IDA LEWIS AT HOME.
Bow the Famous Heroine Lives in
Newport Harbor.
Running from the mainland into the
west side of Newport harbor is a long,
stanchly built wharf. Were you to find
your way to the end, you would ere long
see from the lighthouse beyond a woman
appear and glance in your direction.
Presently, with agile step, she runs down
the narrow ladder fastened to the stone
wall, jumps nimbly into a boat, unties it
from its moorings, takes the heavy oars,
and with a beauty of stroke all her own
pulls with a long and a strong pull that
sends her flying toward the steps of the
pier on which you wait. Her back is
as erect as that of a young girl, her j
powerful strength manifest in the great j
strides the rowboat makes, and yet, when !
she deftly turns it round and you get a
good look at her face, it can be seen that >
it belongs to a woman in middle life, but
upon whom time has left few tell-tale
marks. She puts out a welcoming hand
with a beautiful white wrist, adding a
cheery smile and a word of greeting as
she makes ready to take you over to Lime
Rock as her guest. You have cause for
self-congratulation in being thus favored
by the heroine, Ida Lewis.
Life on a lighthouse, situated as is
Lime Rock light, is not the gruesome
thing generally imagined. With a six
roomed house there are cares that fill the
day, and like any other ' 'gude wife,'' Miss
Lewis has her pots, kettles, and pans to
attend to, rooms to sweep, beds to make,
papers and magazines to read, letters to
write, and all the various et easterns to
mauagc which fill the time of a busy
woman. A devoted church woman, she
spends Sunday on shore whenever
her brother is at home.
As the only woman light-house keeper
in our country, and the last one that will
be given a light—for such is the verdict
of the powers that be—Miss Lewis has
other duties that are unique. Exactly at
sundown she must light her lamp, and
precisely at midnight another must be
substituted. All through the night it
must be watched, and Miss Lewis likens
this constant care to that demanded by
an infant The wick might flare or burn j
low, the chimney smoke or crack, or any j
of thehundred-and-one accidents happen i
that are ever taking place with the use I
of kerosene oil. She can but catch cat-1
naps; hence the nearness of her sleeping
room to the light. At sunrise the law
requires her lamp, like the foolish vir
gins', to have gone out, and from this
she is an early riser. The responsibility
is no small one, for the slightest neglect
of duty or accident to her light or lenses
would bring a report from the first sea
man who suffered by it. Lives hang on
her vigilance, but to her credit no light
on all the coast is as regularly or per
fectly attendod to, nor does any other
gain from the Government Inspector so
high a report. Miss Lewis keeps a daily
expense book, noting just the amount of
wick and oil burnt, and the time to a
second of the lighting and putting out
of the lamp. In addition, a record of
the weather must be entered daily. As
Lime Rock light is a first-class light, 110
rations are allowed, the yearly salary be
ing $750 and two tons of coal.—[Ladies'
Home Journal.
Russian Growth in Asia.
At this moment, a quarter of a century
since the capture of Tashkend, the Rus
sian possessions in Central Asia already j
extended over an area of 20,000 square
miles, rich in fertile oases, and counting
a population of about three million in
habitants.
The respect of property aud legality
have been introduced into that country.
The population, harassed by despotism
aud plunder, now reposes undor the
scepter of the "White Tsar."
The works of peace and commerce are I
rapidly developing, aided by the creation
of a railway which unites Samarcand to i
the Caspian Sea. The agricultu /nl cx- |
hibition at Tushkend has just demon- !
strated with evidence what Russian dom- j
ination has done for the country.
And all this is due to the intrepidity J
and heroic pationco of a handful of sol
diers led by Tchcrnaieff. The wars of [
Central Asia, like those of former days !
of the Caucasus, were an excellent school
for the Russian troop's; not only did
tliey form men but they created brave
officers. The names of Tchernaieff, Sko
beleff, Kouropatkine, AbramofT, Golo
vatchoiT, Kolpakovsky, etc., are there to
prove the fact.
The capture of Tushkend was 110 small
thing when one thinks that a detach- 1
ment of 1,800 infantry and cavaliers,
backed by ten pieces of artillery, besieged
such a large town, having a circumfer
ence of sixteen miles and over 100,00(1
inhabitants, sixty-three cannons, defend
ed by a garrison of 80,000 men. The |
fight in the streets lasted two days. The
Russian troops took over fifty barricades,
sixty-three cannons, sixteen large ban
ners, several thousand guns, thirty six
tons of powder, whereas they lost in all
only 157 men.—[New York Mail and
Express.
A Banker's Experience With Brig
ands.
Signor Arrigo, one of the wealthiest
bankers and most exteusive land owners
of Sicily, has just effected his
Release from a captivity of twenty-one
days in the mountains by the payment of
a ransom of one hundred thousand dol
lars to the brigands who had kidnapped
him. Twenty-one days had elapsed be
fore the negotiations on the subject were
completed, and during this time the cap
tive millionaire lived in a mountain cave,
sleeping on a bundle of hay, aud forced
to conteut himself with a diet of black
bread, fruit, and a cheap, but very pow
erful Marsala wine. On the day of his
release, he had not gone far when he hap
pened to meet a patrol of three carabini
eri. So ragged, unkempt, and generally
disreputable did he appear to them, that
the worthy gendarmes were convinced
that he was one of the band of banditti
for whom they were hunting, while he
was equally confirmed in his belief that
the gendarmes were nothing but brig
ands in disguise. It was not until the
police-station at the gate of Palermo was
reached that the carabinieri became as
sured of his identity and consented to cut
the cords with which they had secured
him.—[Argonaut.
A Shrinking iDesert.
Already the area of California's desert
lands is shrinking like the waters of Lake
Tulare, and it will be only a few years
before it will no longer be seen on the
nmps of the State. Every day people are
finding out that desert does not mean
Irreclaimable and that underneath
the gray and drab desolation of
these lands lies the richest of fertility.
All the elements of productiveness arc
latent there, and only need the revivi
fying influence of water to wake into
aotivity and usefulness. Eastern capital
ists have not been slow to see this and to
act accordingly. The latest evidence
comes from Chicago, where it is said, a
[ gigantic scheme is on foot for irrigating
over 500,000 acres of desert land in
Southern California. This is to be accom
plished by impounding the waters from
the mountains in immense storage reser
voirs, whence it will be conducted to the
land by a system of pipes, ditches, and
flumes. This is just what has been done
at Riverside, Redlands, Los Angeles,
Pasadena, Fresno, and a score of other
places, where the results have been most
gratifying and the profits ample.— [San
Francisco Chronicle.
ASBESTOS AND ITS.USES.
A Queer Mineral Which Serves Not
a Few Vegetable Uses.
"Here is a towel that is never washed
and yet is always kept clean," said a
chemist to a Star reporter, handing to
him at the same time what appeared to
the eye and touch to be nothing more
nor loss than a piece of coarse cotton
toweling.
44 What sort of laundry do you send it
to?" was the natural query.
44 This kind," replied the man of sci
ence, going over to the corner of his la
boratory and stuftiug the towel into
a small stove that was burning
brightly there for chemical purposes.
"I understand," said the visitor. 44 You
never use such a towel more than once."
44 You are very much mistaken there,"
responded the chemist. "I use such
towels almost forever, and they almost
never wear out."
With that he lifted off the lid of the
stove again jjnd took out the towel with
the tongs, dipping it in cold water and
then handing it once more to the news
paper man.
4 'Why," exclaimed the latter, 4 'it is
not even injured! What is it made of?"
4 'lt is made of rock," answered the
chemist, "but a very peculiar kind of
rock—so peculiar, indeed, that the an
cients supposed the stuff of which this
towel is woven to be of a vegetable na
ture. They used to wrap bodies that
were to be burned in cloths made of the
same flax-like substance in order to keep !
the ashes from being lost among the i
charred wood of the funeral pyre. Also j
they used it for napkins and for lamp !
wicks."
"But what is it called?"
"You have often heard of it under the
name of 'asbestos,' though very few peo
ple apparently have any notion as to what
it really is. Enormous deposits of it exist
in Canada and elsewhere. It is a form of
a very hard rock called hornbleude aud
is found in strata of a fibrous consistency
roadily divisible into silky strand resem
bling flax. This likeness has given it
the name of 'earth flax.' You can see
for yourself from this towel how much
it looks like a vegetable fabric when
woven. Au asbestos towel may be used
for pretty nearly the same purposes as an
ordinary towel, and, when it is dirty, all
you have to do is to throw it into the fire
and rake it out after a little while per
fectly clean."
"Is asbestos used for any other pur
poses in these days?"
"Oh, yes. It is employed for roofing
material, boiler felting, paper stock and
in the mixing of fireproof paints forstage
scenery. Also clothes for firemen and
gloves to handle red-hot iron with are
made of it. Sometimes the mineral is
found in thin sheets of interlaced fibres,
known as 'mountain leather.' Elsewhere
it is not infrequently procured in thick
sheets, and in that condition is called
'mountain cork.'"—[Washington Star.
The Value of Oysters.
The Maryland Oyster Commission has
been examining the oyster-bods of that
State, and finds the possible wealth in
them far greater than has ever been
imagined.
Maryland leads the Union in the pro
duction of oysters, yet the industry is
declared to be undeveloped even there,
and awaiting more systematic methods.
The thousands of acres suitable for
oysters in Chesapeake Bay can be made
more valuable and productive than any
acre of any truck farm in the State.
The area of oyster-beds in Maryland is
over 125,520 acres, or 103 square miles,
but it is only a small proportion of the
land suitable for such purposes. The
commission finds at least a thousand
square miles, or (540,000 acres, equally !
adapted for oyster planting. Much of :
this ground would yield, if properly cul
tivated, an annual oyster crop of fully
SI,OOO per acre, and tho minimum profit
of the entire district, under any system
of cultivation, would be SIOO per acre, or
$04,000,000 annually for tho entire oyster
district.
Rhode Island, which has a very small
oyster area, is getting from SSOO to SOOO
an acre from it.
Next to Maryland, no State in the
Union has finer opportunities for oyster
culture than Louisiana, which, in its
numerous hays and so-called lakes, has
an area suitable to this industry even
greater than Maryland.—-[New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
Why Do The Heathen Rage.
Not long ago the British ambassador
at the Persian court publicly presented
a copy of the Bible to the shah. At once
there was an outburst of rage among the
Mohammedan population and the guard
of the British legation was doubled!
What is the matter with the Mohaoicdans?
Suppose the Persian ambassador should
bring a magnificent copy of the koran to
the queen of England or the president of
the United States; and suppose the Chi
nese ambassador should follow with the
writings of Confucius; suppose someone
else should present a copy of the book of
Mormon and others should bring volumes
containing tho writings of Zoroaster and
Buddha; would there be a riot or an earth
quake? All these gifts would probably
be received with thanks and perhaps de
posited in some great library and left to
slumber there in peace till disturbed by
the research of the curious. Christianity
can afford to hear what men say and read
what men write. It can tolerate free
speech and free discussion. Its foun
dations are too broad for panics; but
when the Bible appears 011 the scene it
seems to just, set the devil crazy to do some
thing to oppose it.—[Armory.
Our Children's Inheritance.
Unless we are now able to preserve our
mental and bodily forces intact, our
grandchildren will be victims to our
faults. They would even have the right
to a certain extent to call us to account
for our careless conduct. "What did
you do with that vigorous body and
healthy and sturdy mind that wore given
you by your parents? for it is by your
fault that we are miserable and sickly."
The importance of the question is thus
well established. Since the future de
pends 011 the present, it is no loss than a
question of the future of men. This being
fixed, the query arises, Is there mental
overstrain? A careful examination of the
facts gives us occasion to answer afflrma
| tively. In consequence of tho prodigiously
j artificial conditions of existence which
our advanced civilization has imposed
upon us, we have greatly modified the
habitual and physiological life of our or
gunism. A close study of the habits of
contemporary men, such as the author of
this book has made, will show that
nothing is less in agreement with a
healthy vitality thunthe mode of living of
to-day.—[Tho Popular Science Monthly.
FOREIGN FIENDS.
Murdering Travelers by Means of
Opium and Chloroform.
The New York Sun writes about the
gangs of miscreants who travel over the
European railroads offering drugged re
freshments to travelers of opulent ap
pearance. If the traveler refuses the re
freshment, the robber waits for an oppor
tunity to hold chloroform under his
nose.
An overdose of chloroform, which re
sults in death, is not unfrequently ad
ministered, and the murderers are never
caught. On one French railroad two
travelers were found dead from some in
explicable cause in one day. The deaths
were attributed to apoplexy or heart dis
ease, but there is very little doubt that
the deceased persons had fallen into the
hands of the chloroform gang.
There are also opium gangs, whoso
work is less deadly, but not less effective
from the robbing point of view. The
members of this gang are provided with
cases containing cigarettes or cigars
soaked with opium, which they offer to
passengers they intend to rob.
The methods of these ingenious vil
lains are apparently borrowed from the
East, where ingenuity in crime has been
highly developed during a period of sev
eral thousand years. There poison pure
and simple is used.
The following notice has recently been
posted in all the stations of the Eastern
Bengal Railway:
"Travelers are warned against accept
ing liquid or solid refreshment from per
sons unknown to them, as many persons
make a trade of poisoning travelers.
They first enter into conversation with
the latter in a sarai or elsewhere, and then
endeavor to gain their confidence by say
ing that they are to be traveling compan
ions to the same station. When they ar
rive at a place suitable for their designs,
they offer the travelers poisoned food, or
poison the drink or food which the trav
elers are about to take; then they make
their escape after plundering them.
Sometimes they throw poison into the
water of the travelers as they draw it from
the well; at other times, they poison
sweetmeats bought at bazaars, or else
ready cooked food."
This Is certainly the kind of literature
calculated to interfere with the monotony
of traveling for those who are alone, sep
arated by thousands of miles from their
families or friends. The knowledge that
such a notice is considered necessary by
the railway company would scarcely reas
sure those families. The rapid progress
which the Bengaleo lias made in learning
the English language lias opened up a
new field of industry to him.
It would be worth while for the French
and other police to inquire whether the
chloroform and opium gangs do not
themselves hail from the East. The de
velopment of this branch of crime in Am
erica is next in order. The place is get
ting two crowded for road agents and
old-fashioned highwaymen.
Race Between an Air Ship and a
Train.
As the Spencer war balloon, in a recent
ascent from the Royal Military Exhib
ition, now being held in England,
reached Plaistow a train was passing
through bound at Shoeburyness. On
the arrival of the train at Shoeburyness,
to the surprise of the guard, the balloon
ists were quietly waiting for him to take
them and their machine back to London,
the balloou lmving accomplished the
journey in twenty minutes hssthan tho
train, says an exchange. The voyage
through the air was very interesting, and
when at an altitude of 7,500 feet, as re
corded by the aneroid barometer, the
throbbing of the steam engine could be
distinctly heard, also tho report of a
sportsman's gun, accompanied by the bark
of a dog. The traveling was at the rate
of about twenty-live miles an hour, but
to the aeronauts the balloon was appar
ently stationary, and it was with great
surprise that, on emerging from the
clouds, they found what distance had
been actually covered.—[New York Tel
egram.
A Substitute for Gunpowder.
A Paris newspaper, tho Paix, states
that a French scientist has made a dis
covery which is likely to revolutionize
the art of war. M. Paul Gilford has
found out a liquid gas, which cau be
used to propel bullets, cannon shot, or
shell. The Chamber of Commerce of
St. Etienne has been so impressed by
the value of the discovery that it has
conferred upon him a gold medal and a
more sustantial reward of 10,000 front s.
A small stool receptacle is placed under
the barrel of the lille containing 500
drops of this liquid gas. At each pull
of the trigger one drop falls into the
breech of the barrel behind the bullet,
and contact with the atmospheric air
causes it to volatilize instantaneously and
with a force of expansion exceeding that
of gunpowder, and drives the bullet be
fore it with cquul or greater velocity
than gunpowder. No sound or smoke is
produced.—[London Standard.
England's Beauties.
The far-famed beauty —aud it still ex
ists—of England is only to be found in
the middle and lower classes. The aristoc
racy are absolutely ugly in the general
sense, aud the ugliest of the lot are the
maids of honor generally in attendance on
Her Majesty. On the other hand, the shop
girls, the waitresses and barmaids of Lon
don are often absolutely beautiful in both
face and figure. The trim blark dresses
which thoy wear, free from triawnings or
adornment of any kind, and their snowy
aprons only onhance their charms. The
contrast sometimes of a bevy of waiting
woman in attendance at 011 c of the great
mausions is so strange that one begins to
wonder how it is that the lady cannot dis
cover the secrets which enable her maid
to possess and preserve her good looks.—
[Philadelphia Times.
All Belles,
They are all belles, the women of Monte
video, so say enraptured sojourners in that
favored land. Beauty is there the herm
itage of every daughter of Eve, front the
humble flower girl to the fashionable dem
oiselle who flattens her pretty noseagaiust
the jewellers' shop windows in the Calle
Vicutc Cinco.—[Loudon Herald.
In proportion n nations trt more corrupt
. more disgrace will be considered tc to
I poverty and more respect to wonltn.
A STORY OF FREMONT.
Pardoning a Prisoner About to be
Led to Execution.
Captain Swasey is au enthusiastic ad
mirer of Fremont's career on the coast
and declares he Is deserving of every word
of praise which has been given him and
more too. The veteran is aoout to express
his views on the much-mooted subject of
General Fremont's career in an historical
and biographical work. In reference to
the charges of excessive severity und of
brutal treatment to the prisoners who fell
into his hands, Captain Swasey relates
the following dramatic incident:
Just before the capture of San Luis
Obispo, the men under Fremont had been
subjected to great exposure and to priv
ation and hardships of all kinds, and
their hatred of the Mexicaus had reached
its height. In fact, it was pretty clearly
understood that if any of the enemy was
unfortunate enough to fall into their
hands they would spend but little time or
sentiment in disposing of him.
I On December 17, two days after the tak
! ing of the town, the pickets captured
| Don Jose de Jesus Pico, who was called
Totoi. He was tried by court-martial on
| the charge of breaking his parole, was
! found guilty and was sentenced to be
shot. The fact that Pico was a leader
rendered him still more an object of hat
red and distrust, and on every side were
heard mumurs of approval when it was
decided that he should pay the penalty
of his treachery with his life. Tlie ex
ecution was ordered for 10:30 o'clock
in the morning, and at 10 o'clock the
whole battalion was ordered to parade on
the plaza, where the execution was to
take place. The prisoner was confined
in a room in the Mission. Fremont with
two or three of his officers was present
awaiting the coming of the prisoner's fam
ily to lake their last farewell of the be
loved husband and father. The prisoner,
with bowed head, was seated on one side
and opposite stood Fremont with folded
arms and face unmoved from its usual
stern demeanor. The officers in grim
silence were grouped about when the
wife with her eight or nine young chil
dren entered, dressed in the deepest
mourning. The wife was a beautiful
woman of stately bearing and the chil
dren of delicate and refined appearauce.
No word was uttered to break the silence
which had grown oppressive. Then the
children fell upon their knees and with
tearful eyes and outstretched hands mute
ly begged for the life so dear to them.
Among the officers present was that
stern soldier Captain Richard Owens,
who had never feared a living foe, but
whose eyes were then dimmed with tears
at the pathetic sight before him. Sud
denly, for he could uo longer control
himself, he uttered the one word: "Col
onel!" Fremont's face relaxed its deter
mined expression, and he exclaimed:
"Yes. Dick, I know we had rather meet a
thousand of them in the field to-morrow
than take this one life." Then, turning
to the prisoner, he said: "You are par
doned; you are free."
The prisoner fell upon his knees at
Fremont's feet and pressed the hem of his
cloak to his lips, exclaiming brokenly in
Spanish: "My life was forfeit. You have
given it back, and henceforth it shall bo
devoted to you." Instantly Pico ordered
that his horse be saddled, and from that
day on there was no more devoted follow
er of Fremont through danger of every
kind than the man whose life he had
given back to him.—[San Francisco Ex
aminer.
How Gold is Shipped.
When one recalls the fact that millions
upon millions of dollars in gold annually
seek Europe to provide for the necessities
of our import trade, the question of how
gold is shipped to Europe becomes an in
teresting one The Bank of America is
the largest shipper of gold from New
York, and indeed from the United States.
Shipments are made in stout kegs, very
much like the ordinary beer keg. Every
one contains $50,000 in coin or bar gold. :
The latter is the favorite for these ship- j
ments, since the government permits the
sub-treasury to exchange coin for bar 1
gold, as coin, in a single million dollar
shipment is liable to loss by abrasion of
from eight to twenty ounces, or from
$l2B to $320; while the bars only lose
about three-fourths of that value. Where
coin is sent double eagles arc preferred.
They are put in stout canvas hags, each
one containing 125 double eagles, or
$5,000; and ten hags till each keg.
About the only precaution taken against
tampering with kegs, is a treatment of
keg ends technically known as "red tap
ing." Four holes arc bored at equal in
tervals in the projecting rim of the
staves above the head. Red tap is run
through these, crossing on the keg's
head the ends meeting at the centre,
where they are sealed to the head by the
hardest of wax, and stamped with the
consignor's name. The average insur
ance is about $1,500 per $1,000,000.
Then there is an expense of about $2 per
keg for package and cartage aboard
ship, or S2OO for the same sum and the
inevitable loss by abrasion, whatever it
may prove to bo. There are great Wall
street firms shipping from $25,000,000 to
$40,000,000 annually. Some of these
have for years insured themselves, aud
assert that the saving has been sufficient
to replace a loss of $1,000,000. These
are large figures, but this has become a
country of large figures and affairs.—
[American Banker.
Singing Psalms.
In singing the psalms, the old custom
was for the ylerk to read each line—some
times two lines— before the people joined
in with the music. This practice is sup
posed to have originated in a desire to
assist members of congregations who
were unable to read. It began in Eng
land, and by-and-by it was taken up by
the Scotch people, who, instead of look
ing at it in the light of convenience, be
gan to consider it a matter of principle;
so much so that when efforts were made
to abolish it great opposition arose and
many people left the church.
It is told of an old widow atTarbolton,
in Ayrshire, that, though living by her
self, she went through the form of family
prayers every day, and read aloud to her
self each liueof the psalm before singing
it! The celebrated Dr. Chalmers related
on one'occasiou his own experience of try
ing to abolish this old practice at Kilmeny.
There was one old lady who stoutly
maintained that the change was anti-
Scriptural. I)r. Chalmers took an early
opportunity of visiting her, and on in
quiring what was the Scripture of which
she regarded the change as a contra
vention, nt once was answered by her
citing the text, "Lino upon lino." It
is told of a Scotch precentor that one
Sunday, going through the psalm in this
old fashion, he stopped to request some
members of the congregation to allow a
lady to get into a pew. and then went on
to read the next line of the psalm, "Noi
stand in siuncrs' way!"—[All the Year
Around.
Hunting* Alligators in Mexico.
Mr. Joseph Smith has arrived at Galves
ton, Texas. fromTampico, Mexico, in the
schooner Garncrk. which he had chart
ered to bring to that port a cargo of alli
gator hides. Mr. Smith was asked why
he wont to Mexico to hunt alligators anil
replied: "Alligators are becoming so
scarce in parts of the United States in con
sequence of their skins being in such de
mand that many persons have engaged
in alligator hunting as a means of mak
ing money. I learn that in the vicinity
of Tampico there were plenty of them,
and my information proved correct. The
alligators had never been hunted by the
Mexicans but I soon hud them at it.
"At first I shot at them, hut a Mexi
can conceived the idea of harpooning
them and carried it out so successfully
that we followed that method, i was
down there eighteen months, and during
that time I secured hides to the amount
of $50,000. It is quite exciting to take
a sportsman's lamp, quietly sneak along
the river bank, and, finding one of these
monsters lying at the water's edge, hnr-'
poon him. It lakes a steady and quick 1
eve to strike him right and a strong arm
|to hold him after he is harpooned. I
found no trouble in getting along with
the Mexicans and enjoyed my stay very
much."—[Picayune.
To Loosen Glass Stoppers.
Hold the botHe or decanter firmly in
I the hand or between the knees, and gent
! ly tap the stopper on alternate sides,
j using for the purpose a small piece of
I woocl and directing the stroke upward,
j Plunge the neck of the vessel into hot
I water, taking care that, the water is not
> hot enough to split the gluss. If after
some immersion the stopper is still fixed,
recur to the above process. Pass a piece
of list round the neck of the vessel,
I which must be held fast while the list is
j drawn rapidly backward and forward.
Take a steel needle and run it around
I the top of the stopper in the angle formed
j by it and the bottle. Hold the vessel in
; the left hand and give it a steady twist
I with the right, and it will very often be
j effectual as the adhesion is frequently
I caused by the solidification of matter
j onlv at the point nearest the air. If this
j does not succeed, put a few drops of oil
I round the stopper where it enters the
! glass vessel and then warm it before the
fire. When thoroughly warmed tap the
I stopper of the bottle on alternate sides as
! directed above, Repeat this operation if
I necessary.
Scotland's Old War Song.
At a meeting of the Town Council of
Edinburgh, the Lord Provost said that at
i present there was for sale the original
j manuscript of "Scots Wha Hae," and it
j was in danger of going away out of the
I country, but the Council could purchase
it for £7O, and he thought it would be a
great pity that it should he lost to Edin
burgh. It would be a great shame that
the great war song of Scotland should
pass to other lands, and he moved, there
fore, that the Council should authorize
I the purchase of the song. Councillor
: Aula jo Jamieson said he thought it was
I just that it should be known that that
monument of history had been purchased
I by a Scotchman (Mr. Kennedy, banker,
I New York), who desired that, before re
i moving it to America and placing it in a
j museum there, the metropolis of Scotland
should have the opportunity of purclms-
I ing it at the money lie paid for it himself.
The Lord Provost said he thought they
were extremely indebted to that gentle
' man. It was then agreed to purchase the
song."—[Public Opinion.
Care of the Teeth.
I Perfect cleanliness is essential to the
; preservation of the teeth. It is the stern
; opinion of a leading dental surgeon in
| this city that if the teeth are kept clean,
: free from lodgments of food, tolmcco,
I and sugar granules, the decomposition of
! which produces decay of the dentine,
i teeth would never need repairing. After
each meal the mouth should he washed
with tepid water and a soft brush and all
particles of food removed by a quill and
; dental fioss or sewing silk. The inside
of the teeth need more attention than the
outside and if the brush cannot he
handled freely use a soft cloth to prevent
the accumulation of tartar. A few drops
of mvrrh used on a wet brush once a
week will harden the gums and sweeten
the mouth. Pins, knives and gold tooth-
I picks arc very bad and should never be
used, save in the interest of the dentist.
If the quill is not available and regular
pine splinters are beyond reach, whittle
a match.
True to Her Maimed Lover.
A young woman in Parkcrsburg, W.
Va., recently advertised for a husband
and received numerous answers, to the
I writer of one of which, a St. Louis man,
' she became engaged. A time was set for
the wedding, but before it arrived the
groom met with an accident by which he
I lost a leg. But she was a woman of her
j word, and after his recovery they were
married. She recently wrote home that
her husband was engaged in steady em
i ploymcnt and was a good man.—[Chi-
I cngo Herald.
The Black Mirror Mystery.
j It is claimed that a Pittsburg chemist
j accidentally discovered the way in which
I black mirrors were made by the ancients.
He made an artificial obsidian, and in
polishing slabs of the material made his
discovery. Obsidian is a substance pe
culiar to volcanic countries. It looks
| like glass and is of a coal black color.—
[Detroit Free Press.
If aftllcted with sore eyos use Dr. Isaac Thomp
son's Lye-water. Lruggisis sell at*6c.per bottle
I Those who have ill intf ntionncHiinotafford
I to work with tools that have an ill sound.
Albert Bureh, West Toledo, Ohio, says:
"Hall's Catarrh Cure saved my life." Write
him for particulars. Hold by Druggists. 76c.
The world is his who can H.>O through its
pretension.
FITS stopped fre' by liit. KMMK'S GRRAI
NIfRVK RwrroiiKii. No ( its after first Day
1 use Marvelous cures. Treatise and S- tri
bottle free. Dr. Kline.Ml Arch St., Pbila., Pa
; Much time is necessary to know people
; thoroughly.
The nery hfst way to know whether or not
Dobbins's Electric Soap is as poo/as it is said
to be, is to t> yit i/nurxf . It can't deceive ynu.
Be sure to get no imitation. There are lots of
them. Ask your grocer for just one bar.
Anger makes dull men witty hut keeps
them poor.
Confirmed.
The favorable impression produced on the
first appearance of the agreeable liquid fruit
remedy Syrup of Figs a few years ago has been
more than confirmed by the pleasant experi
ence of all who have used it, and the success
of the propr.etors and manufacturers, the Cal
ifornia Fig Syrup Company.
Making- Camphor.
Camphor is made in Japan in this way: I
After a tree is felled to the earth it is cut
into chips, which are laid in a tub over a
large iron pot partly filled with water and
placed over a slow fire. Through holes
iu the bottom of the tub steam slowly
rises, and heating the chips generates
oil of camphor. Of course the tub with
the chips has n close-fitting cover. From
this cover a bamboo pipe leads to a suc
cession of other tubs with bamboo con
nections. and the last of these tubs is
divided into two compartments one
above the other, the dividing floor'being
perforated with small holes to allow the
water and oil to pass to the lower com
partment. This lower compartment i*
supplied with a layer of straw, which I
catches and holds the camphor crystals 1
that are being deposited as the liquid
passes to the cooling process. The cam
phor is next separated from the straw,
packed in wooden tubs and is ready for
the market. The oil is used by the na
tives for illuminating and other pur
poses.
Tho Sa tor's Confront on.
[ I am not aa youug as I was 'tis true.
Yet for uiauy a Oajr and muuy a year
I hope to sail o'er the deep waters blue,
j Returning ever and again for a chat with
| Once i was a jolly young tar,
Froo from life's ills, strong as a bear.
As sailors ought to be and generally are.
E'en to-day 'tis a marvel to some who know
of IUYOKC
That old feather Time his imprint don't show.
Why they should 1 am at u loss to know,
Unless 't is simply this: I don't limp as 1 go!
That perhaps is duo in all my travels l'ar and
wide
To a fait iiful friend who is ever by my side,
Not a st ranger to you! its name well known
ft me.
Especially to those on economy bent,
For surely nothing can save doctor's bills
And us old folks rejuvenate.
Like that great slayer of pain—
Dr. Tobias's wonderful Venetian Liniment!
He tlint has energy enough in his constitu- }
tion to root out a vice should go n little j
further ami try to plant a virtue in ils
place. ÜBB
All the year round, you may
rely upon Dr. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery to purify
the blood and invigorate the
system. It's not like the
sarsaparillas, that are said to
be good for the blood in
March, April and May. The
" Golden Medical Discovery "
works equally well at all
times, and in all cases of
blood - taints, or humors, no
matter what their name or
nature.
It's the cheapest blood-puri
fier, sold through druggists,
because you only pay for the
good you get.
Your money is returned if
it doesn't benefit or cure you.
Can you ask more ?
" Golden Medical Discov
ery " contains no alcohol to <
inebriate, and no syrup or
sugar to derange digestion. i
It's a concentrated vegeta- j
ble extract; put up in large
bottles; pleasant to the taste, !
and equally good for adults or
children.
The " Discovery " cures all
Skin, Scalp and Scrofulous
affections, as Eczema, Tetter,
Salt-rheum, Fever-sores, White
Swellings, Hip - joint disease
and kindred ailments.
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I asked a maid if she would wed,
And in my home her brightness shed;
She faintly smiled and murmured low,
"If I can have SAPOLIO."
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