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1 Of the sixty odd millions of people In Trata Is ptraaga' Thaa Fiction. Seventeen years ago I lived with my -(r nri HEALTH AND BEAUTY. Swift's Specific has eared my little nlees of white swelling of tbe worst type. More thaa twenty pieces of bone came out of her She not able to walk for eiht months, and was on cratches year. The doctors advised ampu- taUon, but I refused, and put her on 8, 8.

8. She is now as well and playful as any child. Km. Annii QSeslu.0, Columbus, Oa. I manse on mooa ana sun Diseases ntailoc.

free 8 wirt Brecsnc Drawer 8. Atlanta. QaJ 0BANGE LEMONS, FIGS, SPICES, TEAS, BANAH'S CANDIES BL00AJ Hi BACON, HAMS, CHEESE, APPLES. 127. West Second Sleet.

127. Male Eif $1 Do Its duty Ihe interests of economy and justice yourselves and families require it. No man of moderate ucome can afford to give 10 or 15 per Cent more for hit groceries than he can buy them with tbecat-li fl When yiu, uy goods from us and nav tht cash. 3 Ill' One remark which Mrs. Kendal made to a prominent New York banker came out inth course of a snort tau.i sue was dining at a house in New Ycrk, and she had bun to talk, after a little skillful instigation on the part of the hostess, about the difference between American and audiences.

"There- are only two things," Mrs. Ken dal said, "which English artists really fear when they come to America. One is the interviewer a person of whom we have absolutely no knowledge in England and the other is the awful, fashion in which Americans testify to their dis- aDnroval of an artist. "A great deal has been said about the brutality of audiences in hissing and guying unwelcome actors, but the effect of this sort of opposition is in nine cases out of ten stimulating. That is, an actor who is vigorously hissed has his combative spirit aroused by tbe assault and bestirs himself so earnestly that he snatches victory from defeat.

There is no hope for anything of this sort in America. When people rise quietly and show their opinion by walking calmly out of theatre the effect is one that no actor can counteract. Fortunately," Mr. Kendal added, with a smile, have not had personal experience with this sort of treatment, but English actors at home have told anecdotes concerning it which have stamped the custom as be ing one of the most awful and depressing ones known to the stage. It is courteous, but the effect on the actor is beyond de scription.

New York World. Germany's Shopkeepers. The civility of the tradespeople seems to be genuine, and for that reason it comes with refreshing effect after the superficial polish of the Parisian and the brutal etiquette of the Cockney. When you enter a German Bhop you are expected to remove your hat and gloves and greet the shopkeeper politely; you do not replace your hat till you are ready to depart, and then you bid the shopkeeper adieu. These people are awfully in earnest.

The wit of the Scotchman compared with the wit of the average German is as a cambric needle to a bung. Wishing to get my idea of how I wanted an overcoat made a tailor asked me: "Shall I mage ut like dot goat you haf on?" "Like this one; No, sir!" I cried in horror. "There's no such thing as fit about this coat why, it was shot on to me in London." "Zhot on to you?" exclaimed the tailor in honest amazement. "So-o-or' In another shop I was somewhat hu miliated to be told: "The English ist sehr gut but ihr Deutsch ach! Kann ich nicht verstehen!" Eugene Field in Chicago News. The Prince and a Blind Man.

T- I was recently told the following stofy of a piece of silverware now existing in the plate roorn at Marlborough house One day the Prince of Wales, on alight ing from his carriage at the door of a house where he was about to pay a visit, saw a blind man and his dog vainly try ing to effect a passage across the thor oughfare in the midst of a throng of carriages. With characteristic good nature the prince came to the rescue, and successfully piloted the pair to the other side of the street. A short time afterward he received a massive silver inkstand with the following inscription: To the Prince of Wales. From one who saw him conduct a blind beggar across the street. In memory of a kind and Christian action." Neither note nor card accompanied the offering, and the name of the donor has never been discovered.

But I think that this anonymous gift is not the least prized of the many articles in the prince's treasure chamber. Philadelphia Telegraph. Novelty in Printing Presses. A novelty in printing has been intro duced into Germany, by which it is said that two colors can he done at one impression. In addition to the usual ap pliance for printing in black that part of the form which is intended to be printed in another color is set up from type, ornaments or cuts made of a porous material, such as pumice, Spanish reed, or, best of all, walnut root.

The type or cut thus made is inclosed in a holder, in which is a thin, oily" ink, which it absorbs by capillary attraction, thus always presenting an inked surface reaay for tne impression. The upper rim of the holder has a rim or metal border slightly raised above the wood type, so that the ink roller passes over the latter without any union of inks. One revolution of the cylinder thus ef fects an impression in two colors. New 1 ork Commercial Advertiser. The Antbor of "Maria." Jorge Isaacs, the author of "Maria," is of mixed race the son of an English Jew' married to a woman of Spanish blood.

He was born at Cali, in the beautiful vale of Cauca, where he has laid the scene of his story. Early in life he lost his father and mother by death, and since then has found a home in Bogota, the Colombian capital. His first work, a small volume of verses, was enthusiastically received by the Bogotans, and in 1867, when still a young man, he pub-J Ushed "Maria, which has come to be considered in South America as the most original and characteristic work yet produced in Spanish-American literature. Harper's Weekly. you know you are getting full value Oram is growing in Broadway frig in one of the most crowded pr that great thoroughfare, where pie rush wildly tbaut on businc when! the ran is hottr the humidity highest There i great deal of the grass, but what is is flourishing.

Thousands pass It every day, but none Of them tc it, for it Is just under a queer littL grating, set in the pavement for reason that isn't now apparent. I the iron bars is a little Bpaoe hoi out in. the flagging, land in It dot dirt have accumulated to- thedep an inch or so. How the grass seed there is not easily to be accounte unless they were; brought by the rows: But the seeds fell then rate, and now th grass is struggli to the bars of the! irratinflr. There trouble about moisture, forf eTiyWaj turns mooouow in to a muo reservoir, and in two or three weeks anybody with a liking for may take up the grating and harvest the first crop of hay that has been raised in the neighborhood of lower Broadway for many a year.

New York Times. Another Prophecy TaltadU A strange story is now being circu lated in India about a gold plate, with Inscriptions upon it in the Tamil and Telegu languages, which is said to have fallen from heaven. The Hindoo Patriot gives the following version of it: A plate made of the finest gold, con taining the following inscription, fell from heaven and was found in the temple grounds at Benares by the person who saw it fall. The inscription is as ol lows: "From the month of June, 1890, God himself will rule as emperor of Hindoo-stan, incarnating himself in human form. From that time forward there will be justice all over the world, and the munis (sages) will be worshiped by the people.

"All the diseases of men will be cured, dogs will walk and as men do, and man, whose life' is now established at seventy years, will in the future have it extended to 125 years," Steering; a Ship from the Bridfe. That new German invention which enables the captain of a steamer to steer his ship from his bridge will be a great thing if it realizes present expectations. ihe invention involves tne use or an electric current, the apparatus for which the captain can carry in his pocket, and the use of it at critical moments by the captain instead of communicating his directions to the man at the wheel by means of signals would be of immense advantage, and would enable the captain or his representative on the bridge, in cases where the steamer is running dangerously close to another steamer or an iceberg, to make good use of the sec onds which are now lost before the man at the wheel can comprehend the situa tion. The invention is now undergoing practical trial on some of the ships of the American navy. Philadelphia Record.

A Royal Newspaper Reader. Mr. Harold Frederic, correspondent of The New York Times, is in Berlin pre paring a life of the young emperor under the direction (I had almost said auspices) of the emperor himself. Wilhelm is rather partial to journalists, and he is a voracious newspaper reader. Fifty of the leading newspapers or Europe are brought to him every morning, and he plunges through them with the avidity and the alacrity of a professional exchange editor.

A pair of shears is close at hand, and he clips whatever seems to be of particular interest to him. These clippings are duly pasted in scrap books and indexed. In this fashion doth his majesty keep a record on the boys. It is said that The Paris Figaro is the news paper whose opinions seem to interest him most. Eugene Field in Chicago News.

Summer Drinks. Lemonade and buttermilk are as good as anything drinkable that yon can find for this weather," said a physician. They both are' great things to quench thirst. They both act as a pleasant tonic to the stomach and they have a stimu lating quality, i But they should not be drunk ice cold that is, bits of ice should not be in the goblet. Let them be as cold as the ice chest or refrigerator can make them, but not more than that.

When, you pour down your throat a pint or so of fluid that is fresh from the ice temporary paralysis of the stomach If a man happens to be very hot, such a thing not infrequently is as fatal as a stroke of lightning." Cincinnati Times-Star. Some strange judicial proceedings are reported from Queensland, Australia. The presiding judge was in a hurry to get away and tried cases continuously for thirty-six hours. At one stage all the available jurors were occupied in considering verdicts, and, not to lose time, the judge ordered the doors of tbe court room to be locked, and then impounded every i person in the audience qualified to serve. Many of the jurors were so exhausted by continuous service that they fell asleep in their seats, but the trials went on.

Farmer Beadle, of Bayside, L. shot a golden eagle at that place the -ether day, the first one killed in the vicinity since 1876. He saw the huge bird descend into his poultry yard and fly into a tree with a chicken. A shot from his rifle brought it' to the ground. It measured nearly seven feet across its extended wings.

I Guest Have yon any quail on toast? Waiter No, sir. broiled snow-birds?" "No, "Well, how about stewed terrapin?" "We haven't anjf, sir." "Then give me a corned beef sandwich." In New Zealand si Mormon convention. has just doeedj its sittings, at which it was officially reported that there are 8,000 Mormons in that colony, and that 600 converts were made during the past year. Try is DcteraalM In What Tea, Chris Waa "A German professor says our calcu lation of the Christian era ia erroneous." I find the above item going the rounds, with added line which meekly in forms the reader that we are off! four or five years in our mode of reckoning time. For centuries there has been doubt as to the correctness of I the accepted calcula tion of the.

Christian era. Learned historians cannot asree whether Christ was born In the year 747, 749 or 754, counting from the foundation of Rome. 4 Prof. Settler, of published an essay in which he tried to reconcile the testimony of the! evangelists with other historical has examined ta oh this point. He copper coins which were struck in th pas, one of the so: reign of Herod Anti i of Herod the Great, from' which he educes the conclusion that Christ was born iin 754, but in 749, after thefi idation 6f Route, and 0 is 1895.

TMsonin- therefore that 1 ion the professor substantiiates by what he takes to be corroborative of the testimony According to Matthew, Jesus was born toward the end of the reign of Herod the Great, and that when Herod died Jesus was yet a little (ihild. Luke Rays that James was born in the year in which the governor of Syria; made the first census in Judea. In another place he says that John began to baptize in the fifteenth year of the reign pf Tiberius Cfeear, and in that year baptized Jesus, who was then 80 years of age. St. Luke says that in Judea the firsticensns was made during the reign of Herod; this census must have been ordered in the year 746 of Rome.

Probably it was begun ip Judea in 747 Professor Sattler thinks itj was not made in Jerusalem earlier than 749. He finds that the four coins enabltjd him to made clear the testimony of the evangelist as to the fifteenth year of the Emperor Ti berius. Though Augustus died Aug. 19, 767, the reigq of Tiberius must be counted from a yjear and a half earlier, from 766, when he was appointed co-regent; therefore the fifteenth year of Tiberius falls iq 780, when John bap tized Jesus, who was then about 80 j-ears of age. One of the evangelists says that Jesus began to preach forty-six years after the building of the temple by Herod at Jerusalem.

Now it is known that the temple was begrin eighteen years after Herod was appointed regent by the Ro man senate, or in! the year 734 from the foundation of Rome. Adding fort" -six to that year it gives 780 as the year in which Christ began to preach. If all these calculations of Professor Sattler are correct then he Christian era began five years earlier than is usually sup posed. St. Louis Republic The Oread's Cndr Tow." Doubtless we Jiavo all heard a great deal about tbis under tow," as though it were some mysterious force working from the recesses of a treacherous ocean to draw tlnwary bathers to their doom.

As a matter of its presence is obvi ously natural, anil the explanation of it more than simple1. As each wave rolls in and breaks uixm the beach the volume of water which it carries does not remain there and sink into the sand; it flows back agaiii, and as the succeeding waves break ovt-r it the receding one forms an under current flowing outward of strength proportionate to the body of water contained in each, breaker, and, again, proportionate in a great measure to the depth of trie ditch, Where this latter is an appreciable de pression it can be readily seen that the water of receding waves! will flow into it with similar iffect to that of water going over a fall, and that a person standing near is jeery likely to be drawn over with it, and thus, if the ditch is deep enough, carried out of his depth. This is all there Is to the much talked of "under tow" and the numerous accidents laid to its account. Duffield Osborne in Scribner's. Casts of Famous Frenchmen.

Robespierre and Maratj are enigmat ical characters. Their deeds were horrible, but the cafcts of their heads taken after death are of ineffable sweetness. In both the cerebral development is poor. particularly in tjie coronal region. The skulls, each of which goes up into a point, may have pressed! there on the brains.

Phrenological development, or lack of development, taken with facial traits, betokens ill balanced minds. Marat's face, in David's portrait of him, is in all but complexion that of a red Indian. Robespierre's sister, on the other hand, is sweet, iserene, pensive and of a lovely purity of) expression. Charlotte Cofday, according to Dan- loux, one of her! portraitists, was a rather good looking young woman, more the peasant than thjs lady. She had a hard, quick, willful glance.

Tallien was an other ill balanced creature. He had the profile of an Egyptian god. Contemporary Review. Babbaffe. Mr.

Babbage took me one day to see his calculating machine, and was might lly amused at my emphatic approval. i never could ao mv sums. him to give it to me. Ie also showed me a wonderful automaton figure, made, if I recollect right, of silver. He called it his wife, and I was rather afraid of the silent lady as she moved her arms and head in a graceful but rather weird fashion.

Mr. Babbage generally looked so sad that I remember when my grandmother was teling me the story of Pygmalion I exclaimed, "Why, it is just like Mr. Babbage and pis wife." My parents and he quite agreed on one sub jectdislike ofj music Which my father always described as "a noise which pre vents conversation." Mrs. Ross in -jMrs. Murray's Magazine.

ak Prospect. Bill CoUectoij (authoritatively) I wish to see Mr. Neverpay immediately, Shrewd Servant You, can t. see, mm now. He gone to bed so we can wash Weekly, i his flannels.

New York Bnr tke Mw a the Kkedtr XMm War WN XmAm 1 Kerenarod ak JJxntauaa- ImmL In th moantalns the) miner fqoeotf ly makd their descent' into the raiey by nsing a piece of "qnaMng' aaht bark ju toboggan, bat oftener rely on the tenaci ty of their heavy canvas oreralu. To some this method of transportation may seem absurd or fanpossibleJbtit it la a fact nevertheless; men do go down the fearful slopes on the soft snow from th top of a two mile ridge in that? manner faster than they erer on a sled when a boy. At the Khedive lode the miners had long borne a grudge against the super intendent, an overbearhr ignoramns; so they swore they would get evten with him some day. i' Thai Khedive was located jhst two mfles above the Old government road leading to Gothic, at a bend, called Crook," and it required an hoikr's hard climbing on foot to -get up to the mine from there. One morning the superintendent came as usual to "inspect," as termed it, dui reauy to curse ana rant aroona De- i ii i i cause tne men could not mare flOO ore j-ield fl.OOO.

The miners were just about tired of his tyranny and several suggested the propriety of giving him a pounding. However, Providence, who sometimes advocates tne cause of the poor miner as well as that of the rich nabob who owns the property, came to the men's assistance at this critical juncture. The obnoxious superintendent was expecting some important instructions from headquarters, and gave orders that if a telegram came to dispatch a clerk on horseback until he reached "The Crook," and there to discharge his pistol. While tearing around, cursing the miners as was his wont, suddenly a shot rang out on the clear air and, looking down into the valley, all saw a messenger waving a paper. The anxious snperin tendent was in a fix; he wanted that telegram in a hurry, but knew that the steep trail would demand an hour's hard work to reach there.

At this moment the wag of the crew stepped up to him and offered a big iron scoop shovel, suggesting that if he sat in that he could go down the hill quickly and safely. The superintendent had often seen the descent made on the snow as stated, but he did not see the'roguish twinkle in the man's eye as he took the proffered implement, i' His trousers were thin, so grasping tbe handle and sitting in the concave part of the shovel, he shot down tho declivity; faster and faster he went until he fairly flew. His seat by the terrible friction grew warmer and wanner as he sped reckfessly on, but there was no stopping until the bottom was reached. He was literally roasted; but the miners had their revenge. Kansas City.

Globe. Xlnety-ix Feet of Snowfall in Colorado. Did you ever stop to think and figurt up how much loose snow actually alh in the course of an average mountain Colorado winter? If you have, did.T the amount ornate you? At Kokomo In 1884-5, by actual daily measurements, something like ninety-six feet of the beautiful fell between Nov. 1 and June 1. Of course it kept on settling all the time, and when spring opened up there wasn't more than six or seven feet on the ground.

The snowfall at Kokomo is generally twice or three times what it is at Dillon, yet the amount that fell here during the winter of 1889-90 sounds like a big yarn, but the figures given below are absolutely correct and were carefully recorded daily by Mr. Pratt at Ryan Gulch, just north of town. Amount of snowfall, gauged at a point one mile north of Dillon, between the first day of November, 1889, and May 10, 1890: November, 38 inches; December, 81 inches; January, 81 inches; February, 41 inches; March, 70 inches; April, 22 inches; May, 17 inches making a total of 20 feet 10 inches. About eight-tenths of this snow fell during the night time, and nearly one-half of it was very damp, settling rapidly as it fell. These figures seem preposterous, yet Dillon is not much of a place for snow either, and gets Itss of the beautiful than any other town in the county.

Dillon Enterprise. Metal In Bookbinding-. Metal has for some time been very advantageously used in the binding of books as a substitute for cardboard. A special preparation is first necessary, and the leather may be bent and straightened again, without perceptible damage, a course of treatment that would destroy cardboard covers. The metal is covered with any material that taste may dictate, and the finished book shows no difference in appearance excepting in greater thinness of the cover, which is always desirable.

New York Telegram. They Made a Bettor Article Tfafemaelves. Woman (to drug store clerk) Have yon an article called a two cent postage stamp on Bale? Drug Clerk (mechanically) iWe some times keep it, but I thin we are out of It just nOw. There is very little demand for it. Quite inferior, assure you.

Now, we make an article of our own that oh, it is a postage Mamp yon want. Certainly; here is one; Have it charged? Texas Sittings. 1, Xt I Xos Craal. A college boy at Adrian undertook to ride a bucking broncho. The broncho bucked and kicked and cavorted and stood on both ends by and a citizen had the boy arrested for cruelty to ftniraain.

The jury, taking into consid eration the characteristics of the bron cho, found that it was not cruel and acquitted the defendant. Detroit Free Press. iv Xtehsap -Coturtaatea. Thin Old Han (cramped and cross) This caronght to charge by weight Stout Woman (rararding him con- tmntnrmalvV If the did they'd never stop to pick you ny. New York Ledger.

the United States all except an Insignift cant portion of the "odds" havethesd or read the wonderful story of Clpiumotts and his discoveries. It is doubtful, how ever, if 'sixty odd thousand of this vast aggregation ever saw a copy or tne cun ous signature used by the discoverer of the America In his will the great Christopher says: "My heirs shall sign only with an a with an under it, and an with a Roman A over it, And over than are 8 and a great with an 8 over It; with its lines and points as my custom he shall only write tThe Ad- title the king may hare conferred upon film." The usual form of this signature, with "its lines and points" as mentioned in the will, was as follows: .8. S. Jl I XMY Xpo FERENS EI Amirante 1 Why the periods were used at the sides of the Ss and not before and following the other letters has been the subject of much discussion, i The initials, in a straight line are "Si S. A.

S. X. St. which Professor Becher, recalling the fact that it was to Isabella or Ysabella that Columbus owed his chance of! carrying out his plans, reads them asj "8erv-iador Sus Alteza Sacras Jeexti Maria Isabel." Which would be abot't as follows if translated into good United States English: "The servant of their sacred highnesses Jesus Mary and. Isabel." The last line Professor Dewitt translates as "Christ Bearing tJhristo-pher) the Admiral." St.

Louis Republic. A Memory from the Plains. I saw a girlish looking woman! holding her busband's arm as both stood enjoy ing ti gorgeous spectacle on the platform in the Madison Square garden tbe other night. I could not help conjecturing what a flood of memories would have risen to her mind had some one pushed into the amphitheatre and shouted the single word "Injuns!" The couple were an army officer and his wife, and; though you may not all know it, that ana that more than once he has been pledged to shoot her at an instant's notice. It is the rule the humane law'e-on our plains that when the savages afe on the warpath and a husband and wife are traveling in their country the "husband shall kill the wife the moment it be comes evident that she must otherwise fall into the hands of the redskins.

Ter rible as it is to think of slaying your wife (and only fancy what noble women those wives out there must be) bo man would hesitate if he knew that by doing so he could save her from indignities that make death at once a trifle and a joy. Fancy the situation if you ean put yourself in. such a place. As 3 ou ride through the wilderness, perhaps with a guard of cavalry or only as part of a wagon train, the declaration war comes with a rattle of rifle shots from some rocks or grove ahead. Evry spur is pressed home, every horse leitps forward, every gun is seen to, awl your wife reins in beside you and remember! 1 rely on you." After that one would imagine a ballet in New York would seem quite 'tame.

Chatter. The Old Adam. It is told of a good old fashioned par son in one of the hill towns ofvestrn Massachusetts that he gave the follow ing advice to his son, who was about to como to New York to begin abusiness career: "My son, of course it is always wicked to fight, and as a Christian minister I must warn you against it. But at the same time if you should ever find yourself in a fight mind, I say, find yourself in a fight, with no wHy out always see that the right man is whipped." "But, father," replied the lad, "how shall I know who is t4e right man?" "The other man, of Course," said the old gentleman. "In every crisis of life something must be taken for granted, and in a fight yon must always assume that the other fellow denerves to be thrashed." This advice, similar in spirit to that given by Shakespeare, indicates that there may be a good deal of unregenerate human nature even in a quiet country parson.

New York Tribune. A Conductor's Hard LIftv A street car conductor of a calculating turn of mind said the other tlay that during ten years of service on the Fourth avenue line he had been poked wUh parasols and umbrellas about 75,000 times. It is a woman's way to poke the- conductor in the ribs with her when she wants the car stopped. Thi partic ular conductor estimated thai he bad averaged about twenty pokes A day for every day of actual service. Nw York Times.

A Bit of the Middle Age. A curious survival of the Mide Ages was put into practice at Guernsey to stop the public auction of household goods which was disapproved by ttw eldest son of the family. The formula ntteredby the son is as "Haro! Harol Harot A l'aide, mon Prince. On me fait tort!" The sale ceased instantly, and the matter will now come before the royal courts in due course. Notes and Queries.

When Merchants Have Money. Salesman I suppose you wil allow me to sell Broke, Upp Principal I'm somewhat afraid of their credit, Mr. Valisse. Salesman But you know they failed about a year ago and settled at ten oents. Principal IS that so? They mst have money.

Sell them all yon can. -Jewelers' Circular. Boating- the Eneaay. "A friend of mine aconsumpti' was set upon by ten cowboys out In Arizona one day. He foughtc like a tiger for ten minutes and his assailants took to flight." "What did your friend dor" "8tyed where he was he had to.

They'd killed him." Chatter. father and mother on the banks of the Stranger rivef in Atchison county, Kansas. I was only 7 years of. age, and one day my youthful fancy was caught by the pretty colors of a blacksnake. I pulled a small ring off my finger and a string out of my pocket.

Placing the ring over the bead" of the snake, I started home in triumph dragging the snake at my heels, and feeling as much a con aueror as the Roman emperor who dragged the captives behind his char iots. In climbing over a fence my cap tive made its escape. Ring, string, everything disappeared. I shed a few tears at the time, but had forgotten the matter until lately. Ire- turned to the vicinity of my old home in Atchison bounty for the purpose of buying some sheep.

While crossing a small creek that flows into the Stranger river my attention was called by the barking of my dog to a strange some thing in a ree. I investigated and found there an immense blacksnake, fully ten feet long. Between the dog and myself we succeeded in killing the snake, though I was obliged to use in the warfare jooth a club and a revolver. The dog finished the snake by giving it a shaking and tearing it in pieces. You will hardly believe me, 1 know, but you can have my head if it, wasn't the Bame identical snake that got away from me seventeen years ago.

How do I know? Simple enough. That little blacksnake had grown to be a monstrous big one; the little silver ring around its neck had grown until it was as large as a lady's bracelet, and the piece of twine had grown until it had become a good sized rope. But the strangest part of all was that the dog had shaken out seventeen little blacksnakes, and that each one was the exact counterpart of the snake that made its escape lrom me in the long ago, while around the necks of each of the seventeen young ones were silver rings, and attached to these rings were short pieces of twine. And upon each one of these silver rings you could plainly distinguish the initials of my name, just as they had been stamped in the silver ring that I wore when 7 years old. Kansas City Times.

The Heroines of Young Writer. A woman with a turn for literary work who notices that she is distanced, as far as success and admiration goes, by rivals inferior in mental capacity to herself, flies eagerly to the society of her own fancies and makes her pen her greatest friend. It is the lot of many girls to pass their childhood or youth in a somewhat monotonous round of domestic duties, and frequently in a narrow domestic circle with which they may have no great intellectual sympathy. It is a delightful consolation for the shortcomings of the social life around them to build up an imaginary picture of social life as it might be full of romantic adventures and pleas ant conquests. In manufacturing her heroine the young recluse puts on paper what she would herself like to be, and what she thinks she might be if only she had golden hair and a wider sphere of action, i or if men were wiser and more discerning.

In the slights offered to her favorite ideal she paints the slights that might be or have been offered to herself, and she glories in imagining the triumphant way in which (under more auspicious circumstances) she would turn upon her enemies and trample them under foot. The vexations and annoyances she is usually able to describe with spirit and accuracy. 1 he triumph, being the representation of her own delicious dreams, is apt to be a little too spectacular; it is too complete; rivals and enemies are too effectually crushed; the world looks on and applauds with rather unnecessary vehemence; the underrated martyr of the first portion of the book has somewhat too magnificent an apotheosis at its close. Illustrated American. Money Spent for Show.

Ten thousand carriages in Central park have a coachman and footman. At least 5,000 more have a coachman. Twenty-five thousand people ride there simply to wait on the rich, to minister to the luxury of the opulent. Ten thou sand of these people are lackeys. The gorgeous and impressive uniforms tall hats, rosettea, top boots, bnttonB of the coachmen and lackeys are furnished by the owners of the carnages.

They buy uniforms for the coachmen and lackeys just as they buy harness for the horses. and the cost is about the same. The uniforms cost about $150 per carriage. For the 5,000 more modest turnouts, with a plain, old fashioned coachman. the uniform costs about $80.

It costs $1,500,000 to make the coach men and tho lackeys look like monkeys. It costs floO.OOO more to dress up the old fashioned coachmen. The aggregate is $1,650,000. New York Journal. Chinese Wit.

A traveler in the far east relates that Chinese gentlemen of quality consider it beneath their dignity to invent their own jokfes, When they go into society each carries with him a collection oi bon'mots and smart repartees, obtained from various sources, and when he thinki the time1 has come for him to make sage remark he turns over the leaves of his commonplace book till he lights on a suitable passage, which he gravely points out to his neighbor. The latter reads the passsage with equal gravity, whereyspon he selects from his own stock an Apro priate rejoinder, which he shows thr other with a bow. Both then smile solemnly, and. after many compliments, ie-sume their conversation. II Popolo Romano.

A Ghost ta London. The story goes around in London that a ghost has really been seen. A well known woman, just before appearing in some private theatricals, saw an old friend standing near the entrance of her dressing room. She greeted him, but he only shook his head and walked away. She learned the next day that her friend had died the day before she thought she saw him.r-San Francisco Argonaut.

Absolutely Pure. rhe Colted States OrHclal Investigation of baklrg powders, made under authority ot foongreM by tbe Chemical Division of the Depart ent of (Agricullure, Washing-ton, D. receutly completed, shows tbe Koyal Baking Powder to be cream of tartar powder of tbe highest dualllty pure and wholesome, an superior to all others In strength, leavenins power and general usefulness. There's a corset that isn't a corset, a waist with straps for the shoulders and rows of buttons to button on skirts and stocking supporters and so forth the Ball Waist land that's about the whole of it. No; you can put it.

in the wash tub no metal in it or on it. It is worth your seeing, if for nothing but how to sew on buttons to button easy and never come off, and how to make buttonholes wear forever. Women differ in their ways of thinking- and dressing as well as in other ways. This waist is for women whose minds are made up that they won't wear corsets. There's much to be said on both siiies but did you ever hear of a woman who hadn't made up her mind in -4 1 .1 some wayr ana is mere any possible use in trying- to get her to change it bhe will and she will or she won't and she won't.

You can get the Ball Waist and wear it a week or two or three and, if you don't want it, take it back to the store and get your money. Chicago CoRgrr CUlcago and New York. FRANK BOWMAN. PBOPK1BT Barns, Front near Hotel Webtte I am Prepared to furnish COMPLETE FDBERAL ODTFTTS HAVING TWO HEARSES and full line of! carriages. Inspection ft rlted, and flrat-oiaas services guaranteed.

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219 Walnut StrMt. TELEPHONE NO- 121. I J. A. REULING, 1IA3 A SPLKNDID STOCK OF GROCERIES And will sell at the lowest prices.

i 4K? SOS West Peeond St I it nacatlne, Iowa. for your money and saving a large profit, which the credit stores have to charge jou to pay for dead-beat AO--rounts. Muscatine Grocery ASHTON Flour and Feed Co. Dealer In FLOU I AND FEED OF ALL KINDS, Baled Hay and Straw. or.

2d A. Muscatine, HELLO, THERE Who does your Painting; LaGrille SSod? Yes, and they also do Onr Paper 5 BLACK THOIM rhis Is the name of the best brand Ol Flour. Try It, at Callahan Knight's. They have a fine line of GROCERIES GET THEIR PRICE. 1 10B td Street.

uoat Ine, Iowa STOP AT THE The Popular Horn THE ,1 TRAVELING MAX. West Liberty Iowa, NATIONALS Philip Dieffenwierth was wounded by a sting ray at Clear Water harbor. He was on the bay after fish, and, catching this- one, pulled it Into the boat and proceeded to cut out the harpoon. While doing so the ray struck him in the arm and also in the foot, the latter being a most painful wound. For some time his suff ering'was intense, almost producing spasms, nntS finally the wound was smoked with burning wool and sugar, when 'relief was experienced in a few minntea.

Politeness costs very little, and it pays In the end. We are always ready to assist the person who is while the other, who Is thoughtful only for himself, antagonizesus at once. -a 1 Ii V' -1.