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How Nihilist PAPERS are Printed.

The chief NihiIist organ, which is
clandestinely distributed throughout
Russia, is entitled Sernl1 ! SUabodG
Country and Liberty, and is printed in
a quarto form. 1t claims to hold juris-
diction over everybody. It warns,
threatens and pardons right and left, and
gives prompt, accurate information re-
speeding the carrying out OF its sentences,
which are those of the revolutionary
committee. It is found everywhere. It
is laid by unseen hands or the masters
table, is Unexpectedly discovered among
the bankers, registers, and the Imperial
Councillor is astonished to meet with it
among his papers; it is slipped furtively
between the sheets of conservative jour
nals-in a word, it finds it way as if by
enchantment on the tables of the cafes
and into the private houses of rich and
poor. II appears twice a month, and
advertises for subscribers. It mentions
the Nihilist pamphlets which have ap-
peared, and informs the public that
others bearing this or that title are
shortly to be published, the prices Of
which are given, but the editor contents
himself with designating the place at
which they can be bought as the "well-
known place." On the day after Cen
eral Mesentzef was murdered, the Semla
! Swaboda appeared illustrated with a
large cartoon, in which the general ap-
peared as lying in state, the first page
being occupied with a kind of proclama-
ton giving the reasons which had de-
cided the committee to pronounce seq
tence of death upon him. Three days
after the secret printing offices in st.
Petersburgh were discovered by the Rus
sian police a mar was assassinated at
Moscow, but who he was and why he
had been murdered remained a mystery
till the SemlG / SWGbodG published the
following notice: "On the ninth. the
traitor Reinstein was executed in the
Moscow Hotel, at Moscow. Reinstein
disclosed to the police the whereabouts
oftwo of the printing offices. We have
therefore killed him. The government
need not boast o fhaving made any great
discovery. 1t has found nothing of any
value. The editors. portfolio being
seized has certainly caused us some in.
convenience, but as we never sign any OF
our articles, the affair has no further
importance. 1t will be useless to offer
gold; traitors will not be found in our
ranks. Reinstein was only an agent
newspaper distributor. We have at ou1
command such considerable sums Of
money that we, can resist all attempts al
bribery. The execution of Mesentzef
cost us 5000 roubles, Krapotksn nearly
as much; nevertheless, we still possess
400, 900 roubles for the accomplishment
of our work"
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Daniel Ammen, OF the United States navy,
was chosen one OF the vice-presidents. AL Of
the powers applied to sent delegates, including
England, Italy and Russia. 1t was resolved
to divide the members into five committees to
discuss the undertaking.
Two Rotterdam trnding companies with un-
~pronounceable names have failed, with total
liabilities placed at nearly 1900, 900.
The greater part OF Lublin, q city Of 10000
Inhabitants in Russian Poland, has been de-
stroyed by fire.
At u meeting OF striking miners representing
forty collieries, held ut Consett, England, it
was resolved to resume work.
Switzerland has just had an election on the
question of restoring capital punishment, the
vote being l9l, 1877 tor to 1928 against.
The Ameer OF Atghanistan has agreed to all
of England's propositions. Among the prin-
cipal points Of the agreement are the British
command OF the passes, with sufficient terri
tory to constitute a scientific frontier, the ap-
pointment OF a British resident ct Cabul and
the control Of the foreign relations OF Afghan
istan.
The steward ofthe Henley regatta announces
that the Showacaemette oarsmen, of Munroe,
Mich, who nearly proved victors at this Eng
lish regatta last year, will be barred from en-
tering the forthcoming race because they arc
mechanics or artisans.
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Protect tho system from Malaria.

It is possible to do this even in regions Of
country where miasma is most rife, and where
the periodic tevets which it causes assume
their most formidable types. The immense
popularity OF Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is
very largely attributable to the fact of its eff
cacy as a remedy for chills and fever, bilious
remittents, and as a preventive of the various
forms OF malarial disease. In those portions
oil the West and South where complaints OF
this nature prevail, and in the tropics, it Is
particularly esteemed for the protective infu-
ence which it ~e1erts; and it has bsen very
widely adopted as a substitute for the danger
GUS ana comparatively ineffective alkaloid, sui
phate of %quinine. Physicians have not been
among the last to concede its merits, and the
emphatic professional Endorsements which it
has received have added to the reputation it
hns ohtained at home and abroad.
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Words of Wisdom.

Learning is %pleasurable, but doing IS
the height of enjoyment.
1t is one thing to make an idea clear,
and another to make it affecting.
The opportunity is created for the man,
not the man for the opportunity.
Men want a restraining as we'll as pro-
polling power. The good ship is pro-
vided with anchors as well as sails.
The greatest evils in life have had
their rise from somewhat which was
thought of too little Importance to be at
tended to-.
Luxury is the conqueror or conquerors,
the consumption of states, the dry:-rot OF
the constitution, the avenger of the de-
feated and oppressed. Poverty, conquest,
luxury, decay-such is the round-robin
history of the world.
Riches do not consist in having more
gold and silver, but in having more in
proportion than ourneighbors; whereby
we are enabled to procure to ourselves a
greater plenty of the c~onveniences of life
han comes within their reach, who,
sharing the gold and silver of the world
in a less proportion, want the means of
plenty and power, and so are poorer.
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How Cinnamon Eyade q State Law.

The Gold Hill (Nev.) MeWs says:
THE law passed by the late Legisla-
turc. forbidding. under heavy penalties,
the disinterment of human bodies buried
in this State without first obtaining per-
mission from the county commissioners,
was suggested by and aimed ut the we'll
known custom of the Chinese of digging
up the bones of their c%ountrymcn and
shipping them home to China. This
custom has prevailed not only from re-
ligious duty, but through the contracted
obligations Of the companies to which
they belong. or by whom they are
brought to this country, to- return them
to China alive or dead. Returning the
bones suitably boxed up, labeled and
certified to fulflls the contract. For
every Celestial not so returned or other
wise satisfactorily accounted for the
company has to forfeit three times the
amount Of the contract money to the
relatives Of the deceased or to the gov
eminent.
For this reason it is that nj IL suita-
BILE time, Il few months after burial, the
graves were reopencd and the bones
taken out for shipment. The new law
would apparently discourage and pre-
vent in q great measure the emigration
of Chinese to this country. but John is
too cunning to be caught or kept out on
any such arrangement as that. Since
the law went into effect not one Chinese
corpse has been buried with any bones
in it. Skiliful practitioners, employed
by the companies, remove all the bones
from the body as Don US convenient
after death. The corpse is laid upon the
operating table face downward. Some
aromatic Joss paper is burned in a censor
suspended from the ceiling. three tea
cupfuls Of sanctified rice water are
%sprinkled over the body and around the
room, and Il priest repeats the sacred
Chinese proverb. Koony hee fat choy,'
which signities,''' Peace and good will to
us all This is the formula for the
occasion.
THE two illed surgical operators
now step forward 10 their work with
keen, glittering knives. An incision is
made from the top of the head down the
spinal column, branching off down each
leg to the heel and along the back of
each arm. The skin and flesh is then
carefully and speedily peeled and
trimmed away each side from the skull.
shoulders, back, ribs, hips, arms and
legs, and, in less time tn IN it'takes to
describe it, the tleshless skeleton is
drawn forth, leaving the homeless corpse
lying there. Then the clothes which
deceased wore during life, often compris-
ing all his worldly possessions. arc care
fully stuffed in to supply the place of the
bones removed, and the body. being
neatly sewed up and washed, is wrapped
in a plain shroud and delivered to the
friends for burial.
1.-The skeleton is now unjointed, and
the bones are subsequently baked in m
oven and packed for shipment"
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Crows as Witnesses.

A story is told of a certain German
who, in his travels, fell among thieves;
and they being about to cut his throat.
the poor man espied a flight of crows,
and cried out, "Oh, crows! I take you
for my witnesses and avengers of my
death" About two or three days after,
these thieves, drinking together at an
inn, a company Of crows came and
alighted upon the top Of the house; At
this the thieves began to laugh; and said
one of them: LOOK, yondcr are they
who must avenge his death whom we
lately slew" The tapster, o~verhearing
this, declared it to the magistrate, who
caused them to be apprehended; and in
consequence Of their contradictory state
ments and evasive answers, urged them
30 far that they confessed the truth, and
received their deserved punishment.
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Dull Boys.

Don't be discouraged. Slow growth
is often sure growth. Some minds are
like Norwegian pines. They are slow
in growth, but they are striking their
roots deep. Some of the greatest men
have been dull boys. Dryden and Smith
were dull, as boys; so was Goldsmith,
80 was Sir Walter Scott. Napoleon, at
school, had so much difficulty in learn
ing his Latin that the master said it
would need q gimlet to get a word into
his head. Douglas Gerrold was so back
ward in his boyhood that at nine he
was scarcely able to read. Isaac Barrow,
Of England has ever produced, was so
impenetrably stupid in his early years
that his father more than once said that
if God took away any of his children he
hoped it would be Isaac, as he feared he
would never be fit for anything in this
world. Yet that boy wa the genius of
the family.
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A Mystery Explained.

Parlor scene: Mrs. Brown, who has spent
the hummer among the White mountains in
search of health, and who seems to have
searched the whole mountain side without be-
ing able to find a pair OF blooming cheeks or
an inch OF healthiul skin; Mrs. White, who
has remained at home because her husband
could not afford to 60, but whose fresh COM
p%lexion and bright eyes seem to have caught
their bloom and brightness from mountain
breezes.
Mrs. B:-Dear mo, Mrs. White, how we'll
you are looking! 1t you will not think me
impairment, let me ask how you can keep so
healthy in this dreadful city1 I have been to
the White mountains, 60 there every summon,
in fact, and I cant keep of the doctors list ut
that.
Mrs. W. (~smiling)-Iu tell you the whole
secret, Mrs. Brown. You remember how
poorly l was last spring, some days even be-
ing confined to my bed. DR.. - told MIR.
White to send me to the mountains, but I knew
he couldn't afford it, and I tried DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription. Its effects were so
marvellous that I also tried his Golden Medical
Discovery, to cleanse my system. In my
opinion, one bottle of the Prescription and the
Discovery is better than six weeks Of the
White mountains for a sick IN l have
only been out of the city a week during the
whole summer; then my husband and l went
to Buffalo and stopped at DR.. Pierce's !nva-
lids and Tourists Hotel. The baths and me-
chanical apparatus for treating patients were
alone worth going 10 see. Besides, our accom-
modations were better than We had at Long
Branch lust year, and the drives and scenery
are superb. Let me advise you to use DIR.
Pie,re's Favorite Prescription, and try the In
valids' and Tourists Hotel next 'summer In
stead of the White mountains.
Browns Bronchial Troches, for pulmonary
and asthmatic disorders, have proved their
efficacy by o test Of many years, and have re-
ceiyed testimonials from eminent men, who
have used them. Twenty-Five cents a box.
Judge for Yourself.
By sending hirty-hve cents, with age, height,
color of eyes and hair, you will receive by re-
turn mail a correct photograph OF your future
husband or vito, with name and date OF mar
rage. Address w. Fox, 2. 0. Drawer 81.
F%ultonville. N. Y.
cable dispatch to the Associated Press avs
that Mason s. Hamlin have been awarded the
highest gold medal at the Paris Exposition for
their Cabinet Organs. Thirty best makers OF
tho world were competitors.
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A Party in q Carrot.

IL was Ulle ldSI Weeh III 1APil!
body was planning May:parties. Many
a blossom on messy knobs in the wood
lay with wide-open eyes, wondering why
nobody came to claim it! But with the
dawn of May-day came also disappoint-
ment and veXation to many happy little
hearts, for such a perfect downpour OF
rain as there was, and no faintest sign OF
the clouds lifting.
"Oh. dearm0 sighed Marion Day.
"What shall we do? Was there ever
anything so provoking??"
"I'm sorry for YOU" her mother an
swered. "Of course, there can be no 60
inginto the woods, but I have been think
inc O might have a few friends here.
Tom shall harness the ponies and 60 for
them, and you shall have the garnet all
70 Yourselves and picnic there"
Marion pressed back the rising tears
at these words, for the garnet was a most
delightful place, especially in a rainy day
when the drops made such a merry, pat
tering on the roof. 1t had four large
windows, so there were no darksome cor
ncrs in it, and the children could make
lust as much noise as they pleased disturb
ing no one. You may think that a May
party in a garnet must be one of the most
forlorn things in the world, but that
proves that you have never tried it!
Moreover. the garnet at Mrs. Days was
full of delightful old things slowed away
in trunks-ancient bonnetS and cooked
hats, satin slippers, with high heels. and
pointed toes, gay-colored dresses, and nj!
sorts Of faded splcndor of nearly a cen
fury ago. ,
Such pretty masquerades rs Marionand
her friends had held often and often, up
there under the caves, with no one to see
them but the doves that sat on the win
dow-sills outside pluming themselves and
cooling in the sunshine!
Marion was called by many of her
friends May" so you see in sunmer or
winter there was always a May Day in
that house.
Tom went off in the double-seated
pony-wagon, and brought back half-a-
dozen of the merriest children that ever
frolicked together in sun or shade.
First there was Mabel Flowers, who
was also nicknamed May, and there was
pretty little May Meadows and May
Banks; then there was Rose Mason, and
Violet Farley and Daisy Fletcher. Wasn't
it a real floral partyP But the funny part
of it was, no one thought anything about
their names till they were eating their
picnic-dinner. This was set out on the
top of an old sea-chest covered with
q crimson and white table-cloth. and
suddenly Marion exclaimed, "Well, if
this isn't the queerest thing that ever
was! We've got flowers enough. See,
here's May Flowers, and a Rose and e
Daisy and a Violet, and I'm May Day.
Iwould like to tell you everything they
did to amuse themselves at that party,
but it would make my story too long,
and beside, you can imagine what a fine
time seyen little girls might have, if given
the freedom of garnet, with seven dolls,
seven picnic baskets full of goodies, and
q china tea-set.
IfSou can not, then I advise you to try
it for yourselves, and 1 think you will
agree with them that "a garnet is almost
as nice us the woods, and sometimes q
good deal nicerm!
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Roch, the general executioner OF
France, followed his many victims re-
Gently, at the age of fifty-fve. During
the eight years that he presided over the
~guillotine he had cut off fhy-four heads.
His salary was $1,000 a year. with the
addition Of 80. so on working days.
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THE GOSPEL OF JOY!
The Gospel OF Joy

Is q now Singing Book Of unusual beanty i9r 9osnSS
Camp XeetngS, Devotional heeunss nv
Sunday-schoo1.
Nv Rev. sInuu AIxia and s. q. SrIcK. II eonSemsS
larra number OF new and very superior Hymn soo
Tunes. The general style Is very cheerful and DngnLG
bsdts q collection that has 20 much TO say and sing aoo0s
Glad Ttdinss Of Great Joy"
Both words and music are Of an elevated cnsiacSsz
commencing themselves TO persona Of renned tsste, xM9
the "dancing measure" so prevalent IN "any fS~
COMPOSITIONS has been carefully avoided.
Price IS cts, for which specimen copies VIII b manso
TO any address.
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Foreign News.

Jacob Staempfi, a ~well-known Swiss politi-
clan, three times president OF the Swiss Con-
federation, and subsequently o member OF the
Geneva Court OF Arbitration on the Alabama
claims, is dead in his sixtieth year.
Several large fires have occurred in East
Russian towns, causing great distress. They
are charged to the Nihilists, and in Orenburg
alone seventy arrests for incendlarlsm have
been made.
The International Congress to discuss pro-
iects for a ship canal across the Isthmus OF
Panama met at the Grand Hotel, Paris. M.
Ferdinand de Lesseps, engineer oil the Suez
canal, was elected president. Rear-Admira.
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Aspeedy quietus Is given to 9 hacking cough
by that inestimable specific for pulmonary,
throat and bronchial complaints, Halls Balsam
for the Lungs, which cures consumption, bron.
chitis, pneumonia, pleurisy, labored breathing
and other disorders of the respiratory orHaYs.
When a cough manifests itself, the early use
Of this benefcent medicine Is earnestly recon-
mended, as the difficulty Is more easily over.
come in its i~ncipient stage than later on. Sold
by all druggists.
The Mendelssohn Piano Co., No. 81 East
10Th Street, N. Y, sell Pianos at Factory
Prices Write for q catalogue:
PAPER MILL FOR SALE.
For sale at Lancaster, N. e., . nrt-class MIL, now IN
operation. The plant comprises ten acres Of land with
full power Of river, with ltfoot head. Twostoy frame
Mil, 4oxoo, with annexes-barn, storshouse, sheds, scales,
&c. The Mil contains one 7ztnch single cylinder, Rice,
Barton L Fales' machine, complete; four zsopound
beating engines; two tub bleaches, cutters, %calsnders,
reels; one 50 horsepower boilerj and all tho appliances
for running the Mil.
Straw plenty at s.. Wood At 81. Excelle9t freight
contracts 90 with the Mil, which ID now on wrapping.
Owners have other business. ..
The property, which Is valuable, will be sold ~ 3 fair
price and at a bargain. AL inquiries by mall promptly
answered. Address
HENRY o. KENT. Treasurer.
LAsclsI1A, N. H., 81. ....... .-.. .
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sands 81 friends, Do NOT fan to examine and NJ y:
There are 10 Songs, in the composition Or selection OF
which great taste and ability has been displayed; -
anime also "Shlning Rive" and THE RVsr OF Lie
two standard books Of great beauty.
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UpHAM'S
FREcKLE, TAN
and PIMPLE
B A N | 8 4 Z R

A few applications Of this
preparation will remove
tan, sunburn, PIN
pies or blotches on the face,
and render the complexion
clear and fair. For softening
and identifying the skin it
has no equal. Price so cts.
Sent by mail, postpaid, for
rs cts. Address
JOHN T. HENRY, CURRAN ( CO.,
College Place, N. Y.
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1.-THE path of glory" lies around the
pedestrian arena.
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Perhaps the most paying thing in this
country is the New York Elevated RAILROAD.
In Il recent interview, its president says:
"This road carries 100000 passengers a day
bringing in $1,000 every twenty-four hours
to the company" If this rate keeps up ali
the year, and the president thinks the road
is only in its infancy yet, it will bring in
considerably over 50, 100000 a year, and a
the road only cost s 100000, this rate can
not but be profitable.
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OLIVER DITsOE d CO., Boston.
Q. H. DITsON a. CO.,
s43 Broadway, New York;
T.. e. DITsON d. CO.,
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"a dog fancier" takes exception to Pro.
lessor Huxley's assertion that zone OF the
most curious peculiarities of the dog-mind
is its inherent snobbishness, shown by the
regard paid to external respectability. The
dog who banks furiously at a beggar will let
a well-dressed man pass him without oppo.
s%ition." He says that the facts are that
only the dogs OF well-dressed persons act so.
Dogs accustomed to men in rags bark not at
beggars but at persons clothed in sleek
broadcloth.
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An article going the rounds of the
press on the use Of the "heliostat," or
signaling by sunshine, in the Zulu war.
recalls some facts and experiments which
have come under the notice Of a cores
pondent of the New York Evening Post.
Tie says: "The distance to which these
signals may be sent if the glass, no mat
ter how small, is only adjusted ut the
proper angle, is almost incredible, and,
indeed, is only restricted by the dip OF
the horizon. During the work OF the
Coast Survey some years ago signals
were repeatedly sent from the dome of
the college building.at Princeton, NJ,
to the easternmost point ofthc Naveslnk
Highlands, u distance Of thirty miles:
Communication is kept up by means OF
this flashing Of the suns rays between
the lighthouse keepers at Faulkner's
Island in Long Island Sound and the hills
behind New Haven, 4 distance oftwenty-
five miles, and in 1865 the news of the
death of President Lincoln was trans
mitted in this way. Last summer two
Young men, one Of whom resided at
Mamaroneck, on the Sound, and the
other eight miles opposite across the
Sound near Glen Cove, signaled to each
other every day of sunshine without diff
ticulty by the use of mirrors, and they
found a small hand-glass served the pur-
pose quite as we'll as a larger glass, pro-
ducing Il brilliant flash of light. / have
myself signaled from Staten Island to
Sandy Hook point, a distance of eleven
miles, with perfect ease. The Morse
system photography is all that is needed,
a long and short flash answering to a
long and short dash, etc. When Il word
is completed all that is needed is to shake
the glass backward and forward, or, if
stationery, move the covering off and on.
Much amusement and interest can be
gained by this sun signaling"
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The average price paid per day for
convict labor is as follows: In Iowa, 43
cents; New York, "a; Indiana, As; Ne
braska, IS to 40; Kansas, As; Michigan,
40; Maryland, 40; Illinois, 40; West
Virginia, IS; Missouri, 40; Vermont, So;
Rhode Island, 40; Connecticut, 40; Ohio,
Asst; Pennsylvania, 40; Minnesota, 40;
California is and so.
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GOOD NEWS!

s.s peoar.uon Day Nude in the MUSICAL RsoosD, . d