Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 8, 1891, Page 13

MARK TWAIN DOING EUROPE. He Writes of Air-Les French Wate ITS SPRINGS AND ITS GAM3LING ROOMS, Popular The ¢ American Finds Plenty of Material for His Quize 7 cal Pen at Joker and Writes in a Characteriatic Vein, (Copurightt 1891 by the author Certainly Aix-les- Bains is an enchanting place, It is a strong word, but 'l think the tacts justify it. True, thero is a rabble of nobilities, big and little, kero all the tim: and often a king or two, but as these behav quite nicely and also keep m to thom are little or no aunoyance. and then a king makes tho best advertiscment there is, and the cheapest. All be costs is & recoption at the station by the mayor and the polico in their Sunday uniforms, front decorations along the routs from s to Liotel, brass band at the kotel, firework tho ovening, free bath in the morning. 'This 1 the whole oxpense; and in return for it ho goes away from here with the broad of his back metaphoricaliy stencilled over with display ads, which shout to all the nations of arth—assisted by the felegraph sclvos, the, shop- Rheumatism routed at Alx-les-Bains ! Gout admonished. Nerves braced up ! All diseases welcomed, and - satisfac: tion given or the money retutned at the door | Wo leave ‘nature’s noble ciiffs and crags undefiled and uninsulted by the advertiser's paint brush, We use tho back of a king, which is better and properer, and more ef fective, too, for the cliff stays still and few Boes it, but the king moves across the fields of the world, and is visiblo from all points like a coustellation. We are outof kings this week, but one will be along soon —possis bly his Satanic Majesty of Russia. There's a colossus for you! A mysterious and ter ble form that towers up into unsearchable space and casts a shadow across the universe like a planet in eclipse. Thore will be but one absorbing spectacles in this world when we stencil him and start him out. This is an old valioy, this of Aix, both in the history of man and the geological records of its rocks. Its little lake of Bour- get carries the human history back to the lake dwellers, furmshing seven groups of their habitations, and Dr. William Wakeficld says in nis interest- ing local guide book that the moun- tains round about furnish, ‘‘geolog- leally, a veritable epitome of the glove.” The stratitied chaprers of the earth’s history are clearly and per- manently written on the sides of the roaring bulk of the Dent du Chat, but many of the layers of race, religion and government, which in turn have flourished and perished here between the lake aweller of several thousand years ago and the French republi can of todny, are ill-dofined and uninforming by comparison. There were several varioties of pagans. They went their way, ono after the other, down into night and oblivion, leaving no account of themselves, no mem- orials. Tho Romaus arrived 2,000 years ago: other parts of I'rance are rich with remem- brances of their eight centuries of occupation, but.not many are here. Uthier pagans fol- lowed the Romans. By and by Cbrisuanity arrived, some 400 yoars after the timo of Christ. The long procession of races, lan- guages, roligions aud dynastios demolished each other's mouuwments and obliterated cach other's records it is man's way, always. As a result, nothing is left of 'the handi- work of the remoter inhabitants of the rewion except the constructions of the lnke dwellers and some Roman odas and ends. There is part of a small Roman temple, there is part of a Roman buth, thero is a graceful and vat tered Roman arch. It stands on a turfy level over tho way from the present great bath house, is surrounded by maguolia trees, and 18 both a picturesque and suggestive object. It has stood there some 1,600 years. Its near- st neighbor, not twenty stops away, Is a Catholic church. They are symbols of tha. two chiof eras in the history of Aix. VYes, and of the ISaropean world. 1 judge that the venerable arch is beld in reverent esteem by everybody, and that this esteem is its suffi- clent protcction from insult, for it is the only public structure 1 have yetseen in France which lacks the sign, “It is forbiddon to post bilis here.”” Its neighbor, the cburch, has fhat sign on more than oné of its s.des, and other signs, too, forbidding certain other sorts of desecration. “The arch’s next nearest neighbor—just at 1ts elbow, like the church—is the telegraph office. So therc you have the three great eras bunched together—tha era of war, the era of theology, the era of business, You pass under the arch, and the buried Civsars seem to rise from the dust of the centuries and flit before vou; you pass by that old bat tercd church, and are w touch with the mid- dle nges, and with another step you can put down ten francs and shake hunds” with Osh- kosh under the Atlantic. Itis curious to thifk what changes tho last of the three symbols swand for: changos in men's ways and thoughts, changes 1 material eivilization, changes in tho Deity —or in men's conception of the Ueity, if that is an ex actor way it. 'Cne second of the Symbols A carth ata timo when the Deity’s possessions consisted of a small sky freckled with mustard seea stars, and under it a patch of landed estate not so big as the holdings of tho czar today, and all His timo was taken up in trying to keep a hand ful of Jews in some sort of order—exactly * thesame number of them that the czar has Jately been dealing with in a moveabrupt and far loss loving and long-suffering way. At a later time—a time within all old ‘men’s mem- orles —the Deity was otherwiso engagod. Ho was dreaming His eternitios away on His great white thioue, steeped in the soft bliss of hymps of praise wafted aloft without censing from choirs of rausomed souls, 1’res- byterians and the rest. This was a Diety por enouvsh to the size and condition of things, no doubt a provincial deity with pr vincial tastes. The change since has been Inconceivably vast. His empire has boen unimaginably eniarged. Today He is master of & universé mide up of myriads upon myr- iads of gigantic suns, aud damong them, lost In that linitless sea of light, fluats that atom, Hys oarth, which once seemed so gooa and matisfactory and cost so many days of paticnt aabor to build, a mere cork adrift in the wators of @ shoreless Atluntic. This is Vho buswiess era, and no doubt Ho is goveruing His hugo empire now, uot by dreaming the time away in the buzz of hy lug choirs, with occasional explosions of ar- bitrary power disproportioned to the size of tho annovance, but by applying laws of a Kort proper and necessary to the sane and Buccessful management of a cowplex ana llmll\gluus establishment, and by seeing to it hat the exact and constant operation of those laws is not interfered with for the ac- commoaation of any individual or political or religious faction or nation. Mighty has been the advance of the na. tions and the lLiberalization of thought. A yesult of 1L is @ changed Deity, a Deity of a dignity and sublimity proportioned to the aajesty of flis oftice and the mug- itude of His ompire, & Deity who has n freed from a hundred fretting chains and will in time bo freed from the rost Dy tho soveral ecclesiastical bodies who have Rheso matters in charge, It was, without doubt, & mistake aud a step backward when the Presbyterian synoas of rica lately decided, by vole, toloave Hitk s:ill embar- yassed with the dogma of infant damnation. ! Bituated as we are, we caunot at present now with how much of anxiety Ho watehed the bailoting, nor with how mich of grioved disappointment Ho obseryed the result. Woll, il these eras above spoken of are modern, they ure of last week, they are of yesterday, they aro of tnis morning, so to Bpeak. The springs, the beuling iwaters tuat gush up ' from under this biliside village, indeed are ancient; they, indeed, are @ genuine antiguit they antedate all those fresh buman matters Q) provessious of centuries; they were bora - THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: with the fossils of the Dentdu Chat, snd they | have been always impid and always abun- dant. Thoy furnished 1,000,000 gallons a day 10 wash tho [ake dwellers with, the same to wash the 3 with, no less 1o wash B 7ac with, and have not diminished on m account. A million gallons a day—for no: many yearst Figures cannot st forth tho number. The delivery, in the agrregate, hus amounted to un Atiantie. And rnereis still an Atlantic dofvn in there. By calculution that Atlanticis three-quarters of a mile down 1 the earth. The calculation is based upon the temperature of the water, which 18 1145 to 1175 Fahrenheit, the nat: hetng that below a certain depth 10018 at the rate of 1= for every ot 0f descent., Alx is handsome and i handsomely 100, 0n its hill slope, withi its st pect of mountain range und plain spreag out before it and aboutit. The strects are mainly narrow, and steep and crooked and tuteresting, and offer considerable variety in the way of names: on the corner of ono of them you read this: Ruedu Puits d'Enfor pit of Hell street. Some of the sidowalks only eighteen inches wide: they ave for ats, probably. There is a pleasunt park, thore are spacioys grounds conncote with the two resorts, the Cerele und the Villa des Fleurs. The town consists of big hotels, little hotels, and pen sion5. The season Iasts about six mopths, beginning with May, When it is at its height there are thousands of visitors here, and in the course of the season as many as 20,000 in the agarogate como and go. These are not all hore for the baths: some come for the gambling facilities and somo for tho climate. It is a climato where the strawborry flourishes through the ng, summer, and fail. It is hot in the summer, aua hot in earnest; but this is o i diy times it is not hot at nigut. Koglish season is May and June: they a zood deal of rain then, and they like th The Americans taks July, and the French tako August. By the Ist’ of July the open air music and the ovening concerts and operas and plays are fairly under way, and from that time onward the rush of picasure bas a steady increasing boom It is said that in August the great grounds i the wambling rooms are crowded all the time and 110 end of ostensible fun goi Tt 18 a good place for rest and slecp amd general recuperation of forces, The book of Dr. Wakeficid says thereis somothing about this atmosphere which is the deadly cnewm of insomnia, and I think this must be true, for if [ am any judge, this town is at times the noisiest one in Burope, and yet a body gets more slecp here than he could at boin 1 don’t care whero his bome is. Now we liviog at a most zomforcable aud sutisfactory pension, with a zarden of shado trces und flowers and shrubs, and a convincing air of quiet and repose. But just aoross the nar- row stroet is the little market square, and at a corner of that is that church that is ne bor to the Roman arch, street, and that billiard table of a place,'and that church, are able, on turn ' out moro noise to tho cubic the wrong time than any other similar com- bination 1n tho earth of out of it. In the strect you have the skuil-bursting tnunder of the ‘passing hack, a volume of sound not producible by six hacks auywhere clse; on the back is o lunatic with & whip, which he cracks to notify tho public to get out of bis way. This crick Is us keen und sharp and penctrating and ear-splitting as a _pistol shot and the lunatic delivers it in voll ugle shots. You think you will ot be able to live till he scts by, and when hie does get by ho only leaves a vacancy for the bandit who selis Lo Petit Journal to fill with his nd awful yell. He ar vives with the early morning aiid the market people, and there is . dog that urives at ubout tho sarae time and barks stesdily at uothing tilt he dies, and they fetch anotker dog just itke bim. The bari of tuis brecd is the twin of the whip volley, wid stabs like knife. By and by what is' left of you the church hells get. There are many beils, and apparently 6,000 or 7,000 town ciocks, and s they arc all five minutes apart—probubly by law—there are mo intervels. Jome of them are striking all the time—at least, after you R0 to bed they are, ‘Phera is oue clock that strikes the hour, and then strikes itover again to see if it was rignt. Then for even- ings and Sundays there is a chime—a shime that starts in pleasantly and musicaily, then suddenly breaks into a framtic roar, and boom, and crash of warring soumds that makes you think Paris is up and tho revolu- tion come again. And yot, asl bave said, one sleeps lere—sleeps like 'tho deud, Once he sets bis grip ou bis sleep, neitber haci, nor whip, nor news fiend, nor dog, nor beil cyclone, nior all of them together can wrench it loose or war its deep and tranquil conutin- uity. Yes, there is indead something in this air that is death to insomnia, The buiidings of the Cercle and the Vitla des Fleurs are buge in size, and each has o theater in it, and o great restaurant. also onveniences for gambling and genoral wnd variegated entoctainmsnt. They stund ir: or- namental grounds of great extent und beauty. The wultitudes of fasbionable folic sit at ro- froshment tables in_ the open air, afternoons, and listen to the music, and 1t is there that they mainly go to break the & bath. To get the privilege of eutering these grounds and buildings you buy a ticket for u few fraucs, which is good for the whole season. You are then treo to go and come at all hours, attend the plays and concerts free, oxcept on_special occasions, gamble, buy ro- freshments, and make yourself symmetri- ally comfortable. Nothing could be handier than those two little theaters. ‘Phe curtain doesn’t riso until 8:30; then between theacts one can idle for half an hour in the other departments of tho building, damaging “his oppetite in the restaurants or his pocketbook in the baccarat room. The singers and actors aro from Paris, and their performance is be praise, I was never in a fashionable gambling hell until L came here. 1 hadread several millions of descriptions of such placos, but the roal- ity was new to me. 1 very much wanted to sco this animal, especially tho now bistoric gamo of baccarat, und this was a good place, for Aix ranks next to Monte Carlo for high play avd plenty of it. But the resait 1s what I might have expooted—the interest of tha looker on perishes with the nov city of the spectacle; that is to say, in a fow minutes. A permauent and inteuse interest 18 acquirable 1 bacearat, or in_uny other game, but you have to buy it. You dou't et it'by standing arouud looking on. Tho baccarat table is covered with greon cloth and is marked off in divisions with chalk orsomething. Tho banker sits in tno middle, tho croupier opposite. Tha custo- mers fill all the cnairs at the table, and tho rest of tho crowd are massed al their backs und leaning over them to deposit chips or gold coins. Constantly money and chips are flung unon the tuble, und the gamo seems to consist in the croupier's reaching for those things with a flexible sculliog oar, ond raking them home. It uppeared to be u rational enough game for bim, and if I coula have borrowed his oar [ would have stayed. but I didn't seo where the entertainment of the others came in, This was because [ saw without perceiving and observed iwithout understunding. For the widow and tue orphian and the others do win woney there. Once an old gray mother in Isracl or else- whera pulled out, and 1 heard hev say to her daughter or hor grandmother as they passed me, *“I'here, 1've wou six louis, und I'm going to ‘quit while I'm abena.” Also thore was this statistic: A friend pointed to u young man_with the dead swb of a cigar v his mouth, which he kept munching nervously all the timo and pitching $100 chips on the board while two sweet young girls reached down over bis shoul ders to deposit modest little gold pleces and said, “Ho's only funning, now; wasting a fow hundred to pass the timo—waiting for the ‘gold room’ to open, you know, which won't be till woll after midnight--then youw'll see him bet! He wou £14,000 there last night, They don't bet anything there but big money.” ‘Che thing | chiefly missed wus the hag- gard people with the intense eye, tho hunted look, “the desperate mien, candidates for suicide and the pauper’s grive, ‘They are in the doscriptiou, as a rule, but they were off duty that night, All the gamblers, male and fomale, old and young, looked wbuormally cheerful and prosperous. However, all the nations were thore, clothed richly, and speaking all the lan: guages. Somwe of the women were paluted, and wore evidently shaky asto cbaracter. Theso itoms talllea with the descriptions woll euough. Tho etiquette of the place was difficult to master, In tbe briliant and populous balls and corridors you don't smoke, aud you wear your hat, no matter how mauy ladies are in the thick throng of drifting bumanity; but the moment you cross the sacred threshold and enter the gambling hell, off the bat must como, and} everybody lights bis ciger and goes to suffocating the ladles, But what I came here for five weeks ago was the baths. My right grm was disabled with rboumatism. To sit at bome in America situ- ar tho and Dr. Wakefield's | fora particular ailment or combinalion ailments, it is not possiol be a zood unyhow, baths on for is nece bath for you. London 10 get this advice, a cans g0 to Pa economist chooses his bath b a thous and then the local piysicians tell bim ho hus | in come to the wrong pince. H lost time and money and str the minute that h temper. vised Lo go to Aix, that disc cortain others plained to me lowing m wrong place, Dr. Waseileld's book says lowed particularly can be made sedative, alterative and tonic, France, and all the officers and servants ure cmploy bath white marble masonry and looks more like a templo than anythine ‘else. 1t floors and each is full uf bath cabinets, Tnera is every kind of bath tho throat, vapor baths, tube baths, swimu baths, and all people’s favorite 1t is & gooa bullding to got lost in, when you | are not familiar with it ing until nearly uoon people a aud streaming out without halt, ity vrought in sedan chairs, a suficently ugly coutrivance whose cover is a stesp littlo tent made of striped canvas. the patient in this diving bell as the bearers tramp ulong, except a glimpso of his ankies bound together and swathed around with blankets or towels to that generous degreo that the result suggests a sore piano leg. attention aud practice the pall bearers bhuve got 50 that thoy can keep ont of step all the timo—and they do it, As & consequence their veiled ohurn goes rocking, tilting, swaying along like & bell wakes the oldest sailor seasick to iook at that spectacle, aud guess out the European bath best mu‘lj The ‘‘course” is usually ffieen douche AGENTS Seal Skin Gaments Jackets, Wraps and Pinest quality Alaska Seal. 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Now and miles of ralrondi sees that ho has 1gth, and almost realizes this ho loses his I bad the rheumatism, and was ad- U so much because | hud se us because I had the proai What thoy were was not. ex- but they aro cithe tho fol- or I have o to the | i sent “We know that the class of maladies bene- fited by the water and baths ar Aix ave thoso due to defect of nutritio vous system, or to i goiit petic or scrofulous dinthesis tremely devilitating ¢ ana This it seems to find here, ns record perienco and daily ucti debility of the ner- rheumatic, her all aiseases ox a Sonio, requiring omedy not a depressing uction of the u can testify, * * According to tho line of treatment, fol- with due recard to' the | ction of the Alx waters xeiting, derivative or ou iperature, the he The “‘Establishment” 1s the property of | if of the French house is a huge aud govornment. The |y massive pile of has soveral for the nose, the ears, sk the douche. From ¢arly md o streaming in e major- numbers are de como afoot, but great You see nothing of By buoy 1 & ground swell, It THE MOR does Lot cure va other prrticulurs; baok with your tho strud 1o cours: You meet all kinds of mo: me Tho After pains in all my wus different vari thie best varioties the second buth L nad achies in differeut va gou many new kinds of pains out of my third | ty tor said it was gout, complicated with he discase, and cacouraged me 1o go ou, we 11 the fourth douche, and I came out on a streteher that time, oue vast, diversitied, kind of pain, with horizons to it, and zoues, und longitude, and isothermal velts, tions of the and right up to the latest developments, know. went right on gatbering them in, liver complaint, softeninz of the brain, u talgia, bronchitis, esteology bhydrangoa, cyclopedia brittanica, tremens, and a lot of other thiags \hat I've got down in my list that I'll show you, aud UNDAY. 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You are so :nt of always getting lish and the best We ti.e most sty for the =money. have excel'ent values in garm-nts at lower prices than appear but we a nt.on to here, spresenting long, shapely Reefers, plain or with popu- lar Fur Shaw. Co lars, in va- 2] o rious sty'cs, Paletots, YS-EnGr. con markets, etc DR 00 I . [ | | keop it if you like and tally off the 15 you tay it in octor suid T was a grand baths could ao: aaid I h diseaso us a gri ks these buths had vortant ailment along with con- oly now and 10 exhi five tub ba You take tno days iy succession, then knock You efp up tuis distri- cr oue afier u loeal physician and cise and preserives tho | t for it, with various | u buy your course kets and pay for them in advi ith the fckets vou get a memorandun dates and hours ull set down it. This doctor tases you iuto the bath fivst morning and gives you some in fons t loucheurs who ara to ndle you o course. Tho ponur iwro abont 10 ¢ 10 each of ayable av tho end of L bor i francs to o suparintonde department of tho bath house vo uselul particulars to know, and ud in tho bool you car b nd hre i take tion thr nrosf of come 15tone, what th hera us innoveat of and inside of three sluico of mo eve known o medical scienc siderable more_tha warn Why, e wanted v windoi.” soeins Lo bo a gond car. | begau 1o take the baths, and found \em most enjoyable: so enjoyavle thatif 1 it hag a disease 1 would bave borrowed ) @ pretext for going on. ‘They e iuto u stoue-Hoored basin abont four (uare, which had esouzh strange and things in it to wako t torture chumber 16 two ted we ona pine stool, coupla of wavm-water jets as ue's wrist plaving upon me whilo your towols woaded me, stroked me, twisted e, brings ‘thom away | sod applied atl the other details of the Ly 0f tho hotel: | Scientific mussage to me for seven or cight entdodst furnish those | minutes. Then they stood me un una played powerful jet upon me ull avound for another minute. The conl shower bath camo next, and the thing wus over. [ camo | out of the' bath bou luter You's o your requir then v 1aterval. ex d - of nines many li this ) the 1y through 1 u piy vour [ bt daily and They ure'th ver p3bite at a place liko , aud 1f vou give thein i chance they wiil you under i Gx ices, for citnor very gldd gp vory sorey thoy waiit Lo Apread thelr foclings them, Oue,of these saia to o few minutes la fecling vounger and frester and tiner than | have feit since I was a boy. ‘The spring and choer and delight of this exaltation lasted thiee hours, sud the samo uphifung offect has tollowed' the twenty douches which I uavo Laken since. After my first ciiemist's on the tions, and asked Challo water. It comes from a sixteen miles from he furnished to me, but, perceivir was something the matter w to wait till they could get some t fresh, but they said it always smelt that They sald that the re on that this 45 50 much raulker than th hur water of the bath was that this contained thirty b times as much sulphur as that. 1t may my opiuion that water comes not a fresh cemeter t and cnjo, Tus great, theso batha. I didn’t como for my hoaitn, [ only camo to find out there was anything the matter with doctor told: . f there was symptoms would| s00n appear. the first doucher I had starp muscles. Tho doctor said it ‘tios: of) rheumatism, and @ were, t00. After my my bones, and Tho dontor said it was letios of newratgly, and the best the market, auybody wobid tell me so. I to the instruc- glass of douche 1 wont coruer, s per for half a ulland around sche, Those were in my joiuts, I'he doe be true, b n from a cemotery, and eithor. History ' says thatone of the early oman generals lost an army dows thers somewhere, If he could come back now I think this water would belp him find it again. However, I drank tho Challo, and nuye drunk it onée or twice every duy since. Isuppose it is all vight, but I wish 1 knew what was the matter with those RRomans, My first baths. doveloped pleaty of pain, but the subsequent ones removed almust all of it. 1 have got back the use of my avm theso last fow days, and I am going away w There are many beautiful drives about Aix, many interesting places to visit, and much pleasure to be found in paddling’ around the littlo lake Buurget on the small steamers, but Thon and fotched with me undulating coutinental and meridian of and varia- parallels of latitude Oh, everything ticy vou compass “The doctor said 1t was ioflammation the soul, and just tho vory thing. Well, 1 Loothach! delirium | | | | fits, coleopte l PAGES . B —— THE MORSE DRY GOODS COMPANY KA FOR BUTTERICK'S PATTERNS AND DR. 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Send Dress Goods. for Samples ot i (i est Wi | tinies used to sit and’ meditate, and now and on Wi S o o | tien wolvoma to their hospitalitios tie wan- e ot by v, throush o gar- | dering knight with his tin breeches on, and den lund that bas pot had its equal for beau m tho middle of the square court (open to the ns, ineo Tddon: and coriainly noy Kden | sky) was astone well eurb, cracked and slick B e o this eavdon 18 Tho charm | WIth ago and use, and all aboutit were weeds o a2 i Awholo. rogion ave be. | and among the weeds mouldy brickbats that Wiliering, Ploturesque rocks, forest-ciothed | Ue Crusaders used to throw't each othor, A D eily brient i the cloanest and | Passuge ut tho furthersideof the cloister led L, O aiin Without fleck or | to anotlier weedy aud roofless littlo enclosuro B o Color and s shiby und shin. | bovond, whore thoro was & ruined wall B 0ol eray munsions and tow- | clothed to tho top with masses of ivy, and b ied in” folingo and sunny emi. | Honking it was @ battered and picturcsquo o s with precipitons. walls, | areh. All over tho building there were com- e e of pals blyto whtor botween; | fortablo rooms rmet comforteblo beds and B O b mbling cascado, aud | clean plank {loors with no carpets on them. (RS v, with vagrant | In one bedroom upstairs were balf u dozon AeXSan RIS about their sumits, portraits, dimming relics of the vanisbed R84S . [ centuries —portraits of abbots who used to Thon at the end of an hour yon come to Ah- ud s princos in tholr old uay, and y and vattlo through its old erooked 1anes, | vapy rich and much worshippea arfd very sohdly up with curious old houses that | holy: and iu the next room there was a how 0 of the middlo ages, and presently | iy’ chromo aud an electric bell. Down stairs 1 come to the main object of your trip there was an ancient wood carving with a ailke Annecy. It is i reveiation, it 1s a mira word commanding silence, and thore 11 brings the tears to o body’s eyes, 1t is spaug new piuno olose’ by, Two s0 enchanting. ‘Ihat s to say, it affects you IPrench women, with the kindest and just as ull things that you instuntly recognize ot fuoea havo the abtey perfect ufle you —perfect musie, id they board and lodge people who v eloquence, perfect art, perfect d of tho roar of cities and want to bo portect grief. It stretehies itself out tho dead silenco and serenity and there in the caressing sunlight, and away | poace of this old nest will heal their blistered toward its border of majestic mountains, ! Spivits and patch up their ragged minds. sped and radicnt plain of water of the | Thoy fed us well, they slapt us woll, and I divinest blue that can be imagined. ALl the | wisi I could haye stayed thoro a fow yoars blues are there, from the faintest shoal-water | and got a solid rest. e i st estion of tho color, :h-|w-|uhlulunl_v111: Ao e adow of some overhanging object, i et MO St L o ough, s lltto biue ity Dr. Blrney cures catarch. luer siill, and azain & shade bluer, till you L3 - - strike the deep, rich Mediterranean splendor Struck By Lightning, which broaks the heart in your bosom, it1s The Prussian government has made a 30 beautiful. report upon its buildings struck by And the mountains, as you skim along on htning boiweon 1877 and 1885, The the steamboat, how statély theiv forms, how | were buildings used for offic noble their proportions, how graen their vel- | hywposes'in Prussin, Two hundred and vet slopos, bow boft thé mottlings of sun and | Liyi\"four of theso were struck, or ono- shadow that play about tho rocky ramparts ) kU PUCk, That crown them, how opaiine. the vust ups | Nulf of 1 por cent per thousund annually. Vale ot snow bhnied weainst the sky in | Of the total nambor fifteen only wore vemotenosses beyonu—Mouut Blane and [ fitted with conductors and on cthers—how shall anybody describe? | of theso escaped injury. Generally the Wiy, not even the painter can quite do it, | conductors were found to AR and the most the pei can do 1s L sUEgest. dangerous or u; 58, Insix they were not touched, Up the lake there is anold pobey—Tailoives relic of the middie ages. Wo stopped thero; stepped from the sparkling water and the rush and boom and fret and fever of the nineteer.th cenury into the solewnity and the sileuce and thesoft gloom and tue brooding mystery of a remote antiquity. ‘The stono step at the water's edge had tho traces of & Worn out in- scription on it; the wide fllght of stoue steps that led up to the front door was polished smooth by the passing feet of forgotten cen- turles. and there was not an unbroken stone among them ull. Within tho pile was the old square cloister with covered arcado all - - around it whese the mouks of the an «cut Dr, Birney cures catarrh, the exeur trip to A n bui was a elder] honestest und since JO¥s the s Boe bldg. - Notice, Unscrupulous dealors have been dotectod solling spurious Bitters under tho name of India & Inaian Bitters ofour *Ken- nedy's Kast India Bitters,” We shall prosocute all such persons to the full extent of the law Our ' East [ndin’ Bitters are nover sold in bulk, Call for the genuine, which are manufactured and bottled only by oursalves aud under our trude mark label Lk & Co. Bee bldg,