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Somebody knocked at the door.
And Buch night as it was S-the
enow and the wind making it dread
ful to think of while you eal beside
a roaring fire, let alone being out on
the dismal fiat where the little
house braved the fury of the elem
ent war. It was quiet inside, the
loudest sound being the moan of the
wind and the hiss of the feathery
r flnl-pa falling down the wide-
mouthed chimney to the flanng.logs
below.
Yes ; Tom uod to sit where you
sit, and I sitting in this blessed iden
tical spot, sewing as 1 do now, ana
he'd tell his awful yams and try to
make me believe them. 1 ou nee, I
don't Bwallow all I hear."
"Ye don't think Im a-deccivin'
ye, do ye ?'
"I don't think much about it, so
you needn't have that in your nod
dle. Go on, do ; for mercy's sake
what ails the man ?"
Such a look as he gave her.
"Well, there comes a Ptorm
dav,
one
v. an' the Ekipper he comes to us
A woman was sitting lesidc tb ; S3ys, says he : 'It's all up wi' us.
flaring log?, mending a little chiiu ; os ye sec. 1 ry ana save yourselves,
frock. The cix little shoes, in vari-; The ship had sprung a-leak, the
ous worn sU)?e, placed before the j whole side was stove in on a rock,
fim told a storv that oftentimes iaa' the pumps was no use, an' wc
1.-111.W Tmis tlian the moan of the was a-troin' down, an' oh, Tom
wind and the hips of the lost snow
flakes on the fire disturbed the
room. Sitting there, sewing, and
with a woman's mind far away from
what she was buy at, and yet tied
all the stronger here by reason of
her wandering thoughts, the woman
startcd-j2mebody knocked at the
door,
She arose hurriedly, suppressing
a cry, and unlocked and flung the
door open. A man's voice in the
snowv darkness aid, harshly :
Where do T .m Bollivars wife
live at here?
"Yes," she .nswered, her hand
upon her her .1, her eyes peering out
In the nv'ht, I am Tom liollivar's
wife ; what do you want of me ?'
' Las.', will vou ntk me in ? I've
news of Tom.
"You have ! Gmc in sailor, and
toll me what you know."
Into the light and warmth step
ped a rough, brawny fellow, dressed
in the shipshod manner of a sailor
upon shore. He shook the snow
from his shaggy coat and his beard.
HapTjing Wis slouch hat upon his
knee arid looking fiercely down in
to the little woman's face all the
time, as though to intimidate her.
She returned the look with an odd
expression not frightened, but
startled, bewildered the look that
had come in her face when she
opened the door and peered out at
the man ; then from the bewildered
look another came, one of under
standing, comprehension, and she
said to him, calmly :
'Sit by the fire ; you muet be
chilled through this gruesome
night."
The startled look seemed to have
flown her face to his, but he said,
more harshly :
''I am chilled through, Tom Bolli
vars wife, and that ain't no lie,
"cord in to Scriptrr. Are ve all alone
here, woman?" and lie glanced
about him.
"Xo,"jshe said,
hix worn little
looked at them,
his face awav from her
stmt.
"Now, Eailor," she said,
this news o' yours ?"
"Ain't ye afeared o' me, ye alone
oman?"
"Jlosh r Tell me the news 1"
"Tom Iiollivar's wife, ve flustratc
me. But it's right ve aint aieared
pointing to the
shoes. The man
and then turned
for an in-
'what's
o me whv should
ve be ? i I
thought you might be,
But I'm a rough eailor,
the
else
that
I'm
kinder
though
end"
'"Oh, pshaw I hurry up with the
news.'
"I I don't know how to com
mence the yarn, wi' you a settin1
there so unskeered."
"0;i, its a yum, eh ? Well, wait,
f 'lilor. till I put some wood on the
i rt than tin away."
8it? p'lt the wood on, s;it down on
the to l in t'ie red light of the
Lr.z iij'J tu'.ik up the little froi-k
a.';iin.
"Xiiw," she s.nd, ''1111 ready."
Tiie 1:1 in h;id iiis mouth open.
lJ .'-tte ha bronzed .kiu and
fire from the ls, something
eut t.'rtt flush over his fice
now suTj-ed it.
B''n't ye a little narvous,
ways f" lie asked.
"D:, ii iv, no : not at all !
Heady -n;ugh ti count the threads
while I tite!i tbib baud of our Su
ev't frock. Nervous ! Me ? Oh,
Je;.r r
"Torn Bolivar's wife, I've that to
tell as'll not m ike ye brag o being
steady. Tom Bollivar's been gone
three years ana over, eh ? '
"If you know it, s.iilor, why do
you ask me? Don't you suppose I
can count the months that make
three years ?"
"When did vou hear from Tom
last ?" He gulped, and his eyes
were wrathy.
"Six months ago," she said, easi
ly ; 'he was sailing for Madagascar,
and hadn't time to sy much."
"Tom Bollivar'g wife," 6aid the
man, solemnly, suppressing his
strange anger, "y11 not be likely to
hear from him agin in a hurry ; he
won't write soon."
"I expect not There ain't much
use o' him writing, anyway, seeing
I can't answer, not knowing if I'd
send my letters to sea that they'd
find him."
"Lass, hell never write ' agin no
more. Tom won't There, now!"
"That's a pity for Tom." she said,
biting off her thread, "for he always
likes to write a bit about the chil
dren. Oh, dear !"
The man looked at her in blank
amazement
"Tom Bollivars wife, I think 111
commence that there vara I prom
ised.; "Lor", eailor ; you don't mean to
sav vou am i wgun vet 7 bat a
tedious one you can be, to be sure !
lilcss my heart !
Again the man gulped and gritted
nis leetn. lie went on, maulv
"l e know, six months ajo, Tom
he sailed around Madagascar, don't
ve ? u ell, I was along wi' Tom I was.
Me an' him we was chums : what-
somcver he done, that there done I;
wncre6omever ne went, theresomer
went 1 ; whensomever he writ to
ye, I seen that there letter, true as
Gospel. When he was a-thinken' o'
ye, I knowed it. But there's storms
at sea, lass oh, sich storms ! Whv.
uiis ncre Btorm outside js a babv
Bollivar s wile, how tin i say u :
your husband he wouldn't desart
that there 6hip as he'd knowed, man
an' boy, since him an' the 6hip
was both young."
"That's right in him," Bhe said,
sinking her head and settling her
pe.; on the stool, a light in her eyes ;
"that's right in him. I wouldn't own
Tom tcllivar if he'd forsook his
work be; use it got troublesome."
"Yes but, lass, Tom he was
aboard till the last two timbers hung
together. He wouldn't go. He got
the others off an' helped wi' the car
go ; but there he stayed, alookin'
out in the direction o' his home, an'
a-thinkin' o' ye an' the babies."
"True for you, sailor," she said,
her voice tremulous and almost glad,
"and good for Tom Bollivar."
"But why dou't re get flustratcd?
Didn't ye lieer nothin' "bout Tom ?
Why don't you get into areglarter
rer ?"
"Oh, I'll get that way after a
bit."
"Then ye didn't kecr nothin' for
Tom ?"
"Now, look here, sailor," she 6aid,
"vou knew Tom powerful well, you
sav. uian t lom ever Know oi me
time and time again when I've sat
here all alone through the night, af
ter I've tucked the rVldren up in
bed, and staid at the window look
ing out at the raving storm, think
ing of my husband ? Dkm't he ever
know at such times tht my heart
went awav over the cruel sea hunt
ing for him went further than the
sea, up to heaven to Him that holds
the sea and the storm in the hollow
of His hand ? Didn't he know how
I treasured up every hope, every
dream of him, every word he'ed ev
er said that I searched the chil
dren's faces day after day, seeing his
likeness there, so that I'd never for
get his look and should know him
always, no matter when or how I
met him ? And didn't he know
how, when I was timider for him
than usual, and wanted him more
than usual, I'd go to the children
and cry, 'Babies, babies, wake with
mammy and pray for daddy on the
wild, wild seas ?' and how I'd fix
their hands, and how we four would
kneel down and say, 'Our Father,'
and feel sure that the Lord knew
what we were asking for and would
answer our prayer ? Didn't Tom
ever know how I must have count
ed days, then weeks, then months
and at hist years, wanting him,
waiting, watching for him, ever true
in word and thought ? Couldn't he
tell you that he guessed I loved all
sailors for his sake, and that I pitied
lonely ones that came to port here,
and who made friends with me ?
For I've gone to them and I've said,
'Cheer up, my lads! I'm Tom Bolli
var's wife, and he's on the briny
deep. Iet me help you all I can ;
if you re sick, or lonesome, or want
little jobs of woman's work done for
vu, whv. come to me. Im lom
B lii :r s wife, and he's on the briny
when thev knows all I knows? Wid
dcr, I'll tell the whole town, I'll tell
the whole world, I'll put ve in the
'log' 1 mean the papers.
"Bosh, sailor, that's nonsense.
Who'll have me ? Why, you will,
sailor ; I know you will."
"Git out o' my way, Tom Bolli
vars wife. Me have you ? Lord !
I thought I'd find you craxy mad at
the idee o' him bein' dead an' layin'
rollin' around wi' the sharks an'
sich in Davy Jone's locker. An' now
to hear ye ! Oh, woman, woman, yc
don't know what ye've done ! I'll go
back to my ship ; I'll hate all wo
men for vour sake ; 111 never tell
who I ft
"Sailor you shall have nie now."
"Let me out o this here blasted
house."
"Sailor, I'll jock the door. You
shall not leave this house till you
say you'll hav. rno for your Lawful
weudeu wi'e.
"Let me out ! Ill never say sich
words to you. Woman, you're a
bad lot, that's what ye are a bad,
ungodly, wicious creetur. Ye've
lied to me about lovin' your hus
band so ye'd get me to marry ye :
ye've saw so man v sailors, an think
. . .! w a.
we re all green alike, l don t be
lieve ye ever thought o' your hus
band ; I don't believe even the ba
bies thought o' their poor deceived
father"'
"Not of their deceived father, sai
lor," 6he said, coming towards him,
the tears raing down her cheeks, her
lips smiling ; "but their father, who
must always believe me true and
loving their father I saw this bless
ed night"
"Who who their father this
night? Where is he where is
the ?' i
She threw herself upon his breast;
her arms clasped wildly about him.
"Here, here," she cried" rapturously,
"here is their father my Tom, niv
dear old bov." And then cried aloud,
"Babies, children, wake up ! Come
to mammy, for daddy's come home,
daddy's come home from the cruel,
cruel seas, and he's tried to make
mammy believe he was somebody
else, and that daddy was drowned.
Oh, Tom ! I knew you when I open
ed the door ; I never could be mis
taken in you, never, never, never !"
And the patter of the children's feet,
the crying of the children's voices,
drowned Tom Bolli var's voice deep
er than any sea had ever drowned
Tom Bollivar.
no Gets Dim ak.
The Vonth Of Our Und.
won't
some
American and Italian Sumac.
leep
And how often
and
him. If
words,
always
squall compared wi' them there at
sea, wi creakin an groanin'an cuss
in' an' orderin' an' these's storms
as makes you think o' home ' an'
your wife an' babies, an' to look up
in the face o' the angry sky an trv
to speer out the pity in' face o' Jesus
Christ as walked on the waters an'
told them waves to be still ; storms
as makes ye look up at the sky that
seems to be a fightin' wi' the mad
that rises up to clinch wi' it, an'
falls back all shattered an' broke ;
there's storms as makes a sailor's
heart cry for the help o' God for
them as he loves, even if the help
doa't save his own life. Who know
ed more about storms nor me an'
Tom Bollivar? We'd follered the
eea nigh on to twenty years, an'
never separated. I can't tell ye, for
yeH feel that bad."
"No, I wont sailor ; upon my
word I won't, I like it I like to
hear you talk ; it sounds old-fashioned."
"Old-fashioned ?"
olten
this room has leen crowded with
sailor men ! Add how often they've
kissed the children, and in case
they'd pass Tom's ship, they 6aid,
and m ould seem to take the kisses
any-1 to him ; or they'd kiss 'em because
thev had had little ones of their
own far away who must be look
out to sea and thinking ol their
daddies. And I've heliied 'em all I
could indeed, indeed I have ; and
me and the children, why, we've
gone down to see their ships off, and
I've made the children wave their
hands and say 'Good bye !' right
loud, and the men nuvc called,
'Three cheers and a tiger for Tom
Bollivar's wife.' and 'God care for
the babies !' And I've done all this
for love o' Tom ! And you don't
say that he ever thought of that,
only that I don t care for
he didn't know me without
then he didn't love me as I
thought he did."
And she wiped out her eyes on
the frock she was mending. The
man looked at her for a moment,
seemed to hold back something he
was about to say, and put his hands
nervously on his pocket and went
on :
"Well, lass, yes, he knowed it
He thought he" knowed it foratruth,
but and now comes the all-flrdest
awful part o' this here Gospel-truth
yarn."
"Yes, sailor."
"Well now don't ye cry out, an'
don't ye flop down but Tom Bolli
var he won't never, never come
home no more."
She smiled up in his face.
"Why ?" she asked.
"Because he's drownded dead,"
he replied.
"I don't believe it, sailor."
"But I was wi' him all the time, I
orter know."
"Then why wasn't you drowned,
too ? If you thought so much of
him as you say, why didn't you
drown trving to save him, if noth
ing els ?"
"I I well, I was washed ashore.
But poor Tom ! oh, lor' 1 poor
Tom, he's wen't"
"Oh, dear, if that's the case, I
might as well make up my mind to
be a widow. '
"I rather think so. Well why
don't ye get flustrated, Widder Bol
livar ? ' cried the man aghast ; "ye
promised that anyways?'
"I'll get that way after a while,
sailor."
"But I tell ye, Tom Bollivar ain't
no more ; he was drownded dead,
him that was your husband."
"Well, I can't help it can I? I
didn't drown him, did I ? I'm a
widow, aint I ? Now I'll tell you
what I think about it You see, sai
lor, I can't live alone now, now, can
1 ?"
"What do you mean, Widder Bol
livar ?"
"That's it that's right I'm Wid
ow Bollivar. But I musn't be Wid
ow Bollivar all my life, bo I must
get married."
"Married 1 My God ! woman,
your husband h ain't cold yet"
"I can't wait until I'm cold be
cause you say he ain't quite cold
yet, can I ?"
Do you mean to sav vou don't
love him ?"
It would be foolish to love &
dead man and yet marry a live
one." " '
Who whoU have'ye for a wife
It has been demonstrated, and we
some yuars go published the proofs
ot the act, that ine American su
mac, properly prepared, was decid
edly more valuable than thatof Ital
ian, and yet the latter sold in our
market at double the price obtained
for the former, the American varie
ty bringing fifty dollars per ton.
1" he statistics show that not more
than eight thousand tons are yearly
bought into the market in the Unit
ed States, but, if properly managed
the amount may be very largely
augmented. The Scientific American
says that the dfference against the
American sumac is caused by the
mode now pursued in its prepara
tion, which renders it unsuitable for
making the finer white leather used
for gloves and fancy shoes, owing to
its giving a disagreeable yellow or
dirty color. It has recently been
shown. Jiowever, that the leaves of;
native uumac gathered in June and
July are equal to the best foreign
leave. The importance of this dis
covery may be seen by the fact that
the cultivation of the plant may be
carried on most profitably in this
country as soon as manufacturers
and leaders recognize the improve
ment tii us obtained in the domestic
article, and by classifying it accord
ing to its percentage of tannic acid
and its relative freedom from color
ing matter, advance the price of that
which is early picked and carefully
treated.
In 1 til v tae sumac is planted in
shoots in the spring in rows, and is
cultivated in the same way and to
about the same extent as acorn. It
gives a crop the second year after
the setting out, an d regularly thereaf
ter, the sumac gathered in this
country is taken mostly from wild
plants growing on waste land, but
there is no reason why it should
not be utilized and cultivated ou
land not valuable for other crops
Tbe Dark Side.
'He's the smartest young man in
our clas.'
Yes, but he get's drunk.'
'Oh, but he's so fine-looking, so
noble f.nd so talented withal! His
compc. ition yesterday was the very
best in our division. He writes
splendidly ! They say he's writing
for a magazine, no older than nc is,
and not it of school yet !
he be a g.vat man, though,
day V
'No, I don't think he will.'
'Why not?'
'He gets drunk.'
'Oh, that's nothing ; a good many
6inart men get drunk. Kvery young
man has his wild oaU to sow ; and
because a fellow gets a little boozy
once in a while 1 wouldn't condemn
forever ; quite likely he'll outgrow
it when he gets older and sees the
folly of it'
'More likely that will outgrow
him, and, as to his getting a little
boozy, I'm afraid he was a good deal
so when the boys found him beside
the walk, the other night, and had
to carry him to his room, dodging
around street corners and skulking
through by- Aays so that none of the
professors would see him. I tell
you a person who drinks at all is
not to be depended on. The only
young men that I have any confi
dence in arc those who let intoxi
cating liquors entirely alone.'
'Well, 1 don't care ; he's good and
smart anyhow, and 1 like him.'
'I don't he gets drunk !'
So the conversation ran on be
tween two schoolmates, who were
walking just ahead of me. Ah,
how those words, 'He gets drunk!'
kept ringing in my cars 1 Possessed
of a noble manhood and glorious in
tellect ; blessed with the greatest
and best of God's gifu ; having the
love and approbation ot teachers :
admired and looked up to by asso
ciates , the pride and hone of a
fond father, intertwined in the heart
and life of a doting mother, united
in close and tender bonds with
brothers and sisters : holding in his
hand the honor and good name of
the institution with which he is con
nected, of the society in which he
mingles, and yet gets drunk !
As a natural consequence that
young man who drinks will gener
ally blight the manhood that is
within him, change to curses the
blessings that are upon him ; bring
to dust whatever highborn aspira
tions, whatever longings for great
ncss, glory and immortality may be
his : blast the fondest hopes of par
ents, put out the brightness of their
future in the darkness ot disappoint
ment, pam and sorrow : bring
shame and reproach upon brothers
There really oujht to bo some law
against the ealoof dime novels to
young boys. Instances occur almost
daily where the minds of young boys
have become so distorted by reading
trash that they arc ready to slaught
er their fellow beings in lare quan
tities. A boy' who rend uVmt some
avenger of the praii.e W;n chops
and Bplit3 his cord and a half of In
dian regularly every day, or some pi
rate whose scuppers run oiT enough
blood every day to make a hundred
dollars worth of blood sausage, gets
into an abnormal condition of mind,
and is wholly unfit for the solid work
and low wages of real, evt ry-day life.
He begins to accumulate pistol?,
daggers and other junk, and longs
RaloiBjE Calve.
Jamc3 Fisher, jr., of Harrison Co.,
Ohio, gives his way of "making six
months calves equal to yearlings."
In the first place, after the calf is a
day old, I take it from the cow, and
I have no trouble in learning it to
drink milk. I feed for one week on
new milk, and then change to sweet
skimmed milk, the milk having
stood twenty-lour hours. I feed
sweet milk for the first three months,
and then commence adding a little
much or bran.
If calves arc kept growing all the
time fur ix months, you have no
ide:i iiow largo they will be. As a
general thing calves are turned out
on grass after two or three month's
care. Then thev become thin and
and sisters ; trample upon the love
and condndence of his fellows
shut himself out from all goodness,
purity, usefulness and happiness ;
blot out the image of Ood that is
stamped upon him, and drag him
self do;ui lower than the brutes
Ay, so surely doe ho shut himself
out from heaven as 'he gets drunk!'
Geraldine Germain.
Saying ot George Kllioi.
Some people will persist in taking
a gloomy view of everything. There
is a man of that kind in No. 1. A
neighbor happened to drop in to
see him the other day and found
everybody lively except the head of
the family.
How are you all coming on to
day 1
"We are all tolerable except Bob.
He is laughing and joking because
he is going fishing. I just know he
is going to come home drowned, or
howling with a lisli hook sticking in
him somewhere.
"Well the rest seem to be cheer
ful."
"Yes, sorter. Jimmy is jumping
and skipping about because he is
going to a candy pulling, but I
know something will happen him.
I read of a girl in Philadelphia only
last year who was coming home
from a candy pulling, when a
drunken man threw his wife out of
a third story window and killed
her."
'Killed who?'
Jimmy?'
'Why, no ; there lie is.'
'Well, it might have been if he
had been on the pavement below
when the woman fell.'
'Well, you are looking healthy.'
' Yes ; I feel just like the man did
who dropped dead in New York
last week from heart disease. He
was in high spirits and had a good
appetite, and thems my symptoms.'
Maine News.
Hop Bitters, which are advertised
in our columns, are a sure cure for
ague, biliousness and kidney corn
plaint. Those who use them say
they cannot be too highly recom
mended. Those afflicted should
give them a fair trial, and will be
come thereby enthusiastic in the
praise, of their curative qualities.
Portland Argu.
The British War Office authori
ties have now detailed a whole com
pany of Royal engineers for instruc
tion in the art of military balloon
ing. A very small detachment had,
until this change was made, been
engaged in balloon experimeat.
Write to Mi. Lydia E. Pinkham,
No. 233 Western Avenue, Lynn,
Mass., for pamphlets relative to the
curative properties of her Vegeta
ble Compound, in all female com
plaints. The Cbristain world is takintr an
increasing interest in the religions j
and civil afTairs of India. I
Nothing is 60 good as it seems be-forehand.
-Trouble's easily born when every
body gives it a lift for you.
Oemus at hrst is nothing . more
; than a great capacity for receiving
discipline.
There is no sorrow greater than to
love what is great and trv to reach
it. and yet to fail.
There's a sort of human paste that
when it comes near the fire of cn
thusiasm is only br. ted into harder
shape.
No story is the same to us after
the lapse of time, or rather, we who
read ii arc no longer the interpre
ters.
Everv man's work pursued stead
ily tends to become an end in it-elf,
and so to bridge over the loveless
chasms of his life.
it s easy nnaing reasons wnv oth
er people should be patient
College mostly manes people like
bladders, just good for nothing but
to hold the stuff that is poured in
them.
It's an uncommon fine thing when
you can let a man know what you
think of him without paying for it.
It is very difficult to be learned ;
it seems as if people were worn out on
the way to great thoughts, and can
never enjoy them because they are
too tired.
When the commonplace "we must
all die" transforms itself suddenly
into the acute consciousness, "I
must die and soon, then , death
grapples us and his fingers are cru
el ; aftcward he may come to fold
us in his arms as our mother did
and our last moment of dim earth
ly discerning may be like the first
Medical Use of Eggs.
to run a noniard into some f.il.-.-t ItguUed, and when winter comes
Spaniard, and twist it around, while ';' are but very little bigger than
he hisses through his set teeth some 1w,,cn u TJ't feeding them. It is
drivel that he has read in a novel. l'llt hltle more trouble to keep
Such a boy will not hoc com.
Peru, in Illinois, tlm other d
aheriir found ii r-avft wherft a nnm. I If any kind of the young stock
her of these boys, whose minds had -' 1 stunted it tikes a great amount
become inflated, had established af' cxt fwd to bring it up to where
sort of pirate's glen. The pirates 11 ou!il lt ai'ix niontns or a
were not. at. home, bein-r au:iv ir..i-i.v,'',r old. .Now Itt every farmers
ablvon an expedition to capture,! "ife or farmer s daughter try and see
novel. I " llll'e more irouoie to Keep
Xear j feeding a calf six months ; then look
lav a! ':ow ':irKe it will be.
dark-eved Spanish beauty, or a ban
tam or shanghai beauty, and the
sheriff entered and t ok an account
of stock. All around were sinister-
looking weapons of death and the
treasures and spoils of war, and
miong them were twelve bottles of
lemon beer. This in itself ought to
what she can makeoutof her calves.
It is as easy to have steers ready for
market at two years old, by giving
them the projer attention, as it is to
let them run and be half kept and
not marketed until three or four
years old.
What stock you keep, make it
teach boys that there is no such thing 1 3'Hl!"" keep thim in the best
as realizing what novels tell about mr.nner. Keep no more than you
There never was a novel vet that n keep growing all the time.
told about the duke pacing back and here is never any trouble in hit
forth with a clouded brow, in the totlt always nnding a buyer. Wake
u a ruie to ieei nign anu iceu plen
ty. It should le your constant aim
to see how soon you can bring yonr
cattle into market And, in carry
ing out this plan, always give your
calves a good start, and keep them
growing right along. Mush and
milk is a first rate feed for calves af
ter thev are three months old.
elegant drawing-room of his castle,
and then going to th sidebord and
drainins a flagon of lemon beer.
Not any. The duke always drains
a flagon of old Iteinish wine, seven
hundred years old before he set out
to mutilate a couple of townships of
people. A boy ought to sec by this
that if he is going to follow the dukes
example he will have to use Beinish
wine lslead ot lemon beer. And
where would be the fun of slaugh
tering those two townships full of!
people with a skin full of lemon beer
r pop? It would be insipid; and not
only that, but ridiculous. Suppose
the duke should draw his rapier to
run a person through the body, and
just as he was about to say, "Die,
villian," the gas from the beer should
come up in his nose, lie would feel
like a fool. A boy who reads a nov
el, and becomes ail wrought up and
excited by a novel, never thinks of
the author of the novel in a New
York garret, who has starved him
self half to death for money to buy
whiskey, and who changes his quar
ters every month to save rent he
would be ashamed to be seen read
ing such stuff. The poor, broken
down scribbler who writes about the
brilliant diamond of inestmable value
that flashed upon the boS'Kii of the
countess is probably wearing a sheet
of writing-paper for a shirtiront.
Peck' Sun.
.Siarllluir Seeue.
She Washed on nmiclajr.
For burns or scalds nothing is
more soothing than the white of an
egg, which may be poured over tnc
wound. It is softer as a varnish for
a burn than collodion, and, being
always at hand, can bo applied im
mediately. It is also mre cooling
than "sweet oil and cotton " which
was formerly supposed to be the
surest application to allay the smart
ing pain. It is the contact with the
air that gives the extreme discomfort
experienced from ordinary accsdenls
of this kind, and anything which
excludes air and prevents inflama
tion is the thing to be at once ap
plied. The egg is also considered
one of the best remedies for dysen
tery. Beating up slightly with or
without sugar and swallowed, it
tends by its emollient qualities to
lessen the in flamation of the stom-i
ach and intestines, and by forming
a transient coating on the organs, to
enable nature to resume her health
ful swar over the diseased body.
Two, or at most three eggs per day,
would be all that is required in or
dinary cases ; and since the egg is
not merely medicine, but food as
well, the lighter the diet otherwise
and the quieter the patient is kept,
the more certain and rapid is the
recovery,
How it was Doae.
He only whispered it to a lady
friend who sat beside him in church,
but it cost considerable trouble.
"There comes Mr. Proud's wife.
Do you knoy she washes on Sun
day? I've seen her do it," is what
he said.
"Heavens ! Can it bo possible?"
ejaculated the lady.
"Yes, but pleaso don't s.iy any
thing about it
".She didn't.
In exactly seven days by the
clock everybody in church knew it.
Ii came to the ears of Mr. Proud,
and he sot about tracing the story
to its origine. Mrs. Proud was be
ing snubbed by nearly everybody in
the congregation. Even the minis
ter forgot to take off his hat when
he passed her on the street.
There was eome talk of dropping
Mrs. Proud's name from the roil of
church membership,
Mr. Proud became furious. He
went ar.mnd town with a pistol in
his pocket.
lie finally found the lady who
had started the renort, and asked
her who her informant was. She
referred him to the jrentleman who
had mentioned it to her in church
Mr. Proud jammed his hat over his
eves and sought the miscreant.
Did you sav t.aat my wife wash
ed on Sunday r asked Mr. Proud,
w ith murder in his eye.
"Certainly," responded the man,
without budging a muscle.
"I want vou to take it back."
"I can't. It's a fact, and I don't
Bee anything to get mad about I
would't let a wife of mine come to
church without washing. Would
you ?
Tableau.
Au Affectionate Son.
"Iiow do vou manage." said a
iaay to ner menu, " to appear so
happy and good natured all the
time?"
t a ways nave rarkt-ra limner
Tonio handy," was the reply, "and
thus easily keep myself and family
in good health. When I am well "I
always feel good natured." Bead
about it in another column, f. 16.
A Monitor Indian, who was recent
ly convicted of murder, expressed
his opinion of the lawyer who de
fended hini with delieious frank
ness: 'Lawyer too much talk ! Heap
fool!'
A writer on dogs says that every
one given to sedentary pursuits
ought to keep a doe. as the necessi
ty of giving exercise to the dog will
give'exercise to the man,
A dog rushed out of a yard on
Galveston avenue and bit an eldoilv
. , . . . -
lauy. fthe was useu home in a
hack, and in about ten minutes htr
son, a big, st"ut, sixfooter, put in an
appearance and wanted to seo the
owner of the dog, who expected that
killing would be the least that would
happen to him. "Your brute of a
dog has bit my poor, aged mother,
who i3 weak and feeble. She is
ninety years old," and the son's
eyes filled with tears. "I am very
sorry," said the owner of the dog,
feeling very uncomfortable, "Jf
you are sorry, how do you supose I
feel ?" and he buried his face in his
hands. "If she dies, who have I
got left in this cold, cold world to
saw and split that cord of oak fire
wood I bought yesterdaj' and oak
is so hard to split with a dull axe;"
and the strong man shook all over
with surpressed emotion. Galveston
Xeics.
A lion-tamer, a colored man nam
ed Alicamousa, came very near be
ing torn to pieces by an infuriated
lion during a performance in a men
agerie at Birmingham, England, a
! short time aco. Tbe animal is a
vicious one, and a few davs prcvi
ous had shockingly mangled one of
the attendant, whom Alicamousa
rescued. Thelion afterward showed
symptoms of resentment at the se
vere punishment the trainer was
obliged to inflict upon him at that
time and several limes afterward.
One Saturday afternoon there was a
great attendance, and the lion tamer
gave two performances. The first
was concluded in safety, but
as Alicamousa made his second
entry into the den the large lion
spran-r at him and had to be beaten
back. While proceeding across the
cage the lion-tamer unfortunately
lifted his eves from those of the lion
which wai upon him immediately,
amid the shrieks of the immense
crowd of spectators. Alicamousa
was clawed on both Eides of the
face, struck to the ground, and bit
ten in the arm. The red-hot irons
were at once thrust between the bars
and the man wriggled like an eel
from beneath the lion, the blood
streaming down his face and shoul
ders. lie discharged his revolver
three times in the lion'j mouth, and
gaining his feet, placed his back
against the side of the cage and at
tacked the animal with his loaded
whip, hitting it repeatedly between
the eyes until it was almost stunned.
The encounter had been watched
with breathless anxiety, but as the
lion-tamer left the den the crowd
gave vent to their excited feelings
by enthusiastically cheering him.
He was not seriously injured.
'Here they arc. Pretty as life
Never cry. Never wake up nights
Never have the colic. Handsome
babies here"'
A fat. red-faced man with atollv
countenance was standing on Broad
way near City Hall Park, holding a
tr.ij' ot rank, rubber babies on one
arm and talking very volubly and
in a happy manner to the passers
by.
' 'Perfectly sound,' said he, as he
tossed one high in the air aud.
caught it as it came down.
'Sound and healthy,'
'Never wake you up night
'Never have the measles.'
'Never run o.T from school.'
'Never hang on the front gate.'
'Either sex.'
'Here thev are.'
'A iralvanized rubber-babv : onlv
ten cents for a galvanized rubber
baby.'
'Boy or girl?' 6aid the toy sales
man, as a man crme up with a smile
on his lace, to invest
'I guess I'l tike a bov said the
man. 'Girls are so hard to raise
and, besides they take so much
clothing.'
'If a galvanised baby was to have
the colic, what form would it take?'
asked the buyer, 'and how would
yon treat it?' "
'Treat it, why sir, treat it with an
electric battery to be sure.'
Brightening Tinware.
English Coffee Houses.
The English temperance people
have long been fighting hot liquor
with hot coS'ee. Tney very sensibly
rely on this more than on lectures
for the prevention of drunkenness.
A cup of good coffee is furnished for
two cents and a hot roll for one
cent This forms a fornmlablecom
petitor to a glass of hot whisky at a
little more than half its price. The
coffee houses are furnished with
plenty of papers, and the man who
sups his coffee may.stiy as long as he
likes to read or talk. The independ
ent laborer who U fed at these coffi e
houses has the knowledge that he is
no recipient of charity, for these
coflee houses are among the lcst
paying investments in Britain. Most
of the English companies pay a div
idend ot ten per cent on the money
invested, and many of them more,
while all are self-supporting.
A lady writer points out the fact
as worthy of notice that, "while the
men who commit suicide are almost
always unmarried, the women are
married or widowed.' This leads to
the inference that, while men
cannot live without women, women
find life unbearable with men.
One of the best thin;r3 ever tried
for keeping tin3 bright is water lime.
This 19 a soft brown substanec that
polishes metals without scratchinz
the surface, and is very cheap. Also
rub vour tins with a damp cloth.
then take drv flour and rub it on
with vour hands and afterward take
an old newspaper and rub the flour
off, and the tin will shine as well as
if half an hour had been spent in
rubbing them with brick dust or
powder.
Another good thing to brighten
tinware is common soda. Dampen
a cloth and dip in soda and rub the
ware briskly, after which wipe dry,
and it will look equal to new. To
prevent the rusting of tin, rub fresh
lard over every part of the dish, and
then put in a hot oven and heat it
thoroughly. Thus treated, any tin
ware may be used in water constant
ly and yet remain bright and free
from rust.
The richest mine in New Mexico,
now worth three million dollars,
was originally sold for three dollars
in silver, a little gold dust and an
old revolver. But they don't all turn
out so well.
'Tut on my tombstone," said the
dying man, "an epitaph stating that
I was a sconndref, thief and brute.
Then people will think I was a good
man. Epitaphs always lie so.
Jennie Robertson, who died lately
at Nashville, was known as Soldier
Charley, because she had served
several years in male attire in the
armv.
Eggs are so dear that Jersey jieo-
Ele will not buy them unless they
ave double yo4k3,
imw "CHILLE
1 ""f. j J
OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.
4 Z? "or M.. r. ifZ"l . L"0"
otltcr Ctauijr su.l J orru ar.
w ili
V jf f r A "' J an. J
an Molted p-tiT
IU wljrtit is Isflit'Ti prnmls Ihsn w:r foraT vt-. "
A Orxt-tuux' SW-W Viw, mule In 1ft ordinary wy, lull rV;t Ha f. .
doUan. Inferior bU--l I'Ww ivuil from slxtwn t i!&rta doil.r -'w-t,
The prim of our n:w flow U but Sntri Uallar, oa a la Van
Ayrl'-ultural Implf-meEt v.-r ulL
11 la tiitajc-r Vina D7 cii'.'f J?'
i-T new t.ade would b; at 4-,Uan 114 a ., 1 1
Its VrM Bonra
Will outwear three ol
tb err bet kinds
of the ordinary Blf-1
uoia Doaraa.
It will conr In T.hT s!l
ttrl plows and all other pluws tutvs
bittonUf proTPd a foll'inv.
With this plow will be Introduce
a new style of Plow Point awl Jol ;it r
Point; od whlrb we barf) obtiiln&d
Patents, and whlrh are a! v a (treat
Improvement, boUi on r fArte wear
and fliTRDirtll.
The Jointer can be shifted m ai to taico more or le lend, and It ran attrays be tspt n a Ifcie wfci t,
Tbe wheel will run under Ine beam or r n- M J of It a desired, and alwayt k p In Hue.
The beam adjustable f'r Sprinj? or Fil Pkwlnsr, and ai f- r twj or three horSMj.
The handles can be urija"ted tu accwr.'iioilatfl a mast or buy on toe gizia I'Ijw.
It ta the Lightest lraft Iiow ev.-r intle.
Wwiden beams are pAn? out of ti! iwauxp thy shrln!;. vfll and inn, a-d ner ran two seasr.as tllie. Iron bf, .
Valleabie beams become rttnioralUrd and bend, wbiub Is worse thun t bre&ic. ',v;
A Steel beam Is the nect-svtiy ot the tlv. It Is three times a dltjCJ ul Twy mora tt&trr than any 0U1-T gtr
When im say a Mold Birt Is cbllied. the Kami' know It Is aa
We do not palm off on taem a cjfuKl;l4i of vwlu metnU ac.1 call It cliiUd metal.
We want atrents tr this new i'l w n every ttwn I11 this wat-.
We can irlre but a rery anjx.ll dl-v".'? to them, but we 1U jar t!ie VjV.rmtt Frelsrtt.
We propose to pla this PIdw in tjia hands of the Farmers & near Urn c-jsi of iitiiiu.'anr as pcs:M.
It Is the hat Atrrtculiural Iruplei.'!!: :-:T sold, it the rfj -.
V
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t.
I
mr ODDly for an atrenrr.
S Plows on eifliiuli5ia. All 1'S .-JvilA
We wake Blent and Lea :;.vi,l H . f all jr .'
ralhls b thn only Stoel t blli'-d l'lo-r In t;i VwrM
hleel U wverul tunes nv-re taan Ir"n. But this V
Coniiiar1 this pn. vl'Ji tint of nny Inm Plow v.-r u a
v,
Is
if
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fr-li-llt.
'.here there arj 110 aS"l!H we wUJ, ,a r,t cl; t of fi
.dJres
SYRACUSE
CHILLED
.ii r!,-wl, hy -riita;? stn-jH dSaooorjts. csn be srld It
; I' :: .r , nl eiw U any Eal!rrd St!o In tie 4.,
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J. F. BLYJVIYER, A.gent, f
SOMERSET, EIsTIr'JL., '
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pars ap aril i a
Is a ronip'i!l nf tho ririnca cl enrsa.
pan I la, stillinpa. mandrake, yellow
ilorlc, with the kxlide of potash ami iron,
all powerful liloetl-makuis. blowl-cleans-in,
ami life-austaininsf element. It is
the ptireat, aad st. ami most effectual
alterative arnib.Me to the jmblie. TUo
sciences of medicine and rhL-aiistry have
never produreil a renietjy so potent t-
cure all diseases resnltinj from impure
blood. It cures Scrofula and all
scrofulous diseases, Krysipelas,
Kose, or S- Anthony Fire, 11m
ples anrt I-'ace-srubs, Pustules,
HloU-Ues, ' Boils Tumors, Tetter,
Humors, Salt lUieum. Scald-head,
Hing-worm, I'lcers, Sores. Rheu
matism, MereurLal Disease, New,
raisin. Femalo Vknesw ami
Irregularities, Jauudlc, Artoctlona
of the JUver, Dyspepsia, fcra rela
tion. ant tivneral Debility.
By Its searching and cleansing quali
ties' it purse out the foul corruptions
v likh lontaminare the I1I00.I and eanse
derangement and decay. It stimulates
the viral functions, restores and pre
serves health, and. infuses new life and
vicor throughout the whole nvstem. 'o
sufferer from any disease of the blood
need despair who will give AvEii's
Saksapakii.la a fair trial.
It is folly to exiwriment with tlie nu
merous low-priced mixtures, without
medicinal virtues, offered as llool-puri-fiers,
while disease becomes more firm!?
seated. Avut's Sarsap axilla is a medi
cine of such concentrated cutuiive power,
that it is by far th& Ui, cheapest, and
most relwMo Wood-purifier known.
FliysifUuis know its composition, and
prescribe it. It has been widely used for
forty years, ami bos won the uuquali.
fled confidence of miiUous whom it has
be netted.
ruLrnntu o 1 un, j, if. n 1 cn a, ivi
Practical and Analytical Chemists,
Lowell, Mass.
old at all mucttirrs eteetwbem.
TO f VIS BY
C. X. BOYD,
Namerael. Pa.
I
I Profitable Reading for Everybody
Businsx men and women, teachers, mechanics.'
fanner, minuter, mother, and all who are iirt
Iwl by ike constant toil and worry of your work
Jon't drink intoxicating bitten, but
21
a you luocniu I rum iyycoi-u kneuaia-'
lusm, Ikcuraltria. or with Bowel. KlHrw tw.
L'nnary comptainu. oo can be cured hv utin .
l-f-i.i Li ; i-LiM itirj 1 ? rraJ
11 you are wasting away wiu Consompuoa. le-4
nMWUmKTUlf SICJtaeU ll .. haw m -
or pan cow yon will find tore rrhef in
. It you at ealeenieu by Ottease. owl ae or aia
'ipation, and your system neeUa atvicuuuiaig, 01
f you have Btmnlea and blotckas. and vou btuo
neeq ponfying. you can altravs iVneio1 on
UL3
MaUeiium fetMer. Buck. Miunat. lhU...u
faad many other of the best medicines innmm it u!
rine Ms Meairh an Slronqtn Haitorer rerj
usee, ana tar suoerior to bitters, t.wn ni
r Mncer and other Tonics, as it Mr intoxicates.
.uio combines the net curative properties of all.
11 una safe naasrms ot Lire j It slay
hats Tsars.
Buy a enc. bottle of your dnieist and to avoi,'
.'Oiinlerfeits be sure our signature is on the ous
.ide ranpor. lliscox A Co., Chemists. N. V.
Parker's Hair Balsam. fiS?,!
The Best Xott laomlrat Hair Pros-inn
Containing only ingmtieot that are benrttcil
othe hair and scalp, the llus be found
l-r awre sati.iaclory th-ul any oilier preparation.
It Ktfer Faiii t Kestor Grayar Faded flair
to the cnginal youtiif ul cclor and t warranted to
rt.pn
rni.i, u.uulru
of tl air.
. prevent Ualrftie
kj drmffuts at so tsntt.
sand stop .liitr.g
Se tsnVtr .
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C X. BOYD.
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