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Jne could not be happy, "because," she said, 'So many ehilaret! 1 And she really had not tho heart to smile, iVhen the world was so wk-kod all the w'oile. The old lady smiled all day lor.g. As she knitted or or ned a She had not time to bd sad she Said. When hungry children wcr-j crying for bread. So she baked and knitted rnd pave away, deelired the world grew better each day.

Two 0I4 fcfle Sroyn. "ne fay Vow Which do yota thillk those the to.sGr way? Ht. Nicholas. OUR ROBIN. CHAPTER (CONTINPED).

"What flfl awful Woman!" Robin. hope, for all our suites, it is not the formidable Alice that we see fonder." "No," I respond, with a vague shako of my hoadi Then, as (he llgUfe owly moves round the pond in the direction of the distant house, a chill run3 aver me. "It must bo some stranger staying in (he village who has gained idmissiott to tho 1 I add, trying to reassure myself; for, surely, never was stranger so like in form to Lucy! "Most probable," assents Robin, while her bright eyes follow the retreating form. "Shall we resume our way?" she pursues, with an evident wiih to dismiss the subject. "I see tho most lovely tuft of primr0se3 on ahead "I wonder whether John saw her?" I muse, turning reluctantly from the contemplation of the distant figure.

"You must ask him," remarks Robin. "Ask him!" I rtfpeftt ill indignant astonishment. "Well, i'eally, Robin, I should have credited you with more tact! Why, aunt Louisa and 1 always avoid alt mention of the Lovers' Walk, for foai 1 of awakening painful "I beg pardon, I am sure," says Robin, a little satirically; "but, you seo, I did not know that this was a land of "Not mysteries, but tender recollections," I answer, slipping my arm within hers as we resume our way. "How prettily you put it!" Can it bo lhat I detect a faint laugh from Robin? If so, she smothers it before I can turn my head, and continues seriously and with a frankness which sounds almost you know, I think, Blanche, that you have a somewhat over-strained sense of delicacy. It seems to me that you and Miss Crick have done your best to nurse and keep alive your brother's romantic have not allowed him to forget.

His trouble has been wrapped up in cotton wool and carefully kept and tended. If you had aired it a little sometimes, instead of making a bclc-noirc of it, he would never have moped as lie is doing." "John never mopes," is my rather indignant answer; "but of with a kind of can't quite fathom his great melancholy all at once. He will novcr will never be happy again." "Dear, dear! What a frightfully romantic set of people I llnd quite utterly romantic!" says Robin, falling into an attitude with upraised palms, and eyes fixed raptly on tho tree-tops. My irritation suddenly gives way, and I burst out laughing. "And you," I rejoin, letting fly my last sha'tof wrath, "arc utterly prosa'o!" CHAPTER IV.

It was about the middle of May rfhen Robin first put in her appearance amongst, us; by the first of June she KCetns to have installed herself at Podrf.ore. The old house has in great measure lost its gloom. Even the dark oak staircase brighter, now that her buoyant, light-robed fig uro is forover flitting up and down its shallow steps. Windows, long shut, stand open to the merry sunshine, bunches of bright-hued flowers pjoet one face to face in out-of-theway corners. Ripples of joyous laughtor echo through tho formerly silent rooms, nnd the somewhat stiff piano keys are beguiled into rattling dancemusic and stirring marches.

Robin flits in and out, here, there, and cheery, imper, inent, like her very name-sake. She wins aunt Louis's heart by a ready sympathy in all household matters and an evident appreciation of the many dainty dishes Which she knows so well how to prepare, and which have hitherto been uncared for and untouched by her unsatisfactory niece and nephew. By dint of her untiring energy and perseverance, Robin draws John occasionally into almost spiritod arguments. He never grows really angry with her, and but seldom even brings the shaft of his satire into play against her ready wit. He treats her condescendingly, and smiles at her crllowing animal spirits in a superior kind of way, as he would smile at the petulance or sauciness of a child.

As for myself, I seem to have lost my identity. Instead of crcoping about tho house, languid and lowspirited, I spend half my time in the open air. Robin ruthlessly insists upon changing the style of my hair, and, after overhauling my wardrobe informs me, with curling lip, that there is not a dress in my collection juvenile enough for a woman of forty. So she has her way; and a week after my friend's arrival sees me arrayed in dresses more becoming my age. As I survey myself robed in a morning gown of spotless white, I remark: "You know Robin, I never did care much about dress, so I have always left the matter entirely in the hands of tho dressmaker." "Who loaded you with flounces and fringes to her heart's desire," laughs Robin.

"Of course it is very highminded and superior not to care how you look, but at the same time don't you think it is a trifle hard on your friends?" "I should hope my friends are above caring what dresses I wear!" is my rather scornful reply. "You vain creature!" crios Robin, looking quite shocked. "Of course ive know a diamond is a diamond, whether set in gold or a aeauty a beauty, whether she dresses sackcloth or ordinary commonplace people like the gold and the muslin best." "How can there be vanity in not caring for dress?" I protested. "It is the very height of shows that you think yourself abovo Iross. There, now, don't scold! I am sure you ought not, for fou look scrumptious in scrumptious! I should not vonder in the least if Harry kissed rou ten minutes without stopping." "How can you, Robin Harry nevjr "Well, asks Robin, ooking at me with mischievous eyes.

speak the truth." attriy dress," I blunder ou', laughing. "Admirably turned, mademoiselle," answers Robin, With a meaning nod; allow mc to till you that it is nd wonder he r.ever looks at your dress? really it was enough der." Harry, however, does r.ot appear until evening, and Robin would have had some reason to triumph had slie hot His Ho has comc to dinner, aiil is standing aioriC in one of the long bow windows in the drawing-room' when I enter. My white morning dress is replaced by the palest primrose-colored muslin, down the front weaitders a row of most innBcent little "Why, Bcc, what have you done to yourself," he cries, advancing and holding mc at arm's length, at the samo time scanning me with a look of tho most profound wonder. "What have ydd id .1 saw you look ha'J so jolly I dcclarc I didn't know you when came into the room: I thought you were some swell or other comc on a visit." "Yes; am a swell;" admit rather ruefully, "but it is not my faiill: Robin insisted on changing the style of my hair and dress; she sail I was altogether Out of date." begin to think she must have been right," he remarks, with "and I shall propose a vote of thanks to her." changing my gowns?" little scornfully: "For freshening the whole at biosphere of Podmore," he answers, laughing. "Why, even John seems lape melancholy than of has a wonderful diffusing brightness around her." I heave a little sigh of envy.

"I wonder you did notehoose a lively person," I say, with a pout, "since you seem to admire so "A grand ers Harry, who is in ont! of his teasing moods. "1 11 think it over. Let mc see, I must fall in love with Miss I dare say it would not be propose to her: of course she would aficept me. Then you will bring aft action for breach of promise, and come out with damages tori thousand pounds. Ah, no! Bee 'ice, it wouldn't were it not for the 'damages' it might do." "Pray don't trouble yourself about the damages," I say loftily; "you are perfectly free." "Which is more than you can say for yourself, Miss Impertinence," cries Harry; and, before I know what ho is about, he leizos mo round the waist, Robin suddenly opens the door, then shuts it again with a laugh, which she makes no pretence of hiding.

"Robin, Robin!" I cry, disengaging myself, and running to open the door. She enters, with a smile lingering rcymd the corners of her mouth, and greets Harry in her usual cordial manner. "Blanche and I were going to have a bit of a waltz," explains Harry with more ready wit than truth. "Then I am just in time to play for you," answers Robiu demurely. Thereupon she takes her scat at the piano, and rattles off a somewhat lively trois temps.

Jack, entering the drawing room a few moments later, pauses on tho threshold, aghast at tho sight of two ligures spinning in and out amidst the crowded furniture. "Don't look so are only having a dance!" says Harry, laughing, as he leaves mo breathless and crimson beside the piano. "Rathor warm for dancing, I should have thought, with the thormometer at eighty-live degrees in tho but everybody to his taste," answers John superciliously. "I told you so," says Rohin, with a most provoking and knowing nod; "though I came down later on purpose, you see I was still too early!" "Nonsense!" I say, somewhat irascibly. "Of courao it is nonsense," rejoins Robin coolly; "but one never expects sense from aa engaged couple." Tho next morning is the fourth of June.

I am aroused from my heavy morning sleop by a bunch of dew-laden thyme, which is drawn slowly across my closed eyelids. 1 open my eyes to see Robin, ready dressed, and holding a litt'e basket in her hand, standing by my bed. "Oh, you let me rest?" I cry, half angry, half laughing. "Go out, if you must, yourself, and gather every flower in the garden if you like, but do leave me in peace." "Indeed I won't!" answers Robin, resolutely. "You have no idea what the morning is like.

I never in my life hoard birds singing as they are singing ontside at this present moment," "Fiddle-de-dee!" "No, they are not singing fiddlede-dee," Robin, with a shake of her head; "they are indulging the world in a mad- chorus of gladness: the sun is glittering like diamonds on every blade of grass; and the pinks are smelling like an old woman's spice box." "Well, do go out and enjoy it all," I suggest hospitably. "Ytjs, I am I only just came in, out of pure charity, to wake you, says she continues, consulting her watch with cold blooded is now exactly halfpast you don't meet me at the sundial at eight sharp I shall have the pleasure of reminding ou of your remissness." "I don't belive there is such a word as remissness in the dictionary," I cavil, as Robin with a flourish of her basket, leaves the room. A laugh echoes back up the staircase, and that is all the answer Robin deigns to give me. I know my friend too well to doubt her word, and feeling pretty strongly convinced that all chance of slumber is this one morning at comply with her demands, and join her in the flower-garden a few minutes before the time specified. I find her sitting hatless in the full blaze of the morning sun.

her eyes closed in rapt attention as she drinks in the soag of the birds, and her basket and lap overflowing with dew-laden blossoms. I feel strongly tempted to wreak some sudden revenge on the disturber of my morning slumbers; but Robin's eyelids are raised as I approach her with stealthy step. "Come and is delicious," she remarks slowly and lazily. I have to own a little reluctantly that Nature clothed in her spangled morning veil is a sight worth seeing. "And yet you lie in bed morning after morning until the freshness of the day is lost," observes Rohin wonderingly.

I cannot gainsay her, since she speaks the truth. "Don't you think you had better put on your hat?" I ask practically. "The sun is very fierco." "No," replies Robin, with a laughiiig shake of her "niv one' in life present to get sunburnt. Besides, my hat is fit present otherwise engaged." I turn my head in tho direction to which she points, and faint'y discern the straw brim of her inverted hat peeping fram beneath a heavy load ofblojsoms. "I'll ask aunt Louise to hunt you up an old market basket," I say, with a touch of satire.

"You never seem 3W? tbid anything big enough to Hold your Robin only laughs softly." "Aren't they just lovely?" she cries, burying her little white nose for a moment amidst the fragrant heap on hfiK lip. "But I must set about putting themjri they will begin to droop." So saying, she rises from her scat, gathering up her rprou in one hand, her hat aud basket with the other. won't take me ten minutes and then 1 wilf cc'ttte Out pgain," she says, looking rtf tn eioubthdiy, ttf whether foiy Intention of. but I shake my head, iih'gfhihg. "No, no, my Robin," I remark, I produce the second volume of a novel, dreamy cnongh to suit even my constitution; "I fame out of doors to please I stop to please back tvKefi have finished the flowers." So Robin trips off towards the house, arid settling myself comfortably on tho low stone scat, I my fictitious fairyland.

For some tinie I read in peace, then I am interrupted by a ticteiiDSf sensation on one of my hands; glancing tip become aware that a precocious earwig is takiiig his morning constitutional on my second finger. To fling the insect from mo, vigorously rise and shako my skirts, lest any of his kindred should lurking thereon, is the work of a few Then I pick up my book, dropped in the skirmish, heave a rather impatient sigh, and make my wav to the house. RdtuH is in the hall, where I to find Tita big marble table is strewn with leaves, eteinS and twigs, a big pair of scissors, and two water-jugs, but my friend is nowhere Robin!" I cry, sending my voice first in the direction the dining room and then up-stairs. 'Where are you?" came from a totally unexpected answered Robin, in her low clear tones. Can it be that the pound emanates from John's study? Surely not! And yet the voice certainly comes from behind me.

I turn and move toward tho door; it stands ajar. I can distinguish the flutter of a white robe amidst the darkness beyond. For a moment I stand aghast. John must have forgotten to lock his sanctum, I suppose, yet the audacity of Robin takes away my breath. I push open the door and enter, just as my friend noisily sends up the lower half of the heavy window-sash.

"Musty, fusty, and no mistake!" she says, greeting with a sniff of relish the rush of fresh outer air. "Oh, Robin, shut it down again!" I cry in a hushed whisper, and vainly putting all my strength into a struggle with the stiff framework. "Help me to close it at once, and take away these in the direc tion of the come away." "And why, pray? Give me a reason, demands Robin, glancing round tho dusty room with an air of disparagement. "Oh, John never allows any not even come in here! The room is always eleaned out once a month; but we give him warning, so that he may lock up all his precious tilings. "Dear me! I don't see anything very precious," observes Robin, still gazing around; "nor is there a mystery so far as I can make the table cover and peering underneath.

"Of course there is no mystery!" I answer impatiently. "But as a rule men to have their pot books and things handled." "Oh, and is your brother supposed to bo clever?" asks Robin, with a slight elevation of her eyebrows; and she begins prying into the titles of tho volumes scattered about on tho table. "Supposed to be?" I echo a little scornfully. "Ho is clover." "I have no wish to argue the point," returns Robin ind fferently. "Now I am not clover, not in the least; but I do know this much, that fresh air is good for everybody, and I shall make point of telling him so." "He will never forgive you if he hears that you have been in his room." "How very I shall certainly tell him!" She has actually seated herself in his round-backed writing chair, and with profane, fingers is turning over the yellow leaves of a book which lies open before I still stand by the window, half amused, half angered, and wonder how in the wide world I am to induce her to move.

(to be continued.) Railway Construction. The current number of the Railway Age contains a carefully prepared article on track-laying in the United States during the present year, shewing that 5,790 miles of track have been laid on 280 lines in the first ten months of 1888. It says: "This shows an addition of 2,430 miles in the four months since our last statement. Although comparatively little grading is done in the greater part of the country after November 1, still the last two months of the year are always marked by a very considerable amount of track-laying and this will be the case this year, especially if the weather continues favorable, Of the 230 here reported upon at least seventyfive are still in processof construction, while some track will be laid on a few other roads. Looking the field orer, we venture to estimate that from twelve hundred to two thousand miles more of new track will be added to complote the record of the year, making the total new railway mileage of 1888 between seven and eight thousand miles, which will fully justify the estimates made by this journal in the early spring and confirmed in its July statement.

If only 7,000 miles are built, the record for 1888 will still exceed that of all but four previous years in the history of the country, namely, '86, '82 and '81." European Standing Armies. A Vienna correspondent throws some light ou the large number of men kept in the volunteer military service in Europe. The yearly contingent will be henceforth in Austria in tho proportion of 81 out of 10,000 inhabitants. The proportion in Germany is 73, in France 58, in Italy 36 and in Russia 26. The highest proportion, it will be seen, is in Germany.

If the United States were to take such a proportion for military service, its 60,000,000 of inhabitants would keep a standing army of 448,000 men. BfPHTHERITIC GERMS. The Latest trf t.eur— A Wonderful Step frt tHd Advancement tjf Soiertce. A Special cable to the Cincinnati Enquirer from t'arW The Enquirer correspondent found Pasteur this afternoon in the building known as the Pasteurian, in the rue- has erec- by public subscription if iPemo- rial and as a home for the greatest scientist of the age. the professor, with- a pleasau't Srftif', think that I can give you good news tWe able assistants, Drs.

Roucx Brid Yersirs, have discovered the germ of the dreadful disease, diphtheria, which su terrible ravages during the WirHe'r ht ydm 1 large cities. I believe it exists in a more form in the United States than it does in fiify other part of tho world. My assistants have taken pieces of the diseased tissue or from the victim and have' iricWulated eoveral animals therewith. of the kttor in due 1 died of a disease displaying Is of diphtheria, that terrible destrovef ot child all the objective siyniptorris life. So far so good.

But the of themicrobo theory in epidemic then arguod that those experiments shewed the terrible virulence of the ofiglifcil. prison. To answer this my young scientific Assists tits," by means of a s-eries of glass tubWr dilut 'd the morbid tissue to an infinit sima! StFeunt. A germ was then taken from the final and a rabbit was inoculated therewith, which immediately died as quickly as the first victim in the eause of science, before the virus." "This is hoW We stand," continu 3d Prof. Pasteur.

"We tho deadly germ, but we have not as ydt secured a prophylactic for its cure or My conferrees are now at work solving the problem, and from their success so far Irl this original field of research I have but little doubt but that the inoculating fluid will soon bo forthcoming. Wo can give diphtheria to i.Hy number of rabbits and dogs and kill them effectually as though they had caught it first hand tn the regular courso of events. I not, however, succeeded yet in attenuating the virus and cannot inoculate. I Wish you would lay great stress on this point because I know the emulation of the enquirer and the wonderful receptivity of the American people for news and ideas, and I am afraid that ship loads of your countrymen wili be over to secure, by a visit to the Pasteurian Institute, immunity from diphtheria affections. Tell them, please, that we aro not for business yet, but that perpaps we will be in the summer." As the correspondent turned to leave Dr.

Pasteur submitted to his inspection his glass tubes filled with deadly gems, microbes and bncilli of many diseases to which the flesh is heir. In doing so the professor remarked, wiih a smile: "Our children aro in luck. It will be much pleasanter to live in the twentieth century, when epidemics will be done away with." Phrenology. Phrenology, more than any other science, is scoffed at, scorned, and, in fact, feared by many. What are tho reasons of this? Simply the ignorance of man.

Almost any person with one spark of intellect about him knows that tho brain is the great ruling power of man as well as bea3t. It guides him through social life, commercial circles, religion, Are all of those different intellectual branches mixol up into one general mass, or is eae-h one located in a different portion of the brain The latter is the most plausible of the two, for wore the former in nny way true why should one man excsl in scientific pursuits so much more than another, who is a louder in commercial circles? Phrenologists their entire system and science on the lattjr, and by careful study and watchfulness they have obtained, year after ysur, a thorough knowledge of the position of cach particular intellectual section. Many people have an idea that an examination of one's head, phrcnologically speaking, is formed by tho meaus of bumps; but they aro sadly mistaken, as it is simply a measurement of the brain. By the theory of one, the bones of the head are shaped like tho sections of brain covered by them; consequently a largo part of tho cranium shows immediately that tho section of brain covered must also be of large size, the possessor of which contains a good share of the intellect indicated, small one being vico versa. In the ideas of the writer every young man preparing for his work of life could not invest his money better than the fee of a phrenological examination.

It would prepare and guide him to his best advantages. We all know that a good lawyer would never make much as a physician, and so it is with every profession or trade. Many a youth has studied a profession or trade for which he was totally unfitted, and ton chances to one he never amounts to in that Sw.ins Galore. Sportsmen who have visitcl Sauvie's Island lately report that tho number of swans at present "using" in tho lakes there is something wonderful, being much greater than ever seen there before. It is said there are four thousand on Morgan's lake, and at least ton thousand on Big Sturgeon, anfl one man says there are twenty thousand.

The swans are feasting on wapatoes, and the canvas-backs and other ducks are getting a sharo. Mister Swan goes down nnd puis a lot of the lucious wapatoes, allowing them to float to the surface, and then he comes up and draws a long breath, and if any of the wapatoes aro in sight he takes them in his bill and washes and rinses them carefully before swallowing. The chances are, however, that the ducks who have pounced upon the wapatoes, and, without waiting to wash them, have swallowed every one of them, aud are sitting at a safe distance "looking as if butter would not melt in their mouths," and waiting for the swan to dig up some Oregonian. An Anecdote of the War. A soldier who had been taken prisoner had a wife and children living in New Jersey.

A good minister, learning that there was soon to be a general exchange of prisoners, and wishing to relieve the terrible anxiety of the wife, called and told her that her husband would probably be exchanged in a short time. said the poor, broken-heartod woman, "I love John, and the children love him, and if he isn't so handsome as some men, I don't want exchange him, I don't, and I just have a rebel for a husband, so Detroit Free Press. Victories of Peace. Last year we produced 2,000,000,000 bushels of corn, valued at $700,000,000. Human imagination shrinks from the contemplation of these figures.

The value of that single crop is greater than all the wealth Spain expended in the eight-years' war, resulting in the independence of the United Netherlands. Verily the victories of peace surpass those of Times. One of (be Xrrrn The minister is it mandarin of bi-h rsuk that ho stands fifth only froth the emperor, nnd rumor it that he is one of the richest men in the 1 thp.setcii incltnlfus tho famous Rothschilds. His world; thf.Seteu incliidlag tho famous nnd known fact that he wits one of tue henry pttrphirsers when he imperial regalia of was lifokon tip nnd sold. Ho is a mail of middle height, with phenomenally smnll hands feet, piercing brown eyes, a fair hkili that make his smile doubly piensftfli His manners are exquisite nnd he carries hiS hospitality to the point of interpreting liternlly the flowery phrases of his nntive Innd.

He is an immeuso favorite in sofe'ittf. His tn4e is perfect and the rich and be wears are the envy and ff all colorists. He speaks very good and has ft distinct lisp which he very cleverly at times. Most mon. otherwise strong in body nnd bt oine unhappv and break down nfilieled with Rheumatism.

If tliey would only itj Salvation Oil they would find relie! st once. Pflee 28c. All the kejs of Windsor Castle ntre recently ntolen, hut even this not tertere with tho rapid of Dr. Gull 's CoUjjh Syrup. of Lent.

''Leut trill cut down pneumonia rntes," said Df. Hamilton the otherday. "It always does." This was an nstonisher at first, but when he explained thnt nine-tenths of the cases of pneumonia were brought on in persons predisposed to it by sudden exposure to iiifiht nlr after coming from a super lienied room, I can see thnt the late winter festivities hate a great deal to do with the matter in our perilous latitude. There is one feature about Lent that society is apt to overlook, nnd thnt is its dietetic advantages. Any one who will keep it strictly will find himself in better condition to go through our summer.

York Truth. of Tho United Kingdom, according to Mr. P. L. Simmouds, produces 2,200,000 tons of salt annually, the othercountries of Europe about 3,000,000, North America rather over 1,000,000, Asia nnd Africa about another 1,000,000, making a total of 7,200,000 tons.

Salt is very extensively used in the nrts, and it is remarkable as being the only mineral voluntarily eaten bj- man. Its use with food is universal with nil nations, the consumption per licnd in different conntries being stated ns follows: United States, 50 pounds; Englnnd, 40; France, 30; Italy, 20; Bnssin, IS; Belgium, 16i; Austria, 10; Prussia, 14; Mndras, 13; Bengal, 13; Spaiu, 12; Bombay, Switzerland, ontentment passes wealth. Yon are sure to be contented with tue use of Warner's Log Cabin EXTRACT for external and internal pains. This is than to employ a physician who cannot do more for you if you had the wealth of Two sizes, 50 cents and $1. A Lnnil Ktenm.

Dr. Th. Tlioroddsen reports that in explorations iu the interior of Iceland Inst summer he visited somo remarkable valleys in a mountain range called Kjerlingnrfjoll. He discovered grand sulphur springs in great numbers, as well ns innumerable large boiling mud red, 3'ellow and green in color. Steam penetrated everywhere through fissures in the jet, six to nine feet in height, keeping up Mich a contiunal roar that it was impossible to hear the loudest shouts in its vicinity.

Tho greatest care had to be observed in walking on the thin crust of heated cln3' covering the boiling mud below. Floirrr fluking by Ulaid Power. A reccnt writer Hintes flint in many pnvts of the United States unprovided witli water power it would be not only possible but profitable to use wind power for milling. In European countries wind driven flour mills, oven of ile extent, are no uncommon sijilit; ftt'd one firm is said to have a mill operated by steam and nnother opernted by wind, and to linvo found the latter the more successful financially. To £ct tlie best, results, this author that the mill slionld have a capacity of 150 to 200 barrels, nnd would need a wind wlieel at least or ninety feet in diameter, which should not approach nenrer than fifteen feet to tho ground.

A I'rlllilllTC Iliduatrjr. In Colombia the American known there as of great importance on account of its fibre, which is used for sandals, sacks, ropes, pirlhs, pack saddles, etc. These manufactures are amomr the most important of the country, the yearly value being variously estimated at from $10,000,000 to $30,000,000. Ko part of the plant except the fibre is used, and this is now extracted by so slow and laborious a process that a skilled laborer can produce only about ten pounds of fibre daily. A Lucky Carriage Painter.

Crlflln. (Ca.) March fi. 11. L. Malone has just returned from Greenville, where he has been receiving the congratulations of his friends on his great luck.

He held one-twentieth of ticket No. 17,160, which drew the third capital prize of $50,000 in the drawing of the Louisiana State Lottery Company on the 12th of February, and his share after deducting cost of was just $2,405,00, as we saw on his deposit book of the City Natitonal Bank. It is not every young man who picks up such a sum so easily as this, and he is correspondingly elated. Mr. Malone is a young man of about twenty or twenty-two years, a carriage painter by trade, and has never bought many tickets in the Louisiana State Lottery, though he says he pioposes to stick to it now as long as he has a dollar to spare.

He is a pleasant, easy, good natured fellow, and has been enjoying himself since his sudden access of wealth. When a vaccination taken, what does it take? Food for CoiimiimiitlTea. Scott'a Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil, with Ilypophoepliites, is a most marvelous food and medicine. It the irritation of the throat and and gives flesh and strength quicker than any other remedy known. It is very palatable, having none ot tke disagreeable taste of the crude oil.

Western Stranger (iu western understand you claim 100,000 population for this town?" Directory sir. We nave in the new directory, inst beins finished, 20,000 names. That multiplied by five, tho average size ol a family, makes 100,000. See?" Messenger sir, Mr. Hardtype wants to know how many copies of that directory von want printed?" Directory Man (after some "Um! I guess fifteen will bo enough." Yoik Weekly.

THIS! We offer One Hundred Dollars Rewarl for anv case of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. P. J. CHENEY 4 Toledo. O.

We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the laat 16 and believe him perfectly honorable in hll business transactions, and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West A Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Walding.

Kinnin Marvin, Wholesale Pruggiets, Toledo, OMo, E. H. Van Iloesen, Cnsliier. Toledo National Dank, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taten internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucus ot the system, Price, 75 cents i bottle.

Qold by all Dt uggUU. Do what 'tin can when yon cannot do what yon would. Warner's Log Cabin will immediately relieve the pain in your back; theu for the cause of it. Try it. lli'lzlilar Oi Ick Wnlln.

In tt iiRinber of tests applied to masonry, according to Prof. Baker of Illiuois university, piers of ordinnry brick nnd common lime mort-ir stood a pressure of a little over 1,500 pounds per square inch; which is equal to the weight of a column of brick 2.000 feet high, with ordinary Portland cement mortar the wns somewhat more than 2,500 pounds per square inch, or the weight of a column of brkk masonry 3,600 feet high. Knives wore first used at tnblo by our English ancestors, and the finest cutlery anil table service now known in the railway world may be seen oil tho famous Golden (late Special over the Union Pacific P.nilwnv from Council Bluffs and Omaha to San Vvancisco, every Wednesday. F. said to in Kansas, "First Family Vaccinated." For strengt heningand clearing the voice, rown's I "I liatc mm mended tliem to friends who nre public speakers, nnd they have proved extremely Henry Ward Beecher.

A beautiful rug oHen covers an ugly hole in a enrpet. THADE MARK IT CONQUERS PAIN. Relieves and cures RHEUMATISM, NEtRAI.GIA, Sciatica, Lumbago. nEADACnE, Toothache, Sprains, BKMSES, Burns and At Drnrjlstii and Dealers. THE CHARLES A.

V0QELER Biltimort. MA, Diamond Vera-Cura FOB DYSPEl'SIA. A POSITIVE cults 70U INDIGESTION AND ALL ttomnc I aubles Arming TLcrcfrom. roiir Drvejqift or Gentrnl Dealtr will set for if nui iilrcaiiv in stoc.V, or il Willie tent by eft rtceipl of 25 cts, i3 hoxes il OU) in tlampt Sample sent on receipt of 2 -cent stump. THE CHAULES A.

YOGELEH BulCmorf, Md. My Htt'o 5 yenrs old. was pick with tliiscjuc lor which hail no name. 'J ho nails oil lingers, anil tl.e fingers came off to the middle For 8 years he suffered dreadfully; in r.ow ratting I am eattsilcri Swift's 8pccific Is tho chief cause of improvement. Jons an.

12, Peru, Ind. POISONED BY A CALF-Mv litlli! hoy lirok" o'it itfi -hh and the of the calf coming In eontart with a cut finger. 'J wci aad painful and rttmved no Iscl.nutù a htul. 1 gave him Sv'ft's Specific, und he ia now well. I'cb.

15, '89. Jans f. II eaiio Auburn, Ala. Pond for on Blood Cuisons A Kkln specific Atlanta, Ua. free, MAKES eillLP BIRTH EASY if used before confinement, ook to "mothsiw MAtLBP'FnKE.

BR A1IF1 UI ati. WTAJCA. solii by all JOKES PAYSthsFR EICHT 5 Ton Scales, SictT bi tat Bears an f.c«m p.ox S60. Frerr For free r.pptlna pivj.fr_ tnd sddreM Waterproof The FISH BBAND SLTCKER if warranted and will jon Ary fa the herd Horm. Tio new POMMKL FLICKER ia a perfect coet aeJ covers the entire Beware ol Imitations.

None genuine without tbo Fleia Brand" trade-mark, llloatratcd Catalogue free. A. J. Tower, TO MAKE a Delicious Biscuit A8K YOUR GROCER FOR COW BRAND LERATUS ABSOLUTELY PURE. SODft 3ESS3SS Iji -a GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVER it IPC 7 J1 -k AN HONEST BRUGGIST, when asked fcr the best blood-purifier, always recommends Dr.

Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, because he knows it has by far the largest sale and gives best satisfaction to his customers. Golden Medical Discovery eures all humors, from a common Blotch, or Eruption to the worst Scrofula. Salt-rheum, Scaly or Rough Skin, In short, all diseases caused by bad blood are conquered by this powerftiL pur.fying, and invigorating medicine. Great Eating I leers rapidly heal under ite benign influence. Especially has it manifested its potency in curing Eczema, Erysipelas, Boils, Carbuncles, Sore Eyes, Scrofulous Sores and Swellings, Hip-joint Disease, "White Swellings," "Fever bores," Goitre, or Thick Neck, and Enlarged Glands.

Consumption, which is Scrofula of the Lungs, is arrested and cured by this remedy, if taken in the earlier stages of the disease. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is the only medicine of its class that is guaranteed to benefit or cure, in all cases of diseases for which it is recommended, or the money paid for it will be promptly refunded. For Week Lungs, Spitting of Blood, Shortness of Breath, Bronchitis, Asthma, Severe Coughs, and kindred affections, it is an efficient remedy. Sold by Druggists, at $1.00, or six Bottles for $5.00.

Copyright, 1888, by World's Dispensary Medical Association Proprietors. I WARRANTED. I CATARRH TTNT TTTin TTTgAD is conquered by the cleansing, antise pti soothing an4 healing properties ot Dr. Safe's Catarrh Hemedy, 60 cents, by driwisU. TRT TRY raus cifflll CURj Strictly PURE.

II contains 113 OPIUM fora, Among the it Amis pre-eminent. The or tt in hishest Inj; entire MtisfacUou It Ii used. und Si per IloMlt. 35-CKNT BOTTI.KS nre put up for tho accommodation of all who flaire a COU or HKMEIir. detirmg a fur COS i.VPTIOH UNO DISEASE Ou Large fl Mothers.

Read! Oakland ta April It, ISR1 demanii for Al.l l.t 'no liAtj 6AM inereasinE constantly. ladira ihink ih.T« in no to tt tor croup and Whooping Couch. C. A HT IN. Driiimiat.

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Mjvsr AND SECDSMEN, ST. PAUI, MINN. ON 30 DAYS' TRIAL. THIS NEW EUSTiG TRUSS a diflVrrnt front all cup fiiupe, with SelfMvlJllHtlntf Ball in cviitrr.ndaptf itself to I Xhv body.whtU V'9 ball ln the cup precsea back intestine? as a peri does with tho finger. With light Jernift is hrhi ely nnd night, radlcmi eura certain.

It durable Mid cheap. St.lil.mox U) I ilo not mean merely to stop tUera loratimo aud then tllem return. 1 mean a tadlcal cure. nude FITS, lil'ILLI'SY or 1'ALLINU life-loner study. I warrant my remedy to core tuo went cuses.

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