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The World's Fair Tests showed no baking powder so pure or so great in leav ening power as the Royal. ROYAL BAKINO POWDER SUBDUING WILD BEA8TS. Special Dang-er of the Ttmen of lions and risers. Now and tlicn, for no reason tlmt any one can And, a lion or a tiger that him been doing bis duty rogularly and well grows suddenly rebellious. IIo will no longer balance on tbo big ball, no lon ger stand nnprotestlngly on the seesaw board, no longer rido the horse or jump the hnrdlos. Ho comes out instead with a plain, pointed, leonine no ior iuo whole programme and proceeds to get square with tho game by tearing the life out of some trainer or groom. Ap parently bis prido and hato and revenge are all stirred up togother against all surrounding conditions, aud the people to whom be bos been most obedient ore the very ones be now desires most to tilL When tamers meet a violent death, it is often under one of these unforeseen and inexplicable outbursts of madness. But there is another and perhaps subtler sourco of danger to tamers. Everything goes well for two or throe years, and the tamer, proud of his suc cess and swolliug bonk account, becomes cverconndent. One day be gets a nip from a beast or a scratch from a tiger's claw. This will happen inevitably, un less the greatest watchfulness is em ployed, and without any vicious inten tion on tho part of tho wild beaut. But the wound lingers on baud or arm, for wounds from a wild beast's claws or fangs, however trifling, are long in healing and very painful. Tho member (wells to donblo its normal size. The wound tears open again and again, and months pass before tho man is healed. The moral effect of such an experience is bad. Perhaps another bite or scratch is incurred before tbo old ono is quite well, and after a number of such mis baps the tamer, though he will not ad mit it, perhaps even to himself, is apt to become afraid of bis animals. Then be bas recourso to stimulants to "steady bis nerves" before going into tho ring. But by this trcatinont bis nerves are not steadied; rather they are the more shaken. And the mora ho drinks tho more unfit ho is to faco tho danger and the likelier to take some reckless stop which will result in bis serious injury or death, for it is undoubtedly a foot that tamers are not infrequently maimed for lifo, and oven killed. Such a case was that of the tamer Heigonrcich, who was torn to pieces somo years agowhilo giving an exhibition in Russia. A large lion sprang upon him and literally toro bis life out before the eyes of tho spec tators. Nothing could be done to save tho man. Nothing can ever be done in such a cose. Perhaps the best sufeguurd against these dreadful accidents a safeguard bettor than hot irons or revolvers is a ready lino of hose, with a strong pressure of water, which can be turned on at a moment's nctico. It has been found that lion struck by a powerful stream of water will drop his bleeding victim when prodding with iron hooka or simi lar meusures will only make bim bold on the tighter. Thus it is absolutely fatal to the tamer to fall into any fear. As soon as be gets the idea that bo is going to be killed be bad better give up the work at once, or tbo chances are that be will be killed. Cleveland Maffott in Ho Clare's Magazine. A Knife au In 1'ruvela. A huge knife, Baid to be over 100 years old and resembling an ancient bay cut ter, was presented to tho postmaster at Bangor, Mo., just after the election. It was labeled "Adlai'a Ax." Across the blade in black letters were tho words, "The melancholy days have come." This was a grim joke to play on a Republican postmaster, but he concluded to make the best of it. Ho tagged it and started it on a journey across tbo continent. At last accounts it was at Marquette, Mich., all covered with tags and tbo comments each messenger ha 1 added ns tho Dem ocratic guillotine passed over his route. Exchange. BUDS, Society buds, younif wo. men just entering the doors of soci ety or woman hood, require the wisest care. To be beautiful and charming they must have perfect health, with all it implies a clear ekin, rosy checks, brirrht eves and cood spirits. At this period the young woman is especially sensi tlve, and many nervous troubles, which continue through life, have their origin at this time. If there be pain, headache, backache; and nervous dis turbances, or the general health not good, the judicious use of medicine should be employed. Dr. Pierce's Favorite, Prescrip tion is the best restorative tonic and nerv ine at this time. The best bodily condition results from its use. It's a remedy spe cially indicated for those delicate weak nesses and derangements that afflict wo menkind at one period or another. You'll find that the woman who has faithfully used the " Prescription " is the picture of health, she loots well and she feels well. In catarrhal inflammation, in chronic dis placements common to women, where there are symptoms of backache, dizziness or fainting, bearing down sensations, disor dered stomach, moodiness, fatigue, etc., the trouble is surely dispelled and the sufferer brought back to health and good spirits. WOMAN'S ILLS.' Mrs. W. R. Bates, Dilvmlh, Trumbull Ohio, writes: "A few years a?o I took Doctor Pierce' Favorite Prescription, which has been a great benefit to me. I am in excellent health now. I hope that every wo man, who is troubled with 'women's ill,' win try the Prescrip. tion' and be bcnciited Ml have been." Km. Hates. IRV'NG INSTITUTE MEr11- Kite l B ding VeliiKil lor Girls, highteenlh year. Mnete n (tw hers. For II. nitrated eatlit-rie addrpas HV. kliW. a. till K 11, A. M , PrlncliMl. Ely's Crean Ba'm UU1CKLT CUKKS cold ill km. j- j J Appltftalui lioaatcD no-lrll &! lin:,H lirn IL.ln.hrt. FOR LADIES I loaf COLD will pld by the Kr Chemical C'w. lur any f.e of lemale fiknf. bkKT.C SANATIVE PottDfck. IMe ILw per V . 1 K. -II A . i. fa thai will n I vietd to pit. j. a. bih h A li kes, lot asl by all dru(it. t CO., 1W WALL 01 , HtVY-Tvnn, CO., 1M WALL 8T , NEW-YORK. Blatnc' Way of rat. It Is a curious fact that many of Mr. Blaine's friends and many of the nows puper mon here who have watched bis career held firmly to the belief that be would die on a Sunday. Sunday wus bis day of fate. Ho was born on that day, and it constantly recurs in connec tion with the chief ovents of his lifo. It was on Sunday that he regained posses sion of the noted Mulligan letters, with which that iierson was seeking to blast his career and drive him from public lifo. It was on the Sunday previous to tiio assembling of the Republican con vention at Cincinnati in 1S7G that he suf fered tho sunstroke which played no in considerable part in breaking down the Blaine forces and nominating Hayes. It was on a Sunday that he prepared his celebrated Florence letter declining to be a candidate in 1888, and it was on the same day that be sent a peremptory cablegram to the same effect to Repre sentative Boutelle at Chicago. It was on Sunday that bis letter to Chairman Clarkson last February was given out in which he said his name would not go be fore the coming convention. His state ments of the American side of tho Behr Ing sea controversy and the New Orleans aflur with Italy were given out on Sun day. His resignation of the portfolio of state was twice determined on Sunday, the first to President Arthur and tho second to President Harrison, although tho latter was not sent to the president until Monduy morning. That his lost illness was hopeless became known to the public Sunday, Dec. 18, and it was on Sunday, three weeks later, that bis physicians finally admitted the hopeless ness of his case. Washington Cor. Chi cago Inter Ocean, The Woman Wan. An exciting race took place Monday afternoon in Walla Wullu botween Mrs. Mary E. Miller of Kcnnewick, Yakima county, and Frank Foster of the same place. They both came in on the even ing train over the O. and W. T., and neither waited for the car to stop but jumped off and made frantic runs for backs. The womun offered to buy the hackman's team if be would get her to her destination in time, and the man slipped a $ 5 piece into the driver's hand in order to facilitate mutters, and in less time than I take to tell it both backs were speeding up the street at a break neck gait. What was the cause of all this? Why, It was a raco between them to see who could got to the United States land ofllces first to file on a piece of land near Kcnnewick. The man urrived there first, hut muds a mistake and got into the wrong office, and in the meantime the woman hud arrived and slipped in ahead of him. The woman also had her wit nesses with her, while the man was un prepared in this important particular; consequently she "got there with both feet. "Washington Statesman, Natural Gus Kulaes a Now Law Question. A resolution was introduced in tho city council tonight to begin a suit for dam ages, involving several hundred thousand dollars, against the Northwestern Ohio Natural Gas compnuy, which has its wells in this county adjoining those of the city, and which supplies tho city of Toledo with gas. Tho resolution is the result of a long study of the legal aspect of tho case by Mr. Aloxandor, who intro duced it, and upon his recommendation it wus referred to tho city solicitor, who, it is understood, is in favor of vigorous ly prosecuting the suit. As the rock pressure has gradually decreased, the Northwestern company has introduced three immense pumps at n station six miles from the city, nt a cost of $50,000, in order to force the gas through the 40 miles of pipe and suck it from the ground. This bus greatly injured the city's territory, aud tho claim will be made that the use of artificial means to get the gas frcun under tho contiguous territory of the city is illegal. Tho ques tion has never been raised in the courts. Fiudlay Cor. Cleveland Plain Dealer Auother Alraltlp Invented Another airship has been projected by M. Orensfelilur, who has just received his patent papers from Washington. The ship is a cigar shaped affair, 100 feet long and 80 feet in diameter. It will hold 8D.000 cubic feet of gas and carry 2,800 pounds. Tho feature of tho inven tion is that it can be steered. Thero are several mechanical innovations for which great results are promised. The inven tion varies from most airships in that it can flout in tho water. The framework will, be of steel or aluminium, the ribs being covered by a light airtight cover, which will receive several coats of vnr uish. The gas will be stored in a cham ber at each end, and there will be space left for a cabin in the middle. In this cabin the electric motor, anchor and all the other mechanism will find a lodg ment. A Btrong partition will separate the maeliino mid passenger quarters. St. Louis Letter. Cienerul Hutler'a Famous Yacht. There is considerable speculation in yachting circles, now that Ueneral But ler is dead, us to into whose hands the old America will fall. Mr. Paul Butler told me that he had not tho slightest idea as to whether ho should retain it or not. Current opinion in Lowell has do tided that ho will not. His ict hobby is canoeing, and it is doubtful if ho will change at this day. Tho general's last cruise, by the way, he told me, was taken with the New York Yacht club, when be sailed up with them from New port, the America giving ninny of the uew yachts a tussle. After that he took a number of short trips up along the north, shore, bnt this wus his lust cruixe. Boston Record. The I SOU Fir Los. The fire loss of the United States and Canada for the month of December, as compiled from our daily files, amount tofl2,354,4o0. Added to the figures for the previous months of 1S9J this shows a total for the year of 1132,704,700. The losses for 1891 were $137,716,150, and for 1S90. $106,993,343. New York Commer cial Bulletin Soienl ilie journals in England speak approvingly of a new method of manu facturing caustic soda, chlorine and other chemical products directly from soa water with the aid of electricity. There is an immense saving of time, labor and material in the process. A student fn a western college pro poses to deliver a lecture on comrnenoe- nient day on "The Relation of the Wheel- ,. . mitow to American Election" TRAPS AND SNARES. CONTRIVANCES THAT SHOW WHAT A GENIUS THE YANKEE IS. Too Would Call Hut of th Invention Ab tordltlea, and Yet They An Useful Do vloes For Poisoning Pest Battrap of Many Kind. American invention bas given birth to no end of freaks, which have boon embalmod at tlio patent omco in oruer that they may not perish. Borne of the queerest of them ore dovioos for entrap ping beauts, bugs, fishes and even baman boings. What, for cxamplo, could be funnior that tho notion of using imitation flow irs with poisoned honey to attract nox ious insects? Tho artificial blossoms, each containing a small quantity of sug ary liquid properly proparod, are to be fastened to twigs. Months of destruct ive species sip tho deadly nectar and die. A nioro olaborato dovioo of a simi lar description is intended for the pro tection of anplo trees. It is a tin con cov ered as to its upper half with luminous paint. On tho outside of tho lower half applo blossoms nro represented with tho samo sort of paint Iusido of tho rocop- taclo is a small quantity of elder. The can is to bo bung on a branch of an ap plo treo at night. Insects, attracted by the pictured flowers, light upon tho can. The smell of tho cidor induces thorn to enter through holes provided for that purpose. They thon drop down into tho cldor and are drowned. Yet it 1b not always easy to distin guish between a crank idea and a use ful discovery. Tho poisoned counterfeits of flowers above described are said work very woll. Many yoars ago a man got a patent for a motbod of killing bugs on trees by inclosing the whole tree in a sort of balloon of canvas, into which an asphyxiating gas was to be poured for tho purpose of suffocating the insects. Everybody thought bo was a lunatic But now that bis patent bas run out the morits of the plan have suddonly obtained appreciation, and its adoption is alleged to have saved the orange irrowing industry in California. Several kinds of luminous baits for fish bavo bocn patented. One of theso is minnow of hollow glass coated on the insido partly with a solution of gold or silver, and partly with luminous paint. The result is a very brilliant object in the water, calculated to attract any pre dacious crcaturo with una Another in torosting contrivance is for making frog bait more seductive. The jorking of the line equipped with this dovico causes the frog's legs to move as if be wore swimming. Contrivances for catching insects are more numerous than any others. One of them is a furnace for slaughtering po tato bugs. To begin with, a deep and wide furrow is to be plowed all around an infestod field. Through this trench a smooth log is dragged to make the surface hard and smooth. The bugs in migrating to other grounds are unable to scale the trench, and the furnace, which is a cylindor of iron filled with fuel, is drawn along the furrow and destroys them. Other odd dovioes are cartridges intended to be inserted in the mouths of ant bolos and to be fired, thus communicating stifling vapors tho subterranean chambers, also many kinds of lamps for attracting and burn ing up the moths of various worms in cotton Holds. Thore is a toy pistol for insects, which sucks thorn in whon he trigger is pulled. An ingenious westerner bas invented a trap for catching the horufly which is such an cnomy to cattle iu some parts of tho country. It consists most impor tantly of a great frame to which brush is attached in such a nianuor that when the beasts walk through, eager as thoy always are to scratch themselves, the flies will be scraped from thoir bodies by tho branches. Finally the frame is closed up by means of doors, aud the captured iusects nro destroyed. Nearly everybody has beard of the gold tape worm trap, which tho patient swallows. Bedbug traps are of several varieties, nil of thom being intended to afford at tractive hiding places for those blood suckors and to be burned or scalded out afterward. Much ingenuity bas been expended in rattrups. Some of them are so elab orate that no full wittod rodent would go near them. Ono requires Mr. Bat to como in through a door, which drops behind and makes bim a prisoner. See ing a bright light above, he ascends a flight of littlo steps and trots across a small plank thnt is so uicoly adjusted as to balance that bjs weight causes it to tip and throw him into a tank of water. Another contrivance consists of a doublo chamber. One chamber has a gloss end, through which Mr. Rut sees two or three imitation rats having a nice time with a bit of cheese. Wish' ing to join thorn, ho ruus arouud the box, gets Into the other chamber and is caught Thcro are a number of dovioes which employ mirrors for tho purpose of lur ing tho rat to his fata Ho mounts ou top of a barrel and sees a toothsome piece of cheese. As ho approaches it he boholds another rodent in roality his own reflection in a piece of looking glass coming for tho cheese from the opposito direction. IIo makes a dash to gut there first, and a pivoted board drops him into tho cask, which is half full of water. Ruts will swim for a long time, so one humanitarian has patentod a water trap with littlo sholves around the edgo and just above the sur f ace. Ou tho shelves are placed small lead weights, with fishhooks hanging from them. Tho captured rat in trying to f scape grasps ono of the hooks, gets it fastened in his mouth, dislodges tho pieco of lead and is carried to the bot tom by tho latter. Sparrow traps are of many difforout kinds. Most of them invito tho birds to walk in through a door which drops bohind thorn, making thorn prisoners. When next seen in the restaurants, thoy are rcedbirds on toast. Philadelphia Times. For and ABiilniat the Single Tax. ' Ilyattsville, Mil., is still under single tax rule, but there are few signs to show that the principle has made much head way since it won the day in the bitter fight of last spring. Its opponents assert that it has ruined tho town, and they point to the condition of the streets nnd of the pavements to corroborate their claim that tho place has gone backward since the single tax people got control of its affairs. These contentions the single tnx men vigorously deny, but their vigor is more in the championship of the single tax as a principle than in the demonstration of its workings in this place. Generally they say thnt it bas not been In force long enough yet for a fair trial. The opjionents reply with vigor that they have bad enough of it and that they in tend to bring alsjnt a change in May, when the annual election of town com missioners will be held. The votes seem to be pretty evenly divided between the two factious, both of which are quietly but earnestly preparing for the contest in the spring. There is a great deal of feeling in the fi-ht, and the literatnreof the discussion is becoming formidable. Cor. New York Times. I PROFESSOR ELY ATTACKED. Accused of Mollis; Social lit and of Teach ing Utopian and I'ernloioni Doctrine. "Utopian, Imprnctioublo, pernicious," are tho charges mndo against the doctrines taught student at tho University of Wis consin by I'rofcjtsor Richard T. Ely, cloan of tho school of economics, political ncI rnoo and hUtnry. Ho I accused of Iwlng a socialist, of believing Itistrlkosnml boy cotts, of urging printer to strlko Imwiiuxo the state printer of lsronsin ran a- non union office, of eiitertaliiliiK a walklna dolugnto at his house, during tho strike, of threatening to withdraw hi printing If tho office wus not unionized, mid of teach ing various doctrine that hi uccuwr de clare nro not what should bo Incorporated Into tho mental niul moral nmkmipYf stu dents ut tho university who nro Instructed by him. The clinrgot were preferred by Oliver K. Wells, statu superintendent of puhllo In struction, and led the IxiiinI of retfe'ds (lf tho state to npimlnt II. W, Chynoweth, a Madison lawyer; John Johnston, n Mil waukee banker, and II. I). Dale, an Osh koah doctor, n ootninlttco to Invostlirnto tho truth of tho nlliwitltms ngnlnst tho erudite professor. At the Chautauqua pnoFEsson RiniAno T. elt. (N. y.) assembly recently Professor Ely took occasion to refer to what ho termed "tho rising flood of calumny which hns spared noC cvon my conduct in my own homo." IIo declared that ho had never spoken to a striking printer in Madison; that ho had never entertained a walking delegate; that ho had never expressed nny opinion about strikes In Madison oxecpt to condemn thom, and that each of tho charges against him was a base and cruol calumny. When tho Investigating commltrco met, Mr. Wells refused to proceed on tho ground that tho committee's action in excluding Professor Ely's books made it Impossible for him to provo Ills case. Professor Kly has long been well known as a writer ou social and economic topics. Ho was born In Ripley, N. V., April 13, 1851. Ho at tended tho New York stnto normal school, was graduated from Columbia col lego in 1876 ami as tho holder of the grutiuato fellowship of letters of thnt institution, studied at Heidelberg university, Ger many, from 1871) to 180, receiving the de gree of Ph. U. In 188S no began a long term or service In tho chair of political economy at Johns Hopkins university, lialtimoro, and for many years was tux commissioner of Mary land. His fnmo as a writer on political economy soon bccanio widespread, and not long ago the University or Wisconsin called him to his present place on Its fac ulty. IIo nas written liult a dozen or more books on political economy and kindred subjects, and his latest work is called "Socialism and Social Reform." DR. KOCH'S DIPHTHERIA CURE. I The Lymph Closely Itcsenible That lie Used For tlio Cure of Consumption. Dr. Robert Koch, tho famous Germnn bacteriologist who startled tho medical world scviral years ago by announcing that ho hail discovered a curoforconsump- tion, believes that ho has found a new remedy for tlio dread ulseaso diphtheria. It Is a lymph or antitoxlno resembling the eelebrnted lymph Dr. Koch used In his not wholly successful uttompts to cure con sumption. Professor Virchow and other eminent German scientists and Dr. Her- uuin M. liiggs, tho bacteriologist and pa thologist of tho Now York city health de partment, havo Investigated the discovery carefully and nro firm believers in Its of 11 ency. Dr. Biggs considers tho lymph an Infal lible euro for diphtheria If it is applied within 80 hours after tho patient Is Infect ed with tho dlsenso. In Berlin ho found between 3,000 nnd 4,000 well attested coses in which dlphthorin had been cured by this now antitoxlno. Such proof ns that could not bo disputed, and Dr. Biggs re turned to America cnthuslastio over tho new Koch discovery. Dr. Cyrus Edson of Now York is also an cnthuslastio cham pion of tho now Koch lymph. At a recent meeting of tho Now York hoard of hoalth ho said tho lymph euro was an Injection of tbo blood of animals, which killed whatev er poison germs of diphtheria were In the system. Ho was so satisfied of tho ellloacy of the lymph that ho intended to ask from the board of estimate and apportionment PB. KOI1KRT KOTI1. n appropriation of $1)0,000 for the estab lishment of nn experimental station for the nuimifacturonntl use of the antitoxlno. Dr. Koch was born In Clauslhnl "0 yenns ago. As a boy ho was a hunt student, anil at 18 ho entered tho University of Got ngen nnd began tho study of medloino, a courso covering fouryonrs of study. hen lie had bocn in tho university but two years, A won a prlzo of 80 thnlcr in gold offered to tho students of tho university ir tho best essay. He served throughout tho Franco-Prussian war, and inter at traetcd tho attention of tho medical pro fession of Germany by Ills writings on bactorin, nnd in 1889 was called to Berlin nnd appointed a member of tlio board of henlth. When the cholera brokoout In India, he went thero nnd studied it nnd discovered that tho scourgo was duo to bacteria. Un his return to Berlin ho was received llkoa conqueror, ond tho relohstag voted him 100,000 marks In recognition of the end- nt services which ho had rendered to science. Great Men and Orgnn Grinders. That the lato Mr. Blaine had a liking for tl.o melodies of tho Indian organ griudt-rs who perambulate the streets e are told by 11 ITogresso Italo-Ameri cano, ihero nave been other dndin- guishod Americans with the same liking at times. One of them wa. the late Clen eral Ben Butler, when ihe organists uyed the tunes that pleased him, one of whirdi was the tune of "Annie Laurie," and an-ither thai- of the 'Marseillaise.'- New York Sun. Prto, Chanel Youth Since the openinr. of the sleigh ing Bauson I wear out my right glove be fore the left is in the least injured. mover by uou t yen. get her to sil on tlw other fide part if the timer Clothiers and Il '.berdoshers' Weeklv. A London manufacturer of chewing gum some time ago discharged all his male f aiployee aud hired girls to take their places. The other di y be made an assign nent. The wife of E'i MilleT, who lives rear Valley City, In 1 bas given birth, it is claimed, to seven children in the past 13 mantis. 'Www wmm AN ASP AND DEADLY. AMERICA'S MOST DEADLY SNAKE THE PICHU-CUATE. 18 It I Found In th Southwest Even Snaka Charmer An Afraid of It A Tluy Thing, bat It Kill Very Quickly A Writer Tell ot III First Meeting- With One. The southwest is more liborolly sup plied with Tonomons things than any other area in tho Union. In the burn ing deserts, in tho inhabited but arid expanses of Now Mexioo and Arizona, tlio rattlesnako abounds, and in sovoral varieties, including the strango and ileadly "sidewinder, " Crotolus cerastes. l'ho so called tarantula really only a giguntio bush spider, but none tho less dangerous beoauso of tho misnomer is decidedly common. Scorpions ore nono too raro In the southern portions of the territories, and iu all parts coutipeds of 7 to 8 inches long aro frequent and neighborly. But tho chief distinction of the region in this respect is tho pros ence of tho plehu-cuato, the deadliost snake in North America. - Tho pichu-cuute mutches the worst serpent of India. Not only the most highly venomous, but tbo tinlost and most treacherous, ho would bo also the most duugerous but, luckily, ho is tho rarest Ho is tho only true asp on this continent, and in tho United States novcr fonutl outsido of Now Mexico and Arizona That bo was also known to the ancient Mexicans is apparent from bis namo pichu-contl, an Aztoo word, which was brought np to our territory by tho Spanish conquerors. My first meeting with one was in Valencia county, N. M., in Juno, 1800, on tho sandy flanks of the Cerro dol Aire, I was out hunting jock rabbits, in company with some Indian friends, and had dismounted to stulk, leading my pet liorso by tho bridle. My eyes were on a small chapparo bush ahead, whon suddenly Alazan snorted and reared backward so violently as almost to nn binge my arm. I looked about in sur prise, for Alazan was too good a horse to mind trifles. As there was nothing to bo seen, I started to pull bim forward. Again ho protested and with evident terror, and chancing to look at my very feet I understood bis fear and felt very grateful that his senses were bettor than mine, for in another step I shonld bavo walked upou my death. Tho only thing visiblo was a tiny ob ject, not nearly so large as a good stag beetle mcroly a bead and perhaps an inch of neck. But it was the most frightful object in its kind that I bad over seen. Tho bead, certainly neither so broad nor so long as my thumb nail, bad a shape and an air of condensed malignity impossiblo to describe. It seemed tho very essence of wickedness and bate, fairly bulging with deadly spite, and growing upon one until it looked sevcrul times its actual size. Tiio ugly trianglo (which is the distin guishiug mark of all venomous snakes, being formed by tho poison gland back of each eye) told me at once that Ala zan was keeping np bis reputation novcr did he shy nt a harmless snake and the tiny horns, which added a pe culiar and grotesque hideonsuess, left no doubt that this was a pichu-cuate. Ho had buried himself most to the head in tho gray sand, against which his up per skin was boroly distinguishable, ond thus in ambush was waiting for some thing to turn up. Turning Alazan loose, I knelt at the safe distanco of a yard to study tho lit tlo creature, which fairly swelled with murderous rage. It not only struck madly at the chapparo switch I thrust to it, but nt last, evidently discerning that the blame lay back of the switch, actually folowod it np, and with such agility that I bad to jump up and back without loss of tuna Tho idea of re treat never seemed to enter that flat head. Sometimes he would lie and puff out with impotent rage, throwing bis mouth so wido open that it seemed the venom must start, and sometimes be glided toward me, his head an inch above tho ground, with nn attitude which seemed to say, "Stand still there, and wo'll see who laughs. " At last I killed him. Ho was neither larger rouud nor longer than an ordi nary lead pencil; a cold, leaden gray on tho back, but undenioath rosy as the month of a conch shell. The fangs were tiny, not much moro than an eighth of an inch long, and as delicate as the tint est nocdlo. A wondrous mechanism, this mouth, with its two nutomatio needles, so infinitesimal, yet so perfectly compe tent. I opened tho ugly littlo jaws wide, pressing upou the sides of the head, and when the recurving fangs had risen from their grooves in the roof of the month and stood tonse a stream so in conceivably fine that the eye could bare ly note it spurted from each, and in the space of two or three inches melted into invisible spray. Yet that jet, finer than a cobweb strand, was enough to give swift death to tho largest and strongest animal that walks. When the hunt was over, I told my Indian chums of tho pichu-cuate aud asked them many questions. They all knew of tho sntiko, though several had never seen ouo, and all agreed that it is extremely rare. The crotulus ranks among the Pueblo divinities, nnd thoir charmers have no difilcuty with that Bteady going and respectablo reptile. But even among theso people, with whom tho cult of the rattlesnake has such astounding features and where un til recent years every Pueblo kept a sa cred rattlesnake in a sacred room, with Bpocial priests to attend him, the vil lainous littlo sand viper is accursed, Even thoso who have "tho power of the Bnako" can do nothing with bim. He scorns to bo tamed even by tlio drop ping upon his head of the mystic police of tho corn blossom. C F. Lummis iu Now York Sua Cremtttion In This Country. It Is not every day that there are five cases of cremation at Fresh Fond, but tho bodies of four men nnd one woman were reduced to ashes in the furnace thero on Tuesday. The revival of the ancient practice of cremation in our times is a curious thing. We have not yet seen the last year's reports of the several crematories in the country, but we believe that over 100 dead persons wero consumed in them during the year. Nearly all of these persons, with the exception of the victims of cholera, who were cremated in our bay last autumn, had left orders or had express ed a desire that their bodies should be thus disposed of. The most of them had been afrnostics or atheists, and a few of them Theosophists. It is not to be sup posed that any of them, leaving out the cholera stricken, had been believers in the doctrine of the resurrection of the body at the day of judgment, though of course cremation count not mteriere with any design of the Almighty. We know of two crematories in Eng land, and there are others in several of the countries of continental Europe. Should the cholera break out in England this year it is probable that a number of the municipalities will, in accordance with advice given by their health au thorities, follow the example set by the New York quarantine commission last autumn and cremate the victims of the dreaded and infections disease.- i MAN'S FALL, Since th original fall of man w have bad some signal imple of great falls not to Include Niagara or the Immense fall In values wbiob the times bavs brought about in the nature of accidents wbloh waylay man at all times. One such Is that of Mr. Ueorge W. Lord, Olanta, Pa., who ay he leu downstair and sullerea roil weens with a sprained back. The use i Ht. .Jacob Oil oomtiletelv cured him. M U. Itoeder. mi H. 17th tit.. Omaha. Neb relates that ha jumped from his angina in collision and sustained a very bad sprain to nis ana ie ; na uau to uses cane lor weens. Din was nnany cured by Ht. Jacobs on fierer fall out with so good a thing. Newspaper Workers In C'lileiiso. Somo time iur we took occasion to warn newspaper writers against the folly of coming to Chicago in the liopo of finding employment hero. We regret that tho warning 1ms been neglected by very many. 1 h:s city has been overrun for sevend months by reporters (both Men and women) vainly seeking work, The Chicago newspapers have for two years been getting ready for tho World fair season, and their several depart ments are filled with competent men, Therefore others who como to Chicago now in the expectation of securing em ployment are bound to be disappointed thero are no places to be had; in every newspaper ofiice at the present time ap plicants aro standing about 13 deep in the outer chamber, with never so much as tho prospect of a possibility to encour age them. Many of these people are suffering from want of money. They loft employ ment clsewhero to rush to this city of tho World's fair, where they fancied their services would be snapjieil at. Most of theso unfortunates will have to walk out of town or tako to driving street cars for a means of subsistence. With u view to averting further troublo wo ask our newspaper frionds elsewhere to disseminate assiduously the informa tion that newspaper work is not to be had in Chicago; that every place is filled hero; that already we have with ns an army of unemployed reporters, and that every newjpaper writer who comes tf. Chicago with a viow to getting work is pretty sure to have nothing but his trou bio for bis pains. Chicago News-Record. Blountnlnou Waves. The daily papers all recorded the fact that the steamship Majestic, on her east ward trip, caught a sea that demolished her crow's nest lookout, and that the Teutonic, which caught the same gale coming west, had one sea which combed over the crow's nest and carried away her forward port lifeboat as it went over the rail. But none of the duily papers took the trouble to mention just how the crow's nest is situated on these Bhips, and consequently how high that sea was. Inquiry by a Murine Journal repre sentative discovered that, while in men- of-war mid many other ships the cus tom is to have the crow s nest in the foretop or a trifle above, the White Star ships have it at an altitudo of 35 teet above the main deck on tho foremast, reached by a little iron ladder from the forward hurricane deck. In such a sliip as tho Majcstio or Teutonic the height of the main deck at the forerigging is about 40 feet above the level of the sea, which would make the height of the wavo that carried away the crow's nest in this instance about 70 feet. This is a pretty big roller for the north Atlantic, but in other parts of the oceun Bucli waves ure often encountered in a storm. Supposing the ship to have been in trough of the sea ot the time this wave swept her, tho mean height of the wave might be calculated as not greater than 40 feet, but it was certainly a body of water nearly 70 feet high from where the ship flouted. Marine Journal. LIFE OR DEATH f It is of vital lmnorlnnee thnt It should be un derstood by persons whose kidneys are Inactive that this condition of tliliiKS Is linnllr inductive of a slHto of the orfrsns where life hungs in the bslnnca. llrlght's disease, diabetes, albuminuria Are an aliases oi a very ODstmate cnaracier in their mature MtHsre.nnd all have a fatal tendency, Tlicv often bailie the most nracliced medical skill and the most approved remedies ol mate ria medics. But opposed at the outset that is to say, when the kidneys beidn to discharge their functions inactively with Hostetter's Stomach Hitters, the dangerous tendency Is checked. Very useful also is this household medicine for those ailmenls of common occur renee constipition, bl!iouneM, dyspep-la and nervousness, n is a saieguara ugaiust malaria, aud avert chronic rheumatism. Where's ver daddvT" " He's plowin'." "And " Mukln' him plow I" Where's yer mammy?" Dse Bnamellne Stove Polish; no dost no smell. The Testimonials Published in behalf of Hood's Sursanarilla are not purchased, nor are they written up in our ofiice, nor they from our employes. They are facts from truthful people, prov ing, as surely as anything can be proved by direct, personal, positive evidence, that Hood's Sarsa parilla Be sure to Cures Get IIood'8 Mood's Pilln pure ii&iikoa. ftirtr htfnnhv Ind Btiuii, biliuusncss. bold by all druggists. It la anld on a o-uarantee all rimn fi-Isr.3. It cures fncioient Consumntinn una. im ilia pes uouHa iuau broup uraw Skin diseases are caused by Im pure or depleted blood. The blood ought to be pure and rich. It is made so by Scott's Emulsion the Cream of Cod-liver Oil. Scrofula and Anaemia are overcome also, and Healthy Flesh is built up. Physicians, the world over, endorse it. Don't bi dsceiied bj Substiiufes! FTtpaR-brSeotl Bo., . Y. A I DrnccM CsM pvm 4Uk4 people vbo hT veiftft lung or AtKb n. atKiald aw Plao'tCsn for OoonimpUott. It hM wi tn- tin, ft hM not inyvr d ODfl. It M DOt t4 to tUk BOM feiyngi, IMi rairhi take i i THE ORIGIN OF FIRE. ItarUd by Wbsli, According to th loath ilea Islanders, The South Sea islanders tell ouriom story of the origin of Are. If they are to be believed, thoy came into possession of that useful element in the following manner: A groat whulo wits once wash ed oshoro upon one of thoir islands during the prevalence of a terrible hnrrioone. The monster became entangled in a grove of tallow trees (a spocios of ever groons whose branches easily ignite), and whilo gnashing bis tooth iu his im potent rago Btruck off a spark which lighted tho grove and oonsumod both troos aud whulo. Fires whlob are said to have boon perpetuated since tho day of tho "great whale flro" may yet be loon burning in many parts of the is luuds. Another fire legend, bellovod in by the inhabitants of tho islands to the north of the ones in which the "groat whale flro" is prosorvod, is to tho effect that a great air dragon (probably light ning) breathod upon A tallow tree aud sot its branches on fire. From the ooals loft from this flro thoy learned of its groat valuo and have over since nsodthe eloment for domostio purposes and in their religious ceremonies. They also have a tradition that the time will come whon the dragon will return for tho lire, and that no man will bo ablo to with stand him and save the sacred spark ex empt ho be a person born with pink eyes, fair skin and whito hair. For this rea son tho birth of an albino is always hailed as a good omon and his or her person guarded with jealous caro, so as to preserve life to its utmost limit. Marionette mentions seeing a "fire god" or "nro guard" (albino) whilo on ms visit to the islands who was belioved to bo at least 15S years old and who bad always boon provided for by tho tribo. Refnncsquc, who mado South Boa is land myths and legends a study for years, is of tho opinion that tho return of the dragon for his fire is symbolio of death and the flight of tho snirit'-"" A Mississippi Itlver Scene. The City of Providence lay nt St. Louis with her landing planks hoisted up ahead of her like tlio cluws of a giant lobster. Sho was warped to a wharf boat that was heaped with bam Is, luxes and bags, nnd alivo with ncgroL'H. At a rough guess I should say tlicro v.- -u I'Jo of these black la borers in every variety of rnirs, like the beggars who "como to town" in tho old nursery rhyme. Already they interested mo. Now they would jog along rolling bar rels ubonrd with littlo spiked sticks, next they appeared each with a bundle of brooms on his shoulder, and iu another two min utes the long, zigzagging, shambling IWie was metamorphosed into n wriggling ver teorn lornieu ot soap boxes, or an unsteady line of flour bags, each with ragged legs be neath it, or a procession of baskets or of bundles of laths. As each ono picked un an article of freight nn overseer told him its destina tion. The negro repeated this and kept on repeating it, inasiiig-songtone.asbesliam- bled along, until one of tho mates of the boat heard him and told him where to nut it uown, tne stuuy or the mate being todis- tribute the cargo evenly and to see that all packages sent to any given landing wen kept together. It seemed to me that all the foremen and mates were selected for their conscientious intention to keep their bunds in their trousers' pockets under all circum stances, for their harsh and grating voices, and tor tneir auiiity to say a great deal aud not have a word of it understood by your humble servant, the writer. Julian Ralph in Harper s. Two New York Clubs. ' If a gentleman or one whom you have always regarded us a gentleman were to remark (o you thnt bo was a "tough," you would be excused If you looked at him iu amazement aud silently meditated on the possibility of bis Insanity. Yet the Tough club Is an organization of geniemen of the Ninth ward, who are tough OLly In their determination to do right and stand by each other and their friends, and they do it manfully, l.lko the Orowlers' club, the lough club was formed many years am and both command large membership and conctnrtf com-iriniiri'. New York Times. W. L. Douglas 1 CUOk ISJTHKBCST. V4 drlwt NoaauiAKiN fa. CORDOVAN. FKENCH&ENAMEIIfDCALF: .s- FlNECAlf &KAN3ABDI 3.5?P0LICE,3Sou 2AB0Y5'SCH0lll5HDl - "'LADIES b,.tD0N0Li SEND FOR CATALDGUB W-L-DOUOLAS. BROCKTON. MASS. Tea esa aavs isoaay ky wearlif tka W. L. Doatlae 3.00 Ska. nmiHi w r torn uute mannracnrrsT ai this (radof shoes la th world, and (uaraat tka ralu by stamping th Bam and prlc on Ik bottom, whlck protect yon against klfbprieaa lb middleman' profit. Our aboa equal ustoi aork In st;l, aasy Stuns and waln qnalttlca, We bare them cold (reir-hera atlowar prtoMfar th Talne given than anr othar maka. Taka nn n.k aututa. 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Oor't 1-rlDtln ifflce,tle 1 A. ftnoreme Court and of nearf; ail thebchool- Bea.D. J. Brewer, Jntfice of tlie T. S. Knpmoe Court, writes : I eomroeM It to au at the one fireat standard anthority. ( Send for froepMiptiWcoouinlnf iranim prise G.AC. MEKRIAMCO., Publisher, .springneia, .ihm, V.S.A. er lx ot bay rrprtnn of ancient edjuona. a 5. P. If. V. No. 665 -8. t. N. U. Na 642 "IT IS IGNORANCE THAT WASTES EFFORT." TRAINED SERVANTS USE SAPOLIO I MALARIA I H TK "" Anmm O'V, TT vt. l.i r l.o i, w.ittf, Thero is a wife of 10 ye-uV standing who is mourning her wedding ring, and it is all duo to a fireman's gentlo way of misleading her, Tho woman lived In Brooklyn, when her bouse caught fire ouo night, mid sho escaped with the youngest child, a sealskin sack and silk dress. That's all. Her older boy was in the lower story of the house whon the fire broke out, with its nurse, and whon tbo woman was taken into a neigh boring residenco a tender hearted fire man followed ami broke tho nows gently to her that this boy bad boon burned and lost In the flames. Tlio mother was crazed with grief. Hho woro a diamond pin at her throat, a wedding ring mid diamond engagement ring' on her left baud, and on her right another dia mond. In tho first wnvo of delirium sho rushed into tho street, toro off tho pin at her throat, toro otf all her rings and tossed them away. Tho child wasn't burnod. bnt the young woman lievor found her rings, and now sho wishes tho fireman had waited till ho know what be was talking about. New York Ad vertiser. Searchlight For Canal. A bandy littlo portublo plant is being nsod on vessels navigating tho Manches ter ship canal at night Tlio apparatus is practically a duplicate of thnt em ployed for lighting vessels through the Suez eiuinL It comprises a small ongiuo and dynamo combined, a searchlight projector of the Admiralty pattern, and a most aro lamp and reflector. The projector barrel is 20 Inches in diam eter, rolled out of steel shot t, all tho mountings being of gun metal finished bright. The mirror is 20 inches in dinm oter, 10 inch focus, with a bayonet socket attachment to the barrel, so as to facilitate removal for cleaning, eta The elootrioal connections are carried iusido the projector, and an instrument simi lar to a camera is providod at ono sido of tho projector for viewing the nro image thrown on ground glass. Kan sas City Times. DEAFNESS CANNOT UK CtfltKU By local anpllcAllons. as tbey cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There I only one way to cure deafness, and thnt Is hy constlm tlonal remedies. Deafness la canned by nil in flamed condition of the mucous lining ol the euatnchlnn tube. When this tnbo Is iiilhimed yon have a rumbling sound or Imperfect hearing-, nnd when II la entirely closed, denfnesH I the result, and unless Ihe Inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to It normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases on', ol ten are earned by catarrh, which Is nothing but an Inflamed condition of the mucous surfsoes. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of deafness fnauacd bv catarrhl that cannot ha cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Head for o rcu- iars; ires. r. J. ill Kit hi di to., Toledo, O. XX Sold by druggists; 75 cents. Uncle Tell me frankly. Fred, wbiit is the amount of your debts? Fred Oh, my dear uncle, Just as much as you please. A FKACTICAL MAN. 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