a". "a pefc f .'St P.J -.1 f A FA8CINATINQ STORY. It Dlrertad tbo Attention of a Baffler a Baitiwu Dent. "I think that about as curious an. etpcri eno as I erer wul,"snld a retired burglar to a New York Sun reporter, "I hod io a town Id western Pennsylvania. I had got Into a fine, big home there without much trouble, and bad found things when I got Inilda about aa I expected to find them. There was tome diver In the dining room, and I nipped a few little things that Ioould , vet into my overcoat pocket Handily, bnt I had other things In mind, and I went on Into the next room, which turned out to be the library. As I threw tnj light around this room I saw on a table In the centre a ' magazine open and lying face downward. "I picked up this magazine and turned my bullaeye on It and saw that it was open at the beginning of a story. Thatitlecaoght "WHAT DO TOU THISK Of IT?" ay aye, and I stood then for a moment, J with the magazine io one band and the ballscye in the other, and read a few lines. It seemed, to be a mightily interesting story. Whoever bod been reading Hie magaiine bad sat In a big leather chair, which atlH remained alongside the table. I sat down tn 'this big chair, stood the bullseyoon the table at tny elbow, where tta light would strike the pages, and began to read and became so interested Unit I forgot that I was there on business. I "I don't know how long I bad been read ingmaybe 20 minutes or so when I felt a . hand on my right shoulder. I looked up and saw standing alongside of me a tall man in a dressing gown. He hud a lamp in bis right hand. He had touched me with nis leit, ana iniit nunu still remained on , my shoulder. He looked down upon me coolly. I confess that so fur as I was con cerned I was surprised, and when he asked me what I was doing thero I was at first actually too flabbergasted to reply, but 1 finally told him I was reading a story in that magazine. Ho asked me what story I . was reading, and I told him. I thought I saw juat the faintest flicker of a smile on Ills face at that, but I couldn't be certain about It. "'What do you think of ltV says he. "I bad come back to myself by this timo, and I told him I thought be ought to be ble to see what I thought of it himself; that I was Interested in it enough to let him como down and find me there reading it, but that I wouldn't undertake to sny what I thought about it absolutely until I had flulshed reading it. "'Well,' says the man, 'don't let me in terrupt you. Go ahead and finish it.' "Me was looking perfectly calm and cool, Jnst aa be hod been when I first looked up tblni. He set bis lamp down on the ta ble by the bullseye, and pulled up a big chair himself on tbo other side, and got as other chair to put bin feet on. He had only Uppers on, and I suppose be thought his feet would be cold on the floor. He sat down In the big chair, put bis feet upon the other and lulled his dressing gown tip around bis legs, making himself quite com fortable. Then he picked up a book off tbe table and went to reading 'while be waited for me to finish the story. When I bud finished It, the man taUl: , " 'Well, what do you think of it now?' "And I told blm-Htnd that's what I did think, about it that 1 thought it was Im mense. "The man laid down bis book and got tip en bla feet again. He picked up bis lamp ad stood there for a moment holding it nd looking at me. He said uothing, but it waa perfectly clear to me that he was bout to politely bow ma out of the house. . 1 laid down the magazine, aud picked up my bullseye, aud moved toward the door Just as I mtglit have done If I had been a suest The tall man oueued the door and calmly bowed me out. As I went down the steps I beard him bolting tbe door after me. "You know i wondered who he could be, bnt when 1 camo to find out I wondered that I hadn't thought of lb myself before. He was tbe man that wrote w story." Beggars swarm so in Unit thai tbe only waytoavcid being pestered, by them at to put ont your baud aud anticipate them With their own whiuing'GJve me some thing," "Me pleuty poor man," "Me ve.-y litr" family " INSIST ON HAVING THB Belting, Packing and Hose, Boots and - Skoct, Rubber and Oil Clothing Druggists' Rubber Goods, ADDFACniSSD IT Gooiyear Rubber Co, tt t It first St., remand. Or. Write for eatalogue-ma. EX-PRESIDENT t HARRISON Bays of the Military Fchooi: -It Is good in every respect -stood lor ta bore, od lor this schools and gocd for the country." BISHOP I SCOTT I ACADEMY Poitland, Or., Is s Military Prhocl under government eoniiol. Brien tiAe, classical, eommere ml coarse. Write (or caialogss. Mpring term be gins February a. if , ,".: I'M I II IAj 1ft n rWl Ib-awey far Ciurrtl ktn ri I I Beat, laaleat la Cm, and CbeasM. I I I sMDnftleaar seat t nan, I I U Its, B. r MaielHaa. Warren, ft, Li r " 7 7V Xf"5.'V D' URING hard times . cannot ' afford , to with inferior, cheap brands of. baking-powder. It is NOW that the great strength and purity of the ROYAL stand out as a friend in need to those who desire to practise Econ omy in the Kitchen .Each spoonful does its per fect work. Its increasing sale bears i witness that it Is a necessity, to the prudent it goes further. N.B. Grocers say that every dollar in vested in Royal Baking Powder is worth a dollar the world over,. that it does not consume their capital in dead stock, because it is the great favorite, and sells through all times and seasons. MVAl MKIfM WWMR CO., 104 WALL IT., NMMfMK. , '" ' MOUNTAIN CLIMBING. f lafot of the Many floaffct by, tbe ; Pestlt of the Few. AH crafts depend upon knowledge and tcquired skill knowledge of the ma terial to be handled, acquired skill in the Handling of i the material. Pioneers of mountaineering had first to learn what moontuinn actually are like, tbe detail of their structure, and the forcoa in ac tion upon thtui. Rock stroctrrre, which bus one meaning for a geologist, has Ithers flbr a mountaineer. One kind of fiountain masonry fonts ridges and gullies, another forms ledges and preci pice. One texture aud dip makes Btalr lases that can be rushed, another makes slabs tint can scarcely be adhered to. One kind of substance is firm and trust worthy, another is friable and treacher ous to hand and foot. If there was so mnchto.be learned about rocks, snow and ice were nt finst far mitre unknown. Tbe anatomy of glaciers had to be dis covered, the secrets of crevasse forma tion to 'be learned. There were the varied phenomena inrplied tn the phrase, "state of the enow," to be understood. Both foot and cyo had to be trained to recogniae by feel and glance what tho "state of tho : snow" nt oiiy time might be. Avalanches had to be investigated avalanches of snow, ice and rock when they might be expected to fall, where they were to be looked for, lio,w far they would go. Climbers bad to learn to distinguish afar off between snow and ice slopes. . Moreover, the tools it moun taineering bad to bo invented. Many were tried and discarded; a few "ware re tained and' improved. The form of the ax was slowly evolved and it uses learned. Tbe way to employ the ropo was a yet more difficult discovery. Even now the proper form tor climbing irons is only being arrived at. Accidents, usually fata), were the lessons whorefrom thejse facts weite de rived. The great Mattorhorn accident finally demonstrated how the Tope should be used and proved that large parties were a source of danger. The Lyskamm accident allowed the puril of cornicos. - Unroped climbers met their death on many 'mountains. From al most every accident something was learned. The safety of the many has been bought by tbe death of the few. We can now. plunge into the world of snow without undue peril. We know its dangers and can gourd against them; we know also when wo are safe nnd where we can freely go. Out forerun ners went aloft as neolithic navigators put to sea badly equipped and into a misunderstood region. We are now on the footing of the modern sailor. Snow, as such, baa no more terrors for u than sea for them. Ill luck may overtake us, and we may, fall, as they may be drowned, but with good equipment and experience, the climber and seafarer aro about as eufo as the townsman At home. EVirUiiuhtly Review. How to Learn Mule. Do not fail to take Advantage of the library. Begin a course of good read ins. Music is notorious for narrowing one's mind, so resolve to countorbatinco yor practice with librafy work aa veil. As to j our practice, I would give you tills maxim, "The esiienttul thing- in practice is to see exactly what h to bo done in all its details, aud then do it again and agliin with the greatest cloui neas, precision and energy When yon take up a new piece, notice tbe key, the harmonies, chords, scales, fiuguring and general effects.- One of tbe first neciwaariei is "concentration." Develop self criticism. "The thing you cannot do is tho very thing yoii should tnukeyoursulf do." , la prsajtica begu where you left off the day before. , Connect your day's work. Apply all your knowledge. Do not try to do uiuro than one tiling ut a timo. Spend a good deal of time every day thinking about what yon aro doiug aud what you. will da. Edward D. Hula. Tn Bnrabaaie Family. The celebrated name of Praise-God Cure bone wss borne )y member of the Cromwell parliament called tnr-ther after tho dissolution of the Long parlia ment in 1C53. Tbe royalists called the assembly "Bare bone's parliament." At the time when Generis! Mtaik was in London Barebone headed the mob who presented a petition to pwliutueut against tbe recall qf duu-lca II. Of Has Barebone family there wire three broth ers, each of whom had a. sentence for a name Praise-God Bsrvbone, Clirist-came-into-the-world-toMiave Barebone and If-Cbrist-hadDot-dii;d-tliou-hadst-bcen-duuuu'd Barebote. Kew York Evening Smv In Ashantae paiTiciili, am tird hand end foot to stake driven id Ua gnmuri near a large ant hllL Tjc anus are ihwi irrluiuii bv sticks thrust into tbe eutmnce of their dwellings, a lowed is set ata respectful dis tance to vnt mass, ao4 toe prisoner is left te be eatea up. "Ton don't nt anythfaijt liar so many tracks with cover on thorn as ya former ly did," said a trawler, 'utl 4ave occa sionally seen lately aomeUiina tliat I dou't remember to hare atn at all yrant ago, and that Is people carr) kg hatnlbafs protevtrd WUU covers." Tha min nf I'.,. 1 T f I.. nt Brooklyn was written no a 4 foot idl of foolaeati. natil tnmtl -r,1 ni.f,l in n complicated manner. Ia a postserirH be make aa apology let Usacumil jjalDX se badlr bided. consumers experiment KNEW WHERE TO FIND MONEY. ranr Mm Bob a Chicago Gambling House of 83,000. Only a few weeks aijo a party of Chicago poker players were held up at the table and robbed of MOO, ami now a similar but more Important exploit is reported. The gambling house at 14 Quincy street was Invaded, tne lour attendants nciu up ana robbed of $5,000, and the thieves escoped without leaving a clew. All visitors had left for the night, and the cathlers and dealers were figuring up the receipts at the faro and roulette tables. - On each table lay a considerable pile of motley. Tbe big packages were just being put Into tbe safe .by Sam Duhl. The porter stood guard at the heavily barred doors. Sud denly four men, enmo luto tbe passageway at the foot of the stairs. One of them pressed the electric button, and the porter raised the slide and looked out. The spokesman of the gang demanded admit tance, but as the hour was late for pluy the lookout , was suspicious. Then the spokesman declared that he wanted to see a man upstairs whose name he gave. With out arguqmpt the porter unlocked the door, and tbe four men filed up stairs to the gumbllng room. Tbe entrance of tbe four men did not at Irst create excitement. They mode no at tack until they bud "sized up" the room. Then the last man wbocMrue In closed the door and stood with his hack to it. Ills com panions drew their revolvers and ordered "hands up." One man approached, jjsm at me Bare, and covering him with a revolver pulled tbe money out and stutTrd it Inio bis pock ets. The same roan then scooped the coin off the tables. Two of the other rr' Iwrs were gradually forcing Dnhl and Lis com panions back and iuto a side room, which tbey locked. Then the robbers left by the front door. It took the employees 10 minutes to get out of their temporary prison, and then they gave tbo alarm, lint the thieves bad a good start and got awuy safely. London Woman Coming to Like Flats. A very significant change has come over Londoners of late years with regard to a certain form of residence known as a "fiat." Not many years ago the idoo of living in a flat was so little appreciat ed that apartments of that kind could hardly be suid to exist at all in London. A few unwieldy blocks of buildings were built after the American fashion, but so little did they suit the English taste that for a long timo they remained almost empty and tenantless, notwith standing the fact that they then added a very low rent to the other advantages that they offered ,to their occupiers. Now during the last throe or four years the inhabitants of London seem to have suddenly changed their minds and Hats cannot be built quickly enough to ac commodate the numbers who are look ing for them. Whole streets of lints, in some coses, have been constructed, and have been taken by eager tenants even before the builders had vacated them. Indeed, un inquirer for Huts the other day. who was willing to pay a very fair rent for very modest requirements, discovered that, unless he could speedily make up his mind to take the unfinished articlo. he had no chance at all of inhabiting the article when it was finished, so Very much greater was the demand than the supply. That tho supply is making gi gantic strides to overtake the demand is evident to uny one who has lately watched the building' operations in our streets, and the gradual rise of great blocks of red brick bearing the prema ture inscription, "Residential tiitts to be let." On the whole, we do not think it would be un exaggeration to say that, whatever may have been the increase in the number of homes in the metropolis during the last tweuty-tive years, the number of Hats iunst have increased more than a hundredfold. London Spectator. alary Wrtlihigtoii. Those who remembered Mary Washing Ion's appearance in thelatei years of her llfedeserilw her persona Ulnijof medium sine and well proportioned, the dignity of bearing, the erect carriage giving some thing of Ktateliuewt to her presence, while her features were regular ami strongly marked, her hrow fine and her eyes a eleur blue. No authentic portrait of Mnry Washing ton Is known; il is a family tradition thai In the det met Ion of Wakefield by lire the family portraits were lost, t'oloiul li. W P. Custis was ciuestioned as to his know I edge of the subject, anil replied by letter to Colonel 1-ewis W. Washington tl.nl "there was no picture preserved of the mother of the chief," ami this has beiu ul ways the belief of her descendants. Jim K. B. Washington lu Ceuttiry A Maw Way af Giving Moillclna. A French doctor is credited with claim Ing thai he has discovered a method of In trcduting medicines iuto the body thruugu the mucous membrane by msaus of elee tricitj. Quirk, but Seltlum. Mrs. Watts UoodiiessI Aren't yon afraid yu will min your digestion by eating at so rapid a rate? You ought to eat more slowly. Hungry Higgins I may not eat slow, mum, but I eat mighty seldom. Indian apolis Journal The greatest speed attained by sailing ships, according to Mulhal, waa by the Jamee Ilaines, 40 miles In 24 hours, aud Flying Cloud, 411 The Ked Jacket ran 2280 miles io seven days, averaging 3J5 milrs a day. Tbe holding power of wire and cut nails wn recent I y investigated at tbe Water town arsenal, aud the cut nails we rv shown to have a holding power about 7) per cent giaalar tkaa tbe ether daas. i . .....aaaisaUKVa sfaSEa re- e eJW e-"1 By HESSYHAELAND. As time went on and 1 saw tbe mo ment drawing near and nearer when she wonld have finished her dinner and b ready to leave the restaurant my anxio ty to speak to her waxed moro intense, but not so my courage. I wondered whether she appreciated tho situation as I did and perceived my faint hearted ness, and was laughing ut mo in her sleeve. I stole a glance ut her beautiful white face; it wsi inscrutable. Present ly she roso from her chair, put on her '..antleand moved off into the other room, Into the street. The chance was gone. It was too late) now. (such a chaitco might never occur again. I reviled myself with cursca not loud but deep. CHAPTER VII. ABSENCE. IFhUeand beautiful nnd still, lau Sophia faulocna Eczardy, dead. On Monday morning tho post brought mo a letter. It was a letter that I had been expecting for a good while, and, other things equal, it ought to have caused me the liveliest pleasure. It was a letter from Mr. Archibald Winthrop, a wealthy citizen of Boston, inviting me to come and stay at bis house and paint the portraits of his wife and his two un married daughters. It ought to have afforded me' the liveliest possible satis faction, for it meant a good lot of money, and it meant also, what was more im portant, the. first serious step iu my ca reer. Yet, as a matter of fact, it afforded me no satisfaction whatever, but only vexation and regret. Of course I could not think of saying no to it; that would bo to fly in the face of Providence. But If I said yes to it I should have to leave New York and remain away for a couple of months at the shortest; and for rea sons which the reader will divine I was loth to leave Now York even for a seven night. ; However, like a true American tbe issue lying between business on the one hand and sentiment on the other I cast the choice in favor of business, and two days later found me aboard the after noon express train bound for Boston. Tho exterminator and 1 had had an af fectionate parting, and I bad exacted from him a promise that ho would write to me and let ms know "how things went on." I did not mention Miss Ec- zurdy's uume to him, but I felt sure that when he wrote to me bis letter would contain news of her. Of my sojourn in Boston, which lasted on till after Now Year's, I will only say two words it taught me the truth of the adage about absence making tho heart grow fonder. I thought so much of Miss Eczardy; hor beautiful pale face was so often visible before my imagi nation; I so passionately regretted the wasted opportunity I had had to make her acquaintance; I so eagerly looked forward to my return to New York, when I might have another oppor tunity, I hoped and bolioved, that by and by I began to realize what seemed very strange, thot I was not simply In terested in liar, but that I was in love with her. Yes, that I was in love, head over ears In love with a young woman between whom and myself never a word had been exchanged and who, doubtloss, was scarcely more than half conscious of my existence. Meanwhile, I waited anxiously for the letter Muselle had promised to write me. But days grew into weeks, and weeks were lengthening into months.and no let ter came. This made me very restive and unhappy. I tried to comfort myself by repeating the old commonplace that no news is good news; but I discovered that that sort of comfort is very cold comfort indcsil. Finally' a few days before Christmas I took tho pan in my own hand and precipitated active operations by writing to him. I covered three pages nnd seven-eighths of a fourth page with perfunctory tidings about myself and inquiries about him; then I gave the re maining eighth of the fourth page to the genuine paint and purpose of my epistle. "Do write to me at once nnd tell me ev erything that has happened in St. Mark's place since my departure. And, by the by, how are the Eczardys? What news from Bermuda of tho doctor's health? And mademoiselle? Is she always the same?" , I looked for an immediate answer from the exterminator; but ten days passed before his answer came. When in the end it did couie but I will copy it be low: Data Ms. Eliot Your favor of 2Sd ultimo te hand and contents noted. Glad to bear you get along all right Yet, thank you, I am pretty well aoa n.ia a very Duty season, wicn eom mence now to slack up Uula. Tot reason I didn't nits to you bit or I hidn't nothing to say, as notainx tuul happened. But since your lntter was received a great deal has happened. Dr. Eciaidy is died down there tn Bermuda. 1 always said he never could git well, and bu body como home on the ship and been buried, and Muss Eciardy h pack up and leave New York to go to Buwis. Ail since 1 rucsive your letter. Taa steamer from Bermuda was dus to arrive here on Saturday morning last wick, and ihe expect a letter by it srom bar fathor. when uutoad she got word he is fled down tliera, and hi cadaver is on board tua ship in a box. Sao went craiy, and had to man age tho nolo Dullness. Wo buried him In ths earn etery over on Long Uland, wile It snowed, and then sho tola m she mad up her mind to leave New York and go to Russia. She pack up in a hurry and sail on tbe boat for Havre Wednesday morning, bue tola me, now my father Is dead I got nothing more to lie for. so I go to Russia and oiler myself to serve the revolution. I strike one blow in tue tame time to avenue my father and to help tbe struggle of Russian liberty, and then I die. Oood-by. If you let me know twenty-four hours before yon come back 1 hare the rooms cleaned up nice and Ores to warm them. Otherwlu everything Is the same as always Takegjo.1 core of your self, and believa ma, with the highest esteem. your devoted A. Mcsnu-e I remember what followed us oue re members the delirium of u icJ bed. 1 remember reaching Minelle'a hoUM auJ hearing, viva voce, from bis lips a con firmation of what he had written. Mis Eczardy had gone to Russia, to St. Petersburg. She had gone, she said, to strike a blow for Russian liberty, to avenge her father and to die. Then I re member many days of great misery and mental struggle and hesitation; then 1 remember that at last I took a resolution which brought me something almost like relief. 1 remember a long sea vorage across a stormy wintry ocean; a long' railway journey across France and Ger many and through the forests and over the snow of Russia. I rvapembey a great strange city, where the people poke an Incomprehensible language and where it was night nearly all the twenty- tour hour. 1 remember a big, bustling hotel, where the people (poke French and where the go was kept perpetually burning. I remember walking the street of that great dark city day after day for it may have been a fortnight, it may have been a mouth. 1 remember that as I walked those streets I iieered anx ioiioly into the face of every woman whom I passed, hoping, hoping, hoping that somewhere among thoin I might meet her. But I rememlier that all my boe was embittered by the thought that no hot) could liavi been more unreason able, noiio more forlorn. Yet I kept on walking the streets, and I clung to my boo, in defiance of reason, a a drown' lug man clings to a straw. At lust I remember that one day a I stood iu the portico of the hotel I saw a man go prancing by on bursc-back. Ho was dressed in a very magnificent uul form, nnd behind him rode twootheriueii, also in uniform, but less magnificent, manifestly his aides or attendants. J remember tbut an Englishman who was standing at my side turned to me and asked, "Do you know who that tar "No," said I. "Who is hoi" "That is Oon. Ogaref." "Gen. Ogaref? The name sounds fa miliar, but I can t recall the couueo tion in which I have heard it." "Why, he is celebruted for having sent a greator number of Politicals to the gallows or to Siberia thun any other of the czar s servitors. "Ah, yes," I said; "it is in that connec tion that I have heard his name. Then it camo buck to mo, causing my heart to leap and burn, that it was Gen, Ogaref who hud condemned Dr. Eczardy to his Siberian exile. That same duv, perhaps an hour later. I was walking upon one of the islands of the Neva. Presently 1 came upon a great surging, excited crowd. "What is the trouble? Why the crowd?" I asked in French of a gentle- mau at my elbow. "They say that Gen. Ogaref has been shot lie was riding out accompanied by a couple of aideswhen, just above there, where the' crowd is densest, a young woman sprang toward him from the footpath and fired a bullet straight through his heart. Nihilist, of course." "Ah! Tte young woman who was she?" "I have not heard her name. I do not know if the police have learned it." "But she has been arrested, I suppose?" "Why, no. That's" just the point. It appears that, having shot the general, before she could be apprehended she emptied two chambers of her revolver into her own breast and fell down dead." The police were by this time forcing an alleyway through the crowd. By and by two policemen marched through tbe alleyway carrying a stretcher. . Upon that stretcher, ghastly in his magnifi cent uniform, lay Gen. 0,'aref, dead. Two more policemen followed, bear ing a second stretcher. "It is she, it is she, tjie assassin!" mur mured the crowd, and there was an eager pressing forward to catch sight of her. Upon this second stretcher, white and beautiful and still, lay Sophia Paulovna Eczardy, dead. For many weeks I tossed upon a pallet in the English hospital beside myself in a fever. Then I returned to reason, and gradually to health. . But I wished that I had died. The romance of my life was over; tho tragedy of my life had been played out. ; THE END. Namesakes. A well known writer was telling a friend about some of her numerous godchildren who ore scattered all over the county. They are of all ages and nationalities, but the most remarkable one is a little colored child In Washing ton. ' When I went there one winter my washerwoman told me she had named her new baby for me, and asked if I wouldn't come and see it. So, armed with a large rattle as a propitiatory offering, I visited tbe baby. What was my surprise to hear the mother and all the children speak of her as "Gene vieve!" "Why," 1 said, "1 thought you told me she was rwtuiod for me?" "Yas'm, so she shorely, is." "But my name is Harriet," I insisted, "and you call your baby 'Genevieve.' " "Laws, mis'," exclaimed the mother, with a broad grin, t'Genevieve 'scribes you so much better'n Harr'et does!" Youth's Companion. The Cost of Living. While many Bkilled mechanics can command from $1,200 to $1,500 a year, working from seven to nine hours daily, Jerks and accountants seldom reach that Income, and many young professional men, ministers and doctors, pass some of their best years in attaining it. The as sertion is all very well that a person can not live on such a sum as $3 a week, for instance; the cold fact remains that peo ple do just that, and live well, too. Of course a number associated can fare better than two or three persons, for every housewife knows the advantage of relying upon the appetite or dietetic pe culiarities of many individuals to strike a balance in table accounts. Chicago News. .- ' Aluminium aa an Alluy'wlth Iron. One of tbe new applications of alumin ium Is totberefininKof other metals by tbe addition of small quantities of the first named element, it has bus been ren dered possible to obtain cast iron pieces of vsry superior quality, uy tne audition or aluminium tbe fluely divided masses of ox trie of iron present in the fluid iron, which unfavorably Influence the solidity of the casting, are reduced; the very light alum ina slag Is driven upward in the molten metal and floats on the surface. In view of tbe removal of the oxide of iron, the casting will result of a more com pact nature, from tbe fact that tbe carbon contained in the iron has to opportunity, by uniting with the oxygen of the oxide of Iron, of forniiu' taibonio acid, veslculesof tho i.'aof which are left behind ill the iron, leaving cuvitiw. Copper castings are also refined in this manner. Currier's Maga zine. British Columbians for Independence. The Hon. Wilfrid Laurier ha declared for independence. Had he done so long ago he would not huvs to count defeat after defeat The only possible solution of our political existence is nationhood, and until it come we are merely para sites, who are treated as such abject creatures deserve to be. are no bodies upon tbe map of tbe world. Vancouver (B. C.) World. eproy lu Spain. Consternation exists in several Span ish villages in consequence of the great increase of leprosy. In the town of Oata there are so many leper that a separate hospital is to be built for then There are eight families in Benidonn that the other resident fear to associate with even for tbe transaction of busi ness. Every member of the eight fam ilies U) a leper. i ankee Blade. Mis faetry tlaar with a Kalfa. The flour for pastry sboald be of the whitest and finest quality. It should u sailed with a broad knife, as the moutura and warmth of the hand makes it heavy. A NEW ENGLAND JIIEACLE. A RAILROAD ENGINEER RELATES HIS EXPERIENCE. The Wonderful llorr Told by Fred C Vase and His Molhar-ln-Law to Re porter of the Boaloa Herald-Hoik Are Haalurad Alter Tsars ot a (any. From Ihe Boston Herald. The vast health-Hiving results already attributed by the newspaper iiirouifii nut this eotintrv and Canada to Dr. Will In ms " 1'lnk Pill lor Pale People" have been recently supplemented by the case of l wo continued Invalid in one house hold in a New Knand town. The name of these people are Fred C, Vose, hi wife and his uiother-in-lau , Mrs. Oliver C. Holt of Petarlioro, iiicuber of the same household. To the Herald reorter who was sent to investigate hi remarkable euro Mr. Vose said : " I am 87 year old, ami have been railroading for the.Fitehburg for fifteen years, ftince txiyhood I have Wn troubled with a weak stomach. For the past seven year I have suffered terribly and constantly. My stomach would not retain food; my head ached constantly and was so dizzy I could canrcly stand ; mv eves were blurred j I hod a bad hesrtlmrn, and my breath was offensive. I hail physicians, but they failed to help me. My appetite gave out, and four years ago I df veloped palpitation of the heart, which seriously all'ected my breathing. Had terrible pains in my back, and had to make wa ter many times a day. I finally devel oped rheumatic signs, and couldn't sleep nights. If I lay down, my heart would go pit-a-pat at a great rate, and manv nights I did not close my eye at all., I was broken down in body and discour aged in spirit, when some time in Feb ruary last I got a couple of boxes of Pr. Williams' Pink Pills. Before I had fin ished the first box I noticed that the palpitation of my heart, which had both ered me so that I couldn't breathe at times, began to improve. I saw that in going to my home on the hill from the depot, which was previously an awful task, my heart did not beat so violently and I hail more breathe when I reached the house. After the second and third boxes I grew better in every other re spect. Mv stomach became stronger, the gas belching was not so bad, my ap petite and digestion improved, and my sleep became nearly natural and undisturbed. I have continued taking the pills three times a day ever ejnee last March, and to-dav I am feeling better than at any time during the last eight years. . I cam confidently and conscien tiously say that they have, done me more good, and their good effects are more per manent, than any medicine I have ever taken. My rheumatic pains in legs and hands are all gone. The pain in the small of mv back, which were so bad at times that I couldn't stand up straight, have nearly all vanished, and I find my kidneys are well regulated byi them. This ia an effect not claimed for the pills in the circular, but in 'my case they brought it about. I am feeling 100 per cent better in every shape and manner." The reporter next saw Mrs. Holt, who said : " I am 67 years old, and for four, teen vears past I nave had an intermit tent lieart trouble. Three years ago I had nervous prostration, by whirh my lieart trouble was increased so badly that I had to lie down most of the time. My stomach also gave out, and I had con tinual and Intense pain from the back of my neck to the end of my backbone. In fourteen weeks I spent $300 for doctor bills and medicines, but my health con tinued so miserable that I gave up doc toring in despair. I began to take Dr. Williams' Pink Pills last winter, and the first Iki made me feel ever so much tet ter. I have taken the pills since Feb ruary, with the result of stopping en tirely the pain in the spina and in the region of the liver. My stomach is again normal, and the palpitation of the heart has troubled me but three (lines since I commenced the pills." An analysis of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills shows that they contain, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to' give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as lo comotor ataxia, partial paralysK St. Vi tus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheuma tism nervous headache, the, after effect of la grippe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness either in male or female, and all diseases resulting from vitiated humors in the blood. Pink Pills ar&sold by all dealers, or will lie sent postpaid on receipt of price (50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.60 they are never sold in bulk or by the 100) by addressing Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Sdieneetody, N. Y., or Brockville, Ont. Her Kspeetatlou. Aunt Sophrouia Peters mada her first journey by rail at the age of 65, when she went to visit her niecA at Boston. Up to that time she bad never seen a railroad, aa the Peters farnihoufeo waa 12 miles " from the nearest station, and she "hadn't had no call to travel." , ' : Having been deposited with her luggage on the wooden platform wiiioh aiiri'ounded the little station. she seated herself on a wooden bench. carefully holding the ticket wnicn had been given her, and proceeded to wait developments. i Presently the Boston train arrived, paused a few seconds, took on a cou ple of passengers and then steamed away again. "Why didn't you get on if you want to goto Boston I" asked tbe sta tion master, who came out of his room to find her sitting In a dazed condition on tbe bench when the train had disappeared. t "ft;tnn i" Bohrad A lint . Sonhrohia feebly, "git on I Why, I .MJlged tWa whnln ennsarn Went I" i -. ' WOKK FOB WORKERS. Are you ready to work, ard do Ton want to make money! Then wilte to B. F. Johujon 4 Co. of Klchmond, V.,and see if they cannot help you. A Maine man smoked a elgar won Iron) a slot machine aud fell dead. Mau-iloter. A POTT BR PRESS. sue, S3x inside Hearers; tame uisirmu tion; bed springs; will print nine-column iiiliu or Bii-uuiuimi ;uarw; a biiciiuiu ai wiuiifl ami, fnr Am.Litnr nMn- fnt- aaJa aheap; guaranteed in order. Address Portland, Or. Dae Inamellne Stove Polish; no dost no smell. Tat Osimxa for breakfast. 'August Flower" " I am Post Master here and keep a Store. I hava kept August Flower for sale for some time. I think it is a splendid medicine." B. A. Bond, P. M., Pavilion Centre, N. Y. The stomach is the reservoir. If it fails, everything fails. The liver, the kidneys, the lungs, the heart, tbe head, the blood, tbe nerves all go wrong. If you feel wrong, look to the stomach first Put that right at once by using August Flower. It assures a good appetite tad a good digestion. ' TheAdmlralClgaretteeare euperior to alt othere. MUKCLR AMU VIUOR-A llirFKRKNCB Many muscular men sunmmb to f thjues borne with eastf by Mrwiii lar their Intcrlori In phys ical trenttn. Muselt does not Imply Tlor. lu lacl, II l not difficult nl proof that alhletvi do not live as loni nor enjoy a ood health as Ihe areraxe Individual who Is vlnorout-thut la Io ay, wbone dlKMilun and sleep are unimpaired, wIiom nervciartramiull, and who has no or utilo teiideui'r lo dltean. Tticie retinites of visor are conferred Uhi Ihdwliiherenlly weak, no hM than upon tlioaa debilitated through waiting illeitw.ljy ethorouKh,pulitenlcoiirae ol Hnaiettur'iSlouitU'li lillteri, the lend Inn na tional tonic, liulorned and reeomini'inled by phyilrlana nl eminence. It will not endow you with Ihe niunele ul a Cornell, but It will Inlnw energy Into your nyitein sua renew the active anil healthful perfnruiaiife of Ita liiuetloiia. It averla and ouren aialarial, rheumatic and kidney iMUiplnliKu, and ovurcomif dynpepnia, comilps tlon, liver trouble and uervoiuuuns. J"weler-How do you like your alarm "lock f Cu'lonuT-Klrit rate. Jeweler-If ou didn't teem pleawd wit i It al Ural. Cun'.omer-No; but 11 a broken now. TILL YOU II IKI-NDM. Host of letters hare linen written, some to the proprietor of Autoes' Posois PuASTias, some to friends, telling of their Ineitlmable value. Here Is one Irom the Hon. Kdmund L. Pitts, the 'late President of the New York State Senate: "State or Nw Yoaa.) - Bk.iats Ciiamhsr.V Albany, Maroh 11, Ism) "I have used Ali.cix -'i fosors Flas. TKSf in my family for the past Hve years, and can' truthfully say they are a valuable remedy and client great cures. I would not be without them. I have In several in stances given some to friends suffering with weak and lame hsnks, and they have ltiva 'Ishly aU'orried certain and speedy rellel. They cannot be too highly commended." UsAxnasTH's Pills will purify tbe blo.d There Is much myllnca(on In London over the expedition aguinat ihe Sufus, and the Indi cations are that aomebody'a been lying on them. Throat diseases commence with a cold, cough or overtatiguliig the voice. These symptoms (which, if neglected, often re sult In a chronio trouble of the throat) are allayed by the use of "flromi'r Bronchial Trochts." ' Beyond his statlon-the man who wepl lo leap In ihe train. ' IOO RKWARO-aiOO. The reader ol this paper will be pleased lo learn that there ia at least one dreaded disease that si'l-iive has been able to cur In all lu atagea, and that la catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure la tbe only poaltlva cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh, being a conntltutlonal die' eaae, requires aeonatltutloual treatment. Haifa Catarrh Cure li taken internally, acting directly on Ihe blood ami m"CousaHrdioesof theayatem, thereby destroying the foundation of tbe disease and giving the patient strength by building up the cnnalitutloD and aialatiug nature in doing Ita work. The proprietors have so much fnlth In Ita curative powers thai they offer One Hun dred Dollars lor any eaae that It (alls to cur. Send lor list of tesilmoniala. Addresa F. J. CHK.nEY A CO., Toledo, 0. gtf Sold by druggials; 76 centa. WATER MOTOR. On Tuerk Water Motor, new, tbat will develop from 10 to 15-borse power; can be had at a sacrifice by addressing Palmes A Rev. Portland, Or. Tempt Hot a Cough with a Weak Sys tem,Consumptlon with Weak Lungs, or Disease with Loss of Flesh. Take . Scott's Emulsion the Cream of Cod-llver Oil, for any ailment resulting from poor nourishment. Physicians, the world over, endorse it. Don't be deceived by Substitutes! ptapacedby Suott t Boana, N. T. All Drul.u. The Best I fatemroof Goat In the WORLD I SLICKER r h riaH HHANn sucker la warranted water- Lruof, and wUl keep yoa dry In Hue bardeatetora. . Tan sew POMMEL BUI tin la a perfect riding ooat audi In.p.r. Ik entire aaddle. Beware of lmluuooa. Don 11 buy a mat If Ida " 'le& Brand" la not on It. nin.tra' M(.-talune fW. A. J. TOWEB, Boaloa. Mm. HAVE YOU GOT PILES iTOHlwa m9S known br molttnM Ufc. pv.plraUono.u .nuuwlwhiai when warm. ThU form na BLIND. YIELD IT OIIC1 TO DR. BO-SAN-KO'S PILE REMEDY, whiob iota dirootlf on prt alTeettd, absorb tumor, dlya ItohJ of , eff-ottDf permAOontcmr. prloa &Oa Drutiiti or .. Pr. BoMnko, FUUdalplua, Ptv Pimples AND . Blotches AKB BVWRNCa That tin Hood it wrong, and that naturt is tndtav oring to throw off thi impurities. Nothing is so beneficial in assisting naturt as Swift's Specific (S. S. S) It is a simple vegetable compound. Is harmless to the most delicate child, yet it forces the poison to thi surface and lUminaUs it from the blood. I contracted a severe cats ol blood poison that iinfittan gia for bualna at i foe four years. A few bottle ofSwiit'i Specific (S. 5. k) cured na. J. C. Jones, City Marshal, Fuiioo, Arkansa a Treatise on Blood and SUa Diseases mailed free, Swire Snxtric Co. Atlanta, Ga. CORD-WOOD. Biaoc-cs Oas oa Oasoumi iMouta Baal Power for ika Paraeae. Palmar A ZJ, 8. T., Cat. aud Portland, Ob It. P. IT. IT. No 632 fl. F. N. IT. No. I 6 ST. JACOBS O! And all tn DROP Don't bny any bnt k e are racine lout waa. SALARY HOTIVJj povsa I HERCULES GASOLINE tsroiiTES Fiimiiii.iuriiuiwciLuiPoni.or. amoko the Admiral Cigar 'ettee and te nappy. Eating in Haste At tines wLll leivinj aa ooiiatal. lu and deputy inerirr brought on ii;i .itlu trouble, althon.h 1 was natural ly besltl.r. Kl.hl mouth sgo I ci in- infill. d tilllm llnDit I garsapai Ilia. Il liM lire I my d ? e I ! 0 trouble S' d e ms buck lu mv s' hImmiI ttltvii yi'nr'. 1 advlve'l ntlieil to li'V't Hi oj Hiiri;.r'l a and t1 ay Mr, Mliiiuiauy. uuiv njo.ci oie' t-'.n Hon rl i Iti-ct It lia. had upon tin lu. .My r 1 had aiiflbrcd Irm i.vir. hia laehon, peiier 1 Ti tration and li ol aM'ttlte. Blio tins lakin twd Hood'ssi Cures Lotties, and In r Ik a. 1 1 now (rro rnin imln a' d ihe la r-iijiiy im excellent li.nltii a d nni'ui-d trvngtb. ' a. Hhuxway, Mehvter, Miih Hood' PHI a'Sl-t diii!Hlnn. :.o. 7- iotaai 11.00 dot Bottle: OnaoeatadoMi Taa OalAT COOOH Cuii pro" cures wbera all other full. Coughs, Cioi.. Bore Throat, Hoarseneaa, Whooping Cough aud haasured thooaanda, aud will OUR! TOO If taken In timo. Bold or Druggists on a guar, antes. For Lama Bauk or Cheat; use IHILOH'I BELLADONNA PLA8I-R.2io. LOH'SATARRH rrTVDrurnv P lia.aiaa.aer a are you Catarrh? This remedy is irusrsn I to cur you. ftiue,aOct. lujeoturfrus. FOR SALE. One celebrated Tuerk Water Motor; new; will develop lu to 16-horte power. Water li the bent audcbeapesl powvrto iu,niid the' 'Tuerk" Is the beat and cheapest motor lu the market Wll be sold at a ncrltlce. A.htre-a PALMER & ItEV, Portland, Or. RUPTURE PERMANENTLY CURED oa NO PAY. No pay UNTIL cureii. no refer to 6,OIM patients. No operation. No DETENTION rsox BUSlSBaa. Write or call lor olrcular and bauk relerence. liiuiniliH 1m, The 0. E. MILLER CO., Marqusra Buitoing, .PORTLAND, OREUO-f Ineefpera'sd Capital sad Surplus. 11 .f 00 000, (UliSIIOERlllES, P1H19ES, If I AiMATKI'll TIIEATHICll . Srervthlng lu the above line. Coalumea, W igs, Beards, Properties, Opers and Play Books, etc., (urulbhed at greatly reduced rate aud in supe rior quality by the oldest, largest, best renowned and therefore only reltablt TltnUrirM .Supply fiTotue os Ihe Pacific Count. Correspondence so licited. Goldstein A Co., 26, 28 and 30 O'Farrell street, also tt Market itreet, San Francisco. We supply all Theateri on lac Crxul, lo whom we re spectfully refer. UDC WiircifiW'C SooTHiNtt IIIIIVJ. IIHIULUII tl OTHUp FOR CHILDREN TEETHING F Sr all llru-cliu. S& (JuUaW.tk YOU WANT TKE BEST.'V SeinWor our CutttioKUe ul WINCUBATOfcS ' BuMi uiHkeg. i.o w prices, hmy puy mfnU. A ild reus . C Ueucli, Klpon, California. Free by Mail Oti receipt of ijst Dollar t) WHOLE GARDEN, Let u-i mail vou our Illustrated caiaiuauw winch wlU tell you all about It. unstHeerttiMl Plaut C- Itsherwood Hall Nursery Co.), 127-9 isausoine Street, Man Fraacinco. delected heeds a specialty Dr. mm ia Evory'lj Dark. aiws n n ui TiKTf i:ir aM I Mil fl n ThsOreat Curo forCstsrrh, Dearn eta, Colds, SoreThroat, mull A. Q4 ATM Oft yn..Y DR. GUM'S XKPROriD LIVER PILLS WUagT W 4 KILO PHYSIC ONE pill for a dose. A owntnt of th bowtli eeh day 1 necMuir tot tt tta. TtaeM puis supply what ihe cjitm Uou to u it reffuUr. Thar our HMdtohe, brlsbtu ttat Mtm and olr tb Complexion better than ooe- utioa. The act mildly, neuter frtpe nor Bloke aa oow pllle do. To ooDvinie yoa of inelr merit we will niil aanples frea. or a full box for so oente. BolA mrwlmt Boaaafco ML Co Philadelphia. I . World Knocus the CURE U SUKS. IT IF YOI'R BreiNESS DOES NOT PAY. Chickens are easily and successfully raised by using the Petaluma In cubators) snd Brooders. Our Il lustrated caialottie ulla all about It. tho Petaluma If too want atronf, Yieoroua chicks tieanquarters tor Bone snd Clover L utters, Mars- w rri i . m . j u v i mi ii . a i i ?2sower bns honSsJv eecond ctiuuce. If Nv you would at llrst sue- w)S ceed, be sure aud start with VW i FERRY'S 1 SEEDS. llllW BVrry'a Heed Auniinl for 18M louiitalns the sum and bulntoiicel ol the latest Inrnilng knoivi- V edge. Every plnnier should vSSj. have It. Hent free, wvI.M. Ferry 4 Cypr WATER HOP V i ns uj? em, Books, i aponuunf Tools, fonntalna, Flood's Roup Cure, Slorrls Poultry Cure, Creoeosone the rreatenlcken-lloe killer andevery other article required by poultry ralsera. See the machines in operation at our exhibit with the Nerwalk Ostrich Farm, Midwinter Fair, hatching oetrlrhes and all klnda of eggs. Catalogue free: If yon ant It, writs PtTALUMA INCUBATOR CO, , JoO-7i3-7o 766 llaiu sueet, Petaiunia, CaL IVfl CVoruorO from start, for canvassers for clean, IrVU CArLRdLS hardy Orchard, Carden and Lawn Nnitery Sioek. Advantaires for beginner; eieadr arlrencemenl; permanent OtTTTr rasa. Name this paper. MOWN lOS.CO.,Or.-gonian blng.Ponland.Or THE i FEOFLl'S SHOULD tVt COLDES .VEST BAKING POWDER Into their slatform. To aj It is a messnre of health, aieaswe and economy. The Admiral Cigarettes are the beat.