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If Life Indeed Were Oar*.
If life indwl w»r« reir»
Wrtl mitclit t>e h-wn-nly power*
te.4. ai they »nV te»l num'* fruitleea etrug
gio b>-ru;
Vo baiid, and bail I in vain.
I'<r>r anta; Um nut>imnal rain
ftnan< all Um work, and yet we paraevora
Mati’m proud iu btevomcnta fall;
Iteft arch <>r mol terlng wall,
Whw> w>l< •rnii b'lupti Mbxnl or psiaco h.gh,
Tall the old Uhttyw
Which royal Da’ri ! knew,
T>r worlmof mrui a* man hirtwclf, miut die.
When K i|’h< Iwla-bl
I>•«pairing « held
*h ha •t#»rn
J'u* Into a fbihw* at la*t
Aim! <w*r Um? -lark *a r-flwt
JVr dying light, like Did</« funeral pyre
Ib-rply ho eigbod and Mid:
‘•final Bib/ »n H 4 vl,
CnJ 7 r»* K gom . ft.hl < i. thagn now, and
th**n
f’.omo, Rome muwt fall, and we,
The I'onfiwm, conquered I**,
And tzute th ■ do »<ii wbc h track* the pride of
lie’ll
If 1.1f.‘ in<| -»«l wore otir»—
But O y«» h- ivrnly piwerel
Fittingly yr look, and know it m not *o
I si fa ih th • mywtir nerol I
<»«mI wrote Ho read« the whole.
How 1 the I. th . ■ Hia wide moaning
know 7
Lonc/on Spectator.
How the Scar Came There.
Di*, .e I id ho- n Hnluh' d alxmt an
hour, and the gmth-ni'-n had juet re- 1
turned to th«? draw i.?;' room, ft (ter having
hi<i<-d tln ir < lFe«* and < i rii'. The
t< had tired of talking to tln rnM.dvcii,
te the moat patient of gil at oftentimes
and it w;o» too noon after citing to
tDou tho« mlioi tig to do thf'inM lv<*M
what tliryini « »!l« I jUMtlr , (Hid mo the
<wivrr*ntion I»<••_»nn to flag.
•‘You want n st ry of rotne Kort, do
youV’’inquired the ho-tr*-*. “Well,” she
cimtin u i playfully, “if you will Im* very
good and very «pii<'t children I will
ano .«■ you with a «tory, whh h hr, bow
ever, one very Bnriou* drawback.”
“Never min i that,” exclaim? d the
ywr.’ , delight' d nt any pi -|h < t of
wmi.v:in nt. ‘‘Give u< th'* story.
“It bni one -crioUM objection,” con
fined tho hoUi '«, without noticing the
fotiuTUptlon. “It J » true. 1? tme «ee, ■
tunc flii -4 ho quickly when one begin< to
irr th at 1 almost foi fi t when it hap
jrni d. It iniitit have been nt least fifteen
wars ago, however, bo you jxjrccivtj it
is«put<j fnodetn. Twenty years ago, to
begin at the b< gicning, tin re lived in one ,
<if those charming little h itnlids of New
Km land u poor clergyman and his only
daughter, who waA then about
aihrn years of age. Her father
had few intimate friends, although
Che*’ were many who knew and
rmpet fed him highly outside of the small
cvngn gatiun whose wants he faithfully I
mmid fed to. There was a wealthy mill ■
«Mrnrr about hia own age, a widower ami
tlir mainstay of the church, and a young
nuii hss than five and twenty, tall and
baml nonic, whoso position in the minis
ter'a I iinily <an b< t be described by his
title, ‘Cousin .1 i< k.’ Jack was poor,
though, ami a < ivil engineer by profvs
bum*, lb* lived in the family, and this
young girl found in him a brother, play
»at» and lover. Civil engineering how*
«rr, wan not remunerative in this village,
and so one day Cousin Jack kissed little
CUra, wi|Hil nwny tho train from In r
eyw. for klio loved the groat, manly on-i
gmer more, fai no io than he dn anted
<rf and far more too than he loved her, no
walinppily doea Cupid sometimes aim hi.
arrow, and left for the West, where he
ka.l leeurod a |H>*ition as engineer on a
building railroad in thq mining country.
Afl< r he had gone the house was often
tevrly, and when two years later the mill
oai.'i |>ro|H>sed to marry Clara her father
dh consent' I, and they were wed in
ti»- little chun h by the hillside one sun
ay day ami sin' left the little cottage for
a more pretentious house in the city.
Suddenly, a month late;, her father died
rn his pulpit, died while praying for his
•nugregation, died like a Christian war
riur at hit putt. He was buried in the
«>lUge churchyard, ami soon the town
had forg iHti n him ami his almost ;ts if
tbry had never lived.
“In time there came into their house a
title, blue-eyed, golden haired baby girl,
aud for a time the young mother was so
happy that her home sq< m«i almost like
hear on. But henven is not for this world
*my little story any more than it is in
wal life, and very soon she found this
<xst. One day her indulgent husband
dsdci t come home to his dinner. Au
hour passed ami then another and still
another, until at last the anxious wife Im
vame alarmed. At length the look
harper from Uie mill was announced.
M'lxsi he entered the room she saw on
h>a face tidings of evil.
“ My husband!' she cried.
*• 'B< calm, madam,* he said, although
h.- was far from calm himself, ‘be calm.
Ue is far better ot! when- he is.'
“Then she fainti 1. When she awoke
from her swoon they told her all. The
Wees were panicky and the mill had
tailed The master, unable to bear the
Jusss, had - -well, I wont say what he had
done, but the young wife was now a wid
ow and almost pennileas It took several
wrrk» to settle up the estate. And when
M wax done she found that of her fortune
•tee had barely |5,000. With so small
ms amount of money she snuX of ncceaaity
work to supjwrt herself and her child.
The scene of h- r happiness had become
strangely distasteful to her, and she con
< lud<-d to h ave the place and follow th':
example of Cousin J.v .* in wicitiug her
fortune in the Wot.
“She selected for her home n little city
in Colorado, in a valley through which
there ran a river rippling and tumbling
over sands of yellow gold between gr< at
cliffs of granite under whose rough, rag
ged sides lay hidden countless veins of
the s one pre< ions metal. Here she w-. t.
and finding a little house on a quiet stre< t
she bought it nod M ttle<l down t > her
m-w life, hoping that before her money
should become exhausted some menus of
earning a livelihood might -uggc-t it if.
Jtatber an impracticable way of doing,
you probably think, but this young widow
had little experience. She knew nothing
of money earning and had little ability to
buttle with the world. There was noth
ing masculine with our friend, not even a
husband. One day she hsd a caller. He
came while she was out, and when she
returned he was sitting in the parlor
with little Clara on his knee. He was
Couiin Jack, and he was still unmarried.
He briefly told his story. He had built
the railroad, surveyed other roads and at
I- ngth Iwia ic a miner with the rc-t of
the men, and unlike many of them ho
had grown rich rich beyond his wildest
cxp« t.itions. If<- livid farther up tho
valley on a < laim of his own, and a shaft
sunken at the door of his cabin led down
under tin-rocks to where the gold was
found in alnio-t inexhaustablc quantitii '<■
lb' lost all track of h r, had not heard
of her marriage or h'T father's death, and
intended in the spring to go to his old
home, and if she still were single bring
her back with him, for he had learned in
liis aliM-iu e that the love she bore him
was return: d without his dreaming it.
This was th:-story he told and this was
what she listened to with downcast eyes
and beating lieart. Would she many
him?
“ ‘No,’ she said. She never would
marry again.
“ ‘Never?’
“ ‘No, m ver.' He had waited too
long. Her w idowhood was too sacred to
be thrown away so lightly. She would
live alone the rest of her life for her child.
“Sorrowfully h< pressed her hand and
thus for a second time they parted.
“They often saw each other, though,
and gradually the sunshine came back
into her life and each day added to hi r
contentment. One day she mid little
Clara went up the valley to see Jack. It
was their fir t visit and he met them at
the stage and drove them up the valley
to w here his mine wns located. A new lead
was to bo op:-ned. For weeks they had
worked in the hard granatc, blasting mid
picking, boring and digging, until at
last there only remained between them
mid gold a thin layer of rock, which was
this day to be blasted through. I O.ig holes
were bored intii the rock mid they were
heavily charged with nitro-glycerine.
The miners left the tunnel and sought
shelter with Jack and his friends near
the foot of the shaft. At the lower end
of the dark tunnel there were lights
dimly burning mid like the black muz
zles of great cannon the holes with their
deadly contents looked out on the little
party. One sure-footed, steady-handed
miner adjusted the fuse and quickly ran
towards the shaft. There was a moment
of stillness, then little Clara darted past
her mother mid ran towards the burning
taper. Qui< kas a flash Jack spring after
her. Another moment of stillness, quiet
ns the grave and longer than eternity,
mid then a roar that shook the earth. A
rattle of flying rocks like a broadside of
artillery, a childish shriek of terror, a
groan, and the miners, pale as death it
self, dashed through the blinding smoko
to where Jack lay with the child. A
rock had struck his arm and crushed it
into pulp. Another had hit his body and
stretched him out on the rocks insen ible
and well-night dead. But the child was
safe. In falling she had struck a rock
which cut her forehead, but the death
she so unwittingly courted had been
, avoided. In saving her brave Jack had
sacritled himself. It was the work of a
minute to carry them to the surface and
the woik of another minute to unbutton
his coat and chafe his temples At last
■ his heart began to beat, at first a few
I faint flutters but they grew stronger, mid
stronger. He groaned and opened his
j eyes and then they knew that he would
live. Several of his ribs won' broken and
i his arm was gone, but his life had been
preserved. Sis weeks later he was able
to leave his last and goto the widow's
house in the village One month later
and the house with its owner were his
own.’’
“Well!" exclaimed a listener. “Well!"
“That is all," remarked the hostess,
“Isn't that enough for one little story?' 1
“And you say it is all true ''
“Every wool of it."
“Mamma," ifterrupted thed.tighter of
the hostess, “1 never heard you tell that
story itefore."
“Didn’t you, my dear?'’ answered die
hostess, with a smile.
“No; yon never told me that I had
Iveen so candess. When I asked you bow
that scar came upon my forehead you
said that Heaven put it there."
“So it did, my love," responded the
host<-ss, fondly, “so it did,"— Beaknam
NortAreyi.
CITY PILOTS.
peopl-s Who Makes Business
of Showing People Around.
V7.Lling to Exhibit ths Elephant, but Not
to Load a Spree.
In European cities guides, who make
a businc-. of taking strangers about to
and experience things, are almost as
plenty ns flics around a Ktigar hogshead
in summer. They haunt -teamer
wkarvcK, lurk nlxiut depots, infest ho
td-, ."nd obtrude themselves at every
t irn when one g:x-s unattended on a hunt
fur new experiences. Not only are the
real guid'-s very frequently great rascals,
but their occupation is often fai <|y as
sumed, as a means of beguiling confi
dence and betraying to financial damage
by th" mod thorough-paced scoundrels.
Hence, Eiirojx an guides are viewed with
no little suspicion, and experienced
travellers are shy of them. Here in New
York the guide has lieen but little
known os a provisional. A sightseer
from the West, a sensation-seeking
Briton, or a clergyman on a Taimagian
hunt for iniquity, could always get a pri
vate detective to b ar him company and
give a certain mea-ure of protection, but
the service so rendered was looked upon
i.s out-ide the regular line of duty, and
w • : x]H-n-ive. Rather more expensive,
perhaps, was the readily tendered guid
ance of the well dressed and very affable
rm ii who could always be found lounging
around first-class barrooms and hotel
corridors, waiting to show strangers the
way to “a private club of gentlemen,” as
an appropriate finish to an evening of
seeing the sights, or in daytime, to show
where they had “just won a prize in a
lottery.”
But the time has come when a regular
business is made of furnishing guides.
An up town detective agency has made
a special feature of this sort of business.
Speaking of the new departure, the su
perintendent said;
“We h ive often, as detectives, been
called upon to conduct about the city
strangers who were desirous of seeing the
sights points of interest in the town
you know and the growing frequency
of such requirements has led us to make
a feature of it in our business. We have
at present, regularly employed, sever
persons-two of whom are ladies—ad
mirably qualified for this service, andean
call upon others equally capable, as oc
casion requires. It might be supposed
that we would be mostly in demand tc
steer sightseers to and through vicious
and disreputable places. Such, however,
is not the fact. There is really very lit
tle of that. Strangers want to see the
navy vird, High Bridge, the greatest ele
vation of the elevated road, the Central
Park, Grant's tomb, the aristocratic res
idences, the view from the top of Field’s
building, Castle Garden, and a thousand
other things that they have heard 01
rend of, and are interested in, but 01
which New Yorkers generally know lit
tle and care less for as curiosities. Then,
if they arc women, the strangers want to
go shopping to our finest and most fa
mous stores. And they want to go tc
places of amusement, with our guides tc
tell tie in what is worth going to see, and
what is proper and what is not, ami
where they can find what they are look
ing for.
"Fellows who are more or less round
ers at homv want to see the metropolitan
elephant, and we enable them to do so,
guarding them as far as possible against
imposition or personal damage. But we
will not take anybody to a gambling
house, nor will we undertake to steel
any one through the lurid sinuosities of
a howling toot, with the accompanying
fights and other appropriate bric-a-brac
of that nature. Our guides are not al
lowed to take commissions from store
keepers on sales of goods to persons they
are taking about, and will do their duty
faithfully and thoroughly as a matter ot
business, at office rates, w ithout any per
sonal presents. The price we charge foi
a guide, male or female, is 40 to 50 cents
an hour for day work, $1 an hour foi
night work before I'3 o'clock, and $1.50
an hour after 12 o'clock. All expenses
for transportation, meals, theatre tickets,
Ac., are, of course, borne by the person
engaging the services of the guide. Out
guides are required to dress in good style,
and among them they speak fluently
seven different languages. 5Ve expect tc
do agn at dial with foreigners just as
soon as our business becomes known, as
it will be among them." ,Y< r Fori Bun.
Toads as Bee Eaters.
“It is not, I believe, generally known,'
writes a correspondent of the London
<■ 'u\ “that toads are most deter-
mined In'e-eaters, and that however ser
vieable the toad may be in kitchen gar
dens and frames ns a slug and insect
destroyer, th fre<r you can keep your
apiary from his pr<« nee the better.
Toads will wait at the so t of a hive to
»eiz.e any honey-laden bee that may hap
|x'n to fall to the ground on its return
from foraging, and one bee-master saw over
i dozen little workers captured in the
space of half an hour by an old fat fellow,
who darted out his tongue w ith wonder
ful celerity immediately he saw a bee 01
the ground. The bees had been collect
ing pollen, and ninny of them, Ix'ing heav
ily laden, were unable to reach the flooi*
board of the hive.”
CLIPPINGS FOR THE Cl RIOL’S.
In Antwerp, on Holy Innocent's Day,
the children are allowed to dress like
men and women and run the house.
Scorpions, spiders and various insect"
have been observed to lie motionless if a
person blows upon them in a vertical
direction.
The weight of a molecule of camphor
sensible to the sin' Il has been computed
by Bordernavc to weigh 1-2,262,584,-
000th of a grain.
The Mcngoon Pagoda is one of the
mo.t interesting sights in Burmah, and
in its unfinished state i.s the largest solid
mass of brickwork in the world.
The largest barn in the world is
probably that of the Union Cattle Com
pany of Cheyenne, near Omaha. It
covers five acres, cost $125,000 and ac
commodates 3750 head of cattle.
No spot in Mexico is sacred from
smokers; in churches, on the railway
cars, on the streets, in the theatres—
everywhere are to be seen men and
women of the elite—smoking.
Chinese children turn their backs on
the teacher when they recite. There is
no catechising of children in the
Chinese schools; they simply learn a
thing by heart and go up and repeat it,
with their faces turned from the black
board and the teacher.
The armorial device of the city
as Berne, Switzerland, is a bear
(the name itself signifying bear), and the
animal is a favorite efligy throughout
the city. In addition many living bears
ire still kept and supported at public ex
pense. At the time of the French revo
lution the bears of Berne were carried as
prisoners to Paris.
The population of London now ex
ceeds every other city, ancient or mod
ern, in the world. New York and all
its adjacent cities combined are not
equal to two-thirds of it. Scotland,
Switzerland and the Australian colonies
each contain fewer souls, while Norway,
i Servia, Greece and Denmark have
scarcely half so many. Yet at the be
gining of the present century the popu
lation of all London did not reach 1,0(M,-
000.
Beef is never seen at a Chinese table,
zxen and cows capable of working the
plow being accounted too valuable to
the farmer to be consigned to the butcher.
Very severe penalties are attached to the
slaughter of these animals. The punish
ment for the first offense is a hundred
strokes with a bamboo, and then two
months in the wooden collar. Should
love of beef or desire of gain induce a
repetition of the crime, a second judicial
flogging is followdd by exile for life
from the province.
An Athlete on Exercise.
I was talking with George Hanlon yes
terday morning about the exercise such
athletes as he recommend for the ordina
ry man to pursue in order to keep the
muscles properly developed. He said:
"I am down on gymnasiums for ordinary
purposes. They overdo the thing. Too
often they are presided over by men who
onlj' care for the members’ subscription
and take but little heed as to his course
of exercise. Heavy weight lifting I
won’t tolerate. It is most pernicious in
its effects on the body, ami improves one
set of muscles at the expense of another.
What I recommend is the plain, old-fasii
ioned rubber bands or tubes. Fasten
them to the wall, about breast high, and
then begin. There is no particular for
mula to go through. Motions will sug
gest themselves. Another set of rubber
can be fastened lower down and the legs
exercised by them. I have peculiar no
tions, too, about bathing. I don't be
lieve in plunge or shower baths. I strip
in a comfortable room. Wet a towel,
wring it out thoroughly, and wipe the
surface of the entire body. Wet it again
but leave a little more moisture in it and
rub the body again. Once more, with
still more water on the t >wel, and then
rub off dry. Our family lias found that
by all odds the best method.’’-—CAieayo
-Yea's.
A Willow Fam.
About a mile below the city of Macon
(Ga.,) is the osier willow farm of Mr. I.
C. Plant, which has been visited by a
correspondent of the Amei'iean Drugyiat.
The willow switches, at the end of two
years, are from four to seven feet long,
and are cut and gathered into bunches
like sheaves of wheat. In the stripping
building they are steeped in water, and
the bark at the larger end loosened for a
couple of inches by machinery. The
leaves and bark are then removed by a
little machine devised by Mr. Plant. One
by one the switches are placed in the
mechanical stripper, and with a pair of
pliers are pulled through with a sudden
jerk. They are then wi; <u off with a
wo len doth, bundled, and laid awav to
dry.
All the leaves and bark are dried an
baled. They are used for medicinal pur
pc- and command a pri: of twenty
five cents a pound. There are at present
4(M\'i;>o willows grow Ing on the farm, and
80.000 additional slips haver- nt!y been
set out. The entire levee is to be eventu
ally covered with them, when sixty acres
w ill be devoted to this single crop. The
average yield is a ton tothe acre. When
dried, the willows command S2OO per
ton, and find a ready market.
A LIBERAL OFFER
five tiioi>.»sb A>Y
< IIAKITAHI.E IXSTITI riox.
IfltCana«r be poor It is ‘‘fated.
RoeAzstsr. .v. r . gslonand
Frien Is of Ex-Pro i lent Arthur ara very
mu-h disquieted. it.i. in
Os course he is not going to die H- is
the hands of a very ia t eular r hysician ,
His duct t docs not call it Bi ißht s Disease ■
No, it is stomach <1 s >n!er that he is sunerii g
from now, and every few hours he takes a
cold, end from tirn" to time many other
symptoms are developed. These symptoms
th • public should know are really szcoudary
to B i.ht’s Dis n-e.
His ) hysiciars “nv th-.t everything that
m>'di: al skill can do for him is being done.
This is not so!
This'as'is a prominent one because tne
General is an ex-I'reddent: a d yet there are
tho isands of farmers ;i n tlv dying, m their
farm lim es, of se<ondaiy sniptoms ot
Bright's Di o s'.: a'led by every other con
feivabl© Daniei thoivan'-s of workiron. like
wise dving’t leaving bdplo-# fuTnilips. linn
dretls of thousands in a'l walks of lite who
have sickened, and a~e likewise dying, help
less victims of powerless physn inns.
Eight years ago a very well known gentle
man was about to enter upon large commer
cial transactions. His medical adviser quietly
dr*)j pel into his oflh e< no dav and t>»l<l his
confidential clerk that he would bo dead iu
three months, and that he ought to settle up
bi* busines affairs at f lic *!
That man is alive and well to-day, yet he
was given up as incurable with the same dis
ease that is killing General Arthur!
< -ur reporter met this gentleman yesterday
and in conversation about the General scase,
he said:
“I will give ♦S,OT' to nnv charitable in
“stitution in the Stet- of New York, to be
“designate I bv the e?lit r of the sow\ork
“ It', ,vhl. the O liter of the Buffalo AVts. and
“W. E. Kissclliur. li. "f tho 1 roy 7'eiiirs, it'
“Warner s "afe cure taken according to my
“dire tioi s) whi h cured me eight years ago,
“cannot cure General Che-'er A. Arthur of
“Hright’a diseas ■ from which he is suffering.”
“Now I want you to understand,” h ■ said,
“that we d > not profess to nia’ e new k dneys
“but we do know from personal exierim o
“and from the experience of many thousand
“of similar cases, that we enn stop the con
“sumption of the kidneys. Many a man has
“gone through life with one kidrev without
“inconvenience. Thousands of people have
“Jived n majority of their life with one lung.
“They did not have a new lung made. We
“do not make new kidneys, but if the kidney
“is not consumed too much we can stop dis
"case and prolong life if taken in time.
This offer comes from H. H. Warner,
p-opiietor of Warner’s safe cure, of this
city.
Sir. Warnera’so said: “My dear sir, there
“are governors, senators, presidential randi
' dates, members of congress, prominent men
“ard women all over the country whom I
“personally know have been cured of disease,
“such as General Arthursuffers from, byour
“Warner’s safe cure, but owing to the circles
“iu which they move they do not care to
“give public testimonial to the fact.”
Mr. Warner is interested in General Ar
thur's case because he is personally ac
ovainted with him, and he says that it is a
shame that any man should be allowed to
die under the operation of old-fashioned
powerful cathartics, which have no furativo
effects, rather than that a modern, conceded
specific fcr kidney disease, whose worth is
a Inowledged world-wide, should save him.
“If you doubt theefficacy of Warner s safe
cure,” say the proprietors, “ask your friends
and neigh! ors about it. This is asking but
little. They can tell you all you want to
know.”
“We have kept a standing offer before the
public for four years,” says Mr. Warner,
“that we will give $5,000 to any pers >n who
can successfully dispute the genuineness, so
far as we know, of the testimonials we pub
lish. and none have dons it.”
■Were General Arthur a poor man. unable
to be lift “in the hands of his physician.” he
would us" that great remedy, as many thou
sands of ojhers have done, and get well. How
absurd then for people to say that everything
that can be done is being done for the ex-
President, bvhen the one successful remedy in
the world that has cured a case like his, has
not been used by tht m.
The Colonel Agreed.
A Detroiter who honestly won the title
of “colonel” during the war was in a
town in the .western part of the State
the other day, and was talking over war
times with several friends, when a stranger
joined the group, held out his hand to
the colonel, and said:
•‘You are Colonel Blank, of Detroit?”
“Yes.”
“Well, I’m glad to see you. Colonel,
do you remember the battie of South
Mountain?”
“I do.”
“You led us in a charge there on the
afternoon of th" first day. A Confeder
ate bullet hit me in the shoulder and I
fell. Y’ou picked me up, propped me
against a stone wall and then led the
boys on. Colonel, God bless you!”
They shook hands again, and when
the stranger had moved off one of the
group said:
“Why, Colonel you were not at South
Mountain.”
“No.”
“The man is cntirelv mistaken.”
“Yes.”
“And why didn't you tell him so?”
“Because I did not want to hurt his
feelings. Such incidents occur almost
daily, and I am always careful to fall
into line with the man. Nothing would
hurt an old veteran worse than to dis
cover that his colonel not only did
not pick him up on the battlefield, but
that he never even heard of him by
name.— Free Press.
Hartl on the Old Farmer.
An old Scotch farmer passionately fond
of fox-hunting was one day following
the chase, when he inadvertantly got
out of the track of his comrades and be
came entangled in a thick wo d. While
anathemetizing his mi-fortune in lan
guage more forcible than p ilite, a half
witted village worthy appeared on the
scene, to be immediately questioned by
the farmer as to whether he had seen the
fox.
“ Ay, he went by hauf an hoor syne,”
was the reply,
“ Did ye speak till him?” said the
farmer, thinking to compensate his mis
fortunes by a laugh ut the expense of
the simpleton.
“ Deed did I!” came the answer.
“And what said he, Tam?” asked the
fa'tner.
"He just said ‘Guid morning,’ an’
asked wha’s houns were oot; an’ when I
tell’d him it was yours, he syne gied his
tail a bit shake, an’ said, laughin’: ‘Weel,
I needna hurry!’ ”
A Paris surgeon kindly set the limb of
a trieuds dog, and hts patient, some
weeks after, brought him another dog in
the same plight. Dr. Barnum, of Louis
ville, reports a similar case. The patient
was a black-and-tan terrier, it resisted
the Doctor to the utmost, but was
finally subdued and bound up. Four
days later he came alone to the office and
had his bandages arranged. After that
he appt ared once each day and held up
his leg for examination.
A tool. L'rave Girl. M
By common consent men h 4T( ■■
been given the right to a nmnop.tj^f 1111
the higher virtue—courage.
heroism in presence of danger C1
cling to the sophistical tradition , f r ;
supremacy here with a constan-y
of a righteous cense, with an
that ideas, glossed over with a
of antiquity, can alone inspire.
We do it notwithstanding
the strength and daring of n,
daily confronting us, and in-taucs o
are piled mountain high. A
case in point appeared in the ( '.,|i l|^BF' t
of the Fort Worth, (Texas) (imr'tr
Miss Eula Williams, a demure,
little lady of eighteen summers,
sitting upon the porc’t of her 5
residence when a runa>vay horse, ,t r j^H lV '
ing a buggy in which were seated
helpless little boys, came tearing -t
the street. M
Now, what did Miss Eula do?
still like a statue and scream with
as some women would do under ulte.-Bl
cumstanceq or rush out to the sidew^B 1 '
and wildly thrash the air with lie
and cry "Whoa ! whoa!” as many
would do.
She did neither. But, like a
level-headed woman, she flew into
street as the wild steed came jilungi^H' l
by, eeized the lines, and, tugging
all her strength, magnified by th e )
gency of the moment, held on until
brought the animal to a halt and
the two little Loys, who, without
aid, would inevitably have been
to death.
Could anything have been
planned, more superbly executed,
had be<n deliberately conceived?
Here was an active brain, a sharp erß<'
and a firm hand resixmding on the
stant, a well balanced, educated
Such conspicuous acts of bravery
rare in either sex. and deserve to be
corded and extolled. ■
How One Man Makes a Living. ■
There is a man in Cincinnatti
got the thing down to a science.
lives well and doesn’t work at all.
entire stock in trade is a small
battery, which he carries under his
in a neat box. He frequents
saloons, and wherever he finds a
of gentlemen enjoying a social glass
puts the battery into working order.
course, when one gets a shock he
his companions to have the same stnsiM
tions. Os course, the owner of the batH
terv is accommodating and seems toeiM
joy the fun. He gets all he wants tM
drink and smoke, and has been
to pick up as high asss in a night. flB
is always to be found in some Vineß
street resort after ten o’clock at night. K
Praise is what wa generally cet fordo®
ing that which ought to mortify us. ,|H
really good deed-is seldom recognize®
even iu common civility. N
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In some of our restaurants the customeriß
one who does the most waiting. ■
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skips beats, thumps or flutters, or you aiß
nerv< us and irritable—in danger of shock-®
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It is often hard to be just, but most any-oiß
can preach justice with first-class ease. ■
Thousands of cures follow the use of Drfl
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Never tell a secret to anybody who is eagerlfl
inquisitive to know it. ■
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What kind of attention do you expect at fl
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Fame, like lightning, generally strikes a
man who is not expectingit.
“Close the door gently.
And bridle the breath;
I’ve one of my headaches—
I’m sick unto death. ”
“Take ‘Purgative Pellets.’
They’re pleasant and sure;
I’ve some in my pocket
I’ll warrant to cure.” .
Dr, Pierce’s “Pleasant Purgative Pellets
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Only the lazy hope to attain prosperity with
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