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are sorry and thus we can repair the
wrong
Hand in hand, the united family swan
hurriedly out OF the familiar green depths
OF the sea cave. Some distance beyond
they saw him. He had halted there, not
Wishing i'll his loneliness to obtrude on
SO sacred reunion. His giant sides We're
hcaving laboredly with his strong emo
ton. But he gave twist OF recognitio'
as he beheld his dear little mistress APP
preaching between her parents.
"Oh. he is ill!'' cried Labradora, with
the keen eye OF affection. She broke from
her parents and darted swiftly toward him.
The dear old whale swung himself around
sideways that he might better view the
beautiful mermaiden.
''Oh. aud he has got thin!' moaned Labra-
dora, with new grief, as she swan to his
head and softly strokcd his great fore
head. a twinkle of grateful love came into
his small eye. He opened ana shut his
mouth as If he were trying to swa allow, and
then with one enormous, heart-re nding
sigh. the pet whale pushed his gray fore
head little more under the hand OF his
mistress and-died.
"Oh. mammal! papa!" sobbed Labradora,
almost heart-broken. He hurried so fast
to bring me back-that lie Just-hl-kl-
killed himself! Oh-h-h-hi"
Little Labradora's wasted form shook
with sobs. Her gentle heart felt so keenly
what pain it must have been to the pet
whale 10 be coldly shut out OF her parents
sympathy and eyed with diStrust, and
here the noble creature had laid down his
life through excess OF loyalty. Her poor
parents, who now realized the injustice of
their attitude toward him and were chas-
tened by the thought OF their harsh judG-
ment, mournfully led their sobbing child
back TO the cave. Tenderly they disposed
her on her own small couch of softest sea
weed, fenced about with branches OF ex-
quisite pink coral. Then they hung over
her watchfully until the little mermaid
passed from the quick, smothering gasps
of sorrow into the light. regular breathing
of restfui siunIber. They still sat by her
side, glad 10 watch over the dear wanderer
who had been restored TO them.
Out beyond, looming duskily like some
gray wrath of the deep. the pet whae,
who had with youthful inlpetuosity OF af-
fection laid down its life in its flower FOR
his adored mistress. floated mOtionleSs and
still as if he. too, even in death, We're keep
ing a breathless watch and guard over the
sleeping Labradora.
JOHN A'BECKET.
The morning times., 1896-04-26

with the door closed TO shut out the talk of
the women.
He was sitting thus when a roar IS if
or distant thunder broke upon his ear,
followed by another, and yet another.
he rose and went to the window The
day was cool and clear-there were no
signs OF thunderstorm apparent. What
could the booming noise pcrtend?
Not long was Pierus lett in ignorance.
A series of shrieks from the street
caused him 10 open the half door and
Mobile forth. The women were huddled
together near the ehurchyard gate, gaz-
ing up the hillside to where the Barrow
road curved into sight from behind a wood
or iarches. Shading his eyes, Pierus looked
III the same direction, and, to his horror and
CONSERVATION, saw the men of Conner re-
treating toward the village, many OF them
staggering under the weight of slain or
wounded comrades. Then the Significance
or the thunderous sounds heard not long be-
Iore was borne In upon him. They were the
voices of the English cannon
Down the hill and into The straeelIne
village FASTENED the Conner men. the
boys struggling downcast in their rear
They had hardly crossed the mountain.
10 appeared. when several troops Of reg
uiar horse, and a detachment of heavy ar
tiilery had encountered them, driving them
back whence they had come. after a brief
but gallantstruggle. Nearly yevery one I'm the
gallant band was wounded. and old Ly-
saght Moore carried a cruel sa Der cut across
his forehead. Pierus' father was clearly
acting as leader of the little force for he
ordered the men under cover the moment
they reached the village.
They'll follow US. boys he said, ''It
may be night. however, before they reach
the cross roads. Then the VII have to camp
on the hill all night. and in the morning
well have anotherbattle."
Matters turned out much as Lysaght had
Toward evening the English
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The CYCLISTS Match.

When scorching bcyclists of the male
sex refuse to adopt the chivalric sentiment
place aux dames," they must not be
surprised if ladies protect themselves, a s
one of them did. according to the Daily
Telegraph, the other afternoon in Brompton
road, and amid the plaudits Of many
spectators gained a notable victory. The
cyclist was racing along at his best pace
and the lady was crossing the roadway,
Instead of making detour to avoid her,
the man simply rang his bell and rushed
on without abatement of speed, conside ring
that he had done his duty to society.
Pedestrians on the footpaths and bus
men on their perchest tsaw v that collision
was inevitable. So did tthe lady. She
braced herself for the ortle al, and resolved
OF offensive tactics. Giving her body
not by any means that of a pigmy-a
rapid swing, she brought the strongest
and most padded part Of her figure into
contact with the front wheel of the
machine and the bicyeIist himself and
,Rsn Men. sent both sDra Thns into the road
Then, giving her skirts another swing,
just to prove that they had suffered no
damage, she finished htr Journey across
the road and turned around and laughed
with others at the unhappy cyclst, as
he picked up himself and the disjecta
membra Of his once perfect machine. He
made his way to the curbstone, where he
sat do wn to contemplate the dana ge, and
finally he put the machine on his shoulder
and carried it away.-New York Herald
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Pastures of the Kagus.

also the sUddenEess With winch all this.
Ills stately, IorIDaI anu utcuruus ueport-
mcDJ ISdppears.
All at once, ms sleepy companions, dOz-
ing on their perChes or meUtativeIy dress
ing their feathers anu plHIuIug themselves
awake 10 Tie Tact that tney nave a Ieatn-
cred terror amongst them, and that the
hitherto UnObtrusISe kaEu. whom they had
found no particular occasion TO notice be-
fore, has apparently gone mad. With wide
open Dedk and Outspredd wings, with a
sudden development of au uminOus and
most prepOsterOus crest, where none was
10 be seen before, and harsh rafting noise
ne rushes at the frightened inmates or the
aNiary, he drives them lranucaly squaiIing,
Shrieklng and flapping j n every direction;
ne chdses and upsets them ana Is tot sat
lsIied until, master OF the lied, he alone
remains on the ground, and every one OF
his companions is clinging in mortal terror
to the topmOst wires of the great cage.
HIS satisfaction ut this achievement IS
evident, his enjoyment OF 1T unbOunded
He runs, pranceS, and skipS about in the
most Undi gnified fashion, and, finally,
taking the Zip end OF q wing o tail feather
IL The tip end OF his leak, he INDUCES in
high stepping, light, fantastic waltz that is
absurd and prepOsterous be yCnd descrip-
tIOn- HIS performance generally winds up
with picking up a stray feather, there are
sure TO be plenty lost in the hurly buriy be
has caused, tossing it Up j n the air, chas-
ing, catching i t and tossing il up In the air
again until he is tired or has worked
Off his flow OF spirits. Occasionally,
however, he varies this performance by
sticking his bill deep in the ground,
standing on his head, Tapping his wings
and flOunshing he long rcd legs wildly
in the faces of the spectators, who never
fail 10 greet the performance with shrieks
of laughter.
Certainly such another amusing bird.
does not exist, unless it is a sort Of sec
Ond cousin of the kagu. the shadow bird
Or Scopus umbrella Of Africa, that plays
IN pretty much the same way.
The morning times., 1896-04-26

these people keep all their jollity to them
selves during the tourist season for fear
it may interfere with their acquisition
of wealth. This paper said that the au-
thorties of the Canton Berne recently
gathered to discuss, among other things,
the question of dancing and other public
amusements in restaurants
The curious facts were further brought
out that in this one canton alone there
ire 91S public dancing saloons. against
40 churches. The other cantoDs did not
seem to be quite so bad. only that of
Uri having more churches than dance halls.
l Judge from this that o Swiss peasant
once asked if the winter was not some
what dull after the tourist industry had
stopped in October told the truth when
he replied: Nay; when you've all gone
away the best time begins for us."-New
York Journal.
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Which
o Ship
Won

"The Lawrence, of coursel Don't our
histories say so? She was the flagship
and didn't she pitch into the enemy for
two hours.
Yes, but didn't the enemy tear her all
to smash and the smart little Niagara
teetotally wipe out the British after all:
and mighty quick, toor'
Now, Jack, you know that il the Law
renee hadn't scared the British TO death,
and Perry, the commander, hadn't gone
into 'em, with the Niagara, after the Law
rencc--''
That's no argument, Tom
The little group OF boys stood closer
The dispute grew sharper. IL was Satur-
day and the school children were clatter-
ing up and down the marble steps of the
Capitol, had been to the top OF the
dome, peeped into the Senate and House
and were now looking at the beautiful
painting by Mr.. Powell OF Ohio, "Perry's
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Florida Indians.

"Our Indians" says DR.. Brecht, Indian
commissioner in the State of Florida, are
not multiplying rapidly This is due to
physiological and social reasons. Still there
has been an increase. In 1859 there We're
but 112. Now there are something over 800.
The chief social reason for their slow
propa CATION is the custom of countenanc-
ing no marriage of persons who have drop
of the same blood In their veins This is
sometimes hard on the girls. One leader
know has two beautiful daughters, who can
not get married because the eligible young
men arealmostall akinto hem. .''-Ex cha nge.
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swiss An,use,nents.

lone OF the pS es about switzerland OF
today is that the people are forsaSing their
picturesque costume ana dressing more and
more in the conventional way remarked
a much Travelled New Yorker the other
evening. They don't seem such lively
people, either, as they did ten years ago.
Only in tie large hotels. among the wait
resses, or on holida Us, do you sec tive women
in what used TO be their national garb.
So far as l have observed, they are for
getting how to smile or yodel.
II saw statement in Swiss paper the
other day which leads me to think that
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A M,xture for Bee stincs.

II is well known that lCuid ammonia re-
lieves the effects of the st:ngS of bees A
correspondent informs US that much more
effectual antidote is the mixture known as
ammOpiated tincture of GCiHine. On sew
eraI occasions, when stung by bees. he found.
that the Quinine mixture would give much
quicker and greater relief than ammonia
alone.
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Lady Blessington.

1.-THE most gorgeous Lady Blessing
ton, as she was christened by her very
old admirer, DR.. Parr, has long since
passed into the regions of oblivion fo1
the general world. AS an authoress she
never succeeded in making any mark,
though she worked at the business as
hard as any Of her successors of the pres.
ent day. Her novels were many and
fashionable, Mrs. Gore like in their
method and filled with strange and
wandering scraps of French. She edited
books Of beauty for fancy clients and at
fancy prices, and when The News was
first started under the editorship of
Charles Dickens she was offered an en-
gagement as purveyor of fashionable
intelligence and asked $500 year for it.
She was offered either G400 as GER
tainty, Or e250 for six months on ap-
proval, and confidently chose the latter,
with the melancholy result at the end
Of the term-Dickens having in the
meantime retired from his uncongenial
work, and John Forster having accepted
his post ad interim-she was informed
that her services were no longer wanted.
She fought for her hand hard enough
in later days, poor lady, after years of
Arabian Nights p" luxury with her
magnificent husband, but we fear that
her position in the literary world was
not at any time one Of solid security
Privately she lived under a cloud from
the scandal which always connected her
name with Count d'Orsay, and, we sup
pose, not without reason. At all events,
they never appear to have taken any
steps to defend themselves against the
charges of papers like The Age, which
anticipated similar class Of journals
that sprang up in our own day, and
rather suffered judgment by default. -
London Spectator,
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A shy DANCER.
Stories! Told by Westerners of tho Antics
Of the Sand Hill Crane.

The sand hill crane is very bright
bird. A Recreation writer says that it's
very name is synonymous of vigilance
and alertness. It feeds on the treeless
plains or in the barren wheat stubble,
where it can see a long way beyond gun
shot, or one Of flock is posted as SEN
tinel, and this bird stands with bill half
open, ready to give an alarm. It can be
killed by decoying it with pasteboard
figures cut to proper size and shape and
painted, but mounted birds are better.
A pit is dug deep enough to conceal a
man, the decoys are put out, and the
cranes are shot as they come over. The
best region to shoot them is in the Co
lumbia river watershed and south Of it
in the Pacific coast states.
When one shoots bird Of the size
and build Of a crane in midair, it col
lapses, like card house or tent. But
such apparent collapses are sometimes
deceptive, as, for instance:
Before could reach him he scared
off into the air with wheeling flight.
Again he hit the ground with fearful
N1oA01ASO3 Ooo e%SohA1A 1AO SOu OA LIS 1CCu.
Running up, thinking to get him alive
for a decoy, tried to tap him on the
head and stun him. He showed fight,
and used my gun as backed off, and
he took to his wings"
The sand hill crane is something of a
fighter Of men if wounded, and the only
safe crane is dead one Their bills are
long and sharp and are capable of put
ting out a mans eye.
The sand hill crane has some curious
habits that make him Of more than pass
ing interest to the student of birds. Out
on the prairies parties of them have balls
in the spring, to which the select birds
seem to be invited. These balls are pic
turesque affairs from the human stand
point There are curious dances, which
are sort Of solitary waltzes or pretty
slow jigs Sometimes the birds leap
oyer one another's backs and flap their
wings, giving their peculiar cry. Some
times rival birds have fierce duels, using
their keen bills like lances, battleaxes
and swords.
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Vegetable Properties.

It may be well to mention that an
eminent physician who has been inves-
tigating the properties of the different
vegetables announces that diet of
carrots ameliorates harshness of charac-
ter and reduces nervous irritability
Peas create fatty tissue and encourage
joyousness, while turnips have just the
opposite effect. Celery taken in excess
causes eye trouble, while cabbage is
beneficial in pulmonary ailments, and
lettuce aids as sedative owing to the
opium contained in its milky juice,
which keeps the skin clear and fresh.
Red beets are blood producing and will
add plumpness to the thinnest form,
providing they are boiled tender.-New
York Journal.
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Dry Goods Department

Remnants of calico, percals, ginghams, at
zoe lib, about 5yds to Id.
80 pieces of fine quality of iaconet lawns
slightly damaged by water, etc. 1Oc yds worth
1Scts.
Wash silks for waists at 2scts yd worth
35cts, warranted all silk
Spring calicoes from DC up.
Dress bingham &c.
Apron gin CHAINS to &c.
Good quality percale Sc.
White lawns sc and upward.
Crepon, all Shades &c and upward.
Silkoline 100
Dotted swiss sc
Organizes 1871 upward
Black satin SC upward
Lyons silk for waists &c
Dimity &c
Plaid dress goods sc
All wool dress goods 23c and upward
Half wool dress goods 1Oc
Yard wide sheeting sc
lO-4 sheeting, bleached 1Oc
Bleach cotton. yard wide, sc
Bed ticking, best quality, l2Lc
Table linens Is to 49c
Napkins 18c and upward
Linen towels sc and upward
Crash &c and upward
COunterpanes $50 and upward
Pant goods l21zc and upward
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Clothing Department.

Do you pay cash for your clothing? If YOU
do we want your trade. We will guarantee
to save from % to so per cent. Give us a
call to convince you.
AgOod wearing suit. 81 80
Better at $50
All wool at 500
A fine all wool cheviot at6OO
All wool suits at $50, worth 1000
All wool black clay worsted at Z so, a bar
gain
Boys suits from Is cents up
Youths suits at all prices.
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English SPAWN Liuinent -se1oyes al hard
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Hardware Department.

Rodgers triple plated teaspoons CSC
Rodgers triple plated table spoons $1.9S
Rodgers triple plated knives and forks
$4.7S. Warranted years.
Knives and forks, steel, $50
Wade Il Butchers raZors 48 cents
Wade &Butcher's razors 75c, real value 81 IS
American British bull dog pistol 81 .25
Automatic double action S. & W. pattern
So 4S, real value 81
Large line of pocket knives at u price
Coffee mills 90 cents up
Monkey wrenches % cents
Hammers 10 cents
Hatchets 10 cents
Whitewash brushes 10 cents up
Chair bottoms cents
Hat racks cents
Buggy whips cents up
Hair brushes cents
Stove polish cents
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Even BlackSf1l1thS,
who are supposed
to represent great
strength and perfect
health, are likely to
die of consumption.
NJ ere fauscularity
isn't always health.
Disease will develop
rapidly once let the
germs of consump-
ton get into a mans
system, and it will
kill him certainly and
surely if he doesn't
take the proper
measures to get rid
of it. Exercise and
work and dieting and
all that sort of thing
are good enough in
their way, but con-
sumption IS one of
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ltch on human. mango on 40 ses, dogs aad n
stock, cured in 80 minutes hy v oolford's Saaj1a
ry Lotion. THIS never Tais. Soid -
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Etaunton, va, sep. Ally.
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Notion Department


Ladies' Hose. cents.
Ladies' Hose, fast dye, cents.
Ladies Vests, cents and upward.
Handkerchiefs, 2 cents.
Ladies' Kid Gloves, 30 cents.
Ladies' Kid Gloves 75c, real value 81
CorSetS % cents
Best 81 corset made for IS cents
Immense line OF Laces and Hamburgs at
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29O yards spool cotton for 2 cents
Machine cotton cents
10 cent combs, real value % cents
Pins cent paper
Needles cent per paper
200 yards spool silk cents
Tooth brushes to 10 cents.
Towel racks cents
Wooden tO0thpicks cents
Toilet SOAP cents cake
Tar sQaI tents cake
CASTLE ylAl, two cakes for cents
Buttssils K soap cents a cake
Whi$a : ga0e buttons cents gross
Hairpin9 cents a box
He}f9S cologne cents
Swans&0wn cents box
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Millinery Department.

Everything new in the Millinery Depart
ment. Trimmed hats, flowers and ribbons
&C., in endless varieties, and at prices which
we DEFY competition.
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the things that they won't cure. Ine pacI 7.
lus of consumption is living organism. II
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CITY NOTICES.
Condensed Testimony.

TRY q can of Hopkins Steamed Hom1ny (Hull-
cd ,orn). 1t is delicious Full Of, loc.
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Department Store of 25 departments consisting of everyp
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ana @ poor equ doupe duty Of dollar and
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We invite an early and repeated visit and insneo+o on
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we offer special leaders fully Is to per cent less than
current prices in New York city