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cess oi Hood's Sarsaparilla Is lound in the
Article Itself. It Is merit tliat wins, and the
fact that Hood's Sarsaparilla actually ac
complishes what is claimed for it, is what
has given to this medicine a popularity txA
pale greater than that of any other sarsapar
lVJI,:-t- Aie rUla or Dlood
lYieriL YYIIlOier before the public.
food's Sarsaparilla cures Scrofula, Salt
JUicura and all Humors, Dyspepsia, Sick
Headache, Biliousness, overcomes That
'Cired Feeling, creates an Appetite, strength
uis the Nerves, builds up the Whole System.
llood'a Sorsaparilln is sold by all drug
gists. $1 ; six for S. Prepared by C. I. Hood
, Co., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
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D'AMOUR.
'Together they stand at the garden gate,
While the robin chirps to his broodlDg mate,
And tho fragrance of blossoming apple trees
Is wafted sweet on the evening brtfjeo.
The shadows grow long on the orcharg grass,
A bevy of white winged swallows pass,
And Btill thay linger while minutes fly
Postponing ever the last "good-by."
For lovers are lovers the wide world o'er,
And having each other, want nothing more,
.. And time flies by on its whirring whig,
While tho apple trees bloom and the robins sing;
And careless they ramble band In hand,
Like innocent beings of fairy land.
Ah I lovo is a charm whose bewitching spell
Gilds every spot where its votaries dwell.
But summer stripped of its bloom will be,
And birds be gone from the apple tree;
The snow will cover the orchard grass.
To a summer sky will swallows pass;
.Tho winter will come with its ico and snow, -
The years will come and tho y ears will go-
Through all tho chances and ehango they bring'
Will love seem ever so sweet a thingf -
Will the lovers then to their vows be true,
When from life is worn its rosy hue?
When the bitter is mingled in every cup,
And the duties wait to bo taken up?
J?ill-.the love prove strong as the need will be.
And a pilot sure o'er each stormy sea?
Though waves roll high and flerco tempests rise,.
Will they sec the sun in each other's eyes?
-Flora N. Can dee In Once a Week.
A GREAT TREASURE.
Beforo tho occupation of India by the
British it was the richest country in gold,
precious tones, rare jewels, fin cloth
and cutlery of any on earth. While the
poor were miserably poor, the rich were
immensely rjch. Tliis was so even up tc
the breaking out of the great mutiny.
When the British troops were fairly ia
line to strike at the rebellion, the watch
word was "Revenge and loot." It was
understood all through tho service that
wnatever a soicuer couki lay Hands on
should become his plunder. They didn't
fight any the worse for that, but they
struck a double blow at the Indians
They crippled them financially as welj as
in a military sense, and the people have
never recovered, and never can. Tho
amount of loot taken out of India during
the rebellion and directly afterward has
been estimated at $200,000,000. As much
moro was contributed to the rebel cause
by these who could give. Twice or three
times as much was lost by fire and sword.
England reasoned that an impoverished
people could not rebel, and loot was a
part of her war policy.
Ten years after tho mutiny I was talk
ing with a maharajah in the district of
Punjab about tho financial change in the
condition of tho people, and ho said : .
'At the outbreak of the war cur peo
ple buried or hid away at least a hundred
million dollars. I, do net believe that
tho tenth part of this great sum has yet
been recovered. Those who secreted it
were dead before tho close cf the war,
and this vast treasuro is lost to us."
I did not tell him that I had put in a
year in India, and spent upward of
$2,000 looking for some of that treasure.
Such was the fact, however. A couple
of Englishmen and myself, forming an
acquaintance in Bombay and having a
spirit of adventure, pooled our cash and
followed up several pointers looking to
buried treasure. We had thus far failed
to make any discoveries, and our part
nership had been dissolved and the men
lad returned to Bombay. I was m the
Punjab on business connected with an
American house, and had given up the
treasure business in disgust. The words
of the maharajah recalled all my enthu
siasm, however, and within an hour after
left him I was determined to have one
more pull for fertuno and to go it alone.
This determination was hastened and
solidified by another incident. I was
talkies: with a captain of a native in
fantrv regiment regarding some ruins I
had encountered, and he said;
"You piay have left a dozen fortunes
behind vou. At tho outbreak of the war
these, people concealed a great deal of
their wealth in caves anQ .temples arid a
big share of it is there yet. When you
stumble on a pile of ruins again give the
place a good looicing over for loot. '
'Cut the natives have dono so a hun
dred times over, I shoulcj say."
'You are wrong. Where they knew
of treasure they may have unearthed it,
but they Cght shy of rambling about hap
hazard. They believo all ruins to bo
haunted, and even if they aro not, you
will be certain to find hyenas and serpents
about'
"Have you ever heard of any treasure
being recovered?"' I asked.
"Half a dozen instances, sir. The
former captain of this company went
home with 50, 000 after doing two hours'
work m the rums of a temple near Bhaul
pul."
Hie next day I started for Delhi, and
there a bit of good f ortuao awaited me,
I fell ia with a German naturalist who
was making a collection for a national
museum, and when ho learned that I
had had considerable experience in that
line lie engaged me as assistant. Ho had
two young men with him, thus making
a party of four, and when we struck to
the southwest of Delhi, intending to take
in the plains and jungles between that
city and Jodpur, we had six native serv
ants to carry the baggage. Our progress
was slow and easy, as it was his mten
tion to make a verv full collection. The
country over which 'wo passed had no
lines of railway then, and wa3 miknowij
to white men except as they had hunted
through it, There were tigers and other
wild game in plenty, and it seemed to be
the nursery of all India for serpents.
There werip days when we could not
march except as the ground was I)eaten
by the natives in our front. . There wjs
a thin population, with the villages far
apart, but as an offset the natives wero
glad to render any aid, especially as soon
as they learned that we did. , not belong
to the lading race. The hate they felt
for the English wa3 something terribla.
This district has been almost depopulated
and quite impoverished -. by tho war.
Petty rulers had been deposed, taxes-lev
ied witljn heavy hand, and the natives
worked" .themselves - up to the ' highest
pitch pf indignation as they -talked
about it
' My pno object was buried- treasure.
While doing my duty by tho professor I
had opportunity for extensive rambles off
tho lino cf march, and I never - failed to
mako inquiries of natives, Tliis,; as I
ifterward learned, wria tho worst policy
I could have " adopted. , Every nun was
sacred to them, -and every white maa
jvas g :-defiler.tN? Opo might as well Iiav
asked them -to forgive oast as to hav
.expected them to locate the ruins of - a
religious temple for a white man. We
Had been out about twenty - days, and at
this .time were in a permanent camp in a
grove of mango frees car' the bank of a
creek, when a ryot, or oommoa laborer,
passed through our camp on Ida way to his
village, about five miles away. He had
had a narrow escape from a tiger; and was
greatly excited. "When I asked hira to
locate the beast he placed h?m among the
ruins of an old temple to the west of "us
and not more than two miles away. .The
ruins were in a heavy jungle, but he told
m how to strike a path which, led near
them. But for his excitement he would
not have betrayed the location. -, In about
three, hours lie returned to tell meibat
ho had been mistaken in the location,
which was to the south instead of the
west, and if -fee had eaid rmna be meant
rocks. I was not deceived by his second
statement. He wanted to keep me away
from the ruins, and of course I was do-
terminod to visit them
If I went, I must go alone. Neither
the professor nor his young man had ever
a j,. M
urea at anytnmg more ierocious tnan a
jackal, and they had no idea of risking
themselves wi tli a tiger. I had killed two
or three during my jaunts about the
country, and was quite certain of my
nerve m case of another meeting. The
native had described this tiger as an old
jnan eater, who had carried off many vil
lagers, and, as I must visit the ruins by
day, ne would certainly be at home.
.ungut ana early next morning . l was
ready to start. My excuse to tho profes
sor was that I intended to look for a cer
tain bird which he had been very anxious
to secure,- and ho never noticed that I took
my heavy rifle instead of a shotgun. I
also had a revolver and knife, and it
was not more than an hour after sun
rise when I set out. I followed tho creek
down to where it branched, and there.I
6truck tho path which the native had de
scribed. As near as I could determine it
naa oeen maae by wua animals coming
and going between the jungle and the
creek, and at the first soft spot I found
tho imprints of the tiger's paws They
were fresh, too, and there was no doubt
of his being at home. As I proceeded
the path wound about in the most eccen
trie manner, wmio tno lungio grew
thicker. One .could not sec five feet in
any direction and the an- was shut joEE,
The first hint that I had reached tho
rums came m the shape of a block of
dressed stone lying right across my path.
As I stepped upon it a great cobra wrig
gled slowly away from ray feet, and
saw half a dozen columns and lengths of
wall arising among the bushes. Fifteen
years before hero had been a clearing of
ijerhaps. 100 acres, with a village of
several thousand people and a temple
covering half an acrcoi ground.. A man
eating tiger now held solo possession
while the clearing had grown up to
jungle, and fire or explosion had laid
the great temple m reins. Ten feet ahead
of me was a second block. I passed to
that, and then tho path turned to the
right and ran over a fallen wall. As I
reached this latter place and looked
around, the tjger was stretched out on the
earth before me in a little open space.
His legs were drawn up and ho was gasp
ing, and, though I was greatly startled
for a moment, I soon realized that lie
was dving. Indeed, hadid not live above
two minutes after I set eyes on him. As
afterward learned, the natives had
poisoned the body of a man lie had killed
and only half devoured, and in finishing
ins repast he had met his fate. He had
doubtless just returned from satisfying
his thirst at the creek. It was well for
me that I did not come a few minutes
earlier. I examined the body closelv and
found the tiger to be old and mangy, with
many of his teeth decayed. -These were
sure evidences that he was a "solitary,""
nd had no mate. I need, therefore,
have no fear that any other animal more
savage than a hyena was concealed in the
vicinity. -
The templo seemed to have been blown
up witn gunpowder. Tno walls were
torn and rent and knocked down ia every
direction, and column and block and
carved work lay - heaped together" in
strange confusion. I was bewildered to
see tho vegetation growing up through
tho rains so profuselv, and it stood me
in hand to move carefully in. such a
6nake infested spot. I picked my way
carefully to the center of the rains and
here I got a pretty fair idea of what the
building had been. Hero were the re
mains of a shrine or altar which had
once been the cleanest cf marble. It
was now stained and moss grown and
covered with creepers. To look for
buried treasure in such A jungle was like
looking for a needle in a haystack; but
I had conio for that purpose and felt
that I must make a beginning. Fling
ing several stones into , the ; bushes to
frighten any lurking serpents away, I
put down my gun and began, at tho
creepers. In a little while I uncovered
what I said "was an altar or shrine.
It may not have been., . From Ike stone
floor there was a Eolid wall , about four
feet high, inplosing a space about six
feet square. - The stone which." rested on
these four walls was a foot tblck, and
carved around tho edges. , I could not
tell whether the walls inclosed a space or
the whole cube was solid as; a support
for a pillar, but after a close inspection . I
discovered a spot where, the end of a
lever might "be inserted. -I had : brought
a hatchet to help mo through the jungle
With this I cut -d trimmed a .small
tree, and after much effort I loosened the
capstone until I could eeo that the walls
Inclosed a space. On the surface of this
capstone I clearly rnadp out where the
footrof a pillar, which had probably
helped to eupport tho roof, had rested,'
It lay near by, but was broken, by its
fall. V
It was more than 8 o'clock " in the
morning, when I reached the ruins, but
it wo3 2 o'clock in the ftcrnoon beforo 1
had the heavy etone Slewed around - far
enough 6 meet Its equilibaium and force
it to fall off. I was in a tremble of ex
citement from the first, end as I; slewed
the pfone further and further around "I
felt more- and . moro sanguine cf a large
cavity boneath. I - would" net lcokia
howeyer, until - the "stone. was. clear off.
When I did bend over the. wall and Jock
down it wa3 to find a wooden jcbest oc
cupy in cr nearly. all tho space."; I soundod
it with the polo, and it cave back such
a solid echo that! eaw Iiiuct pull the:
wall down to cet at it. . ' Tins took me en
h'nv,r nr iiinw.'fls tho roaster was as hard
iS stono, hut; at length ' I was atthe
chest. It was closed, buV not locked,
and as I threw up the lid my eyes beheld
cucha eight as will seldom come to man.
That chest held a good solid ton of loot,
how many tens of thousands of dollars
worth 1 cannot say. . There wpro; brace
lets nd rings and earrings and charms
and bars of gold. There were dlamondB
and. pearls and rubies and other precious
stones. ; Some were in leather , bags,
some in parsels, some tied together, and
on tho lid of the trunk was a dist of ar--
ticles with the names of owners. ; -
-1 lmng.oveif the chest for perhaps half
an hour, hardly danng to breathe for
fear it would fly away. I was rich rich
beyond the wildest , dream a. poor man
ever had. This was loot," It was aU
mine if I could keep the find, from tho
government officials. I -could net re
move it without helpr, I was a 6tout
man, but I could not have lifted one end
of the chest clear of the ground. I took
a paper containing four diamonds, a
package of gold coin which counted up
about $1,250, and a couple of bars of the
metal, and j started back to camp on a
run. I had been so taken up with my
work that had given no attention to
anything else. . I now discovered that
the heavens" were rapidly darkeninsr, and
I had only j just reached camp when a
terrible storm set in, and never let up for
a moment until after midnight. The
story of my discovery, told only to the
white men of the party, created
intense excitement, but the storm
and tho darkness prevented any
move. As soon as daybcrht came, how
ever, we wero off, but a terrible disap
pointment was in store for us. Tho chest
was there as I had left it, but everything
in the, shape of contents "liad been re
moved. Without a doubt some native
had been spying on me the day beforo as
I worked, and ho had given the alarm
and brought a party to the spot during.
the night. I got $25,000 out of it as it
was, but it only served to annoy me. At
5 o'clock in the afternoon I had the
wealth of' two or three kings in my
hands. At eunrise the next morning all
had vauished all but tho trifio I had
carried away to prove the fact of my dis
covery. Ic was my first and last find in
India, aitd I never think $f it without
being inconsistent enough to hope that
every dollar of the spoil caused the death
of a native, New York Sun.
Secrets of Confectionery Elalclua.
Tho "penny banana" to a confection
dear to tho heart of childhood. It is
made on tho marelunallow plan, but
without gum arabic. Whito of egg to
used in its manufacture, and tho sugar
cream. Pc-riny -bananas were piled sev
eral feet deep on the marble slabs. Rolled
out hi "sheets," after lacing kneaded lilzo
great batches of bread dough, tho mass
was stvetched and shaped into the form
of byjianas by machinery. Imitation
cigars are made of tho same material
and finished with a coating of chocolate.
Into many different shapes, embracing
half the animal .kingdom, and taking on
tho semblance cf fib wens, of chips and
of geometrical figures, to tlito fluffy post-a
transformed.
Great round hoppers or pans are used
for polishing and sugaring hard candies.
They revolve and revolve unceasingly.
Fifty or ' a hundred pounds of candy i3
thrown into each and some confectioners'
sugar, itound ana rouna tney go, ana
the sugar polishes the surface of the con
fection until it becomes as smooth as glass.
Then that which is to bo colored is put
into the dye. All coloring matter comes
from Holland except that derived from
the cocliineal bug. The dyes aro pure veg
etablo matter, and the thrifty Dutch" alone
know how to prepare them. A good
sum,, too, does the world pay these self
same Dutch. A most wonderful people
are these Dutch to keep secrets. Chicago
Herald.
Amid the Alpine Heights. .
We talked low, we even wluspered our
thoughts, as we slowly proceeded. For
we all knew that we were, so to speak, on
the threshold of a world in the process of
formation and over which countless cen
turies must pass before it will be ready to
receive the first germ3 of life, animal or
vegetable. Yes, what we were contem
plating was once the aspect of tliis entire
globe, a vast frozen solitude, waiting the
sun's warm caresses to awaken it from a
long, cold slumber. VvTe crossed abysses
by bridges that were almost as trans
parent as glass, jumped crevasses, wan
dered among great blocks that looked
like the fallen fragments of some, enor
mous ice palace. We searched for plants
and insects. Wherever a littlo spot had
been laid bare by the heat of tho sun a
sort of vegetation showed itself. In the
midst of glacial snow, we plucked flowers
that were almost colorless, and which,
the better to resist cold j blasts, were
growing in tufts close; together. The
ruerfred flanks of all the rocsy tables
wero adorned with velvet like.lichens and;
mosses. Deheato arborescent plants over-
hung icy gulfs; "we found spiders, and a
couple pf butterflies 'with r. cm-mine' wmgs
flattered about in a abuo of eternal snow.
Cor. Now York Times. :' '
Aa Eyo to BusinoM -First.
I confess, sir, " said tho ; widow, with
come shyness, "that I might in time
learn to love you, but, er you are quite
poor, aro you not?'?
"Well, yes; my incorpo is not large,
but with you, dear Mrs. Tompkins, to
cheer and encomago me, it would
soon"- '-''-'".:.: .. ".:- . -- X-r-r'---V -
Ahy.' mterruijted : the widow, yrith a
Bighbat would Ixr giving hostages to
fortune, I am .drawing "$15 a month
pension, and I wouldn't like to givo up a
dead sure thing for a' iank.unccrtainty.'L
Tho Epoch..' ' rr:''X I ' ' '!.-. . .
Ahicka and. Civiliaation. ;
- Alaska, with 'its fishing and hunting,
is well adapted to a tavage population.,
Unless through "its "hfinesitj' to dhUcult
to eeo how it can support -any consider-,
abla numberlct civilized people.: The
natives are frdrly teachable, but the most
flifiiculfc nroblem -i3 tal find cccurKiiion:
which will support uicm m a civuiiieu
vvaj.rJetroitireePreEi
- Tho Itfiuccce of Eisbt. '.
Dr. Schultee, - of - Vienna, advises .
stronfrlv tlio' drinking, .of. beeroufe of.
Vmug3 instead of glasses. ueeruetenosjca ,
very quickly undec the influence of. hght,;?
and mugs, particularly- covered mugs,
are much ' preferable to transparent
glasses,-r-2ewyork Suiu . -
DISCOVERY -OF SACCHARINE.
An Interview with Dr. Fahlberg A Very
Fai l naa, tj Accident.
Ia a .recent inter viaw with Dr. .Oorr
Btanfclne frahlberg, too discoverer of- the
now sugar extracted- t torn coal tar, he
Baid concerning hte relation to thfe new
product: "I bad worked a long - time
upon the compound radicals and sobstl--tution
products of coal tar, and- bad
made a-aumber of scientific .discoveries
that are, eo far as I know, of no commer
cial value. One evening I was so inter
ested. in my laboratory that I forgot
about supper until quite late, and then
rushed off for a meal without stopping
to wash my hands. . I eat down, broke
a "piece of bread and put it to my Hps.
It tasted unspeakably" sweet. T" did not
ask why it was so, probably; because I
thought it was some cake or ; iweetmeat.
I rinsed my mouth with water and dried
my mustache with my napkin, when,
to my surprise, . .the napkin tasted
sweeter than the bread. Then I
was puzzled. I again raised my
goblet, and, as fortune would have it,
applied my mouth where my fingers had
touched it before. The water' seemed
syrup. It flashed upon me that I was
the cause of the singular universal sweet
ness, and I accordingly tasted thopnd of
my thumb, and found that it surpassed
any confectionery I had over eaten. I
saw the wliole thing at a glance. I had
discovered or made some coal tar sub
stance which out sugared sugar. I dropped
my dinner and ran back to the laboratory.
There in my excitement, I tasted the
contents of eveiy beaker and evaporating
dish on the tabo. Luckily for me, none
contained any corrosive or poisonous
liquid.
"One of them contained an impure
solution of saccharine. On thtojl worked
jthen for. weeks and months until I had
determined its chemical composition, its
characteristics and "reaotions, and the best
modes of making it scientifically and
commercially.
"When I first published my researches,
some people laughed as if it were a scien
tific joke; others, of a more skeptical turn,
doubted the discovery and thsdiscoverer,
and still others proclaimed the work a3
being of no practical valuo,
"When the public first saw saccha
rine, however, everything changed. The
entire press, European and American,
described me'ond my sugar in a way that
may have been edifying, but was simply
amu8ing.to me. And then came letters.
My mail ran as high as sixty a day.
People wanting samples of saccharine,
my autograph or my opinion on chemi
cal problems, desiring to become my
partner, to buy my discovery, t3 be my
cgent, to enter my labratory, and the
like." Hall's Journal of Health. v I
How to ExtiDjjnlali Fir.
An intelligent physician said to me a
lew clays ago, "l ttunii 1 can give you a
vravs on the lookout for useful informa
Jiaa. He tlien said that he had studied
the subject very carefully aud was con
vinced that it would bo well for every
house to keep its own fire extinguisher,
and it could bo easily done. It would
certainly be invaluable to persons .living
in the country and far removed even from
neighbors. The doctor then told me
that he would give me the exact
recipe of the eolation now used iu
tho fire extinguishers now being offered
for sale: Take twenty pounds of common
salt and ton pounds of sal ammomao,
(muriate of ammonia, to be had of any
druggist) and dissolve in seven gallons
of water. When dissolved it can be bot
tled and kept hi each room in the house,
to be used in an emergency. In case of
a firo occurring, one or two bottles should
bo immediately thrown with force ito
the burning place so as to break them,
and the fire will certainly bo extinguished.
This is an exceeding simple process, and
certainly worth a ti-iaL W e givo it, hop
ing it may prove successful to any who
may take the trouble to try it,- Atlanta
Constitution.
On Via bio of Malta.
The people must be' very frugal in
dustrious; no doubt they are both ingeni
ous and persevering as well, for it is said
that out of every steamer load of pas
sengers that stops at Malta on its way to
or from India or Constantinople they
make not less than 200, even though tho
ship-remains in port but six or eight
hours. ' They certainly seem to-have the
happy faculty of casting cprrodingcaro to.
the winds, as they aro always ready for a
siesta after their frugal lunch on a crust
cf blaek bread, or an onion, or a, garliCj
whenever tho noontide overtakes them.
We found them asleep on the steps of
public buildings, in shaded doorways,
even on the crowded sidewalk:happily 6a
unconscious of the passing throng, as are
the dogs of Constantinople. How clum
ber thu3 indulged in can. refresh one-is. a
i mystery, but they soon awo&e end cneer-
fully resumed their toiL Cor. San Fran
cisco Chromcle.
getting Sometliins for Sfothias.
A short, .time ago . in counting up the
-coin in one 'of the boxes at the exposition
in which you drop a nickel and tako out
a packago of gum, ho less than 120 'obo
cent pieces wero fbund. . Now; the im
mutable law cf these devices . to that
nothing goes except a genuine nickel of
tho realm, the inside arrangements being
such that coins of all other denominoy
tions elip through into the money box
and no gum responds. .Consequently all
these one cent pieces' were pure gain and
the GUEn box proprietor can count himself
just" so much ahead of tho game. . This
shows quite eloquently, the umversai ce
siro of tho human race to get something
for hothihg,and it also exemphhes the old
adage that Jcheatera never prosper,
Pioneer Press 'Listener.4 .
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jr AI3octor8 Delicate Charity.--'
As delicate a charity as I remember
was the act of. a gnlff, taciturn old phy-
' in a ' Colorado mininrr town ' A
poort aged parson was carefully attended
i by tlio irritable doctor. ' ncn iu
nrrar.lior' lad sufiiciontlv recovered 'to
dispense-with further ; medical attention
he asked for his K1L nYcrav bill? - Here
it is, Veaid the doctor, opening his pockot
book and handing- the ministers wito
10 pill. America.
Tlio createst events of . an ago aro its
bottJhoaghfaL ..ThpaghtvCndsitsway
Uiio uction.Ecice, t :-t. -
- Russell Sag' ami His Wealth.''
A clew as to what dispotlon Mr. Sage
proposes tomake-of his wealth was furnished-
at the - funeral of ; his brother,
William G. Sagw,' last December In Troy, i
Ho met. Bamnel Cuftpin here, who-mar-
ried his .sister Ftiany, and who Uvea" in 1
Oneida, Mr; Cnnpin, - is independently
rich," and therefor f tela ia aposition to
say pretty much what he pleases. ,As
he is also quite deaf, any conversation iii
which hai, engages is : necessarily carried
on in rather .aloud tone of voice. The
conversation,- therefore, which he earried
oa . with Mr. Sago at thetime of the
funeral washboard by a' ged many peo
'pie, and the details of it have been very
industriously distributed. Mr. Chapin
spoke point blank : . . -- .. .
; "Brother EusselL, your are accounted a
very rich maar,,Why doa't jou retire
as I did and ik comfort .in yourold
age? - What ia the use of - slaving along
from day to day? What wilJL you, do
with all your money?"
Mr. Sage said in reply to this that very
few men had achieved marked success
in life such as he had. He was the only
one of his name who had done so: and
his great success was his glory.: He was
happier in harness than he would be out
of it, and was not at .all ready as yet tor
relinquish the pleasure of accumulating.
As to what he was going to do with his
money he said that the present genera
tion of the Sages .would be well pro
vided for, and he proposed that his name
should be a monument that would en
dure for all time. What he meant by
this ho did not explain, but obviously it
shadows forth some interesting scheme
which perhaps now to Bcarcelyformu
lated in his mind. New York World
Interview.
Ijaales of the Sab-Treasury.
Passing the sub-treasury recently I no
ticed near the entrance a number of
young women whose appearance was so
peculiar tbat it immediately arrested my
attention. If the reader should ask me
what that peculiarity was I could hardly
explain it. Perhaps it might be termed
a nonchalance or free manner "that indi
cated disregard for observation. They
had a cool audacity ,which, though not
brazen, was bold enough to face any op
position, and though I could see at a
glance tliat they were not stage players,
yet ic was evident tnat tney were in
public life, and could be at home even
before a crowd. In a-few moments 1
saw them step up to the cashier's win
dow, where each presented a check and
drew the money, and then I learned that
they were the custom house lnspectresses,
who wero collecting their month's pay.
No wonder they had such nonchalant,
resolute- faces : .-These' are the women
that coolly orders passenger into a pri
vate room and strip her sufficiently to
reveal fraud. These are tho women who
find laces packed in bustle? and diamonds
concealed in. tresses- of hair, and I "need
a passenger - wearmg j a; petticoatxtnat
weighed twenty-five.pounds, being made
double bo as to carry smuggled goods.
These inspec tresses are among the-most
useful ; public servants, and tliey have
almost broken up the once extensive sys
tem of woman's smuggling, which men
could not do, for Shakespeare 6ays,: to
make a sweet lady sad to'a sour offense.' '
New York Cor. Tfoy Times.
Xlercaants and the Agencies. '
As the business of the mercantile agen
cies to becoming better understood, the
attitude of the merchants toward them
has undergone a very great change. It
used to be that the agencies were re
garded as pernicious spies in the com
mercial world, and the polite interroga
tories cf oar agents, . asking for state
ments of business tanding, wero looked
upon as impertinent, orery otten mo
business man, when so questioned, would
flatly refuse to answer. Of course this
fact we communicated, as in duty bound,
to the creditors, who had made, through
us, the inquiries, and the effect was not
to quiet any alai'nr that might have been
felt about the debtor's condition, bat
of tenan uncomfortable squeezing of the
merchant resulted. Within the last ten
years tho agencies have been recognized
as powerful and legitimate aids to the
fmercantile trade, and the questions of
our agents touching the condition or this
cr that firm are met " with answers tliat
are straightforward and, in the main.
candid and satisfactory. vy henever a
business man to known to desire, a con
cealment of his affairs, the manifestation
of that desire creates moro suspicion than
even a lame statement. "W. .A, Stoson in
Globe-Democrat. ,
Veterans of Wall Street.
But few gain sufficient experience In
Wall street to command -success until
they reaeh that period of life in which
they have ono-foop in tbo grave. When
this time comes these old veterans of the
street usually 6pehd longontervaisjof ; .ro
pose at their : comf ortableliomes, and in
times of panic, winch recur sometimes
of tener than "ones a vear, these old fel
lows will be seen: 'in Wall street,-hob-
blinjr down oh their canes to their
brokers'-offices.
" : Then they always buy good stocks to
the extent of their bank Ixdances. which
have been permitted to. accumulate for
pust sucn ; an emergency, x uc; panic
usuallv raees until; enouguor tnese casu
purchases of stock to mads to afford a big
"rako in When tho panic -'has spent
its'foroo; these old- fellows, who have been
resting -judiciously on their oars m ex.--
pectation'of the insvitatSo event, which
usually returns with tho regularity of the
seasons, quickly realize, deposit ; their
profit with their bankcra, or the overplus
thereof, after purcliasing moro real estate
that to on tho up grado,'for permanent
investment, and retire for another season
io the ouietnde of : their eolcndicl homes
- - -.
and families. Henry Uews. .. .
- . -. A Student of 4io Bex, " '
fl In tho course of -a discussion about the
Holy Writ . recently overheard by The
Bazar, a lady remarked that the-Bible
was a history cf 'men; that her sex was
rarely and but .incidentally mentioncdas
comparetl. with thopaco devoted to mcru
- ."Lconfess" she"addecL .''fliat it strikes
ne as being meet singular. There might
have been more said about U3.'r " ;. :
- - '-Oh, I don't know,',' replied - lie?
friend.- -'iTho' anthers cf-JJio' yarioua
hooka had probably studied womankind,'
and knew . they'd be- ablo: to speak toe
th jve8 .iarpbr's Bazar.
v
hardlyjsayhafctl Ic smciek'
smugglers. In a recent case they found j TheW formidable weapons were given to 1
STOCKHOLM.
&roapvof : the- Girdle ; Duellste Becsanf r
- Clabs-Otber Curiosities.
-Many bronze statues to Sweden's kings' .
stand in tho various squares and narkL
and there to one bronze group that holds.
the attention longer, than "any of these.
It to placed in the grounds of the Na
tional museum; and is the masterpiece '
Of jthe Swedish sculptor Moleri, the. group .
of the Girdle Duelists. According to the "
barbarous old custom ' in ScJandinavia," '
when a quarrel arose between two men,
they were bound: together by a girdle, '.
provided 'with ' knives, !and tallowed to
fight out the duel until one"; or 4 botlr had A
fallen. This group "is worfhyvof the an-. '
tique for" the splendid physique of the".
actors and fearful interest ' of the strife. L
Each has seized with liis left hand the
right hand of his foe, which graspa the"
murderous short knife, and both wrestle -
for life with terrible energy.' : It is said
that these t combats- were1 so: nlversallv.
fatal. tliat women carried Winding sheets J
with them to the banquets," wbexethelf
Husbands might be slam. - - : . ,
Jf our bas reliefs on tho pedestal with
Eunic ihscripti.Jas show such a scene .
two men. drinking together j while the
lovely wife of one "of them .stands by.
The jealous anger roused by some undue
attention on the part of the guest, the -
wife on her knees endeavoring to prevent
the .quarrel, and lastly,', tho poor: thing :
weeping alone by .the gravestone of her
husband. "A memorial "such "-as this of ;
ancient customs has always as interest
independent of its artistic value; and this
interest attaches to a great many objects ,
in the collection of the.Northern Museum,
an institution devoted to the preservation, .
of Scandinavian-: relics and curiosities. .
You see heroa forest of the tall pikes and
battle- axes so formidable of old--crueL . -
murderous looking instruments ten-- feet
long, their blades and heads rusted as if ;
with the blood of enemies ; ancient swords
and helmets, together-- with innumerable
articles of more peaceful household use;
rudo looms that might have woven the :,
garments of the'-Vikings, and theodl i
liand mangles used fprsmoothing linen- !
heavy pieces of wood," polished on the -under
side, and elaborately carved above,
with handles usually representing horses, j-
It seems impossible that , such flat -irons,
should have been very efficacious, but'
here they are by the hundred. - : : " '
Odder sail are the kubbestols chairs
made of. the trunks of trees or kubbes
(whence our ''stubs," I suppose), the':
edges of the "seats ornamented withjr of
all things in the world, human teeth,
driven intothe solid wood. These are
not relics of battle, as one might sup r
poso, but. the teeth lost by' the family of '
the owner" pf the chair, preserved in thto .
manner as a charm against future tooth-;
ache. Little whito milk teeth mako an :
. agreeable variety with huge molars that ,
evidently ached enough beforo they jpamev
liL'iil-f' - ''TT. - J. '-::L. -'mjLtSy
fcmtt juu nera,' wo,: is: ambm?r. riuu
beggars to enable- them to obtain': relief
at , the next house they came tow Whab
a comfortable thing it would be if one of
us could get rid Of ah importunate tramp
by giving him a club to compel our next
neighbor to entertain him 1 - Yonder is a '
bundle of Runic staves-canes or: long , .
pieces of wood carved with runes, or sen -.
tences in " Kunio - clraracterSj usually
quoted from ono of the sages.-Whetlier
these were considered as charms, or only,'
like the Jewish phylacteries, used to keep
in mind some sacred text, we could not "
.earn. - -"..-' " '
One room is fitted up in compartments,,-.
each representing a kitchen or a living
room of some primitive dwelling in Kn-
and, or Iceland perhaps; with life size
figures in . appropriate costumes, ' sur-
ounded with tho very furniture and pot
tery brought from such houses, all in
j i . a
some interesting position, a man
ceiving an official -message brought by
ah envoy in one of the old ' 'bud stikker,
or message sticks, wbich he in his turn
Is bound to carry for a certain" distance,
and If-no -one is "at hand to take it, -Ja
stick it in the earth until some ono comes ;
along, as if our mail bags should bo laid :.
Un a rock at a rtain place and left for" -
the next passer to tako charge of 1, An
other group .shows a girl receiving pres
ents when the bans of her marriage are .
proclaimed; a third, h Lapland" family "
mourning: over a dead child. --. All the,
figures are very Ufelike. But time would
fail me to speak of the various museums
and their treasures.---Stockholns Cor.- San
Francisco Chronicle.
Smuggling Precious Stones.
Ono of the favorite places wherein to'-'
hide precious stones aro in the small tele
scopes used in connection with the mas ,
tor's sextant. The glasses are unscrewed,
atones packed securely m, the cylinders '
and everytliing -replaced. But few cus-;
tonto officials would venture to trouble a
valuable scientific instounent.?!;;;!.'
Another method is to have a malacca
stick bored out, through the wonderfully .
rrSGHTS SEEN IN
skilled hands of a Chmese mecliamc. The J
5pace is then filled in with precious stones " - -packed
in cotton, the joint -replaced and
detection to almost impossible..7. I wiU
show ; "you a boot lieel ,made of iron, to '
which to attached an iron clamp. Tho
leather heel to removed,,tben tho iron ;
ono, filled with - diamonds, is 1 secured to " -the
clamp. It to an old . trick; but might
have passed muster, except -, that the
smuggler's courage failed and his ner- ; "
vousness betrayed him. . The governmen t '
was richer by: $9,000 duties in gold coin,
New York Star. -- -. - V.
' . Sewing s Cut Finger.- ' -
Many e persons are familiar with the,
common remedy, for- a cut, of; sewing it : .
up. . 2 1 have seen persons- suffer jfreat in--j
conveniences from a comparatively small"
wound at tho end of a finger and thumb,
because they did not know: bow to apply -
I the remedy. -Wait till the bleeding lias
I n J T 1 f
iseasea, ana uieu witu a uie cumuriu;
neeaio wnn a elus uireau not more cuan
an inclj or two long, or, three inches at
most, take up a - small : stitch in tbo skin v
and not into, the flesh, draw only toward
the cut, right ?uid - left, which tends . to "
ii-aw the parts -jogether. and never draw V
from the cut, which only opens it. ? Tho.
relief tlius afforded to understood only
yjf -: those l who . liave tried . io; A hired
nan ; had cut ' th end " of hi3 .. thmnb.
whQo engaged" in ' ioecliamcal work, and '
C annoyed him excessively." ; I drew tho ,
parts together , witli a fine thread-and
leedle; he was asl Onished at the ..relief,
ind had no ; further ; trouble t with .
Herald of Healih. ' , .
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