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VOLUME XXVIII.
EBENSBURG. PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 2. 1S94.
NUMBER 9.
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and scrofulous swellings, glandular enlargements,
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sleep and night sweats, it is a perfect cure.
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it contains a volume ot valuable Information.
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From Pole to Pole
Atse's SARSArARii.LA hail dpmon.tmtud its
puwrr i f cure tor all diseases of the blood.
The Harpooner's Story.
Af 10 JleJord, June J, 1SS3.
Tn. .1. C. Aria te Co. Twenty years ngn I
a hfcrpoor.er in the North I'a,-iti-, when tiva
ttiers uf ihs crew and my'lf were laM up Tvith
arurTy. Our bodies were bloated, gums swollen
and bleeding, teeth looHe, purplo blotches an
ever ni" jur breath seerued n-tten. Take H
by and Urpe wo were pretty badly off. All our
Umejuiis w.s accidentally destroyed, but tha
't:n had couple dozen bottles of Arm's
Paki-ai41u.a atui enve us that. We recov
ered vn it quicker than I havo ever seen men
br. i. atu.ut by any clber treatment for Scurvy,
r.d I'vti seen a iroocf d :il of it. Heeinir no men
tion in your Aimanaeof your Pareaparilia Ln'ina
J f. r e. uny, 1 1 bought you oi'hl to know of
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liel-ctfully yours, lauruT. 'Vimoatb.
Tho Trooper's Experience.
Hjrtvr., Aciju.'oianJ .?. ArUa.)ilarch'i. 3 H 95.
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anich j leuaure io u-stit'y to it" sri "at value of
tour er.parill.i. We kuva beet stationed
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bd to live lu teats. Bei.irf under eanvaa fo
' h a ti u hreuijrit on ohm is called In thla
n ur.trv "veUli-re." I hl those aorea for
ne ume. I :, a.lvie. d to t-ike yoiirtjArsa.
Urn., two I. ttl. s of which niudo my sorsa
& a -r rapidly, and I am now quite) well.
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I h or iv tln.roucLly effeeiive blood-purifier,
it'"- ; : in. du ine tiat eradicates the poisons o(
-'uiwia, AirL-ury, ana contaffiouj JLia
Hum ttic ej b'.ciq.
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Constipation
Pomnmln prompt treatment. The re
sults of. neglect may la Berious. Avoid
all harsh and drastic purgatives, the
tendency of which is to weaken tho
howels. The bost remedy Is Ayer's
IMMs. Being purely vegetable, their
action is prompt and their effect always
benelirial. They are an aduiirahl
Liver and After-dinner pill, and every
where endorsed by the profession.
" Ayer's Tills are highly and univer
sally kiu ike n of by the iieoplo alxuit
here. I make daily use of them in my
practice." Dr. 1. K. i'owler, Bridge
port, Conn.
" I can recommend Ayer's Tills above
all others, having long proved their
value as a cathartic for myself aud
family." J. T. Hess, Leiths villa. Pa.
" For several years Ayer's Tills have
leen used in my family. We find them
an
Effective Remedy
for constipation and indigestion, and
are never without them in the house."
Moses Greuier, Lowell, Mass.
' I have used Ayer's Tills, for liver
j troubles and indigestion, during many
jiara, linn nave always iounii l lie ill
Iiriiiupt and etlicient in their action."
.N. Smith, L'tica, X. Y,
" I suffered from constipation which
assumed such an obstinate form that I
feared it would cause a stoppage of tho
bowels. Two Ixixt-a of Ayer's Tills ef
fected a complete cure." U. JSurke.
fciat o, Me.
" I have used Ayer's Tills for the past
thirty veais and consider them an in
valuable family medicine. I know of
no belter remedy for liver troubles,
and hax'c always found them a prompt
cure for l. .iM i:i. " James Quinu, M
Middle St., llai Ilonl, 'otiti.
flavin; been troubled with costive
ness, wliii-h m ems inevitable with iier
fuuis of sedentary habits, I have tried
Ajit'k Tills, Ii..hii for relief. 1 am
f lit! to sax I hut they have served ma
eiier than any oilier uiediciue. I
arrixe at this coiicIiimoii only after ta
faithful t,ri.il i f thetr inertts." Samuel
T. Jones, caU hi., I'.oaWiii. Mass.
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rtiiuuxkaOlo Bitcresa has lx.-n shown lu curiii
Citnlly aluHliloin Coiietiiation curing aud pr
Vt nttii thmnnniyii)irouit.aint,whiU tlu-y ala9
Correct aUUiMorilt-i of thoi4oiiiAchtiniiilatethvj
liver &uil rrii'iiiiLto liie bowels. .vn it thevoul
iirhethrywrmribealmostprieolewt.-itrirMewha
eufi'er fnm tbiadiHtri ssindcotuidaiiit: hutforiu
lit. t v tbei r km! niiM doed uoteud ht-re.auU tbosa
irhooucetrythcuixvil! had those little pills valu
able lu o many ways that tby will not be wil
ling to do without thcra. But after alluick boa4
'Is the hans of en many Uvea that here fa where)
uo:i!-ik-o:ir (.-reixt boast. Our pillacureitwhils
others do not.
Carter Ltitlo IJver Tilli are very small and
-very ea. y to tr.to. Una or two pilla makoa dooa.
Jh.'y are strictly vcfieUhlo and do not gripe or
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hj di u-jjiiTU evoryxthero, or sent by mad.
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HALL o hair
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It does all that is claimed.
It causes new growth of hair on bald
heads provided the hair follicles are not
dead, which is seldom the case: restores
natural color to gray or faded hair; pre
serves the scalp healthful, and clear of
dandruff; prevents the hair falling off or
changing color ; keeps It soft, pliant, lus
trous, and causes it to grow long and
thick.
Hall's Hair Kfxkwkr produces Its
effects by the healthful influence of its
vegetable ingredients, which invigorate
and rejuvenate. It is not a dye, and is
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taining no alcohol, it does not evap
orate quick!? and drv up tho natural oil.
leaving the'hair harsh and brittle, as do
other preparations.
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FOR TH1
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Colors them brown or black, as desired,
nd is the best dye, because it is harmless ;
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elng a single preparation, is more con
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m
HEMS,
furea t.'ouidlpatioii, n.uiii r uihui V
r Cures SickHeadacne
Till: ULil; t Villi
What the Great Qnidpu Remedy
Did for tlie Patit-nta.
ere was a W ater cure, a lest cute,
:ind a Mind cure in the sam t..xvn; but
1 thr.e t'lg-ether livl not do lui.f the
u.-.iniss if tho l'.liu-s cure. In fait.
: !.!;; I lir.-o .t u!l i-dimen Is coiiiplaiiii-1
itt fly that tin lilm-s euro t:nii axvay
inr.y c tlie r patients. They di l ail
:- i oiilJ 10 . rasl. t out; tlit'.y de
lart I it to Ik- a humbug, tl mere qitnck
oacffn, with its mys.teri.ius "tireat
tioldeu llerue lv."
In truth, there was a mystery con
nectej xvitli the Ulues cure. It was in
one respect Miinetltiui like the Loi-ette
Mcinorv system, for every patient had
to sign a lioud that he would never re
veal to anyone the secret of the "(Ireat
iold. -n nmed.v." ltut, in spit of this,
and the enmity of the other establish
ments, the 1:1 lies cure pmsH-red ex
traordinarily, and people thronged to
it from far and near. Tlie Ulues curn
cuul.l proudly utlirui thai in all its ca
reer a ease bad never been lost.
Tlu Ulues cure oitice was a small,
suushiuy room oening from a large,
cheerful waiting room.
i :e tine October afternoon the clock
xvas just striking throe as the doctor,
accompanied by a patient, entered the
orthv and closed the diHir beliind him.
The doctor was a jolly little man
with a bald head, and a beaming smile
so much like sunshine that on rainy
days hi-, great black cat would stretch
he self out before him, as though she
xvere really xa arming herself in its
beams.
Tho patient was a tall, thin theo
logue. with a lugubrious expression of
countenance, suitable for a chronic at
tenderof funerals.
Tin' d.K-t.ir's style was laconic.
What's the matter?" said lie.
"I aio subject to depression ol
spirits," replied the theologue, with a
deep sigh that roused the black cat
from its hluiulH-rs.
"When do these attacks come on?"
said the doct-r, looking at him with
half closed eyes, as an artist surveys
a picture.
Kvery evening," replied the theo
logue. "I can't use my eyes then, and
I fall to thinking of my theological
questions, aud I get extremely dow u
in my spirits "
"W hat kind of questions?"
"Oh, tlie in.ist imports nt and inter
esting xxhichcau stir a man's mind."
said the theologue, with such unwonted
animation that the black cat again
was startled. . "Whether Moses wrote
the Pentateuch; whether the Lcvilical
ccxie came in with Ezra or before; the
doctrines of original siu, future pro
bation, and many others. 1 am so up
set in my old ideas (for I was. taught
from my youth up that it was wicked
to question anything about such mat
ters) that I get terribly bluet"
"Oh, ho!" s-aid the doctor, jumpinp;
up and fetching a 1 ittle gilt Ijox from a
table. "I see what , you need! You
must drop your studies for a time and
devote yourself to takinrr this creat
golden remedy. Follow the directions
as if your life depended on it and you'll
be cured of tlie blues."
"Is that all?" said the theologue, in
astonishment.
"You'll find it enough!" replied tha
doctor, as he showed him the door.
"Next!" he called through the ante
room door, much as a lecturer directs
his assistant to throw the next picture
on t lie -screen.
In imnie a young woman of perhaps
seven iiu.l twenty, attired according to
the latest fashion.
"Oh, doctor, how can I get over the
bines? she asked, in the jer.;y,
choppeil-oiT, broad-A style of enuncia
tion so fashionable among feminine
"duties."
"What gives them to you?" said the
doct. ir. looking at her with a magnify
ing glass, as if to see to what genus she
belonged.
"My looking glass," frankly an
swered the young woman. "It shows
me that I'm getting plainer ;very day.
I've got three gray hairs and one crow's
foot."
'Well, what of that?" asked the doc
tor. W
ticnt.
that's
There
at of that?" repeated the pa
"It shows I'm growing old, and
enough to make iinyUaly blue,
are lots of 'buds' coiniiiif out ev
ery year in siK'iet.v, and I'm getting to
be one of the old girls. I just hate t
Ih' an old r-irl and Ik; laid on tlie shelf!
I had an odious time at my last ball,
and life isn't worth living, and I'm sick
of it!"
"Humph!" said the doctor. "We'll
cure you, if you will obey me implicit
ly. "Von must follow this prescription
faithfully- Take this flreat (Jolden
Ueinedy whenever you feel the symp
toms coming on, and you won't have a
sing.e blue."
S i saying he handed her a little gilt
box like the one he gave the theologue,
and she too passed into tlie street.
Next came a widow buried in crepe.
"Well, Mrs. Kelict, 1 suppose you've
come to report?" said the doctor.
"Yes." replied the widow. "The
liolden Uemedy has worked wonders
with me. I. thought it would lie so
easy, but I found it very hard to swal
low at first. I persevered, and it has
.lone me an enormous amount of good.
I've slept and eaten as I haven't since
John's death."
"You've given up reading your letters
of condolence and wiping j-our eyes,
then?" said the doctor.
"Oh, yes!" said the widow; "I don't
have aiiy time now."
"How often do you take the rem
edy?" "fill, nearly all the time," she re
;lied. "If I go an hour without it, I get
ot thinking about John and how I
miss him, and it gives me the blues
U-rribly."
"Well, keep on the same way, said
I he doctor, heartily; "keep it up."
No sner had the widow departed
than in came a pale young man.
"What gives you tlie blues?" said the
doctor, w ith one of his most sunshiny
smiles. The cat left the window and
tretcliel herself out in front of him.
Th" '-.nr..- .n hesitated in answer
ing this question, but as the doctor
pressed him he finally admitted the
etiiise.
"I can't help thinking alout myself,"
said he. "When 1 go among people 1
am pursued by thoughts of my own
txvkxvarduess and stupidity and atn
eenly sensitive to every liltie slight.
This shuts my mouth and uial.es me
.lou bly uninteresting, and naturally
people don't enjoy nie; and then I come
home and brood over it, aud it really
seems as if everybody were laughing
at me, and I get as blue as indigo."
"Yes, you're right," said the doctor;
"it's an aggravated case of morbid self
centered ness: but if you take this
Golden Uemedy every - time you get to
thiuking about yourself, aud take large
doses of it when you are in company,
you'll be cured as sure as fate."
The young man looked incredulous
as he took bis little gilt box and his
departure, and went his way.
"Oh. doctor!" said the next, a poor
little drt s maker with so sad a voice
that the black cat asrnin retired to the
sofa. "I'm so blue! When I get through
my work and sit alone in my little
room evenings, I feel so lonely I'd most
like to kill myself. I haven't a rela
tion or a friend in all the town, ami it's
something dreadful to have no one to
welcome you home nobody to tell
things to, nobody to say food night or
morning to you. Why, sometimes I
kiss my own arm, 1 feel so desperately
louelv!" and she burst into tears.
"Jor thing! poor thing!" said the
doctor, in a cheerful voice, as if he
were saying: "Fine day! fine day! Well
fix j'ou np. Now, my dear, just follow
the directions in this little gilt box
whenever you licgin to feel lonely; and
take a specially large dose in the even
ing when you come home from work."
The young girl smiled a feeble little
smile as she thanked him for the box
and left the room.
"What in the world is the matter
with j'ou?" inquired the doctor of his
next patient, an elegantly-attired
young man, who looked as sleek and
well-to-lo anil about as intellectual as
a well-fed, well-curried horse.
I'm bored to death," drawled tha
young fellow. "I was so bored with
balls and parties and racing and cards
uud shooting and theaters and every
thing else in that line, it was positively
a relief to wake up one morning and
find I had tlie blues; for it was a new
sensation. ISut I've had them so long
now, I'm bored with them, too, aud
I've come here to get cured."
"Well," said the doctor, looking at
him through his magnifying-glass till
the young man actually blushed, "you'll
find my remedy so hard to follow it
uill lie like drawing teeth; but lean
assure you it will be a 'new sensation.
and if you stick to it it will cure even
you."
"I'll take it at any price!" said this
attlicted representative of boredom.
"No price," said the doctor, "except
secrecy. The remedy does no good if
anyone else learns that you are trying1
it for such a purpose."
The yonng man signed the bond, and
departed with a more animated expres
sion on his blase countenance, and a
small gilt Ux in his pocket.
The next arrival was an invalid in a
rolling chair. Her pale face beamed
with pleasure.
"Oh, ho! So you're back! Remedy
don't work?" said the doctor, knowing
lietter.
"1 should think it did work," she an
swered, gravely. "You know how
long tlie days were as I lay in my 1h.i1
or sat in this chair, knowing I lonld
never take a step, and brooding over
every ache anil pain. Well, now the
days are not half long enough to do all
I want. The remedy has given me so
much to do, and made life entirely dif
ferent to me. How can I thank you,
diK-tor?"
"1'shaw, child!" said the good man,
"don't thank me. It's the remedy.
Keep it up; just keep it np."
Next came a very intellectual-looking
young woman, who had obtained a de
gree from a uuiversity. She complained -that
through all the studying to which
she devoted her life for the cultivation
of her mind, there ran an undertone
of melancholy which, whenever she
stopped work, culminated in an attack
of the blues.
As usual, the doctor dispatched her
with bis universal prescription, and
also the other half dozen patients who
called that afternoon. One was a man
made miserable by his own selfish
jealousy of any atteutioii paid his wife.
Another got the blues lieeause she was
so discontented with her humdrum,
monotonous life, being kept at home
by an invalid sister when she wanted
to study music in tiermauy.
So they came, rich and poor, young1
and old, no cbiss in society seeming to
be exempt from this miserable ailment,
and each departed thankful for Uie
tireat liolden Uemedy.
A t last the clock struck six, and the
doctor closed his office door and settled
himself comfortably by the lire. The
black cat jumped up iu his lap, and the
doctor took one of the mysterious lit
tle boxes from the table. As lie, iu an
alisent-miuded way, removed the cover,
a little paper fluttered out. Not a pill
nor a powder was to be seen, and the
Great Golden Uemedy consisted only of
the little paper, on which were printed
in golden letters these words;
WHENEVER VOL' AUK FKKI.I.NG It LITIS,
SOMV.THINO FOK SOUK (INK KLSK OO I MX.
"How silly people are!" said tlie doc
tor to himself. '"They travel miles to
get here, take no end of trouble, sign
that bond and all that nonsense just
to get whet they could have learned
from the Hook of the Great 1'hysician
just as well as I did. Just lieeause the
idea is dressed tip in a poor rhyme and
a gilt lsix, and there's a mystery about
it, and it's the fashion to come here,
the Hlues cure is a howling success,
and all the world is running after my
Great Golden Uemedy." And the black
cat switched her tail and said amen,
as well as she knew how. X. Y. Inde
pendent. "
The -Holy 4'hoaf Plant
In Mexico, Central and South Amer
ica, and in some parts of Cuba and
Jamaica, a rare and beautiful plant
called the "Holy Ghost plant" grows
in great profusion. This plant, also
known as "the botanical dove," is
called the "Holy Ghost plant" on ac
couut of the shape of the tlower, which
has the appearance of a dove with ex
panded wings hovering over the stalk.
The entire flower, "which is pure white,
opens from the end of a long green
stem and is very fragrant.
An Aid to I'roapcrttT.
The management of public highway
is, and always has been, the moat far
cical and impractical department in our
public affairs as a nation. Wherever in
any state the intelligence of any com
munity has risen above the laws aud
made good roads a prominent, feature,
there is to be found a prosperous and
wealthy agricultural district. Gov.
Mellett, South Dakota, in Memorial to
Congress ou Road Exhibit at World'a
Columbian Exposition.
I
GREAT ARSENIC EATERS.
Australian Womea Ntteriace Health and
Hair on t he AlLar of Ouoii Complexion.
The majority of the female beauties
of Sidney, according1 to an English ob
server, have peculiarly delicate com
plexions, languid expressions, fragile
physique and a die-away look in the
ej'es, which are more suited to the en
ervated temperinent of an old civiliza
tion than the active vitality of a new
world. It was easy even for a novice
to detect that these ladies owed a good
deal to their perruquier. The mystery
of this curious com' -nation of pre
mature baldness and unusual delicacy
of complexion was explained by the
fact that these women ate arsenic in
order to produce the aristocratic pal
lor and languor, and found to their
horror that another effect of the drug1
was to make the hair drop out. Valu
ing their complexion above their hair,
however, they sacrificed the one to the
other. What a woman will endure for
her complexion may be estimated by
this and also by the fact that these
arsenic eaters rarely live past forty
f'.ve. There is no pleasure, moreover,
in the consumption of the poisonous
drug. The arsenic is made up into
dainty looking caramels, which fash
ionable dames will produce from pre
cious little . bonbonnieres and suck
quite openly, just as the American girl
chews g-um or the English girl choco
late. The arsenic question, English
men say, was becoming quite a burn
ing; one in the antipodes. When a man
married a young looking, lovely crea
ture, adorned with luxurious ringlets,
he was disgusted to find after the cere
mony that she was really a se mi bald,
prematurely enervated woman, who
was shortening her life to please her
own vanity and was incapable of ful
filling the duties of a mother to debili
tated children which she brought into
the world. Moreover, the suffering
which she would go through in auy at
tempt to overcome this pernicious habit
was quite enough to make her break
down, if, indeed, she could be per
suaded to bear it at all.
HIS PET PHRASE.
It Wn Good for All Oermalons and Kned
Atf-ordingly.
In the "Memoir of Henry Compton,"
published in Tondon some years ago,
there is an amusing story which has an
obvious lesson. Mr. Watlington was a
man from his birth of an even temper
and an easy disposition. He went
through life with the greatest indiffer
ence as to its can s and its troubles.
One phrase he used on all occasions:
"It may be so, but then again it may
not."
Or. paying him a visit one day, says
the writer. I asked him if he thought
it would be fine. "Why," replied he.
"it may rain, but then again it uiav
not."
Seeing him read in?: "Daniels Field
Sports." I inquired if he ever went ou
a hunting excursion.
"Why. yes." said he, "I did go once
on a bit of a jaunt of the sort, but I
made a sorry set out of it. I borrowed
a gig of a friend, aud started for a
day's pleasure, as I thought; but the
horse was a stranger to me, and so,
not having received a regular intro
duction to him, as soon as the chase
legun. off he set at full speed, with
me inside the gig.
"1 liegan to be alarmed. Thinks I,
There's danger here; 1 may go a little
farther without Wing turned over, but
then again I may not. Well, away he
tore, over furrow and field, leaping
every ditch and bank that came in his
way. Presently I aaw we were near
ing a horse-pond, and 1 began to say
to myself: "I may get past this pond
without being dropped in the middle
of it, but then again I may not.
'However, after running a tremen
dous risk. I escaped a broken neck that
time, and after getting pretty safely
through the remaining part of the
chase, says 1 to myself, says I: 'Well, I
may be tempted to go a-hunting aga"
but then again, I may not!"
BADLY FRIGHTENED.
The Trmfte End of Peculiar tiuost Phe
nomenon. Innumerable experiences prove that
all "ghost stories" have a rational ex
planation, and that some natural cause
can be found for any seemingly super
natural ejeurrence. Sometimes it re
quires great coolness and self-possession
to remember this, but the effort to
do so is worth making, for it may save
life or reason. A striking illustration
of this was the tragic experience of a
Dutch painter, named Pentenian, who
lived in the eighteenth century.
Penteman hail a commission which
required the portrayal of skeletons,
death's-heads and other objects in
tended to inspire contempt for the
frivolties aud vanities of the time. "
In order to have models before him
he painted his picture in an anatomic
al museum. One day he had lieen
sketching- the ghastly objects which
surrounded him. when he fell asleep.
Suddenly he was awakened by an
extraordinary noise. He was horrified
to see all the death's-heads nodding1
and gTimacing. and the skeletons danc
ing about, and waving their flesh less
arms madly in the air.
Penteman fled from the frightful
scene, and escaped into the street. He
was picked up unconscious and half
dead with fright.
As soon as he was rational, it was
explained to him that there had been
an earthquake, and that that had
caused the commotion among the an
atomical specimens, but the shock had
been too severe, he died in a few days.
Adopted the Amendment.
, A member of the house of common
had been paying1 attention to a young
lady for a long while, and had taken
her to attend the house until she was
perfectly posted in its rules. On the
last day of the session, as they came
out, he bought her a bouquet, saying:
May I offer you my handful of flow
ers?" She promptly replied: "I move
to amend by omitting all after the
word 'hand. " He blushiDgly accepted
the amendment, and they adopted it
uuauimously.
The Angora Cat.
The Angora cat is peculiar. When
its fur is entirely white the animal is
invariably blind, but when there is
even the slightest tinge of color the
vision is as perfect as in any other
normal cat. This phenomenon is not
accounted for. The only case of a
similar kind known is tliat of the fishes
in Mammoth Cave, which have no eye.
GREAT FAMILIES FALL.
Degenerate Sons Sooner or Later
Ruin Them.
Lithuanian Prlnre W ho Ild Almost a
Pauper How Noble Earopcan Houses
Have Been lirafKed lionu- Uesrend
tMt of a King- ilMoum a Waiter.
In the little village of Grodno, Lith
uania, there died a few weeks ago the
bearer of one of the proudest names in
eastern European history, says the
New York Tribune. He was an ordi
nary physician, and went his ilaily
rounds among the village sick, collect
ing with the greatest difficulty enough
money to support .his aged wife. It
was lrince Ignaz Jagello, Wlieved by
many to be the last scion of the royal
Jagello family, which once ruled in
Lithuania. Uy the victory of Tam
menberg, in 1410, tlie founder of the
family broke the power of the "tier
man Order." Tlie difference between
the simple life of this "Dr. Kezio" and
tlie magnificence of hi ancestors led a
German writer recently to collect a
number of instances of the degradation
of the descendants of once famous and
powerful families.
"In Grosswarddein, Hungary," he
writes, "died recently ajnixlest and in
dustrious clerk, Johnann Szabo, who
had passed his life in semi-poverty.
Few who followed him to the grave
knew that his real name was one of
the highest and greatest in French
history. The aged Sabo was a grand
son of Marquis Chabaud Kuban, who
immigrated into Hungary after the
French revolution. The old gentleman
taught languages in the Weuekhcim
house, adjusted himself to his changed
condition, married and gave the name
Szabo to his descendants. When it was
learned that a Rohan had died in
France leaving an immense fortune,
they came forward and proved they
were genuine Kohans. ISut the recog
nition of their claims was useless, as
they had not been remembered by tlie
testator. The old Szalio continued to
work as a poor clerk to his death, and
no one can say that he ever dishonored
the famous noble family to which he
belonged. That was left for another
scion of the race. Prince lSenjamin Ko
han. who was sentenced to prison in
Paris two years ago and subjected to a
fine of two thousand francs.
"The last Porgia came to his end a
short time ago at Guigl. near Salzburg.
He was lian.n I'alisto von llorgia.
whose father lost hi fortune through
the Austrian government in lsr.7, and.
lived later in Salzburg, as an employe
of a tobacco house. The younger
baron was employed for a short time
in the ofliee of a lawyer and lecaine
later a photographer, living for twenty
years in Germany. A long sickness
impoverished him. and bis widow lives
from the alms of others.
'On board of a steamer going from
Iiordeaux to the Thames in lsstl. just
as the vessel came in sight of the Eng
lish coast, an old man, apparently pov
erty stricken, ended his days. He
called himself Charles Edward Stuart,
count of Albany. He was, in fact, the
last descendant of the pretender,
Charles Edxvard.and his wife. Princess
Louise Stolberg.
"Leon de Luzignana, prince of Kori
coss, a descendant of the Armenian
kings, died in Italy in 1975, in the most
abject poverty. He had served in the
French army until 1 s5i. and was wound
ed at Solferino. Napoleon III. granted
him a pension, which, however, was
not paid after tlie fall of the empire.
"The famous family of Mont-Morency.
related to the Lusignans." adds the
writer, "has sunk so far that a Mont
Morency is a farm servant in the
neighborhood of Paris. A descendant
of the Valois family is a letter-carrier
in Saint-Chamas; a Marquis de l-'al-lique
is an omnibus guard, a Saint
Megrin is a cab driver, a Count Charles
de Kusserolle is a fbxxr cleaner in Kuf
fec and a De la ltourdarfiere is a wash
erwoman. 'Only a short time ago a minister in
the village of West P-romwick, York
shire, discovered possibly the last
Plantagenet in a small boy -of -all-work.
His father was a chimney
sweep, and, despite the family tree in
his possession, had shortened the name
into Plant to escape being teased by
his comrades. A Tudor died in Wales
in the thirties as a poor coppersmith.
"The fall of the great German noble
family of Von Sickingen is also inter
esting. In the churchyard of the little
village of Yorch, near Sauerthal. is
tlie grave of the last male descendant
of Franz von Sickingen, who once
bade defiance to a German emperor
and made France fear. He died, after
wasting his property, in 1SS4, in the
hut of a peasant who had given him
shelter from pity.
"As the Paris Figaro recently told its
readers, a Princess Galitzin works as
a stable girl in a French circus: a
lrince Krapotchin is a cab driver in
Moscow; a Irince Soltikoff is a laliorer
in a St. Petersburg market; Princess
l'ignatelli is a music hall singer and
Countess Olosy is a circus rider.
Points in Palmistry.
An interesting discussion has sprung
up among the palmists in regard to the
line of the hand known as the mar
riage line. One recognized authority
says that when thisline curves upward
the possessor is not likely to marry at
all. Other experts say they know
many married and happy people with
such a line. It is also alleged that the
transverse line on the "hill of Mer
cury," which one party says is the mar
riage line, is not so considered by the
Chirologieal siK-'iety. "Our opinion."
says the editor of the party organ, "is
that these lines are signs of attach
ment, and there is scarcely a hand ever
seen without at least one in the hand
of either married or unmarried people."
A Pious Thought. "
Little Marjorie is by no means fond
of going to church. She has to sit too
still, and "the man" talks some things
she cannot yet understand.
"And when you can't understand
what the minister means you must re
member that he is talking about good
and beautiful things, and j'ou must
make up your mind to think of some
thing good yourself."
That day Marjorie was very quiet in
church and her mother praised her for
it on the way home.
"1 did just as you told me," said the
wee maid. "I thought of something
good."
"What was it, dearie?"
"Apple pie." Sunshine.
JUST "irlE THING.
Hauimlng- the Miiimiii Kiver with
Yo-n Willow.
The willows which grow along the
shores of the Mississippi river, says the
Wavcrly Magazine, are of no use in the
arts, but when it comes to building
a dam the engineers lind nothing that
tills the lull half as well as the humble
willow. It liiu the sin ires and can Ik'
easily reached from the barges whe-eoii
it is traiistortcd. and it is s sft that
it is easily cut and handled. It is
woven into a great, long, continuous
mat. One end of this is anchored to
the shore on one side of the chute that
is to Ik' dammed, and the process of
weaving is thence carried on straight
across t lie stretch of water on a im-cu-liarly-sh;ied
Ixiat called a grasshop
ler. As fast as the mat is woven on
the grasshopjxT it slides into the water
at the lower end of the inclined weav
ing rack, and it is la.len with r.xlis
and carried straight to the bottom, and
this is emit i r.i led until the opposite
shore is reached. The mat is then cov
ered to the proper depth, twelve to fif
teen inches, with rock.'atid then an
other mat, made in the same way, is
woven and laid down on top of the lirst
and similarly weighted down, and this
work is continued till the dam lias
risen as high a it is intended to stand
tlie finishing. Iing always a heavy
coating of r.K-k that covers the willow
and all. The willow, alwa.s s covered
with water and the mud that inevita
bly liHlges among the r.icks o the dam,
: kept sealed airtight and of course
docs not decay. It binds the rocks to
gether and prevents the dam Wing
(-.hoved out of place by ice or disturln-d
by the pressure f the current lit high
water. It is good for no other ptiruose
save to hold a shore that is washing
away with its roots, and for dam con
struction it is MijH'rlativcly the tiling.
DEATH BY LIGHTNING.
A Theory That It I t iiux-d ly the I'pward
Kleclrir Current.
The phenomenon of lightning is the
signal t liat announces the comiii" to
gether of different electric currents in
the restoration of equilibrium. All
life is electricity, the stomach is a re
generator, tlie brain is a battery, says
the Pittsburgh DNpateh. When one
is killed by lightning, death is due to
absorption to a lossofthisvit.il fluid,
or whatever it may 1m'. termed, that iin-jH-ls
the physical engine. A thunder
cloud is charged with positive elec
tricity, the earth 1m-1.w is charged
negatively. Any object In-low this
cloud is similarly charged witli this
negative current. A discharge from
above takes place, the currents meet,
ignition ensues, tlie expansion of the
gases produces a vacuum, the aircomcs
together again with a report and this
is thunder.
A late view is. when one animate ob
ject is struck dead by lightning, tl'at
the upward and not tlie downward
current is the agent. The fact that no
bird on the wing has been kiioxvu to
be killed by l:ghttiiiir is i.ot con
clusive in sti-.taiiiitir this latter view
of the method of lightning in produc
ing death.
W hen a tree is thus truck, the sod
is frequently lifted axvay from tlie
roots in such a manner as to indicate
the downward passage of tlie stroke.
PENOBSCOT THEOLOGY,
Indians Itelil-re That Cml Hud an Adrlaer
ar tlie r.:itin.
In the ls'ginnipg God made Adam
out of the earth, but lie did not make
Glus-kalM (the Indian G.xli. ki vw Abbe
L. Alger in the Kcgular Science
Monthly. Glus-kabe made himself nut
of the dirt that was kicked tip in the
creation of Adam, lie rose and walked
about, but he could not speak until the
Lord opened his lips.
Gxl made the earth and the sea. anil
then He took counsel with Glns-kalic
concerning them. He asked him if it
would be lietter to have the rivers run
up on one side of the earth and down
on tlie other, but Glus-kabe said: "No,
they must all run down one way."
Then 1 lie Iord a: ked him alxiut the
ocean, whether it would not doto have
it always lie still. Glus-kalte told ilim:
"No! It must rise and fall, or else it
would grow thick and stagnant. "
"How alxiut lire?" asked the Lord;
"can it burn all the time and nobody
put it out?"
Glus-kabe said: "That would not
do. for if anylmdy got burned and tire
could not be put out. they would die:
out if it could lie put out, then the
burn would get well."
So he answered all the Ixird's ques
tions. Irifctimen in Ilitrh lottion.
It is not only in the I'nitcd States
that the sons of Erin have secured a
place among the leaders of the jtcople..
This fact has been called to mind by
the circumstance that while all France
was mourning one illustrious Iri.-dmian
in the person of honest old Marshal
MacMahoti. the masses of the jxipula
tion of Austria-Hungary were acclaim
ing another Irishman, tlie Irish jecr.
Viscount Taafe, wlio holds the post of
prime minister of Austria, for bring
ing forward a bill in favofof universal
sulfraire. In Spain one of the most in
fluential military leaders is a general
of llil-riiian origin. O'Uyan by name,
who held the ost of minister of war
during the former administration of the
present premier; while the queen re
gent's private secretary and most
trusted adviser and friend Wars the
name of Murphy. The little king's
governess is also an Irish woman: and
so, tix. is the governess of the young
queen of Holland. The tutor of Em
peror William was an Irishman named
Audanne.
An Old California l.aw.
It used to W the law in California
that justices of the peace had no juris
diction in cases involving more than
two hundred dollars. Once, says an
old Californian, A. sued 15. before a
squire in the Coast range for four hun
dred dollars. 15. posted up to the next
town and consulted a "limb of the
law," S. "We'll go down and throw
him out of court on 'no jurisdiction,'"
said S. The day for trial came, and 15.
and his attorney were on hand. Ju .1
to see how far he would go S. let him
enter judgment against him, and then
called his attention to the fact of "no
jurisdiction." "Ah, yes," said his
honor, "Mr. S., the court has thought
of that, and discovered arennxdy. The
court enters judgment against your
client for four hundred dollars, and is
f.ues two executions for two hundred
dollars each!" and he did it.
HERR KRUPP.
A Kare Instance nt Krf until- Ike Con
ferred Title of Nobility.
It is a common thing hi Europe for
kings and queens to reward such of
their subjects as may become famous
in war, in ixli,'c-", r in literature, by
Wstowing titles upon them. Occa son
ally, however, says the Golden Hays,
this honor is refused, but t he instances
are so rare that when they do occur
they are always thought worthy of
mention.
AftiT the late German emperor, Fred
crick III., had begun his brief reijti,
he determined to raise some leading
representatives of industry and com
merce to the peerage.
Herr Krupp. the inventor of the
Krupp cannon, at whose manufactory
eighteen thousand men are reguki re
employed, had died a short t i me be
fore, but his son had succeeded to his
business, and the young man's naiiie
was placed by the emperor upon the
lole of honor.
When he heard of this, he at once
took train to ISerlin and secured an
audience of Prince Kismurek. x ho xvas
then chancellor, lie insisted that the
prince should ask t he emperor to st ri!;e
hi name from tlie list, but this Pis
marck refused to do. Then the iron
master made a special plea.
"My father." said he, '"gloried in be
ing the son of a workman, and never
would so much as listen to a proposal
to accept titular and hereditary dis
tinction. I cannot be untrue to his
principles, particularly when my year
of mourning has not yet expired "
Hismarck thought this plea might be
urged toxin the emix-ror. without
wounding his feelings, and he prom
ised to put it before him that day.
Frederick was really dying then,
and could not sjx-ak on account of the
disease in his 1 hroat. When lli.m in k
told him what Krupp had said, lie
lixiked surprised and vexed. Then he
seemed to see the matter in a iu-vx
light, nodded assent and wrote on his
tablets:
I U;ire say Knip is riplit; In h:is mv lst
xvislies "
That night Herr Krupp was told tli.it
he was at liberty to remain Herr
Krupp.
MEXICAN VILLAGE LIFE.
The ;overiiuo-iit ol the l.artrer ilu l-iiilii
of t he Koul It.
A great cotton hacienda in Mexico is
strongly built, with walls lil.e ilin- f
a fort: the tops of the walls are often
studded thit kly with broken glass .,f
a jagged and deadly appearance: .,r
further protection, companies of sol
diers are kept within the establish
ment. A hacienda of this type, whether de
voted to the manufacture of sugar or
cotton, the raising of cat t le. or mi i i ng
of silver, is a complete li!!e .-tale,
with every appliance for luxury and
security. It contains xvithin it , v. ails
humireds of peons, soldiers, harraol.s,
a chapel, houses for the laborers,
apartments for the oxx tier and his fam
ily, and every necessary of life for
man and beast.
The udminisirador. or general mali
nger, is tlie tatner ot tin- great family;
he decides all disputes arising !e. ii
the various members of M. and if In is
only ordinarily just, never linds his
authority disputed, but is looked tip
to xvitli much rcstx-ct and consulted
by the peons in all family matters.
A gentleman who was for some years
ildminist rador tif ati est a t e in 1 In st : I e
of Coahuila told me tha t x ii . le tn-cupc-ing
this jxi.sitioii lit conceived a high
opinion of the simplicity, honesty and
trustworthiness of the Mexican labor
er. In most of tin haciendas t he ma
chinery is of a ui.'ist primitive kind,
modern improvements being u--ed only
iu the largest establishments.
Tortoises and KmIii.
The tortoise is not an animal one
would naturally fix upon as likely to
be afraid of rain, but it is singularly
so. Twenty-four hours or m ire before
rain falls the Gallapagos tort oise ma l. s
for some convenient shelter. On a
bright clear im irning when not. a cloud
is to Ik; seen the denizens of a tort.; .
farm on the African coast may be seen
sometimes heading for the neare-t
overhanging rocks; when that happen,
the proprietor knows that rain ixill
comedown during the day. anil as :i
rule it comes down iu torrents. Tin
sign never fails. This pre-seiisat ion,
to coin a word, which exists in man1.
birds and beasts may be explained
partly from the increasing weight of
the at inosphcrc when rain is forming,
partly by habits of living and partly
from the need of moisture which i .
shared by all. The American cat bu d
gives warning of an approaching t !i .-. n
derstorm by sit t i tig on t he box- bra tic he,
of the dogwood tree (xvhether this
union of the feline wit U the canine is
invariable the deponent sayeth n.,t)
and uttering curious notes. (Mn.r
birds, including the familiar robin, it
is said, give similar evidence of an im
pending change in the weather.
IjeirlHlntive Intellleeiir-e.
The intelligence of a memWr of the
Kent ucky lcgislat ure has at t imes been
called into question, but it is hardly
fair to that distinguished body of
statesmen to have any doubt on this
subject. In testimony whereof is this:
Two newspaper men rejxirting the pro
ceedings at Frankfort xvere tli'pntiiig
ovir the sjielling of a mcmWr's nai.ie.
"l!y George," contended one, "1 tell
you it is spelled with an a."
"I'll Wt you a dollar it is an e," in
sisted the other.
"I know Wtter and we'll leave it to
him."
The other gave a long whistle.
"I-rfave it to him, nothing." he ex
claimed; "he doesn't knoxv how to
sjh11 his name, and I've seen him run
his tongue out four inches trying to
write it."
Ar tliic Music.
The pasha's daughter treated me to a
speciraeu of TurkiMi, or rather Arabian
music. Seated crosslegged on the
ground she "twanged the liht guitar,"
only instead of -i guitar it was an in
strument culled, 1 think, the oii.le,
which very much resembled a banjo.
There was neither Wginning nor end to
tho .iir. It entered without any prelim
inary into a monotonous variation, more
like that of weak bagpipes or t he tru!ii
eting of a Trand of expectant mosquitoc
than anything I can think of. writes an
English traveler. I5y and by she sang
an accompaniment, but the song was of
a piece with the music a ceaseless rep
etition of the same liasrd 'droning in
which then' was nevertheless some
thing insistent and plaintive