- ABSOIJUTEUr PURE Women and Actor. Capoul, the French tenor, was the re cipient of volumes of letters from lady admirers both here and in Paris. On the English stage, besides Mr. Irving, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Hare and Mr. Bancroft have been overwhelmed with a goodly number. But I ain told by one who knows that no actor living ever received such a number of admiring epistles from the fairer sex as the late John Clayton. Among actresses Mrs. Bancroft has perhaps been treated to the kindliest at v. tentions. Mrs. John Wood, too, on the first or last night of her play had always her dressing room converted into a per fect bower of flowers, and little gifts of ' jewelry literally poured in upon her. There was ne bangle with the inscrip , tion "Bless your art." Whether it was Mrs. Woods' heart or art that was blessed ; remains a riddle to this day. London ' ; Gentlewoman. ' .. ; r The Mexican Boundary Line. ( The international boundary line be- tween the United States and the repub ' lie of Mexico is marked by pyramids of stones placed at irregular distances along the line all the way from the Rio Grande . to the Pacific ocean. Wherever it was found practicable to do so these pyra- mids were built on prominent peaks at road crossings, fords, etc. The line was not surveyed, as is the usual custom, the location of the monuments being based ; on astronomical calculations and obser vations. St. Louis Republic. A FarsiUted Man. . . " " Fogg Munui worth was always a far sighted man, and his ventures were almost invariably successful. Figg But what good is he to society? He will give money for the heathen, thousands of miles away, but he never can see the suffering right at home. Fogg I said he was a farsighted man. Boston Transcript. August 99 I used August Flower for Loss of vitality and general debility. After taking two bottles I gained 69 lbs. 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ThA FlftH KltA KT RI.Tf!KTr.R In warranted water proof, and will keep you dry la tho hardest storm. The .new POMMEL SLICKER i a perfect riding coat, and coverstheenilresaddle. Bewareof Imitations. Don'U buy a coat if tlie " Fisn urana" re not on iu musir- ted Catalogue tree. A. J. tuwkk, nomoa, mana. Mower iffise OollaotiOB of SWEET PEAS DIRECT A large packet each of TE? FROM 2? New and Distinct f THB Varieties mailed for CALIFORNIA GROWERS SunsetSeed&Plant Co. (Sherwood Hall Nursery Co.) San Francisco A MOTHER. ould I but have my baby back again From the dim vastness of the great un , known. How would it ease my poor heart's silent pain As I sit here in shadow and alonel That heaven Is vast but makes me more afraid, ,f Who shall its hesitating footsteps guide? Far cozier the nest my love had made. Or so my heart feels, since my baby died. Cold was the night it left my bosom warm A night of wintry tempest harsh ana wlldl Into hat world of darkness and of storm Went forth alone my little toddling child. I say alone, for who hears angels' feet Pause at the threshold, though we dream they come? We hear not even death, the robber fleetl We only know a void is in our home. Mother! the very name is sorrow's own, A synonym for heartache and for trial; . 'Tie she must tread the wine press all alone. And when the tears would start must wear a . smile. What is the faith of priest, of Christian broth er. Of mitered bishop, though they kiss the rod? Weak seems their worship when a trusting mother Yields up her pretty, smiling babe to God. Arkansaw Traveler. In a Hurry to Get There. "I fear we will never get down town at this ' slow gait, said a restless, pale faced woman as she handed her fare to a Third avenue surface conductor the other night. . : For a time the conductor was silent. Then, turning, he whispered: . "Do you see the glitter in her eyes?" , "Yes, very plainly," , "In another hoar she will be crazy." As the car rolled down the Bowery the woman looked through the window, and the light fell full in her face. Her eyes gleamed red and bright. Then the conductor leaned in at the door and said: ' "It isn't far now only a few blocks more." "You fool," she replied, "how dare you drive so slowly! Had I known this I should have come another way, and half rising from her seat ' she. glared through the door. The conductor smiled sadly. "If ever there was a hopeless case," he muttered, "hers is one." . "Have you known her long?" was asked. "Yes, a- year or more. She often comes down on my late run. At first she was quiet enough, but now she grows worse and worse. ., . "What caused her insanity?" ' " -"Insanity?" and he turned as though in astonishment. "Why, she is not in sane. She hits the pipe. Wait till we get to the Chinese district and you will see. y T His words were true. She left the car at Mott street. New York Herald. A Fattening Process. Are you painfully thin? Do you eve stand before four mirror and heave a sigh of regret at your lack of roundness of face and form which is so apparent? If you do so you may find consolation at hearing of a system of "putting on flesh as employed with satisfactory re sults by a number of people. Briefly you go to bed and allow yourself to be fed up. In twenty -four hours you have eight glasses of milk with cream and three huge meals. That the fattening effect of this food may not be allowed to be worked off you are allowed to make no exertion. Everything short of the process of mas tication is done for you. You don't even wash yourself. Besides being washed you are massaged and rubbed with oil. The last operation is an intelligible part of the process of putting on fat, but not quite so clear as the electricity. This sort of thing is done continuous ly for three months, and the woman that has gone through the operation that she may make a more presentable figure gets up with a lighter heart and a body perhaps two stone heavier. Some women go through this process for the cure of nervous complaints. Do you think you would be willing to sub mit to this treatment for the sake of ac quiring a plumpness which you do not now possess? Detroit Free Press. All Is Grist to the Grinder. Flossie (little daughter of a newspaper woman) Oh, mamma, Mabel and I have a lovely secret about our dolls. I'd like to tell you, only Her Mother Only what, Flossie? ; Flossie Only I'm afraid you'd write it or). New York Times. ' t iEY ARE CAiNnnw JOHN BULL'S NEW SAVAGE WARDS OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. Since Tbeir Tillages Were Shelled, How ever, Head Hunting Is Not So Popular as It Onee Was Interesting Ori gin of the Group's Name. As if to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that the sun never sets on her im mense empire, Great Britain recently estab lished a protectorate over the Solomon is lands, which are located near the ' equator in the Pacific ocean, east of New Guinea and northeast of Australia. The largest islands are called San Cristoval, Reniiel, New Georgia, Malayta, the Arsacides, Gua dalcanal San Isabel, Choiseul and Bou gainville. There are also scores of small islands, and the entire group forms a dou ble row about 700 miles long and contain ing 10.000 square miles. The natives are Malays and Papuan ne groes and are probably about the worst wards England ever took under her wing. Although the word protectorate has a very friendly sound, the Solomon islanders do not take to it with any great show of en thnsiasm, and a warship is constantly star tioned among the islands to convince the benighted head hunters and cannibals thpt, although white men are very good eating now and then, their true sphere of useful hess lies in ruling over their dark skinned brothers. ' ; . - i In subduing the Solomon islanders and putting a stop to their cannibalistic propen sities, however, England has rendered the world an undoubted service, for hitherto the unfortunate mariner who was cast upon the shores of these islands was invariably killed and eaten.' - The natives formerly used bone pointed spears and bows and ar- A GIRL OF THE SOLOMON ISLANDS. . rows in fighting, but many of them are now armed with guns. They have large war canoes with tall prows and sterns, which rise in the form of wooden pillars and are adorned with most picturesque and elab orate carvings. The men and women wear no clothing but a loin band, and at Rubiana, foe of their principal towns, they worship a gro tesque idol formed of an upright block of wood which bears the likeness of a human face and has inlaid rings for eyes and ears. In war they are inveterate head hunters, and their victims are devoured. It is said that at the time Alverdo de Mendana dis covered the islands in 1567 the natives looked upon cannibalism as such a matter of course that the chief of San Isabel sent the Spanish navigator part of the body of a boy, just as he would have offered half of a bullock, and was much offended when Men dana ordered the present buried. Until very recently the crews of traders and whalers did not dare land on the is lands, owing to the treachery and murder ous propensities of the natives, and allowed but few canoes to come alongside the. ship at one time. The chiefs were permitted to come on board as much for the sake of se curing them as hostages in the event of hostilities as to do them honor so long as they behaved themselves. The bulwarks were also protected to a considerable height by hammock nettings in order to preclude a sudden boarding of the vessel by the islanders, but in spite of these pre cautions a number of ships have fallen into the hands of the cannibals, and their crews were murdered and devoured. Although a few missionaries are now hard at work among the islanders, there are still many places where a small party of white men would lose their heads in short order if the natives were convinced that their fate would remain a mystery. . Since the British- gunboat Rapid has shelled a number of native villages, bow- ever, and claimed a life for a life every time a white man was murdered, the islanders have confined themselves to amusements that were less provocative of grape and canister and an aftermath of shot and shell. Not long ago a trader named Duval was murdered m Mott bay, among the southern islands of the group. Shortly after the commission of .the crime the Rapid steam ed into the bay, cleared for action and then sent word to the chief of the island where the murder occurred that if the slayer of Mr. Duval were not delivered aboard' the ship in two hours the village would be plowed with shells and sowed with a num ber of choice varieties of grape and canis ter. ; .f The chief had either experienced a speci men of this method of British cultivation or bad beard all about how it was done, lor he caught the murderer instanter, tum bled into a war canoe with him and with breathless hasta paddled him to the Rapid. The accused man confessed his crime, and the next morning he was taken ashore un der guard of a strong force of marines and sailors and shot in the presence of several hundreds of his friends and fellow head hunters. Such lessons as the Duval case are rapidly convincing the islanders that killing and eating a white man is such an expensive luxury that it is quite out of date. There is something of a romance connect ed with the naming of the islands. Mendana gave them the name they now bear "to the end that the Spaniards, supposing them to be those isles whence Solomon fetched gold to adorn the temple of Jerusalem, might be more desirous to go and inhabit thesAme." Mendana's colonization scheme failed, how ever, for when he set out to find them again he was unable to do so, and they were lost sight of until Carteret rediscovered them exact ly a century later and formed a French settlement on San Christoval, which was finally' abandoned on account of the un tamable ferocity of the natives. The islands are of volcanic origin, and they possess one active crater. The gold that Mendana endeavored to use as a bait to lure colonists to the group was all in his mind, and naturallv none of it has ever been found on the islands. The land is gen erally fertile, yielding breadfruit, cocoa nuts, yams and sago in abundance, and may also be cultivated for cotton and sugar. AN UNSEEN KNKilV fit more to be dreaded than an open and visible one. lixat supine ana lurmng toe, wnicn. under the generic name of malaria manifests itself, when it dutches us in its tenacious grasp, in the various forms of chills and fever, bilious remit tent, dumb ague or ague cake, can only be effect ually guarded against by fortifying the system against its insidious attacks with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, a thorough antidote to the poison of miasma in the system and a safeguard against it thoroughly to be relied upon. In the event of a malarious attack avoid poisoning your system witn quinine, and use instead this wholesome remedy, unobjectionable in taste and far more efficacious than any drug. Use the Bitters for dyspepsia, biliousness, constipa tion, kidney complaints and rheumatism. Mary It's hard to believe that our great an cestress was made of one of Adam's ribs. Which rib do you think it was? Hleanor Oh, the sparerib, undoubtedly. EXPOSURE TO CHANGES OF TKM FKKATUKB. ' Public men are constantly liable to dan ger arising from sudden changes of tem perature; sometimes from heat to cold, sometimes the reverse. Henry Thome, Traveling Secretary of the Y. M. C. A., writes from Exeter Hall, Strand, London, February 2, 1888: " I desire to bear my testimony to the value of Allcock's Pobous Plasters, I have used them for pains in the back and side arising from rheumatic and other causes never without deriving benefit from their application. They are easily applied and very comforting. Those engaged as I am in public work which involves expos ure to sudden changes of temperature will do well to keep a supply of Allcock's Pob ous Plasters in their portmanteaus." Bbandketh's Pills act upon the whole system. . , i - . Willie Aunty, what do they call the man who hunts un the taxes? Aunt Surah Taxidermists, uv course; beca'se he skins everybody. For throat diseases and coughs "Brown1! Bronchial Troches," like all other really good things, are imitated, and purchasers should be careful to obtain the genuine article pre pared by John I. Brown & Sons. ;' ' Dinks Was Smith's purpose of whipping the editor carried out? Danks No, but Smith was. WATER MOTOR. One Tuerk Water Motor, new, that will develop from 10 to 15-horse power ; can be had at a sacrifice by addressing Palmes A Rkt, Portland, Or. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, I ; , Lucas County. ( Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he 1 the senior partner of the firm of F. J. 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