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A BABY PASSENGER.
By Bram Stoker.
One night we were journeying in the
west of the Rockies over a road bed
■which threatened to jerk out our teeth
with every loosely-laid sleeper on the
line.
Traveling in that part of the world,
certainly In the days I speak of, was
pretty hard. The travelers were most¬
ly men, all overworked, all overanx¬
ious, and Intolerant of anything which
hindered their work or interfered with
the measure of their repose. In night
journeys the berths of the sleeping
cars were made up early, and as all the
night trains were sleeping cars, the
only thing to be done was to turn in
at once and try and sleep away the
time. As most of tbe men were usual¬
ly tired out with the day’s work, the
arrangement suited everybody, You
can understand that on such journeys
women and children were disturbing
elements. Fortunately they were, as
night travelers, rare, and the women,
with that consideration for the needz
of their men folk which I have always
noticed in American fetaale workers,
used to devote themselves to keeping
the little ones quiet.
The weather was harsh, and sneez¬
ing and coughing was the order of the
day. This made the people in the
Bleeper, all men, irritable; all the more
that as most of them were contribut¬
ing to the general chorus of sounds
coming muffled through quilts and cur¬
tains, it was impossible to single out
any special offender for general exe¬
cration. After awhile, however, the
change of posture from standing or
sitting to lying down began to have
some kind of soothing effect, and new
sounds of occasional snoring began to
vary the monotony of irritation. Pres¬
ently the train stopped at a way sta¬
tion; then ensued a prolonged spell of
shunting backward and forward with
the uncertainty of jerkiness which is
so peculiarly disturbing to imperfect
sleep; and then two newcomers enter-
ed the sleeper, a man and a baby. The
baby was young, quite young enough to
be defiantly ignorant and Intolerant of
all rules and regulations regarding the
common good. It played for its own
hand alone, and as it was extremely
angry and gifted with exceptionally
powerful lungs, the fact of its presence
and Its emotional condition, even
though the latter afforded a mystery as
to its cause, were immediately appar¬
ent. The snoring ceased, and its place
was taken by muttered grunts and
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growls; the coughing seemed to in¬
crease with the renewed irritation,and
everywhere was the rustling of ill-at-
ease and impotent humanity. Curtains
were pulled angrily aside, the rings
shrieking viciously on the brass rods
and gleaming eyes and hardening
mouths glared savagely at the intruder
on our quiet, for so we now had tardily
come to consider by comparison him
and it. The newcomer did not seem
to take the least notice of anything,
and went on In a stolid way trying to
quiet the child, shifting it from one
arm to the other, dandling it up and
down, and rocking it sideways.
All babies are malignant; the natural
wickedness of man, as elaborated at
the primeval curse, seems to find an
unadulterated effect in their expres¬
sions of feeling.
The baby was a peculiarly fine spe¬
cimen of its class. It seemed to have
no compunction whatever, no parental
respect, no natural affection, no miti¬
gation in the natural virulence of its
rancor. It screamed, it roared, it
squalled, It bellowed. The root Ideas
of profanity, of obscenity,of blasphemy
were mingled in its tone. It beat with
clenched fists Its father’s face, it claw¬
ed at his eyes with twitching fingers,it
used his head as an engine with which
to buffet him. It kicked, it struggled,
it wriggled, It writhed, it twisted it¬
self into serpentine convolutions, till
every now and then, what with its
vocal and muscular exertions, it threat¬
ened to get black in the face. All the
time the stolid father simply tried to
keep it quiet with eternal changes of
posture, and with whispered words,
“There, now, pet!” “Hush; lie still,
little one,” “Rest, dear one, rest!” He
was a big, lanky, patient looking, an-
gular man, with great rough hands
and enormous feet, which he shifted
about as he spoke, so that man and
child together seemed eternally rest¬
less.
The thing appeared to have a sort of
fascination for most of the men in the
car. The curtains of a lot of berths
were opened and a lot of heads ap¬
peared, all scowling. I chuckled softly
to myself and tried to oonceal my mer¬
riment lest I should spoil the fun. No
one said anything, for a long time, till
at last one yild-eyed, swarthy, long-
bearded individual, who somehow look¬
ed like a Mormon elder, said:
“Say.master, what kind of a howling
piece is that you’ve got there? Have
none of you boys got a gun?”
There came frpm the bunks a regu¬
lar chorus of acquiescence: “The durn-
ed thing had ought to be killed!”
“Beats prairie dogs In full moon!”
“When I woke up with it howlin’
thought I had got ’em again.”
Never mind, boys, it may be a
blessln’ in disguise. Somethin' bad is
comln to us on this trip, an arter this
twill be easy work to die!
The man spoke up:
"I'm gentlemen, , if
sorry, she incom-
modes you!” The words were so man-
ifestly inadequate that there was a
roar of laughter which seemed to shake
the car. West of the Mississippi things j
are, or at any rate they used to be, a
bit rough, and ideas followed suit.
Laughter, when it came, was rough i
and coarse; and on this occasion even j
only the lanky tried man hold seemed to feel it. He | j
to the child closer to
him, as if to shield it from the hail of ! !
ironical chaff which followed.
“Incommode us! Oh, not at all. It’s
the most soothing concourse of sweet
sounds I ever heard.”
“Bully for baby syrups!” ■ I
“Pray don’t let us disturb the con¬
cert with our sleeping.”
“Jerk us out a little more chin-
music!”
“There is no place like home with a j
baby in It.”
Just opposite where the man moved
restlessly with the child was the bunk
of a young giant whom I had noticed
turning in earlier in the evening. He
had not seemed to have noticed the
disturbance, but now his curtains were
thrust aside fiercely, and he appeared j
lifted on one elbow as he asked in an j ;
angry tone:
“Say, you, where’s It’s mother any¬
how?”
The man replied in a low, weary
tone, without looking round:
“She’s in the baggage car, sir—in her
coffin!”
“Well, you could have heard the si¬
lence that came over all the men. The
baby’s screaming and the rush, and
roar, and rattle of the train seemed
unnatural breakers of the profound
stillness. In an instant the young
man, clad only in his under-flannels,
was out on the floor and close to the
man
“Say, stranger,” he said, "if I’d
knowed that, I’d a bit my tongue out
afore I’d a spoke! An’ now I look at I
you, my poor fellow, I see you’re most !
wore out! Here, give me the child,
and you turn into my bunk an’ rest.
No! you needn’t be afeered”-for he !
saw the father shrink away a little !
and hold the child closer. ‘I’m one of
a big family an’ I’ve nursed the baby
often. Give her over; I’ll take care of
her, an’ I’ll talk to the conductor, and I
we’ll see that you’re called when the |
time comes.” He put out his great I
hands and lifted the little one, the j
father resigning her to his care with¬
out a word. He-held her in one arm j
whilst with the other he helped the
newcomer into his empty berth. j
Strange to say, the child made no
more struggle. It may have been that ;
the young blood or the young flesh j j
gave something of the warmth and
softness of the mother’s breast which it
missed, or that the.fresh, young nerves
soothed where the worn nerves'of the
sorrowing man had only irritated; but,
with a peaceful sigh,the little one lean-
ed over, let its head fall on the young
man’s shoulder, and seemingly in an 1
instant was fast asleep.
And all night long, up and down, up
and down, In his stocking feet, softly
marched the flannel-clad young giant,
with the baby asleep on his breast,
whilst in his bunk the tired, sorrow-
stricken father slept—and forgot. And
somehow I thought that, though the
mother’s body may have been in the
baggage car at the other end of the
train, her soul was not very, far away.
—Lloyd’s News.
George Eliot’s Manuscript.
The memoir of Mr. John Blackwood,
the great Scotch publisher, recently
Issued by his daughter, reveals many
interesting things about authors, and
none more entertaining than- the fact
that the best of them, certainly from
the artistic point of view, are modest
and listening sort of people and not at
all pretentious. George Eliot was con¬
spicuous as a person who was kindly
and sympathetic in a high degree. She
was “ever ready to be amused and In¬
terested in all that concerned hei
friends.” She had also a keen sense
of humor, and sometimes made her
friends laugh, as well as laughed with
them. She was solicitous about hex
manuscripts, and was afraid she should
lose them. Blackwood had oocasion to
send her the manuscript of “Daniel
Deronda.” She would not have it in¬
trusted to the mail, and Mr. Blackwood
said he would send it by his footman
the next day. “Oh, don’t!” the author
said. “He might stop at a public
house and forget it!” Mr. Blackwood
explained that this footman was a per¬
fectly sober man of high character,
and went on to praise the man’s vir¬
tues; but this did not reassure her at
all. “If he is the sort of chivalrous
Bayard that you describe,” she said,
“he Is just the kind that would stop
and help at a fire.” This was a con¬
tingency that Mr. Blackwood could not
bear to consider. He promised that
some member of his family would
bring the manuscript, and next day,
in fact, Mrs. Blackwood drove over
with it.
Was a Cruel Thought.
Proud Mother—Oh, John, the baby
can walk. Cruel Father—Good. He
can walk the floor with himself at
night, then.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
IN CHINESE SCHOOL.
MOST WONDERFUL ALPHABET
IN THE WORLD.
It Haft 314 Characters and the Pupils
Have to Struggl© with Conflicting
Sounds -Almost a Life-Long Study to
Understand It# a
of all their studies, the almond-eyed
youngster finds writ ing the most en-
joyable, says the Liverpool Chronicle,
They use a small brush instead of a
pbn and daub on the lnk with a lavlsh-
negs dear t0 the juveni ie heart. They
wrlte oue letter over anothe r till the
page , 8 b , ack as a cooking stove, and
the copybooks become so wet that it
Is necessary to hang them over the
fence to dry. A comical sight, truly,
and one which proclaims to the passer -
by bis prox i m jt y to a schoolhouse. It
may he remarked that blotting paper is
unknown in the flowery land.
There are no public schools In
China, or, indeed, schoolhouses of any
kind. But the boys and girls of the
flowery land repair to the house of
their teacher to pursue their studies.
They do not sit upon the floor, as is
commonly supposed, for, although they
have no school furniture such as is
used in this country, they are provided
with common chairs, upon which they
sit while studying. During recitations
they stand around their teacher.
Long before reaching the schoolroom
visitors may hear the pupils vocifer¬
ously shouting their lessons and mak¬
ing a din which is, to say the least,
confusion to one unaccustomed to their
method of study. But when one real¬
izes what an arduous task it is to learn
one’s A B C’s in China, it is no longer
a matter of surprise that studying
aloud Is permitted. Think of .commit¬
ting to memory 214 elementary char¬
acters! (These characters take the
place of our alphabet, for the Chinese
language has no alphabet like ours.)
That is what the Chinese boys and
girls must do, and this is only the be¬
ginning of the trouble, for these char¬
acters are grouped together to form
words - of which there are m0!e tllan
50,000 in the Mongolian language.
Moreover, some of these words have
forty different meanings, the signifl-
cance of a word varying with its in-
flection. Another peculiarity of the
Chinese written language is that the
beginning of the book corresponds to
the end of one of ours * 80 that th ®
P '^ 11 appears to us to begin at the end
of the last line 011 the Iast P a & e and
to be rea(JlB & backward.
In studying arithmetic, Chinese pu-
P'ls , use the abacus, or counting ap-
P aratus - a f ram e strung with wires on
which ar e say\y colored balls, such as
we see in tlle P rimal T schools in our
country, and which we have copied
from the Chinese.
They do not study geography, for
the reason that the Chinese think
there is no country besides their own
that is of any importance. On their
maps China is represented as occupy-
ing the greater part of the earth;
other countries being grouped around
the middle kingdom—as the Chinese
are accustomed to speak of their coun-
try—and made to appear as insignicant
as possible.
Girls and boys dress exactly alike,
except that the boys wear their hair
in a pigtail, while the girls have a fun-
ny little wisp on the top of their heads,
In some parts of China it is very cold,
and as the houses are not warmed like
ours in winter the children—and
grown people, too—keep comfortable
by putting on one dress over another
till they are so bundled up they can
scarcely move. Possibly this may
seena a very uncomfortable way of
keeping comfortable, but the Chinese
little folks are not given to complain-
ing.
New Blasting: Powder*
Australia has produced cricketers
and scullers, and frozen meat and
Irish M. P.’s, and now it has produced
a new explosive, the name whereof is
kallenite. The advantages of the in¬
vention are claimed to be numerous,
and it is worthy of note that it has
obtained the approval of the govern¬
ment of Victoria, and mining man¬
agers assert that after blasting with
it men can go hack to work in the
faces more quickly than after using
any other explosive. It contains no
non-explosive material, whereas No. 1
dynamite contains 25 per cent, gelig¬
nite 4 per cent and blasting gelatine 2
per cent. The government chemist
calculates that it possesses five or six
times the strength of No. 1 dynamite.
Moreover, it can he manufactured at a
very low cost. Its absorbent material
basis is composed of eucalyptus and
ti-tree leaves, which are almost as
common in Australia as blades of grass
are in England. The remaining in¬
gredients are, of cours, as yet a trade
secret. A most successful experiment
was carried out quite recently in Syd¬
ney. The minister for works and
others who observed the experiment
carried out from a safe distance, were
all well impressed with the power of
kallenite, which is claimed to be an
entirely Australian composition. It is
stated that when the government tests
are complete, if the new material is
finally pronounced to be as excellent
as it now bids fair to be, a manufac¬
tory for its production and export will
be established in Sydney.—London
Mail.
Curious Contract.
Girls employed in the crepe indus-
tries are under a curious contract not
to engage in any housework after their
hours of labor. The reason is lest
their hands should become coarse and
unfitted for the delicate nature of their
employment.
WAS A GREAT INDIAN FIGHTER
Jackson Farley of California Ono of the
Few That Are Left.
(From the San Francisco Call.)
The great American Indian fighter,
famed in history and dime novel, is
rapidly becoming a memory of the
past. With the taming and the thin¬
ning out of the Indian his occupation
is vanished, and if you discover one
to-day, he is either a very old man
or else a very untruthful one, espe¬
cially in California, where the hostile
savage has not been seen In many
years. One of the few authenticated
Indian fighters of California is old
Jackson Farley, commonly known as
“Uncle Jack,” who lives on his ranch
high up in the mountains of Mendo¬
cino county. Uncle Jack has passed
his ninety-second birthday, and will
modestly admit the killing of 100 In¬
dians. Only he will not say that he
"killed” them; "stopped” Is bis favor¬
ite expression—an expression, by the
way, that originated with him in the
early 50’s and subsequently became of¬
ficial vernacular among scouts and cat¬
tlemen. Between the years 1849 and
1865 Uncle Jack was engaged in al¬
most constant warfare with the In¬
dians of Mendocino, Trinity and Hum¬
boldt counties. He came to California
from Virginia with the early settlers
in search of adventure and fortune,
and in search of revenge, too, for dur¬
ing the journey across the plains his
best friend died from an Indian’s ar¬
row, and Uncle Jack fell easily Into
the then common belief that the only
good Indian was a dead one. Trophies
galore of the balance of that bloody
journey he showed to the Call re-
porter. Scalps by the dozen, chairs
bottomed with Indian hide, razor
strops of the same grewsome material,
and countless bows, arrows, toma¬
hawks and firearms. With neither wife
nor child, only the comradeship of a
big mastiff, Uncle Jack arrived here in
1849 , and settled down to the business
of stock raising on the lonely moun¬
tain ranges of Mendocino. From 1850
to 1856 there were no Indian agencies
established, and the advent of a white
man was an invitation to the treacher¬
ous instincts of the Indian. Murder,
arson, and cattle and horse stealing
ran riot. Farley went out one morn¬
ing to inspect his stock, and found that
25 horses and 100 head of cattle had
been stolen and that his favorite sad¬
dle horse had been killed and muti¬
lated, its mane and tail hanging de¬
fiantly on the gate posts of the cor¬
ral. Uncle Jack hastened back to his
cabin, where he secured extra ammu¬
nition and another brace of six-shoot¬
ers. Three friendly prospectors, with
an extra horse, were in the neighbor¬
hood, and they and Uncle Jack set
forth in pursuit of the thieves. Reach¬
ing a deep canyon where one of the
Bel river tributaries came cascading
down the mountain, they were about
tp water their horses when they were
struck by the peculiar color of the
water. It was blood red. This was
enough to tell Uncle Jack that the
Indians were butchering his cattle up
the river and washing the carcasses in
the stream. In a flash he and his com¬
panions were riding up the trail, where
they soon met a shower of arrows.
This was in the day of the muzzle¬
loading rifle, and every one of the re¬
turn shots had to tell. Uncle Jack
and his friends dismounted and broke
for cover. In the shelter of trees and
bushes they poured a slow, deadly fire
on the attacking red men. As fast
as the savages could reorganize and
surround, the rifles of the white men
would cut gaps in the savage circle.
Time after time the Indians were re¬
pulsed, their supply of arrows gave
out, and they beat a retreat. Uncle
Jack recovered only a remnant of his
hand of cattle and none of the horses,
but exactly forty Indians, “good and
dead,” marked the quantity of his ven¬
geance. This was one of Uncle Jack’s
most successful days. It soon became
historic, and was instrumental in se¬
curing him a government scoutship
when the first Indian post was estab¬
lished, in 1856 .
Change* Her Mind Regarding Marriage
When a pretty woman won’t she
won’t, and that’s all there is of it.
The great ocean liners, like time and
tide, are supposed to wait for no man.
But this time it was a slender slip of a
fresh-faced young English girl who
was the cause of the big Currie liner
Dunvegon Castle’s leaving Southamp¬
ton behind time the other day. The
young lady’s passage was engaged, all
her boxes were on board, containing
numerous presents and a lovely trous¬
seau, and the young lady herself was
in the act of bidding her parents good¬
bye before starting on the long voy¬
age which was to take her to the wait¬
ing arms of her fiance, when, inter¬
mingled with sobs of parting, came the
cn FROM THE VATICAN.
The official year book of the Vatican,
which has just appeared,contains many
interesting statistics. From it we
learn that there are today fifty-six
cardinals, of whom five were appointed
by Pius IX. and fifty-one by Leo. XIII.
In the college of cardinals there are
fourteen vacancies. During the twen-
ty-one years of Pope Leo’s pontificate
124 car dinals have already died. Dur-
ing the rule of the same pontiff the
ecclesiastical hierarchy has been no-
tably increased. Two new patriarchial
sees and thirteen archiepiscopal sees
have been established; seventeen bish-
ops have been made archbishops; 100
new bishops, two apostolic delegates
and forty-nine apostolic vicars have
been appointed, and thirty new prefec-
tures have been established.
There are altogether in the world
1,328 ecclesiastical dignitaries, of whom
fiat, "I won’t go.” To all the plead-*
IngB and entreaties of parents, friend#
and representatives of the steamship
line the young lady only reiterated,
“I wont; I’ve changed my mind." So
the young man In South Africa will
get the trousseau and presents, hut no
bride.
DRUMMER IS BADLY TRICKED.
A Cyrano De Hcrgerac Nose Gets a Man
Into Trouble.
From the New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat: “Saw a drummer get pretty
badly sold at a little place between
Chattanooga and Nashville the other
day,” said a local traveling man. "He
had slopped over lo sell some hard¬
ware and a merchant warned him to
look out for a village wag who would
drop around at the hotel that evening
with a false nose. ‘It’s one of those
Cyrano De Bergerac affairs, made of
pasteboard,’ said his informant, ‘and
this big lubber thinks it’s funny to
scare strangers with the thing. If you
show the least surprise they’ll make
you set ’em up for the crowd.’ ‘I’ll
fix the idiot,’ said the drummer, and
thanked him for the tip. That even¬
ing he was sitting in the little hotel
office, when sure enough in walked a
fellow with a proboscis as big as an
incandescent lamp and as red as a ripe
tomato. ‘Hello, Cy!’ said the drummer.
‘What d’y mean, sir!’ says the man
attached to the nose, ‘Give me that
for a scarfpln,’ says the drummer, and
grabbed hold of It to pull it off. Good
heavens! You ought to have heard the
row! I was writing a letter in the
back room and I thought somebody had
set off a dynamite bomb. By the time
I got out Cyrano and'the drummer had
just knocked over the stove and were
mixing up in the woodbox. When they
pried them apart they looked like
they’d been run through a cane-mill,
but the nose was still in position. It
was the real stuff, and Its proprietor
was a business competitor of the gent
that gave the tip. Low down trick,
wasn’t it? When I went away the
drummer was just beginning to see out
of his right eye.”
Nickname Saved Him*
From the Washington Post: “His
name is Percy Algernon,” said the girl
in the Seventh street car to her chum.
“Pretty, ain’t it? But, then, it’s kind
o’ soft-like, too, don’t you think?”
“Kind o’,” said the other giri. “I like
Bill, or Jim, or something like that,
myself. Never knew a Bill or Jim yet
that wasn’t reliable. I hope Percy Al-
gernon’il prove to be nice, but I think
his name’s awf’ly against him, honest
I do, Min.” Then the other girl look¬
ed thoughtful for a couple of blocks.
“Oh, hut he told me,” she said, sud¬
denly, then, “that the men down at
the store called him ‘Spud.’ ” “Then
you needn’t worry,” was the con¬
solatory reply. “He’s all right,” and
thus it was settled that Percy Alger¬
non would do.
Llgnt from the Loaf Sugar.
A phenomenon, the cause of which
has not yet been satisfactorily ex¬
plained, was - described at a recent
meeting of scientists. Disks of loaf
sugar were mounted on a lathe and
rapidly rotated while a hammer
played lightly against them. An al¬
most continuous radiation of light was
thus produced from the sugar. It was
shown that the light did not arise from
heating of the sugar, and it is believed
to be caused by some change taking
place in the sugar crystals. The act of
cyrstallization is known to be some¬
times accompanied by flashes of light.
The practical bearing of these experi¬
ments is on'the question of possibility
of obtaining artificial light by methods
as yet untried.
Keeping It In the Family.
There is a hank in Tokio, Japan,
with a capital of 85,000,000 and a re¬
serve fund of $3,230,000, which adver¬
tises the following board of directors:
Baron H. Mitsui, Gennosuke Mitsui,
Genyemon Mitsui,- Takenosuke Mitsui,
Yonosuke Mitsui and Tokuyemon Mit¬
sui. The first named is the father and
the others are his sons. Every share
of stock belongs to the family, and it
is announced that they assume an un¬
limited responsibility for all the liabili¬
ties of the bank.
* Light Tubing.
The lightest tubing ever made is of
_
nickel aluminium, Three thousand
feet of this tubing weighs only one
pound.
Its chief use is for the conveyance
of air pressure to light pneumatic de¬
vices, and bells so actuated are said to
he rapidly superseding electric bells.
fifty-six are cardinals, ten patriarchs,
880 archbishops and bishops, 358 titu¬
lar archbishops and bishops, five arch¬
bishops and bishops who have given up
their titles, eleven prelates of the epis¬
copal order, and eight abbots and pre¬
lates with episcopal jurisdiction.
The majority of the high dignitaries
in tbis jj st are Italians. Among the
cardinals there are thirty Italians and
twenty-six foreigners. Among the pac¬
triarchs, archbishops and bishops the
proportion is still more remarkable,
f 0 r out of the 9S0 dioceses in the entire
world Italy alone has one-third. The
former kingdom of Naples alone has
150 dioceses—as many as France, Ger-
many and Austro-Hungary put togeth-
er. If we add to these the numerous
titular Italian bishops we shall find
that almost half of the dignities of the
entire Catholic church are distributed
among Italian dignitaries.
Knew the Scale#.
**Wh#n you get your groceries to¬
day,” said the butcher to his wife,
“don’t go to that little grocer next door
to my shop.”
"Why not?” she demanded.
“Because he sent In yesterday and
borrowed an old pair of my scales.”—
Chicago Post.
Fence in the Fliilipplnes.
Peace In the Philippines is hound to prove
profitable to all concerned. Warring con-
ditions, whether they b»a in tho Philippine*
or in the human stomach, are equally dis¬
astrous. If your stomach has rebelled, there
is It on« HostetterV authority Stomach that will Bitters, qulykly subdue it.
Is and it cures
constipation, indigestion, biliousness, u er-
vousneas Revenue Stamp and dyspepsia. Sep neck that a private
covers the of the bottle.
The Mikado of* Japan generally travels
with a small bodyguard.
E. A. Rood. Toledo. Ohio, says: “Hall’s Ca¬
tarrh Cure cured my wife of catarrh fifteen
years aero and she lisa lmd no return of it. It’s
a sure cure.” Sold by Druggists, 75c.
For Whooi'ing Cou'^h, Piso’s Cure is a suc¬
cessful remedy.’—M.P.D ieter. 07 Throop Ave. t
Brooklyn, N. Y., November 14. 1894
Do not tell the policeman your troubles, for
he has many of his own.
Educate Your Bowels With Cascarets.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever*
10c, 26c. If C. C. C. fall, druggists refund money.
the A spring popular wish would be gratified to see
poet tackle this weather.
44 He That Stays
Does the Business ”
AH the ‘world admires “staying power."
On this quality success depends. The
blood is the best friend the heart has.
Hood's Sarsaparilla is the best friend the
blood ever had; cleanses it of everything,
gives perfect health and strength.
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A 300-Foot Column of Water.
Recently some well-drillers at Santa
Fe Springs, Cal., were thrown into
confusion by their drill shooting out
of the ground with a terrific explo¬
sion. A blaze was applied to the shaft
made by the drill, and instantly a col¬
umn of flame leaped op. The gas
well burned brightly for some days*
then the supply seemed to be exhaust¬
ed. The diggers were drilling for wa¬
ter, and not gas; so the drill was put
Into the shaft again and began to work
below the 300-foot depth already
reached. In a few hours a rumbling
was heard in the earth, and soon out
shot the drill again, and following It
a column of water that reached a
height of 300 feet. The well-diggers
decided that they had found what they
had been bunting for, and the sur¬
rounding landscape soon took on the
appearance of a small lake. If the
water supply holds out it will be di¬
rected to irrigating the farm lands In
the vicinity. It is estimated that th*
water supply under the present pres¬
sure would be sufficient to irrigate
over 5,000 acres of land.-
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TAB EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS
is due not only to the originality and
simplicity of the combination, but also
to the care and skill with which it is
manufactured by scientific processes
known to the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, and we wish to impress upon
all the importance of purchasing the
true and original remedy. As the
genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured
by the California Fig Syrup Co.
only, a knowledge of that fact will
assist one in avoiding the worthless
imitations manufactured by other par¬
ties. The high standing of the Cali¬
fornia Fig Syrup Co. with the medi¬
cal profession, and the satisfaction
which the genuine Syrup of Figs has
given to millions of families, makes
the name of the Company a guaranty
of the excellence of its remedy. It is
far in advance of all other laxatives,
as it acts on the kidneys, liver and
bowels without irritating or weaken¬
ing them, and it does not gripe nor
nauseate. In order to get its beneficial
effects, please remember the name of
the Company —
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cnl
I.OCMVILLE. Ibr. FEW YORK. N. Y.
GOLDEN CROWN
LUMP CHIMNEYS
At* th* b*«t. Ask for Cost no moro
than common chimneys.^ All^d^
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EETH
W TEETHING POWDERS**
ajaJJ a
KKasSESfilS AM. Digestion.
—
2.57 crs.
USE CERTAIN CORN CURE*
PISO’S CURET0R
UURfco WntHt-ALL ELSt Good. rAILb. Us© .
Best Cough Syrup. Tastes
in time. Sold by druggist*.
CONSUMPTION
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