Weakened One Man’s Constitution
Until It Brought Him to
Death’s Door.
Mr. J ames 1.. Harrison awell- known
and highly respected citizen of Cleve-‘
' land 0., was for years a sutfe1 er from
dyspepsia and general debility, and 1n
his weakened condition 1' esult 1n0' f1 om
the above causes, he had the additional
ill-luck to fall a victim to malaria from
this complication of disorders. Mr.
Harrison’s condition was becoming very
serious, when he commenced to take P:
P. P. Lippman s Great Remedy. Its
effects were marked and immediate.
Read his letter to us. Its earnestness
is apparent: ~
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as to the efficacy of your P. P. P., Lipp-
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from which I suffered.
My system was also full of Malaria
. and my condition was growing very
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stiength and was completely bioken
dowu in health, but now my health' 1s
completely restored, and I can eat like
a field laborer, without the slightest
fear of any serious results.
I take great pleasure in telling the
World that P. P. P. did the grand work
of restoring me to my accustomed
health. Yours truly,
JAMES S. HARRISON,
Cleveland, 0.
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_ mother;
' this is horrible!
. 1nothe1s demeanor.
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1.1 DIPLOMATIC HASH.
Lady Whichels was thinking. A let
ter lay in her lap,” and her correspond-
ent was her son—not the baronet, but
his brother Bertie— who had written
'to say that he meant to run down to
see her the same afternoon.
She knew what he was coming for.
perfectly well. Rumors of his infatua-
tion had already reached her. He was
coming to tell her that he was engaged
to marry Miss Daisy Dornton, who
sang for a couple of weeks in the cho-
rus of the Coronet theatre. Lady Whi-
chcls groaned, and her lips were parsed
in annoyance.
“Your brother is an idiot, Philip,”
she said sharply to a young man who
entered the room a moment later. “He
is the worst kind of an idiot—for he
is not only idiotic, but he is {11;}
headed.”
Sir Philip Whichels twirled his mous-
tache and grinned.
‘ Has the climax arrived?” he asked.
“What is the matter?” ‘l
“Bertie will be with us today, He
wants to see me on ‘a matter of im-
portance.’ The matter is, of course,
that he has proposed to that creature
and has been accepted, and now he is
coming to try and win my consent.”
“Well,” said the baronet, “and shall
you give it? They say she is a. Very
ladylike girl, thoroughly respectable,
lives with. her mother, and that sort of
thing. Her father, I think, keprt a
large drapery shop in Bermondsey.
Bertie might easily have done worse,
not being overburdened with brains.”
“You need not joke,” said the
“it is not a. joking matter.
Have you ever seen the girl?"
“I suppose I have seen her on the
stage, but her name does not figure on
the program, and I can’t identify her.
She is simply one of a crowd of dam:
séls who troop on and off in a. pose. I
have never seen her outside the tho-a-
tre, if that is what you mean.”
“That is what I did mean. So her
father was a linen drapcr, and Bertie
wishes to make her his wife. Really,
It only remains for
you to fall in love with a barmaid,
Philip, to complete my happiness,”
“Oh, I?" said Philip. "I‘m not a
marrying man, mother."
“Advise me, Philip, how to bring this
ninny to his sense-s.”
“I’m sure I don’t know what you
can do,” replied Sir Philip, "if you
bully him he’ll marry her tomorrow, if
you cajole him, he’ll try to bully you,
I don’t see what you can do, upon my
soul. It is a cul-dosnc."
The lady, however, was not disposed
to be beaten so easily. It was ten
o’clock, and Bertie might be expected
at the Firs by the express which
reached Three-gates at foureflfteen,
She had six hours for meditation, in
which time an idea might occur to her.
The post lay on the table beside her,
unhee'ded, as she sat glaring at the
lawn with puckered. brows. The bars:
net lounged out to see his (10-313. Pi‘osk
ently my lady uttered an exclamation.
and sent a servant to fetch him.
“Philip," she said, "I have a action
at last. Miss Dorn'con is, of course,
impossible. There can he no question
about that. It is only necessary to
make Bertie see it,”
Philip had been amusing himself out:
side, and did not relish having 116.611
brought in so summarily, so he fe~
marked shortly:
“To make Bertie use it is the orig-
nal difficulty, is it not?”
“I know that!” impatiently: “but I
know also how to do it now. She is. of
course, awkward and ignorant as she
can be. He has seen her with the 81:1-
mour of the footllglits on her, and in
the poky lodgings where she lives.
Now we shall see her here. I shall in:
vite her down to stay wl 1h us, and ..sk
11. lot of people to meet 1191'. 33.11119 15
not brilliant, but he is {18 Sflfl‘isii‘t‘f} cos
a giil. When Miss morntou 1111 5 com:
mitted half 11 dozen solecieuzs, and he
feels that people are ridiculing her. so
will be as anxious to break this on:
gagement as I am."
‘By Jove!” said Sir Philip. . “You
ought to have been a dli: .omuilsi .,
mother.”
“It is good, isn' t it?" said Lady W} 11.
chcls, complacently. “1 tell: that those
must be a way out, and now I". '1: found
it. I think your rother will .7161 lather
istonished by my reception of his news
this afternoon.
So, the vexed question being settled,
mother and son went to luncheon.
Bertie arrived at the hour expected.
He certainly was astonished at his
He had looked
for remonstrances, thicats and for re,
and been doggedly pr'cpzuc-d for 1111.
Instead of these he was met with
smiles and cordiztiity. He (2:11:ch not
understand it. ,
“I had heard something of the mat
ter," said the mother. "Well. it is a
demOcratic age, and if you are satis-
fied helm-fly has 11 right to complain.
Her father was a linen druper, i hear,
and her mother is quite a 1':::spcctni.1le
person, who lives 111, or lots, lodgings."
“Er—they live in apartments, yes,”
said Bertie. “But—~er—-;shc is charini
ing. I am sure you
taste.”
“Emph-atically I can, and l (1111 not
going to be so absurd as to raise any
objections, 'my dear boy. You want to
marry Miss Dornton—unurry llCi‘, You
have my full and free consent, 1111-1 1
should like to‘ be introduced in her.
When am I to see her?"
“l~—I really don't know,” stamincrod
the boy'; “whenever you like."
The question was so entirely unex-
pected that he was amidst speechless.
“Well, the best‘wuy would he to 11121::
her down here for two or throat “11.231151.
Can she come, do you think?”
"It could be arranged-on, you. £44111.
is at the theatre every night,
Want her to leave the stugl', .lllLi-—-‘.1.1,
,xi-s she could come. as 53021 11.; :.:.~.:
please."
can “In“ 97'3" ianything he knows he can’t get
“Then I will write and ask her f01
the first of next month,” said my lady,
conclusively. “And now you must tell
me all about it—how nice she is; how
pretty, and nebody ever loved a girl'so
madly betfore in all the world.”
Lady Whichels dispatched her
charming letter to . her prospective
daughter-in-law on the morrow, and on
the day after came the answer, thank-
ing Bertie’s mother for her kindness,
and gladly accepting the invitation.
The company, sipping'tea and nib-
bling cakes, struggled to hide their cu-
riosity and impatience. Then there
was the sound of an arrival, and the
guests fixed their eager eyes on the
(1001'. As it opened Miss Deizfen came
in and advanced to be presented to the
hostess.
Lady “'hichels started, and the bar-
onet's eyebrows went up. Nothing
could have been in better taste than
the manner of the girl who crossed the
big room under an ordeal which might
have shaken the composure of a society
belle of half a dozen seasons. ‘Her cos-
tume was perfect, and her words were
all that the most fastidious could have
desired: She was not pretty, but beau-
tiful, the most beautiful girl present.
The fact could not be disguised;
Miss Dor nton’s ' :- .rsi: appearance was to
be taken as typical of her, Lady Vi hi-
chel’s plot had failed. That night,
when she sat in her dressing room be-
fore the fire talking to her favorite son,
the mother came nearer crying than
she had done for y- ars.
“She isn t vuig..r at a‘l, Philip.” she
moaned disconsolately; “she is 11191105-
sessing: 1nd really good style. Where
does she get it Mani—the daughter of
a linen draper‘l, It is awful! They im-
itate our clothes, these people, and our
very phrases; and now they even man-
age to acquire our style.
left us—nothingl”
“She is a very charming girl,” said
the bai'onet; “that is 'the truth. ‘What
on with she saw in Bertie beats me!"
F'01 ten days Bertie had been feeling
1 ss sure of himself than he had done.
Opposition 11 as the breath of life to
him. and, with the course of true love
running perfectly smoot 1, he began to
ask himself whether it were t: no love,
after all.
In the meantime the baronet’s first
impression of his b. “other‘ 3 fia ncée had
been moie than coni'nmed, and, fickle
on the young lady‘s part as it may
look, she appeared to find more pleas-
ure in Philip‘s society than in Bertie’s.
“’eil, one night when the brothers
were alone together in the smoking
room, the younger man unbosom'ed
himself. He toldi 'he baron-ct that his
engagement had been a mistake, and
he wished to goodness that he had
never blundered into it. Sir Philip,
who had been mixing himself a whis-
key and soda, dropped the glass, which
shivered into fifty pieces in the Abbots-
ford stove. As a man not given to
dropping things, the accident was note-
worthy, and suggested that his nerves
were not properly under control.
“You have trotted the girl damned
badly!” he said, sharply.
“You think that I ought to
her?”
“I think that you oughtn’t to have
asked her if you weren’t sure of your‘
self. What are you going to dc?”
“I am going to jilt her,” said Bertie,
sulkily“ “That’s what I am going to
do—and I don’t fancy it will break her
heart, either. I don’t believe she likes
me as much as she did, Philip.”
“A good thing for her, if she
doesn’t!” opined the other.
It was on the m:.1rni'ng of the next
day but one that Sir Philip, who had
spent the previous afternoon in Lon-
don, disturbed his mother’s repose in
the fashion alluded to. He told her
that he was going to be married. Lady
Which-91s wrapped in a dressing gown,
listened to him with ashen cheeks.
“To Miss Dornton, mother. Bertie
has jilted her, and I proposed yester-
day. I don’t suppose you’ll be, pleased,
but she is the nicest girl I ever met in
my life, and I mean to make 1131'. ‘Lady
\Vhicheis. ' ”
“Beitic has jilted her!” gas :-ped the
widow.“ ‘ 1nd you—you—
“Yes, even I! Last month I scoffed;
today I fall. Perhaps it is a judgment
on me. Perhaps it is a judgment on
you for plotting her downfall as you
did. I Cz"'-.1'talnly should not have had
the opportunity of falling in love with
her if you hadn’t. Anyhow, I worship
the ground she walks on, and we are
engaged! ’
And, what is more, he married her—-
a fact from which an interesting moral
may be drawn by ladies who fancy
they have abilities for diplomacy. The
deposed dowager never forgave him
1101' herself, and when she reflects that
it was all entirely due to her own bril-
liant interference, she feels there are
certain emotions which language is
wholly inadequate to convey.
Nothing is
marry
Advice.
“Pay as you go, William,” said the
grocery man to his assistant. “It’s a
good motto.”
“Yes, sir.”
“And, by-the—way, you needn’t both-
er so much about Mr. Jaykins. He al—
ways pays cash, and when he takes
his
money back. But be ver V out eful about
Mr. Faykins, See that he gets the best
of everything. He once us $27.——”
Noteworthy
- Washington Star.
Plants Near the Sea.
Plants that grow user the sea have
thicker leaves than tho' 1:- growing in-
land. Apparent " he use salt is the
cause of this phenozzseuou, as plants
cultivated in artificio.l‘.i_v-.~'.-;alted soil
yield thicker leaves.
’111 11‘. uprruiatiIE-ie'n.
“Belinda. how do you treat a stupid
man who admire .vou. "’
"Re:111y,I don t know; 11111211 11 man
mmires me I Ill-3V6}. (10 1113111111: 1:159 lily
instice to consider him st11;1id.'--Chi
:ugo Record.
THE "Ev. E N if: G GA Z‘ET '1' E.
THE FAMINE' IN INDIA.
EW GRAPHlC INSTANCES OF THE
SUFFERINGS 'ENCOUNTERED.‘
Great Britain‘s Responsibility. What
has Become of the $20,009,00038t Aside
in 1877 for such
perienced'by the Mohammed ans. '
Fifty, million human beings starving
to death—one-tenth that number al-
ready beyond allsuffering—that is the
frightful story to be recorded in tell-
nig of the present famine in. India.
It is a black spot in British history,
and naturally the British papers, with
their niis‘placed patriotism, are anxious
to conceal the true state of affairs.
To more fully understand how it is
possible for one of the wealthiest
countries in the world to be time pe-
riodically afflicted it should by: remem-
bered that almost the entire wealth is
in the'hands of the few—a few thous—
and perhaps—and that the great mass
of nearly three hundred million be-
ings live in abject poverty.
Then, too, nrrarly'every Hindoo is :1
vegetarian, and would rather die than
touch meat.
After the famine of 1877 the Gov-
ernment set aside twenty million
pounds sterling to be used in case of
another famine. Crops proved good
for nearly twenty years, and then
came the scarcity of last year. Of
course, the Viceroy at once inquired
for the fund in question and learned
that it had been diverted into other
channels. Report had it that the mon-
ey was used to repair roads and to
fortify certain mountain passes, but
the term diversion in this case cov-
ered a multitude of sins. The fact of
the matter was that the money had
disappeared with the exception of
about $1, 000, 000, which was not even
drop in the bucket.
’.‘he truth of this accusation is at-
tested by the missionaries distribut-
ing recent famine funds.
They all say the money has been di-
verted from its original purpose, and
some assert that much of it was stolen
by an English political ring.
The great Famine Fund was raised
by taxing the natives, and handled
solely by Englishmen, thousands of
whom are now living in luxury in
London, .wh-ile their victims starve on
the plains of India.
To show the extent of the famine, a
Distress as is nowfiEx-
Methodist missionary, stationed at Ja—.
balpur, can be quoted as saying that
in that district alone 28,000 died from
starvation in four months. At Poona,
one of the plague centres of India, the
state of affairs beggars description.
The unfortunates simply drop
wherever they may be, and,4being fa-
talists, they simply remain passive un-
til death overtakes them.
In one instance a group of father.
mother and two children was being
photographed. ‘Vhen the photographer
sought to alter their poses he found
that the entire family had passed into
the next world. The blood of the starv-
ing wretches becomes so thin that the
brain ceases to act, and they sit in a
dull stupor, caring for nothing-"and
practically oblivious to everything.
One of the missionaries reports a
trip he took through the central pro-
vinces. According to him, the natives
are so emaciated as to scarcely
resemble human beings. 'They fight
like tigers over a grain 'of rice, and in
many cases commit suicide through
means of poisonOus herbs obtained in
the jungle.
The description of one of these
strickenbei-ngs is awful. The head is
out of all proportion, the legs and
arms are like sticks, the skin looks like
shrivelled up parchment and is cov-
ered with bleeding festering sores.
In many cases the women try to sell
their children to the Europeans in hope
of saving the lives of the babes. When
the parents find that children arenot
saleable merchandise they return to
their villages in the vain hope that aid
will come. First they live on one meal
a day, then on one meal in two days.
and finally they starve.
One very interesdug phase of the
famine is that the natives consider it a
visitation of their gods, and refuse to
help themselves, declaring that fate
meant them to starve. So strong is
this inrooted c. feeling of fa islism that
a Hindoo wil not get out of the way
of an approaching carriage.
“If the gods will that I be run over.
it will be so,” he says, and. :9. will not
budge an i'M‘h. Entreaties .1 1.1 even
beatings, v '
carriage 1.
have to turn:
The cons-stution of the 1.. 1:30 is
illfitted by nature to witlv.;":..'. i such
a visitu.t_..21 as a famine. Ins-1 1t :1
Hindoo and he will squat liimsz'jlf in
a corner and determine to die. And
before :1. week has passed he will have
pined away. His blood is naturally
thin, and in no condition to long -
stand the ravages of hung-er. ‘
The cases of the wives of the bette;
class natives is very sad. These are
the people of whose suiferings one
hears least. Mohammedan women
are never seen, of course. They live
for 124.) eyes but their husbands’. in
man; and many an empty house in In-
dia ”to-day these poor women are.
proud iy out surely passing from health .
to eniuciution, and from emhciatirn to
death.
The gieat question of caste that di-
\ides the people 0. India into numer
0115 social strata and which is encu-
l'ricably mixed with religious, C(lIilll':0§'
'cial and political prejudices obti'inh':
itself even in the face of deut.li.--~.'\.
York Journal.
“Tliht Was a nzeskr'..ti1i11;.:"if .3-
-.1' to do.” ‘
“What was 1t v”
“When his foliner wife 1115.111': 'ed ho
s out the groom a com-gm” "lb: ”1:11
the Shrew} ."—-7'3hil:1clel 111111
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CAKE OF TOILET SOAP if! EVERY PACKAGE.
PURlFlES POlSONED AIR.
“it 1 a'Pneumatoplmr Flruuen Diay Go
Into the Most Stlflllng Rooms.
Firemen who have to enter smoke
and miners who have to breathe after
damp will not need to fear these dan-
gers when a recent Viennese invention
comes to be used by them. It is Called
“pneumatophor,” and enables a man to
inhale noxious fumes with impunity.
Chevalier de Walcher-Uysdal and Dr.
'Gaertner, professor at the University
of Vienna, are the inventors.
It consists of an air-tight India rub-
ber bag, containing first, a steel bottle
holding sixty liters of pure oxygen at
“a pressure of 100 atmospheres, and
secondly, a glass bottle (protected by
a metal one) containing 425 ‘cubic cen-
timeters of 5 per cent solution of caus-
tic soda. By means of a handscrew
outside the bag, the oxygen can be let
into the bag at intervals, as required
for breathing, while the turning of
another handscrew breaks the glass
bottle inside and allows the caus-
tic soda to flow out and be ab-
sorbed by the network “of knitted
strips of dimity in the bag. Then
there are an indie. rubber breathing
tube. with 1a mouthpiece, and two nose
'clips (one a square one.)
After strapping the apparatus on to
his chest, the user lets some oxygen
into the bag, breaks the caustic soda
bottle, takes the mouthpiece between
his lips and puts on a nose clip, so as
to breaths only through his mouth. He
inhales pure oxygen, 'while the caustic
soda absorbs the carbolic acid he ex-
hales, and thus sets the oxygen free to
be rebreathed. This makes it suffice
for more than half an hour if he is
moving, and about an hour and a half
if at rest—New York Press.
ELEPHANT FLESH A DELICACY.
The Best Part is the First Joint of the
Leg Below the Knee.
The flesh of the elephant is eaten in
it's entirety by several of the African
tribes. The Philadelphia Lancet says
that a detail of the process of butcher:
ing the animals is not pleasant read-
ing. The tools used are the as-s-egai and
hatchet. The rough outer skin is first
removed in large sheets. Beneath. this
is 1a subcuticle, a pliable membrane,
from which the natives make water—
skins. The elephant yields large quan-
tities of fat, used in cooking the na-’
tives’ sun-dried biltonig, or dried strips
of the elephant’s flesh, and also in the 1
preparation of vegetables. African ex—
plorers of the Caucasian race agree
that one part of the elephants carcass,
when properly cooked, is a succulent
dish that will regale the most delicate
taste. This part, very strangely, is the
first joint of the leg below the knee,
which one would suppose to be the very
toughest portion of the animal. To
prepare the joint a hole three feet deep
is dug in the earth, and the sides of it
are baked hard by means of large live
coals. Most of the coals are then taken.
out, and the elephants foot is placed
in the rude oven. The hole is then
filled with dirt, tightly packed, and a
blazing fire is built on top, which is
kept replenished for three hours. The
foot is thus evenly baked, and when
done. instead of strong, tough meat
fibre, it is of a gelatinous consistency
that may be eaten with a spoon.
Queen Virtnri..’s Windsor Boudoir.
It may 1;: interesting to know that
Queen Victoria‘s boudoir at Windsor
is furnished in red and gold, that every
article was selected by the late Prince“
Consort, and that her Majesty keeps
the first bouquet given her by Prince
Albert, with her bridal wreath, under
a glass case in her bedroom.
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in almost all cases by its great alter-a5
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\
Cost of Tunnels.
A recently published item relative
. to the comparative cost of the world’s
four great tunnels placesthe cost of
the Hoosac tunnel in the United
States. the oldest one of the lot, at
about $380 a foot. The Mount Cenis
tunnel, the next in date, cost, accord-
ing to the same item, about $355 a.
foot; the St; Gothard cost $230 a foot,
and the Arlberg, the latest inn date,
cost only $155 a foot. The rapid ‘de—
crease i'n cost within comparatively
few years is cited as a marked indica-
. tion of the great progress in mechan-
ical methods and improvements in
rock excavating tools. A still more
striking result exists in the case of a.
tunnel through the Cascade Moun-
tains, on the line of the Northern Pa-
cific Railroad, in the United States.
This, unlike those named, which were
excavated in old, settled countries,
with the terminal easy of access, was
in a peculiarly difficult location, so
much so that it took. months to convey
the machinery to 'the spot. Rivers
had to be turned aside, bridges built,
and material transported over impro-
vised roads' through nearly 100 miles
of. forest, mud and snow, fields; yet the
tunnel, which is sixteen and one-half
feet wide, tw. :1ty-two feet high, and
8,950 feet long, was bored through the
mountain in twenty-two 'months, at
the rate of 413 feet a month, and at a
cost for the completed tunnel of only
about $120 a foot—New York Times.
Poe and Hisifiaéen‘.
Poe’s fame as a poet rests for the
most part upon three poems, “The Ra-
ven,” “The Bells," and “Annabel
Lee.” When Poe composed “The Ra-.
ven” he was on familiar terms with:
William Ross Wallace, author of “The,
Sword of Bunker Hill,” and the two
poets were in the habit of reading to‘
each other their verses. It is said that-
at one time the following conversation
took place between the two:
“Wallace,” said Poe, “I have just
written the greatest poem that ever
was wr’itt-Jen
“Have you?” said W'allac-c.
a fine achievement.”
“Would you like to hear
Poe. .
“Most certainly,” said Wallace.
Thereupon Poe began to read the
sooth-to be-famous verse in his best'
way, which I believe was always ai
“That’s
it?” said
captivating way. When he had fin-
= ished he turned to VV'allaee for his ap-
proval of them, when Wallace said: .
, "Poe, they are fine, uncommonly'
‘ fine.” '
i “Fine?" said Poe, contemptuously.
l “Is that all you can say for this poem?
I tell you it’s the greatest poem that
was ever written.’
And then they separated, not, how-
ever, before Wallace had tried to pla-
1 cute, with somewhat more pronounced
I praise, the pett ish poet. ——Foru1n.
1
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Better than Bottles.
' Although handy and useful at a.
pinch, a bottle is a very poor sort of
arrangement for carrying records of
'7 disaster at sea. It is almost «impossi-
ble to see it more than a few yards
away, besides which it travels slowly,
and is liable to be. smashed against
rocks. ,
A capital substitute has been re-
cently invented. This 'is a light rub-
ber ball two feet or three feet in di-
ameter and brightly painted. It floats
sohigh that the wind carries it at a
great rate. :Two hundred miles in
five days has been covered by one of
these nautical couriers. Such an in-
vention might even be used with ad«
vantage to bring help to a disabled
vessel in midocean. -
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Great Britain doesn’t like the Ding.
ley bill. G—eimany , has protested
against it. Italy and the Netherlands
have recorded their disapproval.
Fiance, according to official reports,
is about to legister her displeasure.
Two Birds and One Stone.
A11 impressionable Paris banker, the
owner of immense riches, died of grief
on hearing that he had lost everything
in" the world except $20,000. His paup- .
er brother on inheriting that Sum from
him died of joy.
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