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M off the potj and pant. You can scour uh-bSa?? T,!h ll make thinihine brightly. The wwtn if .! blUl lU.bTv" kitchcn ink wul bo a. clean as h?4rySa - c will pr0ve all we say. Boa NOCH MORGAN'S SONS CO.. NEW YORK. (Mm mm JAS. C. HASSON. Editor and VOLUME XXV. The Momc Saeceaafnl Kinr4r ever rilicov end, Mil a certain tn Its effects and dm not bl Inter. Read proof below : BnooKi.rx, Conn., May 5, "9U. On. B. J. KesDiix l'...: Sim t Last Sumiwr I wired aCurhnpon my norse with yourr-elclret.-l K. n.l ill s spavin Cure and It was I he ie-u junirvrrKiw fine. iniveioom empty bottles. Savin ucl It with perfect success. curlni; every thin 1 lrtet It a. My neighbor had a horse with a very bad Spavin chat made hlinbune. i-ighbor had He a.ked me how to cure It. 1 recom mended Kendull's Soavia Care. He cured the- Spavin la 'nst three works. Yours respectfully. WutcoTT Wrm a. Onirwn, Obo, April i, "'. sa. R J. RttnAtx Co.: IX r bir. 1 have been sel line more of Keadall'a SaviA Cura and Flint's t'onditlou Powdorsthsa everbifore. One man said to me. It was tht bet Powder I ver kept and t he hft he ever tued. Respectfully, cmo L. HorFaaK. CmTTEJiasoo. 5. T., May 19, "SOL pa. B. J. Krimu t o.. I r Kirs: -I have ased several iMittleaof ymir Sfsdairs Spavin Cure v-th perfect sucoes. on a valuable and niofnled mare that was quite lama 'tg Hone Spavin. The mare U now entirely free from iaiuencs and shows no ouaoi "a I ae Joiaf. Hespectfully, V. H. HuTcalss. KENDALL'S SPAVIN GORE. Knvaos, Lav, JSaj 8, "X Dn. n. J. KrBDsi.t. Co.. tnts: I think it mv duty to render too my tlinnks fr vour far f.iminl Kendall's Spavin Cure. I had a four ear old till: which I prized very hlirhlv. She hud a very sevcro swollen les;. I trleil .tooiii elrht- dltTerent kinds cf nied telnet which did no C"o.l. I pun-hased a Ion In of your Kendall i Spavin Care which curc-l tier in four days. 1 remain urs. M4U10.1 lKWDKir. pries 1 jwr bottle, or six bottles for$."w Alldrtut sHscs have It or can yet it for ym. or U will lie sent to; any- address on receiptor price by the proprle tors. Dtt. H. J. hKMIALI. C t tnobur-h itill, Vrrrttl, oetlO 90.IJ-. 2.00- Uoirs VV. L. DOUGLAS 4 1 1 afA fff and other speelal- H U fc. 'es f. oeatC-mea. Wl sW BBSS ladles, etc., are v. ax ranted, and an stamped oa bottom. Add re W . L. lOl;i,A!i,HrekaB, Maae. Sold by C. T. ROBERTS, 1Hart.l r -J.N V.. at a. W up. atJ fatal I lati.. h, but rat (! ejtiiki fc.-ar ffiu 14 it I t'ajr i it Mart, aa4 vh-i n. Uotti . .l u fn vf Mtti. l, JfO rJ .WTtwa at h"!, 1 c all jr iliM,'-r (arc h MamM t wiVA't a '. .rMt M HI f. v y ..( r. aiart yt4t, fk mlalkrti a; v.-ft... r fH , l l I'll Lsarl. YA H I I' 11 4I H: I . AtlHrraa at Mr, ROBERT EVANS. t 13 -1 UNDERTAKER, awu NAXUFAinrRER or and dealer In all kladi at FTJKNITVKE, ICbenHhnrRf, Pas WA tall II e ! CTankett always oa taand.- Bodies Embalmed WHEN REUriKKD. Apt S3 SI NOT DEAD YET! VALUE LUTTRINCER. MABTCVAOTVaBB OB TO', COPPER AND SHEET-IRON WARE AND TIN KOOriNG. Kespeet tally Invite the attentloa el hit Irlaadt aad the pablle la general te the faet that he la still earrytaa; oa hnslnses at the eld stand eppeelte the Moastala Hoa.e, Kbeasbarar. aad Is prepared te I (apply from a lance stock, ormaaafactarina; toor- Idar, any article In bis Una. froai the smallest to the Lanreft, Is the beat Banner and at toe lawaet Uvlns; prices. aVNo pealtentlary work either made r told at this establishment. TIN ROOFING a SPECIALTY. IHve a tall aad tatif fj yenrselvai as to tav wora aaa pnoaa v. ui' 1 1 ainitut. April is. laas-tt. DRAG SAWS FfeKUl rerl.2.edlOH. P. AJT ?s. PICKET MILLS fct Hi s and Factory ase. MARSH STEAM rOMPfnrt...a Traasiua Eaauias, All ilra(-elaa iitandsnl Ma hmsi B.C. MACHINERY CO. Ml lartrt Street, Havttle Cmk, Mlcbu Whea VUltiaf the Pmsvaeaw Expatilloa, call on tha HENRICKS MUSIC CO., Ltd. Pay Cask or Time Prtcaa oaj Pianos and Organs, 79 Fifth Avax. PITT8BURQH. PA. 7 V AeNa5aits1 7X501 SOIT I m. a Mr . a If .- ' '. asBssk 1 1W ril lUrMw . . . Dv . :-t . Proprietor. There's a nmt on tin- hi! Wide far away. Whi rt: iu summer tike fc-ras ifwn irreen; Where, Yvncath a rust lint? elm tree's hado, A mo! civiTcd Miotic ls Hcen. 'Tts a uU t and unfrequented snot, A solitude loos: and wild; Vet somebody's hope arc buried there 'TLi lh frrare if a little child. In winter, ala.s! that mossy more ' Is bid 'ut-atU a t-hroud of mow, Hut around it in e;rins-timc, fr;ith and sweet. The daiMica and vloli-ts trrow. And o'er it the ffumiucr nri-oxe k!o With a fr:l-r:ini- s ft and aild. And the uutiimn's -U ail l. av.-s thickly ntrew That .rave of a little child. And every year there'e a redbreast comes, When the month f May Is r.ib. And I uiHi her u-;t in thi qul t spot, Mlil the dm tree's bratichC! blr. Wlth her melMly w el by the hour she trtlla As If by th scene fcceullrd; I'crhai'., who knows, 'lis an nncel comes To the grave of that little child. Yes, somebody's hopes lie buried there; Some mother Is weeping ln vain, for thiniph years may come and year may go 'Twill never come hack again. Yes. blessed are thos-c who die ln youth. The j:ure and the utulrHleJ, S. mc r..ud.s to Heavca ptrhaps run through That cave of a llttl.-1 liiUL Waiter rices, in N. Y. Weeklf. TO CATCIMHIK UXWARY. Many Old and New Paradoxes That Are Intereetlnef. .ts for the W lis of Yostr I'rinnda rrwhlrm. That Aro I'uzzlius; .ay to Solve An Old Kul wltht No Kxeeptlotu llrlffht Vet After the cip;arslial 1hm-i lihtvd at a siniill dinner party one v-vt-nin'' not lonjj- ;irt, the snfcjfft of paradoxes was ititrnltif'il. It was a matter of oont-iil-rallo ininnipnt to tliis? preent what a hir'e mitiilK-r of jrop.ition, or qtHTteK there sire floating alMitit the rll in one form or another, which are inti'iiletl to puzzle the wits of thtj unwary. Some of them are extremely aiieieiit, havinjr In-en handed down from the works of the Ure-ek philsoph er. and some are of went origin. All of them form excellent mental exercise, as they sharpen the wits, K-sidos Ifinij a recreation to the mind. Xorlaimto originality is made to the examples nven here, most of which were hroupht out at the dinner mentioned, hut un doiihtedU" some reatlers will iindanttm mt of iuestions whi.-h they have Bt'Vi.r l.-fr- heanl. h has net at some period of his existence puzzlevl h- hrain over tl'i ttiery: If a oose weighs ten pounds and half its owu weitrht. r. hat is the weight tf the jr w se ' Many per.M-.ns hare ntidotihtetlly Kern tompted to answer tiftet-r. pounds, when the correct ansv.iT. of course. Is twenty pounds, as they discover after ";ivinj the problem a l-'ttle thought. An ex ceedingly wise r-'an has sometimes ln-en eatiirht lv a ver." simple ti'stion . of this sort. Tht U 'iowin for example: llow many da s would it take to cut up a piece of cloth -S-fty yards Ion;;, one yanl iM-itient tf every ly? Or this: A auail climhiti- rp a post twenty feet hih ascend tire fee every daT and slip down four fvet every niffht. Flow lontf will it take the snail to reach the top of the post? Thesti are simph? rtiestion) in arithmetic, acd yet, how many pT son would answer fifty days, instead of forty-nine to the first one, and twenty insteai 4 sixteen to the last one. It is pcrhajts s-:ireelv necessary to p. .iiit out that the snail would fain one foot a day for fifteen days, and on the sixteenth lay reach the top of the pole, a nd t Sere, of course, remain. Here is one of a different sort, but none the less puzzling: A in:. n walks round a pole, on the top .if which is a monkey. As the man moves, the mr.nkcy turns round on the top of the p-le. so as still to keep face to face v it h the man. When the man has irone round the pole, has he or has he not. fone round the monkey? As either answer to thisiestirn may le upheld with stroti; and lop-ieal arguments, the render is left to decide the ticstin 'or himself. Which, at any "-iven moment, is mov in firward faster, the top of a coach wheel, or the Ixdtom? The answer to this jtiestioii seems simple enough, but probably nine per sons out f ten. asktiat random, would five the wronjr reply. It would apear at first si-ht that the top and !ottom must In- movino at the same rate; that is, the speed of the carriage. J!ut hy a little thought it will W discvcred that the iHtttidti nf th w heel is, in faet, by the direction of its motion around its, axis, inoviup; backward, iu an opposite ilirection to that which the carriajre is alrancinr. and is consequently station ary in space, while the point on top of the wheel is moving forward with the doubled velocity of its own motion around the axis and the sjiced at which the carriage moves. Many persons will recall the famous paradox vf Zeno, by which he sought to prove that all motiou is im)Nssihlc. "A 1nm!v," he arfrucd. "must move either in a place where it is or in a place where it is not. Now, a hixly in the place where it is is stationary and cannot be. in motion, nor, obviously, can it le in mtin in the place where it is not. Therefore it cannot move at all." JSodies do move, however, and that is a sufficient answer to the inpenioua philsophcr. Another paradox which has Wen inherited from the lireeks that of Achilles and the tortoise is familiar. Achilles ithe swift -footed; allows the tortoise a hundred y art is start, and runs ten yards while the tortoise runs one. Now. when Achilles has run a hundred yards the tortoise has rnn teu yards, aud i therefore still that distance aheaL When Achil les has rnn these ten yards the tortoise has run one yard. When Achilles has run the one yanl. the tor toise has run one-tenth of a yanl. And when Achilles has run the one-tenth of a yard the tortoise has run oiie-hun-dredth. It is only necessary to eon tlnue the same proves of reasoning to j prove that Achilles can nevt r overtake thai tortoise. Of course. It is a faet that Aehillestbtes orertake the tortoise, not withstand iug this apparently logical reasoning to the contrary. The conclusion of that paradox is somewhat different from the following, although iu some wars sim ilar to it: A man owes four cents, lie pays tws cents one day, one cent the next, one half cent the next, and so on. oi.- half eft: !i .lay of ti e d. bt. Vow. alUo.., "UK is A FREIMIS WHOM THE THLTH EBENSBURG. PA., on the fonrth day he only owe" one quarter of a Cent, if he should he cndtit-tl with the jrift of immortality, and he should continue to pay the debt at the same ratio, he could never pay all of it. There wtauld always remain that half of the former eiay's payment, providing he had saunters small entnifh to make the payments. Her. is a puzzle in feometry. It does not require a skilled mathematician, however, to solve it. It is required to demonstrnt (eo metrically) that a larger crop of corn an la (rrown on an acre of level tfround than on an acre of slanting fround. The stalks f corn are sup posed to prow perpendicularly in rxith cases, and ull other particulars, such a fertility of the soil and the like, to lie the same. The ingenious reaIer will probaMy have no trouble in solrinjf the problem without assistance. Philosophers, accxirdinp; to the latest devices, have not been able to decide what would he the fate of a donkey placed exactly midway between two hayricks. As then' is clearly no rea son why he should chose one rick rather than the other, it is presumed that, logically, he would starve to death. The cynic's reply to this proposition may. perhaps. Itc as pood as any that could lie found: that is. that the philos opher who wastet tirte over such a question oujrht to solve it by actual x-' perience. Probably every reader has q noted the proverb: "There is an exception to every rule," several hundred thousand times during his or her life and never thornlit that the proverb contradicted itself. For, clearly, if there is an ex ception to every rule, there is an ex ception to this proverb; therefore, there is a rule without an exception. The familiar query: "If Dick's father is Tom's son. what relation is Dick to Tom?" is easier ef solution than the other me closely allied t it. which runs as follows: A man ktamrinjf be fore a portrait says of it: " Sisters and Vreth'-rs have I none Yet that man's father is my father's son." What relation is rhe speaker to the person depicted the portrait? The answer is often tpvc" that the portrait represents the speaker himself, when, as a mutter of fact, it represents the speaker's son. It is seldom, indeed, that the follow ing question is answered correctly on hand: A train starts tkwly from San Fran cisco to New York and one daily from Xew York t San Francisco, the jour ney lasting five days. How many trains will a traveler meet in journeying from New York to SaB Francisco'.' A Iwiut ninety-nine persons ont of one hundred would sny fire trains,as a matter of course. The fact is overhxiked that every day durinjj the journey a fresh train is stnrtinr from the other rml while there ore five trains on the way to lK'frin w ith. Consequently the trav eler will meet not fire trains, but ten. The following proposition is left for the reader to think about: If there are more people in the world than any oue person has hairs upon his heath then there must exist at least two persons who possess identically the same numlicr of hairs, to a hair. This same proposition may be applied to the faces of human liein-rs in the world. If the numlier of perceptible differences ln-tween two faces In not greater than the total numlier of the human race, then there must exist at least two persons who are to all ap pearances exactly alike. When it is considered that there are about 1..1O0, ooo.uoo persons in the world and that the human conntenanee does not vary, ex cept within comparatively narrow lim its, the truth of the proposition he comes obvious," without applying th. logical reasoning of it- X. Y. Tribune. ABOUT OUR SUN AND MOON A nf.w theory in relation to the moon has lately lieen advanced, to the effect that the lights and shadows of the mwn are incompatible with the theory of its spherical shape. A liF.KMA capitalist has offered a re ward of 'i."i.N)o to any astronomer who can satisfactorily prove to him that the sun. the moon, or any one of the stars is inhabited, or that it contains any solid matter whatever. TlIK brightness of the moon is not so very much greater than the brightness of the same area of sky. The total light of the full moon can lie compared with the total light of the sun, though it is a very difiicult problem, and the re sult will le that the sun is as bright as Cso.oon full moons. IlT a comparison of records extending' over a pnnihcr of years it has Itcen con cluded that the moon has an influence in lowering" the height of the Imrometer in the months from September to Jan nary at the time of fall moon, and in raising it during the first quarter. No effect has lieen perceived in the other months. M X spots are cavities in the surface of the sun tilled with (rases. They are generally distributed in groups, princi pally in two zones which cover the sur face of the sun lying lietween ten de grees and thirty-fire degrees north and south of its equator. Their size varies from those just visible with the most powerful telescope to those tOO,(X0 miles in diameter. An Atosutlc aasiler. An ingenious system of registration is said to have lieen applied for the pur pose of making telephone pay stations automatic. The principle adopted is the familiar nickel-in-the-slot. Any person wishing to use the telephone drops in a coin of any denomination from a nickel to a dollar, and the ma chine immediately indicates to the cen tral office the value of the coin deposited, so that the operator there is able to tell the exact time for which payment has been made, and to coutrol the circuit accordingly. This communication with the sqierator at the exchange is effected by the closure of a local circuit, when the coin is introduced, which rings an alarm hell. The wave sounds created hy the bell act tipon the transmitter, and are thus passed through the line to the central office. To guard against tampering and to insure the fact that the coin has assed sufficiently far to W Wyond the possibility of recovery by dishonest persons, a spring trough is supported at the laittom of the instru ment so that the bell can only lie rung by the closure of the circuit after the coin has passed through the chute. The central office otn-rator thus knows that the moner has r.-n naid and that the 1 customer is ettt it led to s.Tvt-el MAKES BFE AJIU A LI. AVK M-AVE I'-KelPE.' FRIDAY. JUNE 19, 1S91. STOKY OF A WjJECK. His Little Dot and Tet Own Child. Not His "You will lie playing Juliet before yon an1 twenty, little one, I said, a I vt came running into the greenroom on evening. "Hy Jove! she t. great," said another. "lU'st actress m the company ami minds her ow n business, too," said the crusty old stage manager. The ex clamations, mingled with caresses, were showered tqniu the head of one of the brightest and cleverest child prodigies who are playing upon the stage to-day. Little lot had just come off the scene. She was a great success in the play that was running at the Amphion at that time, and her performance that evening seemed even better than usual. A big roun I of applause attested the appreciation of the audience, and when she came into the pTeennom to kiss papa good-night before going home with her nurse she was warmly greeted bv every one there, for we all loved the dear little girl as well as admired her genius. Dot's father was tfus Mcrvin, the low comedian of the theater. They made a strange contrast, these two. I Jus was short and very fctout. His beardless face, lined and wrinkled by the contortions that had amused the public for twenty-five years, loose, ugly mouth ami sandy hair, could never have jwsses.ss:l any claims to beauty, while the child was very lovely with her big, hazel eyes and golden brown hair. "liood night, my little one," (Ins said, running his red fingers through Dot's crisp curls; "sleep soundly, and don't dream of new parts." "I hive to dream of new parts." said the child. "Pajia, shall I really play Juliet when I am twenty?"' "You won't if you don't grow." re plied litis, laughing, "and if you don't sleep, you won't grow, so run along with Susan." So Dot after kissing us all goid night was wrapped up in her fur coat and carried away by h r care ful nurse. "All ready for the third net." screamed the call loy and the scramble for "props"' and places liegan. Neither litis nor I wcreonrgain until the last act uud wo usually indulge in a lit liar smoke aad chat during Our wait, lie came iu my dressiii;-rtn to-night as usual, but sat silently smoking his pipe and gazing alistraetedly at the dingy ceiling, tins and I were old friends and I was ush! to his long fits of silence, so 1 said nothing and busied myself at my dressing table, putting things to rights and touching up a re fractory eyebrow or so. "Frank, old man," lie said at last. "I want to talk to you almut Iot." "So, it's IVot you've leen thinking aliont nil this time," I rcp!i-d. "Well, I don't blame yon. 1 1 us. She is thi? sweetest little tot I ever knew, on or off. and by far the cleverest child in the business. Why. it is perfectly wonder ful the knowletlge th;tt child has of stag-" business,"" 1 s;.ntinu-I. warming to my subject. "Last night old Davy missed an important cue and got com pletely rattled couldn't think of a word." Thit w as up laok business with the flowers you know but she walked down stage, spoke the line for him which happened to lie my cue whis pered the next line in the old fellow's ear. and then turned up stage for her business w ith me. I don't l-lieve a soul in front noticed anything wrong but Dot savc-1 that scene and perhaps old Ivy"s p sili.n. for him. You would think she had lieen playing ten years instead of ten months." "That is true," said Jn she needs but little teaching." "There's where blood tells." I con tinued; she has got your twenty-five years of hard work behind her, and I re rnomlier your wife before Dot was lmrn. I'oo.- Alice was one of the prettiest and neatest soubrettes in the business. She was a great loss to the stage, old man. as well as to you. but she has given us Isit in her p'aee." "Frank, old friend, I am going to tell you something. It is not niy own child or poor Alice's eitiu-r. for that matter. It isn't a very long story and I will tell it to you to-night if you've time to listen." "So ahead," said I. closing th dxir. "The act isn't half through yet."' "You remember my wife you say, a sweet, delicate, little creature, too fragile hy half for su-eh a life as ours. I don't know what she ever saw in me, but she loved me, and married me, and I tried hard to make the rough path a little smoother for her tender feet to travel. "Money didn't come as easily then s it does now, bnt we got along very well. We were playing in the Orleans the winter Dot was bora, not this Dot, but our little Dot, Frank," looking up with tears in his honest eyes. "That was the happiest year of my life," he coutinuetL "I was making caough to run the little home and take care of Alice and the baby. "I tell you this life of ours teaches a man to prize a home if he ever has one, and if he has a wife and baby in it and money enough to keep things going, he doesn't want much else in this world. "Our season closed in April and Alice was anxious to get back to New York. Summer was coming on, and she thought the baby would be better north, so about the first of May we started by rail for New York. "I remeraWr now the strange fecling" of depression I .had when leaving New Orleans, but I tried to throw it aside as a foolish fancy. True, we had been very happy there, but I had my happi ness, my life, my everything as I be lieved with me. It took nearly a week then to nuike. the trip and the accom modations were not what they are now, but we managed to make ourselves very comfortable. Alice was a perfect genius at that. "There was a sad-faced woman in black, occupying the licrth uci.t to us. She was a widow, we understood, not in very goI circumstances, and going to New York with her laby. a little girl about as old as our Dot. The two babies were a bond of sympathy be twevn the two women und in a few days she and Alice were chatting to gether like old friends. One nig-ht, after Alice and baby were soundly sleeping in their berth, I went forward into the smoker before going to bed, 1 had been smok ing aud cngrossrd with mv thoughts ever an hour when there came an awful crash, The car suddenly pitched for- waniand thru, leaving the. track, turned ,V ,tH A- AY : M il I 1 1 8I.0O and J over n one side. Yu perhaps rctueni i ber that terrible accident that ceurred in West Virginia about ten years ago. i It was the old story. Some one had blundered. We were running behind time and a local express had smashed into the rear car. No one in the smoker was seriously injured, and, after a little. I managed to make my way out and go in search of my wife. "The sleeper was a wreck. Willing hands were already tearing away the wrecked ear and rescuing the poor wretches within. The air seemed tilled with moans and groans. Around me they were laying tlown the victims, some living, many dead but Alice was not among them. 1 joinrsd the band of workers and we tnilisd with the strength that God only gives to men at a time like that, tugging away at broken timliers and releasing many a poor soul from torture. A woman and chi'd both do ad 7 I heard a Lave near me exclaim. I sprang to hi side. There lay my dar ling wife, her white face turned up to mine, but fixed, unmeaning, mi recog nizing. Our little one lay in her arms but the tiny head was crushed and the chiltl's blood had stained the mother's hair and face. "Little Dot was dead, but as I placed my cheek close to the mother's lips. 1 fancied I felt a faint touch of her breath. "Willing hands bore them Imth into the open air and laid them on a rude couch. Oently I took the child from the unconscious mother's arms and laid her, wrapped iu my coat, on the soft grass. "Hy that time the work of rescuing was alsmt over. Help had begun to arrive, and yet the Mi ne if anything was more heartrending than liefore.. Men were seeking for lost wives or striving, like myself, to rescue living ones. Mothers were calling for tjieir babies, and little children vainly asking for their parents. "Even in my own despair, my heart felt another pang when I saw them bring forward a black-robed figure with a little child at her breast, ami lay them near us. The baby gave a little frightened cry and then seemed to sleep in the dead mother's arms. It was Alice's frieud and her little otie. "A relief car and doctors arriving, Alice was made more comfortable and a physician came to examine her. I lived years in those few moments. He turned to me and said softly: 'She is injured internally, I fear. If she is conscious before the end, it is all we can hope for. ), my fiod how I did hope for it How I prayed for it! lWth to lie taken from mo, wife and child, without a farewell word or caress. "Alice lay breathing faintly for a long time, and then the white lids lifted and 1 saw once more and for the last time in this world trte violet eyes I loved f dearly. " 'tins, dear, she whispered, trying to raise one poor maimed hand to her heart. 'Where is littl- IVit? Why have I vou takrn mv luhv aar Imm mi ?1 "What should I say? What could I do? The sweet voi oe grew fainter and tfie blue eves almost closed. " lot:-," she w hispcrtsl, 'am I going to leave you? Am I going to die?' "she must have read the answer in ray face, for a faint sigh broke the flut tering breath. ""Uring me Dot." she murmured. Ilivc me my baby teforc I die. "In utter despair I bid my face in my b.ands, when a faint cry came to my ears. It came lrom the little mother less bain- lying near us. I lifted the chihl and hiid her in Alice's arms. "The child nos.tlcd its little head con tendedly into the dying woman's neck and one little hand was laid on her lips. Alice w as very weak now, aud I had to bend over to catch the few last words. "'My little lht, she murmured. Our little child. Gu dear. She will stay with you and love you in my place' "She kissed the little hand and raid: " 'Love your father. Ixt Iove him alv.-ays.' she weal; ly motioned me to take the child, nnd with the baby on one arm and my dying wife in the other, I lay until the gray light came into the eastern sky and stole over Alice's face. Hut the light of life was fading from her eyes. I kissed her lips aud felt her last breath on my face. My wife and child were together in Heaven and there was nothing left for me on earth but I looked at the little child sleeping in my arms. Alice had given her to roe, -tml she, like I, was alone in the worhL, and so she be came my little daughter, and you know, Frank, how very dear she is to me." I Jus had finished his story. There were tears in my eyes as well as in his. Noble old (Jus how I admired his hon est, generous, loving heart. Hut men say little to each other when the tears begin to fall, and so, with a silent hand shake we left the room. The curtain was down and the last act ready to begin. F.thelyn i riend, in Chicago Saturday Kvening llerai-L. A Unreins; Time "art. IVhind the desk at the Auditorium hotel in Chicago is a group of three in candescent lamp-. At night it has been noticed that one, two. or all of these lights would burn for a short time and then go out. The lamps were connected with the three stations located on the upper floors of the hotel, and these- sta tions are connected with the annunci ators! in the rooms. Each station is supplied with ice water, etc. When a guest presses a button in his room, it rings the bell at one of the stations, the light in the office is turned on and a "f roTit"f rom the sta t ion e nswers t he call. The light bnrns while the boy is mak ing the run. and is turned out as soon as he returns to the station. The clerks are tlicn able to tell just how long the boys are in making the run. Then it af fords an opportunity to bet on how long the light will bnra. lleld sa to Ilia Wbeat- An eccentric old bachelor died the other day at Atchison, Kan. He was originally a brewer, but embarked in the grain business long before Atchison hal an elevator. He had a large ware house and lived in his office. Among his asset were three thousand bushels of w heat w hich he had in his warehouse five years, refusing to sell because the priis- never reached his mark cf value. "The care of this w heat was his fond est occupation, nnd he constantly turned it with a woodeivfclicrvc.1 until the ker nel have become as glossy as the sur face of a chiiia neat rirg." postage per year In advance. NUMBER 24. THK OAK'S SKCliKT. Private Brashwell Makoa Restora tion and Wins a Prize. It was when Sherman was "inarching through f.eorgia." A house which seemed, from its outward appearance, to have lieen close. 1 and barricaded for defense, or deserted altogether, was surrounded by M-rhapsa dozen soldiers. "ict an ax." cried one. "and we'll break in the doors, He had scarcely ceased speaking lie fore a dozen blows shivered the panels of the oaken door and made an en trance for the crowd and one after another they fil.-d in. The house hud indeed bts-n deserted by its former occupants. Much of the furniture had Ut-n rcmovi-d certainly all the silver plate and other valuables, for nothing of that character as visi ble. The men searched every room in the house, but found nothing to inter est them until they reached the cellar. "Here we arc!" cried one, "wine in ahiinditix-e; the rarest bra mis, I'll vager!" If v. ine was their object, they had accomplished it with little trouble. The cellar was stocked with it: there was in mgh and to span-. Hot tie after lioltli- was handed out. until at last tliei cellar was rilled of its store. The men held high carousal in the spacious dining hall. They drank long and deeply, und what tlu-y could not consume or take away with them they destroyed on the spot. Then they went reding on their way. It hail lieen projiost-d to burn the house, but this prohibition, for some reason, was overruled by tine of the party the youngest of them alL "No." he saiil. "why should wo burn it? It has lTor.'..-l us pleasant enter tainment, and li -sides it may be some poor fellow's home who has lost every thing else." It wa a little strange thai this young man lip-da av from his rverMigc. .rn par.lor.s on the way to camp ami re turned to the house tlu-y had deserted. Hut they would not have thought it strange could they have divined his ol ject. He retraced his steps. In through and de the shattered door he pu'-sed l t ne ts-iiar. . r-giit uis- A closasl the fact that iu one comer a block of the stone floor had lyn re moved and r-placsl again. -i i-it-iilly in hurry, for at one end it protruded above the level of the floor. J1U Keen eye had detected this, w hile his com panions were making merry over the wine, and it had excited his curiosity and suspicion. With the assistance of an ax he suc ceeded in removing the stone. The earth licneath it lmre evidence of hav ing beeu recently distnrlicd it was soft and fresh. There was a spade in the cellar. He seized it and went to work. He Hid not work long 's-fore he dis covered a sinall iron Ixc: - tnell. but J:cuvy. It r.sj-.iir. d sonv strcTi-rth to lift it but once out in the lirht with il there wns no doubt in the youn. miui's mind that it contained valuable treas ure, for did not me gold rattle as he lifted it? Would he open it there? No! His companions might miss him and return. He resolved to lie more secret. With some difficulty he lifted th; lsx and placed it on his shoulder, then, taking tin- ux alss. lie jMtssed out of the house aid into the tcod licyond. Twilight was coiniug on, and with it the heralds of a storm low. rumbling thunder and dark clouds glooming in the north. Into the wotxl the thief staggered with his heavy burden into " the shadow and the silence, where he and his secret would lie safe. "Thief!" it is a bitter, burning word. He seemed to hear it at every step. The wind seemed to hiss it in his ear; the thunder roared it to the world; the sky scowled st him through the trees and sent its blackest shadows to hide his crime from sight. "Thief !" At the base of a great, towering oak he threw his burden down. "It is a lie!" he cried, looking around the place as if expecting an audience and in an swer to an accusation. "It's a lie. I never .was a thief ! All's fair in w ar!" Then he knelt down and pried the iron lid open with an ax. Gold, sure enough gold and silver that amounted to thousands of dollars! Into the glittering mass he thrust his hand the hand of a thief ! "A curse upon it!" he cried, throwing back the coin r.nd spurning the box with his foot. "I'll l.ii'.v it here. In the gloom, which wns fast deepen ing Into darkest night, he dug a grave for the ill-gotten gold and Imried it deep. He dared not touch it then - his conscience, his honor, his honesty gained the mastery for the time. He turned to go, but lie had not re treated twenty yards when his eyes were blinded by a kern flash of light, followed by a deafening peal of t bun der. A limb from the oak, where he had hid the treasure, came- crashing down, lie turned and saw that light ning had struck the tree and ringed a track around it. "I shall know that tree again," h said, "and remember this scene this incident, forever! And then he passed out of the wood. Chit of the wood and out of Gvorgia passed on with the victorious army, fighting the battles of the union, until peace was declared nnd victor ard vanquished laid down their arms and sought their long-forsvaken homes. Hut the secret of that treasure, hid den in the Georgia woods, weighed heavily upon the soldier's mmiL Near ly two years had passed since he had seen that thunder-blasted tree where he had left a fortune. Had anyone dis covered it? It w as possible. Rut per haps they had not. The oak might still be guarding its secret faithfully. He rxsolved to return to Georgia. If the gold was there, and the rightful owner could be found, he would return it to him. If no one could prove clear title to it. why it would be his. So. w ith these thoughts he returned to the scenes he remembered so well returned to find the old house standing, as on the day when his reckless com panions forced an entrance and caroused within ita walls. In the neighborhood he obtained the informa tion that the house was owned by CoL HroadweU, a veteran oi the Mexican was, a widower, who lived there with his only daughter; that he had also lived there during the war, and was i now greatly redtved in circumstances. .He -r"t.sl tho -j!o' e.i il.tiiie-c Aclvei-tiHitify Taint OH, Tt e tsrveand ret t 1. -1rrtitk a of te'w- Hi 1-o.tcmcn.s it tu the i-ro-.M. ron.lrleratli u of aiTertu:r whose lrt,i wl" Brerted at the following low rates: I loch, 3 time........... ... t .. 1 Inch, S (booths......... -, , 1 itcri. inoctbt. ............... ....... .. 1 1 Mcl I (Ul. ....................... ....... 2 loi-hea. C months.................. -S I inches I year 10 no laor.es. a Months o luetics, t year - - eointna. e months MOM column. ft liianths oe 'j e ilaua. 1 year , no cot a ma, mouths .. -o SO 1 column, I year Tetnl Bnslaess Items, flrvt Insertion, lo.:. per lt3 subsequent Insertions. per I'ee A luouotrittor and executor s nonnee a, Auditor's Notices sitray and similar Njtlees 1 S Barke'diitions or prMendlnaa ot na? e--r-s lion or inyicty and etii.p:uoiilini 1 e call attention to er.y ti. stie- of l.iceed ii Tieaat liitrrul suaxt be M f. r ar ! . . v. nw a and jot I'rintiov ui i:i i.inui ezeaiousiy eaecuied at the haul f.r! v. A o f don't you toraei it. and that of los lovely dutifhtcr. '- thau thi he made his aVlc at t-'o house, for the old colonel took a fuse for him. He saw that the little family was !s str.iit-nsl circumstances, s.n-1 bi lie-V ingthatho hail contributed to tl.."r j invert y, the thought cut him to t"".i heart. An old man u ho ha 1. p ri::'-A, known want: u young nn l l ively r,:r who had suffered, and through him' Colonel." he said, one afternoon, n they sat together in the h.UL "did you l.ise much by the war?" Everything, sir!"' said the colonel, except this house, wl.i.-h th.-y irai vcrtently overlooked. My greatest 1 jss was in money. 1 had nri iron l.y. T'.ll of gold and silver Imried iu my c-ellur, but th-v found it!" "Tliief!" The i-i-hocs came back to him from the past. Hut ho re solved thit if t;it liox could lie found, the wronged and rightful owner should have it. 'I he next day he s-.-t out alone to tVct Well-rcmeiutiered wood. The sci'TTC ' onl: was stiii staijiihig. lie l:-:r .'. ' J very pof where he had b-.'.el. : the goM, though it w as jjv greatly over grown witfi foliage. He returned to ' the hov e. The colon 1 was walking in the garden wita bis danght.-r. "Colonel." he said, "I want y -a ar. J Miss Hatlie to come with me ur.d no questions. 1 had a strrinj'c dr-viu last night, and 1 v. a:t you t h-ei.ir me in it- Here's a spade. Now, where will wo find an ax?" The colonel laughed and his daughter looked amused. We were going for a wall: ar.7 how.'' he said, "so we'Jl hum jr you, find s-sli no questions, unl-si lidtita th.re" lilu I have all a woman's f-nriosity, sjii.l that young lady, laugiiing, "but I'll obey orders for once, und keep silent." ' With an ax a:;d spade w.-i Ids shoulder, Hra-.hwell for -nc'i u--.s lii name - led the way ir.t-i tlie wood, ti e oolom l and l is dui'.glit- r luUov, ing in amused si ic lice. Arr:- d e1 the oik. Lru.-hv. t H throwing ojf Lis coat: "Now, not u work while 1 work!' They sttHwl by in silence, theda.vght. r leaning on l.er father's aria. Hrashwell thaivd awjy the un.'t-r-brush sind then he began to ir'tr. He was greatly excitvd. His whole frame trembled as he r.'ork--i. Prc-soti1.! y Ihe wpade struck a hard, vm yieMing nib-.tariee. and the nest mo ment the iron Imx w as revealed! "Look!" cried the excited iri.m, yovr gold! your gold! The iron box, willii.il its glittering wealth!' The coli.-ncl and his daughter drc near. They were -'.-jr.-t r .w. Surely,' cried trie ol.l man, ";.T;rVr, It is the very same! Arid yt-t we tri'i .t lie dreriining. Cun yon li'.l it ta U:o light?" "Aye. t1i.:f I can!" eri-.l P.t-.i-Vv-H. r.s with a gn-.ii effort he raised the heavy box. Then he liftcl the lid. "See!" he snouted, IT.pteroU'-ly, . "your gold! Safe a- -n the day v. ha you buried it in your cellar! Safe nnd not a Jarthitig gone!" '1 lie girl uttered a glad cry of dclij, l.t. Hut her father was affected dUTercnily. His hand trembled, his face assumed a deathly pallor, he reeled and would have fallen, had not hi daughter thrown her arms around him and iJra.h-wr-11 hastened to his side. "God bloss you!" ivm all he coul.1 ajiy. "G.hI b'ess you!' cch xsd the girl, clasping and kissing I'.rnshw i U's hand in t he fervor of her gru' it a-le. ";.1 grant thyt it may lo so!" cried Hra.shv.-ell. its the colonel ticeam more cnmpj.Mil, "and that He may V rgiva inc. to !" "Col. Hrondwell," he continued, his voice trembling with emotion, "it v.-as I who took your gold from the house upyonder iind buried it here. 1 did not have the heart to touch j my honor forbade it! 1 returned t G.-or i.t v.ivli but one purjiose to make restoration, I diil not know you in those d::ys of war and desolation: I did not know you or or your daughter " He came pear breaking down, but rallied and went on: "Hut I know y..u now, .itk! I know her thank God! It was I who saved your dwelling from the flames, and now I give you back your gold'." God bless you! God bless you'." cried the colonel, shaking his haud heartily. "And let me say the same,"' cried Ilattio. laying her hand upon his arm, "and thank you from i:iy heart!" "That is more than all to me," sail Hrashwell, and h- felt his eyes grew moist. "I Bin a happier man to-day tfctn I hare ever boon In-fore!" "And so am I," the colonel said, tak ing him by the hand. "And I ntn a happier woman," cried Haatic. "We aro all so happy!" Greater happiness was still in store for Private Williaui Krxshuell. Hr.t he did not gain it until the 'relic 1" c.l nel gave bis daughter to the "yau:ee" soldier. Frank L- Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution, PURELY STATISTICAL. Tite c-timaU-d population of the world is 1,4 0,tKK,(HK). Seven hundred million oranges are exported every year from Europe to this country. Last year Germany produced 5,202, 073, 0o0 quarts of beer, or over 100 quarts for each of its population. Thf Statistical institute of Home an nounces that sixty-three per cent, of all Italians are unable to read aad write. Tue imports of Victoria, Australia, last year were l"-i,'.to'i,0(.K), against i.-!,-40,000 in the previous year, and the ex ports were 13,U-7,OO0, against A'l'2,734, O00 in 1NS9. Nearly 2.500 persons commit sui .-ido In Russia every year; the violent deaths of all kinds annually reach 4.,oo0; while 16.000 die of typhus fever, the most de structive disease in the country. AFBtCAhasan arcaof 1 1, Ooo.Ooo square miles; it is larger than any other conti nent except Asia, and is 'il4 times the sizeof the state of New York; it pre sents a unique field for the geograpliical distribution of animals, as out of its to tal of 523 species, 473 are peculiar to thst countrr. Alonro -I tar. n' .r.Ko.x. I jn'-t dwopjied in to see if you w nld go spin on the bnulei anl viiii. .. .. " or a Ad- 1- Chut.- ""an't, deal. boV. I n, dcuci.llw afwaid of going iato the uir so so-. after 1- iv :: r te. ;;....'. i,,,..,,. j I
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