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1 - -- THE sunshine is unusually bright to-day. My Uncle Tobe and 1 are - sitting on the balcony which over looks the broad, fair stream below, adorned with the afternoon sun's last rays. It Is Sunday. In Sunday dress and holiday spirits crowds are hurrying to wards the big excursion steamers, pant ing along the shore. How I would like to be one of them I am young and hungry for pleasure. But Uncle Tobe doesn't understand. He doesn't care for such amusement. "It's useless waste of time," he growls. I might tell him it's just for the sake of innocent frolic, but he wouldn't un derstand that, either. He understands only the serious side of life, earning money in the sweat of one's brow, and he says such money mustn't be spent foolishly. Uncle Tobe is a bachelor, whom fate has burdened with the care of two homeless children. He might hare shaken off the burden, but he was too conscientious, too honorable for that. He was the only relative to whom we could turn I, the daughter of h!s sister, and Philip, his brother's stepson We were quite small, when he took us into his house, two mischievous wights, for children know little of sorrow. I am sixteen years old to-day, and cannot yet be serious and demure. Philip is more ungovernable even than I. When we are together we laugh and chatter, so unreasonably loud, Uncle Tobe says, that he Is compelled to drive lis from his presence. "Silly youngsters! What right have you to laugh?" When he took us into his home, he turned me over to his old housekeeper, Mrs. Mitchell, saying: "Take the little thing! Her parents had no business to burden the world with such a useless little worm!" Mrs. Mitchell shook her white head. "Let her grow up with the flowers," she answered. "All she needs is a little sunshine." Yes, we needed sunshine, Philip even more than I. He was the elder by four years, and full of silly notions, Uncle Tobe said. He carried home all sorts of animals, much to the distress of Uncle Tobe, but when he Infested the house and the entire neighborhood with white mice, it was decided that he should be sent to a boarding school. Philip was satisfied. It couldn't be any worse than at home, he mused. Henceforth his life took on a different hue. His teachers complained of hi3 careless habits, his boyish pranks, but they could not gainsay his talents and bright, active mind. He was expelled from two schools on account of his un ruly conduct, and when he begged Un cle Tobe to send him to college, the lat ter refused. No, he must learn a trade. I don't know how many different lines of work Phil tried, but he never remain- ed more than a few weeks In any one. At last he was apprenticed to a drug gist The work seemed to suit him.' There were complaints, of course, but of a different nature. Philip was con stantly experimenting. He came near blowing up the house-once. Yet his employer praised his cleverness and his Indefatigable desire for study. Every Sunday Philip paid a visit to his home, and then he built air castles 1 1 hi luicuiiuus which oe was about to make, and begged Uncle Tobe to advance him money. He might as well have preached to deaf ears. I was '" glad when he was gone, for the scenes that took place between him and Uncle Tobe had become unbearable. Sitting on the balcony that lovely Sun aay arternoon I sighed and gazed dreamily into the beautiful world be yond. My Jolly companion I knew was confined to his dingy quarters in town What was he doing? Concocting some healing draught, perhaps. Perhaps selling a Sunday ration of bonbons to some lucky youngster! What a trial we are to Uncle Tobe! Why didn't he get married and have children of his own, then he wouldn't have been ex pected to care for other people's waifs? I lean across the balcony rail to watch a newly arrived boat unload its human freight. And there is Philip! Lncie J.ooe, l exclaimed, "Phil is here In the crowd!" "Of course," he growls, "he is always to be found where he has no business to be. Don't beckon to him, I don't want nlm up nere. But I had already waved my hand to Phil, and a moment later he stood -be fore us. his eyes were ablaze with joy. How happy he looked. "Aren't you glad that I am here?" they said, as they beamed down upon my upturned face. Uncle Tobe knit his brows. "What are you doing here? Why are you not at work?" "It's Sunday, uncle, and now I have really Invented something valuable. My employer says so, too, and all I need Is a little money to experiment with and take out a patent. " Uncle Tobe, you'll help- me out just this one time, won't yon?" "Not If I had a thousand times the amount you want" "It isn't a large sum, uncle; try me Just once," he pleaded. And I I plead ed with him. "Leave me In peace," groaned Uncle Tobe, "I am tired of-it all. You forget that you are a poor waif who eats the bread of grace in my house. You'll either go tha way I point or choose your own." You are no longer a child!" '.'You are right," cried Philip, with cheeks aflame with anger. "I am no longer a child. It's a shame that ij should take alms from such a hand as yours. It has been the last time. I'll go my way henceforth." "And starve at it!" mocked Uncle Tone. I trembled In every limb. It had nev er been as bad as this before. "You cannot mean what you say," I begged, "Yes, I mean it," declared Philip. "And so do I," added Uncle Tobe. For a moment Philip stook stark still looking at me, then he dashed down the stairs and aboard the steamer which was about to leave the wharf. In the crowd I lost sight of him. The bell rang out sharply. I was alone and in despair. Behind me stood Uncle Tobe. "Let him go, Vreda; he'll come back, I'll give him the money after awhile, but not now. Young folks are too im patient" "You should have given it to him now, Uncle," I answered with choking voice. Philip had not returned. The sun had gone out of my life. The rollick ing echo was dead. The days were gray and dreary, the nights intermina ble. We had no friends. There was no one to come to a house that had no open door; no hand of welcome! Uncle Tobe wrestled with figures half the day, the other half he devoted- to business errands. In the evening he read the newspapers. I was like a deaf mute. I "Take a good, long walk every day,' suggested compassionately Mrs. Mit chell. "You look like a ghost, and are fading away!" Alas! there was no one, for whom would have exerted, myself to keep fresh and young. The sooner I grew old and gray the better I would fit into my surroundings. For Philip I cried bitter tears. Uncle Tobe never mentioned his name. "Poor old man, he must be fond of you both," Mrs. Mitchell was wont to say now and then when I went to her room to talk of Philip. "He is workup himself to death trying to buy this lit tle house. My nephew tells me this; he is employed in the office of his attor ney." ' I hate the place since Phil is gone, I cried bitterly. "Everything is gone, the birds, the flowers and the people. Only we we are chained to this same old spot" - "Wait, Miss Treda; wait, later on, perhaps " "That's what Uncle Tobe says, and then it will be too late." 'Not for you. You are young, Miss vreda, but your uncle, nobody can make him see what he ought to do." We lived our "lonely lives and I had lost all hope that things i would ever One morning we found Uncle Tobe dead in his chair. He looked as if he had dropped into a peaceful slumber. Mrs. Mitchell and I seemed turned to stone when we discovered him. I felt no sorrow, but I was terribly frighten ed. When the doctor came he said thtft he could do nothing. The funeral was very quiet and un ostentatious. There were no tears, no lamentations, no flowers, no friends. After we had laid him away it occurred to me that the home In which I had lived so long would now be closed to me. But the thought had no terror. It was a relief, rather, to be free. I knew nothing about earning my bread. Free dom was all I craved. On the day after the burial. Uncle Tobe's testament was opened. Philip and I were his heirs. He had bought the little home and had left us enough money to live in comfortable circum stances. May God bless you," he wrote. "I had no one on earth but you!" " I sobbed aloud as I listened. "Oh, if he had only given Philip the money when he needed It!" I must go out and find him. Mrs. Mitchell soon convinced me of the futility of such a beginning. Philip would come home sooner or later. Poor uncle, your happiness was all A EOY AND AN ORANGE. ' Lanrence Huitan Tells How Be Suc cumbed to a Temptation In Youth. The Boy was taught, from the earlieslj awakening of his reasoning powers, that truth was to be told and to be re-i spected, and that nothing was more, wicked or more ungentlemanly than a broken promise. He learned very earlyi to do as he was told, and not to do, un-. der any consideration, what he had said; he would not do. . Upon this last point) he was strictly conscientious, although once, literally, he "beat about the bush.'? His Aunt Margaret, always devoted to plants and to flowers, had, on the back stoop of his grandfather's house, a lit tle grove of orange and lemon trees in pots. Some one of these was usually in fruit or in flower, and the fruit to The Boy was a great temptation. He was very fond of oranges, and it seem ed to him that a "home-made", orange, which. he had never tasted, must be much better than a grocer's orange; as home-made cake was certainly prefer able, .even to the wonderful cakes made by the professional Mrs;. Milderberger. He watched these little green oranges from day to day, as they gradually grew big and yellow in the sun. He promised faithfully that he would not pick any, but he had a notion that some of them might drop off. He never 6hook the trees, because he said he would not. But he shook the stoop! And he hung about the bush, which he was too honest to beat. One unusually, tempting orange, which he had Known from its bud-hood, finally overcame j him. He did not pick it off, he did not shake it off; he compromised with his conscience by lying flat on his back and biting off a piece of it It was not a very good action,' nor was it a good orange, and for that reason, perhaps, he went home immediately and told on himself. He told his mother. He did not tell his Aunt Margaret. '' His moth er did not seem to be. as much shocked at his conduct as he was. But, in her own quaint "way, she gave him to un derstand that promises were not made to be cracked any more than they were made to be broken that he had been false to himself in heart, if not in deed, and that he must go back and make it "all right" with his Aunt Margaret She did not seem to be very much shocked, either; he could not tell why. But they j punished The Boy. They made him eat the rest of the orange! He lost all subsequent interest in that tropical glade, and he has never cared much for domestic oranges since. St Nicholas. - - A MAN WHO CANNOT LOSE. io socome roor, bat Every Venture JCnriohes Him. The history ' of John Lawrence' Schoolcraft who now, broken-hearted and aimless In life, plods 'uncomplain ingly through a weary existence, earn ing by constant labor a bare mainte nance, Is a sad one. Several days ago bonds and securities amounting to ? 60,000 werer.fpuhd in the bottom of a cast-off trunk in the Saratoga hotel at Chicago, as was related at the time in the Courier-Journal. The finding of such valuables has led to an Investi gation, and the fact has been establish ed that the bonds and securities be long to John Lawrence Schoolcraft formerly of Kentucky. Chief of Police Badenoch, of Chi cago, when he turned over the securi ties to the owner, instead of making him happy, brought sorrow, and suffer ing to him, as the bonds recall a sad event in his life, which he had striven hard to wipe out and forget" The day the bonds were found by a waiter at the Saratoga hotel, Schoolcraft was earning his living by addressing let ters at $1 per thousand. It was quick ly learned thathe was the owner of the bonds, for he had the hotel check for the trunk In which they were found. ' He also had a receipted bill for his board at the Saratoga hotel. He, when asked in regard to securities, he once possessed, gave the numbers readily. Chief Badenoch, wanting to be more sure, however, sent School craft's picture to his old home in Rich mond, Va. Letters - were' received im mediately from . prominent business men of Richmond saying the picture was undoubtedly that of Schoolcraft This dismissed all doubts as to the man's identity and right of ownership. These letters also explained why Schoolcraft, with $60,000 at his com mand, keeps np the drudgery of ad dressing envelopes to earn his daily livelihood. He himself declines to tell the story of his life, but in answer to ' persistent questioning only says: "rto BEVIEW OF THE YEAR CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD IMPORTANT EVENTS. OF Month of May Most Conspicuous by Its List of Appalling Disasters and Natural Catastrophes by Land and Sea Kecortl of Fires and Crimes. A Backward Glance. Following is a chronological record of the most important events of the past twelve months: May, 1896, will be re membered as a month of disaster. On the 3d twelve persons were killed by au explosion in Cincinnati-; on the 13th, 120 by a cyclone in Texas; on the 17th, 33 by cyclones in Kentucky and Kansas; oa the 18th, 44 by a cyclone in Nebraska: on the 21st, 10 by a cyclone in Oklahoma; on the 22d, 5 by a cyclone in Missouri; on the 24th, 40 by a cyclone in Iowa; on the 23th, 86 by cyclones in Michigan and Oklahoma and 40 by a cloudburst at Mc Gregor, Iowa; and on tlie 26th, 12 by a storm at' Cairo and between 75 and 100 by the fall of a bridge at Victoria, B. C. Otherwise the record is not out of. the or dinary. ' Jannary. 1. President names Venezuelan commis sion. .. .British ship Jeannette Cowan wreck ed on Vancouver island; 12 men perlsli. 2. Six members of Hibbard family die by fire at Columbus, Obio. ...Four killed, 32 nurt, by exploding nrewoi-ks at St. L.ouis, Mo. . . . .lii-itisii force under Dr. Jameson at leniots seizure of territory in Transvaal. South Africa, and is cut to pieces aud cap tured by Boers; British Government dis avows bis invasion Earthnuake in Per sia destroys village of Jaujabad aud kills auo people. 4. Cubans Invest the city of Havana. United States insists on indemnity from Turkey foi Diundered missions. .. .Six killed In a wreck near Chillicotne, Ohio. ...Utah a State. 5. Carlisle offers $100,000,000 popular loan ....Second Persian earthquake destroys city or uoi ana Kins. sou people.,: - , - 6. Report that Havana is fa'llen; not con firmed Four miners killed in a Shamokin, Pa., shaft. .. .Tremendous prairie fires in western jvansas. . 9. War fever bleh in England. .. .Trans vaal demands Independence and indemnity for Jameson's raid Report of alliance of liennany, France and Russia against ung- lana to sustain the Boers. ter at Victoria, B. C. .. .James Dunham mur ders six people at San Jose, Cal Cr-ar of Russia crowned. .. .Cairo, , 111., storm kills twelve. 27. St. Louis, East St. Louis and several Missouri towns swept by one of the most de structive cyclones in the world's history: 1.000 reported dead. - 30. Two thousand Russians killed In a panic at Moscow. .. .Eighteen people die in a cycloae at Seneca, Mo. June. '. ; ' ' . ; 5. Excessive heat In Northwest. ' 6. Anarchist bomb In Barcelona kills 7 and wounds 4. 13. Death of ex-Gov. Felch of Michigan. 16. Earthquake In Japan kills thousands Republican convention In St. Louis.... Steamer Drummond and 240 lives lost off France. 18. Ten thousand lives lost by earthquake and tidal wave In Japan: .. .McKinley nom inated at St. Louis Silver men bolt -the convention Ten killed by exploding yacht boiler at Little Falls. N. Y. 22. Five killed by collapsing building at San Francisco Death of B. H. Bristow,. ex-Secretary of the Treasury, at New York. 28. One .hundred miners buried at Pitts ton, Pa Six drown in Shawano Lake, Wis. July. I. Death of Harriet Beecher Stowe. 7. Democratic convention at Chicago.... Yale beaten at Henley. 8. Christian- Endeavorers assemble at Washington. 10. Chicago convention nominates Bryan. II. Tweutv-eieht killed in wreck at Lo gan, Iowa $1,750 hold-up at noou in Chi cago $300,000 Are at Nashville, Tenn. 1. Five killed In week at Chicago Four drowned at Lawrence. Kan. 13. Half million lire loss at St. Louis.... Intense heat at Chicago. 14. Hot wave sweeps the country; 91 de grees at Chicago. 15. Temperature drops 30 degrees at Chi cago Twtnty-elght drowned at Cleveland, Ohio. 18. Three lives and half a million in prop-, erty lost by lire at Chicago car barns.... Malvern, Ark., razed by incendiary fire. 24. Twenty-six drowned by cloudburst in Colorado Serious floods In Ohio and j Pennsylvania. 25. Populists at St. Louts nominate Brvan and Watson. 27. Eleven die In a Pennsylvania cloud burst, near Pittsburg. 28. Indiana gas belt swept by floods; three killed at Anderson. 30. Fifty killed la railroad wreck at Jer sey City, N. J. HOW TO RELAX. CATARRH CANNOT BC CURED Cold weather, whether damp or dry, will With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot produce, even if we are extremely careful. I J?acS the 8eS' f thf ?isease- Catarrh Is a ' , blood or constitutional disease, and in order to sudden soreness and stiffness of the limbs cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's and muscles. This is much owing to sud- I !i.Virrl1 C.H.rJ8iften, '"ternally.and acts dl- j . , . , e leetly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall 'a aen change of temperature from a warm Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was room to out-door air. Cold contracts and ' Prescribed by one of the best physicians in this warmth eximnds or relaxes, and it is fnr ! i?"mry. Ler!' an4.!s ? regular prescrip- this reason that when one is' nAM '"l. Y.'SW?Z "'. "K! t5n'cs . from sudden cold, the application of St. Jacobs Oil briners immediate find sure ro ll ef, as it gives warmth and relaxation to ' produces such wonderful effects in enring the stiffened muscles and mob an.!, tko ! Catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. sore and cramped limbs. With a vigorous rubbing with this great remedy for pain no one need suffer with soreness and stiff, ness more than a very short time. It is especially the best remedy for - suffering where we require a prompt cure, and it is particularly the best bqpause its cures are permanent. 12. Peter Honirflflrrl. of Chlcaird. kills his man on earth has suffered more than wire, rive children and. himself by aspuyxia- . ' Tinn. 13. Sultan forbids Red Cross Society to en- Retired from Practice. The Saunterere's friend, the Doctor, has retired from practice. A few years ago he inherited a large fortune, and since then his time has been so occupied managing his estates that it is impos sible for him to continue his profes sional work. Not only has he taken in his shingle, but he also discourages the practice of calling him "doctor"; so that in his neighborhood the title has been generally dropped. . However, every few days the Irish maid of all work, when she answers the doorbell, has to explain that though the proprietor of the establishment is a duly graduated physician, he is not at present practicing his profession, and does not wish to respond to calls for his medical skill. ..' -.......... It happened -that one day there ap-i peared at the door a caller of a very I. Had I thought my past would be dug up in connection with these miser able old papers, I would never have made claim to them. May my secret be buried with my body." Ten years ago John Lawrence School craft was a vigorous, handsome young man of 29 years. He was an enter- ter his domains. 14. Furaker chosen Senator from Ohio. 15. Government victorious in Manitoba elections Severe fighting about Havana ....Allison chosen Senator from Iowa... Bond syndicate dissolves; popular loan assured. 16. Chicago gets Chicago National Demo cratic ionyontion. 17. Announcement of Harrlson-Dimmick prising young business man and was a engagement Campos relieved of Spanish different kind. He was the agent of some religious society, anxious rather ' it. to bleed others than to be bled himse'lf; and often, instead of losing, realized So, naturally, he was eager to post him- ! handsome profits. Taxes on his real member of the firm of Campbell & Schoolcraft, of Richmond, , Va. Tha firm wag a popular one, and made mon ey fast Schoolcraft had extensive business ventures outside of his reg ular business, and all of them netted him big gains. Mrs. Schoolcraft waa a beautiful woman, and was one of the most attractive and fascinating leaders of Richmond society. School craft idolized his wife, and his whole life seemed to be given up to her pleas ure and happiness. One day be awoke to the realization that a younger law yer, named Stein, who had been one of his most confident and trusted friends, had robbed him of his wife's affections. The affair had gone too far to admit of any reconciliation, and with a broken heart he left her. He made no complaint, nor did he utter a word of censure, but hastily converted all his property and business interests into cash and portable securities and left his once happy home to become a wanderer the rest of his life. Schoolcraft's main purpose . was to squander all his money and scatter 11 in a way that his wife could never gel He rushed into big speculations self as to the church relations of his proposed subject in order to make the appeal more "effectual. His first question began in the usual way: "Is er Mr. Hammersleigh at home?" "Sure an' he is, sorr." . "Can you tell me whether or not be is a Christian?" estate were purposely left unpaid and the property was sold and resold until it was clouded by mortgages too far to admit of any redemption. He went into big mining schemes and all kinds of wild speculations, and in almost every instance would win. Finally he jWas heard from in Albuquerque, N. M., where he had Invested in what he con- To Bridget this was something of a sidered a losing venture, but to his poser, but she rose supremely to the oc- ntter disgust he realized from It over cation with her accustomed answer: j $100,000. Schoolcraft finally succeed- "Sure, an' he is, yer honor. But he's1 ! .ed in squandering all his money, and not practicin' it lately." Boston Bud- get. he worked for!" was Mrs. Mitchell': admonishing cry. "He has taken It from me," I wailed "he has made me miserable, and him Philip! he may be lost forever!" I lived quietly on with Mrs. Mitchell In the little house by the river. - Prom day to day I waited. The trees took on fresh foliage and then came the au tumn and 4he winter. I waited in si lence. With the spring hope was re newed within me. Suddenly, on the brightest day of all the year, the bell rang with a clang. I knew the sound and hastened to the door. Philip stood before me, but not the rollicking youth whom I remember ed. The man in whose arms I lay had a serious, thoughtful face. I cried aloud. Be still," he whispered, "I don't want uncle to know. I don't want to see him. I want you, only you!" Uncle!" I repeated. "Don't you know that he is dead?' "I am pot sorry," he said bitterly; "he took from me my youth. Want, care, anxiety were my companions on the way. After rnany struggles success crowned my efforts, and now we need no longer depend upon him. My fac tory Is far away. . My invention was worth its weight, in gold." His eyes beamed down upon me as they did on that fateful Sunday. He took me Into his arms. "I came back for you, my happiness, my youth Come, teach me how to laugh again !" We cried and laughed in one. When he had told me everything I showed him Uncle Tobe's last will and testa ment. Not a cent of this money will I take, cried fiercely my lover, the companion of my childhood. "He has made our hearts bleed often enough for It!" We were married and moved to the large city, where Philip had his fac tory. The little house we turned over to Mrs. Mitchell's care. Every summer we came home, bringing our children with ns. My husband's heart has soft ened toward the lonely old man who had driven him forth Into the world. and on the anniversary of his death our little Tobe lays sweet violets on his grave. Sunday Republic. The Pennsylvania colony farm for epileptics has Just been incorporated. Tbe Colorado, Desert. The most famous of waste places in America, the Colorado Desert, is popu larly regarded as an empire of hopeless sterility, the silence of which will neve be broken by the voices of men. Bu the great desert is the life work of tha Colorado river. .The scientific men o the University of Arizona have anal-t yzed these waters, and found that tha actual commercial value of the fertiliz ing matter which would be deposited upon each acre by irrigation amounts, in the course of a year, to 59.07.- What, then, is the potential value of the laud which this river has created in centu ries? The products of the region in- elude oranges and the dates of com merce. The place , is more like Syri.-i than any other part of the United States, and the daring imaginations may readily conceive that here a new Damascus will arise, more beautiful than that of old. With the occupation of the Colorado Desert, and of the great peninsula which adjoins it, a powerful impuls, will be given to agriculture, mining and commerce in a vast region now little peopled. One of the Inevitable conse, quences will be the rise of San Diego to thejroportions of a large city prob, ably the largest In the .southern par of the coast. "Our Great Pacific Com monwealth," by William E. Smythe, in the December -Century. No Danger for Him. .. A certain doctor had occasion, when only a beginner in the medical profes sion, to attend a trial as a witness. Counsel, in cross-examining the young M. D., made-several sarcastic remarks doubting the ability of so young a man to understand his business. "Do you know the symptoms of concussion of the brain ?'asked the learned counsel. "I do," replied.the doctarv "Well," con. tinued the attorney, "suppose my learn ed friend, Mr. Bagwis. and mvaelf were to bang our heads together, should we get concussion of the brain?" "Your learned friend; Mr. Bagwig, might said the doctor, quietly. Didn't Trouble Him. Once, when both were at an advanced age, Mr. Gladstone and the late Lady Stanley, or Aiaeny, were comparing notes as to the effect of time upon them Mr. Gladstone complained of Increas ing deafness, but Lady Stanley found that she was now often unable to think of words with which to give shape to her thoughts. "That," said Mr. Glad- i stone, in reply, with a humorous chuci ! kle, 'is a feeling that I have never been conscious of." landed in Chicago about two weeks ago with but a few dollars in his pockets and with a determination to earn a small pittance wherewith . to sustain himself. v When Chief Badenoch took the secu rities after they were found and show ed them to Schoolcraft he said they be longed to him, but they were worth less. Experts. who have examined them declare; diey are good, and not only can their face value be readily col lected, bur the accrued interest, which will amount to some thousands of dol lars. Schoolcraft, although being onlv command In Cuba. .. .Death of Frank Law- ler. of Chicago. 21. E'ive firemen killed by falling walls at St. Louis; three people killed by gas ex plosion at New Haven, Conn.; two at Red- key, Ind... .Death of Gen. Tom Ewing at New York.. ..Red Cross delegation starts for Turkey. 25. American Liner St. Paul ashore at Long Branch. 26. Cnbau filibustering steamer Hawkins smKs; !)( lost. 27. Fifty -four Welsh miners killed by ex plosion. .. .Feud at Palon, owa, ends in two deaths 30. Five killed, 20 hurt, by exploding Doner at Houidaysburg, fa. 31. Salisbury concedes Justice of Monroe doctrine and declares England's Inability to suppress Armenian outrages.... Murder of Pearl Bryan at Fort Thomas, Ky. , February. L Senate passes silver bond bill. 2. $2,010,000 fire loss in Philadelphia Tremendous snowstorm in Northwest. 5. Richard Klatke kills his father, mother, wife, -three children and himself at Chicago; despondent Bond bids aggregate $508.- 000,000, at a figure exceeding 110. 6. Three killed in Polish-Hungarian riot at Whiting, Ind Terrific storm sweeps Atlantic coast; Morrlstownj N. J., inundated by bursting dam; Bound Brook wiped out by flood aud fire; many lives lost, immense property destroyed. .. .Bridge near Bristol. Conn., swept away, drowning eleven work men. . 7. Death of W. H. English at Indianapolis. 8. Publisher Dunlop, of Chicago Dispatch, sentenced to two years and to pay $2,000 for circulating obscene matter. 9. Ten sailors drown off Newburyport, Mass. 14. Grant Atterbury lynched at Sullivan, 17. -Twenty die In a factory fire at Trov. 18. Sixty miners killed at Newcastle, Colo. ...Rain of mud in Chicago 19 Bill Nye stricken bv naralvsls. ...Mer. cury below zero all day at Chicago; three uie oi exposure uiotniug cutters at Chi cago strike. .. .Dynamite at Johannesburg, South Atrica, kills scores; fire at a masked ball In Lisbon. Portugal, kills fifty attend ants. 21. Fitzsimnions whips Maher In 1 minute 35 seconds Commander and Mrs. Balling ton Booth removed from command of Salva tion Army in America. 22. Death of "Bill" Nye. 23. Ballington Booth revolts against his retirement m salvation Army. .. .seven peo ple uie in a Baltimore nre. 27. New York Yacht Club expels Lord Dunraven. ( 28. Senate passes resolution to recognize LUUU 0t 1 ftftfl ftflft flpa In TT ullfo. T;,. t- Barcelona, Spam, upon receipt of" news of action oi congress; American- cousulate at tacked. March. ' 1. Great floods In New Eneland. 3. Rome in a rage because of slaughter of o.uuu nanan soiuiers in Dattie in Abyssinia. ( 4. Renewed anti-American demonstration , in Madrid. .. .All Italy In an uproar over Auyssiniau ueieat. .. .$2uu,uuu nre at Johns town, fa. 14. Albert Wallace hanged at Pekln, HI, 16., Frankfort. Ky., under martial law. 18. Five killed by powder explosion at 'xnirteen miners killed at Dubois, Pa., Anru it. 4. Failure of Moore. Bros., Chicago, Dia mond Match brokers, for, $4,000,000 Phe nomenal heat In Western. Central and Mid dle Northern States. 5, 6. 7. Continuance of killing heat.... Conference of National Democratic party at Indianapolis. " ; 9. Furious heat increases: 72 deaths from sunstroke in New York and Brooklyn: 19 at Chicago; similar reports from all quarters. .. . even killed ny trolley accident at Colum bia, Pa. 10. One hundred and eisrhtv neonle die of heat In New York and Brooklyn; 60 at Chi cago; 12 at St. Louis. i. Cool wave. .. -Thirty die in a Pennsyl vania cloudburst. .. .Seven killed by boiler explosion near Alliance, Ohio. 16. Undertakers and cemeteries In New York overwhelmed with business: hundreds of -funerals postponed; heat the cause. 17. Death of Abigail Dodge (Gall Hamil ton) at Hamilton, Mass. l. Death of Nicholas Croueh. author of "Kathleen Mavourneen." 25. Whitney-Vanderbllt wedding On tonagon, Mich., destroyed by fire. .'. .Nation al Democratic State Convention of Illinois nominates John C Black for Governor, September. 1. Twelve killed by Dowder-house exnloslon at San Francisco. 8. Gold Democrats at Indlananolls. nomin ate Palmer aud Buckner Slight frost in Northwest. 6. Eleven firemen killed at Rentnn Rsr- bor, Mich. .. .Two men lynched at Glencoe, Minn. 8. Six of a coachine narty killed near Warsaw, Ind Family of four killed at crossing at Oshkosh, Wis. 10. Cyclone at Paris Terrlfle storm on Atlantic coast. 19. Tremendous storm In the East.... British troops capture Dougola and rout dervishes In Egypt Riot in Leadvllle; four killed. -3. Leadvllle under martial law. 27. Mount Holvoke College burns at South Had ley, Mass. . Many Southern cities wrecked bv storm; great life and property loss In Flor- lua, Georgia ana Pennsylvania. October. 1. 8. Iowa semi-centennial Inbllee. , 8. Death of Du Maurler, the novelist. . Chicago Day celebration. 10. Two bauk robbers killed at Sher- nourne, Minn. 14. Meeker. Col., citizens kill three hnnV robbers, and hold a celebration over It. 13. Flight of W. T. Rambusch. from Ju neau, Wis., after embezzling over S200.06O during long term of years. io. virsi snow in Northern Wisconsin -17. First snow in Chicago S150.000 "fire at Holland, Mich. 18. Death of Henry E.. Abbey, theatrical manager, at New York. 25. Eight killed, 20 hurt. In wreck at St. Louis.... Six drown while boating at Den ver. . 26 $1,200,000 elevator fire at Chicago. 28, 29. Mercury at Chicago reaches 78 de grees Cyclones In the South and Oklahoma. November. 3. McKinley elected- President. 5. Storm of sleet and snow In North mat and Middle States. 7. Schooner Waukesha and six men lot off Muskegon, Mich. 16. Mercury registered 70 degrees at Chi cago. 19. Death of Mrs. Slddons at Paris. 21. Steamer San Benito and five men lnat off Callforn'a coast. . . .Death of Inventor Ferris of wheel fame. 23. Death of Camnanlnl. the tenor at Parma, Italy. .. .Mabley & Co., Detroit, fall. o. worst ixivcuiuer uuzzara ever known j 11 .uiiunL'9L, IUHU8 Ullll Ht'd II f 1 1 nilll-ll fitwlr Ktueu. .. .Apparently authentic renort of Weyler's rout in Cuba, with loss of 3,000 men. 27, 2S, 29. 30. Coutlnued severe pold in west auu .oria. December. 2. 3. 4. Alarming Ice gorge in Chlnium Valley, Wisconsin. 6. Strong indications that Cuban lnmt.. gents will be successful; Weyler falls In his camnaiKn in x-iuur uei xtio. . . . rt'ive kHiAri in collision at Waelder, Texas. 7. Congress In session. .. .Renorted of Maceo, the Cuban Insurgent general f T X-.-, 1. 1. r , , , sr. liw v -iui "i uriumu Ay iu.v u steamer Don't Do It! ' It is stated that when Boadicea led her army to battle she wore a man's armor, but was always careful to leave her golden hair floating over the steel links that all men might know that she was not a only warrior but a woman. Queen Elizabeth the most shrewd and prudent sovereign of her day, when she held Important councils with am bassadors from other .countries, not only, we are told, brought all her learn ing and sagacity to bear against them, but "tricked herself In her most splen did apparel and rarest Jewels, using all little female arts to win them to her service." Victoria has laid deep the foundation of her empire over her subjects In their affections. It Is not the hereditary queen, that they reverence so much as the modest young girl, the faithful wife, the good, kindly woman on the throne. The first lady In our own land has endeared herself to the nation not as a politician or social leader, but as a most gracious gentlewoman. It is a singular fact that no woman has ever long Influenced the world as ruler, writer, or even reformer who threw aside her feminine weapons. The charm of a womanly woman Is a real power. Her gentleness, her deli cacy, her modesty are real forces. The girl who dresses like a man, who swag gers, who talks loudly, discusses risque books and smokes cigarettes is like a soldier who has thrown away his weap ons before he goes into battle. Her bicycle, for example, may be a good, useful thing, but she will not Induce the public to approve of bicycles for women by appearing on it as an offensive caricature of a man." She will not win the world" to her cause, how ever Just, by disgusting it with herself. Why should any of our girls throw away the weapons which God has given them? Youth's Companion. We don't see anything so sad In fall ing leaves. Leaves never fall until they are dead, but some people fall while they are still alive. combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what F. J.' CHENEY A '0 . Prnm Tnt.iln n Sold by druggistR, price 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Gladness Comes Xith a better understanding of the transient nature of the many phys ical ills, which vanish before proper ef forts gentle efforts pleasant efforts rightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge, that 60 many forms of sickness are not due to any actual dis ease, but simply to a constipated condi tion of the system, which the pleasant family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt ly removes. That is why it is the only remedy with mill ions of families, and is everywhere esteemed so highly by all who value good health.. Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that it is the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness without debilitating the organs on which it acts. It is therefore all important, in order to get its bene ficial effects, to note when you pur-." chase, that you have the genuine arti cle, which is manufactured by the Cali fornia Fig Syrup Co. only and sold by all reputable druggists. If in the enjoyment of good health, and the system is regular, laxatives or other remedies are then not needed. If afflicted with any actual disease, one may be commended to the most skillful physicians, but if in need of a laxative, one should have the best, and with the well-informed everywhere, Syrup of Figs stands highest and is most largely J8ed and gives most general satisfaction. FOR PEOFLE THAT ARE SICK or "Just Don't Feel Wall." KAlYER PILLS art the On Thine to use. Only One for a Dose. 8old by Drueriita at 2So. box Samples nailed free. Addreaa Dr. Bosanko Med. Co. Phils. Pa. QPIUMDRUNKENNESS j - - ' - Jre iv to V I'uTa. fto Pay till OuNd. OR. J.L. STEPHENS, LEBANON, fllO. si TvEST with a big B. Black-well's Genuine Durham Is in a das by itself. You will find one ' coupon Inside each two ounce bag, and two opu pons inside each four ounce bag of Blackwell's Genuine Durh Smoking Tobacco Buy a bag of this celebrated tobacco and read the sonpon which gi -'ea a listof valuable presents and how to get them. ,5V. J Bull fc?L ,.'i am E . " 39 years Of age, ha"S aged raprdlv, and' y explosion... .Death of Thomas Hughes, Sailer with 275 people, off Spain the sad expression on his face portrays a blighted life. - ; Schoolcraft was born in Kentucky, and lived in the State prior to his resi dence . in . Richmond, Va. Louisville Courier-Journal. Mind and Health. The mental condition Das far more Influence upon the bodily health than Is 'generally supposed. It is no doubt true that ailments of the body cause depressing and morbid conditions ol the mind, but it is no less true thai sorrowful and disagreeable emotion, produce disease In persons who, unin fluenced by them, would be in sound health; or. If disease is not produced, the functions are disordered. Agreeable emotions set in motion nervous currents which stimulate blood, brain, and every part of the sys tem Into healthful activity; while grief, disappointment of feeling, and brooding over present sorrows or past mistakes depress all the vital forces. To be physically well one must, in gen eral, be happy. The reverse is not al ways true; one may be happy and cheerful, and yet be a constant sufferer in body. ' -." ' x MIND READING. You can read a happy mind in a happy coun tenance without much penetration. That is we bin i oi countenance tnat tne quondam bil ious sufferer ordyspeptic relieved by Hos tetter's btomach Bitters wears. You will meet many sucn- "he great stomachic and alterative also fiu.maiippiUss ior tne malarious, the rheu matic, the weak and those troubled with inac viuu me &iuiieys ana Diauaer. . .Success In Life. If you wish success in life make per severance your bosom friend, experi ence your wise counsellor, caution your elder brother, and hop your guardian genius. " I know that my life was saved by Piso's Cure for Consumption. John A. Miller. Au Sable, Michigan, April 21, 1895. Honey in Batter. Parisian restaurant-keepers mix 'a little honey with their butter. This gives It an agreeable taste and flavor and makes the Inferior butter more palatable. - . When a boy ses a siga, "Taka one." he takes It Go to ; any grocer and ask for Schilling's Best tea: Japan, English Breakfast Oolong, Ceylon, or the Blend. : ; :; He .will pay you your money back if you r don't like it: & Schilling & Company few FnuMuc X l author, at London Riot at Holland, Mich., ov-.r Horsewhipping of a sensational newspaper correspondent. 28. 1400,000 fire at Louisville, Ky. ...Illi nois Supreme Court confirms Imprisonment sentence of Bankers Meadowcroft. 29. Unknown man kills Alvln M Stone and wife, and wounds three daughters, near Akron, Ohio; cause unknown. .. .Four die by flre in New York. 31 Storms In the Northwest. .. .Report of execution by garrote of five Cubans at Ha vana. .. .upeuing oi late navigation. April. 1. Ten die by fire In a Brooklyn tenement ....Trains on B. & O. and Frisco roads held up.. ..Cubans capture Santa Clara. 6. Wedding of Gen. Harrison and Mrs. Dlmmick. 7. Chicago elections retire 21 boodle alder men. - 10. S. B. Minchell kills W. B. O. Sands, his own wife and three children, and blm self at Pentwater, Mich. 13. Six killed by falling trestle at Bed ford, Ind President Cleveland appoints Fltzhugh Lee Consul General to Cuba. Greater New York bill vetoed. .. .Democrats observe Jefferson Day. 14. J. W Lehman, of Chicago, kills him self and three children S1,000,000 flre at New York $250,000 fire at Fairbury, 111 15. First fatal sunstroke of the vear at Philadelphia. .. .Phenomenal "hot wave pre vails. 10. Base-ball season' opens.".. .Tempera ture reached 88 degrees at. Chicago, breaking all records for April. 10. Nine sailors drown off Long stand 21 Barou Hlrsch, millionaire Jewish phil anthropist, dies at Komorn, Germany Leon Say. distinguished French political economist, dies at Paris. " .15: At Rockvine, Ind.,- Albert Egbert kills five people without cause, and commits sni. cide: his sk-k sister dies from shock. . Tl.OOO.OOO Incendiary lire loss at Cripple urecK, tjufo. .. . miifu unu twenty hurt In Kansas, and three killed In Virginia, by cyclones. . ,. . 27. Fatal storms In South Dakota Boers pass sentence of death upon leaders of the Transvaal Insnrrection; President Krueger commutes sentence. 29. Second fire at Cripple Creek, Colo., does Sl.500.000 damage aud wipes out the town. SO. Illinois Republican convention declares for McKinley, May, 3. Fearful loss of life by explosion of a gas generator at Cincinnati; nearly fifty. uurt. 6. Street car strike In Milwaukee. 6. Cleveland's sweeping civil service order protects 30.000 ofiice-holders. " 8. Many points record temperature of 90 degrf-es. 8. IAnse, Mich., has $750,000 flre. .. .Ash land, Wis., loses half a million by fire.... Continued excessive heat. 11. Eljven killed by explosion of boiler of rafting steamer Harry Brown, at Vlc-ksburg. Miss. 14. ' Hold bank robbery at. Buffalo, N. Y. . . . Big windstorm at Chicago Methodists re tire Bishops Foster and Bowman. 15. Eighty killed by cyclone at Sherman, Texas. 17. .Groat los of life and property by cy clones In Kansns. .. .Five sailors drown off Grosse Point, III Blue Island, 111., fire swept. .. .MOO.000 flre at Atlanta. Ga. 18 Xebriska cyclone kills 44. 21 Oklahoma cyclone kills ten. 22. Missouri cyclone kills five. 24 Four of Otto Maiiu's family die bv gasoline nre at ;iiKrag, .cyclone In Polk 11. Collapsed building at Jerea. Sim In kills 100 Mine disaster at Hedges Cal kills eight. 16. Tremendous snowstorm at New York City, accompanied by extreme cold; three people perish. .. .Chicago has mild tempera ture; no snow, and sunny skies Wide spread agitation looking toward aid of Cu ban Insurgents. 17. England shaken by an earthnimL-o $500,000 flre at Pittsburg Death of Herr mann, tne magician. 21. National Bank of Illinois at Chlcairo closes. 22. Three banks dragzed down hv minni.. National Two St. Paul banks fail Cash wheat at Chicago reaches after three mouths of almost nnlnterriinted iiivnnu aud market continues strong. ' Odds and Ends. The sin of a moment- may blight'the whole life. . The first English work on anatomy was by Thomas Vicary, in 1548. We say that the good die young. As a matter of fact, it is the young that die good. Boston Transcript Some young men would get along bet ter if they had less point to their shoes and more to their conversation. Springaeld, 111., Register. Dar's so many hills on de road ter heaven dat some folks misses de place entirely by buildin' a railroad 'round 'em. Atlanta Constitution. People expect too much credit for be having themselves properly, when iu fact it is really a debt they owe to so ciety. Milwaukee Journal. It is said by statistical authorities that in the brewing-and malting business in this country nearly 100,000 tons of sugar are annually employed. Before 1850, Russia, Belgium and Holland "produced no beet sugar; now these countries are important factors in the sugar markets of the world. . The first great work on ethnology was Balbi's "Ethnographic Alias," pub lished in 1820, which laid down the general principles of the science. In the last twenty years the Southern States have expended $SO,000,000 for negro schools.. Nearly every dollar of this vast sum was furnished by the white people. Arizona convicts have been leased for ten years at 70 cents a day, their labor to be utilized in constructing an irrigat . in-r canal that will make productive i 100.000 acres of arable land. I " At least two railroad companies, one i operating iu the far West and one in Cheapest Power Rebuilt Gas and" Gas&Iine Engines. IS GUARANTEED ORDER.. -....FOR SALE 'CIIEA? i-i H. P. Hercules, Gas or Gasoline. 1-2 H. P. Hercules, Gas or Gasoline. , i-2 H. P. Regan, Gas or! Gasoline!' " .. 1-3 H. P. Oriental; rGas' or TSasoline. ' 1-4 H. P. Otto, Gas or Gasoline. . . 1-4 H. P. Pacific, Gas or Gasoline. i-6 H. P. Hercules; Cas or Gasoline, i-io H. P. Hercules, Gas of Gasoline. State Your Wants and Write for Prices......:: 405-7 Sansome Street San Francisco, Cal... Hercules Gas ....Engine Works '-.'4 Gas. Gasoline and Oil Engines, 1 to 200 H. F. His LiD Gone. the South, are-about starting model and .inspei f'nnntieK. Iowa., kills a score of farms, with a view to demonstrating people and does tremendous damaee: Chi-"i .u v,:i:n 4J cngo and su!i-irl.s aio suffer. - ! ' c iu.u"t..yi;.iB -"' U1"SU ar. -over loo i.iiKd by . ycione in Michigan wmrn tneir lines run, ana tuns attract- , . Forty-dii at iicUreuor. Iowa. In a cloud- i..,. .ti. -.v, i 4.. ...111 - i. burst - - I onucia, nuv, ju lulu, , mu Ulttlkt; 2t. OmHbfjadred killed In street-cor dlsas-) Business ior me rauroaos, Be Helpful. Help ever the helpless, b it a drown ing fly or a brother floundering through the difficulties of life's first tasks. It needs not vastness of resource, or ex- M.M. Nicholson. ho lives at"tfae . . ul . """"lr Buca near corner of Curran and Anderson Sts., At- : uelp as ID? true-neartea can render. I lanta. Ga.. had a cancer for wars. 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