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- TU Appmrltlon 1b the Elevator
Some years ago a young man came to
Chicago from Germany. His father had
cat him off from his annuity. - He lived
in the same house where I lived. He
finally obtained a place in one of the bis
grain elevators here. I do not know
what the place was except that he had
something to do on the top floor, away
lap under the roof. Several men were
employed with him in the same place.
One day while he was dusting he sud
denly stopped and asked his assistants
who that nicely dressed old man was
that Was standing back there by the
shaft. Strangers are never allowed in
these big elevators, and to see one there
well dressed was enough to excite com-
. ment. His companions looked in the di
rection indicated and said they saw no
one. He insisted, and-.when they laugh
ed at him he went to the place where he
saw the figure standing. On his ap
proach it vanished.
The young man fainted. He recov
ered and then asked his companions to
jnake a note of the occurrence, the date
and the time of day. He said the figure
he saw was that of his father. In
twelve days he received a letter from
the old country telling him of his father's
death. The date and time agreed with
the date and time of the occurrence I
have described. - The letter informed
him that his father had forgiven him
and remembered him in his will. He
returned to the fatherland, got his por
tion of the estate and is living there
now. You may say what you please,
but I have never felt like scoffing from
the time I heard this story. The spirit
of that boy '8 father appeared to him on
the top floor of that elevator. Eugene
Field in Chicago News.
-Why the Shark Is Always Hungry.
As it is a source of wonder how the
Sea manages to exist in the sand, where
his chances of obtaining a meal may
not occur once in a lifetime, so natural
ists are puzzled as to how the shark
maintains himself. The ocean is, wide,
and the number of men who fall over
board small indeed in colnjiiiVison to its
area. The vast proportion of sharks,
then, must go through their lives with
out a remote chance of obtaining a meal
at the expense of the human kind.
There is no ground for the supposition
that the shark can exiA upon air; he is
not like the whale, provided with an ap
paratus that enables him to sweep up
the tiny inhabitants of the seas. He is
too slow in swimming, and infinitely too
slow in turning, to catch any fish that
did not deliberately swim into his mouth;
and unless we suppose that, as it is said
of the snake, he exercises a magnetic in
fluence over fish and causes them to rush
headlong to destruction between his
jaws, it is impossible' to -imagine how he
obtains a sufficient supply of food for his
sustenance.
Indeed, it would appear that it is only
when he gets the good luck to light upon
a dead or badly injured fish that the
shark has ever the opportunity of mak
ing a really square meal. ' His prolonged
fasts certainly furnish an ample explana
tion and excuse for his alleged savagery
of disposition. London Standard.
Uses for a Bottle of Gold Paint.
A twenty-five cent bottle of gold paint
is a capital investment for any woman
She will find a dozen occasions for its
use every week of her life. Perhaps she
chips some bit of Japanese or other
fancy porcelain la dusting; a brushful
of gold paint; over the chip will make
everything right. A gilt picture or mir
ror frame may be bruised or tarnished;
call in the little bottle again and remedy
in five minutes and for a fraction of a
cent a damage the cabinet maker would
; charge a dollar to repair and keep yonr
frame a couple of days besides.
By the by, you girls who are clever
with your paint brushes, did you ever
spend a few dollars at the damaged
counters of .the large Japanese stores?
Do you know that you can buy for a
trifle lovely delicate vases and bits of
oriental wares that would sell for many
'dollars were it not for a crack or a chip
somewhere. Buy them joyfully, take
them home tenderly and spend half an
hour with your paint box, filling up the
nick with flour paste, plaster of paris or
putty. Any of these will take color
nicely, and if carefully painted and
dried the vases will be practically as
good as the best. New York Press.
An Ideal Way to Live.
"The man I marry ,".quoth a vivacious
young woman the other day, "has got
-to promise to give me a yacht home.
I've just been visiting some friends' who
live all the year round on their yacht.
During the summer - they cruise about
our northern waters and in winter go
south, ' taking in the Mediterranean,
Japan or Norway and Sweden by way
of occasional outings. The yacht, a
large schooner, is gorgeously fitted and
has every needed convenience, comfort
and luxury, including a well stocked li
brary, aboard. It is an ideal existence
no calls to make, no balls, no shop
ping, no uncomfortable gowns, sunshine.
fresh air and the starlight what can
one want more'-" Her Point of View in
New York Times.
v .-: " where Amber Is Found.
The largest quantity of amber is found
on the southern shore of the Baltic, be
tween Memel and Konigsberg, where it
is cast np by the action of the ground
swell after the northerly gales. It is
also found on the coast of Sicily, on the
shores of the Adriatic, on the English
beach of Norfolk and Suffolk and at
Cape Sable in Maryland. Mining for
amber in beds of brown lignite or wood
coal is carried on in Prussia, and it is
found in excavations all over Europe.
Philadelphia Times.
- Lobsters Die Clams.
There is nothing which lobsters, when
grown, are so fond of as fresh, fish.
Flounders and other bottom fishes fre
quently fall a prey to their appetite, and
sometimes they will nimbly capture
small minnows as the latter go swtm
ming by. They dig clams out of the
-mud or sand and crush the shells of
mussels with their claws, devouring the
soft parts. Washington Star.
LVjLU water cures all
A UNIVERSAL PANACEA FOR
SUFFER-
. ING HUMANITY..
'The Abbe Sebastian K.ielpp" and His
Power of Healing A Patient De
scribes the Method of the Priest's Treat
ment Cold Water Used Externally."
Few Americans have seen the little
village of Woerishofen, between Mem
mi ngen and Augsbourg, in Bavaria, and
yet for the past four or five years this
httie burg has attracted as many visitors
as Bayreuth and Oberaiumergau. Woer
ishofen is celebrated not for its mineral
waters, not for its bracing air. but for
its marvelous cures performed by the
priest of the village, the Abbe Sebastian
Kneipp. Each year at least 30,000 in
valids make a pilgrimage to Woerishofen
and endure all inconveniences in order
to be cured by the Abbe Kneipp.
The Abbe Kneipp is a celebrity in
Germany. He is called a genius, a
savaut, a benefactor of the human race.
Everything in the village is named for
the wise priest. For instance, there is
Kneipp coffee, Kneipp bread, Kneipp
linen, etc. Always at least a dozen
physicians are present at the consulta
tions of the priestly healer, and these,
after thoroughly understanding his sys
tem, will found Kneipp Anstalten at
Stuttgart, Munich, Wurtzbourg, etc.
This good abbe believes that water
will cure all the ills to which flesh is 1
heir. A friend who went from Paris to j
consult the Abbe Kneipp has told me of j
her experience at Woerishofen, and of
her great admiration for the abbe's wis- j
jom. '
the abbe. !
In the village there are only three or !
four primitive inns', bat most of . the in
valids lodge in private houses no less
primitive. The abbe has been compelled
to build a large house for the benefit of
the clergy, for priests also ask to be cured
by their confrere.
The abbe receives at the presbytery,
and begins consultations at 8 o'clock in
the morning. The great physician sit?
in a large room ou the ;r;-innd floor, sur
rounded by pupils. Tk' abbe is a fine
looking man. His regular features and
fresh complexion denote health, and his
broad, high forehead, hardly touched by
a wrinkle, is framed in white hair.
His eyes are the bluest and brightest I
have ever seen, for his soul seems to be
concentrated in these eyes, and they pene
trate you through and through in fact,
to make a diagnosis, the abbe only looks
at a patient and in diagnosis he never
errs. Some who went to the priest with
despair in their hearts left him buoyed
up by courage and with the assurance
that their diseases were not incurable.
Although the abbe says "I cannot de
stroy death," still he has cured many
whose diseases baffled the skill of others.
A man whose face was disfigured by a
horrible cancer asked his advice. Calm
ly the priest said, "It is easily cured,"
and after several .weeks of lotions and
baths the cancer disappeared. The blind
have recovered their sight and the lame
have walked.
According to the Abbe Kneipp overy
disease originates- in the blood; there
may be a disturbance in its circulation,'
where may be a derangement of its com
position.
WHAT WATER DOES.
Water alone can act thoroughly ou the
blood, and water produces four notice
able effects. It dissolves the injurious
principles of the blood, eliminates that
which has been dissolved, restores regu
lar circulation to the purified blood and
fortifies the debilitated organism. In. a
talk with the abbe after consultation
hours, he said that fifty years ago people
did not take cold as at the present time.
Why? Simply because the body was more
hardened to changes in temperature.
Water makes the body capable of en-
daring all climates, and the best way to
begin the treatment is to walk barefoot
in the wet grass. ' After a quarter of an
hour s promenade without drying the
feet, one must put on dry shoes and
stockings and exercise until the feet are
very warm. ' "If you can find no dew,
no wet grass," said the abbe, "walk on
cold, wet stones, or even on the snow.
That is my remedy for those who are al
ways taking cold.
The abbe's treatment varies according
to the malady. For some he prescribes
vapor baths, for others wet compresses,
for others baths with oats or hay added
to the water, etc. The water must be
as cold as possible, and in winter snow is
preferred. But a cold bath must never
last more than five minutes, including
the time required for dressing and un-.
dressing, and the bather must never use
towels, but always exercise for fifteen
minutes after the bath. Friction only
causes unequal circulation, but exercise
produces a uniform heat.
Warm baths should always be followed
by a plunge in cold water. -The good
abbe says oca must never drink too much
water, and the least possible during re
pnsts. i "Driuk a little water before eat
ing, very little while eating, and two or
three hours after drink as much as you
wish. Paris Cor. New York World.
Proceeds of a Jackknife.
The champion horse jockey belongs in
Belfast in the persons, of Lije Walker.
Just to give his boy an idea how to get
along in the world Lije started away
from home one day on foot and nothing
in his pockets bnt a jackknife. He was
absent just one week and returned driv
ing a pair of horses harnessed into a top
buggy. Hitched to the rear axle was
another horse and' a cow, while ahead
was a dog. "See how your pap does it,"
said Lije to his son, as he gazed at the
time of day from a handsome watch.
For a fact be had got the whole turnout
for his jackknife, and swapping the prv
ceeds into one thing and another. Bsl
fast (Me.) Mail. .
One Little Thing.
little things that count,"
"It's
Hicks.
said
"Ye-es," returned Ma wson. VButvery
inaccurately. My boy can't count eleven
without making . about forty mistakes."
Harper's Bazar. -
Coolnesa In a Mixed College.
There is a coolness , between, the boys
and the girls of the Stanford university.
It all came about from a question of pro-'
priety. The , boys gave a ball in their
dormitory, hall on Monday night, to
which they invited all the girl students,
as- well as the ' professors. Elaborate
preparations were made, and the young
men anticipated an evening of enjoy
ment. They hired a band, and had the
dormitory beautifully decorated. -.
One or two of the more modest and re
tiring of the maidens in the girls' dormi
tory were shocked at the avowed inten
tion of .some of the girls to - attend the
ball, and called a meeting of the girls, at
.which there was a long discussion of the
affair.
Many of the fair students said they
could see no harm in going to the ball as
long as the professors were willing, but
the more prudish damsels read & strong
lecture on the evils of such doings, and,
on a vote, there was a majority in favor
of not attending the ball. . So none of
them went.
The boys waited long for the coming
of the fair ones, but they came not. At
first the collegians were very angry.
Then they took the dancing floor them
selves and made a "stag" party of it.
They say, however, that for future fes
tivities they will send no invitations to
the girl students. This suits the ultra
modest among the latter, but the sociable
girls feel crushed. San.'' Francisco
! Chronicle, r -i - f
A Tremendous Barley Farm,
"We have now secured 250,000 acres
of land in North Dakota for barley
rarnis, ana next spring we win sena
thousands of German emigrants to that
state from Ohio, West Virginia and In-
diana," said Colonel O. M.,Towner as
he discussed the future of this great
northern state. Colonel Towner is man
ager of what is best known as the Barley
syndicate of Chicago. During the last
two or three months the company has
succeeded in securing 250,000 acres of
land in North Dakota, on which it is
proposed to place G-ennan farmers to
raise barley for malt purposes. These
lands have been purchased in Nelson,
Norman, Towner, Ramsey, Steele and
: Bottineau counties.
It is the opinion of the managers of
this company that barley can be most
successfully grown in that state, and
they have the conviction of their belief
sufficiently to purchase these lands and
to send out emigrants from other states.
The Germans are chosen on account of
their knowledge of barley culture for
this purpose. These emigrants will not
be tenants, but owners of the land, it
being sold to them on easy terms. The
crops will be bought by the company
and shipped to all - points where there is
a demand for barley. St. Paul Pioneer
Press. - ; :
To Celebrate the Marseillaise.
Another effort is being made by the
inhabitants of Choisy-le-Boi, outside of
Paris, to . observe with much solemnity
and ceremonial what is - vaguely called
the "Centenary of the Marseillaise."
Choisy-le-Roi claims to possess the dust
of Rouge t de l'lsle the composer of the
hymn who was buried there in 1836,
his birthplace being Lons-le-Sanlnier, in
the department of the Jura. On'this ac
count the members of the borough coun
cil consider that they have the right to
take the initiative in organizing a Right
Republican festival this year, as the Mar
seillase, under the title of "Chant de
Guerre de l'Armee du Bhin," was first
heard in 1792. "
President Carnot is to' be asked to be
come honorary president of the commit
tee of the fete, and appeals for funds
will be made to all the cities,' and also
to communes which possess more than
4,000 inhabitants. No date as yet has
been fixed for the celebration of the cen
tenary, to which it is presumed that
every patriotic Frenchman will give his
sentimental and sympathetic if not
practical and pecuniary support.
Paris Cor. London Telegraph - ,
. A Mnch Traveled Volume.
In opening a package of books wrapped
in tin, the cnstoui bouse inspectors cut
with a knife the binding, by Ruban, of a
"Poor Richard Almanack." The import
er made no claim for damage from the
government, paid the duty, returned the
book to Paris to be rebound and wrote
an ode to Diana of Poitiers, goddess of
book lovers, in gratitude for the miracu
lous escape of the text of Ins Almanack.
The book, rebound, came back fifteen
days ago. ' The owner supposes that it is
intact, but he does not know, and he
cannot learn even by paying the duty
again, for the official wants a new in
voice, and the importer is naive enough
to think that he can persuade the official
that the first invoice, which is filed at
the custom house, accurately describes
the book on its fourth voyage across tbe
Atlantic. New York Times. '-'-:':
A Jtusso-Chinese Railway ..
A Russo-Chinese railway is reported
as the objective point of negotiations
now going on between Russian and
Chinese representatives. Russia ' wants
the right to build a railway from Vladi
vostock, the Pacific terminal of tbe, pro
posed Siberian railway, across the north
ern boundary of Corea to Tien-Tsin, and
thence to Shanghai. The alleged ob
ject is quick transit of Chinese tea and
silk to Europe. The Chinese, however,
are very jealous of Russian influence
in the east, and . will probably decline
Russian aid in railway building. En
gineering News.
Dr. John Piente, the amateur telescope
maker, is now finishing a 30 inch silver
on glass mirror for Alleghany college,
which, when mounted, will give that in
stitution tbe largest reflecting telescope
in this country.
An immense flume is being construct
ed near Fresno, Cal., which will not
only furnish water for irrigating pur
poses, but will be used to transport lum
ber needed by farmers living near by.
It is pretty hard to be told at the be
ginning of a long, cold winter that gold
table services are coming in. It was
hoped that they had gone out to stay.
KNOCKING OUT A JEHU.
atesentment of the Insults of a Big Stage
, Driver -by a Little Dade.
Colonel William Greene Sterrett, of
the Galveston-Dallas News, tells- this
story: - - ;
"Once, a good many years ago," he
said, "I was traveling in a stage in
western Texas. It was long before the
snort of the locomotive was heard on
the prairies of that region, over which
the buffalo yet roamed. At one of the
Stations a young Englishman and his
wife got in. He was a little fellow and
dressed a3 a typical Englishman what
we now call a dude. The driver was a
big, raw boned six footer. He was a
noted fighter. He had never been whip
ped and was a regular terror. ' He
seemed to take a dislike to the little
Englishman from the start. Presently
he stopped the stage, got down, came
back and threw open the door.
" 'Here,' he said to the Englishman,
'you come out of that and get up on the
seat with me. - There ain't room for you
in there.' The Englishman didn't move.
'Come out, I tell you,' roared the driver.
The Englishman just sat still. 'If you
don't come out, I'll haul yon out by the
legs, shouted the Jehu. Then the rest
of us expostulated with the driver. I
was too tired to fight and couldn't get at
my gun, so I just expostulated along
with the rest. We told the driver there
was plenty of room inside; that the Eng
lishman was not crowding us, and that
i if he (the driver) insulted or injured any
of his passengers he would be discharged
by the stage company. The driver by
this time was wild. He swore he was
in command of that stage and that he
proposed to run it to suit himself, and if
that blankety blank cuss didn't come
out he'd pull Ijjin out.
" 'All right,' said the Englishman, at
last. 'I will come oat, and when I am
out I will whip you soundly.
"He got out slowly. We all felt sorry
for him and sorrier for his wife. She
didn't seem scared or worried, though,
and all she said was:
" 'Charley, don't let him scratch your
face.
"Well, when the little Englishman
got oat he took his coat off and handed
it back into the stage. Then he started
toward the driver and the driver started
toward him. We heard a sound a good
deal like that made by hitting a steer in
the head with an ax. Down in a heap
went the driver.: He was up as quick as
a flash. Down he went again. Actually
that little English dude knocked that
burly six foot driver clean off his feet a
dozen times. How it was done none of
us could tell. The big fellow would
rush at the little nn with his arms go
I ing like flails. Suddenly the little fellow
would make a dash, his right arm would
fly out, an down would go the driver.
After the dozenth round that driver
called out:
" 'Hold ' on, stranger hold on! I'm
whipped and throw up my hands. . You
kin ride anywhere on this stage you darn
please, outside or inside or on the hosses.
You're the . boss now; but,' he added,
glaring savagely at the rest of us, 'I kin
lick anybody else on this stage.'
"We didn't expostulate. The English
man climbed, back into the stage as
quickly as he got off. His wife was sat
isfied, for 'Charley's' face wasn't even
scratched. At the next station the driver
explained that if he'd only have got hold
of the little fellow he'd have hugged him
to death like a bear; -but,' he exclaimed,
'every time just as I was about to lay
hands on him the ground 'd fly up and
hit me on the back of the head.'
"Who was the little fellow? Oh, a
graduate of Cambridge, and the best
boxer of his time at the university."
Washington Post.
Blunders of the Teachers.
A friend, himself for. many years a
teacher, writes: "The blunders of teach
ers of - English literature are sometimes
more amazing than any that are told of
their pupils. I heard the other day of a
woman at the west who, when a class
was reading Tennyson's , 'Day Dream,'
explained to them that the happy prin-
ss, in following her lover 'deep into
the dying day,' went to America! The
laureate would be tickled to know of
this. A year or more ago there was a
discussion in a leading educational jour
nal as to the persons meant in Longfel
low's lines 'To the River Charles,' where
he says:
"More than this thy name reminds me
Of three friends, all true and tried, etc.
"One writer suggested that they were
Professor Cornelius C. Fulton, Nathaniel
Hawthorne and Charles Sumner. An
other thought that Louis Agassiz's name
should stand in the place . of Haw
thorne's, and this was finally accepted
by all concerned. Neither the editor nor
any of his correspondents or readers ap
peared to see the absurdity of making
the name of the river suggest friends
whose names were other than Charles.
Critic - -
; Making the Bight Shade.
Those who have sought in vain for
laces to match the color . of silk on lamp
shades and other decorative articles may
be able to produce the right shade by
using some of the French tapestry1 dyes.
One should experiment on a bit of lace,
first to see if the dyes are properly
thinned, so as to get the desired shade.
Any of the thin laces in silk or cotton
take the dyes nicely. Point d'Esprit and
German Valenciennes looking very well
when treated with the yellow shades.
In the Valenciennes several delicate tints
may be used on the light and the heavy
part of the lace, bringing out the design
with excellent effect. In preparing lace
for the dye, brush and press it carefully,
then stretch it upon a board, laying sev
eral thicknesses of paper underneath,
Dip a small bristle brush in the dye and
lay it on freely. : When nearly dry, lay
the lace on a padded board and press
with a hot iron. New York Post. - -
.A Young Diplomat.
Mrs. Brown I'm afraid to let you have
a bicycle.
Little Johtinie--Dou't feel that way,
ma. Even if it did kill me, remember
that it would be the last thing I ever
asked you for. New York Epoch.
The Brilliant Student's Dilemma.
A Harvard student told me an amus
ing story about himself the other day.
It seems that recently his mother had a
young lady guest at their home on the
Back Bay, and when he came from col
lege in the afternoon he was introduced
to her. At dinner also she sat opposite
him at the table. He paid little atten
tion to the fair visitor, as his mind was
engrossed with a problem in his lessons.
However, his brothers were as assiduous
as possible in entert ining her. As it
happened, the latter had engagements
out that evening, and, as Mrs. A. had
promised Miss B. to have one of her sons
take her to the theater, it fell to the lot
of my friend George, the Harvard man.
He accepted the situation gracefully,
and in due time the young couple set off
for the theatre. Arrivingi George left
his companion at one side of the lobby
while he stepped up to the box office and.
purchased the tickets; then, turning
about, he looked toward the place where
he had parted from the young lady, and
was surprised to see half a dozen there,
and ye gods' is it possible? he could
I not tell which was his precious charge!
Mere was a dilemma.
George said he immediately decided
that, rather than risk speaking to the
wrong person, he would stand still till
the young lady spoke to him. So he
gazed at his tickets for what seemed to
him an age, but was probably only a
minute, when Miss B. came up and said,
"I fear you did not recognize me." "Oh,
yes yes" stammered George, equivo
cating "yes, I did; I thought they had
not given me the seats I asked for, and
was considering what was best to do in
the matter." Boston Herald.
A Story from the American Indians.
Many years ago a boy found a beauti
ful snake, so an Indian legend runs. He
kept it in a bowl of water and took no
tice that small feathers dropped into the
receptacle became living beings. He
experimented and discovered that what
ever he put into the water became alive,
He rubbed some of this snake water on
his eyes and found that he could e
things that were actually hidden in the
ground. Concluding that he would
make the liquid more powerful by put
ting more snakes into it, he hung up a
number of serpents so that their oil
dropped into the water. By putting
some of the solution thus obtained into
his mouth he could breathe fire, and by
placing some of it in his eyes he could
see in the dark.
At will he could transform himself
into a serpent, could become invisible
and could travel at an incredible rate of
speed. An arrow dipped into the liquid
and shot at any living being, even if it
did not hit its object, would neverthe
less kill it. A feather dipped into this
snake water and poyited at any game
would immediately start for the latter
and slay it. This boy became in this
manner a great wizard. Washington
btar
The Amateur Actress.
- We had rather throw aside this pen
. forever than to write a word to discour
age any woman who is conscientiously
striving to earn a position on the stage;
bnt there are other women some in the
profession, some in the audience to
whom it is grossly unfair to put forth an
inexperienced amateur as a star. Con
sider, ladies and gentlemen, what a poor,
miserable art that of acting would be if
anybody could acquire it in a few les
sons, in a year or so, from a private box
across the footlights f o the center of the
stage. It takes a longer time to learn to
be a carpenter or to play a piano, to be
a dressmaker or to paint a picture, to be
typewriter or to cut hair properly,
than amateurs who. -are "now willing to
bestowtrpon' the art which includes, em
ploys and dignifies all other arts from
statuesque posing to wig wearing. If
acting could be taught in a day it would
not be so well paid nor so highly esteem
ed, and good acting would not be so un
common. Stephen Fiske in Spirit of the
limes.
The Evolution of the Sword.
As men in early times fought hand to
hand, the oldest specimens of the sword
are short; in fact, the sword is probably
but an evolution of the club, which at
first made of hard wood was gradually
sharpened on one and then on both sides,
so as to inflict a more deadly wound.
Even today we find some savage races
employing wooden weapons. Wood
gave way to stone, which in turn was
displaced by bronze, iron and finally
steel.
The sword increased in length as men
became more civilized and showed a dis
position to fight farther away from each
other, which required more dexterity in
the use of the weapon. Some specimens
we have of swords of the Middle Ages are
almost if not quite as long as the war
riors who wielded them. During the
Fifteenth century the science of fencing
was invented, when the sword in the
form of a rapier reached the highest
point of development. Kate Field's
Washington.
Unasked Sympathy.
- I cannot touch a piece of velvet with
my fingers or permit the furry side of
peach skin 'to touch my lips without ex
periencing immediately' a sort of cold
chill all over my person. It is not so
very severe, but it is unpleasant. Still I
would prefer to living forever under the
bail of such a chill than to be compelled
to meet once a day one of those oleagi
nous bundles of insincerity and pretense,
the unctuous and effusive chap who
thinks you are not properly treated and
never loses an opportunity to tell yon so.
Of course I am aware I am not properly
appreciated, but I detest being told of
the fact by another person, who never
lifts a finger in my behalf, and who only
wags his tongue in my favor when I am
by to see him do it. Detroit Free Press.
Helping One Another.
A seventh ward man rises in the early
dawn of Monday morning and does the
family washing, because his wife has an
organic heart trouble. After he goes to
bis daily toil, with the consciousness of
having performed his duty, she goes over
and does the washing for the minister's
family. Springfield Homestead.
Colored Glass for Spectacles.
Adams is reported to have been the.
first to recommend the use of blue
glass, but they were at first more widely
used in Germany, chiefly through the
recommendation of the great oculist
Grafe, of Bohm, and others. The blu
color of glass is chiefly to be recom
mended because it absorbs those rays in
their passage which belong to the yellow
and orange portion of the spectrum, in
which the greatest brightness and great
est heat are concentrated, and the eyes,
especially weak ones, consequently
greatly protected by the blu color,
while rays which such eyes are able to
bear obtain access.
The material for blue glasses which
has to be made in various shades to
suit individual eyes, is somewhat less
hard than that employed formerly for
green spectacles and is also1 inferior in
that respect to white glass, but it has
gained in durability compassed with
former descriptions of glass.
Still greater is the progress recorded
in tlie manufacture and hardness of
smoked" glass, also used for protecting
the eyesight This kind of glass, which
is colored gray or mouse colored by the
addition of manganese, formerly suffered
from too great softness by the addition
of a large quantity of lead; but the best
manufactures now made are nearly
equal to white glass in point of hard
ness. The object of smoked glass is to
reduce the glare of light without segre
gating colors. Chambers' Journal.
A valuable antiseptic soap is made by
adding twelve parts of sulphate of cop
per to eighty-eight parts of any good
soap. It will readily heal sores and
scratches and is devoid of any irritating
action.
A half tin- Aiii:!n'.:i people yet there is
on! j-:. jii-.MUin-! of Sarsuparilla that acts ou
tile Is liilil IO--i:-il--s li.'.S irttpo.-raiir. trouble,
and that is Jo;.s VcRcriib!e i-n.-KRpariila. It re
lieve! it in 21 hi.tirs. an-1 nil tH-cuxioiiu.1 dose
prev;::its return. "Ve refer by pel mission toC.E.
E!k':;;:tiii, 1J.", loeust Avenue, Sim Francisco;
3.1'. : : v,-i. retiil.-.ma; II. P. -Winn, Geary Court,
Ei! n !"::..( o,nud hundreds of ethers who hove
use. I i:i .oust iimtiou. One letter is a sample of
hum'.rcds. Elklugton, writes: have been for
years subject to bilious headaches Rnd eonstipa-,
tiou. Have been fo bad for a year back havo
had to take a physic every other night or else I
would have a headache. After taking one bottle
of JL V. S. , I am in splendid shape. It has done
wonderful things for mo. People similarly
troubled should try It and be convinced."
Joy's
Vegetable
arsaparilla
Most modem, in ert'et rii-. largest bottle.
Lme price, Jl.0.1. . ;'..r F.i.Uj.
For Sale by SNIPES & KINERSLY
THE DALLES. OREGON.
j PEOPLE
Say the S. B. Cough Cure is the best
thing thev ever saw. We are not
nattered for we known Real Merit will
Win. All we ask is an honest tiial.
For sale by all druggists.
S. B. Medicine Mfg. Co.,
Dnfur. Oregon.
& Severe Law.'
The English peo-
: look more closely
the genuineness
il '.r,r-gSSlX oltl
'. these staples than
do. In laef, they
have a law under
which they make
seizure and de
stroy adulterated
products that are
not what they are represented to be. Under
this Hu: ule thousands of pounds of tea have
been burned bceause of their wholesale adul
teration. Tea, by the way, is one of the most notorious-iyudulterated
articles of commerce. Not
a:ot:e are tho bright, shiny green teas artifi
cially colored, but thiu"-ani!s of ponnds of
kuW,! utoi'irir tea leaves are used to swell
tbe b.::'.,.i ilr.'sp tea ; uvh, sloe, and willow
leaves iic'.us those mot. commonly used.
AgfJ i, swecpiujjs fr ra tea warehouses are
colored anil sold as tea. Even exhausted ten
leaves gathered from the ti-a-hnuses are kept,
dried, and madcovemud f.:;d their way into
, tUe.jicnp teas.
The Kiigiish govf-minent attempts to stamp
this o'.:t by onCsct-.;i n; but no tea Is too
poor f.T -, and the result is, that probably
the p: jre.-t teas used by nny nation are those
touxiimcd iu America.
Eee-h's Tea is presented' with the guar
anty Oat it is uucolored and unadulterated; .
in fact, the sun-cureo. tea leaf pare and sim
ple. Its purity insures superior strength,
about one third less of it being required for
an infusion than of the a-tiflcial teas, and its
fragrance and ezqnisite flavor is at once ap-
. parent. It will be a revelation to you. In
order that its purity and quality may be guar
anteed, it , is sold only In pound packages
beariug this trade-mark :
' BEECH& TEA
'Pure As
mdhbod?
Price 60c per pound. For sale at
Xieslie Bntlor's,
THE DALLES, OKFGOS.
STIPATION.
REAL MERIT
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