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tied have peed Ayeas'
$air vigor, and We
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hair which she and I
Pow have, while htan-
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yeas nearly • bald, and
the hair
kept fall-
•r'-°."ing out
every
q,, . , day. I
1; induced
her to use
flyer's Nair Vigor, and very soon, it not
only checked any further loss of hair, but
produced an entirely new growth, which has
remained luxuriant and glossy to this day.
1 can recommend this preparation to all in
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Bastrop, Tex.
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 16th, 1894.
Instinct of Birds
A FLOCK SEF.KS SHELTER FROM A
STORM ON A VESSEL'S DECK.
While a. British brig was gliding
smoothly along before a good breeze
in the South Pacific, a flock of small
birds about the size, shape and color of
paroquets, settled down on the rigging
and passed an hour or, more resting.
The second mate was s0 anxious to
find out the species to which the visit-
ing strangers belonged, that he tried to
entrap a specimen, but the birds were
too shy to be thus caught, and too spry
to be seized by the quick hands of the
Sailers., At the end of about an hour
the bird's took the brig's course, and
disappeared, but towards nightfall
they came back and passed the night
in the maintop. The next morning
the birds flew off again. and when
they returned at noon, the sailors
scattered some food about the decks.
By this time the birds had become so
tame that they hopped about the decks
picking up the crumbs. That after-
noon an astonishing thing happened.
The flock came flying swiftly toward
the brig. Every bird seemed to be
piping as if pursued by some little in-
visible enemy on wings, and they at
once huddled down behind a deck
house. The superstitious sailors at
once called the captain of the brig,
who rubbed, his eyes and looked at
the barometer. A glance showed that
something was wrong with the ele-
ments, and the brig was put in shape
to outride a storm. The storm carne
about twenty minutes after the birds
had • reached the vessel. For a few
minutes the sky was like the water.ess
bottom of a lake -a vast arch of
yellowish mud -and torrents of rain
fell. Why it did not blow very,hard
no one knows; hut on reaching port,
two days later, they learned that a
great tornado had swept across that
part of the sea. -From Our Dumb
Animals.
Government Cuts.
Some three hundred and odd cats are
maintained by. the United States
government, the cost of their support
being carried as a regular item on the
accounts of the post office department.
These cats are distributed among about
fifty post offices, and their duty is to
keep rata and mice from eating and
destroying postal matter and canvas
sacks. Their work is of the utmost
importance wherever large quantities
of mail are collected, as for example, at
the New York post office, where from
2;000 to 3,000 bags of mail matter are
commonly stored away in the base-
ment. Formerly great damage was
done by the mischievous rodents,
which chewed holes in the sacks, and
thought jnothing of boring clear through
bags of letters in a night. Troubles of
this sort no longer occur since the
official pussies keep watch. Each of
the postmasters in the larger cities is
allowed from $8 to $40 a year for the
keep of his feline staff, sending his
estimate for "cat meat" to Washing-
ton at the beginning of each quarter.
A LARGE WAIST
Is not generally considered a necessary
adjunct to the grace, beauty or sym-
metry of the womanly form. Within
the body, however, is a great waste
made necessary according to the con-
dition of things -continually in process
and requir ing the perfect action of all
bodily functions to absorb or dispel the
refuse. When there is irregularity or
inaction, ladies who value a clean, pure,
healthy body will take Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription -the onlyrem edy
for woman sold with aositive guaran-
tee to right all her peculiar wrongs.
To these about to become mothers,
it is a priceless boon, for it lessens the
pains and perils of childbirth, shortens
labor, promotes an abundant secretion
of nourishment for the child and short-
ens the period of confinement.
Dr. Pierce's Pellets cure biliousness,
constipation, sick headache, indiges-
•tion, or dyspepsia, and kindred dis-
eases.
A cyclone in the Chickasaw nation,
Texas, blew down 20 houses and injur-
ed a number of people, some fatally.
"Ten people out of a dozen are
invalids," says a recent medical author-
ity. At least eight out of these ten, it
is safe to allow, are suffering from
some form of blood -disease which a
persistent use of Ayer's Sarsaparilla
Would be sure to cure. Then don't bo
:in: invalid.
Gold amounting to $1,200,000 was
*tripped to Europe on the steamship
Dave from New York las, week.
A SU1TQR UN ASJCED
B Pettit* Dforieri-
ty, roprietor of
the Aforiarity di+•
teotive bureau, waif
slatted in his pri.
vateoffice with his
lege crossed, rumi-
uating upon matri-
monial vicissitudes
-of which he per-
sonally had experi-
enced a full share
-molten there was a rap upon the door.
"Colne in," said Patrick.
The next moment a lovely vision
stood before him, As Patrick slowly
unwound his legs and recovered from
his surprise. the vision resolved itself
into a stately young woman, with flash-
ing blue eyes, a shapely figure with an
environment of laces ; ,in a word, a styl-
ish girl, magnificently gowned, who car-
ried herself with a certain inpprioue,air
that quite overwhelmed the proprietor
of the detective agency... Patrick arose
with a start.
"Will you by seated, madam?" be
said.
"Miss Hobson, if you please."
She took the choir ire offered her.
"You probably know of 1110?"
"Hobson & Moore?" interrogated Pat-
riok.
J. L. Hobson is my father."
Patrick became more obsequious, than
ever, Hobson was one of the merchant
princes of the west and this young wo•
man sole heir to $10,000,000, more or
less.
"What can I do for you ?" stammered
Patrick.
"You doubtless are surprised to see
me?"
"Somewhat, Miss Hobson."
"Well, 1 do not call about any domes
tic troubles."
"Alt 1"
"There is no skeleton in the closet."
"No, certainly not, Miss Hobson."
"Do you know Jack Rowlston ?"
"Yes."
Patrick knew him well and he waited
"DO Y017 KNOW JACK ROWLSTON."
anxiously for hie visitor to state the ob-
ject of her query.
"Wells he wants to marry me."
"Indeed ?" said Patrick, for want of
something better to remark.
"Yes ; he asked me four years ago,
and I refused him."
"Oh 1"
"He repeated his request two years
ago and I said no."
"Oh 1"
"Last week he asked me again, and I
reversed my decision."
"I understand."
"The trouble with Jack is that he is
too t+1ow ; no life ; no dash. He is too
denture and quiet."
Patrick opened his eyes. This of
spirited Jack Rowlston?
"In fact, he is so conservative and
different from other young men that I
begin to suspect that lie is a hypocrite -
yes, sir, a hypocrite. He only talks to
me about business and music and will
hardly smoke a cigar with papa and papa
says : 'There's a young man without a
flaw.' Now, I like good young men,
but I can't help thinking that Jack ex-
aggerates his virtues, for surely no young
man was ever born who was quite so
good as he would make me believe he is.
In fact, he is such an impersonation of
perfection that I fear I am not enough
of an angel ever to wed him."
"Really 2" said the amused Patrick.
"I wouldn't for the world like to think
him fast, for I like Jack, but if he only
was a little different -just a trifle less
stupid- enore entertaining and-;ind,
you know."
"I think I understand," observed
Patrick with a grin.
"But I am couvinced that be is a de-
ceiver. He wants to win the by profess-
ing to have all the virtues, not knowing
that if he were only a little more open
"I GUESS I'D BETTER GO, MARGARET."
The fact is, this is a woman's
age, and no girl wants to be treated like
a doll. Now, if Jack only made more
of a chum of me, if—" Here her eyes
flashed and her voice faltered. "But
my business is thio; I want you to
write me up a journal of all ho does for
a week."
"But, my dear Mise Hobson—"
"Here is your first fee." And she laid
a crisp $100 note on the desk. "I was
intending to buy a spring bonnet with
that, but I shall devote my pin mono
to unmasking Jack, Send me your re-
port in a week. Remember, all about
him, bathing extenuating. If I can
only show him in his true colors, I -but
good day, sir. In a week 1 shall expect
the report."
Witb. that the vision vanished. Then
Patrick leaned back in Ids chair and
roared with Ititigliter. He forgot all his
matrimonial trouble.. "Haw I haw 1
ha! hal" chuokled Patrick,
e *• e
Tin daYir later•Alise > obion was seated
in her bpoudoir, pirtlsing in 'an amused
way a longreport. `here was. a smile
upon her ovely features. _She looked
particularly beautiful that night in a
dainty evening dress, and undoubtedly
elle looked all the more beautiful -be-
cause she was expecting Jack.
"Oh. the Wretch 1" she exclaimed'.
The servant entered with a card and
then the y�oung gent, epntcn'bjn seifotitis
414,.. His,; hiair wee parted in t%tii tititldl+ '
and he i;ad :'wagittlAlrat,ststid, asialia
manner. ° .,, _ . xr
01Iow , Pretty you, are )(Inking We
evening,. Margaret,' ho said jp a con,
vintiat tone.
"What a matter of.fact way you have
of paying a colnplitnezlt 1" she retorted..,
"By the way, Jack, I' hatela't liken
• Dot . all wet k, What -have you ,beets do- .
"We have been very busy at the store,
Margaret,"
"Yes; business worries are wearing
and--" •
"What did you think of the races on
Tuesday, Jack?"
"Yes; I. hear you were there."
"Why, how---"
"I really hope you did not bet."
•
"(Hijack, how could you? And to lose
$100I At least you aright have teat on the
winning horse."
"Margaret let me explain--"
"No explanation is necessary. And
Wednesday night. Jack, how did the
banquet go off? So you responded to
the toast, "Pkat Old Sweetheart of
Mine.' They tell me, Jack, your face
was -yes,• just a little -flushed, when
you said : '1 tell you, gentlemen, a
eweetheart is like wine. She improves
with age,' Was that me, Jack, you had
iu mind ? It was really a pretty senti-
ment -prettier than any of your com-
monplace compliments. Why do you
keep all those pretty things from ate ?
Is it because I am a woman ? Olt, 1
know all about your toast. I have a
stenographic report Of it, Let me see:
"New faces -new voices -new charms
What are they? How may they com-
pare with the face indelibly imprinted
on the heart by that groat artist, Tithe?
How may they compare with the
glances of that old sweetheart of mine
whose eyes are eters steadfast as the
shining planet whose beams may guide
the mariner o'er the stormy sea?
Cloistered in my heart she grows
more dear like the wine of the plonks
kept iu their dingy cellars.' Dear rue,
Jack, and I thought you stupid.
Where did you learn such eloquence ?
011, you ere like the other boys;
you l,ehut your heart to your sweet-
heart. And your last sentiment, Jack 1
So bacchanalian ! I am ashamed of
you. 'So, quaffing this tare vintage, I
drink to the girl of old ; to her eyes of
blue and her golden hair' -not quite
golden Jack -'Out of the passing years
her charms grow greater and I, her ser-
vant, pledge anew to that old sweetheart
of aline.'
Jack looked dumfounded; then amaz-
ed.
"Well, this is a pretty go," he said to
himself.
"And how about Friday night at the
club, Jack ; Saturday night at the opera
-a front seat, too, and thea leaving the
theatre between every act ? Tile,' that
wheat deal ? I thought you regarded
all speculations in a high-and-mighty
way of disapproval ? What about those
fast horses of yours ? And is it true you
have stock in the new track ? Olt, Jack,
I have found you out. Hypocrite, what
have you to say ?"'
Jack- arose with consternation. He
really looked frightened,
"I guess l'd better go, Margaret. I-
I -good-bye, forever !"
"Nell, let us part friends, at least."
She extended her hand with a bright
smile. He kissed it with deference and
she looked deep into his ei es.
"Why not my lips, Jack ?"
In a moment she was in his arms.
"Then you love mei"
"Yes; since I know you."
"But how—"
"Never mind how. You would not give
me your confidence, and so I found out
myself."
And you will marry me, Margaret ?"
"Yes, if you will promise—"
"What!"
"To make mo your confident -your
chum -not to try to keep anything
frail me? For trust me, Jack,a woman
always finds out w..at she wants to
know,"
"1 promise."
" One word more, Jack. Was I -
was I - " that old sweetheart of
yours ?"
"You were: I have loved you all these
years, Margaret."
"And I,Jack, have loved you -not the
Jack you showed to me, but the Jack I
believed you were. •Thie is/the nineteenth
century, Jack, and woman is man's
companion, not a plaything or a doll.
And now sit down, Jack, and I will play
you that dashing new dance of Chami-
nade. She is a woman, Jack, •aitd wo-
men have their place to -day in the busi-
ness world and in the field of art. Is
not this motive charming? It is like an
accompaniment to your worJs: 'A true
sweetheart is like wine, and improves
with age.' "
"Floating a Duffer."
A friend of mine informs me that it is
the easiest thing in the world to float an
absolute duffer as a geuius of the first
class. He tells me it is only a matter
of time, money and judicions advertise-
ment. Of course, the first and second
elements are undoubtedly necessary for
the adequate exploiting of the third.
But, given these conditions,- he says he
will undertake that man of little educa-
tion and no particular ability may take
his stand as a man of the highest im-
portance in any line he may choose to
adopt. If this be the case, it is a pity a
company is not formed to take the mat-
ter up and work it. The Booming Soci-
ety would bo a very good title for such a
corporation, and as there are plenty of
nobodies with money,who are anxious to
persuade the world they aro men excep-
tionally distinguished, there would be
probably every chance of such a project
becoming a paying concern. If the
chairman and directors- happened to be
acute students of human nature, the
shares in such a company would, doubt-
less, soon be at a premium. -London
Graphic.
A Fl.h Drown's au Aagle.
At the mouth of Octoraro Creek, four
miles above Port Deposit, is a bed of
gravel, where shad, rock and herring go
to spawn. In the spring and early sum-
mer large schools of fish go to this local-
ity, and bald and gray, eagles dock to
the vicinity for the purpose of preying
on them. The water on the Cecil Coun-
ty side is abont 10 feet deep, and being
clear, the fish are readily seen by their
winged enemies. ,A gray eagle saw a
rockfish in the water and pounced upon
biro, *inking his talons deep into the
side, of the fish. When the bird at-
tempted to arise he found the load more
than he. could carry. He could not re-
lease bis ahold either. Finally he was
dragged under the water and 'drowned.
Tho current carried the eagle and the
fish into a flshpot, where tke bodies
were found, with the hold of the eagle
unrelated. The fish weighed 16pounds.
and the bird measured air feat from tip
to tip of the Wing.
I N1'Z G , OIM ENS,
'411 tar second expeditiuu into North,
o>Kh ldl at ipairs ago, we' camped
for several_'we$ls, on .alto Rid Branen;
abput X00 moos itbkye'its jutictien with
the It�jo l`iegro, oris of tha; principal con.
fju$i'tiseit the 4mazon..
t7Ur party detisiated Ol" eleven men--
tert•r;,Americans and a newly ought
Irishman --"Teddy" Q?Brien liy Dame,
who, more for the sake of "div.ilntent
and div;trshun' than 00 a month, as he
had said, had engaged with us as cook.
kad, a truly wonderful cook lie was 1
While sortie moinbero of our party
were amateur botanists, geologists,
naturalists or taxidermists, we were all
enthusiastic explorers and hunters, and
we fairly reveled in the :wealth of ani-
mal and vegetable lifo,ajiout us,
But there was'one ariiplii,ious animal,
the manatee, and a seat -amphibious
reptile, the anaconda, we had not yet
obtained. We had seen scores of the
first while ascending the river, but had
never secured one.
One evening we were bemoaning our
bad luck in this respect, when Teddy
observed : ' An is it the quare baste
that's a Bross betune a Mermaid an' a
fish that ye're after 'remain'? Fater, it's
meself can part ye Min to the craythur
titin in no tame,"
"All right, Teddy. Let's have your
plan," said Tom Alden.
"It'e airier nor rowlin' dowu hill, me
bhye, Up beyant there's pliwat yea call
a lagoon, an' the far ind of it runs up
loike a lake intil tliiin think woods.
"THE CAYMENS WERE COMING TOWARD
Shure it's not tin shteps acmes ; an be
the same token Oi seen a big ituan-man-
istee is it ?---and a good lump av a Yong
watt frolickin' round there bright and
airly this same blissid morniu'. The
wailer in tltint parts is mighty shoal,
I'm thinkin', for whin the old baste was
feedin' atilt the bottom, the baby 'ud
schramble up ivery now and thin an'
rooiht an her back, kapin' its own wee
puddle av a tail in the wather, koind of
sosuible loike. Sorra bit of thruble for
some av yez to consale yersilves ahn
both sides av the lake an' bag the two
crathurs."
Teddy's idea seemiug a good one, at
daybreak next morning four of us, tak-
ing our rifles, a barbed grappling, iron
and a coil of rope, set out for the lagoon.
We found its further or northern ex-
tremits to consist of a narrow creek,and
this was closely bordered on both sides
by water palms.
With scute difRcnity our quartet. com-
prising Thin Alden, two other men and
myself, gained the westward margin
of the watery lane, where we ensconsed
ourselves its the matted brushwood,
deeming, it imprudent to take opposite
sides for fear of accidents in possible
cross firing.
We were perfectly concealed from all
observation except that of the jeering
monkeys, who, looking down on us front
their leafy heights, kept up a ceaselese
clamor of derisive cries.
Directly fronting us on the east side of
the creek, there lay, extended along the
water's edge and not more than eine
yards away, the fallen trunk of a laurel
tree, from which rose several broken and
partially decayed branches, the whole
being in deep shade, as the sun had not
yet risen high enough to fully light that
part of the island.
While we were patiently waiting.
Alden nudged me and whispered : "See
what beautifully variegated moss covers
�Z-
•
"FAST IN THE FANGS or A MONSTROUS
ANACONDA." -
ono of those limb stubs? We must
gather some of it before we go back to
camp."
I was about to make sorne common-
place reply, when, thirty, or forty yards
south of us, I noticed a slight undula-
tion of the water, and presently there
appeared above its surface, first the
head and then the back of a full grown
manatee, followed immediately by a like
einerging of a calf, a coritical looking
little creature not half so long at its
mother•
After inhaling air for half a minute
or so, the pair sank again and, as we
plainly saw by the ripples, began to
feed on bottom growing plants, along the
east shore and directly toward the head
of the lagoon.
The next time they rose for air they
were twenty yards nearer us than bo -
fore, and,I whispered to Aldeu : "Wait
till they get into the shadow between
us and the big log; then, when their
heads show, you take the old one and
I'll take the youngster, shoot straight
for the brain and they'll never know
what hurte them." Tom nodded assent,
and we waited In silence.
The water Shoaled so rapidly now,that
by the time the animals were abreast of
us, and within three feet• of the laurel
log, the mother's rounded beck appear.
ed above the surface, and the little one
using its bandlike flipper to climb with,
ecrambling upon it, riding exactly its I
have seen the young of an African hip-
popotamus.
In another moment the old manatee
lifted her head; and, making a sign to
•
•
toy ,two other ianinpanionei not to Omni,'
Tom anti I gntetly thrust pat' ' b ►r•
rkia.;ltrouph ' Ole
the bu>iltes, bank t'areful
aim, toad tyere about too fire:,
• That ipatant, however, '1'oni's ':beauti-
fully 4au'ikgatrd Motel leaped into Bud-
fleshing
ud-
fleshin r streak. of block,
tawny brown and yellow shot out from
the dead branch, and in the twinkling of
en eye the calf's muzzle was fast between
the recurring fangs,pf a monstrous mut-
emits.
Thea, while the helpless creature roll-
ed off its mother's back, there was a
gie:uning whirl of circling rings, it cy-
clone of concentric coils, a clierning of
the water into town.' end almost before
we could realize the startling scene the
mighty Serpent had crushed the life out
of its prey.
But as the reptile compressed its over -
folds _tighter
ver-
folds:tighter and tighter, two
simultaneously fired bullets shattered its
flat head, and its great length, slowly
uncoiling, straightened out along the
blood-stained surface of the creek.
Apparently paralyzed by fright, the
another still atood•;-with her head above
water, st:arieg at .the floating serpent
and her dour! calf. Oue of us, with
more presence of mind than the rest,
put the beast out of misery by a shot
through the brain.
Thus, most unexpectedly, we killed at
one time the several specenene we were
anxious to obtain.
DATE OF THE EXODUS.
It Would Seem to Lie Somewhere Be-
tween I430 and 1300 11.C.
Although the monuments and papyri
give us no direct information upon the
subject of the exodus, they do indirectly
indicate itera i
c a nP eri
od within which
it must have taken place, says a writer
in Scribner's Magaztne. Thoth riles 1II.,
who was the most powerful king of that
dynasty (the eighteenth) which finally
drove the Hyksos invaders out of Egypt
and 11 milted the whole country under
one sceptre, extended his conquests as
far as Mesopotamia, orerruning Pales-
tine on his way. He left lists of the
conquered natious, but does not men-
tion the Israelites among them. Ra-
meses 1I. of the nineteenth dynasty, the
supposed oppressor, who reigned about
two hundred years later, also subdued
Palestine, and left lists of the conqur red
peoples, but lie, again, does not mention
the Israelites among thesis What is,
perhaps, still more important is that,
while the Israelites have left re-
cords of invasion by Mesopota-
miens, Moabites, Canaanites, Mbl-
ianites and Philistines, they do
not mention any invasion by the
Egyptiats and the conclusion is that the
Israelites were not settled on the west
side of Jordan till after the wars waged
by Rameses II. at the commencement of
his reign, which began not earlier than
1388 B.C., or, tis some now say, 1260
B.C. It has been attempted to explain
this difficnity away by suggesting that
Rameses IL kept close to the seacoast
on itis march through Palestine and did
not strike inland till he was some dis-
tance to the north of the Israelites, but
it is incouceivable that be should not
Lave secured his long line of communi-
cations by establishing posts 80 far in-
land that they must have been brought
into contact with the Hebrews if the tat-
ter bad at that time been settled in their
own country. The earliest date, there-
fore, at which the Egyptian history will
permit the exodus to have taken place,
even when full allowance is made for
the time spent by the Jews iu tine wil-
derness and in conquering Palestine,
would seem to be about 1480 13.C.,
while, if the shorter clu•onolegy be
adopted, it could not have been much
earlier than 1300 B.C.
Polyglot Hawaii.
English is the court language here.
To curry on business, and frequently to
conduct one case, four interpreters are
required. These are Hawaiiau,tiuinese,
Portuguese and Japanese. Tide cos-
mopolitan population has naturally de-
veloped some extraordinary linguists.
There are scores of citizens, including
nearly all of the ufficials, who read,
write, and speak Hawaiian as well as
their mother tongue. It is said that
Germans acquire the • native tongue
more readily titan any other foreigner.
One of The Stur printers is a genuine
polyglot, He has traveled in Europe
and South and North America. He
speaks Eugliate French, Gorman, Portu-
guese, Italian and Spanish, and has ac-
quired a smattering of native. Touut,
toe Japanese detective, is a freak in the
linguistic lime. He reads, writes, and
speaks English, and claims to be au Am-
erican eitizeu. On occasion he can
handle native, Spauish, Portuguese, and
Chinese.
Traveled persons who have been here
any length of time unite in saying that
Hawaiian is very easily learned -that a
few months of application will master
it. -Hawaiian Star.
A 34 -Year -Old Letter.
"It is an exceedingly rare thing now•
adays in any civilized country for a let-
ter, properly stamped, sealed and ad-
dressed, to fail to reach its destination,"
said a govermnent official. -Sonia' Ines
letters are written which are never re-
ceived, but the great number of letters
which go to the dead letter office be•
cause they are not properly addressed.
or not addressed at all, serve to explain
the greater part of these rare disappear-
ances. Now and then, however, some-
one somewhere in this country is aston-
ished to receive a letter that was writ•
ten and posted years before. Not long
ago a lady tit Vermont received a letter
which was written and bore evidence
of having been mailed in 1860. The
stamp on the letter was obsolete, but the
postoflice department forwarded it to its
destination, as the stamp was good at
the time it was first mailed. Where the
letter had beets all these years was never
explained, but it may be surrnisod that
it had slipped into some crank or crevice
in the course of transmission, and re-
mained there until the making of cer-
tain repairs revealed .it. It was then
put in the mail anew and nothing said
about it." -St. Louis Globe -Democrat.
Asparagus and Sparrow Grass.
The history of the English name for
asparagus shows, by the way, sows curi-
ous fluctuations of tastes in words. At
the present time, and of recent years,
asparagus is the polite form, and spar.
row -grass is left to the illiterate. "Grass
-that makes no hay -called sparrow -
grass by folks of vulgar tongue," wrote
Hood in lt5. But in the last century.
aaud sorbsq , sparrow -grass or spara-grass
u•as in literary use. "Brought With me,
,front Feuchurch street," wrote Papys,
"a bund red of sparrow -grates. "Spar-
row -grana (for so tt ought to be spelt),"
wrote Southey, "sparrow -grass and arti-
chokes, good with plain butter." -West-
minster Gazette.
.CURE
Tau$ r 101AT owns ' ' preagp t earls
where all others fall. Coughey, Croup fere
Throat, Hoarseness, Whooping gouge ova
Asthma. For Consumptlott'it hail no rival;
has cured tbonswdessnd • will Gaal Tau tv
takenin time. Sold by 101rit��glata• on antes, For .heave SaoorOh�a�,slaw
aUII4OH'S BELLADONNA► PLASTER
'LOH'S.. C TARRIi
REMEDY
eve you ra rht ThtsremedyisIna
d to cure you. Price, Wats. In jootor
Sold by J. H. COMBE.
The Wages of Fashion.
The fashion of wearing' pointed toes
in boots and shoes has caused a very
painful curvature of the toes, from
which a great number of people are at
this present moment suffering. The
great toe is hent in and pushes one or
more of the smaller toes out of posi-
tion, raising them on one joint in a
form which has caused the doctors to
call them hammer toes. Surgeons
have provided for this an apparatus to
be worn all night, and, it possible,
during the hours of leisure in the day-
time. This consists of a splint resemb-
ling a sandal, which fits along the base
of the foot, and is provided with tapes
passed under and over the toes in such
a fashion as to bend down the joint
that has become raised. The cure is
almost a painless one, and, if taken in
time and persevered in, may avert
what is an extremely painful opera tion,
that of cutting the tendons uudern.eath
the toe.
Consumption Cured.
An old physician, retired from practice, having
had placed Iri hie hands by an East India mlesion-
ary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for
the speedy and permanent sure of Consumpti,
Bronchitis, Catarrh, Asthma and all throat an
Lung Affections, also a positive and radical cure
for Nervous Debility snd all Nervone Complaints,
after having tested he wonderful curative powers
in thousands of oases, has felt it his duty to make
It known to his Buffering fellows. Actuated by this
motive and a desire to relieve human suffering, I
will send free of charge, to all who desire it, this
recipe, in German, French or English, with full
lirections for preparing and using. Sent by mail
by addressing with etamn, naming this paper,
W. A. Novtcs, 820 Powers' Block, Rochester, N.Y.
059- y
A St. Thomas girl is so modest that
she spends all her winters in Florida
so that she won't have to look at the
bare limbs of the trees.
Mr. W. A. McGib bon, formerly of
Guelph, sold a consignment of saddle
and carriage horses at Tattersall's,
New York, on Thursday. Twenty-
seven head were sold for $7,555, an
average of $280 per head. The hiches t
price paid was $450 for Aristocrat, a
brown gelding by Terror.
to
S. HURON ORANGE DIRECTORY.
1894.
Names of the District Masters, Primary
Lodge Masters, their post office
addresses and date of
meeting-.
A. M. TODD, W. C. M., Clinton P. O.
BIDDULPH DISTRICT.
John Neil, W.D.M., Centralia P.O.
219-Roht. Hutchinson, Greenway, Fri=
day on or before full moon.
602 -Thos. H. Coursey, Lucan, Satur-
day on or before full moon.
493 - Richard Hodgins, Saintstbury,
Wednesday on or before full ,noon.
890 - George Walden, M aplegrove,
Wednesday on or before full moon.
924 -Edward Gill, Exeter, 1st Friday
in each month.
1087 -Jaynes Kenniston, Parkhill, Mon-
day on or before full moon.
1210 -Wm. Mowsen, Moray, Thursday
on or before full moon.
1343---Jarnes Boyce, Centralia, Tuesday
on or before full moon.
610-A. Nevins, Centralia, Friday on or
'after full moon.
GQDERICH DISTRICT.
Ca well
W.D.M., , Goderich P.O.
145 -James Cox, Porter's Hill, 1st Mon-
day in each month.
153-Addrew Mi1lian, Saltford, Friday
on or before full moon.
182 -Geo. M. Cox, Goderich, last Tues-
day in each month.
189-F. McCartney, Holmesville, Mon-
day on or before full moon:
262 -James McLean, Saltford, 3rd
Wednesday in each month.
306 -Thos. H. Cook, Clinton, 1st Mon-
day in each month.
HULLETT DISTRICT.
D. Canteion, W.D.M., Clinton P. O.
710 -David Cantelon, Clinton, 2nd Mon-
day in each month,
813 -Robert Scarlett, Winthrop, last
Wednesday before full moon.
928 -Joseph Rapson, Summerhill, 1st
Monday in each month.
793 -Win. Horney, Seaforth, 1st Mon-
day in each month.
STANLEY DISTRICT.
Robert Pollock, W.D.M., Bayfield P.O.
24-Jpmes Pollock, Bayfield, 1st Mon-
day in each month.
308 -Wm. Consit, Hillsgreen, 1st Tues-
day in each month.
833 --Robert McKinley, Blake, lst
Wednesday in each month.
733 -Wm. J. Clarke, Hensall, let Thurs.-
day
hurs.day in each month.
I085 --Wm. Rathwell, Bayfield, 1st
Thursday in each month.
£yNoi5.-,Any omissions or other ern el will be
promptly corrected on writingdireot to the Conn
mater, Bro. A. It. Todd, Clinton P. 0.