A MATTER OF DOUBT. I love to read of daring deeds, 1 Of clash and clamoring of war; To learn of one who bravely bleeds, 1 Defending what he's fighting for, But Sonth America is much Too mingled for my mind to hitch— The tangle they are in is such ; X don't know which is fighting which. They're skipping out with treasuries. And blowing public buildings down, 'And every city quakes and sees Some doughty leader's fighting frown. The cable brings the thrilling news Of men who die in some last ditch— To grasp it must my mind refuse— I don't know which is fighting which. The clang of swords, the blustered boast. Are ringing now both night and day; The troiqis are battling on the coast; By sea and land they run away. I wonder if they know the truth. Or if to fight they simply itch. X wonder if they know—forsooth, If they know which is fighting which. —W. D. Nesbit, in Baltimore American. I THE DEAD ALIVE, g Sty A Drama of To-Day §2 My Hubert Cecil. PESI'ITE the lnte hour, lights shone in the library, together with the glow and reflection of a big, cheerful fire. Drawn near (o this was a round oak table cov ered and littered by documents of all descriptions; while beside it with his head resting on his arms, Horace Nor cliffe, banker aud broker, sat soundly sleeping. Outside the casement window, whose curtain had not been lowered, was a face sharp as that of any fox. The email eyes, Intense and glistening, were fixed immovably on the slumbering man, and the slim, dapper body quiv ered with triumphant excitement at the eight. Cautiously inserting a clasp knife blade, he deftly forced up the hasp, then stepped within, closed the window aud dropped the curtain. Gliding noiselessly to the door, he tinned the key in the lock. Presently, however, he shook the banker smartly by tile shoulder. A . disapproving grunt was the only re spouse he received. But a vigorous ] slap on the back brought Horace to ] bis feet with a bound. Staring about him, dazed and bewildered, he finally j perceived the amused intruder, at whom lie gazed long and incredibly. "Who are you?" lie demanded, when | his astonishment permitted. "What do , you want here?" "I answer to Jedrey, and my business here is—well, rather peculiar." ( ; "Then state it quickly and begone," < said Horace sternly, with his hand on , the hell, "unless you wish to he ar- ( rested." "You may ring yourself blue, my . •dear sir," returned Jedrey, "but no one ; will heed you. It lias turned 12, and the servants are all in bed. Besides, ( you would be wise to hear me. A man , of your prominence should always j have a clear character, and not a mere , pretence to one." , "Why, what do you mean?" said Ilor- i aco sharply. j "Mean?" retorted Jedrey. "I mean , to tell your history better even than you know it yourself." • ■ He then sketched the banker's career , in an accurate manner. He told' how ; avhen a susceptible young man lie had , married a woman who, older than him self, afterward proved to he unworthy , of the love he had bestowed upon her , cither before or after he had made her his wife. As lie hud desired to avoid ] the scandal of a divorce he had lel't ] her to seek his fortune in a distant city. ] Reports that came to Him from His old home told of the woman's downfall, disappearance, and finally of her death. . After several years had passed he had met and married his present wife and was enjoying to the full the happiness of perfect love. Much as he regretted to disturb this happiness, the visitor continued, lie was obliged to inform him that his first wife was not dead, but living and anxious to see him. i "Heavens!" exclaimed Horace-, nil apathy vanishing iu sudden dismay. "Alice alive? Alive? But no; impos sible! It is false—hideously false! Be yond tlie slightest doubt she committed, suicide." "Have you ever had absolute proof I that thq buried womaa was actually j youl 1 wife?" * """No, but—" I "Then don't be deluded any longer," declared Jedrey, literally beside him self with glee. "She is no more dead than you are. She has beou craving nil these weary years to see her beloved husband. And, by the way, capital, and plenty of it, is Ibo only thing to , quiet her!" j "If you do not instantly depart," | shouted tlie hanker, clenching ids bands fiercely, "I will kill you -I sivcar it!" "The threat." he said, "is both empty and foolish. However. I will obey your c ommand if you promise to obey tniue. Tlie sole object of this visit, on behalf ol Alice, is money. Money we must have—shall have. The amount, decided upon is 120,000. Do you agree to pay It?" "Twenty thousand pound??" mut tered the banker. "Yes! I agree! But I cannot pay it now, or here." "That is Immaterial," chuckled Jed rey, advancing and unlatching tlie win dow. "Your word and my knowledge are sufficient. Meet mo on the otiier side of the Dennon Arches, two nights hence, after dark. Be sure to bring tlie money. Fail to do so. and Alice herself will call upon your wife!" Shuddering at the appalling menace, Horace fastened the window aud then. silently praying for some -way of es cape, he hastened to unlock the door of the room, to find his wife, clad only in a loose, flimsy dressing gown. She had fainted away. Lifting her tenderly in his arms, he carried her hack to her own room, where he successfully applied restora tives. She had awakened, it seems, in the midst of a dreadful dream. She thought he was in danger, that she might lose him, that they would soon be parted forever. And Horace, with a cruel, aching pain at his heart, realized how prophetic must the dream become. To remain with his wife, should Alice chance to be alive, was utterly out of the question. His conscience and in tegrity, the whole man in him, forbade that. He would prove the dream either true or false, even though the result might break his heart. The next day, therefore, he instructed his vulet to pack Ills portmanteaus, and forward the same to him, directly he sent for them. Then he called on his lawyer, an old college chum. "George," he said, brokenly, gripping his liund, "certain circumstances have arisen which may necessitate my leav iug the country. I shall know definite ly to-morrow night. Everything is hor ribly unreal, as yet. But there, ask me no details, there's a good fellow. Only pledge your word to take this explana tion to my wife. Comfort her, George, in memory of the old days. Let no harm befall her, don't allow her to grieve or fret, settle my affairs for her." And ere the astonished man of law could accept or refuse the trust, Horace bad rushed away. How the intervening hours passed, Horace was never clearly conscious. Tlie appointed time, however, at last drew near, and faint and haggard, he quickly repaired to the place of meet lug, anxious, yet dreading, to learn the worst. Jedrey was already there, and stepped forward from the shadow of one of the arches. "That's right," he said briskly, "I'm glad 1 did not mistake my mau. Brought the money, I suppose." "Why else should I be here?" replied Horace, striving to conceal his trem bling apprehension. "Yet even you ennnot expect me to pay until Alice is . produced alive." "That Is easily done," said Jedrey, keenly enjoying his discomfiture. "Fol low me; it isn't far." Dejected and wretched, with every hope now shattered, Horace trudged mournfully in the wake of his guide. Yet had they thought to look behind, they must have Inevitably detected three figures creeping stealthily after them. Presently a dull patch of light be came visible. It shone from the win dow of a small, square cottage, old and dilapidated, whose door opened readily to the touch. The interior was a combined living and sleeping apartment. A low, filthy bed occupied one corner. In a chair at the side sat, or rather swayed, a woman truly indescribable. Coarse matted hair hung dauky about her head and shoulders. Her features, clean and washed, must have been more than repellant; but, black, grimy, bloated, grinning, they presented an ap pearance shocking and repulsive iu the extreme. "Hello, Horry, old boy," she cried, "how are you? Come, give us a kiss, dearie! What! Is my cherub shy? Ha! ha! ha! Thru let me give you one 1" The banker surveyed ber silently, dumbly, blankly. There had been no deception, no trickery. "Are you satisfied yet?" queried Jed rey, sardonically. "Perliups you would like stlU'further proof. Alice," he com manded, turning to her, "show him your marriage certificate." "Ha, ha, ha!" giggled Alice, fumbling among the folds of her tattered dress. "Proof does he want, eh? Pretends not to know his loving wlfey, does lie,? Bee," siie added, drawing forth a crumpled document, and lurching to ward him with it; "there you are, dearie, in black and white'." Suddenly, however, the door flew wide back, and George Glimmell, dart ing inside, hastily snatched the paper and scanned it^tagerly. "Hurrah!" lie shouted, throwing nside the drunken woman, who ■ stumhlad.across the lied and passively lay there, half sobered by surprise. ' -As I imagined! before slie met you! j Mixed the Officer, officer, I catch that, muni Ijulck; don't let him I escape! That's i(; slip the jingles on him! Horace," li > continued, shaking | his hand excitedly, "you're a fool! Don't you comprehend, man? Jedrey's her husband—her ileal and first one! And Lucy's your wife—your second aud true :ceT'- ~Ycw York News. 1 The Pay Authors Receive*ln Japan. Japanese authors receive little I'A.v I for work in their own country that a I native writer says there is no hope j for any remarkable Japanese work to he produced. A Japanese man of let ters, in order.to live in bare comfort, • lias to produce at least four or live long volumes a year, and it is seldom ' he receives as much as two hundred ' dollars for a voluminous novel. In or der io live decently he must enrn at least seven hundred dollars a year. It will he seen from these figures that he t can scarcely be expected to do any fine work at that rate of production. • The only professional Japanese author - in America at present is Onoto Wa j tanna. .Miss Watanna's striking sue f cess in this country ought to encourage s other Japanese novelists to learn Eng • lisli and come to America.—Harper's. Of those sentenced by English courts . as habitual drunkards more than one . ! third are women. WgteriLE rr\- : W/orh Japanese auctions are conducted on the silent plan. Each bidder writes his name and bid upon a slip of paper, which he places in a box. When the bidding is over the box is opened by the auctioneer and the goods are de clared the property ot the highest bid der. Dooiey, a dog owned by a St. Louis woman, travels on a Pullman pass. The dog recently rode from New York City to St. Louis, with stop-over privi leges at Atlantic City and Hot Springs, Va., on the same style of pass that furnished transportation for his mis tress and her husband. The pass bore the name "Mr. Dooiey." An old Spanish war ship has been lately discovered 200 feet under water off Messina. She was probably sunk in some naval engagement in the sev enteenth century. Six guns were re covered, including two sister guns, seven feet long, bearing, under the royal escutcheon of Spain, the date 1032. According to tradition among the old villagers, the ground on the west shore of Canarsie Landing, New York, upon which stands to-day a stone, shingle covered farmhouse, was bought by "old man Schenek"—pronounced Skank by the natives—for a small quantity of schnapps from the Canarsie tribe of Indians. This house is said to be more than 200 years old. and the deed for the ground on which it stands was scribbled on a clam shell, which shell, according to the same tradition, is now In a museum in Washington. Curious marriage customs certainly prevail in China. Thus, a charming lady was not long ago married with great pomp to a red flower-vase, rep resenting a deceased bridegroom who died a few days before bis wedding. His Inconsolable betrothed declared that she would never marry any one else, but would devote herself as a widow to the dead man's family. So the ceremony with the flower-vase was gone through to enable the girl to enter the family, and the town proceeded to build a granite arch to commemorate her devotion. The addresses in Persian upon letters which go through the postoffice at Cal cutta are often quaint and puzzling. An Indian paper recently translated one as follows: "If the Almighty pleases —Let this envelope, having arrived in the city of Calcutta, in the neighbor hood of Calootolnh, at the counting bouse of Sirujoodeen and Ilahdad, mer chants, be offered to and read by the happy light of my eyes, of virtuous manners, and beloved of the heart— Mecan Shaikh Inayut Ally, may his life be long. Written on the tenth of the blessed Rnmzan, Saturday, in the year 12GG of the Hegira of our Prophet, and dispatched at Bearing. Having with out loss of time paid the postage and received tile letter, you will read it, and having abstained from food or drink, considering It forbidden to you, you will convey yourself to Jaunpoor, and you will know this to be a strict Injunction." Uniform* in Hospital** The decision that every orderly and attendant in a hospital under the con trol of city authority shall wear a neat and suitable uniform has every thing in its favor, and there can iw? no valid argument against it. Would any intelligent person now advocate a return to the old, unsatisfactory sys tem of many years ago, when the con ductors and brakemen on railroads wore clothes not different from those of the passengers? What endless con fusion and trouble were caused in those days by the luck of a distinguish ing garb on the part of the men who. had charge of the trains! And the employes of hospitals should, of course, be easily recognized even at a distance, by doctors, surgeons, superintendents nnd patients. Indisputably rules can be enforced, discipline can be carried out, the standards of the institutions kept up and peace and quiet main tained in the wards more effectively and with less friction by orderlies who wear uniforms than by those who are clad in the ordinary attire of private life. Hospital uniforms must be adopt ed wherever they have not yet been insisted upon.—New York Tribune, Slio I'robnlily Knew. When Mr. Goodlioart eante home to supper he found Mrs. Goodheart in a state akin to despondency, which was quite unusual with her. "Why, my dear, what is the matter?" he anxiously inquired. "Matter enough," said she. "Our ser vant litis left us, and here is a letter from Sarah Armatige saying she will be here to-morrow, and expects to slay over Sunday with us. What on earth is to be done?" "Oli, that will be all right," said Mr. Goodheart. "Harold can act as dining room waiter, Millie can he maid of all work, and you can be cook. You know you are a good one. We shall get along swimmingly." "And what will you do?" inquired Mrs. Goodheart. "Me? Oh. I'll be a gentleman," he replied. "Very well, we will try your,plan, Edmund," she said, cheerfu'ly, "but I am afraid we shall all fed rather awk ward In our unaccustomed roles." Mr. Goodheart says she was as cheer ful as a lark all the remainder of the evening.—New York 'D-mea. MOLASSES AS CATTLE FOOD. Horses anil Mules Have Thrive*! oil It tn Louisiana For Two Years. Molasses has for two years been in general use in Louisiana for the feed ing of horses, mules and all stock, and | probably nine-tenths of the draught animals in the sugar district get this food, either alone or mixed with oats or corn. The animals like it, and are kept in splendid condition by it. "Sugar mules," wliieh are fed on molasses mainly, are worth from twenty to twenty-five per cent, more than the mules on cotton plantations, which are fed generally on cottonseed and cot tonseed meal. Molasses has been a waste product in Louisiana ever since the improved processes in the manufacture of sugar have extracted more of the saccharine from It than formerly. It has been a problem how to get rid of It The dis covery therefore that it could be used as a food for stock was of double value. Six months ago a factory was erected for the manufacture of cattle food from molasses. The process is very simple. The molasses Is mixed with corn or oats in nearly'equal proportions. -The mixture is pressed Into a solid mass and dried and then ground into a fine powder. It is like the cottonseed meal with which cattle and horses are fed throughout the world. The horses, mules and cattle are very fond of the molasses, and they do better on it than on any other food fed to them. They keep fat and are capable of ex traordinary work in hauling heavy loads. This one factory turns out 150 tons of molasses preparation a day; and the stuff is being rapidly substituted on the plantations for the raw molasses, not because It Is any better, but be cause it is more conveniently handled. So far the use of molasses for feed ing horses has been confined to New Orleans and the sugar districts, but by this process, which enables it to be handled easily, it is likely to be shipped elsewhere. Only a small part of the Louisiana molasses crop, which runs to from 30,000,000 to 50,000,000 gallons a year, is used for horse and cattle food or in any other way; and a large proportion of it is thrown away or burned in the furnace with the bagasse and other waste and refuse.—New York Sun. Old Bridal Customs. There used to be a custom of strew iug flowers before the bridal couples as tliey went to the cliurch. and from the church to the house. "Suppose the way with fragrant herbs were strewing. All things were ready, we to the church, were going. And now suppose the priest had joined our hands," is a quaint old verse that refers .to this custom. The Persians introduce a tree at their marriage feasts laden with fruit, and it 13 the place of the guests to try to pluck this without the bride groom observing If successful, they must present the bridal couple with a gift a hundred times the value of the object removed. In Tuscany brides wear jasmine wreatli3, and there is a legend that a once reigning Grand Duke who at great expense procured this flower for his own particular garden, gave orders to his gardener not to part with any flowers or clippings; but the gardener, who was in love, took a sprig to his sweetheart as a gift. She, being shrewd, planted, it and raised from it several small plants which she sold to tile Duke's envious neighbors at a great price. In a short time she had saved enough money to enable her lover and herself to marry and start housekeeping, and so the Tuscans have a saying that "The girl worthy of wearing the jasmine wreath is rich enough to make her husband happy." Cupid and the Coal Fautinn. However loving and trusting two young hearts may be. says the Phila delphia Saturday Evening Post, It is a foregone conclusion that they can In no way affect the price of coal this •winter, and it is a brave young man who would take his fair young bride by the hand and face the whole world with coal at S2O a ton. Therefore the weddings nre being postponed by hun dreds of thousands until more auspi cious times, and everybody knows what that means. That there is many a slip is nowhere more truly spoken than in reference to engaged couples, and a wedding postponed has but one chance in five of ever coming off. Worse than that, the coal strike and the consequent boosting of prices are going to have a similar blighting effect upon next spring's crop of engage ments and weddings, since only the fabulously wealthy can afford this winler to allow Cliolly and Araminta to hold down the sofa in the warm and cosy parlor until all hours of the night. Stern papas will enforce the early clos ing rules with unheard of rigidity when S2O coal Is being consumed in the fur nace. Parlor duets will become an un known quantity, impecunious young men will liave to go to bed immediate ly after dinner in order to keep warm, and there will be no engagements fol lowing the winter season of tete a tetes. Born, Married and Buried at Sea. The body of Captain Richard Mars den, who was for nineteen years Har bor Master at Gravesend, England, was committed to the deep off the Goodwin Sands the other day. Cap tain Marsdcn wus bom and married at sea. Deep-sea water for study is procureq ' by means of specially prepared bottles. Some Men Who Kide Hobbies *★★★★★★** ★★★***★ * Good Thing For a Farmer to Know How to Bo One Thin?; Well * * —Some Examples of Success in Specialty Farming. * * LYNN BROWN. OXFORr OHIO. * * ★★★★★★★★ IN this (lay and generation it seems necessary for every one to have a specialty, no matter what his occu pation or profession/ 'While in farming it is necessary to raise at least a little of a good many things, and, in fact, do more or less general fanning, It Is the man who learns one particular branch of the business better than anj one else in his community, and thou pushes it for all it is worth who makes the most money out of it. This specializing becomes more and more pronounced. Each doctor lias his Bpecialtj', and many refuse to treat anything outside of their own particu lar lines. The farmer, however, cannot be so exclusive, as a farm must have stock, and it takes various crops to raise stock, and it requires the use or horses to make crops, so his line of work must be somewhat general. This need not keep him from learning his favorite branch to perfection and put ting the main part of his energy and thought in that direction. I should like to introduce some of our best men and their hobbies in this lo cality. I speak of them as hobbies, but, of course, they amount to more than this with them, because they have become the most successful part of their life work. One man, Jones, is known to all as the plum man. His farm was never much good for cropping, so some years ago he pnt ont a large plum orchard containing all the best varieties and many kinds that people hero had never seen before. He then made a complete study of spraying, pruning and plum growing fn general until he had his business down to so line a point that he is now as sure of a plum crop as are hia neighbors of a wheat or corn crop. And what a harvest he has reaped this year, with all other fruit very scarce and his trees full of perfect beauties at $3 a bushelT Surely his plums are bet ter than the proverbial political pluins, which occasionally drop to a favored fow. He has worked for his. King is the honey man. and people often wonder why his frames of honey ore tilled so evenly and are always so clean and white that they have the ap pearance of being sand - papered, and cow he gets the bees to put so nearly an even pound in each one. Ask Mr. King and he might say: "Spend as much time and work on bees as I have spent, and you may find out. It is too long a story to tell, and has cost too much to give away/' Some men with big, ricb farms pre fer to make some of the general crops, like corn and wheat, their specialty, and there must be as much to learn about these commoner crops that most farmers do not know as there is about the more rare ones. That this is true Is proved by friend Smith's success with wheat. All* of his neighbors like to get their seed from him, and I un derstand' that he shipped two carloads dowi into Virginia this year, so far reaching is his reputation for good va rieties and clean 3eed. But then it i& easy for him to raise clean wheat, free from weed seed, for ho has clean land. Perhaps that clean land is part of the secret of his success, and who knows what time and labor It may have cost liiin to get and keep his land this way? I know that lie al ways cuts his stubble over once, and If necessary twice, so that no weeds may mature seed; neither are his fence rows devoted to the production of fancy weed seeds, to be scattered whichever way the wind may blow. Wilson, the corn man, has some very peculiar ideas about the time of plant ing and manner of cultivation, and in the spring you will Gnd his neighbors laughing at him, but later in the sea son they begin to think that maybe he is "onto" his job after all, and perhaps they will try his plan—as far as they know it—next time, for he surely does gel corn. But I mnst not fall to- make Mr. Han kius known to you. He is tile man with the small, rich farm, that looks like a patchwork quilt. I-ittle piles of queer looking stuff that we dou't even know the names of may be seen ali over the place, and very little corn or wheat or other crops that go to make a farm look substantial in sight. What has come over Ilankins these last few years? He used to be a sensible man and raise good corn, wheat and oats, but he must have got mixed up with some of those chaps who run the ex periment stations and turned his farm Into one. He is another man who is laughed at, hut lie simply turns his bnek and laughs with his neighbors, so that they cannot so? his satisfaction at their mirth, for ills secret is also too good to give away. If these neighbors who think lie is wasting his time 011 foolish experiments will go to his house and look in the lower left-hand corner of the old walnut bookcase, between the family Bible and Webster's Una bridged tliey will find several papers, contracts signed by some ot the most prominent seedsmen of the land, and, yes, down below Is John Haukius' scrawl. What can it mean? Only that John is going to raise 2000 pounds of kale seed at a price a pound that fairly startles them, and If they run over the other contracts they will see that if their lucky neighbor fulfills his contracts—and lie generally succeeds in doing so—ho will make twice as much money over ids eighty acres as they ever have made over twice the amount of laud. They also used to laugh at, him for raising a great deal of sov ghum, as he was never seen hauling any to the mill for molasses, hut when they found that ho could dispose of forty bushels of seed from an acre at a price close to the dollar mark, and at the same time have lots of good feed ieft, they began to imitate him some what. —New York Tribune. Snow Musliroonot. Dr. Vauglian Cornish in the Geo* graphical Journal treats of the snow waves and snow drifts of Canada. From Montreal as far west as Port Ar thur, that is to say, for 1000 miles, lie found the snow moderately dry. as iu the Peutlands and Highlands of Scot land, but from Winnipeg to Medicine Hat II was dry, granular and rough on the surface. Parts of the prairie were swept hare of snow in the neighboi* hood of snow banks, and the landscape resembled a white desert. In the Hock- , ies the snow was moister, and at Gla cier House in the Selkirks, a stump of tree two feet thick supported! a cap of snow nine feet across the eaves pro jecting three feet six iuches all around the pedestal, and the whole resembling a gigantic mushroom or toadstool. An other broken tree four feet thick had a snowcap twelve feet across, the eaves projecting four feet all around. Some of these "snow mushrooms" must have weighed a ton. The layers of snow in them bend with gravity downward, leaving a hollow about the trunk. Under Anns. One night last week there were four organized battles in the streets of Paris, where the revolver was used aud the pavements littered with empty car tridge cases. No value was set on the life of a passer-by The roving hands of scoundrels had issued challenges I and come into the very heart of tlie'J city, within sight of the Comedie Evan eaise. The consternation that prevails iu Paris is noticeable, and to this is added the fact that the street lamps are turned out a little after 1 o'clock. There is not a soul on the terraces of the cafes after midnight, and people walk home In the middle of the streets. The leaders of the different bauds, who bear the most fantastic names, kindly assure the public that they have noth ing to fear, that the warfare is purely between one clan and another, and all they have to do is to keep out of. the line of tire.—Sketch. Cuvier* Collection Doomed. The splendid cabinet of comparative anatomy iii Paris begun by Cuvier, the distinguished naturalist, in 1790, and the completion of which occupied twenty-one years, is to lie demolished w by the authorities of the Jardin ilu&T Plantcs. Among the numerous valu able specimens gathered and classified by Cuvier are the embalmed remains of the huge rhinoceros brought to his Versailles menagerie by Louis XIV. ancl which the gay monarch used to visit each week attended by his Court. The carcass thus honored by the King and his sycophants was saved with difficulty by Cuvier in 1793 from the incens(l revolutionists, who- desired to burn it because it had been one of their "tyrant's-" amusements* Thveo-Td Horace Found- Fossil horses of tlie three-toed type hnva been discovered by the exploring party supported by the William C. Whitney fund now in quest of the re mains of these animals iu the West, ac cording to Professor Osborn,. of the Museum of Natural History, who said that the fossils included a herd of liv. jj One skeleton is nearly complete, but 1 the others are fragments. Hitherto f only pieces of skulls and limbs have been found. The fossils have been shipped to the museum, and will, Pro fessor Osborn says, add an important stage L* the history and development of the horse in America.—New York Times. Doctor** Incoiikes In England. The British Medical Journal ventured an estimate of the average income that might be expected by the general prac titioner in England, and put it at S2OOO to $2.">00, The estimate was copied into several daily papers, and has produced a large crop of correspondence, teem ing with ridicule and indignation. The general practitioners, who ought to know, declare that only a small pro portion of their number earn so much even after years of arduous work. The competition brought about by the over-, crowded state of the profession is, they/| declare, so great that it is a cruelty to iuduco men, by inhaled estimates, to enter it. Old Itninnns lined Tablet*. Stamps have been found in England which have been shown were used by the Komans to stamp remedies for pro ducing clearness of vision, or tor doing away with dimness of sight. The ob ject aimed at by the medicament was specified in the stamp. It is notewor thy that the stamps so far discovered were designed for remedies for ocular | diseases. The preparations were hard ened with gum or some viscid sub stance, and were thus ready to ho liquefied at any time. Thus our sup posedly very modern device of tritur ates or compressed tablets is only a re vival of an ancient Roman custom, ' In tli Courtroom. "Your Honor and Gentlemen of the Jury, I acknowledge the reference of counsel of the other side to my gray hair. My liair is gray, and it will con tinue to lie gray so long as I live. The hair of that gentleman is Idack. and will continue to be black so long as he dyes."—New York Times, _
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