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VOL. XLVII. NO. 43.
Your
Doctor
Knows
Tour doctor kno-nrn
iooas ana medicines.
The next time von Vilm
j'JEt ask him what he thinks i
SCOH'S EEESlSlOa
of Cod-Liver Oil wi'h Hypo
phosphites. We are wihicg
to trust ia his answer.
For twenty-flve years doc- 1
tors have prescribed our
Emulsion for paleness, weak
ness, nervous exhaustion, and
tor all diseases that cause
loss in flesh.
Its creamy color and Its
pleasant taste make it es
pecially useful for thin and
delicate children.
No other preparation of cod-
. liver oil is like it. Don't lose
time and risk your health by 1
taking1 something- unknown
and untried. Keep in mind
that SCOTT'S EMTJLSION
has stood the test for a
quarter of a century.
yc -kJ ft ca : all droggifts.
SCOTT & BOW.Nb, Chemist, New York.
THE
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Capital, S50.000.
Surplus, 837,000.
UNOiV'OED
S.3000.
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glak Proof Hafk. Tne only safe made abso
lutely biirglar-prooC
Jacob D. Swank,
Watchmaker and Jewtler,
Next )oor West of Lutheran Church,
Somerset, - Pa.
I Am Now
prepared to supply the public
with Clocks, Watches, and Jew
elry of all descriptions, as Cheap
as the Cheapest.
HEPAII11XG A
SPECIALTY.
All work guaranteed. Look at my
stock before making your
purchases.
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EN'S BOYS'. WOMEN'S. GIRLS' ind CHILDREN'S
SHOES. OXFORDS tnd SLIPPERS.
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SOMERSET, PA.
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Eleml moit softly and
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. festive wenc wlicutarown
53 hi waxc!:i canults.
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touch to Uicurnwirig
uintnj; room, is tlte
mow ol
WAX CANDLES
Sold in all colors and shines
to har:uoaiz; with any interior
hangings cr decorutiors.
uaiij
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Tor sale evprvwltere. .a1
Get an education
Tb bt sot fit in lira. Bat nwiaoda Md at
CEXTB&L STATE KCR3UL SCHOOL
(ItmCMr fM-vKy, vrid tw good lihrtrr
nuiiara iprto ta ltxtrUJtf mnd rraioa
tan. Halwib bi diB,t'rii rnxuidc
hHurttMt tiB, If44l (M&a, MU lul W tig.
rjAut la vi1itMra ti rcuir 9amrr, )
work ia Mar.Mi"Ttbiid,Ty'
writ) n ir. h-rxt ffic iilo-i ri-d rUAlofq.
)AMta BUH, rifstjil hita, ft.
50 YEARS'
V tAftnicnvc
Traoc MK.a
Dcions
CovRiaMTS Ac.
Atitoo tnng a n1 (-ni""' mar
uh!r rmnmn onr tnMi 1rm wbr aa
laruiunn ml.ir lalfU"! rn,oin(r
trmir!f KUi- Hamlb. un I'Monia
ant 7rMi. itt airafwr f(?r awcriuc patenu.
fatMita laaea thmtuh Muna A Co. mcclr.
yral uik, without chary, la the
Scientific American.
A liitaomelT nimrfratad mtVT. LaiTOrt rlr.
rulati of anf acM-ntulr f vnal. Taruia. 3 a
: f.-or montba. L tsuod bj all n.-lerm.
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jt I unisliea
h roo.n or
Is t i r' rt jr
AT THE WIND DW.
2 liMir.t tlie wootljHi ker iVokinK,
The kup-KUcker sine:
I turned and looked out of uiy window.
And lo, It was Spring !
A breath from tropic! borders,
J Uct a ripple, flowed Into my room.
And waslu-d my face clmn of 1U aadnc-aa,
B!ew my heart Into bloom.
The bixdn I have kept for a hletlme,
Sweet buds I have shielded from anow,
Hn-k lurtii Intufull leaf and ttuucel,
W lien Sprtnif winds do blow.
Pur the np of my life goeti upward,
Oheylng the same iweet Iu w
That waters the heart of the lLUtple,
After a Uiaw.
I forget my old and grow youthful,
Bitlliingln wind-ti le of Spring.
When I hear the woodpecker pecklne.
The aupueker Ming.
Atlantic Monthly.
HOW FAIR
MADE
HIS MILLIONS
AMASSED $40,000,000 IX SIXTEEN
YEARS.
Hii Mining Partner's Story of Hit
Streak cf Luck Heads Like a
Tale From Arabian Nights.
From the Philadelphia Sunday Time.
"Virginia Fair to become Mrs. Wil
liam K. Vaaderbilt, Jr., and the sister-in-law
of the Diichess of Marlborough !
Whew ! what wonderful chanpes gold
ruining makes in some folks' lives."
The speaker was Daniel Hooley, a
veteran gold miner and prospector
ainoDg the Sierras. "Forty years ago,"
he coutiuued, "Jim Fair and I were
living in a little redwood cabin at
Hogan's Camp, in Calaveras county.
We were not worth more thau $103.
We were holding down a gold claim
which did not promise well, but we
had hopes that some day we might
find a ledge of pay ore that would sell
for a few hundred dollars, and then we
would be fixed. We slept together in
a buDk; we ooked our own menlsof
loiled beans and fried bacon os-er a
tire outside the cabin; we washed our
own overalls and jumpers at the creek,
and we wondered if we could ever get
enough together to marry two fiue
Irish girls named Roouey, who lived
over the divide at Douglas Flat. Hut
fortune bad some wonderful things in
store for my partner, Jim Fnir. In
jut sixteen years from that time he
was worth $4),00,00O, and he and John
W. Mackay were the richest miners
alive. He became a L nited States
Senator, the leading millionaire of
California, and now his daughter Vir
ginia, is to marry William K. Vander-
biit, Jr. Well, it Is certaiuly surpris
ing." TCo more picturesque soldier of for
tune than Dan Hooley can be found.
While some of his mining associates
Ions airo struck it rich, and then either
died poor or in afilaenee, Dan Hooley
has chased the fickle goddess, fortune,
from one minina camp to another all
the way from Chihuahua, Mexico, to
British Columbia through forty-five
years. And he still has the proverbial
miner's hopes.
He was the chum and partner of
James G. Fair in two mining camps for
eleven years. They shared tne same
poverty and cheered each other when
season after i?eason passed and they
never found any pay rock, iiauy a
time they were both disheartened at
their continued adversity. It seemed
as if luck never wou!d come their way.
For months at a time Jim Fair and
Dtn Hooley, shod with clumsy brogana
with soles studded with steel pegs.
begirt with leathern straps, and clad in
overalls, red fUnael shirts and grea-y
sombreros, went prospecting over tne
Sierras. Their sole joint and undivid
ed possessions were a jackass and the
load on its back, consisting of smoke-
b? rimed kettles, burned skillets,
clankinz. battered tin pails, two rolls
of sadly soi.ed blankets, and a bag or
two of beans ar. J chunks of salt park.
Many old time miners In California
are recalling thse salad-days in the
career of Jim Fair, during the latter
fifties, now that his daughter is to be
come one of the Vanderbilt aristocracy
in New York.
Once Jim Fair, discouraged, abaud-
ed mining and wlked to Sacraoieuto
to hire out as a teamster. He w as then
37 years old. L-Jckily for him and for
the raining world, hb natural fondness
for hunting for mineral wealth came
back. He and Hooley moved over Into
Nevada county. There they found an
outcropping of gold-bearing quartz.
The bare recital of trie lacis in iue
life of James O. Fair from that time in
1K52 uutil 1SS0 is as marvelous as any
chanter in Arabian Nights. The vera
cious story of the way the Immense
Fair fortune was achieved from noth
ing iu practically thirteen years thrills
even the veteran Californians, familiar
. . 1 .. - . v ; t ti tha (nri,l.flta nf llll
ay. iiejr bic win u. ..... - -
st ory, whenever it is told; to this day.
Among all the wonderful stories or
how the famously great fortunes in the
world have been piled up, none equals
that of the f l37.0JJ,OijO which the four
bonanza kings dug from the bowels of
the Comstock lode at Virginia City,
Nevada, trom January, 1S72, to July,
1 S7!. I n 1 S,2 James O. Fair was worth
ahoutfSK); io 1 be bad In
1S71 he was worth $-0,000, and io 1SS0
he had in cash and securities as good
as g"ld bet ween $12,003,00) and f 15,
0)0,0 JO.
Jim Fair and hholi ptrtner, Dau
H.K)ley, parted company in 1S)3. They
hadaolJ the little Hopewell mine near
Grass Valley, Nevada couuty, Califor
nia, for several thousand dollars. Dad
felt as if he were rich for life, and he
went down to'FrisCi to celebrate bis
good luck. In a month, be says him
self be was broke. Fair, with the first
capital heever had, decided lo slick to
mining. He first went over the range
to his former mining field in Calaveras
couuty and mirried MissJenuie Roon
ey. The miner had known the bride's
father, Peter Hwuey, in the mines at
Welch's Btr, and as the R Kneys, Fair
and Dtn II o!y had all come orlgiual
ly from the County Tyrone, iu the
north of Ireland, a friendship had
rp-ung up aTi.ug them. My an
evening young Jlru Fair had spent a;
Somerset
SOMERSET, PA., WEDNESDAY,
the Rooney cabin. When Mrs. Rxn
ey and her two bright-faced daughters
opened a little general store for the
miners at I) vjglas Flat, Fair and Hoo
ley used to drop iu of an afternoon and
chat with the Roouey sUter behind
the pine counters. Miss Jennie prom
ised lo marry Jim when he had made
a strike in the mines.
With bis bride and a household out
fit Jim Fair started over the Red Dog
and Plaeerville trail for the Comstock
mines at Virginia City. For two years
be had been stamping restlessly to get
over there, where the miners were
making great money. Mrs. Fair was
equally anxious to go and try luck in
the new diggings in Nevada. So,
away they went in a lumber wagon
drawn by two rented mules, from
Douglas Flat to the Com"tock. They
bad their sole possessions in the wagon
with them. There was an ancient
cook stove, a featherbed tick, a half
bushel of eartheu dishes, and a lot of
cook in-; utensils, such as pans, pots
and kettles. Jim had $.1,0"0 in bis
leather belt. The miner and his bride
were a week in crossing the Sierras
and descending to the mining camp of
Virginia City. They cooked their
meals along the mountaiu road and
they slept out of doors whenever the
night overtook them. Many times
after the miner and his bride had their
millions of dollars, and could not be
gin to spend a fraction of their enor
mous daily income, they often said
those simple, natural days when they
had it all to look forward to were by
far their happiest.
Arrived in Virginia City, Fair studied
thesulpburet ores then a novel com
bination of gold and silver and soon
became an autaority in the camp.
Such milliouainjs as "Lucky" Raid
win, Sharou and Ralston were making
large fortunes there theu, and hun
dred of miners were getting thousands
of dollars out of the twenty-two mines
on the Conistoek lode. By 153 Fair
was a boss of a gang of men employed
in the Ophir Mine there. Later he
was a superintendent. He and another
Irishman, John W. Mackay, became
close friends. Mackay was a foreman
iu the Hale A Norcross Mine. The
young Irishmen saved their earnings,
while other miners spent theirs In
drink and gaming. They also exchang
ed secrets they had learned in the
depths of the mines as to the forma
tion of the richest ledgej in the Com
stock lode. At the same time there
were two young men of Irish birth,
James (J. Flood and William O'Brien,
who ran a saloon iu a little one-story
wooden building on Washington street,
iu San Francisco. The saloou-keepers
wereppu!ar with Cornish and Irish
miuiuj; laborers who went trom the
Comstock to San Francisco to spend
their money ia sprees. Flood and
O'Brien had beeu told by tipsy miners
valuable facts for iuvestors in Comstock
shares, aud the saloou-keepers had
bjen pitting all the profits of their bar
into mining stocks. Naturally, Mack
ay, Fair, Flojd and O'Brien came
together.
I u the dingy little back room of the
Flood & O'Brien saloon the mining
company of 'Mackay, Fair, Flood A
O'Brien was secretly formed one day
in 1S7). Mackay and Fair were the
practical miuers at Virginia City; Flood
and OBrien manipulated the mining
stock market in Sin Francisco. In
IsiD the Comstock mines began to
peter out AH sorts of discouraging
rumors were afloat in 1370. The stock
of all Comstock properties depreciated
mouth by month. The great Ophir
paid co dividends for half a year; the
Hale 4 Norcross closed for the first
time in seven years and the Consoli
dated California stock went down 70
per cent, iu the summer of 1371.- The
San Francisco newspapers and mining
expera said again and again that the
glories of the Comstock were forever
gone and that the lower ledges were
not worth the working.
Meanwhile Mackay, Fair, Flood &
O'Biren kept their partnership a secrtt,
but each member of the firm was busy.
Shares in the California aad the Vir
ginia mines were bought by Flood aud
O'Brien for mere songs, compared
with their former selling values. Every
dollar the mining firm could get went
quietly into these stocks. It took some
fs.),(.J to get control of the California
and Consolidate!' Virgin'a mines.
Three years before the same stock had
sold forever $1,400,010.
When a majority of the shares mere
owned by Mackay, Fair, Flood & O'
Brien their partnership was announced.
Tnat was January 1, 1872. The new
company went to work to find new and
rich lodges at a depth of 1,400 feet down
in the lode. Scarcely a miner in Vir
ginia City but thought they had gone
crazy. Hunting for ore at such a depth
was absurd. All mining history was
contrary to it- For a year the firm bad
to exercise every manoeuvre in mining
financiering to get money and keep
pushing lateral, drifts and slopes
through porphyry or worthless rock.
The outside miners said, "I told you
." It cost a lot of moaey at.d kept
the firm devising new financial schemes
but Mackay and Fair kept their own
counsels and worked with their gaDg of
Uborers like fiends. Then a body of
ore that yield d $115 a ton was reached.
It gave the firm new heart and fresh
capital. In three months more anoth
er ledge of ore worth $1.30 a ton was en
tered. Four more ledges of equal value
were worked in the course of the year.
But the greatest natural treafeure
house of mineral wealth ever known
in the world was yet to be opened by
these four miners. Oa what is known
in the Virginia Mine as the 1,300-64
level a drift was entered iuto a ledge
that assayed $1,2 to the ton. When
the ledge was dug into, ore that assay
ed $2,000 was reached In a week or
more the ore ran to $5,000 and even $o
000 a ton. Aud there was much of it.
The mining world of the West went
crazy over such a find. Thousands of
mineralogists aud ruining experts flock
ed from all over Europe and America to
Virginia City purposely to see that
wonderful ledge of gold and silver. Its
richntss is a subject which stirs any
re niuUeent gId miner on the Pacific
coast to tul day. Some of the rock
even yielded $13,000 in gold and aiivtr
to the ton. A wagon - load of the ore,
ESTABLISHED 1827.
J sent as a sample to San Franeitco, con
tained $4..300 in gold and $14,000 In sil
ver. This extraordinary ledge, kuown j
me worm over as tne iionauza or tne
Comstock, was uncovered in May, 1S74.
The Big Four mining firm hail been
having for months a net daily Income
of over $0,000, and the bonanza ledge
jumped their net profits to $.30,000 ev
ery day in the week. Once on the wit
ness stand James G. Fair said bis in
come in 1S74 was over $7,500,000 from
the California and Consolidated Vir
ginia mines alone. Rut besides, the
firm of Mackay, Fair, Flood A O'Brien
had enormous deals in the shares In
other neighboring Comstock properties.
They kuew things about the deeier
ledges that no one else did. Often they
doubled the money they invested iu
sli a res iu other mines. One deal In
Ophir stock yielded over $400,000 profit
in a week. At another time the firm
engineered a big deal in Belcher slock,
which rose from $'J0 to $213 a share in
ten days, and they made hundreds of
thousands of dollars.
Shares in the California and Consol
idated Virginia mines which Mackay
and Fair were developing rose from $47
In February, 1S72, to $l,2t.O in May,
1873. The 'mining firm bought and
sold and rebought and resold the shares
aud always made great profits. AH
the other twenty-two Comstock mines
boomed also. The deep-mining devel
opment prospered everywhere. San
Francisco, Indeed, all California, lie
cauie a vast hive of speculation in
mining shares. People abandoned oth
er pursuits aud became plungers at the
Mining Exchange. Everybody watch
ed for the first warning that the bubbl-t
might burst, so as to hastily unload
mining slocks on other aud less sus
pecting people. In June, 1S73, the fe
verish speculators began to bear rumors
as to the petering out of the Bonanza
ledge.- A panic was narrowly averted.
In July reports came that the Comstock
would earn no more dividends. Early
in August the people believed the re
ports aud the crash came like the fall
of a house of cards. Stocks went down
to a mere shadow of their former val
ues. Literally thousands of California
men and women, who were rich on
August 4, were poor on August -5, and
have never since recovered their wealth.
The panic of 1S75 in the San Francisco
Stock Exchange did not affect the Bo
nanza mines. The Big Four mining
firm disclaimed re?onsibility for the
stock gambling of the Toms, Dicks and
Harrys of the Pacific coast. There was
a slight reaction iu the value of Com
stock shares, (Kit never again was there
anything like tbeenormous prices paid
for them.
For four years longer the California
and Consolidated Virginia properties"
were worked day and night. But the
bonanza ledge was worked out by the
fall of 1873. Exploratory work was
vainly conducted in every part of the
mine for further bonanzas. The mines
yielded good profits every month until
the latter part of 187S. Then the lode
bad been dug so deep that it was too
expensive to mine there. The mining
firm had sold all their sbares bit by bit
for several years, and when 1S&1 came
it bad left only a handful of stock in
the California and Consolidated Vir
ginia. John W. Mackay moved to New
York that year and invested his $S,
4)03,090 in Atlantic cable and telegraph
lines. James G. Fair had drawn out
about $43,000,000. James C. Flood took
out over $20,000,000 more, and William
S. O'Brien, who was an invalid during
the last years of bis life and had with
drawn early from the firm, about $11,
000,000. James G. Fair made bis home before
and after be became a multi-millionaire
at a little wooden house ou Washoe
street, in the mining camp of Virginia
City. He was elected United Slates
Senator from Nevada in 1SS1, and
when his term expired be went to San
Francisco to live. All his four chil- J
dren were born in the Washoe street
house, and they were brought up like
any other children in the camp. Mrs.
Fair's bead was never turned by tbe
Aladdin wealth that poured in upon
hjr. While her husband was adding
fSOO.OOO or more to bis wealth, and
while bis bank deposits in San Fran
cisco often ranged from $14,000,0000 to
$1S,000.000, she and her little girls went
to visit among the miners' cabins about
the camp, dressed in calico dresses and
straw bats.
Tbe future Mrs. William K. Vander
bilt, Jr. Miss Virginia Fair was
named after the mining camp in which
she was born aud reared lo girlhood.
She is tbe youngest of the Fair chil
dren. Along with the children of the
poor Cornish and Irish laborers of the
camp she went to a red schoolhouse on
Gold Hill street. The old-time miners
in Virginia City remember her as a
dark-eyed and Jolly little girl, who
played in the street and in the open
sand lots near her borne with other
and less favored children of fortune.
She inherits her father's clear pink-
and-white Celtic complexion.
In 1SS4 she, with her mother and
sister (now Mrs. Herman Oelricbs of
New York ) aud two brol hers, went to
live in a superb mansion on Piue street
in San Francisco. Four years ago
Miss Virginia Fair spent several days
in the decayed old mining tewn of
Virginia City, where her father dug
his enormous fortuue. She railed upon
a host of her girlhood friends and left
rnauy a pleasing remembrance there of
ber visit.
The possession of millions of dollars
brought uuhappiness for tbe lat-t Un
years of James G. Fair's life. Mrs.
Fair obtained a dispensation from the
Pope and divorced ber husbaud in
lssi. Vile scandals went abroad about
the Senator in California. He gave
Mra. Fair $$,000,000 in bond and
stocks and he lived wij.b his sons,
James and Charles, at the Lick Hotel
in San Francisco. James, Jr., after a
shameful debauchery, died in an in
ebriate institution, aud Charles mar
ried a woman whom the Seuator pub
licly proscribed. While the veteran
miner's income of thousands of dollars
a week was piling up be was periodic
ally the subject of some humiliatiug
public scandal. He wrote and re-wrote
many wills in bis last years, according
to his mr-ols. Sometimes be woul I
disinherit one heir, tomet m anotLer.
APRIL 5. 1809.
He bad a mortal fear that some woman
friend would lay claim to bis property
when be was gone. Mrs. Fair died In
October, 18!4, and left her property to
ber daughters. The Fair estate cases
are likely to be on the court calendars
of San Francisco for long years to
come. A dozen great lawyers are em
ployed In various capacities on them.
An ex-San Francisco school teacher
claims to have been the Senator's com
mon-law wife, and she is making a
costly fight in the California courts for
one-third of his estate. Then many
complications were made by the Sena
tor's numerou and unique wills, and
it is probable that some of tbe Fair
wonderful millions may be distributed
among lawyers ou tbe Pacific coast.
First Up San Jnan Hill
Capt. W. M. McFarlane, of the Six
teenth U. R. infantry, which did such
glorious work in the charge on San
Juan bill at Santiago de Cuba, and
who is now borne on leave of absence,
relates a new aud pretty story in re
gard to the first man on top of San
Juan hill. This honor has leen
claimed by men of the Sixteenth and
also by tbe Twenty-fourth, but accord
ing to Captain McFarlane the first man
in the advauce belonged to neither
regiment. Neither was he technically
in the service of Uncle Sam.
"He was a Cuban nigger," said Cap
tain McFarlane, according to the Salt
Lake Tribune, "and aUut tbe biggest
and blackest man I ever saw. In our
firt advauce be bad somehow become
a hanger-on with the Sixth and Six
teenth. He was armed with only a
machete, and from the moment we
received the first fire of the enemy he
seemed literally crazed with military
ardor. He had never seen troops take
an enemy's fire in the open, and after
the first blood he literally tore from the
rear through our ranks, barefoot and
with machete in band. As be passed
me bis appearance was so unusual and
strikiug that he made an impression
on me, even with the right raging
around us, but onward he ran like a
tiger until bis progress was stopped by
several Hues of w ire fence. These be
quickly cut with bis machete, thereby
optning th way for the Sixth and
Sixteenth. Onward be dashed, fully
7-3 yards in advance of our first Hue,
and my last sight of him was as be
disappeared in the Spanish trenches.
A few minutes later I was In the same
place, but all search for the unknown
hero, either dead or alive, was fruit
less. "Captain Lassit.T, however, stated
that be had seen the man start down
bill with the blood streaming trom a
bullet bole in his face, and that is the
UsTt'nSwTf oftbls hero of SanTuaui
hill."
This is the simple story of tie fin-t
man in the American columns to reach
the Spanish trenches, and Captain
McFarlane much regrets tbe impossi
bility of finding aud honoring the
name of the half-savage hero.
Discovered by a Woman.
Another great discovery has been
made, and that too, by a lady in this
country. "Disease fastened its clutches
upon her and for seven years she with
stood its severests tests, but ber vital
organs were undermined and death
seemed imminent. For three months
she coughed incessantly, and could ar t
sleep. She finally discovered a way to
recovery, by purchasing of us a bottle
of Dr. King's New Discovery for Con
sumption, and was so much relieved
on taking first dose, that she slept alt
night; and, with two bottles, has been
absolutely cured. Her name is Mrs.
Luther L-Jtz." Thus writes W. C.
Hamnick & Co., of Shelby, N. C. Trial
bottles free at J. N. Suyder's Drug
Store, Som rset, Pa., and O. W. Bral
lier's Drug Store, Berlin, Pa. Regular
s;ze 50o. and $1 00. Every bottle
guiranteed.
Utefal Hints.
It is said that if the edges of carpets
are saturated wilh alum water it w ill
effectually destroy moths. If the floor
is uopainted it is always well to take
the precaution of washing it up with
a solution of alum before laying tbe
carpet. Tbe same liquid is also an
excellent remedy for black ants.
If housewives who rely upon the
lemon essence of commerce will take
the trouble to pare the yellow rind of
the fruit very thin aud put it into glass
jars, covering it wilh alcohol cr recti
fied spirits, tbey will secure a supetior
quality, at the cost of the spirits, about
one-third that of commercial extract.
To purify a room set a pitcher of
water in the apartment, and in a few
hours it will have absorbed all the re
epired gasses in the room. The capac
ity for purifying is nearly doubled if
the water is reduced to the temperature
of ice; hence very cold water that lias
stood in a room for some length of time
If unfit to drink.
Nat ui ally.
This story, relating to a young pork
packer in Kansas City, is circulated
quietly among his acquaintances:
A new baby 'had arrived iu bis fam
ily, aud be was very proud of it.
While several friends were congratu
lating blm in his office and smoking
cigars at bis expense, oue of them
asked him :
"By tbe way, how much did the
cherub weigh?"
"Ten pounds, dressed!" exclaimed
the delighted young father.
Not that Kind.
The Argonaut tells of two fresh-air
fund children in the country, looking
in wonder at wine live chickens.
"Didn t you ever see any before" ' a
lady anked them.
"Oh, yes, mum," the eldest child
answered, knowingly, "we've always
Beeu 'em lota only generally it was
after they was peeled."
Ordinary household accidents bave no
terrors when there's a bottle of Dr.
Thomas' Electric Oil io the medicine
chest. Heals burns, cuts, bruises,
f. rains. Instant relief.
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JJL iL V JL (U1
WITH THE C03II2JO OF EVEN.
BY AMNK3 URoZIER H EBHERT N
"It is ouly the wind," said the Poet.
He threw himself listlessly upon the
hard leather couch, and turned his face
to the wall.
Tbe waves dashed madiy upon the
rocks below the little cottage; with
angry shrieking the wind beat up the
waves; aud the mom of the storu
came upon the a i id. Tbe Poet heard
alltbse, and smiled wearily; youug
In years, he was old in spirit, in experi
ence, In enjoyment ; they had no
charm for him.
He opened bis lips now iu di.cou
tent. "They bave written to much
about the sea that one is dead sick of it
alL" He sighed ; "I can find iu it
nothing that has not been found be
fore." He himself bad written not a little
concerning the beauties of the , but
ills band had lieeu young iu sooth
when it held the pen, aud bis eyes not
yet a weal y.
He turned restless'y ou the couch,
bemoaning its hardness, and curving
the friend whose advice had sent him
to recruit at this little fishing town,
throwing all the burden of his disgust
of life and his own feebleness into the
cursing.
Then through and betwixt the voices
of the storm came a wailing cry ; tbe
cry of a lout soul at God's gates; the
cry fr the unattainable from the lips
of a ebilii of earth. Ri.siug higher and
higher, it U-at sobhingly ujm.h the
wind ; it cried with the echo of the
seagulls' ' waruiug; it scattered with
the soft sea foaip; and sank bushing
and palpitating into the mutter of the
waves. But ouly to rise again in a mel
ody so triumphant as to override in
its grandeur the voices of the angry
ocean.
"It was the great sea-spirit," said the
Poet.
But the sound had hardly seemed to
come from the sea rather from above.
He rose and walked to the window.
"It was not the wind," he said, alou.17
It was still howling, but the music
had tvased. He threw open the win
dow and looked out. The wiud fell ia
a blast upon bis thiu face, and tossed
his hair. The sea shouted at him with
angry menace. The look of the sky
upon hitn was without a glint of a
smile.
But again the music rose ; but so soft
ly that be bad to strain his ears to catch
the murmur of the half-hushed cratlle-
song. V hen it ceased again the voices
of the storm seemed to be sinking, and
the sea to be aweary of rage. The wind
fell, ami into the ky came u white
glimmer where a silver star sought its
entrance to the heavens.
The Poet stood there long, bis arms
re-ting on the sill, a dreamy look ou
his old-young face. There had come
to him one of those moments which be
fancied bad left him forever, when his
mind, like the worn out sea, could huh
its crying and be at peace.
It was only w hen, on bis way to his
bedroom later, he passed bis landlady
on the stairs that the problem of the
strange music he had heard returned
to him. ''It seemed in the house, and
yet not in the house," he murmured to
himself, stopping her. "It has Ueu a
wild night, Mrs. Lewis."
"Indeed, and it has, hir, but it lus
settled down nicely."
"It was 6 1 range; but I thought I
heard during tbe storm the sound of a
violin. Some one has chosen a strange
time to play."
"There's Miss White, sir: the has
the room above yours. She teaches the
fiddle' in town goes up every day. ll.t
she's not been playin' to-night, 6ir;
and she's the only one in the place that
can."
"O, that explains it ! She must have
been playing. No doubt it was she I
heard,"
' "'But she hasn't been playin' to-night,
sir ; I beg your pardon for saying it.
I've been sittin' sewin' in the room
just above her head, aud never a sound
have I htard. She's been that still,
too."
The Poet laughed, but went on bis
way unconvinced. "Strange playiDg
for a teacher of the violin," be thought,
"and a strange time in which to play.
She must be a strange girl."
It never occurred to him, in their
rogance of his few years, that she
might be more than a girL Indeed, be
speedily forgot the whole matter. But
in the dead of the night he rose, and,
hastily donning a few garments, tat
till tbe gray of the morning inscribing
the thoughts of which the Btrange
strains had sown the seed. He bad
found in the sea what be had Dever
found before.
II.
With the golden eye of the sun upon
him, be threw himself upon his toss
ing tied and stept until after noonday.
Afterwards he rambled upon the shore,
reluming, tired and lislltss, at length
to bis chambers.
"Mis-s White, she's leavin' to-morrow
mornin'," his landlady told him, as she
laid his tea.
But the Poet was not interested. He
wondered who Miss White might be.
"Indeed ?" he draw led languidly. He
roused himself to poke the fire as a
stopper to any other attempt at con
versation ; and Mrs. Lewis took the
bint.
But in the evening w hen, with the
coming out of the star, a delicate
thread of sound wound itself through
the stillness, his interest came back to
him. He threw himself upon bis
couch, and gave himself up to pleasure
of the sweet strains. Yet was it hard
ly pleasure, but more a flue pain.
There was in the music naught of the
wailing of yesterday's, naught of its
pleading, naught of its paseion, naught
of its bop. It was like, the Poet told
himself, a wire of polished silver, a
wire that might turn and twist In one's
flesh forever, yet never cause a mortal
wound only an infinitude of pain.
But that of yesterday was tbe broad
blade that kills at one stroke.
And again as it broadened and
deepened, aud faded, like a moonbeam,
away "that of yesterday," be mur
mured -was renunciation ; with Its
batt'?, iU victory, its sublime triump'i,
its transient peace ; to day's Is risigna-
liou ; a subnuttanee w liich has naught
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of halt If, of victory, of triumph, but
only pain. To-day's is the end, an end
that has no end."
But as be lay there, bands clasped
behind his tired bead, lips parted in
a smile a smile uulike his, for it bad
naught of scorn in it there broke upon
the silence the opening bars of a little
prelude, dainty and sweet in itself, but
the manner of its playing a veritable
triumph in mediocrity. It wailed aud
cried laboriously above the Poet's head,
and echoed above the window. It broke
into painful snatches and indifferent
rhythm. .
The Poet sprang to his feet with an
exclamation of impatience. "To spoil
that with this !" he cried. " , how can
she?" He bit his lips wrathfully; Irtit
he did uot intend to have his dream
altogether spoiled, and, his anger con
quering his wearinc, ran lightly up
the narrow stair.
He burst iuto the room of the stranger
w iihout preface or prelude, aud began,
iu a high-pitched, womauisli voice :
"What in tbe world" Then he au
ed, for he found she was crying. A lit
tle, middle-ageil woman, with a wrink
led face, and funny eltiti locks that fell
in a cloud atout it. She was standing
in the middle of the room, with ber
music stretched out flatly on the table,
and ber violin and bow in ber hands;
standing, the tears running thickly
down her pale cheeks, without making
any attempt to wipe them away.
The Poet felt even angrier than be
fore. Women of that age had no right
t cry so oj-nIy, be thought; it went
against a!! bis theories. He was an
gry, t"M, th.it be had imagined ber to
be young.
"What an abominable row," he said,
savage'y. "And what are you crying
alxiut? But it is enough to make any
one cry!" He was not far from tears
himself with vexation.
She looked up at him wistfully
she was but a little thing and without
any apparent surpriie at bis presence
or abrupt entrance. "Ah ! I should
not bave played again," she sobbed,
"after after I had given it up."
"Then I had guessed aright !" cried
the Poet. "Yesterday it was renun
ciation, and today resignation. But
what hud you giwu up? What have
you renounced ? To what are you re
signed?" "I don't understand you," she said,
uneomprehetidingiy. She laid her vio
lin on the table, hanging over it as a
mother does over her child.
"When you played yesterday"
"But I didti't play yesterday !" she
cried. I wanted to -(, so badly ! The
storm cried to me ; the wind cried ; and
the sea cried ; ami I heard them all. I
took my violin in my hand, but I could
tell nothing ef what I heard. , how
unhappy I was ! Then I drew the bow
backward ar,i forward across the
strings, but without touching them,
and imagiued it all. I caught the sob
bing of the sea-g nl ru the end of my
bow ; I sent out the cry of the gulls "
"And the spray of the sea!" cried
the Poet.
"And the eddy and gathering of the
foam--'''
4 And the mutter of the waves !'
"An i I thought of how I might have
played had not something, something
beeu wanting. (), I cried to God to
give me the ower to play as as my
soul could play, ImiI forthis thin -this
me that cannot."
"The cry for the unattainable," the
Poet whUpcred to himself, but she did
not hear or heed him.
"I madi a resolution," She dried
hvr tears briefly at the recollection of
it. "G.kI would not give me my de
sire, so I gave up my semblance of it,
for I wanted to keep my ideal. Then,
when I bai quite m ule up my mind,
how I could have played then ! But it
would not come."
"The triumph," said the Poet. He
smiled imperceptibly to himself.
But t -day it was all so dreary. It
was all over, and there was nothing
lefC Aud after I bad thought how it
was all over and my last note played,
I thought I would agaiu say good-by to
my fiddle. And I fetched it out aud
played goodby, but without making a
sound. And I felt not a bit sorry, but
only a strange feeling here;" she put
her hand on her heart. "So I played
a real little bit to see if it would take it
awav."
He did not speak. His dream had
come back to him ; aud his thoughts,
like white clouds, floated far, far away.
"But I am going away to-morrow,"
she said, w ith white lips, but firmly,
aud I will never play again. Wiil
you take if, please? Will you take it
with you? I shall never have one
again." She placed violin and bow in
his arms, and he let them rest there,
seeing ouly the U-auty of his dream.
Then he turned away, and her eyes
followed him as if her heart lay in his
arms. But at the door he paused. "You
have given me a gift for which I can
never thank you as I should," he said,
simply.
Slie thought he w as speaking of the
violin, and ber eyes, full of pain,
smiled in corroboration of his words.
"But I shculd never play again."
It was their first meeting it was
also their last.
In the early dawn the poet blotted
the last leaf of what he knew to be the
greatest thing he had ever written, or
would ever write.
"It will make the world weep," he
said, through his tears. Black and
White.
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Th 'Art and Science &f Washing as
Tuld by an Ex vert.
A correspondent sk for some ex
plicit directions for laundry work, the
burden of which iu the household rou
tine she rightfully deplores. It Ls a
pity that at least in the cities there
shoe Id not be established co-operative
laundries in which household washing
could be done at minimum raUa. Some
careful housekeepers protest against
this suggestion, saying that nothing
would induce them to send the family
washing to be Liunderei with a pro
miscuous lot of soiled clothing coming
from everywhere. This objection how
ever, would not exist iu the prtjer!y
managed laundry conducted on hy
gienic and sanitary principles where
the clothing was properly disinfected.
The French ruauage these things belter
than we; all washing Is done outside,
and ia consequence "blue Monday" is
eliminated from the household week.
However, siuce washing day iu mt
families comes once io seveu, it Is de
sirable that it should be met in the best
possible way.
To begin with, the question arises
whether clothes shall be soaked or not
the night before. The best laundry
teachers say that they should not. If
done at ail, it should be in lukewarm
water and without soap, or, if soap is
used, the greatest care should be taken
to see that no stained article is put in
the tub of soapy w ater. Hot water or
soap sets many stains, and often there
may l what is called a blind statu.
which is one imsiisjiected unt.! brought
out by the hot water or soap. To wetk
clothes over night in water iu which a
washing powder has Wt-o dissolved
yellows, rots and practically ruins
the clothes. Of course, flannel are
never soaked. To sum up, if tempted
to soak clothes dou'L
The process of washing clothes taught
by Miss Emily Huntingdon, the do-mestie-ecience
expert, provides as a first
process the careful sorting of the
clothes; the table linen, the fiue clothes,
the bed linen, the coarse clothes,
and tbe towels are separated in the
order iu which they should be washed.
A strong suds is made by cutting the
soap iuto small pieces aud dissolving
the pieces in warm water. The water
should be warm but not Isiiliug hot. A
little more sonp should b u--d during
the washing and this ou the ui'wt soil
ed plaivs of the articles. The garments
are washed on U)th sides, care being
taken that the finest and nitst clothes
are not rublied on the board. The ta
ble lineu is washed first of all; then the
fine clothes. B rth should be put into
the boiler in cold water and brought to
a scald. To put them in hot water sets
any staius. When they have been
scalded, they are drained out and put
into clean, cold water. The coarse
clothes and towels are then washed and
put into the Uiler for twenty minutes.
Too much loi:ing make clothes tender. .
When the blueing water is made, car
U-ing taken Hint it is not too blue, the)
fine clothes and tnM'e linen are drained
from the cold water and put through
the blueing-water first, the other clothes
passing from the liler into the clean
water, aud theu into Ihe Llueiug-water.
where Ihey may remain until the tine
clothes have beeu bung out. Clothes
should not be wrtiug out aud left any
length of time in baskets, as in this
way they become streaked. The hanging-out
process, if proper'y managed,
has a direct influence ou the irouing of
the clothes. All articles should Ut
snapped and pulled smooth aud even
and hang np on the wrong side. Tbey
should be dampened at night and roll
ed tightly, the starched things being
ironed first in the morning. Iu sum
mer they should not be sprinkled over
night, aa they w ill sour before morning,
and there is danger of mildew. The
starched clothes should be hung in the
sunniest places. New York
Evening Post.
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Of the people are alViicted with some
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Depression.
J suppose Washington will seem
rather dull after we're gone," remark
ed the statesman.
"Ob, I don't know," said the amia
ble lady with whom he boards. "Of
course, it will take some time to for
get all these debates, and yeas and
nays, and such. But it won't be more
than a wek or two befcre we begin
to liven up a bit." -r-Washingtt n
Star.
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Unimportance.
"What has become of the Chinese
Emperor?" inquired ooeof the leading
citizens of Pekin. "He doesu't seem
to be alive to the situation."
"Yes," replied the mandarin who
knows court secrets : "as a politician
he is so completely off the earth that
the empress doesn't even thiuk it's
worth while to announce any more
fuuerals for him." Washington Star.
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Before the Open Door-
Algernon thought he was on the free
list at the house of the revenue officer
whose fair daughter had welcomed him
so many times before.
But on this occasion two watchdogs
met him at the foot of the steps and
thought it their duty to levy a tear-off-.
That was why he custom.
Ah, yes! Life is fuil of such hor
rors ! Chicago Tribune.
A lazy liver makes a lazy man. Bur
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