Bloomington Progress, Volume 26, Number 18, Bloomington, Monroe County, 22 June 1892 — Page 4

william Spencer.

A VMattlaaat G. A.K. Mas. Erer ataco I came out of the army im "65 I bad been in poor health and had taken more or less medicine all the time. I suffered principally from kidney and liver complaint, pain in back, poor appetite and constitution run down generally. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Boot did me more good than all the other medicine I had ever taken. At present am feeling better than for years. It is the best medicine on earth, wm. Spencer. Co. F, 30th Indiana Infantry, Elkhart, Ind. It is lust such eases and wonderful cures as these Out hare made SwampBoot famous and given it a world-wide reputation. . Ererybody has a good word to say lor re. nave you tried it f Keeommended by druggists, 50c. or (1.00, A Terrible IMacmeiy. At the loot of the summer palace during the Chinese war, an entercrisinK officer collected a few memorials of the "Son of the Moon and first Cousin of the Stars," bat what always tilled him with regret was the information he afterwards received from a native offi cial: "You barbarians too-t a good many things off, but you left the lions upon the entrance sates, which surprised us very much." , "We didn't think ao much of them as yon do, from an artistic point of view. and It was no time to enenmber ourselves with brass things," the officer Indiffer ently answered. "My good sir, they were solid gold," said the official. The officer took to his bed, and had a serloasness illness from mere remorse for his want of penetration. JFI'l iJintlltopi trw.br Dr. KJtasarMS nmlMmr. NoFits sfVr first day's ase. Ita?Sma cum. TMatiaa nd tu trial bottle frsa to Ittcaw. Bud to IX.Kine.attAnhat,.ehite,Ia It b claimed by scientists that all the lime In the world has at some time been a portion of some aLimal. The same atom of lime has some time, no doubt, been a portion of many different animals, and possibly of human beings also. It Is surprising how well we eaa stand the misfortune of our friends. A. DEAD SHOT rfefct at the wat of difficulty, is eccompasnea ny tne sore ana steady aim ox Dr. Sage Catarrh Remedy. Don't fool around with a pop-gun, nor a "Flint-lock," when this reliable "Winchester'' Is within reach! Br. Sage treatment of Catarrh In the Head is far superior to the ordinary, and when directions are reasonably well followed, results In a permanent cure. Dont longer be indifferent to the verified claims of this unfailing Remedy. The worst forms of Catarrh disappear with Hie use of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy. Its mild, soothing, iWnarng and healing properties effect a perfect and permanent eure, no matter how bad the case, or of how long standing. It's a remedy that succeeds where everything else hap failed. Thousands of such eases can be pointed out. That's the reason Us makers back their faith in It with money. They offer 9500 reward for a eaueoi Catarrh which they can-, not core. It's a medicine that allow them to take such a risk. . Doesn't common sense lead yon ta take such a medicine? "An advertising take" yon say. Funny, lent it, how some people prefer sickness to health when the remedy is positive and the guarantee obsoiuU. . Wise men dont pr.t money back of fakes," And "faking'' doesn't pay. xn wr. HUB, illefi., Mitch 8, 1SH. Patau mag Enter naeays Nana Tonhj my UasuifasadfromneXToaa hoxlaohaa and abas traabla, Altar amf Uds remaiy both han tsHsl A. HKUOHBAUZB. H. Astsnra, Ohio, Feb. B5, VBH. Hoc mclpsn I had epUeptlo It several ttmeeamotttll. Btnea I used Faster Koeul"i Bass Toole I haae not had an attatilr 3ha A0GUSTA DBAVXa (Pan Bert. J. Bona) Wbtt Hatbx Ind., Iran 8, 1SBL yatnonsaynaaisaagomiilstalyimidawii, BsIwHUBBmi aadnsat that I waa oonI to aav bad for a vtiaza. I Daed Paster KfuiK s nervaTODBBanuam 1 anddoiaslmvosmiioiueaork. MB&ClXaiCKlU FREEHS aant ns to any a mH.nl, on also This iias wpnw nw lajw Pastor Kosnlc of Fen Ws;ne. lad- sties IB, inn raladXnettaobytae KOEMC MEO. OA. Chlcaga, I That Bearing"Feeling Thousands of delicate women and girls doing housework, or employed in stores, mills, factories, etc, where they are continually on their feet, suffer terribly with different forms of female diseases, especially that bearhutdown feeling,'' backache. (amtness, dizziness, etc Lydia E. 1'iniham'j VtgttaiU Compound will relieve all this quickly and permanently. It has per manently cures countless cases of Female Complaints, Ovarian troubles, Organic Diseases of the Uterus or Womb, Leucorrhcea, Inflammation, Kidney Complaints, etc. Its success ia world-famed. freelT la eDDAdence vm. asm M Wrr EE DECf nfFD with Pastes. Enamels, and Faints which stain tlie bands, injure the iron, and bunt off. ThaBlalno'SunStoveriilkhlaBril. Uatt, Odorless, Durable, and the consumer pays for no tin or glass feck age with every rmrchase.

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CMAPTKH IX. th Lrrrza Ralph Fresco tt stood spell-bound, overwhelmed. He knew the woman in that room; he had mot a surprise most startling; hn had rocognlzed the false nurse as the last person in the world he had ever expected to see in those somber habiliments. "It is she! What does it mean? What can it mean? Oh, this is bewildering, improbable." She? Yes; the one woman In the world who filled his mind's thoughts to the exclusion of all others. She Ruth! the disowned, the wife of another, tho heiress of Maple Leaf Farm. There could be no doubt as to her identity; there could be no mistake; there was no need of a second glance. The same pure, soulful eyes looked forth, only a trifle sadder than of yore; the fresh bloom of roses on tho pearly cheek was the same, only a trace of the canker of care had paled it almost Imperceptibly. Resolution compressed the lips slightly, anxiety brooded on tho fair brow, but Ruth Elliott was there.' What did it mean? From wonderment to flashing suspiel on the thoughts of the enrapt lurker cassed mnidlv. Ruth Elliott was here, had been here for over a week. She had passed the cynosure of curious eyes with her Identity unguessed; but had not Geoffrey Foreytho known her had not: he possibly even suggested the disguise? If so In the bewildering jugglery of surmise, doubt, and speculation Ralph Preseottlost himself. Here, indeed, was a mystery a mystery with a motive, surely a motive that had made of a timid, shrinking girl a bold, resolute woman. For sweet love's sake she had undertaken a monstrous Imposition; but why and wherefore the tangible issue of it all? If 8 beyond me I can't understand it,- breathed the lurker. 'But I will know. Where there is secrecy there is mystery, where mystery, a plot. I thought myself a master hand, and this girl ehe has outwitted, defeated, crushed me utterly." He drew back from the window as he saw that she slept. His sinister face expressed every emotion in the gamut of a scheming rascal's mind avarice, suspicion, love, hate, vengeful persistency. jror an nour ne ruminated alone in the garden. Night influences were about him. The brooding olouds all in spired him to subtlety and plotting. He approached tne broken shutter again. Ruth slumbered. I wui act with caution, ne muttered grimly. "A sudden confrontation might precipitate flight. I will watch and wait but I must know what her continned presence here means. I must Know her scheme, l must balk ita outcome, if possible. The letter she was writing! mat may reveal alL ir l could only get a glimpse at that! " Freecott aonroaehed the unshuttered window of the vacant apartment. The door oi communication with the adjoining one- was closed securely. Ruth slumbered profoundly. ne was an adept at sneaking into the house after late hours, a natural burglar, too. With his pocket-knife and a rusted piece of hoop, he forced the catch and pried up the window sash. The next moment he was in the room. On tin-toe he advanced to tho stand where the written sheets lay outspread. Eagerly he took them up. tils elfish eyes scanned their contents. The Joy of a great gloating exulta tion came into hie eyes as he read the story Of a woman s struggle for the right of a woman's faith in a loved one's fidelity. for the letter told all it oast light on darkness. It constituted the history of as singular an exploit as ever fell under the eyes of mortal man. CHAPTER X. WHAT THK UTTTKH TOI O. j It was fortunate for the sooret plans of Raich Freecott that the oecuoant of the adjoining apartment slept, for so abBornea was ne in reading the letter that lay before him that he was impervious to aught for the time being. That letter was In Ruth s well-known dainty handwriting. It was addressed to ram Dalton, her husband and It was a chronicle of events rather than an or dinary epiBtle. "I do not know where you are," it began. "When we parted at the altar, with faith siroremn in vour luviiltv I only asked to know that you had gone to make a final effort to cloar np the mystery or your me. Since tnen, events nave happened that you must know. I have but one clue to your whereabouts. You men tioned Ferndale once. At haphazard, I wrote you there yesterday, asking you to return here speedity. To-nignt. recalling still another town, I write you there also. Come back, for while your fair name must not go un cleared, i nave ouvwitwa uw man wno strove to blast your reputation Salph Prescott" And then, in terse lines, the writer told the story of Ruth the outcast. Driven from her father's door, she had wandered wretchedly in the snowy night. An inspiration of faith in her old grandfather, Geoffrey Forsythe, sent her steps thither. She had not mis taken tbe affection of the old recluse. He had received her with open arms. He had listened to her pitiful story; he sympathized with her; he questioned her partieuiariy in detail as to tne vari ous sums of money that her father had missed, the dates of the abstractions, and much concerning the habits and actions of Ralph Prescott for a month past. ratting together wnat ne knew and what she revealed, old Geoffrey Forsythe amazed Rath by denouncing Ralph Prescott as the real thief. He said mat of late he had heard con siderable about the schemer's gambling: proclivities. He had employed a man to watch him. ne knew oi almost every money deal of the young man. He tow knew that certain amounts he had paid corresponded exactly with the ma Jona fiuott naa tost; in xaot, ne proved Ralph Prescott to be the thief, beyond dispute. I had begun to suspect that he was a hypocritical time-server, he had told Both. "My eyes were just beginning to open to the sacrifice I was demanding of you in wedding a man who has no claim Upon me, except for a sentimental re ars on my part ror nis aead motner. nth, you .will stay here. Disguised, you wui be my nurse until I can explore still more deeply into this knave's deception. Your happiness ia everything in life to me. A woman's heart cannot usually be wrong in estimating th character of the man she loves. I have faith in Paul Dalton, in a man who stood ready to fee adjudged a criminal,

THE HEIRESS o

AAPLE LEAF

rather than angbr your father against j ou wna a revelation or your niuinal Ibve. We will await his return, and if he disproves tho charge that he is a oonvict, your falhor shall be made to do you both justice, and Salph Prescott shall be unmasked In hi3 true colors." But sickness oame sooner than old Geoffrey thought. His hours were numbered, and he know it Afraid of the wily cunning of Elliott, if he left Ruth his fortune, he divided it as known to the reader, and left the bulk of It to her husband at her suggestion. All this Ruth wrote to Paul Dalton; all this, sick at heart, the enraged, baOed, unscrupulous Ralph read. Kow she bade her husband return. He was wealthy now, and what might hot money do to untangle the knotted skein of his mysterious life. Ralph Prescott stole from that room with a palo, perturbed face. He reclosed the window as he found it ho left no trace of his felonious visit. He knew all now, and that information was weighty, vital, To Ruth his truo character was fully revealed, and if ho dared openly to per seoute her she possessed the means of proving him to be the thief of Maple Leaf Farm. Furthermore, for love of tho man she had wedded, she Would use that knowledge if he tried to annoy her again. Paul Dalton had captured the double priise brldo and fortune. What should he do? His natural impulse was to seize on all the ready cash he could get his hands on, and, like the craven ne was, sneak out of the lives and memories of those he had wronged, A thought of revenge, however, a subtle suggestion of thought, a hopeful belief that there was yet one weak point in the armor of his foes, awoke a last desperate combativeness in Ralph Prescott' b wicked heart. "If Paul Dalton should die," he glowered in a sinister hiss of hate, "then all tie fortune would revert to Ruth. Who knows what may happen? The tramp told me much. Paul Dalton is a convict, let him say what he likes. I will anticipate Ruth. I will go at onoe to Ferndale. I will dig up this man's past, that I may effectually blight his future. Oh, there is some way out of this labyrinth of mystery, there must be some compensation for all he has made mo lose!" And, hiding the fact that his own evil plottlngs had been the cause of his misfortunes alone, Ralph Presoott, at early dawn, started on horseback on tho trail of the man who had so mysteriously disappeared. CHAPTER XL VICTOBT. Ferndale was nearly eighty miles from Ridgeton, and located in anothor State, but by dint of hard riding and few etopti Ralph Prescott reached his Journey a end the next morning. The plotter's thoughts and calculations were vague. AVhat good he could gain by the present investigation he did not know. Circumstances would guide him, he told himself. He horied to learn something more about Dalton's past A man who had been a forger, a conviot, might have many serious flaws in his life. There might be other-crimes for whloh Paul Dalton was wanted else why had he sought the obscurity of Maple Leaf Farm? li this was true, and ne could learn BuiBolent to be of real weight against Dalton or Ruth, the plotter might terrorize, persecute, blackmail them. He hardly thought as far as ever gaining Ruth. Money and revenge were now tho sole actuating motives of bis mean nature If he had hoped to find Paul Dalton established and publioly known at Ferndale, he was doomed to disappointment. Inquiries at several places revealed no definite knowledge of the man he sought. One man thought the name sounded familiar, another started strangely, and repeated It over and over vaguely. "That name ain't altogether unknown to me," he said, "but I can't fit Its owner. Seems to me, though, that old Danby, the miller yes, that's it I remember now. You see The maa checked himself suddenly. "Well, go on," insinuated Paul, eagerly. "No, I may be mistaken, and I don't want to make trouble. You see Danby." "Where will I find him?" queried the Belf-appointod detective. He was directed to a dilapidated mill structure. A somber-faoed old man. patching up the worn-out machinery ol' j the place, looked up from his labor Ir ritably as Presoott asked him if he was Mr. Danby. "Yes, Danby's my name," he replied. "What of It?" "I am looking for a man I was told you knew." "Who is. he?" "Paul Dalton." Tho effect of that name upon the miller was something extraordinary. He aroe erect as from a shock. His face turned pale as death. With lowering eyes and quickened breath he surveyed his visitor, and, trembling all over with some suppressed agitation, demanded in a hoarse, unnatural tone: "Who sent you here?" Presoott retreated, a trifle frightened, for there was a gleam In tho old man's oyes that was dangerous. "Why," he stammered. "I I came myself." "No one sent you? He did not fiend you; she did not send you? Answer me." "No ono sent me." "Because," wont on the miller between hi set teeth, "I would treat a messenger from them as I would they themselves as reptiles, deadly enemies!" "I simply wanted to find this Paul Dalton. 1 wished to loam all I could about him. You seem to hate him?" "Hate him!" eohoed the miller, bitterly; "ae the viper that stings, as the savage who strikes tho hand that tenders him bread! He stole my child away from me my little Isabel" and the gruff voice died in a pitiful sob. "He made my home bereft, ho well-nigh beggared me. Oh, curse his handsome face and soft ways! Curse him, I say, to all eternityl Strange words to inspire joy, and yet a savage delight permeated the heart of the eager listener as ho realized that he was learning more than he had hoped for. Was this Paul Dalton a villain who operated he same at all places robbing his benefactor, running away with his daughter? It seemed so; but a still deeper satisfaction was in store for Prescott. "That was five years ago. One night they disappeared. A week later I received a letter from Isabel. She begged forgiveness. She asked that they ooth return to the home root; that her husband was repentful for the theft; that the money had gone in gambling. I went to the town whehoe nhe wrote, armed With a horsewhip. I oowhlded him for theuniserable poltroon that he was. I cursed her as no child of mine. ' "And were they married?" "Ah, I made sure of that I would have killed him if it had been otherwise. As it was, I left them. They had made their bed. In it they must He. " .-n 1 ... 1 -l l,.tH1. Prescott's heart-strings. Married! Then tho ceremony at lildgeton was ft mockery. Ruth was not a I

wifel Visions ol her humiliation, amid whloh ehe would gladly accept a new husband to hide tho disgrace of the old one, ran riot in the sohemer's mind. A broken will the Forsythe fortune yet

won or a threat or prosecution for bigamy ah, all was not lost yet! "The hardened villain!" gasped Pros oott, In a spasm of high virtuous indignation against a man whose rascality seemed to discount his own. "Married! Then all is safe, provided one word!" no utters quickly; as tho miller turned away. "Is your daughter still alive?" "Glory! What luck! The game is mine!" Chuckled tho delighted plotter. . "She wrote me a year ago. She said Uer husband had fallen heir to a great fortune. Would I allow her to repay ine what ho had stolen?" "And you replied?" "Not a word! Thoso two are dead to me." fTO B CONTINTED.1 Virginia's Historic Orounil. The large price that the owner ol the farm on which the famous "Woody angle" in Spottsylvanla is situated has obtained for bis property, having made a sale to Northern parties, recalls how Important a proportion of Virginia soil has an extensive value on account of its association with historic events. With the possible ex. ccptlon of Greece and England we doubt whether an exception ought to be made in the instance of these countries there is no land In the world which contains more localities which derive their interest from the records of history, and which, if put up for sale would bring a larger sum for reasons which have no relation whatever to the question of natural productiveness or general convenience. Fortunately, though these scenes may change hands, they cannot, like Libby Prison, be moved beyond the borders of the old State. Jamestown, Torktown, Fredericksburg, Cancellorsville, Manassas, the Wilderness, they arc here to stay and to call up in the minds of the remotest generations of Virginians the heroic deeds of their ancestors, which are a part of the character of the living. Eichmond Times. Trying Momenta. Bridegrooms, as a rule, bear the embarrassments of the wedding ceremony with anything but grace. The chances for making mistakes are few, but they contrive to improve them. At a recent fashionable wedding the groom calmly announced: "I, Annie, take thee, Harold, to be my lawful wedded wife. " The bridal party, who were the only ones that heard it. were convulsed, and even the stalwart young minister could not repress a twinkle in his eyes. Another muchrattled young man, when asked if he took the young woman to be his wedded wife, stared nonplused at the minister for fully ten seconds, then asked blankly: "Beg pardon, were you speaking to me?" Still another, when handed the ring, instead of passing it along, began nervously trying to put it on his own finger, and was only aroused by a sharp little pinch. But most of the small contretemps incident to a wedding can be successfully hidden from the knowledge of the guests, and it is not until the bridegroom ia let loose at the wedding reception that the bride really begins to get fidgety for fear he "will do something dreadful," a fear which is very often realized. The Capttan Pratt. Chili's most powerful war vessel has a name not at all suggestive of its formidable size and capabilities. Io might not unfitly have been called the Terror or the Thunderer, and it is not a little remarkable that so ardent, not to say flamboyant, a people an the Chilians were content with so prosaic a title as plain Captain Pratt. For actual business the Pratt lias the following qualifications: It is 328 feet long; beam over all, 60 feet 7 inches; d spth, 34 feet 9 inches. It will mount in its main battery four guns of 0.45 inches caliber, and it has also four guns of 4.72 inches, six rapid fire guns of 1.97 inches, and four rapid fire guns (two Nordenfelt and two B otchkiss) of 0.78 inches calibt r. It has six torpedo tubes of the Canet system. The Capitan Pratt is, in short, a fast and formidable armorclad vessel, with powerful engines of the latest and most improved d ascription, and a guaranteed speed of eighteen knots an hour. An Explanation. The difference between an heir apparent and an heir presumptive ia not always clearly understood; here is the case in a nutshell: The heir apparent must succeed if he survives the present holder of the dignity; while an heir presumptive, although the heir at the moment, is liable to have his right to the succession defeated by the birth of another heir. There cannot, therefore, be at the same time an heir apparent and an heir presumptive. To take a modern instance, should the Prince of Wales succeed to the throne of England, his son, Prince George, if then living, will become the heir apparent to the throne. Should Prince George succeed to the throne before he has children, the Duchess of Fife would be the heir presumptive, her right to the succession being always liable to be defeated by the birth of a direct heir to her brother. . Kind to Their Hones, "When in Bussia," says a noted traveler, "I noticed with pleasure that the horses in the droskies were driven with a rein not much, if any, larger than a whipcord, and without check-rein or blinders. The whip is a little short one, and I do not remember to have seen it used. The horses are mostly beautiful stallions and go like the wind, controlled chiefly by the voice. Whatever we say about these Bussians, they are evidently kind to their horses." Hebrew vs. Yankee. "Has the Jew, with his reputation as the champion of commercial prosperity, not found in the Yaniee more than his match? Has he not in reality been outdone, and does not his future in these parts seem but a dreary one?" The foregoing Inquiry appears in the American Hebrew, and the inquirer is Max J. Uilman, of New Bedford, Mass. British Uniform. The most expensive of England's soldiers' garbs is the bandmaster's of the life guards, which cost $125. A sergeant-drummer of the foot guards may well "swell his chest" when he wears a tunic costing no less than $37.60, the total value of his "rig-out" being $122.50. The cheapest uniform of all is that of a private of an ordinary infantry regiment, valued at $21. The Old Gentleman Knows How. Samuel Davis, of Whitneyviile, Me., who is )4 years of nge, shot four foxes in one day, making a total of forty this season. He says that "foxes are uncommon cute critters, but they're easy to get if )ou know how," j

BOUGHT A BOGUS BKICK.

HOW O W. SWYQART, OF SOUTH BEND, WAS SWINDLED, xne uiu, Aniiqufuea, MOM-toverra itu j Itrlck Trotted Out for the EdtSUiitlmi ol ft. Hoasier Wlioso 1'Anston for Modsej KxCMdeil Ills Homo Smwo. OUTH BEND, Ind., eorro spon donee: George W. Bwygart was taken in for $7,000 hero o the gold bi'iek frame. If the swindlit had been of any other character It would not have bei'n so bad. But that anybody should be c aught on the gold brick game at this litto day in the oontury is considered a refloution on the Intelligence of tho community whece it occurs. Bwygart ie 70 years old, is worth about $300,000, and Hvo3 alone over on the sumo fashionable thoroughfare as tho Btudobakers, and in the atmosphere in which oneo moVod tho Colfaxes. Bwygart came here with his partner, Bookafoller, in 1865, They Tne kephsw most thi west. were stonemasons. Together they began to amass a tortuno. Swygert was particularly far-sighted In his real-estate deals ax.d Is now tho owner of farms, town lots, business-houses, and residences. By his first wife there were four children, allot whom aro bright and prosperous. None of thorn liv c with him. Their mother lives in lioekford, 111. His second wife was a domestic in his family, a young woman who secured a divoroe and made $10,000 by tho operation. Bwygart makes no display in his appcaranoe or manner of living. He dresses and lives in the plainest manner, and the way he was hoodwinked out of $7,000 shows how a man who has made money in his dealings with others can make a tool of himself in less time than It takes u tell it. Cutting Hl Second Teetlu . Sunday three men and a woman left the eastiiound Lake Shore train at this point. The men went in one direction, the woman in another. Monday morning one of the men met Bwygart as he was leaving home and called him "Undo George." He had the Swygurt pedigree down to a nicety. Bwygart took tho young man in and boasted of his possessions, and tho two came to the unanimous conclusion that the- Bwygarts were smarter than most peple. Then the nephew's turn to tell a story came, and it was tho unreeling of that romanoe which caused the old man to cut his second set of teeth all at onco. Tho nephew said: I am a Bwygart when it comes to making money. I have struck it lich, too, Unole George. On my way from the West to Chicago I canio across an Indian on the train who owns a gold mine so valuable he will permit no one to work it but himself and his squaw. He has an Indian's distrustful nature. I won his confidence and ho showed me two gold bricks which he was taking to the mint in Philadelphia. He is afraid he will be robbed, and I so managed to exaggerate his fears that he (.topped in Chicago and finally agreed to sell me the bricks for $7,000. Mother told me how rloh Cnelo George was.so I brought the Indian over with mo froa Chicago to see it you wanted to furnish the money and go halvers with ine in the profits. Luckily, I met In Chicago a friend of mine, an assayor from tho Philadelphia mint on his way to tho San Francisco mint, and I paid him $10(1 to come down here and test tho brioks." An agreement was prepared in writing. Bwygart was to furnish $7,000 and the profits were to bo oqually divided. The meeting place was to be at a certain point in the Coqv illurd Woods near the Clay Township line, and where the French picnics used to be held. Ileup Ilia lujutu Monday afternoon tho parties met there. The "lone Indian," glum and stoical, had the two bricl.s in a etout canvas bag. Mr. Taylor, tho alleged mint assayer, had a bottle ?! acid and a boring tool. At tho request of the nephew tho Indian dumped the bricks out of the bag with as little unconcern as Swygart would throw u couple of bricks from his yard at b yellow dog. The assayor bored Into the bucks, made a test, and pronounced it the finest and purest gold ho had ever seen in all his years of experience at the mints. The nephew showed a card fr.im Frank Mayr, a jeweler In Boutli 15ond, on tho back of which was an in'dorsoment purporting to bo from Mayr attesting to tho genuineness of tho bricks. Tho nephew read this indorsement and B nrygart cut another tooth. l'lanked Down the Caih. Then the nephow and I'nolo George Swygart came "back to to?n , and Swygart made a note to the bank for $7,000, whloh was indorsed by a merchant. Bwygart had no ready mcney at hand, but It was never any trout le for him to raise money hero. As tho hoi ir was late, the banker wiio cashed tho note asked: "What are you going to io with so mnoh money at this hour?" The old man cooked up his ears and replied: That's my business." The banker begged his pardon. Then the "nophow" and "u iole" drove back to the picnlo grounds , and tho game took another turn, fo the "suokor" had not been effeotually laidod. The "assayer" said ho had con ok (led to buy the brioks himself, and hud offered tho Indian $15,000. Tho "nerhow" became excited, abused the "assayer" for taking advantage of his kindness, and talked about "tho unprofessional conduct of a hired assayer." While thin wrangle was going on, old Swygart'n lesire was sharpened at every brcat'i, and ho stepped over to tho "Indian," paid him $7,000, ami took the tiricku. Then, with the cOHBoiouttncHH of havinc done something smart, lie culled to hl nephew: "Come on! I've got tho biloks!" And the deal was over. The two men drove back tc town. Tho eld wan drove to bis houso and ept hia

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ARRIVAL Ol1 TUB GOLD BRICK ASM) ITS K8COBT. in Indiana durini? a Presidential year than at any other time. Tho actual value of tho bricks for which Swygart gave up $7,000 good money is $4.90 apiece. ELECTRIC RAILROADS. Tliolr liuHiarkublo Growth lu Ftvs Years. For years tho horse remained in front of a car as the only means of transporting people through our cities, and it wati not until the introduction of electricity for this purpose that any marked improvements were made in this character of travel. The early experiments in electricity were interesting only from a scientific standpoint, as the source of electricity was the primary battery and it was not until the invention of the directcurrent dynamo that a means of gencrating electricity was devised, by which it could be distributed economically in a way that) would make electric-traction practionbla Let us look briefly at what has been done in the case of electric trolley railroads. Scarcely Ave years have elapsed since it was shown that the trolley syt-tcm could t3 made a practical success as a. means of propelling cars, and yet to-day more than 450 roads are reported as being operated by electric power, having a total mileage of more than 3, 600 miles and employing nearly 5,800 motor-cars. Thus about three-eighths of the street railroads in this country are now operated by the trolley system. The old tramrails are being replaced by better forms of construction, handsome cars measuring thirty feet in length replace the old style of liorso cars, and a speed double that attainable with horses is used with perfect safety in equipping street roads with the trolley system. Many of our large cities are already so equipped, and it is estimated that $lo5,000,000 has already boen 'expended. It has also been proposed that the experiment be tried to ascertain if electricity cannot be used practically to supersede steam on railioads. Many of us doubtless will se this accomplished, although probably not until electricity can be generated directly from coal, without the use- of the steamlwiler, in which event a train of cars so.propelled, it is estimated, will move at. least five miles for the same cost that is now required to move a train of the same weight one mile by steam. Engineering Magazine. Gumming Svauips 'ty Maohln. An apparatus for affixing stamps on envelopi'is is the invention of an Australian. The stamp receiver is supported by a pair of pivoted arms, while another pair of arms carry a damping roller. By pressing a handle the stamps within tho holder are forced by a plunger upon tho envelope, the stamiM being at the same moment moistened ty the damping roller. The Hun of Water. It is now admitted that the inherent hue of water is blue. Even distilled water has been proved to be almost exactly of the same tint as a solution of Prussian blue. This is corroborated by tho fact that the purer the water is in nature the bluer is its hue. . Dressou for tho Dooaflon. First Suburban Hello, Smlthl You are got up regardless. Going to a wedding? Second Suburban So, I'm going in town to try W engage a cook and 1 want to create a good impression. General Manager. Hi! deaf to the quarrelsome, blind to tho fcorncr, and dumb to thosi who are mtschioYously Inquisitive

tsM tr trfua-nlhg nilMfar. Hw of yon narUnj ynle tot mi. Ttf iiagh iot, ntlthsr d thy rafift TUf IM lugubrous-dyijwlrtic Th, Kv 9t Tims, pl, lUght, dry, quit (tevjnMi liM dlTlduuls In hot, who look ai U tby fead boa atl9lMs4i vltit rout boot an Mr Ira, Tb ilda-spUttliif, buttoa-tranttBg (offcw tlial prowls Iron th. individual wttfe. flood, db stlo& Is Dorar hoard from thorn, Tfcsy midw airy mole hi 111 Into mountain!, 'MAn U(ht mi air Into ftriovont aanorasosi. Show oa, n hoooiitrarjr.aman who toe trouble wtt' iaM: roptnos not at mU ulsbp,ai4 la whom the fountain" of BwrritaeBt M tpllf ataflow.und w. will how you miuwjt.i food dlfeiUon. V Hoitstter l Stomiwli BiRn; d isoiite till bloaslnf, and bjnian UM aofroufc aad quaruloua disposition to nCtl and tint fault rtloh attends dyspasia, BbntSAatl'lu, eonittoatloD. malaria, Wdnsy troaUt aad la gripps jrlald to tlis Bittors. Extravagance of Woman, Speaking of the extravagance of women in our day, Mai re de Medlciit hai a gown sown with 32,000 pearls ard 3,300 diamonds, and her example was followed by lesser personages, who cheerfully expend 3d more than their Incomes on gowns so ladened with precious stones that their wearers could scarcely mov-a about In thsm, Mme. de Montespan, the beamy who reigned at the court of Lonin XIV., wore at one great conrt festival "a gown of gold on gold and over that s:old frieze stitched with a certain gold w iuh makes the most divine stuff titat has ever been imagined," according to the panegyrics written by the pen Mme. de Sevigna, A. U. PBIEST, Drngglst, Stwtbyvillo, rtriU, says : "Hall's Oatarrh Cura kIy thi bsiit of atia faction. Can get plenty of tottlatonlall, at it cure ovary oua who takaa it " Dru(j(tati asU it, 78c

Valuable Idol, An exchange says that a lady who was looking about in a bric-a-brac shop with a view to purchasing something odd, noticed a quaint figure, the head and shoulders of which appeared above the counter. 'What is that Japanese idol over there worth?" she inquired. The salesman's reply was given In a subdued tone: "Worth about half a million, maU&'a; it's the proprietor." Tha Hag-ilatlo Mineral ilact ButJu, Olven at tho Indiana Mineral Springs, Warren County. Indiana, on the Wa'wih Lice, attract more attention to-day thai aay other health resort in this country. Hundreds ol people suffering- from rheumatism. kidny trouble, and akin diseaf is, have been cured within the Uurt jeax by tho wonderful magnetic mud and mineral wa:r baths. If you are suffering with an 7 of these diseases, Investigatn this, aaturo'H own remedy, at once. The sanitarium build1di;b, bath-house, water works, and eleocric light plant, costing over $150,000. just computed, open oil the year round. Write at once for beautiful Illustrated printed matter, containing complete information and reduced railroad rates. Ai drags F. Chandler, General Passenger Agent, 8t Louis, Ho., or H. L. Kramer, General Manager of Indiana Mineral Spifnga, Indiana. Tho ( tar, The Czar U a very hard working monarch. He is out of bed at 7 o'clock and bti entire day Is a busy one. He )' is a mania for learning even the smollent details of the operations of the Uoverntu snt. In disposition he is me:an:hoiy atid disinclined to society. The Empress, in her fondness for dancing, has evening parties that bore her royal husband and it is related on one or two occa3ions ho has sent the guests home betimes bp touching an electric button and oxtluguislhng alt the lights In the room. A Practical Farmer. I received great benefit from tho use cf 8 iramp-Koot I suffered for some lengtt. oi time with chronic kidney difficulty, aooompmied by in'.ense pain ia the back iind constitution t.nerally run down. It is a great medicine and shall alwayii b kspt on my farm. I recommend it to all my neighbors. B. A. Jackson, Liberty, laiu To Blow an Organ. One of tha large ohurch organs In England is supplied with wind by power ful feeders worked by hydraulic engines and an electro motor. The pneumatic lever is appllod to tho great and swell organs and tho couplers in connection with them. The solo organ and tbe pedal organ are played by means of an Improved tubular pneumatic action. The draw-stop action is also pneumatic. The Only One Ever Prlnted-Can Xou. SI ad tlx Wor.1T There is a :Mnoh display adveitlsemsnt in this paper this week which has no two words alike oicopt one word. Th'i ssmu Is true of oaeh new one appearing e ach week from The Dr. Harter Modlcino Co. This house places a "Crescent" on everything they make and publish. Look for it, send them the name of the word, and they will roturn you noox, beautiful utbooujlPbu. OS SAMPLES I EES. A dentist of Ansonia, Conn., a lew davs since advertised that be would sell at auction a set of false teeth, "row In tbe menth ot a patient." The dentist made the tooth seven years ugc, and claims they were never paid for. Wno woui.d bo free from earthly 113s must buy a box of Beecham's Fills. 211 cents a box. Worth a guinea. At Marshall, Mo., a rat has made np with a litter of kittens and :oiaes Ui play with thorn every day. but is Is without the knowledge or consent oT i.ia kittens' mother. Thk Public Awards th Palm to Balk's HO NET or HoBEHOOSD AMI TAB &l OOUjh remedy. Flan's Toothache DaopsCura mouelficuta. A Pmi.ADEi.PHiAS has educi.ted a. houso fly to respond to a prolonged "buz-z-z," which brings it trom its cranny any ti mo of day for its supply ct sugar. Hood's Sarsapairiila Bo promptly and efiectnally overcomes THAT TIKKD FKKIJJfG u Io conclusively prove this mrdlcin m&keti tb weiik stroni:. J. B. fciuorton, weU-knovi. merchant of Aulmn , Maine, Mr. tl. H. J-i.ie-rtoii. had Dyflpepsfc. complicated with Llvor and Kidney troubleo. 9o took HOOD'S KAllSAFAitUXA and it eitt and great comfort. He says: It la Ctad-tiecd to any one suffetlOK as! did." HOOU'S FILMS cure Habitual Coxwtipation by restoring periMcltic action of the alimenta ry v&uul. ooopoooTio - torpid liver is tUo so area of 4'pepA sia.sirk hand ache, constipation, piles, v bilious fever, chills amlanndioa. v OTiitf'oTinu Dil U V have a anecino enVot on the ltoor, re ' storma it no neattny action, ajaot, oooooooooct ANABtESIHKlTetlnstKit I relia:!, nd is an HfFAU.1. ! cuius I.ir flAJS. Price. l; st drussiste or by mall. H&zittles frea, Address "ANATH.ESIH Box Mis, New tom Oat. HEMORDIA rSW THE ON1.T I1U KE CVJR1S. Prlca al- to by mall. HKMOHDIA CO., 110 Fulton St.. Mew l'ors.

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