VTHERBVIK YOU AMi VherBret yott are tbla time M year I), my lost lore, who wm false ui fab?, When tha cry of the whlppoonrill talis of - your ear, And the mown hay scents the air, I know you must think of the night wsstoot Tinder tha yaoamora tree alone, Chile our Tain tan riot with lifo'a wars flood. And my heart made its p anion known Ton moat think how I called yon my love, my own, T , Wherever you are, tTherever you are on nights like this, Like sweet in your gall, or like gall in you Wine, ion must taste that clinging and tender alas, That first mad kiss of mine, Jow timid you were, and how fond you were! How you trembled and clung twist your love and fright When you heard a bird In the sycamore stir And I gathered you elose and tight I Ood I but it must all haunt you to-night; Wherever you are. 7bereTsr you are, you must recall How the young moon rose aa I held jot there Slow t watched a star from mlrtsky fail, t nd my wish took the fords of a prayer 'Whatever you ask will eome true," Ton said, with that smile that eoaarad al men ; and yet you were speaking a lie, you knew and I never shall pray again. Ion must think of the wrong you .did mf then, Wherever you are. Ella W. Wilcox, in Frank Leslie's Monthly HIS OPPORTPNUT. BY LOCI3 XiaNZK. HEBE was one sen tence that Deacon Chandler had never omitted from his prayers einco he was converted and began to pray in the little wooden church on the hilL It was this : "Send to Thy servant, oh. Lord, some great opportunity for doing good." Strange as it may seem, his prayers had never been answered. Tha aoa viia rolled around with their accus tomed regularity and brought increase to his. flock and plenty to his store houses, and as yet nothing unusual had happened. Still the worthy man prayed on until "Deacon Chandler's opportunity" had coma to ba almost a byword with not a few of the younger members of the congregation. And when he arose at each meeting, aud with bowed head uttered th9 familiar petition, his eldest son, Tom, away in the back part of the room, wus mim icking his father, to the int-iaso amuse ment of a few unruly boys who werr his companions. Tjni Chandler was a bad boy. There was no denying that. Tom's mother was the last one to admit it, bnt even she was forced to own sorrowfully that "Thomas was a little wild." Deacon Chandler in his own family laid down the strictest rules, and they were fear fully followed by all except the eldest. Tom was incorrigible. He chafed un der the home restraint, and his natu ral wildness found vent in various petty misdemeanors, which soon won for him a bad name in his native vil lage. In vain his mother besought him to mend his ways ; in vain his father placed him under closer re straint and visited upon him more din penalties. It was no avail. One night Deacon Chandler entered his home with a stern look on his face that boded no good for whoever the culprit might be. His wife looked up from her sewing as he entered. "Where's Tom?" he said shortly. "I don't know," was the reply. "Why is anything the matter?" Before he could reply the door opened again and the subject of their conversation came in. He was a tall, well-built boy of eighteen, but his youthful face was already marked with the lines of dissipation and in h.s handsome brown eyes there was a dare devil expression that spoke volumes to one who understood it. "Well, sir?" was Deacon Chandler's (greeting. "Well ?" came in insolent tones from the boy, who remained standing. Ton are found out." The btern notes of the father rang in the mother's ear like a deathkneil. "You may as well confess." "There is no need if you have fount? me out," replied the boy defiantly. "Perhaps you would like me to telL Are you proud that you and your gang have been detected stealing fruit from Mr. Dean's orchard, and that unless I settle you will be arrested? Can you offer any excuse for removing the gates from half a dozen houses in town and making a bonfire of them in my orchard lot?" Mrs. Chandler looked hurriedly up at her son. "Oh, Tom, it isn't so? Say it isn't so," she implored. But he was silent. Then the deacon continued : "I shall settle to save your brothers end Bitters from disgrace, but from this night you are no son of mine. J disown you." A slight pallor spread over the boy's 'ace as he opened his lips to reply. . "All right, father. If you had dealt more gently with me I might have been a different boy now. I own that I took tho apples and helped to burn the gates. But there," he burst out suddenly, "what does it matter? I won't stay to disgrace the family any longer, I've been ready to go for some time." And he glanced around the comfortable room contemptuously. When he finished speaking a mother's hand was laid on his arm and s mother's voice, pitiful In Its sorrow, said: "Don't go, Tom. Tour father don't Inean it. lie is very angry because -on make him so much trouble. Ask (dm to forgive you. I am sure he will if you will only try to be a better Soy" "Never!" sternly interrupted the deacon. "He is no son of mine, and my house is no longer bis home. Qo 1 Do you hear?" "You need not tell mo twice," re turned the boy. "Good-bye, mother. I'm going," and before they realized it the eldest son had passed out o: home life forever. After that life went os about aa usual at the Chandler farm. The deacon still offered his accustomed prayer, only there was no Tom to make fun of him, for since that night Tom Chandler had not been seen. Deacon Chandler was still wait ing for his opportunity ud still won dering, too, how a chance so earnestly desired was so long withheld. Othen all about him were doing great thing toward building up the kingdom, yet, searon and wait as he would, nothing ever earns in his way. So the time went ou for eight or teii ears, until one day Deacon Chandler awoke suddenly to the (act that his wife was slowly dying. His lore for hU wife am thfaf wu if one doubted and when be notioed bow 1 pale nod thin she had become he spoke to her at onoe in an unusually anxiouf way. "Is there anything I can do for you, wife?" he asked. "No I don't know aa there ia." ' "Is there anything you want ?" Her eyes filled with tears. ' "Shall 1 tell yon?" she whispered. "Yea do." Sadly and firmly she told him then ihe whole pitiful story. "I want my boy. I want Tom nm, nur in ma. xxe wu mr unt born, and X cannot forget now A loved him when he was a baby in my arms. Yes, and when he grew to be a boy 1 loved him still, and my love could have saved him. But yon yon were so hard and cold with him. Conscious of your own virtue, yon could not pity his infirmity and bear with him, as I would have done. No, hear me out," as he would have spoken. - "Yon have always prayed prayed to the Lord for some opportunity to do some great good, and when it was here, in your own son, yon neglected it. Yon might have been more gentle; yon might have led him out of his evil ways, but you would not, and all these years my heart has been aching for a sight if my son my eldest born." The words came sharp and fast now and ended in a smothered sob. The deacon was surprised. Acvei before had his wife questioned bis wis dom or censured him for what he did. But the mother love so strong in her had welled up and filled her heart to jverflowing, and she must be heard. Her words had their effect, too, for Deacon Chandler saw, as he had never leen before this, his mistake and the hypocrisy of the fervent prayer he had jo often breathed out to His Heavenly Father when he was an unmerciful nay, even cruel parent. How he had prayed for an opportunity of doing good, and when it came let it pass nay, threw it away wmiuiiy. ne was a man of few words, and those he spoke now carried healing balm to the heart of the woman who had so loved he wayward boy. "I have been wrong, wue. can you forgive me?" "Oh, freely I she answered him. He read in her wistful eyes the nn ipoken wish and answered it. "I will nnd our boy ana bring nun lome," he said. "And no matter how sinful he is oi aow he has fallen you will bring him Home to his mother?" "I will." And she was satisfied. To those who wish to learn all things iro plain, and Deacon Chandler traced his son, by constant effort, to a small Western city. Of the fact that he was there he became convinced, but could learn nothing more. A week found aim standing in a railway station of the city of C, inquiring of tue by standers if they knew Thomas Chan dler. "Know Thomas Chandler? Waal, J reckon I do," drawled one loafer whe was warming himself in the sun. "Can vou tell me where I can tin J aim?" asked the deacon. Waal, I kinder reckon about thu iime er day he's ter be found over tc he Senter House." Having learned where the Sente. House was, Deacon Chandler walked slowly up the main street of the well kept western city. How should he find Tom? He inferred, from the manner of the man with whom he had just talked, that his son was still the wild young man he had turned from home so many weary years ago. But it did not matter. He had promised the mother and then was not here his opportunity? He would see that he grasped it now and would save his son t any cost. His meditations were cut snort by he gilded sign directly in front of his eyes and he saw in large letters sen ter Houso. He was almost ashamed to ask this gentlemenly fellow about his erring son, bnt he did. "I am a stranger here, sir," he be jan. "Can you tell me where I cor. ttnd Thomas Chandler?" "Xes, sir," answered the brisk clerk. Then he turned to a boy who stood jear and said, "Go and find Mr Chandler." The boy sped away on his errand nd Deacon Chandler waited. Then Qo heard steps, a man a surprised roice called, "Father," and he looked up and saw his son. But where was the sinful, dissipated man he had thought to see? Here was a well dressed and prosperous-looking man, holding out his hand to him and bid ding him welcome. And it was lorn, rhat was the funny part of it. "Come, father," and he lead the old nan away to a private parlor ann slosed the door. "Don't you know Be, father? I would know you any where. Yes but it's so strange," gaapej Jie old man. Tom laughed good naturedly. "Oh, you mean that I am not what fou expected to find? Well, hardly, unging from early indications ; but, ather I must say it" and the man's eyes grew moist ' all that J. am J iwe to mother." "God bless her, Tom," heartily re sponded his father. Then after a pause, "Can you forgive me, my son, for my aarshness?" "There is no more for me to for ,ive than you," returned his son. "I iiave lived all these years to learn, and I think I may safely say now that I am in honest man. This house is mine md, God willing, I mean in the future to be an honor and not a disgrace to the old home." So, alter all, Deacon Chandler's pportunity was a wasted one, for now there was no need of any effort on his part in his son's case. The opportun ity had come to him in his son's youth nd he bad neglected it. As it happened, everything bad turned out right, but the chances for that had been so few and for another and more painful one so many that he sould only thank God that he had taken into his own hands the most luooessful working out of Deacon Chandler's opportunity. New York teronry. A Chin or the Old Block, A Trinity professor and his young on were dressing together one morn ing not long ago when the father thought he saw a chance to inculcate into his son a few good ideas. He looked out of the window and saw the mail boy who lived next door to them working hard in the garden, and this was his opportunity. "Henry," he laid, "look at Walter Jones working out there in the garden. He's been up since 5 o'clock this morning, milked the cow and brought the milk over here. How, there s a boy lor you." The boy mused for a minute or tw, then looked np at his father and said : "Papa, do yon see Mr. Jones over there? He's been up since 6 o'clonk working hard in the garden, planting corn and peas. Now, there Now. there a mas for yon." And the professor as hi ' tells the story says there was just twinkle in his son s eye. Bartlor EpssV ; norsmoLD ' affaies. 'CCOXOIIX X OOOD BBUSHES. ' One of the most useful of articles it t!is house is a brush made of good hairi If properly cared for it will last I oi years, bat buy only the best kind wil'4 the hair wired into the back. Ths cheap brushes have the hair glued in and will not stand water. Even the stove brush should be of the best, whether for use outside or inside. Choose one with a short handle and it will clean out every bit of dust from every nook and cranny. Stove ovens should have the soot and dust brushed out every day. American Agricultur iaUj .J; . . -. ' CABS OF KATXBESSZ1. ' A bright, clean mattress is the house Keeper's delight, writes Mrs. E. H. Cooper in the American Agriculturist. The question is how to keep it ao. Some use slip covers of calico or mus lin to protect it, but this is unsightly ni unsatisfactory. Of course a tack of some sort may ba used to guard the top from possible harm, but it is the rubbing against tho slats or woven wire that so soils and darkens the tick in-;. I have found the following method freo from all objections: Take a piece of sheeting or strong muslin, some six inches larger each way thau the mattress. At each corner attach a twelve-inoh piece of tape, e swing it by the middle so as to form strings six inches long. Lay this sheeting smoothly over the slats or springs. Straps, formed of pieces of mattressei binding a little longer than the depth of the mattress, are sewed by their ends only to each corner of the mat tress. Through these straps pass ont of the strings at each corner, tying iu a bow knot. When desired, the knots may be untied and the mattress turned over. Before turning remove, with sj small stiff brush, all dust from around the tackings, and the mattress will re tain its fresh appearance for years. Til a STATF OF XiTFB. From time immemorial housewivei and cooks have been told that the fu ture of the human race and other more immediate things depended upon bread making. The influence of dyspepsia npon the community and of bread upon dyspepsia has been set forth times without number. Sometimes there have arisen teachers who, with chem ical language, tried to bring about an era of good bread-making. But breaj continues variable in its quality. In the first place, the flour used should be the best. Good flour is soft to the touch, slightly yellow in color, and sticks to the hand when plunged into it Flour of darker tints and with out adhesiveness is inferior. The water should be pure and ta.steless, from a running stream if possible. Salt should not be mixed with the flour, but with the water used in kneading. The kneading should be a continuous pro cess, neither very fast nor very Blow. There are dough-making machines which have advantages over the old methods of mixing by hand. The oven should be ready for tht oread at exactly the same time that the bread is ready far the oven. Large loaves should be placed in the back ol the oven, small ones in front. Large loaves should be baked an hour and a half, small ones three-quarters of an hour. When taken from the oven bread should be exposed to fresh ai until quite cold. New York World. KECTTE3. Baked Corn Bread Take onrf teacup il cream, one-quarter teaspoonful of soda, one cup of flour, butter the sizo of a walnut, one cup of sugar, one cup Indian meal, one egg. Granulated meal is the best. Baked Bananas Strip from side piece of the skin. Then with yom finger loosen the skin from the sides of the fruit; dust well with granulated sugar, and bake in a moderate oven half an hour. Serve hot in the skins. Ivory Blanc Mange Cover quarter box of gelatine with quarter cup of cold water, soak fifteen min-ates; put one pint milk over fire in double boiler ; add two bay loaves an.l grate.l rind of half a lemon; when hot adl gelatine and half cup sugar ; take from Are, strain and turn into a round mold ; when cold serve with a sauce madr Tom sweetened raspberry juice. Fricaseed Eggs Boil a dozen eggs aard, remove the shells and slice ; tak e a cup of white stock, season with salt and pepper ; brown a teacup of stale bread crumbs in butter ; put the gravy in the saucepan and set on fire ; dip the slices of egg in melted butter, then in flour, and lay in the gravy ttntil hot ; take up, arrange on a dish with the 'xied bread and pour the gravy over. Pineapple Shredded Select a ripe, inicy pineapple, remove every bit of the skin and all the "eyes." Then lay the fruit on a platter, hold it firmly with the left hand, and with a silver fork tear off the pineapple in small pieces, leaving the core whole. Put the shredded fruit in a serving dish, sprinkle generously with fine granu lated sugar, cover and let stand in the ice chest an hour, if possible, before lerving. Saratoga Cream Hashed Potatoes select a light, not soggy, variety of potato, and boil till nearly but not quite cooked. Set away in the chill ing room for twenty-four hours. Cut in chunks the size of a walnut and put in a double pan inclosed with hot water. Pour over them rich, thick cream, (that from a Jersey cow is best) in the proportion of a pint to three pints of potatoes, and season with salt, white pepper and butter. V hue they are stewing chop them constantly with a silver knife till they are the size ot pea. Looking Ahead. Mrs. Carter was an economical wom an. She seldom indulged herself In the luxury of a new gown, nnd whenever she did, she was particular only about the wearing qualities of the material. A favorite niece generally assisted her in making her choice. "Now, Amelia, you're sure this cloth Is all wool. I can't see so well as I could once," said the old lady when her Inst new gown was being purchased. "But what color do you want, aunt?" "Land! I don't know as I care much what color It is, so long as it's black," responded Mrs. Carter. Bo, after a little discussion, a good piece of black cashmere was purchaser and taken home. But the niece no ticed that Mrs. Carter did not seem wholly satisfied. "I'm afraid you would rather have had some other material than cashmere," she finally suggested. "No, I don't know as I should. Cash mere wears considerable well," was tho response; "but black aint the color It used to be, and I've been a-thlnklng. I aint never had no loss by death, and If I keep on wearing black what under the sun am I going to mourn in when some of my folks are taken? I believe I'll see If I can't get the store to take this bade and give me a black that has sonie kind of a tint to it, so as I shall real a change when I go out of colon." LARGE OYSTERS. " . In Some Part of the 'World One Slakes) a Fall Meal. Pliny mentions that according ta historians of Alexander's expedi tion oysters a foot In. diameter were found In the Indian seas, ana on 7a mam T? T,nnint xen nnexTtectedly I enabled to corroborate the correctness of his statement for at iiotuar, near Trlncomalee, enormous specimens of edible oysters were brought to the tsthouse. One measured more than eleven, nchea In length by half as many in width. But this extraordinary meas urement is beaten by the oysters of Port Lincoln In South Australia, which are the largest edible ones in the world. They are as large as a dinner plate and of. much the same shape. They are sometimes more than n foot icross the shell, and the oyster fits his habitation so well that he does not 'eave much margin. It Is a new sensation when a frlena is ks vou to lunch at Adelaide to have one oyster fried In butter or eggs and bread-crumbs set before you, but It Is a very pleasant experience, for the fla vor and delicacy or the fort Lincoln mammoths are proverbial even In that 'and of luxuries. Philadelphia Press Can He Make Rubber? Man has Imitated the processes ot lature so often and so successfully that there is no knowing where he will stop. An attempt is now to be made to manufacture rubber. Instead of wait ing for It to grow. Most of the crude product comes from South America, ind the Immense quantity of sap taken from the trees has affected their vital ity. Many of the large and more pro ductive trees are dying, and it will be many years before the young oaes,wIll be sufficiently grown to yield sap. Tho rubber Industry Is confronted with a possible sap-famine. In this emergency a M. Berthclo; .oines to the rescue. He predicts that he will produce purer nud bettpr gum tiiun can be found in Para, and more :heaply. This assurance opens up .1 pleasing vista. The very possibility of lis success Is soothing to the tired lerves of the denizen of the city In this hustling, bustling, noisy age. As a deadener of noise rubber is a genuine blessing. The next century will not anly see pnoumatlc-tired vehicles in common use, but pavements and side walks of rubber, and rubber-covered floors, sof t, elastic, and noiseless to Uw tread everywhere. Breathing Carbonio Acta. It Is well known that a very inucii larger proportion of carbonic add than usually exists In the atmosphere can be Inhaled with Impunity, but only re cently have we been aware of the large quantity that can be breathed without actual danger. Ordinary fresh air con tains by four parts in 10,000, yet the sirbonlc acid hns to reach 3 rer cent., r 100 times the usual quantity, before any difference Is noticed In the respira tion. As the percentage rises the per son breathing It begins to pant, but with air containing as much as 10 per lent only a headache is produced, al though the panting Is violent The ac tual danger point is not reached until the carbonic acid rises to IS per cent Foul air In a room where a numbei of persons are present Is not dangerous on nccount of the carbonic acid it con tains, but owing to a poisonous organic substance given off with the breath. Carbonic acid Is not a direct poison, but when the danger point is reached the air can take none from the blood In the lungs, so that the fires of the human engine are extinguished by their own smoke, as it were. It Is real ly wonderful what the human engines will endure, for a candle goes out when the oxygen In the air sinks to 1S.3, In stead of the usual 21 per cent, and the carbonic acid rises to 2.5. Chambers' Journal. 3rcatest Spendthrift of the Age Jack Mytton, the famous Shropshire fox-hunting squire, was perhaps the most renowned spendthrift the world has seen during tho present century. At Harrow School he spent $4,000 a year. At 19, when a cornet In the Sev enth nussars, lie spent 51i,000 in one day. When told that he could afford to spend $30,000 a year he replied that he preferred death to such a miserly In come. Upon one occasion he paid 500 to a London poulterer for supplying his table with pheasants. lie always traveled with piles of loose bank notes on the seat beside him, which In windy weather used to blow out through the window all over the country. Upon another occasion, when going a Jour ney, he took a roll of bank notes, squeezed Into a bard ball, aud aimed them through the window nt some one who had displeased him, hitting him In the face He realized $400,000 by the sale of timber on his estate, which he sold immediately. lie ran through his Inheritance, the Ilnlston estate, with a rent roll of $300,000 a year, nnd $2. &00.000 of money accumulated, dying bankrupt and a pauper at the early ag if 33. London Answers. A man may get "more sense as be grows older, but he doesn't have hall as much fun. Dr. PIERCE'S PLEASANT PELLETS SICK HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS, CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION. DYSPEPSIA, POOR APPETITE, and all derangements of the Stomach, Liver and Bowels. Of all druggists. ONCE USED wm ALWAYS IN FAVOR. YOUNG SPIRITS, a vigorous body and robust strength fol low (rood health, but all fail when the vital powers are weakened. Nervous debility and loss of manly power result from bad habits, con tracted by the young through ignorance of their ruinous con sequences. Low spirits, melancholia, impaired memory, morose or irritable temper, fear of itnpendinfr calamity and a thousand and one derangements of body and mind, result from such pernicious prac tices, ah inese are permanently enrcu by improved methods of treatment without the patient leaving home. , . ' A medical treatise written in plain but chaste language, treating of the natnre, symptoms and curability of such diseases, cent securely sealed in a plain envelope, on recciut of this notice, with locentsin stamns. for postage. Address, World's Dispen- 6ASY UEDICAI. ASSOCIATION, BUttalo, . Y. If r. & A Waterhoume Rheumatism Hood's Sarsaparllla Proved That It Cures. .... . i.i. ht T imta what Hood's Banaparilla hai done tor me. I was troubled for longtime with rheumatism in my hip and knee. It was a great effort to move about. I tried many remedies said to cure bat found no relief. When almost discouraged, I was induced to try Ilood'i Sars-ipaiilla. I took three botUes and I have not had a pain since. Hood's is the HoodsCures kind that cures, and I am a firm believer in It and recommend it to all afflicted with rheuma tism.' B. A. Watebhooss, Keunebnnk, Me Hood'a Pllla are purely vegetable, carefully prepared from the best Ingredients. 2Se. Pleasures of Home Life. "Vi'hat a cozy home you have," said his bachelor friend as he entered Mr. Nuwed's house for the first time. "Yes, indeed," said Mr. Nuwed, ec hHmii, T never knew the real com forts of life until I married. Now If foxx'U Just sit down a moment I'll go down and fill the furnace, split a little kindling wooa, Dnng up some coai lor tha. vrota fire, set out the milk Ditcher. mend the kitchen stove, put up a cur tain pole, attend to a iew otner aomes !. HutiM unit then we'll sit down and have a real nice time." Chicago Rec ord. Stats or omo, ctitt or Tolkdo, I . M I.I'CH t!or!TTT- I Frank J. t'ar.sir makes oath that he In the niiior imrtner ! the nrmor . J. imcjir o., iloi;iir b'lsiiu-sH In the City of Toledo, ('omit -ami State afonnaiil. and that said Mnn will pavtlis rum of ONU Ill'N'DKEU IOL- 1.A K-4 lor t-acn aim every case oi uiarra mat (-nnot be cured by the use of II all's Catariib ' w..rn to t efore me ami Kubacribed in my pre-ctico, thU Otu day i f December, A. D. 158& . - A. W. Uleasoh, ) Mr A I V , ' .V tam Pua'fe, Mall (Varru Cure istaken internally and acta direetlv in the blood and mucous surface of tho system. Kond for testimonials, free. F. J. Ciie.vkt & Co.. Toledo. O. fSSold by Oruugista, 7.V5. "Colorado" and "Rhode Island" are are both names descriptive of color, the former named from its brightly hued cliffs, the latter from its roody" or red cranberries. Dr. Kilmer's Swawr-KooT cures all Kidney and Bladder troubles. Pamphlet and Consultation free. Laboratory Pfnebamton. M. 7. In Turkestan, if a wedding engage merit is broken, the firl'a narpnta must either return the lover's gifts or sub stitute another daughter if they have one. Don't Yon Know to have perfect health fou must have pure blood, and the best way to bare pure blood is to take Hood's SarMparilla, 'lie best blood purifier and strength builder. Hood's Pills may be had by mail for 25c it C, I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. The Leavenworth, Kan., fire depart ment has a horse named after Quan trell the raider. The beast is so vic "0118 he has to be tied down to be shod. School Cbtldrea trill ent sweetmeats and tou ean't nmmt t I he flist you know of it there is a headache; the c-iiuii is uiiioui anu something mast be done. I' re Klpuns Tatmles, a remedy which I standard br sucli troubles. A Paris manufacturer of artistic fur-' oiture has just executed an order for a t-liMir, the front legs of which are of w:i.l gold. It is valued at $37,500, ktl tlorcr Root, the (treat blood pnrtfler, (Holrestinesi snd clearness to tbe complexion. 11 u cuius coustlimtion 2acts. 60 els., it. A guardian of the peace of Gardiner, Ale., was recently found a sleep by a townsman, who handcuffed him and relieved him of his valuables. STr. Wlnslow") ootb!ng gyro for ehnflraa tretlilnK, softens the turns, reduces InOamma. 4ou. allays saiu. cures wind colic 2&a.a boule There is a snecimen of tho Mission grapevine at Carpenteria, Cal., which has a girth six feet four inches at the base and is still growing. I cannot uneak too highly of Plso'a Cure for runsiimiition. Mrs. Frank Mobbs, 215 W. 22d SI., ew xura, vcb iov. What Every Man Is Wo.-Tft. An interesting exhibit at the Na tional Museum shows the physical in gredients which go to mako up the average man, -weighing 151 pounds, nays the American Analyist. A large glass jar holds the ninety-six pounds of water -which his body contains. In other receptacles are three pounds of white of egg, a little less than ten pounds of pure glue -without which it -would be impossible to keep body ind soul together 13 pounds of fat, il pounds of phosphate of lime, one pound of carbonate of lime, three junces of sugar and starch, seven unces of flouride of calcium, six uuces of phosphate of magnesia and t little ordinary table salt. Divided ip into his primary chemical elements ihe same man is found to contain ainety-seven pounds of oxygen jnough to take np, under ordinary at mospheric pressure, the space of a room ten feet long, ten feet wide and ten feet high. His body also holds fifteen pounds of hydrogen, whieh,nn ier the same conditions, would occupy somewhat more than two such rooms is that described. To these must bo added three pounds and thirteen Dunces of nitrogen. The carbon in she corpus of the individual referred k is represented by a foot cube of joal. It ought to be a diamond of the lame size, because the stone is pore carbon, but the National Museum has Dot such a one in its possession. A row of bottles contain the other ele ments going to make up the man. These are four ounces of chlorine, 8 ounces ot flour ine, eight ounces of phosphorus, 3, ounces of brimstone, 2 ounces of sodium, 2 ounces of po tassium, 1-10 of an ounce of iron, two ounces of magnesium and three pounds and thirteen ounces of calcium. Cal cium, at present market rates, is worth $300 an ounce, so that the amount of it contained in one human body has a money value of $18,300. Few of our fellow citizens realize that they are worth so much intrinsically What Confident Am He doesn't behave as if he belonged to the best society," said one young wo man. "No," replied the other, "he be haves as if the best society belonged to I him." Washington fJD. a) Star. TRIALS OF POVERTY. One of TbentB-onKht to iat 1st th Car at nana. Th writer can vouch for the authen- ttHtv ! atorv. In an Eastern State there had been a series of barn burn ings, which hid destroyed thousands oi AnUar1 worth of nrorjertv. In some cases residences and stores bad caught fire and there was no end to the aam- am KHno hnraH and vehicles, hay. grain of every sort and the odds and ends of property which Is generally tared in harnn all went. Tha citizens of the little village were greatly In censed ana len no means unmea to catch the offender. Finally during the thirteenth fire tha entity man and his confederate were caught. Popular in dignation ran so high that naa ine erf ma occurred in Kentucky or the West, the men would have been lynch ed, and as popular novels say, inis ainra wonld never have been written." But they were thrown Into Jail to await trial. The day before the trial a prom inent man called urjon the chief offend er's wife and found her crying bitterly. He looked about in vain ror some means of comforting her, but could only pat her on the shoulder and say: "There, Mrs. 8.. don't take on so. Maybe they'll clear him," though down In bis heart he hoped they woman But she only walled louder. "Oh. It Isn't that But to think Jim1 tn Hn tried to-morrow before a bis crowd of people and he hasn't got any stickpin for his necktie. He Is awful proud, Jim is, and when he was arrest ed he told me to get him a stickpin If could, but I haven't been able to save nant nh. It's awful to be so noor." And the kind-hearted man actually took out a dollar and told her if she could find a stickpin at that price to get It for Jim to wear at court and save th family pride. Indianapolis Sentinel. A WELL-KEPT HAND. A beautiful hand is not always possi ble to acquire, but a thoroughly well kept one may be bad without the art of a manicure, and by very simple meas ures. To begin with, tbe hands should always be washed in very hot water, or better yet iu warm oatmeal water. Failing this, a few drops of tincture of benzoin in the water add greatly to the whiteness and softness of the skin, and also conduce to tbe beautifying of the nails. When the hands are thoroughly clean, rinse them in clean, warm wa ter, into which a teaspoonful of almond meal has been thrown. Dry the bands on a soft tcwcl aud immediately rub them with the following mixture: One part pure glycerine, ono part lemon juice, one part rosewater. This can be prepared either for immediate use or kept in a bottle for three or four dayt t a time. Twice a week the nails may be rubbed with this Van.ish: Half an ounce pistachio oil, 32 grains table alt, 33 grains of powdered rosin, 33 grains powdered alum, 80 grains melted white wax, 2 grains fine carmine. These ingredients should be thoroughly mixed over a spirit lamp, made into a kind of pomatum and preserved in a email glass or porcelain jar. It should be applied to the nail by a tiny wad of medicated cotton and allowed to remain half an hour. Tht thin membrane at the root of the nail should then be carefully pushed back with the round end of an ivory nail file, and the little "idle skins ' that often grow at the root of the nail cut away with a pair of very sharp scissors. When this is done the nail should bt polished with the so-called "diamond powder," a small quanity of which is put on a chamois-skin nail polisher. The hands are then washed in hoi oatmeal water, well dried on a very fine tcwel, and' finally the nails an poliehed once more with a sof chamois. TO MAKE BLACK COFFEE. An improved way to make black cof fee is to put four tubli spoonfuls of pure pulverized Mocha coffee in a warm. dry coffee pot, and pour over it grad ually a pint of boiling water. Stand the pot in a bain Mane, or in a saucepan of boiling water," so that, though the coffee gets thoroughly hot, it still does not boil. When this coffee has been poured through a stiainer, it is ready for use. About Some Bare Gems. The Sultan of Turkey has an emer ald of 300 carats set in the handle of a dagger. He has the richest collection of gems and regalia in the world. V.1T9 ri ft twin erfa! of e:iicrulJ in St. Petersburg seven inches long, four broad anrt weighing four and one-hall pounds. The diadem of the Bussian Empress Anna contains 2536 large diamonds and a ruby raided at $400,000. The cutting of the Kohinoor occu pied thirty-eight days with steam power and cost $40,000. The Iiegent required two years and cost $25,000. After the first discovery of the Bra zilian diamond mines, 1146 ounces of diamonds were shipped to Portugal in one year, and the price fell to $5 a ear at. KNOWLEDGE , Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live bet ter than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world's best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. its excellence is one to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pl ant to the taste, t'e refreshing and truly beneficial properties of J perfect lax ative: effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and feven and permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kid neys, liver and Bowels without weak ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Syrup of Jlge is for sale by all drug gists in 60c ana $1 bottles, but it is man ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Oo. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will nil accoDt tor fAbstttate if ooemL 4 Jf yon have Bhcumatism Or an v other pain, yon don't take .r mao it bea-an to kill pain, Lit? OEM 1M CAS Cf TKZ MINERAL KATEA IK TH HMKKIT. SIMPLE BOTTLES 5ZNT ffi WnmEMBfflSr ffi YOUR 6RQCER0R THE BOTTLER FDR II You Will Realize maf'Tliey liYe Well Who Liya Cleanly," if You Use SAPOLIO CROSS EYES MAY BE CURED. A Visual Defect Removed by th Early Uae of Glaaaea. Strabismus or "cross eyes," are now safely and almost painlessly corrected The desired result may be obtained by the wearing of proper spectacles In ear ly youth; but, according to the Phila delphia Record. If the evil Is cot then corrected, an operation later on will be necessary. The removal of a "cataract" ron the eye Is one of the most delicate opera tions performed by the oculist. A cat aract Is formed by the lens of the eye becoming opaque, so as to appear gray ish or otherwise, when it shuts out the light from the optic nerve. The oculist of to-day cuts Into the ball of the eye and removed the darkened lens, and the optician supplies the defect by arti ficial lenses that make good the stghr. Tbe demand for glass eyes Is increas ing as the character and quality of the eyes Improve. Unsightly eyeballs are now removed In part, leaving enough of the muscles to rotate the glass shell tltat Is placed over them. Where the work Is properly done, the possessor of the glass eye can move it about with all the naturalness of a real optic, and In mar.y cases It Is very difficult to tell the manufactured article from the gen uine. All the wild stories about sub stituting rabbits' eyes for human eyes or the statements to the effect that ocu lists can take eyes from their sockets, wipe them on a coarse towel and re store them unimpaired to the happy patient, are all moonshine, and anyone who Is called upon to listen to such tales Is perfectly justified if under such circumstances he should wink the otht-r eye. flow the Chickens Got Ont, A correspondent who spent the sum tner at Lake Placid, In the Adlrondacks. bears witness to a pleasing display of Ingenuity on the part of a domestic ben. a creature not commonly supposed to possess any high degree of Intelligence. The chickens were getting large uongh to Injure the sprouts, and Mr. Crazier, their owner, put them into the hen-yard, having first laid boards edge wise on the ground against the slats all the way round the yard. To his surprise, the chickens were soon found 1a the garden. They were put back into the yard, and the fence was carefully examined. There was no sign of an opening large enough for the tiniest chick to squeeze through. "And for all that, the chickens were soon out again. This time Mr. Frazler determined to see how the thing was done. He had not long to wait The fugitives were hardly back In the enclosure before the mother sat down near the middle of the yard, as if she were brooding. The next moment two of the chickens hopped npon her back; whereupon she rose, nnd with slow and stately mien proceeded to bear them to the edge of the yard, where she ranged herself alongside the board that bad been ex pected to prove an Insurmountable bar rier to all chickens. No sooner had she brought her prec ious burden within reach of the board than they hopped upon it, passed be tween the slats, and were on their way to the garden In triumph. The maneuver was repeated till the hen had conveyed her entire brood, two by two, to the top of the board but not till after another witness had been called to enjoy the novel sight. Biding; In a Large City. I once knew a man who had a large flour store In West street, whose resi dence was kept secret from all his clerks. All they knew was that he appeared at the store in the morning nnd left at night, and they also knew that he resented all Inquiries. Once I wanted to see this man out of business hours, and on asking the head clerk where he lived, to my astonishment he said he did not know. Yes, New York is a good place to bide, and thus Cant. How gate, who has been for a dozen years wanted in Washington for an extensive fraud, has during half of thai time been keeping a book shop In one of the most prominent streets Id this city. Captain Howgate knew that few of his old associates were of bookish taste, and therefore his trade was well adapted to his object Second-hand book dealers find customers In students and bibliomaniacs, and they make their purchases at auction where men of similar taste resort. There Is, however, a vast difference In the business, for uptown one will find small shops (like Howgate's), while down town there are several of Immense extent. These men purchase whole libraries, but pay very low prices rarely more than the cost of binding and occasionally they get book rarities of unusual value. Iience such a dealer must have a vast acquaintance with the world of liter ature. New York Correspondent Troy times. Kothlnr Extraordinary. . She The newspapers say that wo men of the poorer classes in London go barefooted. I think that's dreadful. He That's nothing. They are used . ai , .. wp mey were oora mat way. York World- chances with St. Jacobs Oil, for twenty and it's been pain-killimr ever since. KM k rr nuwrttiia td you? IS YOUR health TO YCU? 7HMD0MyBCWITKCl7 BEST CHEAPEST TABLE 6073iNsoM St rTiiLADELPHIA , fA LITTLE PAINS MAKE SERIOUS ILLNESS lf-not attended to in time. Vhea HEADACHE, BIZZI5ES3 and ether symptoms tell of functional distur bance in the sj-stem, the prompt tw o RiPAKS TABULES i -0 tVill prevent much salTerin. This grand remedy cares DT3PIP3IA, CONSTIPATIOH BILIOUSNESS, AKD KINDRED AILMENTS. TmTgiyes reuefTi o o W.L. Douglas Si CU17 9 THE BEST. Otjal OflVEsiFlTFOft AKINC7, . CORDOVAN, FRENCH A. EMAMfXLCD CAL. '4MSP Fine Calf &!Akga3coi 3.B0 P0UCE.3 SOLES. -,,50 Z. WORKING -EXTRA FINE. ,a. 2.$l2?E3YS'Sc:;33lS!!Xl LADIES' Best mrKD FOR CATALOGUE W-L-DOUCLAa Ova boa Million People wear the W. L. Douglas $3 & $4 Shoes All our shoes are equally satisfactory Th. mivm tha heat value tor the money. They equal custom shoea In style and lit. Tb-lr wearing qualities are unsurpassed. The price are uniform, stumped on sole. Froaa Si to S3 saved over other make. FOR FIFTY YEARS! MRS. WINSLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP I baa been used by Bfllllene of Mithrre f. for their children while Teething fur ov,-r i Fifty fears. It soothes the ohlld. softens ihe S gums, allays all pain, cores Ind colic, and u the best remedy tor dlarnwKa. V Twenty-liTe Cents a BotUrV Raphael, Angeio Tbe "LnrENE" are tbe Best snd Mont Fecnoml eal Collars and Cuffs worn; they are lnnde of Cof cloth, both Bides finished alike, and hft-nv rveni Die. one collar la equal to two of any ot! erklL.l. Thty lit wit, ww well an-f li.o( weil. A loie) Ten Collars or fire Pairs oX Culls for Twenty-ilw Pent. A Sample Collar and T"str of Cn ffs hy fat Btt Osalsw Rame atyle and size. Addre&s EKVXH8IBLE COLLAR COilPAXT, TT rreaaun St.. Hew York. 17 Kilby St., 1 rlENSIONr.XKri. 'Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Late Principal examiner U.S. PenMon Bureau. Syrsln last war, UauJudicaUugci&iius, atij .luce. KIDDER'S PA3T1LLE8.SvfS PHIL A., PA. KMsrattnesK t. operation or diar from huilaast, Ccnaultstv Itw. EndMraUorpr:Tsnnan.ladi- n1 rrmni MM mini .tad atCMiar. OHWs Uoora. A.M. to 3 PM ItfDsf . I.B mat tV L. c mi A ir,tML CDCCTO BALD HEADS I BISsBBi Uon.free Information how 1 I will mall, on arrllcf Information how to ttrw tsir upon a bald head, stop falltnv hair and remove K-als urates, a. w.uaraner, 17) w.3dSt..Clnclonsu,u. ir WORLD'S-FAIR ! IHGHEST AWARD I "SUPERIOR NUTRITION-THE LIFET THE Has justly acquired the reputation of being The Salvator for Invalids The-Aged. An Incomparable Aliment for the Growth and Protection of INFANTS and CHILDREN A superior nutritive in continued Fever And a reliable remedial agent la all gastric and enteric diseases; often in instances of corsultation over patients whose digestive organs were re duced to such a low and sensitive condition that the IMPERIAL GRANL'iM waJ the only nourishment the stomach would tolerate when LIFE seemed depending on its retention ; And as a FOOD it would be difficult to conceive of anythin? more palatable. CJil h. rtDllnniCTC ci.i..l. nnL at' " , lilb. Ii. lust Y-i fcllRlS WHthE Ml ELSE f AILS. Q Beat Couch Syrup. Tames Uood. Uim TZi fTTj tn time. Sold by drugci,. GREAT JOHN CARLO et SON5. New York. i li J- -Z ASNMan.VtW - ' - -? - - ? -'H 's.W" ' - sV . a, . ilC .
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