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r Take no Substitute for Royal Baking Powder. It is Absolutely Pure. All others contain alum or ammonia. EDITORS' TRAGIC DEATHS. Brilliant Kaw Tork Journalists Whose Pasalnc A war Waa Tinned With Horror. Whan I bcKn to work la 1800-snd it teems as though It were yesterday only, rirtly because I have good health and ave always maintained a high moral tone the editor of the New York Tribune waa Horace Greeley. He died In a mad house. The editor of the New York Times waa Henry J. Raymond, the beat friend but one I ever bad. He waa found dead old and itllt In the hallway of hla bouse. The brightest writer In New York then was Charles Q. Halplne Miles O'Reilly editor of the New York Citizen. He suffered from a neuralgio tooth and went Into the Alitor House one day, chloro formed a towel, put It over bis head and joined the majority. The best known correspondent of that era signed "A. D. R." A. D. Richardson was walking along the street from The Tribune ofllce when a man slipped up be hind him, fired a bullet in his back, and be died. The managing editor of the New York Herald, Mr. Frederick Hudson, whose name Is a living tradition in news paper circles, having retired on a pension of 120,000, which of itself Is enough to stagger any newspaper man, went to live with his family in Concord, N. H. Drove across the railroad track in front of the cart one day. All killed. The editor of the only rival The StanU-Zeitung ever had, the New York Journal, Dr. Feodor Melrson, of German birth, but American in feeling, a great, good, loyul fellow, was helping an invulld wife from a train. Didn't see the other, lost his head and has done no work since. The dearest newspaper working friend I ever had, Htlllninii S. Conaiit, managing editor of the New York Times, walked out on the sands of Coney Island one dark night and never returned. The publisher of The Daily News, whose name escapes me just now, but a n.:m whom everybody in the proicKsion knew, l ad melancholia, Buperindnced by neurnlgli , wulked to his nflice one morning and ble w his brainsout. The editor of The Comm. rclal Advertiser drove along the beach sc Long Branch. Kan Into a butcher cart. Killed instantly. So, you see, it is not all funny business in the profession. Joe Howard's Lecture on Journalism. Opium Selling Is I'rolllHUle. V butever opinions may bo held respect ing the effects of consuming opium, there seems to bo no doubt that selling it is a prolitnble business. Yenrs ago the house of Jnrdinc, Mathe sou & Co. was among the largest Im porters of opium into China, and bo enormous were the profits thut threeof the partners, by sheer force of wealth, expand ed into baronets, while a fourth, the late Mr. Jnmes Jardine of Dryfeholm, became one of the largest landowners in the south of Scotland. Kir James Alatheson and his brother, Sir Alexander Mntheson, spent upward of 11,000,000 in buying land in the highlnnds, and the latter left besides over 1040,000. Mr. Magniao, the ex-M. P, who left 200,000, wos also a member of this firm. Kir Robert Jurdiue of Castle milk is the old bend of the firm and prob ably the wealthiest of them all. Sir Rob ert does not only own Castlemllk, one of the finest residences and estates in the south of Scotlund, but 10 years ago bought up the Hogersons of Wamphroy for 120, 000 and Inter added the property of Lan rick castle, In Perthshire, to his already great possessions. He could buy up a score of such plnces if he so desired. Dealing in opium is, of course, only one branch of the great firm's business, but it is a most important one, and a trade whether right or wrong which has such potentialities of profits must, like Tenny son's half truth, be a bard mutter to fight. Scottish Leader. The Canadian Sledge Dogs, Mr. Cameron, in bis talk with a Courier reporter, told of the dogs thut are used for sledging during the winter in the north west territories of Canada. Six or eight dogs are used on each sledge. They ore fed only once in 2i hours, and that is in the morning before the sturt is made and nfter the dogs are in harness. At that time about four pounds of frozen fish are given to them. Every thing must be in readiness for the start, and the men must look to it that they are at hand to jump on the sledges, for at the very instant that the lHt morsel of flsh disappears the dogs are oil at a breakneck Bpeed. Strange ns it may seem, the driv ers do not dure to feed the dogs unless they are in harness. Otherwise they would scatter, and nothing more would be scon of them. They are driven with one long rein nTtnchcd to the leader. A whip with a very short bundle and a very long lash Is used to urge them on, though In most cases they need no urging, for they seem to feel that the faster they go the quicker they will come to the post, whore food and warmth and a ln.y life await them. They travel often as for as M0 miles a day. Buffalo Courier. A Chinese Woman llarred. Miss Oy Yoke, a young woman of Chinatown, Sun Francisco, is trying to obtain a medical education. For throe years sho has been supporting hersolf by nursing the sick among her own peo ple. She bus made application at some of tho Ban Francisco hospitals, but the other num'S have raised objections, and to prevent f rouble the directors have been obliged to bar out the young Chi nese girl. Oy Yoke was sold to High binders by her parents when a baby und brought to this country. While still n baby sho was taken charge of by the Methodist mission. Sun Francisco Ex- The first symptom of a cold should never go unheeded. Pneumonia or Consumption often start with ati ordinary sneeze. PAIN-KILLER will cure a cold before it settles or after it settles ; but the common-sense ay is to use it at once. It is an infallible remedy for Coughs.Croup, Diphtheria, Asthma, Bronchitis.and all troubles arising from a cold. Keep it by yon for an emergency. When yon are in distress always . 1 . rimc-OM ttaapoontol In a half llsavral FERRT D4TM SOS, R. L WW AN ALPENA MlltACIJS A LADY OF LONG RAPIDS DIS CARDS HER CRUTCHES. lo an Interview With a Reporter She ltevlews Her Kaperleuee and Tells the Ileal Cause of the Miracle, From the Argui, Alpena, Mich We have long known Mrs. Jas. M. Todd, of Long Rapids, Alpena, Co., Mich. She has been a sad cripple. Many of her friends know tho story of her recovery; for the benefit of those who do not we publish it today. Eight years ago she was taken with nervous prostration, and in ft few months with muscular and inflamma tory rheumatism. It affoctcd her heart, then her head. Her feet became so swollen she could wear nothing on them. Her hands were drawn all out of shape. Her eyes were swollen shut more than hull of the time, her kueo joints terribly swollen and for eighteen mouths sho hud to bo held up to be dressed. One hmb became eutirely helpless, and the skin was so dry and cracked that it would bleed. During these eight years she had been treated by a score of physicians, and has ulso s)ont much time at Ann Arbor under best medical advice. All said her trouble was brought on by hard work and that medicine would not cure, and that rest was the only thing which would ease her. After going to live with her daughter she became entirely helpless and could not even raise her onus to cover herself ut night. Tho interesting pnrt of her story follows in her own words: "I wiis urged to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People und at lust did so. In three days after I commenced taking Pink Pills I could sit up and dress myself, mid after using them six weeks I wont home and commenced working. I continued taking tho pills, until now I begin to forget my crutches, and can go up and down steps without aid. I am truly a living wonder, walk ing out of doors without assistance. "Now, if I can say anything to in duce those who huve suffered as I have, to try Pink Pills, I shall gladly do so. If other like sufferers will try Pink Pills according to directions, they will have reason to thank God for creating men who are able to conquer thut turrbile disease, rhcuinatiHin. 1 have in my own neighborhood recom mended Pink Pills for tho after effects of lu grippe, and weak women with impure blood, and with good results." Mrs. Todd is very strong in her faith iu tho curative powers oi Pink Pills, and says they have brought a poor, help less cripple buck to do her own milk ing churning, washing, sewing, knit ting, and iu fact ubout all of her house hold duties, thanks to Dr. Williams' Philr, Pills. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain all the elements necessary to givo new life and richness to tho blood and restore shattered nerves. They are for sale by all druggists, or may be had by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Com pany, Schenectady, N. Y., for 50o. per box, or six boxes for f 2. CO. Depew'e Broiled Lobster. "I well remember my surprise one night at a banquet at Delinonico's. It was a gathering of Wall street men, and of course Depew was among the lot. He was the life of the party, nnd I noticed he ate very heartily, although I have frequently read that the best after dinner speakers eat next to noth ing whon about to speak. But our Chauncey put down a good dinner, and made his speech afterward in the best of form. At the conclusion of the ban quet, and while people were crowding around him to congratulate him on his brilliunt address, I noticed thut a wait er ontored and handed Mr. Depew a box, done up in a pnper, and a minute aftorwurd the snme wuiter brought in his overcoat, and ufter assisting Mr. Dopew into it buttoned it tip, tucked the box under the Depow arm and held the door open, whilo the man outside whistled for the carriage. "1 wis mystified, but after seeing the same thing repeated at several din ners I asked for an explanation nnd got it. The bundle was a box, and it con tained a broiled lobster, which Mr. Depew always took home to his wife. At all the places whore he dined there was a standing order for a broiled lobster, to be given to Mr. Depew for Mrs. De pow. And no charge was over made. After Mrs. Depew 's death the lobster was broilod and presented at the door, as usual, but Mr. Depew motioned it away. Ho has novcr tuken one ..home' Bince then. New York Herald. Thomas at Lookout Mountain. An anecdote concerning General George H. Thomas, the hero of Cbicka mauga, was related by the Rev. Rus sell H. Conwell. Ho told it to illustrate bow the valor of obscure soldiois goes to swoli the fame of the great g( neruls. "I sut next General Thomas in a Ten nessee train shortly after the battle on Lookout Mountain," declared Dr. Con well, "when a crowd of soldiers on the platform begnn cheering for 'the hero of Lookout mountain.' 'Stop thut con founded noise!' indignnntly demanded Thomas of his adjutant. '1 don't know whether these men are in earnest and making a mistake, or whether they are guying me. The fact is, if I had had my way, the battlo would not have been fought. When 1 heard of the proposed attack, it seemed exceedingly foolhardy, and I ordered the plan abaudoned, but in spite of me, while 1 was protesting, the men had Btormed and captured those battlements above theclonds!' " Phil adelphia Record. On of Mrs. Cleveland's Clubs. Mrs. Grover Cleveland is a member of very few clubs or associations. One of the clulis where she is a particularly loved member is the Ladies' Art asso ciation in New York. Among the oth er women who are honorary members are Mrs. Anna C. L. Botta, Mrs. II. A. Loop, Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, Miss F. E. Fryatt, Miss Emily Sartain, Mrs. Louise Bradbury. Mrs. George 8. War ing and Mrs. Eliza Oreatorex. The president is Emma S. Marsily, and the committee on ways and means includes Alice Donlevy, E. C. Field and S. R. Hartly. The association rooms are very artistic and comfortable. Wednesday is members' day, and ths nee of the studios and studio properties is Iree to members. New York Letter. THE PIONEER. If I conlil flille, O thrush, Ilk you, I'd iwlng upon Ilia liciltfo And trill a pastoral Irons and Iru About the maul nd wedge The snarled maul my grandslro swung And mada the fureit boom WUIIa bis goixl wlfo a-spinnlng sung Or swayed across Ilia loom. Ob. Iiarkl I hear bis rhythmic stroke On glut or wodjje dehcend What lime lho fragrant logs of oak, Resisting, crack und rend. Give him a aong. Ilia brave and trus, lllm of tho wedge and maul. Wlioaa hero heart and hand could do The drudgery for us all) Oh, high on honor's cmlnones Ills lonely cabin rose; He burst grand bol to build the fence That circled freedom's cloee. He waa a giant, and ho tore Our roadway with his hands Across tho wild frontiers ho bore The burden of tho land. Give him. the brave old pioneer, A century closing song. The whole choir sing, lho nation cheer, A hundred million strong! -Maurice Thompson In Youth's Companion. SUNKEN GOLD. Very likely the reader bus often heard of it, but until I was sent for by a firm of London mnrino contractors with ref erence to it 1 know nothing of the fa mous shipwreck of the British mail steamer Pondicherry oh the Chinese coast. It seems that in the year 1850 the Pondicherry, en ronto from London to Shanghai with a curgo of goods and 50,000 sterling in treasure, ran upon a sunken lodge off Cupo Yang-Tse in a thick fog. Tho steamer rested upon the rocks long enough to enable the passen gers and crew to get olf, and then she parted amidships. The forward portion rolled inside the ledge into comparatively shallow wa ter and was easily reached, but tho aft er part went down into very djep water outside, and no trace of it could be found. Unfortunatoly it was the after pnrt of tho wreck which contained tho bul lion room, nnd with it 50,000 in Eng lish gold had gone out of sight, seem ingly forever. That is to say, it was still out of sight when, 80 years after the Pondi cborry was wrecked, I was summoned to the office of Bnrbold & Co., in Lon don, and asked if I could go to Shang hai. I suppose my good luck iu getting up, from a depth of more than 25 fath oms, a great part of the treasure that wont down with a trnnsntliintic steamer off the Azores had something to do with the call 1 received from Barbold & Co. The nowspapers were full of it at the time. Of course I was ready to go to Shang hai or to the north pole if I received my transportation thither and a fair re muneration. Within a week 1 embark ed, with my diving apparatus, for China. Our little expedition was in charge of Captain John Reese, an enterpris ing Welshman. My companion diver, George Cowles, accompanied us, and with us went several other men and a good deal of apparatus. We chartered a tug at Shanghai and proceeded aown the const to the scene of the Pondicher ry 's wreck. We found that, owing to the danger ous character of the ledges here, it was impossible to work from the steamer. We had to send back the tugboat and replace it with a large, open whaloboat, propelled only by oars, in which we set up our windluss and othor apparatus. 1 put on my diving dress a close one, of course, inclosing the whole body and a new helmet of the improved pat tern, provided with three plate glass windows and outlet and inlet valves at the back. 1 went down slowly to a depth of abont HO feet before 1 found the bot tom. It was as rough and rocky as the reef at the surface. 1 had gn at difficulty in moving about and working at this dopth. The pres sure was tremendous. 1 felt much as old Atlas must have felt when he hud the world on his shoulders only the pressure was all ovor me Instead of merely on my shoulders. The hum ming in my ears was like a dozen trip hammers working all at once. However, 1 got used to it nfter a lit tle. Presently, prowling about with my lamp, 1 saw dimly, lot 13 feet away, a great dark object which evi dently was not a rock. 1 lunged slowly toward it one can almost walk iu the water at such a dopth and saw the object take the form of the stern of a vessel. Coming right against it, 1 made out four raised lettors. Pond All the rest of the steamer's name had been knocked off somehow, prob ably when she made her rough descent into tho deep, but that wns enough. 1 felt us light as a feather for about five minutes. 1 looked the wreck over a little and then started slowly up to tho surface to report to Reese and get Cowks to come down and help mo. After he had joined me we ripped up the deck, blew out a quantity of wreckage with n submarine cartridge and opened a passage straight down to the treasure room. Then I sot at work alone taking out tho boxes of bullion, which I sent up by a rope worked upon the windlass in tho boat above. Though it was thrilling work to lift out these solid boxes of sovereigns, 1 ain nfraid it would not be interesting to tell tho story of our toil for the next two days. But we worked steadily on only two or three hours a day, the pressure was to terrible excited by the thought of tho thousands of pounds we were getting up from tho bottom of the sea, though but a small share of it was to be ours. Olio day, just after 1 had got down nml becnii niv work in tho bullion rnnm I f. lt u orent icrkinir on the life line attached to my waist. Jerk! jerk! The ropo was drawn iu hard, quick pulls that once or twice quite lifted mo off my feet. I thought at first that a shark was taking a series of headers against the line, but presently, by the steadiness of the pulls and a certain kind of human nervousness thnt was in them, I made out thnt I was being signaled from above to come up, though the pull was not the come up signal that bad been agreed upon. While I was getting ready, in no good humor, to ascend, I felt myself sudden ly raised and drawn np quickly through I he water. Then, I confess, I was frightened. To draw np a diver quickly from such a depth is ordinarily certain death to him. Ho must rise slowly and nrcustom himself by successive stages to the change of pressure. 1 signaled desperately by jerks npon lho rope, and for a moment the upward poll ceased. I collected my senses and began to rise slowly. I Then the jetking and pulling began I again. 1 jerked the line impatiently, I bnt was again lifted rapidly through t the water. "Havethey all gonecrazy up there?" I said to myself, my own words roaring in my ears and mixing, with the ter rible ringing ana hammering that the rapid lightening of the pressure was be ginning to cause, but meantime I was somewhat reassured by the fact that they were giving me air with the puin?. 1 felt faint and struggled as desper ately as 1 could to prevent my unseen and unknown enemies from dragging me upward to suffocutloa and pcrhups i death, but of course It was iu vain. Then I felt myself jerked sidewise and pulled rapidly through the water i laterally as well a upward, Then a i strangely agreeable sensation came over me. I felt us if 1 were walking on air. Tho hammering in my ears whs pitched at a higher and higher key. Then my tenses reeled, und I was unconscious. I do not like to deal In mysteries. I hud simply fainted away as tho result of being drawn upward quickly, Insteud of regulating my own ascent, and of nut ' getting enough air. Unlucky for me, as it seemed when 1 nxticd my eyes, I had not parted company with my con sciousness for good and all, and that fuct proved thut they were getting air to no. 1 came to my senses at the snr fnco and found myself half out of the water, half in it, still in uiy diving suit. I was being drawu backward through the water, and through the front win dow of my helmet 1 saw the strangest sight that ever met my eyes. Not 40 rods away, and plowing to ward mo, wero a groat mnny vessels of singular construction, having tall sails that looked to me like tho side of an outstretched accordion, and upon the 1 nmw nf flverv boat was nainted a htlue. ' staring ey.-lth-lluJk streaks di VeraM 1 ... . it 1 ing iroiu n. The more 1 looked at these strange objects the more 1 became convinced that they were Chinese junks, such as J had seen a few days before In the Woo iimg river off Shanghai. On the for ward junks 1 saw several armed men gesticulating wildly. They were evi dently Chinamen, and they weie greatly excited. , After watching their movements for a few moments, it occurred to me thnt tho men were acting as if they did not like my appearance. If It were pos sible, I might even have supposed thnt they wero afraid of me, but the fact that they were pursuing me at a good rate of speed shut out any such supposi tion as that. i As I rose upon a crest of a wave, and ' at tho same instant came into a position J almost erect, I was astonished to see, behind these vessels in advance, a lurge ! fleet of others like them. Then the wholo situation flashed up on me. The vessels which were pursu ing me were manifestly pirate juuks, I which at that time occasionally warmed i up, seemingly out of nowhere, in the 1 Chinese seas. While I bad been at the bottom, this fleet of pirates had sodden- ly ho'hrh-There were, in fact. 200 or 800 junks. The people in our boat, when they saw the piratos swoop down npon tbom, had no course but to take to flight. But what were tboy to do with me down there at the bottom? It was a wonder they did not cut my lifeline and leuve me to my fute. As the laws of human conduct go, they would have been jus tified in sacrificing my life in order to save their own. I learned all this afterward, when Cowles told me how be stood at the gunwale with his revolver in one hand, keeping the men off the line, while with the other band he now jerked crazily at the rope to signal me, and now worked the airpump. Then with nil hands nt the oars thut could gruBp them, they bore away for the forts of the Woosung. or course they really had no chance to get there. Thoy were 10 men in a big wbuleboat, with a weight of machinery and gold, and dragging behind them a man from the bottom of the sea, and they were chased by a fleet of pirates, sailing on a quartering but very good breeze. Meantime 1 was being dragged through the wuter on my buck. Through my bit of plate glass 1 could see the pirates in advance, who seemed to be bearing down upon me rapidly. The more 1 realized the situation the more frightened I becume. Our men could never row away from those junks. They would overhaul me first, aud when they had done that the men in the boat would cut mo off. Then 1 should drown in a moment from the wator rushing into the nir pipe and through the iulot valve into my breast plate. I own that 1 hoped the boys would do that very thing iny situation was so horrible. And 1 actually welcomed a little dash of water that 1 got in my fuco, though my heart stopped beating for an instant when 1 felt the water. But it was only n little which I shipped through the outlet nir valvo. When tho pirates should have over hauled me, they would go on after the boat and the recovered treasure, the taking np of which they must have somehow got wind of, though they knew nothing of diving. I hoped from my heart thut the boys had already thrown the gold overboard though whut should happen niter my nir pipe was cut was of very littlo consequence to me. I enme upon another full view of the fleet from the top of tbe wave. I could see the pirates looking at me as their sailing craft stendily overhauled me. Their black eyes were almost bursting from their sockets as they looked at me. It occurred to me that they wore frightened at something. I wmit iinilnr a wava nonln. And the wholo scene wus-out of sjghtjorjwo or 4 three minutes. When I came to the surface again, und sow the Bume thing pale visaged Chinamen and the stnring round eyes painted on the bows of their vessels bearing down on mo tho truth flashed upon mo. The pirates had taken me for the demon of the ocean, which they aro always fearing and fighting away, with offerings and incantations, on board their junks. A man in a diving suit especially flat on his bnck in the water that way was a new sight to them. I hud sim ply frightened them out of their wits. There was my great, glittering bead of red copper, three times as large as the head of an ordinary man. In its front wus a big staring eye of plate glass, with a bright brass ring around it. My ears were represented by two more glass windows with a sort of barred grating over them. Then there was my bulging breast plate of tinned copper, which helped to carry out the impression of some fabu lous monster. Occasionally 1 kicked my legs ont of the water; they were incased in thick black slnvt india rub ber, and my feet were clad in very thick soled boots. My bauds, protected at tbe wrists with tightly fitting india rubber cuffs, were free. They were the only portion of my body that was visible, and the only thing about me ptobably which suggested my human character. But j no doubt they had the effect to scare ; tbe Cbiuameu the more. hands, they might hav some sort of marine monster, they were sure that I was the dreadful demon. ..... As soon as I become possessed of this idea, I resolved to make tbe most of it. 1 llaimn to throw my arms wildly about, to kick vigorously with uiy feet and to roll my head from side to side. The effect was marvelous. On ths top of another wave I could see that the wholo Htet was breaking away to starbourd-and running froe, straight out into the east China sea. Before long the whole tloct was get ting well toseawurd and leeward of us. got a little more water through the air pipe just here and bud louie little difficulty in breathing, hut at ths same time I felt myself pulled with new movement. I guessed what wus the cause of it The laiys in our lumt hud ceased to give all their attention to rowing, and for the Hint time sincj they got under way began to pull mo in with tho lifeline. Presently, rolling over, I saw the gun wulu of the whuli bout jnt In front and was hauled iibomd. It diil not take mo a half minute, with George Cowles' help, to get Iny helmet (.IT, and to breathe tho open air with ii deep brent h. It win like a Ptiu ving man taking too much food all at onto. 1 felt faint, but tho sight of Cowb s' honest face bond ing over mo rovived me. "Thank God, man, you're alive!" said be. "I was afraid." said John Reese, whom I saw next, "that you'd saved our lives at tho expenso of your own." "Did I did 1 save your lives?"! asked, still a little dazed. "That's fhe very thing you've done," said Reese. " You've scared thnt pack of pirates back to their dens with your - eld - goggle eye, nmdo on the w eld- goggle eye. Such a sight as yon made on the water they never saw be fore, and they'll never forget It. You were the demon thut the cowardly dogs are always looking for, and they turned tnil and went off with the wind, like a flock of swift." "We may thunk your mate here," one of the men spoke up, "for saving our life with yours, at the p'iut of his revolver. " But Cowles, modest and aolf depre cating, ns brave men always are, pre tended that he did it all to save hisowu life. He saw how it all would be, he aid, and he merely resolved to keep me there for a scarecrow. Our boys made good time with their ours and got under the guns at the Woosung forts before midnight. Before daylight every box of tho Poudicherry's recovered gold was safe In the locker ot a British man-of-war In Shanghai har bor. Wultcr Bugshot in Youth' Com panion. NEW YORK'S CAT SHOW. The Feline Stars Will lie the Mux, An gora sod Persian Tabbies. Tho dog show, tho horse show, the poul try show and the bnby show havo all had irisiS cy b; r show has been the propor tning in r.ng- hind for a quarter of a century, and the only wonder Is that America has not caught the feline exhibition fever before. James W. Hydo of Now York has organ ized tho American Cat club, and the first annual show will bo held In Mudlson Sqnaro Garden May 8, 9, 10 and 1 1. Over $1,000 In prizes will lie distributed by the New Yoik Cat club, and mnny speclul prizes will bo offered by Individuals who nro as interested In the cat of today as the Kgyptlnnswors In the cat of centuries ago. There will be n few superior specimens of the ordinary Tommy and Tabby exhib ited In Now York, but the stars of the show will lie strange cats from nil ovor the world. Tho Manx cat, the tuillcss feline from the lslo of Man, will bo very much In evi dence, nnd tho Multosoor Chartreuse cat of bluish gray color, the Puraiun oat with long white or gray hulr, the Angora oat with long and silky brownish white ooat and tbe Spanish or tortoise shell oat will ULl'E rKIIBIANTIUXlE. (Winner of eight siiociiU prlies at tho Crystal Palucoshow.J bnve scores of fair admirers. Tho Manx cat which lives on Hall Culno's island has long beon an ohjuct of curiosity owing to tho faot thut it has no tall nnd is believed to bo a descendant of Japanese tailless oats tuken to tho Island many years ago by sailors. In England tho Interest In the cat has Increased to suoh nn oxtent thut two rivul annual shows aro held. One of the most admired felines on the other sido is the fa mous blue Porsinu oat Trixio, winner of eight special prizes at tho Crystal palace, In 1803, including a gold medal for the best oat in tlio show. When the Crystal pnlace shows were inaugurated about aft years ngo, there wero only 200 or 800 on trios, but now tbe number of cuts exhibit ed annually is about (100. During tho show mnny of the aristocrat ic cats sleep on brilliunt colored silkon cushions nnd somo ownors even drupe the oagos of their pots with rare old lace. The National Cat club of England has estab lished n stmlhook, and the pedigrees of tbe best brud cnts nro kept as carefully as tho podigroosof racehorses and blooded oattlo. Somo of the cuts exhibited are of enormous size, nnd Xenopbon, the finest representative of the Tabby family exhibit ed at the recent Westminster Aquarium show in London, weighed 20 pounds. Thora Is nn unconfirmed rumor in New York that Dr. Parkhurst'a entry at the show will bo a stuffed tiger cat. Decline of Corn Bread. it is with extreme regret that 1 view the nassinii of tbe old fashioned Ken tucky corn bread. For the last few years its decadence has been steady and sure. The march of progress has about "scronged it aside, and tbe improved, new fnngled methods of modern milling have had the effect to almost banish it from our bills of fare. It is true we yet have corn bread, but it is not of the good, old fashioned kind. On the con trary, it is very little like it. Bread made from the meal now on the mar ket is damp and clammy as the hand of a corpse, and when cold is bard enough to play basebull with. Tbe old time flavor is gone, and it in no wise com pares with tbe old bnrr made meal. Letter in Bowling Green (Ky.) Times. King James II. The following is a characteristic ex tract from the manuscript diary of King James II of England, preserved in the Imperial library of Paris: "I did not retire from the battle on tbe Boyne from a sense of fear, but that I might preserve to the world a life that I felt was destined to fntnre greatness." Translator and Artist. Misa Surah Holland Adams, a sister of Mrs. James T. Fields, who has achieved prominence as a German trans lator and as the friend of poets and painters in Europe, is in Boston after a residence of many years abroad, mostly Qjimm; .'.Tjfe of Goethe," and "Life In Berlin. She is tue irausiuiur u. he effect to scare j Baphllei. and his essays. She was a re. But for the ( frirt)J of ,be ,irotnt.ra t;riuim, and e imagined I was ratoelDed themselves signally for monster. Nowl , t,j i, translate their Mjs Ajama- foreign life has been crowded with artistic interest Women's Journal, VKV COSTLY. Ill insny things which make lit burden some, It is not merely ths discomforts we feel, but ths loss of time aud money. Among minor aocidents, lions are mors liable to cause th's than a sprain, Very many serious esses srs known that hsvs oust a lile-tliiie of misery and veijiuucb lu thus and money. Much of this is onlng to ueglK't. Ht. Jacobs O I, used promptly on the worst esse of sprain, will cure It as surely as it is used. It is the best snd needs only ths cars snd attention of apply ing it In good time lo uisks the ours ellea livs snd permanent. Woman's Cliaiiees on the Slag. "Tho foiululiieeleiiient Is very Impor tant on the modern stage, and genius and every quality applicable to dra matic performance may And employ ment there," writes A. M. Pulinor, the dramatic malinger, In The Ladles' Home Journal. "Acting is certainly a distinct and honorable profession open to wom en, but it lucks thut uniformity of re sult thut belongs to effort in other di rections. "Thestago requires a peculiar apti tude, I would counsel no one to at tempt its chances without this aptitude and capacity to learn. Good looks are of no value whatever without special intelligence. Under my management, covering a long period, many young women have apiieared. Somo of them have become f anions; iiiiiny others have sustained themselves In the profession; a great mnny have failed. Positive qualities lire niiiircd. Weakness of any kind in voice or physical attrib utes is a disqualification. "It Is not iilwnys possible to tell if a young woman can act at all nntil she is seen on the stage, and this complicates the difficulties of advice as to a partic ular line of acting." I'rlnress lllsniarck anil Kngland. Princess Bismarck is an ardent ad mirer of everything English. In a re cent letter, which we have bad the privilege of perusing, to a very close friend a Brighton lady the life com rudo of the man of blood and iron thus expresses herself: "I fear I dare not even htqie to see your dear country again. Yon know how I love it. Your little islund iu tbe south is indeed Qod's own garden. Proud as I am of my hus hiind, I cunnot help thinking weBhould both have been happier hud the stars in their courses indicated bis life work in your dear old England. I may not talk politics, but there can be no barm in suying what I have so often said before that bud I the choice of nationality I would be an English woman frank, free, cultured, accustomed to outdoor exercise, regarded by my husband a neither a cipher nor a toy. With all my heart 1 love old England. "Lady land. New York Women's Clubs. Just now tho particular social club which claims attention is one which has a proper rniue. It ia not enough that each of the adored English and American poets and philosophers muBt have a literary club nnmed after him, but the poetesses have risen to thut gran deur in the minds of their sisters; hence there wll shortly be treated the Jean Ingelow, George Eliot, Hyputia. Eliza beth Browning and Sappho clubs. At the poetio clubs poetry will be read, talked and aung, but whether the club women will dress like the spring poet has not yet been decided. The mem bers of tbe philosophic clubs will in dulge in gossip nnd study of tbe wise sort. Woineu, it seems, tinst have clubs, and they can't live without fads, so they save themselves time and trou ble by getting up fad clubs. The po etic and philosophic clubs are the latest of this type. New York correspondent. A TKRHIBLK VISITANT. Tain Is always a ternn e visnani, auu oueu dninlelles Itself with one for life. This inlil. -. lion Is p eveminie, iu esses oi rueuuiniipm r timely resort to Hoslelt. r's Ktomaeh Bllters, wnicn cneess ino eiiunmuiiuicuii. wi . i...n..u... m.i..w th m,rie. 1 hp Wl'l UBlllim iuni.i, - - . term "daiigeMUa" is ued advisedly, I r rlieu- ... .. ... Z I.. ,n .ti... lha vital nr. mailHOl IB Ml V. A) " imniv iu nn.i. ku saud terminate life. No tesiimony Is more ...... , thu, nf tihVII clans who testily to the excellent tBect of Ine Hlliersiii ints uiensa. rBiwuti.-.i -lu rainy or snowy weather, and who are e p ed to dratiirlits, shoald use the Blittrs as s preventive i.f 111 effects. Miliaria, dyspepsia liver aud kidney trouble, nervousness and le lillitv are also among Ihe aliments to whlo' . . ..... lH ..Hui.tnit Pnrthnlll Ilia iiupuinr uiciitv.tic - - "--- ill inlil. a reiiessandsltlmesaof the age I U Is u g'liy uciitiiuie,. i. ...... ti.i..i i.a n.a-i whn n,ar,lp fnr m'iney lsa looir' "He !, unless he gts It I auvuutv. BEWARE OF OINTMKXT9 rOH CA TAItltll THAT CONTAIN MKRCCBY, as mercury will surely detroy the sense of smell and oomplelely derange the whole atTHteni when entering it through the mu cous surfaces. Huuh articles should nevei be U8ed except on prescriplions from repu- ...I.U ..liMBinlote a. thn flntllAVA thavwll' do is ten fold 1 1 the goot you can possib'y thrive from them. Hairs Catarrh Cute manufactured by V. J. Cheney w.. io ledo, O., contains no meroury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of tbe sys'em. In btiving Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally, and made in Toledo Ohio, by F. J. Cheney Co. Testimonials free. . a-Soli by all Diuggists, pri e 75o per bottle. "M mv a -nan," snld Uncle Ebe'i, "hab loan" dat de pinnacle ob time am Iniliilily loo p luted :o si. d)wu on wlf comfort." Piso's Cure for Consumption has no equal as a Cough medicine. . ab bott, itH3 Seneca Ut., Buffalo, N. Y., May 9, im. (insrd jo relf for summer mslnrls, t'red feeling, by using now Oregon Blood fuillkr. MUSIO STOItK-Wlle B. Allen Co., the oldest, the largest, Vll First 81., Portland. C metering, llurdmsn, Fischer Pianos, Kitey O-gsns Iviw price-, easy ter ns. 10-CKST MUMCS. ml tor catalogues. Tut Qirmia for breakfast Dr. PIERCE'S FAVORITE PRESCRIPTION FOR WEAK WOMEN. On first introducing thin world-famed medi cine? to the afflicted, and for many yeara there after, it was sold under a Posltlvt Quaranto of piving entire satisfaction In every case for wmt, n ii i rc win menu-u. o j uuiiui imy sw cemful did it prove in curing the diseases, de rangements and weaknesses of women that claims for the return of money paid for it were eicccdinRly rare. Since its manufacturers can now point to thousands of noted cures effected by it in every part of the land, they believe iu past record a sufficient guarantee of its great value as a curative agent, therefore, thev mow rct its claims to the confidence of the afflicted soUly upon that record. By all medicine dealers, A SURE CURE FOR PILES Itching Piisjaj krwurn by mowtur like ptsplfsXooj p InWtue ftchincwiMOwirm, This form aad Miied, BimA ing or Proinutinc Piks yield u uc9 ! PR. BO-SAN-KO'S FILE REMEDY. which sets direr tij on parti affnctMl. awrtatamors, aj lra ttchtrnr, etTeunT a permanent eon. Pnot I a. 1. P. N. U. No. m R. F. N. 0. No 672 zr 331 TTllfiW aVHrtf Ail t.Sf fiUS. tn tint ftJ br droTtm. i4Muni errop. xsu-i wus. v- LOOK OUT Tonr First Duty Is lo Yourself i Your Bodily Condi, tlun Calls lor ths Help lo be Found in s Oooil SPRING MEDICINE The beat Preparation Hood's Sarsaparilla Uprlnj Ii ths season for cleanslntt and renewing the liloxl. Durinit the winter It liaanri'lltalniririalllvtlllOlltfll the Vein. y.athering impurities from indoor air. trow fatly ubstamwa in me ioou, anu from many other sources. The (treat blood purifying medicine specially prepared to do this work is Hood's U.iisjparllia. It will Rive to the ilood purity, richness and vitality, and hese will brlnii health and vigor, strong lerves, a good appetite, refreshing tloep, tnd powers of endurance. Cle n e your blood hy taking Hood's iarsnp trills, renovating preparation specially prepared to make pure blood, ll.nM -... maw anlnvlliaamunnnf flilWArB ,uuu .. ' J J - and birds and outd or pleasures, for you will be healthy, stronz anu wen. nnnn'C DTTT C ciirealll!verlila,bllloiis JlUUU 9 rluUa eM, headache. 'J'k). G. W. STAYER & GO. St'CCt SSOKS TO . . . STIVER & WALKER PORTLAND, OREGON General Agents for Avi.tman & Taylor Tiihkshkks. Traction Kkuisks and DlNOSE WOOUHIBV 1'oWBH. Have for sale HAND-CASE SEPARATORS AND ENGINES And other Machinery of 8 aver Walker Bloc lo closd out cheap. Wrl.e tot fataloaue slid Prices. America's Kin si t-jent CiKars. F ve inches In sise and Havana H led. II vour desb r doe not CO CO CIGAR keep hem, send and we H ill mail Wt'l S MIX I" luriS'. I. r. IMtKMICI , Ml IK II. rriltfi,Or. GROCERIES - aID - PROVISIONS Write lor Kpeelal Cash Trlce-Mst EVERDINC&FARREL'.PORILANO.O' TAKE PrUNlDER'S. Oregon BloodRjotr: K KIDNEY. LIVER DISEASES. DYSPEPSIA, Diuot ro a nir; iNnatai nsrASES LITTLE SHIRTS offer for Inline dlate demand sum er rmhrwear. shirts. Dants.draw- taVkVa-safl sVaVsl ers, Im ea. kiira or Ion unit", slsea 16 to 20 at lfc, or 22 lo 26 at Ale, and is to :il at i"), mat inr, 4'': Warranted. Meullon tills pnper. Hna stamps to SMITH'S GASH S10 E, tit vEXIum, DR. GUSH'S mPBOVKD UVER PIUS A MILD PHYSIC. P PIIX FOR A DOSB ol tba bowoli aaah dsr u m i Uls supply wkt h Aaomamt bulla, Tbsss llaaksto ipls frsof S fullboi far SfcL Hold m ISAMKO UBS. 0O-r.sdalpbU.fa, warn DO. NEW Portland, Walla Walla, Spokane, via O. B A N. Railway and Ureal Northern Railway to Montana points, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Omaha, St. Louis, Chi- WAY c?o sua rail. Auuresi EAST! nearer agent. v. Donavan, Gen. Ast., Pnrll.nil.Or- R.C. Ste vens. (ten. A at.. Seattle. Wah.; O. O. Dixon, (Jen. Agt , p kane, Wasb. ... J..... . Kail.., onlr . Ann uiAiiarv. nut a e sleeping and uiulngcars; buffet-library carl; family tourist sleepers; new equipment. ASK YOUR DRUOGIST FOR THE BEST FOR Dyspeptic,DelicateJnfirm and AGED PERSONS JOHN CARLE A 80N5, New York. FRAZER Jgjjg 8 EST IN THE WORLD. ' l-'r Its wearing qualities are unsurpassed, actually utlaatinr two boxes of any other brand. Free from Animal Oils. UKT THB GKNVINK. FuK 8AEB BY OREGON AND WASHINGTON MKRCHANTS' and Deaien Keueranr. ;MRS. WINSLOW'S HWo'?0 - fOn CHILDREN TIITHINO Va sate sr all Draaxlsla. S Casta sMtla. AA-VAAAAAAahfc BE WARS el Imitation trade surks and labels. W AIIP HAfV'P SOPA ! 4 4.. faffr , Costs no more than other package soda r m 111 pdvlyavb. fiour universally acknowledged purest tn Hade only by CHURCH a. CO., Hew WrUa tor Aim sad? B aauter Est.b. ises. CORBITT & MACLEAY CO. inc. 1393 IMPORTERS, SHIPPING and COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Liberal advance made nn approved consignments of Wheat, (lour, Oata, Wool and Hops. Special Imports Ircmchina, Jspsn nl lu 41a: Tea, Coffee, Rice, Matting and Rn , 8 .Ices, sim, Taplnc, China Nut Oil.eic. From Liv erpool: Liverpool Fine, Coarse and Lamp Rocs nalt, ch mlcala of all Slnrtt, T cplle selected No. 1 returned Wheat Bga. Hop Barlap, Kl Br-mstoue. Ba- Ale liiiltinftV l'.,rte fccn-h and Irish Wblakv, Braudvand Wine-, r aaielu oisullit, losult the trade. fOKTLANi , Oh. 1 MALARIA I Three rlosea rmlv. Trv It. IT IS IGNORANCE THAT WASTES EFFORT." TRAINED SERVANTS USE SAPOLIO FOrtT for this Purpose is i.T i. i. l.t..l.ll .f Iftiotl's BnrBBparlllii, us It hits worked wotiilcrs in my oino. 1 sin 74 veurs nl a :i U"d bnv been afll'c ed wild salt rln tun on my hands for a Kreat inanv yenrs. I Hied i my IMmt to cure tnein, nut iniieii. y iunu "" cruck open snd bleed pruiuacly, iiiin poin was terrible to boa-. H;nro tadnij llood'e Hursapurillu the Ibwh bus liealel and Ihe skin is smooth ns n'V farmers. 1 recmiiinenil Hood's H'irsiiiarillii ns a re liable medicine, mil ulwiivs speak in it' favor." Lloyd 11. C'hahs, Hwunsca, Jiasi. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the Only True Blood Purifier Prominently in tbe pnbllo e- e today. He stl'e to set llixid'a Htid only Hood a. ainuan : ltftrdln ptoiwtti tor tin fomlnl jmr, wul4 0 u io-6. mr h. Mfjwl " mMn, nl m . l l 500 AERMOTORS . do not utribuu this falrlr oo4 roord titlrrtv to oor . fori., but to Its oirlii,lty o? Hit lit "Inch you Ultkt. Bu...u k D.vit UrU.il., Ill , r.lirotry la, ISUS. UtolttMBH : Wt Itougltt ttld put up At, motor Wo. V, MS enl ut tin Srtt tl, xhirli Toil mailt t k UnlUio. Siuot Out Inst wt htt told tbuut 400 AERMOTORS la oar wmM ttrritory Ii rtpreMnted (h!iltory of th A.rmotor lid tbt Ariuoiur Company Irani ibt banning to Uit (iihm( of uiiui..kn triumph. And from tin A otor LlK tnora titvo "Mil ui i" in our terniory jimi nouith -ttli which lo ihgw tht Inflnil ill Aarmot r la !. in, compart aim pvriorityof lho workiuamliip, flniih ml gtlvani tiohi and ability hi and do erTwtlvt wuik when all othtn sUiid tdla fur want or wma. but Ihn rtfiun waa well when tho. Aermulnr ( Wt ahould hav told mora, aunc'iad with wind powtr peaied, it hajlnit onljr tuilM to Chicaio, and had tr team bfi ilia omit frounu brivti, I it known and Binittf, all httin oal4 celt or on ri'iujikns rumu wohuin anu TOKY WHRKLH WITH you hava durlai lh past viooa jtir'i record by jroa aiport to douM your Ir tan or tweive 01 in atrongaat w.mlnuil com- wifitin mi -mrs oi II tH riilE urn no UTHRK rKBATIMMU AKKXOTOKA. You My year aurraad any iro bout onvhalf , and thnt Hit yaar'a output lho tha Aartbotor nr atood farther ! all competttnra In repii lor our pumonoi , iur tat ion and la raci than lo-aay, Dana rij-. -" February 36, IW6." , . , . ThonwtAerraotw ad. will be of pump. Woahall offerer $7.50 a $15 Hint wr forot puiop. All dr.ltn thoutd titvt It or cjn tt II to toll thtt prltt. All Atrtnolor lorn will havt It. Tlit tt followlnii mil tppttr our wlvtrtlMititnt of itlvanliMl itttl Unit. .1 lit etnlt ptr rtlton. Tbty ntilhtr ilirlnk, ltU. ruit. Bur mtki ntlir ttttt b . 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Catalog-telis all about It.and describes every article lteeaea tor me, poultry business. The "ERIE" mechanically the best wheel. Prettiest model. We are Pacific Coast Aeents. Bicycle cata- full description. tiHcm. etc., aokwts wanted FETALUMA IHCUBAT0R CO., Petal tima.Cal. Branch Hovbb, 131 8 Main St., Los Angeles. rk. run TaWi . I sl I -ry RfliSiSGPflYs fjti V Pnte . I I yjjl Illustrated I I QrJ, Catalogue UJ FHEB. 5"Nk7 package soda never spoils 9 the world. York. Sold by grocers everywhere. Book ot valumble Xoclpea-FREE. DO YOU FEEL BAD? DOES VOL'S BACK ache? Does evervstep seem shot den T Youneerl MOORE'S REVEALED REMEDY