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: CHAPTER" V.
A THREAT.
BeiHg herself most strange of mind,
And of disposition most, dark,
She nothing saw in those meek eyes ;
And nothing saw in that pure face
To claim the lore of her dark, .heart"
I'll bet she'll make you see some o'
dem sights 'fore long, aunt Dinah,'
said the chamber maid, as she entered
the cook's quarters earl on the morn
ing following the arrival of Mr. and
Mrs. Marvin..
'Bet she do!1 exclaimed the negress
with a contemptuous movement of
the head. '
Bet so to.' returned Patty, as ber
mouth extended- into a broad, smiia.
'Has you seed her y it!.'
'No. an' I don't want ter. What's
she like?'
'What do you ax de question fur ef
you don't want ter see her?'
'Don't make a fool out'n yourself,
Patty Marvin I'
No, I wont, 'said Patty good hum
oredly, an' I'lltell you nigh as I kin
what she's like. She ain't as tall as
our Miss Violet wus '
'Bless her sweet ueartl' interjected
aunt Dinah.
'Bless whose sweet heart f
'Why our poor, dear Mis Violet's
in course.
'Well,' continued Patty, 'she ain't
as tall as Miss Violet wus, nor as
white nuther. Fact is, aunt Dinah,
she's most dark as our Fanny de
one dey call white Fanny.' She's
got big black eyes, da strangest
lookin' eyes you ever saw. It makes
me creep all over to look at 'em . Den
she's Kot no color in her face like
Miss Violet '
'She's gone whar de wary cease
from troublin," an' de wickod be at
rest, interrupted the cook.
'Who's gone thar?'
'Mies Violet.
'Thought er you meant tother un,
you wus 'etaken. caze I left her
dressin' her young un, an' a mean
lookin' thing xi is too. Dar she goes
now !' cried Patty, breaking off and
darting to the door, closely followed
by aunt Dinah. Looking in the di
rection indicated, the cook saw her
master standing in front of a little
cabin shaking hands with a very
old negro man. Leaning on his ami
was the new mist res of Sunnyside.
Ts gwine ter speak ter him!' aunt
Dinah said, as be turned from the
cabin and walked taward the house.
Hastily arranging her long apron and
gay turban, bhe stepped out to meet
him.
'Why how are you, aunt Dinah?'
he said, as he gave her his hand with
a chery smile.
Ts all right, Lor' blesa you, sahl;
How is you?'
"Very well indeed,' then turning to
the silent figure at his side, he added,
'aunt Dinah, this ia my wife, and
henC'-forth the mistrrtid of Sunny -side.'
Aunt Dinah made a low courtesy,
but the moment their backs were
turned, she muttered.'
"Look Lke a sarpint, she -do! Poor,
dear Miss Violet 1. Master Randall'
done forgot her. Strange creatures
dese men is it's out'n sight out'n
mind wid most o' 'em.'
'And does Sunnyside please you,
little wife J' Mr. Marvin said, as he
led her to the morning parlor.
Please met It is Paradise, iiandalll
It is far too good for me she return
ed, dropping her head upon his bos
om.
iSothing is too good for my wife'
he aid,Ki8diug the red lips so near
his own.
The portrait of the dead Violet,
over the marble mantle, looked down
upon the scene, and as Mr. Marvin
lilted his head and glanced at it, the
genllrt eyesseemmed lull of reproach,
and he fancied that the bensitive
mouth had a grieved expression. In
a moment he .grew silent and grave,
and a shadow fell upon his brow.
Mrs. Marvin had followed bis glance,
and she was not slow to obrerve the
change. In a moment ber heart was
consuming with jealously, and Bhe
walked to a window to conceal the
expression of her face. A livid pal
lor had overspread it, and her eyes,
now no longer yelled, Hashed and
gleamed with a baleful tire, while the
thin red hps were set in a straight,
cruel line over the white, cleucned
teeth. No words in all the human
vocabulary, save incarnate demon,
could describe her appearance at that
moment.
'Though dead she still has his heart '
she mutleted.
'Hester, love!' calked Mr. Marvin
from the opposite window. Instant
ly the fierce eyes drooped, the dark
face assumed its usual expression,
and she glided to his side saying:
Wnat is it Kandall?' .
'Lookl' he answered, pointing
tnrougn tne open window.
She glanced in the direction indi
cated, and saw the the two children
Violet and (Jlaudine coming toward
the housM, hand clasped in hand.
They were followed by a laughing
troop ot juvenile negroes, headed by
tbe little mullatto, Bera. One could
not help observing the difference be
tween the two children as they came
bounding up the walk. The face of
one was but a reproduction of the
woman's at the window, while that
of the other was fair and sweet as
a morning sunbeam. Mrs. Marvin
saw it, and frowued; Mr. Marvin
saw it and smiled.
'They seem to be eettine on friend
ly terms.' he said, as the band disap
peared from view. ' v lolet is bo
sunny no one can long resist her.
'I can,' she soliloquised, 'and Clau
dine will, in time.'
At thar' moment" the children
entered the room. Claudine instantly
dropped Violets hand. and approach
ed her mother, who bent down to
kiss her. , -
Will you please kiss me, mamma?'
Very timidly was the question put,
and there was a world oi pleading in
the little face, but a hard, bitter
hatred for the child had come into the
woman's heart, and she saw nut the
meekness of tbe duskey eyes, nor
the tender beauty of the innocent
face.
Will you please kiss m. mamma?
was again repeated in a soft timid
voice; and then fearing that the man
at her side might suspicion the evil
passions warring in her heart, she
bent and touched ner lips o tne rosy
mouth of his child. In an instant
Violet's white arms were around her
neck, and she was pleading:
Will you love me, mamma, use
you do sister Olaudinef.
Stop Violet! Yoii are crusnmg my
collar,' she said, and the'ii added in a
softer tone:
'Certainly I will love you if you
will be good and not rumple my laces
as you did just now.'
Dismte the changed tone 10 one oi
assumed playfulness, Violet's sensi
tive heart had felt tne coldness in
her manner. So had Mr. Marvin
but he excused her by telling himself,
I can not expect her to love V lolet
as she does Claudine. It will end ail
right, however, for she can not re
main in the same house with my
sunbeam without loving her."'
Then observing a tear trembling on
the child's dark lashes, he took her
in his arms, saying:
'What have you been doing this
morning, dear?'
'Showing Claudine, Sunnyside, and
the black babies. O papa 1'
The sentence was cut short by the
ringing of the breakfast bell.
As the weeks passed, violet and
Claudine, though as different in dis
position as they were in face, grew (
to be the best of friends. Mrs. Mar
vin changed her tactics. The iciness
of her manner toward the gentle
Violet .was suddenly reversed and
became all warmth and affection
Even the blacks began to to think
they had misjudged her. Mr. Marv
in Binned and said to himself:
I knew she could not long resist
my darling.'
Mrs. Marvin had been two months
at Sunnyside, when late one evening
as she was walking alone through
the grounds, she was startled by a
whirring noise in the air, and then
something dropped at ber feet. Me
chanically, she stooped and took it
uo, but in a moment ber limbs were
shaking as from cold, her eyes were
wild with terror, and a white, sickly
pallor had come over her face, it
was a small, perfectly shaped hand
of steel holding a serpent in ita grasp.
A paper was neatly folded and wrap
pc-d about it.
Merciful heavens! sprang from
her bloodless lips a3 the odd device
fell from the paper into her jeweied
hand. 'I thought 1 had escaped mm.
My God ! what shall I do?'
A moment she stood pallid and
breathless, then her eyes fell upon
the note which had been folded about
the hand, and she read:
My Dear Madam:
'Meet me to-night at ten
o'clock, under the tree where you
now stand. Refuse me the inter
view I auk, and before the setting of
of tomorrow's sun, you will stand
before your husband a convicted
criminal. Remember that you are
in tbe grasp of a hand of steel.
M. M.
With a hurried glance about her,
she gathered up her silken skirts.
afnd;darted away through the dark
ness in her frantic haste running into
the arms of Mr, Marvin, who had
just come out in quest of her.
CHAPTER VI.
UNDER THE TREE.
Dark and unearthly is the scowl
That glares beneath his dusky cowl.
The flash of that dilating eye
Reveals too much of times gone by;
Though varying indistinct its hue,
Oft will his glance the gazen rue,
Fer in it links that nameless spell,
Which speaks, itself unspeakable,
A spirit yetunquelled and high,
That claims and keeps ascendency;
And like the bird whose pinions quake,
But can not fly the sazing snake;
Will others quail before his look.
Nor 'scpe the glance they can not brook.
Byron.
For several moments Mrs. Marvin
lay panting upon her husband's
bosom, then she raised herself, say
ing with a low, hysterical laugh:
'Randall how you frightened me!
'And you have frightened me
Where have you been, dear!"
I nave been waiKing, she re
plied, still trembling violeu'tly.
w: . 1 . J; . T . r 1
agitation, he led her to a seat say
iug:
"I am sorry that 1 frightened you,
dear. I had started in pursuit of
you when you kindly saved me the
trouble ot a walk: by running right
into my arms.
She laughed a low, short laugh as
she replied in a tone of assumed play
fulness:
'I am discovering a new charac
teristic about you, sir that of ioer
tia. Either you always were inac
tive, or are just beginning to be so.
Here you sit looking me in the face
and 'talking about the trouble of a
short walk ! For shame, sir!"'
She made a bewitching picture 'just
then with the white moonlight fall
ing in tbe darK bands- of her hair,
and ber strangely fascinating feut
ures so bewitching indeed, that the
man at her side caught her to his
bosom and laid a warm kiss on her
red lips,
"Should any one see us they would
say we were two silly lovers," she
said.
"Are we not lovers!'' he asked.
"why should we not be lovers after
marriage as well aa before! If affec
tion only budded during the days of
courtship, anq blossomed into a full
blown flower alter the nuptial rites.
the human family would be far hap
pier, but it loo otten happens that
the bud blcoms before uiarria&re and
afterward nothing is left except tbe
witnerea leaves.
'It has not been so with us, Ran
dull," she said, in her soft, purring
voice.
And will never be, my dear one.'
I am not worthy all the deep, true
love ot your grand ana noble heart
Randall, she said, and for one time
in her life she ppoke tho truth.
'It is I, who am not worthv. Ties
ter, but if the devotion of a life time
can make you happy, you shall
be so.'
I am happy, far happier than I
ever was before. Mine has been no
sunny life. Randall, and maoy times
in the past have I wished that I had
died in my infancy. she replied,
holding her face on his bosom, while
he, fully believing in her truth and
sinceirty drew her close to his heart,
saying:
'My dear wife, no sorrow that I
can ward off, shall approach you
uow.'
Had- he known all the dark and
evil thoughts that were passing
through her mind at that moment he
would have recoiled from her touch,
and put her from him with just hor
ror and contempt, turning his back
on her forever.
O woman I how you can deceive
even the wisest and best, when you
cloak yourself in the garb of inno
cence and descend to falsehoods and
deception I
A long silence fell upon the two, a9
they sat in the white moonlight un
der the leafy boughs of the great
trees. Both seemed lost in thought.
Mrs. Marvin was the firot to speak :
'The dew is falling and the night
air is cool,' she said, 'I think we had
best go in. I have not so much as a
veil over my head."
He awoke with a start.
'What did you say, dar?'
She broke into a low, soft laugh.
'Were you dreaming, ilatidall?'
'Yes. The calm, sweet beauty of
the night carries me back to other
scenes, and other days."
A frown settled upou her face, as
she aoked:
What were those other scenes?'
'0e was the death-bed of my
mother, he said, with a grave, tender
badness iu his voice, udduig a mo
ment later. "Come, let us go in, I
have sutne letters to write to-night,
that will keep me up until eleven
o'clock.'
'Eleven o'clock 1' she exclaimed.
'Yes, but you need not sit up for
me.
He paused at her palor door,kisod
her, and passed ou to the library.
Lett to herself, Ur. Murviu sank
upon a chair, and ouryuig her lace
u her hands, rocked liei'sulf to and
ro. Suddenly springing up like an
enraged Ugress, she walked the floor
rapidly , grinding her white leetliaud
uiuilenug :
Yes ed, 1 must se him! iNo
other choioo is left tor me. I must
see him, and send him away irom
iero would I could house him into
eternity!'
A short, harsh laugh accompaniod
the words and her eyes naghed and
gleamed with un evil iight, vvniie the
hands were so tightly cuncned that
the sharp, pint: nails were driven in
to the tender lleah.
Yts,' she continued, 'I could watch
with in Unite joy his lite Dlood ebb
aud flow, for thuii i would be safe
safe!'
She paused abruptly in her walk
and bent htr shjtider uecic lorward,
9tra:gtly reminding one of a serpent
when about to bury its deadly tangs
u the flesh of lla victim. lhrough
her PiirLed liPs now colorless us
were hur cheeks, her breath came
and went iu short quick gasps, while
f posbible, her eys tSrtVV darker uud
more luminous, h"1 1U" ie'1
utes she remained m tbw position,
motionless as a marble statue, then
with a heavy, long-drawn breath,
she started back with the triumph
ant exclamatiou :
Aha! I tave it! I will try it I
She glided from the pallor, and a
ittle later knocked at the house
keeper's door.
'Come! said a voice from withm.
Soltly she pushed the door open,
iniered, closed and looked it behind
her. Mrs. Waldron was eniratred
with some neadle-work, but it drop
ped Irom Jher hand3 and she arose
with a startled air when she saw who
the intruder was, and caught the ex
pression o her white, set face.
liood heavens! she cried, what
has happened?'
'Lnoughl Look at this, if you
please,' and drawing the note and
odd device from hor pocket she
threw them into the house-keeper's
lap.
A sharp cry of terror burst from
Mrs. Waidron at sight of the hand
and the hideous serpent.
'Do not alarm the household, Mrs.
Waldron,' said the other, as her thin
rei lips reathed themselves into a
cynical smile.
Without heeding the tvords, the
housekeeper looked UD.saying hoarse
ly:
How came ycu by this accursed
thing?'
It fell at my feet as I was walk
ing through the grounds, near dusk.
Read the note accompany it.
Mechanically, Mrs. Waldron un
folded the crumpled paper, and aa
she read, a dead-white pallor CiOPt
over ber face, her lips grew purple,
and her eyes glared wildly.
'What will you do?' 6he faltered,
looking up in the white face of the
woman at her side.
'Meet him of course.'
'And if you should be discovered?'
I have the risk to run.'
'Where is your husband?'
'H will be in the library writing
letters until eleven o'clock.'
Then it will never do to meet this
man.
It will never do not to meet him.
If I ignore him, exposure is inevita
ble.' 'Thenl Ah, heavens! what can be
done?'
'Only one thing face the music,
aud have done with it.'
"But if you should be discovered,
we are lost worse than lost! wail
ed, rather than spoke tbe woman.
We are lost in either case,' return
ed the other, tor if I refuse the in
terview he seeks, you are well
euough acquainted with hiin to know
what will loliow.'
'Be quiet and let me think," said
Mrs. W aldron. and burying her face
in her hands, she sat motion less for
several minutes. Cr-
I have it! I will manage it now f
she said, rising abruptly.
The other watched her curiously.
as she crowed the . floor and drvw
from a drawer a small wine fla-'k
half the contents of which she emp
tied into a glass, then producing a
vial, containing iome colorles liquid,
she poured it into tho wine and
brought it to Mrs. Marvin, saying:
'Induce your husband to drink
thi!, and so far as discovery is con
cerned, you will b- safe for to-night.'
Is it deadly in its effect I 6he paid,
looking the woman fixedly in the
eyes.
'No. It is only a narcotic. If you
give it now, at ten o'clock he will be
sleeping.'
'You" are sure there ia nothing
wrong about it?'
I would sooner put hand to my
own life, than Randall Marvin's she
said emphatically.
'I believe you.' she answered, and
with noiseless tread, glided away.
Entering the library, she found Mr.
Marvin busily engaged with bis pen.
'As .you art going to remain up so
late, Randall. I thought I would bring
you a glass of wine before retiring,'
and she placed it before him.
'Thank you. dear. What a thought
ful little wife!' he said, as he drained
off the wine.
'Good-night, Randall.'
'Good night, dear,' he answered
back, a3 she glided away.'
Just as the clock struck ten, the
library door was again softly opened,
and Mrs. Marvin looked in, a smile of
satisfaction lighting up her features
when she saw her husband lying back
in his easy chair sleeping profoundly.
A little later, she was stealing rapid
ly through the grounds. As she
neared a large tree which stood in a
remote spot, a man came out from
the shadows to meet her.
"Aha!" he exclaimed, you 'thought
to escape me, my pretty bird, but I
have found you at last!' "
At that moment the moon sailed
out from under a cloud, revealing a
tall, dark man enveloped in a long,
black cloak, although it was a sum
mer night. Hia faca was one cal
culated to make any honest person
shudder. There was a sneering
devil in the smile upon his bloodless
lips, while the eyes, 1 vrge, black and
burning looked out from under the
shaggy brows like two glittering
stilettos.
"I had the pleasure of witnessing
your marriage,' he went on sneer
ingly, 'then I lost sijjht of you. and
have had considerable trouble find
ing you again. I must say, my dear,
you have made a pretty high leap
this time.' casting a rapid glaive over
the broaj acres that lay in their
smiling beauty under theshimmer
iug light of the moon.
'I am not here to discuss my mar
riage. You will confer a favor by
naming your business, and relieving
me of your presence as early as pos
sible,' she said, haughtily.
The man's eyes Uished, but he
only answered:
'You know my business well enough
Claudine '
He did not finish the sentence, for
she sprang toward him. and the next
instant a bright steel blade glittered
in the moon light, and would have
sheathed in his heart, had ho not
caught the hand that aimed the
blow.
'Ah!' he breathed, 'you would dip
your hand in my blood to
She looked at him a moment with
a baffled light in her luminous eyes,
then she hissed between her set
teeth.
'Yes! I would not hesitate a mo
ment, Mark Merrick, to take your
wicked life, if I could I'
'That if I could is a good addenda, !
madam, you have the urill but not
the poicer. I could easily snap the
thread of your existence, but you
have that of which I am greatly in
need just at this time money
therefore I suffer you to live.'
You are mistaken, it is all my
husband's.'
' It mokes no difference. I am com
pelled to have money to night.'
'I have none to give you.'
'Very well, there is only one thing
left for me to do.'
'And that?'
'Disclose to your husband that
which you would give millions to
conceal.
She paled to the lips.
'Three hundred dollars now, and
more when I call for it.'
'I will give you five hundred if you
will promise to go away and leave
me in peace.'
The mau's eyes glittered as he
said :
'Give it to me and I will not trouble
you soon again.'
She drew a roll of bills from her
pocket, aud laid them in his hand,
sayihg:
'Uo now, and do not let me see you
again!'
"One thing you forgot, my dear
madam, to return my little trinket.'
With a shudder she drew tbe steel
hand from her pocket, and dropped
it in his open palm.
Thanks. Farewell au plaisir de
vonsrevoirP
She stood and watched him until
his tall form was lost in tbe shadows,
then gathering up her skirt he turn
ed and fled toward the house.
TO BE COJITLN'CED.
Ventilating Our Homes.
X. Y. Fashion Bazar.
Aii old writer says: 'When men
lived in houses of reeds, they had
constitutions of oak ; when they live
in houses of oak, they have constitu
tions of reeda."
Evidently the truth Inculcated is
that the better tbe air and more
bountiful its supply, the healthier is
the inmate of a house, be it palace or
cottage. Too often the very wealth
of a house builder militates against
hi3 splendid mansion. becoming that
ideal home of comfort that it should
be, and the inmates of some wretch
ed, leaky little hovel, perched on a
rocky hillsida, will have every ad
vantage over such a one aa regards
vigor of body aud elasticity of
spirits.
Science tells us that there is a need
ed respiration for the walls of our
houses, and that, fortunately for us,
whether conscious of it or not, the
materials of which our modern
houses are made admit of the passage
of air in a greater or less degree.
Brick, stone, wood, and mortar,
solid as they look to ua, are easily
pierced by that volatile fluid which
we call air.
Such is the elasticity of air that,
fortunately for us, a slight force only
is needed to put and keep it in mo
tion. The difference of 20 degrees
Fahrenheit in temperature between
outdoor air and indoor air will cause
the passage of about eight cubic feet
of air each hour through every
square yard of wall surface made of
brick. A plastered wail also admits
of free passage of air, and actually
serves us an efiicieut filter by arrest
ing the progress of dust or any of
those particles often injurious
with which the atmosphere is laden.
Heat is tbe great motor for veutila
tion, whether natural or artificial
and the great problem in winter is to
introduce a sufficient quantity of
pure warmed air to mke one's room
comfortablj without attendant
draughts that shall imperil the health
of their occupants.
Open fireplaces, whether the fuel
consumed iu them be wood or coal,
are among the very best ventilators
that we have, and yet the question of
expense is bringing them more and
more into disuse. But there is no
need to be discouraged on that score,
because the eyes, of all practical
people are being opened to the im
portance of combining the twin
forces of heat and ventilating in such
a manner as shall tend, in the future,
to prolong life as well as render it
more comfortable and enjoyable.
The Uest Purifier Made.
Damascus, Ga,, June 29, 1SS7.
I have suffered with Catarrh for
about four years, and after using
four bottles of Botanic Blood Balm I
had my general health greatly im
proved, aud if I could keep out ot the.
bad weather I would b cured. I be
lieve it is the ties t purifier made.
Very respectfully, .
L. W. Thompson.
how IT SELLS.
Palatka. Fla.. May 31. 18S7.
We have been s. lling B. B. B. for
two yearx, and it has always given
satisfaction in every case.
Lowry & Starr. Druggists.
Promptness.
First a cold, thtm a cough, then consump
tion, then ueath. "I took "Jr. Acker'n Eng
lih Remedy for Consumption the, moment I
began to cough, and I lielieve it avl my
lif" Walter N. Wallace. WaeHngton.
Bold by S. A. Covington & Co.
Fleecing ''lluujfry Joe."'
Chicago Tribune.
It was a common expression of
"Hungry Joe" that a new sucker is
born every minute, and he freely
boasted that there was not a man ou
earth that he could not rob at bunco
if he once made up his mind to do it.
But "Hungry Joe" was not 60 cun
ning but what he could be taken in
at his own game. Several years ago
a clever confidence man, who was en
tirely unknown to the New York
gang, arrived in Gotham from the
west, fell in with "Hungry Joe." and
permitted himself to be fleeced to the
extent of 11.500. Then he told
"Hungry Joe' that he was a rich
stock raiser from Abilene, Kan., on
his way to Europe to be treated for
sore eyes. As "Hungry Joe" bad
won all his money, he asked him to
help place a' mortgage on his stock
ranch. Joe telegraphed the banks
at Abilene, giving a full description
of the man and the fact that he had
asked for a loan. The banks replied
that the man was perffctly good, and
"Hungry Joe" and his gang advanced
the stranger $15,000, taking a chattel
mortgage. It was several weeks
later when they discovered that they
had been victimized and that the
genuine stockman was really in Eu
rope, while the man who got their
money was only a clever confidence
operator from Denver.
Blair Says It's All Right.
Mr. S. O. Blair, Chicago, says:
"We could not keep house without
your Clarke's Extract of Flax Skin
Cure and Cough Cure. We have used
both for numerous troubles, especial
ly forourchild. We recommend the
Cough Cure to every family having
children. We used it for the whoop
ing Coujh with remarkably quick
and satisfactory results, and use it
for any and every cough the family
may have." Only one size, large bot
tie. Price $1 00. If you want the
best toilet soap get Clarke's Flax
Soap, 25 cents. Ask E. A. Covington
& Co. Druggist, for these f repara
tions. '
Boll the 'Drinking Water.
TTashisgtox. June 16, 18S3. The
following letter has a special interest
just now in its bearing upon the gen
eral question of impure water sup
ply: Smithsoman Issnnrnos, )
Washington, June 15, 15SG. i
I ish to call the attention of your
readers to the beneficial effect of boil,
ing in increasing the potability of ws
ler, a fact which does not appear t
be gererlly appreciated or under
stood. Had this practice prevailed at
the first outbreak of the typhoid dis -ease
at Plymouth, Pa., it is very
probable that the number cf cases of
illness and gdeaths might have been
very greatlydiminished. In cholera
season this treatment's espr-cially
important, as water is largely
the medium of introduction fj the
injurious inflences into the system.
During the centennial exhibition I
was stationed in West Philadelphia
near the Centennial building, for six
months, and although cases of diar -rhcea
were prevalent all around me
tbe use of boiled water appeared t
bo an absolute preventive. We had
several cases of illness of thi class:
before we began to use this very sini
.pie precaution, but none afterward.
The fishy taste of the PotomacJwatr
at the present time, due to the solu
tion in it of decomposed vegitation
or of fresh water sponges, can also
be in great measure removed by the
same process.
I have usually enough water boil
ed in the morning to last through tho
day. This is placed in a large water
cooler, without ice, and drawn from
when required to fill ice pitchers. The
water should boil actively for half an
hour, in order to. kill the germs of
disease. Of ourse, this is only efiVc
tive in cases of organic impurity, as
mineral poisons would not be destroy
ed thereby.
Spencer F. Caird.
Sec. Smithsonian Institution.
Jefferson Davln' Home.
Cor. LouUville Courier-Journal
Beauvoir, with it cool verandas,
-ts wide lawns and its virgin groves,
its wharf, its boats and its bath
houses is a typical gulf coast homf,
and in the occasional absence of the
curious and sight seeing it looks the
very abode of peace a.id rest, by the;
placid sound that never whispers of
rocks and breakers where a nation
stranded. The Btranger here enjoy
the" true hospitality which to the born
southron is scarcely distinctive, al
though many of its recipients are but
so many mysteries to those who can -not
conceive of Mr. and Mrs Jeffer
son Davis as show people, but prlz3
them for his 6implo greatness and her
simple goodness; while the "Child of
the Confederacy" is in the truest
sense the peculiar possession of south
ern Mississippi. Beauvoir is but one
of many in a long line of handsome
villas that, with a few happy except
ions, blend walls that are variouely
whito with blinds that are variously
green, whereas a more somber or neut
ral combination would not only be an
offset to -the general glare, but a re
sistant to the force that so swiftly and
surely convert new white and green
into dinginess and weather 6tain.
Free Medical Advice.
"Doctor," said a citizen as he over
took him on thestreet, "what do you
do in case of a gone stomach?" Well,"
replied the doctor, thoughtfully,
"I've never had such a case myself
but I would recommend you to adver
tise for it and then sit down in a largo
easy chair and and wait until some
body brings it back." Life.
Terrible Korewarnignn.
Cough in the morning, hurried or difficult
breathing, raising phlegm, tightness iu the
chest, quickened pulse, chiuineas iu the
evening or sweats at night, ail or any of
these thing are the first sture-i f consump
tion. Dr. Acker's KngUsh iUmedy for con
sumption vcili cure thehe fearful syuutocaa,
and is sold under a posilive guarantee by .
A. Covington & Co.
She Is-'GratefuL
"I saved the life of inv little girl by a
prompt une of Dr. Acker's lZ'igluh Kemedy
for Cotvmmption. Mrs. W in. Vx Ham
man, New York. Bold by'K. A." Covington
& Co.
A Very Lartre Percentage
Of the American people are troub
led with a most annoying, trouble
someand disagreeable complaint call
ed "Catarrh." it is not necessary to be
so troubled. It is demonstrated be
yond question that Clarke's Extract
of Flax (Papillon) Catarrh Cure
immediately relieves and permanent
ly cures Catarrh. A thorough and
fair trial will convince you.
Use Clarke'.! Flax Soap for the
Skin. Catarrh Cure, $1.00. Soap 25
cents. At E. A. Covington & Co's.
Drugstore.
A NafrowEscape,
' CoL W. "EL Ifelson, of Brooklyn, came
home one evening, feeling a peculiar tight
ness in the chest. Before retiring, he triol
to draw a long breath but found it aimout
itn-iossible. He suffered four days from
pneumonia, and tne doctors gave him up.
Dr. Ackers i.n Iisn iteiaeuv lor vxwisuui
tion saved him and he is woll to-day.
by E. A. Coviuirtoo 6c Co.
Bo:
Take It In Time.
"For want of a nail, a shoe was ltrt; for
want of a snoe a horse was lout; for want of
a horse, a rider was lost.' Never neglect
small things. Tbe first signs of pneumonia
and consumption can postively be checked
by Dr. Acker's English Remedy for Con
sumption. Sold by K. A. Covington & Uo.
' At a hugging bee for tha benefit of
the church along ihe upper Hudson
a few evenings since a man while
blindfolded hugged his wife for sev
eral minutes without knowing lu
he was hugging. When be did find
out he wanted his fifteen ceQts back.
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