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Evening star., 1895-03-16

fort. and Comfort choked out something
about losing her ring.
Where did you lose it?" asked the wo-
man.
Il don't KNOW" sobbed Comfort.
well, you'd better go right home and
tell your mother about it." said the stout
woman, and went her way, with many
backward glances.
Matilda dragged her sled at Comforts
side and eyed her obviously.
why didn't you get the ring when you
were right there with the gold dollar?" she
demanded. What made you run out of
Gerrish's that way?"
I'm go-ing-home,' sobbed Comfort.
Amt you going to wait and ride in the
stage coach?"
oing-right-home."
'Imogen said to go in the stage coach
don't know as Eiother'll like it If We
walk. Why didn't you get the ring, Com
fort Pease?"
Il don't want-any-ring. I'm going
home-to-telImy mother"
Your mother would have been real
pleased to have you get the ring said
Matilda. in an injured tone, for she fan
cied Comfort meant to complain of her to
her mother.
Then Comfort turned Matilda in an
agony of confession. MY mother don't
know anything about it," said she. Il took
the ring unbeknowrst to her when she
Evening star., 1895-03-16

"VVeIl, I'd just AS Lief Go Not"
Comforts father gave her a hard pat on
her head, and then he went out of the
room with something that sounded like an
echo of Comforts own Sobs.
Comfort" said Mrs Pease, look here,
child, stop crying and listen to what I've
got to say. l want you to come into the
parlor with me minute
Comfort followed her mother weakly into
the best parlor. There on the table stood
the rosewood workbox, and her mother
went straight ac ross to it and opened it.
Look here, Comfort said she, and Com
fort looked. There in its own compartment
lay the ring. Miss Tabitha Hanks found it
in the road. and she thought you had taken
1T unbeknownst to me. and so she brought 1t
in here" explained her mother. Il didn't let
you know because / wanted to see If you
would be good girl enough to tell me of
your own accord. and I'm glad you have.
Comfort"
Then Comforts mother carried her al
most bodily back to the warm kitchen and
set her before the fire to toast her feet
while she made some cream toast for her
supper.
Her grandmother had a peppermint in
her pocket and she slid it into Comforts
hand. Grandma knew she would tell. and
she won't never do such a thing again.
will she?" said she.
mo. ma'am." replied Comfort. and the
peppermint in her mouth seemed to be
After Comfort was in bed and asleep
that night her elders talked the matter
over. II knew she would tell, finally"
said Mrs. Pease. 'but it's been a hard
lesson for her, poor child, and she's all
worn out; that long tramp to Bolton too."
Il most wish her Aunt Comfort hadn't
been so dreadful careful about getting her
a ring big enough" said Grandmother At
kins.
Mr.. Pease looked at his wife and cleared
his throat. What do you think of NV
getting her ring that would fit her fin
ger. Em'ly?" he asked timidly
NOW, father. that's all a man knows"
cried Mrs. Pease. IF you went and bought
that child a ring now 1t would look Just
as II you were paying her for not mind
ing. You'd spoil all the lesson she's got.
Evening star., 1895-03-16

The nervous strain Of his responsible position has
at times brought him near to prostration and the
giving up of his work. He says in a letter dated
New York, Nov. 13, 1894:
''No tonic that have taken has done so much
good Paine's celery compound When am run
down or exhausted after particularly exactns work
on cartoons and in other artistic occupations
have found a dose of the compound exceedingly
beneficial as restorative for the nerves.
The racing speed Of the marvellous processes
for swiftly carrying out mems ideas is taxing 20
their utmost the nervous systems of countless men
and women
cry of protest is going up all :he country
from medical men against the suicidal waste of
nerve force. Preachers editors, lawyers even doc
tors themselves. from their daily round Of hard
anxious work-every brain worker. in fact, who
labors draws heavily upon his vitality must
take alarm at the first sign of brain tire PRESSURE
funess or tension in the head, or nervous fatigue
In every city in the United States physicians
every day are not only prescribing, but themselves
using, Paines celery compound for weakness and
nervous debility for curing the effect of moor and
Evening star., 1895-03-16

The Buffalo News in recent article remarks
upon the fact that BERNARD 6fliam the cartoonist
of Judge. is of the few living men whose car
toons have ever changed vote in the U. S. Sem
ate"
Bernard Gillian is young man, but 35. He re-
ceived his education in England He is today
the foremost cartoonist of America.
In 1880 he to Harper's Weekly as the col
league of the immortal Mast. His work afterward
for Frank Lesle's and Puck we'll fitted him for
bringing Judge to its present success. In 1856 Mr.
Gillian went into partnership with W. ]. Arkell
and bought Judge. The full-page colored cartoons,
Mr.. Giam's special province on Judge, equal the
remarkable efforts Of the great keppler in judges
older rival.
There is probably no form of brain work that is
so exhausting exacting and intense as the
work of the great artist the large comic papers
To turn out brilliant ideas with the regularity Of
machinery and yet keep their work up to the high
standard set by their splendid reputation makes
fearful demands upon their nervous vitality Mr.
Gillian knows what severe work means
Evening star., 1895-03-16
They Forgot About the Cars.


A cable train was moving east in Mon
roe street, and just before it reached Clark
street horse cff, soutHbound, crossed in
front of it. se
When the cahaei traiH stopped, a man
with valise jumped OF and started on a
run for the horse car, Which by that time
was about seventy Five feet away. Almost
at the same msglent a man without a
valise jumped off,a noruhbound horse car
in Clark street and started on run for
the cable train, which bad begun to move
The two men ran wildly. One turned to
the right and the other1 to the left, and
they collided.
Look out!' shouted one.
- .e'me past"' said the other.
len one man dropped the valise and
said We'll, I'll swan ~
The other had his mouth open, and his
eyes seemed to bulge out, but he extended
his hand and then said with an effort:
"Well, cf-all-pepple" ~
They were cousins and hadn't seen each
other for fifteen years. and neither knew
that the other was in Chicago on the day
of this meeting.
Both of them forgot all about the cars
that had to be caught. They locked arms
and went to cigar store together. and
there the man with the valise told the
story.
Evening star., 1895-03-16

nlshty pant NO. " starts into life but
not before the blue flag has vanished, and
the man at the lever has looked ahead to
see his tower signal Over the outer
entrance of the train shed. suspended from
the great horizontal truss. is a row Of
semaphores. looking like huge birds with a
wing apiece. The train director in the
tower pushes button when mo. 81" is
due to leave. at which the particular bird
interests this engineer. drops its one wing
as though shot. from the horizontal to Q
pathetic droop. or from danger to safe
ty." while the point Of light at the end of
the wing changes from red to white. At
But it's path through the may network of
rails for the first three miles is guided all
the way by bobbing semaphores in day
light. or twinkling points of light at night.
Evening star., 1895-03-16
THEY DON'T HURRY.

An Incident Illustrating an Amusing
Feature of Tennessee bargaining.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
One bright forenoon last fall near a de-
serted mill In the outskirts of Chatta-
nooga the following bit Of Tennessee bar
gaining was overheard: An aged negro.
driving an old, slowly moving mule hitched
to a two-wheeled dumpcart, came along.
He was bound for wood yard on the
banks OF the Tennessee river near by.
where that muddy stream sweeps around
the foot of Cameron Hill and begins curv-
ing graceful bow to bold Lookout noun
tain, which looms up before 1t. Just as
the outfit had crossed rickety culvert the
negro was accosted with the customary
'Howde?' by a laZy-looking native wear
ing jeans suit and a broad-brimmed hat.
.. ''Howde?" grunted the negro as he stop
ped his mule with a fierce Jerk, which sent
the front Of the cart against the beasts
launches and the shafts higher than his
ears.
When the cart had come to a standstill
the young man took a portly chew of to-
bacco. slowly adjusted his right foot on
the hub of the cartwheel. and. with slow,
measured accents, asked:
How much be We sellin' wood for?"
Two bits load. boss
After mature deliberation and mastica-
tion the prospective purchaser drawled out:
Two bits a load"
Hits little 'nufr boss" replied the COL
ored man. Hit leaves me only two shil-
lin fer totin' gin pay two shillin' fer tn
wood at tn yard-little 'nuff fer totin'"
Yes. l reckon"
Then the languid young man picked up
stick and began whiting, and the team
ster sat mute in his cart for five minutes,
breaking the silence finally with:
Dye reckon you'll want jab o. wood?"
That's wat 1 lowed I would, but /
dunno" replied the other.
There was another silence Of ten min
utes, broken only by the slash of the jack
knife through the yellow pine stick A
horseman rode by "totin'" a bag of meal
In front of the saddle. After the usual
speculation as to whom the stranger "mout
be- the whiting and the blank-staring
processes continued for several more min
utes. Finally, when the stick had been all
said:
Wall. don't 'spect I'll take any wood
today"
His foot fell laziIy from the hub. the
wood hauler clucked to his mule and the
two men slowly went their respective ways
Evening star., 1895-03-16
HIS WARES WE'RE VARIED.

An Old-Time English Dealer Who Out.
did Even the Department Store.
An ancient sign. said to be still In exist
ence, at Falmouth has the following an
nouncement:
ROGER GILES
Surgin, Parrish Clark & Skulemaster, ,Groser
& Hundertaker,
Respectfully informs ladys and gentle
man that he drors teef without wateing
minit applies laches every hour, blisters
on the lowest tarms and vizicks for penny
a peace. He sells Godfather's kordales.
kuts korns, bunyons, doctors hosses, clips
donkies vance munth and undertakes to
locke arter every bodies nayls by the ear.
Joesharps, penny wissels, brass kanelsticks
fryin pans. and other moozikal hinstru-
mnts hat gratefy reydooced tigers. Young
ladys and gentlemen larns their grammur
and langeudge in the purtiest mannar also
crate care taken off their morrels and spell
lin Also zarm-zinstng. tachying the bass
vial and oil other zorts of fancy work,
spudils. polsers. weazels and all country
dances tort at home and abroad at per-
fekshun. Perfumery and snuff in all its
branches. AS times is cruel bad, 1 begs
to tell ee that I has just beginned to sell
all sorts of stashonary ware, cox, hens,
vouls. pigs and all other kinds Of pouI-
try. Blackinbrishes, herrins. coles. scrub
bin-briches, traykel and cooley Dukes and
bibles. misetraps, brick-dist, whisker-seeds,
morrel pokkerankerchers, and all Zorts of
swate-maits. including taters, sasssages
and other garden stuff, bakky. zizars, lamp
oyle. tay kittles and other intoxzigatin lik-
kers. dale of fruit. hats, zongs, hare oyle,
pattins. bukkits. grindin stones and other
aitables, corn and bunyon salve ard all
hardware. I as laid in a large azzortment
Of trype, dog mate. 1ollipops, ginger beer,
matches and other pickles, such as hap
som salts. hoysters, winzer sope, anzetrar
Old rags bort and zold here and nowhere
else newlayde hesgs by me Roger Giles,
n noi mo- hyrrf lraa H1I
kies. paykox, Holsters, crickets, also a
stock of a celebrated brayder
P. 81 tayches geography, rithmetic,
cowsticks, jimnastics and other chyneesy
tricks,
Evening star., 1895-03-16
Chicago Social Forms,
From the Chicago Record.

From the Chicago Record
The teacher of an intermediate grade in
one of the larger public schools was "show-
ing orr her pupils before a number of visi-
tors. The spelling class was on the floor,
and one small shock-headed boy was given
the word introduction" He paused, twist
ed his lips, stared. and then in faltering
way spelled 1t correctly. and seemed rather
surprised that he had done It,
do you know what the word means %
asked the teacher.
"No'm.'
What! you don't know what introduc-
tion means?'
Nom"
"Well now, I'll explain It to you. Does
your mother ever have callers?'
'Yesm."
"Well now. suppose that two ladies came
to call on your mother. Your mother knows
one of the ladies, but doesn't know the
other. She has never seen the other lady,
and doesn't even know her name Now,
how would she become acquainted with
this lady and find out her nameg'
shed send me out for a can O. beer"
AS that was the correct answer, the
teacher had nothing further to say.
Evening star., 1895-03-16

unhealthy blood, disorders Of liver kidneys, stom-
ach. heart and the nervous system.
An effective remedy must first enter the blood to
cure rheumatism. Local treatment for a constftu-
tiOnal disorder will do good. rheumatism, gout,
blood poisoning, scrofula ETC., diseases lodged
in the blood.
Just why Paine's celery compound cures. while
other remedies fail is because all its ingredients
effectuay aid the system to rid itself of any poi
sOnous humors in the blood
Hundreds of eases have within this year been
ported directly from persons, between the ages OF
10 and 65. suffering from acute Bright's disease,
who have been permanently cured by paine's celery
compound. 1t stops the gradual structural changes
in the kidneys, restores their vigor and reno,
such alarming symptoms as the gradual loss OF
strength. pallor of the face shortness of breath,
pain in the back and sides. dropsy and puffy
dition of the skin. As spring medicine it is alb
solutely without rival.
Every overworked man and woman, reduced in
strength, flesh and nervous viSor will find power
full restorative in Pane's celery compound. 1t is
food for the brain and 1t sends new healthy
blood through the arteries. 1t makes people well.
Evening star., 1895-03-16
Her ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

The Usher in the Mirror revives this IA
miliar story, which will bear repetition:
An actress who leased apartments up
town last week was advised, when the mo-
mentous servant question was reached, to
secure Swede or Norwegian girl.
She went to a bureau that supplies SER
wants of those nationalities and found a.
gocd-natured specimen fresh from Norway
who spoke English.
Can you cook?" the actress asked.
NO" answered the candidate sweetly.
Wash and iron?"
mo"
"Wait on table?"
mo"
'Sweep and dust?"
mo"
well, what in heavens name can you
do?'
II can milk reindeer"
Evening star., 1895-03-16
SMALLEST OF HOOKS.
One French Volume the Size Of N
Cent Piece, So

One French Volume the Size Of n
Cent Piece. t. f~
From the N. Y. Sunday Advertiser.
The smallest book ever printed has Just
been issued by Messrs. Pairault of Paris,
1t is the story of Perrault 'Iittle-Hop-o'-
My-Thumb."
This diminutive volume contains four en-
cravings and 1t is printed in movable type.
1t contains eighty pages. of printed matter.
The book is thirty-eight millimeters long
by twenty-eight millimeters WIDE The
thickness of this volume is six millimeters,
and its weight Is only five grammes
The dwarf book" of the Chicago exhibit
tion could be held on a postage stamp of
the Columbian variety, but 1t is quite sur
passed by this product of the French press
The little French volume. with it's illustra-
tions and its eighty pages of printed mat
ter, is not much larger than one-cent
piece.
Evening star., 1895-03-16
..rook THE WRONG MEDICINE,

Why This Headline So Often Appears
in the Daily Newspapers.
From the New York Herald.
It is an odd trait in human nature that
man who has been ordered by his physician
to take paregoric will never take 1t If there
Is any carbolic acid or prussic acid in the
house that he can absorb in preference.
Statisticians who have studied the thing
declare that an invalid will search the
whole house for poisonous drug and
drink 1t rather than the medicine ordered
by the doctor. The death notices in the
newspapers in cases of that kind are gen.
orally headed: Took the Wrong Medi-
cine"
A man arrived at his home the other
evening, and glancing on the bureau saw a
bottle of liquid that he had been ordered by
the doctor to take.
THAT looks like the stuff" said he, "but
I'm not sure. AS 1 was locking up the Gel
lar saw behind an old shelf blue bottle
that looked as If it hadn't been touched for
years. 1t said on 1t, Suiphuric Acid Now
that bottle on the table looks exactly like
the one drank out of last night but still
have an idea that the stuff down in the
cellar is what the doctor means for me. I
don't know how the dickens it got down
there when it's meant for me to take, or
how this bottle that isn't meant for me to
tohc Sot oA ILLS but m not gong
to take any chances. I'll just go down into
the cellar and make sure and I'll throw this
stuff out of the window"
The he cautiously went down stairs and
took the culphuric acid, and he was buried
In due form after an ambulance surgeon
had done his best and the coroner's Jury
had made a complete investigation and
autopsy.
1t isn't only children who make these
plumbers. Doctors will tell you that they
have only to label bottle Lotion: for Ex-
ternal Application Only" to make sure Of
fts being drunk. If patient gets a bottle
OF corrosive sublimate to put on a felon on
his great toe and doesn't use it all he will
carefully save 1t. Ten years afterward a
doctor gives some cough mixture to him,
and then he goes and hunts up the corro,
sive sublimate bottle. plays three card
monte with 1t and the cough mixture. gets
them thoroughly mixed up so that he can't
tell one from the other. and then when he
Ieeis that tightness across the chest that
the doctor told him about he swallows a
part OF the corrosive subllmate and leaves
mis- widow to collect the life insurance. By
no accident Is the cough mixture ever
taken-it Is always the corrosive sublimate.
Evening star., 1895-03-16

Fred. Douglass on the Nes,rO's Nose.
From the Buffalo Courier.
Some years ago Frederick Douglass ad-
dressed convention of negroes in Louis
vile. He said in the course Of his remarks
that he did not think an amalSamation of
the white and black races is desirable. the
pure negro being. in his opinion, the best
OF the race. While speaking his eyeglasses
continued to slide from their perch But
I wish." interpolated the speaker, IT wish
We could get up some sort Of an alloy for
tho negro which would insure a nose capa-
BILE of holding spectacles"
Evening star., 1895-03-16
Mouselline de Suisse.

From Harper s Bazar.
A Birmin CHAM poet has written poem
in honor Of Il freck:..1 Chamounf beauty
he met a. the foot of Noun. Blanc last
summer He begins it.:
ooh, my beauteous dotted SWissw
Evening star., 1895-03-16
BRAIN-yNORkER
Ike HOrAfOrslss Acid ph0SnhO fp

When night comes the literary and active business
mans brain is hungry from the exhausting labor Of
the day. HorsfOrd's Acid Phosphate quickly sup
plies the waste Of tissue, and refreshing sleep
suits.
Evening star., 1895-03-16
No Hclp to Nature.

From Harper's Bazaar.
I'm so angry with my laundress." said
Chappie. "She's put so little starch In my
collar that positively it's no help to me
at all in holding up my head and I'm just
worn out"
The record-union., 1895-11-30

GOOD PAYING LODGING-HOUSE OF
% rooms; great bargain. Apply Id K st.
The record-union., 1895-11-30
YOUNG OLSBN'S DEATH.
1t Was From Natural Causes. and
Every Precaution Was Used.

Every Pf6cauC1Ou vas jSGu.
An inquest was held last night on the
body of Louis Olsen, who died last
Sunday at the Railroad Hospital, un-
der an operation that was being per-
formed for hernia.
DR.. Huntington, who performed the
operation, testified that young Olsen
had been treated early in the week for
bronchial trouble, and came to him on
Saturday, having case of strangu-
ated hernia. He tried in vain to re-
duce it, and as Olsen was growing
worse during the night and his symp-
toms indicated that he must have i'm
mediate relief or he would die within
forty-eight hours, he told him that an
operation would have to be performed
and to notify his father to that effect.
He also told the boy that there was al
ways a certain element of danger at
tendant upon all operations, and he
replied that every one must take MS
chances in such a case and expressed
himself perfectly willing to undergo the
operation.
Before he was put on the operating
table he examined his heart and lungs
and found them apparently in good
condition, but while under the inf1u-
ence of the anesthetic he noticed that
he was not breathing we'll The use of
the anesthetic was discontinued and his
pulse grew better, being about 81, ana
better than usual in such cases. The
bowel was found to have turned black
and to be in a gangrenouS condition,
and the situation very grave. Olsen
commenced sinking and in few min
Utes, in spite of all the means used 10
restore him, he died.
The witness said that he always used
ether unless there was some special
reason for not doing so, but in this case
the bronchial trouble rendered it haz-
ardous and he used a combination OF
chloroform, alcohol and ether. The
cause of death was the paralyzing OF
the heart by the chloroform, it being
one of those cases of obscure heart
trouble where it is fatal. He did eX-
actIy in the matter what he would have
wanted any good surgeon to do Tor MS
boy in such a case, and if he had a
hundred such cases would treat them
similarly All deaths from the use OF
chloroform are agreed by the authorl-
ties to be mysterious, and they DO not
agree as to how ii is that the poison
kills, but it acts almost instantly An
autopsy showed the internal organs, all
except the bowel to be in good condi-
ton.
DR.. Powell assistant surgeon at the
hospital. testified to the same effect.
The young man did not fear the opera
tion and I'D not ask that his father be
sent for.
The verdict of the jury was that
death was from natural causes, posi-
bly, fastened by the use of an anes-
thetic necessarily used in performing
an operation for strangulated hernia.
IN their opinion DR.. T. w. huntington
used every precaution with surgical
skill in performing the operation.