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, ''"y , , ,,, "SSSSSS -1 V T' 7 . WUt' , !'' i- l THE HEP CLOUD CHIEF, REf) CLOUD, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25. 1893. i m i W- l it v k. K tfc ' I M ri , THE KEI) CLOUD CHIEF i A. O. HOSMER, Pulillshor. RED CLOUD. - NEBRASKA ANTIQUITY OFTHE PUMP. Mnn In AW Aes tins t:iiiliictl liiitenlniis Del lees fur KiiNIng Water. The development of the modern steam pttmplug-cnglnu forms one of the most, Important features of prog ress In the Held of meelianlcs. Ac cording to thin writer, however, the undents were not without a great deal of Ingenuity In devising methods for the raising of water, and it Is of Intel est to hludy some of these, metlv ods, as introducing prlnolples still In uv In the construction of pumping machinery. Machines for raising water may he nld to bo as old as civilization Itself, mid their Invention extends so far beyond written history that no one rntt say when the art of lifting and distributing water began. Egypt, the land of unfathomable antiquity, the oldest civilization of the orient, noted not only for her magnificence and power, but for her knowledge, wisdom uuil engineering skill, understood and made practical use of such Important hydraulic devices as the syphon and the syringe, the latter being a ru murk.iblo invention and the real par ent of the modern pump. Whether or not syringes were ever fitted with in let and outlet valves, thus making the dnglo-nctlnn pump, Is not known; but bellows consisting of a leather bag set In a frame and worked by the fivt, thu operator Htatullng with one foot on each bag, expelling the inclosed air, the exhausted bag being then lifted by n hiring to refill It with air, implies the iiro of a valve opening inward, and it Isdlflleiilt to conceive of a continuous operation without one. A representative piece of mechanism occurs frequently on the sculptures of early Egypt. It has the appearand! of, and Is generally believed to bt that of a portable pump. The hydraulic screw Isalso attributed to this people, but their main reliance seems always to have been the Shadoof, seen every where along the banks of the Nile, an invention sosinipleand so wellmlaptcd to their needs that It remains to-dav Mibstantially the name as It has through all the centuries since history began. The same may bo said regarding the chain-pump in China, an invention the origin of which ante-dates the Chris tian era. This simple machine, which seems never to have been Improved upon, Is In such common use that c,verv iigrleultural laborer Is in possession (if one. Where irrigation is conducted on it larger scale, the chain-pump Is made proportionately larger and moved by a vcryKiinpIo trenil-wheol;and still larger ones arc operated by yoking a builalo or other animal to a suitable driving mnchtne. The application of steam to raising water is of uncertain origin. Long be- uuu uiut.iiriMian era certain imnlici vSlL i"""1 of "n' l" wi'lscontainiiig water. (?Ji- Wwhlch effects were produced culeti jfji , Intsl to astonish ignorant worshipers, wee tirnclleeil l,v tin. irt..(1. ,,f i'.-,.., :;...i . .r . . . "'." '" i"" ""F ""' oonie; oui ineir icnowieige i rtv v m-.-i in iiiivn neon itirncn ii ..i, ,.,.,... i ..t i.. .....,.. lu'iVcrlng .Magazine. c OWE PECULIAR PETS. Mft'V "r 1" leil'cil Itnt r.unlly nun Tlii-lr U'liys. THt Ih not popular with net-lovcru in i;l; but persons wlio have over count repugnance which our race fceiil!i -Frank IttU'khmd, of Kng- I ia'UuRtance Insist that he is, VtbovWher little animals, amusing and fining. He is full of gam- Hf' Men. ami scrupulously neat i 'tti. ...-'i,.??. n i 1.1 4stIlU I.UIV V i"-j R'.'ir.-n, wasini.r:.. , LniHhlng iiis fill1 fis e.l.-efuliy as a cat. and the romnnSO of it grew with tlie 'J'Ho.igh not over-dainty in feeding telling all that he knew of Dennis' Nvheii hu Is wild and ha to live by his ' unfortunate- wooing of the (ileuhumio Wits, he in particular and notional to maiden, the, last degree when ho Is eared for "And, you see, of all us bovs," he add and able to choose. The rat is necu- ml. ".t.iim u n,., ,.,i ...v, ,, iJllarly amenable to instruction, readily i i'ii i us iu iiuiiuiiii iriuics hi 4i ii sorts. uml, what may seem most sh'.ular in one ngainwt whom every miin hand is raised, ho becomes warmly attached to the friend who cares for htm. The white rat Is often kept by boys, more, however, as a curiosity tlian as .-. pet, and always under protest from their mothers. Hut boys lose interest, and do not like care, so the poor crea ture Is apt to bo neglected and become nn offense In the household. Tills need never occur with any rat that Is eared for, especially If ho Is not confined to a i close- cage. The white rat Is neither so ntelligent nor, In my opinion, so pret y us his brown relative. The black und white rat of .lanan is sometimes iu in our country, and he is said to A U'sertililo our own rats in his character- 4 . iBtlcS. A winsome pot Is the common brown mouse, and now I funcv 1 he'ir 1 1 .. most vigorous protests from my read era, who, though they do not 'shriek and take refuge on chairs and tables like Howell's feminine characters, still have a strong feeling of distaste to ihlm. Nothing can be Imagined more dainty, graceful and altogether capti vating than the tricks and manners of "this humble lesident wltliln our walls. I Once allav the poor littlu creature's . fears of his big clumsy human purse- I vyV-scutors, and his delightsome qualities ' aro apparent, Frisky iu movements, droll In conceits, and eccentric of I action, he is a nerer-undiiig source of enteruunmer i. .Moreover, no is as i 1...1.1 i ........... ., . . i Li'iiiuiui'iu n uiu tin, iiusuiiiioiy ucai in bib ways, and most loving to his friends. A singing mouse, which is not so great iu uirity as one would suppose from the newspaper fuss that is some times made o'er one. has an added at traction as a pet. The siuglfer is no doubt similar to that of the marmoset, and resembles the canary xoug a good deal smothered, All these little creatures should be tamed and attached to people by their 'affections, and not kept as prisoners iu a cage. In the former case they dis play their peculiar characteristics, and 'tako perfect earn of their coats, whik iu the latter they require constant watching and attention, and show no individuality whatever. It In not a pot 'that Is kept iu a cage, it i.s a prisoner Jiiui a prwoner m uis unnatural and un Jiappy life can never artoid much pious- uac lhirner'b llazur. Ol MOTHEn. "01 mother, I want inv bonnet tlcdl" "My l.nt litis toil a slrlirC" "Must I lie Hobby IlarnrVhorsel" "Mrlsymir jiluv v.lnp" "Hay, will yon maldj us ihlc;en plol" "Souiftio ly'n MJ tnv sllito!" "See nliiu mi u;;ly rent, tnuinnit; I turcd lion the Kale'" "O mother, .'t.imle'-i i-nmlng In, Willi Mull, ntnl Ileus, nnd I'rcds Cnn we h.io ctvtim und c.ihc to-titylit. And crd tlie boy.s Id leil" "llnir Mother, m.iy I uiirjournlmil 1'ri iroliijt for n tlrlvc. If ( linrl y filiutilil iirurtcsr, timtruis, Ma lush Mm In nt live" "0! motlicr, send thoie ihllilren out, They in.ilto such fe;irful dint t'ii'(it my itiiiom will nluii?, An far hi 'What lHln' Ami cu t ynu bear In mlml Hint rup (If slroiii! ten formv head; Aiid mix n few lipiit n.lu unit bnl;o? You laiow 1 l.r.to cold bread." Of mother, mother, nliuuMyo-i ceaso One llltlo hour tlmcnru Tlmt day bv ihiy, yenritfler ye.ir, Tor this dear I. rood you lie.ir, It r.ecms thu whcclii of life must nto-, Will niutlurdovcl It pprlns, A free, uncut fouul.iln: and It lends Tim commonest duty wlfiRs. Kst.dlo Thomson, In Homo Magazine). m&&&ss!m- yfiT r -. T.V . " t i-.t SjWfcMtTrt"1' mwk c SKj :r pXtlCANETTE H.WAIV.'OKTRX O till as. I C3NWVK tf.t,W i z ffcmx 0k niAl'TKi: XIV -CoSTINUni. "Hut you will let me know what It all means, NorrieV It Is so hard to credit John's being a brute to you, when your leaving him as you did has just knocked all the go and the grit out of him." Nora'Hthiu lips curled incredulously, anil she fumbled restlessly with the contents of her portfolio. Dick closed his eyes with a groan of despair. "Does the leg hurt very much? Lot tne wet the bandaged." "I hail forgotten all about the pesky thing. It Is you who hurt very much. "(Hi. Lord, if people only wouldn't be k mysterious! There Is some mistake at the bitlomof all tills misery, and that's wliat I laid to Lorr.e when itafe and I left home. I said: 'Lorrie. everybody crocs to the city when they get misera ble and want to hide. Sib Fairbanks weia mere, Dennis went the-e, and John's wife lias gone there.' I said: 'Lorrie. you needn't blurt it all out to lohn, but when we get to New Orleans Kafecan hunt Dcnnlsup. and I'll ferret miUohn's wife. When I llnd her. I'll kill her but what I'll get to the bottom of this nonsense.' "And now hero you arc" "Where Is itafe? Why is he not here Mth you?" Nurse Hamilton asked. In a 3ry, harsh voice. "He got off yesterday with Dennis. I missed the boat, you know. 1 meant to have gone, too." "And who Is Dennis?'' "Who is Dennis? Didn't John ever tell you about Dennis and Ida Fair banks? That's another Lorimer mess." The portfolio slid from Nurse Haiuil- tons lap upon th polished bare floor n,i i,,,. ii.,,,.,. ,, aim iiij llieteu nheeded. Dick was in !i private apartment. There were no ather patients to see the gentle, white j Japped ministrant kneel beside Ids , narrow Iron cot, clasp his hands In both , nfhers, and. with her soft eyes glued ravenously to bis face, whisper, in a voice over which ho had luu all con trol: "(. I never so much as knew there was a Dennis Lorimer. Dear, dear ,)f,y, tell me about Dennis and Ida l'airbanks." 1 hen Dick told her somowhnt fn. .!.... . nsinjui;;-, ''.rhaps, for lie was youm.'. ever consent to be a go-between It looked like playing a trick on motlinr Hut IKmiiiIs and John were always par ticular cronies, and the last tl'iue lie :ame up he coaxed .lohn over, and .lohn soaxed her over. She went with .lohn one night to see Dennis atoldisham's house. They patched It up some way between them. Then when mother got 111, she began to worry so over Dennis that Uafe and I started out in search of a brother, and found him. Hut von were tlie long-lost sister 1 was hunting for. I got disheartened, though, and Lgreed to go home with the boys." "Dick, oh, Dick, I have been such an awful foid I .lohn will never forgive me never! He ought not to." John's wife wassobbing, there on her knees by the boy's bedside. He laid his hand caressingly on her lsiwed head. "Won't you please till me all about It, sister Nora? I know I'm mthlng but a lubberly lxy, but we Lorimer boys don't go buck on our womenkind for a trllle. I told the boys Norrie was nil right. Thank liod, you have not made mo take a word of it back. Won't you let nie send word to .John, Norrie? .lust telegraph thv one word: 'Come.' " "Not yet. Wait. (Jo to Bleep now, dear. I must think, alone." She stood up, kissed him tenderly on the forehead, and then btolo quietly away to her own room. Tlie day was nearly gone when she jnmc back to him. llor face, thinner and whiter by many degrees, Dick thought, than when John had first brought her to White Cliffs, wore a look of such absolute serenity that It had gained an angelic touch of beauty. "Norrie, you lire divine! You look ns If you had been closeted with an angel!" "I have Ix-ori," she said, with sweet gravity-"tlmi' angel of peace. I have written. MJoUji myself, Dick." "H'lrnjlil 7W()'t homebody please throw up my hat for me? that Is, if I own such a piece of furniture." "And oh, Dick, are the Lorimer for giving?" "The Lorimer xorgivenoss is not in volved here. Oh, by the way, this came while you were gone." lie put nn un sealed note in her hand. "That must have been a monstrous long letter, Nor rie. You've been gone three hours." ETTWVJT Wrr3ffi!i .y mm$m V-rSflSrtMWL &E? She did not answer him. She was reading the note. Feminine instinct made her look at the signature first. ".Sibley Fairbanks." She started, and with u wildly beating heart read on. What she read was this: "Mv nr.Ati Mil. Lonnirtt! I have Jut heard by the tncn-Ht chaiuo (your surpeon lielliRii litrsoiir.l Irlrmlof mine i of jour Ini'otnciilcnt accident. Hn tells ine lint tliero Is not n shadow of iHncer nttpiidint upon It. I should l.nxe uillrd In person to Inquire, hut nm innultitf forced nnd htirrlfd t remr.itlons to lisxo fer (Ilenhurnle, having Jint Hen wired that my father l dead Permit mo to express my re Rretn nt your pain nnd 1etc ritlon. Vour friend umt neighbor, Miu.nv I-'aiiuunk " .Miiicy i nirimnics. roor Amelia's first husband! The man who had de serted her so heartlessly. Slielmdncwr seen him. Mellio married him while she, Nora, was teaching In a nchool In Arkansas. Hut Melllo's child would know Kn father at last. Would It bo for N Inette'a happiness? She folded the letter and slipped it back in tlie envelope. Dick had opened It Impulsively by running his forefinger under the llap. The unbroken wax Im pression of a martlet confronted her. She stared at It with horror In her eyes and a confused buzzing In her ears. Was that, then, the solution to the Nor- cross tragedy? Had this brute, after flinging her poor Mellle aside like a (lower that had lost its fragrance, come back lu a jealous frenzy and utterly extinguished the life he had marred s'o cruelly? If (mil reigned, there must bo justice among men. Not revenge; sim ply justice! She put tlie letter back- on Dick's bed, minus the envelope. She sat mechanic ally through the half-hour widen she declared nervously was all she could spare him that night. There was work for her to do, and the wraith of her murdered .Mellie re proached her for not being about It. She reproached herself for her bewil dered Indecision. She stood under tlie gas-jet in her own room a long time after she had completed her prepara tions for retiring. It war, after she had risen from her knees that hhe said aloud, ns if iu answer to a protest: 'Patience, my dear. It will take him three days to reach his destination." CIIAl'Tnil XV. "Hy comparison w-ith electricity steam is a slow-plodding beast. I can head him off, after consultation with a law yer, my dear." She said it aloud, ns if sho would re assure the unresting rpirit that was forever goading her to fresh endeavor In the direction of solving the Norcross mystery. I fever sho felt tempted to give over the hopeless task of unearthing her sis ter's slayer there would come back to her. with reproach in its shadowy eyes, a vision of Amelia, not as she had seen her in the Norcross mansion, ablaze with jewels and Hashing iu yellow satin, but Amelia in her peculiarly help less, clinging childhood; Amelia'in her pure, happy girlhood; Amelia in her winning, unsullied, budding woman hood; the Amelia whom she had loved and protected before that rash marriage with Sibley l'airbanks, which had been dissolved, as rashly, at the close of three years. Of that Amelia, and of none other, would she penult herself to think. It was that Amelia who was still appeal ing to her for help. She raised her arms despairingly. In all this wide world, full of clear heads, strong nuns and tender hearts, there was none to care, not one to help her throw the light of truth upon that dark, dark sjxit In her memory. Perhaps it had been reserved for Dick to help her. Perhaps the clew had been put Into his hands for her guidance. No one could have had any motive for that dastardly deed but Sibley l'air banks. Amelia -the beautiful, willful Amelia had not made him a good wife. She had htard only MellleV partial statement; but It had been enough. Sibley Fairbanks had the motive of jealous revenge to steel his nrm; ami there was the witness of thobcal of the Fairbanks family. "I will do It, my denr. I will follow this clew to Its bitter end. Perhaps then you will rest, and so will I," Yes, steam is a slow plodding beast, especially when every nerve iu one's body is aqulvcr with Impatience. Sibley Fairbanks, steaming rdowly up the river In answer to Ida's telegram, was lu just such a feverish state of un rest, until, eagerly running across the clumsy staging that wus Hung out for Ids convenience at his own landing, he saw two carriages walling under tlie spreading r.yenmoro trees. One was a hackney coa-dt occupied by two white men. Old Cato stood bareheaded by tho ) IF llllff III' ig ' sL ' ' Sinn "ur. cvixni) unit :; horses of the other. Ills withered black face had beamed a homely wel come to "his boy Sibley" long before the gangway hnd been adjusted. Sibley had waved his hat cordially iu return. It was towards Cato's vehicle that he was hurrying, when a sober face and a massive form were interposed between it and him: "1 am sorry, Mr. Fairbanks, but you are my prisoner." lie recollud a step and looked the man ainazedly In the face. "Your prisoner?" The man extended a folded piece of paper, lie declined touching it. "Who nreyou?" ".Martin Hastings), r.herlff of Dalton." "Itutareyou not making a mistake, .Mr. Sheriff?" "Not unless the mistake lies in think ing that you are the Sibley Falrbank.-t herein described." Again he offered the warrant for perusal. Tliis time Sibley took it and rend it, standing there under the old sycamore trees that stretched their gnarly branches protcctlngly over htm. with Onto watching tlie whole strange scene iu throbbing anxiety. Fairbanks grew ghastly white as he read. The paper trembled In his grasp. nen lie untitled It Pack it fell between him and Sheriff Utrdlugs. lie took out his white silk handkerchief and wiped tlie great beads from his forehead. lie was afraid to trust himself to words. At last: "Does that mean," he linked, huskily, "that I must go with you go back to New Orleans?" "It docs." "Do you know what brought me nerev "You are here to attend your father's funeral. We have thought of that, and are disposed to make it as easy on you as possible. .My companion hero my deputy is entirely unknown In this neighborhood. With your permission he will drive ti Oleuburtiie in the same carriage with you. I would advise you to go quietly. He can pass as a friend who came up with you. yon know." "I suppose you nieaii to be kind, so I ought to thank you. I do," said Sibley, with iiHvhntilealcoiirtcsy. "No call for gratitude; only, you see, there's no ue your kicking a'gainnt the pricks, and there's no use our making it any rougher on you than need lie." "What is my friend's name?'' asked Fairbanks, smiling somewhat grimly, ns the iheriff beckoned to his ifnn- onmc, panion, a slignf, boyish, beardless young mail. ".Moore. As gentle as n girl, as long as you walk straight, but Old Nick him self couldn't get away from him." He had caught and misread tho wintry smile on Fairbanks' lips. "I have no desire to try ids patience In that direction," said his prisoner, walking haughtily away in the direc tion of his own carriage. At its steps he paused and courteously turned to the officer of tlie law, with a regal air: "l'cforo me, Mr. Moore." Mooro entered the vehicle. Sibley stepped in after him. Old Cato clam bered to his perch on the high old-fashioned box, und touched up his horses briskly. It was a grim home-going! What fiction should he Invent to ac count to Ida, tho most fastidiously re served of women, for bringliign strange man homo with him to his father's funeral? She would think him a brute. Ho was not good at lies. He wnssiel; of shams, und of trying to parry fate's spiteful thrusts. Should he say to her, with blunt truthfulness, that this beard less boy, from whose cassimero trousers-pockets a pnlr of ugly linnd-vuffs were permitted to obtrude, was his keeper? that ho was a prisoner of the law, wanted for the murder of his wife, the little Ninette's mother? llo could fancy Ids high-bred Ida's horror and disgust. It would not bu nn easy thing to do. It grew harder even in tho bare con templation of It, as each revolution of tho wheels brought him closer to tho home whose thelter he had spurned In his hot boyish resentment ten years ago. It grew to tho proportions of a ghastly impossibility, as tho crunching of the wheels on the graveled drive brought to the open front door of tilen biirnio a totiehingly helpless group. Ida, as tall and stately as some pure white Haster Illy, Ninette, his own lit tle daughter, all adlutter witli flaunt ing ribbons and crisp embroideries, clinging to Ida's bluek draperies, and old Dido, tho old mammy who had rocked him to sleep lu her withered arms bo many, many times lu the long ago. They wero waiting for him. watching for him gladof hishomc-comliig. eager for his home-staying. He groaned nlottd, nnd dropped Ida head upon his breast. "Is that all there is of them?" Moore asked, looking out at the small feminine group. "That Is nil " "No men folks but you?" "None." "It's hard lines, no mistake. I wish It wasn't me that had to take you nway from them again to-morrow. Hanged If 1 ever hail a rougher job put on me.' "It is creditable to you to feel so. 1 am obliged to yon." "Oh. as for that, it's natural to sup pose that uny body In my line of busi ness is a brute: but If you can think ol any way in which I can soften this con sistently with my duly, command me." "I cannot think at all," said Sibley, leaning b;Hc among the moth-eaten cushions of the old family conch, with n groan of helpless wretchedness. "I have it!" said Moore, briskly. "1 am a mi'ti prospecting for land. You kindly gave me a lift this far. Yout man puts you out at tlie front door and drives away with me. He can hide mo somewhere. The day after the after the" "Tlie funeral Is set for to-morrow,'' paid Sibley, steadily. "The boat that brought us up returns from Vicksburg to-morrow night. 1 will be there." "I wilt trust you! I never felt surer busi. of u man since I went into tho ne.ss." "Thank you." They wire at the front door, drew up with n jerk. Slblev let Cato him self out, und. giving Cato an order in a low tone, turned slowly and hesitating ly towards the little group in tlie door w ay. Moore's device had given him a respite only a very short one lit that. Ida's arms wore about him. Her wet cheek lay against his. Dido's sobs were ring ing In Ids ears. Ninette was standing shyly aloof, looking on with grave won der at this dismal scene of welcome. "Auntie!" she spoke presently, sharp, rebuking words, you said my papa was coming to make us all ghul stud happy. He has come, and you and mammy Dido do nothing but cry and wipe your eyes on your huudkii-chicfs. Is that mv papa?" Sibley put Ida away from him and turiud towards the small faultfinder, lie held out his hands. "Is that my Ninette? Do you not re member me, child? Dave you not tlie liiiiucsi recollection ot me? .o love at all to give me?" At each yearning question Ninette shook her small golden head in grave eyed negation. Then, iu rapid cres cendo: "I remember my Norrie! I remember ITneln.I.ilm .,..,.! 1H..1, i ..t , and Celeste. Hut vou'-novor! Auntie Ida said my papa was the most bcauti-1 ful man In the world. She showed mo 1.1. ..!...... , . day, and taught me to pray 'God bless my papa' every night, lint you don't iii.s luuiairc, iiiiu mane me kiss it every look one bit like mv liana's iiletore: m.t. one tiny little speck." lie drew back his suppliant hands. "Let her be," he said, as Dido whis pered a reproach III bee nlnlr ii.nr. "lot her continue to worship the unreal I miner you liaveall made her acquainted with. here docs our father lie. Ida?" Ida turned, and. with her hand rest ing upon his arm, led the way towards tho drawing-rorm. where all that wns left of Ames Fairbanks lay in state upon a velvet-draped couch. fTo iu: to.VTixurn. IMPERTINENCES OF LANGUAGE. How Kail ri-fiiiieielatliin often (liven KvII Semtn to innocent Word. The idiosyneracics of literature are quaint and interesting. They creep alike Into song and sermon. Take that poetic form, for example, where the sense depends almost wholly on the punctuation, as iu the ease of a popular song which is usually ren tiered in this way, with a pause at the last word of the line: "Oh let mo sit hcsldu you In your eyes." Tlie succeeding Hue of this rcmnrk able request makes everything clear: "IJeadln? the i.romtsu of our Paradise." It shows how necessary an evil punct uation is, if sense would bo made. A command iu a popular recitation is usually given in breathless haste liko this: "Jump, Jump, hoy he obeyed'" A pious divine who never used moro than a couplet of verses in his sermons, amused his hearers by thus quoting from an old poem: ' lllrds In their little nests ngrco And 'tis u Hhamcful slant." He was much chagrined with this doubtful illustration, until ho hunted up the other two lines and justified his quotation: ' When children of one family Pall out nr.d scratch raid hlto." Detroit Free Press. ltett for .11 1 ml umt llody. A siel: person should bo kept In bed, and a veiy sick person should not bo al lowed to leave it for any purpose what ever. Appliances can bo obtained which render It unnecessary, and these should bo used. All exertion should be avoided iib far as possible. Tho bed can be arranged and tho sheets changed with very little movement. A good nurse will ninko every motion tell, and not worry her patient with futile ones. Ilcst of mind is as impor tant ns rest of body. Worries, large and small, must bo kept at a respectful distance. If things go wrong in tho household, or at the olllce, the Invalid cannot help It, and should not know of it. Ladies' Homo Journal. llrlilKi't Knew Her Iliinlnrsn. A lady had been 111 nnd under medical treatment for a long time. As she grew no better all the while sho became dis trustful of her physician's skill and did not wish to see him, nnd yet wns not bold enough to tell him so. She com municated her state of mind to her maid. "Lavo Mm to me, mum; lave 'im to mul" said tho girl. Hy nnd by tho doctor cumo to the door and Ilrldget opened It about an inch. "Sorry, sir," said she, "but ye can't como iu tho day, docthor!" "Can't como In? How's that?" "Tho mistress 1o bn ton ill inr tr um v tho dny, slrl" Philadelphia Times. i POINTS ABOUT MONE.Y. TitK grand total number of coins gold, silver, copper ami bronze now in circulation throughout the United Kingdom is more than 10'J,00(),M)0, which would mean three for every in habitant of Kuropc. Tilt: Hebrews had no coins of their own until the days of tlie Maccabees, who Issued idiekels and half shekels, with the inscriptions: "Jerusalem, the Holy," "Simon, Prince- of Israel." These b5r no images. Tut: eat'liest American coinage was made for the Virginia company at the llermudas. Tho coins were of brass, with a "liogge on one side, iu memory of the abundance of hogges that wero found on the islands at their llrst landing." O.vi; silver half-dollar Is one-half the weight of the silver fi-frano piece of Franco, llelglirn and Switzerland, of tlie fl-llro coin i' Italy, of the fi-peseta of Spain, of the 5-draehuia of Greece, and exactly tlie i-amo as thu florin of Austria. Dmi.Nci tho thirteenth century tho Chinese emperors made money from the Inner bark of tho mulberry tree, cutting it intoronnd pieces and stamp ing it. To counterfeit or to refuse to accept it as a legal tender was punish able by death. Vkuv large amounts of private gold coins were formerly minted iu this. country by Individuals. Held, of Georgia, the Ilochtlors. of North Caro lina, tho Mormons In I'tah and several banking firms in California, all once did a largo business in this line. Qfi:i:.v Ft.iz.uir.Tii raised the standard of Lnglisli money to u point higher than was ever before known, but at '.he same time made a separate coinage, containing half tlie usual amount of precious metal, for special use iu Ire land. "It's good enough for tho Irish," was her remark when a i-emoiistrance was made. PITH AND POINT. Of.pMAN "Did your son get through college?" Patedegr.ts "No. imlv n far as a substitute half-back." Puck. "Tin: question wliluli confronts us," howled the orator, "is how to confront the question'." Cleveland Plaindealer. Many people would ra'hcr turn somebody else down than to go to work and turn something un. 5:ilvestm ' Xews "Wi:m Topsey, and what do you do on tho plantation?" 'X'ops-y "Well, miss, I mostly breaks do dishes nnd gits licked fo' tellin' lies." llrooklyn. Life. "Ca.v you tell me iu what year the I ",wn " Pompeii was burnt?" "I don't ' rc",L'",'ur t precise date, sir, but it. ". .,V: .cn " an Ash " -dnesduy." Lo Littoral. "Hi: may not bo altogether original, i H"1 llu ""lK'rts to everything . sot ! tllllH,' of his own." "Yes. he wi'l t.-i some- iko- ".' il cuiiw s oon mot and mak'o u. I -''dnut of it Judge.'" Ci.mtK '.nght 1 ask what vou In tend to do with these live hundred young men you aiv advertising .for?" 3""u "caior "i am going to give ono ""'v " cacn pairot women s shoes to keep iiiein iieu." Indianapolis Journal. NOTES OF THE MODES IU'ITI.ks. or overlapping frills some what deeper than ruffles, aro taking the place of the balloon puffs which for some months past have formed tho upper part of the fashionable sleeve. Dm.icATi.i.v-norimi) bcnirallno silks. In a great variety of beautiful colors j are very popular. They come with tin- paiierneu material to match and aro used for church, visiting or reception costumes. A i-mnry "ostume of thu now fash ionable butcK-T'-. blue linen has tho bell skirt untrimincd and a Princess May coat faced with black moire and made with very wide rover. With this is a serpentine blouse of black China silk dotted with blue. Amosii the dresses being imported for early fall wear are tlioso that have the skirts lloituccd to tho hips or waist. On Mime of these costumes are eight een, or even twenty, llounces, and the. sleeves are a mass of tiny frills from, the wai't to the shoulder. I Lost My Hearing As ii result of catarrh In tho head und was deaf for over a year. I began to take Hood's Sarsapa rllln. To my Mirprlso nntl great Joy I found Mlu n I li.ul tnUen threo bottles that my lie urlii wan reliiriiln. i Kept on nnd I can hear lieileilly well. I urn troubled but ery little with tho catarrh. I eon- Bluer mis n ery n niurkiitlM-iiM. I1i:hmani1icks,:w carter Street, Ifochi nti-r, N V. llefiiuill lllclii Hood's Pllla euro nil I.Uerllls. Positively euro Bilious Attacks, Con Btipation, Sick-Headache, etc. 25 cents per bottlo, itt Drug Stores Writo for sample doso, frco. JJ. SMITH & CO. " New York,. ECZEMA nnd all nliln diseases, whutlior of local or constitutional nature, cure, by T. J. n, fiinU .N.,y skin 1 rn.itiiwint ti. i .. rvr meloiL'n Write for partlculaMV Hat JriS' iioa Kuarantecil T, J, Radford Ecaema Co..fe'a city. k0. Krr,-re,ie... ,1'nl.m .Vatlunal" nlc ami laanT CUlJidiiTliriiii company. VV'V T1IIU tiuv M nm... of -1 up,,. 0,l0. nml,.P1Mrff1!"' ndTol.forllorlni:Bn.lDR LLIKQ WEI I Sew $ile$eans rf I V l. V Vii.. rcr&rxtK-vwi-WtfiWt'MmwitxWXti'"''':" nm anmww "w""M1"'WttWliM"--lV"-"'' 'flMiylW'niflffiltiftfWygfttl3toJ3l'ln1fcrcT' nmfrurrr-rrm ,,WV ... '. ., I