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A quick
MtCLlEP FOR EVERT TYPE OF
HEADACHE
f-n ca-"'nl Points Respecting
HtADACME.
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rayer i thff trran-
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S'H:ht- them wiih Kui f-
A LI N tt.
When rhil ilren suffer
w:h heutijcrie, or
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5. :
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rn-ul.irity or uterine irri-
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Nf awe JS SCC .
NINVOUS DlllLITYf
NENVOUS PNOSTNATiON,
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KOPFALINE
. t i Vtv. Si hol.trs, Preachers,
- , . i I- .iil'T-. Men, V mil til
-. ,' !, h hose uer s a: e
... l . t .1 , I nrdi r.
,t . . i -til t ircunistances and
Prut. 25 cents.
v .; - .' '. ill . r -en l l any a J-
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."it "ii it .ui'-l un So I wrote to
tr. . t i -' ?(.!. toid iim" just wliat to
4. AiA I :ti sp!'iitiitl livullh imiw."
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Mr i:u f -t : y aiiwrs letters of
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0
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-30- illustrated hoelc. entitled
HbLTM N0 FIIOUEIIE.-
j me of valuable Information.
.Pi ?iil may ae youn
Lr a f . Pinknam M.d. Co., Lynn, Mass.
From Pole to Pole
Arm ka'r i:;
i a Ym demonstrated ilM
..I .l.--iirt.n of the UkxI.
Tho Harpooner's Story.
' " !J ;r it June I, J 3 S3.
T T C Attti .Hi t . Twe-niy war 1
a. 4 : -r . i i r .,- N-.nh ra- iTi"-, whou "liv
!"'' Vi.l i:,;,.ifw ere Up n 'lib
nr . ,r t. . . . r.- t.l- :i:e.i, unirt ttwrollen
. t - -e, j.urpv liltiches aA
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l ..:-i.ta!V i -Mn'vuJ, but th
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- n ' .1 il- t.f it . r-eeinif no meo-
- . r A :. i.-, f y.-ur rHariit bing
I n .r.i, I !'.,,t,tf t,t y.j'j Ot'til U kuuW of
. .r, 1LI-ll T. WlJJOiTI.
The Trooper's Experience.
k ! Aim I U'Titlernen : I tiMve
a . t,, v, t ;y v ti' it alue of
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r -.,1 afi, dunn bich tiiu w
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fk Headache and nliveaU tbe troubles toet
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lizziuesa. Nausea, Drowsinem. liiatreaa alter
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tiatuiy their goodness d( ea uotend htre,andthoaa
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able in no many ways that they will not bo wil
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ACHE
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vinai,foiir pr.t boast. Our pilUcureit whila
Otberis do not.
Carter's L'ttla Ilvor Tills iro very nmall anU
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A FARMER'S DAUGHTER.
A siirht d.sceruin hearts to bless,
la icti'. ucuki' j utiuiLfiiiU l.v. liness.
Is i..c uuairy n rl jj lo., iiii loiUd
la a. l.res ui ra.id yet all uu .?j Icl
Fi iu tui ri. i.ll tnl.i Mil i a he .rt so li'ht.
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A lo.l iuut. .it w ilii a, Uu. u nl.sk.
Or . itn U.iu.l..d arai t iu the i rca:uy curJs.
li i h i s she p ilber. ll. ::;entlo Line
M 'ni odors of h iu thorn hd ;e aud clover;
l'i ru ips snc runs iu a la.ry race
I'll Kr the rus.i." kuc; or ever
N .t in III nt; will ail uieu llnd
'1 he slal .. art h.s-vC , of this food kin 1.
I l't- rc-sy check au.l iht dancing curl.
Ti e- si .nv-rl foriii and the liv h of pearl,
Ti.e s'.rtiit'lh w.:ti aease of tne fanner's
k'irL
Her soul is clean as her eyes are clear,
Shu tills the boun Is of her hoiucsnuu sphere,
Carlli-' but little for hoarded wealth.
Her heart and checks have the hues of
health
Kill in iho joys without alloys
In touch wiui nature, the flowers and trees,
lb r unnd couieut iu the wholesome poise,
ALsoibed in blessius Iroui such as these.
Her l.fe is level, her words are true,
tier heart as liht as a dauciui; feather.
Her soul's uorUou as trood lo view
As highland's tmied wl.b purple heather;
The irauUest eyes 'neaih hair a-curl,
1 he lilhesl motion our pel and iiearl
The red cue ked, w holesome farmer's jrirL
L Udgar Jones, in Prairie Farmer.
A LOXE FIHKi!MAX.
Tranquil Fishiug, Donkoybachr, His
Yeara of Adventure Round.
"The picture of a man sitUu on a
lurro in mid-stream, in the heart of
I he southern Sierras, miles from any
where, lias nothing remarkable iu it."
said t he nal uralisl; '"but when you con
sider the li;rn as asleep, and the rider
holding a ti-iiiiiio- line with one hand
and a well-tliniub.-d copy of lIO.lipus.
with the other, which he is reading
through clou Is of smoke from a well
iilled pipe, the scene takes ou another
phase.
"Such a man I met otie day in the
irreat river of verdure kuown as the
Arroyo S.'eo, that winds away from
Los Anovles up through the San iabriel
valley, entering the Sierras at l'asadetia
and for miles passing- thro lih a reyiou
of varied delights.
' "Senor ,' I began.
"Sebastian, he replied, -without
looiiir up.
""Senor Sebastian," I continued, '1
regret, in these solitudes, to be obliged
to inform you that you are infrinpiiiir a
patent riht of mine.'
""Ho'V so?' retorted Senor Sebastian,
plancino- up from the book, which he
now dropped iuto the pocket of his Cor
duroy coat.
"In this: I was the originator of
fishing on horseback.
" "Ah'.' said the senor, 'you may be
the inventor, but I am the improver,
see?' Anil for the first time I noticed
that the line was fastened to a hole in
the tip of the burro's ear. 'If you have
ever observed.' said the fisherman, 'the
habits of the burro, or we will say his
head, you will have noticed that the
ears are always moving back and fortli.
It's just the motion 1 want in fishing,
so I adopted it, and see
"As he spoke the line stiffened out,
the burro's ear, or, to be exact, his
riffht ear, bent forward suddenly, and
the burro himself awoke with a start-
" 'Watch him,' said the fisherman.
The burro's eye had first settled on me
in an inquiring way, then realizing
that something was tugging at his ear,
he drew the member up to the hori
zontal, at which the trout, for such it
was, left the water with a bound, and
in its return drew the ear down again.
The burro now seemed to concentrate
all his energies in the contest, and the
ear gravitated between the upright and
the horizontal. 'You see,' remarked
Seuor Sebastiau again, 'the burro plays
the fish, and I.' suiting the action to
the word, 'pull him in.' And. with the
air of the philosoplu r he was, the
speal.er unhooked the trout, dropped it
;nto a pocket of his coat, and having
impaled iv fresh worm aud cast the line,
the fisherman felt for his iKJipus, and
the burro fell asleep.
'I deem it, continued the senor,
after relighting his pipe, "the privilege,
if not the duty, of man to take life at
the normal angle, or a-s near it us ims
sit.le; in other words, take solid com
fort I have seen the hard side of it
right in sight of these mountains. 1
came 1-ere forty years ago, when the
whole country was a sheep ranch. I
walked across the Mojave desert in Au
gust, and I see now they find men dead
who have tried it. Yes, I wa after
gold and adventure, and got both.
" "It came about in this way, aud the
senor. getting no further bites, rolled
up his line and joined ine on the trail
up the arroyo. 'I was living in Santa
Ke iu the fifties, trading mostly, aud
one night a man rushed iuto the saloon
where? i was aud said a man was dying
and wanted to see a prieaL I was a
Catholic and the next liest thing, so I
went along. You know where the old
palace is to-day in Santa Fe? Well, he
took me down a street back of that,
ami iu ail old adobe I fouud a mau, a
half breed, with l'ath in his face. lie
had lieen stabbed in a brawl an hour
before, and was so near gone that I
didn't have the heart to tell him I was
not a priest. He sent the others out
of the room, then bade me lock the
door, and with his mouth to my car
told me to rememVier what he said. He
had Wen a bad man, had killed sev
eral men, and wanted to do something
to expiate his crime, so told his secret
to the church. He told me to pull olf
his belt, which I did, and in it was
a row of some of the biggest chunks
of gold I ever saw in this coun
try In another part was an old piece
of shecptdiiu, and on it a map, rude,
but good enough, of these very moun
tains. He said that he and two others
had discovered a valuable placer in the
mouth of a canyon where you could
pick up pieces like those, and confessed
that he haa killed his partners to get
control of it all. The murder was
lone on the desert at Coyote Springs,
and after he had covered the bodies in
the sand he started back to the placer,
lie got there at night. Said he: 'I
don't know how it happened, but the
next I knew I found myself in a herd
er's cabin, and he said he found me
erazv on the desert. I t'ot better aud
1 never went back to the place, but I
want to leave the gold to the church.
I tiok the map. then wrote down the
directions, and to prove his story he
told me where he had buried the men,
and made ine promise to erect a cross
over them.
"'Well,' continued the senor. after
a short pause, 'the man died, aud a few
days later I started for the Sierras
aor.ss the desert. I found the place
w here the lxnlies were, as it was near
water. I dldu't waste much time there,
but pushed on, and iu three days, as
near as I could reckon, was somewhere
near the spot The map called for sev
eral mountains to lie in a line, then the
mouth of a canyon, uiarkeo by a big
sycamore; and there were other direc
tions. My friend, to make a long
story short, I'm hunting that placer yet,
and if there is one, from Mojave to
Warner's ranch, that 1 don't know I'd
like to see it. That was forty years
ago. aud I've made up my mind that
the mau was mad. That he had killed
the lam there could Ik? little doubt,
but the placer must have been in his
imagination. Hut here is my shanty.
111 show yuu the map.'
"Tho sl.-auty was a rough b.iant af
fair set back against the mountain, and
so partook of its general color that it
might have been passed uuuoticed by
the stroller up the arroyo had it not
Iwi'ti for the seore or more of white
beehives scattered over the space iu
front of it, from which rose an ominous
humming. The shanty contained but
two rooms, one a kitchen, the other a
library. The sleeping room was out of
doors when it did not rain. The books
were few, but to the point, their selec
tion telling of a man of taste; and con
spicuously hung on the wall, in an old
lookingglass frame, was the gold seek
er's map.
"'You can have half the output if
you can find the placer,' said the owu
er of the map.
"The map was on a piece of sheep
skin, carefully draw n in what had been
red ink, aud Ixire the ap-arance of
having been made iu good faith.
""No, 1 don't get lonely here,' said
the old man in reply to my qtiestiou;
'there is plenty of company of a de
cided variety. I peuerally sleep out
yonder in a hammock swung between
two trees. 1 like plenty of air, ami
one night I awoke, as on.; w ill some
times, leeling that some one is around.
I kept perfectly still, and soon heard a
step as soft as a eat could make, then
another, aud then two fiery eyes looked
iuto mine. My rille was iu the house,
so I waited. The animal soon turned
and walked olf , and a few moments
later I heard a rush, then a scream iu
the corral. 1 ran for 1113- rille, ami g.t
back in time to hear soiuet Ii in leap
into the bush. I found my burro
badly kvounded, his side cut a.d torn,
but 1 believe to this day that he kicked
the mountain lion over the fence; he
was cijual to it We trailed the lion
the nest day, but lost it upthecanyon.
" 'Hear frequently come down and
try con.'lusious with the Wes. One
niirht, hearing a loud noise, I went out,
rille in hand, and there stood a big
frizzly not ten feet aivav. iu the moon
light, looking twice as big as he was.
He had a beehive under one arm, ami
was brushing bees off with the other.
The moment he saw me he liean to
growl, ami I wasted ru time, but lei
him have it just where 1 thought the
heart was. lie dropped 011 all fours ami
made off, aud 1 tired several tinse-s. And
to show the tenacity of War life under
dillici.lt ies. we found the animal the
next day five hundred yards away up
the side of the canyon dead, with a ball
through his heart. I have known lliem
to uoeven further with the heart blown
to pieces.
"Senor Sebastian was a tyje o men
who live in the nooks and corners of
the great ranire. There are several liv
ing the lives of hermits, some of high
education, who have filled places of
honor in the world, at tunes. All have
a story. Somclhiii' occurred iu their
lives to drive them uway from their fel
low men.
"The alxides of these hermits are be
coming know 11 to the public, and mod
ern science and engineering will soon
throw open all the nooks and comers
of the great range." X. Y. Suu.
SHARP SENSE.
Julckneas off Smell iu Sontli American
anil l-'rontirr Home.
Most animals have at lea:.t on:' sha'p
sense. A dog ami a cat, according to
the fabk-, lay in a durk room. "Hark!
1 heard a feather drop," said the dog.
"Oh, no." said the cat; "it was a
needle. I saw it." Whatever may Ik"
true, ui ilemesticated hor:.es. the wild
horse of the South Amcrh-an pampas
possesses a most acute and far-reaching
sense of smell.
Mr. Hudson, sa3-s Youth's Compan
ion, speaks of it as a comni-.iii occur
rence for the horses o a districj, in
seasons of drought, to tu.grate sudden
ly to some distant place fifty miles
away, p rhaps win ;v rain has fallen.
A slight breeze from that quarter is
enough to set them olf.
A still more striking phenomenon is,
he says, familiar to every frontiers
man The gaucho horse has the greatest
terror of an Indian invasion, and long
lc fore the marauders reach the sett le
nient often when they art' still a full
lay's journey from it all the horses
take the alarm, and come flying wildly
in. The horned cattle quickly feel
the contagion, and a general stampede
ensues.
The gauchos declare that the horses
smell the Indians, aud Mr. Hudson be
lieves they arc right. When passing a
distant Indian camp, from which the
wind blew, all the horses driven lie
fore him have taken fright and run
away.
TrepHimlnc by I'reht.tnrlr Man
Not only the medical world, but the
laity also, have lieen highly interested
by the evidence adduced by I'rof.
. Ilorsley in a lecture the otherday. prov
ing that prehistoric man iu the stone
age frequently performed the danger
ous and delicate operation of trepan
ning. He had found sixty skulls iu
collections of these relies, on which
the operation hail undoubtedly been
performed. In one case it had been
done by drilling a scries of small holes,
probably with a bone implement, and
then breaking small partitions and so
releasing a piece of lione. Another
operation seems to have Wen jer
formed with a flint saw. A third
method was scraping. This discovery
is the most important proof yet dis
covered of the high intelligence of the
unrecorded races.
"l"kes 3'our artist friend paint por
traits true to life"" "He did at first,
but he has learned lietter." "Indeed?"
"Yes. The first two or three commis
sions he executed were so true to life
that the sitters refused to take the
pictures." Tid-Hits.
MECHAXi'JAL FKEAKS.
Queer Things That Are Sent to the
Patent Office.
Contrivances for Corralling liieMts and
Huirs M any Inventors After the
Irlnlljr Kudrnl Odd Music. 1
lu.truuieuta.
American invention has given hirth
to no end of freaks, which have W-en
embalmed at the patent office, in
Washington, in order that they may
not perish. Some of the queerest of
them are devices for entrapping
beasts, bugs, fishes and even human
beings.
What, for example, could The funnier
than the notion of using imitation
flowers with Misom-d honey to attract
noxious insects? The artificial blos
soms, each containing a small quanti
ty of sugary liipiid proH-rly prepared,
are to be fastened to twigs. Moths of
destructive siecies sip the deadly
ncctar and die. A more elaborate de
vice of a similar description is intended
for the protection of apple trees. It is a
tin can covered as to its upper half
w ith luminous paint. On the outside
of the lower half apple blossoms sire
represented with the same sort of
paint. Inside of the receptacle is a
small quantity of cider. The can is to
lie hung on a branch of an apple tree
at night. Insects attracted by the
pictured flowers light upon the can.
The smell of the cider induces them to
enter through holes provided for that
purpose; they drop iuto the cider and
are drowned.
It is not always easy to distinguish
between a crank idea and a useful dis
covery. '1 he Miisoned counterfeits of
flowers above described are said to
work very well. Many years ago a
man got a patent for a method of kill
ing bugs on trees by inclosing the
whole tree in a sort of balloon of can
vas, into which an asphyxiatinggas was
to be poured for the pnriiose of suffo
cating the insects. livery liody though t
he was a lunatic; but now that his
patent has run out the merits of the
plan have suddenly obtained apprecia
tion, and its adoption is alleged to
have saved the orange-growing indus
try in California.
Several kinds of luminous baits for
fish have been patented. One of these
is a minnow of hollow glass coated on
the inside partly with a solution of
gold or silver and partly with luminous
paint. The result is a very brilliant
object ill the water, calculated to at
tract any predacious creature, with
fins. Another interesting contrivance
is for making frog-bait more seductive.
The j. -rlcing of the line equipped with
this device eauses the frog's legs to
move as if he were swimming.
Contrivances for catching insects
arc more numerous than any others.
One of them is a furnac for slaughter
ing Mtato bugs. To begin with, a
deep and wide furrow is to lie plowed
all a ound an infer. ted field. Through
this trench a .smooth log is dragged to
make the surface hard arid smooth.
The bugs in migrating to other
grounds are unable to scale the trench,
ami the furnace, which is a cylinder of
iron filled with fuel, is drawn along
the furrow and destroys them. Other
mIiI devices are cartridges intended to
be inserted iu the mouths of ant holes
and to lie fired, thus communicating
stifling vajMirs to the subterranean
chambers; also many kinds of lamjs
for attracting and burning up the
moths of various worms iu cotton
fields. There is a toy pistol for in
sects, which sucks them in when the
trigger is pulled.
An ingenious westerner has in venter
a trap for catching the horu fly, which
is such an enemy to cattle in some
parts of the country. It consists most
importantly of a great frame to which
brush is attached in such a manner
that when the lieasts walk through,
eager as tliey always are to scrat.di
themselves, the flies will lc scraped
from their lodics by the branches
Finally the frame is closed up by
means of doors au.l the captured in
sects are destroyed.
Nearly every lrndy has heard of the
gold tapeworm trap, which the patient
swallows. Hedbug traps are of several
varieties, all of them being intended
to afford attractive hiding-places for
those bloodsuckers and to be burned or
scalded out ufterward.
Much ingenuity has been expended
in rat traps. Some of them are so
elaborate that no full-witted rodent
would go near them. One requires Mr.
Hat to come in through a door, which
drops behind him and makes him a
prisoner. Seeing a bright light above
he ascends a flight of little steps and
trots across a small plank that is so
nicely adjusted as to balance that his
weight cau-es it to tip and throw him
into a tank of water. Another con
trivance consists of a double chamber.
One chamber has a glass end. through
which Mr. Wat sees two or three imi
tation rats having a nice time with a
bit of cheese. Wishing to join them,
he runs around tho box, gets into the
other chamber and is caught.
There are a number of devices w hich
employ mirrors for the purpose of
luring Mr. Hat to his fate. He mounts
on top of a barrel and sees a toothsome
piece of cheese. As he approaches it
lie beholds another rodent in reality
his own reflection in a piece of look
ing gla.;s coming for the cheese from
the o; posite direction. He makes a
dash to get there first, and a pivoted
board drops him into the cask, which
is half full .f water. Hats will swim
for a long time, so one humanitarian
has patented a water trap with little
shelve:, around the edge and just aliove
the surface, tm the shelves are placed
small lead weights with fish hooks
hanging from them. The captured rat
in trying to escape grasps one of the
hooks, gets it fastened iu his mouth,
dislodges the piece of lead and is cir
ri d to the Iiottom by the latter.
Sparrow traps aie of many different
kinds. Most of them invito the birds
to walk in through a door, which drops
behind them, making them prisoners.
Wheu next seen in the restaurants
they are reed birds on toast. Of r
inU-iv .t are contrivances for catching1
thieves. One of them is designed to
discourage bank sneaks. The snealc
puts his hand in through the teller's
window and unintentionally actuates
a mechanism which causes a slide with
spikes to close suddenly upon his paw
and impale iL A trap of somewhat
similar character is a steel siiutier ior
J a house window so disguised w ith cov
ering and fringe as to look like an or
dinary curtain. If a burglar tries to
enter at night it shuts dow n upon him.
the spikes hidden by the fringe help
ing to hold him fast.
American inventors have Wen fruit
ful of queer ideas in musical instru
ments. Patents have Wen sought for
viol ins tuade of metal, of earthenware,
of glass, of leather, and eveu of glue,
l'lain wood, however, maintains its
place as the accepted material for this
purpose. How many people have ever
heard of the "doorophone?" It con
sists of a frame aud sounding Ward
with tuned wires r id little metal balls
suspended. The contrivance is hung
upon a dour. When t he latter is opened
the balls swing back and forth and
strike harmonious chords.
There is a patent device for playing
the banjo by electricity. It requires
no skill, the instrument Wing op
erated by a sheet o paper with per
forations which control the making
and breaking of a circuit. Mechanical
fingers thus actuated pie'e the strings
ami depress them at the frets. An
other :nstrument is so arranged that
oue may play the banjo by manipulat
ing the keys of a keylxtard like that of
a piano on a small scale. The same
idea is varied by a combination of
piano and violin, the strings of the lat
ter Wing fingered by tiie use of a
piano-like keyboard. Of course, that
is the difficult part of violin "laying,
the handling of the bow Wing simple
enough. The bow is held in the
right hand while the fingers of the left
hand strike the kevs.
Within the last few years many
musical instruments that play them
selves have Wen invented. These
ought to be a godsend in non-musical
households, not to mention the saving
of money for teaching and of distress
to the nerves of those who are not do
ing the practicing. For example, there
is the piano-organ, which is o-rat.-d
by strips of erforated paper like an
organette. It is either a piano or an
organ, or Ixith together, and it plays
itself much better than most people
who understand the piano could play
it, Wcause the mechanical arrange
ment is made with a high degree of
musical skill. The performer simply
works the bellows. Hut there is a con
trivance w ith mechanical hands which
may lie shoved up in front of any
piano and will do the playing.
Another patent contrivance for the
piano furnishes the instrument with
auxiliary strings which sound in
sympathy wuh the ordinary strings,
though they are not struck. Then are
turned in harmony with the priuiary
strings. and augment the volume of
tone. There is a kind of piano that
holds a noli' as long as the finger is
kent on the kev: the st ring is kept
vibrating by an electro-magnet. The
.lanko key-Ward is already Wcotning
well known. Its arrangement enables
the player to reach several octaves
with a single hand, thus renderin-'
certain effects of execution jiossihle
which could not W obtained on an
ordinary key-Ward. There are several
devices by w hich the performer is en
abled to improvise on the piano, and
to have the improvisations recorded
with self-inking jicns or otherwise.
Afterwards the reeord may W trans
lated into the common notation.
Patents have been granted for mak
ing innumerable queer things out of
pajier, such as carpets, electric con
duits, lead pencils, roofing material,
car wheels, boats. pails, coffins,
brushes and combs. Mattresses are
manufactured out of paper pulp and
ordinary sponge, springs Wing iniWd
led in the composition. A cloth apcr
for banknotes lias been invented, the
notion W'ing to rentier such money le- s
perishable and more difficult to coun
terfeit. Paper is used nowa.Iavs for
architectural decorations, interior and
exterior. Cornices, panels and friezes
are molded out of the pulp.
Music Wxcs nowadays are made iu
all sorts of queer shapes. The glass
water Wttle on the dinner table plays
a tune while the guest fills his turn
bier. The cigar holder Wcoinc 'une
ful when a match is struck upon it.
Toilet sets have music Wxes concealed
in them. Fruit plates, on Wing placed
up in the festive Ward, start up with
jigs and waltzes. Photograpa albums
become harmonious when opened.
Clocks, instead of striking, emit op. r
atic fragments every hour. Artificial
singing birds, run by clockwork with
bellows and whistle, carol melodious
ly. One may buy an imitation canary,
robin or nightingale, in a cage.
One of the most successful of recent
inventions is a process for making arti
ficial straws out of paper for drinking
iced beverages. Kvcrylody knows
that real straws are apt to W defective:
but the imitations are always satisfac
tory and never fail to draw. After
they are rolled they are treated with
paraffine, to render them watertight
and non-absorWnt. The same patent
covers mouthpieces for cigarettes,
which are manufactured in a similar
fashion.
Medals are made out of paper and
colored to imitate silver or bronze.
Cigar boxes are manufactured from
the same material, flavored with cedar
il to give them the customary smell.
Hollow telegraph poles of paper pulp
are a new invention. They are coated
with silicate of potash to preserve
them.
One of the oddest invent ions recorded
at the patent otlice is a sort of gun in
tended to W fixed upon the head of a
steer that is to lie slaughtered. The
stroke of a hammer or a pin fires a
cartridge and discharges a bullet int
the brain of the animal. It is almost
noiseless, and death is instantaneous.
There are several ideas for death
alarms, to give notice in case a ikTsoii
comes to life after Wing buried. Uene
Hache, in IK-troit Free Press.
COMMERCIAL FIGURES.
Kaiskk Wii.iiki-m'i Lash, a portion of
southern New Ouinca. exports nothing
Tout tobacco and liainlioo.
The wine export of France is great
ly overestimated. France imports ten
times as much wine as is exiirted.
Casapa exports every year over
93.lMKI.IKMI worth of wood and its manu
factures and S'-.tMKMMKI worth of cheese.
Sekh-1'I.ti kk is carried on in almst
every part of France, and the wxport is
a most important factor of French
commerce.
The leading products of Austria are
the food grains, sugar W-ets, tobacco,
hemp, wine, iron, coal and the precious
metals.
A1LEEN S liKAYEKY.
The
True Story of a
School Teacher.
Country
The picture w hich I would like to
hold up Wfore you has in the back
ground a mountain; not the rival of
any Alpine peak, imr of any summit of
the Rockies, but a sloping, wooded
hill, rough. but not inaccessible.
Hreak ing through the range on the
east comes a river, sometimes jH-aceful,
but in times of wind and storm a
raging torrent. On the west, having
gathered its waters from the hillsides,
a creek turns away from the range and
pursues its winding way to the south,
meeting the river a mile or two W
low. Along the valley iu the fore
ground a railroad takes its undevi
ating way. crossing both creek and
river. High up on the mountain side
is a cottage, scarcely more than a
cabin.
Ailecn McAllister stood at the win
dow of the living room of this mountain
home, broking out into the wild, dreary
NovemWr night. Very early the day
had gone out into twilight, the clouds
settling heavy ujxiii the earth. Ailecn
said it seemed as though the darkness
rolled up from the valley below and
rolled down from the mountain above
and concentrated aWut their little
nook on the mountain side.
"It was so dark Wfore four o'clock
that we could scarcely s-e to read in
the school house, and 1 was afraid that
the Hrinker children would get lost
going over the mountain." This sin
said, shivering a little at the thought
of her own walk through the wind and
rain.
Mrs. McAlister and Ailecn lived
alone in the little house, which the
summer foliage almost hid from the
view of those who 1. Hiked up from the
valley WIow. Though pleasant enough
in summer, it was a bleak, lonely place
in winter. Mr. McAlister had Wen
"section Wss" on the railroad, the
passing trains upon which w ere almost
the only break in the stilln--ss and
loneliness of their isolated home. He
had lieen able to keep his family in
comfort, and was looking for a prom
ised promotion, when suddenly the
shadow fell. There was an accident:
then weeks of pain: then the life went
out. The strong-hearted wife and
brave young daughter cheered and
soothed the last hours of the sufferer:
then they took up the burden of living
and Wgan the struggle for the means
of support. How they managed to ex
ist they could t heinsidces scarcely have
told. Since Ailccu's sixteenth birthday
she had Wen t he teacher of the coun
try school, and her small sah.ry had
considerably lightened the mother's
burden.
The hours sped away, and when at
nine o'clock Ailecn l.mheil out. th. re
was no abatement of the storm. The
howling of the wind and the roaring
of the waters of river and creek were
almost deafening. Looking up the val
ley. Ailecn saw the headlight of a 1-h-o-motive.
Steadilv it advanced, seem
ing t cut its way through the dark
ness, until suddenly it disapca red
Many a time had Ailecn watched t he
headlights of the night trains, and she
know that in all their course down the
valley there was nothing to obstruct
the light: and quicker than thought
she realized the appalling fact that the
train had gone into the chasm of the
creek.
"I h. mother!" she exclaimed. "there's
trouble at the bridge! I am going down
to see w hat is the matter and to find
out if I can help."
Mrs. McAlister lighted the lantern
and put it into the girl's hand, saying:
"My chihl, if I could only go with
you!"
"Well, mother dear, if you had only
postpomsl the spraining of that foot
for a day or so, you could have had
the pleasure," said Ailecn, cheerily
adding: "Now don't worr : and.
mother, if anything happens to inc.
you will reiiiemWr that 1 was trying
to do my duty."
As rapidly as possible she followed
the path down the hill, crossed the
road which ran alongside the railroad,
sprang across the ditch and scrambled
up the bank to the track. She did not
make this part of the journev without
many a scratch from the bushes, but
she paid no heed to such t rules. She
sped up the track and found that her
surmise was correct the bridge over
the creek had Wen swept away.
Crawling out upon the part that re
mained as far as she could, she swung
her lantern above the chasm an.t
called loudly; aWve the noise of the
storm she heard a faint response lo
her call.
"What is the matter, and who is
there?" she asked.
"It is I, Kngineer Pratt, fast in a
freight wreck. The express must W
warned. She's due in an hour, llow
luiuy are there?"
"Only Ailecn McAlister. Hut I'll
get help."
"lio quick! There is no tiiae to
lose!"
Crawling back from her perilous po
sition. Ailecn took but a moment for
reflection. Plainly there was but oik
thing to do. She might poss-hly warn
the express by swinging her lantern,
but suppose there should W trains from
the west? The telegraph otlice must
W reached; and. Wsidcs, help must W
secured sjn-edily for the unfortunate
engineer in the wreck. The one thing
to do was to walk down tiie track to
the stat ion, a mile away. That would
W unpleasant aud hazardous in the
driving storm; but to make matters
worse there was the high trestle across
the river, five hundred feet long! Could
she walk that with ouly the light of
her smoky lantern? Could she stand
against the fierce gale that was blow
ing? She must. There was n ques
tion in the girl's mind as to whether or
not she could: the thing must W done.
Hundreds of Iies might W in danger,
and the warning must W given.
She made the first part of the jour
ney in comparative comfort. She had
not to W on the lookout for trains
from Whind her. and she knew that
none was due from the oppo ite dir.-.--tion;
so she had only to hasten on her
way with all the ieed of her youth
and buoyancy. Reaching the bridge
across the foaming river, she paus-d a
moment to gather strength and cour
age, then stepped boldly forward. The
wind sweeping down the river gorge
almost took her off her feet. She
stumbled and fell und her light went
out.
"And I dht not think to bring
matches.!" she said. "Hut I could not
light one in this storm, if I had a
thousand!" She did not attempt to re
gain her footing, but throw ing her one
friend, tin- lantern, into the river, she
continued the crilous journey, crawl
ing from tie to tie across the trestle.
At last the end of the trestle was
reached; she sprang to her feet and
hurried down the track. S.oii the
lights of the station Warned out a
welcome and made it jx.ssil.le for her
to lutckcli her steps without danger of
1'isiug her f.M.ting. She burst into the
ollice. exclaiming:
"The bridge over the crH'k is down!
Send telegram and stop the express.
There's a wreck in the creek! Jsctid
help."
Then she dropped upon the fl.xir iu a
dead faint. The physical exertion and
the strain of that terrible crossing had
exhausted her st reiigth. She w as not
a moment too soon w ith her warning.
The express was due. and some one
was sent out to signal it. though the
Wwildcrcd sjH-ctators but half com
prehended the situation. The train
came thundering in. Mopped, and iu
wonder and alarm the passengers
1 Hired out to learn the story of their
salvation. Teh-grams went living up
and down the line, and a rescue brig
ade was fitted out for the scene of tin
wreck. All the while Aileen lay exhausted
in her dripping garments, her long,
dark hair wet and matted. Hearing
the eon 1 mot ion. t he w-ifc of t he Mat ion
master appeared ujoii the scene, and.
seeing the 11 1, conscious girl King
there, ran back for restoratives. A
young physician who lia.l alighted
from the express came to her assist
ance. ' Is there not a house where she can
W taken?" he asked.
"Certainly, w-e can carry her acros
the street to my home." said the 'wo
man. "I iet her out of these wet clothes
into something dry, and put her to
bed." were his orders.
"Oh. no. I must go back home!" said
Aiiccn. w ho had sufficiently regained
consciousness to know- what was said.
"You can go nowhere to-night!" was
the jK-rei'iptory decision of the stran
ger. "You saved our lives, and iiow
we must save yours."
"They are going to the wreck with a
hand-car and w ill take me along. M..i h
er will 1m- so anxious." sl. pleaded,
adding, "she will think something has
hapH lied "
"And I should say she would think
right! Hut we will send some one to
tell her you are safe." And so the
weary child was forced to submit, and
indeed wlu-11 she at tempted to ri-a- the
dizziness ovurnvere.l her. and she
sanK back helidess.
"lVir child!" said another. "She
has had a time of it. and to think w c
might all have Wen in eternity if it
had Hot l--n for her bravery!"
"What will you do to show your grat
itude?" asked the physician.
"1 will show it by fifty dollars:" In a
few moment s an auioiint was pledged
which brought comfort and freedom
from anxiety to the little home on the
mountain side.
Meantime the relief party had res
cued tin- engineer f the wrecked
freight train from h is jicrilous pisit ion.
and had discovered that the train
hands had either Well killed outright
or Wen drowned.
"And I owe my safety to Aileeli."
said the rescued man. "for J could not
have hel.l out much longer. Ood bless
her!"
And there were many to bless and
many to praise the brave girl. The
newspapers told the story, pul-iic
spcakcrs quoted it as an example, and
the stale legislature ordered a n:edal
to Ih- sjruck and presented by a special
c immit te.
And A ileeii what effect had that
night's work up.ii her?
A few days" rest restored her wonted
strength and buovancy. and she re
turned to her school. Finishing her
engagement she determined to tit her
self for a W;tcr position, the generos
ity of her friends allowing her to carry
nit this desire. A year at the normal
school, then two ycarsof teaching in a
city schi .il at a good salary, and then
one summer she came tosK-nd the long
vacation in her old home on the moun
tain side.
The same picture is spread out ln-fore
us, only it is a summer sky and the for
ests Wfore brown and bare are heavy
w ith summer foliage, while river and
crce'. are jn-accful and shimmering in
the sunlight. As the shadows were
lengthening on one of thos.- summer
afternoons. Aileen stood at the edge of
the long trestle bridge. It was tin
first time since that dark XovcmWr
night thai she had walked down the
track to the scene of her terrible
ordeal. She was not alone a fine
looking young man was with h-r.
'"And here." he sa"'d. "was where the
test of your courage came to you!
Thank O.kI that you did not flinch!
How many of us, as we g.i up and
low tithe worid. are saying every now
and then: 'Thank iod for Aileen Mc
Alister!' "
Thwy stood for a few moments silent
ly hk ing down into the river; then
the young man sp.ke again.
"Aih-en," ho sai.l. shaking very ear
nestly, "ever since that night I have
Wen striving to make the life jou
saved something worth offering to you.
I Wlieve 1 am a Wtter man to-day W
causc of the influences of thai hour,
yet I have not reached my own ideal
nor yours but. Ailecn, shall we put
our two lives together and live them
for (iod and humanity and each
other?"
Then, hand in hand, they cri.ss.-d
the trestle bridge without thought of
dread or danger. X. Y. Voice.
OFTEN HEARD OK.
(InV- I.KWU I.YX, of Kansas, like tl:r
field. found the towpath one that l.sl to
fort nne.
Cox.i;vsnx 1 1 at oil, of Missouri, is
an -xktI judge and suos-ssfu! 1. rosier
of IU-rkshire hogs, giving his show pens
all the linn-he a-i spare from p. lilies.
At st IN Ci.K':i, t he New Y: k bank
er, has over 7''.taiiimals in his game pre
serve near New jvirt. N. 11. Tin- elk jii
doiuinatc. but he has live distinct herds
of buffalo.
l.Mts A. HkllFV. the ci reus mana
ger, l.-gan selling apples and va:nits.
then Weatue the owner of a side show,
aud went on until he is now the fore
most man in his liue of public amusement.
- w aoji at. i iLiiiiii.il.