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Pledged butto Truth, to Liberty and Law; No Favors Win us and no Pear Shall Awe." M'HENRY, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1897 A. C. SPURLING, Veterinary - Surgeon, West MoHenrj, 111. lam in Chicago this winter taking a special course on the diseases of cattle, and will return here about March 1st, better than ever prepnrod to treat all diseases of Cattle, Horses, etc. Any one needing ray cervices before that tii*en»n wire me at 1639, Wabash Avenue. Chicago, All such calis promptly attended to. PUBLISHED EVEBY WEDNESDAY BY r . V A N S L Y K E EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. OFFICE IN THE NICHOLS BLOCK Two Doors North of Perry & Owen's Store, West Side Livery^ FEED AND SALE STABLES E. J. HANLY, Prop'r. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One yeat(inaclvance)........ .......|1 50 If Not Paid within Three Months... ... 2 00 Subscriptions received for . three or six months in the same proportion. 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Carnations in bua and other potted plants for sale. Orders taken now for bedding plants d«. sired in the spring. Will' have all kinds of plants for fancv bedding. Orders by mail promptly attended to. Address, ' ROSEDALE FLORAL COMPANY, MCHENRY, 111 JOHN J. BUCH, Restaurant" arding House, Near the Iron Bridge, McHenry, Board by the Day or Week a4 Reasonable rates, A NICE LINE OF ROW BOATS AT MY LANDING, for rent by the hour or day, at reasonable rates. Pure Wines, Liquorsand Choice Cigars always on hand **"Fre»hL»(rer T?o*r constantly on drangh1 Good Stabiinjr for Horsos. * FERfiY & 0WEH, Bankers. McHENRY, - - [ILLINOIS This Bank receives deposits, buy and sells Foreign and Domestic Ex change, and does a General Banking Business We endeavor to do all business en­ trusted to our care in a manner ano upon terms entirely satisfactory to out customers and respectfully solicit the public patronage. MOKEY TO LOAN; On Real Estate and other first class security Special attention giver toco- lections INSURANCE In First Class Com% anus at t e Lowest R ties. Tours Reipsetfui y PERRY & OWEN: Notary Public ** CATARRH h a t FEVER OR ASTHMA " • "" positively cnrel by nature's | roots and herbs or no pay Send 10c postage for ten sample treatments, COLORADO MBO- Oi»B CO., Denver. OoL - An Able physician. DR. O. B. HOWE, Specialist in Chronic Diseases. A prominent p-actitu.ner in Chicago for 20 years, now located at Woodstock, 111. What Well-known Physicians say of h'm: ,V J . H. Hoilister, M. D , Prof. Clinical Medi­ cine, Chicago, for the past 31 years,consult­ ing physician to Mercy Hospital, Cb-jcago. for the past 2* years, office, suit 50iS Venetian BuiMtng. Chicago, says, under date of Feb. 27, 1898; To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I take pleasure In stating ihat in former- years I have often met Dr O. B. Howe, in me<lical consultations and have found his meitods ot treatm nt judicious, and fcis tuc- cess in * large practi c equal to that of any of our best physicians, I thins I have thus known rim for some 1$ years, and have known much Of hi - practice, having resided in Chicago tor over 40 years, "and constantly ineeting medical men in and out of our col­ leges 1 feel prepared to strongly vouch for the standing of Or. Howe. • Very Respectfully,. * , OR. J . H. HOLLIBTER, D, R Brewer, M. D„ office su't 121* to 1218 Venetian Building. Chicago, Professor of diseases of the nervous svstem, Rush Me i- cal College, Profcsor of Neurolotry, Post Graduate School of Medicine, Cnicago, con. suiting physician to Presbyterian Hospi 'al, and President ot State Board of Msdical Ex- aminere, Stite of Illinois, says: CHICAGO , March 10, 1896. Having been personally acqua nted and frequently counseled with Dr. O. B. Howe during many years practice in Chicago, dur ing which time our offices were in the same hnilding at the southwest oorner of State and Randolph ftreets, says- •* I have been called by Dr. O, B. Howe in consultation in several of his cases and always found htm judicious and careful in his t eatment, in fact, that he frequently calls for consultation is an evi Upncethat he is conscientious and painstak­ ing in hie practice. I). R. BROWER , M. D. Dr. W. H. Davis, Professor Principles and Practice of Medicine, Therpeutics'and Ma­ teria Medica for many yeai s and consulting physician to the Presbyte-ian Hospital, Chi- cago, office suite 904 Columbus Mcmoriai Building, corner Staie and Washington si 's, (ihir.aizo, writes under date of Feb, 1898: To WHOM IT MAT CONOKRN: I take pleasure In stating that I have known Dr. O B Howe lor the past 18 yea.s; have b*«n often called in consultation with him, and have known much of hit work anil ctudie* during his courso in college, which was very thorough in *11 the detriments • f medicine and t urgerv. In active practice Dr, Hone has held rank among the best and most luc-e.gful practitioners in Chi ag i He is « conscientious and very successful physician and surgeoii. Respecttully, W, H. DAVIS , M. D. A, L. Clark, M, D., over 20 years professor of diseases of women, liennett Medical Col­ lege, Chicago; Member Illinois State Bsard ot Health for 20 years, says; EL«IN , 111 , Feb 27, 189G, This may certify ihat I have for seve-al years known Dr. O B. Howe as a succetefu' and re table physician and »urgeon, having frequently mei him in consultations I feel prepared to say that his meth ds ot treat ment are judicious, scientillc and skillfully conducted A L.CLARK . M D James Nevins Hyde, M. D, Profess r Der matology and Venerial DiB'aae", Rush Meui- cai College, Chicago; consulting physician to Cook county Hospital, Chieago; relegate from Chicago to the International Medioal Congress, Paris, c ranee, office at 100 ntate street. Chicago, writes the following persona! letter, i laifd Feb 2*, 1--96 DR O . B. HOWE, WOODSTCCK. ILL ; My Dear Doctor:--1 am pleased to learn you are practicing successfully in your pres »nt looatio^, and trnst ycu wIII continue to have a large measure of success. I have known y«.u more or less intimately for 17 ye«r*. and when \ou were hero frequently saw oases with you 'n ensu t^tiou. During t is time you were in a large and successful practice, and 1 am quite confident tha yon willa ta na large measure of succet-s where you are row Working. In the cases wMch you treated und o! wbi: h i have hid cogniz ance, I have been impressed with the fact th i jou were careful, skillful and conscisn tious. Yours with very kind regards and bes< wishes. JAMES NEVINS HYDE , M D„ Milton Jay, M. D„ Professor ot Surgery for 20 venrs ai Bennett Medical College, ohicatto, consulting surgeon to Cook county Hospital, was presioent ot the World's Medical Con­ gress, World's Columbian Exposition, at ohicago in 1898, office 914, Culumbus Memorial Building, says In a leiter dated Feu. 27, 1897. To WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: 1 have bten personally and intimately ac­ quainted with Dr. O. B. Howe lor the past eighteen years; have met h m often in consul­ tations, and know him to be well informed on all medical subjects, and that he enjoyed a large practice in Chlcsgo for in my years. Our offices were in the same building fot years at No. 70 state Street I feel free to recommend him to all who may need the ser vici s of a Hist class medica man. He rank i- among the best In the '-iiy, is well up in sur­ gery as well as medicine. MILTON JAY , M. D. DR. O. B7HOWE, Treats scientif ically and Eucflesefully. by the latest approved methods, al l chronic DISEA8KS of the luigs, heart, throat, ears, nose, stomach, liver, kidneys, bowels, womb, an 1 sexual organs. SKIN DISEASES , eczema, shingles, salt rheum, scald head, tetter, psoriasis capitis, psoriasis sycoBis, (oarbers' i tch) ring worm, her te8, zoster, and all forms of cutaneous eruption, blotches, black heads, etc., cured periua ently. MOLES AND SCPERFI.OUS HAIR removed without pain by eloctroiysis DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SY STEM , Neur- isthenia, locomotor ataxia, progressive par- alyelif, heada.ehe, neuralgia, at. Vitus dance, sciatica insomnia, epilepsy, cured by German method and electrolysis. RH E U M A T I S M , acute, articular, muscular, infirm aaatory, and rh-umatic goir, positively cured by a new and successful process. X-Ray Apparatus. Dr. Howe his a comp ete elec'r 'cai outfit including the celebrated Meyrowltz Roetgen Riy Apparatus for Radiography and Fluro- scopic D'momtra icn Bv means of these wonderf-.il < ontrlvaneea the Doctorise- abred to'xpiorethe innermost recsses of the hu man o panism and si- with the natural ere wildl bofore rey aiuel hidden or obtcure Toplor Static Machine Faradicand Galvan­ ic B itteries and a• I ki ds of diagnostic and op'rntive instruments to assist him n arriv in* at a ooirect. drtgn sis of any disease and their tuct ebslui treatmer.t both medical ano surgical. CLUB FEET uiraignteneil by surgical oper­ ation, (Tenotomy), HEMORHOIDES ^Piles) cured without pain fui operation in most cases, or delay from business, VARIOCELE permanently cured by a new method. HYDROCELE AND HKRNTA cured without operation or delay from business. MALIGNANT TUMORS and all abnormal growths, foreign Oo ies, necrostd bone, etc , removed b> 6tirgical operation. DEFORMITIES corrected and birth marks removed by electrolysis. Consultation free an 1 confidential. All medicines furuis ed free at office. O. B. HOWE, M. D. Office at Hotel Woodstock, Woodstock, Illinois, Suit 28 and 29. Hours. 10 to 12 a m,; 1 to 3 and 6 to 8 p m every day except Saturday and Sunday, Will make profeasiot.al visits In country, only in consultation with other qualified physiciaians and suigeons. BRANCH OFFICES.' It McHenry, at Park Hotel, every Sat- ' urday, from 1 to 4 p. M. At Wauconda, Saturday and Sunday evenings, from 6 to 8 o'cloQk^, At Libertyville, Triggs & Taylor Build ing, every Sunday, from 12 M. to 3 p. M. , Correspondenoe by mail promptly Answered. Dropping the "H." The fine old Euplish custom of dis­ carding the initial "h" is said to be go­ ing out of use. Some writers are in­ dulging in reminiscences of men to whose conversation it gave picturesque- ness. y.;.- At the celebrated election in 1865, at Which Mr. Gladstone lost his seat for Oxford university, his opponent was Mr. Hardy. The practice then--and, for aught to the contrary, it may bo so still at a contested election--was for each elector to record his vote by word of mouth before tellers for each party si tting in the convocation house or some other suitable place of meeting. The late Professor Henry Smith was acting as teller for Mr. Gladstone, when an uncouth country parson eutered, and to the usual question for whom he wished to record his vote replied in confusion, "I vote for Mr. Glad--I .mean for \Ardy." "I claim that vote," quietly put in Professor Henry Smith. "No, no," protested the old clergyman, "I did not finish tlie name." "You didn't even begin the other," was the professor's dry retort. A story^s told of an eminent legal practitioner who was afflicted with a similar difficulty in pronouncing his aspirates many years ago. He had a particular dislike to a late learned lord chancellor who had published a book upon hymns. Upon seeing his rival en­ ter the court on oue occasion he was heard to mutter, "'Ere 'e comes, 'um- miug'us 'ymns; 'oly old 'urubug, 'ow I do 'ate 'irn!"--New York Journal. The Mosaic Age Highly Literary. . At first the Tel el-Amarna tablets were declared to be forgeries, andRenan gave expression tq the "critical" skep­ ticism on the subject in his annual ad­ dress on oriental discovery. Very soon, however, the most stout hearted cham­ pion of the illiteracy of the ancient east was obliged to yield, and the "critics" were forced to admit that on this point, at all events, they had been in the wrong. But it was with a bad grace that the admission was made, for it did not require much penetration to see that the discovery deprived them of what I may term their base of operations. Just as Wolf's skepticism in regard to the age and authorship of Homer rested on his belief in the late date of the use of writing for literary purposes in Greece, so the really strong argument of the "critics" against tho Mosaic age and authorship of the Pentateuch was that neither Moses nor his contemporaries could read or write. The Tel el-Amarna tablets have come to upset this supposed fact and to show that the Mosaic' age was a highly literary one. It is amusing to watch the undisguised reluctance with 'Which the "critics" have swallow­ ed the unpalatable fact that, after all, Moses could have written the Israelitish law.--Contemporary Review. A Cheerful Liar. "When I was out among the hills of northern India," said the major, "I had an experience that I wonder didn't turn my hair gray. I was camped all alone on the side of that historic stream and had occasion to go for some water to boil my beans in. First thing I knew I stepped right into a quicksand. I knew what was up at once and knew that I was gone. And I am willing to admit that I was frightened. "In fact, that is how I came to es­ cape. As I stood there with that horri­ ble sand dragging, dragging at me like some living monster, I turned colder and colder. Do what I conld my teeth would keep on chattering, though I knew that every vibration of my jaw was shaking me farther down into that ready made grave. And I grew colder and colder. Suddenly I noticed that I had stopped sinking." "Struck bottom, eh?" "Certainly not. I had grown so cold from horror and fear--I may as well admit it--that I actually froze tho water in the quicksand frozen the whole busi­ ness, sir."--Pearson's Weekly. Bonny Bobby Shafto. An early version will be found in Bell's "Rhymes of Northern Bards," page 283, and Sir C. Sharp's "Bishop- rick Garland," page 64. Tho latter runs HS follows: Bobby Shafto's gone to sea, Silver buckles at his knee. He'll come back and marry me, Bonny Bobby Shafto. Bobby Shafto's bright and fair, Combing down his yellow hair. He's my ain for evenuair, Bonny Bobby Shafto. According to Sir C Sharp, the song was used for electioneering purposes in 1761, when Robert Shafto of Whit- worth, Esq., was the favorite candi­ date and was popularly called "Bonny Bobby Shafto. " His portrait at Whit- worth represented him as very young and very handsome and with yellow hair. Miss Bellasyse, the heiress of Brancepeth, is said to have died for lovo of him.--Notes and Queries. Cheerful People. One is always refreshed by the pres­ ence of cheerful people. The thought ought to teach us a salutary lesson to be always cheerful ourselves. The pheery person, who has a pleasant smile for all, a genial word for every ao? quaintance, a happy expression for the world, is the person whose companion­ ship is sought, whose presence is indis. pensable at a party or dinner and whose absence is always noted --Exchange, One Letter Missing. In an advertisement of a railway company requesting the ow£ners of un­ claimed goods to remove their merchan­ dise the letter "1" was dropped from tho word "lawful" in the notice, which ended thus: "Come forward and pay the awful charges on the same."--Pitta- burg Chronicle. / The name Agag, mentioned in Jew­ ish history as that of ah Amalekite king, was used in common by all sov­ ereigns of that country. From New York to Alexandria, via London, requires 15 days' travel. Boarding School Food. In The Martian, Du Mauripr tells of the sort of food supplied at French boarding schools, aud by no means overrates its superior excellence. In no other country outside of France does the nutrition of growing youth receive highor oi-jisid'eration. If the meals served at schools there be compared with those given at similar institutions in England, the merit of the French system will be apparent; The simple first breakfast of coffee and rolls, the second consisting of hors d'eeuvres, a dish of meat or fish, one vegetable, sal­ ad and a sweet, and the dinner at 6 o'clock of similar composition, with the addition of soup, supply just what is needed to encourage mental effort and satisfy physical well being. In England an entirely different system is in vogue. Breakfast at an English boarding school is a substantial meal, served at 7 o'clock. In most cases it consists "of fish, ham or bacon, eggs and porridge three or four times a week, with plenty of milk and sugar. Dinner at 1 o'clock is a most solid repast, lack­ ing, however, in a sufficiency of green vegetables. Supper at 6 o'clock is main­ ly farinaceous. It consists of tea, bread and butter. Dr. Savory, medical officer of Haileybnry college, in England, in a paper treating of this subject, says that it is the complaint of English teaohers that the work done by schoolboys after dinner is not of much use. The doctor thinks that it is unfortu­ nate that they caunot have a half holi­ day every day to digest their dinner. He would also allow a glass of mild beer. He found that about one boy in four drank two glasses of ]it in summer. He thinks it unwise to absolutely for­ bid alcohol, as a boy always craves that which is forbidden. At French board­ ing schools the pupils drink light claret mixed with water at evory meal except the first, breakfast. The nutrition of French schoolboys is thoroughly adapt­ ed to tbeir habits and environment. The English in feeding theirs believe in bulk in food as more conducive to di­ gestion and the demands of intense muscular effort exacted by the athletio exercises in which they indulge.--New York Sun. Dn Mauricr and Morris. One of the most extraordinary paral­ lels in chronology is the almost exact coincidence of the time spent in the world by two men who had so much to do with the molding of tho literature and art of their day as George Du Mau- rier and William Morris. Du Maurier, the* elder of the two, was boru exactly 16 days before Morris, on March 6^ 1834, and he died but four days after him; so that thase two great men, who lived more than 62 years, were on the earth for exactly the same time,, with the ex­ ception of less than three weeks, both being born in March, 18JS4, aud dying in October, 1896. Similarly, both Sir John Millais and the archbishop of Canterbury, who have died within a month or two of each other, were born in 1829. It is one of tho most striking events in the long history of the arch­ bishops of Canterbury that the late archbishop, who was one of Mr. Glad­ stone's appointments and afterward di­ verged from him in political opinions, should have been Btrickeu while sitting in the squire's pew of his old friend at Hawarden. It is a most merciful thing that Mr. Gladstone did not happen to be in church. To a man of his years the shock must have been most dangerous. What an archbishop of Canterbury Mr. Gladstone would have made himself! He would have rivaled even Dunstan or Becket aud not improbably proved the greatest prelate of them all.--New Or­ leans Times-Democrat. Care For Tour Shoes. Never try to wear a shoe too small or that does not fit when you first put it on. There is no misery more nearly dis­ tracting than a shoe that hurts the foot. Never let your shoes get hard and dry. Don't let them run over. Don't let the heels run down. Don't dry a wet shoe till you have rubbed it well with a flan­ nel cloth and then with vaseline. Never put near the stove. Half a peck of oats, kept in a small box, will be the very cheapest and best foot form for a wet shoe. Fill the shoe and shake the oats down, after having rubbed aud oiled it, and set in a dry place to dry gradually. When dry, pour the oats back for jurther use. Do not "black upon blacking" more than a week at a time. Take a wet rag and wash the shoe at least once a week and oil overnight to keep in good condition. Never handle patent leather until you have warmed it. Nev­ er wear rubbers with good shoes. Put on old shoes in wet weather. There is no part of tho apparel of a lady or a gentleman which should be more scru­ pulously neat or that is so often scandal­ ously neglected. H<» Was Anxious. "Your wife's just mot with an acci­ dent, Wilkins," said a man who rushed into the grocery. "She ran over a dog while riding her bicycle, and they've carried her to the hospital." The man sitting on the cracker barrel rcBe td his feet excitedly, and his face turned pale. "Did you notice," he asked in a trembling voice, "whether it was a liv­ er colored dog, with two white spots on his fore shoulder, or not?"--Detroit Free Press. Beards, The plays, poems and treatises of the reigns of Elizabeth, James I and Charles I are full of^iunusiug allusions to the variety of fashions in beards. We learn from them the various styles that were adopted by different wearers, such as tho French, Spanish, Dutch and Italian cuts, the new, Old, gentlemen's, com­ mon, court-and country cuts. When I write a poem, I am so excited, so carried, away from the world, that I Beem a stranger to myself.--Johanna Ambrosiuo. In England there are 114 widows to every 54 widowers. Poisoning From Honey. The old saying that every sweet has its bitter might be accentuated by the statement that honey sometimes con­ tains the most active and dangerous poison. A case in point is related in a medical review as follows: A man and his wife ate honey. They took but a little, as they observed a burning sensa­ tion of the mouth and throat as soon as the honey was swallowed. Within a few minutes both were taken ill. There were nausea, severe pain and vomiting, then a loss of consciousness, coldness of the extremities, feeble action of the heart and collapse. No pulse could be detected. The wife remained insensible for several hours, but the husband was not entirely restored until the following day. Even then strength returned very slowly, and there was every indication of: extreme exhaustion., A portion of the honey was treated chemically, and an extract was given to two cats; to one a, small dose and to the otlier a large dose was administered. The small one produced partial ex­ haustion, relaxation of the voluntary muscles and general depression. The large one took effect almost immediate­ ly, producing relaxation, vomiting, purging, prostration and almost com­ plete loss of control over the voluntary muscles. The cat did not regain its Bormai condition for 24 hours. A fairly thorough examination of tha honey was made in order, if possible, to discover the nature of the poisonous element. No positive conclusion was ar­ rived at, but the chemists were reason­ ably satisfied that the rhododendron and a few other plants of that class con­ tained the objectionable substance^ It is also stated that plants belonging to the heath family have been by bota­ nists looked upou with apprehension, for the reason that they have been suspect • ed of harboring the toxic qualities which accounted for the cases of honey poisoning.--New York Ledger. A 9 "" With Burgoyne at Saratoga. In 1791 an officer who had served with Burgoyne wrote a volume, which he called "Travels Through the Interior Parts of America, In a Series of Let­ ters." The writer was Thomas Anbu- rey, captain of the Twenty-ninth regi­ ment, who was with Burgoyne at, his surrender. In Macmillan's Magazine there is an excellent notice of Captain Anburey's work, and tho condition of the English soldiers is thus explained: Burgoyne's army was steadily dimin­ ishing, while the cords round it were surely tightening. All day and night from the surrounding woods whistled the bullets' of the American riflemen. The soldiers were so inured to fire, we are told, that they ate and slept under it with scarcely any concern, while, to add terrors to the night, came the dreary howl of wolves, attracted by hundreds to such an unwonted banquet. The American sharpshooters were naturally in their element upon the steep sides of the wooded ravines that formed such a feature in every battle and skirmish. The lohged for bayonet hung in idle­ ness from the belts of the British in­ fantry--there was no room or place for it. The soldiers had nothing but disci­ pline and their native valor to make up for their immense inferiority in the use of the rifle to most of their foes, nor do we require Anburey's testimony to re­ alize what a hopeless country was this in which Burgoyne's army now found themselves for the conduct of warfare upon European systems. For ourselves, we have always marveled at the fashion in which the British soldier of that day, half . starved and ridiculously clothed, fought his way through superi­ or numbers of his own race as well armed as he, better marksmen and fa­ miliar with the wild woods which to him must have been strange and terri­ ble. The "Ears" of Insects. The naturalists have not as yet been able to answer the burning question, Can bees hear? But their researches along that line have resulted in many queer discoveries. Simply because a bee has no ears on the sides of his head it is no sign whatever that he is wholly without some sort of an auditory nerve. This last assertion is proved by the fact that grasshoppers, crickets, locusts and flies all have their ears situated in queer places'--under the wings, on the middle of the body and even on tho sides of their legs. The common house fly does his hearing by means of some little rows of corpuscles Which are situated on the knobbed threads which occupy the place which are taken up by the hind wings of other species of insects. The garden slug or shell-les3 snail has his organs of hearing situated on each side of his neck, and the common grasshopper has them on each of his broad, flat thighs. In some of the smaller insects they are at the bases of the wings, and in others on the bottom of the feet. --St. Louis Re« public. • ' Great Drunkards. The question as to whether great men are ever drunkards must be answered in the affirmative, though argument is fre­ quently made to the contrary. Cato was a hard drinker, while, in the language of one writer, old Ben Jonson was con­ stantly "piokled." ,The poet Savage used to go on the hardest kinds of "tears, "and Rogers observed, after see­ ing his own statue, "It is the first time I have seen him stand straight for many years." Byron says of Porson, the great classical scholar, "I can never recollect him except as drunk or brutal, and gen­ erally both." Keats was on a spree once that lasted six months. Horace, Plato, Aristophanes, Euripides, Alcseus, Soc­ rates and Tasso of the old timers aud Goethe,^ Schiller, Addison, Pitt, Fox, Blackstone, Fielding, Sterne and Steele were all hard drinkers at intervals.-- Pittsburg Dispatch. Bis Mental Burdens. ' "Where do we go tonight, Henry?" "I don't know, Agues. I've had some­ thing awful on my mind all clay, but I can't remember whether it is a progress­ ive euchre party or the Browning class." Chicago Record. Molasses Going Out. . "The old fashioned molasses ia rapidly disappearing as an article of commerce,'* said a prominent grocer, "and in its place have come a number of simps, 4 which are more costly and by no means i aa satisfactory, especially to the little ones, who delight, as we did when we were young, in having ' 'lasses on their bread.' "Most of the molasses goes into thV distilleries, where it is made into rum, for • which, notwithstanding the efforts of our temperance workers, the demand is constantly on the increase, especially in the New England states ' aud for the export trade. The regular ; drinker of rum will take no other liquor in its place if he can help it. It seems to reach the spot moredirectly than any other drain. The dark brown sugars , have also disappeared, and they are never, likely to return, owing to the methods of boiling and the manufacture. Granulated sugar is of the same compo­ sition, as far as saccharine, qualities are concerned, as loaf, cut loaf, cube and crushed and differs from them only in that its crystals do not cohere. This is because it is Constantly stirred during the process of crystallization. The lighter brown sugars taste sweeter than the white, for the reason that there is some molasses in them. "Housekeepers have difficulty these days in finding coarse, dark sugars, which are always preferred for use in putting up sweet pickles, making cakes and similar uses. As they cannot get brown sugar any more it may be well for them to remember that they can simulate brown sugar by adding a tea- spoonful of molasses to each quarter of a pound of the white granulated sugar. This combination does as well in all household recipes that call for brown sugar as the article^itself, and, besides, it saves them a great deal of hunting for brown sugar, which, as said before, has disappeared from the market."--Wash­ ington Star. This Setter Hunts IFrogs. "Talk about your dog stories," said a prominent sporting man the other day. "I saw something out at Cutoff lake which beat anything I ever heard of. I was out there hunting snipe and saw a man riding around on horseback, and in front of him was circling an Irish setter. As the fellow did not have any gun, my curiosity was aroused to know what he was doing, but X sup- . posed he was Bimply breaking his dog. In a few'minutes I saw him ride up to where the dog was on a dead stand, and the horseman proceeded to jab a pole he was carryiug down into, the ground, and, bringing it up, took something off the end of it. My curiosity was greater than ever, and, circling around, I came up with the horseman and asked him what he was doing. " 'Hunting frogs,' was the reply. yp®® " 'What is the dog doing?' said L " 'Hunting frogs,' was the laconio answer. - f#!-?!!!!! "'You don't mean to tell me that the dog will set the frogs, do you?' i " 'I don't mean anything else.' • : ( ' "A few more questions and answers brought out the fact that the dog had seen his master hunting around in the grass for frogs and spearing them and had of his own accord taken up the task of locating the green beauties. He was a thoroughly trained hunter of birds, and he soon became very expert in lo­ cating frogs, so his owner informed me, and my observations of his movements confirmed the statements.- Omaha Bee. This Man Could Split Hairs. Lucius Poole, whose den in Spring­ field street, Boston, is famous among antiquarians, can do more wonderful things with a sheet of paper than any one else in America--perhaps in the world. Not only can he dovetail, skive, splice and inlay, but he can split. That is the most difficult achievement in the whole art of book patching. Mr. Poole \vill taku a leaf from any of the current magazines and slice it three times through its entire length and width, thereby making four sheets instead of one, each of just one-quarter the thick­ ness of the original. Splitting hairs Is rough work beside a job like that. Oue of Mr. Poole's tricks is to qut an imperfect picture from a page and then insert one in its stead so deftly that only the closest scrutiny will discover that a fiber has been disturbed. Another is to "plant" a photograph on the. page of a book so that one cannot tell that it was not printed there originally. When Mr. Poole is asked to tell how he performs his feats, he says: "Oh, it'a just by work, partly natural and partly acquired. It would take a year to ex­ plain the details."--New York Press. A Gymnastic Pig. . A Kentucky pig has suddenly devel­ oped a genius for gymnastics and en­ g i n e e r i n g w h i c h e c l i p s e t h e p r o u d e s t ' . J previous achievements of his race. This eminent pig was recently placed by his owner in a pasture sarrouuded by a high wall and ornamented by elm trees festooned with wild grapevines. The walls, however, could not confine his bold and vagrant spirit. Selecting a tree standing near the western wall of the pasture, he carefully bit loose the lower end of a stout grapevine, which was attached by its tendrils to a limb on a tree, aud, taking this improvised rope in his mouth, swung himself in the air until he gathered an impetus which sent him entirely over the wall and landed him in the next field. Though often recaptured, he has con­ stantly repeated this extraordinary feat,. and his intelligent owner, instead of cutting down his elm trees to restrain his pig's wandering propensity, has de- oided to educate him for the trapesa business.--St Louis Globe-Democrat. | Primitive Wales. It is an interesting fact, and one showing how little have been the surface changes, wrought in agricultural Wales, that a well defined Roman road exists to this day in the very heart of Lland- rindod iand, with a few breaks, can be traced to the outskirts of Magos,.a oo*» pis of miles awajr. •it .Jiip