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5 wTon the nature of the figbF fa consid- NOW THE SLEEP CUil MENTAL EPIDEMICS. 'CUJilOS OF THE SEA. If a snake, she will leave it at" the bottom of the yard. The cat has killed in the neighborhood of 200 snakes and 100 rabbits. New York World.

Will Not Perform Miracles' But It Will Cure. ia length, and will be composed of the Norfolk and Western toad, from Norfolk, to Columbus, 681 miles; Columbus, Hocking Valley and Toledo, Columbus to Marion. 79 miles; Chicago and Erie, Marion to Chicago, 269 miles; Wisconsin Central, Chicago to 6t Paul, 483 miles, and Northern Pacific, 2,056 utiles. It Trill have many branch line aa feeders. The movement has the active sympathy of many shippers in various lines of business, especially of grain men in the east as veil as the west.

JUf Those Dear Old Faths. I'm looking back at a picture That's wrought with an old time skill. Tia an old red manse by the river And a ochoolhouse and a well. Dear memory is tho artist, And she paints with a magic wand On childhood's golden canvas. Framed round with a silver band.

An old hearthstone is ber palette. And her colors how doeply rare I Thrtre's childish joy and laughter And tears and a mother's prayer. Strange colors these? Ah, stranger, That woalth nor power can bu What memory, turning backward. Gleans up from the years gone by. I see the river glinting Like silver through the trees.

And beneath a sitting With two children on bis kuooa; Two girls with antumn garlands, November and May, good friends. Then a dash of time o'er the picture And this dream of childhood ends. Thoro's a home in tho sunny Bouth land With wealth and plenty there. There's a cot in tho busy north land Intwincd with true love rare. the old mill wheel is silent And hushed 'neath the noise of trade.

And tbe feet that pressed those dear old paths Have far and wida estrayed. And between the years bave gathered Like leaves that at autumn sweep O'er tho grass grown mound where slura-. bers The sirs in bis last long sloep. Graham Burnhani. I ere a.

There is probably but one measuro that can protect the lumber towns from forest fires. Were a strip of ground at least half a mile in width cleared thoroughly about the entire place, immunity might be secured. The mere cutting down of 'the trees would not suffice, as it would be necessary to clear the ground of underbrush and stumps and even of the great branching roots of the pine, filled with resin, which carry the fire underneath the surfnee of the soil. This plan is costly, and tho con- tinned growth of the towns would ren der its repetition necessary. Minneapolis Journal.

TELLURIUM ORE. Valuable Discovery Made by an Old Miner In California. At San Diego, CaL, mining men are excited over the discovery of what is believed to be a large deposit of tellurium ore at Boulder creek, about 60 miles northeast of that city. The discoverer is Mat Wormer, an old and suc cessful miner, and the ore, according to I asBays made, rnr.a tip $28,000 to the ton. Woimer has been working a claim on Boulder creek for several years, taking out good free milling ore and sulphurets.

He had never seen tellurium, hut one day recently a neighbor who had sorted tellurium in Colorado saw some of Wormer's ore on the dump and told him it was tellurium. Woimer sent some of the black and white rock to San Francisco. The answer came back that Jt was low grade tellurium, runing $28,000 per ton. Wormer exhib ited some specimens of his tellurium the other day and declared that they were identical with the best Cripple Creek ore. San Francisco Examiner.

ANOTHER NEW IDEA. "Discovery In Telegraphy of Great Value In Time of War. Colonel Bellonof the French artillery observed not long ago that if a telephone was in sufficient proximity to, although not in actual contact with, a telegraph line, it would be influenced by the current of the latter. Certain sounds were produced in the telephone whenever a message passed along the telegraph line. He has now succeeded by long continued" experiments in perfecting a system showing the phonetic impression produced by each letter of the Morse alphabet, and thus enabling any one with some practice to read by the sounds of the telephone any message circulating in a neighboring line.

It will readily be understood that this discovery may be of great importance in wartime, as in this way a telegraph line might be "tapped" without in any way interfering with tbe current circulating in it, and hence without the slightest indication to the stations connected by the line. Exchange. A Colored Woman on the Str.mp. The campaign of the woman suffragists gees merrily on in California. The latest feature of the fight cf tbe women in that state for full franchise is an attempt to stir up the colored women.

Mrs. Naomi Anderson has charge of this part of the work. Sho is a matronly looking colored woman who has been for years ielontif.ed with the suffragists, and she possesses a natural gift of I'll I lti- MRS. NAOMI ANDERSON. tory that has made her work particularly effective in the past and valuable in the present.

Mrs. Anderson has been engaged by the California State Suffrage association to stump the state. Mrs. Anderson is a resident of Sacramento. She was the first colored woman to advocate suffrage for her sex, having spoken at the first woman's rights mooting that was held in the west Explorer Kansen'a Wife.

Mrs. Hansen, wife of the arctic explorer, is a famous opera singer and belongs to one of the best families in Norway. Her maiden name was Lars, and her mother is a sister cf the poet Johan MRS. NAXSEN. Sebastian Cammermyer Welhaven.

She is an intellectual, vivacious and cheerful young woman, who, although not exactly beautiful, is at least very attractive in appearance. She is a semibrunette, with dark eyes, light hair and a graceful figure. Mrs. Nansen is also a devoted wife and mother. Mothers recovering from the illness attending childbirth, or who suffer from the effects of disorders, derangements and dispiacments of the womanly organs, will find rel ef and a permanent cure in Dr.

Pierce's Favorite Prescription. Taken during pregnancy, the ''Prescription'' makes childbirth easy, by preparing tbe system for i tiivs iVatuie and shortening "labor." The painful ordeal of childbirth is ro bed of its terrors and made almost painless, and tne dangers thereof greatly lessened to both mother and child. The period of confinement is also greatly shortened. the mother strengthened and built up, and abundant secretion or no risbment for the child promoted. If tbe married woman be delicate, n-down or overworked, it worries her husband as well as he self.

This is the proper time to build up her strength and cure those weakenesses, or ailmertB, which are the cause of her trouble. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription disnels aches and rains, melanch- oly and nervousness, brings refreshing sleep and makes a new woman of her. 8 Working 'Woman's Home Assooia- i tion. 21 S.

Peoria St Chicago, 111., Jan. 11,1896. Our Working Woman's Home Association used your Honey and Tar six years ago, and are using it to-day. It has always been a favorite, for' while its taBte is not at all unplea ant I its enects are tenehciai It has never yet aisup; ointed us. isbmg you all peBsibie eufess, sincerely yours, l.Aura tr.

iixon, Jus. Mgr. Steinbacher Co and is. E. Allen Go wholesale and retail atrents.

th J. SLUMBER AS A MEDICINE AND TONIC FOR MANKIND. Some One Una Discovered That Sleep Is Kettcr Than a Vacation Complete I5odi- ly Host -as Good as a Change of Scene. What Nicola Tenia Says. Following the recently revived Kneipp cure comes the sleep cure.

It is suggested that what sonic people want is sleep holidays. They do not need to go to watering places and summer hotels and to be entertained by a round of gayety, with a baud always playing. The apostles of the new method say that many people would be beneiited if they just went to bed and Slept for lengthened periods end fhat they might do well to take holidays in just that way. They affirm that as a rule men and women and children do net get sleep enough and that the old adage, "Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy and wealthy and wise," needs changing. There need be no refer ence to early rising in it.

For "early to rise," it might be "late to rise." The advice cf that old eaw was concocted, they say, in days when there were no express trains, no telephones, no telegraphs, no hurry. Where is the use of telling people to get up early whose brains are racked by anxiety and worry and who are being burned up by the ever increasing rate at which things have to be done? The proper thing to say to them is to get as much sleejj as they possibly can on every possible exscasion. The suggestion of occasional sleep holidays, when worried people of this kind could temporarily shuffle off their mortal coil, is on this understanding quite intelligible. There would bo no difficulty in making arrangements to carry the scheme out. The proprietors of the summer resorts would no doubt be glad to provide accommodation for any number of somnolent guests.

The pren-ailing question would not be, "What is therefor dinner?" but, "Is my bed ready?" There would be memoranda as to the length cf time sleep had been indulged in or was desired to continue. "Mr. A. came on Saturday. Ho is to be called on Wednesday night "Mrs.

B. will sleep for one week," etc. No doubt, if the fad were star teel, establishments would vie with each other in the perfection of their sleeping preparations, and we should be told that absolutely unbroken repose for any desired period could be obtained, Joking apart, however, there may be something in the contention that a greater amount of sleep is required by people nowadays, especially brain workers, than was formerly the case. Nicola Tesla, the electrician, is credited with saying that he believes a man might live 200 years if he would sleep most of the time. That is why negroes often live to advanced old age, because they Bleep eo much, He ako alluded to the i current report that Mr.

Gladstone now sleeps 17 hours every day. There is something distinctly pleasant in the idea of an old age of such commanding intellect being kept vigorous by the simplest of remedies. But tho worst of these precepts, like those of modern apostles of sleep, i is that their instructions will be taken advantage cf. by the lazy and brainless 1 as an excuse for inactivity for which they should have no manner of war- rant, either in the development of their brains or the delicate adjustment cf their nervous system. When the professional tramps read of Gladstone, we shall find stacks of them asleep by tho rcaelside.

Toronto.Mail and Empire. A RAILWAY PUZZLE. Tbe Mysterious Ecjueak on the line of tlie Carolina Central. Between the 49 and 5 mile posts on the Carolina Central railroad there is a piece of track for a distance of nearly six miles that presents a singular condi- I tion that so far amounts to nn inexplica- ble mystery. All trains going and coming go to grinding and start a terrible squeaking when tbey get on this six miles of track.

The noise comes from not only one car, but every locomotive, every coach and every car of whatever kind sets up a grinding as if turning a curve. The noise is something like the screeching cf an ox cart that has no grease on it, and it is made by every A mi A i irucK on a iraiu. iiio iiaujt is periecuy straight, and as there is no curve at ail the cause of the grinding and squeaking has mystified the railroad people. Every effort has been made to ascertain the cause of the difficulty. The locomotives ha" been examined, the coaches and cars have been scrutinized, every cross-tie and every rail has been inspected, every joint has been looked at and every foot of the track has been regauged, but no explanation could be found.

The section master has almost crawled over the six miles on his knees in search of the cause, the roadmaBter has tried his best to ferret out the matter, and the superintendent has been over the track and inspected it, all of them making repeated efforts time and again to find out what is the matter, but they have given it up as a bad job. They have not only not been able to discover the cause of the noise, but have been nnable to discover theory to explain the mystery. It is one of the railroad mysteries of the age and has been going on for 20 years. During that timo the crossties and rails have been replaced several times with new ones, but without effect St. Louis Globe-Democrat TUe Uberator of Eousdor, Less than two years ago General Eloy Aifaro of Ecuador was an exile, living in Nicaragua in lonely banishment, execrated and ridiouled at home.

GEFTBAI. ELOY ALFAnO. Today he is hailed as the hero and liberator of the country and as soon as an election can be held he will be formally chosen, president of Ecuador, an office which he has held provisionally for several months. The revolution which they have been having down in Ecuador has been an xtnusually long ona began about April, 1895. Dr.

Cordero, then president, had become. very obnoxious to the people. There was a revolt, and General Aifaro was called from exile to head the revolutionists. He did this with great success, drove Dr. Cordero from the country.

This Cat Catches Snakes. Mrs. William Page of. Lambertville, N. is the proud possessor of a cat that is not only an excellent ratter, but that catches snakes and rabbits.

Some days the cat catches as many as four copperhead anakes and two rabbits. Three or four times a dav missy brings home either a snake or a rabbit If a rabbit, hs wjll ladrig: it in the house. No Affidavit With This. During a recent thunder shower in Deuuisport, the telegraph operator was shocked, and when she recovered she fonnd the perfect print of a strawberry leaf on her left arm the size of a hand. Boston A MONSTER CAT.

tives In a New York Finn Market, and His Name Is Tom. Just plain Tom is the unpretending name of probably the greatest domestic cat in the world. Edward Simmons, the fish and oyster man of Fulton market, -New York, is the proud possessor of Tom. This giant of cats is 80 inches in length from his head to tbe tip of his tail. He is a foot high and weighed last spring 24 pounds.

The recent hot weather has caused him to drop a few pounds cf nesh, but has not unpaired his health or happiness. Thomas is black and white, and is rather peculiarly marked. He has two i complete rings of white around his tail, I which makes him leck liko first cousin to a racccon. Mr. Simmons picked up the cat two years ago while walking along the street.

Thomas was but a stray kitten then, so that his pedigree has never been ascertained, and it is not yet known whether or not heredity has had anything to do with his enormous i size. Exchange. Sensitive. "So your stomach's gono back on you again? What have you been eating?" "I believe, doctor, I looked too long into a delicatessen shop window yester-. day." ITiogcndo Blatter.

BTKAINED RELATIONS. -Truth The Boy With the Eat. BUT BE DOESN'T LOOK IT. Punch. Tbeir Eyes Opened.

Jack Golly I There's nfa on a new bike I Geoff Now we know why she hadn't time to sew our buttons on. Pick Me Sing a When troubles seem to bristle, King a song. When the world is weeping, whistle IMght along, For though sorrow is outrageous And in battle may engage us, Blill. laughing is contagious Laugh along! Content with rose or thistle Sing a song. Life's brighter if you whistle liight along.

When trouble is advancing And on gloomy skies you're glancing, Ton can set the world to dancing With a song. Atlanta Constitution. Some friend aa shadows are, And fortune as tbe sun. Thy never proffer any belp Till fortune bath liegan. Sir Walter Raleigh.

NY REPUTABLE JEWELER OR SILVERSMITH will tell you that there is no more doubt of the Sterling quality of GORHAM Silver, than there is that Gorhara Silver is made at all and Gorham Silver has been made and sold for more San fifty years 'V 4 Too good for Dry Goods Stores 1 1 oo. A Family Affair. a si lfP-. 1 all If THE MEDlEVAt. MAN IN A STATE OF LIGHT HYPNOSI3.

Ifothtngr Ia Those Tays Wu Left to Individual Enterprise This Accounts For Many of tho Strange Religious Maniacs. Facts About Hypnotism. "I protest," says Dr. Mall, a great euthority in hypnotism, "against the terminology which has been to a great extent adopted and which many doctors have helped to propagate, but which is none the less erroneous. It is often said that hypnotized persons are and the two states have partly identified.

I think this a misuse of words, since there is a whole series of hypnotic states in which not one symptom of sleep appears, and mistaken conclusions are often drawn from the mistaken terminology, with resulting confusion. Susceptibility to suggestion is the chief phenomenon of hypnosis." And he goes on to say that, "however strange and paradoxical the phenomena cf hypnosis may appear to us at first 6ight, we may fce Btire that there is no absolute difference between hynotic and nonhypnotio states." Man carries within him the germ of the possible mob, of the epidemic. As a social being he is naturally suggestible, but when this susceptibility to suggestion becomes nndcr certain conditions abnormally intense we may say that he is thrown into a hypnotic state. We know that a limitation of voluntary movements light hypnosis, which is characterized by inhibition of the will. The memorv is unaffected, Self consciousness remains intact, and the subject is perfectly aware of all that goes on.

A less of voluntary movements is one of its chief phenomena. Keeping this in mind, we can understand to a certain extent mediaeval life. The medissval man was in a stato of light hypnosis. This was induced in him by the great limitation cf his voluntary movements, by the inhibition of his will, by the social pressure which was exerted on him by the great weight of authority to which his life was subjected. The life of the mediaeval man was regulated down to its least detail.

The order, the guild, the commune, the church, had minute regulations for all exigercies of life. Nothing was left to individual enterprise. Even love had its rules. There were curious love trials, one cf tho lovers accusing the other of having trespassed some fixed rule of love. Society was divided and subdivided into parts, each having its own fixed rules, each lending its own secluded, narrow, dwarfish life.

Bound fast by the Etrings of authority, mediaeval men were reducetl to the state of hypnotic automata. The religious ecstasy that animated tho mediaeval man was especially favor able to his spontaneous self hypnotiza-tiou, for, as Ribot points ont, ecstasy is monoideism, the interne, concentration of attention on one object, an essential condition of hypnosis. The most striking phenomenon in mediaeval history is that of crusades, which agitated European nations for about two centuries and cost them about 7,000,000 men. People were cirawu by an irresistible longing toward the holy sepulcher, which fascinated their mental gaze, just as the butterfly is blindly drawn tow: rd the candle. This attraction of devout Christians by the holy sepulcher manifested itself in pilgrimages, which at first were rare, but gradually spread and became a nni- versal mania.

Bishops abandoned their dioceses, princes their dominions, to visit the tcmb of Christ. At the time cf its highest tide the flood of pilgrims was suddenly stopped by the Seljukian Turks, who conquered Palestine about 1076. As a maniac, when thwarted in his purpose, teceies raving and violent, so did Europe become when tho floodgates cf the pilgrim torrent were stopped and only drops were let to trickle thrcngh. European humanity fell into a fit of acute mania, which expressed itself in the savage ecstasy cf the first crusade. "A Study of Mental Epidemics," in October Century.

A FOOTMAN'S BIG INCOME. Nearly S3.CCO a Tear Received by an English Cne. Contrary to what might be imagined, the perquisites1 and "vails" of domestic servants in royal employ are very email, the late prince consort having some 40 years ago effected sweeping re-fcims in connection with the royal household, which put a stop to the flagrant abusea which up to that time had cost many thousands of pounds every year to the privy purse of the sovereign. Indeed from a financial point of view there is no doubt that a groom, a coachman, a footman or a gamekeeper would be infinitely better off in the service of a nobleman or some rich commoner than in a monarch's. Certain it is, at any rate, that no servant, either of the queen or of the Prince of V( aleB, has ever enjoyed so large an income as that footman of the Earl of Is or th brook who seine time ago testified under bath in a court cf law that, although his regular wcges amounted to but $3C0 annually, yet ho received from 2,000 to $2,500 a year in the shape of tips from the earl's guests, whom he was called upon to serve during their stay in Chicago Chronicle.

FATED TO FIRE. Ordeal Which Is Sure to Come to North-'West Iuwiber Iuitiu. The lumber towns in the northwestern states sooner or later are all destroyed by fire. Ontonagon was Jiterally wiped off the face of tho earth and her 2,000 souls left without food or shelter. A few months ago it was L'Anse, not 70 miles away, which was obliterated.

Before that, Phillips, Hinckley, Sandstone and a dozen other Minnesota and Wisconsin lumbering towns were destroyed, with terrible loss of life. Three years ego it was Virginia, Merritt and Mountain Iron, on the Mesaba range Twenty-five years ago Peshtigo, Marinette. Menominee, Pensaukcc, Michi-gnmme and others suffered. Not a year passes but shows one or more villages, or even embryo cities, that have built upon a sawdust foundation burned -to the ground. The turn of the others is coming.

The story of the destruction cf one might be the story of the destruction of all. The details differ, but the main facts are ever the same. Given a town built of lumber, founded on sawdust and girt with mills and lumber piles; the other accessories of the tragedy will always be forthcoming. All that is needed for a conflagration, which often proves a holocaust, is a "bush fire" in some swamp near the place, a favoring wind, and in a few short hours where stood a prosperous town is naught but smoldering ruins, with a few bodies among the coals. They have adequate fire protection as nearly adequate as possible The full departments of New York or Chicago, with all their steamers and all their brave men, could not have saved On- tonagon after the flames caught among the 65,000,000 feet of dry lumber piled along both banks of the river.

The mills of the Diamond Match company were famous for their perfection in detail. Tbey were equipped with the latest an- tomatio sprinkling devices and a full fire department and plenty cf water. Its mills were considered favorable risks among insurance men. Possibly the destruction was delayed half an hour by the heroic work of the village and mill firemen. That is the utmost that can be.

eaicL and: it.iflJaiichjLo say AN INTERESTING COLLECTION SAVED FROM FAMOUS WRECKS. Itellca of the fnnrd Slcamrr Ore gov, tbs Sonml St-auir Khuil Island, th I Rebel Hani Merrlniac, the Sloop Mora- Ins Mar na WUrr Well Kuow Craft, Nr only aro strange things and many VtuuVrc seen by those vrho go down to i tie se in snips, but the people -whose buMiuss it 13 to rescue from iril shir tvhicn havo af proached too near the shore tinder circuicstnnccs which were not intended to govern their movements see queer' things, and aa they an-, like xuiuiy other mortals, poeseewd ol the mania for collecting odd and curious things, their offices eotne to to the reposiUries of all sorts odda and nds gathered from the waves and the deep waters. One of the most noteworthy collections of the sort in Kew York city has tceu msd ty IX. Bertram ilerbeTt of the Slerritt wrecking organization. Many fsnious wrecks have contributed to this collection, cu8 of the best known i being the Cnnard stecmer Oregon, which, after her disastrous encounter with a coal barge, sank to rest off Fire island.

One of these relics is a common cabin clock, the bands being stopped at 1:45 o'clock on the morning ot March 14, 16SG. The Oregon's flag is in tbe same case with the clock. When the Steamer Mary A. Boar dm an was sank on Rome shoals in 1864, she carried down a fire hose nozzle, which 80 years later was brought up and is now labeled aa curio. The old sound steamer Rhode Island contributed a bottle ol sclteis water, which still retains some of tbe original fix; the Confederate ram Merrimao is represented ty a lamp shade, and a British man-of-war, which said to have been sunk in 1774 in 20 fathoms cf water, in later years gave tip a piece of rope which benrs every evidence of fcaviijr ttccme well acquainted with salt wafer.

The Hussar, whose wrtric is sepposed to be soK'Cwhere off Fort Morris and to tho biiliaK phice of lots cf British go'd, has sdtKti a racccn lull to tbe collection, and another cannon tall is said to be frcm the wreck cf EbipL Two mementos rf nn nn-lacky chip are a port cf the name board frcm the stern cf one cf the boat ard a piece of charred timber from the same Lost which was put cf the outfit cf the British thip Carnithill, which on fire not long ago at a Ercoklyn pier. She wn3 afterward rebuilt oikI named tho Charles K. Flint and was burned at sea cn her first voyage under the American flag. Relics from tho wreck of theslccp-of-war Morning Star, which wa3 sunk ia 1773 by the explosion cf 50 kegs cf gnnpowner at the spot which is new the earner cf Front tuid Croud streets; a sword which was sunk three times; on the steamers Tallapoosa, Cairo end a candlestick from the wrack of the Spanish Mcemer Yiscaya, which went to pieces on the Jersey coast; a bottle of black sand from mado in tlie search for a foundation a lighthonso on the dreaded Diamond efcoal, off Capo Hattcras, cj frora depth of 105 ftet below tho sea Coor, and a badly runted pistol from tho wreck of tho st tamer Wella City are other reminders that bis chips as well as little cues are subject to the commca fate whiah is supposed ultimately to overtake these who bravo the darters cf tho deep and that depth is no safeguard against the wrecker. In addition to theso ar? relics from the German steamer At tesia, which was wrecked in the strait of Magellan; tho name plate from the wreck of tbe steamer Atlantic, cn the Kcva Scotia coast seme msgsetio euncl frcm Sable island, a piece cf the first Atlantic cable, a bot tle of clive oil from the bark Roberts, which was sunk in 1811, tho bottle bo-icjr recovered in 1877; a gun frcm the steamer Era-shall, which took a carjo tf arms to Turkey and did not return; a (class graduate from tho British bark liornty, which went ashore cn Liberty island last winter, and a largo number cf fragments of wrecks from various parts cf the American and West Indian coasts where the company carried on it3 operations.

Surrbundisg this strange collection are pictures cf wrecks and rescues, battered hulks and stove in steamers, divers and their apparatus ana some old time photographs, one of them being of the bow famous Competitor, which baa been mixed up in so many alleged Cuban filibustering expeditions. This last picture was taken 20 years ago, when the vessel was at the pier on the States Island shore. -New York Tribune. 1 1 nee im rArcm I LCUnULO IN rAUblMILt. The Fawnw Slurtmte Miraelca to Be Ra-prdeced la Brooklyn).

The Church of St Francis, in Brooklyn, the cornerstone of which was laid tbe other day, will, when it ia finished, have an interest apart from any other church in the Greater New York. Under its roof will bo an exact reproduction cf the famous shrine of miracles at Lourdes, France. The chapel, or rather grotto, containing; the shrine ill be 0 feet wide and semicircular in lhape and will be known as Notro Dame de LourdoB. It will be lighted by a cir-cul ir window iu the roof, the rays front which will be concentrated so to fall upon tho head of a figure of the Blessed Virgin. Tho grotto will bo built from a model brought from Franco two yearis ago, when tho Rov.

Father Bucilli. pastor of the present Church of St. Francis do Sales, and a party of Brooklynitea niado a pilgrimage to the shrine at Ijuurdes. Lom-dea is more famous than any other wonder working shrine in tho world. Pious persons will not hear it virtues impugned, and there are many persons in Brooklyn who hope and believe that some cf its efiicacy in disease and trouble may be communicated to the facsimile that ia to bo a feature cf tho new church.

One of those who believes the Brooklyn Lourdes will do much good is Abraham IL Dailey, the law partner of James D. Bell and former surrogate of Brooklyn. There are few who do not know the -story of the shrine of miracles. A little peasant girl named Bcrnadette was lost in the woods. Ia her wabderiuga i she came, to the grotto.

She said a vision I of the Blessed Virgin appeared to her. The pious people thereabout who beard the story went to tbe grotto. Before long stories of marvelous cures were told. The fame of the shrine grew year by year, and the number of pilgrims increased. The lame and suffering have visited the shrine by tens cf thousands.

Cere after cure that appeared to be miraculous was reported. Sufferers from every country now turn their faces toward tbe grotto, believing if they reach It they will bo niado well. GREAT RAILROAD SCHEME. JIZF.J. rierpemt atorsaa lr epoeed Traat-eontlneatal System.

One of tbe greatest combinations of railway systems in the world is now being arranged for under the general direction of Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan and PrcHidenk Samuel Spencer of the Southern Railway company. When it i completed and put in travelers can be carried with but 5e vfc of cara at CLicugo, aud freight without break of bulk, between i-7 ri-jlk, Va. and the extreme northwestern part rf tbe United State in the state of The n.ew line wjjj be about 8,600 mi.lea 1 I A At to By or for of I "r.r Jt will be remembered that it was stated several raonins ago mat jut.

juor- gan was about to arrange ior a great transcontinental system, which compris-; ed the Northern Pacific, Wisconsin Cen-i tral and Baltimore and Ohio lines, but the plan was abandoned, at least so far as tho Baltimore and Ohio was concerned, matters cot being managed to Mr. Morgan's and Mr. Spencer's satisfac-j tion. The purchase by Mr. Morgan of the Norfolk and Western followed, and it ia now to be made, it is understood, part of the system which it was at first contemplated the Baltimore and Ohio should occupy.

-Washington Star. IT WAS AWKWARD. Why tbe Gentleman Wanted HJa Theater Tickets Changed. A gentleman in immaculate evening dress, accompanied by a handsome young lady, also stylishly gownod, appeared at the box office window of a New York theater and asked for two good seats. lie got them.

A few minutes later he again appeared at tho box office window, looking very much agitated and annoyed. "If yon can exchange these seats for another night, I will be very much obliged," said he, "but if yon can't I'll have to loso them. "What is the trouble, sir?" inquired tho ticket Bcller sympathetically. "Well, it's just this," returned the stranger. "I have just been married to the lady with mo, and we found the sast3 yon sold me were right alcngside that occupied by my divorced wife, so the situation was a trifle awkward for all concerned.

That's the reason we pot out." Life in large cities has its thorns as well as its American beauties. One of tbe Thing. We Say "GOrKG FOIC A TRAMP BKFORK Up to Date, There Are Few Others. Oua politician who ia faithful to a tonviction. Tr ut h.

Woman's Love. A sitting high in glory. Heard tbU shrill wail ring out from purgatory: "Have mercy, mighty angel 1 Hear my story "I loved, and, blind with passionate love, I fell. ITe brought me down to death, and death to ht-il. For God ia just, and death for sin Is well.

"1 do not mge against his high decree. Nor lor myself do ask tliut grace shall be. But for my love on earth, who mourns for me. "fir-ret spirit, lot me see my love again And comfort him one hour, and 1 were fain 1o pay a thousand years of are and pain." Than said the pitying angel: "Nay, repent Th.it wild vow. Ixxjk, the dial finger's bent Down to the last hour of thy punishment." But still she wailed: "I pray thee, let me go.

cannut rise to peace and leave him so. Oh. let mo soothe him iu bis bitter wool" The brazen gates ground sullenly ajar, And upward, joyous, like a rising star, eba row and vanbsUcd in the ether lor. But soon adown tlie dying sunset sailing. And, like a wounded bird, ber pinions trailing, biie fluttered back with brokui hearted wailing.

She sobbed: "I found him by the summer sua Eoclineti, bia head upon a maiden's knee. She caned hU hair and kisaed bim. Woe is mel" wept: "Sow let tnj punishment begin. h-vb been fond and foolish. Let me in To expiate my sorrow and uiy sin." The angel answered: "Kay, sad soul.

Go higher I To be uoceived In your truo heart's desire Was bitterer than a thousand Jean of tire!" John liny. Weed and Kose. little weed grow at tho font of a rose. And they boh breathed the gutt summer air. But tho little weed sighed as It looked at the rote.

For tho ros was so tall and so feir. sunset tbe beiie weed trembling spoke And told of it K.vo for the ruee. Bat thti ruse did not hear, for the language of weeds Li a Liaguage a weed only knows. Then tho little weed wept, washed the fair rose's feet, And the rose was refreshed for tho night. Tha ftaa of the morning birds opened her heart, Aad sho lifted ber bead to the light, A-nJ toiler she grew, and her green loaves spread wide Till thay shut out the sunlight and air; tbe little weed died at the foot of tho rose.

And the rode never know it was ther. Atlanta Constitution. Sall It IS ta It Silver men say yes, gold men say no. all who have used it whether gold silver men concede that Foley's Honey and Tar Syrup is superior to all otbers as 16 is to 1. K.

Steinbacher and S. K. Allen Co. wholesale and retail agents. th Irtt H.

If yen, cf ester, O'att, RteanBuait Wr'g; t'a Ceiory CaipanJea. AVooster. May 21, 1896. To tbe Wright Medisal Columbus, I). Gents I bave purchased a box of Wright's Celery Capsules from Geo.

Krieger, druggist, and nsd them rheumatism and constipa'ion. One my arms was so badly alllieted that could not remove my coat without assistance, and after using one box all pain had entirely left it. The medicine did me mora good than anything I ever took. Yours very trnly, th Isaae II. Myers.

Many of your friends, or people whom you know of, have- contracted consumption, pneumonia or other fatal disease by neglect of a simple cold or cough. oiey's Honey and Tar, a safe, sure; and pleasant cough medicine, would have saved them, It is guaranteed. IX SteioUaoher Jt Co and S. Allen Co wholesale and retail agents. tth "Wright's Celery Tea cures constipation, sick headaches.

25c at druggists. OASTOniA, tuuie UnuiN ef tin Mir A is I Xi'tlV B. MILES' RESTORAXIV13 NKUV1NB cures nervous prostration. Not miraculously, but scientifically, by first removing the germs of disease, and then supplying healthy nerve food, increasinf the appetite, helping digestion and strength enlng the entire system. Desperate casus require prolongod treatment as shown by that of Mrs.

M. B. Boed, of Delta, Iowa, who writes "As tho result of a lightning stroke, the physicians said I had a light stroke of paralysis, my limbs would all draw up. I Br. MUes' would hare throlMnru In my cLeit that toerucd unendurable.

For three months i could not Bleep and for three weeks did not cloeo nay eyes. I prayed for Bleep, and Nervine Restores felt that if rt liuf did not como I would be dead or ltisar.o, I took Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine and tho second night slept two hours and from that time on my health improved; slowly at first, but steadily and surely. I took in ail 40 bottles, and 1 cannot express how I am, for I am now perfectly well, and have taken no medicine for over four months." Dr. MUcs Nervine Is sold by drupglsts on guarantee that first bottle benefits or money refunded.

Book on heart and nerves free. Dr. Miles Medical Klkliurt, lud. 1RAVELERS- REGISTER. ni i a i a ij isweiv a a run i n.

r' Inmiiiis -Railroai. (Mb Vernon Pan Handle caru Jiy 18, I KM. SOUTH BOU NO. Union Depot H.05 a in a SOUTH IMIIXD. 9.35 a t'l 00 lg No.

27.... No. 35.., No. 3...., P. Akr -n.

5.4 a 10.1 It I i iu 6pm No. 2.., No. 38... tsimd-f daily- Daily except Ao. 2 onrries eiesrint parlor cur to Cincirt-natiand io.

ii piu ior car to Clereland. Only 25 cents tr for the use oi tliese to Coluiu-bus hitI ct'tils to ('iiH'iniuiti. No. an carries Pullman vuKtibule sloener, Cleveland to CincinnHti, Ch-vcland to Columbus passcnufi-s cku ocxrupy their hertlis until 7 iu. in o.

to Cleveland amiColiinibus Cleveland, tk't lire MCeomriHKiiiliiins of Telephone C. U. Uonoim.e, 1 KKtt Agent, Union OHIO Xt R. efloct August 1, iiKI AUT ST. No.

5, I.imitwl No. S.Gariott Mail o. 11 No. to press llrCSp 'n oi0 7i5 iu iso. Vstiimlo iimilijil 16tim ISo, 14, S'nnn So.

12 Ho. 4, Pittsltun: Mail Dtilv. Uii'V evitupt Sunday. lnat-o t-otli thrmuli trains to Cht-J'Ryo, C'ltiS'stiuj ot olejHiit iwhcn nJ vesu'i Ii-ep -is. Nos.

11 and 12 run between 1 Ipr hurr Bid Akron, stop imr st nil 8l.i' ions. For borlhs and 11 Informal ii it( Ai'i iit, Depot, start co. Now York, Boa to Ubicairo, 1 iltsburi; Sl.jjuuis For tii at lowest ratui time tables nad (all iniomiailun, a. I on or a tdrest E. LAIf 1'iotft Aifent, Akron, t.

Office in Erie p. r. IV ep ione 600 Schedule utkiug ireci Sunday, June 14, at 11 ni. wkst hound. No.

1, Clnidtuihti Kspi-eg, a. m. Ko. 6, Cinciuimti nml ChicasfO V. -ubtie, liiimcrl, daily.

7K)8a. No. 16, A km. i only, daily IU16 a. na Ha.

13, Huonoatoti Special, daily rxrupt Moiuiav 12 44 p. as No. 3, Pa itic ipi-css daily. 6:41 p. ia, No.

87, Acui.iu., daily exc. pi tiuo- aay 6:40 a. AST BOUND. Ko. 8, Men' York and Ho ton Llut- it, Visti: ule, daily 1:35 a.

aa Ko. 12, New York and ton Express, it 8:10 a. No. 4. York Sp-'lal.

p. flo. 18, Cliati'MiqUH KlpreH, dally, 4:2 p. io. 3 Acf inniiklatiou, daily ex- tf.t tiunday 41) p.

ro CX.EVEZ.fVdn) TER5IIV.LVAt. LKY liAlLltOA.0, its O. Sret-M." Ineitrt -t jy. i4, isaa. GOINO SOOTH.

Howard Uuiou East Strret. Depot. Akron Mo. NO. 3....

No. 6 8.5)a.m 4Sp.tu K0.15...M No. 14. No. 4......

No. 8 Ko.l0.... 77p.nt OOINO NORTH. :35a.m :50a.in tu HV.i'y excopt Sunday. Da: No.

a ikes direct cotmuotion for Mari etta and ltx al C. M. poiuts. Direct couiiectiont at Central passeniree station, foot South Water street, Cleveland. With C.

C. M. St. Ij. Ri-e line south weoU L.

S. M. east and west; N. Y. P.

A Oi, east. Sleeping car occoinmodations vill rs erred frutn Cli'vohviid all prin eipal points and reliable inrortnation cheer fully Riven upon application to O. O. McDONALD, Pass. Howard St.

C. D. HONODLE. Pass. Agt, Union depot.

Telephone 69 and 42. ii PIXTSBJTRO ft WESTERN R. Inefiect 19, 188. DEPART EAST. 6, Vestibule 14, Pittsburg; 1 1 4, Pittsi ursr ABKIVB FEOM BAST.

8, VesU' nle 3, West no: No. tlio llKWpm pm No. NO, Ho. lft. CnlcaKO express TlniW tD iilr eceiit No.

fi is a folid restihtile train tolTMhinff. ton, llaltiniore, Philadelphia and New York Nn Ha 4. are both through Ualn. for Kent, Kavcnna, Warren, Youngntowa and Pittsburg. or furth mformatwisj SSply to C- U.HONOOLE, appiy Tickt Ajrat, Union UepoU TelcpUW 4i TtLi jx.tL.

vJ. K. XL. CO. CAES LEAVE AJKBON FOR Clevoland, Bedford, Wovrburf and Local Points 5:15.

:35, 7:15, 7:65, 8:35, V-Ji 10:35, 11:15, 11:55 a. 1 1 2:3 3:15, 3:55. 4:35, 5M5, 65, and 10: i5 p. LeaveClevclant every 40 muiuUsirotn amuutil Tn-sUT ca 11 10 p. hi.

Cars run'thio gh to iMic mitiaro in Cleveland and kroa giving itnKft-r to dpoH and all poin's in le eland on Clevcl Mcctiid Lt and ia AUtou on Akiou Ky. Will. CHaist Ugt. C. MKNOKNSOOltr-, U.P.

A. NL RAILWAV Greater and Nobler. hold him groat who for love's snlto Can give with generous, earnest will. Yet ha whi takes for love's swoot euke I think I bold more generous still. I bow before tho noble mind That freely some great wrong forgives, Yet nobler is the ono forgiven Who bears that burden well hud lives.

It may be hard to gain and still To keep a lowly, steadfast heart Yet be who Iokcs has to fill A harder and a truer part. Glorious it Is to wear the crown Of a deserved and pure success. Ee who knows bow to fail bu3 won A crown whoso luster is not less. Great may be he who can command And rulo with Just and tender sway, Yet ia diviner wisdom taught Better by him who can obey. Blessed are they who dio for God And cam the martyr's crown of light, Yet ho who lives for God may be A groater conqueror in bis sight.

Adelaide Procter. Positively cured ly these L.ittlo Iills. They also i-elicve Distress from Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Too Hearty Ealing. A perfect remedy for Dizziness, Nausea, Drowsi. ness, Bad Taste in the Mouth, Coated Tongue rain in the Side, TORPID LIVER.

They Regulate the Bowels. Pui'dy Vegetable. fie f''-d of ths Sea von i-et i'd, a fn fa vor', ins et and demand Cai ter' I.itt'e I iver Pills. tth 8 219 13S2. E.

G. WHQT'Q nerve mm immm the o.i:gi:;al, all cthers imitations. Issoldundor popitivo Vritten JuarajDtee, by authorized offftnts only, t- euro Weak Memory, Dirainess, VVakofulnewa, ('its, Hysteria, Quick-ness, Losees, 1'vil Dn'ams, Lack of Conii. rl'jnco. NorvouBnces, Lassitude, nil Drains, Konth-ul Errra, or fcx'eeseive (Je of Tobacco, Opium, or Liquor, which loads to Misery, Consumption, Insanity and Death.

At store or by mail, $1 a bo; 6ix for $5: with writteu rnarantee euro or nfund money. Nitmple pack-JS. contain in five days treatment, with full iustructions, cents. One sample only sold to each person. At st re or by mail.

Labo1 Special 2i Extra Stronoth. (yjrFor Impotonoy, Loss KWW Power, Lost Manhood, 1-51 a box; six for withS K3fei Kuarantwp-j'Tvj; to cure in .10 6S s. At otore Cor tftoruity or HarrpniieHn. Sold by J. H.

Case, 1128 E. Market 6th "Ward; Blink, the Druggist, s. cor. Main an? S. Ii.

Alien 1U5 How and tor. Mill, Akron O. i wtb rotle a vvell HINDOO RE.9CDY UKSri.TM la fits IYrV Paret3, Jiitctitlt tons, CMiseti by past abtiscn. Riven vteov ui mid iuicltly mit I-OBt Manhtd InoU' oryontiff, xlasiiyran-Vfl is loclict. 1 puck a for uycin 4mitaTioittlr fiiritst on hnvni- JMiAi'4.

I fouriiruKnr BthAP.iott'-ot tt, wiil fend it preptt irlcat'U JJ.Q(.'iiit4;o.a'rcp.f UU A. vVarner. rr 1. Mnr" et AKKON '1 aim ottier icadioc Unit? jjsts. CENTO Ii HUM "PARTY-LINE" EXCHAHGE SERVICE This Company has successfully devised apparatus by means of which (' ithout iu the least impairing tho efticienc.

of transmission) two or more Subscribers' stations may be operated upon the same line or circuit, and be enabled to signal i4ie central ofiiee, without disturbing each, other. This improvement relieves "party-line'- service of it priucipal unnoyance and makes it popu-lur with a very iaro class of telephone users. in ollering this of wsrvjco, for either-grounded or metallic circuits, we ure aiming to bricg that which is of the bigliest grad.3 within tbe satisfactory reach oi those whsd requirements for telephone service are bu limited, and to make its cost to them ma terialiy less than th- regular rates cbarged for independent-line service. We refer with perfect confidence to eucb eJ our present subscrilwrs as are using "part linen service with this improved apparatus The r-'-is for this service will le quoted upon application to tuo Manager, or he will MADE Mid A MAN AJAX TABLETS posmvtLT cuhk a i I rvou Kailt 'k I Kcimiry, bnpytfncy. Sh-folos lit-ss.

etc, caused Abut and other Kjcetmes and ndtbrr-tloua. Xlwy quickly ontl enrely rmn I.it Vltstily In via or young, and tit a luau for study, Liaslnosa or murri.t.;--l'rf vrnt Insauit; a idc--ii)Uiiit-tloti If takftu InUmo. Thftrii-' shows Immediate tiuprovwnent and etteets a dlKI'l whwo 1 1 nthuM fll. Inxiiit having the getmlne Ajax Tabl ts They havo cir. i thousands and will cure you.

Wgi iKislUvnwrHtii guarantee tt effect a euro In each case or fu -a tlie Blimey. Price BO cents per iiackace. or i iiacliucea (fnll treatment) for 2.50. liy mall, tu plain wruyiior, Upon ttcoipt nf price. Clreuiarliiee.

Aililrws AJAX REMEDY "SSEESSJP For sale in Akron by C. H. Harper Co. .1 it. and ijuun narter now ui ueeii.i.o.

xtn no EflflYROYAL PILLS Arc gcUftbie. uwmm --r it TJ At lroisit. .1 I4 tins 2V fcr wrrtcolM. to.tHDOni.iU a i.u. Tiuu.1.1 ffeiw.

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