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About Hemingford herald. (Hemingford, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1895-190? | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1898)
i h i as T X &tMiiiA4iAf3ES! ieiwcs warning oi Winter So the falling of the hair tells of the approach of age nnd declining power. No matter how barren the tree nor how leafless it may seem, you confidently expect leave's again. And why? Because there Is life at the roots. So you need not worry about the falling of your hair, the threatened departure of youth and beauty. And why? Because if there is a spark of life remaining in the roots of the hair Avnrs HAIR VIGOR will arouse it into healthy activ ity. The hair ceases to come out: it begins to grow: and the glory of your youth is restored to vou. wb have a book on the Hair and its Diseases. It is free. The Beit Advice Free, If von do not obtain all tho benefit! you expected from the uio of tbe Vigor, vrrlto tbe doctor about It. I'robaolr tliere l eomo difficulty with your gen eral system which may be easily removed. AddrMi, UK. J. U. AlliK, Lowell, MASS. How a Dynamite Gun Is Made. The newest type of dynamite gunton slats of two tubes placed directly one above the other, whereas In the old typo there are three tubes placed side by side In the same horizontal plane. The elim ination of the third tubo means a great saving In the weight of tho gun nnd at the same time It es claimed Its effec tiveness is increased. It Is said that the gun can be fired at least five times in two minutes. Of the tubes the upper Is several fret the longer and Is smoo'h bore. It re ceives the projective, and the material used In Us construction Is either brass or steel, the latter being preferable. "Within the lower tube there Is an Inner tube, which In turn opens Into the upper tube through a port Immediately be hind the projectile. "When the projectile Is placed In the upper tube and tho blank cartridge In the lower.the breech es are closed and the gun Is ready for firing. The pulling tho lanyard explodes the smokeless powder, which compress es the air In the tube, and this, passing Into the upper tubo through the port. exertB there as pressure of 3,000 pounds to the square Inch. This pressuro ex pels the projectile. The air forms u cushion that protects the walls of the shell from shock, and It Is claimed ob viates the dnnger which would follow from the concussion of the powder were It exploded directly behind the projec tile. Tho entire length of the projectile used Is thirty-four Inches. This includes a tail piece about ten inches In length and fitted with a vane set at an angle that Insures slow rotation. The body of the shell Is a brass cylinder having a conical head containing a fuse. The main body of the shell contains usu ally a charge of explosive gelatine, tho' gun cotton or any other explosive may be used. The Ignition Is effected by means of a mechanical fuse, and It Is so arranged that the explosion can Im mediately follow upon impact or may be delayed for ns much as six seconds thereafter. When the shell strikes the water or any other object, a small steel ball, acting as a hammer, Is driven for ward by the sudden retardation of the flight of the shell and strikes one or more percussion caps, causing a deto nation. This Ignites a tube of powder communicating with the fulminate of mercury nnd so explodes successively the gun cotton and the main explosive. The fuse embcdles a device which ren ders the shell Inactive until Is has trav eled 300 feet from the gun. This device is very Ingenious. There Is attached to the head of the fuse a little vane or windmill, which Is fastened to a thread ed rod running back Into the head of the fuse fnr enough to press on the small steel bnll mentioned and hold it in place. As the projectile passes thio' the nlr the bindes revolve and. In re volving, unscrew the threaded rod, and thus release the small steel ball, which Is now ready to run forwaid and ex plode the primers. ' The subject of a young lady's essay, who was graduated from a high school In an Ohio town, was "Hawthorne," and In her essay she said, "at the age of thirty-nine Hawthorne married and took his wife to the old manse." The day after the commencement, one of the village maidens called on Miss V... and In talking the affair over, remark ed: "Wasn't It nwful that Maude should say such a thing in her essay?" Miss E. Inquired what she alluded to. "Why. she said at the age of thirty-nine. Haw thorne married and took his wife to the old man's. Why didn't she say n his father-in-law's?" "Dusty, what stopped you from ask Ing for food?" "Because 1 have a faint Idea thai the man In there Is strong." "What gave you that Idea?" "Because I heard his wife tell him she thought It about time he picked uj the yard." Smith Hallo, old man! Thought ymi were going to die. What saved you? Jones The doctors gave me up. Editor Good morning. Anything new this morning.' Humorist Yt-s, all my Jokes. "There Is something about Scribbler' ,works that simply carries me away." "The truln of tjaought, I suppose." M WjpdUBIffla. ji xuUUIEHjl Give A FILIBUSTER'S STORY. (W II. Ilnwlty In tho Globe-Democrat.) "There wer nine or us, I mean nlno white men Americans, the inptuin nnd enw of the mean tug ltoger.'' said an old sailor, who wns talking of tho Cu ban war on the South street pier. "Of course, the hold wns full of d.igoes Cubans, 1 mean thirty of them nil told, and we weie llllbtisteis. "It wna the tlrst your or the Cuban revolution. The Hover had been tun ning light for a month, picking up a tow here and there, and falling to make expenses. She was a strong boat it ml ct uld do twelve knots an hour mlr piessure. Dan Breen was captain, p'lot and part owner. "One day the captain received nn of. fer from tho Cuban agents to take a cargo of guns und ummunltion to the Insurgents. Thete was big money In It for all hands provided we landed the stuff and got away safe. The owners left tho matter to Breen, and the cap tan called the crew Into the cabin nnd usked them If they would go. Ther was double pay, and a share of the piollts for every man of us, and we ull volunteered at once. "Next day the Hover called for n southern port to bring back a tow, and we got out beyond Sandy Hook without being followed by a revenue cutter. When night came we stood In towur I the Long Island phore, und about mid night ran alongside a schooner an chored off one of the covers down there. "The stuff wc were to entry was on the schooner, nnd It took two hours, the Cubuns helping, to get the cargo aboard the tug. Daylight found us steaming down the Jersey coast at ten knots au hour. We had taken the thirty Cubnns off the schooner and whenever there was another vessel In sight we were careful to keep them be low deck, where thoy chattered In Spanish nil day and most of the night. The voyage down was without Incident, because we hud good weuther all the way. "According to the plans of the Cu bans who hired the boat, we were to land our cargo and passengers at the head or a little bay, near the extreme end or the island, n few miles north of Cape Mills. A company of insurgents wus to be waiting for us, and assist in tho unloading. We went down through the Bahama channel, keeping outside the three-miles limit, until we were within thlrv miles of our destination. The captain had so timed the voyage that we were to make the lust lap after dark. We hnd a Cuban on bolitd who knew every foot of the const down there, nnd wns to act ns pilot when we made the run for shoie. "The sun wont down In a clear sky, with a light breeze blowing from the southeast. Every man on board had supper between sundown and dark and the captain warned them to cat plenty, because tliere would be work to do be fore morning. "As soon us It was dark the Cuban pilot went up and took his position nlongslde Captain Breen at the wheel. The engineer and llreman had their or ders, which were to get every bit of speed possible. The Cubans came up nnd lay about the deck, talking In whis pers. Then the Hover was headed for the coast and went abend at full speed. The full moon rose nn hour ufter dark, which was In our favor, because It en abled the pilot to make out certain to steer. "The scene, as we paced down the coast was n grand one. On our right rose the dense Cuban forest, black as night, In the distance. To the left a smooth sea stretched away to the hor izon, and under the clear moonlight It looked like a great lobe of solid silver. The Rover was throbbing like a thing of life, nnd we seemed to be Hying through the smooth water. Lookouts were stationed fore and nft to keep a watch ror Spanish gunboats, although the Cubans hud nssurances tlnt this part or tho coast was not putroled, ex cept at rare Intervals. "It wns nearly 10 o'clock when wo entered a narrow channel between the mnin land or Cuba and a low reer or key. For a few miles the vision or moonlit wnter wns broken.and at times we were plowing along In the very shadow or the trees on shore. Accord ing to our charts nnd pilot we would pass a narrow Inlet nt the end or this channel, and live miles beyond would enter tho bny where we were to In ml the expedition. The Cubans assured us that ir we got out or the narrow nnd dnngerous channel safely we would have nothing to fear. "We were an hour making this In shore tack to avoid the greater distance around the reef und when We reached the open again the wind had rreshened, and there was a long rolling swell com ing toward the shore. To the right, beyond the Inlet we had to cross, a range or low hills rormed n dark and gruesome background to the picture mound us. A shudow rrom these hills seemed to be reflected back across the water by the moonlight. "When we were half way across the Inlet I heard the Cuban pilot tnlklng to the captain In a wildly excited manner. Before I could gather what it was about the captain called down to me rrom the pilot house: " 'Jack see that all the lights are put out and then come up here.' "We carried only one light on deck. I put that out and ran up to the pilot house. " 'What is It?' I asked. " 'Look over to your right there.away up In the shaded part or the Inlet, and see ir you can make out anything," said the captain. "I looked In the direction Indicated and saw what appeared to be a dark object on the water rully a mile away, and moving In our direction. " 'There seems to be something there, captain. What do you make It?' I asked. "Berore he could reply there was a flash rrom the dark object, rollowed a moment Inter by the sharp report or a small rifled canon, and then we heard the splash or the ball as It struck the water, 300 yards short and 100 yards astern. " 'A Spanish gunboat! We've got to run ror It!' said the captain, and whist ling down the tube ho ordered the en gineer to let out another notch. "There was no use turning back, be cause the gunboat was now as nenr the narrow channel through which we had passed us the lover. The Cuban pilot, who kept his head fair' well, assured the captain that If he kept straight ahead to the point of laud then visible und rounded, that he would be In the tntrance to the bay, where we were to land, and once In the shallow there could give the enemy the slip. "Acting on the suggestion, we forged ahead, and the old tug went faster than she had ever gone before. By this time the stokers knew that a Spanish boat was arter us, and they kept the boilers red hot. The gunboat flred a score of shots after us, but none of them came closer than 100 years, and It was soon evident that she was not more thnn ten-knot boat, and that we could outrun her. 1 "We rounded the point that mnrked the entiance to the bay, with the Span ish gunboat nearly three miles astern, and were beginning to breathe easy, when a series of yellB from the Cubans on deck startled everybody. They were :rosslng themselves and pointing off Una l"rt bow. I looked In that direction, und I'll confess I fell n bit slinky for n time, because I snw two more boats heading right into the bay, ns ir to cut us off. " 'Boat off the starboard, slrl' shouted one of the crew on watch, " 'Two boats astern, slrl' cried the nft wntch. "For answer, the captflu bpgnn to swenr llku n pltote ha he lung the bell to slow down. " 'Hunt dead ahead, slrl Three boats off tho pott bow, sir!' cried the foi ward watch. "By thin time the Cubans wrtc In a complete panic. Some wete crossing themselves, some prnylug and otheis swearing. The men nf tho ciow wore bndly scared, but kept thulr wits welt enough to obey orders, "The situation wns certainly alarm ing. We were now well Into the mouth of the little bny, nnd, looking mound, we could see throe boats on each sldo or us, two dead ahead and two astern, between the tug and the gunboat that hud been shooting at us. "The strnngest renture or the situa tion wns that not one of the vessels showed a light, they had not llred l shot at us and nil or them were appar ently regulntlng their movements by ours. When the Hover slowed down thoy reduced speed. Kor five minutes we went ahead at hair speed, and there wus no hostile move on tho part or tho ten boats that surrounded us. " 'Maybe they are for us,' suggested the Cuban pilot. 'See, they have no lights.' "'Oh, III' snld Cnptnln Breen, 'Here goes to settle the business.' "With that ho gave the wheel a turn and rung the bell for full speed abend, and, reaching for the whistle cord, he blow the siren such n blast as 1 never heard before. A thousand echoes or that blast seemed to come back from the hills on cither side, until It Hounded as If a groat Hoot or boats was playing a concert In that dark Cuban bay. "A Tew moments later a bright bluzo or lire Unshed up out or the rorcst at the head or the bay. "That is the signal of our people. They" heard your whistle!' said the Cu ban pilot. "The Hover wns now plunging ahead at full speed, and the boats aiound us were doing the same. I looked aft for tho Spaniard that hnd boon shooting at us. He had been frightened off and was heading out tc. sea at full speed. "Another wild cry from tho Cubans on deck was tho next startling demon stration, and, looking around, wo saw that the boats that a moment boforo hnd surrounded us had vanished com pletely. There was not a shadow left and not a ripple on tho smooth water of the bay to show where they hud been. "Again the Cubnns fell on their kneos, crossed themselves and prayed. The captain merely said, ' !' "Half an hour Inter we dropped an chor In n little cove nt the head of tho bay. We were within 100 yards of the shore, and In a few minutes a boat kind of Cuban soldiers were along side thu tug. They had been waiting Tor us ror a week, and no time was lost In getting our enrgo ashoie. "While unlonulng tho Cubans who went down with us told those from tho shore about the mysterious fleet through which we hnd passed, and thu mystery of the nffulr was quickly ex plained. It seems that at u certain hour on a moonlight night theic Is a soit of double or triple reflection on the sur rnce of the bay, caused by the shadows rrom the hills on each side, and a ves sel passing In or out Is mirrored In these shadows until It becomes a small fleet. The mirage disappears at a cer tain point as sudenly as It came Into view. "We landed our cargo safely, got our pay and were safely out to sea berore daylight. We wore not pursued again by the gunboat or the shadow filibusters." With Wakonlnpr Spring. (Helen Wi'.mnns In "Freedom.") It seems to me that almost every thing I look at holds an Interest ror mo. that calls out reelings or happiness, ho that the earth Is becoming heaven. I look across the boulevard to whore my neighbor Is building an addition to ills house, und my heart warms with the thought or how piotty It will look whn completed, and how much the family will appreciate It, and with whnt pleas ure they will ornament and furnish It. I mil llndlng out how much and whnt constant happiness one may have from small things If he will only live out In the world or effects and uses. In coming out rrom brenkrust this morning 1 met a caterpillar; It wns the flrst 1 had seen this spring; nnd actu ally the little thing wns reeling so good he could not behave himself; he was turning somersaults In the roud and sometimes springing entirely off the ground. And nil the time I was watch ing him a sense of his happiness kept going through mo until 1 was about as happy as he was. So I Just walked, on to where there Is a rose bed made on solentlllc prin ciples. It was dug out eighteen Inches and lined with plaster so solidly that the roots of the trees and glass cannot get In to steal the fertilizer water we put In it. In this bed the roses are always In bloom so prorusely that It does one good to look nt them. As I was watching my rose bed there was a chorus or voices close by whose meaning I wculd glndly Ignore If I only could. I did not want to go back to the hotel for cabbage leaves, nor to the store ror nuts, and yet there were the Gulnen pigs watching mo through the Iron wire netting that encloses the space where they live, and telling me In unmistakable language what 1 was to do. So back I went, and brought what they wunted nnother evidence or the power or desire. In this cngo, which Is so large that the Inhabitants don't know that It Is a cage, there are several squirrels, a number or whit a rabbits and the Guinea pigs. Beauti ful creatures all or them, ami so bndly spoiled by the lavish Indulgence of vis itors they are Just like naughty, per sistent children, always thinking they want something, nnd declaring that they will have It whether they need It ur not; and getting It, too, is obedience to the law of desire. For an Interesting example of the cost of maintaining a battleship in time or ponce, when war Is not even threat ening. I have procured rrom the records or the war department the cost of maintaining the New York, the most expensive ship in our nuvy. The cost ror the last year was $301,005.60 or nn average or $1,086.29 per day. The vorl ous items that go to make up this total annual cost will apply ror the present purpose to our armored cruisers and battleships, though, or course, varying according to constantly chung Ing circumstances, nnd now being In creased by the war rooting on which our navy rests. Or the J391.065.60 spent by the New ork In 1897, $237,"K.76 was ror the pay or others, orew nnd mariners; rations cost f35,G42.GO; equip ment, J6.S35.21; navlgatlon,J3,21G.5S; ord nance. 314,743.70; construction nnd re pair, J9.163.05; steam engineering, I2S. 261.26. Then there were Incidental ex penses, navy yard repairs, medicine and surgery and similar items. HOW SHELLS ARE EXPLODED. When Senator Tillman, speaking on the senate resolution on Friday last, snld, "My pcoplo nro today a unit slnco the ruse which exploded the mine un der the Maine flared nnd sizzled," his remnrks might have been regarded its rhetorical pyrotechnics or ns voicing Ignorance ns to the manner In which modern military Infernal mnchlncs nrc touched off. It Is quite, possible that the picture or a llrrcrnckcr, splutter ing and flan. Ing under wnter, which Senator Tillman's words call up, could be entertained by many cltlzoiiB with out any disturbing thoughts as to Its nccurncy. But the picture, neverthe less, Is rather remote rrom tho truth or the mines. Your modern mibmnrtne mine Is exploded by electricity, which goes nbout its business without flaring and sizzling. The facts about the explosion of oth er destroying engines of warfare, which fly through the air, have a little better reason for not being known. It Ih more or less of a popular mystery nB to how a shell seems to know Just when to blow up nnd do tho mischief for which It wns intended. This nccuracy of con duct has only been attained nftcr years of experiments, nnd today a shell can be fired with pretty full conlldence In good results If the gun hnrf been well aimed. The fuses now In use nro cnllcd com bination time niul percussion fuses. Speaking gencrnlly n time fuse Is one that Ignites nt a prearranged time nfter the projectile, cither shell or shrupnol, leaves the gun, nnd u percussion ruse Is one that Ignites by the Impact of the projectile. The combination tlmo fuses for the projectiles of breeeh-load-lng rifles Is known ns the boxer, which Is generally UBed for shrapnel. This fuse conslstB of n wooden stock, the ruse composition nnd nn Igniter. The ruse composition In a paper case, is contained In tho center or the stock, which hns also two side channels tilled with loose powder. On tho outside or the fuse stripj of pnper are pasted over the sldo channels, one of which hns full seconds up to eleven marked on It and tho other half seconds. The fuse composition Is connected with tho side channels by boring holes through the graduation, which marks the times Tor which tho ruse Ib to bo sot. ir tho ruse has not been bored through to the side chnnnel the llnmo will not enter the Bide channel until tho end or the composition Is reached, where there are permanent communica tions to tho sldo channels. It Is Impos sible ror the llnmo to pass directly rrom the ruse composition to the bursting charge or the projectile, because the bottom or the stock Is solid except Tor the side communications to the chan nels. Tho Igniter Is n little brnss cylinder, which has a nipple on the Inside or the lower pnrt to receive a percussion enp, There Is a brass plunger above thlH cap, held In Its place by a wire. The process or ignition Is set up by the Shock or the discharge, which breaks tho wire nnd drives the plunger on tho cap. The explosion fires the ruse nnd the ruse flame" passes down till It reach es the hole bored 'in through the side chnnnel. Then the flame dushes out Into tho channel and down the chnnnel to the bursting charge of the projectllu, which It explodes. A typical percussion ruso Is the Schcnkl. This ruse Is fitted Into the nose or the projectile, nnd consists of a metal stock containing a steel cyl inder plunger, nnd above the plunger a cap, and below It n mngnzlne for the fuse powder. The plunger fits loosely Into tho stock nnd Is hold In Its upper part by a smnll brass Bcrew, which Is brittle, and breaks olT at the shock of tho discharge and relenses the plun ger. The screw enp of the fuso screws Into the upper end or tho stock. One end of this cap Is plane or flat and the other hollowed out, nnd until the shell Is to be used the hollow end Is kept Inside or over the plunger, so thnt If the plunger should get loose tho percussion enp on top of It would fit Into the hollow and not bo exploded. The plunger Itself Is llllod with quick burning powder, on the forward or up per end of which Is a n'.pplc for a per cussion enp. The fuse Is made ready ror use by unscrewing the screw or ruse enp, reversing It so that the lint end Is inside, nnd screwing It on again. Then wh?n the gun Is discharged, the plunger Is Treed by the breaking or the little screw and forced to the bottom of the stock. On Impact the plunger Is driven sharply forward and tlu per cussion cap on it strikes the flat end of the scrsw cap nnd explodes, Ignit ing the powder In the plunger, which t-ots off the powder In the mngaztne, which In turn explodes the bursting charge of the projectile. There nre nlso percussion bnso fuses, those which lit Into the base of thu pro jectile nnd explode the bursting charge through the nose of the fuse, or the nose fuse explcdes the chnrge through Its base. The general construction and action or the base ruses Is similar to that or the ncse ruses. They consist or a stock, a magazine plunger and fir ing cap. The plunger Is held In place by wires, which are broken arter tho discharge, so that the plunger, which Is then set Tree, files forward on im pact, strikes a cap in the Torwnrd end of the fuse with Its point, Igniting the fuse and exploding the shell. The Schenkl and other percussion fuses are now being supplanted In our service by the Hotchkiss nose and bnso fuses. The ncse fuses are used for lund service and In the navy Tor calibers under four Inches. The base ruses are used Tor all large caliber guns, those which are mounted chief? on vessels or on thp sea coast. The llotNhktss nose ruse does not vary greatly from the types described; not sutllclentry so to deserve extended analysis here. The chler Improvement which vhey Introduce Is a sarety plug, or lend step per, which holds In place wires that themselves hold In plnce the magazine plunger. The plunger rorces the plug to the renr on the dlschnrge or the gun, nnd on Impact the plunger Is driven rorwnrd, striking n s-.teol point on the head or the ruse, which explodes a rul mlnnted cop In the end or the plunger, firing the magazine and then the burst ing churge. The Hotchkiss base ruse has a solid plunger, the magazine or the fuse being contained in tho detonating tap at the head of the stock. One other percussion fuse, the Drlggs, departs rrom the common ruse type in the method or Treeing the plunger. This is held fixed by spring arms until tho time or discharge, when the rotury mo tion Imparted by the rifling to the shell wrenches the arm clear nnd leaves the plunger Tree to explode the caps. The Boxer ruse for shrapnel Is also being replaced by the point time fuse. The rentures or this ruse are similar to those of the time and percussion fuses. It consists of a metal stock, a plunger nnd wires, but the fuse Is so nrrunged that the shock of discharge not only tires the plunger, but explode a cap and Ignites the fuse. This fuse Is graduated up to fifteen seconds and is set by boring a hole through the cen tral cavity at the proper graduation to a time train, which Is Ignited through the hole by flame from the central cav ' r.ad explodes th bursting charge. CONSUMPTION The Doctor Slocum System at Last Presents to Mankind a Perfect and Positive Cure for This Foe of Health. 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The Slocum System Is medlclno reduced tonn exact science by the world's mot famous physician All readers of this paper anxious regarding Uio health of themselves, children, relatives or friends, may have thrco froo bottles as represented In tho alxjvu Illustration, with complcto directions, pamphlets, testimonials, ctc.liy sondlngfiill address to Dr. T. A. Slocum, tho Slocum building, OS 1'lno Street, New York City. This Is a plain, honest, straightforward otfer and Is mado to Introduce tho inorlts of Tho New System of Treatment, and should Uo accepted at onco. When writing tho Doctor please, mention this paper. PAINT -WALLS CEILINGS. MURAL0 WATER FOR DECORATING WALLS AND CEILINGS SSSb?Si?,S2SB?5? MURALO mint dealer and do Tour own decorating, . Thla material la a IIAUU F1.MHII to Iw applied with a bru.h and tweomea aa bard aa Gvuieot. Milled In twantr-four tin la and worka euuaJlr aa wall with cold or liot water. i V7 .B'? u HAMI-I.U comik CAKDB local dealers let ua know and wa will put jou In THE MURALO CO.. NEW Donn Howolls on Literature. "Amerlcn Is rich In material which needs only skilled workmen. It Is nd mltted that our genius fcr short story telling Is equal to that of the French, who were long supposed to he tho hest writers of the 'contt,' We have done some work thnt will bear comparison with that of Daudet, Coppee, or De Maupassant. I do not know jr tlu re will be n well-defined school of Amer ican writers. There Is room ror n num ber or such schools. Our country Is so extensive nnd our nntlonnl lire so di verse that the writers or each section could form a school for tho portrayal of Its characteristic social traits. The Held is already occupied by a large number or meritorious wcrkers. It might sesm Invidious to single out one or two, but I may mention such writers ns Fuller, .ho wrote 'The Cliff Dwell eis:" Owen Wlster, who Is doing excel lent work In the west; Cuban, who has written so Instructively nnd nppreela- ! tlvely of the east-side lire In this city. , and Allen, Fox, Fuge und Harris, who are utilizing seme or the exhaustless 1 t tonsures or the southern field. Many I will follow, and I see no reason for ' doubting thnt In fiction America will , have as rich a lltetature as nny court , try In the world. "I shall nd another novel to my list next year. It will be published In serial , rorm, und I an- now engnged on It. This , method or publication makes n writer seem much more proline than he Is. The book I consider as probably my best hns also been the most populur one "A Hazard or New Fortunes.' I strove hard over that story, and felt that I wns doing as good work as I wus capable of, but the public received it when It was coming out as a serial with quiet Indifference. "When It ap peared In book form, I felt that It would fall still-born, but It soon became pop ular, and twice ns many copies of It have been sold as of any one of my other novels." Reformer I hope to see the day when women will no longer appear on thf stage In tights. Hounder Well, the barefoot dance seems to be a step in that direction. PREVENTED COLOR PAINTS and if Ton cannot mirchaae thli material from jonr tba war of obtaining it. BRIGHTON. 8. I., NEW YORK. K52BE5u53mS3IK A map of the I Tni-fara Q-a-o-focj VllllVU t.'lUtViJl i Send mo 15 cents in stamps nnd I i will mail you a ninp of tho United States, three feet four inches wide by five foot long. Printed in six colors' Mounted on rollers, bhows overy state, cjuntj, important town, and railroad in the United States. Use ful. Ornamental. J. 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