ASPIRATION.
Within the dim and distant halls of time.
Where high ideals wait fulfilment Bare,
A yelled Statue stands of mien sublime,
A dream of beauty calm, serene and pure.
All that the artist's rounded thought could
brin r
To perfect womanhood is here enshrined,
All that the poet's raptured heart could sing;
In this complete, white loveliness we find.
O thronging years ! go by, and brine th
hour
That lifts the veil fron off the perfect face
6pe.-iks life into the marble, and, with power.
Bids it be woman breathing living grace.
Bo lt oar dreams come true, and every
where Hope's folded bud to fragrant flower e
pand,
And woman be the thing, divinely fair.
Which men have thought her, and which
God bath planned.
B. McLane, in Wortbington's Magazine.
JOEL WILSOyS FAILING.
BY EMMA A. OFFEB.
HEN Ellen Wilson
went out to the
barn to tell her
father to come to
supper she found
him sitting on the
edge of a bin,
Bmoothing over
his knee the piece
of paper in which
a (neighbor had
returned some borrowed axle-grease,
and shaking with laughter.
The end of the day, which had been
hazy and warm, was sharp, and the
wrappings on the house-plants, as yet
unhoused, showed that the nights
were frosty, as did the burning red of
the oak-sprouts along the road fences.
The two maples in the door-yard had
dropped tbeir leaves in a broad yel
low rug, which merged gently into the
yellowish-green autumn grass.
"What's the matter now, pa?" said
the girl ; and she sat down beside him
and laughed too, in a sympathizing,
ant'eipatory way, with her under lip
drawn back.
Her father wiped the tears from his
eyes with the back of his hand, but
cculd not get speech. The paper was
au old scrap of an illustrated comic
weekly.
"Look a' that picture," he struggled
forth. "There's a man, he's got his
things to paint pictures easel and
thing and he's going through that
lot and looking all around at the cows
they're standing still, and the trees
and all ; he's took off his hat and hold
ing it out, and he's saying something
I hain't my glasses saying some
thing about nature in repose, some
thing flowery. Wal, here in the next
picture one of the cretters has run for
him, and he's run and jumped over
the fence, and there that feller sets.
Hih box of paint and his hat and one
of his hhoes, they're strung along on
the other hide dropped Vm as he run
and there he sets, all daubed up
with paint, and his collar's all twisted
around and one leg of his easel's stuck
right through his coat, and his camp
stool's got rif,'ht on top of his head
and the legs hanging down round his
ears. And the cow stands there snort
ing and pawing, head down and tail
a-swishing; audit says, 'The repose
upset' that's all it says, jest, 'The re
pose upset. "
Mr. Wilson tnrned his reddened,
tear-wet face to his daughter. If the
boisterous extravagance of the sketch
appealed to him it did not lessen his
delight; he sat shaking his head and
laughing with slow, abysmal sounds.
The girl's quick aud breathless laugh,
characterize I always by her drawn-iu
under lip, mingled with his. Her face,
with its wide mouth, shrewd eyes, and
tipped nose, marked her inheritance
of her father's humorous susceptiblity
and proneness to laughter, with the
feminine dilTerence that she had not a
humorous tongue. Joel 'Wilson was
known for a settled wag. He chuckled
on as they went to the house. Ellen,
in her kitchen garb, had her hair
carefully done up, and her father
noted it.
"What's going on now?" he queried.
"Stell Blakely's party's to-night,"
ehe rejoined.
"Over on the river? How you go
ing? That great long spindle-shanks
going to take you?" Her father's eyes
twinkled.
She nodded, with her good-natured
laugh, but her face grew so hot that it
tingled. She could not bear the men
tion of Austin Brewster coolly.
tier mother had a guest at supper ;
Miss Xash, a dark little spinster who
had taught in surrounding school-districts
for twenty odd years, and by
reason of her single state was an habit
uated table-visitor through a large
region. She sat sipping her toa with
critical deliberation, the effect of her
extensive experience of tea-tables. But
Bhe aimed to be agrreable. She had
brought news of a surprising marriage
in the next town, that of a widow of
forty to her hired man twenty years
younger, mid she was fall of the sub
ject, talking with fluttering vehe
mence in rigorous arraignment of the
act.
"I come across this here jest now "
Mr. Wilson had begun twice, with the
comic drawing in his hand and his
mind eagerly running on it, but had
gi.t no further ; the talk of the women
drowned him out. He sat in his tipped
back chair, when supper was over, and
listened, with some idea slowly form
ing itself; the corners of his mouth
twitched. Miss Nash sat primly by
tho kitchen stove, while Mrs. Wilson
aud Ellen cleared the table, talking on
the same theme. Her small, dark eyes
shone and darted with her condemna
tory excitement ; she tapped the floor
nud shut her lips tight between sen
tences. Mr. Wilson brought his chair
legs down and hitched them, with a
low, inaudible chuckle. His charac
teristic mildness was lost in his enjoy
ment of the idea revolving itself. He
looked at the little, old school-teacher.
"Wal, now, you hadn't ought to
pass judgment, Miss Nash, he said.
"Now, you take your own case; jnsl
about how young would a man have to
be, anyhow, so as 't you wouldn't havr
Vim?"
Miss Nash stared at him for an in
tomprehending minute. But Ellen
gave a faint, shrill titter in her stifling
hand. Lacking that, the visitor might
perhaps have taken the pleasantry in
good part, bnt the dull color rose in
her nubby cheeks and spread warmly
to her hair. She gave an embarrassed,
resenting laugh, and in a moment
more got up and stepped to the sitting-room,
where she had left her hat
and shawl. Mr. Wilson did not see
Her; he sat wheezing in his chair,
with closed eyes, from which the tear?
'an down.
His wife followed her. She was a
largo woman, with a calm and serious
ace. She said nothing as ahe helped
her -visitor in her preparations, bnt
ihe followed her out at the door and,
ivith her skirt drawn over her shoul
ders, stood with her in the cold dusk.
"I feel bad. Mi&g Nash." aha said.
'1 feel bad to thinkifr.WiWsloul4
bare done so. I don't know what
made him ; I feel sorry and ashamed
enough ! Wal, I say I don't know what
made him : bnt he's always been so.
He's always had that joking; way, and
always oeen a great nana to laugn
pnd find things to .laugh at. It's in
jiim; his father was jest au. It hain't
always suited me, Miss Xash; I've
wished more than once he was differ
int. Ellen, too. Ellen's jest the same
ray. When I've seen other girls act
ing kind o calm and quiet, and Ellen
Carrying on and laughing so, I've felt
mortified; it ain't how I'd like to see
Her. For a gill it seems kind 'o rough
ind hawbucking. Why, I don t talk
ibout it ; I've never said a word to
inybody I wouldn't; bnt now that
ae's made you feel so" said the kind
woman, in her humility and sym
pathy. "It s their failing. a sup
pose we've all got em. I hope yon
un t going to lay it np against jx.r.
Wilson, Miss Nash," she said, press
ing the schoolteacher s meagre arm ;
tnd the little old maid looked np at
her with the end of her nose tingling
in mollification.
Austin Brewster drove np to the
rate an hour later, since Blakely s, on
che river road, was four miles away.
Ellen was hurrying her simple dress
ing upstairs, but below there were thA
ividences of her anxious, conscious
forethought. She had dusted the
itting-room and rearranged the books
n the table, and placed the chairs
jarefully, and in submission to her
jbviouB concern her father had tempor
illy refrained from his usual evening
practice of taking off his boots by the
Ire. When the young man came, how-
:ver, he was sitting with his stockinged
:eet on a chair.
"Cold out, ain't it?" he said, mov
ng the chair and his legs to face the
lew-comer where he sat.
His wife bad laid down her sewing
ind was looking worriedly from one to
.he other. Austin Brewster had not
ived long in the neighborhood. He
vas very tall, with a long, sober face
md a silent manner which commanded
i certain general respect, though it
vas largely the result of diffidence,
"n Joel Wilson it always roused a
spirit of rallying drollery; and his
rife waited now in patient dread of
levelopments. His venture with Miss
ash was fresh, and the mood which
lad possessed him then was unas
maged.
"Is your father feeling any better
f his rheumatism?" she put in, pre
ventively. "Yes, he's some better," said the
foung man, returning her smile. He
vas more at ease with her than with
Mr. Wilson ; he would have said that
le liked her better.
"Has he got out any yet?"
"Yes; he was out yesterday tinker
ng up the cellar windows. I told him
le'd better be careful."
"Why, yes ; it was damp yesterday.
! know enough about rheumatism to
mow how damp weather makes your
oints creak. Last winter I had these
tnuckles swelled np ao I couldn't get s
glove on."
He gave her the vague attention
tvbich the young accord such matters.
I!ut Mr. Wilson shifted his legs, chuck
ing as he settled his glasses.
"Wal, I didn't know for certain as
ron'd get around here to-night," he
I lid. "I heard you are going to take
i job. You hain't heard what thej
vas saying the t'other day?"
"No," said the young man, nnsmil
ingly. He fliished with apprehension,
ie had beneath his awkward con
traint enough of an under-lying self--egard
to be offended at its injury.
"Wal, they was taking about the
lection flag-pole down to the store,
.nd you was jest going by, and Jim
Taylor said you'd make a first-class
ne jest as you was, if you wasn't on
he wrong side of the question." He
iniled indistinctly and fell into cheer
'ul rumbling laughter.
The young man's face hameu and
lis jaw dropped; and Mrs. Wilson,
renerically akin to him, thrilled with
lympathy. She got up hurriedly and
vent to the stair door and called Ellen.
Her escort took up his hat and stood np.
Then she came down he was standing
it iff and red-faced in the middle of the
oom. She thought that his abash
nent was due to her father's blue
socked feet, conspicuous on their
'hair, and with her instinctive laugh
he grew red and got to the door
puickly. Her father, looking on with
leficient comprehension, gave a jocose,
riendly-intentioned parting sally.
"I had the ceiling plastered jest
ately," he said. "You might scooch
lown a little. "
Ellen's attendant stalked out grimly.
There was silence for a time when
he door had closed. Then Mr. Wil
lon, looking up guiltily, encountered
lis wife's eyes, and dropped his own
nd cleared his throat.
"I guess you're going to get every
body in town mad at you," she said,
Inally. Her temperateness was more
launting than tartness would have
jeen. "I guess after a while there
ivon't anybody come here."
But her chief concern lay deeper.
She spoke again with an anxious
juivcr in her voice.
"If vou've got Austin Brewster so
nad at you he won't come here again
don't know what Ellen '11 do," she
mid. "Joel, I don't It's different
Tom what it's been with anybody else
she's ever gone around with ; she feels
lifferent. If she can't get him I don't
inow what BheTl do." In the privacy
zt her husband's ear her short, moth
erly intuition fonnd full expression.
Mr. Wilson, sobered and silent, got up
ineasily and opened the stove hearth.
"You don't take it to heart about
Vnstin," his wife concluded. "Things
slip off from you like water off a goose,
ind always did. But you ain' realized
aow Ellen why, she thinks the world
ind all of him. Joel, yon don't
.now. Maybe if yon had you'd have
lone different, and maybe yon
wouldn't. I shouldn't wonder if it
vas too late. Yon got him real mad.'
The party at Stella Blakely's was al
.eady in full sway when Austin Brew
ster and Ellen Wilson arrived at half
ast eight o'clock. It had, indeed, ad
ranced from the formal stage, when
.he girls had taken off their wraps in
.he lower and the young men in the
ipper bed-room and they had passed
i strained fifteen minutes in the par
or to the romping. With youthful
ndifference to the season they were
laying Ruth and Jacob in the front
rard. A lamp in the window sent out
ts light, and two roughly-hewn Jack-I'-lanterns,
set sportively on the
steps, filled the cold air with the pleas
int smell of burning pumpkin.
Austin and Ellen, when his horse was
litched and they had been passed
hrough the bed-rooms, were drawn
nto the noisy, laughing and jabber
ng, swaying ring. Somebody called
Slien inside it, and when, after a rol
ioking period, it was her turn to
:hoose her Jacob, she took Austin.
Ie stepped in, tall and stiff, and sub
nitted to his blind-folding gravely.
Bnt gravity was infeasible. He was
aMailed wittt hff and jeering as h.
(roped about the ring fit pursuance ol
the girl's voice in its guiding repe
tition of the name ; he was given mis
eading hints and pushed roughly in
rrong directions. Now and again hf
ras near to her, and once he hao
'souched her, but she darted away, re.:
'vith running aul p-pio: with laiU'l:
r, and withal half frightened us bu.
vatched him helplessly straggling, st
oug and bo fruitlessly that the fut
row high and wild. "She's right be
lind you !" "Here she is, I'll hoi.
ler." 'W'y, just put out - youi
iand 1 He was bewildered and dizzy,
ind could no more identify the voicet
.hat badgered him, and had so lost hit
earings that he could not remembei
low the yard looked. He heard hei
veakened voice at his elbow anc
slntched at her, and failing to touch
ler, pulled the band from his dazec
tyes in desperation and sprung aftei
ter, amid hooting mirth. She brok
hrough the ring and ran panting,
ind he followed. "Kiss her when yon
jet her 1" laughter-hoarsened voice
shouted after him. He blundered
hrough a flower-bed and on into th
larkness, and caught her crouched
igainst a fence, and, his face relaxing,
rolled her np in his long arms anc
ollowed his instructions.
When they got home, at twelvi
'clock, Mr. Wilson was sitting ii
vaiting for them. He came to tht
loor when he heard them, and down
she steps, which were white with
leavy frost. At noon there would be
(lowing warmth, but the night, clear
is a bell, had a wintry sharpness; Aus
tin s buggy wheels creaked as hi
lalted. He came np the path wita
llen, and Mr. Wilson met him at th
lottom step.
"Come in, come right in I" he said.
Instin stared. The sitting room firs
lad gone out, and Mr. Wilson had
inned the table cover around his
leek ; he had once or twice dozed, and
lis hair was rumpled and his eyei
blinking. He drove the confounded
ronng man in before him.
He had an object, planned in all
seriousness and patiently waited for.
e had laid out his newspaper on the
)ared table, and he st down and took
t up and fell into talk. His theme
ras the coming election, and he en
iered npon a mild political discussion,
touching one point after another, an 1
eading extracts. For once his ready
minor failed him ; in his compunc-
ious anxiousness he saw no farcical-
ty in his proceeding. He had a slowly
tautious manner ; above all there was
10 trace of jocundity ; and he pause I
resently and submitted a point to
lis hearer. He only stared, and moved
learer the door he had not sat down ;
ind before Mr. Wilson could prevent
t he had, with an indistinct word, got
limself out.
Ellen hurried close to her fathei
md grasped his arm in au excited
remble; her involuntary breathless
augh was of open happiness.
"Pa, she gasped, I m going to
narry him. Pa, he's asked me to! '
The next morning Mr. llson went
oking covert way around the cellar
.nd pantry till he had got together a
asket of the best apples, and starte 1
ip the street with them. He htoppc 1
.nd leaned on the lirewsters' fence an. I
alked to Austin for a little, with ta il
.wkwardness of uncongeniulity whie.'i
ould never be less; and then ho went
in aud took the apples to Miss N.in.
Frank Leslie's Weeklr.
DRESS GOODS.
At the formal fall opening of th
house of Strawbridge & Clothier, Phil
adelphia, the display of dress fuhno
was wonderfull The exhibit, including
high art novelties in silks and all kiiuli
of dress goods for general and epeeiii
use, in the standard weaves and ap
proved colors, and in new and faucj
effects, together with choice nrti-ti
conceits in millinery as well as u
wraps, and made up garments of ever
description for ladies and children.
TABLE LINENS.
To the good housekeeper, no depart
nient in the handsome and lm mens)
store is so fascinating as that whict
contains table linen, the beaulifu
damasks, as exquisite in weave tints ai
the finest steel engraving. Here, tin
eye for effect is gratified in the luuct
sets, consisting of table cloths and nap
kins finished with hemstitch, nut
additional lines of drawn work about
the edges, and then there are daintj
linens by the yard or in cloth of de
sired length, with double border it
some charming conceit, with centn
in less conventional or severe pat
tern, or with perhaps a differenl
all over flower design in much smalloi
size than the figure in border. Nap
kins come to match each and ever;
table cloth; no matter how high or lot
its price may be.
As samples of these goods can no
be cut, Messrs. Strawbridge & Clothier
have issued a comprehensive Illustrated
Catalogue of Housekeeping Linens
Table Cloths aud Napkins, whict
shows designs, and gives sie and price
of each given style, for the benefit ol
their patrons Viho cannot visit the
store, and this catalogue, together with
samples of any desired dress goods, and
information about coats, cloaks and
costumes, can be procured by wrifr
ing to
Stkawbridge & Cl.OTHIEK'3
Mail Onler Department,
Philadelphia, Pa.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
It may be noticed that the fashion
able drooped or mandolin sleevi
in manv of the swell frowns, ta nine
effectively interlined with fibre chu
mois.
An extrpmo novel I v 14 hut nhnwi
at Strawbridge and Clothier's; it ii
made of black velvet put on full anc
trimmed in ecceutric fashion with
broad loops of wide, gold edged greer
ribbon, flanked on either sisln with
smoke gray dove, and finished in fron
with a double eye shaped steel orna
men i.
A thirtpen frnrpri Riripf. ia ninan ......
fortiori in hnnur anri nnrinor l.ir i. :n.n
O "J w .UWJl
lining of fibre chamois.
An elegant dress just sent home bj
Madam E. H. Fowler, of Brooklyn, ii
made of Eudora, one of Priestley's re.
markable silk warp materials, which if
absolutely perfect in its black coloring,
being double dyed, and also in
weave and in finish.
Caniche cloths, entirely new fabrics,
which seem to suit the popular taste
are among the novelties in dress good)
at Strawbridge & Clothier's.
One of the
black Velutina, which material looki
just like silk velvet lined with
satin, and interlined with fibre
chamois which gives it warmth, and
grace. This jaunty cape is trimmed
about the collar edge with a fall of
jetted net lace, while the outlines of
the entire collar are defined by ruch
ings of the net.
Songs are plentiful and cheap, but
the lay of the hen still brings 3d
cent a dozen.
HOUSEHOLD UltTEESe
SKNU DECOBATOT DOH'm
Don't put extra heavy drapery la
imall rooms.
Don't overload your rooms with fur
titnre and bric-a-brac.
Don't place an easel with a lare
picture thereon in the middle of the
aarlor floor.
Don't place s large wooden pedestal
fith a group of statuary between the
taael and the further corner.
Don't place npon a small table ft
lelicate piece of Italian statuary cot
ired with canopy of glass.
Don't have a big Chinese porcelain
ar in ft room only four times the width
l the jar.
Don't use table lamp of herculean
roportions on small table or in
small room. Give the eye space as
veil as the lungs. Space in the centre
f the room is as preoions as the most
tostly piece of furniture, for it en
iches all the furnishings.
Eveiy apartment should convey the
.feeling of use rather than the idea
chat it is ft room for the exhibition of
urniture. Woman.
CAST WAT TO WASH DIBHKS.
I have an improved plan for washing
iishes which has been practiced in
tome households in this city, and
which have been pronounced a great
inccess, says ft correspondent of the
Detroit News.
First, have your water boiling hot.
rhis is essential. Provide yourself
ith a common painter's brush, with
a handle about ten inches long. If the
bristles are not found convenient, tie
piece of soft rag at the end of a stick
of the same length. Take the plates,
tnd after removing all the scraps, pile
them on top of each other in the
empty dishpan. Four enough hot
water on the topmost dish to fill the
iish. Then, tipping np one end of
the dish with your finger, wash front
tnd back with the brush. in J! ranee
ipecial brushes trimmed with thin
rope about four inches long, instead
f brushes, are used for this purpose.
Remember, it is not the heat of the
jlates but the hot water that pains the
hands. When this is completed the
water will be in the next dish. Lift
the clean dish out and place it on its
adge against the wall. Fut in more
hot water and perform the same opera
tion on all the other dishes, and when
'.he work is finished you will find that
the heat has dried the plates and that
Ihey do not require to be wiped. By
this method you need not scald or
ret your hands, and you will also
kvoid the trouble of wiping, which is
half the work.
UBS. borer's menu for a week.
It is the opinion of Mrs. Borer,
fathered from her own observation
and from that of other eminent teach
ers and students of the food question,
that oranges, shaddock, grapes, dates
and figs can be taken with good results
before eating the substantial part of
the breakfast; but that apples and
pears agree best with most stomachs
when taken at its close. Her own
breakfasts, which seem to be models
f lightness and nutrition and tempta
tion to eat, usually consists of fruit, a
cereal, ft simple meat dish, bread of
some kind, and coffee. Those who
know Mrs. Borer, and the brightness
of her mind, her splendid physique
and the great amount of work she ac
complishes, can but be interested in
knowing exactly what she is fed on.
To satisfy this curiosity, and also,
we presume, to help others to a same
and simple way of living, Mrs. Borer
has lately given a week's menu used in
her own house at this season of the
year.
That for the first day consists of a
breakfast of grapefruit, oatmeal cooked
ten hoors with cream, chops, French
rolls and coffee. The lunch for this
day is a Welsh rarebit, toast, and
coffee ; the dinner, clear soup, boiled
mutton with egg sauce, boiled rice,
spinach, lettuce with French dressing.
wafers with cheese, and small cups of
coffee.
I For the next day there are oranges,
hominy grits with milk, piked codfish
cooked with egg and cream, French
rolls and coffee. The lunch consists
of cold mutton, bread, and cornmeal
mush and milk. The dinner for this
day is clear soup, broiled sirloin,
mashed sweet potatoes, stewed cab
bage, celery with French dressing,
wafers, cheese, and coffee.
A dinner that sounds very good ha&
for the first course clear soup, the
second roast chicken without stuffing,
cranberry sauoe, boiled rice, stewed
celery, lettuce with JJrencn dressing,
wafers, cheese, preserved dates, an7
coffee.
A Friday's dinner is a clear tomato
soup without meat, boiled flounder
with Hollandaise sauce, boiled pota
toes, cauliflower with cheese sauce,
celery with mayonnaise, wafers, and
coffee.
The daintest breakfast, that for
Sunday morning, consists of oranges,
oatmeal and cream, tomato omelet,
coffee, rice flannel cakes and maple
yrup. You will probably notice the
tbsenoe of pastry and cake in these
menus.
It ia Mrs. Borer's opinion that the
ordinary rich dessert is better omitted,
and not at all necessary to complete a
moe dinner. When there is a dessert
she prefers, I believe, something very
simple and light. When an expensive
sweet dish is omitted it gives the
housewife an extra allowance for vege
tables and good meat, and after one
becomes ftooustomed to it she finds
that a crisn wafer, a bit of good cheese,
and ft clear little cup of black coffee
is ft much more appetizing Xtniah IQ
me feast. New York Times.
In 1892 upward of 1000 publication"
more were issued in Germauy than in
1891. The greatest increase was in
the department of jurisprudence and
political science.
Caller "Why are you waving yonr
AnndkAraliiaf an -wildlv?
Manila "Since papa has forbidden
jacK tne House, we nave arranged
code of signals."
folia- "Wi,of lt.r
Murilla "When he wares his hand
kerchief five times, that means, D
von love me? and when I wave franti
I cally in reply, it means, Yes, dar
ling.' -
Caller "And how do yon ask other
questions?"
. Murilla "We don't That's the
jrhole code. "Harper's Bazar.
Another Customer IxMt.
Mrs. De PeJnteur This staff wont 4o
it all, and yon will have to take it back.
It doesn't harmonise with my complex
ion.
New Assistant (convincingly) Bnt
madam. It harmonised with the com
plexion you had when yon selected
Exchange.
There are ten suicides a day in
hat
NERVES
and
BLOOD
Are inseparably connected. The for
mer depend simply, solely, solidly
upon the latter. If it is pure ihey are
properly fed and there i no "ner
vousness." If it is impure they are
fed on reruse and the horrors of ner-
. Fd the
VOUO piusuBliuu . . j
nerves on pure blood. Make pure
blood and keep it pure by taking
Hood's
Sarsapari 1 la
The One True Blood Purifier.
mm D'lfc ateiMlinner pill and
rlOOU S IrlllS larnllr cathartic. 26c
GREAT QUAKES.
SEVERE EARTH TREMORS IS
THE UNITED STATES.
Old Lakes Drained and Kevr Ones
Created California's Disturb
ance Charleston's Terrible
Visitation In 188a
T I J HERE have been three
I great earthquakes in the
I United States during the
S present century, "said Fro-
fessor Gilbert, the geologist, to a
writer for the Washington Star. "One j
that was very remarkable occurred in
1811 and 1812 near the head of the
delta of the Mississippi. It embraced
a number of severe shooks at short
intervals during several months. In
fact, the disturbance lasted about two
years. The ground was moved in
visible waves, by which the trees of
the forests were rocked, and in some
nuua nnrooted. their branches being
. . i.i i - : i . l I
so eniangiea uu it wan iiupussiuio w .
separate them.
"Great cracks in the earth yawned
and closed again at each shock, while
from the fissures mud was thrown into
the air so violently as to lodge in the
branches of trees. Some lakes were
drained by the escape of their water
into the chasms which were opened,
while others were created by the sink
ing of the ltnd. One great sunken
area thus produced was eighty miles
long by thirty-five miles broad.
"The other two big quakes to wnicii
I refer occurred so lately as to be re
membered by the present generation.
One of them happened in the Inyou
Valley of California. If was caused by
a renewed movement on what we ge
ologists would call a great fault-plane
at the eastern base of the Sierra Ne
vada Mountains. In that part of the
world there is extensive 'faulting' in
the structure of the mountain ranges,
each range consisting of one or more
huge blocks of rock bounded by lauIU
and lifted above its neighbors. A
fault is made by the sinking of one
mass of rock in such a manner as to
change the relation of its elevation to
that of a mass adjoining.
"The creation of such faults is often
incidental to earthquakes. A renewed
movement along the great fault line
of the Inyou valley, in 1872, produced
a tremendous seismic disturbance.
The shocks continued for fourtecx
months. Great fissures were formed
along the base of the mountain range
for a distance of forty miles, tne land
west of the fault rising and east of it
falling several feet. A fence was part
ed for a distance of fourteen feet in
one spot. Owens River waa tempo
rarily swallowed np, and numerous
other phenomena excited the aston
tshment and alarm of observers.
"The memory of the Charleston
earthquake of 188C is yet vivid. The
focus of the disturbance was about fif
teen miles west of the city. Numer
ous big cracks opened in the earth of
the surrounding country. Water and
mud were thrown up, and railway
tracks were dislocated and buckled.
The first great shock lasted for about
a minute, others following with gradu
ally decreasing violence. At the end
of four weeks they ceased to be de
structive, but tremors were felt occa
sionally for several months. Twenty
seven people were killed outright.
"The invention of the delicate re
cording instrument called the 'seismo
graph' has revealed the fact that earth
quakes are far more numerous and
frequent than used to be imagined. In
some parts of the world feeble shocks
occur almost daily. Probably there is
no part of the earth where they can
not be detected at short intervals.
One of the most remarkable quakes of
this century took place in Chile in
1823. On that occasion several hun
dred miles of the coast were lifted a
number of feet. It has been reckoned
that enough rock was thus elevated to
make a mountain the size of Mount
Etna.
"The Charleston earthquake was
felt distinctly at a distanoe of 900
miles. A comparison of time showed
that the shock traveled at the rate of
17,000 feet a second. The fissures in
the earth's crust, which are among the
most terrifying of seismic phenomena,
must be of great depth sometimes,
though nobody has ever tried to fath
om them. They have been known to
swallow rivers for days without being
filled np. Severe shocks are commonly
accompanied by sounds like explosions
near or distant. Quakes under the
sea produce waves on the surface like
those created by a pebble thrown into
a pool, and sometimes such waves rush
up on the land, doing a great deal of
damage.
"There has been much dispute as to
the causes of earthquakes. They are
often associated with volcanio phe
nomena. When the lava of a volcano
contains much water, the latter is con
verted into steam and produces ex
plosions whioh jar the ground for
miles. The explosion of the great
mine at Hell Gate, in New York, occa
sioned tremblings of the earth which
were observed 175 miles away."
A Bore) Sign
A horse expert says that bad temper
fs Indicated by an eye "which shows the
white, glancing backward." This opin
ion is entitled to respect, If only for Its
antiquity and a more or less general
belief that it applies to men as veil as
horses. New York World.
A Great Pity.
"If s a great pity," said Mrs. Hunni
mune, as she turned from the door with
a sigh. "Things do not seem to be
evenly regulated In this world."
"What's the matter?" inquired her
husband.
"I was thinking of bow Slee It would
be If the berries we get were as fresh
as the men who sell them." Washing-
ton Star.
"Miss Octave Is a beautiful player.'
Tou mean she plays beautifully. " "No,
that's ezaotb what X sWt meanr
Trained Karses.
There was time when, in some
circles in onr country, it was regarded
mnnrent -nart of ft WO-
M 4UIW L
man's education that she should know
v,;n. Af Vhn nrnner care Ol IBB
nek. 10 do a mo 1 nxir" on- m ...
respect, and this qn.1I1liw.tion was
often thought to counterbalance defi
ciency in other respects. Bnt the
times changed. The art of nursing,
which was almost an inheritance in
some families, and sedulously culti
vated is others, fell in disuse. It was
no longer rated so high among feminine
accomplishments. In fact, there was
ft disposition to class the art of nursing
with various other old-time employ
ments for women, such as spinning
and weaving.
Again the times changed, and the
professional nurse appeared. Not,
indeed, as ft new official, for she had
long been in existence, but she began
to be popular, the community recog
nized her value and she found her
field. No one can study the progress
made in the past twenty-five years in
the training of nurses without being
amazed at the scope of their education
and at the splendid results already
achieved. A woman graduating from
some of the nurses schools in this
country knows as much to-day about
anatomy and physiology, materia
medica and surgery and such branches
of knowledge as many a physician did
fifty years ago under the training he
then received. It is not astonishing
that women thus fitted for their work
should find plenty of it to do. The
demand for trained nurses is to-day
far in advance of the supply and the
pay is certainly liberal. The nurse's
vocation opens a wide neia 01 aseiui
ness for women were all the kindly
impulses of their nature find abundant
gratification, and where they can
honestly believe that they are not
working in vain. Boston Herald.
Stomarnle
means a medicine that strengthens the stomach,
or to be brief, it means R pars Tabnies. If yon
are troubled with a weak stomach and cannot di
gest vour food use Ripans Tubules. One gives
lid.
Camnhnr and eun cotton are the
chief constituents of celluloid goods.
Pare Rich Blood is essential to good health.
because the blood is the vital fluid which sup
plies all the organs with life. Hood's fareapa
rllla is the great blood pnrifler.
Hood' Pill are purely vegetable, harmless.
effective, do not pain or gripe.
A man in Nevada, Mo., has been
cured of indigestion by receiving a
stroke of lightning.
I can recommend Piso's Cure for Consumption
to sufferers from Asthma. E. D. TOWNsESD, it.
Howard, Wis., May 4, 1MM.
Th( crreat temnle of the sun at
Cuzco, in Feru, was attended by 4000
priests.
The oliicct of the manufacturers ot Pobbins
Electric Simp has been tor 28 years to make this
soap of such nuprinr quality that it will give
untrersfii snugfiction, nave iney succeeaear
Ask your grocer for it. Take no other.
4S ESCAPE WHICH PROVED A BOOMEBANO.
The veteran of '49 had just finished
relating several exciting stories of
coaching in the old days in the West,
and looked around triumphantly.
"Taas, approved a youth in white
flannels, who sat on the piazza near
him, as the veteran caught his eye.
"Mebbe you know somethm about
it?" smilingly suggested the old man,
in a patronizing way.
"laas," replied tho youth, "1 do.
Lawst year I had a very exciting ex
perience with a coach. Lawst yeah
was leap-yeah, ye know, and there was
a girl at Newport who waited for an
opportunity to pwoppose, and she was
so strong-minded that we fellows
nevah gave her a chance, because we
knew we'd have to say yans if sheevah
awsked us. Wei", they had a coach
ing party one day and I was invited,
but at the lawst moment I found I
aw had to escort Miss Newton, the
strong-minded damsel, and it so af
fected me that I had a sunstwoke and
couldn't go. So they took Cholly Bud
in ruv place, and Cholly came back en
gaged. I cryed for joy that night over
my narrow escape.
"Humph! interrupted the veteran,
"there's nothin in that."
"Yaas, there was," continued the
youth; "that wide was one of the
worst I evah failed to take in my life.
It was a wegular coaching accident,
and nearly bwoke my heart. Cholly
mnwied the girl in June, and in July
she had an old nncle die who left her
a million and a half. So, yon see, we
have just as bad accidents nowadays,"
he added, triumphantly, " as they
evah had in 49." Harper's Bazar.
General de St Mars, of the French
Twelfth Army Corps, suggests that
competent men be trained and as
signed to the different battalions to
lead in singing National airs as the
soldiers march.
OXV13, ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the tafte, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs ia the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the tasto 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 E&re 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 I)o not accept any
substitute. Ci
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
s an nunasco, cm.
uuumie. nr. hew tout. .r.
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"Hiatorv of Rlectrlettv." fmm a m Rn to a.
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plating; Gold. Silver. Nickel, Etc Valuable re
ceipts and Instructions In making lolutions.
Sample copy of this valuable work mailed pent
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BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FBOV
VARIOUS SOURCES. .
"Her Name Is legion "-"Why, In
deed ? " A Proud Father A
Slight Difference Xo Expert
Advice Needed, Etc.
She's the prettiest maiden
That ever was born.
Her lips are a rose
And her tongue Is its thorn.
Fuck.
HOBS TBiX HE ASKED FOB.
"What did he strike for?"
"Eight hours."
"What did he get?"
"Three months." Judge
WHT, INDEED?
"What's alapstone, papa?"
"It's a stone the cobbler uses to
beat his leather on."
"Why doesn't he use a cobblestone,
papa?" Puck.
A sxnrPiiDrr.
Skinner "I am a trifle particular
T .lirava rnW Tnxr friendn "
Bkunn (his oreditor to the extent of
a hundred or so) "Xes, as you would
a chicken." Life.
HAS SHE A YOUNG MAN?
Misa Keedick "Oh. yes, I know
Miss Gildersleeve very welL She's s
friend of my youth."
Miss Gaskett "And what is your
youth's name ?" Judge.
A FBOUD father.
PniTPator "What's the matter with
Jones? He never speaks to a body
now.
Lancaster "Of course not Their
new baby weighed fifteen pounds."
Life.
THE BURNT CHILD.
Doctor "Now, Johnny, put
vour tonsrue and let me see it"
out
Johnny "Well, I'd rather not I've
been walloped often enough for mak
ing faces at you behind your back.
Tit-Bits.
A SLIGHT DIFFERENCE.
Wiggaby "I hear that yon have
been getting up a flying machine.
Have yon?"
Biggsby '"So. I have been invent
ing a flying machine, but I can't get it
up worth a cent" Indianapolis Jour
nal. HER PEDESTAL.
Lady (on leaving a crowded car)
"Well, I'm glad to get out of this
crowd. I've had to stand on one foot
all the way."
Voice (from corner) "Tea, and that
one foot was mine." Harvard Lam
poon. EXPLAINED ALti.
"I made a speech at the doctors'
dinner last night"
"That accounts for it"
"Acoounts for what?"
"Two men who were present said
they had discovered a new opiate,
Judge.
XO EXPERT ADVIOB WEEDED.
Husband "Can't I help you pack
that trunk?"
help me immensely by going straight !
in town to your office and leaving me
to pack it as I see fit" Somerville
Journal.
BEVEESED.
"Economy is the source of wealth,"
said the rich man.
"WelL I don't know," replied his
friend. "If you will watch the habits
of some of our millionaires you'll con
clude that wealth ia the source of
conomy." Washington Star.
MIGHT BH SO.
"When I was once in danger from s j
lion, said an old African explorer,
"I tried sitting down and staring ar
him, as I had no weapons."
"How did it work?" asked his com
panion. "Perfectly. The lion didn't even
offer to touch me."
"Strange 1 How do yon account
for it?"
"Well, sometimes I've thought it
was because I sat down on the branch
of a very tall tree." Tit-Bits.
THB TJP9 AND DOWNS OF I2FB.
"I shall never believe there has been
much romance in your life, Air.
Bond."
"Well, there has. I proposed to an
heiress by mail. She accepted me by
telegram, which an error of trans
mission made a refusal. I went West
When I returned her father had
failed and she had married a poor
man. I recovered the amount of her
dowry, with interest from the tele
praph company, but lost it all when
she sued me for breach of promise. "
Life.
XIV A CTRCTjK.
"It is verr interestincr " ha aaid in
the dyspeptic vouncr man. "to observe
the different names we have fox the
same thing."
"Is it"
"Of course it fa." h want on wlfb
the persistence of the man of researoh.
"Take lamb,' for instance. When it
gets old it is called 'sheep.' "
"AnyDoay Knows tnat."
"And the sheen, after it ia kilUd. fa
ealled 'mutton.' "
"You're srettincp rio-ht uannit tn
rhere yon started from."
"How?"
"When Tonr mutton is cooker! and
lerved in our boarding house it be
comes 'lamb' again." Washington
Star.
The United States uses nearly one-
talf of the quinine produoed ia the '
rorld.
One-fifth of the families ia Glasgow
b-iSalS fig
13
A rmr VAX.
A demure looking little man ap.
proached the haughty clerk in a gro
cery store and meekly asked if he had
any coffee to sell.
"Cert" tn8 ying man- "We
have ground coffee."
"Xo other kind?"
"Xope. This is the best ground
coffee on the market. "
"But I don't want it," and the little
man braced up. "I got soma engat
here the other day with sand in it,
and I don't want coffee with ground in
it You must think I want the earth."
Detroit Free Press.
Hdw'h ThU I
We offer One Hundred Dollars Rf-ar1 fo
any case of Catarrh that cannot becurt-d by
Hall's Catarrli Cure.
F. J.Chknfv & Co.. TnVdn. O.
WV, the underpinned, have known K .1. cha
ney for the lii-t 15 year-, and tielieve. him i-r.
fectlv honorable in all hiisinei-s tran-ai-tion
and financially able to carry out any o:,;a
tion made by the:r firm.
West Ac Thcax. Wholesale Drupt'lsts, Toledo,
Oliio.
Waliiino. Kikvax & Mar vis, "bo.talo
DniwriDt. Toledo, Ohio.
Ha l's Catarrh Cure i-i taken internal!?, nrt
inir directly npon the blood and mucons fir
facesof the Bystem. Testimonial -nt fr-r
Price. 75c. per bottle, told by all Dnx.'i.-ts.
A determination of Trofessor Bar
nard with the Lick telescoje places
the diameter of Neptune at :;j,'.'no
miles from 2,0J0 to 4,0i'0 miles lej
than s tated in most textbooks.
tr. Kilmers P w p-I!oot i"ir-t
11 Kidney nd Bladder tr ub!di
1 aini-let'and CoiiMiltiuion trej
Jjiborutory iiinsiiamtoa. ' 1.
The Engineering New3 dr.iws fr.mi
the Ireland building disaster the ni"ral
that the use of cast-iron columns in tall
and heavy buildings be forbiJileu only
steel employed.
Sirs. Window's Ponthlni ?yrnn for rllf'1-oi
teething, softens the gum-s. rel'.i'"e- ln:'.rr:i::'.4
tiun, allays pain, cures wiud colso '-Ve :l j.::.
TVio tolrihonp Rvatem in Vionml lia-J
passed into the bands of the Austrian.
Government.
FITS Mopped free ny Tin. KLINFi trnrAT
Nekvb Rfstoker. No tit after flr-d in) j- -i-.
Marvelous cures. Treatise and Si.' trud 1 o .
tie free. Dr. Klin.-. 'Ml Arch St.. l'hna.. fa.
A suit has been brought in Indiana
against a physician for refusing to at
tend a case of small-pox.
"Familaritv breeds contempt" U a
proverb found in one form or another
in every European or Asiatic larimiase
having a literature. Its earliest furm
is believed to be the Sanskrit.
yHE turnpike road to
people's hearts I find,
Lies through their
mouths or I mistake
mankind.
But the surest way to
get there is I say.
Feed them
Buckwheat
Every day.
Raphael, Aug'!o, hulM-ns. la
Th l.IinCNE',arethe Bft and Mont Eronom
eal Collar and Cnfis worn: they ar niad of tint
rlotti, both sides finished alikA, and txt'Dir rrverBt
bl4S one collar Is equal to two of any ot tier kind.
Thru ft mil, mar u-i'C mil l,.ot Mil. A box el
Ten Collar or Five fairs ol CuHa for Twtt-i1
Cents.
A SarorJa Collar and Ta1r of PntTs br bmB is Cb
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of tools and . ,-,a appliances.
With a Davis Tf Cream S. r
rator on the ataassBst ,arm 3rou "
sure of more JttSI and better
butter, while gir thesklrr.mei
milk's aval- BvE liable feed.
Farmers will wake no mis
take to get a J"" Davis. Kcat,
Illustrated J&& catalogue
mailed fbei .tSJfl Agents want.d
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