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i ; It Record: "A MeslUt troke," aaid on Philadel- eminent physicians veater- sta subject does sot suc the attack till some hours rs. The only explanation 1 science can give is that a Consists in a disinterration - Meed COrDUScles. and ronsider- f"wiPfCIapses before the disinte F""aa,Wed reaches the little nerve :r ;''?y"-isi," the brain which acts as a t-,fwaer.'en the heat system of the fj- 'P -Tfce flow of the blood finally NU)bii the heat center, and the heat S? riat, raising the temperature of . . mj 10 a ieariui neigrn' "iiuiu S aakmtes.' As an instance of rations. th doctor citea tue of the British army in India, where the rreat majority of sunstrokes ,aka ejfect between 7 and 9 in the IMff. r "4' The "Whlchnesa of It. rSPkihidelpliia Inquirer: A Boston SiYewspaper which alvrays endeavors to -"jfowee clear apd simple language says that Tiatre Moves in a series of rythms .aitd passes through alternate epochs of feaaiaaaceand subsidence" "We were positive last summer that something ras the natter with the old dame, but we had bo idea that matters were so se ries. It is to be hoped that the subsi tteace will yield to treatment and sub tide. k FOUR TRACK SERIES ETCHINCS. .'J-;.Ile UMexamnled Offer of the New York 't' Central. Art lovers will find one of the best bar pains .placed before the public for many a JTconth in the offer of the Passenger Depart ment ofjthe New York Central, to sell at a merely nominal figure a collection of etch ings, which have become famous all over the country as the "Four-Track Scries." The titles of the etchings are "The Wash ington Bridge," "Rock of Ages, Niagara Fails,' "Old Spring at West Point," Hounding the Nose, Mohawk Valley," "No. WJ and the DeWitt Clinton," "The . Empire Statu Express,' "Horse Shoe Fall, Niagara,1' and "Gorge of the Niagara Hiver." These etchings are all printed on fine plate paper, 24x32 inches, and the absence of any ' objectionable advertising feature renders them suitable for framing and hanging in one's office, library or home. Copies may be secured at the office of "W. B. Jerome, General "Western Passenger Agent, 1)7 (31ark St.. Chicago, for fifty cents . each, will be mailed in stiff tubes, secure from injury; to any address, for seventy-five cents each, or any two of them to one ad dress, for il.'JO, or any three or more or dered at one time to one address, sixty cents each, in currency, stamps, express or postal money order. Flying frogs are common in Borneo. Billiard Table, Fecond-hand. For salt cheap. Applv to or address, H. G. Akix, ' . 51 1 S. 12th St., Omaha, Neb. i fXive at pence with all men. and you will ' ?V ihave the devil's war all your life. KNOWLEDGE ccmf& aad Mwmrtmmt mm ctmAT to perMnal',eylet'W'hem; rightly used. The many, who lxTe bet ter than others awl enjoy life more, with leas expenditure, by-more promptly adapting the world's best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleas ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax ative; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers ana permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kid neys, Liver and Bowels without weak ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Smip of Pigs is for sale by all drug gists in 50c and'Sl bottles, but it is man ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and beintr well informed, you will not accept any substitute u onereu. Mi indorsemenf ' -of Scott's Emulsion is contain ed in let ters from the medi cal profes sion speaking of its gratify, ing results in their practice. Scott's Emulsion of cod-liver oil with Hypo phosphites can be adminis tered when plain oil is out of the question. It is almost as pal table as milk easier to dig st than milk. rX?Prs SeottABowne.N.Y. All nipMn. Ree. Jol i Rrfd, jn, 0 Great Fallt, AIonL, recom mended Ely's Cream Balm to me. I can emphasize his ttatement, "It is a posUice cure for eatarrh if used as d.'reeteL- Rev.Francis IF. Poole. Paster Central Pres. Ckurek, Selena, Montana. ELY'S CREAM BALM Opei mm Merabraa and Ssjell. The Balm la quickly absorbed and zivea IKS T Story ef BIe Dlclc'a Be- BBCC. The average bad man of the' Texas frontier in the early days was by no means of a religious turn of tnind. So far as my investigations have gone', says a Belcherville, Texas, correspond ent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat a gentleman entitled Blue Dick John son was the only one of the tribe ever known to "get religion," or ever to be come a "seeker'1 after it, for that mat ter. "Why he should have been called "Blue" Dick rather than Red Dick or Green Dick I have never been able to determine. In this country, when a man's vocabulary of profanity is rather more extensive than usual, he is said to be able to Vcuss blue blazes," but whether or not there is anv connection between the "blue" in this phrase and the "Blue" in Dick's name I am not quite sure. I think, though, that there is, for Blue Dick's performances along that line are still quoted as a standard of excellence. Even at his worst he was always an attendant upon religious worship whenever he had an opportuni ty, which was not very frequently. The few preachers who found their way over the Texas prairies in those days counted him among their worst regular disturbers. He was considered a wealthy man, his wealth consisting of quite a large herd of cattle, Avhich he was supposed to have acquired in large measure by a rather loose use of the branding iron. His financial stand ing and his reputation as a killer com bined made Mm a man to be dreaded in more ways than one, and the preach ers were the object of his special aver sion. On one occasion Rev. J. G. "Weaver, now a Methodist minister in the north of Texas, was preaching a sermoa on repentance, and it was noticed that something was wrong with Blue Dick. Not only was he making no disturbance, but he was actually listening to the preacher The sermon was an earnest one and gave close attention to the clxiracteristics of genuine repentance as opposed to the false kind. "Repentance," shouted the preacher, "is being sorry for your sins. It's being sorry enough to quit them, and to make up for all the wrong you've done, so far as you can. If a man steals a steer and then really repents of it, he'll drive the critter back where he got him from." Bine Dick's Way of Making: Amends. There was much more talk along this same line, to all of which Dick listened attentively. When the sermon was Waited on Tliera aa If Tliey Were Children. over a song was raised and penitents were called. Though the whole of the large brush arbor was crowded with men and women, many of 'whom un 4eibtedly needed to repent, no response was made to the appeal. The sermon kM heen of too scorchhag a nature, to 1 A . - ' hoc moving, as soon as iae soar was esded Blue Dick jumped 1o his feet "Aadrnised his baud. "Say; pardner," he exclaimed, ad dressing the preacher, "I wants ,to say a few words right here. I've listened to lots of sermons on the sly, when, you thought I wasn't thinkin' about nothin' but Taisin a row, but I want to say this is the first one ever I could get a toe holt on. I've heard preachers talk about bleevin' an' this, that an' the other, but I see some sense in this'n. I've beeu a tough'n air along, but I give you all fair warnin' now that I've re pented." A hoarse guffaw from the back of the throng giveted this annnr,,"""'v" "And if any man saiys I haven't 1'H lick - out of him." added the speak er calmly, sliding his hand toward the six-shooter in his belt The noise stopped as suddenly as it had begun, and for a moment dead silence reign ed. Then some one called out: "How about them calves of mine you put your brand on, Dick?"' "If I've stole more of your'n than yiu have of mine, I'll make it good every hoof of it." This announcement caused such a sensation in the audience that silence reigned again. Suddenly a slender. black-robed figure in the back of the crowd rose up and a woman's shrill voice called out: "What about them men you've kill ed? Are you going to give my husband back to me?" It was the widow of one of his vic tims. He turned red and white al ternately and fingered the handle of his six-shooter nervously a moment before he replied. "And If Any Ma Say I Haven't I'll "Gentlemen," he began, "I've killed j Lick H Ont of Him." six men in my time no more an' no body. I'll do as well as Jacobs. The fel less. Of course I can't bring none of low that's made his will best and said em back, but I'll tell you what I'll his prayers last might as well sail im" do. I'll undertake to get six other men Nobody sailed in, possibly because just as good as they was and keep 'em ! nobody could remember when he had from dyin' some time or other. I'll : said his prayers last. There was an save six lives for the six I've took. That's as square as I can do, ain't it pasdner .'" thouck. for I've t tl;uT otc vou. I'm fbtoff to1 let you brawFas many of mine as 700 want to for awhile. I've sot an idea,' though, about bow the ac count stands, and If you 'get to run nln' too far 'over I'll shoot your danged heads off. Do you hear? They heard and there is to doubt that they took advantage of the novel restitution thus offered. A few weeks after this it began to be noticed that Blue Dick was playing a good deal of poker. Worse than that, he was al ways losing. He began to sell off his cattle in order to make up his losses at the game. "Say," remarked one cowboy to an other, "I don't think much of the kind of religion Blue Dick's got. Religion that makes a man play poker all the time, would be bad enough, but when it makes him lose all the time I don't want none of it in mine." Finally when Dick's herd was near- "Where's Your Hnsbnnd?" ly all sold off, the poker-playing held up for awhile. "Parson," said he one day. when the preacher had come around again, "I wish j-ou'd tell it round among the boys that if I ever beat any of 'em at poker not on the square I'll lose it back to 'em again if they'll play me. I've lost money back to all I can re member, but niaj-be I've forgot some. Of course, if I beat 'em square I won't make that up, the fact is there ain't much poker that is on the square leastwise in Texas." The preacher intimated that the money might have been restored with out playing for it "Why in the devil didu't you tell me so then? I don't know B from a bull's foot about religion. I supposed you had to give things back the same way you took 'em." Saved a Man From Being? Lynched. About the time Dick began to get his repentance in good running order along financial lines he began his ef fort to square things in regard to the lives he had taken. There had for some time been irregularities going ou in regard to the way in which horsss and cattle were smuggled across into flip tprritnrv and the bovs decided that 1 11 , 1 .t i. - rttr l an Investigation must be held. As a -11UU lua" ls":i1 :uui was. S1,1UL 011 1,15 a terrified glance -over her shoulder In the direction of the Belknap creek. Without another word Dick swung the woman up in front of him and dash ed away out of the path of the stam pede. Providence and a good horse saved him and his burden. When the crowd at the station heard of him and his exnloit next day Uncle Henry Har ris, the wooden-legged local preacher I 1 jt , t , . V aim lerrynian, exciaimea: "Well, Dick, that's three you've re pented for." "Yes." said Dick, "it is, countin the kid. They was men that I killed, though, an' I don't know as I ought to count kids in place of 'em." "Oh," replied the old man, "that's one of em that the Bible says, "Of such is the kingdom of heaven." "If you count that way the kid would be worth more than the whole dratted layout. That wouldn't be fair, though, an' I hold a man out to count fair when he repents, if he ever does. If the Good Man will count the kid for one It'll be all I'll ask." The next summer a Mexican wagon train passed through the country, and two of the teamsters showed well de veloped signs of small-pox. The rest of 4he train left these two to die on the prairie and pushed hurriedly on out of the way. When the cowboys heard of it they were highly enraged and de termined that the best thing to do was to shoot the sick men down like dogs and so avoid the danger of the plague. "You'd better kill 'em at long range, then." remarked Blue Dick. "I guess the Good Man would count greasers if he'd count kids, and I think I'll tackle these two." He was as good as his word. He removed rhem to a good, dry place, remote from human habitation, and waited on them as if they were his own children. All through the long hot days he cared for their wants, and oft en at night he stood guard over them with his Winchester. No one disturbed them. By fall they were Avell and able to go their way. Blue Dick was as well as ever, but it was not 'until several months later that he ventured back to Red River station. "That makes live, boys." he announc ed, "countin' the kid and the two greas ers. I've only got one more to repent for." "Whafll you do then?" asked some one. ' "Well. I sorter like the business and I think I'll keep my han-1 in. I'll try to get a few ahead, so's that if I have to kill anybody else it'll be sorter made up for in advance." Failed AVlth III Sixth. The next week there was a fight between two squads of men on the sandbar in the river in froit of the tew 11. Such fights were nothing un common, but this one was a little worse than usual. One of the combatants ventured farther toward the opposite result of tnls investigation a young man named Jacobs was brought to Red River Station, charged with theft. But there was still some doubt as to his guilt, so a well-organized vigilance committee went in formal council to decide as to his fate. Meanwhile the" prisoner was left bound hand and foot at a little distance from where the council was being held, while a sin gle one of his cantors, Winchester in hand, stood guard over him. About nightfall Blue Dick volunteered to ' guard the fellow and was given per yt- I rfctAn Irv cv TTa linn 1 iOOTI ixVCm iilliSOlUU IV DS. iiuu tllVl V ? . aa hour when, with a yell, itie crowd rushed from the council reoaa to where the guard was. , "Well, Dick, we'ye decided to string hl up, so but Where's Jacobs?" "Duraed if I see aim." sarcastically Teptted Dick, as he glanced "carefully . arotmnas if m search. At the same ; time he kept his Winchester so as to command pretty much the whole posi tion. "You don't mean to say you've let 1 him go?" "Blamed if it don t look pretty much that way. If you've got to hang some- horse. This was Blue Dick's opportu nity. Putting spurs fo his pony he dashed between the lines across the sandbar toward where the wounded man lay. He .reached the place, but the fellow, misunderstanding his inten tions, drew his six-shooter and shot his would-be rescuer through the body. Blue Dick fell from his pony, but held the bridle reins still in his hand. "I'l bet I do save you yet, d n you," he growled through bis clenched teeth. "Take these reins and clhrib up on j that pony and git." The man attempted to obey. Ho succeeded in clambering oathe'poay's' back, but; a Winchester bM brea-kt him to the saad :ogbfmAi tWs-timel After the fight- wliTer tfceherrg brought-Blue Dkk t.tW lteWel and nwde him as cemfortaMe aa-psasi-bler ibJKkjtH , oaaildllif ..1jass"1illi:iSML was near. " - ' ' , 1t looks like a plagued ahaaie that I 'couldn't saw jhim, after-T tried so hard. That would have made six. and the tiling would have been square." The rough cowboys stood around in awestruck silence- "Dogged if 1 don't hate to die while I lack one of the six," remarked the dying man, after a long silence. "Say," ejaculated oue of the roughest men in the room. "It don't come much in my line of business. Dick, but we've all heard tbe preachers tell about the Good Man tlut died himself for just such poor cusses as Ave are. Maybe you might couut Him for one." A light came into Blue Dick's eyes, though he was evidently rapidly grow ing weaker. "I hadn't thought of Him," he gasp ed, "an' I don't know how it would be. If I can't ligger it out some such way as that, though, I'm afraid I'm a goner. I guess any way I'll have to risk it." Five seconds later he was dead. THE NEW WOMAN. some one remarked: "Well. Dick, that's one fnr vnn Ynn And the minister whom he referred . nave only got five more to repent for." to as "pardner." said he thought, it , Then the crowd laughed and the dan was the most that could be expected ' ger was over. It is easy for a. crowd under the circumstances. Such was Blue Dick's only profes sion of religion, if nuck it might be called. His repentance differed from that of most other people I have heard Disaster Likely to Entitle if She Continues to Rival M:in. If the human race is to endure, and if civilization is to advance, the rela tions betwqen the sexes must not per manently be relations of rivalry. Men and women were not made to struggle with one another for the advantages of life, but mutually to aid one another in reaping these advantages. That "sweet love," of which the poet speaks is given as the reward of right-relations between man and woman; and, where other guidance is lacking, we m-itr nrnflt-ihlr net whpfllpr :111V dven uneasy sileuce for a niomeut, and then lhlp of eonduct tends to the gaining or the sacritieins of that reward. If to the former, then it may safely be said be right conduct; if to the latter, wrong. What it is clear that man Jias to do of, in that it began to produce fruit by J"st about nightfall and went on a 1 UL ixL?!:ood mimor with a man , in tneso later dnvs -s to frame to hira- oj. xnue uina. a reputation. About a month later one of the big herds that had come up the Ghisholm trail to Red River station took fright which it could be recognized. The second day after the occurrence A partial to smiled lata each aottrll and la agraa able. MaaMoaa,atdnteistaorb7Biail. mVT MCriHXBS, M Wairea street, New York. Mt WILL mail rosTrftiD a Im Fatal Wet are. eatlttea ' MEDITATION -1m lanaaaii far is Lane Lisa Haiti, eat treat JLloa Coffee aa a. z-cet etanp to writ for im ox raaalasM. teetaV kxlle,gaMe, etc. WfLMN SPICK CO.. St., TOUtDO. OHIO. 3 jPBjB ' aVammmmVSaamf BaPmwVaaT ' amL aaaaVsaaam mF I J 1, I 'I K' VaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaiaBMBaaBaaaaaj HmaVTTsaa ST'- x 'aammTaV-'ir ,r--i - T stampede. Only those who have heard the thunderous roar of one of these I living cyclones, and seen the havoc and devanstation caused by its passage, can have any fidl idea of wluit this He BreHskt Hla Stx-Sheeter Dewa. just narrated he heard that three men whose herds had been grazing on land just adjoining his were in town. Look ing in at the door of the largest, sa loon in the little place he found. the three men standing at the bar, just as he had expected. While they were off their guard he brought his six-shooter down so as to cover the crowd and then exclaimed: "See here. I've come to tell you I self a higher and completer ju or manhood than he has hitherto a the whole entertained, and try k live up to it. The awakened womanhood of the age when allowance has been made for all that is hysterical and mor bid and heartless in contemporary feminine utterances summons him most clearly and distinctly to walk henceforth on higher levels in the means. Ulue uick anu an ine oiuei , strength of a nobler self-control. Then cowbovs at the station mounted their penies and set ofT at a headlong gallop to outride the living storm, turn the leaders, turn the vast herd to milling and eventually bring it to a state of quici. Am lue ineu sanupeu uu ucl. , ,irinn1 iw,at.i i,ainmnn!l ir. .i,m and neck together one of them sudden- '" r"V;"r 1 imparted for the interpretation of truth and the beautifying of life. he has to recognize in the fullest sense, without a particle of reservation, that he has a woman not a weaker shadow of himself, not a reflection of his glory nor a minister to his pleasures, but a ly shouted "Great God. fellows! There's a fam ily camped down by the three post oaks! I saw them less than an hour ago. There's a man an a woman an' a kid." Bra-ring Stampede anil Plaae. Dick knew where the three post oaks were. They were on a high, open prairie, and the stampeding herd was headed straight for them. Without a word Dick turned his course slightly and dashed in among the frantic, foam ing cattle. It was one thing to ride on the outside and another to be in among the tossing horns and plunging masses. By gallent work on the part of the pony he managed to reach the three trees just as the leaders of the herd began to arrive. Only a few vards away ne coma descry tbe outline of The ancient Germans, Tactitus tells us, used to recognize a certain divine power of intuition in their women, and if they did it was probably not with out cause. The phenomenon is not an extinct one in our own day, and we venture to say that its frequency will wax or wane according to the respect paid not by man only, but by woman herself, to all in her nature that is most distinctive of womanhood. It is far from certain -that woman always recognizes what her own beat gifts are; and there is, in our opinion, a specific danger lest in her new-born zeal for a masculine equipment of knowledge, slle relegate to an inferior 'place that na tive truth of perception which is of more importance, we may almost say, think I've VmT off and branded' rathe; j?? a m bldlDg a baby ' aT7ormaV -kwSVmS mora ef your-calves vthaa you have of 1 be,-.. it - Jei,r. tw c 8 ' . . ... "; -ihm 1 itwmilVMmi illl'S 'l'H ill i'ii1 1 11 1 11 in ! j Science Monthly. If ' r K H " V--- IS rHaebart5dme as I earae.oat of the Eitomce on Broadway and wanted to ow whether the Broadway cable was tha only one now at work. 1 said there waa another on One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street, running up to High Bridge, and was about passing on when he grabbed me by the arm and asid in a whisper: ' "Which is the wust?" "There's no choice," said I shortly, preparing to cross the street "Then these New York newspapers are blamed liars, b'gosh, and I don't keer who knows it!" said he. "What's the matter?" I asked, with interest. "I've been readin nothin lately 'cept 'bout accidents by the deadly trolley and tbe bloody cable, and I've been ridin all over Brooklyn without seein a dura accident and spent 33 cents on this line without so much as seein a newsboy hurt It ain't fair, that's what it ain't." And he shook his head sadly and crossed over and took a Fourth avenue horse car up town. New York Press. A Temple of Health Where visor, good digestion, appetite and sound repose minister to physical comfort, is the bodily structure which, however much its foundations have heen sapped by ill health, has been restored rebuilt, as it were by the great renovating tonic, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Nothing infuses strength into a debilitated frame like this saving medicine, which, in the vigor and regularity it imparts to the system, endows it with the surest defense against dis ease, and the best guaranty of a long life and hale old age. Worn out men of business, tired mechanics, overworked mill hands, miners broken down by hardship and exposure to ma laria, mariners and tourists, all declare that it is the best safeguard against tho influences of fatigue, bodily or mental, and of climate and temperature. Incomparable for bilious, rheu natic, kidney and nervous troubles. Doing His Best. The Rochester Post-Express tells of a clergyman whose sermons were of the best, but who was reserved and bashful. "You must be more social," the deacons hinted. To his Sunday school came the children of an orphan asylum. The next Sunday the pastor stalked across the room, and grasping the first hand he came to, which hap pened to belong to one of the smallest orphans, cried out loudly: "Good morn ing, my dear sir. How are your father nd mother?" Bmmma'mmmMC3BmBm9m!9MBmm g The best baking powder made is, y a as shown by analysis, the Royal. S: Com'r of Healthy New- York City. g Disobedient Turkey. A recent story in the Youth's Com panion reminds a correspondent of an other instance in which a tiresome march was relieved by a bit of drollery. Major B. was a severe officer. His command was marching along a hot and dusty road in southern Pennsylva nia. Orders were very strict against foraging, but in spite of them a soldier suddenly sprang out of the ranks in pursuit of a fat gobler standing among the sumac bushes on the roadside. The turkey started off in a hurry, with the man after him. Major 1. called out angrily: "Halt! What do you mean? Halt!" A few hurried steps and the soldier laid the turkey low with a blow . from his rifle barrel. "There, dum ye!" he exclaimed as he picked it up. "I reckon you'll under stand that when the major says halt he means halt!" Quaint Seashore Cottages.. Philadelphia Record: Scattered everywhere within a radius of sixty miles of Philadelphia one runs across the hideous voting booths which form erly disfigured the streets of the city at election time, and which were sold for a mere song. On the mountains about Reading, and along trout streams, in different parts of the state, they are used as camping huts; while along the New Jersey coast from Cape May to Long llranch, they are found fitted up as summer residences by the sea. Orig inally there were 678 of these booths, costing the city S22." each. Over 000 of them were sold at prices ranging from S3. 10 to Sl."5. 50 each, at a great loss to the citv. How's This! 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