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A RUBBER BAG.

This most remarkable statement was made by Mr..
FRANK B. LEE, clerk in the Office of N.YC n. B. r.
R.. Little Falls N. Y, on the 9th of June 1885,
Mr. LEE says: "My father has been troubled for over
twenty with severe kidney and bladder disease
suffering the most acute pain when urinating He be-
came bad that he was obliged to give up all business
His condition such that his urine would drop
stantly, and he was obliged to use q rubber bag the
weakness great He used many kinds of medicine
without deriving any benefit until he was urged by one
of our druggists in Little Falls (r Skinner) to use
Hunts Remedy as he had known Of its being used in
many with great success purchased one bottle
and he commenced using it, and he was 30 improved
that he got along without the rubber bag. He used in
all twelve bottles and 1t has entirely cured him. Father
is sxtytwo DID, and considerit most wonder
full cure. and cheerfuly recommend Hunts Remedy to
all afflicted with kidney. liver urinary troubles"
All the evidence published in regard to Hunts Remedy
can be relied upon it is true in every particular ocs
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A MOTHERS HEROISM.
HOW q Woman i'm California Saved
Her Children from a Forest Fire.

Santa Cruz Dispatch in the San Francisco Call.
The news reaches here to-day of one Of the
most thrilling incidents connected with the
frghtful forest fires, which for bravery and self
possession on the part Of a woman is worthy of
mention. Near the ranch of VIM. Purdy, on
SCOTS creek, the fire haa been raging for sev-
eral days. and on Monday it reached the place.
Mrs. Purdy was at home with her five children,
and. realizing the danger. she hurried to the
creek, which was near by, and rushed into the
water under the bridge. Here they stayed for
six hours, and with buckets threw water on the
bridge, which was in danger of getting on fire.
They were obliged to get entirely under water
every few moments to avoid the terrible heat
from the flames. After the fire had been SUBJ
dued they came out. but were utterly destitute
and homeless Mr.. Purdy was only a short dis
lance from the family, but did not know it, and
he also took to the water, but was severely
burned about the face and it is thought he will
lose the sight of one eye His entire crop. barns,
residence and every possession are consumed.
One OF the children was taken with kind of
fire craziness. and it was with the greatest diff
Guilty that the Older boy was enabled to keep it
from running into the fire. and was obliged by
main force to take it to the water.
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SCHOOL fEAcHERs.

Mr. h. l. sopER. principal of the High School at Po-
quonock Conn. says in relation to matter which has
given him much anxiety and pain: MY wife and have
both used Hunts Remedy. and find 1t really superior
article. year or sVtso my kidneys became weak and
'sluesish owing to severe strain and finding relief in
hunts Remedy continued its until had used four
bottles when became well Since my cure have sus
gested its Use to great Number Of people who know
have been benefited by using it." And to substantste
this statement Mr. H. s.cLAEx assistant superinten-
dent of the High School, says II certify to the value
OF Hunts Remedy, having received great benet from
its use My troubles commenced twelve years when
my kidneys became ahdicted with Inflammation Of the
passages but the timely use Of valuablea medicine
arrested the disease can now cheerfuy recommend it
to all suffering g was"
May 81, 1885,
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s'HIGH LIEE'' QOFFlCIAL.)IN WASH
INGTON SOME YEARS AGO.
Amusing Stories.

Wash cor. of the Louisville Courier-Journal
There was Mrs. Secretary, who said OF her
daughter. ''She is good gal and Idon't have to
lick her." but there was a Mrs Secretary in
reality, who, when asked if she would do some
thing as her predecessor had DONE answered,
''YOu won't find any of that .skulldugfery in
this family"
once upon time there was plain. uninter-
esting woman in one of the departments here.
She was uneducated even mentiO ming the fact
herself, as something credtable. that she ha d
never read book i'm her life. Her social DO
stion corresponded with her illiteracy In her
Doardlng-hOuSe she met q rural member of
Congress, With an invalid wife The wife died:
In SIX months the widOwer married the depart-
ment clerk. Five years later the then ex-M c.,
In an emergency. was called to Cabinet no.
stion, and his wife took her place i'm the official
circle While high-born ladies' who had been
ner companions In office. continued to plod
through wet and snow to their daily routine of
WORK. Mrs. Secretary. clad In costly raiment
and lohing like a fine lady in her coupe, passed
Them without recognition. All notes and invi-
CatIOnS TO Mrs. Secretary were responded to by
ner husbands private secretary. Jenkins fire.
quently wrote descriptions of Mrs. Secretary's
receptions and her elegant toilets. She was
styled by them as
YOUNG. HANDSOME AND ACCOMPLISHED,
She once said that the dearest wish of her
for dresses, and her husband, after leaving the
Cabinet, made the opportunity of going to
Europe on official business in order that her
wish might be gratified.
There was another Mrs. Secretary who. when
ever she became Oyerheated at dinner party
or reception, would eXclam to whoever was
next 10 her that she was ''sweating'a all over and
feared that the sweat would come through and
spoil her DRESS
AT an elegant reception a Senator remarked
that as soon as he got his supper he must go
home. as his cOrns were hurting him badly. .'Do
Senators have corns:" asked lady. He replied: Il
went barefOoted until / was grown man. and
never had corn until put ON shoes, and have
suffered ever since"
Senator Spangler is not more Odious char
acter than the man whom Colorado sent to the
Senate for thirty days. Tabor had his apollo
gists and they complain Of the scornful treat
ment he received One Of these friends said
that when Tabor came here he intended build
Ing as fine an opera house as the one he owns
In Denver, and also. he would have built one OF
the finest houses for his residence that was
ever put up in Washington Doubtless the
house would have We'd in splendor with Sena-
tor Spangler's.
Washington can dispense with such houses
and citizens.
Representative Ignotus is not a lower type
OF character than some of those who have
been In Congress. and during each session of
Congress the newspaper men give graphic de-
scrlptions OF the legislation which is proposed
Dy the Spangiers and lgnotuses.
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CRNkSfE a1i sALF F. 2 3r
sssEEfEE3sg zsg gYTSETSSSE SIkF gEts rs
By virtue Of decree Of the supreme Court Of theea
Sc tssy
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roads the s said land Being more
tn s Is ssa d s TO z
folio "a one from Collins to MsCelland recorded
sS1S nRs iPe nj f En-
folio 14s all Of said deeds of record in the Office
fsE a ssa
f.t part Of tract e.. land known Cedar beginning
land called Cranky and running thence with the third
lls east fortynne ci9l perches to the middle Of the
Old Bladensbrg road thence east twelve u2, perches
ee1en pe m nna with s
leaving said road and the outline Of Cedar
sss ss :; ss s IS
S ssS ne f e
Or al that e or parcel s Of sna s
nate and lying in said county, known and described
OBI iand af STan5y COM
y de sef sad IN deed from Essd Of Il % IN
Ward, dated 9Th November 1854 and also lot a. de-
as IOoWS: BEGINNING Tor the same at stone
sixteen u perches from the northwest corner of lot
number fortyth (43) in the division of 'Granby"
and rnnins thence soTth Ply deglees west eisht
125l perches north ssH desrees, east fifteen u55
and seventeenth g7-l0) perches; thence north 2lh
Place Place g, Ct beginning; containng, one % acre.
whole tract the foregoing parts all adjoining contain
ing nineteen acres more or less. and improved BY
The terms Of sale prescribed by the decree Onethird
cash. OF which deposit of $3.50 to be paid the Ts
tee at the time Of the sale the balance one and two
years with interest from the day Of SALE for which the
notes OF the purchaser shall be given secured by first
sen Failure to comply with the terms Of sale
at the risk and cost of the defaulting purchaser
COnveyanclng at the cost of purchaser.
PIERCE BELL. Trustee, 223 ~ street
VIZ, Z, YOUNG. Real Estate Auctioneer,
oc3-d&ds l42O n T. avenue
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M I %M Me- III e % s n II ~
NJ ME VIM o ON NM
NJ NJ MEEEN Nm 90 NM y ="

DR. CHEEVERS ELECTRIC BELT, or Regeneration,
is made expressly for the of arrangements Of the
provocative organs Whenever any debility of the
eratlve organs OCCURS from whatever cause the
tnuous stream of ELECTRICITY permeating through
the parts must restore them to healthy action There
Is no mistake about this instrument Years of use have
tested it, and thousands of cures are testified to- Weak
ness from 1ndiscretion, Incapacty, Lack Of Vigor,
Sterltyn fact any trouble of these organs is cured
Do not confound this with electric belts advertised to
cure all Ills from head to toe This is for the ONE spe
Gifted purpose. For circulars giving full information
address
CHEEVER ELECTRIC BELT CO..
mh3-s&w 1O3 Washington street, Chicago
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Secondhand shops in Paris.

from the Manhattan.
There has been good deal said and write a
aoout Partisan shops, but there is one division
OF these tempting establishments that has re-
ceived but scant justice from the foreign
chronlcler, and that is the multitude of second
mana shops wherewith Paris abOunds. From
the aTlstocratic Rue de la Paris down to thu.
ra9-pickerS quarter. the Rue MOuffetard
There Is not street In the commercial
quarters that does not boast of one or more of
such establishments. while certain streets
such as the Rue de Provence or the Cbaussee
dAntin are lined with them They are of
every grade and every STYLE from the lordlv
and elegantly fitted-up store whose proprjetor
deals only in antique cabinets. bronzes and
tapestry, Louis XIV jewelry. old miniatures. and
especially the less. down to the dingy little
booth stuck In a corner behind some massive
building. wherein old stores ana old shoes are
vended TO whomsoever comes to buy. All the
elegancies and ornaments Of ladys wardrobe
Tor instance. NAV fill one window; robes of satin
ana velvet, fans OF point lace and mother of
pearl, India shawls cleaned gloves. battered hats
win crushed feathers and faded ribbons fine
POINT lace, and half-wOrn undergarments, satin
shppefs, and Honiton handkerchiefs, all blended
IN one bewildering chaos. The shoes of an
opeIa dancer are tangled up in the lace of a
CaIuiieti robe. an ivory bound PRAYER book
sei.es as support for an inaid box of cos
melcS, Photograph album bound in PLAQUES
~ y ha hidden under pile of cam
oric sheets, and a carved crucifix renoses on a
soia-enshion of embroidered velvet. side by
side with broken opera glass. Gronns end
ngures IN limitation Dresden, aud plates In sup
posed old Rouen. contend for admiration In the
other window with trinkets set with naia bimo
sapphres, iawed diamonds, diseolored nearis
or dingy opals. In these windows NAV he read
the story of half of the vanished fashions of
fifty years back. The china toilet set OF the late
Adelaide Nelson for instance, every niece
painted with her monogram. encirced with
wreaths of roses, formed for a long time the
Chief ornament Of bric-a-brac shop on the Rue
du Septembre. can Law my hand, fgua-
lively speaking. on the service of antique De TT
that the king Of Holland suffered an American
adventures to carry of from one Of his minor
palaces.
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New York Correspondence Hartford Times
There has rarely been a buster time among
builders in New York than the present. The sta
tistics of building operations from January to
September show an outlay Of over ga, 900. 600
on new structures Of various kinds First class
buildings. Including large business houses. alb
sorbed $12 669, 0OO. The outlay upon flats was
close on $10.00OO 900. On tenements and tene-
ment stores it was $S, 900. 1t was Thought
a few years ago that the fiat craze had been
OverdOne, but that seems to have been q mis-
take. The 10000 900 already put into it this
year Is mostly for very large fats, such as
accommodate dozen to a score Of families
each, very high buildings chiefly, which
dwarf and generally darken all their surround
ings. The first fats put up In New York were
four stories high. After while the height was
increased to six stories. Then. as elevators
came into use. one or two more stories were
added When eight-story buildings were put up
It was thought that the limit as to height had
been reached. But the upward tendency kept
on. The buildings of eight stories were fol-
lowed by ones of nine stories, and those In turn
by ten-story buildings which looked simply
titanic. But the advance skyward did not stop
there; Eleven-story buildings came next, and
now hear there are some prodigious piles pro-
jected which shall be twelve and thirteen stories.
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MALARIA BARS FOR WINDOWS.
Faith i'm the Sanitary Virtues Of the
SunfOWer Making Business for
Florists.
from the New York Sun.

from the New York SUM-
From the elevated trains in the upper parts of
he city some very conspicuous boxes of plants
may be seen In the windows of dwellings. Sun
lowers of rank growth tower nearly to the tops
Of the windows. Their roots lie in big boxes Of
earth. and their blossoms are almost dazzling In
their extravagant yellowness.
Are sunfowers coming into vogue as win
dow plants:" florist was asked
Not that know Of" he replied: "but we
pave an occasional order for box of sunflowers
Tor window. accompanied by request to mix
In Few other plants that are big and hardy
enough to make some little show among the
elhhoWers- was rather surprised when got
the first order of that kind and was fresh
enough to say something about Oscar Wilde and
esthetics in general. You ought to have seen
now the woman took 1t. NO, sir" she sput-
tered. | amt disciple of Oscar But Uncle
Ephraim. out in Connecticut. was always
Troubled with malaria till Aunt Huidah got some
suniiOwers and planted them under the square,
room window. and he hasn't had shake since
the fret year they We're set out? I fixed her I'D
box Of sunfowers. but haven't heard whether
the sufferer-whOever he or she may be-has
recovered from malaria.
IL don't talk about nstheticism any more
when get such an order. but usually remark
that we are dong considerable I'm that line OF
late for persons who reside where malarious
Influences are supposed to prevail. That seems
to iInpart comfort, and don't know of any body
who has got box of sunfowers for window
except for sanitary purposes.
seriously" the florist continued. 81 don't
see why a lot of sunflOwers growing in a window
OF an apartment house shouldn't keep Offmalaria
rs well as bed of sunfioweTs growing in the
yard of a house. sunf1ower Is not less sun
flower because its roots happen to be growing
In a box 80 feet from the ground. That malaria
Is queer disease. II folks could be made to
believe that Japanese FANS stuck in the tops of
their chimneys. would keep 1t off, have no
doubt the number of persons who think they
have it would be greatly reduced"
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Autumn.
JOHN HENRY BONER.

The day Is dark-the clouds hang low
A strange 1unereal silence reign5
HaVe the DOarse Crolkins OF the crow
That on his luStier fellow gains.
1wanfer In the fields alone
IT'S peace 20 hear the Souyhing pines
And the sad minor undertone
That runs along the sedgy lines.
AID thus by mystic silence Zoned
Where none may hear OutSpOken care
IT'S peace TO hear ones own voice toned
Upon the sOmore, lonesome air.
II my heart pain me, or the gall
Of bitterness rise In my soul,
brood not on my pangS and all
The Ills that cannot control
Yet have done 500 have arrayed
Hot curses 'SainSt the ruling stars,
INN composed. foi!ei and forced. have frayed
My very life against the bars.
But was younger then than now.
We get some wisdom With the Years
And In captivity ayow
The impotence OF wrath and tears
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The Lee Monument Association Of virginia
now has q fund of more than $25 OOO-only q
small part Of the sum 1t hopes to raise for erect
Ing monument in Richmond to the memory of
General Robert e. Lee.
The wife of Lieutenant Greely. Of tina Arctic
colony, is described as very beautiful woman.
tall, with tea-rOse complexion. black hair and
blue eyes. She belongs to an old New England
family.
When Miss Kate Field. visiting Denver with a
letter OF Introduction to Judge McCurdy, In
quired at the hotel Ofice where he conld be
found, she was Mortified to receive the reply:-
Don't know. He's been dead eight year."
Connections has been the scene OF ninety
seven murders and only seven hangings In the
last twenty years.
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One Girl.
d. g. ROSSETTI.

Like the sweet apple that reddens upon the top
most bOugh,
At top on the topmost twig-which the pluckers
forgot somehow
Forgot it not, nay-but got it not, for none could
get 1t till now
Like the wild hyaointh flower, flower which on
the hills Is found,
Which the passing Ieet OF the shepherds forever
tear and wound,
Until the purple blossom Is trodden under the
ground.
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The first fall meeting of the American Astro-
nomicalSociety took place last Tuesday evening in
the Packer Institute, New York. Among the
new members elected were three ladies of scien-
tifc attainments. Mr.. G. P. Serviss, secretary
OF the society, read paper on the Changes on
the Moon" He said that If the moon was in
habited engineers there would be able, on ac-
count OF the slight force Of gravity, to build
suspension bridge across volcanic crater forty
miles in diameter, or In building railroads to
tumble mountains out of the way like mole
hills.
although the moon is a dead planet" he
continued, "yet changes do take place on it's
surface. Craters have sunk probably by the
crumbing Of mountain wall. Humboldt noted
similar phenomenon in the falling in of the
top of the Capac Urcu, or Prince of Mountains
In Ecuador, in the fifteenth century, which
dropped over 5000 feet In 1866 Schmidt of
Athens missed the crater of Lime from the Sea
of Serenity in the moon. 1t was six and half
miles across, and, Prof Proctor says, perhaps
three miles deep. Only a slight elevation now
marks the place where the mountain stood"
Prof Stevens suggested that the mountains in
the moon might crumble, In consequence of the
different temperatures on the side of the moon
presented to the sun and on that which is turned
away from the sun. AS there could be little
atmosphere around the planet, the side next to
the sun must be almost like molten lead, while
on the opposite side it must be like ice Expan-
sion and contraction of the towering volcanic
masses might weaken them and in time cause
them to tumble. Prof Eaton did not believe
that the astronomers had recently discovered
vapOr as they had hoped.
Prof. Parkhurst said he hadn't the slightest
doubt that the comet recently discovered by
Brooks is the comet of 1912. 1t is considerably
ahead of time, and is further from the sun than
the comet OF 1912, but in every other respect the
comet resembled that Of 1912. 1t had q very
| faint light like nebula when first seen, but a
| few days ago it bazed up with wonderful fierce
ness, and has now resumed its somewhat nebu-
lar appearance.
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STATES MARsHAL's SALE

By virtue Of writ Of vendtioni Exronas issued out
Of the Clerks Office Of the Supreme Court OF the District
Of Columbia, and to me directed. VIM sell at public
sale Tor GSsh ct the Court Honse door Of said District
1889 Of TWELVE O'CLOCK q all the rght title claim.
scribed property, to witt One note dated Washington
DC. December 18th lisa for fourteen hundred dolay
gned by James Waugh. payable two years ater date
TO the order Of Henry Wise 0aTnett bearing IN
terest Of ax cent until paid. to satS yentiom a.
pOnas No 2HO68 at law in favor Of VIM, B. Moses ct a
against Henry y; HSSEate ds{end.nt 49,,
THO6. DOWNING Au0toneek. ed
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From the Pail Mall Gazette
One of the most interesting novelties at the
Vienna International Exhibition is'an electric
gun. The powder ID fired by means of q piece
of platinum in the cartridge and the electric
current necessary for heating the platinum is
obtained from little accumulator which must
be worn In belt specially devised for the pur-
pose. Besides the accumulation and the belt, q
globe and shoulder strap are necessary The
glove is morn on the left hand, and is connected
with one pole Of the accumulation, the strap
with the other. All this would, It must be con-
fessed, be rather formidable addition to SOL
der accOutrements. and one is hardly surprised
to hear that the inventors do not expect their
patent to be Immediately adopted In all the
European armies.
Meanwhile they point out that the electric
gun affords several advantages, besides the
charm OF novelty, which ought to commend It
to the sportsman. In the first place, it is said
to be very economical and what new applica-
ton of electricity Is ever said to be anything
else-at f1rst2 There ia no great saving on the
gun or the cartridges, but then only quarter
CT the ordinary charge of powder is necessary.
Moreover, the gun Is economical of time and
trouble. The cartridges serve many times over,
and there is none Of the bother Of taking off the
old caps. But the browning merit which Is
claimed for the electric gun is that It is war
ranted never to "kick." If this warranty be
really true, the application Of electricity to sport
ought not to be long delayed.