with greatest economy and profit. GERFIAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. CONSTiPfITiOK “I have gone 1-4 days at a time without a movement of the bowela, not being able to move them except by usins hot water injections. Chronic constipation for seven years placed me in this terrible condition; during that time I did ev erything! heard ot butneVer found any relief; such was my case until 1 began using CASCARETS. I now have from one to three passages a day. and if I was rich I would give tICII.OO for each movement; it is such a relief.’ A yi.meh L. HUNT, 1(189 Russell St.. Detroit, Mich. 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Send for catalogue to the President. Jos. S. Stewart, A,M. Established ilt 1860. GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, TIIJJRSDAY, FEBRUARY’ 16, Lbv9, 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. Thomas Whitfield & Co., 240 Wabash ave., corner Jackson street, one of Chi cago’s oldest and most prominent drug gists, recommend Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy for lagrippe, as it not only gives a prompt and complete relief, but also counteracts any tendency of lagrippe to result in pneumonia. For sale by M. C. Brown & Co. 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 The Modern Way Commends itself to the well-informed, to do pleasantly and effectually what was formerly done in the crudest manner and disagreeably as well. To cleanse the sys tem and break up colds, headaches, and fevers without unpleasant after effects, use the delightful liquid laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs. Alade, by California Fig Syrup Co 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*