fliscellany.
THE GARRET CLATTER.
I don't hear the young folks patter
Like they used to long ago
Up the stairs to raise a clatter
Underneath the rafters low.
What's the reason things is stiller-
Since the young folks went away
John an' Joe an' 6weet Perjniller?
Looks as if they'd gone to stay.
Wife, there hain't no sunshine gushin'
In the way it used to come;
'T only seems as if the pushin'
Shaders was a-comin' hum.
Sorter quietlike an' dreary,
Only us two here alone;
,Jist the days seem draggin' weary -
Like a long an' dismal moan.
In the garret things is quiet;
Mice an' spiders has their way jg
Where the youngsters used to riot
In their childish pranks an' play.
Sweet Permiller used to tag 'em,
Joe an' John in comers dark,
An' the maiden used to fag 'em,
Tire 'em out an' raise a lark.
.When the bumblebees was droonin'
An' the flowers was in bloom,
An' the lilac bush was groanin'
With the scent of its perfume,
Then the young folks used to patter
Up the stairs a-long ago
Up the stairs to raise a clatter
Underneath the rafters low.
Seems to me I'm sometimes dreamia'
Of the things that used to be,
Till the old life comes a-streamin'
Back ag'in to you an' me.
Then I hear the young folks patter
Up the stairs they used to go
There to raise a garret clatter
Underneath the rafters low.
Waverley Magazine.
IRENE.
HOPS and offices
were pouring their
streams of life in
to the crowded
streets. It was C
o'clock at evening.
At a corner where
a human tide
swept like a tor
rent from a broken
dam a woman
stood under a
lamp post. She was tall and dark, and
bo motionless that she might have been
a statue. Her arms were folded under
her cloak. A policeman, edging his way
through the crowd, asked her a ques
tion. She shook her head slowly, and
did not look at him. The policeman
passed on, and the next moment there
were two quick pistol shots, a scream,
and a stampede. The officer ran back,
fighting his way through the swirling
crowd. He found the woman, pistol in
hand, bending over a man lying upon
the pavement. The officer seized her
wrist, and, looking at him with a
etrange smile, as she relaxed her hold
' on the pistol, she said:
"I am a woman, and I demand to be
treated as such."
When she had been taken to the sta
tion and asked to make a statement,
she said: "My name is Irene Roma.
The name of the man I shot is Roy
Campbell. I shot him because he ought
to be killed. He was engaged to marry
my sister. He did not keep faith with
her, and she died of a broken heart.
ttp g a brute, and ought to be dead."
"Campbell, was taken to a hospital.
His wounds were pronounced danger
ous. An effort was made to Interview
him. But all he would say was: "I
suppose she thought she had a right to
shoot me." He asked if they had put
her in jail, and appeared to be. pleased
when told that she had been allowed
out on bail.
Three weeks later the wounded man
was sitting propped up in bed, when a
card bearing the name of Irene Roma
was handed to him. He looked hard at
It, rubbed his eyes, held it further away,
then closer, and then remarked: "I
don't understand why she should want
to see me. Let her come in."
With a timid, awe-struck air the wom
an approached the bed. She coughed
in embarrassment as she seated herself
on a chair which the nurse placed for
her. She put back her hair, made aim
less motions in her confusion, and then,
looking straight at Campbell, said:
"I am awfully sorry I shot you."
Campbell smiled. "And are you sure
you harven't come to shoot me again?"
he asked.
She frowned in reproof. "You know
I haven't. If you had thought that you
would have told them to keep me out."
"No, I wouldn't. You have come so
far out here that I couldn't have found
the heart to disappoint you."
"A plaster of sarcasm won't draw out
a soreness, Mr. Campbell. I have suf
fered so with remorse that I have come
to see if I could not find some sort of
consolation. You don't know how I
have suffered. And I must go through
a hateful trial, too, with everybody
looking at me. Oh, I do wish I hadn't
shot yoa!"
"Yes," he drawled, "I rather wish so
myself. So, you see, we have some
thing in common. But you needn't be
worried over the trial. I shall not ap
pear against you."
The nurse had withdrawn. They
were alone. She put back her hair
again, and he followed the movement
of her graceful hand the hand that had
shot him. "No, I will not appear," he
went on. "It is something of a distinc
tion to be shot by the handsomest wom
an in Liverpool." He hesitated as he
saw the tears gathering in her eyes.
"I take it all back," he said. She wiped
her eyes, and sat looking far away
through a window. The mystery that
lies In the cloudland was reflected in
her eyes, and he gazed at her. She turn
ed her eyes upon him, and the mystery
flew from them.
"Yes, I am sorry I shot you," she said;
"but I bate you, and never can forgive
you."
"Ah! and I am therefore consoled by
the thought that you never can forgive
me.".
"Brute!" she said. "I almost wish I
had killed you."
"When a woman almost wishes a
thing, she wishes it doubly," he replied.
"I don't know but there Is some truth
Jn that," she assented. "But what a
beast you were to treat Florence so.
How-could you?"
"Because I was a beast, I suppose."
"Yes, roti were. She was taken ill
with fever shortly afterward, but it was
broken heart that Killed ner. tier
eyes shot shafts of hatred at him. "But
I didn't come to reproach you," she
said. '
"Then why did you come?" he aeked.
"To ask yon why you could have been
bo heartless. T s'mply want to know.
Was it because you have no heart at
all ?'
"It was because I had too much
heart."
She darted a fierce look at h'tu. "Ah!
It W8S because you loved another woni
O." wXes. Florence made rae promise to
tell her If If I should love any oik bet
ter than I did her. It was not my fault
if another woman set my soul afire,
when Florence had only warmed my
heart. God knows I fought against it
with all my strength, all my philosophy.
But at last I had to tell her, and I left
it with her whether or not I should
keep my promise of marriage. Then she
drove me from her presence."
"Ah! And then you went to the other
woman and told her of your love, and
she spurned you."
"Xo, I did not tell her. Indeed. I was
determined tnat she should not know."
lrwil.-nrl nt liim spnrehiuelY. "You
killer! mv sister but vou are more or a
Klliea my sisttr, uui juu
man than I thought.
He smiled sadly. "A man is always
more or less of a man than a woman
thinks."
"If you hold so poor an opinion of
women, I don't see how you cgu'd love
one."
"I don't see. either."
"Fool!" she said.
"Yes; I'm a man."
She smiled at him, and then after a si
lence she said:
"Do you intend to tell the woman ol
your love?"
"No."
"If you do, and she loves you, I wili
shoot you again."
"That's consoling."
"Then let it console you. But really
I am sorry for you for your weakness.
You ought to have had more strength
than to let that other woman and I
know she is a fright win your love.
You ought to have known that she was
playing with you."
"Reason addresses the brain, but it
cannot reach the heart. I told you
that I fought "
"Yes, I know." And after a long si
lence she said: "I wish you would tell
me the name of that woman."
"Irene Roma."
She sprang to her feet with a cry, and
a nurse ran into the room. She tounci j
the visitor on her knees by the bed-1
side. "Leave us," the man said, and
the nurse withdrew. He put his hand
on her head, and she sobbed under his j
touch. "And that was the reason I
could not keep faith with her," he said.
"Yon set my soul on fire, and in the
flames I could see your smile." She had
caught his hand, and it was wet with
her tears. "And for that love I was l
willing to die," he said, unable now to
see her, kneeling beside him, but feel
ing the warm tears upon his hand.
"O, don't don't say that!" she sob-
bed. "In my despair I hated you be- i
cause I loved you so." Princess.
GAME AS A LUXURY.
Americans Learning that It Has Ad
vantages Over Other Meuts.
In the appreciation of game we have j
been more tardy, perhops, than in oth
er directions," writes Ella Morris
Kretschmar in the Woman's Home
Companion. "The mechanic, day-laborer,
the humblest and poorest, in
nearly all parts of our land, have ever
had at their command a ducal feast.
Our very riches have made us indiffer
entinfluenced somewhat by the fact
that on all the frontiers, and in 'early
times,' in each State game has been of
necessity the chief food. It has never,
therefore, been a luxury. But traveled
Americans, having come to share In
the estimate put upon wild meats by
the epicures of the world, have so in
cited good livers at home that game is
at a premium in our city markets; and
in rural districts appreciation grows as
the supply 'lessens.
"An important point not to be for
gotten is that game has the added ad
vantage of being the food for jaded ap
petites and weakened stomachs. While
fully as nourishing, it is more easily
digested than other meats.
"In the cooking of game a few essen
tial points must ever be borne in mind.
First, and chiefly, that the natural fla
vors must not be disguised by spices or
other pronounced seasonings. There
are sauces which bring out the game
flavor instead of impairing it, and such
only should be used. Let the French
man have served to him vehison 01
grouse in form so elaborate that only
a naturalist or chef could determine its
character; but let us remember that
simplicity is the highest art in the
cooking of game. Even the accom
panying vegetables should be selected
with a view to supplementing its fla
vors never interfering with them.
"The second point to remember is to
guard against overcooking. All game,
especially the dark-fleshed, is better
in flavor, and digests more easily, rare
than well done. It is not necessary to
carry this point to the extent affected
by gourmets, who eat their game half
raw just well warmed through. Nei
ther should birds, venison, etc., be hung
until 'high,' which simply means the
beginning of a putrefaction as un
wholesome as any other form of decay.
But most game meat should be allow
ed to properly ripen before being cook
ed. Venison in cold weather may profit
ably be hung in a dry place for three
weeks. Quail, on the other hand, begin
to lose in flavor twenty-four hours
after being killed."
Cnpolas Made of Paper.
Paper cupolas for building are re
markable for their lightness. A cupola
of t-at kind consists of from twenty
four to thirty separate pieces, and is
produced over a wooden model by past
ing huge rolls of suitable paper one
over the other. Every separate piece
runs from the base to the top of the
hemispherical roof of the cupola, and
thus forms a vault-like strip which is
broad at the bottom and narrow at the
top.
For the production of these separate
parts of the cupola roll paper of very
good quality is used, which is first cut
into the requisite length and breadth, , pan ln the quaiity of dairy goods that
then moistened and stretched over the j jt n)Ust at alj hazards be retained un
wooden model. Upon the first strip is impaired, especially in wluter-made
pasted another, also moistened, over 6tock To do this the winter stable
this a third, and so on until the neces
sary strips of paper adhere firmly to
each other and retain their concave i
shape, and after being dried constitute
hard, resisting pieces, which are made;
weatherproof by oiling, polishing with ;
hot Irons, asphalting and varnishing,
and are then put together in the shape
of a round cupola. Philadelphia Rec
ord. Female Anti-Sa oon Crusade.
The statute of limitations has barred
prosecution upon a charge of malicious
destruction of property made against
I a number of women of I '.throp, Mo.,
! who joined in a successful effort to
drive a saloon from the place. As
manv as thirty were arrested; every
j present at the time of the dam
age was summoned to court. J.ne pios-
ecuting attorney of the county strove
for two years to procure a conviction
of somebody; reporters In numbers be
sieged everybody concerned; dui not
one of the women weakened or betray
ed the secret. Twelve knew who was
guilty of breaking the first window of
the saloon, but they covenanted with
one another to keep the knowledge a
secret, and they have kept their word.
When a man freely admits that hh
wife is not stubborn, he can afford t.
' stop prayinjc
THE FARM AND HOME
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO FARM
ER AND HOUSEWIFE.
How to Set and Cultivate a Hedge
Fence Batter Should Be Shipped in
Good Condition Keeping Squirrels
irom Corn Cribs. "
To Make Hedge Fences.
I have on my farm 134 rods of osage
orange hedge. Up to the end of the
t fr.i,ttr vdq t tit wViiori tim it wn a
'
, f tt S1 nfr rfMl Crime
a, ..v,- i
farmers consider a hedge a nuisance,
but if given the proper attention this
is not so. The chief aim in makig a
hedge fence is to have it tight near the
bottom. To accomplish this set the
plants five inches apart. The secret
in getting a good fence is to get a good
start of plants at the first setting. The
soil should be rich or heavily ma
nured. Cultivate the same as corn.
It is a difficult task to keep a hedge
within a prescribed limit. Start it
three feet high and six inches thick,
then trim closely eacu time. In spite
of careful work the width will increase
so that a periodical reduction by cut
ting off some of the old wood is neces
sary every few years. Two trimmings
a season are usually sufficient except
during a wet summer, when growth is
rapid. Cut when the shoots are yet
tender, damp, rainy weather being
preferable. One man can trim a mile a
day if done at the proper time. A care
less or lazy farmer should not think of
growing a hedge, for he will not take
care of it. Orange Judd Farmer.
Ship Butter in Good Conditiou.
I believe, says a correspondent of the
Creamery Journal, that butter can and
onirht to be made so it could not be
substituted. It is an article that has
leen jn use a good many years and will
reiuan a necessity and command a
good price if properly made. Now, let
every one who js interested in the dairy
i,usjuess stop so much kicking and put
his shoulder to the wheel of progress in
the manufacture of pure creamery but
ter. Let every owner of a cow who
sends milk to a factory do his utmost
to help his butter maker. The butter
maker should attend to his. work care
fully and see that there is nothing left
undone in making and preparing his
butter for the market, and I think it
would give better prices, make it more
pleasant to do business, make better
times and better people.
Squirrels in Corn Cribs.
Wherever squirrels are prevalent,
care should be taken to prevent them
from eettinz at the seed corn. Itois not
a good plan to hang the seed corn In the
crib, as the open, slatted sides to allow
ventilation the squirrel can easily enter,
and his agility makes it impossible to
keep seed corn from him, no matter
how carefully it is braideU and hung
where neither rats nor mice can get at
it. The squirrel does not care for the
bulk of corn in the crib. He is very
dainty in his food, and is sure to take
that which is hung up, and carefully
dried for seed. The provoking part of
it is that he destroys far more corn
than he eats. He cares only for the
chit or germ, leaving all the rest as
only fit for hog feed. Exchange.
. About the Hog.
Must our breed of hogs be abandon
ed? For a century or more the hog has
been bred for "an aptitude to fatten,"
until it has been brought to a form in
which the snout is disappearing and
its body is too heavy for its legs. Fat
has been the object, and also attained,
but it is claimed that the hog has been
so changed that it is now more sus
ceptible to disease than formerly, while
the quality of the flesh has diminished.
One breeder in the West crossed his
Poland Chinas with a "razor back"
from Georgia, and reports that his pigs
are hardier and the bacon brought bet
ter prices. In England and Canada the
farmers are using boars of the Tam
worth breed, which produce more lean
meat than fat, and the bacon from the
hogs so produced brings from 15 to 17
cents per pound in England, while that
from the United States, abounding in
fat, brings from C to 8 cents per pound.
The celebrated Smithville hams, from
Isle of Wight County, Virginia, which
have held their reputation in market
for half a century, are from the "razor
back" breed, and the Irish breakfast
bacon is from hogs of the Tamworth
and active Irish breeds.
Barn Ventilatim.
An Ingenious way of securing ven
tilation on a long barn with two cupo
las was as follows: There were large
windows in the cupola, and a stick ran
across from one window to the other
that was six inches longer than the
cupola was wide. This stick fastened
on to these windows. Now, when the
south wind was blowing hard it shut
the south window and fastened out
the one on the north side, and when
the north wind was blowing hard It
shut the north window and pushed
open the window on the south side six
inches, and in that way formed a cer
tain amount of ventilation in the top
of the barn. From the stables there
ran ventilating flues that opened out
near the roof. It was a very ingenious
way of securing automatic action by
the wind Hoard's Dairyman.
Tlie Cow Stable.
Twice a year, at least, the cow stable
needs a thorough renovation Spring
and Fall. Renovation should mean in
this instance a rigid cleansing of the
floor, walls and ceiling, so that there
is no dust or dirt or persistent bad
odor clinging about the apartment.
Flavor now nlavs such an important
must be kept, not like the ill-smelling
place that it often is, but a clean,
sweet, airy apartment. After you have
once got it set in order it takes but a
nominal amount of labor to keep it so,
and vou have as a reward he:
cows, clean, pure milk and more
than though no especial attention
paid to this. Of course, the more
ern your stable, the easier it is
clean and sweet. Ohio Farmer.
Churning with Bull Power. I
In winter we feed thirty poun
ensilage and ten to twelve pount
hay. and a grain ration, consistu
two-thirds bran and one-third co
seed, making about four quarts
twsr i-nw
i " - - .
Our ensilage is made from nor
corD which is cut five-eighths
incn aud put in when the ears
to giaze. The corn beipg ma
- 1 makes up for the extra grain r:
and also makes it unnecessary
crease the grain ration during thel
ter months. Our price for the yea
butter is 27 cents per pound, an!
cream is 30 cents a quart. We
our cream with a separator, whlcl
sens the work in the house, ond
ahead of any other method of mi
butter. Our separator and chv.
run by a tread power, which Is od
ed by a two-year-old bull who enjoys
Jt very much. The power Is located in
the carriage house, with a fourteen
foot shafting running to the creamery.
New England Farmer.
The Shropshire Ram.
The Wisconsin station found that by
using a selected, well-bred Shropshire
ram with ordinary ewes excellent re
sults could be obtained. The lambs
were dropped in March, and in April
were given oats, bran and corn meal.
In July ground peas were given in
place of cornmeal and in September
the quantity of peas was doubled until
October, when oilmeal was added. The
roughage was clover hay all summer, a
little green clover and some rape. The
result was that yearling lambs (over
one year) weighed 220 pounds live
weight and lambs dropped last March
weighed 120 pounds in November. It
is possible that if the ewe lambs are
retained and mated with a pure-bred
Shropshire ram better results can be
obtained next year.-
Bankiug Karth Around Trees.
As it is often done, the banking of
soil around trees in fall to prevent mice
from barking them does more harm
than good. If any sod, weeds or other
rubbish are included in banking up the
tree, the object is not only defeated,
but the liability to injury is increased.
The purpose should be to oblige the
mice to climb up above the snow line
and expose themselves to their enemies
while gnawing the tree. This they will
rarely do. for much of this work is done
at night 'when their natural enemy, the
owl, is most watchful. But if the mice
find vacant spaces around the tree, as
they surely can if sod or rubbish are
used, they can work under this pro
tection with greater safety than if the
tree were not banked at all. Still it is
better to bank young apple trees, at
least as high as the snow line usually
comes. The warmth from the tree
makes a vacant space in the snow all
around it, and it is under this protection j
that most of the destructive work is !
flone
Spontaneous Combustion.
The fact that tire sometimes arises
from the heat generated by fermenta
tion was illustrated In a big malt house
in Syracuse, N. Y., lately. The ware
house held 1,800 bushels of barley
ready for malting. It was unfortunate
ly damp enough to begin fermentation.
In so large a mass, this soon started
smoke from the windows of the ware
house. The fire department was called
out, but as no flame was visible it did
not know where to apply water without
danger of causing the flames to burst
forth and destroy the woodwork. The
building was very old and inflammable.
At last the grain was let out of the
room in which it was piled, and by be
ing shoveled around so that it could
not set fire to anything, all further dan
ger was avoided. There are often
cases where hay is blackened by being
fermented too much. Clover hay is
most apt to suffer in this way because
it has so much nitrogen that it heats
very rapidly. Usually, however, there
Is so much carbonic acid gas evolved
by fermentation that it suppresses
flame and the pile of fermenting mate
rial merely smoulders.
Burning Potato Tops.
Much of the difficulty from rot in the
potato crop comes from the general neg
lect to destroy the potato tops so soon
as the crop is harvested. Potato rot
is a fungous disease which fastens first
upon the leaves and stems of the pota
toes, and is thence washed into the soil
bv rains. It causes rot when it reaches
the tuber. It is known that the germs
of the disease adhere to potato stems
and leaves until they are destroyed,
and this can only be surely done by
burning them. Yet we have known
farmers to carry potato tops to the
barnyard to be used as bedding, and
composted with the excrement there
dropped. No better means for propa
gating potato rot could be devised than
this, unless it be feeding rotting pota
toes to stock and leaving the uneaten
portions to be trodden into the manure
pile. Exchange.
Good Horses.
Good horses are essential to prosper
ity in any country, and American farm
ers are every year now- losing the best
markets of the world by not breeding
high-class draft and coach horses to
Most of these markets wait live or ten
years forrfarmers to breed up and ma
ture good horses. Those who get the
good mares will be first to get into mar
ket with good horses, and those who
have to grade up will find it a long way
off. There are but few good mares left
and still less stallions, not enough to
supply the demand when hreeding he-
gins. estern Agriculturist.
Smokehouses
The best smoke houses are made of
brick with a cement or brick floor. A
house six by seven feet is large enough
for most farmers. Seven feet is about
the right height. If the door is made
of wood, it should be lined with metal.
The Inside should be provided with
hooks on which to hang the hams or
other meat. For providing the smoke,
corn cobs make a good fuel. Massa
chusetts Ploughman.
The Cabbage Stein Rot.
This disease has been fully deter
mined by Dr. Edwin F. Smith, of the
Agricultural Department at Washing
ton, to be caused by bacteria. The dis
ease can be induced in healthy plants
by Inoculating them with the germs.
There is no remedy for plants so dis
eased, but the disease only appears
when cabbages have been planted two
or more years in succession on the same
land. By planting, therefore, on new
land, or where some other crop has
been raised the previous year, the dis
ease does not prevail. Vick's Monthly.
Cost of Things in 1814.
Julian Brewer, of Annapolis, as ex
ecutor of his brother, the late ex-Senator
Nicholas Brewer, has fallen into
possession of a bill from William Kilty,
debtor, to William Alexander, under
The
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NOTE All readers of this paper can have Three Free Bottles of the Doctor's New Discoveries, with complete directions,
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French Women as Business Helpers.
Miss Anna L. Bicknell writes an ar
ticle on "French Wives and Mothers"
for the January Centuvy. She says :
In the families where the father con
ducts any business the wife becomes
his best clerk and usually his cashier.
The wives are exceedingly intelligent
and acute, extremely sharp at driving
onrprains, aim accurate in Keeping ac
counts. They are their husbands' part
ners in every sense of the word, and it
is wonderful to see how they acquit
themselves of such a multiplicity of
duties. Self is completely annihilated;
and if weak health is mentioned, it is
never an impediment to what they have
to do for their children or their hus
bands, but is mentioned only as a dis
agreeable accompaniment to a necessary
fatigue, without an idea of using it as
an excuse for shortcomings.
COULDN'T MAKE IT.
The bull that tried to butt down a bridge,
and the goat that tackled an anvil, couldn't
make it, and were knocked out, bruised j The curfew ordinance is enforced in
and bleeding. From such bruises down to 1 about -300 Western cities, with such
pin-head blue spots they are curable, easily good results that the women of Au
and surelv. The men who get the worst j gusta, Ga., have petitioned for its en-
uiuises always get the nest cure. niey
make it everv time. There are right ways
and wrong ways of doing things, as the bull
and the goat found out" The best cure for
a bruise is St. Jacobs Oil. The right way
to cure is to use it and liiid out.
Blind fishes, two inches long, similar
to those found in the Mammoth cave,
have been taken from a well belonging
to Mrs. Jennie Bristen, at Kussell
ville, Ky.
OBSTRUCTIVE STORMS ALONG THE
COA ST.
Reports of maritime disasters along the coast
come in thick and fast. People w ho "go down
to the sea in ships" should bear in mind one
thing in particular, namely, that it is highly
desirable to take along a supply of. Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters as a remedy for sea sickness.
Nausea, dyspepsia, biliousness, constipation,
malaria, nervousness and kidney trouble, all
, succumb to its beneficent and speedy action.
PERSONS WORTH KNOWING.
French's bust of the late General
Walker, which was secured through
subscriptions of undergraduates, was
presented to the institute of technol
Dgy, of Boston, on January 5, the first
anniversary of General Walker's death.
Forty musicians of Kansas City have
3onceived the design of giving practi
sal expression to Shakespeare's opin
ion that music hath charms to soothe
the savage breast, and will give a per-
j formance on each Sunday afternoon to
I llie inmates of the workhouse.
Archibald, the name given to Bis-
j marck's grandson, in honor of Lord j
j Rosebery, is the favorite name of the
Rosemarys, as James
is the favorite
Abercorns, Charles of the Richmonds,
William of the Portlands and Anthony
of the Shaftsburys.
Chief Judge Andrews, who retired
from tb,e court of appeals of New York
an January 1, was elected an associate
judge of that court in 1870. In 1881,
' when Chief Judge Folger rereigned to
I nter the cabinet of President Arthur,
Judge Andrews succeeded him, and
since that time has not missed a day
of active service.
Harvard this year, for the first 'irae,
has a colored person as a candidate for
the degree of A. B. , in the person of
j voung colored woman from Mil'erton,
N." Y.
The London Stock Exchange has an
orchestra composed of the members of
the exchange, accounted one of the
3nest amateur musical organizations in
the city.
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Terra cotta sleepers are :n nse on
Japanese railways. The increased cost
is compensated for by thegre.iter resist
mce of decay.
A dull, throbbing pain, accompanied
by a sense of tenderness and heat low
down in the side, with an occasional
shooting pain, indicates inflammation.
The region of pain shows some swell
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inflammation of the ovary. If the roof
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tion of the ovaries. I also suffered
with falling of the ryomb, was very
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CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED IN ANY CLIMATE.
James Bain's Heroism.
James Bain, chief engineer of the
ill-fated steamer State of Florida, not
only risked his life, but deliberately
sacrificed it, to save a woman. The
distaster was most pitiful. The steam
er collided with a bark in mid ocean,
and both vessels sank almost immedi
ately. Only two men were saved from
the bark, and .only -A handful of passen
gers and part of the ship's company
from the steamer. Bain was safely in
one of the life-boats, which was about
to cast off, as there were as many peo
ple in it as it could hold. At that
moment he saw a woman at the steam
er's rail. She was too dazed to move.
The steamer's deck was almost level
with the water. Bain deliberately left
his place in the boat, stepped onto
the steamer's deck, lifted the woman
over the taffrail, placed her on the seat
he had occupied, cast off the boat, and
went down with the steamer. Every
Day Heroism, by Gustave Kobbe in
the January Century.
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A writer in a magazine has made the
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the world will only know three lan-
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Success has attended an effort at
banana growing in Fitzgerald, Ga.,
where a plant reached the height of 12
feet and put forth satisfactory fruit.
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Europe. In the number of suicides
Russia is ahead.
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Edward Marsden, a student in Lane
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"Walter Baker & Co., of Dorchester,Mass..
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Governor Bushnell, of Ohio, gave a
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