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.
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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
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observed, restoration, unless the physical
system is too far broken down, will follow
iu nearly every case. All desired infor
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I have seen remarkable results from use of Swift's
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cancer I ever sawand was nearly dead. The Srst lnt
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PORTLAND. OREGON.
t DownriKht Cruelty.
T permit yourself and family to
, "Suffer!"
j With sickness w Wen it can be prevented
and cured so easily
j With Hop Bitters!!!
I Having experienced a great deal of
"Trouble!" from indigestion, so much
so that I came near losing my
Life I
My trouble always came after eating any
food
However liKiit
And digestible.
For two or three hours at a time I had
to go through the most
Excruciating pains,
"And the only way I ever got"
"Relief!"
Was by throwing up all my stomach con
tained. No one can conceive the pains
that I had to go through, until
"At lastl"
I was taken ! "So that for three weeks I
lay in bed and
CouJd eat nothing!
My sufferings were so that I called two
doctors to give me something that would
stop the pain; their
Efforts were no good to me.
At last I heard a good dal
"About your Hop Bitters!
And determined to try them."
Got a bottle--in four hours I took the
contents of
One!
Next day I was out of bed, and have not
seen a
"Sick!"
Honr, from the same causse since.
I have recommended it to hundreds of
others. You have no such
"Advocate as I am." Geo. Kendall,
Allston, Boston, Mass.
Columbus Advocate, Texas, April 21, 'fc:J.
Dear Editor: I have tried your Hop Bit
ters, and find they are good for any com
plaint. The best medicine I ever used in
my family. II. Talkner.
f3T None genuine withotrt a bunch of green
Hops on the white label. Khun all the rile, poi
sonous BtulT with "Hop" or "Hops" in. their
name.
ban
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If fc k i k T
23 cm u a. X I
Stronyest, 1 trenf, lirst and Most Pcononi
iral in the Market.
Never Vance in Qu ty
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tU'.n, C'heiiiifStn snd l;ieinlen of 1 - '.J
i'rancUeo lioard of Hea th
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crrmur av ititAxicii & iiac;ii
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i Warranted to relieve or ,
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