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1- ttteagum- „ , _ fdktfMi as .. .1 witnesses in a oaae that wasDoing fL "tried. Among others he sketched two jfine-!ooking old women. Each wore on her head a large, Z , Fnow-white turban trimmed with red ^ v ribbons, and great braids of false hair "v. tied with green ribbons. Their broad, •**"" teilver girdles were ornamented with »" juncut jewels. They stood with their "'"'jhande clasped, motionless, and appar- ,-^Jently frightened about something, I a* * j&ould not tell what. • Later the judge called me to him, " told me that the two old peasants ho had posed for me an hour with uch apparent good will had oome to im to make a complaint. ,;l s t They had solemnly related how "a jnan had kept them standing an hour. S'V* . ..looking at them sternly and writing all 2%* "the time, and that ftnallv he had given them each a florin^but had not passed sentence on them. I The poor old women bad thought I ? ~ jiWas a judge, and that while I was ^ studying them to catch the expression their faces and the pose of their >, VMheads, I was trying to read their hearts » ^ * to discover if there were any guilt on v< '-j"their consciences. MctaatUt* May Differ , Aa to the causes of ilicuraatiam. bat them to -' * *no difference of opinion among them as to the clanger which attends it, the symptoms by which it maalfecte Itself, and the difficulty of dModgiiiQ: it in its chronic stage. Several _^minenU and vegetable poisons are prescribed 'r • ifor it, but none of these has been shown by ex- ' ^^perienoe to possess the same efllcaoy as Hos- tetter's Stomach Bitters. This benign specific . * «depnr&tea the blood by promoting vigorous ' . ' cctlon of the kidneys, which strain from the • -J cblood as it passes through them the srhenmafclo s -' ^Jvirne when it exists in the system. Physician* ' „ • "of eminence testify to the value of the Bit,tew in rheumatism, and the professional opinions regarding it are borne out and corroborated by ample popular evidence. The Bitters remedy chills and fever, liver complaint, dyspepsia, and constipation. i HE who permits his farm machinery rot in the fence corners makes a rst-elass "calamity howler." S. K. COBURN, Mgr. Oiarle Boott, writes: -I And Hall's Catarrh Cure a valuable remedy.* •Druggists sell it, 76c. THE infinitely little have a pride in- nitely great.--Voltaire. "German Syrup Mr. Albert Hartley of Hudson, f . C. , was taken with Pneumonia, is brother had just died from it. hen he found his doctor could not rally him he took one bottle of Ger­ man Syrup and came out sound and well. Mr. S. B. Gardiner, Clerk with Druggist J. B. Barr, Aurora, Texas, prevented a bad attack of pneumonia by taking German Syrup m time. He was in the business and knew the danger. He used the great remedy--Boschee's German Syrup--for lung diseases. • •seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiHeeiee (CKAPOO I INDIAN | SAGWAe The greatest I4ver, 2 Atomach, Blood and 2? Kidney Remedy. Z Made of Roots, 5 Barks and Herbs, X and is Absolutely Z Free FromS All Mineral 2 or OtherS Harmful In- X ingredients. X Druggists, $12 . per bottle, 6 £ - bottles for #5. - Laughing Dog, off* lobyrt, Klekapoo Indian XedMae Co., , Beaff k Bigelow, Ageata, Xew Harea, CT. >•••••••••••••••••••••••• DR. KILUEB'S SWAMP-ROOT J. D. VlUOOS. CURED ME. doctors Said I Could Not Live. POOR HEALTH FOR YEARS. Mr. WUloox is a practical farmer and Post- faaster In the vllla«e where he reaMea, and Is Well known for mike around. He write®--'T Attd'beea in poor Ileal tit for a Ion# time.; «><Four years aero the crisis came, and a number' of our beet physicians said | w«nM not: five a year. I began using Dr. KUmer^s flwamp-Boot, Kkln«y, liver and Bladder Cure; then my doctor said it might help me for a .time, but I would not be here a year henoe. ' Ny difficulties, aggravated by Rheumatism, "Were so bad I could not get either hand to my face. I continued the medicine nearly a year, and now I am aa well as any man "Of my age-- sixty -eight years. Swamp-Root Saved My Life MSfiVRfkui the good health I noven-good Joy is due to lte use." J. D. VTUJXX)*, Jan. P. *83. Olmsvflle, V*. At »r«estet®, Ma. mr •l.OO ItM. "Invalids' «tat4e *• ne»ltfeB and CanKultatian Free. Dr. Kllrcor & Co., Btasrhamtoii, If. T. -Or. Kilmer's U ft, 0 Anointment Cures Piles Trial Ben Fuet -- At Dr«t«Ms, 10 csnts. H.M. U. Ko. 35-99. f* ffSH Thl* Trade Vaifc is on tbs beat WATERPROOF COAT iiffiS? In thd World! 5 A. J. TOWER. BOSTON. MASS* »that. In ebvKfc, jen Tsyawtt ttUM ifnww, the mon you'll ®t- «Ht nora yeu'd from milliiMr's bOl* be ex­ empted. The uoce an your wife's little wishes yeo ll ToaH be sure, every Christmas, to seotf ! "ihe rector A dosen of wine and a hamper or two. The mace year vife plagues you, the more you'll TOUT Mend If ska's not plaguing you. For women, of course, like oursehre*, need emo­ tion; And happy the hasband whose failings afford To the wi?« of hie heart such good cauee for caxnuaotioa •That SIJP st oka no exeitement save plaguing her lord. Above all, you 11 be careful that nothing offends, too. Your wife's ladv maid, though she give her* self Aim. * With the friend of a Mend it la well to be friends, too, And especially so when that friend lives up­ stairs. Under no provocation yoall ever avow yourself A little pat out when you're kept at the doer. And you never, I scarcely need- say, will al»w yourself To your wile's mother a vulgar old be re. However Btae dresses youll never suggest to her, Tuat her taste as to colors could scaroely be worse; Of the rooms in your house youll give up the l?6Bt tO \ And you never will ask for the carriage, of course. If, at times with a doubt on the soul and her future. Bevelation and reason, existence should trou­ ble you, You'll be always on guard to keep carefully mute your Ideas on the subject and read Dr. W. Bring a shawl with you home when you «ODM Irani the club, sir. Or a ring, le«t your wife, when you meet her, should pout; And don't fly in a rage, and behave like a cub, ' sir. If you find that the fire, like yourself has gone out. ^ In eleven good instances out of a dozen 1'is the husband'a a cur, when the wife ii a cat. Bbe is meekness Itself, my soft-eyed little cousin, v . Bat a wife bos her rights, and Va have you know that. Keep my counsel life's struggles are brief to be borne, friend. In Heaven there's no marriage nor giving in marriage. When death comes, think how truly your widow will mourn, friend. And your worth uot the best of your friends will disparage 1. JOHN WALTON'S FARM "Hadn't you better subscribe for It?" "I tell you, no. I haven't got the money to spare. And, if I had, 1 haven't got the time to waste over newspapers," said Eben Sawjer, with some emphasis. "But you will gain much informa­ tion from it in the course of a year, sir," pursued John Walton. "I tell you, I don't want it!" This was spoken so flatly and bluntly that Walton said no more, but folded up his prospectus of a peri­ odical which he had with him, and then turned away. Eden Sawyer and Ben Grummet were two old farmers--that is, old at the business, though they had only reached the middle age of life--and after their young neighbor had gone they expressed their opinions con­ cerning him. "He'll never make a farmer," said Sawyer, with a shake gf the head. "He spends too much time over those papers and books of his. He's a lee- tie mite above farrnin', in my opin­ ion. " "Those are my sentiments." re­ sponded Gummet "I tell you, Ebeu, the man that thinks to make a Jivin' on a arm in this section has got to work for it" At this juncture Sam Bancroft came along. He was another old na­ tive of the district. "We was just talkin' about young Walton," said Sawyer. "He's rippin' his barn floor ur"said Bancroft. '•Rippin' the floor up!" repeated Grummet "Why, the whole floor was put down new only three years ago" ^ "The tie-up floor, I mean,!' pur­ sued Bancroft. He's got a carpcnter up from the village; and his two hired men are helpinV "WhewI I guess htfQ make a farmer'" And so they all guessed--with a reservation. In short, there was something highly ridiculous in the thought of a man's thinking to be a farmer and a student at the time. John Walton was a young man, and though he bad been born in the neighborhood, yet much of his life had been spent in other sections of the country. His parents having both died, John had married, and now had turned his thoughts to making a living out of the old homestead. Ben Grummet h^d a curiosity to see what was going on in Walton's barn, so he dropped in there. He found that the whole of the floor, where the cattle stood, had been torn up, and that they were digging a wide, deep trench the whple length of the tie-up. "What on alrth is all this for?" asked Ben. "Why," returned Walton, who was busy in superintending the work, and also in working himself, "1 am hav­ ing a place fixed here for making manure. I mean to till this trcnch up with good, muck, and thus save the liquids which have heretofore been lost. I think, by proper man­ agement, 1 can get fall double the quantity of manure which have got on this place:" "Do ye?" said Grummet, sarcastic- aily. "Yes," resumed the youosr man. "It is a fact that^the liquid manures, could they be saved, would fully equal the solids, both in bulk and value, and when combined with well rotted muck, and some other articles which shall take up and retain ail the mote volatile parts, I feel sure that they Will afford more fertilizing powers and properties than the solid manure can." "You don't say ao! r Where d'ye larn all that?" '-Partly from reading, and partly from observation," answered John, smiling at his good neighbor's open sarcasm. "1 don't s'Dose it costs anything to do all this?" "O, yes; it will cost me considera­ ble before I get through." "Yaas; I should rathei calkilate it would." v "I swan!" Ben Grummet cried, as met Sawier Bhortlv af*"r*aidg. httn. Ben?" : * ean really upsot, like folks W!M» are ant to the insane asy­ lum; bathe's not his head full of all som .of iwe^ieoie." "But what in nature's he goih' to do?" "Why--he's goin' to save the liquids, as he calls 'em! And he's goin' to p&koin somethin to take up the vol--voluntary mparts." •'Voluntary parts? Whatare thej, Ben?" "It was vol sonietbin'. But I don't know. I wouldn't ask him. I s'pose he jest used the outlandish word so's to get me to ask him what it meant--an' then he'd show off his larniu'. But I wan't so green." "I wonder if he thinks he's comin' here to snow us farmers how to work?^ said Sawyer rather indig­ nantly. "I guess he thinks so," returned Gummet. "Then I guess he'll find out his mistake," added the other. "Jes' you mark my words, Ben- He'll be flat on his back before two years is out!" Autumn came, and after John Walton had wowed over a twenty- acre field, getting hardly hay enough to pay for the labor, he set men at work digging deep trenches all over it He had two dug lengthwise, run­ ning up and down the elope; and then he dug quite a number ruunintr across these. They were quite deep and broad, and into them he tumbled nearly all the stones that could be found ia the fields. "A pooty expensive way of gettin', rid o' rocks," remarked Grummet "It's a'better place for them than on the surface, isn't it?" returned Walton with a smile. "Meboe. But what on sirth are ye doin' it for?" "Why--I'm going to see if under, draining won't improve the land." "Under draining! What's that?" "it is simply drawing off the water from the surface. This land is cold and wet; but if I can get the water to drain off among these rocks, the sun may warm the surface, and give me a good piece of soil here." But it looked very foolish to Ben Grummet He believed that "what was the nature of ttie soil couldn't be altered." H«/wever, the young man made his treaches--tumbled in the rocks--filled in on toy with the loam he had origiuallv removed; and then left it to work for itself a while. A month later he plowed up two acres of it, and he Could see that the soil had already changed wonderfully. After this was done he cut his way to the muck swamp, and Went to hauling out that article, which he de­ posited in various places, as he deemed proper. "That's a cur*us contrivance," said Sam Bancroft. He and Ben Grum­ met had been at work for Walton at hauling muck. He alluded to a large vat back of the house, Into which ran a spout from Vie sink. This vat was capable of holdiog several cartloads of stuff, and was already half full ' Thats a compost vat," exclaimed Walton; who had overheard the re­ mark. "All the slops from the house --the soap-sud* and such stuff--which most people wasted, 1 save by this means, and turn it to good account; and instead of throwing away refuse matter I put it in here and let it rot and ferment, and make manure." 'That all sounds very pooty," re marked Ben, after Walton had left them; "but let me jes' tell you, it don't pay! He'd better let sich fan- dandles alone if be ever expects to make a livin at farmin'." Before the ground froze up Walton threw out most of the muck back of his tie-up, which had become well saturated, and filled up the trench anew. When spfing came Walton went to some of his neighbors and asked them to go In with him and send for some good scions to graft upon their apple trees. He explained to them just the plan he had formed for his own orchard. "How much will it cost you?" asked Sawyer. "Why," returned Walton, "Im go- into it thoroughly. My orchard Is as large a one as yours is; and the trees are mostly thrifty and vigorous--or could be made so--but with poor fruit 1 mean to make a thorough same j thing of it, and shall expend a hun­ dred dollars this spring." "What! A hundred dollars! In your orchard?" ' "Yes.-' ".iewhitaker an' broomsticks! When I git money to play in I'll try it." A little while later, and the grass began to spring up en the twenty-acre lot as it ^ad never sprung up before: and as time went on John Walton was continually studying how to im­ prove his faro*. <aGood gracious!" ejaculated Eben Sawyer, as Ben Grummet and Sam Bancroft caase Tato his house one cool eautumn evening, "have you heard about Joha Walton's apples?" "Yes," returned Ben, "1 was there, and beerd the whole on't--se I know--I never weuid 'ave thought it An orchard torn out like that!" "And jes' look at that twenty-acre field," said Bancroft "Five .years ago it wouldn't hardly pay for mow- in'. It didn't bear much else but podgum. Now look at it Think o' the corn an' wheat he's raised there; others; an' this year he cut more'n forty tons of good hay from it!" "We was jest talkin' about you, Mr. Walton," said Sawyer one day, as John came into his house "Ah," returned Jofiu, as he tt>ok a seat by the fira "1 hope you found nothing bad to say of me." "Not a bit of it. We was talkin' about the wonderful Improvement you've made on the old place, and of the money you make?" "And do you think it wonderful?" "But ain't it?" "Well," replied Walton, "I don't know about that; but I'll tell you what 1 do know: I know there is no class of people in the world who may read and study to better advantage than farmers. Farming is a science, and he must be a man of more than ordinary capacity who can master it all. In short there is no branch of industry in the world which may not be followed to betteradvantage with­ out a good education. But farmers must not be afraid of newspapers and books. They won't if they are wise, follow everv arfvine which exoeri- selves. to do."- -Kew ay stud? for them* so i mean t AXS piJWfffD OUT FOR ORE, H»*y Depeelte of too Csa* Seventy Feet of Water in Michigan. Few pieces of engineering work were ever undertaken that exceeded the pumping out of Lake, Angeline, near Ishpeming, Mich, where pumps have been working for sixteen months. The water is all gone now, but apparently the hardest part of the work has still to be accomplished, says the New York Evening Post The lake lies near the southern part of Ishpeming, covering 160 acres, and was 70 feet deep in the middl& It was for a long time the Source of that city's water supply, until th? growth of the town aN»ut its shores contaminated the water.' Under the bed of the lake lie the largest iron- ore deposits ever discovered. The ore was discovered some ten years ago, when a diamond drill was set on the frozen surtace of the lake one winter, and a hole drilled (iOO feet down below the bed of the pig iron. Large ore bodies were cut by the drill, and the three mining companies owning the ground under the lake began devising means to secure this valuable ore. - The greater part of the lake was owned by the Cleveland Iron Mining Company and the Lake Angeline and Lake Superior Iron companies. The first and second named companies did more or less work under the surface of the lake, but the ever present dan­ ger of a rush of water from above rendered it imperative that the water be taken out Work was begun last spring before the snow left the ground, when a rotary pump with a capacity of 20,000 gallons per minute was anchored in a barge in the cen­ ter of the lake, and began pumping water into, a big flume elevated twenty feet above the surface of the water. The pump has been going day and night, allowing for occasional break-downs, and tbe water has only recently been drained all out Now, however, remains a serious question to be settled. Tnere Is a bed of mud from two to forty feet deep over the bed of tbe former lake. This mud is kept moist by under­ ground springs, from which the water bubbles up. Big tubular stand-pipes, pierced with myriads of small holes hardly larger than a needle's point, are being forged into the mud, into these the water Alters and is pumped out The surface of the bed of the lake is more treacherous than quick­ sand, for any heavy object thrown on It is quickly engulfed. Several har­ row escapes from drowning have taken place. It will take sixteen mouths longer to get rid of the mud. Disappearance of the Apprentice System. Boys are no longer apprenticed as formerly to a master who takes them into his faiuily and teaches them a trade in all its branches, in the old days tbe master was responsible, le­ gally and morally, for his apprentice's advancement worked beside him in the shop, and saw to it that be ac­ quired full and accurate knowledge of his craft The introduction of machinery and tbe subdivision of labor have been working for years to make intimate supervision and In struction of this kind impossible. The master mechanic, instead of pre siding overa tmall shop, and being a master of all branches of his trade has become, in many instances, the master of merely a single branch of his trade. But whether master of whole or part, he does not work with his men, and can give no personal at tention to an apprentice It has oome about therefore, that boys are hired to do the menial work of the shops, to sweep and clean, run upon errands; and, as part payment for this work, they are permitted to pick up only as much knowledge of the trade as the good nature of the fore­ man-and joirrneymen will permit Of system and thoroughness in the knowledge thus picked up there is none. From the menial nature of the employment self-respecting boys regard it as degrading, and conse­ quently refuse to enter upon it -- Century. ' Cleansing the Ears. Few ailments are more common among children than ear-ache. Most mothers are unconscious of the fact that they are themselves the cause of mueh sut'ering in their children by attacks of this painful malady. In her anxiety that her children's ears shall be thoroughly clean, the mother endeavors to remove every par tide of the ear wax from the inner partion of the ear by boring it out with a hair-pin or other sharp instru­ ment, covered with a towel, or with %he corner of a towel twisted to a point Nature knows how to care for those hidden recesses far better than- does the most accomplished mother. This portion of tbe ear re­ quires no attention. Nature takes care of it in tbe most admirable manner. The membrane lining the canal of the ear contains a great number of little glands which secretes a waxy substance having an intensely bitter taste. The purpose of this is to pre­ vent the entrance of insects and to keep the ear clean,as the layer of wax dries in scales, which rapidly fall away, thus removing with them any particle of dust or other foreign mat­ ters which have found entrance to the ear. Nothing more irritating than a few drop9 of olive oil, warmed to a temperature a little above blood heat should ever be placed in the ear. - TURtiSOVER A NEW LEAP. Tiavieg Come High. Some idea of the expense of run­ ning the cruiser Baltimore may be obtained from the report of her cruise last year. The total cost was $307,- 744.77 or a daily average of $842.13. The salaries of her thirty-one officers amounted to $94,940.50, and of the crew $103,100.50. The lattei item includes the expense of the marines' salaries and allowances. The pro­ visions for tbe crew and marine guard cost $33,423.54. The coal used by tbe Baltimore cost $47,175.68, and the oUiec incidental expenses ainouoted tio 814,122,05.--New York Sun. =•• tc; -1 - WATBB, it is eaid, will And its level. It is a pity that some people ara not, like water. ' . .. .. - A Gcocpl* Steclarotfo* of W. Tifox Bankston, editor of tbe Rlnirgold, Gtu ct? Snath, published the following as his leading editorial in a recent issue: "Another mSlepoSP"; HHf * fiSSn reached in my life aadt with, Jts pas­ sage I have entered, upon.a. new one. The future I hope will be a^s full of pleasures as tbe past but they must be of a different kind, it must lie a life into which the falling sunlight from heaven will awaken a respon­ sive feeling of conscientious satisfac­ tion. What my past life may have been I ask my friends to throw over it a mantle of charity. What my future may reveal and be likened unto, I leave in tbe hands of an all- wise providence. My reformation is not a fleeting shadow, neither is it the result of the Keeley cure, but a calm determination on my part to live and lead a different life. My re­ formation may be the result of a woman's bright promise or meditat­ ing over the words of $ minister; be that as it may, it is decisive ^ I.have withdrawn from all clubs of which I have been a member for j^ears, and the money I formerly speat-in that way will be spent for .tweet.charity. Notwithstanding my patronage in ad; vertieing has been large from the saloons in nearby cities, with this issue they oease. All contracts with these byways are veid froar thls dafce. If they want patronage they must seek it by other sources than-through the columns of the New South. I have ao ill word to say of the bar­ keepers, but to the foolish patrons I' would repeat this: 'i^t last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.' I do not expect to enter the lecture field, neither do I expect to becomd a minister,. but simply a humble worker in the .cause of what 1 believe is right Iahall4jontipue to, edit the New South and make Ring­ gold my permanent home." Home Hcientiflc Blunders, Tbe romances of Jules Yeroe are crammed with the most delicious scientific absurdities, which are in­ troduced with a show of ponderous learning and a pretense of mathemat­ ical exactness that render them all the more enjoyable. Asy however, these are not meant to be anything but absurdities, it would be hardly fair to class them with the mistakes unconsciously made, the result either of ignorance or carelessness. Quite different however, is the droll error made by the great romancer in "Round the World In Eighty Days," when he describes bis hero as reach­ ing his club just when the clocks were striking 9:50. This must have been an instance of momentary ob­ liviousness, for clocks do not as a<rule strike at this number of moments be­ fore the hour Such a mistake in a scientific romance U calculated to de­ stroy all faith in the accuracy,of hu­ man nature. This, however, is but a trifle when compared with the blun­ ders sometimes made by writers who lay no claim to scientiflcattainments. Dickens' famous case of spontaneous combustion, described in "Bleak House," is an instance in point It is absolutely certain that no case of spontaneous combustion ever did or ever could take place,, opd, though Dickens made a heroic effort to show that such a thing was possible, be was finally forced to.-admit hjs error, and, it Is said, though^.of revising his novel, even after it had appeared in print, aud tfHngimr about the catas­ trophe by some other mean& George Eliot, is the "Mill on the Floss," has introduced an equal absurdity In causing the trail boat of the heroine to be overwhelmed by a mass of float lng debris that was moving faster than the frail craft When both were propelled by the same current; such a thing was a physical impossi. bility. The mistake in this case arose from a confusion of ideaa The lightness of tbe boat might, in tbe mind of one conversant with the facts in the case, lead to the con­ clusion that it would move more slowly on the surface of the water than the heavier mass of floating loirs and drift But this conclusion, while accurate if applied to objects falling through the air, is entirely erroneous when applied to them when moving through water, and so, for anything that science offers to the contrary, the boat would never have iieeo sunk at all.--'St. Louis Globe-Democrat For Summer Royal Baking Powder will be found the gfe&test trf" helps? ~ With-kast ̂kW *fi4 trouble it makes bread, biscuit and cake of finest flavor, light, sweet, appetizing and assuredly digestible and wholesome. -/fiMg Groff In Foreign Navies. Of all the war ships represent ng eight different nations, which have been lying in the 11 rd,son, the Amer­ icans are the only ones on board of which liquor is not served out to the crews British sailors, as has been noted, have the r regular daily allow­ ance of grog. So do the Germans and the Tussians. On the French and Italian vessels it is said that a cask of w ne always stands where a thirsty seaman may drink whenever be pleases. It is the belief of foreign orticers that liquor helps their sailors to endure fatigue and cold. On tbe other hand, a writer who has Just returned from a lohg voyage with the Arctic whalers says that "one of the curses of life at sea has been the use of grog. Formerly liquor was thought to be ne essary for men li» the Arctic, but experience has proved it to be harmful Instead of beneficial, and only in cases of great distress Is it now used. Strong coffee has taken its place, and in every whaler during times of great exposure or unusual fatigue strong^ hot coffee is always at hand, grog never."--Boston Journal. A Philosopher on Wheels, On the front platform of a Broadway car can be seen an interesting variety of life. Ride down behind some old stager, for instance, who has been on the route for many years. Get him to talk. I know one Broadway driver by sight who is a charming conversation­ alist. He .is a seoond edition of the famous Mark Tapley of romance. No sort of weather "and no conditions of travel can ruffle bis temper or quell his delightful flow of dry humor. He appears to know every driver and con­ ductor on the line. As they meet he is hailed by them with a smile and a rough and cheery salutation of some sort. Even the shaggy fellows who ! drive the cross town lines call out to him or w&ve a hand at him from their brakes when too far away for word of mouth. His honest, round red face glows with good nature which cannot be disturbed by the most obstinate truck driver that ever blocked the track with wagon.. "Oh, yes," said he- to me one day. "I know- 'em. They aint half bad. I used to drive stage on this line long ago. Then I've been driving car ever since. Now I'm taking lessons on a (Come, tune 'er up a little, Bill?) road changes, but I'm here. (Hello, old man! How's Sally?) Sally's nis girl. See?" The other man takes a half turn on his brake and with abroad grin sweeps by. "Know 'em? Well, I should say! And every inch of this road, you can bet! (All right, nOw; hurry up there or you won't get no dinner!) He thinks he's driving in Kansas City. That fel­ low's an old timer, but he's been off the line a dozen times. Been on a brake in every city in the country. They al­ ways come back here. No place like old New York. See?" .And thus he runs on--chatting and chaffing and twisting down ^and. letting go and keeping a sharp lookout to the right and left--a sound mind in a sound body and a great big heart throbbing under all. i Fourteen Kinds of Coke. Haller, a famous SwisB scientist of the eighteenth century, was once well rewarded for his politeness to a fel­ low traveler.0 Seme scientists find it hard to takt) an interest in anything except their own specialties; it was not so with Haller. His fellow-traveler was a good woman from Berne. The conversation fell naturally upon the commtdity for whi«h Berne is noted- cakes. . The Berne dame said with pride that she oould make fourteen kinds of cakes. What was her surprise and delight when Haller asked her how she made themV She eagerly began a recital, with copious -explanations, of those fourteen receipts, and she had a good listener. Perhaps Haller regretted his rash question, but he did not show it. He listened patiently and smilingly to the end, and he and the Bernese woman parted very good friends, though he had hardly spoken a word. It is safe to say that in all his scientific re­ searches he had not learned so much about the combination of butter and sugar and eggs. Sometime afterward he was elected to an important political office. From some quarters he received an unex­ pected number of votes. Then he fourfd out that his Bernese cake-mak­ ing friend had been so impressed with the intelligence nad ability of her fel­ low-traveler that when she heard he was running for office she gave her relatives, friends and acquaintances no peace until she had secured their promise to vote for him. Fairy Kings. The pasture freaks usually referred to as "fairy rings" or "fairy circles" are generally composed of one or more cir­ cles of tall green grass, separated from another circle equally as luxuriant by an intermediate strip of earth desti­ tute, or almost destitute, of vegetation. A second class, and which is by far the less numerous, is a "fairy circle" of healthy-looking grass which gradually enlarges year by year, always in the form o$ a perfect circle. Their eause is attributed to the spread of the spores of a specie-* of fungi which pro­ ceed by an annual enlargement from the center outward; or, in the other r' * •wWti ,tj • Habits of Bruin. If food is very plenty bears are lazy, but commonly they are obliged tone very industrious, it being no light tSsk • to gather enough ants, beetles* crick­ ets, t umble-bugs, roots attff nuts to , satisfy the cravings of BO huge a bulk. There is always a touch of the comic, - as well as a touch of the strong and • terrible, in a bear's looks and nations. It will tug and pull, now with one paw, - now with two, now on all fours, now on its hind legs, in the effort to turn over - a large log or stone; and when it suc­ ceeds it jumps round to thrust its muz- zle into the damp hollow, and lap u$$ i the affrighted mice or beetles while i they are still paralyzed by the sudden % , exposure. The true time of plenty for bears is v •; ^5?; the berry season. Then they feast Y *5,^ ravenously on huckleberries, blueber- | » ries. kinnikinicberries, buffaloberries, * -4 M wild plums, elderberries and scores of j ̂ other fruits. They often smash all the bushes in a berry patch, gathering the ' fcfruit with half luxurious, half labori­ ous greed,-, sitting on their haunches and sweeping the berries into their mouths with dexterous paws. The still hunter is in luck who in the fall finds an accessible berry-covered hill­ side which is haunted by bears; but. as a rule, the berry bushes do not grow close enough together to give the hun­ ter much chance. Aside from man, the full-grown grizzly has hardly any foe to fear. Nevertheless, in the'early- spring. when weakened by the hunger < that succeeds the winter sleep, it be­ hooves even the grizzly, if he dwells in the mountain fastnesses of the far Northwest, to beware of a famished troop of great timber wolves. --Globe Democrat. # •1 m Give the Boys a Chanoe. Not the least injury from unrestrict­ ed immigration is the gradual closing of the trades to American boys. It is a curious fact that the trades unions, whose leaders' main object is to pre­ vent the ranks of the workers from be­ coming overcrowded, agitate much more strenuously against admitting ap- they do aj foreign workmen. against admit- species, a gradual encroachment the c aid. center of the circle.--Chicago upon Her- A Scene from Real Life. A small child,'was Walking on Morgan street recently. She carried a pitcher of milk and she wore a hat with a trimming of daisies. A puff of wind lifted ber bat from her head and rolled it into the 'street in the path of a huge , team drawing a coal wagon. ' t • The child looked apprehensively at' the horses as the hat lightly bowled diiectly under their hoofs. At that moment the grimy teamster pulled up the animals and the hat nestled down between their fore feet The child started forward, and then, afraid of the horses, retreated. So the teamster carefully backed, the horses lifting their hoofs, each as big as the hat, until they were clear of it Then tbe child ran out and got her bat, and the team slowly jolte^ dowu the street--Buffalo Courier. . An ISquIne ji^reak. A colt was born on a farm near Rich- wood, Ohio, which is certainly a curi­ osity. Instead of having one eye lo­ cated in the usual place at each side of the face, it had both eyes merged to­ gether in the center of the forehead, and the mouth is cut in across the face, more like a human mouth. than like that of a horse. It was almost devoid of anything like nostrils, otherwise it was well shaped. It only liyed about four'hours. • The Modern BMuty Thrives on good food and sunshine, with plenty of exercise in the open air. Her form glows with health, and her face blooms with its beauty. If her system needs the cleansing action of a laxative remedy, she uses the gentle, and pleasant liquid laxative, Syrup of Fi«s. Cost and Price Ifot Alike. Wool--I have been living for a months at a cost of 8 cents'a dirt'. 'r"s r'Kn Van Pelt--That's all it cost you? Wool--Oh, no; I paid $20 a week. Bight cents a day was what it Cost my landlady.--Truth. BEBCHAM'S PILLS act lil^ MA?lc on the liver and other vital organs. One dose re­ lieves sick headache in 80 minutes. prentices than tint Mr. Auchmuty, whose trade school® ; in New York have had a good object« and excellent methods, has met with j constant resistance to his attempts to * keep the boys out of idleness and vice i by equipping them with trade skill. ?; On the other hand, one hears only of * weak and occasional attempts to en-1 force the contract labor law. f A report of the New York Commis- ; sioner of Labor quotes a Hungarian mechanic, who was about to return to § his mother country, as saying: "I go back to Hungary' a rich man. There I live like a baron. I get mar- ; ried and enioy myself for all my trials-; here. * * * Capital in America , wants protection. America had better frotect its native-born poor workman. have got enough for myself. Now I can tell the truth." V Why should not the sons of our citi­ zens have at least as good an opportun­ ity to compete in the labor market as the foreigner? Give the American boy a chance.--' Youth's Companion. ., A Fortune Running to Waste. For many years a spring of dirty water ran from the house of a certain ; M. Korotneff, in the heart of Sebas- topol, and caused the proprietor mueh trouble. At time3 the spring would; cover the best street in the city with mud. Of late the spring has become a public nuisance, and the city authori­ ties compelled M. Korotneff to build a small reservoir around it and lead off - the muddy substance by sewor pipes. ,* But as soon as this was done it was discovered that the substance in the new reservoir was pure naphtha. For the last three months since the dis­ covery was made nothing has been done to utilize this wasting treasure. To Promote Heathenish Morality. The Chinese government has issued a stringent decree against immoral lit­ erature. It is ordered that "all govern­ ment officials who allow immoral books ; to be published within their respective jurisdictions shall be discharged. . Every private person publishing such a book shall receive 100 blows and be banished from his plaoe of residence to a distaneo of 3.000 lees. The waller of an obscene book shall get 100 blows. Within thirty days from the issue of this law all tne oo^cene books of the empire shall be destroyed, beginning with those now in print. BEFORE marriage she was dear, and , he was her treasure; after marriage she became dearer and he treasurer; but they were not boisterously happy, after all. PS ;i "#*5 :!v ill . "'at.' a.- ytii V HARVEST EXCURSIONS WIN bsrun from OHIOAOO, •T. LOUIS via «t» ' BURLINGTON ROUTS AUGUST 22, SEPTEMBER IZ OCTOBER 10. On t)WM dates ROUND-Tltlf* TMMCtill will u* SOLO at To all points in 8A8T COLORADO, WYOI UTAH, NEW MEXICO, INDIAN TERRITORY, TEXAS, MONTANA. Tlokte food twwfr Urny. wttfc stop- orar on SUM trip. Nirnmri m KM last should purahas* thfoukti 1ln*ai» via the BUWLINQTOM IKHJ^ofthete nearest ttoket acant. For desertpttve land pamphlet and further Information, write to1 P. 8. EUSTIS, Oen'i INwatn--r Agent, Ohioaco, HI. u IN this thing one man is superior to \ NAVRSV* --W*ST~ another, that he is better able to bear RFT|EHT5I TRHDE^NRKSS prosperity or adversity.--Philemon. Examination as to ofia- vcuUan. Kead tor Iave&ton' Guide, or Huw toGet . »Patent. PAWMOK QTAKMLU WtglUngUm, XX A The Testimonials We publish are not purchased, nor written up in our office, nor Irom onr employee. They are facts, proving that HOOD'S CURES •For over twenty years I have suffer^, with neurs!- fria, rheumatism and dye- la. M*ny times l could turn In bed. Hood's iparlua lias done aiea yaat amount oi good. 1 am 78 years eld and enjoy (rood health, wtilch I attribute to hf'5gsrejstL.jfiB; NewTork. Be sore to get HOOStf. Hood's ̂Cures Mood's Pills Cure Blek Beadsehe, Ma PATEiTS THOM AS P. snDSOW.WaAtartojb D. C. S,: atty'g f«« uatU lalned. Writ# fortowitortaalde. 8. *>. L'. Ke. 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