Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1893, Page 7

WELL-CLAD BOYS. Disguising the Fauntleroy Suit With a Sailor's Togs. THE MODIFIED LORD. ‘The Satisfactory Age to Dress = Boy — Aprons for Girls—The Maid to Match the ‘Room — The Empire Form—A Promenade ‘Costume. nn Byectal Cerreependance of The Frening Star. ‘New Yorx, May 19, 1898. HEN YOU DRESS your little housemaid to match yourself and your room, particularly the latter, you merely con- form to present rules. It is the fashion to have @ balf-grown girl asa constant attendant on the boudoir. She is ways gowned in chintz or some other stiff wash goods. Her skirt is full and plain, except for # rowof tucks, and reaches the tops of her shoes. The plain and cut out about the neck and to show s chemisette of and undersleeves of the same. tle lace cap, with a bow to match the dress. and an apron of very fine white stuff, run through wih ribbons.” The irl must be of the quietest manners, and or expression must of ber dressing. If you are a brunette she will wear or buff. It makes no difference course, your room is according to a color scheme that Matches you, and the little maid becomes part of this. “Such a maid iss pretty accessory to n afternoon tea. Dress her to match the cups. ‘The effect is very pretty when she hands them around. For the street, of course, she wears a plain dark serge with a long ‘cloak, the dress s little longer than that worn ‘tm the house. FOR THE NUESEMAID. The same iden is carried out for the nurse- maid. Hgve a young girl, if possible, dressed ‘as always beet becomes the child, and always in stiffly laundered goods for the house and in dark serge for the street. On the street the Girl should wear s special cap and a stiff, long t APRONED DRESSILY. white apron. In the house her apron will be larger and stiffer than the other maid wears. An apron, then, is part of » maid's dress at all and itis, too, an important feature of wardrobe of the little ones she attends. dainty models are shown in the first pic- ‘That worn by the little one who is sea'ed shows her taste in dress to be more correct than ideas of comfort, for che has made herself, her own estimation. much more comfortable sitting onher foot. The material of her is white batiste, and it is cut square at om It is shirred several times and then i ter, and trimmed with ribbon put on length- wise, and finished at each end with rosettes of Daby ribbon. 18 EMPIRE FoRM. The other 1s made in empire form of batiste. It is cut square at the neck and is trimmed with three rows of insertion, each row separated or marked with pink or blue baby ribbon and fin- ished at the top and bottom with a rutile of em- Droidery. It is alike back and frout and but- tons behind. There is one row of insertion over the shoulders and then the ruftle. The small puffed sleeves are finisled with insertion and raffle of embroidery. ‘The apron is pleated to the sores neckband in the manner indicated fn the illustration and the bottom has a deep hem and seven tucks. This sturdv little fellow wears what is as near to the Lord Fauntleroy costume of several years ago as fashion now permits. These Fauntleroy clothes are still dear to almost every mother’s heart who has a boy the age of the little lord, no matter how unlike him the boy may be in other ways. The sverage small boy, however, has a deadly hatred for the Fauntleroy get-up, and is MODIFIED FAUNTLEZOY. ever further from doing the appropriate “dearest” than when his ma insists on getting him into the togs. If one thing about the suit femore odious than another it is the sash. If you with that you may be able to fool the boy into a velvet jacket and knee tronsers, especially if you will add a sailor suit. This bas the wide sailor collar turning away to show a supposed “guernsey” beneath. which comes about the throat loosely. ‘The more this under jece looks likean undershirt the better the yy likes it and the less the mother approves. Let it be of fine flannel or knit like the bigzer boys’ “sweaters,” and either white or and the small boy will allow it to embroidered about the’ edge with colored silk and permit the sailor shirt worn over it to be of fine silk, either white or light blue. With the wide col” lar of this coming over the shoulders of the velvet jacket and with the blessed short trousers fitting over a sturdy pair of legs. the mother isa buppy one, especially if eke has saved the long curls from the barber. If you ean keep the boy’s mind on the sailor shir you may prevent him from assuming the ferocious expression of undying hate and rage that has come to be associated with the sturdy face of the American Fauntlerov when, as he soys, he 1s “rigged out” like a girl with s sash. FoR THE Bors, Never will your bor be quite so satisfactory to dress as he is when about five years old. In fast a little while everything will be changed and your baby will be a big ugiy fellow who wanis his clothes made by his father’s tailor. try to prevent it, Over this a loose silk or cashmere blouse, white or light blue, with a sailor collar of @ark blue to match the kilt, is worn, and a white knit piece shows inside the widely turaed-over collar. There is a sailor-knotted handkerchief and @ bo’sn’s whistle at tho end of a white cord. To be sure, it is rather a mix up of mountain and sea, the Highland bare knees and the sailor shirt and loose cap, but, ob, the the dear, he is in it! Sturdy, stocky snd hand- some, with his hair blowing about his brown HIGHLAND SAILOR LADDIE. cheeks and with a way of standing that makes one’s heart go right out to him! To think that he is getting 30 proud that he objects to being gathered up into hungry arms, becoming so ambitious that the first thing you know he is taking advantage of you by actually taking off the kilt and trotting around in bare knees and in trousers which are. of course, of the same stud as the kilt and meant to be bidden by it. That is what many © mother has caught her boy at before he was out of the kindergarten. Time flies! Get your boy into kilts as soon as possible, that his ambition may not cut short the yeur when he looks so well in them. Once he is into trousers the “little boy” is gone, A BAILOR SUIT. A sailor suit fora boy from eight to eleven Fears of age is shown in the last picture. The blouse hasan elastic in the bottom and closes beneath a box pleat in front. The wide collar is pointed in front, but square in the back, and is made of pale bide cloth. Around the edge is agilt braid. Blouse and trousers are of dark blue cheviot. The mother's promenade costume includes a very becoming jacket. It is tight in the back, but the fronts are biased at each side in order to give the pleats below the waist, as seen in the illustration. The belt is of faille ribbon, covered with guipured lace, and bas bow of the same ribbon in front and back. jacket fastens in the center and has revers of faille ribbon covered with lace iike the belt and meeting in a point above the latter. ‘The faille collar is covered with lace. The full puffed sleeves are trimmed with lace at the wrists and ornamented with ribbon bows. Her toque it of black Ince, having the design outlined with gold threads. In front there is placed a peas- ant bow of lace and a sellow aigrette. In back is a bow of black velvet, and the tie strings are also of black velvet. ‘Too many of the stiffened and pleated epau- lettes that are appled to gowns at the shoulders to give the new breadta there are left unlined. They are very stiff, and they set out over and beyond the shoulders, make a rounded curve as they narrow into a bertha effect front and back, and the under side is sure to show. It is distinetly disenchanting to see the ugly ccinoline. Of course we all know the ruffle thing is not stiff of iteelf, but don't make us remember it in that crude, rough way. MOTEER AND SON WELL CLAD. It is notable that some women are still mak- ing a stand against the wide skirt. Their gowns make every concession to the requirements of the preseat fashion as to the bi Great sleeves, wide revers, berihas, flowing foids about the shoulders, and o on, prociaim their gowns tobe of this season, while the close- hipped, clinging and slightly trained skirts an- nounce even more loudly an independent mind. Yet one must recognize that when it comes to “making a stand” the stiffened skirt is the better equipped—isn't it? soonGmane et TS Tue Asseunty Stan for two weeks, begin- ning May 18, sent by mail to any address for 25 cents. — GERMAN FINANCIERS’ VIEWS. Prominent Perlin Banks Think the United States Needs a State Bank. ‘The firm of which the late Baron Bleichroder, the famous financier and friend of Prince Bis- ‘ef, and which still holds a terview that Germany is much surprised at the falling prices iu America. It was expected that an increase of business and a consequent rise of prices would follow the opening of the Chicago world’s fair. The only apparent reason, the firm state for the condition of affairs in America is the unsettled condition of the silver question and the absence in America of a state bank similar to that of Germany. Both Germany and England would be glad to have the silver question settled “by the Brus sels monetary conference, or in any other way. Germany, however, will not adopt bimetelism. Germany owes its intluen- tial position to asound gold policy. The key to the political position lies in London. It was added in the expression of opinion by the Bleichroder firm that they did not regard the proposed intervention of the Bank of England im aid of Australian banks with favor, and thought this expedient would result more ‘unfavorably than in the case of the Barings, FLOODS 1 The Damage Caused W! ‘Thousands of Dollars. A special from Spokane says: The floods throughout northern Idaho and the western part of this state have reached the highest point known to the oldest residents, and tho |damnge already done will amount to many hundreds of thousands of dollars. Several of the largest railway bridges on the Union Paeitie, Northern Pacific and Great Northern have been washed out. Manv of the finest farms m the section are flooded and crops are entirely troyed. Many families are camping on iis, having lost nearly e thing. fears are entertained for 3 uses aiong the banks of the for if the water continues to as it has for three past, several million dollars’ worth of property will be destroyed. ‘The water was never sohigh inSpokane river, and at all times of day and night houses, barns and hay stacks can be seen going down the Fiver, crashing over the big falls. es A Sad Thought. From the Detroit Free Pr: She (guileless)—“When is a joke not » joke?” He (who has tried it to the editor of af Don’t think of that now. but keep him in kilts ‘aslong as you can. Blessed little kilts, that | come just barely to the sturdy dimpled knees | that will be a hitle grimy no matter how you| medicinal 3, baldness, her andr he safety of | /UNCLE SAWS REFUSE. | Many Curiosities in the Waste Paper of the Government Departments. PICKING MONEY FROM SCRAPS OfMce Seekers’ Contributions to White Hoase Waste Baskets — Burning Secret Memoranda of State—Conzressional Bills for Butter Wrappers—Public Documents im Junk Shops— Immoral Mall Matter Committed to Flames. ——— -_ HERE Is A WHOLE library of romance in SS the waste paper of the government. At the treasury trusted women are employed to do nothing else but go over the contents of the de- partment scrap baskets, This task they perform chiefly for the purpose of picking out the money which now and then’ finds its way into Such receptacles. Quite often considerable sums have been discovered in this manner. Ou one occasion a package of signed warrants from the office of the first controller, represent- ing many thousands of doilars, was come across among the refuse. Where such enormous quantities of cash in different shapes are handled daiiy it is uot surprising that some of it should be lost and should eventually reach the place of deposit for all waifs and strays, IN EXPRESH WRAPPERS, ‘Money is most frequently found in express Wrappers which have contained sums in paper notes and certificates sent in for redemption by banks. The remitter is obliged in every such case to pay the charges both ways. Very often, at the last moment, he will slip into the parcel the amount in change required for the retarn transportation. As likely as not the coins drop between the folds of the stiff brown paper en- velope and conceal themselves. They are not discovered until the wrappors are carefully torn to pieces in the waste room. In some cases they are only disclosed by tearing off the seals, beneath which they have hidden them- selves away. The sealing wax is all removed from the scraps and burned, to get rid of it. Love letters written by treasury clerks of both fexes to one another and carelessly thrown away not seldom afford amusement to the sorters, . OFFICE SEEKERS’ CONTRIBUTIONS. Large quantities of what will eventually be- como waste paper are contributed just now by office seekers. From 1,200 to 1,500 letters a day are received by President Cleveland,and Private Secretary Thurber gets about 300 per diem in addition. Col. Crook, who has been attached to the White House staff ever since Lincolu's time, says that the mail delivered at the Exec- utive Mansion has never before averaged onc- half of its present volume. ‘Telegrams come in at the rate of 300 every twenty-foar hours, and of these three-fourths are recommendations of candidates for government places. All of the letters are opened by Executive Clerk O'Brien, except those known to be private. which" are vent to Mr. Thurber's desk. The missives @arked ‘private and personal” are nearly always from total strangers who want some- thing. Such communications in the ordinary run are not referred to Mr. Thurber, but are sent direct to the departments. THE PRESIDENT'S SPECIAL BASKET. Only the selected letters go to Private Secre- tary Thurber. He sorts them over, picking out those which require Mr. Cleveland’s per- ronal attention. ‘These are put in a special basket by themselves and are called ‘Presi- dent's budget.” At night, after all other work is timished, the budget is gone throngh by Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Thurber together. Often it is 2a. m. before itis done with, All of the commuzications received by mail at the White House are packed after a while in wooden boxes and eventually they are torn into pieces and burned. ‘This rule does.not apply to mis- sives which are really important. They are kept on file permanentiy. ‘There is at the Ex- ecutive Mansion a so-called “eccentric file,” on which ail letters from palpable cranks are put. Most of these contain threats and warnings. This file has been kept ever vince the episode of Guitean, who wrote many such notes before he shot President Gartied. Au entirely sane ofiice hunter the other day sent alock of bis own fiery red hair with his application for the pince, saying that he understood that character could be divined by a person's capillary traits. STATE DEPARTMENT SECRETS. The Department of State always has a good many secreta to keep. To 8 torn-up and waste bits of paper to the junk dealer without discrimination would not do at all. Seraps might be put together so as to reveal most esoteric points in the policy of the administra tion. Accordingly, all writings of a private nature that are to be destroyed are burned in the open fireplace in Secretary Grosham’s own room. His confidential messenger superintends the operation. ‘Iho material thus disposed of is mostly notes and official memoranda repro- senting important diplomatic and other docu- ments in the preliminary stages of their com- position, All other refase scraps aro put into the furnace in the basement, because nobody has been fond to buy the statf. The N Department has trouble to sell it waste. paper at 47! cents per 100 pounds. The War De- partment get 63 cents per 100 pounds, because much of its refuse paper is in the shape of trim- mings from the office of records. ‘The “cards” of heavy paper used for inscribing the records of soldiers are of the finest linen substance. ‘The sheets from which they ata cut come half an inch bigger each way than ix wanted, so that they may be trimmed perfectly square for convenience in filing. WASTE PAPER AT THE CAPITOL, The two branches of the national legislature throw away an immense quantity of paper. During a short session the doorkeeper of the Honse selis $600 worth of it, and the amount is doubled in the long session.” From this end of the Capitol 100,000 pounds of refuse bills and laws are carted away to the junk shops during each Congress. ‘They fetch from $1.25 to $1.40 per 100 pounds, All such documents are kept for one year in the document room and are then disposed of. The Senate wastes about one-quarter as many bilis and laws, which are sold in the sume way by the sergeant- Until very recentiy the marketmen in Washing- ton used to utilize congressional bills exclu- sively for the purpose of wrapping butter. ‘They cost almost nothing; the paper was smooth and goo, and there was less obj to it than to any other printed paper, because the printing was only on one side and the lines were far apart. Besides, people were inter- ected to read on their pats of butter at brenk- fast sometimes fragments of speeches which had been made by able statesmen. One clever newspaper correspondent writes all of his dis- patches on the blank baek pages of Senate and jouse bills. ‘There was a junk dealer in Washington a few Fears ago who txed to buy great quantities of valunble public documents from Congressmen. But he conducted his business with euch dis- cretion that nobody could trip him up. For example, he would go to a Representative and make bim an offer for his quota of this or that fovernment publicastoy which right bappen to be worth a good price in the open market. He did not offer to purchase the books; that was not his style of doing things. In an insinuating manner he would say: “I would like to borry these books of you. You can borry $10 of me at the same time.” AN INVESTIGATION SUMMARILY STOPPED. By this method of reciprocal loans the Gealer got possession of many thousands of volumes which were printed for the purpose of being distributed gratia among anxions con- tituents. At length he was formally investi- gated by a congressional committee, He re- fused to talk, but, being bullyraged to a cone siderabie extent, te finally declared that since it was insisted on he would spenk without re- erve. From an inside pocket he drew out a memorandum book, from which he proceeded to read. This book contained brief notes of his transactions with Congressmen for some years back. ‘The first entry related to a small private deal with the chairman of the inverti- gating committee. The latter tried to stop him, whereupon he asked for protection. The chairman moved that the committee adjourn, which it did, and it never met again, CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENTS, As a ruie, every new member of Congress considers that he muat havea full set of the Congressional Record, running all the way | back to the old-time annals and debates. He | busa the volumes from a junk dealer at a high price. When he fails to be re-elected he sends jfor the junk man and tells him to “take that [rubbish away.” Only the other day Tae Stam writer on entering a second-hand shop in this city ted the gxecumulation through many years of a recently dead Senator. Later the covers of nearly all of the volumes were torn off and the insides were sold as waste paper. A few of the books were preserved for sale at fancy prices. ‘The junk dealers any that money some- times turns up in the refuse which they buy from the departments and elsewhere. One of them named Hayden got $7 worth of silver coins in @ bag on one occasion. He bas also come across several valuable autograph letters written by famous men. A GOODLY SUPPLY. The Interior Departmont produces more waste paper than all the other depertments put together, on account of its great size, in- cluding as it does the pension office, the census bureau and other branches. A ‘room in the main building is set apart for the reception of allsuch robbish. Formerly the messengers were accustomed to dump among it the debris of lunches, empty inkstands and ali sorte of stuff that reduced the value of the refuse as marketable article. At present a watchma: appointed to inspect each basketful deposited. © material fetches 51 cents per 100 pounds. It issold toa firm in Pittsburg. Taking the Yetr around it averages in quantity nearly 30,000 pounds a month. An odd story is told of young woman in the land office, who threw away an envelope containing her pay for two weeks. She discarded it absentmindedly, thinking that she had taken out the money. On discovering her mistake she was much distressed, She did not know where she had dropped the envelope, but a colored servant had the gumption to look in the waste paper toom, and there he found it aftera search. Another employe of the Interior Department, a man this time, on receiving his pay envelope walked out to lunch and mailed it in a box on the corner. He recollected himself at once and got the envelope back from the postman when he came along. EXCITEMENT IN ALEXANDRIA. The Post Oftice Department gets 87!¢ cents per 100 pounds for its waste paper. During the last administration a number of opened let- ters were found scattered about on_the streots in Alexandria, a few miles from Washington. It was at first’supposed that there bad bee mail robbery, and there was much excitement. Investigation disclosed the fact that a junk Acaler in that town had « conjract with the Postmaster General for purchasing scraps. Among the latter were dead letters, and of these some fell out of the bags on their way through the streets, DISPOSITION OF DEAD LETTERS. All dead letters are disposed of in this man- ner when it is found impossible to deliver them. This rule, however, does not apply to missives which coniain immoral writings or pictures. All such stuff is burned in the furnace. Only the other day a cluster of nine big and queer looking cocoons was captured at the depart- ment and held as unmailnble. The cocoons were woven upon a single large twig, which had evidently been broken from a tree. The clus- ter was fastened toa luce curtain in the dead Letter Office, and after a few days each cocoon rodnced a’ huge moth of gorgeous colors. ‘hey were all the same variety apparently. hav- ing @ spread of about four inches. ‘Some of them made their escapo ont of the window, while the others were chloroformed and pre- served. ‘THE CHAMPION WASTE PAPER PRODUCER. The government printing office produces by far more waste paper than does any of the de: partments, It uses up twenty tons of new paper per diem. Every day it packs up about four tons of waste for sale to firms in New York. Pittsburg and Washington. The refuse is sorted into eight grades. The first and finest, which fetches 2'y cents » pound, is “ledger shavings” from blanks and blank books, Other grades are white shavings from books, white shavings mixed with colored, waste printed Paper, manilla clippings, ‘brown wrap- pers, sweepings and cardboard — cut- tings. Itis worth menti ig, by the war, that the bureau of engraving and printing is obliged to account to the treasury for every sheet of paper furnished to it for printing uotes and other government securities upon. All sheets that are torn or otherwise spoiled must be returned for maceration, together with dirty money. NEARLY EVERYTHING I8 MARKRTARLE. Fow things in this world are so good for noth- ing as not to have some market value. The refuse paper and rags carried to the ash dump are worth something. Women gather them and sell them to the junk denlers, ‘The ash dump is a mine of wealth to ever so many people who get their living from it. ‘The broken bricks and crockery collected on its sarface from day to day are sold to contractors for $1 tip-cart lond, They are broken very fine and mado into a mixture for concrete. Old medicine bottle are purchased at 24 centeadozen by apothe- caries. Old thoes are gold to the junk men, or, if they are good enough, ther are taken to the cobbler. some part of the leather that ws perfectly good. It may be nly the heel piece or a part of the upper. bnt the shoe basa value, though it be only 2 or 8 cents, Such shoes are “reno- vated” by patching together available frag- ments. There isa regular market for footgear thus restored in New York city. IN THE DUMP. Small boys gather unburned coals on the dump. All sorts of rags are there, from silk to calico, and all kinds of paper, from cream-laid note to the waste stuff that has been taken | from under carpets, Tin cans are collected fo! rolling into tiles, with which shanties are roofed. In spring contractors dig into the heap for ashes, of which they cart away vast quantities for making into w peculiar mixture. ‘They take three wheelbarrow loads of sand, fonr wheelbarrow loads of ashes and three wheelbarrow loads of asphaltum, according to the recipe. ‘These ingredients ‘they mix to- gether with water and then the preparation is ready to use for cementing cellar and basement floors, a coat of ordinary cement being put on top of it, Not long ago in Washington a misor’s hoard was conveyed after his death to such a dump, together with the mass af refuse in which it had been qpnceaied. For weeks aftorsardchildren wero Grabbing in tho pile for silver pieces which now and then camo to light. Reve Bacuz. oe ee THe Assewpiy Stan for two weeks, begin- ning May 18, sent by mailto any address for 25 cents, ——— THE POLICE COURT. A Claim That It is Not a United States Court. Yesterday afternoon in the Police Court Prosecuting Attorney Pugh called for trial tho cases of John J. Leonard and Timothy Whalen, charged with selling liquor in violation of law. ‘Mr, Tobriner appeared for the defendants. Mr, Pugh amended the informations 40 as to make them come within the scope of the court's decision in another case, While Mr. Pugh was making his amendments Mr. Tobriner said he migiit save some trouble in the case by informing the court that papers were being prepared in his office for habeas corpus proceedings, which would attack the constitutionality of the court. He said he would make the attack on the grounds that the court was not a United States court for the reason that the judges are ap- pointed for a term and not for lile. Judge Miller asked counsel what he was going to do with the decision in the territorial eases, but Mr. Tobriner thought that decision would interfere with his proceedings. After further discussion as to the life appoint- tof judges of the Police Court, Mr. To- iner asked for a continuance in the Leonard which was granted, The Whalen case was then put on trial. Counsel for the defense challenged one juror. The defendant keeps a grocery store on 15th street betweon I. and M streets, aud it is charged that he sold liquor, ‘The usual objections to the information were made and overruled, and Sergt. Met Policeman Lutton were sworn, Mr. Whalen had a license last year, but le to_ get a re- newal of the license this year. He still had his stock of liquors in the place, but did not have the usual bar room appliances, The judge in- structed the jury to return @ verdict of not guilty, which was done. eee Effects of Frost at Niagara Falls. From the Buffalo Courier. The wear and tear of the elements on Niagara may be better remarked in early spring than atany other season. Great boulders are con- tinually felling from the faces of the cliffs, where they were loosened by the action of the frost, and the same process no doubt is going on in the stone under the cataracts. ‘The erosive power of the waterfall is not so great, but water, wind and frost together make the recession of the gorge, particularly on the Horseshoe side, quite perceptible. Platt’s Chiorides, a Cheap Disinfectant. Reliable, ordorless, powerful, convenient. In the worst case there is sure to be | THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. ©, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1893—SIXTEEN PAGES. EL MISTERIO. A STORY OF LIFE ON A BOARD- ING TRAIN IN ARIZONA. ‘MIN A DEUCE OF a fix, Mary. Lottie is down with the moun- tain fever, and not,a woman to be had in this half of Arizona, excepting greasers and squaws. Lottie ought to go home to mother. The wasbouts and bridgo repairing keep the boarding — train lumbering back and forth from Rio Pucreo to Holbrook, and the jarring and noise are too much for her. If you could come out and oversee things for a week or two until she could get nursed back to health, it would lift a great burden from my heart. I'll got a woman in Albuquerque to help you.” Mary Roma straight to the managing editor. “Of course you can go,” was Mr. Wilson's cheery answer, “but don’t let the chaws or Navajos gobble you up. I've been thinking of sending you out there to write up the boarding train life. As your brother is steward you ought tobe able, with his assistance, to get material for a series of brisk articles for the Daily Miner. Keep your eyes open for scoops. You will start in the morning. ‘The cashier will have your transportation ready for the 8:30,” and with a bow Mr. Wilson dismissed the tubject and Miss Roma at one and the same timo. It was his way; he never wasted words. ‘Thirty-six hours later Misa Roma was greet- ing her brother, Dick Roma, and his wife. “You ought to have been here twelve hours ago. What was the matter?” queried Mr. Roma, after the first greetings. “Thero was a bridge washed out at Lagarra, and we had to shoo-fly around it, then there was a cload burst just before we reuched Gal- lup, and the engine tan into a land slide,” re- plicd Miss Roma, as she divested herseif of her wraps. “What time is it, anyhow?” she asked, with a yawn as Dick left the car. “I'm sleepy and hungry and tired. Heaven have mercy. What Las broken loose now?” she cried, as she jammed her fingers in her ears to shut out the Unearthly toots and howls of an engine which stood right beside the car. “Your question as to the hour is answered.” replied Lottie, with a sorry attempt ata laugh at Miss Roma’s dismay. ‘It isn't musical, is n? Ittets my teeth on edgo with that diabolical racket a dozen times aday. The engineer of 97 is simply giving the first call for the men to getup. It is 5:30." Jast then Mr. Roma looked into the car and asked his to step in and see if the bosses’ dining car wi ape. “Slumgullion Sam got on a toot last night and I reckon he’s cashed his chips and trailed out, for he ain't showed up in the game yet this morning. The new flunky is « tenderfoot at biscuit shooting, and I woulda’t like to gam- ble on his making an artistic success of it. Better hurry up,” und then he disappeared. ‘Lottie, what‘on earth does Dick mean? Has he forgotien how to speak English? “The terriers wouldn't understand him if be did talk ‘United States.’ He want you to see that the flunk waiter has the bosses’ table properly set.”” : “But what under the canopy is the ‘bosses’ table’ und to what genus and gender do flan- kies belong?” demanded Mixes Roma in wild- eyed amazement, as she hurriedly shed her traveling dress for a morning wrapper. “Oh my! Mary!” sighed Lottie, comically, “sou have such alot to learn yet.” Run along to Dick and he will enlighten vou. Hurry, bo- fore ninety-seven sets her music going again, or the terriers will ran you down, Dick is in the recond car west of this,” “Here you are!" shouted ber brother as she was flying by the step Indder. “Give me your hand! That's it, You'll have to pervade this car mighty rapid, for the bosses will be tum- Dling in to chuck’ in about two minutes, ve ot to go to the kitchen and cuss the cook for scorching the spuds,” and away he went, leay- ing Miss Roma pondering by jerks over the ad- ditions to her vocabulary, and the probable outcome of the andacions step she had jnst taken, while she “pervaded” the car in which she had been stranded. It was a common box car, painted a ghastly bluish whit streaked brown and oozed through. A di its interior e, which was yellow where rain had h cupboard partly fliled one end. Down ths center was along narrow pine table shrouded in “gravestone” vilcloth. On this clammy banquet board “covers were lnid for twenty guests.” Backless benches lined down each side. Here and there on the bleak expanse were grouped plates of bread, soup dishes of butter, fly specks and bowls of sugar. Three lonesome castors of fil’ gree pewter stood guard in the middle and at each end. Heaviest of hotel plates and rusty iron knives and forks completed the cheerless array. ‘Though the day was well broken, smoky engine headligints in each end of the car heightened the unutterabledreariness of that awful banquet bali. “All set, sis?” called Dick, just as his sister pansed by the dish cupboard half inclined to flee, but before she could answer 97 turned up, wide sliding doors flew back and the “bosses” came tumbling in to chuck. Qat- ide, ubove the noiay badinage of the men just entered, and above even the demoniacal shrieks of the engine whistle, Miss Homa heard the enarl of angry voices, an unceasing atream of vilest profanity and thud of hurrying feet, and knew that the terriers were also bent on “feed- ing. “Just keep yonr eye on the flunky andsee that ti adjured Dick, as she he doesn't soliie shrunk back in the corner nearest the kitehen T've got to go down and sce that the jon't carve each other instead of the and he left her to her fate.” an eve on the flunky,” Dick had said. “Tecnidn’t have kept an eve off of him unless Thad been blind,” she afterward told Lottie. “He fascinated me, because I felt intui that somewhere in’ his horizon a story was lurking, and I was immediately consumed with a desire to discover it.” ‘The flunky in queation was tall and slender and sinewy, His brown hair hang in curls on his shoulders and surmounting them was a wide white sombrero, around which was coiled a tunned rattler's lide, iis blue flannel shirt flared in a wide collar, well open at the throat, almost aa full and white asa woman's, and under the chin was knotted a Roman scarf, caught with a grinning death's head. His brown velvet trou-era were held at the waist by a wide beit filled with cartridgen and weighed down by a pair of Colt’s 43s, which hung in their holsters. feet were en- cased in handsome top boots and great tilver spurs jingled at every step. | His bands were emall and shapely and on the third finger of the right one binzed a mugnificent heart- shaped ruby in a circle of stall diamonds, Despite his make up Miss Roma felt sure that he was of gentle birth, and, moreover, she knew, as a woman always knows things, that he never rode a herd in his life. He was deft and quick aud the bosses. who, Miss. Roma learned luter, were the superintendegts of the various gangs of railroads. laborers, engineers, &c., didn’t seem to notice that a “tenderfoot biscuit shooter” was on deck, She felt rejoiced that she was not called upon to interfere. for she had learned in her few months’ newspaper experience that some peo- ple had a restless, not to say peevish, way of fingering six-shooters when their motives were impngned, and while the new tlunky bad big bine eyes and @ girlish face that dimpled in emiling. which he did when he looked ber way, she remembered Shakespeare's apostrophe to men who smiled and were still villains, and mentally Gecided that the lines of their two lives should not if she could prevent it, At 8:40, after two hours’ acquaintance with her new calling, she was left mistress of tho situation. Mrs, Noma protested against the insult to the proprieties, but Dick and his sister knowing that a life dear to them both de- pended upon the change, sat upon her objec- tions with such good natured severity that she had to yield. Mr. Koma was to return as soon as his wife was safely ensconced in his mother’s home. That meant at least two days anda night from the boarding train, Miss Rom courage receded with the east-bound train, and as it disappeared around a distant curve she sat down to the luxury of a good ery, and was greatly refreshed by it. While doing her back hair an idea struck her, and, not pausing to change her morning wrapper, she deposited herself ina rocking chair, with her paper pad on her knee, and began an article for the Miner. Her ‘introdnetion was scarcely com- pleted when a tap at the open door ealied her Attention to the flunky, who lifted his som- brero ax she approached. “The head couk says that the second cook is drunk und that he must have other help. What shall we do?” Without preface he thus opened his budget of cheerful news. “I have not the faintest idea,” replied Mise Roma in dismay. “I suppose you don't have under studies here or subs.” He smiled a little as he replied courteously, “If yon will nermit = : a the second cook's place. an: cult to find another—flunky. He hesitated slightly at the word, and Miss Roma said impetuously: “What is your name, anyhor can’t call you by such an abomina- Vie title as that.” am known here as ‘El Misterio,’" he ro- slied evasively. “That isn’t a name,” she blurted out in her surprise. “It is simply Spanish for ‘The Mystery. he returned quietly, and Miss Roma it will not be diffi- “Yer, knew she bad run acrossagoodstory if shecould only chuse it to cover. ‘There was no oppor- tunity for that then, however, for he re- turned to the previous question. “I think can proas Jose, the engine wiper, into service for the bosses’ table. He is Mexican with limited command of English, but he is devoted to your brother and will serve you faithfully. I will look in on the table and see that nothing is neglected, if it will make it any easier for you.” And waiting for no reply El Misterio lifted his hat again and disap- peared. dispatched without incident or Dinner was accident, except that most of the bosses eyed Miss Roma curiously, seeming to note her ap- pearance for the first time, and a few of them removed their hata, but finding them decidedly in the way on the narrow benches, thought bet- ter of it and replaced them on their heads. The kitchen car was fitted up with cupboards and lockers, great iron water tanks, huge ranges, mess boilers, &c. Everything was fas- tened with bolts and bars and slats, for the boarding train was a town on wheels. It was designed to care for the 250 and often 300 men who were grading. laying track, stretching telegraph wires, building bridges and water tanks. It was composed of forty-five cars. Mr. and Mrs, Roma had a box car fitted up ina very home-like manner, and but for the lack of society the life they lived on the boarding train was not unpleasant. El Misterio’s arrangement for helping Miss Roma worked admirably. Jose was as quick aud careful as the man of mystery,and the plucky newspaper woman felt quite happy. She had disposed of the last soup plate of but- ter and emptied the sugar bowls to 6m all of them with some soapsuds, under Jose's skill- ful manipulation, when his’ dark face, full of trouble, ap) at the door. ‘Senorita, it must that I go censtantice!” “Why? What's the matter?” asked the star- tled girl as she thought of that awful pile of disbes from which twenty-two men had “fed.” “My engineer, he havo say noventa y siete— you call it what, 97 he must wiped be p. d. q.” Evidently the engineer talked “United States. “And must you go at once?” “Si, senorita, causa mi infelicidad, Ino am much sorrow, but my engineer he have said p.d.q._ I return pocotiempo,” and off he went. Mies Roma bethought her of El Misterio. He seemed fruitful in expedients, but the kitchen car was tenantless. The dishes had to be washed. She hated dich washing, another intensely feminine trait, but she didn’t pro- pose to be balked that way. An exploring ex- Pedition discovered plenty of hot water, a sup- ply of questionable dish towels, made of un- washed flour sacks, and a monstrous dish pan. She pinned a bran’ new flour sack about her and attacked the enemy, who gradually suc- cumbed. The air was so light and balmy, the day so rarely perfect and the solitude in which the boarding train seemed enveloped #0 dense, that Miss Roma felt as though she was in a lit- tle world of her own, in which she was the male Pooh Bah. Even the tent saloons onthe = y of the 200-feet limit seemed empty. 97 having returned from taking the work train out was resting on the sidetrack a quarter of a mile distant. The utter freedom of the situation filled her soul with exuberance. She felt like the cowboy after he bad sur- rounded his second supply of tangle foot, “She Was a coyote, and it was ber time to howl.” Accordingly she howled—in her way. In other words, she sang. As she washed and dried the dishes and stowed them away iu the cavernous cupboard she trilled arias, ditties, oratorios, ballads and bymns, Whatever came into her head rolled out of her month set to music. The composers of the various numbers she rendered would have been stricken dumb with horror at her utter disregerd of time and method, style and sentiment. but she was not singing for effect. She was simply intoxicated with the sound of her own voice, as she had aright to be, for it was sweet and clear as an onsle’s, “There were ninety and ni PeNe ay aa cl SSeS ‘Away from the tender shepherd's care” Sho sang italland stopped in sheer ex- haustion, as her shoulders bent to the effort of packing a pile of heavy piates acrows the long car. A wild cbeer startled her to the it of disaster to the crockery of the railroad hostelry. As she hurriedly deposited the pile of plates on the table her horrified gaze fell upon a dozen upturned faces framed in the lower part of the wide doorway. A burly chaw, whose shirt was folded far back on his red neck and whore arms were bared almost to. the shoulders, slapped a silver dollar on the car floor and with a twitch of the sun-burned hair that hung aimost in his eyes, said with courtes; graft agin ye'd be plazit air a moighty foine chune.” Before Miss Roma's paralyzed torigue could framea reply another chaw stepped to the front and with “That's whatever,” deposited another dollar, and in less time than it tukes to tell a pint of silver dimes, quarters, halves and dollars was heaped up on the floor at her feet. The poor girl was on_ the verge of hysterics with the suddenness of it all. She had lost her equilibrium in the ecstasy of her musical fervor and for the moment was anable to regain her balance. “Where did they com from?" xhe pondered. She had made so sure sho was alone, but they had to be answered, certainiy, so, swallowing a lump that she felt must be her thumping heart, she said bravely: “I don’t want your money, but Iam glad if the singing pleased you. Ididn't know I had so appreciative an uudience. I supposed I was alone. “Ob, we sabes all that safe enough,” said one of the chaws encouragingly, “but yer kin gamble thet we wouldn't a missed it, none alle samee. A passel of we alls was under the cyar smokin’ of our pipes peaceful when yechuned up, an’ wg ‘lowed that it might stampede ye onpleasant if we showed our hand, so we lars low. Now, if ve'll jist give us that last oprey agin the piles your'n,”” ‘The suggestion of “Ninety and Nine” being ‘an opera was too much for Miss Roma, and she laughed merrily, but whenahesaw that they were determined that she should face them and sing. the iaughter died on her lips. Just then Fi Misterio appeared from kitchenward. “I hepe you have not been seriously an- noyed.” he said earnestly. “A lot of us were lying in the shade under the cars smoking and we really enjoyed your singing. They mean to contpliment you and if you are not too tired “Indeed, it isn’t that,” Misr Roma hastened to assure him, “but it was all so sudden the way they appeared, Shen didn’t know there was a soul withina’ mile. Please make take back the money.” — “They won't do that,” replied El Misterio in 8 tone of evident disappointment, “but if yon won't sing for them, I'll make them go away.” “I'm so nervous I don’t believe I could carry a tunealone,” she said falteringly, as shelooked out over the eager faces. “If—if you do not object I—think—I can assist you,” be replied with some hesitation, “11 used to sing with my sister and mother, und you have a voice very much like my sis! had.” he added Nurriediy. meee “Ob, if vou help me I'll sing,” she said heartily, and so they sang; but surely a quecrer concert hall, an odder audience, was never be- fore known, 1 ‘The program rendered was widely diversi- fied. “Ninety and Nine” was sung once and again, There was something in its simple ‘thos which touched the motley auditors. El Misterio had a clear tenor voice of fair tembre, true of tone and intensely sympathetic. Ho suggested “My Ain Countrie,” then they sang. “Juanita,” to the intense delight of Jose, who sang with them in Spanish! Then ther tried a number of plantation melodies, where El Masterio seemed particularly well at home. As they paused for a breathing spell after the “Old Kentucky Home" one of the chaws asked hesitatingly for hymus. “Er it ain't persoomin’ too much this yere congergaskun would like some more Sam chunes,” he said, earnestly. So they sang “Rock of Ages,” “Jesus, Lover of My Soul,” and “Nearer, My God, to Thee.” To the un- utterable surprise of Miss Roma the grand old us amazin’, It ‘| hymns opened the mouths of the queerly as- sorted men, and the splendid chorus of melody swelled und rolled up and out in the sun-bright air, making echoes among the distant hills, whose softest sound to that day had been the savage war cry, Indian revels or engine screech. “Just as Lam, without one plea,” they sang at last, and so grandiy solemn and weet was the influence of the old tune that by common = (ee and in silence they all went their several ways after that, leaving the little pile of silver at Miss Roma’s fect. She picked it up in her flour sack apron, feeling it to be the most honest tribute that she had ever received, and asshe poured it into her handbag away off down toward the kitchen car she heard a tenor voice singing: “Just as Iam, and waiting not To rid my soul of one dark blot.” “How long the memory of a good sister and wood mother lingers with aman," she thought | the tabie: sleepily as she threw herself on the bed to rest after her long ride and unwonted exertions. At supper that night El Misterio waited table in. While he was in the kitchen dishing up entered the car » dark, sinister-looking man, whom the others greeted as Senor Ma- reno. He took hie seat at the table and Miss Roma noticed that the jokes and pleasantry ceased the moment he came among them. Bhe saw at once that the man was distrusted and disliked, and gathered from the Sta ro minut ° tered, and, passing down the car, Senter of the table and sot down directly be- fore the Spania: steaming potatoes. As he did so Miss Roma saw the fire flame in that wonderful ruby heart, and every point on the diamonds gleamed like splintered sunshine. The blood red gieam flashed athwart Mareno’s i ‘4 face, and with an oath he to his feet, but El Misterio was too for him. His two sinewy hands had reached his pistol holters in an instant, and as Senor Mareno ‘Straightened up ty gleaming barrels > ered his heart. co “So { have found you!” Ready to collapse with terror, Miss Roma Jel had strength to notice El Misterio's voice. was as hard as steel, and his face bad aged twenty years in as many seconds. With a pre ie maa ‘the yet motionless Mareno said, ingly: “Having found chiquirritin, what is it you will do? ‘Thave wot even the honor of Your acquaintance.” “Ishall kill you,” said El Misterio, the seething hell in his heart showing in his tones, ashe still held his guns unswervingly on Ma saw me before, no. But you reno. You never have seen a face so like mine that were you man instead of devil you would beg a bullet through your heart rather than your degradation. Even if years and devouring hatred have altered the resemblance to one you we known you have ized m: , and thas betrayed you, as Tkeew It. would sooner or later. T'did not know your name nor your nativity, but I swore by the God of vengeance that I would hunt you to the death, with this Ting on my finger as your accuser. _ “Gentlemen,” turning to the group of ques- tioning faces ‘about the table, but keeping Mareno’s heart covered, “this carrion is my lawful prey. T have hunted him over every Square mile of habitable territory in this broad land in the inst five years, My twin sister's dis- honor and death lie at tuis devil's door. I don't ask you to back my play or to take @ hand. I only beg that you will stand clear and let me clean up the game.” “That's sound doctrine, Mystery, an’ we won't do no argifyin’ over that, but if you ain't never seen yer man, an’ don't know his name, how kin yer sabe when ye've got the drop on the right victim?” Misterio “lowered, said the grading boss, one gun and with his teeth removed the ruby ring, which he tossed on the table. “There, Mr. Stilton, on that man's person or among his belongings you will find the dead match to that ring. He gave that to my sister the night she thought she was married to him, but found later that a boon companion of her profligate destroyer had off- ciated in the capacity of minister. He had.two rings exactly alike—one he pinced y the poison she had taken was chilling her heart. Iiearned no more, for she died with the name of her destroyer unspoken. For five years I have flounted that ring abroad from palace to dance hall, absoluteiy the only clue left me. It was never recognized before.” Bog one is up, Penge ang irst time and his enaky eves glittered evilly. permit me—” and be made a slight movement toward his pocket. 'No, you don’t, mister!” and half a dozen men sprang toward him, one of whom relieved him of a big derringer and a wicked-looki knife. “Put down your guns; Mystery protect, your play. Now, Mareno, shell out.” At the w: he drew from his t and Jaid beside the ruby heart ite perfect match. *-You have it, senors,” he said, coolly. “Are they not superb. Now, {am at your service. Shall we bring this game to a close?” “What's yer play, Mystery? better adjourn tothe hill and have it out before turnin’ in time,” —— Mr. Stiison, The advice was taken and they filed out in the twilight, leaving Miss Homa paralyzed in her corner.’ As she finally herself together and staggered down the steps she saw scores of dark forms outlined against the flames of the fire they had built of dead pinon, the better to light their work of destruction. She flung herself on the bed and wrapped the blankets about ber head to — out = sounds, at she heard them distinctly. “Bang! bang!” so close together they seemed almost one. “They made quick work of it,” she thought, drearily, as she sat up, shivering with nervousness, ‘The worst was over, however, and the net instinct "was again’ uppermost. ‘The Daily Miner could have a scare head for the next day and scoop its cotemporaries thereby, Mixs Roma felt that there was a paucity of facts and dearth of names to enliven her scoop, but she was too good a newspaper woman to let such little things as that retard her labors. If she didn't kuow any of the names, neither did anybody else. She wrote rapidly for an hour, then winding up a pathetic tale of Jove and be- traval, with the tragic occurrence of the even- ing, she put the pages together to take to the train dispatcher, the only operator there. Just as she opened her door Jose's face appeared from the darkness, plete Secorita! but have we not the troa- jes?” “Of Senor Mareno they have no care. Him no buena, They plant him mebbe so ma- mana “And El Misterio"— Ea! Iam forget. He have asking you will come no.” “He asking for me! Isn't he dead?” “Si, mebbe so, manana—tomorrow. It is not 80 now. “Stupid, take me to him at once,” and Miss Roma rushed the bowildered Biexican off ix-the midst of @ torrent of exposta! Spanish and murdered English. “He led hes to the cer of the superintendent of the track layers, and there on the bed lay El! Misterio, the pallor of death on his face. Candles had been placed at his head and feet by some devout Catholic. and an ivory crucifix lay upon his breast, stained blood, red with the living dye, welling up from the hole over his heart. The car was half filled, and sympathetic faces thronged the doors, “Sing.” he murmured faintly. as sue brushed back the curls damp with death dew. “Yoar Voice is swect like my sister's.” Miss Roma feared that her heart would fail her, but impelled thereto by the pleading eyes and clinging touch she sang as she never sang before. “The spirit of that afternoon hour of song seemed to rest upon them all, for out in the night two or three rich clear voices took up the familiar strains and sustained her to the en “Have vou no word to leave for friends?” she asked as the hills corried away the lust echoes of the hymn. He shook his bead, then beck- oned her closer, and said for her ear alone: “I am the last of iy name. That man’s perfidy has cost our family four lives. I'd like to be taken back and laid between the graves of my mother and sister. You will find money enouph in my grip. It is in the cook's car,” 4nd then he gave the name of a town and state and a family name that bas given to the nation six generations of statesmen. He was so quiet after that that they thought him sleeping, but suddenly with strange strength he sang as softly as a child: Just as Tam Thon wilt receive, Wut welcome, pardon, cleaunc, relieve, ‘suse Thy promise T believe. © Lamb of God! I come, T—come. and “the silver cord was loosed.” Isaner Woxrett Bart. ee ‘Tre Assrunty Staz for two weeks, begin- ning May 18, sent by mail to any address for 25 cents, ae Parochial Scandal. From the Boston Courier. Miss Toogood—“I am positively shocked at Deacon Goodman. I think the church ought to take some action on it.” Mra, Hownow—"W the dreadful man don Miss Toogood—“Whs, he bad the young ladies of his Bible class around to dinner, the c:her day, and what do you suppose he had on De dear me! What has Mrs. Hownow—“I am sure I don’t know. tell me.” Miss Toogood—“French bread.” ——__+e+ —___ Biblical Item. From Texas Siftings. “What did the children of Israel do after they came through the Red sea?” asked a New York Sunday school teacher. replied “Dried their clothes, I “spose,” Tommy Amsterdam, A TONIC. Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. Dr. J. C. Wilson, Philadelphia, Pa. “Thave cd it a8 a general tonic, and in particular in the debility and dyspepsia Of overworked wep with Satisfactory results.” A MICHIGAN MIRACLE, Between Life and Death. A Singular Story of = Detroit Moléer—A Terrific Battle Which Lasted Months= ‘One of the Remarkable Incidents Border ing on the Romantic. {From the Detroit Free Press.] ‘Thomas Hagen was seated in a comfortable rocking chair at his cosy home, 1289 Russell strect, yesterday morning, when a visitor wae announced. The gentleman arose and greeted the new comer with the grace ofa diplomas, and as he opened up @ conversation it was evi dent that Mr. Hagen was a person of more the ordinary intelligence. To his visitor the re markable changes and peculiar career of this man were a source of much interest. The wom derful transformation in his appearance withia the past two years is itself worthy of the study of a scientist. Mr. Hagen, a coupleof year ‘ago, Was so weak and emaciated that to-day Be does not seem the same individual. Rheumatism was the cause of his terrible sufferings. He is a Detroiter by birth, having first seem the light of day in this city 36 yearsago. Whem quite a boy he was apprenticed to the molder'@ trade, and ever since he has followed this avo cation. He has worked in almost all the cities of the United States and is well and favorably. known to the trade throughout the country, He is quitea prominent member of the local Stovemoiders’ Union, and can be found nearly every Saturday night in attendance at the meet Ang of the order. About two years ago Mr. Hagen became se Tiously affected with rheumatism, the result of working in draughts of cold air which would shatter the constitution of an elephant, let alone that ofa man. Upto that time he hag aways been very healthy and knew not what illness meant, “When I first realized that I was sick,” be observed, “I could scarcely believe it. But the torture I suffered fully convinced me of that fact. The shooting pains of rheumatism are actually, I believe, the most horrible penalties that can be inflicted on mankind. When Jo® was placed on the rack I should not wonder that he had a dose of rheumatism. “Itisanagony supreme in its tortura Ne quarter is given to the wretch who is doomed tw itssway. Itis with youat all times. Occar sionally you may enjoy a slight cessation of its Pangs, but the renewal of its attack is sufficien® to drive a man insane or to suicide. “I cannot begin to tell you of the agony I sufe fered. I had a thorough experiencein theartof torture, and no matter what I used to ease the Pain, it scemed as though I was doomed te greater suffering. I bed @ number of friends who took great interest in my cnse, and recom+ mended numerous remedies, which I tried withe out avail. Nothing seemed to do me any good. I was under the care of several well-known Der troit physicians, but their services were abso lutely without favorable results. I was bedride den. Why, I could not move from one chairte another without assistance. Some days I would feel a little brighter than others. “But presently another attack of that infer ‘bai rneumat:sm would strike me. leaving mes veritable wreck on the barren snores of hu manity. “By accident I read two years agoa Canadian paper containing a remarkable story of @ mir ecieat Hamilton, Ont. It was that of a man ‘Who was tortured to death by rheumatism. He Was induced to use Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Paie People. He was immediately cured. I doubted the truth of the matter at first, but thought I would try it, Ihad my people bunt all over town, but they could not find the pills at any of the drug stores. The only place they Were then sold at was over in Windsor. Well, my relatives went over there and purchased @ few boxes. Great Christopher! but my mind foes back in ecstasy to the change which tm- mediately came over me after Pilla, Tbegan to improve, and in 6 foe weeks rheumatic pains left me, and tn a sbort time I was able to beout and around. 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