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H. 8oll by all DeaJera In Medicipsa. . 0 W LINIMENT V STRICTLY lor FALILY Use. IKobiierl on suar sullrnnir children love to lake L livery Mother ahouUl have it in the huate, it quickly relieves and cmcs all aches ami inia- asthma, bronchiti. colds, coohs. catarrh cotH. chaps, chill.laiuii. colic, cholera morbus. arachc, headache, boopiuu couRh, inrianinostion. la Rrippe. lameneaa. mutnps. nui-u-ular soreness, neuralpia, nrrwiu. bead ache rhr-aantism, bites, bums, biuisea. strains, priits. stin .swflliuK'. stiff joints, sore throat, hore luits. l..thache. tonsiiilis end wind colic. Originated in imo by the lute Ir. A. Johnson, Family Fhv-ician. lis merit and excellence hare satilit-d -ver-bo.lr for nearly a century. All whouseitarr amazed st its wonderful oier. It is saf. soothiuir. aali(vinr: ay sick, sensitive s.ulcrrrs t'.d Internalaud txternaL Tho l.-tor. Rimaiure and direetionaon every b.4taa 1-CM l'uii4il. C rrt b..ld e.eryber- Hra. -ts. tux UHtka, i-ua. L a. J.uStN a. to, Ummt rXAeiea written at short oiee IB th OLD RELIABLE iCTNA" tad wllaer first 'law.a 1'ampaalM. rP. w: DICK, firT roK THK Ofl IIAIITFOKI) lHRIs lXSUIt.WCK Cllill HllHMKNDMl HI'SINM Ktvenartnru ..Inly "I. ta I CAriCERr-i um Tun.iM CI'KEu . aa kK- rntt lira iiiutmuiv s if can aa. tlk. Ciafinaari SIGiC An Incident in the Love Affairs of Miss Ixiuise I5ratrtf' so-ial colleagues were loud ut sa injr uf her to oue an other uud ti sli iiii'cr that tlie was a i.iiiliTIul I V cievt r y..un ivuiuau. '1 bi-. v. os iiicanl in no tjuul.iic.l sctitc; it carried will, it no couliuoiicie .; the .li .litii lion ivas Ltoaitivtr Tiie fact of h r il. f.inesa nUul prominently apart, J--11.1 uiua hoLllIjIk iu'tu ia tiie (.'eui-r.il as.M-ls of her social set. It became one of the chief fuctj couceriiinr her iuter-c-stiii! ienouality. aud f recueiilly uvi-r-bhailovvud leas striking- ones when she was leiiiT conversationally considered. She was of the slender, willowy type; tall as most laeii, and graceful after au iiticouscious, unstudied fAshi.iu. Her fai-e liail straight, angular Hues, and w as not esc-ntially pretty. When she smiled it revealed many surprising curves and i-u bile charms of e.pre-j.i.n. V.niiJrDUi pver lay iu her brown eyes. (Mivver under con. plrte subjection of I.or will Her hair was of tin bright yellow tint of tver-ripe wheal, the lint that M-inehotv autTr'sta urli Liciality. fi.s llracrtr'a love t-iperVuren had been iiuiuiti.u,; but silt: bad maua'Jed with her eieveraess to pive them va riety. Livorv man she bad ever Itnovvii well had attempted to make love to her. Sbe thoupbt . it very amuiin, uiul her women iriemls agreed with lier iu this view when she toll them of her ex periences, omitting names. JSht? was not without coase ience in the matter, however, and contented herself with l- lievin tliulail of her admirers would tret over their weakness without per maneiit hurt A brief u. .te from one of these ad mirers received one. moruiu',' j.;st asshc was (Toiu-f out pro mee l marked ctfect iilon Miss ltrajri;. .''hu iraVi up her in tention to o out and tat down to read a sec-imd uml it third tuiJir the Very brief and conventional ej.i:lle. It was a very concise iiotd from Mr. 1'hilip .cw mann, askiaif her to walk with him iu the a. terno, n. These valks, it mnst W explained, fo nied one of Miss JSragv's t-haracter istio social instimtions. J.esidcs bv-iny; clever she. was peculiar. She went walking with young men much oftener than she went driving' or to the theater with them. Mr. Phil Newuuaun had been one of the first younj men to en joy the pleasure of these walks, and the sight of him proinenadiuif with Miss lirag-tf had inspired countless other 3'ouutf raeu to aspire) tif the same priv ilege. Hut for three years, although she had walked often. ievmanu had not been her companion. She had seen him occasionally at balls, parties, the theater and elsewhere, but had had lit tle communication with nim. The day before receiving his note) she bad passed him on the street and he had bowed in a distantly polite manner. After reading the note the tlurd time and vainly trying; to comprehend its meanintr she took from the cabinet, in which she kept all her letters, a letter in the same handwriting, and. putting the two together, studied them. Though totally dilTvrent in tone and apparent meaning' the believed them to be of practically the same import. The first, written by New maun just after their last walk together three years before, was a timid, half fearful proposal of marriage. It had a tremulous note of fear iu it fear that she would reluse. '1 he last just four lines asked her to walk, not Li up- more- Yet, Jli- lirtri's logic gave the two the same meaning. Well," said Miss Uragg, as she tiuisned her note of acceptance, "the answer's the same to both letters ' 'yea.' He fore it was a qualified, ob scure ycV he didn't reeou-uize in its dUguise. Thin time I don't like this I'll make it plain for him." She tore tip w hat she had written, and penned in scrawling, careless char acters: "Ves Louise Iiragg. 1 like that better," she fcaid. hne read Neumann's note arain, half smiling. "I wonder if this last phase in the evolution of Mr. New matin's feelings ia as compliment ary to me as the first." ahe speculated, "lie's a man of moods, phases and pe riods. It's hard to make out the mean ing c-f this last. It sounds like a last appeal. He is a human paradox." Uf all her love affairs, this was the most interesting to Miss Uragg.. This was due to its novel history and to other reasoiis. Nenmunn was a so ciety man of a not remarkable mental caliber. He measured up to the aver age of his set. lie was rather tall and handsome, with a face typically south ern. What particular quality of h.s that drew her toward him. Miss Kragg herself could not say but she w as con scious of liking him- Their walks, as has been said, tvire frequent, aud their talks, while confidential, had never touched upon matrimonial topics. He reserved the mention of this sub ject for the letter that has been re ferred to. Miss liragg- was a bit dis appointed at having so important a question treated after the manner of a business negotiation. It seemed a lit tle cowardly to write. Her reply was characteristically worded. To a few mrii iu the world it would have meant "uu," but to the generality of men yes" a numin'a yea. A call the next day would have ac corded with Miss Uragg's idea of what the behavior of a young man in Neu mann's place should have been, but he did not call the next day, the next week, the next month or the next year. Indeed, three whole years passed and he neither wrote or spoke to her upon the subject. After a short time she re pented of having replied as she had done. Her letter now seemed so hasty, so ill-considered, if she had waited a month to reply it would have been dif ferent, she felt. Still she could not understand N'ewmana'i conduct, and it was far from her to ask him for an ex planation. M iss Hragg dressed w ith great care, and calmly self possessed, ahe sat awaiting for Xe Armann. She read bis last two letters again, but the rcperusal of them left her puzzled still. From her cabinet she fished out a package of letter 'he had received from him. She had not teen them since first recci lug them, but now she read them with pe culiar interest. In the package were three or four written while Neumann was away on a business trip, others were written to her at mountain re sorts, others still were nothing but mc-re formal notes asking for an en gagement all breathed the spirit of love. She could understand his actions .... ..... t.Uil mc.-i, ttiiLM ...i did with marked eagerness. Out of the coufused tangle of oi.ls au.l cuds that tilled her cabinet she searched for let ters iu Neuuii-nu's well known hand writing. The letters ha. I been tossed in promiscuously and hidden from view since. A bright, crisp, new-looking envel ope dropped from her tinkers as she drew out a bundle, and. pickiu it up, she examined it curiously. As her (fiance fell upon it llio blood left her fat.? und her heart sI.xnI atilL it was in her own handwriting addressed to New maun her answer to his letter of three years ago. As siie sal there regarding it in bewil derment Mr. Nevvuiauu's card was handed to her. No traces of agitation were visible iu .Miss llragif's maimer ivh.m she smil iutfly greeted Newmauii a minute later. He nervously shook hand i. Miss lira tlid not sit down. 'l believe we are to walk?"-he said, as if the matter was of ho little importance that the had al most forgotten. "Yes." h e said, (.etting up hastily. As they reached the sidewalk they stopped undecided which way to "It's a nice walk out in the vicinity m JeiTeis.ui Heights," Newmanu said, he ilatuigly. "Wj used to walk ther. olteu, y-u reuiciiiLKjr." "Oil, no. ui .'elTersoii Heights," she sai I, as if tin pia- e was not to be considered, "it's so stupid I detest tue place." he slow ly set i'ff t't au opiosite direction Neumann wajked silently besbie her or a lew moments. JVe-ntly he au uouueed the diseovery tlfaf. jt was a hue day for walkjii'. Nckj. ho ob served that the day was just liku that on which they hud taken their las I walk together. This was followed by auothc-r and a longer pau.se, bro'.e by Neumann's question; ".ou remember u hat a tine day 'it AHss Itracg.'" She made au effort to reiuumLu-r, unit ting her brows and looking thoughtful. Utterly failing to recall It. she excused herself. "You see we walked together O)orc than once and the days were al ways fine 1 knew they were, because 1 wouldn't hv gone otherwise. Ami then three y-ar is ; long to remem ber such a thing ua the tjlate. of the weather." After that Mr. Newman eraded the weather and that last walk us perilous topus. He talked about people, and had the air of a man who wanted bad ly to talk of .something else. Hebrew nervous when .Mj Hraggat last turned round and faced houic-ward- The waik had grown to be dull. "Miss liragt'." Newman said at last, "I'm going to Uurcpe in a few days, and there's some thing 1 want to ask you before 1 go. If your answer is what J hoi; it will be 1 will not go. Why did you not an swer my letter tnree years atfn?" Miss Hragg's face assumed lUo. expression oi one w ho has au unpleasant something to say. "Such letters are not easy to ausuer," t-he said. "Due has to thin:, before replying. I djd write a letter to you, but did not send it. 1 thought I would wait I thought 1 could tell yob better." "Uut you did n"t tell me,' Neumann burst out eagerly- "You uu not ask me," she sai.d, quite calmly Newmanu looked (lushed and dis..p pointed. "What wid you utile iue"' he askc-d as they w Miked on. Can yoi. guess?" she asked, lis face show eo his disappointment. th, I pu.-ss 1 know vvbat it was.' he said, bitterly, "aud it has caused me hourof anguish and pain, nights of bleepless unrest. Oh, Miss Uragg, you can't guess how much it has cost me. I have seeu no pleasure, no peace, no rest. It will al ways be the same. You will pardoi. inu tor bothering you uguiu, but 1 ha hoped, alter wailing three years am. seeing that there was no olhet man. that you might change your a.iswer. l could not go to Europe uiliiout asKing you." They walked along in silence. They were already uithin sight of M- ilragg's home. At the dmr he stoppe before her and asued, h.ilf implor ingly: "Am 1 to accept your answer a. final?" She nidded an atlii mativc "My answer is final," she said. "Mis Uragg." he said, tremulously, "I can never forget you. I shall think of you constantly while I am abroad. I'm sorry to have caused you the pain of re jectinjr me a second tiine. tiood-by." He held out his hand and took her: in a strong grasp. "Uiad-by. Mr. Neu nann," she said. "1 trust you wil have a pleasant trip abroad " "Thanl. you," he said. tiood-by." He jrav her a last look and turned to go. "Mr Neu man n, stop a moment," she called. He walked back to her, his honest fact Hushed with pain. "I am awfully sor ry," she baid. "llelh ve 1 esteem yon highly and regret that this has oc curred. Your letters I want to return them. W ait a moiueut till 1 get them.' "You may burn " he started to say, but she was cone. She found them just as she had left them in her cabinet. She parked them up and evened their ends so as to make a square bundle. She tied the package with a small satin ribbon. Her own letter lay on the eabiuet- She picked it up and held it undecisive ly for a mo ment Impulsively she tucked it be neath the ribbon with the rest "1 think you will find all of them here." she said, handing him the pack age. "Aud I happened to fiud my an swer to your letter of three years ago. You were curious to know what 1 bad written, so I put it in with your letters. Good-by." They shook hands. "I will read it, even though it gives me pain," he said in a low tone. He hurried down the walkway, the very image of an unhappy man. l!ut the steamer for Europe that left a few days later did not number Mr. Neumann among its passengers, lie had read in Miss llragg's answer a "woman's yes." Robert L. Adamson, in Atlanta Constitution. ertiittlvr -a First P. k A PYutla id (Me.) gentleman Is tb fortunate re.-ipient irom the poet of t e desi; o.a which John G. Whittier wrotj his earlist verses. 1 1 is a very old piece of furniture, bein.an heirloom iuthe Whit tier family, and having seen probably two huudro-1 years of service. Of course, .he fact that the earliest pnetns of one jf America's preatest poets were writ ten on this desk gives it a value that intiquity could not confer. For. per haps forty years past the old desk hr.s been out of service, a newer piex-e of furniture t kiug its place iu thi "par don r.Him" at Amesbury. A I'ortlat. I artisan has renovated the ancicut di-. u without chauing any of its chrractar istio feature. SOME FACTS ABOUT HOSE. The OinVrent Kluds That Are Required for Various I'nrpoaee. Rubber goods manufacturers gen erally make over a score of dilTerent grades of hose, says Hardware, some cheap, and which will satisfy certain needs, white others are more expen sive, and are really required for the purposes iutcuded- 1 1 is not necessary, of course, to have a lina of air-hose for use iu the gar.'.eu, aud vice versa, the article for domestic use would be of little value ulsrwhere. A conducting hose of two-ply will ftftswer every pur-po-? where only a slight pressure i . ustil; but lift that to seventy-live pounds pt-r bquare inch, and three-ply is at once di'inttiiJcd- Then the en gine hose must, b foqr, five and six ply, and, of cour-e, muvh more expen sive. Then soma gradtts are perfected by the use of superior stock, both in rubber and duck. Flori.-ts require a heavy hose, as well as do brewers, tan ners aud thos who forci oil through it. An eight-ply Is frequently used For uir drills, great care s used in both duck and rubber, and canvas, wire or marline Is wrapped around thin varic y. For air brakes the ge nius of the rubber trade has U-en at work for years, and ".vh.'ii it is under Ktitod that railway trains are length cued from year to year, the iMiu-uion can readily bit reached that there i . room yet at the top for this, an im provement in th.i qaality that gives strength. In suctions there aro many varieties used for fire, wreckiuif. dredg ing sand, etc. Some of these are large enough iu circumference to al jow the crawling through of a full ltfil man. . AN IMP&HTFc) FARM The roll Was Trauaported from Warm to a t ol.l liuiat... '" once saw," said a well known Itostouian, "an imported farm, ' the soil as well as the produ ts bein f abso lutely foreigu to life surroundings This was in out uf tlje coldest parti of Man toba. where I wan entertained by a family which had retained Its love for mil ier regions and crops. The bill oi fare was necessarily meager, but some of the vegetables were so bright and green that I could not help asking hovv they were preserved so well. To my surprise; I leuyuu. raa they were cultivated iu a gUF-Iti" patch or a min-iatu- e farm, the soil of which hud been brought from milder regions so far as to iasure a fertility not found in the region of ice. The vegetables them selves had licjn grqwn from imported seel. and. oving to? the care and pro tection they had Imd. they were a per feet luxury. The expclise of convcyiu the mil in barrels such a Ion; distance would prevent any but comparatively wealthy people from trjiug the exper iment but my friends had made it a hobby The only other case of earth importin!.' that I have met with is that done by the f.hah of l'craia. The tra ditions of his country prevent his tread ing on foreign soil, and when he makes a trip iu foreign nations his attendant . carry a supply of IVr-.ian soil, some of which Is placed in his shoes, a practice which accounts for t.l)e great incon venience walking always appears to be to his majesty when abroad." FUN AT FUNERALS. Congre-saiounl HurlaJ Junkets Net Wholly Iturren .f Mirth. "Congressional funerals are not al ways the lugubrious events that is generally supposed." said Representa tive McDowell, of IVunsylvania, ac cording t4.he Washington Post, w hile in a reilectivc. mood, adu.cssing a group of his associates, "There have been some funerals of this sort that were quite lively. Hut while the last sad rites over a derttrted colleague are sometimes enlivened with sundry iu cidents. into which the fe .tive game of poker enters as a prominent factor, and the hours of weary travel are playfully beguiled with anecdotes and champagne, as a rule a strict decorum is observed by all aboard when the la-.t friendly escort is conveying- the tie parted to his distant resting place. There is a good deal of mawkish sen timent expended in the case of some deaths, and it sometimes happens i hat the speaker inadvertently selects a funeral party vlio:,e members had no really keen interest in the dead. L'n tier Mich circumstances I suppose it is natural that more levity tb.au seems projcr i.hould enter into the solemnity of the occasion, liut in uios teases con gressional funerals are quite as respect able as they should be." MISSING LINKS. ' The word captain, so often used in the liible. simply means officer. Aukkicax pumps are known in China and Japan as well as iu all parts of Eu r. ipe. The "Georgia thumper" grasshopper aas a wing r-pread equal to that of a robin. Ckkkk sculptors often used eyes of class or crystal iu the faces of their statues. Roiiisciiit.n requires of his cook a diifcreiit kind of soup for every day in the year. Moscow is said to have 1.706 "big; bells,'' the smallest of which weighs 5.04K) pounds, and the largest 443.772. A:i English woman has employed thirty-five junir Irish women since 15 iu mal.ing a copy of an old piece of liayeux tapest ry. He Knew Too Murk to Live. The iiiiHin sent its chilly beams across the door, forming a pathway of light. I'pon the eonch the old man slept in peace, his face illumined w ith a child iike smile. A woman, pale and with baleful yea. crept stealthily into the apartment. She approached the bed She bitterly contemplated the siumber er. "Ati," she hissed, and there was a thrill of hatred in her voice. The old man stirreL Like the flash of light ning she drew from the. folds of her gown a dagger and upon the instant plunged it into the bosom of the. help less figure before her. There was a s'nrt ga.-p aud all was still. A spirit hat) gone to its maker. For a moment the murderess lingered- "I'oor fellow," she mused, "and yet his death was necessary to my happiness. He knew too much about inc. He" she smiled malignantly "could remember when I was born. Who knows w hen he might make damaging - disclosures. Safe safe." Wipiug the gory dagger upon the fold of her mantle she flitted through the portal and was gone. De troit Tribune. INDIANS i.EAL AND IDEAL The Halo Which Romano Haa Given Poor Lo. Wkaa the Truth is Tola the Noble atetf Haa Becomes Anything; Bat the 2ra44 Crrature iauaiaaUus Usa faintest Ulsa. The student of ethnology find no more fascinating branch of humanity than the Indian. Not the race as de picted by Catlip, Schoolcraft aud Drak. who have painted him in glow ibgkujors, but the Indian as he exists to-day. Thf time has comv when the truth about Indian life should be told. The gentlemen pientioned gave much thougut to the subject of w hich they are the accepted authorities, but he who goes auiopg Indiaus as a student wilj a( pnpp perceive that the whole study pf the rel men has been one of externals to the exclusion of the more secret -ami inner life that l isc loses the real character of the race.. Tin fol lowiutf paragraph appears in the intro duction uf Drake's masterpiece.; 'Thcrti was found In hhn (the In dian) an unbounded hospitality, a friendship vouched for with life itself, au unfailing n-membrancu of a kind ness don) hlut, a nubility ut soul that held it firmly to his Ideas of liouor, tilled him with reverence for the saues and heroes of the tribe and inspired in him an ardent longing to emulate their renown. In social and d mes tic life kindness and Kelf-control were constantly manifested, wrangling and strife being unknown in the ludian dwelling." It is difficult. svs he Pittsburgh Dispatch, to couceive pf a more incor rect statement of the case regarding the mental attribute uf the. Indian. Iu addition to the error that has been constant in the minds of the people, through such statements ami ideas as romantic and prejudiced writers have given out as ethnological data, there has been a fundamental error iu the study of Indians in classing or group iug them all tojrthef. Uist rue tha; there are certain constant character istics among the Indians, just as then are in Hie Caucasian race, but it is also true that the mental and physical dif ferences between tribes are more marked than between the European nations. It is through reading such authors as viewed the outside or apparent life of Indians that the worjd to day kuow? almost nothing abv)U the dominant characteristics of the red man. In civilized circles the belief is current that tlie perceptive faculties of the ludian are highly developed; that he is acute in, all things, and that hi, mind almost intuitively grasps phil osophical subjects; that he is a born orator with a natural rhetoric; that h pierces the fallacies of sophistry with almost divine powers of analysis; that he has evolved a religious system an -worships one God under the title Great Spirit. These are the mental at tributes with which he has been clothed bv those who have Wen accept ed as authority. His physical powers are no less those of a demigod. He is supposed to be a. bundle of muscles aud nerves, capable of alino.t super human endurance, is eye is so true that he distinguishes objects and tells their characteristics before they come within the range pf vision of the whites. Owing to his unerring aim ln markmanship is phenomenal. His idea of location is so highly developed that he finds his way over untr.l plain? and mountains, and notices the slight est displacement of stick or stone. What are the facts? The Indian i not an ttrator. He expresses hiinscli with extreme difficulty aud in the sim plest manner. He has neither rhet orical nor analytical power. Hi philosophy is of the crudest sort, au. he has no religion. He docs not wor ship a gr.-at spirit except as he ha been taught by the whites. His men tal powers have nothing supernatural in them. 1'hysiealiy he is the iufcrioi of the whites as he is mentally. Hi muscles are weal.fr and his nerve: more easily unstrung: his eye is les: ' keen than that of the white plains man, aud he is a tyro at marksman ship; his idea of location is bounde. by his environments. He sees feu sights, hears few sounds, smells few odors, and tastes few flavors. The re ault is that his whole life is narrow, as the facta presented to him are few His perceptive faculties are of a low order amLhU powers of discrimination small. This, however, is a rule which, like all other rules, has exceptions, for there are now, and have been in the past, elevated minds ainoug the In diana. HOTEL GUESTS. Women Who Will Have What They Want and Ilea Who Won't Kem.tcr. The average guest at a first-class ho tel puts his fist on the register and takes what the lord of the rooms gives him iceekly and uncomplainingly. There are rooms and rooms, just as there are hotels and hotels; and when the hotels are crowded it takes an ex perienced a net determined man to get the best or a woman, says the Wash ington Tost. No hotel clerk has ever yet stood up before the onslaught of a lovely fe male bet-t on having a front room lighted ou both sides and not higher than the third story. Uut there is another class of the dwelleis in tents the men who never register. Every hotel has them, and Washington hotels more than any other city. Here it means the game of politics. The man who wants an of fice, and is afraid his rivals are going to put up combinations against him, will slip into the hotel aud tell the clerk tha., he docs not want to l seeu or put on the book, and the clerk tells him that it is all right In some cities such actions would he rightly regarded as suspicious, but not in Washington. The leading hotels will average two a day during the first year of a new administration; after that they drop oil to two a week, but it is a peculiarity of Washington ho tels. She Took Her Pea ta Foot. A curious marriage took place at Ver viers, in Ilelgium a few days ago, w hen Mile. Elizabeth 1 Kunneich, without arms, was married to her impressario, an Austrian, "ihe woman signed the register with a steady foot and the wedding-ring; was placed by the priest on her fourth toe. CAST OFF FROM A WRECK. Tailless ( al. W hirh luuo.M a Comoiunlty on I he New J.rwv ('.at. Long Reach, the narrow strip of sand seven miles from the mainland on which the village of Reach Haven. N J., stands, contains the only trile of tailless cats iu the l nite.1 Stales. These cats were not detailed, savs a correspondent of the St. Louis Ghle Dcnmcrat. They were loru without tails. Early in this century a large English brig was wrecked ou that part of the Jersey coast- She became a total wreck, but the sailors lives were saved, and so were the lives of a Jot uf cats. These felines came from the Isle of Man and belonged to a curious breed found only on that island known as Manx cats. At first the animals were quite tame, and fre quented the vicinity of the light house, where they nightly liv-Jd o'leu-air con certs that were not harmonious enough to merit the appreciation of the lightkecpers. and ultimately resulted in their beinr driven away. The felines tool; to the- w-uods and managed to subs i t during the first wiut.-r on birds, thousands of which live 1 in the swamps. The cats increased rap idly in uumlier, and in a few jear-i small packs of them could be found almost anywhere j.i llarncgat's woods. Their outdoor life made them savage, and the breed mmmus to have increased in both sie and courage, for eventually th.-y Ik came so fierce that they woiil 1 stand aud show tight toward anyone who in vaded their homes. They ar.- curious looK-.ng creatures. The front legs Ik--ing snorter than, their hind l.-rs causes them to make big jiuqps a I hey go about, yet it is sai l tluy ran easilv o.it ruuan ordinary d-af. Tho cat, mal:e gixrd Hshers. and when tlsh are plenti ful they go along the beach, and, as the breakers run up on the shore, car rying with them small buttcrlisii. mul lets and silver bait, they jump into the shallow water and with their sharp claws pin a fish to the sand and the outgoing wave leaves their prey ex posed. Then, bt-.ic.rv another breaker can roll iu, they catch the fisii and take it tip on the dry beach and devour it. At times dozens of these stra-i ge look iug cats can be seen oil the beach making meals oiT the surf clam , that are cast up by the tide. For th.- past twenty or thirty years Long Reach has been a famod i su intnr resort. Mauv of the cats have beeit killed bv tourists or frightened back int i tao swamps. Occasionally soui-y humane vi-.itor en deavors t t'tuj.- one of the animal,. It is har t work, but when the effort is successful there is no more doiu.-stie or affectionate pet than a Manx rat. WHISKY TRULY SANCTIFIED. A f lask Is Wallrd l i In a New Jer-ey t'tturera. The distinction of having a quart flask of whisky walled up iu the structure la-longs to the Sacred Heart church of this city, says a New- ('.riius wick sja-cial to the New York Nun. Al though the church has been built tor over ten years, this was not general! v known until recently. Ten years ago last (k'tiilfr the corner stone of the church was laid, and tin- work of building the edifice nui pushed as rap idly as possible, so that before the dawn of the new year the walls were up to the first story. The cold was in tense at this time, and some of the masons employed on the building ac quired the habit of lepcii.li:i'f iqv.n stimulants to Keep their bl-o-l hi circu lation. Consequently a large quart Hash was brought into requisition, and frequent trips were made ir.m time to time to a hotel to I.eep it tiliel with the enlivening lluid. The men had their whisky with great regular ity until an incident occurred une eetedly one day that upset their cal culations for the time Iwing. The flask had ju-t been replenished, and the men were inal.ing ready to en joy it. when they were startled bv the sudden appearance of Father Mulligan in company with several other ecclesi astics, who hail come to make an in spection of the progress of the work. The man who had the flask hapiM-ned to Ik" quick-witted, or the secret would have la-en out. Without a moment':. hesitation he quickly stowed the ll.i -k in lietween the inner and outer walls, while the other men went on with their work, consoling themselves with the thought of the ginal cheer that awaited them when the visitors de parted. They reckoned in vain. Fatlu r Mulligan and his friends re mained close to where the men were working for a lorn? time. Although the wall was gradually inching the precious whisky bottle, the masons did not dare stop work for fear of exciting suspicious. When the party finally took its de parture, to their dbuiay the masons found that the flask was out of sight, and all efforts to get it were unavail ing. They tlid uot dare tear the wall down to pet it, so the whisky remained in the wall, an.l the filling of cement scaled it securely. The men who were engaged in erect ing the building lived out of town, and the story of the flask was recalled sev eral days ago. w hen oue of the mm. who was visiting this city, went to the ;hurch to attend service, and thus had the incident brought to his memory. Old Fleniit.il Cainitiic- Many of the masterpieces of -the great Flemish painters of the past, which are preserved in Relgian churches, arc kept cove red with heavy cloths, the idea Wing tostiiniilate pub lic curiosity and extort from visitors an extra fee for viewing thein. A re sult of this sordid policy is that the color of the pictures, la ing deprived of light, has materially deteriorated, and that the pictures have Is-come darkened and ob-cured. Tlit-pnal an Dyck "Saint Martin ' in the church at Savctithctn. has suffered so severely that the rovirnmtnt has intcrfer.sl, and a similar action is expected in other cases. t'li:: ht of tl. swift. As to the speed with which the mi gration flights of birds are accom plished. Canon Tristram, in the Rritish ish Association, quoted llcrr Gatke as maintaining that godu its and plovers can fly at the rate of two hundred and forty miles an hour. It. .lerdon Lad stated that the spine-tailed swift roost ing1 in Ce- Ion. would reach the Hima layas, one thousand miles. Wforc sun - set. In their ordinary flight the swift was the only bwd the author ever -knew to outstrip an express train on the Grout -."oithviu railway. FROM FARM TO BARROOM. Tne Journey and .r.lual Inrrr.iw In l'rl e ol a ttua.tM-1 ! 4 urn. Illinois is the great corn state and IVoria is the center of its ni.e-t prolific belt. I'coria is a great train market and especially for corn. Vast quanti ties of the golden grain aresliipa-d Into that city for general distribution and loaded into its mammoth .-levator, by the hundreds of thousand-- of bushels. A great deal of corn is shijija-d from IVoria. but a vast quantity is U-A-d there. Ther-- is more corn tistsl in IVoria thau in any three cities in the union, even though these cities W New York. Philadelphia and Chicago. The reason is obvious, says the IVoria Herald. IVoria is not only the center of the great di-tilling interests, but there are loeatest two .f the greatest sugar houses in the country. Ik.wn the ca-t cious mans of the great dis tilleries are ourcd every iav -'. tKi bcshels of corn. The sugar houses use from .l.tuKi to Ki.ium bushels more each day iu the-year. To supply the con-tant lemand the pr.alu.-t ,.f 1 ... acres of rich corn la nds is dai! v s!i'.i.ed into l'eoria for home con-nini.t ...n. Aside from these there are fiiov o...ki bushels .issl daily for other purposes So tliat it is safe to estimate thai fuilv W.tMni.iKw.l hush.-!, of com are u--d in that city annually for maiiufaet uring and other purposes. The great r part of this is iii.tiii,!.ct urs-d into spirits. It is wonderful to cotisi.b-r the changes made by a bushel of com in its transition from the owner's crib to the glass of the Consumer. These changes are various and far reaching. They are other than financial. Rut consider simply the mere element of value. Com was sold the other duv in IVoria for Cents ja-r bur-i.el. It came all the way from Nebraska, perhap-, where it brought but -." Cents. 1 u transit two .iea.ers receives! a commis sion of I cent eacli. The railroad com pany received S cents for its freight ad other charges. The distiller .id K5 cents. He t.a.k and converted it into four and a half canons of tiuish.-d spirits and fetl one of his steers .n the refuse. The distiller sold t he p rits t- a l.s-al dealer for sc..li. if u hicli I ik-Ic Sa'ii received Si .". as a tax oa the spir its, leaving a baianee to the .liM.o.-r of i cents afu-r he had paid :.' cent . for his corn. The spirits, afu-r la-u.g wc-il war-red and com;iouiidc.l. are soid at a profit by the eon. laiiiuder and rectifier to the dealer, u ho seiis out at . 1". cent s a drink. '1 he four and one half gal lons have swelled to nine, and la fore it gets through it swells many a bead and also the revenuti of the city In-iv its lines may be cast. So tiiat. iu its travels from t Im-. Nebraska crib tothe hicago s:i!.m:i. that bushel .f c-..rn has iu. rcasc.l in value from -j.". cents i, many d. .liars, and with its oui-ijnt riiiiii ng mates has furnished .u...ov tneiit to at h a t to fifty men or more and has contributed tola.tli the nation al and municipal revenues. Niu-lt magic there is in t he juice f t he g.l.l-.-!i corn. Of the juice of thalou-- Ix.sh. 1 of corn, at least l.ai ja-rsons dan- im-Lila-d. froiii the Jiioiis old la.lv who took it f -r --la grippe" to tin- j..l!v old toa r who t.-.k it for --the tight." '1 o resume, that bushel of .s.rii was thu, scatleivd on the highways..! busi ness and pi-a:tire: l-'arm.-r. -J", cents; railroads, as cents; commission iin-n. J cents; Iistil.-rs. 72 cents. 7J cents; fetsler, in cents; I'ncle Sam. -t nr.; eon. j. uiiil. -r and is-etitier. cents; re tail dealer, tl; city. Tins coii Sllllier gc.t whatever was left in tlie spint -. e ach according to his strength or weakness. CAPALLE OF GREAT EXPANSION. The Swell Toad Not Vilurally Ilia; How to Have Ina null 1 1 1 n. What is call.sl the "swell" toad on tlu- t arolina and t le.rgia cast is in his natural st.it, - ..ill y aU. ut six iiielo-s iu length and four inches across h- l.;n!i, but he ir, en.iow-. with wonderful ex pansive facilit ic-s. la-ing raia ble . if in flating hiiusel f like a Yale t adball on the slightest provocation. Many tales are t.id of his la.isonous qualities and of the dcat haleai ing tlui.ls that are stored away at the base of his fangs, but all naturalists agree that the t..a-l is i.oii venomous, an. I that stories to the contrary are but bits of idle folk lore. Re this as it may. the casters handle him (when they condescend to touch the ugly creatures at alii as charily as they uotiid a live rattler. The under artionsof the laaiy of the "swell" are of a tlirty yci.ow .sh white, corresan.lnig almost exactly to the color of the true l.ufo's Wily, but where the latter is sm.ailh the former is as prickly as the aI of a "jim.sou w eed." I u order to see him swell out of all proja.rtioiis it is only necessary lo rub this prick ly surface with a cane, stick or other obj.t-t. To do this pro crly the creature must, of fours.', la turned ua.n his Lack, and the funuy part of the whole -.a-rinic-lit is this: lit-cannot c. ja I t lie a ir which the ir ritation has i:iumh him to inhale until he "lias Wen t nrned right side up. Al though originally a six-iiie-h animal, the Si. I .on is Re public says it has la-eu known to expand until it is as tight as a drum and had l.r-t all semblance to animated life. It has iHren lin re lated of them that they would con tinue to expand under irritation until the laaly uoul.l finally burst from ovcr inllation. ' peenrairj I ro.-i. t oritea. Among the p-rs.ms upon wh.im the order jf the l-gioii of Honor was ceiiif.-rrcil rce-clitly cas Mine. k'it!i-lin-Schwartz. preside!. t of the French Women's union. At the present time about twenty women arV en titled to wear the r.sl ribbon. . Most of these arc Siste rs of Mercy r woui.-u who have Wen decorated in tim s of war For serviecs in - civi! life." in a l d it ion to Mine. Kocchi in-Schwarl, R.esa l-.iilM-nr. M me. FurtaVlo-IL inc, and Mine. M.tri- Iturent. who f...iri l e. 1 the arti-.t orplum a- luiu of 1'ar.s, have received the decorat.on. SHORT AND INTERESTING. A luo-iiii sn --iLicgr:inate is a:i ag ricultural urisiiy f rdarke, Fla. J'-o-.ii: F-ypliaii i.uibiu.ie-s. recently cyamiiicd. v.t re f. -u..J in. acj ia cor se Us Ai r n:mo t stati-ti-al rep. rts-'-i.ina Chi -ugo ht -bauds are t,ii-portcd l y th.-ir v.ivc s !l : u vc.:-i tlie ui.iyer-sil drinl; .f tlie Englir.h until the in r. al a. 1; .n f tc and cofT.-e'. a1iut L.. Di:.iui::.- l ..x. . f W olM..r-iu:r. N. II.. harvcotcd. a siuasli that lau, . red uiiictv-two inches ia cirsuuifcrciis-c. V 3r n r
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