ROBBING JV STAGE. THE METHODS OF EXPERT ROAD AGENTS DESCRIBED. The Main Thing is to (Jet the Drgp 011 the Messenger—The Highway man of Shasta and llis Barley Sacks. In 1881 the stage road between Ben son and Tombstone was a bad route to travel by night or by day. Benson was inhabited mostly by rustlers and toughs, and Tombstone was infested by Doc Holladay and other people of that sort. The Earps managed to hold things level in Tombstone, but the road agents bossed r-jthe highway, and in Benson a man was • liable to be held up at noon on the depot platform while waiting for a train. Budd Phil pot, brother-in-law of Charley Foss, the king of stage drivers, was driving the Benson and 'Tombstone stage, and one night somebody tried to hold him up not many miles from Tombstone. Phil pot had had experience with road agents, and when he heard the order to halt come from the darkness a little behind the off fore wheel he "concluded that the robber was a green hand at the business, and instead of putting on the brake he gave the horses the silk and sent them ahead on the run. In nine cases out of ten the trick would have won, as tho robber would have ' thought it hardly worth while to fire at a rapidly escaping stage, and the darkness would have spoiled his aim if he did fire. But the crack, of Philpot'a lash was answered by the crack of a Winchester, and Philpot half sprung to his feet, dropped back with a moan and swayed A in his seat. The messenger, who sat be v sido him, threw his right arm around the j driver and with his left seized the lines ! as they fell from Philpot's relaxed fingers. The Winchester cracked again and again, and a cry from tho inside of the 1 coach told that one of the passengers had been hit. The frightened horses flew over the road. The messenger held the dying driver with one arm, and with the left hand tried to arrange tho tangled lines, while tho bullets whistled by in the dark. He got the stuge into Tombstone with tho express box safe, but two dead men wero taken from the coach. That was not the work of a profession al road agent. The main purpose of the robber is to secure plunder, and if he does uny killing it is either to prevent somebody from killing him or to insure the success of tho robbery. The attack upon the Tombstone stage was tho work of a man killer, who had turned road | agent for one night only, and for that and other good reasons the job was generally attributed to Doe liolliday, a man who j left a trail of blood across every .State and Territory between tho Mississippi and tho Sierras. A man who understands the art of high way robbery can hold up any stage with out firing a shot, unless a fighting shot gun messenger happens to be on the box, in which case he may get into trouble and miss tho trick. The expert profes sional never fools with a stage 011 open ground or a steep down grade. He se lects his ground with care and judgment, choosing a place where the stage must be driven slowly, and taking such a position that he cannot be seen until he has the driver covered with his shotgun. Ho uses a shotgun rather than the rifle or revolver, because the shotgun is the most formidable weapon at short range. Its capacity for scattering fire is well known and duly respected by drivers. Tho bigger the bore of the gun the moro terrifying it is to passengers, al though it is a singular fact that under such circumstances a 22-calibro rifle bar rel is likely to be mistaken for the mouth of tho Sutro tunnel. On the lino of every old stage road in California is pointed out some spot that is a favorite stand for robbers. It is usually in a sharp re-entering angle, where the horses must be brought down to a walk, and the rooky bunk or a tree uffords a hiding place for the robber. It does not matter if tho driver knows that he is liable to bo held up at that spot and is 011 the alert. 11c cannot make tho turn at high speed, and he must give his attention to his team to avoid an upset. Just as the coach swings into the gully, and the driver is about to rein the leaders out from the bank, he hears tho sharp com mand to halt, and without turning to see, He knows that a shotgun is pointed at his ?iead from behind tho tree. Tho stage | driver, being commonly a man of sense and good judgment, puts on tho brake I and stops instantly. "Throw down the box," is tho next order, and the driver tosses out the ex press box. .Sometimes the man behind tho tree wants the mail sacks, too, and if he is very greedy and bold, he orders the 4 passengers to jump out and empty their pockets. Usually the passengers tumble over one another in their haste to obey the orders of tho man with the gun, and he makes a good haul of watches und loose change. If the robber is alone nobody need lose much wealth in a hold-up, however. The robber will not throw himself off' guard to search the pockets of a lot of passen gers. It is his business to keep them covered with his gun, and ho depends upon their terror to induce them to give up what 110 would not search quires an artistic operator and one with supreme audacity to go through a whole stugeload of people and clean them out to the ultimate nickel, but California can proudly boast of having produced such artists. One way of doing the trick is to jpretend that another robber is concealed jn the brush close by. "Jim, you keep these galoots covered while Igo through 'em," remarks the road agent, in a cool, matter-of-fact way, after lie had ranged the frightened pas sengers in a row with their hunds above their heads. And then he goes through them without undue haste, making faceti ous remarks as he brings up the plun der. \ The lone highwayman of Shasta, who was captured recently, had a very neat method of taking care of passengers when they were numerous enough to be troublesome. His outfit consisted of a six-shooter and a bundle of barley sacks. He Btoppod tho inward-bound stage within the town limits of Redding, und put a barley sack over tho head of every man in the crowd. Just as ho finished that part of tho job the outward-bound stage drove up, and he stopped that and bagged tho heads of all hands. Then a farmer happened along, anil he was treated similarly. A citizen of Redding, driving for a doctor, fell into tho trap and joined tho barley-sack brigade, and then camo tho schoolmnrm of tho dis trict, who was told to stop and sit still in her buggy, which she did. The 10110 robber explored the pockets of the crowd, broke open the express boxes, and qiftetly slipped away into the woods, and tho hugged victims didn't dare to move until tho schoohnarm began .to luugh at their ridiculous aspect und told them the robber hud gone. In the hands of a road agent entirely great a fence picket is as mighty as a two-shot scatter gun. The Gilrov stage | was toiling up a long hill ut dusk some j years ago when the driver saw something j white fluttering just ahead, and his j leaders stopped with their breasts against a rope stretched across the road. A | handkerchief was fluttering from the j I centre of the rope. The driver put on i I the brake, and then somebody standing ! ! by a tree at the side of the road told him j to throw down the box. He glanced to- ! I ward the person who spoke and saw a masked man pointing something at him. j He threw down the box, the masked man cut the rope and told him to drive on, and the stage went on its way. The next day the officers found the broken express box, the rope, and an old fence picket in the road, but they never found the masked man. The express box is the main attraction for the road agent, and sometimes it is affliction to his soul. In the natural or der of things it ought to contain wealth, but the heartless express companies sometimes load it with bricks and cause great loss of time and anguish of spirit to an industrious and painstaking robber. When robbers were the rule and safe trips the exception in California, the ex press companies invented the dummy box and worked it off frequently on the enterprisiug agent, but the joke didn't last long. The agent acquired the habit of bursting the box in the presenco of the driver and then profanely requesting him to hand out the other box, and 110 fool ishness. As the driver wasn't hired to be shot they discouraged the uso of the dummy, and it was abandoned by all well-regulated lines, although it was worked occasionally on some amateur robber. When Budd Philpot was driv ing the Lakeport stage a robber held him up, and Budd cheerfully tossed out an empty box belonging to the Great Western mine, and drove along with the Wells-Eargo's box safely stowed under his feet. Tho scheme of building an iron box into the body of the coach worked for a time, but the road agents beat that gumo by sending the driver and passengers along tho road afoot and breaking into tho box at their leisure with cold chisels. As they usually concluded tho evening's entertainment by setting fire to the coach and burning up SI,OOO worth of the company's property, besides running away with the horses, the stagemeu con cluded that tho iron box scheme didn't pay. Going through the mail sacks used to be a tedious job for a road agent anil it didn't often pay for tho time wasted. Besides, it doubled the number of pur suers by setting all the United States marshals 011 the hunt for the robber, and when caught it landed him in tho United States court and insured a heavy scn tenoe. Nevertheless, a great deal of money is sent by mail, and for tho con venience of road agents and other thieves who may desire to take the chance of being caught, Uncle Sam invented the registered letter and its especial pouch. No other reason for the invention of the registered letter system can be imagined. A registered letter is not issued, and Uncle Sam will not pay for it if it is lost or stolen. The registered mail is put into a little pouch, which is put inside of the ordinary mail sack. AVhcutho road agent gets hold of a mail snck ho rips it open, either by running his knife around the suck near tho bottom or by making two slashes, criss cross in one side of the suck. Thanks to Uncle Sum's kind con sideration and foresight, he isn't obliged to ransack a thousand letters, but finds all tho valuable mail sorted out and neat ly done up in an easily-portable pouch, which he takes along to open at his leis ure in the brush. Of all the devices and inventions for the protection of treasure and tho circum vention of the road agent, tho only one that has stood the test of time and experi ence is a big, ugly-tempered man with a sawed-oft' shotgun on the box. Of course, when the other fellow has the drop a shot gun is of mere use than a piece of lead pipe; but the lone road agent can't watch a lot of passengers and a driver, and at thesamo time keep the drop on a man who has been hired to shoot him full of holes, and only wunts half a chance to do it. If the robber gets tho drop on tho messenger and keeps it, and contents himself with orderingthe driver to throw out the box, he may win; but, it is the business of the man with the sawed-off shotgun not to let him get the drop, but to blaze away as soon as he shows up. The gun is sawed off for the greater convenience of the messenger in potting road agents. It is loaded with buckshot and scatters. The length of the gun is such that when the muzzle rests upon the footboard tho locks are level with the messenger's kneo, and ho can swing it up into position very readily. If he gets it pointed anywhere near the robber, some of the buckshot are sure to hit. An old Nevada driver's modification of the messenger's gun was a single-bar relled shotgun worn in his right boot, the muzzle protruding through the bottom, near the heel. When held up he stuck out his leg toward the robber, as if he were feeling for the brake, and pulled the trig ger. But one hand was required to work the gun, and the effect was something in the line of painful surprise.—[Bun Fran cisco Examiner. What a "Ration" Is. A ration is the established daily allow ance of food for one person. For the United States army it is now composed of the following: Twelve ounces of pork or bacon or canned beef (fresh or corned), or one pound and four ounces of fresh beef, or twenty-two ounces of salt beef; eighteen ounces of soft bread or flour, or sixteen ounces of hard bread, or one pound and four ounces of corn meal. To every 100 rations, fifteen pounds of beans or pens, or ten pounds of rice or hominy; ten pounds of green coffee or eight pounds of roasted coffee, or two pounds of tea; fifteen pounds of sugar, tour quarts of vinegar, one pound eight ounces of stur candles, four pounds of soap, four pounds of salt, four ounces of pepper and four ounces of yeast-powder to each 100 rations of flour. Duties of a Lighthouse Keeper. The duty of a lighthouse keeper is not easily accomplished. Ho has to build his own fences, keep his grounds in good order and see that his house is neat and trim. It is not expected that he should make extensive alterations ut his own expense, for Congress always appro priates money for that purpose. But he must keep the government property clean and tidy, and when the wind is blowing great guns and the sea is running high it is his duty to sit by his lamps and see that they are burning brightly. Some of tho men have their beds in the light houses and sleep there night after night, although Congress makes 110 provision for such service. Even in tho most tranquil weather a lighthouse keeper can not sleep all night undisturbed and at tend to his duty, for the rules of tho Treasury Department, the arm of the government to which he is responsible, 1 compels him him to change his lamps at j midnight every night. This means an j unpleasant and often dangerous walk over trestle work which leads from the mainland to the lighthouse. Away up ! north on Lake Michigan, where the cold I is so strong that men have to wear felt I masks in order to work out of doors, the ! water sweeps upon the piers and freezes , until by accretions it piles a wall of ice along the entrance to the harbor. It is I there that the lighthouse keepers have to walk to their towers over trestle work, for a night's tramp over the icy piers would be attended by great danger. Electric lights have not yet been intro duced in the towers along the shores of Lake Michigan. Oil is used in all the lamps, and it is the best kerosene oil that can be bought by the government. —[Chicago llcrald. THE WATCH WAS UNDISTURBED. Result of a Curious Wager in the Metropolis. A curious scene was witnessed on a recent afternoon at the corner of Eighth avenue and Twenty-seventh street. It was at that hour when hundreds pass within the space of a quarter of an hour —one o'clock. Two flashily dressed men had a few minutes before been en gaged in earnest conversation 011 the subject of honesty and dishonesty among the people of this city, 0110 contending that a vast majority wero worthy of trust, while the other maintained that the reverse was nearer the truth. Fin ally, the one with the high estimate of his fellow-citizens offered to hang his watch, a valuable gold one, upon the cross-bar of a signpost close by, and to wager a supper at Delmonico's that if he and his friend left it there and went away for an hour or so, they would find it hanging there unmolested on their re turn. Tho bet was promptly accepted, tho watch and chain were tied to tho cross-bar in such away that they would not fall of their own weight, and the two men went away. A crowd gathered and stared at this strange proceeding. Some thought it was an advertising trick, and that tho owner of the watch would return in a moment and exhibit sonio wures to the spectators. But the latter wuited much longer than they expected—thoso who did wait, and they were many—before the owner eumo back. People gazed at the watch, ex amined it without touching it, then looked at each other and wondered. Tho crowd soon increased to hundreds, and finally a policeman worked his way through the throng until he reuched tho objective point, lie demanded to kuow whoso watch it was, and was about to take it down, when some one suggested that he had 110 right to touch it any more than any one in the crowd. Ho thought to himself after a moment's re flection, and consoled himself by dispers ing the gathering as well as he could; but it would have taken many moro po licemen to keep the curious people mov ing. Meanwhile, tho watch continued to hang five feet, eight inches from the ground, in full view and reach of every one in the neighborhood. At exactly 3.20 o'clock the owner of the watch and his friend returned, and the former took it down and replaced it in his pocket. When an onlooker ex claimed, "Why didn't sonio of us do that long ago?" the owner replied, with a broad smile, "because the people of New York are honest." it was suggested by the moro unchar itable spectators, however, that there was safety in numbers, and that tho watch would not have hung undisturbed very long if so many persons had not been looking at it and each other.—[New York Post. All Escape From Siberia. The harrowing descriptions of the sad state of the prisoners in Siberia, given by Mr. Kcnnan, are amply confirmed (says tho Berlin correspondent of. tho Daily News) by a Russian named Jacob Koton, who has escaped from Siberia, and is now in Breslau. The substance of his story is as follows: He was the son of a well-to-do miller in Russian Po land. 111 tho year 18G3 Koton, then nineteen years of ago, took part in tho Polish insurrection, and in a skirmish near his native place he received asevero gunshot wound in the left foot, and was taken prisoner by the Russians. He was thereupon transported to Yilna, and condemned by General Muravieff to exilo for life in Siberia. At Tarbogotai, to which tho exile was taken, he was obliged to get his living by hunting. He soon became homesick in this fearful wilder ness, the climate of which was killing him, and defying all dangers ho made an an attempt to escape, but was seized at Tomsk and sentenced to three months' arrest in a fortress. A second attempt brought him to Moscow, a third to Grodno. Six months' and finally a year's im prisonment in u fortress wore his pun ishments, and each time ho was trans ported buck to Tarbogotai. Koton now —at leust for a time —gave up all fur ther attempts at escape, and worked hard to save a sum of money in order then to try his luck again. In the Spring of the year 1888 the exile had saved about 4,(MM! rubles, the fruit of twenty five years' work as a hunter, and now ho again thought of escaping. On u dark night ho left Tarbogotai, went from one culuss to the other, far from high rouds. After a dangerous aud fearful journey of several months, which cost him nearly the whole of his fortune, and after cross ing the Ural and gaining Ekutcrinen burg and St. Petersburg, he at last reached Stockholm via llelsingfors. llut, finding no assistance anywhere, ho went to Copenhagen, Lubeck, Hamburg, Per lin, and from there to Paris. Here his money ran short, and the French Gov ernment sont him ucross the Pelgiun frontier to Holland, lie could uot re main thcro either, but was escorted to the German frontier after marches of many long weeks. Then, travelling via Cologne, Munich, und Vienna, ho at last reached Preslau. Grape Arbors. The practice is common to plant and train hardy grapevines 011 the sides of dwellings and other buildings, tho fruit of which becomes a valuable supply to the family. Arbors aud other supports are often used for vines in tho rear yard. It is proposed to combine or compromise the two modes by placing the trellis eight or nine feet from tho house, and forming an overhead connection with it. The advantuge would bo the convenience of proximity, shade in summer, and warmth from tho house in cold weather, causing earlier ripening. Tho annual pruning could bo easily performed, thick or bushy growth cutout, and the bearing shoots left or disposed of at regular dis tances on tho trellis and arbor. —[Coun- try Gentleman. Potatoes are one cent a pound at Sulow, 0 eiron. SHIPS AS BURIAL PLACES. A Curious Seandnnaviau Disposition of the Dcucl. Burial ships have so fur been dis covered to the number of about a dozen in Sweden and Norway. The bodies laid in them, burned or unburned, were equipped with pathetic cure. Besides being elaborately armed and adorned, they had placed at their disposal means of employment and diversion, such as writing tablets, forging tools, whetting stones, scissors, cooking utensils, chess men, draughtsmen and dice. In one of nine boats containing us many bodies, disinterred in the churchyard of Vended in Uppland, weapons and implements were associated with the rcinuins of three horses, three dogs, a cow, a pig. ram, ewe and goose. Another sheltered the bones of a goose, a duck, a falcon, rock owl and crane. The inference seems justified that all those birds were domesticated. Inside the ribs of the celebrated Gokstadt ship some peacocks' feathers lay scattered with fragments of gold-embroidered silken stuff; and the tumulus near Sandefiord, from which it was unearthed in 1880, contained the skeletons of at least twelve horses and six dogs. But the treasures of the sepulchral chamber amidship had long ago fallen a prey to some ot the numerous and nameless thieves who "Ransacked the graves of warriors old. Their falchions wrenched from corpses hold." The vessel itself, which is of oak, clinker-built and 75 feet long, is pre served in the Archaeological Museum at Chrißtiania. Life in the North, however, fundamen tally homely, was uttended in those days i by accessories of considerable splendor. Gastronomic refinements were indeed un known. Boiled veal counted as the "best of dantics"; roast pork with whoaten bread might also bo provided for favored guests, in default of which delicacies, curds and buttermilk were welcome; and the bill of faro dur ing a royal visit comprised, on alternate days, fish and milk, meat and ale. Yet i the tables spread with such simple re pasts were often gay with embroidered | cloths and radiant with gilded vessels, dainty glass breakers and repousse silver and bronze drinking-horns. They were surrounded, too, by gorgeously clad revellers. Scarlet cloaks lined with fur and secured with magnificent fibulas of bronze inlaid with silver, or of silver gilt diversified with filagree-work, garnets or walrus ivory, were flung over silken tunics, or kirtles made of u kind of velvet called "poll." These wero belted in with girdles finely wrought of precious metals; gold rings encircled legs, arms and fingers; silk caps, adorned with lace, covered tlio head; shoes wero of leather covered with beaten gold and stitched with silk; u gold band like a diadem confined tawny and profuse locks flowing down to the shoul ders. We hear, beside, of gloves mado soft with down, of suits of "many colored English cloth," rain-and-dust cloaks and of fur-lined mantles with golden neck straps. Bigurd the Jari figures iu St. Olaf's Saga as clad in "a blue kirtle and blue nose, high shoes laced around his legs, a gray cloak and a gray broad-brimmed hat and a hood over his face, a staff in his luind with a gilt silver mounting ut the upper end, from which a silver ring hung."—[Edinburg Review. MR. W. E. BEAR, tlio well-known Englinh writer on agricultural statistics, supplies to Bradstreet's a "rough es tiinute" of the shortage in the wheat harvests of Europe this year, and of the sources of supply from other parts of the world. Mr. Bear's estimate, it should be noted, takes account of the short rye crop as an element in calculating the de mand for wheat, lie begins with Russia, whoso wheat production last year (in cluding Roland) was about 212,000,000 bushols and her exports about 00,000,000 bushels. This year Mr. Bear thinks her crop will not be over 180,000,000 bushels and her exports not above 40,000,000. Austria-Hungary falls short this year 27,000,000 bushels as compared with last year. The country will not bo able to spare more than 8,000,000 bushels. Ru mania has a good crop and may be able to spare 30,000,000 bushels. Bulgaria and Servia may export 12,000,000 bush els. The power of the exporting coun tries of Europe to supply the importing countries will have a deficiency of 371,- 000,000 bushels, so that Europe in tlio aggregate will be under the necessity of importing 281,000,000 bushels from the other quarters of the world. What coun tries can supply this amount? Mr. Bear thinks that India may furnish 33.000,000 and the United States 144,000,000, leav ing still a shortage of 104,000,000 to bo looked for in Australia, South America, Canada, Asia Minor, Egypt, etc. Mr. Kains-Jackson shows that this wheat re quirement of Europe will call for ship room of 5,000,000 bushels per week aver age for the wholo year. The editor of Bradstreet's considers Mr. Bear's estimate of the European deficiency rather under than over the mark. Largest Plank in the World. Tlio Northwest Lumberman gives an engraving from a photograph of a red wood phink that is 10 feet 5 inches wide, 12 feet 9 inelies long, and 5 inches thick, and is about 90 per cent, clear. It was taken from a tree 35 feet in diameter and 300 feet high. According to its rings it was more than 1,500 years old. The tree was cut 28 feet from the ground, and the plunk was bowed out of tlio stump, representing a section taken from near the heart of the bark. After it was displaced it was lowered by block and tackle, with a locomotive for power. In the way of labor its cost represents the time of two men for a month, simply to prepare it in the rough for shipment. To this the cost of transportation must be added, making a total of about S3.(KX). It was moved by water to San Francisco. After being on exhibition some time, a car was specially prepared to transport it to Chicago. This was douo by cutting a slot in the centre of a Hat car, in which stirrups wcro pendent. The plank was placed on edge in the slot, its lower edge being within about a foot of the ties. Oldest Church in Europe. Which is the oldest church in Europe? asks tho British Architect. Canon Routledge, in bis "History of St. Mar tin's Canterbury," claims the distinction for that, venerable edifice. 11c describes it as being tlio only existing church originally built ns a church during the first, four conturics that has remained a church till tlio present day. St Martin's has a rival in St. Mary-in-the-Castlo, Dover, which Canon Buckle believes to have been erected in tho fourth century; but in the days >f Queen Anne, and for a century and a half afterwards, this edi fice was used as a garrison fuel depot. Summer Weakness Loss of Appetite, Sick Headache, and That Tired Feeling are cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla. "August Flower" How does he feel ? —He feels cranky, and is constantly experi menting, dieting himself,'adopting strange notions, and changing the cooking, the dishes, the hours, and manner of his eating-—August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel ?—He ftels at times a gnawing, voracious, insati able appetite, wholly unaccountable, unnatural and unhealthy.-—August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel ?—He feels no desire to go to the table and a grumbling, fault-finding, over-nice ty about what is set before him when he is there —August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel ?—He feels after a spell of this abnormal appe tite an utter abhorrence, loathing, and detestation of food; as if a mouthful would kill him—August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel?—He has ir regular bowels and peculiar stools— August Flower the Remedy. © Pronunciation "BOOH.'' Pronunciation "bees" liave taken the place of the once exciting and profitable spelling bee. In the various summer schools pronunciation bees have become episodes of great interest and not a lit tle hilarity; while rural culture, always ready to combine healthful fun with in tellectual progress, is certain so adopt the fashion eagerly and be ready to in augurate it when huskiug's over" It is clearly important, therefore, that to make pronunciation bees helpful in the promotion of correct language certain standards shall be accepted as final and authoritative. The first necessity will be a commit tee perfectly familiar with the marks that indicate sound in all well regulated dictionaries. There are many thought loss people who do not bother their heads about sound marks in dictionaries. They look in them, as a rule, only for spelling and meaning of words. Dic tionaries areas important for pronuncia tion as for orthography and definitions. Iu every standard work of this nature pronunciation is minutely indicated and only carelessness can fail to discern the proper place to accent a word of more than one syllable and the values to bo given to vowels and combinations of letters. Differences in high class dic tionaries are few, slight and unimport ant. Pronunciation bees should be zeal ously encouraged throughout the coun try. Americans are lamentably indif ferent to pronunciation. They scarcely take the trouble to open their mouths widely enough to pronounce intelligibly half the time. They speak flatly, un musically and incorrectly in consequence of this indifference to articulation. If they were more painstaking about the adequate and accurate use of vocal or gans, they would intutitively cultivato a pleasant speaking quality of voice, men slightly raising pitch and women lowering it for domiuaut tone, securing at the same time flexibility and range which insures agreeablo variety of note in conversation. Jt is necessary, of course, to choose one master or mistress for a pronuncia tion bee in order to maintain order and to have consistency and uniformity in principles of pronunciation. At Chau tauqua a professional elocutionist held this post. It would bo interesting to know whether he has himself learned that institute does not spell toot, nor news noosand that literary is not liter 4 ' nor library libr'y. It is well for local committees to find out in advance a lit tle about their pronunciation before they open the bee. The bee itself is a good tliiug. If boards of education throughout the country were to require the attendance of teachers and school ollicers nt pro nunciation bees twice a month many teachers would he at the foot of the class; and there would be below them none but school officials. Pronuncia tion hoes in fashionable resortH this summer would also do something to ward making less barbarous the amateur theatricals of next winter. 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A gentleman residing near enough to this city to hoar tin* town clock strike says he can hear coyotes around his residence almost any night, lie was talking about the bounty offered by the State tor coy ote sculps and favored the law, saving that he hud lost more than S4OO within the last two years by the coyotes and that it was almost impossible to raise young pigs whore these animals were found. He was of opinion that the coy oytcs would all be killed off within the next two years.—[Tulare (Cal.) Times. INSPIRING. "That composition of yours is truly Wagnerian. Where did you get the idea?" "My boy exploded a giant cracker and a pack of ordinary crackers in my upright piano last Fourth of July.— [Epoch. For Mouliltiir liens* Many people have learned by experience that Sheridan's Condition Powder given once daily in the food, will supply the needed material to strengthen and invigorate sick chickens or moulting hens and get the young pullets to lajinjj earlier than any thing else on earth. Mrs. Edwin Brown, East Greenwich, It. 1., says; "I could not do without Sheridan's Condition Powder when hens are moulting. I use it when chickens are small as they often droop and die young. To a pint of clabbered milk, I add a teaspoonful of the Powder, mix \yell and let the chicks eat all they will once ft day, it does seem to be just what need; they soon become vigorous." I. S. Johnson & Co., Boston, Mass., will send further par ticulars to anyone free. It costs $28.47 per year to educate each pupil in the Boston public schools. GRATIFYING TO ALL. The high position atta'ned and the universal ; acceptance and approval of the pleasant liquid j fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs, as the most excel- . lent laxative known, illustrate the value of the j qualities on which its success is based and are , abundantly gratifying to the California Fig Syrup Company. Heat and drought have caused much suffer ing in Spain. Children Tease For If. Dr. Hoxsie's Certain Croup Cure Is a boort 10 children who are attacked with croup or icute conirestive cold*. Sold bv druggists or mailed on receipt of 5'J cts. Address A. P. Hankie. Buffalo. N. Y. The earth is grndu&lly growing larger from the faff of meteoric matter. Ball's Catarrh Cure la a liquid and is taken internally, and acts directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. Sold by lirugnists, 75c. Jf. J. Chkxky & Co., Proprs., Toledo, O. The lightest barbed wire averages sixteen feet to the pound. FITC slopped froe by Dr. Kliwe's C k BAT Nerve Kjcstoiuui. No fits after lirst day's uso. Marvelous cures. Treatise and *2 trial bottle free. Dr. Kline. 901 Arch St.. Phila_ Pa. During the past year over 22,000 persons visited the birthplace of Shakespeare. 08(5. How is Your Appetite. s. s. s. aids digestion I makes you enjoy what you eat and cures you of dyspepsia. If it is not good j you need a tonic. Hunger is a sauce that gives your food a flesh-making and j strengthening pow- < er. S. S. S. is fa- j mous for its health j giving and building j up qualities. It is the best of all tonics, j TREATISE ON BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES MAILED FREE. THE SWtFT SPECIFIC CO .. Atlanta. Ca. S Allays l*n iii 'h nd"l iillniiiiiiat ion, U ;isfiS^ C^E the Borea, KrntorrH Tusli' anil Smell, and cvl i hi lll ji , ipg iw i ß i , il tD 'NHt/g>j ® JB fc! i,;: ' ••*' **** "fiti w HT . m Gives Belief at once for Gold in Head. Apply into the Xottrile. It it Quickly A bxorbed. |l*me,ybeh-ue wheJ-some men say. be t-ruen say." * ll"js exsolid caß'eop%counns£ soap— For many years SAPOLIO has stood as the finest and j best article of this kind in the world. It knows no equal, | and, although it costs a trifle more its durability makes it | outlast two cakes of cheap makes. It is therefore the cheapest in the end. Any grocer will supply it at a reasonable price. Jr '"""""in 1 """ V" 'Kb" Tuli. mi other ktnil. Hefnte tyS !:' "V"' 1 ': r " F .r— r * ie ".. rs > w.ltmouliiU, .nil "It I'ifi'V to, 1.,1|,..," i n utter, h. rrlurn MiilV ~v fj CHICHI.-™. CI.ICUCO„ M., r "" r...Ut. I'I'II..VII 1.1.1'1' | v,'|"A. |E.raa>B W3v W.liln C oii, It. f". "Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Lat* Principal t. S. Penolon RursntL 3ti-s In laf wr Ifiadludicnflnr elatm* attv sine* II AV CCUCD CURED T0 STAY CURED. IIH ■ |LVL UWe want the name an<l ad dress of every sufferer in the Q ACTUM AU. S. and Canada. Address, \X HO I I" 111 H P. Harold Hayaa.M.D , Buffalo, N.T. DU... , 'The Future Gre*t. '' Never "PI Tl T\ TTI ueforj has the futurerent- I Imb nessof ayouug city oeeuso J J J LI apparent and assured. All 111 n Mutes have their iui'Kect;- I 111 I**", and Pierre is the Cap - . litis tai und the Commcrcia — ™_ Metropolis of the New State, South Dakota. lK<iurantee my patrons a profit. Good Itesldenc • Lots each. Write for partie ulars ami references. i HAS. 1,. llYOlf, In \ est mniit Hi ok -i, I'lrere. *oiit'i llnkntn. BEST ZS BROOM HOLBER. In tho iOA Holds a broom either enil WorlchT 1 baU!J>le ' l)st|ialil. ENgI.K GUN ( itakon. CANVASSERS WANTED. BAKU! Alia BOASTER. T.ntest Improved and most perfect i .Ti. K oi'ii ~i* ,v. There's danger in a cough more than ever when your blood is "bad." It makes things easy for Consumption. But there's a cure for it in Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. A posi | tive cure not only for Weak I Lungs, Spitting of Blood, Bron chitis, Asthma and all lingering Coughs, but for Consumption itself in all its earlier stages. It's rea sonable. All these diseases depend on tainted blood. Consumption is simply Lung - scrofula. And for every form of scrofula and blood taint, the " Discovery " is a certain remedy. It's so certain, that its makers guarantee it to benefit or cure, in every ease, or the money is refunded. With a medicine that n certain, this can be done. There's a cure for Catarrh, too, no matter what you've been led to believe. If there isn't, in your case, you'll get SSOO cash. It's a bona fide offer that's made by the pro | prietors of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. There's risk in it, to be sure, but they arc willing to take the risk you ought to be glad to take the medicine. PATEWTS^'^Wft " V 10-outre boak frcn. PBIVBIOIVS Dae nil NOLDIEBSI M dlaaßled tl fee for increase. 'XS years ex perience. Write (or I.awn. A.W. MCCORMICK I SONH. WAHIIINUTON. I). C. A CINCINNATI. O. j POULTRY PP. o .';, :.™ " V • (ft l/fl E/ AERVOUS, WRETCHED mortals get we " * n(l kppp wel) - Health Help* tolls how. 50 eta, a year. Sample CODS I *ee. I)r. J. 11. DYE. Editor. Buffalo. N. V. 01 G l'ACil<l HOOK, the sini]ilost and fairest /IN ovup written on the tariff question, for I Vfo UiU St;iii.|.s, . I'. CO.. |r> Ymull-water St.. N. Y. All AnorT En at TrnnrM-f's FINE HII CLI II ATE nnrl CURAT UEKOCUOKS m fijt ■■ KNOXYILLE SENTINEL; daily 1 mo., | —* —-1 Oc.; weekly 1 year, !1; samples sc. GRASS SEEDS. We PI CAN Clover mid (II IIH* Srrdu, taking .....bLCAn (U i Hit- WEED SEEDS by new methods tour own Ji.vt iiDou). 11 yen WANT I'LltK I J-UKBH {•i-idf, write J< i tree tampler, wJtn prices and < irculnr. t#' CL2 Ili IN mil f>t will not ai>pfai ayain. j Whitney-NoyeM to ceil < 0.. BINUHAMTON. *N. Y. < Gained 44 Pounds. ( Mr. James J. McCaUey, of / Monet, Mo., says bo had J dyspepsia for eight yeara, ( which made him a wreck, ; sick and suffering during S the whole time. After try <j ing all the remedies, Includ- S ing all the doctors in reach, s ho discarded everything and c took Swift's Specific. Ha S increased from 114 to 156 c pounds and was soon a ) sound and healthy man. Ue-i M f J) % "MY WORK SHALL BE PERPETUATED." Tim perpetuation of .Mrs. Plnkhnni's work ni gnuriltul t>y her foresight from ttio start. Every 011 liiTi ni? woman api)lvim;io lierrct'i'lvcd personal attention. and the details of overv case were re. corded. These records are to .lav the largest in tlio world, contain facts not tdund elsewhere, now open to ull women. LYDiA L PINKHIWS Compound is the ojily Legitimate and Positive Remedy for those peculiar weaknesses and ailtuenis incident to women. IT . tonh. " flutdc to Una Pttqattlft" V—J& bmitilrulli lllatrattl, %rn! no refrl|>luMw< fie. | Lytfla E. Plnkham Mod. Co.. I.vnn. M*m.
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