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Portiers dry cleaned. $1,25 per pair; Brussels or Tapistry carpets cleaned without lifting, 10c per yard, Butler Dye Works, 216 Center Ave. -THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Emma Pedrick Philadelphia, Pa. Simply Marvelous Intense Suffering of a Young Qirl Ended White Swelling Cured by Hood's Sarsaparllla. - Gentlemen—Urged by the feeling that loma parant might have attention direct ed to Hood's Sarsaparllla through my Statements, as mine wan through that Mr. /no. L. McMurray of Ravenswood, W. Ya., I give the particulars of my daughter Em"ia s suffering and cure. In December, l9*o, when four years old, she Injured her right knee by a fall. The Injurv culmin ated In white swelling. The limb commerced to contract, and to en able her to get around I made her a Pair of Crutches. While using these she had a second fall, the knee grew worse and the limb con tracted. The following August the doc tors decided to bandage the leg. They pulled the knee-joint apart by main strength and put it in a plaster bandage. " During the six months the use of the plaster-of-parls bandage was continued, ft was renewed three or four times. The limb grew worse instead of better. All sorts of appliances and bandages were re sorted to, but there was no improvement, the disease continued its inroads. Five Abscesses formed on the limb. We took her to a prominent hospital. The doctor said It would be necessary to open the leg and scrspe the bone, snd perhaps finally to Amputata the Limb. Bhe had wasted away to a mere shadow snd as I didn't believe she could survive the operation, I made up my mind shs might as well die with two legs as one. '"just at this time, I happened to read a testimonial from West Virginia describ ing a case so similar to my child's, and In which Hood's Sareaparilla had effected a oure, and I immediately decided to give that medicine a trial. It took hold From tho Flrat. Before she had taken two bottles a core or piece of bone came out of one of the abscesses near the ankle. To come to the point, three bottles of Hood Sarsa parillacured Enmiacompletely. Readers of this can imagine my esteem for Hood s Hood's s #* Cures Sarsaparilla better than I can express it. HoodVSarsaparllla is a family medicine with u». We warmly recommend it to everybody." WILLIAM H. PKDBICK, 1414 South Seventeenth St., Philadelphia, Pa. the aftsr-dlnner pill and nooa S * HIS family cathartic. 880. No doubj many of the readers of the CITIZEN intend doing some pa pering this spring. To those who do, Heineman & Son, invite an inspection of their stock; and promise that they will show. The Largest Stock, The Best Selections and Fair Prices. More than this, no one can a sk. Wouldn't it be to your interest to call at this store? 'WHO Is a very inappro priate quotation i STEALS you buy your purse* of us. 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KUagtaf (»eo KHtUTtT, Clia.s. Ueo. Ken no, John Koenlnir, LOYAL S. McJUNKIN, Agent. liUTLER. FA., THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1895- sSf&flti GPTte "111 CHAPTER IX. A BREAK IN THE CHAIX. It was late in the afternoon before I woke, strengthened and refreshed. Sherlock Holmes still sat exactly as I had left him, save that he liad laid aside his violin and was deep in a book. He looked across at me as I stirred, and I noticed that his face was dark and troubled. "You have slept soundly," he said. •'I feared that our talk would wake you." "I heard nothing," I ansvvered. "Have you had fresh news, then?"' "Unfortunately, no. I confess that I am surprised and disappointed. 1 ex pected something definite by this time. Wiggins has just been up to report. He says that no trace can be found of the launch. It is a provoking check, for ever}- hour is of importance." "Can I do anything? lam perfectly fresh now, and quite ready for another night's outing." "No; we can do nothing. We can only wait. If we go ourselves, the mes sage might come in our absence, and delay bo caused. You can do what you will, but I must remain on guard." "Then I shall run over to Camber well and call upon Mrs. Cecil Forrester. She asked me to, yesterday." •'On Mrs. Cecil Forrester?" asked Holmes, with the twinkle of a smile in his eyes. "Well, of course, on Miss Morstan too. They were anxious to hear what happened." "I would not tell them too much," laid Holmes. ''Women are never to be entirely trusted —not the best of them.'' I did not pause to argue over this atrocious sentiment- "I shall be back in an hour or two," I remarked. "All right! Good luck! But. I say, if you are crossing the river you may as well return Toby, for I don't think it is at all likely that we shall have any use for him now." I took our mongrel accordingly, and left him, together with a half sovereign at the old naturalist's in Pirehin lane. At Camberwell I found Miss Morstan a little weary after her night's adven tures, but very eager to hear the news. Mrs. Forrester,too,{ was full of curios ity. I told them all that we had done, suppressing, however, the more dread ful parts of the tragedy. Thus, al though I spoke of Mr. Sholto's death, I said nothing of the exact manner and method of it With all my omissions, however, there was enough to startle and amaze them. "It is a romance!" cried Mrs. Forres ter. "An injured lady, half a million in treasure, a black cannibal and a wooden-legged ruffian. They take the place of the conventional dragon or wicked earl." "And two knight-errants to the res cue," added Miss Morstan, with a bright glance at me. "Why, Mary, your fortune depends upon the issue of this search. I don't think that you are nearly excited enough. Just imagine what it must be to be so rich and to have the world at your feet!" It sent a thrill of joy to my heart to notice that she showed no sign of ela tion at the prospect. On the contrary, she gave a toss of her proud head, as though the matter were one in which she took small interest. "It is for Mr. Thaddeus Sholto that I am anxious," she said. "Nothing else is of any consequence; but I think that he has behaved most kindly and honorably throughout. It is our duty to clear him of this dreadful and un founded charge." It was evening before I left Camber- Well, and quite dark by the time I reached home. My companion's book and pipe lay by his chair, but he had disappeared. I looked about In tho hope of seeing a note, but there was none. "I suppose that Mr. Sherlock Holmes has gone out," I said to Mrs. Hudson as she CTimo up to lower I he blinds. "No, sir. He has gone to his room, sir. Do you know, sir," sinking her voice into an impressive whisper, "I am efrakl for his health?" "Why so, Mrs. Hudson?" "Well, he's that strange, sir. After you was gone he walked and he walked, up and down, and up and down, until I was weary of the sound of his footstep. Then I heard him talking to himself and muttering, aud every time the bell rang out lie came on the stair-head with: 'What is that, Mrs. Hudson?' And now he has slammed off to his room, but I can hear him walking away the same as ever. I hope he's not going to be ill, sir. I ventured to say something to him about cooling medicine, but he turned on me, sir, with such a look that I don't know how I ever got out of the room." "I don't think that you have any cause to bo uneasy, Mrs. Hudson," I answered. "I have seen him like this before. He has some small matter up on his mind which makes him restless." I tried to speak lightly to our worthy landlady, but I was myself somewhat uneasy when, through the long night, I still from time to time heard the dull sound of his tread, and knew how his keen spirit was chafing against this involuntary inaction. At breakfast time he looked worn and haggard, with a little fleck of feverish color upon either cheek. "You are knocking yourself up, old man," I remarked. "I heard you march ing about in the night." "No, I could not sleep," he answered. "This infernal problem is consuming me. It is too much to be balked by so petty an obstacle, when all else had been overcome. I know the men, the launch, everything; and yet I can get no news. I have set other agencies at work, and used every means at my dis posal The whole river has been searched on either side, but there is no news, nor has Mrs. Smith heard of her husband. I shall come to the conclu- Bion soon that they have scuttled the craft But there are objections to that." "Or that Mrs. Smith has put us on a Wrong scent." "No, I think that may be dismissed. I had inquiries made, and there is a launch of that description." "Could it have gone up the river?" "I have considered that possibility too, and there is a search party who will work up as far as Richmond. If no news comes to-day, I shall start off myself to-morrow, and go for the men rather than the boat. But surely, burely, we shall hear something." We did not, however. Not a word came to us cither from Wiggins or from the other agencies. There were articles in most of the papers upon the Norwood tragedj'. They all appeared to be rather hostile to-the unfortunate Thaddeus Sholto. No fresh details Were to be found, however, in any of them, save that an inquest was held upon the following day I walked over to Camberwell in the evening to to report our ill success to the ladies, and on my return I found Holmes de jected and somewhat morose. He would hardly reply to my questions, and busied himself all evening iu an abstruse chemical analysis which in volved much heating of retorts and dis tilling of vapors, ending at last in a smell which fairly drove me out of the apartment. Dp to the small fours of the morning I could hear the clicking of his test-tubes which told me that he was still engaged in his malodorous ex periment. CI.AD IS RL'DK SAILOR DRESS. In the early dawn I woke with a start, and was surprised to find him standing by my bedside clad in a rude sailor's dress, with a peajacket, and a coarse red scarf round his neck. "I am off down the river, Watson," said he. "I have been turning it over in my mind, and I can see only one way out of it. It is worth trying, at all events." "Surely I can come with you, theD," said I. "No; you can be much more useful if you will remain here as my represent ative. lam loath to go, for it is quite on the cards that some message may come during the day, though Wiggins was despondent about it last night. I want you to open all notes and tele grams, and to act on your own judg ment if any news should come. Can I rely upon you?" "Most certainly." "I am afraid that you will not be able to wire to me, for I can hardly teU yet where I may find myself. If lam in luck, however, I may not be gone so very long. I shall have news of some sort or other before I get back." I had heard nothing of him by break fast time. On opening the Standard, however, I found that there was a fresh allusion to the business. "With reference to the Upper Norwood trag edy," it remarked, "we have reason to believe that the matter promises to be even more complex and mysterious than was originally supposed. Fresh evidence has shown that it is quite im possible that Mr. Thaddeus Sholto could have been in any way concerned in the matter, ne and the house keeper, Mrs. Bernstone. were both re leased yesterday evening. It is be lieved. however, tliat the police have a clew to the real culprits, and that it Is being prosecuted by Mr. Athelney Jones, of Scotland Yard, with all his well-known energy and sagacity. Fur ther arrests may be expected at any moment." "That is satisfactory so far as it goes," thought I. "Friend Sholto is safe at any rate. I wonder what the fresh clew may be; though it seems to be a stereotyped form whenever the police have made a blunder." I tossed the paper down upon the ta ble, but at that moment my eye caught an advertisement in the agony column. It ran in this way; "LOST. Whereas Mordecai Smith, boatman, and his son Jim left Smith's wharf at or about three o'clock last Tuesday morning In the steam launch Aurora, black with two red stripes, funnel black with a white band, the sum of five pounds will be paid to any one who can give information to Mrs. Smith, at Smith's wliarf, or at 221 b Baker street, as to tho whereabouts of the said Mordecai Smith and the launch Aurora." This was clearly Holmes' doing. The Baker street address was enough to prove that. It struck me as rather in genious, because it might be read by the fugitives without their seeing in it more than the natural anxiety of a wife for her missing husband. It was a long day. Every time that a knock came to tho door, or a sharp step passed in the street, I imagined that it was either Holmes returning or an answer to his advertisement. I tried to read, but my thoughts would wander off to our strange quest and to the ill-assorted and villainous pair whom we were pursuing. Could there t>e, I wondered, some radi cal flaw in my companion's reason ing? Might he be suffering from some huge self-deception? Was it not possible that his nimble and specu lative mind had built up this wild theory upon faulty premises? I had never known him to be wrong; and yet the keenest reasoner may occasionally be deceived. He was likely, I thought, to fall into error through the over refinement of his logic—his preference for a subtle and bizarre explanation when a plainer and more common place one lay ready to his hand. Yet, 011 the other hand, I had myself seen the evidence, and I had heard the rea- Bons for his deductions. When I looked back on the long chain of curious cir cumstances, many of them trivial in themselves, but all tending in the same direction, I could not disguise from myself that even if Holmes' explana tion were incorrect the true theory must be equally outre and startling. At three o'clock in the afternoon there was a loud peal at the beU, an authoritative voice in the hall, and, to iry surprise, no less a person than Mr. Athelney Jones was shown up to me. Very different was he, however, from the brusque and masterful professor of common sense who had taken over tho case so confidently at Upper Norwood, j His expression was downcast, and his | bearing meek and even apologetic. "Good day, sir; good day," said he. "Mr. Sherlock Holmes Is out, I under- i stand." "Yes, and I cannot be sure when he will be back. But perhaps you would i care to wait. Take that chair and try one of these cigars." "Thank you: I don't mind if I do," ; said he, mopping his face with a red j bandanna handkerchief. "And a wliisky-and-soda?" "Well, half a glass. It is very hot for the time of year: and I have had a j good deal to worry and try me. You know my theory about this Norwood j case?" "I remember that you expressed j one." "WeU, I have been obliged to recon sider it. I had mv net drawn tightly round Mr. Sholto, sir, when pop he went through a hole in the middle of it. He was able to prove an alibi which could pot be shaken. From the time that he left his brother's room he was never out of sight of some one or other. So It could not be he who climbed over roofs and through trap-doors. It's a very dark case, and mv professional credit is at stake. I should be very flad af a little assistance." "We all need help sometimes," said I. "Your friend, Mr Sherlock Holmes, is a wonderful man, sir," said he. In a husky and confidential voice. "He's a man who is not to be beat- I hsve known that young man go into a pood uanr tHit I never saw the cP-se yet that he oould not throw a lipht npon. fie is irregnlar in his methods, and a little quick, perhaps, in jumping at theories, but, on the whole, I think he would have made a most promising officer, and I don't care who knows it. I have had a wire from him this morn ing-. by which I understand that he has jjot some clew to this Sholto business. Here is his message." He took the telegram out of his pocket, and handed it to me. It was dated from I'oplar at twelve o'clock. "Go to Maker street at once," it said "If I have not returned, wait for me. I am close on the track of the Sholto gang. You can come with us to-night if you want to be in at the finish." "This sounds well. He has evidently picked up the scent again," said I. "Ah, then he has been at fault too," exclaimed Jones, with evident satisfac tion "Even the best of us are thrown off sometimes. Of course this may prove to be a false alarm; but it is my duty as an officer of the law to allow no chance to slip. Hut there is some one at the door Perhaps this is he." A heavy step was heard ascending the stairs, with a great wheezing and rattling as from a man who was sorely put to it for breath. Once or twice he stopped, as though the climb was too much for him, but at last he made his way to our door and entered. His ap pearance corresponded to the sounds which we had heard. He was an aged man, clad in seafaring garb, with an old peajacket buttoned up to his throat. His back was bowed, his knees were shaky, and his breathing was painfully asthmatic. As he leaned upon a thick oaken cudgel his shoul ders heaved in the etfort to draw air into his lungs. He had a colored scarf round his chin, and I could see little of his face save a pair of keen dark eyes, overhung by bushy white brows, and "WHAT 18 IT, MY MAJi?" I ASKED. long gray side-whiskers. Altogether he gave me the impression of a re spectable master marriner who had fallen into years and poverty. "What is it, my man?" I asked. He looked about him in the slow me thodical fashion of old age. "Is Mr. Sherlock Holmes here?" said be. "No; but I am acting for him. You san tell me any message you have for him." "It was to him himself I was to tell It," said he. "But I tell you that I am acting for him. Was it about Mordecai Smith's boat?" "Yes. I knows well where it is. An' I knows where the men he is after are. An' I knows where the treasure is. I knows all about it." "Then tell me, and I shall let him know." "It was to him I was to tell it," he repeated, with the petulant obstinacy of a very old man. "Well, you must wait for him." "No, no; I ain't goin' to lose a whole day to please no one. If Mr. Holmes ain't here, then Mr. Holmes must find it all out for himself. I don't care about the look of either of you, and I won't tell a word." He shuffled towards the door, but Athelney Jones got in front of him. "Wait a bit, my friend," said he. "You have important information, and you must not walk off. We shall keep you, whether you like or not, until our friend returns." The old man made a little run to wards the door, but. as Athelney Jones put his broad back up against it, he recognized the uselessness of resistance. "Pretty sort o' treatment this!" he cried, stamping his stick. "I come here to see a gentleman, and you two, who I never saw in my life, seize me and treat me in this fashion!" "You will be none the worse," I said. "We shall recompense you for the loss of your time. Sit over here on the sofa, and you will not have long to wait." He came across sullenly enough, and seated himself with his face resting on his hands. Jones and I resumed our cigars and our talk. Suddenly, how ever, Holmes' voice broke In upon us. "I think that you might offer me a cigar, too," he said. We both started in our chairs. There was Holmes sitting close to us with an air of quiet amusement. "Holmes!" 1 exclaimed. "You here! But where is the old man?" "Here is the old man," said he, hold ing out a heap of white hair. "Here he is—wig, whiskers, eyebrows, and all I 'bought my disguise was pretty good ut I hardly expected that it would .-.land that test." "All, you rogue!" cried Jones, highly delighted. "Yon would have made an actor, and a rare one Yon had the proper workhouse cough, and those weak legs of yours are worth ten pound a week. I thought I knew the glint of your eye. though You didn't get away from us so easily, you see." "I have been working in that get-up all day," said he, lighting his cigar. "You see, a good many of the criminal classes begin to know me—especially since our friend here took to publish ing some of my eases; so I can only go on the warpath under some simple dls gnise like this. Von got my wire?" "Yes; that was what brought me here" "How has v >ur case prospered?" "It has all come to nothing I havt had to release two of my prisoners, and there is no evidence against the other two." "Never mind. We shall give you two others in the place of them. But yo® must put yourself under my order* You are welcome to all the official credit, but you must act on the lines that I point out. Is that agreed?" "Entirely, if you will help me to the men." "Well, then, in the first place I shall want a fast police-boat—a steam launch —to be at the Westminster Stairs at seven o'clock." "That is easily managed. There Is always one about there; but I can step across the road and telephone to make sure." "Then I shall want two stanch men, in case of resistance." "There will be two or three In the boat. Wln»t else?" "\Vhen we secure the men we shall get the treasure. I think that it would be a pleasure to my friend here to take the box round to the young lady to whom half of it rightfully belongs. Let her bo the first to open it. Eh, Watson?" "It would be a great pleasure to me."" "Rather an irregular proceeding," said Jones, shaking his head. "How ever. the whole thing is irregnlar. and I suppose we must wink at it. The trcasnre mnst afterwards be handed over to the ruthorities until after the official in vest iga 11 -v.." "Certainly. That is cu. V.y One other point. I should like much to have a few details about this matter from the lips of Jonathan Small him self. You know I like to work the de tail of my cases out. There is no ob jection to my having- an unofficial in terview with him either here in my rooms or elsewhere, as long- as he is ef ficiently (guarded?" "Well, you are master of the situa tion. I have had no proofs yet of the existence of Jonathan Small. How ever, if you can catch him, I don't see how I can refuse you an interview with him." "That is understood, then?" "Perfectly. Is there anything else?" "Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wine. Watson, you have never yet recognized 013- merits as a house keeper." (TO BE CONTINL <D. 1 Whrrp Nllenre Was Eloquent Satd tie mistress to Bridget, With s shake of her digit; "Bow Is It no sound from tbe kitchen Is heard Whenever your 'steady' Is with you already— There's never a murmur, not even a word?" "Your pardon I'm beggln'." Said Bridget McOreggln; "My beau Is a 'daisy' that's quite hard to beat; But so bashful Is Barney That, havtn' no blarney. Be does nothln' at prlslnt but sit down and eat." -X. Y Herald The Triumph * f Science. A famous French doctor and profes sor of medicine contended that every disease was attributable to a process of inflammation. On dissecting ono of bis patients not a trace of inflammation could be found. He explained the cir cumstances to his pupils as follows; "Gentlemen, you see that our mode of treatment was thoroughly effective; the patient is dead but he died cured!" —Neue Zeit. Skillful an Fvcr. Penning—lsn't Rondo going off in his writings? Norris—l hadn't noticed it. Penning—lt seems to me he has lost that exquisite delicacy of touch he used to have. Norris (ruefully)—By Jove! yo i wouldn't think so if yon had seen him work me for ten this morning. -Brook lyn Life. Ended In b Gr«ii<l Tableau. Mother —Ella, go to bed. Say good nigllt to the governess and give her a kiss. Ella—No, mamma, I don't want to give her a kiss. Mother—And why not? Ella—Because when anyone gives her a kiss she boxes their ears. Ask papa if she doesn't.—Texas Siftings. A Drop Too Much. Jimson—Sad about poor Keel 3', wasn't it? Simson—What about him? "Had the jims and ran up on the roof, stood on the edge crying for 'Drink!' 'Drink!'" "Well?" "Then the wind came along and blew him off." —N. Y. World. Not Far Out of the Way. Teacher (in female college, to pupil) —How many kinds of poetry are there? Pupil—There are three. Teacher —Which are they? Pupil—Lyric, dramatic and— Teacher —Well, and ep— Pupil (eagerly)— And epidemic poetry. —Humorlstische Blaetter. He Told. The teacher told tho class to make the numerals from 1 to 12. The cla.sa went to work, and one little boy got through very quickly. The teacher praised him for getting through his les son so well. He looked frankly at her and said: "Yes'm, I copied them from the face of the clock; the rest did not." —Outlook. A Very Sound Sleeper. Mrs. A. —Is your husband ft sound sleeper? Mrs. B.—You would think he was a sound sleeper if you could hear liim snore. —Texas Siftings. A Reflection on Ht» Art. Miss Skinner (coyly) —Now, professor, don't make me look a day older than 1 really am. Professor —Impossible, mademoiselle! Impossible! —Truth. Insuperable Drawback. Cumso—A good sewing machine is said to do the work of twelve women. Do you believe that, Cawker? Cawker —No—it can't talk.—Puck. Kansas I.ullaby. Hock a by. baby, your mamma has gone. She's out at a caucus and will be till dawn. She wore papa's trousers, aud in tbem looked queer. So hushaby, baby, your papa Is here. —Fresno Republican. ROIXTNO IN WEALTH. —Texas Siftings. Mnt It Didn't Work. "Must we economize*" sho said. "Each other's taste we'll try. You choose the dresses that X wear, And your cigars I'll buy." —Washington Star. A Novel Proposal. "O, will you share my lot?" sang he. "Yes, O, yes; if there is a house on It with all the modern Improvements,' mused she.—Trutli. .More Difficult. Bax —ls your new poem after the French? Tagley Longtress—No; it's after a publisher just now.—N. Y. World. A Distinction. Mrs. Meßride —John, dear, why are some grocers called green grocers? Mr. Meßride—To distinguish them from cash grocers, darling.—Vogue. Ilia Usual Br.in.l llojaek—l want a cigar find I want if bad Tomdik—That istho kind you usually smoke.—Judge. COULI) HAVE A WAVE. Lake Michigan Could Rise Up and Surprise Chicago. All It NM<II I* an Earthquake to Rat It m Oolnf What an Ancient Mar. ■ tier Says About Such Matters. "Apropos of the recent Atlantic tidal wave." said an ancient mariner to a Chi cago Tribune man the other day, "an account of one nearer home might be of Interest at this time. It isn't neces sary to have an ocean of water to pro duce one of these waves by long odds. Old Lake Michigan could get up a prime article in that line and show Chi cago a few things heretofore unthought of. All that would be necessary would be an earthquake in the lake and then there would be from six to ten feet of water here in no time. The story that I started to tell you has an earthquake as the prime cause, a tidal wave as the immediate effect, and a ruined town as the result. "New Madrid. Mo., was destroyed by the 'great shake,' as it was called, in the year 1811. The whole Mississippi valley was affected. The center of vio lence was at Little Prairie, near New Madrid. The vibrations were felt over the Ohio valley as high as Pittsburgh. New Madrid suffered more than any other town on the Mississippi. At that time Indians were dangerous and the persons engaged in carrying produce in boats to New Orleans kept in company fbr mutual defense. In the middle of December 1C there was a terrible shock and jarring of the boats so that the crews were all awakened and hurried on deck, thinking of an Indian attack. The noise and commotion were dread ful, but soon stopped. In the morning loud roaring and hissing were heard and there was a tremendous boiling up of the waters of the Mississippi in huge swells, tossing the l>oats about so vio lently that the men were thrown about on the decks. The water in the river changed to a reddish hue, then l>ecame black with mud tlirown up from the the bottom, while the surface, lashed by the agitation of the earth beneath, was covered with foam, which, gath ering into masses the Bize of a barrel, floated along the trembling surface. "The earth opened in wide fissures, and closing again threw the water, sand and mud in huge jets higher than the tops of the trees. The atmosphere was filled with a thick vapor of gas. At New Madrid several boats were car ried by the great waves up onto the bank of the river just above the town, and were left high and dry a consider able distance from the water. Many boats were wrecked on the snags, while others were sunk or stranded on the sand bars and islands. The scenes for several days during the repeated shocks were horrible. The sulphurated gases discharged tainted the air with noxious effluvia, and so strongly im pregnated the water of the river for oce hundred and fifty miles below that it could hardly be used for any purpose for many days. New Madrid, which stood on a bluff twenty feet above the summer floods, sunk so low that the next rise covered it to a depth of five feet. The bottoms of several lakes in the vicinity were ele vated and have since been planted with corn. People lived along the river in those days more than in the country, so the big water disturbance did proba bly more damage than the 'shakes' where there was no water. So you can easily see how there can be a tidal wave without an ocean and that we may have one of our own some day. When it comes it should be a good one, so those eastern people will be satisfied we did not manufacture it to get even." POURED OIL ON THE WINE. How King Kalakaaa Prevented Pint- Prandial Internal Disturbances. The abdication of Queen Liluokalani recalls an incident in which her pred ecessor, King Kalakaua, figured when he visited this country eleven or twelve years ago. The Rambler, says the New York Commercial Advertiser, does not recall tlio exact date, but remembers that he met the distinguished monarch in Philadelphia at the Continental ho tel. Kalakaua was fond of the good things of life, including all sorts and descriptions of liquid refreshments. It was his proud boast that ho always drank "like a gentleman," which, ac cording to his interpretation, was the power to consume vnst quantities of champagne without affecting his men tal powers or his equilibrium. And he could do it; and so could his private secretary. They were in Philadelphia for a couple of weeks, and in that time were wined nnd dined lavishly by tha best people in town. The king became a sort, of gastronomic mentor for young blades who wanted to emulate him, and they thought they had learned something wonderful when his majesty confided to them the secret of his abil ity to dino well and show no after ill effects. lie drank a teaspoonful of olive oil after each bottle of fizz. This, he explained, caused the surface of the wine to remain covered while in the stomach and prevented the fumes of carbonic acid gas from going to the brain. Kalakaua was regarded with ex traordinary favor by tho bon vivants of the day, and would probably have maintained his reputation as a gentle manly diner if It had not been for an ■unlooked-for happening. Her Understanding of It. A woman living in one of Jho fashion able avenues had a bit of statuary bear ing the inscription: "Kismet." The housemaid was dusting the room one day when the mistress appeared. "Shure, mam, what's the manin' of the 'ritln' on the bottom of this?" asked the maid, referring to the Inscription on tho statuary. " 'Kismet' mean 9 'Fate,'" replied tho mistress. Bridget waa limping painfully when she was walk ing with Tat not long afterward, and ho asked: "Phwat's the matter, Brid get?" "Faith," was her answer, "I have the most terrible pains on me kea matl" Brothers. "How many are you. awpet maid," X asked. With a smile like the light of heaven She counted her two and her sister's three Fiances by them sot tree. And answered: "We ate seven." —Detroit Tribune. CIKITMBTANTIAL EVIDENCE. "Well, well, I really and truly believ* that our young lady has had an appoint ment with her beau. '' —Fliegende Blaet ter. A Short Watt* Witherby—l forgot my latchkey lu.sl night, and when I caine Home 1 couldn I get In, so I had to wait until the faiuilj got up. PI --ink i njjf < m—-How long wad it, old mas. "I,"" 1 "', an hour?-—World. ]SToIS HOUSE IN WHICH LINCOLN LIVED ►■»r Many Ye:»r« a Bhrin< Tldted by Thon< ■and* or Patriot*. The Lincoln homestead stands on the northeast corner of Eighth and Jack* son streets in Springfield, lIL Mr. Lincoln bought it in 1846. It was then a story and a half house but subse quently raised to two stories. It is ft plain frame structure and contain* twelve rooms. Mr. Lincoln lived thera fifteen years; in fact, until he departed for Washington on the 12th of Febru ary, 18(1, to take the presidential chair. A family by the name of Tilton occu pied the house during the war, and In those four years sixty-five thousand people called to see the home of tha president. For eighteen years aft«F the war closed the house passed through different hands and it was closed to tha public. For a long time it was unoc cupied. In November. 1893, Capt. O. H. Oldroyd rented the house and threw its doors open to visitors. In 1887 Rob ert Lincoln deeded the house to th 6 state. Capt. Oldroyd v»as the custodian for a long time, but was removed by the democratic administration, his suo oessor being Herman Hofferkamp. Capt. Oldsoyd is now the custodian of ilie house in which Mr. Lincoln died in Washington and has taken with him the grandest collection of Lincoln relics in the world. Oldsoy." it a lifetime getting these menu , i >- gether. The state could well ail'ord to nave bought the collection end set apart a fund for its presv rvation. The house, says the Chicago Tribune, in open to the public now and is vir tually just as Mr. Lincoln left it. Soma re papering and repairing has been done, but the proportions in the house are in no way changed. A year or so ago the state officials had the house photo graphed and had accurate measure ments made of the edifice that it might be rebuilt in case of fire. Hundreds of thousands ol people have yisited this house, men and women representing every civilized' nation of the earth, and some of the barbarous ones, too, for that matter. Some year* Bffo John Philip Sousa, then the lead«l> of the Marine band, pave a matinee in Springfield. At the conclusion of the Jerformanee he took his band, 6ixty ve pieces in all. over to the Lincoln mansion. After appropriate music every member of this famous body of mu sicians made his signature on the reg ister book. The occasion attracted an Immense crowd, and numerous and prominent speeches were made by citi zens of note. Sousa held a special train two hours to accomplish this, he and his men regarding it a slight testi monial of the respect in which they held Mr. Lincoln's memory. LO AS A LABORER. AD Officer of Thirty Years* Frontier Ex perience Gives Ills Views. A man who has been on the frontier for thirty years and has put hi a big part of that time fighting Indians, la Capt. P. 11. Ray, of the regular army, now in charge of the Shoshone and Arapahoe agency in Wyoming. Capt. Ray has practical views touching the Indian problem, based on his long con« tact with the red man. He believes that the Indian can be made a self-support* ing and useful citizen, and all that is needed is to furnish hiqj a sufficient in centive to work for a living, the same as his pale-fucu brother. "During the war just ended," said he to a writer for the Washington Post, ,( I had the Indians at work on a big irri gating camil. of which seven miles have been completed. They made as good laborers as I ever saw and worked cheerfully for one dollar per day. In addition to that they raised enough grain for the reservation and to supply the neighboring military post, having a surplus besides to sell. They hauled every pound of freight frcon the railway terminus to the agency, a distance ol one hundred and fifty miles. The men who have been living oft the Indians by applying all their needs for the past quarter of a century hate to see tnem beginning to get on a self-supporting basis, for then there will be no mora money to be made out of them. Tor that reason every obstacle is thrown in the way and all sorts of misrepresenta tions made by these paries, who dread to see their occupation gone. During all my experience in the west I have never known an administration that has dealt with the Indians in as clean and conscientious a way as the present. The secretary of the interior has, without any partisan bias, done in every in stance his best to promote the interests of the tribes and tne government, and, from my own observation, I think that he has thus far been very successful." Fire Million* tor m Husband. When Lady Margaret Orosvenar. third surviving daughter ot the duke ol Westminster, gave her hand to Prince Adolphus of Teck, the other day, says the Philndclplifc Times, her father gave with it a inarriag-e portion of five nlO* lion dollars. The bride, the daughter of probably the richest man in the world, is rather a good-looking girl whose per sonality, to say nothing of such a fabu lous dot, would seem to entitle her to something better in the way of a hus band than the impecunious young lan cer whose name she now bears. Tho prince is an officer in tho seventeenth lancers, the full uniform of which regi ment he wore when married. Tne wedding presents numbered about flvo hundred, and included enough jewelry to start a store. The newly wedded pair will in future be known as "their 6ercne highnesses tho prince and prin cess of Teck." ll* Understood Womankind. It is related by Tit-liits that a cer* tain man was recently very sad because his wife had gone on a visit, Which sho would not shorten in spite of his at* peals to come home, lie finally hit upon a plan to induce her to return, lie sent her a copy of each of the local papers with one item clipped out, ana when sho wrote to iind out what it was ho had clipped from tho papers he re fused to tell her. The scheme worked admirably. In less than a week she was home to find out what it was that had been going on that her hus band did not want her to know abont. ('rushed. "My fiancee ts quite a girl; a Three hundred pounds." said he. "And never shall I quite forprot The night she sat on tne." —Detroit Free Press. 1 Editing Cnder Difficulties. Little Sister—Most of the articles in your paper this month is awful poor. Little Brother (editor Amateur Monthly)—l know it; but the boys that wrote 'cm sent stamps for their return and I needed the stamps.—Good Nem. . gplMtgL Cora Fee—My sister and I aro going to uso our money to build a home for aged cats. Sue Urette— I should think you would find it cheaper to board. —Town Topics. jg Improbable» Mrs. Hicks—l caught Mrs. Dix in a lie to-day. Hicks—What? Mrs. Hicks—Sho said her husband got up in tho morning and built the fire.—N. Y. World. J fine Exception. Teacher (of class in physics)— Reme mber that tho whole ia always greater than any of its parts. Juvenile Pupil—Not always. Where ' my paw's hair parts, ma'am, it's great er'n all his hair. —Chicago Tribune. Porcine. Desplto the embargo that's laid far away Over sea on our pork by a kin# on bis thronei The ladles who hang by the car straps toilay Assert that the hog ts still boltfloff hi* own, js -aoclßßsU Trlt?Uß* J
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