DISTANT THING. O, white Is the sail in the lar away. And dirty the sail at the dock ; And fair aro the cliffs across the bay And black is the near-by rock. Cbongh glitters the snow on the peaks afar, At oar feet it Is only white ; And bright Is the gleam of the distant star, Though a lamp were twice as bright Jh rose that nods beyond oar reach Is redder than rose of oars ; Of thought that turns our tongnes to speech Our fellows leave greater dowers. She waters that flow from the hidden spring! Are sweeter than those by oar side- So we strive through life for the things And never are satisfied I Co we strive through life for these distant things But ever they hold their place ; Till bonis Ufa's drum and death doth come And we look in his mocking face. And the distant things crowd near and elost And faith ! They are dingy and gray I For the charm is lost when the line ft crossed Twizt here and far away. Tot the charm is lost when the line 1 crossed And we see things as they are s And know that as clean is the sail at thv dock As the sail on the sea afar ; As bright the rays of the near-by lamp As the gleam of the distant star. EI try n L Hoffman, in Pittsburg Dispatch THE ORGANIST'S RIVAL BY ANNA BRIEIiDS. TJSIE BARCLA1 sat in her roon stitching busily, and at the sami time building air castles, the inno cent air-castlei of a girl o ! eighteen, who ii just wakening U the consciousnesi of a heart to b She would havi ran and given. bluHheil with indignation and wound ed feeling, had any one told her she was actually in love, and there would have been no falsehood in her denial. let, since the Rev. James Castletoo had come to Rosedale, and taken the church under his care, life had seemed brighter to Sume. The Rev. James Caatleton was quiet, rather reserved man of thirty- uve, doi nanusome, not especially gifted with eloquence. But in his soft gray eyes, in the curves of his gravely set mouth lay an expression of good ness, of unostentatious, true piety, that made his- simple language more elective than the most elaborate ora tory. Old women brought their sor rows to Mr. Castleton, and went away comforted, blessing him for an unaf fected sympathy that doubled the value of his counsels. Children clus tered about him wherever he called, and loooked eagerly for his coming into the Sunday-school. The young people liked him and trusted him, wondering a little sometimes that one Bo grave and quiet could so thoroughly understand the troubles and tempta tions of youth. He had shown an interest in Susie Barclay for many reasons. She was an orphan and had lost both parents; and a sister within a fortnight, vic tims of a malignant fever raging in! Robednle, four years before. She wa:j poor, having taken a position as house-' hold teacher in a seminary, and been household drudge as well, to earn an education. At the time Mr. Castleton came to Rosedale, Susie was teaching music, was organist at St. Mark's, and) in leisure time at home earned many an odd dollar by embroidery. And it was upon embroidery she was busy on the week preceding Easter Mr. Castleton's first Easter in Rose dale. As organist, Susie was com pelled to take part in all the services at St. Mark's, but beside this regular attendance, sho was a devout, sincere member of the church, and gave her time, little as she could spare it, to the work in the missionary society, sewing circles and festivals of the year. And the work upon which she was ewing so steadily Susie called, in her ker heart, her Easter offering. Mrs. Stacey, the richest woman in Rose dale, often employed Susie's busy lin gers, and it only made the gentle girl mile scornfully when she heard Bes sie Stacey praised for the exquisite embroidery her own active lingers wrought. Mrs. Stacey intended to make an Caster offering, at St Mark's, of a new set of church linen, and she had engaged Susie to hemstitch and em broider it, promising her ten dollars for work she well knew would cost her three times that sum in any city store. And Susie hd already appropriated that sum, in her mind. She would buy a large cross of white flowers, such as she had seen in her visits to the city, and present it to St. Mark's. Not one penny of those ten dollars would she use for her own expenses; ind if Uessie Stacey let it be under stood tlmt she had embroidered the linen her mother presented, why, Susie could give her cross, and so balance matter?. For, somewhere in the depths of her heart, so far down she had never called it to -the surface. Susie knew that there was rivalry between Bessie Stacey and herself. She knew that Mr. Castleton was frequently at Mrs. Stacey "s, to luncheon, to dinner, to arrange various church matters in which Mrs. Stacey suddenly wakened to an interest she had never felt when pood old Mr. Murray presided in the pulpit. And Bessie wore the roost becoming dresses right under the minister's eyes, while Susie's modest dresses were hidden behind the curtains of the urauloit. A she workod in the passion-flowers encircling her cross, Susie thought of tlie order she would send to her Aunt Mary in the city for the cross he meant to buy. She had steadily put away the temptation to bur a new priug hat or one new dress, resolving to make over her gray poplin once morn and have her old hat cleaned vid preyed. And, really, one must eighteen, with a very limited, Irird-earued wardrobe and strong !eire to appear attractive in the eyei ' one person, to appreciate the sacri fice Susie was making. Ten dollars, with her economical habits, her skill in sewing, woiil d go so far towarc yirl'ji, .turnmentl tvr is. ,rs to be her Eister offering; i nd if there lurked a thought of Mr. Ca-stleton's words of praise or hisgrav eyes looking approvingly upon hei .tasteful gift, was she bo very much to blame? She had finished her work before f unset, and took it home. Mrs. Staej fas in the sitting room, where Bessie ,was opening the parcel containing s Dew silk suit for Easter Sunday, and f-lnsie was called upon to admire Mm color, the style, the general fleet "It is dari for spring," Bessie saij fretfully. 'You know rery well you canni bear light colors," said her mother Tour eyes and hair are all you cat desire ; yonr teeth are good, your fea tares regular and your figure is simpl perfect ; but your complexion is thiol and sallow, and always will be untr you stop eating such rich food. Now here is Susie without one really goo feature in her face, with an insignifi eant figure, eyes of no color in partic ular, a sort of bluish-gray, but with i complexion like a miniature painting. She can wear blue and softly tintec fabrics, but you cannot" She might have adde.d that Susie, hair was the color of corn-silk and oni mass of golden waves and soft ring lets ; that Susie's month was like a baby's in its tender curves and sweet expression ; that Susie's eyes were fut jof intelligence and gentle, womanly sweetness ; but she forgot to mentior. these points, and Susie was crushed, as she intended her to be, in spite o' her complexion. Bnt Mrs. Stacey took out her pocket book and fromit a ten-dollar gold piece. "You can buy a new hat," she said, in a patronizing way indescribably ir ritating. "No," Susie said, quietly; "this l to be my Easter offering." "Oh I And speaking of .taster ould you mind, on your way home, taking this linen to Mrs. Byrne's tc wash and iron. Tell her I must have it on Friday at the very latest !" It was growing dark, and Susie re membered that so far from being "on her way home. Mrs. Byrne lived al the other end of Rosedale, bnt she was to shy too refuse, and rolled th linen up again. Mrs. .Byrne was a bard-workini woman with seven children, whose husband, after subjecting her to all the miseries of a drunkard's wife, had released her by pitching bead-first ofl the bridge below Rosedale, into tht river. Womanlike, she grieved for him. as if he had made her life a bed t roses, nnd turned to her wash-tnbi for a living, patiently and industri ously. A very sunbeam of a vmai the was, in spite of her troubles, anc 3ueie was amazed to find her sitting oo ;he d door-steps sobbing like a child, ihe rose to receive Mrs. Stacey 'i message, and promised to d the work, and then, in answer to Susie's gentle, "You are in trouble, I am ifraid," her grief broke out in words. "I've no right to complain, miss," ihe said, "for the Lord 's been very ;ood to us since poor Tim . wai irownded, but indeed it's a chance lost I'm fretting for." "A chance lost?" said Susie, her voice still full of gentle sympathy. "It's Nora, miss. She's been deli jate, miss, tver since she was born,. nd the air here is bad for her in tirely. The docther saye her lungs ifi take, and it's a bad cough she's got, and we're too near the say here in Rosedale. And me sister, who lives at B , she's wrote she'll take Nora for her own, an' give her schooling and not let her work till she's stronger, She's not much of her own, hasn't lister Mary ; but she's no childer since ihe put four in the cuurch-yarl, and ihe'll be good to Nora, an' the child iust dying here by inches, for she will ielp me, an' sloppin' in the washing's aad for her. -She coughs that bad at night, miss, and tho doctor says the sir in B would be the makin' of her. " "But, surely, you will send her," laid Susie. "There it is, miss I Mary, she cail lind money out an' out, and it costs ux dollars to go to B . I was up Mrs. Stacey's, to ax the loan of it, ind work it out a little at a time on the vashin' ; hut she told me she could not pare it. An' she rich ! I'm thinkin, ii isa, perhaps she'd be servin' the Lord is well as savin' a girl's life, you may ay, instead of bnyin' all this embroid sred linen to show off at St. Mark's. " The words struck Susie like a stab. (Vas it to serve the Lord or for her wn vanity she wanted to give the vhite cross to St. Mark's? Saving a mman life ! The thought almost took ler breath. "You cau send Nora if you have tei hollars?" she asked. "Yes, miss; but it might as well bt. i hundred. I can't get it." "Yes, for I will give it to you ; and, rou can ask the Lord to bless my Saster offering." And before the astonished vomik sould reply, the shining gold piece lay n her hand and Susie was speeding lomeward. "The Lord be good to her I The. taints bless her bed !" cried Mrs. Byrne. "An' she t'aching for her own bread ind butter an' trudging about in all weathers to earn a dollar 1" "You seem surprised at something, Mrs. Byrne," said a quiet, deep voict at her elbow, and she looked up to se Mr. Castleton standing beside her. "1 came over to see if yon could come nj to the parsonage and help Mrs. Willii to-morrow. She has some extra wor) on hand." "Yes, sir! I'll come, and be thank ful to you, An' I am surprised just dazed like." And out came the whoh story from the grateful woman's lips, ending with : "And it's workin she is as hard a. meself in her own way, while Mrs. Stacey, that's rollin' in money couldn't spare jest the loan of it, for it's not begging I'd be 1" Easter services were over, and Mrs. Stacey had invited Mr. Castleton tt dinner. She had told no direct lie, but certainly had given the impressioi that the lovely embroidery upon th new linen was the work of Bessie's fin gers. As they drove home, she asked Mr. Castleton sweetly. "Don't think me impertinent, but which of the offerings was Miss Bar clay's?" "None that I know ofl" "Was there one offering of ten dol lars in the collection?" "No a five-dollar bill was the lar gest." "Such hypocrisy !" sneered Beanie. "It was not necessary for Miss Barclay to tell you, mamma, she was going to give ten dollars for an Easter offering, but she need not have told a falsehood about it I" ; "Nor did she," said Mr. Castleton "Her Easter offering was ten dollars. I But he made no further explana tion; nor did Susie, when summer time brought her a letter, asking her to share his life and labors, know that Mrs. Byrne had told him the story of her charity. New YoxltXed ger. . Not mm Bad aa Wu Feared. Good Man My boy, I saw you com ut of a saloon. I hope you ax not M depraved as to drink beer. Boy Oh. no, sir: yon do me wron. I went In to buy some dgmroots an' pas a counterfeit dollar oo da new bartend1 w. Judge. Last year the sheep in this country grew 807,100,000 pounds of wool. 'MINERAL WOOL low Produced from Matter tnat War Formerly Wasted. Elnce the discovery, some years ago, that asbestos could be felted together Into a sort of paper and used wherever t nonconducting, non-combustible pack Ing was needed, the demand for it ha steadily Increased. - New forms and new uses are continually appearing, while the supply Is constantly diminish ing. This has led to the search for f substitute. B y melting together the various min erals of which asbestos Is composed a material of the same composition Is easily obtained, but the stringy, fibrous quality which makes the as bestos so valuable Is wanting. An ac cidental blast of steam against a stream of melted slag from an iron furnace gave the first and most Important step In the solution of the problem, and from this It has been worked out almost to Derfection. At first "glass." or "min eral" wool was made largely from slag, which contains many of the minerals nanlMl-aaud. lime and iron. But this product was too glassy, was not tough enouch and melted too easily. A careful analysis of asbestos was made, and the minerals, limestone, sand. fire-clay or kaolin and Iron slag, con taining the Drooer elements, were "'Ted. As made now, by the improved meth ods, waste products from other fac tories are used principally. Broken glass from windows and from bottle houses furnishes the sand and a part of the lime: pieces of fire-clay bricks. broken glass-pots and dlshware that has warped or cracked In the kilns fur nish the clay, and Iron slag from the puddling ovens supplies the Iron and part of the sand and lime. A little ex tra limestone la also added. These waste products, besides being cheaper, are better thnn simple sand, lime and day would be, as they are In a hard, ihunky form, and "stand up" In the furnace, allowing a bettor circulation of nlr and jras while heating. Loose sand and clay would pack. The materials are crushed and mixed according to a rough formula, which Is worked out by experiment It is very necessary that the amount of each should be just right. If too much gloss is used the wool Is brittle and harsh; if too much clay, the fibers are coarse and heavy, and If too much Iron, the product Is dark and does not sell welL The mixed material Is placed In tall fire-brick furnaces, with alternate lay ers of coke, each layer being about one foot deep. Natural gas, where obtain able. Is led Into the bottom of the fur nace, the fire is lighted and a blast of air from a blower Is turned on, getting up an Intense heat The glass melts, acting as a flux and melting the other materials. The part nearest the bot tom of the furnace melts first and the whole mass settles down. When the lottom Is sufficiently liquid a small hole Is opened at tho side of the furnace and the fluid mass Is allowed to How out In a stream one Inch In diam eter. As this falls a jet of steam from two flat, fan-shaied nozzles Is directed against It blowing It Into a fine spray, which, on cooling, is a white, fibrous mass resembling fine, well-washed wool, hence its name. The spray is blown through a small window into a large collecting room. While the blast Is on this room Is filled with a white cloud looking like cotton down. Two furnaces and two rooms are used, alternating with each other. When the blast Is finished In one furnace the downy wool Is allowed to Kettlcnnd Is then scraped from the sides, the floor and the celling; It Is weighed, packed in bales and then Is ready for he market The heaviest part, which settles near est the windows, contains little, bead like bodies, called In the trade "shot" andduetolinpcrrcct blowing. 'Ihls wool is remclted or sold for rough packing. The uses of the mineral wool are very numerous and are multiplying all the time. The chief ones are the adultera tion of asbestos; packings to retain heat as on steam pipes, steam cylinders and boilers; packings to keep out heat In Ice machines, refrigerators, cold rooms and cold-storage warehouses. Of late large amounts are used for"deaden lug of walls and floors In fireproof build, ugs. The mineral wool Is used either loose or In the form of paper, felting or thick wadding. No Chance of Being Caught. Judge Andrews of Georgia used to tell an amusing story of the way In which he was once "taken down" by one of his audience during a political address. lie was a candidate for Gov ernor of his State and was explaining to the crowd of people thnt had as sembled to hear him how his friends had pressed him to be a candidate and that the office was seeking him; he was not seeking the office. "In fact" he ex claimed, "the office of Governor has been following me for the last ten years!" At this point a tall country man at the rear of the audience rose "But here's yer consolation. Judge!" he shouted. "You're galuln' on It all the time! It'll never catch you!" This cheering prophecy proved to be quite correct in spite of the mirth It pro voked at the time of Its utterance. Itaeteria and Not Thunder. Scientists long since "went on rec ord" as believing the ozone produced ly electrical discharges during thunder storms to be the cause of milk coagula tion and souring during the prevalence of such phenomena. Recent experi ments by Trof. Treadwell prove that the souring of milk Is not due to oxida tion caused by ozone or other products of the electric discharge, but that It Is produced by the growth of bacteria fluid, the growth of which Is exception ally rapid In sultry, hot weather, such iu usually precedes thunderstorms. The World Growing Better. It may sound a little slangy, but the popular expression, "we're getting there," seems to fit the times exactly, rhe world is growing better because the people are better than they ever were before. The sun may not shine i:iy brighter, but we appreciate tho liirht more highly. There may be aa lark places as ever there were, but we ire able to avoid them. Certainly there never was a time when gentleness and purity, human love aud human sympathy were more respected or more generally appreci tted. Coarseness and vulgarity, rude less and riot will melt away before ;hese mild influences, until finally this ld world will be so bright and so ovable thnt even the good will regret Saving to leave it We are becoming more human, which means that the savage in our ontnre is being eliminated. Pittsburg Commercial Gazette. Nearl. tne-half of the farms in the United States are mortgaged. CliEESK miking; flOW THIS FOOD PRODUCT I MADE A liUO AO. Troeesses by Which the Forelga A. tlele Gets the Quality Ooarmets Relish so Much Roquefort Cheese Ripened in Citves. IN England the Cheddar, the Che shire and the celebrated Stiltoi cheese, says the New York World, are made by processes which ar comparatively well known. In a great measuse their quality depends upo. the cava with which they are aged. Among 3.u. pean cheeses, which with in a couple of decades in this country have superseded those of England u popularity, there is a certain mystef j in the processes by which they arf manufactured. In the soft cheesei the product of the New Jersey farm may really be bid to fairly con pet with those of Europe. But these imi tations have their restrictions. Foi instance, these worthy imitators of delicacy so popular have either vainly or not at all atten ted to reproduce the famous Roquefort. This cheese is probably one of th. oldest known. It is certainly ol the oldest mentioned in any v Men book. Pliny mentions it in one of hit works, and Rabelais when he wrote the phrase that has since become sc commonplace, "that the moon is made of green cheese," is more likely to have had in mind the green-streaked Roquefort than the green sage cheese of England of the time of Shakespeare. The making of Roquefort cheese if something of a romance. The village from which it takes its name is situ ated in a deep, narrow gorge, with high, precipitous walls of limestone rock. This cheese is made from the milk of the black goat, which has fertile pasturage of ten or twelvi leagues in the valley below. This milk is heated almost to boiling and set aside. In the morning it it skimmed, heated to ninety-eight de grees and mingled with the morning' milk for coagulation. When the curd has been divided with a clean wooden paddle and the whey drawn off it ii well kneeded by the hands of the pretty mountain maidens and pressed in layers into moulds with perforated bottoms. Usually a thin layer ol mouldy bread is placed between the layers of curd, the object being to hasten the ripening by supplying the green mould peculiar to this cheese. This bread is always made the week before Christmas, of equal parts of summer and winter barley, with con siderable sour dough and a little vine gar. The mouldiness which this pro duces is not sufficiently apparent for the taste of the high-classed connois sieur, unless the cheese is kept for three months and its action hastened by warmth. When it strikes the peasant that it is mouldy enough the cheese is ground, sifted, moistene.1 with water and kept from contact with the air. In the caves and fissures in the wall, if the town, and in vaults rudely con structed in these fissures, the ripen ing of the Roquefort cheese is "carried on by the cold currents of air which whistle through them all the year round. Those vaults which have cur rents flowing from south to north are believed to yield the best cheese. The proprietor of these caves keeps. the cheeses sometimes for several years. The cheeses when brought in are classified according to their merit. Salt is sprinkled over then, ana they are piled one on another for two or three days. Then they are taken down, the accumulated salt carefully rubbed in and then they are piled up again and left for a week. They are scraped and pared, pricked through ana through with needles driven by machinery in order to accelerate the gathering of the green mould in the interior, and after this are left in piles again for fifteen days, till they become dry and firm in texture and their interiors begin to be covered with mould. Another foreign cheese which is i favorite here is the small, round Dutch cheese known as the Edam. It is called after a small and flourishing town of that name, located not far from Amsterdam. It looks very much like a small red cannon ball, and there is a story that when, during the siege of one of the cities of Holland, the real cannon balls gave out, those jheeses were used to supply the guns. Another favorite, which is fonnd in jvery French restaurant in this city, but is not nearly so well known as it deserves to be in American restau rants, is the Gruyere. This takes its name from Switzerland, where it is supposed to have originated, bnt as a matter of fact it is now made largely in Germany, in France and in New Jersey. What is called the real Gruyere is mostly made in little hnts sometimes called chalets high up in the Alps at the time of the year when the pastures on the mountain sides are accessible and these mue nuts lnnao itable. The milk is put into a great kettlt. ind swung over a gentle fire, where it obtains a temperature of seventy seven degrees. Then the rennet is added ; when the coagulation has ad vanced far enough the curd is cut in to very fine pieces. Then it is rubbed and sifted through the fingers into the kettle again, and submitted to a tem perature of ninety degrees. It is then strained from the whey and collected in a cloth. Salt is rubbed in carefully from time to time on the outside. One of the stories told of the com moner Swiss cheeses of this kind is that of a tourist not well supplied with cash, who was walking through the Alps. He called at an inn and de manded a cheese sandwich and a glast of milk. What he obtained in re ooum. to his older was two slices ol buttered bread and a glass of milk. "But where is the cheese?" he said to the waiter. "Well, I don't know," replied tht Swiss, shrugging his shoulders, "but, you see, sir, our cheese was remark ably fine this year and full of large holes; perhaps yon got one of the holes." Jerome Up to Date. There were -three In the boat, not tr Ueutlon the dog. The boat Upset and the dog was th tmly one that could swim. Then the dog was the only one tha' as In It New York World. A Technicality. He We won't see any of the first ic now! I thought you said you woulr e ready In a moment! She WelL I did but I Mitn't what moment! Exchange, Read This. A girl who can't sing and who doesn't want to sing shouldn't be made to sins. Boston Courier. It is said that a cordage on a first class man of war costs about $15,000 The Foundation of Good Heal Pure, Rich Birjoo And the surest, best way to purify your blood is to take Hood's Sarsaparilla Huul'a Dille are tasteless, mild, effec- louu 0 a aas.7 tire. All drucKlauv. aoc. SatlsBei the Favlnr TeF;r. A well dressed man went into a Main street bank and walked up to the win dow presided over by the paying teller, says a writer in the Buffalo Express. He handed a check to that individual and said: "I have a cheek for 5U rhich I wish you would cash." The paying teller looked at the heok and then at the man. "You will have to be identified," he said. The well dressed man was prepared for this. "I don't know a soul in Buffalo," he said, "but I have a lot of tetters addressed to myself. He pulled out a package of letters and ihoved them through the window. The paying teller examined the ad- Jreases, looked at the check again, and said: "That is not sufficient. You will have to be personally identi fied." "But there isn't a man, woman oi jhild in Buffalo who knows me from a trolley car," persisted the well dressed man. "ilere, here is my aey ring. Look at the name on that tag." The paying teller saw that the name on the check and the name on the tag . .-w 1 were the same. "X am sorry, ne said, "but our rules are very strict I san't pay this check on such an iden tification. Excuse me, bnt you may have stolen both letters and key chain and check. The well dressed man was worried. I've got to have that money," he laid, "to tmt out of town with, and I have to get out of town this after noon. " Then he desperately tore open his vest and showed his initials on his ihirt. "There," he said, "do you ihink I stole the shirt, too." "May have," answered the payins ieller, laconically. The well dressed man was very angry. tie walked aronnd the bank for while and then was struck by a sud- len thought. He took off his coat and vest and rolled up his left shirt sleeve and the sleeve of his undershirt. Then he stuck his bared arm through the window and shouted : "There, you dod-gasted chump ! Do you see those initials tattooed there in blue ink 7 J-o yon think I stole them, too?" The paying teller paid the money without another word. A Deadwood Lynching. Tjeander Richardson gives, in the New York Sun, the following vivid de scription of the lynching of a murderer ut Deadwood in the seventies: When the preparations were com plete the prisoner's hands were man acled behind him, and be was led out side. The crowd cheered and then hooted as they saw him. The yellow f his skin had changed to an ashen hue, and his one active little eye swept the horizon with a venomous glitter. Hut he did not wince. He clutched his half-smoked weed convulsively with his teeth, pulled himself together and stood firmly on his feet, with his chin elevated defiantly. He was lifted to the back of the horse, and sitting there. bolt upright, was led away across the gulch to where a long rope dangled from a limb of a gaunt dead tree. In one end of this rope there was a running noose. The other end, after passing over the limb, was held by several men further up the side of the gulch. Ihe horse was led under the tree, two guards, with rifles ready, walking on either side. The crowd, which surged onward like an angry river, panted with excitement that broke out in curses and vile exclamations. The noose was adjusted, the horse was led out from under the murderer's form, and at the same moment the men holding the opposite end of the rope ran up the hill with it for a few paces. Ihe body of the tall Missourian, writh ing horribly in agony, flew upward. A dozen shots from pistols and rifles rang sharply out The malefactor's ungainly feet, which had been drawn up in the first Contortion of suffering, Fell back. The bony hands, which had lutch'4 desparately at the back of his shirt relaxed and hung down, limp lu'l pulseless. The . teeth, which had been clinched in the final and supreme ;ffort of self-control, parted, and the remnant of the last black cigar came 3oating to the ground. The artificial aye, now not more sightless than its furtive companion, oast a coldly sinis ter stare out over the throng below, a throng hushed with the spending of its fury. The body, twisting with the itrain upon the rope, swayed to and 'to in the freshening breeze. The peo ple, who were sobered and reflective, turned slowly away and dispersed. nathl (In the museum, viewing the Venus de Mllo) Sepp, see here; they have knocked both arms off this wom an. Sepp Come, let's get out, or they'll suspect as of having done It Pile gende Blatter. In the Rosin Bible the word rosin was substituted for balm. V J Yes, it's ready OUR NEW brimming j0Sent try mail on recc'pt of 10 cents in postage stamps or money. JOHN P. LOVELL BoV V. a. iyMhrMAB APTOMATIOPAPSB gASTEWKB. IS IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUC CEED," TRY SAPOLIO I Wabash I was sorry to near of youi divorce, old man. Couion t you iiv lapplly together? Van Buren Oh, yes, happily enough, k"I out matrimony was too expensive. You see, r am trying to save enougn money to buy a bicycle. Indiana polls Jour A SeliaHoua Broker. Jinks Smlthson strikes me as being a sort of religious broker, but I'm blam ed If I can tell wheflaar he's a bull or r ear. Fllkins Why not? Jinks Because he's long on counte nance and short on works. Harlerr Life. 9 ltwa Tfela I We offer One Hundred Dollars Rewnrd for any case of Catarrh thateannut bacurwl 1 Uall m aiarrn Lure. r J CimiT A Ro. Pran- Toledo. O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che. nerfartbelaitlyeara.and believe him per feetlv honorable in all baatneee transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga tion made by their firm. Wsst A Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. , , Waijit.o. Kin'AW A Martim, Wholesale UrosKtota, Toledo, Ohio. .. . Ha'l's Catarrh Cure la taken Internally, act. In directly upon the blood and raucous sur face of tlie system. Pries, 7Sc per bottle, bold oy all UrugglsU. Testimonials iree, Ihe total weight of the latest elec tric locomotive constructed is 134,000 pounds. It is intended to use it ex iterimentally in switching and hand ling heavy freight. Oat of Borta. That is the way you feel as a result of the head ache you had when you awoke this monitor. tet In your usual frame of mind and body by using Klpans Tanule the standard remedy tor an siouiaca anu liver coinuiainu. According to careful estimates, three hours of close study wear out the body more than a. whole day of close physical exertion. grrofnla, salt rheum, and all disease of the blood, dysiefrfa, headache, klndey and liver complaints, and catarrh, are cured by lloods aarsauaruia, ine greal uioou puriner. Hood's Pills cure jaundice, biliousness, sick neaaaciie, constipation anu all uver ins. Aluminum felloes in bicycles are im- regarded by some makers as in provement on wood. Plso's Cure Is thi miHllclne to break no chil dren's Coughs and Colds Mrs. M. G. Blunt. Sprague, WanliiUKtoD, March 8. lSIH. The Bon Marche, the great dry goods Store of Pans, employes 4,000 attend ants. They are fed on the premises. The kitchen in which their food is pre pared is the largest in the world, and gives employment to CO cooks and 100 assistants. FITS stopped free ny DR. Kt.nrB'B ORF.AT NmriRwroKiR. No fluj after first day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2.00 trial bot tle free Dr. Kline. USl Arch SU PhUa.. Pa. Fifty years ago a horse power cost six or seven pounds of coal per hour To-day a good compound engine will produce a horse-power at one and one half pounds of coal per hour. Water- power costs nearly as much now as then. Ir. Kilmers S w a wr-T!ooT rural 11 Kidney and Bladder troubled 1'smplet snd Consultation free. Laboratory Bingham ton. N. V. A Cincinnati pnysician declares that the American people bathe too much. Mrs. Window's Soothing Svrup for children teething, softens the gum, reduce, inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 20c a bottle. Brussels, followinir the example of Manchester and Fans, proposes to le come a seanort. This can be done for a comparative email sum dv aeepen- ing the present Viilebroek canal. Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the ta?te, and acts gently yet promptly on tbe Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, Lead aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Do not accept any substitute. s o CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAM FRANCISCO. CL touisvnis. nr. hew tome h i. SI An elegant book for your table and constant reference. Send for it NOW. It's New and Nice, s . ' ! CATALOGUE full of illustrations, and show ! I W r AT.. I f W m ing how the thousand-and-one things really look. You'll like that. There are Guns, Rifles, Pistols from all over the world, and some of our own make Fishing Tackle, Dog Collars and Chains, Tennis Sets, etc, etc. You can see our L0VELL DIAMOND BICYCLE The Finest Wheel on Earth, the Williams Typewriter you ought to have one. There's lots of other things too. ARMS CO., BOSTON, Mass. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. JJOTJOHKUTS IK BT1C. Ona crm of sugar, one cup of milk j Two eV beaten too as silk; Salt and nutine (lemon II do) ; Of bakintr powder, teaspoons twra. Werhtlyattrthe Sour to; Boll on pl board, not too thin ; Cut In diamonds, twists or rintr. Drop with earotba doughy tain Into fat that briskly swell Wateh with ear the time for torafnir. Fry them brown. Just short of burnin. Boll in sugar ; serve when eooU Prioa a Quarter frr this rule. Ladles Home Journal. CHICKKII' TDE. aft... t Wkns are nieely sinrefl And washed then put to soak in cold salt and water tor a while to remove tha blood that may not have drained out. Then stew till tender in a stone kettle. Just before taking off mix with ice water yonr pastry. Pour into an earthen dish the chicken and aa much of the liquor an possible without danger of its boiling over. Put a rim of the pastry around the too of the sides of the dish bat do not put any at the bottom to Decomo soaked and Heavy. Alter uucieLing and aeaaonina- the gravy to your taste, just before putting on the upper crust place in the centre oi tne pie an earthen cap to keep the crust from sagging down in the centre and get ting soggy. When the pie is to be served, the entire upper crust may be removed and the cup taken out. At this time more of the hot gravy may be added. American Farmer. BOW TO MAKB HOMEMADE CAKES. In large cities the making of cake is almost a lost art. There are many reasons for this, first and foremost of which is the bakery. Then there are the women's exchanges, where people fancy they can buy just such cakes ae dear grandma used to make, but oh, what a delusion and a snare they prove I "The test of the pudding if in the eating," but the test of bougbt cakes, either at bakeries or exchange should be left entirely to their appear ance, for there alone is their merit. I have a friend who makes the most de licious cake I ever tasted. One of the best and easiest made of her almont endless variety of cakes is what she calls a luncheon cake. This is how it is made : One cupful of sugar, one-half cup ol butter, worked to a fine cream ; one egg : one cupful of sweet milk ; two cupful i of flour ; three teaspoonfuls ol baking powder. Flavor with grated nutmeg. Bake in a shallow pan well lined with buttered paper. Sometimes she frosts the top of thu cake and decorates it with English walnut meats. Then she calls it re ception cake. Another of her cakes if what all children love. She calls it sponge cake. One large cup of sugar, four eggt beaten to a foam, three tablespoon full of milk, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one large cup of flour, flavoi with lemon. This makes a small cake. It should be baked in a shallow, square pan, and eaten fresh. Another of her rakes is rich and de licious ; she calls it wedding cake. Two pounds of sugar, two pounds o! granulated sugar, twelve eggs. Beat whites and yolks separately. One cuj of New Orleans molasses, three table spoonfuls of cloves, one tablespoon ful of mace, two tablespoonfnls ol allspice, one nutmeg grated, a quartet of a pound of citron cut in little pieces, four pounds of dried currants, two pounds of flour and one heapinj teanpoonful of baking soda. This must be thoroughly beaten anc mixed and baked four hours in a slos oven. To frost it beat up the whitei of four eggs to a stiff froth, add pow dered sugar as long as you can blend it nicely, also add the juice of out enion. Spread this over the top o: the cake nearly an inch thick auc around the sides half that thickness. Here you have a cake fit to set be fore a king. It will keep for mouths St. Louis Bepublic. HINTS FOB HOUSEWIVES. Flatirons should be kept as far re moved from the steam of cooking at possible, as this is what causes them to rust. . Sandwiches can be made some houn before needed if kept in a cool place snugly covered with a damp cloth. They should be piled closely npon s dish. A towel rack made with several arms fastened to a half circular centre, which in turn fastens to the wall, is a convenient place lor drying dish towels. When drawn butter separates or de composes from standing too long, add a tablespoonful of cold water or a small lump of ice and beat until it becomes smooth. In making lemonade strain the juice, and to improve the taste allow a half dozen oranges to every dozen lemons. If desired a few thin rounds of banana may be added. Ii&pid boiling is the general rule for vegetables and all scum that rises should be removed. When done drain at once, or the vegetables will lose much of their flavor. The water in which green peas has been boiled should not be thrown away. It has a fine flavor the very essence of the peas. A little stock added, seasoned to taste, makes an economical, delicious, wholesome and appetizing soup. In boiling chickens for salad put (hem to cook in cold water and let them come slowly to the boiling point. rhis process makes them more tender and blanches the dark meat usually rejected so it may be mixed with the white. The dressing should not be added to the salad until serving time. If mixed long before serving it be comes watery. New York Wttrlsfj. Cannibalism in Imdla. Tha fact that there are cannibals bj ace, tradition and profassion at the present day in India is established be f ond doubt. It seems incredible that in a large community like that of Nas lick or Benares the presence would be tolerated of abandoned creatures, who iiaunt the burning grounds with the avowed purpose of snatching and eat ing the half consumed flesh of the dead 1 they be refused the alms tney unpu- lently demand with threats oi yen teance. liven more extraordinary la it to mow that one of them having seized ne of three boys at play near one of she temples of Nassick, ripped him pen and proceeded to eat him still living was sentenced by the District Jourt to only transportation lor life. The Aghoris are undoubtedly canni- Mde, and although they prefer carrion, ind aa a rule wait for outre faction bt tore attacking a dead body with their leeth. they unquestionably when op portunity offers, slay the young or tha s-eak to make a horrible feaaV---Boxa ftsvGMCfefe Chinese "Leller Sltops.f According to the Unitel State3 eov gul at Ftt Chau, the Cuin2.w Govem. ment has not yet establixlie.l any pt. office or postal system for the utui of the people; yet coiumumcatiou easy between the people in all parts ol the empire through private enterprise, which has established what are called "letter shops." Official dispatches art carried by couriers, at a rate so rapid, in cases of emergency, as from two hundred to two hundred and dfty milei a day. These official couriers are not allowed to convey private disp itcher. At the treaty porta "letter shops" U( used by the natives only ; but in thi interior, or at places not reached by the foreign postal arrangements, they are employed by foreigners as woU, chiefly by missionaries. All letters and parcels to be sent may be reg. istered and insured. When given in at a "letter shop," the contents of the envelope are displayed before it is sealed up, and stamped with ihs chop" of the shop. Charges for the, transmission of valuables aremade on a percentage of declared value, and, aa with letters, differ according to th distance to which the package is to be carried. A receipt is given, and th shopkeeper then becomes responsible either for its safe delivery, with un broken "chop" or seal, at its destina tion, or for its return to the sender. In some parts of the empire about two-thirds of the expenses of trans mission are paid by the sender, while the remainder is collected from the receiver; thus the shop is secured against entire loss from transient cus tomers, and the sender has some guarantee that his letter will be car ried with dispatch. There are said to be nearly two hundred letter shops in Shanghai, but in many remote villages there are none. Popular Scieao Monthly. GREAT BOOK FREE. When Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo. N'. V fublished the 6rst edition of his woik, The eople's Common Sense Medical Adviser he announced that alter OBo.ono copies bad been sold at the regular price, $1.50 ptr copy, the profit on which would repay him for the great amount of labor and money expended in producing it, he would dis tribute the next half million free. As this number of copies has already been sold, he is now distributing, absolutely free. 500.000 copies of this most com plete, interest- COl'POS j ing and val uable common j No. 1 1 3 I sense med ical work ever "published the recipient only being required to mail to him, at the above address, this little coupon with twentv-one (21) cents in one- cent stamps to pay for postage and pack ing only, ana me uuok win uc acui uy uiui. It is a veritable medical library, complete in one volume. It contains over loro pajfej and more than 300 illustrations. The Free Edition is precisely the same as those sold at $1.50 except only that tbe Looks are bound in strong manilla paper covers in stead of cloth. Send now before all are given away. They are going off rapidly. Railway's Ready Relief. His life long friend. It Is the otrf l'AI.N KKM- E1V that in. staiitly stops the most excruciating ! miiis. sllai nUutnma 1 1 o n. and cures cot gettion. Internally a tesstHion ful In water will in n fpwmlniitesctire Cramps. 8asms. Sour comitch, Heartburn, Sick lletd actie. Iiarrbnit. Hummer Complaint, I)yQ- tery. Colic, J-lariiiency and mli internal naiu.4. There is not a remedial arent In the world that will cure fever and airue and all other malarious. Hlious and otlier fevers, (aided liy HAHWAY'S 1'ILI.S), so quickly as KA1 WAVS HEADY HKI.IEF. Price 50 cents per bottle. Sold by Druggists. KAOM AV & CO.. New York. Bad way 's M Pills Purely vecrtahV mtiil anil reliable. t'aueperfeo Pli-stloll. coiuolete adsorption, and ueulltitul reu larlty. Fur the cure of all dlsonters of the Stomach, T.lver, Bowels, KMiieys. Itl:uMt-r, Female 1 rregularitlee, Mck Heajlarhe, ItlliousneH.. Constipation, l'iles snj all derangement of the Internal Viscera. cl. box. At lJrugi;ltts or hy tiiatl. KADWA Y ft CO., NKW Yobk. lUpuael. Angelo. teutiens, Ts The "lntFNK" are the Best and Most Coonoral esl Collars and Cnffs worn : they are made of ani cloth, both sides finished allie. and belaa- rni ble, one collar Is equal to two of an r ot tierkrad. Tktu fit mil, wear mil ant toi wlL A boast Ten dollars or Five Fairs ol OotTs far Tsiall-Trai Cents. A Sanple, Collar and Pstrof Cnffs twtAfat Is aw fleals. Heme style and sue. Address BXVKBSIBLX OOLLAS COMPACT, T Framklta St., New York. S7 KUbf St., BBjjftre PROFITABLE DAIRY WORK Can only be accomplished with tbe very ben of tools and appliances. Cream Sepa f arm you ara and better the skimmed uable feed, make no ml Davis. Kent, catalogue With a Davis rator on the sure of more butter, while milk Is a val- Farmers will take to get a Illustrated mailed freb Agents wan tcl SATIS ft BAKKIJT BLDO. A UFO. CO. Cor. Randolph A Oearbora SU.. Chicago. FOR FIFTY YEARS! MRS. WINSLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP has been used by MIMtona of Mathers for their ehUdren while Tcethlnd fo.- oer Fifty Yvare. It soothes theohlM. aortnaa the a-nms. allays all pain, cures wind oolks.ana U the best remedy for dlsrr99ea. Twestr-ns Cease s Batsle' ClOl VIM Washlaelon, U.U. mf Successfully Prosecutes Claim. Late Principal Examiner U S. Peneloo Bureee. I SsTslnlast war. UatuuoJcallUa' claims, attj silica. PATENTS ; Book Pres. efc IBM Hi ngtox, U. C, V'JT."TUS' - J - J . B. M A VI R . r7.:.V2'rT. "1 """" weue areata rfes) asn.lUias. Bseik.Mnmlsr. OsWweaJl. ..'-. 87 061 Sura relief i oriTWI Vinnrn o nioril re Price a6cti WUUtn O rMO) I ILLCO.br maiL StowellftCa, BlSlUJISf lCharktown,aI4. ir ASK YOUR DRUQQIST FOR Ufw:uvi The BEST POR INVALIDS JOHN CAKJLB MUM, tkww Vevk. I I Beat Couch Srrup. Tastes Uood. Use I I
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