Tn;BOT FSEHiitfi). l( r-aMuned Weekly at; v JAMES . IIASS05. r- " .. ... ....nee 1 :"1 . ..i.i wlilnni m , wtilnn month... US v ll d .lo ! .. ir not I'SM - .T,.rri.n iV"'.e,ir wilt b chan,ed to co0' a.1'1"-1""" 1 N . . , . t.rma ha 1- Bn tr001 "" ... i,a m advance muHt n..t . J,noe"-' lilla,. -....tint a- the-. wne pact "l,;,!t .llMinotlj underwood trotu o. -'tn' !. ihv time rur". .,ri.i.ertrnr- Too utop it. it "tor ae-ly I"'; . i.ut ,ralwa etnerwue. j Wu 0.it .,,! i. teo -non. 4ca t 1 . sn:cuL ANNOUNCEMENT. Jos. Home & Co. PENS AVE. STORES. (( ( rmirttion of Xctv ,fl iJr. Hoods. n:i: i-o.vf.vo .v j:fki" ja r you ci.n travel tll vr this country nd D0tflan as.ttwut that will Burpaas tur In vatU'ty iuality aol reasonable TUf ea ''y buyt rs are ntvt-r disapDolnted ; oues are. yacyof tuw itrw fihrlc we will not 1;M m itta'k atl'i this season ; by delay in to snJ ffr mp!ps you may miss a sat-l-'.i -to'V -elrcti'in. nLr c:ilt early In the aoa.toa are always vitv larire, as buvers like to purchase from .MUl)l"t St'fk. ,i)t. 'int er U ttio best month to buy dress y-Dils ar..l hi'rif Is the best place. sviijivs sent and orders for sooda filled ;i:o -ir,' (lay tney are tecelved. & CO., C.09-G21 renn Ave , P1TTSBUIIG, PA. "vr'.Jlv.limly. Best of All V uh ::n ilii in. Ajor's ClirTry Tcc t. iul i. in ii iinr il.'iuaml tli.in evT. i jrt I'iirai ii.ii for Tlmat and I.un T-..nM. in do jri)inpt iu its tToi'ts, so r:T i ;i!'lc to tho t.ksro, nrnl so widely kii"wi v this. It i- t!io family luudi i i.i :u Thcil.anils i.f housvUulds. "I ) .-vo fihT. tciI for jf.tri from a h Tii li '1 troulili- tli.it, wbeiifver I tako o! M .. am riMwil t iucli'tnont weitfh- r. -Ii iw itsi'lf by a l try annoying t n'k T i i . ii n n;,: ion m tho throat nu by il"i-riy in liif;itlunj. I lmro tried a ir.il u..uiy rriii.-dii", but noao tljcn sa . 1! ,i A it's Cherry I'wtornl wliic-h ... i-n-r.H prompt ri litf in return of n , i.i .mill nr." Krnesl A. HrpW, li.'. . i f l'ubliu lUutdd, Parish Tcr I i in-, I. i. i . iim.I.t Aror'.i Cherry Tectcral a nt unp'riaut roiueJy . For Home Use. f hnvo ti'--d I' ' rtirntivo poorer, in my hit:;, y. luuny i.nii duriuir tho rasS t;. : y tr. -i:id li:ive nov-r known it t Si.i " 1: rl:evr tho tuo!t r.ouj uflei ti. u-. if tli.i tliroat and bines, viiii.. i.i . liiMit n or adults. " Mrs. E. li. i- r v, Council lUtuTa, low. 'T-i "." yi'M p"o I was troubled n'.fi n hi uii i f th lunir. iHwtora i.:: l iol ii.o iu relit and conmderetl i: .i-.f I ax'Iwm. 1 then bepan to usrt In i ry I Vet oral, ani, N-ft.re I l.althi l.i !"n. botih', build r-'hft. I f nli.ir.i.d tc laka this liu'dii-ine tintil a rvrr v ,u . ". t.l. 1 ln?lu-u Ibut Ayor'a I lurry Pectoral liTcd m life." Sur.i . . l i 'i..-, Vaukcj;au, 111. . iri no I contracted a soyrro eoiil w,...U witi.'J ou my luns and ovu 1. .U.p4l nil tho n!:irmii: synirw tin i t I'm .uiiiplion. I had a conph, I c'it "irmili, blcedin ft thj lulii;, 1 iiMn a tin t and Midi a, and vw no i!cj;r t. d s. to Im conlind to my '.( -I ...-.t oi ill tiiux. After tryirn; ' ' r'M riptioii!, wlthoirt tH'nefit, a. p. tt i fluallv d.'t. rmiu-4 h(;ie t:e Avir't Cherry PM'tornl. I took it, iJ t'.io eiret w rv rnajical. I nied to -u:iv fro!ii thn tirt tlone) of this mh.'.. :uo, and, after uain nly tlirn I-.1:11 :i widt nd iouud -i ever." hwiii.iy Uuaoa, 6priugt'.ld, IU. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, 1 RETrAKKD VT C. Ayer A Co., Lower?. Mass. '. r-x.-.-'it. Price 1; Ii bottle, ji. tt. NOT DKAu YET! VALLI-" LUTTniNCER, a al t-i(.Tinaa or r":PER ND SHEEMRO.V-WAHE j.v tix Jioonxa, K'-r -ilty tnetu the attention ol hl. tr!ond i-l ttf , ji.iij. in ,r.neral to the fact that ho I (till r J i i ivinro at the old m.ind uppuwitn ite 'iU;n Hi.u. KIeniiturK, ami l prepared to m a ln.n. atork. or manufjclnnni to or tr: -. In hi line. Irotu trie malltwt to f r ii, the bet manner and at the loweM "TNi ; r:"-entlry work either made or (old " i:ii.,bnicnt. TIN KooKlNd n Sl'l-'.OIAIPY. 'I ... fa; ln,j fatlj'V yourelTe-i a to my tJif'',! I.CTTKIM1KK. "--. Ai.rll 13. 1SH3-H. '' written at dhort B"tiee In th CLD RELIABLE "ETNA" "'tl..r l iratt taa (apaaloi. I1. DICK, ' t'T IUR THE ft HAUTl'OUD RRE IXSIIRANGB COUT. 0"MM:.NCTCI HUS1NKSS 1704. fw.., 0,r-i. .'my ii. iHirx. ?M sinin PARLOR I CE5TEE AND SAMPLE STREETS EBENSBURC. PA. J H. CIA NT. Proprietor. j,K.h.!'7" ""V' "J t our place ..t Vt ' I ."n"- '"fthinak.Pt 'a iih i, . ro,"- been eon. Ml,M;U:h l" fidia ran C l ,w,,h "ot or eul.i i,tri. Hath tur T.'..1 ' 1 K , ATTOllN K Y-AT-l.A W J iri ,,,m" DU,l'tlniJ ol T TJ-t, '.L", t'entre itreet. A JOS HOME II I IN ill JAS. C. HASSON. Editor and VOLUME XXIII. WE DO KOT PLEDGE ri Kr, ABMii.rri.Lv ; rt Rr,iSD WELL MITIKED, KICK WIIIH KIES AXI VV5tt: At'prteee that? make ll other ; dealer hutle. Jan think et It : Orerholtt k".tTo.e rnrKye. Ore year7old. foil quart fl.uo. or tio.uu j,er Uoieo. Still better ! Klnr!)' OoldearWe.tdlnir.'len. year old. qan.ru 1 it'.vr U.UO per.itocen. Hotter tl!l ! K.ntuckT t Hourhon. fr.u" j.ar old. 2 lull ju iru tl.'a. or tlXim per dozen. Aad one or the ait alrallej Wblskle on oar list la The Pare Einht Tear Ol-tiExprrt aekechelm er Fall quart $1 i'. or fio ir Jisen. There linn Wmk; that bai erer been told tb&t na prrown In tavr with the pablld a rmold 1 ae our old t.xn irt. and the aimpl re.aoa I that tt I utterly lutposalMe to dullraie It. There will never he any let ap In the parity and noe Savor in any purtieulsr ot the Pure Cia.lt K.rnU Wine we are now felline at MetnU per bottle. Pull qaarl. or tt per doaen. In roaklRK up y ur ordr. plean mcIcm P. O. None j UMer or I'rail. or KeicUter yoarorder. JOSEril FLEMING & SON, WUOLKSALEJAND RETAIL. DRUGtilSTS. riTTSBUKG, PA. 4 i t MARK KT MT. ( er.ef th nianead. Jan. zs. 18SV. lrr A SOLID TEEL FENCE! ma ur or EXPANDED METAL ""Em"" 5CKETHING NEW. For Residents. Cuvnc.nrt. Ccmctcrics. FARwa Gardens. Iiau Arbor., n.lpdow Guards Tmttee tire-proof PLI'jIIUI.NG LATH. bK)tt BATS Ae. Write for lliuotrated Catalogue: mailed free CENTRAL EXPANDED METAL CO lift Wal nu, lMtlnl.urtti, aw Card ware Mta keep IU Ctv ua-mc Uua paper MXTM sTKEF.T, 1MITHBI HU. PA. 1 the irrfnt college of Huine?s tirneec. where all I the liranlii- ol a r.implete luismcn e lurnlion are taught by Actual Hurlce. Practice. The only ioi'. i.r.r iroio I'etiaa. of the ' Inter State HumI- re Practice A4i.cn!i.in ol America. 'Iheatu Uent limn hiM-k krepinn and lunnen hy en. ir:ttin In t'tintn" iraui'act.onn. 1'racticul I ittico Work .inl Hanklnir ar vpeclaltle. ln.llvUlun.1 I i rm t! "Ti Irotu A. M. to 4 r. u. and Iroin 7 to lu r. m 'l'Le br-t ailvantiuceti in Nhor'hand and Typewriting the hlixhent speed In the shortest tune Sen I lur cataloiru '! mn orr. lht madrnK at work Ttkhn . .,ta ml.lf lh. l: uabIIIiiii. Vital J torn Jkli. ajya wye I . JAAllvS 1'L.AliK. WILLIAMS A. Pre-Mi-Dt. -ELi'-s- CatarrH CREAM : BALK 4'lrnn.ea tlt Mal lii-wc- ' - t ' .J . Maya lalai t.elf t O T1 lurlaimmallwn. Ural lh More. Kril.m the aienae of Tatatr el Sraell. Try tho Curo, HAY- SR. A particle la applied Into earn noatrlt and In. aureeaMe. ITIce W cent at I-uinft"t ; hr mail rea-i.iered. oo eU. h.L. 11K to Warren St., New York. ST. CHARLES Charles S Cill, Proprietor. Table unsurprised. EemoJel otl with olliee on ground iloor. Natural pas and incandescent light in all rooms. New steam laundry attached to house. Cor. Wood St. & Third Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa: NATURE'S CURS FOR corisnPATio?., A MKI.ItBLE BISEOI rer Mrk slKarh, t or Torpid Llrer. Bilioaa Headacke. t'eetlteeeee. Tarraat kfrcrrcaeeat Se-1 1 s r Apri"iit. It I eerta'n In lu etficu It I gentle in it acti. n. It I pnlatenMe to the I. at. It can t relied upon to cure, and It cure by aul. not by outrair ln. nature. lo tot take 1'ilent pnrnattvet your selves or allow yoar chil Sisia-Ksadacfce, dren to take thanv, always ne this eleirnnt phar inacentlcal preparation, whlrh ha reen lor more than forty year a public favorite. Sold by druggutt A5I DYSPEPSIA. rmrrmckerm. PITTSBURG, rA. The oldest and beat Inalltutloo for ohtalnlDK a ItunlneiM 1-Mucatlon. W. hare ucrei'!ully pre. pared tlmuaund of young men lor Arte acllre do ne ot liie, Por rin-ului address. P. lri-Pa.SUNS.PlttbaiTr;,pa. .wept. 13 . lStw.-Sm ESSENTIAL OIIJS, WlNTEKflUEEX, PEri'EKJIEST, l'CX XYUOYAL, Sl'EAKillNT, &C. of prime iuallty. bonaht la any qnantity lor eauh ol d.liery, tree brokernare, cvmuiiaaloa, ilvraxe, AO., by DODGE & 0LC0TT, miwrter and Exporter. M WtUlaa let.. N. Y. AM. u.'M.-im. SALESMEN WANTED Cf:.la f -A m . m a W. har. nrlr ik l..r U .ujc. ,ir. i'iMrv n t Salary and Eiptuat. or Com.m,, if Pref.-rr.d t.. . lull iiM mi rra.i u i h.ir.1 ..rua.-i..l . . ' .!. th- an. awl ranr' KivtMu.nnl. xrrf.M Sali.raeiea Coarawle.d Cu.lamn ..i Au-rf. Wl ..1, y, . i I, l-.,. to,, . S u-iarw. l K. .. ii.t'.K A If.. A4-U EnouIU 1'aiui Square, 1 I.II...I. 1,.!,,. S1 rJTVSV ti I II I II I i Publisher. THE PROGRESS OF MAN. V Hard waa tho lot of our lathers, tho men of tho early world, Itoa.t-liUe acritchinjjtha earUi for a nlpcard ly dole of ber fruit. WMgod in the cleft of the hills, in the hollows of tree-trunks curled Groptna; in the irlooma ot the care, starring on berry and rook Shelterle, weaponleaa, weak, a bargard and wandering brood Scarred by the brand of the tua, by the whirl wind acattred and tosaed. Buned in dr ft ot tho mow, whelmed by th river In flood. Flayed by the acourge of tho atorm. acarred by the daer cf fro it. A wretched and barbaroua race, unikl'.leJ. at the mercy of all. la ha to to eacape from It toe to the hldtn place of the dead: Hunted of Lunger and lean, vho.e life wu a P'.teoua crawl From the dnrk ot the womb to the dark of th ftrare through the ahaUow of tlread. But we! we arc cunntn(f and itron;, wt bar mado all wiauem our owa; IV e hare mastered ull arte, we hare tools ami ra:ment and roof oerhead. We lauch at the ahnck of the wind, we daaco on the brute overthrown. With his akin we b:ivc ciclhed u about, with his rJcah we bare fllled na and fed. Our fathers, the cowering men of the cares, were the cave-bear' prey ; They fled him, weaeek him: the anowa with hi blood, not our, (hall be dyed. We follow hi tracks through the drift, ha: ha! we pe.ir him and day. Wo feast on the fat of his ribs, we comfort our loins with his hide. O marvelous prcrres of man! O nee of nn apealcable craft? Ostrikerao Are from the her.rtof the rock In a fortunate hoar! YTho have fitted the sharpened fl.nt to the woa t derful pmo-wood hurt; In the dcr of tour vt.lii.eii and want who dreamt of the day of yrur power? 1L IX Traill. In Host in Transcript. BILL, THE LINEMAN. The Friend He Found at the Top of a Telegraph Pole. Bill was very well known In a cer tain quarter and not the pleasantoat quarter, cither of a certain gnat city. Ho patrolled the wires of tha Eastern Union Telegraph Company for about half a mile along- River street, a narrow, dirty thoroughfare lined with tall tenement-houses, whose very windows and stairways told of tho poverty-stricken condition of most of the families that dwelt therein. Bill was a lare, lanky fellow, with big hando and feet and a face that was as hard as a rock and as brown as a berry, through years of exposure to sun. wind and rain. Tho clothes ho wore were r.ot m&do to order, and by tho time Bill got to wearing them at Lis work they were by no means new. I'pon his head Id the summer he gen erally wore an enormous ten-cent straw hnt. and In winter ha pulled an old rabbit-skin cap down over his cars. His leet all the year round he encased in tmonsU r-boots, to which ho strapped his climbers. For tho rest of his rttire ho usua'ly wore a heavy blue flannel irt and jean trousers fastened by a road belt that held his tool, to In cold weather he added a rough Pot coat. --.- There really was nothing remark able about Bill the Lineman's appear ance, and yet a keen observer might bavo noticed a merry twinkle at times in his gray eye, and kindly lines play ing about his large mouth but then, the denizens of River fetreet were not in the hab't of Mudying tho cotint nnnces of these who worked la their midst. So, to them. Bill was a com mon cvt ry-day workman, who minded his own business up in the cross-arms whlie they attended to theirs In the stores upon tho street below. Indeed, all the store-keepers and thi-ir customers were so very busy that not oao of them remarked the fact that thro was a certain polo tip which Bill the Lineman stayed every day, except Sunday, for several min utes sometimes remaining aloft as long as a quarter of an hour al though the average condition of the wires, insulators and cross-arms at that pole was pood as the rest of them. - llie why and wherefore of Bill's s-trange predilection for pole number 774 was on this wine: The long cross arms of the pole in question were very close to a window on the fourth story of a bhabby tenement house. Tho frame of this window was quite crooked and the squares of glass were exceedingly small and full- of cracks, while two at least of them had such large holes that brown pajer had been pasted over them to keep out the wind and tho rain. For nearly two years the room which that window dimly lighted had been unoccupied, and Bill had long 6ince arrived at tho conclusion that it would never again bo rented. But one day towards the close of a dreary winter ho noticed that tho unbroken squares of glass had boon rubbed bright and clean, and, looking through the win dow, he perceived that the floor of the room had been well scrubbed. . j Ah!" thought Bill, "new neigh bors, eh!" Bill always considered tho folks who occupied rooms near his poles as his own especial neighbors. Well," he muttered, 'pears they ain't fond of dirt, and I'm glad of that!" - ... - The very next day there was another surprise in store for Bill the Lineman. On tho sill of the crooked window was a long, narrow green box, and, al though it held nothing but brown earth (it being too cold yet for plants). Bill judged that the now tenant was partial to flowers. And he was glad of that too, for Bill liked flowers him self, because they reminded him of his old homo in the Berkshire Hills. The lineman, was now anxious to sco who tho new tenant might be, hut his curiosity In that direction was doomed to disappointment. Never, in all the many times that Bill after ward climbed tho Ull telegraph oc? did ho oneo see through the window tho owner of the hands that scrubbed tho floor and cleaned tho glass and placed the flower box tipon tho window-sill. But before very long ho did see a face at tho window such a woe, wan little face it was too so palo and yet o pleasing tho face of a little j;irl. MY "n ib A TKJtKMAH WHOM THS TBUTH E15ENSBUKG, PA., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 25. ISS9. perhaps seven or eight years old. Bill saw that she was a cripple, lying upon an adjustable invalid's chair, and. as the lineman turned bis bead from the white face with its large, sad eyes, something fell from his brown and roughened cheek to the sidewa'.t be low, where it made a wet spot about as big as a twenty-five-cent piece. For the sight of the crippled chUd awakened memories in the heaxt and mind of Bill the Lineman that were more bitter than sweet, and always very sad. Ten years before, when Bill was a strapping young fellow in Western Massachusetts, ho had married one of tho prettiest girls in the village. Bill was proud of his girl wife and loved her very dearly. He was a happy fellow indeod when there came to his home a baby girl and his love for the tiny thing was second only to his af fection for tho baby's mother. Soon after the little one came Bill moved to the city, where he had obtained employment, and then all his bad luck came to him. Ills wife, who had been so neat a house-wife, gradually changed Into a slatternly gadabout. She read cheap story papers and went to tho matinees at the third-rate theaters, while her home and her child, as well as poor Bill, were altogether neglected. Bill was beside himself with grief, and had It not been for the baby, which he watched, tended and played with all. through his leisure hours, possibly he might have done something reckles. One day while Bill was at work the careless wife and mother, engrossed in a dime novel, dropped the baby from her lap, and the little one was hopelessly crippled by the falL Whea Bill came homo and learned the truth he cried like a child with grief. He fretted all the night, and in the morn ing remained away from his work that ho might hold the baby, laid upon a pillow, in his arms. Often the tears would roll down his cheeks, but he never onco scolded or reproached his wife. At last, overcome with remorse and nnable to endure tho sight of her hus band's grief and her child's pain, the girl (-he was but twenty) put on her hat and went out, to return no more to her home. For six years the poor fellow tender ly cared for his baby, but when the little girl was seven years old she died, and Bill was left without any comfort at alL Tho lineman had been alone for thiee years when he beheld the face little child at the crooked win- a face that opened old scars, but whtcC none the less swelled Bill's tender heart with kindly sentiments toward the little cripple. Before he went down ho nodded cheerily to the girl, and it sent a thrill of pleasure through the big fel low when the wtn faco answered his greeting by a faint smile. For many days Bill nodded from the cross-arms to his little neighbor, and he flt as though they were really getting" quits well acquainted. Soon tho spring time came, and one warm, sunny day the lower sash of the crooked window was thrown up. while the child leaned forward as If to inhale and enjoy to the full the sweet balmy air of the May morning. Then the acquaintance of Bill and the small, pale-faced cripple was begun in earnest. That's good." said the lineman, after nodding as usual. "You want some of this fresh air to bring back tho roes to thoso lily-whito cheeks. How does my little neighbor feel to day?" At first the child only smiled, as shy children wilL in response to her strange friend's remarks and inquir ies, but before rcry long this bashful ness wore away and then the girl chat ted lroely to the big man on the lofty pole. Down in the Btreet the people and the teams hurried to and fro, but forty feet above them Bill tho Line man and the tiny child conversed to gether with as much privacy as though they had been in the quiet and secluded parlor of a country house. From the child Bill learned that her name was Millie, and that her aunt her good aunt, she always called her was obliged to leave her alone all -through the day because 6he worked in a big factory, where they made men's neck -ties and such things. The child seemed to know nothing about father or mother; as long as she could remember she had been with her -good aunt," who was with her every evening and all thro ugh tho long Sun days. Bill, as may be imagined, possessed some fine feelings, though he was but a lineman. Nothing could have in duced him to intrude on the privacy of this good woman, who was evident ly poor, yet who, in her poverty, cared so well lor the child that was, apparently, not her own. So Bill al ways timed his ascent of pole No. 77i in the forenoon, about ten or eleven o'clock, when it was tolerably certain that the woman would be at the fac tory, and on Sunday he never went up at all except for a moment quite early In the day. "'v-; J7j j r The child from time to time asked Bill a hundred questions about his work and the telegraph, and she was particularly interested in the. music of the wires, which murmured so sweet ly all the time, liko an aeolian harp. And Bill, who was a splendid story teller having amused his own little girl in days gone by with his original tales told her that the good fairies made the music on the wires. He ex plained, too, how messages are sent by telegraph and, for her amuse ment, would frequently place his ear to an insulator and relate a pretty story, which he made believe was passing over the wires. Yes, indeed, they were great friends, were Bill tho Lineman and little Millie, and after they bad been ac quainted a few months it is hard to say which would have missed the oilier most Bill was always taking tho child something. Ono day when he swung; himself up the polo hia big MA.IKS FRSS, AJTD ALL AH ELA.TM BESIDK.' belt would be bulged out with a flower pot containing a choice and fragrant plant. At another time his hip pocket would be filled with a pretty box of chocolate drops or he would carry, by the handle placed be tween his teeth, a basket of ripe peaches. Sometimes it would be a picture book, but always on Saturday, if on no other day. Bill wo uld take hid little neighbor something. But it grieved Bill sorely whea he noticed that the summer sunshine and the fresh air passing through tho opn window failed to bring the roses to the pale cheeks of the crippled child, and he almost wished he miht somehow get acquainted with the "good aunt"' and propose in some way to send Millie to the seashore at his own ex pense, lie spent many hoars each day In turning over this idea in his mind, but Bill was very reserved and disMked to to roe. his acquaintance upon strangers. One Saturday in September Bill, as usual, climbed polo Na 771, taking with him a basket of luscious pears. He had to stand at tho extreme cud of the longest cross-arm to be able to set the basket in the window, and as he did this Millie, who was not feeling so well as usual, said to him: "Do you think you could reach over and kiss me? You're so good and kind I should liko to thank you, sir, and all I can give you is a kiss." Bill wanted to say something in re ply, but ho couldn't do it he felt too "choky." lie managed to lean ovor, however his feet on the cross-arm and his hands upon the window-sill, while his lank body spanned the space' between. He kissed the soft white cheek of the delicate child, while she whispered In bis ear: I s'pose you never hear on the wires messages from the angels for me?" she aaked, childlike, but, oh, so wistfully. How the words did cut into Bill's heart, for he had grown strangely at tached to his little friend. He feared that all too soon tho angel of death would carry a message to the helping little cripple but he hoped not just yet. He gulped down the lump that rose In his throat and answered as pleasantly as possible. "Well, my dear, they hain't sent no message to you, not direct; but often I hear 'em, those blessed angels what watch over ail little children, and they says to me: 'Bill, you must try and make it pleasant fur that there lit tle Millie. She has a tough tiuio of it a-lyin' there so quiet and patient day after day; so you must go up tha. polo your'n and see her every day and eheer her up a bit. And these blcsso.! angels tells me, 'you'll Sad you'ie i happy man, BUI, ii so be you car. win the love of that there littie gaL " "Ah. well,'' said tho chili, cs Bill finished, "I'm glad the angeis iLix.k about me, and if I could I would tell tbem that you're very pood to m-j, eir. I do love you a great deal. Will you kiss me again before you go?" . . So once more Bill the Lineman kissed the . crippled girl aad then descended to the sidewalk. The next day. It being Sunday, Bill iid not boo Millie, but on Monday morning, as usual, he climhrtl pole , number 774. It was a bright, arm shiny day in early autumn, but the tenement house was on the east side of the street, so that curtains, where they had such luxuries, were never drawn in the forenoon. Up went Bill, eager to see the child, and he notioed beforo he was half-way up that the window was up to its usual height, but there was no pale little face to greet him. Perhaps Millie's "good aunt" was at home? Well. Bill thought he would take just a hasty glance to satisfy him self, and then hurry down. He lis tened for a moment, but he heard uo sound of footsteps or of voices in tha quiet room. So he peered through the open window and there, only a few feet back, he saw a small, while colli n. He was unable to see the faoe in the casket, but Bill the Lineman, knew only too well that a message from tha angels had come to Millie since he kissed her on Saturday morning. The truth Cashed upon th'j poor fel low painfully enough and the shock was so severe that it was only force of habit that enabled him to retain his foothold on the cross-arm. He was dazed for several minutes and could not take his dimmed eyes from the lit tle white coffin all alone in the quiet room. He trembled with mental and physical agitation and was weak as a woman when ho commenced his de scent of the tall pole. It was with much difficulty that ho struck the climbers into the hard wood, to get a foothold, and his hands re fused to give him the support of their usual firm grip. Half way down his feeble strength completely failed him, and he fell more than twenty feet to the stone sidewalk. Insensible, and with a broken leg poor Bill lay there, while a knot of idlers and passers-by gathered about him. . . " "Bill the Lineman taken a tumble at last!" exclaimed the groceryman from the corner, while Bill's friend, the policeman, telephoned fer the hos pital ambulance. " -' -! ' I Bill the Lineman did not die, but he was confined in the hospital for many weeks. The pain of his bruises and his fractured limb did not hurt him nearly as much as did his grief when he thought of the little child at the tenement house window, and of the small white coffin which he had seen. Ue could not forget Millie and the kiss with which she had thanked him. One day. when he was getting along pretty well. Bill's nurse said to him: "'There's a young woman would like to see you. She says she's 'Millie's aunt' and that you will know her by that." Millie's good aunt," murnsurd Bill to himself. "Yes," he aJlei aloud, "I should like to see her. nurse." When, a moment later, "Miilij's aunt," stood beslilo the sick man's bedside. Bill could scar- ly belL-va Lis eyes. Indeed, ho was so doubtful oi SI.50 and Ms own vision that he was afraid to sieak his thoughts. But the woman, who was still young and quite good looking threw her arms about his neek and subbed as she kis.-ed his rough, unshaven f.wo attain and ugaia. Oh, Bill," she said, "will you for give me, can you? I am Millie's aunt. I took tho child, a iittle cripoled wail, to care for. in memory of our own baby that I oh, BL1, forgive n.e for that! "I wanted to como back to you and the baby many times, only I v ashamed. But 1 have lived an Lui.est life. Bill, and 1 am truly sorry for all the badness and wickedness of years ao. And now, dear Bill, for our baby's s:ike for little Millie's bake, too will you let me show you ho-r good a wife I can make you?" And Bill the Lineman, whose tears were by this time mingling with those of his wife, threw his big arm around her and forgave her the tidier, I think that she was Millie's "good aunt." 7 Well, Bill the Lineman, is no more. But in a neat telegraph cabin on a railroad in the Berkshire Hi'Is there is a bi?-leanled operator whom his wife calls Bill, and whenever you ee-3 Bill, the operator, you may sure that not very far away is his two-year-old daughter Mtilie. WilLam II- S. Atkinson, in Philadelphia Times. NATURE OF CLOUD-BURSTS. Tbey Ar Lakes of Water Actually Sos peuded In .Mid-Air. . Tho phenomena of a cloud-burst, which can only occur In a tornado or hirl-xird, are not generally uader s'.ood. TTi3 whirl in which it form is not a very broad and shallow disk, but a tail, columnar mass of rotating sir, similar to that in which the At lantic waterspout or tho famous pillar like dust storm of India is generated. While this traveling aerial pillar, per haps a few hundred yards in diameter. Is rapidly gyrating, the centrifugal force, as FYoL Ferrel has shown, acts as a barrier to prevent the flow of ex ternal air from all sides into its In terior, except at and near the base of the pillar There friction with tho earth retards thi? gyrations and allows the air to rush in below and trcapo tepwurd through the flue-like interior as powerful ascending currents. The phenomenon, however, will not be attended by lerriSc flood unless the atmosphere is densely stored with water vapor, as it was on May 31 in the Cor.eraaii-h valley. When such is the case, tho violently ascending cur rents s-.'ddenly lift the vapor-laden clouds several thousand feet above tho level .it which they were previously Coalia. ai.-l hurl them aloft into rari fi'jd and cold regions of the atmos phere wl.ori their v:irior is instantly condensed iato many tons of tvaU;r. Could the water fall as fast as con densed it would bo comparatively harmless. But the continuous ur rushing currents support this mass of water at the high level, and as their own . ast volumes of vapor risirg are condensed they add to the water al ready accumulated thousands of feet above the earth's surface making, so to epeak, a lake in h.'gh air. As the whirlwind weakens or passes from beneath this vast body of water, which its ascending currents have penerated and upheld in the upper story of the atuio.-, Lue. th-j f.ueDus mass, no longer supported, drops with ever increasing gravitational fui co to the earth. In sjvero elo'-iu-bursts U1 water does not htil as raia, but ia sheets and btrou:ns, soi:i"tirnes un broken for many secouis. The ciouu buralcf lJoS at Ilo'iiuaysburj, l'a.. ex cavated many holes In the :-c:.ml, varying from twenty-five to thirty foot in diameter, an I from three to rix fe'-l deop. In a similar but milder storm, which visited Boulogne last May. fissures were cut in the ttre Is eight feet deep and openings uii.ilo larj,e ouough to engulf a horse i.nl cart. N. Y. Herald. CARE OF THE SICK. TTseful Encreeations for JPereoiis ia Charge of Intalid. , Even in tho depth of summer it is often wiso to keep a slight fire uui lug the niLt- To avoid rousing the sick sleeper fill pn per bags with coal and lay a sufficient number of these bags in a scuttle. In this way a fire in;iy bo replenished without, tho slightest noise. It is essential In selecting" a person to watch with a sick person that a healthy person, with all their f.no senses alert to catch any change, should be employ wd. A slightly uoaf person will causo great annoyance, because tho paiiont must exert him self uudaly to make himself heard. The eye-sight of tho nurse must be perfect to note any change, her feel ing alert to notice change of tem perature, her smelling power without a flaw to make sure of fresh, pure atmosphere, and Ler taste delicate enough to allow her to appreciate tho difference between ioorly-cooked food and that properly prepared. A fidgety or nervous woman or a scafish or self-absorbed woman is utterly out of place in a sick-room. All good housekeepers always keep bundles of old flannel, of old lluen and of old cotton where either can be readily obtained if necessary in the sick-room. Bandage; of old flannel arc invaluable in ca-a of rheumatism or of sore throat. In fact, the. e is nothing else that will take the place of such half-worn goods. New flannel would be of com paratively litt'e use for the purpose. A small flannel bag; tilled with hops and wrung out in boiliug water will soothe to sleep a sufferer from neural jric pains oftener than any thing else. There should be sufficient bandages on the outside to prevent its wettinj the bedding and causing a chill in this way. l'ei-sons who have Puflfervd from chronic troubles of the bowels have Tben frequently cured by wear ing continuously, all the year round. :. heavy ih.r.rel b;i..l;!o over tho ab domen. N. Y. Tribauo. postage per year In advance. NUMBER 3S. A SONG OF THE SAND-MAN. Ho! for the San J-man ! jolly old fellow. With twinkling eye and a sleesome smile; Ha cornea when the en die a flicker yellow, AlJ 1 e docs his work in Jauotit at style. For he lighten his cumbersome bag of aand ith a light and a brisk and a generous haud. Ho! for the Bund-man! merry old codger. His aim n Iirm nnd Mi shot Is crnck. And tue .harjat wiles of the mm blest Codger Can bame lnui never, nor hold inui back; Blue eyes, irray eyes, black eves, biown. H-i powflcrs them soft nutl the l!ddroy Ko! for the Sar.d-mac! luunv olj rover. lie au! tue t.Iayinir a.id hal's the fur! In- I'orsx't wait till the srames lire over. lie ikieau t care whetuer the romp utei'oae. li.a s'..s old l.uuj poc in. and lol Mo-Jin gre wid.t. crea and feet laj '!o. "". Ho! for th5 S-nU-manl bl.Oitsorj.e old culler. Mothers esteem him and nun -a miore. For ho (fathers the children, the b'.j ai.3 t!.e smaller. And hurries them swiftly away before They know it's boon tlouo, to the babbling stream. And the sinning birds of the Land or Dreams. Eiuma A. Opper, in Uood bousctfecpmi'. UNCLE JACOB'S KUSE. A. Change in His vVill Produces a Happy Effect. Jenny ar.dLucy B;?gley were th? pret tiest two girls in II:. Iky Bottom. Their mother was t ery proud of them, and thaugh a widow in straitened cireum- 1 stances "be strained her narrow means to p it them at the new seminary. , Tho rmbftious mother might have found it difficult to carry through her plans if an only brother, several years her senior, who- had rua eway when a boy, and who- had long ago been given up for dead, hadn't come back one day as suddenly as he had disappeared, with no end of money in his pocket, still a bachelor. Uncle Jacob Ilansower, in spite of his grotesque dialect and cld-f::sh:on'?d manners, soon beeamo-a great favor ite with Jenny and Lucy. By a hort of tacit understanding- he took up his home in his sister's house, and from that time the latter was relieved from all anxiety on tho 9core of her daugh ters' educ ation. Uncle- Jacob thence forward cheerfully paying their blll9. Including all tho extras." Tho girls came home finished pt last, and Uncle Jacob was teased Irto buying a grand piano, with half a cart load of fashionable music The sisters would have bad Cooks of ! beaux, for they were not only remark- i ably pretty, but, as every body knew, j they would ono day come into Unclo Jacob's money; but they held their heads fo very high that there wasn't s ' youth in Balky Bottom tdvctturojj 1 enough to spunk up to them. Even ' Hiram iioppiek. who used tolxj rather i spry in hie attent:ons to Jcu:iy in the i rnte-seraiuary days, and Ren Vn Ruck- muu, who used to ta?k in ?m oi-u- ! tio:ial .-nvle. of Lucy's in the e:nno ' blissful poriod. hung back rv li-c a j bmce of ba.-l.i ai school-buy with their fingers in their mouths. . - At last a star of th rirst magnltuJe j set the firmament of Balky Bottom all 1 ablaze. It was no less a luminary i than Mr. Cleophas Brassey. Uncle Jacob, who had caught from his niecos j a touch of the seminarian idiom, pro- , nounced him "mooch too quoite." j But the ladies nonconcurred. Mr. Brassey. in their eyes, was a perfect Prince Charming; and when they came to know him, and heard Lim &ng: "Mo hawt is fawh, fawh away!" a plate men t with probably more truth tua:i poetry iuit Jenny declared he was nicer than a a , and Lucy quite agreed with her. Tor the first time in their live wns there miv jealousy between the sister. Fo. r. tins Mr. Brassey distrib-v'ed his attentions impartially between tho t-o. It would have puzzled him, in deed, to tivo a reason for a preier ;::ce. In julnt of looks, neither sister L: tl the r.dvun afo, airi Uncia Jrub's i.ioriey, it vr-j vnderstood, was to fo to th"'n ir rinf 1 j ortions. !5u C! ""phi's Bra-sey was of n raorq practical 1i:ti of mind tl.nn the i.ie tit physical donkey that starved to death fet ween two haystacks, for want of a philosophical reason for choosing the one rather than the other. L'nclo Jacob was coniplaining a good tloal iaueV of a p'lzzin' iu his hot," and had put himself on double rations of b'.rtcVstr:! n s a remedy. Feeling thero v.-as no tinic to lose, Mr. Brassey. ia tho privacy of his chamber, christened his meerschaum Jenny and his tobacco stopper Lucy, and went over the old juvenile rigmarole by 'which school boys doci-le who's first to be haro. The last word fell to Lucy; o Lucy it was. , Frem that time forth it ceased to bo a question whore Mr. Brassey's pro diloctions biy. It was nothing UUt Lucy with him now. - '' ' Mr. Brassey would have proposed to Lucy without delay, but he was a little dubious on the score of Undo Jacob. It would be just like that ob stinate old Dutchman, if he didn't like the match, to express his disapproval by a disinheriting clause in his will. But at lat a circumstance occurred that couldn't fail to give Mr. Brassey a considerable lift in Uncle Jacob's opinion. Lawyer llackler. with whom Mr. B. seemed to have a good deal of business lately, camo in hot haste in search of that gentleman, whom he found on the widow's back porch mak ing himself quite 'one of the family Undo Jcob, with his corncob pipe and pitcher of blackstrap, flanking the party. ' .'.t. "I have just received," said tho law yer, breaking in on the company with the ur of ono on pressing business, "au offer of two h'indrod thousand dol lars for your Florida pntation. What answer shall I give?" - 5 "rrsy I've changed my mind and don't wish to sei," carelessly replied the other, turning to resume his Iclt-a-tetc with Lucy, and llackler left. Uncle Jacob's ears had not been idle: and when, in tho evtniag. it was dis closed in faaiily council that Mr. 3rassey had th.t altera -on pr-iposed toI.--.cj-, the old geutiecair., inroad ol px'ilodlro' as had been feared, smol-.fl eX'l.lH.l' ' as Jl'lU. own v-a. v , . - Lis pipe in si'vuee, and wh n that and th- blackstrap were fluUhod, l--tov.-'.. L Alveitisiiir J fit en - The lare-e r-id re!"Me c'wnlntfoB 01 the Oiy BR! a. I iah eoTctneadg it to tr lavoraole oca aiderailcn cf .:rcrtiera. wnoe favor win te?n uried at toe foil jTter taw rate : 1 men, S tune , 1 " ft month... 1 " 6 month. 1 ' 1 year a " tnoatba il " 1 year 8 " 6 mont'i.... 8 1 year tixo it .ivy I.M S.trt ."0 10. oO .... SO H.'j(l in ifei !-j eol'n e na'.-itbg.. muntUf ao. 0 H y s.o " Smoutlu. i.i.o.) lyea.r. W.Oo naclnei a ttenii. first los.rtlon 10c. per line ; ecn HiieHjacat inacruon be. per line. AdiuiclKtrator f Ed Lzsoator'i KrUsei,.... 1.M Ao'lKor'a Notice ........... a..i Stra and ilmiiar Notleei.. ...... . 1.40 fV littoluliont or prortnltmo of ny corporation or Boctir9 ei communacuiiam du :rcd to mu . fr . to af mattrr of limited or individual intetet vu9t Of jot a odvertitmeiUs. J" PiTti of allkloda neatly and ezpeit" oosly executed atloweit price. lon'tyou tort h.tiislf qufftfy to lied. Next morning Uncle Jacob waV otf betimes to town. Going; straight to Lawyer Hackler' office, Lo sought and obtained a private interview. How mooch you sharch to wriil.v my viil?" l.e as-ked. "Twenty-five- dollars," replied thr-.-la'.vyer, blandly. Doo mooch,." objjcted Uncle Jacob. "Shoost shdvike otl der dwvouty u.id it's a p:-. tvain." Mr. Ilad.k-r expostulate'! a little", but tinai.y aece'-led the ai:iendiuei:t. "How do yor. wish to leave youi projK-rty, M:-. li Hiso'.vor?"' he inquired, dipii:::,,- hi-, j,. n in the ink, nnd uraw in,; toward him a sh-:et cf pnper. Veil. I wis (join to leafe it to do. ilwo eirls. szh-ire an:l hare rJike; pus now 1-uev, she's gom" to marry sooch a mighty rich feller dot she von' I need some more; so l'fe gouclooled shoost to kif ali niy leedie bile to C'hinny." Mr. Hackler opened Lis eyes h'u took down his client! instructions without comment, promising to have the document prepared an curly as tho press of other business would permit. As soon :is Undo Jacob hack tvs turned the lawyer hurried to Mr. Bra-sey's lodgings, v. h.-rc the r.air we e quickly closeted. 'I hat sa:ne afternoon Mr. Br.t' siy knocked ut ti.'! Widow Bag'.ey's door. Could he sec Mibs Jenny? h,j inquired. When Jenny entered the sitting roo'u. ttht.-ro the found Mr. Brassey n ailing, her faco looked amuch lik-s a thunder-cloud ns a pretty faco could. And the thunder came near bursting when lr. Brassey 1k;J thr -;sui-xne- to i'-.k her to w:Jk with h'm. But curiosity, for the moment", overcame resentment. She would hear what tho culprit had to grty; tlnx'fi v-ould be time for the thunder aftor-.'ards. Nor was she long- kept in expecta tion. Tho v.-ii Ik hod h.-svcily tvjrun when Mr. Brassey, with a tact avl delicacy all his own, dlscluscd the fat that a very rocont examination of his heart probably it had jut-o rturnrl from its wanderings, "ftwh, fawh away!" hnd convinced hi.n of his mistake in supposing that be had ovt loved another than bersiiif. It was. ho a:d sho alone wh'.irn. he had adored from the Crst. tuld she for give his momentary backsliding? Mr. Bra-sey's eloquena- w-as melt ing, nnd ho was accepted. The ticklish task of trr-aking tho news to Lu-y, Jenny, to Mr. Brns ey's no Email relief, took upon her self. Thoy pnrted at the gat!, it v lng cocioidered prudmt thai tho versatile Bi a- :ey .-hm-ld kef ) out .f the v. ay till tho stoi-iu had bloun over. Ar:l storm, indeed, it was. The bisters were in the height of their wordy cap-pullii: it miht have come to the literal tiling but for their semi: ry training in tno arts of elo cution when Uncle Jacob cune upon the scene. At the first lull he told abtnit his in terview with Lawyer ll.ieiilor on the subject of the will. Tbo-rt- was a sud den dri ppiti of scales from two pair's of blui-iiif es. Mr. Itrassey's cha: ' j of base w as fuily explained. "Yoa bee, cirbj." continued Undo Jacob, "I ki-idor soo-pecteu vat dein two rokes, Brassey und dot lawyer chap, vas up to, u:il so- I shoost sot a lectin dap for 'em. Und now, if you'll dako rcy adwieo. you'll si.dop voolin ruit sooch shlibbery vops, und biek oud a goonle ot oot hoicst vel lers for beaux, like dese Hiram Ilou pick und Reuben lluciman. " Uncle Jacob cout.terr.ia tided tho oit'n-r for the v.;'.!, ird Jer.e.y 'nil Lucy, who u ill bo his heirs without, any doubt, seemed disposed to follow Lis advice. At ej-y rate, they aro on the bci cf term at resent with their eh1, admirers. Hiram iu:d ll-.-ulc:i. who have spunked ;; wonderfu.ly j4 late. As for Cleephas Brassey, he -t ar-resu-d for bwiaJiliu;, ou u requisition from a noihborin- li' ate, the day fol lowing his 6oCond proposal. N. Y. Ledger. FEMALE PHYSICIANS. Tbelr JleiDarkable Adv-nnocment In All 1'aiU or India. In India lady doctors aro now fa, miliar to us, aud although at first they nay have been somewhat ridiculed by those who could not appreciate their value, they are fast makiug their pres ence felt for good in almost every cor-' ner of tho. la:-d. So far as the eative women of this country aro concerned, it is gratifying to note that their suc cess in all branches of college educa tion is progressing to tho entire satis faction of tho professors. Not only ha.o they proved themselves to be generally well fitted for the arduous duties attendant upon medical studies, but they have, ia some cases, succeed ed beyond all ordinary expectations. , Bombay, Madras, tho Northwest Provinces aud tho Punjaub all return Tattering reports oa tho subject, and when we say that a class of female students can average over seven hun dred marks out of one thousand in a surgical examination, as we hear has recently been the case, little can bo 6aid against their power of skill and aptitude for gaining knowledge in ono of tho most important branches of tha medical profession. Indeed, it ap pears not unlikely that women in India may prove themselves by no means inferior to men la most branches of the practice of niodicino. if the progress made by native f;malo3 in hospital work may bo taken as a criterion. In many cases they have proved themselves superior to male students in college examinations, and In no way behind them iu application, power of reasoning and resource. Tho act that much of their success is duo to tho frnt interest taken in their studies by their lecturers and profes sors is not without a certain special significance. Overland Mail. On n horse car. First lady "Do take that feat. I don't nrnd standing; a bit" Second lady "No, you take it. t You are older than L" An ominous j silence, during which an old gentleman pops iutjthc scut. BojU'U 1'obU .
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