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. - 3STEBR AJSKA. FAMILY : JOURNAL A Weekly Newspaper isned ever; Weiiesday. 82 Calms f reading Matter, ees sistiigaf Nebraska State News Iteas, Selected Stories aid Miscellaay. fcySample copies seat free to sisddrsssa Subscription price, SI a ytar, in Aitaict. Address: M. EL TvjaffM k, 0a, Piatt Go Nebt PUMPS REPAIRED ON SHORT NOTICE. Olivo St., nearly opposite Pott-offloe. 6janefeft-y 1.0UIS SCHEEIBER, All kinds of Repairing dene ei Short Notice. Baggies, Wag ons, etc., made to order, and all work Guar anteed. Also sell the world-famous Walter A. . Wood Mowers, Reapers, Combin ed Machines, Harvesters, and Self-binders the best made. t3TBhop opposite the " Tattersall," on . Ollvn St.. COLUMBUS. 26-m Judicious Advertising Crrnfcs many a new business, Enlarges many an old husincs, Kovivcs many a dull business, Kcsciics many a lost business, "Saves many a failing business, Preserves many a large business, Secures succe-s in any business. So says man of l(ifines, and we a;M t!.a judicious B'lvcrtii-irJK, for this section of country, lDclnIcs THE JOURNAL Af one of th tnedinm. becaus it is road by the bett ir.-opIp, thoH? who know wliat they want and p:;y forwli.it thy set. We challenge comparison with any country paper in t lie world in tliis re spect twenty jeare publishing by tho same mannpement, and never one dun to snl-.crileri published in This Jocrnau This, better than an thing else, shows tho class of people who read The Jouunal every week. tf GOSHEN FENCE MACHINE! CHEAP. OSTLY $15. Wotwi wir and slats, cnt willows, split boards or sr.ythinjt of the sort, nsed; after post are set, fence can be made and stretched on the ground, m the winter, by a boy or ordinary farm hand, 10 to 40 rials a day, and can work it over any pronad. Thenian who has one of these ma chines can bnild a fence that is more durable and safe than any other, and make it at lee cost. The machine and a sample of ita work can l seen in the city on 11th street at Ernst & Schwarz hardware store. Wills-ll mehinea, or territory, or contract to put tip fences. Unajtf J. R. MATHEWSON. Newspaper a f p? A3JSSrArl The best book lor isrSjMaaHMaaB j advertiser to con A lfl-Miiniwq enccd or otherwise. It contain lit-ts oJ newspapers and cstlm&tet of the coat of .d veri.simr.Tbc ad vortist;. ' i.u wants to spend one dollar, finds In It the In formation do requires, while forhim who will invest one hundred thousand dollars In ml verUsing; s scheme, is indicated which will meet his every requirement, or can vtrtcfc to do to ejr flight changes eerily arrived at byecr rrtpondenee. 149 editions have been issued. Sent, post-paid, to any eddress for 10 cents. Write to GEO. P. HOWELL ft CO., NEWSPAPER ADVEItTISlXG BUREAU. roBrecsSUPrinUoxIIoaseSq.). Kewlafc PATENTS Caveats and Trade Marks obtained, and all Pat. eat business conducted for MODERATE FEES. OUR OFFICE IS OPPOSITE U. 8. PATENT OFFICE. We have no sub-asencics, all tairiness direct, hence we can transact patent business in Ions time and at LESS COST than those remote from Washington. Send model, drawing, or photo, with descrip tion. We advise if patentable or not, free of 'charge. Oar fee not due till patent is secured. A hook, "How to Obtain Patents," with refer ences to actual clients in your state, county or town, cent free. Address C. JL SNOW fc CO. Opposite Pateat Office. Washington. D. C. $5 TO $ I n A PUT ar Agents WentetJI CucvLtasFin. l.SfO Brewster's Safety Kea Do'4 IfSjnawajrteuuosaoeiiieBs. etstt arse csraar asm worn I to Lines aafrcruaftcrksoas fact. Bead is easts J stamps f: J. DtTSSBLIi, SCAMS nr- BlacKSfflitb and waeooMa6F B9I Issssssssnrl vrfJkVHvSk a ! aWn IBB,iu jjBsnjWnnnnnnnjnnjacsBOMMrj-- Lsssssssr avsssnnnBi TOPICS OF THE TIMES. A Choice Selection of Inter esting Items. Thebe is one pauper in. every thirty seven inhabitants in England and Wales. It is officially estimated that no fewer J than 17O,00Q wolves are roamtng at large in Itssia and that thtt inhabitants of theVologda ljst year killed no fewer Uraii 49,000, and of the Casan district 111,000. James Berry, England's public exe cutioner, has written a work entitled, "Tho Men and Women I have Exe cuted." We wonder if the book will haVe to take a "drop" like the men and women it portrays. Ax Ironwood minister married a couple and baptized a baby, all under the same roof and during the same evening. Just as he left the house he was called to preach a funeral sermon, thus running the gamut of his profes sional duties. So fab, no other government except that of France, has given an order for tho smokeless powder invented some time ago. Military men of the highest standing claim that the smoke of a battle-field saves hundreds of lives, and that smoke is us much to a battle as bugles and drums. A quick-firing gun, the invention of Mr. Thronsen, was tested recently at Finspong, in Sweden. The results showed that ten shots can be fired within twenty-five seconds, which is twenty-four shots a miuute. All the shots were true, and hit the target within a space of nine inches long by six inches wide. A c.iur. of only twelve was committed as a "confirmed drunkard" to an indus trial school in San Francisco a few years ago. Her mother stated that the girl would steal, beg or do almost any thing to get liquor, and that she had been drinking for nearly a year. All attempts either to reform her or pre vent her getting liquor has been failures it was stated. George T. Axcell, the Boston humanitarian, suggests drowning as the most painless disposition of kittens. He believes that putting kittens in an ordi nary flower pot and then plunging it upside down in a pail or tub of water is about as humane a method as can be found. The air escapes through the hole in the bottom (or rather the top) of the flower pot, and it instantly fills with water. Three nails of the true Cross have been found in a very singular place, namely, in the ruins of the theaters at Zurich, Switzerland, which was burned down. They were in a little ivory casket of admirable workmanship, to gether with a manuscript on parch ment, and were bricked up within a little cavity of the structure. It is pre sumed that these relics were hidden by monks during the reformation. During the American revolution an English magazine published an esti mate of the future population of the North American colonies. Placing the population then at 2,003,000, and as suming that it would double itself every twenty-five years, the writer estimated that in the year 1890 the number would have increased to CI, 000, 000. As a matter of fact, this is near the present estimated population of tho United States. Among the Fiutes the mother-in-law is appreciated. The married Piute al ways welcomes her with his broadest grin. The arrival of the mother-in-law gives him a doublo team, where before he had only one animal. He hails her appearunce with delight, and, piling a jackass-load of wood upon her willing old back, sends her into town with his wife (similarly packed) to peddle out the fuel and bring back to him a supply of money for his favorite game of poker. The Piuto father-in-law is of no use as a wood-packer, nor will he gather grass seeds or pine nuts. A short time ago the little town of Dracut, Mass.. gran ted a liquor license to a dealer named Johu Lennon. The town adjoins tho city of Lowell, and tho saloon was tho only licensed place in Lowell or vicinity and drew its pat ronage from that city and seven sur rounding towns, all of prohibitory pre dilections. Lennon paid $8,000 for the license. He did a great business on the opening day, but the thirsty mob, attracted by his saloon, created a reign of terror during the Saturday night he opened and the two days following. Popular sentiment compelled the clos ing of the saloon, and the selectmen of the town agreed to refund the license fee, Lennon on his part agreeing to renounce the license. Tho selectmen fonnd they had no authority to direct the return of the license fee without a vote of the town, and a town meeting was called to act upon the matter. It was held, and the votes, 75 to 10, instructed the selectmen not to return their money. It paid most all their taxes. A mysterious personage called Louis Gaven died recently at Deregnyo in Hungary. He is known to have taken a leading part in the Polish war of independence in 1830, and to have ; goue as a refugee to Hungary, where t the late M. Gabrielle Lonyay em ployed him as a librarian. From this post he quickly rose to that of stewart of the Lonyay estates, which are very large, and he became the intimate friend of his employer; but although he lived for half a century at Deregnyo, he never revealed his true name nor stated what his former position had been. He was a great bibliophile, and devoted almost the whole of the fortune he had amassed to the forming of a library, which is said to be of great value. Three miles across the bay from Setubal, in Portugal, are the partially submerged ruins of a splendid city which seems to have been destroyed without leaving record of either its origin or fate. Old writings give no account of it, but make only chance references to a place called Cetobriga. The ancient and populous city, acci dentally brought to modern notice by a ; 4BU-UU, DUMJU UU BU-,p V WUU 1 nine miles Io5g and thfeV, m&es wfde, and the remains of beautftuf buildings, columnB'an'd statues, with inscription, pottery, merlais, coins, sepulchral lamps", and other objects, prove that the inhabitants were a prosperous and highly civilized people. The relics in dicate that the city was built by the Romans oft the site of a town founded by the Phomecfens-. The ruins lie in considerable part beneath the placid waters of the bay, but nothing is left to tell the tale of the catastrophe- possibly a mighty sea-wave combined with a terriblo earthquake by which a great populace was swept both from existence and from history. Mr. Stanley," says the great ex plorer's secretary, "is a delightful companion. His temper is most equable. It takes a great deal to rouso his anger, but when angry it is best to get out of his way as quickly as possible. Yet he is most generous to all really in need, and never'tires of doing anvthinjr which he believes will be of benefit to any one. ''When we were at Cannes a messenger came ono day and told him that Mr. Hun iington, the American financier, was lying seriously ill at his residence, and it was feared he was on the point of death, and he had expressed a deep desire to see Stanley. Mr. Stanley, although he had hardly a moment to spare from his book, at once went round to the iduk man, 'and remained talking to him for nearly two hours. While in Paris we were again simply inundated by reportors and would-be interviewers, but Mr. Stanley would see nobody. Oh, and I must tell you of an incident that occurred at Cairo. One morning a gentleman came to the hotel where we were staying, and sent in his card, asking to see Mr. Stanley. Tho porter sent the card to me. Of course, I had only to obey orders, and I told him Mr. Stauley would see no one. He went away in high dudgeon, and the next morning there appeared in one of the papers three columns of indignation in Italian one devoted to anathema tizing the porter for not taking the card at once to Mr. Stanley, one for me for not allowing the gentleman to in trude upon Mr. Stanley, and the third against Stanley himself for not seeing the gentleman, ami for keeping such a porter and such a secretary. And it was all translated into Arabic as well. That will show you how inconsiderate some people are." THE UNLUCKY ELEPHANT MAN." rat he tic Story ol an Awful Life of a Lron- don Freak. We can remember no invented tale that speaks so to the heart at once of the cruelty of life and the beauty of human compassion, as the true story closed by a sentence in the newspapers announcing that Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man," was dead. Imagine a human soul clothed in a body so un speakably frightful ;twho hardly dared venture abroad even by night; who, finding his fellow creatures ran from him, grew terrified by the terror he created and shuddered in dark corners like a hunted beast. Imagine him driven by starvation to accept a show man's offer and be exhibited to the most brutal of audiences. Early in 1886 Mr. Frederick Treves, one of the surgeons of the London hospital, fonnd Merrick in a penny show, in a room off the Whitechapel road, crouching behind an old curtain and trying to warm himself over a brick that was heated by a gas jet. Mr. Treves went up to him not only without fear or loathing, but with sympathy. For the first time in twenty-four years Merrick heard a kind word and was spoken to like a man. The effect was curious. It made him afraid at first. He shrank as an ordi nary man would from something un canny. Then, as he began to realize the truth, he broke into sobs of grati tude. Days and even weeks passed, however, before ho recovered from the shock of hearing a compassionate word. The 'police prohibited his show on the ground of public decency. So he went to Belgium, where again the police in terferred, and where an agent decamped with his money. Merrick was left des titute and starving in the streets of a strange town, where tiio ignorant mob thought him a fiend. He came back to Loudon how no one quite knows. At every station and landing place crowds dogged him. Steamers refused to have him on board. But- he came back to London because in Loudon lived tho only man who ever gave him a kind word. He made his way to the London hospital, fonnd Mr. Treves, who had him lodged for a time in an attic in the hospital, and determined to find a per manent shelter for him. But now it was found that no institution would re ceive him. The Royal hospital for in curables and the British home for in curables alike declined to take him in unless sufficient funds were forthcom ing to pay for the maintenance for life. He him&elf begged that he might be placed in a blind hospital. It is hard to match the pathos of this plea. Then, in November, 188G, Mr. Car Gomni, the Chairman of the London hospital, wrote to the Tuna asking for help in this case, and the Brithish public re sponded. A room was built for Mer rick on the ground floor in a remote wing of the hospital, and there, sur rounded witli books, flowers and a hundred tokens of the kindness that is really quick in the public heart, he has liveil until the middle of April. He had found many friends the Prince and Princess of Wales, Mr. Gladstone, Mrs. Kendall and others. To Mrs. Kendall is due the happy suggestion that Merrick should be taken to see the Christmas pantomime at Drury Lane. She engaged the royal box ; she had him brought to the theater, and took every precaution that no strange eye should pee him. Hidden from the house, behind the curtains of the box, the "Elephant Man" tasted an hour or two of intoxicating happiness. It was all real to him the fairies, the splendor ana the jewels. Jlemek, in spite of ma mucous exrenor ana lemuio ex periences, was in his way a gentleman sentimentalist and gushed fort at time3 under the happy conditions of his life at the hospital in verse modeled on the hymns of Dr. Watts, in which he gave utterance to feelings of gratitude and" sincerity of which none ever questioned. It was a tender heart that was beating beneath a mask more hideous than that of Orson. Above all it was a heart that was filled with love for the man who was literally his savior, who first spoke kindly to him, who rescued him from a fate a thousand times worse than death and to the end was both his doctor and his friend. Where Breathing Is Expensive. Niagara Hackman One dollar. Visitoi What for? Hackman Information. Visitor You haven't told me any thing. Hackman Didn't you ask me what Fd charge t' drive you t' the Fall? Visitor Yes ; and you eaid five dol lars, which is altogether too much. Hackman Well, d' Ter surjuose Tm goin' ter give away 'price-lista for UUlUfU , x uuc; uu : CBmiAtisto.iiti yotrattt BT H, C DODGlk E'BE going to celebrate the day In grand old-fash ioned manner. Beginning while the dawn is gray To raise Ithe starry banner. And then the nation to awake And make old Europe wonder. We'll ring tho bells till flteeolns du&ka And let tho cannon thlludcr. Thn for A racket And A noise To show we'tfc Freedom backers. With Uncle Sam and all bis boys Wo'1 pop olf fire-crackers. And all tho bald old beads we set We'll startle from a freo doz By giving them for Liberty A shower of torpodoej. On pnnk-in ) le aud crocket's we Will fol tho bird Of freedom l'seretun ami pop and liber-tea We'll treat tho girls who need 'cm And wbetl the cojers march Along, With drums And fifOi a-playing Old 'Yankee Doodle" loud and strong; We'll follow them boor-ra-lng. Wo'll shoot tho rockets in the sky. And cheer each spark that lingers Wo'll imik" the balls And pin-nheela H, Atid with 'em burn our ringers. We'll lick old Johnny Bull anew, And tell our boys the sterv Then paint tho town red, whit., and bine, To end our Day of Glory. LOVE AND FIREWORKS. BY T. B. ALDERSON. HIZ! Pop! Bang! It was Fourth of X, Ur Ul ll0 "lias of Ford- ham had started in for an early celebra tiona general ono, end a boisterous ono, too; for two elderly geutlemcn, standing one on the porch und the other in the gar den near itof auuaint 3 cottage at the edge of tho town, seemed compelled to shout loudly to make their wonts audible one to tho other. They were gesticulating violently, too; in fact, Iho man on the porch was danc ing from foot to foct, while ho in the gar den brandisl ed his cane madly. "You miserly-old scoundrol!" the latter was shouting, 'your daughter is a heart loss coquette!" "Ha! ha!" bellowed old Gideon Greene, his weazened face ghastly with rage. "Is "IT'S AI.Ij OYEH!" she? Is she? Well, your son is a lazy prollisate. lie wants my daughter; you want my money, and you'll both he dis appointed." "You--you old " "Don't excite yourself. Colonel Doma rest don't rilo yourself! You won't be in trim to make tho grout oration to morrow, if you do. My daughter marries a man of mv choice." "Pali!" "BuhJ" And Colonel Demarest stamped away, a volcano of auger-and Miser Greene chuckled and wheezed, and hobbled into the house. "Victor!" "Claire!" Tho words were a sigh mingled amaze ment and despair, and they disturbed tho birds near the bocr, and two forms came into view the miser's daughter, tho Colonel's son. $ "It's all over!" groaned Victor; "jeo nearu inem. "I am to marry-tho man of his choico," moaned poor Claire. "Oh, Victor!" -Who is he?" - "It must bo that imn Darrell. He came here a mouth' ago, got father to specu late, won a few hundreds for him and his confidence, and " "You love him?" "I abhor him!" "Then," cried Victor, taking hope, "we'll we'll run away!" Old Cide3u awaited the return of his daughter "from the village." and Col. Demarest that of his son "from the club," with impatience that night, and each marveled at the docility and meek ness of daughter and son. They little dreamed of the planned elopement. Claire had demurred, but she loved Victor, and hated Darrell, and when he kissed her good-night, it was nil agreed at what hour she should be in the garden tho next evening. .lust nearing tho fence, Victor stum bled and uttered a startled ejaculation. A form arose before him that of a gaunt, scared lad. "Who are yon what are you doing here?" demanded Victor, sharply. "It's only Tom Tom Chubbs. You know me, Mr. Demarest? "Eh? tho poor-honseboy?" "Yes, s:r. They sent mo away from the woikhonse, and I had no place to sleep, and " "Yoa've been lying there?" "For over an hour." "And overhe.ird our talk?" "I I hr.d to listen." Victor was dismayed. He reflected. He talked to Tom for an hour. Yes, he couid trust Tom. Tho latter vowed se crecy. He wouldn't bl ib. Why, he would help Victor. And when Victor left him Tom possessed a doll lr, and agreed he 1-r.i rioaTitvTn. -novzDZ'j, weak." to be at the garden fence at ten o'clock the next evening, to drive the carriage in which Victor intended tunning away with his prospe:tive br de. What a Fourth of July that was for the poor workhouse boy! Tom Chubbs had never owned a dollar before had never celebrated Independence day, and now, at noon his face was grimed and he bid devoured enormous quantities of lemon ade and i. e-creim At nightfall he stole from the village without a cent in his pocket, his angers burned to a blister, one eye-brow gone, but chuckling de lighted over the one jolly day in his wretched life. "Scrumptious!" he gloated. "Oh! what a day! Mebbe Mr. Demarest will give me another dollar. If he does I'll cele brate the Fourth two days. Oh! what beiuties them fireworks are. See 'em! see 'em! I'd likea to have stayed and seez thee but I promised to help Ur. TJeirest." Tom arrived at the fec:e turroendieg the miser's residence. In about an hour Victor drove up with a double team. He ordered Tom to keen well in the shade of the roadside trees, vaulted the f eace aad LNjfcV1 Tl vtCsJhWJSBaa IsBBfe-y . assk sb7- ee "sbf SSSBA BfSaA SkA SWVsaW SnW zj y u disappeared among the shrubbery of the Greene trarden, An hour passed by. At home, Colonel Demarest supposed that his son, fully cured of his fancy for the miser's daugh ter, was enjoying himself with his boon companions, and Gideon Greene, seated in what he balled his libraty, was smok ing and drinking with his now friend and "the man of his choice," Bryce Darrell. "She's all right, Darrell. my boy!" the miser was saying. "I liked you from the first keen, economical, all moner-mak-ing; not a whit like that spendthrift. Demarest. She's willing. Well, we'll combine Our fortunes. Eh, Darrell, old boy. eh? I de claro that liquor -" Gideon Greene fell forward on the table. Ferret-faced Darrell smiled triumph antly - "Good!" he chuckled to himself. "The drug works. Now, then, to get tho keys, and investigate the safe. Marry his daughter! Ha, ha! When I've got two wives Already! My city property! I've worked a clever game. Now to Ret tho cash, and skip for parts unknown!" In her room pre'.ty Claire had been waiting for Darrell to go before ventur ing forth to meet her lover. Victor in the garden was growing impatient; then his attention became riveted on a strange sceno. He witnessed the interview in the li brary between the miser and Darrell. He saw Darrell take the keys of the former, Eteal to the safe, open it, and take thence a small tin box. Instantly ho divined the sharper's plan. Teh minutes later Claire Grce-io rushed into the library. A terrible commotion hud called her thither. A startling scene greeted her amazed vision. Heeling in the center of the room was her lover pale, a bleeding wound in his forehead, a tin box in his hand. At the table, a smoking pistol in his grasp, was Gideon Greene. "See him! see him!" he sbrioked. "The safe open my money box tho thief!" "Hold!" cried Victor, faintly. "It is not I who robbed you. See, tho box is empty; the money " "The money!" screamed the frantic Greene. "The real thief has taken. Ho es caped mo. Quick! to the garden." Then he fell prostrate, wounded, weak. The miser and his daughter sped to the open window. "Look!" quavered Claire. Suddenly the dark garden was illumi nated. led! a great luminous sphere of fire traversed the air and exploded in a million sparks. "Darrell!" gasped Greene. Yes, Bryce Darrell was plainly revealed in the ruby glow, his hands tilled with bank notes, running across tho gaiden. "Halt!" cried tho miser. Click! darkness. Ihou a second groat glow. White! n whirling ball of radiance cnt the darkness liko a scythe. Baug! the mi'-or fired. The shot missed its intended mark, and Bryce Dnrrell leaped to the fence. Hiss! g'ow! Tho sharper, near to escape, uttered a scream of. mortal agony. Blue! a third mysterious globe of light shot forward. It struck his fico. lie dropped tho bank notes, he tore at his eyes, he fell to the ground and writhed and shivered iu blinded anguish. There the miser found him his stolen bank notes, too. But what did it mean? Hod, whiio and blue! Whence the lights? A scared boy that will explain it. Tom Chubbs had found a stray romnn candle in his pocket. Ho had handled it lestively, longed to fire it, dared not, but trifled with it and a m.itch, anil Wildly exploding, its third shot had brought a thief to bav. There was no elopement that night. Darrell slept in jail. Tom w.is installod as wounded Victor's nurse. A week later Victor wsis convalescent, tho miser and the Colonel reconciled, and a wedding took place, aud Tom was prom, ised a home and all the fireworks he wanted at every recurring Fourth of July. A Hint to Our Youlliliil .'.V:nlori It's a very good plan to loosen vout hold. after a skyrocket is fairly lighted. A 'Woman Monk. A young Russian girl who felt called by heaven to abandon tho world and such of its vanities as were likely to fall to her lot six or seven months ago, s'ruck out the female termination, "a," from her name--Alexandra as written in her passport, and, having donned a becoming suit of male attire, presented herself to the igoomen or abliot of thcBionnstery of Koheozcrfk, over the threshold of which female footsteps had never passed Tho holy monks spoke to the postulant, whose looks they liked, and whom they made no difficulty about admitting. As a nov ice the young w mm discharged the manifold duties of her station with exemplary industry and scrupulous ness. The community as a w hole was satisfied, while some individual mem bers of it were unspeakably edified and delighted with their new inmate. I"i -fortunately, a few days ago, just as tho time fixed for taking the vows was drawing near, one of those untoward accidents that are so liable to erur under such nbnormal conditions, re vealed the sex of the demure novice, and obliged the monks to ejec her from the cloistered precincts. Neither the authorities nor tho monks into: d to prosecute the would-be hermit, the police contenting thenis-elves by com pelling her to .'-ign a declaration to the effect that having lamentably failed in her attempt to imitate Mary, she will in future be satisfied with the lot of Martha. Anticipation. Ihe glorious l'ourth is at baud. And over our tautif al latd The blaze of the rocket Proves tho heart and the pocket Respond to tho day's glal coaiaa-d. And a p-eat irrerresniLle inv Wells up in the hart of each boy At thep!ea-ure ia store When with crackf r f alore Our li'n es and our rest he'll destroy. A i-mall Hoy's Idea r tho Fourth. On the dav preceding the glorious Fourth a teacher in a Westneld. Wis . Sabbath school asked his class if any of them could tell him on what day Christ "I know." promptly end confidently re stoaded a. iill boy fcrourth o! July." C.tiiOWT'" iear wife " s arerfet picture at church this morui. g. Bca E. Dicke (married a year and cvniclj In a modern sense I agree w ith you, dear boy. The frame cost me just $127. m the tfsaivTo-sft. Beyond th purple, hazy tress Of inmmsj'a utmost boundaries ; Beyond tha sands, beyond the seas. Beyond ths range of eyes like these, And only in the reach ot the Enraptured gaze of memory, Thsre lies a land long lost to me The land of Used-to-be. A land enchanted such as swung In golden seas when sirens clang Along their drippinj brinks and sung To Jason in that mystic' tongno That dized man with its melody Ob, such a land, with such a sea Kissing its shores eternally, Is tho fair Used-to-be. A land where ntusic ever girds Tho air with belts ot singing birds. And sows all sounds with such swoet words Ibat even in tho lowing herds A meaning live s so swet to me. Lost laughter ripples limpidly. From lips brimmed o'er with all the glee Of rare old Used to-be. Lost laughter and the whistled tunes Of boyhood's mouth of crescent runes. That rounded through long afternoons, To serenading pl'nifunes When startling fell so luUtily That, peering up from tended kneo, 1 dreamed 'twas bridal drapery Snowed over Used-to-be. Oh. land of love and dreamy thought, Aud shining fields and shady spotj Or coolest, greenest, grassy plots. Embossed with wild forget-me-nots And all ye blooms that cunningly Lift your laces up to me Out of the past. 1 kiss in thee The lips of Used-to-be. And love ye all, and with wet eyes Turned glimineringly on the skieit, Mv blessings liko jour porfumo rise. Till o'er my soul a sileucu lies Sweeter than any song to mo Sweeter than its melody Or its sweet echo. yea. all three sf t dreams of Usod-to-be. James Whitcumb lliley. A SCHOOL GIRL'S GAME. "Swaps" Is the Name Applied to a Cossip Trading Scheme. "I'll do swaps with you." She was a delicious high school girl, says the Washington Post; one of those demure, pink-cheeked bits of humanity, so child- ishly frank, so womanly clever; one of the dear things in quaint gowns, big bats, high shoulder capes, and long, wrinkled gloves. "Indeed I will" continued tho lovely bud. "I'll do swaps with you, 'pon honor, too." "Swaps. Well, what on earth is, or are, swaps?" " You don't know what swaps are?" and a shade of velvet pity softened the maid en's bright eyes as he looked at maama's friend. "No, Elsie, dear." And the worldly wise woman blushed at her own ignorance. "Mv, mv," cooed Elsie, "how funny." "Well, I'll tell yon all about it. Now we tbat is, you and I make a bargain for swaps real, genuine swaps nothing you made yourEelf or asked for. Weil, you just keep my swaps all stored up and 1 do yours. Then when you see me, you or I say quick, 'Got a swap for you.' Then we both yell as quick as lightning, 'Last go!' See? The one who says 'Last go' first gets the swap." "But what on earth is the swap, dear?" persisted the lady. "Oh!" said the high school girl shrug ging her shoulders, "swaps aio anything good." "Anything good? They're not to eat?" ventured the candidate for initiation. "To eat!" shrieked Elsie, in a tone of dis gust, and she actually left fall her bag of taffy. "To eat? Well, I should say not; it's to hear things people- say about you, compliments on your eyes or hair or your clothes or your mind. See?" The lady was about to admit that she was familiar with swaps, but "When you say 'I've got a swap for you,' and than yell 'Last go!' I e fore the other girl does, she has to ghe yon one first, or you can just hold her back far dnys and days and make her just wild. You see, its 'pon honor, and ebo can't make 'em up or ask anybody to do them on purpose. The fun yon get holding her swap back would be a heap improved if you didn't feel so mean to wait so lsng for other peo ple to say nice things about you." Tho child is father to the man, and the Washington high school girl is mother to the society woman. The school girl's game of "swap" is nothing more nor less than tho legitimate business of society, on?y tho trade among tbe school girls is digni fied by perfect frankness, and has tho ad vantage of such perfect frankness and re strictions as "'pon honor," which appar ently do not obtain in the conventional drawicg-room. lr About to Travel or Emigrate. Tho voyager cannot b provided with a safer remedy and protective medicine than llostetter's Stomach Titters. Abundant testimony exists to prove that it nullities hurtful climatic iutlu ciices a-id tlu effects of exposure, that it recon ciles tho stomnch to unaccustomed food, and present a injurious results from impure water. Mariners, tourists, emigrants., and miners hae all contribute! their quota of testimony iu its behalf, and its protective influence has bo?u most effectually demonstrated in regions and under conditions where, if not really effective that fact would long ti-ice liave leju evpofod. In no clnsi ot dioiuers havo its remedial and prevrntiio properties been more conspicu ous! v shown than i:x cincs of malarial fcvcr. mii!ad!ts for nhieh it is the ir.ot popular specific in existence, both here and in tho tropic'.wht-rj its reputation is scarcely second to that which it enjoys ou thN continent. It if. morevir, a most agrecnblo npiwtizcr ami nervine. Mr.s. M.vitY Fkohmax, of New York, "put out a big washing" tho day her bns band died. Afterward she had the parlor window shades dr.mn up, and placed iu the window pictures of herself and hus band, draped in ie.1. white and blue. In tha basement window were displayed a pair of scales and a bologna sausage, also draped in red, white and blue. Georoe P. Ckaiu, of Gwinnett, Ga., has two hOs that perforin the office of a calf to perfection. Mr. Craig had bepn complaining that bi cows were falling short of milk for several weeks, and upon ;!oso examination, to his astonishment, he found these roguish hogs had been imbib ii g tho milk of the cows, both remaining in the same lot together at night. A bombshell lias just been thrown into thcoaiupofthj" Twin' Trust by tli well known house of Montgomery Ward ,t Co.. of Chicago, in the way of a startling offer to sell half inanilla and linif sisal binder twine at 10 cents per pound, neatly 5 crnt. b-ss than the trust twine can be sold for. Mont gomery Ward : Co. will lose a fortune by this move, but they say that they have re-nolv-d to break the twine trust price if such a tiling is possible. The fact that they deal directly with tho farmers, and that they number their customers by tho million, makes their inlliience very powerful. If they should succeed in breaking the mar ket! the saving to Up American farmers will amount to almost S.I.OUO.OW). proving con clusively that th-tanners have no better friend. 'than the house of Montgomery Ward ,t Co. The gold mining craze in Maine contin ues uuabated, according to this dispatch from Augusta: "Gum Corner, in the town of Byron, is the center cf operations, and miners are flocking there by hundreds. The pioneer and discoverer of the field is G. A. Xoroross. of Augusta. Nearly all the land in the vicinity has been bought up by prospectors." Aliiert ruirrzEi:, publibher of the New York Journal, is suffering with a dis ease of the eyes that tLreatens to be as f erions as tbat which afflicts his brother, Joseph 1'iilitzer, of the H'orM, A Lady In South Carolina If rites: Mv labor was shorter and less painful than on two former occasions: physicians aston-i-hed: I thank you for "M:thvi s Friend." It is woith its weight in gold. Address tho Biadfltfld Reg. Co.. Atlanta. Ga.. forpattic ulars. S Id by druggists. A number of the Catholic priests at New Brunswick, N. J., have announced that Catholic children who attend the public fcbeols will not 03 confirmed, and there is considerable ex itement. '. Some CatholicB say the public are better than the paro chial schools, and that ih'y, therefore, will not c.mply with tbe macdate. Miss Hattie Elaine, whose engage ment to a member of a for ign legation is rumored, is the yourgest and prettiest daughter of the secretary. Btx Xovels Free, will be seat by Crogtn & Co.. Philada.. Pa., to any one ia the U. S. or Canada, postage paid, upon receipt of 25 Dobbins' Electric Soap wrappers. See list or novels on circulars liroand each bar. Scad for sale bv all grocer.). Tuzur. in great excitement in and tear o i Tiuro, X. S , over a rich lind cf .old in tho i alluvial mud of an old river bed near i Brookneld. HE LIVED IN BED. But Was as Well as AayfcoUy Queer Case or HailaclnAtlOB. The death of Bobert J. Wright at Bustle ton on Saturday last will recall to mind a very peculiar man, says the Philadelphia Record. Deceased was a son ot the late Joseph Wright, of umbrella-making fame, and founder of Wright's Institute, at Frank ford. The country seat of the elder Wright was on Powdcimill lane, near Frankford, where the son, Bobert J., also resided, and for nearly twenty years was scarcely ever seen out of doors. He kept himself locked up in a room from which every rav of daylight was excluded. He also bad "a doctor to attend him regularly, although he had no ailment. lie had a couch ar ranged in the room npon which he laid, and seldom it was that ho was found upon bis feet. Tho hallucination that he was suffering from a disease lasted for many years. The late Dr. William Guernsey, of Frankford, was for several years Wright's physician. One day while seated near the cot upon which Bobert was lying tho doctor said to him: "Mr. Wright, yon could not walk if you Wanted to, could you?" Quick as a flash tho sick man bounded out of bed and skipped sever.il tim-s around tho room "like a rabbit" as Dr. Gcernsev said in L describing tho scene ono day-j-and when no jumped into neu again be said to the doctor: "(an't I. though!" Dr.ucr.isTs. you should always havo a good supply of Dr. IIuU's Worm Destroyers on hand. Mothers want theso candies for their chlldron and won't take any other. An exploring party sent out by tbe Se attle 1'rex.H to Alaska six months ago has returned. Ttoy report having suffered terribly during the winter from snow and high water, but they found a rich country and evi Jc-nce of ancient iuhabit mts. Sir James jliiii,r.i:, owner of Sanfom, tho winner of tho Derby, is bnt 26 year3 of age. He paid 7,500 guineas for his flset-footed hors3. "Delays aro dangerous." Clean house at onco with S A POLIO. It is a solid cake of Scouring Soap used for all cleaning pur poses except tho laundry. A chicken with four legs, four wings and two heads has just been hatched at Del mar, Del. S. K. COBURN. Mgr.. Clario Scott, writes : -I End Hall's Catarrh Cure a valuable, remedy." Diuggists eoII it, 7ic. According to the official reports, the number of abandoned farms in Vermont now reaches :i.()0l). Best, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso's Remedy for Calarrh. Br druggists. SUc The sweating system is described by an English humanitarian as "penal servitude on a small salary." tVhen Baby was sick, we gave her Cast oris. When she was a Child, tho cried for Ca&toria, When blie became Miss, she clung to Castoria. When she had CMUren. she gave them Castoria. Of a family of uixteen, near Taylors town, Pa., thirteen have died of diphtheria. Fon a disokdeued lavEi: try Ueeciiaji's Tills. x-Pi:esidest CiEVETi.VNi has bought an orange grove down in Florida. Traveling men-" smoke "Tansill's Punch." in Maine regularly shaves her crrowu-urjpbrother. h 3 .. Both the EMtliod and results wnen Syrup of Fig3 13 taken ; i t is pleasant andrefrcshiugto the taste, and acts fently jet promptly on the Kidneys, ivcr and Bowels, cleansca the sys tem eflectually, dispels colds, head aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation. Syrup of Figs is tho only remedy of its kind ever pro duced, pleaainr to tho taste and ac ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneiicial ia its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities com mend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup ot Figs is for sale in 50o and 81 bottles by all leading drug gists. Any reliable druggist who may not havo it on hand will pro cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it Do not accept any substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYIWP CO. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. IOUISVIUE KV. KZW tORK. N.T. this wmm aaau WA60HS3ii A Light lellcry, Market or Hii-lnc c- r,t Koil Cart :. IS A b.xt Mroa? IU.4 1 art. 10 iT? K"EJ "llh .ns I00O Ih. !(.; Sr. 40 'OOOIb. njtr.rm Sal. IS A Vat Itnru KarncM. t trnn I'r.TI r,.r!. at Hair IVe-. laf 1-iJe V!m. t-a!-. S-ir A&I.1. . C'lilCAUSJ ruCALK CO.. CHICAGO. I1XS. lJUHES.nso Dr.ro Dnc'sTcriodicarPllls.frcra Jkrlt, 1 raw. E.ulU!il la Euror. 1 . Kaar. J. PS0; CinaJa. 1; L'n.tnl Stat'i, 1T. Ciri-t all mpf mixta, irr-gajiL. aaJ B-ontMr anuiwu'J. SaO, hra:, rflrtbla. Thf r-wlloly B3a.totb.Undi;rtn!"riria-cy. TLalar rropoTla of ll't to witch laJ e ' r-W ' tt d " """-It tmd r.irf-l an I ftr-ralir n r i.truathn. Cuntlirifl moala y toj.pr-i.x-n, rwcli in tol rJ"In - aa.I quick con.a-nplw'U t - I i. or - ft r r Bvavl, In PIl- rl nlor-. ca iwVptof f-r-c- Toe Anj'rt nn Fi:l Co.. Whol!m and R..-ra!tj Pn-r-i. tor.. Tl crn'ne p.!! -l T irI.Wt. ,; .1 IJELO.NC. 1TUS mx CI: j, la a, LoUa ail Vm.-J. Jis'a. SJBSBataSaaSaaamaaaaaBBSaaaaaaaBBSJSnr relief ICTUlfl KIDDER'S PISTIUB-gS BSJCb isrtastoi OPIUM naJMf. Tns only urtsls and as7 cars. Dr. J. L. SMDoens. Lebaaon. Ohio. V c.iiUi dowit r crown -urjlbi T' m 'r I sbbbbbbbsbbbbbbbbbbbbbbV BBBBBBM - " dBBKSSSBSBBBBBBBBBBa BBBBBBsVv TCsOBBSBBBBBBBBBBBr EI305SrC UklByylBBBBBBa Hh&!'sewm2sbibbbbbbbbbbbh fcJSJBSMsSBBMfiiSSSBBSSSSW snm4&&Kl7 k I r-""LHXt-""- rf' 'F y. "J WfWi I zM BSsBtSmBl ra gSrfej Best Cough Medicine. Recommended by Physicians. Cures where all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to tho taste. Children take it without objection. By druggists. Strange indeed ttiaJ-'- &9Wffimm8 a'tfir?'' T like SAPOUO should ma.ke everybhing so brihhbub ku- ..- -1sr "A needle cldthes ohhers.ad is iteelj: no.kedVTiy ihin your next houseiclea.nin What folly it would be to cut grass with a pair of scissors! Yet peo ple do equally silly things every day. Modern progress has grown up trom the hooked sickle to the swinging scythe and thence to the lawa mower. So don't use scissors! But do you uso SAPOUO ? If you don't you axe as much behind the age as if you cut grass with a dinner knife. Once there were no soaps. Then one soap served all purposes. Now the sensible folks use one soap in the toilet, another in the tub, one soap ia the stabka aad SAPOUO for all scouring and house-cleaning. . Weak and Wflar, In summer the wsrmer wsat&er la ajseUH weakening and eaerratiBsT sad that timflMKas syoToUs everywhere. Ta great Mfc wafcti people at this season derive fros stooTs Barsaasj riUa proves that this meclcisa ll strong.' It doss act act Use a sUsaalsai IjssrtiBst fictitious strength, but Hood's SsjssarilU builds up In a perfectly natural way att to weakansd part , and purifies the blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla Sold by aU druggists. It; six for $J. Prepared ottiy by C. I. HOOD a CO. Lowell. Mass. (OO Doses Ons Dollar . - electrkTbelt raTOrrcoAsc.lS, ISS7, ktratm Jtv3t. I SSf. W.i. otT.ViliinBnnTSTTT AS SUSrlSSORY -Ul .Zcm Mil ttetuaaue Cass- 'uuats.T.nmbace.Gtasrsl ;-aa :voas DtbiUty, Costrwmess. Kidney Diseases, jrmoosans. Trrmbliag, Scanal Zx- tiatntfaa- WutinS? ! a.o- w:. ? eases essaed by Indiscretions ia Youth. Al PT-SS-TT TO KC9F63SIBLB rABTin OS S SATS TSUfc MaxriM er sgie uir. i dV.owWs ELECTRIC INSOLESsinaAis. j Also an Electric Truss and Belt Combined. StdS4.Muce for rssslllmt 4 toot.7:tMfr.IKa " SSat7aalop!&lairmlelTe'or Mentis Ikl9rpr. Addrssi own btectric belt appliance co. SOO North Broadway. ST. LOUIS, XOk 00 Broadway. MEW TOMf. ClXT. lO CENTS PER POUND HALF MANILLA and HALF SISAL QUALITY GUARANTEED TERMS CASH WITH ORDER- Montgomery ward & Co. . ill TO 116 MICHIGAN AVENUE,. CHICAGO. DrOOD,sfoi. AJ Regular Graduate In Medicine 20 SS voir tuitintitl anil vrinite vnictUr ,SSasm to in rtiirmjo and Sen- Yurk-Kn-H -tabli-.hol in Moux C'ltr Nine aVFBsVl3Vc:n tostllltreatlnB nil 1'rivnte, BSkBEAf Xrt ous. Chronic and Special BSBvBsBslBwdiscaes. Sncrmatorrliirii, Seiuinstl Weakliest (nfy'.t lossts) Impotency tloss of srrjuil i-oittr), anil ull Femule UWe:i-en. lrrri;u.'irifi. '"- Cures guaranteed or money reftiiidnl Charges fair. Term rath. AKtMiml experienn nrt- Important. No In jurious medicines u-"ed A'.i llmr ''' from worker liiisine"- Patients at a dltanc treated I.yinnil Mrtikinri tent errryic'irre rte frnm guzr nnabrttik aatStitU vntr cmr ami Vend for Opinion ami trri!is-ConultatIon Mrtrtlr conlldcntlal. person ally r by letter llr. WOOD lias t!it largest Medical anil Surgical Inttlttite and Kye and Kar lnjrrmarv in tn Ve--Hmisfor pati-n rt fair rate-.'f arllArb- to meet any eruer-pency-A yiilet Home and W rare und tklll r IjiiHrs iltirtwi Pirqnunnj mul I'tinjnn.iriit Send -Ic post.-!.--' lorIllutra:-d HOOK an. I .1IKD1CAI .lOUKN'AL. i!2r-Jicntlon thi? paper.; L EWI8' 98 S LYE! 721:23 sviz rssrraiD. (1'ati.s rci.) Tho stronnest and jiumt I.y made. Will n:ako tho BKhT Perfumed IUnn Soap in twenty lninu'es without loilhuj. It l the bett for dislufectirj; BiukS. closeiH, dmins, washing bottles, barrels, points, etc. PENNA. SALT MANUF'G. CO., Gen. Asts.. I'bila., Pa. i LIKE MY WIFE TO USE FOZZONI'S MEDICATED COMPLEXION POWDER- Because It Improves Her Looks I and is as r-raRrantns vioisis- SOIiX) EVKLW B0RE.WEUS! Cur Wll M.irhltirs aro thrineM MONEf! hluacl: Dtiuki.r'.Hi'ccciiyi'i.' The) 1oMCKKOKKnn.l nak.-lilCKATKi: I'KUFTi'. They t'IMIIWrlU where other t II.: Anr rur.S lnctittU iai-lxrUiar:etf r LOOMS & NYMAN, Catalogue TIFFIM, - OHIO. 3g5T FREE! Ask Him! WE10P JONES GF B1SKW3M, BINGHAMTOW, l. Y. What? Why on Scales " tis Pays ilie Freight; Tbe "Liille Easuij" A S5.0G Seals forSI.OO (.(parity 1-1 I. to Iba. Stl Uarir(r.. fcrSc.p ant P-m. . t r li'-c tt'tjri. t'ne.cri'-ri. 00 W!m. l.il Vj.rt-Tfirrri CnPt r- A I'i.l'Ofm.reSla.iiitr JIVM aJuALt Att'O-I.S. l"l(crnii-cilc...l&.Wl -? SliS.IIOT.p luztj . ...Ci.tMJ lP A S-Tn W,C1D lit 40.00 ' I A S-Tn Sea, and Slot WUcl ';.0i 7jt!r?C S" ! J-'"l 3U.O i.r,"t. a i; c.o iirjrfiift is. 01 WA JtU.OftMrv!. !aratvt...7.a( A StO-lh. riatfarm S-cal. . 3.M1 rtlrr U.I Trrp. CHICAGO MCAii: CS.. Ch.'caio, 11IJ Jlumy retiimleil It all coi.l are r.-.t s r er- -nt'il. and ail l-ar Hi" cua-an'e- or 111 nnr urartur-n. Wf pay ul air of lr, ill M'i.OI) to &M ( per week. AiMiei f r f.:II particular Kl.Kli .V ANI)S, .tliiiiiiriarturinc Jeweler." Aueiit. I5.t Ii ::ie lreet. Chicago, til. AT FOLKS PENSIONS Tlie great reniorj II II lias lined. S .iir. thfir wld- w... raotlier-. and Uthrr rc eatxtlri :o l.a iiionth Fe- Jl'i. rhri f- jret iniir i.h vr P:zz fee ,Iorpn II. Iiintrr. Att' W-l:i- gtor., I V PKTMOaJM Jon -v. Morcitis, SuccossftiMv Proaoctrtes Claims. I.atPrilif-ipaI I.Tamtn-r I s I'Tinion Hureau. ,xrttDlaetrvar U a'L uuicatL3;rIa:uis. atty eiace- (;:,0(). rirtiti t- t. ! 1 d u t1 c !' iNion lif. It n-rtpj p.rd de nfi i .-,n- a'l-e. Tei "iBir-ii-Ue-.talprd lit llav r jTrial";! se t J A.t'-.oiit d'- u.. i-. uir:c on::::i i.u ,cidh. u i r F KEKMAX .t 3HNI:Y. '."a.M'K.on. P. C- I'ATFNT ITViIOV, lrjl ASIJ. M ATTOIIVET- I! I. M"r.er. Ill trtr-. mmbc. oJ CoicrM-- A A I'lreinai. ti t-ar A?t 1. s. Att".? i,cn- IVrS-oMifT'- SailsaSTiO For 1'ar-ntM Wntr at occe to I.L. Mcl'ar.actl. WaHainKton. u. C. S. V. X. V. Xo. iI7-00 ---UffiSiS23VJ ZssblsSSMJSsbt vSsTflsaasflsaaaaUs; SKsMPrTTCt t i.. H feWW' ' V 'V.3 EtKWktfsia vtlBXs aBBKiw "A6tr lllsaki MEi er?rfS5 sCaa" t?F3?a si 2" G& icz2r W JT!Pari.ll-''lE:nil.i.fc.'. Ull I I Balrtxr-ui- - .l'DiAmond.-. rill B lfcW.iVli-sanl.Ie-Irr. fiood- ncwl-nri M.ai:e is 4 nutla rr-'U -.alf m all i-nmmni-ltlf-. Ali Ut t Ui ,t 111! Otitlnn. JK0IOI A h SCHOOL TK?i?f SS: IMin-. l).-:a:tment:' Trxt lAjt Tttt Fiirninhed room- r0 cent-j rer trvet. Imanl tuition fT.Cd lr term 'I'-ir-her ,.rel.reil lr etatf examina tion. J."o in.-irlpntal fi-rn,ri Pr ratalcunn ail drcss. WouDlim: Sokhal. V.ooUbine. Town. rax !SWKu-cVjuicii .iu" ' '' Ml. SrIJbT lnirr"t""-,!,-,-,,',T"V-, '" SV i 4 13 ; I. . I J
