t
I A Marvellous Showing.
The U. S. Government, through the Agri
cultural Department, has been investigating
the baking powders for the purpose of in
forming the public which was the purest,
most economical and wholesome.
The published report shows the Royal
Baking Powder to be a pure, healthful
preparation, absolutely free from alum or any
adulterant, and that it is greatly stronger in
leavening power than any other brand.
Consumers should not let this valuable
information, official and unprejudiced, go
unheeded.
yg ROYAL BAKINO POWDER CO., 10 WALL ST., NEW-YORK. fi
WHAT TO DO WITH ONE'S MONEY.
suggestions For Those Who no Not
"Hpnnd a. They Go."
A woman who probably voices tlio
rjnostiou of a great nmny other women
writes (O ask liuw sho slinll iuvost lior
savings. Slio is a working woman who
has accumulated a Binnll Hum, which
aha naturally wishes to use in aocuniu
lutiiig more. The amount she has saved
is not largo enough for her to invest iu
real estate or iu any large enterprise.
About two years ago this same ques
tion was asked, and we pnt the problem
before the leading business mon and
financiers. They answered the question
almost unanimously. They advocated
the Baving of the money in savings
banks at a small rate of interest until
nch time as there should be sufficient
money to invest iu a good first mort
gage or in desirable real cstata The
reason for this decision was that wom
en are seldom fitted by education and
training to tuke part wisely in ventures.
They are likely to be tho prey of design
ing speculators. They are almost inva
riably incapable of taking care of them
selves properly in any sort of speoultt'
tive scheme. The savings banks offer a
secure place for depositing money, and
the income from them, while small, is
certain. Four per cent, assured and safo,
is better for most women than larger
profits and greater risks.
When the small sum has grown to be
a considerable one, "first" mortgages on
good property form an admirable invest
ment for womon's savings. They yield
an income cf about 6 per cent iu most
states and are about as safe as saving
banks. Laud has an agreeable quality
of remaining where it is, and improve
ments on land when mortgaged are al
v ays insured, so that there is little dan
ger of loss to tho holder of a first mort
gage. By a first mortgage is mount tho
ono which, in coko of failure of the own
er of the proporty to pay the interest or
the amount of tho loan iu due time,
will be paid first.
Investment in roal estate is not so
satisfactory. Projiorty in placos where
tho value of laud is uot liable to be di
minished costs a good deal, in tho first
place. Then there are taxes, insurance
and constant repairs to docrcaso tho
profits. Still land has an advantage of
other investments in its comparative
stability. 8t. Louis Post-Dispatch.
THE ADVANCE OF THE NEGRO.
A Curious Story or Old Colin.
A curious story of treasure trove comes
from Rome. The Order of lienedlctine
Monks, while digging tliu foundation of
their new monastery on the Aventino hill
which is to be dedicated to St. Stanislaus,
found what they took to be an earthen pot
full of common coinB, which the monks
hawked about, selling them for a franc
apiece. This fact would have passed unno
ticed, but the brethren quarreled over their
booty, and the police interfering captured
over 40 of the pieces out of the original 400
coins, which turned out to be gold nieduts
of great value. Everybody connected with
the Hud has been arrested except one work
man, who managed to escape with 00 med
als of the date of the second century and
struck by the senate nnd people of Home in
honor of the cuiitjiieat of Armenia by Lu
cius Verus. New York Recorder.
It Will Ito Well Illustrated t the Com
Atlanta Eiponltlon.
W. K. (irnsty, ono of Virginia's flvo
noun) commissioners appointed to super
inu'nu mo worn
of preparing tho
tato's exhibit In
tho negro build
Ing at tho Cotton
ritates and Inter
natliinnl exposi
tion In Atlanta, Is
a graduate of
Hampton college
and principal of
thn Danville col
red high school
Another of tho
com ni I ss loners
from Virginia Is
I. (iarland lJonn,
author of "Tho
w. r. GliASTT. A fro-A morloan
Press." Tho commissioners ore nlrcndy
hard at work endeavoring to mnko Vir
ginia's dlHplay tho banner state, exhibit of
the colore 1 raoo In Atlanta. A man and
woman in each city and county In tho
state have lieaii apolntcd local commis
sioners to work up tho Intercut of tho col
ored people In their vicinity and arrange
for exhibits. Hampton Normal and Agri
cultural school, tho largest Industrial
school In tho south, will bo represented by
the most ambitious exhibit It has ever at
tempted. Tho negro building will be a long, low,
rambling structuro 100 feot wldo and 800
feet In length. U will contain an exhibit
Illustrating tho advance tho negro has
made since emancipation In education,
Industrial pursuits, literature and every
department of labor. Tho leading colored
mon of tho southern states aro deeply In
terested in the exhibit, which will with
out doubt be ono of tho most novel dis
plays on tho Piedmont park grounds.
i'huro will ho over 6, 00 squaro feet of
spaoo at tho disposal of tho negro, and ev
ery foot of It will bo occupied when tho
doors of tho exposition aro thrown open to
tho world .Sept. 18, lotlli. Tho coming ex
position is ahuut tho first good opportu
nity tho negroes of America hnvo had to
demonstrate tho advance they hnvo made
since they bocamo freemen, and tho enthu
siastic work being dono In Virginia Is but
a slnglo illustration showing tho interest
of tho negroes In the various states
throughout tho south.
GREAT AND SMALL.
A sparrow wlnelnif on liruiich
liner cautfht a imwIiik fly.
"Oh. l.-l me live!" the Insect prayed
Willi iivmliliiiit, piteous cry.
"No," anlil the npurniw, "you must fall,
For I sin tfri'Ht sail you are mall."
The bin! had scarre hcitun his feast
Hi' f "re hawk i nnie by.
The game wascaiiitlit. 'Tray let me live!"
Wa I he poor sparrow's cry.
"No," said the caiilor, "you must fall,
For I am great sad you am anutll."
An cattle saw thin rogue and swooped
Upon him from on high.
"I'ray let me llvel Why should you kill
Ho small a hlrd as IV"
"Oh," aalil the cattle, "you mum foil,
For I am limit and you are tmall."
While he devoured the hunter raino,
II let hi arrow II y.
"Tyrant," the enulu shrieked, "you have
No rllil In mnko mu die!"
"Ah." Milil the hunter, "you must full.
For 1 am ureal ami you are small."
Uruiulon Hunncr.
THAT DIAMOND KING.
THROUGH THE COLORADO'S CANYONS
Why the FrlnceM Chanced Her Mind.
The Princess of Wales has been express
ing herself very freely lately on tho sub
ject of bodices thnt aro cut too low. In all
respect to tho princess, it must bu said she
has chnnged her mind with increasing
years. Twenty years ago theru was not a
royal woman In England who wore her
dresses moro decollete than did tho then
beautiful Princess of Wales. Tho distin
guished example of her royal high nes,
who has takon to replacing tho tints of
youth with manufactured roses, Is un
doubtedly responsible for tho growing
favor of tho ro-uge pot both In Kngland
and America. The Increase of women
with 60 year-old mouths and 80-year-old
Cheeks Is becoming a calamity. It would
be well for those women Who delight In
resembling highly culored chromos to ro
memlior that a dotted veil, no mutter how
close tho dots, never deceives anybody.
A Railroad With Wooden Italia.
Ill tho province of Quelicc Is a wooden
railroad 80 miles long. Tho rails are nf
maple, 4 by 7 Inches, and lumber train!
era run over the road at. n 2ft mile rata.
Dr. PIERCE'S
PLEASANT
PELLETS
SICK HEADACHE,
BILIOUSNESS,
CONSTIPATION,
INDIGESTION,
DYSPEPSIA,
POOR APPETITE,
and all derangements of the
Stomach, Liver and Howls.
Of all druggists.
ONCE USED av
ALWAYS IN FAVOR.
YOUNQ 5PIRIT5,
a vigorous body and
robust strength fol
low good health.
But all (ail when the
vital powers are
weakened. Nervous.
debility and loss of
manly power result
from bad habit,con
tracted by the young
through ifrnorance
of their ruinous coa-
eqaences. Low
spirits, melancholia,
impaired memory,
morose or irritable
temper, fear of impending calamity and 1
tuotnatKl ana one atranfrement of body
and mind, result from such pernicious prac
tices. All these are permanently cured by
improved methods of treatment without the
patient leaving borne.
A medical treatise written in plain bat
chaste ianguwre, treating of the nature.
Symptoms and curability of such diseases,
tent securely sealed in a plain envelope, on
receipt of this notice, with locents in stamps,
for pontage. Address, World's Disff.m
aav Medical A&sociatiok, Buffalo, N.Y.
Captain Mellon Kxpects to Float Thirteen
Hundred Miles In Thirteen Days.
Ono of tho least known rivers of tho
United ritates is tho great Colorado, that
Is formed by the junction of tho Green and
Grand rivers In southeast Utah and speeds
away through Utah and Arizona and
skirts tho boundaries of Nevada and
California until It empties Into the gulf
of California. From tho sources of tho
Green river to tho gulf Is about 2,000
miles. Over 1,000 miles of tho Colorado
and Green havo been littlo explored be
cause of the vast and dangorous canyons
through which the rivers rush at torrlflo
speed.
Threo parties of odvonturous spirits
havo brnved tho dangers of theso canyons,
and tho fourth party under the leadersh'p
A VIEW ON TIIK VIIWIIN ltlVKIt.
of Captain J. A, Mullen, a steamboatman
of Yuma, A. T., will soon attempt to lloat
from the crossing of thn I'nlon l'aeifluon
the Green river, in Wyoming, to Yuma, a
dlstnncoof nbout 1,800 miles, In 1.1 days.
Tho first descent through tho canyons
wns mado by James Whlto In 1807. White,
Captain linker, Into of tho Confederate
army, and Henry Mrolo wero prospecting
for gold In Colorado near tho junction of
tho Green and Grand rivers, linker was
killed by Indians, nnd Whlto nnd ritrohi
mndu a raft and nttempted to escape down
tho river. While descending a cataract
Strolo was drowned, and White, finished
tho long nnd perilous journey and reached
Callvllle, Nov., nearly dead from privation
and hunger.
In 1WIU Major John W. Powell, tho
plucky explorer nnd geologist who lost an
arm during the war, started with four
heats and 11 men to explore tho canyons.
Tliev wero lost to tho world four months.
Threo wero killed by Indians, nnd tho ro
ninlidng nine made tho journey In sufety.
I'owell made a second trip Inter, the
most wonderful of the canyons Is tho
iriuid canyon, which Is 200 miles long
and has walls that slant upward from
4,000 to 7,000 feet. As tho descent of the
trenm Is from 6 to 200 feet to tho mile,
the current hurries a boat un at raco horse
sliced. The dangerous canyons practically
end at the mouth of the Virgin river In
Nevada.
Captain Mellon's boats will draw but
four inches of water, and he expects to
pass safely over tho rocks that wrecked
some of Powell's boats, which drew 18
nelies. Mellon will also mnko tho trip
luring tho high water season, when the
neltlng snows swell the Colorado's Hood,
lis boats will be 24 feet long, 20 Inches
deep and 6 feet Ik'iiiii. Mellon has navi
gated tho Colorado for !IJ years.
A Compliment.
Two old schoolfellows met 15 years
after their graduation and fell, figura
tively, upon eaeh other's nec ks.
"Well, well, dear old Smith!" said
Orcen. "How glad I am to see yon!
What days thoso were! Ha, ha, Smith,
you were the stupidest fellow In the
class!"
"Yes, I suppooo I was."
"And here you are now I Why,"
linking him over, "you haven't chang
ed a particle!" Youth 'a Ciuiiiiauion.
i omen m rnrgvns.
It seems not to be Kepi-rally knon n that
women are admitted Into the College of
Surgt-oiis on the same terms, the same foot
ing, a Mu ii. They attend on equal term
all the ht-turrs together wit h the men. Th
only difference is that they have a aeparat.
dimectiiiK room. The school of surgery ha
been oien to women since 1 Vj. IxukIud
Woman's Herald.
"Gentlemen of the Jury," said Mr. Justice
Prleki-tt. sneak iiu In moid and easy tones,
"this is a case which will not, I Imagine,
demand very lengthy deliberation at your
hands. You have heartl the evmence. i ne
facts are of a tyjie with which wo aro nil
familiar. We have a robliery a daring
and successful robliery from a jeweler's
window, and one of the stolen articles a
handsome gold bracelet-Is found In the
possession of the prisoner. It is for her to
say how she came to have that bracelet in
her possession, and unless she gives a rea
sonable account of the matter you will lie
instilled In inferring that she took it. know
ing It to have been stolen. Gentlemen, the
prisoner's counsel suggests to you that she
may have bought it or that it may have
been given to her. Hut we have no descrip
tion of the man from whom she bought it,
the time, the place or the circumstances of
the sale. As for the otner uypoinesis
well, gentlemen, it is for you to say what
vou think of it."
"Consider your verdict, gentlemen," saiu
the clerk of the assize.
The prisoner was very pretty and very
becomingly dressed, and she cried In a
quiet, ladylike fashion, insomuch that two
or three of the jury wero of opinion that
her cause bad suffered at the hands of her
counsel. ai.S they leaned to au acquittal,
lint the summing up was dead against her
it seemed unanswerable. Ihe sentimen
tally minded Jurors held out for a time, so
that the judge became visibly impatient,
and then, thinking that further resistance
was useless, they gave way.
"Guilty! said the foreman.
"Alice Wrny, nlias Johnson," said the
Judge, "you have been most proivrly found
guilty of receiving this proiierty, knowing
it to have been stolen. to doubt you have
been concerned in similar transactions be
fore. However, the judgment of the court
is that you be kept In penal servitude for
the term of seven years."
Alice Wray, alias Johnson, gave a low
cry, covered her face with her bauds and
wept this time in sincerity and truth. .Mr.
Justice Prickett got up and went to lunch.
It was nearly a week before the criminal
business at Uiimborough was finished and
Mr. Justice Prickett was at liberty to go
back to town. He determined to travel
alone, as his brother of the bench had not
Mulshed his share of the work, and he did
not care for the company of bis marshal
for six consecutive hours.
The guard was duly tipped. Sir John
Prickett was put iu the center compart
ment of the center carriage of the train and
carefully locked in.
Great was his annoyance, however, when,
at the first stopping place, while be was en
joying a first rate cigar and a very fair nov
el, the door was opened by the help of an
unauthorized key nnd two young men,
apparently commercials of a superior mold,
stepped into the compurtment.
It was excessively annoying, and sir
John glared ut the intruders iu his best
style. To this, huwever, they paid no at
tention. Tbey lit their cigars, the smoke
of which bad a peculiarly pungent, acrid
character, und began to talk. The unhappy
judge tried not to listen, tried to interest
himself iu bis book. Of course he could
not. They were talking loudly, and talking
shop, as a matter of course. They or one
of them were evidently traveling for
(Inn of manufacturing jewelers.
"We're doing a very nice thing In rings
Just now quite a new pattern," said one of
the young men, pulling up his trousers legs
as be spoke. "Wellnd ladies like a ring o a
peculiar muko looks more recherche. Have
a look at it?"
The other nodded assent, and the speaker
took down a stout black bag from the rack
over bhf liVml, opened it and produced va
rious small parcels and cases, which be laid
about the Meats.
'Here it Is a beauty a 50 ring, and
worth It iu the shop, every bit of It. Ain't
it, nowf"
Yes, it shows up well," assented the
other. "What do you put it at at wholesaler"
"Twenty."
"Too much," said the other, shaking his
head.
"for that!" cried the other, slipping the
ring on his finger and displaying its brd
liancy, "No; but we might let it go at 1H
as a favor.
Sir John Prickett could not help looking
at the jewel, and he was struck at once by
II a size, beauty and elegant workmanship.
lie knew something of diamonds, and just
then it occurred to him that in a day or
two it would be necessary to propitiate
Lady Prickett, who was a woman or great
mental power, with a handsome gift.
"May I sec your ring?" he asked.
"Certainly, sir," said the commercial
man, handing it over.
The judge scratched the window with it,
scrutinized it, admired its design and II mil
ly said:
"If you like, I'll give you i'JO for it."
"No, no," said the young man, laughing.
"That was a trade price. You're not in t lit
trade, arc you, sirr"
"No, but I ciiu't help wishing 1 were.
Such prolils are very alluring," answered
the judge.
He handed tho ring bac k with reluctance.
It was really a magnificent bit of Jewelry.
"It doesn't matter to you whom you sell
it to so long as you get the muuey," said Sir
John, who yearned to get the ringat "trade
price." "I ll make it guineas and pay
cash."
Well, since you must have it, I don't
mind taking your money say twenty-two
nnd a 'alf," responded the traveler, and the
Imrgain w-as completed.
Hie occasion Inch the judge bad fore
seen arose, unit the diamond ring was pro
duced at the right moment with tremen
dous ctTcct. The matriiuoiiial dillicully
was adjusted, and Lady Priekett's ringwas
much noted, much admiral and much
talked alsiut.
Her husband gave it to lier. you say, my
dear?" said old I.ady Mewse. "Iliiinplil
I Ih, I've no doubt of it. I only uieun that
Sir John must have given her great provocation."
It was evening. Sir John Prickett had
finished dinner and was sitting alone in the
ibrary when two cards were brought to
him.
Colonel Traversl Certainly," said the
udge. "Show him in, Thomas, and Mr.
Who is it? Samuel? Mr. Samuel as well."
Colonel Travcra was chief commissioner
of the metroHilitau police, and Mr. Justice
'rickett was at a loss to account lor Ills
isit. In fact, the colonel seemed at a loss
to account for it himself.
lie hemmed and hawed, spoke of secret
ut reliable and positive information, pn
ssed his perfect devotion to the Hritish
H-ncli as represented by .Mr. Justice Prick
ett, and finally in some romidalxuit fasli-
m gave that dignitary to understand that
what he really wanted to do was to see
july Prickett s jewels.
The judge marveled irreatlv, but be said
"llul H can't be yours f" cried the lodge.
"I bought It myself from a man who"
He stopped, having become suddenly
aware that the chief commissioner was
watching him curiously. He did not can
to let It be known that he, a judge of her
majesty's high court of justice, a knight
and a privy councilor, should be talked of
as purchasing jewels from commercial trav
elers In railway carriages.
"It was stolen from our shop in Oxford
street last .March, my lord. It Is worth a
hundred guineas If it is worth a farthing,"
said Mr. Samuel,
"A hundred guineas! Why, I only"
Again Sir John stopped short. Still leu
could be let it be known that he had
bought stolen property nt a fourth of Its
value.
IStiXSK OF DIRECTION.
THE FACULTY IN ANIMALS THAT
LEADS THEM BACK HOME.
What May Ua Learned by Watching and
Experimenting With Ilia Tet Dog or the
Household Cat Home Htrlkliig Kiamplea
of This Iteniarkable I'ower.
It is well known that any of our do
piest io ultimata can find its way home
from a distunco of nmny miles, even
after tho lapse cf smno tinio, This fitcul
I tu ntf.iii,,a ftftminui. iinnll 111 tliA Auir
Why. It was very much like being I tho horBO Hllli tilu ,.lltt uut jnov,.n to"
a receiver of stolen goods.
The perspiration broke out all over him.
He was forced to rook closely at the ring to
hide bis agitation. When he glanced up at
Ciloiicl Tracers and .Mr. Samuel, they were
lonkiiig at each ol Iter. How be wished he
had braved ridicule and told
lory at first! Thnt hesitation had been a
fatal blunder. He could not tell the truth
now. Hut he pulled himself together with
un effort and said he had bought the ring
from a man who he had every reason to be
lieve had a perfect right to dispose of It.
However, as l.ady Prickett liked it, and as it
belonged to Mr. Samuel, lie would pay for
It. How much? I'nder the circumstances
Mr. Samuel would take 80 guineas, and
under thecircumstnnces Mr. Justice Prick
ett wrote a check for H4.
When his visitors bad gone,"bis lordship"
poured himself out a glass of cherry bran
dy. He shuddered to think what might
have happened had he been a poor or an ob
scure man. "Heally," he said to himself,
"these receiving cases should be watched
very narrowly. It is so easy"
He stopped, struck by the coincidence.
Only a few weeks before he had sentenced a
girl to penal servitude on exactly the same
sort of evidence as
Heally, now," he said to himself, "if it
were to save my life, I don't suppose I could
produce those rascally fellows I met in the1
train."
The thought of the girl haunted him for
a great part of the night. The evidence
against her seemed somewhat weak. True,
she was a dancer nt a music hall, she said
just the sort of person who did sometimes
receive presents of jewelry as bis lordship
was aware.
Oddly enough, next day Mr. Justice Prick
ett received a very dirty, 111 sjielled letter
from Alice Wruy's mother begging him
to recommend a remission of at least a
part of the sentence. The girl, her mother
admitted, had had bad companions. One
of them might have given Alice the brace
let, but it was Impossible for the girl to
know that it was stolen.
This letter, following his own disquiet
ing thoughts, induced Mr. Justice Prickett
to go to t he home secretary's office. As he
was leaving he said, "Ahl by the way, there
was a girl convicted down at liamborougb
a receiving case; the evidence struck me
at the time (oh I Mr. Justice Prickett!) as
being rather weak. If you don't mind, 1 11
send you a copy of my notes."
Do so if you please," said Mr. Secretary
Marks, with a weary sigh.
The result was that utter a consultation
between the minister and the judge the
sentence passed upon Alice Wray, alias
Johnson, was remitted.
About a month after the girl was set at
liberty, as Sir John and Lady Prickett were
walking side by side along one of the
streets of this metropolis, the lady per
ceived that her lord's gaze was strangely
fixed on a passing vehicle.
"What are you staring at?" she asked.
Those people? Heally, I must beg that so
long as I urn with you you will restrain
your curiosity."
llut Mr. Justice Prickett s indignation
was too keen to allow him to mind his
wife's asperity. Ho had just seen Miss
Alice Wniy sitting in a hired carriage side
by side with the commercial traveler who
had sold him the diamond riugl London
Tit-Bits.
be almost or (jtiito us fully devenied in
tho ox. Tho faculty has been supposed
by some naturalists to depend tion a
tixth sense, independent of sight or
l uell. Knch a theory involves an organ
tho whole of sense by which the needed observa-
SUPERSTITIOUS CONNIE GILCHRIST.
She Captured Three Earla by Spitting In
tier Shoe.
Thero is a bona fide peeress of the realm
In Kngland who attributes her countess
coronet to tho fact that on n memorablo
occasion shospnt in her shoo. This peeress
Is Lady Orkney, who first achieved noto
riety as Connie Gilchrist of Gaiety theater
and skirt dancing fame. Like most wom
en of her birth and class, she Is as super
stitious as sho Is godlcsB end lacking In
respectability, nnd accordingly readily bo
cepted the advlco to spit In her shoe for
luck whonever thero was a momentous
crisis in her llfo.
By her own account she spat In her shoe
three times, on each occasion just as she
was stopping on to the stngo at the Gaiety
for her pas seul. The first time she at-
LADT OI1KNKV (CONNIE CILCIIltlST).
tracted tho admiration of the lata Karl of
Lonsdalo, who died at her house in n pe
culiarly shocking manner and bequeathed
her a legacy of about ? 150,000, besides the
house which sho now occupies in London.
Tho second tlmo she uncled for and caught
tho old Duke of Ilenufort, who became
deeply Infatuated with her and not only
lavished n great deal of money upon her,
but actually played tho part of tho heavy
father nt her marriage, giving her nwny,
while on the third occasion that she spat
in her shoo before appearing on the boards
she caught her present husband, tho Karl
of Orkney, with whom she seems to be
getting nllong very well.
A Herd of Gnus In London.
The very latest uovelty at the Zoological
gardens is a small herd of three gnus. It is not
so frequently their good fortune nowadays
as it was in former years to receive more than
a single specimen of an African antelope at
once. Ijxal enterprise is playing sad
havoc with the larger game in Africa, and
even with the smaller animals, too, for a
sportsman's idea of what constitutes
game" is Midly apt to w iden as he gets
further away from this country, until it
approaches very nearly to what is com
moldy ascribed to the votaries of sport
across the channel.
The gnu is a very singular beast, with a
hairy, frizzy countenance likea terrier, sur
mounted by a pair of horns, and w ith the
hindquarters of a pony. It has been ti nned
"the most whimsical of nature's vagaries"
on account of Its mongrel appearance,
w hich seems to be a blending of horse and
ox, with a slight flavoring of something alto
gether nondescript. Loudon News.
Ilia hkeleton to He Ills Monument.
Jeff Garrlgus, a grave robber of Indlnn-
spolis, who makes no effort to conrcal his
ghoulish business, has just made his will.
In which he leaves his hotly to the Indiana
Medical college He directs that after his
body Is dissected by the students and
made the subject of lectures by moinln-rs
of the faculty the skeleton Is to be placed
In an upright position !n the disserting
room of the college, with the right hand
on the handle of a new spade and the left
foot rvstinir on the blade, the latter tn ha
nt lung, and took steps to have the chief highly polished and the words, "Jiff Gar
pinniissioner'a desire satisfied. After an riuu. the ltenurrcrtionist." Dalnt.il nimn
awkwanlpaiisethejewelcasewasproduced.lt In large black letters. Gurrigus says
and its contents exhibited. this Is the only monument he covets, and
That's one of 'em !" cried Mr. Samuel in the faculty has promised to carry out his
Hons limy be carried to the bruin, an
organ which nmst bo distinct from eye,
ear und nostril. Physiologists havo not
as yet found any such or nan in the con
stitution of any animal, nor have they
found any nerves different from those
which belong to our own nervous sys
tem. This is almost conclusive evidence
that animals possess no beuso different
from ours.
If wo watch tho conduct of a dog
when he is thrown upon his own re
sources to find his way home, wo shall
see that ho lias mado good nso of his five
senses up to this titno, und that he pur
poses to milieu good use of them in the
immediate, future. It is always assumed
that tho dog lias not slept during the
timo that ho has been carried from
homo. If lio wero to slwp, ho would lose
all clew whether he had a sixth sense or
uot, for in sleep all the senses are equal
ly dormant.
Tho caso has been submitted of a dog
taken by mil a distance of 200 miles in a
circuitous course and set down SO miles
from home. No disappears nnd the next
day is ut his old haunts. Ho could not
have followed the rail by which ho came,
for this would tuko him a longer time.
Ho must hnvo struck across country.
The question is. Did he take a direct
line for homo or did he shape his general
course so us to come out upon some fa
miliar spot, miles, it may be, from his
homo, nnd from that point follow re
membered paths? Hunters say that the
latter is most frequently the case.
Suppose that in the dog's absence the
old homo hits been burned down and his
master's family have moved five miles
to the right or left, but are at the same
distance from the point at which he was
set down. He will go back to the old
spot and from there will trace the fam
ily by scent if he traces them at all. He
has no sense to inform him of the
changed position of tho family, nor of
anything moro than would be known to
a man under the same circumstances.
But tho caso is niudo clearer by sup
posing thot tho dog's master has left
home, gun in hand, while tho dog has
been detuincd for n time. The mangoes
straight to tho woods, but after getting
out of eight makes a turn so as to bring
him to the opposite side of the house. If
now the dog is let loose, he takes to the
woods at the point where he saw his mas
ter enter. From there he trusts to his
eyes ami nose, keeping close upon his
master b trail.
If tho dog had u special sense of direc
tion, ho would uot so easily be thrown
off tho pursuit of n deer or a fox by the
animal taking to tho water. Every spe
cies of animal that bus been made the
prey of dogs has learned tohnffle pursuit
by deceiving the sight or scent of its pnr
suers. Such creatures would have been
likely to find out before this time if the
dog had any special sense, and we should
see them acting upon the knowledge.
The most interesting and perplexing
cases are thoso in which animals that have
been taken some distunco from home in
closed cages havo yet found their way
back without difficulty. This shows a
highly developed sensitiveness to every
chnnge of direction.
This faculty of perception is low in
man, but it may bo developed and train
ed. There nro persons who sleep best
with the head toward the north. Let
such a person when traveling on a sleep
ing car make it a point to decide upon
the course the train is going as soon as
he wakos from sleep in the night, and he
will find himself rapidly gaining new
power to dotermine directions.
Darwin s experiment is an interesting
one. tie put some bees in durk paper
bores and carried them by a circuitous
route a distance from the hive. When
they were set free, they all returned in a
straight line to their home.
Again he took them over a similar
route, but on the way he spun the boxes
rapidly around. This time only one or two
bees reached the hive, and perhaps these
got back only by accident. While spin
ning around in the boxes they lost lier-
ception of the direction in which they
were being carried.
It is often observed that when a dog re
turns homo by a way which he must have
made out with care and on his own ac
count ho at onco throws himself upon
the floor or tho ground and sleeps sound
ly for a time. This is apt to be referred
to physical exhaustion, but is more likely
to be due to the fact that the animal has
kept his faculties all on the alert and has
quickened his perceptions to their diffi
cult task. All our domestic animals
show wonderful power of application
when their faculties are bent to the ac
complishment of some cherished design.
Youth's Companion.
COMUIIKSa CAN'T DO IT.
There Is a general hope and belief
throughout the country that Congress will
do something finally for the distress am
tillering of so many hapless people. It is
to be hoped bimim ji will start up and glva
employment to thousands, llut theru are
oerialn kind of tillrriugs which Congress
can do nothing to relieve, mere is pain
und mnery always which no legislation
can cure. Just think of men onppled fo,
IiI'd with the torture of sciatica. And such
should know that Ut. Jacob's Odlsaoer
tain cu e, which ran lie brought ahout
promptly without any aid from congress,
NOT ON THE BILLS.
lia Lost Ilia Job, bat Mad Hun of Ilia
Girl.
An actress who has toured In Eng
laud told mo a talo that I thought in
foresting, liho said:
"In a piny produced In tho provinces
thero is a soeuo iu which tho hero strikes
tho villain, who slinks away without
seeking to defend himself.
"Ono night iu a largo manufacturing
town tho yonng fellow who played the
deep dyed scoundrel remarked to the
loading man before tlio curtain roso:
" 'I say, old chap, I've got my flunceo
out iu front tonight with her father and
mother. Now, of course they don't
know anything about our business, and
I'm afraid it would ruthcrhurt mo with
them if I received a blow and got away
in tho usual cowardly fashion. Ho, dear
old cliup, can't yon omit tho blow to
night?'
" 'But, my Isiy, tlio management will
fine mo 3 shillings.'
" 'Well. I ll pay tho fjno.'
" 'Oh. vps. thut's nil very well for
vou. But what do I get out of it? Noth
ing but a bud mime with tho powers
that be,'
" 'Oh, well, I'll givo yon 3 shillings
extra, or, better yet, you hit mo as usu'
al. nnd I'll hit back I They'll (Inn me.
not yon, and I 11 give yon the 3 shil
lings besides. 1 ou see now 1 in sitnut-
ml. I shouldn't like tho girl to mix me
npwith the character I pluy. Outsiders
nro so funny that way.
"So tho compact wus mode, and that
night when thu hero cried, 'Sir Dnniul
Deepwuter' or something of that sort-
base offspring of a noblo race, tuke unit r
Sir Daniel not only 'took that," but
gnvo it back with such force that 'the
pit rose ut him,' including his relatives
to bo by iiiurriiige, and lio walked on
the stage in triumph.
"I nm sorry to add ho lost Ins sunn-
tion, but ho gained his point. " New
York Recorder.
- In the mountains of Sweden, Norway
nnd Luplaud ull vegetution would be
utterly destroyed by tho Norwny rats
wero it not for tho whito foxes thai
make special game of tho rodents.
The "great bell" nt Moscow wcighi
4-10,732 pounds, is 10 feet und 3 inciter
high and measures 00 feet 9 inches
urouud tho lower rim. Tho bull metal
in it is worth fWO.UOO.
IIOPK CltlSHKD TO KAftTH
Will rise again In the bosom of a dynpcpt'o wise
enough to kttb'titute for the nVeudo lollies,
which hsve bamboozled him out of his belief
Iu the possibility of cur.-, the real InvlgorHiil
and stomachic, Hose ter's Ktomaeh litters.
Tho bilious, ttie nervous, the dVKDcptfc. the
rheumst c alike iler.ve itieedy bc-nelil from thin
neipiui imitnio medicine, rernoua kunoring
ftom iiiillK'Stion will Ksin no positive perma
nent good from the fiery, unmeulcutid stimu
lants of commerce, too often uted rrcklesr.lv.
The Hitters is immeasurably to be i referred to
I..... ..u a ..,' ul.wtn lla m.ra l.a.la la nmlltlail
by the conjunction with it of ve("la'ile iugredM
eiiisoi ne nignvst rvmeuiHi excellence. Mala
ria is prevented and remedied by ft, and It in
fuses vwor Into the weak and slculy. A wiue
g assful three times a nay la the average dose.
"Don't you think, Jenkins, I'm Improving In
my violin playing!" "Well, I don't exactly
know; but either yon are improving or else 1
am getting used to li."
PIANOS HardmnChlckerlu? Fischer,
howprleen; easv terms. For ale by
Wli.KY II. Al.l.KN CO. (the oldest and
Largest music store), 'ill First 8 ., Portland.
RHEUMATIC FAINS
Keturn when the colder weather comes
They are caused by lactic acid In the blood,
which frequently settles in the joints. This
poisonous taint must be removed. Hood's
WEIGH WITH THEIR EVES.
Eipert Dealers In Lisa stork IM Kot
Often I'M Kralea.
The dealers In livestock who buy and
soil the tbousunds of cattle, hogs ami
sheep which nro daily handled at li e
HourlKin stockyards must be Kxiwrt in
guessing the weight of a live animal at
glanoe. In conversation with a wen
known stockman a few days ago ho e
nlainud why this Is necessary:
"It would bo impossible to weigh the
cattle in many cases bocatiso of tho lin
inenso labor Involved and tho length of
time it would take, while tho market
prloe, which Is subject to constant Hue
tuntions, might easily vary from its
highest to ita lowest limit While we
wore woluhlng tho animals iu ono of
our big scales. For instance, today,
which has been the biggest day of the
year thus far, there have Iwwi received al
thn Ilourbon yards over 3,400 head of
cuttlo and about (1,000 hogs. (Suppose
wo had to drive all of those upon the
scales to ascerluln their weight? Ihere
are dozens of old stock men who ran In
spect a herd of oiilmals ami form an es
tiniuto of their average weight which
will le readily accepted by purchasers as
tho basis of a trade.
"In a test case which was made some
timo since a man who has had a llfo
long experience in buying und soiling a
herd of cattle, after inspecting a herd
of 600 animals, guessed their avcrago
weight within ouo-third of a pound of
the actual figuro asoortuintxl by weigh
ing tho cattlo individually. Tho feat
wus accomplished by Mr. lien D. OITutt
of this county nnd is not so extraordina
ry as it appears, becauso similar in
stances of expert 'guessing' occur hero
every day. " Louisvillo Courier-Journal.
Tho namo of Lake Ontario was first
noted as Skauoduiro(buantiful lake). It
was also, at various times and by dif
ferent mon, denominated Lao do Fron
tciino, Lao do Iroquois, and Lao do St
Louis. Tho Mohawks called it Cainda-racqui.
Pupa was carefully studying the fam
ily history iu the big Biblo when his
9-year-old daughter surprised him by
saying, "Papa, was Aunt Ann one of
vonr Ann-sisters?"
For Sewing on Button.
One duy Paul tells his sorvunt to sew
another button on his trousers. An hour
after she brings iu the trousers, and with
an undecided, anxious air, as if fearing
the effect of lier demand, says, "It is a
son.
Paul draws out a sou in silence and
gives it to her. Jeannette retires on tip
toe as far as the door, thinks better of it,
returns, takes up the trousers and shows
the button.
"Ah, that is a fine button! (A pauso.)
I did uot find thnt in my box. (Another
and a longer puuse.) I bought that at the
grocer's. It cost a sou!"
She draws herself up anxiously. The
proprietor of tho trousers, still without
speuking, gives a second sou.
It is clear that she has struck upon a
mine of sous. Jeannette goes out and a
moment after reopens the door. She
has resolved on her course, and in a
shrill, piercing voice, with admirable
volubility, proceeds:
"I had no thread. I had to buy some
thread. I used u good deal of thread-
good thread too. The button won't
come off. I sowed it on fast The
thread cost a son."
Paul pushes across the table the third
sou.
Two hours luter Jeannette, who ha
been pondering on tho matter, reap
pears. She prepares breakfast with the
greatest possible care, lowers her voice,
walks noiselessly and is charming in
her little attentions. Then she says,
patting forth all sorts of obsequious
graces:
I ought not to lose anything; yon
would not want me to loso anything.
The cloth was harsh. I broke the point
of my needle. I did not know it awhile
ago. I have just noticed it. It cost a
sou."
And that fourth sou was happily the
last. "A Tour Through the Pyrenees."
Hood's
Sarsa-parilla
Cures
Sarsaparllla
conquers rheu
matism be
cause it drives
out of the blood rWwVW
every form of impurity. It makes pure,
rich blood.
'I sullered with rheumatism in mv left
foot. I took Hood's Sarsaparilla and the
pain is all gone." Miss It. It. Hi.ake, Mills
House, Charleston, a. U. CET ONLY HOOD S.
THE ELECTION RETURNS.
They Make Ilia Hu.le.l Night of tha Taw
In a Newspaper Oltlcn,
Tlu ru Is one night Iu every year in
every great uewspnist nfllco when work
I iIiiiih (hat Is liio least uudcrstisxl of
all that goes on iu Hie making of a daily
paper, one night when the highest state
of fever intends lio excitement and
strain of the most Intense wmk that
falls to Hie lot of any mini, except sol
diers in war. That is election night.
Thnt is thu ulglit when a few men sit
down nt fl o'clock before virgin sheets
of paper, with the knowledge that bo
fore i o'cliK-k tho next morning they
must cover thoso sheets with tho elec
tion returns of a nation, digesting
mountains of figures ami apprising tiie
publio of the results iu I lio most oon
doused forms, weeks iu advance of tho
ofllclal aunoiiiioemeiits, as sparks might
be counted whilo they fly from tho
shnpoloss Iron on n blacksmith's anvil.
And theso calculations must stand tho
tost of comparison with thoso which the
rival neWMpaM'rs, working without col
laboration, as eager competitors, will
publish at tho sumo moment.
The election figures como Iu driblets
and atoms and must be put together as
the Florentines muko their mosaics.
Htiuio of it, wo shall see, is plucked
from tho very air as a magician seems
to collect coins in a borrowed bat 1m
gotten of reasoning, hut put down bo
sido the genuine returns with equal con
fidence and iilmost accuracy.
Ah, but that is a work to try cool
heads and strong nerves. I am quite cer
tain no other men iu tlio world includu
such n night of tension mid excitement,
periodically, as a fixed part ol n work-
adny existence. No oilier men, regularly
onco a year, feel themselves so truly iu
tho focus of an intense publio interest,
manifesting itself in so many ways. -
Made Hold hj Ilia llru.h.
Defnille, tho French painter whose
studies are alio) military life, looks ev-
ory inch a soldier. Ho is full, slender
and hns a martial uir. Dettiillo knows
absolutely nothing of tho life of a soldier
except whut ho has read. At the ago of
20 he was rather timid, but his charac
ter began to uhango as soon as he de
voted his brush tn military subjects.
HOW'S THISf
We offer One Hundred Dollars It-ward
for any rase of Catarrh that cannot lie
cured bv Hall's t'atarrh Cure!
F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Props..
Toledo, Ohio.
We, the undersigned, have known F. J.
Cheney for the past 15 years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in ull business
transactions and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
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Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally
acting directly upon the Mood and mucous
surfaces of the system. Price, ".hi. per hot
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free.
"Is Miss Jackson at hornet" ' Why, no sir.
she waited for vou till 4:110 o'cloek " ".tut f
aid to ber Hint I wouldu't be hero b fore 6."
Yea, so she said."
KXI'KltlUNl't:.
Hood's Pills prevent constipation.
A Hank of Iead Locusts.
The greatest swarm of locustseverknown
invaded South Africa in 17117. They were
driven Into the sea by a north wind, and the
waves throwing them back, a bank of dead
locusts from three to six feet thick was
formed for 50 miles along the coast. St
f.oni Olnttc-Democrat.
IcVhJ
an excited tone, pouncing upon something.
It was Lady IMckcTi. a new diamond ring.
"That's one of 'em. I'll swear to it any
where I Our private mark and mini tier are
on It, as you can see for yourself, my lord
J.S., 4)." He woipprd a watchmaker's
lens out of bis pocket and invited "bis lord
abip" to Inspect the thing for blwelt .
wishes to the letter.
A Fool's Ret.
A Missouri traveling man agreed to
wear the dress of a Catholic priest fur a
year if he Inst a certain wager. He won
the dress for a year and for several year
afterward.
Congh I Cough ! I It's the
hacking couch that often ends
in the most serious trouble.
lain-lfiIer
stops the cough at once by
removing the cause and thus
prevents the trouble. Put two
teaspoonfuls of this good old
remedy in a small cup of
molasses, take l teaspoonful
often, and your cough will
quickly cease. Sold every
where. Yon now get double
the quantity of Pain-Killer for
the same old price,
ferry Davis k Son, ProriJcnce,R.L
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It la sold on a guarantee by ail dnig
Ist3. It cures Inoipient ConsumptioB
Milt
5na is th best Onuh nnd Oronu Our
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QUICKLY CURES
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rTTiToTvnTiiri
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Experience teaches hot only weakness,
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This is what 0. D. Frederic s, the well
known photographer of New York, says:
"I have been using Am cot s 's Porous
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of the best of family medicine, iirii lly
summing up my experience, 1 ray that
when placed on the small of the back All
cock's Clabtibs till the body with nervous
energy, end thus ours fatigue bruin ex
haustion, debility, and kidney dillioulties.
For women and obildren I have found
them invaluable. The never irritaie the
skin or oau.-e the slightest pain, but cure
sore th'oat, ooughB, o d 's, pains in side,
back or ohest, indigestion and towel oom
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Winston What do people mesa when they
say of a girl she U "quaint?" IVomton Tney
usually mean that It Ih clinrilabicnot toexp es
the r real opinion of her.
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