PATENTS! Affectionttetly dedicated to KtH THEODORE HARRY COHN. BE Fit ATX. NOTICE TO INVENTORS. There was never a time in the history of our ooantry when the demand for inventions and improvements in the arts and soienoes generally was so great as now. The conveniences of mankind in the fnotory and workshop, the household and on the farm, as well as in official life, require oontinuai accessions to the appurtenance and impliments of each in order to save labor, time and expense. The political change in the administra tion of government does not affeot the progress of the American inventor, who being on the alert, and ready to per ceive the existing deficiencies, does not permit the affairs of government to de ter bim from quickly oonoeiving the remedy to overoome existing discrepan cies. Too great oare cannot be exer cised in choosing a competent and skill ful attorney to prepare and proseoute an application for patent. Valuable in terests have been lost and destroyed in innumerable instances by the employ merit of inoompetent oounsel, and es pecially is this advice applicable to those who adopt the "No patent, no nav" system. Inventors who entrust their business to this class of attorneys do so at imminent risk, as the breadtn mil dtrenoth of the patent is never con sidered in view of a quiok endeavor to get Bn allowanoe and obtain the tee, THE PRESS CLAIMS COMPANY John Wedderbnrn, General Manager 618 V street, N. W.,Washington, D. C. representing a large number of impor tant daily and weekly papers, and gen eral periodicals of the eountry, was in .titn toil rn nrntent its Dfttrons from the unsafe methods heretofore employed in tliin linA nf business. The said Oon- pany is prepared to take charge of all patent business entrusted to it for rea sonable fees, and prepare and proseoute applications generally, inolnding me ohanioal inventions, design patents, i.n.iu.nrlra lnhnlfi. cnnv riirh ts. interfer- enoee. infringements, validity reports, and gives especial attenion to rejected ..noon If ia nlan nrnnRmrt to enter into competition with any firm iu securing romiffii patents. Write for infltruotionH and advice. John Weddekbuiin. H18 F Street, P. O. Box 385. WaehinRton, D. 0. STOCK R RAN OS. While you Hunpynnr Bubseription paid up yen can keep yimrDrana in ireeui untrue. Allyn, T. J., lone, Or. Honws 0(4 on loft ah(tull(r; cuttle sumo on left hip, nntler bit on riht mr, unci upper bit on the loft; range, Mor row oonntar. - T f. Atnino Or T with hn nn. dor it on lf't sliouldur f horses; cattle aaine m Mi.,nII0 TV. Kiuht, Mile. Or. Cattle brand () Don loft hi.) ami horwiH nume brand on right Bhtnildor. Kriiko. KiKhtmiie. AiikiiiB, J. J., Hoppner, Or. Horses, JA oon nn Ittft. flunk: cattle, name on left. hiD. iWtholwnflw, A. (i., Alpine, Or. Hurnos hrnnilml 7 K uii either shoulder. Hauge in Mor- is ffiiiintv iinn.iiHt.nr, J. W.t llardman, Or, Cattle brand ed It on loft hip and thigh; split in eaoh ear. Hrnnnor, 1'ntnr. Honnbrry Orogon Horse brnnrlod I B on loft Blumhior, Cuttle name on n HnrkoM Ht C, Long Urook, Or On cattle, iu a v miniitintml nn loft hin. oniD off loft ear. nn- ilor half orop nil riht. Uoraoe, name brand on Itttft shoulilur. Hange in Grant and Morn: HroHinan, .Torry, ljena, Or. Horses branded 7 on fight HIIOUHUM", tmum " on it'll. Biuo. IjHrt Har hair orop aim ngiu wr uvmr muiiH. u,.rt,.ii Wm . Monnnor. Or. Horses, J H right thigh; cattle, name on right hip; split in Hrown, Inn, Lexington, Or. Horses IB on the right Bt itio; cattle name on right hip; range, Mor row oounty. Brown, J. ('., Heppnor, Or. Horses, oirole C with dot in noi tor on lft hip; cattle, name. Hrown, W. J., I-iMia, Orctgon. Horses W. bar over it, on the left Hlumldor. Cattln aamo on loft 1,ffilyor. W. ft., Hoppner, Or. Horses, box brimd otv right hip cattle, same, with split in liorg, P. O., Hoppner, Or. Hnraea, P B on left Bhouldor; cuttle, same on loft hip. Ilrownloe, W-J., Kox,Or Cattle. JH oonnected cm leftside; orop on loft oar and two split and mitlillo piooe cut out on right ear; on horses tmme brand on the loft tliighi Itunge in Fox valley, Orant oounty, i 'nrynnr Wnrron. wanner. Or. Horse brand wlOtm riglit stiile; oat tie (throe barn) on right ribs, crop and split in each oar. Kange in Cain.K.. Calob.Or.-Y I on horaea on loft stifle U with quarter circle over it, on loft Hhoulder .wi n left, utitirt on all colts nndor li yearo: on loft shoulder only on all horaoa over 5 years. All range in tirant oouiity. Cate, Chas. ll Vinson or Lena, Or. Horaoa if C on right shoulder; cattle Rame on ngni mp, it. M.ii row nod lltuatllla counties. Cnrriirall. M M.Oallnway, Or Cattle crop out of .aoh oar and UMdorbit, wattle in forehead Itoraos half circle 0 on loft stitle. liango Mor rn uml HmitiiMiL cnnntieH. Curl. '1'. 11.. Joliu Hay, Or. Double oroas on ..!, Kin on cattle. Rwallow fork and umlor bi iu right ear, apuc in ioti oar. nango in uram iMHiniy. 'n aluwpt invrtl A and npmr point ou Hhouldor. Kar uiarkou owi, crop on left ear pundit) upper bit in riglit. W others. onp in rigid and under half crop iu left ear. All raugt in Grant countv. Cook, A. J.,lioua.Or. Horeee, BO on right nhonl iter; Cattle, same on right hip; ear mark square crop otl left and Hitlit iu right. Currin. H. I'urriuHVille, Or. -UoraoB, on left Htttle. Co K.d. H., Hanlman, Or (attle, C with Kin center: horses. CK on left iip. Cochran, It. IC, Monument, (rant (o, Or. MorHiw branded circle with bar bonoath, on left Hhoulder; cattle anme brand on both hips, mark umler alone both eacn and dewlap. Chaptn, II.. llnnlman. Or, Horses branded n on right, hip. Cattle branded the same. AIhu brands CI on horHow right thigh; ca'tlo bhmio braml ou right shouLdur, and cut oil cud of "oouTlaMS, W. M .Galloway. Or. Cattle, H Don right mde.awadow-fork iu each ear; horses, H D ""kIv, j! H. A Hons. Douglas, Or. Horses brand ed &LY on loft shoulder, cattle aaiue ou left bin. hole in right ear. Kuiory, C. M., llardman, Or, Horstw branded ) , reversed C with tail on left Hhimlder ; cat tle name ou right hip. Hango in Morrow county. KltrtMico, L. A., Hoppner, (r. ('attle, LK on right hip;. horses, K with bar, under on right "''t'btreuee. H. P. Hoppner. Or Horses, K on right shtm'dei; cattle, h on right hip or thigh. r ronrh, Geoigo, Hoppner, Or. Cattle brando! WK, witli bar over it. on loft side; crop utl left oar. Hore. samo brand on loft hip. Gentry, Elmer, Koho, Or. Htireee branded H. H. with a quarter cinle over it, on loft stitle. Hun go in Morrow and 0 matt Ha conn tie. Hiatt A. H liidgo, tr.('attlo, rmind-Uip K withiptartor circle under it on the right hip. Kongo in Morrow and Umatilla counties. Hioton JeiikH, Haiiiiltoii, Or Cat tie. two bait itti either lup; crop iu right oar and split in left. Horses, J on right thigh. Hango in Grant county Hughe, Haninel, Wagner, Or-J" (T K L. iMmntH'tcd Win rtulit shoe dor on norths; on oat t It, ou right hip ami on left side, swallow fork in rmhl ear and slit in left- Itaugo in Haystack dint riot. Marrow cunntv. Hulo, Milton, Wanner, Or. Horse hranded -() (cattle with parallel tails) ou left shoulder Cattle same ou left hip also largo circle ou loft slilo. Howard .1 L, (Klloway. Or. HoraosT (oro with h if aliovc it) on rigul shttulder; cattle HHiue on left side. Hang in Morrow and I'lnautla 1 ' Hal "Ktlwin, John Dav, Or. Cattle K Hon right hip; hers same oil right shoulder. Hauge in Grant county. Hughe. Mat, Hoppner. Or. lloraoe, haliHl heart on the left shoulder. Hango Morrow Co. Huiisaker, H A. Wagner, Or. Hursttt, V ou left h'uldor; cattle, on loft hip. Humphreys, J M Uanlmau, Or. lloraea. U on Vlust'on, Luther, Kight Mila, Or. Horw II on the loft shoulder and heart on the left stirle Cat tlo same on left htp. Hango in Morrow county. ,1.ni(. Harry. H"ppn'T, lr- Horses branded II J on the left Bhoitldttr: cattle tkaauiltwt J mi right hip, also uuderhil in left ear. Hange tu Morrow county. J tin km. H. M., Heppnor, Or.-HorBrta, horse. 1n J on left shoulder. Cattle, the aaiut, lUnge on Klht Mile. . , j Ji Or.-HaisM. ireUT on MARIAN FROELICH, Tenderly. to by my heart I iU rise and ten - der, soft car rock thy sor - rows left stifle; cattle, same on right hip, under half tn-op in riutit and suift .n left ear j Konny, Miks, Heppner, Or. Horeee brandod KNV on left hip cattle same and orop off left ear: under lo.e on the right Kirk, J.T., Hoppner. Or. Horses 89 en left shoulder; cattle, iW on left. hip. Kirk, Jense, Hoppner, Or,t horees 11 on left eLonldor; cattle same on right side, underbit on right ear, Knmberland.W. ft.. Monnt Vernon. Or. I L on cattle on right and left aides, swallow fork in left ear and under oiop in right ear. Homes same brand on left shoulder, ltange In Wrant countv. Lofton, Htepiion, Fox, Or. H L on left hip on oattle. orop and split on right ear. Horaoe same brand on left shoulder. Kange Grant ooitntv. Lionallen, John W., Lexington, Or. Horse branded half-oirole JL connected on loft, Bhoul dor. Oattle, same on lefthiu. JUuge, near Lex lutcton Loahey, J. W. Hoppner Or. Horeee branded It and on left shoulder; nettle same on left hip, wattle over right eye, three elite in right ear. Lord, George, Hoppner, Or. Horeee branded double U coi.nectt d Sometimes called a ewing H, on left ehonlder. Minor, Oscar, neppnor. Or, rattle, M D on right hip; horse. Hon left shoulder. Morgan, H. N., Hoppner. Or. Horeee, M ) on left shonldei cattle same on left hip. Mitchell. Oscar, lone, Or. Horses, 77 on right hip; cattle, 77 on right eide. McOlaren, 1). W., HrownsTille, Or, Iforsee, Piiruro (Von each shoulder; cattle, M2 on hip McOirr, Frank, Fox Valley, Or.-Mnle ehoe with toe-cork on cattle on ribs Aid under in each ear; horses Heme brand on left stifle. MnHaloh. u. ninimn. Or. tin tionmm. w with half oirole under on left shoulder; on tttJ, rour oars connected oo top on me riguc eiai Hango in Grant County. Noal. Andrew. Ijono Hook.Or. Horsee A N col noctod on left nhonldar: oattle same on both Mit . Nonlyke, K Hilvorton, Or. -Horeee, oirole 7 on left thiKh; cattle, same on left hip, Oliver, Joseph, Canyon City, Or. A ton cattle1 on left hip; on horsee, same on left thigh, Karure iu Grunt county. Oiler, l'erry, Lexington, Or.-P 0 on left shoulder. Olp, Herman, Traine City, Or. on cattle, f LI' connected on left hip; horses on left stifle and wartle on nose, Han wo in Grant county, Pearson, Otava, Eight Mile, Or. Home, quar ter circle shield on left shoulder end U4 on le't hip. Cattle, fork in left ear, right cropped, 1M ou toft hip. Kanseon Kight Mile. Parker .V Gleason, Hard man, Or, Horeee IP or left shoulder. Pijier. Krnattt, Lexington. Or, Hnre brand A .E (L K connectwl) on left Hhoulder; cattle moon right hip. Hange, Morrow count. Piper, J, H., Ijexingttm. Or. -Horses, .IK con nected in. loft shmiLdar; cattle, same on left hip. onder hit in each ear. Petty, V C, lone, Or.; horse diamond Hon slionldor; cattle, J H J otinnectfd, on the left hip, upper slope in left ear and slip in the rurht. Hood. Andrew, Hardman, Or. Hore, nuar oriw with quarter-circle over it on left stirle. Ketiingor, t'hris, Hoppner, Or. Horses. C 11 tn loft nlmnlder. KhhIi Hros., Henpner, Or. Horeee brand ml 3 on the right shoulder; cattle, IX on the left hip rmip otl left ear and dewlap on neck. Hangw ii Morrow anil adioiuiug counties, Keaney, Andrew. Lexington, Or, Hnremt braudeii A It on right shouldor, vent tpartei circle over brand; cattle same on right hip. Hango Morrow comity. KoyHO, Win. H. DairyTille, Or Hll connectot with quarter circle over tp on cattle on riht hip and crop off right ear and eptit Id left. Horf eiiine brand on loft shoulder. Hange in Morrow Grant and Gilliam counties. Hector, J. W.. Hoppner, Or. Horses, JO ot left shoulder. Cattle, O on right hip. Hpicknall, J. W.. "Tlooeeberry, Or. Horee brandiHl 81 on left shoulder; range in Morn county. Hailing, C 0 Hoppner, Or Horse branded OH loft shoulder; cuttle same on loft hip Hwawgart, H. F.. Lexington, Or. Horeee with datth umler it on left stifle: cattle H with druth under it on rittlit hip, oron off riht ear and waddled on right hind teg. Hange iu Morrow, Gilliam and Umatilla counties. Nwatrnart, A. L.,Alhena. Or. Horse branded i nn left Hhoulder; oottle eame on left hip. Croy on oar. wattle on left hi ad leg. Straight W. K... Uepimer, Or, Horse shaded 3 H on left ntirle; cattle J Hon left hip, swallow fork in rwhi ear, nnderbit In left. happ, Tint., Heppner, Or. Horeee, 8 A P on loft hip: cattle name on toft hip. Hhrier.John. Kox, Or. NC oonnMted on horse on nht hip; oattie, same ou rivht hip, cnp otl ritdit ear and under bit in left ear, llajige in ii rant county. Hnuth Hro., rnnTlHe, Or, Honoa, Snnr1el H. i. onsh mldor; cattle, aio on left ahonlder. Kiimre. Juio. Arlington, Or,; horse branded JH on left shoulder: oattle the same, also nM whiI.IIm, lU'ge in Mormwand Gilliam ooontiex. Hiephns. V. AM Hanlman, Ors horeee Ht on right utitlet cattle honeontal L oruth rivht side Stevenson, Mre A. J., Hoppner. Or Cattle, 0 on rmht hie: ewallow-fork in left er. Hwaugart.G. W.. Heppner, Or. Horsee, 44 on loft Hhoulde-; cattle. 44 on left hip. Hperry.K. U.. Heppner, Or. Cattle W 0 on left Inp.crop off right and underbit iu left year, dewUii; horsee W Con loft ehonlder. Thompttttti, J. A., Heppner, Or. Horeee, R on left shonldpr; tattle, 'i ou left shoulder. Tii'tet,ti.TEuierprise-Or. Uorsee, CVou left eliouldor. Turner H. W.. Henoner. Or. Smll nanltAl T Ileft ehonldsr, horeee; oattle seme on left hip with epht in both eeuv. 1. Sleep soft - ly, O my babe, so sweet, Which 2. Up - on my breast thy gold en head, Rock'd Sri. 8va. 4m loco. m. loco. r. k 1 . . 1 i . wkimik omo 1 mmmmm i I r y 1 r r If. TT ) i -, - i i - J- i -- n s I , 1 fc-. 1 I J I I J i 1 , f a 1 N Pi4 : z9trfi -3ttEE52. I 1 im - J m p - f " -f e a- tji 1 lt ( 1-'- T i y 1 ffm $folL - W-0 N m- m e vi i w t i u n s i i-i round thoe in thy sleep, While an - - gela guard theo through night's shades, And til life's beam - ing sky Would e'en dis - pel a moth - er's care, And flJ i I is l-i , ! N l ; n 7-SiF- z 0. 1 mj zM rjz n"m mj- fFgf e jiS. J I i -m S 'S 0 jj-B" m LULLABY. press; fall, Till flit ting sun h! were my heart r-ess. a.1!; May dreams as fair They'd fade in dreams Copyright, i8q4, by The New York Musical Record Co. Thornton, H. M., lone. Or. Homes branded HT connected on loft stifle; sheep b .me brand. Vanderpool, H. T Ijona, Or; He roes H V con tieoted on right shoulder ;oat tie, bj line on right hip Walbridge, Win.. Hoppner. Or. Horses, U. L. on the loft shouldor; cattle eame on right hip. crop off left ear and right ear lopr ed. Wilson, John 0,, Balom or Fleopner, Or. Horsee branded Jq on the left eh craldor. ltauge Morrow county. Warren, W H. Caleb, Or Oattle W with quarter circle over it, on left side, spl it in rihtoar. Horses same brand on left eho'ilder. Haugoic lirant oonuty. Wade, Henry, Heppnor, Or. Horsea branded ace of epadee on left shoulder and loft hip Cattle branded same on left sidd and left hip. Wolflngor, John, John Oay (Mftf. Or On horso three parallel bare on left shouldor; 7 on Hheap, bit in both ears. Hango in Ore it and iMulhner counties. Woodward, lohn, Heppner, Or. Horsee, UP conneoted on leftehouldor. Watkins, Lishe, lloppnor, Or. Hoi-eos branded UK oonnected on left etirle. Wallace, Charloe. Heppnor, Or. Cattle, W or right thigh, hole in left oir; ho', W on rigt alioulaer eonir sumoon eft shoulder. Whittier nro., nunrmgion. Baker (o.. Or. -HorBe branded W H oonneotot ou left shoulder Williams, Vaeco, nami'ton.Or, Qnarter oir ole over three bare on le't hip, both cattle and horses. Hange Grant conntff. Williams, J O, Long Creek. Of Horees, quar ter circle over throe bare on left, hip; oattle same and lit in each r. ftange in Grant nonut.y Wren, A, A., Heppner, Or. Hovee runningA A on shoulder; tVtle. same on riyht hip. Young, J. 8.. Goonet-rtrrv. Or Hovee brand THrw Hchl'h.'"M. ALL WHO CULTIVATE FRUITS FLOWERS VEGETABLES For Pleasure or Profit, Should see that the Journal they subscribe to is the best and most reliable Authority o burnable. NINCL STANDS FOREMOST IN THE LIST. It deals practically with fruits and vegetable!, trees, shrubs and flowers, and covers the field of horticulture systematically and thoroughly. It Illustrates and describe methods of cultiva tion, improved varieties and labor saving devices. It is, without doubt, Itie Paper for tie People! 1.00 a Tear ($4 number). Specimen copy and fWpage catalogue of horticultural books FREE on application. American Gardening, 170 Fulton St., N.V. GOOD VOVICK. Evtry patriotic ctirrn should give hit personal effort and influence to increase the circulation of hit home paper which teachtt the American policy o Protec tion. It It hit duty to aid In this respect in every way possible. After the home paper it taken care of, why not tub scribe (or the AuitKAN Economist, published by the American Protective Tariff League? One of Ita correspon dent! aayt I "Ne true American can get along without K. 1 consider It the greatest and trueet political teacher in the United State." Send poeUI card request lor ires sample copy. Add at WilbuT. Wake, man. General Secretary, 1 15 West 13d BU Hew Yarfc. rholotfrHpha SI. 50 pel dozen at Sbep prd's KAllery, Dear opera bouse, north Main St. HtBDOtr. Ors. 30tt. C. FROELICH. P rtz f- - benms come to greet With for aye the bed To E - den's glades Spread rene and fair, Un - M CHOLERA I HAVE A SURE, TRIED, PROVEN AND guaranteed cure for Hon and Chick kn Cholera, which has stood the test lor seven years without failure, that I know of, but has elleet el thousands of cures. I have sold over Zi. 0)0 receipts and family rights in eight months, and not a single complaint received yet. 1 Bold en eh and every one on a guarantee, and I still sell that way. If Holland Cholera Cure and Preven tative fails to cure or prevent Cholera. I will refund your money. This 1b fair enough. Six pounds of the medicine can be made at a total cost of from $1 to $1.20, enough to doft) hogs and 100 chickens a year. You are then assured against cholera for one year. If you will try this remedy, I assure you you will never regret It. Use it, and your hogs and chickens will look better and healthier than ever before. Recipe and family right only $1.00, Ready prepared medicines 50c and $1 per bottle or package. Address M US. KACHKL V. THOMAH, Agents wanted at once. Cowurta, Ala. TESTIMOITILS : Ttflllas, Texas, April 13, 1803. Mrs Rachel V. Thomas. Dear Madam: I have thoroughly tested your cholera remedy and tlnd it O. K. It's grand. I e-iclose $10 will try the agenev. Please send at once and oblige. Very respectfully, H. W. Harprk. Pallas. Texas, May Wh, 1893. Have sold out. I enclose $50 for which send me all the recipes you can and the rights to the counties named below, I never saw auythtiw sell so fast. V hat is the leHst you will take for thest ite. If your price i reasonable will take the state. Very respectfully, H. W. Wart eh, (I have not room for all his letters. He took the statu. Here is one more of his letters.) Pallas. Texas, July 17th, 1803. Mrs. Rachel V. Thomas, Dear Madam Hiuce tokiTig the state right 1 cHiivaBsed three weeks and msde $iW7 selling recipes and territory. 1 will start several sub-agents next week. Could I exchange a portion of Texas for a portion of Kansas? Very respectfully, H. V. II ah per. Millen. Georgia, Dec. 14th, 1803. Mrs. Thomas: I write a letter of enquiry. How much of this state is unsold? I want bal ance of tne state. Holland's Cholera Cure Is Just what it Is represented to be. It has proved a blessing to the farmers of tht county. Very respsctfully, C. . Eoknfikld, Agent for Screven County. Rock Bridge, Ohio, Pec. 4th ISM. Mrs. Thomas: Recipe came to hand and it's all O. K. Enclosed flr.d $: for Hocking. Picka way and Fairfield counties, What will you take for the state? Yours truly. P. Hanstkin. I have thousands more testimonials. I guar antee Holland's Cholera Cure and Preventative to cure and prevent hog and chken Cholera in each and every case or refund the money. This Is fair enough. Don't postpone ordering because you in at not at present be bothered with chol era. The idea is to prevent it iu time. This my remedv w ill do and will also keep your hogs ami chickens in a nice healthy condition, (jeu ernl and local agents wanted. Slate and family rights for sale or trade. Address Mil!. KACHKL V. Tlt-'MAS, sv-;tm. Cow arts, Ala. Chicken Cholera Oeieats, Trade-marks, Design Patents, Copyrights, And all rstcint bavlsra. conducted for MODERATE FEES. Information nd ndvlc. tfrrn to tnrenton wltaool anus. AddrtM PRESS CLAIMS CO., JOHN WEDOERBURN, Muuflng Attoruey, '.tt Box 40. Washikuti x. -C tTht. Conipuy U maoifttd by com 'r.ntloo ot thf lrtrvt nd mo.t ttitf iK'uti.l n. w.;h. t ..i ttit -tilted State, for t!1,1 r,p!-!i, pu'iio1 of pros, Inf lh-ir .u tMrrtber. niu. t uuiuM:toik .ad UiL'OuiutfL'ut l'uifut Aitvuts, .:id e'ti p.xl pnnttnjt Uu. mivrtlMUtint voucbn for tho r.ponri Wlltjr ud hit b nndtat of Um hM y.w. Couiouf 11 is ho - - ly vip; lull her lnl f- I K b1p zf stt -i A Soft - ly thy moth - er is hnm - ming; Swayed to and fro. Gen - tly and alow, S fc " ( Ba . r 3 : r V rftj. w m m . m 1 fcr 1 P rail i An - gels from dream-land m 11 ; ; p ,g r ... en . '. '. ". ". tan ! '. ". ". ". . do. -0 0 Pure as a sor - aph UREWSOME SIGHTS IN A MINE. Tbe Trip Down a Unep Shaft Full ol Thrill to tho Tenderfoot. Going down into the mine is indeed a thrilling experience and one rather overwhelming to the "tenderfoot," says a writer in Cassier's Magazine. Enveloped in suits of waterproof, with hats of oilskin and provided with can dles, a party ready for the descent pre sents a grewsome spectacle, reminding one forcibly of certain conceptions of Dore. The cage, which serves for both passengers and freight, rises to a level with the floor of the shafthouse, and is simply a platform of wood v.-ith up rights and framing of iron. This fits closely in the shaft, being lowered and raised by means of machinery puzzling enough to the interested stranger, with its drum, sheaves, cable and vari ous safety appliances. To take a posi tion on that little square of wood, feel ing that on this machinery, "which does sometimes break, you know," hangs all one's hope, requires some courage. Much comfort is derived from the assurance of the foreman that this same cage has safely carried down and up all the dclvers below with never an accident yet. With the warning, "elbows in," the cage drops. With a gasp one reaches wildly about to find nothing to hold to in that damp dark ness, growing so dense as that square "hole of daylight" diminishes so rapid ly, and down we glide through trick ling waters without jar and in utter silence till, with a thud, the cage stops, two thousand five hundred feet under ground. The dim candle light casts weird shadows as we follow the superin-l tendent along a narrow gallery cut in the igneous rock to connect the vein with the shaft. At the intersection another long gallery extends to the right and left, but its parallel walls are smooth, often highly polished, at times four feet apart: again more, but always with an inclination to the vertical. These are the faces of the fissured rock between which, over head and below, is the vein matter. Through the gloomy darkness we pick our way cautiously along the narrow plank, resting ou ties laid over the gutterway. lielow us the water rushes down to the shaft, emptying into the "sump," a continuation of the shaft below the lowest level, serving as a well out of which the water is lifted by the great pumps, whose continual beat, up and down, up and down, with monotonous regularity, breaks the si lence like the throb of some great hid den heart. Climbing a ladder, or. rather, five ladders for there is a plat form at every twenty feet in Egyptian darkness, illumined only by the light of a caudle, with ice cold water dripping from each round and trickling along one's arm and a small torrent from the tarpaulin hat down one's back, is apt to dampen, if not to eradicate for ever, any lingering fancy for a miner's life. I FRENCH MONUMENTS. j Hugo'i Greatn... still Goe. rnrecogrnlied bj HroQa or Marble. j A monument to Gounod is decided upon. A subscription of twenty thou-' sand dollars was raised easily, rapidly j and triumphantly. The sculptor is ' selected, and soon Paris will be en-1 dowed with the statue of the com-' poser who v ill only be known to fu-; ture generations as the author of one great creation, namely: "Faust," and the perpetrator thereafter of various charming works, "Mireille" and "liomeo and Juliet," for example, and .1 n h , r S$''i 'iLZ i. s - ii-i - -0 '0 0 0 000.0. s -SSS- i j r i m r--f-fZ-f- V- a 8--S: -f- f 'f-A :wz0m- Tf z- 4- pztZ$ Prf 1? I zZztzfz:Tx- rV EEzzzzbzz- i --:Lzzz- z-7 WhJ& 0 r J r : L 1 1 List to the lrenm-nn - gel's sto - ry. K -, . s j ' ! ' I 1 1 w I ) r m-- mJUm- k m -f F J S5b j? i ? 1 V V g- U-- -g- U t . f .-.-a-- I h- I -f-y i ppp "-' I diminuendo e ritardando, Lullaby. 2. m Sleep, are com ing. Sleep, M. . a tempo. 0 from glo - ry; Swayed to and Jl also of large quantities of more or less dismal failures. No one will claim that Gounod was the greatest com poser of his day; yet he is to be glori fied while the ashes of Victor Hugo lie unburied in their dusty coffin, tossed carelessly into the vaults of the Panth eon and covered with the moldering remains of the magnificent floral trib utes that were sent to do honor to his funeral, says the Paris correspondent of the Philadelphia Telegraph. A statue of Victor Hugo was decided upon also, but the subscriptions lan guished and dwindled until they stopped at an amount of twenty-five hundred dollars. So the literary giant of our generation is only commemo rated by his own great works, and his neglected coilin is left unremarked, save by the horrified or indifferent eyes of the countless tourists who drift to the Pantheon to see the new fres coes, painted by the great artists of France by order of the republic, and who incidentally explore the vaults of the huge temple. Until not very long ago one huge va cant space was visible at the Pantheon, among the completed panels that sur rounded. It. As was courteous to so great an artist, the government had offered a section of the Pantheon to Meissonier to decorate. Meissonier instantly accepted, although perfectly conscious he could not paint one of those huge frescoes any more than a fly could fire a cannon; but being an artistic dog in the manger, he could neither do it himself nor would he al low anyone else to take the work. Of course, since his death it is satisfac torily completed. QUICK TO OttSERVE. A Camp of Soldiers Saved by Gyper't Knowledge of Nature. People who spend much of their lives out of doors, particularly in the coun try, sometimes develop powers of ob servation and deduction that seem lit tle short of marvelous to men of indoor habits. 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