Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 18, Number 30, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 January 1888 — Page 2

•--i

"'S

mmm

ELAINE.

Aye. ners was love's own lily, broken with the weight And burden of its sweetness. In perfect, pallid 8Ult The golden heart of her was swathed about, flowenrfie, With Ijer white body'* petal. As the flower dies Died s'jp. trith ho more light or warmth to draw upon: Left but dewlees night, a day without the

down:

HUH.

To heme tender lover's peae? would ever come From dawn til! dusk, nor yet

from

dnsfc

till

To her -aca with pipe ot waking bird#, At atjy 1 ver'« iwwt reinember'd good night

Not torn unto her the hidden hope wherefrom Some wi'rtlc strenglh to other loving maids is drawn: ITot e'en the lore assured, that, sad eyed, bides arid waits In lands remote, at great extremes of blue sea gates: Not any lover's peace, but all a lover's tears Would be for lier, until the pearls of all her years Had slipped from off the string of time, and (rtiently. Had dropped into the ocean of eternity.

*Twas only left for "her to die. as flower dies Of sweetness iriflnit'': or as the bird that lies "With life gone out in song, its love and grief too great For aught save one last wailing note for its dead mate. —Jennie Maxwell Paine.

THE BOND ROBBEKY..

It was a jolly little farm house. I had been past the place many times, and scented with pleasure the honeysuckles which grew upon the side—only a few miles from Chicago.

One would have thought the place belonged to some old couple who, after having passed laborious life, had retired here for peace and content. Still the shadow of death had passed over the little house, and as I rode up to the prate one morning I cnuitht a glimpse of a pnle faced young girl, with her long, disheveled hair about her neck and shoulders and her eyes red with weeping, who was looking down the road with anxious eyes.

I left the carriage hastily, and a rather smart looking young man, who offered to take charge of the horse, took my place.

Tho interior of the cottage was in keeping with the outer adornments, which had been so lavishly supplied by nature: but the blinds were closely drawn, and there was an air of gloomy depression that was almost suffocating. The young girl had opened the door for me, and she drew back with a graceful bow as I entered, but, without speaking, pointed the way to an inner room. She seemed overwhelmed by some recent grief that deprived her of the power of making an effort of the common courtesies naturally expected of one apparently well bred. But she was relieved of her embarrassment by an elderly lady, who came forward and welcomed me as one who had been long and anxiously expected.

A note from the chief of the Chicago police, introducing me, informed them that I had been detailed to visit the house, and that the nature of the case had been confided tome. I enjoined secrecy upon them as to my real character, instructing them to answer any inquiries by saying that I was a distant connection of Godfrey Holmes, who now lay lifeless under the roof, as the doctor had said, from the effects of poison.

I had secretly finished these preliminaries when the young man who had taken charge of my horse strode into the room. He was introduced as Charles Saxbfr, and was a muscular, rather handsome man, with piorcing gray eyes, and an expression of considerable intelligence. He was such a i»Mon as I would have selected for any employment requiring a large amount of endur. nce and self possession. There was a certain easy coolness in his manner that led mo to think he had not been bred in the country, and I subsequently learned that he had been a student at law in an eastern collego, and had come west for tho double purpose of recuperating his health and pursuing his studies more cheaply.

Tho family at the cottage had consisted of Godfrey Holmes, now deceased, a widowed sister of his deceased wife, and his daughter Amelia. Upon the death of his beloved wife, Mr. Holmes had declared his intention of remaining a widower, and his wifo's sister, a quiet, unassuming woman, had taken charge of his housekeeping.

Amelia, the daughter, was now in her 17th year, her llguro very elegant and her appearance graceful. Her face was very sweet, her eyes dark brown and abundant hair of tho same color was twined about her head.

Ono would have thought tho natural oonsequenco of being thrown almost constantly into the society of as handsome a man as Saxby, she would havo lost her heart to him. But tho very opposite to this was tho fact, and he could have left the place at any moment without regret upon her part. Her father, however, had been much engaged by him, and had often hinted to his housekeeper that he was sure he would be quito satisfied with such a son-in-law.

The entire neighborhood shared in this good opinion of Saxby. He and Amelia would mako such a splendid match, they Wild. Both were so handsome, so intelligent, so similar in their tastes besides, weffl they not admirably matched as to worldly prospects. Saxby had no wealth, it. Is true but he came of a family of influence, and with the fortune Mr. Holmes would be ablo to give he could rise high in the world. Amelia did not need to marry for money, for although her father possessed a little lauded property, was he not rich In the best securities of the government?

So, indeed, he had been but upon the Ycry night of his decease all his stock and bonds, gold and mortgages and his private papers had disappeared, and no one OfuId tell whither they had flown.

Here, then, were the two terrible circumstances of robbery and suspected murder, combining to bring utter desolation and ruin to the family, so peaceful bat a lew brief hours before. It is little wonder that tho grief stricken girl had stood pale and motionless in my presence when she knew the occasion of my coming.

About an hour after my arrival a carriage was driven «p to the farm house, and two portly gentlemen in blade coats alighted and came into the cottage. They darried two small case® with them which brought disagreeable remembrances to me, for I knew they contained the glittering trepanning knives and scalpels which had been ptsplayed before my ga*e oa numerous painful occasions. Soon afterward the coroner arrived, accompanied by number of the neighbors, from whom ha Proceeded to impanel a Jury. •.* While her aunt was busy receiving these individuals, I had an opportunity for a short interview with Amelia, and 11 learned from her at that time ninth that was useful in my subsequent investigations.

The post mortem examination was at length concluded, tad, somewhat to Of

surprise, the surgeons declared that the opinion of tho old gentleman's physician, that death hud resulted from poisoning was incorrect. .Death had supervened from sudden congestion of the heart, there was not the slightest trace of foul play, and the necessary certificate for interment was granted. When I subsequently learned that Mr. Holmes had suddenly fallen dead, and that his doctor had not reached him until long after the breath had left the body, I did not- think this conclusion so strange. It relieved me from a disagreeable weight for cases of poisoning are always accompanied by distressful circumstances and I .now had snly to inquire into the disappearance of :lie old gentleman's box of valuables. Hie loss of these weald leave Amelia and he old lady in poverty, for the latter was entirely dependent npon her brother-in-uw, who had no living relatives save .hese two.

The deceased had placed ho**faith in the bunks, and had always kept the small steel bound box in his sleeping room. He liad shown tht contents to his daughter arid her annt upon various occasions, and when they had remonstrated with him about keeping so much value in bo insecure a place, the old man had smiled at their fears. He had depended largely for the safety of the box upon the fact that all persons, save those immediately connected with him, were ignorant of his having these treasures.

Several persons had been about the house on the night of his decease, and the larger number had been more or less in the bedroom. Amelia, young Saxby and several others were mentioned by the old Lady in particular but she declared that sho would suspect herself or the other members of the household as soon as one of the neighbors.

They were entirely ignorant of the existence of the box, and this might be depended upon, if their honesty were to be set aside. Besides, it seemed impossible that anything could have been removed from the house without detection on that night of sorrow. There was not an nour that some one was not about, and either Amelia or her aittit had remained in the bedroom continually. Still the box was gone, and it must have had some outside means of locomotion.

As might have been expected, I amost instantly pitched upon Saxby as the thief, I felt convinced of it, although there wa9 nothing suspicious in the young man's manner. The difficulty before mo was to reach the truth in such a manner that no point of refutation would be left. I must not only show him to be the guilty party, but also recover the stolen property, the larger portion of which would be readily negotiable, and could be disposed of with little risk of detection.

I was asked to remain for lunch, and requiring some time for thought,! accepted the invitation. Soon the elder lady, Saxby and myself were seated at the table, Amelia being too indisposed to join us, and the most rigid silenco prevailed for some time. I was employed in secretly watching Saxby, who, I soon discovered, enjoyed the entire confidence of our kind hearted hostess. She had already acquainted him with the secret of who I was, and the occasion of. my prps&nce at the cottage.

A

When the meal was over' And the old lady had gone to look after her niece's comfort, Saxby entered into a lengthy conversation with me. He talked well, but was much too ready in his suggestions as to the missing securities, and tho longer I remained with him the stronger became my prejudice against him. After muoh

1

agitation I decided that it was only necessarjito give the suspect "rope enough and li&^uld hang himself." I must be on hand, however, to see that he did not slip his head from the noose. I conceived a plan and began to act upon it at once. I assumed a confidential manner, and informed the young man that I had thought of some circumstances relating to the missing bonds, in which I thought he could assist me. 'If you will go iuto the Sity with me," I continued, "I will tell you more."

Saxby consented to this proceeding without the least show of reluctance, and we set out together. While upon tho way I foigned a story to amuse him, and hinted, in a distant way, that I was inclined to think that Mr. Holmes' sister-in-law knew more of the missing valuables than any other person. I concluded by requesting him to watch the old lady's movements.

To do Saxby justice, he defended the good woman warmly and grew quite indignant at my "venomous charge," which I excused by telling him that it was necessary to take every precaution. When wo reached Chicago I took the young man to the central police office and prepared to carry out tho real motive for my action. While I caused Saxby to be detained in conversation by a brother officer, a photographer with his camera placed behind a screen for the occasion skillfully pictured the man's features. Then I dismissed him, but was careful to keep him in view until he left the city. Before another day had rolled around a photograph of tho young man was in the office of nearly overy broker in the city. *t

Time passed, and the scheme borfc no fruit Mr. Holmes had been in his grave nearly a month, and his daughter's fortune was still undiscovered. I had been playing a waiting game heretofore but now I decided to commence a decided action. I had not lost sight of Saxby during this interval, for a skillful shadow had kept his movements continually under inspection but ho had remained quietly at the farm and it had come to nothing. But one day the shadow camo to me in person—Saxby was in town. Ho only made a few purchases and returned at nightfall. Evidently if Saxby was the thief he was upon his guard. fr

It occurred to rae to take advantage of his absence to visit the cottage. Both ladies received mo very cordially and had a long story to tell of their pecuniary embarrassments. Their little home could not readily be coverted into cash for anything like its value, and, if it could, the idea of parting with it r^as unbearable. Saxby, the elder lady told me, during a short absence of her neice from the room, had lately received a remittance from his relatives, and they depended npon him for the present. But the old lady told me, with a sad shake of the head, that the young man had a manner quiU. foreign to what she had hitherto known of him. He had proposed marriage to Amelia, stating to her that he was in daily expectation of a sum of money from his friends, which would place him in a condition to provide for her aunt as well as herself of a pleasant home. Amelia had rejected his jffer, however, and Saxbr's usual kindliness had not been proof against the rebuff. It was plain from the old lady's manner of telling the story that she did not exactly coincide with Amelia in her action but she was much troubled at tfo difficulties before them. "It Miss Holmas would corutent to fallow my directions,* said I. "there is no doubt you may both be relieved Croon youf embarrassment*."

lam

*#$

rBP.RE HAUTE SATURDAY EVENING

"In wJbat manner?" asked the young lady, who re-entered at that juncture. "By the recovery of the lost treasures. Iris merely an experiment but itssnccess vrrold place yon and your aunt above wint for the future."

When I saw that their curiosity was aroused I communicated my plan. It was for Amelia to favor SaXby's suit for the time, and make it a condition that, before her final consent to the marriage was given, her aunt should be provided for by a moderate settlement. It was very evident that the ladies did not understand me, and I was exceedingly cautious in enlightening them. Amelia began by declining my advice but after along interview and a promise on my part that no harm should come from the arrangement, she consented.

I returned to town quite jubilant, thinking that my success was as good as assured. I left the inmates at the cottage considerably mystified, for I had accused no one of the robbery, and they could not discern in what direction my scheme tended.

Not many days had passed whoil Saxby came again to town. The shadow saw him safely seated in the reading room of one of the hotels and came to warn me in haste. We concluded that the young man had come on business this time, for it was early in the day, and he seemed more than usually thoughtful. I donned a disguise through which I thought Saxby would be unable to identify me if he should chance to notice my proximity, and was soon, in front of the hoteL My ally had informed me that Saxby had already been into the street where the principal brokers' offices were located. He had arrived too early, however, for his purpose, and hod returned to the hotel to wait until business opened. So I concluded, and when I saw him upon the street again, pausing occasionally to glance into the windows where the signs told that stocks and bends were bought and sold, I was in no way surprised, and prepared to swoop down upon him at the proper moment. At last he seemed to find a place to his fancy, and entered hastily, casting over his shoulder as he did so that peculiar glance vhich denotes the uneasy conscience.

I was upon the opposite side of the street but could watch his motions. I saw him, after exchanging a few words with the broker, draw a package from his jacket from which he made a selection. He entered into negotiations with the broker and I soon saw the latter paying over quite a sum of money. This Saxby placed in his pocket and turned around just aA I stepped upon the sidewalk.

His eyes flashed over me in an instant, and I knew that I had been recognized despite my disguise. What a fund Of cool nerve that young man must have hadl He surmised in an Instant the real state of affairs, and rushed out of the office. I seized his arm before he had fairly reached the sidewalk, and, finding that escape was impossible, he very wisely succumbed. He returned with me to the broker's office and redeemed the securities he had negotiated. Then he was taken to the police station, 'That $5,000 you negotiated, what were you going to do with it?" I inquired.

Saxby's lip curled bitterly "That was for Amelia's aunt in case I had married the young lady," he answered. "f believe I've been played for a sucker a more unprincipled man would have made a clean job of it."

I had to admit the force of this remark. As the rascal had been apprehended with the evidence of his guilt upon him he sew the futility of attempting a defense.

He cKscurdiugiy conresseti mat, asueapwt been alone in Mr. Holmes' roonf upon the night of his decease, the idea had occurred to him of secreting \tho box of valuables, the secret of which the old gentleman had confided to him, and use them as a means of compelling Amelia to marry him, in the event of his failing to gain her love. He had watched his opportunity, and, when all was quiet, had removed the box to a field, where he hjrel buried it in the earth. The statement proved correct, and the box was found with its contents intact, save the phpers I had found upon Saxby.

The latter pleaded guilty to the offense charged, and in consideration of the fact that the property had not suffered diminution, and had been recovered through his confession, a much lighter sentence was Imposed upon him than otherwise he would have received.

The ladies at the cottage were profuse in their thanks to me, and I found my reward in a check for a handsome sum besides the reflection that peace and plenty had been restored to deserving people through my instrumentality.—Joe Hawkins in Atlanta Constitution. ...

,6 Winter Sport In Switzerland. There is plenty to do in Switzerland during the winter. The skating is excellent, for nearly all the lakes have on their shores inland "broads," or long, shallow overflows, divided from the more treacherous deeper water by low banks, on which the ice forms quickly, Bmoothly and safely, affording long, exhilarating runs. Earlier in the season there is shooting—free untrammeled sport, fettered by no restrictions save the formality of a gun license at a ridiculously low cost. Game certainly is not very abundant. It is nowhere preserved, the profession of keeper is unknown, and the massacre of battues and driving unheard of but thero is tho long, bracing walk through the clear air, and the ever changing, ever beautiful scenery the rests, where magnificent views are obtained the stopping at little rustic inns for the simple refreshment of bread and cheese, washed down by tho white wine of the country nud the less bucolic kirschwasser, and then the capture of some wild bird or beast that has led you a brisk, long, but not exhaust* ing chase through wood and valley.—"M. De S." in New York Sun.

An American In Swltserland. He had just got back from Europe. He says he didn't have a very pleasant time. Indeed, he declared that Europe is a quite overrated country and not a patch on California. The party who went with him were of a different opinion all the time, and he had to spend most of his time thinking up contradictory arguments. Everything they Saw was lovely, grandly beautiful, superb, immense. They were in Switzerland. "Just look at that glacierl Isn't it grand! Isn't it magnificent?" "Oh, I don't know. That glacier—now —well, that glacier hasn't got ice enough in it to keep New York going for a week."

Then it was at Interlachen. "What a perfectly lovely spot! What a charming town! Isn't it perfectly delightful!" "Hhat—that town!" taid the growler. "Yes, it's rather pretty, but look here, I know a tree in California with timber enough in it to frame the wholo blamed country."—San Francisco Chronicle.

Rheumatism la caused bj lactic add in tbe blood, which Hoods Sanaparllla neutralises, and thus cures rheumatism.

TRAMPS ffi 1EXIC0.

4N ARMY OF AMEBIC/ A WINTERLEI SS A

Thrilling Tales of tVronj Poured into the Ears Travelers—A True Test-:-fcailor tress—A Difference.

and S^iahaps of Listening in Di*

The same sort of malodorous bummer who ton when November's chil

giasy, squalid, jmcs into Bosblasts sweep

through rural Massachusel 1ms invaded this winterless land. He egan his pilgrimage this way by first wing El Paso, Tex., as a place of win to resort El Paso, the gate city to Mexio, has aji almost unendurable summer aumte, but it possesses a model winter onawhen it is a pleasure to live merely tor thlfake of living. Invalids will find the dw warm air of El Paso as good as that I: many an Italian or Mediterranean reprt during the winter months. But th American "bum" is no invalid he is a urdy vaga bond with a genuine tropical liking for the warm side of a police st ion stove, indeed. I believe he is actua sd by that semi-conscious desire all men Northern climates have to seek a wa mer clime when sharp and rigorous win sets in, freezing lakes and rivers and cnumbing fingers and toes.

Latterly quite an army American tramps have invaded Mexic working their way down the Central ilway, and reaching this cosmopolitan cap al with an instinct that surely points to them where may be found men who peak their own language. They are cun ing chaps, these American gypsies, and 11 fcpll you a thrilling tale of wrongs dojl Item by the Mexicans, of their utter and unmerited destitution, and then strike wu for the usyal small loan "till they cangetwork." I meta chap the other day ana he whined piteously. He had been stranded here without a cent, he said, the majn for whom he was to have worked having failed in business, and he bad tried to obtajta work, which I knew was untrue, at both the Central and National railways, I asked him if he had not been to see Cdl. More, the United States consul general, who has a sort of semi-parental function as regards Americans in distress. No he iad not thought of that. "Well," I remarked, "until you have made known your case to him and had it investigated I shall not give you anything." He tarned away sorrowful, giving me a look as if I were a very austere person upon whom a just and discerning Providence would soon bring well merited disaster. He never vent to the consul general, aud the last I saw of him he was working the same old racket with occasional success.

CASES or REAL DISTRESS l/t,

There is an organization here known as the American Benevolent society, which tries to do something effective for American citizens really in distress, and this society does good oftentimes, but its conductors have come to know the difference between genuine and simulated cases of distress, and when a man asks hid tfiwy test him with a meal ticket, i$r if a fellow is really hungry he* will snatch at meal ticket as if it^pye money itself. Then for the stranded Jicrt there is an ejrcelliS^ ^^titutlon known as-the "Jul jveiraupported, but

Ing a tfOfVi sum fdsitW exw»s

its buildings. /The E: tribute to thisfna^itutid'fr subject needs to g^pthep charity for tourino^mfcrj^

MATT.

BUMS" IN KND.

mem-

So tho res£ry oeservraqj American here who is in actual'distress^eed^not fear starvation. The railway managwslHways give passes out of the country to men wellriregpmmended to themjby tho benevolent society's officials. Of .course a charity passenger is^not sent jiome in a Pullman car, and t^is is resented by the tramp, who would ask for a special train if his nerve were a little more developed.

At Vera Cruz, the othe?, day, I was standing on the custom house pier watching the lateen sails of the flying water craft, absorbed in tho beadty of the scene, the tossing waters of tbe big gulf, the bright tropic sky and all tho movement of a gay and lively port. Then inhere camo an unwelcome interruption in my own native tongue, which sounds so ill nt times when the wrong man uses it to you under foreign skies. "Please, sir, could you not do something for a poor sailor in distress? I'm sick and trying to get out of this place." Tho speaker was gaunt, pale lad with eyes that could counterfeit distress most languishingly. Hfe added: "I have had no breakfast, and ty's now 0 o'clock." To this broad hint I responded by giving him a quarter and some sound advice.

WAS NOT HIS

FAtJir.

"Have you been to the American consul?" I asked. He had not but it was not his fault, for he was just out of the port hospital and did not lilo to trouble the consul. A few hours later I was taking some pale ale under an arcade wfth a Bostonian and a Baltimore*!, and soon I saw my "young sailor in distress" heave in sight He came along witi eyes down, and, not discerning mo, he stpped at our table and renewed to my Mentis his request for money, and was hungry as ever. They gave him a fo\jbits, and he went on. Shortly after I chmced to meet him and said: "Aren't you

Shamed

to be

begging in the streets, wheiiall you have to do, if your case is a goodpne, is to go to Consul Hoff?" This tirmJ did not bestow my silver upon him, l)» let him go his way. By and by I met Sim, the Sam, a lively darky, who acts ai interpreter, guide, philosopher and frieid for English and American tourists Tera Cruz. "Yah," said Sam, "you 'ja' let I know dat feller. He's one of le gang dat's struck dfe yeah town. ?'jr give him anything?" And then S»m unrolled a tale about American bttnmcrs on tbe coast of the Mexican gulfthat gave me a new idea of the ingenuit^and brass of my lower strata countrinen, who e** roaming around the war!

Sam's idea of the traniis that he fs an aristocrat, because he wf»'t work, a man who spends his occasion^ moaey in pleasure, and who goes aboutfeeeing the world. All the difference, accoling to Sam. between tbe tramp and ttafrfsh toned globe trotter is the amount I

BOOL.

The tramps read have found out that mow, with a bine a vinter, is a good corn •elf in, and from grinating chap who braska and Illinois Mexico or the Mex tbe winter.—Mexico m-'

jc carried,

found that the

trampera had some time, »ra who come handed, and the support of

been working Vera finding the generous ashore for a day's lar properly contributory afflicted "mates.*"

ipers, and they counUy without warm sun all recreate one's ^time on the perethtough No* [summer will seek border towns in

WORTH ITS WEIGHT IN GOLD.

Fortunes Made by Lucky Whalers Who Find Ambergris. The Provincetowu, Mass., whalemen have been unusually successful in their voyages within the last fifteen or twenty years, not only in the amount of oil obtained but in that of ambergris. Ambergris is a peculiar secretion found in a diseased whale, and is worth its weight in gold. It is not a buoyant article, and is only obtained by killing the whale, or the whale's dying and drifting ashore, when the lump of ambergris washes upon the beach after the carcass is decomposed. The ambergris (or sick) whales are usually found near the land, and when the stuff is picked up on shore the carcass of a dead whale is usually somewhere in the vicinity. When an apparently healthy whale is killed, and on examination appears to have very little oil, a search for ambergris is made. In appearance it is a dark gray, sticky substance, and very vile smelling. It is principally used in making perfumes, to "set" the odor, and as a refiner.

It is related that one afternoon, years ago, the schooner Gage Phillips, of Provincetown, was drifting on the whaling grounds, when the man on lookout reported that a small, peculiar looking substance was floating off the port quarter, it was taken on dock and pronounced to be some pecliar kind of West Indian gum. After being kicked around the deck for some days it was thrown carelessly into the stern boat The Phillips fell in with another whaler, and the crews exchanged visits. The visiting captain noticed the "gum," declared it was ambergris and revealed its value. It wan taken care of, and when the vessel arrived home the sale of that lump of "gum" added $0,000 to the general stock of the voyage.

Another captain of a merchant vessel, lying at anchor off one of the islands in the West Indies, discovered a lump as large as his two fists in the possession of a negro, who sold it to the captain for one flannel shirt and an old pair of pontaloons. It was sold in the states for $500. A whaling crew having secured and killed a whale, cut it in two and fronnd a dark, gray mass about the size of a half barrel. In the effort to get it on deck the leadlike mass shot downward into the fathomless sea, and at least $50,000 slipped neatly away, leaving a mad captain and a mad crew. There are living in Provincetown many retired whalers who have made fortunes in the find of ambergris, and seldom a season passes without some of her captains returning wealthy men.— Chicago Times.

Persons prematurely gray can have their hair restored to its youthful bettuty, by using Hall's Vegetable Siciliati Hair Renewer, the best article in the market. ___________________

Selling Gooda by Weight.

It in but a question of a very short time in my belief when the sale of articles of food and other materials now disposed of by "dry measure" and by "count" will be conducted entirely by weight. The Coal exchange has abolished the bushel, and all transactions in fuel both with receivers and with the consumer are by the ton. Wheat is handled in the elevators now by the hundred weight instead of the bushel. The produce men are adopting the weight system, and the retailers are following them. Potatoes and onions are sold by the pound in many groceries now instead of by tho measure. Eggs should be sold by weight, as the dozen plan is not satisfactory. There is a tendency to the adoption of the metrical system in other lines, and the young men of today will see the present Irregular measurement of inches, feet, yards, furlongs and miles succeeded by tho less confusing system in use in France.—Globe-Democrat

A Cheap Telephone.

To make a serviceable telephone trom one house to another only requires enough wire and two cigar boxes. First select your boxes, and make a hole half in inch in diameter in the center of tbe bottom of each, and then place one in each of tbe houses you wish to connect then get five pounds of common iron stovepipe wire, make a loop in one and put it through the hole in your cigar box and fasten it with a nail then draw it tight to the other box, supporting it when necessary with a stout cord.

You can easily run yottr line into the house by boring a hole through the glass. Support your boxes with slats nailed across the window, and your telephone is complete. The writer has one that is 200 yards long, and cost forty-five cents, that will carry music when the organ is playing thirty feet away in another room.— Demorest's Monthly.

There'll nothing half so meet in life (Next to the Joy* of home and wife) As a fragrant breath and pearly teeth. With hardy and rosy gam* beneath— And see these charms of which we slog Have from sweet SOZODOST their spring—

Irreproachable

Not one word of censure can justly be uttered against SOZODONT. No otber dentifrice makes the teeth so white, and yet none is so entirely free from every objectionable ingredient.

WhatSpAUMQfo's Glcb has joined cannot be pat asunder.

H2t%

1 .KubatZ^..

v.

1

Dark Waters of Superior.

How cold the dark water

!of

Lake Su­

perior is! One evening when we were steaming across that lake I asked the mate what was done when a man fell overboard. He coolly replied: "Nothing." "Why?" I asked, astonished at his heartlessness. "The water Df Lake Superior is so cold that a man cannot live in it during the time it takes to stop a rapidly moving vessel and lower a boat," he replied. Then he added: "I have sailed on this lake for twenty years. During that time I have, known many men to fall off vessels. I know of one man only who escaped death. He was saved by a scratch. Theiothers were apparently killed by the shock produced by falling into such cold Vater." He picked up an empty can to hich along string was attached and cats overboard.- The can skipped fr6m the xefe&of one WAve to that of another for hn^nstant, then dipped and filled. The noary headed mate drew the full can up and handed it to me, saying: "Take a drink of that, and then you say what you think of your chances of swimming in Lake Superior for ten or fifteen min utes." I drank deeply, and it was as though liquid ice flowed down my throat. "It Is alleged," the mate said, "that this lako never gives up its dead, that to be drowned in Lake Supe'rior is to be buried foj: all time. 1 do not know whether this is true or not. but I do know that have never seen a a corpse floating on the lake." I wonder if that is true? I doubted it, but I coukl find no sailor who had ever seen a dead body floating on the lake. Frank Wilkeson in New York Times.

The Art of Modern Cooking. The social science associations of tha country have ably discussed a large number of subjects involving the welfare of the humau race. But, so far as we ate aware, no one of them has made an earnest effort to discover the cause of the backwardness with which the useful, the indispensable art of cooking advances. The man that travels much is painfully aware of the existence of such backwardness, True, in our large cities there are enough good cooks, cooks that raise their vocation to the dignity of a profession. But these are the exceptions. The fact remains that when one gets off the great main line he discovers that as a rule the cook of the period is not a contributor to the progress of the age, but rather to dyspepsia

Why should this be so? So much cooking has been done in all parts of the world, including the Cannibal Islands, from time immemorial that it does seem as if all its secrets ought to be in the possession of all its votaries in this well advanced stage of the Nineteenth century. And yet it was only the other day that the editor of a leading New England newspaper rose with a sigh and remarked that a great popular want of that venerable section of the Union was a more general diffusion of country inns at which one could get a truly "square meal of victuals.'' And what is true of New Engp* land is measurably true of the middle states, is true with a vengeance of the south and of the hog and hominy Occident The country inn at which a truly square meal is served would seem to be the exception. Inns abound at which the bread is as heavy as an amateur epic, the coffee as difficult to settle as Dick Swiveller's debts, the steak—fried. As for the cooking in the back country of Canada— well, the United States is at peace with the Dominion, and we have no desire to Bay anything that is calculated to disturb the existing friendly relations.—Now York Tribune.

It's all very well to talk about building new Railroads and new Steamships —but how could men, women and children travel on them without Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup? Think of it. Pondor it. "Neither a borrower nor a lender be but take your own twenty-five cents, and go round to your own druggist, and buy yourself a bottle of Salvation Oil for your sprains, actios and pains.

Florida'* Snlphur Spring*.

Old Jacksonville, Fla., citizens don'tmind It much, but to tho average northerner the sulphurous Tames arising from the basinB of the three artesian wells which supply the city with water are almost overpowering. So highly impregnated with sulphur is this water that the fountain basins are thickly coated with*, the ill smelling stuff.—New York Tribune. -vY A Big Toothpick Mill.

Quill toothpicks came from France. largest factory in the world is neai Paris, where there is an annual product of 20,000,000 quills. The factory was started to make quill pens, but when these went out of use it was turned into a toothjpick mill.—Chicago Herald.

4

Our liabiea.

How they are healthy and hai Food. It is easil_ prepared for use is identical with healthy mother's milk. It is both the best and tho most economical food.

j) A Myntery Explained. First I»ady (to new found friend)—Yon are the most fortunate of women. I did not believe such a perfect angel of a man could exist.

Second Lady (mystified)—I beg pardon. First Lady—I refer to your husband's liberality in money matters. He handed yon that money with as little hesitation as if he had been a lover Instead of the husband of years.

Second Lady (quietly)—It's my money. —Omaha World. No sufterer from any scrofulous disease. who will fairlv try Ayer's Sarsaparilla, need dispair of a cure. This remedy purges the blood of all impurities, destroys the germs of scrofula, and infuses new life and vigor throughout-1 the physical organization.

Perhaps no local disease has puzzled aud baffled the medical profession more than nasal catarrh. While not immediately fatal it is among the most distressing. nauseous and disgusting ills the flesh is heir to, and the records show very few or no cases of radical cures of chronic catarrh by any of the multitude of modes of treatment until tbe introduction of Ely's Cream Balm a few years ago. The success of this preparation has been most gratifying ana surprising.

English Spavin Liniment removes all Hard, Soft, or Calloused Lumps and Blemishes from horses, Blood Spavin, Curbs, Splints. Sweeney, Stifles, Sprains, Sore and Swollen Throat, Coughs, etc. Save$50 by use of one bottle. Warranted. Sold by W. C. Buntin, Druggist, Terre Haute, Ind. tf.

For The Nervous The Debilitated The Aged

URB8 Nemai Prottration.Mervoaaffead* ache,Neuralgia, Narvoua Weakness,

Stomach and Liver Diaeaaes, and aU affection* of the Kidneys.

A8 A NERVE TONIOf It Strengthen sod Qnteta the Nerves. AS AN ALTERATIVE, It Purifies sad Soricbea the Blood.

A8 A LAXATIVE, It sets mildly, but sorely, on the Bowels. AS A DIURETIC, It Begnlstes tbe Kidneys and Cores their Diseases. Beoora mended by proftariontl and borincM mat Price |i4o. Sold by druggists. Sead for dmilrab WELLS, filCHARDSOM S CO., Proprietor*

BURLINOTOM. VT. -CALL ON—

JOHN R. EAGER,

-I**"

Fire," :(Life, Accident

Aim OTBXB ,-r,

XISRSTJR-AJSRCS I

No. 11 North Sixth Street.

v»