. ‘The order was Cr: | upon the receipt by the Sec the following [rom Commo in Command of the Atlan. “It becomes my pain | to Jeport that ny fe Eliza a8, in disobedience of my or the face of regulations of ment, taken up ber resi station, and persistent. 0 leave.” F Doctors Under German Law. an fusuranoe law ensrted y several YOArs azo 30.000. 80 teceiva In return for a sum free medical attendance. i that suffering hn: Teceiva cheap and effec | from its bodily ills, but 7 by the po tney are expeetad t to — the Or es that noth 4 ible ih them. of A dirty tramp introduced himself sa) wis recogoized, and thanked | i Hps i cinimed i the Holliday Bireot Theatre. actor, Noah M. the Crouch was hopelessly Improvident and in his later days became a tramp. & number of Crouch, + copyright {| England as well as In this cou niry. {Facts COLLECTED BY THE LATE CHARLEY WHITE. pirat Stoxtng of “The Star Spangled Ban. : _ merm=" Beautiful Ssow" Atiribated by “the Minstrel to HM. ww. Faxon—F oor Rewards For Some Song Writers. Among the extracts from the dinry | of Charley White, the old time negro minstrel, published in the Bun, was the : Bistory of the famoms song Dixie” §) { White spent much tite in tracing the history of other songs, and in bis diary § he gave the resnlls of his work, Some of these song histories are fnterestiog, amd a few of them are privted below: The words of “The Star Spangled Banner” were wrilten, ss every (nel knows, by Francis 8 Key during the bombardment of Fort McHenry dur ing the War of 1812 but the history of the music to which they were s¢t (5 less familiar. The vorsex” wrote White, “wore printed {5 bailsd form and seatterw] through the camp on Federal HE], | Baltimore. One évening one of the sol diers picked up a copy and read It ‘nlond three times until the entire di- vision was electrified by its patriotic cloguencs, “An idea struck Fred Dorang. an actor, who hunted up an old volume of flute music which be found In his tent. He impatiently whistled tune d afier tape, just as they caught lis 1 guick cre. One called ‘Apacreon in Heaven’ struck bis fancy apd riveted Lis at. tention. Note alter note fell from his With a lsugh and a shout be ex “Boys, I've hit #' and fitting the words fo the tune there rang out {or 3 the first time the song of “The Star { Bpsugled Danner’ “etting a short Turlovigh Ferd asd Charley Drang sang it on ihe stage of The mu- sie was first published by George Wil Hg Jr. of Baltimore “Ferd Darang died in New York in R30, 1 well remember Tom Biskely, an actor, saying to his wife, ‘Poor Ferd Durang is dying” Lurang was born in Harristvrg, Pa. His father was 8 Propelusan and 8 fair maslelan, Darang died in extreme poverty and but for his co-laborers on the stage he would have found a pauper's grave. ““The Hunters of Kentucky’ was very popular in my early days. It was writtea by Bamuel Woodworth. 8 typesetter. ‘The Hunters’ was writ. ten just after the Battle of New Op jeans, in 1515. The tune is from an old English qQliity, “‘Usfortunate Mius Ealley.’ “It was sung for many years hiy an Ludlow, who died la 1880 or 1886 In St Louis at the age of eighty. Ladlow came near having bis brains knocked out on the stage while singziog the song in New Or ledns. An Englishnan threw a large piece of gas pipe at his head, but for tunately nilssed his mark. “Woodworth wrote funny verses fis advertisements for a keeper of & fancy slave in New York for a long time, Joe | Bonfanti, who made a fortune from bis poetry. When the California fever broke out lp 1849 Woodworth went fo the Pacific slope and was engaged aus { & reporter on the Alta. He dled there and his remains le fn the Hose Moun 1 tain Cemetery. “Kathleen Mavournesn” was sold by Crouch. the author, for $25 and brought publishers as many thousands, When Mlle. Titlens was in this country years ago ashe sang ‘Kathleen Mavourneen' In New York Ber for singing the song so well, “Life on the Ocean Wave,” writtan by Epes Bargent, was pronounced al failure by his friends. Russell of a | Boston firm of music publishers, took § the words from Sargent and the latter | tells this story of the melody “ "We store, passed through the muogie Russell seated himselt at a Pi { &no, rend over the llnes at testively, humsed ab alr or two himself and ran his hands over the keys, the stopped as it non-plussed.’ ; “Snddenly a bright dea seemed to} dawn on him. A melody all at once jf eae into his brain and he began to bum it, and to sway hluself to Its movement. Then striking the keys be at last confidéntly launched into the tune since known as ‘Life on the Ocean Wave.’ “The melody proved a sucess. The became very valuable, though the anthor never got anything from It but fame. It was popular in _ * “The Arkansas Traveler” The fn- | mous traveler known as the ‘Arkansas Traveler is no myth. but breathes and has his being in that Siate. The traveler lives In Little Mock and way be seen every day on the streets of the town indulging his taste for music and story-telling. ; “He 13 known as Coloney Randy Falkner. He was born in Kentucky in 1804. In 1832 he went to Arkansas, | and became acquainted with Walter Wright, the original squatter in the i My Maryland was written by was engaged to sing In oa pany. tives, to do. | ] arhquake Ir that Lake Santo, ; long and 100 wide, bas completely dis. oo appeared. "| poers was 0000 golden crowns paid to { Zaunazaro by the citizens of Venice ‘Camp Tows Races’ ond Folks at Home,’ ‘Flien Bayne : Have Missed You’ and ‘My OM Ken tacky Home!" wrote White, “were s fousician almost from his cradle, and at the age of seven be had mastered the fisgeolet without a teacher. It Is eald that ome publishing house alone paid $20,000 for his compositions, Wille, We! written by Stephen C Foster, He was | Poster was very imorovident and was often forced to sell for a few dol iar ‘what brought a fortone to Ha ser. Rovers] of his best songs were { composed In the hack room of & grocery gtore an pieces of brown paper, He died In the City Hospital in New York, wheres be had heen removed from a Bowery bosrding house, on January IR 1864 “ ‘Rock Me 10 Sleep’ was written by re. Allen, of Maine She was paid 8 for it. and Rosell & Co, of Boston, | who had in three years gained $4000 | toy it, offered ber $5 aplece for soy songs she might write “ “The Bonnie Blue Filag® was a pop | ular song in the South. It was written bry Harry MeCsrthy, an setor, In Jack- | som, Miss in the spring of 1861, ; “River Threads Among the Gold”; was written hy H. P'. Danks, an or, gaaist, who sold it for $40. i “Pot Me In My Little Bed’ and | Wome, Birdie, Come’ were comporwd | hy C. A White, apd fully 150.000 copies ol each have been sold “iRhoo Fiz, Dent Bodder Me™ which waz once erpdiiind to TT, Beigham ; Bishop. the old minstrel, was writte acoording to White's diary, by Rolin : Floward, actor and minstrel Rome years ago when Rollin Howard come posed Bis song and dance be took his production, of which be felt very ET soil it to them, { “They looked it over and returned it with the remark, “We do not publieh | such stuff as that” Mr, Howsrd went | to Boston a stiort thoes Inter, where he | minstrel One night © AL White, the coanposer and publisher heard Howard © and offered to publish his discarded dong. i “This Is how ‘Bhoo Fiy. Don’t Bodder Me came to be printed. I: soon be came popular. The publisher sold | FH0.000 conten and with the profits es tablished the Boston firm of White, Smith & Co. I ¥sGathering Shells by the Seashore, by W. 8B. Thompson, had a sales of over | 00.000; “Diveansing of Home and Moth. | nie er, by John P. Ordway. reached a #aje of GOLOOG; "Mulligan Guards’ hy Ed Harrigan, has sold over 150.006, aml ‘Bweet By and By," by LL PF. Web ster, resened a sale of over HOGOD | Lopes.” New York Bon, Bis Lock. William Black, a citizen of the Bronx, suddenly dappearved last Av gust. Boome weeks alter a body wus | Found In the East River and identified Bs Black's by his griefastricken rela | His willow ahtalned papers a8 adminisiratrix of bis estate. A shart | time afterward a frightened looking dittle man applied to the Surrogate’ juice ¢ amd asked for a copy of the let | Hors of administration of the estate of | rim Black, deceased. “What fs your name?” Burrogats’s clerk. “Oh U'm William Black Bimal!” ex. plained the Hitle man timidly. The Surrogates clerk chair Bastily. i “The deceased?” he asked nervously | “Yeu,” replied Black, “1 suppose so | but you see the man found in the river wasn't me at ail. I have been op a ttle tear, and when I got back 1 found I had been dead and buried.” The clerk became interested your wife married again yer ™ gakod Jocosely. “No such nek.” replied “the de ceased.” in oa past dosposdent man | ner. — New York Sun. asked the | pushed back his “1s he Four Alternatives. Mr. Balfour in Bis recent letter tn] Mr. Plotuser. discussed with dialetiosd unetion the pomsibiiities of “four edo cational siternatives” In assuming that there can be more than two, the First Lord of the Treasury is merely following the exapiple of Mr. Glad batons. who, In his “Homer” says: “My decided preference fa for the fourth and lager of these alternatives” The neces sities of expression in English would seem 10 Justify the use of the word in | this loose manner. If you are offered four things obe of which you must choose, how are you gracefully to allude to then? May you call them “options.” or “cholees” or “possible courses ¥ All of these terms are ugly, amd eminent statesmen are, no dou, | ‘obeying a practical fostinet in giving | the word alternative some exirs work t Strictly speaking, the word; should bave no plural, but to the come pulsion of giving It one, there is ap parently no alternative ~~ Loodon | Chronicle, Afar the Earthquake, As 8 sequel to the recent earth | quakes in Bacdinia an emotions chasm bas been cpennd In the earth, while the surface haw bulged into a hill of cousldernabie elevation, from which stots amd masses of earth are pro jected. There are also symptoms that the Interior of the hill Is in an ebullient condition. Sclentists fueling to the be Het that the phepotiens observed are voleanie. Another consequence of the Rear Modena, which was about M0 yards ind mb High Price For = Peem. The highest price ever pald for a 102 hie uulogy of thele citys poem of | 1nd a date. . Pipresent, | deer, ! now exiinet : Europe, - stialagmn Ding pleturis | sent horselike animals belonging to two | I gifferent spocier. and some of {hese an: | theless, spurious. { & high price tain OCRses Yes nuder false pretences : raniber of persons in Bussia declared ¢ {thar a metedr fall bad taken place In | shown that ail were sparions. i masons of faire 8 a large “meteor = ju the Libyan desert, whieh! ¥ ron which i Tia eat. | Fe” found i=, “in fact, [the natives had fried to melt | pressare of 8 i inch ladder ed safely. There ia no elim “eternal spows” of high mountain tango such as the Alps They wear | t put thelr own valleys ss rivers do; they transports mud, and and stones fo great distapoes, in some cases send ing them sealed up in oehergs fo foal far out to sea, snd on melting deposit thelr burdéns on He sen oor OF the tart of Newfoundland northern joe Berges are depositing a great mass of | E 23 national debt. Ygincial drift” Harvard College chesrvgtory fw HOO00G photographs, making a templets record of the poribers and southern skies for the last fivelve years, I = an historical Hbrary of the sky, so charted that you can find | | gut the condition of any heavenly body | ; ” Lis ohronicles and traditions are reo Lorded, and the same papot ie used for! s transeribing ; diantem. : boon i ninth century by at any | years, jost as yon would go to 8 Hbrary or to a4 fle of papers to A new building will be erseted shortly fo which to house the to find & book ‘galnalble plates, Tr. Baradue the famous Freneh phy: sicinn, is reported to have perfected | { pecently an instrument by means of i Which he can ac tually measure the vi | i tl and nervous forced, and mental and | phyxical strength of any person ! Th: | miaehine consists of 8 copper neadl B, | soepended by a plore of silk fhre | C8 glass ease. The meedis fn 20 sen I Hive that 11 responds fo the slightest vi | hrations. . photographed the electric or magetic : ; rays of vitality, proud, to Pood & Co. and offered to | The darter laine to Hay ma Interesting Yight j= thrown on the ape | piremches toward civilization made by the penple who dwelt fn eaverne In France during the stone age by the dis | | pledged, ‘ of apimals on the walls of an ancient | | pave at Combarelles covery of & great nmnber of drawings France. Many of the drawings wh : with surprleing kill re mammoths and other anipm if southern snd Wesel have berame covered In 1b esurse of tine with thick Myers site, Amohg the moss interest Are some which nals have halters aml ofher stiach nik, pisinly showlog that they had been sublected fo the service of man The musenrs of abelled meteorites, which are, never Meteorites onpminmmrad A dollar for sn ounce woukl pot be too mueh ig con Certaln Comvlvare lately manufactured meteorites for the mar kot, taking siinecals snd covering thes with an artificial ors walight esng are now in jail for sellin thiedr village, and fhe specimens they proaduend Were puorebased by several An analysis has recently in the} Prasanna, andy a mass of § slogue conld be much extended A remarkable aerial Been put inte use in Plitabury, Pa fire snrine ovanhined whale machine welgha 10.000 pounds, bait is furnished with rubber tires gould | roller bearings so that tw horses can i In the centre of the | cuntaining alr under) sounds to the spared #% the ladder. wr sections, each mount edl on the side of & heavy steel tobe | The tubes loloscone inte each other so i daw It easily. track fa a Fa Bis 1 K This pressure ire whish sin © There ls a soeond under 1 pounds that no alr escaiws. tank containing ate (Tease, Indder from ene sbhile of the street to the other, or from right to loft. The spparaties x strong enough to carry a dozen men. When it ig desired to res fae a persan from an upper winuow the f# shot foto the alr as far as néved he, the tubes telescsne grodusiic bur quickly, and the person I» ground ig down ths ladder, the resend person shonly baolds on nnd the machine does the téan The Sehoolboy’'s Knowledges, Here are a low éxiracts from compos sitions w Thin by boys of Vienna ay a mar Hes down Lenlth snd gets up dead” “In Rote the bones of the martyrs wire eollected and torn by wild beasts” “Human beings cessed all ars, and walked shite in good fon BHT, “He sary other priesis™ “*Hapnihal stead with ous Soain, while with the other he beck atid to the troops “God's punishment follows fmmedk atily after ton years” He ay Checking Cab Fares. In Havana, Cuba, there is a device | for protecting passengers from bein overcharged by cabimen The jain posts are painted vartous colors, red for the central district. blue for the - sevond clrele. green fur the thing ete, | and thus the “fare” knows inimediately when he las passed a ‘egal toundars and pays accordingly. | Often ¥ Renders *. on Wrang Verdiet, Courtship is 8 trial has | tribes of Madsgnscsr, severest of making from the palp of the pative shrob a very hoaotifal and ment at Albany N.Y. stewing that alone bave resosries on hand to the bandied in deposits sod payments in | 180] the enormous aggregate of $510. 234083. I merumnisted metropolis would ba sufScient to pay § the ordinary expenditures of the Fed | i eral government for nearly two yeers The amount of savings hus in the hacks of and would wipe out twotlirds of our | A Savage Tribe, The Astaimorn ane of the oldest | to travscride Wis in Ssouthwestarn | : Chama Guatemaln i treasures during thelr sxcdavitions in : monarch . Jecorating oo af i the world contain a ronsbierable collection of specimen fire ladder has It] i 8 Bre ladder. un water tower and 0) {elie nticnl The! This tv osed to swing the in a bigh selon] | to walk oni en the hind. Peel a righ Woman Hand foot in parchment Each family posserves the ~~ * a8 invent od jaws of Mohamme the middle of the a8 Mohammedan ghipwrarked on the vosst, who desired torn and water soaked copy of the Koran io an en. during form. : in Proposed Confederate Museum. fiitely Sater. Confederates Guia handrad thousand dob of New York, to Abbey the Souxth provided a like san In the report submitted hy the! al amount Bad heen in Guatemala in the neighiborhoot of have overad Relics Explorers Kins of miner. Colps and jewals roses baried ceptar gio by amounted WO Workmon on gover BW abandoned thelr urea. a oi Polaris a Triple Star, Raw confrowed Polaris is a Iriple star flion, Cas & that abot the center of a mass of iteeill and a dark companion star In 3 dare 33 hours and M4 minates apother dark star in & long period Of course the oo fraud was detectad at the first analy | sis. and equally, of course. the Corsh § £ tetenr- In 1X5 a) > “1 Bave kept Aer's Cherry Pec. toral in my house for a many years. tis the best medicine in the world for coughs and colds.” i J. C. Willams, Attica, N.Y, - . “All serious lung troubles begin with a tickling in the throat. You can stop this at first in a single night with Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. § consumption, hard colds, § - for coughs of alfkinds. i Put up ia Collapsidle Teter. 8 onom, AB relieve Basle said sotsiion pouncasOeliant Keown, (iss a8 sn external Sweat and gouty comieint Pople say IY ie the beat of 50 vous prsparations wo will send you s tube by mail nina Lu Bak Sree, Kew Yak © Hy & seND Fon OUR A reer 9 CATALOGUE OF mask MB BALL, FiSHINY TAC. N | KLE BICYCLES, DARKS, TENN, ING MATWINES, CARRIAGES | SPRING AND SUMMER | sscATING GOCOS iT Hf Will SAVE YOU MONEY. & F CURED 1% 29 Ta BAYS - Write Tor partiouters kod 0 dase We iment es. 0 EK Chilnwm ; I Breuer: Med, Co. Atinam, wa A stubborn tant maz be said about Be contr | I cc en Bupert or - ; mos " { tendent of the Btate Basking Depart vd te 11 of Jee fed by the savings banks of New York city amonnt of $800,004,000 and that they 3 whe possess the enduring kind of piper resembling paper is said to have 1 C HIC AGH | Trustees of the Confederate Memo. i vial Association hava de mined anon Richmond Va. as the lo : cation of the prtposed ¢ Mazen. | lars was donated by the late Charles i‘ Broadway Rouss | ward the fomnding of a attia in feudd be raised by popular subserin i tion. Ptrepsurer of the nseoclation recently it was shown that all of the addition. obtained end i Shar BN . Hartman, | male ontarshal doneanes, has arson {om : the Aztecs ind Monteramas : have bean found so far the valuables Fave repre ; : Be the Chama plantating Care wid and have usual work to hast for buried (reas The Lick Observatory. Mount Ham the Tey ar : The: bright star—-the North star—moves These Re 2tars also move slowly around Use it also for bronchitis, | | A Budaistute for and Superior Se Mustart or say | har plaster, und will Bt Blister The suoet defies | stn. The pain sllsying sod onrsttre gosities of hie artt le are wondeetnl, THwill sion the toothache : Wa recommend it ae the best snd sever extersal remedy foe pine tn the chem snd more ach sid adi rhavmatia t A traal whi prove whist we cabm for BR ame 5 wel) : be foend to be Mivaloabis in the Boombold Many > Prion, 13 conta, at wll draswista, oF other desis | by sending this amount to a8 La postage Bamps os article shunbd be scapiad by the public Enis | | Ba suis carries oar label, a stiarwise Bt is sot CHEESERROTGI RANUPACTURING CO. i + | pans gave me relief! from that MRR KATE TAYLOR Mra. Kote Taylor, a graduate Jrurse of prominence, pires her en Iperience with Peruns (non etter. Fer postiton In pond profissional stavding 1 3oime fo give special promi 1%i: er Monroe st Ae Pa - 1 haves ab Perrone » thm Reet 2 ME ANY MER OF ‘woman “An Ne wih a weak from the after efecia of any perious lnm “1 have sevn it seed in 8 sumber of son. raeecent cases, and have seen seversd piher Sonics sheet bat 1 fomsd that thoes wiko pwd Poruna bad the quickest rebel. “Peruana srems to restore vitality, tnervase Dolly vigor and renew health and strength in a wonderful: iy short time." ~MRS KATE TAY~ LOR. In view of the great sitivede of women pulfering from some form of female dis Fei unable to Sind any cure, Dr. tine resowned specinivt on fee new! bin willingmess to direct the treatment of as any caw as make aptiiostion to him Sarit the summer months, without rb Address The Perona Medicine La, mela, Obios Preserve, Purify. and Beautify Mrirrves op Wows ase Comerss Boar, ET by Corona (rvreswr, for beastifiving the skin, fur tleansing the Bonin, and the stupplug of Lulling bar, fee soliening. whitening ing red, rough, and sore etl baby rashes, nelangs, and frritations, and for oll the oy of the taliee, bath. and na Hiliota of women ase Lint ier Soar in baths for spmeying frritativas inflamma tons, aud axcoriations, or 1% frees or sifen. Eve presputation, in washes for uloersiive wenk nossns, and for any sativa, anti. eptic purposes, Ww rosdily themasivos 10 women, eapacinliy a Complete Treatment for Humours, $1. Connadating ol UUTICU RE We APL Se, ee essen thie sain of ruse snd sen and satSen the Bueloesed cate CUI ICTRA CIRTHEST We) be fnetanly alas ehking, nllswmadion, and teritatios, aad soctim and bead, and CUTIOU RA Resco vey Pais (Sed io sould sad cleanse Baas Bhssls Crretaa Rasourewr Pus Choonlste Dobe are Dew, katelom, telivciaes, nodnnsionl wabekiiate Siar the wih ated Basti Uraorna Kesar vues, as well an for ail suber Sood pais Bere aunt Buoy cures. 8 Goes, Tie Sob Hirongh int fe Er ottied: Dwwdy aS ri wy oy vino aR ry Pees da I have been a sufferer from dys pepsia and sick headaches, | was many times compelled to leave work and go home. Our druggist roid mw to try Ripans, | am now much better health, Ican eatal most anything, have headache and work steady. | zaisn was greatly affected with constipation, and Ri- no omneronrame: At druggists, “he Fiva.Cent packet 5 saough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle G0 cents, contain & SREY Hor. Fern
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