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Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell at
DC per bottle.
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Sage's Catarrh Rcmc.ly. Ct dru.,l.ists.
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We recommend ''TanSilTs Punch cigar.
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WESTERN RESERVE SEMINARY AND NORMAL.
w COLLEGE, W. Farmin-t -. wears. Both
sexes. Seven departments Board and Tuition 500
per year. REV. +. h. WEBSTER. A. NJ. President
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characteristics. She was not I'm love with
her cousin, and although the wine merchant
and his son may have been blind to them
there were several reasons why il was nat
ural that she should not be enamored of
Heinrich. He was only 10 for one thing,
and the 18-year-old woman is not apt to look
up to the 19-year-old man; aud for another
thing he was a good three inches shorter
than his cousin, who always felt like giving
him her arm and handing him into horse
cars when they were out together. Add to
this that he found almost his entire litera-
ture in the sporting and theatrical columns
of the newspapers, and that he would have
had to think to tell the difference between
blank verse and rhyme. and it will seem not
altogether strange that Minna, ayoung person
familiar with the novels OF three languages,
and gifted with a bountiful supply of
ideals-ideals of men among the others
should have been able to maintain in her
cousins company an imagination quite
cool and pulse quite equable. The wine
merchant was a long remove from an ogre;
he would no more have compelled his niece
against her wish in matter Of the heart, or
in any other matter, than he would have
eaten pudding before soup or sold Stein
berger Cabinet for Hocheimer; but he had q
placid idea that Heinrich was to wed
Minna, and Heinrich was of the same opin-
ion, and Minna herself felt no assurance to
the contrary. The untouched heart of
Heinrich's cousin was frequently the cause
of jealous spasms in the breast Of the young
man. He did not know that 1t was un-
touched; he believed that be had touched it,
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TIE FLYING SQUIRREL.
A Cute Little Animal That Makes an Ad.
mirable Pet.

A Cute Little Animal Tint Makes an Ad.
mirabie Pet.
Correspondence of the Globe Democrat
Among the small animals which are quite
rare sight to city folks, and even dwellers
in the towns, is the cunning little flying
squirrel. This is really wonderful crea-
ture, and appears to be sort of compromise
between a bird and an animal. 1t is about
five inches long as to its body, which is
black and gray and white beneath, and cal.
ries bushy tail quite five inches in length,
having a peculiar construction which as
sists 1t in its flight from tree to tree, but
the main apparatus used in hving,
or in reality leaping, is loose
membrane connected to the front
and hind legs on each side, which the squir-
rel has the power to expand at will, thus
increasing the surface presented against the
air. When they desire to go from one tree
to another they first ascend to the topmost
branch, and boldly leap off into space. Then
it is that their kite-like appendages make
themselves useful. They spread out and the
little animal, guiding itself BY the tail,
takes a downward, circular flight toward
another tree. When it arrives within six
or eight feet of its intended landing place
it changes its position so as to light upon its
feet against the tree, when the membranes
become greatly reduced and are not at all in
the way.
They live in decayed trees, where, if not
disturbed, they become quite numerous.
They are difficult to catch, and bite viciously
when captured, but they are easily domesti-
Gated and make admirable pets, and soon
become an unfailing source of amusement
to the children. They live upon nuts,
acorns, insects, and are said to eat small
birds.
Every evening family of three or four
of these interesting surviving denizens of
our suburban woods, who make their home
in giant oak, sail across the street one af-
ter the other to tree at the residence of
the writer, where they scamper about the
limbs searching for ther favorite food. 1t
seems from their actions that they are noe
tural in their habits and pass the dav
snugly curled up in their home in the old
oak, which probably accounts for their sur
vival long after the dainty gray and fox
SQUIRRELS have disappeared.
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TANNING AN ELEPHANT HIDE.
1t IL Pretty Big Job and Takes Three
Years.

1t 10 a Pretty Big Job and Takes Three
Years.
From the st. James Gazette.1
1t weighed about 1,20O pounds, and was
about an inch and third thick. After be-
ing put in reservoir of pure water to green
it, it was beaten for one hour every day with
an iron on a large anvil. After being ten
days in pure water it was left for another
ten DAYS in water with about 4 per cent of
salt. Then it was replaced in pure water
again for 20 days. During those 40 days it
was constantly in soak.
The head and feet, weighing about 300
pounds, were then removed, and the skin
hung on spikes in the drying room- After
hanging one day it was put in vat contain
ing.potash and q small quantity Of sulphur
of sodium in the following proportions:
Water, 200 parts; Stacked lime, 25 parts;
potash, parts; sulphur of sodium, 2 parts.
After being two days in this bath it was
rinsed in pure water of temperature of 20
degrees, when it was again, placed in the
drying room. After this double operation
was repeated three times the skin was ready
to have the hair taken of. This operation
occupied about one days time, and gave
about 70 pounds of hair. Another day was
spent in cleaning and scraping. By
this time it lost 30 per cent Of
its weight. The operation of its preparation
lasted two months, and it went through the
same course as cowhide, with the difference
that each phase of the work took three times
as much time. The skin should be stretched
in the pit, and placed in the middle of COW
hides. Six layers of powder are then thrown
in; two first, two second and two third layers
Altogether the tanning takes three years.
The partition of time is thus: Becoming
green, 40 days; worked, 16 days; prepara-
tion, 30 days; repetition, go days; first pit
(double), 200 days; second pit (double),
300 days; third pit (double). 400 days,
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ously complicated. Halberschoppen g Co.
were agents for Wachsmuth & Schoenfass-
and 1t was necessary for q member OF the
New York house to 90 on to Baltimore,
Herr Wachsmuth was away from the fifth
to the sixteenth day Of February, and il
was only after the most strenuous exertion
on bis part, coupled with considerable good
luck, that Halberschoppen q Co. were
firmly re-established on their feet. Mean
time Martersteig had pursued the wine
merchants niece with a zeal inspired
in part by her gentle beauty and
sprightly intelligence. and in part By an
indifference which he found at once novel
and exasperating. He had never before
met a woman so fascinating and unrespon-
sive. He sought in vain for motive for
her indifference. He thought Of Heinrich.
and was unable to feel any mental disturb.
ance on account of that youth. A German
and scholar, he had been prompted to
analyze the conduct Of the wine merchant,s
niece, and had come to the conclusion that
such Indifference as she displayed 10 him
would never be expended upon ANYBODY in
whom she was not interested. He derived
what comfort he could from this paradox
until Herr Wachsmuth got home from
Baltimore.
"AlexP' cried the wine merchant when
they met embrace mel You are the son Of
your father. I've heard Of you, you rascal.
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II.

The first American day on which the
young Herr Doctor OF philology opened his
eyes was gray and nipping. He had slept
well at the Hotel Bruckbauer, though 50
far in different fashion from that to which
he was accustomed at home that all the bed
had been beneath him instead of three-quar-
ters of it on top. Thrusting his feet into
slippers of thick felt and wrapping himself
in heavy dressing gown that reached his
heels, he pulled the bell and shivered COM
placently as he glazed from the window over
a snow-sprinkled little square and caught a
vague glimpse of the Hudson rolling black
and turbulent under the fog. A waiter, dex-
ferrous and amiable, appeared in answer to
his call with rolls and coffee. Would the
Herr be pleased to have also an egg? Or
perhaps be would desire something even
more substantial after the rigors OF his yoy-
age. No, the Herr would dispense with the
egg, and with the entire larder for the pres
ent; but it would be qualification to him if
he might be served with fire and barber.
Hoboken is place which affects a gentle
mergence Of the customs Of the Fatherland
into the customs of America; the Mountain
of barber there will 60 upon call to the Ma
homet OF customer; and Herr Martersteig, re-
freshed by his coffee, well shaved, and
warmed cheerfully by an open fire, was
dressing himself with satisfaction and leis-
ure.
The jealous Heinrich had labeled him
grossly-at least by implication. He wore
the narrow trousers and the French heels;
and the monocular glass Of the British en-
pire and the German army hung upon his
shirt bosom; but at that point he ceased
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-22
9HB WOMAN With THREE ROSBS|
4 GERMAN-AMERICAN ROMANCE.
WRITTEN FOR The PIrTsBURG DISPATCH
E. D. BEACH.

and that the machinery Of its affections was
In full responsive operation; but untouched
1t was, nevertheless, and in its comparative
ly unsympathetic state 1t failed to be
warned Of things calculated to hurt Helm
rich, and permitted words and acts which,
quite unintentional1y, stirred the wine
merchants son to bitterness. Thus stirred
was he when his cousin asked him if Alex.
Martersteig was handsome, and when she
pensively expressed wonder as to whether
the young collegian loved poetry. The
wine merchant had read in the
newspapers that morning the name
Of Martersteig among the arrivals
by the Bremen steamship Trave, and had
sent Heinrich over to the Hoboken docks 10
see II twas as he suspected, the son of his
old friend, Nicholas Martersteig, of Stettir.
The voyager proved to be, sure enough,
Herr DR.. Alex. Martersteig. Phi. D., of
Gottingen, son of the handsome Nicholas.
aforesaid, friend and menace Of the worthy
wine merchants youth. The Trave had
succeeded in making quarantine just before
sundown the day previous, and had run up
to her dock at once, enabling her passen-
gers to land the same evening. The Herr
Doctor had gone to q Hoboken hotel, and
there Heinrich found HIM. Heinrich had
reported the meeting very briefly at first,
saying merely that he had found Martersteig,
and that Martersteig had expressed delight
and promised to present himself at the
earliest opportunity to his father'sold friend.
When Heinrich gave that brief account he
was not particularly interested in Alex
Martersteig, but his fathers banter and the
thoughtiess curiosity Of his cousin awakened
an interest in him. BE found himself dis
liking the young doctor OF philology rapidly
and with great heaYtiness. There was con-
siderable bitterness in his comments upon
Martersteig's personal appearance, his
cousins playful invitation to read poetry to
her embittered him still more. He did not
reply directly to the question in his cousins
remark, but it was the question which
prompted his answer nevertheless.
II don't believe you'll get DR.. Alex. to
read poetry to you right away, Minns," he
said. "He's got somebody over at the hotel
that suits him pretty we'll, I think. You'd
like to know who it is. wouldn't you?
Well, it is the cbambermaid. came on
them a little suddenly. I suppose. They
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$50 pounds. His face is the color of old Jer.
sey cream, and his eyes are large, black and
restless. He has high, narrow forehead, a
long, thin face, a nose just slightly in
clined to the Roman, aud he wears full set
of short, luXuriant, glossy black whiskers.
His hands are long and thin, and he has the
look of man who lies awake at night. He
does not look like happy man, and his eyes
wandered here and there as he rode slowly
over the sanded wav to the gates of the
mosque As he passed the house of enter
tainment he looked up and raised his hand
to his fez cap in salutation. He then drove
on to the mosque, and going up a private
stairway was soon hid from view. AS he en-
tered the gate the soldiers all turned around
in order that their faces might be toward
him, and when in the course OF half an hour
he appeared again, they resumed their old
position.
AN UNHAPPY MONARCH.
have seen the Sultan several times dur
ing nv stay in Constantinofrle. 1 saw him
twice at the mosque, and saw him when he
made his annual procession across the Gold
en- Horn to Stamboul to kiss the mantle of
Mahomet, which is preserved in the old Sc
raglio. I have met some of the most noted
of his officials, and have had numerous con-
versations with men who have been connect
ed with his palace for years. The Sultan
likes to wall his doihgs with secrecy, and
only the barest details Of his private lite are
known to the general public. Within the
gates of his great palaces only his intimate
friends and his most trusted servants come,
and am told that he has such fear of as
sassination that he has men continually on
guard, both about his person, at his doors
and about his watch towers. The palaces
of Yildiz are all built on hills. Their
grounds contain many acres, and thev
consist of ravines, through which flow bub-
bling brooks, OF forests and lakes, OF parks
and of gardens They rise almost straight up
from the beginning OF the Bosphorus and
the 80 or 40 palaces which His Majesty owns
here all command views of the surrounding
country, Notwithstanding this elevated
position the Sultan still fears plottings and
assassinations. He trusts few people i'm
plicitly, and he seldom goes to bed at night.
He sits up until 1 o'clock, amusing himself
as best he can, and then throws himself into
a cushioned chair and dozes on till daybreak
when he retires to his bed to sleep. He has
those about him in whom he thinks he can
confde, but the fate of his predecessors
warns him to beware. During the 13 years
of his reign he has had several revolutions
and he was frightened almost to death when
the Gar of Russia was assassinated.
He has a number of other palaces outside
of this one in which he lives, but he seldom
occupies them for more than few hours at
a time. One of his largest palaces is that
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wholly to conform to Heinrich's 8 description
He was a tall young fellow, firmly knit and
gracefully proportioned. with abundant dark
brown hair, straight and of silkeu softness:
large and gentle brown eyes; . clear skin,
ruddy and well tanned; and an expression
Of the most agreeable and irresistible good
humor. Let Herr Wachsmuth's dictum BE-
what it may. Nicholas, the father. could
hardly have been handsomer than Alex the
son; and slight curl Of q scar from .
schlager on the right cheek Of the young
man just at the edge of the mustaehe-not
the waxed mustache Of Heinrich's malicious
description, but q natural and rather mod
crate downy growth thar the razor had
never touched-shoWed that the dueIs Of
Nicholas had been followed BY the duels Of
Alexander, and that the spirit as well as
the beauty Of the father had been perpetu-
ated in the son.
As the handsome young philologist pulled
cigar and lazilY bestowed the finishing
touches upon his toilet, the amiabls son Of
his fathers friend approached the hotel
from the direction Of the Bremen dock.
Heinrich had made inquiries of the TraYe
chief steward, and had learned from that
powerful functionsry Of Herr Mar
he presented his card, which was
sent up to Herr Martersteig; word cana
promptly back inviting Heinrich 70 follow
it. The man who showed the way stopped
as they came to the head OF the stairs and
pointing down the corridor observed: "It's
room 81, sir, at the end OF the hall; Won
can't miss it, sir" and dashed back down
the stairs, leaving Heinrich alone. The
wine merchants son went on as the man
had directed him, and had completed half
the distance between the head OF
the stairs and the door of room 81, when
there popped out of room at his elbow
young woman loaded down with supply
of clean towels. The towels were arranged
in symmetrical pile, the base Of which
rested upon the young woman's clasped
hands, while the top scared far above her
head. Inasmuch as the towels shut of her
view absolutely, it it would have been more
cireumspect If she had advanced into the
hall with deliberation; but being in haste
she took the chances, which led her into Z
collision with Heinrich 30 violent and IN
expected that both he and she were upset.
while the towels were shoEered like snow
fakes over q considerable area, in whose
center they sal, regarding each other with
considerable astonishment.
As Heinrich helped the young woman to
gather up her towels he noticed that she
was an exceedingly attractive person, most
sprightly and tidy, with neat waist in
tense bushes, and . pair Of black eyes
whose dissolving glances worked upon him
with suddenness and fnllness Of effect
comparable only 10 the suddenness and
fullness Of effect yielded by that excellent
woodburning stove which was sold in the
market generation ago under the title Of
sair tight" In all the days he had looked
at his cousin Minns he had never felt
hundredth part of the FIRE that this girl put
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thought it would take me longer to get up
stairs. was sorry to interrupt them, but
I'd no idea there was poetry going on at
that hour in the morning. Talk about poet
ry, that was poetry, tell youl They stood
in the doorway together; she had his coffee
things on tray; he was all wrapped in a
big dressing gown that went three or four
times around; he had his glass in his eys
and his cigar in his fingers, and he held the
chambermaid's face between his hands with
her chin tilted up, and"
"HeinrichP' roared the wine merchant,
"did he kiss the servant grip"
"He did" replied Heinrich, looking at
Minna.
"Just like his fatherl' cried Herr wach-
smuth. ut was that confounded propen-
sity, my dear" continued the wine mer-
chant, turning to his niece. (which kept me
so concerned about your aunt. He didn't
stop at servant girls, Nicholas didn't.
Every mother in Stettin was on the watch
for Nick. And Alex. is a chip of the old
blockl shall be proud to welcome the
boyt"
Heinrich continued to look at his cousin.
She may have been just triAe troubled;
some vaguely crystallizing ideal may have
been shaken and spoiled; but she was evil
IDENTIFY not deeply concerned by her cousins
story. Oh, Heinrichl was that story worth
while? Was it at all decent thing to tell
Minna that the young Herr Doctor from
Goettingen kissed the Hoboken servant
girl? Especially when there was no truth
in it, was it decent to tell such story? Oh,
Heinrichl the true story of that incident in
the Hoboken hotel is very different from
the tale you told your cousin; and it is
necessary that Herr DIR. Martersteig should
be exonerated; and necessary as we'll that
the picturesque transaction which you de-
scribed should be so reported as to show the
true part borne in it by Herr Wachsmuth's
jealous son.
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DOWN TO HARD FACTS.

He Was Willing to Begin Where His
Father-in. Law Did.
New York Weekly
Testy Old Gent-Huh! Do you think you
can support my daughter in the style to
which she has been accustomed?
Young Suitor-Well, no; but I can sup
port her in the style to which her mother
was accustomed for good many years after
she married you.
Old Gent (subdued)-Take her, my son,
and be happy.
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A SOLDIERS BRIDE.
Gallant Clusters Widow Describes
the Life of a Warriors Wife.
LOVES TRIALS ON THE FRONTIER.
Pretty City Girls on the Plains as Wives Of
Army officers.
BRIDAL TOUR IN AN ARMY AMBULANCE.
rwRIrTEN FOR THE D1sPArcH.I

UNDREDS of the
women who followed
those who ''led the
way" to the far West
were the wives OF
farmers or working
men, accustomed to
some sort of labor at
home, or at least do
nestle women, who
were used to bake,
brew and stitch for
the household; but
there were other sorts
of pilgrims whose
pretty feet were i'm
printed in that virgin
soil. who knew little
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A SCARED MONARCH.
Millions a Year and Hundreds
of Wives Fail to Bring
Joy to the Sultan
HE FEARS THE ASSASSIN,
How the Great Caliph Lives and
Rules at ConStantinOple.
A TREASURY FILLED WITH DIAMONDS

Regarded the Shadow of God by His
Subjects-His Resemblance to Jay Gould
A Royal Progress TO Prayers-Palaces
That Are Visions of Oriental Architect
ural Benuty-A Fondness for Americans
and Desire TO Develop Turkey-Bound
A Just Judge.
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AIgy Could Not Fool Her.

Algernon-You must not think, dearest,
that because you are rich and I am poor /
am trying to marry you on account of your
money.
Genevieye-Whose are you after, pas?
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into his veins as they picked up the scat
tered towels in company. When the last
towel had been recovered Heinrich pulled
silver dollar from his pocket, and blush
ing like a turkey cock, asked the girls
name. "Louisa." she told him-sLouisa
Niemeyer." Heinrich held out the silver
dollar to her with great awkwardness; she
spread out her apron prettily, and the coin
dropped into it. ''Thank you, sir" she
said. She was very close to him as she
spoke; he had never felt in his life before
such pressure Of stupendous emotions; be-
fore he knew it his arm was around her
waist and she had got kiss from him as
well as dollar. Then she was gone; and
Heinrich went on to the end of the hall, and
knocked at Herr Martersteig's door.
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T Z o'clock Of d raw,
foggy February night
Herr Friedrich Wach-
smuth, wine merchant
of Warren street, sat
at dinner with h is
J family at his home in
! sStuyvesant Square. A
portly and placid man,
not subject to violent
emotions, Herr Wach-
smuth was calmly de-
AI A. &l~o- tls..