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on a | seeerer reeesd. sere Ra: FSR ene m. seed tees Swe. Aw om @ —6o TO— C. A. VAN HALL, —SUCCESSOR TO— A FEW YEARS HENCE. A Dreamer Conjures Up Tales of Hardship for His Grandchildren. He was sitting before a great fire at the club, with eyes half closed, whena friend reused him. H “Dreaming. old man?” asked the | friend ; “Half dreaming. half musing,” was | the reply as the young fellow stretched hims If. ‘My grandfather has been | telling of the hardships of early days, and I was wondering what I'd tell my | grandchildren in that line.” “Couldn't think of much, could you?” | F. BERNHARDT & CO. poe —FOR— | i “Well, I don't: know. Hardship is | Chinese was estat n he course} use two). Make y xture | hardship only by comparison with lux- | 9¢ unsuccessful pr recently | small rolls, cover a eet ury. The luxury of one is the | taken by the authorities to have her] erumbs, and fry & lard to a hardship of the next. Now I conjured | taken away from her parets on the] golden brown Jrain well on clean MEDICINES, up a picture of my grandchild sitting on | ground that she was a white dild. brown paper befwe serving. — Detroit . my knee asking me for a story.” Several men had gathered around the armchair and one asked. you tell a story?” TOILET ARTICLES, TOBACCOS AND “O, yea,” re member I told him that had a brother in New York. One day received a dispatch that he was dying. I,took the limited, and for twenty-six hours I was in an agony of doubt, ful lest he should die before I arrived. I dilated a little on the terrible suspense and told how my appetite seemed to have left me.” And what did the boy say?” asked f the party he bo ©, he wouldn't believe it nted to know if it was possi- » was an accident that de- adif there was, why it de- layed me so long. He figured it out, too. He said: “*Regular time from here to New York, two hours. O, they couldn't have Is Your Husband Cross? | *: NINE ARTISTS MATERIALS OF ALL KINDS CIGARS, Prescriptions Carefully Compounded A liberal Patronage of the public is solicited. layed me de d you twenty-four hours, grand- | in cool weather is usually wroped up|'¥ taking the juice of six lemons and ALL Pp in a gray overcoat, with a gra; slouch pee Peel of three. and the juice SOME Sy PTO ecu Grassi “And when I told him that twenty- | hat on his heady rand rind of one large sweet orange. | icrosslower ‘Of bo fs 3 ogee =, Wels, with “—aa six hours was the regular time he looked ~—President Carnot expenc from Ste@ all together one hour, and then| "int Moorrh sorry for me and said: “Poor grandpa. You must have had an awful hard time. And how slow you were in those days. Ate on a train, too! Dear me, I can go from here to San Francisco without getting hungry! Didn't the pneumatic tube work well?” “And then?” was the query as the dreamer paused. “Then I explained that the pneumatic tube route wasn't in operation at that time, and drew out a little more sympa- thy by telling him about an exorbitant gas bill that 1 had received and had to pay, because if I didn't the company would cut off the supply. O, but he was surprised! * ‘Gas! he exclaimed. want of gas Well cooked food produces good digestion and a sweet temper. ‘What did you couldn't pity me enough; said it must have been awful to have to depend on MISGELLANEOUS, —It isa very commendable thing, no doubt, for a donkey to endeavor to talk himself horse.—Boston Transcript. —Two cooks of Ashland. Gre., one a negro and the other aChiraman, in- dulged in a novel contest a few days ago to see which could cleana chicken in the shortest time. Thecekstial won | in twenty seconds and the fow] was still kicking after being denuded of its feathers. —There is a six-year-old Chinese girl in San Francisco that has bhe eyes and flaxen hair. That she is a fill-blooded —A woman in Cleveland ent to a chiropodist and told him she vas afflict- ed with an in-growing toe na: He di- agnosed the poot she wore ad found a roll of bills worn to fragmens in the toe. She paid him his fee an:sent the money to Washington to be edeemed. She declares she must have iidden it there in her sleep. —A horse in Macomb, Mich.has been used to go to church every Suday with his owner for years. Last Suday, for reasons best known to himse], he left the horse at home, and afterservices went out and there stood thefaithful animal in his accustomed plac by the church, waiting for him, but vithout the carriage. —Count 7 e, the Austria prime minister, is almost as tacitura anan as Grant was. He is sparing of hiwords, so that when he does speakin the chamber he is listened to withinusual interest. He dresses most plaly and $7,000 to $8;680 each time thate give a grand fete, such as society xpect him to furnish three or four ties dur ing the fashionable Paris seas. Hs official dinners for twenty-foupeope atatime cost about $700 each. A din- ner, followed by an open receptn end dance, costs from $2,500 to $4.0. All these expenses come out of thallow- ance of 625,000 francs annually pvided by the nation. —“Waiter!” ‘“Yaas, sah.” ‘Have you some nice wheat cakes andmaple syrup?” 1as, sah; but. boss, Ri ‘vise you not to eat ‘em now.” “Why not?” ‘Bettah wait, sah. till ‘t's a leetle darker. De gloamin’ is da bes time foh toeatdem wheat cakes an’maple syrup, sah.” “Why?” “Well you see, Detroit Freegfress. maple syrup £, inger to eat itejust after dusk, jah."— FIRESIDE FRAGMENTS. ' | —For coffee pudding. bea: together | | one cupful of butter, one anda half cup fuls of sugar. one cupful molasses, one ! egg. one cupful eold coffee prepared flonr. one tal cloves. one tablespoonful of cinnamon, | | one grated nutmeg: add one-half pound | each of raisins and curmats, if desired. | | Bake, and eat with anysauce preferred. | —N. Y. Word. i | | Potato Rissoles: Mix with mashed potatoes, salt, peppr and butter to taste, together with. well-beaten egg (if the eggs are smi! you had better four cupfuls spoonful of | PSS. d Tomaces: Cut ripe or green tomatoes in tw or three pieces, mix a handful of Inia 1 with some pep- per and s. p the tomatoes into it and fry inOutter, with care not to scorch. Lz the slices upon a hot dish, make a gr*¥ Of a cup of milk, two tea- spoonfuls Orn starch, little butter and salt and@pour over them. — Boston Budget. —Prey and inexpensive paper racks can be sade by taking bamboo canes or any li¢t wood for frames, and covering it wit Chinese matting on which any prett design may be painted. In paint- ing 2 matting bold effect should rather be rught than extreme carefulness of deal. Screens made of matting tacked orSuitable frames are likewise very ptty, and by one who handles a paint yash readily, very easily made. —Chris- an at Work. —Lemon Ice: The favorite is made stran and add one pint of water and E one pint of sugar: stir well until the sugr is all dissolved, and then freeze. If ouopen your freezer three times dung the operation. and stir up the corents well, it will improve the result. —Cod Housekeeping. — geod tooth powder can be made by ing six ounces of Peruvian bark withalf an ounce of sal ammoniae Shalit well before using. Take a spol and hold it near the teeth: therith a finger dipped into it rub the gunand teeth, rinsing thoroughly wit'arm water afterward. This tinc- turares toothache, preserves the tee‘nd gums and makes them adhere to ae other. -rtlets: & Make a paste with ounce Maid roll out to thickness of half an inad line some small pans with it. And Fs taeda bank’s N.ICFAIRBAN ( A A \ SA ~ aan Can eat woman man with Jrouble can cope, ut she cant wash h - cansev, er clothes Jo perfection she knows, LOCA Bite GEN YOUNG AN debility, invola: upon receipt of $3.00. twenty years in successf jatarrh Cure. ‘al use, Clairette Soape ANK & CO. —s— St Louis (R NGE BLOSSOM A POSITIVE CURE FO! THE FOUBORG ME 520 PE OUBORG MEDICAL Co., If you Want the Best, gas for light. —Felix L. Bwald maintains tha: night T:wo ounces of finely grated cheese,| ga we > Bie Buy theCharter Oak, “But it was when I told him about } air from the outside is far more tealth- bé up in a bow! with the yolks of DE A Fesstistitaccnn ‘ous going home one night when the electric ful than the vitiated, disease-laden night| twes. Add pepper, salt, cayenne om ; Whiapers heard ¢istinetly. Comfort. eco lights on Clark street went out that his | air of ordinary human dwellings In| antmeg, according to taste—very Seen ier heart bled for me. ***You must have had a terrible time, grancpa,’ he said. in those days for anything.’ ** ‘My boy,’ I said, ‘we didn’t have the comforts then that we have now, but those hardships are what made us the hardy race that we are." " Then the dreamer asked the crowd to leave him while he figured out another hard-luck tale for his grandson.—Chi- TAKE NO OTHER. For Sale by Bennett-Wheeler Mer- cantile Company. H.L. TUCKER, | (Successor to J. G Walker) cago Tribune. | DRUGGIST. | EUROPE’S ARMAMENT. | The Triple Alliai Vastly Inferior in Strength to the Opposing States. According to a tabulated statement of thre armed strength of the various Euro- pean powers the triple alliance has 1,137,- 000 regulars and 2 guns to oppose the 1,847,000 regulars. and 5,698 guns of Rus- sia and France. These figures, however, give a quite inadequate idea of the num- | ber of menin the field in case of war, | as no account is taken of the reserves | | Dealer in Drugs and Medicines Prescriptions Carefully ERTL and mi A better idea of the gigan- tic dimensions of the coming conflict may therefore be got from the statement of each state's full fighting strength: Ger- many. 1,080,000 in line and reserves, 620.- 000 militia of the first call, 700,000 militia = | of the second call, that is, total without ed. A night Clerk can alwa: had by pulling the Knobin fre e substitute reserves, 2,400,000; Austro- | father owns in the country and took her 2 . N CURE. Address Dr. Parker. or | es eee —- — | Hungar: $,000 in line and reserves, | rifle along. and meeting the bear, shot Gee parsilel in history. After the Boston, Mass. rae Taatnets, Rs wiface a pier; | | | a and ) militia, that is a, total of] it. She is quite an expert with the'T2S over and the Indians had been The Peabody Medical air. fresh and pure as possible. —It to 800 years. It fields, the Westphalian, Germany wi not exhaust th twent beginning of the fields of Bavart the Silesian for fuel then? supply, of course. But the also be a thing of the past. by the Portland Oregonian: E since, Mr. Kahn, the fur deale while driving out of Bay, met a young lac hind her saddle. Germany sucvessful experiments have been tried in summer of having pstients ‘I wouldn't have lived | With pulmonary disorders sleep all night in the open air of the pine woods. Night air is no more harmful than day] Press. At anyrate it is all we have to breathe at night, and it had better be} #85 a quarter of a pound of fine is estimated that the British mines will be exhausted in less than 600 is further calculated that drawing upon only one of her before the end of the eventh century, but that by the year 3000 the big coal apart. strew them with fine white | How Lost! How Re and the Aachen and districts will also be en- tirely used up. What will Europe do} ™oderate oven: let the door re- Fall back on the timber timber will —A young lady's exploits mentioned |»la@de.—Boston Herald. “A few pire City, Coos riding into town with a rifle in her hand and the carcass of a bear strapped across the horse be- The young lady was Miss Charlotte Nichols. of Empire City, who had started out to visit a place her lpf the two latter will do. Then fee. Address orcalion eB Fe wn three tablespoonfuls of cream, feh pattypan with the mixture and bn the oven until done.—Detroit ‘oon Biscuit: Put to the yolks of sand the grated peel of one lemon, sem together for ten minutes then the whites to a firm froth and put Tit to the yolks. mix it well, then CONSUMPTIVE HINDER GOR NS , Pai The or sure eure for Corns, | LOX & OU., N.Y. ve remainder: stir all very gently ay it with a spoon on sheets of let each biscuit be the thickness ngth of a finger and quite a dis- Ht lay the papers on baking tins hen the sugar dissolves put them open five minutes, then close for quarter of an hour; when cold, he biscuit from the paper with a E WAS UNDER COVER. Founded Indian Set = Troop of Cav- alry at Defiance. fe wasone feature of the fight en the Seventh cavalry and the at Wounded Knee which indicates most unmistakable manner the of modern firearms on the defen- and which is, as far as I know, T, ment. onials KNOW THYSELF, 6 Or SELF-) & SELF-PRESERVATION. A new and on! *, i ERRORS of © YOUTH, EXHAU: zo" HAUSTED VITALITY, PRF. NO MORE EYE- DECLINE, and all DISEASES | and 88) ps 125 invaluabie Ff ith Carre oa wi endorsements of the Press testim Consul Itation and volun! of the ES of MAN, Institute bas many imi- je 800; Prospec FREE! iv? INVIOL Set ont Expert mail. LE SECRECY and CER- | | oe = sie Ae = 3 tured the cavalr: et tators, but no equal. — Herald. 1,375,000; Italy, $48,000 in line and re- | rifle, having Klled a number of deer. OT CP! cavalry set to | ore but no eq feraid. i serves, and 372,000 militia, or a total of} —A Farmegs Idea—A farmer and ‘© bury the dead. Suddeniy a shot | treasure more Woe! oe pot precarzstion, i West Ward Stock Farm 1.220.000: France, 1,500,000 in line and | his wife, whp had been doing Central©@rd and a horse fell wounded. ae aad NERVOUS man, and learn to | J reserves, 1,700,000 in the territorial | park the other day. stopped at the Fifth’ ead were puree to know NG — Medical Review. (Copyrighted.; army. or 3,200,000 altogether; Russia, | avenue entrance as they came out and, ‘e's ot came from, but their GRATEFUL COMFORTING —THE HOME OF— 1,180,000 field troops. 832,000 reserves | turned for a last look. “*Nice, isn’t itpvfication was soon ended by a puff a and substitutes, 193.000 troops for occu- and 33,000 | no mistake.” pation, 154.000 Cossacks he said the wife. ‘‘Purty darned fine, and?ke from the top of a chimney-like heartily replied?” ® neighboring bluff, the ring of EPPS’S GOCOA. FEMALE D OR SALE BY ALL DRU: ER, Wholesale Agoat, 7 Waseten A ’ 2 safe and “I explained that we used to light | sah, dered ants done got ito that] of ‘er. two ounces of flour, the yolk] tons meen fdentiat Tite a eae our houses with gas, and the boy " it's a good dea pleas-| of ‘gg. a little water, a pinch of salt, | ™m!als mailed (sealed) free. 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Tumors, Red Eyes, Matted tye cane, militia. and border guards, a total of | “What's it wuth?” “Wall, that’s harcb@ll followed by the whiplike BREAKFAST. | e e 2,000. Russia and France there-|to say, as I don't know what lanc ee pei eonoeter: An Indian shot ‘By athorongh knowledge of the natural! p}fore can now place 5,590,000 men fetches by the acre round here, but rm 5 Shoulder had managed to lexs me ich govern the operations of digestion in the field against the triple alli-| tell ye this — It we had this thing on pe ay ieee ene kook and was firing the ane pretentian yee eet Peas meer ance’s 4,097,000... With even these | farm jest as it stands, I wouldn't take ps as fast as he could pull | Epps has provided our breakfast tab! hae ee = figures, however, the hugeness of the | cent lessen $5,000 for it, and I'd gilzeer in his disabled condition. A | delicately flavored beverage which may save ux many heavy doctors’ bille. Itis by the ju- diciovs use of such articles of diet that a con-| stitution may be gradually built up unti! strong enongh to resist every tendency to dis. ease. Handrede of subtle maladies are float ing around us ready to attack wherever there isa weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortitied with pure blood anda properly nonrished frame ’* great continental encampment is still } $6,000 if I could!"—N. Y. World. twas detailed to silence him, but inadequately described, for the land- —A Maine man in attendance at |! was he covered that not a shot sturm of all five states has not been |camp meeting and in the attitude c feach him, while his bullets were calculated. The landsturm is the mi- | prayer was greatly annoyed by whz®&ll parts of the battle grounds. litia of the very last call, which will | seemed an especially persistent mo? fact was finally recognized that not be summoned to fight till the final | quito. First it perched upon his necIlitary wounded Indian with his 100 . o mage are z sh it hester completey dominated the |—CivilService Gazette.” Made sim! days of invasion and despoilation shall }and his impulse was to fetch it La ee fi nated the oi) sb zet ’ eo simply with have come and the all but conquered | whack, bnt a sense of decorum rd that it would cost half a dozen | ting by 1 BEL TabIGR ote a people make one last effort to rally. |} strained him, and he gently dislodg¢© dislodge him. As it was not con- | & CO . London, £ng In Germany and Russia the landsturm In Austro- 000; in Italy, A moder- has not been counted. | Hungary it numbers + in France, FOR SALE, FANCY BRED, 000. |ate estimate, then, gives a total of | around the bac 15,000,000 men ready to live or die by INQUIRE OF different states. rary. ance and Italy years: in R the si in Germ: gary and France reserves last service LAURA CONCKLIN, <: PASSAIC, M9 ears: Do You Want te Seve from 25 to 50 Cents on Every’ Dollar you Sp Ifso, write foronur Mam» the annoy What he caught was | Absence of Mind. me people find it hard, in using t ne, to realize that they are 1 to face v the person they ¢ addressin inent merchant in the capi. y of u state sat at his in July. Inorder to secure sd gree of comfort he had taken off” rand necktie. itwith hishand. Next he felt a tictd worth while to go to this ex- ling sensation on one of his ears, and ¢ the only thing to be done was to went the other ‘Band. It was not lof off. The regiment aceordingly before the F was again fooliftew, having been fairly driven off f his neck. This tinue wounded man. uce was too much for hift incident in authentic history.— the sword. The universal liability to | and, with his eyes still closed, he ma?uls Globe-Democrat. | service, which keeps full the ranks of ja grab for it. =a all five armies, varies somewhat in the | feather from the hat of a young womery serious see | In Germany. Anstro- | who was devoutly kneeling behind higt salmon’ and fehne eae active sery- 5. The a from thirty desk one * irteen thousand 43D PROBUCIEG QUICK REWIEP ASD PERMASEST CORR, Sodas G4ALV mi may be weed wo advactage e Sold by all Draggicte a 85 Conte. ee AGENTS COIND Money selling Beveridge'sAu- tomatic Cooker. Latest and best cooking utensil ever invent- ed. Sells at sight. One Agent in one town. agents.\ Advertising matter lurnished . Por full particulars ed- Stes W. E. BEVERIOGE, Bactmone. Md. I know of no Salmon in British Rivers. 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