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JEALOUS ABOUT MOROCCO. lay land Kepi Watch on the Wesrt And France on the East. I. Mr.l fo..r..i.B r Ik* Bdtlirr r*w*r l< llselj ea the wilier -The reentry Kajasllr laspertaal I* Crral Britain's rU alJabl Cite. Bier l > Acrrsa. " Morocco is destined, sooner or later, to be a m-nac* to th* peace of Kurop* a* gieat a* the more easterly Mohammedan exenmonwealtha were twenty years ago." Theee words, or words to this effect, were spoken by Lord Salisbury, prime minister of England, in one of bis public rpeeebss s few months ago. And the** word* seem lo be nearing their fulfilment evea now. Al- though the British, French, and Spanish fleets that were assembled off the port of Tangier in Morocco, watching more each other than the event* on the coast have dispersed again, the danger may recur at say moment. Tangier i* one of the finest of the many 6ne ports of that moat beautiful of the coast Unds of northern Africa, th* ancient Mauritania. Th* port aad city is located at the extreme northwestern promontory of Africa, looking northward upon the cu**t of Spain and westward* on the At'autic SOT LONG SI UECT TO THI ' .VLIPItS. Britain i* already prepared for any em-r- geacr. They have furtined Cape Juoi. sit- uated* few mile* from soul I. w. .trn frontier and can at any moment cua .-entrau a fleet there a* sscnrely at In the bay of OiSralt*,.- Il i* these preparation* of the Bntiah which render Franc* apprehensive that the Bntiah might be able to lay hand* on Morocco ae they hare dooe on Kfjrpt, and exclude France from the eastern inlet to the Mcd. African coast region where primitive Chris- tianity was mest snnesif*!, a lew bsadred dioceses hv* existed ther* in the first osn tunes after Christ. W hen the power of Rome began to wan* a number of state* were established in north Africa, the incessant wars of which rapidly reduced th* country to a condition in which it wa* easy for th. Vandals to overrun it and complete its economic nun. A limited prosperity wis restored after the Moslems bad conquered and converted the iababi- To prevent inch a consummation is the tanu, the centurie* after three Vandalism supreme desire of France. For that she want* to wrench Toast from because an ex tension of her possession* along the so them frontier so near to the Atlantic Th* calipha'e did ant bold western MSB- won ld psnlyze to* influence of the English rilani* in subjection for a long time. At ; nation at Cap* upon Morocco and swear- to the end of the eighth ceaiary already ' fnoc , ^ pt-0-iBMrt iaisjsoes i* Lr Maghrib el Akaa. which Arabian name mean* "the uttermost west." recovered it* isaepniiili in s It was overrun agaia by the Turks, who, however, did not succeed in permanently establishing themselves - rrlae la _ . A F*'* qne^on ha* bee* raised by Sir Edwin Arnold in the February number of After the Turkuh period th* coontry ! ** Oumopoli**. Writing of love and contained, for a time, three states-Fez, , }mag* in Japes, he defends with spint*d Tafilelet, and Maghrib. Toward th* middle ' *" th* *nperlauve of the *evententh century tbe_Chenn of | ^_~f Tafilelet conquered Maghrib tndFex, inclnd ing the western part of whst is at present French Algeria. They also neld the *a*U jve praiss be bestow > in his two recently of th* desert as far south ss Timbncteo oa tb* River Niger and parts of C nines still farther south. From the*. Ch*ritT* of Tafi ocean at the point where the broad expanse . Mel the present emir of Morocco is descend of the sex begins to narrow near the Straits of Gibraltar, a few mile* to the east. Th* City is th* seat of the grand chief, who siainn to be the vicar of Mohammed, tb* prophet, in true apostolic (accession. He Is the recognized spiritual chief of all tb* rue believers of the Mohammedan faith of the region and ha* in this capacity more ] the nils of ancient Rome, and as regard* In th* middU age* the navy of Morocco was formidable enough to b* a permanent threat to the maritime powers of Europe, i But although the prosperity of tb* country ' ' continued comparatively great it could not f*, ,**i be compared M all to that enjoyed under , *' * inclined Therein he calied them 'fwmi-aagelic," and now b* iterate* that " th* Japanese female ooms*. all things coa- sidi*d, near sit of her sex , as regards natur- al gifts, to what we understand by aa angelic disposition.'' Not content with this. Sir Edwin, waxing wsrm, explicitly de- clares that " this daughter of the Land of th* Ruing Sun might pass, I really believe, nto s higher state cf existence with v>ry few changes of nature, manners, or heart, ind herself. .sad be found there, quit* If Sir Edwin were alone in this is Occidental brethren might feel to ascribe bis ardor to ths veil ul known :lirntic influences of tb* land W tb* afluence upon the people than the ruler of ! emotion hardlv a trace of the wonderf-. the land himsslf. th* so called emperor of , cm iuation / Spanish Moors extended to lolu - working. IB his cess, upon aa uaag- bforocco. or th. emirul mum*in-tha* is, Morocco. WhenTts Moor* were dnven ^T 1 nsitivs as it is fecund and One. jtrinc* of all believers, s* the inhabitant, of I out / Sptin tnev , u ied in what is called H< " bowtver, but added hi* comxaad i country call him. Disturbances at Tan- ln Rin-country; and there established the jf_ Toic * rier are for uch reason* more dangerous iy , t em of piracy which continued for cen- khan any at 'other place*. Beside*, there tune , th . .counj, of th* Mediterranean trade. This piracy was at tb* beginning a revenge wreaked upon the Christians for having dnven th. Moors out of Kurope, but it scon degenerated into a most cruel aad infamous *y*i*m of robbery. WHKKI THS MOX'SUH rlBJLTBB LIVEIX. i good many Enropsan merchants local *d there who** lives aad property might save been endangered by the tnbes in the . rountry adjacent to the city, who were in a rtate of revolt and threatened to attack the chorus of praise that ha* beea steadily swelling sines l v .errs Lot! started tb* tan* in hi* exquisite i.lyL Xow it is to b* observed that, by all ac- coBBts, th* key to tb* character of the roman lies in tb* word obedience. we ar* told by Mr. Henry Nor- J'P* IM.LISH n.rrr nmsr ox TH * xxx, Why should so much ado b* made about Morocco T Ths reason i* that any great 5 wer occupying th*' country world there- possess a domineering influence in the [diterranean sea. As Kgypt guards tb* eastern gateway of ths Medlterraueu so doe* Morocco command the western, which U th* (trait* 3t Gibraltar. Besides, Mor occo is one of the richest Mediterranean, watered by forming good highway* of commerce if munition were secure. It ha* a climate b*tlr suited to Knroteaas than any other coast of \frica : and last, bat not least, it ha* a coast line on the Atlantic ocean near- ly three time* a* long a* that oa th* Medi .tenants*, with a considerable number of first-class harbors. All ti-ese features make Morocco a mo*t desirable dependency for any power sngag ed in ocean traffic, Kngland held Tangier occupied from 16ft; to 16X1 and now regrets having relinquished it, more particularly for th* riason that Tangier furnished all the supplies needed for the British fortress of (iibraltar. Spain occupied nearly the whole of the Mediterranean coast of 'Mor- occo in th* sixteenth century an 1 is siiil in pase*eion of five place. CVatt, Tetuan, and Melilla being the largest of them. A demonstration in favor of the Kuropean interests appeared necessary, and the Brit- ish, as usual at colonial or commercial oceanic stations, were the tint to hsve their vessel* st the point of danger and to threaten a debarkation of soldier* unless th* sultan showed himself capable of efficiently pro tecting the city. The presence of a Brit- ish *<|uadron in Moroccan water* had hard ly bevoine known when the Spanish and French governments dispatched vessels to join th* British with orders not to suffer the latter to taks any steps by themselves her " three great duties " were relig ; iou*ly di clared to be obedience : if a daugh- ter, to her father : if a wife, to her hiubaud : The 3itT i* a line of nigged. cragxy moon- if a widow, to her eldest son. At tbs will tains running parallel to tb. coast hoe ef the of her parents th* Japanea* girl accepts her Mediterranean ssa from Tangier to Melilsa | husband, aad accept oae she muit before ah* close apon th* frostier of Algeria, a di*- U* years old. or jew th* slaves of Aphro lance of little more than "200 miles. The dits, aad l OBIUCIB* u presumably happy st mountain* are less than sixty miles from the the devotioa to hi* behests. The husband edge of th* ssa. They are intersected ly h aa almost unqnestioaed right, tor the deep rat. DOS and transverse valleys, every smallest reason or none stall, to divorce his ' . ' one of which is wateied by a clear brook or wue, who, however, under all provo.-e.Unas. * mountain rivulet running screes th* stnp of remains absolutely faithful. Out of any fixe sp.en.lu n^ers. | u a aad falling int.. the sea. Tb* smoma- \ marriages at least two.it n said, end IB some falling clothe,! W.UI beautiful green field* and forest* reaching to the top: the valleys aad ravines ar* also r-*plc*d*nl with a luxurious vegetation, and so is th* lowland sloping to th* edge of the water. It is alto- gether a most beautiful strip of land. Th* rivulets form many a good little port in which tho light, auallow vessel* of the pi sad and capricious separation, for "the has band can get rid of his wife on the ground of to* much gossiping or because of disagree- ments with th* m ilber- in law ; and the wont of it i* that th* children afterward belong to him exclusively." That IS oa* reason, Sir Edwin tells us. why Japans** wive* are so Jninely patient. Yet it is uot w ni u t l t B 4 1 x > D B4TC. Tkev rtar ran - aa r*amll o*rMe ' .*n aa* rWsu The Pari " Temps " pubiish-s an eitra-' ordinary article on rats. It appears thil at the Foites Bsrgeres there is a Rusaian rat tamer who is giving a fnnav exhibition. He baa fat rats, kaa rats, black rats. mil rvs, Ug rats, and, strangest of all. littl* rats. Everybody basseea s l>.g rat, bat for a UttU rat it i* necessary to go to the Foi je* Bergaris. "I found Diwroff, th* rat trainer, ' says he Temp* reporter, " overseeing the work of laying a miniature railroad, circular IB form. In a sort of France- Russian gibber- ish be wss scolding the workmen who were handling s h:t!e train formed of a ' tive, three wagon*, and a When this was done a little w It Makes Pure Blood Ail fry so ooms BeeeTs flat rrofasv salt raeasm. aa4 an i rate* used to' find reedy raf ug* and hiding aloas for In* tenacious fidelity and blind I places. obedience of the wive* thai Eag'ish. Amen- From the Rut* oa 'lie Mediterranean and can, and Freuch travelers ha been ravish- ' the Atlantic coast to the ridge of the central ed to adoration by the cUanrs of th* Japan- chain of th* Atlas range there extends a * woman. Even as a child ah* i* silent, broad and fertile plain in which th* major- l demure, restrained, and polite : evea as a ity of the population is settled and where the : KI vH.or dancing girl, ah* is the very t,edd*s* most important cities of the country ar* lo- .if gentleness and grace : evea a* aa unfortu- cated, r'c. in the Northeast and Morocco in nsle *he i* par* of heart and speech - always th* southwest h*ing tb* largest. The name she is peerless, enchanting, angelic, of the city of Morocco has been adopted by Having stated the question nised by Sir Kurope a* ths usm* of the emir* country. Kdwia. it is no doubt needless for us to in- The city was founded in 107*' and attained dicate the gravity of its import. Kvery i its greatest development in the thirteenth woman of th* Western world, proud of her i century, when its population was estimated comparative enfranchisement, yet resliv* at the nigh figure of 700.000. At present it under its limitations, xvi.l hear with disdain ha* almost 6U.OOO. It is badly built and its if not alarm the rapture* of enlightened men habitation* are one story earth huts, with over the in .-cm parable charms of her Onsa- tal, pagan, and enslaved sister. What he comes, indeed, of th* boasted progress of the world, th* splendid evolutional society, th* .rgis of Christianity of woman'* rights aad house wa* brought out and put in position. All along the lias there were posts 'or wncbmea sad signal*. Then when all was ready a cage full of r^ts was cimod bchud th* scene. " DonrotT clapped h:* hands. Immediate- ly tb* rats came out aad jumped upon the platform of the station. Half a dosea fat fel- low* climbed into the first-class carnage aad sat then like aldermen. About half a doasa whit* rats with their head* aad necks dxed black so that they looked as if they wars cloaks.jrat IB the sseoad class ; aad a ragged- looking sst ef Bohemian sad aristocrats took ths third class. Tpoa the platform a great fat fellow, the boss itatio* master, or -Vr de jar*, as th* French call that uncial, walked pompouslv up and down and snper- .n ten led the wbol* business, payiag SB st ten .11x1 to a band of white chap* that handling th* freight. Three < took is their taeth th* baadlas of ths little trunks and carefully placed them in th* A wnistl* a heard 'aad the* the takes his position. Another chap gets into the lookout, and another takes up cis posi- tion in the potntmaa s box. There u an- other whistle. Tb* Vooossstivs puSs aad the train starts. Oa th* top of the risk a ,y rat, after climbing up the little troa ler, leaks down spon the moving train , Everybody laughs. " ''it'iconv.cal. isn't it? * said DomrosTt*) th* reporter. "And iliintillss* jus think it wonderful : and yet the whole thing is don* with the T*atst simplicity. Ixosef the *discati*a of my lull* baggag* SMB. th* thiag was accomplished witboat tb* leact ditKcttlty. This is th* way I managed it : rat* class carriage, is which their bread and water wa* prepared for them. I did the same for th* passengers of the second and third class, as well as for tb* engineer, tn* switchman, th* lockout, sad the hs|[se.g They all got their food m their prop- er place*. At nr*t I trained each group seaarawly, little by little tb* habit grew poa them until I let them all oat at once. Each oa* took bis place wttboat the least , As for th* locomotive it is un- to isy that is not run by tb* engineer. It goes Vy a sort of clock-work, aad tbal's ths way the trick is done. ' Dojroff t.len told the reporter tb* difi- culties b* had to keep his rat* from gettiag frighMned at th* eiectric lighi* oa th* stag* : sad whil* h* wa* talking tb* ngaal rat felldowi from hi* high post. T>drosT iwore. " Ther* goes another loss : ' said he. " A fall like that M death to s rat that is not is th* full bloom of ycnth. He won't die right away ; b* will linger a week, per- haps iwo, bat he is bound u> die or go mad. If he jets craty the poor little devil will commit suicide. " SB. Be car* so gat Hood's Sarsaparilla lilltl lilisssln* T C I. KOOD S CO . IOO Dose One Dollar rtxforB. riineJy Lill x*ua Russian ceaeor in St. Peter -sburg i* i u-- taken by the Cxar's GovenuMsit far th* relief of the siarvmg peasants on the Volga, OB Friday we learsnd of th* proenulgatios) ef the *resr for the asaxkaw *f 1&,000.00* rubles' worth of wheat aad yesterday we learned that *,(KXV>*t) peeds ef j-ai were awututg iraoaportauosv It appear* also that railroad business has bees reorgasiaed in ucn a way a* to quadmpl* the oarryug power of at least on* of th* great hue*, aad that an imperil! commission has been ap pouted tesepcrvias the work ef r-l.ef. The fsjct tkat tks Caar is f sissnd of abxt- 1st* aathor.ty enables him lo do things in s peremptory fashion, both in peace and in war. A strange eomeasBtary on tke anxiety of wortesi to psssiss tb* frmnchist is furnished by tb* city of Boston, the most cultured centre IB the I'a.ted >tau-a. Tke advocates of woeaes'i rights in that city are finding it difficult to explain tb* apathy which exists among tb* Boetasi wesaeB to make sac of their right to vet* <or School CemsnMstonera. IB th*) year 1888 30,238 women registered s* voters, and 19.480 voted at th* sUrtiim la 1M0 onlv 10.051 voted, in IsSO tb* aum- ~'" U> -* wilU " '" ^ thetr breakfast hour I" placed tfai black | t~" U> -^*, wl ! " i on the platform i. front of the first - ' tbaa HOOD *x*ed ta* franchiss. It - that the women of Massachusetts Ubonrsd hard for years to wears tb* right to go t > th* poUs, aad yet in the course W three Tears the number v-ho availed themselves of tb* new liberty fell frees nearly dB.OUu to 6,000. would tak* place v.c*pt by the three joiiuly. tUt ruol* and slits in ths walls by way of windows. There is a bazaar for retail trade. (.Hie third of the twenty mosques of the city are extensive piles and appointed with coa- iderabl* eleganc* and richly adorned. A wosaan's achievement* if, after all, culti- wall of earth of a height of thirty feet *ur vsted men of authoritstiv* judgment aad round* the city. The chief industry of the e\ (unite tast* poet*, journaluU, aad city i* the manufacture of Morocco leather, knighu pass all this by and prostrat* the softuees and brilliant colon of which themselves st the feet of semi barbaric wo- ar* unequaled by anything made in other men. whose social shackles they ignore, countries. Tanning and dyeing of leather is whoee religious and moral benightnwnt they that industry which Moroccans haxe raised laud, and whose domestic srrxitnde they MoroTc^ buV*in"o7*he made"he"reTfmI.7.7 to th I"* 1 ** 1 P*'^ The country esteem a v.rtue Vetily m Sir K.lwm . con M Algoria w far a* the oa*Urn l, nm , of **" ^ jwsssss ssveral plant, not known summate praise ther. lies in.idiou, corn^ Morocco. ,h. hs had eve, rev,,mng bicker- ' ,> tk *' r*" . wor "' whlC ^ ''.^ TCTl" , " .V"* "" to leather that remai kahle softness and color of to-day longs secretly so greatly prued in Morvceo leather. And each part of the country seems to have a plant of if* own different from the other parts. With theee plants Morocco mak*s yellow leather. Fez makes red. an.i Tatilelel 1NTKRXST IX MoBiHXIX. France never had a substantial hold upon ing* with th. M.xoruh inl-e*. She is even low disputing the claims of the emir of Morocco to a sort of hnute.1 suzerainty over .he Bedouin tribes of the tvwis of toust. located south of both Morocco and Algeria. The Do**e*non ' tn * Touat region would - greatly increase the influence of France 1 1 upon Morocco, a* it would extend the French frontier along th* great part of her outhern boundary. In that part of Moroc- 50 (ireat Britain I* not prepared to , heck French intrigue ixnd aggression. Neither doea she car* a great deal aboet it. The Kritiali intervals in Morocco do not extend for a return of the loathsome day* when women were in thrall* At any rtie, the Occidental woman ha* been contemned. Let Sir K.lwin ex A it ii i r.,.i waaacer. Ohio and Mississippi Ivailway. OrBce of I the President and vlen'l Manager, Oiucin The city of Moroc<x> has a splendid ell- ' nati. Ohio, I'. S. A. .Nov. lo, ISSri. Genlle- mat*. aati so ha* all the region north and men . Recently whil* in th* act of alight west of the central chain of the Atlka. It ing fn m my car I stepped upjn s stone, i* the high chain which protects th* coun- which, turning su.l.lenlv under my foot, try from the scorching winds of the groat threw me to the ground with a severely dessrt. Aad lh sea tempers both cold and sprained ankle. Suffering exceedingly, 1 beyond th* high ridge of the central chain , neat. TJius it i* that the climate l* a* mild was helped into the car, and my man af th* Atlas range. This central mountain *' fresh a* that of any country on the rubbed me most generously with arnica and jhain divide. Morocco into two regions Mediterranean and thoroughly well suited ktndrvd remedies. Imt to no avail. Reach which differ greatly in climate, tn.tuatry. to Kuropeaus. Th* city of Morocco is lo- ing a station where St, Jacobs Oil could he cated at a distance of onlv twenty ssvsn securvd, two dottles of it were bought and mile* from the high, now hound pe.\ks of the application resulted at once in a relief the Atlaaandabout twice that di*tanc*from from ixam, hich haul bejom* well nigh -,in the sea. It is never too hot or too cold :n hearaVtle. 1 was out n.l about my work in ths city. The temperature rarely sinks b* thre dx- XV. W. I'kvuxm, I'm t and low 4l> or rises above W degree* in the w hole < ien'l Manager, of this ta\ore>l plain of Morci^v, and in the city it never reacheeeven these extreme*. AnoUl: Good Oirl Gone Wrou^. commerce, and th* stage of civilisation of their inhabitants. In nc ptrl of Morocco isther* any consul trabl* amount of civiliration. Yet there is tome approach to cmli/ed ,-on.litioiu on the oorthweetern slope of the Atlas r.tnge, but Ihe ^pulatit*!! on the southern slopes is -ompxaed of barltanans not much superior lo the native* of the interior of Africa. Th* high ridge of the central chain of the Atlas range divul** what, in modern geography, stay be called Africa proper from that small part of th* continent which I K>ng to the Me uu<rrane*u region. It n this Mediter- ranean p*rt of Morocco, situated n<<rth and wet of the highest ridge of the Atlas, which U really worth the attention of com i.ercial Kuntive, and it in this part only ot s-hich lx<r>1 iCalisbury *poke when he said it a-ould he " a menace to the peace of Kurope." Th* emir has a sumptuous pa'ace to th* south of the city, vurroumied by gardens to an extent of sboet I !<0 acre*. Ihe *m nun have tried for longer than a century to in ' Sunday School teacher i sadly > I'm sfraid Johnny, that I will never me*t you in heev tmiuc* reform* upon Kuropean models. Kut they have succeeded hardly better than the inltaa* at t'onatantmoble in aimuar at- tempt*, t'hiultan* w*n> *laves in Morocco Johrny Why? ng now? What have you been du- The Kuropean nation* that have been pts. Ouuuane were slaxcs in Morocco e uropean naion '! "*>*. h * n >" promulgated hy the scrambling to acquire poe>,on of all the emir pronounced them frr* ; hut the law ' i-oa*U of Africa have ha.1 a good deal to say ; has not yet been fully carried out. In 1*17 about the " Hinlerlaud." and have set up piracy was prohibiU-d. but it continued the theory that the nation which has pos- until the Kmopean poer for\-ed th* KitT wssion of a certain coast line has a right to i pirates to discontinue their lawless actions <he unappropriated region* behind it, I'n- N -r were any of the other reform e.licl fortunately thi* rule docs not seem to work ' more successful. For these teeson* Kuro- 1 > th* case of Liberia. It eems ihst the pean enterprise in Morocco h.u uex-er y*l nrgro republic sbouH have limitexl " Hin lwncure. If life and property could *hr terlaad.' for she has been in possession of the valuable portion of the Koman province* , p (o tected th* country, rich in the product* | n ' r ' v>u g stretch of coast for many vsars of Afri.-a. Numi>lis. an.l Manntania. Th. L( agricultural and in mineral wealth, might n.l. moreover, her evplorer. Anderson, wa It wan only the Mediterranean part of north Africa which a* colom/e.l Vy th* Ph>vnician ami ;reek. Mid whu-h forme I Kruvi of Koman rulein these coun'rie* i* of hignest hittorical interest, because il was almovl the only time wheu the whole region enjoyed not onlv peace and domestic tranqnilit). l-ut *'.so a height of civilization and prosperity, surpassed by no othci part of the o-np.re, which comprrhende.1 many of the nchost ami most emitted countries then known. And it wa* this same uort become i the worKl in ou* of the most ptosprrous of B>> 1 tM> l THK MX H VT .U M. All these .lvantaae* have lieon fullvrrcog- i/l l>y Kurope, cYiierty by Urcut ttritain, Krn.-e. ami Spam. More than two-lhinU of th* internal iii*l trs.le of Morvxxv i HI ihe hands of British merchants, and lirvat the first to tr ax-el into and dwecribe the e'.e xatexl country lying east of Liberia proper N France claims this entire ivuntry, and poor Liberia, too weak to assort any rights the may have, finds herself confined to her narrow strip of coast, though her public men have been tatkint for years of the uiHuenc* they hoped their country would soin* dav xvielii in tb* miertoc. ' W hy yes. you Buy langh as much a* you choose, but I caa t.li ycu that saicid. i* quit* conmmos among rats. I don': be Iteve there i* a creature in the world mor* imprssuosmK* or of a temperament mor. inclined to melancholy or with a cervous system more fragile than a rat. Would voi believe it that out of -.y "Jii pet* I bav* alway* abon: thirty on' the sick 1m' A degrs*. more or less, of heat or c >!>! in their cage knocks out ei,;ht or i*. Ihwumooi* rtnithe* one of them in forty eight hour*. But tkat is nothing' The groat t:u:ig i* to see to their an.usemeul. If 1 d:>l not them their freedom every second day. and if I did not let them out of their cag* for a ' couple of hours every day and allow tbem full liberty to scamper about in an saclo**d ! place, I would lose one-half of them in eight j isy*. At first they would become melan- choly, and at the end of thre* days they would all b* craxy rats. Kren with all my car* some ef them still go mad. You should se* s mad rat run amuck among the rest. Then the other*, exasperated at hi* outrage- ous conduct, attack him furiously, and soon finish him. v.mc rat*, a* I told voa, coil rr.it siiuid*. They refute all kinds of food. No attount of coaxing and petting can cheer them \\hen in the melancholy mood. They rvftue to eat until they die.' "IV> yon think that this fellow that fell down, threw himself down intentionally T' " 1'nat i* my belief, ' said l\>urorT. ' 1 would swear to it, ' Then the rat began :o car- my poor little Moucnka,' h* murmured. S'ou want to leave your old master : Ah. bed Moucbka f .August Flower" Mr. Lorenzo F. SVcper is very well known to the citiiens of Apple- ton. Me., and neighborhood. He ays: " Eight years ago I was taken ' sick, and suffered as no one tut ' dyspeptic can * I then Ix^on tak- ' ing Acgnst Flower. At that tin*; ' I was a great sufTerrr. Every- ' thing I ate distressed me so that ( had to throw it up. Then in a few moments that horrid distress would come on and I rvould have " to eit and suffer "gain. I took a " little of your raed- " icine, and felt much "better, and after ' ' taking a little more " August F'.ower my " Dyspepsia disap- ' peared, and sine* that time I ' have never had the first sijm of it. ' I can eat anything without the ' least fear of distress. I wish all 1 that are afflicted with that terrible ' disease or the trouble* caused by ' it would try August Flower, as I ' am 'satisfied there is no medicine 'eo,ual to it." * For that Horrid Stomach Feeling. The metal in a 5 cest nickel piece is worth fthout half a cea-t. and i:< cents will purchase copper enough to u.akc .' worth of cents. Tb* Ut*t statistic* show that ireat Britain import* an overwhelming quantity r o: her agricultunl pro.!*.* from oviutrtes s.thjfwounde.irat, 'Mcmc-hka. lh ., ,,.*outside the Br.lh Krrpire. Tb* Rritish poesession* lead th* world in mut- toa. potatoes. Aa \-sred and w\wl en y In all otbsr articles, the great* r share of the tanu products com* from people mho are not under the Rritish flag, and who accord- ingly would noi be inclsded in say prefer- ential trade arrangement with th* cotaawe. Take wheat, for instance. Th* colonie* seed the Mother Country about '.'I .U.VOOObshai out of l',ro>:'.!XV; hushelm which would mean '.hat the breed eaters of Britain would have to pay th* preferential tax oa a geed share of their wheat. We would increase our contribution, but w* wros'.d not be likely to miiltiplv it bv five, fhi* is a fact that 'the Imperial Federal KM ist who wish to make a preferential trade treat v the first sup toward* any wooing of the Kriuah Cooking by Obwrrmtioa. M- Xewwedded "This coffee is weak a* water again " M.S. N. "I can't account for it. my dear. No mailer how careful I am. it's alway* th* same way." Perhap* you don't us* enough cooW." SoBMSMs! I put in a whole half cupful, and everybody says that's (4*Bft." Ihd you measure the water*' Huh' Who ever heard cf measuring water* All cooks pour it right out of th* tea-kettle. I've seea '. clti to theie:">*"ikft, should carefully consid*r. THIETY YEARS. Johnston, N. B., March IT. " I was troubled for thirty ycarx with pains in my :-i^:c xxhich iucra>cU and became very bad. I used ST. JACOBS OIL ami ii completely cured. I gtve it all praise." MRS. \VM. RYOER. "ALL RIGHT I ST. JACOBS OIL DID IT."