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Hampton, Ga., June Pith, 1883.
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Srorfula Cured After Several Physician
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On the 28th day of April, 1883. William Sea-
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VO XI.
HER PICTURE.
I see her now—the fairest thing
That ever mocked man’s picturing.
I picture her as one who drew
Aside life's curtain and looked through
The mists of all life’s mystery,
As from a wood to open sea.
The soft, wide eyes of wonderment
That, trusting, looked you through
through;
The sweet, arched mouth, a bow new bent.
That sent lore's arrow swift and true.
That sweet, arched mouth ! The Orient
Hath not such pearls in all her stores —
Not all her storied, spice-set shores
Have fragrance such as it hath spent.
I picture her as one who knew
How rare is truth to bo untrue—
As one who knew the awful sign
Of death, of life, of the divine,
Sweet pity of all loves, all hates,
Beneath the iron-footed fates.
I picture her as seeking peace.
And olive-leaves and vine-sot lanq *,
While strife stood by on either hand.
And wrung her tears like rosaries.
I picture her in passing rhyme
Ah of, yet not a part of, these—
A woman born above her time ;
A woman waiting in her place,
With patient pity on her face.
Her face, her earnest, baby face •
ller young face, so uncommon wise—
The tender love-light in her eyes—
Two stars of heaven out of place.
Two stare that sang as stars of old
Their silent eloquence of song,
From skies of glory and of gold,
Where God in purple passed along—
That patient, baby-face of hers
That won a thousand worshipers !
That silent, pleading face ; among
Ten thousand faces just the one
I still shall love when all is done,
And life lies by, a harp unstrung.
That face, like shining sheaves among ;
Tlmt face, half hid ’mid sheaves of gold;
That face that never can grow old ;
And yet lias never been quite young.
Joaquin Mii.lek.
Yours Truly.
BY MBS. M. 1.. BAYNE.
“ Arrmzin Grace,” said Mrs. Pilsbnry,
as she sat with her daughter at their
afternoon sewing, “ lie yew goiu' to piece
a quilt?”
“ What fur, mother?”
“Why, ain’t Mr. Van Vleet been to
seo yon twice’t runnin' lately ? ITc's
axed ye, I s'poße, to hov him ?”
“ An’ I guv him the mitten.”
“ Sho! You wouldn’t be half so silly I
Why, he's wuth a dozen orniray men.
You might go futher aud fare wuss ”
“Jest what I’m goin’ to dew.”
“ Did yew tell him so ?”
“ No, I writ; now, mother, let mo he; J
ain’t a goin’ to marry no man thet thinks
I'm jumpin’ et the chance. I’d a heap
ruther be an old maid. ”
There was nothing said for some time;
then the widow asked:
“ When did yew write, ’Mazin?”
“A day or so past.”
“ Where did you git a pen ?”
“ I borrered one. Mebbe you’d like
to know what I said tew him.”
“ You’ve guessed rite,” said the widow,
eagerly.
“It ain't nuthin’ to nobody but us,
mother, s’long es I didn’t have him,”
said the girl, curtly, and no more was
said, but the widow sighed heavily aud
held her hand to her left side.
Amman know that it meant her heart,
for she had lieon brought up to respect
that organ as an intimidating [lower.
This time she did not relent, but won
dered why she could not like that big.
good-looking Van Vleet well enough to
marry him, for they were )>oor, poor as
that historic church mouse, and he was
well ofl.
But they were not mercenary. People
called them simple folks; perhaps be
cause they lacked education, aud be
lieved everything that was told them.
But they were good as gold. The widow’s
face and form, lank and ungainly, were
familiar in every sick room. They ren
dered unto Oiesar the things that were
Ciesar’s. They owed no man anything,
though they worked early and late to ac
complish it. They were good to every
body and everything, and Amazin Grace
-her mother hail named tier after the
hymn beginning, “Amazing Grace, how
sweet the sound”—was really pretty. Bo
thought big, hulking, shame-faced Van
Vleet, when he came a-courting tier,
with his trousers tucked into cowhide
boots and a coon-skin cap tied down over
his ears. She was the only girl he was
afraid of, and lie wasn’t afraid of her,
come right down to it.
He was an honest, decent chap, with
a fist like a sledge hammer and a heart
like a child’s. He wanted Amazin Grace,
and he couldn't imagine any reason why
he should not have her. When he got
her simple little letter of refusal, written
ont with infinite difficulty and spelled on
anew plan of phonetics, he read it over
and over, smoked his cob pipe, read the
letter again, grinned a good bit, then
folded it reverently, and put it in the
pocket nearest his heart.
“That’s all rite, my girl,” he chuckled.
A couple of months passed away.
One peculiarity of time is that it treats
all people alike. It dees not fly irom
some and stand still with others. It
was spring at the Van Vleet farm, which
was one mass of apple and cherry blos
soms, and it was spring at the Widow
Pilsbnry’s little lean-to house, without
shrub or blossom. The widow looked
out of the window and sighed. She
had never heard the “Song of the
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 2C>, 1884.
Shirt,” but she had snug it all her life.
It was her bread and butter.
“There’s Vau Vleet!” she exclaimed,
looking up from her lap-board. “Well,
I declare ! What brings him hero ?”
"P’raps he's cornin’ to ask yew to hev
him, mother,” said Amazin Grace, laugh
ing, while a sweet flush of pink stained
her round cheeks.
“I wish he should !’’ said the widow,
devoutly; “I should consider it wus
flyin’ in tho face of Providence not to
marry snch a man—if he asked me.”
But Mr. Vau Vleet stalked in with a
brief “good-day,” threw an armful of
blossoms into tho lap of Amaziu Grace,
and said:
“I’m ready for a weddiu’."
“Bid you get my letter?” asked tho
girl.
“Yep ! It warn’t. to say, loviu’, but
I took yer moanin'. I’ve fenced in the
hull north lot, and furbushed the house
up, so yer wouldn’t know it, an’ I knleu
lnte ef wo kin get married next week, it
won’t interfere with my spring work—
hoy ?”
Amazin Grace sat book and looked the
picture of surprise. The widow thought
she heard the cat in the pantry and dis
creetly withdrew. As the door closed
Farmer Van Vleet took two little red
hands in his, aud trending forward gave
Amazin Grace an awful smack.
“That seals tho bargain,”ho said, but
tho indignant girl jumped up and
ordered him out of tho house. To her
astonishment he didn’t budge a step.
“Not mutch! I reckiu I’ve a right to
kiss yer now,” ho said boldly—then ho
stepped to the door and called loudly :
‘Mother ! kum here I”
Tho widow must have been conven
iently near, for she almost fell into tho
room at his first word, and he bestowed
another sounding smack on her.
“It’s all rite,” he said, “mean’Amazin
Grace is goin’ to be married, and you
kiu dance at the weddin’.”
“But—but the letter,” gasped Iho
girl. “You ain’t understood a word of
it.”
“The fact is,” said Farmer Van Vleet,
“I aiu't had no eddication to speak of ;
been too busy grubbin’ land all my life.
I didn’t raly read the letter to sense it,
but when I see how you signed it that
was enufT for me. I knowed you
wouldn’t hev writ that way to a feller ye
weren’t goiu’ to marry. I don’t know
much about gals, but 1 know that!”
When it was all settled that they woro
to be marrried next week, Sunday,
Farmer Van Vleet rode oil, and the two
women put away the lap-bdnril aud re
signed the universal shirt making busi
ness forever.
“I’d give the world to know what
writ to him," said Amaziu Grace.
“The world ain’t youmtew'give,” cor
rected her mother, piously.
“I’m sartin sure I told him no,” said
tho girl, “but I reckon he was bound to
hev me, an’ I dunno ez I’m half sorry,
either, now.”
When they were married and Amazin
Grace aDd her mother bail gone out to
the new home in tho smart new spring
wagon, the bride returned to the subject
of the letter.
“I hev a bnmin' cur’osity to know
what I writ.” she said, "cause (blushing
prettily) I thought I riffused you.”
"O ho, I guess not,"said the triumph
ant lover. “Look-a-Liere, Mrs. Van
Vleet, here’s tho letter. 'Tain’t but a
few words. There ain’t no ’ticular mean
in’ in them, but it’s the signing of them.
Do you see that ? Them two words
would stand iu law to mean plain yes ;
there's no gittin’ around them !”
Amaziu Grace and her mother botli
read at once:
“Mr. Van Vleet:
“deer sir—l am sory to Inform you
that your attenshuns are in nowise Re
cipperkated.
“Ynres trewly,
“Amazin Quack Pilsbuby.”
“That fetched me,” said Mr. Van
Vleet., looking admiringly fat his new
possession. “I doan’t know much, but
I reckon I kin tell what a girl means
when she writes to a feller and signs her
self ‘Yures trewly.’” —Detroit Free.
Frets.
Tea versus Grog.
So good was the reputation of tea
officially that great efforts were made
in her Majesty’s navy, about thirty
years ago, to increase the consumption
of it. The proffered extra allowance of
tea was as compensation for a reduced
allowance of grog, and little favor did it
find from Jack, however graciously it
may have been regarded by his masters,
There was to be no forcing of its adop
tion, but unlimited persuasion was to be
used in order that it might be voluntar
ily accepted. One captain told me that
he bad assembled his ters, and exhorted
them, as eloquently as he knew how, to
refuse the evil, and to choose tho good
(as it was then the fashion to consider
it). When he had said his say, knowing
that Jack’s first feeling would be one of
indignation, he said he would not ask
for an answer then, but would receive it
three days after, by which time they
would have been able to think calmly
over the proposal. At the end of three
days the ship's company, choosing pur
posely to misunderstand the offer, in
timated, through a deputation, their
gratitude for the choice which had been
allowed them, and their determination
to give up their present ration of tea,
and to get a trifle more grog,
TRADITION OF EL MAIIDT.
ORNKHAL STOW* LKCTI7HK ON Till?
FALNU PUOPIIKT OF TIIK SOI I)AN.
A Curloua Arabian Lrcnml Foraalmdowliitf
lhr Fad of lln* World and I'lirtnt’n Tri
ll in lli A Wicked ('onqnoror.
Lieutenant General C. P. Stone lec
ture# iu New York for the benefit of
tho Bartholdi Pedestal Fund on “El
Mahdi in the Soudan.” In his lecture
General Stone said:—
It is probable that ten years ago
Mohammed Ahmed, the poor and un
known Koran reader, far up on the
White Nile, little dreamed that his deeds
would be discussed to-day iu every part
of tho civilized world. Tho Soudan
was firmly held by a hand of steel,
though gloved in velvet—that of the
Khedive Ismail. Mohammed Ahmed
must have been well aware of another
Soudan Koran reader who shortly be
fore assumed the same title but was
quickly oonquered. Mohammed Ahmed
proclaimed himself under more favora
ble circumstances. In the place of
Ismail, who had been driven from
Egypt by the two great Powers repre
senting his bondholders, there reigned
his son, Mohammed Tewflk, whoso
hands were held by England whenever
ho desired to act vigorously, Tho
weakness of the government favored
tho appearance of a strong man who,
appealing to the Arabic and Islamic
sentiment, could unite the people. Ho
came in the presence of Mohammed
Ahmed—El Mahdi. What is meant by
that name?
“Sitting one day in my office in the
War Department in Cairo,” said tlxe
General, “a confidential secretary of the
Prime Minister hurriedly entered aud
informed me that a rebellion had broken
out in the Island of Abo, and that a
man was calling himself the Mahdi. As
military measures became at once nec
essary I desired to know tho meaning of
the word. After consulting a transla
tion of the Koran without attaining my
object I applied to an intelligent Mus
sulman, and from him learned that
there was nothing in the Koran regard
ing this personage, but that tradition
maintained that during the Inst days of
this world an Arab false prophet would
riso up who would conquer—first, the
country occupied by tho Arabs, then
Asia Minor, and then the rest of the
world; then onco in possession of power
ins ruling would be bad, but short, inas
much as Jesus Christ would then appear
on earth, rirur Jerusalem, and call from
their graves the great and good war
riors of all times; that on reaching the
grave of one such he would salute the
ancient with the Islamic salutation, “Ba
laam Aleickoom,” whereupon the old
warrior would arise, fully equipped, and
join his forces; that with this invincible
army constantly increasing, Christ
would march on Mecca, occupy that city
and there proclaim the truth of tho Is
lamic doctrine, with peace and good will
to all men.
Buell being tiie belief of tho Arabs, it
is easy to see how dangerous it is to the
peace of the world wlieu Mussulmans in
ail countries become persuaded that
Mohammed Ahmed is really the Mahdi
of their traditions. Had he been de
feated at the outset he might have been
proclaimed a vulgar impostor, for he
was unknown outside of the Soudan;
but circumstances favored him. First
lie obtained a local prestige. Then fol
lowed the troubles in Cairo—England
and France each striving to create Eu
ropean domination. Following these
was tho open rebellion of Arabi Pacha,
wiien, from April, 1882, te October, no
one either in Egypt or Europe thought
of Mohammed Ahmed. The shrewd
chief took advantage of the situation.
Availing himself of tho fanatical influ
ences by which lie was surrounded, of
tho manifest weakness of the English
government, or the inability of the Khe
dive, tie concentrated his forces, made
an onslaught, aroused his masses ami is
now in a commanding position.
The Khedive and his ministers were
prompt in the recognition of the perilous
situation, and requested the chief of the
army staff to adopt measures to avert
the danger, but it was impossible. Brit
ish bondholders were pressing for tho
payment of their semi-annual coupons
anil the British government itself was
exacting in its demands for the money to
pay the expenses of the 10,000 British
troops constituting the army of occupa
tion. It was a moment when a little re
laxation of the purse strings, the taking
on of a little more pecuniary responsi
bility without actually expending a
penny would have marie the Khedive,
bis government and the wisest of the
Egyptians the grateful friends of Eng
land. The British government allowed
Ibe opportunity to slip, and it will hard
ly return.
In conclusion General Stone paid a
handsome tribute to General Gordon as
a soldier and a man, but strongly depre
cated the act of the English government
in compelling him to submit to the dan
gers of his mission in going single
handed and alone to Khartoum.
Nobody ever succeeded in painting a
good picture of a horse trade. They
can’t somehow give to tho men’B faces
expressions that convey any commen
surate idea of the lying going on.
A NEW BANKRUPTCY It I Lb.
I’oluin of flic Draft A*rool on by tin*
Clininbor of roiiijiirrre C'oiinnllieo,
Tlio Committee on Bankruptcy ap
pointed by tho Chamber of Commerce
of New York in November have agreed
on a report. It is accompanied by the
draft of a bankruptcy bill which incorpo
rates tlio most recent features of British
legislation with the Lowell bill as
adopted by the House last session. The
proposed procedure differs chiefly in
that it enables an holiest debtor to ob
tain the protection and relief of the
court without being adjudicated a bank
rupt.
On the presentation of a petition
either by the debtor or by a creditor the
Court makes a receiving order, so ns to
protect the estate, and a general meeting
of creditors is hold, at which the official
referee presides. The debtor presents
his accounts, and makes an offer. If tlie
creditors by special resolution accept
the proposal the matter is adjourned in
to court., where any creditor has a right
to bo heard in opposition. If tho offer
is reasonable, aud no offence under the
net can bo proved against tlio debtor,
the Court approves the arrangement,
ami affixes its seal to tho proposal, which
thereupon becomes binding on all cred
itors. If the requisite majority do not ao
eept the offer, or if, on the examination
of the debtor, it appears that liis failure
has been brought about by excessive
pensoual expenditure, or by gambling
in stocks or produce, or if he has pre
ferred his relatives or friends, or any
creditor fraudulently, within the mean
ing of tho act, ail adjudication takes
place, and ordinary bankruptcy ensues.
This procedure, although taken imme
diately from the English act of last ses
sion, is in great port a reproduction of
the French law. There is ouo important
difference; under the French law, every
failing debtor is arrested.
The proposed law is restricted to
traders only. All agricultural pursuits
which bogin and end iu “tlie cultivation
of tho soil and the preparation and vend
ing of the produee thereof,” are excluded.
This restriction, according to the report,
is requisite, because “wo cannot, as in
Great Britain, limit tlio operation of tho
law to special or commercial communi
ties,” but are compelled by the terms of
the Constitution to adopt one uniform
law for the whole country. The com
mittee do not propose to interfere witli
the homestead laws, because they
consider that “these are, in fact, a con
tract between tho State and the settlers
which the central authority has no right
to impeach,” and they add: “We can
not consider on what principle of equity
a creditor can seize under a flat in bank
ruptcy what he cannot touch under au
execution at law.”
The Romance or ft Bank Note.
In the year 1710 one of tlio directors
of the Bank of England, a man of unim
peachable honor, lost a bank note for
D!0,000, under peculiar circumstances.
It seems that he had bought au estate
for that sum of monoy, and for con
venience sake obtained a note fdt that
amount. As lie was about to put it
under lock and key, after he reached
home, lie was called out of tho room,
whereupon, as he thought, lie placed it
upon the mantle. Upon returning a few
minutes later, the note hail disap
peared. It could not have been stolen,
for no one hail entered the room, where
upon ho concluded that it had been
blown into tho fire and hud been con
sumed. lie laid the matter before the
officers of tho bank, anil they reissued a
note for the same amount, ho giving
bonds to reimburse the bank if tho note
should ever be presented for payment.
Thirty years after, when he had long been
dead and his estate distributed among
his heirs, the supposed non-existent note
turned up at the bank counter for pay
ment. As tlie bank could not afford to
dishonor the obligation, tlie money was
paid out, and the heirs of the dead man
were asked to make good tho loss ; this
they refused to do, nor could the bank
employ any legal machinery to force
them to do bo. Tlie person who profited
by the matter was supposed to be a
builder, employed to pull down the dead
man’s house and build another
on its site. Ho found tho missing
thirty-thousand pound note in a
crevice in the chimney, in which it
somehow got lodged after being laid on
the mantelpiece. It must have lieen
kept many years, and its presentation
te tho bank was so arranged that the
builder became a rich man by a sudden
stroke of blind fortune.— Demorest’s
Monthly.
The Wheat Crop.
The Cincinnati Prie.e, Current has
made a special examination of the wheat
stocks in the country and publishes the
result. The report shows " the total
supply of wheat to be 175,000,000 bush
els ; to this is added 35,000,000 bushels
in flour in the hands of dealers, making
a total of 210,000,000 bushels for the re
maining half of the crop year. The esti
mated requirements for that time are :
For domestic food, etc., 126,000,000
bushels; for export, including Hour,
57,000,000 bushels, leaving a surplus of
27,000,000 bushels. This is calculated
upon tho basis of exports of 120,000,000
bushels tliis year, against 148,000,000
bushels last year.
NO. 10.
CIIECK- It A IS Fits.
Device* Used/or Itcniovlnit InR and Cancel
ing Eif/nrcs,
“Check-raising is getting to bo one of
the lost arts,” said ail old detective,
“and as checks are prepared nowa
days they arc pretty safe. There are
sumo of the crooked men, however, who
know nil tlie tricks of removing ink.
I was onco curious enough to learn
how it was that they could so success
fully alter a check. Different forgers
use different methods. One successful
stock-forger used equal quantities of
lapis calamiuoris, common salt and
rock alum, which he boiled for half
ail hour in white wine in a now pip
kin, or he used a fine sponge shaped
like a pencil, which lie dipped in equal
quantities of nitre and vitriol distilled.
As lie passed ibis point over the ink it
name"right ont. Sometimes equal quan
tities of sulphur anil powdered saltpe
ter, both distilled, were used. For a
long time the police did not understand
wlmt use was made of a little ball
that now anil thou was found iu the
possession of a prisoner. This turned
out to bo made of alkali and suiphru,
and was used for romoving ink. It is
hard to find an ink that will not dis
appear under ono plan of treatment or
another. I knew a check-raiser who
had a small laboratory. Ho kept bot
tles of acids of all sorts and a case of
eamel’s-hair brushes. With a small
quantity of oxalic or muriatic acid,
somewhat diluted, aud a camel’s-hair
pencil he could paint out any number
of ink spots. One or two applications,
followed by the uso of a blotting-pad,
would restore the paper to primitive
purity. It requires skill and an ac
curate knowledge of chemicals to uso
any of these plans so as not to injure
the texture of tho paper or discolor it.
If tlio paper is injured it is not so
easy to write upon it again, but, by
the use of finely-powdered pounce,
rubbed in lightly with the fingor and
burnished with an ivory folder, the pa
per can be repaired. Common writing
ink, however, is best removed by tho
uso of oxygenated muriatic acid.
“ But the new stylos of check, with
the amount cut through the paper with
a die, are hard to alter. Here is a check
with a revenue stamp in old-golil color
in tho center, and broad liuos of rod ink
are drawn close up to the amount writ
ten in. There is another broad lino of
red ink after the name of tlie payee. Up
in the left-hand corner, where the
amount is in figures, you will seo that
the figures are also cut through tho
paper. On tho reverse sido of the cheek,
just over these figures, is pasted a pink
strip which brings the cut figures out in
such relief that they cannot bo altered
without detection. Tho only way to
alter that chock is to tako out the first
written word iu tho amount in the body
of tho chock and tho amount in the
ooruer, and, after replacing them with
the raised sum, to inlay a piece of chock
paper in the place of tlie cut figures.
This inlaying process requires great
care, and only one or two men in this
country are aide to do it. Tho cut fig
ures must bo carefully out out by a
sharp razor-like tool, and cut in such a
way that tlio edges of the opening will
bo beveled. Then a fresh bit of chock
paper must be shaped to the size of tho
opening and fitted in, with its edgcifalso
beveled. Tlie edges must be hold to
gether with a paste made of flour and
strained resin and carefully pressed.
Borne pounce rubbed over tho lines will
conceal the patch, unless there is a
strong light, and then, with the samo die
that the bankers use, raised figures can
lie inserted. The work is delicate, and
is not often attempted, as it involves the
risk of ruining the check for the amount
for which it is good. —Neiv York Sun.
4 Lake Drying Up.
Tlio rapid drying up of Tiliarc Lake,
■in California, is one of the most re
markable geographical changes of this
country within historical times. A few
years ago the lake was thirty-three miles
long by twenty-one miles wide, and now
it is but fifteen miles long and has an
average •width of less than eight miles.
This result is attributed largely to human
agency. The cutting of timber on the
mountains, and more especially tho tap
ping of the water courses by which tho
lake is replenished, by the boring of
artesian wells anil appropriating tho
waters of rivers for irrigation, make it
impossible that the lake should supply
tho loss incurred by evaporation and
maintain its former level. Two or three
dry seasons have doubtless made tho
progress in this direction more rapid
than it would otherwise have been, and
one or two rainy winters mightcanse the
lake to rise again temporarily.— Alta
Californian.
A grammar school boy becamo so ob
streperous that liis teacher, new in her
vocation, young and pretty, determined
to try the plan of keeping him in. After
school she sat with grim determination
until it becamo dark, and then she let
him depart. What was her astonish
ment at the gate to find the youth await
ing her. He greeted her with: “ It’s too
dark for a young lady to bo alone on the
streets. Will you allow mo to see you
home?”
TIIE HUMOROUS PAPERS.
WIIAT IVH FIND IN TUB ft I TO
OVKK.
nun DISEASE.
“Wluvt you need, madame,” saida dis
tinguished physician to an interesting
invalid, “is outdoor air and exercise,
particularly walking.”
“I know it,” was the sad reply; “but
my husband won’t give mo any money
to go shopping."
WHERE IONOBANCB IS BLISS, ETO.
“Ain’t you ashamed of yourself to
fight with a boy so much smaller thau
yonrself ? I really can’t understand it,”
said a olorical looking gentleman to a
big boy who was imposing an a small
one.
“So you enu’t understand it ?” re
torted the young ruffian, impudently.
“No, I can’t.”
“ Well, then, why do you meddle
with things yon don’t understand?”—
Austin Siftings.
A LEGAL QUESTION,
“I notice in the papers,” said the wife
of a well-known judge, “that some law
yers are advocating that judges should
be clothed in silk gowns.”
"Yes,” ho replied, straightening him
self up. “How do you think I would
look iu a now silk gown ?”
“I hardly know,"said tho lady. “You
might look well and you might not, but
it is about time that somebody iu the
family had anew silk gown."—Phila
delphia Call.
IIE KNEW TIIE PROFESSOR.
“Yes,” said the doctor, “you must
prepare yourself for tho worst. You
cannot live many dayß. You had better
make your will at once. ”
“Make my will I” gasped the sick
lawyer.
“Yes,” replied the doctor, gently. “ It
would be well, I think.”
“ No,” the legal man said, shaking his
head. “I will never make a will. My
family needs what little proporty I have
got .’’—Philadelphia Evening Call.
PLANTATION rniLOSOPIIY,
A little mind iu er big hood is ter mo
like a boy libin’ alone in or big house.
Bar’s two men whnt yer kain argy wid
’bout wimmin. One wlmt’s fixiu’ ter git
married an’ ono wlmt’s been married fur
some time.
When I sees a man dat alius wants ter
pray I somehow kain’ lie’p thinkin’ dat
lie’s done sn’thin’ dat he wants de Lawd
ter wipe ont.
I neber seed a man yit whut I thought
had a ’scuse fur bein’ proud, fur ef ho
will only turn ter do simplest in natur’ it
won’t take five minits’ study ter ’vinoe
him dat lie’s er fool.
Good clothes am all right, young man,
an’ alius am ’spected, but don’ let ’em
fool yer. It ain't de glitter dat makes
de knife cut, fur a black-lookin’ knife
sometimes has de keenest edge.—Ar
kansaw Traveler.
TRIPLED IN ntlOE.
An old horso attached to a still older
ash-wagon was loft standing on Larned
street West, yesterday, when the dump
ing of a load of coal started him off on
the run. When tho owner returned to
the spot whore he had left his rig a boy
informed him of wliafc had occurred.
“Ran away? Do you say my horse
ran away?”
“Yes, sir.”
“ Did he strike into a gallop ?”
“He did.”
“And people woro excited?”
“Yes, sir. There was quite a crowd
around. ”
“And after he turned the comer he
broke the wagon, you say?”
“Smashed it all to pieces, sir.”
“ Well, by George I I was off trying
to find someone who’d give me ten dol
lars for that horse, but now I won’t tako
a cent less than twenty-five dollars !
Actually struck a gallop and ran away,
eh ? I believe I won’t sell short of thirty
dollars I”— Detroit Free Press.
A REASONABLE APOLOGY.
Ono day three or four weeks ago a de
tail grocer over in Jersey sat down with
his clerk ono evening, and said :
“James, I owe New York houses over
83,000.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Wo have $2,000 in cash in the safe,
the stock is all run down, and this would
be the time to fail in business.”
“It certainly would.”
“But I want a reasonable apology to
give my creditors when they come down
upon us for explanations. See if you
can’t think of something to night, and
let mo know in the morning.”
Tlie clerk promised, and the grocer
wheeled a chest of tea and a bag of
coffee home us a beginning. Next morn
ing when ho appeared at the store the
safe was open, the cash gone, and on
the desk was a noto from the clerk,
reading:
“I have taken tlio $2,000 and am pre
pared to skip. It will be tho best excuse
in the world for your failing so flat that
creditors can’t realize two cents on the
dollar.” — Wall Street Dews.
A searcher for TRUTH writes from
Portland, Oregon, that the great North
west is not the place for men without
some money. He adds that if men who
are down at the heel and played ont
everywhere else continue to push for
ward into Oregon, that great State will
be a fools’ paradise by another year,
tramps than there were in
New England just after the collapse in
1873. Clerks and mechanics may as well
stay where they are, and, indeed, the
iarmer who has from S3OO to S6OO will
do better to stay at home than to spend
it all in traveling to an unexplored
oonntry,