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2Ias. Wil. H. FORBES.
VEGETTNK. When the blood becomes lhele33
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climate, want of exercise, irregular diet, or from
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blood, carry on" the -putrid humors, cleanse the
stomach, rofmlatc the bow els, and impart a tone of
vigor to the whole body
YEGSTINE
For CANCERS and
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Tbe Doctor's Certificate.
READ IT.
AsirtXY. Washington Co.. HI., Jan. li. 1S73.
ilB.STKVKNS.
Dear Sir This Is to certify that I had been suffer
ing lroni Rose Cancer on my rhrht breast, which
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up to die. when I heard or your medicine, "VeRp
tlne, recommended for Cancer and Caaceroui Hu
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ginning to teel better ; ray health and spirits both
lelt the benign lnHucnce which it ercrtcd. and in a
lew months :rom the time I commenced the use of
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CARRIE DEF0RRE3T.
I certify that I am personally acquainted with
-Mrs DeForrest. and consider her one of oar very
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Axz. Diseases op the Btoon. If Vegetine will
relieve pain, cleanse, purify, and csre such dlseas
es. restoring the patient to perfect health after try
ing different physicians, many remedies, snflerjns
for years, is it not conclusiva proof, if you area suf-
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any Just claim upon public attention.
TEGETINE.
I Regard it as a Valuable
FA3IILI SIEDICnS.
January 1.IS73.
II. It. Stevkn-s. Esq.:
Dear sair I take pleasure In saying that I have
nsed the Vecetme in my family with good results.
and I h.ive known of several coses of remarkable
cure effected by it. I regard it as a valuable family
medicine. Truly yours.
REV. WiI.iIcDONALD.
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Thousands speak. Vegetine Is acknowledged
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to be the best puriher and cleanser of the blood i et
discovered, and thousands speak in Its praise who
have been restored to health.
YETETINE.
Tne M. I.-8 have it.
HR. IL R. STEVENS
Dear Sir I haveeid Vegetlne for n long time.
and had it gives most excellent satisfaction.
S. B. HE PRIEST, 3d. D.. Druggist.
Ilazlcton, Ind.
YEGETINE
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ORGANIZED, 1870.
daaR or nrflnuEu
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DIRECTORS.
Ii.HOADIEY. J.C. DEPSER.
AVM.R HOOVER, V. 31. KATTFEilAN,
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A STEANGE DKEAM.
When I was about twelve years of
ago, I wo3 invited by lira. Hall, my
godmother, to pay her a viait before
going to boarding-Eohool, where I was
to remain for a few years. My mother
had died when I was very young,
and my father thought it better for
me to be at a nice school, where I
would be among girls of my own age,
than in the house with only hia sister
and himself. Mrs. Hall was very fond
of me; she had no children of her
own, and had my father consented,
she and Mr. Hall would have taken
me to live with them entirely.
It was a lovely day in June when I
arrived at my godmother's, and she
was delighted to see me. The house
was beautifully situated on high
ground, surrounded by grand old trees
and at one side was a flower garden.
One morning godmother said to me :
Come upstairs with me Iiiliau, and
I will show you some Indian jewels
that my uncle left me lately.'
She opened the drawer of an inlaid
sandal-wood cabinet and took out a
small oase. in which were a pair of
ear-rings, a brooch and necklet of
most beautiful diamonds. I thought
Iliad never seen anything so beauti
ful before.
My dear Lilian,' said she, 'I intend
to give you these on your sixteenth
birthday. I3ee, however, there is a
stone loose-in one of the ear-rings, so
I will take it into town and have It re
paired.' She folded it up carefully and put
it in her purse ; the case with the oth
er diamonds she put in one of the
drawers of her dressing-glass.
After lunch Mr. and Mrs. Hall took
me with them to town, whioh wa3
about four miles distant. The ear
ring was left at a jeweler's, and as we
were to spend the day at a friend's
house, we arranged to cull for it on
our way baok. But you will soy
what has all this to do with your
dream? Well, wait a little and you
willsee.
Weapent n ploasaut day, called for
the ear-ring on our way, and arrived
home about half-past njno o'clook.
As I was taking off my bonnet, god
mother came into the room.
'Lilian,' said she I cannot find the
oase of diamonds anywhere. Did I not
leave it In the drawer of my dressing
glass, before I went out? I went to
put in the other ear-ring now, and it
wasllOt there." ""W- o111 hnvm toKcu"
it?'
You certainly left It in the dressing-glass
drawer, I said. 'Could any
of the servants have taken it, do you
think?'
I am sure they would not,' she an
swered. 'I have had them with me
for years, and never miased anything
before.'
'Are there any strangers about that
could have come in through the win
dow V
'No, Lilian ; there ore no strangers
about the place except the gardener,
and he sems a most respectable man.
I got a very high character of him
from hia last place ; in fact, we were
told he wus a most trustworthy per
son.' Next day there was a wonderful
commotion about the missing jewel
oase. The police were sent for, and
every place was searched over and
over again, but to no purpose. One
thing, however, puzzled us. On the
window sill wa3a foot-mark, and near
the dressing table a little bit of earth,
as if from a shoe or boot, which led us
to think that the thief must have come
in through the window. But how
did he get up to it ? It was a good
height from the ground, and the creep
ing plants were not In the least broken
as would have been the case had an3r
one climbed up by them. A ladde'r
must have been employed, and it was
little to the credit of the polico that
this fact had not been promptly con
sidered. As the matter stood it was a
mystery, and seemed likely to remain
so, and only one ear-ring waa left of
the valuable set.
In a few days I left for school,
where I remaiued for four years. I
spent every vacation between my
home and my godmother's. We often
spoke of the stolen diamonds, but
nothing had ever been heard of them,
though a reward of fifty pounds had
been offered by Mr. Hall for any infor
mation that wouid lead to the detec
tion of the thief. On my sixteenth
birthday my godmother gave me a
beautiful watch and chain and the
diamond ear-ring, which she had got
arranged as a necklet.
'I am so sorry, Lilian,' said she,
'that I have not the rest of those dia
monds to give you ; but if over they
are found, they shall be yours, my
dear.'
I must now pass over six yeara,
which went by quietly and happily,
nothing very important taking place
until the last year, during whioh time
I had been married. My husband
was a barrister. We lived in the north
of England. My mother-in-law, Mrs.
Benson, and Mary, one of her daugh
ters, lived some miles away from us
near the seaooast. It was a very lone
ly plaoe, a long way from the little
fishing town, or rather village, of
Barnley. -1 confess I often felt very
nervous about Mrs. Benson and her
deughter living all alone (her hus
band being dead many yeara). Ex
cept three women servants in the
house and the coachman and his fam
ily who lived in the lodge, there was
no one nearer than Barnley, four
miles off. Besides, it was known that
there was a large quantity of plate in
,tbe house: and the little seaside vll-
lage was often the resort of smugglers
and other lawless characters. One
day, while thinking of them, I felt so
uneasy that I said to my husband :
I hope, Henry, thero is nothing
wrong with your mother; she has
been in my mind all day.'
Oh.'aald he, 'why should you feel
anxious about her to-day? I saw her
ll'. Tuesday; and if she were ill,
Mh.y would be sure to let ns know.
It is only one of your 'fancies' "little
wife.'
Still I did not feel easy, for more
than once my so-called 'fancy' had
proved to be a 'reality;' so I deter-
mined that in a few days I would go
and seo Mrs. Benson. All that even
ing I could not get her out of my
thoughjts, and it was a long time be
fore I went to sleep. I think it must
have boon about three o'clook In the
morning that I woke in a state of ter
ror. I had dreamed that I saw Mrs.
Benson standing in the window of
her bedroom, beckoning me to come
to her.and pointing to a female figure
who was stealing along under the
shado of the trees In the avenue, for
the moon was shining brightly.
I started up, thinking I heard her
calling,me. And here is the most ex
traordinary part of It all though I
was now quite awake, I heard, as I
thought, a voice saying to me ;
'Go, tell Mrs. Benson, Martha Is de
ceiving her; tell her to send her away
at once.'
Three times these words seemed to
be repeated in my ear. I can't des
cribe.exaotly what the voice was like ;
it wasnotloud, butquietand distinct;
and I felt as I listened that it was a
warning, and that I must obey it. I
woke my husband, and told him my
dream and the words I had heard. He
tried toealm my mind, and evident
ly thought me foolish to be so fright
ened by only a stupid dream. I said
I would drive over the first thing af
ter breakfast, and see if anything was
wrong with Mary or her mother.
The ony thing that puzzled me was,
that Martha should be mentioned as
deceiving Mrs. Benson. She acted as
housekeeper and lady's-maid to her,
and wa3 believed to be most trust
worthy in every way. She had been
four yeara with her, and was much
respected. She was a silent, reserved
kind of person, aboutthirty-five years
of age. One thing I had often re
marked about her wa3, that when
speakijigto any one Bhe Dever looked
kjti$$Ht -at tfaoro but I thought it
might be from a kind of shyness more
than anything else.
As soon as breakfast waa over I set
oS, telling my husband I would likely
not return until next day, and. impos
sible, he was to come for me. He
could drive over early and spend the
day ; and we would return home ear
ly In the ovening, if all was well with
his mother.
When I arrived I found Mrs. Ben
sou and Marj looking as well as ever,
and everything seemingly just as us
ual. Martha was sitting at work in
her little room, which opened off Mrs.
Benson's dressing room. I could not
help looking at her more closely than
I would have done at any other time,
and I thought Isaw a look of displeas
ure cross her face at seeing me. Mary
and her mother wero delighted to see
me, and asked why Henry did not
come, too. So I told them I would
stay till the next day, if they would
have me, and Henry would come for
mo then. They were quite pleased at
that arrangement; for it was not
very often that my husband could
spend a whole day with them.
As the day passed on and nothing
out of the way happened, I begun to
think I had frightened myself need
lessly, and that ray dream or vision
might have been tho result of an over
anxious mind. And then Martha
what about her? Altogether I -was
preplexed. I did not know what to
think ; but I still felt a certain unde
fined uneasinees. I offered up a si
lent prayer to be directed to do right,
aud determined to wait patiently and
do nothing for awhile. I almost
hoped I might hear the voice again,
giving me definite instructions how
to act. Lunch pasaed and dinner al
so ; and theevening being very warm,
for it was the middle of July, we sat
at the open window enjoying the
cooling breeze that set in from the
sea.
A3 they were early people, shortly
after ten o'clock we said 'good-night,
and went up to our bed-rooms. My
room looked on the avenue, some
parts of which were in deep shade,
while in other parts the moonlight
shone brightly, through breakB in the
trees. I did not feel in the least
sleepy ; and, putting out my oaudle.I
sat by the window, looking at the
lovely view, for I could see the const
quite plainly, and the distant sea
glistened like silver in the moonlight.
I did not think how long I had been
sitting there, until I heard the hall
clock strike twelve. Just then I
heard, as I thought, a footstep outsldo
my door, which evidently stopped
there, and then in a few seconds pass
ed on. I did not mind, thinking it
might be one of the servants, who
had been up later than usual, aud was
now going quietly to bed. I began to
undress, notlighting the candle again,
as I had light enough from the moon.
As I came toward the window tooloae
it, Isaw, exaotly as in my dream, a
female figure evidently keeping in
the shade of the treea going down
the avenue. I determined to follow
and see who It was, for I now felt the
warning voice waa not sent for ROth
ing, and I seemed to get courage, girl
J hough I was, to fathom the mystery.
I hastily dressed, threw a dark shawl
over my head, and going noiselessly
down stairs, opened the glass door in
the drawing-room window, and left
it so that I could come in again. I
kept in the shade of the trees as much
as possible, and quickly followed the
path I had seen tho woman take.
Presently I heard voices ; one was a
man's, the other a woman's. But
who was she? I came close, and got
behind a large group of thick shrubs.
I could now see and hear them quite
well ; they werestanding In the light ;
I was in deep shade.
Just then tho woman turned her
head toward me. It was Martha.
What did she want there at that
hour? and who was the man? I was
puzzled. Where had T seen that face
before ? for that I had seen It before I
was certain ; but where and when I
oould not remember. Ho was speak
ing In a low voice, and I did not hear
very distinctly what he said, but the
last few words were :
'And why not to-night? Delays
are always dangerous, especially now,
as they are beginning to suspect me.'
'Because Mrs. Benson's daughter-in-law
is here, and she is sleeping in
the room over the plate oloaet, and
would be sure to hear the least noise.
Wait until to-morrow night she will
be gone then. But indeed, John, I
don't like this business at all. I think
we'd better givo it up. No luok will
come of it, I am sure.'
'Look here, Martha,' said tho man.
'I have a chance of getting safo off
now. I have it all settled, If you will
only help me get this old woman's
plate. With that and a few little
trinkets I happened to pick up a few
years ago, you and I may set up busi
ness in America. Tho other fellows
will help me. Meet me here to-morrow
night, to let me know that all is
safe for us. See here I have brought
you a valuable.present. Keep it until
the plate is secure with me, for you
must stay here until all blows over;
then make some exouse for leaving
and come over and join me in New
York. If you want money, Bell these
diamonds in Liverpool ; they are
worth no end of money.'
I could see quite well that he took
something out of hia pocket, aud gave
it to her. She held it up to look at it,
and there, glistening in tho bright
moonlight, I saw my godmother's
diamond ear-ring ! The one that had
been stolen over nine years ago with
the other jewels fronr-herroom.
Here then at last was the mystery
solved, everything made clear, and all
through ray dream ! Presently tho
light fell on the man's face again, and
I instantly recognized my godmoth
er's very res peetable gardener. A de
cent man he was believed to be, but a
thief all the time, and one who hid
his evil detids under a cloak of reli
gion. And who was the woman ha
seemed to have got euoh power over?
Evidently his wife ; for I gathered
that from his conversation with her.
I waited where I was until they were
both gone Martha back to the house,
and her huBb&nd to the village ; then
as quietly as I could I returned to the
house and reached my room. Falling
on my knees I gave thanks to God for
making me tho means of finding out
such ii wicked plot, and perhaps sav
ing the lives of more than one under
that roof; for it is more than likely
that had those desperate men been
disturbed in their midnight plunder,
they would not have hesitated at any
deed which would enable them to ear
ry out their wicked plans.
I slept little that night, and next
morning tried to appear calm and
composed, though I was frightened
aud really III. I wa3 longing for my
husband to come, that I might tell
him all, and consult what was best to
be done, to prevent robbery and per
haps bloodshed. At last to my great
relief, I saw him coming. I ran to the
gate to meet him, and told him what
Ihadsoen and heard the night be--foxa.
'Now,' I said, 'Will j'ou ever laugh
at my 'fancies' again ?'
'No, my dear little wife,1 said he, I
never will.'
We then arranged that we should
tell his mother and sister everything,
and he was to go to the nearest poliee
station and arrange with the chief of
ficer to have a numbor of men ready
in the wood, near the house, at twelve
o'olook that night, that after dinner
we were to say 'good-by' to Mrs. Ben
son and drive home, butwonld return
and join the polioe in the wood, and
wait there until we saw Martha leave
the house to meet her husband. We
were then to go in and wait until the
thieves came in, when they were to
be surrounded and taken prisoners.
My husband wanted me to remain at"
my own house, but I would not do so,
as I said I would only be imagining
all sorts of dreadful things; besides,
I knew hi3 mother aud Mary wonld
like to have me with them.
It all turned out as well as conld.be.
The night was very fine, and just at
twelve o'clook Martha stole down to
the place I had seen her the night be
fore; then we all, about a dozen po
licemen and ourselves, went Into the
house. The men were stationed out
of sight in different rooms, waiting
for the robbers' entrance. Henry
came up to Mrs. Benson's room, where
all of us women were, including the
two servants.
With breathless anxiety we wateh
ed and waited. From whare I stood
I could see the way they wouhl come.
It was about two o'olook when I saw
Martha coming cp the walk and four
men with her.
Look"!' I said ; fhcre Shey are.'
ble description and size, and tvH2 sell cheaper than similar
lumber can be offered In Southeastern -Xebraska. Give usa
trial. Our Interests arc united with yours. We depend en
tirely upon the patronage vre can secure by deserving It.
They went round to the baok door,
and we heard them stealing along the
passage in the direction of the plate
oloset. Then asudden rti3h a scream
from the wretched Martha impreca
tions loud and bitter a shot ! another
scream !
'May God grant no livoa will be
lost I ' we prayed.
Poor Mary nearly fainted. At last
we heard tho officer call Henry to
oome down, The four men were well
secured and taken to the police sta
tion. Martha was taken there too.
She confessed ahe had let them in for
the purpose of stealing the silver.!
One of the robbers was slishtly
wounded in the arm, but no one else
was hurt. Very thankful was I when
I found next day that none was the
worse for having gone through auch a
terrible scene.
The house where Martha's husband
lodged was searched, and the case of
diamonds and many other valuable
articles found there. The immensely
respeotable gardener had been a dis
grace to his family and his profession.
Left very much to himself, through
tho indulgence of his employer, he
had contracted habits of tippling with
low asspciates at tho neighboring vil
lage, and became so completely de
moralized, as at length to assume the
degraded character of a burglar. Now
comes the retribution which attends
on wrong-doing. The thieves were
all tried at next assizes and sentenced
to various terms of imprisonment.
It 13 now many years since all this
happened ; but I can never forget
what I went through those two dread
ful nights, though I remember with
thankfulness, that through my dream
and tho warning voice I heard, I was
the means-of averting u great wrong
and perhaps murder. Idonot impute
anything supernatural to my dream.
It may have been merely the result
of tension of feelings, supported by
some coincidences. At all ovents,
the results wero such as I have des
cribed. . .
The TVolf and the 3Iogi.
A Lirely Tisie Aronnd a Stnnip In aa
Ohio JiiTor Bottom.
But what I was
goin1
to toll yon
about was a big piece of fun I had
one day when out huntin' on the
Whltewoman bottoms.
As I was slippin along, hopln1 I'd
see somethin' to shoot, ait to onet I
heard, away off through the woods, a
awful roarin' and "booh! boohin' !'
of hogs. I didn't know what In
thunder was up with 'em, but I de -
'v""'uu " """ "" ifc "" "" .give back tne exact words which ore
drizzly kind of a day and I eould git jated the lin.foI1 impr0g3ne. The
along over the leaves and not make a j only difficulty so far experienced Is In
bit of noise. I scooted along from jSQearjQg sufficient volume of sound
tree to tree, and at last I oomo to a fer tbe wordg of the -,aoaiaea de
plaeo where there war aboattwoaeree feot whJjh the preparation asonnd-
of hogs. l,.K lll D,
Gieh a sight of hogs I never did see.
Thar they stood and squirmed about,
kiverin' all the ground. All had thar
bristles up, an' all was a "booh, booh,
boohin' "at a fearful rate. Thar was
white hogs, blaek hogs, sandy hogs,
spotted bogs, and hogs of all sizes,
colors, and degrees of ouednese.
Mad! they was just bilin'mad- froth-
in' at the mouth and ohampin ' their
. ..,,,. . , .
teetn ieariui. A sort or steam rose
up out'n the wet hair of that of ragin'
beasts, aud filled ail the country
around with on overpoweria' smell of
. , '
man hnr.
.... , , e ,. , i typed ana placed ou sale Hke atere-
What was a cau?ln' of all this com- . . , . .. -p
., x . , . , . ,. soopio views. Evening parties afT
motion I waa not long in wiu. Thar, r .. .. . . . , T
, ,, . . ,, , .. , .. ovr the world oan be entertained
iu the middle of the great convention l ... ... . .-, -"".,' -
of hogs, stood a big oak stump, about j"h ; UK,eB of tho lpratf jf "f"'
five feet high, and in the oentre of the !EQt'PrlanS newspapers wIII.Jmjij
.,.. v-t r j supplements consisting of prepared
stump stood a big gray wolf-a gaunt, .r ... . ,
hungry-lookin devil as I ever seed.
He was handsomely treed, and
wasn't in any pleasant fix, as he was
uegiumn io unu ous. .ti aooui mm
was a mass of uneasy hair, devilish
eyes, frothin' mouths, and gleamiu'
teeth, Poor devil ! Thar he &tood
his tail tucked olose between his lege,
and hie feet all gathered into the ex
act oentre of the stump and Lord,
wasn't he a siok-lookln' wolf! He
seemed to be thiukin' thathe had sold
himself awful cheap.
Bight close about the stump, and
rarin' up against it, was a crowd of the
biggest and most onprinoipled old
sows I ever sot eyd unto. Every
half mini tone of these big old she fel-1
less would rair up, git her fore feet on
top of the stump aoifmake a savaee
snap at one end or 'tether of the weif,
her jaws domia' together like a flax
brake.
The wolf 'ud whirl round to watch
that partickerler sow. when one on
' tot her side of the stump would make
a plunge for his tall, an 'so they kept
the poor cowurdly cornered oritterj
whirlin' round and round humpin'ap
his back, haelin in bis feet and tail,
and in every possible way reduein'
his general average.
Almost every instant there waa a
charge made on hfm from'some quar
ter, and sometimes from three or ieer
directions to onet. Lord, wasn't itL
hurryln times with him then !
When he had a moment to rest s
gaae about, all hesaw was ihm two
acres of of en uiouth. xestJs-a teristle,
The Clilcao -.amber Company is recelv- '
ing-, al iaeir -.amber Yard, corner Main ana
ILevee streets, Brown ville, at greatly re-,.
duced rates on freJsbt, over naif a million
feet of choice -.umber, of every conceiva
and fiery eyes. His long, red tongue
hungout of his open jawst and as he
moved his hoad from side to side he
seemed to have about the poorest con
ceit of his smartness of any wolf I ev
er eeed. He had got himself Into"a
niee pickle by tryiu' to steal a pignnd
he knowed it jist as well aa if he'd
been human, and waa ashamed -of
himself aooordin. No quarter coulH
he expect anywhere in alz that sea of
open roar in' months.
Sich was the noise, and chargin
anp plungln' to and fro that I hardly
felt safe behind my tree, 100 yard
jtway
I determined to try aa experiment
on that wolf. I raised my gun and,
fired into the air. At the report th,o
erlttor forgot himself. He bounded
from the stump with the orack of ths
gun, but he never tetohed theground.
Half a dosen open mouths reaehed up.
for him, and in them he landed. Thar
was jist one sharp yelp, then for a rod
around was seen fiyin' strips of wolf
skin, legs, and hair for half a minifc
was heerd n orunchin' of bones, and
then them old sows were llpkln' their
chops, rarin' up onto that thar stump
and prospeetin about for moro wolf.
'Bout that time I concluded the
neighborhood was likely to provo on
helthy, and I got up and peeled iVifbr
the nearest olearin's.
A Wonderful Machino.
-
The most Interesting of modern frig
veutions ia Edison's talking machine,
and there is no known limit to us,pos
sibilities. Tho prlnoipaf on which,
the Instrument is constructed is the
wave oharaoter of sound. In speak
ing, the voice disturbs the atmospuere
producing vibrations which strike the
drum of the ear. As In the telephone
the phonograph has an artificial ear
drum whioh receives these air waves,
the diaphram being vibrated more or
less widely as the air waves are slrong
or feeble. To this movable dia-'
jphragm Is attached a stylus, the
movements of which, of ooursa, ara
the same as those of the diaphragm.
When the vooal waves 6trlke the dia
phragm it is moved from the speaker
to a distance regulated by tbs strength
of the waves, the stylus making a de
pression in the movable plate of tin
fbil which ia placed to receive tbe im
pressions. The speaking of eertaic
words having moved the diaphragm
so as to make dlstinot depressions and
elevations on the tin-foil, it is reason
able to expeet that if these depress
ions and elevations can be made to
move the diaphragm again, it will be
1 moved exactly as at first aha 'will
K WSi-W TTt. V'ClVVUlQt
It is bewildering to think of the
n ember of purposes for which the
I Edison talking maehine will be uerni.
When It eomes to be a common heote
hold instrument, the writing of teg
letters will be dispensed with ; one
talk inte the mouth of bis maehine as
rapidly as he chooses, mail the ha-
p . ., T "" """-"-. .
will adjust it to hia machine and
listen instead of puzzling over Indig
tlaot writing. The great singers wflf
atner !ta fka inafnimnnf naniaanfllia
' , . .,, , . . ' K r,
. impression will be taken and electro-
i
I Panama u.vu nm jiiu kuo Ba
words and tones of prcminanf per-
Lona wlCi h,v
been interviewed
j pubifg speakers will talk at pfaeno-
, Tmnh d H. th nrnametl af MfMU
ex f " .-- --. x' " u - --
ing the fae simile of a drawing by
telegraph is in practical operattoa, a'
diagram will "be sent over the wires
from which the newspapers can con
st rua a phonograph io plate to be sup
plied to subscribers next morning.
There will, in future, be no lask si
evidence in breaoh-of-promise eases.
When a yonng man "popa," the
mouth -pieee of a phonograph neatly
hidden in tbe sleeve of theyotrng wo
man, will catch hie burning wortis
and make an imperishable reeord, the
production of whioh 'in a crowded
court-room wifl not only create hratjli-
ter at tne expense of tbe defender,
bat will be convincing to the Jury.
Most hoebaads have an ineompre-
hennible horror of anything that wifi
"talk baok," whleh may prove, an ob
stacle te the Introduction of the Edi-
'sen machine but its pa teat benefits
f will eventually overcome this."
A Tennessee paper has discoysreH,
that rum costs the country $2WjJffcb
aad the clergy $2JD00.ftk wb7l a
profane e temporary eriea for She
abolishment of the laUer ea' the
ground of eeoaomy.
Mark Twain thiake, eth4ae36RM
to piea3e a fly ae ranch aa la ttft'aalfcta-.
-. for B-"ekleeerry. Tf m mmt
befcea1 la a eake aid jurt aeatfl titM-mT
qVwary aVu oamsift it' dies hapjy