T t t ( N EVERY Re- ceipt that calls for baking powder use the "Royal." It will make the food lighter, sweeter, of finer flavor. more digestible and wholesome. "We recommend the Royal Baking Powder as superior to all others." Untied Cooks and Pastry Cooks' Associ ation of the United States. rvBt &ptipivip tj& ttj? ttS ttF T African fruit Itulned hj liieMts. Half measures nre of no svnil in deal ing with tbe parasitic fly cerutitis that scoargs of the fmit farmers in South Africa. Mr. William Tuck of Grahams town, who expresses this opinion, is a high authority on fruit funning. He tells us that in tbe eastern province they can never depend on any fruit ex cept grapes coming to ripeness without damage from fly larvre, though whore, owing to high altitude 2,000 foot to 8,000 and over there are sharp frosts every winter such fruits as can stand the cold are fairly free from the plague, because the larva cannot tide over tbe frost It sometimes happens that scarcely a peach ripens in the whole province with out a worm inside Mr. Tuck U for ho roio remedies. He is decidedly of opin ion that if a general and perfect destruc tion of all the fruit grown in any one year could be brought about by the com mon consent of the whole body of fruit growers the fly might be stamped out, but he mournfully confesses that the universal system of "go as you please," added to the isolated life of cape farms, rendersany such united action of a year's self denial for the common good quite impracticable. Loudon News. Ilusnau Cariosity. The inventors of the penny in the dot machines make their profit out of hu man curiosity, and their experience has shown that a very comfortable revenue can be derived from that source. Prob ably few peoplo have any idea of the number of meu, women and children who daily buy chowiug gum or other trifles from machines, or learn their weight by stepping upon a little plat form and putting a cent where it will do the most good. In a down town store much frequented by those waiting for cars is one of the weighing machines, which has a record of earning f"i() in a tnontk That means that in that time 6,600 persons paid a penny apiece to see the bund on the dial go round. New York Times. Washington Society. The capital of the nation is infested with a human insect that dovotos its en ergies to boring into places where it is not wanted. Possibly its kindred exists elsewhere, but there has been so much freedom of access to the houses of men whose careers depend upon popularity, and so much dread among those in high places of unwittingly trampling tioa influential feelings, that the breed is es pecially encouraged there. Then, ugain, there are two notable features which mark the society of the capital the pres ence of officials and statesmen who are known far and wide, and the absence of men who are distinguished in the sci ences and the arts. H. L. Nelson in Harper's. St. Ounntan and the DevIL One of the most famous smiths of the Weald was St. Ounstan, archbishop of Canterbury. Mayfield in Sussex is the site of an ancient archiepiscopul pal ace, and here, according to some, took place the terrific encounter between St. Dunstan and the devil. At any rate, the anvil, hammer and tongs which are al leged to have belonged to the saint ure still preserved at May field palace. Gen tleman's Magazine. ANTI-FERMBNTINB Muecular Itlitiuiiialleiii, Miuculnrrli ...-utlsiii has its sent In the flbro muscular structure where muscle cIihus Into tendon. It attacks all age and both sexes, its subjects having a con stitutional tendency to it a so called rheu matic diathesis. It chief characteristic Is puin and stiffness of the muscles. Attacks are Induced by exposure to drafts or by strains. They generally pass off In a few days or wrecks, though some times they become clironlo and recur for y esrs, especially In wet weather. There ure several varieties of muscular rheumatism. One Is popularly known nt "stiff neck." It occurs mostly In children and Is lluble to recur. Persons thus affect ed should amid draft in cold, dump weather, especially rirnits upon the neck and upper part of the chest. Another variety attacks some muscle la the wall of the chest., usually on one side. Every breath causes pain, and this is some times excruclatitiK and spasmodic. A plas ter or a bandage over the part will gener ally afford relief, by restraining tbe res piratory movement. A third variety alfects tbe sculp, causing a dull aching pain In the front or the back of the bead. A fourth variety alTecta the upper part of the back and shoulders, and occurs Chiefly in persons much exposed. In a fifth variety of tbediseose the walls of the ab domen are affected. A sixth variety is known by the name of lumlwiKO. Its seat is In the muscles of the lolus the small of Ilia back, iluiny be on both sides, or only on one. As these muscles connect with the bodily move ments generally, almost every movement causes pain, and the patient finds relief only by rehiniuiug at alisolute rerit In lied. If he is able to keep about it Is with pain and In a stooping posture. The treatment of muscular rheumatism requires in the first place absolute rest of the part affected, and If relief does not come from that, the advice of a physician should be sought. Youth's Companion. THF. ETtftNAU C0ODNES3. I dimly uui-m from bkoaliig know Of greater mil of lihl, And KHli Ihe iliallx-l mhIiiiUI n Ills JuUkiiiviii. i. -i, arv rllii. I lonii for hmiwhold voices sons, for vaiil.ked miles I Inns, Hill llod kslh led my dear ones on, And ht cau do no wrong. I know not wliai I tin fill nre bath Uf marvel or surprise, Assured sinus thsl life and death ills mercy underlies. No offering of ni own I liara, No works my full h to prortt I can but Klve the ulfta In gars, And plead hU lovs for love. And so uelde Hid Hllent Sua I wait the uiullli-d our: No barm from hi in can oonit to cat On oeesn or on shore. 1 know not where bis Islands lift Their frondvd palms In aln I only know I cunuol drift lleyond bis low and cure. -John O. WbltUsr. THE BKAKE13EAMK1DER Ib a harmjess preparation in tablot form for preserving Af.r. kindb ok fruit without COOKING. One pack' age preserves fifty pintB of fruit or a barrel of cider, and only costs 60 cents; Fruits preserved with Anti fermentine retain their natural taste and appearance. Ask your druggist or grocer for Anti-formen tino. The girl who bad a fiillliiK out with ber friend win not try tne uamuioca nuiii. for rPaip. all Itjo and rainsof HAVE rou EOT PILES ITCH 1 If 0 PILE known br woltttui lilt pnplra:ia,n,ou lntr.ise lu bitij Wbrn Wirra. Oliii form ar.d BI1NI. Tli:LDTO!rKTO DR. 60-SAN-KO S PILE REMEDY, which art diractly on parts ffrctwt, baorfw tumors, eUlTlte!ynr,f1ctfTi a pormaDnt cur. PnoOOo. truiU' Q tttA.L jit, aftw afcO, 1'MlaMUlps.laa, ! Antiquity of the Telephone. English travelers and ofllcera in India who have illumined, through favoritism with the priests, to xain access to some of the half ruined temples of Punj, a city about 200 miles from Madras, have learned that the prlucl pies of the telephone have been known in that country for thousandi of years. In the city of PanJ there ure two temples, ulmut a mile apart. In the in terlor on the ground floor of each there Is a small circular room guarded day and Blunt from natives as well as stranuers. These rooms nre supposed tube theabid Iiik places of "Koverniuv spirits," but in reality are the termini of a telephone line which Is laid underground from one build- lug to the other. The superstitious natives regard these llttleclrcular rooms with the greatest awe, because they have bad demonstrated to them on vnrious occasions the power of these "governing spirits" to communicate with the other temple. When this miracle is being performed the natives are required to make their offerings In one building and mnke known their wishes and desires. Then, upon Immediately repairing to the other temple they ure informed of all they have said and done. To us that Is all easy enough, but to the superstitious native of India it Is proof that the priests nre super natural beings. Those who have visited these telephone connected temples say that the transmit ters are of wood, and that they are about tho size of tbe head of n flour barrel. The wire is said to be of neither steel, copper nor brass, but of a substance closely re sembling tbe latter metal. Old, worm enten transmitters, suid to be 2,000 years old, have been shown those fortuuiite enough to gain admission to these temples. St. Louis Republic lie Got Ills License. "Boss, Is dis yero de place whar yer buys llsenses fur glttln married byf" asked u young negro of Clerk Meigs ut the City Hall. "This is tho place, young man," the gen ial clerk replied. "What is your name, plenser" "'Taint fur myself dat I wants It fur. 'Deed yer is wrong dar, boss. I wants it furer fren of mine over in Georgetown, what Is goin ter marry Liza Jones tonight; dut Is cf dur ain't no law agin marryin mi Fridays. Sim Smith, be 'lows dat dar Is. But I tol him dat dat law didn't tech Georgetown folks nowise. An Ise right, ain't I, Isissf" "Well," replied Mr. Meigs, "the law ol superstillun is iig.ilust marriages on Fri days, but I find you are correct Instatmi that it does not 'tech' the good people of Georgetown." "I knowed yer'd 'stain me, Judge, yer honor. I knowed dar will! two dil'reut laws fur Washington nu Georgetown, fer yer only alls fifteen days In Georgetown fur de same 'fence dut yer gits thirty days lu Washington. I knows, fur Ise 1 1 led 'em bofe. Make dat linens ft r Henry .lee ins Johnsuu nu Liza Jones, please, sail." "Iloth live In Georgetown!1" asks Mr. Meigs, as he proceeds to fill out the de sired documents. "Yus, sab; bofe uf us I means dey bofe liv's dah, auh." Washington Star. How the Argument was Settled. As Illustrating the meekness, not to sny timidity, of that great hamster, Hiifus Choate, some one tells this story about him: Hiding in n stage couch lu Vermont, one day, in company with the late Joseph Bell, Mr. Choate remarked, "What n line wall surrounds that house." In the same vehicle sat n burly Kitglishmatnlfenxivuly pugnacious. "That Is not n wall, sir, it is a fence," said he, addressing the speaker. Mr. Choate modestly replied, "1 call it n wall a stone wall." "I say, sir, it la a fence, and I insist upon it." This was said in such a lielllgerent tone, that, for the sake of eace, Mr. Choate was proceeding to admit that It was a fence, when Mr. Dell Jumped up and thus ad dressed tbe Englishman, "I say, sir, that is a stone wall, and if you again call It a fence, I will throw you out of this coach I" As Mr. Bell waa a man of commanding tizt and mien, his threat proved effective, and the argument ceased right there. Boston Courier. CNNBttlTM aad MOD la Fbo bava weak lanes or Atia t,itoaUt Puo'sCcrvfar Oouampuon. It has Nraa ft has not Injur- w un i ddi dm to lass. an Utt beu eoaih arm p. Foiled Again. A wanlthy Austin dude is in tbe habit of giving lectures ou art, to which he Invites bis friends, who would rather take medi cine than attend. Gilbooly, in particular. Is very expert In making excuses, but last reek the dude got tbe best of bim. You will be on hand at my lecture Thursday oight, will you not, Gilhoolyf" "There is nothing lo the world I would Ike better, but I have an engagement for Thursday night. If it wasaiiy other night it tbe week nothing could keep me away," ,-eplied Gilbooly, looking as sad at if he aa giving op an oyster supper with cham pagne trimmings. "1 thought that was what you would say. I don't deliver my lecture until Friday umt, so ron are foiled We were doing a little switching at a imall station not ten miles frum the gray tone that murks tbe boundary line be tween Utah and Nevada. That day would have been a good one on which to "lay ap," for there was a sand terror hard at work along the line. Any brakemsu on that particular division will tell you what it means to switch cars In a taud terror, but as you may not meet such a man they generally die young, any way I will remsrk right here that it means a tough time and a good deal of swearing. There is a sense of continually having to brace yourself up against something, and that something Is a strong, dry wind that pelts you with small hot shot from tbe desert. If you are in a caravan on the Sahara, you can turn your back to the sandstorm and let it howl as it will, or yon can He down and cover your face; but what are you to do when you have to run along the side of a railroad track and make slgnuls to an engineer who cannot see mure than forty feet ahead of him in the storm, and does not care a brass button whether or not he crushes the life out of you when you run between the cars to make a cou pllugf And then there is that other horror making a flying switch, while you stand on the top of a box car, lu the teeth of the "terror," with your eyes and mouth full of sand and your whiskers as dry and prickly us a lot of cactus spines. Yes, that Is what it nieuns, and it meuns a good deal more if you happen to huve a big, bellowing bull of a conductor to curse you If you make a miss in coupling or cut out a cur that ought to be left in the train. I was glad, you may be sure, when we were through bundling these empties at that satau's bole of a station ou the desert. and there was a clear stretch of thirty miles to the next place where there was any more switch work to be done. As tbe train started I Jumped on a "flat" behind a box car, tbe better to avoid the wind, which by tills time seemed to have half the lesert 111 Its teulb. There were lying on the flat car a long Iron smokestack and a furnace that were going to Virginia City. I saw a hoot sticking out of the end of the big pipe, and I knew ut once that boot had n It the foot or a tramp who was beuting his way westward. Come out of that!" I shouted In a harsher tone than I really meant to use, for I have always had at least a grain of pity for train Jumpers, unless they are too soggy with rum to deserve kindness at my hands. But the man In tbe smokestack did not come out. So 1 laid bold of the protruding boot, and Jerked it so bard that it came off the foot, and 1 fell Rguinst the furnace, giving my elbow u hard whack upon tbe irou, This elbow knock made me pitiless for the time, and I pulled aud pushed the poor felow until I bad him off the train, which whs slowly moving away from the station. He was dressed in a dingy suit, and had a very hungry and mournful look. Somehow 1 funded us I thrust bim off none too gently that he resembled me It might be that lie was severul years younger, but he had my uose and eyes, nnd his build was about the same, wblU his hair was fully ns light. "If It hadn't been for that elbow knock," said I, us 1 threw tbe fellow's boot after bim into the desert, "I would have let bim, stay ou. It wouldn't hove cost me any thing his riding lu the smokestack; and wandering about In a storm like this is hardly the thing for a white man, especial' ly with a very black night coming on." The day loses Itselr very quickly lu a sandstorm, and before the train bad run many miles further it was quite dark. e were at Bishop's station, and the wlud bad died down a bit. I bad Just re marked to tbe bend brukemuu bow cool It was getting, when he said: "There s a trump lylu up ou top o that cattle car. Go an lire him off while I look out for the switch." 1 did as I was ordered. "Kill Why, you're the same man I hauled out of the smokestack hack ut Des- eietl" I exclaimed as my lantern lighted up the brown features of the trump. "Where the Hid you come fromf" "Oh, I got on again," said my train Jumper, bis face as mournful us ever. "Well, you'll co olf this time for good," I said llrmly.nnd off he went Into the dark ueas by the side of the freight shed. As the train pulled out I stood on the plutform, lantern in bund, ready to jump upon the rear step of the caboose wiien it should go by. There was a heavy strain ing of the engine, a clattering of loose brakes, a sluw grinding of the wheels on the rails, and nil tbe other uoises that a heavy freight traiu makes in getting under way. There waa a bulging furniture car in the middle of the train, and as it went by 1 saw, crouching down upon the brake beam, my hungry looking train jumper. Now, any man who w ill ride on a brake beam forces a certniu sort of admiration from me In spite of myself, no matter how he may irritate me in other ways. The dure devil muiineriti which the brake beam rider stretches out ou his narrow perch be tween the wheels and goes gliding along, Willi bis body not two feet from the ground, his bauds gripping whatever he cau get bold of and that Is next to noth ingalways commands my respect. The light of my lantern Hushed upon the man's face, but be did uot cower. He only smiled aud called out: "Hough sort of Pullman berth, Isn't Itf" 1 said nothing nnd sprang upon tho ca boose. He could have bis ride on the brake beam If be wanted to, and heaven help him. "Letter for you, Tom," said the conduc tor, as I went in. "I got it back there at tbe station." Tbe missive was from my mother, who wrote from the dear old Vermont home that Joe my own brother Joe was on bis way west and would reach Humboldt by the ISth. Although I had weeks before re ceived a letter stating this Intention on Joe's part, the news of bis starting came to me us a sort of surprise. "Humboldt the ISthl Why, this Is the ISth," I said to myself. "Tbe letter had been delayed. Well, at any rate, we will get to Humboldt tonight, and Brother Joe will no doubt come in on the 9:13 express, half an hour behiud us." Humboldt waa the end of the run and they knew that Joe could find me there. I had to go forward In the dark and take np a position near the engine. Thexhlll air of the evening, as we rushed through It, seemed to cut to the bonu, but the sand storm thank tbe fatesl bad subsided. 1 ..ul put on a heavy coat, anil, lantern in liaiid, I bad made my way carefully over the swiftly moving cara. We were on a long down grade, and the train always went at top speed on that part of the run. Seated on the break handle of the forward car, I thought of Brother Joe and won dered bow be would look after all tbe years we had lived apart. Tbey had told me In their letters from home that he had grown up to lie the living picture of myself In the days before I had wandered a war from the old rooftrre. Now, 1 had always fancied that few people I bad met resembled me. There wasthat train jumper. Vc, hewas one of the few. Where waa be bound f Was there a brother to meet him at the end of bis Journey f Doubtless not. Why would men go wandering up and down the face of tbe earth In tbe aimless fashion of there was plfu.iiie lu Iw dented Ironi the reckless, happy go lucky life uflerull. But lu the case of my friend ou tbe brake beam--what joy was he experiencing tlienf Very little, you may la sure. The cold nir was piercing bis thinly clad form, stretched out there on the hard beam. Ills beu limbed hands were gripping the cold Iron rod, while the dual, caught up by the whirling train, was clinking bis throat aud lllling bit e)es aud nostrils. His teeth were play ing rat-tat-tat with each oilier, mid bis limbs were chilled lo a loglike stllfuens. Without witnessing any of bis torture, I knew what ls tvos sulfering almost as well at though I were in hit place, and, hard deued brake twister though I was, my heart went out to the poor devil. Possi bly he might have felt Just a stray bit of comfort, after all, hud be known of my sympathy, but I do not suppose be had tbe slightest notion in the world that there was anybody on the traiu who cured n cop per whether bis bed were haul or toft, or that his flesh were wunn-or cold. As if he hud gone suddenly daft, that engineer of ours brought the train up with a Jerk by throwing ou the "automatic," aud nt the same time ueni-ly throwing me off the cur Into the ditch. I grasped tho brake bundle to save myself a full, and in that Instant nu awful yell rung out nbove the rumbling of the traiu such a veil one instinctively knows to mean deaili. That bloodthirsty engineer If what 1 say of him sounds too severe, remember that brukemen nre always waiting for an ex cuse to condemn engineers had lu'come frightened at a shadow across the track uud bud slackened speed with h Jerk and killed the brake beam rider. The slayer did not hear the shriek, and as, of course, the shadow on Mis track was only a shadow, be was letting his iron beast out again when I made a desperate signal aud he hauled up short. When the train bad stopped I did not give the brute in the cub the satisfaction of knowing that he had killed a mini, but ran bock and held my lantern up, so that I could find what I would have given much lint to huve found. Uf course I did find it, and then I ran back to the caboose. "Dead, Ishef" tbecoiiductorsuld. "Well, be can't get away then, and he'll be there when Fluuaguu and his men go out ou their hand car in the morning. But, hold on; I guess you'd butter throw bim over to one side of the tiuek nnd pile some boards and rocks over him to keep olf the coy otes." Bill the other brakenmn and myself curried out the unchristian commands. It was all done in a few minutes, and our train nearly made up the lost time before It readied Cow Creek, where we asked tbe station agent to tell Flanagan, the fore man of that section, where he would flud the body the next day. My brother Joe did not reach Humboldt by the night express, though 1 whs waiting fur him when it came in. I laid off the next two days and nights waiting for him at Humboldt, but, strange enough, he did not come. He was now three davs over due, and I grew anxious. My conductor growled so nlaiut my staying off my ruu tbnt I had thought 1 bud Iwst not lute an other day, aud so went to work, though with little cheer. At Cow Creek, on my next run out, I suw rlniiHgnn. '01 pluutid your thrump lu folnestoyle, said he; "rist hissowl. The carrluer tuk ourwurrtid fur It, an didn't houldnoln- klst at all. I ivns chafe moorner tin tbe coolies was the pallbearers." Where did you bury hlmf" was my not very Interested query, for I had something heavier on my mind now tbnu train jump era, dead or alive. "W'y, right beside the thrack, where yez foinded Mm. An I made 'I in a cross out o' two puces o' fluce boord, an bestupei as sound there as anybody cud who ulver bud no mass sld for his sowl. God rist im. Au nobody cud foind out 'Is name at all from annytbiu that wuz on him; but he s got the howly cross above Mm unity how, an that's a bllssiii an all that Jim Flanagan cud do fur Mm." When our train bad run down the line a few miles beyond Cow Creek I exchanged places with Bill, and sut atop a box cur with my feet hanging over the side, while I thought or 1J rot tier Joe and what mis chance had prevented his coming. That I should worry about him was natural, for he was only a bov In my estimation, and was, as I Uxliovuii, nnusad to the wava of the big world. U bcn, too.Uie was being teut to mo in tmtst by our mother the tenderest mother who ever lived nnd I wns expected to "look out" for him as best 1 could while be should be in the rough west, and to send him home again as soon us might be. I knew the boy hud sketched a future of purple and gold as the result of his Journey across the plains, and, in my elder brotherly wisdom, I hud smiled at the dreams of the sanguine fortune seeker. Just now, however, I could not smile. Whore was brother Joe? Brother Joel Why bless his heart I was not he the little rascul whom 1 managed to get out of t hat watermelon stciillng scrape, wheu Farmer Lundy would have thrashed the life nut of hlmf And looking further back into the old farm life, I asked myself who hut dear, little tow beaded Joe did I use to curry on my back across the creek, down by the old barn? What a smile he had when a six-year old! How his big blue eyes used to stick out when I told him those won derftil siorles about giants and dragons; and bow be used to love to watch me milk the cows. Sitting up on the big freight cur, its top grimy with cinders from tbe engine, I milked the cows again. And the hills beyond the desert grew out of per spective and finally melted away, and In their place I saw the hazy stretch of wood land so often seen nu my farm life liorl- inn riiiL m-re, ou iiienuiiu desert., these railroad tramps? It might be that mvteU. over winch tbe heat was quivering, np peared, for u Meeting moment, the waving wheat Held and green leveled orchard of my old Vermont home. Just there by the gate whs where Joe stood when 1 bade them all goodhy, and the big tears were running down his red apple face and h was moaning forth a plaintive wail that I should take him with me to the west, for I was his own Tom und he said he could not let me go. Yes, it was just there by the gate just there and up out of the green ut that very spot was thrust a small, rude cross, breaking the tpell mid bringing the w hite desert back gsm, like a flash of blinding light. Why, that was the cross that Flanagun had stuck st the head of the dead tramp, whose face had borne such a st riking resemblance to my own as close a resemblance, perhaps, as my brother Joe bore to me now that he bad grown to manhood. Then for an In stant my heart ceased to beat and I stared blankly nt the cross and the little mound of earth ou which its shadow fell. Great Godl Could It la-? He had left home In as good trim as any yottn man might need to set out. He had a passage ticket to Humboldt and a well Idled purse, so the letter had said. But. ah! he was voting and be was innocent ami there were hamies and liends by the way. Many a young mini who started forth nt well equipped and as light of heart us lie hud never reached the journey's end, and here bad I in my blindness, for no good reason whatsoever, blocked the way of one whose face was a reflection of my own and bad liecome an accomplice in his murder for I might almost have kuown be would meet his death when I saw bim forced, as it were to the brake beam. I fixed my eye upon the cross, and, as it grew smaller to my sight, It grew larger to my thought. 1 knew no peace. One rav of light pierced the gloom. If Brother Joe had been due at Humboldt on tbe ISth, by express, how could he have been on the freight train that arrived there the same night f Against this wns weighed the torturing thought that tbe letter was full of mistaken no tions as to times and places, and. now that I looked at it again, I saw clearly that If he had left home, as was stated, on tbe fcitb, he should have been in Humboldt oa the 11th, aud he had not been there at all. Then I went through the whole cbamer again, revolving each passage of It In my wearied brai n, aud one Dart of It seemed to stand out more strongly than all the rest my strange bond of brotherly sympathy felt for the man while I sat upon tbe car in the dark ami cold, and be was down in that death tempting place under tbe furni ture car. I knew hu.e of nsvcboloer. and yet I thought it must hare been revealed to me In a misty way at that hour that the mournful train jumper was no stranger. My brain was in a wbirl and the nahest thoughts would crowd themselves to tbe top, so that with It ail I wat fairly beside ! We were ut lied Billies Isifore ulghtfull aud there v.e Mere to pass the westbound express. I lie thought ut Hint desert gruv and the terrible meaning it bail for me did not no, nor ten times the thought could not prevent me from cnniilug with in tense eagerness the faces of the passengers who thronged Into the station for supper, for I ted Unites wus marked "S" on the time card. But, of course, I was doomed to dlsHpiKilntment, The passengers came aud went as light hearted as you please, while I stood on the platform with a heart of lead uud cursed them for their guyety, os, i cursed, ror i wns a rough man I those days, mid I hey hail no right, I ar gued, to Is) cheerful when I wus to down cast. 1 went back to my train, stum pin the platform with my heavy boots as 1 went along and continuing my profanity. It wat with much Impatience that I sought out Klunagnn on our return to Cow Creek, "You say there wot nothing on the body of the the trump you buried by which he could be Identified? I asked eagerly. "Niver nnnything at all." "Are you sure there were no letters no papers not a scrap of" ' Mould on they was; but they was uothln betune the k I vers uvlt that showed annytbiug at all," said the honest fore- inun. "Covers of what?" "Why, the notebook, to be sure. Ol told yez about that befoor, didn't Ol?' ' "No; let me tee It at once." And 1 fol lowed him wish Impatient step, at be hur ried to bis cottage, near the station. "Here It is," he said, taking down a red notebook from a shelf, "an If yes kin folud nnnything In it that tells who the thramp wus, ye'll do better thin Iver ould Flanagan kin, or anuy one else around here, for the matther o' that." I glanced eagerly through the book. There were some rows of figures, a memo randum as to certain routes of travel be tween New York nnd Council Bluffs, a number of blank pages, aud then this, written In pencil, and dated at Cheyenne a week back: "Deah BitoTiiKR Ton A fool and his moneyl I met some meu on tbe train who Induced me to liet all I had on a curd game. It was u swindling trick, of course, and I lost everything. 1 might have gone through after all hud not one of tbe villains stolen my railroad ticket. The conductor put me off here, nnd 1 suppose I must re main until I can obtain some money. Can you send me fifty dol" Then pride hud made tbe point of tbe pencil ruu across the page In heavy liuet again and nguin. I be writing was Joe t. He had never finished the letter. He had preferred to beat his way to Humboldt, like a common train Jumper, rather than to call ou any one for aid. "Oi tould yez they was nothiu In It," said Flanagan, reaching for his pipe, "an now ye see Ol know o' what 1 was talklu. Yer conductbor is wnvln fur yea. Will yes leave me the book? ' But 1 thrust It Into my pocket. I tried to say something to Flanagan, but there whs that lu my throat which forbade speech; and so with leaden feet I mnde my way to the train. It was the wrong time of year for flow ers, and there never are many at Hum boldt, but I gathered all I could flud and took them next day to that lone grave by the railroad track. That was after I had undergone tbe worst of all the hours of my life the hour in which I wrote the let ter to mother, which followed my telegram. But Joe does uot sleep lu the desert now. He lies under the old elm on the hillside; and there is a white shaft of marble above bis head instead of the woodeu cross. Frank B. Millard In San Francisco Argonaut. A recti liar Kind of Headache. This distressing condition of pain in me grim is most invariably confined to one side of tbe head and Is distinctly localized lu the frontal (above the eyes), temporal or occlpitnl (nbove the nape of the neck) re gion. There is perhaps no form of pain more frequently encountered by the physi cian iu his round of labor. It is an affec tion common in nil climes, aud neither height, depth nor atmospheric conditions confer immunity from tbe attack to those who nre predisposed to It. The fresh, cool fragrance upon the moun tain top, the peaceful hush In -the valley una i lie ssnjj uf vuu lima eci vrtv 1,1 ing and renewing properties sufficient to calm tbe most painful throes, but megrim never yields nor is held back by such as these. It is hereditary. . It commonly shows Itself tbe thirtieth year of age and subsides iu later life. Digestive disturbances were commonly supposed to be the causes which excited the attack. So, too, nervous exhaustion and nervous irritation were behoved to I. ac tive factors in precipitating an uttu.ii. The best medical authorities now say tbe cnlei and most frequent cause of megrim Is an abnormal condition of the eye or its ap pendages. Philadelphia Kecord. HOW MVU OKOW OLD, Oueer Diet of s ling. Mr, Thulium Murgun of Kentish Town wondered fur a long time why his gurdun remained desolate, uot- witliHtundinjr all the pains and seedM he luvbihwl upon it, and why his neighbor' dog was always bo plump uud fut, until he discovered the cause and idTift to be tliut tho animal was immliimti'ly fond of tulip, hya cinths, orchid and other flowers, and was iu the hubit of visiting the Uoriculturul preserve und eating up i;!l tho bloonw ho could rouoh. He did not wire about grass or boxwood or tiny of tho common sortH, but the lliuilicllt he KUW Mr. Mortrua lilant a Judse Three months snd ten days. Prlionrr i , ,,, ,. ,. .. .1?. t i l-Osn'l you make It t shorter sentence, yer bllK'k tulip or a lure orchid his eyes bonorf Jsde-I can. rrlnoner-Tuauk you, HwirKioa witn tuo least in store, ana '" ir. the moment tho plant bloasoined he Thl thread that binds ut to life Is most Ire queutiy severed (re the meridian nl lite reaeaea in ill ess ol persons who neglect ou- vioin meant in renew isllln. tireiigin. Yliiiir, no less the source uf hsuulueas than the oolidl- lion of lorn life, can be created tud perpstutled where Jt dues nut exlat 'Ihuiiasuds who have iperieiiced or sre wsnUsnt Including many phvalelnniol eminence of tlx elteeta of lloa- teller's stomach lllllert bear leallinoiiy lo lis woimruui emesey ts a eresior 01 sireiigtn in feeble oniiitllulloiM and debilitated and shat tered systems, A steady jsirlortnsiiee of the bodily functions, renewed appetite, flesh and lummy repose tuenu ins nit in una inorouKn aim attiKisra renovsnt. I ta no li.esl tonic r resented lo be akin lo or rvaembie II lu titer III Ha plsee. Demand the genuine, which Is sil sesimwieugeu rcineoy tor inuiseation. malaria, iiorviiiianvsa. consiliMthin. liver and klduev wiupuiiiM aim nieuiuatiaiu. devoured it, Htulk and all.- For three yearn this went ou. The dog was iiiHuV'iihlii. He was a klud of walking botu .1 gurdun, and still hud ulways an upjxttite for more. Mr. Morgan dared not kill tho dog, becauxo lie might huve been held li able for iU value, which of course would not be taken at his own ap praisement, so ho sued Mr. Hall, its owner, for the damage done to the garden. London Telegraph. A "Loeoed" Cow. I once helped to drives cow from a loco patch to a corral. The distance was not over a mile, and yet with the help of another rider it took us 21 hours to succeed. The cow ran all over the place in a silly, dazed way, until we got our two homes close along each side of her, so that she could not turn easily. Her sight seemed defective. She fell into an irrigation ditch that she could easily have crossed, and we got her out with no end of trouble. Again, coming to a f once polo lying on the ground, sho Htopied abruptly and commenced niiucing, and pluug- IOO RIWARU, tlOO. The readers of Ihlt paper will bt pleaaed to imru mat uivrv la ai maat oils ureaaeu uinesae that science bas been ahls to cure In all lis atSKes, and thut la catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is me only noslllve cure now known to the med. leal fraternity. Catarrh, being a constitutional uitoaae, requires a conailluilonsl treatment, Hull 'at Catarrh l urt la tuketi IntMrtiullv. a,-ll,iu dlreellr Uuon the blood anil miiiiiui alirfacAan the ayateiu, thereby deatroyliig ths foundation of the diaesse snd giving the patient atreimth by building up Hie conatltiitloii snd aaalating nature In doing Ita work. The proprietors hsve mi iiiut-u ibiiu in na ciirauve powers mat iney offer One Hundred Dollars for any esse that it tans looure. eena for Hat m ipaiimnnia s,i. ureaa r. j. uiiKMKY a CO., Toledo. O, Hold by Druggists j 76 cents. Tar OgastiA for breakfast. Blood Poisoning "Twelve years ago my wife wat picking rasp- ( berrlet when the scratch- ( ed hentlf on a briar, the wound from which loon developed lutoa running tore, between ber knee and ankle. She read of Hood's Rarssparllla aud concluded to try It her self, and while taklne tho first bot:le she full better and continue wltb it , . . - L . i uuiii lousy buo is enure mgauoui in iromoi itior some mm- Ny cured snd better than ever." J.N. Aueygx utes. Then with a great bound she .'uh, liters, York ca, ra, cet HOOD 3?n jumped over it hs if it were two or HOOD'S PILLS euro liver ills. three feet high. A "locoed" horse of mine while standing quietly iu the stable was seized with a siuism. It reared sud denly, threw itself backward and broke its neck before two men who were standing by could do anything to save it Chambers Journal All That It Left of a Msg-mine, A few yenra ogo a man started a weekly mtiKuziue, subscription S3 a Tear In ad vance. In order to increase mo circulation he ruvo with each subscription a lot of land In Florida. It was a genuine offer. Tbe land was bought autl cut up In town lots, 25 feet by fit), and a deed signed by a com missioner for the state of Honda was de livered with every lot. An Ohio man took 75 subscriptions on the condition that a souaro in the new town lie named for bim, A woman iu Tennessee uliered to take 100 subscriptions if the town were named for her. The plau bad not been working for more than a mouth when the government auj thoritles put a sudden stop to It on the urouud thut it was a swindle, Tbe privi leges of tbe mails were denied to tne pub lishers, and the publication bod to be aban doned. All moneys were refunded, and the only relic of tho magazine is a piece of ground of 150 aores near Lie r uniak borings. Each lot given away cost the publishers 1? couU. ew York Tribune, Ostrich Plumes, In each w ini! of au ostrich 36 Ions white plumes grow to maturity in eight months. Iu the malo these are pure white, while those of the female shade to ecru or gray. The short feathers are plucked for tips, und each wiux furnishes 75 of these. The tail feathers ure of a deep old ivory color, and 65 of these have a commercial value. In a plucking at the Corotiada ostrich farm DUO feathers were obtained from one bird, which, when curled uud dressed, will be worth $o5. The female ostrich lays 70 egys a ycur. Chicago Mail. The Word "Creole." A Creole, strictly speaking, Is any person born in this country of foreign parents. Be cause the word is from the Spanish criollo, a child, the use of it has been restricted, first to cbildreu of foreign parents born in Louisiana, and second, to children of Spnn ish or French parents born in Louisiana, and then in the north tbe word has been perverted so that it is believed to imply some strain of ucgro blood in a person to whom it is applied. It does uot imply any thing of the sort. New York Sun. A SatlaSed Patron. A grimy tramp came up to Passenger Agent Dowling of the Burlington yester day and asked: "Are you paying for feats?" "Not yet. What have you doner"' "Well, I've rode all the way iu from Den rer on a brakebeara of one of your passen ger cars, and for a ticket to Chicago I'll give you au afflduvit of the smoothness of your truck and let you photograph me." He didn't get It. Omaha World-Herald. Maori Children and Lovers. Betrothal of Maori children was common among people of high birth. If nobetroth al, there was generally a lot of talk and squabbling, eviy one in the tribe thinking he had a right W Interfere, till at last tbe young couple, if lovers, would flee to the bush until their living together was agreed ta Popular Scieuce Monthly. Weier ! the Mexican Gait Those who declare that the earth Is grad ually drying out and that within a few centuries every drop of water will have dis appeared from our plauet will find some consolation In the announcement that the water line has risen one foot all around tbe gulf of Mtxioo since U50. ot. Louis Ke-publia. Two Stories, The sweets or mcognito for a crowned head are nothing compared with finding one of hi.s subjects who will not recognize him. During a summer visit to one of his castles situated in a remote prov ince of his kingdom, the king of Den mark, accompanied by his son, bad wandered somo way off in the moun tains. Overtaken by a storm, they sought refuge in a woodman a hut The wire or tne mountaineer was curious, and in a roundabout way tried to find out who were her visit ors. Seeing this, Christian IX said, I am the king of Denmark, and this gentleman is my son, the king of Greece. To which the woman retorted, with quizzical wink: "And my old man is the emperor of China I Hal ha 1 hal" Harper's Bazar. At His Boots. The story goes that the bootmaker to Don Carlos, the son of Philip H, took him a pair of boots which were too small to be comfortable, and by tho order rif the angry prince they were cut to pieces, boiled and forced down the wretched fellow s throat so that he was well nigh killed. Exchange. French Proverbs About Women. A provincial French saying the Gauls are the most gallant as well as the most ungallant nation is, "These women are like horses, none without faults," and another one runs thus in similiur vein, "One is of tener cheated in women and horses than in any other animal." EXPENSIVK ECONOMY One cent a dose. .VYVTBw'.El Wota-and Oper Dottle," ma OnasT Conon Tims nrnnintlv where all others fatL Cougha, Croup. Sort Throat, Hoaraanaaa, whooplnj Cough aud Asthma. For Consunpticn It nnt no rival: has cured thouaanda. and will cttna TOO If taken in time. Sold by Druggist on a guar antee. For a Lame Back or Chfat, use BHiLOH '8 BULL A DONNA PLASTBKJSiO. O X2!flfiiEk-sr -I CATARRH REMEDY. luvo vouCtLturrhy This ifmoiir It mmren teed to cure you Price, ft) ct. liijootorirwo. "August Flower I used August Flower for Loss of vitality and general debility. After taking two bottles I gained 69 lbs. I have sold more ot your August Flower since I have been in business man UUjr other medicine I cvci kept. Mr. Peter Zinville says he was made a new man by the use of August r lower, recommended by me. I have hundreds tell me that August Flower has done them more good than any other medicine they ever took. Ueorgb W. Dyb. Sardis. Mason Co., Ky. j PRINTERS K AND PUBltlSHEHS -WIU, flND A FULL list OK- TYPE Presses, incry Palmer& ReyType Foundry, Cor. Front and Alder Streets, PORTLAND, OR. Write (or pri es and terms before baying ele hurt DOCTOR iL n HH H V J IIUIUUU j THE GREAT CURE FOR INDIGESTION tot tale it lawast prion ami must advantsgtous lorina at Tin itf nr MI -AND- CONSTIPATION. Regulator of the Liver and Kidneys -A St'ECIFIC FOK- Scrofula, Rheumatism, Salt Rheum. Neuralgia And All Other Blood and Skin Diseases. Il It a noaltlve eure for sll those nslnful.dell. cate complaints ana eempllented trc.ubln snd wenkneaaei common amunK our wives, mothers snd daiiKliti'rs. TheKlectla Immediate nnd InMlng. Twoor three doses of Dr. I'shiiee's ltr.Mti.y mkiMi dally aci-ua mi' uhhiu 11101, me nvur Him aiiiui'va set ive. nnd will enllrelv eradicate iron, thi. nil irscetof Hrrnfula, Salt Kheuin, or any 'other form ol blood dlaesse. No medicine ever Introduced In this country aa met wllh audi readv wile, nor irlven viirh universal uithtfiirtion whenever uacd as that of LIS. 1-AHUE 8 KKMKIIY. Thta remeilv Iihn hnpn M.a.l In 11. a lin.nl.i.tB throiiKhoiit the old world fur the past twenty. HrP VMri R atipnlfl. fur ih. ..t....... and h has nnd will cure when ull other to-culled" remeuiea inn. bend lor pamphlet ol teillmonlnls from thn?e ho huve teen cur, d bv Ita tie. OrnvulHta sell It at 11.00 rer bottle. Trv It and ha convinced. For tale by MACK & CO., 0 and II Front St., San Francisco. Some people begrudge tbe little money that an Allcoci's Pobocs Plastib costs, and then when they are racked with pain from a lame back, or from tbe soreness arising from a cold, they will spend any amount of money to relieve the pain, Ifl tbey only had one of these world renowned I plasters on hand, they would be saved a I vast amount of suffering and be consider ably richer. At the first tlgn of stiffness I of the mints bddIV one of these piasters without any delay. Tbe soreaess will be I greatly relieved at once and soon disappear entirely, it will be money saved to nave I them on band, to say nothing of the com fort thev brine. Brahdrith's Pills oontaln no irritating I matter. "If I should kiss von. would vou scream T" " Welt, I wouldn't like to Klve t positive answer wttnout Having been put to tbe teat. Tower1? (I lrrjproveg SLICKER is uuarnteei U,, Jbsolultly WateR Suckers hivi WJ btsldtthiFUhBrjni Q CA Tiaduuic on every Costs 5oftWooler ty WatCh Oat I Collar. laai ta A i. TOWER. MFR. BOSTON. MASS Cittiops Die KusmellneBtove Polish: nodurt,no tmell. IRREQULA RITT. Is that what troub les you? 1'ben It's easily and promptly remedied by Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regu. lute the system per fectly. Take one for a gentle laxa tive or corrective! three for a cathartic. If you stifler from Constipation, Indi gestion, Bilious At tacks, Sick or Billons Henduchea, or any derangement of tbe liver, stomach, or bowels, try these little reiiets. luey brinir a vtrmanent cure. Instead of shocking and weakening the system with violence, like the ordinary pills, they act In a perfectly easy and uatural way. They're the smallest, the easiest to take and the cheapett, for they're guaranteed to give satisfaction, or your money returned, iou pay oniy xor the good you get, fSdsn. Bakin&Ponifer Purity and Leavenirtj&Poufer UNEQUALED. CAH PRPES To Introdte onr Powder, hare d sennuMaioabariEmtaainoos tbe enosuiis. era a a umber or Cash P-KIZla To tneperQorclotmurnlnt asthsiartatt nomberofcerutlcaiMoaor before Jno L. Uet,waw1.ltiTaeaah prise of 1 100. and piuitatniviMl, BOfioaroiit otaef fsnclaaftvuattetTSiji CiMU. CLOSSET 1 DEVERS, PORTLAND, 0 S. P. 5. V. Ho. 607 -. T. 5. TJ. No. '. HARNESS, Saddles, Collars, Wtjlps and Leather. WHOLESALE. Hsruess, per net, ri.oo, H0.no. $i2.no, ai.o'; Kleirant -tyle. tsn.oo. pa no. Hadiilea raw hide coversd tr-ea, ti.oo, ., iui no. sis.oo 20 o , (kj oo, aiio.no. tionn. I'lo Harneaa, llt.00 to 2.i.no. Team Harneaa. 120, 2A.nO, 130 00, all with tbe celebrated No war Horse I'ollara The "Jtm tiorbett'- i art Harn.aa. price fl2.no Het BreMl Collars la a "knock out.'' Brl ulea, Kohee, Hlanketa, ntta, et. CflD DIP VAIIIEQ Inlhlslluenneqnaled ae. d rUil DIU IrlLUbw a check or money order wltb order to W. DaVIS A SON, MANl'KACTl'RKBH. 410 Market street, Ran FraDClaro, Calilornla. Brooklyn Hotel 2QS-212 Bush St., San Francisco. This fsvorlte hotel Is under the management of CHARLES MONTGOMERY, and la as good II not the beat Family and Business Men's Hotel In Ban Francisco. Home Comforts! Cuisine Unexcelled I First-class service snd the blghett standard of respectability guaranteed, uur room amnoi nt Board and mom ner dir. IlJto. 11. so. ll.7t ana xi Doara and room per wees, wi w hi; auigie to II. Free ooach to and from hotel. rarpossrd or neatntu and comfort. tingle rooms, out ELA'S PoiSON-lW Pills a tun cure for poisoning from Ivy-Tine or Oak. If not im proved in 2 DAY, return the bottle and get your money. Bold by all Druggists. MRS. WINSLOWS Sos0ytbhuVno FOR CHILDREN TECTHINO Fee tale by all VrasxfaU. ta Teste a tattl. Hercules Gas Engine IUAS wit UUULI 31 K; Mtatt) for Power or Pumping Purpose. Tot) QkktMst Btttthlt Oat XaalM outbaaUiaM. Out of iNoiMt an r lmpllcitr It Beats the World. It oils IMelfirom a Beiei-TOlr, Xo Carburetor to got out of order. Wo Batteries or Eleotrio Spark. It rana with a Cheaper Grade of Oatollat tluui tar vUier Unguis. aavD roK catalogue to PALMER & REY, Manufaotukf., 4li hums strut. Sit Frandvtt, CiL -AMD-PORTLAND. OKKOON. DR. GUMS OHIOH SYRUP FOR COUGHS, COLDS AND CROUP. GRANDMOTHER'S ADVICE. lorii(nfamll7of Cine children, mf only rem drfor OoufthLColdj aud Croup waa onion syrup. II en t nar tuta. Sold everyWhcr. dy Tor Coughs, c ijuituefreotKv now my eotfra to-div m it forty vrarn nco. IT arandnhlldrrn tfttcn Tv. aniin'i Onion BvniD which lit alroady prepared and more pleasant to tho Lata (A. Botrl atrew1fsa- Taeira Knttlflt. IUI natnlja. 316ifiaO"btitutororiW Tlioro'i notiing aa cood. -JLS RLOODPOlSOfr A SPECIALTY. M-l ByphMi permanently cured In 15 to 86 day a. Too can be treated at home for the some price and tho tame vtutriuiteeaiwlth those who prefer to conn pore wo wm rxmiract w cure loera or rviunn raonof and pay expense of corolna, railroad fare and hotel bill. If we fall to euro. If yon ha?o taken mrf cury, iodide potoah, and mill bare aches and .ami, nucoairaicnRaiinmouia, More jbroate lmp1eC'opperrolored ftno(alJ Icera on anr in or inn lxxit, uuif ur i mnrnni rnilitirr out. It It this airphllltto BLOOD roiHON that we aarnteetocure. We solicit the most obatlnata eoaes and challenge the world for a eae we cannot, care TniaaiseaseDnaaiway baffled the skill of the mosteminent phri elans. 000,000 capital behind our onrtmdl tlmal froarantee. AbaolnteproorasentRfaled on application. Addreas OOK. KKMKI' CO., AOM m AOttl Masonic Temple. Chlcairo, J u SOCIETY BADGES. A. FELDENHEIM EK, Leading Jew eler nt the Paeitlc Noribwet, keep? a large stock of all FECKET SOCIETY BAlK.L.-i on band. Beat tTKidt at low. eat figure. Badges made to order. FRAZER AXLE BestintheWorldinnrjlOr Est the Genuine II Kr II. i- Sold Ererywherel 1 1 - I BANK WOOLSET, As-ent, Portland, Or. HE THAT WORKS EASILY, WORKS SUCCESSFULLY." CLEAN HOUSE WITH SAPOLIO RHEUMATISM CURED BY THE USE OF ffloore's Revealed Remedy. imiBTi niaoea fannarr 10. I Mn atat with slMinifl that by the o Of afOORI 8 REVEALED BKMKDY mj haahaad was reilered from tn old raae o. RHErMATISM sad bt too ure dot cured entirely of IsnJlSATOKY RHEO aUTIaM whan to best doctor I ooaU fet did bim no t2 1"J' ill S?,1'.04- OLD BT TOTJB DBCttStfT- 3l "1 1 r il