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TWILIGHT.
Through silent air, o’er miles on miles of
gray-
No sound is heard.
Where to the quiet plain the waning
Whispers her latest word.
Beyond the dim wide land serene, the sea
Kisses the shore,
Where tired waves but now made fretful
plea,
Tossing the pebbles o’er.
Ah, sweet the calm when back into the blue
Wild clouds sink home,
Nor longer mar the pure undying hue
Deep’ning o’er heaven’s dome.
Like dusky phantoms bred of earth’s dark
breast,
The cattle lie
Where once they wandered, now content to
rest,
Still as the earth and sky.
So great the silence is, it seems to grow
Into a sound.
Ah, surely now our reverent hearts shall
know
• The secret earth has found?
More eloquent the burl hened stillness cries
■ Than sounds at noon.
And deep’ning brown of land and blue of
skies,
Soft with the rising moon,
Reveal at last the tender bond that binds
Great Nature’s whole,
As patient through life’s eager day love finds
Soul bound at last to soul.
Thou dost not speak, who standest at my
side
At waning of the day.
Where we have often watched the eventide
Steal into mystic gray.
But yet, though thou art dumb, I hear thy
.speech,
Thy heart I hear,
That scarcely in the troublous day could
reach
Unto my deafened ear;
sweeter words than all the words I
know
Thy silence brings,
So let the silence to thee murmur low
The song my spirit sings.
—Mrs. Comjns Carr, in Harper's Weekly.
THE MAN IN BLACK.
Major Dalton was in trouble. He had
been detailed and sent to one of the
largest inland cities in the Confederacy
to superintend the manufacture of bombs
and torpedoes.
Everythi g moved along satisfactorily
until the chemist connected with the
works made a reckless experiment one
day, and blew himself up. The force of
the explosion was so great that not a
piece of the unfortunate man could be
found.
‘•I wouidn’t have minded it so much,”
said the Major to his friend, the provost
marshal, “if the fellow hadn’t carried ,
off a lot of valuable papers with him, I
He knew lots of chemical secrets, and he I
had his formulas written out, and they
were in his pocket when he left.”
“You might advertise,” suggested the
provost marshal.
“Good idea,” replied the Mayor; “I’ll
doit.”
The next morning the city papers com
tained a short advertisement, stating
that a first-class chemist could secure em
ployment. with a good salary, at the
Government works.
At that time there were very few idle
chemists in the Confederacy, and-after
waiting several days the Major began to
think that he would have to send to
Richmond for a man.
<me night, when he was alone in his
office, he commenced a letter to the Sec
retary of War. He had just penned a
request for the immediate detail of an
experienced expert, when he became
conscious of the presence of another per
son in the room.
“1 didn't see him, and I didn’t hear
hear him, ’ said the Major afterwards,
“but I could feel mv flesh crawl, and I
knew that something was up.”
The Ma or wheeled around in liis chair
and saw a man standing just inside the
door The strai ger was tall and thin
and his black suit contrasted strangely
with his pa!e face and white hands.
Major Dalton noted these points. In
addition to his black attire the man’s
hair and eyes were of the same sombre
shade. lie even wore a black watch
cha n, a pair of black rimmed eyeglasses
and a black seal ring.
The officer gave a sharp look at his
visitor s lace, but its dead whiteness was
as exp e-sion!ess at a mask.
“Alum!” ejaculated the Major.
“I must introduce myself,” said the
stranger stepping forward. “My name
is i eiiico. Jam a chemist, ai*l lam
familiar with the manufacture of ex
plosives. I saw your advertisement and
decided to offer my services.”
He spoke rapidly, in a musical voice,
with a slight foreign accent.
“\ouarenot an American,” said the
Major.
“Ita ian,” briefly responded the other.
“I belong to a family of famous chem
ists, and we have served nearly every
government in Europe.”
Ju-t then the Major remembered that j
he had a sentry stationed iu front of the i
office.
“But, sir!” he broke out, angrily;
“liow did you get iu?”
“I beg your pardon,” answered Pelli
<o, courteously. “When your office was
pointed out to me I walked in.”
‘•But the sentry, the guard:”
“Oh, the soldier—l simply passed him
by.”
“You ran the risk of getting shot,”
growled the Ma or.
“Not a: all; there was no danger,”
was the quiet reply.
Pcilico's manner impressed the officer,
fid he asked his visiior for his creden-
T Is.
he man in black produced a letter of
/mmendation from a Spanish officer
, > high rank in Cuba.
“So you have not been long in this
eoun’ryf” remarked the Confederate.
“'leu days. I slipped through the
blockaders, landed in Florida aud then
came here.”
Further conversation did not cause
him to say anything that was inconsist
ent with his first account of himself.
In the course of half an hour .Major
Dalton -was ready to admit he was in the
presence of a man of superior intellect,
and one who doubtless was master ofhis
profession.
The interview resulted in the engage
ment of Pellico, and on the following
morning he went to work.
From the very outset the man in black
gave perfect satisfaction, but he made no
friends. The men called him “Mr. Mid
night,” and the officers quietly agreed
among themselves that he was a mystery,
very useful, no doubt, but a disagreeable
companion.
It did not take long to make the dis
covery that the Italian’s bombs and tor
pedoes were the best that had ever been
made.
One night Pellico paid another visit to
the office of Ma jor .Dalton.
“Majot,” said he, after some talk about
powder, gun cotton, Greek tire and other
matters, “the main object of our ex
plosives, is to destroy the enemy
“I'm, well, yes, to a certain extent,”
replied the gallant. Confederate.
“What do you think, then, of a bomb
that is capable of doing a hundredfold
more damage than any now in use?”
“It would be a big thing.”
“Well,” continued Pellico, “I have
invented it. I have a chemical com
pound that can * be projected into the
enemy’s lines through the medium of a
shell, and when the shell bursts a deadly
vapor spreads over an area of 100 yards,
killing every living thing. One shell is
capable of killing an entire regiment.”
“Man alive,” exclaimed the Major,
“that would be murder!”
“And what is war?” Pellico in
his low, soft voice.
The subject did not drop there. The
man in black had so much to say about
his invention that the Major found him
self deeply interested.
“Tnis little thing,” said Pellico, ex
hibiting something that looked like a pill
covered with tin foil, “would kill a house
lull of people.”
“It is hard to believe.”
“Let me convince you,” urged the
chemist. “If you will walk a square
with me I will show you something.”
The Major ob jected, but the Italian
assured him that his ini ended victims
were several hogs in the rear of the edi
fice.
When they reached the place they
fpund the hogs quietly snoo/.ing in a
fence corner.
Then they retired fifty yards or so,
and I ellico blew his little pill through a
hollow cane.
“Wait three minutes,” he said.
At the expiration of that time the tw’O
approached the fence corner.
Four large hogs lay stretched out on
the ground. It required only a glance
to see that they were all dead.
“Now,” said the chemist, as they
walked away, “this experiment is on a
very small scale, but you can form an
idea from what you have seen.”
“It is astonishing,” commented the
Major.
“Nothing to what I have done,” said
the man in black. “In Cuba I took a
sling and threw a ball of that stuff as big
as my fist into a village. The next
morning it was found that ail the in
habitants, some 300 or 400, were dead.
People outside supposed it was some
mysterious epidemic, but it was not.”
Major Dalton drew himself aloof from
his companion.
“And you killed those innocent
people for nothing?” he asked indig
nantly.
“In the interests of science, my dear
Major. Besides they were native yfcbaus.
1 would not have treated genuin<*ripan
iards that wav.”
The Major pulled his moustache and
walked on in silence for a few minutes.
“What do you pro'pose?” he asked,
after some re; ection. V-
“My scheme is a big one," replied Pei
lico. “A few little pellets thrown into
Libby, Salisbury and Andersonville will
rid us of'all the Yankee prisoners and
save our Government no end of expense.
Then they must use my invention ia- the
field. The armies of Sherman and Grant
will melt away before it, and a few hun
dred projectiles ffred from long range
guns into New York will turn that me
tropolis into a city of the dead. What
do you say?”
“Hallo, Corporal, come here!” yelled
the Major.
Several soldiers ran to the spot in a
hurry.
“Seize him!” shouted the officer,” and
take him to the guard house. lie is an
enemy, a murderer, Satan himself, I be
lieve. But, hold on—search him.”
“Only some papers and these pills,”
said the-Corporal.
“I’ll take them, ” said the Major. “Now
hustle him 0.l to the guard house,”
The Major walked with rapid strides
to the office of the commander of the
post. The provost marshal was sum
moned as a party to the conference, and
other officers were also called in.
The council lasted until a very late
hour. Never in their w hole military ex
perience had the officers been confronted
with so serious a ptoblem.
When they dispersed the sentinel out
side heard one of them say:
“He is a monster, au enemy to the
whole human race. We cannot accept
his aid, and if we let him go, he may at
auv time turn against us and against our
people.”
“There is but one thing to do,” said
the Major.
The next day the min in black was
found dead in the guard house. By his
side lay a shred of tin foil.
“I searched him,” said the Corporal,
(“and took all those shiny pills aw r ay
j from him. How did that get there I
wonder, and whatiu the mischief is it
anyhow?”
The commander of the post, the Pro
vost-Marshal and Maor Dalton showed
Intle surprise when they heard of Pelli
co’s death. The Corporal, however,
heard the Provost-Marshal speaking in
an undertone to the Major.
“What did you do with the other
pellets i" he said.
“I rode out to the river and thcwthem
in,” answered the .Major.
“All right,” responded the marshal.
“This has been a strange piece of busi
ness from first to last, but 1 don't think
that our consciences will ever hurt us for
our part in it.”
Long years afterwards a gray-haired
Confederate veteran mentioned some of
the facts of th<? case to a circle of inter
ested listeners.
“And who was Pellico?” some one
asked.
“I have always thought he was Satan,”
replied the veteran.
“Did the Major really kill him?” in
quired a lady.
The veteran shut one eye and twisted
his moustache.
\ "We had better not talk about that,”
he said, “but you may rest assured that
if he did kill the wretch he has never
regretted it.” —Atlanta Constitu k .
Cuban Railways.
Railway traveling in Cuba has some
very curious aspects. For instance, when
trains arrive at and depart from cities
or villages it is rather a queer thing to
see, between the depots and limits of all
municipalities, a man on horseback pre
ceding the engine. No train may arrive
or depart more rapidly than the speed of
this courier, who announces his own and
the train’s coming by tremendous beliow
ings and hallooings. Sometimes he is
provided with a sort of trumpet, which
he sounds lugubriously. The railroads
are nearly all of narrow guage, and
freight and passenger cars are little and
low. Not long ago Cuban engineers
were nearly all Americans and received
fabulous wages. This was also true of
the engineers on the sugar plantations.
But Cubans are bright and imitative,
and they are alone now in charge. The
machinery attests that. It is dingy,
rusty, half-ruined.
The Cuban handles his engine
in a hesitant, hysterical sort of way. He
is no mechanic. If a breakdown occurs
he calls upon everybody within reach
and, in complete desperation, “talks it
all over,” runs away altogether or com
mits suicide from sheer fright.
The railway stations are all walled
about as high as a fortress, and freight
is handled in the yards and transferred
much as a lower Mississippi River steam
boat is “wooded” by negro roustabouts
who “shanty” with dismal songs, or by
the unwieldy bull-earts with their pic
turesque carretoneros, so common to the
streets of Havana.
There are also some odd regulations
ab6ut Cuban railway travel. Ticket
offices are closed live minutes before de
parture of trains; and if one thus fails
of securing a ticket, one-third addition
al to regular fare is exacted for the first
division over which your route mav lie.
You are allowed to carry free only a hat
box or a medium-size valise; but if your
train does not make schedule time 3'ou
can stop anywhere along the route and
get your entire fare refunded. No “per
sons of color” are allowed in first-class
cars, though gamecocks in baskets are:
and if you attempted to ride upon the
platform or to occupy more than one
seat, you would immediately be turned
over to the guardia civil, whose members
ride on trains between stations to flirt
with fair senoritas, and to constantly en
force the fact that Spain owns Cuba.
As in most European countries, there
are three grades of passenger coaches,
and all are modeled on the American
plan. The third-grade cars have only
solid wood seats; the second, are Very
plain, but the seats are of “cane;” the
first are very pleasant and convenient,
and in most cases prettily enough deco
rated, the woven cane seats taking the
place of our plush cushions on account
of the difference in climate. The con
ductor is uniformed as with us, and is
the busiest man on earth for the amount
of business he transacts. He is at every
body every five minutes for re-examina
tion of tickets, and pompous guardia
civil, a soldier of one of the three classes
of military in the island, is forever at
his heels, glaring impudently into faces,
demanding with maddening frequency
your passport, if you happen to be a for
eigner, and especially so if an American,
whom the Spaniard loathes, and search
ing your peison, or even a lady’s reti
cule, if the whim siezes him.
How Were the Pyramids Built ?
The answer trfffiis question is beyond
modern conjectimi, so imperfect is ouf
understanding of the extent of the
mechanical knowledge of the ancients.
Their appliances are believed to have
been of the simplest order, and the im
plements exceedingly crude, and yet
they were able to convey these enormous
blocks of stone for vast distances over
routes most difficult; aud, having ac
complished this, to raise them to a great
height, and fit them iu place without
the aid of either cement or mortar to
cover up the errors of the stonecutter.
How all this was done is one of the
enigmas of modern science. It has been
generally believed that inclined planes
of earth were used to enable the work
men to raise the huge stones to their
places, the earth being cleared away
afterward. But it is possible that the
ancient 3 had a more extended knowledge
of mechanical powers than we usually
give them credit for, and that they made
use of the machinery very like that
employed by moderns for lifting great
weights. Large cavities are found in
some of the stones in the Pyramids which
may have been worn by the foot of a
derrick turning in them. That there
were enormous numbers of men employed
iu the building of these ancient structures
is well known. These results of their
great aggregated strength we see, but
they left no record of the means by which
this strength was focussed and brought
most effectually to bear on their mighty
tasks. Trade Supply News,
A Canine Arithmetician.
Among the dogs entered at the
Washington (D. C.) Kennel Club’s an
nual bench show is .Tack, a little black
and-tan dog owned by li. A. McMurry.
The dog is an adapt in figures and can do
anything in arithmetic this side of frac
tions. “Jack,” said his master, “get up
in that chair and put your paws on the
back and count three.” The dog did as
he was told, barking three little short
barks. ‘ ‘How much are tivo and three? 1
was asked, and he repeated five barks in
like manner. He performed several
sums in subtraction, multiplication and
division, with never a single mistake.
Latter Day Philosophy.
weet are the uses of Adversity?
Perhaps;
But some folks can't he Christians on
Pork scraps.
Blessed are they who also stand
And wait?
'Twill pay to wait til) tippingV
Of date.
Though Modesty’s a jewel of
Great worth,
'Tis not the meek,but cheek, i
The earth.
Let patience have her perfect worJr,
You say?
Well, she’ll find work till you are old
Aud gray.
All is not gold that glitters? No.
There’s brass.
In any crowd, most every day
’Twill pass.
Yet virtue is its own exceeding great
Reward ?
Mayhap, mayhap, it may be, with—
The Lord ?
—Boston Gio&e
THE ART OF ROPE MARINE
AN INTERESTING INDUSTRYSEEN
IN OPERATION.
The Materials Used in the Manufac
ture —The Process Examined —
Ingenious Modern Machinery.
Rope making is an art of very great
importance, and there are few that bet
ter-deserve the consideration of the in
telligent observer. Hardly any industry
can l;e carried on without the assistance
of the rope maker, and he renders valua
ble aid in the a plication of mechanical
forces.
The aim of the rope maker is to unite
the strength of a great number of filters.
One would think that this could be
done in the completest manner by lay
ing the libers parallel to each other .and
fastening the bundle at two ends; but
this would be ineffective because the
fibers are short, not exceeding on an
average ten feet in length. It is mjeessary
therefore to confine them in such a man
ner that the str -ngth of the liber shall
not be able to draw it out from the rest
of the bundle. This is done by twist
ing or turing them together, a process
which causes them mutually to compress
each other. But should this be thought
sufficient the rope would be very poor
•indeed, for the fibers, being strained, are
more or less elestic, and when
would at once untwist. It is necessary
therefore to contrive the twist in such a
way that the tendency to twist in ore
part may act against the same tendency
in another and balance it. Moreover, all
twisting beyond that needed .to prevent
the fibers from being drawn out without
breaking diminishes the strength of the
cordage. Thus it will be seen that the
arrangement of the fibers and the degree
of twisting “had to be understood to a
nicety in the former hand process. Aii
this has been avoided by modern ma
chinery, which can be easily run by girls,
and which does the work with combined
accuracy and rapidity hardly possible in
manual labor.
The three principal raw materials
used in the manufacture of rope at the
works in Brooklyn, N. Y., visited by an
Eagle reporter, are manila hemp from
the Phillipine Islands, which takes its
name from their chief city, Manila;
Mexican hemp, called sisal, and jute,
which is made from the inner bark of
two East Indian plants of that name.
The fibers of the first of these are about
three and a half feet in length, those of
the last two from ten to fourteen feet.
Mexican hemp is the cheapest, being
worth about one half the price of manila
hemp. It makes a very strong rope and
being used more extensively than the
others we will follow it through the
different; processes:
This hemp plant resemble? in appear
ance the cactus and glows to the height
of about fourteen feet. Ripening toward
the end of August,it is pulled just as the
seed vessels turn brown. The seeds are
then threshed out and the. stalks soaked
iu water or spread upon damp ground
m order to strip them of the outer bark
or skin. They are then beaten with
wooden clubs till freed from all the
brittle parts aud the fibers can be disen
gaged with readiness. After the fibers
haye been hackled, which is done by
drawing them repeatedly through a
machine filled with long steel spikes,
they are packed in bales and shipped.
On reaching the works sisal having a
harsh fiber is first sent down stairs to be
oiled. This relieves the machines through
which it afterward passes of much of the
work they would otherwise have to per
form. The first process is called prepara
tion and is performed by two machines,
the spreader and the drawer. The
spreading machine consists of two end
less chains fitted with gilt bars and steel
teeth, which comb out and even the
fibers and is only another method of
hackling on a finer scale. The workman
stands in front of this machine and feeds
it with the sisal, taking particular care to
regulate the supply so that the sliver, as
the sisal is called when the process is
completed, shall be of suitable size. If
fed too freely, the machine is apt to be
come clogged, if too scantily, the fibers
are liable to break. Some of these
machines are very large and will run
off a bale»of 270 pounds of hemp in nine
minutes, or in ten working hours over
sixty bales. From this the sliver goes
through another spreading machine, only
finer and smaller, which still further
straightens and evens out the fibers.
This operation finished, the next in
order is drawing. The machine for this
is similar to the first except that it has
but one endless chain and its teeth are
considerably finer. By means of it the
work of straightening, evening, reducing
in volume and drawing out the sliver still
goes on until it is suitable for spinning.
This ends the process of preparation,
Which, to sum up, is a method of mak
ing as flue and pliable as possible the
coarse libers of the hemp plant.
We next pass to the spinning depart
ment on the top floor of the works,
where the sliver is spun into yarn. On
entering the room, the first thing that
strikes our attention i 3 the curious ma
chine by which this process is done. It
is fitted with a self-feeding motion
which increases in speed when rapidly
supplied with sliver, and again dimin
ishes in speed when the supply is slowly
given. When the spinner ceases work,
the machine stops of its own accord. One
would ihink that it had the necessary in-,
telligence to know what is required of it
and w T heu to commence or discontinue
work. It certainly performs its task to
perfection, for the yarn which.it is set
to spin is alw'ays of a uniform size.
After passing through this machine, the
yarn is wound on bobbins which are car
ried to the laying room. As some of the.
larger kinds of cordage are still made in
the underground rope walk we shall
describe that interesting process:
The number of bobbins required for a
strand are placed each on an iron rod in
frames capable of holding from two to
three hundred of them, the number of
frames being regulated by the required
size of the rope. Suppose, for instance,
that one with three strands is to be
made. The number of yarns needed for
each of these strands after passing first
through a concentric circle holes in
three steel plates (one for each strand)
and then through three hollow tubes
which bring and press them together-,
are attached to the three hooks of the
traveler or forming machine. This ma
chine travels down the rope walk by
means of an endless chain passing over a
grooved pulley, and the latter’s acting
indirectly upon a set of gears gives a
whirling motion to the hooks. When
the traveler reaches the end of the walk,
and sufficient twist has been given to tiie
three strands the latter are hung together
on the middle hook of the machine, but
kept separate by a grooved block; of
wood. The last operation is performed
bv the closing machine,one end of which
keeps the three separated strands twisting
one way, while the other twists the rope
in an opposite direction, and the two
twists thus act against and counterbal
ance- one another. As- the twisting of
the rope shortens the strands, that end of
the machine where the latter are hooked,
keeps moving up toward the other end
until the making of the rope is com
pleted.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
Harvard is the oldest college in the
United States. }
A chemist announces that wood can
be made very palatable.
A new Chinese Sunday-school has
been opened in Chicago.
An alligator nest, found in Rice Creek,
Fla., last week, contained forty-three
young saurians.
In Australia they never launch a ship
without having a clergyman present to
make a prayer.
A nugget of ruby ore, weighing one
thousand pounds, and estimated to be
worth SIO,OOO, was taken from a mine
near Elko, Cal., a few days ago.
Red canaries sell for $5 apiece in the
bird stores. They are said to be pro
duced from the eggs of art ordinary
canary that hus been fed on cayenne
pepper.
A young lady in Atlanta stepped to a
window to look at a young man passing
by and just then a large piece of plaster
ing fell down on the chair she had
vacated. Had she kept her seat she
would have been killed.
A citizen of Douglas County, Kin.,
has hit upon a hew way of destroying
wolves. He puts a chunk of beef where
the wolves will find it, and in the fight
resulting for its possession one or more
are sure to be left dead on the field.
The throwing of rice at weddings is
evidently a heathen custom, as in India
and some other countries to this day rice
is showered on the expectant youth
whep he goes to the house to get his
bride. Rice is the emblem of fruitful
ness.
An army of sparrows and other birds
met a sudden and not to say peculiar
death in Cincinnati. An ammonia tank
exploded, filling the air with the fumes
of the drug,thereby asphyxiating nearly
all the small animals in the neighbor
hood, together with a horse which re
sponded to the alarm of fire sent out.
The finest private collection of old
almanacs in America is said to be owned
by one of the justices of the Supreme
Court of the United States. The rarest
almanac in the country probably is one
published by William Bradford in 11186.
It is in the collection of the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania, and is valued
at fouO. *
At the hacienda of Rio Florido, Mex
ico, there lives a man 120 years old r
His wife is in her 111th year. They
have been married ninety-five years. The
owners of the hacienda and the people of
the neighboring plantations anticipate!
the pleasure of giving this aged Indian
couple a great many presents on the
100th anniversary of their wedding day.
There was a very peculiar suicide in
Lancy park, Elmira, N. Y., the other
morning. A rebin redbreast, deserted
by its mate, sought to drown its misery
in death. Taking a long string which
he had picked up to put into its nest, he
swung it around a bough, then wound
it around his neck, and expired. The
body hung in the tree all day, and many
pedestrians gazed at it curiously.
It. Ccmpton, postmaster of Yolo, 111.,
claims to have discovered a peculiar
phenomenon in the Woods of Lake
County. As described by him, it con
sists of the natural ingrafting of a burr
oak tree upon a white oak. The burr
oak leans against the other from the
ground up, and is dead. The dead
trunk, however, seems to go right
through that of the living white oak,
and the branches of both varieties of
tree, all green and vigorous, mingle to
gether in about equal proportions.
The white wild goose of the Pacific
slope is a remarkable bird. An editor
of a Riverside paper says that he once
killed one. It took four bullets* from a
44-caliber Sharp’s rifle to bring the
bird down at a range of seventy-five
yards.. Each cartridge contains almost
two grains of powder. All the bullets
passed through the heart of the goose
and lodged in the skin on the opposite
side from where they went in. An at
tempt was made to boil this bird.
“Strange to say, the bullets were cooked
to a jelly before any impression was
made on the goose.”
The Accomplished Police of Brazil.
The streets of Carthageua, says a
writer in the American Magazine , are, as
in other Spanish-American cities, named
alter the saints, battlefields and famous
generals, but the houses are not num
bered, acd it is difficult for a stranger
to find one that he happens to want to
visit. The police do duty only at night.
During the day the citizens take care of
themselves. Four policemen are sta
tioned at the four corners of a plaza.
Evervfifteen minntes a bell rings, which
causesthe guardians of the city to blow
their whistles and change post*?. By
this system it is impossible for them to
sleep on their beats. They are armed
with lassos, and by the dexterous use of
this formidable weapon they pinion the
prowling thief when he is trying to es
cape. They also have a short bayonet as
an additional weapon.
A Baby Killed by a Cat.
The little three days’ old child of
Henry Krocker, living on the corner of
Martin and Market streets, was killed
the other night by the family cat creep
ing upon the baby and sucking its
breath. The mother aud grandmother,
who had watched and cared for the
baby, fell asleep through sheer exhaus
tion, and when they awoke they found
the feline lying upon the child’s breast
with its mouth close to the baby’s, suck
ing its life breath away. A doctor was
ssnt for, but when he came he pro
nounced the little one dead. — Mdioauket
11 vieic.
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made.
One of the stories which has been cur
rent in social circles at Washington
lately is in regard to the remarkable
make-up of a well-known young society
woman. The mdbld in which she had
been cast by an unknown fate was un
satisfactory alike to herself and parents,
who finally concluded to try the effects
of foreign travel for her. After a long
absence abroad the family returned and,
to the astonishment of all who had pre
viously known her, the daughter wad
completely metamorphosed. From a
tall, angular girl, she had not only be
come well rounded, but buxom, With a
noticeable broadening of the shoulders.
After a while it leaked out that while in
Paris the girl had been taken to a model
maker, who, in consideration of a large
sum, agreed to construct a wire figure
of the desired proportions, whieh wad
ingeniously made to open down the
. back, and was of such flue, soft material
that its presence would fail to be detect
ed save by the keenest scrutiny. This
wire cage necessitates, with evening
dress, a band of velvet or oollar of some
description, and as long as worn effect
ually precludes tho idea of decollete
gowns on the part of the wearer.
As Summer comes, we may have to
listen to the old story one more: “Where
is my wandering boy to-night?” while
tho poor boy is quietly enjoying the
musk and watermelon-in your neighbor’s
patch, provided he can find the npe ones,
as he is raising them in the dark of the
moon.
A Common-Sense Remedy.
In the matter of curatives what you want ia
something that will do its work while you
continue to do yours—a remedy thatwill give
you no i..convenience nor interfere with y.iur
bu-lness. Pnch a remedy is Allcock's Pob
(,us J’I.ASTCHS. Thtse plaster-i are purely
vegetable and abso utely harmless. They re
quire no cliange of diet, and are not affected
by wet or cold. Their action does not interfere
with labor or busin -ss; you can toil and yet be
cured while hard at work. They are so pure
that tiie youugeet, the oldest, the m st delicate
person of either sex can use them with great
benefit.
Beware of imitations, and do not be deceived
by misrepresentation.
Ask f jt Alucock’s, and let no explanation,
cr solicitation induce you to aco-pt a sub
stitute.
“The King’s Daughters” now number 20,-
000 in the U. S. The society is to have a paper.
WouAd you know the keen delight
Of a wholesome appetite,
Unrestrained by colic’s dire,
Headache’s curse, or fever’s fire.
Thoughts morose, or icy chills?
Then use Dr. Pierre’s pills.
Dr. Pierce’s Purgative Pelletts—the original
and only genuine Little Liver Pills; 25 cents a
viaL
Before 600 Chicago waifs were taken on a
picnic, their hair was cut and faces scrubbed.
It will nay all who use Cotton Gins, to get
.prices and testimonials of those A No. 1 man
ufacturers, The Brown Cotton Gin Co., New
London, Conn. They lead the world.
The income of Ajidrew Carnegie, the iron
manufacturer, is said to be $15,000 a day.
VVhen a threatening lung disorder.
Show s its first proclivity,
Do not let It cross the border—
Quell it with activity.
Many a patient, young or olden.
Owes a quick recovery
All to Dr. Pierce’s Golden
Medical Discovery.
Newspapers soaked in a solution of carbolic
acid make a good plitg for rat holes.
A Summer
Medicine
Summer’s heat debilitates both
nerves and body, and Head
ache, Sleeplessness, Ner
vous Prostration, and an
“all-played-out” sensation prove
that Paine’s Celery Compound
should be used how. This medi
cine restores health to Nerves,
Kidneys, Liver, and Bow
els, and imparts life and energy
to the heat prostrated system.
Vacations or no vacations, Paine’s
Celery Compound is the medi
cine for this se.fsoq. It is a scien
tific combination of the best
tonics, and those who use it begin
the hot summer days with clear
heads, strong fierves, and
general good health. Paine’s
Celery Compound is sold by all
druggists, $1 a bottle. Six for $5.
’JELLS, RICHARDSON & CO., Prop’s,
Burlington, Vt
K ~ ■ 1 1,1
AND
Hot Weather
Invigorator
Do you want “ Inspirator?
S ROANOKE
Cotton and Hay
PRESS.
/ Thobest and cneapest made.
/ Hundreds in actual use.
f Bales Cottonyuater than any
yin can pick. Address
* ROANOKE IRON ANDi
WOOD WORKS for our Cot
rrw ton and Hay Press circulars.
Chattanooga, Tenu. Box l > 6o
■P| | n o*l m Catch them nitre with
Cl |CQI Styner’s Sticky Fly
I Era a rap V a PA P E St. Sold by all drug
rists or KTocers, or mailed, i*ostapre paid, on receipt
of 3 celtt e. T K. DAW I.EY . .Manufac
turer, 37 KeeUmnii iSticct, New Y orli. .
PIS OS CURE FOR CONSUMPTION!
If so, writ* BROWN A KIKG
Manufacturers and Dealers in
Cotton, Woo leu anil (Gen
eral Mill Supplies.
Wrought Iron Pipe Killings
■ and liruss Goods,
ijl S.BkoadSt., ATLANTA, GA.