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I'rt-se the very lewost. 4 lG-'SO-tf.l Tns &:sLLer Organ j. run tixnsr am m.sx c 2 E 2 J ' wee - 0 0 M 5 1 P. i', n U .fMR.K- at th hwT rtf nil rrxwl rrvnna. Tha wS. t . ij.r. th. l.-rt or .n houll .iiatut thli- i-w.. ih rh merit of .r lu.tnitiwiifai. lMn' -Hir wonl fi'r what w. na. bul i.- anj p.t oiir 'ttriiknim. (f nt i.lrr ml: wui: wfnua lu jroat I ICY 77TIIKIl. A.Mrr. MILLER ORCAN CO., FOUTZ' S MORSE AND CATTLE POWDERS o a wn M mi.ic P mi or Lr tm jnttart rn..tM willmr ji'i pr.v.nt M.Curti an. f toa. Will Pf..TH UtlMT. r.MMs. r(twinr will tr.rrrn. 1:t nu.rit.tv of n il n. ...!. pxwot) fit ct4. .u.l iuuc ua tuttr trui a4wl .wiml F.Mte't r.wH. r IM nir m nrv.Rt .Imoit wnirh rioiwaivl i .tua.r. . .'..l, )-. I'owi.ta. iu iva unt.k-lUd. VU4 .lai 4ra. Ixatib s. rotrra. rori.o. SAX.11XORS. MIX ror tale at DAVISOM'S iTua St.-re. - CatarrH ELY S CREAM 7-TL -MIVl un' ,r Haul Paaaacaa. Alley Patai and I U m m uatl.a. I? y Mrala the terra, ..rx rt&c '4a trt the rrRK.J-jAjr A vartml. la applll Int f.r noatrlta and In aara.ahla. ITI M fnl l tru)tt ; hr di.i1 r-aiKKTB.!. in ot. U.V Llios, j Warran St., flaw York. i ii ' (It?!?. .1533 Tone, Toncfi) VfftoSp S Dura-niti. WIII.HM HtAbC V C 'j 1U i i.a avvauu, Now 1 oix. L.JRS FITS! 1 t . K -MD.t 1 l IPISQI B UJ 111 UHi. 1 . piffi I ' "- p- -k- v . aj . Vwaa't, av a. I ii-w..,.,5,'::. ';;; iUKMVrt CCrl.nY Absolutely Pure. I n. pow.iar n.ar ranaa. A. marvel of purity, atreorta and wholenmene.l. Mjro roonomlcal than the ordinary kinds, and cannot be (old In dm petition with tn e multitude of the low teat ihort w.lKht, alum or bhoaphate powJrr. Stold . Horn biiiaa fovpti Co., 10 Wall t.. Maw You. CURE Pick TIataohe and rrlirae all Uie tmoblea tori firnt to a bilkjua stale uf tlte aysitem, audi a I'uwliM-tM. Naiwa. tnwaio9w. biatnw attr eaumr. I'aiu in Uie itiile, .14 While Ux-ir nut tviwukaJulm auccra. aaa baava ahown la gvifu Ma.1o-l)e. ret CiTtm't Lmu Lra-asi TtUM u oqnully Talual4e tn Crtntitia, vaarnr atul prvwutinK tiiut aunortnc ctttuiUalrU. whiia thir alo cvrrot all dieoritora f Ute avuuadi, Ktuuuliuo Uua llvre and rtsfulai Uie bow-tea HEAD) A-h ho he thcr woukl he alniont prv i l ia. to thoee suirr froui tli la UiittreMhjf eomDlainti bnt fortvinntely thir g.Hlni mm dova lift emi h. re. aniiatlirMO Uo once try then wtil find tliime litUe pill, valuable In ao naar way. thaa tvT U ut be witllnf to k wlUiOVt TbllH, liul alter all tick bead ACE4 1m the Vane of ao tnanr IHe that here la arhere we 11 mice oar- ajrwit buaat. Our fiiht our t White ocheri Ho not. aktfr a Ijtti. I -j van PiLta are eei amall and vry khuv t. tak. in or two pl luakn a line. Tlier are atri.-tly TeirntaMa and o rt rripM or purve. hut by tttwu- ifiiutl aahun iiletuie nil wlu iwe ttH-ru. In atala at eenta; flee tor fl. S.Jd everywhere, or aeul by suaja CA37X2 XX:i21 Ci. Vre Tat SEND YOUR ORDERS FOR CAN DEE RUBBERS TO H. CHILDS & CO. Ma-ufactarer. and WboIesajQ OeaJers (a BOOTS, SHOES AND RUBBERS, 511 WOOD STREET, PITTSBURGH, Is. 14. ISM. -4m. The Teacher Who advLseJ her pupil to strensthoa tL Ir minds hy the use of Ayer's Sar aapiirilla. appreciated the truth that bodily health is essential to mental riKor. For persons ol delicate and fetbld coUKtitution, whether young or old. thU medicine ia remarkably beuetlciah lid ore you get Aycr'a txarsaparllla. " Ererr pprinjr and laU I take a nnm ber of bottles of A or'a arsaparllla, and am preatly lenef!ted." Mrs. Jaiuea IX. Ha-attuau. Stoneham. Mass. "I Lare taken Ayvr'a SarxapariUa with great hvnerit to tny general health." Alias Thirza I Crvrar, i'aliuyra, ild. "My daughter, twelve years of ue, haa autlcrod fur the paat year froaa General Debility. A few weeks sine, we :ji ti jrrro her Ayer". Curaaparilla. Her health haa creatly Improved." Mrs. Harriet it. liattlea, South Chclruaford, Maaa. "Abontaycarairolbepannaiup Arer'a Barsaimrilla Wi a remedy for debility and neuralgia renulung from xnaluriai c poeture in the army. I waa in a very hud condition, but aix bottles of the Sat eaparilka, with o. aa:onal doeea of Ayer's Pills, have RTcatiy L-n proved mr health. I aiu now able to work, and feU that I cannot aar too much U t tooi excellent remedies. ' K. A. lick ham. SuUi Moluucus, Me. - "My daiujhter, sixteen years old. Is J tins' Ayer's S.iraaparUJa with rood f. Iecw.n Eer. K. ,T. Craham. United Xirvlhren Charch, T.ny.h lMnnoi, Y. Vs. "JL suffered Xroaa v . ... Nervous Prostration, with lain hark and headache, and bare been much benefited by the use of Ayer'a ISursa pur ilia. I am now sw years of ajre, aii I am aatiaried that sir preaent health aud prolonutl h- are duo to the uie of Arer's Sarsapaxilla." I.ucy W&flltt. CilUngly, Cwnn. Mrs. Aan IT. Farnj -worth, a lady "3 rears old. So. Woodatnok, Vt., writes : '"After several weoks suf?erinT from nervous iriwt ration, I procured a bottla fef Ayt-r'i rianuiparilla. and before I had taken hiuX id It bit health rfturned." . Ayer's Sarsaparilla, rsarAAxa by Or. J. C. Ayr At Co Low all. Matt. .1 ; tlx bouioa, Ai. Vonh$Jel 4 lvrnxisrRi h a.Mreaa'n lea. 4". KawfllAt .., lOSj raei ht.. w York .".. "s," "t f n prrtad lie a AliVr UTI-lNU lnAm.rloaaewpawtr. IwO II PILLS. HLi HER LETTERS. They hadn't any ah near talk bet they keen from her, you know. Jea' sort o' tor the weather an' the 'mount o" rata or .now That tell down aenee she wrote me lait, an p'raps thcre'd be a word Atvout her maaick leaaina, or p'raps that a he had beard 'At Iwu anoonln' 'round, ag-aln, that girl o" old man Paters. The one wot had the voice, you know, they took to tune egg-beaters. But still I liked to git 'em, fer they seemed to kind o' say At she hada't quite forjot about that aua ahlny June day f She hurt her foot, an spoilt her dress, an' scratched her prltty fare, A -loo kin" for a lily-pond t!vat wus tome other Place; An' all the other little times wo used to have, ua two. When the han't o the o'.e kitchen clock )eV "round :U ole phircw. But a rreat black cloud o' doubt an pain kern o'er our happy ky. An hid from me the treasure wot no worl'ly wealth kin buy From a poor chap the reatln'-spot where ho has l:ilJ his heart, When be thinks be sees his sorrer. go an all his woes depart; The t mo h:s heart g.la ktnd o' .oft, Jea like a sponge, you know. An' swells up b!j an' seems to take In all this 'arth below. ( So, when I kem to burn her notes, 'an see them in the flame, . . I thought about the chap, the feller you know wot s h's name '.t writes the portry stu.T about "the akhis o deJ hopes," An how the folks through th.s dark world o' s a an mls'ry prores. An' wheu the la.t one Lnrced set still now, stranger, doa't you nsel It's jes' this blamo. tcrbacca smoke pot !n my pesky eyes I I ' N. Y. World. ALTERED INTENTIONS. How the Oowbowa Camo to Ex hibit the Circus Elephant. Kvcr sinco sunet tho prairio brcczo hud fiinnod a fevor-flu.hed littlo fat-o. hiolt uprig-htin a splint-bottomed chair by tho lx-ciside, a man had fallen asleep nain and aain, in fpite of his do terminution to remain awako. But, notwithstanding his weariness he had ttlcpt lightly, and h.td often awakonod at the bound of a faint moan, or the touch of the night wind aa it softly elirrod the erect and unruly wisp9 of his mop of tangled hair, and often aeeaied to him, half wakins:. like the soft, carfssinjj touch of childioh finjori. Every time he woke with an anxious start he saw that the fevor Lritfht eyes of the sick child were fixed longing- upon the pictured handbill up on the wall, aa it fluttered in the pontle niht wind. And. each, time when the man had cooled tho parched lips with water or patted the scanty pillow, the child had piped: "Tell me more 'bout the ole elephant, pappy!" And the man had told again' of the old elephant how he waa almost as biff as the shock," and waa dirt-colored, and had Ion;, white tubks and groat bi; flappy earn, and had a trunk that ho swung from bide to aide &3 ho walked. , An' he likes little boys don't he?' "Likes 'cm first-rater the man would answer. "Thinks a heap of cm: And tho fever-bright eyes of the child would bo bent more eagerly up on the long bill that fluttered on the wall, and, in spite of his loving anxi ety, the man would nod. his head would slowly eink forward on his breast, ind he would be asleep from bhoer weariness. Presently, as the candle burned al most out, the cast grew gray, then lighter. A turtle-dove, that " had T inned her way through the misty . half darkness to a resting-place upon tho topmost strand of the settler's pieci of barbed-wiro fence, greeted tho cumiasj morning with hor soft, solemn coo-wool" If they h:vd looked from the window of tb-3 " shack." and tho gray of tho morning had turned a littlo more to . gold, the btittler and the sick child ml0'ht have seen a novel procession passing alon;j the section-road, a quar ter of a mile away. There were queer, c;tnv:ts-vrapped vehicle- and queerer blanketed animals that looked strange enough in tho coming light, but which, denuded of their wrappings in the p'.are of the sunlight and on tho main street of Range City, would blossom out into the more or less gorgeous chariots, cage and curiosities of a circus-parade. This last crawling end of the proces sion was dimly discerned by a little squad of broad-hatted, jangle-spurred horsemen, whose galloping cay use pontes had curried them swiftly across tho prairio ia the direction in which the circus was slowly taking its way. Thar!" cried one or tho cowboys, as they reached tho forks where tho little-worn by-road that passed tho settler's cabin left the section-road. Thar they air! Come on!" - The squad seemed on tho point of dashing along; the section-road in the wake of the circus. "Hold on thar, ScottyP cried the oldest m&a of the group. "We've trot".... 'Hut thar'a a elephant. Slade!" in terrupted the first speaker, with an al mot boyish enthusiasm. Ketched a glimpse ut him among tha wagons. j"t as T'Xeror mind the elephant," broke in 5ld Slade. We've got other busi ness on hand jest now. Got to ketch a glimpse ut a granger. 'stead of an clepjiant, an sorto ' .-vorto start a granger procession!" cried another of the broad-hatted ones. Yes." growled Sootty. "it'll boa procession, that'll 8 tart Quick and cn tearin'. Ijain't got no time t3 progic now! You bet! i? 'Specially when thar'a a c!euhnt a b'e's a house movin down the ro.vd away from ua," said another. Twon't taVe but little bit," said oldSIado. "We- kin " Hut b'posoit he shows Cgbt? Reckon he'll cut irp rusty, or " "Let him cut all heduru pleases!" broke In Scot ty, sa vagely. "Let him cut! We're able fer h.'ci. all tho namo. tirun'ers U run-a'ors!".' Grangers were grangers, and there fore entitled to little but indignities at tho hands of the cowboys and cattle kings." Though, legally, grangers, as the cattle-men scornfully denomi nate the squatters and homesteaders, have a right on tho range, they are regarded as interlopers, and the littlo patches of prairie that they are brave ly and toilsomely trying to convert into fertile farms are regarded as so much t-tolen from tho rightful feeding grounds of the cattle. He kin cut up all he wants to." said old SLiJe. "We're able fer hint." Which statomcut was substantiated by the huge revolver ho!tci-cd at the hip of each one of tho riders. Kvery now and then, as the cayu-'cs bounded along, Seotty turned to g:izo regretfully toward tho place where tho circus had disappeared in the timber. Blast tho granger!" ho growled once. "That thur elephant was neighty nigh as big as a i-hack, an' " " l'leiity time enough to see him," interrupted old S'.ade. "We're sorto killing to birds with one atoae this-a-way runnin' out the granger an' see in' tho circus, both the same trip." . "They'll begin to put up the tents us soon as they git to town," said Seotty, half regretfully. "I never seed " "Wal," broke in blade, "as 1 said, it won't take us but a littlo bit yere Wc'll chuck the granger's outfit into his wagin an' tell hiin to git- He'll git. or" He completed tho sentence by letting his hand fall to the butt of the huge re volver at his hip. "That's what's tho matter," growled Scotty, full of wrath at tho innocent granger, who ought to have known that the cattle interests were the only ones regarded on tho range, and have governed himself accordingly. ... , The turtlo-dove flew from tho piecai of a fence as tho squ:id came closi, but the half-sleeping, half-delirious child did not notice the cessation of her soothing, mournful coo. The orange in the eastern sky was climbing higher, and the myriad forms of prairie-life were wakening all about to greet tho day. Impatient at any delay, Scotty sug gested a very simple and effective mode of action, but this was rejected by old Slade. "Yes, 'n run yer head into 6omo durned trap!" tho latter said, scorn fully. "Kain't tell what tho grangers 11 do. Some uv 'em air pizen!" . Then old SI ado crept forward to re eonnoiter. Tho cay uses were with drawn to one side, almost oat of ran go of tho littlo window of the shack where the night wind had drifted in, fanning the sick child's feverish face. Soon a shaggy head was - lifted - cautioufly above the window-sill, but when tho sick child's eyes opon-d they rested on tho bill that fluttered gently upon tho wall. Then, as the caudle-flame, as if wearied with its spluttering struggle, expired, t lie child tossed uneasily, pant ing in feeble gasps, and the man in the splint-bottomed chair awoke with an anxious start. He did not see the old cowboy's shaggy pate, for it had been quickly jerked below the eilL - "The ole elephant likes little boys, don't he, pappy ?"' tho child's voice pi)ed. To tho "anxious " father tho weak voice seemed weaker still, and it was with a face gravely apprehensive, and tones a-tremble, that ho told of the old elephant, ia objdienco to tho pip ing. "Tell mo more 'bout the ole ele phant, pappy. " Presently the sound of the granger's voice had ceased, and after Beveral moments of silenco old Slade cautious ly rtdsed his head. Upon tho c pposite side of tho por bid tho granger vas kneeling, with liU bearded face buried in tho qe.ilt beside tho sick child, and his frainj shaking with soundless sobs, almo.it in unison with tho child's gashing. Then, impatient and wondering at old Siados delay, tho re-t of tho cow boys, with the exception of ono who held tho cayuses, hurried, and then crept forward till they were all squat ted beneath the window. At first their hands were on the butts of their huge revolvers, but as the granger spoko in trembling tons every hand was withdrawn from its weapon. Then, one by one, they peered cau tiously in. "Prayin!" Scotty whispered eoftly to his neighbor. Then the child's foeblo voice inter rupted tho prayer. . . v 4 , "Pappy." it moaned, half reproach fully, "I never saw a olo elephant!" . "I'm afeard he never will." old Slade whispered, softly. Perhaps none of the cowboys squat ting beneath the window were marvels of acumen, but as the prayer vehe ment, almost agonizing went on. they understood most of the story of tha struggles of tho despised granger. Tho prayer ceased presently, but the granger still knelt with his head bowed, and tha cowboys heard somo sounds that made Scotty whisper husk ily to his neighbor : . "Cry in'!" . Then tho one thought that was al ways uppermost in tha child's delir ium asserted itself again. rappy." the littlo voice piped, gaspingly, "tell mo moro about the olo elephant ! I never seed him ! " Tho prayer began again, moro fer vently, despairingly than before. O God ! the grander prayed, "spare him ! Let him live to see the olo elephant! As ho went on the prayer grew more rambling. "Let him live ! Think of the pore little fel ler; never seed the ole elephant ! Fer days ever since that bill was dropped out thar he's looked an longed fer to-day, that be might see the ole elephant. An- now " He broke down for an instant, and the men squatting outside stirred uneasily. Never seed the ole elephant ! " the prayer went on, half Incoherently. "Toro littlo feller! An when his maw died I promised to be both lather an mother to him. An' what have I douc Xuth'n ! nuth'n ! No pleas ures!" ho went on. "But, what could I do, way out yerc on a claim, with no money to buy nuth'n with? An now, when I managed to scrape spare money enough together so's to Wal, he's a-gittin worse an' oh, he'll never see the olo elephant, I'm afeard." Very soon after tho bright rays shone full in the faces of the group of cowboys, as the cay u-es bounded across the prairie towards tho joint where the section-road wound into tho strip of timber that fringed Buzzard creek. No ono had suggested this movement, but all had started as if movtl by a common impulse, though, to be exact, Seotty, the impatiuiit, was a little ahead of his comrades. Of "running out" tho granger nothing was said. 'Prayed fer him to live to see the ole elephant!" muttered Scotty. "Wal," snid old Slade, earnestly, "if he lives half an hour, an' wo have luck, blamed if ho don't see " 'That's what!" broke in somo one. "Mobby wo kaint " began another. "Mebby wo kinf' interrupted Slade, firmly. "But elephants is mighty " "No difference! We're allo fer him, I reckon, an' an' tho sick boy never seed a elephant!" The ndvanco of the circus towards tho cnttlo country had not all been at tended by good fortune, but, :s the armed cowboys dashed up, the mana ger feared he was ubout to sustain his crowning misfortune. The tales he had heard of their rockle.s disregard for tho persons and property of strangers wore fully as Mimchansen liko as those the cowboys had heard of the elephant. Tho weapons drawn, as the manager felt 6ure, to slaughter any opposers, were but as protective measures against tho anticipated charge of the elephant. Tho mana ger's fears seemed realized as thero was a nervous rush upon the part of the cowboys which hurried the ele phant, driver and all out of the pro cession. Terhaps. if he had beheld the bank-bill that found its way into tho ready hand of the elephant-driver, ho would not have wondered at the slight resistance of the latter. When he had recovered from tho astonishment into which ho had been thrown by tho mmmary proceedings, tho few words spoken, and tho bank bills old Slado dropped as ho hurried past, tho old elephant was lumbering rapidly away in the midst of the frightened and flouncing cayuses. The tartle-dovo flew from the piece of a fence as the elephant and his cap tors hurried up to the ?hack. The grass muffled the footfalls of tho ani mals. " " Tho granger was still on his Tcrlees, with his face buried in tho quilt of the poor bed. and the morning breeze that fanned tho sick child's face and fluttered the pictured bill on tho wall ruQed tho unruly tufts of his hair till it fidt like tho touch of baby fingers. Tho little face was lens flushed now, and the gasping feebler. The child's dim thoughts wandered Still more, and his dim eyes could hardly see tho flut tering bilL " Pappy." tho weak voice whispered, J will the olo elephant ever come?" A A great bulk barred tho sunlight from tho littlo window, and tho long, snaky trunk glided in, and tho finger like protuberance at the end very softly clasped the sick child's hand. "Oh. pappy! pappy! Tho ole ele phant has come!" The bowed head of the granger was raised. The child had started half upright, and the little hands wero clasping the caressing trunk of the old elephant. Then, before the granger could givo expression t j astonishment, tho cling ing hands" relaxed, and the old ele phant's trunk e.ised tho child's weight soltly ba-k to tho pillow again. - And tho turtle-dove that had ro tur.ied to tho pioco of a fenco uttered her mournful coo. When tho elephant went away, the graugor was kneeling beside his dead, and on tho pillow near the still face lay tho bank bill that had been given to old Nero's driver, and beaido it were other bank-bills. As thj littlo cavalcade journeyed back towards the placo where tho soe-tion-road wound into the Buzzard cr.ek timber, old Slado said: "I'm agin this runnin'-out business!" . "And mo. too!" answered every cowboy of the group, and the stibject wr.s dropped. In the audience at tho circus, that afternoon, was a little squad of broad hr.tted and bjweajoned cowlxiys, who surprised tho neighbors by being on their good behavior during tho entire lerbrinance. Only onco did they plaud with any thing like cowboy boisterousness, and that was when the children laughed and clapped their hands as the old elephant Nero came into the ring. Tom P. Morjan, in Leslie's Newspaper. 1 m a a Edison's Talking Dolls. .Edison's attention to toy-making is no less honorable to him than his con tributions to the comforts and business affairs of older people. To invent a phonograph was a sin of iavontive power; to put one inside a doll so that tho doll should be made to talk showed his heart. All great men love children; all -children love such great men as TomKdison. The Japanese have so far vastly outwitted us in the matter of val uable toys, adapted to tho tastes or chil dren; but nothing has ever equaled a real live doll that talks good sense. It will be a capital educational imple ment also; for the mother can make the doll do her reprimanding and teaching for her. Just think of a scold inside of a dolL May its insides soon give out, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Mario Henrietta, Queen of the Bel gians, ha started a magazine called La Jeune FUle. The Queen and her daughter Clementine arc tho editors while the Queen of RoumauL will write a poem for each number, and it "expected that thi Stephanie, of Austria, will do tho UWtnrv... I " - f was, BIDE A WEE. AND DINNA FRET. Is the road very dreary J t Patienne yet I Rest will be sweeter If thou art a-wcary. And after niftht comes the morning cheery, Then bide a wee, and d.nua fret. The clouds hare silver lining. Don't forjret; And though he's hidden, still the sun is shin lng; Courage! Instead of tears and vain repining. Just bide a wee, and dinna tret. With toil and cares unending Art beset? Bethink thee, how tho storms from Hsaven dc- Eceridin Snnp tlie stit oak, but spare tho willow bend ing. And tiido a wee, and dinna fret. Grief sharper stina; doth borrow From regret ; Brit yesterday Is rone, and shall its norrow Unlit ua for tiie present and the morrowT Ny ; bide a wee, and dinna XreL An ovcr-arxious brooding Dotli beyot A host of fears and fantasies deluding: 's Then, brother, lust these torments be intrud ng. Just bide a wee, and dinna fret. Christian Nut Ion, MEN WITH QUICK MINDS. They Find It Paya to Possess a Good Memory. Women Who Are Just aa Keen-Minded as Men Training tho Memory Notable Instances That Are on Record. ., " I don't remember!" -, There hre few exclamations moro often made by ordinary persons than this ono. . . Tho business of calculating and of training tho memoi-y is now being carried on in New York by a largo number of persons, who are positively coining money from their profession. Thoo are several professors in New York overrun with pupils who wish to improve defective memories and who arc willing to pay the person who will supply tho method. Each of these professors has a system of his own. und each of them savagely insist that his ii the only sure system. Phil Armour, the groat Chicago pork packer, is said to have remarked that a good memory is necessary to one who wishes to succoed. This is, per haps, a trifle strong and yet thero is no lack of evidence to support tho statement. Armour, himself, is an ex ample of what a good memory can do. He is as wonderful iu his time as Car dinal Mezzofantl was in his. He is t said to carry tho smallest detail of his immense business in his head. Ho can remember tho date as well as the sum of small business transactions, lie knows the names of pretty nearly allTof Tils army or employes. After tho building of tho addition to his great establishment in Chicago he aston ished a circle of friends by ralULjg off hand the number of bricks, car-loads of sand, feet of timber, etc., etc., that were used in tho construction. Ar mour's gift is a natural one. He has never cultivated it, but the demands of his business have unquestionably kept his powers of memory in active training. Z " Old Hutch," as the imperturbable Chicago wheat manipulator is called, is another man gifted with an extraor dinary memory. lie needs no books to carry his transactions in, although, of course, ho uses them. With him, too, retentiveness is a natural gift. Ho remembers every thing that he wants to remember, but says frankly he doesn't know how he does it. He also possesses the gift of not remembering things ho does not wish to remember. But then that gift is not rare. In another lino of business is John tet-.on. t'io famous theatrical man ager. Many funny stories are told ut tho expense of tho bluff Boston Ian, but that ho is ono of the moi-l success ful men in his line of business can not be disputed. Ho runs a newspaper, arxl always has a few theaters ci the atrical companies on his hands, and there is no ono who can quicker tell a good thing when he sees it, or mako better use of it than John Stetson. It is said that if ho were to burn his books ho could carry on his business without them. This is too much to be lieve, of course, but certainly it is true that pretty nonr!y every detail of his business is carried in his memory, and that ho is ab'oto carry it is sometimes of vast assistance to him. Tho professional memory men say that among public men and speakers for good ail-round retentiveness Hon. Jutntis G. Blaine leads all tho rest, for ho can net only remember dates, figures nnd authorities when debating, bet in adJition he has a faculty for re membering names and faces that is littlo short of marvolous, and many are tho stories told of his exploits in this line. -. '. ... In the domain of figures Samuel J. Randall, when well, stood almost pro minent. ' His long service on those committees in Congress that controlled the finances of tho nation gave him an immense knowledgo of such matters, which ho retained without an effort. It was no uncommon thing for him to mako long speeches without using cotes. Ho handled figures running at or.e time into millions of dollars and then into fractions of a cent without tripping, as most men. however able, would have done. It was tho same faculty that made Gladstone so suc cessful a Chancellor of tho English Exchequer. Juoscoe Conkling was a man of won derful memory. Whether dealing in figures, in legal argument, or quoting from the early English poet, he called orth seemingly without effort and without previous thought the "right thing at tho right tinio. Congressman Sam Cox has also a remarkable memory, especially for things literary, and uils has stood him In good stead in debate in Congress, for his opponents never know when tho genial jester is. about to doublo them up with . something from Shakespeare, the Koran. Bobby Burns, tho Bible or some old. hymn-book. It is his memory and his wio study that enable him to successfully compete iu a running impromptu debate. It is charged that his memory trips eomo times. In tho fishery debate last win ter he ran in this queer verse: Ye monsters of the briny deep. Your Master's name upraise; Cp from the sands ye codlings creep, And wag your tail always. Some ono interested la tho verso looked it up and found it ia an old English hymn-book, but insisted that the following was the correct copy: Ye mounters of tlia briny deep. Your Master's praises .-hout. Up from tlie aar.dsyc eo Uinics creep. And wag j our tails about 1 Thero was a row over it, and which was the best and most correct version has not been settled. So Cox's memo ry may have been ail right. Chnuncey M. Dejnjw has a retentive mind. Bourke Cockran surprised even the staid judge of tho court of appeals by the glibness with which ho rattled off former deeisions and argu ments when arguing in tho Jacob Shnrp case, and almost without notes and at comparatively short notice. Jo seph 11. Choate, ex-Attorney-General Russell, Elihu Root, John E. Parsons are other lawyers who possess wonder ful memories that have been improved -by constant training. rT .-- Henry George can quote political economy of tho past and present by tho yard without reference to their books, and his one-time friend, Dr. McGlynn, has an almost equally good memory. Dr. Talinage goes around continually with a few sermons, a lecture or two, and probably a mag azine article in his head; but his mem ory is such that ho stores each awny in pome subdivision, and they come out all right. t . "". .' - ; Theso men frankly admit that a good memory is invaluable. .. . .:,- Among actors a retentive memory Is necessary or a "good etudy," as the veteran assistant secretary of the Actors' Fund, Ben Baker, has it. But it is not so necessary now in the time of combination, when tho same com pany plays the same piece for a sea son. In tho old days of stock com panies when it wus common to pre sent a farce, a comedy and a tragedy all in ono night, and to change tho bill nightly, a good memory was an absolute necessity. No actor can suc coed without it, for it is no uncommon thing for a play to bo put on at a few hours' notice. -4 Lester Wallack, in his recollections of the stage, attributes much of his success to tho fact that he possessed a remarkable memory. i E. L. Davenport had a marvelous degree of retentiveness and Fanny Davenport has inherited the gift. John 11. Swift, who, after Forrest, was the greutest Kolla who ever trod tho boards, possessed the same faculty; so did John Henderson, one of tho favorite tragedians of the Old Bowery; so did William E. Burton, the great comedian; and so did John McCullough before his memory gave way, and so did Frank Barry, who is still above, but who has fallen out of sight of theater goers. Of the actors still on tho boards, nearly all those who were trained in tho old school have care fully trained memories capable of obey ing any reasonable call upon them. Edwin Booth was known as a "great study," but as he now plays tho samo parts continuously he has no need to exercise his ability in this direction. His partner, Lawrence Barrett, enjoys the samo reputation- So does that old-timo tragedienne. Mrs. I). T. Bowers; so does that veteran, J. B. Studley. who has played every thing from llolla to melodrama; 6o has Mary Anderson. So have John Gil belt, Miles Levick, Mrs. John Hoey, J. IL SlodJart, Mrs. John Drew, whose Mrs. Maiaprop is even now do lighting our p nolle. Joe JeJerson was in his clay called a "great study" by his fellow ar-tors, and Dion Bouei caulthuda similar reputation. There aro nny number of younger actors who posse.-is the samo faculty that was so usoful to the older members of their profession, but they aro not called ujk3 to exercise it, owing to tho long runs of plays, which give them ample opportunities to prepare for a new play before they aro through with tho old. In almost every walk in lifo a good memory is valuable. Thero is a head waiter in an up-town hotel who can carry a score of complicated orders in his head at ono time, and ho has never been known to make a mistake in car rying them into execution. There is a laundryman in Brooklyn, a Scotch man, who doos a large business, and who has never adopted the heck sys tem in vogue with Chinese laundry men. He relies entirely upon his memory, nnd yet makes no mistake. Ho claims to have no private mark, and never gives his customers any mark. How he does it no one knows. Hi says ho doesn't know himself. Instances of tho o!session of this gift might bo multiplied. Those cited, however, aro enough to show that a good memory is a good thing to pos sess. N. y. Mail and Express. The Dog Was Innocent. A sanitary officer who was sent to a house on Catharine street to see about a savage dog who had bitten a neigh bor was met by tho allegation: "Dot dog vhas not so dangerous as I vhas myself." "But ho bit a man." " Of course he did, but dot vhas a mistake. " t "How?" "VhelL, he peliefs dot man vhas going to bite him, nnd so he get in der first bite. Iots of times if I pelief some man's vhas going to hit roe I hump " In und knock him first. Dot man vhas to blame, und you should go oop und kill him." Detroit Free Tress. - 4 "The Pilgrim's Progress" has been " translated into tho language spoken in Zanzibar, a tonguo called SwahilL It was found necessary to make an adaptation rather than a literal translation. A part of tho ver sion was prepared by7' tho lata Bishop Stecrc. "" FOR LAND PURCHASERS. Before raying Any Money See Tnat the Property I. Unincumbered. yVksaj This is a very important subject, for carelessness in tho purchase of land ia a fruitful source of expensive litigation and 6erious loss. A titlo to land may be obtained by Government grant, judicial decree, inheritance, will, deed,', or by long-continued open, notorious,, peaceable and uninterrupted posses1 sion under a claim of ownership. As a title may pass by judicial decree or m.ij- become involved or clouded with out P'.ieh decree, a purchaser who looks no further than tho registry of deeds may learn an expensive lesson. To all appearances there, tho titlo may bo perfect; yet tho town records may show an attachment; tho court records may show that a judgment against the land has been rendered, whilo tho records of the court of equity may show that a conveyance has been ordered to enforco a bond for a deed, or to annul a deed obtained by fraud or mistake.or tho owner may have become bail for a friend before any one of, fifty justices of thopenco, and although it may bo impossible to obtainftny record of it, it will constitute, in eeino States, a lien upon tho property, and, finally, back of all and superior to all. there may be liens for betterments and unpaid taxes. When ono contemplates buying land tho ownership of which is claimed by inheritance or under a will,' It would bo prudent for tho would-bo purchaser to cause an examination of tho records of tho probate, surrognto or orphans court tiro court, what ever its local name, whero estates aro settled. If there is no will, no dis puted claims against the estate, and no minor or other person under disa bility interested in it, tho purchaser should 6oa that all d-bts und liabilities of the deceased have boon provided for, and that his grantor has taken sufficient deeds from all persons in terested. Still ho will have to run the risk that a will may yet be found. If tho estato has been settled in regular form, ho will bo aided in his in vestigations by the records, and ordinarily claims of croditors not presented within a reasonable time will . be barred, freeing tho land as to them. Whether thero is any will or not, tho intending pur chaser should investigate whether thero is any hostile interest in tho land on the part of any widow, wid ower, heir, legatee or any other per son, especially ono under disability or net represented. If there is a will, it must bo examined to seo that it is valid upon its face. Unless it has been duly p-oved nnd the tirao for ap peal - has xpired, it . may bo well tct ascertain whether any suspicious cir cumstances, such as mental feeble ness, insanity or undue influence at tended its execution. If the testator leaves children, born or unborn, or de scendants of a deceased child, and they aro not mentioned or re ferred to in the will, they will havo an Interest in tho land, which the pur chaser must take into account. A' child born after its father's death has th?s;'.me rights as another, and, liko any minor, may havo until he is forty ono years old till ho is of ago and twenty years moro to assert his rightsT Tho above are tho chief pre cautions which a person about to pur chase land ought to take to aecurft a valid titlo to it. Rural New Yorker. THE SEWING MACHINE. now to Repair It Without niaturnlns; Any l'art of the Adjustment. There is hardly any piece of house hold machinery which is capable of causing so much vexation as the sew ing machine. Tho ingenious and -Indispensable mechanism, like mos other things. Is docile aud tractable when in tho hands of one who under stands it. Not long sinco ' a Fhiladelphian es sayed to adjust his wife's sewing ma chine. In a short lime he became ex ceedingly interested in his work; then, by the usual and rational changes, ho passed to agitation, disgust and a tow ering rage, closing with a grand de nouement with an axe and a succes sion of vigorous strokes that instantly reduced tho sewing machine. . . When any portion of tho mechanism fails to respond correctly, it is usually from some very trifling cause, and tho first endeavor should be to find out exactly what is tho matter. To be come a mast or in the art of repairing sewing machines, it is requisite tc understand the principles upon which tho stitch is formed and tho .work fed. Very littlo manual skill ' is "really needed. The breaking of thread or needles and tho skipping of stitches aro due, nine times out of ten, to tha loosening of some screw, allowing some part to become slightly dis placed. If your machine breaks the thread, first examine tho broken end to de termine whether tit is cut or torn. Then measure the end down from the take-up, find you will discover at what point in the revolution the trouble oc curred. Turn tho wheel slowly, and watch tho thread pass around the shuttlo at the point where the accident occurred. Many times a machine can bo persuaded to return to good behavior by 6lmply taking out tho needle and shuttle and giving it a littlo cleaning and oiling, without disturbing any part of the adjustment. Farm and Fireside. .- Lord Tennyson is the only living author whose writings are usd in civil-service examinations in India. A body of candidates not long ago at Madras found themselves stumped by the question: "What does this lino mean? 'Was proxy wedded to a bootless calf?' " Ono candidate wrote that he didn't know any thintr about cattle-breeding. -It makes a great deal of duTcrenco whether coffee is ground fine or coarse. Fine pulverized coffee is best to ' tng it by "ieachlug'' or I-rcoUUon coarse for ooumg. to havo a coffee-mill and gi aV wa it yourself as wanted.. '0 ii IN !l! i . . i r 71 ii 1 C a i
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