QUEER 111' RIAL RITES,
HOW THEY DISPOSE OF THE DEAD
IN ASIA.
Vai-iouH Outlandish Mod** of Burial la
One of the I.argeMt European Nation*--
Million* Expended on Some Dead llodio*>
Willie Other* Aro Food for Uogx and
Vulture*.
tECENT investiga
tion shows that oro
matiou is rapidly
growing in the I nit
ed States. There are
cremation societies
in New York and
Washington, and
there aro crematories
in active operation in
New Yoik, Buffalo,
Philadelphia, Pitts
burg, Detroit, Cin
cinnati, St. Louis and Los Angeles. All
of these institutions, writes Frank Car
penter, have beon opened within the last
three years, and the one at Now York cre
mates' hundreds yearly. Without doubt
more than 1,(100 persons have been cre
mated in this country since the building
of the crematory at Washington, Pa., and
those who desire such a means of decom
position aro said to be on the rapid in
crease. The home of cremation is in the
East. Siani disposes of most of its bod
ies in this way, and I saw dozens of
corpses frying and sizzling on the banks
of the Ganges. I visited a great crema
tory in Japan, whore the men in charge
told me they burnt between 300 and 400
'bodies in a month, and I attended a big
cremation in Burmah.
This Japanese crematory was on the
edge of Kiota. In going to it I drove
through the streets of shops filled with
the beautiful blue china for which that
city is so noted, and out through fields of
rice and tea to a large brick building on
.A JAVANESE FUNERAL.
the side of a hill. As I went I passed
many funeral processions, consisting of
stalwart Japs in blue gowns and bowl
hats, four of whom carried a box swung
on a polo which rested on their shoul
ders. This box was much like a child's
playhouse, and it had its roof and its cur
tained windows. 1 was told that it was a
coffin, and that each party carried a
corpse. Those coffins were about four
feet long, two feet wide and four feet
high. They were made of thin white
pine, unpnintod and unvarnished, and
each coffin is burned or thrown away at
the same time of the burning of the body.
-.The crematory itself looked much like an
American engine-room; the furnaces
might have been made in America, and
they were built so that they opened into
an aisle running around a large room.
Wood was pilod at their doors and a
furious draught sucked the air into their
mouths, and the groat ffames roared as
they ate up the human fuel which was
piled in the vaults above thom. There
was but little smell as I entered the
building, but I could hoar the crackliug
and frying of the llesh, and the whole of
the burning could be plainly seen. A
hollow-eyed, bald-beaded ghoul presid
ed over thom, and he stirred up the fires
as ho chatted with me in regard to his
business.
"We have," sail ho, "first, second, and
third class cremations, nnd wo graduate
our rates according to tho ago of tho
body. A man or woman can he burnt
here in first-class stylo for $2.50. We
"will give either a good second-cluss burn
ing for $1.25, and wo can send a man off
jn very respectable stylo for sl. Chil
dren under 3 years aro burnt according
to tho class for sl, 76 cents, or (0 cents,
and boys and girls from 3 to 12 years of
|age are burnt for from $1.50 to 75 cents
apiece. We burn the bodies as soon as
they come in, and wo average at loa6t teu
cremations a day. We give tho bono
ashes to tlio families of ihe dead after
Ihe cremation is over, and they take
■them away and bury them in their family
tombs."
Siam is the land of cremation. It costs
jmore money to die there than to live, and
|the funerals of Congressmen, which aro
paid for at extravagant rates by tho Gov
ernment, cost but little in comparison
with that of a Siamese uoblo. When a
king dies in Siam the wholo nation takes
•part in the funeral, and $1,000,000 and
upward is sometimes spoilt in the turning
of the royal embalmed body into ashes.
The last queen who died at Bangkok was
seated in a golden urn for a number of
months after hor death, and the foreign
merchants in Siam bought thousands of
dollars' worth of goods from Europe and
China for tho king to give as presents to
those who oamo to the funeral. A great
CHINESE WORSHIPPING AT THE TOMBS
OF THEIR ANCESTORS.
temple or palace with roofs covered with
gilt paper was built as her bier, and the
funeral our was overlaid with pure gold
and sot with jewels. This car was six
stories high and it was surrounded by
tiers of golden umbrellas. All the foreign
diploraatos attended the burning, and
there was a tiger fight, a lion dance, uud
a tournament among the celebrations.
Tho king lighted tho firo at G p. m., and
he gave presents of gold and silver as
well as a dinner to the most noted of the
mourners. It took a full week to per
form tho ceremonies, and at the close the
ashes wero taken in a royal barge and
strown upon tho waters of the Menam
Biver.
Every man in Siam has ns good a burn
ing us liis purse will buy, but few are able*
tn nndavtiiuo t.h ovnenqo of huildina a 1
palace in which to bo burned. Tho aver
ago cremation takes place on a pilo o{
wood laid ciossways, and after it is ovet
'the bones are gatbored up and tied up in
;a rag to be kept as relics. The most hor
rible of funorals are those of tho very
poor of Bangkok. Tho bodies of these
aro taken to a temple known as the Wat
Sah Kate. Imagine an inclosure of many
acres, filled with bushes and whisperiug
palms, at the feet of which aro piles o\
coffins, and along tho roots of which
skulls aro lying. Enter this garden path
if you dare. There aro no men to stop
you, and you wander in and out through
ihe trees, snarled at by lean, hungry-look
ing dogs, until at last you come to a
number of low brick buildings. Here
vou will meet a loan. toothless
parcnraenT-skinneit bio liag who has
hair as white and stiff as the bristles
of a Chester white pig, and who
smiles at you through .her toothless
gums, and with long, withered fingers
beckons vou in. I remember hor well,
and I still se her in my dreams. Vul
tnros by the huudrods sit upon the trees
over her, and as you go in you hear the
snarling of dogs. You look toward thom,
they are fighting over the half-eaten
bodies of men, and, tho vultures swoop
ing down, flap their wings and attempt
to seize n part of the prey. Beside the
bloody corpses are a mass of half-dried
skulls and the odd legs and arms of the
day before, and the old woman laughs
through her toothless gums as she points
you to them. Someof the Buddhists be
lieve that their chance of Nirvana, or
heaven, is better in case they give their
bodies to the vultures, nnd some of these
bodies have been dedicated in this way.
Others are, as I have said, those of very
poor people, who can not aft'oid the cost
of cremation.
There is at Bombay a colony of about
70,000 Parsees, and the men, women, and
children give their bodies to tho vultures. ,
They aro fire worshipers, and they say ;
that fire is too sacred to be defiled with a
dead body, and they believe the work of
the worms is too slow and too vile. I [
visited the Towers of Silence at Bombay,
on the top of which all dead Parsees are
laid, and where their bodies are left foil j
the vultures. Those towers are great,-
white buildings of block granite, twenty
five feet high and 2,300 feet in diameter.
Each is built around a central well, and
tho bodies are laid on the top walls,
which incline inward, so that the rain j
will wash tho bones aud jnicos down into ;
the well. Each well has drains running
off into the sea, and each is half filled ;
with charcoal. On the top of each of
these towers there is a sort or grating net- !
work, with meshes of different sizes, I
whether they aro intended to hold men,
women, or children. Surrounding the
towers is a beautiful garden of sixty acres
of trees and flowers, and when I visited
this everything was in blossom, and the
surroundings were as beautiful as tho |
garden of Eden. As I looked at the
towers it seemed that each had a coping |
or frieze of gray about it, and this frieze j
represented great birds. As I got nearer !
I noticed that tho birds were alive, and j
they craned their qecks at us, evidently ;
taking us for corpse-bearers. While I i
was in the garden a Parsee funeral came, j
and these birds rose in tho air and j
swooped down upon the tower upon j
which the naked Parsee baby was laid. 1
There were GOO of them, and they live
entirely off the flesh of dead Parseos.
They will strip a skeleton of every shred
of llesh in two hours, and the bones are
left under the sun to dry. A day or two
later they aro pushed down into the well,
where they decompose under the purify
ing influence of the charcoal. The Par
sees always walk to their funerals. They
are tho richest and brightest merchants
of tho East, but there is no difference ,
shown as to their condition at funerals. ]
Tho corpses of tho rich as well as the ■
poor lie naked on those towers ol' silence, !
PAUPER CREMATION, BANGKOK.
the bones of all going to the same reser
voir, and the vultures who to-day feed on
the llesh of Dives make their morrow's
meal off of Lazarus.
! I saw many cremations among tho Hin
! doos, and I attended not a few fuuerals
j in India. The bodies wore generally
I carried on tho shoulders of men, without
J coffins and covered with cloth. In somo
; cases a band accompanied the procession,
and tho burnings wero in general very
simple. At Calcutta they took place in
unroofed sheds on tho hanks of tho Hoog
ly, but tho tires wero built on the
ground and a little holo was scooped out
below them to make a draught. At
Beuares the cremations took place in tho
open air, and, after tho body had burned
to ashes, tho ashes and bones remaining
i were dragged down into the river. Tho
undertakers of India belong to tho domo
or chief caste. These preside over tho
funerals and sell tho wood and light
! the fires used in cremations. They
| break the elbows, wrists, knee and
ankle joints before cremating the
j body, and at Calcutta the body is
! placed on tho fire with tho face down
ward. It is covered with ghee, or clari
fied butter, to make it burn, nnd the
wood used varies with the cost of tho
funeral. A rich man will send his soul
to heaven with sandalwood, while a poor
man takes what ho can buy. Tho domes
sell everything connected with tho crema
tion, and to le chief dome of a big city
is a money-making position. One of the
lichest men in Benares is the bend of the
undertakers, and ho made his money in
j this way. There is a regular charge for
burning, and the ordinary cost of acrema
' lion is less than $2. Funerals in India
j aro, however, very expensive, and prcs
; eels are given away by the nearest rola
; lives of the deceased to those who "come
to the funeral. A rajah of Calcutta not
long ago spent $250,000 in burning his
father, and rich families often spend
as high as SIOO,OOO in this sort of lire
works.
A JOKING SOLDIER.
lie Always Saw tlio Itrhfitosl Side of
Everything:.
Only this week I was reading Gen.
Doubloitey's story of Gettysburg, and
j the day before I had seen the old Gen
eral on tho street. His presence in
New York and his book combine to re
call to my mind a very practical joke
that was played upon liim at Gettys
burg by Capt. Joe Parker, of Gen.
Hancock's staff. Col. Billy Wilson and
.Too Parker wero Gen. Hancock's pets.
They were both young, full of mischief,
and only saw the ludicrous side of
everything, no matter how serious.
In the very white heat of the battle
on Cemetery Hill on July 8, 1803, Gen.
Hancock was severely wounded, and
Capt. Parker immediately rode off to
find Gen. Doubledav, who was the
senior division commander, and put
him in command of the Second Corps.
He found Doubledav sitting under a
big tree. He saluted him quickly and
said:
Gen. Doubledav, Gen. Hancock has
been very seriously wounded, and vou
will "
Just at that moment, before ho had
time to finish the sentence, "assume
command of tho corps," a shell burst
directly over ilie General. The shook
half stunned liim, and he fell over, ex
claimiug:
"Oil, I am killed! I am killed!"
Capt. Parker couldn't resist this op
portunity for a joke, and lie rode off
rapidly in search of Gen. Gibbon. Ho
found him, reported to him that
Doubleday had been killed, Hancock
had been wounded, and that ho was to
take command of Ihe corps. The news
spread rapidly that Doubleday was
deud. and Capt. Parker so reported to
Gen. Hancock. A f ew poti* 8 later a
railroad train containing {Ia nCOc k, his
staff and a number of . °fticers
was moving toward Baltii ,lore ' Han
cock was lying on a stretch® 1 "' suff ering
intensely, but bis mind a® 4 * s J lll Pathy
went out toward his division comi hand
ers and his other officers wh° wer ® dead
or wounded. , .
"It's too bad about P? u ii* e day's
death," said be to a wounded.officer sit
ting near him, who was shot i u t j lo
arm.
"Doubleday "n't dead," replied the
officer. "I saw him in command °f the
corps after you were wounded and two
hours before I left the field."
"Why, Joe Parker told 111 e "at he
was killed," replied Hancock.
Darker, wlio was in a front car w j tll
the boys having fun, Wa3 immediately
summoned. He app 6are d be fore Han
cock, who said:
"Capt. Parker, didn't y°" t 6 ? l
that Gen. Doubleday was jellied ?"
"Certainly I did,"'r e pif e d Joe. "j-j,,
told me he was, and what the.devjj was
I to do but take his word for
Despite the suffering jn that oar i
there was a hearty laugh, ll " 1 ' barker :
went back to liis companions. As he
closed the car door, Hancock re . :
marked:
"That boy will never so® j
Serious in the most serious things 0 f
this life."
Poor -Toe Parker an< j liis counter
part, Col. Wilson are both dead, while
the old General of whom o®°., anooek
told this amusing story walks ai oug
fcroadway apparently a3 hearty am j
healthy a's a man of htty.—-^ ew y or!c
Star.
Spelling-Reform jtcdi yilis .
I : ZTjHE people who!
I would amend cnm - :
f? " ' '."&f H btoUß ? Ht°m ai)h . V
js! Pplnnd subhDt'Uu fol .
fjjnyj*' soiiie elm °* a
are again coming lo |
however. ?.* en - j
deavoriug to secure the adoption of a
bhonetic alphabet, i n which eac h letter
would have but one sound, and each
'sound be represented by ° n ? letter !
Duly, the offort is now dit'® c .
the adoption of a f 6w defi" ite ' easily i
learned, and generally applicable
rules for the dropping 0 f superfluous
letters. The rules sugg eS av ° as
follows:
J. Drop ue at the end 0 , w' nr Js ilk,. dia
logue. catalogue, etc., W | luro tm> Preceding
vowel is short. Thus S p ol i dem epilog. :
synagog, etc. W ken the precef tag vowel i
Is long, as in pro, ogn 0i vo _„ 0 , disom\jo.,uo,
retain llnal letters as at D ? e9 ent.
2. Drop llnal In such word 9 aB de flnito.
dnllnlte, favorite, etc,, wi, ml tl' e p, ecedi ne
vowells short, llius Bno [i °>'P,S?, Pre
terit, hypocrlt, fequlsit cto . when the
preceding vowel is lon s , 118 m polite, fl n j ta ,
unite, etc., retain Present form 8 unc ®*nsed.
8. Drop final te in Words l' ka
coquette, cigarette, oto. Thus B P clloi garot,
roset. epaulet, vedet, g a *et, e to- m
4. Drop llnal me is wo rds uke [iro .
gramme. Thus spell program. orin amj
gram, eto. . .
5. Change ph 10 -t in words Ilk®,Phantom,
telegraph, phase, eto. Thus SP°" alf a h a t,
paragraf. filosoty. fotog rar o tc.
Substitute e for th„ aiptiljmpss at and
te. when tlioy have the sound ° f V," 1 letter.
Thus apeli eolian- esthetic, diarrhea, 8u |j.
pena. esofagus. atheneu^'etc,
These rules, though f e w ' n .
would, if adopted i n our writing aiH i
printing, save au app rec iahle Percent
age of the labor now iuvoD, • They
have the sanction of tho liig' lCfi i schol
arship in the United Stat e9 an d En
gland, including the tench 01 ? 1 if phi
lology |in our foremost educational
institutions, ihey ] mvo been com _
mended by leading oditotf n . xv titers,
and there is nothing ag a '. n!it . their
adoption except the dish l , ? a 'i°n io
change. Yet their n so would m a {uw
months become so habitual t " at; every
one would wonder why they had not
been adopt ed sooner.
It is proposed that these rules . H ] ln ll
be adopted M the newspH' ei i fi °f the
country at an early date, when the
eyes of reading peopl 0 would ;o 0n j, e .
come educated to tho neW appearance
of tlio words, and when® 0 °iy llso
would quickly extend to °! u ' hooks.
This would he in the <1 iV"' of tlio
injunction of Noah AVebsto 1- ' a t "(he
tendency of our language toward sim
plicity should be sodulou s v encour
aged." The soonor they aie a doptod
the better.—'"Cfflffo Led0 er '
Charming Duel of r<d" en ° k s.
Old Judge Uernald, ?? uta Par
bara, has the reputation heing th<
politest man in California-. , ' e nevet
loses an opportunity to do", "is hat oi
to offer some slight a tt° ntlou *° way
faring men a, 'd Women. <J ?° day, as
ho was about to take the trnm for San
Francisco, lip reached the real ' steps ol
the last car just a a they were approach
ed by a young I'l'iest,
"After the cloth," said tlio °hivalrif
Judge, stepping V) ftclt %v itH a courtly
bow.
"Gray hairs havo I lie preference,'
returned the priest, with tt splendid
wave of the hand.
"Tile church alw avs ] ia .s precedence,'
retorted the Judge, tal' 1 "® another
backward step, liat in hand
"The church foliowg in 'he footsteps
of tlio fathers," replied the pnest,bow
ing low and indicating the way t G the
steps.
The duel of politeness wasi lot hall
through, neither yielding an ln< -'li, wlion
tho truiu pulled out, leavinf? "oth bow
ing and smiling on tl lo platform. g ll7)
Francisco F.rtti)ii ncr
A isrop ■ vo,n am l
A tumble in coal an a iron o oenrre d
in this city ye st erd a y, nn d the eff ect ()U
half a dozen brokers was di aas 'rous. It
happened, strange to H(iy , i ll U'e Coffee
Exchange. Ihe big s j,eet "'on stove
standing in the middle c,f tll '' room,
loaded with about half a ton of ( . oa i H ,
toppled over. The stove pip® 111 its fall
cut down a wide sw a t] 10 f brokers, who
looked like coal miners „ : tlicv
picked themselves <J
tette. .
Couldn't Mean He AVa" %
"liilkings says the rea 3o '! J o, i dress
so shabbily la that your father a
tnilor_
"I suppose that's so- 1 know
shoemakers' sons genevaf -T hare
foot, and milliners' daughters wear
cheap hats."
"That's about so."
"Your father must have h een a great
man " — Has ton UeT a lcl.
Starting j; u rly-
Chicago woman HoW r "Ueh will
you take and leave mo for? ver '■
Husband You am not tiied of mo so
soon, I hope.
Chicago n®- 'ove you
as much as ever, hut >fr- -Cakefront
is bound to take the first gold prize
for tho largest number °U, r, o, ' ca de
crees shown at tli e vvoi'h' 8 t' air, am l
I'm bound that she slia'n't-
OUR TINY LIGHT-GIVER-
The Nu n , erous Processes Necessary
in Match-Making-,
The Dpeiatiou of making matches fi'om
ft P'ue log may be divided into four
heads, viz M preparing the splints, dipping
the matches, box making and filling.
When the timber is brought into the cut
ting-room of the factory it is seized upon j
by gang of men, who place it before a i
circular saw, where it is cut into blocks I
15 inches long, which is the length of
seven matches.' It > s tlu 'n freed of its
bark aud taken to the turning lathe, j
where, by means of a special i'oyu of fixed j
cutting band running its entire length, a I
continuous tool the thickness of the match !
is cut off.
As the block revolves and decreases in ]
diameter the knife advances, and a band j
of veneer of uniform thickness is ob
tained. As the veneer rolls off the knife I
jt is met by eight small knives, which cut J
it into seven separate bands, each tlie size [
of a match. By this one operation seven I
long ribbons of wood, each the length I
and thickness of a match, arc obtained.
These are then broken into pieces six feet
long, the knotty parts removed, aud they
arc then fed j n fo a machine which looks
and acts li| co a straw -chopper, which cuts
them into single matches. The machine
eats 130 bands at the same time, and a
mechanical device pushes tliein forward j
the thickness of a match at each stroke of j
the cutter. This little machine with its !
one sharp knife can cut over 10,000,000
matches a day.
From the cutting-room the splints are
taken to the dry-room, where they arc I
placed in revolving drums, which ab
sorbs all the moisture the splint may con- j
tain. They are then prepared for the j
dipping process, which is a very itu- j
portant, operation, ax each splint must I
have sufficient space to be fully coated j
and yet not placed so close to the others ]
as to cause the mixture to clot the heads I
of the other splints. To do this they are I
placed under an ingeniously constructed
machine, which seems to work with j
almost human intelligence, and are caught j
up and placed closely but at. regular in- |
tennis in u dipping frame. These frames j
contain 44 mo vabic lathes, and between |
each lathe the machine places with clock- I
work regularity 30 splints, making over |
2,000 spli n t s in eneli frame.
The heads of the splints are all on the |
same'level, and nsinglc attendant at each j
machine can place over a million splints |
in the frames per day. The dipping vat
is a stove* of masonry, which contains]
three square . I!11IS _ The iirst pan is for j
heating the splints so they will absorb
the moisture, the second contains molten
paraffine, in'which the points arc dipped,
and in the third they are coated with
the igniting composition. Over 5,000,000
matches can be dipped by a skillful work
man in one day. After the dipping pro
cess the matches are dried while still in
the frames and are then taken to the I
packing room, where they are put into I
boxes by hanci.f— Chicago Mail.
Arury Life Is Not an Easy One. 1
The Supposition that army life is an
easy one i s the civilian's delusion. No j
occupation on earth is more exacting. j
The reveille is sounded at daylight, aud j
the soldier must he up and ready, be- I
tween reveille in the morning und "taps''
at O.ilO at night, he lias to attend to the !
majority 0 f thirty-three bugle calls, and
he is on his feet- most of the time till "re- ]
treat" at sunset. The officers arc busy at
nearly all times over new military prob
lems. They are called to mount and
manage artillery that would have struck
dire dismay into armies like those of
Caisar, Hannibal or Alexander. To-day I
war is a science, requiring all the skill of
the best navigators, the most able engi- |
necrs and the finest elect ricians. All the j
known means of defense and destruction
are availed oven down to the last elec
tric triumph ' the telephone. In future
battles the 'commanding generals will |
open the engagement* with "Hello 1" to
their subordinates. H beaten they will ;
either say "Good-bye 1" or reverse the
syllables of "ICellol"—[Baltimore Ameri
can.
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If the p r0 p r |otor 0 tor of Kemp's Balsam should
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b'-tter to invito all to iai | on any drug i
gist ana gc .t a f re o sample bottlo that you nr> j
aud $1 I ° ur#elf lu P° wer * Large b ttles £•>. ,
-The long a woman believes iu u man, tin* '
greater t}, e respect he io lt to feel toward
her.
every article sold l s cheapened, i, j
f ofit ef production, at cxp use of quality*. Dob I
Wnse li<lt'ctric Boap in exactly to-day u hat it j
was iu I*os, aUtlufeit/ pure, harmless and uni*
form, your grocer for it. Book out for
Imitati us
—A large tract of ton 1"1 in tlia neighbor
hood of Cunt-on UiIH year yielded j .or acre 0,u 5 j
thousand dollars in tea leaves of the finest,
quality.
THE GOOD OFFICE OF: 1
f(* \ Is well illustrated in
IgffXl • cur ° of neuralgia,
I jwTlflrAiK th ?. c!lle f "y" l P ,o,u of
11/1 111) If A wblcb is, an intermit- 1
I fir tlngpnin which follows
V- v f \>q 1 the course of the nerve '
) S 111 Kfifected. St. Jacobs Oil
\Jr\X.* by goutle rubbing and
J applied frcqucntly> will ° u, 'o
JV E: Ult .A. Cjt IA. ,
190 Sae.kett St. Brooklyn, N. Y., .Tan.31,1889.
1 was taken with neuralgia in hMo ami ,
Buffered G months. I was given up by doc
•ore, but cured by fcMta*. i
AT DBVCOisTS AND DEALERS.
THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO.. Baltimore.Mtf. .
Rich Japauese Merchants.
Tlicrc me in New York quite a number
of rich ami iuHuentinl Jfipauesc mer
olmiils* Some of thciu lutve been in this
country for quite a number of years, and
have adopted both the Innguatrc and
dress of the couutrv. Fifteen years ngo
a Japanese club was started, but it bad
no settled abode until about three years
I ago, when the funds of the exchequer
j warranted renting a good-sized dwelling i
i house on West 22d street, near 6th uve-
I uue. The decorations ot the house ore a
! mixture of Japanese and American styles,
i but there are some very tine specimens of
j Japanese art and bric-a-brac. The cuisine
jis m charge of a Japanese cook. The
i annual reception is always given on the
j emperor's birthday, November 0, and
I they always celebrate New Year's day.
j The reading room is furnished with all
the Japanese periodical literature, and
! the library is well supplied with books.
! Foreigners always enjoy the hospitality
I of the club; it seems 'to them like a small
! piece of their native land, brought over
i for their special enjoyment.
Emeralds at a Low Cost.
Some yearn ago one of the present Con -1
gr ess men from New York State and his
• brother were examining the stock of a
, pawnshop in London in the hope of pick
-1 ing up some curiosities. They came
j across a necklace of green gla SS beads,
| which the New York man purchased for
j $2.50, intending to bring it home to bis
j little daughter. The brother was sur
prised to find in the shop the counterpart
j of the necklace, which he brought home to
j his little girl. Two months later the latter
' showed her gift to a jeweler, who pro-
I nouueed the glass beads to be emeralds,
i and who sold them afterward for several
j thousand dollars. The member of Con
j gress, upon hearing this, took his neek
| lace to the same dealer, who pronounced
jit to be composed of glass beads. The
I London pawn dealer had purchased them
j oil a thief, who had stolen them from a
wealthy woman. The latter kept the
f emeralds in a safe, und wore their glass
counterpart. Of course no on c could tell
I the difference when the necklace cncir
■ eled her throat.
j i
Nf*cr Say Hi"'
Bcq*<*l with ulcer 4 , holla :in{ ] to tter.
Weak of iimb and aura of e ,- e ,
lloMeteas now of growing bettor,
Suroljoqa must die.
Not at oHj unor. disc'ianigoi suffer or f r m
; disordered 4ood nnd serot inus irouhle. Tuyo
Dr. I iOtoe's Goldm- Alodig# Discovery, Ujy
or. at blood-parifer and life-saver () f modern .
<1 'y 4 . AH tboß.t unwholes olll ': 1 Soros and blood
disorders may be cured, and tho victim will
look and fool like a now loan. It t a ifdn-mitFu i
to benefit or ouro or money paid foe it prompt
ly returned.
Pi r ectlqn Is attained In l>r. Bageg Catarrh ,
Rcmeds'* "t cureb the worst cikiea.
—God created the coquette a* Boon a s he J
innde the fool.
now'* Tltlst
We offer One Hundred Dollars reward f°*
any oftso of eatavf.i tliut cannot be cured by
taking Hull's Catarrh Cure. I
F. J* On en icv & Co., Props., Toledo. O.
We, the undersigned, have known F
Cheney for the bust 15 years, aud believe him
perfectly honorablo in all businoss transac
tions, ami financially able to carry out any °°* !
! ligations made by their firm. , .
West A Iruax, wholesale Druggista, Toledo, .
Ohio.
! Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Drug- !
; gists, Toledo, Ohio. , .
i E. H. van Hoeren, Cashier Toledo National ,
Bank, Toledo, Ohio.
Hall 8 Catarrh Cure is taken internally. acl "
Ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur
fuees of tho bysteni. Te* H l ,lu nials sent free.
Price 7oc. per oottle. Sold, uy all Druggist** ;
—Joy never feasts so high aa w hen first '•
course is misery. U4.
ENJOYS
; Both the method and results xrhen
! kjyrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
1 and refreshing to the taste, and acts
| gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
! Liver and Bowels, cleanses tho sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, hi id
achesand fevers and cures habit', at
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
j only remedy of its kind ever "ro
j chieed, pleasing to the taste aud -c
--] ceptahle to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
i effects, prepared only from the most
j jiealli'.y and agreeable substances,
its many excellent qualities com
mend it to all and have made it
the most popular remedy known.
Fynip of Figs is for sale ill 50
and $1 bottles by all leading drug
j gists. Any reliable druggist who
j may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. bo not accept |
any substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CP.
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.
WUISVIUE. KV. ftv YORK, N *-
iEly's Cm BaMEpiS
wu.T, ciuu:
CHILDREK^ 1 #!
| or' I'ATAIIIf 11. BL /(S-zH
iioftf.'il .?
; ELY BROS., waf eft St. NV. \° a 1
I
I If youarotbln!;irigof hujlJiiiffa houae youofh|
i loh'ijrthe ne-.r booit, Fn l "'! i 4 A yiericai> Arch-
I'Loro la not a Bulldt-.r or , lnt**nd'>f tq
] hull.l or olUop\vi*e int rented that can a Lord to'be
i uithputit. It ift u praclii al U'oik and everybotti hityj
; jt. 'Jhe best, fvr.pMt and JJoBt Popular worlcever
! staiiad on ilutUiinif. N.-itrly four hundreddrawlnw,
i A un i ft vie, but w have determined to
, msbe jt m-ot thp popular d, en ViV,, I,° uit tho tirnta,
$o that it can bn ensiiy reached by all.
I Thi-book contnlna H* Dxii inches in size,
i spd c ®, a i'' ts °f lftr<oGltl3
• rcrspoctTvo 'h owncnp
I jioul'ls Houbob, lirick Block Houpt-s, suitftldo for
cttf imuurbrt, town and country* hotuw for tho farm
| Bn d 'rorklngiueti'n hoiuen for till arotioiw ,f tho
i courtl iy• and coßtiiiKfrom S'-JOO tnao t; nlo
I Hlpbl ,M i .Rcnool House, Town llafi. clurt:h' 4 au
O'liiTlJubllcbuildin/M, togetherwit^ Bprclfl'' tt itlon
I * • ' .I'.Tu ra ' :t ' and r.Ltr o amountofiiiforuu-tlgl
m-ectloni f buildings., ncl-etlou of
. nloyiuant pf AncbHects. It worth ps to any
out "end itln panor cover bv w all, postpaW,
Ne* V*
Wiiention 'rut'
No Dentists Needed in Labrador.
Little Miss Krnrer, the Eskimo, called
on E. H. White, the Lewiston dentist,
on Tuesdey, to have her teeth fixed. She
j told in her own way to Mr. White that
I probably she was the first Eskimo that he j
I ever attended professionally, and he j
! agreed. She remarked this curious fact
| that only since coming to civilization,
i where dentists live and thrive, had she
ever needed the attendance of one, and
SHE COULDN'T WAIT.
Lady —"l want to sit for a picture."
Artist —" I shall be very glad to paint you if you will wait a
Week, until I finish the one I am at work on now."
Lady — " Oh, my 1 I couldn't wait that long. Why, I promised
to be home at dinner at five o'clock ! "
That is the trouble with some people;
they have no time to wait for results.
Some women will take a (lose or so of
Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and
expect to feel well immediately. True,
some do iiud marvclously speedy effects
from its use, but chronic, or lingering,
diseases, which have had possession of
the system for years, cannot generally
be cured in a day. Such maladies are
f generally slow in their inception, slow
n their progress, and must be cured,
if at all. by slow degrees and regular
stages. Perseverance in the use of the
" Favorite Prescription " for a reasona
ble length of time will cure all those
chronic weaknesses, irregularities and
distressing derangements with which so
many females arc alllicted. But the
use of this world-famed medicine must
be persisted in for a considerable time
Dr. Pierce's Pellets regulate and cleanse the liver,
stomach and bowels. One a dose. Sold by druggists.
Anillll HABIT. Only Certain and
eaay CURE In the World. !)r
UrlWHl J. a,. ST E I'll EN H, Lebanon 0
I ft nine fTHI) Y. Book-keeping. Business Formu.
M'JfflK Prnmauship. Art thin-tic. Short-hand. etc..
il thoroughly taught by MAIL. Circulars tree
Brraut* • (-'•Mete. 437 Main Ht, Buffalo, N. Y
II JEN SI QNaKSK'
Prosecutor. Claims
B Lato Principal Examiner u. S. Pension Jiuro :o.
8 3 yi\s in last War, 13 adjudicating claims, nttv :i cf
FRAZER^E
BEST IW THE WORLD
T gjr~ Get the Ueiiulno. Bold Kromhartt
OPIUM-HABIT
Full iuiorn.utiou of au Easy and Speed.* t ore.
Apply to Dr. J.C. il oft in a ii, Jefferson, V Iscou-ta.
FREE READING!
If you are undecided what papers o Bt bscnbe for
spiufus your address, with in vents, B.lvor. ..i d wo
Will forward your name to publisher* who will send
you ni:ga/'iiv and papers of c eiy d wription in
al'iiiid.i'ice it is • h, 1., t invest no u. >on • ..n nnk\
It V . I Hill I tmu ' I . i Mil - • 1 .
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WIffSTREET
Vf ilillj INVESTMENTS 1
Full information supplied; how to operate on small
capital. Batch a KENDALL, ba E-sohuugc PI., n. y.
whore all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to tlio EjpJl
taste. Children take it without objection. By druggists. P^a
The Latest -i- Craze!
Whoever gives tic true Bcientiflc explanatit nof this pheiuun nou aill leu public benefactor
10 Cents,
WAHTiSD--The Biggest Blom-er in the Country.
We have a letter of acknowledgment on tliitf marvelous scientific toy from the Executive
Mansion, Wnnhingtou, D. C.
$-<>* MAILED TO ANY \DPRESS ON RECEIPT OF 15 CENTS. Liberal dif count to
tic trade. IWIIAfJON CO., I.* Vandewater Street, New York City.
she said naively: "Is there anything con
taminating in the profession?" ller fa
ther lived to be nearly 50 and he never
had a decayed tooth. None of lier fam
ily or friends were ever troubled. She
never hoard of an Eskimo who had auy
j thing but sound teeth. Mr. White found
■ Miss Krarer's needs from a dental point
of view, to be quite as great as those of
any average American lady, all of it de
veloped, she declared, since coming to
America.—[Lewiston I .Me.) Journal.
in long standing, complicated and ob
stinate cases. Do not expect speedy
relief and cure, but have a mind of
your own, and when you have decided
to seek a cure of your malady through
the medium of this wonderful medi
cine, show a little will - power and
tenacity of purpose, and you will, in
due time, rejoice in the complete res
toration of your health and strength.
The " Favorite Prescription " is the
only medicine for woman's peculiar ills
guaranteed to give satisfaction in every
case, or money refunded.
A large Treatise (100 pages, illus
trated), on Woman : Iler Diseases and
their Cure, sent in plain, sealed envel
ope, on receipt of ten cents, in stamps.
Address, WORLD'S DISPENSARY MED
ICAL ASSOCIATION, NO. 66il Main St.,
Buffalo, N. Y.
STANLEY'S
j Au'iiis Wanted, mml your own, and oddices ofall
Booiv A vent A vou km >w, nud we will send you u cony
I /m. P. W. Zieglerx Co., Cher-taut-t., Phlla., Pa,
l!i| A
' T'lTl':\ 'I<T '>.,
IO I-.. I Ith Si., Nerv York City.
CHICHESTER'S ENCI-ISH
! PENNYROYAL PILLS
neo CROSS DIAMOND BRAND.
futoand uiwayt n-llable. Ladlen. A
1 ?" S\ V-AM. *'\ r..r Diamond Brand, in jS\
B ni- C!!.- l.ox . c tiled with blue ywV\
jTX Take no other. All pills \*ASr
"Wx iKA V,N 'p paitobciurd ti..xe., pink wrappers. are >Sr
I / "~ tj( dangerous counterfeits. Send -Ic. v
I *• jlr ' , '* n 'l ,s - fnr i articular*, testimonials and
V t"* & "Relief for Ludlow,"in letter, l return
fr ninth Name Paper.
t'kirbwtcr the w-i Co., Madbon Sq., I'liils., En
AFTER ALL OTHERS FAIL CONSULT
BR. LOBB
North Fifteenth St., Philadelphia, Ph., fo
the lieutmcut of Blood Poisons, Skin Kruptious
Nervous Complaints, Bright's Disease, Strlcturea
Impoteney and kindred diseases, no matter of how
long standing or front what cause originating
UTTen days' medloltios iiu-ui n. J mall rftrr
, Send for Book on HP LCI AI. IHs?IIN'h. lil&E#
ii; I presence and faliysn.
(* as only
I O'U.'HWUAHAM.M.D..
I ftfcj awsimw/B Amsterdam, N. Y.
! tSM vrdosiybyth* Wo have sold Rig CJ for
vfiUvguOfcMlMlOo. many years, and It haa
W T..?fSiwsa f . vcn tho "® Bt of
fffia fuctlon.
D * R * DYCTTE A co •
Trl'^K2S^r.ark v31.G0. Bold by Druggista