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BLOOD POISON! Bottles of Anothe; Blood Modi oine Used—No Relief Until B. B. B Was Used Hampton, Ga., June Pith, 1883. Blood Balm Cos i—Your IS. H 11. luih work <l on me like a charm. Three bottle* have lone me more good than all doctors and 100 ottlesof the most noted remedy. I am get ing well rapidly. All ulcers healed, no aching i my bones, no pains in my back, and my km is becoming clear. The effect of B. B. It. umy kidneys is something wonderful. My friends arc astonished. My family physician '.vs it is the only medicine I ever used suited o ray case. I would take pleasure in corres ponding with any one interested, as 1 can’t *'”■P Praising 11. It. 1). Indeed it is a great lilood Purifier. Give anyone my address whs may call for it. ' ' A. P. W. Address, BLOOD BALM CO.. Atlanta, Ga.. (,r Summerville, Ga. Srorfula Cured After Several Physician FAILED. On the 28th day of April, 1883. William Sea- Ink, 12 years of age, presented himself to Dr. Gillam, desiring to know if B. B. B. would cure him. Ho lives on Dr. L. A. Guild> place, near the cemetery, and tho case is well known by Dr, Guild, who has particularly noticed it. The boy had a foul scrofulous ulcer involv ing the entire elbow joint, with which he had been afflicted over twelve months. It had de stroyed the superficial structure, ami was fast approaching the deeper tissues. lie could not ln nd the arm. and had strong indications of the same ulcerous condition of the shoulder. Two other physicians of the city had treated the caae. but without any perceptible change in his condition. He whs placed upon the treatment of It. B. B , and one single bottlo cured the foul ulcer and restored the fast de generating condition of the child, aud he is now enioy ing the finest of health. This is n plain and Unmistakable case of well defined scrofula, and recognised as such, • ured with one single I ottie of Jt. B. 8., and ’ ■ take p] asure in asking any interested party to addi> as Dr. L. A. Guild, Atlanta, Ga., on the subject relative value of the medicine in this case. If one well defined case of scrofula oan be cured yOthers can be cured also. BLOOD BALM CO., Atlanta. Georgia. 13 THAT SO? Yes. it's a fact, that one large beetle of B. B. 11. citing only $1 is warranted to produce hi mu ib remedial effect- iu the cure of all Blood ris ni as three bottles of the moat famous blood medicines of the day. Yes, three te one; that's the way we put it,.an I we arc able • back Mir word with strong evidence, B. B. B. is the quick blood remedy, end there is nc mistake about it. The proof is printed the fiat has gone forth the tocsin has l*een sound ed, and “ho that hath ears to bear, let him tar*” F r s .e tii cmi >in *rvTHe ty J S. CL I QHOIIN & CO. 0..,w 4^ A Machine TANARUS) v--^- b l Vm. ■ ’ " rEc T 3 ApAB TI cULA R - P e -y,iNEVERy^ T0 N ™p. > NO EQ^ At _ NEW HowfiNCHACmKEC 0 / 30 UNION SQUARE NEWYORK 0 ’?- AN ® ( c- ILL- MASS BA. rO R SALE BY I'll \ f ; !,* & (J AIN, SUMMEKVIILB, OA Nerve-Life % - DFI.IE3fiITO3rS.E3XJ'.. S toward Elwtrii £2 fjpPpri Magnetic Sht;!-! [. applied over the neya nut Nervo-v t*r\ p.-y Ji centers. "i v IvtPf, I2; idney Dine; ■ % OF THE } V)S|)(- |) Si r sPRsaHSa | S mmol ' 12s " * Genital Orj -.iis [Patented Fcrt>. 2?j, 1879. J mn 'i-mmmw -• YOUNG MEN, from early Imlt-cr. ; nerve force and fall to attain strength. MIDDLE AGED MES'often lack vigor, nttrlbut ing it to the progress of years. The MOTFIEH, WIFE ami MAID, suffering fron Female Weakness, Nervous Debility and other nil ments, will flud It the only cure. To one and all we ray that the Shield gives a mr ural aid in a natural way WITHOUT DRUGGING THE STOMACH Warranted One Year, and ihe h appliance made. Illustrated Pamphlet. THREE TYI T.S '>F V PA also Pamphlet for Ladle* only, sent on t '• 6c, sealed ; unsealed, FREE. American Galvanic Cos. OFFICE J 1 1(3 Chestnut St., Fh ii n . Fifty texts on ice, near the head c* Patten’s Bay, a few miles east of the Penobscot, are occnpied by fifty or more Maine farmers, sailors, and fishermen, who are catching smelts. The industry there is profitable in January and Feb ruary only, and then for only fourhonrs a day, daring the incoming of the tide. The men fish through holes in the ice, and get an average of fifty pounds a day each. The fish are laid on boards, limp from the -water, and after they freeze they are packed in barrels and shipped to Boston aud New York, where tho prise is from eight to ten cents a pound, @jjc (Dinette. 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,