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Every Man whose watch Has been rung out of the bow (ring), by a pickpocket, Every Marr whose watch has been damaged by drop ping out of the how, and Every Man of sense who merely compares the old pull out bow and the new will exclaim: “Ought to have been made long ago!” Itcan’t be twisted off thecase. Can only be had with Jas. Boss Filled and other cases stamped with this trade mark Ask your jeweler for pamphlet. Keystun- Watch Case Co., Philadelphia. A NARROW ESCAPE! How it Happened. The following remarkable event in a lady’s life will interest the reader: “Fora long time 1 had a terrible pain at my heart, which 11 ut tered almost incessantly. 1 had no appetite and could not sleep. I would be compelled to sit up in bed and belch gas from my stom ach until I thought every ^minute would he my last. There was a feeling of oppression about my heart, and I was afraid to draw a full breath. 1 couldn’t sweep a room with out sitting down and resting; but, thank God, by the help of New Heart Cure all that is past and I feel like another woman. Be fore using the New Heart Cure 1 had taken different so-called remedies and been treated by doctors without any benefit until I was both discouraged and disgusted. My husband bought me a bottle of I>r. Miles’ New Heart Cure, and am happy to say I never regretted it, as 1 now have a splendid appetite and sleep well. T weighed 125 pounds when I be gan taking the remedy, and now I weigh 130l4. Its effect in my caso has been truly marvel ous. It far surpasses any other medicine I have ever taken or any benefit I ever re ceived from physicians.”—Mrs. Harry Starr, Pottsville, Pa., October 12, 1892. Dr. Miles’ New Heart Cure is sold on a posi tive guarantee by all druggists, or by the I>r. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind., on receipt of price, $1 per bottle, six bottles S5, express pre paid. This great discovery by an eminent specialist in heart disease, contains neither opiates nor dangerous drugs. TALES FROM TOWN TOPICS. 0/-1 year of the most successful Quarterly "vl ever published. More than 3,000 LEADING NEWS PAPERS in North America have complimented this publication during its first year, and uni versally concede that its numbers afford the brightest and most entertaining reading that can be had. Published ist day of September, December, March and lune. Ask Newsdealer for it, or send the price, 50 cents, in stamps or postal note to TOWN TOPICS, 21 West 23d Si., Kem York. This brilliant Quarterly is not made up from the current year s issues of Town Topics, but contains the best stories, sketches, bur lesques, poems, witticisms, etc., from the back ■lumbers of that unique journal, admittedly the crispest, raciest, most complete, and to ad ME\ AND WOMEN the most interest* ing weekly ever issued. Subscription Price: Tcva Topics, per year, - - $4. CO Tales Frcca Towa Topics, per year, 2.CO The tco cluhbei, - 5.00 Town Topics sent 3 months on trial foi 91 .oo. N. B.—Previous Nos. of “Tales” will Xx> promptly forwarded, postpaid, on receipt of 50 cents each. Toy WiiMT The Best. TRY THIS. EXPERIMENTS ARE DANGEROUS. I DEDAYS ARE i DANGEROUS. TRY NO Expe: brents. 31 ARB NO DEDAYS. «SE OREGCA; KaDr^FY jeas IT Vi ILL. OLi RO YOU Of Bach-sche. In’ * :r>rt- of the Bladder or Kidneys, Drd>?» . -ti I>ri/r>?i calSwelli::r;>. Con.4i'- : : •'. !i n.-.-:- -’a:**j arisitit- a aid ft., L..- ' nary Ce>;: . V • '7*37 f-*“3 trtii PTfrr bottla. ii < „ ..rl'i 4-Lr.V£!JT3 STKICTUUK, T ia Ox« to FuUB dtji» iI JiAo.* WUITK3* HoV: . - r ’ ’ . SeattOXOj Addn»8«fhr fl.OO.' ffllYQ.... _ .£ ^'kLHljU*LQ„L+KC*ZlZ&lOaiQ, ii ” i i U rubber$5,00 .. Teeth extracted in the . . . i, aoh inserted evening of . *. ./ olicd wiihont pain, latest t:i. . . . , ..x j.-i. .••!** in the west. J’axton jf- — ifs&W.BMEY, 14.* * I -v.-HA, - - - WEB. A PLUCKY PATRICIAN. Mrs. Cyru 1 W. Field, Jr., Opens .1 Milli nery Shop. New York society suffered a sensa tional shiver when Mrs. Cyrus W. Field, Jr., announced her intention o£ opening a mil liner's shop. It seemed such a strange thing for one of its promi nent members to go into trade. But Mrs. Field, a sensible and plucky litclo wo rn a n , realized that, she could not live on mem ories of the Pa triarch balls and other exclusive society events, at MRS. c. w. FIELD, JR. which she had so long been :i conspicuous figure. She could no longer afford to patronize such affairs, and as she owed ‘money which she wished to pay she r solved upon the millinery business as the most hopeful means by which to accomplish her pur pose. Tiie financial disaster that overcame the late Cyrus W. Field reduced all his immediate family to comparative pov erty. This little woman saw her young husband’s wealth disappear in a day and knew that she could no longer lead the gay life of a young society matron. When she realized what the disaster meant, she set about to see how it could be remedied. A few months ago her husband received an appointment in the government consular service, and it was then that she conceived the idea which she has now put into execution of sup porting herself and her little girl and aiding the husband, who finds himself harassed by debts. Mrs. Field does not pretend to know much about millinery as a business, but has great confidence in her ability to learn. Her shop is in a good location on Fifth avenue, and in the short time that has elapsed since it was opened she has already done enough business to give her great encouragement. She realizes that many of her patrons are attracted by mere curiosity, but says she boy.es they will continue to como just the same, as she is now a business woman and not a bit sensitive or inclined to question their motives. The Field family is la mous in American history for great achievements, hut none of its members bas ever done a braver thing than this little brown haired, gray eyed woman did when she “went into trade.” MRS. SARAH C. MINK. The New National President of the Worn nil's llelief Corps. Tlio new national president of tlio Woman’s Relief corps, Mrs. Sarah C. Mink, is tlio wife of Major Charles E. Mink, who was the commander of the famous Mink’s battery, one of the finest artillery commands furnished by the state of New York to the Federal army. Mrs. Mink is a woman of distinguished presence and fine address and had achieved considerable distinction in the order before she was unanimously elect ed to the national presidency. She re sides at Watertown, N. Y., although her corps home is in Syracuse, her husband still retaining his membership in Root post, G. A. R., of that city. It was as president of Root Relief corps that Mrs. Mink began her active service in the ranks of the WOman’s Re lief corps, and she filled that position for three terms. Then she was elected department president of New York and re-elected for a second term. Her ad MRS. SARAH C. MINK. ministration was energetic and effective. She has few equals as an organizer, as the growth of the order in New York under her presidency abundantly testi fies. At the same time her conduct of affairs was marked by the strictest econ omy consistent with the vigorous prose cution of relief corps work. Mrs. Mink came within two votes of election as national president at the Mil waukee convention, although her name was presented without any preliminary canvassing. At the Boston convention she was elected a member of the Na tional Relief Corps home hoard for three years, and at Washington re-elected for a five years' term. She served as aid on the staffs of National Presidents Kinne and Craig and as assistant national in j spector during the administrations of ! National Presidents Sanders and Wick ins. In all these positions she has dis played marked ability and untiring zeal, and the hearty indorsement of the In i dianapolis convention may be considered an indication that her comrades in the ! order appreciate the worth of her services. To Surprise the Horses. The latest form of horsewhip is con ] structed so as to give a slight electric shock to the animal. The handle, which ! is made of celluloid, contains a small in duction coil and battery, the circuit be ing closed by means of a spring push. The extremity of the whip consists of two small copper plates insulated from each other, each of which is provided : with a tiny point. The plates are con nected with the induction coil by means of a couple of fine, insulated wires. NAMING OF ATLANTA.! _ i AN INTERESTING EPISODEOF HISTORY ! RECALLED. — The Empire City of the New South Wai ! First Cttlhd Martliasvillo After Martlu Lnmrtkin, Who Uvea to See the Fiftieth Birthday of the Ton'll. Few people outside of Georgia are aware that when the flourishing city of Atlanta was first incorporated 50 years ago it bore the name of Marthasville, but that fact has been recalled recently in the preliminary discussion over the celebration in December next of the com pletion of the first half century of the city’s existence. It was christened Mar thasville in honor of Miss Martha Lump kin, tho youngest daughter of Governor Wilson Lumpkin, one of the most dis tinguished Georgians of his day. He was twice a member of congress, twice governor of Georgia and served one term as United States senator from that state. In 1843 Governor Lumpkin, who had just retired from the senate, was em ployed in superintending the affairs of the Western and Atlantic railroad, which was then a projected institution depend ing upon state aid for its completion, and it fell to bis lot, in connection with MRS. MARTHA LUMPKIN COMPTON. Charles F. M. Garnett, then chief engi neer of the state, to designate the loca tion of the terminus of the road. The site of the present city of Atlanta was selected after a careful examination of the surrounding country and a con scientious consideration of all its advan tages and disadvantages. It was then a wild, unbroken forest, without a habita tion or even a fence in sight, and the two gentlemen upon whom the selection depended had not the slightest knowl edge of the ownership of the land they chose. They found afterward that it belonged to Samuel Mitchell of Pike county, and Governor Lumpkin opened negotiations with him for the purchase of the necessary land for depot buildings and other purposes. That gentleman, however, refused to receive any compen sation from the state, and, as Governor Lumpkin has left on record, “claimed as a right and urged that he should have the honor of r king the state a dona tion of all gr that might he neces sary for public purpcses free of charge, although 1 urged him to receive a fair compensation.” Mr. Mitchell's public spirited generos ity will be the better appreciated in the light of the knowledge that the land sharpers and speculators had already been after him, and he was consequently not without knowledge of the value of the property he so freely gave away. That his very generosity should ulti mately have the effect of hampering the growing city could not then, of course, be foreseen, but it certainly did have that effect. Governor Lumpkin, with very inade quate notions, as he afterward con fessed, of “the vast importance of this spot of ground,” took only what was absolutely necessary at the time—five acres. He lived to see the utter insuf ficiency of this and to express his regret that he had not secured more land for public purposes from the generous Mr. Mitchell. When the town came to be laid out, Mr. Mitchell wished it to bear the name Lumpkin, in honor of the governor, but the latter objected, “because we already had in Georgia a county as well as a beau tiful and flourishing little village called Lumpkin, in honor of myself.” He thought, too, it wor ld be indelicate, con sidering his connection with the matter, and advised Mr. Mitchell to give the town his own name. This Mr. Mitchell would not hear of, and he and Colonel Garnett finally compromised the matter by calling it Marthasville, in honor of the governor's daughter. The city was called Marthasville for the first four years of its existence, and the governor said in the letter quoted above: “It would have borne that name yet hut for the predominating low vice of envy.” History has failed to record anything that shows the reason for Gov ernor Lumpkin’s entertainment of this belief, and his daughter, who still lives at the old family seat near Athens, has no remembrance of that phase of the subject. J. Edgar Thompson, an engineer on the Georgia railroad, first suggested the name Atlanta in a letter to Richard Peters, a resident of Marthasville, and Mr. Peters was active in securing signa tures to the petition for a new charter in which the name was changed, but nothing appears to show any ulterior motive. “Miss Mattie Lumpkin,” as she is still called in Athens, though she is a widow and her legal designation is Mrs. Martha Lumpkin Compton, is a pleasant old lady of 66, whose face still possesses great sweetness of expression and shows traces of the beauty that half a century ago gave her rank among the most fas cinating girls in her native state. She is very fond of a joke, very proud of her family history, extremely proud of the fact that the metropolis and capital of Georgia was once named for her, and not at all captious about the change of the city's name. i A WOMAN CANDIDATE. Miss L'din Gray the First Ohio Worn: i to Run For Office. Tho Prohibitionists of Highland coun ty, O., have nominated u woman, -Miss Edna Gray of Hillsboro, for the office of prosecuting attorney of the county. Woman suffrage ideas have never prevailed very extensively in the Buckeye State, and Miss Gray is the first woman within its bor ders to receive v the nomination ^ of a political par ■ ty for public of fice, but Hills ■••ijxjm' Doro is me center edna gray. of the strongest temperance and Prohibition section of the state, and there is a possibility of her election, which is considerably in creased by the acknowledged gallantry of the Highland county beaux, among whom her candidacy is creating consid erable stir. Miss Gray is a fanner's daughter and was graduated from the Cincinnati Law school last May. She at once opened an office in Hillsboro and began the prac tice of her profession with such marked success that she has won the unreserved commendation of older lawyers and the exceptional honor to her sex of a polit ical nomination for an important posi tion which requires considerable foren sic ability, great acumen and wide and varied knowledge of the law. Miss Gray is only 21 years of age, and prior to her admission to the bar was lo cally famous for her elocutionary abili ties, which have been of some advantage to her since her nomination, as they have enabled her to appear to advantage on the hustings beside such orators as ex-Governor St. John of Kansas, the prohibition apostle, who is assisting his party in the Ohio campaign. “THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL.” The Attractive Ilome of John E. Kuesell, at Leicester, Mass. The Democratic nominee for governor of Massachusetts, John Edward Russell of Leicester, has a beautiful estate of 45 acres or so on the old stage road from Boston to Springfield, six miles from Worcester, where, surrounded by his books, his pictures and other objects of art, he lives the life of a country gentle man. The property originally belonged to his father-in-law, Dr. John Nelson, and Mr. and Mrs. Russell were married there in the room that is now Mr. Rus sell’s library some 33 years ago. The house has been considerably altered since then, for Mr. Russell remodeled it in 1867, when he retired from business and settled down to his life of elegant lei JOHN E. RUSSELL IN HIS LIBRARY, sure. His neighbors call the place “Para dise,” and Oliver Wendell Holme3, when he made a visit there, spoke of it as “the house beautiful.” There is hardly a square foot of its in terior that does not show' forth some beautiful memento of its owner's exten sive travels, rare, chinas, pictures and others things collected from all quarters of the earth, of great value from an artis tic standpoint as well as for their associ ations. The library is not an extensive one as modem libraries go—containing about 5,000 volumes—but it is more val uable than most libraries of the same size because its owner, who is something of a bibliophile, has brought together a great number of rare books, first editions and other typographical treasures, and has many that have been illustrated and rebound under his own supervision. But Mr. Russell does not find his only delight in books. He is greatly interest ed in practical agriculture and the rais ing of blooded sheep and cattle, as the barns and pastures of his place will testify. His work during the five years he held the position of secretary of the state board of agriculture was entirely a labor of love, and while he was a mem ber of congress he proudly exhibited a coat woven from the fleece of his own sheep. He has never held any other than those two public offices, though it is said he was offered a cabinet position bjr President Cleveland during his first ad ministration. Mr. Russell is a native of Massachu setts and was born at Greenfield inlS34. He is not related to Governor Russell, to whose office he aspires. His father was John Russell, a pioneer in American cut lery and founder of a business that made him a fortune and rendered it un necessary for the son to engage in com mercial pursuits, though he devoted some years of his early life to business. A Clock That Registers the Tide. The Chamber of Commerce at Rouen has erected a clock tower which gives the time on three sides and the height of the tide on the fourth—that fronting the harbor. Combinations In Dominoes. Dr. Bern, a Frankfort mathematician, calculates that there are 248,528,211,840 possible combinations in the game of dominoes. THE DIRECTOR OF THE MINT. _ Mr. l'rcHtou I* a PerKonuge of <ireat Im portance Just Now. The prevalent discussion of the silver ' question lends additional interest to the career of Robert E. Preston, whom President Cleveland recently appointed director of the mint, an office ho had I filled as deputy since the resignation of 1 Mr. E. O. Leech in May last. Mr. Pres ton’s course as acting director has been severely citicised by prominent prosilver men, but his nomination at such a crit ical period of the debate was a sufficient indication that his policy had the ap proval of the administration. The salary of the office is $4,500, the term is five years, and the position shares with one other office only, that of comp troller of currency, the peculiar distinc ROBERT E. PRESTON. tion that the incumbent when once con firmed cannot bo removed without the consent of the senate. Mr. Preston is a native of Tennessee and about 58 years of age. He has been connected with the treasury department since 1858, when he was appointed a clerk in the first auditor’s division. He was transferred to the mint bureau when it was organized in 1873, along with the late director, Mr. Leech, and several other clerks whose knowledge of mint affairs made them especially valu able to that branch of the service. He has held the position of examiner for many years and outranked Mr. Leech in the bureau when that gentle man was selected for director by Presi dent Harrison. At that time Mr. Pres ton’s claims to promotion were vigor ously urged, but without success. Ho retained his position as examiner, how ever, and was second in command dur ing Mr. Leech’s term, assuming that gentleman's duties whenever his ab sence rendered a substitute necessary and succeeding him as acting director upon his resignation to accept a position with a New York hank. The director of the mint has general supervision of all mints and assay offices, and all purchases of silver are made by him. Mr. Preston refused to purchase bullion at a higher price than that pre vailing in London on the day of sale and found it necessary to reduce the time fi >r delivery of the metal purchased from 10 days to five. His action evoked a storm of criticism from the friends of the white metal and a counter current of approval from those who favored the repeal of the Sherman law. YANG YU’S HEADQUARTERS. The New Chinese Legation Nicely Housed at Washington. The new Chinese legation at Washing ton is on the summit of the hill at the head of Fourteenth street. It affords a splendid view of the surrounding coun try and combines the advantages of a city residence with the attractions of a suburban house. The minister's official family com prises 20 persons, and as no single house large enough to accommodate all was available Yang Yu purchased two ad joining houses and had them connected. They present a very imposing exterior and are furnished with an odd combina tion of American comfort and oriental luxury. The furniture is of American patterns, but the ornaments, cabinets, screens, draperies and hric-a-brac, of which there is a profusion scattered throughout the two houses, are all dis tinctively Chinese. The reception and dining rooms are on the first floor of the first house, the cor responding rooms of the other house be ing devoted to offices. The prevailing color of the drawing rooms is rose, and in the dining room cream, crimson and gold. The front room on the second floor NEW CHINESE LEGATION. is Minister Yu’s private sitting room, handsomely furnished in black walnut with red hangings, and adjoining is his bedchamber, of which the furniture is oak. His wife’s apartment on the same floor is daintily decorated in blue and white, and the brass bedstead has a can opy of blue silk covered with white lace. A unique lacquered dressing case stands in one corner covered with odd shaped bottles and toilet articles. The nursery of the minister's three children, a large, light apartment, con tains little furniture besides the two lit tle white beds that stand side by side against one of the walls, but the queer looking playthings scattered about look as if the occupants had an enjoyable time of it. On the third floor are the bedchambers of the subordinate mem bers of the legation, all uniformly fur nished in oak. The entire top floor is devoted to a big ballroom, which will probably be the scene of some grand fes tivities during the season, as Minister Yu is said to intend entertaining on an extensive scale. TURF TOPICS. Ilaniliii’i! Almont, .Jr., lain superseded Electioneer as tho leading siro tills year. The 3-year-old iiily Silicon, 2.15}, will not trot this year, but vrili biu«n/ui out as a world beater next season. It is a remarkable fact that r <■" r—t ings are better attended duringthe years of monetary panics than in any oilier. In tho city of Carae;* . Vene i, i’ue use of thecheckrein i.-ie-in prohibited under a penalty of line ..r t. <..iys* imprisonment. The principal reason assigned for the Palo Alto sale is that the horses have ac cumulated so fast that tho farms will not sustain them. It is the intention of the czar to ex change his 18 horses exhibit! il at Chi cago for American trotting hot. ..ad carry the trotters to Russia. The owner of tho pacing mare May Marshall spent $3,000 entering her in trotting events only to find oil tho ove of the campaign that she had con 1 to pace. The average speed at Pittsburg was 4 14-100 seconds better than that at tho meeting of the year before. The pneu matic tire is almost wholly responsible for this. R. C. Pate lias taken formal possession of tho Peuon property, near the City of Mexico, on which a race course will he laid out. Racing will bo new to the Mexicans. “To lie a successful horse bre -1 r is tho work of a lifetime, requiring intel ligent study, strong observing powers and calm, mature judgment,”says The Horseman. The palio, a horse race run at Sienna, Italy, has been an annual event since 1600. Tho riders are clothed in armor and armed with a whip made of ox sin ew. During the race the ridera 1 lowed to strike each other with their whips. STAGE CLINTS. Henry Arthur Jones will dmivrr tlift inaugural address at the City of London college. The new three act com - o; “IVt erkin,” is a failure at the E<.> tin a ter, London. Bello Claneey, a young Ann - can so prano, niece of Belie Cole, ha •• : • ■■a successful London dehut. Rider Haggard’s novel “Cleopatra” has been used by tko Danish couipo r, August Enna, for an opera. M. B. Curtis is soon coming IV r; San Francisco to organize a col; ..yand begin a tour in a revised v ..Von of “Sam’l of Posen.” Mile. Elba, a Scandinavian songstress, has replaced May Yolio in, the leading I art in “Mile. Nitouehe” at the 1:.Vul gar Square theater, London. The season of grand opera at the re I constructed New York Metre; n j Opera House will begin about Nov. 27 with Gounod’s “Philemon et BanG-v* Noah Brandt, many years concert mas ter of Theodore Thomas’orchestra, ha3 composed the music for au opera en j titled “Captain Cook,” which is being ( considered by the Bostonians. The book of Mascagni's new opera, I “Romano,” is based on a story Al phonse Karr and is being writ! by I MM. Menasciand Tozetti, authors of the j book of “Cavalleria Rnstieana.” George C. Jenks has signed a cr>- t. with Ward and Vokes, the comedians of “Playmates,” to write them a farco com edy in which they will star nest be. The title of the new piece will be “Th® Jolliers.” — NOVELTIES. Perforated china is among the prevail ing styles. Faience clocks are shown with refer ence to room decoration. The tall branching candlesticks in Ger man faience are sumptuous. A new glass brought out in shell forms is intended to suggest Egyptian war* that were found in Pompeii. It ic edd, and the shapes are marine in their sug gestion. The white and ornamental glass vases with gold tracery, as seen in the new im portations. are further enriched A jew eling. Italian interlaced lines arc con spicuous set with raised enamels. Tur quoise and ruby are the prominent nuts. The tall vases of green glass reach colossal heights. One seen was 7 feet high. It was tall, ribbed and flanogly mouthed. These glasses are intended for a few stalks only, and the stems and foliage seen through the glass are its special feature. Wall cabinets, Japanese in form and black in color, are supported on twisted faience pillars. These have Dresck-. de signs and raised work. UndernerAh th® pillars is a sprawling cupid, on wliosa back the shelf apparently rests, au i ter supports are crowned bv tiny figures.— Jewelers’ Circular. RAILROAD TIES. Tim Tierney, who begun s.-rviee wi the Burlington and Mi - uri railroad a? a tracklayer in 1850, has 1h < u in uie em ploy of the company ever since. T’’ ; now over 80 years old and is a f.:v.rmau at Denver. Mr. Cusack, the assistant locomotive engineer of the Midland Railway com pany of Ireland, has invented a ( ' -da tor intended for the compilation m l checking of timetable, and ior regulat ing the speed of trains. The Pennsylvania has an engine whose number is 27G. She runs on the Pitts burg division between AltoonaandPittx burg and has the reputation of being the fastest and most powerful engine in the passenger service of that roan. It is said on reliable authority that Vice President Oscar G. Murray of the Big Four will give his exclusive atten tion during the fall and winter to the freight traffic department, and tnat ha may assume the title of freight tiaila manager.