St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 2, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 July 1894 — Page 2

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fX M jKw\ •w WWw Trt^wHU) 1 mfTY Xp z _o CHAPTER XX—Continued. “My pet," said Lord Clanyarde. in a pleading tone, "I have brougnt a new doctor to see you. a gentleman who may be ab’e to understa d your ease even better than our friend Webb.” “Noone ever kn 'W her constitution as well as 1 do," commented Dr. Webb, sotto voce. Constance raised iter heavy eyelids and looked at her fa h >r with a Inn piid wonder as if the figures standing by her couch were faraway, and she saw them faintly in the distance, without knowing what they were. The new doctor did not go through the usual formula of pube and tongue, nor did he ask the old-established questions, but lie seated him-e's quietly by Constance Sinclair's sofa and began to ta’K to her in a low voice, while Dr. Webb and Lord Clanyarde withdrew to the oth. rend of the room, where Gilbert was standing by atablo, absently turning over th • leaves of a book. “You have had a great sorrow, my dear lady,"said th • German doet >r, in that low'ami confidential tone which sometimes finds its way to ths clouded brain \fhen louder and clearer accents convey no meaning. “You have ha I a great sorrow, and have given way to grief as if there were noeomfort either in earth o • in h -aven. Constance listened with lowered eyelids, but a look of attention cam ■ into her face presently, which the doctor jierceived. “Dear lady, there is always e; inert in heaxen: there is sometimes consolation on earth. Why can von not hope for some sudden, unlooked-for happiness, some great joy such as God has sometimes given to mourners like you."' Your child was drowned, you think. What if you were deceived when you believed in her death? What if she was saved from the river? Ido no) w»v that it is so. but you can not lx I »» -uu UWtt IflMI long?" asked Gilbert, impatiently. “He is talking to her about het child," replied I ord Clanyarde. “H< wants to make her cry if he can. Hea great, psychologist.” “Does that mean a great humbug asked Gilbert. “It sounds like it.” "Hope and comfort are coming t< you, dear Mrs. Sinclair.” said the German do tor; “be sure of that." Again Constance looked at him curiously; but at the sight of the smokccolorod speda •es an i the .-allow old face, halt covered with white hair, turned away her eves with a sigh. If she could have seen eyes that looked honestly into hers, it might have giv< u force to that promi-o of e tn'ori, but this blind oracle wa* to > mysterious. She gave a long sigh and kept -ilent. The Doctor looked at the open piano on the other si e of the fireplace. nd remained in thoughtful silence fora few moments. “Does vour mist ess sing-omei ime- -' he asked Murtha Briggs, who sat or guard by the sofa. “No, sir. not since she’s been so ill, but she plays sometimes, by snatches lieautiful. It would go to your heart t hear her.” “Will you sing to me," a ked the Doctor, “if you are strong enough to ga to the piano? Pl ase. try to sing." Constance koked at him with the same puzzled gaze, and then tried t< rise. Martha supported her on one side, the Doctor on the other, as she feebly ti ttered to the piano. “I’ll sing if you like.” she said, in ; careless tone t hat told her how fa” the mind was from consciou-ness of the present. “Papa likes to hear me sing.’ She seated herself at the piano, and her singe s wandered slowly over the keys, and wandered on in a dreamy few minutes to Vuis .The gios, and then, bending over the piano, played the few' notes of a familiar svm phony. Constance gave a faint cry of surprise, and struck a chord, the chord that closed the symphony, and began “Strangers Yet." in apathetic voice that h id a strange hysterical power in curious contrast with the feebleness of the singer. She sang on till she came to the words “child and parent.” These touched a sensitive chord, and she rose suddenly from the piano and burst into tears. “That may do her good,” said Dr. Webb, approvingly. “My friend is no‘ fool," replied Lord Clanyarde. "Take your mistress to her room," said Gilbert to Martha, with an angry look. This is only playing upon ne'r nerves. Iwi nder you can allow such folly. Lord C lanyard? I” "Your own doctors have agreed that some shock was necessary, somethin«■ to awaken her from apathy. Door pot; those tears are a relief." answered the tattier. He went to his dam htcr and assisted in arranging the pillows as she lavdown on the sofa. Martha calmly ignored her m ister's order. The German doctor bent over Mrs. Sinclair for a moment, and whispered the one word, “Hope,” and then retired with the three other gentlemen. “Would v ° u like to prescribe anything?" asked Dr. Webb, taking the strainer into a little room off the hall. “No; it is a case in which drugs are useless. Hop* is the only remedy tor

Mrs. Sinclair's disease. She must be beguiled with hope, oven if it is do- , lusive.” “What?” cried Dr. Webb, “would you trifle with her feelings, play upon the ! weakness of her mind, and let her awaken by and by to find herself deluded? ” ' “1 would do anything to snatch her ' from the jaws of death,” answered the I German doctor, unhesitatingly. “If I h< pe is not held out to her. she will die. You see her fading day by day. Do you think there is any charmin’ vour modi ines that will bring her buck to life? ’ “1 fear not sir," answered Dr. Webb ; despondently. , ! “Then you or those who love her I must find some more potent influence, i She is heart-broken for the loss of her child. She must be taught to think that her child is still living.” "But when her mind grows stronger it would be a still heavier blow todis- • cover that she had boon d eel. cd." "Sho would be better able to bear the blow when health and strength had returned, and she might have formed an attachment in the meantime which w. uld console her in the hour of disillusion." “1 don't understa id." faltered Dr. Webb. “I'll make myself clearer. A child must be brought to Mrs. Sinclair, a little girl of about the age of her own baby, and sh m ist b* jwrsua Ie I t > believe, now while her brum is clouded. that her own child is given back to her.” “A cruel deception. ” cried Dr. Webb • “No; only a desperate remedy. । Which are her friends to do d reive ; her, or let he ■ die'? In her present ' condition of mind she will ask no ques- • tions: she will not speculate up* n , pro! abihties. Sho will lake the child ’ ; to her breast as a gift from hi' ivn. ’ A mind distraught i* always ready to Indieve in the marvelous, to imagine 1 i it elf the object of supernatural intervention." Dr. Webb looked thoughtfully and half convinced. This German physi 1 . eian, who sp ke good English, seemed ’ i to have studied hi- subject deeply. Dr. I Webb was no psychologist, I ut ho hail seen in the m- ntallv a'llicted th it very ’ i love of the marvelous which Dr. Ho 1 lendorf spike about. And what hope 1 had he of saving his puti nt Ala* , none It would be a cruel thing t > put " a spurious child in ho arms, t<> trG'c I with a nu ther's saered feelings: b it it ' । life and reason c mid l>o saved by thi* i means and no other, surely the ft an I * would l»e a pious one. ' ' "Mr. Sinclair would never consent, • I sal 1 Dr. Webb. 1 j “Mr. Sim air must lie made t » con- ; sent. I have already sugge-t-d this ’ ist ‘p to Le d ( lanyard,', and ho up- । '* bring his .A . * —* M . Sttv'lsilr. hf r. * ♦ O r faithful We! b "His manner d<»cs not 0 d । him justice. The pur man has s I I con in a most m serable c indition ever since Mr-. Sinclairs illness a> । sumo ian ala’mine aq>ec! Will vou ■ make this suggestion t • him । repose o our introdue nx a strange child?" .. । “I would rather the pro|H>*a! should | come from I.ord Ghinyaide," an-wered . i the strange d ctor, looking at hi--.waich. “I must U et bick to fxmdon I by the next train. I shall tell laird : < .anvarde my opinion as he drivi s me f t • the station. 1 think I have mad 1 1 my ideus -uTcie itlv c oar tovo.i, Dr. „ Wobli " 5 "q'uito so, quite s i," cried the little j man, whose mother wa • an AL'tile u i woman, "it is a most extraordina v 0 thing, Dr. Holl >t dorf. that a.the :gh 1 j : have never had the honor of meeting a | you b< tore, your voice is very familiar I to me.” I "My devr sir, do you supp -e that n Nature can give a di-tim - ive v ■ ice ’ ■ - eve -y unit in an overcowdod world? I, You might hear mv voice in the le. - i, eos to-m utow. There would b 'r.oti.i inz e\trantdimi' y in that.’’ “<)f course, of e mrs.-. ,\n a eie de ital re embianee " asse ited D■. o j \\ ebb. The German would tak ■ no fee; ho e had e m > a- Lord Glauva de’s friend. ° ■ and he drove away in Lord Glanyar.ie ~ 0 ; bn ugham without any further loss of e j time. Gilbert Sinclair an i his friend dea vot d the rest of the evening to bille । iards, with frequent refreshment on $ Gilbert s part in the way of brandy. “You talked the other day ab >ut a finding a purchaser for this confounded 0 old barrack.” said Mr. SinckUu^jd, v hate the place mo.-v every. '■ I is eustin >■ me r.oend Os ( j ^vu*u ..<*n (umnTTng down • oi diam vettmg choked up to ^av nothing of keeping up a lar-e stab e here as well as at Newmarket.” ’ hy not give up Newmarket?" sug-ge-ted Mr. Myatt, with his common--1 sen.-e air. . I m not such a fool. Nemarket gives ,me some pleasure, and thi* place gives me none.' j \ Ol .' ,n,IsT keep upa home for Mrs. , Sinclair, aim a London house would , i htrdly l»e suitable in her present , i state.” i । । "I can take her to Hastings or Vent- . । nor. or to my box at Newm irket, if it, | comes to that.” I ■ isn tit better for her to be near her ifather?” "What dots she want with her fath- - or, an old twaddler like Clanyarde, ■ without a thought beyond the trossip of his club? Don't humbug, Wyatt. You told me you could put your linger i on a ) urchaser. W’as that bosh, or aid I you mean it?” ' “It was not bosh,” answered Wyatt: I ; : but I wanted to bo quite sure von ■ | were in earnest before I p ished'my i । proposal any further. You m’ght consider it an impertinence for me to think of -uch a tning.” "\Vhat are you driving at?" "M ill you sell Davenant to me?” Gilbert drooped his billiard cue and I sto a staring at his friend in blank | ama ement. Here was a new sttte of things, indeed. The professional man 11 catling on the heels of the millionaire. Y on. ’ he exclaimed, with contemptuous surprise. “I did not think

fifteen per cent, and renewals CMlld made so profitable.” Could “ “I’m too thick-skinned to resent the ‘ insinuation, ’ said .lames Wyatt rush toning his ppponent’s ball. “I L n | ford to buy Davenant for the price you I gave foi it. I ve got just enough money disengaged I sold out of Palermos the other day when they were up to provide the purchase money. I brought down a deed of transfer, and if you are in earnest we can settle the business to-morrow morning." “You're bu\ ing the place ai a speculation,” said Gilbert, suspiciously. I “Not exactly. But what would it i matter to you if 1 were? You want to get rid of the place. I am ready to ! । take it otf your hands." | “You have heard of a bid from some- ’ i body* else?” “No, 1 have not." “Well, you're a curious fellow. Going i to got married, I suppose, anil turn ' country squire.” । “Never mind my plans. Do yqu mean I to sell?" “Yes.” j “Then I'm ready to buy." * The deed was executed nest morning. Gilbert st pulate I thatsho was not t > surrender tne hou-e tHlg^e inidsumtner quarter, and that wai t i take the Limit ire <li >n. . . Mr. Sinclair was much pl^^* ?' 1 h the idea of getting ba k flvo^a^t’hirty thousand nounds of ready for a place the purchase of which Wad been a whim, and of the occupation vhnreal he was heartily tired. Those ntiners ot

the nortii were still holding out, an I money had n t been flowing Into his coflers nearly so faH as it had been flowing out during th > last half year. Ho had made unlucky ba gains in horseflesh squandered his money on second rate stock, and in winning small i aeos th it were not worth his people's traveling expenses. | n a word, ho had done all th > e f<K>'.i-h things which an i lie man who thi iks himself extremely clever, and yet lends an ear to every new adviser, is apt to do. "Eive-and-thirty, thou’ will put mo into smooth water." he said, a« ho sign d the contract with a flourish. Tae one suspicion as to Mr. Wyatt s intentions, which would have prevented Gilliert Sinclair agreeing to tho bargain, had never present -d itself to his min I. Jame* Myatt went back to Ixmdon that alt'rnoo.i, promising to meet his client next day at the Argyle street bran h >»f the Cni m Bank, and hand

over the purchu e money. At eight o ' hiek t at evening he pre enV d himse f at >ir • vprian Dav enant s cham- * iters He so n d his friend sit ing alone among bis Ihh>ks, smoking an Indian hookah. • • M'va'l.n’d fellow, this is a «mrnri**'," said Gyprian. as they shook nnnls. ‘ Have you dined? ’ "Thank-, ye*; I to ik a chop at tho Garrick. T vojuMC me from I‘avonant " 1 Indeed: How i< Mr- Sinclair?’ I “Pretty much the same, poor souk How long is it since you heard of her?" "1 saw Ixtrd Glanyarde at his club about a week ago. ” “WoU. there's been no change lately. > S<»mrthing wrong with the mind, you -s o, and a gradual ebbing ay, of s atr< ngtii. »bw'a uvt 4r " worhn Ihi nfrnid hut ®h«' *«• *t . naicr PiOWMHV ' _”- —- ' Iman nwH* appreciate t jienrls. ’ said sir t yprian. - “What would you give to gel Daven* ii ant ba k-“ n-ketl Mr. Wvatt. without - preface. i "What would I give? Anything > half my fortune.” "What is your fortune worth?" Almut a hundred am! fifty thouI sand." - "Wei 1 ., them 1 sha’n t want «o much i as half <>f it, though your offer is 1 tempting Davcnant is mine.“ > “Yes. at the pric you got for it, with another five thou-and its a sporting b d for th*' furnitu o and improvements. - Give mo tivc-and-twenty |or cent, on i my purcha-o ami Davenant is yours. ’ . v "Willingly. But how about Mrs. I Sind, ir.- Will it not grieve her t; ' £ thi* plftCf*.* i “Whether or n>. the pla eis sold. I t.-l! y oil. sir Gv p: ian. 1 stand L-foro j you tho owner of Davenant and all .t- --, appurtenances. I did not buy it for - mvself, but on the >j>eculation that, aI b night i‘ cheap, you would be glad to give me a profit on my purchase. I knew Sinclair well enough to be very ,-urc that he would let the roofrotover li - read before he would consent tc sell t e place to y ou." "You have done a friendly thing, M’v att. ami I thank y. u. I should hesitate. perhaps, in agreeing to such a , bargain were any other man than Mr. Sinclair in question, but I do not feel myself bmn l t । stand upon punctilio with him. ■ Dunetiiio. mm! There's no punct lio to stand upon. Sinclair sold the the estate to me. unconditionally, and I I have an indisputable right to -sell it

to you. | Paris’ < it^TFTFTrTJT^Tj A . 1 Some forty or fifty yen-s agox^^cat* aemibs of i’ari* were tlie of 3 daily visits, ami the sight wai one i which every vi-itor to Paris feltca’led upon t > see. Accidents, however, f;o- . quently took plae ■. and at present no one enters the latacombs except at , certain periods of the year, when the engineers have to make a formal report as to their condition. The ventilation is efleeted bv means of numerous hole* communicating with the upper air. The names of visitors are called < ver before they go down and again when they come up. The general aspect of the place is not so solemn as night be imagined, ft suggestsTather : a \ast wine cellar, in which the cases inclose bones instead of bottles. The ■ . .C I nn-i k - --

reucs of 4,0pj,00 i persons nqw repose th-re. This subterranean city contains streets and passages like the citv above. Footing the Bills oT the Fair. The American custom of paying for your friends in cases or restaurants ’ prevails in Spain, though nowhere else on the continent, says a traveler. Formerly gentlemen who accompanied । ladies on their shopping expeditions were in the habit of paying for everything their fair friends bought, so^that gallantry became a too expensive luxury, and the custom wisely died out. It used t > be said in Andalusia, where women were more extravagant than in the north, that a long purse was neede 1 for a short walk with a lady. The custom is obsolete now, and she who allows you to make purchases fdf her is supposed to be devoid of high breeding. ।

SENATORS IN DANGER. SUGAR SCANDAL MAY POSSIBLY LEAD TO ARRESTS. Thre. Prominent Statesmen Said to Have Perjured Themselves In the Recent Inveetlgatlon—Talk of Criminal Proeecutlon And Exposure. Sugar Bomb May Burst. It is reported here, on what is said

I to be good authority, says a Washing- ! ton correspondent, that, despite the denials of speculation and the sworn j statements of Senators who had been called before the investigating committee, it would be proven that in j three instances at least speculation had been engaged in, and that the | three Senators referred to had been guilty of perjury. An interesting story’ is going the , rounds—a story so startling in its do- , tails that it is almost past belief. It is i said there is a man in Washington who * n bis possession the original : broker's contract whereupon one of ( the Senators —a prominent one at that I —contra-ted to buy sugar when it was down to just before its phenomenal rise. It is said that int iresti ed persons “short” on sugar, and who ‘ had ban-r -♦

manipiTraTlhg the market, or because they did not have the "inside tip,” had lost an immense amount of money, and had determined so break the sugar schedule at all hazards. The most interesting pa’t of the story is the way in which they intend to set this schedule aide. It is by no other prme-s than bv the arrest of a certain Senator on a charge of perjury. In a criminal * use of this kind, it is said, stock broker * would l»e compelled to show their bo< ks in c >urt and the persons back of this scheme say they can pr >ve, not only by tbe eviden' e they now claim to have, but by what tl oy could thus lay bare, that somebody la* lx*en doing some tall lying before the investigating committee. It Is thought this particular Senator, rather than submit to such proceeding*, would undo the work it is said he has assis ed in doing, and through the influence he i* said t * yield, sugar would b'* placed on the free 1 st. and tho men

“short" of tho stock would recoup their , capital dropped while they were on the wrong side of tho market. OUR FORTY FiFTH STATE. Vt»h Another Star to Old Glory'# Blue. By a few strokes of hh pen Grover Cleveland made operative the bill which provides for the admission of 1 tah t«> tho Union us a State. By the condition* of admission this, oar fortyfl th Mate, will have full powers of statehood upon tho c luimencemont of the next session of Congress-—that is, she Is to send no Representatives or Senators to tho pro-cut * ongro-s. 1 tnh, with an area of M. 47G square mi e':. had in I*9 1 a population of 2n7.Daft oka. Nevada <* -Wvomim?. 7 T’tah is divided into twenty counties. Salt I ako < ity is the capital and largest city. I tah is divide) into two pints by the Wahsatch mountains. Tho west part belongs to the great basin, its waters having no outlet to tho icean. while the east part is drained bv tho Colored > River of the West This river is formed by the junction of the Grand and Green, and fluws southwe-t into Arizona. M ost of tho M’ah-atc i Mountain* are several lakes, of which th* se with no outlet are salt or alkaline. Tho largest of the-o tv d th<> most famous is the Great .-alt Lake. Smith of this lake, into wit ch it flows through the Giver Jo dan, forty-live miles long, is I tah Lake, a sheet of pure fresh water aliounding in fish. In the valleys tho climate is generally mild and heal hfnl. with little snow. (»n th" mountains tho winters aro — *vore and the -nowfall is more ahun ant. Much of the -oi. of Utah is fertile, and by thorough irrigation can lo made to produce good crops. But the pl: in* in thei • natural state are for the most part hard, dry and barren and frequently covered with a sa ine incrustation. Tho principal agiicu.tural products are wheat, oats, barley, point e* and other r* ot crops, Apple*, pears, peaches, plums and grapes grow vvdl. Grazing i* conducted on a larger scale than is agriculture. U ah so: ms part of the territory a- - fr. m Mexico in I*4'. It was settled in I'l7 by the M rmoi * under Brigham Young. I tah —named from a tribe of Indians o that name—was organized as a Territory in I'.'O. and embraced 220,190 square miles. Within its limits were portions of what

--- ...... W < K J. . - have since b *come Co’orado. Wvommzr GROVER SPEAKS OUT. Letter from Him Indorsing the Wilson Bill Read in the House. A Washington dispatch says: Intense intere.-t was created by Mr. Wilson's announcement in the House Thursday that he had a letter from President Cie eland. which the latter had permitted to l> a make public. Th? letter was ■ then sent to the desk and read amid profound si ence. T. e letter was in the Presidents v'go ons stv e. and was a stirring trib.it • t > the Wilson bib and a direct blow at anv surrender t > the Senate bill. The letter was accompanied by a ,-peech fr. in Mr. Wilson. He renounced the Senate and the manner in which the

House members had been treated m the conference. With unmistakable suggestion he declared that, should it be proved that the sugar trust had corruptly influenced legislation, it was the duty of Demo rats to make a bitter reprisal on this conspiracy bv sweeping aside the duty on relined sugar. Sparks from the Wires. The cost of the census up to this time is $10,c65,667. It is proposed to erect, a monument to John Brown on the site of the historic enginehouse at Harper's ferry Dynamite was placed under a railway bridge near South Enid, Ok., and the structure was partly demolished. Dynamite was placed on the Northern Pacific tracks at Sauk Rapids Minn.,and exploded under a train.’ Ths cars were wrecked, but no one was injured. 1 1

PATRIOTISM. ( XV hy Scotchmen Should Commemvrate the Bat tie of Bannockburn. Patriotism is a noble quality and । American citizens of foreign birth i need be none the less patriot! • to the land of their adoption, because they ; glory in the grand achievements that illustrate the h storlcal pages of the land of their b rth. The following letter from Hon. J. B. White of Fort i Wayne, Ind., appears in a late issue <>f the ’‘British American.” pub

i 1 ished in Chicago: Editor Western Brit sh American: j —in your last issue appears an epistle fro n Mr. Robert Matheson, deplor- 1 ing th • action of the Chicago Scotch in commemorating the battle of Bannock burn. Please let me say to Mr. Matheson that he has made a great mistake in writing such a letter and a greater mistake in not taking part in the services on that occasion. ■ There was not a word said by the | wo thy preacher that even an Eng- > l IDlbuuu ’ ould have taken otlen-e at. Y ; this sermon on the subject, was not [ I Conttned exclusivel. to the battle but t to all that the battle implied, viz: a i preserving ot the Scottish people - from obliteration. It was a most - worthy and proper “theme” and it ’ is not too much to say that the •1 lUUWfiVr^jJurtntyetr Um UVUllt lli S

a most tided and instructive manner, so much so that each one who heard it was pleased and gratified at being present. Your humb e servant on the evening previous was returning from Springfield. 111, where he nad made a pilgrimage to the grave of the immortal Lincoln, and had his attention called to such a meeting by reading an article in the Inter t cean of that day, from the len of Mr. M Ewan. It was the first intimation 1 had of such a m eting. In place of going light home 1 felt a sense o’ patriotic duty compelled me to stay over night in Chicago and take part in the demonstration, whi di I did, and 1 assure Mr. Matheson and all others who were not there they missed hearing one of the most religio is and patriotic discourses that ever was delivered.

Th? Chi ago societies deserve much credit for their step in this direct on. 1 atriotlsm is the highest, no lest, ami most exalted trait of man. It cannot le overdone —the keeping in remembrance the great tradition and sacrifices our an estors made for the welfare of Scotland. Without such heroic services os those which out forefathers made Scotland, in place of being married to England as Mr. Matheson says, would have been dragged in bondage at England’s chariot wheels. Doe- any Scotchman want, that? Would any Schotchman rejoice if such was the case? Yet sucn would have been the case hut 4 Uj® world’s history as the greatest | and most terrific battle that was ever tought for the fieedom of mankind. The great Marathon was a sK rmish in comparison to it. and yet Mara* t bon is commemorated every day by a Gro ian demonstration on the battlefield, and instead of wakening six cent lies as Bannockburn does, it wakes up twenty-four centuries. Then why should .'cotchmen aot celebrate their deliverance in keeping with all other patriotic history. Does Mr. Matheson think it will make them less tr :e and devoted British subjects? It so he is greatly mistaken; the British name and honor has not been sullied by Scotchmen. Hut if he expect* t • make them Eng. lish sub ects, then he must pause and consider. This never will be done; never will be brought about, so long as in the language of the r cotish Gommission, who in 1326 was treating for peace, a hundred Scotchmen remain alive. Ai out giving offense to Englishmen that s pure-ilhne-s Scotchmen ask no favor from Englishmen; if they did, depend upon it, they would go without- You might as well ask our people to give up celebrating the Fourth of July: to not permit the reading of the Declaration oi Independence, be ause forsooth h «jay give offense to those who were our Nation’s oppressors. It will l.e a sorry dav f.jr a people when they have to hide their great and good and glorious history in a corner.

Antoniatic Cotton Minder. u ‘ /utomutic winder pf cotton thread has t run- ^*V* ;YTC3', ,< l ueeliUULm which takes a thread from eight large spools containing 200 yards. These small spools having leceived 200 yards exactly, slop revolving, a knife cuts a slot in the spool, the end of the thread is fastened in this. The machine then cuts the thread off, drops the spool into a trao, takes eight einf.tv spools from as many hoppers, places them on the spindles and tills these as it did the previous set. The machine goes through the entire process in „ust forty-five seconds, making all changes autountically and with great precision, further, in another machine, the small spools are placed on an incline

track, and in roll ngthioughthe machine receive on each end a ticket cut from a long strip or roll of previously printed tickets placed on a stand above the machine. A ter the ticket is cut paste is applied to the back, and it is then pressed upon the spool, which has rolled into proper position to receive it. this at the rate of ninety spools per minute. Every cloud has a silver lining, but it is generally on the upper side, where you can't see it. A woman who does a great deal of ho sework acquires a trot that is acquired nowhere else. We would like to see a freight car that wasn’t sway-backed.

MIRACLE IN MISSOURI The Achievements of Medical Science Far More Wonderful than the Magic of the East. The Remarkable Experience of Postmaster Woodson, of Panama, Mo.—For Ten Years a Cripple—To-day a Well and Hearty Man. (From the Kansas City Times.)

Tho people of Rich Hill, Mo., and vicinity have recently been startled by a seeming miracle of healing. For years one of the best-known men in Bates and Vernon Counties has been Mark M. Woodson, now postmaster at Panama, and brother of ex-State Inspector of Mines C. C. Woodson, of this city. The people of Rich Hill, where he fori merly resided, and of his present home remember well the bent form, misshapen almost from the semblance of man, which has painfully bowed its head half to earth and labored snaillike across the walks season after seai son, and when one day last month it st! alghtened to its full Keiglst, threw I away laeavy 'bvutt. of cu.no which for । ] yeax’S had been it* oniy support li'om. A total helplessness, and walked erect, firmly, unhesitatingly about the two E cities, people looked and wondered. [ The story of the remarkable case has G become the marvel of the two counties, j Exactly as Tur. vruvSSGu told it to a

Times reporter, it is here published.“For ten years I have suffered the torments of the damned and have been a useless invalid; to-day I am a well and hearty man, free from almost every touch of pain. I don't think man ever suffered more acute and constant agony than I have since 1884. The rheumatism started then in my right knee, and after weeks of suffering in bed I was at last relieved sufficiently to arise, but it was only to get about on crutches for five years, the ailment having settled in the joint. Despite constant t.eatment of the most eminent physicians the rheumatism grew worse, and for the last four years I have been compelled to go about bent half toward the ground. In the winter of 1890-91. after the rheumatism had settled into its most chronic form, I went to Kansas City upon advice of my b other, and for six weeks I was treated in one of the largest and beat-known ■ dispensaries of that city, but without the slightest improvement Before I

came homo I secured a strong gah amo battery: this I used for months with the same result. In August, 1892, I went to St. Louis, and there conferred with the widely known Dr. Mudd, of hospital practice fame, and Dr. Kale, of the city hospital. None of them would take my case with any hope of affording me more than temporary relief. and so I came home, weak, ddubled with pain, helpless and despondent “About this time my attention was called to the account of a remarkable cure of locomotor ataxia, rheumatism and paralysis by Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. I ordered some of the pills as an experiment When I began to take them, the rheumatism had developed into a nh’iso of naralvsis: my leg, from the the cane. I was able to attend to the duties of my office, to get about as a well and strong man. I was free from pain and I could enjoy a sound and , restful night s sleep, something I had not known for ten years. To-day am practically and, I firmly believe, permanently cured of my terrible and agonizing ailment. No magician of the Far East ever wrought the miracle with his wand that Dr. Williams’ Pink Pill* did for me.” To verify the story beyond all question of doubt. Mr. Woodson made the following affidavit: State of Missouri, ) County of Bates, f I. M. M. Woodson, being duly sworn, on my oath state that the following statements are true and correct, as I verily believe. M. M. WOODSON. Subscribed and sworn to before ma this 3d day of March, 1894. JOHN D. Moore, Notary Public. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are manufactured by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady. N. Y., and are sold only in boxes bearing the firm’s trade mark and wrapper, at 50 cents a box. or six boxes fo.’ 82.20. Bear in mind that Dr. Williams’ Fink Pills are never sold in bulk or by the dozen or hundred, and any dealer who offers substitutes in this form is trying to defraud you and should be avoided. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company. New Fad in Diet. Vegetarians are outdone by a new diet-reform prophet, who advocates the eating of natural uncooked food^_ Hi- name is Macdonald, and he

to have gained a sm dl number cf adherents in Paris. It is a part of the T^tem he advocates never to eat or drink anything but vegetable foods and natural liquids, precisely iu the state in which they are found tn nature. Hot drinks of ail kinds are specially condemned, although it is not quite ea y to see how the use of water from natural hot springs would run counter to the principle laid down. Carrots and turnips, beans and potat es. we must eat raw. it seems, if we value our health, and fruit we must eat just as nature gives it to us. \\ hether this means that we must n t peel an apple is n t stated. Mr. Macdonald himself eats raw catmeal not earn , which, as a Scotchman, he thinks not only extremely nourishing, but paiatable as well. —London DailyNews. J

A Prciliar Bridge. It is claimed that a recently completed bridge over the south branch of the Chicago I iver is the only one of its kind in existence, and it is certainly a i adieal departure from common methods. the principle upon which it works being that of raising or lowering a window. On either bank rises a tower of lattice-work 191 feet high. The bridge, 89 feet in span and weighing duo tons, extends between them, its ends fitting into grooves. It is fitted with counterweights, cables, and pulleys, all of which are governed bv a 70-horse-power steam engine. When the bridge is to be opened the engineer throws off the balance, and the bridge rites smoothly and horizontally in its grooves, halting at a height of 155 teet. It is probable that so ingenious a structure is by no means the last of its kind, as its advantages in certain situations are self-evident.