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ISRAEL PUTNAM'S RIDE.
Twu morn of March In T9
That the British regulars formed in line,
A. thousand fighting men and more,
To scourge the fair Connecticut shore.
Where were the valorous patriots then?
Boarce two hundred scattering men
Were all that gathered upon the height
In the efcrlly springtime msrning light.
With their two old cannons caked with
mire
And their heavy flint-locks primed for fire.
TJp the road did the redcoats come.
Stepping true to the roll of the drum;
From either aide of the swinging rank
Turned a troop on the patriot flank.
Betreat or capture the only choice.
"Back!" rang the patriot leader's voice.
A single volley, broken and harsh.
And away they fled for the wood and
marsh.
While their dauntless leader, sore at need.
Sprang to the back of the champing steed.
Thundered the dragoons' hoofs behind;
Burst their shouts on. the keen March
wind.
Over Lis shoulder a look he cast.
And lo! the enemy gaining fast.
Was be whose fame moved many a Up
To pine en a British prison ship
The while his foemen worked their will
From Norwuik bridge unto Stamford hill 7
"Never!" he cried, and at the word
On with, a msd resolve he spurred.
. .
Into the valley a rocky stair
Led from an auclent house of prayer;
Out from the highway he leaped his
stpedv
And daHhcd a.iown at a desperate speed,
While round about him he heard the bum
Of the btiOi-ts of those who dared not
come.
Flinsiug a taunt at each redcoat clown.
On he roile into Stamford town.
Gathered all who could strike a blow.
And backward turned to hurry the foe.
Thus did Putnam's eourape shine
That morn of March in '79.
A hero he as ho rode alone
With bravery bred in the very bone;
For well he knew 'tis the man that's free.
That worketh woe to the enemy.
And so, while sprint; succeeds to spring,
Iown the vale of the years shall ring
Ay! to our rountry"s even tide
The fame of Israel Putnam's ride.
Independent.
THE CLOWN'S
VENGEANCE.
HAT evening there was
a great concourse of
people on the Place de
la Llberte. The Kosatl
Circus was giving its
last performance, and
the public of Toulon
was tlorklng In crowds
to this farewell repre
sentation. At the doors,
(A beneath the flickering
J-V gleam of the rows of
iO 1 cJ gns-llghts, there was a
movement: an endlitss
line was slowly winding Its way In,
halting at every step and hammering
the sounding planks with a confused
clatter. All around, on the notice-boards
stuck in the ground, the colors of the
flaming posters were displayed and,
bathed In the garish light, dazzled the
eye. In the crowd of spectators and
Idlers every one was reading aloud the
placard which stood conspicuous lu
front:
Positively the Last Time
this evening.
Last Performances
of
Prince Icarus
(The Flying Man),
of
Mile. Rita
and of
Aesop
(The Grasshopper Clown).
Within the circus the seats were al
ready overflowing, and the same names
repeated from mouth to mouth blended I
Into a general murmur deadened by the
canvas roof over the ring. Some of the
circus-men were rukiug the sawdust on j
the track, and, above the door to the
stables, the musicians were languidly
tuning their instruments, or, at times,
addressing friends who passed beneath
the gallery. "That you? Marius. how
goes It'" etc. In the upper rows the
audience was alive with impatience for
the expected spectacle, and Irritated by
the passing of the young fashionable
"first-nighters" euvled frequenters be
hind the scenes who pressed In a
crowd to the narrow entrance leading
to the greenroom.
Officers in civilian dress, and stu
dents, ship-brokers and idle da nd lets, all
wished for the last time to get near the
fair Mile. Rita, the celebrated eques
trienne, who, for a month, had been the
subject of conversation in every mess
room and every club. They stepped
along, the elbowed and the elbowers
between the walls that were covered
with sets of varnished harness, and
begged pardon every time they Jostled ;
a groom. They stopped at the stalls of ;
Blue Devil and DJiun, the two trick '
Arabians, and, under pretext of giving I
6ome sugar to the horses, fluttered ;
about the extemporized dressing-room
-where Rita, tranquil and smiling, was
donning her attire. Then came In suc
cession the commonplace compliments,
to which the star of the circus, unheed
ing, scarcely deigned to give an answer,
without seeming to note the ardent gaz
of her admirers.
She was a handsome girl, a careless
jypsy. with the sun in her eyes and hei
blood, accustomed to the atmosphere of
admiration, and she finished her toilet
without hurrying. At times, however,
she gave her shoulders a shake and
made the pearls of her necklace rattle.
It was when the little clown Aesop, her
husband, who, all befloured and palm
ed, was walking before the room, his
huge top-knot swaying at every step,
drew near, ami his sharp fabsotto voice
launched some taunt at the artist's
courtiers. They laughed, they even ap
plauded, but, more often, they lowered
tlielr eyes berore ttie cutting, cold gaze
of the dwarf, whose wan and grotesque
face In spite of the smile of his blood
red and too large lips seemed at some
moments to be fraught with evil.
This evening the manikin was In a
worse humor than usual; his jeers were
more bitiug and more bitter, and be
neath the coat of Hour covering his
seamed features he appeared not pale
but livid. His eyes had a sharp and
inenac'rtg flash in them, and never left
Kita, who, gayly iosed before her mir
ror, was having her bodice laced by the
handsome gymnast Icarus.
In the circus the orchestra was finish
ing a waltz by Metra. The curious were
gr.ulually qu'Miug the stable and re
turning to tiiivr places. The sharp cum
of tile ring-master's whip were crack
ing in the arena; the show had begun.
Icarus placed a lut rose in the hair of
the equestrienne and ran to chalk her
sho. He stumbled against his dwarf
ish comrade.
The clown seemed very busy In exam
ining the gas-metre, and pushed him
Rway with an oath. Then, without
more ado, the acrobat sent him reeling,
and leaping on a ladder, cried, with a
laugh, "Out of the way, you pitiful
pifimyf'
3
mi
2)
nop uttered a roar f rag
anger, then suddenly calming himself,
returned to the metro, and after having
followed with an eya at hatred the
ascent of Icarus, began fumbikir wttfc
the mechanism of the stop-cocks.
A great clapping of hands. A frantic
ovation. Two hundred pretty women
dropped their fans, and leveled theft
opera-glasaea, and, a trifle pale, amUed
with a delicious dread. I earns waa uf
there high up at the top of ttie circus
banging to the last trapeze, and turning
over and over in it, slowly and without
an effort.
At times he paused, aad Ms Cace was
seen radiant in the foolish pride of tri
umph. Below, in the ring, the downs
were stretch tnjg a circular net, and hi
all the circus reigned deep silence brok
en only by a feminine whisper: "How
graceful! What a handsome fellow!"
The gymnast then, finding his public
sufficiently warmed up, raised bimsell
at one pull, stiffening himself on his
wrbit.
The trapeze, violently thrown back,
described a great arc, and, letting go
the bar, the man shot forward like an
arrow into space. :
There was a feeling of apprehension
In the crowd, and an "Oh!" of affright
uttered by a thousand breasts. The
acrobat reached the second trapeze, and
calmly let himself swing in Us decreas
ing oscillations.
Slowly be thus darted eleven times,
calm and smiling as be made the tout
of the circus, and rejoicing at feeling
beneath him the immense pantinr of
the throng.
At the eleventh trapeze he paused to
prolong this emotion hla glory and hi
eyes sought out Rita. The equestrieuu
saw him, and with the handle of het
whip threw him a kiss.
The elated Icarus, hanging by one
hand, saluted her; then be brought his
trapeze to rest. lie was about to com
plete his task.
"Enough," said some voices.
"No! Bravo! Encore!" cried the la
dles, eager to feel once more the per
verse Joy of an enticing pain.
For the twelfth time the handsome
gymnast, stiffening his muscular arms,
essayed his terrible flight.
But an appalling cry of terror, a fran
tic shout arose.
In an instant, suddenly like a candie
put out by the flap of a bat's wing the
thousand glistening lights of the circus
were extinguished all together, at the
precise and fatal moment when the
man was darting Into space.
At the same instant there rose from
the ring a laugh, terrible, vibrating
with hate.
Then in the black and hideous ob
scurity, in the pitchy darkness that
tilled the circus lately so blazing, poig
nant shrieks rolled from row to row.
Women fainted, and the spectators,
with their hearts crushed in hopeless
terror, shudderingly sat as If petrified
In their plac-es, and peered Into the
night that filled the dome. The net was
empty, the acrobat must be looked for
In the gloom. In the search, lanterns
were brought and carried toward the
top of the circus. Five minutes-flva
centuries, elapsed. Some one cried.
"Bengal lights."
Then, while here and there people
were trying to relight the burners, a
biaze of violet and red, of green nod
azure, flashed out and with a powerful
illumination lit up at one flash every
corner of the circus with Its fantastic
and trembling gleams.
And suddenly, as in the flamed of a
transformation scene, was seen, rigid,
clamped to the trapeze, Prince Icarus,
hanging motionless.
An unheard of horror paralyzed him
in a supernatural frenzy. Ills hair stood
erect. His distorted face, whiter than
that of a corpse, his haggard eyes, pro
truding from their sockets, rolled con
vulsively. Soon his comrades were near him.
With the handle of his knife Aesop
struck the gymnast's bands, and with
great difficulty detached from the bar
the- clenched bands of the miserable
lean.
The gas was relighted, and the crowd,
silently and without a breath, watched,
ns it was slowly lowered down, the
descent of the living corpse.
There Is to-day near Marseilles, in the.
Asylum of Saint Pierre, a poor madman
who stalks straight forward, his arms
held In front and contracted In an imag
inary grip. It Is a frightful sight. It If
"Prince Icarus."
I do not know what jail holds Aesop.
As to the fairy Rita, she Is now a
princess somewhere In Germany.
Adapted from the French for the Ar
gonaut.
"A Spring Walking-Hat."
After Taking.
"What makes Popper have such a sad
and melancholy air? Is he In love?"
"No, poor fellow; he was married
three months ago." Detroit Free
Tress.
Tbe Front for Pafetv.
A citlz-u said to an old negro the
other dny:
"Well, Ben, It looks like war, and 1
understand they're going to put the ne
groes right in front!"
"Dat'll be all right, suh." he replied.
"Ef dey puts 'em In de rear de white
folks 'ud run over 'em en kill 'em. so
I dunno but what dey'd be safer right
in front!" Atlanta Constitution.
Thought Wasted.
Waldo What do you think about
our coast defenses?
Chlmmy Nuttln'. I never owned a
sled, an", besides, winter's over. New
York Evening Journal.
Accounting for It.
"See here, Lucy," said the teacher to
one of her bright scholars, "you have
written the word 'oyster' without an
"Oh, yes," exclaimed the scholar,
reaching for the slate to make the cor
rection; "I must have been thinking
this was one of those months when
there is no V in oysters." Yonkers
Statesman.
No Snbatitute.
lie What will you take for a Idss?
She I didn't know there was any
substitute. Philadelphia Inquirer.
Proof Positive.
McSwatters How do you
know
there's goin' to be war?
McSwrtters Blowhard is going to
Klondike on. the next train. Syracuse
HemJd-
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TOBACCO FROM AUSTRALIA.
fVeed Is Belns Cultivated by Farmers
in the Antipodean Island.
Australia has at last set about mak
ng a serious effort to cultivate tobacco.
Tot thirty years or more the weed has
wen grown lu limited areas in New
iouth Wales, Queensland and Victoria,
ut it can scarcely be said to have been
rultivated. Not at any stage has the
ndustry been backed by scientific
mow ledge at least, not until experts
rere sent over from this country. Vlc
:oria secured the services of Mr. Bon
lurant, a Kentucklan. if we mistake
lot, and New South Sales those of Mr.
lowell, also from the south. The form
;r has been at the antipodes for two
r three years, and the latter only a
lew months. Sufficient, however, has
een done by Mr. Bondurant in Vic
ria to demonstrate that a good mar
tetable article can be grown there, and
Jiat in future tobacco will figure much
nore prominently in the list of Austra
lan exports than was thought likely a
lew years back. It was the success
s-hlch attended the efforts of Mr. Bon
lurant as a practical instructor that lu
luced the government of New South
R'ales to follow Victoria's lead and
ilso turn to the Stites for a scientific
leacher. And now we learn that th
igrlcultural department of Queensland
s assisting its growers by importing
e best American seed procurable.
The expert, it is presumed, will follow
n due course.
There is no doubt whatever that to
aceo can be profitably grown In all
lie Australian colonies. Tbe product
nay never rival Vuelta Abajo not
ven equal that of our New England
States, but the fact that the govern
oents have decided to push the enter
prise for all that It Is worth means that
tobacco In large quantities will eventu
tlly be produced and placed on the mar
lets of Europe.
The government expert Is very well
pleased with the results attained at the
experimental farm at Edl, where he
planted a large nuintier of varieties of
plug and cigar leaf tobacco. Sir. Bon
lurant's chief object has been to de
termine what varieties of leaf were
best adapted to Victorian soil and cli
mate,' and this, it Is claimed, he has
lone. Next season a larger crop Is to
be set out, and should that prove a
rommerclal success the tobacco-raising
Industry will be fairly launched. In
ill human probability It will be years
before Australia becomes a competitor
jf ours in this field, but once It has
been proved that tobacco Is a profit
able crop to grow, and the farmers
lave learned to handle It, then we may
aave to bestir ourselves. Tobaoco
Leaf.
MAORIS BECOMING EXTINCT.
New Zealand Colored Race Is Fast Suc
cumbing Before tbe Whites.
The Maoris of New Zealand seem to
be doomed to extinction in spite of tbe
fact that all the conditions surrounding
them appear to be favorable to their
put-vlval. The quarrel between the
races Is ended, and large tracts of land
ere reserved for them. The young men
are educated, 00 per cent, of them being
able to read and write. Their chiefs in
many cases derive large incomes from
rents of land, and are represented In
the legislature. A great Maori college
stands at Te Auti, Ilawke's Bay, and
not a few of the cleverer Maori youths
have passed through tbe classes of the
New Zealand university. And yet the
Maoris, under that mysterious law
which makes a'Volored race vanish be
fore the breath of the all-conquering
whites, are passing away.
A conference of educated Maoris was
bold a short time ago, and papers were
road on tbe condition and prospects of
the race. These are now published in
pamphlet form, and make a very mel
ancholy bit of literature. It Is declared
that 00 per cent, of educated Maoris go
back from their schools to mere sav
agery. The race, these representative
Maoris declare. Is lower both in morals
and in vitality than It has ever yet
been, and threatens to perish. Yet phy
sically and intellectually the Msrl Is
or was the finest colored race In the
southern hemisphere. New York Even
ing Post.
Russian Gold Prod notion.
Russia holds the third place among
gold-producing countries. Gold is only
found in large quantity In the Ural
mountains and east and west Liberia;
the very limited output of washed gold
In Finland is not of any importance.
It is only natural that the Russian
government should do all In its power
to advance the gold-mining Industry.
Its plan is to train up a staff of mining
engineers, and to let th';se experts visit
North America, south Africa and Aus
tralia. It is also proposed to attempt
a second extraction of gold from some
of the vast quantities of residue, etc.,
In the various mining districts. Phila
delphia Record.
After Something Pratty.
Old Higbrocks I refuse to take the
picture. I won't give you a cent for it.
Artist What's the matter? It looks
Hke your daughter, doesn't tt?
Old Hlg-hrocks O course it does.
That s the reason I don't want K. Any
fool of a photograph man could take a
picture that looks like 'er. What did
you tttnk I want a palada' far, any
way! - - -r r
S.-C
CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
DEPARTMENT FOR LITTLE
BOYS AND GIRLS.
SoaMtkiBf that Will Interest the Jn
veaile Members of Every Household
Qnaiat Actions and Bright Baying
ef Kjusy Cats aad Cunning Children.
Grandpa's Way.
Somehow, of all the day we children used
to dread
When night would come, and mother'd
say, "Now. children, go to bed;"
Till grandpa came to visit us. He was a
soldier, and you see
He's just as good and pleasant as ever he
can be.
The very first night he asked mother with
a smile
If the children ever marched to bed in
good old soldier style.
Then he commenced to count, "One, two,
one, two." I tell you, it was fine.
And you don't know bow quickly we all
fell iuto line.
Since then, ail day we kind of look ahead
For night to come, when we like soldiers
can march away to bed.
And grandpa says. If we've a task, we'll
And it just the same
It's so much easier to do if it has a pleas
ant name.
Orange Judd Farmer. T - "- -
Oldest Doll in America.
The most interesting doll in this
country is to be seen at Rending,
Mass., and is the property of Mrs. II.
O. Brown. She was brought from
Canton, China, to Salem, Mass., 172
years ago, by Cupt. Gamaliel Hodges,
as a present to his little daughter. She
has passed down from generation to
generation remarkably well preserved
and does not show her age at all. At
every entertainment when old-fashioned
things are brought out, she appears
and could tell some startling experi
ences, no doubt. She was of quite ma
ture age when Washington became
President of the I'nited Colonics, and
was nearing 100 years of age when the
war of 1812 broke out. We do not
know how she was dressed at first, but
now she wears a Louis XIV. costume.
Bootblack Honor.
A few weeks ago a gentleman, going
through a crowded part of the city of
Glasgow, Scotland, noticed a pale-faced
little bootblack walcing for hire.
Touched by the delicate look of the
child he thought he would give him the
blacking of his boots to do. According
ly, he gave the little fellow the signal.
The boy at once crept lamely toward
the gentleman, and as he pulled himself
along, was nimbly supplanted by an
other little bootblack, who was Imme
diately at the gentleman's feet aud
ready to begin.
"What's this for?" said the gentle
man to the intruder somewhat angrily.
"It's a richt," said the newcomer,
brightly. "Jamie's jist a wee while oot
o' the hospital, and the rest o' us take
turn aboot o' brushiu' for him."
Jamie smiled pleasantly by way of
assuring the gentleman that his com
rade's story was true.
The gentleman was so gratified by
this act of brotherly kindness that he
gave Jamie's friend a whole shilling for
bis work, telling him to give sixpence
to Jamie and keep the other sixpence to
himself.
"Na, na, sir," quickly replied this lit
tle hero, giving the shilling to Jamie
and hurrying from the spot, ''nn, na sir;
nane o' us ever take ony o' Jamie's sil
ler." Christian Record.
Boys Build a Locomotive.
Edwin H. Warren and Ernest C.
Warren are two Montvale (Mass.)
boys, aged respectively 17 aud 13.
They are students at the Woburn
High School, from which they will
probably be graduated two years
hence. Unlike most boys of their years,
they care little for base-ball and less
for the mad scrimmages of the foot
ball field. Their home is on rising
ground near the railway station, and
their newest toy Is a locomotive which
they, with the aid of their father, Mr.
Herbert A. Warren, constructed and
placed In operation on a 120-foot track.
The locomotive weighs about a tou and
a half, aud were such ecglues animals
that developed like cows this oue
might very aptly be called a yearling.
It is an out-ard-cut locomotive from
headlight to cab. Tbe wheels on the
bogie truck once did duty as pulleys in
a mill. They are twenty-two inches in
diameter. Tbe drivers once were pul
leys, but they are larger, measuring
thirty Inches. There Is no connecting
rod, but in its stead a belt Is compelled
to impart power to the drivers from
the force Induced by the twin cylinders
uudcr the fore part of the boiler. The
boiler is three feet long and two feet
bore. It was originally Intended for
a heating apparatus, and the thrcf
feet of the fire-box makes the iron pari
of the locomotive about six feet ic
length.
Out of the Mouths of Babies.
"Now, Harry," asked the teacher oi
the juvenile class, "what Is the mea'
we eat In the morning called?" "Oat
meal," was the little fellow's prompt re
ply. Eddie's mother was seated on a bencl
In tbe park one day and the little fel
low, who was playing uear by, found r.
horseshoe. Pickiug it up. be carried I'
to nTs mother, exclaiming: "Oh, mam
ma; look at the horse's track I found."
Tommy, the 5-year-old son of a candi
date for a local office, was told that his
father bad got the nomination, and
running Into the house, he exclaimed:
"Ob, mamma.! Mr. Jones says papa's
got the nomination. Is that worse than
the measles?"
Willie, aged 5, who had Just been
punished by h! mother for bad con
duct, said: "Mamma you've got the
baddest memory I ever saw." "Why,
what makes you thl-ik I have a bad
memory, Willie?" she asked. "Be
cause," was the reply, "you remember
all the bad things I do."
Annie was a very polite little miss of
6 years and when one of her little play
mates told her that she had been con
fined to the house for two days with
the toothache, Annie said: "I'm just
awfully sorry, for you must have en
joyed a great deal of pain, didn't you,
Katfe?"
It was Nellie's first day at school and
;ust before dismissing the pupils for
the day the teacher called the roll and
each little boy and gtrl in attendance
promptly answered "present." When
H4UVi Baune was called among, lbs
SMALL BUT BKI.IAni.1C.
last, she said: "Please, ma'am, 1Ja"'
know we had to bring preseau, -bring
one to-morrow."
sjerauira Mosfln tbe Moaatalas.
"The strangest money I ever saw,"
said a drummer for a Main street nones
the other evening, "was in the mountain
districts of Kentucky and West Vir
ginia. Last summer I was' making my
semi-annual tour through this district
and I stopped one day at a little grocery
and saloon, not to sell goods, but to get
a drink of the 'mountain dew.' While I
was pouring out my drink a big, husky
mountainer entered the place and call
ed for a drink. As he finished gulping
it down he reached into a big, bulky
pocket and drew forth what looked to
be a coon skin. He laid the skin on the
counter, tbe barkeeper took tbe skin,
and, opening' a drawer, hauled out a
rabbit skin, which I suppose was tae
change. The mountaineer picked up
tbe rabbit skin and started to the front
part of the store, which was the gro
cery. He there bought a twist of to
bacco and tendered the rabbit skin In
payment. He received a big twist of
long green, and I was surprised to see
the storekeeper reach lu another draw
er and tender him a squirrel skin. The
mountaineer tucked the squirrel skin In
his pocket, walked out, unhitched his
horse, and rode away.
T became interested and engaged the
proprietor in conversation. He told me
that sometimes be would go months
without seeing any real money and
that the mountaineers used the skins .n
all kinds of trades, such as buying
horses, etc. He said that four times a
year a hide buyer from Lexington or
Cincinnati visited the country and
bought up all the skins, which were
generally concentrated In the few
stores In the vicinity." Louisville Dis
patch. JL Woman's Borden.
From the Evening ATeu, Itetroil, Mich.
The women sf to-day are not as strong as
their grandmothers. They are beariDg a
burden in silence that grows heavier day
by day; that is sapping their vitality and
oloudlDg their happiness.
Mrs. Alexander B. Clark, of 417 Michigan
Avenue, Detroit, is a typieal woman of to
day. A wife with such ambition as only a
loving wife can have. But the joys of her
life wore marred by the existence of dis
ease. Suffering as thousandsof hersistors have
suffered, she almost despaired of life aad
yet she was cured.
"For five years I
suffered with ovarian
trouble," Is Mrs.
Clark's own version
of the story. "I was
not free one single
day from headache
and intense twitch
ing pains la my neck
and shoulders. For
months at a time I
would be confined to
ray bed. At times
hluck . spots would
aonear before mv
yes and I would be- J became Mind.
eome blind. My nerves were tn such n state
that a step on the floor unsettled me.
"Eminent doctors, skillful nurses, ths
best food and medicine all failed. Then I
consented to an operation. That, too,
fulled, and they said anot her was necessary.
After the second I was worse than ever and
the world was darker than before.
"It whs then I heard of Dr. Williams'
Pink rills for Pale People. I heard that
they had cured cases like mine and I tried
them.
"They cured mel They bronght sun
shine to my life and filled mv oup with hap
piness. The hea.lu'-tie is gone; tbe twitch
lug is gone; the nervousness is gone; the
trembling has ceased, and I have gained
twenty-six pounds. Health and strength
Is mine and I am thankful to Dr. Williams'
Pink Pills for Pale People for the blessing."
These pills are a boon to womankind.
Acting directly on the blood and nerves,
they restore the requisite vitality to all
parts of tbe boily; creating functional rega
Inrlty and perfect harmony throughout
the nervous system. The pallor of the
cheeks is changed to the delicate blush of
health; the eyes brighten; tbe muscles
grow elastic, ambition is created and good
health returns.
TRUMPET CALLS.
Bam'a Born Sonnda a Warning Not
to the Unredeemed.
HEERFUL-
ness Is the day
light of society.
Gold Is not
wealth, nor med
icine health.
A fine disposi
tion sees plenty
of fine weather.
Helping a child
is putting money
at long interest.
A poor youth,
like a poor team.
travels a bard row.
Honor your wife, and your honey
moon will last a life time.
Some wives are like watch chalns
always on the outside of home.
Those who are too selfish to help the
poor, benefit the world by leaving It.
To over-reach a fellow-man. Is to cast
reproach In the face of his maker.
Stop your talk of poverty. The Mas
ter borrowed a candle from the oxen,
aud a grave from Joseph.
If each would do as well as he would
have his neighbors do, the milleunlal
blossoms would be open to-moiTOW.
Animals in Kumpean Or.lers.
Attention has recently been drawn to
the extraordinary number of animals
who figure in tbe symbols and Insignia
ot the various great orders of chivalry
in Europe. Thus Russia and Servia
have the Order of the White Eagle,
Prussia the Orders of the Black Eagle,
:he Red Engle and the Swan; Denmark,
like Shim, has the elephant; the grand
luchy of Saxe-Weimar the White Fal
?ou, the duchy of Anhalt the Bear,
while the grand duchy of Baden, the
luchy of Bruuswick, the grand duchies
nf Hesse and of Luxemburg, the king-.
loin of Holland and the Persian em
pire have all of them the Lion.
Amtier in Pipes.
In Dantzlc alone during the last year
pearly 100 tons of amber were turned
to the smoker's purpose In pipes and
cigarette holders. This, of course. Is
amber of the familiar yellow variety.
Sicilian amber, on the other hand,
shows a wonderful variety of tints,
from ruby red to turquoIse-Wue, as
may best be seen In the private collec
tion of Arnold BufTum, an American of
fortune, who has made colored ambers
hi3 hobby, has written a book about
them and has recently been ci a visit to
London, carrying with him a number of
liuest specimens.
Poetry of motion is synonymous with
the motion of poetry when the editor
tosses it into the wnste basket.
Cruel.
He I never discuss matters upon
which I am not fully Informed.
She What do you ever talk about be
sides cigarettes?
Cuulon Horseshoes.
A cushion horseshoe Just placed on
the market has flanges formed in a pad
to surround the shoe, with air chambers
extending around the pad in position to
ear against the shoe and support bhe
drse's weight.
It is said that goM is ss malleable
hat tt can be beaten as thin as tbe bam
.a a ratrsray sandwich.
ENULI8H INT RbbOOTION.
Soaia of tme Cnatoma Prevailing!
Society There.
I And that English people object to
our habit of over-introducing in society.
They think it vulgar, even when guest
are assembled to dine together. or
course," said a London man-of-the-world
to me. quite recently, "you are
always made to know the lady
whom you have been desired to take
down to dinner." (Tlhs constant phrase,
-take down to dinner," comes, of
course, from the fact of all London
drawing-rooms being on the floor above
that of the dining-room J "The lady on
your other sldeT Why on earth should
an introduction to her be requisite? You
Interchange conversation with her, of
course, while the dinner progresses;
some of my most agreeable moments
have been spent In quietly finding out
who she is and letting her quietly find
out who I am." "But would It not be
more agreeable for both," I ventured,
"if the sociality of your hostess had pre
viously made you acquainted? If you
had also been presented to the other
lady?"
My interlocutor here scowled, then
merrily smiled. "Pardon me," his reply
came, "but that word 'presented' does
so grate on English nerves! We haven't
it here; we never use it; we think It
very bad form." It was my turn to
smile. "You think It American T' I ask
ed, demurely. "AVeU, yes, if you won't
be offended." he said; "we do think it a
a transatlantic importation. I know
you'll forgive me If I say to you that it
was lugged over here by certain Ameri
can girls, who have chosen to use It
with a great airiness and empresse
ment. They speak of having Lord This
and Mr. That -presented' to them. Of
course, we English laugh in our sleeves
at all this. Why not? We can't help
It. One Is 'presented' here to royalty
alone. The word is never employed in
any other sense. When it is so employ
ed we think the impulse is shockingly
bad taste. You are 'presented' to the
Queen, the Princess of Wales; you are
'presented' at the drawing-rooms in
Buckingham Falace and all that sort
of thing. I can't tell you what amuse
ment it causes ns to hear chits of Amer
ican girls prattling about the person
ages who have been presented to
them. The plain old English word 'in
troduce' is what we always use." Lon
don correspondence in Collier's Weekly.
Shake Into Your Shoes
Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for tbe feet. It
cures painful, swollen, nervous.smarting feet
and instantly takes the sting out of corns
and bunions. It's tbe greatest comfort dis
covery of tbe age. Allen's Foot-Ease makes
tight or new shoes foel easy. It is a certain
cure for sweating, callous and hot, tired,
aching feet. Try it to-day. Sold by all drug
gists and shoe stores, 25c. Trial package
FKEE. Address Allen S.Olmsted ,Le Uoy.N.Y.
A Russian wooing culminates in the
lctrothal feit, at whic'i the bride-elrct
casts off a I'M g tress of hair and gives i t
t her betrot'ied, wr-n in turn presents
her with bread and salt, an almond cake
a silver ring set with a turquoise.
Brantv la Blood Deep
Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it.Casearets.Oondy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all
impurities from the body. Begin to-day to
banish pimnles. boils, blotches, black
heads, and that sickly bilious complexion
by taking Carearets lieauty for ten cents.
All druggists, satisfaction guaranteed,
10c, 5c, 5uc.
Thn Prpsutnpsoot (Me.) river, though
small in ciz, is roniurknblo for the large
numlior of lakes which supply it, and for
tho proportion of its basin taken np by
lake- snrfac. Thorp nro 4, of these lakes,
with an area of 97 square miles.
The Austrian Government lias enlarged
thr Irt'unduries of Vienna to such an ex
tent that the metropolitan area is now
half as large as London, twice as large as
Puris, and three times larger than Iterlin.
Yet Vienna has lieon declining in pros
iwi'ity for years.
ST. VITrs,-PANCE. SPASMS and all nerv
ous diseases permanently cured by the use of
Ir. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer Send for
KltKE 1 00 trial bottle and treatise to llr. K. II.
Kline. Ltd., 931 Arch Street. Phila.. Pa.
A dark, gloomy, blue sky denotes wind
but a bright blue sky indicates tine
weather. tlenerally, the softer clouds
look, the less wind, but xi haps more rain
may lie exacted, and the harder, more
"greasy," rolled, tufted or ragged, the
stronger the coming wind will prove.
Don't Tobacco Spit aad Smoke Tonr Life Away
To quit tobacco easily and forever, be mag
netic, full of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To-Bac,
the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, 50c or . Cure guaran
teed. Booklet and sample free. Adit res Ster
ling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York. .
Careful olwervation and comparisons
made by scientists prove that the hottest
region on earth is on the southwest coast
of Persia, where that country borders the
gulf of the same name. The thermometer
never falls Im-Iow 1h degrees at night,
and frequently runs up to li degrees in
the afternoon.
To Cure a Cold In One Day.
Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
Ttugg.sts reiund money if it falls to cure. Z c
All over the world some 59 languages
are represented by newspapers. Many
are printed in two or three language s,
I iiglish in such cases being generally one.
The newspapers of Austria show a greater
variety in this rcsT""1 than thosf. of "ny
other country, including in the list Ger
man, Italian, French, Magyar or Hunga
rian. Greek, Latin, Polish, Servian,blavic
a id Hebrew.
F. J. Cheney Se Co., Toledo. O., Props, of
Hall's Catarrh Cnre, offer H reward for any
case of catarrh that cannot be cured by taking;
Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for testimonials,
free. Sold by Druggists, 75c
Valuable discoveries of amber have
twentlv been made in British Columbia,
which, it is claimed, will be able to sup
ply the pipe-makers of the world with
umber for another hundred years.
Liberia is the only more or less civil
ized country where clocks are almost
entirely di p -nsed with. The sun rises
exactly at o A. M. and sets at 6 P. M.
throughout tho year, and is vertically
overhead at noon.
Mrs. Win-low's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, soil ens the gums, reducing Inflamma
tion, allays paiu, cures wiud colic, &C a bottle
Sandwich men in the streets of London
are required to walk near the curbstone,
but not on the pavement, and not less than
3o yards must separate each sandwich man
from his nearest placarded comrade.
( nre Uuaranteed by DR. J. B. MATER. 1011
AKCI1 ST.. I Hll.A, 1'A. Kaaa at ones; na
vi eraUon or delay Irom business. Consultation
liee. fcndoreemeul of physicians, ladle and
Iromtiient cluxena. head ioc urculan umoa
tuna A. m. lot . M.
In Germany, when the vote of the jury
stands six ngainst six a prisoner is ac
quitted. A vote of seven against five
leaves the decision to the Court, and on a
vote of eight against four the prisoner is
convictml.
Fish can bo quickly scalded by a new
instrument comprising a blade secured to
a handle with a removable casing to slide
over the blade and guard its edge to pre
vent it cutting the rlesh as it slips under
the scales.
Kdacate Yonr Bowels WItn Cascaret a.
Candy Cathartic, rare constipation forever
10c, 24c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money!
The death penalty is rarely enforced in
Germany, Austria, Denmark or Sweden.
In New York 11 out of 12 murderers es
cape without any punishment, and in the
Lnited States only 1 murderer in 50 snf
fers capital punishment.
OIL MIP HURMID AT A.
Prove Unsuenchnble aad tfce
Flai
Vessel as book.
The Newcastle steamer Bdemnoor
has been burned and sunk. She was
on a passage from Batoum to Kurra
chee with a cargo of petroleum !n tin
cases, of which she had aboot 112,000
on board. Cap. Laurenson, who was
In command, has been In the employ o
the owners for eome time. The story of
the loss of the ship, as unfolded In Capt.
Laurenson's letter to his owners, show
that on Not. 24. at 9:80 a. m., while
proceeding down the Red Sea and being
six miles south by southeast of Jeb el
Telr Island, the engineer noticed mat a
fire had broken out in the engine room.
The captain called all hands to couple
the hose and stop the ship. The chief
engineer then informed the captain
that he could not get at the pumps, as
the whole of the engine room was on
fire. The captain went aft, and on
looking .through the aft port into the
engine room he saw the "whole place
was in flames." It was apparent that
nothing could be done to put the fiio
out and the captain ordered the star
board lifeboat and Jolly boat to be
ready and swung In case of an explo
sion. He then signaled to her Majesty's
ship Edgar, which was near, "I am on
Are and require assistance." The Ed
gar Immediately bore down, lowered a
cutter and sent it alongside in charge
of a lieutenant. When the lieutenant
saw how far the Are had got hold of the
ship and that smoke' was rushing
through No. 2 ventilator he signaled
to the Edgar that unless they could
come alongside immediately wim uii
fire hose there could be no possible
chance of saving the Edenmoor.. There
was a rough sea running and the Ed
gar could not come alongside. Tne ad
miral signaled back for the crew to
abandon the ship, and followed that up
with a signal gun that they might im
mediately carry out the order, as he
feared an explosion.
The Edgar remained near till 2:40 p.
m., when she proceeded to take the
burning vessel in tow, and at 5:20 p. m.
succeeded in doing so, allowing no one
to remain on board the Edenmoor. The
admiral's object was to tow her either
to Aden or Perlm. The Edgar towed
all night till 6:40 a. m., when the haw
ser parted. The Edgar was then stopped
with the object of recommencing the
tow. At 10:30 a. m. Admiral Fitzgerald
sent for the captain, officers and engl
nees of the Edenmoor and pointed out
the hopelessness of saving their ship,
a altA was nn fi m rlfrht fllnnffstde tllP
starboard side of the bridge deck and
j the flames were half way up the f un
' nel. The after part of No. 2 hold had
caught Are as well and smoke was Iss.i
1 ing through the ventilators. The ad-
mlral asked Capt. Laurenson if any-
I which the latter reluctantly replied that
..Aht. MiiM h. Anna ThA P7.f-n-a
deck was then cleared, she commenced
firing and after a number of rounds of
shot and shell had been fired the Eden
moor capsized and sank stern first. It
Is aTnlolnoH tnnt nlfholicrh the nil wna
in tin cans, the heat would rapidly melt
me soiuer ana 11 Derate ine inuamiuauie
contents of the cases. Newcastle
Chronicle.
Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after 8rst day's use of lr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer, $2 trial bottle and treatise tree.
Da. B. li. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila. Pa.
In India the carpenters have an al
most universal objection to sharpening
their tools. They never set their saws,
and when they get a grindstone they cut
it into pieces and use the fragments for
anything except to put an edge on chisel
or axe.
To Car Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c..
If C. C. C. fail to cure, druggist refund money
Visitors to the Alps, who have lieen
accustomed to mountain climbing for
vears, are coming back from their holi
days with the statement that there have
been more accidents than usual this sea
son. I believe Itao'a Cnre for Conaamptlon aaved
mv boy's li fe last summer. M m. Allik Lolo
uasa. Le Roy, Mich., Oct. SO, 1864.
The consumption of Spanish wines in
Great Britain, decreased from 4,045,!'.11
gallons in 1895 to 3,712.335 gallons in IWHi,
whereas me lmpon oi rrencn, txermau
and Austrian wines showed a correspon
ding increase.
To the average eye not more than 5,001
Stars are visible; some persons having
extraordinary strong eyes can see about
8,n00 stars.- Through the Lick telescope
and other powerful instruments about
50,000,000 stars are visible.
Xo-To-Bao For Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure makes weak
men strong, blood pure, doc, $1. All druggist.
A certain jeweler has made a tiny boat
of a single pearl. The sail is of beaten i
gold, studded with diamonds, and the bin
nacle light is a ruby. An emerald serves
as a milder, and its stand is a slab of
ivory. It is said to have cost $5,000. j
.ww. wgwteau rta'i.argTaLa"
Ivers & Pond Pianos.
Strictly First Class.
Require less tuning and prove more
durable than any other pianos manufac
tured. 227 purchased by the New
England Conservatory of Music, the
largest College of Music in the world,
and over 500 Ivers & Pond Pianos used
in two hundred of the leading colleges
and institutions of learning in the United
States. Catalogue and valuable infor
mation mailed free. Old pianos taken
in exchange.
Ivers.nPlond Piano Company,
114 Bo Vis ton Street Int a r J '
PUBLISHERS
7 1 av
me central Newspaper Union, LU
6.4 CHESTNUT ST., Philadelphia.
Furnishes Machine Composition
FOR NEWSPAPERBOKS MAQAZIES "
PAMPHLETS,. LEGAL DOCUMENTS. ETC
Aim Photo-Engraving, Lino and Half Ti-i , .
and In Colors. Quickly It lUa-0nahi.1V.Tf" ' X la BU
aa'a-muaaammmm
tIJ T .Cr"r
Their Worka."
' " pwuiiy 11 1 ney use
SAPOLIO
Prayus tW Colnmbaa.
Pref. Park of Andover figures rath
er amusingly In the reinlaiseeuces of
the late Prof. Schaff, Just published.
In 142 Schaff, being a prlvat-docent at
Berlin, introduced Park to his German
friends, among the rest to Kahnls. ru
relates that, under the continuous pelt
ing of Park's questions, Kahnls finally
exclaimed la despair: "God forgive
Christopher Columbus for discovering
Americar
- Oldt-st Piece of Glass.
Tha British museum contains the old
est specimen of pure glass which bears
any date. This Is a little lion's head,
having on it the name of an Egyptian
king of the eleventh dynasty.
iFEEE TRIM, TREATMENT
TO EVERYONE
Who snffers with any chronic dieis; of s,nv
art of the homan body, nch as Kidney aat
llsdder. Heart, Liver and Stomach Tronbi.s.
face and Skin Eruptions. disnMe s ct th?
Sel Orrin?. SEXUAL WEAKNESS ant
Indifference, etc
Provided application he made at once. In nrtlnr
that in invention, applianre and nerer f iilin t
remedie may receive the wlrtet pn-nilil pit.,
licltv end prove their own merltj by actu:l n-,e
sad permanent enree oir.oney whatevrrwiii
be received by the State Medical Saatlarlnm
from anyone under it treatment antil benenoal
results are scknowledeed. It remedies m,t
nlianre have been commended by the nHuti
era of Two Continents and endoined by the KrB.it
est doctor n the world Where development ii
desired they accomplish it and never fail to m
vicorate, upbuild and fortify.
They infuse new life and energy. Tln-v pr
nanently atop all lsea which undermine the
constitution and produce despondency. Thi.jr
re-tone, refresh and restore to mnnhood, reerd
lesa of are. They cure evil habits and iernu
nently remove their effects, as well u those ..f
excesses and over-taxed brain work, neur.i-lhen' t
or nervous exhaustion. No failure, no nnhl'ctf,
no deception, no disappointment. WRITE r 0-
STATE MEDICAL SANITARIUM
Evanaton, 111.
'Mr wife bad pimples on her fare, but
she has been taking CASCAKKTS and they
have U disappeared. I hiid been troubled
with constipation for some time, but after tak
ing the first Cascaret I have had no trouble
with this ailment. We cannot speak too high
ly of Cascarets." Fred Wartman
6708 Germantown Ave.. Philadelphia. Pa
Pleasant. Palatable, i'otent. Taste Good. r.
Good. Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. 2jc. jOc.
... CUBE CONSTIPATION. ...
Merita Iwrij C J. tlg. MHI. tr. Sit
ain TA DIP Sold and gimranteed by a
KUIUEA0 Kutato CVKKTotaccul
Sold and gimranteed by all drug-
1 11UUII.
ht to do an r iy frieuil sTi
tarn. The wurkm parts or '
ANV AERMOTOR 5i
EXCHANCED V 1
FOR n nULLLK rfq
BEARINC."l'byr-run.
var-suiu. ever. .tint, pew ft- !
drauhnt, UP-TO-DATE '68 I
MOTOR. a FT. FOR S6: la-tt. fot12.1-tt.
t. B ii Tn. -nn lik a Lirvrio and fxt tnad Ilk a I
waxcb, rry aunvabla arton roller. Double pe-rM E".
mill power, ina Atrmwir ran wnrp an ounr niiia r -food
ttill, and made ths ttl windmill business.
THE NEW BEATS THE OLD AS THE
OLD BEAT THE WOODEN WHEEL
On receipt of amount, revised motor (but not wheel I
m vaiiF will be aent to repiue old one then to be I
return ea. uner u : t to cancellation at any t-me. I
If your eld wheel ts not an Aernotor, write for
terns of swapnew for old to r on old towej
Ton eaa put tt on. -aor Co, rnwajro.
FOR FIFTY YEARS I
MRS. WINSLOWS
SOOTHING SYRUP
has been nsed hv millions of mothers for their
ctilldren while teething for over Fifty Years.
It soothes the chll'l. softena the gums, allays
-i, . .1. n. n (I tilj- And 1 the beat
remedv for dlurrhoa-
in . . - t . m H.,,1.
BR YOUR OWN H0S Er"".
meagre salary, have a nusinew of your own, one
Ibat can be carried on profitably at home by
both men and women We have a plan, it has
proven a nood one. Write fur particular.
WMTON & CO.. (A) kewmIsI.0RP'
THE BEST PLACE TO BUY
Tulkini Parrots and all other i-aurjr
Cntfe Brrf.i, Fi ne Bred Foh-Is, Fancy
Pigeons, GOf.nFISII and Globes. Th
Jarirst and heat selected stock of first
class Goods at low prices; send for Cata
logues. Birds can be delivered to all
parts safely by express.
H. W. VAHLE. 319 Market St.. th tt,
Philadelphia, P.
flENSIONlS,?.?.
'Successfully Prosecutes Claims.
La to Principal Ex&mlner U.S. Pension Bureau.
i $ m i u iatit w.r, li Uj lulxcaUiig cUiiiu, utLv miuc.
TEACHERS WANTEO.-loWnfeflM now to
cont ct tor next term. 0.1W in lucities.UMoM
IeachkbV Aoexcik of Aukuioa. Mttttburt?. 1.
OPIUM
sod Liquor Habit carel la
lO to 20 dm No pay till
enred. Or. J. I. Stephen,
Dpt A. IrCbtuioii, Ohio.
I09S
Easy Payments.
If no dealer sells our pianos near you
we supply them on time payments to
parties living in any city or village in the
United States. A small cash navment
and monthly payments, extending over
tnree years secure one of our pianos.
We send pianos for trial in your home,
even though you live three thousand
miles away, and guarantee satisfaction
or piano is returned to us at our expense
for railway freights both ways. A per
sonal letter containing special prices and
full description of our easy payment
pians, iree upon application.
"w..vaaf 111039
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ft ILTaey CATHARTIC a
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