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A COMEDY. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. J ' They parted, with clasps of hand. And kisses, and burning tears! Tbey met in a foreign land After some twenty years. Met as acquaintances meet, Smiling, tranquil eyed; Not even the least little beat Of the heart upon either side. They chatted of this and that,' The nothings that make up life; She in a Gainsborough hat, And he in black for his wife. Ah, what a comedy this I Neither was hurt it appears; Yet once she had leaned to his kisr And once he had known her tear The Indian Laasaaxe. Free Press Reviewer. ) One singular fact is the infinite di versity of language. Not only every tribe, but every band, of which there are sometimes tifty in a single tribe, has its own dialect or jargon, perfectly un intelligible to all who do not belong to the band. In all times the Indians have disdained to learn even a few words of an enemy's language. Stranger yet, the Cheyennes and Arrapahoes for three-quarters of a century have been firm friends, camping and hunting to gether and making war upon the same enemies at the same time. The children constantly romp and play together in the common camp. Yet not one in ten of either tribe can hold the most ordi nary conversation in the language of the other. Unable to speak each other's language, the Indians of the west have constructed a wonderful sign language by which they hold intercourse. Ges tures, signs, are more or less natural to every one. Among the plains Indians alone have they reached their most wonderful development. So compli cated and elaborate is the sign lan guage, consisting of countless gestures and movements, the slightest variation in which marks wide differences in meaning, that only a few Indians in a tribe are completely masters of it, and the masses can only use it slightly. The signs do not indicate letters, nor words, as with the deaf and dumb, but ideas. There is one sign to indicate hunger, another for "stop talking," another for summer, and so on infinitely. Yet an expert sign-talker will either make or interpret a .long speech, which consists of an infinite number of signs, follow ing each other with lightning-like rapidity. Two strange Indians will meet on horseback, each unable to understand a spoken word of the other, and while holding the reins with the left hand, will converse for hours with their right, telling stories or relating their experience without a single mis understanding. "HI Faith la L.lve Stock Fell. Ben: Perley Poore. Henry A. Wise told the following story while he was in Washington dur ing the Know Nothing excitement. A negro fisherman in Norfolk. Ya., came one day to his master and said : "Alaska, I want to buy myself free. I got tree hundred dollars, sir ; I will pay you dat down, and gib you de rest when I mek urn." "Very well, Tom," said his mas ter," you have been a faithful fellow, and I will comply with your wish." The money was accordingly paid, and the inchoate freedom of Tom commenced. A few days afterward Tom went out to fish, in compauy with a fel low servant, and there came up a blow which capsized the fishing smack and drowned Tom's companion. The next day Tom came to his master and said : " Alassa, I change my mind, sir ; I don't want to buy myself any more, sir." "Why, Tom," said his master, "you have already paid a large portion of your price, and. by industry in your profitable calling you will soon earn and pay the residue, and you had better carry out vour original intention." "No, massa, was Tom's economical re joinder. "I radder hab my money back; nigge4roperty too unsartin, sir." Mat ters were, accordingly, put in statu quo, and Tom abandoned all chance of being a freedman, and quietly and voluntarily returned to the condition of slave, being unwilling to lish, on his own hook, in the troubled and perilous waters of freedom. Possibilities) of Astxstos. Chicago Tribune. Asbestos is becoming a valuable and much-used mineral. It has been lately discovered in its purest form in lower Canada, and the Quantity is said to be nraetieallv without limit. The fibers are long, pure white, and as fine as silk, and the district covered comprises two counties near Quebec, to pvhich city the product is brought to be crushed and cleaned, and from which point large shipments are now being made to England and the United States. The possibilities of th!s mineral range over a field that is simply marvelous. Fire-proof paper, rope, an ink that re sists the action of fire, as well as the weaving of textile fabrics, such as tablecloths, asbestos cloth, gloves, etc., while in the range of building mate rials, fire-proof paint, packing lor safes, floor-deadening, roof-protection, cover ing for steam pipes, etc., are among its more common uses. Its cheapness is its chief recommendation to many, but its thoroughly incombustible nature is of special value, because, in spite of the so-called protec tion received from an i insurance company's guaranty against fire, there are many combustible things that could not be replaced which can ! be made of asbestos and made secure from thib destructive element. j A glgalfleant Muj.s;ee.tion. Somerville J urnal. "I see," said Mrs. Youngwife. as she folded the newspaper and took up her sewing, "I see that the Mormons have their wives sealed unto them." "Yes," replied her husband, looking up from hia book; "that is the custom, I believe, my love." "I don't see why Somerville wives should not be sealed unjto their hus bands," pursued the lady, as she threaded her needle. . "In what way, dear?" I "With a sealskin saoque, ns it were," and the lady chewed her thread medi tatively, while the husband muttered "selah!" and pretended to be gazing at the ceiling. Couldn't efttand It. London Punch. He Er 'm awf'ly fond of music ain't you? Not this sort of ; thing, you know. Can't stand the drawing-room amateur nevah could. Sorry to sayVe not been to heah Mme. Schumacker this yeah. Nevah had time. Told she's in splendid form. Like her playing awf'ly should know her touch a mile 'off. Dying to heah her : " She "So am I and if you would only be so very kind as just to hold your tongue, I dare say we might both manage to heaz her now 1" (Mme. S. has been playing for the last tea iainutti!) A SOULLESS LIFE. B. L. R. Dane in N. O. Times-Democrat I knew a woman, who held in a. strong, fine body a soul as sensitive as a wind harp; every breath made it vibrate ; minor melodies, the white and classic beauty of a statue, the tones of color in painting, the subtle thought and stately flow of a poem, the song of a bird, sunlight on the sea, the velvet bloom and curve of a woman's cheek, the muscles sloping under the brown skin of a man, even the yellow eyes of a happy-hearted daisy, all filled her sensu ous soul with exhausting, unspeakable rapture. ' In like proportions were her griefs ; all harsh, all unlovely things jarred upon her as cruel, jangling discords; and wounds that to healthier, more robust'natures were but as bramble scratches, to this foolish, sensitive spirit were as the thrust of a dagger whose wounds rankled forever. ' By one of those inexplicable decisions of immutable fate this woman was placed among surroundings that re quired a spiritual equipoise like that of her body. No more intolerable life for such a nature may be conceived. Her wild struggles against her destiny were in vain, for the walls of implacable cir cumstances are not beaten down by any fluttering;, even the most passionate. One still black night, after long years of spiritual travail and unending tur moil, her soul died within her. She felt that a change was upon her; lain all in lily white along her virgin couch, staring with wide eyes into the black ness that clasped hex all about, touched faintly with aw e, but most conscious of supreme exhaustion, knowing that the end had come. The ceaseless struggle that raged within her was wearing toward its close ; was it bodily death ? She hoped for that, believed it was and met it with a glad courage, yet some shrink ing of the flesh, such as the bravest feel standing at "the strait and dreadful pass of death." What was to come after the passing of breath? Oblivion she believed, but that one cannot know ; in any case, she did not fear, it could be liO worse than life "W'f know not whether death be good. Bur- life at least it will not be." And the slow, heavy pulsing of her heart was but the involuntary struggle of the flesh, like the convulsive flicker ing of a lamp when the oil is all gone. Thus she lying etraightly, with her arms beneath her head, waited calmly, somewhat curiously, what might come. All her life, her tossings to and fro of soul, lay clearly before her; and re membering these things, she yearned toward repose, toward oblivion, as dazzled eyes ache toward utter dark ness. Heavier her heart throbbed, but surely, slowly iier soul slipped from her. flarod up once more faintly and died. All through the hours' of darkness she lay motionless, neither conscious nor unconscious, as lies the- overthrown Memuoa in the black desert nights. With the light she woke to life, but a life numb and frozen. The dawn did not touch her lips into song. Her hated surroundings no longer filled her with loathing; a quiet lack of feeling was all she knew; she was an one par alyzed, but not of the body. This filled her with fa'nt surprise at firBt when she found her pleasures gone also; music no longer thrilled her, beauty hat! lost its power. She tried sometimes to rouse emotiou again, to spur her old hates, her fervid predilec tions, but ever fell back after the effort with a calm reali ation of the useless ness of it. Long, deep thought showed her the true cause at last, and the only sen-ation she knew was desire to con ceal it, like the effort a madman makes to hide his loss of mind. She rarelv looked in anv ones eves, fearing they might see through the soul's windows how dark and empty was the house ; ever keeping her lids lowered, as a woman who loves, or a man who feels a drug mounting to his brain. Carefully she always said the things she had been used to say, fierce, scorn ful or tender, as her fervid feelings had been. Saying them with precision, but mechanically, as one who feels the fumes of chloroform and though con scious of what he must say, painfully hears his own words as from thousands of miles away mingled with the gigan tic thunders of his brain, and vaguely wonders what they mean, what ideas they reprf sant. And so lived out the long life allotted by unrelenting destiny, undetected save once by a man who loved her; a man with very subtle instincts, who looking deeply in her eyes started away with fear; he could not pierce the depth of those dark wells. He left her full of awe, as one who had seen the dead rise and walk, and grasping into the dark after the vague truth that ever inst eluded his grasp Once, aud only once did the tears ever come to those vacant eyes, when she stood by the grave of one she had loved much, and felt a faint pathos in her absence of grief. At last, the flame having died out, the fuel slowly fell to cold gray ashes. Krnpp's Fifty Too Hammer. Chicago Tribune. The great fifty-ton hammer in Krnpp's works at lessen gained its name, "Unser Fritz," and the inscription it bears, "Fritz, let fly! in the following man ner : When, in 1877, the Emperor Will iam visited Essen this steam hammer attracted his attention. Krupp pre sented to him the machinist, fritz, who, he said, handled the hammer with such nicety and precision as not to in jure or touch an object placed in the center of the block. The emperor at once put his diamond-studded watch on the spot indicated, and beckoned to the machinist to set the hammer in motion. 1 ritz hesitated out of consideration for the precious object, but Krapp urged him on by saying, ".Fritz, let fly!" Down came the hammer, and the watch remained untouched. The emperor gavo it to the machinist as a souvenir, and Krupp added 1,000 marks to the present. A ttiant' Hquare Meal. The Philadelphia Record gives the following as the bill of fare which Chang, the Chinese giant, consumed at a recent lunch : Four large plates of soup, forty-three fried oysters, two rare tenderloin steaks, nineteen baked po tatoes, two dishes of stewed tomatoes, a large roast chicken, three bunches oi celery, two custard pies, one mince pie, one apple pie, five cream puffs, six bananas, a pound of figs, two oranges, twenty-six ginger-snaps, and eleven slices of bread and butter. He also drank eight goblets of water and foul cups of coffee. Robert Collyer : There is an attempt in the buoyancy of youth to do too many things, and not the more solid de sire to do one thing well. THE TRUE ESQUIMAUX. A Point Barrow Traveler Dispels s Few Current False Idea. (Lieut. Ray, in Indianapolis News. "What nation of people inhabit tht country?" "The true Esquimaux. They do not extend into the interior any distance, but find their living along and in the sea. They are truly a race of sea peo ple. They have a continual struggle for existence, and resemble children in their improvidence. If one chances to Becure an unusual supply of food his friends and neighbors invite thomselves to a f eait at his expense, and soon it disappears. There is perfect community of property aud food interests among them. Hos pitality is to them an unknown virtue, for w hat is one s equally belongs to them all. There is a village right at the Point of about 130 souls, and the entire population of the coast for about 600 miles is only 70). The only animal that can exist with them is the dog, and they are very sear. e. 1 et, notwithstanding all these drawbacks to what we could con sider even mere existence, I think they are the happiest people on earth. They are contented with their lot. They have no Hod, no religion, no govern ment, no laws, no money, nor any idea of what it is, no marriage, and yet. they are not heathenish in the least. They are very quick witted, and it was not long after we landed before they were ab e to understand our wants by the signs we made. They speak a tongue the like of which I never heard any where else, ai:d I believe they are in digenous to the country, a purely "ice peoph ," I do not agree with the the crics of ethnologists respecting their origin, that they have been driven from their original homes by a stronger race. They have not yet grown be yond the stone age, using stone knives, and other implements. They could havo iron, which is cast up by the sea from the numerous wrecks which it contains, but the conservative old men refuse to use it, holding that it is wrong. So they do have a sense of moral percep tion. This was further showu when it became necessary for me to change the law of property. I could not, of course, undertake to feed the entire village from my stores, as they evinced a unanimous willingness to have me do, and at the first they threatened to carry off everything I had. But after they understood that this was not to be al lowed they always respected meum et tuum. "Their only weapon is a spear, of primitive design and workmanship,about seven feet long. It has an ivory point, and along its side three prongs are set. They are curved, and serrated on the lower edge. When they throw this into a flock of ducks, if the point misses its aim the prongs tatchithe bird around the neck, and the game is secured They use a hand-board to accelerate the force and speed of the weapon, and are able to project it sixty or seventy yards with great force. .t twenty-five yards they can dr.ve it through a man. "On the trip to Meade mountains I found evidence of a fo.iuer population, of whom the present residents have not even a tradition. There were ruins of huts centuries old along the north shore, and the discoveries seemed to astound the natives who were with me." "How do the t'squimaux compare with our people in height and figure?" "I measured UK) oi them, aud the averaged height was live feet and nine inches and weight UK) pounds, rather above that oi' average Americans, and I never saw a fat Esquimau." - What about the;r habits?" "Well, they don't eat blubber nor drink whale oil. I never heard of a case of the latter, and blubber is only eaten to prevent starvation. There has been a good deal of rot written about the Arctic regions and the inhab itants thereof. The stories about their food are a portion of the romancing in dulged in. The Esquimau may slice a thin piece of blubber and lay it on his deer meat, the same as we put butter on our bread, but unless he is starving that is the extent of his use of it. And I am informed by whalers and others who have been up on the east coast that the people there are the same in their customs and manners as those among whom I spent two years." Confession or sv Yoanjc Diplomat. (Bismarck's Letter to His Wife in 1S5L "In the art of saying nothing in a great many words 1 am. making rapid progress. I write many pages of let ters which read like leading articles, and if Manteuffel, after perusing them, can tell what they are about he certainly knows more than I. Every one of us pretends to believe that his colleagues are full of ideas and plans ; and yet all the time the whole body of us know nothing, and each is aware that the ethers know nothing. No man, not even the most malicious skeptic of a democrat, can believe what charlatan ism and big pretense is all this diplo macy." Khan ties la Color. (Southern Letter. The use of green and red seems uni versal in Atlanta. Negro shanties as well as the more princely dwellings are colored in this way. There U a regular craze for fancy paints. All sorts of novel and even grotesque effects are sought. One citizen has put his fine house in a blood-red garb with jet black trimmings, and the e.Tect is not by any means disagieeable to the eye. Their Land.pfnare. Exchange. The Indians residing in Oregon hold that it is a violation of their re ligion to deal in land; that the Great Chief made them from the dust of the earth, and after they wandered on its surface for a certain length of time they returned to its bosom and again became part of, the elements of the earth. Lealing in land they regard a dealing in their own flesh and blood. A Crael Invention. Norristown Herald. A fish-pole has been invented that will register every fish caught. The pole will have a perfect sinecure when we go fishing with it. If the rod doesn't register the fish purchased from the small boy, when your own luck has been a disastrous failure, it won't give satisfaction. Poverty, The younger Dumas says : Toverfy destroys pride. It is difficult for an empty bag to stand upright. It would be just as logical to say. "Poverty makes no abatement in pride. An empty cask will stand up as straight as a fall one." A northern farmer, when asked what he thought of Florida, said; "WelL the land's worth bout 50 cent3 an acre, but the air's worth Tout $150 as aore." A WONDEEFUL REMEDY. a. nt; r stents t "I- ' ' ' r- diseases introduced: to the public by Drs. Starkey & Palen, 110U Girard street, Plul ostoinK?. t r mnct . iivm rl Arfii 1 cures in Consumption, Neuralgia, Catarrh, Rheu matism, etc. xnousanas nave uceu i electa fmm ,, rr Ait nn cr t.h nLst thirteen years, and hundreds saved from death, by una new discovery, ocuu wi pmet, in wmcn you win miu. nu ucoucu rri tn a. treatment which is destined to revolutionize the practice of medicine. All orders for the Compound Oxygen Home Treatment directed to H. E. Math ews, 606 Montgomery Street, San Fran cisco, will be filled on the same terms as if sent directly to us in Philadelphia. Can a man with a big heart be light hearted? HTB ANCESTORS' NERVE. The Secret of Their Unusual Vigor Explained and How It Can be Acquired. There was something about the sturdy vigor of former generations that chal lenges the admiration of every man, wo man and child. Thev were no epicures those ancient fathers.' They lived simply, and successfully met and overcome diffi culties that would have discouraged this age and generation. The riprors of the frontier were supplemented by the sav ages; wild beasts threatened their enter prise and poverty was a common compan ion. Yet they bravely encountered and resisted all those things and laid the foun dations of a land whose blessings we now enjoy. Their constitutions were strong; their health unsurpassed and yet they were forced to expose themselves contin ually. There certainly must have been some good and adequate cause for all this and for the physical superiority of that age over the present. it is well known to every one conversant with the history of that time that certain home compounds of strengthening quali ties were used almost universally by those pioneers. The malarial evils and exposures to which they were subjected necessitated this. When their bodies became chilled by cold or debilitated by the damp mists of a new country they were forced to counteract it by the use of antidotes. Medicines were few in those days and doc tors almost unknown. Hence the prepara tions above referred to. From among the number, all of which were compounded upon the same general principle, one was found to be more efficient and hence far more popular than all the rest. It was well known through the middle and west ern states and was acknowled as the best preparation for malarial disorders and ? general debility then known. 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AsaLivermedioineT.UTT'S PIXIES have no equal. Their action onthe Kidneys and Skin is also prompt ; removing all Impurities through these three "scav engers of the system," producing trope, tlte, sound digestion, regular trtools, aclear 8 kin anda vigorous body. TCTTS VllLii cause no nausea or griping noi Interfere with daily work and are a perfect -r ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA, Bold everywhere, arK. CHliff.44 Mnrry bNJf. TUTTS HAIR DYE. Grat Hair or Whiskers changed in. - stantly to a Glosst Black by a single ap plication of tMs DTE. Sold by Druggists, or sent by express on receipt of St. Office, 44 Murray Street, Nw Yotic. TUTT'S MANUAL CF USEFUL RECEIPTS FEEL I. Mfiq The Strongest and Best I THOMAS PBICE. Analytic Chemist, pronounces the GIANT BAKIXO POWDER nearly one-third stronger than any sold on the Pacific Coast San Francisco, September 24, ISSX H. E. BOTHEf, Praident Bothin MI'I Co.: Dear Sir: After careful and complete chemical analysis of a can of Giant Baking Powder, purchased by us in open market, we find that It does not con tain alum, acidi host'hate, terraslba, or any Injuri ous substances, but is a pure, healthful Cream Tar tar Baking Powder, and as such can recommend it U consumers. YIL T. WEXZELL t CO., We concur Analytic Chemists, R. BEVERLY COLE, M. D.. J. L. MEAR3, M. I . Health Officer. ALFRED W. PERRY. M D.,l Members of Ssn "W. A. DOTJftLASH, M. D., f-Franciseo Board AUa. ALE Ed, M- IX. J of Health. n&nafactared by the BOTHIN MT'G COMPANY, 17 and 13Ma!n Street, San Francisco. II. WILSEY, Of the firm of Fairbanks & Wllsey, has Just ar rived from France with their third importation of Moim Staliife: The only direct importers from France to the Pacific Coast. Selected by him with great care from the best stock in France. Our motto: "Quick sales and small profits." 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Inordinate itching of the skin is allayed at once by bathing the parts. For Piles, Cuts, Ulcers or Sores, no remedy is so prompt in soothing and healing. It does not smart er burn. Is absolutely vegetable, therefor perfectly harmless. Directionsin ten languages accompany every bottle. PAPILLON CATARRH CURE Cures all diseases of the nasal organs, by insuffla tion, injection or by spraying, cleanses the nostrils and permits natural breathing. It is a specific curefor Cold in the Head, Snuffles, Sneezing, Wat cry Eyes, and Pain in the Head, Bronchial Catarrh, Acute or Chronic Catarrh. Rose Cold and Hay Fever, this remedy will permanently cure, as many testimonials certify. The application is soothing, not irritating. It does not smart. Directions In en languages accompany every bottle. PAPILLON COUGH CURE can be administered to infants without tha slightest danger. It is a harmless vegetable syrup, very delicious to the taste, that relieves and positively cures Whooping Cough at once. It is a permanent cure for Bronchial or Winter Cough, Bronchitis and Pulmonary Catarrh. The many testimonials receded by us, almost permit us to warrant a cure. It is wonderful how promptly it relieves a hack ing cough in children or adults. Directions in tea languages accompany every bottle. PAPILLON BLOOD CURE. A specific cure for ail diseases of the Blood, Liver, Stomach, Bowels and Kidneys. It is the prescrip tion of an eminent physician, who has used it in his practice for thirty years. For all diseases oi the blood, as Anemia, Sick Headache, Nervousness, Female Weaknesses, Liver Complaint. Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Biliousness, and Kidney Diseases, this medicine is absolutely sure. Restores the blood to a healthy condition, and prevents disease. Direo lions in tea languages accompany every brtli FOR SALE BY ALL DRUCCISTS, Redington & Co., General - Agents, 8AN FRANCISCO. CAL. Redington, "Woodard & Co.t Portland.. Or IOXT NMOKE rL.ru i BUT TRY Sea! of North Carolina PLUG CUT. It ia Better, Cleaner and Cha per. rAI ICM A Kl5 btanrts unnvailvi as tha DAUSMAN'Sbest chewing to- nCAPU DIIIO BACCO ill tiii WORLD. UCAUII rLUuOne plug In every box TOBACCO st!t?' ,nm 10 "" KuSpjcptsq.! lbsv a positive reined r (or the above disease ; by itsi tixrasanas of eases of ths worst kind and of lonsj tandlns; hsve been cured. Indeed, sosiron la my (aliis la Its emoacy, tfaat I wUI send T'0 BOTT'.td FHEK. W sretber with a VAL0ABLB TKEATIHI on tlile tlli-.il.Kj any toAerer. OI ve Sxpnes and Y. O. sddrm. JW. X. A. vLoCUM. IH fsari Hi- Trakv S OXJT! McDOWELL, HAS FnAXCIHCO. CAL. 11-1 11 A-iXli JllMI'JIlVl r ; lKfSP- MONEY FOR ALL WHO READ, lifk iafifti men OR POOR. THIS OFFER GOOD TILL JUNE I5lh. The National Standard Dictionary, rry. t r fl.lA. si4 . yea s sulwcnpllon to the Iblrtwe r.Blrrprhe, tutHlwr with two rmpu fxi for two riruu lu our tt.triKauon June lllh. Tue Dictieiiery rirariju iu vur llUHUll tflilll sWU. 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