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ANNUAL LOSS EY FIRE, t» Has-Been Very Much Reduced by lm- proved Methods of Fighting Fire. Mr. Charles T. Hill, the artist, who has been writing a series of papers for St. Nicholas on the New York Fire Department, has a final paper on "The Fire Patrol.” Mr. Hill says: The annual loss by fire in the United States amounts to one hundred mil¬ lions of dollars, and fully one-half of this loss Is caused by the water used In extinguishing the fires Before the introduction, in 1872, of controlling or shut-off nozzles used on the fire-hose, the percentage of loss by water was even greater—at least two-thirds of the total loss. Previous to the intrude' - tion of this much-needed device, the:-" was used what was known as an ‘open pipe,” a plain open nozzle, with no contrivance for shutting off thf waater. When It was necessary to shut off, the order had to be pased to the engineer, sometimes a long distance from the I fire; and unless the nozzles could he thrust from a convenient window, the water would go pouring out, spread¬ ing destruction in all direction;, small fires, especially in "up stain, .. fires In private dwellings, or in busi- I ness houses stocked with perishable goods, such as feathers, silks, etc., the ' unnecessary destruction of property was very great. To-day, fires are fought much more : scientifically, and with a great deal more system, than were those of ten j or twenty years ago; and officer:; In command of engine companies are usn- j ally very careful not to use more i any | water than is absolutely nccerzary. I Nearly every hose wagon in the New j York Fire DepaiIntent to-day carries i three sizes of hose the regulation size, 2 Vi inch, used at all ordinary ilm;;fl¬ inch (known as'Third-alarm hone,” I and only used at fires of considerable magnitude), and a small host carried on a reel under the v.agon. This hone ! is IVV inches in diameter, and very j to handle, of the : easy and on account ease with which any number of lengths of it can he carried about, il IS that oftenest used at small (ires in dwi- «g tag-houses nouses, office-buildings office Duildlngs, and and flats fiat.,. I , With a controlling nozzle on the end, the tne fireman nremaff can can dash dash up tin several several flirV ilu,.us ; i L , and extinguish a a .!f small n r fire before it 1 i t,m e 10 f pr ead ’, UB n f the watf 7 I To only where . it t , is absolutely , needed, j drag the regulation size (il weigns about eighty pounds to the length) up j an< ,f?r 1 W I u nE K u rwayB ' eti; “ i would take much , longer, and perhaps | give a fire time to get just beyond the point of easy control; besides, when i the water Is finally started, a great j deal more Is used by this hose than is necessary, especially in the case of a small fire, It has been practically l demonstrated that a considerable I amount, of fire can be extinguished ■ with a small amount of water applied effectively, and the use of the small I hose lias done much to reduce the ! damage by water at fires In dwellings and fiats. (live l's Kent, This is the prayer of the. nervous who do not sleep well. Let them uho lto«t*’tter*s stomach Bitter* and their prayer will he •peedily answered. Insomnia is the product, of Indigestion and nervousm two uHsoclnto ailments, soon rvmnl I ell l,y tiic Bitters, which also vanquishes malaria, constipation, liver coinplaint, rheumatism and kidney com- plaints. Man is made of dust or at least some wive,* think their husbands are. How*A This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any ease of Catarrh that cannot be cured bv Hairs (’atarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, o. We, the undersigned, ha ve k now n F. .1. < 'lie- ncy for the last, 15 years, and believe him per¬ fectly honorable in all business transactions and financiall.v made able to carry out iinv obliga¬ tion by their firm. West & TitrAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Wai.dino, Kj.n.nax A Mauvi.n, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, not¬ ing directly upon the blood and mucous sui - faees of the system. Price, 75c. per bottle. I Sold bv all Druggists. Testimonials free. ; Hall s Family Pills are the best. | ness FitsjMrnwuvntl.v after first d.i\ ’s rnred. use of No Dr. Bb Klines or m-wims-| <; re-it. j 5 ; Allegheny, I’tsokfCuroJ°if!!nv 't 11 omsc>n :''ii**oi'it’ a vl’ 5 t Pa., March in, mm. ; : , j Better Health Since Taking Hood’s Than ! "1 was affllcted'with'.'l’iln'h and was i„ I such n condition tlmt ovory little draught havL ! would cause me to take cold. After I taken a few bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla i I have been strengthened and I am in better 1 health than I have over been before.” John j Albert, 79 James Bt.. New York. N. Y. I j Hood’s Sarsaparilla | Is the best-intact tihe On© True Blood Purifier. Hood’s Pills thebe T. ms* ' easy i o i I U I HU II UK ef "u IS"',i! '"x 1 mail..: „v FuD talorm»n.B tin wrii'peri ire YOUR RINGS OF THE MAKERS. i ! 53WP TI>l ’ , -q'- ll ‘ , .b‘- lly> 5- Bi ‘ l, y [ l | | D. m. watkins x co. CATALOGUE FKEF. Mtx.jew»ters._riioV"“• '• | WANTED oE;i.:'v' '•‘J \V1 w *t Tftv ■j r 'i- r i j • CHEW STAR TOBACCO-THE CIGARETTES. BEST. J j SMOKE SLEDGE THE WORLD'S FASTEST RUWNER. Bernard J. Wefers, the New Champion, Weighs 185 Pounds. j Of all the men who in running re¬ galia ever faced a starter on a cinder track, Bernard J. Wefers, who a few days ago broke the world's record by running the hundred yards in it 3-5 seconds, K probably fulfills best the re¬ quirements of an ideal runner. With depth of chest that bespeaks ample lung room, his lithe body tap¬ ers to the waist, and his world-heat¬ ing legs, strung with tendons of steel, are of a minimum weight. He has nothing to carry save that which is of eminent use to him in his task. In’a n.nm'Ms ‘land ”T WefeuTrcc- ord of victories over famous competl- tors were not i efficient proof of his grit his face with its square Jaw firm set mouth piercing eyes and plainly. aggr-i- slve nose, should tcdl the storv He halls from Lawrence, Mass. His flec-tness was inherited His father was an athlete of skill and a runner imed to heal Tim present champion Is but o; { years of age, and has been running for four years. He is six feet fall in his stockings and weighs 585 pounds. When lie first made Ills appearance on the cinder track good judges saw no future for him. His waB a weight un¬ heard of for a runner to carry. The years Unit have Intervened have prov¬ en that the critics did not know. Unlike most runners Wefers in mo- Uon, is straight as an arrow, ills stylo is very graceful and with to' his long elastic stride he seems travel al- most without effort. He gathers speed as he goes, and Is famed in the athletic world as a strong “finisher.” No picture could convey more of tension and alertness than does that which represents Wefers crouching for the start.. Every nerve and fibre la him are strung like a piano wire. And It Is not for the gallery. He is prob- ably one of the quickest starters in Hie world. lie never in a race Las permitted any competitor to pace him. | He takes the lead from the start, and h I(1 UlP „ vnRt with maJorllv h aisplnv of hi of « m lms i „ m „. speed ' as i ,, 118 . ">•'<’« „ , the whole , , world wonder. Aholher l»hcnJe„ phenomenal thing about n i man la that m mar- vo j ooa f ,ff orfH do not socm to a (f eet ldm after the manner of most, athletes pf , j|s clagg> It , g a f am n )ar B i ?ht 0 n athletic tracks to see runnersr after breasting (he lane, utterly collapsed, and half carried to the clubhouse bv ' the ; r f r!en(li Not so with Wefers. After break 1 ing tho world's records ho has amazed Ilio onlookers by jumping a jig o.i the greensward for joy and trotting off to the dressing room with ihe alacri¬ ty of a colt. It will he a long day before anybody roori Dig like.—New York Journal. Dynamite for Icebergs. Polar expeditions are to carry Ice¬ breakers and to deal destruction lo icebergs in future, if the plans of Vice- Admiral Makarof, of tho Russian navy, r.iicceed. He proposes to use a machine called an ice-breaker, which will force a pas- smite through frozen Arctic seas and make tin trip for a strong steamer as cl tsy as a voyage across the Atlantic is for the ordinary vessel. Admiral .VTakarof’s Invention is said to be pow¬ erful enough to crush through ice twenty-two feet thick, and as the average thickness of ice in the polar regions is considered to be not over twelve feet, he is thought to have an eaty way before him. Tho nature of the mechanism of the ice-breaker has carefully . ., kept , but . . j "■ou secret, it is thought that dynamite is used. The j vessel used will probably be construct¬ ed with a double hull. By means of j a series of steel tubes the dynamite ; will be exploded as soon as ilie ram I touches tho ice. • "F Pluribus Unum " ! ,,, vvc are Indebted . to John Adams for ^ wi\i vV hue lie was Minister , ?" ,rtbus to ® ir ,,re8twick 8U ^ 81 - : °d P to Mr. Adams us a good motto j 10 ,n<1icat0 submitted ll,e ,,nion <lf ,he colonies, j * was to Congress, and adopted by net of Congress June 1782. 'Ihe eagle in its beak bears a iib- j bon, on which is tlie motto. In die | early days of its use the eagle bore also in its talons a bundle of thirteen ...j.',!' C' P l? ,hIUP 1 .’ “ ° PT * c “f! 0 ,1 ' * Weh had X oC °™ worn - only * ix y,4 Ji "?7<° '! !U °' 1 ” <lu ' ,u,on8 i ’ ” "l* ,“ S ' . S T k "°} Was or ‘L Tho crort old by Vn far . ’J bark " ” as> ' liBu ™ on T tho Gentleman n , " nd », 8 s Magazine.” St.. Nicholas. Will Falso Teeth Grow? “ '»■ us with falso tooth which will grow into the gums as firmly ns natural I IHs method is to bore holes * at Gie root of gutta-percha or poree- ! lain teetll and also in the jaw. After I the tooth has been placed in the eavi- j ly a soft granulated growth finds its from the jaw into the holes of i wav tho tooth, which, ho claims, gradually hardens and holds the tooth in posi- ; •ibh- A number of American dentists ! standing at the head of their profes- ston have, however, declared that the Russian's alleged discovery Is a fraud. **\'f-*& The hair is like a plant. What makes the plant fade and wither? Usually lack of neces¬ sary nourishment. The reason why Ayer’s Hair Vigor restores gray or faded hair to its normal color, stops hair from falling, and makes it grow, is because it supplies the nourishment the hair needs. * SOME FURTHER REMARKS OX THE SUBJECT OF “HARD WOOD.” PH'LOSOFHFR ri.LUOJrriLrV Hl'IGUftinO flNflWFRS H 5 P,R!TIP UfllllU Su "‘ alns H, » Contention. Ily Quotation, from Hr. Porcher’* book On Tree*. - Home ' how 1 ^ like insinuations, A A correspondent from Mississippi in- i 1 ‘ , ° n t ka ™ T ft V° nt blaok 8 1 nn ‘ !U !' J ■J ,flafra that ? an, 1 bof!C P c >- 8,, “”‘ on * or *** ‘ w«o,ls were gootl for hubs and bows a ’d gluts. Well,since I saw lus“ob.ter your paper, I asked the fore- ° " !lr " a f n “"J 1 be Bftl,1: Wo ,1K ? <1 to get all the black- b'nrn we could for hubs, for it has no grain, and you can’t split it, and it ; makes a very fine hub, but nowadays | we buy all our hubs ready made, and they are of postoak.” J)r. Porelier, | who is the highest authority concern- i the trees and herbs of the south, says in his book: “The wood of blackgum is extremely difficult to split, and is much used for hubs of wheels.” Tlie first rca * fine stringbow I ever ■ ha<1 ' vas l,otl 8 ht «>» Indian, boy, aIl d it was made of the heart of sassa- i fras feathers - He Fanght me how to fasten the in the arrows. That bow was env 7 °f n) y schoolmates and could i R01ld an arrow out of sight. ' A dead persimmon, or one cut down aI)l ^ 8 easpned, makes a very hard, dur- able glut or wedge. Dr Porcher says that the grain is of such fine texture that, lie has used it for engraving. I used to saw rny gluts and then bevel the edges, aud round the top, and my boy Bob said “dem simmon gluts beat d °IP'. ood !1 ‘^ 1° )ccccs. 1 “ lB is a ‘wonaerfnl hook of Dr I’or- 1,!"* description “ TOOpagcs,containing a ot r every tree, plant and ghruh hrui in in our out Rnnthpvn southcni lauil, and nn ,i then practical and medicinal uses. It was in 1869, aud it’s title is, “Resources of the Houtberu Fields a »<1 forests.” What patient and care- fnI investigation was necessary to pro- dnoe £mcl ‘ n Look! Twelve, years were s P« nt i« n-ork, and the learned doctor became a second Linueus in liis devotion to it. Ami . ' yet this book is hard to find, and I suppose is out of l’ 1 '"F And now tho time has come for me *° P«t away the flowers and there’s trouble on the old man’s mind. I have cleaned out the pit and arranged the shelves to my wife’s satisfaction, and am now engaged in taking up tho geraniums and repotting the various plants. I have to go away down to the lower part of the cow lot, where the rich earth has gathered, and spado it up and sift it into the wheelbarrow and : roll it np (he hill like Ajax or Samp- I sun. My wife has a great big round : sifter like (ho plasterers use, and after | I get n load of earth and turn it out | in have the to broad haul walk load near of the sand pit, and then sift I a that, and then a load of wood ashes and sift that, and then mix all to¬ gether. She told mo how. She watches mo from the window, where she is sewing, and encourages me by telling mo not to work so hard, but to stop and rest awhile. Yesterday she came out to help me, and when she wanted me to change the palm to a larger pot, and the heliotrope to a smaller one, I rebelled a little and asked her if she had noticed that yaller jacket’s nest under the stone step, not far from where slio was standing. Tho little hungers were just pouring out and in, and as soon as A> saw them she shook her skirtriCjfamd departed those coasts wiillP alacril y- She wants to know why I don’t destroy their “C*’ when 'Veil, school I have tried. dident Time was \^o ooys want any 1>ott «- 1,111 than to break up a yaller jacket’s nest. Wo fought them with brush ami brooms anil dii t, arid killed the last one before wo quit. Of course wo got stung sometimes, but there is where the heroism mine in. Hut now I have no boys—they arc all girl and so I poured hot water in the hole where the jackets went in, and it kill- ^ “ fe ' V ’ * U,t ' Ulere aro over ft 4hou8 - and in Ihe colony, and they all got mad with me and ran me into the house. J11,011 1 l ,,Iel1 U P clcad B>'ass and old ^ ovcr the. grand entrance and poured kerosene on it and set it on lire and killed a few more, but still I (ouldeut miss them. Then I got stung on the ear and that made me mad and I mixed tip a pan full of mor¬ tar and soused it down into the hole I had them SUZtSt sure fast and would starve them to death, but next morning they had a neiv hole and are attending to business at the same old stand. I have put a circle of empty flower pots around the premises to warn the chil- dren away and now I am waiting for further instructions from my friend iu Mississippi. . . ' * . Florida I pulled " “ l ' n was as 111 a httl , ° *f rov * of oppoponax lllu ^ , Drought it home ami planted it. " 8 1< ? W oir llW,y n,ul ' vo 111 the pit last winter and transferred it to the garden Inst spring. It is now a beautiful little tree about eight feet high with numerous branches, and I think will bloom next summer if we can save it. It belongs to the mimosa family and its delicate leaves ai‘e quite sensitive, though not so much so as its humble cousin, the sensitive plant. Like that plant, its blooms are round tufted balls of different colors, but unlike that plant, these balls shed a delightful odor. When ! pressed into a piuensiou for a lady’s bureau they will perfume it for : years. I am going to winter it outside of the pit by protecting it with a barrel and pine tops. Then there are the lemon verbenas, or eitradoras, that are always olfn'e- refreshing and delightful to the tovv. We put the small ones in the pit and leave the large ones out. Then j i there arc a variety of pretty plants whose flowers will glatldeu us all the winter. A greenhottse eight by six- ! teeu feet can be built and glassed for ten or fifteen dollars and it is always pleasing and refining to the daughter's, family, especially And to the wife and now tho chrysanthemums arc budding into beauty ' and tilling the air with fragrance. There was a time when the flowers were £<li golden, and hence its name from crnsos, golden; | but the art of the florist has developed i Then nearly all the colors of the rainbow. there are the tall and gaudy Tesas pinks or cosmos, that, like the sunflower or the morning glory, will | spring up anywhere and everywhere whether you want them or not. There is nothing prettier than a bed of mornln g glories, “ their frail and beauti- fill flowe 8 resting npon the dewy ’ grass at sunrise. We have had a wealth of lovely roses this summer and are still enjoying the exquisite beauty | °f I,a France, the bride, the meteor, j.her majesty, the American beauty and j b°aTo Haroce lin’wriulrX and .Fames Smith’s m?’ thfflowers! ode to flow- ! ers in sublime. Mrs. Homan's “Bring I Flowers to the Fair Young Bride” is a gem. Then there is “The Last Rose i of Summer,” by Moore, and “The . | Kosc That Al, Are Braising.” and ma!iy otherK . Flowers adorn the wed- ding and the grave. They are akin to mlllrio and both prove the love of God to his creatures.-Bmx, Ane in Atlant. ! CVmtifutiou ' —-— -— BRYAN ___1__1__ IV OHIO ’ i Nebraskan Begin, a short Campaign at | William Montpelier. ! short Jennings Bryan lie ran n j nesday campaigning tour in Ohio Weil- private morning. He traveled in a f car. j The first meeting was at Montpelier. | where an audience of five thousand per- \ sons from all parts of the country as- sembled. j Mr. Bryan questioned the honesty of i ike vote of Ohio last year, and then took up the silver questi on. j “I wish to submit some propositions for j ! republicans to talk about, for the democrats are with us,’’said he. “It is only necessary j to talk to republicans who wore wrong last j | fall, bad in my judgment. The gold standard is a thing for the United States, and we should not submit to it, because the finan- CUTS Of Europe want it.” He said the republican party up to (his time had never declared that the go i ( ] standard was a u o good ouu lilin thing 11 it promised &* last year, he said, to what standard? it could to ^ get rid of the gold S He then reviewed the work of the monetary McKinley commission which President mission sent to Europe, and said its had failed because the money changers were opposed to it. Mr. Bryan attributed the improved financial condition of the United States to the discovery of gold in Alaska and to the famine in India, which, he said, the republicans were rejoicing over. From Montpelier the train was hurried to Defiance, where an after¬ noon large meeting was held. There w:*s a crowd at the depot as the train arrived in Defiance, and crowds had assembled at the stations along the way. An audience of live thousand people, a majority of whom were re¬ publicans, it is said, listened to the Defiance speech, which did not differ materially from that delivered at Montpelier. WOMEN AS CAMPAIGNERS. They Crowd Cooper Union Hall in the Interest of Seth Low. A New York dispatch says: Cooper Union was never before the scene of such a strange political meeting as that which took place there Wednes¬ day afternoon. The majority of those at the meeting were women from Mur¬ ray Hill and Riverside drive and West Fml avenue at that. The women were adherents of the Women’s Municipal League, which advocates the election of Beth Low, and the meeting they got up was designed to show what they could do in a political tray, even if they did not have votes. The men who came in for hisses were princi¬ pally Crokcr and Platt. Colonel George E.Waring,the street cleaning commissioner, called the meet¬ ing to order and introduced Mayor Strong ns chairman. Mayor Strong said heivas a dyed-in- the-wool republican and had always voted the republican ticket, but it was because ho loved the republican party that he proposed to vote against the republican ticket,clean out the Augean .stables and place that party on a firm foundation. ELEVEN DEATHS. The Fever Record In New Orleans ! The ’Wednesday weather Fifteen which New Cases. | at New warm Orleans prevailed ] preciable Wednesday had an ap- j effect on the yellow fever situation, there being a high death rate; but, despite this fact, the situa¬ tion as compared to that of Tuesday, which was not reassuring, is about the same. There were fifty-two new cases and eleven deaths reported for the ‘lay- The increased daily death l'ate is convincing the unbelievers that the prevailing fever is genuine yellow jack. The fumigating corps is being worked as hard as it can go, being sent from one end of the city to tho other. Sl’AIN WANTS MONEY. MinUter of Finance Declares Another Loan Is Absolutely Necessary. The Frankfort Zeitnng (Berlin) pub- lislies a dispatch Irom Madrid which quotes the Spanish minister of finance, Scnor Fuigeerver as saying that a fresh, large loan is necessary, as tho Linds of Spain will bo exhausted iu Tune, 1898, The Cuban war, the finance miuis- ter is said to have added, puts his country to a monthly expense of 45,000,000 pesetas, and the civic and military departments of Spain are be- hind iu their payments, MUST ( El)E TEN FEET. Government Having; Trouble with La ml Owners at Fhickanm;iy;a Dark. 1 hmknmauga . park . . 10 commission- Uvo be » n notlbe<l by tIlc " nr lb '- T nrtme “ t that unless the property °' vn *” >u a,ker county, Georgia, abn t,n « tbe T ro P osed government !. "°'T m ° construc- hol ' J® Lafayette, , cede the , govern- ‘" ont l tbe a,blltlona ' '/’> required 0 make tbe ^ad forty feet, in uni- ornuty with , all the other roads ap- , proaeliing the park, the work cannot : MKV0(H • ^ ar ^° wiunher of owners ba ' e ceded necessary right of way, bu ‘ many of tliem are holding back ana nave declined to do so. I WHY HE CAVE UP HOME. I A Settler’s Reasons for Civing Up His : Claim. Some time ago the register of the United States land office at Wa-Keen- ey, Kan., called upon a settler to show I cause why his claim should not be forfeited. The settler had abandoned i his homestead claim in Kansas and moved into Tennessee. His answer is now preserved as a valuable relic among the archives of the general land office here. It follows: “Answering your favor of the 3d instant, referring to my entry No. tfi,- 005, under the homestead law, will say, that I have no cause to show within «>e Prescribed thirty days (nor weeks, ™r months even) why my claim of s ^ lanfl uld , not in that be arid for cited region to where said rams piece are as scarce “ tb e Proverbial hens teeth , and as between as angels visits; where water is more precious t]lan 'hamonds; where the lean and hungry coyote harks ever to the ma¬ J estlc sl,enpe of the lonel y anfl un- Peopled prairies; where the festtverab- bit wanders unmolested, lordly mon- arch of all he surveys, and mourns for his lost companions, the Indian, buffa- lo and settler, who are not. “I voluntarily surrender all my right, title and interest in said land forever an <J irrevocably to the eminent domain : of our Uncle Sam. Blest be his mas- nanimous great heart for that benefi- I cent homestead law, that plants the settler on his lonely claim, forty miles , from nowhere, : and out of God's ltnowl- ! ed se, to delve to the tune of blizzards, cyclones, grasshoppers and chinch Lugs, and after a few short and fitful J’ ears full of sorrow and hard work he seeks hi3 last and only rest in the bosom of that same mother earth, his on,y companion in his isolation, I congratulate his excellency, the President on this magnificent addition to the public domain. I thought it for- feited years a S°ue-” H!S LAUCH WAS HIS FORTUNE. An Arkansas Steamboat Captain's Jollity Made Him Famous. “Ever hear of a man who made a fortune out of his laugh?” said a guest of the St. Charles as he looked over the 1,e S ister - “ 1 llave h ” ard of S ir5s whoso faces were their fortunes, but I knew a man whose laugh was positively his fortune. That, name—Sam B. Adams — on the register there reminds me of a man who made a fortune out of his laugh. His name was John D. Adams, and he was the father of Sam, the gentleman registered there. John D. Adams was a typical steamboatman of Arkansas, and inaddition to his steam- boating was a planter of extensive interests, and was connected with other business enterprises. He was the first man to run a steamboat up the Arkansas River, and his name in that State to-day is a synonyme for genial¬ ity, courage and business success. He was very successful, and his friends used to attribute his success to Ms wondrous laugh. It was not boister¬ ous, yet loud, and was so musical and jolly that one could imagine old Kris Kringle was personified in him. Other river men would say that his laugh got him all the Government mail contracts. He would go to Wash¬ ington, get acquainted with the man who had charge of the contracts, and he, like all of Adams’s new acquaint¬ ances, would soon come under the in¬ fection of his magnetic laugh, and form a genuine admiration for the grizzled old steamboatman. He was known at the hotel by everybody, and was pointed out for years by a colored porter, to whom he once gave a $5 gold piece as a tip in a fit of jollifi¬ cation over the closing of a big con¬ tract in his favor. ‘Amazing tales were told of his cour- age and his steamboat experiences. On one occasior, when an accident hap¬ pened to his boat and the passengers became panicstrickcn, he calmed them as if by magic by calling them child¬ ren, and laughing at their fear—his famous laugh impelling confidence and mirth by its very melody and jollity. He even used his laugh when very much angered; but it was of a very different character, and death lurked behind it. In a steamboat quarrel with three desperadoes once he denounced (hem with a laughing accompaniment, a cynical, chilling, dangerous kind of laugh, his eyes glittering like a snake’s, and his forefinger on his re¬ volver, ready to dash out the life of the first one who made a move. One of the desperadoes said afterward in speaking of the occurrence that he never felt so queerly before in his life, He said he felt as though the very marrow in his bones was being fro¬ zen.”—New Orleans Times-Democrat. -Itf •7]'? i m the famous story-writer, is only one of many celebrated contributors engaged to write for the next volume of mm- Wm For all $2 Times the © A Family. Year. f 1 ?'’* JmkJ i L ' x/ Jflffvm To show the varied strength and charm of The int. mi Companion’s original features for 1898 , we give the wSSSSStMGAa mm lm following partial list of n 'wm. !\\\ Distinguished Contributors. 5^- //, Right Hon. W. E. Gladslone W. D. Howells //:. flj./ji Hon. Thomas B. Reed Mine. 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Seven-eighths of the men because in this world she is marry beautiful a woman ■ •zl 8 m in their eyes. f-' ment What then a disappoint¬ to see the t !• wm r fair young wife’s beauty fading away before a year I, V her head 1 V passes over 1 feel as if I would like B X-. ! ? to who say is to about every to young be married— woman / 7/dF^Wt\} / -• “Strengthen yourself in ad- ■ ( j j V I'1,4 - \ vance, so that you will not ' / {^ , break strain down under powers.” the Keep new . l( j v /•'Jv -*' i on your possession your beauty, ’ ‘ it is a precious 1 Your husband loves A. your beauty, he is proud to he seen in public s r with you; try to keep it for his sake, and your own. i :■ The pale cheeks, the dark shadows under the eyes,' the general drooping of the young 1 wife’s form, what do they mean ? They mean ■*" that her nerves are failing, that her strength is going and that something must he done to help her through the coming trials of maternity. 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