HAPPY HOURS.
I know. 1 know that the Spring la coming;
I feel It nearing in happy dreaiua
Of the rloleu face and the brown bee's hurn
mlra A nd the laugh and clatter of dancing streams.
D hasten, wind from the South, and bring ma
ine long-warm days and tbe sunny flowers,
And Ibr bird 10 build in ihe treee and ring ma
Their aongi of love In the April hour.
Ebch K. KuroBO.
NAPOLEON'S WOOING.
Cooking his own suprerover a blaz
ing wood fire one hot evening in July,
Napoleon Crowe felt that he was in
deed born to misfortune like the
sparks that flew upward.
For forty years he had tilled the
stony, stubby little farm which at its
uesi naa never yiekica its owner more a
than a precarious living, and now at
the age of 60 he was alone in the
world, having a few months pre
viously buried his third wife.
V hether it was owing to an inher-
ent delicacy of constitution, a lack of
appreciation and tenderness on his
part, or a too continuous diet of
Ktewed yellow -eyed lan9 and pork,
we are unable to determine, but for
some mysterious reason Napoleon's
wives refused to thrive on his hands,
and drooped and pined away, one'guQ rises to-morrow mornin', it'll see
after another, until he was almost 'me streakln' for the Widder Spooner's!
convinced that In his case marriage i Let the neighbors talk if they want
was a failure.
That he had been his
own house- 1
keeper for a period of seven months j
every room and closet in the dreary
old farmhouse lore evidence, and the
numerous scarson hishandsand arms,
testified to the burns and scalds he
had received during his cooking oper
ations. for napoleon was peculiarly un-
fortunate in his culinary experiments, j
If after serious reflection, he decided
that he could afford a small roast tor
the Sur.daj dinner, to which he in
variably invited his old crony, Jotham
Sparks, that roast so tenderly
watched and Jealously guarded for
hours was in the end temporarily
forgotten, while Napoleon was grap
pling with the biscuit problem, and
burned to a blackened crisp.
He baked beans without pork, for
got to put the meat, in his soups, or j
the salt and pepper in his vegetable i
hash; left out ttie sweetening from j
bis apple pies, the salt from his but
ter, the ecus from his custards, and
wondered why he had no apietite.
After a multitude tf disastrous fail
ures similar to the ones we have re
corded, Napoleon resolved he would,
from motives of economy and other
wise, confine himself exclusively to a
diet of flour biscuit hot from the oven,
alternating with such relishes as mo
lasses, fried pork fat, and the un
savory production which once in four
weeks he churned, and spanked and
patted with his big, hairy hands, and
designated as, "butter."
Three times a day regularly, Napo
leon produced a small wooden doutrh
dish, and after mixing together sour
milk, saleratus and flour, toiled and
sweated over the sticky mass until it
went into the oven huge, unsightly
lumps of spotted dough, and came
out the same.
It might have been the legitimate
result of eating his own hot biscuit,
but within a few weeks he had devel
oped iuto a gloomy pessimist. He
neglected the poultry and stock, al
lowed the weeds to flourish in the
garden, and seemed to have lost all
interest in life.
Everything went w rong with Napo
leon. The old cow went dry three
months earlier than usual, and the
two-year-old heiferchoked to death in
her stall. As a natural sequence, his
groans and sighs became louder and
more frequent.
Thirty hens and two roosters cackled
shrilly from morn to tiil night, and
though he crawled under the barn on
his bands and knees at the risk of a
personal introduction to a skunk who
made his headquarters there, and
climbed ladders to the highest scaf
folds at the risk of breaking his neck,
not a solitary egg glaldcned his anx
ious eyes.
One morning his friend and sym
pathizer, Uncle Jotham Sparks, called
before breakfast to borrow a rake.
"Jest hevin' a bite, hey?" ob
served Uncle Jotham, his eyes wan
dering to the bare pine table adorned
by a tin of steaming yellow biscuit.
"Ya-a-s," answered Napoleon in a
dissatisfied tone, "I'm tryin' to heat
a drop o' water to make a cup o' tea
to go with them ere biscuits. Won't
you hev a biscuit, Jotham?"
"N-no-no," responded Jotham with
alacrity. "Thanky, I've been to
breakfast an hour ago."
"I know It's late," sighed Napoleon,
but I've had a regular tussle to heat
this dipper o' water. I broke ray tea
kettle by pourin' cold water in it
when it was red hot, and I hain't had
any tea-kettle to use all summer. It's
terble hard for a man that hain't
never been used to putterin' round
the house to do their own cookin' and
housework. "
"It must be, I vum," said Jotham,
and he edged away to an open win
dow to avoid an offensive
arose from a bean pot on
bearth.
odor that
the stove
said
he solemnly,
"Jotham. ain't you seen, can't you
see that I'm fall in' from the crust?"
Jotham shook his head mournfully
as he stop; e l to light his pipe.
"Yes, Napoleon, I've seen all sum- j
mcr that you've been fail in'; you've'
grown old, and thin, and gray, and
bent over, and don't look much like
the man you was a year ago."
"Do you think l'ia pin ted for the
grave, Jotham?" he groaned.
"No;" said he bluntly, "but you
won't live six months unless you get
some woman here to cook your vittles,
and do your washin', and keep the
house wholesome. Why don't you
bire a woman, and pay her so much a
week "
"I couldn't afford it, all the income
I git from the farm wouldn't pay her
wages. I think myself, not relishin'
my vittles lias something to do with
my onhappy fellins'."
"You might git married," sug
gested Jotham.
"Ya-a-s, I've thongnt o' that. I
know of a smart, bkely woman that's
wuth s-nie prupputty that I think
would Jump at the chance to get
me to-day. Sne's a widder that I
courted some when I was young, and
lives on a farm somewhere in Stough
ton. I'd slick up a lit tie, and go up
and see if she would like to change
her conditi-n, if 'tivasn't for neigh
bors talkin'. You know I hain't been
a widderer th s last time only about
even eaonths."
, "I ow, but circumstances alters
cas, ad if you can't afford to hire
a hakeeper, you had better hunt
tip a w fe livciv. Let folks talk if
theywatto. Yoa hev a smart woman
come hre, and scrub and booth, ana
brigh'en up tilings, and cook you
thics good temptin' meals evory da,
and you d soon begin to fat up, and
be as strong and ambitious to wort
W CTer yw ww id roux Uf.Kow, I
ao Hope Napoleon, you realize Jest
bow slim and peaked yon are look in',
and If you don't trant to slip your
wind afore the snow flies, take my
advice, and merry that 'ere widdef
Jest a soon aa she'll hev you," and
taking his rake, Jotham departed.
leaving Napoleon to his thoughts
WniCD Were DOt pleasant t)J arts'
rocans.
For several days after, Napoleon
wandered around in a discontented,
absent-minded way, as though be was
uncertain whether to take Jotham's
advice or not.
At length, on this hot July evening
when we introduce biru to our readers,
having nearly caused a conflagration
by upsetting a kerosene lamp which
exploded in the flour-barrel, Napoleon
gnashed his teeth, as be tore around
the room in bis efforts to extinguish
the flames, and vowed he would have
wife to cook his suppers before the
week was out.
"Ain:t this a pooty way for a roan
o my years to be livin." he muttered
savagely, as be vainly tried so make
me lantern- wick Durn. "xnere ine
danged thing has gone out, and I
mignt as wen give up I've got to.
. set here in the dark, or else crawl to
bed without a solitary nibble in my
poor stummock, and I'm ready to
faint. S'Done I'll nut un with this
any lonirer? not bv a iueful! If the
to, what they say don't put slab-Jacks
M ...,!. nH . .1 ,1,. V1 I. 1
in my stockin's. Yes-sir-ee." and he
1 11 111 J 111VH1 L. 11, VI 1UCI1U LUC Ulg UUICS
snapped his fingers defiantly, "let
. 'em talk; I don't give a dang if
i Eunice Spooner will have me; we'll
be merried short-off; that's flat."
The "Widow Spooner was in
her
the
strawberry-patch, pulling up
weeds, and she was about to throw
them over the fence, as little Kittie
Henderson came rushing round the
corner.
O, Aunt Eunice!" she exclaimed
breathlessly; "Mamma sent me over
to borrow some cream of tartar, and
don't you think the awfulest looking
old tramp has followed me way
through the woods, and he's sitting
down on the big rock in the lane
now I Oh, dear! I dar'st go borne,
what shall I do?" and Kittie began
to cry.
I "Tramp, hey?" said the widow
; coolly, "that's nothin, new. I've
been Jest pestered to death with'
tramps this summer. There was two
called here last night, and they was
Jest as sassy as a lord, and wanted
me to give em some supper, but they
didn't git any. Jest the same. You
wait a minute till I can look after my
bakin', and I'll go home through the
woods with you, Kitty. I never see
the tramp yet 1 was afraid of."
With Kittie following close at her
heels, Mrs. Spooner proceeded to the
kitchen, where, throwing open the
oven doors, she displayed a pair of beau
tifully browned chickens which sent
forth a most appetizing odor.
"There, Kittie, Jest look at my
fowls, aiu't they doln' lovely? I've'
been doin lots of cookin' to-day, and
I do wish some interestin' company
would happen along. I've had signs
of a stranger all the afternoon; two
chairbacks got together, and I
bumped my elbow ag'in the pump
handle "
At that moment there came a loud
knocking at the door. Kittie gave a
little shriek.
"It's it's him, auntie!" 6he
gasped, "It's the old tramp."
"Is it?" said the widow brusquely.
"Jest let me git my weapons ready,
and I'll soon start him goin'."
With a saucepan of boiling hot
water in one hand and a fire shovel in
the other, Mrs. Spooner advanced
boldly to the door.
In the semi-twilight stood a seedy
looking Individual, wearing a sjouch
hat covered with dust.
(Could you ahem give me'' he
began in a hesitating manner, then
hastily retreated a few steps as he
caught a glimpse of the war-like im
plements in the hands of the widow.
"Yes, I'd give you," cried the
widow, "a good whackln with my
shovel, and a scaldln' to boot, if you
ain't off my premises before I can
count ten. You great, lazy loafer.
Ain't you ashamed round trampin'
and beggin' your livin'? Why hain't
you workiu'on some railroad, diggin'
ditches, you shitless hulks?"
'I I hain't round beggin' no
livin'," stammered the man, his eyes
firmly riveted on the widow's
weapon's. "I ain't no tramp neither
I'll have you to know I "
"Oh, no, you're no tramp, none of
em' Is, you're a bank president most
likely. Come, git; put yourself!"
"I won't stir a blarsted peg," he
spluttered. "You can't drive me
till I've had a chance to tell you
who
"I can't, can I? We'll see about
that, you wretch. Follow me with
the tea-kettle, Kittle, I'll scald bim
to death."
Mrs. Spooner's appearance as she
screamed out these words was more
that of a modern Amazon, than a
staid elderly widow, and with a
smothered shriek, the man fled pre
cipitately before her, never pausing
until he ignominously tumbled over a
rock-heap by the roadside.
"There, Kitty," exclaimed Mrs.
Spooner, as she come into the kitchen
flushed and triumphant, "I've sent
him about his business. I've learned
by experience that, soft words don't
count with the tramp gentry, and I
guess this pci tickler one won't visit
me ag'in."
"Why, auntie," said Kittle, star
ing hard out of the window,, "he ain't
gone; he's sitting down by the barn
now."
"Why, how you talk. lias he bad
the impudence to come back here?
"Well, now you Jest wait; I'll start him
j out of my door-yard, or I'll know the
j reason why!"
I With hurried and determined steps
she took her way down to the spot
where a forclorn looking figure was
seated on a huge bowlder, sorrowfully
rubbing his knee-joints.
"Come," said she, "what in the
world do you mean by hangin' round
here? Why don't bless my soul this
ain't it can't be Napoleon Crowe?"
"Yea," it's me," said Napoleon
plaintively.
"Took to trampin' round the coun
try, and scarin' little girls? You!"
"It's a danged mistake," said he.
I hain't trampin' round no country,
nor scarin' no little girls either. I
wasn't never in this place before, and
I didn't know fur certain which house
you ltved in, and so I was goin' to in
quire If you could give mc any idee
where the Widder Spooner lived, and
you come at me with a fire shovel and
a bucket o' bilen water."
'Whr d!dn't you tell your name?"
"Yoa didn't give mc no cbance,did
; you? 1 tried to tell you my name,
I but I couldn't get a word in edge
ways. I expected a different wel
come from you, Eunice, bein's we
1 was alius sech good friends, and I'd
walked fifteen miles to ask yon to
BMfBlr " ' 1
" 'A warm flush tost ta the wldow'g
sunburned cheeks. If there was a
person on earth who had always held
n warm corner in ber heart, it war
Napoleon Crowe.
"Napoleon," hazarded she, "It was
a dretful misunderstanding."
g5"I should hope it was, I swan,"
sighed Napoleon, still rubbing bis
bruised knees.
"It was Kittie's fault; she told me
there was a tramp at the door, and I
was that mad and excited I never took
a good look. You've no idee how I've
been pestered with tbievin', sassy
tramps, Napoleon."
"I don't doubt it, Eunice. You
hadn't ought to be livin' here alone."
"You hain't goin', Napoleon? Do
stop and have some supper "
"Do you really want me-to Eunice?"
"Of course I do. Napoleon, and
we'll have roast chicken and cream
biscuits "
"And you'll hev me, Eunice?"
"I shouldn't wonder, Napoleon "
So Napoleon stayed to supper, and
after partaking of the roast chicken
and cream biscuit, was. in such ex
cellent spirits thai he tossed Kittle
j up and down in his arms, and pre
sented her with a nickel and two
' pennies, a freak of generosity on his
part without precedent. Yankee
blade.
". -
One of the most curious Inventions
of this inventive age is what is called
platinized glass. A piece of glass is
' coated with an exceedingly thin
,layerof a liquid charged with platl-
i num, and is then raised to a red
IIIG 1(193 111 3 U l LI S (U IAJ IUIIU
very odd kind of mirror.
The glass has not lost its transpar-
k. ..I-,.. l .,.k t
j ency, and yet if one places it against
a wan ana iooks at it ne sees his
image as in an ordinary looking-glass.
But when light is allowed to come
through the glass from the other
iue, as wueu n is piaceu in a winnow
it appears perfectly transparent like
ordinary glass.
Uy constructing a window of pla
tinized glass one could stand close
behind the panes, in an unilluminated
room, anu nenoia cieany everything
going on outside, while passers-by
looking at the window would behold
only a line mirror or set of mirrors,
in which their own figures would be
reflected, while the person inside re
mained invisible.
In France varions tricks have been
contrived with the aid of this glass.
In one a person seeing what apieara
to be an ordinary mirror, approaches
to look at himself. A sudden change
in the mechanism sends light
through the glass from the back,
whereupon it instantly becomes
transparent, and the startled specta
tor finds himself confronted by some
grotesque figure which has been hid
den behind the magic glass. What
wonders mitrht not a magician of the
dark ages have wrought if he could
have bad a piece of plantinlzcd glass!
As interesting feature of the Gov
ernmental exhibit at the World's i'air
will be a model of the earth on a gigan
tic scale, with all the geometrical
accuracy that mechanism and rt can ,
give to snch a difflenlt representation.
So far as known, it is the largest rdobe
ever constructed. It is about CI feet
in cirenmference, with a diameter of
20 feet, superficial area of 1,216 feet,
weight 4,003 pounds. It will boar npon
its surface representations of the land
and water on a scnle of G9 miles to 1
inches mensareJ at the eqnator. The
degrees of longitude and parallels of
lititude are indicated, together with
the zone lines, the inothormal lines, the
principal steamship lines and an appro
priate tracing of the ronte of Colum
bus on the voyage of 1492. The di
visions of land, with the boundaries,
even down to the provinces of coun
tries aad the location of the larger
cities, and the direction of the rivers
and streams are represented witb
fidelity. .
This monster globe will surmount I
star-shaped pedestal whloh will elevate
it 15 feet above the floor, bo that it
will rise above the snrronnding ex
hibits of the Fibh Commission and
Census office. I
The pedestal for the globe will, with
its ingenious construction, afford op
portunity for the display of six big
maps of the new Htates of Wyoming,
1 dado, Montana. Washington and the
two Dakotas. The edifice may be en-1
tered through five doorways,, to be
artistically draped with flags, the
arrangement ol wbicn will
have a siir-
nificance beyond a mere blnndino- nf
colors. No doorway, for instance, will
Kn lonnrat ;,K . v,,'i ,
'-'-"J' " -v" tuuiuiu.uiiu vi
flags of rival nations. A circnlar apart I
merit in the centre of the globe's ped- '
ZEXfc ZU
lie lands. The room will be 15 feet in
..
height, witb a convex ceiling formed
by the lower part of tbe globe. An in- i "i hare been afflicted with an affection of
terlor stairway will afford access to a the Throat from childhood, caused by dlphth
balcony aronnd the base of tbe globe, aria, and have used various remedies, but hare
which will be supported on a horizon- found anything equal to ' Bbown's
tal axis, tnrned by a email motor, in- Bokohial Tbocbm." R-.v. a. SI. P. Hamp
Btead of being placed at an angle of ton' ! Sold only la boxes.
67, degrees, as the world is actually I v ... , . " .
hung in space. ' "ow beautiful is modesty! It wln-
The aDnaratnt for tnrnino- Hia o-lr,'. Detn upon 11 beholder, but a word or
wiU WaTd".: fthUaerndn olt .ThaTeZ IS"
and bidden from view by an immense bouli hava ben forr thec
representation of the official seal of the ' The advertising of Hood s SarsaparlUa hi
Ueneral Land Offioe which will serve suDstantiated by endorsements which In he
as a screen and lend significant decora- Dnanclal world would be accepted without a
tion to an otherwise prosaie part of tha moment's hsitatlon. They teil the story
globe. HOOD'S CUBES.
Is A LtTTL village In Sussex, Eng- Hood's mis cure LrerTus, Jaundice,
lsn'l, there is a garden where thousands . ....
of white lilies shed their perfume, and Bowling has become a fashionable
where women gardenera tend and pack means of physical exercise,
and ship the flowers. Twenty-tive .
years ago a single lily bnlb was given
to Mrs. Bates, a farmer's daughter.
After sixteen bulbs had resulted from
the original one, Mrs. Bates, finding
that ber children, as she called them,
bad ontgrown the snnny window where
they grew, planted them in the corner
of the garden, len years ago a dangh
i f l IJ l - i . i 1 1 . U
i.rm..A of tho tim. nt am hloMom.
to the London Market, and now, in
association with ber sisters, han mad
the Bates lilies famous for their beauty
and perfection. The danghters are
keen business women, interviewing
tbeir buyers at the six o'clock market;
and sell rg to private customers, florists
and commission merchants, without the
intervention of agents. The average
product of their garden is said to be
six bnndred dozen a week.
The dkriomno of carpel and wall
papers opens to women a field for work '
in which tbey seem naturally qualified
to cxeeL A few years ago a firm offer- :
ed prizes of 81.000, $500 and $300 for 1
tho tet designs in wall papers, the '
competition being open to natives and
foreigners, men and women. All three '
of these prizes were awarded to Amer- 1
ican women. A man of mncb experience '
in the business said recently that when '
women have bad as many years of the '
same advantages as men, their work
win bu.u.1 uu ii some iOYoi suu pjr
baps ahead. -
Trrer are mistaken i mortals who think
way to see whether there are weed io
another.
I wonns'i dry op tbe tears of this
world if I could: they are often tha
only things that poor human natur' and found little relief. She was ln
! as to batho ber troubles in. duced to try August Flower, which
The despotism of custom ta on tha gaVe immedaite lelief. We cannot
&TSl to much for it." U C Frost.
: ' '
ENCLAN&'S SHAME.
ttasfconslbks far the Cm mt Oplaan Imiai
6T0.000.OOO People.
Americans do not realize the ex
tent of the terrible curse of the opium (
vice in Asia. In China alone 125,- I
000,000 out of a population of be-
tween 300,000,000 and 400,000,000 use '
it
And now the British Government '
In India, to increase its revenue, has
authorized the licensing of shops
throughout India and Lturruah for the
free sale of opium. These licenses are
issued in very unusual form. Those
who take the license come under obli
gation to sell a stipulated amount, or
to pay a forfeitl Thus the Govern
ment almost compels the holders of
the license to stimulate Its subjects
to consume a deadly poison! The
door is thrown wide open for all the
inhabitants of India to take that
which destroys at once the body and
the soul.
The unrestricted sale of opium is
permitted in Java, with its 20,000,
000 of population. It is also permitted
in the French possessions of 8,000,
000 or 10,000,000. The vice is also
i carried by the Chinese immigrants
into Slam and all the islands of the
Eastern Archipelago. If the popula
tions of the various countries in
Asia, in which free sale of opium is J
permitted, are added together the ag-
: gregate number is more than 600,
000,000! In Europe and America the
' ruin laMDtUtA 1 ; 1 .. . V. I 1
! direction of physicians, a
and boxes containing It,
and the vials
when thus
given out by druggists, are carefully :
labeled, "Poison!"
The laws of China once prohibited
the sale and use of opium, the viola-
tlon of which was punished by death, '
So earnest were the Chinese to pre
vent its introduction into the coun
try that the Government became in-
j volved in a costly war with England
about It, at the Close Of which a
It,
treaty was made, in which England
recognized China's right to prohibit
the introduction of opium, but left it
with China to seize the vessels that
1 smuggled it in and confiscate the
vessel and cargo! But as the smug,
glers were Englishmen and the ships
English ships the Chinese were afraid
to execute the law, aud so opium
was brought in English lottoms from
; India to China from 1842 to 1300.
j The Chinese Government finding it
could not stop the smuggling of
opium into the country by British
ships finally determined to legalize
the horrible traffic it could not de
' etroy. Shops were opened in every
. village and town in the country and
. the cultivation of the poppy was be
' gun. To such an extent has the use
of opium been extended that mis
sionaries have said that seventy out
of every 100 people are more or less
opium eaters.
j To sum up: The population of
India and Burmab, according to the
' census taken last year, Is 235,000,000;
that of China Is 350,000,000, some
make it 400,000,000. The Island of
Java counts its 20,000,000, to which
the French possessions in Southeast
ern Asia add at least 10,000,000 more,
i 'Ihe Eastern Archipelago has
say 5,000,000, making altogether a
total of 670,000,0001 The curse of
Asia has been saddled upon that con
tinent by Christian Europe. For
this terrible blight cast upon the
greatest of the four-quarters of the
globe, the British government is
chiefly resmnsihla A hnnrlrpil Vfvira
ago the East India Company com-
menced to monopolize the production
ction
of opium for sale in China, and the
government at home gave to the com
pany the protection of the British
flag. Since 1853 the British Govern
ment has bad a monopoly of the pro
duction and sale of opium. Great
Britain is thus directly responsible
for the prevalence of the opium plague
among the 670,000,000 people in Asia!
The obtect of the manufacturers' of Dobbins'
Electric 8m I'aaheen lor 24 years to make this
oio 01 such turnHor quality that It will Kire I
"uifocito. riaye they succeeded?
Ask your grocer for It. Take no o: hr.
It is In the facu.ty of a noble, disin
terested, unselfish love that lies the
true gift and power of womanhood a
power which makes us.
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for 5, or druggist. 1000 certificate W
rare. Try It.
' I In Finland and Fast Turkestan than-
aerstorrjM are who'ly unknown,
If afflicted with soreeyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp
son's Lye water. lHuculats seU at 25c. pet bottle.
A bald-headed religions sect In
sia holds that hair Is aiuf uL
Bus-
Peechim's Pills are belter than mineral ws
ers. iteechain's no others. 26 cents a box.
A great many due English gloves are
made f llama
August
Flower"
' I am happy to state to you and
to suffering humanity, that my wife
as used your wonderful
remedy,
August Flower, for sick headache
arjd palpitation of the heart, with
"" aeyww years
T- t
ne nJS n g"31 snnerer, bas
been under the treatment of eminent
physicians in this city and Boston,
Snngbeld Mas.
i
! After Diphtheria
i
i Paralysis of the Throat-
Numbness and Weakness
r orient Health Restored by Hood Bana-
paurllus.
Mr: C. 8. Southwtclc
North Uadlaon, Otlla.
"My wtr and three children were attacked
ulth diphtheria at the same time. Aflar aeilous
lllneta toa zreatest danger wu safely passed,
but they were all left wlta
Paralysis of the Throat,
and with uy wife It also affected her limbs.
Her arms were numb near to the shoulders, ac
companied with a prickling sensation. It was
so difficult tor her to swallow. It seemed as If
she must starve. The children were In a sim
ilar condition, fhyslctaus were greatly per
plexed and said It was very critical with my
wile, as she was more than likely to have paral
y -la at any time, and If ao It would be very
doubtful ir aha aurvlrrd. Finally a friend
suggested Hood's Sn ipa-llla. Although we
bad not the alight -st faith, we were so dis
eouraged that we were ready to try anything.
I got a buttle and began giving It to them.
Words Are Feeble
to express the gratification we all felt at the end
of a week to find an Improvement. Whea they
had finished three bottles I could not e but
they were as welt as previous to their sicknets.
The numbness and paralysis entirely disap
peared. There was uo trouble In eatlug, be-
Hood's x. Cures
yond their apparent Inability to get enough to
eat. The neighbors all know of this cae and
all think It wonderful, as do the doctors." C. H.
Soctuwick, Grocer, North Madison, Ohio.
Hood's Pills are purely vegetable, carefully
prepared from the bet lugredieuts. 25o.
Do Not Be Deceived
with Paste. Enamela and Patnta which stain the
bati'ls. Injure tb lrto and hurn red.
The Hlln Sun 8t Poll.k Is Brilliant, Odor
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or aiaaa package wlta rry purchase.
We
Pay
asTAtl you have guessed about
Life Insurance may ott wrong. It
you winli te know the truth, Mud
for "HOW AX1 WUY," issued uy
the
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f Hrr buruM4 by Q j
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assi sillies, aw straw. (Sakna.lss.alrjL
MUST HAVE atom k,
-"3 Sample 8ish lock
irat. '92) free by mail for 2c. stamp, immense.
nrls-ailaMl. Only good one ever Invented. Heats
weights, bales unparalleled. HI a day. WrU
guici. Bhouahd, Puna, t'a.
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sn1 nr-t n fiw. J o H-ndsr.
inithand I'oUVcs.wUlls.au'pMrt. Ia- '
who ha wtk lunga r AtHh
Bft.9taOs.ldBM PMo'a Car for
Coaannptloo. It km ear
bMad. It tau notlnjar
l one. It is nut toad to tevfcft.
ltttb b.ieoatirrft.
goW Torrwl.orft. .
Too Punctual.
The Hindu places a clock In his
show-rooms, not because ho ever de
sires to know what the hour is, but
because a clock is a foreign curiosity.
Instead, therefore, of contenting him
self with one good clock, he will per
haps have a dozen In one room. They
are signs of his wealth, but they do
not add to bis comfort, for he is so
indifferent to time that he measures
it by the number of bamboo-lengths
the sua bas travelled about the hori
zon. ,
In the country police stations,
where the European division of the
hours Is observed, time is measured ,
by placing in a tub of water a copper
pot in which a small bole bas been
bored. It is supposed that it will '
take one hour for the water to
leak into the pot so is to fill and sink .
it When the policeman sees that j
I the pot has disappeared be strikes the
j hour on a bell-liko gong. If be is
smoKing or aozing, the copper pot
may have disappeared several minutes
before he discovers the fact but the
j hour is when be strikes the gong.
I A writer in Temple Bar. from
whose article we have gleaned, tells
an amusing story to illustrate the
Hindu's indifference in this regard.
When the railway was first opened
t In a new part of India, It took a long
, time and many bitter experiences to
convince the natives that a train al-
ways started on time. Shortly after
. the opening of tho new line, a Deputy
Commissioner sent his native servant
with bis letter-bag to put on board
the mail-car. Presently the man re
turned with the bag, having missed
tbe train.
"You had not half a mile to go,
and you knew that the train left the
itation at three o'clock," said the an
gry commissioner.
I "Yes, truly," answered the native,
in an aggrieved tone; "but, aahib,
when It strikes three here, tbe train
joes from there!"
Such sharp practice the native had
never known before, and ho did not
I think it creditable to the company.
The Skill and Knowledge
. Essential to tbe production of the most
perftct and popular laxative remedy
known, have enabled tbe California
J Fig Syrup Co., to achieve a great anc-
cees in the reputation of Its remedy,
t Syrup of Figs, aa it la conceded to he
, the universal laxative. Tor sale by all
druggists.
They Boeosno Expert Shots.
Engineers of railroad trains In
Texas and most of tbe Western States
carry revolvers, and often rifles, In
hm - V. n .1 .... n . I .1 . 1 .
Tl 'vug wubiujjrutica iua L
mlurht arise. Thev amnae f homes e
by shooting at the telegraph poles or
anv nt.hetr mnrlr wrillct mnnlntr n t ell
-l -. B - . '-.
ipeed and attain a wonderful skill In
marksmanship. A few daya ago an
inglneer on the Denver and Rio
Grand railway shot and killed a
wildcat near Newcastle from tbe car-
f his locomoti ve. Ne w York Sun
A boy's Idea of baring fan la to b
atUowad to mak ail tb sol b can.
gJUrTUl-13
t.J.B.MlVKt. lUlSArrkM-
CHINESE ENGLISH.
S.BMt iflStakee That Arm .! by trttserr
at Dialect t lories.
It is well known that the Chinese
cannot master the sound of the letter
"r," but this bas proved the rock on
which many professed writers of the
Chinese dialect has come to grief.
They do recognize the fact that while
John Chinaman cannot make the "r
sound he Is fertile in expedients to
avoid it. Two Illustrations will show
how easy It is to blunder on this
point. In an early edition of one ot
Bret Harte's stories altered we be
lieve in later editions he makes a
Chinese servant call himself "Ah Ri,
which Is a manifest Impossibility.
His name would certainly have been
Ah Li," for the initial "B," would
not only come trippingly from his
tongue, but not at alL But In the
same or another story he makes a
Chinaman call his employer '"Mr.
Fostel," his name being Foster. Now,
no "Chinese person." to quote the re
striction act, would ever say "Fostel."
He would soften the last syllable of
tha name and call it "i osian, -just,
as the name "Porter" in his mouth
would become "Potah," very like tha
negro pronunciation of the same
word.
The autboress of "A Summer In a
Canon" baa given a very good exam
ple of the difficulties of the Chinese
with the letter "r." She maket one
of heroines, a mischevious girl, select
a reading lesson for the Chinese cook.
who wants to learn Enguso. xne
lesson is made up of such sentences as
"The grass is green," The rose is
red," and the like. Of course, they
became in Hod Sing's mouth "The
glass is gleen," "The lose la led," and
so on. The wnoie scene is a excenen.
study In broken China, savs the San
Francisco Chronicle, and ts com'
mended to ambitious Eastern writer!
who want to try their hands at En
glish as she is spoken by the Chinese
In California.
The letter "1" is another which
presents difficulties to John, which,
however, he usually resolves by mak
ing it into "cb." It may be slightly
exaggerated to say that Chinese schol
ars in Sunday-school know the author
and founder of the Christian faith aa
Chee Cly," but It is not very far out
of the way. An American of this
city, an interpreter of the Chinese
language, whose given name is "Jer
ome." Is usually known among the
Chinese as "Chee Loam," tbey, per
haps, imagining that that Is all the
name that belongs to him.
It should be noted, too, that the
Chinese in California do not use the
lingua franca called "pigeon En
; glish," whloh is employed in China.
Such an expression as "My b'long
'topside," meaning "I live higher up,"
! Is never heard here. The Chinese in
this State try to talk English, and
some of them succeed fairly well, al
though the "r" and "J" are too mucb
I tor them.
I This is not an attempt at an ex
haustive study of Chinese English,
but rather a note of warning to am
; bitlous dialect from books. If they
will but bear In mind that "r" does
not become "1" unless It carries the
genuine "r" sound, and that such a
word, for example, as "Berkley" is
not "Belkley" in the Chinese tongue,
but something more nearly resem
bling "Bahkley," tbey will be saved
from blunders which make tbeir
sketches and stories rather ludicrous
than humorous to those who are ac
customed to the dialect.
Queer Facts About Cols,
! Occasionally some one applies to
the Fish Commlssidh at Washington
for a consignment of eels' eggs, to
stock a pond or stream, and the re
quest is Invariably refused. This is
not due to any intentional desire to
be disobliging, but because nobody
knows whether eels lay eggs or Dot.
As to breeding, tbe eel is tbe most
mysterious animal in existence, and
the question bas been a puzzle to
learned and unlearned for centuries.
Soma authorities have contended
that eels grow up from horsehairs,
which, in some strange manner be
come vitalized. Others have held
that they were generated spontane
ously from slime, while others still
have gravely advanced tha belief that
they came from the skins of old eels,
or similar exuviae of water snakes.
Most popular among people who
get their living from the water, how
ever, is tbe theory that eels are the
progeny of various other flshea. The
Sardinian fisherman assert that they
1 are produced by a certain kind of wa
ter beetle, which for this reason is
called mother of eels.
All this mystery about the eel, as
science has learned in the last few
years, Is due to tbe fact that it lays
its eggs in tbe sea, where no one bas
cnance io oDserve ine process.
Other fishes, like the shad, leave the
ocean to spawn In fresh water
streams, but this curious and slippery
""i-ounsr uoes precisely me reverse.
auc yuuujr ceis, newiy corn or
batched, leave the salt water and
make their way in armies up tbe riv
ers. Obstacles apparently insur
mountable they use ths utmost ln-j
genuity in passing, even traveling a
considerable distance on dry land In
order to get around an obstruction.
In tbe spring and summer any vis
itor at Niagara Falls, who descends
beneath the great sheet of water at
the foot of the falls, will see literally
hundreds of cart-loads of small eels
wriggling over the rocks and squirm
ing over the whirlpools. Of course It
Is impossible for them to go over the
falls, and thus It happens that, al
though eels have always been plenti
ful in Lake Ontario, there were none
In Lake Erie until they bad been
multiply at all when placed In ponds
that are landlocked, although In such
places they will grow rapidly and be
healthy. It costs so little to pur
chase young ones by the quantity that
this is no great obstacle to theuseful
ness of stocking inland waters with
these fish.
In all probability eels lay eggs, just
as do nearly all other fishes. The
only difference is that they deposit
them In tbe sea instead of in fresh
water.
Mr. J. Montgomery Sear has pre
sented a chime of bell to Saint Angus
tine Episcopal Church on Phillip
street, Boston, in memory of Bishop
Brooks and hi friendship for tbe col
ored race. Th. Mlt Ut,
brought from England. They will
probably be pUeed in th .teeple at
once, and will be rang for th first
time Easter morning
Madam Modjeaka I said to contem
plate studying Sanscrit in order that
ah may read tb poetry of that lan
guage. 3h b already an accomplished
linai?t. P9?kYg Engliah, German,
French, and Italian aa wU a ber own
tongue.
Povibtt k hard, nt debt U horri
ble; a man might aa wall have a smoky
said to bo tho two worst vil of our
i7r7omIn my 8Ut In
which women enjoy too right of ul
txC tw am 04Mt o.osJlt with tsoa.
ri'L . i .
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irfr A rr TC2 'XT
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fVJK ftt I -:iij p font Canaioharie, N. Y., writes: " Awoke one
! tNjjVk JyrnrrA Mr VVi'l.ucUt) pa n' io oulder. Tr.ed viou,
tXXCWCI morning with ' """"r. iftbout effect ; went to my ofi.re ; the p,.0
relicts lor
became iusufte
ocurmanent-'
3V
. . . . ,,.
My wife suffered ssnn "-j -
mold die. n awi-
lour boar.
!U1
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Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partnei
of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co., doing business in thi
City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and
every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use ol
HALLS CA1AKKH LUKE.
Sworn to before me, and subscribed in my presence
this 6th day of December, A. D. 1889.
; NOTARIAL, SEAL :
: lucas CO., O. :
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HALL'S
CATARRH CURE
IS TAKEN
INTERNALLY,
and acts directly
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mucous surfaces.
A. VV.
TESTTJUOUTA TjJ3 :
E. B. WALTHALI, CO., Druggists, Horse
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CONDUCTOR E. D. LOOMIS. Detroit, Mich.,
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Hall's Catarrh Cure Is Sold by all Dealers in Patent Medicines
PRICE 75 CENTS A BOTTLE.
1U
Testinonlals sent free on application.
lyi j u
It Was Before ihe Day cf
SAPOLSO
They Used fo Say "Woman's Vork is Kever fene."
CURES RISING
.-. BREAST .-.
"MOTHER'S FRIEND"
offered child-bearing oinan. 1 have been a
mid-wife for manv yearn, and in each ae
where "Mother's h'rlend" had been used it has
accomplished wonders and relieved Eiuih
suffering. It is the best remerlv for ri.infr ol
the breast known, and worth tbe price for that
aiuce. ilits. M. M. Dbi stfh,
Montgomery, Ala.
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Lucas Co., S. S.
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GLEASON, Notary Public.
REV. II. P. CARSON, Scotlsnfl, Dslr , UT.
" Two bottles of Hall s Catarrh Cure tomp.ei,
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J. C. SIMPSON, Marquess, W. Vs. ssvs
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