Newspaper Page Text
Bn*Tffl 1| 8 ft For Blood, Skin
it $ Hi in (I I " flnd nones. Quick
111 milll curc * ftud small
fi EM SI ■ mouer. A Bcicn-
II | 111 tifle Blood Poison
| g B R ■ I Kerned v Sure, safe
nna satisfactory. Purifies the Blood from
infancy to old ape. One bottle proves its
superiority. Hereditary Taint and Scrofu
lous symptoms cured. Itching Humors
and Glandular Swelling's relieved. All had
ami Mm
IftTf® 3 BP 9 ft Cures Chronic Skin
II I Pill" 1 Biseascs, l\ z-nft,
A I Umh TANARUS tier!'Ringworm;
Blotches, splotches, and all other troubles
of the skin atTecting old and yonne Be
duces Scrofulous. <t Glandular Swellings,
Turn :rs.Ovartan Tumors. Enlarged Glands,
etc. Cures Catarrh,ozvam. Hip Piseo.se, old
JiLUili
J!0WB ; il
and tertiary discHM'of the Imiu s ami
IBpc '•’••-•raal organs ••urod sped-.I and ►peedy
fijjjjja ,(> m les suffering from painful,
Sfj •' ate tmi if
Bill
’ •■• i piinii.T. P. B. Wul
tl* i ;us sonn-. Cru-es Send for pamphlet of home
curea. At all Prog Stores one Wn • SI.
J 1.00 ) BALM COMPANY, Atlanta, Gt
J l \ I*l*l NK S .
Aji axia. (Lv., Apt.l 4, IKS*.
M >si’s ! J> ]. t <-ir.p my: I Jt;i\c
1-c n u 1 ’T<mt s i!V tor for lorn v nrs wi h
C i util <>i t io lead, jim 1 <vc v tint* I
my :• -• m v mi jives t f 1t no
came i.l my in<>utb an ! n >e. Mv
g< n ’ li“ i’ 1 ■ s very bn 1, lotv n ] ( r
Pp. t* Htt :i 1 1 }> , <t ■ is: i. n Si ntl
prpiui. s vv * * uv.l *w %y
V'! £ \ , W'.vA V v lame h J iiaittg ’s our
II !. 11. ami <* j, ■ i * ,1 like a
fli ra. c.a ■ .]■ rno ad a single
symp'o alias rotun.otl and l f** fjcib*
vc t>r il : j <*i! !i n every r? ** t.
M s Mi, z a blip Knott.
F r s .le In Su tm *rrlile ay
J S. £jM A CO,
L ppr -■■■ ■- pg y?v3Kff.g-t T
Werye-Lifs Vigor
- RESTORED.-
Thi* cut shows the
g Howard Electric
§5 Magnetic Shield
NSSI*^ 1 ii ji applied over the Vi!!
y; Arrvo-i >K> \
** V,> **!V ' ' Vr, '- V i " ~f
F the hotly, a:.d
a H&ra 1 1 Iv on- m e.h :
i t b Bm 2m 1 1 'st:o : V {V u t
I W* l J£L 1 i Hldlle,
\ OF THE j
Si JS- TMlnul V?'* rdt
4 m-s, S.xl: -;--
;] ttoii, vin|M>t< i:
i 'V.-ap^. i 1 *l'* nu,] ws ‘
it \ J eases :.ud U. euli
. if | ness 1 th-. I rfiio
' * '■ ■ l-iilial Or&uiiM
YOrxa yiKX, from early Indiscretion, lack
nerve force and. fail to attain i-trength.
MIPIH.F A C I*P MCN ofteniack vigor, attrihut
icg it to the \iro■£ re>■ of years.
Tin M-o4*HR. AVIFE and MAID, suffering froa
Ft’ti,ule *v\-Mknef-s, .Nervous Debility and other ail
luents, v. id find ii the only cure.
To one anti all w pay that the Shield gives a nat
url aid in a natural wav
VTTHPI’T PRI GGING THE STOMACH.
One Year, and tle bes”
pillance made.
Illustrated Pamphlet,TllßEE TYPES OF MEN.
r.Po Pamphlet for Lndieh only, ent on receipt o
tc, reded; unseal|d, FREE.
American Galvanic Cos.,
i 1103 < St., Phlla.
A Pnifllablfl Stoainer.
Tlio sale qf t lie stciuntfr Senator for a
coal bulk to Now Zealand iinisheß tho
active career of one of the most Fuceesg
fnl ve.-sei i afloat. She was built at New
York in 1810, nr.d ran for a sliort time on
tho R mU-rn coast, but during the gold
i xeitement of California she was sent, to
San Frnncißco, where sho arrived in
September, IKIO, with over five hundred
pasaengont. Boon after arriving there
she was placed on the Sacramento river,
ni- king three trips a week, and, with ?o5
cabin passage and §l3 for standing room
on deck, she soon paid for herself ten
times - vcr. lu fact, her receipts, averaged
olos. to $20,000 a trip, and for four
months, fuiiy 800,000 a week. Sue is
known to have carried in this trade, over
one million pasuengers. Site has made
more i/old than sho could carry and has
outlived scores of the finest steamers
afloat, wl ieli were wrecked or went to
deer.-, while the old Senator, one of tlio
few remaining links of tho “days of
old. the days of gold, tho days of ’49,”
pl-dd' and J.ng successfully, until she fi
nally ,i l J ; /ve way to the march of
impr-•. nni-nt arkl to the new and more
conrunicai stylo of craft, the steam pro
peller.
A Vast Enterprise.
It is bow proposed to connect the
railway system of America with those ot
Asia and Europe by means of a ferry
conveying locomotives and ears across
Behring's Strait. The project is to ex
tend tire Canadian Pacific, now being
constructed through Manitoba, by build,
ing a branch to Alaska until it reaches
Behring’s Strait. There it would meet
with the railroad tracks to be constructad
in Siberia, which of course have their
direct relations with the railway system
of Pamela and Europe. A line to Pekin
is taiked of. This having been done it.
requires not much further stretch of
the imagination to see with the raind’s
eve the long rail:, stretching out under
tire shadows of the Himalayas until they
make connections with tho proposed
line in the .T- rdin Valley, and thence
with the European system. This may
seem wild, but stranger things have
happened in this wonderful modern
world of ours. —li •• s*> Monthly.
ExoF.ni.KNT industrial and bn-i =>
prosperity has prevailed in South Caro
lina during tho last year.
iljc £tttiunm>iUe €%dte.
VO I, XL
from The cradle to the grave.
Tlioro lit’B across the mother'll knee.
Ami gathered in lier hand,
A little robe of puffs and lace,
With rm embroider'd band.
I sec her smile, I hear her sing
A low, sweet lullaby ;
And of* *jw v thought of joy
I J ight up In rhi igiii'v v - •
i It is a robe for her dear child
To bo christen'd in !
There lies across the mother's Unco,
And gather'd in her hand,
A silken robe, with puffs of lace. •
And an embroidered band.
*Tia white, and like a cloud at eve,
That iloats across the skv.
But oh, I hear the mother givo
An oft-repeated sigh.
It is a robe for her dear child,
To bo wwdd#d iu.
There lies across the mother's kneo,
And gathered in her hand,
A robe of softest wool ; but it
llrs no embroidered band.
And on her cheeks so wan and pale,
ITic mother’s tears I see,
And hear her pray, Lord, give me strength !
Oh, givo Thy strength to mo!
It is a robe for her dear child,
ItHluTs 1 1 usl>;m<l
Etlml Vano was a young beauty of
eighteen- a beauty of tho most radiant
blonde type, with eyes that seemed like
liquid wells of blue light, wavy hair of
spun gold, and a complexion like a
freshly-opened oleander. Bho hud a
neat little fortune in her own right, and
sho had a very clear and well-defined
idea of doing what sho pleased with it.
Miss Eudocia Eames was a middle
aged second cousin, who had more gen
tility than income, and who eked out
the latter by acting in tho capacity of
chaperon and companion to tho saucy
beauty, giving advice which Ethel never
took, and objecting on principle to every
gentleman whom Ethel fancied.
But one day Miss Vane entered her
relative’s presence with very rosy checks
and a deep sparkle iu her eyes which
Endooia had never soon there before.
“Miss Eudocia,” she said, “1 am en
gaged to be married.”
| “Are you ?” said Miss Eudocia, with a
little gasp, as if sho were swallowing
castor oil.
} “To Mr. Harold North.”
“My goodness cried Miss Eudocia,
“Why, it isn’t three weeks silica you
were first introduced to him."
“Oh, that’s nothing,” said sanoy
Etlial. “I made up my mind that 1
liked him in three days.”
i “I think you are running a great risk,
: Ethel,” said Eudocia Eames. “I should
never marry a man that I didn't know
all about,”
“Is that what lias kept you from matri
mony all these years?” said Ethel Vane,
mischievously.
Miss Eames tossed her head, and the
tips of her cheek-bones and tho end of
her noso became a degree more roseate
than usual.
“ Well,” said sho, “of course you know
your own business best; and I only hope
yon will never live to regret this precipi
tancy.”
But Ethel married Harold North in
less than six weeks more.
“I never could reconcile myself to
such a rash step,” said Miss Eames.
“Oh, well,” said Ethel, “there seems
to be no occasion that you should.”
“You’ll live to repent it,” persisted
Miss Eames, waxing venomous under
the barbed sting of her pretty young
cousin’s words.
“Oh, no; I shall not,” laughed Ethel.
But in spito of this war of words, tho
young peoplo hud scarcely settled down
after the honeymoon, before Miss Eames
came to visit them, with a fearful array
of Saratoga trunks, bandboxes, and par
cels strapped up m brown paper. Ethel
ran to the gate to welcome her.
“I am so glad you come just now,
dear Miss Eudocia,” said she, brightly.
“The roses are all in bloom, and Eden
Villa is at its best. Wasn’t it nice of
Harold to engage it ready furnished for
the season—servants, carriages, horses
and nil? And ho can go in and out of
the city every day, and I’m working a
pair of slippers far him on the sly; and
there's r.ucli a delicious little cascade
down in tho ravine, and a fernery among
the rocks, and a little lilae-and-gold
boat on the river—that I can row my
self- -hardly bigger than a scallop shell.
Bo come in, and I’ll ring for some ten,
and yon’U have time for a nice long nap
before Harold comes home.”
And tho bride ied Miss Eudocia
Eames triumphantly into a pretty little
apartment, all paneled rose and silver,
with a white velvet carpet, windows
draped with muslin and pink ribbons,
and a tiny conservatory opening out of
it.
“And are you happy?’ said Miss
Eames, interrogatively.
“Oh, I am the happiest girl in all the
wide world!" said Ethel.
Mr. North came home to dinner,
presently—a. dark-browed, corsair-look
ing man, with one of those mysteriously
handsome faces which inspire allschool
; girls with the idea that there must be
some secret chapter in bis life. But he
made himself very agreeable, and Miss
Eudocia began to relent in her opinion
: of him.
The next day she was beginning an
elaborate piece of worsted work in tins
piuk-and-silver drawing-room, when the
I maid knocked at tho door.
“Please, ma’am,” said Phebe, in a
j perturbed manner, “she will come in I
SI MMEUVILLU, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1884.
And she won’t send tip her card I And
she won't wait in the little green recep
tion-room for me to go up to my mis
tress ! And please, ma'am, hero she is
on tho stairs now I”
“Phebe,” said Miss Eames, “what on
earth do you mean ?”
At the same minute Ethel North came
uly in from an opposite door, and
fiuiiM.’ herself faced by a tall apparition
in black, <r hU a dusty crape veil, hag
gled eyes, and hail originally black as a
raven's wing, but now thickly streaked
with silver.
"Ah I” said she, as Ethel looked at
her with surprised blue eye*/“so it’s
yon, is it, that lmvo Uivtrried my hus
band ?”
“Married your Ipasluind!”
Ethel could vtuly gasp out tho words
after her in breathless amazement.
“Vs!” yrtteved the other woman,
u id a i brickie of malicious satisfaction.
■| ni, don’t think that, you are to keep
in spite of your blue eyes, and
\ ,v hair, and pretty pink cheeks. I
was pretty once, in the days that are
past. I have tho first right to him, and
I menu to have him. I've followed him
half over tho world, and I’ve traced him
out at last. Where is ho? I say, where
is he ?”
Ethel looked at Mias Eudocia, and
shrank behind her like a frightened
deer.
“He in in the city,” said Miss Endo
oia, bewildered and hesitating. “Ho
has not returned yet.”
“Then here I wait until he does re
turn,” said tlio woman, seating herself
upon ono of tho pink damask chairs.
“Yes, yon may well stare at my lags;
but it is his fault. He can dress you,
you pitiful doll-faced thing,”-with a jerk
of her head toward Ethel, “in silks and
jewels, whilo I am shabby and neglected.
But never mind ; we shall seo what tho
law says to this. A man can't have
two wives. I'll wait—yes, I’ll wait.”
Blie laughed derisively as blio spoke.
Ethel caught at Miss Eudocin’s hand,
“Oh, come away 1" sho faltered, with
trembling voice and changing color. “I
I am afraid of that woman.”
And together they took refuge in tho
library beyond, locking tho door to bar
themselves effectually from all intru
sion.
“.Miss Eudocia,” whispered Ethel, ns
pale as a ghost, “what does it mean?”
“It means, my poor child, that you
have been c!i< at and and deceived!”
groaned Miss I'.udocii. “Bidu't I tell
you so? Didn’t I say you would livo
to regret your rash precipitancy ? Oh,
Ethel, 1 never liked that man’s face ! [
always ki ew that there was a dark mys
tery in his life.”
“What shall I do? Oh, dear! what
can I do?” gasped Ethel; and Miss
Eudocia could feel that her hands wore
as cohl as ice.
“Oct your things I” said the old maid.
“Come homo with mo 1 Leave him for
ever !”
“But I love him !” wailed Ethel.
“More fool, yon !” cried Miss Eudocia,
fairly losing patience. “Wliut! after
he has trifled with you—dooeived yon—
blighted your whole life? Como homo
with me, I say ! Don’t let him gloat
over t!u ruin he lias wrought !”
But even as Miss Eudocia pleaded
with the young wife, who sat there palo
and drooping as a broken lily, the blinds
of the open window hack of them wero
sautionsly raised and a rubicund face
looked in.
“Ladies,” said the owner of tho rubi
cund faoe, in a whisper, “don’t bo
alarmed. There ain't no occasion. But
is she here ?”
“Who?” exclaimed Miss Eudocia, who
was tho first to recover her self-posses
sion.
“Mrs, Noltes ! Escaped from tho
Private Lunatic Asylum, three miles
down tho river, this evening. Tall lady,
iu black. Talks about her husband, as
sho thinks is married to another wo
man 1”
“Yes,” cried Ethel, springing to her
feet. “Oh, yes —she is hero. Blie is in
the other room.”
And sho fell, hysterically laughing
and sobbing, into Miss Eudocia’s arms.
“Mum’s the word, then,” said the man
with the rubicund countenance, disap
pearing from the window as miraculously
as he appeared.
And presently they saw him escorting
the tail lady iu black down the carriage
drive, talking to her, as they went, in tho
most persuasive manner possible.
“Oh, yes’m,” said he. “He’s at
Doctor Fitelling's, waitin’for you. He's
been there this long time, and we
couldn’t think where you was gone. He’s
thrown all the other wives overboard and
come hack to you. Oh, it’s all right.”
Ethel North looked at Miss Eudocia.
Miss Eudocia looked at Ethel North.
“What geese we have been !” cried
Ethel, radiantly.
“But circumstances did look rather
suspicious,” said Miss Eames, blankly.
“I believe you’re sorry yet that you
can’t say, ‘I told you so,”’ laughed
Ethel, ns gleeful as a child.
“No, I’m not, my dear,” said Miss
Eudocia, bursting into tcar.i.
And she really and actually meant it;
for Miss Eudocia, old maid though she
was, had not a bad heart.— Popular
Monthly.
' Yks, Augustn . I iov you. Now you
i: Igo and see father.” “No, dovic,
is.l that is father than 1 want to go
iusl at present.”
A NATIONAL DISASTER.
Till: FOOT AND AID! Til IMSLASi: IN
Ii % NS AS,
\n IPterrstlnif Ski'lch of fhr ( afllo !liM
IH’MM (*l I lIC Wl *1 IIOW fill' i'll UI v
mi* lirpf.
To appreciate the inuuinenco of the
danger that threatens tlio cattle-growing
industry of the West, the differences in
the systems of handling cattle in Killians,
and their movements must bo understood.
These systems are the natural outgrowth
of the climate of that State. Imagiue
the 100th meridian to be a sinuous line,
w inding southward in great bondu across
tho State, atone point approaching tho
Oillh meridian, at another pushing west
close to the lotst. That imaginary lino
would divide the State into two zones.
To tho east lies the agricultural land;
westward the great plains stretch to the
foot hills of the Rocky Mountains. On
thesoplains no agriculture, unless tho
lauds are irrigated, is successful. They
lie within the arid zono. Tho wheat
lands of Kansas begin at tlio eastern
edge of the groat plains, and extend
eastward to about St. Mary’s ou the Kan
sas Pacific Railroad. From there to the
Missouri river lie the corn lands of the
State. Tho bottom lands of the wheat
belt aro productive corn hinds, lmt tho
uplands aro strictly small-grain lands.
Throughout the corn lauds, cattle that
are generally driven from tho Western
cattle ranges are fattened for the Eastern
markets during tho winter. During the
summer such cattle as are held in tho
corn bolt are close herded or are in
closed in pastures. In tho wheat-grow -
ing districts tho cattle are herded in tho
summer. During the winter they run
to straw stacks, feed on the dry grass
standing on tho unbroken prairie, or
graze on tho wheat fields when the
ground is dry. West of the 100th meri
dian the enttlo roam at will. Kansas is
on the border of tho great plains,
known among tho ealtlo growers as
“The Range.”
The movement of young cattle in tho
States bordering on the Range is toward
tho we st. The native cattle move to Iltu
east. In eastern Kansas, where culti
vated grasses are grown and enormous
crops of corn secured, tho business of
breeding high grade and thoroughbred
calves has been added to that of fatten
ing the cattle coruiug from tlio Range
for market. There are many breeding
herds in that portion of the State
Young bulls, singly, in pairs,- and in car
loads, are constantly being shipped to
tho cattlo range of tltc plains to replace
the losses incurred during Arctic-like
winters.’ Many men are busy during
the early fall and winter, in tho eastern
portion of tho State, gathering young
females into herds preparatory to driv
ing th'-m to die straw stacks of central
Kansas, or to the great plains. There
is a ceaseless movement of cattle to and
fro in Kausas—fat cattle going east,
young cattle going west. In New Mexi
co, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, in fact,
everywhere on the Range, young cattlo
from Kansas aro to be found. When
spring'opens in the southern portion of
the cattle range, the liipmcnt of young
bulls begins. Then tlio drive of tho
young female s, that have been gathered
into herds, sets in.
Tho breaking out of tho foot and
mouth disease, which is a highly conta
gious and generally fatal disorder, in a
State from which cattle aro distributed
broadcast throughout the cattle region,
is a disaster that may become national.
If (lie disease makes its appearance in
any herd on the Range tlio industry of
cuttle growing will bo well nigh ruined.
There ilie cattle wander at will. A dis
eased animal might not be discovered for
wet ks. It would walk for miles, poison
ing Ike earth at every stop. It would
infect thousands of cattle, and t-liev.
roaming at pleasure from valley
to valley, from plain to plain, would
communicate the diseaso to other thou
sands. These half wild, di-oased, fever
ish eiittlo could not bo prevented from
wandering. The disease, if controlled
at nil, has got to ho stamped out iu Kali
-as. Once it spreads westward beyond
the land of inclosed pastures and cloho
herding, it will bo beyond the control of
human agency.
The alarm felt by the stock growers
who hold their cattle in tho great plains
is plainly indicated by the meeting of
the Wyoming Stock Growers’ Associa
tion who will take immediate steps to
quarantine their range. Many of their
herds aro over 1,000 miles from the cen
ter of the disease in Kansas, but they
are justifiably alarmed. They realize
! that enormous losses would sjieedily fol
! low the walking of a single diseased ani
mal over their range.
The great danger of the spread of the
disease lies in the fact that men owning
cattle that are dangerously near the in
fected herds, and that may bo diseased
but have not reached the, febrile stage of
the -disorder, will endeavor to protect
; their property by driving thorn west
ward or by shipping them to Eastern
markets. The Kansas Legislature
should take prompt and heroic action at
once. There is no known cure for the
i disease. AH infected animals should be
! killed and burned. The ground they
! have been feeding on should be burned
; ovi i’, and plowed. If KaiiHoe is unable
i to onpev. dh the disease through a lack
I of money the national aid should be ez
j tended. If this disease is not speedily
| stamped out iu Kansas it will probably
spread to the groat plains, and will also
be carried to the stockyards at Kansas
City, and from there distributed through
out tlio eastern Mississippi States. This
disease may easily become a national
disaster, and money should not be
spared in the efforts now to be made to
control it. Fuaxk WnaiitsoN.
Notes of a Sermon.
“Ye shall receive power, after that tho
Holy Ghost is corao upon you,” (Acts,
i., 8) was Dr. Hall’s text Sunday morn
ing. Among tho notable sentences of
tho sermon wero:
"There aro questions which it is
wise for us to put off, ns far as au uu
sivcr is concerned.”
“Original power belongs to God, but
(hero uro forms of power which Ilis
creatures can call into notion.”
“You would all agree that tho miais
ler should preach tho word with all
boldness, but aro there not some of you
who think your religion is a matter be
tween your Maker and yourself, and tho
less you say about it the better ? If you
think this is a matter of divine teaching
I say to you. No.”
“Tho servants of God are equal to
the burdens laid upon them.”
“If you have been truly brought to
diseiph ship you will always be hungry
for more truth.”
“Wo Protestants agree in stigmatizing
tlio iinscriptnrnl o pint operation teach
ings of Romanists, but i pnt it to you if
wo Protestants are not in danger of fall
ing into an opne operation doctrine in
our own line that is just as mischievous ?
You say you hear a sermon every Sun
day, and I say to yon, what of it ?
What have you gained ?”
"Real healthy appetite floes not lend
a man to turn away from food because
food of the same kind has been served
to him before. What if you have heal'd
a sermon of tho same kind before?”
“Church fellowship has been abused
and counterfeited. Men liavoeven taken
the ministry ns a means of making a liv
ing and getting on in the world; but is
that an argument in favor of tho right
use of church fellowship ?”
“I wonder if there have not been
church members who have taken and
have been known to take downward
sh-ps one after another, and have gone
to ruin? Who call say: My brethren
never onoo spoke a kindly word of warn
ing,”
“Reactions commonly go a litllo too
far. 11l tho reaction against various
doctrines we, as Protest nuts, have been
apt to make too little of the sacra
ments.”
“Most of you lmvo been baptized.
You would not rob a fellow man. Do
you rob God of what you linvo solemnly
vowed to render to Him from day to
day?”
“No man can l>o sure that ho is notin
danger of morbid feeling in somo direc
tion.”
“Divine power is always ready to bo
pnt into operation if we will keep tlio
channels ready.”
“You may take a sheet of paper and
(ill it with lines of ciphers, but they
amount to nothing till you put the ono
at the beginning. Numbers in a church
are idle unless tho spirit of God loads
them.”
“The use of great quantities of quack
medicines is proof of widespread diseaso
or apprehension of evil.”
“Ask yourselves if yon have not been
living below your privileges.”
The Nisero’s Captive Crew.
The captain of the steamer Nisero has
urrivi and in London, and will have an au
dience, with E irl Granville. The Rajah
of Tenora asks jE62,000 ransom for the
crow, tho banishment of the rival Rajahs,
and the declaration (hat Tenom is freo
from the Dutch. The Nisero was
wrecked on tho west coast of Acheen,
Sumatra, on Nov. 12, whilo on a voyage
from Sourobaya to Singapore. The
vessel was looted by the subjects of tho
Rajah of Tenom, and the crew, consist
ing of twenty-five men, among whom
was an American, were taken captive.
Late in November the British gunboat
Pegasus visited the Acheen coast to givo
aid to the captive crew, lmt it withdrew
when the Rajah announced that lie
would put all the captives to death if
tho gunboat fired a single shot. In De
cember the Dutch sent out an expedi
tion from I’udang to rescue the crew.
Tho expedition effected a landing at
Tenom ou Jan. 7, and the land and naval
forces bombarded and burned the R ij. ill’s
capita! and destroyed several villages.
But the captives had cen removed to
tho interior, and tho Rajah refused
all tho proffers of ransom made hy tlio
Dutch. There was believed to be little
prospect that the lives of the crew would
bo spared; but it seems the Rajah lias
beon holding them with the hope of
exacting an exorbitant ransom.
A ron.so Indiana woman was “fright-
I eiied into convulsions by going into a
I dimly lighted room which she thought
! unoccupied and there seeing a young rnan
■ of the family throwing his arms wildly
j about in tho effort to put on his over
j <,oat,” The contortions of the average
Indiana man while putting ou a coot
would frighten a railroad train off onto
the first switch it could find.
Pr is stated that Mr. Barnum is hav
ing a sign paint'd which will ready
‘Tin's elephant is white.”
NO. IY
LOST IN A BUZZARD.
A Sail Trngody of Whiter I lie in Dalmfa.
One of tho saddest cf this winter’s
storm tragedies, says a Dakota corre
spondent, was that which resulted in tho
death of tho Nelson family, who lived
near Sanborn. They had not been in
the Territory long, and they knew com
paratively little about the fierceness of
tho blizzards. They were poor and had
made but scant provision for the winter.
Running out of fuel, they had been
burning straw, and as the consumption
of this artiolo was enormous during tho
severe weather, it was found almost im
possible to keep enough of it on hand to
last more than a few hours. When tho
last great blizzard swept over tlie coun
try, the Nelsons found themselves with
only a little straw near at hand and their
necessities very great. The nearest stack
was only half a mile from their house,
but they feared to bravo tho storm iu an
effort to reach it.
Hoping that the tempest would soon
spend its force, they economized the fuel
they had at hand as best they could
Doling out the straw sparingly, they
managed to keep their hovel tolerably
warm, and to cook such food as they
wero supplied with. Economical ns they
were with tho straw, however, it was
spent, before the storm showed any signs
of abating, and as tho cold grew moro
intense it became a question of securing
more fuel or freezing to death, ft. is be
lieved that they realized tho desperato
situation they were iu and tho possibility
that if they once ventured out in the
blinding gale they might not return.
None of them wishing to remain in the
cheerless home, tho father and his two
children started out. It is known that
they reached tho straw stack, and each,
having secured a load, started back; hut
in changing their course they lout their
way, mul wandered aimlessly about un
til, exhausted and benumbed with colil,
they could go no further. Tho father
then appears to have dug a cave in a
huge snow drift at a point as little ex
posed as possiblo, into which lie put the
children. He then started out in seareli
| of assistance, but finding none he sne-
I numbed to the snow and the cold. Be
i coming tired of waiting for him, and
probably crazed by her suffering ono of
the girls left her retreat and wandered
aimlessly about the prairie. AU per
ished. A searching party found the body
of ono little ouo in tho cave, and that
of tho other a few rods away, and thatof
the father about half a mile from his
own door.
Almost every blizzard that sweeps
over this section causes similar cases of
suffering and death. They will continue
until peoplo coming hero to settle under
stand in advance that they are braving
an Arctic climate in winter, and that
when the blizzard rolls about their habi
tations they must stay iu doors and wait
for clearing skies.
The Variable Wind.
Ono blowing day last wook, when the
sidewalks wero as slippery as glass, a
woman stood in front of a door on Clif
ford streot, and strewed somo ashes from
a pan she held on the icy walk. As sho
did so, the wind blew the coal dust rather
freely over her, and a man going past
said:
“ ff yon will turn your back to tho
wind it will blow tho ashes from you in
stead of over you.”
Tlio woman thanked him with her
eyes, but did not move. Indeed, she
could not without losing her balance and
tho ashes both,
“Let mo show you," said the, man,
kindly, as he removed a fur glove and
grasped with a determined grip the well
filled ash-pan. “Yon can throw them
over the walk in this way, and not bo
liable to put your eyes out. It’s as easy
as rolling off’a Jog," and ho braced his
back against the. wind and gave a gener
ous Hop to the ash-pan.
The woman wont into tho house to get
the ashes out of her hair and eyes and re
cover her health. When tho polico had
dusted tho man off and identified him
they took him homo. Tlio only remark
lie made was:
“You can’t, most always tell from what
quarter the wind will blow when you at
tempt to givo advice about emptying an
ash-pan."
Whiohit is so.— Detroit Prcc Press,
Something About Gunpowder.
Asa matter of fact, says a manufac
turer of powder,- much more powder is
burned in times of pence than in time of
war. The average daily consumption of
powder in the United States is 100 tons,
rn a battle in which 50,000 men fired 40
rounds each, less thau one-quarter of an
ordinary day’s quota of powder would be
used. In the construction of the Hoosao
Tunnel more, powder was exploded than
in the war of tho rebellion, and a singlo
large coal mine will use almost as much.
Gunpowder and the finest qnality of
blasting powder are made of three parts
of saltpetre and one part of charcoal and
brim done iu equal quantities. In the
cheaper grades of blasting powder,
nitrate of soda is substituted for salt
p Ire. The largest beds of solt-petre aro
in Hindustan, and for a long limo the
English had complete control over tho
i ~'tpefro market. The principal de
posits of nitrate, of soda are in Chili near
Ihe boundaries of Pi ni. In the manu
facture of powder Pennsylvania stands
first, New York second, and Ohio third.
THE JOKER’S BUDGET.
WHAT XVI! FINIt IN THE IllJltlOltOtV
FAI'KKS TO fOIII.K (Ifllt.
TITK OI.D QUM SIIOE.
When die
bail of tlio Ohio, Now
■o swelling, shall run
dry, O, Maybe in the ilia
fnut ages, then the scien
tists mul sages will rack their
brains o'er the fossil remains
of tho old gum shoo of tlio
maid so truo. The weeping mai
den who so with love was laden ;
that very daring daughter who wor
shiped Higher Water. She did her level
best t > save Idm from a watery grave. Peace
to his soul 1 No more lie’ll roam upon the
yellow foam: no moro he'll hear tlio
porkers squeal | ho’U know no moro of
woe or weal ; for lleavoii
will all his sorrows hoal I
DUTIES OF A DIRECTOR.
“I am a director in tho company,”
said tlio dovil in a newspaper office.
“You don’t say so?”
“Yes, it's true.”
“Whnt are the director’s duties?”
“To direct wrappers, of course.”—
Merchant Traveller.
A LITTLE INTERVIEW.
Reporter —“I suppose you feel protty
had over the failure of your Lasker reso
lution to reach flic Reichstag?”
Ochiltree—-“Well, I don’t mind that
so much, but there is ono thing that
makes mo sorry I introduced it.”
Reporter—“ What is that?”
Ochiltree—"lt lias given Bismarck so
much prominence. ”
IE HE COULD DO NOTHING BETTER.
At a Lake Eric pleasure resort last
summer, a certain small party of young
ladies wore out for a sail. Tlio yacht
was managed by a haudsomo youDg
boatman, who unconsciously made a
mash ou tho jolly girls.
"Shall I hug tho shore?” asked the
sailor.
“Well -yes- if that’s the best you
can do,” xvns the reply of ono of tho
girls. The tloonier.
TOOK CARE OF THE DORSE.
Passenger—How loDg have you been
employed on the street-ears ?
Driver—Fifteen year—barrin’ whin I
was sick.
Passenger—You must boa great favor
ite with tho company ?
Driver— Hn 1 Jia 1 fin 1 D’ye soo
that owld gray mare I’m dliriviu’ ?
Well, wo both fell sick together atwanst
lust winter. They sint fur a doother for
the horse, and they sint mo mo resigua
fion.
Till! TRUE MEANING.
“Will you grant mo a kiss?” said
General Sherman to a very pretty young
laily in St. Louis.
“No,” was tlio blushing reply.
“Ah, ‘no’ menus ‘yes’,” said the Gen
eral, with much manner, and ho helped
himself to a couple of kisses.
A few moments later ho was asked if
ho was a candidate for tho Presidency,
and ho blnshingly answered “No.”—
Evening Call.
WHY ONE CANNOT I.QVI! A TOMATO.
The feminine mind early attains to tho
consideration of the ethics of the affec
tions. Iu a city school tho other day
tlio class in English grammar was dis
cussing tho difference between tlio
words “liko" mid “love." “Now,” said
the teacher, “wo can like a tomato, but
is it proper to say wo can love a toma
to?” “No, it is not,” said a fresh young
miss; “one cannot lovo a tomato.”
“Why not?” inquired the teacher. “Be
cause, you know, you cannot—you can’t
—well, you can’t hug a tomato.”
DIFFERENCE IN FOOLS.
Men may dig fur months an’ fine dat
do gol’ ain’t dar, but when do wood
pecker digs a hole in do tree ho alius
takes out a worm. It ain’t alius the
silent man dirt’s do smartes’. Do slicop
doan make ez much fuss oz do dog, but
he. ain’t got nigli ez much souse. It
takes one good pint in er man ter show
up aunder. Widout de aid o’ good feed
do fine blood wouldu’ show nigh so plain
in er ho-s. Do odycated fool is wus den
de one what ain’t edyoated, fur the edy
cated ono spiles a good piece o'work,
wharas do onedycated one doan often
un’ertako a thing what he kain’t do.-
Arkaneaw Traveler.
TOO STRICT.
Iu Germany, the police regulations
imi very strict, mid any violation of them
is promptly punished. The people have
a holy terror of the law. Two gentle
men happened to meet in Berlin, and
the following conversation took place :
“Have yon hoard the dreadful now*
shout Miller ?”
"No, what is it ?”
“He was in a boat, in tho river. Ho
fell overboard, and was drowned. The
water was too deep.”
“Didn’t ho know how to swim?”
“Swim ! Don't yon know that all per
son: are forbidden by the police to swim
in the river ?”— Texas Siftings.
He Popped 0!T.
“Hay, Oeorge, I’m going to pop ”
Tho young man reached for his hat
with a frightened expression of counte
nance, and faltered out something about
an engagement with a man down at tho
hotel.
"Why, George, yon ain’t going so
early, arc you ? I was just going to say
that, if you’d stay a little while longer,
I’d pop ”
George disappeared through thoparloi
door, and was hastily fumbling for the
catchlock in the hall.
“Say, George—what’s tho matter?”
he cried, rushing out after him. "What
arc you going away in such a hurry for?
If you will stop for just a few minutes
longer 1 will pop ”
I Jut George was thrashing around in
Hie storm house, and jabbing the door
all over to find the latch. He finally
Imr;.ted a hinge oft and was kiting down
the path like a frightened deer, when his
girl stuck her head out into the frosty
air, and bawled so that sho could bo
heard a block away:
“Hay, George, if you will come back,
1 will pop some corn 1”
George camo bacls