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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1896-1-16, Page 3STARVING ARMENIANS. A LOOK AT THEM IN CON, STANTINOPLE. AA Least Five Million Dollars Needed -- Their Country Contains the Garden of Eden and Mrs. Noah's Grave. Millions of dollars will be required for late relief of Armenia, it is estimated. Miss Barton tells me at least 550,000 of. Sts people are now on the verge of starva- tion and that these will need support for from eight to ten months. She does not think a relief expedition should be under- taken at all without $'500,000 is contribut. .d at the start, and she says that effective work will require an expenditure of mil- lions. The Red Cross Society has no funds of its own. It has not appealed to the people Por money, ,but, at the request of the religious bodies of the United States, has merely announced its willing- ness to distribute such funds as the peo- pie may raise for the purpose. The amounts required for such a relief are enormous. I was in Russia during the last famine, and the people there ate up between two and three million dollars worth of food every day. This was kept up for months, and I was told that the famine cost very nearly a ball billion dol- lars. The private gifts of the Russians amounted to $180,000,000. The Govern- ment gave nearly aft much, and the in which Noah landed upon this mount- ain, and there is a ravcne near it which is pointed out as the site of Noah's vineyard. 'l'be vineyard has a monastery connected with it and the monks show a withered old vine which they assert is the 'very one from which was made the wine which made Noah, drunk. He nursed it after he got over his spree and it has borne no grapes unto this day. Noah's wife is said to be: buried on Mount Ararat, and the Armenians trace' their ancestry back to Japbet in one long genealogical tree. They have a tradition that the Garden of Eden was located in Armenia, It was situated almost in the center of the region where theworst massacres have occurred, and it is now one of the barren parts of the country. , The Armenians believe that the wise men of the East, who fol- lowed the star of Bethlehem to find the. young Christ, came from Armenia, and that the star first appeared in the heavens not far from Mount Ararat. Another curious Armenian tradition is as to Adam's fall. According to this, when Adam was in the Garden of: Eden his body was covered with nails, like those which we have on our fingers and toes. These nails overlapped each other like the scales of a fish, thus giving him an in- vulnerable armor. After the fall the nails all dropped oft except from the ends of his fingers and toes, where they remain to this day to remind man et his lost im- mortality. The Armenians'say that when God made Adam of clay lie had a little piece left over. He threw this upon the ground, and as it fell it became gold and formed all the gold of the world. The Armenians believe in the Bible and they are naturally a religious people. The condition of the Women of Armenia is now terrible. They have no refuge from the Turks, and outrages of all descriptions are perpetrated, ending in dsath. In some of the Armenian cities during the late massacres the girls were eolleeted into the churches and were kept there for days at the pleasure of the sol- diers before they were killed. One state- ment describes how sixty young brides were so treated and bow the blood ran out under the church doors at the time of their murders. These Armenian women are among the most attractive of the far east. I saw a number of them during my trip through Asia Minor, They have large, dark, luminous eyes, with long eyelashes, and their complexion is that of rich cream. Many of them have rosy cheeks and lusolous red lips. They are tall and straight, becoming soon fat after marriage. They are very intelligent, and not a few of them arc married to Turks. These women have a dress of their own. They wear red fez caps with long tassels, much like some of the country girls of Greece, The richer ladies wear loose jackets, lined with fur, and long, plain skirts of silk or fine wool. In the province of Van, where sonic of the outrages have occurred, the girls wear trousers under their skirts wh ch are tied at the ankles, Some have long, sleeveless jackets or cloaks reaching almost to the feet and open at the sides up to the waist, and others wear gorgeous bead dresses, cover- ing the front of their caps with gold coins, which hang down over their foreheads. Girls often wear their whole dowry on their persons, and in massacres like those which have occurred rings aro torn from the ears, arms are out off for bracelets, and many a woman is killed for her jew- elry. The poorer women are hard work - era. Nearly every household has one kind of labor by which it adds to its income. Some of the finest embroideries we get from Turkey are made by Armenian women, the best of the work being done by band in hovels. The houses in which the Armenians live are different in different coun- tries. In many of the cities of Turkey there is an Armenian quar- ter, and the older Armenian houses of Smyrna are built like forts. They have no windows facing the street, and it has only been of late years, when the people have considered themselves safe from religious mobs, such as have lately occur- red, that they have built houses more like the Turks. In Armenia proper, where the outrages are going on, the poorer classes have homes which would hardly be considered fit for cows in America. The cow, in fact, lives with the family. The houses are all of one story, and it is not uncommon to build a house against the side of a hill, in order to save the making of a back wall. The roofs are fiat, and are often covered with Tml CONQiil;ROR MEG. present Czar, who was then the crown prince, was at the head of the relief fund. Our gifts to Russia in food and money amounted, to less than a million dollars. They were merely a drop in the bucket in comparison to what was given by the Russians themselves. In Russia it was estimated that one person could be fed for Ave cents a day. It will probably cost more than this in Armenia, as all of the food will have to be brought in from Europe. But even at five cents a person it will require $17,500 a day, or more than half a million dol- lars a month for the food alone of those who are now starving. In addition money 'will be :needed for clothes and shelter during the winter., The farmers will have to be aided in planting their crops, and it is hard to :o i bow the people can be kept from now until harvest for less than $5,000,000. la this relief every cent well have to come iron] the outside, and if the other nations of Europe do not unite with us it is doubtful whether enough funds can be raised to do effective work. The rich Armenians living out- side of Turkey will probably help, and considerable aid may be expected from them, The Armenians are the Yankees of the Orient. They are the brightest, brainiest and smartest of all the people of Asia Minor. They are superior to the Jews or Greeks in business, The Turks say, "twist a Yankee and you make a Jew, twist a Jew and you make an Armen- ian." The Greeks say that "one Greek is equal to two Jews but ono Armenian is equal to two Greeks." Another proverb gement in Turkey is "From the Greeks of Athens, from the Jews of Salonika, and from the Armenians everywhere, good Lord deliver us I" I met Armenians everywhere during my travels in Asia Minor and I found them acting at the heads of all kinds of business. There are many rich Armenians in In- dia. Itravelled with one coming from Singapore to Calcutta, who told me he was on his way back from Hong Kong, where he had gone to sell pearls to the Chinese. I found the conductors on the Egyptian railroads to be Armenians, and when I travelled over the transcontinent- al railway to Paris the guards on the train and the men who took up my ticket were Armenians, who spoke English and French. There are hundreds of thous- ands of. Armenians in Europe, There are a large number in Persia, and those who live in different parts of Turkey are said to number about 1, 000, 000. There are a number in Constantinople. They manage most of the banking business of the Turk- feh capital and the large mercantile en taablishments there belong to them. When the riot occurred in Stamboul a few weeks ago nearly all the stores were closed, their Armenian owners fearing they would be looted by the mob. When I visited the Government depart- ments of the Sultan I found that though . the chief officers were Turks, the clerks were, in most cases, Armenians, and the brightest man whom I met in Turkey was one of the Sultan's secretaries, who was of Armenian birth. Ho spoke a half dozen different languages and was a man of street influence. There are Armenian engineers, architects and doctors in Con- stantinople,and when I got money on my letter, of credit it was au Armenian clerk who figured up the exchange, and an Armenian cashier who handed out the money. The Armenians of Armenia proper are almost all farmers, and the ex- orbitant taxes of the Sultan have made the most of them poor. I saw a largo number of Armenian pilgrims. •during one Easter that I spent at Jerusalem. They had come front all parts of Asia Minor to pray at the Church of she Holy Sepulchre, They have a pat- ' :larchat Jerusalem who leads them in ' these celebrations. He is a tall, thin man. with a long, gray beard and a face not unlike that of the typical Georgia tracker. He usually wears a long gown, and has a little skull cap in the crown of his head. During the Easter celebration his head wascovered with a tiara, which blazed with diamonds, and his gown was a gor- geous silk robe. which was decorated with diamonds The Armenians are,you know, Christians, and their customs are much like those eif the Greek Church. • They have monasteries and churches scattered throughout AsiatMinor andthey claim to. people, oldest of all Christian be the • p; The Armenians ns assert that their coun- tryis the holiest land upon earth, It lies . theBlack Sea in Asia Minor, southeast o f . °• and between it and • I'tsssia. Metint r 1 Aa-' n init- from the fret, Is situated .not.,,.ar locality in which the outrages e are now. and taking place,some of the monasteries, claim to have pieces of the identical ark this veil L often kept on until her first baby is born. Armeniangirls are married very young. Eleven or twelve is eon- sidered quite old enough, and women are still young when they have sons aged twenty. Marriages are arranged by the parents or by go-betweens, ' The usual wedding day is Monday, and on the Friday before the marriage the bride is taken to the bath with great ceremony. ' On Saturday she gives a big feast to her girl friends. On Sunday there is a feast for the boys, and on Monday the wedding takes, place, It usually occurs at the church, where the priest blesses the ring and makes. prayers over the wedding garments. There are numerous other ceremonies, making the wedding last from three to eight days. One curious custom is that shortly after her return from the church the children present rtisb to pull off,the bride's stockings, in which have been hidden some coins of money for the occasion, and another is the placing of a baby boy on the knee of the bride, as she sits beside the groom on the divan, with the wish that she may become a happy mother. The real cause of these outrages is, to a large extent, religious fanaticism. The better classes of the Turks and the more intelligent of the Mahominedans would probably stop them if they could. This Sultan has, I am told, tried to do so, but he is afraid o8 his life, He realizes that if the common people get the idea that he is false to his religion he is almost sure of assassination, The Imam and the Sheiks, or in other words, the Mahomme- den priests, to a large extent rule TurkeY to -day, They are, in most oases, ignorant and intolerant, At the bead of them is the Sheik-ui Islam, or Grand Mufti, He is appointed by the Sultan, and the Sultan cannot kill him so longus he holds his title, though he can drliose him. The Sultan himself cannot be deposed, unless the Grand 7tiufti so decrees. He lea sort of a supreme judge in addition to his religious character. Among the Mabommedan fanatios there are a large number known as dervishes, who roam about from country to country inciting trouble. They are walking delegates, as it were, for the killing of Christians, They stimulate the religious zeal of the people and make violent speeches against unbelievers. They fast much and they have curious'hetbeds of worship: Ono class is known as the Wheeling dervishes whom you may see any Friday going ttirough their worship in Con- stantinople. They dress in long white robes, fastened at the waist with black belts, and on their heads they wear high sugar -loaf hats. They sing the Koran as theywhirl about in the mosques. As they go on the chief priest makes prayers. They whirl faster and faster until at last their long skirts stand out like those of a ballet dancer. They become red in the face, and some finally drop to the ground in fits. Another class of these fanatics aro the howlers. There is a great organization made up of these in Turkey, and they have probably been largely concerned in limiting feeling against the Armenians. I have visited their mosques, but I despair of adequately ,describing their rolieious gymnastics, They work themselves into a frenzy by gasping and howling out the name of God, and'the dervishes of the interior parts of Turkey often take knives and cut themselves and each other in re- ligious eestacy. They go into epileptic fits and foam at the mouth, and the most of them think that the killing of a Christian is a sure passport to heaven. I would say, however, that these people are the cranks tj' Mahommedanism, and that they are not a fair sample of the Mahommedan world. FRANK G. CARPENTER. AN ARMENIAN MAIDEN. earth, upon which grass and flowers grow, and upon which the sheep some- times are pastured. The floors are usually sunken below the level of the roadway, and the ordinary window is of about the size of a port hole. You go down steps to enter the house, and you find a cow stable on one side and on the other the kitchen and private apartments of the family. Each room has a stone fireplace, and the cooking is done with fuel of, cow dung mixed with straw. There are no tables and very few chairs. The animal heat of the cattle aids the fire in keeping the family Warm, and ail of their living arrangements are of the simplest and cheapest nature. The houses of the better class are more comfortable, and in the big Turkish cities some of the rich Armenians havebeauti- fu_homes. The Armenian women are good housekeePers - They are much more cleanly than the Turics, and even their hovels are kept clean. They have a better home . life than the Turks. A man can have ' but one wife, but the families of several generations often live'. in one house, in which case the daughter-in-law is to a large extent, the servant of, her husband's family. She has Ms . obey her father-in-law, and during the time days of her married life -she is net allowed to speak to her husband's parents, oranyof tthe family who are older than . ,, herself until her father-in-law gives her permission. Up to this time she wears a red veil, as a badge of her subjection, and Frogs to a Bed Chamber. The Empress Eugenie ordered a bag of frogs to be brought In from the forest for microscopical research by Pasteur when he was visiting Compiegne. When he left Pasteur put the beg in one of the bureau drawers and forgot it, The next inhabitant of the room was a charming beauty of the court, who was awakened in the night by a mysterious sensation, and at the same time her foot encountered something cold and clammy in her bed. Lighting her candle she found herself surrounded by a small legion of frogs en promenade. After the illustrious savant's departure a femme de ohambre, finding a damp 'traveling bag in the bureau, threw it under the bed without examining its contents. and forgot 1t. Rare ignorance. A woman called to testify before a coroner's jury in New York on Wednesday appalled that body by declaring that she didn't know where she lived. This was not a marked sign of ignorance, as it afterward proved. She next was asked. if she knew the name of the city. She did not, nor could she tell what country this is The coroner, holding a Bible, asked her what book it was. "I don"t know," the woman replied. "Ever hear of the Bible?" he asked. She had not. Nor had she ever heard of Jesus Christ. This was ignorance dense enough to merit a place on the jury. That was full, how- ever, and the woman was excused. -- Buffalo Express. o. FAMILIAR HYMNS. "FOREVER WITH THE LORD." James Montgoinerr.: James Montgomery was born in 1771 at Irvine, in Ayrshire, Scotland, near the birthplace of the infinitely more honored, but much less worthy man; Robert Burns. His father, John Montgomery, came from the Moravian Settlement of Grace Hill in the North of Ireland to take the pastoral charge of a small Moravian congregation in the little seaport town of Irvine. In a few years his parents devoted themselves to the work of foreign missions; and, leav- ing children, home and lands for Christ's sake, sailed; for the West Indies, to labor in a community of slaves and slave -own- ers Both died on their loved field of ether. :fames was sent by his father to the Moravian Seminary at Fulneck at the age of seven years to be educated. Here he real ineil ten years only, distinguishing bim.elf for indolence, melancholy and. stupidity, adorned with poetry, At ten years of age he had book filled with. poems, and at the age of fourteen he com- posed the poem that brought him into notice. A failure in scholastic work be was ap- prenticed to a grocer. At this time he says of himself : "You might obtain a passing glimpse of a slim, carroty -haired lad of sixteen mis-spending his time in the composition of music, and blowing his brains out with a haut-boy." Poor, melancholy James soon became sorely discontented, and one fine mid -sum- mer Sunday afternoon, while his master was at ohureh, he coolly walked oil into the wide, wide world, with only a single change of linen in his hands, and three shillings and sixpence in his pocket, leav- ing behind him anew suit of clothes that was given him the day before, because, as he said, "he had not earned them." From schoolboy to grocer, from that to editor's clerk, and then editor of the Sheffield Iris, Printing his rhymes in the spirit of a partisan he encountered the authorities, and was fined twenty pounds, and for a second offence of the same kind thirty pounds and six months imprisonment. His melancholy turn fostered unbelief, against which he strove with all the energies of his nature. He denied the atonement. He sought for counsel from the Unitarians, and from these the turned to the Methodists. It was a happy day for him when the Rev. John Everett was ap- pointed to the Sheffield circuit. He paid five shillings to get his first sight of the poet, but afterwards became his fast friend and adviser. As old age advanced his hours of de- spondency became more and more unbear- able. All his early associations led him hack to 1~ alnecic, which he was accustom- ed to visit, andwhere he was always welcomed as the returned dove to the ark. The following verse of a hymn seems to mark his great change, and the high de- light he found in the communion of saints ; "People of the living God I have sought the world around, Paths of slim and sorrow trod, Peace and comfort nowhere found. Now to you my spirit turns, Turns a fugitive unblest. Brethren, where your altar burns 0 receive me into rest." He finally settled down beside a small Episcopal church and often engaged with the congregation in singing his own hymns. Out of one of his melancholy fits he was suddenly transported into an ecstasy of blissful hope, and floating on its radiant pinions into the sunbeams of a new day he wrote his grandest hymn. On the fol- lowing Sabbath he heard it sung at the morning service. After dinner, as was his custom, lie lay down to rest, and be- fore night he pitched his tent for the last time, and had entered the joys of which he had only dreamed as he sang "Forever with the Lord." Cheer Tip. "We may be weary pilgrims here, many of us; but, after all, the Christian pilgrim is journeying to a beautiful coun- try, bright and sunny, where all is peace and joy and love. This life is much what we make it, and the hardest life may be a sunlit path when the Sun of Righteous- ness shines upon it, for there no gloom can stay. The days may seem dark and dreary, many of them, •bat 'they will come to an end. Oh, pilgrim, press forward, then, crying 'Excelsior!' Falter not by, the way, even though it be full of stumb- ling planes; let these only glee fresh im- petus and determination to win the reward awaiting thee. 'Ye shall reap if ye taint not' Inexcusable. "I never felt soprovoked in my life," said the girl in blue when telling of her experience the next day. "What was the matter?" asked the girl in gray. "Your new gown was all right, wasn't it?'' "Oh, .yes," "Andy our. new hat iscertainly a beauty." I realize it." "Then what was the matter?" "Why, I wore them both for the first time last night, and George hurried me so that we reached the theater before the curtain lied gone up for the first act,"- Chicago Evening Post. '" The Honest and Earnest. "He that is honest and earnest and speaks and pleads honestly and earnestly, needs no novelty to attract and to keep 'the people. Sincerity is, the magnet that draws them. Teeth is the chain that keeps them. Reverence is the light that shines themhome better citizens, and c�'again`men and brings diem back. better JosephKraus. Tetter women,"—Rabbi , kopf, D.D. "OH, HAPPY DAY." LITTLE GIRL'S CRESS, Green Cheviot With a Field Silk Blouse Vest. This pretty design of a little girl's gown may be reproduced' in any of the goods of this season's stock■preferably of cheviot. ' The illustration represents a green cheviot with a plaid silk blouse vest frost and a collar of dark green vel- vet. The sailor effect In the 'back end the figaro jacket effeot in the front, are the novel and attractive features of the Rev. Philip Doddridge, D.D. Philip Doddridge was born in London in the year 1702, and died in 1751. His mother, to whom he owed much, and from whom he learned the well -stored teachings of the Dutch tiles which formed the sides of the fireplace, was the daughter of John Baumann, who had to flee from Bohemia on account of his religion. Doddridge had the misfortune to lose both of his parents in his childhood. He was a star of the first magnitude in the firmament of the church. Hymns -were very scarce in his day, and it was with difficulty the preacher could find hymns suitable to his theme. Like the monarch minstrel and sweet singer of former days. he wrote his own hymns. • It has been said that great men are, in the main, members of large families. It this be true, Doddridge might reasonably hope, he being the youngest of a family of. twenty. A good lady, the Duchess of Bedford, promised to educate him on condition of his becoming a member of the Established Church. He refused to comply with the condition. At age of thirteen, with a complete consecration to God and to his: studies, fie went to school' at St. Albans,: and for recreation he visited the cettagers and read the Bible to them. It was In lonely hours of orphanage, when eighteen of his brothers and sisters had goneto the tomb, when father and mother had been laid to rest, that the lad, twelve years of age, took Christ as a brother, God as a father and the church as a mother. When thirty years later, consumption marked him as its victim, he thought of his early home at Kilworth,` his conversion, the holy beads that bound. him, the melodious whispers : of the voice divine that charmed him, the cheerful anthems of the holy Sabbath morning, and his mother's early lessons around the hearthstone ; the rest of soul, the holy resolutions and holier hopes formed around the fireside home' so long ago. We wonder not, that under such circumstances, his poetic soul should lay them all aside in the ark of an ever- lastiiil, covenant. How often has the poet, long ago dead, spoken and sunas the triumphant hostsiiavc joined will');an- other new born soul in chanting the Red Sea song of deliverance in the words of Doddridge's hymn—"Oh, Happy Day." Quits. An old Scothman, not feeling well, called upon a doctur. The doctor gave him some verbal instructions as to how to regulate his diet, advising him, among other things, to drink no spirits for a time. The old Scotochmnan rose to leave, 'when' time doctor said: "I inn in the why of„.chargiiae for my advice. I will, trouble. you for half "a ()town. "Oh,ymaybe,'” said the patient; "but I'm nae genie to tali' yes advice l" pattern. The gown may also be made of plaid goods with a plain silk blouse front and a velvet collar of the same shade as the blouse silk, Camel's hair, serge, cashmere or cheviot are satisfactory fab- rics from which to make this gown. It may be made very dressy by combining old rose cashmere with a delicate shade of apple -green silk, the latter in the blouse front. In this case the velvet may be the same shade of old rose or green to match the blouse front. Sorne.of the Stuffs. Satin, velveteen and crepon, as well as all the wool materials are liked for house wear,while satin in light colors Is favor- ed in combination with a dark stuff. The crepons show smaller weaves and are frequently embroidered in tiny pin heads, crescents of stars the salve color as the back ground. Skirts for the street are being made longer, and in consequence those intended only for the house have the slightest suggestion of a train, And this slight train really makes every woman, wise enough to wear it, look more graceful. A hQnse gown showing a black and sent cone- binatlou has a skirt of black orogen flar- ing laning gracefully and resting at least three inches on the ground at the back. From the waist extending to below the knee come ecru satin ribbon ends, two on each side. One of each is held down by a huge bow of similar ribbon, which is sewed to the background in . such a way that it loons as if it were appli- qued. The other end is cut crosswise and allowed to flare. The bodice is a short, round basque, the front cut away to allow a box -plaited gilet of ecru, satin With sets of tiny gold buttons arranged in rows upon it to be seen. An enor- mous collar, square in the back and shawl -shaped at the sides, is of ecru lace of the coarse variety fancied. The full sleeves are of the crepon, and are drawn in to cuffs of the satin overlaid. with the lace, and having, on the outer side of each cuff, as if holding the lace down, a row of gold buttons, The high stock is of broad black satin ribbon with its bow in front, and baying from under this bow a cravat of lace like ,the collar. DROPPED ON THE STREET. l'hat leak What Happened a Well Known Resident of 1'nlon, B. C,. Who Had Been in Declining Stealth. From the News, Union, B. C. A little ever a year ago the repurlijir of the News, while standing in t;;nt of the office, before its removal to Jnion, noticed four men carrying Mr„ J. P. Devis,tho Well known florist and garden- er, into the Courtenay House. '.Che re- porter, ever on the alert for a news item, itt (nee went over to investigate the matter, and learned that Mr. Davis ., bad had a slight stroke of paralysis. Aenote of the circumstance appeared in the News at the time, and nothing further was heard of it. Last spring Mr. 'Davis was observed to be frequently in Union , bringing in flowers, and later vegetables, for sale, and the reporter, mooting' him one day, the following conversation took place: "Glad to see ' you looking so well, Mr. Davis,'i said the reporter, "the last time I sa you you seemed pretty badly broken "Yes," said Ma 'Davis, "I did 'have a pretty tough time of it.I was troub- led with my heart, having frequent se- vere spasms, and shortness of breath on slight exertion. I bad also a swelling of the neck which with said to be goitre. Two years ago I Caine yup from Nana - into and took the.Iiar ey ranch hoping Bustles. After all, even the Watteau shepherd- esses.herding their flocks in fleecy finery, under pictured skies which remained conveniently rainless—even they wore bustles—of wool. Whichfrom our pretty lambs we'll pull perhaps, or all of lightest down com- pact ; one can't imagine them using woven wire or any such horrible con- trivance of the age of steel. They say that bustles are coming in again. I hesitate to believe it, and hope that the tentative beginnings of them which our eyes can't help seeing will not grow to such monstrous proportions as some of us—alas i—are old enough to remember, but will remain at least in- nocuous as the horse -hair -lined skirts, which are all that are left us from the crinoline panic. In -a way, the things go together. The stiff wide skirts we have now look none the worse for the insidious bit of fulness at the backend so little by little the thing might grow again to the an- cient horrors; but-- Pleasanter ut—Pleasanter to think upon are the trifles of scissors, purse, thimbles, lockets and the like—in useless silver all—which hang from beauty's waist. Even while skating one wears the jingling chate- laines, so that a skate key, if she needs it, is one of the most appropriate bits of bric-a-brac. Whatever there may be thus dependent, it must be little and of silver or gold, solid and set with tiny stones if one's purse be long, enough. Gems glitter too, in the gold filigree of the high comb which ladies young and old wear with such coquettish efface I FELL DOWN ON TUE STREET. a change would do me good, but in this I was disappointed, and seemed to be steadily growing weaker, I bad three doctors at different times, but they all appeared not to understand my case. A t last I got so low that one day I fell down on the street,and those who pick- ed me up thought I was dying. After that I was urged to take Dr. Williams' Pick Pills, and almost from the outset they helped me, and after the use of about half a dozen boxes I was aas'well as ever." "Do you still take the Pink Pills?" asked the reporter. "Well," was the reply, "I still keep them about me, and since in a while when I think I require a tonic I take a few, but as you can see I don't look like a man who requires to take medicine now." On this point the reporter quite agrees with Mr, Davis, as he looks as vigorois anti robust a man as you could wish to see. After parting with Mr. Davis the reporter called at Piinbury 8z Co.'s drug store, where he saw the manager, Mr. Van Houten, who corroborated what Mr. Davis had said regarding the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and further stated that he believed Pink Pills to be the finest tonic in the world, and gave they names of several who had found. remark- ,. able benefit from their use. A depraved or watery condition of thee blood or shattered nerves are the two fruitful sources of almost every disease• that afflicts humanity, and to all suffer- ers Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are offered with a confidence that they are the 'only' perfect and unfailing blood builder and nerve restorer, and that where given a fair trial disease and suffering must ban- ish. Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent by mail on receipt of 5b• cents a box, or x2.00 for six boxes, by addressing the Dr. Williams' hio;licine Co.,, Brookville, One, or Scbenoctady,N- Y. Beware of imitations and always re- fuse trashy substitutes, alleged to be, " just as good." Dress Buttons. In nothing has artistic ingenuity been so taxed as in the designing and manufacturing of this season's buttons. Some of them range as high as $6 to $8 each. The pearl buttons are ` enormously large and elaborately carved, and steel buttons are in every imaginable shape and size. There are jet buttons with solid cut jet centers the size of a silver half dollar, and smaller, round, oval, oblong, mar- quise and crescent-shaped, set in Aline, stones and silver; buttons with opaline, sapphire, ruby, emerald, amethyst, topaz and turquoise centers, set in rhine- stones; plain rhinestone buttons, set in silver in every form, star, crescent, square and anchor -shaped; steel and rhinestones set in rows and figures; miniature but- tons, inolassie, Elizabethan, Queen Anne, Empire and Louis XIV. style, each one perfect in painting and set in rhinestones or pearls; plek, nream and brown cameo buttons, high relief and intaglio, represent- ing; heads, figures and scenery, and also in jewelled settings, Egyptian cameos, in dark reds, greens, and browns, in dull goldrims; plain red, purple or e;reon en- amel, with a superimposed design in gold or sifter filigree; solid enamel buttons, in geometria and mosaic designs with jewelled settings, and a hundred styles' in tiny jewelled' buttons, to be,applied in rows to evening and reception toilettes. Uses of Dogwood. Dogwood wands snake excellent whip- stocks, and are need in some of the beet whips. They are cut sometimes by coachmen in the suburbs and sent to town to be dressed and made up into whins. The stocks made of this wood are noted for their ornamental:keots at regular intervals. being the truncated and ronndect branches. These are 'imi- tated in some other whipstocks, but the imitation is a cause of weakness.:says a writer in the New York Sun. The clog - wood sticks are extremely tough and elastic, being comparable in elasticity with whalebone. ' The wood is also used for butchers' skewers, and sone philologists conjecture that the first 'syi- labie of the name is a corruption, of "deg," meaning a spine or dagger. Dogwood, as being particularly free from silex, is used by watchmakers and opticians in cleaning watches and lenses. The bitter bark of the dogwood is used as a substitute for the bark of the Peru- vian quinine tree. Dogwood is notably' of slow growth, and in all thickly peo- pled regions the tree is recklessly 'des- poiled for the sake of its blossoms, so that the supply of the wood for commer- cial purposes isnot large. He Didn't 'Want to See It. "My doctor is a renal joker," .-eald a lady. "I didn't know that my talking bothered him when he was writing pre- scriptions until yesterday, .tie never mentioned it, and I always asked him all sorts of questions while he was writ- ing them out, Yesterday heexamined me, and sat down to write something. .l kept talking, Suddenly he looked . up and said: "'How has your'systom been? Hold out tongue,' your W e "I putout that member,; anti hebegan to Write. He wrote, and I held out my tongue, and when he got through he said: " 'That will do.' " 'But,' said I, "you haven't looked at "'No,' said he, 'I didn't °aro: to. I only wanted to keep it still while I: wrote the prescriptsin. i "Herald. -hI, Y. Ho Y. • Thirty Years Older. , :Boggs—How is it your hair is quite white while year: board is very dark? ' ,. , i '�:. �NOg„s ;..It b the mostrnatural thing n the woritl,' Boggs—Indeed i 3sg,ga+ It thirty years per's Bazar. Delicate Tast i r a, -- 1 t that you aro: Mr. liinl;'s .11 ],i s tl tin n on the to shelf? s. g P p. ffi r Mrs. Plinks—That's lado s cline" can't eat this � cheap - kind we et, elildron.-Chioago: Record. • �a