a Choice Occupation. They were making out the dance list for a prospective ball and were put ting down lancers, waltzes, two-steps, etc., when they were interrupted. "What are you doing?" said the new comer. "Don't you see?" replied the wit of the family. "Picking hops."—North American. Even Worse than Death. '"Why are the Dashleigh girls In mourning?" "An uncle of theirs was accepted as I juror last week." Oh, What Bplendid Coffee. Mr. Goodman, Williams Co., 111., tvrites: "From one package Salzer's German Coffee Berry costing -5c I grew 800 lbs. of better coffee than I can buy in stores at 30 cents alb." A. C. 6. A package of this coffee and big seed and plant catalogue is sent you by John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., upon receipt of 15 cents stamps •and this notice. Poor Baby Will not strangle and die with Croup if Hox ie'B C. C. C. is used No opium to stupefy, no Ipecac to nauseate. 50 cents. Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day's use o.* Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. %i trial bottle and treatise free Dk. R. H. Kllnjc. Ltd.. U3l Arch St..Pkila..Pa. The rate of the growth of human hair varies, in some cases it has been tanown to exceed two inches per month. The average for man and woman is •about half an inch every 30 days. To Cure A Gold In One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablet*. AH Oruggißta refund money If it fails to cure. S6o. The cat was considered a sacred ani mal by the ancient inhabitants of Hell opolis, Egypt. When one of these ani mals died in a private residence, the occupants shaved off their eyebrows. Chew Star Tobacco—Tho Best. Smoke Sledge Cigarettes. Great Britain has 135,000 Illiterate voters. Blood Humors Spring is the Cleansing Season- Don't Neglect Your Health You Neod to Take Hood's Sarsa parilla Now Spring is tho soason for cleansing and renewing. Everywhere accumulations ol waste are boing removed and preparations for tho new life of another season are being made. Thi9 19 tho time for oleansing your blood with Hood's Sarsaparilla. Winter has left tho blood impure. Spring Humors, Boils, pimples, eruptions, and that tired feeling are the results. Ilood's Sarsaparilla expels all impurities from the blood and makes it rich and nourishing. It builds up the nervous system, creates on appetite, gives sweet, refreshing sleep and cenewod energy and vigor. It cures all spring humors, boils, pimples, eruptions. Hood's parilla fs America's Greatest Medicine. $1; six for $5, Prepared by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. Hnnrl'r - Stephen*, wl 899 IVI Dept. A, Lebanon, Ohio. ■OT Ladies Wanted. TO Til AYHI.for old established house. Ternjanent position S4O par month and all expenses P.W.ZIEOLEK 4 CO.. 3U Locust 4t.. Philadelphia. PENSIONS, PATENTS, CLAIMS. 8 jrre. in last war, 15 adjudicating slain*, utj. einou TALKING MACHINES, lllustratetfciruulars address Talking Machine Co., Syracuse, N. Y. PAINTS WALLSCEILINGS £ CALCIMO FRESCO TINTS I FOB OECOBATING WALLS AND CEILINGS 'nreiinso a package of H grocr or paiut dealer and do your own kal- UALwImU eomillin*' I Thie material ie made on scientific principles by machinery and milled I in twenty-four tints and is superior to any concoction of Glue and Whit- I ing that can possibly be made by band. To BB lirxsn WITH COLD WATER M ar*E.\D FOB NAMFLE COLOR CARD* and if you cannot |$ purchase this material from your looai dealers let us know and we will 9 put you in the way of obtaining it. |j| 9 THJB MCRALO CO., ft'EW BRIGHTON, S. 1., NEW YORK. | " Don't Put Off Till To-morrow the Duties of To-Day." Buy a Cake of SAPOLIO One Woman'* Way. Mrs. Skinner—Oh, but I wish I was a man. Mr. Skinner—"Why so, my dear? Mrs. Skinner—l was just thinking to day If I was only a man, how happy I could make my wife by giving her a diamond necklace for a birthday pres ent. The Proper Way to Do. Brown—How is your friend Green getting along in the grocery business? White—He's not making his salt. Brown—Why, what's the trouble? (Vhlte —Oh, nothing; he buys it. Xiao or Pronunciation. It is always diverting to watch how a wave of small intellectual reform will from time to time sweep over a "set" or a community, or, Indeed, an entire locality, says the New York Sun. II is so catching, so inevitable. Every body goes down before It. Anything novel or out of the way in expression Is the popular Infection just now. Foi example "half after four" instead ol "half past four," "keen" for "quick" or "eager" and "delectable" for any thing from "nice" to "just too perfectly lovely for anything." This fashion has, however, less to commend It that It is not so much a tribute to good English as to silly Americans—namely, the An gloinanlacs. Pronunciation affords a fine instance of the way that women nil follow suil like u row ol bricks or a flock of Sheep ; or auytldng else that symbolizes liar mony ami accord. Jus* let a club presi dent or any acknowledged leader start in by saying appendicytls or co-quetry, or anything else foreign to the appen diceetls, or coquetry that they have all been saying for so many years, and presto! the sleight-of-hand man couldn't make quicker work of it. All this isn't saying that it isn't highly laudable and well intpntloned. Like everything else culture Itself has to have a start, and not unlike everything else it's apt to be funny while It's so refreshingly new. r.ven none inon Peatn, Jack Potts—What will you charge to make a good stout poker trunk? Trunkmaker—What do you mean by "poker" trunk? Jack Potts—One that holds four trays. It is often a hard matter to convince a brass band that it isn't the entire pro cession. There 1e mor* Catarrh in tills section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until thelaat few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronouneod it In curable. Science has proven catarrh to he a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional troatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in dosos from 10 drops to a teaspoouful. It acts directly on tile blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case It fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi monials. Address F.J. OHBNEY& Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75e. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Mrs. Win slow's Soothing Svrvn for ahiMren toe thing. softens the gums,reducing inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. afcxa botal-t, Aftor physicians had given me up, I was saved by Piso's Cure.— Ralph Ebieo, Wil liamsport, Pu., Nov. —. 1810. STORIES OF RELIEF. Two Lettera to Mrs. Pinkham. Mrs. JOHN WILLIAMS, Englishtown. N. J., writes: " Beau Mrs. Pinkham:—l cannot be gin to tell you how I suffered before taking your remedies. I was so weak that I couldliardly walk across the floor without falling. I had womb trouble and such a bearing-down feeling ; nlsc suffered with my back and limbs, pain in womb, inflammation of the bladder, piles and indigestion. Before I had taken one bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I felt a great deal better, and after taking two and one half bottles and half a box of your Liver Pills I was cured. If more would take your medicine they would not have to suffer so much." Mrs. Joseph Peterson, 513 East St., Warren, Pa., writes: "Dear Mrs. Pinkham: —l have suf fered with womb trouble over fifteen years. I had inflammation, enlarge ment and displacement of the womb. I had the backache constantly, also headache, and was so dizzy. I had heart trouble, it seemed as though my heart was in my throat at times chok ing me. I could not walk around and I could not lie down, for then my heart would beat so fast I would feel as though I was smothering. I had to sit up in bed nights in order to breathe. I was so weak I conld not do any thing. "I have new taken several bot tles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and used three pack ages of Sanative Wash, and can say I am perfectly cured. Ido not think I could have lived long if Mrs. Pink ham's medicine had not helped me." The American Girt'. Newest Aceent. The fashionable accent, says Dem orest's Family Magazine, is another important matter to be considered by the maid who desires to seem one of the society elect. She must avoid a lisp unless she wishes to brand her self a half century behind the times. The broad "a" of the Anglomaniao has also seen its best days. 'The Southern drawl, with its apparent indifference to the existence of the average flnal syllable, is threadbare. To be up to date from a vocal point of view it is necessary to cultivate a soft, low voice, an enunciation so distinct that occasionally you convey the impres sion that the capital letter is at the end of the word, and a certain vivaoity of utterance that, throughout Europe, is associated withHhe niodera Ameri can girl, A Modern Diana. Mrs. J. Bennett Stanford, a hand- Borne young English woman, is the modern Diana. In company with her husband she was the first white wo man who ever hunted in Somaliland, that rough and comparatively unex plored region in eastern Africa. Rhinoceroses, tigers, leopards and other denizens of the jungle and forest received their death wounds from the steady but sure aim of her rifle. She was the most successful in shooting leopards. Nightly she was on the search for them, attended by two or more natives, and seldom retnrned to camp without atrophy ol her prowess. With the exception of some slight attacks of fever Mrs. Stanford bore the trying climate—deadly to many men—without any particular discom fort. Among the animals brought hack by this intrepid married couple were three wildcats, one of which is now in the London Zoo. But the skins of many strange beasts adorn the parlors and boudoir of this heroine's home, and every one of them recalls to her a tale of wild adventure. When Using Perfumes. The use of perfumery is now sub ject to certain well-deftued limitations. Strong scents of all kinds are under tho ban and are no longer represented among fashionable toilet accessories. Cologne, whether dilated or in the ex tract, must be sprayed upon the cloth ing with an atomizer to avoid all pos sibility of excessive odor—a fact which, it must be remembered, is less likely to be nppnrent to the ofl'eudor than to any one else. Sachet powder has almost entirely superseded all other varieties of per j fumery, it being at once delicate and fragrant, while possessing many dis tinct practical advantages over the liquid perfumes. The fashionable modiste now sprinkles it liberally on a thin sheet of wadding, which latter is inserted between the two surfaces of collar and enffs, under the arms, in , sleeve puffs and skirt hems. | Violet is the fashionable odor with i the preference strongly in favor of the Russian and Parma varieties. Helio trope, rose, lilac and patchouli xemain in constant demand, though only the first of these can lay claim to fashiona ble indorsement.—American Quees. Smart Fashions In Tea.gowns. | The blousy effect follows even the tea-gown, and where a full, Russian front is inserted of soft material, it is , asually bloused slightly, quite low at the waistline in the front, being held in place with ribbon or a belt of jewels running across the front only, i Many of the tea-gowns have long stole ends that reach quite to the bottom of j the skirt, and may be of lace, chiffon, net or of the material employed in tho gown, trimmod with ruchiugs, in sertions or tiny silk ruffles running across the stole and placed at intervals the entire length of this telling feature of the gown. They may be held at the shoulders with rosettes or bows of satin ribbon, or they may bo set in at the shoulder-seam. In some gowns i where this is the principal trimming they start from the back ut the bottom of the waist-line, crossing the sliould j ers, where they ore held in place with a full bow, and from there fall graee t fully to the lower edge of the skirt. i When used this way they are generally made of chiffon, wide ribbon or the half width of some soft silk, and are laid in soft, flat folds in the back and tacked to the gown in the back, then hung loose in the front from , the shoulder. I The latest tea-gown has a demi traiu, which adds much to the grace and elegance of the garment, as well as keeping the pace of the fashionable dress-skirt. Woman's Home Com panion. The Worklng-Girlg' Great Chance. I "The average home holds out a far more comfortable time, a more leisure ly life, a healthier existence, and bet ■ ter wages, than does the office, store or factory to an intelligent girl or wo ! man," writes Edward W. Bok of "The j Working-Girl's Great Chance," in the , Ladies' Home Journal. "The same t time devoted, for example, to the i'study of shorthand or typewriting, if I given to the study of nursing or do , mestie service, would mean twice the income to a bright, steady girl. Un fortunately, girls will not see this, and thousands of them who are to-day struggling through an existence in the outer world, could have far more com fortable lives and better wages in ex cellent homes. How the average girl can deliberately shut her eyes to the opportunity which fairly glares upon her as a good maid, nurse, companion or domestic of any sort, passes aver age comprehension. There has never been a time when mistresses were readier or more willing to pay good wages for good domestic service wages compared to which the pittance paid in shops or factories sinks into insignificance. And, on the other hand, the salaries of women in busi ness, as recent statistics plainly show, are gradually on the decrease because of the willingness of hundreds of girl, to work for a mere pittauce. Every business house has to day waiting lists of scores of hundreds of applicants, while hundreds of homes cry out for intelligent domestic service." Gossip. Mrs. Lease is going into business iu Kansas as a life insurance agent. Miss Moran, of Richmond, Va., de nies she is engaged to Count Colonna, of Paris. A prominent New York woman has gone into the business of designing dresses for actresses. The Earl of Uxbridge gave to his bride, who was the Hon. Lilian Flor ence Maud Chetwynn, fifty-seven wed ding presents, among which was a jewelled cigarette case. Mrs. Steel, the novelist, has been invited to stand for election as Presi dent of the Women Writers' Club of London in succession to Mrs. J. R. Green, who has held that office for a year. The Daughters of Vermont foTm one of the most flourishing of the wo men's patriotic organizations in New England. A few afternoons ago the society gave a reception at the Ven dome, Boston, at which Boston society was well represented. Miss Ellen Terry can never sleep during the day unless she is read aloud to; and her girl friends take turns at this every afternoon during her long engagement in order that her health may not suffer from the nerve fatigue occasioned by the work. The Empress of Austria goes about a good deal on foot in Paris with the ex-Queen of Naples. All her luggage is a trunk—and not a large one, either —a valise, some wraps and a handbag. She dresses plainly in black and cats as sparingly as n Carmelite nun. The wife of Sir William Vernon Harconrt is an American, the daughter of Motley, the historian. Although she takes great interest iu politics, like most of the wives of English states, men, she appears on the platform rarely. It is said that Bho does much for her husband in the drawing room. Miss Edna Johnson of Maeon, Mo., announces in the local papers and by widely distributed circulars tbat sho will be an independent candidate for Cirouit Clerk of Macon County. She is teaching sohool. She is twenty two years old, pretty and accom plished. Seven men are announced for Circuit Clerk, subject to the Dem ocratio nomination. Lena Read is a court stenographer in Torre Haute, lud. She recently took the minutes of an important suit, then refused to typewrite them on the ground that she wns to be married, and did not have time. To solve the difficulty, a phouograph was procured, and she read the notes into that. Fifty cylinders were made, and when the cases comes up for a new trial they will be used as a record. It turns out that it was not Alma Tademu, the pninter, who was natural ized in England a few weeks ago, liut his daughter. His name was original ly Laurens Tadema. Ho added the Alma for euphony, and changed Lanrens to Lawronce, and was natural ized in 1873. His danghter bears tha same name and signs her poems L. Alma-Tadcma, as hor father doe 3 his pictures. Hence the confusion. Fashion Notes. The new ribbons are in plaids and stripes in the prettiest colors imagina ble. White velvet, as well as white breitschwanz, is used for the crown of the far-trimmed toque. The latest ties for women are the sailor knots of silk with broad ends, sometimes trimmed with tiny plaited frills. "Wylborye" is the name of a now corset which is recommended for stout women. An extra piece laces over the hip in such au effectual manner that the figure is very much improved. Roman striped sashes with deep knotted sewing silk fringe on the ends are revived again in all the gorgeous colors, and the latost necktie is of Roman ribbon, tied in a four-in-hand knot with tiny fringe-trimmed ends. Blue ostrich feathers sprinkled with silver are a pretty decoration for the hair with evening dress. Other novelties are the Louis Seize bows of velvet ribbon combined with aigrettes. Twists of chiffon and gold gauze rib bon are also worn. Every other woman is faithfully wearing beads about her throat, whether wax pearls, the truly Venetian glass beads or collars of genuine gems, it makes very little difference. Those who can afford to follow the fashion closest wear close-fitting necklaces of medium pink or clear red eoral balls, in the centre of each of which is placed a diamond. FIELDS OF ADVENTURE. THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DARINC DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA. A Clone Call—Ni|> anil Tuck Betvreen Two Minora and a Mountain Lion—An In dian Girl's During Hide—A Long Coast and a Cold I'lunge liy a Bicyclist. A number of sportsmen were re cently talking over the good times they had had duck shooting last fall, when the conversation turnedoll hunt ing big game in the West. Some thrilling adventure was related by every one in the group but an elderly man, and he in turn was asked for 0 story. "I don't suppose," began the silenl man, "that any of you young fellow*- ever ran across a mountain lion, a? they are becoming rather scarce now in the West. But early in the fifties, when I first went to Colorado to hunt for gold, these animals were quite numerous. I recall on one occasion having a little adventure with a lion that almost scared me out of my wits. With a partner I was working a claim in the mountains near Ouray, and one day before the very cold weather of the winter set in we both wenttotewn to get some supplies, leaving our little cabin on the mountain side alone. "It came on to snow so hard soon after we arrived in Ouray that we did not get a chance to return to our claim for three days. 011 our return journey we noticed as we were climb ing the liilla the tracks of a mountain lion leading toward our cabin. Pres ently, however, as we got nearer and nearer to our little home, we lost the track of the animal, and the sight of an open window, which had been care fully closed on our departure for town, caused us to forget all about the lion and its presence. "Well, I had reached the window and was just about to put my head into the apartment when there came a ter rible grow) and the next instant a great yellow body sprang through the open ing right 01} my back, its claws catch ing my buckskin coat and ripping it opon to my waist, turning hie com pletely over and into the snow. My parner took the dangerous situation in at a glance and whipped out his gun. Then the infernal lion turned on him, making a fearful loap in his direction. Before he the infuriated beast was upon him, and, seizing him by the slack of his coat, shook him as though he were but a rat. I was 011 my feet by this time, and drawiug my revolver, I sneaked up and put a bul let right through his head. The ani mal groaned and fell back dead and my partner drew his breath freely once more. It was a close call, but neither of us was hurt, and the lion's skin in | another week was serving as a rug at ( the foot of my bunk." An Indian Girl's Daring Hide. An Indian romance which almost rivals that of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith comes from Pine Ridge Agency. William Jacobson, a young | fellow in charge of one of the classes j at Carlisle, eloped with Julia Beallard, an intelligent quarter-bred Sioux. The j couple rode from Tine Ridge to Chad ! Ron, Neb., on their ponies during the I n if?kt, pursued by the girl's relatives 1 all the way. They arrived in Chadron j in the gray dawn of the morning, j thoroughly exhausted, and at once proceed to secure a license. Then, j in the presence of friends of the bride, they were made man and wife. The couple met about two years ago at Carlisle, where the young woman was attending a private seminary, and 1 became enamored of each other. They j became engaged, when the girl re ceived a letter ordering her home to Pine Ridge. The young couple kept up a correspondence, fearing that their attachment would become known to the parents of the girl, who were very much opposed to her forming an alliance with other than a thoroughbred Sioux. A letter to the girl was finally inter cepted by a young Sioux admirer and laid before the mother. Thereafter not a letter was permitted. Becomiug ; alarmed at not receiving an answer, | Jacobson decided to go to Nebraska and investigate. Upon arriving at the I ugency he contrived a secret interview I with the girl and arranged an elope , ment. | One dark night the girl stole forth, I and procuring a saddle horse from the j corral, slipped a halter over his head i and led him to the outskirts of the In dian village, where she was met by her lover in a lonely canon, near the liis j toric battle ground of Wounded Knee, j Mounting their ponies, they started on their journey to Chadron. 'The echoes j of the hoof-beats awakened the village, | and a thirty-mile chnse was begun over j the roughest country this side of the j Rockies. The journey was dangerous and hazardous. The road at times I winds around precipices and rugged cliffs and through rough canons, where j a misstep might plunge the riders into j eternity. For four hours they rode 011 their ponies, expecting at every mo ment to hear the cry of their pursu ers. When the lights of Chadron ap peared in view the pursuing party in creased their pace, hoping to overtake the fleeing couple before they entered the city. They failed in this attempt, however, and the lovers managed to elude them. A Train-Hobblng Story. Tlio drummer had just finished read ing a story of a train hold-up and let his newspaper fall into his lap. "I had a-rather romantic experience once with train robbers," he said, "which I think I won't ever forget. I had been laid up sick for a week at a tavern in a Kansas town and my at tendant hnd been a vory sweet and gentle girl, who wns a relative of the landlord's. She was such a nice girl that I was in no linrry to get well, and while I was putting it off all I copld I wns as industriously putting on the chains of love. At the end of ten days *391 I was able to take up my sample case i again, and when I left the town my J gentle nurse was on the same train, in my charge, bound for Kansas City, where she was to be met by friends. I had never talked love to her, and I fancy she didn't suspect me of any- I thing except a desire to flirt a little, ! but I had made up my mind to talk j seriously to her before I let her friends take her away from me. "I fooled along, as most men di under the same circumstances, wait- . iug for a real good chance to come in, 1 but before I reached the proper con dition the train came to a sudden stop in a lonely place, and by the time we had asked what the trouble was a half masked train robber stood in the aisle of the car with a revolver covering the contents. The girl turned as white as a sheet and I thought she would faint, ' but I told her she wouldn't be hurt, I and she sat there staring as if she had j turned stone. As it happened, I kept 1 my {wits, and when a shot and a shout rose on the air on the out side and attracted the robber's atten tion for a moment, I whipped my re volver oht of my overcoat pocket and would have got him sure, but as I brought the gun around the girl at my side caught my arm and stopped me. ! I looked at her in amazement. " 'Don't,'shegasped,'it'smy father,' | and then she fell in a faint, while the robber hurried out in response to the j calls from his partners. "As for me," concluded the drum- I mer, "X thought probably it would be j just as well for me not to add to the poor girl's troubles by trying to get into her family." Took a Long Const and a Lucky rianje, George Maybury, the son of a farmer near Old Bridge, N. J., bought a bicycle the other day and went for a , spin along the New Brunswick turn pike. At the Old Bridge ond is one of the worst hills in New Jersey. It starts at the hamlet of Summer HiU and finishes in the heart of Old Bridge"* a mile away by the read, but consider ably less in tpjjur line, George had neveTtrfed coasting, but had spine sort of an idea that it would save time if he let the pedals alone. So at Summer Hill he took his feet from the pedals and the wheel did the rest, At first everything went well. Half way down the hill the road makes a sudden turn and around this George went at a speed that would have made Michael green with envy. A couple of wagons were coming up the hill but got rapidly out of the way when they heard Mayburv's hysterical bell. The young man's hat had gone and his hair was making desperate efforts to follow it. At the foot of the hill are the tracks of the Camden and Amboy Itailroad. There was a train only a few hundred feet from the crossing as Maybury ap proached, but the farmer boy was going at a rate of speed never at tempted by a Camden and Amboy locomotive, and the agony was over before the train reached the crossing. From the railroad the road slopes gradually down to the bank of South Kiver, where it turns and follows the river's course. Maybury was past thinking. All he could do was to shut his eyes and cling desperately to the handles. Straight on to the river he went. The wheel enught in a heap of brush and stopped short. Maybury didn't stop. He went straight on over his handle bars and took a neat header into the icy waters of the river. Like a true wheelman the first thing George did after he climbed up the bank was to look after his machine. There wasn't a thing broken. "Thank Heaven!" said George. Afterward Tlicro Was Light. An old farmer, well known for his miserly habits, in order to save the candles, was in the habit of giving the farm hands their supper in semi-dark ness. The laborers at first grumbled at this, but the farmer took 110 notice. Things went on in much the same way for some little time,till the farmer had occasion to hire another farmhand named Tarn S . Tam, who was well known to some of the other laborers as a wild and reckless sort of character, and always ready for mischief, was informed as to how matters stood, and Tam vowed ho would alter thiugs somehow. That night at supper, which con sisted of porridge, Tam took his seat on the righthaml side of the farmer, and, wntehiug his opportunity,quickly plunged a spoonful of the hot porridge into the farmer's mouth. The farmer jumped up, with a roar of agony, and demanded an explanation. "Weel, fairmer," replied Tam, "it's sac daurk Ah oouldna tell whnur Ah was pittiu'them; Ah thocht it was i' ma aiu mooth."—London Telegraph. A Marvelous Machine. A machine has been invented which 13 composed of exquisitely grad uated wheels, running a tiny dia mond point at the end of an almost equally tiny arm, whereby one is able to write upon glass the whole of the Lord's pruyer within a space which measured the 294 th part of an inch in length by the 440 th part of an inch in breadth, or about the measurement of the dot over the letter "I" in common print, snys the Philadelphia Record. With this machine any one who under stood operating it could write the whole 3,550,480 letters of the Bible eight times over the space of an inch —a square inch. A specimen of this marvelous microscopic writing enlarged by photography, and every letter and point was perfect, and could be read with ease. Report by I'lionoirrupb. A municipal council in France lias ordered its proceedings to be reported by phonograph. Should the expedieut prove successful, shorthand writing will be dispensed with. IVo. 088. if I—, This hlpVy Pol- H ishedsoli lonks- Q _ _ X---, drawer Chiffon- |f J f \ :, T measures 54 12 I iuclies high, 3J ■ ' ii.ches wide, ]9 N j Eacii drawer is ■ . £•' furnished with ■ --.-.-•J the beat locks, | Fl-J' •• Hr $3.39 „ i i If buys this exact I .. piece of furni ' tails for fts.OO. (Order now and avoid disappointment.) Drop a postal for our lithographed Ciirpet Catalogue which shows all colors with exact distinctness. 1 f carpet sam ples are wanted, mail us fcc. in stamps. Why pay your local dealer 60 per cent, tnore than our prices when you can buy of the mill? The grout household educa tor—our new 112 page special catalogue of Furniture. Draperies, Lamps. Stoves, Crockery, Mirrors, Pictures, Bedding, Refrigerators, Uaby Curriuges is also yours for the asking Again we ask, why enrich your local dealer when you can buy of the maker? Both cata logues cost you nothing, and we pay all postage. Julius Hines&Son BALTIMORE, MD. Please Mention This Paper, Lookiu, Backward. "You must feel very happy In thl lovely cottage you call your own?" "How can I when I think of my fam ily that owned an estate of thousands of acres, with a castle and a whole reg iment of servants?" "Why, when did they lose It?" "During the eleventh century."— Brooklyn Life. A writer says that brains will tell. Sometimes they do, and sometimes It Is brains that keeps a man from telling. SITTING DHURNA IN INDIA. The Malirntta Method of Settling ■-.JSSKjv - ***'""'"""* "* ■ 1 Many queer stories ape told of tin persistence and clever devices of thn collectors of bad debts; but even a pro fessional humorist would find It bard to Invent anything more absurd than the method actually In use among tha Mahrattas—at least, If travelers' tale# are to be trusted. In that country—so they say—When a creditor cannot get his money and begins to regard the debt as desper ate, he proceeds to git "dhurna" upon Ills debtor, that Is, he squats down at the door of his vlctigi's tent, anil there by, In some mysterious way" become® master of the situation. No one can go in or out except by his sanction. Ha neither himself eats nor allows hlfl debtor to eat, and this extraordinary starvation contest is kept up until either the debt is paid or the creditor gives up the siege, and in the latter case the debt is held to be canceled. However strange It may appear to Europeans, this method of enforcing a demand is an established and almost universal usage among the Mahrattas, and seems to them a mere matter of course. Even their "Sclndiali," or chieftain, is not exempt from tt. The laws by which the "dhurna" is regulated are as well defined as those of any other custom whatever. When It is meant to be very strict, the claim ant takes with him a number of his followers, who surround the teat, and sometimes even the bed of his adver sary, to make sure that he obtains no morsel of food. The code, however, prescribes the same abstinence for the man who imposes the ordeal; and, of course, the strongest stomach wins the day. After all, we have little righl to ridicule this absurdity; for our own laws provide, nominally at least, foi starving a jury into a verdict. A similar custom was once so prev alent In the province and city of Be nares that Brahmins wore sometimes systematically put through a courss of training to enable them to endure a long time without food. They wera then sent to the door of some rich per son, where they publicly made a vow to remain fasting until a certain sum of money was paid, or until they per ished from starvation. To cause tha death of a Brahmin was considered so heinous an offense that the cash was generally forthcoming; but never with out a resolute struggle to determine whether the man was likely to prova stanch, for the average Oriental will al most as soon give up his life as bis nioney- Tlie Hotbed. Glass gives more warmth to hotbedJ than any other covering, but where plants are desired to be grown that ar somewhat hardy, such as lettuce 01 early cabbage, a light frame covering rnudc of oiled muslin answers well and is cheap. 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