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OLB TEXAS FOKT. A REDUCTION OF PRICES. I RUIN THAT RECALLS ADVENTURES OF PIONEER DAYS. A null Covered Fortification Discovered by Ranger Who lu Board an Interesting Story About Colonel Bowie. i.

Lowell of Utopia, Uvalde county, to aci old TWCIUI rticger, ana in a Hon with a numterot gentlemen at ton the other day he gave an account of hli riilt to the old fort erected by the cole- brated Junes Bowie. "A short time ago," remarked Captain Lowell, "while crowing the divide between the Main and Dry Frio, about 80 miles west oMTtopin, I noticed on the side of a hill a driOTlar pile of rocks, resembling an old fortification. Being interested in such things I turned aside to investigate. On arriving at place I discovered that the had been placed there by the hand of man at in early day. The fort, which I will now call this rude structure, was built on Mratfc aide of a bill, making a complete circle, wrapt a gap at the lower end, which had been left open as a place of entrance.

Some of the stones were very large and would hare required the united efforts of a dozen men to put them in place. The height of the rock wall when first built would have covered a man to the neck, and tho place would have made an admirable to off a band of Indians, which I have no.doubt it had been built tag, The next thing was to look around anc see if I could discover anything by which I could determine what caused the presence of tho men who built the fort, although I had gnawed they were gold hunters. "I noticed the entrance to the fortification was on the lower side toward the foot of the hill and opposite a small cedar brake, as if men would come from that point in case of danger. As soon ns I entered the cedar brake the problem was solved at once. I saw an Immense pile of earth banked up, near it a shaft.

It was at the base of a bill, not a hundred yards from the fort, near the head of a ravine. It 'was an old mine, either of gold, silver or lead, and had teen worked many years ago. The entrance was down a fllgbt of 10 or 13 cut in the soil, which time and the action of tho water pouring into it during heavy rains had not effaced. At thebofr- torn of steps the excavations extended west under the hill upon which tho fort was built. I did not penetrate it far, as I had no light.

On the mound of soil near the grew cedar trees as large as a man's body, indicating a period prior to the ad- Tent of the Texas pioneers tains, when country was full of hostile Indians. Tho fort on tho side of tho hill commanded all approaches to the mine. "In surmising in regard to the people who formerly worked this mine I at first concluded that they were Spaniards or Mexicans, but finally connected the place with the celebrated Texan, Colonel James Bowie. I recollected hearing my father relate a circuin- itance which he heard from Colonel Bowie In Gonzales before tho Texan revolution. Colonel Bowie said that on one occasion, while prospecting for gold or silver in the mountains west of San Antonio, he had mink a shaft in search of silver.

Ho hud a force of 80 men with him, and anticipating attack by the Indians fortified the camp by piling up large rocks. Their position commanded every approach to their camp shaft, and also to a spring of water something over 100 yards distant. "While engaged working this mine they were suddenly attacked one morning by a Urge body of Comancho Indians. Bowie and his men at once took refuge in the fortification, and the battle commenced With great fury. The Indians, however, were soon driven to cover In the ravines and behind the rock" by the deadly flre of Bowie's men.

The fight lasted all day, each parly firing aa opportunity offered. During the, day, hqwever, Bowie's men drank np all their water and began to suffer intensely with thirst. The Indians, however, from their position in the rocks and gullies, commanded the spring, and it was almost certain death for any one to venture. If the MTU wutcu UW JXUU, VUCJ JViffS lively to be overwhelmed by the superior force of the savages, but something had to be done. "Now, Bowie owned a strong young ne- gro named Jim, who was one of the party.

mya Bowie, turning to the negro, "won't you take the gourds and bring us Ktme water from the spring? 1 'No, sar, marse; Jim couldn't think of such a thing, Them Injuns is a-layin dar hi dat brush and rocks, and dey could Ret up and kill dis nigger befo" you could say "scat" twice, and befo' I could half fill dem gourds. No, sah; can't looked at the negro with his keen, piercing eye, and said: 'Jim, which aro you most afraid of--me or the 1 replied Jim, 'if you 'sist on me of course I'll go; if de boys is bound to have some water befo' they can whip the Injuns and you 'sist on me why den I'll volunteer my services. Hunt up dem gourds. I'm "Bowio now told Jim he need not fear, as they could protect him with their rifles from the fort while he was getting the water. It appears that the Indians were not expecting any ono to attempt to oome from the fort for water and evidently did not see the negro--in fact, they had to keep well hid themselves, as every exposure of their persons would bring a whizzing rifle ball from the hill.

The negro advanced to the spring, filled the gourds and was starting back before the Indians discovered him. They now, however, set up a terrible yelling and commenced firing at him, which also draw the flre of the fort, as several of Indians bad shown themselves. The negro now commenced running as best he with several gourds dangling about him, with a number o( Indians in close pursuit, notwithstanding the fact that several of their number had fallen before the deadly aim of Bowie's riflea. One burly savage dropped his empty gun, and drawing his tomahawk ran close to the negro, intending to strike him down with that. "A rifle cracked from the lower end of the inclomre, and the Indian fell backward.

"Jim soon arrived, puffing and blowing, bringing the water gourds with Louis Globe-Democrat. the Advantage That Accrues' to Mutufao- tnrer and In x.ow Prlcei. It is time that in certain cases a sweeping reduction should be made. It is proper--it is needful to stimulate research and inven- that the man who makes a desirable naclilne should profit largely by it. True, ur patent offlco confers no piotuctionbe- rond tho mere issuance of a paper, and any hief who wants to steal ail idea can take It if he has money enough to embroil the inventor in a suit, for the potent office, 'Those decision should be final, will do nothing to sustain him against his adver- i dry, but even allowing this a patent usu- ully insures success to an inventor who has I node anything that the public wants.

There are two considerations, however, (a the singleness of right that is implied in patent. One is that the inventor shall j'roflt by his work, and tho other is that the public shall likewise profit by it. The one ains money; the other pays it to him in for his new convenience. If he (oes not intend to use his right of sole lanufacture, he might as well have kept Btill about his discovery and saved the Money that the process of securing a pat- eat must cost him. Formerly it seems to lavo been customary among inventors to itisfy themselves with a moderate return of prosperity for their work, but latterly ley are disposed to regard the public as made for their enrichment.

In most commercial or speculative essays it is thought bo well if a gain of 7 or 8 per cent a year ii realized, which would imply an increase of that degree in the selling price over the price of the articles or securities that a dealt in, but some of the manufacturer, as of typewriters and bicycles, appear tn think that a profit anything abort ol 200 ir cent is little enoujjh on each machine. A typewriter that costs 1100 the mar- kot is made for about 815. Add to 1) beral estimate for office rent, tho employ ol agents, advertising and so on, and it is 61 ill difficult to see the justice of charging such a sum. Moieover, the machine is D) ado expensive to its owner after he gets it Every rod, bolt, screw, wheel or what nut that has to be replaced in the natural TV aar of the instrument is sold for twice the amount of money that would be charged for a similar bit of mechanism devoted to any other purpose. Even a bit of ribbon cliarged with ink costs $1.

It is plain that tliose who make typewriters want to be ri''h and want to be rich quick. This isnot the case alone with the makers of typo- liters. It is whispered that bicyples that sell for 4100 and more cost less than $25 to pi it together, and to look at them one would bi inclined to admit that as quite possible. There are other mechanisms, used in certain tr ides and leas known to the fieneral public, wnere the profits aro held to approach the in (possible. The efreet of tho expiration of patents on th ings for which there is a popular demand hu3 been to cause an immediate "slump" in prices, because the ideas on which money hnsljeon made then become free to nvals.

Pianos--though they are still exorbitantly high--organs, sewing machines and watches have thus come within the power of purchase by people of moderate means, and we believe in no case has disaster co no to the manufacturers in consequence of this popularization of prices The reduction of market value has been oflset by an increase in the volume of material bold. --Brooklyn Eagle. One day when Youth and Health and 1 Were trijjping liifhtly by tho sea We heard it say, "The woild te wide, And it is culling unto tlieo." Another day wo three lay flown Whore pine soft murmured unto pine, "Who dwells within these woody deeps Will find lifo peaceful and divine." Yet in (ho murmuring pine's own voice We could but hear tho restless sea. "Not dreaming case is moat divine, Tho world ia wide and callotb Uiee." And we, who loved each woodland sound, Wont forth to travel far and wide And wrought oar tasks with cheerful zeal. For still we traveled side by side.

Till stealthily gray Time crept in And gently drew oar hands apart. And whispor'd, "Youlh must tarry here. But Health IB thine; take heart, take heart. 1 Then on we two together fared Till Health cried: "Heat eat not the It singcth still of ease and rest; Como thou or take thy hand from mine." All, faithless Health! I hear tUo pins, Bat, through its voice, tho restless sea, "Not droaminjr case is most divine. The world is wide and calleth thee." --Rev.

Ada C. Bowles. The Domestic Service Question. '''he problem of domestic service is one that is of the greatest interest to all house- kei pers. On this Lucy C.

Lillie gives her vie ws in Godey's. She regards the difflcnl- tic i experienced in obtaining efficient and fai hful household servants as duo to a fai Ity system. At the present time servants are regarded too much as machines, and there is too little real sympathy between them and their employers. In former times, whan servants were "help," the difficulties that are now encountered did not exist MIM. Lillie writes: "There was a time in which the mistress of he house was its caretaker as well.

Her 'mi ids' or 'maidens' were as much her charge as her own children, and they in ONE BOY'S FIRST LOVE. Ind In Spite of Subsequent Her Memory Still Holds Sway. If you ever wero a decent, healthy boy, it you can make believe that you once were such a boy, you must remember that you were once in love with a girl deal older than yourself. I am not speak- ng of the big schoolgirl with whom you you wero in love for one little while just because she wouldn't look at you and treated you like a little boy. She hod after all but a tuppenny tempo- 'ary superiority to you, and after all in the ottom of your irritated little soul you mew it.

You know that, proud beauty hot she was, she might have to lower her olora to her little sister before that young Tiiinx got into the first class and compara- ively long dreses. No, I am talking of the fcirl you loved was not only really grown up and too Id for you, but grown up almost into old naidhood and too old perhaps for any one. She was not, of course, quite an old maid, but she was so an old maid as to be out of active competition with her juniors, which permitted her to be her natural, simple self and to show you the real charm of her womanhood. Neglected by the men, not yet old enough to take to coddling young giils after the manner of motherly old maids, she found a hearty and genuine pleasure in your boyish friendship, and you--you adored her. You saw of course, as others saw, the faded dullness of her complexion; you saw the wee crow's feet that gathered in the comers of her eyes when he laughed; you saw the faint touches of white among the crisp little curls over her temples; you saw that the keenest wind of fall brought the red to her cheeks only in two bright spots, and that no soft spring air would ever bring her back the rosy, pink flush of girlhood; you taw these things as others saw them-no, indeed, you did not; you saw them as others could not, and they only made her the more dear to you.

And you were having one of the best and most valuable experiences of your boyhood, to which you may look back now, whatever life has brought you, with a smile that has in it nothiugof regret, of deusion or of bitter- THE GARDENS OP THE POOR. Cowslips, wind your yellow rfiibon through the low green meadow; Violets in the pasture, put on yonr hoods of blue; The children of the poor man have no crand garden spaces, They have neither rose nor lily, and they depend on you. Make haste, airy columbine, to trim j-our scarlet bonnet. And stand upon tho hillside in beautif jl array; darling pink azalea, unfold yonr lovely blossoms. Like flakes of sunset vapor, and make the woodland gay.

Start up in every fleld, ye hosts of crimson clover: Scatter gold, dandelions, alone the eraser floor; Bring forth your rosy whorls, wild brier. In the hedges; dainty daisies, comoaad fill tho gardens of the poor. --Mary F. Butts in Youth's Companion. as it should be.

Quitting a position for any tea' on, man or wornau carried with them the will of the employer and generally spe.ikmg the friendship of the family." That there will be any change for the better until old methods are reverted to Mis Lillie does not believe. Keeping Turtle. Turtles should be accommodated with wet and dry places for choice. Two very "cute" little turtles lived happily once in tho basin of a greenhouse fountain with a rotl work mound on which to rest. They rec anized persons, fed from the fingers anO grew very tame.

What boys call the bo ic turtle, really a laud tortoise, will bo or at least appear quite contented if he is "staked out" in the yard in this way, a holi carefully drilled in the edge of his shell and alight cord a yard or two long tied through it, with the other end fastened to a stake. The animal proceeds at once to burrow a home for himself and there he will dwell in seeming satisfaction, TT, hile his cceper can coax him out occasionally bypulline gently on the cord to look at him and see if he is doing Thcrne Miller in Harper's Bazar. Negro Partlngtons. Judge Dent of Newnan had some queer witnesses in his court on Wednesday. They wei-i negroes, and while endeavoring to attain the sublime heights of stilted phraseology abused the "king's English" in a frig litful manner.

"Why did you go there?" asked the judge. 'Coze I wanted to perpetruate de whole fax ob de case," was the answer. "Why did you do so?" another man was asktd. "1 done hit fer de reason dat I wuz egotistical to know 'zactly how it wuz." For two hours tho courtroom was lurid with just such English, but the judge was helpless and had to take the answers to his as he could get Constitution. MIlM of Thread Without a A hank or cut of cotton always consists of 840 yards.

Messrs. Thomas Houldsworth A Co. of Manchester produced by their machinery cotton yarn or cotton thread so flne that oat of one pound wslght of cotton was epun 10,000 or a thread of 4,770 miles to length. Of eourte the thread was too Una to be of any practical value. It demon- perfection of the machinery.

Mo material rtdmiteof such fine spinning as loeseotton. Messrn. spun out of one pound of Sat-island cotton a thread 1,000 in, length that was quite strong enough for use. With linen yarn a hank or out of 800 Tit-Bits. Bpeed of Homing; Pigeons.

Thirty or thirty-five miles an hour is a fair average In good weather for a pigeon. The greater the distance, the smaller the probability of the prompt return of the bird. At a distance of, say, 100 miles, almost all birds return safely if the weather is favorable, but at distances of 400 or 600 miles impossible to reckon confidently OD.the bird's return. It. appears curious, but It Is a well established fact that as the bird Its home its speed is accelerated.

--Philadelphia Press. Wjuk Count Mr. Alexander Graham Bell calculates to her infant, 85,000 words a day--egual to about four hounfot continuous talking, and this notwithstanding the that the baby does not know what any single one of the 85,000 words Tit-Bits. Baked Lemon For Boarieneii. A baked lemon is said to be an excellent remed for hoarseness and one that is often ecorted to by lingers and public speakers.

The lemon la baked like an apple and a lit- -tto of the heated and, thickened Juice EianMMd -lump York How Are You aa to Details? "If I were hungry," said e. philosopher, "anil somebody should offer me food, I should not insist on a silver knife and fork to eat with. If I were cold and somebody shoi Id offer me a thick coat, I should not insis on having it of the color that pleased my i ancy best. If I were poor and spme- bodj should offer me a fortune, I should not insist on having it in bills of a certain dene mination. In fact, I think that I am disposed not to bo overparticular about details --New York Sun.

Funny Old Bus Xn Glaagow. Tl ere is an omnibus running in Glasgow the wheels of which are furnished with pneumatic tires, which are protected from inju -y by sharp stones or glass by canvas and wove netting. There is no jolting or j.urmg, and the noise is reduced to a mini Chicago Tribune. A Beautiful Simile. The editor of a Missouri paper who chanced to see tha sun rise one morning says that "the sky was suffused with a delicate but gorgeous pink illumination, as th ough invisible hands had hung a gigantic portiere over the orient, through whose tram lucent meshes tha sunlight sifted." Tha Paris Figaro, in connection with the man iage of Miss McClellan at Paris, said that the bridi was "the daughter of General George Mac-Clellan, who for a certain time commanded the Confederate army in the American civil war." A Story About Lucy Larcom.

Tho late Lucy Larcom began to write in a day when woman writers were not so numerous in America as they are at present, and when such as there were commonly disguised their identity under fanciful names. It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that her own name from its attractive brevity and musical alliteration was frequently supposed to be an assumed one, and this impression remained with many people after she was past middle life and her fame established. Once when she was traveling by rail in the west a strange lady left her seat at the fy in front arb'und curiously, surveyed her and said' "They say you are Lucy Larcom, the poet. Are you? Well, will you please tell me your real name?" Miss Larcom courteously explained that her family name was Larcom, and her Christian name Lucy, and that she possessed no other, whereupon her new acquaintance exclaimed. "Why, it sounds made up, and then I thought you were about 181" "But I could not stay 18, you know," explained Miss Larcom patiently, "I am sorry to disappoint you." "Oh, you don't," remarked the stranger conclusively, "I like your looks, but then folks will have ideas when they read about writers She was quite right; folks certainly will, although in our day ot the plentiful store photograph, not to mention the perambulating private kodak, their ideas are less likely to wander widely astray than they were 20, 30 or 50 years Companion.

the Girdle Meant Something. In Borne a man's investiture of his girdle showed that he was intent on work of some nature. When he took it off and let his tunic fall, it was patent to all that business was over and that he was free to speak to his friends at his and their leisure. Thus the girdle served a purpose--negative in its chaiacter, of course, but a "purpose nevertheless. Its sphere of usefulness did not end here.

It was figurative of property. When a man or woman put off his or her girdle, it was a token of renunciation of some right or privilege. The widow of Philip duke of Burgundy, for instance, renounced her light of succession by "putting off her girdle on the duke's tomb." Per contra, the princes of Ireland, in taking the oath of fealty to King John, laid aside their girdles, their skeans and their caps. "In the ceremony of excommunication," says a writer, "thebishop cut or tore away from the culprit the giidle that was about him, and the newly made hubband in Home took from his wife the maiden girdle of sheep's wool in which she was bound up to the day of her Journal, learning English in a Short Time. For the benefit of boys and girls who are struggling over "Omnis Gallia," or laboring with French and German, a correspondent sends an anecdote related by her friend, Dr.

of Rome, who was lately sent to Russia on business with letters that admitted him to an audience with the Grand Duke "Constantino. The doctor says: You know what linguists the Eussians are. The grand duke himself speaks excellent English, but there was with him an Englishman who was so fluent in Russian that I was amazed. "Where did you learn Russian?" I asked. "Yon know it so well." "Learn Russian? Why, here in St.

Petersburg. I am a Russian." "Whatl A Russian, and you talk such English? I have met a great many Russians who knew it well, but never before one who spoke it in absolute perfection, with all the idioms and inflections, precisely like a native." He nodded. "Yes, it is a difficult tongue. It was the hardest that I ever acquired and took me longest to learn. But I apeak all living languages." Then, seeing my look of astonishment, he added, "I am the court Interpreter." "How long were you in learning English?" "How long?" he answered.

"Well, to speak it really perfectly, so that I understood the idioms and felt that I could criti- cise the best writers, it took me--why, it took me three Companion. The lawyer In tlie Case. One day when I was in one of the mountain county seats of Kentucky I dropped into the courthouse to listen to a case in which one man was suing another for the recovery of a horse. A couple of hours aft- er the case bad been decided I met the di feudant on the street. "Well," I said to him, "that fellow didn get your horse, did hef" "Not much," he replied, but not a cheer fully as I expected.

"There was a time there," I wint on "when I thought you'd h.iveto wali home sure." "Yes," he said, "it did look "thata-way but that lawyer ur mine waz too peart fe him. Fine lawyer, he is." "Very good," I affirmed. "How far you live from here?" "Ten miles, the way I've got to go." "That isn't so bad whena man has a horse to ride," "But I hain't," he said lugubriously. "Why not? Didn't you just lecove him?" "Ya-as," he hesitated, "but I had to giv him to that dern lawyer fer his Free Press. Soberer Methods of Mature Yearn.

"In Broadway today," said Colonel Cal- liper to his wife as they eat at dinner, "I met my old friend Sercno Gritby of Storfc- ville Center, Vt. I never see Screao without-recalling the incident that flrst made him famous in Storkville Center. There was a great revival going on there, and Sereno hud something to do with managing the meetings In less than a week after the revival began every scat was taken and people were standing up. -Then Scrcuo--he waa younger then than he is now, you know--set out in front of the church a sign reading, 'Standing Room It made a sensation in Storkville Center. "Sereiio IB as enterprising as ever, but he wouldn't think of setting out a sign like that now.

Age may not tame us, my dear, but it makes us more conservative in our York Sun. CARTER'S TTLE VER PIUS. CURE Bick HoaSucho and relieve tbe tronblw dent to a bilious stato of the Rystam, auoh ad Nausea, Drowslnoss, Distress afteB eating, Falaln tho Bide, ic. Whllo tlialrnunt jnmackable succosa liaa been shown ill curing SICK Besfcehd, yet Garter's Littlo LIvar KM equally valuable In Constipation, curingaud venting they correct tha liver and rogulato the bo wela. Braaif theyonl? Aohetbey would bo almoBtprtcaleBsto those who Biur from this distressing complaint; but tortu- Batelythoirgoodnesadoeanotendhore.andthosa Who once try them will find theso llttlo pills valuable in BO many ways that they -Fill not bo wil.

lliog to dc without them. ButafteraUsickbeiUi COAL Highest Grades of FAMILY FLOUR FEED, ETC. --Wood, Lime and Seeds. PIONEER COAL YARD, (f.stablished 1837.) Walter Leedom, 529 to 535 Bat BRISTOL, PA. iscdlawmis When IN Want W.

E. Doron, Coiner of Radcliffe and Market Stteets, PA. the native slayeg in Siam there are, according to one authority, 1,200,000 prisoners of war and descendants of such prisoners held In captivity to serve three moat aa every year. All waste paper in the department of state which is ol a private or diplomatic Datwe is burned in an open fireplace in Secretary Gresham's own room. It estimated that the light of a full moon ia at.leaat 800,000 times weaker than when "great orb of day" is meridian, An Inveterate Talber.

Mrs. Kipling, Eudyard Kipling's mother, once hit oil a very clever but extremely garrulous and persistently talkative official by saying that he was essentially a clever man, but he ought never to be allowed to talk- he should be used as a dictionary and consulted when required. This man was once a guest at a dinner in company with Sir W. W. Hunter.

The conversation began by being general, but the Lahore talker and Sir "VV. W. soon monopolized it. A duel or a duologue suited neither, and at last Sir William said down the table, "Excuse me one moment, Mr. andallowme to finish my remark." And Mr.

did so, but the remark lasted until the company rose from the table, and Mr. never had a chance of getting another word, in Fioncisco Argonaut. The Development of the Walking Stick. Pi obably thepatriarch's staff was the flrst adaptation of the walking stick, and from its flrst inception to tlie present day it has undergone almost endless changes In 1701 footmen attending gentlemen were forbidden to carry swords, these being replaced by a porter's staff. Thirty years later gentlemen were forbidden to carry swords, but allowed to carry large oak sticks.

Before many years varnished and polished woods with ornamental heads came intense and in one form or another have held their own in public Star. The Value of Unexacting; Occupations. Engrossing occupations frequently injure the mind by the semi-importance they are apt to produce, and still more, perhaps, by rendering it unfit for those leisurely side glances on the world about us, in which the best experience of man is gained. Even the poet's highest thoughts, even Shakespeare's finest reveries, seem to be not the fruit of hard study, but of those careltiaa flashes of insight which it is the best effect of unexacting humdrum occupations to Spectator. All Timekeepers Are Inaccurate.

The capacity of a watch for keeping good time is very much governed by its con struction and its more or less perfect finish It cannot be expected of the best honzonta watch that it should always keep gooc time, and even less so of the inferior mak of machine made watches which are nowadays manufactured and sold for 810, $20 and Vie'VjJiikaomn temperature, the diver sity of humidity of atmosphere, all greatly affect the going of a watch. Indeed it ii only the most perfect finish which neutral izes the adverse influences to the greatest degree. Asa matter of fact, no watch keeps perfectly correct time, and even the besi chronometers used in observatories and on board ships must be regulated according to tables which are kept to fix the variations to which all watches are York Times. The Candle Fibh of Pugot Sound. Very queer fish are caught in the waters of Puget sound.

One kind is called the candle fish. It is dried and packed in boxes like candles. We are told the fishermen use them to light their homes and that at one time all the boats on the sound used them instead of sperm oil lamps. By putting the heads of the fish downward in a candlestick and lighting the tail, which, in conjunction with the backbone, acts as a. wick, it burns like a candle.

They eat this fish, and when cooking it is so fat it fries Chicago Journal. An Excellent Opportunity. The old fashion of favoritism is well satirized in a story told of M. Bignon, a per- ison of very little learning, who was made royal librarian by King Louis XV of France. When the news of this appointment was brought by Bignon to his uncle, "Good, uephewl Now you have an admirable opportunity to learn to Francisco Argonaut.

Katlier Choice. "Here, poor man," said the charitable old lady, handing the beggar a Canadian dime, "here is 10 cents for you." "Thank you, madam," he said, inspecting the coin, "but I cannot take it. I do not receive clipped, muUlated or foreign Bazar. Almost all travelers in tropical regions have wonderful stones to tell of the strange mimicry of leaves and flowers by insects. Sometimes the purpose of the imitation appears to be concealment, and sometimes the laying of a snare to catch other insects.

In the Vatican at Rome there is a marble statue with natural eyelashes, the only one with this peculiarity in the world. It represents Ariadne sleeping on the island of Naxos at the moment when she was de serted by Theseus. Under Draco's laws, enacted at Athens 621 all idlers were executed, the law being earned out to the letter with much severity as though the offender had been found guilty of murder. "I am going the way of all flesh. I am satisfied with thaLord's will," were the last words of John Newton.

The last word' of the youngsr Pitt were: "My country' how 1 love my country!" They Wouldn't Burq. "I was loo.dng over my old letters today, George, and I found all those that you wrote me before we were married, whan you said that I was" "Oh, pshawl" interrupted George, "let bygones be bygones. Why don't you burn those old letters, I should just like to know?" "I did try to burn them, but they wouldn't burn." "What nonsensel Wouldn't burnf I'd like to know why?" "They are too Free IB the bane of BO many lives that hero Is whsri ttemake our great boiiat. Others do not. Littio Livor Fills are very email and very easy to Ulte, Ono or two ptUa raakoa dosa.

They are vecetaile do not gripe or purge, tut by tlieir gentle action plcaee all wba use them Iuvialsat2'icouts; ureforfl. Sold by druggteta evciyviero, or. sent by mail. CARTER WEO.utNE New York. SMALL PILL SMALL DOSE.

SMALL PRICE Dr. lliiiiiphn'VB 1 Sjiecifira aresclentiacuHvand caiefulljr prepaied Remedies, used for years In private practice and tor over thirty years people wltli eutlre succets Everv single 1 named. Best Lehigh COAL In the Market, AT LOW PRICES Do not Forget to Examine the Stock of By car load, at Wholesale Prices. We are now opening anc have on hand a fine line of CARPETS! Velvets, Brussels. A and Cotton Ingrains, Hall and Stair Carpets; a assortment of Rag Carpets.

Table Floor Oilcloth, Shades and Shading. J.Wesley Wright BRISTOL, PA. Groceries euro without drugging, imiSng or reducing I act and deed tho Soverelgii tbesyatemandare iuut.uu Remedies of (he World. HHTOF PEIVC1IA1. NOH CUKEB.

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Weir Gilkeson, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BRISTOL, I'A. Do you want any Printing In Great Variety -H and CHEAP AT FOSTER'S. Ebpeci.il tare is taken to a have on hand tbe finest BU TEAS, COFFEES and SPJCIJS a the maiket aflbids. Fruits and Vegetables in Season. Edward H.

Foster, The DORRANCE STREET GROCER. Pltll) to YELLOW STONE PARK i i expenses of a i I I A T1IK NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD This i i i i i i ALL necessary traveling expenses, i singe mid sleeping oar fines, meals a (or complete TOUR OF THE PARK Viini i to i Fun- i bo unless you ulso gn i i tu llio Tinl, i i uboul $150) i i I lie i i i limits i A i i i i i i i a i i to No Hiieli is louinl i on enrlh. "'ho i i i i I'ucilii' is MIC i i there. lor 0000 i i Tlirinffli Woriiier- i i and our new map of I'ark. Oil AS, S.

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A MARVELOUS DISCOVERV! Positively removes BONB SPAVI1I, Ringbone, Splint, or Curb, IN 48 HOURS, Wllliout I'nlu. S500 Reward For Failure or Slightest Injury. liia IK tho (irenteit Wondor of tbe 19th Century, HBtontHh- Ing, ft docs, the ontlro i a vuirk! Circulars ind Sworn Proofs Mill- od Free. Guy Checinl, 0. 378 Cnnnl New Yurk.

bn'H JHUMMAfi s. c. cor. marxei and 18th Streets, 1MIII.A., PA. JEWELERS.

FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENTAL INSURANCE JUST, PROMPT, CERTAIN, Best Companies, Lowest Rates. Real Estate Trees Trees A full assortment of Fr'iit, Ornamental and hade Trees Shrubs, Vines, etc. 1C A supplied at very reasonable rates I and in case they can not come lu lerstm to the nursery, a competent man will su- erintend tho assorting ot orders tor a moderate Targe. Descriptive catalogue sent on applica- oir West Chester, beater Uo O. J.

PATTON, Wholesale and retail dealer In BEST BRANDS OF Tobacco, Cigars, Snuff, c. No, Mill Bristol, We are receipt of tbe following brands of garstrum our iactory, 5LO 1st district: 1 guaranteed full Havana ftlUr, umatra wrapper. Specialties of P. LORRILARD OifMcCCrLLAY'S, BUCHANAN LT- Plug and Gut Tobaccos Why He Called "Pony." Many people are puzzled to account for the sobriquet ot "Pony" applied to Mr. Moore of the famous minstrels.

Here IB his own account of it: "I commenced professional life in a circus at 12 years of age New York aa a pony driver. I usedto drive four, six and eight, and I have driven as many as 20 ponies around the rinir and bemg.very small for my age they called me Pony." There are over 80,000 stammering school children in Germany. Lifca most other di- tuna, the doctors think Itcontagiona nd other brands of 0 di TJbaocos on and in large quantities. "THE OHIGINAT RJtlNTOL BOY," ae leading atraiglit 5 cent cigar in tbe market. "THE CAPTAIN." The flame price and Anally good quality.

"JI9VXICIONOS," Seed and Havana, Coti- ecticut binder, and Sumatra wrapper, Give the above brands a trial. Guaranteed to as represented or TIO sals. Give them a tual and you will always buy. Prices guaranteed to compete with any wholesale Loiiw HI Philadelphia or New York. Satisfaction guaranteed or money reiunded.

E. W. MINSTER'S Livery Stable and Ice Depot, Fond Street, near Market Street BRISTOL, PA. CARRIAGES, GOODDR1VING HOB- ees, Single and Double Teams. Careful ivers fnrnbhed when desired.

Clewed Cabs for Weddings or Funenils. Best Quality Silver Lake Ice supplied at depot or delivered to any address within the borough limits. Orders promptly THE attention of the public is, directed to the fact a the Job Department of the GAZETTE office is better equipped in all the material that is needed to do excellent printing, than any other office in Bristol, or for that matter, any other establishment in lower Bucks County. If so, come to us! IN THE first place it contains the largest assortment of Job Types, selected with caie for beauty ot lace and diversity of work, togeth 1 er with a great variety of cuts, rules, borders, etc. It has four sizes of printing presses of the best makes and otherrequisite machinery which perform the work in the best manner.

The presses are run by steam power and execute their work with precision and rapidity. For good work THE stock of paper, envelopes, cut cards and card board is as large as the demand warrants and is kept up in its variety. THE mechanical department is in charge of'J. Newell Ayres, an experienced job printer, who gives his personal supervision to the correct and tasteful execution of all orders entrusted to the office. For quick work WE DO more printing and have better facilities for doing it than the other offices in Bristol comb'ned.

We have the trade and are determined to keep it by making prices satisfactory and the work we do first-class. prices are the Lowest. Full count on all jobs guranteed. "Liberal discount on large orders. meet with prompt and caroful attention.

C. Hendrickson, No. 566 Bath Street, Briotol, Inducement to Introilucu 11 K. Gold Nnrclal, (MS.OO Filled Kiipvlnl, la.uo Koll.l MIverSixM'lMl. lo.OO LnilKMi- 14 K.

Uoltl, alllitiui or Klicln, Z5.00 14 K. Gold Flllrd, Wnl- tlilim or Elfin, Ift.OO A full lino of illul lilntud Jent'lry modcfatD nrhcs. (j ropatr Watcnos, Ciitchs. and i am JQ t( Jiliiig Ulllgb It FREDERICK KING, IN LAMPS AND FIXTURES. Corner Pond and Dorrance BRISTOL, PA.

Unldd States Dental Association, 1103 Cheitnut Strut, Bountiful of Tfintb from va ap, to fflvonorfact BBtf rfaa- tlon. XTxtraGitng 20 Gnu, 50 contn. Filling, 70 cents Old Sets Repaired. Offico lloun, 8 A.W lo P.U. Extracting with Pun CM Specialty WILLIAM TEENESON, a a dealer tn Ladies' and Gentlemen's Fine Shoes GaiterSj Cor.

i iiml Pond Sis HKISTOL, PA, A fiisl-rlii'-fH a i ray own niako, 93 A No it i Hue ol Jnlni Mnmioll's Tip- pod Simon. tno Rtomach, liver and bowola, purify tho blood, aronafo and of- i feet luil Tho bout goncra! family known Cor Btlloumom. 1 a i Dyspepsia, of Anpotltc, MtntAl Painful Dlffofltlon, Pimplen, Hallow 1 CcmplexJou, Tired fccllap. and, nymptom or dutcano resulting 1 from unpuroZ I blood, or a failure by tboetoniocb, liver or Jntcetinoal i ver or a to perform tlioir prolwr functions Peraons c-Ircn to BURTON'S EXPRESS. JOSHUA BURTON I( at all times prcpned to do --Uobs of ol every deicnption, mull fit prices to Niiit the times Fiimi.

Immllcil nltli cnrc. FRANK S. MOSS, PRACTICAL 1 di'lv roiiiiiGlltlnnm good work mid ow imcctt are roiuonied mtitt i i a uu I coin nicuil Unit I inoun I sny Horne Slice- lug, Wngon Work and Machine Black bet. W.ISIIINOTON DoititAit UKIHTUL. PA.

left, at tlie Tclcoliono olllro i be attended to promptly. DR. THEE2C, KOCKorfcli Fourth M. tftJO below Gnxu, I'liiJiidLli MH AFTEB the faniilT fl ldui, HID pita! aud (uhcrtliujg doc Lori lime AN well AH wlio rnmisc to i ra jou nfLtr all oiliLrs full, nml a ttmum guuiiuitic Tue free treatment und ur.tr tin, Ixlt tliu pill iiuuiufiictunni, Wilh thtlr KJ oulkd loiikv, tulilitt, ILJI- po rum, null merit uuxlrurn ti uu bug ctmccruh, ho tin nm- nudlci ICM, etc CIO bin i nwltaikd ami roll.id THEtf KO I.OHIIIIL DR THfiEL, tvuo Una tiad 6 European Hospital und 26 i urn i rtcti lluxptrfeiiou. Ito Lxaintiitd by Jjlm He will i-anJldlj 1.

11 IiotLcr yourensi inouriit-le or not unr docs he claim lieUud but he does MIIV tlir most ties perate Syphllle, Ween. Strictures Gonorrtutal Poiion. Dbchftrgei. Sitikrtrn from Melancholia, and Indlicretlon, of 'both H.XVK a OR THE EL tluca wliut nil otlitrb ontr cUlm to do DE THEEL unee common conne truUtmnt He cooiblne ptthlr Honueopallil ever arc iudlc BR. FABIAN 708 BROWN PA.

I lluvo for 30 yrnrw in tllio ctly ntvrn my Nfx-c'liil aUciKioii all bollt KC-XCN, r.Youthful 1m- liriidcurc itnU IOMM or iiuinliood. A riullciil ciu'CKiinriiutord i ixlvire tree; don't lliiinlmitwd by with tlirir IlooltM. CoiiHiillntlon by mall. Offiie hours 1 in lo 2 nml 0 tn 1 11 10 A M. to ne llilo und Fclmfu tod Ilu nd Sal nttoi ntdklnu wl Dully, tf 3 hiRR from (t to 10 cluck ID- 6 to 8 Wed an al i from (t to 10 cluck ID- IBVN, 8 to 12 Stud 10 cU.

wrirlb of id itumtiH fur ii ck tttcotilj true mcdfcii) book adxertlKed.u friend TouiiR.Htid middle HgcdoflxHh nxii rite or call A I I doctors wiimiug jouugfilmt medical they nrtufraid i will Ond their Ignorance expired KMO lr. fhecl tl aoalali la UcdQcxduy'i and Hiuurdnj PtiilodcljiliU Timet. Scientific American Agency for For Information MUNN ft CAVEATS, TRADE MARKS, DE8ION PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, etc freo Handbook writo to BROADWAT, NEW YORK. R. BUSEMAN, AND ICK Bath and Otter Streets, Bristol.

To cimvansfor tlicsa)-) of our Homc-Orown NurM-ry Stock J'nillt Sharing SjsU'm. Salarv und exnen. paid w. T. I Tlie Go- iiova burnery, Uenova, y.

KKIulillnhed 18i(! Ono ol tho J.ar ent, Kktiibllnlicil. and Best NurBtnes in tlio United Sutet. TheGazette office, Bristol, Pa. itmttiti SAMUEL W. BLACK, DBALEK IN FIN.E G-ROCERIES! FRUITS AND PROVISIONS.

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