Juniata sentinel and Republican. (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, December 04, 1895, Image 4
--':; ljTc T:-T,5 ' A VANDAL IN THE LIBftARY. Not a noise thronghont oar dwelling Of the urchin's presence telling. J Did he sleep? .Where had flown the dimpled laughter Wont to ring from floor to rafter? What I saw a moment after Made flesh creep I (He had rent my Lamb in pieces. There was nothing- bat the fleeces, And Home Tooke 'He had taken in a twinkle; .Young looked old, with many a wrinkle? Other poets, quite a sprinkle. Strewed each nook. i My new Gar was sad, Hood tattered. And my Baeea sliced and scattered Spelled my Lecke; Pollock's Oonrse of Time had ran; Browning was Indeed quite done; Vandal fists hsd Just begun Knox to knock. fr The Decline and Fall of Gibbon Swiftly came: to many a ribbon It was rent. Steele was twisted; there was pillage . In my fair Deserted Village: Beaconstield was past all Ullage; Hook was bent. Would that I had caught the rorer . Ere this cyclone had blown orerl ' Fateful billow 1 There he lies! could I be rude On such slumber to intrude! Zimmerman on Solitude .- That's his pillow! ,- -New York Sun. "THE BIT 0' MEADEK. Old Davy King stood In his doorway laughing. To look at the broad wheat fields surrounding the farmhouse; to take In a sweep of the corn waring In the summer breeze; to watch the flock of turkey, sunning make an old man laugh, but Davy King was looking Inside the hoOM asbe stood In the kitchen doorway. "They're thinkln' about brlngln' the subject up In a nieetin', what you think ' that, mother? Better be eon centra t ln' their thoughts on gettln' the wheat crop stacked before the rain, hah? Howsumever, they got plenty a-tlme a Sundays." Again the old man laughed. Someone Inside the kitchen laughed,1 too, a shrill, contagious little laugh. "Ha, ha, ha!" roared the old man. "He, he. her shouted little Davy. Mrs. King did not speak until little Davy's laush had died away In the kiti'hen, then she said decidedly, as she took two apples from the cupboard and laid litem upon the brown tablecloth spread for the midday meal, "I don't see the sense o' neighbors continually peck iu' and bic-kerin' at one another fer nothiu', and it don't do no good, fur's I can see, to learn a little feller 5 years old to like sech things. Some folks say It'll be all the same In a hundred years, anyway." "Waal," remarked old Davy, dryly, "I reckon even In a hundred years once Upon a time Davy King will have had the biggest rixht-a-goin" in the bit o' meader yonder, hah?" " Twouldn't hurt to give 'm the road," said Mrs. King. "They can drive through it; I ain't a hlnderin'. but the gates is got to stand." "Sam Dove, lie's wlllln' to give the road through the whole of his farm, didn't you say?" inquired Mrs. King. "Ys," replied old Davy. "Sara's ready to act the big man all around. He. lied on me up to the polls; give it out as I was thinkln' one way and votin' t'other fer spite. I reckon as I'm thinkin' and actin' one way about the road; I'm thinkln' they will run no pub- ... ... ... lie roau turougn me meaaer. ana 1 m f,rin- i, ti.a cr,fa Tim thin correspond purty good together.' "Sam Dove's a foolish man when he's angry," said Mrs. King, placidly, "but be ain't the only man tbataway. All the rhurch people wants the road well as Sam Dove." "That's so," said old Davy, content edly, tney all wants It. liow many o' the church people stuck up fer me around the polls? How many o' 'em weren't a-clamorin on behind Sam Dove?" "You ain't goin' to give 'em the road, are you. grandpa?" cried little Davy's shrill voice. "You bear that?" exclaimed Mrs. King. "Here's a chip o the old block, sure, the boy Is," said the old man, proudly. "After my time you ain't gunno let 'em have It, neither, air you, honey?" "You bet I ain't" said little Davy. "You'll let "era pass through fer ac commodation, mebbe, but you'll keep the gates wbar grandpa put 'em, eh, honey ?" "Yes, slr-ree," said little Davy. Little Davy was 90 very small that wben he sat up at the table his mouth was hardly within sight but his clear, china blue eyes smiled at his grandpa during his homely meal, and his little white head bobbed under the table ev ery now and then In full appreciation of grandia's Jokes. "You'll bring the boy up In sech a way that he'll think all the neighbors Is fools." remarked Mrs. King, reproving ly. "His mother never give him over to you fer that." The old man bad shoved back his chair from the table; be was standing In the door again; the expression of his face bad assumed that gentleness that one likes to see In an old man. "Waal, I dunno, Davy," he said, "as I'd be so hard on the folks If Sam Dove weren't In It I've lived among 'em all my life and six of 'em's gunno carry me to the grave. But they've sort o took up Sam Dove as a leader. Hullo, thar, you shet that gate!" The old man's voice rose In a perfect roar as be uttered the last words and his eye grew furiously angry. "You. shet that gate," he called out again, "or go round by the pike; that ain't no public road." "He's done shut It" said the small boy. peering down toward the meadow. "Can you make him out honey?" isked old Davy. "One o' the cap'n's tuen. weren't he?" "No," said the small boy, truthfully, 't wasn't nobody but a nigger boy." "I thought you was gunno raise the roof off the house the way you holler ed." remarked Mrs. King evenly. "If Dove can spare a two-mile road, I ihould tbiuk you could let the bit o' meader go; besides, folks is feared to pass through on account of the Durm." "The Durm ain't gunno to hurt no body," said old Davy, "than ain't no more harm in him than a colt If they set down on the Durm at the meetin' I'll have my say about Dove's dogs." The oid man was sitting In the door way now. the small boy close beside him. Little Davy's head was resting on bis grandpa's knee; bis china blue eyes were closed; his breath was coming oft ami evenly. Old Davy looked down it the little, face, and then his gaze wandered toward the wheat fields, yel lowing so rapidly, took in the sweep of torn, saw the turkeys hunting worms In the lane. "Waal," he said, speaking Io himself, "leavin' the cap'n out they tin't a bad set o' folks. Ef they'd been I katisiied with the fust arrangement tad takln' nothin but the strip o' prow's t -f-H Dove, they could V had a mmmmmmm---immmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm a- - I f u , MMM MM fftf tfecc ' meader. tjfTtIn1Fgn'a6 give a piece o' road that's as necessary aa the whole big bit, and hare It said that Dove give the people the road." "He's mighty little and peaked; Is that what you're thinkln of, father?" Mrs. King's calm rolce somehox seemed to startle the old man. "No," be cried roughly; "I ain't thinkln' o' Dothln' o' the kind. He's big enough fer 5 years old." "Johnny were bigger," said Mrs. King. "He had stouter limbs and weren't so puny In the body. Davy most skeers me when he's undressed. Johnny were bigger In every way." "Waal, yon didn't raise him," aald the old man, bluntly. "This n Is big enough fer me. and a mighty spunky tittle feller. Bless you, no, he ain't tfreerd o nuthln'. He took the stick to Dave's dog. If that dog had a bit him " The old man'a face took on Its expression of hate and rage. "Laws, it didn't bite him," cried Mrs. King. "John Peters aays he believes the dog was laugbin'. You never was io down on anybody as yon are on Dove. If he has got an ugly temper he ain't the only man round fixed that away." "No," aald old King, "and he ain't the nly man around has got some say ibout a public road fer the church go ers. If you think this here little feller Unt strong, hadn't you better put him n that lounge yander, away from the Jraft? John Peter says as be puts him In mind o' Benjamin Stone; he says as Btone were the littlest, peekedest feller be ever seen. You wouldn't know It aow; weighs 250 pounds and Is a-gunno lit to Congress." Mrs. King gathered the little boy Into her arms, the old man helping her ten- lerly. "He's a mighty light weight,' ...m. anxlouTly"; "mebb as Ben- lamln Stone were this aways; I dunno; t think ef I was you and wanted to raise the boy I'd let 'em have the bit o' aieader." The old man closed his Hps tightly for in Instant; then be spoke gravely: 'You've got a lot of foolish notions In rer head, mother," he said. "I humor ed you mor'n once, but It didn't do no rood. I let Jim Coombs have them teed titers, when I knowed be weren't runno pay fer 'em, and I got that there aigger off without a trial. But you lidn't raise Johnny." "He weren't so little and peaked as :hls'n," said Mrs. King, unreasonably. "Waal, mother, I ain't gunno do no manner o' foolish things skeerln my- telf about the boy," said the old man. '.nipatiently. "The Lord's give him to is. whether to Keep or not 1 can t say; sut I know for one thing, that Sam Dove ain't gunno p'int no fun at me ibuut the meader road on account o' a little feller like that. No, they ain't tuuno git the bit o' meader that away through little Davy. Mebbe after a n-hile. as they can put in a good flyin aiachlne to carry them over and the ran'n can give the whole of the road jiiire enough and run the flyin machine :nto the bargain." "You're bound fer to keep the Durm ,n the meader?" To this question old Davy answered, testily : "The Dunn's got as good a right io the meader as you and I have to the i louse. I don t buy animals to put em h the barn or stake 'em round the place. The meader'.- a mile long, and 'bar TO"lu Iu 11 fer ,ne p,lriu the road too. why the road can go. "'n't to mnch ft'T accommodation jmyhow. Them dogs o Dove's '11 n-01-" thp m:,1 some d:lr- I'd a i'bot the hound dead If he d 4 bit Davy." I 1I rearitn't tiititkln r tvltln' thi 1 - "- . . ' " i ililld. repeated Mrs. King. "John J Peters says as he believes the dog were !-ugh!n" The following morning old Davy bus ied himself measuring the bit of mea low In order to satisfy himself in re- rrard to the exact amount of land that als neighbors coveted. He was greatly imused by the gracious good-mornings J f the passing neighbors, their gay re- 'marks about the weather and the glo- 'rious promise In the waving wheat "They think I'm measurln It fer the jse o the public. Jest to see how much I'm a-handin over," said Davy to the Ittle white-haired boy. who kept close it his heels. "It ain't sech a bit after ill, Davy. There's two bills In It and 1 boiler." "And a crick," said Davy, enthusias tically. "Yes, and a crick that can rise and (pile the whole road fer a spell," said :he old man cheerfully. "'Taln't sech 1 little thing, nohow. The road commis sioners would have to put up a bridge, :he county a-payln for it Waal, waal, :he cap'n may help along his man run nln' fer office, hut I'll keep the county from a-layln out a pile o' money on s aew public road." Two hills and a hollow and a creek were indeed to be found In the bit of meadow land that the church people were thinking of talking over In meet ing, with the minister hot on the aide if the new public road. Old King got In the habit of paying laily visits to the meadow. He liked to make out who the people were who quarreled every time they bad to shut the gates, and he liked to see them stare about to see If the Durm were In sight, for tales had been growing In regard to the Durm. "Just about as playful as a calf run aln' round Its mother," soliloquized Davy, Sr., watching his property down In the meadows enveloped In a cloud of dust of his own raising. "He ain't afeered o' nothln', but thar won't be no body to keep the Durm back ef the dogs is In his way. Them dogs Is worth a heap o' money, the cap'n brags, but the Durm ain't gunno stand back fer that I reckon he thinks he's wurth mor'n a onery dog." The old man was standing at the out er gate one day when he beheld his enemy lead his horse through the outer gate, pause a moment then pull a rail off the fence, leave the gate open be hind him, his horse standing loose, and ran full finped toward the creek. Then in th meadow now f! vino- ulnntr st a I breakneck speed, now pausing an In- the Durm. rw a ,wa - h 1 tered, and then he raised his voice and 1 yelled: "You shet that gate, will your I But the cap'n did not heed If he heard. 1 "That bull's worth mor'n a onery dog. You tech the Durm and I'll have the , mw uu JUU. viu mug D UClilUlIU) j hands tore a rail off the fence beside him, and be. too, rushed for the hollow, ! shouting furiously that he'd kill the 1 dog at the first lick. Half way down the hill he stood still as If something . bad caught him and held him fast Below him In the hollow he saw a small figure standing waving a red cap at the Durm. They brought the puny little grand j son home In triumph to his grandmotn 1 er, a number of neighbors passing through the bit of meadow In time to witness the cap'n's victory. He had not a scratch upon his small person. He was declaring through bis tears that be would have hit the Durm If he'd Dars come nearer. Ho was furiously, nj with Caa'n DoT ftcJUllng tM Otirm. They fcroUgM fte eld Blfl more slowly and carefully, the cap'n tenderly holding up his head. The sud den shock had made him faint He had had a bad shake-up. the cap'n aald. "Yes," muttered old Davy, feebly, while mother stroked his clammy hands. "I hollered to him I'd have th1 law on him ef be struck the Dunn, and then I seen the little feller. Yes," be added, with a weak smile, "they'll get the road after all through the Uttll feller. You'll be pleased to have U that way, I reckon." San Franclac Post LONG NAILS THEIR SYMBOL, Bney Are the Mark of Aristocracy fo thm People of Aw. In the empire of Annam, In South en Asia, finger nails are a mark of arlstoo racy, and among the upper classes the are allowed to grow to an enormoui length. Nobody, of course, can do worl of perform service of any kind wttl long finger-nails projecting a foot 01 more and liable to Injury. Even writ lng la Impossible to such persons. Tbi man with the longest finger-nails Is thi leader of Annam society. Aristocrat In that country have to be attended a all hours of the day and night by aer rants, who perform for them the most trivial offices. The Annam ladles cannot comb theli hair. They cannot even feed them selves, for fear of damaging their loni and beautiful finger-nails. No porn man In Annam can have flnger-nalli even a few Inches long, as he cannot af ford to employ the servants which thnj would necessitate. This absurd practice -has prevailed In Annam for many centuries. Thi lower classes there have aa much rev erence for long finger-nails as do thi lower classes In England for long ances tral trees- It will thus be seen thai Annam Is more of a democracy thai England, for the son of a newly rick merchant can cultivate finger-nails ai long as those of the King, while th Annamlte of even the bluest blood, once be la deprived of wealth and ser vants, must cut his finger-nails and do scend among the common herd. Hit ancient lineage Is then of no account A MARK OV ARISTOCRACY. So long as his finger-nails remain short .he is a person of no Importance. Many I , . , swells in Annam hare never had theit finger-nails cut since the day they wer born. Edison Konnd the Break, Dr. Norvln Green, the long-time pres ident of the Western Union Telegrapl Company, claimed that be gave Edisol the employment which was the begin ning of his successful career, to which as Is well known, the Western Unloi corporation has largely contributed. Edison had been bothering the officer! of the company with telegraphic devi ces they had no need of. He came lnt ( the offic one dar when 14 was Impossl ble to obtain communication betweet New York and Albany, and the seat l the difficulty could not be located. Il was banterlngly Invited to remedy tin trouble. He said he could do so In tw hours. He was laughed at and givec two days for the task. His prncesi was very simple. He telegraphed to the best operator In Pittsburg, and in structed him to telegraph to the best operator In Albany. The latter tele graphed his New York line down ai far as he could, feeling his way from point to point and sending the result! to the Pittsburg man, who forwarded them to Edison. In less than one bout Edison said to the anxious official! "The break is two miles from Pough keepste." That simple method Insured his status with the Western Union peo ple and won for htm a hearing In all his schemes. Philadelphia Times. Not Likely. Elsie Yes, dear, my husband Is a doctor, and a lovely fellow, but he b awfully absent-minded. Ada Indeed! Elsie Only fancy. During the mar riage ceremony, when be gave me th ring, he felt my pulse and asked me t put out my tongue. Ada Well, he won't do the latter again. Tlt-Blts. And Bai l Did It. Bobble What's an epigram? Snsle O, It's a way of saying some thing everybody knows so that only lever people can get any sense out of it Truth. On land and sea the lion's gacht His tall tied in a double knacht; His cricketers, who strove In vain, Might sail away for home again TJpon Dunraven's yacht Philadelphia Record. A Mountain of God The most famous and puzzling f all Irold mines Is the Mount Morgan. It appears from one of the Sidney papers that It contriDures more precious mean ' tne world s treasure than any other Ptcn of mrtb 8 8Hce of "n, tent Monnt Morgan Is supposed to product of a thermal spring, and Is simply a mountain of gold, but of gold that has already been treated by nature. In some far-off age the hill hai been a huge natural crucible, and all the gold It contains has been already mined, chemically dissolved and pre cipitated by nature herself. No speck of gold larger than a pin point has evei been discovered In the mount The pre cious metal exists In a sort of golden flour, dissolved through tron stone.- Westminster Gazette. . Monotony In Japan's Pood. An Englishman In Japan complains o the "perpetual feast of green tea, and malls, with nothing but rice and raw fish for a change." No doubt Jap ftneae would find rare beef and bee " MIGHTY LONDON? f 4 Group of Fata About the Greatest City ta the World. 1 There are 90,000 pacners In London, There are over 12,000 artists In Lon don. ' London has nearly 320,009 maid ser vants. The cow population of London Is 18,000. A London fog costs $35,000 for extra gas burned. Only one person In four In London I earns $5 a week. Ten mlllons of eels are annually con turned In London. About 2,500 dress suits are hired our in London each night On an average rain falls la London on 182 days of each year. Ten days of London fog cast 25,000) people on beds of sickness. London pays nearly a third of the whole Income tax of England. Twelve thousand people are envi ployed at the London theaters. About 1,250,000 articles are pledged with London pawnbrokers weekly. There are more than 4,000 pledged ab-t atalners among the London cabmen. On an average every London police! man arrests but seven people a year. More than 1,000.000 ready made cig arettes ax smoked In London each' day. London has a larger area than New i'ork. I 'aria, and Berlin all put to gether. It Is estimated that In London fully, 3,000.000 people never enter a place of worship. Over 1.000,000 pawn tickets for sums under 10 shillings are Issued weekly in London. In London SGI streets are named after the Queen, besides which there are 1C7 Queen streets. In winter as many as 40,000 per day of dead larks frequently find their way into the London markets. A thousands piano organs are played In the London streets daily. This does not Include common hand organs. London contains 250,000 working single women, whose Individual earn ings do not average more than 25 cents a day. The London Jam trade provides em ployment for 16.000 people and 65,000 tons of sugar are used yearly In the trade. . A single firm In St Paul's church-1 yard once received an order for 1,000, 000 ladles' mantles from a retail cus tomer. ! In the year 1S04 some 13,000 pewter leer pots were stolen from North Lou- ' don public houses. Tbey are used tr puake counterfeit money. 1 Ixmdon consumes 4,000,000 pints of periwinkles each year. There are 200 periwinkles to the pint Totnl, 800.OO0,- 000 periwinkles. What becomes of the shells? A Ixmdon confectioner says that he s often called upon to furnish wed- j ding cakes weighing 1.000 pounds ei.eh I and puddings of a size sufficient for C00 hearty appetites. It Is estimated that the great smoke cloud which sometimes hangs over London weighs 300 tons, fifty tons of I which Is bydro-carbon. It Is calculated that the smoke of the year Is worth $10,000,000. Ixuidon streets aie very long and each one Is crossed by an unlimited numlx-r of other Btreets running at right angles to It or cutting It diagonal ly or otherwise. From this It results that there are an unconscionable num ber of street corners, each one the Junc tion of two streets, or three, or four, as mny be. You may stand at any one of them without being told to move on and take In the vista of that portion of the town In which you happen mo mentarily to be. In this way the eye may grasp the perspectives of two, three or four streets successively, al most simultaneously, without as much as changing the position of one's body. In fact by simply turning one's neck. These streets are composed aa follows: A row of bouses to the right Is par alleled at a dlatanc of fifteen, twenty, thirty, forty or fifty feet by a second row of houses to the left or vice versa, the front of each row of houses facing the fronts of the opioslte row of houses, unless It be the backs which face each other, when It Is a mews. A long and comparatively narrow space Is thus left between the rows of houses, the center lieing a roadway for vehicles, and the edges lelng for the safe passage of pedestrians. Tills Is the street When you get tired of walking on It yon can call a cab and drive back to your hotel. It Is stated that London drinks ev ery year 45.000,00) gallons of malt liquor. 8,000,000 gallons of wine and 14,. 500,000 gallons of spirits. One million eggs are brought Into London dally from Italy alone. Chi cago Times-Herald. Dog-Soldiers. The use of dogs for military purpose baa proved so successful In Germany that the dog soldier Is continually be ing taught new things. Near Dresden recently there was a test of skill on the part of army dogs which was a great revelation of their accomplishments. Two companies of soldiers separated by a distance of a mile and a quarter, one of them supposed to be an outpost In the face of an enemy, communicated tor some time by the aid of dogs trained, to go back and forth. Each time the illstnnce between the two romnnnle was traversed by the dogs In less than' two minutes. In spite of Intense heat and a great deal of confusing firing, The special object of the use of these, fast dogs Is to enable detachments to to form themselves of the spi-ed at which the enemy la approaching, and so to maintain a position up to the last mo ment practicable. On the same occasion the cartridge dogs performed their peculiar duty. Which Is to supply the troops with cart ridges during a rapid fusillade. Each dog wears a kind of pack-sailili- v tarries three hundred cartridges. With this load he travels up and down the line of men, who help themselves to tartrldges as they have need. As soon as the pack-saddle Is empty the dog, at command, makes off at full ipeed to get It replenished. Every one has heard of the dogs of the "pious monks of St Bernard," which are supposed to have a sort of nonopoly of the accomplishment of lervlng the wounded and helpless, and tailing assistance for them. But the German military have trained dogs to tearch out and attend the wounded, and tall human assistance. These dogs of the ambulance corps ire trained to divide duties. Some of them, carrying a little flask of water or restoratives, simply sit and bark or bay near the body of a fallen man. , Others have been trained to go In ' kearch of assistance, and guide to the . pot a. soldier of the ambulance corps. The trained dogs performed all these functions very skillfully at the recent trial near Dresden. It Is plain that the I German army. If It should be engaged fa Mother war, would be accompanied , bj a, greater numoer 01 nogs uaa errr ,lng t forgot myself and spoke haa befora accompanied aa army on a canW m- to her when she broke that old r E 3 4 S fl i t 6 A U " Merit wins, and Merit has not only placed Hood's Sarsapa rilla at the head of all medi cines but has practically given it, aa a blood purifier, pos session of the whole field. co(dr Sarsaparilla Wins because It Cures. It Cures because It purifies, vi talizes and enriches the blood. Disease cannot resist Its potent powers. Health comes at Its persuasive bidding. If you need a good medicine, get Hood's and only Hood's. K aoeooo 0 0BC(HHt Prepared by CI. Hood a Co-, Lowell. Mm. f. -It r"ll care all liver liii. Hood s Puis after u p. JSC. In proverbs dangers often lurk Their meaning rather hazy; U( The happy man sings at his work," But drives the others crazy. f -Atlanta. Constitution. Prisoner "What that man Is going io defend mo 7 Why, be couldn't bring in Innocent person through r Flle fenda Blaetter. "I cannot vote," she walled. "Neither san the baby," said he, "but that does j't alter the fact that ho la boss." In llanapolls Journal. "Tom has proposed, and asks me to rive him his answer In a letter." "Shall rou do It?" "So; I will be more liberal ind give him his answer In two letters." Harper's Bazar. Wallace "How did you feel the first itnio you got Into a barber's chair for a' have?" Ferry "To tell the truth llxjut It I felt like a bare-faced fraud." Cincinnati Enquirer. James "Is Miss Snowball a graduate f Vassar?" William "She Is." "I thought she was. I beard her ask If :ho muzzle of a gun was to prevent It fulng off." Hudson Register. Mowler "I see some philosopher says that the way to cure yourself of a love iffalr Is to run away. Do you believe .1?" Cynlms "Certnlnly If you run away with the girl" Truth. Now the coal dealer fears, good soul. As winter draweth nigh, There'll be a men irclty of coal And prices will be high. Boston Courier. Burglar "Open you mouf an I'll kill yer!" Mother "Coward! Only for ona thing I'd raise the house." "Wat's datr "I'd be certain to wake the baby!" Chicago Record. i Blobl "Did you hear about the duel between De Tanque and Old Soak? They fought with pistols." Slobbs "Were they loaded ?" Blobbs "Xo, not the pistols." Philadelphia Record. I Harry "I cannot offer you wealth, Marie; my brains are all the fortune I possess." Marie "Oh, Harry, If you ire aa badly off as that I am afraid papa will never give his consent" Scrlbners. She (to her fiance) "I heard an old lady pay you a great compliment yes terday." He "Quite natural. What j was ItT" Bho "She said you must be 1 very bright man to attract me as 1 you did." Truth. Mr. Splnks "Well, Willie, has your later made up her mind to go to the soncert with me?" Willie "Yep. She's made up her mind and she's mnkln' up her face now. She'll be down In a min ute." Great Divide. Mr. nugglns (entering parlor with Miss Klssam on his arm) I have Just bad a taste of Paradise; I've been to rour conservatory, major. The Major Yes, I notice you got some powder on four nose getting It Yonkers States man. We would not house the gathered sheaves, If fortune's lights would flash And sweet October's golden leaves Would pass for current cash I Atlanta Constitution. "You can see for yourself that these goods are marked down," said the sales man, pointing to the altered price marks. "They appear to be all marked up," replied the customer, as he looked at the many hieroglyphics. Yonkers Statesman. . Good-looking Young Girl Will yon flo something for me. Mr. BT "With 'pleasure, my dear Miss A. What la It?" "Well, I wish you would propose to me so that I may crow over my con- in. I promise I won't accept you."- Fllegende Blaetter. The dressmaker's maid In a chic gown arrayed May the heroine be of her dreams; But except when asleep, she must aew and not reap. For she never can bo what she seams. Harlem L4fe. "Johnny," called his mother, "quit using that bad language." "Why," re plied the boy. "Shakspeare said what I just did." "Well," replied the moth er, growing Infuriated, "you should quit going with him he's no companion for sou." New York Herald. How often Dame Fortune looks on us aslant We think of this life but to rue It With Its women who want to be voters and can't And the swells who can rote and won't do It Washington Star. Boy (on the stump, who has been pa tiently watching the strange angler for about an hour) You ain't caught any thing, 'ave yen btranger No, not yet my boy. Boy There wasn't no water In that pond till It rained last night Los Angeles Herald. Mr. Slaveserf (to his wife) Clara. I wish yon would tell Bridget not to cook the biscuits quite so brown In future. Mra. slaveserf Why, John, what are fM thinking of? Bridget and I haven't bee,, oa .peaking terms since that Hiln anM I nan hil n minw wk o o 00 0 II BAHNAlua si j a...... , a fihe Has a Part in a Coming Ope-Mow Playlna Tbi Country. There is a pretty girl, who has snap ping black eyes that light up well moulded features, who Is Just now play ing a small part very small part ' that In one of the comic operas run ning at a New York theater. She dances a Spanish fling and sings In a sweet but light soprano voice in qnlntet I believe she has two or three lines to speak also. Her main occupa tion In the onera la to stand around In picturesque costumes and striking poses and look pretty. In all of which ha la Amlnpnflv successful. This young lady Is Miss Alice Hoi- brook. More than that ana ia me sis turjn.lo nt tha richest man in the world, "the King of the Kaffirs," Bar ney Barnato. She Is probably paia hnnt con nr t a week. Her brother- in-iaw Is estimated to be worth 3O0 000.000. or something like that and mi Tlolhrook and her sister and Barney" are on the best of terms. Be (paid for her education In London, and Mrs. Barnato writes to her conatan-y. Miss Hoibrook has bad a wide experi ence for the short time she has been on the stage. She has played In Africa n-ith an nni-ra comnanv. camDlng out on the veldts; In Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania, FIJI Islands and in England,' whore last season. In "Claude Du Val, she was starred along with Arthur Rob erts. She likes America. But Africa, to her mind. Is the coming continent Noth ing can beat It However, she likes this country well enough to have made arrangements to stay here two years anyway. Ptati or omo, rrrr otToudo, l Id'CAS 'IIOSTT. f Frank J. t'neNEr make oath that he lathe senior mrtn-r of the lirraof F. J. Ciiknrv & t'o., doitii; hiiHineNM In the City of Tled, County and State aforesaid, and I list said tlrra willtvtlie Mim of ONB HUXDKED DOL LARS fur iu-h and -very case of : tiarrh that cmnot be cured by the use of 1 1 ai.i.'h 'atahku IX'KK. r HAK .1. UlleNKY. worn to t-efore me and subscribed in my pre --nee, tbU titn day of I teremll-T. A. D. 1S(iw . A. W. Ulusus, ska 1. 1 Hall's Catarrh On re Istaken internally and acts directly on tlie blood and mucous aurfaces of the avateui. Send for lest:monialA, free. K. J . C 'u EN KY ic Co., Toledo. O. I 7 Sold by Uructfisi a. V'st. " It is reported that a mummy of a man nino feet high has been discov ered near San Diego, Cal. When an article ha been sold lor 2S yearn. In snite of competition and cheitti Imitations it tiitmt have siiix'rior nllttlitr. l-ohhins Klectric nan been constantly made and Mild since !-.. jtMk utr arorrr jar 11. liesi 01 an. The largest clock is said to be in Piillalo, .N. V. Its dial plate is twenty five feet in diameter. I could not not get along without Pin'a Cn-e for 'onuinition. It amay cures cures. Mrs. K. i'. Mm i.ton. Needham. MiwLlh '14- In England a pear or peach tree is trained like a vine, against the south side of a wall. Blood and WerTea are very closely related. Keep the blood rich, pure and healthy with Hood's Sarsaparilla and you will have no trouble from nervooanesi. Hood's Ptlla are the best after-dinner pills. Five hundred and Twelve thousand one hundred and ninety-seven cases of salmon were packed in British Colum bia this season. M . Window's Sonthlnt Syrnn for children teething, softens the Rums, reduces Inflamma tion, allays paiu. cures wiud colic 2"o a botlie. At the Santa Caterina Cathedral, Genoa, may be seen a crescent made of an emerald, which is eight inches be tween the points. Tradition eays that it was a present from Solomon to the Queen of Sheba. Ir. Kilmers F a Mr-Roar carat all Kidney and Bladder troubles. l'atn.lel and Consultation fre 1-aboratorr Binghamum. N. . The output of gold from CoolminliA District for the eight months endinir All -'list SI was 81.000 otinrps- from all other Western Australian gold Gelds , lAMjo ounces. FITS stonned fre nr IR. Kl.tHll Bmkat Nkkvs KkntiKKR. No flts after flrat day's nse. Marveloua enree. Treatiae and fz.W trial hot. tie tree. lr. Kline. VUl Arch SU fhila.. Pa. There is only one wooden church building in England to day a chapel. guarded by a tower over two hundred years old, in Greenstead Park, near Onpar. 47 HfiT ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs ia taken; it ia pleasant and refreshing to the ta?te, and acts cenily 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 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 wilt pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Io not accept any substitute. q CALIFORNIA FIB SYRUP CO. KISS A LICK HOLBROOK. jmw II w .m Loss of opportunity la liXe's greatest lots. NEURALGIA When the opportunity lies in a DANGER IN THE DUST. Bow Disease Mm Bo Transmitted bj Incaatloaa Expectoration. Of the danger of dust, the greatest are due to the minute forma of vegeta ble life called genua or micro-organ-Uma, of which the three prominent forma are bacteria, yeasts and mold The bacteria are the most Important They are so small that many thonsandi of them clustered closely togethet would make a mass not larger a pln'i bead. Fortunately, moat of them art BACILLUS OF CONSUMPTION, IN SPUTUM, MAGNIFIED l.OUU TIMES. harmless to man, and are of great value In the economy of nature. There are however, a few species of bacteria thai are responsible for some of the most dreaded and widespread of human dis ease; some of which are undoubted); contracted by Inhaling the bacteria Boating in the dust. For collecting bac teria In the air, what Is known as th "plate method" la most used. Into a perfectly clean shallow glass dish If poured a thin layer of warm "nutrient" gelatin, allowing It to solidify by cool ing, which gives a smooth, moist and tolerably adhesive surface, each dish being protected by closely fitting glass covers. When It la desired to examine the air of any particular place a cov ered dish Is set In a still place and the cover taken off. Dust particles. Inor ganic as well as organic, will settle ov the gelatin. The germ of consumption or tubercu losis Is found in the dust that blowi about our streets and In our houses. This germ Is, on an average, one-ton-thousandth of an Inch long. It does not grow In nature outside the bodie of men and a few species of warm blooded animals; but It may remain alive for a long time In the dry state. For some reason that we do not know It will not prow In the bodies of many men and animals, but omer persons and animals furnish the unknown con ditions, and In them the bacillus tuber culosis grows readily and more or les? rapidly. With reference to this germ the human race Is Indebted to bacterio logists for showing. In the first place, that consumption Is not Inherited: In the second place, that without the pres ence and growth In the body of this bacillus the Individual cannot have consumption : nnd. In the third plaoe, that consumption Is a preventable dis ease. Again, and of the greatest sig nificance to the community, we know that every person suffering from con sumption of the lungs may be expec torating every day millions of living ' and virulent bacilli, whose life and virulence are not destroyed by a long period of drying. This Is a fact of ter rible significance when we take Into consideration the companion fact that from one-seventh to one-fourth of all the people who die are carried off by consumption. And almost every person who dies of consumption of the lunsa acquires the disease from bacilli fur nished by some other consumptive. The vast majority of consumptives undoubt edly take the germs into their lungs with the air they 'breathe, and the germs get into the air from the dried expectoration of persons suffering from the terrible disease. But while It la true that persons with consumption may be a constant source of danger to their healthy fellows. It la not true that they always are or need be. The breath Itself of the consump tive person, however 111 be may be. Is BACTERIA OF FOUR DISEASES, VIED 1,000 TIMES. MAONI- not dangerous, because It carries no germs. The expectoration alone is dangerous, and this only when It la al lowed to dry and become a part of the dust It la In the dust, therefore, that la found the root of the evil of con sumption. There are a great many peo ple who do not believe this. There are many who "take no stock In this germ business," as they call It It Is char acteristic of Ignorant people to sneer at what they do not or cannot understand. It Is unfortunate that the germ diseases due to carelessness. Ignorance and prejudice cannot be confined to those Chiefly responsible for their dissemi nation. : Consumption Is so prevalent that It iwould be difficult to find a theater or church audience without one or two persons suffering with the disease. Puch persons may be ignorant of the danger to which he exposes his fellow creatures by expectorating on the floor, and It Is entirely possible for him. In me course or two nours, to discharge In his expectoration several million ac tive tubercle bacilli, which will becomj a part of the dust of the room as soon as the expectoration Is dried and dis turbed fjy the sweepers. As to public conveyances, who has not noticed theli extremely filthy condition? Men of otherwise cleanly habits use the floors of such conveyances as cuspidores, and of course the person suffering from con sumption has the same inalienable ex pectorant rights that others have. ; V The Cleaner 'Tis, the Cosier 'Tis.,r What is Home Without APOLIO , Think ot suffering -with fTtiT-in Iai at 5 Years o is Years Years bottle of ST. JACOBS OIL. Jt cures. The Boy and the Qneen. Queen Victoria and Prince AlbM were both found of pictures, and qm often to visit the studios of aral Oor of the painters thus honored hu a son, who one day undertook to p!J the cicerone to the royal visitors. Among the pictures was one eonttloj lng two elves. These, the boy plained, were likenesses of himself im his brother; "only, you know," be ad4, ed, confidentially, "we don't go about without clothes at home." At another time the snmo boy j,j dined to receive a gracious advance made to him by the Queen, and horrt fled his hearers by declaring, bluntly "But why don't you Ilka mer hw t qnlred her majesty. "Because you are the Queen of Ens land, and you killed Queen Mary.". ' How She Hpelled It. Every one knows how to spell "htxi water" with three letters, but probably some readers would be puzzled to spu "yesterday" with six. A Cincinnati girl could toll them how, according to the Enquirer. Bhe does not yet go to school, but li tungbt by her mother nt home. The other night hor father was hoarinb(r spell. One word after another tow sue. cessfully disposed of, and tlmn he said- "Now, Annie, I nm goint; to Rvc yon a hard one. If you spell it correctly I'll bring you some candy. now you spell 'yesterday?' " It was a hard one. Annie thought of the candy, and Just then her eye caught the calendar hanging against the wall Then she answered with a smile of triumph: "IT-r-i, yester, d a y, day, ye terday." Cold Water and a Hot Griddle To make light, Delicious BUCK WH EAT CAKES, You must Of course use Buckwheat. DROPSY Trr-trrt Kri l'n-ltl.U I I KCD, v itti V.m-i a Ma IN-n..- :i-lUra t iitt-ii in. my t in m Mtlll Ml tts:iftM:tr.liii I Itl t-tl tit i-;l ft titl ynittiisiirv rvmm'til." UihiK. pro thir-l o IIIUUD ll 'T mint.'ult.H' ci r f-nt IK KK. TEN DAYS TREATMENT FURNISHED FRF1 by mail. Dr. H. H. GRA fc SUNS, SpecUluu, Atlauta. Ga. TITrc A ITRMOTOTt CO. half thd wirwltnlll triminf, bm u.s It L o riucel tti 'UKl power to 1 wlut it was. Jt l b man bran Dmim-S, and sup," Kttaa sua rrpsir- joiur iIikt. jiran auauti iurui.na letter article ir lens monrj ma thfi. It niakM Pumplnff and (tfar-, Mel, Jal-auul afur-(Vtmnlt-tlon Wl ml mil la. Tilling FLxpfi Steel Towers. Stei Bun Saw Frames. Si"l l-WHi Cutters and Fw4 Grimier. m appllratlnu It will nam ona of ihes articles that It will furnisU utml jannarv 1st at f. tl tibial prlen. It aim maiea lank and Pumpftor all Wlnn S-nfl fur eat factory z 12tb Rockwell o4 FiUowra Streets, Ulcu A FIGHTING DEMOCRAT Presidential Year. THE CHICAGO CHRONICLE, the preat demr rratt; newM:tn'r of the went, dally for one year N HutMUTiptWin for lens than one vear at thin r;ito. Sample copies free. THK CHRON ICLE, JOI-lt.G Washington St.. Chicago. 111. CALIFORNIA FARMS. rrnrtlenl fanner-H. Attention ! Onr price enaWa you to buy ?iitiirieii( tuarttigc to make a tro.! in come by ceneritl farm i nt; while wtiititiK fr orehnriN to ymw. Chojre-t lrin! "; tillttbiesIJa hilN anl sum-1 valley. $ t, Hmtee pasture lanj, $'JD. We ran rive you trueta ntt'onling the propor tional amount of em-h kin. I you leure. 1'eep fertile soil; water: railroad: p. mil community; verv ea-y term. For further in tormati aidrii GRANT & KAKfcK, bantu Barbara. Cal. nu-mn It! To IntrruW onr U C ear nnd nrl Sajr-snin . w- tt Jm-uM u CHI,LDT'ia.iVT'M BUIS inn ham Kkkk. IWit-i pay ' liberal t'-mnittai to, h mho v.-. fur tfr ni Ui an mcmrj. Kmu as X ' mu4 e wis) etidjioii tiyrlxprt-wt-'TrfY tuail f.fW.nrra) IWMriiM.4nik.rtnl WHV"i an.) will U , fr In aapet. r TilK lUMKMiflK Haiti HAtft Ali (IUU1. tlw mr r.taiika, t.-ni full pMlk-uiar. tit mt.w C.O.I), no i.Jle -iiUirwaafr fdi-rrr mnmlroutrit "" i 1 r tiatilf i will Jo jtmr bt tela - orrtV i f ii a. WINSTON CICAR CO.. Wi.5tM.HJ laiia.!, Aiifw. KuwiM, 1m Thm "I,rKFVF." nrathr IWt and M Eeonot Cl Cottars ami ClltT worn: ttisy am mads of Aai cloth, both Mules fintslitil aU).s anil hriuf rmna bl on. collar fa e)iiul totwoofany othar kind. Tht rit well, w ir ,r,U an i l,m( well. A bolal jrn uouinur iv rairaol Cutla loci lenra. A Huanfci Cottar anil T-nfr of Pnffat Baafl m Oaata, Maine atyla and biza. Addraaa KJSVERSini.E COLLAR COMPART, ikltn St.. Now York. 17 Kllby St., $2.42 CASH WITH ORDER httva M.m AntiMu-U-. nflf - utl'.U, il I't-ATwr. Ri HKSki IlaopLfti-.fi Ssot Kk.lvx. 3 t 3ft '. K. or am i TV rl. ar..l r will ln. C.tt.O. ?., and allow turn mm .ml o will hw yn lw to it. tttc t dy ; ninHau iy ur: fur dHi th. ..rk nn1 ti-whynu tr- jou work in th .M-..liiy wlier tn Iiri -nliMY. rrillnsinii we will exlla tho husln.-iw full ; rt-meiiilir w mf arit-.'n. iVi.ri-r..m nt $:t mr w..rb: it.t-i Mit- iv mm-: wrllf at Bovl bam urn him; tinr. iir F- lENSION U'iir.K.V.? Successfully Prosecutes Clairr Lto Principal Ku.iu.m-r U S. Pension l,urT 3f rain last war, lttutUcatiiitfcl-iuiM. atiy flBlBMBHH Sure t cTfjIf S KIDDER 'S PA8TlLLE8r"r' MHaHBMBftBijiuukiitu n. lltf. PATENTS Sl-l-aS. Ilnnb fret. Itlollill' A. IMIBIB Wa.liliiulou, l. ITCHING PILES " S cuiAa them. SV an. I Nk.-. MYERf Sallil f n.c. Witcli "" at rlruutfl.ia. Ot aauiplamauett KUfcfc. J. j. LkCK, .'into. PHIL.. PA. K.U.f; ratit.unril.-Uf fr-m binHn. Oor -o It'.1 :. 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