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IN THE STEEL MILLS. MADE 1IDIACRIMINAL Those— — Pirn pies Chas. Heaton. 73 Laurel Street, Phila., says. “I have had for years a humor in my blood which made me dread to shave, as small boils or pimples would be cut, thus causing shaving to be a great annoyance- A fter taking three bottles w my face is all clear and smooth as it should be-appetite splendid. ** sleep well and fe< I like running a foot race all for tne use of S. S. S. Treatise on blood and skin diseases mailed free. SWIFT SPECIFIC CO-. Atlanta, Ga. SALT LAKE. DENVER, OMAHA, KANSAS CITY, ST. LOUIS, , AND ALL EASTERN CITIES. qi r<> 02 CHICAGO Um i ho The Quickest to Chica ll 0UI S 8aand M'8 East. llUll I S Quick01" t° Omaha and Kansas City. Pullman and Tourist Sleepers, Free Reclining Chair Cars, Dining Cars. S. H, It CLARK, ) OLIVER W MINK. -Rsix-lvers E ELLERY ANDERSON,) For Rates or general information call on or ad- draas W. 1« IH Ill.m UT, Asst Gen. Pass. Agt. 254 Washington St.. Cor. 3d. PORTLAND, OR. EAST AND SOUTH VIA The Shasta Route OF THE Express Trains Incavo Portland Dully ARRIVE. LEAVE Portland.......... o l P M I San Francisco..10:4 A M ! hun Francisco.?.*» I* M I Portland............. 3:20 A M Aliove trains stop at h II stations from Portland to Albany ¡delusive. Also Tangent, dbedds^ Hal sey, Harrisburg, Junction City, Irving, Eugene and all Stations from Roseburg to Ashland Inclu sive. Hoseburg Mail Daily. LEAVE: ARRIVE Portland 8:30 AM I RoseUea. "PM Roseburg 7:00 AM I Portland... 4.30 PM DINING CARS ON OGDEN ROUTE. PULLMKN * BUFFET SLEEPERS SECOND CLASS SLEEPING CARS, Attached to all Through Trains. BETWEEN .West Side Division. PORTLAND AND CORVALLIS Mail Train Daily, (Except Sunday.) At Albany and Corvallis connect with truins of Oregon Pacific Railroad, Express Train Daily, (Except Sunday.) 1:40 p M I Lv 7:1 H M I Lv 7:2 P M I Ar l‘<>i t lnn<i st. Joseph Minn ville AN OPERATION THAT HAD AN UNFOR TUNATE EFFECT. Awe.! by the Deafening Noise ami Roaring A Boy’s Bump cf AeqnUltiveuesis Grew Ab- uortrially After Ho Was Trephined—But the SurgF-oy Stood All the Blame and Corrected the Error. Flames and Blistered by the Terrible Kent—The Fate of One Poor Mau—Tossed With Aching Bouea at Night. Are tell-tali’ symptoms that your blood in not right—f ••itof impurities, causing a sluggish ofd untsigidly complexion. A few bottles of 8. 5. o. vM remove all fomgn and impure matter, cleanse the blood thoroughly and gv't a clear and rosy complexitm. It is most ejjtct-, wi/, and entirely harmless. CHICAGO. WORKMAN’S ACCOUNT CF HIS FIRST DAY AT HOMESTEAD. A Ai I 2 A '1 Lv < A M L\ I .0 A M Through Tickets mail points in Eastern States, Canada and Europe can be obtained at lowest rales from G. A. Wilcox, Agent, McMinn ville. E. P. ROGERS, Asst. G. F, & P. A , Portland, Or. R. KOEHLER, Manager LOCAL DIRECTORY. CHURCHES B aptikt —Services Sunday 11 a. in. and 7 :31) p. ni ; Sunday school 9:50 a m.; the! young people’s society 6:15p m Prayer meeting Thursday 7 30 p tn. Covenant, meeting first Sat each month 2 :00 p. in. M kthoihht E piscopal —Services every I Sabbath 11 00 a. ui and 7 30 p. in. Sunday I school 9:30 a ni Prayer meeting 7 On p iu . Thursday. S E. M zminoer , Pastor. (Tin. P bksbytehia N — Services every Sab bath 11:00a m and 7:30 p. in. Sunday, school 9:30 a. in. Y. P. C. Sunday 6:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Thursday, 7:30 p. m. I E E. T hompson , Pastor. j C hristian —Services every Sabbath 11:001 a iu and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school 10 a. in. Young people's meeting at 6 30 p. ni. | H. A. D enton , Pastor. S t . J ames C atholic —First st., between | O and H. Sunday school 2:30 p. tn. Ves pers 7 :30. Services once a month. W R H ooan , Pastor. SECRET ORDERS. K nowles C hatter No, 12, 0. E. S.—Meets a Masonic ball the first and third Monday evening in each month. Visiting members cordially in vited. MRS o 0. HODSON, Sec. MRS. H. L. HEATH. W. M. C vsteu P ost N o . 9—Meets the second and fourth j Saturday of each mouth in Union hall at 7:30 i p m. on second Saturday and at 10:30 a. ni. on 4th Saturday. All members of the order are I cordially Invited to attend our meetings B. F. CLVBisz, Commander. J. A. P eckham . Adjt. When 1 went to the superintendent and asked for work, ho said, ‘‘What tan you do?” “Anything. 1 am large, strong, ac tive and willing. I have been about machinery all tuy life and want work badly. ” 1 Ho touched a button, and a boy ap peared. “Show this man down to the converting mill and ask Fred if he can i ’. o anything for him. Good morning!’ be said, and my interview was over. 1 put on my new overalls and jumper and followed my guide down through the mills. Wo made our way through pih-s of stock, raw material, rolls, etc., and came at last to the huge converting mill. The superintendent was found and the word delivered. He glanced at me a moment; then said, not unkindly. “You look good and strong. Jump in and help those fellows there on those vessels. ” 1 hardly knew what lie meant, but through the smoke and steam I saw- Borne men beneath one of the vessels, <u converters, working with sledges and bars to get the bottom off. The mill, with its ponderous and massive cranes, the immense vessels all covered with black scale and soot, the flying sparks, the roaring flames, the lights coming and going, the air tilled with steam and smoke, and. Anally, the shrill and deaf ening noise, awed, confused and even disooncerted me more than 1 should have liked to acknowledge. I seized a sledge lying near and jump ed in. We at last got out the “keys,” us they call the wedges which hold the converter together, and by the help of a hydraulic ram took the bottom off. This left a white hot opening 8 feet in diameter and about 6 feet from the ground, under which we must work. It seemed to me as though the skin i u my neck and hands would burst with the heat. My clothes even steamed and smoked. How I wished I had been any where tinder the sun—good old Sol— rather than under this fiendishly hot sun hanging so very near us! When we Lad the new bottom on, we went up to the platform above the con verters and drove the keys homo more securely and stopped any small hole there might be with ‘ ball stuff.” A shrieking engine passed by me and swiftly poured into the converter a "heat” of iron. Then the blast was turned on, and a cloud of yellow and saffron flame, mixed with sparks and Email particles of metal, rushed out of the mouth of the converter into the air. One of the men caught me by the arm and pulled me away just iu time to save me from being seriously burned, for 1 was not expecting the flame. Ey noon 1 was so tired I could hardly stand, but I stuck to it for all I was worth. During the afternoon I frequent ly fell down because my knees were too weak to hold me up. My hands were burned and blistered, and my new over alls were filled with holes burned by flying sparks. About 4 o’clook in the afternoon, while working under the platform, I was startled to see a stream of red fire run over thu edge of the plat form and strike in the midst of some workmen. As it touched the wet ground it exploded with a report like that of a cannon. The molten metal flew in evciy direction. Many workmen were burned more or less severely, and in the case of one poor fellow—it makes me sick still to think of it! —the steel came down di rectly on the head and back. We got him out of the steam and smoke and carefully and tenderly cut his burned clothing from him. As wo placed him on the stretcher the burned flesh drop ped from his bones. When I was relieved at 6 o’clock, it seemed as if it would have been utterly impossible for me to live in that mill another hour. I dragged myself to my room and went to bed at once. All that night I tossed and turned niv aching bones, trying to get into some position less painful than the last. I was tor tured by a thousand grotesque fancies and by thu picture of the poor fellow who was burned so badly. At last I got into an uneasy drowse, but I felt as if I had nut been asleep a minute when my alarm clock announced to me that it was 4:45, and that I must get up to my 5:10 breakfast. Oh, the misery of that rising and going to the mill! Every bone and sinew seemed as if made of redhot iron, and the joints as if rusted together. It was a dark, foggy morning, I found, when, having desperately got up enough will power to dress. I tumbled out to my boarding house. The Pittsburg smoke and fog are proverbial, but I really think that on that particular morning one might have cut tangible chunks out of the black, wet air. The board walks iu Homestead are never in repair, and on the way to the mills I stumbled along through mud ami stones, over boards tuid into holes, carrying in my Land my tin dinner bucket, which contained my midday meal. On my first Sunday we relined the converter, aud it became my duty to ttand up in the inverted vessel and hand up the ball stuff and limestone with which to reline it. The vessel had been left to cool simply over night, and I suppose the temperature of the dry air inside of it stood at about 140 degrees. I worked as hard as I could, but near noon I fainted, for the first time in my life. My experience at Homestead was the experience of the majority of workmen there.—“Homestead as Seen by One of Its Workmen” in McClure’s Magazine The resurrection plant, a native of W. C T. U.—Meets on every Frl- * 8outh Africa, becomes dry and appar- sntly lifeless during drought, but opens dav, in Wright’s hall at 3 o’clock p m. its leaves and assumes all the appear L. T. L. at 3 p. ni. M bs . A. J. W hitmobe , Pres ance of life when rain falls. C lara G. E sson , Sec’y. 1 20 PER CENT "Do you think criminality is a dis ease*” askuil the drummer of the hotel clerk. “Course not,” said the clerk. “It L< un a quireil habit, and there wouldn’t be any criminals if children were train- cd right. ’ ’ “That’s what you think, but sit flown there where you will be comfort able, and I’ll tell you something. ” It was after midnight, and us the clerk hadn’t anything else- to do hu ac- •epted the invitation and sat down. “Not a great while ago, “went on the drummer, “I was In an eastern city, ini’ it happened that 1 had a package of samples stolen by a boy on the street 1 caught him in the act, and a police man being on the spot, for a wonder, 1 turned the thief over to him and agreed to appear »gainst the boy, just to teach him a lesson. The next morning I was in the police court on time, and there I was met by a physician, who told me something which led me to leave the ease to him. When the boy was called, the physician appeared with him and desired to make a statement to the court. It was granted, and he said: “ ‘May it please the court, I want to assume responsibility for this offense and for a number of others of a similar character, which I understand the ac cused has committed within the past year. “ ‘Your honor,’ he said, ‘until some thing more than a year ago this boy was as correct a boy as any I ever knew. Of good parentage and excellent training, there is no reason why he should not have been so. Two years ago he sus tained a severe accident by being thrown from a bicycle, in which his skull was fractured directly on that epot which phrenologists have designated as the bump of acquisitiveness. I was called in to treat the case, and upon examina tion discovered that the only thing to be done wa3 to remove a part of the skull and trephine the fracture. This I did, exposing a considerable area of the brain. The trephining, however, was quite successful, and I had the pleasure in a few weeks of seeing my patient once more on his feet, and to all intents and purposes as well as ever, or very likely to be soon. At this time, and un til several months later, nothing un usual was notioed about the boy, but after several months it was observed that he began to purloin small things about the house. He was not suspected at first, but one day his mother caught him iu the act, and h6 was punished. I may add that at this time he was per haps 13 years old. His parents were greatly grieved over this discovery and afterward kept a cluse watch on him. The habit, however, seemed to be grow ing on him, and all their efforts to check it were in vain. They even went so far as to have their pastor talk to him, but that did no good. One day they were painfully shocked by his ar rest fur a theft of trifling character. The matter was settled as quietly as possible, and it was hoped that this would be a lesson to him. It made ab solutely no difference, and the boy went from bad to worse. What he has stolen no one can tell, for he is as cunning as a fox iu his work, as a rule, nor is it known what he does with his stealings unless he has hidden them somewhere. Ten days ago the case came directly to my notice by a theft from my own house. I bad heard, of course, of what the boy had been doing, but it did not occur to me to think I had anything to do with it. “ ‘The parents came to me when the theft occurred at my house, and in thu talk about their boy the suggestion struck me that perhaps I could offer an explanation. I said nothing to them, but sent for the boy and made an exam ination of the trephined fracture and discovered that while I had saved the boy’s life I had also given his bump of acquisitiveness an opportunity to devel op abnormally, and that it was growing greater every day. I did not reach this conclusion definitely until a day or two ago, and this is the first opportunity I have had to make an explanation of what, to those who knew the boy pre viously, is a remarkable case of moral retrogression. Having made this ex planation, I wish to assume the respon sibility for the boy’s acts, and as the prosecuting witness is willing not to appear against my patient I would ask to have him discharged. His parents have agreed to let me perform another operation on him, and I feel assured that I can render him a service which will make an honest man of him. As he now is he will continue to grow worse, and there is nothing before him sxcept a prison, for steal he will until bis offense becomes such that he will go to the penitentiary, where his opportu nities may be minimized, but his desire to steal will continue to grow. ’ “Well,” concluded the drummer, ‘ this sort of thing knocked out the court and everybody else, but the prison er was turned over to the physician as ids patient, and he took him away with him to a hospital, where he said the op eration was to be performed at once. That was a year- ago. Today I met the physician on the street htre, and the first thing I asked him about was the boy. He smiled all over and told me that ever since the operation the boy bad been steadily improving, and for two months past he had stolen nothing although the temptation was constantly put in his way by his orders. “ ‘I think,’ he said as we parted, ‘that the boy is entirly cured, and here after when I have any trephining to do I shall keep an eye on the bumps and not make a patient either better or worse than nature intended. ’ "—Detroit Free Press. DORRIS’ SHOE STRINGS. HE WAS A HUSTLER. DOCTORING SHIPS. On Dorris* feet Are the smallest of twos. But surely some elf Has enchanted her shoes. For, wherever wc go. Walk, row or ride, In church crat tennis. Her shoes come untied. Hie Opportunity Was a Golden One, and I He Hastened to Grasp It. PARASITEE THAT SEND OCEAN VES When Major General Schofield went , SELS TO THE HOSPITAL. to Keokuk, la., aud married one of the i No Snre Protection For Iron Hulls IIa.i Been Found—The Cid and the New 3Iau- ners of Construction—Something About Dryden 1»« uud ibeir I’ m «». At times it is trying, But what can 1 do When poor Dorris murmurs, “Oh. bother that shoe!** Ho down I must flop In the dust and dirt To tio up the shoe Of that dear little flirt. These precious girl tyrants! We cannot rebel. For even their ribbons Are rilled with their spell. Since old fashioned aprons No longer they use. They tie a poor man To the strings of their shoes. Vassar Miscellany. . BAKERS* BREAD. A Few Facts About a Somewhat Familiar Article of Food. Styles change in bread, as in every thing else, and shapes that were more or less familiar 10 years ago are now 1 nut made at all. Every baker tries to have something distinctive about his output, and almost every baker thinks his broad is the best. So everybody who buys bakers’ bread knows there is really a great diiferflhce in it in appearance and in taste. The housewife makes wheat bread of one kind of flour; the baker makes it generally of three—two brands of spring wheat flour aud one of winter wheat, mixed, with the result of mak ing n finer, whiter, smoother loaf. Bak ers do not all agree as to the exact pro portions in which these flours should be mixed. Graham flour is made of the entire grain of the wheat ground up together; gluten flour of that part of the wheat grain which contain, the gluten. Ryo graham flour is made of the entire gram of the rye; the rye flour used iu tho or dinary rye bread is usually mixed with wheat flour in proportions varying from a little wheat up to half wheat. Of the Lread sold iu American bakeries about 8a per cent is wheat, the remaining 15 per cent being divided about equally among graham, rye and gluten. Iu Ger man bakeries the proportion of rye bread sold is very much greater. Bakers are all tho time getting up new shapes in bread, and there can scarcely be said to be any absolutely standard form, though there are some | that are practically so—the oblong, the round, the long, xuuud, French stick, Vienna stick and Vienna loaf. There are now about 15 shapes that are mere or less commonly 6old. And these breads are made of about as many different kinds of dough. For instance, there is a New England dough, a Vienna dough, and so on, each being composed of a different blend of materials and mixed and handled differently. Perhaps as nearly standard as any of these shapes is the one known as New England. This is an oblong ^paf with square corners. Almusc all of these breads are made in different sizes. The New England is made in at least five, which are sold at 5 cents, b cents, 10 cents, 25 cents and 30 cents. Usually the 80 cent loaf is made to weigh a trifle more than three 10 cent loaves would weigh. The smallest sized New England loaf is tho one most sold, as is the case with all breads made in sizes, but the 8 cent and 10 cent loaves are in large demand, ami thero is a steady sale for the loaves at 25 and 30 cents. The larger of the two big loaves is sometimes cut in two and sold iu halves. The big loaves are sold to boarding houses and to private families also. Some folks like a crust, and some like the inside. The big loaves ar e es pecially desirable for those who like the inside. They have proportionately to weight less crust than the smaller loaves, and they can be so cut as to be served in almost any form that may be desired, with crust or without. Breads for hotels and restaurants are generally made in special shapes. They use a shape corresponding to New Eng land, and many restaurants that don’t want so much crust take a bread that is made in loaves about 18 inches in: length, and not veiy wide, baked not separately, but laid close together, so that the loaves have crust on the ends only. Some hotels buy this kind of bread, but hotels generally use more Frenoh bread and Vienna sticks. Tak ing all the people together, old and young, it is probable that about three- quarters like their bread crusty.—New York Sun. TUe Hair. The roots of the hair are each sup plied with a blood vessel of its own aqd with proper nerves, though the latter do not extend into the hair itself. On the health of the roots of the hair the whole growth depends. On either side of the root and a little above it are two small glands, which secrete an oily sub stance that gives gloss to the hair, and the glands serve to protect the roots of the hair from becoming clogged with dust. Each separate hair is a hollow cube and through its length is conveyed the food essential to health and growth. —Pittsburg Dispatch. YVhat It Wax. “What is that gash on Pinder’s facer” “Oh, that is a mark of respect. ” “A mark of respect?” “Yes, he’s got more respect now for the man that put it there than he had before. ”—Atlanta Constitution. Goutiod received his first instruction in music from liis mother, who was a distinguished pianist. He won the grand prize at the Paris conservatory when he was 21. The average weight of 20,000 men and women weighed in Boston was: Men, 141j^ pounds; women, 124X pounds. The first agricultural Instrument, the ancestor of both spade and pick, was a pointed stick. The sea is a grand and yet a treacher ous mother to the thousands of shipc ihat sail over its bread expanse, and aft er buffeting u iih its storms the ships must go to their hospital for repairs. This hospital is tho drydock, and the doctors are tho army of careful work men who look over carefully and repair every faulty seam or broken rivet. Salt water is teeming with parasites cf p>lant and animal life that cling to the bottoms of ships, cat slowly yet surely through wood and iron alike or rust it away, while they act as a check on the spriid by vastly increasing the resistance anil friction of the water against the ship. Tho “gods of the storms see everywhere” and pick out each weak seam or faulty rivet and slowly and surely eat into the vitals of the ship, so that every few mouths it becomes necessary to examine and re pair the vessel. To do this she must come out of the water. The drydock is just a great box of wood, iron aud stone, connecting with the sea by a great gate way. When the ship is ready to cater, the gate is shut and the water all pump ed out; then tho workmen, with prac ticed skill, place the blocks at tho bot tom of tho dock for the keel to rest upon, taking the dimensions from the plans and drawings of tho vessel. These in place, tho dock is flooded again, the gata opened, ami the ship Lanled in. The gate is now closed again, aud while the water is slowly pumped out an<l the ship settles down the dockers pull her this way or that until she rests evenly on the keel blocks. Then shores, or heavy wooden beams, are braced from the sides of the dock to the sides of the ship, aud as the water is pumped away the ship stands “high and dry,” a ver itable “fish out of water,” the bottom, which was below the water line, cover ed with seaweeds and parasites that hide the defects they have caused. Then tho workmen scrape and scour the unwelcome barnacles »nd glass away, the seams and rivets are all ex amined and repaired, a fresh coat of paint goe3 on again, aud as the dock is again flooded the ship rises’from her hospital bed, and the wooden supports are knocked away until she Oorts out to sea again, “healthy and strong,” to battle with the wind and eea and the enemies of the flag Jio proudly flies. When wood was used almost exclu sively in building ships, a very easy and convenient means was found to protect the under water portions of the ship from the insidious attacks of barnacles and parasites of plant and animal life. This was dono by covering the w hole bottom of the ship with a plating of thin coppor, for the galvanic action of the salt water upon the copper was .to convert the ship and sea into avast bat tery, where tho copper became the nega tive pole and was slowly yet constantly eaten away, the particles, as they fell, taking with them the barnacles aud sea weed as fast as they formed on the ship, thus keeping the ship’s bottom and sides always clean, so that the speed was not cut down by dragging the bar nacles and yards of seaweed through the water. Yet even then the copper need ed repairs; faulty timbers rotted aud crumbled away, so that every few years the ship hud to go into drydock and be thoroughly overhauled, each faulty tim ber replaced and rusty bolt repaired un til no loophole was left for the sea to work upon. But with the advent, of iron in the building of ships the old means failed, for where copper was placed over iron the iron became the negative pole of the great battery and was eaten away quick ly, riddling the bottom of the ship with many leaks. Many devices were tried— the under water portions of the vessels were covered wtfti a waterproof layer of wood, which was then coppered as be fore, but wherever there was any me tallic connection between the copper and iron the whole force of tho battery acted there, and holes were eaten in un expected and inaccessible places, bring ing in an element of uncertainty and enforcing great care in “sheathing” the vessels, as the coating of wood is called, and the ships still had to go more often than ever to the drydock. Then the various methods of painting tho bottoms with protective paints have been tried and arc used in all of the cruisers of our navy. The skill of hun dreds of chemists lias been exerted to Anil a paint that Would act as the cop per does and throw off the barnacles and seaweed. Great prizes have been offer ed, and a fortune awaits the successful discoverer of such a coating for ships, yet so far none has been disovered that acts completely, and the iron and steel ships which start from port with flesh ly painted side9and bottoms return in a few months coated with barnacles and sea weed, which, a.s it trails in the wa ter, very materially cuts down the speed »nd power of the ship. Then slie must be put in the dry dock and scrubbed and scraped and repainted. Still worse than the barnacles aud the seaweed is the water itself when it fiuds an entrance, be it ever so small, through the paint to the steel below. Slowly but surely it rusts out a little pit, which extends sometimes almost through the plate be fore the paint scale drops off and dis closes the defect, which can even then only be seen by putting the ship in dry dock and examining every square foot of her bottom plating. This all shows how necessary it is for the ships to go to their “hospital” and how careful her “doctors” should be, for millions of dollars worth of property .and millions of priceless lives are car ried every year on these ‘ ‘messengers of the sea.” The greatest docks in the world are those of the great shipping port of Liverpool.—Washington Star. 11=1 H SCOUNT ir ■ ’ ■■ f irarrai w r n i n 11 « t i r a i ■■ i .*>■ ».t .-amrw a rrzflr .i wm a n’wfl n■■■ wi.rt-.rm t belles of that towu, Miss Kilbourno, an amusing incident occurred which Ar- i thur Ciarke, business manager of John Drew, the < omediau, < njoys telling about. Il app. ais that. Mr. Clarke’s fa- ’ tlier is editor and proprietor of Keo- 1 kuk’s 1 <nling paper. The Gate City, and | iu his counting room he has a particu- ! Luly energetic Hebrew, by name Joe Klein. Joseph is a hustler in every seuse of the word, and the day is bleak indeed when he gets left. He heard of tho approaching wedding of Miss Kil bourne with the distinguished officer, and early on the morning of the date set for the happy event he called at the Kilbourne homestead, rang the doorbell and inquired for Mrs. Kilbourne, moth er of the bride. He was informed by the servant who answered his ring that Mrs. Kilbourne was very much engaged at- the time, but he insisted that he must see her on very important busi ness. In a moment she camo half way down the front stairs. She know Mr. Klein very well, as people always know each other in small towns, and tvhen she saw him at the door she said: “I can’t see you now, Joe. I’m dress ing for the wedding. Call another time. ” “But I can’t,’’said Mr. Klein. “1 want you to present me to Major Gen eral Schofield. I must meet him.” “That is impossible, Joe,” said Mrs ! Kilbourne. “The general is dressing j for the church.” But the soldier had overheald the controversy from an up per landing, and rather thou create trouble he camo down and was duly presented. “General Schofield,” began Klein impressively, “do you realize that you are about to take from us one of the fairest flowers wo have in Keokuk? Do you know that when she goes hence with you she will long for news of her old neighbors? In order that she maybe really made happy by these tidings I ask you now to place your honored name upon the subscription list of The Gate City, which is the best paper in Iowa. Our rates are £8 for the daily per an num and $1.50 for the weekly. Think : of your young bride ” And there were ’ tears iu Klein’s voice as lie pleaded for recognition. “Mr. Klein,” said the general after regarding thu business manager with undisguised admiration for several min- ; utos: “I do not hesitate to proclaim that you are a wonder. Yon deserve success. Come in, and we will have a bottle of wine together. I will not subscribe far I your daily, but you may put me down 1 for your $1.50 weekly, ’’ and The Week- , ly Gate City now finds its way from I Keukuk to General Schofield’s house- I hold with great regularity.—Chicago Times. /or Infanta and Children. HIRTY T observation uf of millions of person«, permit us to «peak of it without goes»ing. It is unquestionably the best remedy for Infants nyd Children the world has ever known. It is harmle»». Children like It, It gives them health. -Itwül save their lives. In it Motherehave someth!nc which is absolutely safe and prac^j£>lly ^perfect as a child'« medicine. Cas tori a destrQys Wormn. C&^toria allays Fevorishuesa. Castor! a pre vont« vomiting Sour Curd« Castor!a cures Dîarrhœa and Wind Colic» Castoria relieves Teething Troubles. Castoriacnres Constipât ion and Flatule n c y. or pc^sonone air. Custoria neutralizes the effect.» <f carbonic acid Castoria does not contain morphine, opium, or oth< r narcotic property. Casturia the food, repuiaies tl<-> utMuacli and bowels, giving healthy and natural eleep. Cnstoria is put up in cne-sizo bottles o’»ly._ It is not sold in hulk. Don't allow any one to sell yon anythinR else on the plea or promise that it is “jn^t as Rood ’* and “ will answer every purpose.” See that you get C-A-S-T^O^R-I-A. The foe-simile signât ore of JT ^onZT<IT wrapp<^. Children Cry for Pitcher’s Cantoria. and a second year was begun in the study of this tiny muscle it was seen that its laws are the same in frogs aud Hie Large Fart That Absolute CleZsltaou ITays In It» Operation». men; that just such contractile tissue There are three looatiom, so to speak, had doue all that man had accomplish the absolute cleanliness of which must ed in thu world, aud that muscles are be above suspicion before the operator is the only organs of the will. As the justified iu proceeding to his work. work went un many of the mysteries of These are the surgeon’s hands, his in the universe seemed to enter iu his struments aud the integument covering ; theme. Iu the study of this miuute ob- the part of the patient's body at which j ject he gradually passed from the atti tude of Peter Bell, of whom the poet the operation is about to be performed How is the requisite cleanliness in tach saya: A primrose by a river’s brim case secured? So far as tlie hands orc A yellow primrose was to him. conocmed, by profuse scrubbing with a Aud it mus nothing more— nailbrush iu soap and hot water, fol up to the standpoint of the seer who lowed by a tnorough drenching in some "plucked a flower from the crannied antiseptic solution, as that of 1 in 2,1X10 wall” and realized that oould hu but of perohlorido of mercury. So fur as understand what it was, "root aud all, the instruments are concerned, by ater- aud all iu all, he would know what TIio L»car aud the Umbrella. ilizing- them—that is, by boiling them God and mau is. ” Even if my frieud How much danger is there to the iu water, or by passing them through had contributed uothiug iu discovery to pound in a wild black bear when you I meet him in his haunts accidentally and j the flame of a spirit lamp, or placing the temple of science, he had felt the at close quarters? Mrs. C. F. Latham, them in a steam sterilizer, and then, profound and religious conviction that tvifo of mine host at Oak Lodge, on the j when the operator is ready to begin, bv the world is lawful to the core aud had Indian river peninsula (Brevard county, ■ putting them into a receptacle contain experienced what a truly liberal aud Fla.), was returning from the beach ing an antiseptic solution—its, for exam j higher education—iu the modern as dis- alone and armed only with an umbrella. ■ pie, that of carbolic acid. Lastly, ho ' tiuct from themudimval seuse—really is. When just a quarter of a mile from this i far as the patient's integument is con I very porch, she heard the rustling of 1 earned, by washing the part first tlmr I INVESTIGATING AN ACCIDENT. sonio animal coming toward her through I oughly with soap urid water, having previously shaved jt, if necessary, ami I The Railroad Engineer Gets Out of Trouble the saw palmettos. i Ur RuUkiiug TOO 1 Heit. Thinking it must be a raccoon, she afterward with a perchloride of niercu- I quickly picked up a chunk of puljnetto ry solution, or, if the pait l>e greasy, ’ Superiuteudeut Warri-u of the East wood aud held it ready to whack Mr. by removing all the greasy material by j ern Illinois railway was telling the oth Coon over the head the instant lie scrubbing it with ether. er evening of a certain engineer in the Without going into further detail-- 1 emerged. All at once, with a mighty : employ uf the road who had been re these are the cardinal precepts of the j rustling, out stepped a big black bear ] peatedly < autiuimd against running too science of operating iu the present day 1 within six feet of her! The surprise was | fast He was running a freight train, mutual and profound. Naturally Mis Gf course each wound which . in this aud on one portion of his division there Latham was scared, but not out of her ’■ manner is made under aseptic condi was a steep hill. His orders w<=re to wits, and shu decided that to run would j tions, as it is called, is kept aseptic by never permit his train to go down that be to invite pursuit and possibly attack. I the use of. antiseptic dressings until hill faster than 15 inik-s an hour, but it She stood her ground aud said nothing, i healing has taken place. The results of was general belief that whenever he had and the bear rose on Lis hind legs to get 1 this method of treatment of wounds are a safe opimrtuuity he sailed down that a better look at her, making two oi I nothing less than wonderful in compar grade just as fast as the wheels would three feints iu her direction with Lis ! ison with those which the earlier sur turn. One day he did go down the hill geons were able to obtain. What hap so fast that the entire train left the paws. Feeling that she must do something, pens after, say, the amputation of a track at the bottom, aud there were box Mrs. Latham pointed her umbrella at limb nowadays? The rule is, nothing— cars piled up high. An investigation the bear aud quickly opened and closed nothing, that is to say, beyond tho un immediately followed, aud the engi it two or three times. "Woof!” sai.l eventful eonvalescehce of thu patient. neer, iu railroad par lance, was put on The dressings are not touched unless the bear. Turning about, he plunged the “carpet. ” He swore iu the most the temperature and the pulse of the pa into the palmettos aud went crashing solemn terms that he went down tho tient indicate, by seine disturbance, that away, while the lady ran homeward as hill not faster than 15 miles an hour, fast as she could go. Sq much for the it would be expedient to examine the but that just before reaching the bot wound. The temperature and the pulse “savage and aggressive” disposition of tom he lost control of the airbrake, aud the black bear.—W. T. Hornaday in St. are the suiguou’s guide. Hu takes hi. thu speed became so great the train cue from them. Nothing can be amiss Nicholas. could not keep thu track; hence tho in tho wound if these remain normal, wreck, for which he was not responsi Solid Emery Wheels. and thus it follows that a large wound, ble. such as that following an amputation, In the production of solid emery "But," said his superintendent, “we wheels the best cement that can be em heals soundly from first to last without have a man here, a farmer, who was un ployed is one that binds the emery to any suppuration. What a contrast with the hillside that day when you came gether with that degree of strength that which obtained iu former days! down Hu stood at the edge of a clear which will resist thu centrifugal strain Suppuration was then thought to be un ing, saw you at the tup and all the way due to tho high speed at which emery j indispensable part of the healthy proc- ( down, and Lu will swear that he never wheels cut best—about 5,000 feet speed ess of healing. In tho present time, on ; saw a train going so fast in all his life, per minute. It must not soften by frie- 1 the contrary, a surgeon is held to Lave I and he is a man 6U years old. He says tional heat nor glaze nor burst nor be failed in his practice of the principles of' that it was next to an impossibility to come brittle and break with cold, nor surgical cleanliness if, in wounds orig see the wheels. What do you say to must it hold tho cutting grains until inally aseptic, suppuration occurs.— ' that?” they are too dull to ent lot release ; Nineteenth Century. The engineer never hesitated. them so readily as to waste away the : “I know the mau. I saw him the day HIGHER EDUCATION. wheel too fast. It must be capable of after the wreck, and he told the same being thoroughly mixed evenly with the The Iuterestuig Results of th« Study of a story to me, only there was a little more grain emery, so that the wheel may not i Frog’s Tiny Muscle. to it.” have either hard or soft spots and be "What was that?” Thu young man who has had the out of balance, and must also be capable I “Why, he told me that it was the priceless experience of self abandonment of being tempered to suit different ‘ to some happily chosen point was well first train of cars he had ever seen iu kinds of metal or work. Great care and ! illustrated iu a man I knew, writes G. his life, and I don’t think he would be skill are required in the matter of se Stanley Hall in The Forum. With the a very good judge of speed ’ ’ lecting only pure and strong chemicals There was silence in the room for a dignity and sense of finality of the I for these cements.—Cassier’s Magazine. American senior year quick within him few moments, and thu engineer got off So broad is the scope of modern cl ar his first teacher in Germany told him with a 60 days’ suspension.—Chicago Herald. ity that in many cases, particularly in to study experimentally one of the 17, Europe, it has taken forms fanciful if muscled of a frog’s leg. The mild dis A Secret De Hued. not absurd. London has three or four I sipation of a somewhat too prolonged ! refuges for lost dogs. These establish general culture, aided by some taste far j A secret is a thing which you com ments are kept up by bequests aud do breezy philosophic speculation, almost municate to one whom you can trust. diverted him from so mean an object. Ho, in turn, tells it to somebody that nations. But as he progressed he found that he he can trust, and that somebody reveals “Xmas” is often written instead of must know in a more minute and prac it to another somebody whom he can Christmas, and the authoriity for so tical way than before—in- a way that trust. And so it goes the rounds, but doing ¡3 that X is simply the initial let made previous knowledge seem unreal it is still a secret, although everybody —certain definite points in electricity, knows it.—Boston Transcript. ter of the Greek word fur Christ. chemistry, mechanics, physiology, etc., “Remedies for toothache, my friend, ” and bring them to bear in fruitful rela Ohe hundred years ago the Japanese said a philosopher, “will be found to tion to each other. 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