A WIZARD'S EARLY DAYS. HOW THE OREAT CAMS EAST. VENTOR, llo Cnt a Tunny Figure, nut As ton lulinl I he Operator Dlapoa Ingorill Trlograph Inventions. "I don't lliink," saiil a friend of Thomas A. Kdison sorao days ago to a group seated in tho rear room of ono of thn most coinfortablo hoMelrics of Uinngo, "that you ever heard tho story ol how tho Wizard first came East, lie was only a young man, careless, gener ous, jovial and totally ignorant of the value of a dollar. lie had been knocking round in Western towns in various small telegraph ollices until tho reputation of his wonderful swiftness ns an operator got him Into the central o I co of a Western city. From there ho was ordered to report to Hoston to fill a va cancy. It was warm weather for tho season when ho started East, and he donned linen trousers and a duster. lly tho time lie had reached 1'oston tho weather had got cold, raw and stormy, lie didn't care, and reported just as he ws. l.incn trousers and Jlustcr, topped by a slouchy, broad-brimmed hat, weren't the fashion in 1'oston in the best of weather, and on a raw day a man with a limp, wet duster on and wet linen trous ers sticking to his legs was something to provoke, a smile, llo walked into the superintendent's room and said: " 1 llcic I am.' "Tho superintendent eyed him from head to foot and said : " 'Who arc youi' " 'Tom Edison. " 'Who the deuce is Tom F.disDn!' "The young operator explained that he had been ordered to report for duty, and the superintendent told him to sit down in tho operating room. I lis advent hero created much merriment, and the operators guyed him loud enough for him to hear them. llo didn't care, though, Several hours later a New York fender noted for his swiftness railed the o.'licc and there was no one to take him. " 'Well, let the new follow try him, anyway,' said the superintendent Young Edison sat down, and for four hours and a half wrote out messages in a clear round hand, stuck a date and num ber on them and threw them on the Door for the otlice boy to pick up. The time he took in numbering and dating were the only moments he was not writing out transmitted words. . Faster and faster ticked tho instrument, and faster uud faster Edison's lingers, till the rapidity with which the messages came tumbling out and on the floor attracted tho attention of other operators, who, when their work was done, gathered around to witness the spectacle. At the close of four hours and a half, and the Now York business, there flashed from New York tho salutation: "Hello:' 'Hello yourself,' ticked back Edison. " 'Who the dickens are you;' rattled into thoo.'iice. ' 'Tom Edion, ' was ticked back. " 'Shake, Tom Edison,' came over the wires. " 'With all my heart,' was the reply. " 'You are the first man in the coun try,' said the instrument, 'that could ever take me at my fastest, and the only one who could ever sit at the other end of my wire for more than two hours and a hulf. I'm proud to know you.' ".Mr Edison had been experimenting and studying and improving telegraphy ever since bo was nineteen years old. He patented some of bis inventions. He left the Boston office to try and sell his multiplex system to the Western I'nion. llo was a careless looking young fellow wnen ne wamea into vue o... opB uay in New Vosk and asked them if thev i wanted to buy a patent. " -What is itl they asked. " 'Why, a means of sending two mes sages over the same wire in different directions at the same time,' said the young inventor. "Tho Western Union oflicia's lay back in their chairs and shouted in merri ment. '''Don't bother us with such nonsense as that,' si d one at last. ".Mr. Edison tried to sell it to one of the rival companies that existed at the "time. They also lauihed to scorn the idea of doing such a feat. " 'Well." remarked tho inventor, as liAtnmtfl rftrnlesslv ilwav. 'if von fiver Jet anything the matter with your plant that you can't straighten out your selves, send round for me.' "Ho took a little office and announced himself an electrical and telegraphic ex pert tome time afterward the company had trouble with its Albany wire. The wire wasn't broken, but wouldn't work, and several days of investigation on the part of the company's electricians only served to puzzle them the more. As a forlorn hope they sent for young Edison. " 'How long will you give met' he asked. "The manager laughed. " 'Six hours!' asked Edison. 'The manager laughed louder and told him he'd need longer time than that. Edison sat down at tha instrument, es- tamiMicu communication witn Albany by way of Pittsburgh, told the Albany V1HV.U i iuv.il uvai iiki u i 1 iuu IUBIIU ment, and begun a careful and rapid series of tests with all currents of all in tcuMtics. He had his Pittsburgh circuit instrument by his side and directed the Albany operator in each movement from his end. The steps were simultaneous, and the JVlliuny man telegraphed the results of each test. Edison compared them, made calculations, and in two hours and a half told the Officials that tho trouble existed at a certain point he named on the line, and told them what it was. The olticial telegraphed the office nearest this point, and an hour later messages were tripping gay ly between .Vew York und Albany. The company mad a him their superin tendent immediately, rsow he was in a i position to command repect and atten tion. He induced the companies to test his patents, and sold them rapidly. He much improved his multiplex bystem, and sold that to the Western Union at ten times what he would have taken for it at the time they laughed at his tirst proposition. He simply informs the Western I'nion now when he has in vented something new in telegraphy. Docs it work; It works. How much? Huudrcd thousand. Check. That's the way he sells all his inventions nowa days. "The public doesn'tknow A, but there are in the safes of the Western Union patents which, if applied, would nearly double the efficiency of the telegraph in the interests of public convenience. They aie not used because it costs money to put them into use, and there is no com petition to compel the Western Union to do the beat it knows how to do. The company buys .Mr. J disoii's inventions, partly becaube they may want to use them komeday, b itchietiy because they don't want them to get iuto the bands of peo ple who might by these m ri become dangerous competitors. They have to pay a foi tune for each inventiou, and duu't expect to use it when they get it, but ti retention of their secure monopoly ine the policy a paying one." Ae t orts &n. SCIENTIFIC AND I.NUUSTUIAL. A fund of 11,000,000 1ms been left bj an English brewer for advancing econo omlc and sanitary science. A Frenchman has invented key which simplifies and renders lasting the tuning of stringed instruments. A petroleum motor that will make fif teen miles tin hour and cost $1 per day to run is being tested in C hicago. The watch manufacturers all over the United 8t-itcs are crowdod with work, and competition is narrowing margins. Physiologists have established the fact that the masculine heart weights more and is larger than that possessed by tho fair lex. The Popular Sricnct Monthly says that no flying machine which will fly can ever be constructed until gravity is turned wrong side up. A document enclosed in a bottle w.is dropped in tho sea in March, lsNii, by tho I'rincc of Monaco, to test the cur rents. It has just been washed ashore at Orkney. An envelope has been inveutcd which is tinted in such a manner as to turn black, blue and red if an attempt is made to open it by wetting or exposing to steam. Damp weather docs not affect it. At llendigo, in the colony of Victoria, Now iSouth Wales, gold is now being procured at a depth of 2400 feet from the surface. This is tho greatest depth to w hich the gold seekers of the antipodes have so far penetrated. Corn is tho source of nearly nil tho starch consumed in the United States. In other countries starch is made fro. n potatoes, wheat, rico and a variety of other materials. Maine produces a great deal of starch from potatoes. An electric current observed on a telo phono line running from liridgcwatcr, Nova Scotia, to the mines thirty miles away, is supposed to bo produced by n "natural battery," formed by deposits of copper, silver, lead and iron oro in the vicinity of the gold mine. The interesting and important dis covery has beet made that the filaments of incandescent lamps soon break when used near moving belts or other sources of frictional electricity. Tho life of such lamps may bo greatly increased by covering them with wire netting con nected with the earth. Experiments by M. G. Gov! indicate that ordinary sunlight does not give us the true colors of bodies. These can only be shown by a light combining all the visible colored rays, and giving a complete continuous spectrum. The spectrum of sunlight is interrupted by bright and dark hands. Concerning the habit of coughing in church, the London Lvieet says: "It represents to a largo extent avoidable evils, bred of habit and thoughtless imitation, and their very desirable re duction is therefore bv no means ho po les s. Even where a basis of disease. underlies the explosion a little self-control could usually do something to lessen its force or its frequency." A Swedish scientist claims to have discovered the secret of petrifying wood by artificial process. He thinks it will be possible ere long to construct edifices of wood and convert them into stone. As it takes three months and costs about $25 to petrify a block of wood of the dimensions of one cubic inch, it will probably be some time before his process will be generally adopted. Old as is the theory that trees promote regularity and plentitudo of rainfall, and generally accepted as though an axiom in natural philosophy, it is being vigor ously attacked, says the Sanitary .Vim. The trouble has been that only facts fnvorab,e to this hypothesis have been n.i.i. ..'r i. - available. Now the result of impartial investigation seems to show that cause and effect have been badly mixed. The Curse of China. The sallow complexion of tho peoplo of China, their emaciated forms and languid movements, attract our attention everywhere along the river. I do not see a beautiful face or figure, nor a rosy check; a dead leaden color is on all faces, old and young, mala and female. I look at the broad, swift river; I feel the cool, clear breeze ; I gae at the high green hills, the flowing rivulets and the wido-spreading trees overhanging the hamlets. Upon the mountain sides are houses and hundreds of workmen; ap proach these busy laborers and you will see this deathlike pallor on all faces. The climate seems the acme of perfec tion a long, pleasant summer, with a cool, agreeable autumn and bracing winter; yet there is a want of energy and life among the people. There is plenty of food and of excellent quality for China rice, wheat, millet, peas, beam, corn, oils and fruits of many varieties all within the means of the humblest la borer. I enter a large field near a hamlet, by the side of a luxuriant growth of ripen ing wheat. The field is clean; not a weed visible. But close together and four ieet high stand stalks with large dry heads, brown and decaying now, for their br;gnt flowers laded a month ago. These decaying stalks speak; they tell me wny tne death pallor is upon all faces, from the shriveled form of ago to the bowlegged child sitting in tha cot tage door. Oh, soductive viper, curse of millions I Who shall dare to stand up in the presence of this fast-fading, degenerating peoplo and say tho evil is not widespread and fatal' Traverse the fairest portion of all the provinces; not tho cities a'one, but tha quiet, out-of-the-way places are all saturated and besmeared with the black paste, even to tho gods. Aeio York Uraphic. A Remarkable Umbrella. Among the many curio collectors in New York city there is an old gentle man who declares his umbrella to be his greatest treasure. It is bis inseparable companion and accompanies bun wher ever he goes. The handle is a piece of the Charier Oak, in which is set a smull triangu ar piece of stone clipped from Plymouth Hock; the stick is made from a branch of the old elm tree at Cam bridge under which Washington assumed command of the Colonial armies; the brass cap on the lower end of the stick is made from the trimmings of u sword bcabbard once used by General tlrant; uiu jreen covering onginaiiy served as the lining of a coat worn on State occa. bioos by the suave and courtly Auron Buir; the ribs, spring and other metal trappings were manufactured from small steel cunnou captured by the Americans from the Hessian) ut the battle of Braudywine. Eight oblong pieces of brass have been inserted in as many sides of the octauonal handle. They wero made from buttons cut from the military coats of eight Generals famous iu the revolutionary War. 'Ihe owner of this unique umbrella values it at $111)0, and does not believe in keepin his trensuie under lock and key, but makes free usa of his interesting pos session. Trimming fur is seldom used about the bottom of fur or cloth coats, but silk and brocade pelissesare sometime bound all around witn lur. W. C. T. U. COLUMN. Conducted bg (As Tionetta Union. Th W. C. T. U. meets the 2J and 4th Tuesday of each month, at 3 p. m. President Mrs. Ell Holeman. Vic Presidents Mrs. J. G. Dale, Mrs, XV. ,T. Robert. Recording Bec'y Mrs. It. A. ITowe. Cor. See and Treaa. Mrs. 8. P. Irwin. Wo unfo him thai gireth hi nrighhor drink, that vvttest thy bottle to him, and maktst him drunken also. Hub. II, 15. The wicked worketh a deceitful work; but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a true reward. Rev. 11, 18. Temperance At Indianapolis. Francis Murphy and his son Edw-anl, the' tonu erance evHii'lists, recently closed thnir meetings in ii.diannpoli. The elder Murphy Ivgnn there three weeks ago, and was joined bv Ins son a week lator; thoy have set on foot tho most successful Uospel temperance movement ever inaugurated in that oitv,' addressing forty tlvo lanje meetings. Tim result of their inborn is something over(i.r00 signers to the totnl-alistinenee pledges ami, several Gospel eonvertions. The press anil people of Indianapolis regard their work ith great SHttsiaetion. mov went mere nt the invitation of .1. C. Shntt'er. President of the IndianniKilis Street Itnilroad Company. and they were greatly assisted by the leading ministers. The last night s meeting nt Tomhnson Hall was ono of the largest, fully MKK) persons be ing present. On the crowded stage with Mr. Khatfer was Samuel W. Allerton, the well known Chicago millionaire, who mnde a short address, wherein he urged the Murphys to come to I lucngo, where nn believed a great work nwaited them. He said they were lighting dynamiters and banging Anar chists, but he believed the real cure for this spreading evil was to send such men among them as rraneis mid r.dwnrd Murpny to preach their gosHl nnd pull these misguided Socialists out from under the hnleful influence of the litpior-disiwnsmg element. He de clared he should return to Chicago with a determination to inaugurate a movement that would brine the Mtirphvs and other evangelists Into that Held, and ho would take part in me meetings. Amonir the lniliananolis conversions are two saloon-keepers ami about three score of the Hardest drinkers in the ci'y. Liquor Ilesponsltile for a Massacre. That terrible Hirminirham massacre had Its root in linuor. Mrs. Hawes was ad dicted to drink, which led to the infidelity mail was tne cause, as aucgeu, or tne triple murder by llawcs, the husband and father. Fact one. Hawes was jailed nnd a mob collected threatening his summary punishment. vt . I . augli.in, a prominent IMrming ham lawyer, suys: "I bad just loft the jail, and just beloro the shooting ttegati, several men who were drunk pressed. to the front and shouted: "Tear the jail down and hang Hawes,' and the volley was fired." Fact two. Hut after ten leading citizens were killed and twenty wounded, then the saloons wero ordered closed as a peace precaution. Fact mree. And vet tho saloon is an institution estnh. lished bv law, an t Christian men use their party ballots to fas en it more Urmly iu the bioom of society. Ka'-t four. Let the saloon live and no human wisdom or power can avert the fearful civil confla gration thnt this evil agency is sure to pro- voKe in mo iuitu-e. i no vast masses or vice, lawlessness, and illiteracy now honey-combing the body politic will be the fuel "to feed the tires of that revolution. Xashvitle (7Vnn.) . Whore Anarchy Conies From. 1. Anarohv is born in foreign lands and bred in the American saloon. .. If it cannot he strangled at birth bv reason of the remoteness of its place of birth, it certainly can be rendered extinct by the removal ot its breeding quarters on American soil. 'i. The saloon has forced the erection of the almshouses that dot nearly every city in the l nue i mnus. 4. The saloon has produced the rags that clot be every drunkard's child, 5. '1 he suloon has placed the lines of care that are worn upon tue face of every drunk ard's broken hearted wife. li. The saloon created the bombs that give Havmarket Square a place in history, and its consequent horrors upon the scarTold. Not content with its conquests, the saloon sighs for more worlds to conquer, aud turns its eye upon tho National Capital. Shall the thinking men submit to dishonor that the crime aliettiug saloon be saved; stmericcia Mugasint. Why Garland Dors -N'ot Drink. Attorney-General Garland is a total ab stainer from stimulants. Ho was aik-d ono day how it was that he, coming ns he ili I from a part of tho country wlie. o liquor was believed to be used as commonly as co:ree, was a teetotaller. " W ell, it was this way: I used to drink as regularly and as frequently as any one, but ono day, some years ago, I was walking through our ceinotory ut J.ittlo Rock, and 1 saw the grave of ono very bright man who would have lieen my age; aim men i saw anoiner, until 1 suddenly re alized that almost alt the young men with whom 1 began life had gone, and 1 almost alone was left, and 1 knew what hod carried them away. U ell. as 1 had been sosred. it occurred to mo that I had certainly had my share of alcohol, so I made up my mind that I wouldn't drink anybody else's share; that wouldn t be fair. SSo i just stopped right then and there." Temperance News and Notes. The church, constructive; the saloon, do structive. Temperance is the moderate s of coot things and total abstinence from bad things. It is stated that the Emperor William of Germany has entirely given up aluoholiu liquors. The rum-power is too colossal to be ig nored, too cyclonic to be regulated, too inso lent to be endured. Not a newspaper in Kansas is advocating the re-establishuient of the saloon, while two years ago there wore fifty. Absolute prohibition of tho liquor traffic! is taw throughout the 'J, 5oo,(HJ square miles in the Northern Territories, Canada. What a list of horrible crimes now burden the telegraph wires daily. And intemper ance stands out as tha chiefest among the causes for these terrible aff airs. The brandy cignretto is the latest thing from Boston. It is made of tobacco that has I een soaked in brnndy, aud the smokor is enabled to keep mildly intoxicauid without touching a drop of liquor. Robert W. Page, of Atlanta, Ga , an em ploye at Weller's slaughter-bouse, while drunk, foil into the largo kettle full of hot water in which hogs were scalded. He had been in the kettle over an hour when found, and his body was boiled almost into jelly. Sing a song of sixpence, you fellow full of rye, With not a cent to bury you to morrow should you die. The keeper's iu the barroom counting out his money ; His wife is in the parlor with well-dressed sis and sonny; Your wife has gone out working and wash ing poople s clothes. To pay for old rye whisky to color up your nose. Ferdinand Schumacher, of Akron, O., is known as the Oatmeal King in the milling -world. It is told of him that he is a Piohibi ttionist of such tixed opinions that when one of his nulls was destroyed he distributed 20,000 'bushels of scorch-d grain among the farmers for chicken fee I rather than sell it to dis tillers to be made into whisky. "Pretty boy,'' an Indian of the Yankton Sioux tribe, at Fort Peck Agency, crael with rum, killed his s qua iu u most brutal manner, murdered two policemen, fatully wounded a third a'ld then killed himself. It has Usui equally well proven that alco holic drugs afford no protection from the contagion of climatic epidemics, and that, on the contrary, dram-drinkers lire from ten to twenty-five times more liat.le to tht attacks of such dis a-ses than total abstaiuei s. The new law in Boston which goes into ef fect on the first of Muy will close one-half of the saloons, and temjierauce people hope will decrease crime by thirty per cent- The liquor traffic of the six principal na tions of Christtjiidom devours year after year the produce of B4,uuo,ixjO acres of farm laiid, FARM AND GARDEN. Amonnt ot Winter Feod. A cow or horse will need from twenty eight to thirty-five pounds of feed per day, the amount varying according toi size of animal and kind of fond given.' With tho best chance for pasturing stock) therrt will I e nearly or quito two hunJ dred days of barnyard or stnble feeding.! Thirty pounds per day for this timd mnkes a total of C.000 pounds, or three tons. If all this has to bo purchased itj will cat into tho value of pretty good stock at present prices of feed. With ordinary stork tho farmer ran only make himself whole by feeding it with rough fodder that would not be readily salable, but may be changed into valuable man ure American Cultivator. Swortcnlnif a Pork Barrel. It is quite an object for a farmer to make his pork barrel last from year to year, and thero need bo no trouble about) it, for tho brine has a preservative quality that will prevent decay of the wood for a lifetime, so that only a hoop may need renewal occasionally. Hut where a barrel has stood empty for weeks through the summer it will become' mouldy and sour, and should be thorougly cleansed beforo it is used. 1: have never had any trouble after cleaning them with wood nshes nnd hot water. nnd then linsing them out tlean. 1 ment has spoiled in a barrel so that th barrel has become tainted this wil not bo enough to make It safe In such cases steaming or smok ing has been recommended, butj probably a more effective way is to till with fresh earth and let stand a coupld of days, then empty and refill as before. This is said to be successful, but for my self I havo ulways preferred buying a new ono to using one in which meat hud spoiled. A'.ic York WorlJ. Credit Side of iho Cat Account. I have three large, well bred and full fed gelding cats which keep the pre mises, consisting of barns, sheds, wood and poultry houses, grain, hay and strawi accessible at ninny points, to say nothJ ing of consideiuble covered space, so nearly free of rnts, mink, mice, weasels,' etc., that I do notfret a sight of either oftener than once a mouth, nnd then it is usually a young rnt ono of my faithful, felino servants brings to me to bIiow he hns done his duty. Tho black-soil prairie of Illinois is easily burrowed Into, and rat make underground passages any distance with almost the case of moles; grain abounds in most fields, the gross is henvy and long, hedges are com mon, nnd everything favors tho multi plication of the rodents. Without the three gttiirdiaus, rats would take the young chickens, suck eggs, undermine' barns and bhods, gnaw into the corncribs, eat half the grain and dclilo the other half, burrow into the stneks of grain, and make worthless chaff of clover and hay. Yes, there are objections to cuts by those who hate them; but they are as much preferable to rats us mosquitoes to' bedbugs. AWo York Tribune. Buttermilk Is Important Food. There has been some dispute about the value of buttermilk, says the New En gland llomt-Uad, but from a practical test mada by D. . Little, this food is proved to bo more valuable than is commonly believed. Not having hogs enough of his own to consume his butter milk, Jlr. Little contracted to feed a neighbor's hogs at 4 cents per pound. From May 15 to October ;tl there wero 54 head in tho pen, some bciug put in and ome taken out every week. It was an uucvon lot of old hogs and young pigs. They wero quarrelsome, nnd of course did not do so well as would have; been the ca-e had the same bogs been kept together without a break until tho end of the. season. Tho "i t hogs weighed Ba5 pounds when put in, and ll,4.V pounds when taken out. This is a gain of 5070 pounds, nnd. at 4 cents is worth 1202.0. About -JUT bushels of corn itv theoar were fed with O4,o57 pouuds of milk. Tho corn cost ifST.OS, tha milk lli per cwt. On Soptcmbcr I, the pen was cleared, and 20 pigs, averaging 'iO pounds, wero then kept there until October 1, when they a erased 1 TO pounds, till bushels of corn, costing 2 '.", and 17,157 pouuds of milk being fed. This mnde nearly 115 tents per cwt. for creamery butter milk. Mr. Little estimates that had he fed his own pork instead of feeding hog for the neighbor, he would have realized 5 ccuts per pound instead of 4 cents, nnd that the milk through September and October would havo brought him 4 k cents per cwt. Ho says that buttermilk is commonly sold at 25 cents per barrel of 400 pounds, when it should bring at least f l. One great trouble is, farmers have too much milk and not enough hogs. One hundred bushels of corn to 20,000 pounds of milk is the right pro portion. Pernicious Winter Seedlngs. There is a kind of winter seeding not generally entering into the plan of the average farmer. Wiutcr is in thought! associated with a period of rest and com parative death in the vegetable world. The winter wheat lies dormant in its frozen bed beneath the white blanket of fallen snow.rnd the cars of corn selected for next spring's seeding are stored out of the reach of the mice in the crib. All meadow and pasture land sleep on until wakened by tho silent quickening of tho spring. Nevertheless there is a work going forwaid through the short days and nights of tho severe months in the dead ot winter. Fery gust of wind that hurriet by tho street corner and diet away in momentary calm; every giant gale which comes down from tho frozen north ana sweeps wnoto Mates wan a besom of relentless fury, may carry with it tho gcruis of weed and deposit them in tome secure place where the spring sun finds and quickens them into new life. A 11 sowings are not confined to the newly harrowed field or tho rich and mellow garden. If it were so, farmiDg and gar dening would be a lesa serious matter than it is. Many seeds like those of the dreadful Canada thistle are provided with liglst, feathery appendages by which tho ripened seeds take long rligbu in the upper air liko so many miniature balloons. Other plants, as tho burdock and beggar's lico, lely for transportation upon the pji-sing animals to which they adhere by hooks, thus stealing a ride. Others still are left without any special structure for migration, and must there fore depend in part upon the favoring conditions of winter. The various sorts of tumble weeds break up into a numbei of paits, or by a decay of the main stem at its uniou with the soil the whole plant is set free an 1 blown by the wind whore it listeth. There are many weeds which rcmai.i upright with their seed bearing portion above the fallen snow, and vhen the smooth crust ot ice foriiH over all, the seeds, loosened by tio ele ments, are blowu for mi lea over thn froeu surface only to find lodgment in some ditch, hollow or other place o! tafety. This help to explain how mar velously weeds spring up in cultivated ground. A mriican jigrkutturitt. Dentil of nn Improvident Frcnk. "General Tom Tonnco," a dwarf known in connection with Tom Thumb all over tho world, has died In poverty on Oreen street, In Clovoland, Ohio. Ho was only a trifle larger than Tom Thumb. He was brought hero from 8axo-Weimar by hi parent in 1812, whun scarcoly a year old, and from tho first was exhibited as nn infantilo curiosity. Ho had earned more than $100,000 in his lifo, but spent it freely, nnd ceasing to bo an attraction after tho loss of his health, came hero four year ago to live with his bi other. Two your ngo tho brnthor died nnd the dwnrf in vested all ho possessed in a little cigar storo. He had no business rapacity, however, and was nearly starving when, threo week atjo, John Widmann took him nnd enred for him until ho died. All the goods poor Pounce possossed wore a small diamond ring and a gold watch, lie had saved them in order to havo enough to pay for decent burial. Ho was interred in a child's collin, clothed in tho dress suit in which ho used to appear on tho stago. His name wa Ernest Ccyer. Chicago Herald. Mexico's National lleTornge. Through tho center of the piilqti region of .Mexico tho railroad funs a train called tho "puhino train" into the City of Mexico every day loaded with barrels and bottles of pulque These bottle re mind one of tho bottles known in Scripture time. They nro made of hog. skius. The skin is stripped from tho hog a'most intact, '.turned iusido out, and then, with the legs, tail and throat tied up, it is filled with pulque. The baggago car of our train, a correspondent says, is nearly filled with these uncouth ob;ci t, and until wo knew what they were wo supposed it was a lond of hogs. As the train stops at the small stations on tho way to Vera Cruz, boys and men rush up to tho baggago car with bottles, pnil and domijohus, which are filled from theso hogskins. In tho cities tho pulque shop nro frequent, and you enn always see a crowd of Mexicans standing beforo tho bar absorbing the pulquo. They drink it from lurne glasses which hold about a quart. I am told that when it is fresh pulque is ns sweet as honey, but it ferments rapidly aud is sour in a day or two. The Kxcltement Not Over. The rush on the druggists still continues and dally scores of peoplo call for a bottlo of Kemp's llalsam for the Throat nnd Lungs for the cure of Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Uronchltts and Consumption. Kemp's Holsam, the stan dard family remedy, Is sold on a guarantee and never fails' to give rutin) sat isf act ion. Prlco uOcandSl. Trial size free. Tun Kt. l'nul. Mlnnentmlt and Manitoba Itaihvay now olenites ;t.'.sO miles of road. A Wonderful Food nnd Medicine, Known and used by Ph slcians all over tho world. Scott's Emti-sion not only gives flesh nnd strength by virtue of its own nutritious mne-tiew, but create an npi'ctlto for fool that builds up llio wasted ImmIv. "1 have lieen iisinir .scott s h.nmiMon tor severni scars, ami am pleased wi it its action. .My patient say II is nieasant and lwintalde and all grow strong er ami gain llcsh from the use of it. 1 use it in ad casvn of Wasting liHFcs, and it is siteciul- ly useful for children when nutrient inculca tion is neeihd. as in Marasmus." T. W. I'lianE, M l'., hnoxville. Ala. A Hnil ml Cars for Kplleplln Pit. To tht Kdifor Please inform your render tliat 1 haves nositive remedy for the nlmve named disease which 1 warrant to euro the worst capes. h strong is my faith in its vir- tuiss that I will send fiee n sample buttle and valunlile treatise to any sufferer who will give me his P O. and txpres-s nddrc. Itesp'y. 11. U. 1WOT. 31. C . ISi l'earl St.. M;w lorK. Rest, easiest to use nnd cheapest, l'iso's Remedy for Catarrh. Ity dnnrgist. Me. The Plain Truth Is that Hood't Ptrn&pftrilla b& nrM thouMmliof ptxilf who titffeml MTercljr with rheiimUini. It notitra'lw tha lartio tcid In tha blood, which riujti thou Urdbla piint nj ache, and a'ao TsU'iftt and enrichf the blond, thus prevent m tha mcurrenoa of tha dlMua. Tha facta warrant ua in urfrinv you. If you Buffer with rheumatiim, to aire Hood'e Sarsmparllla a triaL I had rhrnnmtiam to that hen I aat or laid don I oould hardly fmt ujv Hood 'a Barsaparilla bin almost curod me." P. Cabnw, tialion, O. N. B. If you make up your mind to try take Hood't SartaitarUla do not be inducvd to take any other. Hood's Sarsaparilla Fold by sll dni(r(t!U. l:lifurt5. rreprd onlj bj C..I. HOOD & CO., A)oth-arles. Lowell, Uou. IOO D?ses Ono Dollar GATAR.RI! ELY'S CREAM BALM COLD IN HEAD. ELY IlltOB.. fC Warrrn Bt.. N. FORTH E B LO OD. HmiII'h Kivin ha rurttl nit! of a nialiir naut liraakmtf out ou mv W, which raui-d iltUl-rali ain It w an taUt h Em bv the dtK,tor--lnir of whom trratM mr with no reliiil. I cainliclly outVsa Oit I owe my )n aent irnod health to S. 8. 8., whl h In my oaUiuaUuU la iuvahmhle a a 11" I remedy. A11RK.lri.IA i'KN ITT, 537T!f. IMh Ht.. Ht. Lotust. Mo. Our hahr when two month old, wan at tarki-d with Scrofula, which for a Ion time dratrtyrtl lu-r f t ailit eutirvly and canned u to lepatr of tier lite. '1 lie doctor fai lid to relieve her, and we frave Hwift'a Kxviht which anon cunil her entirely, and che la now haiu aud lit arty. K. 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Wb with a frw na our fo.Mtl by kli) lit tin WllOlf ! mtiH M- i Wat'Bi S3 Per Dan Frrmauciii ...MitUr. publsls ausw-tcl JUubfy ad.nucd ftir fa.ni, tYeiiUi,B tto. Canlcnnial Manufacturing Co., Cincinnati. Ohio. who have nM Plfo'a Cure (or ronmimpiion auyltie HKsroF All,. bold ver where. 'Mc SOLDIERS 4 dinatilfd: pay, etc. ; Uiwrt fin rt-hevt-d: Lawn frt-o. A. W. McCuruiKk & bou,NV aluntfton, D.C. V CiULiuuntl, O. 0 nilltJ UIDIT ainleasly rurd In 10 to 'Jt I'ava. ha ni la mi in r ll-nna l it ulineut. i ritil Trial 1 tt-ti. No Cure. No Pay. 'IhtJ lluuiuue Hfuu-uy 4'u liH f uyeuw. Uiu. HUlHt PMiuianchip, Antlin l..ll.,llkrhlV lHlla.'llt I V M ftUF xTI l V. btrt-li-keeplnK.HnHincBfiForm, w m bh rciiuiauniip, ai iiiiiiii lie, tic. Mioit-hand. t thoiuUKhly taught ly M1L. in Ht., liuttttlo, N. IIVlll 'IU III Blair's Pi!ls.c Hheumatio Remedy. Oral Uux, .14 I ruuud 1 fill.. Llv alaom. and auk. mora aioBrwwfclscfbfa.th.a aUalai .1 ."Tlhlnral. in Ih. world Eitb.r Co.llroutfU 1.11. 'l.nuftK. AdJnu, Uti k lu., luuiu, U.iui PEERLESS DTE3 Hr4!MSc3V.sl 5 Vs. r TRADE VtZ,,, , , . . P MARK. REMedy.; PAIN it coNQUEna paiist. KrtteTss ana euro SnEUMATISH, NFl'RALGIA, Solatloa, Lumbago. HEADACIIK, Tocthachs, Sprains, nnrjiSF.s, -Barm and Solid A I Prngilata anil Itontfrs. TNI CHARLES A. VOQELtR CO., Btltlmor. Ml I'ici-t'a ('urn la mil linat anllinir tlimll' cltif. I havo a personal knowli'ilpo of Its beneficial effects, and recommend it. S. Larry; Druggist, Allegheny, 1'ft. ORATEFULCOMFORTINQ. EPFS'S COCOA BREAKFAST. "Ily athoroiiKh knnwlotlp-e of the natnrallawa which irovrrn the nixTUoi:e ot diirtion aud nutri 11. n, and ly a rantil ai Uratlorj th- line pn m-r-tie of Mrll-pelected Coo'i, tr. 1 fp ha provided enr hreakfaet taWee with a il licau iy ua-ronrru iev 5iar I la aire which may aave tie many heavy doctor' Mil. ia liT tne jtMlcieUB una oi mn'ii arucirw mnin mm a cohKtitutlon may i- Krauunny oui.i up mimem-nir ti.iiisrti lo resist cverv trtlilelicv to lleiiafv Hull rired of iitttemaltidiri are lioatintr around ua ready to attach wherever there ie a point. inav eecajwmanv a fatal fhaft hy ker-flnir our elvea well Iraine t nn ."urine Mncrrt. loruiieti 1 1 11 rum i'im ami i'iiji i i nu u Mi. 1 !mtlv with boil in it water or nil. Bold ntr In hslf roiiud tine, by limcere. labi lied thna: JAMfcS tPPet A (O., Hoin,rnpUllti Cheiuiata, l.onnrn, l-iUKland. Money in Chickens Tf r't know how to proprtr ram (ortUrm. Vor'J.l crtii in ntampa Jon i-uti tmvnica iur-1't.K ItuoK Ktvimr tne xii-rn iiif of a practi t al 1'. nltry Italaer md an am teur, but a nan orkuiK f, r do - 1. ,n ... I ...,1. .Ii.r.t.ir J .1 (It yeara. It tea. li. h you Imw to lrf-t and t'nre l)neaH, ; to K d for V tiyn and al-o fr 1-'. tteinmr; which h'oM l to havo for lint-dinn 1 ..,.1 ..Uf.ll,ll. .1.1. a. I yon nhonid kti'w !! tlna atiijvl to mti it imflt Bl.lo. Sent pofttpnid fo: .r. HtMlli 11 II. IU I f r . 1 if I l.t'tlinrl -M : TIM, f . 1 . li J WHY WEAR EYE-GLASSES ? ML YEiZlC S .rf?,-. CXI 11 II H fere Restorer "jiV? RESTORES UIStAU BIGHT EYtS. At all Drucgist.. bend lor Circular.. EYE RESTORER CO-.j-AUBAN V. N. V. gWsumpYion 1 Unvea iMiUee ruinnl, for Hie itUirf dlMt'M , by it. ur thoii-riita of rtuM of thn tnrt tiui l nnd louir Unlirt r bare bmn outvaL, hn Miunir l" "V rl(h tit it n lint 1 tll wml ta Nut w trr, totrHii-M- with m vnnril.la trvatiw on thia dlMtuw t any miflfiei. tine Kpnt n I I". t. aiiurea-. r. 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