A fv
Around the
Hearthstone.
i
A SONG OF THE LANDLUBBER.
If you really want a song of the sea,
Let no sailor that song sing,
Bat some lubberly clown from an Inland
' - - town,
His song will have the ring. .
There never was a man who went to sea,
" Abaft the mast or before,
Who could sing yon a rollicking song of
the sea
With a man who stays on shore.
Then pass the steaming pnnch around.
When the nights grow merry and long;
When the' black tides swirl at the har
bor's mouth
We'll raise the Iubbersong.
Oh, the starboard watch was well wound
ap,
Likewise the port watch too,
When the binnacle fell from the mizzen-
- top
And the chaplain piped the crew.
Twas a close hauled reach to nearest
beach,
And the spanker floated free,
As w stood by oar guns of some thou
sand tons ". .- . ,.
.- With a gale upon our lee. ; '-Jjijt
Then blow, ye breezes, blow,
And the guns they go bang! bang!
A sailor's joy is the harbor buoy;
- Hurrah for Li Hung Chang!
Our capstan sail was hoisted up,
The garboard strake gave room,
And we sailed away from New York bay
By the light of the spinnaker boom.
The captain found the anchor a-trip
In the salt of the sparkling brine,
And ; the bo'sun said that the anchor
- - ' tripped .
5i When Jhe good ship crossed the line.
Then brail away on the topsail sheet,
Belay on keel downhanl:
It's our cowsprit yard that is safe and
hard, -
1 And we'll reef in the sounding pawl.
New York Press.
MADE IN GERMANY.
J Anthony Alexander was a woman
hater. He was also a strident of philos
ophy, very comfortably,, off, a bachelor,
of course, and at 40 the despair of de
termined mothers and dutiful daugh
ters, who, when he came in their way
(he did it as little as possible), scarcely
-bad heart for aa attack. .
. - AJejode made up his mind to learn
German, because, he desired to read In
the original the vrrks of Kant, Hegel
& Co.' In a weekly paper be came en
-"the following advertisement:
.- "The German tongue taught on a new
and speedy system. Apply Herr
Schwabb, 6 May street, Plmlico."
"Air Squalp?" said the short, grimy
maid of thet tall, grimy looking house.
'Fifth floor; first door to the left Mind
your feet when you gets near the top;
the carpet's gave.
Alexander climbed to the door Indi
cated and knocked. A sweet treble
voice with a strong foreign accent said:
"Come in."
"What a fool man Is!" thought Alex
ander. "The less he can afford a fe
male appurtenance the more sure be Is
to have one."
He entered. he little room was neat?
ness itself, fjfiil to torown dress
and Wajjgpron stood up to receive
-hlmTShe had a pretty figure, rosy
cheeks, large blue eyes and an Immense
quantity of rdlr hair rolled Into a tight
ball -. . .
. Alexander bowed stiffly, and said
that, having seen the advertisement of
a Herr Sehwalb
. "Yes," said the girl, quickly; "he Is
x&j fader, at alL You want to learn
, German, sir?"
J. Alexander replied In the affirmative
and added that he hadn't much time to
spare; he would be glad to see Herr
Sehwalb at once. He stood like a tow
er, one bristling with battlements. Thg
"My fader, cannot tltch now," she
sa!d. "Since de notice appear he has a
complaint De troat of my fader is ill,
sir. He must not spick."
Alexander said he was sorry, and
with a second stiff bow moved toward
the door.
"But I, Hedwlg Sehwalb, I know de
seestem of my fader," said the girl,
with a bright flush. "I can tltch. I
have tltched. It Is a great seestem for
de adults, at alL" t
She looked Imploringly np Into the
face of the 6-foot-2 black-bearded quad
ragenarian. - He shook his head. .
"I'm much obliged." he said. "Herr
Sehwalb may be better soon. I'll wait."
Hedwlg nearly let him go. Pride and
filial love made a sad to-do with her.
As Alexander got to the door he heard
a, choking voice. 1 '
"He will not be better soon If I earn
no money to get him what he wants.
Will you try, sir? I am not young. I
am 23, at all."
"At alll" . This "was one of the first
phrases Hedwlg had acquired on her
arrival in England. - She regarded It
as an idiom of all work, and brought It
in whenever she wanted to be particu
larly emphatic.
"Look here," she went on. T shall
give you two lessons, and If you are
not contented you pay nothing noth
ing and I beg your pardon of you;
oderwise I shall persevere tin de troat
of my fader is good. Will yon tiy r,K
"1 don't doubt your ability." sM ;
Alexander, "but " ; ' " ,
The' expression of his face enlight
ened Hedwlg. . -..
"Is my womanliness an objection?"
she cried. "!v: .
"Er ah really " stammered Alex
ander, feeling, it must be confessed, a
bit of an ass. - r -,
But Hedwlg swept on. . " ". "' '
"Believe me, you will find no differ
ences. I tltch like mv t after I tlntr
Inot of my womanliness. I tltch like
he." - ;-.',:-- r
From an adjoining oedroom a door
kvas pushed open, and a gaunt, leathery
ace, with frenzied hair and glaring
spectacles, looked through. - The girl
faodded cheerlngly to this apparition,
Which Instantly vanished. The blue
yes sought Alexander's 'face again.
Something glittered in them which was
pot allowed to fall.
Oh, well, I don't mind!" said Alei-
ntfer, hurriedly (to himself: 'What a
er) "Will 10 o'clock to-morrow suit
pa? And," he added with mare bu-
anlty than gallantry,- "! trust Herr
bwalb will soon be able to take your
ce." ..; - 7: ':
I trust," said Hedwlg. 'The rosy
e beamed. -7 7. 7 7
exander's face, when he got down
lo the street, did nothing of the kind.
Beastly nuisancer he said aloud. -
hree weeks passed. Herr Sehwalb
Vned nearly well again, but the doe-
stijl forbade him to teach. Hedwlg
given Alexander three lessons a
X H was growing strangely re
signed to the situation. As long as the
books were open Hedwlg was stem,
curt dry; one seemed to see the specta
cles of Herr Sehwalb on ber nose. When
the books were shut she became a
charming girl again; and, the transfor
mation having taken place, Alexander
did not. after the first, make a point of
leaving directly, i ' On the Saturday
morning which brought the tenth les--
son, time being up, Hedwlg looked gay
ly at her pupil, and said:
"Don't you tlnk you proceed?"
"I'm astonished at myself," .said Al
exander. Herr Sehwalb nodded blandly from
his chair.
"Ah, I told you my womanliness was
nottlng," said Hedwlg with a trium
phant air.
Alexander looked at the sweet, mod
est figure in the shabby brown dress, at
the round face, flushed with the July
heat and with her pedagogic exertions
on his behalf.
Her womanliness nothing? Well,
poor little girl!
He asked if she had ever been to
Hampton court. No? Would she like
to go? Hed wig's eyes spoke. Would
Herr Sehwalb trust Alexander to take
her down on the noonday 'coach and
bring her back by; .6 in the evening?
Allerdings which meant she might go,
But how long would the frauleln take
to get dressed?
Hedwlg laughed, ran across the pas
sage and in five- minutes reappeared.
having pinned a lace collar on the
brown dress, loosened the tight ball
of shining 'hair and mounted a fresh
little hat like her face, one nest of
roses.
Oh, fairy day! Happy, happy hours!
The very sight of the great gates and
great trees set Hedwlg's heart dancing,
and then the flaming flower beds and
cool alleys and emerald grass and dia
mond fountains made her cry, "Ach!
heavenly! heavenly!" again and again.
And Alexander conducted her through
the rooms and courts of the famous old
palace, and Hedwlg chattered of Car
dinal Wolsey as if he had been her un
cle, and of Henry VIII. as If she had
been his grandmother; and the next
thing In order was to order tea in a
queer little shop parlor looking on the
park, and while they were at tea a
beautiful tame deer, with sad eyes,
came, to the window and asked to be
fed.
"Take care," said Alexander, as Hed
wlg leaned forward to touch the crea
ture's head. He caught her by the hand
and pulled her back.
"Hirseh we call the animal so," said
Hedwig, standing meekly by his side.
"How do you call him at ail?"
"Deer, frauleln," said Alexander. He
had forgotten to let go of her hand and
he spoke very gently, and any Ignorant
Intruder, bearing what he said, seeing
how close the simple, pretty little Rhine
maiden and the woman hater stood to
gether In the alcove of the parlor win
dow, might have fancied . But It
was time to go home.
Of course Alexander saw Hedwlg
safe to the door of 3 May street
"I can enough tank you never," she
said earnestly. "Gute nacht"
"Gute nacht, frauleln; gute nacht."
Turning away, he ran against an ac
quaintanceJones. Jones surveyed him with a twinkling
eye. . -
"Changed your views?"
"Don't understand." , . :
"I thought according to you the beg t
woman that ever breathed was only to
tis tolerated. . You seemed a trifle over
flowing with toleration Just now. Neat
HtUe article! " Made in Germany? Hal
lo! no offense, old chap! Alexander! no
offense, I say."
But Alexander, resisting the tempta
tion to knock Jones, who was a small
man. Into the gutter, stalked away.
And, after dinner, in his luxurious
study, he sat solitary, and thought
and thought
He thought of the girl to whom he
had given his heart In early days, and
who had deceived him.
He thought of the undisturbed, regu
lar, independent life to which he was
accustomed.
He thought of his 40 years
. And the end of. these meditations was
that be went to his writing table and
penned a letter to Hedwig. -
He said that he was unexpectedly
obliged to ' go abroad. He thanked
Frauleln Sehwalb for the pains she had
taken with him, and begged to inclose
the sum due to her for the remaining
lessons- of the course. He much regret
ted being unable to receive them. He
sent hia best compliments to Herr
Sehwalb and remained hers very sin
cerely, Anthony Alexander.
He went to Switzerland, intending to
do a mountain or two. But In ridicu
lous, defiance of the most elementary
rules of physical geography mountains
proved flat, so did other things when he
tried them. A blooming face under a
hat with roses, an old brown dress, a
happy girl's voice, followed him every
where. At last, leaning dismally over a hotel
balcony one fine evening in Chamounlx,
he heard a German lady say to a friend:
"Gute nacht!"
. He couldn't stand It any longer.
"Gute nacht" The words called him
back to 3 May street, and he packed
his traps that night' and to 3 May street
be rushes -as fast as train, boat and
cab would take him. -The
same maid, apparently with, the
same dirt on ner race, answered the
belL .
"Air Squalp? 'E's dead!" - -"Dead?"
. .... .
"Yes! 'e died. E got worse, and then
e died."
iuuiT 'lUUUg
couchant beast, stuck over with cruel
yes a beast that swallowed llTes
down, and kept the secret; by day the
. sunny streets mocked him with passing
faces, with trim figures that In the dis
tance looked like hers, with glimpses
of yellow hair. -. j : -
Or was she back in the fatherland?
Safe with friends: with a betrothed
lover perhaps?
If it were so, and he could but know
of It he thought he should have the
manhood to thank heaven.
He had been returned to -town four
days. As be came in late from a weary
stretch of walking his valet met him. -
"A person to see you, sir." , ,.
"What sort of a person H
: Alexander's nerves were tn a queer
State. He turced very pale. .
: - "A w.oman, sir." - - - -
"A lady?" v
- "I think, sir, she's a nun." ' .
Alexander walked Into his ; study.
Amazed he saw rise before him a figure
in black, with flapping sleeves and
flowing skirts. - - . ' , . , ' ,
A calm, good face looked from under
the white band and sable veil, -v
"Is 'it you?" said the nun, quietly,
"who liave been advertising to discover
the address of Hedwig Sehwalb?"
His heart sank. . -
"Yes yes." . . " ' 1
"She Is with us." ' -
"Hedwig! A nun!"
She shook her bead with a grave air.
"Nuns are not made so quickly. Our
order has a chapel and Infirmary near
Soho. We work there. Two days ago
I foupd the poor young woman lying
on the chapel steps. I am Sister Fran
ces. She was 111 Insensible; we took
her in. Her name is on her clothes:
we could not find out anything about
her. She has fever It is on the brain
she doesn't speak sense. r But we see
she is a good, girl and has been well
cared for innocent refined. If you are
a relative and wish to see her you can
come with me."
"Not a relative," gasped Alexander,
"an old friend." ...
The nun bent her head. .
"I am sorry to have to say It but
there Is no time to lose if you want to
see her alive!" , " !
Beds, narrow beds, white beds, sick
beds in rows. Walls gray walls, si
lent walls, glimmering walls with pic
tures. Lighta dim lights, kind lights,
holy lights like flowers. And on a pil
low Hedwlg's face, with the roundness
and the roses and the splendid hair
gone from It and Hedwlg's voice bab
bling in German wildly.
"She won't know you," said Sister
Frances. -
But she did know him. He took her
hand and bent over her and she began
talking in English at once. A light
came Into the sunken face.
"It is you. I am pleased to see yon,
at all. I was knowing you would come.
What a fine day! What a blue ekyl
Happy, happy!" Her gaze wandered.
"And. look only the beautiful tame
deer! Can I give him bread? No, no.
His eyes are too sad! Take him away.
I am tired. Gute nacht r
Perhaps Sister Frances had had a
love story In her youth. .
: She turned her back when she saw
how Alexander's tears rained down
and how he held the poor, delirious lit
tle girl In a passionate, yearning clasp.
Was it the warm tears, the warm
clasp that brought Hedwlg back to' 1
life s shores rrom wnicn sue naa neen
fast drifting? Who can say?
As soon as she was better Alexander
asked her very timidly If some day she
would marry him.
Ih a whisper came Hedwlg's reply:
"I will at all." Answers.
STEALING. INVENTIONS.
Few Men of Genius Reap the Benefit
of Their Ingenuity.
Just why inventive genius and gulli
bility should go together It Is hard to
eav Part a 1 n It la that Inrontnrs arA
Certain it la that Inventors are
the roost guileless individuals in tnejr
dealings with others on business mat
ters, and fall easy victims to the spi
ders who lie in wait for such flies. The
list of clever men who walk to-day,
while those who ride owe their luxury
to the other man's genius and their presldent of the Liverpool Engineer
own shrewdness, is an interesting one. , Society, has been as followsr In
Here are a few cases picked haphaz- lg40 a d of coa, propelUi a du.
that failed to benefit the inventor, or,
at least, produced for him a little of
what was his due, ;
It is not necessary to be very old to
remember when hooks were first put
In men's shoes In place of holes, in or
der to save time in lacing the shoe at
the top. This was the brilliant idea of
an inventor to whom it should have
brought a fortune. . It would bave
done so had he been a shrewd business
man ulnnr m r an Invantiw nA
hadn't sense enough to keep his idea
to himself until the patent office pad-
lock had secured It against theft. In
the Innocence of his nature the in-
ventor confided th idea to a friend
while crossing the North River ferry
boat, and" the friend hardly waited for
the boat to tie np in Jersey City be
fore he excused himself, started back
to New York and went -on a dead run
for a patent lawyer, in order to have
the idea secured for his own especial
benefit Another man Is known to-day
as the Inventor of the lace hooks. He
owns a splendid bouse and is wealthy.
The confiding Inventor got nothing.
The Inventor of a patent stopper for
beer bottles, something that bad lonsr
been wanted by the trade, sold the in, .
venuon ror w,vuu to a map wno rec- j
ognized its money-making vajue. The .
purchaser Is now worth $5,000,000, all
of which he made from the patent stopr
per. Out of the goodness of his heart
he presented the original owner of the
patent with $30,000, so that this man '
got $40,000 in all for his . $5,000,000
idea. To give some notion of the value '
of patent rights on this bottle stopper '
the price came down from $1 to 6 and T
cents a gross, and even at this enor
mous reduction a good profit can be '
made. . I
This last inventor was treated with
princely generosity, however, In com-
1 . , , I ' . T ,
terlocklng horns with balls at Uie end
m Vi
sure. The idea was afterward applied
to gloves and became very much In fa-
vor. The Inventor relinquished his
prize for the magnificent reward of a
latter having been advanced by the
purchaser to pay the inventor's ex
pense from Newark to New York. The
man who secured the idea and patent-
ledjt after treating the Inventor in the'
royal manner mentioned made a big
fortune by his shrewdness. What be
came of the inventor is not known.
New York Recorder.
Goblets.
Goblets, with stem and stand like
those we use to-day, were employed in
fTroy 900 B. O. Among the valuable
bbjects recently found is a golden gob-,
Idet -Vessels of this metal were com-
Jnonly employed in the service of th
temples. A curious goblet with three;
stems uaa ueeu luunu ai jrompeu. ira
fese is conjectural, but the superstition ;
Is that it was used to pour libations to
the gods.
Contradictory.
"Don't do that, Harry, somebody may
see us."
"I don't care. I'm no stickler to
form."
"Yon seem to stick to mine all right"
Brooklyn Life.
What He Wanted. f
Boy I want to buy some paper.
Dealer What kind of paper ? :
Boy You'd- better give me fly paper.
I want to make a kite. Scottish Night
The right kind of a person Is always
glad to get home, after beltg away on
a Ttolt. :r '
3. - I in
SHEEP SHEARING.
Kxpertness of Professional Shearers
In New South Wales.
Most of our readers would probably
think that, to shear, say. twenty or
thirty sheep, would be as much as the
most skillful and industrious shearer
could do in a long day's - work. They
may. then, says Chambers Journal,
be interested to f know what ";vasily ,
greater numbers ra re expected to pass
through the deft hands of a capable
craftsman in the pastoral regions of
the great sheep-keeping colony of . New
South Wales. Our , notes have been
collected on the spot. . . . ; . , " '..
The, number of sheep a : man can
shear in a -day of eight and a half hours
is governed by several circumstances
over and above the shearer's expert
ness, depending mainly on the class of
sheep and the nature of the country
over which the sheep have pastured.
Of all, the breeds of sheep nierimos
are. the most difficult - to shear.. In
the first place, they are very "throaty"
that Is, the skin covering the neck
lies in large, loose folds, so that manip
ulation with the shears is at best tedi
ous and troublesome. Then, again,
they possess what is technically known
as the "points" of the breed they are
wooled to the tip of the nose and down
the legs to the hoofs; it is these so
called "points" that take np time.
. Sheep grazing over pastures where
burs, grass seeds, twigs, etc., are nu
merous, or over coarse, sandy coun
try, pick up in their fleece quantities
of foreign matter that blunt the shears
during the process of shearing. It will
at onee.be seen that this especially ap
plies to short-legged sheep, heavily
fleeced as the merinos are to the ex
tremities of their limbs. The time
taken up sharpening his shears . is a
serious consideration to the shearer.
Bad or careless shearers, in order
to give the sheep the appearance of
being properly shorn, may either
"shingle" or "feather" the fleeces they
cut off. By "shingling" Is meant mak
ing a second cut over the same part
of the body of the sheep, the first sev
ering the staple toward the center,
and the second close to the skin; yet
the whole fleece holds together and
the damage may not be detected till
closely examined. On the contrary,
"feathering" Is plainly seen as soon
as the fleece Is shaken out; here the.
clip has been uneven, - leaving patches
of longer wool to be severed by a sec
ond cut This leaves a quantity of
short wool In the Inside the fleece,
which readily separates when the
fleece Is unrolled. "Shingling" Is the
worst fault as It quite ruins the sta
ple for combing purposes.
In the mountain districts west of
the table-land the average number of
sheep a fairly good man will shear In
a day of eight and a half' hours varies
from seventy to 120. On the northern
plains near the Queensland border the
average Is 120 to 170; and It Is on rec
ord that the champion, shearer of
Queensland clipped 827 sheep In nine
hours. Such a man, In the language
of "the seed," is termed a 'ringer,"
In the central plains on the Lachlan
River the average Is eighty . to 120,
With machines the numbers are, of
course, considerably more. The men
are Paia Per iw sneep; anq out or
this they have to provide . rations, ,
shears, sharpenlng-stones, oil, etc
One Pound of Coal on Steamship,
The value of one pound of coal at
different epochs of steamship evolu
tion na plven hv Mr. A. J. MeGinnls.
placement weight - of .578 ton eight
knots; but the earning weight was
only one-tenth of this, .90 per cent of
the displacement representing the hull,
machinery and fueL . In 1850, with
Iron vessels and the screw propeller, a
displacement weight of six-tenths of a
ton was propelled nine knots by a
pound of coal; but the proportion of
cargo had risen to 27 per cent, or .18
ton. In I860, with higher boiler pres
sure and the surface condenser, .83
" Wwement was -propelled ten
knots, and be cargo was 33 per cent,
or 'f ton- In 1870; ater e compound
ngl,ne bad fome int0 l;8 t08
VWh ieu auuu.,
and here the cargo formed 50 per cent,
of the whole, -being nine-tenths of a
ton. In 18S5 there were two classes of
freight boats; the "tramp" propelled
n A ' . t , . i i" . .
o.- ious displacement eigni ana one
half knots, with 60 per cent or two "
tons of cargo; at the same time the
enormous cargo steamers of the North
Atlantic were driving a displacement
of 3.14 tons twelve knots, with 65 per
cent, or 1.7 tons of cargo. . On the
moJern exPres! Passenger steamers -
tne car80 welgnt IS down to .Otf ton ,
per pound of coaL-Rallroad gazette, j
was Man n Amphibian ?
Man was said to have descended from
a g00(j many types, by different In,
quiries into ancient history, some ech
n2 for monkevs or anes. and others
for various species of animal life; but
some curious cases of hereditary web
bed hands and feet In human beings
seem to show that our ancestors may
have been amphibian.
An Instance of this kind of heredit
ary peculiarity has been reported by
Doctors W. R. Smith and J. S. Nor
well. In the case of a family, nearly
all the members of which were affected
by a malformation of hands and feet
ueuueuieu, me uecoua ana tnira nngers
were webbed to the tip, and the bones
were dlsPMed In an extraordinary
manner '
Each foot ha1 mnra,
less webbed, except the fourth, which
, - - i
was comparatively free.
These peculiarities have persisted
through several generations, and It was
found that twenty-one persons out of
twenty-eight had been malformed in
this way, and In all cases in both hands
and feet
Dead Man's Claim.
Among the rich mines in Leadville Is
one called "Pead Man's Claim." It
seems a certain popular miner had
died,. and his friends, having decided
( to give him a good send-off, hired a
man for $20 to act as sexton, it
in the midst of winter: there were ton
feet of snow on the ground, and ih
grave had to go six feet hein th
The grave digger sallied forth Into the
snow, depositing the corpse for safe-
keeping m a drift, and for three days
nothlne was heard from him x
eat Ion sent to. find the fellow iii..,.
ed him digging away with all his might,
but found also the intended grave con-
. verted into the entrance of a shaft
Striking the earth it seems he had
found pay. rock worth $60 a ton. The
delegation at once staked out claims
adjoining his and the deceased was
forgotten. Later, in the season, the
snow having melted, his body was
found and given an ordinary burial In
another part of the camp. Boston
Journal - 7;-' . ;
''.Beaton for Confidence. : ,
Richard But what makes yon feel
o sure that she will marry you?
I Harry--WeIl, you see, her ; mother
I hare engendered a mortal ha
of mcU other. Boston Transcript
A Common Inequality.
Unless you are the one person out of
every fifteen who has eyes of equal
otfhar lrji
right-eyecL : You also belong to the
small minority of one out of every ten
persons if your left eye Is stronger than
your right As a rule,' Just as people
are right handed, they are right eyed.
This ' probably due to the generally
greater use of the organs of , the right
side of the ; body, as, for : example, a
gunner,, using his right arm and shoul
der, uses his right eye, thereby
strengthening it with exercise. Old sea
captains, after long use of the tele
scope, find their right eye much strong
er than the left- This law Is confirmed
by the experience of aurists. If a per
son who has ears of equal' hearing pow
er has cause to use one ear more than
the other for a long period, the ear
brought into requisition is found to be
much strengthened, and the ear which
is not used loses its hearing in a corre
sponding degree. -
Proof, v..
"Jinkles is in love," tr marked a
young man. -
"How do you know?"
"I've seen him out bicycle-riding four
times with the same girl."
"That doesn't prove that be is in love
with her." - . -
"No. But they were on a tandem and
she weighs at least 180 pounds."
Washington Star.
'"GREAT PERSONAL EVENTS."
A series of articles of unique interest
has been undertaken by the Ladies'
Home Journal. It is to-be called
"Great Personal Events," and will
sketoh the most wonderful scene I cf
populnar enthusiasm and thrilling hit -torio
interest which have ooourred in
Amerioa during the past fifty years.
Eaoh one will be graphically detailed
by an eyewitness, while leading artis's
have been employed ' to portray the
events in pictures made from old ilia
trative material The series has just
been started in the current number of
the magazine, Hon. A. Oakey Hall, er.
mayor of New York city, sketching tl e
scene "When Jenny Lind Sang B
Castle Garden," which still stands
the' greatest single concert in the annals
of American musio, . Mrs, Henry
Ward Beecher in the following issue
will tell of a remarkable scene io which
her husband was the central figures
"When Mr, Beecher Sold Slaves in
Plymouth Pulpit " Then Stephen Fieke
will portray the furore and exoitement
"When the Prince of Wales Was in
Amerioa." Parke Godwin will follow
this in a succeeding number with an
account of the unparalleled exoitement
in Hew York " When Louis Kossuth
Rode tip Broadway." . Hon. John
Russell Young will sketoh "When
Grant Went Around the World," Mr.
Young being of General Grant's party
The great scene in the senate chamber
"When Henry Clay Said Farewell to
the Senate" will follow. Lincoln will
figure twice in the series; First, in a
description qf ''When Lincoln was
First Inaugurated," and, next, "When
Lincoln was Buried," The stirring
story of the discovery pf gold by John
W, Maokay will be revived iq "When
Maokay Struck the Great Bonanza."
The series will extend through, all the
numbers of The Ladies' Home Journal
during 1897.
There is no form of energy that is so far
reaching in its benefits to the welfare and
comfort of the world as electrical energy.
A TBSACIOC9 CLUIC I
Is that of dyspepsia,
than palliate this obstinate complaint.
stiii ate complaint. Tn
j-kw reiDeti fi nil in 1 1 r .
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, however, and vou
wm find that it is conauerabie. aiomt with its
symptoms, heartburn, flatulence, nervousness
and loss of flesh and Tieor. Biliousness and
constipation frequently accompany it. These
besides malarial, rheumatic and kidney com
plaints, are also subduable with the Bitters.
They say in Texas that the cowboy of
the future will use a wheel instead of a
horse. One cowherder in Atchison, Kan
sas, already uses one.
' Piso's Cure for Consumption is our only
medicine for coughs ana colds. Mrs. C.
Beltz, 439, 8th ave., Denver, Col., Jfor, 8, "95,
Sun spots are believed tq be openings in
the sun s pbotisphere, or luminous enveloj. e
through which the orb is seen.
HANDS ForRll kinds of work furnished free on
short notice, Address Higley's Employment Of
fice, m Tbird street, Portland, Oregon. . !
If you pick up a starring dog and make
him prosperous he will not bite you. This
is the principal difference between a dog
and a man.
DIAFJICSg CANNOT BB CURED
By local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure deafness, and that is by' constitu
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
flamed condition of the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed
f ywVft Vsntiriiy dMnu
the result, and unless the Inflammation can be
SJKWS
taken out and this tube restored to its normal !
er.: i
nine rn tmn Ant nf Inn m r a nan on A Kv nularrh
whiph is nothing but an inflamed condition of
the mucous surfaces. ' i
-We will give One Hnndred Dollars for any
case of deafness (paused by catarrh) that can
not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, Bend for ,
circulars: free.
Sold by druggists. 75c,
Hall's Family tint are the best. .
'The chemical constituents of the mush
room are almost identical with those of
meat, and it possesses the same nourishing
properties.
"Actions " speak louder
than words" aslcypurgro-
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This Shoe Picture
Shows a stylish shoe; but does not show
half of the shoe's strong points.
It is a plump calf, calf-tipped, has tough,
soft topping, reinforced lace stays, extra
broad outside and inside back stays, solid
double soles and slug heels that can't be
run over. Portland's Greatest Store offers
this shoe to its mall order customers as a
. special bargain.
IN BOYS' SIZES, II TO 2. T 11.80 PER PAIR.
IN BOYS' SIZES. 2 1-2 TO 8, AT 12.20 PER PAIR.
New square
toe, if yon prefer, instead of
Vi'a Will n&T the ixnn nr
pointi
t shown.
mail charges on these shoes, and will
' send one of our new Fall Catalogues to
mui vuBwwcr wno D9M not jeceivea one.
OLDS W KING,
302 Washington St.
PORTLAND, OR.
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Georgia's Convict Law,
The next General Assembly relative
to the disposal of the convicts will pro
vide for a general stockade system
that will permit of the constant im
provement of the country roads during
workable weather and afford other
means of employment, during severe
weather. .
How beet to settle the convict ques
tion has been the text of many lec
tures and innumerable editorials, and
the trend of popular opinion is towards
the above outlined plan. Clarke County
Is not to wait for the general measure,
however, and it will have perfected a
similar system long before the State
machinery Is put In motion. The Good
Roads movement is constantly grow
ing, and soon the State of Georgia will
be as conspicuous for her graded high
ways as she Is now for her dangerous
gullies. Banner, Athens, .Ga. :
Good Ronda and Prosperity.
Good roads are as essential to the
prosperity of the country as the proper
machinery for cultivation Is to the
farmer. A farm that is easily accessi
ble, by reason of good roads, is worth
double to the owner what It would be
otherwise. In no country are good
roads so easily obtainable, with so little
cost as they are here, and In no State
is so little attention paid to them. Little
chuckholes are left until tbey become
dangerous, a plank breaks in a culvert
and It goes until some valuable animal
has become crippled. Road overseers
tart In some work by tearing up the
road and then leave it unfinished for
months while the public Is compelled
to drive around the obstruction. Our
road laws are faulty, we admit and
under them it perhaps Is Impossible to
have good highways, but at the same
time It Is within our power to elect men
to the somewhat humble and not very
lucrative office of road overseer who
will take an interest In working the
roads. Let property owners and neigh
bors In each respective district get to
gether before election day, and decide
upon some man who will fill the office
right, and not leave It until the last
day, and then perhaps by a dozen votes
put some one In who cares little and
; has no Interest whatever to prompt
' hJm.Leader, Irving, Kan,
Winter Reaort Hoaclp,
The advantage of having good roads
at summer resorts was never so strong
ly shown as during the present season.
And what Is true of northern summer
resorts Is equaly true of southern win
ter resorts.
The locality that can "offer the very
best roads will present a strong draw
ing card, - People with enough money
and leisure to go on extended outings,
will, hi most Instances, desire to do
more or less riding and driving.' T hi
is rjartlcularlv true of winter resorts.
i,,,i, v.,Hni, nnai,,fo, mii
, Inasmuch as boating constitutes a small
! part of winter pastimes.
Many of the southern towns and cities
are realizing the true condition of
things, and axe taking steps toward
making the needed Improvements.
The wheelmen of Atlanta, Ga., are
looking forward with, no little interest
to the reorganization of the Good Roads
Club, which takes place on Oct 16.
It is the intention of those at the head
of the club to obtain the hearty co-op
eratlon of all wheelmen, and when this
has been done and the club fully or
ganized, It will be able to work much
good In that city. The elub has for Its
object, as Its name Indicates, the build
ing of and keeping In repair good roads
throughout that city and county.
Other fowns in the "Sunny South'
are looking after their best interests by
providing fine streets and good roads.
No town with highways of mud or sand
need apply. People do not care to go
on an outing and pay for such luxuries.
Cool Batbs for Coughs,
A physician ; advises ' cool sponge
baths twice a week In winter and oft
ener in summer for the cure of the
common "children's catarrh." The
baths should be given In a warm room
and be followed by friction by rob
ing to produce a glow. If they are
not followed by a chilly feeling or
headache, the reaction has been prompt
and beneficial. The baths should be
begun with warm water, changing
gradually In succeeding baths to tepid,
then cool water. It is well, too, to
begin this treatment in the spring, sum
mer or early- autumn, rather than in
midwinter. They will stimulate the
circulation, prevent colds and act upon
the nasal membrane, as upon the rest
of the body, to promote Its healthy ac
tion.. .Mothers with children suffering
from catarrh should guard them zeal
ously from colds In every way pos
sible. Every access of inflammation
upon such chronic cases is a good deal
more than a temporary step backward.
Tartar Medicine.
Formerly musk was used as a medi
cine in various parts of the world; but
doctors hi civilized lands do not hold
musk in high repute.. In China it is
still thought to be a very good medi
cine; but the Chinese have queer no
tions about cures and charms. . Abee
Muc, a distinguished traveler, says
that when a Tartar doctor finds him
self "without his drugs and medicines,
be Is not In the least embarrassed.
He writes the names of the needed
drugs on slips of paper, And these,
being rolled up In little balls, are swal
lowed by the sick man. "To swallow
the name of a remedy, or the remedy
itself," say the Tartars, "comes to pre
cisely the same thing." St Nicholas
Persia's .Learned Sbah. ' -.;
V There Is every probability that the
"lion" of London's next season will be
the new Shah of Persia. His majesty
is a very learned personage. He Is a
lover of poetry and has an extensive
acquaintance with general science. He
wishes to extend his area of knowledge
by personal observation.. Hitherto his
studies have been founded principally
on Plato and Herbert Spencer, but he
has now ordered a supply of modern
English poetry, by poets still alive, to
be forwarded to him for perusal, y. He Is
a bit of an author himself, and has even
rhymed a little for amusement.
i The average woman wears a corset
as long as If It cost $20, and she never
expected to be able to buy another.
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