HE CAME OCT OF THE ROYAL FAMILY. There is a small town in North Caro lina, near the boundary line of Virgina, that is noted 89 a railroad junction, even different roads meeting there. Doubtless people are born, live and die in Weldon with independent his tories, but the outside world only speaks of the town in this way, "Did you make the connection at 'Weldon?" There was a disjointed period when it seemed exceptional to make this necessary connection promptly, In travelling- South, and it was my lot to miss it by half an hour. They told me at the depot that there was nothing for me to do but lo wait twenty-four Lours at the hotel. The one I hit upon proved very dreary, having the barren air of a restaurant in which no one has stayed long enough to make it feel in habited. To add to the loneliness, the rain was pouring down in great tor rents outside, and the only boks I could discover in the hotel parlor were a ponderous gilt-edged Dible, a moth eaten copy of "liurton's Anatomy of Melanchjly," "Baxter's Call to the Unconverted" and some old census reports. I cherished my fascinating illusions about the South ; its romantic social life beckoned to me invitingly through the perfumed vistas of orange groves to come on and get initiated into the Be guiling ways of dark-eyed women with oft speech, and a strong under-tow of easy-going men, whose chivalrie dalli ance formed but a light coating for the volcanic energies of Coeur de Lion. I loved this land of extremes, but it might be a "Great Tropical Delusion ' today, for all that was visible of it at Weldon. My tour must be a short one. Delay was irritating. Could nothing be done to make this day count? Glancing at the negroes who were waiting on me at the table, I had to confess, that, though attentive, they were far from picturesque. There ap peared to be a great many of them. Judging hastily from this dining-room, one might infer that the staples of tho South were negroes and Hies; the hitter charging at me in battalions from their ambush in the fringed arsenic-green papers attached to the chandeliers. The fried chicken and corn bread, however, were compensating. When embowered in my Folitary bedroom I began to cour t the hours to be spent there twenty-three; and it would be impossible to sleep away more than eleven of them. J lark I Somebody was crooning snatches of a qiai: t tunc in the back pinises. An idea broke in upon nie I dis robed my baryo from its traveling ulster." Why not spend the time learning the pngs the negroes were singing over their work down in the yard and kitchen? In all the accounts of South ern life I had read in novels and maga zines the negroes were represented as always tinging merrily, except when thoy were drowsy and nodding. I tuned the banjo; theu the song stopped. Not another note did I hear for a i hour; there was plenty of noise, but it came from the clatter of dishes, the slamming of doors, the steady rainfall and the shrieking of the locomotives on the seven roads. I was not to be balked in my project. I rang for the chambermaid, and asked her to get some colored man who could sing and play the banjo to come up and give me a lesson I would pay him well. She first gazed at me vacantly for a moment, as if her brain were busy en larging to receive a bra d-new idea; then bhe grinned from ear to ear. "Yes, miss, I'll see ef I kin tind you ne of de good singahs; ef you had only a sont word fo' you arrovo, and jjot it norrated roun' dat you want Vitructions in de banjer dat would 'a been de bes' way. But Louvinia '11 do de tes' she kin for you. I winc ter be a real good darkey to you while you heah dat 1 is; you can put 'penuance od dat, miss." She talked to herself all the wav down the hall about what she meant to do for my comfort while I was at the Imagination now began to work; ij expected to see a lively young fellow with laughing eyes and dancing feet ushered into my room. It would be Jolly; he should teach ine all he knew. Presently a muffled knock came at my door. "Come in !" A large, middle-aged negro, with a very grave and very black face, stood on the threshold, making a low bow with all the "deportment," of a Turvey drop, hat in one hand, banjo in the other. He wore a shabby blue tweed uit, his toilet getting pooieras it went down, the coat still attempting to make an impression of style, with its double row cf white china buttons, the pants well patched aoout the knees and threadbare in spots, and the shoes broken into gaping holes, and tied with red twine strings. "Yes, come right in. I sent for fou. Wl.at's your name?" "SiiKn Barjona, dat's my proper aame, m'am; but dey mostly cads me Koy'l (Koyal) 'bout heah, 'kase I come out o' de Koy'l fam'Iy in I-'ahginy fo' I come to Weldon." "I hope you are well, Royal?" "Pretty well, m'am, ccp'n I subjic' to typhoid fever and consumption; when I gets het up I is attacted wid de fever, ah' ef I gets cold, I breaks out wid de consumption; but I makes out to keep a goin' ; my health is tol'able good now.m'am." 'I'm glad to hear it; sit down there." The negro looked doubtfully afc tho ;hir indicated, as if it would bo disre. nectf ul to me to take it. 'I want you to make yourself com fortable, Royal, so you can teach nic some of your best song9. You king don't you?" "Oh, yes'm!" "Did you ever live ot a planta tion ?" "Sho'Iy I did. I aiu' live nowhar' else, clear o' desc las' two years I been ref ugeein' down heah in AVeldon. I was riz on dc ole Koy'l plantation, an' I huvcr come away twull ole Mis' die. You heerd how she met with a inni bie accident? I tola her d:it was a superstitious ladder, an' shs muntn't ot her foot on it agin I scu a ka'nt on dat saie ladder one moonlight itlfhtlnde barn. Spcrrits i lr.igUy qciet folks mostly; dey stsys wtar iia put, dey ain't s gwin tcr meet op wid foil ls'n dey come fcr sump'u; but Mis' she wont littbp ter me, she full o' whimsiss, an ine g t Ur l.ang up dem greens wid hr owu hr.d, Christmas, an' sLo' acll, the tsmblo iwn an' broke Her spins! ioo, so she (didn't get up m tno'l" "Ole Mis', sh set a neap sto' by we; white folk -Mors d: J .tkem;l nuver had no V ' OKS'' dey soon se t people s property Jnt git no chiros for my principles an' chat-actor I beu sr' o covishness, 1 Ujcs I too msrh cnamcle. wid Chris tianity ji els for ila at. VeI!. w'en dey 6ell :oui8 dovvu heah ter work on de railroad ; but dey tu'n me off las' wintah when dey done layin' de new track. I keep a hangin' on, a hopin' to git sump'n ter do ou de road agin but I got to scratch roun' an' make out tcr live in de meantime." What are you doing now?" 'I aint got no speshual employmun, M'am: only w'at I kin pick up a whitewash'n an a nendin' cha'rs an' tables at de hotel, w'en dey gits so on steadfas' cau't do nuffin wid 'em. Times is gittin' harder ev'y day now." He scratched his head and looked down on the floor with a becoming re serve. Have you any family?" "Yessutn, I has had consid'able family; my wife she present me wid; fo' o' de fines' an de blackes' niggah babies in the State o' Fahginy, fo' do, wall, an' to make shorts out of a mighty long tale we raised 'cm all, 'an dey tu'nd out scamps, dey did, its de naked trufe, an' its a scannel an' a shame. I ain k?p' track of all of 'em. I don't wan't hear no mo' 'bout 'em. I ain' got much use for uiggahs no how." He gave a deep sigh. "Den after all our siifferment, de Lawd he greed ter make a compromise, an' he sont down a 1 II lamb lorn -le gret white fron. ter be de pride of our life. Dat wa des fo' years ago, she come like de las' button off Gabe's collar, after Tiddv done give do cradle away, oh, dat blessed l'il gal!" Koyal s voice quivered with a mvs- terious parental teneerness, and there was a nioi-t look in his eyes. "But my nienihv i gittin' slack, w'at kinder song ....t, yo' want yo' huuibliu' servant teach yo'?" "I d rather you should choose one." With a firm, solemn chord or two, he preluded a strangely stirring hymn I l ad never heard before. What a roll and volume of sound he brought out of his dilapidated banjo, as he sang this "Old Ship Zion!" Royal's voice showed no signs of the consumption it was subject to; it was rich and deep beyond a sugges tion of fatigue. When the hymn ceased, I said " 'The Old Ship Zion' is very line, I am glad to 1 ear it, but it's not exactly the kind I'd rather learn from you I cm find that in a book somewhere. Let me have some of your regular plantation tunes that you used lo sing at oorn-shuckings." He hesitated a moment, with a re luctant air. "Seem lak' I kinder tu'n ter de hymn chimes ter day, lady, des natchul, but I nius' try to please yo. How yo' lak' disone?" 'Look-a-look-a-heah, louk-a-Iook anharl I.Hk-a-loo'K away o' vandert ;i't vou see the olf pray goose A smilin' at de (.'amlali? lull unh inn, a low down! I'nli un I uni, a low down 1 1 ii h unb urn, a low down! Johnny couic down de hollow) A settin' on a ole cum log, A lookin' for his d:ilit:ih. Terrapin croie up beliine dat frog An' pushed him into de watau. I'uli unb um, a low down ! t nh unh um.a low down! l ull unh uiu, a low down! Johnny vouie down de hollow. Oh. de squirrel am got de bushy tail, Ie possum tail am bar', lie raccoon tail am rinall 'roun', An' stumpy am de tail ob de har"! I nil unh um, a low down ! I'nh unh um. a low down ! l"i:h unh u in. a low down! V.'ooow I Johnny come down de hollow V I laughed and .clapped heartily 'Splendid! Just the tiling. I'll put the words down right away" taking a pencil and sheet of paper out -el" my satchel. "Now say the first words over." "Look-a-look a heah, look-a-look a whar?" he repeated; "set that down in yo' rememberandum book." Then when I had all the words be fore me I began to sing them as well as I could, with a random acoompani ment on my banjo. How weak aud thin my imitation '. Royid wriggled in his seat "Scuse me ef I disi up' yon, m'am, but you don't 6crcceh no'n half lou i enough; des make up yo' mind ter take de roof oil' dis wav 'wooowl' " He open.d his mouth like a yawning cavern. " 'Johnnv, come down de hollow!' Strike t'err string dar, dat I ott string yamlali, pull on it lak yo bouu' ter rip de insides outen de ban jer. You is as well built a lady as ever I see; don't be skeered' yo' own voice des holler 'wooowl' wid de bes' of 'em. Dat's some Letter." After I had gone over the song twice, "Don' yo' be disencouraged; ef I had yo' two or free days I'd make a fust rate singin' bird out o' yo'. Can't yo' lav yo' plans ter stay awhile in Wel doa?" "Stay here, in this place? no In deed !" 'Dat w'at dey all say dat has tet stop heah dey swivetin' to git on." "I wish you'd let me have your banjo to carry away with me, Royal, and take mine in place of it. Perhaps I could learn to play if I had yours." He glanced down lovingly at his, as a parent regards an afllicted child. "Laws, ma'am! dis heah instrumcn ain' wuf shucks 'long side o' yourn; can't tell me nnffiii' 'bout him; I knows dis banjer inside and out; didn't Iesc huiids make him f'oiu de wud go? He gittin' ole an' shrcaky, He don't hold he age as good as he marster, but I got ottached to him, somehow. I don't want ter part wid him twell dey irivts me a harp, ter play ou, up in de New Jerusalem. I made ciis here banjer on dc old Roy'l plantation w'en I was co'tiu' Tildy. Dat 'oman she zwinc ter stick to nic clean fru' twell ite cictck o' doom I nuvcrhad nowUe like her." After strumming at "Look-a-look a heah" awhile longer, I said, "Can't vou sing mo another one now, Koyal?" Ho turned his eyes to the ceiling with an abstracted air, as though his thoughts were wandering far away from this room, There was something pathetic in his gaze, something im ploring; was tho n an praying? His lingers strayed over the strings till tli.y found a soft minor, aud then ;.mic a tender, lingering wail that thrilled nic to the core, his voice melt ing to the consistency of a wistful Uillc.bv: OL, Susie, oil, f ti !c! tvjuMu't you like to V." Vi ay up in i!e mouiits!n,? tKr's w hir tie river flow, Jh, ,1! inl'a an' dc niuu:itaius will all pass away. An" 10:1 nil! lmve a new Lcait a;ain some tthcr Cai T 11.? lausic ha;! ceased with a broken soo. lioyal leaned his head airainut :.? banjo; his tears fell over tho strings. 'What's the n.attcr? Poor fsiiow I Are you f-iok? Is it that you aio o awfriHy poor? Xcvcr mind, I'll help you sonic." i Mighty r' i2y ; dat why I to come ha an' pick up a few rents jdn,y ; br.t dat ain't ttoublin' me nw You mast scuso mc. Iioy'l heart too heavy. He can't sing no mo. Oh, ,-r.y l'il Susie! dat onlies' Jamb de Larvi send nie after all my mis'ry bhi lying daid at home!" Frances Al bert Doughty, iu the Home Magaziue. A life of ieL-ure and a life of Inziness are two things. Mar.y without labor, would live by their wits ojuly, but tbey bie.ik tor want of stock. TVHAT HIS MIND RUNS ON. Miss Klder literary) -"Do you like Chabbe's Tales" Mr. Hojiek." 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""V "' '"I''li. liTer and b),wln 5-'v'V purify tut- hlcwl. rw Mfe and ef 5 ip If "'"d" me kni.wn f,.p Biliousn,; ' Zi5i..i?J onstlpl,,,n. IiTsp.iia, K..uli IT I T SruPPED FREF 9 M iri rbiux '"wrT-rjs. a. B II E TnraTi pPTsntii Restor!. S C WDr.KI.INE'SUKEAt 4 1 fc or iri lii. V( 'lit i rt F Illustrated Publications, wift 1 g fc No rili l'kot, Montrv,Idnho, H B Ua fin Wrt-MiiLTtttn an1 orcroB, Ui UaU8BH Ki.ti.OVKHMtT( FOB PCBMCATIOX ONLY. Judge "Have ycu auvthin; tj say why sentence of death should not be passed upon you?" Prisoner (haughtily') "If I have ary IhinE to say, I'll say it in my autobiography." Wfm It mmmm mui w i itt. a Mr. Gcorae W. Hammond of Koot Post, G. A. R.. or Syracuse, N. ., Terribly Wounaid at Gettysburg- Aud an Intense Sufferer until Cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla "C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass : "' was In lire Armv of -hf I'otnmiu in,! kt tiettyshurg was struck In theankle by a luinnm Mil, wuicu sinaslied th bone. My Ivm was amputated In the Held b .ital. and after a long time it h-aled. I was dischamed and went home. After 8 years My Wound Broke Open afresh. Dr. Pease aninut.it. il an im-h nf iln boue, and it healed. Four years later It one more oiiened, and tor e elit vears now I si'KFEitein I do not believe it possible tor a liiinnn being to snifer worse a,'i.ny. Lniiing iun nine i lino to g on crui. l,e. beinf unab e to wear a woolen leg. henever possible I re lieved my sufferings by takinc opiate, but when I was obliged to go without it. I suffered fear fully and thought I Mloi l.u .o i kazv. 1 tried everything I rould get nitli my limited means. Physicians said 1 weuld nev er be auy better. Finally Blood Became Poisoned ami It broke out all over nfv fare and on some .ai ts of my body so Hut my f ice is all covered with tear now. One nay I read of Hold's Sarsaparilla, b -.night a bottle and besan taking It. A week or two later, my wile in dressing my leg, said it seemed to bo iinpixv.ug, and atcr taking Hood's Sarsaparilla a few in, in: lis, thank Cod (and I say It rever. ently), the sores all over my body Had healed, and now, lour years later, have never shown any lgn of reappearing." (jE0. M. H AMMOND. 21'J Maunolla street, Syracuse, N V. Col C. A. Weaver Commander of lioot To-t, J. A. K, himself a one-armed veteran, fully confirms Mr. Ham mond's statement, and J. L. I!, Men. the phar macist, also endorses it as perfectly true. Hood's 1 ills cure Sit It Ileadm he. Sheridan's Condition Powders If yon eaii't grt ft -.i1 to um. We mail mf iwu-k in'. fc.K ix.Ht. I'ultry Ra wK II. A3 I 4 it. -:in Sl.au Si. La.. CU., Zi Cuatuin it. .use bt, iluKtoa, Him. 7 tluitir. frf. wtlht! t.rilor. oooooooooo TuifsTioyPil!s0 A f nnbln the tivHpil ic (o eat wtintever he withe. They cause the fiM ton- Onimilate anl nourish the IxmIv, fTve apietite anil develop llh. l'rtec, "3 IJ cent. Fxut ie sli.wn in bonier. OOOOOOOOOO Kennedy's MedicalDiscovery Takes hold iu this order: Bowels, Liver, Kidneys, Inside Skin, Outside Skin, Driving ererytblng before It ulat ou -M to bj o nt. You know whether you need it or not. Sold by evrrj druggist, wid manufactured bj DONALD KENNEDY, lioxmitv, si ass. Ely 's Cream Balm yl'ICKLY Cl'KES - I III II in III. II Vj 1IJ lll.JllJrL Apply Balm Into each niwti 11 KLY BUOS- if) Warrsn M. i. V. IK. E. C. WEST'S NEItVE AND BRAIN Treatnii-nt. a spec I lie fur llvt-ria. l)izziiiH, Kit, .enralKia. Ileailvh. Nervous Prostration caused liy a'coiiol or tobacco. v akeluln"s. Mental Depress on, Solteinni: of Brain, cauiini: insanity, misery, decay. ,'eatli. Prem iture OM Aire, Barrenness. l.om of Power in either sex, Iinpotency. Leiicorrhic i ami a.l Female Weak ness, lnvo tinrarv Losses, perlllatorllle i caused hy over-exertion ot liram, eif aoiiNe, ovei Inilulgenee. A montirstreatim nt.4il.ii lor ", hy mail. We :n;. ra nee six boxes t,. cure. K.ich order for 6 b-ixe-,. with wills-nil written euarantee to reluml If not ciireil. Guaramees l-sueil only by Finnfrtt. Mni'LL'KE t'o., So.e Agts., 1(K Market St.. rinladcl;ihia, I'enn t. 4? oniamptlTri autl people who have weak luncaor AMh- I ma. should usa Fiso't Cure fur j tbonMd. It hna not Injnr I en one. 11 in not nan to ltlntbe tM?t cttutfti fiyrup. foW eTfrrwhpr. C5. Sure cure for Bad Breath, tionr Stomach, HeaJache, Dyspepsia, Heart I Burn, all Bilions and Gastric Affec tions of the Stomach. Whitens Teeth to perfection. 1'rice 2j cents per box sent by mail DITMAX'S PHARMACY, Broadway and Barclay Street, Kew York. 4 aH Mi- Told By Old Sol's Fac The most pronounced effect of a j solar disturbance are felt as it appears bv the sun's rotation cn its axis ana as tlie disturbance crosses the sou's l-er-idian. The six and a half days be tween appearance by roUtion and mer id:an passage are marked by storms, auroras, heat or earthquakes. After meridian passage the storm influence of a solar disturbance appears to ceas. In tliis use of the word storm all the other phenomena are included. All are kindred. AVhen solar disturbances follow each other in rapid succession tlie fctorm neriod is prolonged. The effect of 6olar disturbances which I treat out on the sun's hemisphere timed towards ns produce sudden and powerful effects iu our atmosphere Storms known as cloud bursts have been most frequently noted in conneo , tion with these sudden outbursts on the sun's face. As a rule the marks or solar disturbance cannot be seen until the storms on the earth cease. The spots form after the storm-producinp em ptions. Tornadoes arc more numerous dur ing periods of violent solar agitation. Tho number and violence of tornadoes are directly proportioned to the num ber aud violence of solar disturbances. Observations made during the past winter and spring show that solar dis turbances are in some cases not marked by spots until a month or two after the eruptions begin. Fifty-two days after the great storm of Jan. 9 and 10, 1H89, spots appeared by the sun's rota tion. pots also appeared by rotation fifty-two days after the great Samoan hurrii-an of March 15 and 16, 1888, which wrecked several men-of-war ill the harbor of Apia. This disturbance on the sun was followed upon reap pearance on May 29 and SO by the floods which wrecked Johnstown, Pa., and drowned Williamsport, Pa. When solar disturbances become ob scure, their storm action can be traced by counting the twenty-six day period. The solar disturbances which caused severe and widespread storms during the first eight months of 1889 are now obscure, pots being rarely seen. But there is evidence of some activity at the scat of the disturbances. AVhen ever violent action is resumed, our atmosphere will be vexed iu propor tion to the violence on the sun. Abraham' Oak. The old oak at Mamie in Syria, or, as it is known everywhere, "Abra ham' Oak," is one of the most famous anil venerable trees in the w orld. It is reverenced alike by Jew, Christian and Mahometan, for it is supposed to mark the spot where tha patriarch pitched his tent in the desert. There is a superstition in Jerusalem, and in all the country about, that who ever ihall cut or injure this tree will lose 1119 nrst-born son. o lor cen turies it has been allowed to toss its gnarled and contorted limbs in the gales w hich sweep front the Mediter ranean over the Syrian plains. This tree was vibited by Sir Joseph Hooker in the autumn of 1800; and in his paper upou Syrian Oaks, read tho following year before the Linnsean Society (Transactions, xxiii.), he gave a description of it and a portrait drawn by his own hand. Abraham's Oak was found to be long to Qucrcus pseado-coccifera, which, to quote from Sir Joseph's pa per, '-is by far the most abundant tree throughout Syria, covering the rocky hills, of I'alestine especially, with a druse brushwood of trees eight to twelve feet high, branching from the base, thickly covered with email ever green riid leaves, and bearing acjrns copiously. On Mount Carmel it forms nine ti'tillisof the shrubbery vegetation, and it is almost equally abundant on the west banks of the Antilebanon and many slopes and valleys of Lebanon. Owino- to the indiscriminate destruction of the forests in Syria, this oak rarely attains its full size." The circumfer ence of the trunk of "Abraham's Oak" i given as twenty-three feet, and the diameter of the spread of the branches as ninety feet. Qucrcus pseudo-coccifera is an ever green species with the general appear ance of the Ilex of Southern Europe, and clo-el related, botanically, to Q. coccifera, a common and widely dis tributed scrub oak of Southern urop3 and of Algeria; indeed, Hooker was of the opinion that the two plants were merely geographical varieties of the tame species. Oanlen and r orest. Too Hasty. There are some things which met do from excellent motives, but for the doing of which they afterward find it hard to forgive themselves. Such a paradoxical experience is related by a liliotlo Island soldier among his remin iscences of the war. The incident occurred at the Battle of Pegram's Farm, when the Union Line broke, and it looked for a time as though the enemy would force a passage through. In company with other officers, I endeavored to rally the men fleeing to the rear, and of course made use of my sabre when a man refused to stop. 1 hit one man a pretty heavy blow. He stopped immediately, and, think ing he meant to discharge hia piece at me, I was preparing to strike again, when the expression of his face, up turned towards me, disarmed me of my Buspicions. "Colonel," he said, "I'm not a coward and I'm not running because I am afraid. I will stand as long as you or any other man, but I am badly wounded." lie turned his head and showed me a foai-ful bullet wound across the side of liia neck. I remember the expression of his face as well as if I had seen it yester day. .No fear, no animosity, no any thing but a look of indignation that he should have been suspected of coward ice. I made the best apo'ogy I could under the circumstances, and after that I did not strike any man till I had made sure he was running from fear. An automatic cut-out that replaces a new fuse when rne is burnt out is being introduced by a Orm of electricians. A rotary drum with the sever-wires on its surface Is fo arranged as to turn around and ins.rt a new fuse when a burn-out occt.rs. AST Rook in Surprise fsenes 2" cent novels alxiul 2ii pages senirce. postpaid by Cragin Co. Philadelphia, fa., on receipt of M wrappers Dohluns blectric Soap. Dobbins' Electric Soap Is for sale by erocers everywhere. Send 1 cent for Cataloetie. Best author. Mcnlluu tins paper. The latest location for a watch is in a door haadle. In the "Guide ot Health aud Etiquette" will be found much useful advice on both subjects, this b s.k is sent Tree for two 2c stamps, by tha Piukham Medicine Co., Lyon, Mass. We sometimes forget the ashes the glow and the warmth that preceded them. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr.Isaac Thomp son's Eye-water.UruggistsaeU at Sc. per bottle. Tears should be shed by children, bat not by men and women. HUMOROUS. A cornfield 19 one of the things tha. is often greatly shocked without the ! aid of elejtiicity. The principal difference between a lobster and a lobbyist is that you can make a lobster blush. Women suffer the afflictions of the servant question simply because they won't help then selves. People ho cannot afford tl follow thefashicn usually try to follow the pe ple who do follow it. A friend is a man who points out tlje 8iiver jming in your clouds lo avoid lending you au umbte'.la. "1 don't see why they call this a sit uation," fa:d the horse-car driver, "with me a standln' all day long." He (sentimtntallv)-Let ns drop a ter for the pcor blind man. She (practically). Xo, let s drop a dime. Teacher "What Is the leading char acteristic of a paradox. Luck Hicks They never agreeon the diagnosis. 'It's a biting wind, said Sllthero. Tes," replied Slathers, "I know It I was right In the teeth of the gale." When the sewiDg society want to "raise"' a sum of money they begin by "tilklng it up.' Tomson My wfe and I never dis ag-ee. Johnson Her ward Is law then. MANY LIKE THESE. n.,t ir;, SPRAINS. wjtn pains In the back from strain; in bed forweeka at a time; no relief from other remedies. About 8 years ago I bought St. Jacobs Oil and made about 14 applications; have been well and strong ever since. Have done all kinds of work and can lia as much as ever. No return of pain in vears. D. il. KEi-KKK. T60 Dolphin St., Balto., Md., Jan. 1. 1300: "I fell down BRUISES, tjjg bacfc stairs of my residence in the darkness, and was bruised badly in my hip and side; suffered severely. St. Jacobs Oil completely cured mc." ! PIANOS EASY TERM'S. However far away you live you can get a piano for a email earn down, balance in Btill smaller monthly payments. We eend it on approval, to be returned if unsatisfactory, railway freights both ways at our expense. Methods fair and easy to understand. We take all the risks. Write us. Ivers & Pond Piano Go., THE REASON. "I wonder why young Golt doesn't gtt ahead V "I suppose it is because he is known to be fast." BUBNED BECAUSE IT HAD NO FIRE. Editor's Wife Why do you throw that contribution Into the fir,?. Editor BecHiise there Is no fire in the contribution. SACOHT IN IT. "Flappv'a a well-known figure at the club?, isu'i he?" "I'a-a-; he's the cipber," LIKE JOAN. He "Why is justice represented as a wonaan'r" bhe -'Because her work Is never done.'' EACH HAD A H1EFERENCE. "My favorite flower is the orange blossom," remarked Mabel. "I think I prefer the poppy," replied Amy. BXTEEME REGULARITY. "Is Mike a pood worker?" "Oh, yes; fair." "Hegnlar?" "Regular as clock-work, every hour." Strikes TAUGHT BY EXPERIENCE. Are any of the colors discernible to the toucn?" asked the school teach er. "I have often fe't blue," replied the boy at the head of tha Mas?. CHANGED THE TOOLS. "Can you split wood with dexterity?" sho asked of the tramp w ho was look ing for a job. VNo'm, I alius uses an axe," was the unexpected answer. "Why do you go to the concert if you don't care for music?" "To amuse myself Tou have no idea how happy I feel when it's over. Tatient "Doctor, I fancy, somehow I've got a touch or the goat.' ' Doctor "Fancy, my dear tirl If you had, you wouldn't fiuey you'd know.' CLUB GOSSIP. "Have you heard or Howell Gibbon's latest infatuation?" "c; what is it?' "lie has become addictel to the chrysanthemum habit." Til It USTJAti KIND. Mrs. Wait "What kind of party was it John?" surpris Mr. Walt uii, the nsual kind. The 'surprised' ierson. said l,e was sur prised, but he iied like thundet." Bro. Dr. Jorr B. Matter has since 1879 been located at So. Sol Arch Street, Philadelphia. Uro. Mayer makes a specialty of enring rnpture guaranteeing a cure though others may have failed. In this he has been very successful, as his numerous testimo nials will show, the large majority of which are from this city and tho Stnt fcro. Mayer's treatment and methods.' are inventions ot nis own, upon which he has secured Patent Office protec tion. Hia appliances are such as are required for each individual case, after a careful diagnosis, as he rightfully claims that it is about as absurd and fallacious to apply the same kind of trus to all classes of patients Buffering from rupture, as it is to give the old time prescription of calomel and jalop for all human afflictions that flesh is heir to. Persons suffering from this painful and annoying affliction will do well to call on Ero. Mayer. It Is characteristic of pleasure that we can never recognize it to be pleasure till after it U gone. a esa corrai Made veU the weak, nervous or ailing woman who takes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It's a medicine that's guaranteed to help her. It's an m virrorating:, restorative tonic, sooth ing cordial and bracing nervine and a certain cure for all the func tional derangements, painful disor ders or chronic weaknesses that affect women. For ulcerations, dis placements, bearing-down sensations, everything that's known as a "fe male complaint," it's an unfailing remedy. It's a jxculiar one, too. Peculiar in composition, peculiar in its cures, and peculiar in the way it's sold. It's guaranteed to give satisfaction, in every case, or the money is refunded. You pay only for tne good you get. It's the big, old-fashioned pill that makes the most disturbance but it's one of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets that does the most good. Mild and gentle, but thorough and effective the smallest, cheapest and easiest to take. They cleanse ami regulate tho liver, 6toinach anil bowels. lKt (ft Bethany, Mo., Aug. 4, 1SS3: NEURALGIA.-..SuirL,rej for years with neu ralgia, but was finally cured by St. Jacobs Oil." T. B. SHEKER. T,.t, If. 1S7- "Wai troubled 30 vars AV.M. C. IIAHDEN. g Member of State Legk jiture. (J Masonic Temple. 1S3 Tremont St., Boston. CONSTIPATION. Constipation U one of the niot common an painful diseases It occurs mot fieiuentl) with men and women who are forced by theu profession to follow a sedentary mot of lift ad hi through inelin it on or necess ty art accustomed to partake ot rich food. Altliougl Dot dangerous in Itself, it may cire rise to serfc ous disturbances in the central health of tin patient, particulaily it It is neulev'ted. and lc consequence lakes dee ro.t in the system. Ia former times .t was customary to cure it wltt all kinds ot drastic mixtures, ponders and pilb containing some injurious mineral substance Bat ihiswasdnvins; out sin ith Satan.becauM drastic pursat ves, although tliey may afli.rd I momentary relief, exeiei-e a deleterious eff on the whole system and particularly on thi vital organs and woken the body if used cou t uually. It this is sought to be avoided by par taking of particularly nourishing food, the dt festive organs will in consequence cease ti act properly, and then serious complication! may arise whi h will threaten even the lite o the patient. But the curative powers of thi old drastic purgitives have been secured whtli their evil after-effi cts are avoided, by the ust of St. Bernard Vegetable Pills. They are noth lng but a vegetable compound witlieut the ad ditionofany injurious, dele er ous or polsou ous substances, being prepared on y of tie bestiued ciu.il herbs of the Alps. Thev act a a mild laxative and emollient, p oinote ilie ex cretionof undigestil.le matter without weakeu lng Ihe system. They are therefore the be blood purifier among all lh- many remedies known Ihis lact has been rea'lllv acknowt edged by many piomln,-nt physicians of ul countiies as well as b thousands of gratelu patients to whom iheyhave attorried relief evel under the must aggravated ciicumstances. 'Ihi tt. Bernard egetab e Tills can be had of ever prst-class drugulst. If your drngg sts haven' thein -end 25e. to "St. lien ard,- llox J41d, Ne ty tVru''iua,LroU K,M"" Sa"' po5tpai' 9 s ANAKFSIS gives li stunt re.ief and is ai lM'Al.UBI.K CLE! f. rl ll.ts. Prices $1; at uiiitcs.s', or by ,nn, bamples tree. Address, Aiiakesi,." iox .2 hew l oik City nun -V. na B'adderCure. "Rheumatism. Disordered Liver. ""mire Klood, fula.malari. eom ., V' BcTOfl f!..-7.'" " 1 w-"k ns or dehm. 'ton tn. OOU MEDAL, PAni37l87q i Breakfast Cocoa rfon which the exce,. ot ou K m been removed, is tolubic. ""reh, Arrowro,,. -d I. IhereforeV, F"' Uki. r ll'"dtl,c"'o.,c0i1- '"Dorchester. W,.. SOR-KILMER'S