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The Huron News-Record, 1894-11-21, Page 2r,1 • Gentleman' a Xgrpierly resided is Connecticut, but who now reek* in Honolulu, writes; "Icor o yeiars past, my wife ® and 1 havo used Ayer's Bair Vigor. and wo attribute to ft the (lark bat! which she and I now have, while bun- dreds of our acquaint- ances, ten or a dozen years younger than we, are either gray -headed, white or bald. When asked how our hair has "' retained Its color aud fullness, we reply, 'By gnome of Ayer's Ilair Vigor -nothing else.'" oIn 1868, my affianced waS nearly bald. and kept fall- ing o u t every day. I s*air Induced her touse Iiyer's Hair Vigor, and very soon, it riot only checked any further loss of hair, but produced an entirely new growth, which has remained luxuriant and 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."-AptP»IP Alarruu, Bastre,) Tex. AYER'S HAIR VIGOR The Hurcn News-Reeora 91.60 II Y,Ar-91.26 in Advance. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 2lst, 1894. Methods and Possibilities of tinnier Work. GIVEN IIY MISS M. 8. WASHINGTON, OF CLINTON, AT THE RECENT C. E. . CONVENTION. When Christ, after bis resurrection met with His Disciples, and impressed on them again His mis- sion to the world, and their commis- sion as His followers He gave to Peter the assurance of restored favor and confidence by placing hire as superintendent of the junior de- partment of Christian Work, in those forcible words, "Feed my Lambs." The church has ever responded with more or less earnestness to this de- mand. Boys Brigades, Bands of Hope, Little .Gleaners, Busy Workers, King's Sons and Daughters, Catachumen. Classes snd such gatherings have been found toeally to engage the youth in Christian work and moral reform. To- gether from the success, and lack, , in these has arisen the necessity of an oraginization whose general grineiples may govern the whole, while giving thein freedom in branches of work, and mode of conducting their meetings. This need 'we believe has been met in the Junior League and Endeavor Societies. The first essentials in organizing these societies are girls and boys, say between the ages of six and sixteen years, though the age limit may be more or less, according to the number of societies in the church, do not pro- mote the Juniors into the Senior Socie- ty until they can, and will take part in its meetings, and I would say to the Seniors see that such have active work in your Society, even if it necessi- tate the old reliable being altogether off the committee staff for that term. The superintendent, selected from the Senior Society, or appointed by the pastor, must be in sympathy and touch with the girls and hays. (Do not call the members of your League children). They trust have an interest in each one personally, their studies, recreations and amusements, not merely recognizing then as so many members of the Junior Society., A superintendent of this kited consecrat- ed to the work, feeling its responsibili- tiesand wdie awake to its opportunities, will develop unconsciously into the model required, receiving as they give. The place and hour'of meeting should next be considered. The room bright, cheery and comfortable, provided with an organ,a blackboard and maps forMis- sionary evenings, if there is no Mission Band in connection with the church. The hour of meeting,one which collides as little as possible with the other duties of our busy young people. Our meeting is held during the summer months feom seven to eight o'clock on Friday evening, if that hour is found to be too late for the younger members it may be held immediately after .school or 011 Sunday afternoon, or possibly on Saturday afternoon, The officers of the society are chosen by the members annuahy or semi- annually as ,,desired. The officers cor- respond to those of the Senior Society. The committees may he multiplied or limited as opportunities for work are presented. I would say, (:.hough it was advocated at the Provincial Con- vention, that every member be on some committee), do not have more committees than you have work for. To place airl or boy on at committee without a definite line of work to he clone will give the idea that the posi- tion is chiefly one of courtesy, and small results, or none, are expected. Reports should be given of the work done at stated times, if not in a regular meeting, at least to the Super- intendent who can give condensed re- ports at a regular meeting. A lookout committee is needed in every Society to remind the forgetful ones of the time and place of tneeting, to let, the Superintendent know if any are sick, to bring new bemhers, and welcome strangers. Missionary and temperance committees may also be found and one or two meetings from each given dur- ing the time. It is also convenient to have social and music conrrnittees ready for work when needed. We have had no sick visitingcommittee in ourSociety as yet, but our members have taken flowers to the W. 0. T. U. Flower Mission, and carried briquets to the sick its directed by them. We have a prayer meeting committee, in which we include the officers, who meet at the beginning of the term and arrange a programme of topics and Bible study, one each for every evening ; these are printed and distributed to the members who know what their work is and when it conies, and pan prepare aslong before as they wish. The singing. No unimportant' part of the meeting should be lively, and simple, with few verses at it time, If Junior League song books are not used, let the members each soleot their favorite song from the Hymnal in use. In this way the brightest and easiest songs may be found. Keep a not of thein for future reference. An organist awl assistant should be appointed who have the list of songs well prepared; that in the absence of one the other may fill the position. One of the most irnportont parts of the Juuior work is the study of the Bible which may he taken up by periods of history, by authors, by books, or by sections, that the young peo- ple may have an Intelligent know- ledge of the Bible its a whole, of the relation between the Old and New Testaments and a general knowledge each book will ho of the contents ofw awaken an interest in them, to search the Scr iptures for themselves and lead them to respect and reverence its teachings. The members themselves may take up the Bible study and the Superin- tendent review briefly nt the next meeting to connect the thought. At the London Convention the Rev. S. T. Bartlett gave a most complete form for Bible study. Having the books arranged tinder suitable headings with their meaning or key note, for, instance the first five or law books and their meaning, Genesis -beginnings -Exod- us, departure. Giving the typical per- sons,, events, objects, &c,, as fully as desired, while in each lesson the Superintendent can , carry the thought from the types to their fulfilment, and interest the hind, edticftte the intellect, and captivate the pearl; in one. The pledge is repeated in concert im- mediately after the opening prayer in every meeting. Addresses on topics suitable to the Junor's may be given by the members each week except consecration meeting evening; we have been delighted and benefited by those taken, in • our Society, some of which would compare favorably with the efforts of the Senior's, the simple lan- guage used often making the truths more apparent.. We have a roll of Honor for those who attend Sabbath School and church once on Sunday, and can repeat the minister's text and tell where it is found ; if the Seniors think that a childish arrangement let them try it. The consecration meeting corres- ponds largely with that of the Senior Society, responsive reading of the less- on,. Scripture text in response to the roll call, Sentence Prayers, interspers- ed with singing, and at the close, the collection or free will offering. We cannot properly estimate the ad- vantages, to themselves, to thechurch, and to the world, as the result of thus early turning the energy and enthus- iasm, of our young people into in- telligent work tor Christ. But as we think' of the possibilities for good or evil contained in the life of one child, be that a Spurgeon or an Ingorsoll, and consider our object not only to counteract the objectionable habits al- ready formed, but to prevent their formation by filling the young life with something better, parer and equally attractive, we look for great things from the Junior Societies. It cannot make at boy less sportive to know that he is avolunteer, under the Banner of the Cross, though it will make him gentlemanly and generous in his play. It cannot make a girl less bright and witty to feel. that she is one of the King's daughters, hut it will guard her from shadowing others by her bright- ness, or wounding her companions by her repartee. It cannot darken a child's life to hear the God Bless you from the sick and -'shut in,' as she leaves her bright smile, and bunch of flowers to gladden the lives of such, belt it will teach her to be gentle, and thoughtful for ahem, Then in the home, a little child shall lead then. Send the Juniors home with mind and heart full of plans and projects of work to be accomplished and you interest their parents and friends in spite of themselves, and. the thought is forced upon the parent. If my child sees so much work to be done, shall I not dis- courage them, and condemn rnyselt, if 1 remain idle. Then the possibilities art. that we are raising up active, courageous, discip- lined, recruits, for the Senior Society, who in the seasons of prayer will do away with the silent, 1 was going to say with the silent prayers, between the audible ones, but they cannot be con- sidered as such, unless in the words, "I pray thee have rue excused," and we look for the time when every moment of the consecrated League hour, shall he filled with Song, Prayer and Praise. The Question of recreations and amusements too, will no doubt receive proper adjustment as the outgrowth of this movement. Place side by side before ahungry child, a dish of soap and water una a pipe, and a *date of wholesome and tempting foou, and the average child would, we r)resnme, leave the soap bubbles for toe food ; so if we give the Juniors animated social life saturated with amental and Spiritual Vigor. they will have little time or inclination for entertainments which contain neither. And as we thus strive to shield, edu- cate and develop them, we fall in line with the Array already mar- shalled against wrong and may take their watchword for otl, own, and join rn the0Shout, all the world for Jesus. MANY A YOUNG MAN. When from over -work, possibly as- sisted by an inherited weakness, the health fails and rest or medical treat- ment must be resorted to, then no medicine can he employed with the same beneficial results as Scott's Emul- sion. Catarrh -Use Nasal Bairn. Quick, positive cure, Soothing, cleansing, healing. A BOOR To lronesMea.—One bott e of English Spavin Liniment completely removed a ourb from my horse. I take ploasuroin recommending tho'remedy, as it acre with mysterious promptness in the removal from horae3 of hard, noft or calloused lumps, blood epadn, apltntn, euros,,woeny, ntiflos and ,praine. GEORGE ROBB Farmer, Markham, Ont. Sold by Watts & Oa SHILOH'S VITALIZER. , 1) Mrs. T. S. Hawkins, Chattanoogat Tenn., says : "Shiloh's Vitalizsr 'SAVED MY LIFE.' 1 CMttider it the Lest remedy for a debilitated system I ever used." For Dyspepsia, Liver or Kidney trouble i excels. Price 75 cts. Sold by J. H Combe A GENTLEMAN -AND A JOCKEY, ¢a Interestit g story of the Turf An It Is To•Day Told by Polly King, A very familiar landmark to those, in- terested in the few remaining relics of old New York is the Jackson House, ou North 1Vaebington-equaro. It has 'not been torn down, altered much, or even ,:hanged hands since It was built --s, tvau- derful record in the fluctuating history of a New York home. A certain pride :11 what was good enough for their lathers being good enough for them has saved the old mansion from the terrible periods of good and bad taste that sweep with such fatal obliteration of all else over the country; the e;:a of black wal- nut and gilding touched it not, and the hand of the artist decorator has never been allowed to change it into modern Colonial prettiness. There is a great deal of old Sheraton and Chippendale big, eudalo in the low rooms. with their polished floors and deep win- dow seats, and the oak stairway that was suet from the Old Country has been worn by the feet of four generations. It' is a patent of nobility, that stairway, and gives its possessors an entirely dif- ferent fooling •than they could receive from the most magnificent old carved one (newly mauufaetured in Germauy), such as they see in their friends' magnificent now houses. t Old George Jackson, who built the house, was the younger brother of the then Lord D--, and received as his por- tion of the family patrimony large grants of land in Manhattan Ieland. The two brothers were devotedly attached, and even after the Revolution the relations t`setweon the English and American fam- ilies were of the closest. The Jackson sons were all sent to Oxford and the English traditions of the family were preserved. As time went by the land that had been so Carelessly passed over to a younger son became very valuable -the Jacksons were not only rich, but enormously wealthy, and their name grew to be synonymous with conserva- tive integrity and honesty. The present Jackson generation con- sisted of only two sons; the elder, Edgar, was a slender aristocratic child, inherit- ing all the notable family traits. He was the imago of his mother, who was one of the daughters of the present Lord D--. The younger child, Harold, was big and bonny, mischievous and wild,un- like any of the traditional .Iacksous, From Itis babyhood he was perfectly adorable, and if the truth must be told perfectly unmanageable. The two children grew 11p together in the old house, truudled thv.t Sloops itt the sunny square, fought and blacked each other's eyes and made tip aftztward, as boy children always will, They grew up out of their hobbledehoy stage into two tall young men, as uulike-by one of freaks so often seen in families -as though they had been born thousands of miles apart, and had not lived side by side, sharing the same influences, the sauce home and the same tender care. Before Harold was through college it became evident that the scrapes and ad- ventures that were always keeping hint in hot water at home were only to be repeated on a larger scale; he was sus- pended from college, suspended concern- ing a forbidden horse race, and again suspended on account of the high play that went on in 111s rooms, with a warn- ing from the Faculty that suspension was not made expulsion only on account of the prominence of his family. They thought, however, that it would be just as well if he never returned to college - he never did. It was a terrible. blo{v to his father; he gave the lad every oppor- tunity to retiieve himself, and sent him abroad; but as time went by it became very evident that Harold had a most undoubted taste for low life -a gentle- man may have a love for the turf, be wrapped up in sport, and still remain an ornament to his family. Harold was not -he seemed -unlucky; his name was always being mixed up with the most disreputable' proceedings - perhaps others got out and left the burden for him to bear -who can say? At any rate, he squandered enormous sums and dragged the honored family name ,Lown from its high position. The family purse was long and so was their patience, and it was only after Haruld'e unfortunate connection in the arrangement of a prize fight between S. and C., in which he lost a hundred and fifty thousand dollars, that his family gave hint up. Old Mr. Jackson drew the big check, paying his son's debt, but the had it un- derstood that it was for the last time. He altered his will the next day and his younger son's name was never men- tioned before hien again. The old man died, his wife grew to be a white-haired old woman, and Edgar Jackson harried, bringing another English girl home to the old house. 'Their little children never knew that they had au uncle. Harold was an outcast from his family and f riends. One morning at breakfast in Washing- ton -square Edgar Jackson was surprised to see his mother rise suddenly from the table, her face almost as blanched as her white hair; in her trembling old hands, covered with rings, she had a letter. He arose, thinking that she was ill, but she waved hien away. "I have a letter from your brother," she said, nervously. "He is dying. 1 am going to him." She tottered toward the door, for she was old and very frail now; her daughter-in-law put her strong arta around her, helping her upstaire- Yea, Harold Jackson was dying, dying from a fall froin a horse. The old lady found him in a queer little down -town hotel, lying in a darkened room; she had not seen her son for twenty years, but he scarcely looked a day older --his Outdoor athletic life had kept him«youn;:, his flushed face on the white pillow secured glowing with health and strength. As she came into the room he tried to hold out his hand to her in „meting, but he could not lift his fingers, his back was broken. There were only a few hours before the poor fellow's life race, which he had run so badly, would be finished. His mother sat beside the bed holding his hand, most of the time he was deliri- ous, except once, when, moving one poor nerveless finger, he felt all over her rings; her beautiful white hands were shrunk and withered now, but he seemed to re- cognize the touch of the familiar rings that she had worn over since he was a child. m Just before he died lie brightened a lit• tle, and the old lady plit her white head down beside his ou the pillow, trying to catch his half intelligible words. He was too callous, too philosophical, to snake a death -bed repentn•nce,but 11e went over his being rusticated and many other things long past, telling over the poor pitiful tale of hie misdotugs as simply ns a child, "I've not been much of a credit to you, have I, dear'!" he said, with- a worn smile, "not much -but -I've never for- gotten sot of the thlings you taught me; I en ild, but I've never harm- ed any woman—never—arid—I've left the money that I won on Malacca to found a bed for jockeys at St. Luke's." The mother saW a gray shadow creep- ing over his bright eyes, the flash was dying out of his face, she pressed her withered cheek elose against his, and be- gan murmuring "Onr Father--." His lips moved, repeating the words after her -"Forgive 115 .nor trespasses," she said -les eyes brightened -"forgive us pur tresuaespa -- fergtve , ills, our trospas- eeli,'he ,salol. -and was •gone, • Once a week a white-haired old lady goes to St. Luke's Hospital and site for houre beside a bed that his been endow- ed "In perpetual memory of Harold Jack- son, for sick and injured jockeys." The InJuries ou the race track aro apt to be severe, and the bed is rarely with- out an occupant. MIckey Donovan, toughest and queer. eet of ignorant Irishmen, lay there for a long time. He got to bo very fond of his weekly visitor, who never preached or sent traete to him,but who drew him out with the kindliest interest concerning his own affairs, to talk about horses and races and all the subjects in which he was so deeply concerued. They became warmest friends, the aristocratic old lady, daughter of an English earl, and the little bandy -logged jockey. He thought her a perfect saint and stopped swearing even when she wasn't there,he- cause he thought she would likei t. Iter ignorance of sporting matters was ex- treme, and he would regale her for hours with enthusiastic accounts of how Doro- thy Q won the Derby and Ione Sansone went dead lame at the half -way goal; as for his first race, elle knew it by heart. "The best race I ever won," ho said, one afternoon, "was ou Malacca -did I ever tell you how; I won on Malacca ?" A pinkish flush rose in her withered cheeks, as she listened to his thrilling ac- count of the perils, of a steeplechase ou that celebrated raeehorse, for was not that the horse that Harold, when he was dying had told her he had won money on ? "I made to win that race if I broke Malacca's back and my own iuto the bargain," went ou the jockey, " 'cause a particular friend of mine had a pot of money on it. I'd fifty thousand dollars offered me to sell the race; but no, sir 1 I won that race fur Mr. Jaclisou, ma'am. I knew he was pretty dead broke; he'd been a good friend to inc since I was a stable boy in England, nod I won the race for him." Mrs. Jackson arose uervottsl, . "It's time for me to be going," she said. She was a very stately, tall wo- man, and for all her Interest in the young Irishman a very great lady in his eyes. He was surprised to see the tears rolling down her faded cheeks. "Good -by," she said, and bent, kissing him on the fore- head. "Thank you for winning the race for Mr. Jackson -he was-" her voice trembled -"he was -my favorite eon." PO.LLY KING PREHISTORIC MICHIGANDERS. Skeletons of Men Eleven root Tall Un- earthed nt Cryatal Lake. The mounds on the south side of Crystal Lake in Montcalm County have been opened and a prehistoric race un- earthed. One contained five skeletons and the other three. In the first mound was an earthen tablet, five inches long, four wide and half an inch thick. long, was divided into' four quarters. On one of them were inscribed queer characters. The skeletons were arranged in the same relative positions, so far as the mound is concerned. In the other mound there was a casket of earthen- ware, ten and one -halt' inches long and three and one-half inches wide. The cover bore various inscriptions. The characters found upon the tablet were also prominent upon the casket. Upon opening the casket a copper coin about the size of a two -cent piece was reveal- ed, together with several stone types, with which the inscription or marks upon both tablet and casket had evident- ly been made. There were niso two pipes, one of stone and the other of pottery. and ap- parently of the same material as the casket. Other pieces of pottery were. found, but so badly broken as to furnish no clew as to what they alight have been used for. Some of the bones of the skeleton were well preserved, showing that the dead men must have been per- sons of huge proportions. The lowerjaw is immense. An ordinary jawbone fits inside with ease. By measurement, the distance from the top of the skull to the upper end of the thigh bone of the larg- est skeleton was five feet five inches. A doctor who was present stated that the man must have been at least 11 feet high. One of these mounds was partly covered by a pine stump three feet six inches in diameter,and the ground show- ed no signs of ever having been disturb- ed. The digging had to be done among the roots, which had a large spread. Much speculation is rife as to who these prehistoric races may have been. -Lud- ington Record. •' Wo" Worth the 1),y. A controversy is going on in China as to whether the term `'Wo," by which Japan was designated in the imperial declaration of war of August 1, was in- tended as a slight upon that country. (_)f late' years Japan has usually been called Ji lino, the Land of the Rising Sun, but she also likes the term Ji Pen or Japan. According to a learned writer in The North China Herald there was, however, in all probability no intended disrespect in the use of the word wo, which means "submissive" or "wilding and twisting," as it is a term that has been officially applied to Japan by China for at least 1,600 years. At the same time it appears that Chinese diplomatists are veru fond of taking advantage of foreign plenipotentiaries ignorant of their lan- guage by applying' insulting expres- sions to their country in treaties. European nations, having become aware of this, have appointed com- petent Chinese interpreters to help them, and the names of the countries have been subjects of negotiation. It is thus that England has cone to bo Ying Kuo, the flourishing country ; France. Fa Kuo, the law-abiding coun- try, and Germany, Te Kuo, the virtuous country. Louis Napoleon at Piny, At the Tuileries, madame received me in a salon hung with tapestry. Through a half -open door I heard a child's voice, it was that of the Prince Imperial, who was playing in the next room. Soon we hoard the noise of a saw and a hammer, and as I listened Mme. Bizet led me quietly to the door of that room. "Look," she said, speaking , low and opening the door a little wider. Then I saw the Emperor seated on the carpet and making toys for his son. - Some years of My Life.- Mme Octave Feuillet, • In Advance. Hogan -Who is your eye in mourning for Grogan ? Grogan -For Callahan. "Callahan is not dead yet." "Sere, he will bo next toimo 01 git n chance at um. He is the morn thot g•av mo th' eye." THE MALAY KITE. Direotton. for Making Proft♦IIer Eddy's Tediiess Triter, There are no more interested readers of the accounts of Professor William A. Eddy's kite -flying experiments on Blue Hill than the boys, New England boys, ant' particularly the variety indigenous to Boston and vicinity, are nothing if, not imitative, and when they read about the professor's tailless Malay kites, which soar straight up into the air with- out so much as the vestige of a caudal appendage, they are eager to know how it is done. Probably by this time there are scores of lads who are making and testing ex- peritnental kites that should fly without tails, and the market for sticks and paste and waste paper has taken an im- mouse boom. But it is safe to say that not many havo succeeded. To make a taillesskite is sirnpleenough -when when you know how. The cost of its material is nothing and the trouble is no greater than in building a kite of the ordinary kind. But the tailless one must be made on strict scientific prin- ciples, according to an undeviating scale. It may be large or small, six feet or six inches high, made of tissue paper or canvas, managed by a silken thread or a flax cord, that will stand a pull of ten pounds before breaking, but the proportion of its length to its breadth and the point of attachment of the string is a rigid law which knows no variation, Professor Eddy was three years be- fore he could find out what these mea- surements were, Now he can build a kite which seems endowed with an al- most human intelligence, which flies higher and steadier than its tailed brother, and scorns to turn aerial somer- saults or sweep with lightning -like suddenness into some thorny tree when it ought to be abput its business. The sticks for a kite of about a yard square,which is a very satisfactrry size, ave of spruce or ash and a quarter of an t elf square. They should be dry and free from knots and splits. This is rather slight for a large kite, and the stick which makes backbone can be strengthened by lashing another piece of stuff to it as'a brace after the kite is finished. The sticks ab and cd. should be equal in length if for flights in strong winds, but if in light winds cd should be the longer. Au addition of 14 per cent. of ab's length is about right for cd. The cd is tied on cross -like on b at a point from the top which is 19 per cent. of ab's total length. The ends of cd are then joined bya string, which is pulled taut. drawing cd into the form of a bow. How taut the string should be is learned by inexperience, for no two kites are exactly alike, but in a stick about twenty inches long the string will be about three inches from the stick in the middle. It should he made loose at first and then gradually tightened up until the kite flies properly. The strain comes at the point e and a strengthening stick may be tied along the middle. as has already been men- tioned. The lashings must be placed at the ends of the braces only to allow for bending. The frame is then ready for the paper, which should be common, but strong American tissue. In exception- ally large and heavy kites manila paper is stronger than tissue. Newspaper is not suitable ; it is too heavy, and is liable to tear. The paper is glued firmly, with perhaps a wrap of twine also on the four ends of the sticks. A wide margin of paper should be left in the cutting, and this margin then doubled over and glued down all around the edge, as a strengthening device. A heavy piece of twine should be loosely tied around ab, so that it can be shitted up and down. It is movable ballast, and, slight as it is, it will , be needed in the final adjustment. The diagram shows the "wrong," or upper side'of the kite. Tile kite stringy is attached to the point e, but a second string from the point b joins it a point which is found as follows : Draw the kite string parallel to e d ; find a point outside of d, farther out (which 1s de- noted by h), 10 per cent of e d. Join b h and the kite is done. The kite string must, of course, rut through the paper at e. Get en broidery silk, as much as you can afford, or very light, strong twine. The kite may not fly steadily at first, but a little ingenuity will remedy defects.. Shoving the piece of twine tied around the up- right stick up or down will affect the center of gravity, and the tightening or relaxing of the "bow" will help, The wind strikes the paper all together, which bags on either side of a b. As the framower's is invisible while the kite is in the air, the unobstructive ex- panse of paper lends a fine field for decorative effects, but at that point the province of the writer ends. Three Plnt, Dally "A reason." says a physician, "why I often prescribe one of the mineral waters for my patients, and have thein take it daily in considerable quantities is simply to give them sufTicent water. it is an error committed by many other- wise sensible and intelligent persons that drinking much water interferes with digestion, One of these persons said to me lately: ' I rarely drink a swallow of water; a cup of coffee with my breakfast, a cup of tea or choclate with my luncheon, and an after-dinner cup of coffee again with my dinner, that is practically all the liquid I take.' (This with an air of conscious recti- tude,) To begin with tea, coffee, or beer, wine, and the like, are not substi- tutes for water which is one of the most important of all substances acquired for the nourishment of the body. Don't drain a half pint glass of ice•wator just as you sit down to eat; that is palpably injurious; but do have a big glass of water that has beon boiled and cooled, brought to you on waking, and by the tilne the bath and toi let have been ac- 'complished and breakfast is to be taken the water will not be an interfer- ing agent. About three pints of water a day should be regularly taken; fully this is neoded ,by, the. system." Tui GnnAT COUGH ' promp y.owns Where all Cou;{ile;,Croup hers Throat, Hoarsrnoes, t Vhoopingg Cougfs d Asthma. Forothers Consutailmptloo it Ira! no has cured thousands, and will cans TO takenin time. Bold by Druggists on It anteo. For a Lame Back or Chest, use SHILOH'$ ?BELLADONNA 131.A3THR4e.; aveyou l,aclirru Y This ro mod 1s oar toed to uro you. Price,FAote. 1njeo er iIIt res Sold by J. H. COMBE. THE MAN IN THE 1ROM MASK. - The most Recent " Discovery " of This Mysterious Personage. There ere some historic mysteries, that excite increasing interest the more the at- tempts to solve them are baffled. The last word has not yet been spoken in regard to the authorship of the celebrated letters of Junius. Notwithstanding the concur- rence of Macaulay, Sir jetties Mackintosh, De Quinoey and other eminent critics . in fixing "Junius" upon Sir Philip Frauofs, the claim of France has been well nigh abandoned in recent years. Aside from certain facts and dates that go to over- throw the claim of Francis, his identity with "Junius" can be maintained only at the complete sacrifice of his gqjJfa�raster; and Francis was by no means a Bird man. Another historio riddle which for nearly two hundred years has defeated the :messes of the curious is the Man in the Iron Mask, who was imprisoned for so many years in the Bastile. They Duke of Monmouth; Fongnet, ex -Min- ister of Louis XIV; and Count Er'oolo .Antonio iliatthioli, the Italian traitor and spy; Oldenburg, the poison mixer, and several other personages, have in turn worn the mask of iron lit various accounts and traditions. But the latest and appar- ently a successful attempt to discover the secret has been made by Emile Bargaud and Bazieres in a work entitled "Le Mas- que de Fel, a Revelation of the Cipher Correspondence of Louis XIV." The au- thors fell upon their discovery in a curi- ous way when editing the correspondence of the famous Marshal Catinat. The Mar- shal had preserved only his papers relating to the campaign of 1686, but among these were accidentally saved two letters in cipher, dated July 8 and 9, 1691. Bazieres found the key to the cipher, and found also, to his great surprise, that it solved the mystery of the Iron Mask. Louis X I V at the period in question was at war with half of Europe, and Marshal Catinat, in command of the French, 0012. fronted Prince Eugene in Northern Ita1y.- After several successes of Catinat,. Louis set his heart on the capture of Obit, in Savoy, and gave orders for its immlate investment. The siege operations were in- trusted to a veteran campaigner, Lieuten- ant General Vivien Labbe, Seignienr de Bulonde. - Instead of taking the fortress., Bnlonde was completely routed by Eugene, and retreated with the loss of his artillery and munitions of war. This disaster in the midst of a career of victory deeply in- censed Louis, who attributed it tache cowardly conduct of his General. In tike cipher letters Louvois, the Minister of Wats tells Marshal Catinst that the King is greatly offended at the behavior of Bu- londe in abandoning the siege of Cunek and orders that he be arrested and con- veyed to the neighboring citadel of Pil;ner- ol. Minute orders were given at the same time concerning the treatment of the dis- tingnished prisoner. B1 was to be looked in a cell of the citadel at night, but to be permitted to promenade the walls by days Should this be the true solution of the mysteryit explains the command of Louis XIV. tprovide a prisoner by day with mask. The correctness of the key to t ie cipher of the' year 1691 is established by the later discovery of a letter (not ht cipher) of Louvois to Catinat on the sum subject and corresponding with the oiph ic., dispatch. Whether these revelations agree with the subsequent career of B onde remains to be determined. T� Mask, whoever he may have bean, was re- moved to the Bnstile in 1698. The authors describe him from the accounts of co* temporary observers as a man of fide presence, with white hair. Although closely guarded, he was treated with great respect, and sat at the table with the gov- ernor of the prison. All this better fits Bulonde than little Matthioli,.who has bee regarded by some investigators as the wearer of the Iron Mask. For the'rest,thpg mask was not of iron, but of black valve; and was designed merely to prevent his recognition. Voltaire, who first spoke of the Man in the Iron Mask, says he was an eminent personage, Was that personage Count Vivien Labbe Bulonde? ;; The evi- dence points strongly in his direction.... Philadelphia Record, IT'S ASTONISHING how Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription acts upon nervous women. It's a marvelous remedy for nervous and gen- eral debility, Chorea, or St. Vitus's Dance, Insomniac, or Inability to sleep, sprints, convulsions, or"fits," and every like disorder. Even in cases of insanity resulting from functional derangements, the per- sistent use of the "Prescription" will, by restoring the natural functions, generally effect a cure. 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