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STRANGCR THAN BCT.ONA FIFTEENTH CENTURY GlflL.

She TVnA a'

pr. S. M. Watts, druggist anadsn, Humbaldt, Neb, who suffered „„„

disease for four years, toyingeve*y ami all treatment known to him.I fiUow-practltloneraj believes Mm*

[. jeart disease Is curable. Hovrlfiy •»«lwuh to toll whatyout Valuablemadj.

pins has none for me. Fo* Jour xea& I hadjleiirt du^aso of the very worst kind Sevoral physicians I consulted; said it w a s

Rheumatism of the. Heart;"It was almost un-endurable; •withshor tness ofbreath, palpita-tions severepains, unable tosleep, especiallyon the left side.No peu can. de-scribe my suffe*-j'togs. particularlyIJuring the last

ionths of thosefour weary years.I finally tried

FORTY 'YEARS AFTER.

•We tMirobed to tfee tor o? Goat Point hill.Sweet Kittle, my av-«etheart, and I;

And watched the tn<MHi make stairs onthe waves-

, And the film white Wpa go Ay;While a throne we. made of a rough

stcme wall.And me fctog. and t)"e queen were we;

And I ssjt with my rm about Klttta;And she with her arm about mo.

The wa.tev was mad in the moonlight,And th" xxnA like r Id where it shoi

And our hearts kept ' tone to itsAs we aat ' - "• '

DR. J. H. WATTS,

Dr. Miles' New Heart Cure,,ad w^s surprised a; the result. I t put newUJo law :\sd maJo a new man of me. Ifaro n..f. h.id a symptom of trouble sinceinii i :ini ^atisiled your medicine hascriredmeter 1 i;:i™ now enjoyed, since taking it

Three Years of Splendid Health.^ I nigh: ::>:•!> I: it I am a druggist and haveij sold ami nvruimended your Heart Cure, for

Ikaovr -.M:..: ;i h.is done for me aad onlyvish I c.)-.:..l state more clearly my suScr-

1 ingtbena-iJuio good,health I now enjoy.|? Ton-' N;Tv:-,e and other remedies iuso

si-. -t ".•• t satisfaction." J. H. WAITS.I cm - '• '•'• Keb.. May Q, 'M.

onb,

_ „ - - v / uaa uuw leiXbeautif.vu. was the' world

when I saw dt with, her; how bluethe: heaven, howso/ft the air. We has-tened, hand in hand, from.place topladej and wherever:w t

.eart CureRestores Health

^ « .i«uii- oiew so free,vhilo I sat with my arm about Kittle.

And she with her aim about me.

Last night we drove In our carriage,To the w.all at the top of the hill;

And though we're forty year* older.We're children and sweethearts still.

And we jtalked again of that moonlight,That danced so mad on the sea, ,

When t sat with my arm about Kittle,And she with her arm about me.

The throne on the wall was still stand-ins.

But w-e sat In the carriage last night;For a wall is too high for old people •

Whos'a forehead have linings of whito.And KHtie's Waisi measure is forty.

While rn'ie Is fu 1 fifty and throe;So I can't get my arm about Kittle,

Nor can she get both hera about me.—Life

FIRST LOVE.

place, and wherever we went, laugh-;ing Joy stejvped forth, to greet uay- beg-ging us to linger; We went laughingsinging; rejoicing along; assured of ourgood fortune everywhere, bometimesour- riotous <telight, overstepping allbounds, startled sobwr people, but thestern glance softened when dt restedupon us! "They ar& young; iet themenjoy themselves;" bald tne old, andwent along, BOIHW. ally smiling. Snecjung so tightly to yy arm, she nest-led so closely to 'Lay side, that Ithought I could ne\n lose her. Theidea of a possible cjange never cameto «.» - jd m e . Thus I

Weeks, months,

1 Wouldn't Be Believed it Bead In n- * u l i v n J . '' . ••-"' :

During the battle, of the Wilderness,[fl'VB-'fl- TXT™*- li--i -

and-Her.J>,atln« IncludedU B

to me. neyerlived a long timeT

I have for years led a roving life,. — o. iu>iue are,an-: am most at home in railway car-riagesi waiting rooms notsls a d

OR YOU MAY

X.'.v•: Ham:?;

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are to work here.uiil saws iire tocutting and fiximr

rilway car-g waiting rooms, notsls and res-

taurants. On this account my read-ing has been of all kinds, and I havegiven up washing to be dainty in myUterarj' diet. Only German andFrench romances, a.nd novels by au-thors unkqowitto me, or writers whosestyle I do not enjo,-, inspire me withan unconquerable respect. Books bythese authors I never venture to 'opsn,even in the greatest dearth ol read-ing matter; besid.es, I eagerly welcomeeverything pubUshv i by thS latestjournals, and look t rough eachiy and monthly periodical that I comeacross In dining ki

g pubUshv i by thSjournals, and look t rough each weeic-iy and monthly periodical that I comeacross In dining or waking room. Thatis why I have a s lucession of frag-ments of a considerable

frag-number of

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;i:i!ns and prices thntuit everybody. We

governmentitie theO'TP

;first

in four years, but weOur Bargains all the

"We look to qualityait. Nothing low

!'o mafter what the"price. ^Ve aim to give you

leverv advantage, that know-ling what to buy and when totay and taking large and

ymall quantities, brings to us.

M os Loci {lie Matter up Bight Here!:Bock ' '.mtly Syrnp, - - 70c galJIk«u Candies. - 10c lb, 3 lbs for 25c?&L3D.is, - 20c dozTarili Oranges, - - S c dozlanuns, - 14c dozSans. New Pmokeii, - - 12ic lbJail ('ream Cheese, - - 12c lb

IfBackwhtttt and Clover Honey,12c, loelbIJRrrd Drttfs,JTig.-. - - - -

nf—. ri"tifrs Pow d Sugar,f tnt L' *.( »n<rar.

stories in my head, . nd as their classi-fication does not especially interestme. it thus happens that I occasional-ly join the end of jne te the begin-ning 6t tile other. Some of thesedovetailed stories p ease me quite aswell as the noted novels of famousauthors. .T.his '"and allow

is i mattdr of tasie,myt If no criticism.

. . — T, WWMO, l U U U l l l B

years flew by, and I heeded them not."One evening, alter we had spent the

day yet more madly and merrily thanusual, she suddenly appeared to mediscontented and coid. A terrible fearwhich I am not ab»e to describe lellupon me. An Icy coldness crept overme. 'She will leave you,' said I, tomyself, "certainly, surely, she willleave you." i t occ rred to me, howI perhaps had expe *ed. too much ofher truth and constancy. For the firsttime I felt my trust in myself and inhej waver, and anxiously I gazed Intoher eyes. But her glance turnedwearily from me, and gave me noanswer. My rest was gone, my lifeno more tbe Same. *t is true she stillpressed me impetuo .sly to her bosomagain and again, bu tbe sweeyiess ofher kiss had vani. aed. Often shepushed me coldly a ay, and I saw tomjr Unutterable son >w that my lovewearied her. And when I once, at alater hour, returned home, tired anddefeated; I found the room dark, coldhnd empty; she, my joy, my light, myall, had vanished.

'Now began a miserable existencefor me. The loss tnat I had sufferedgnawed at my heart; but my care wasto conceal this loss ifrom the world.I endeavored to show a cheerful, hap-py Wunten&nce; J sought the societyof gay young people. I bestowedgreat and hitherto unknown and ridi-culed care upon my person and toil-ette. My enemies said of me that Ihad for a long time rouged- In orderto hide the paleness of my cheeks.That is not true, but I may as wellconfess that I boug .t a little flask ofnewly ihventeo1 tincture that was torestore the color ot -outh to my whit-ening fiaif. This iiypocrltical farce

• «r• J. • iv r t — "•£—*""£' 'An extract from the journal of Eliza-Bays a WesternJxchange, Henry F. b e t h . Woodville, afterwards . EadyLowpenny,- a .oprjtoral. in the-lhirty- Gr6y, ana-finally Queen of Edward IV".,seeond Indiana IVolunteers.- lost his HHoTOd *w«+ *** -••« — -right arm ;a,t. thai elbow by-the explo-sion of a shell. JHis c'businj BradleyJamison; ex-State! Chancellor of Mis-

iSouri; now lives ojj.the scene of thebattle, and recently, when his 15-year-old son was bird's-nesting, he founda nest built-in a skeleton hand in thefork. of. a large maple tree. On thehand, was a seal ring, and on taking•his strange find home the ring was atonce rettagnized as Ws uncle's. Tholatter Is now dead, but the ring hasbeen, sent to hia' widow, who Hve3with a married uaughter in Seattle,Wash.

Queor Fanci

iniia Prunes,

8c lb80c lb6Aclb7c lb7c lb8c lb

Gir.j-r, Cinnamon, Allspice,

. ilu.-jtartl,..-es.

^ r.;:Davi> 11. K Buidng Powder,iOat • ": n 'Jr^uii,

d... .. i c..n.] t.-Jrf.j iiillr,

1

p Ri--,• Sew i i - j . . .

'Brazil >;•.;•:Wa;;i- Wi. 150 test,

?0clb20c lb7c oz

- 40c lb20c lb25c lb

2 cans 25c25c

•n. - - 25cmi .v.r - 20c and 25c•2"c, i"x-. Sue, 4tic and 4*c lb

-;an Tea, 45c &43c lblir-.ikfast Tfa, (a fine one) 50ulb

i::ie Java Coifee, - 85c•! M,..-h".u. - - 35c lbF '', - - 2Sc lbBrtafefast Coffee, - 22c lb

5 lbs for 25c30c gal48c gai

8c lb10c gal10c qt8c lb

.«nch as Vanilla, Lemon::»£.', are No. 1.

••• c.Tiif to onr Shoe Depart-.'*•<• >HI {rive you Men's Work-•-. f'il ffrain., clfised front, at• ••-ti aiiy |a.00 Grain ; o n ever-" HI iU-u's English Cordovan':.:']:i vv«ir, Kood value at |4.C0',»'.' -••"). A Men's .S«tl Grain atii> .jv no. Boys* School ShoesB<<ys' Fine Snuday rihoe. for

i- > .ir#fcfylish and well niadf.- \V)Tii"n's Shoes. A DamJy

i h..c, square toe, all sizes,shoe, real value $3.00, onr

.' ii". nh-ij onfi that is of Don^ollafan&y for Sunday wear, $1.60,

|jBaJLvnln-. .$a.2">. We have everything-* for Mm, WOUK'T; and Children.

13,^ ^''" as-'ortmtTit &f New Designs IDgwDcojust received at a Low Figpre.s'WTe n.s a Trial and we will convince

PWthaf we arf corrpnt.5 , We have a bijr line of Wall Papers,;'JMtrpcfiv-fld, that will be sold remarks-

f chen-,.it,'Hnfa< f .r r>w* & Sanborn Coflee

Sometimes I finish •*. >r mjself a story,the beginning of w »lch I have read[or invest the first chapter into myhands. Then, after a time, it is dU-ficuH to distinguish Between i9Bat is,mine and what is not mine. In mostcases, indeed, I have of a morningwhen I leave a city, forgotten what Ihave read there i.n the precedingevening. But wh^n a story haspleased me, I enji r repeating it tomyself in the ran /ay carriage, andthen it becomes fixed in my memoryana recurs later, at Ircegular inter-vals, as. something personally experi-enced, or again invented by myself.The -following nan a Live is one of thesetales. I have forgotten where I readit for the first time. Whether the talewas exactly as I now have it in my

•mind, I do not any longer know. Butthe idea is not mine. I believe Ifound it iu a Paris Review. Then itmust have been many yfearfc since, forseveral amalverous readers among myFrench acquaintances, of whom Imade inquiry regarding that easilyrecognized sketch, could not- remem-ber to have read it. It ds also pos-sible that I found it in BerKn orLondon. Should the owner at anytime reclaim it, I w:ll return his prop-erty with thanks. Here is the storyas it has shaped itself little by littlein my head-.

The numerous graests of the Coun-tess had been slowly retiring since 11o'clock, and about 12 there were onlysome half dozen peoj>le assembledin the salon, the very intinxate friendsof the house. The handsome Pala-mede had pronounced His verdict uponthe notable toilettes of the evening,Rsne had recounted the last duel, Bd-mond the last steeplechase; the scan-dal of the day had been commentedupon in the usual philanthropic Ksh-ion, and for the first time for half anhour the conversation had languished

The Countess turned to .her neighbor—the quiet Gasten;

"You are making more noise thanusual this evening,' said she; "youhave been sleeping this half

ypdid not long contl ue. 1 was soontired of the strife and to-day theopinion oi the worl 1 troubles me nomore. 1 kndW that ffiy darling hasleft me, that nothing will bring herback, and every one who knows meiuiy perceive ami recognize in myappearance the loss which I sufEered,But I ever lament the lost one; she iswanting everywhere; nothing, noth-ing can take her place to me, and IWould willingly give everything Ipossess and every Joy and happuressthat is prepared fof fiidn, to oneagain call her mine, to once more livethrough that beautiful, fleeting time,during which alone I was happy.

Gaston ceased, and stared fixedlyinto the dying fire, and fell to thecharacteristic, slow rubbing of hisemaciated hands.

"What is the name of this wonder-ful being?" asked the Countess.

"My youth," answered Cta?1.?11'without turning his eyes from the fire.—Rudolph Lindau, la Short Stories.

»"— *»««''»»aome^months ago a man went down

to the lake shore to commit suicideand when he began to write- a finalmessage to his wife, he could thinkof nothing to say except that somebutter which he had ordered would befound at a certain grocery. His mes-sage bears out a cprtain fact discov-ered by- realists, that in the supremeand soul-terrifying hlomenta of* lifethe most ridiculous and. trivial thingsoften come uppermost in the mind;The dying man cczaments upon theu«ly pattern "of the wall paper in hisroom, and the newly married -coupleIs said to show an invariable prefer-ence for talking about1 the weather.

Just the other day, says the BuffaloNews, a boy employed in a west-sidefactory fell four stories down theshaft of a freight elevator. By someinterposition of fate • or providence,he landed on his feet, after turningover a couple of times, and cra*ledout of the bottom door with a sillyand mortified look on his face. Ex-cept for an inward jolting- and a fewbruises, he was not injured.

The men who had seen him fallrushed to the bottom of the shaft, ex-pecting to find him lying there, crush-ed and lifeless.

But he was on his feet outside theshaft.-eatching his breath in an excit-ed, nervous giggle, and awkwardlybrushing the dust off his clothes.

"Are you hurt?" they asked, takinghold of him.

"N-n-no, I'm all r ight""Did you light on your feet?""I don't know. Leave me alone.

I'm all right."In a few minutes he had calmed

down, and one of the men asked him."What did you think of whilewere falling?"

"All I remember is that the feather-

tffat the girl of the fifteenth' was a. very all-round kind of

person; It is.fioubttCul If even, our upa

to^date fin-de-siecle girl oouid equalhe'r,' 400-yeara-back sister in activityand variety of house-keeping accom?.pilshments: . . . .

Monday morning—Rose at 4 o'clocka.nd helped Catherine to milk the « u > u o»ra uave aireaay left Odes-oOWs: Rachel, the dairy-maid, hav- sa for Ussuri LiucraJ, in S.beria, ofing scalded her hand in so bad a man- which Vladlvostock Is the port, 'andner the night before, inA'de a poultice others are to follow. They go as eml-a'nd save Robin a nAntflfc t« &** ~ '•-

Zoologists say that all known specie:of, wild animals are gradually dimin-ishing in size.

There were whole streets in AJ«-Bentirely occupied by glass works, andIt Is stated that the $rflt glass houseswere erected in Tyre. The. -glasshouses di Alexandria •ji'ere highlycelebrated for the ingenuity and skillof their workmen and the extent 0"their manufactures.

Tw6 steamer loads of 1,000 Donw stCossaofig

,000 Donhave already left Odes-

and gave Eobin a penny to getthing from the apothecary.

6 o'clock—The buttock of beef toomuch. Boiled and beer a little stale.Mean to talk to too cook about tho

grants, and receive from the Govern-ment free passage and free grants 0:land.

Twenty acres of celery In Orange.„ ^ o . iu uu» COOK aoout tno county, Cal., will produce twenty-live

first fault, and to mend the other my- carloads.1 A carload of celery will sellself by tapping a fresh barrel immedi- .for $400 in the Chicago market. Atately. this-rate the total -product of the

7 o'clock—Went to walk with the '—'=••lady (my mother)) in the court-yard;fed twenty-five men and women; chidRoger severely for expressing some ill c l a s u i t a W e ( " i n b r l c f c h a i

will at attending us with some broken . r e c e n t I y b e e n discoTeVed near Minne-m o . , 1 -rxr . • i. K. • ^ , v. ' apolis, and the*discovery is likely to

8 0 clock-Went into the paddock b*. h a v e a n l m p o r t a n t fcei bnd the h u ith

twenty acres would be'510,000, or S500an acre, less fcrelgh't eharges, THScelery is raised on peat Iandti:

hind the house with my maid Dorothy;caught Thump, tae little pony, mr-selif; rode a matter of ten miles "with-out saddle or bridle;

10 o'clock—Went to dinner. John

p , thediscovery is likeh a v e a n l m p o r t a n t fcearing u p o n

l lc v i & t h e t w i n clflesi'of &in-

n e s o t a H I tner to paving brick was toy i h

be had onlyrate for a Ion:

g opaying a high freighth l

^ u o u s ^ S h 5 ibe entirely under the direction of her a&al? • f , ^ «ff *. u s f • A

parents. John ate but little, and stole S r e f af0UI}t of ba b wirt fencing isa great many tender glances at me; «"*• ?/ railroad ir^n, and very often* s a ™,™~- -—'•= — - - •-- ' t he rails are used as foundations for

large buildings. There are not manypeople who know that the MasonicTemple in Chicago rests on a founda-tion of steel rails, layer upon layer,six feet deep.

Farmers have ta'-en to the bicycle

you

cleanin' place'on the second floor wasshut down."

"is that all?""I could see as I went by that there

wasn't any one working there. That'severy blamed thing I can remember.''

He stuck to it. At an awful.mo-ment when his past life should havecome to him in a flash, he was takingobservationsplace."

of the "feather-cleaniii'

A Dilemma.Marion—Oh, Laura, I don't know

l£ne\!r t t «* ttamei"False one!" he hissed.The beautiful blue eyes gazed stead-

ily into his. ''Meaning me?" askedthe ow ier of the azure orbs.

"You. bet. Last Christmas thecandy I bolignt for "ou came to ?7.43.yalentine's day I s;nt you ?13 worthof hothouse roses. In March I blewin ?11 for theatre tickets. And nowcomes along that odious Smitihers andtakes you to the music festival, setsup the ice cream, pays for a carriageand corsag§ bouquet, at less thanhai'f the money and time I expendedon you, and you give me the cold,cold shake."

Tn& azure eyes twinkled. "Wellyou see," sbe said1, "Mr. Smithersbunched his hits."—Indianapolis Jour-nal.

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with open eyes." The gentleman ad-dressed, who had ueen sitting upona low chair, earnestly engaged in keep-ing uj> a fire in the chimney, in whichhe had displayed the ability that, ac-cording to a French proverb, is aprivilege of lovers and philosophers,turned slowly and made answer: "Iam thinking of my first love."

"Gratitude does honor to the re-ceiver and to the giver alike," saidthe Countess. "Tell us the story ofthe first love,, that still makes youdream to-day." " .

Gastc-n slowly rtfbbed his thin handsas was his ha-bit, and without waitingfor further urging, began as follows:

"When I say my first love, I do notmean the very first. This, Indeed,caused me in its time much pain andanxious joy; but that is long sinceforgotten. Jlany a time whea I nowrecall it, it seems as though I thoughtof another's love tale and not myown. I was at the time perhapstwelve or thirteen years old, and shewas the sister of my schoolfellowJacques. I saw her for the first timeupon our playground, where she ap-peared with, her mother, during anintermission, to see her brother. Itwas winter; the yard was full of snow;and a fierce battle waged between theopposing {actions into which thescnool was divided. At the momentwhen I saw her at the entrance tothe playground, a harder snowball hitme on the head, so £hat I fell downunconscious. A lew minutes aftei,when I again canto to myself, I wassitting upon a chair in the porter'sroom, and both ladies, the mother andsister of my frienu, stood near andregarded me anxlo. ily.

"The next morning she caused In-quiry to be made after my health,through Jacques; and- on the followingSunday I .called upon her. I spoke noword. I vestured scarcely to raise

my eyes, but I wou'd w: liagly havethrown niysslf a th osandtimea intoSre. or Water to again draw upon, methe solicitous" gianee of the beautifulmaiden. In the- evening I inventedfor myaelf the most marvellous heroicdeeds wherewith I would fain havearoused the astonishment and coin-pelled her sdiniraiioa. Anything elseI neither desired- nor expected. Theunconscious dawn of love'in the heartOf youth, belongs) with its peculiaritiesonlyH to pure childhood.. The yoojjgheart is foolishly, iappy in sacrifice,vuietly content, and blindly conceitedana "*afru . It can, not .yet lore-, Itneeds hut to t>e W ed -and-admired;fo bestojirlhaBpiness ii?• •sot its ojbftct/and ike tiaiy-'Joy, itr&now* is-a bliss*fiU unrest; its only need,, toreceivei-ove vwthout bestowihg it.* In afteryears-one gives without receiving, andis very well oft-wita th^t, S& every--thing la the wwWia^raiiged Jfi t t ehket manner^ where tiii!r» fee peoplewio 6iHi.J&elr/ joy IB gi*teg, arid others

Eugenie's Pet.Much wonder and curiosity have of-

-en been stirred up in the minds oftho great inquisitive at the sight ofa little wicker basket which the ex-Empress Bugende invariably carriesabout with her wherever shiS goes. Thepig,,as the French would say, is outof tlie poke at last. This same bas-ket is lined with padded silk, and isit resides a hedgehog. It is the oneand only pet dt the empress, who

hour I never travels without it, nor allowsother hands to tend1 it but her own.

Prouress In JoarnnlJsm.In his very Interesting address on

ihe occasion of the presentation to theNew York Chamber of Commerce ofthe picture of the first meeting of theprojectors of the Atlantic cable forty7ears ago, Mr. Depew called attentionto the remarkable fact that, althoughthe meeting was in no sense a privateone, no newspaper of that day con-tains any account of the gathering ormakes any allusion to it. The factis interesting as showing what a longstride has been made In journalismsince that day. Such a gathering nowiwould attract the attention of Chris-tendom, and the newspapers wouldfurnish accounts of the proceedingsthat would afford material assistanceto the future historian. The progressin journalism during the past fortyyears has been even greater than thatof the forty years previous, as is con-spicuously illustrated by the fact thatthe contemporaneous description of thebattle of Waterloo occupies less thanhalf a column of the London Time?-Boston Herald.

wha—t to do, Fred has promised thathe will stop drinking if I marry him,and Cnarlie says he'll take to drtaitif I don't marry him.—London Sketch.

- * IMPRISONED.

Exciting Adventure at a \ ' o t in s andPret ty School TeHohefi

Katie Rankin is a pretty, twenty-year old schoolmistress ifl a Pennsyl-vania town; She is also a heroine, asan aavenmre in which she was theleaading character has proved. Atwo hundred and fifty-pound blackbear was the other actor in tne affair,and Katie's schoolhouse was the sceneof the combat.

Just back Of the one-story..school-house stretches 11 lorest, up and acrossthe mountain, which rises five hun-dred feet or more. It is no uncommonthing to see boars or catamounts inthese woods. The knov ledge thatthere were wild be' sts about causedKatie Rankin to carry a revolver, forher boarding-place li fully half a miledistant from the s c -jolhouse.

One sight snow fell in that localityto the depth of twenty inches. Nextmorning Miss Rankin started for her1

school, going quite early, so that shecould have the room warm before thepupils began to arrive.

On opening the door, she >was sur-prised to find one of the windows inthe roar 01' the room wids open. Ithad apparently been open all night,for the snow had drifted in.

Hurrying up the aisle to make fastthe window, she was startled to seea big black form lying on the floorclose to the stove. She was about to

Tlie San *Was Wrong.It was .found recently that the ex-

cessive refraction of the sun interfer-ed so materially with the taking of ob-servations in passing through the RedSea that the officers of the UnitedStates steamer Detroit detected errorsof from twelve to eighteen minutesof longitude in 6bservations, and sev-eral steamers passed were steeringfrom one to three points astray fromtheir course in consequence of -trust-ing only to sun observations, whileblaming their deviation on. currents.The Detroit is said to have been navi-gated entirely by means of earlytwilight, daws and. night star sightsand absolutely true courses, were steer-ed in consequence for as much assixty-three hours-at a time, and ex-cept in the Strait of Babel Mandeb thevessel was uninfluenced by any cur-

'A New Yori poultry dealer has a(hen 'iPfthout a beat or bill, but whichhas Instead well-defined lips andteeth. From time immemorial "hens',teeth" has been a simile for scarcity.PIrst Bqnors: in the mafter of raritynow lie between the four-leaf cloverand the calamity howl.

W«nj C»r Jf«nd«r» Patented.The patent office is at present Issu-

ing car-fender patents at the rate ofseven a Week. One of tne latest isin ;the form, of & horizontal circular•ftaifr esa«r# ieroM tepidl %itn•tetolve tapldly Whenihecar lsln motloa by means of gear-ing1 from the ixle. ' The brush is a

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2ee when the black form rose up, andshe was surprised still more to' find iaot a man, btit a big black bear.

- She sprang to the door, but in he:'lurry to get inside when she arrived,a minute before, she had failed to relove the key from the outside, and i

aad sprung shut, and thus was thnow thoroughly alarmed girl made iirisoner, with a big black bear as acompanion.

Old bruin sat up on U s hauncheiind blinked at the terrified girl.

At last, having surveyed her to hi:•mtire, satisfaction, bruin gave a leudrunt, showed two rows of toeth, then

lurned and shambled, toward the openvindow. With his fore paws on theill ha looked back ..Over jhis shoulder

-it Miss RakiB, who stood tremblingat the door, then he raised his ponder-JUS form and slid out into the snow.

It was then" that Miss Rankin be-'.hought herself, and rammed her hand,nto her coat pocket for her revolver,With this as a helpmate, and the bearin the outside of the building, all herbravery returned. She knew thatbruin could not well get back if shebarricaded the windows, and she didwant to shoot a real, true bear sobadly.

On going' to the window, she wassurprised to find that the bear hadaot yot gone more than ten feet to-•vard the wood. The snow was sodeep and of su^h 4. feathery naturethat it was next to impossible for thewoolly-coated creature to iiiove. •

She did not stop to think that bearsare not usually shot with a revolver.She watched bruin flounder in thesnow, jnd knew that he could not getback to her, even though the first fewshots did no more than injura him.

Simultaneausrwith- the report of thofirearm the bear jumped into the airseveral feet, then went roiling intothe snowdrift. An instant, later hewas again on his -feats this time withhis face toward the schoolhouse win-dow. . •

Again Miss Bakin raised her pistol,,this time taking aim for the bear'seye. The bear fell >gain into thesnowdrift. Thjs time he was sltfw torise, and before he actokipllshed thisianother bullet went ploughing Intohis body, and he lay down, to die!'-.- The shooting at the- schoolhouse washeard by those at a; farmhouse justacross the creek, and several of themen folks came hurryln'g through thesnow, one of them carrying a sun

The man TViJh a gun made his way'to wifere the bear lay, and'found thltthe beast was not dead, He raisedi i s gun to lire the finishing cbarga,but was stopped before he could pullthe trigger by Miss Rankin, 'who ex-clainted: * .

'"Sere, I want to kill thatbear."The man stepped back, and Silas

rBamSin, from her. .position at the win-

women could never be hanfisomein his eyes who were not good-tem-pered. I hope my temper is not intol-erable. Nobody finds fault with it bu:Roger, an-d he is the most disorderlyyouth in our house. John Grey likeswhite teeth; my teeth are a prettygood Color, I think my hair is aablack as jet, though I say it, and JohnGrey, if I mistake not* is of the sameopinion.

11 o'clock—Rose from the table, thecompany all desirous of walking in thefield. John Grey lifted me over ever-stile, and twice squeezed my han-1with much vehmence. I cannot say Ishould have much objection, for heplays at prison-bar as well as any o£the country gentlemen, is reinarlt-ably dutiful to hfs paren's, ray lcrd andlady, and never misses church on Sun-day.

3 o'clock—Poor Farmer Robinsnn';house burned down by accidental fire.John Grey proposed a subscriptionamong the cpmpany for tbe relief 0.'the farmer, and gave no less than fourpounds with this benevolent intent.(Mem. Never saw him look so comeiyas at this moment.)

4 o'clock—Went to prayers.6 o'clock—Fed hogs and poultry.

A Sizlo&er's RpqneHt.

The following story of a GermanDiogenes is perfectly authsnric. WhenKing Frederick IV. visited the P.tiincprovinces in the j'ear 1843 he made pshort stay at Wesel, where he calisdat the house of the oldest man in the"kingdom, aged 106 years. He foundhim comfortably seated in an old arm-chair, smoking a pips—his inseparablecompanion. On the king's arrival herose to his feet smd stepped forward afew paces, but his majesty made btesit down again, and talked to him wi; jthe greatest freedom, the old man*puffing away at his pipe all the time.^•^=n about to leave the king asked

himTf he haa *ZJ w i s h ^ u w a s ' "his power to gratify.

"No, thanks, your majesty, I fca*Call I want in this world," was the re-

''Reaiiy! Just think for a moment;we mortals genera! !y HaVa some par-ticular .desire or asp'iratioii. .

"Wei!, sire, fiow I come to think o£it, I might have a favor to ask. Mydoctor insists on my taking a walkevery day on the ramparts. Everytime * pass the powder, magazine tfcesentry shpu.ts to nie froni sfar; 'Takethe pipe ont .of your mouth,' arid as Iwalk very slowly; my' pipe goes outevery time. Now, if your majestywould be good enough to order thosentry to let me smoke my pipe inpeace all the way; I should considerit the greatest kindness j-oii could con-fer on me -for the rest of my naturallife."

The order was given, and the oldfellow enjd'yed the privilege for mor?than two years, and digd at last withhis pipe in his mouth—Buch fur Alle.

iitsehineiy for the Ssriu'waoieni': Cpttpn. and'sil

g p i ^ l u t t ittthelmaniiflctute: of bootsand "shoes tM m$ flas" Been entirely

-different, and the o•igitfa.ting facultyhas existed almost entirely on f&e aid'oi the Atlantic,

There are twent w .ven highwaybridges over the^Mssissipjjl betweenBrainard, Minn:, and Musoatlne, la., adistance- of BOO miles. Those aboveMinneapolis are seldom above 400 feetlong,- while one at Muscatine is 2,500feet long, not that the river Is ordin-arily ed wide" at t tat point, but tomake provision 'against freshets. Ofthe fourteen highwt./ hrJdgSB betweenMinneapolis and Muscatine only on«iB A drawbridge.

There is a Sehesre afloat to revivethe shipbuilding in 'HEtry at. Quebec.Years ago Quebec did a large (Ship-building business, of course entirelyin wood vessels. It is now proposedto entet there with .iron shipbuilding.The steel ship plates to be used willbe impo ted ffom FnglfifiA- Freightsfrom "England to Canada are exceed-ing low in consequence of the numberof vessels going there in ballast forcargoes et lumber.

S. p. . Cone, of Aberdeen, S. D.,has fnade' arrangements to plant 100acres of RiiSsfcri sunflowers. Aftertne oil has been extracted the seedmeal left makes a rplendid sake forcattle and horse tor I, much superiorto the product of flax. The stalks,which will number about 12,800 to theacre, are expected to yield five to sixcords of fuel, about equal to wood, andworth in the neighborhood of ¥15 peracre. The work of extracting the oilwill be done_ at Ab rdeen.

"When nickel s*e«l comes into gen-eral use for the construction of ves-sels, as it undoubtedly will," said aCanadian gentleman the other day,"Canada Will, in a sense, control theshipbuilding industr"', because, BO faf

'jrij-

Following the * lead of St anl,Minn., the police of a number of West-ern cities are being mourned on bi-cycles. The above realistic sketchehows what may be expected In thrfuture pursuit of law-breakers.

The kakl, as the Syrian vulture iacommonly termed in those regionsmay yet have Its proverbial day offasting changed into one of feastingWith seventeen British men-of-wararound Beirut and two French cruis-erB at Jeddah, this bird of prey mayat leas tbe pardoned for anticipating-

gorgeous banquet

i n p a r t s of Oh io , a r d " t h e y g o " t o t o w n M l B a t P r e s e n t k n e w n , t h e r e i s very ,o n t h e w h e e l i n s t e a J of d r i v i n g T h y m t l e w e k e l o ^ i d e of t h e D i i

, dthey goto town a t Pre y,on the wheel insteaJ of driving. They, m t l e w e k e l o^ ide of the Dominion,make long trips in the same fashion w h i l e w e h a v e nick?l-bearing pyritesto cities that hitherto they have sel- Practically without limit. The wholedom visited. One livery stable keeper v a s t stretch of territory reaching fromin an Ohio town has bought some L a k e Superior to Labrador is rich inbicycles to rent. H3 says that every- «. and will produce hundreds of thou-body rides the wheel, while few per- sands of tens of it annually for an un-sons ride or drive horses, so he is Iln»ted period whenever the demandgradually changing the character of his requires it."business • 1 Is the blacksmith's trade mark a

Almost all of the modern machinery ??owl?,, A w£teT, o n . , "Tr,fe a n a

used in Uiejwot an, shoe factories of J^\"------- -° • S

PureFor it is the basis of health.Not only is the origin of mostdiseases impure blood, but

Magazine,, the first step to a cure in alltflis and- other cour-jies is"maehTnery &nis t h e following to say about him: i is to purify t h e blood. T h i sof American invent, m. We have bor- I n m o s t blacksmiths *he constant exer- „— 1,- •- — i - i - i - ••<rowed from the En ,Hsh, French and c i s e o f t b e corrugs or supercili mus-

_ cles causescan be most quickly, thor-

a perm- nent frown, and, oughly and gently effectedgives the face a somewhat hard ex- 'pression; but whet er there is any

atwng pOper-w a ter, wind and damp i n .their demeanor T-wie inhas jproof Keeps buildiuge cool fn anm- Which Was singulai ly dignified

n in winter. BOO square ft, S3.00. pleasing, a l though "'"* "'

UNEQUALEDFor House, Barn, '

grave courtesyhile inhaspitable

d ig i andg always slightly

suggestive of the politeness of foes^ u r l n g a n i t i

Sir John Pender says that £41,00t>,-and all out-buildings. 000 (upward of J$200,000,000) has' been |

Anybody can pnt it on. sunk in oceaa cables. At present there jPRICE LOW are eleven cable lines across the At-

ln t i and these alone, have cost ¥70.-

pPRICE LOW.

igSSS?®B8 ^ ^ i g S S S S ? ® 1 ^PAINT & ROOFING CO. 000,000.

Ooing fo Paint 9this Spring r

If so, it will pay you to Gome and see us,as our stock is always the largest. Whenyou consider quality (and-that's ihe first

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the best preparation of thatgreatest natural blood puri-fier and tonic—Sarsaparilla.At this season of the yearespecially, health can mostsurely be obtained and re-tained by a thorough courseof the one remedy that pre-vents disease as well ascures it.

The Parents DntulE.A distinguished specialist has care-

fully acted the ditforeiice betweentwelve families of temperate personsduring twelve years, with tho resultthat he found the twelve drink'r.families produced in those years fiftyseven children, while the tempera;ones were, accountable for sixty-oneOf the drinkers, twenty-five ehildrs;died in the first week of life, aagainst six- on the other side. Tnalatter deaths were from weaknesswhile the former were attributable liweakness, convulsive attacks, coedema of the brain and membranes.To this record is added five who weridiots; five were so stunted in growthas really to be -dwarfs; five when olderbecame egilepties; another boy endedin idiocy; five more were disease"and deformed, and two of the epilep-tics became by inheritance drinkersTen only of the fifty-seven showedduring life normal disposition and de-velopment of body and miad. Fifty ofthe children, of the temperate familieswere normal in every wSy; -»AmericaDPractitioner.

GAN'SOpen Evenings Until 7 o'clock. Bconomjr.

Saturdays Until 10:30 o'clock.

fow to Keep IiemonS'Frcsh.

It is not generally known thatlemons may be easily and almost in-definitely preserved under glass.Some, on'g fe&t, were purchased onthe Fourth of July, and, by way Wexperiment, each one was put underan Inverted goblet. Thus kept fromthe air they were finally removed onChristmas day in perfect condition ana.as juicy as ever.

lirlvlhg stniiog for ijie Clc»4STfentFirst comes the driving of the stakes,

no slight task, since each slake is fouror five feet in length, two or threenches thick, and hen to be driven;hree-fourths of its. length into hardrronnd. . Between 200 and 300 blows

of the sledge are required to get atake homev The sledges have handleshree feet long', ahd heads that weigheventeen pounds;'they must be swung

high in the aiTj-atid be brought downwith th'fefuii ffire'e of a pair of strongarms. "There are over 1,000 of theseitakes. to be driven, which means 250,-

blows of the sledges. But for their;pecial skill, this work alone wouldake the men half a.day. They willlo it easily in forty-flve. minutes. -Theyjeglirwlth the-"'big. top" tent, whichs marked out 446 feet in length -todLSO' feet in width. There are 350takes to be driven here, and four;a.hgs of men, of seven or eight men.aohi are charged tP drive, them, Th?deader "of each ,ganj? places the stokeThere the Iron rod'stood, taps it twoir three; blows to make It stand alone,nd then with -a nod signals the .ganga begin., striking. The ..uaven menitand' 1 | • & circle around, the stake()Keir sledges, reidy/ Eaoit man swingsis sledge through a full circle* t i eeavjI'-haminerB c6ine'downaon the

i.of the:staice.:in Regular- and._^—!i'l-;w. "• Sfirtn-.ni;%plB Jsffccessioi i .%& %afi i # » p

[.bout one blow" a. second, so that ta.6itake .r&seiveg -sevens WOWB a second*

IMReft are the men' t&at they never,

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