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The Press., 1897-04-08
ON OCEANS BED.
What Becomes of Ships Which Sink to
 the Bottom of the Sea.

What Becomes of Ships Which Sink to
 the Bottom of the Sea.
 What becomes of the ship that sinks in midocean? If it is of wood. it takes, in the first place, considerable time for it to reach the bottom. In 100 or more fathoms of water a quarter of an hour will elapse before the ship reaches bot tom. It sinks slowly, and, when the bot tom is reached, it falls gently into the soft, oozy bed, with no crash or break ing.
 Of course, if it is laden with pig iron or corresponding substances, or if it is an iron ship, it sinks rapidly and some times strikes the bottom with such force as to smash in pieces. Once sunken, 8 ship becomes the prey of the countless inhabitants of the ocean.
 They swarm over and through the great boat and make it their home. Be- sides this they cover every inch of the boat with a thick layer of lime. This takes time, of course, and when one generation dies another continues the work, until finally the ship is so laden with heavy incrustations, corals, sponges and barnacles that, if wood, the creak ing timbers fall apart and slowly but surely are absorbed in the waste at the sea bottom.
 Iron vessels are demolished more quickly than those of wood, which may last for centuries. The only metals that withstand the chemical action of the waves are gold and platinum, and glass also seems unaffected. No matter how long gold may be hidden ill the ocean, it will always be gold when recovered, and this fact explains the many roman tic and adventurous searches after hid den submarine treasures lost in ship wrecks.
The Press., 1897-04-08
THE GOLDEN STATE.
California Is Widely Celebrated, but Lie
 tie Known.

O@11oTnA@ AB widely celebrated. but 114e~
 tie Known.
 In the first place, California is known not by what millions of people have seen, but by what millions have read. Europe is better known by contact to Americans than California A prorni- nent American author recently "discov- cred" California and filled the newspa- pers with the interesting and suggestive impressions it had made upon his mind. He had been to Europe 90 times and to the Pacific coast once, which is once off, tener than many other distinguished travellers of the eastern seaboard. Still further, the Anglo-Saxon race is dealing with new conditions in California. Coming from dense forests, from 8 land of heavy rainfall and from a temperate climate, where winters are long and stern, it settled in treeless deserts. in 8 land of slight and peculiar rainfall and under sky that never knows the win ter. Finally California is in it's infancy.
 Born in a paroxysm of speculation one of the widest the world has seen it has outlived a trying experience of lesser economic epilepsy and come to the threshold of its true career strengthened and purified by the extraordinary proc- ess. In less than half century several farreaohing changes have swept through the industrial and social life of the state, swiftly altering the conditions of labor and of business. Even for those living in the midst of these events it has been difficult to read their significance and estimate their influence on the ultimate character of the place and people What wonder, then, that to the outside world California has meantime appeared like tumble of gold, palms and oranges, of gilded millionaires and hopeless pau pers, of enviable farmers living luxuri- ously on small sections of paradise and of servile alien laborers herded in stif1ing tenements? Such are the conflicting as- poets of the Golden State to those who view it from afar. r.-William E. Smythe in Century
The Press., 1897-04-08
Sanitation In Asia.

The appearance of plague at Bombay and Calcutta has produced one good effect at all events. Before its advent those prosperous cities had come to be- lieve that they had nothing to learn in regard to sanitation. There was time when they were open to reproach in such matters as open sewers, polluted water, and what not. But by dint of liberal expenditure of money and energy they had made matters right and could even challenge comparison with Paris, Berlin and Vienna. When, however, the awful eastern scourge, after striking firm root at the western capital, flew across the peninsula to the eastern. the public became little doubtful as to whether sanitary precautions had been duly observed. First came inquiry, then dismay, indignation, wrath, as discov- cry followed discovery, each more ap- palling than the last. We refrain from giving particulars. Even to read these horrors is sickening. But a still more terrible question presents itself, If the two most cultured and wealthiest cities in Hindustan are in this dreadful con- dition, what must be the state of less favored centers of population in districts where there are few whites and many blacks? Were the plague to penetrate inland, it would, we fear, find many towns only too ready for its reception. London Graphic.
The Press., 1897-04-08
DEPARTMENT STORES,

The Prominent Part That. Profuse Adver-
 Using Plays In Their Success.
 Aside from departures in policy and innovations on large scale, the original ity of the department store is largely supplied by two departments, to some extent correlated. These are the adver- tising department and the window dressing department. One is the litera- ture of the great store, the other its art. The shop windows are great stimulus for the department whose goods are dis played in them. A good showing will often wonderfully increase the sale of the stock as well as attract customers to | the store who are new to it. Frequently the head advertising man is the general manager of the store. Whether this is the case Or not he is general supervis- or of the establishment, with complete l knowledge of its ever changing detail. | Every day he holds nsultations with heads of departments to find out what particular lines of articles they want boomed, and about those articles he writes alluring statements for the shop ping public to read, sometimes arrang- ing for illustrations with them.
 The amount of money spent for adver- Using is appalling when looked upon as an expense. One great store in Philadel- phia spends on an average $1, 900 every day in the year, and good many spend $500 day. The advertising receives probably more of tke personal attention of the head of the Louse than any other department. The head of the firm which expends the great sum just mentioned personally suggests and frequently writes the leading lines in the daily an- nouncement. The proprietor of great store ill Brooklyn does this invariably and thinks the time well spent which the work daily requires. The mail de- partment tends to enlarge this expendi- ture, as the store reaches out to the ut most parts of the country, and the fu- ture will no doubt see an even greater development in the effort to secure mail customers in the small towns and in country places Samuel Hopkins Ad- ans in Scribner's.
The Press., 1897-04-08
HAS THE UMBRELLA FAD.
Chicago Man Who Carries It to Create
 Extremes Than Most People.

Chicago Man Who Carries It to Greater
 Extremes Than Most People.
 There is 8 man on the North Side who has the umbrella fad It would hardly be fair to tell his name, as it was learned in confidence, and the fad might not be regarded as mere eccen- tricity by some people who have suffer ed from it and they might be tempted to complain to the police. Again, every body who has lost an umbrella-and that means a majority of the people of Chicago-would look up his address in the directory and sweep down upon him with the hope that his lost property might be in his collection.
 There are other men who have 8 weakness for taking umbrellas, but no man is known to have carried it to so great an extreme as this one. He has 8 collection numbering 400 umb1 elias of all kinds A good many of them were bought Some of theIA were borrowed from friends, with and without their permission, and others were acquired in other ways which it would be hardly polite to mention. The man is a good citizen in other respects, but he is vic tim of the umbrella habit, and when he sees an umbrella he is compelled to struggle very hard to resist the tempta- tion to make himself its owner. Usual ly he yields to the temptation, and the coveted prize is transferred to his col lection.
 The umbrella collector does not make any great display of his collection. The umbrellas are piled up ill a big closet in his bedroom, and he very seldom visits it. Now and then he looks over them and counts them with satisfaction. The last time he counted them there were 39S in the closet. He has added a few to his collection since that time.
 In every other way except this pas sion for umbrellas, which amounts to a mania, the man is perfectly sane. His friends regard him as a very clever man, and he holds a responsible posi- tion in a big wholesale house down town. But umbrellas are his weakness. He is victim of the umbrella habit just as another man might be 8 victim of the opium habit or morphine habit, and his relatives are in constant fear that the habit may some day get him into trouble.-ChicagO Times Herald
The Press., 1897-04-08
DEVOID OF ANIMAL LIFE.
Ceaseless Struggle Between Fire and
 Water In Antarctica.

A Ceaseless Struggle Between Fire and
 Water In Antarctics-
 "Tbe Antarctic is a continental land uniuue in the world," writes General A. W, Greedy in an interesting article on What May Be Found at the South Pole'' in The Ladies Home Journal. "Its desolate shores, rarely approach able under most favorable conditions, are laved by an ocean the richest on the globe in it's marine life, animal and vegetable. Seals and whales in incredi- ble numbers abound in its waters, and countless sea birds cover with nests and eegs the few favored land spots which are free from snow during the brief, comfortless summer. It is 8 continent where abounds no land animal life, either mammals, birds, insects, spiders or reptiles. No mammal exists within 800 miles of its borders. It is also de- void of land vegetation (except the low est forms of cellular tissue, lichens. which have been found in two places only), having neither ferns, Towering plants, shrubs nor trees.
 "Here, however, nature displays her forces on a scale elsewhere unknown. Over the millions of square miles of this austral continent ceaselessly continues a titanic struggle between the opposing ancient clements of fire and water. In vain the volcanoes pour forth streams of molten lava and shoot upward pillars of fire. Welcoming the lava as a protect ing, nonconducting covering of its lower strata of flowing glaciers, the conti- mental ice cap resistlessly advances, cer- tain that in time, when the processes of erosion have lowered the elevation of the volcanic craters, it's countless tiny snowfiakes will quench the apparently unextinguishable fires that now shake from end to end the continent of An artican n
The Press., 1897-04-08
You Can Have Your Eyc Tattooed.

The latest discovery of scientific med ical men is that the human eye may be tattooed any color. It is now quite within the bounds of possibility for doc tors to tattoo mans eye bright scarlet or green. Of course eyes are only tat tooed in cases where one of them is blind and has assumed in consequence a peculiar dead and ghastly appearance. An eye in this condition will entirely disfgure face, but 8 modern oculist may color one of these "dead" eyes and restore it to its natural appearance, SC that nothing but the closest scrutiny can detect the difference between it and its fellow.
 The operation of tattooing is perform ed by first treating the eye with cocaine until it becomes absolutely senseless tc pain. When all is ready, the part to be operated upon is covered thickly with india ink of the required color. The tat tooing is then performed by means of a little electrical machine which operates a specially made needle.-London An STarS
The Press., 1897-04-08
SELECTING PICTURES.
I'm Choosing Paintings Get at the Inter
 ton of the Artist.

In Choosing Paintings Get at the Inten-
 ton of the Artist.
 "The value of picture depends upon what there is in it for its possessor," writes William Martin Johnson in The Ladies' Home Journal, on the "Seleo- tion and Framing of Pictures. "A paintin by an amateur may be more precious in your eyes than one of Ra phaeI's cartoons. Therefore sell your cartoon to the highest bidder, and when you outgrow the little painting buy back the cartoon if you have learned to see its beauty.
 "No one can tell you how to under stand art without your seeing it, study ing it, living with it, any more than any one can tell you how to tell good cloth from bad. You must first have had experience with cloth. Learn 8 language before you try to converse. But do not go so far as to imagine that you must learn drawing and painting before you can appreciate pictures. The less you know about technique the more capable you will be of looking at painting with an appropriated eye. Get at the artists intention. Does he express an idea to you? Is he interesting in the way he tells his storyp Does he convince you of 8 truth? If the picture is that of head. does it impress you as having the char aoteristics of an individual3 Does it look like a human being? Suppose a landscape is under discussion-do the trees sway, the clouds float? Is there any atmosphere in the painting? These are the tests of painter facility with lan- guage. But more than this is required it is the intellectually behind the brush. Herein lies the difference be- tween sublime art and the common place"
The Press., 1897-04-08
Petroleum for tbe Lungs.

Germs cause lung and throat diseases. Some germs are vegetable fungi"
 Some are animal -" baCilli.
 Neither kind can flourish if the syste m is in perfect health.
 Healthy tissues resist disease germs.
 Unfortunately few people are perfectly healthy all the time. The days that find us little out of health are the days that disease germs obtain lodgment,
 Nature khen weeds AeLb.
 Anglers Petroleum Emulsion is that help. It is an antiseptic- purifier of dis eased parts, an expeller of disease germs. It makes the tissues inhospitable and uninhabitable; the germs abandon their feeding ground, die, pass out of the system. That is thing that Anglers Petro- leum Emulsion does.
 The other thing is that it re6Hilds Hose injected and diseased ffssues.
 It soothes and heals the int1amed mucous membranes. It c!eanses the congested parts of poisonous matter.
 It is unequalied in the treatment of chronic coughs, consumption, bronchitis, and all weaknesses of the lungs.
 It aids the enfeebled digestion. It corrects the perverted bowel action. It feeds the exhausted nerves. It makes new, sound flesh, revitalized and nourishing blood. It fattens.
 # does aH Mese tAingS.
 Thousands of physicians prescribe it as a welcome substitute for Cod-Liver Oil. r fS Pe,tectLy agreeable to take.
 It disturbs no function; it is as we'll adapted for the feeble invalid or delicate child as for the more robust.
 It is a wonderful remedy.
 It is medicine is food.
 Druggists soc. and 100. Pamphlet free. Angler Chemical Company, Boston.
The Press., 1897-04-08
The Otaheite Orange.

Among the many charming plants of recent introduction the Otaheite orange is most unique. With its dark, glossy, green foliage alone, it is a plant of un- usual beauty, but when, in addition, it loads itself with true, fragrant orange blossoms, followed by a profusion of bright, miniature oranges, it constitutes a beautiful specimen indeed. It is a dwarf orange, and a plant not more than six inches high will bloom and fruit in a three inch pot have one not more than 10 months old as thrifty as an oak, blooming and fruiting in a five Inch pot, and likely to remain in it's present quarters for some time to come, as it is far from being root bound. It blooms most freely during winter, and for this reason should be we'll and sym metrically grown during the summer preceding. The blossoms are pure, pearly white; the outside tinged with soft pink, the color of the buds when grown in full sunlight. It is no unusual sight to see a plant bearing a load of ripenod fruit, supplemented by a suc- cessiOn of lovely pink buds and creamy blossoms of the most delicious fragrance. Procure young plant in the spring, fresh from a reliable florist. Mine never acknowledged it had been transplanted. It was given the semishade position de- scribed above, showered twice a day. and scale never troubled it. Blossoms came speedily, and all through the win ter it has had a place close to the glass in an east bay window, with daily showerings, and it continues as beauti- ful and thrifty as ever. A moist atmos- phere is a necessity. ty.-Vick' s Magazine.
 Saved by One Chance In Ten Million.
 The accidents that astonish railroad men are those that happen without hurt ing anybody. Such a mishap occurred to the Lake Shore f1ier from Cleveland coming into Chicago one Saturday morning. A steel tire slipped from one of the driving wheels of the engine with the train going at full speed. This was extraordinary, but that it should slip of the wheel over the connecting rod and fall clear of the track instead of wrecking the train was simply mirac- ulous.
 The driving wheel revolves, say, four times every second, covering that same second 80 feet of the rail. Fracture the tire with its deep inner fange, made to keep it on the rail, and try, with that big connecting rod rising and falling two feet every quarter of a second and the broken tire rolling 80 feet every sec ond, to make the tire fall off the wheel and over the connecting rod so it shall drop clear of the wheel, the rod, the rail and the train.
 This could not happen once in 10, 900, 900 times. Yet on the Lake Shore fier coming into Chicago it did that very thing, and the passengers, instead of being smashed up in a wreck, mar yelled over the remarkable occurrence. Chicago Tribune.
The Press., 1897-04-08
Sure Cure.

"John,' said Mrs. Smythe, with an anxious touch ill her voice, ''I am wor- ried to death about Gladys. You know the child is not 15, and the way she is beginning to lace is dreadful. Every chance that comes she draws in the stays and makes tiny waist for herself that could put my two hands around. ''
 What did you say to her about it?" asked Gladys papa, yawning.
 "Say to her? Why, told her that she was injuring her constitution, de- forming her figure, laying up lifelong misery and probable surgical treatment and everything I could think of
 Gladys papa laughed. "You went about it the wrong way, my dear," he remarked. "Just leave out all that about deformity and constitution and surgery, etc., and tell her that she is growing red nose. That will fetch her. See if it doesn't "-Philadelphia Press
The Press., 1897-04-08
The Weddlng Ring.

The associations called up by 8 we'd
 ding ring are very touching, and it is the last thing that even the poorest wife will part with. If it ever was consider ed badge of servitude. it now is much more suggestive of queenship and sov- ereignty. An old Latin writer thus de- scribes the ring: It is circular, because the mutual love and hearty affection of matrimony should be forever, their continuity remaining as unbroken as the circlet itself. It is an old-and ex
 ploded-notion that the ring is placed upon the fourth finger because a small artery connects with the heart. The real reason probably is that the left hand is not used as much as the right, and the fourth finger less than the other
The Press., 1897-04-08
THE "FAIR CHILDREN" AT THE GRAZ
 TON GALLERIES.

Aye, they grew older, queens and earls And duchcsscs and kings. They lost their innocence and curls And put off childish things. They lived and died. For some the lot In goodly ground was cast, While others marred with plan and plot The record of the past. Young Master Lambton's arms and legs That crimson suit outgrew. Port and experience changed the charms Of jovial Jacky Crewe. The baby Johnson's s thunder woke To below round the arts, And Gainsborough's Georgiana broke A score of hapless hearts.
 A. COchraue.
The Press., 1897-04-08
THE ROSE OF STARS.
When love, our great immortal

When love, our great immortal Put on mortality And down from Eden's portal Brought this sweet world to be. At the sublime archangel
 He laughed with yelled eyes. For he bore within his bosom The seed of paradise. He hid it in his bosom,
 And there such warmth 1t found It brake in bud and blossom, And the rose fell on the ground. As the green light on the prairie, As the red light on the sea. Through fragrant belts of summer Came this sweet world to be. And the grave archangel, seeing, Spread his mighty vans for flight, But a glow hung round him fleeing Like the rose of an arctic night And sadly moving heavenward By Venus and by Mars, He heard the joyful planets
 Hail earth, the rose of stars.
 -G. E. Woodbury in Century.
The Press., 1897-04-08
ADDeRranceR.

A man can be a man without his clothes, but society reckons a man part ly by his outside fixings
 A business may be a business with out any advertising to it, but the inn mutable law of custom, before which men and nations rise or fall, has written in letters of unquenchable fire that men must advertise and that by their adver- tising so shall they be judged.
 Until those words of fire can be quenched no man has a right to practice or to preach an individual doctrine op- posed to the rule of custom.
 will admit that the advertisement never brought reply or never created curiosity, and yet am willing to stake my reputation upon the assertion that if the value of advertising was limited to the appearance of advertising that ad- vertising would be necessary to proper conduct of successful business
 The man who advertises stands before the public in the full, legitimate and digniied prominence of one who is proud of his business, has right to be proud of it, is doing lot of it and wants to do more of it, and he is the kind of man that everybody wants to do business with, for just so long as the moth will be attracted by the candlelight, so long will trade swarm around the advertis- ing light of business. Hardware
The Press., 1897-04-08
Trv Grain-O, Trv Gratn-O.

of GREIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it with out injury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown Of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains and the most del1clte stomach receives it with out distress; \ the price of coffee: 15c and 25
The Press., 1897-04-08

BUCKLRN's ARNICA SALvE.-The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, letter chapped hands. chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and positively cures piles, or no pay required. Guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded Price 25c per box Sold bv F. K Taft
The Press., 1897-04-08

O
 tain Mercury,
 AS mercury will surely destroy the sense Of smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never bo used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can positively derive from them. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.,, To- ledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken tn- ternally, acting directly upon the blood and mu- cous surfaces of the system. In buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally, and is made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Go. Testimonials free.
 FSold by Druggists; price 75c. per bottle.
The Press., 1897-04-08

Mrs. A. Inveen, residing at 720 Henry St., Alton, Ill.,, suffered with sciatic rheumatism for over eight months. She doctored for it nearly the whole of this time, using various remedies recommend ed by friends, and was treated by the physicians, but received no relief. She then used one and half bottles of Cham berlain's Pain Balm, which effected complete cure. This is published at her request, as she wants others similarly af- f1icted to know what cured her. The 9 and 50 cent sizes for sale by w. w. La throp, Stafford Springs; G. L. Philips, South Coventry.