St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 31, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 23 February 1895 — Page 2

HER CHINESE PUPIL. A WOMAN CURIOUS TO KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT HIM. To Enable Herself to Study Him She Becomes a Sunday-School Teacher, aud Visits the Opium Joint of Her Heathen Charge—What She Learned. A woman who signs herself Dorothy Dare, curious to know why so many (White women become fond of the Chinese, secured a position as a teachei 'll! a Chinese Sunday school in New (York, and very interestingly describes her experience with the would-be ChrisJUan, both in school and in ids opium joint. At her request one of the worstlooking creatures in the whole school (Was given her as a pupil, ‘‘lie was, says Miss Dare, “big, fat and greasy, and when I sat down beside him he ►—-— ■ —“ - if “MISSY NICU r.l’u UH L.’' 2^5 hS chafr'close - 'to mine. While I was looking through the lesson books ihe was making an inventory of my persona 1 appea ranee. “What is your name?’’ I asked, bestowing upon him one of my choicest smiles. “Ben Wung. What you name?" j “Missy,” was my reply. “Missy nice li’l glul,” he returned, quickly. "Not tloo voung, not tloo old.” “We must attend to our lessons,” I eaid, severely. “It is not right to talk When all the rest are studying.” I He read quite well, and was a credit to his regular teacher’s instructions. But he evidently was not in the humor for study, for, after a while, he shut the book with a bang, and informed me he was tired and couldn’t read any longer. Thinking I had better go to headquarters to see what was to be done next, I rose from my chair. As I did so, Ben Wung caught hold of my dress. “Where you go?” he asked. । “To speak to Mrs. M.,” I said. ’ “You come again?” i So he released my dress and let mo ro“Ben Wung won’t study any more,” I said to the teacher; “he wants to talk, and 1 am not inclined to talk to him. .Can’t I read with one of the others?” । “Oh, my dear! that wouldn’t do at all!” exclaimed the little woman in great alarm. “If you go to any of the others, he will leave the room and never come back!” Seeing how troubled she looked over .the probable loss of such a dirty, disrep.utable sheep from her fold, 1 relented. “Well, I’ll go back to the beast, but he flatly refuses to study or read, so 1 won’t know what to do with him.” “Talk, if he wants to, my dear. Who knows but you may be able to speak the Word in good season?” When I sat down by the greasy Wung again, he began: “Missy Molehen. All old hens come here. You nice lil glul. You teach next Sunday ?” “Perhaps.” “I bling you nuts, candy, nice things. I bling lil black blalls; make you sleep nlice dleams.” “Dope?” I whispered. How bis wicked little eyes danced, as he gave his chair a hitch and pressed close against me! “You know dope?” he whispered, j I nodded. “You come see my laundiy. I give you pipe," he said in low tones. Just then the closing bell rang, and I barely had time to scribble Wung’s address before the last hymn was given ®ut. As the pupils filed out Wung whispered in my ear: "You no tell?” I shook my head and gave him a sweet smile. The very next day I went to the East Side to find Wung’s laundry. It was a dingy little den, quite as dirty as Wung himself. When I entered Wung was talking to a customer. When she had gone 'Wung locked the door. Before I fairly knew what he was about ho had pulled down the heavy red curtain and ““KEEP YOVR HANOS OFF ME, YOU MISERABLE CREATURE?’ pulled me into the inner room. Pushing a chair toward me, he said, insinuatSngly: “You. no ’flaid me?” “No,” I answered. “I cook some dope. We smoke pipe.” “I don’t know how,” was my reply. “That’s lie,” he exclaimed, angrily. “Iteally, I don’t, Wung.” I repeated; “I never smoked a bit of opium in my life.” “You no tell truth,” retorted Wung, as ho scowled at me. “I see it at Sunday school, here and there,” putting his finger as he spoke first to one eye and then the other; “you smoke dope plenty time.” And then I saw that to the heathen mind there was no difference between the heavy eyelids of the victim of in-

somnia and the flabby lids of the dope fiend. That, then, was the reason Ben Wung had taken to me so promptly. The room into which I had been somewhat forcibly ushered was a dirty little cubbyhole, containing a bed, a table and two little chairs. When the opium was ready, Wung drew the other chair close to mine, seated himself and put the layout on his knee. "We smoke pipe,” he said, leering at me, "and then we have nice sleep.” “No, we won’t,” 1 exclaimed, thinking the affair had gone far enough. As I arose from the chair he pushed me back roughly. “You stay here!” ho hissed, all his evil nature flashing through his wicked eyes. His sudden movement caused him to drop one of the pipes, and as he stepped to pick it up 1 saw my opportunity. It was the work of a moment to give the creature a violent push, and in the twinkling of an eye Wung, the chair and the layout were all in a bunch on the floor! How he swore, and how sorry I was Jot I could not understand -the Chinese language! He was fat and clumsy, and the chair was lying on his head. I could not help laughing as 1 stepped i around him carefully and made a dash for the outside door. i Imagine my dismay to find that he had withdrawn the key! And even as I fumbled at the knob he was beside me. looking uglier and more wicked than ever. As he grasped my arm I drew back and said: “Keep your hands off me, you miserable creature, and unlock this door at once!" “You stay here,” he began, but went no further, for I had drawn a revolver from my pocket and bad pointed it straight at his face. “No shoot! No shoot!” he Implored, backing away from me and presenting in his sudden and abject cowardice a most ludicrous contrast to his previous manner. “Open the door or I will.” With fumbling lingers he obeyed, and I yJ “no shoot! no shoot! ’HE IMPLORED, in another moment I was on the sidewalk, making tracks for home. I confess I did not find out why white I women ever become fond of Chinamen. The Adhesive Plaster. Tn one family, where there are nu- । nit rous sideaches, backaches, bruises, | and strains, the porous plaster has • I come to be a recognized institution. Its - I putting on is generally accepted with . I delight, but when it comes to the taking off, the "oh. dears." and "don’ts,” and cries of pain are many and emphatic. Even after the plaster is pulled off ( there is a layer of adhesive gum on the । skin that is struggled with in all sorts iof ways. Sometimes the razor is emI ployed for scraping: sometimes a sharp ■ knife is brought into use, and, again, a I soft warm cloth, is pressed over the ' spot, and when this has firmly attached j itself, the peeling process goes on. I Those who have occasion to use this ; application will find immediate relief I from their annoyance, if they will, i after raising one side of the plaster, | wet the surface of the skin with alcohol. allowing it to run down as the plaster is pulled a little. If any of the j gummy substance remains, a bit of rag • wet with alcohol will cleanse the sur- । face almost immediately. This, also. I has another advantage, in tint the I stimulating effect of the alcohol pre- i • vents any possible cold that might be I \ taken on account of the removal of the i I warm plaster. This is but a trifle, but it makes easy something that has alI ways been a bugbear, especially to chil- . dren, and is well worth trying.—New York Ledger. Size of Seed Wheat Kernels. Mr. F. D. Coburn, secretary of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture, in I advising the farmers of his State about sowing wheat, says: “As the subject of how much to sow ■ per acre is one of no small importance, j permit me to call attention to the wide difference in the quantity of actual seed there may be in bushels of different wheat, resulting from the size of the grains, even when of the same variety. It has been noted at the lowa experiment station that one bushel of a variety grown in California contained only 489,879 grains, while a bushel of Turkey Bed from lowa had 1,184.(>93 grains, or about 2^ times as many. Other bushels of the same variety, one ! from lowa and one grown in Kansas, | had upwards of 900,000 grains each. \ The average of all the samples tested at the station was 770,200 grains per bushel. The point I wish to make is that while t wo men may be agreed that a bushel of wheat may be about the proper quantity to sow per acre, one may be seeding twice or more than twice as heavily as the other.” Arrested Both the Twins to Be Sure. Maria and Sallie Troutman, because they looked so much alike, were both arrested yesterday afternoon by I’a- ; trolmen Simpson and Bierne. The r girls are' colored, 14 years old, and twins. One of them is guilty of throw- , ing stones at an old woman at 6th and - Levering streets. The woman, when ; she saw both the girls together, could ' not decide which it was wko had misi treated her. To be sure, the woman swore out a warrant for each of the i girls, charging them with disorderly i conduct The resemblance is remarkable. —Courier-Journal.

BUSINESS PICKING U/R COMPTROLLER ECKELSGETS E&. COURAGING REPORTS. ■ Bankers Throughout the Country aert that Confidence Is Returningqg '* Prospects Arc Brightening—CleW 1 ^ land Averse to an Extra Session, ■ " Eckels Is an Optimist. ■ Washington correspondence: k COMPTROLLER Eg els, who is in toß*' __ iv it h the banlQ c h throughout the country|W rß ports an iinproveinentK®"

business. This provement, he s^ 11 ' began some timely ß ’ and is going steat g 0 on. His Informaff^y warrants him inW° n 'pressing tho. b® 1 ' i that it will coutlfl e ‘ " to go steadily on*® ue ^til the normal "tion has beeu^rv 1 ' “ more reached. St''’” ijnot discourag«| 18 the present situation. H<JT a

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not believe that the country is the “demnition bow-wows” or tb^dK anywhere near that place. Tho<^BK naturally optimistic nature, Mr. is sufficiently conservative to refrai«rom expressing any opinion under whiS has not a good solid ground for fovKln. tion. He is in daily communication witWhu national bankers, and it seems as if <K r y one of them felt called upon to giv( sLf s opinion as to the condition of affair Aj n Lis particular section of the countrj Pall of which* is very agreeable to the C ^p. troller. Ilis correspondents are the a monos the country. They have ca^ed their own way in the world, and a v ,, achieved a prominent niche. Thewflo not give their opinions for the purpodof publication or to achieve any ulterior jid. They merely write them as bits ”f k>saip, thinking they will interest the Co^iptroller. These national bankers, reviving their information from business Men of their respective communities, who come to them for loans, probably pjrobe more clearly into the very heart of the trouble and condition of the general public titan any other class of men. It is iheir knowledge, given with the honest puqiose of supplying the Comptroller with sccurnte information of national affairs, which forms the basis of Comptroller Eckels’ opinion. The chief trouble which the present condition of affairs is causing the country is the spread of fear in Europe that our national credit is in a shaky condition. The report has gone abroad that we nre not to maintain gold payments, and American securities, held in such enormous quantities by foreign investors, will be paid for in silver or some depreeiateti currency. This naturally creates apprehension aud distrust. The rresident's message has had a wonderfully reviving effect on i Europe, according to private information received at the Treasury Department. And many men and corporations of great wealth seeking investment, and who a month or so ago were doing their best to realize on their American stnjjrities, nre now perfectly willing to hyl tfthe are plenty left, however, who fear “'twit this Congress is not to be trusted. • and that some legislation dangerous toj the stability of our national credit wilt lie inaugurated ere the final adjournment. I'his feeling possesses, in a slight measure, a few American bankers. They are. ho .v---ever, of the timid class, and though their feelings may be extended to their customers, the damage will not be so very great. President Cleveland appreciates this feeling, both here and abroad; at a recent Cabinet meeting he expressed himself as being strongly opposed to an extra session; so strongly, in fact, as to warrant him in informing his associates that there would be none, unless some unforeseen emergency should arise. The President does not believe that the prospect of securing party advantages alone would warrant him inflicting an extra session of Congress upon tin' people. Tin 1 situation must take 'it a much darker hue. It is his belief, based on communications from ' people in all pans of the country, that i what the country wants is a rest from i ) Congress. He further believes that the I recovery of business will be more rapid If members of Congress are at home, instead of at the national capital in session. He shares Secretary Carlisle’s belief that the revenues will soon be sufficiently large to meet the Government expenditures, and when that is proved to the general satisfaction confidence will strengthen and the need for further issues of bonds disappear. Such is the situation to-day. Employes of both houses of Congress are spending a good deal of time on their knees, praying that an extra session will ; not be called. No particular love of conn- j try actuates them in their desire. It is purely personal with them, though tliey may possibly think that their own personal benefit will indirectly add to the j benefit of the country. The fact is jhat an extra session means the cessatii* oi their present jobs. If there is no session their terms of employment continue until Congress meets in reg# ar session next December. That meausF“ e loss or gain of just about nine ninfhs’ salary to them. Should the i’ifty-f.Brtll Congress convene in session immedij^ely after the close of this Congress, new officers would doubtless be elected by the Senate, which it is expected will reorganize, inasmuch as the Democrats are no longer in the majority, and the employes now enjoying soft positions at remunerative prices will have to seek other employment. And the seeking of other employment to a man who has enjoyed a few years in the service of the United States Senate is about as disagreeable a job as ever confronted a politician. The day after the last election Logan Carlisle, Chief Clerk of the Treasury "received applications from nine-tenths of the employes of both Senate and House. 1 hey had hoped for Democratic success at the polls, and had gone to bed the ni~ht before wondering if their hopes were” to be realized. ” hoy were up before daybreak and read the answer in the stars. These told them they must seek other places ere the incoming of the Congress elected the day before; and ere the sun had risen their applications were prepared for positions in one of the Government departments. Some of these applicants will be provided for, of course, but comparatively few, because the departments are already choked. If the prayers ©f these supplicants hu answered there

will be no extra session. But even when the next Congress convenes in Decembei they will be just as reluctant to go, and, moreover, they will bo all the less able tc secure employment. The report that the President is once more suffering from ill-health has gone abroad again. This report will doubtless be repeated with more or less frequency after tho adjournment of Congress anil news at the national capital is scarce. But whatever the condition of the President will be after the adjournment of Congress, it can, and should, be said positively now that it has never been better during the present administration. The President is naturally a man of action. lllikes work. He thrives on worry. His step is light and his gout has disappeared. His checks are ruddy, his eye clear and his hand-clasp firm. He seems well, eats well, works well. He secs everybody w’ho calls on him on public business, and his information shows that lie keeps in touch with pretty much all that is going on. The President may not live fifty years longer, but a great many who are now' predicting his death will leave him on earth a firm, vigorous man of affairs when they are climbing the golden stairs. A strong effort is being made by the friends of General Casey, Chief Engineer of the army, to have him placed in charge of the construction of the new Chicago post office building. It is to be hoped that

i their efforts w ill fail. No one doubts th* > engineering ability of General Casey. But > the long time it tins taken him to build th©-C«*»gTeßslonnl Library’ is a monument to his lack of energy, and should be a i warning to all who hope for the erection । of the Chicago building in Chicago time. General Casey will soon retire from the army on account of the age limit. He w ill retire at a good salary, but he would like the fat berth of superintending the i construction of so large a building as tho new post office in Chicago is to be, and like especially tho comfortable stipend ho would receive for such superintendence. The General, as an army officer, has been brought up in that life, and a man who goes to him for information, in the event of his succeeding in his earnest wish to be placed in charge of tho Chicago building. or who ventures to make a suggestion, would do well, if lie seeks to preserve his self-respect, to take a < hib along i with him. Chairman Sayers, chairman of , tho House Appropriation Committee, is I particularly desirous of having General I Casey placed in charge of the Chicago . building. Apropos is the fact that Mr. i Sayers is very desirous of so prolonging i the building of the new post office as to , spread the necessary appropriations over | n long series of years. If General Casey ■ should I>e appointed Chairman Sayers will । be content. SCHEME TO DEFRAUD. Mother and Daughters Conspire to Bea* a Railroad. Mrs. Freeman and her two daitgX'ers, Fannie, aged 19. ami Jennie, aged 22. i were arrested in Chicago, the specific i charge made against them being that of ■ attempting to defraud the Chicago. Rock Island ami I’acitie Railway Company out of The three women tried to work a new dodge on the company, but it . is one which, it is said, has been successI fully used by the same practitioners before. Miss Fannie, by much practice in , stoicism, pa -sed herself oil ns a paralytic, : claiming that she had been injured in an I accident on the railroad, and hail become : paralyzed in consequence. She feigned ; the piirt so well that the company came ' near paying the claim presented. The Uui ./.•<'/ Aw'’ I® AKKEST OF THE FHEEMANS. smallness of the amount asked for, however, created some suspicion, and detectives were put to work on the case. The Freemans lived in a flat at 668 M ost Twelfth street, but the flat above them was unoecupic l. L'etectives rented • the upper flat, made small holes in the I floc ’ and through these watched the proj cecdings that took place in the sick room below. Whenever the family was alone : the paralyzed young woman would leave I her bed ami walk around the room just ; as well as her mother or sister could. ; When the doctor called, th? mother, be- ' fore admitting him to the chamber of the "paralytic,” would immerse Miss Fannie’s । limbs in cold water, and as soon as they I were half frozen she was put to bed and I the doctor called in. He found her limbs ‘ icy cold, as they should be if really par- ; alyzed. On his final visit, however, ho ii■ k / SiSMI u THE “ rAKAI.VTIC” TAKES EXERCISE. ainttseil himself for a few moments jabbing pins into them, but Miss Fannie had I been schooled to stand this sort of thing since childhood and never winced. When the doctor raised one of her legs a look of consternation overspread the young woman’s face. What should she do? No doctor had ever raised her leg before. It was not in the program. The leg remained raised and the doctor smiled, while the mother swore. A few’ hours later the place was pulled and Miss Fannie sprang out of bed. The women objected seriously to being taken into custody, and loudly' protested their innocence. but they were quieted down a trifle when the peep-hole in the ceiling v. : as pointed out to them. They were taken to the police station, where they b-oke down and made a complete confession. The Rev. W. P. Harrison, D. D., is dead at Columbus, Ga. He was for manyyears stationed at Nashville as the book editor of the Quarterly Review of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

I I ISAAC P. GRAY IS DEAD I ) ~ PNEUMONIA KILLS OUR MINISTER TO MEXICO. I t Contracted on a Trip to Washin"ton—- । Goes to His Pos. Ill—Pullman Con- । ductor Finds Him Unconscious—End Comes in a Few Hours. Citizen, Soldier, and Party’ Leader. United States Minister Isaac I*. Gray died at the City of Mexco at 7:05 Thurs- ’ day evening. Minister Gray had just rej turned from a trip to Washington with a । severe case of pneumonia. A Pullman ( car conductor found him unconscious. He । was carried from the train on a stretcher । to the American Hospital. Dr. Bray in- > formed Mrs. Gray that he could not live ■ th<* day out. Hi- remained unconscious ( until tiie time of his death. Consul-Gen- ! oral Crittenden remained with him dur- ( ing the day. Col. Gray had been ill al) the way from St. Louis to the City of Mexico. I First News at Washington. , The first intimation at Washington of , Ilie condition of Minister Gray’ came in the following dispatch to the State Department from Mr. Butler, charge d’ affaires in the American Legation at the < 'ity of Mexico: "Minister Gray arrived here very ill with double pneumonia, and is still unconscious. Tho news of the death of Minister Gray was reeeivi'd witli sincere expressions of regret. He was in Washington recently, having gone there at the commencement - ISAAC r. GRAY. of tho recent trouble between Mexico and Guatemala and consulted with the President and Secretary of State as to the best means of preventing war between the two countries. Was in Chicago Alonday. Pierre Gray, son of the dead minister to Mexico, said to a reporter at Indianapolis: “Father started to the City of Mexico from Chicago Monday morning. He had been in Washington a short time a week or so before he left here to return to his post of duty, and bad caught cold, his trip being in the coldest kind of weather. But he took some medicine and when he left he was in a fair state of health. He wired us from Chicago, and the next day we received a letter from him, but he did not say that he was at all ill. He went over the 'Wabash road direct to Laredo, Mex., without change of sleeper, going through St. Louis. We heard nothing more of him until a message said a porter had found him unconscious at 2 o’clock in the morning in his berth. I knew nothing more of tlw circumstances.” Twice Governor of Indiana. Isaac Pusey Gray was born in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Oct. 18, 1828. His parents removed to Ohio in 1836. Young I Gray received a common school ednea- I tion and early entered on the study of the | law. His poverty, however, compelled I him to accept a cl rkslfip in a general store at New Madison. In 1855 he moved with । Isis family to Union City. Ind. In 18i 12 he was appointed colonel of the i Fourth Indiana Cavalry by Gov. Morton I and organized tho Ono Hundred and For- j ty-seventh Infantry in 1864. In 1866 he । was the candidate for Congress in oppo- ' sition to George W. Julian, lining defeat- I ed by 300 rotes. Two years later he was elected to the State Senate, where he i made himself famous as president of that । body by locking the Democratic members j in and counting them to obtain the pass- i age of a ratification of the fifteenth i amendment. He was offered the consul- I ship to St. Thomas in IS7O, but declined ' i:. His connection with the Democratic I party dates from 1871. when he failed to I get the nomination for Governor from the hands of the Republican party. He | was a delegate-at-large to the Liberal Re- I publican convention of 1872 and was ap- ' pointed by the convention member of the ' National Committee for Indiana. His nanio was before the Democratic State convention in 1872 for Congressman-at- i largo and in 1874 for Attorney General, • but was withdrawn both times at his re- I quest. The State convention of 1576 i nominated him by acclamation for Lieu- i tenant Governor, to which office he was elected with “Bluejeans” Williams, whom he succeeded as Governor on the latter's death. In 1883 he received the complimentary nomination of the Democratic minority for the United States Senatorship. In 1884 he was elected Governor I against William 11. Calkins, receiving the nomination by a two-thirds vote of the convention. After his last term as Governor expired ho followed the practice of his profession in Indianapolis in partnership with his son, Pierre Gray, until he was called to the Mexican mission by President Cleveland two years ago. In 1,850 I he married .Miss Eliza Jaque, of Darke County, Ohio. They have two children i living—Pierre, who is a. lawyer in Indian- | apolis, .and Bayard, who lias been acting as his father's private secretary in Mexico. The design of the American flag was probably borrowed from the family arms of Gen. Washington, which consisted of three stars in the upper portion and three bars across the escutcheon. Bacteria are so small that it takes 100,000 of them placed lengthwise to measure an inch. Cape Conception, Cal., was called after one of the vessels in the fleet of Cortez.

A BRIGHT STAR. SKETCH OF THE MAN WHO LED MARY ANDERSON TO FAME. Also Played Leudina Rolca with Booth, Barrett and Thorne. (From, the St. Louis Chronicle.) .i lnos * conspicuous figures in it® “. ta K e * aud of America to-day is John or t9 n - ttorn in the seventh ward of New York city forty-six years ago, the friends of bis youth were Thomas W Keene and Frank Chanfrau. We find Keene a star at the age of 25 and Norton in the flower of early manhood, the leading man for Edwin Booth at the famous 'i inter Garden Theater. He was starred with Lawrence Barrett early in the ’7o’s and alternated the leading roles with ■ e8 Lhoirne at the Variety Theater in New Orleans. Early in the Centennial year, in Louisville, Norton met our Mary Anderson, then a fair young girl who aspired for stage fame, took her under his guidance nndl, as everybody knows, led er to fame. Mr. Norton is now the proprietor of the Grand Opera House in St. Louis, the Du Quesne Theater, Pittsburg, and one of the stockholders in the Americaa Extravaganza Company, ■ , ^‘^fioon early in June he hobbled . into his New York office on Broadway and encountered his business manager, George McAlanus, who had also been a rheumatic sufferer for two years. Norton was surprised that McManus had discarded his cane. Who cured you? he asKed. “I cured myself,” replied MeManus, “with Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills.” i was encouraged by Mr. McManus’ cure, and as a last resort tried the Pink k f ’ si .V^ Mr ’ t<> a ChronKle reporter. “Y ou have known me for nye jears, and know how 1 have suffered. hy, during the summer of 1893 I tvac^H on my back at the Mullanphy Hospital, in tins city, four weeks. I was put on the old system of dieting, with a view to clearing 'hose acidulous properties in my blood that medical theorists say is the cause of my i heuniatism. I left the hospital feeling stronger, but the first damp weather brought with it those excruciating pains in the legs and back. It was the same old trouble. After sitting down for a stretch of five minutes, the pains screwed my legs into a knot when I arose, and I hobbled as painfully as ever. After I had taken my first box of Pink Pills, it struck me that the pains were less troublesome. j I tried another box, and I began almost unconsciously to have faith in the Pink : Pills. I improved so rapidly that I could rise after sitting at my desk for an hour । and the twinges of rheumatism that ac- । compauied my rising were so mild that I 1 scarcely noticed them. During the past I two weeks, we have had much rainy I weather in St. Louis. EMt the dampness has not had the slightest effect in bringing back the rheumatism, which 1 consider a sufficient and reliable test of the efficacy of I’ink Pills. I may also say thrt the Pink Pills have acted as a tonic on my stomach, which I thought was well nigh destroyed by the thousand and one alleged remedies 1 consumed in the past five years.” Little Illiteracy. The general diffusion of elementary education in Bavaria is evident from the fact that of the 2G.383 recruits for the arm j’ levied in 1893, only six w re unable to read and write. In France 6.43 per cent of the recruits of the same year did not know the letters of the alphabet. Who Wins the $300? A novel way to obtain a suitable name for theiir great, yes, wonderful new oats, has been adopted by the John A. Salzer Seed Co. They offer -S3W for a name for their new oats; their catalogue tells all about it. Farmers are enthusiastic over the oat, claim ing 200 bushels can be grown per acre right along. Y 5 u will want it. Farmers report six tons of hay from Salzer’s Meadow Mixtures; 112 bushels corn per acre in a dry season, and 1,161 bushels potatoes from two acres. If You Will Cut This Out and Send It with 10c postage to the John A. Salzer Seed Co.. La Crosse, Wis., you get free their mammoth catalogue and a package of above S3OO Prize Oats. CNU Bonheur's Paintings. Rosa Bonheur’s paintings are scattered all over the world, and not many galleries have more than one or two I specimens. It was therefore noted as | a curiosity that at a recent art exposition at Frank "ort-on-the-Main there were no fewer than nineteen of her paintings. Worth Its Weight in Gold. According to a letter to the Sterling Remedy Co., of Chicago, from N. P. Dunaway, of Wesson, Miss., one box of No-to-bac, which he purchased of his druggist, completely cured him of the I tobacco habit. New York, Paris, and Berlin comI bined lack forty-two square miles of I having as great an area as London. Fok Whooping Cough, Piso’s Cure is a J successful remedy.—M. I’. Dieter. 67 Throop Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 14, '94. The talented Zimmermann, the author of “Solitude,,” ended his days in a : condition of torpid dementia. ■ Rev. Dr. Parker I Is the beloved pastor of the Universalist Church at Fargo, N. D., and has also * been a pastor in Providence, B. 1., New Y’ork City and Troy, N. Y. He says: “I regard Hood's Sarsaparilla tbe beet blood •« j t Lve good reason for this oplnpurifier, and I "

ion. I an now^R years of age. Four years ago I was afflicted with rheumatism in my back and limbs so badly that it was impossible for me to get my usu al sleep at night. I had just partially recovered from the grip, which reduced my J weight 40 lbs. My 1 appetite was poor, * and I felt languid 5 md weak. In fact, , 1 was in a very di-

40 licv. J. N. Parker, D. D.

— - . , V. XJ largo, A. ij. lapidated condition. Having heard and read so much about the wonderful cures produced by Hood’s Sarsaparilla I resolved to give it a trial. I followed the directions, and before the fifth bottle was finHood’s^Cures ished my appetite was restored, I felt invigorated and strong. My rheumatic difficulty had entirely disappeared. I cannot but think very highly of Hood’s Sarsaparilla.” J. N. Pabkeb. Hood’s Pills are the best family cathartio and liver medicine. Harmless, reliable, sure.