LONG-.) \WED JOE. BY OHARLEK S. HLACKBrRN. <)E was lazy. There was no denying the some one else should 1 do the mowing. Nothing was prettier in its way, he admit ted, than green corn waving in the morn ing breeze; but the work necessary to produce the corn was not congenial to his taste. His brother sped the plow with out intermission, but his own team often stood idle at the end of a row while lie sat 011 the fence, his chin in his hands, wishing it were dinner-time. They called him "Long jawed Joe" on account of tli© unusual length of his face. It was also pain fully thin, but this was relieved by a clear, wholesome color aud light-blue, placid eyes. He was good-natured, and was never known to he angry. "I tell you now, Joe," said his broth er, as they were unhitching at noon, "I'm not goin' ter stan' it 110 longer." "That's what I've been thinkin'. Bill," replied Joe; "this work's awful hard." "You know what I mean, an' you can't turn it off that er way." "What do you mean, Bill?" "I mean I won't work myself to death while you loaf half the time." "Do I loaf half the time?" "Yes; you know you do." "That's argument why I should loaf, Joe." "How?" "Well, if I didn't loaf half the time you'd work yourself to death." "You're er fool," said Bill, pettishly lashing his mule witli the plow-lines. "Maybe I am, Bill, hut I never hit my mule when I git the worst of an argument." "You're too lazy to do anything." "O, 110 1 ain't. I fixed old man Braytou's silver bull's-eye last night when you was asleep, and set it runniu' right straight along." "Thar you go ergiu! Because you're disposed to tinker, pap bought you a lot of tools that only lio'ps keep your mind offen your plowin'. He never bought me nothin' in my life, but he humors you—because you're lazy, I reckon." "I never had my mind on plowin', Bill, so them watch-makin' tools can't keep my mind off it. If pap never bought you notliin', p'rhaps it's because you never asked him. But if you want anything five dollars can buy, here's the money. I made it last week, tink erin'." "I don't want your money," said Bill, knocking his brother's hand away and scattering the coin over the ground. "But if you ain't too lazy you can let down the bars." Joe picked up the money and let down the bars; Bill passed through, down the lane, to the liorse-lot. "Bill's a good boy," he mused, slowly putting up the bars, "but he's awful nigh-tempered. I wonder how a man feels when he's l ight mad ?" His mule, kicking at ally, struck his shin. "Look out, Rliodom, that's my leg you're hit tin'. There aint much meat on it, hut what it wants in flesh it makes up in bone." When Joe went to his "tinkerin' room," as Bill called it, that night, his tools were gone. He said nothing. Next morning Joe was gone. He left a lettor, which read : DEAR BILL: The crop is about laid by. I leave you live dollars, to pay somobody to do the rest of my wo k. I wasn't cut out for a fatmer, but I think I can make a llvin' tinkerin* watches. Your brother, JOE. His father looked solemn, hut said nothing. His mother went into their bed-room, smoothed down Joe's pillow, and cried. Bill said : "He'll come hack when he gets hun gry ; which won't be more'n a week, at furthest." Weeks, months, years passed. The bluebird built its nest in the hollow stump; the crow, with one eye on Bill's gun, helped himself to the early planting. The June-bug "dodged" the woodpecker among the tall corn. The quail made its "mallow" under the cow-pea vines, and filled its crop with the ripened grain the coon had thrown down. The 'possum, grown fat on per simmons, fell easy prey to hunters 'when frost glistened iu the star-light, and might have been proud of his ap pearanco when, garnished with sweet potatoes, 110 graced the farmer's table. But Joe came not, nor any tidings of him. On a bright spring morning when the bees wore busy among the honey suckle blossoms around the door and Bill was busy in the field, a letter came to Joe's mother. It said: DEAR MOTHER: Five yoats seems a lon# time to mo, and I know it seems a longtime to you. because you haven't heard from mo When I loft homo I made up my mind tc do something for myself buforo I wrote back. I worn't 110 good in the Held, and as 1 had a knack for watch-tinkorin*. I though! I'd try it. I uomo to the city, and worked at it. To make a long story short, for ] ain't much with the pen, I have done some thin' for myself. I've got a good business of my own, and am cumin' to seo you all But. I ain't comin' alone. I found" in my travols a littio woman, with brown hair and black eyes, who says she loves mo if I an; that rny loan face and long legs don'! •make no difference to her. She is my wife. Don't think, now. she can't 000k or keen house. You mayn't bolievo it, but she can make almost as good corn-bread as you can; and, us to cookin' greens down to the proper seosoniu', you will be surprised Hhe proposes to prove this by cookin' the first dinner after we come, 80, if you see a gawky young man In bad-flttin' city clothes and a short littio woman in calico that fits her to a "T" get out of a hack before the gate, don't think they are strangers; they will be us. Toll Bill lam yet too lazy to plow, but knowin' he's not. I've bought him a splendid mule. Did ho ever find my tinkerin'tools? Your son, JOE. When Joo and his wife retired at night after their first day at the old home, they found the "tinkerin' tools" lying 011 the tabic. They were in a neat box which Bill had bought for the purpose, and with them was this note: Horo they arc, Joo. I'd nsk you to for give mo if I didn't know you never thought I did vou wrong when I took 'em. But I ( never thought they'd bring mo a mule in llvo years. Your brother, BILL. —Chicago Ledger. Old Legends Proved True. It has not infrequently been discov ered of late that some of the state ments of anciout writers, which we have regarded in our fancied wisdom as too marvellous to he believed, are nevertheless true. The geographer Ptolemy; for instance, wrote that the source of the Nile was in a mountain range, known as the Mountains of the Moon, because of the snow upon them. Modern geographers scoffed at the idea that" there could Re such lofty mountains under the equator, but Stanley, in his now famous "march to the sea," skirted the foot of a range of snow-clad mountains, called by him Ruwenzori, from whose streams is formed the newly discovered Lake Al bert Edward, the extremest source of the Nile. So Herodotus, the Father of History, repeatedly asserted that the Ph i-ni cians thought that they originally came from tli© Erythraean Sea or Persian Gulf. This statement modern schol ars have found very difficult to believe -—the writers of the article Phoenicia in the last edition of the Encyclopu dia Britannica style it "a mere blunder." An English traveler, however, has very recently made discoveries in the Hah rein Islands in the Persian Gulf which render it almost certain that the great historian was right, These islands are a small group ly ing al)Out twenty miles off the Arabian coast, aud were formerly of great com mercial importance. The inhabitants, besides possessing a pearl fishery which was noted in the days of Alex auder the Great, and now produces the finest pearls in the world, carried 011 an important trade with Arabia and Persia. This they have almost entirely lost, but with the construction of the Euphrates Railway it will doubtlesf spring up again, One of the two principal towns lias a singular water-supply in a spring which at high water is six feet below the surface of the sea. "Water if brought up either by divers who gc down with skins, or by pushing a hoi low bamboo down into it. At low tide there is very little water over it, and women with large amphoric and goat skins, which look very real and life like, though headless, wade out anc fetch what water they require." Tin Arabs believe that this and severa other similar springs on the coast conn from the Euphrates, which they thin! flows beneath the Persian Gulf in ar underground channel, a legend as old as the days of Pliny. In the northern part of the largest island, which is twenty-seven milei long by ten broad, there is a very re markalde collection of sepulchra mounds, covering an area of many miles. Some of these are elevated only a few foet above the level of tin desert. Others are more than forty feet high, and about four hundred fee! in circumference. Several of thes have recently been excavated by Mr J. Theodore Rent, a well-known Eng lisli traveler, who has given an account of his discoveries to the Royal Geo graphical Society. Ho says that they consist of tw< chambers, the one above the other, af is the case with some Phoenician tombf just uncovered in ancient Cartharge In the upper chamber of one which li< examined were the bones of an animal presumably a horse, and innumerable fragments of ivory-boxes, ornaments bits of small statues. Many of these fragments were ornamented with pat terns which bear a close and unmis takable resemblance to ivories found in Phoenician tombs on the Mediter raneau. Our readers will doubtles* remember that King Solomon got ivory by means of the ships of Hiram, tin Phoenician king of Tyre. The lower chamber was more care fully constructed than the upper, and contained human bones together with the remains of drapery which had been hung around the walls, another Pine nician custom. The ivory fragment} have been deposited in the Eritish Museum, and one of the officials has recently publicly said that "as far as the evidence went at present, he thought the Museum authorities were prepared to admit that the Bahrein Isl ands probably represented a primitive site of the Phoenician race." This probable confirmation of the statement of Herodotus is certainly more satisfactory than the favorite oc cupation of some modern writers, the proving the falsity of stories whicl: have always boon confidently believec —such stories, for instance, as that o the Swiss hero, William Tell. The Guileless Peddler. Peddler (respectfully)— Madam, J have not called for the purpose of try ing to sell you anything, but to inquire if there is a man named Jones living ir this vicinity. Lady of the house—Mr. Jones livei next door. "Thanks. He has a boy about 12 has he not?" "He has." "1 think lie is the man I'm looking for. I was directed a lew moments age by a friend of his to call upon him. 1 am making my last trip as a traveling vender of merchandise, and have closed out all mv juvenile wares except thif brass-tipped drum with ebony sticks, which I shall offer to Mr. Jones at such a figure that—but pardon me. I had no intention of detaining you. Thaukf for your kindness, madam. Good day." "Hold on! What is that drum worth?" "It is really worth $5, but I had de cided to offer it to Mr. Jones for hie boy at the nominal figure of seventy fivo cents." "I'll take it."— Chicago Tribune. Where the Harm Was. Mamma Jule- Lookv lieali, Linkum, doan't ye' nebbah ag in lem me see yo shinniu' up one ob dem telegram pole? —mind dat! Linkum (aged ten) —Why, mammy, wliar's de ha'm? Mammy Jule —Ha'm, boy! You climb up dar en tech one ob dem wiahs 'when hits full ob' 'lectrisitism en yo'4l Icome walkin' home daid—dars w har d< dia'in is, my son 1 Hardly a Recommendation. Tangle—l want a set of false teeth, Dr. Stumps. Dr. Stumps (the dentist) —Well, sir, this is the place to get them. I'm mak ing the best teeth in the city. Tangle—Will you guarantee that they will look natural V Dr. Stumps—Certainly I will. My false teeth are so natural that they fairly ache.— Light. The Question Is Unanswered. "You are an authority 011 feats of strength, I believe," remarked a stranger to the sporting editor. The latter bowed and replied: "What can I do for you?" "I wish you would tell me which is the stronger, the female shoplifter or the vomau who holds up a train?" MEN often go up to a temptation, from which they should fly, in a self confident way; and they often fly when they should stand and fight. QUATUEFAOES reckons up at least 1712 races of men, all, however, reducible to tli© three fundamental black, yellow and white stems A LEPER ISLAND. FACTS ABOUT THE AFFLICTED OF MOLOKAI. They Dwell in a Pretty Village Where Perpetual Summer Reigns —Origin and Symptoms of the Disease. " Such an astonishingly inaccurate im pression has been spread abroad regard ing the condition of the lepers on the island of Molokai," said a gentleman yesterday who has spent fourteen years of official life in the Hawaiian group to a Washington Star reporter, "that it is high time popular misinformation concerning them was corrected. The civilized world at large seems to entertain a notion that this afflicted colony, lodged upon a bleak and solitary rock in the midst of the South Sea, is stretching out its hands with a despairing appeal to the charity of other lands for help in its lonely and uncared-for misery. Within the last few months advertisement has been made all over two continents of the intention of an English nun called Sister Rose-Ger trude to go out and devote her life to these hapless outcasts of the far Pacific. She did go, but is employed at the re ceiving station for lepers on Hawaii. She has not been sent to Molokai, and in all probability will never go there, simply for the reason that there is no necessity whatever for her doing so, inasmuch as there are already at the leper settlement six Sisters of the Order of St. Francis, from Syracuse, N. Y., who have been taking care of the people for half a dozen years past. "How do the lepers live?" "They dwell iu one of the most beauti ful and fertile valleys of the world, where the entire year is one perpetual summer, the temperature varying not perceptibly j from one season to the other. Their vil lage is of pretty houses built expressly for them by the government, and the meanest pauper leper is provided there with a comfortable home, good food, medicines, medical attendance and all necessaries. Resident in the colony arc a physician, a member of the Hawaiian ! board of health, and a superintendent to see that the settlement is as well taken , care of as any hospital. Few of the lepers are without relatives and friends outside, who send them whatever they like best, and vessels are constantly' making trips to Molokai with whole car goes of all sorts of delicacies and luxu ries. The village of the stricken is on the shore of the sea, encircled at the back by a cliff 3,000 feet in height and so pre cipitous as to be only passable in one nar row gorge, which is always guarded Ijy soldiers. Save for the mortal illness of the inhabitants one might almost com pare the place to the happy valley of Ras selas, out of which there was no escape, save by one hidden path reserved for Imlac to discover. The lepers cannot get away from Molokai, the sea hemming them in on one side and the mountain 011 the other. Of liberty they are deprived, but you can perceive that their condition is very much otherwise than has been represented, in so far as the material comforts of life are concerned. The civilized world at large need not be con cerned in their behalf; they have all the care that is necessary or useful." "Do the lepers suffer pain very greatly?" "Hardly at all. At the beginning of their disease they have severe aches in their arms and legs, similar to rheumatic paius, but these disappear after awhile, and from that point on until death, they suffer not at all. In many cases this physical insensibility is the first symptom of the complaint that shows itself. One instance I remember of a Honolulu boy who discovered one day, to his surprise, that he could approach his wrist so close to the flame of a candle that his flesh was scorched, and yet without feeling the heat a particle. Curious to know the reason he kept 011 with the experiment until a frightful burn had been made, ami yet there was 110 sensation. His mother took him to a doctor, who at , once perceived that leprosy was indi cated, and the boy was soon after sent to Molokai, where he now is. The sickness exhibits itself first ordinarily in a swell ing of the face, the lines of which be come drawn and hard; the expression 1 becomes fixed aud the eyes watery, the ! eyelashes and eyebrows dropping out. Swellings appear 011 various parts of the body, turning into sores; it is death by inches, in fact, but painless to the last. Seven years is the average time from the first appearance of the disease to the burial of the patient; there is no such thing as cure. This is tubercular lep- , rosy, and not to be confounded with the leprosy of the Scriptures." "How'did it originate on the islands?" "As to that there is much dispute. The natives say that it was imported with the Chinese, but it seems quite certain that before the coolies were brought to the Hawaiian group for laborers in 1851 leprosy hud been known there for some time as the 'chiefs' disease,' because many of the great men were afflicted with it. Good authorities are of the opinion that it was actually introduced by Cap tain Cook's crew, when that distinguished explorer visited the island in 175)3. The primitive conditions under which the natives lived were singularly favorable to the propagation of disease. Living aud sleeping together in one room for a fam ily, eating their food with tlieir fingers out of common dishes, and passing around the same pipe from hand to hand, contagion had the best possible chance to operate. In 1793 Captain Cook found 200,000 people on the islands; when the missionaries went there in 1820 there were 120,000. Now there are only 45,000 natives left, including half-castes. The balance of the 85,000 population is com posed of Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Americans and Europeans. No white man need be afraid to go to the Hawaiian Islands on account of the leprosy; there have not been as many as a dozen white lepers there in the history of the country. Crabs of Chesapeake Bay. Crisficld, Md., furnishes most of the crabs all the year around for the markets of the leading cities of this country. The crabs are caught in Chesapeake Bay, and are pueked in crates or barrels for ship ment. Over half the inhabitants of the town make their living out of crabbing. There is a secret about the success of Crisficld crabbing. The crabber here never ships a female crab. When one of the female sex is scooped up in the crab ber's net it is always thrown back into the bay. Crabs are caught during evcrv month in the year and in all stages of de velopment. The crabs are dormant from fall until spring, even in the Gulf of Mexico, where they are more abundant than any where else on this country's coast, in the spring, when they conic out of the mud and masses of seaweed, they go right into the business of shedding. Really, it seems as if the crab had little else to do in summer but shed his shell and get a new one of larger caliber. The hard crab first puts on a leathery under garment, and while it is growing he Is known as a "corner." In a day or two, when this under skin is completed, he is j a " shed tier," and then he is best fitted [ for bait, because his hard shell can then i be stripped off, leaving the leathery in l tegument entire. j In a single day the "sliedder" parts ; his shell and becomes a " blister," and in | a few hours he will throw off his shell, j crawl out of it entirely and commence to | swell and stretch out his elastic covering. Then he is a soft crab par-excellence. On the night of the day the crab divests himself of his misfit shell he is in the best condition for frying. In another day, if he is not taken from the water, his new covering becomes like parchment, and in twelve hours more the parchment hardens so that it just yields to pressure. Then he is known as a "buckler," and is of little use except as a broiler. The crab fishing business is put down at half a million dollars per year by the j Fish Commission, and probably the esti j mate is by no means complete. The crabs are caught in summer by ' baiting set lines with tripe or fish and the I catch per man will average sixty dozen a day. All the soft crabs taken during the summer are sent to market and in May and early June the only soft crabs to be found in New York come from Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. In the latter part of June soft crabs begin to be caught in Jersey waters, and the price then declines. Taking'a crab out of water arrests the process of develop ment and packed in sea weed in a cool place the shedder or soft crab will re main alive for several weeks without un dergoing any change.—[New York Mail and Express. THE ROOF OF THE WORLD. Experiences of French Prisoners in Central Asia. At a recent meeting of the Paris Geo graphical Society, Dr. William Capus, who has been the fellow-traveler of M M. j Bouvulot and Pepin in their Central Asian | tours, gave an interesting account of the ; Pamir, or "the roof of the world." In 1 the course of the lecture he described an incident which occurred to the French travelers in Chitral. He said: "After the Afghans at Barliad had en deavored in vain to detain us, partly by persuasion and partly by force, we crossed the Hindoo Koosh by the Baroghii Pass, which is only 10,800 feet high. Without guides, pack-horses, and almost without food, we reached the Fort of Mastuj, where the Cliitralis opposed our going further in the direction of India. While Bonvalot remained at Mastu j I went with Pepin to Chitral, the capital of the coun- j try, situated three or lour days' march to j the southwest. The King of Mchtar, named Amman ul Mulk, made us prison ers the very moment we entered his town, and he thus explained his action: ' You wear Russian boots, Russian money, you speak Russian with your servant and you come from Russian territory—you must be Russian spies.' And he caused us to , be closely watched, stopped our corres pondence and sent for instructions to , Lord Dufferin, for the English make use of this chief as a sentinel in the direction of the Pamir. "During the long days of our incarcer ation, when we could only walk 011 the grass in front of our tent under the eyes of our guard, we saw the king pass daily to take part in the much-loved game of polo, accompanied by a grotesque caval cade, and placed in the midst of his courtiers, who surrounded his horse, and whose heads he made use of to support himself, us we do a cane. The king has thirty wives and sixty children, lie is sixty-five years old. I acquired a great medical reputation by extracting a wasp from a boy's ear, and the king sent to consult me about his favorite wife. She had broken her leg, but the king would not let me see it, asserting that the European tahib, or doctor, had powders that cured everything. To give him pleasure, if not his wife, I gave him some quinine and mercurial ointment." Range of Modern Rifled Guns. The distance that modern rifled guns can cover is approximately one mile for each inch of calibre. It is generally as sumed, owing to the navy mounts not being arranged so as to attain the extreme ranges, that even the sixty-seven ton guns of 13.5 inch calibre could not lie depended upon for a range above ten miles, and that the range of smaller guns would be proportionately reduced. It is said rot only that the deck beams of ships carrying guns of ten-inch calibre and upward would not stand the strain of tiring at extreme elevations, but also that the guns could not be normally ele vated more than fifteen degrees, while at least thirty degrees would be necessary for the farthest effect. Commander Folger shows that neither of these objec tions is well taken. The sixty-seven ton gun throws a shell weighing 1,250 pounds and containing a bursting charge of fifty pounds of powder, enough to destroy two-thirds of the largest building in the city if exploded therein. Few people realize what such a missile is. It is about as large as the largest hot water boiler usually attached to the range in a private house. It is more than a foot in diameter, and when standing on end it would come up as high as the average man's chin. The powder for this class of guns comes in blocks. The cartridge is not dissimilar in shape to a bed bolster and is about as large.—[New York Herald, The World's Favorite Food. Rice is, no doubt, the most extensively used article of food the world over. Hundrcns of millions of people subsist on it, and its consumption is increasing. It is the principal diet of at least one third of the human race, forming the chief food of the native population of India, China, Japan, Madagascar, many parts of Africa, and, in fact, of almost all Eastern nations. The Burmese aud Siamese are the greatest consumers of it. A Malay laborer gets through fifty-six pounds a month; a Burmese and Siamese forty-six pounds in the same period. The Eastern nations chiefly obtain their beverages from rice, which is the prin cipal grain disiiiied in Si air., Japan and China. Saki, or rice beer, is produced in Japan to the extent of 150,000,000 gallons annually. Although rice is such a universal article of food, it is not as nourishing as wheat and some other grains. More than nine-tenths of its substance consists of starch and water. Cousequantly it forms more fat than muscle.—[New York Dispatch. Lieutenant John P. Finley of the Sic;- nal Service lias compiled a statement of the number of tornadoes in this country for the last 17 vcars. While in 1870 there were only nine, the number has in creased annually, the year 1886 having been credited with 280. But since that time there lias been a gradual decrease in the number,only 42 having been recorded in 1889. MORE OR LESS AMUSING. KNIGHT of the bath Saturday night. HE —I like seats with arms. She- Bo do I. t IE love is blind there is no use wast mg gas 011 it in the parlor. 'DOCTOR, what will remove super fluous hair?" (Gruffly)—"A razor, sir.' THE difference between a liar and 0 hypocrite is that the liar is not alwavs incurable. TURKEYS are the most innocent ol birds. The most silly woman in the world can stuff one. MCGOGGINS calls his room on the tenth floor a princely apartment, 011 ac count of its royal highness. "HE never had but one genuine case in his life," said a lawyer of a rival, "and that was when he prosecuted his studies." MR. GRIBBS —So you reject my suit? Miss Tailor—l do, though pa probably would not if you sent it to him, as he said you have not settled for it yet. SHE —But why is Miss C. wearing black? He—She is mourning for her husband. She—Why, she never had a husband. He—No; that is why she mourns. ANGRY Customer—Mr. Cash, I want you to reprimand that clerk of yours. He insulted me. Merchant—Sh! Mr. Credit, I can't. I owe him a month's salary now. W EEPING relative (of very sick states man) —Doctor, is there no hope ? Ex perienced physician—Only one. We must induce the newspapers to put liis obituary in type. REV. STRAIGHTCUT —Roger, did you have anything to do with that disrepu table grab-bag business last evening? Roger Straightcut—Yes, father; I must confess that I had a hand in it. TOMMY (bustling iuto the parlor)— Say, Mr. Threadbare, what rate ol interest do pawnbrokers charge ? I asked father, but he couldn't tell, and advised mo to come to you. FIRST Girl—Working now? Second girl—Yes, I work at Mrs. Lean's board ing-house, washing dishes. "Do you have to work hard V" "No, indeed; the boarders cleau the dishes pretty well at the table." OP COURSE SHE IS. As Peter pat at heaven's gate, A maiden Bought perinisHion. And begged of lilm, If not too late, To give hor free admission. "What claims liath you to outer hero?" Ho cried with earnost mien: "Please, sir," she said, 'twlxt hope and fear, "I'm only just sixteen." "Enough," the hoary guardian said. And the gato wide open threw ; "That is the age when every maid Is girl and angel, too." Free Prena. Diamonds in Her Teeth. About two years ago an article ap peared in a jewelers' magazine stating that a New York belle had hired a den- j tist to sot a diamond tilling in a sound tooth in order to add a seeming luster i to her already dazzling teeth. Many other newspapers took the matter up, and for a while "diamonds in the teeth" was a subject of much consider ation. The truth of the matter has just come to light. It appears that hall j a dozen members of a prominent den- f tal association had congregated in their New York club-house, and were dis- I cussing methods, means, and ways ol filling teeth. One of the men present , was something of a go si in in his pro ; ! fession, and one of the older men do- j cided to give him a sage stuffing. As i matters went on and discussions aross and dropped, the elder man remarked, with a sly wink to his companions, that lie had received an extraordinary order the previous day. In fact, he had filled a beautiful woman's front teeth with small diamonds. Of course his companions expressed the greatest surprise at this now pro- • ceeding in dentistry, and the goslin in : question seemed much impressed with 1 this novel idea. Shortly afterward the company broke up, but another question had j been asked and answered, so the mat* ter was forgotten long before they lefi the club. A few days later the perpe J •trator of the joke was surprised to sod j an article in one of the relative to the new fad young women were adopting, that was "having tiny diamonds sot in their front teeth whether the teeth wore perfect or im perfect." This was the origin of the "fake," and in a short while the new fad was talked of all over the United States. The truth has at last leaked out, and it is now known that no such thing ever existed. The goslin discussed the subject with a friend, who in turn re peated it to a reporter. The lattei wrote an article on the subject, and then every one else discussed the mat> ter and believed it. 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Soap for sale by all grocers The iron and steel makers are comp'aiuing of low prices. U 22. What It Costs Must be carefully considered by tlio great majority of people before buyiug even what may seem abso lutely necessary. Hood's SarsaparlUa commends Itself with special force to the great middle classes, because It combines positive economy with great medicinal powor. It is the only medicine of which can truly bo said 100 Doses One Dollar Aud a bottle of Hood's narsaparllla taken according to directions will average to last a month, while other medicines last but half or quarter as long. This Is prnctic.il aud conclusive evidence as to Its Btrcugth and economy. Try Hood's SarsaparlUa and see for yourself. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists. $1; BIX for $5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD A CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar Shaving the Widows. Shall the widows be shaved? That is the great question that is at present causing agitation among the barbers of Bombay. To Western ears the subject pounds a trifle comic, but in the land bf the Orient it has a very different and a very serious meaning. In India it has always been customary to shave the heads of widows immediately upon the death of their husbands. Of late murmurs and protests have been heard, and the native journals have been calling for reform. The barbers have commenced to coincide with these more enlightened \iews, and it is ex pected will refuse to perform the re quired ton so rial operation. ' The Brahmins have threatened that they will use the scissors themselves, but this is believed to be impossible, as it would result in their losing caste ! very important consideration with j a religious self-respecting Brahmin, j Up country, says an Indian contempo- i rary, the practice of shaving the wid ow's head is not so persistently enforced as in Bombay. The hair is allowed to \ grow again, and the widow has only to i submit to a renewal of the unwelcome j operation when she visits a shrine o! special sanctity. In Bombay widows are shaved regu larly once a week, and this causes them deep distress. It would really appear as if the widow in India was regarded with the same touching affection and reverential regard as the mother-in-law in lands that lie more in the direction of the setting sun, Fresh strikes are reported from Austria. ONO ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant ' and refreshing to the taste, and acta fentlyyet promptly on the Kidneys, .iver and Bowels, cleanses the sys tem effectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is ihe only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleasing to the taste and ao ceptable to the stomach, prompt in Its action and truly beneficial in ita effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable its many excellent qualities com mend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup ot Figs is for sale in 600 and $1 bottles hy all leading drug* gist*. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. UmULLt. KY IIFW YORK. 11. t. lly'sCreaißali||§®|| WII.T. CIJUIS J BKlLDfiENt™"?isj OF (ATA Kit 11 \p ply Balm into each nostril -.1.Y 111108.. 5B Warren St., N.Y, v ' r Jq FRAZERg^fM BEST iti TUG WOULD UflCHOt Oet tlio Genuine. Sold Everywhere. Star Printing, Outfit, 25c. found not only n source of pecuniary advantage, but also of great amusement and instruction to the | i young. Ihe outfit contains three alphabets of rub. I) r type, one bottle of lest black indelible ink, pullet for holding type, ink pad. and one pair of type tweezers. The entire out lit neatly and securely I packed in a substantial box. with full instructions for use, will be mailed postpaid to any address. i Star Printing Outfit by mail, postpaid, ' L— BEARS THIS MARK. # TRADE MARK. NEEDS NO LAUNDERING. CAN BE WIPED CLEAN IN A MOMENT. THE ONLY LINEN-LINED WATERPROOF COLLAR IN THE MARKET. CURES PROMITI.Y AND PI RMANENTLY I- TT 31 1 i V ite, 13 ii r r s ks . THE CHARLES A. VOGELER CO., Baltimore. Hd. For Fifty Years the Standard Blood-purifier and Tonic, Ayer'sSarsaparilla has no equal as a Spring Medicine. , Prepared by Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., | _ Lowell. Mass. Anillll HABIT. Only Certain and llrlllM eHHV CI It Fln the World. Dr. ( VI I Will J. L. STEPHENS. Lebanon,o DETECTIVES Qraunan Detective Bureau C'o. it £rcm,CincimU,o -! o k^S,r?o a r digest of Pension nud Bounty laws. Send for In ventors' Guide or How to Get a Patent. PATRICK O'FARRRLL. Attorney at Law, Washington, D. C. ■ Piso's Remedy for Catarrh Is the H[ Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. ■■ ■ Sold by druggists or sent by mall. 30c. E. T. lluzeltine, Wurreu, Pa. What Every Horseman £ Cattle Owner A GOOD lIEI.IAHI.r. I.INIIIENT AND CONDITION I'OVVDEIC. T>R. TOBIAS' Venetian Horse Liniment, In pint bottles, and bis Derby Condition Powders, from Iho lace Ooltmol D M. lim.i. l ami ii7,iiim JfC > "•lI you wIU Uo\or uo wlthout the RbtiAe-mtMithiiied |ti\'ilii'ilili, articles. If your druggist or f to, ekeeper dJS nof keep our goods send to us and we will forward promptly. Depot, 10 Murray St.. Now York, ARB THE OLDEST FAMILY BTANDARD* A Purely Vegetable Compound, without mercury or other injurious mineral. Safe and sure always. For sale by all Druggist*. Full printed directions for using with each package. Dr. Schenck's new book on Ths Lungs, Liver and Stomach SENT FREE. Ad dress Dr. J. H. Schenck & Son. Philadelphia doree Big ti Ihe onfy I toTJ^thu'duJaße. 0 ' rta ' DCOr# not q. U.XNGKAII AM.M. D., ■ Amsterdam. N. Y. E9 UTS enlT by th We have sold P.ig G for 01i,.,. flvawi*.! rjt many yearn, and it haa given the bast of ■atla vtSk Cincinnati,factloa. WpA D. K DY('H E A PO.^ 81.00. Sold Ly Druggist*. CHICHESTER'S ENGLISH PENNYROYAL PILLS | RED f IA MO D,K W 1/ 'rouV^u n torfelta.^SeD4 I jA "Keller foe Lmdli*," in Ittfr, by return (*.•?'£'.. BadUoa