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The Huron News-Record, 1894-03-21, Page 2A Gentleman Mho for nerly resided in Connecticut, but who now rendes iq Honolulu, writes: "For .:. :7-7 wife anti I Inure used Ayer's Hair'yigpr, and wo attribute to It the dart hair which she and I now have, while hun- dreds of our acquaint- ances, ten or a dozen years younger than wo, are either gray -headed, white, or bald. When asked how our hair has retained its color and fullness, we reply,' By the use of Ayer's Hair Vigor—notlhing else.'" "In 1858, my affianced Was nearly bald, and the hair kept fall - lug out every day. I Induced her to use Ayer's Hair Vigor, and very soon, It not only checked any further loss of hair, but produced an entirely now growth, which has remained luxurlant,apnd glossy to this day. I can recommend this preparation to all in need of a genuine hair -restorer. It is all that it is claimed to be."—Antonio Alarrun, Bastrop, Tex. AYER'S HAIR VIGOR (he Huron News -Record $1.50 a Year—$1.25 in Advance WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21st, 1894. What Would You Do. IF YOU HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE YOUR LIFE OVER AGAIN? The New York World interviewed a number of people recently upon the kind of life they would live, if they had the opportunity of availing themselves Of their experiences, and starting in life again: Among those interviewed was Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the poetess. She had this to say :-"I would not be a girl again because 1. believe we are thrown into this world under condi- tions best suited to develop our charac- ters, and to learn by experience, mis- takes, errors and sufferings what life means. I would do exactly ass have done were my life to he lived over again." "Every mistake 1 ever made served me as a- warnin and a guide; every, misstep has enabled me to have charity for others; every sorrow has been a source of knowledge ; therefore I would have it all as it is. Gertrude Atherton, the well known authoress, though she would like to be a newspaper girl, just by the way of commencing a literary career. She said :— Never having swerved from my in- tention to be an author, I think I should have forsworn matrimony and become a newspaper woman. The latter is the best training for author- ship, the former the worst !—it throws too many obstacles in the way, stulti- fies the imagination and threatens the ideals. After one is on one's mental feet, so to speak, and half way down the road, matrimony is all well enough. "The creative mind is—as it should be—fickle, restless, curious, eager to see the world kaledoscopically, and a bus -- band is a distinct barrier to mental pro- gress of this sort. The newspaper life offers facilities for flash -light ex- periences to be found in no other sphere of action, It is a life of variety, as monotony is the key note of matri- mony. "Still I should not advise a literary woman •to remain in journalism more than five or six years at most. The best of virtues may become vices if pursued to the bitter end. Over ex- periencetends tolessen individuality,too intimate ..a knowledge of the world in its shirt sleeves is to destroy. the ideal, and inceesapt,hanclling of.facts .is ac- cording to the imagination as defriesti- city." "But `the advantages within proper limitations are enormous, and I shall always 'regret that I was shot from the school room into matrimony instead of upon the cold world with some kind mentor at hand to suggest the news- paper office." __._..•_ TIIE CHILDREN'S ENEMY. Scrofula often shows itself in early life and is characterized by swellings, abscesses, hip disease, etc. Consump- tion is scrofula of the lungs. In this .class of disease Scott's Emulsion is un- questionably the most reliable medi- cine. Willis Olds of Simeoc, 26 years of age, was run over and killed in the West Shore yards at Buffalo Thursday where he had been working as brake- man. SKIN DISEASES are more or less directly occasioned by had blood. B. B. B. cures the following Skin Diseases: Shingles, Erysipelas, Itching Rashes, Salt Rheum, Scald Head, Eruptions, Pimples and Blotches, by removing all . impurities from the blood from a common Pimple to the worst Scrofu- lous Sore. By the fearful mistake of his father, Hugh Clendenning, the 6 year old son of Thomas Clendenning, market gardener, Hamilton, was poisoned last week. The little fellow was suffer- ing from diphtheria, and his father, in giving him medicine, filled the spoon with carbolic acid in mistake. The child died. For Over Fifty Years. MRs. 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I don't know why, I don't know how, But surely, 'swap no harm at all To stop a minute at the Plow And listen to her Milking call t "Co.—Boss—Cat , " It eounded to Across the yellow -tasseled corn I Surely the man was never born Who would not leave hie tenni and roam To help her drive the.cattle home. The old folk lived across the hill, But purely, 'twos no harm at all To kiss her, while the fields were et ill Aud list'ning to her milking call : "Co—Boas—Co I" It sounded so.. It made the tardy robin start, The squirrel bent the leaves apart To see us tiro a -walking down Toward the sleepy little town. I don't know how, I don't know why, But surely, 'twos no harm at all ; The stars were in the summer sky Before the cattle reached their stall. "Co—Bose—Co I" It rings on so The moon, front off his great white shield, Heektoseed it back Into the Held, And still the whisp'ring echoes come And follow up, a -walking home. —Herman Rasa. HOW IT CAME ABOUT. It made a very pretty pictures -the big sandy -floored kitchen, with the branches of the cherry trees against the fair win- dows that were shaded inside by starch- ed white dimity curtains. Bright - scoured tins hung on one side of the wall, and directly under these shining rows stood the huge white -wood table that had been scrubbed till it was white almost as the curtains. A large dough tray, partly filled with sieved fiour,stood at one end; a half-dozen deep, yellow pie plates were ranged along, and the genius of the realm stood daintily by—pretty Millie Dale. I say site was "pretty," with her short bare arms, dimpled at the elbows; her round white hands flying through the flour; her trim, well -shaped figure, in its brown calico dress, big gingham apron and narrow white collar; her daintily - poised head, with its mass of neatly - arranged braids of nut -brown hair; her fine dark complexion, with its cherry - red lips and pink -tinged cheeks, and her roguish, merry eyes, as brown as a berry, whose white lids just now were cast demurely down, as she dextrously mixed her Hely crust. "You are going to answer me, Millie, aren't you? It's hardly fair to keep a fellow in such awfulsuspense•" Theo Lynde was sitting at the fur- thest end of the table, with his eyes fix- ed intently on Millie's face ; and Millie, pretending not to understand, raised her face so innocently. "Really, Theo. you must pardon me. I forgot you aslaed me what time—" "Nonsense, Millie!" and his loud voice rang hers down. "You incorrigible co- quette, you; why didn't you say 'Yes' or No' when I ask you to marry pie ?" "Oh, so you did ! But I forgot all about it." He bit his mustache vexedly. How ought he to woo this slay, charming girl, who utterly ignored all hit, tender speeches, who blushed when he acci- dentally caught tier eye ? "You forget itl" hemurmurod bitterly. "Do you ever remember anything but the recipe for pie -crust and Charlotte de Russe ? Millie Dale, you shall not trifle with me a moment longer: Millie, tell me now—do you love me or not ? You know how I.love you I" Then he paused to wait for an answer. —his fine eyes very earnest, his heart just a little cowardly for fear she might refuse him. And Millie deliberately measured out another cup of flour and took up a morsel of salt. "Well, Theo, since you are determin- ed—No," "No!" he echoed, in a voice thick with pain, and sprang to his feet as if the sur- prise hurt him. , "I said -No,' " she returned cooly, "but I am sure there are other gills who can remember other things than to make Charlotte and pie crust, that will be overwhelmed with the honor you would do me. Dear, how hot the kitchen is ?" • And Theo Lynde thought the sudden heat of the kitchen made her cheeks flame so beautifully ; and, dispirited and sick -hearted, he left her to her cherry pies, and went down to the shady lakelet to nurse his disappoint- ment. right rfronnri Iron her and k/a8,urt, ',to court another girl, Up anti tlgWti,,, up and do vii they, walked, and Alillie sat and watch 'a theirs through a very tempest of emotion. first of jealous anger, then •jeaaloag' love, then outraged. love, then Wounded utfeution' and regret; and when it fairly came to that, Millie's heart gret4 sick, anti the angry lei le fled from her eyes before the surging tears, and Bile moved away from the window where she could not eve him. What was she to do to cure this heart- ache? What could she du? How, if she dared do anything, ought she to go about it? Those were the questions Millie Dale asked herself these June days, after elle had foolishly done what a good many other girls have done before her— wan- tonly coquetted with their happiness. And she answered her self-imposed question so correctly, and acted so womanly, that I ober her behavior to fl4many another young girl in the same predicament as worthy of 4mitatiou. The days went on, very wearily ,, to Millie, until the Saturday when Mr. Lynde was to go away. His trunks were packed, and one of them Millie ew was full of daintily frille.I and ruffled shirts, snowiest white vests, linen suits, that she herself had washed, starched and ironed. And then, when she dared delay no longer, Millie went into toe darkened parlor where Mr. Theo Lynde was reading, while he waited for Farmer Dale's wagon to come around, that was to curry him to the train. Site went in, with a deliberate, slow step, her eyes glowing brightly and her cheeks robbed of their bloom, "Mr. Ly tide I" He started up, bowed and said : "You are very kind to 'come to wish me good-bye. Millie." Perfectly free and friendly he was, but somehow there was such a barrier between them. Then she raised her face freely to his. "Notto say 'good-bye,' Theo ; to beg you to forgive and forget what I said the other day. I did wrong, and whether you want to have me tell you so or not I must do it." Gradually the pink tinge in her cheeks darkened to scarlet : yet there she stood, the beautiful penitent, wait- ing for her verdict. A moment's si- lence, and then site felt Theo's kisses on her, mouth and- Theo's areas about her. '�` "Millie i I have been so wretched, and now you make me forever happy. My brave, beautiful darling !" Perhaps afterward she may have ex- plained how it all came auout.—M. C., in New York News. "Them's first-rate pies, adyliow,Millie; you'll make em equal to your mother pretty soon. Mr. Lynde, them's fine pleb; eh?' - Farmer Da'le'scherry voice went ring-, lug through the kitchen; and Mr, Lvtide, in his white linen suit, glancing indiffer- ently from a plate of rice pudding he was discussing. "Cherry pie,did you say? No. I don't care for cherry pie particularly." Millie looked up suddenly and across at Theo. It sounded so strangely to hear him speak so for he was so used to eating with special relish whatever she had made, and then sending little telegraphic glances of appreciation to her. "You don't elh?" said Farmer Dale, good-naturedly. "That's a pity, for Millie tells me she intends taking a lot to the picnic. You'll have to make some o' Mr. Lynde's favorite Charlotte Rushes, Millie, for his basket." liillie's cheeks crimsoned, and Mr. Lynde's voice sounded so malicious, as he answered : "You are very kind, Mr. Dale, but Miss Millie need not be put to so much trouble. I shall not be able to attend the picnic on 'Tuesday week, as I have decided to return to the city on Satur- day night. My summering has been very delightful, Mr. Dale, and now comes the hard work." going be was go o aw•a y. Theo Lynde leave the Dale farm I Why, what a wretched place it would be after that ; so lonesome and—and—. Then Millie's eyes dimmed suspiciously, and several big tears splashed on her white ruffled apron, while she looked quickly around to see if any ono detected the weakness she was ashamed of. Then she sant something that dried her tears as if a magic wand had touch- ed then. She smoothed her apron fiercely, and her cheek flamed as she saw, leisurely promenading to and fro under the trees on the lakolet's edge, and in full 'view of her window. Theo Lynde, with a stylishly dressed young girl on his arm—one of the boarders up at the hotel, she knew at a glance— and that, too, after all Theo had said about disliking such frivilous young ladies, and giving it as one reason for coaxing Farmer Dale's wife to take him as a boarder, Well, Millie thought it was all over with them. What a big fool he had been not to see she never meant what she said, last baking morning. Any how— and she caught her breath very like a sob—Theo Lynde was the only lover she ever eared a jot for ; and he had turned THE BAHIS OF PERSIA. A Sect 'With Many Good Points, but Greatly Persecuted. "I was in Persia on the 16th of last May," said a gentleman recently. '• Why do you mention that particular day ?" asked the reporter, "Because," lie returned, "it is a day of sorrow to thousands of the inhabi- tants of the land of Cyrus. There is a new sect in that coining, and they be- lieve they ,will supplant all others. They are known as the , Brthis. These peculiar people claim that on the 16th of May, in some year unknown, God be- came a roan in the person of Beiges Allah, who left the human hotly and as- cended to heaven, 'after praying his peo- ple to erepare themselves for a better and a perfect life, and to do everything that would build up the temporal marc and ennoble this life. It was the son of this prophet wet) thus related his father's death. The followers of Beha are called Bahia. They admit that Jesus and Mo- hammed and Moses were great pro- phets. They maintain that God has in- augurated a pew era and that it began with the advent of Bella and Ali Mo- hammed. The origins of the belief is Persianic. A new Imam is' to arise. 'With his rising will coins peace to all men. There will be inure happiness iu the world, more charity, more honesty among men. "Seventy-five years age marked the advent of Ali Mohammed. He went abroad in Persia proclaiming himself a prophet. The new sect had been per- secuted w'itlr violence. They have suffered in degree equally es' terrible as that undergone, n the days of martyr- dom. They haveNeserved it as little, too. Time Bible or creed of this new sect is called the Bayan. In no way dues it conflict with the establishedrule of ally government. It lucks among its adherents one tiring which, has ,been deemed essential to the success of religious , teaching. They are not orthodox. The Bayan teaches 'that there is no hell, except 1u unbelief, and that to believe is heaven—paradise. It claims the mission of the Old and New Testament and the Koran to have been fulfilled and therefore useless in the present day. It holds that the human intellect has developed and is able to receive a better creed, a stronger religion, and a better one. 'This new religion is patterned after the Mohammedan religion more than ary other. However, the ritualism has undergone some decided changes. Iu the last mouth of the year a fast is ordered and only children, travelers and woolen in travail are exempt from toe observance. There is one thing about this new sect which deserves considera- tion and support. A higher statue is placed an women. No veil is required when the female desires to appear in public celebrations. The Bauis insists on charity and demand brotherly love. Begging is prohibited and efforts are made by those in high station and at' - fluence to assist their inferiors to rise by inner and independence above the role of mendicants. They believe in a millennium and hope for its inaugura- tion. They hope to obtain it strictly by religious menus. The Bevan is strongly opposed to ignorance and superstition. Auricular confession they consider un- pardonable and .do not allow it. They reject slaveryand the outward distinction of dress. They believe that God alone knows their state after death."—Now Orleans Picay uue. Meaning of Colors. White is the color of light. purity. in- nocence, faith, joy and life. Black means mourning, wickedness and death. Red signifies fire, divine love and wis- dom. Bide stands for heaven, truth from a celestial origin,,, constancy and fidelity. Yellow or gold is the symbol of the sun, of marriage and faithfulness; in a bad senate yellow signifies incon- stancy. jealousy and deceit. Green, the emerald, is the color ofsprirfg, home, particularly of the hope of ininiortaity and of victory, as the color of the laurel and palm. Violet signifies love and truth, or passion and suffering. Purple and scarlet signifies things good and true from a celestial origin. Ole DR:A:VEST DEEDS. '6133,w---y'bu are the Man I want to see Imre 1" The•ttlan, who wrung my hand and eI►ou,ted this into my ear, was in the uniforms or a Federal Captain of the Cuvah'y, its was about thirty years of age, over six: feet in height, and lean, lithe," and active as a •tiger. Ws hair was crisp and yellow, his eyes blue, and but for the determined and almost desperate expression of his face at this time, Captain George Walker, of Carter's Second East Tennessee Cavity, "light - in' for de Gov'ment," might have been thought handsome. As Ire addressed rue in the prison pen at Atlanta, Ga.—this was in November, 1868, I noticed that he was distinguished from the other prisoners by having a thick iron ring at- tached to his right ankle. To the ring was fastened a heavy, rusty, iron chain, at.the end of which there was an iron ball that weighed at least a hundred !.pounds, but which he carried as if it were a toy. A year before this when, a boy of eighteen, I entered the army, I met Walker for the first time at Somerset, Kentucky. At that time he was regard- ed as one of the most daring scouts in our service, and tuts reputation he maintained to the end. -You can't lie a friend to be glad to see me here," I said, as we sat side ter side on a log, the rain pouring down in torrents on the hungry, poorly -clad emu in blue about us ; but sitting there, the captain told me his story. When the war broke out, lie was work- ing at his trade in the mawhiue shop of the (Georgia Central R iilroatd, at Allele tat Every man capable of bearing arms was at once mustered into the service of the Confederacy, anti those needed fur other duties, nice Walker, were special- ly detailed. lie was an EastTenuessiai and an intense union roan, so, at the first opportunity, deserted. Made his eel through to Camp Dick Robinson iu Kentuenty, and enlisted in Carter's regi- ment. Ills courage, intelligence, and know- ledge of the people and geography of the mountain country, made lulu au ie. valuable scout He was on special duty in the Ceicanrauga campaign, when lie was captured anti taken o,a to Atlanta, trout which poiut the prisoners were "YOU ARE THE ONE MAN I -WANT TO SEE H EItE." sent north to Libby, and Belle Isle. At Athinte, Walker was recognized by some of his former associates, separated i'runn the other prisoners. tried for deser- tion.auad sentenced to death. This was Wednesday the 23rd of No- vember, and he was tu.dio on tine Friday following. "But." he said, in conclu- sion, "if they shoot me, it must be on the wing, and I won't you to help rue." I told him I was ready, but I did not see how I could assist an unarmed man, hampered with a ball and chain, to scale the iii teen feet of surrounding stockade, with en armed guard every fifteen paces. "I've filed the rivets and can get rid of tine irons," he explairued. . "And with the help of a stretcher, that's inside, I can cliuth so as to get hold of die stock- ade., Linen.I can pull myself up, and swine over." "But the guards !" I protested. "I want you'amid your friends to take care of -tine i,,".he stud.. '"- Lr the middle of the stockade there was a pile of bricks, tine chimney of a house Elude hail been burned down. "All tine guards are gr'e.'u,"(ionttitued 1l'alkei' "and if just at twelve, you ecoid get our boys to uettve bricks down at the other esti. they'll run there from their posts and leave me a clear front to the south. 'i.euev have a camp, with five thousand them ill it outside, lntt if 1'tu shot run- ning through it'll be a d—n sight better wan kit:India' up to the thing blindfold- ed, you lcnoty '' 1 at( once told Walker's purpose to a score or more men, whom I could trust. and I found every one of their ready to risk his life to help their comrade. I was wan mint when the guards called out "Half past eleven and all's well I" He freed himself` from the chin, and I b;ulu him •'good•bye anti God speed." 1 went to ileo sten, wIroiht I found crouching on the wut ground with bricks in their arils, I never felt so nervous before, and I was aWHZ: tl at the Cap• tatiu's splendid nerve and coolness. At length the shout runt round the stock- ade, "Twelve o'clock and all's well l" 'Iinat was the signal. On the iestamt, thirty men rose and began to "heave bricks.""With cries of alarm, the guards fired wildly into the stockade, and rushed in a holy to the point of an:wk. �Vul tee's one chance had conte : the space to the south was clear. I ruse and .tit. n by the dint light of the' watched him e dead line lamps. ile ran to the stock- ade, placed tine stretcher against it, mounted, seized the top of the lugs, and teas over, with the speed and grace of a greyhound. We could hear the fitting along tine trail, and the distant cheer, that told us he was free of the camp, The Confederates, who hurried into the pen, found a ball and cltaiu, with no Walker at the end. The gallant fellow reached the Union lines its safety, arid, strange to say, not a pian was injured by the tiring of the guard.—Alfred R, Calhoun, Told by Captain George P. Singer. There are different qualities of physi- cal courage, just as there are of cloth, There are men, and I have seen them. who, in company, would rush with a shout upon a battery, but who, if alone, would be incapable of anything like reckless daring, Lieutenant Kupp, of the Eighty -Eighth Pa. Volunteers, was a tall, lank, slab -sided young man, who spoke but little, and that little with It drawl, and who in nppearauce and man- ner was far from being an ideal soldier. He bad a fair reputation in his regi• uneut, in which there were.ea great many sturdy "Pennsylvania Dutch," from Reading and Berks counties. I first saw Kupp in 'Lribby Priem in the early part of 1884. He, with ItJari:e number of his regiment, had beett cap- tured at Gettysburg, I believe ; and eight months in prison had reduced his uniform to rage. At this 'time, the Riohmbnd authorities permitted the friends of prisoners, in the North, to Bend through under flag of truce, boxes containing food and clothing, provided the clothing was such as is worn by eta - Fens. Knpp was fortunate in getting a box, and in the box was a suit of brown nlothes, the cloth of which looked es if it were made at home; there was no doubt that tine tailoring was done there. Dressed in this butternut costume the lees! 2isse "GET OUT OF Irk lE, CONFOUND YOC,' lieutenant bore a striking resembleece to one of those North Carolini:uin s: familiar to all at the front, Indeed, hit friends iu "the Upper East Room," call- ed him a "Tar -heel," and mantle frequent inquiries about the last news frrtni "North Killenv," which he bore with characteristic good nature, it' not aerial indifference, But all the tittle Keep was "dein' a powerful sight of private thinkin," and more than once he amus- ed its friends by saying that he had vert• ens notions of escaping at which they laughed. Every morning at daylight a !lith' cleric named Russ, with a sergenlnt and guard carne in to count the prisuuers; the process was known as "roll call." Some times Confederate soldiers on leave in Richmond, and even irrivnine citizens canoe in with the guard to see the "caged Yankees." One dull morning in early February the guards were going down tin steps .leading to the office of Turn r, tine commandant, on the ground floor in the west end of the building, when, to tile unspeakable amazement of all who saw the act, Kupp fell in behind thea,. The guards passed directly through Majer Turner's quarters and out to tite sit eat; but here Kupp hung back. After a few minutes the coumnaudant'entered, and supposing him to be a Confeder,,te pri- vate, he shouted out: ' "Hello 1 What the devil do you want?" "Ward," drawled Kupp, "I got a furlough to chute up to Richmond, and so I thought I'd like to drop in nod take a look at the Yanks, if so be you don't mind.•' "But I do mind! Get out of Isere con- found you, and go to the front, where you'll see Yankees enough to Scare you to death," and Turner motioned his g ue, t to the door. Kopp said"all right Kernel," and left the prison by order of his keeper. An ordinary mann would have ,rade tracks; as soon as he got out, but not so Ku pp. Tne maul had no nerves, no lit• ting sense of the danger of his situatiuu, lie crossed to the outer side of C.,rey street, and stool looking up at the hers behind which tic'atsuied his ash on lain ed friends. At length, he lifts his hart and oracle a bow that even set tate guards u laughing. He de•erved to get threugln and he did. Up to this time Kupp's es- cape ranks first in ray memory of all tis acts of cool darling witnessed inuring tate war,—George P. Singer. Practicing the hiiarrlage Ce rentony. Fr. Men; of Wichita, teas in town a day ur two ago rind told the followit;g good story on himself: "You never heard of . the tithe I tuar- .tied'ti cottpua,hefore they. knew it?•W.c'al, soon Sifter I was made a ,priest, ' I W. s engaged to perforin a Marriage car. - teenv. It was to be a swell w'edtliit,;, I arrived at the house early, according .o request, and was taken upstairs at once.. There I laid aside my hat and overcO.it. and then the bride's mother 'knockeat at the door and said her dmiguttr wished to see me, Of course I obevt',I the sun ni mint,! is, mut was surprised to learn that the 'couple wanted the rrai'riage ceremooy perforated in an upstairs room immediately. I thought it writs very queer. but went through the ceremony end married thein (ant and. sure right there. When the ceremony was over, the bride said: 'Now we will go down into the par- lor and be married.' "'But you are married already,' I ex- claimed, 'I can't go through the cere- mony again.' "And when I learned that all they wanted was to practice' the ceremony, so as to go through ft properly tvhue in the whist of their friends. But there was no help for it. Married they were, turd I couldn't repeat the cere•nauy, wi eh with us is a sacrament.' —Kansas City '1'itnes. Au Old Compliment. One of the neatest ninth most adroit compliments ever turned out was pro- bably '• tit "• m roes 'that 'tI tiutofL(Xst oLa b into Y hair -brained rnuuurclt once, wlieu tile Persians and Croa+us were sitting wt. it Writ, asked what sort of rt moan they thought him compared with his father Cyrus. The Persians, of course, like good courtiers, replied that he was met. ter than his farther, for lie had all Cyrus' possessions and Egypt and the seta ai well. Thus spoke the Bey lain ins. Ci'oesus, however, not being pleased with their opinion, spoke as follows : "Now, to rue, 0 son of Cyrus, you do not seem equal to your father, for you have not such a son as he left behind him in you.' —The Westminster Review. Some Unlucky Signs. The New Yoric Tribune observt s that persons who believe in luck end signs will doubtless agree that it is u • lucky to be struck by lightning on \L u. day, or WHO hold of a circular eats' motion on 'i'uesday, or tunhble down• stairs wit.; a c,rtl sc.:ttle on We,Ines.l:ty, of to he bait by a cable oar on Thursday, or fall overboard on Friday, or marry on Satnrhiy a girl whose. tugs On -potted dumb -hells, or to be one of thirteen at ginner on 5uiday,wlien there is food for only tell. • 1894. Harper's Magazine. ILLUSTRATED. HADpnR'a M4rAZINS for 1894 will malataia the character that has made it the favorite illustrated pers lodical for the Menlo, Among the, respite of enter- prises updertakee by the pubaishere, there will appear daring the year superbly illnsteated petters on India by EDWIN Loa» WEEEn, en the 3apsnsae Sesame/4,, ALraa» PAReose, oil Germany by PocLTMEY BI, Low, on Paris by ltrcaanm Haar Dia DAvrs, and !l, Mexico by FREDERIC iREMINGTON. 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