St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 33, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 9 March 1895 — Page 2

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■ ■ t X ' CHATTER XIV. When Roderick found hi* sider had rihic, gone without even waiting to say to hint "Good by and thank you," he looked grieved, but neither surprised nor angry. “Wo will not judge her. ’ was till he paid. "We ought not we that are so happy. ’’ “But there is something beyond both happiness and misery the ques’ion oi I right and wrong." "Nevertheb <s, 1 still say. ‘Judge not. i that ye be not judgt d.” especiall.'. ill a ques- • tion of husbttnd and wife. Each individutil ease has its different aspect, which , no outsider ent> quite understand. My ; darling, let us say no mor.' about it." And she knew by his manner that he / whs detciiuim <1 to say no more about it. | bo, beings wise woman, she also h -M her tongue. (tilt ill! that evening they seemed to । breathe frm r certainly he did time oughly enjo* ing the empt ' house and :he ( quiet fireside, where there was m> ne d to , make conversation, but the two si, gather in tiie sweet unreserve and . nn i plete rest of married lite, ns if' ‘ >*s being alone, and yet without any of the dreariness of Solitude. “Nevertheless. I mean you to go mi! a to ‘the world' to-morrow night," said Kikwe. “Have you forgotten the dinner at Symington':" This was the New Year' ev party which they had di-cuused b'loie Bella, and which Sib m e had urged him to cept. as it was half pleasure, half bnsi 1 Hess. \ rtidn "man <>f letters" me d old fashioned w ords, ami very appropr. > o in this case, as < intra distinguished from “man of _ 'nius"> who had talked mm h with Roderek at the Hrst dinner, bad loam rash . mail to e\p'- a v. h ' > - the rejected novel, now lying, torlorn and dust enshrouded, on the top slu d ot the old oaken pre-s. Siiem e made mr has bund lift it down, and wul.h'd In - eye brighten as he turned it over. “ 'Nothing venture, nothing win.' " si d aim. as she rearrang'd it tomb fly and ted It up afresh, "As yon say in this very book, dear. ‘Take the world at its b. st, and it will in.! give you its worst , be .-vc hi it, and it will b dieve in yon “To convict me out of my own mouth, you traitor!" said he, laughing. Ho had been half im- imd to bide his Imad a' home, having grown very weary of late In body and mind, but tiie light in his wife’s eyes lighted up his own oar'ge onco more: he his, nted to do as she wished. “But you. my darling'." “I shall be glad Io gel rid of you I have plenty to do at home. " “Only too much," said he. sighing. “Tell me honestly, was your visitor a trouble to you?" “Yes, in some ways. But she could not help it, and I did not mind " "Why did you not tell me?" She smiled in hm fact' with that half playful, half-tender, yet whoT* determined look she Imd nt times. "Roderick. | it" you think 1 shall inform you of all my I little household affairs you. a man with ) quite enough cares of your own you are ! greatly mistaken; 1 ne'er -hall. We will have fair dvision labor you the brend-wini.er, 1 the bread dis- ) peuser. Did you no! om o tell w ■ ‘lady’ was Saxon word and mean' 'b a‘ giver?' which implies that the wife should manage the lru.se ami lake cure d the money. I "tend to do it. I 'an tdo your work, but 1 should I ■ nsbamed f nysc t if I could nor do my own wither,! hiving the burden f it' po iyoi. w I ■ -re slight ly incapable." Roderick laughed uri^h;. "My queen! • —ns 1 used to ■ah you you are beginni g 1<» govern in -od earnest. But year hi> band is not a fra id." “He need n >t be." she said, softly, taking his hand and kissing it. "He will al- I ways be str ager and wiser than I. in his own way. Ad now go to your grand din ner at Symington. Though he had not liked going, when i he really was here Roderick found lie liked it very mm h. lie had always been that best type of his sex a man whom men appro, lam. even as the woman whom women ore fond • f is . -rtainly the noblest kind of woman. And now that his fate was settled, his wife chosen. his home made, ’nk- n his place among men as a man and a cili :cn. ready to help on in the world's work, without doubts or drawbacks, he found bis position both pleasant nml hotioruhle. Sure of it and of himself, and iindiug him "If among people w ho evidently neither knew nor cared how much h" had a year, and whether he kept two servants or twenty, the young man's spirits rose, and he enjoyed himself heartily so heartily that it was not until Jatdy Symington said something about a t New Year's gift to his wife? fhn+ he r. , membered v. hat mdo i wa and hov I Silenee wi'm -01.mr al.m- : ,t home Ad I the pavty ■ <re to w; '! HO ’-f n''.. Scotch fa-' m. t" “ ll 1 '" 1! and the n‘W year hi. ly.it lie Im-tl.v made bis adieus ami walked oft. ratle r v-xed ■with him-c i. and yet rot mu h. ■■ nee be

had good C"\v< to bring home. And he | kn tw his wife wus not one of thost! foolish ' women wl: > ex:i i endless mtlMde ol.s< rv- I uncos; sho v :• s content to lie safe in his t heart 1 i which went on silently hen o g, keeping ; fresh all the spring -of lif-, whmhor ho ever notic 'd it or not. Walking rapidly through tin' starlighted night, strangely mild ami still, as often ; happens New Year's ex though nature took a pleasure in this motionless w atch over the old year that "lies a-dying,” Roderick felt a soltn ss almost like spring in the air. It sohtnl to stir till his young blood he. with life all be fore him to will and to do. And some of the talk that night had given him a renewod impulse both as to will and deed. “I must tel] her at once, 1 know she will approve of it, said he to himself. “If” was an idea started by the kindly “man of letters” —that did Mr. Jardin s imaginative writing fail, there was a side ject very popular just now. and likely to attract attention, which, with a little

I pains, he might examine, rend up for, and write about, so as to make an exeelleut quarterly article, sure of at least a moderate audience. The first step on the ladder, which, if taken etiutiou. l.v and firm- j ly. might lead him either by literature or i polities, or both, to the very top. " T'ain would I climb, but that 1 fear to fail.’ Only she will never say to me 'll 1 liy heart tail thee, do not climb nt all.’ She would k*ep my heart up so that 1 could not fall. Bless her! 1 :tm sure of ; t hat." So thinking, lie came to bis own door, ‘ 'topping ligiitlv across the grassy lawn, half in boyish mischief to look in at the i parlor w indow she liked t • keep her light visible and sec what his wife was j doing now the hi usebold has all gone to i bed. Sitting quitely and alone, beside her n pretty box of sandalwood, which looked I j like a i resent, for it had a t'hristmas ear l lon the top, she was emptying it. layer | after layer, and spreading its contents on । her lap. Only little clothes the little i clothes that women ami mothers think > j the prettiest in nil the world. One after i the other site unfolded them, pittin g her | fingers through the tiny empty sbeves. , looking at them ndmirfoglv. smitimrU . ! mid yet mrain w itli a strange sndm"<s. ' All nt once Ic derf. k ealh.l t<. mind wlcii ■ l.adi Symington Imd said to him, mid ; her tone of saying it; he Imd been full ‘>l his own affairs just then, and imd not noticed muell 'dae. but now. cs be slipped quielii in doors, aqd i-ne ditig down be side his wife, helped her to evamine Iht New Year's gif' nme as he was it touched him doi ply. 'And the little feT-w emh lived s ( \< । years, yet his m< tlmr hits rem< mbered him ail this while! Boor Lely S.min, ton 1" He said it with a curi s awe. ns with his slightly nwkwnrd liwgern he helped his w ife to refold the womi' i ful little garment-. : ml replace th un. ns they had Inin, uniom lied, lor marly toriy years. Then they put the box away and - i' down by the tire. Immi io band, mid he r-'d her nd his new hopes, new ambitions th' hili', if only lie ha I strength to < nrm it "I shall d . m.thing r ddj 'Amh >: ship,’ they say. ’is a capital staff, but a vry I.ml । rut h ' 1- .all ciek to tlm mill a’ pres.-u> Ruf y < . w. . i .lit » send me away to-night. 11 d" s no-go . I to bai • something beyond the mil!, to mix with men and feel myself one of them, with life all before me. ami p 'v.-r to a < my work in it. w ith what poor ' id Tommy “ ‘Tiie mind that bunts within o-, 'ml pure -..mies fr a the, at | “ hcari was -.iti'"ed "This ,S tlm m-t m V y.. r w.• m r ■ npent hvr. wv wife. Sb .ill we » I outside and greet it ill the open mr. as is i our Scotch fashion? My failm’ always did so. and my moth.-r, too my poni mother!" he sighed. "I woim r whethe; Bella's being with m- -. .. d . good ... harm? w Imther they will he thinking of me just now? We always hid a gran I ' family gathering u! Hogmamiy my tw । J elder sisters, their husbands mid rhildrc". I They never etired for me m ob; I w ;i - i mer» boy wlc-n they mmv'! Still, '•> I ’lave < t uite forsaken' me! Well, well, 1 | Wish them nil : hapm tie-, i. my ‘;..n I folk.' is we say in >, .aHnd " Silem-e !i 1 im “am t hk" ,e ■ tw > : band. 11.- and she w.-ilked up and down i till ill the dead stidm ss tlm di'lmit stab!'el >i a Siu> "j - ton wa- 1 -a ! d l-> .ng ! to strike twelve. I'ntil then :! ere had me b. a b:-< ath calm and mild, and d" k rather tlia i | dark: tlm half m on. sho. -. .pica we> ! | ward behind the I. . c. -how.- t :.-:in’ Ily the beit ol trees I I c lawn. Htld i even ihe dim ouiline of 'i - < -taut hills Above, tht -1 I w ord expre-vt sit with my ti;ds of stars. ' When tiie las; sir -m' , : 'lm I- k ceased. : there seemed to <b —-ml i rein it. right I down fr. n tic— my s < rio - -tars, n । sough of wind equally my<-i ms. It i rustled Ihr ■ igh tlm '> ,ps. wandered | round the house, and then passed away i into stillness, almost like a living thing. "Listen, listen. Roderick!" "It is the sough i! the air the old yeai's hist bre;ith. I have often noticed it, and heard other people notice it. too. And now our m-w year is be-un. May it. be a very happy cm to you to us -my darling!" He kissed her, and then seeing how mute and passive -Im was. made a little । innocent joke about no! being able to add the usual Scotch wish of "a hnppy New Year, and afore tim end ou t. because she had already got her "man." and must make the best of him.'bad as he was, to the end of the chapter. “W'hmh is - ih h a long way oft. ray love. | Opfto alnrm'ng. • »id.' ilonk tlmt thirty । ' . ~ <itiv v -ir Imiiec, (on and I j i.c -tm.d u. 'in- "bl and I e r;>\ houtb <1 iii.tb r tiK'sc v«*ry stars. I liu hu’Uilht looking up at ihrin this time last yfar. ami Uiinkiii.- of you. and won- ' if n** ov. r tim married. ** * \ W' ; o ‘in lovo’ with me then; yon

love im- now. And m u will love me even when I am ’obi and gray-headed’ as yon -ay. 1 shall love you, Roderick, even when .'.on v;-e an elderly gent lonian. and - not handsome at all. Nothing on earth could ever part us; nothing nothing - ■’What is wrong, dear? Are yon cold? We w ill go hiA I "No; wait- .bmi om- minute." 1 Ie wrapped her Hos. ly in his plaid, and she m sth d in his arms, but still kept gaz- . ing up. far up. into that mystic floor of | heaven, whi-b, though we see it every , night of our li' < s. never loses its wonder. : glory. ;• ml bt ant; . 'I should like to live t<> be an old woman: I should like us both to be old. and yet love om* another as dearly as when we were young It makes one feel immortal, this love. I should like, ns you sav. fifty years hence to stand with you under these stars, feeling that nothing could kill our !<>ve- or us. But if things 1 were to be different; if this time next year ii am—not here, but away—beyond the stars!" “What do you moan?" She turm d upon him those eyes of hers

—“lienvenly eyes” he had cnlled dEmrn since the day lie first saw them mjfk | |0 Tcrnsse at Berne. "I may die this spring. Soiuetiun* I u know, women do.” W rf* Ho shivered, but violently eoP lf Cjipd himself. J "Yes. 1 know that; but--you no t n frnid?" ■'* - "No, I am afruij o f nothing- Uejther life nor death -now. And T -tUa a_h*vo died, if I might have chosen—di^^ladly! to have been for this one year R* tins otw happy year my Roderick's wifi % and—his child's mother.” There was such a rapture in r fnce, ' tlmt whalever dread her wora’ might have aroused in him sunk down?? It was one of those supreme moments wfcen two who are wholly united, as these feel flint no real parting is possible, that i "whaiever b;ippens" las people s*), they ' ore one through all eternity, I "Hush!" Roderick said nt lasl, in a broken voice. "God knows best. Jl.et us I b ave it all." M| And then taking her in-doors, io do- . ckired tlmt tlm first of January was no ■ time for nmmdight rambles, and That be should abolish them altogether Jill the summer nights enme. Jr Which seemed a long way <>®/now; for ' not uiiusmil in the north, w "As the days lengthen** So the cold strengtheneK and a long frost nn I snow shuunp Silence entirely wi'hin her own pen<^tt ! home. , A dull time to most people: l»M^pn ~i!' " । ever seemed to make her dull. " w hen some weeks after Bella sjWoM/dcjL ' her husband was vcaUmm n! «i^^Toich i cihfeutly e M ..-< ti.is —••»<> ueAT,. t ireior en me. < »ne formal le* lor L f‘' 'k s ' nnn.oim Ing her Milfe arrival. WM’mtll n tier dale, but explaining imtking Jurtkcr. vim ni! Mrs. Alexander d|^^£xn I v.mchsii fed to her brother and sistVr, She । rn, -r numt iom d her moth* rnt nll.T^ "L. !■ ly Bk' kimll is tab neo^*' gnj,] le, with a bitt, r laugh. ”Nov < mind, my darb.ig. Let ih give it up. And fiot 1 w v our* Ivi-s about the itwvitablcyVW \ml by flint she knew how. thh moment. Im imd not given it up; h:t«mßrei . . red < hop»> nml * rave f-r s-metjiing^. j • tWje in a life time. Ho may have a* wives and • leldren as fate all ■ i e.cr . in have Iwo mother*. A But r d some mothers would 44 well t ■ r-im tub. r this when a map ha*w^K> ; A ! hb home, hi* interests and bialrA. Im d. es tmt mo rn eternally: as R*^K I »..id, I:- "neispt. the itiovitable.^^K| । turns Ins mind h* other thing*. the vomig .Inrdtnm* had a shut n^Bi 1 1 Jlrnr hurnl.v Hfe. it whs anything di- :;<• Tic MS. o .el . nine Imck M । dim! h- w.. .i ii n.-ls alw'sty® . ..me h. I. r." ':>s - but the ■ c . ~'d trim*. ■:• bnr-l'i v.t^But ‘ a certain thrill of pl mm . a faint dw‘’ j • ITe world n * all before them, w l ^ •!*

R i their guard and Bi .videnre . \n ) l«>th r. .* >n and Providence ».wf“d j t<. 1m... tnk.n in .barge this yonat*” timr Irndv e k had “u > tmusetKC -IF'"? I him " Undid m.t ' an in li'erafureV ,h ■i ih tc'u I- ut.d him c.atire vkvii of ’ VW * -eq I ally be did >m-'d Wolk. L not hate l*een the higheM work, ar the | oft. n llmi ght ‘ Slh ...pied Ids MSN. ! "You e. dear, i:' y.m bml to he kill <l. : Al v Id. h he laugh'd I- I'd. am! s'th W.c ,| 'A\ o I.' .W -! S' -:•:i- W• r. .1" brat.-d . Htlmr in i > time. I think 1 will moments I may finish it before the y*Mr

’lb : t e ir is mp, a tcd Si bm e. softly. "Y< '. ic'. but will you not begin it now " Ami die not .mN g>t l.im to K-gin it. bitt •'he k -pt bit sO'n Jy at it. copym,; in the mormii - wl it he wrote over night, nnd arm'; . i that he had *•? "rend up," a o.ding to his liternrv friend’s <>:■>’■■••>. • as t<> give h.:n the : least trouble I'.ms/ ? . It ' a^ hard work, but the mill-work Impm’m-d to be slack ; just then, and Mr. Ric k was v. ry kind i and friendly- tonchi: gh '■>. Ami thus, ! from day to dav, Roderick’s time was kept full, and hts mind also. (To be continuei!) \ Reuiarkahle Hani. One of the must renmrknble darns in ‘ the world for height ami construction is that by which the Vyrnwy River i Northern Wales) is enabled to supply wat -r to the city of Liverpool, some seventy miles distant. i In building thi- dam a great tren M was a: Ursi e?' am:i"3 across i he valley for a length of l.luo feel, a width <2 12u, and a maximum depth of do. ThM masonry was started in tbislreneb. if consists of irregular bb-cks of slatf^ wc<la a tomHlier ami thoroughly hcdded in Portland cement mortar, the faces being iorimd of cut stone blocks titled together with great care, the I greatest height of the dam being 161 j feet. Its most remarkable feature is the lack <>f any channel to carry off floods, the surplus of the lake flowing down the front of the dam, which is curved to permit as free a descent as possible ami prevent the formation of eddies at the boiioim ihe lake formed by this main dam covers an area four ami three quarters miles long, front onequarter lo five-eighths of a mile wide, and holds largely over twelve million gallons. The mpiedm i leading from the intake tower to the distributing reservoir about two miles from the city, is sixtyeight miles long, and consists principally of a large cast iron pip e n no j from thirty-nine to forty two inches in i diameter. There are a number of reservoirs ami tanks along the Une, and , al one place is a great filtering plant. Wagner, the compos >r, spent no small share of his time when a boy in the | police court, where his father was the , । clerk.

MANY HIE IN A MINE. twenty-six killed in A LOS CERRILLOS, N. M., SHAFT. Forty-two Miners Entombed by n Fearful Gas Explosion Caught in a Trap the Workmen Arc Blown to । Pieces or SulToented by Smoke. Ilcath Rolf May Increase. VVI • ^ r * gllt ful explosion of gas in the White Ash coal mine, three miles southeast of Los t 'errillos, N. M„ occurred nt 11 o clock V ednesday morning, and ns u result many homes in the valley are desolate. 1 wonty -ix miners are known to ' have been killed, and eleven have been taken out alive. But these are more or less bruised or burned, and the death roll : may increase. This mine j s the soft coal I i producer <d the vnlley ami is operated by j the Atchison, lop k ;l a!l }j Santa I’e Railway Company. Piom it all markets smith of the place, in.'hiding the Southern Pa cific ami Mexr an Central Railways, are j supplied. Tin- output averages sixty cars per day. The min*' ha s four levels, which branch off from the im litied shaft, and the men were at work uttered in nil of them. The ! fact that there is 3,400 feet of working i iiud n*. air shaft aeeounts for the accutnu- ! oi the gas, nml f or three hours | niter the explosmu lire deadly vapor pour fed.forth from the single entry in such ' I volume as to indicate that the mine had I caught tire. When this was announced ns a p:ol»ability the pitiful cries of both I moii and w. men who had gnlhpred around । the entry wore hcarlrending. I’rantic | wives, many of them carrying babies in I their arms. Imving children clinging to i their sk.rts, or to tl . m. st o.] at tiie en- : trance of the *.:•;•« for hours amid tears . ami prayers, wm. kmg and waiting, while | hundreds of men vainly struggled to gain on entrance further into th ■ mine. I stutHy miners nre employ ed in the , Ash shaft, but the day being A-h Wed- । nesday there were only forty-two men inside at the tim.. of the explosion. I'ive of those made their way to |he out-ide before tlm is rcu led them s .me of the i bodi ■' ink"" ~..t wer.' burned almost to a cind r u; I .■•h. : - * > bully mangled and I burned that r. ogn-tmn has been very j ditli. ult. It is thought tho expb.-ion was caused by the miners breaking through j into some old iib.im'mm 4 working, thus I liberating the g as that Imd accumulated. । ihe art w.. - worked through n single inj*’'"'’ ■’ -.i :r-< s. .i:;d seem- t> have , been defective as respe ts ventilation. GIVES UP HIS OFFICE. Powt iHn«t<;r Gi iicr.il Bissell to Return to IPs l aw Priictice in ItutFulo. I Tl- Pr.sM.mt has 3 ■ pted the resig- ! nriti-m of P -tom-', r *.. • • J B sell, nml I Ims smmm ■*. ; R , — n.c Wf: am L.

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i csii'cm of ’ll t’.,- cab o ‘ H < decision i to give lip l! ■ mi. -of oflice was r a he*! ) some wc.-k- g>. 'he < hi*4 r< t-"n tlmre- I . Imu , r of L ‘d.t.g a .. at m the cabtm't. 11 ■ : nmu. ami 1,.- ex|' c r.-s in W -hing^ toi: hr : >• ' ast ' ' 'imes h;s - < c . r, m.H - e than

5 A n j? ® jj - "-e ■■ - -j, S -mv r M ;by ami G-m-m’ Sickles j c.in g>’t away w ;th m - > than any ’ other two men in G mgres^. Tin* (’him e Emperor is small and deli- ; ’[ cate. IL* I" ks like- a L,.! ol Bl or 17 ami sp, aks like a y. jh of that age. The Marqms of ! mfi'enn is lwing to' ■ pyct in l> >ver, i’.msi.ind. a lib- dze and i her : ■ watucoi the Ixmg Lear of Shakespeare. M. -s Ellen Tick!.’, of Ueno. Batle? । ounty, Ohio, is said to be the smallest fully developed woman now living. Sb.e is 31 years .1.1 ami weisi but !_’S pounds. Parnell I’isi:"F, "f Bridgeport. Del., is ! 6 feet 7’e inches tall, and < an < nrry two j ba ia .-!s '!• >n ;■ a I <n. e and trot nlong eas- . | lily with 400 i tliiii.-. on bis shoulder. i Mrs. Cornelius Vamh-rbill is muniA- ! cent in her charities and untiring in her * good works, but she does not go upon the housetops to advertise what she is doing for the poor. Prof. Langdell, of the Harvard Law ' School, who originated the “case system” in the study of law, will celebrate bis twenty-fifth anniversary as dean of the school next spring. Rew Timothy Dwight Hunt, who died recently at Whitesborough, N. Y.. organize'! the first Presbyterian Church in California in IS4!>, ami was one of the pioneer missb.naries to the Sandwich Islands. Governor O. Mincent Coffin, of Connecticut, is said to lie the best-dressed executive that the State has had for many years. He must have other good qualities, as he is very popular with the clerks and employes at the capitol at Hartford. Mrs. Henry M. Stanley has a fad for collecting parasols and has gathered a great many of them fm- | le r cabinets. In an official list of the physicians practicing medicine in New York are the following names, appropriate or otherwise: Bill. Bosch. Deady, Collin, Ender. Gore. Herb, Labels. Kram, Lordly. Madden. Pettus. Sass and Sour. Jacob Kinser, residing at Zion, Ky., Concluded on Monday that he was going to die. He sent for his neighbors and a minister, selected the text, heard his funeral sermon preached and then folded his Lauds and died. He was 76 years old.

How to Spice Pood. No other nation uses condiments to the same extent as the Chinese. Compared with Englishmen and Americans, i Chinese, In this particular, are far more : advanced in refinement and have higher knowledgt?. An Englishman or an American drenches his food with mustard and red pepper and corrodes his stomach with violent acids, whereas the Chinaman chooses his condiments not only from the point of view of delicacy of flavor but also from that of therapeiiiic efficiency, I s shown in the liberal use <>f ginger, saffron, and । other roots of medical virtue. He al- | ways boils horseradish, black and red ; I pi pper, and mustard, thus removing I ■ nine tenths of their fiery properties and ( ’ reducing them to a <b'liea*-y pungent ■ j paste, suitable for all sorts of meat, i The Chinese employ largely in ordin-) ! ary cookery flavors obtained from rose ’ and lily leaves, tasda buds, strawberry shrub, bergamot, lemon verbena. ' ■ geranium, and many other plants. ■ I 'l imy cook tnumbx's with orange juice j and stewed lemon peel, and improve , | the flavor <>f insipid tish with tmilcd 1 mon peel. Y i'gclable gelatin*' is pr<>- ) cured from th" 1-aves of ihe water lily. I This is used not only for its intrinsic ■ merits but for a coloring substance in ) vary ing shades of green. They also ! use lime water largely in co .king, particularly for persons whose systems nre dctieieni in lime, and in foods which ’gr >w in a dry ami sandy soil. They also employ condiments w hich contain ' (-ouibiiiaiicns of pho-jilmri:- acid. These j arc us d in the cooking of vegetables which possess an excess of water, and ( in tiie i-oncociicn of di- hes for persons । of adv.tm I'd age. Other condiments! are < omp**' d o' infusions of magnesia, I salt, iron, potash, and citric nml tar-, tarie m ids. ! is in th • delicate blend- | ing of flavors and an appropriate anpli- I ea.ion o ilmtn that the I'binese excel. ; It Is a fa"! that the various rrench am- ; bassnibu - n* Japan, who have included I in tlu ir siiisos cooks from Paris, have! invariably dismisse I them after a brief ' *'Xperleiicc with Cliimso cooks. The' latter, after a short appn utieoship to ' I'rcm h < he’s, surpass th. m in the prep- ) arai’ei; of Emoj., an <hshr . Nev* York Sun. Principal Booker T. Washing '>n. of 1 tlm Color* 4 Normal Institute, at T’is-i keg. o. Ala . who is a; pealing ik*r money ) for that institution, is one of the best- | known tidond men in tim Sonili, ami] is esu sHiied by all who know him. His work lor tlm < . lore*! ra* - c Ims received tlm tinam ial and moral indorsement of a large number of Northern people. Rapid growth of the linger nulls is considered to indicate good health.

March April May Ate the Best Months in which to Purify Your Blood And the Best Blood Purifier is Hood’s Sarsaparilla Which Purities, Vitalizes and Enriches the Blood.

At ''m - as ni eveiv one shoul I take a good spring u'dii'in". Your blood must be purified or *ou v 11' be neglecting yonrb.calth. There la a civ from Yi'.un' f»r help, and unless there is prompt mid -.: i-f'-t or* response you will be liable to eerious illnc.---*. 1 h-..s demand c'.n only l.e met by the purify- , ing, enriching an l Blood-Vitalizing elem-nts tab' found in Hood's Sarsaparilla. ‘My mothei in law. Mrs. Elizabeth W olfe, at th age of 72 years, was attacked with a viob nt form of salt rheum: it spread all over her ' body, and her hands and limbs were dreadful ; I to look at. At the same time my little daugh- • ter i lara, who was just one year old, was attacked by a similar disease, like scrofula. It I appeared in large sores, which disfigured '

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AN ALPENA MIRACLE. —— —_____ MRS. LAS. M. TODD, Or LONO RAPIDS, DISCARDS HER CRUTCHES. I** an Tniterview witlia Reporter Slie Reviews Her Experience and Tells tl*c deal Cause of the Miracle. {I-rnni the .-trgu!:. Alpena, Mick.) f ,M’e hare long knowi Mrs. Jas. M. ! I odd. of Long Rapids. Alpena County, ! Mich. She lias been a sad cripple. Many ol her friends know tin* st.-rv of her recovery; for the iicnelit of those who do ) not we publish it to-day. I Eight years ago sLe was taken with ' nervous prostration, ami in a few months I w ith muscular ami inflammatory rheumai tism. It aflected her heart, then her head. Her feet became so swollen she ■ ■oilld wear nothing on them; her hands 1 wore drawn all nut of shape. Her eyes | were swollen shut more than lialf tho tune, lnw knee joints torriblv swollen ami Im- eighteen months she had to be held ।up to be dressed. One lim!> became entirely helpless, and the skin was so dry nnd eraeked that it would bleed. Durmg । these eight years she and been treated by a score of physicians, and has also spent niiu h time at Ann Arbor under b -t me, i<-al advi e. All said her troride v as brought on by hard work and that , medicine would not euro, ami that rest . was tho only thing which would ease her. Alter g ling to live v ith her daughter ) she became entirely helpless and could । not even raise her arms to cover herself at night. The interesting i«nt of ih«, ! story so Jows in her own wonis: , "1 was urged to try I):-. Williams' Pink । Pills for Pale People and at last did so. In three days after I commenced taking I Pink Pills I could sit up nml dress myI self, am! after using them six weeks I went home and coinmehccd working. I continue] taking the pills, until now I j begin to forget my crulchcs. and can go ,up and dow n s ops without aid. I am : truly a living wonder,, walking out of I doors without assistance "Now. if I can say anything to induce i those wl o have suffered ."s I have to try Pink Pills I shall gladly do so. Il other i like sufferers will try Pink Pills according to directions they will have reason to I th ink God for creating men who are able j to conquer that terrible disease, rheum;!- ) tism. 1 have in my own neighborhood I recommended Pink Pills for the after effects of la grippe, and weak women ! with impure blood, and with good reI suits." Mrs. Todd is very strong in her faith in i the curative powers of Pink Pills, and ' si.ys they Lave brought a poor, helpless cripple back to do her own milking, churni ing. washing, sewing, knitting, ami in ' fii' t about nil of her household duties, i thanks t * Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. Hr. Williams' Pink Bills contain all tho , elements nee* ssary to give new life and i ri> hncss t । the blood ami restore shattered > m-i vcm. They are for sale by all drugi r -ts, or may bo had by mail from Dr, ! Williams' Medicine I'ompany, Schenec* ’:n'.y. N. Y.. fur 50c. per box-, or six boxes . r $2.50. In tlm man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness there is always a fiber of memory that can be touched o gentle issues. George ElioL

each si e of her neck: we had the attendance of th? family physician and other doctors for a long time, but seemed to g ow worse. I read of many peop'e cured of scrofula by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. As soon as we gave Hood's Sarsaparilla to Clara she began to get better, and before the lint bottle was cone the sores i entirely healed up, and there has never been any sign of the disease since. She Is a Healthy, Robust Child. Her grandmother took Hood's Sarsaparilla at the same time, an i the -alt rheum decreased la its violence and a perfect cure was soon effected. It took about three months for her cure, ■ and she ascribes her good health and strength at her advanced age to Hood's Sarsaparilla. It lias certainly been a godsend to my family.* • Mbs. Sophia Wolfe, Zaleski, Ohio-