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saying " Mr.. Webb hastn't got back"
and just as bystander growled, saw
him going into the Office yesterday"
Whatever il. might have been to
another man, it was no joke to Webb to
have his entrance spoiled. He got up
all in heap, and shook his fist in the
supposed direction of the young men
who had hastened his journey; but, be-
ing still too giddy for accuracy, found
himself attacking John Jasper. Kathie,
to peal of merry laughter at the sight.
The man was in red-hot fury and reel
ing, his travelling suit and white linen
collar adorned with small moist
saccharine particles, his hair on end /;
yet, under all, the gloss and polish of
his first toilet was plainly visible.
Will. Manners and his friend came
running down into the store. Explana-
nations and apologies ensued.
AS for Webb, his discontinue was
total. A splendid scheme of turning
on Drake in indignation flashed through
his dazed brain, but he did not feel able
to think it out, and something in brakes
manner seemed to suggest possible dan
ger. Then Kathie's laughter was dis,
piriting. Instinct told him that he could
make no impression on her that night
and while he was still slowly growing
out of his bewilderment, he saw John
Jasper and Will. Manners shaking hands
in way that spoke volumes.
aLet the old place CO." said Jasper
"What do 1 care, if Kathie is only
happy"
Kathie looked happy. Her eye
were shining. Something new was
astir. Somebody started three cheers
and under the cover of the noise Webb
and bis man Friday walked out.
In an incredibly short space of time
by some mysterious management, wo
man made her appearance on the scene
and then two or three others. All Joh1
!, Jasper's unsold candles were burning il
impromptu candlesticks, the floor fresl
sanded, new cut paper hung in place o
the old. Minister, fddlers, and guests
were summoned, and wedding, gay ant
merry if not fine, took place in the olt
store that had been Jasper's SO long, an,
, was now to pass back into its forme
owners hands.
Before the evening was over it go
! about that Kathie's romance was com
pleted in true romantic fashion, fo
, WILL had indeed come back with hi
| pockets full, and insisted on helping he
father out of his difficulties for Kathie'
sake; but the lovers trembled in tn
, midst of their happiness to think ho,
, near they had come to misunderstood
| ing that very evening.
f AS for Webb, after his shaking up wa
we'll over, he was rather glad things ha
/ happened as they had, and eschewe
. matrimony, dramatic effects, and suga
casks thenceforth.
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serve an I'M unct1Om ON Dt8eaxe
By invigorating feeble constitution, reno
waiting debilitated physique, and enriching
a thin and innutritious circulation with
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, the finest, the
most highly sanctioned, and the most popu-
lar tonic and preventive in existence. 1t
strengthens the stomach, remedies torpor of
the liver and bowels, and gives healthful
impulse to the secretive and discharging
function of the kidneys and bladder. Not
only does it arrest and prevent the recur-
renee of malarial fevers, but it furnishes the
only adequate safeguard against them to
persons who have never been afflicted with
those maladies, but would be liable to incur
them if incidentally unprotected. 1t elimi-
mates from the blood certain impurities
which the most skillful pathologists assign
as the exciting causes of those agonizing
complaints, rheumatism and gout, and it is,
moreover, an excellent remedy for an en-
feebled or overwrought state of the nerves,
and for mental despondency.
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A RECENTLY returned South African
traveller, Sig. Scarpaneri, writes that
one of the most striking things connec-
ted with the lion is his extremely grand
voice. It consists at times of a low,
deep moaning, repeated five or six times,
ending in family audible sighs, at other
times he startles the forest with loud,
deep-toned, solemn roars. each increas-
ing in loudness until his voice dies away
in several low, muffied intonations, re-
sembling distant thunder. Not unfre-
quently a troop may be heard roaring
in concert, one assuming the lead, and
two. three, or four more regularly tax
ing up their parts, like persons singing
a catch. Like Scottish stays at the
rutting season, they roar loudest on
cold, frosty nights; but on no occasion
are their voices to be heard in such per-
fection, or so intensely powerful, as
when two or three strange troops of
lions approach fountain to drink at
the same time. When this occurs. every
member of each troop sounds bold
roar of defiance at the enemy and when
one roars all roar together. The gran
deur of these nocturnal forest concerts
is inconceivably pleasing to the hunters
ear, and the effect is largely enhanced
when the hearer is in the depths of the
forest, at midnight, unaccompanied by
any attendant, and ensconced within
twenty yards of the fountain which the
troop of lions are approaching. Such,
Sig. Scarpaneri says, has been his
situation scores of times, and though he
has tolerably good taste for music, he
considered the catches with which he
was then regaled as the sweetest and
most natural he had ever heard.
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His Theory.
Detroit Free Press

Four or five City Hall officials were
sitting on the steps on the Woodward
avenue side Saturday afternoon, dis
cussing politics and the weather, when
a smallish man, seeming to be in con-
siderable mental distress, approached
them and inquired:
Gentlemen, is there a scientific man
among you?"
Certainly there is" they replied in
chorus.
"And you must be familiar with the
laws governing storms?'
"We are," was the prompt answer.
"Well, then," continued the stranger,
"I wish to relate what may seem like a
singular occurrence. / live on Division
street, and though it began raining at
midnight the other night and continued
for twenty-four hours, not single drop
fell upon my garden"
Is that possible!" gasped one after
another.
It is the solemn truth, gentlemen,
and I'd like to know by what law of na-
ture you can account for it. 1t was
a long-continued drenching storm, yet
not one drop fell upon my garden"
"There wasn't even room for a sug-
gestion. The crowd was astonished and
silent. After a long minute one of the
gentlemen turned to the stranger and
asked:
"You must have a theory, haven't
your
~ have"
"And What is it?'
my theory, gentlemen, is that l rent
rooms on the third floor, and had no
garden fot the rain to fall on!"
Five men rose up in chorus, brushed
off their coat-tails, and followed each
other into the hall in Indian file.
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problem is not likely to be finally solved

problem is not likely to be finally solved
until the experiment has been tried.
SOME years ago son of the late
Baron Liebig asked Mr. J. B. Lawes, of
Rothamsted to furnish him with samples
of the soil of a certain wheat field, and
the result of his analysis established the
fact that manures, such as phosphoric
acid and potash, remain in combination
with the soil, very close to the surface.
As all manures are applied either to the
surface of the soil, or few inches
below it, we may consider that if
they contain potash, phosphoric acid
and nitrogen, as is the case with
farmyard manure, the two former
will remain close to the place where
they are deposited, while the nitrogen,
as it becomes converted into nitric acid,
will diffuse through the soil, where part
will be arrested by vegetation, and
part will escape into the subsoil and
drains.
SELF-RAIsING bread: Put three tea
cups OF water-as warm as you can bear
your finger in-in a two quart cup or
bowl, and three-quarters of teaspoon
full OF salt; stir in -four enough to make
quite stiff batter. This is for the ris-
ing. Set the bowl, closely covered, in a
kettle in warm water-as warm as YOU
can bear your finger in-and keep it as
near this temperature as possible.
Notice the time you set your rising. In
| three hours stir in two tablespoonsfuls
of -four; put it back, and in five and
one-half hours from the time of setting
it will be within one inch of the top of
your bowl. 1t is then light enough,
and will make up eight quarts of -four.
Make a sponge in the center of your
-four with one quart of the same tenn
perature as rising; stir the rising into
IL, cover with little dry -four, and put
it where it will keep very warm and not
scald. In three-quarters of an hour
wiring this into stiff dough. If water is
used be sure it is very warm, and do not
work as much as yeast bread. Make
the loaves little larger, and keep il
warm for another three-quarters of al
hour. 1t will then be ready to bake
While rising this last time have you
oven heating. 1t needs hotter over
than yeast bread.
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-15

MAJOR DANGERFIELD LEWIS, the
heir of Washington, who has been so for
tunate as to realize twelve thousand
dollars on some of the trumpery left by
the Father of his Country, called on the
Secretary of the Treasury the other day
and received his money. The Secretary
was inclined to withhold four thousand
dollars of the amount until Lewis could
establish as fact that the oil painting
in the invoice of relics was really por-
trait of Washington. 1t had a startling
resemblance to Cronin. Lewis promised
to procure proofs, and on the strength
of his word was paid his money. There
is mistake somewhere. If the Lewis
painting is a portrait of Washington,
then the country has been deceived for
generations by spurious prints.-Chicago
Times.
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LAST week the proprietor of the lead
ing soda-water fountain on Jefferson
street took up and Cancelled our annual
pass. We do not regret this act on his
part. On the contrary, we are rather
glad of it, because conscientious regard
for the public safety and fine sense of
our duty in such matters was Just inn
pelling us to say that fountain soda is
composed of sawdust, gravel, old glue,
aqua fortis, leather chips, tanbark, iron
filings, marble dust, sand, river water,
red ink, orange peel, yellow soap, syrup
Of rhubarb, ammonia, fusel oil, hoCf
pairing, scrap iron, SCOT, lard oil, lamp
black, boiled tallow, and Indian turnip.
Thousands of people have drank foun-
tain soda. We are no alarmist, but
where are those people now ?-Burlngton
HdaUkeYe.
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GLEANLNGS FROM THE MUSE.
COLLIE.
Ell JOHN VANCE CHENEY.

Old Sideways, upi You harrow your track
As II every muscle had gone to rack;
Ho, sirrah, zee that chuck on the knoll
Time was when you'd cropped him atop his hole.
All, collie. it's over; you've had your day."
Death whistles, and you must hobbie avayi
Fat chuck, you're safe; keep end as you are,
nv collie can't focus a barn 20 far;
Black blessed. he's old, and IL hurts my soul
To zee him blink tow'rd the chuck on the knoll.
What touch Of youth these bones still feel!
Down, plueky tyke settle back TO my heel;
Rack, fellow, backi Deaths calling say;
He whistles you of another way.
This Is the last time / shall bless
His poor old patient shagginess-
The RI ythmc beating of that tail,
No wonder II at last must fail,
He thwacks il feebler, less and less
Spent pendulum Of pleasantness.
The humor Of that hairy handle,
Pumping Joy into this world Of jangie,
As though two hearts took turn about,
One thump inside, and then one out;
Pacific gesture tmercy's planl
Betw xt the animal and mani
Up, fellow, up-begone, say
Dead yes the old dogs had his day.
He's happy in some sort OF heaven;
With him that watched the sleepers seven,
And thousand sainted Towers there,
He frisks 1t in the fields of air.
-Hdrper's Magazine
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A Turkish StGry.

Anew York paper says that the kind of
government which Lord Beaconsfeld's
British protectorate is about to
supersede in Asiatic Turkey has seldom
been better exemplifed than in the fol-
lowing story, which is literally true:
Some few years ago wealthy Jew of the
Damascus District purchased piece of
ground with the intention of building
house upon it, and made all the neces-
sary preparations with the greatest care,
except, indeed, the most essential of all,
viz, offering the customary bribe to the
Turkish Governor. The latter, however,
was not the man to let himself be baked
of his perquisite with impuDity, and his
proceedings were not less prompt than
characteristic. One dark night he sent
out two of his servants with orders to
bury quantity of human bones in the
Jews ground, just where the workmen
were digging the foundation of the new
house. The latter were not long in COM
ing upon the remains, and, the news get
ting abroad, the unfortunate Jew was
dragged before the Governor by an in
furiated mob on the charge of having
profaned a Mussulman battle-ground.
"The case is clear" said the conscien-
tious Judge; we cannot have the bones
of our brethren disturbed by an unbe-
lever. You must just clear off your
ground and take away your materials
before worse comes of it." Matters now
appeared desperate. But the Jew knew
his man, and humbly remarking that his
Excellency's troubles in the affair ought
not to go unacknowleged, laid a heavy
purse on the divan. The Turk nodded
approvingly. "That alters the case a
good DEAL" said he. "Go and bury a
wooden cross where the workmen will be
sure to find it, and then the report will
go abroad that the burial-place is a Chris
tian, and not a Mussulman one, and
you'll have no further trouble" The
Jew took the hint, and finished his
house without molestation.
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Hon. Hiram Hitchcock has been in
duced to take an interest in the Fifth
Avenue Hotel on account of the impaired
health of Mr.. A. B. Darling, who is now
in Europe. Mr.. G. w. Griswold retains
his active interest in the firm. On the
1st inst. the hotel commenced its twen-
tieth year with reduction of price from
five to four dollars per day, and all extra
accommodations in the same ratio. The
incompatible situation of the Fifth
Avenue Hotel and its superior accom-
modations throughout will continue to
make it more than ever the favorite re-
sort of travellers.
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A BALM FOR EVERY WoUND.-GRACE's
SALvE is now so generally used for the cure
of Flesh Wounds, Cuts, Burns, Ulcers, Eel
ons, Sprains, and all diseases of the skin,
that praise of it seems almost needless.
Those who have tried it once always keep a
box on hand and nothing will induce them
to be without a supply.
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TERRIBLY EXHAUsTING ARE THE NIGHT
SwEATs which accompany Consumption.
But they, as well as the paroxysms of
coughing, are invariably broken up by DIR.
VIM. HALLS BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS, which
conquers the deadly malady, as well as
bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy, asthma,
diphtheria and all other affections of the
throat, lungs and chest. 1t saves thousands
from untimely graves and is invaluable in
rescuing children from the Group, whoop-
ing cough and quinsy. 1t is sold by all
Druggists.
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A Rosy Fortune.

They were in the bell-tower of the
City Hall yesterday, and she leaned her
yellow-haired head on his shoulder
and listened to the mighty " tick !
tack! tick!" of the big clock.
"We don't want such a big clock as
that, do we darling?" she whispered.
No, my little daisy" he answered,
as he hugged her little closer; kin
buy clock for two dollars which will
run for three days to this clocks two.
I've got her picked out alreadyp'
"We'll be very, very happy" she
sighed.
"You bet we will! I've figured it
right down fine, and l believe we can
live on twelve eggs, one pound of sugar,
ten pounds of flour and one pound OF
butter"
"And you will have bank account ?''
she pleaded.
~ will, even if have to buy sec.
ond-hand one"
''And will we keep a coachmanF'
eyes"
"And have pianoT'
Yes, darling"
"And can have some square pillows
with shams on them?''
eyes, my tulip-yes! We'll sham
every darned thing from cellar to gar
ret, have the front door painted blue
and-but less go'n look at some second
hand cook-stoves."
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Cnttnge GinEerbread.

together, add one cup New Orleans mo-
lasses; stir into this one cup each of sugar
and cold water, two large teaspoonfuls GIN
ger, two eggs beaten, and four cups of -four,
having in it three large teaspoonfuls Doc.
LEY's YEAST POWDER. Bake in moderately
hot oven.
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The trial of a young Irish nobleman,
Sir Capel Fitzgerald. in London
court for stealing -s4eO worth of dia-
monds from his mistress, is worthy of
note as being the conclusion of an
anathema pronounced upon his family
many years ago. His grandfather was
the first baronet of the name, and was
SO created for the bloody part he took in
the horrors which followed the Irish in
surrection of '98. He was. known as
Et Hanging" Fitzgerald. He stalked
through the country, shooting, hanging,
hogging men, women and children whom
he chose to suspect of disloyalty."
One day an old woman actually knelt in
the blood of her two sons, whom " Mag
istrate" Fitzgerald had shot dead at
their own door, and lifting her hands to
Heaven cursed him to the third genera
ton, and prophesied death of disgrace
to all his race. Twenty-Five years later
the first subject of this maledication
died by his own hand; ten years ago his
son cut his throat; the young baronet
now in prison is the last of the line.
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WILHoFT's FEVER AND AGUE TONIC.

WILHoFT's FEVER AND AGUE TONGA
certain, safe and speedy cure for all diseases
of miasmatic origin. 1t cures in few days,
without danger or inconvenience, Chills
and Fever, Bilious Fever, Dumb Chills,
Pernicious Fever, Congestive Chills, Sun
Pains, and all diseases of similar character.
Enlarged Spleens are reduced as if by magic
and Sun Pains are conquered with marvel
Gus rapidity. WHEELoCK, FINLAY & Co.,
Proprietors, New Orleans.
For SALE BY ALI, DRUGGISTS
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The evil consequences resulting from i'm
pure blood are beyond human calculation,
so are the vast sums expended in worthless
remedies. Parsons Purgottre Pills make
new rich blood, and taken one night for
three months will change the blood in the
entire system.
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Windsor Hotel, New York.

Since the reduction of the rate per day to
$4.00 there has been an increase in numbers,
and it would appear this was NEST judi
cious move. The Windsor was never more
attractive to the traveller than now.
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If you wish to know how much man
can stand, just ask him a conundrum
when he is walking down the street in a
lather of perspiration, with his socks
dangling over his insteps, and breeze
suddenly blows a peck of dust up the
legs of his trousers. Puck.
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For upwards of thirty years Mrs. WIN
children with never-failing success. 1t cor
rects acidity of the stomach, relieves wind
collie, regulates the bowels, cures dysentery
and diarrhaa, whether arising from teething
or other causes. An old and well-tried
remedy. 25 cts. bottle.
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The citizens of Farmingham, Illinois,
recently elected for police magistrate a
man who had been out of Jail but a
short time. They probably thought it
better to take man just out than one
who was already to go in.-Boston Post.
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THE relaxing power Of Johnson's Anodyne
Linin,ent is almost miraculous. A gentle
man whose leg was bent at the knee and stiff
for twenty years had it limbered by its use,
and the leg is now as good as the other.
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The robe in which Washington was
christened is among the relics recently
deposited in the Patent Office.
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STOCK MARKETS.

ClNCINNATI.--Beef Cattle--Common, 81 5O02;
fair to medium, 81 25@3; good to choice butchers
grades 50 25@4 fair to good shippers, 81 25@4 75
fair to good Texans, s. 60@S 25i fair to good
5. 60@3 so Hogs-Common, So 25@4 20; fair to
good light, "a 25@4 81; fair to good packing grades
S4 1904 co. selected butchers, 81 a. IS; fair to
good stockers, S3@3 50. Sheep--Common to fair
grades, 214@S14c., and good to choice. SH@43fc.
lambsmCommon to fair, 254@s12c, and good to
choice, 3s4@41ac. per pound gross
BUFFALO.-Beef Cattle-Choice to best steers at
81 75@5 per 100 lbs; good shippers steers, 81 40@
70; medium shippers steers, S4@4 80; light butch
ers grades, IS 503 90 stockers $S@3 50 bulls were
in fair demand at 50 25@S. Hogs-Sales made of
medium hogs at 81 40@4 so per 100 lbs for good to
and nominaliy quoiabie at S. 60as 30 Sheep and
Lambs Sales made of fair to good Western sheep
at IS 25a5S rs per 100 lbs choice Western sheep,
So s5@4; Western lembs, 81 70@5; Canada lambs,
"a soa6 1875; extra lambs, s525.
NEW YORK.-Beef CattleASales made of very
common to very good native steers at 1890. per To-
prime and extra steers, mainly on small lots $40
iOls &C., with few selected tops at loAc Hogs
Ohio hogs offered at 81 20, alive with S4623 bid.
Sheep aud Lambs-Sales made sheep at Sla@4%c.
per h., with few sales at 81 60@4 65 per 100 lbs
lsmbs, 4s4@sc per h., with some selected lots at
6l416s4c.
EAST LIBERTY, ,PA.--Hogs---Yorkers, 81 St@
4 60 per 100 lbs; Philadelphia hogs, 81 A7094@.
WOOL4--In Boston. combing and delaine are In
request, every available lot being sought after.
Cluthng wolls are only in moderate request, and
fine feeces in fair demand. Pennsylvania aud West
Virginia heetes No. l, extra and double extra 500
42tfc.; Michigan, triple extra and No l, sA19@4oe
laine, 396gi4c.; unwashed combing and delaine, q
1oSoc,; Texas 15@2sc territory, 2O@2Ie.; secured
li@70c. tub-washed, Ss@icc.; superine and extrs
pulled, 2s@is1Sc.
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M GEL lE.pRESERVAT

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Serve an Injunction nm Dt.ea.e

SILVER lace pins are composed of
heavy bars with bangles.