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VOLUME XX VIII.
E BENS BURG, PA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1S94.
NUMBER 40.
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AddresA W. B. PRATT, Sec'y,
a
THE,
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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
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i'urr:itircs, the
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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
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r - ! !y ati'l univer
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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
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Effective Remedy
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,T ;i:e!! ITI the 1101180. '
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! A; r's Pills, for lirer
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1 f: , . :-tintion whiefi
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i . . f Acer's I'ills ef
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Ayer's Piiis,
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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
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I. v-r li i i- tde very
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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-
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ir.ll:!niann P Dr,.,- n r
--mi a DlUrYU UlUg UU,
B-T.mope. MO. U. S. A
M!iiit;iiii House
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He l.eilTert and moll
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' 1 ' ii Ht their renleiiees.
IAMKS 11. II 4 NT.
Hroprirtor
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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 !
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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-,
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No. 7S1. Piirrry.
or
Elkhart Kicyole. SSin.wheola.
i prifuiiiniic ttri. w(mis
Mtol tuhiDg, drop forvtnpis.
ELKHART, IND.
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50c
AppUfd into the iwstrilx it is
uinM the hold, aJhttjn inj!aptwntfu)n, hetbi
vL 50g
'ARTER'S
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a
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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
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Sold by all UruRKlsta: Prloe 1;
auz botua I Xor i.
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S3 SHOE"OsuEEAK?NG.
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$435?FlKCALF&kXNSAnCl
FOLIC E,3 Soles.
$2so.2.W0RK!NGMENs
2.H.?$ Boys'SchgoiShoes.
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fy WL-DOUGLAS,
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- - 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
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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"
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