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Editor and Proprietor. 'HE IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRCTH MAKES FREE AND ALL ABE ELATES BESIDE." 81. BO and postage per year In advance. - i: rr i-etnrr- you srci) It, If stop VOLUME XX VIII. E BENS BURG, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1S94. NUMBER 40. ltL l'e i. t'Mi snort. cf1 v,'!"" i' ,f LKH tin ; l!pi-: i-t : c No. 1. h :irm Mrirnf-?.. t;iiii; s.;vi.t una 'i.Y m:ts. :t ii-ri-t- :r f.r rath .Ifh orlr. H-ntl 4c Ii .lii.tt;.. 1 f.uy (mhi uirt itn I I'-fi-piMre ntulEU. AddresA W. B. PRATT, Sec'y, a THE, Witt HAY- FEVER AND LD'H : , 1 a U'j'tt1 snvjT or jnnnh-r. P A J . -r.-s SJi 1 I'll ftrnf'.sf4 tr sent hit in. fit i-,- DUC ELY BROTHERS. 58 Warren Street NEW YORK Constipation r-rir. i ;: :. .i::innt. Tlift rsw r. . . . rsms. Arriitl i'urr:itircs, the ; . ' weaken tlio 1 lie lr-t remeily is Ayer's ; : t .: y t j -taMe, tlieir ;. . i t!..-:r t iTet t always T aro an a-liiiiraM : r ami every- . ; ! 1 y tl.f ! r. ifeoion. r - ! !y ati'l univer ; m I'll- al'.nit - t . v.-' i f I iiein in my --It. l.'i:. i"!.T, l'.ri.le- I ,-. . , - ?..! ArfT'j Pills a1ov . i : z ! jriAeil their - .- i :r:..- t' r iiitst-K and T. li. U .tlisville, Pa. F r-il y ir Acer's Pills have . . - 1 y.i i. v";.i:u:. We liml them Effective Remedy ; n n r 1 ;!!! :et icn, atwl ,T ;i:e!! ITI the 1101180. ' :. 1 ....!!. Mass. ! A; r's Pills, for lirer : t -.'!!, linriiii; many i.. -i fmm.i theiu - ' ' .a their aftirm." i .. i. .. V. 1 f: , . :-tintion whiefi i " n i"e form tliat I . i . . :i stpliae .if tllO i . . f Acer's I'ills ef . i.i 1. linrke. I ; I - P:1U f..r the past ;! r tin-in an in 1 k now of : i I : ver t r mhles, . i i In in a .ronipt. .1 .i:i.-s ijlllllil, 'JO .' I itli eostive- :':il.i. with ier I hae triiil r. In-f. I am . i.a: -erveil inn :i:eii ieiiie. I n uti I y after a i : " - Samuel M ISS. Ayer's Piiis, ' i ' i ' i i i. r. v j f -,, r . r, . Lowell, Masf S-ji i f i.i !. .ii. r in M.-dK inn. DREXEL'S v: -, rv . on of COD L!'ER OIL lLV pure HYPCPHOSPHITES OF LIME AND SODA. T0N. BSONCMITIS, COUCHS, --l.iiTHVi SCROFULA, SASPS. NERVOUS DISEASES, Es CF C-ii.DEN. --p "3 COuOM. ANAEMIA. I TV, ETC.. ETC rnr- l,y h niurhivc nnilu.ii. not ;.i iy-: suml..I.'il. ii. .: on ii. trnif tisnt iinprovciii'jnt from -1 LT'-r 0:1 ic especially l . -1 1 .,r scrolula r : I.trj' mi nts, . '''..! K r .!vs- I - .t P.- -h. ,ii ' !! I- n . ii. l cure. I. v-r li i i- tde very -. ;:-. 1 r.-n. hiti-. o: : irir'..!t. Iionrs -- f I h.-.t :,.nl !l lo'.i!li COIltlltlOIlS r V.ttlc. Sfld l.y ' a;iy addresa on re- - ir.ll:!niann P Dr,.,- n r --mi a DlUrYU UlUg UU, B-T.mope. MO. U. S. A M!iiit;iiii House P ISfi PARLOBI SIF.EET. EBLSSBDEG . i : estr.t l!bP, Shavinic 'l 'ii l i;tre iree:. op ' i ll ra. i,ti Ik ii Iutli v t i e e.-irrieil on in tl-. I: A 1 li t i in) ; AN 1 He l.eilTert and moll .'.""IN . ., ' .'e i' H specialty. ' 1 ' ii Ht their renleiiees. IAMKS 11. II 4 NT. Hroprirtor !;Duur!llTS?MP,-E9 e L . 'H 1 t-.lhsexrm. Write no ' s.MVTTds York Cits a:iJ KARKESS Gi CO. I-. tltl to ronnnem "! SI ypnri, tiiom tli? dfulei ir-nt. V iir tin . -t n. l.ii itc''l i. :.mil:u turvr. in Am-r--.1 iiriir hi'-l h it ii i 1 1 unit's: ih is way ?-Ui i i vil- ( t Mrmi o In i r u;i y nioncv ! !. ,- ; iy 1 im- hi I li t;h s ( f nt'.t f liti1 ! ) 1 :ri- r 1 ? ? o:u k hy -:iy nn nont fiO It urili-i iT .ti.' Writt Ti iir own ortlft. : Wo lako ull risk it tiaiiui:e in vHr:.csAiE prices. to SCC. t:ur.tt:t-, j ' wifrre c, 6 3 tr C :C0 ; : l r r f; t Top b'urfir'-, ::- a. r. t.l ; ... tr.-.. F h-tCf.3.C t-G , t r, r:n V." -z r r , V'r r-r r r c r , ' . 7 r- 0 ;;v. ryWpon"''"' I.o.id . :r. i;. i k ' i s w a hii.:i,; . OaSsnsB No. 7S1. Piirrry. or Elkhart Kicyole. SSin.wheola. i prifuiiiniic ttri. w(mis Mtol tuhiDg, drop forvtnpis. ELKHART, IND. T I r I ML y-wnE ru- i fxv 50c AppUfd into the iwstrilx it is uinM the hold, aJhttjn inj!aptwntfu)n, hetbi vL 50g 'ARTER'S U RrC a B V7 q PS us. c!rk TTnflarlio nn.l relieve all tho tronWfM lncf d.'-nt to a lull.. us M;ito of tho syston. sucli aa I!7'iTKKS. Nausea, lrownin'i, liistrws aftep raMic, 1 .iiii in tue Si-Io. A;c Wliili tlieirruo&6 rcuiarkabio eiicce-sH hin Imk'U shown in curing si ITonriachp, yrt Carter's Littlo Llvor Pint are) e'ju.i! 1 y naMo i n CoiifltiiuU ion. c nrin ami pre T ittii.p, tliiHanTioyinicoiiiilaiiit.wIiiio tliey also corn-ct :il I i;Mori. thoioiiia hiciniiiiatotlld livor and ruguiuto th bowela. Eva it tlu-y only Ciirea mm -m poa m ns U ai -irithT" tvfnltl boalmoPtpricf-lopsto t1iow(whO fc:ifit-r f mm tiisthtn s.-'iUfrcoiniiUiiit; butfnrtil E -i.-ty ti:firj.'cr'.li:t'. H(li-3 uoteutl hore.and tlirma n hr.f rice try tlu m ill find thosu littlr pilln vnlu cMfi in p-.i.ir riv "xnyp that thoy will not bo wil to do wuliuut tbe m. But after allsickUea4 A 0 3"tbpVanpof so many lives that hero 1b rhrra Tveiiiakonnr pr. at boast. Our pillricureit wliila f.th. rt do n'.t. Cui:. I.ittle liver Pills are very nmiU anU very erisy in t-iko. IMio or two j-illsi laakoa dotio. lli.-y a:o sinctlj- vivi-talili) an.l Jo n-t ripe or j 'iT- '.-, l.;i: i y tiieir crentle action nltaneall who u-eii.':a. la vialsa J5 cents ; fiv f-ir $1. Sold lj dz ujjists everywiitro, or fi ut liy v.inL :'PTm MED10ME CO., New Vork. J L! MLL SMALL DOSE. SMALL PRICE From Pole to Pole ani'i BAnsArARiLi.A hai. demoriKtrated lta power of cure for ull ditteaaea of the biood. The Harpooner's Story. jio litdfurd, June 1, 7913. r. J. C. Ater & Co. Twenty year airo 1 waa a harpoorer in the North Tat-ilie, when riva ethers of tha crew and myaelf witu laid up with actirvy. lur bodies were blonted, gunii. swoltea and bleeding, teeth loone, purple blotchea all ever us, anT jur breath seemed rotten. Take it by and larga wo were pretty badly off. All our linie-juice ws accidentally destroyed, but tha captain had a counlo dozen bottles of Ateb'i GiiiuriciUi and eave us that. Wo recov ered on It quicker than I have ever seen men brouirht about by any other treatment for F-'curvy, and lvo seen a (rood deal of it. Hieinif no men tion in your Almanac of your Sarsaparilla being firfid f..r scurvy, I thought yon oi'hllo know of thiA, and an send you .be fa.-t. Kespectfuliy yours, Xslpu T. Wmom. The Trooper's Experience. afaitvn, fiasutolan J :S. Africa,) Harch7. 3JS. 1R. .1. V. Ater Ik Co. Gentlemen: I haro much pleasure to testify to ti tn'-nt vaiua of your h arsaparilbA. We fcavo heen stationed hero for over two years, during which time wa had to live In tents. Bein under canvas fu S3. h a tim. bmuht on whitf Is called In thia cour.trv "v-lilt-ar." I ha these sores for so-rie time. 1 was advised to take yourBarsa, Srilla, two bottles of whl. h made my eorea isai.pear rapidiv, and I am now quite well. Yours tru'v, T. K. 1oden, Trooper, Cape Mounted Jiijlemen. ,( Ayers Sarsaparilla In th or.iy tborouBhly effective blood purifier, the on'iy iie dieiiie that eradicates the poisons of rVrofula, M.-rcury, and Contagious Jjisease from the system. PREPARED BT Dr. J. C. Aji r &. Co., Lowell, M Sold by all UruRKlsta: Prloe 1; auz botua I Xor i. V. L.Douclas S3 SHOE"OsuEEAK?NG. rr.rttfL.0 CM A MCI I Fnf!AI F $435?FlKCALF&kXNSAnCl FOLIC E,3 Soles. $2so.2.W0RK!NGMENs 2.H.?$ Boys'SchgoiShoes. LlM ftS I L-- SEND FOR CATALOGUE fy WL-DOUGLAS, nsocKTON. MAS 3. - - hr niirrhnsiuB . la. ,. are life larRest manufacturers of . .f.JeTl shoca in the world, and euarautee wearing 5,a""'V " "j. the value Kiven than -hM?te Tk "o wbrtitilf. If your 5SIleV-PP. can. Sold by J. D. LUCAS & CO. uly l-i iiu. -fir VM1!.1! Unernetic men to .-ll I I I W our chuli e and complete line ! Nursery Murk and need potatoes lliifli salary and cumiuisslun patil wetHly. rayinif and pertnatient iMvlttun ku r:inteed and success assured to ito.nl men Special n.ducemenls to tieiinner. Kzpet lence not necewiry. Kxcluslve territory and jour on choice ol aaiueifiveu. IK) not delay tmt api.ly ! AM.KN NI'KSKKY ' . J rowers and I'rupagatora, Kojliestcr. N. Y. aui.'l 4ui SbtRlS rVnTlLU .u.-k s.,tr . SAMPtl mtE A.. DK AI-I. 111K M;WS, HtAH THE KKKE- CURE 4 1 THOU ART A LIGHT. I...VO. thou art l me a lilit Tlmt nliiiies iiiNin inv w.iy. Ami cm, lev i.'o tiivntmh the lonesome nilit 1'iito :l sweetiT ihi.V. All :m:'rl pure. O Love, thou art; 1 "or when i mh' thy face I fe 1 an i.i..ii.-i:ee o:i my neart t )f sweet and heavenly r-.ice. No stain- 1 th.ni.-ht the soul can soil, Win ii ili.ni. my l.oe. ai t near Ni low desire, no won1, of ru!le. Nor pas. ion insincere. O stay with me a- il lie my love. My li-lit. my ant-i i ire: And i t.i i lo o w ill t iilhtul prove Willi-' earthly tl.iy s eiiilore. . J. I unoiiu. in spruu'in l.1 (Mass ) Kepuh lican. A TIME1A shot. A. Boy's Adventure in the Wilda of Africa. The anxiety ainl distress of Ralph ':uniliell, a ynullifui master's mate imiii the survey jrim ship lVtrel. were lieyoml ih-seriptiuu when. m awalieti i;r ne liiiirniiir ill his iiarters an Atriean hut in a hank of the Se-m-ifal river, tip whieh lu hail heen sent a itinvf ilistaiiee on o;ov.-rmneiit luisiiu-ss he diseovereil that his little brother, l-'rank. was missing. l'rank was a liriirht. clever I103- of twelve, who hail aeeompanieil liis l.rother from the ship, whieli was am-horeil oiitsiile the bar. He was the captain's nephew, ami was a jfiieral ;u-t ami favorite aloaril tlu- vessel, where he hatl l.een reeeiviuo; insiriie tioiis to tit linn for naval lnties. Ualph. who now liail all li is, etitter's rew liMiktit"; for the lost lal. worri.-il iiiucli over tl.c perils to whieh the lit . lo follow iiiiht he ijxist'il from venomous serpents ami wi!l Ix-asts. At le:i,-th. while searchinr in the thick shrnlihery on the river's hank, i he youth reaeheil a cove where, on !ie tii'ht In-fore, lie ha.l left a small niioe which he hail bought of one of the natives. I le hail inteixleil to use it for navi ratino; some of the shallow creeks further up the river, as the cutter he hail charo-e of was too deep ami wide for that purpose. Startled to perceive that tin- canoe was missino;. a suspi cion of the truth broke all at once up. in his mind. He remembered havinp remarked to a sailor, in r'rank's hearing, that the little craft must be brought up and made fast to the latter the first thine in the niornitio;. The boy. eajli-r to please his brother, had probably risen ami efinie. before any of the rest of the party were awake, to fetch the canoe, but if so. what had become of him? Ualph, shudderiti":, thought of the hid eous crocodiles that infested this river, while he vainly scanned it for some siirn of the lad. Then, haviiijr resolved not to watt for the return of his men, but to take the cutter and fjfo off alone in search of his lost brother, he hurried back to the bank in front of the hut, along side of which the boat la3. This boat was a lit'ht, swift one, which could be easily sculled by an oar. There was a small, loaded swivel ready for use, fixed in the low, but its weight would not interfere with the speed of the craft. The yoiiiiK" oflicer was soon vigor ously scullino; the vessel on its way, jro'intr with the tide, as he thought ihat Frank would have been apt to take this course. l'ast lofty elevations cov ered with shrubbery ami flowers glided the cutter, often shadowed by the far extendiufT branches of hure baobab Irees that formed broad trreen arches .ibove it. It had rounded a peninsula full of bloom and foliage, when the watchful youth saw ahead of him an over turned, broken canoe. Ilesoon reached it. and. by the peculiar carviiijr on the Imiw, he recognized it as the ruiss injf canoe. It had been partly crushed most likely, he thought, by the teeth of a it. ici nlile. In dismay, he pulled Frank's little clip from a japped projection of the broken wood on which it was caught. The tlreadful truth forced itself on his mind. The lad had been pursued by the monster that had destroyed the canoe. Had he already met ids fate? '1 he yottn oflicer tried to shake olf his dos jMiti.leiicy to hope, in spite of appear ances, that his brother niio-ht, in some way, have escaped and still be alive, lie looked toward the peninsula r -m which the canoe seemed to have 1 rifled. This peninsula, consisting- of two hirh, projecting banks composed of soft rock and earth, opposite each other, ah ut fifteen feet a pa it, was r.iofed by the branches of slender trees that llourished in wild luxuriance 11 both banks. The trunks of these trees slanted so that their botio-hs iiiterininirled and were so thickly interwoven with vines 1l1.1t they formed a dense canopy of ! aves and blossoms over the open .pace beneath, which thus resembled a sort of lonr water cavern. Ralph directed the cutter to this cavern, ami. looking throuprh the jrrcen archway into the partial obscurity Ik-yoi-.d, he beheld a sijrht well calculated to arouse apprehension. In the back part of the cavern, lyinp; iTi a shallow, amoiijr sandbanks that ii-.irtially concealed it, was a larire crocodile, with its head raised ami t hrown back and its horrible jaws wide open, while its eyes were strained, as if turned up toward some elevated poi nt. Cazintr in the same direction, Ralph was startled to see, aliout ten feet above those hideous jaws, the form of his little brother, lyin-r, with pale face ami closed eyes, on the narrow shelf of a rock. The rock was under the branches of slender trees, which rose . n each side of it from low banks on the ripht and left, about two 3'ards from the elevation. One of the over hanfrintr branches, broken off, ex plained the boy's situation. lie had evidently climbed the tree to escape the crocodile, had crept out on the slender branch, it had piven way, and he had fallen on the rock, his head striking it with force enoujrh to render him unconscious. There he now lay, so perilously near the rilf,'c of the rock-shelf that the slip;htest movement on his part would cause him to roll on and fall into the jaws of the monster lielow. As he was proba bly but temporarily stunned, he was liable to more at any moment. It was, therefore, of the utmost tmportance. in order to insure his safety, that he should Ik? speedily conveyed from his dano-erous position. Ralph feared that a discharpe of the swivel or of any firearm at the croco dile, would only be attended with fa tal results to Frank. The sandbanks mipht hinder the shot from striking1 the fierce reptile, while the shock would lie pretty sure to dislodge the senseless lad from the shelf, and thus brlnp him dotvn into the jxiwer of his voracious enemy. The youth lost no time in heading his boat toward the rock. l!ut the cutter was some fathoms from it. when the keel caught in a submerped sandbank. Irawinp h is sword, Ralph spranp out, and .juickly waded toward the rock. Slipht ledpes and pro truding spurs on its front would en able him, he thotipht, to climb up to his brother; in fact, there was 110 other way of reaching- him The young oflicer held his sword ready for use, in case the crocodile, close to which he would be obliged to pass, should ven ture to attack him. Ralph, however, kept his eyes fas tened upon the crocodile. The monster turned its head when he was near it and snapped at him. lie avoided it by stepping1 sideways: then he commenced to strike and thrust viporoiisly at its jaws with his sword. It retreated a few yards but broke his blade in two with its teeth as it twisted its lody around. Think ing it would leave him, Ralph spranp to the rock. Just then little l'rank. recovering his senses, pave a slight cry and fell from the ledge above. The young oflicer saw him in time to catch him in his arms. As he turned to convey him to the cutter, he per ceived that the crocodile, now be tween him and the boat, with open jaws, was preparetl to renew the at tack. He set his confused brother upon his feet in the shallow water, and draw ing the single-barrelled navy pistol which he carried in his belt, he tired at the creature's big. yawning mouth. I!ut. owing to the animal's sheering a little to seize the boy, now on one side of his protector, it received the shot on the edge of its j:i. Twisting itself away from the twain, it commenced, as if in blended rage ami pain, to thrash the shallows with its hard. Iniiiv tail. As Ralph was coiivevinp his brother past the reptile, toward the boat, his left ankle caught between two small umler-water rocks, and was temporari ly sprained. "Never mind," said Frank, as the hurt youth dragged himself along with dillieulty, "I am now able to walk. You need hot carry me. I will lieln von."' He disengaged himself from Ralph's arms, seized his hand ami tried to as sist him. The crocodile h:ld turned by this time toward the two, for anothi r attack. Rut they were now within a yard of the cutter, and though snifcr ing excruciating pain, the you tip ofli cer caught up his brother's light form ami tosseil him into tlu; boat. The crocodile was close to Ralph, but he contrived to escape it w ith a forward movement and to roll himself across the gunwale of the cutter. lie went over on his back, with his head tin the edge of the bow. While he was try inp to turn and right himself, which his sprain would hinder his doing quickly, the hideous open jaws of the monster appeared over the bow. They were very near the head of the pros trate youth. He would not lie able to move it in time to elude those horri ble fangs. I'.ut at this critical mo meiit his yonnp brother, who had no ticed that the crocodile's jaws were on a line with the swivel, spranp forward with ready decision and discharged the piece. Never was a shot more effective. It plowed its way nearly through the full length of the huge reptile's body, kill ing the animal almost instantly. Ralph praised his brother for the quick judp ment and swift action which had thus been the means of saving him from a terrible fate. In fact, the presence of mind and promptitude shown by the little fellow on this occasion won the admiration and applause of all the seamen aboard the ship, when, in time, it was made known to them. Not lonp after the pun had been fired, the rising of the tide floated the cutter clear of the sandbank, en abling Ralph, with Frank's assist ance, to pet back to the lamlinp-place fronting the hut. where some of the sailors who had returned from their vain search for the lad joyfully hailed his apiK-arance. Frank's explanations about the canoe, as well as of his situ ation on the rock, verified his broth er's previous conjectures on the sub ject. The boy had pone to the canoe to convey it to the cutter, had been pursued by the crocodile, and by vip orous paddling had reached the water cavern. So close, to him then was the reptile that, as he spranp out of the canoe to climb the tree, the jaws of the monster closed over the frail ves sel, partly crtishinp it. llottom up. and with Frank's cap, which had fallen from his head, caught on the broken wood, the little craft had drifted off with the current, to lie afterward found by Ralph as de scribed. Rufus Hall, in N. V. Ledger. POPULATION ITEMS. Tiikkk are in the I'nited States, as a whole. 17..'t;t forcign-liorti persons to each Hhi.ooo nativi-lHirn. K all the Chinese in this country, T, 17- are in California and tl,.l4n in Oregon, the rest Winp seat tered. A''oi;iUN; to the eleventh census. th' whole number of jiersoi's from five to seventeen years of age was 1 S.r l,t.'Jlil. I'Y tin- eleventh census Maine. Ver mont. North Carolina. Iowa ami Ari zona hail each one Japanese resident. Literal Snakes In the Wine Snakes and lizards have hitherto Wen generally reparded as the effect rather than the cause of stimulants. According1, however, to the ofiieial re port drawn up by the Ilritish consul at l'akhoi and submitted to the Fnplish parliament, an immense quantity of dried lizards have, durinp the last two years, lec n shipped from that Chinese port for use in the adulteration of wines in Europe and America. In proportion to Its size saxony Is the busiest industrial state in the tierman .mpire. Textile fabrics are the most in. xirtant. MAKING A LIVING. Queer Ways of Doing It In a Large City. Two men, one carryinp a tripod and camera, the other carryinp a hiph stack of photopraphic plates, bound around by a shawl strap, halted in front of a grocery in lllue Island avenue. "You pet them out in front and I'll be ready for them,' said the man with the camc-ra. as he spread his tripod in the putter and took aim at the front door of the prycery. The other memlier of the firm went inside and said to the procer: "We're poinp to take a picture of your store. Y'ou'd better come out in front with your laiiiily and the clerk. Of course you'll want to be in it" "Why are you poinp to take a pic ture? 1 didn't order one." "That's all right. You don't have to pay anything unless you want to. tiet ewry'.Midy out in front." The procer yelled up-stairs to his wife, w In) came down with the two lit tle pirls close behind her. When she heard what was to Ik' done she insisted on poinp back to "primp," but the man at the camera objected. "Hurry up; g-et in position," he shouted. His nartner grouped the family in the front door and said: "Every one stand still." There was a click. The man at the camera said "All right," and slid in a panel. Then he and his partner path ered up tlieir outfit and moved on. Four days later the partner of the man who had worked the camera came into the procery and displayed a dozen handsome photographs. "We pot a pood picture," said he to the procer. "That's a very good pic ture of you." "It is a purty pood picture," said the procer, closinp one eye and survej'icg the photograph with admiration. "Those will be n ice souvenirs to send to your friends and relatives." "I didn't order any pictures." "Certainly not, and you don't have to take them unless you want to, but I should think you could find use for a dozen of them." "What are they worth?" "I'll let you have them for two dol lars and a half." "I didn't order 'em and I don't care much for "em, but I'll give you two dollars." "That's pretty cheap, but I'll take it." It is thus that some street photo graphers make their money. They know that every business man is flat tered when he sees himself in a photo graph standing in a proprietary atti tmte in front of his establismeiit. This is but one of the many unusual ways of making money in a large city. There are small and trivial demands which are multiplied by a large popu tioti. so that it often becomes prolit able to furnish a supply. A profes sional cockroach exterminator would not seem io be a public necessity, j et the cockroach man in Chicago makes a pood livinp There are hotels, restau rants and apartment buildings always ready to pay him a pood price to come with his insect powder and patert blower and fill all the cracks and cor ners of the building with a poison which will kill the pestiferous little animals. In some instances he makes a yearly contract and agrees to keep the premises clear. The professional ratter agrees for a certain sum to turn loose his ferrets and kill all the rats in a building. There are several "ratters" who are employed by the janitors of the hip down-town buildings. In wholesale dry-poods and grocery houses the "ratter" is an important man. He and his ferrets clean the premises of rats and mice and save much property from destruction The soap artist makes a good livinp. He works principally in saloons and barber-shops, making ornate designs on the mirrors with a piece of white snap. He is a rapid workman and is good on fancy letters. For a quarter of a dollar he will convert a large mirror into a gigantic picture with pale effects, and usually he will spend the money with the house. Of late these journeymen artists have begun to use water colors for their mirror decorations. The bright colors give a more startlinp effect ami can Ihj easily washed off at any time. At Last two theaters employ men to decorate saloon mirrors with pay ad vertisements. There are three men in Chicago who make a fairly poid livinp by market ing ideas. That is their business. Suppose a man opens a new restau rant. The "idea" man go s into the place and says: "Why not put out a sign that you'll give adish of ice cream free to every red-headed man. It would cause talk." If the restaurant man adopts the suggestion the "idea" man will exjiect to be paid for ;.t. He writes poetry for soaps and pat ent medicines and submits it to the proprietors. If they like it he names his price. At the big retail stores he drops in and confides new and start ling schemes for advertising. He goes to the theatrical manager, and stiys: "Here, wouldn't this be a gixnl catch line?" Day by day he pokes into other people's business, and is well paid for it, because, after all, there is nothing1 more valuable than ideas of the right kind. The professional entertainer who poes to evening parties and cheers up the puests has never made a decided success in Chicago. There are a few of these entertainers who fiud some employment, but the only attempt to establish a bureau where they might be employed at any time was a failure. In ls'.:i l'.urr Mcintosh, the actor, es tablished such a bureau and engaged a large number of competent musi cians, singers and readers, who were to be let out to parties and receptions at so much a night. Mr. Mcintosh had made a success as a parlor entertainer in London and was anxious to intro duce the Rritish custom in Chicago, lie was well patronized by a few ultra society eople, but the others neg lected his bureau and entertained themselves in some manner. An eccentric gentleman goes from oflice to oflice teaching the latest l"a risiau style of hair-combing. He has not been as successful as another en terprising; person who deals in crests and coats-of-arms. It is related that a wealthy and hard-headed business man with a pood, old fashioned name something like Ferguson was visited by a dapper gentleman, who carefully unwrapped a framed water-color paint ing of a shield bearing certain heraldic symbols. "Well, what's that?" asked the mer chant. "The Ferguson coat-of-arms, which you have a right to use," was the reply. "I have traced the genealogy of your family and have proofs that you are a lineal descendant from Iord Rupert Ferguson, who distinguished himself as a friend and counselor of the duke of Buckingham." "That may 1k true enough, but I don't care a continental aliout it. My father was a farmer in Ohio, and my grandfather used to own a flour mill in l'eiinsy 1 vania. I never pot any further back than that and never cared to." The visitor weut away much disap pointed. Hut the hard-headed business man hapened to mention to his wife and daughter that the coat-of-artn had been offered him and they impor tuned him to purchase it 110 matter what the cost might le. Therefore the Ferguson family has a coat-of-arms and a family tree, the two cost ing Mr. Ferguson no less than lifty dollars. It is said that the same gen tleman who approached him has made extensive researches for other wealthy gentlemen with the invariable result that somewhere in the dim past he has found a family coat-of-arms. A Chicago woman is supporting her self and deriving a good income by in structing housewives how to make an gel food. She goes from house to house, anil when employed as an in structor goes into the kitchen with her pupil and makes a practical dem onstration of her skill. Sometimes a second or third visit is necessary, as the housewife is not considered apt until she bakes a successful cake under the watchful eye of the instructor. This woman receives two dollars from each pupil. A colored woman living in a remote region of the west side supports her self managing a dish-washing circuit. Along the street where she resides are aliout twenty families, who have given her the contract to wash dishes for them. She goes from house to house and covers the circuit three times a day. Her rates are fifteen cents a week for a family of not more than three, but the families are generous and give her something extra so that her, incline is considerably more than three dollars a week. The connoisseur who collects cigar stamps and puts theiu into a basket flourishes onlj' in big tow lis. Then there is the man wlio reseats chairs, the man who polishes up metal signs, the wandering plumber who repairs leaks at non-union rates, and the woman who is introducing prepara tions for the complexion. The latter takes the "lady of the house" into the kitchen, induces her to steam her face over a pan of hot water and then a i plies various creams, jowders and per fumes. When the lady of the house has lieen done up in w hite enamel and is afraid to smile for fear she will break her face, the agent ileparts leaving the house strewn with advertising matter. Rut of all the queer ways of making a living two boys on Fifth avenue had the queerest. It was so queer that it smacked of swindling. A well-dressed little man at the Ran dolph street corner stopj.ed for a mo ment to allow a car to pass. While he was standing there a boy edged up lie hind him and hooked to his coat tail a card on which was printed in black letters: As the man went across the street several persons saw it and turned to laugh at him. The second boy was waiting across the street. He ran up to the man and said: "Mister there's a card hooked to your coat behiud. I.e' me take it off." "(loodiiess me!" said the little man, "how did that get there?" "One of them tough lads put it on, I guess." "Confound them! Well, here boy, here's a dime for you." "T'anks. mister." Two minutes latter the pood little loy lump in on a fat man and his part ner on the other side of the street in tercepted the fat man and collected a nickel. He had to ask for it, but he fot it A man would be a brute to refuse a nickel to a poor lxy who has done him a great service. Chicago News. Transparent Itrlcka. A new departure has leen made in France in the employment of glass bricks for building purposes. The bricks are hollow, Wing blown like iMittles. and are piven the shaH- that is most readily laid, cubic, hexagonal or otherwise, in the particular style of building for which they are intended. They are made secure by the use of a bituminous cement, with a base of asphalt. A sinpular feature of these bricks is that they do away with the necessity of windows. They are good insulators of humidity and noise, piv in;r protection against Ixith cold and heat, and by the modification of their foi 111 and color they can 1h? made to harmonize readily with the decocra tionsofany building. They are used largely in meat markets in preference to marble, and they are found sccially adapted for bath halls, hothouses, lnsp;tals. refri'feratinp establishments, and, in fact, all buildings in which the absence of windows would be an ad vantage. Novel Suggestions. Since Turpin's invention for destroy ing an army wholesale the professor of one of the principal colleges in Paris has proposed to the French minister of war that large blowflies should lie bred and kept in large cages, being fed upon blood placed lietween the artificial skin of lay figures dressed up in the (ierman uniform. When war was de clared these flies would lie rendered venomous by feeding theiu on the sap of tropical plants and taken to the front in their cages, from whieh they would lie released, and make short work of the enemy. Another patriot suggests that dogs should lie trained to bite lay figures wearing the German uniform, and that each soldier should le accompanied by a dog in time of war. ' ' TWO PIECES OF SlLYEIi. How They Saved the Life of a Mine Manager. "Muerte a los gringos!" Itlack Rosa's small, anptil.ir form shook with rage. Her black face grew blacker than its natural hue. if that were possible. Trembling in every nerve, she glared vici.iusly. and shook a long, Inhiv linger in the faces of the group of miners who with jests and jeers had met her supplications for charity. "Get out of this, you black devil!" one shouted. "We have had enough of you." "She's got plenty of money," cried another. "Wears diamonds in the city," sneered a third "Get out! No lieggars allowed!" they all shouted. "Muerte a los gringos!" repeated the woman, with a shriek which would have chilled the blood of men unused to her vicious ways. Manager France, of the Itull Ilomin go, heard the disturbance Wtween the miners and the miserable old woman as he came up the gulch "Here, my poo l woman," said he. "here are two silver dollars. You had Wttcr not stay around here," he added, kindly, as she took the money and called the blessings of the saints upon his generous soul. "The men are not used to giving alms, and they will only treat j-ou unkinuly." "He'd lietter Ik- savin" them two dol lars to help out the payroll of the Kull Domingo w ho has ln-i-n keeping a slate for nearly three months for the ac commodation of workmen on that property." Senora Rosalina Ortiz once enjoyed a happy home in the City of Mexico, her birthplace. Sin- had all the opportu nities of education. loth in Spanish ami English, and i:i her early married life hal traveled much. Rut misfor tune came to her iu the death of her husband ami two of tlieir three chil dren, after the loss of all the property they possessed. They had for several years made their home in the I'nited States, where Senor Ortiz had died, leaving his widow H-nniless. Poverty and sin were her undoing, and when the Colorado mining fever tilled the mountains with fortune seekers of hiph and low degree Senora Ortiz drifted to llurango. She ha 1 sunk so low in vice and crime that she was ac counted well titted for anything from betrgitip to jK-t ty thieving, even to the cutting of a throat. She was living as his mistress with a hardened character known as "Robber 1 'an," an American, w hose life l-otli in and .nit of the penitentiary was a series of misdeeds. He had earned his title as she had earned hers. Tiicy were well matched in t licit criminal ca reers, a I tin nigh the woman ha 1 thus far known no more of prison life than is afforded by county jails. Her only child, a Imv of twelve years, ha.l. lilie his mother, lieeaine a professional Wg gar and thief. The ill treatment she had received at the hands and tongues of the miners at Rico had burned into her soul like a hot iron, though the wound was largely healed by the suit words and the silver so kindly K-stmn-il by John France. Hut. since she was not likely ever to 1 e able to carry out her threat of death to all save her own race and equally incapacitated to in sure the blessings of the saints whieh she had invoked, neither her curses nor her prayers were heeded. How ever, none who knew her had any faith in Hlaek Rosa's possession of piKlwill toward any one of American or European blood. Even Robler Dan and his male com panions in crime who formed the most notorious and daring band of robbers in southern Colorado did not escape the vindictive spirit of Rlack Rosa. Hut the woman was useful to them, and when plentifully supplied with drink there was 110 crime too black for her wicked heart nor scheme Utct deep for her cunning brain. If she possessed a single redeeming trait no one had lieen able to discover it. llurango had been ablaze with the glory of frontier life a glory which comes but once in the lifetime of a new town. Hut there was then little repard felt for the future by the for tune hunters who swarmed the streets and filled up the hotels and held high revelry in the saloons and dance halls of that camp. Honest men with capital, seeking to double their investments in a fort night, stood on the same level of as sociation with the horse thief and the road agent. Mine promoters and gamblers drank over the same bar. The crack of the stage driver's whip was but the echo of the pistol shot. Husiness conversations ami ribald songs, laughter and curses inter mingled in a wild hurrah chorus. " ioinp back to the mine in the morn ing?" asked the clerk of the hotel a minute later, as France approached the desk and asked for writing ma terial. "Y es. sure!" "Stape leaves at two o'clock." "Well, call me a half hour earlier, and don't, for your head, let me miss the stage. I must le at the mine to morrow by all means. Hy the way. 1 have lost a white silk hankcrchief with a black liorder. Iook out for it." A few minutes later, while France was still busy writing. Sheriff Harney approached him and presented a little Mexican chap in whose possession had been found the silk handkerchief. "What shall I do with him?" asked the sheriff. "Lock him up," said the manager of the Hull Domingo hotel, "lock him up! That is the little rascal who came to nie a few minutes ago liegping for money. I gave him two bits aad he shows his pratitude by stealing my handkerchief." The attention of the loungers aliout the hotel oflice was attracted by these loudly spoken words of John France; but they did not hear what he said in a hurried undertone to the sheriff, so there was a murmur of indignation against the man who would seek the punishment of a child for stealing a silk handkerchief and that after it had been returned. John France laughed an 1 went to his room, while the sheriff smiled, as he always smiled in danper and out. . and ied ,tbe boy away. . The crowd looked puzzled- . "He had my boy locked up. did lie?" shrieked Rlack R:sa. when the details of this little episode were related to her. The black face of the little Mex ican woman seemed ablaze with indig nation. "He shall pay for this!" 'Senora forgets tlie two silver dol lars." taunted Robber Dan; "I thoupht the senora might feel sorry that we hail planned to rob this tine Ameri cano. Hut it's all right now is it, dearest?" he added, mockingly. "Rob him! murder him!" yelled Hlaek Rosa, and she staggered from her chair, as if she would carry out her own command, but fell on the floor in a heap. Dan and his pals lifted the woman to a led, and the leader remarked that she would sleep till morning, and le neither help nor hindrance. It bad leen known for twenty-four hours that the money some ten thousand dollars for the Hull Diminpo pay roll had Wen received, but until announced bv Manaper France it was not known when that ifentleman would start for the mine. At twelve o'clock that night four men. heavily armed, rode out of Du rango. Two hours later the stage followed them, with oue occupant on the in side and the driver alone on the front In ii t. Rloomer, the driver, might as well have U-t-n unaccompanied so far as the inside occupant of the coach was concerned. Hut he was us,-d to these lonely rides, and when a pasvti per preferred to Ik exclusive it simply exhibited to Rloomer the poor taMe of the passenger. So he talked to his horses and sang to them and passed the lonely hours as comfortably as if he had lecn surrounded by a half dozen passengers, and soon forpot the fellow 011 the inside. Coming to a Wild in the road, where the ascent of the first steep mountain is Wpun. Rloomer fell into a reflective mood and remarked to the nigh wheel er that the fellow on the inside might possibly "rise to an apprecia tion o" the s-K-iety of a stape driver and his bosses if the muzzle of a double-barreled shotgun should hap pen to appear at the window of the coach." Of course Rloomer was not really ex pecting such a surprise for his unso ciable passenger: so when the shot trim appeared, with three others, and ac companied by an order to "throw down them rildnins and throw up them hands." he was himself so completely surprised that he oWyed without a word of protest. If he was surprised at this Midden appearance of road apents. he was really dtimfoundcd at what followed. For five minutes there was a rattle of shotgu .s as if a miniature battle were Wing fought. W hen it was all over, two si aire robWrs were fatally wounded and the other two surren dered to Sheriff Harney and the man of straw on the inside was literally shot to pieces. And this is the way it all happened, as Rloomer himself was fond of telling it: "You see. they didn't put me on. Never seen a sheriff yet that thoupht a statre driver had nerve enough to play out his hand in a game like that: an" I don't know but a feller would pit a little bit rattled a-wondcrin" how lie's a-poln" to come out at the end o" the panic. It's purty ticklish bizness t W a-sittiu" .m a stage through the long, dark hours o" the night "n a-puessin whether yer poin" ter drive back er ride in a box. Hut the way it all happened was like this: "You see that kid what stole the handkerchief done that for a blind. Hisol' woman she put him on. She writes a note ter France "n'tell the kid ter drop it in his iocket "n" steal his handkercher. er anythin else he could git his hands on. "n" then kinder loiter "roun' so's to pit caught. Well. sir. that ol" Hlaek Rosa was a corker. She pives the whole snap away in the note, "n" she tells France t-r have the Wy put in jail, "n" that'd W a tip for her that he pets the note. Then she sets up a howl "n throws the panp off. an" bavin" bin dri'ikin' considerable an' feelin' a leetle bit skecrcd that her play wouldn't win. she was knocked clean out excited n' fainted on the .lead square. "So France, w tnhepits the ol' wom an's note, he just quietly lets Harney in. "n" Harney he tells him his system. "11 they plays it to win. W'n France be poes up to his room. Rarncy he goes "n" pits his team "n" meets France at the back door "n" they goes out n" lays for the panp. "Sonly one place on the road w here a job o" stage robbin could W done "n the robWrs pit away, an" Har ney he knows the place, an" that's where they camps "n" waits for the gang an" they gits 'em dead to rights. "That inside passenger 's w'at knocked me cold. They puts the sta:re agent .into the play, 'n' he fixes up a straw man w'at ye calls a dummy "n" he loads him into the stage no's to fid me "n" the road agents loth. "I reckon Hlaek Rosa didn't know how near she was a-callin' the turn w'en she prescribed death for pringos. She didn't git the ones she was after in the fust place, but I reckon t he death of her ol' man "n l'ete Johnson suited her notions lietter, w'en she com to size up the job, fcr they was both prinpos one was American "n t'other a Swede. "They say them Mexicans has al ways pot a grudge ag'in somelody, but never rememWrs a kindness; but the way that, play was made it looks like ol" Hlaek Rosa didn't ferpit John France's kind words to her w'en the miners was a-joshin" her "Y'es: perhaps the two silver dollars did have somethin" to do with it sil ver was a preat power "n Colorado "n them days." Lewis Eddy, in N. Y. Advertiser. Klephants in Africa. The elephant of Africa is still a tolerably abundant animal. Its 11 util ise rs. though doubtless diminished by more than one-half within this century, are prolwibly to lie counted by the hundred thousand. Nevertheless, in less than one hundred years the field which is occupied has Wen great ly reduced, and Wtwecn the ivory hunter ami the sportsman, armed with puns of evcr-iiicreasinp deadlines, it will certainly not require another cen tury of free, shooting to annihilate the African species. U. IL Stoddard say '-IVt-oks are nt Boesnrny literature. The ma jority Xf books. Indeed, are not litera ture at aiL" A 1
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