ODE TO SPRING f heard the bird of spring. And lo At his sweet note The flowers began to grow, Grass, leaves, and everything, As if the green world heard The trumpet of his tiny throat From end to end, and winter and despair Fled at his melody, and passed in air, 1 heard at dawn the music of a voice, O my beloved, then 1 said, the spring Can visit only once the waiting year; The bird can bring Only the season’'s$ong, nor his the choice To waken smiles or the remembring tear! But thou dost bring Springtime to every dav. and at thy call The flowers of life unfold, though leaves of autumn fall - Annie Fiel “IGNORA LUKE is, in the Century, cn —— NCE IS BLISS” SHARP HE splendid steam ship Adamant, the celebrated Cross Bow Line, left New York on her Febru- ary trip under favor- ADie auspices. There had storm of just been a on the ocean, that the she next chance bef ire little social prob had trouble in ¢ with Washing- r Voyage £E Wis »0 teamer IRIrs vas so mild that Was J had urneying eft New the lelt aptain, wie and sary to Keep up childre till, prrhiaps the man im rathey Jim werdoes him the 14) from up Lat thie Ma DUS ed and § ove alol went on signal masthead, from all the empty horizon, sight, Johnson?" said the trav speck, sir.” “Keep a sharp lookout, Johnson," “Yeu, sir.” The captain moodily paced the bridge with his bead down, ‘I ought to have turned bask to New York,” be said to himself, Theu he went down to his own room, avoid. pg the passengers as much as he could, and had the steward bring him some bee! tea. Even a captain cannot live on anxiety. . “Steamer off the port bow, sir,” rang out the voice of the lookout at the prow, The man had sharp eyes, for a lsndsman could have seen nothing, “Run snd tell the capiain,” cried Johnson to the sailor at his elbow, but as the sailor turned the captain's head appeared up the stairway. He seized the glass and looked long at a single point in the horizon, ! gent Lis servant for his binoculars, “lt must be the Vuican,' last. ++ think so, sir.” «Turn vour wheel a few peints to | port and bear down on her.” Johnson gave the necessary order and the great ship veered around, “Hello!” Spinner, stHere's a steamer, [found her, deck. She's cried on mine.” Then there was a the ship. *“‘A the cry, and all books and mag Even the placid, un- and Chil. dren were held up and told to be careful dim line of of wns | to the mde in rush ye 1 steamer sit, azines at once lost interest, dignilied communicative rose from his chair Englishman who was 80 to see the ahead while they tried smoke so far Talk about June it sea,” eried young Spinner, the knowing “Bosh, 1 we're going directly for her Lane routes sav. See! Thing what it might be in a fogi Pure luck, 1 eall at, her, Mr. routes! “Will ner?” gently aske Boston. sOhn, we signal Spin [ wang lady from certainly answered young Spinner. signal flying from the That them what line we belong to.’ “Dear me, how interesting,” “You have times, [ suppose, Mr. Spinner I know answered the modest Spinner. tisee, there 8 « masthead now, shows the crossed many said young lady. “0 my WAY about, ympiis speed came slowly v hat weather we } i Hoa bulkheads it e will star 3 till we reach Queenstown re the many on board, lo you thirty cabin over S00 seven pas steorage pas answered thie or creat AMY momen SF WAS A reals r present fan those on d K the steam within a mile Englishman slowly entered 4 wWron I" ne asked the YVulean and 1 signal captain has had a hole stove 1 her “Yes, I know all that, of course, bu what's wrong with us? “With us!” echoed blankly, the captain with the Adamant! ss with the What has Adamant for the ast I'm not a talker, nor uid any more than you are, but | want to know," Certainly, "maid the captain, HP lease shut the door, Sir Johan." w ¢ * » » - been am two or three days! am 1 alr Meanwhile there was a lively row on board the Yulean, In the saloon Captain Flint was standing at bay with his knuckles on the table. “Now what's the meaning of all this?” ered Adam K. Vincent, member of Con. gress A crowd of frightened women were standing around, many on the verge of hysterics, Children clung with pale faces to their mother's skirts, fearing they | knew not what. Men were grouped with | anxious faces, and the bil old captain fronted them all, “The meaning of all what, sic” | “You know very well, What is the | meaning of our turning round” | “It means, mr, that the Adamant has | eighty-five saloon passengers and nearly 500 intermediate and steerage Pitatgers | wiso are in the most deadly danger. The he said at | cotton in tne hold is on fire, and they | It | have been fighting it night and day. may break out at any moment, It means, then, sir, that the Vulcan is going to stand by the Adamant.” A wail of anguish burst from the | frightened women at the awful fate that human clung might be in store for so many they closer to their children and thanked God that no such danger threatened them and those dear to them. “Why didn’t they turned back, Cap- tain Flint?" asked Mrs. General Weller. Because, madame, every moment is are New beings 80 near to them, and of value in such a and we Queenstown Cuse, neare! than we are York?" And so the two steamships, side by gide, worried their way toward the east, always within sight of each other and with the rows of lights in each visible at night to the sympatnetic souls on the The sweltering poured water into the hold one and the pounding pumps of the hold of the reached Queenstow other, men of the wured water out and thu On board U passengers ashore both steamers 1wo met each other. “Why? Mrs, You don't mean to say you that anf “For Brownrig. Ayencral wonders never you say! Why! ened to death think. R Dice man, 100, Oh, to hysterics, I know I shall I wouldn't if I were you,” said Mrs. General, who was a stron les, it Is too ls — Lost at a Profit ; wtonishment of captains of the fast steamers ar i the od to back passage id at large, he commer sums of hw ran , and nurse hose greatest Was wor, arrived pe LS 3 others, and instead Aln but waiting his from the it wWeeg nal UT with became known tod " ¢ to his ship, thus re IpIng owner course paid his belting losses, umber of th 8 Ma yusands of § Black wood I — How Plate Glass Is Ground, the United sul at Aix la Chapelle, France, eported to the State Department in re Franz Bertram, has gard to the plate glass industry of that He says ‘I regret to have to report that it City impossible for me to find out the cost of grinding, smoothing an i polishing for rolled and plate gins, as weil as crystal plate, the fact that the man. agers of the stock company at Stolberg decline to give any information what. ever, oven visitors not being allowed to see the works “I maoaged, however, to find out that the method of holding the glass on the grinding table is as follows: The glass is placed on a wooden table, of which the whole top must be covered, In case one sheet of glass ix too small they must fill out the empty space with other smaller | ploces, They then nail strips of wood all around the table to keep the glass steady and prevent it from moving dure ing the grinding. After the glass is ground it Is taken from the table and placed on a second table to be polished, On this table the whole surface is cov. ered with wet gypsum and in this matrix the sheet of glass is laid, After the gypsum is dry the glass is firmly held in Jee and can be polished. not manufactured here.” owing to Siates was | Tin glam | The long glove is ishion, The poke bonnet has re Very Bleeves have lost somo of their height. Neb., has a vived. elaborate are the newest buttons, Crete, r ladies’ cornet youn band. ted ZIOVES ar orrect thing" at pres it The cl WORD, ef I n Washington in gloves ail Are ia mod to match the wall Crape 18 almos ultra fashionable used broideries London society Princess of Wa es Delween a tinouishino MEBIDET 10 GAss Using ireseed a th flowers trai: ver it, 2 mode snd a lsttice work girl fot y eh w iressing COTrDICes Are le, and the reign of he curtain pole is drawing In fi rapidly to a urs more we will find $l over Nebraska, wwrion, In all other Sia is paramount Hulda a pretty, smart a wide-a-wake Montreal(Oanada) girl, R. Gracer, entering into womanhood, follows business of a customs broker in ( ncn Ohio, and can give points 's boys in makiog it & success Refined toilets for the « Lh SCOAMOD ming quiet gray Ring sted with brocade find « X pression in hams which are decor designs in black and white, cuffs of black add materially the charm of this particular mode. Collars and velvet 1 74) Jean Nelson won the first place in the oratorical « at Ive Pauw Univer | sity, Indiana, which has 1200 students. She is the only woman who has attained this distinction, and Years old. Her subject was Freedom.” nlest she is but nineteen ‘Industrial | Caroline Kelly has been [or some yoars | the desiguer of intericr car decorations in one of the largest car-building estab. lihments in the country and the first manulactory to employ women as deco- ators, Twenty or more young women work under Miss Kelly, Reticules are most likely coming into fashion again, aod a very pretty old fashion it is, too. At a wedding brides. maids wore them slung on their arms | with long blue ribbons, the reticules | being of white satio. Everybody voted the innovation charming. The fact that women in East Todia are | making public speeches is a striking evi | dence of the rapid strides of progress, | In the Indian National Congress the | women are recognized, and the consensus of thought from the standpoint of both | sexes is considered potent, The first woman chemist in Paris, France, has just taken her first-class de- | gree. She will have to serve three years as an assistant before practicing in her own name, She is a native of France, which is unusual, as nearly all students of medicine and pharmacy in Paris are forsigram, A SARATOGA CO. MIRACLE. | HELPLESS FOR YEARS AND CLUDED FROM HOSPITALS AN INCURABLE. EX | Tie REMARKABLE QUANT EXPERIENCE INVESTIGATED BY BANY (N.Y ERA PARKING OF CHAS AN AL Reront AS JOURNAL Bronry op INTEREST BUR. March 12th For #8 here Albany, N. Y. Journal BARATOGA, March 11th some time past there have been repor and else where in Baratogs County of a most remark able~indeed, so remarks le lous—cure of a Most BeEvere ( ataxia, or creeping paralysis, simply by the use of a popular remedy known as ‘Pink Pills for Pale People,” prepared and put up by the Dr. Willams Medicine Company Morristown, N, Y and Brockville, Ont The story was to the effect that Mr. Chas A. Quant, of Galway, who for the last six or eight years has been a great sufferer from creeping paralysis and its attendant ills and who had utterly powerless of ail self-help, bad, by the use of a few boxes of the Pink Pills for Pale Peopl so fully restored to Oo tx is LO Le miracus se of locomotor become brea health as about the street without the al I'he fame of this wonderful, mire was 80 great that the Evening porter thought it worth his while niway WU y Mr, Quant learn fron his lips, and from the opservation and mony of hi orut wnion tos all or test neighbors, 17 hi was a And #0 he dro and a night getting his neighbors proper to village an 1 Gaiway there in Quant and ntervi his low townsmen It may bx Tre Slory 8 y that Galway is a pretty It 400 people, , centre Saratoga Sarat wated ne of a Galway nt*®l Charles A everybody him, and salisfact) nto nensiily and had sper Was « BOTTI Quant Juan o § that and my step unsteady Hav us wggere i benelit patent med antly grow began UU stressing pas woemned as Lh ' hye hat 12 t. and | almost ortal Ls KAYE ut enti irawg iouble n relief trou bie « nervous syste ! Then 1 th that | had turned to New ¥ valt hospital, w treated UY my Ons JOON tor fer 1 bad } ur Ware foe fone all they * York ho exam uid n J ELTON re rk and went t Roose here for | months | was and they ataxia and treatme four n ar specialists for Starr and Dr, upon Meand w me in byterian hospital examin ' nd t me the same thing In Mar taken to St Peter's tal Prof. HL H Hun frankiy tol 1 ¥ OAM WAS DODeiess that he could do nothing for and that she had better take back home and save my money Bat | wanted to make a trial { Prof sakill and | remained under his treatment {or nine weeks, but se benefit All this time [ had been worse, 1 bad entirely from n waist d and bad partly los t { my The pain was terrible; my legs felt though they were freez. ng and my stomach would not re- tain food, and 1 fell away to 130 pounds In the Albany hospital they put 17 big burns on my back day with red bot irons, and after a days they put I4 more burns on and treated me with eleo tricity, but | got worse rather than better; lost control of my bowels and water, and upon advice of the doctor, who said there was no hope for me, I was brought home, where it was thought that death would soon come to relieve mé of my sufferings. Last September, while in this helpless and suffer ing condition, a friend of mine in Hamilton, Ont... called my attention to the statement of one John Marshall, whose oase had been similar to my own, and who had been cured by the use of Dr Williams's Pink Pulls for Pale People “In this case Mr, Marshall who isa promi- pent member of the Royal Templars of Temperance, had after four years of con stant treatment by the most eminent Cana dian physicians been pronounced incurable, | and was paid the $1000 total disability claim | allowed by the order in such oases, Nome | months after Mr. Marshall bagan a course of | treatment with Dr. Williams's Pink Pills, and after taking some 15 boxes was fully re. stored to health, “1 thought | would try them, and my wife sont for two boxes of the pllis and | took them according to the directions given on the wrapper on each box. For the first few days the cold baths were pretiy severe, as 1 | was 50 very weak, but | continued to follow | instructions as te taking the pills and treat ment, and even before | had used up the | two boxes of plils 1 an 10 feel beneficial | effects from them. ¥y pains were not so | bad: 1 felt warner; my head felt better: my food to relish and a with me; | 1 could ton up, the | began to come back into my ey dhe to be able to get about on crutches; my eye | came back again as Af ever, and now, | nals t take they hosp w hers me we Huns iam cured n growing paralyzed 4 become wn tr hands nw one fow | for — w J new man, and when the spring opens | ex pect to be able to renew my organ aud piano nen i cannot speak in too high terms of Dr. William¥'s Pink Pills for Fale People, {as I know they saved my life after all the joctors had given me up ar incurable Other citizens of Galway, seeing the won derful cure of Mr. Quant the Pink Pills Pale People, are using t Frederick Bexton, a sufferer from rb ating, said be was finding great benefit from their uw and Mr. Behultz, who had suffered from ehronk dysentery for vears, said he had taken two boxes of the pills and was already Mr. Quant bad also tried Faith cure experts of that ihany Greenville, 8, ( “11 with and re treatment in A but with no beneficia sults A number of the mo rominent citizens of Galway, as Hev, Herbert, of Presbyterian chiurel Prot, J E. Kelly priveipal of the seademy; John FP. and Har vey Crouch, and Frank and Edward Willard merchants, and many others to whom Mr, Quant and his 80 miraculous vy the uss Ww i ¥ for I's People i Lhe gh [4 the (116% Willlamsa's Pink + mt (Jusn Aan very f1 wiry 8 wie the Will Juan ind them ut oertaln bs when he Is ®C) A cow Rs A ith New } Knows Salil as TGAD any when she wants does. an its the same Way Ww ther animal except a mar rk Mail and Express I DISEASES, (dS 0 ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts ntly yet ymptly on the Kidneys, ow. snd Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head robes and fevers and cures habitosd constipation. Syrup of Figs is ihe only remedy of ind ever duced, Jleating to the taste - ceptable to stoma, ita motion snd trul bet.cheial nite effects, only from the most healthy and o rubetanoces, its many lent qualities com mend it to all and have made it the most Popular remedy known, & of Figs is for sale in 500 and 4 bottles all drop, gista An Jending may Bat here i on band will cure it one Ogu Say fue he any substitute, CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CQ KY % vit
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