| Two Big Pains j " K seem to be the heritage of the " ' " * human family everywhere, vi*: ~' Rheumatism ■ * and -< ► ii Neuralgia j; 1 hut there is one sure and * „ „ prompt cure for both, viz: _ „ : St. Jacobs Oil II «< ► -+ The Role of the Button. The world of the West has failed to appreciate the button, *ts utility is undoubted, ard as an advertising me dium it has proven useful, but except in isolated cpses it has not been ac corded the same importance as in China, where it is one of the chief decorations. The mandarins all wear on their caps as insignia < * rank, each of the nine classes possessing a dis tinctive model, ranging in value ac cording to its wearer's rank. Red coral heads the list, then a sapphire blue button; a peculiar opaque purple stone follows. The fourth, a light blue but ton, is awarded military field officers; crystal buttons designate a subaltern; then come the jadestonc button, an embossed gold button, a brass one, and, lastly, a tliin silver one. The first is reserved for members of the imperial family, the second for dis tinguished foreigners. One instance only is known where the coral was bestowed upon a foreigner. This hap pened in the case of an Englishman, Sir Robert Hart, Inspector-General of Maritime Customs. The ITnirorn. The Unicorn is an enemy to the Lion, wherefore, as soon as a Lion seeth a Unicorn, he runneth to a tree for suc cour, that so when the Unicorn in the Swiftness of his course runneth against the tree, wherein his sharp horn stlcketh fast, then when the Lion seetli the Unicorn fastened by the horn, without all danger, he fa 11 - eth upon him, and killeth him. These things are reported by the King of Ethiopia in a Hebrew Epistle unto thj Bishop of Home.—From "Topsell's History of Four-footed Beasts." 1058. HOW WEAK CHILDREN ARE MADE SIM, VIGOROUS INDWELL Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hallows, of Peckham St., Globe Village, Fall River, Mass., have cause to thank Dr. Greene's Nervura for restoring' to health, and probably preserving the life of their little son. Almost from infancy Everett Hallows was troubled with indigestion and nervous troubles, and nothing seemed to help him. Finally Dr. Greene's Nervura was recommended and tried with success. A few bottles were sufficient to effect a cure, and to-day the little one is enjoying the best of health. By the use of Dr. Greene's Nervura thd sickly chilu was transformed into a happy, hearty, robust boy. Dr. Greene's J, or \ ho . mm Nervura NOW Thousands of other children can thank Dr Greene and his wonderful remedy for the strength and health they enjoy. Children to whom it is given have less sickness, better health, better grow{h, and longer and more vigorous lives. Parents should realize that it Is their duly to give it to every child who is not in perfect health. There are no diseases more dreaded by parents than fits, epilepsy, and St. Vitus' dance. Yet no child would be troubled by them U Dr. Greene's Nervura were given when the tirst symj touts appear. Ohsrlss I, Moßsy, m highly esteemed polios officer, who rssldss si 14 Myrtle St., Mew Bedford, Mess., ssyst " About two years ago my little daughter Wants run down in health and suffered from 8t Vitus' dttnue. noon after she was prostrated by rlieumatuiu. which severely affected her low Unit*. " After trying various remedies without obtaining relief she began taking l>r Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy. and ei|*rlenced iniiimdutte benefit Hlie continued its use, and after taking live bottles her rheumatism was practically cured. Her appetite return si, her pains disappear**!, sh<- on* again able to walk without lam-new, ber general health was restored, and she was able to attend school aad to play like oliter children '* Dr. Greene's Nervura, blood aad nerve remedy, la the prescription and dtscevery of the well-kaawn Dr. Qreeae, ef 11 West Nth Street, New York City, who la the most successful specialist la curlag all foraM af aerveus aad chraato complaints, aad he CM ha taaaaltad la aay case, free af ttarit. faraaaally ar hy lattar. I The Mexican Boundary. The boundary lino between the TTnl- I ted States and Mexico lias recently been resurveyed and marked by stono monuments In the form of obelisks lo- I cftted about live miles apart. The shafts are ten feet hifrh, four feet square at the base, and two feet at the top, built on foundations five feet square and rising six inches above the surface of the ground. In some places only boulders could be obtained, when these were covered with Portland ce ment plaster and tlie proper inscription plates being placed 011 tliem. Rome iron obelisks were also used, these being about six feet high and twelve inches square. The completion of this work gives some interesting data In regard to the accuracy of long-dis tance surveying. The boundary line was first surveyed and marked in 1848 and 3853, and most of the stones then erected have been destroyed, the dis tance between authentic marks often being as much as 100 miles. In resur veying a distance of about 1000 miles but three errors were discovered, two being of about 300 feet and the other about ninety feet. The Economy of Electricity In Mining. In tiie first place, its great conveni ence must be noted. An electric lamp can be placed and used where no other lamp can, and practically any candle power that may be required can be had from it. An electric motor to do certain work is much lighter and han dier than any other form of motor, and Hie cables which feed it with energy are lighter, handier, more easily got into position, and more easily main tained than the pipes required for either steam or compressed air. The electric signal and the electric tele phone will do what no other apparatus will, .ill these are sources of economy in themselves, and the busier the mine the greater the economies ef fected. But apart from these con siderations, the electric motor and the electric system of transmitting power is far more efficient than any other system.—The Engineering Magazine. The Lawyer'# I)p(Vn»e. My client admits having struck his wife; in fact, having beaten her. Hut, gentleman, should we not praise this aged man for having retained the fire of his youth, despite Ihe chilling blasts of matrimonial experience, rather than chide him for his action."—Flh-gende Blaetter. The Book Women Don't Want. No woman ever has any use for a book where the girl accepts the man she is in love with before she has put him to a lot of trouble.—New York Press. It Will. "The man with money to burn," said the Cornfield Philosopher, "thinks it will be a cold day when Ills fuel gives out."—lndianapolis Press. I WHY THE TRAMP IS THE | BAILBOADS' MOST EXPENSIVE PATRON, 112 ONE of the greatest sources of annoyance and perplexity to every railroad superintendent ' the "holio." The members of this easy-going gentry have selected the road cf steel as a natural successor for their purposes to tliQ "king's high way" of a century and a half ago. It Is stated on good authority that the various railway lines of the country spend each year more than a million dollars in attempts to keep their lines free from trumps. It is easy to understand, says the New York Herald, why the "hobo" prefers the railways to the highways. In the first place, they offer the most direct routes between towns, and, in spite of beliefs to the contrary, the genuine "hobo" prefers not to stray any further than is necessary from these centres of population. It is easier to count ties than to pick one's way through the uncertainties of country dirt roads. The railroad is never muddy in wet weather nor very dusty In the dry season. Moreover, there is r.lways the alluring possibility of stealing a ride on the trucks, the "blind baggage" or within the friendly shelter of sonic bos car. W-.lle the railway is a groat boon to the members of the genus hobo, it can not be said that the reverse is true. In fact, so great a dislike do the rail way officials show to the free and In discriminate use cf I'ieir property that they spend thousands of dollars in em ploying men to drive the tramps off trains and away from the line. A single line of railway—one of till more important companies—spends up ward of $40,000 every year in lighting tramps, and it is probable that most of the through lines pay out not loss than $25,000 apiece in attempts to keep their lines clear of these unwelcome travel ers. | If these men are driven off one train j they catch onto the next that conies j along. If they are sent to the peniten tiary they serve their terms and fcturn to the ro .d. Xo amount of beating or Imprisonment serves to discourage them, nnd the problem of dealing with them Is a source of continual perplex ity to railway officials. The use of the railways by the invet erate hoboes menaces not alone the HEADING SIGNS OS BOX CARS. property of the companies themselves, but also the peace aud security of the sections through which they pass, which is practically the same as say ing of the whole country. On this point the opinion of an expert Is available, nnd is Interesting as showing how the present lax system of policing the rail way lines tends to keep tilled the ranks of the vagrant aud criminal classes. Mr. Josiah -Flynt, who has spent many years among tramps stu dying their ways and habits, says: "All the great railways are spending thousands of dollars on their "detec tive' forces, as they call them, and they are all overrun by mobs of ne'er do wells nnd criminals. There are no Worse slums In the country than are to be found on the railroads. Reform ers nnd so.Mnl aglt ►c.-s are accustomed iJ'*^m tU4MP4. lu *|n4k of the R»NIFR»iMI dtiirkti of gruuml ■< IUUCII |iluu4»r as tin ili<>ii«bt Ihv largi- <il!M a* tli«' ■luiii* In wblib tuultf U> initlo I away, the Miut* twlug lltuillvii ahuultl b* liirvcttHl, but lit lb« picketl by laiar l»> ilw mil uf ibw gaug most congested quarters of New York City there are no greater desperadoes nor worse scenes of degradation than may be met on the "iron highways" of the United States. A number of rail roads are recognized by vagrants and criminals as the stamping ground of particular gangs that are generally found on the lines with which their names are connected. "Take the Lake Shore and .Michigan Southern Railroad, for example. For several years a mob of cutthroats and 'hold up' men, called the 'Lake Shore Push,' were operating on that proper ty. The hangman's noose and long sentences to the penitentiary have weakened the gang and removed its terrors, but originally it was a strong criminal combination. "The men had no leader or organi zation in the strict sense of the word, but they were bound together, as well as criminals aud thugs can be, by the determination to keep the Lake Shore Railroad, from the outcasts' point of view, in their own hands, and there have been times when it was all a man's life was worth to be caught by the gang on a freight train. They had made up their mind that a syndicate of ruffians was as appropriate and like ly to succeed as any other kind of syn dicate, and for several years they lev led toll, In the shape of money or any thing else of value that they could get, on all strange wanderers found on the property which they had picked out as their territory. If a man whom they located beating his way on a freight car refused to pay toll they pummelled him until he acquiesced In their demands, and then. If they hap pened to be drunk, they were as likely as not to throw him off the train. Only a few of the original gang are alive or free to-day, but it still be hooves a man beating his way on the I.ake Shore to be on the lookout for men of their stamp. "Besides holding up tramps they also robbed freight cars, and I doubt ■whether any other gang in the country ever brought to such perfection this kind of thieving. The robbery gener ally took place at night when the train was going round a curve. Two of the gang would board the train before the curve was reached,carrying with them n rope ladder which could be fastened to the running board on the top of the car to be robbed. Oue of the men saw to It that the ladder did not slip, and the other climbed down to the side door of the car, broke the seal, opened the door, and threw out on the scattered along the track. Tlio two men would jump off the train as soon as It slackened its speed sufficiently to allow them to do so, rejoin the 'push,' and help In distributing the plunder among the 'fences' In neigh boring cities." The method generally adopted by the railway companies In ridding their lines of tramps, and the one which is being followed by the Central road at the present time is that of scaring the great number of hoboes away from the line by making examples of a few of their number. The Central employs on its Hudson River division four de tectives who are empowered to make arrests In any county of the State through which the line extends. These men are the general officers of the detective force, and In the per formance of their duty they are able to call upon other railway employes who hold local commissions in the va rious towns along the line. Since the order was issued to use more stringent efforts In getting rid of the tramps these detectives nnd their loe.il assist ants have been exceedingly busy. Be ginning at the' southern cud of the di vision they have worked their way to ward Albany, riding on freight trains, going through the yards in the differ ent towns and raiding the hoboes' camps along the railroad property with the aid of the local police force in the different places. Half a hundred tramps have been arrested and sent to jail, and a number of their established METHOD OF ROBBING A BOX CAR. camping spots along the line have been broken up. The problem of dealing with this nuisance Is a less serious one for the Eastern roads than it Is for those of the West. In the first place. In this part of the country the tramps are dis tributed over a great many lines. In the second place, towns are closer to gether, and It Is always possible to turn the hoboes over to local magis trates to be dealt with. In the West, however, where the towns are further apart, the question of what to do with the hobo nfter he Is caught Is often a grave aud difficult one, and some of the Western roads have adopted the policy of permitting the tramps to ride undisturbed on their freight trains so long as they do not Interfere with the railroad property or steal the cars. The tramps themselves are well aware as to which lines have adopted this policy, and they are to be found In great numbers along all these roads. It Is a well-known fact among their fraternity that the railways will not put them off trains in passing over the 1 Cocky Mountains or across the Southern desert. The lines In these sections have Suffered so much from tires started by tramps that had been I put off trains that they prefer to carry them us free freight rather than to have miles of their property de stroyed. One of the easiest "lays." in tramps' parlance, to In* found In the country Is that extending from Texas to Southern California, or fnun lie li ver to Salt I ..ike City, so far lis beat lug one's way is concerned. It Is estimated on good authority that there are no less than lisi.tUMi pro fessional hoboes In the I'lilted Slates. These uieu travel from eud to end of the country over the railroad lines, and live oy preying u|miu the pro|ierty I of the eoui|Niules or Upou the people who live uloug (he roads. The tost of J unwillingly supporting them amounts to hundreds of thou*auds of dollurs ' every jmr, but thus far no way has been fout'd to successfully suppress I litem. I FISHING WITH BIRDS. Tlte Chinaman ITupfi Cormorants to C.itch His Finny l'roy. In this country the fisherman is a man who uses hook or line or the net in following his profession, and folks would stare with wonder to see him start off with a flock of birds to help UOW THE CHINAMAN FISHES. In catching fish. Yet this is done in China. There the Chinaman may be seen in his sampan surrounded by cor morants which have been trained to dash into the water at his order, seize tiie iish and bring them to the boat. Should .1 cormorant capture a lisii too large for it to carry alone one of its companions will goto It sassistance, and together they will bring it in. If (lie Chinaman wishes to catch tur tles he will do so with the aid of a sucking flsh or reuiora. This fish has on top of Its head a long disc or sucker by which it attaches itself beneath moving objects such as sharks, whales and the bottoms of ships rather than inr.ke the effort necessary to independ ent movement. The fisherman fastens the remora to a lons cord tied to a brass ring about its tall, and when he reaches the tur tle ground puts It overboard, taking care to keep it from the bottom of the boat. When a turtle passes near the remora darts beneath him and fastens to his shell. Struggle as he will the turtle cannot loosen the grip of the sucker, and the Chinaman lias only to haul in on the line, bring the turtle up to the boat and take him aboard. Itapld Growth of Beard. Three brothers, bearing a remark able resemblance to one another, were in the habit of patronizing the same barber shop. One day one of the brothers entered the shop early in tli" j morning and was duly shaved by a : German who had been at work in the j establishment for one or two days. I About twelve o'clock another brother j :ame in and underwent a similar oper j ation. In the evening the third brother I made his appearance, when the Ger man dropped his razor in astonisli | uient. I "Mine gootness, dat man has the fastest growing beard I ever saw. 1 ! shaves him dis mornln' anoder shaves ; liini at dinner times, and he gomes back now mit his beard so long as it j never was."—Chicago Journal. Atchison People Noted For Honeaty. | An Atchison (Kan.) man points with | pride to the honesty of inhabitants CL , city as exemplified in the fact that a woman left a well-tilled poeketboek on a chair in front of a hotel there j and found it safe and unrifled 011 re j turning several hours later. A jeal ! ous contemporary in a rival town com- I meats on this circumstance as follows: ! "As a rule people pass along the | streets of the place oftener than this. : It really isn't so bad as the story would I indicate." Pretty Home Made Screen. 1 In a picturesque camp cottage in the | woods the dining room is separated | from the living room by a really lovely screen. One panel is illustrated liere ' with to show how easily such a screen may be constructed. The framework is an ordinary clothes horse. A width of green Japanese matting is nailed on the lower half on either side, with the selvage edge top and bottom; half inch rope, which has been painted .green and cut in tlie right lengths, KAMI.* » OX»THIVTKI> Sl'liKK.S. fornix 1 IN- trellln, uud » larger »l*e, IIIKO painted green, the tlnUh. Till* in catt ily nailed to the wood by menu* of long wire Mailt. Severn! iftvelJ wodu water boUlt-H wiili round boitoni* are tiillltf til interval* uloug tiie edtfe, which lllil.het Hie lop •_>/ tin- iiiallliii; 011 the dtuluu room *ide. They are It lied Willi water and kept tilled With I In* trailing Vllleii or the liclglibai'Uood, of which ther» In h ureal profiuloti Tbe»e are Irullied 111 atllolitf the ro|k> trellU. and «lve. a* ma." readll.f be well, a uioat charming effect,— SttW Xvrk Trll.uue
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