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“Hit surved him right," the nabors scd,
An‘ ‘buscd him for the life he led,
An' him a 13" gthar at rest
With not; a e upon his breast;
,Ah! menny cruel words they said
When Jim was dead.
“.‘lcs’ killed hissclf.“ “Too mean to live."
They didn‘t hav‘ one word ter- give
Of comfort as they hovered near
An‘ gazed on Jim a—lying there.
"Thur ain‘t no use for talk,” they end,
“He‘s better dead.“
But suddenly the room growcd still,
Whilo God‘s white sunshine seemed to fill
The dark place with a gleam of life,
An‘ o‘er the dead she bent—Jim‘s wife!
An‘ with her lips close, close to his,
As tho‘he knew nn‘ felt the kiss,
She sobbed—a touchin‘ sight to see—
“Abi Jim was always good tcr me!“
I tell you when that cum to light
It kinder set the dead man right;
An‘ round the weepin‘ woman they
Throwed kindly arms of love that day.
And mingled with their own they shed
The tender-est tears when—Jim was dead.
——F. L. Stanton in Atlanta Constitution.
ADVENTURES IN CHINA.
There is hardly an American boy 12 years
of age who does not feel himself a match for
any Chinaman he may happen to meet in
this country. “John” is generally looked
upon us a duifcr, and is held in more .or less
contempt on that account. Just one thing
makes a Chinamau seem to be a. coward
when living among us. He has a positive
terror of the law, and he understands so little
of the English language that he must be hard
pressed to go into court. Public opinion
first and now the law makes him an inter-
loper. His employment is always menial.
He is an outcast among men. He has no
hackers and few friends. Therefore it is
policy in him to put up with slights, insults
and abuse and seem to be a coward.
If, however, you take him on his own no.-
tivo heath you will discover that the aver-
age Chinamau is as bravo as the average man
of any other nation. He will resent an in-
suit just as quickly, and he will fight with
all the ferocity of a tiger. The Chinaman
and the Russian are especially alike in some
things. You can't move them in their re
ligiou. They are as ,abject as slaves to their
superiors. They are abusive and tyrannical
among their equals. A Chinese desperndo
who will defy much and defend ,himsclf to
the last, will, when taken out for execution
’uuder sentence of a court or ofilcial, follow
,t’zbo executioner as quietly as a lamb. and
.‘wiilknecl and bare his neck without thought
~of resistance.
As one of the agents of an English tea syn—
,dicato, I spentjnenrly four years in the most
populous districts of the Celestial empire,
,nhd ,Ibad every opportunity to study them.
They may makc‘alltho'jtreaties they- care to,
and the emperor maydssue a new 'mnnlfesto
every week in the year-,{but the true Chimi-
mnu will continue to hateaforeigner,‘d1id
to wish him the worst of luck. All white
men are barbarous in the eyes of aChina)
man. You may be ever so learned and great,
and you may place them under over so many
obligations, but you still continue to be the
scum of the earth in their eyes. Nine out of
ten would regard it as a religious duty to
"stick a. knife into your ribs. and the only
; rtxtysotn they don’t do it is the fear of creating
;_ trouble—for government oflicials. The masses
‘__ know that treaties exist, and that the mur-
.' der of a. foreigner", would be made a. state
matter, and they o'bey the’supposcd wishes of
their own government rather" than the pro-
.yisions and clauses of treaties. 7 '- .- —
One thing always struck me as very curi-~
ous. . No Chinamauever sets out to despoii a
foreigner without calculating to take his life
also. In cases where ,tlicypould rob and es-
cape with their booty, they refuse .to accept
the privilege, but wait to 'add inuriicriotho
crime, While I say no Chinaman, I mean,
of course, none ofthe criminal class. I have
slept in hundreds of Chinese houses, and
Several attempts were,
eclass',‘;ai1d‘ some of them may interest the
reader." " '
Militia at jPing-Sisnu, on the Yangtsc-
Kiang river, Imadoa shooting and fishing
excursion on the river in company with a.
French civil engineernnd‘anflngiish tourist.
We had a boat about thirtylfeetlong, pro-
vided with both sail and cars, and .a cabin
.aft which would hold six or eight peopl'oTAs
'5 we sitere to be gone four or five days, we had
bunks rigged up in the cabin, and we took
along allourflrcnrms and a plentiful supply
, of ammunition. j‘fo chartered the boat and
1‘ its crew of sith’éhgjiogethcr with our keep,
:for sixty , cents per day. IVe sailed and
:rowcd to the east, and were presently in a
(very wild and unsettled locality. At that
{timebthcro was not even a village of 7200 in
habitantsalong the stream to the cast for 25')
miles, the-land-bciug'stcrile and broken, and.
the forests very heavy. Such a thing at
danger from the natives never entered on:
heads.
We had been out three days, and worn
lying zit-anchor in p bendof the stream, on
the hour wns-5_o’clock in the afternoon, when
there was a. sudden commotion aboard. E
was gfisbingover the stern of tho-beat, .whil!
the Frenchman was forward, land the
Englishman had gone ,off with one of the
men in a canoe to inspect some rocks. I
heard shouts and yells, and turned just hill
our crew, one after another, plunged over;
heartland struck out for the shore. ‘We had
been benijdcd by a solitary native, who h i
come off in his',cnnoo from the other ban
The firearms were 11,1 ,t-he cabin, and as '3
turned to see what the uproar meant the
native cut the Frenchman’s head almostplcni.‘
off by a. blow from a. short, heavy sword,"
I did not know why the fellow had come,
get his intentions, but as the Frenchman fell
11 retreated to the cabin to arm myself. 'ThZ‘:
[native made a rush and I shut and booked:
' tho’door. He began chopping at it with his
' sword, and from a. little side window I fired
2 upon him with a revolver and wounded him
' in the side. He thereupon retreated out of?
firings}, but took’up his 5 tiou in such a man.
ineifithnt he could cut me down if I attempted
to come out. The uproar had reached thti
Englishman, andho approached in the canoe,
He had gonooff ,witho‘ut; weapons, and nevi?
he dared not board the boat. There was 0110
small stern window, and he‘dropped the
canoe down and called to me ~arid ,cxplainedi
matters. The fellow holding the’ ‘_dc‘,clr
was a. desperado. He had come of]! sing);
handed to rob us, but must also have
our lives. He was entirely alone, and prob!
ably would not be joined by others. While
he was explaining matters I lashed a. revol-
ver and sonic ammunition to a board used as
a life preserver and lowered it to the water.
As it floated down, the Englishman scoured
it. The robber’s canoe was alongside, and I
instructed my companion how to secure it. I
did not propose to let the fellow get away
after his bloody work. I heard him cursing
and growling as he discovered what was go-
ing on, but he did not leave his station. He
was bent on having my life, and the wound I
had inflicted had worked him up to a furious
degree.
The craft was a. light one, and the cabin
was little better than n. thatch. After the
canoe- hau been taken away I took up one m
the shotguns loaded with buckshot, dropped
a bullet into the barrel, and thou crept
around the cabin to discover the villain’s
outside location. He kept as still as a mouse
for a. few minutes, but by and by I heard
him move and mutter. Then I broughttho
gun to beer so as topepper his legs and
blazed away. He fell down, shrieking and
cursing, and, grasping one of the revolvers,
I dashed out. The charge had taken him in
the right leg at the knee, and it was a fatal
wound, but he pulled himself up and camo
at me hopping on one leg, while the blood
literally flooded the deck behind him. I saw
that I must finish him and I didn’t hesitate
to do it. When our crew of natives returned
most of them recognized the man. He was a
robber and had several times been ini-
prisoned, and they clung to itthat his sole
idea in coming aboard was to despoil us. In
his idea murder went with robbery. It was
a necessary adjunct. If he was, as they
claimed, only a second class desperado, one
of the first class would probably have the as-
surance to attack a merchant ship single
handed.
My second adventure was at a town called
Kwei-Ling. I had been there a month, and
my business and social relations had been ex-
tremely pleasant. I went one night to sup
with and spend the night at the house of the
mayor, who was also our local agent. Ila
lived out in the suburbs, with a very fine gar-
den about his house, and the room assigned
mo was on the ground floor, front. It had
two windows, and while not over eight feet
wide, was fully twenty—four feet long. Lying
in my bed, I could see the whole length or
the room, and as the night was very hot and
close, I left the lower sash up. I had my re»
volvcr at hand, and being a. light sleeper I
knew that the slightest noise would arouse
me. We sat up to a into hour and it was
after midnight when I got to bed. I at once
fell asleep, and at 53 o'clock foundnnysclf sitr
ting bolt upright in bed and a. man climbing
in at the window. I had my revolver on him
before he was on his feet in the room and I
called out to him in Chinese to stand where
he was or I would shoot him. My clothes
. werepu a chair between him and urogand if
me had been intent on i‘ObbTei‘y lilone he might
have grabbed them and made off. But he
wanted to rob and kill, too; and although he
could have seen the gleam of my revolver in
in the moonlit room, he came for the bed on
a run, brandishing the ugliest looking knife
I ever set my eyes on. I pulled for him over
the footboard when he was only ten feet
away, and he fell. Ithn lights and help
arrived we found that my bullet had glanced
around his skull and stunned him. There
were six or eight of us at hand, but the fol-
low fought like a giant, and we could not so-
cure him uutii I had rapped him over the head
with the butt of my pistol. He was all right
again as an officer arrived, and lol be ac-
tually followed the policemnn to the station
house! I was a stranger. The other was an
oiliciul. While he fought to murder me, he
was as humble as a dog in the presence of
ofliciul power.
It turned out that the man coveted my
gold watch, and that alone, and, though he
had had several previous chances to rob me,
he let them slip, because he could not also
kill me. The man was tried that self same
day, found guilty, and the next morning at
3) o‘clock was led out and beheaded. He
walked before the executioner, seemingly as
placid as the morning, and when ordered to
kneel down, he promptly obeyed and held his
neck in the best position to have his head
struck off. A single blow decapitated him.
NearSiuug—tiau, a few months later, I was
captured by twoof a mountain band of rob-
hers. Their first thought was to slay me. I
was alone and on a. donkey, and they sprang
upon me so suddenly out .of the bushes that I
had no time to prepare myself. Both slashed
at me with their swords, but I dodged them,
and called out that I was an English official
of great importance, and that if they did me
harm the heads of twenty mondurins would
he demanded in payment. This cooled them
011‘, and, luckily for me; the leader of the
band came up. He was a. native of Turkes-
tan—a wicked fellow, and one who delighted
to shed blood, but my reiteration of my im-
portance had its effect upon me. He rea—
soned with his fellow robbers as follows:
“Hero wo have a prisoner. It is plain that
ho is an Englishman. He doesn’t want to be
killed. If we kill him, the mandarin will
send soldiers after us, and we shall have
trouble. We shall all be killed, and his
friends will want a large sum of money be-
sides. That will make so much trouble that
no one else will dare to rob. We will not kill ’
him, but. as we have been to much trouble he
must pay us ransom.”
“But I want to out his throat!" protested
one of my captors.
“That is true, but we will spare his life
and kill four other men to pay for it.”
I was taken up u ravine into the mountain,
where ,we found three other members of the
band. But for the leader I should have been
murdered off hand, They took my watch,
money and trinkets, and than debated the
question of l‘tliiSOm. VIYheu they had fixed
the sum the l. .tiler said: ‘
“You must payusa sum equal to £5 in
English money or we shall kill you at the
"end of the week.
They seemed to think the sum an extrava-
{one ope, Vaudevcro considerably surprised
when liken " 'uotcjuj'to our local agent and
the money .. Ms iforthcomingt-»,l'llhe Chinese
still howled for drying, land as-‘I departed
for the town, cleaned out'dnd on‘fboii‘jflo
leader was protesting: T
"My children, it is sud that we cannot kill
him, but I am doing for the best. Yousmay
kill the next eight men you meet, and if
seine aro Turks or Russians we will not
care.”—New York Sun.
LUCK
IN LIFE.
Tho Finer Inner Sense of the So Called
“Lucky” Person. '
,«Itwssmentioncd recently that some per-
son had‘drawn $197,000 in a. lottery. There
‘, are such 'iri'stamzes from time to time, but
when one comes to reflect upon it be per-
ceives'thnt the prizes wero'won' from those
,who ,had Contributedztbf buy the tickets:';,This
is bubform Offlii'clgmost people understand;
that is, theyzs‘eethatfihero is nothing inher-
ent in the individu‘gl that causes (the success.
A man throws sixes, '0'? {JO ,‘drh‘wStho highest
prize, and nothing can be sald,"ex1;c})ktithat,it
is his luck. And so in all the phases strife,
some men are bOrn great, some achievfe
greatness and others have greatness thrust
upon them. If his ship sinks he is saved in
the long boat; if his bank breaks he has with-
drawn his accounts.
But there is a luck different from this, and
it has been often noted. One man goes
through life and everything he does turns to
gold. Another man, under the same circum-
-v,st'nuces, apparently, goes the same way, and
everything he does turns to ashes. Why is
this? 'l‘loigne can explain it. For want of a
better name’ itgngy be called luck, but this
does not solve the ’problem. It might seem
as if luck was a finer innersense that enabled
its possessor to take in certain business situa-
. Lions and act on them according] '3 ,‘that by
[means of it men see better and clearer; and
without being able to explain why they‘d}:
this or that, go forward and achieve success.
Just look at it for a moment. Here is one
fman' 2who loses his frnin by half a minute and
an engagementthat might havemudo him
rich. Running for office, he is defeated by
two votes. ‘A'pplyin'g for a place, he finds it
given away thOdiiy before he applied. Ho
,speculatesiu.‘ stocks, mid'no s‘ooner buys but
the steak ' goes down. ‘Hc ‘séllsthe- onese-
crop, and the price ,gOc's Lh‘p‘.‘ “He‘has ha
natural‘tendencyto get 'On the wrong side,
Rand when prices fall he is long, and when
.‘they riso‘he is ,‘shortl On ‘alljsideSL‘metiir
pherically' and actually, he is ,ch'edte‘d,
robbed. snubbedand'kiclséd- ‘ " "
On the other band, the‘luekyman is,a.l_s_vays
on the other side, and no matterwhctmay
be the market, or how affairs many turn Opt,
he falls like a. cat on all fours. There is as)
more striking instance in respect to this mat—
ter than the career of Gen. Grunt. Great
general as ho was, how many, mauy'in-
stances there were when he seemed to cross
the flood .“on the uncertain footing of a
spear.” And, concerning advancement, who
could have prcsaged in 1860 that the obscure
tanner of Galena. would be president of the
United States eight years later and the most
distinguished man of modern times? This
may be called luck, but it is :i. luck inherent
in certain individuals, making them equal to
the occasion they meet. It is, in fact, a sixth
sense born with the indivflual, just as the
talent for poetry or oratory is born with cer-
tain men. It is better to be born lucky than
rich, says the old proverb, and history
npémdantly gives it the proof—Chicago Her-
e .
Staff 3 Japanese Paper.
Thetotnl number of persons employed on a
typical Japanese newspaper, say The Nicki
Nichi Skimbun,‘ is as follows: One political
director, one chief editor, five assistant edi-
tors, four proof readers, one shorthand writer,
twelve reporters or news gntherers, three or
four cornpositors, each with several assist-
ants, twelve men in the press room and minor
employes, including distributors, making a
total of 150 persons. The reporters are the
weak point, for the editor frankly tells you.
that if they cannot- find news they are com-
pelled to bring home fiction, as they are paid
by results, and even then they do not often
earn more than $210 a month.
They therefore deliberately invent a large
part of the news. During my own stay the ver-
nacular papers have had fifty items of news
about my movements, of ludicrous inaccu-
racy. b‘o untrustworthy, indeed, is the re-
porter that an assistant editor is always sent?
when anybody of importance desires or is in-
vited to be interviewed. As regards the sup-
ply Of news, the best papers have their own
correspondents, almost always men employed
on a newspaper, in Other chief cities, and
some of them have mail correspondents
abroad, generally young men who have gone
to Europe or America. to study. Much cu-
terpriso is shown' in collecting full accounts
of anything that occurs in Japan. but the
trail, of the untrustworthy reporter is over it
all, and this greatly reduces its interest and
influence—Henry Norman in Philadelphia
Times. .
Many Methods of Divination.
Until one makes a careful study of this
abject, he cannot have any adequate idea of
the extent of its ramifications. An old
writer enumerates as many as fifty-three
methods of divination, some of which—as
sciemancy, or divination by shadows; typo-
mancy, or divining by means of tho coagula-
tion of cheese, etc. —nro obsolete; while
others—like chlromancy, or palmistry, onei-
romauey, or dream interpretation, and clero-
money, or casting lots—arc still in vogue.
Manycducatcd men yet attach importance
to the predictions of o. horoscope. It will be
remembered that in the last volume of the
“Life of Lord Lytton” :3 a curious specimen
of one the author cast of Lord Beaconsfield,
when only Mr. Disraeli. The future life of
the great statesman was most accurately pro-
dictcd, but the brilliant career then fore-
shadowed appcarcd so unlikely that Lord
Lytton himself seems to have somewhat
doubted the fulfillment of his own prophecies.
—-l\'.cw Yuri; Commercial Advertiser.
“Jamaica Ginger Drunkards."
The number of “Jamaica ginger drunk-
nrds” in Georgia is said by an Atlanta news
paper to be increasing at an alarming rate.
A confirmed drinker takes four ounces, or
thirty-two teaspoonfnls, of the fiery fluid at
'utn time, and the effects are much worse
than those of whisky—New York Evening
World.
TRIP WITH THE MILKMAN.
o...—
SCENES IN A GREAT CITY
_PEOPLE ARE ASLEEP
WHEN
At I o'Clock In the Morning-Exchanging
Empty Dill]: Cans for Full Oncsa—Hou
)ustomcrs Are Served—Intelligence of
the Mllkmim'l Mare—Daylight.
“Tom" Murphy has been a miikmmi for
more than fifteen years, and for u very long
time has supplied the reporter’s fumil y with
u. regularity that has never been broken save
by an occasional blockade and by the bliz-
mrd of last March. Murphy invited the re-
porter to go with him on his rounds some
night and sec for himself how the work was
done. This invitation was recently ac-
cepted. '
Atalittle after 1 o’clock in the morning
Murphy was met by appointment at a little
uptown stable, where he was. found groom-
ing his horse. A lantern, whose finme sput-
tered and flickered, was suspended from a
nail in a. beam just behind the stall, and fur-
nished all the light that was necessary for
Murphy’s accustomed eyes, but to the
stranger in such surroundings the stable was
filled with deep shadows which changed into
fantastic shapes as the lantern swayed to
and fro.
"The top 0’ th‘ mornin‘ to yo" was Mur-
phy greeting as his visitor appeared “Faith,
I dld’t think ye’d come so chill a, night.” Ten
minutes later" Tom and his visitor were driv-
ing toward the Weehawken ferry with a
gloadof empty rnilk cans which were to be
exchanged for full ones On the way it was
possible to examine the interior of the wagon
closely. The rows of cans on the bottom of
the wagon fitted in snugly between narrow
strips of iron 50 placed as to keep them in po-
sition, and the ribs of the cover of the vehi-
cle were filled with books upim which were
hung half pint, pint, quart and two quart
measures in great numbers. Space was
, cconomized in every way possible so nsto
give the vehicle the greatest carrying capac-
ity of which it was capable. At this hour
the streets of the city were still occupied by
numbers of people and vehicles of various
business, especially along Sixth avenue, and
the bar rooms were in full blast, notwith-
standing that it was beyond the hour when
the law declares that the sale of liquor must
cease. Along the streets the night hawks of
the city, the backmen, hurried and scurried
hero and there watching for fares .Ot
drunken men and women there were many
on the streets, and these were the natural
prey of the cabmcu.
DISTRIBUTION or MILK.
Weehawken was duly reached and the work
of unloading and loading was quickly ac-
complished. On the way back Tom explained
the manner in which the milk was distributed
over the city. On all roads, he said, milk
trains are run to the city from the surround-
ing country. This is consigned to contractors
who have the milk carted to their own depots
in the city, whence it is distributed by their
. own-men and tennis, or, as in Tom's case, the
milkmnn, owning his own horse and wagon,
. is supplied at the cars. Those who get their
-milk in the latter way purchase it more
iche‘aply because of the saving to the con-
tractor in the matter of cartago than do those
who s'écug'otheir supplies at the contractors’
city dopots‘.""Iii$‘€h majority of cases, how-
ever, the contractbrs‘bwn'the entire outfits cf
the milkmen, who either ’gét‘kfgnqer}= or in
commission. There are several, "hen-ever,
who. like Tom, have built up routes of their
arm, and who make a. specialty of furnishing
the best milk attainable to their customers;
The financial returns are not large, and
hardly pay the men for the hardships they
endure in pursuing their business. Most of
the individual owners of routes are engaged
to deliver supplies to restaurants and saloom
noon, after their own work is done.
It was after 3 o’clock when Tom announced
that he was approaching the upper end of his
‘ro'i‘ite; at' Eighth avenue and Fifty-third
street. Thatloculity was perfectly quiet at
thathour, the onlynoiso‘beihg the rumble of
the wagon and tho rattle ofzcans, save when
an occasional- elevated train, a street Car or
dienb"weut ,by; As the mural turned .into
Fifty-thirds'ti‘eetsho pricked‘ up her ears,
whisked her" tail: and started Off on a. lively
trot. Tom hitched'th‘o reins to a beck-in the
top of the front of the never, nlloWing them
to hang limp over the animal’s back.‘-Thb
lantern was then hung on another hotel; hull
Tom was ready for business. As tho more
approached a certain house she swerved to—
ward the sidewalk and sluckcncd her pace.
Tom, with three cans in either hand,
leaped from the wagon while it was
still in motion, and, rushing into an
area under the front steps of a
house, exchanged a full can for an empty
one. This be repeated in five other houses,
the more in the meantime walking leisurely
along. When Tom had returned with the
:.,si_x empty cans, and had placed his foot on
the‘stop to leap' into the wagon, the more
was off again with a rush. A block further
on she slowed. .up on the opposite side of the
street and Tom, with more full cans, leaped
down again. This was repeated time after
time, the animal exhibiting .uS. Matting a.
knowledge of the places where the milk was
to be left as Tom did concerning. the quan-
tity desired at each. _ ... . ,-
SERVING THE CUSTOMERS.
In every case the man brought back empty
cans‘ corresponding precisely in dimensions
with‘thefull (ones he had taken fromtho
‘wagOnL Occasionally ‘he'grumb'led at find-
Ilug.1iotevs‘oltziaacli'i'z'cl‘ to the, empty cans request-
ing‘iuindditioh‘al quantity of milk for that
\du‘ffinly. ' ' 'I’I‘liésc‘d'crnhnds were ~satisfied out
k" In HWECPl-‘tcfilflliell for that purpose. ‘ ’I‘o
fill't en; caused porno inconvenience, for' it
ncccmitated additional ,trips ' from'fivdg'on to
house, and the mass rather di's‘likf‘d being
dictated to in regard to lodgers Lips than
usual. As the wagon went along Tom‘said
that he began serving a new family the day
before on a street where he had had no other
customers, and he wanted his visitor to no-
tico how nnerringly tho mare would follow
the new route. She did it as correctly as if
her owner had held the reins, which he never
once touched. Corners were turned us faith-
fully by the careful and intelligent animal,
and other vehicles were passed as safely as
the most cautious driver or pedestrian could
have wished. At one point nears corner the
mare stopped, and Tom explained that ho
had a dozen or more customers in that local-
ity, and that the “haste" always Waited for
him right there.
From this time on the streets seemed de-
serted save by an occasional staggering in-
obriate or by other milk wagons. The horses
looked' cold and bare in the gray light of
morning. Then, a little later on. men with
dinner pails came trudging along the side-
walks, and poorly dressed boys and girls on
their way to work. The sun. was shining
brightly and artificial light was gone when
the mporter’s house was recalled. 119 dis
mounted, 139an with cold, but feeling
that he had seen the town as only the tellers
from midnight to dawn ever see the great
city—Now York Timon.
Edison in an Emergency.
Soon Edison‘s mechanical skill became so
noted in the ofiice that ho was made superin-
tendent of the repair shop. It was not long
before the value of his services was fully
shown. The several telegraph companies
then in existence—tho Franklin, Bankers’ and
Brokers’, Southern and Atlantic and Atlantic
and Pacific—were using the Page sounder,
the sole right to which was claimed by the
Western Union company. Owing} to the
Western Union’s success in a patent fight
over the Page sounder, there came a. time
when an injunction was obtained silencing
all sounders of that type in the hands of
rivals and practically putting a stop to our
business. '
Edison was called into the president’s office
and the situation explained. For along time
he stood chewing his tobacco, looking first at
the sounder in his hand and then falling into
abrowu study. At length“ he picked up a,
sheet of tin used as a “back” for manifolding
on thin sheets of paper, and began to twist
and cut it into queer shapes; meanwhile we
stoOd around looking on. Not a word was
spoken. Finally Edison tore off the Page
“sounder” on the instrument before him. and
substituting his bit. of tin, began working,
It was not so good as the patented arrange-
ment discarded, but it worked. In four hours
a hundred such devices were in use over our
lines, and what wo'uld have been a ruinous
interruption to our business was avoided.-
New York Star.
The British Empire's Growth.
Within a few years Fiji has become
British, enormous provinces on the north-
west fronticr of India rind the whole kingdom
of Upper Burmnh. The foundations have
been laid of a. great colony in Borneo, which
will one day, probably, absorb the whole
island. Half the enormous island of New
Guinea. almost a continent in extent, has be-
come do juro if not de facto, the territory of
the queen. Great tracts of land, including.
the whole of Zululand, have been acquired
in South Africa. Advance has been made on
the Congo. Egypt is in English control.
Berber and Khartoum seem likely to become
British. Cyprus will hardly return to
Turkey. and in South America. British pos-
sessions have been extended—Liverpool
Mercurv. .
sorts. Restaurants were doing a thriving
in the early morning, and, in fact, up to
A PECULIAR PEOPLE.
THE HARMONISTS AND THEIR CELE-
BRATION OF THE LORD’S SUPPER.
l‘ho Singular Reflgloul Sect of I" y,
Pin—Some Pecullnrltfes of Belief and
Practice—Music on the Sacramento]
‘ Day—Dipping the Son.
Every one has heard of tho Harmonists or
Economites. Their fame is world wide. The
story of how, to escape religious persecution,
they fled from their German Faderlnud to
this country and established here in 1805 ii
theocrntic, communistic religious society
upon the principle of” holding all things in
common, is a familiar tale. Their adoption
in 1307, wholly from religious motives, of the
rigid practice of celibacy, which they have
strictly observed down to the present time,
has had wide notoriety, and has even been
commemorated in one of the poems of Lord
Byron.
A close intimacy with their religious lead-
era and a residence of many years in their
immediate vicinity have given me unusual
opportunities for the observance of these
things. The frequent misrepresentations of
them by newspaper and magazine correspond-
ents have aroused in the breast of the Hair.
monist leaders a desire that they shall be
truthfully stated. - It is owing to this combi-
nation of circumstances that I am able to
give a correct account of the manner in which
the Harmonists celebrate that most sacred of
all religious usages—flip Lord’s Supper.
AN ANNUAL s’ncnmm'.
These singular péb'ple partake of this sacra-
ment but once a year. They believe that as
it was intended to replace an annual observ~
since—the Feast of the Passover—it was our
Lord’s intention that it should be celebrated
but once in a twelvernonth, and that it is a
direct violation of his wish and will to keep
it oftcner. It is the only sacrament they rec-
cgnize. They behave that at the Lord's
table the true body and blood of J esus Christ
are verily present in the eternal symbols of
[read and wine, and that they are there
communicated and received. They attach un-
usual importance to the scriptural saying
tubes “condemnation’h shall be the portion
of him who eats and drinks unworthily.
Tho worthiness which they deem essential
includesuot merely a change of heart. No
one must approach the Lord’s table with feel-
ings of enmity in his heart toward any of his
brethren. Before coming to communion
they giro careful to first Privately and then
publicly reconcile all variances which may
have arisen among any of their members, so
that they may all participate together in true
Christian: love and, fellowship. They claim
that this practice is strictly enjoined by our
Saviour in his sermon on the Mount, its re-
corded by St. Matthew v, 23, 24: “There-
fore if then bring thy gift to the altar
ought against thee, leave'there thy gift before
the altar and go thy way; first be reconcded
toftby. brother and then come and offer thy
i t.” -‘
g AN OCCASION 01? JOY. .
But notwithstanding the very sacred and
mystic character with which they invest it,
the Ilarmouists’ celebration of the Lord’s
Supper is largely a social as well as a relig-
ious observance. It is an occasion of joy, not
=Of sadness or gloom. Every dispute having
been amicably settled and every sin atoned
for. so for as lies within the power of the
=trausgressor, -ull:the members of this singular
community are at peace with each other and
with themselves. Music plays a. most impor~
hint part in their celebration of the sacru-
ment,‘ as 'iii‘nll their'other social and religious
pbserv'ances, Father George: Rapp,~ tho
founder of the Harmony $0983.05 has a credit
lover of music and thoroughly uhdé'r'sttybd
its influence over large bodies of men; as
caused great attention to be paid to its culti-
vation by all the members of his community.
On the sacramental day music is heard on
every hand—not sad and somber melodies,
but airs of tho gayest, liveliest character,
seeking to give fit expression to tho exuber-
ant joy of these devout and simple minded
Christians. As is their custom on all their
great feast days, the town is awakened at
sunrise by the music of the band playing
sfl‘om,.aportic_o constructed for the purpose
.uronndj-tho_~ high , steeple of the church.
.Murohingeback ,tojbreakfast still playing,
the- bandmen have no sooner finished their
lineal than they are on the street-‘agnin,
‘nwukening the echoes .of the sleepy, grass
fgrowu’dld them; and blowing as though,- like
the winds iu “poor ~ King Lear-’5 time, they
would '.‘.‘,c’ra'ck their cheeks." , From. house to
house they gO’,’ drbusing‘ the inmates .and
summoning them to ichurch,"wh’e'ro all are re-
quired to assemble to hedrld‘jsé‘rmon from
Father Jacob Hénrici, the venerablélmnh
who has been the absolute civil and réligiOii‘s
head of tho community—its prophet, priest
and king—for more than twenty years past.
DIPPING THE SOP.
After the preaching comes the observance
of the sacrament. This does not take place
in the church, but in a' large public hall
specially erected for such purposes. Only
members of the society are permitted to com-
municate or even to be present. The Har-
monists do not confine their celebration of
the Last Supper to partaking of bread and
, wine. They have an elaborate feast prior to
(receiving the sacred elements. In the char-
acter of the vinnds for this repast, as well as
in the preparation of them, they strive to
. imitate as_closely. as possible these paituken
act by the Saviour and his disciples when they
‘zito the Passover for the: last‘time. Unleav-
”cued breaduud ‘ul‘largo-idish of a peculiar
fkind‘of' soup are placed in the center of tho
itab‘¢.:f "‘ _..._. A , _ _ >
In connection ,with _these they perform a.
peculiar ceremony which they term “dipping
jth‘esopfil 'At _‘a- given Signal'frbui Either
'Henriei ,nll’thc members present simultane-
gqenynip ,into‘th'esoup n‘ piece‘of bread, thus
ponyerting it into asap. 'l‘his‘theydo‘ih
Ine'mbry or the Saviour-ls words.whci1‘hskcd
by his disciples ‘who should betray him—-
Matt. xxvi, %, and John"xii_l, 264;,“Hi; that
dippeth his hand with me in tho diShfihp
same shall betray me," and “He it is, to
whom I shall give a sop, when I have
dipped it,”
This “dipping the sop” the Hurrnonists
deem a. most sacred ceremony, and they per-
form it with the utmost solemnity, regarding
it as an humble confession that they have all
betrayed Christ many times by their sins
against him. After this ceremony the bread
is broken and the cup prepared by Father
Henrici. Ho blesses both, and all partake in
silence. Then they pass one by one from the
great hall, and the celebration of the sacra-
ment is finished—Economy (Pa) Cor. New
York Herald.
- 3
A Fair in the Forest.
The Fete des Loges is a very curious fair,
' for it is held in the middle of the Forest of
St. Germain. No train runs within two or
three miles of the spot, therefore it needs
some courage to reach it. Itis just this diffi-
culty that renders it attractive and romantic.
The Forest of Germain is as mysterious as
central Africa. to ‘inost Parisians and much
more alluring. You do not expect to see
fowls and legs of mutton turning 0 ho spit,
or little tables covered with’fivhito c the, or
slices 'of potatoes turning brown in boiling
fat near the higher waters of the Congo; but
you may feel confident of seeing these things
at tho Fete dcs Logos in the Forest of St.
Germain. ' ‘
Add to this fascinating picture wooden
horses, turned by a very old and philosOphic
horse—not of wood, this one, but of bone and
skin—who goes round and round to the
strains of _:i. barrel organ, ever ’ tune of which
he could sing if he had any voice, traveling
theatres, wax works, American railways and
wild beasts, fortune tellers, fat girls, living
skeletons, and all the infernal din of the fete
foraine. I’arisians are not hold excursion-
ists. They think St. Cloud on the confines of
civilization; therefore they want an object
other than the greenwood tree before they
can make up their minds to plunge into the
forest of St. Germain. Tho Fete dos Logos
supplies this motive. —Pni‘is Cor. Boston
Transcript. _'
Hut Water for colds.
Dr. George 33.. Sheppard, Hartford, Conn,
says, in respect to the use of hot water as a
remedial agent in the treatment of inflam-
mation of the mucous membranes: “1 have
used hot water as u garglo for the past six or
eight your-5. In throat and tonsil inflamma-
tion, and in (oryza (or cell in the head), if
properly used in the commencement of the
attack, it constitutes one of our most: offer.“
tivc remedies, being frequently promptly
curative. To be of service, it should be used
in cbnsidcrablc quantity (3 half pint or a
pint at n. time), and just as hot as the throat
will tolerate. l have seen many cases of
acute disease thus aborted, and can commend
the method with great confidence.”—Hcrald
of Health.
The: Mad in Montreal.
The mud in Montreal is so thick that every -
body is complaining. Anthony Trollope once
paid a visit to Toronto after a. short stay
in Montreal. What struck him most forcibly
was the difference in the condition of the
streets of the two cities. Writing about it
afterward he said it was apparent that the
sidewalks after being worn out in Toronto
floated down the lake and the St. Lawrence
to Montreal. where they were use] again. —
Toronto Mail.
e
that damnation (the revised version substi--
and there rememberest that thy brother hath
III THE REPAIR SHOPS.
VISIT TO THE PLACE WHERE SICK
ENGINES ARE CURED.
c . mg I was Afflicted with
Asthma, not Boxes mid Lame Backs.
Facts Concerning Boilers—“Strippers."
West of Fortieth street dwide stretch of
prairie is inclosed by a high board fence and
within the inclosuro stand thirteen main
structures beside a multitude of smaller
ones. 0f the six ranged side by side along
the main track of the Galena division the
first and largest; one, with wide doors Opens
lug to the east and surmounted byu huge
. chimney whose volumes of smoke Would
drive the smoke inspector to distraction, is
the machine and construction shop—the
surgical clinic of the Northwestern road.
The other five of this cluster of shops, con-
nected by a system of parallel tracks, are ex-
clusively devoted to the repair of passenger
coaches. The two longitudinal buildings,
placed at right angles with the former, are
- the shops where the iron and woodwork for
carrepairsis made. Two other structures.
each over 600 feet in length, are warehousa,
and behind these are the yards for the stor-
age of all sorts of odds and ends, such as run-
ning gear—good, bad and indifferent—old,
, worn out axles, new wheels of paper, iron
and steel, freight car boxes which have out-
lived their usefulness—in short, every im-
aginable appliance usedinccnnection with
rolling stock generally.
' ‘To the uninitiated visitor who has obtained
the privilege of a stroll through the shops the
locomotive department is no doubt the most
interesting. In its workings it is at the some
time the most difficult to describe. To begin
with, the locomotive is not of the neuter;
that wonderful piece of mechanism is of the
feminine gender. Like the vessel to the
sailor, the locomotive is "shell to every one
that has anything to do with her. The engi-
neer’s sweetheart is n stench, ponderous and
yet complicated being, like all females, given
to the most incomprehensible and perplexing
complaints, though most everything about
her is of iron—gray or enstiron, Wrought
iron and sheet iron. ‘
The machine shop is trulyaworld in it-
self. Entering from the north end, there are
tothe left, stretching _nway to the farther
extremity of the huge building, many short
trucks or “stalls,” shut off from the outer
world when so desired by huge 409:5.- lists.
side by side, all facing to we cast, are loos-
motives of all ages and descriptions in one
continuous line, Silent and grim they stand,
their somber forges looming large imd tame
his in the dim obscurity .61 this vast Wprk
shop, Here my be found engines afflicted
with a great variety of complaints grid in all
stages of convalescenoe- Engine: with be?
boxes and lame backs, with violent internal
wheezings and various ominous and sus-
picious premonitory symptoms of approach—
ing dissolution; engines afflicted with sweats,
violent fevers, with levers that refuse to
work and wheels that will not go round.
Among them, to and fro, in and out, move
the “doctors,” operating upon each accord-
ing to the peculiar nature of her disease.
Upon the right, also stretching to the
farther end, is apex-feet wilderness of ma-
chines, while scattered over the floor in and
about these machines, wheels, cranks, shafts,
and every conceivable specimen of mechan-
ical construction lie in all stages of comple-
tion. Anything like an intelligent descrip-
tion of even a. limited number of these parts
:and‘the mechanism by which they are shaped
would requirevolumes But it is here that
they nro brought to their greatest state of
perfection audin the diflerent processes hun-
dreds of ‘machines,‘many~of special design
‘and répres'sxitingin'tho aggregate (hundreds
pf thousands ot'dollars‘,‘ are used‘con'stiintly-fi
“PW? pgg not; building‘any netv‘lOOOmotives
at present,” shid‘tll'o ‘Obliging‘stiperintendent
of construction, ‘lahd‘ have not for some
time. All our work in that‘lino‘ is bein '
done at the Schenectady works after "specie
plans prepared by us. Do we have enough
repairingto keep us busy? Bless you, yes!
Often more than we can attend to. Now,
here,” laying his hand caressingly upon a
huge monster towering above him, “is No.
146. Run into a car at u.‘ switch, stove in
her side and took 03 . her cab and air-pump.
Whilo she is in we will give herageneral
overhauling. It will take about three
weeks.” '
With this gentleman’s assistance runny lu-
teresting facts were learned. "The crown
{sheet-pr that part of the boiler directly over
the fire‘, is subject to the greatest wear." he
explained, “being where most of the steam
is generated. Next to that come the fines.”
Here the: reporter wns_invited_to'iiscend an
improvisedwooden staging, arid, .clgimbéri‘ng
from'thenco up the rounding sides of ii'greiit
boiler, peercd‘down into its cavernous depths
by meansp‘f anbpening in the dome. .‘f'l‘heso
irpu bars,” said th’é‘superintéudent, ,“which
you see are placed directly over till? ' brown
sheet and bolted to it, and the whble'i‘s {ur-
thcr strengthened by means of iron rods
running to the roof and dome. It is here
that the greatest labor and attention labo-
stowed. By means of this glass gauge the
engineer is kept informed of the height of
water in the boiler. Should this water by
any carelessness be permitted to get below
the spot indicated, the most dire consequences
mightbeexpectcd were not the fire imme-
diately withdrawn. The contact of the cold
water from the pump with the superheated
surfaces of the crown sheet would generate a.
gas which nothing cbuld withstand.”
After an engine is run into the stall she is
given over to the “strippers,” who take her
apart. She ‘is- then cleaned, after which any
:defects in her boiler or fire box are remedied.
As her machinéryioru-runniug‘ gear will
usually OutWear-her' fines andilsimilar parts,
. two to one, it is not alwa'y‘s‘that - any exten-
sive repairs are necessary totho. former.
Every portion, however, requires-to be over-
hauled, ‘examm’ ed and udjfi'sted:' - After
lc'sviiigthc‘shops‘sho is expected to remain
out :iit‘ lehst ' fourteen months ,‘befOrO' again
l‘equii‘ip‘g"alteptionifCliiehgo.Times. ’- - '
Cruelty to 939911 (I‘m-files.
There is no more forcible eihrfiplé of man’s
thoughtless cruelty than the manner in iv‘filch
turtles are treated. ' The green turtle is cop-
tnred by nets in the Gulf of Mexico. The
boats engaged in this business are called tur-
tlers. \thn a turtle is captured slits are out
in its flippers and they are tied together by
stout cords. On their bat-ks. with their flip-
pers thus tied, the turtles are as red. '
their movements as a man .1
jacket. The boats are gene: .
two to three weeks before u l. . .
and therefore the first turtles ur-
on their backs this length of tin: . - l‘nrc tou-
ing shipped north. They do no”. " '
New York until at least ten days _
are taken from the boots. On arrive] they
are sent to the different markets, where they
lie with their “flippers” still tied until either
they are sold or die of starvation. This is
no exaggerated account. Tho turtle will
live about three months without water or
food. Death from starvation sometimes
puts an end to their sufferings. Oftentlmes
their eyes almost burst from their sockets.
Green turtle is worth in New York fifteen
cents a pound, live weight. It is bought
principally by restaurants and hotels. A
turtle is killed by cutting off , his head, and
this is done after it has been received at the
place where it is to be coten.-—Brooklyn
Eagle. ' '
Great Find of Early Paintings.
Seeking in Lower Egypt, during the pres-
ent year, for remains of the wonderful laby-
rinth of 3,000 chambers described by Herod-
otus, Mr. Flinders Petr-lo seems to have
found what he sought, with the pyramidal
tomb of its builder, and also came upona
great cemetery whose existence bad hitherto
been unknown. This cemetery covers about
one hundred acres, and dates from the
Greece-Roman period, one or two centuries
after Christ. From it Mr. Petrie has taken
hundreds of mummies, with a. vast collection
of objects buried with them. These articles
include funerary vases, umulets, toys, 5 tin-
ned copper mirror, in burning lens, a set of
leather workers’ needles, a flint knife, and—
by far the most interesting of all—a splendid
series of portraits, painted upon the cam of
elaborately bandaged mummies, and repre-
senting the living persons whose remains
were placed in these coffins seventeen oeu-
turies ago. These pictures will add an im-
rtant chapter to the history of aria—Ar-
Egnsaw Traveler.
Phenomenon of Light.
At the meeting of the British association.
Professor G. F. Fitzgerald dwelt on recent ex-
periments of Hertz, in Germany, as proving
conclusively that: light is an electromagnetic
phenomenon—Arkansaw Traveler.
Hard on England.
A German statistician figures up that Eng-
land has caused the death of 50,000,000 peo-
ple and has wrought 610,000,i.‘00,000 worth of
destruction.
Thackeray used no fewer than fifty-nine
initials or pseudonyms during his literary
career. _
Kerosene oil is rcsponsiblp for. nine-tenths
of the fire: that take place in China.
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There is no known antidote for chlorate of
potash poisoning.
Engines of All Ages and Descriptions.-
-cination.
IMAGINATION CURE.
KEY TO THE MYSTERY OF A CLASS
OF OBSCURE PHENOMENA.
A Story of Voodoolsfii In South Carolina;
A Bogus Charm—Dr. Carpenter on “Ex-
pectant Attention" and Its Elects—Sm?
cery and Witchcraft;
A South Carolina story appeared the other
day. which, rightly considered, throws much
light upon the interesting Subject of negro
superstitions, and, in fact, pulur supersti-
tions generally. A negro woman had been
ill for some time, and “physicians were in
vain,” so at last she consulted a voodoo doc-
tor, Who‘ prescribed application to a local
sorcerer of repute. The sorcerer orucularly
declared that a search of the sick woman’s
promises would reveal the presence of a.
charm by which she had been “voodooed,”
and gave 1i. description of what would be
found. Now the husband of the sick woman
told a doctor all about the alleged charm,
and the doctor for a joke fabricated a charm
to answer the descriptiOu, and hid it where
it would be found.
So far all is plain sailing, but what appears
to be regarded as extraordinary is the fact
that from the moment the bogus charm was
unearthed the patient began to mend, and
rapidly regained her normal state of health.
This is referred to as “the strangest part of
the stony," but really the strangest part of
the story is the circumstance that at this day
any one should think the matter at all mys-
terious, or should fail to apprehend the
obvious and perfectly simple explanation
of it.
A 31051 rontm‘ ENERGY.
What cured this woman—and there is no
inherent improbability in the statement that
she is curred—was what cures thousands of
people who have been made sick by it in the
first place. It was, in a word. imagination,
which is, however psychical its nature, among
the most potent of physical agencies. The
mass of authentic evidence going to show
that the imagination can and commonly does
influence the body in the most direct and
powerful manner long since put beyond con-
troversy the fact that body is under the con- . .
trol of mind to an extent which might seem
scarcely credible to such as have not studied
the subject.
Dr. W. B. Carpenter, in his admirable
treatise on mental physiology, prefers to de-
nominato the influence which effects organic
changes in cases .01 gem “expectant étr
tentfén." His theory is—and it is now'gen-
orally accepted—that in these cases the pa-
tient believes something will happen, expects
9, favorable crisis, fixes his or her mind upon
the affected part or the sickness generally,
and thus unconsciously sets up therapeutic
active.- More closely analysed it Will bi
found that the mental prom-s motives we
exercise of faith and un'uct of volition. The
patient anticipates acute, believes in its pos—
sibility, and so contributes to its accomplish-
ment. '
soncnmr AND wn‘cncnm.
Every physician knows that in serious ill-
ness it is of the first importance that the pa-
tient should be hopeful, and should will re-
covery. When the desire of life has from
any cause ceased or great mental depression
exists, a comparatively slight attack of dis-
ease may prove fatal. When the desire of
life is strong rude attacks on the vitality may
be repulsed. The art played by the will
and the imaginatiogin disease is always in-
fluential and often the dominant one. The
old tales of sorcery and witchcraft are by no
means all fiction. The things related hap-
pened in ages when people believed easily in
occult and malignant powers, and the expla-
nation of a. great (led! in those days must be
sought here, and not in the theory of hallu-
If an ignorant negro firmly be-
'lievcs‘.that he is “voodooed,” he may, and
often does, fall- sick. There is no delusion
‘about that. The illness is real. But it is
caused by delusion none the less, for it is the
directirestilt of faith in powers which do not
of ... ll. 2 . '._'.'...’ ..:. ,
The subject is one of deep interest and se-
rious importance to medical science. Hero
and more the wise and skillful physician
must address himself to curing the body with
the help of the mind. He must “administer
to a mind diseased," in fact, frequently, if he
wishes to restore the lphysical organism to
health; and the simple the mind to be dealt
with the easier will it be found, as a rule, to
employ it therapeutically. In the South
Carolina. case a bogus charm operated pre-
cisely as it‘was expected the real one would
do.—New York Tribune.
The Fortress of the Future.
Well, in our day, the military engineer
recommends, not the vitrified rockwork,
~iwliich Eé knOWs not how to make, but beton,
' whiéhfiis‘ analogous to‘ it. - In historic times,
during'tho long period styled antiquity, forti-
fied inclosurcs had n.‘ profile of considerable
dimensions. ,‘l‘ho obs'thclo consisted of a. wall ;
which was no less then-from sixty to pinety- ‘
gvp reg; inithlckncss'.‘ The scarps of ‘ Nina-
ven,"r6r”s:‘;snmu; pnd‘ those (of Babylon.
were more than .eightyefiv‘o feet, Why ‘did
ancient engineers adopt such dimenSious,
which now appear to us so huge? Because
it was necessary to oppom a. great resistance
to the action of demolishing apparatus,
especially to that of the battering ram.
Well, in our day, the military engineer
whois embarrassed by the firing of shells
containing a breaking charge would have to
have recourse to such thicknesses. If he
does int decide to do so, one of the reasons is
that the marvels of modern industry permit
him to substitute for masonry masses of
metal having the some resistance with less
thickness.
Then it has been found that beton audit
metallic cuiruss alone resist the action of
shells containing a breaking charge—such as
melinite or gun cotton. Hence it follows
.thntmthesmtwo. elements of construction
~sh0uld --bo'- able tosuffice the engineer. That
being- the‘enéo, it-is ovidentnthatjhe Torts
that; it is necessary-to.coustruct.cnnnot any
more resemble those that now. constitute, the
‘defeh‘s‘osof our frontiers than v the. latter. ro-
‘semblo the strongcastles of .thc middleagcs.
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The German Hotel Porter.
In German hotelé’j‘ob‘iibnio‘in’contact only
with tho porter and head whiter; The pct-tier
is usually selected for his intelligence, for his
ability as a. linguist and for his size—his
height, rather. You make all inquiries of
him concerning the hotel, about the arrival
and departure of trains, the sights of the town,
etc., and you invariably get civil and intelli-
gent replics to all your questions. Tho sc
called porter (portier), however, in no sense
componds with the American idea of g
porter, nor is he called upon to do the slight
est physical labor. He receives gucw, secs
them depart and makes himself vil'y useful
in many ways, but us for lifting a trunk or
carrying it sucks], this is entirely beneath his
position and his dignity. The actual porter
performs this labor, and both of those Olli-
cialil expect and receive a. foo on the guest’s
departure. In paying your bill at :1 Ger-
man hotel you see neither proprietor, inan-
ager nor porter; neither will receive it; you
are obliged to pay the waiter, who thus
makes sure of his fee—"3!. l’." in Home
Journal.
Direct from the Front.
KNOXVILLE, Trust, July 2, 1888.
The star: Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga: "
Gentlemen—I can cheerfully and truth-
fully say that S. S. S. is the greatest blood
purifier on earth. In 1854 I contracted
blood poison. Physicians treated me with
no good results. I took a half dozen differ-
ent kinds of blood medicines, but, without
receiving any permanent relief l I was in-
duced to try S. S. S. I the first
bottle with the gravest doubts of success.
I had been so often deceived. But im-
provement came, and I continued its use
until perfectlywcll. I have since married,
_ and have a healthy family. No trace of the
disease is seen. Swift's Specific did all
this for me, and I am grateful. Yours
truly, J. S. STRADER.
118 Dale Ave.
KEMP, TEXAS, June 23, 1888.
The Swift Specific Co., Atlgta, Ga.:
Gentlemen—A sixteen-year-old son of
mine was afflicted with bad blood, and broke
out with an eruption on various parts of his
body. I put him to taking S. S. S., and a
few bottles cured him entirely. I live at
Lone Oak, but my pcst-ofiice is at Kemp.
Yours truly, _ W. S. ROBINSON.
Three books mailed free on application.
All druggists sell S. S. S.
Tun Swrr'r SPECIFIC Co.,
Drawer 3, Atlanta, Ga.
. New York, 756 Broadway.
No Chic—No Pay—A new departure
in medicine! Fontaine’s Great Discovery
removes the cause of disease; namely dis-
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thing—for “Know edge 15 power.” For
sale by C. Lapham, 11 Main street, Nor-
walk.
We new export locomotives.
I thank God that you ever invented such '
a medicine for caturrh. I have suffered
for five years so I could not lie down for
Weeks at a time. Since I have been using
Eiy’s Cream Balm I can rest—Frank P.
Burleigli, Furmingtou, N. H.
./" mr’s _‘
norm. lawn
Hes ‘flufiififl‘:fl
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Absolutely Pure.
JESSE season, I
uueoilee MAKER,
Ens removed to tliebulldlng
Next to Gregory’s Stables. Knight slrtet
Where he does first-class
Carriage Repairing and Painting
m At Reasonable Prices.
FURNITURE
A run Stock of Furniturcof all kinds-
PAIiLIlR AND BEDROOMSE‘I'S
a specialty.
DAVID STOW,
This Powder never varies. A marvel of pure
am: Hi and wholesomcness. More economic!
than the ordinary kinds, andenunot be soldin com- i
petition with the multitude of low test, short
weight, nilum or phosphate powders. I
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TRUE PUBLIC INTERESTS '
. Treated in a clean manly Why.
A healthy people make a prosperous nation. .
People inside and kept health 1 by
Balers Great American Soerlile.
Rheumatism with its Vise-like grip tortures Its
victim until he loses control of his temper, and
then comes grave mistakes. Another turn of the
vise and Neurnlgin. tormehts nil patience out of a
man. Relief from these terrible diseases makes a
heaven of happiness for the suitcremind Bnker’s
(iron! American Specific gives that relief.
There is no mistake about this, and at this season,
in this climate, you cannot afford making the mis-
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remedy. Damp, chill winter winds, sleet, snow,
stop and ice are as certain to bring on the tor-
ments of linEUMA'rIsn rind tortures of NEURALGIA
us is BAKEK’S GREAT Annette/in SPECIFIC to cure
them. Price 50 cents a bottle. Prepared only by
Maurice, Baker Jr Co., Portland, lile. Doolittle tic
Smith, 24 and 26 ’l‘remout Street, Boston, Mass.,
EEIIlESS
unless
Do Your Own Dyeing, at Home.
They will dye everything. They are sold ever?
when. Price 100. a. package. They have no equal
for Strength. Brightness, Amount in Packages
or for Fastness of Color. or nomadic: Qualities.
They do not crock or smut; 40 colors. For sale by
J. G. Gregory In 00.; C. Lapham,11 Main Sltreot;
' 3?.
Geo. B. Pluisled, Druggisls.
IOYNTON’S FURNACES,
WQTH LATEST PATENT IMPROVEMENTS
ans Whereas» our in
The Eoynton Furnace Co
N. A. Bonner. Prest- 207 & 209 WATER ST., N.‘
I". w. snow, 9;.
NO liWA LII,“ CONN.
Main Street one. Depot
SOUTH NORWALK,CON1V
‘ P. H. DWYER.
its largest Smell iii Harness
EVER DISPLAYED IIiI TOWN.
All First-Class, Ilnnd Stitched, flak 'l‘nnnen
Pennsylvania Leather
THIRD CLASS PRICES.
Call early as I intend to sell at SMALL Prior-1r,
S E YEN 1 Y-Fl V11!
Set Slurie aui Dorrie Harness.
HARDENBBOOK HALL,
Over Mitchell's Market, next door to P. ll. Dwy-
er’s old stand. out
EQUI’I‘A BLE MORTGAGE 00.,
OF KANSAS CITY. CA PITAL $2,000,000
6 and 7 per cent. Delieuture Bonds and Mortgage
Loans at For and Accrued Interest. '
n. B. onscreen), Agent,
Room 2 Masonic Bulidirg
HENRY TILLY
CARRIAGE MAKER,
SOUTH mourning, -
CON?!
Manufacturer of
Family Carriages, Victories, Baguette.
All Kinds of Repairing.
JOHN S ATKINSON,
Wholesale and ltetull Dealer in
Harness, Blankets.
Trunks, Br: gs,
Sole Leather and Shoe Findings, and Boot
and Shoe Uppcrs.
Corner of Fairiield Ave. and Middle Street
Bridgeport, Conn. ms
For Sale.-
DOUBLE BARRELLED RIFLE madehy Jolt
Blissett, London. Will be sold cheap 90
211136 Irish. Enunire at this office.
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'73 Page’s Climax Salve, g
L’i a FAMILY Bressiiic you 25 CENTS. 1::
Its action upo'ii the system is unlike any’otlier external remedy, as it never drives the
disease in tho Internal Organs. 155 properties go to the diseased part, and separate
all the poisonous and corrupt humors, through the perspiring vessels to the surface, and
emdicutes the disease from the system.
We warrant
Scroi'ula Sores, Salt Rheum, Sore Breasts or Ni
it to cure Old Sores. Ulcers}
les, lnfiamed Eyes, Swollen Glands;
P _ . .
Erysipelas, Boils, Scalds. Burns, Cuts, Bruises, Fistula, Piles, Corns, Bumons, Chil.
bluius, Frosted Feet, and all cutaneous diseases on man and beast.
PAGE'S CLIMAX SALVE acts like
Sores, Fresh Cuts, Snake Bites, Bruises, Burns,
boxes three times larger than any other Salve, and
magic on horse flesh in curing Scratches, Mange, Old
Saddle and Harness Gulls, Chafes, etc. It is put up in
said at the low price oftwcnty-five cents per box.
it, is warranted to cure in every case or money refunded. For Sale by Druggists and Dealer. in medicine
everywhere.
THE. GREAT STOMACH
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Moriat's Life Pills are purely vegetable. _
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1‘er
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Dyspepsia,‘Loss oprppetitc, lndi estion,
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diklncy's, Colds and Fever and A ue.
ilinhei"PiIl,,onc'tgk,cn tcr dinner each day \Vlll aid
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"a
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They act, on the stomach, bowels, liver
Jaundicc, Bilious Complaints,
Costiveiiess, Nervous and Sick Headache,
female obstructions and General weakness, Scurvy.
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AGE'S CLIMAX SALVE. 25c.a Box. "OFFAT'S Ll
PHOENIX IITTERS. $1.00 a Bottle. For Sale by Druggists
It is simply asked that the afflicted
E PILLS, 25¢. a Box. MOFFAT'S
and Dealers in medicin r everywhere,
or sent by maul or Express, prcpmd, on receipt of price.
3' . P. MILLS, Sole Proprietor.
85 LIBERTY STREET. NEW YORK.
My Poor Back!
That’s the common exclamation of those suffering with rheumatism or kidney troubles.
In
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lug conllmi our claims for that grand old
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used only one bottle and am perfectly "
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more than an hour at a time any night,
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for five years, I was almost unable
fined to my bed for weeks at a time. I
besides outside advices, but to no advan-
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