RIDING O N A SUNBEAM. A I n NATURE OP THE ELDER DUMAS. In ven tion F o r C arry I n f Sound W it h ­ out V i m M ine. D a rre l, th e A c tre s s A lw a y s C elled H im H e r “ G ood Dog:.“ When walking through the laboratory of the V olta bn man with Dr. A. Graham Beil, the inventor of the telephone. I p:ckfd np on one of the shelve) a piece of pine board abont half an inch thick and eight inches square. Out of the cen­ ter of it extended a speaking tube, Which apparently rested against a thin disk of bright metal sank into the oppo­ site side. This rm tdl was like a silver mirror, and was abont as large around ar the bottom of a rambler I asked Dr. Beil what it was, and he told me that it was a perfected instrument whose original construction enabled him to project his voice from one point to an­ other through the medium of a sunbeam. It enabled him, in other words, to send sccnds along a ra j of light without the aid of an electric wire. He took the in­ strument and pnt the tube to his mouth, holding the mirror sc that it caught the sun and cast a little shadow disk of light on the opposite wall. Then by breathing slightly he made this shadow increase and diminish, and assume va ­ rious shapes by the action of his breath against the mirror diaphragm. “ That shows yon ,1' said he, “ how the action of the diaphragm is carried along the ray. Now, i f yon w ill put a ’ ittle bottle w ith some soot in it where that shadow is on the w all, and speak into the tnbc, yon w ill find that the sound w ill travel along that ray of I'ght, and by having a receiver connect­ ed w ith «be bottle one wonld be able to hear what yon are saying. We have spoken by this means to and from points *00 yards apart, and there seems to be no reason to doubt that speech may be sent along a beam of light for great dis­ tances. la our experiment in this we first nsed selenium, a very rare sub- atanoe, and very sensitive to lig h t We have fonnd, however, that we can pro­ duce very good results w ith common soot, and the discoveries may yet be m ide which w ill make such an in­ vention commercially practicable.” -— W o rld ’s Progress. I did not meet the elder Dnmas until he was on the wane, but was acquainted w ith him before he fe ll under the in ­ fluence of Adah Isaacs Menken. When young, his hair was fair, l*1®11 dark, but when I saw him it was gray and in tex­ ture less woolly than the negro’s. His lips were thick and extended from ear to ear when be laughed, and his teeth were uneven and set apart from each other. He flattered himself that his nose was straight. It was, however, lumpy, with wide, strongly marked and quiver­ ing nostrils. T o the pride of life he was insensible. But he was a slave of the flesh, though in a fitful way, and the never ending pressure of creditors oblig­ ed him to react against his conviviality. One saw that he was n force of nature and a child of nature. His small hands and feet and his sin­ gularly acute though good natnred blue eyes alone indicated blood derived from a long line of civilized northern ancestors. There were traces of Africa in his speech. His langh was a guffaw, but its hilarity was contagious. When a case of suffering was made known to him, his face at once fell, and if he knew the snfferer the broad face con­ tracted, and he howled nutil he bad spent his grief, lim e. Dorval, whom he and Victor Hugo thought the greatest actress of her time, for emotional parts, used to call him her “ bon chien” and her “ gros chien.” In the honr of death she did not lay aside this term of en­ dearment, which aDy one else wonld - c Q ’» - have resented. He was doggish in many A L IT T L E GRUBBING EXERCISE. respects, but o f the generous, impulsive, the glories o f the season when all na­ Newfoundland type.— “ The Elder Dn­ ture wakes to new life and vigor, but mas,” by E m ily Crawford in Centnry. o f all the poets who have celebrated the season o f the opening leaves and Stephen Salisbury. A writer in the Worcester (Muss.) Spy budding flowers, It is likely that not thus describes Stephen Salisbury of more than 1 per cent lived in the coun­ that city, who has jnst given the city a try or had to take any active part in site for an art museum and (100,000 to the rural duties inseparable from the build it : "S im p le in his tastes and youth o f the year. The city resident may poetize and mcdest and democratic in spirit, Mr. Salisbury’s single aim is to spend money moralize over the coming o f the beauti­ so as to relieve want, to raise to a high ful spring, but the man who makes his The new poci. ui>ireato o f Britain Is ! plane the lives of persons of small living In the country has no time for !n desperate straits. His poetry Is too means and lofty and earnest purposes, either poetry or philosophy, for to him bad for the newspapers and not bad and to add to the prosperity of Worces­ the advent o f spring means nothing but enough for the magazines. ter. His intimate friends love and ad­ a great deal o f hard work. No matter mire him. His gifts are never the off­ how florid the poets may become about spring o f impulse, but the product of the new birth o f the flowers and trees, anxious thought, yet they are never ac­ to the farm er this event is o f signifi­ o companied by troublesome conditions. cance merely as indicating that the Wbat a beautiful example Mr. Salis plowing and sowing must begin. H e has bury is of practical wisdom and simple no time for sentiment, for the spring is Kitrems tired feeling afflict! nearly every body at this aeaeon. The hostlers cease to goodness 1 Gratitude cannot outrun his altogether too short for the amount of push, the tirelc v grow weary, the ener­ generosity or the warm interest which work he is obliged to squeeze into It, getic become enervated. Yon know just he feels in the w elfare of his townsmen and summer treads so closely on Its heels that before he is ready the heated what we mean. Some men and women and fellow men. ” term begins. It Is not likely that more endeavor Uxnpoiarily to overcome that P e p p erm in t. than once In ten years the farm er sees The preparation o f peppermint is es­ summer come on when he Is fully pre­ pecially an American industry. The pared for i t Not that be Is dilatory, peppermint is CDt when in bloom, like or that the sea .on Is short, but that hay, dried, placed in close wooden vats there is so much to be done. Someone asd steamed. The oil cells burst and defines a farm er as “ a mac who works Feeling by great force of will. But this as hard as he can all the year round for is unsafe, as it pulls powerfully upon the the oil passes upward with the steam, which is condensed and conducted into his board and clothes, and not very nervous system, which will not long stand good board nor very fine clothes.” The such strain. Too many people “ work on a receiver, where the o il rises anc is piped off. It takes abont 850 pounds of definition seems extravagant, but that their nerves," and the result is seen in un­ dry peppermint to produce cne pound of fact Is due to the circumstance that it fortunate wrecks marked “ nervous pros­ oil. An acre of land yields from 6 to 10 Is full o f truth, for the farm er's work, tration,'* in every direction. That tired pounds of oil, often more— even as high ' like woman's, is never done, as by the as 50 pounds. N ew York and Michigan time It reaches a certain stage, It begins again and goes the same dreary round. prodnee the most. — ..-biugton Post. The farm er regards springtime there- T h e Best. j fore, not from a poetical, but from a Traveler— Where es the best hotel in j purely practical, point o f view, for it lng is a positive proof of thin, weak, im ! b the season when he begins all over -e? e blood, for, if thg blood is rich, red, this P o i.e r— Do you see that honse over i again. I t is a common saying that you died and vigcrout, it imparts life ar.d never know how much you have until r ry to every neyte, organ and tissue yonder? That is the worst. ewe fcoilse The nece-stiy o f takfne Traveler— I don’t want the worst. It 1 you begin to move, and In the same sense the farm er never realizes how Hood’s fia •apariff-'"Ai3i-HI*t the I fts.iing' I5TJTS TOBtTTOfsl I wa it. Porter— Can’t tell you, P m sure. much trssh can sren m n lsi» suuut a it, therefore, apparent to every oue, and the good it will do yon is equally beyond T h at’s the only odo wo ve got.— Lon­ place until he starts to elenn up in the don Tit-Bits. question. BememLwi that That T ir e d F e e l- , eral unpleasantness grabbing ranks about m idway between cleaning the fence comers and brush burning, being a little more troublesome than the for­ A SEASON FULL OF POETRY TO mer and not quite so hot as the latter. It is, however, troublesome enough to ALL BUT THE FARMER. meet all ordinary demands on the pa­ tience o f a Job, and hot enough to cre­ T h e re 1» N o R o m a n c e In G r a b b in g , ate a lively Impression that the back has been exposed to a specially heated B r u s h B n r n l n - , P l o w i n g o r C le a n in g F e n c e C o r n e r * - A D r e a r y R o u n d o f draught from a blast furnaee. It Is a labor full o f disappointments. A fte r O ft e n I l l - R e q u i t e d T o il. toilsomely working your way through a wilderness of hazel brush stumps you W o r k , N o t S e n tim en t. insert your grubbing hoe into a patch Youth of the year! Celestial spring! o f sod in the confident expectation that Again descend thy silent showers; New loves, new pleasures, thou dost for a few yards at least your burden w ill be light. A t the first stroke, how­ bring. And earth again looks gay with flowers. ever, you hit a root, and In the convic­ tion that it ought to be short, you take —Peacock. It is altogether probable that hun­ hold and begin to pull. when, to your dreds o f poems have been written on amazement, the root keeps coming un­ the beauties o f spring, and barrels of til you have dragged six or eight feet Ink and reams o f paper have been shed o f it up through the sod. then it breaks, and wasted In the effort to show forth and you wonder wbteher anybody ever B E A T IT IR L S P R I N G . Order is tbe sanity of the mind, be;.1th of tbe body, tbe peace of city, the security o f the state. As beams to a bonse, as the bones to microcosm of man, so is older to — Southey. ti. Hood’s S a r s a p a r illa the the the the all T h e L e i ter B a b j. lithe One True Blood Purifier. All drneettts. »1. Preps red only byC. I. Hood A Co . Lowell, M ss. a* f have named the Leiter baby Ire M ay Curzon. I H TH E co U d ’s lle S> P l - I i M S *re operate. e""T ,0 2 •***• ea*p to .5 cents. SURE CURE for PILES lusK li-« SU'I ttuisa, hi. rd iu g o r Fru ir udtug P ile s yield at onre to r. ÌO -8 A N -K O ’ 8 P IL E R E ttE D Y. Stops Itch- ¿ .• ■sorb« tu mors, a p o s i l i 'e cure. C irculars sen t free. P rice R Ms. Druggist* or asiL D U . BO M ANKO . P h il« .. P a . AXLE FRAZER CREASE BEST IN 1ME WORLD. S IG N IF IC A N C E OF OVERCOAT A GRAY Upon the tongue, yellowness of the akin and eyeballs, nause and tine rines3 beneath the right ribs and shoulder blade, is that the vie tim of these discomforts is bilious. The ‘-proper caper” under such circums ances is to take Hosietter’s btomach Bitiers, which also cures cbi.ls ai d fever, constipation, dyspepsia, rheu­ matic and kidney complaints and nervousness. He (from Boston; very musical)—'Wagner’s works are simply grand. She (from Chicago) — Oh, you ought to see Pullman's I Itr, wearing qualities are unsurpassed, actually outlasting two boxes of any other brand. F.ee B E W A R E O F O IN T M E N T S F O R C A ­ (r o il Animal Oil*. G E T 1 H K G E II1 N E . T A R R H T H A T C O N T A IN M E R C U R Y , F o R SALE BY OREGON AND W A S H I N G T O N M F R * »1 A N T S ^ | and Dealers eeuernlly. i As mercury w ill surely destrov the seuse of smell and completely derange the whole system when enteriug it through the mucous surfaces. Suchaitic.es should never be used except on | prescriptions from reputable physicif.ns, as the Line of Cut’ ery, Sporting Goods, damage they w ill do is ten fold to the ¿ood you Barber Supplier and Bazaar GoodsT Why, don’ t can possibly derive from them. H all’s Catarrh you know Cure, manoiai-tmred bv F. J. Cheney & Co., To- ! ledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken in- THE WILL 4 FINCH COMPANY? They w ill supply you with anything yru want i Urnally, acting directly upon the blood and at lowest market prices. Send fnrii*-neral Cata­ ! raucous surfaces of the syst- m. In buying H ail’s logue or Catalogue o f Sporting: Goods or Barber Catarrh Cure be sure you ger. tbe genuine. It ie Supplies. 820 Martet street, ban * n ncisco, Cal. ; taken in ernaiiv, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by j F. J.Chenev & Co. Testimonials five. , Sold by druggists, price 75c pt*r bottle. | H ali’h Family Pills are the best. W H O CARRIES THE LARGEST if Y o u r Dealer Two bottles of Piso’a Cure for Consump­ tion cured me of a bad lung trouble.—Mrs J. Nichols, Princeton, Ind., Mar. 26, 1893. ^ F I T S .—AH Fits stopped free by D r. K i l n e '» G re a t N e r v e R e s t o r e r . No Fits after the bra day’s use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and |2.0 trial bottle (tee to Fit cases. Send to Dr. Kline »1 Arch 8t., Philadelphia. Pa. will not sell you the 6» & * BIAS VELVETEEN S K IR T B IN D IN G S we will. W rite us for free samples showing la b e ls a n d materials. *' Home Dressmaking.” a new book by Miss Emma M. Hooper, of the Ladies' Home Journal, telling how to put on Bias V elveteen Skirt Bind­ ings S'Siit for 25c.. postage paid. 5. M. A M. Co.. P. O. Box 6o9. N. Y. City. 1$ Ibis wbat ails you?! Then yon h a n Have you a feeling 1 of weight in the < Stom ach— Bloating \ aftereating—Belch­ ing of W ind—V om it' 4 mg of Food—W ater- l. rash — Hea rtbu rn— Bad Taste in the ’ Mouth in the Morn- \ log—P alpitation of A the Heart.due to D iv \ ten«loo ef Stomach —Cankered Mouth i —G as la the Bowels < —Loss of F le s h - F ick le Appetite — Depressed. Irrita b ie 1 Condi ion of the . Mind - Dizziness— ' Headache—Constip- i -----------------atlon »r Diarrhoea? I DYSPEPSIA la one of its m an y forms. The one positive cure lo r th is distressing complaint in \ fle k e r’ s Dyspepsia Cablets, k j m all, r r e p . 14 , no receipt ef i ; ceata C a nju.es B A e .I T . Hotel Im p -rta l. New T o t » . , J .ufT.-r.-it h o rrib ly from SM S m SU , b n t j A c k e r'. Tablet*, token after m eala.heve cured me ” ' A C K E R M E D IC I' E CO., to A 18 C h am be r, St., S .V .' ■eye: CONSUMPTION ^ Gladness Comes ith a b etter understanding o f the transient nature o f the many phys­ ical Ills, which vanish before proper e f­ forts—gen tle efforts—pleasant efforts— righ tly directed. T h ere is com fort in tlie knowledge, th at so many forms o f sickness are not due to any actual dis­ ease, but simply to a constipated condi­ tion o f the system, w hich the pleasant y ru p o f Figs, prompt- fam ily laxative, Syrup ly removes. T h a t ; is ' w h y it is the only on sof fam ilies, and is rem edy w ith m illionsof everyw here esteemed so highly by a ll w h o value good health. Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that it is the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness w ithout debilitatin g the organs on w hich it acta I t is therefore a ll important, in order to g e t its bene­ ficial effects, to note w ion yon pur­ chase, th at you have th,. s nuine arti­ cle. which is manufacture T hy the Cali­ fornia F ig Syrup Co. on ly r nd sold by a ll reputable druggists. I f in the enjoym ent o f good health, und the system is regular, laxatives or other remedies are then pot needed. I f afflicted w ith any actual disease, one may be commended to the most skillful physicians, but if in need o f a laxative, one should have the best, and w ith the well-inform ed everywhere, Syrup of Figs stands highest and is most largely W ,«ed and fives most general satisfaction. farm er le a 11 In vain. Dependent as be is on the vicissitudes o f the season, no wonder he sometimes becomes a fatal­ ist and finds signs and wonders where others see natural phenomena easily susceptible o f explanation. SHE DEFIES THE FRENCH. ___ „ TO PEDAL TIIE OCEAN. ALL CHICACO KNOWS HIM. ft BICYCLE BOAT TO CROSS TO LIV­ w W . W a ts o n , Le ad in g Real Estate M a n , Restored to ERPOOL IN THREE DAYS. Health by Paine’s Celery Compound. A Denl*h S a il.r Sara H l* In ven tion Can M ake F orty -flve M iles an H o a r — H a* Done P lu c k y S o u th S ea Q u e e n W h o L e d H e r F o r c e « to V i c t o r y . a M ite I n T w o M inute*— H e Ha* N ot the M oney to B u ild One. Queen Mamea o f the Island o f IIna- To ride a bicycle across the Atlantic heme o f the Society g 'Qup is a buxom ruler who for years ha < defied the pow­ ocean from N ew Y ork to Liverpool in er o f the French authorities at TahitL 70 hours.is the ambition of Charles Mamea has often been spoken o f as the Flint, a Danish sailor man, who is re­ handsomest woman In the South Seas, siding now at 148 Columbia street, Brooklyn. Mr. F lin t came to this coun­ try from Copenhagen 19 years ago. He has followed the sea since he was 12 years old, and he is now 40. T w o years ago Mr. F lin t read an ac­ count of a flying machine, and it gave him an idea. He worked on the idea un­ til he had constructed a boat 20 feet long, 8 feet w ide and 4 feet deep, in which was a bicycle attachment con­ necting w ith a big flywheel and a pro­ peller. Mr. F lin t launched this boat in the Passaic river, at Newark, and got B ,- . * \ » \ \ \ V ' Wo. aboard. He began to work the bicycle pedals. The boat moved ahead. Mr. F lin t said that he made 81 miles an hour in the boat. “ It went so fast that I had to ease np,” he said the other day. “ It was an open boat, and when I went at the rate of half a m ile a minute it cut under the waves, and I had to slow np or swamp her. ’ ’ This boat was destroyed by fire a TH K SCARECRO W DO ES NOT SC A R E. QUEEN M AM EA. month after it was made. N ow Mr. did get to the end o f a hazel roof, it but whether her claims to tills distinc­ F lin t wants to build another boat on the is a singular fact about a patch of tion are based upon substantial grounds same plan, but larger. He has con­ ground that needs grubbing that it al­ residents o f Rateatea are inclined to structed the model and claims that when ways has more roots in It than any oth­ doubt. “ W e w ill annex the island, and the new boat is completed he can easily er patch o f ground you ever saw. W hy you must submit," was the edict sent make 45 miles an hour in it. The new this should he so is a mystery, but then, out by the Governoi o f Tahiti to the boat w ill be 40 feet long, 5 feet beam farm ing is full o f mysteries, and this is Queen. H er reply was a raid on the anc 11 feet deep. It w ill have a fly ­ perhaps no grealer than a hundred oth­ French missionaries near Uturoa and wheel 7 feet in diameter and a number Chicago, May 26.— Mr. W . W . W a t­ led to worrying, frettin g and despond­ ers, It being more observable because the slaughter o f several traders Tlio of other wheels connected by gearing son's reputation throughout the W est ency, that need only Pain» s oelery more troublesome than some o f the chains from tbe pedals to the propeller. French shelled l i r a heme and landed others. “ I calculate,” said the inventor, for unerring judgment in the valuation compound to banish the unhealthy a t­ The mention o f mysteries invite« at­ troops at the Queen's palace, but the I “ that by my arrangement a man can c f land has made him foremost among mosphere and make things bright and tention to the fact that by some curious w ily indy led her forces by a rapid get ten horsepower out of each leg, the most conservative, careful class of cheerful again. It is the only spring remedy uni­ freak of nature the spring time is the march into the mountain fastnesses of making 20 horsepower altogether. That investors in Chicago. It most favorable season for all sorts, the interior, and at the head o f 500 an w ill be sufficient to send the propeller U nlike many hard driven business versally prescribed by physic iana tives held the foreign soldiers back, kinds and conditions o f breakages in men, the owner of “ Alptne H eights,” makes people w e ll by g ivin g them a aronnd fast enough to get a speed of 45 farm implements, harness and appli­ losing but a few follow ers in adminis­ miles an hour, and it w on’ t be any that splendid suburb of Chicago, has hearty appetite and a relish for their ances generally. Philosophical per­ tering to the French soldiers a sound harder to work than a bicycle. The ma­ not neglected his health on account of food. Hard-worked men and women, sons. who are always prying into the thrashing. chinery w i l l weigh abont 700 pounds, his exaoting business. The follow in g the nervons, weak and debilitated, get reasons o f things and finding explana­ and there w ill he 800 pounds o f lead on unreqnested statement from Mr. W a t­ j new strength, fresh nerve energy and tions that no one else can discover, pre­ the keel. She w ill have a displacement son shows how consistent w ith his life ­ I a purer, more vigorous blood supply A LONG BURROW. tend to say that the spring epidemic of seven tons. It w ill be an easy matter long, oarefnl, conscientious and success­ from Paine’s oelery oompounr o f breakage in harness, wagons, plows, This most valuable nerve and brain for three men to cross the Atlantic in ful business habits has been his atten­ runnel o f N e a rly T w o M i l e s E ic a T a ts il by hoes and other tools is due to the fact He states in the invigorator and restorer practically an Industrious M ole. her in abont 70 hours. As the boat w ill tion to getting well. that these articles are not properly demonstrate): the lifelo n g oon fiction o t Times-He»ald: Down along the river bank after the be all decked over she cannot be swamp­ cared for in the winter; that, i f after eminent disooverer. Professor "U p o n tbe recommendation of a its ed. In smooth water I can take off the water had receded into a narrow chan­ using them in the autumn they had hatches. Then, too, I w ill have water friend, I used Paine’ s oelery oompound Phelps, M. D ., LL. D , of Dartmouth nel, through which it tumbled and ed­ been oiled and put away in a dry house Professor Phelps was for a for headaches, oonstipation, indigestion College. tight bulkheads in her.” during the cold season, then oiled and died and beicbed up g-ear rings, there Mr. F lint says that it wonld be easy snd loss of sleep, and found it a ll it long tim e convinced that sot nd nu tri­ was left a broad sand flat. This sand cleaned in the spring before using fle- ¿ «ii uff in broad steps, in which to rnn her by some motor, bnt that he was recommended to be. I suffer no tion was tbe keystone of f i r s health, them, most o f the breakage could b* prefers tbe man power idea, and that it more from headaches, sleep soundly at and that where there were signs ot avoided. But this view o f the case, here and there were left shallow pools. is perfectly practicable. The only thing night, and am now in perfect health. poorly nourished nerve tissues, and ot Big, gnarly stmnps of trees, probably which, to the philosopher, seems so in tbe way of completing this boat and This is the only medicine that I have thin, pale-oolored blood, some means plausible, is regarded by the farmer frown many miles np the river, had oo getting to Europe in less than three ever taken for these complaints, which must be devised to supply theae defici­ with distrust, not to say with incredu­ tasioually stranded, after floating down encies briskly and rapidly. Professor days or over there and back in less than has benefited me at all. lity. The friskiness o f the mules when on the river ’a surface, and gathered “ W .W . W A T S O N , 225 Dearborn st.” Phelps prepared Paine's oelery com ­ a week is that Mr. F lin t has not the piles of driftwood abont them. Barrels first led forth from the stable and Busy men and women are apt to pound on this basis. It has proved an capital he requires. He says he can placed in front o f a plow which they ami boxes of all sorts of strange plun­ bnild the boat for (700, bnt he is work­ tnink there is always time to get w e ll , invigorator. strengthener anc a great der were to be found, and it is not alto­ are expected to persuade through more ing for the Barney Dumping company Tbe fact that only one person in a hun­ spring purifier, such'us the world has or less rooty and cloddy earth for the gether unlikely that one, by looking and gets only (1 5 a week and has to dred dies of old age shows how reok- never enjoyed iiefore onr day. next sixty days is not difficult to ex­ closely, might have found more than Tom orrow, or next day, ot the day support a w ife and tw o children. T o lessly men and women postpone at­ plain. They l.are been doing nothing one article of value. the lay mind it seems pretty hard for a tending to their health and allow it to after is not soon enough to h o k about j The sand had dried down as hard and but eat their heads off during the win­ man to send such a big boat through go to pieces w h ile they devote them­ getting rid of weakness ot disease. ter, and have, therefore, acquired at. firm ss on any Atlantic beach. It was tbe water at the speed contemplated, selves heart and soul to affairs that are Take Paine's oelery compound today. springy, too, just the thing for brisk amoum. e f adipose tissue qu’ te unbe­ W ives and There is no tim e equal to three early bnt Mr. F lin t says that he is certain it trifling in oottpm soo. coming to the degenerate sons o f an ig­ walking. And walking on it was a joy. mothers have no greater duty than to spring day. for throwing off poor can be done.— N ew Y ork World. noble sire. W ere this the sum total of There were neither jostling elbows nor see that those dear to them do not be­ health. There are few persona who do their offending, no harm would tv sweet smells nor sounds, just the gray come so absorbed in the work of provid­ not need to take a spring remedy. T H E ID E A L M A N . done, for roo much fat on a mule Is an sky Shove, the damp wind and the yel- ing for the household as to lose their Many not downright sick, but tired Infirmity t \sily overcome by a judicious l6w river oozing along a stone’s throw W h o H e Is, W h a t H e Is and W h e r e to health and shorten their days. or ailing, would be immensely bene­ away. system ol heavy loads, a long thrash F ind H im . N o more thoughtfnl step oonld be fited by taking Paine's oelery com­ Traversing this flat was a lemarkable pole a yd t.ueh profanity. But a mule, The follow ing is the response to a taken during the spring days that are pound, espeoally at this pertionlsrly j little ridge or welt. It started in the ' sand where the last river bank had be- toast at tbe Philomathians, a woman's now here than to urge such tired and favorable season of the year. This great compound will bauialt < itun just before the river receded. Above club of Cincinnati, by Dr. Ida B. Rnli- often irritable home providers to take Paine’ s oelery compound. There are that tired feeling, cleanse tbe blooS and it tlie grasses hung over the five foot < r°": ; (dbank, and towering aloft was a large , “ The ideal maw is a married man, of thousands of homes Mjhere overwork has regulate the nerves. itotionwood tree. The vrelt ran straight "course, and he gives all his saliry to , out toward the river 1,000 yards or his wife. He belongs to no lodge, clnb T h e P o litic ia n 's R e p ly . t mere, then turned west and wound in a or building association to keep him out «M * M r e r e r e M r e r e M iitr e > ir e ir e if What is “ reform ?” Oh, foolinh lad! waving line up stream. For nearly two late at night. He carries no latchkey. And have you thus let paws “ He permits his w ife to rni; the miles it could be followed, weaving Y ou r chance for knowledge which brings \ 3 here and there, never disappearing be­ honse after her own fashion, and he joy ? 3 low the surface and never changing in makes her bis trusted confidant or all Such are the times, alas! occasions. appearance, until it suddenly lost itself But since all tardily you ask “ H e neither smokes, chews, driuks, in another bank of sand against which F or wisdom ’s kindly light, sw ears nor scolds, and he always takes You come to one who finds the task j it had run. It was the burrow of a Miss Della Slovens, o f Bouton. M u l , ] Pleasant and easy quite. 1 j w rites: I have always suffered from ] i « o l e . ADd who knows but the little care of the babies when his poor w ile is hereditary Scrofula, for which I tried I i blind burrower is still working his way nervous and tired, uud especially when ‘ ‘ R eform ’ * is a great moral throb ; various remedies, and many relia b le ] Whose cause we scarce can trace, physicians, but none relieved me. A fter ] i through half of Clay county to find the she goes to her chin, taking «b o u t tt' „.b t le s o f Which makes some big man lose his job j; “ He does not Jive in this neightor- ; end of the bank. Or maybe he started I am now well. I And puts me in his place. 2 am very grateful upward after awhile and came out in hood, however, he dwells only— in the —Washington Star, j: to you, as I feel spring. Then dead weeds and brush the middle of some farmer’s frozen gar­ imagination, ’ ’— Cincinnati Enquirer. that it saved me R a th er a R e m ark a b le Speech. and branches and all the odds and ends den patch or cornfield.— Kansas City S from a life o f un­ told agon- and of plant life seem to breed before his Star. Congressman Morse o f Massachusetts, A S T R A N G E CASE. Biiall take pleasure in speaking only GETTING RID OF THE BRUSH. eyes, and the places which during the words o f praise fo r the wonderful med> better known as “ the rising sun states­ A W e s t V ir g in ia Ju d g e Sued F o r th e P r ic e THE MAN OF MODERATE MEANS. ietne, and in recommending It to all. prevloussummerand autumn appeared man,” made a somewhat remarkable Treatise on o f H is Ow n Coffin. reasonably free from nature's debris when he gets fat, is sure, in rural par­ Blood and Hkin speech in the honse a few days ago H ow at Last He B ecam e a T ru e E x p e rt In For the first tim e on record in West which did not find its " a y to the official Disease» mailed seem to have served as trash factories lance, also to become “ ambitious,” and Patches on Shoes. free to any ad- V irgin ia a man has been sued for h:s during the winter. The corners o f the Injudicious ambition is as bad for a dreaa. “ I thought I was a connoisseur in own coffin. The defendant is Jndge W. record. Mr. Morse, who is generous and old style stake and rider fences are the mule k s for the hereditary ruler of a kindly, was arguing in favor of a private worst. There is a superstition that this warlike people. Properly directed, the patobes,” said the man of moderate P. Thompson, for right years treasurer pension bill, and endeavored to rouse S j f S W IF T S PECIFIC CO.. Atlanta. Oa. particular brand o f fence was invented ambition of the mule, like that of the meins, “ for I had four patches on each of the state, the present jndge of the the sympathies of his fellow members by the enemy o f all mankind, who, find­ king, can be worked off in peaceful shoe. I nsed to langh as I looked at crim inal court of Cabell county, anti by telling them the sad case of a veteran ing thorns and thistles and other weeds channels, but sometimes the mule, like them and fancy that I might almost call one of tbe most prominent Democrats whose application fora pension had been did not grow with sufficient luxuriance the monarch, has not quit« sense, myself an expert. But, alas, as I soon in tbe state, w h ile the plaintiff is ex- denied. "T h a t old soldier, who had in the opeu field to suit his diabolical enough to perceive that the ivays of discovered, I was scarcely more than an Mayor Dickey. fought so bravely for his country,” cried purpose, went to work and persuaded peace are preferable to the paths of amlitcu: Jndge Thompson had had an elabo­ ttur QIu t'.e course of tim e a new crack rate and costly tomb built for the nlti- Mr. Morse, “ died of a broken heart. F U R C H IL D R E N T E E T H IN G men to build worm fences, whose tri­ war, and so manifests his ambition by Yes, Mr. Speaker, be died o f a broken r.raal.kTallltr.sk .u. tec, angular corners, which could not be kicking the harness to pieces. Of develop; d in oue of my Ghees, in the up- mate reception of his remains and or­ heart, of a broken heart, sir, and he cultivated at all, and were with diffi­ course, this reprehensible act meet* perj crosswise of the shoe and about dered a coffin from ex-Mayor Dickey, never smiled again; be never smiled culty reached by the hoe, afforded har­ with prompt retribution at the Sands midway between the sole and the top or now an undertaker. The coffin was not FOR PEOPLE |M»T «RE SICK ot again. ” — Washington Cor. Chicago boring places where all sorts o f weeds o f the enraged granger, and a conflict highest point of the shoe. A t the same delivered when specified, and Thomp­ “ J u .* D o n 't Fast W o ll,“ fimes-Herald. time a patch along tbe welt on the same ensues, generally ending to the disad­ could spread themselves like a green son bought another. When Dickey de­ P ILLS side started loose, and I took the shoe “ (ìe t ou your iiusbîiuil’s cravat, ha ve­ bay tree aDd flourish to their hearts’ vantage of the mule. ar« tu« One Thin« to u. «. livered his coffin, it was refused, and O n ly O n e f o r g D l « e . content. The superstition may have as But grubbing and cleaning and brush to the shoemaker. He had put other the suit followed. Thompson defended il*! you?” jiskeil :i neiglilHtr o f Mrs. Bold by drngfM U at 2 5 c . * boi ttamplM F r e e . Addrores th « little foundation as superstitions gener­ burning and plowing ar5, after all, the patches on my shoes in the most perfect his own case and won it.— Philadelphia BilkiiiK. “ Yes.” replied Afra, B.. siidly, Botin ko Med. Ca., PkOa. *'%. ally have, but considering the facilities Introduction to the planting ‘«m l It’ » tlie only tie there U between with manner, and he had always Heated me Times. afforded by the rail fence for weed wb ch tbe laliors o f spring may be said when I came for a new patch w ith the ua now.” —Harlem Life. N. t*. ft. U. NO.V61.—H. F. N. U. No. 728 Snoe t abinets. growing, it is not remarkable that some to ’ lose. There Is no more romance same politeness us thongb I had come The furniture-makers are showing a such idea should have come into being, about planting than about any other each tim e for a pair of new shoes. “ He looked the shoe over, and said he beautiful article o f mahogany and for o f all the jobs that the farm er and part o f the farm er’s spring toil, for the farm er’s w ife and the hired man nothing is more fatiguing than to walk wonld make one patch to ccycr both glass which remind« one of the cabinets for bric-a-brac, but it Is more substan­ do not enjoy doing, cleaning the fence ornca or all day over newly plowed ground, places, the place along the w elt and the B l a c k w e l l ' s D u r h a m T obacco C o m p a n y . corners is the least highly appreciated. new crack in the top. This was obvious­ tial and Its legs are shorter. It Is sinking to the ankles at every step, D u r h a m , n . c . It is, so to speak, purely a labor o f iove, ly the thing to do. It would make one made to hold a woman's shoes and to dropping exactly the same number of or, rather, o f cleanliness, and fo- th# patch instead of two, anti so would look stand across the corner o f her dress­ Dear S ir: grains in every hill to the subsequently looks o f the farm, for nothing e « i be better, and, with its greater area and ing-room. One Easter bride has such Yce srr rntitLJ u> receive covered by a dexterous stroke o f the planted In a fence corner, no matter wider distribution of the wearing strain, a cabinet well filled, and It is an Im­ T R E E from j our wholesale dealer, how clean It is kept, and if It could, hoe. It Is hard work, and the only it wonld last longer than two smaller portant feature o f the trousseau. H er ‘ IIT E S T A R S O A P with sll nothing w ill grow there but weeds. As representatives of animate nature that patches. So he pnt it on that w ay; run­ cabinet bas three plate-glass shelves fte H I M a ._ Tw ain said about screening tail­ really enjoy seeing anybody do it are ning aloDg the welt and then making a and a drawer which holds the polish ings at an ore mill, it is a constant job the crows. T o them it is a joy, if not turn and running np to cover the crack and small articles for repairs. On th? always w aitlag to be done, and when a forever, at least during the spring sea­ in tbe top. top shelf is a row o f slippers for even­ farm er has n 'thing else on hand he can son. nor are they deterred from It in “ As I looked at the new L shaped ing wear. The next shelf holds the pat­ ar.y wise by the erection o f sca-ecrows, patch I realized how limited my pre­ ent leather ties, the c-loth top boots go and weed the fence corners. you buy. One bar There is m oth er odd Job that Is rea­ for crows have a world o f sense for vious knowledge of patches hail been. 1 with big buttons and the stout little of soap Fret with each pound, sonably certain to turn up sometime Is crows, and can tell the difference be­ had had many patches, bnt they had calf ones for street wear. On the liot- whether 16 <«., 8 o x „ 4 ox., or the course of every spring, and that il tween a scarecrow and a man as far as been bnt commonplace, jnst plain, ordi­ tom shelf is rather a motley group— a oz., packs g ;s . brush burning. Only the hottest d ajf they can see. The farm er may erect nary patches, but as I looked at the new Cycle shoes, riding ltoots, tennis shoe*, W e have notified every whole­ o f spring or early summer will do for his vyorsf suit Into manly guise, and patch— and looking down at my shoes tan shoes, hunting boots and soft In ­ sale dealer Iri the United State* brush burning, for If it were done on