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A CRACKSMAN’S CHAT.
WIIAT m HAY* ABOUT ill IN PRO.
PBiMION.
Il*w n Biriliir ila Into * llna at NUhl
AnriGrieOui Again.
“What is tho prime quality in yonr
boainesa ?”
“Nerve—nothing clue.”
“What ia the Ixiat method ?”
“Boldneaa. Many a job have I done
right before tho eyea of people; done it
jnat aa though it waa tho regular thing
and I waa juat whore I ought to be. I
have had my pal taking thinga out of a
houae when a couple of oops were walk
ing by, and atood with a pencil in my
hand, koeping tally of tho thinga. They
thought it waa allright, an I looked right
at them. I tell you a follow want* to
koep perfectly cool and know what ho
ia doing, and what ho ia going to do
every time.;
“The right kind of men aro aomehow
lacking. They aro either too timid or
too rough. It want* a fine tnai, a real
Damaacua blade, to do a neat job. There
are plenty of opportunities, if there woro
only the men to fill them. But I waa
apeaking about chanoea. The people
are asleep; you are awake. They aro
timid; you are perfeotly cool. Yon know
juat what they will do if they wako
up. They don't know how many are in
the house, nor where you aro. Mo*t
people are oowarda in the night. With
out any odds you oonld get tho beat of
them, but in the night with the bug
bear and the reality of a burglar in the
house—and they have spent all the years
of their lives in working up a dreadful
fellow in their imagination—in such
a plight a man’s house is like a foreign
land to him, and he ia a perfect stranger
to the situation in his own home."
“How do you feel when you are alone
in a houso at tho dead of night and
running suoh terrible risks ?”
“There, now, you have got ns much
nonsense into that question as they
usually do. In the first place, midnight
ia not the usual hour when a house is
worked. Things aro not so quiet
generally as they are two hours later.
And then, if it were midnight, what of
it ? Midnight except to cowards is no
different from any other hour, only as it
is a great deal safer for those like ns.
Alone in a house? It is a little shaky
at times, but generally safe enough; but
that isn't the way n house ia generally
worked. There should bo two, and
three are bet ter. Terrible risks? We
don’t think of it in that light. There is
aomethiug fascinating about the risk,
and it isn’t considered objectionable.
What do we think? How do we feel ?
Now, look here, there isn’t much time
nor occasion for thinking and feeling
outside of the job to be done. Your
sentimental chaps don't want to be
prowling about nights on any of these
delicate ‘rackets.’ The man who is go
ing to stop in a bedroom of a strange
house at two o'clock at night to consult
his feelings had better koep out ot tho
bedroom. The man who proposes to
enter this profession will want to run
very slow on tho thinking and feeling
line, particularly when he is on duty.”
"How does an operator feel when lie
Is confronted by gome inmate ?”
“In the first place he feels that some
thing must be done pretty quick. Dodge
’em if yon can, but no fooling anyhow.
Do anything short of killing, if neces
sary. The women are tho hardest to
handle, except a man who wakes tip cool
■with his weapons handy. The funniest
experience I over had was when I went
into bedroom one night where there
•wus one mau asleep. I was at the
bureau drawers, and looking into the
gloss I saw him sit bolt upright and look
at me. I turned pretty quiok, you may
believe, but he never stirred lior spoke.
I didn't movo after turning round, but
looked at him and ho at me. I very
soon saw that he was not awake. I
gathered up the swag aud walked round
the lad to the door, lint his eyes wero
on me all the while. I got ont of the
room safely, aud he never spoke or after
ward made any 'disturbance. I didn’t
stay muck longer in that house.”—
lloatnn Herald.
A Friend In Need.
Mr. Horace B. Claflin, the great dry
goods meroliant of New York city, was
Bitting alone in hie private office, late
one afternoon, when a young uiau, pale
and careworn, timidly knocked and
entered.
“Mr. Olafliu,” said he, “I am in need
of asHintanoe. I have l>een nnable to
Aieet certain payments, because certain
parties have not doue as they agreed by
me ; and I would like to have ten thou
sand dollars. 1 oomo to you because yon
were a fnend to my father and might be
a friend to me."
“Come in, said Claflin. “Gome in
and have a glass of wine.”
“No," said the young man. “I don’t
drink.”
"Have a cigar, then?"
“No, I never smoke.”
“Well," said the joker, “I would like
to accommodate yon ; but I don’t think
l can.”
“Very well,” said the young man, as
he was abont to leave the room. “I
thought, perhaps, you might Good
day, sir.”
"Hold on,” said Mr. Claflin. “Yon
don't drink?"
"No.”
“Nor smoke?”
"No."
"Nor gamble, nor anything of the
kind ?”
“No, sir."
"Well,” said Mr. Claflin, with tears in
his eyes too, "you shall have it, and
three times that amount if you wish.
Your father let me have five thousand
dollars once and asked mo the same
questions. He trusted me and I will
trust you. No thanks. I owe it to you
lor your father's sake.”
HauD-rAiNTKD suspenders are now
worn, hut lots of men will continue to
bold up their pants with a leather belt
fastened with a shingle nail.
Echoes In the Capitol Dome,
“Did you know that the dome of the
Capitol was haunted—the. highest part
of the dome, just under the worm
ight?” said an old watchman to a re
porter the other day.
“Why, no; tell me about it,” said the
reporter with sudden interest, getting
close to tho old man and speaking in a
low, confidential toue.
“No, you didn’t know it. Well, it
ain’t!” he said, shutting his month with
n snap and looking as blank fis a faded
guide-post, which tells you that it is 1
miles to , and leaves you to guess
where.
“Yes, that's the Henate aide,” ho said
to a wild-eyed countryman who was
staring about in quest of that decorous
body. Then turning to tho reporter,
“No, it ain’t haunted.”
“It’s not, eh? Well, I thought not,”
replied tho sorilfo, sticking his thumbs
into the arm-holes of his vest and look
ing at tho new frieze-work.
“No, it ain't haunted; it ain’t haunt
ed," repeated the old man with a low
chuckle. “A man committed suicide ofl
the rail there one time, but it ain’t
haunted/' Then bo looked knowingly
at the reporter to see if his curiosity was
sufficiently aroused. But the scribe was
admiring tho “Baptism of Pocahontas,"
and the old man assumed a more con
fidential tone. “You remember the man
that jumped off there? Jt ain’t been so
Jong—about six or seven years. You
know bo stood on the rail of the highest
balcony, and, throwing up his arms to
heaven, gave a wild plunge and was
crushed on tho iron roof, nearly two
hundred feot below. Well, I guess bis
ghost went somewhere, but it didn't slay
about here."
“Well, what are yon talking about
then?” said the reporter, his interest
getting the hotter of his patience.
“No, it didn’t stay about here,” he
continued, not noticing the reporter’s
mpatience, “but some folks think itdid,
and it seems kind o'natural that it should,
too. Lots of quoer folks go up on the
dome. I've been hero a long time, and
I See lots of them. They go up there
more in tho winter than they do in the
summer—ten to one more. It’s too hot
to climb the stairs in tho summer.
There are some who come every session
with Congress. They come to the
Capitol every day, and always go on the
dome. They are the ‘dome-rats/ that’s
what I call them. I don’t know what
they go there for, any more than I know
why a church-mouse stays in church.
All tho strangers who come here want
to go on the dona®, and couples who want
to get off by themselves often go up
there. You can see them standing at
every landing, looking out the windows
with a way-off look. Then there aro
cranks who go up there to got nearer
Heaven.”
“Well, yoB, I know,” interrupted tlio
reporter, “but what'n all tliiH ot to do
willi the donio'H being lmnuted? Did
ivny oi tliooa curioiiH visiton* ever get
frightened nt u ghost up there nd fall
down stairs ? Uus uuy one’s huir been
turned suddenly wliity by the night .if n
Kpi'i'ter übont to plunge head-l-wg in it
snieidul leap? Where does tho ghost
come in ?”
“Didn’t I ny there weren’t any
ghosts,” retorted the old man, >ui in
jured expression punning over his face.
"I wits just coming to tllsi,” hesidd, re
covering his good humor under the in
flnenoe of tho reporter’s conciliatory
smile. “There ain’t any ghost up there,
but some of these strangers get fright
ened nnd think tlio house is Imunted. It
nil comes of the ‘whisper gallery.’ You
know tho ‘whisper gitllery’? Well, you
know when people nre talking around
on the other side the echoes bring theii
voices right close up to yon. A greet
lusn v si rangers Item ing t hese voices nnd
not seeing any one have j tunned at the
cnnelusiott that the plaoe is haunted
Knowing that ft man committed suicide
there, they think that his troubled spirit
still lingers about the scene. As It. id
you, it ain’t haunted, it’s only the
echoes.”
A Story or an Klophuut.
There is a beautiful story of an old
elephant engaged in a battle on the
plains of Indio. He was a standard
bearer, and carried on his huge bank tho
royal ensign, the rallying point of the
Poona host- At the beginning of tlio
fight he lostbia master. The “maliont,”
or driver, had just given him tho word
to halt., when he reocivod a fatal wound,
ami fell to the ground, where lie lay un
der o heap of slain. Tho obedient ele
phant. stood still while the battle closed
around him and the standardhe osrrlcd.
lie never stirred a foot, refusing to ad
vance oi retire, as tlm conflict became
hotter and fiercer, until tho Mahrattas,
seeing the standard still flying steadily
In its place, refused to believe that they
were being tieaton, and rallied again and
again round the colors. And all this
while, amid the din of battle, the patient
animal stood straining its ears to catch
the sound of that voice it would never
hear again. At length the tide of con
quest left the field deserted. Mnhrnttos
swept on in pursuit of the dying foe, but
the elephant, like a rook, stood there,
with the dead and dying around, and
the ensign waving in its place. For
three days aud uiglita it remained whore
its master had given the command to
halt. No bribe or threat could move it,
They thou seut to a village, ltXl miles
away, and lironglit the mahout's little
son. The nobio hero seemed then to
remember how tlie driver had sometimes
given his authority to the little child,
and immediately, with all the shattered
trappings clinging ns he went, paced
quietly and slowly away.
Thk Suabks.- Florida fishermen rid
themsclvea of the sharks wliioli tlsjnud
in {hose waters in a novel way. The
root of the dogwood is certain death to
them. Whenever a shark is discerned
a small fish is killed, this bark enclosed
and thrown overboard, and in a few min
ntos the carcass of the shark tisee to the
surface.
The Lonely Young Man in Cities.
“It’s the easiest thing in the world to
get married,” said tho lecturer advocat
mg matritaony for young men, in an up
town hall; “it's as eiisy as r<filing off a
log # os the saying it. Ministers tell him
that it is his duty; moralists upbraid
him because he di><* not get a wife;
philosophers argue that the foundation
of the State Is the family; friends point
out to him the happy life of many per
sons. The young man has no protec
tion against all this op|K>sition, and, if
ho is a right-minded person, he will not
try to oppose such logic; If he is of
proper age, is matured in his judgment,
can support a wife, and is reasonably in
dustrious, ho ought to be married before
twenty-five. But there are many less for
tunate young men in this city who
never speak to a decent woman from
one year’s end to another. Home are en
gaged in shops whore only men are em
ployed; others in offices which never
have a female visitor. Their homes are
in lonely furnished rooms, with meals at
restaurants. These poor fellows actually
pine for refined female society. One
whose loneliness has come to my notice
live* in Harlem.”
The reporter saw this celibate, and
got from him his story: He was living in
a furnished room and boarding at restau
rants. After two years of this life he
began to wish for some refined female
society, and accordingly engaged board
in a fashionable boarding-house in Last
Seventeenth street. He was somewhat
surprised by tho greed with which his
week’s Ixmrd was demanded in advance
and almost snatched out of his hands,
but comforted himself with a glimpse
of a golden-haired head through, a half
opened door.
The young man had stipulated for a
fire in his room, but on going up at nfglit
found it as cold as a barn. Ho called
for the landlady, and, after repeated
trials, succeeded in gaining her attention.
In an injured tone she promised to raise
ft little fire in the room. In half an
hour or so, during which the young man
grew warm from inward heat, a frowzy
and slatternly servant-girl camo in with
a bang, threw some kindling-wood on
the hearth, lit it, put on a little coal,
and went away, taking the coal-bucket
with her. He started after her to secure
tho bucket, but t<K> late, and he beard
the golden-haired beauty say: "What's
the matter with that galoot up-stairs V”
“Oh, he wonts a fire, bad luck to him/
“Well, ho must be a gilly. Carry
him up the kitchen stove*”
Slowly and sadly tho young man in
search of refined female society pulled
on his overcoat, walked down to the
street, hired an express wagon, helped
to put his trunk on, ami quit the house
just in time to hear tlio golden-haired
young woman remark: “Well, I knew
that fellow was a fraud when I first saw
li'm.”
Ho went to his old “furnished room.”
It had not been let. It was warm and
comfortable, and ho heard the cheery
laugh of the luudhuty and her delighted
remark: “I expected you back, but not
quite so soon.” That was his last at
tempt to Ond refined female society. The
young man said there were sixty such
isolated fellows iu his block.—JVetn York
Sun.
How .Millionaires arc Made.
“Who is tho wealthiest man in Cali
fornia?” asked a reporter of an old
Californian.
“.Tim Flood, worth 8100,000,000; he is
a liberal man nnd a shrewd one. Ho
has built up on Han Francisco Hay a
new port called Costa City, with mag
nificent store-houses and piers from
which the wood of those rich counties
is shipped direct to Europe and the
world. O’Brien, Flood's partner, is
dead and his fortune distributed.
Mackey, one of the bonanza crowd, is
thought to he worth $00,000,000, and
dim Fair is worth perhaps $40,000,000.”
Said I: “How in the world did Flood
and O’Brien make mioh fortunes ?”
■ “Just in this way, my friend,” said
Mr. Hyneman, taking up a piece of
paper and a pencil, “Flood and O’Brien
kept a saloon, nnd tho drinks were 25
dents apiece. Fair and Mackey were
miners who for some years did not strike
anything very rich. So they gave min
ing stock for the drinks instead of
luoney. The habit was to walk into tho
inloon with three or four friends, ask for
tho drinks and drink them, repent nnd
any to tho barkeeper, ‘This is mine,’ 1
and walk ont. The barkeeper made
four marks with a pencil and a fifth
mark aoross them, signifying $1,25 for
each round. These rounds would go up
to a pretty high figure, hut ou a certain
occasion Mackey or Fair would any,
‘Well, Flood, we want to make a settle
ment for drinks,’ and they would give
their mining stock at a certain valuation
current at that time which Flood and
O’Brien put into tho safe. Behold!
On a certain day metal is struck in pro
digious quantities in the mines tlmt Fair
and Mackey own, and when F'lood and
O'Brien open the safe and count the
stock they have it amounts to more than
Fair and Mackey’s, so when the mines
were ponring out their million or two
every week these saloon-keepers, who
had been receiving 25 oente per driuk
for watered whisky, started a fortune.”
Could not Sleep.
The Cheyenne T.rnrtcr
tells this story: “A guest at a local
hotel was surprised the oilier night to
see that his baud left a mark of light
where he touched the sheet. At first
he thought it to he a reflection front the
hall lamp, lmt further investigation
showed that wherever he touched the
sheet it left a mark of phosphorescent
light. A surplusage of electricity is
supposed to have lie, u the cause; in
fact, the atr was so charged with it that
lie couldn’t sleep, and dually had to seek
another room.”
Som* people who play the piano can
not understand why others who don’t
play tho piano are so much more pop
ular with their neighbors,
A TRUE FArRY STORY.
In a largo and beautiful costlo Jived three
sisters. The two oldest were handsome and
proud, and their names were Mary Maud and
Maud Marian. Tho youngest was neither
handsome nor proud, and her nam' was
Trlste. Trlste, as you know, means sad or
alllioted, and this Tristo was named for her
condition. She Dad once had a prettier name
—Rosabel, In fact,—but ovoryhody now called
her Trlste the Sari. She stayed In a small
room, without windows, at tho very top of
tho castle, as far away as she oould possibly
get from the singing and laughing, und music
and all the good times that were continually
going on in the gardens and rooms bi-low,
where her sisters lived. Here In this litilo
dark room, when it was morning, poor Trlste
would always sy, “Would God it were even
ing!” and when It was evening she would
always say, “Would God it wero morning!”
and tlio-e (wo remarks wero all tho remarks
she ever made.
Once an Kvil Rye had looked hard upon
Tristo and rnudo her ugly and deformed. She
had bunches and swellings, she was llrnpy
and trembling, and her face -well, if you
looked at It onco you did not care to look
attain. As for the aches and pains that
darted and ariserossod and zigzagod through
her, one would not suppose that an:
\ body liko hers could make room for so many.
Ho Trlste stayed In her dark room, and
niado her morning and her evening remark
day after day, while Mary Mitud and Maud
Marian went to the balls and the tournaments
and tho leasts. Whenever the sounds of
mirth and music from below where loud
enough to roach Triste’s room at the top of
the castle, she would throw her faoe Into her
hands and weep, and the weeping and the
making her two remurks wore all the amuse
ments she had.
Itnt after a while something wonderful
happened. One looming as Tristo was sitting in
~ii*r room wishing it was evening, she heard a
new sound. Jt was not the mirth and music,
It was not tho clumsy-footed servant bring
ing up the dreadful gruels. It was something
coming up the winding-stairs with a rap
tnpplng noise. Tho tups came on, and finally
Triste’s door opened nnd a little, old. bent
over woman with a walking-stick came Jn.
The little old woman’s fueo was white and
wrinkled, her hair was white us snow, but
eyes were black and so very bright that they
lit up a space around her like a couple of
candies nnd made Tristo’s dark room quite
light*. The little old woman tapped three
times on the floor with her walking stick and
looked round the room. “1 urn your god
mother,” she said, when she saw Trlste up Jn
tho oomor; “you don't remember me, but I
remember you; 1 dida t forget you, my poor
child."
“Oh, would God ft wove evening!” said
Trhto, trying to bo sociable, and meuniUf,
perhaps, “Good-morning," or “How do you
do?” or something like that.
“ Hark yo, goddaughter,” said the god
mother, “do you want to go to the tourna
ment with ymir sistOrS? 1)0 you wftfft to sit
down at the feasted Do you want to have
the bravo young knights and princes, with
their now-wlilto plumes and fchHr coal-blin k
chargers, come riding to woo you as they
come to woo your sisters' Do you want to
sing.' Do you went to iuugh? Do you want
to dancoir”
Then Tristo put her head into her hands
and begun to ory by way of varying the so
ciability.
“Stop your crying, goddaughter,” said the
godiiiolhor, tapping her three taps on tho
lieor again, uml as Tristo raised her h<*ul sho
Sh- tie upon her with her beautiful eyes and
dried up tho tears, and while her eyes were
shining she went oil talking:
“1 was your godmother when you wero
chrish iHsI Rosabel. W'ln-n the Kvil Rye struck
you nnd cursed you, and you wore turned
into Tri.-do tho Had. 1 did not desert you like
tin* others, f have been wandering over tho
world ever slnoo to find the Fairy that could
take off tho curse of that Kvil 1 ye. I havo
wandered, wandered—oh, how I have wan
dered 1 l was handsome, and struivht as a ,
poplar tie ; 1 am old and crooked, but I do
not care,—l have found tho Fairy. It ran
from mo, It llew, it hid, it went up and down,
it. was never there when 1 put iny hand on it,
—blit I got It at lasi.” And the godmother
tapped her three taps, nnd laughi and three
merry laughs, that ran round the wrinkles in
her taco liko streams ef Qulck-clvcr. *• 1
found it. I put it into u bofti * and corLcdit
"down light! I PBVe brought it. to you.*’
'the godmother drew from under the travel
tatt : eel cjjjuk u bOtr’e, in which was a white
1 airw ohuijiiug nod sparkling, and iuak ug
funny lu.tit- fairy ‘flows and g tur©#. The
godmpthdp aughtvi pur three merry, qjti* k
sllvery laughs iigaic. as sho he and it tip and
look' and at It. “If 1-. meek and quiet enough
now,'} who said. “When a Fairy Is once
caught it gives up. It will perform its mis
sion. Do as it bids you and It will take off
the ofre ol that Evil Rye.”
He godmother pressed tho Fairy Jqto
TrMo’fc hand, and before Trlste had got over
being ieiTpctly dazed at tho gift, the gud
luo-hcr .vas tupping down tho
with bur walking stick, and Tristo was left
alone with the bottled Fairy.
Hew long It took her to get over being
dazed; how' soon she released tho Fairy from
the battle; what It said and what ft did, first,
second, and last, we can all put Into fairy
hish.rv for ourselves. However an l what
ever the ways and means, It Is certain that
those frolicsome aches und pains, which hud
made of Tristo their exercise grounds and
eataping Wooes, wore routed out, hip and
thigh, lfttfe an*l hfg. She stopped making
her two remark* and learned some new ones.
And he began to tire of hor room without
windows; and she got so oravo ami strong
that be would sometimes at Ttiahf, w'hon the
was still and dark, wrap her Self all
r wild and steal down the winding stair, to
ivn k under the trees,and to look at tho star®
an l the moon.
From looking at the stars and the moon she
warned to look at t4io ion* ATuJ one g’ikd
d\, iffhf In tin? vfrr.v-ibrkhttlNk Huifddne,
Trist# vidttti s<,' ■ etc th* Ifftiffn‘. T.he
bird xV e qf
hiy, liitfhiljHi the |i •*&
th ni |n( fftogkii* tuUl 9wt>iflkj|! tjjg hJo
Aval eflTvwvvfTh a sfVftnge"brightness and ensT
ik'-k nnd so happy she did not know wheth
er it w at flic nlrdst sho heard singing, or some
kind oi music within herself. She stopped
beside a fountain, and as she glanced hi v the
silver water smiled l a k to her withs fresh,
happy ta e—such n fresh, happy face, <>
j free from these oM deformities ami murks ot
! the Kvil l ye, that Trlste tried out for Joy;
i and yet such a wonderful change it was, she
did not half bciiovc t was her own reduction
she saw in the water.
She did not half believe it until the old
godmother came from behind some shrub
I Aery, laughing her qui*ksilvory laughs last
1 and loml. and saying, “Ho! ho! ho! Hosubtl!
Rosabel!” whenever she got a ehano** bo
twnon the laughs. And Marjf Maud and Maud
Mar an, who happened to be walking in the
garden, heard the laughing and camo to tDo
lountain, and w ben thev saw und understood
they proved Tristo in their arms, crying for
<r>\ over her. and calling her their beautiful
Itosa.
And so ft wag ever afterwards, Mary Maud,
I Mauil Marian, and Rosabel were the three
j sister* that lived in the castle. Tristo the
I Had wivs never more heard from. The little
j room at the top Of the oaf tie was locked up,
and the key 'ost forever. When Rosabel
| went up to take a last Took at heroin room
i sho found that the dour little Fairy had de-
I parted, but on the de-ertod l>ottlo had left its
namo,—Dr. R } V. P ©roe a Golden Medical
U^eoverv.
WTho above is perfectly true In all but the
thin varnish of its setting forth, nnd, indeed,
! the truth 1q it ha* oms dorahly crackled und
, rubbed off even that thin orating. Do we
; not all know sad afflicted ones, to w hom life
! Is a curse on account of luitnlul nnd deforin-
I lug die n o Restless, discouraged souls, who
’ sav in the morning, “Would God it were
! evening:” nnd in the evening, *' M ould Qod
It weio morning;” dragging out their weary
days with no expectation oi anything better
tids side of the grave.
If Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery
will do w hat it claims to do it is surely a
go’den gift to humanity; that it trill do ex
actly what it claims hardly admits of a doubt,
if we take into consideration the response
bfiity and position of its voucher, and tin*
thousands ot most trustworthy wituessrs to
Its wonderful power in their individual eases.
Dr. Tiered is well known to the general putt
lie, not only for bis Golden Discovery, but
ivfcfO in connection with tho World's Dispen
sary and Invalids’ Hotel at Buffalo, N. Y.; as
author of The People's C ommon Sense Medi
cal Adviser, and other medical works of
prm iioul value; and as originator nnd pro
prietor of several specific remedies, one of
which, the alterative “Tierce’s Pleasant Purg
ative Toilets," and liis great. “Golden Medical
I Recovery" work together ns allies In the cure
ot certain diseases HMN’iPpßyfdctaii of 'urge
j practice and experien e, who. In a ration'd
I and scientific way, has made a life study of dj*?,
ease, !t> causes and cures under the most fa
, v roblecirouinstances for such study: and the
j “Discovery” is the result of much observation.
. experiment and research. He does not claim
that it will euro everything, or that there, aro
not Individual cases beyond its reach; but be
does claim that it is a iowerful remedy for
chronic diseases of the liver, blood and lungs,
and that from these as root diseases spring
Inany of Hie mo4t 'Tang©roiH and painful
maladies of humanity. Jbe list of diseases
for which he recommends the "Discovery” la
necessarily large, slnoe 1t must take In all the
shoots and branches that spring from these
root diseases, euoh shoot and branch having
its particular name and manifestation, and
118 particular degree of pain and danger to
the human system. It takes in thus our con
sumptions, our kidney diseases, our siek
headaches, our heart diseases, the whole long,
loathsome list of what are called “bad blood”
diseases, our dyspepsias, dropsie*, agues,
asthmas, anti many oihoi a, by far too numer
ous to mention.
Tho Discovery has been tried and proved,
and Is now solidly established upon its own
merits. Scarcely a town or village from
which some testimonial of Its use and value
has not been received. Many of those testi
fying say that after having spent hundreds
of dollars ujon medicines and physio ans.and
their cases having been pronounced hopeless,
tho Golden Medical Discovery has raised
them to health ami strength. It unquestion
ably has grappled with thousands of “hard
cases” in tho form of disease, and come off
victor, and Dr. Tierce has the spoils of con
quest Jn the way of Increased reputation and
tho thanks and blessing of cured and rejoic
ing humanity. Dear, hositatirig, sick re-dor,
you are suffering the same kind of 111* from
w hich thousands of others have been relieved
by the Golden Medical Discovery, j*rhapt
It will not cure you. You may be differ
ently constituted from other people!
your system may be constructed on anew
and original plan, and work on peculiar
methods and principles. Hut. after all, It is
quite probable that you are made a good
deal like other folks, and that what will cure
others will, under about the same conditions,
cure you. If you use the Golden Medical
Discovery your name will soon go down on
tne long list of tho cured and rejoicing. Tho
Buddhists have a pretty fable of a tree,
cal cd the red tree of Koumbourn, each leaf
of which liears In relief a letter, all the letters
spelling out a poem to Buddha, and this
vegetable poem bolng beautifully variod
year after year as tho tree renewed Its
foliage, if the vegetable IJfo, whatever It
may be, from which Dr. Pierce gets tho
wonderful remedial agents of his Golden
MeH ul Discovery, were thus to spell out the
rejoicing of thoe If had blessed, wo should
hax v. it poem to match that of the red tree of
Koumbouin, like it varying itself season by
season as new cases nnd causes of rejoicing
worn
A Little Trio.
Theoretioaj; Bread-making.—A Vaa
aar College girl exclaimed, “Bread I
Well, I should nay I can make bread.
We atudied that in our firat year. You
ace the yeast ferments and tho gas thus
formed permeates everywhere and trans
forms the plastic material into a clearly
obvious atmotic structure and then—’
“But what is this plastic material you
speak of ?”
“Oh! that is commonly called tho
sponge."
“But how do you make the sponge?"
“Why, you don’t make it; tho cook al
ways attends to that. Then wo test tho
sponge with the thermometer and
hydrometer and a lot of other instru
ments, the names of which I don’t re
member, and then hand it back to tho
cook, and I don't know what she does
with it then, but when it comes on tho
table it is just splendid."
A Natural Mistake. —At the Zoo, re
cently', a West Walnut-street dude was
observed lounging in front of a cage con
taining some very fine specimens of
monkeys.
He was apparently enjoying the
antics of the animals, when, suddenly,
one of the largest stretched forth an
arm, and seizing him by tho shoulder
tore liis coat sleeve badly.
The dude, uttering an imprecation,
raised his cane to strike the animal, hut
the attendant interfered.
“Phut's the matter wtd yez?” he said.
‘Wonld yez sthriko the loikes of a little
fellow like that?”
“Certainly I would,” wag the angry
res)anise. “Look, he haa ruined my
c< >at. ”
“Ah, poor little chap, he meant no
harum. He mnst have taken yez for hia
loug-loslit brother and was lookin' for a
strawberry mark on yonr arm.”
Tiibatkr Pahttes. —Miss Minka—“l
was ao disappointed at not being able to
go to Mrs. De Coin's theater party.
Yon hail a splendid time, didn't you?”
Miss Winks—"lndeed we did. I
never had so much fun in my life. There
wore ten of us all together—fivo gentle
men and five ladies—and it was just the
jolliest party you ever saw.”
Miss Minks—“ How I wish I could
have gone. Did you notice what the
play was?"
. Miss Winks—“lt was ‘Hamlet’ or
.’’Othello.’ I forgot which. Wo did
fUave such fnn, only there was one thing
that annoyed tis so mnch that I wonder
Xlrs. De Coin did not speak to the man
ager aliont it,”
Misß Minks—“ How meant What
was it ?”
Miss Winks—“ The noise that wns
made on the stage. Tho actors hail no
manners at all, bnt talked right along
when we wero speaking.” —Philadelphia
Evening Call.
IN SOLITUDE.
I miss you, my darling, my darling ;
The embers burn tmv on the hearth ;
And stilled is the stir of the household
And huehrd is the voice of its mirth.
The rain plarhea fast on the terrace,
Tlie winds past the lattices moan ;
The midnight chimes out from the minster
And I am alone.
I want you, my darling, my darling;
I am tired with care and with fret;
I would nestle in silence beside you,
And all but your presence forget.
In the hush of the happiness given,
To those, who through trusting havo grown
To the fullness of love in contentment,
But I am atone.
I call you, my darling, my darling,
My voice echoes track on my heart.
I streteli my arms to you in longing,
And lot they fall empty, apart.
I wisper the sweet words yon taught me,
The words that we only have known,
Till the blank of the dumb air is bitter,
For I am alone.
I need yon. my darling, my darling,
With its yearning my very heart aches :
The load that divides ns weighs harder;
X shrink from the jar that it makes.
Old sorrows rise np to beset me ;
Old doubts make their spirit their own.
Oh, come through the darkness and save me,
For I am alone
Sympathetic. —A Georgia editor grate
fully says : “A kind neighbor learning
that we had rather a homely breakfast
Wednesday morning sent ns a large dish
of nicely browned chitterlings. Jove
and the ancient gods are said to have
lived upon nectar and ambrosia, bnt if
the mighty Thunderer never tasted
browned chitterlings he and Juno, Nep
tune, ct al, missed the nicest dish that
ever tickled the palate of the dwellers of
high Olympus.”
Making U 46 of a Burglar.
Inspector Thor/e related at tho New
York police headq orters the following
story: A lady living in a large brown
stone house just off Fifth avenue, waa
in her home one night last week with an
invalid mother in her charge and no
body but a woman servant to assist her.
All the men had gone off to a ball. Just
before 11 o’clock the sick woman be
came worse. The daughter was alarmed
and went to ring the bell intending to
send the servant for a particular kind of
medicine. The girl appeared just at
this moment, and in a terrified voice, in
formed the mistress that there was a
burglar in the basement.
“It is just what I want,” said the
mi>tress, “a man to send for medicine.”
She went down to the basement and
encountered a burly negro in a room iu
the basement.
“Como out 1” she said, in an impera
tive tone.
The negro, who had been a slave, in
stinctively listened to the tone of au
thority and obeyed. He took the order
for the prescription, had it filled, and
returned with the medicine and change.
Pr. Sanford's Liver Irivigorator haa a repu
tation equal to any in the world.
What a rich man mai and gives constitutes
kb* wealth.—Hindoo.
The North American Indians, especially the
Seneca tribe, made such frequent use of pe
troleum that for many years it was only known
aa Seneca Oil. Now it is known as Carbolme,
the Wonderful Hair lienewer.
Ho who cares only for himself in youth will
be very niggard in manhood, and a wretched
miser m old age.—J. Hawes.
“It quiets the patient, and ultimately enr
him.” A late ecomium on Samaritan A'vretne.
It is the sann&ge manufacturer who makes
oth ends meat.
Mr. Oliver Mvers of Iron ton, 0., says: Sa
martian Nervtne cured me of general debility.
Give work rather than alms to the p tat. The
form*-r drives out indolence, the latter indus
try.—Cumberland.
Pile*! Plies! Piles.
Sure cur© for Blind, Bleeding and Itching
Piles. Olio ix)x has cured worst cases uf 20
Stars’ standing. No one need suffer live uiin
ites after using William’s Indian I*llo Ointment.
It absorbs tumors, allays itching, acts as poul
tice, gives instant relief. Prepared only for
Tiles, itching of private parts. Mailed for #l.
Jbrazicr Med. Cos., Cleveland. O.
There cannot live a more *nhappy creature
than an ill-natured old man, who is neither
capable of reviving pleasures, nor sensible of
doing them to others. —tiix W. Temple.
A Urm <l* tor Lurk Dlso •*■*.
Dr. Robert Newton, late president of the
Eclectic college, of the city of New York, and
formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio, used Dr Wnj.
Hall's Balsam very ex tend vely in his practice,
as many of his patient*, now living and ro
stored to health by the use of this invaluable
medicine, can amply testify. Be always sad
that so good a remedy ought to be prescribed
frwely by every physician as a sovereign
remedy in all cases of lung
consumption, and has no equal for all }<ec
toial conmlamts.
True repentance consists in tho heart being
broken f>r sin and broken frm sin. Some
often repent, yet never reform ; they resemble
a man traveling in a dangerous path, who fie
quently starts and stops, but never turns aside.
Pure Cod Liver Oil, from selected liver on
the sea shore, hv Caswell, Hazard A Cos., New
Y"rK. Absolutely pSire and sweet. Patients
who have once taken n prefer it t* a 1 others.
Vbviuciana declare it auixrior to aJtf other oils.
Chappe i hands, face pimples and rough skin
cured by using Juniper Tar Hap, made by Cas
well. Hazard A Cos., New York.
Affectation is certain deformity ; by forming
themselves on fantastic models the young be
am with bt-ing ridiculous; and often end in
being vicioua.—Biair.
iA-lies' and children’s Boots and ?*hrw§ cannot
run over if Ijon a Patent lied Buffers are used.
Great minds, liko Heaven, are pleased in doing
good,
Though the ungrateful subjects of their favors
Are barren in return. —Rowe.
Beware of the incipient stages of Consump
tion. Take l’loo's Cure m tune.
Bh >w me a peoplo whoso trade is dishonest,
and I will show you a people whoso religion is a
• ham. Fronde.
lUl&DOl IS UNFAILING
f MBAni | IjAVB IM AUIIIIK
IX Cl RIXO
W <Jever
nit,
(Vf* j3/f ju Ej.Falling
l]| xf SS- Sickness. Convul
sions, St. Vltns Dance, Alcoholism,
Opium Fating, Seminal Weakneas, Im
potency, Byphiii, Scrolula, and all
Nervous and Blood Diseases.
tSJ~To Clergymen, Lawyers, Literary Men,
Merchants, Hankers, Ladies and all’whose
sedentary employment eauscs Nervous Pros
tration, Irregularities of the blood, stoma, h,
bowels or Kidneys, or whs require a nerve
tome, appetiseror stimulant, Samaritan Arm
ine is invaluable. i- \i .
prot .aim it the most k 1 U^A MI>KW * A
wonderful In vigor- , ,
ant that eversu.Htain- [ MCD If C 1
cd a sinking pystera. Inb BI C I
$1.50 at Druggists. v—*—■ ~ * **
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t>o.. 103 TiutNosrr Srutfr. BOSTON. MAJSS.
Tho Peculiar Oftl Mystery!
. It was one of the peculiarities of the old-fhshioned Doctors that they
lever would tell patients what they were prescribing for them. They said
t would do the patients no good to know, and that it would only be grati
fying a foolish curiosity. In order to keep patients from knowing, they
would write the prescriptions in dog-Latin, so that most patients could j*t
•cad them. All that sort of thing is now over. Thepatient wants to know w hat
ie takes. He is weak, and wants to be strong, or he is dyspeptic, and
wants to digest well. •Or he has a troublesome liver which he wants to
put to rights. So he takes Brown’s Iron Bitters about which there is no
mystery at all. This is the best preparation of iron in the world, in com
oination with gentle yet t iTk .ent tonics. It gives strength. It build* up
enfeebled systems. It enriches imp ashed blood. It removes feminine
weaknesses. It casts out debility. It is what you want, and your drugpist
basiu ~ ‘ —■•
An Open
Secret.
Tho fact Is well understood
that the MEXICAN MUS
TANG LINIMENT is by far
the best external known for
man or beast. The reason
why becomes an “open
secret” when we explain that
“Mustang” penetrates skin,
flesh and mnscle to the very
bone, removing all diseaso
and soreness. No other lini
ment does this, lienee none
other is so largely used or
does such worlds of good.
Home Items.
— ll All your ow n fault
If you rema n sb'k when you '■an
Get hop bittern that never— tail.
—The weak^t woman, smallest chi’d, and
sickest invalid canu->e hop bitters with safety
and grfcat good.
—Old men t tiering around from Rheuma
tiarn, kidney trouble or any weakn.*ss will be
Imost new by using hop bitters.
—My wife arid daughter were made healthy
bv the use of hop bitters and 1 recommend
them to my jieople. Mot hod ist ( lergyman.
Afik any ga and doctc*r if hop
Bitters are not the b*t family medicine
On earth.
—Malarial fevor ; Ague and Bi’iousneis,
wiU leave every neighborhood as Boon as hop
bitters arrive.
—“ My mother drove the paralysis and
neuralgia all out of her system with hop bit
ters.” — hid. Oswego Sun.
—Keep the kidneys healthy with hop bit
terw and you not feur
—Toe wat>*ris rendered harmless and mors
refreshing and reviving with hop bitters m
each draught.
The vigor of youth for the aged and in
fir n. in hop bitters !
—“ At the change of life nothing equals
Hop hitter* to allay ail troubles incident
Thereto/
—“ The beet periodical for lad es to take
monthly and from wh.ch they will receive
the greaieftt benefit is hop bitters.* 1
Mothers with sickly, fretful, nursing
children, will cure tho children an i Ixjneht
themselves by taking bop bitters daily.
—Thousands die annually from some form
of kidney diwuse t hat uudit. have been pre
vented by a timely use of hop bitters.
Indigestion, w.*ak stoma h, irregulari
ties of the bowelft, cannot eli.-t when hop bit
ters aro u-aj-1.
A timely * * * use of hop
Bitters will keep a w hole family
In robust health a year at a little cost.
—To produce real genuine sleep and child
like rej*se all night, take a little hop bitten
on retiring.
That indigestion or stomach gas at night,
preventing rest anil sleep, will disappear by
using hop bitters.
-—Paralytic, nervous, tremu lons old lad es
are made i*i (Vcty quiet and sprightly by
using hop bittvrs.
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tie rar-d who mul Vr.d in v*in werjrthlns* ..
Jhirftlj and tt.o- to Irink Aak yoaf
druKtftftt to a t .t il b* ttocUny* ftsndl to oft for it tk*
doUiiu* Kite. l.im-iTw, Atlftijg ACo., US W tUiftßUt.
CONSUMPTION.
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