Washington, D. 0.
Rests the Tired Brain
Hood’s Sarsaparilla Gives Nerve
Strength and Bodily Health
Hood’s bills are “ Much in Little."
“ I have used Hood’s Barssparilla and
Hood’s Pills lormany- years and consider
them the best on the market. Hood’s Sar-
eapsrilla has given me health and strength
from time! to time when tired and
Worn Out From Overwork
and the worry of business. It has urified
my blood, toned my nerves, an rested
my tired brain by restoring sleep and in-
vigorating my entire system, Hood’s
Vegetable Pills are much in little. _ I use
no others. They invigorate the liver to
healthy action, act gently on the bowels,
H ood’ S Sarca-
W 1’ “rm“
relieve sick headache
and indigestion, and “res
thus assist tired m_
nature to remove disease and restore
health.” J. M. Cnocxnn, 1419 Rhode
Island Avenue, Washington, D. C.
’ ' set her oniousl with
,HOOd S PIIIS Hood’s sgrsaparilyia. 25c.
ARE YOU GOING SOUTH?
If so. for hwalth. pleasure and comfort go
to Piney Weeds Inn. Southern Pines. N. C.
Those desiringto escape the rigors of the
glimate North \vill find a mild, dry climate-
at Southern Pines. N C.. in the heart of the
long leafed pine section of America.
The elevation is 600 feet above sealevel. the
highest point in the turpentine belt. delight-
ful climate. with all the advantages of resorts
farther south and free from many disadvan-
tages: it is the place the tourist and health
see her will appreciate.
It has the most perfect drainage. being a
huge sand bank. and is Situatedin the heart
of the long leaf pine. It 15 Within the in-
fluence of the ' l-Il stream. to_which it owes
much of the mi dness of the climate.
Piney Woods Inn. an elegant new hotel. is
now open. The house accommodates 200
guests. has all modern conveniences, sani-
tary plumb rig. electric lights. call bells.
wide verandas. sun parlors. steam heat. etc.
in fact Pinev Woods Inn has been fitted up
that guests may enjoy ' he comforts of every
day life at home at moderate rates.
‘ Piney Woods Inn is reached by the Sea«
board Air Line. For terms. etc. address. '
CHARLES ST. JOHN.
(MANAGER).
Southern Pines. N. 0.
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NUUI‘IPORATED SEPT. 1. 1876.
AL’lTAL, - - - . - - $100,000
nun M HoLMEs. President.
. :4. Burns, Vice-President.
WlLLIAM A. CURTIS, Cashier
DIRECTORS :
«qu M. Hr -LMES. H. E. DANN.
. 1.. CUNNINGHAM, J. T. Brown
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DIRECTORS . -
1 :-\\‘IN 0. Keenan, Moses H. Gnovsa
'1 .ivm Fl Minnru. A. J. MEEKEB,
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fax-punts of Manufacturers, Merchants and
Individuals solicited. ,
Safe Deposit Boxes free to Depositors.
I I LIGHT PABCVI. anl
filiiKWIIIIIIg PACKAGE DELIVER“
(‘lwapratem Will also take orders for mes
sensel- s-ryice 12- New York Goods called
(«Mud delivered to all arts of the tnwn
(him-s receWed atE P. eed’s Drug Store.
5‘! -~.l Street. With telephone connection, un-
til Mi)- 0 E. LOCKWOOD° '
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N0 THIRD PERSQN."
_ The audience fairly roared. She was
such a. clever actress. It was a com-
monplace bit of action—a lovers’ quar-
rel and the discomiiting of. the man.
The often, repeated situation. It was
the actress’ laugh which was inimita-
ble. “It sounded like a bushel of seed
pearls spilt on the floor.” A critic had
written up her special laugh in (that
way, and it was deemed a capital bit of
description, when it was really noth-
ing more than a vocal gymnastic, which
trick can be acquired at a cost of not
much more than a. fewdays’ practice.
The actor was, perhaps, a trifle clum-
sy and blustering; followed his own
nature, and to carryout the role all
the better for that.
The occupants of a side box seemed
to appreciate the scenic conditions, and
joined merrily in the laughter. There
was one handsome young woman you
might think was enjoying the play im-
Certainly a fan, put up asa
screen, permits of-restrain_ed laugh-
ter, for you cannot, if you are awoman
seated bolt upright. It is a painful and
constrained position. A Greek woman
could have laughed so much more com-
fortably in her flowing draperies.
If you had tried to listen for laughter
behind that screen or sought for a
change of pose, you would have neither
heard nor seen one or the other. Quite.
to the contrary, the mouth was drawn
down'hard and would have been rigid.
Maybe a lip would have borne the in-
dentation of a tooth had it not been for
the quivering of her face. An inclina-
tion to cry? That was absurd, but as
in all emotional conflicts there is the
climax of nervous energy, which must
be dispersed in some way or other, so it
was that the fan had suffered, and when
the owner of it heard one of the ivory
slats crack the crisis had passed, and
then she came to herself again. Her
chaperon, who was in the front of the
box, turned android to her:
“Julia, your fan, please. An old lady
must- be ugly when she laughs. It is
unbecoming of mature age, and then
the exertion of side splitting has lili-Ie
me warm.”
“You look bored, dear," said the
chaperon. "I know I am. The rest- of
the play must be commonplace. The
inevitable, hackneyed conclusion.
They make it up, and there is kissing
and hugging all around. Let us go
home. “"6 will chat then for half an
hour.”
Oh! if only the chaperon, the aunt
who lived with her, had not offered to
do that! She had longed so much to be
alone. The old lady and the young one
. left the theater. As they passed into
,- the corridor Julia happened to cast her
eyes just where there was a human ob-
struction. A gentleman bowed to the
two women. Disengaging himself
from the crowd he neared Juliaand
said: “I hear you are going abroad,
Miss Royalh I shall be sure to look
you up somewhere in Paris or London."
“Why,” said the chaperon, “this is
news to me.”
“It is nonsense,” said Julia, incisively.
“J’ysuis. J‘yreste." Then she looked
at the man for an instant with a steady
gaze. There was something of inten—
sity in hergyes. What did he know?
She would die before she would ask
him. He p'rattled about the play. "The
actress! so delightful! There was so
much fun in the thing, and he had
noticed how much Miss Royall had en-
joyed it. She ought to have waited lor
the wind-up.”
When Miss Royall was alone she in-
dulged in a very hearty and, may it be
said, wholesome cry. And between :1
final sob you might have made out
something like this: “If that Robert
Bryant had pleased, he might have told
me where he was,” and "I despise my-
self for giving up in this way. Suppose
he has gone to South America. Suppose
there is yellow fever or revolution there!
And I am the most wretched girl that
was ever born, and a fool with a bad
temper—which is worse.” Then, the
maid came in. As this is a truthful
story, I am bound to state that after a
few tosses and turns Miss J ulia. went
sound asleep, and when she woke up in
the morning she was quite incensed
with herself for not having counted a
single one of the chimes of her clock
during the hours of the night, for she
had made up her mind that she would.
II.
“Expecting Saratoga, Newport, Bar
Harbor to be crowding Puget sound, do
you ?” said John Dallass, as he sat on a
fallen log in the gloom of a primeval
forest in northwestern Washington,
somewhere 110:": z .‘unget sound. Then the
young man toot; out a map and studied
it “Whether tins railroad will make a
plunge into the waters of Puget sound
just here and the whole thing come to
grief depends upon the whim of _ an
engineer, and that engineer is utterly
incompetent,” he continued.
“Time the men turned up. I wanted
to be lonesome, and I am. Great fun to
have no other company than the trees.
It’s disappointing, all the same. ~ But
what is disappointing? I expected so
much of John Dallass, and this Jack
Dallass has wilted. Heroic! You heroic 2’
You are simply a. case of collapse—n
white-feathered poltroon.” The speaker
made a big fist and absolutely shook it
in his own face. “Yes, you wanted to
show how dead in earnest you were and
to air the Dallass temper. I engaged in
the skirmish and it wound up in a
pitched battle. I must confess to have.
forced the fighting. She! thy,she did
not even bring up her reserves. Now,
if she had only cried—just half of a lit-
tle tear! A woman ought to weep. If
is expected of her—but she did not.
She laughed at me.” Then J ack Dallas-s
strode up and down. ,,
“'hom am I talking to? These great
firs and oaks and spruces? .Well, lis-
ten, then. Don’t tattle;,you.a're hun-
dreds of feet above such a thin g.’ A jok-
,‘ ing matter! I don’t intend 'to be funny.
I I am just miserable. Confound these
2 busybOdics who made an ornithologic-
in full toilet, laugh atgyour case where ~
' allowed
Iagain, until the last flicker of the light
'lass, the well-known young engineer,
:Sound railroad.'——N. Y. Times.
a1 or culinary "joke cigme and told'it .
to Julia Royall. Isitimyfault that
Julia. has mone? And they, the. dis-
gustingfthey,’ Said to her that Jack
Dallass was going to feather his nest
or butter his beans or something equal-
ly coarse and outrageous; and I came
with my ears red-hot and accused her
of deeming me mercenary, and I want-
ed to know 'why she hadn’t resented
it; and when I was through she
laughed, and she laughed, and, ,oh}.
how she hurt me! And I marched
downstairs and took the first hat on
the hat rack—and it wasn’t my hat,
and it made me all the more ridicu-
Ions.”
Then John Dallass again paced up
and down and consulted his watch. “It
will be dark in a half-hour. But 1
don’t care a. snap about being alone.
‘ And what is likely to be the conclusion
of this business? The girl invariably
marries some other man, and is happy
with the new fellow. And the first
chap—who cares what has become of
him? Now, there is that Bob Bryant,
why hasn’t he written? Two months
have I been away from civilization,
and not a line from anybody, only old
rigamarole rubbish from railroad di-
rectors.” ,
Just then there was a shout away
off in the distance. John Dallass drew
out his map, and was, apparently,
deeply engrossed in the study of it
when his men came in. At once the
engineer found fault with them for
being behind time.
“See here,” said the spokesman, “it
was rough wall-'ingthrough the slough,
and we went to where the mail was,
and it was ten miles out of the way.
There was nothing.”
“Where’s the fourth man?” inquired
Jack Dallass, angrily. -
“You cut. me too short, boss. There
was next to nothing, only a. letter for
you. The fourth hand. the man that
sorts the mail, he said this here letter
had been there a month, and that an-
other mail was expected, but we could-
n’t all stay for it, so the fourth man he
he would wait. See .here,
boss, that young cliap's got a girl in
the cast sonicwhar. and he said he’d be
blowcd, or something like it, if he
wouldn’t wait and see if she had wrote
him. So we lit out without him. He'll
be up alore long."
John Dallnss felt like forgiVing the
fourth man, especially since the letter
he had now 111 his hand he recognized as
coming from Robert Bryant While the
men were building a fire Mr. Dallass
read his letter. There was nothing in
it. Club talk and nonsense, absolutely
unsatisfactory Stop! There was a
postscript. “Saw Miss Royall at the
theater. She looked charmingly. Such
an amusing play! I had‘ heard she
was going abroad. I asked her about
it. She seemed to put some insistence
in denying it. That’s all.”
“'hat crumb of comfort was there?
It was ever so small a crumb, and yet
Jack Dallass read it over and over
went out, and then he lay down in his
blanket and did not go to sleep. for
be heard during the night the coming
of the fourth man. It was too dark
to see whether he had a mail satchel.
In a moment the man was stretched his
length before the fire. and was asleep.
At dawn Dallass was awake. Yes, the
man had a. small bag. He had used it
for a pillow. The engineer filchcd it
from under the heavy sleeper‘s head.
The contents of the bag were exam-
ined. There were newspapers and blue
envelopes. “Beastly instructions, im-
possible to carry out, and requests for
more details which they may whistle
for," cried John Dallass, impatiently.
“What, no letter! Not even from Bob ‘2”
Then in feverish haste Dallass shook
each newspaper, and out tumbled a
letter. “The confounded lazy fellow
must have rammed the whole mail in
together." Jack Dallass’ face did not
bear an aggrieved look. He did not tear
Open the 'envelope, but. did the opening
carefully. It seemed asacrilegc to lose
a shred of the paper. It- was barely
dawn. but there seemed to be a cer-
lain luminosity in the man’s eyes
which would have permitted him to
have made out a. certain handwriting
in the dark. Then he read:
‘.‘In a. conversation of a purely busi-
ness character Robert Bryant informed
Miss Itoyall’ that a new line of road was
being built to Puget sound. Mr. Bryant
having expressed himself favorably as
to the future of this enterprise, and
Miss Royall having need for some minor
investments, she had begged Mr. Bry—
ant, who is familiar with Wall street,
to purchase some of the bonds at the
current figures.
“Great heavens! What does the girl
mean? All in the third person! She
is cruel, cruel." And it goes on: “Miss
Royall would never have been led to
make this venture if she had not by
chance read in some newspaper an ac-
count of this road, and she takes the
liberty of inclosing the cutting, and
her curiosity is some little excited, be-
cause therc is the name of an engineer
having charge of the road which she
thinks has been ludicrously mis-
spelled.”
“That's all,” cried Jack Dallass, the
tears in his eyes. "She is"cruel, ma-
licious with her persiflage, and I never
will forgive her. Let me see this rub-
bishly bit of printing. Um, um. ‘Great
advantages * -,* * union of the re-
mote Pacific.’ Um, um. ‘Wealth of
the Indies pouring into the lap of the
remote west.’ Bot and drivel. What.
is this at the end of thisprinied balder-
dash? It’s underscored: ‘John Dal-
is‘ now occupied in making surveys.‘
There is a pencil line under that, and
--—‘Please, John Dallass, beat Seattle
as soon as yOu can. My aunt wants to
see the Alaskan glaciers.’ ,Thank God!
No third person.there. and when," said
John Dallass, reverentially, recalling
the Talmud, “your friend calls for an
ass, hasten and buy a saddle.”
Why did John Dallass leave . that
morning for Seattle? Maybe it was
fer the special benefit of the Puget
um
,7,
.VI'ND'UST‘RYV AND, Inventions-it _
I ' A new’method of using dilute hydros _
brOmic acid as a solvent for extracting
the alkaloids of cinchona bark.
A system of facilitating the removal
of roofing tiles, the holes which receive
the nails being made in the form of
keyhole slots.
A hollow augur, with an opening for
carrying away the chips, the cutter be-
ing held in a recess above the opening
by a plate secured by screws. '
The District railway of London has
fitted three trains with automatic indi-
cators ‘in each compartment, which
tell the name of the next station.
An attachment for 'the pockets of
ladies’ dresses, consisting of a. spiral
spring along the edge “of the mouth
of the pocket to render it self-closing.
A fishing apparatus, in which the line
is mounted on the end of a Spring,
which in the- event of the fish taking
the bait, closes an electric circuit and»
rings a bell. .
- A covering for tablets, cakes or bars
of soap, to prevent drying and decom-
position, which is ‘produced by dip-
ping the article in a. solution of gelatin
or melted wax. '
A roof for metallurgical and other
furnaces, made of a series of tubes
through which water constantly flows,
and between which a, filling of fire-
brick is arranged.
COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL.
The total capital invested in British
railways isabout $5,000,000,000. .
By next year North Carolina expects
to spin all her own cotton products.
Great Britain pays the continent up-
wards of $70,000,000 a year for sugar
and makes not- an ounce.
Alaska’s first railroad will soon be
under construction. It will be a. short
line on Douglas island. The rails were
shipped a short time ago. ,
United States Consul- Barker, at Tan-
giers, Morocco, reports a good market
there for American flour, as wheat is
very scarce.
Prof. Robertson, Canadian dairy
commissioner, says the dominion gov-
ernment is considering a project to en-
gage in the export. of dressed meats to
England.
A dispatch from Plattsburg, N. Y.,
says that a valuable coal field has been
discovered in Altona, Clinton county.
The vein is said to be from 70 to 80 feet
wide and extends for several miles.
Some 20 tons of silk spinning and
weaving machinery was shipped from
Stonington, Conn., to Moscow, Russia,
recently. Sixty tons more is ordered
for the same place and parties. The ma-
chinery is for use in abig silk mill re-
cently built in the old capital of Russia.
SCRAPS OF SCIENCE.
In a lebt'ure delivered some 30 years
ago a, well-known doctor stated that
the only case on record of a. death
from .a broken heart was that of a
brewer’s drayman.
Prof. Macey, famous for his feats in
instantaneous work, has just succeeded
”1.,le ..‘.
I' His-1165'? 0f “1 {A} Resigéfilesifévénf—"lé
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AQQQEPEFLY NR.” E”
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estUSeG 'v R can
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in photographing a dragon-fly on the-
wing—~an Operation which, it is de- '
clared, necessitated an exposure of only
1-20.000 of a second. ,
M. Poincare, Who has been investigat-
ing the action of thé‘ .moon on the
meteorology of. the earth, has discov-
ered that it has an influence not. only
on the production of 'c’yclones,'>but also
on their direction. ~ ’ ’ '
‘We Speak, of seasoning wood‘ by ex-
posing it' to the air and drying out the
water. But we never think of seasoning
stone, and yet this is as necessary al-
most as seasoning wood. . Every good
architect, in making his calculations,
takes this into consideration. ’
In a recent paper on argon .M. M.
Schoesing, Jr., discussed errors in the.
method lately described by him; and
gives results oft-he estimation of argon
in air taken at different places. The
amount found is constant at .934 per
cent. ‘
OLD AND SPRY.
Mayor-elect Josiah "Quincy, of Bos~
ton, is the fifth of that name to gain
fame and office.
William Burbank, an 83-year-old resi4
bent of Thompsonville,Conn.,was fatally
injured recently while coasting down a.
hill in that place.
Nathan Pearson,
a; well-known
" Quaker residing northeast of Kokomo,
1nd,, though nearly 80 years old, fre-
quently walks to yearly meetings at
Plainfield, a distance of over 90 miles.
Portland, Me., believes it has two of
the oldest ex-mayors in the country.
The age of one of them,,W. W. Thomas,
is 91 years and seven months, and the
other, Neal Dow, is just four months
younger. - L
' A Breton sea poet named Yann Nibor,
who was a fisherman, and for some
years past has sung his own songs in
public in Paris, is now employed by
the government in‘ teaching them to
the sailors of the French navy. He
goes from one ship to another, spend-
ing about a month in each foreca'stle.
WOMEN IN VARIOUS FIELDS.
New York boasts a number of wom-
an real estate agents. It is said that
women have .now invested on upper
Eighth avenue at 'last $2,000,000.
TheBritish Royal Humane society has
lately awarded testimonials to three
women for acts of gallantry in saving
life. In each case the rescue was from
'drowmng and was attained at great
risk on the part of the rescuer.
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'7 It is stated on, good authority that
about "700 American women have been
successful .inventors '. and :,v patentees.
Mrs. Martinot, of New York city, has
obtained 35 patents on practical labor
saving devices. ._ ~ ' '
In Auburn, N. Y., 'iS' a. prison for
women; the keepers are women who
institution is remarkably well man-
aged. The only man about the place
is the warden. ‘
Common Case.
his own judgment. as the best that can
be found is Well illustrated in a. story
once told of the moderator of a'Scotch
fered' widely on. a certain question rc-
lating to church discipline from that
of the associates with whom he was
ostensibly consulting. At last he said
that he would lay the matter before
the Lord in prayer and then wait for
His guidance. “0 Lord,” said. the mod
orator, fervently, and with perfect sin-
cerity of purpose, “0 Lord, grant that
we may be right in this matter, for
Thou knowest we are very decided.”—
.Youth’s Companion. -
I THE ARTISTS.
An Egyptian “Struwelpete‘r” with
pictures from. the Vienna. papyri is
about to bc published in London.
Golfers is the latest name applied to
the impressionist school in art, because
they try to do their work with the few-
est number of strokes.
There are 48,000 artists in Paris,
more than half of them painters. The
number of paintings sent in to the ex-
hibitions last year was about 40,000.
Henry S. Wellcome, the well-known
America-n merchantin London, has pre-
the portrait of Pocahontas which was
in the Woman’s building of the world’s
fair. -
LATE INVENTIONS.‘
, Leather for dress bodices' and vests
‘is something new in the London winter
fashions. .
A Lewiston (Me) man is studying on
dump snow in the gutter.
“Gripping jaws,” a. contrivance for
holding the bedclothes on couches oc-
cupied by children, or grown people
who are restless, are a recent inven-
tion.
Is your plate glass or safe insui-ei’l?
POIVTERW
If mt, Call on me :nd
I will write you a policy in‘tlic Mutual ’lute iii-ass and‘fiat' lmui'
ance Company. Glass will bro 21k and burg-ms 12>
in Case of Fire v
(3 dynamite.
You should be insured.’ A policy in the Reliance oi Philm-lclpiiéu.
PhCBniX of Hartford; Scotland Union Hf Footl‘ctn'd; New Iitllllllf-il‘lli 0i
Manchester; lochester German of Rochester;
of New York; S=curity of Now Ilaiupsliire or Granite Smell Purl“
mouth will protect‘ycu against the lll'i’ fiund
W er. Businessmen, p ( .
Rea: Estate and General Insurame;
noon 1. o-aznT-rr: BUILDING
LO‘ANS.,NEGQT|ATED AND INVESTMENTS MADE, -
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are superin't‘endedby a. matron. The ;
' convicts do the5vvork, audit is said the
. The Scotchman’s disposition to regard '
presbytery. This man’s opinion dif-'
sented to the senate of the United States .
a. sidewalk which can be turned up to
'Uiii-tr-d Stattlsemi I) bills.
' " 7 'ICORRESPONDENCE'SOLICITED.
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