FROLICS OF A FATHER. :. ; Solid Comfort Takeu by a Young: .Harriett Man While Inducing to Sluiiilwr Ills lirst Born Sou and Heir. Having settled themselves at a table in Tom's back room the young man proceeded : "I just had a rich time until that boy of mine was three weeks old. Then the nurse left, and my wife said I could just as well help her as not, and I was only too tickled to be able to do something to make myself useful. We had no crib for the youngster then, and he slept with us, between his mother and me. 1 was cautioned not to roll on him in the night, and I tried hard to keep still, but I hadn't been asleep more'n a min ute when my wife dug .me in the ribs and yelled: '(let up! you're lying on Adolphus. I got up, moved over into my place, and tried to sleep, but I got on the baby again, and finally wrapjcd mys;lf in a blanket ami spent the rest of the night on the iloor. The next day 1 gut a crib. Then my real trouble be gan. The boy would be fed and j.ut in to the crib, and I'd turn in. My pleas ant dreams would Uee as the plaintive yell of that youth cut the air and struck ine with the energy of a steam hammer. Aided by a gentle push from my better half, Til climb out, pick up the boy, and. clad in the clinging folds of a night-shirt and pair of slippers, I'd sit me down to woo the gentle god of slum ber on my son's account-. This attempt at wooing the gentle god is the direct cause of the ruin you see before you. Just the minute I picked the baby from his bunk he stop yelling and look at me in wide-eyed surprise and seem to say: 4 Where" in thunder did you drop from?' Then, as I sat down and tried to get him comfortably balanced on one of my knees, he'd begin clawing the air and grunting contentedly. -About this time I set my foot in motion, trot! trot! and accompanied it with a se ductive 4sh h h h, th ere e e' that I hoped would soon lull hini to sleep. But nary lull. He'd look at me. smile his grandmother says it's colic that makes him smile and then take in the furniture piece "by piece, and stare stupidly at the dimly burning ga-jet. He was perfectly cool about all this. Nothing was done in haste. Each pict ure, chair, ornament, would receive a minute inspection from these wide opened blue eyes, and your humble servant kept 'digging away at the trot! trot! and 'sh h h' scheme all the while. Suddenly there would be a slow closing of the little white lids and the blue eyes were hidden. Aha! Now lie was going to sleep. At last! And I'd work the trot! trot! with renewed vig or. Then he'd sigh a tired little sigh, and when I was sure he was fast asleep I'd start to lay him back in his crib. 15 ut just as I would lean over to lay him down he'd open his eyes, too hap pily, and sem to say: 4 Oh. I'm not asleep; I was just having some fun with you,' and there was nothing to do but to take him back to the chair and begin the whole business over again. Another three-quarters of au hour would drag wearily by, and a second time the baby's eyes would close and sleep appear to have come at last. How carefully I'd sneak over to the crib and gently lay him on his little quilt How- tenderly I'd tuck him in and wish that he'd sleep for a week or more to give me a chance to catch up on what I'd lost. He doesn't move, and I tip-toe to the bed that had known so little of me for some time. I sneak -in under the covers, stretch myself, think there never was anything so eonifort able as that bed, and close my eyes for a refreshing nap, when there comes from the crib a suspicious grunt, fol lowed by a string of spasmodic coughs and an unmistakable yell. Painfully I climb out of the restful bed, snatch that infant from his downv couch and quiet him with the same old trot! trot! trot! while the chill juight breezes float through the ooen window, and play peek-a-boo with my modest knees under the flapping flap of my night-shirt. This has been my nightly programme for about two weeks, ami you see the result before you. I haven't slept twen ty consecutive minutes in twenty con secutive days. You said something about having comfort with that boy. I fondly hoped I'd get it. I'm still hop ing." And the gloomy look again stole over the face of the happy father. Hir eyes gazed vacantly into space as he mechanically made his way to the door, and with shuffling, uncertain step, he tottered away. Chicago Tribune. JENKINS' EARS. How It Cui(4 a W;ir lietvvecn Kngland and Spain. On April 2t., 1731, the English vessel Kebecca, Captain Jenkins, is vi-ited by the coastguards of Havana, who accuse the Captain of smuggling military goods. They find none on board, but they ill-treat him. by hanging him lirst to the yard and fastening the cabin boy lo his feet. The rope breaks, however, and they then proceed to cut oft" one of his ears, telling him to take it to his King. Jenkins returns to London and claims vengence. Tope writes verses about his ear, but England does not choose to quarrel with Spain just then, and all is apparently forgotten. Eight years after some insults o fie red by the Spaniards to English vessels brought up again the topic of Jenkins' ear. He had preserved it in wadding. The sail ors went about London wearing the in toription Ear to ear' on their hats. The large merchants and ..hip owners espoused their cause. William Pitt and the Nation in general desire war with Spain, and Walpole is forced to declare it. The consequences are but too well known. Bloodshed all over the world, on land and sea. Jenkins' car is indeed avenged. If the English people were poetical, says Carlyle, this ear would have become a constellation, like Bere nice's Crown. Contemporary Pvicw. M. Blondin, who many years ago walked on a rope stretched above the Niagara Bapids from shore to shore, is now sixty years old, and a rope-walker still, at ioO a performance, i lis home is in London, lut as the E lglish law requires him to provide himself with a net agaiust a possible fall, he usually gives his useless exhibitions on the Continent. Buffalo Express. ' At a meeting of the New York Academy of Medicine, Dr. A. L. llan ney recommended the internal use of hot water in the treatment of nervous diseases. The theory of its action is ' that the nerves of the stomach are di rectly influenced by the introduction of heat into the empty organ, and that the accessory digestive organs are stimula ted bv it. N. Y. Sun. ' "Hello, there; what do you want?" asked a Brooklyn parrot of a burglar the other Slight, whereupon the burglar left quick. - - AN OLD STORY, II u None tha Less Worth Reading Tlmn It Was (fenerations Ago. Corwin and a number of his Whig friends were going from one place to another, and were discussing the situa tion and laughing over the prospects of Shannon's defeat, wheu Mrs. Shannon, whom none of them knew, entered the stage at one of the minor stations. She listened to their talk for a few mo ments and then give them to under stand that she did not think as they did; that she was the wife of Governor Shan non, and that there .was no doubt of his election. This abashed the several gen tlemen for a moment, but Corwin at once recovered himself and soon began conversing with Mrs. Shannon. He was an accomplished conversationalist, and in a short time she . thought the dark gentleman with whom she was talking was one of the most polite gentlemen she had ever met. lie told her he knew her husband well and talked at length about him, skillfully parrying all questions which might lead to his giving her any idea of his own identity. They finally got to laughing over the cam paign, and Mrs. Shannon .remarked that it was not possible that such a mau as her husband could be - beaten by a fellow like Tom Corwin, who, thev sav, was onlv a wagon bov when a. - young. "Yes," said Corwin, "and who goes round the country speaking from a log cabin." "And," continued Mrs. Shannon, "who is as black as the ace of spades." Yes," returned Corwin, "as black as as black as I am." So the conversation went on while Tora Corwin complimented her in vari ous ways, taking her baby, which she had with her, in his arms and dandling it and calling it "the young Governor." When they reached Columbus Mr. Cor win carried the baby into the hotel- for her, and as he laid it down said: "Mrs. Shannon, I am indebted to you for a very pleasant ride. I will now lay down the 'young Governor' and a few weeks later you will find me laying down your old Governor as well. I have the honor to introduce myselt to you as Tom Cor win, the black-faced wagon boy of the present campaign." History tells how well Corwin suc ceeded in verifying his prophecy how he was elected Governor in 1810, and how, live years later, he was sent to the United States Senate, which he left to accept the portfolio of the Treasury. During the time he served as Secretary of the Treasury he entertained here in grand style, but during the latter part of his life he was poor and died a bank rupt. At least his liabilities were greater than his assets, and it was his good na ture in bailing every man who asked him to do so that made them so. Carp, in the Cleveland Leader. A CLOSE SHAVE. A liailroad Man's Reminiscence of Pioneer Day on the Border. A party of men were telling stories in St. Louis, when one of them said he had seen a good deal of service on the bor der, and had had a good many adven tures, only one of which ever impressed him much. Down at Granada, on the Santa Fe Koad, when it was first opened, he had had a circus all one night with a party of robbers. "1 was in the office ih the eveuing," he said, "getting ready to close up, when four or live hard men came in. They didn't say much at first, but seemed to be looking the ground over. We. were always on the lookout for that kind of chaps. and as the machine was ticking I pretended that somebody was asking me a question. I laughed a little, and seizing the key, I broke in with, Everybody Don't stop the express at G'ranada to-night, whether sig naled or not. Bobbers here.' They eyed me sharply, but said noth ing. The sounder kept up a merry click, and I leaned back in the chair. They fooled around for half an hour and then one of them aked me what time the train was due. 'Eleven five,' I said. 'Well, we want it.' one of them replied. I told him that I would signal it. About 10:30 I got out the red lantern and lighted it. Just as I got it fixed two of them jumped up with re volvers in their hands and said they would save me the trouble. While one of them covered me with a pistol the others tied me flat on my back to a set tee. 1 couldn't move head or foot. After they got me there I began to think what sort of a scrape I had got myself in. The train would come presently and would go living bv, and then those cut-throats would murder me just for the fun of it. I had thought the thing over when I heard a sharp whistle and a roar. The men ran out to the plat form with masks on and revolvers in hand. One of them had the lantern, which he swung vigorously. In going out on the platform they had left the door open, so that I could see things pretty well. I began to hope that the train would stop, for I knew that it con tained men enough to do up that crowd it not taken too much hy surprise. The roar came nearer and nearer, until at last I knew by the sound that they were not going to stop. With the whistle blowing at full blast and the dust flying in clouds, she swept by like a streak of lightning. It was all up with me, I thought. The robbers dropped the Ian-? tern and began to swear. Then I could hear them talking, and pretty soon I made up my mind that the train had stopped down the road a way, and that they were watching it. Before long they took to their heels, mounted their horses and were gone. When the train men came up to the depot, all armed with Winchesters, I was the only oeewpant. They released me and I told them what had happened. A couple of them stayed there with me and the train wen, on. If any express ever came any nearer Do ing robbed without going through the mill than that one did, I'd like to know it. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Sims, the successful dramatist, who cleared one hundred and fifty thousand dollars last year, was borji in London in 1847, and was placed as a clerk in his father's office when nineteen. Hav ing a literary turn, he tried his hand at stories and poems for the magazines and papers, but was unsuccessful for a. long time in gaining publication for any of his manuscripts. His lirst dra matic attempt was "Crutch and Tooth pick," which realized seven hundred and fifty dollars. Then came the "Lights o' London," and he founihiiri- self famous and rich. The Black Hat. Exchange. 1 The black rat, so common in England 300 years ago, has been, it is believed by naturalists, completely exterminated by the gray and dun species of later times. Specimens cannot be obtained by offc-r"-ing extravagant prices; and residents in old houses declare that they have never seen such a thing as a black rat, al though they have heard traditions of their existence. ON FROZEN HEIGHTS. Beaut le and Terrors of a Christinas Day on Mount Washington. After a dangerous ascent through snow-drifts from six to twelve feet deep, and over many places where a false step would have sent me to the bottom of a precipice, I reached the summit of Mount Washington in an exhausted condition at hx p. in., December G. In making the ascent one has to pass through a cloud area more or less dense, and the moisture quickly saturates our clothing, and then the low temperature at a higher elevation freezes your clothes. Such was my experience, and before I could remove my apparel I had to be -"thawed out." The ollieers of the signal service were very much astonished when I made my appearance at their station, and gave me a most cordial greeting. 1 was told that a largo percentage of those who have attempted the ascent during the winter season have "paid dearly for their temerity. After a rest of three or four hours I walked out to obtain a view of the mountain by moonlight. The night was nearly calm and the full moon made every thing appear as bright as day. There was neither cloud nor fog, but a slight mist hung over the valleys. Each par ticular peak of the President's range stood out in bold relief, and the moon light on their mantles of snow and ice made a luminous halo somewhat akin to the corona, while the frostwork on the buildings near me flashed and sparkled in the light. Long I gazed in silent ad miration of the scene. So still and beautiful, yet so drear, it recalled to my mind an Arctic night of many years ago, when in that far-off region 1 stood alone and looked on a similar scene of snow and ice, and the same thought entered my mind as then it is a weird, beauti ful scene, but so desolate that the bright star of hope enters with a light so sub dued as if it were the ray from some distant planet penetrating a cavern of ceaseless silence, solitude and woe. The intense cold awoke me from my reverie and I slowly retraced 1113 steps to the warm lire. Early the next morn ing (Christmas Day) 1 was called to see the sun rise. The same condition pre vailed cm the summit as the night be forethe same quiet atmosphere, free from fog, but the light mist of the night had settled into a heavy belt of fog be low us. If the night was gloriously beautiful, the panorama of the morn ing was surpassingly grand as the sun rose in the east. The rays falling on the fog belt illuminated it with all the colors of the rainbow. It appeared a mass of shimmering light and color. Each peak was encircled by luminous bands, while the small prisms of ice in frost work on the different buildings sparkled and danced, showing all the colors of the solar spectrum, and chang ing from one to the other with the greatest rapidity all color and seem ingly motion. It seemed indeed fairy land. A scene of such grandeur, daz zling beauty and gorgeousness I never again expect to see. As the sun rose higher and higher the fog heaved up under its warm rays, forming itself, like the billows of the ocean, in immense waves of color. But the scene soon changed. From a calm the wind re suddenly to a velocity of seventy miles an hour, and the fog rising formed a cloud completely ob scuring the sun. It seemed that nature during my brief stay intended to show me not only her beauties, but also her grandeur in a storm. Snow and sleet began to fall, and the wind in creasing in violence, the building al though heavily braced on the outside by heavy rafters, rocked and swayed to and fro like a staunch ship in a gale at sea, and I felt it would surely be moved from its foundation. Venturing forth in such a storm would have been seeking de struction, so I 'solaced myself by waiting" its effects from a window. The wind was then blowing over one hundred miles an hour, and owing to the blinding sleet and snow I could not see further than ten or fifteen yards. Immense pieces of frost work four feet thick and eight to ten feet long were torn from the buihlings and blown out of sight. Never before had I experienced anything so sublime as well as fearful, and while the scene of the morning excited my admiration, the storm of the afternoon created profound wonder and rever ence. It ceased as suddenly as it began, and much to my astonishment, on going out of doors to see the efl'eets of the storm. I found the summit as bare of snow and ice as it would have been on a summer's day. The next morning I prepared to descend the mountain, and by dint of considerable labor, many falls and numerous slides, successfully reached tflie base. The scenes I witnessed fully recompensed nie for all the hardships and dangers of the trip. ,S7. Louis (Jlobv-Dcmocrut. Manual Dexterity. It is well known that in its develop ment each new born b"ing passes through very much the same stages that his ancestors have been through before him. Even afterbirth the growth of the child's intelligence simulates th progress of the human race from the savage condition to that of civilization. It has been shown by Prever, and oth ers who have studied infant develop ment, that a faculty which has been acquired by the race at a late stage, is late in making its appearance in the child. Now, reading and writing are arts of comparatively recent achieve ment Savage man could reap and sow, and weave, and build houses, long before he could communicate his thoughts to a person at a distance by means of written speech. There is, then, reason to believe that a child's general intelligence would be best trained by making him skillful in many kinds of manual labor before beginning to torture him with letter?; and the moral to be derived is, that primary instruction should be instruction in manual dexterity, and that reading and writing could be learned with pleasure and with ease by a child who had been fitted for taking them up by the right kind of preparation. Science. - . The? Baltimore courts have struck 0:1; boldly lor e orm. A few davs ago a it a 1 was fined twenty-Jives dollars and sculfiictd to thiee months' iinpris oi.nuMit or lying in hoi so trade. IS-il t. , ore Sun. A CLEAE HEAD AWD A STRONG HEART. If you muddle your brains with any of the whisky compounds which are iold un der the name of "bitters," and which to pers delight in for stimulants, you do your system irreproachable mischief. Brown's Iron Bitters is not one of these. It pro motes healthy action of the heart, liver and stomach. It cleaases and enriches the blood, and fits the brain for the best mental work. The beet physicians pre scribe it, and it is well worthy of a trial by all. A Chinese Legend. The wild apricot is valuable for the oil extracted from its kernel This first came into use, say the Chinese botany books, in our fourteenth century. A good and wise physician lived in a district so poor that he scarcely ever got a fee; so, having found out the use of apricot oil, he said: "If you can't pay, you must do this: Let every patient plant a wild apricot on that bare hill to the east." Fifteen years went by; the hill was pretty well "covered. "Now," said the good man, "I am growing old, and after me you will perhaps-' not be able to get your doctoring gratis. Let the village undertake to keep up this apricot-orchard that has cost you noth ing. The oil will not only pay a doctor, and buy as much medicine as you can want, but it will also do a good deal toward supporting your old men and your orphans." All the Year Pound. 1 arge fortunes are rare in Switzer land, and the sala ies of public func t'onaries very modest. The l'resideat of the Confederation receives ;VU0 a year, few judges more than $l,-Ji0, and there is probably 110 bank manager in the country who gets more than twice that amount. A man w.th an in ome of i',")tKJ js considered very well off in deed, a to have $.,0 -0 is to be rich. The number of modical colleges in the United and Canada is stated to bo 139: Cf medical students there are 12,000, of whom lt),0 Hl are "regulars," 1,200 are homeopaths 7o0 eclectics, and fifty physio-medicals. APPETITE AND DIGESTION. With few exceptions, the first effects of the new Vitalizing Treatment of Drs. Star key & Palen, 1109 Girard street, Philadel phia, is an improvement in appetite and digestion. A chance in the whole personal appearance soon follows. The skin prows clearer, the eyes brighter, the movements more elastic. There is a sense of lightness ami comfort. The chest begins to expand and the weight to increase. All the de pressed or slug-Risk functions of the body take on a better action, and thero is a gradual return to a mors healthy condition. If the Treatment is con tinued, and the laws of health carefully observed, restoration, unless the physical system is too far broken down, will follow iu nearly every case. All desired infor mation ia regard to this remarkable Treat ment will be furnished by Drs. Starkey & Palen. Write to them, and 3-our commu nication will get a prompt response. All orders for the Compound Oxygei! Home Treatment directed to 1J. K. Jlaih ews, 000 Montgomery Street, San Fran cisco, will be filled on'the same terms a.- i.; pent directly to us in Philadelphia. Siawi has signified its wish to be admit ted to the University Postal Union. " WORK, WORK, WORK!" How many women there are working to day in various branches of industry to say nothing of the thousands of patient housewives whose lives are an uneeasing round of toil who are martyrs to those complaints to which the weaker sex is lia ble, Their tasks are rendered doubly hard and irksome and their lives shortened, vet hard necessity compels them to keep on. To such Dr. tierce s "Favorite Preecrip lion" offers a'sure means of relief. For all female weaknesses it is a certain cure. All druggists. A carload of salmon costs $900 at Port land, Or., and sells for 3,OjO in New York. PILES! PILES! PILES! A SURE CURE FOUND AT LAST NO ONE NEED SUFFER. A mire cure for Iiliml, Illeeiliiis. Itching ami T'leer ated 1'iles has been lim:overel lry lr. William (an In dian Kemetly) called Ur. William' Indian l'ile Oint ment. A single box ban cured the worst chronic cases of 25 or 30 years standing. No one need surfer live mi u ntes after applying this wouderftil soothing medicine. Lotions, instrument and electuaries do more harm than gcoi. William's Indian Pile Ointment uhsorbs tlietu uiora, allays the intense itching (particularly at night after getting warm in )d), nets an a poultice, gives in stant relief, and is pri i ucd only for Piles, itching of the private parte aim t.r nothing ! . Kt-ad what (.- It. t, .1. M t.-i:;.!..-rty. of Cleveland, rays about Dr. V. iiiiuiit'n lii..;;m Pin- in nient: "I have us-d scores of Pile r,r. r. I it utfop'.i1 me pleasure to say that I have never founl nttythiii; hi-n pive such :ii.iiuM'i:ite and pel main nt relief us Ilr. William's In dian i iiitieeiit." Koi K.il.-hy all druggists and mailed on leceipt of price, tl. t: I'. Kicharda & Co., wholesale agent. Sail I'r.incioo A CA K !. To all who are eufferinR freni er rors and indiscretions of youth, nervous -weakness, early decay, loss of manhood, etc.. I will send a recipe that will cure you, FKKK JF CHARGE. This great remedy waa discovered by a missionary in South America. 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Sold iv aul Ikugcists fok Fifty Cknts. J. It. U AT f'.S A. O. Proprietors, 4 1 7 Sansjwe Rtreet. Sam Francisot. The experience In the treatment of Cncer with Swift'i Specific (.S.8.S.) would seem to warrant us iu Baying that it will cure this much dreaded scourge, l'crsuos so atlhcteu are mvited to correspond with us. I believe Swift's Specific has saved my life. I hail vir tually lout use of the upper part of my body and my arms from the poisonous eilects of a large cancer on my neck, and from which I had Buttered for twenty ytars. 8. S. S. has relieved ue of all soreness, and the poison ia being forced out of my system, i will soon be well. V. It. KoBisow, Davisboro, G. Two months aco my attention was called to the case of a woman afflicted with a cancer on her shoulder at leaxt nve inches in circumference, angry, painful, and fiving the patient no rest day or night f r six months, obtained a supply of Swift's Specific for her. She has taken S bottles and the ulcer is entirely healed up, only a very small scab remaining, and her health is better than for i years past; seems to be perfectly cured. Kev. Jesse 1L Campuell, Columbus, Ga. I have seen remarkable results from use of Swift's Speeino on a cancer. A young, man here has been afflicted five years with the most angry-looking eating cancer I ever sawand was nearly dead. The Srst lnt tle made a wonderful change, and after five bottles were taken, he is nearly or quite well. It is truly wonderful. M. V. Ckumlev, M. !., Oglethorpe, (ia. Treatise on Blood arid Skin Diseases mailed free. The 8wrrr 8pzcTnc Co., Drawer 3. Atlanta, Ga. N. Y. Office. 153 W. 23d 8t.. bet. 6th and 7th Avenues. UL&O THOMAS 11. BROWN & SON, NOVELTY CARRIAGE WORKS, CHICAGO. ILL. The so Sulkies are made from 48 to 38 pounds, and to fit any horse, and are usod by all tha best !T trainera and drivers in the country. Also by Ex. Oov. Iceland Stanford and others of California. 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