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WHEN THE SKIES CLEAR OFF.
The prospects will be brighter,
The burdens will be lighter,
'An' the goals of m be whiter
When the skies dear off.
.With sweeter rosea springing
'An' sweeter birds a-singin'
As' all the bells a-ringln",
When the skies clear off!
The sllTer it'll jingle.
Till yonr fingers tingle, tingle;
Old friends meet and mingle
When the skies clear off.
An' trouble, like a feather,
WllJ go sailln' out the weatherj
We'll sing an" dance together
When the skies clear off.
There's a sign o' light a-eomln: ;
An' you hear the wagon bnmmin';
Yon'll be marchln' to the drommin
When the skies clear off;
No matter what's the trouble
It'll break just like a bnbhle.
An' you'll drive in harness double
When the skies clear off!
-Atlanta Constitution.
HAJSNAH'S FUKROW.
"I think K la smoke."
"And I think you are wrong."
The first speaker was a young woman
with a sweet face, expressive of mncn
silent resolution and great self-control.
The second speaker was an old man,
whose faded brown eyes had a startled
look as if suspecting that people were
about to bring htra trouble, or else as
serting that they had already brought
It.
The old man was known among the
ranchmen as old John Itlasland. He
owned a groat ranch. The young wom
an was called Hannah. "I don't know
what her t'other name is," the old man
would have told a questioner. "She
came from the East somewhere, want
ed to help my housekeeper, Mrs. Tuth
erly, and I didn't care. That's all I
know about It. I don't care what her
name Is. lama little 'splshus of what
she wants; they all want something."
It was the mystery enwrapping Han
nah like an atmosphere, and It was the
old man's suspicions of her motives
and purposes, that made her presence
an annoyance to him In spite of any
words to the contrary. When be now
had told her that any sign of smoke
about the prairie region was a mistake
ihe simply replied: "If Toung Johu
were here, he could tell us."
The faded brown eyes began to flash.
The husky voice trembled with petu
lance. "Young John." he snarled; "I guess
if Old John don't know, you won't pick
up any Information from that young
nan."
It might have seemed as If he were
angry with "Youne John" no, with
the young wiman who mentioned his
name.
"I know. I know!" he silently said,
as he turned away. "She cares more
for Young John than Old John. Too
much going on between those young
people. Next thing there will lie n mar
riage. I don't want her meddlin' with
that young man."
This other young person, like TTan
nah, came from the East, had proved
very acceptable to the old ranchman,
and was a great favorite with him.
The ranchmen In the neighborhood, to
dUtlngulsh the two, called one Old
John and the other Young John. Feo
ple sometimes thought they were fath
er and son. No; there was a son at the
East who had offended his father, and
bad been forbidden to come or even to
write to him. The old man wondered
sometimes whether he did not trace
familiar features In this young adven
turer from the East. Any fancied re
semblance was not pleasant to the old
ranchman. He drove It from his
thought as he would drive a cloud of
mosquitoes from his house.
And Hannah, she still lingered back
of the barn, watching that smoky stain
on the blue of the sky. It was Sunday
morning. The great prairie was al
ways still and always secluded, though
In reality anything but shut In. It had
such an openness to the wide, wide sky.
There was no resemblance of fence or
wall in any direction until, in the east,
one saw a fold of bluish color along the
prairie's rim. That meant the Rocky
Mountains.
"I think it is growing!" she mur
mured. "That smoke-cloud is rolling
np bigger. What If it should come this
way, and sweep over the ranch! And
yet he does not think it is smoke. I
wish John were here! When will be
come? He said be would be borne on
his pony early this morning and go
with us to church."
"Hannah!" It was Old John calling.
"Come! Mrs. Tutherly says if we are
a-goin' to church, we ought to be get tin'
ready. Come! Watchln' that sky won't
git you ready."
Hannah made no reply. It was of no
use to notice all his fault-finding or any
of it. She had shown rare self-control
In her steadfast silence. She now turn
ed and went Into the house, while the
old ranchman shuffled feebly to the
barn and began to harness the horse
Into the wagon.
"I have horses in abundance, but they
are all off with the men watchln' the
cattle," he muttered, "and so, Jim, you
must rull us to church. Humph! I
s'pose she will say we can't go that
there's a lire out on the prairie. Non
sense! If my John was here, he could
tell alout that smoke!"
He dropped the harness as If hand
ling the coil of a snake. What had he
said? "My John!" That was the name
also of the offending son In the East.
The father never knowingly mentioned
this form of name. "My John." Lifting
the harness again, he now arrayed Jim
In It.
"What do I siu-ll?" he asked.
Young John would have told him
"Smoke," but he was not willing to
smell anything of the kind.
In the meantime. Hannah had given
occasional glance at the suspicions
northern sky. I'linn a window she
chanced to look toward the east. Iu
ntnrm. .tstmstshnient, terror, she
dropped a lt.inuet whose green trim
mings would have set off her fair face
-vn as an apple-tree's emerald foliage
-fs off Its pinkish white blossoms.
Oh Oh Oh! I did met look thnt
way at all. and here it Is right upon us!
The wiTid must have shifted," she ex
claimed. Over at the right w.-.s a large tower
ing cloud of a dun brow" color, with
r.igged. filmy edge, compact in the cen
ter, and of a deeper hue there, as if Its
heart were a scowl and a menace, sig
naling that Its mission was m!n.
"Sir. sir r-r!" she stammered, as she
mct Old John. "The fire will soon be
i n us! Young John is not here. Help
harness Jim into the plough."
W-w-whni?" lie stammered la reply,
so dazed that he was like one pnlsy
slricUrn. Hannah flew out of the house, an:'
c.uiekly unharnessed Jim, attached bin:
to the plough. Fat Mrs. Tutherly wu.i
better in an emergency than one would
have supposed. She now came np
bravely, like an old-fashioned Dutch
cruiser at a critical moment in the
battle-hour.
"You drive the horse, Mrs. Tnthsrly,
and I'll hold the plough, and wmjrjH
make a furrow all about the buildings. !
Oh, If Mr. Blasland would Just help
and burn the grass on the prairie side
of the furrow r
Hannah was more deferential In her
style of address than was the house
keeper. The latter was plain and per
emptory: "Here, here. Old John! Come
and help!" she screamed. In the same
breath giving the order, "Git np there
lively. Jim! Up with you, gtt-t-tl"
She resumed her command to the
ranchman! "Burn the grass all outside
the furrer! Quick, sir. quick! We will
all be burnt to a cinder If you don't fly
round! Git up there. Jim! faster, oW
boy!"
After this last equivocal order, the
fat housekeeper, rosy and puffins;, skill
fully steered Jim down the east side of
the farm-bouse. Hannah guided the
plough, the muscles swelling In bee
firm, shapely bands, and along he
bared, brown wrists. Her eyes glanced
downward to see that the ploughshare
was running right, and then they were
lifted to the heavens. Those deep eyes
of blue were filled with prayer's rever
ent supplication.
"liod help us. Gold help us I" she mur
mured. Behind the plough tottered the
old ranchman, kindling the grass out
side the furrow, and leaving a rapidly
widening space of black, lire-ravaged
ground between the ranch building and
the awful conflagration driving over
the prairie.
"Now the north side!" said Hannah.
"The east side is of the most conse
quence. Ready T
"Git up-up up, Jim! Come on. Old
John!" screamed Mrs. Tutherly. The
smoko was now all about them, but
Hannah would say, "the east side Is
safet Thank God!" and press stub
bornly on.
But where was Young John? More
than once Hannah had prayed, "God
keep him!" Had be been overtaken by
that awful fire, scorched, suffocated,
burned to death? He was somewhere
out on the prairie. His horse was swift.
Ills pluck was great. He knew the
prairie; but there was that terrible en
gine of flame, without wheels, yet roll
ing on, tiiat horrible dragon of fire,
without wings, yet steadily flying! Who
could escape all this?
1'he north side had been furrowed
and burned over, when Hannah caught
me quick beat of horse's hoofs, and on
came the beautiful brown Betty, bring
ing her master. Young John!
"Thank God!" he shouted, as he leap
ed from Betty's steaming back, kissed
Hannah, and then, seizing the plough
handles, cried: "Leave this west side,
and go for the south side! Quick! Run,
Hannah, fast, and be firing the grass
up In the southeastern corner!"
There was a crouching form that
soon appeared, a torch In his wrinkled
hand. His face was blackened by the
sa.it of the burnt prairie. "He don't see
me. He don't notice me. He kissed
her. I've been scorched and singed.
They don't notice me," muttered Old
John.
They did notice him when th work
of saving had been completed, when
out of a wide, blackened waste, rose
up the uninjured birlldlngs, safe behind
thnt long, protecting furrow. They
found him lying Insensible at one ex
posed corner, an expired torch In his
hand. The heat, the excitement of the
nnusual effort at his age, had overcome
him. They carried him to his bed.
What did he murmur at last?
"Nobody cares for me here," he
moaned. "Semi for my John!"
"Your son?" asked Young John. The
sufferer bent his head in assent.
"Nolody cares for me here," be then
murmured again. "Send for htm."
"We will; but we care for you, grand
pa." said Hannah. "We are your
John's children."
"W-w-what?" asked the old man, the
faded brown eyes opening wide In as
tonlshment.
"Yes, grandpa," said Young John,
"Hannah and I we we are brother
and sister; and end we thought If we
came, some time it would come about
that we could tell you, and you would
hear us, and you would be reconciled
to father and be willing to see him,
nud "
The old man here broke In with a cry
that came from a heart once more ten
der and sincere before its Maker
"Thank God! Bless you. Mess you, and
send for my John."
"My John" came, and the coming
wrought wonders In the old father,
physically and spiritually. Golden
Rule.
HOW CHILDREN SHOULD STUDY.
Berlin Fedasoa-ne Thinks Holidays
Shonld Be Thickly IHatrtbated.
Bo much time has been devoted to the
discussion of what should be studied by
children and how It should be taught
that comparatively little has been em
ployed in solving the problem, perhaps
almost as Important as either of the
other two the problem of when the
studying and teaching shonld be dose.
.V Berlin pedagogue has taken np this
neglected branch of the great subject
and his investigations have had Inter
esting and suggestive results.
The lest working days, he says, are
Mondays and Tuesdays, or any two
that come directly after a holiday. The
ubvious deduction la that the Insertion
A a full holiday in the middle of the
week would tend to the keeping up of
mental activity among school children
and so add to the amount of real Work
aecomplLshed. Those hours of the day,
as well as those of the week, which fol
low rest are most valuable, and It Is
advised that the first two hours of the
morning be reserved for the tasks
which children find moot fatiguing.
Regarding vacations, this authority
.inserts that they are at present need
lessly long, but far from sufficiently
rreiuent. The refreshing effect of
ouch vacation is demonstrated In every
school room. It Is no greater, however,
after two months of play than after
one, and It lasts do longer.
1 n this connection the value of Impe
tus must also be taken Into account,
and it would hardly do to alternate
months of Idleness with month of
work, but the fact remains that the
periods of activity are now too prolong
ed. The Berlin man says that the Stu
dies most fatiguing to child mind are.
In order, mathematics, foreign
L-iugce, gymnastics ana, ror
singing and drawing, while th natural
j'-leuces and history cause little strata,
lie Is surprisingly emphatic In oppos
ing gymnastic exercises for the young.
ind asserts that they are BO substi
tute for sleep, hatha and wnlka,-New
York Times.
A Terrible Fltnattoi
"It Is said that people are not allowed
to whistle In the streets of Berlin."
"Great Sampson! How do the peoplt
over there relieve their pent-up feetlngj
when a popular song take bold 0
themT
Russia's Rapid Growth.
Russia has the most rapidly
jig population of any country
world. The growth during the tut
100 years has been a fraction Isfj gjM
LOoaooQ swans".
-I DO MY OWN WORK."
i i
80 Says Mrs. Mary Roohiette of
Linden, New Jersey, in this
Letter to Mrs. Pinkham.
I was bothered with sv flow which
would be quite annoying at times, and
at others would almost stop.
" I used prescriptions given me by my
physician, but the
same state
of affairs
eon tinned.
" After a
time I was
taken with
a flooding,
that I was
obliged to
keep my bed.
Finally, in
despair, I
gave np my doe-
tor, and began
taking your medi- .
cine, and have certainly been greatly
benefited by its use.
"LydiaE. Pinkham'a Vegetable Com
pound has indeed been a friend to me.
' I am now able to do my own work,
thanks to your wonderful medicine. I
was as near death I believe as I could
be, so weak that my pulse scarcely beat
and my heart had almost given out. I
could not have stood it one week more,
I am sure. I never thought I would
be so grateful to any medicine.
" I shall use my influence with any
one suffering as I did, to have them
use Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound."
Every woman that is puzzled about
her condition should secure the sympa
thetic advice of a woman who under
stands. Write to Mrs. Pinkham at
Lynn, Mass.. and tell her your ills.
RAM'S HORN BLASTS.
Waralae; Notes Celliaa; the Wicked ta
atepeatance.
THE hornets
doubt sting
of
the
a
soul of peace.
The best shelter
in a law storm is a
good record.
God Is the great
giver; He gives to
all other givers.
When you give
yourself to the
Lord, let It be for
keeps.
Prayer for profit only Is unprofitable,
ind soon unpleasant.
Ask, how will this act read when the
Books are opened?
Christ's salvation gives the soul sat
sf action; nothing else can.
The only way to get a good crop of
'lrtue Is to sow the seed early.
You cannot judge a man's religion by
he condition of his front yard.
Some hearts must be broken before
tie Spirit of God can get Into them.
HE LOVED HIS DOGS.
One of the Moat Charaalns; Traits of
Sir Walter Scott's Character.
"He was a gentleman, even to his
logs," said a visitor to Abbotsford in
1830.- "When too roughly frolicsome,
le rebuked them gently so as not to
mortify them or spoil the natural
buoyancy of their character.
Dear old Scott! How he loved to
stroll with bis dogs through the woods
f his beautiful home, there amid the
rural scenes which he loved so dearly
he would take long, enjoyable, satis
fying walks with his pet companions
n-ho added not a little to the happiness
jf his life. They were elevated by
aim to the position of steady and sens-
ble friends; they possessed rights to
be respected and feelings which it
would be scandalous to outrage. Scott
Uways kept one window of his study
ipen that his dogs might leap In and
ut as the fancy moved them.
One of the most charming periods
f Scott's life was that which he spent
with his family at Ashestiel. a couu-
ry mansion on the bank of the Tweed
n a solitary mountain district. At
his time he was engaged In writing
Marmlon." Many of his literary
friends visited him here. On Sundays
:hey would all, accompanied by the
teveral dogs, go plcknlcklng to some
favorite spot, frequently the ruined
tower of Elibank and there dine In the
pen air.
When his dear old dog. Camp, died.
jcott had been Invited to dine out that
lay, but declined on account of "the
leath of a dear old friend." His most
famous dog was the greyhound,
Malda, who came upon the scene when
e Warerly novels were beginning to
let the world talking. It is Malda
it ho figures at his feet In the well
tnown sculpture by Steel. Washing-
on Irving, during a visit to A boot s-
'ord In 1817, enjoyed the pleasure with
Scott and his dogs. "As we sallied
brth, every dog In the establishment
urned out to attend us; Malda de
ported himself with a gravity beeom-
ng his age and size, while the others
worried him gamboling, frolicking
tnd leaping at his neck. "I have do
loubt," said Scott, "that when Malda
s alone with them he throws gravity
islde and plays the boy as much as
iny of them, but he Is ashamed to do
o In our company.''
In the autumn of 1820 when a large
tarty. Including Sir Humphrey Davy,
r. Wollaston and Henry Mackenzy,
rere starting out with the dogs, a
Ittle black pig was discovered to be
'risking about among the dogs with
he evident Intention of Joining the
arty. "This pig." said Lockhart,
'had formed a strong and most senti
oental attachment to Scott and was
onstantly urging his pretensions to be
dmltted as a regular. I remember
dm suffering under the same perti
laclty on the part of an affectionate
ken."
It Is a sad task for Scott when suit
ing his home to seek health abroad,
vhlch he did not And, to leave his
logs; his last orders were that they
hould be well taken care of.
Invlalble.
Gladys Look at Miss Shapeley, Tom,
ihe ha Just come out with her new
sathmg costume.
Tom (who Is slightly near-sighted)
Well, why don't she put It on. Up To
Date.
Expensive Grade of Refinement.
"Our cook Is so refined."
"Is she?"
"Yes; she has never broken anything
rat our most expensive and artistic
thin." Detroit Free Press.
In traveling along the path of life It's
1 good plan to keep to the right.
It takes a good deal of push to roll up
1 "century" on a cyclometer.
A great deal of the opposition pa
eta express to their Mughttf
THE "PROUD" SPANIARD. I
a. Foraaar Capta n Reaeral of Cuba
that Was Not OvefBcra pnlona.
Aa the question of Spanish good
faith Is prominent In the press these
lays, this pertinent anecdote of the
civil war will be timely. It Is told In
Bullock's Secret Service of the Confed
erate States. Capt. Bullock tells of the
exciting Incidents concerning the free
ing of the rebel ram Stonewall from
the International complications attend
ant on her release from the French
ihlpyard where she was built; how she
n-as watched by the agents of the Fed
eral Government; how she was fol
lowed to Denmark, whither she went
ander the Danish flag; how she was
again followed to Ferrol. Spain, by the
United States ships Niagara and Sacra
mento; how she eluded them there and
ialled for the coast of the United States
with the evident Intent of attacking the
Federal ships, for any one of which
ihe was more than a match, being
;hen the most formidable Ironclad
1 float.
But when the Stonewall, under the
command of Capt. rage, reached Ha
vana In May, 1865, Page learned of the
surrender of Gen. Lee, and soon after
of the capture of Jefferson Davis.
rage's funds were exhausted. The
Confederacy had collapsed. The posi
tion was perplexing. Capt. Tage open
ed negotiations with the Spanish au
thorities at Havana for the surrender
of the ship to them if they would ad
vance the money to pay off the crew.
Capt. Page sent Lieut. Carter to the
captain general to make the arrange
ments. Carter reported that alter five
minutes' conversation the captain gen
eral asked him what sum was required.
Carter replied, $16,000. The captain
general said: "You had better make It
$1(10,000." Carter replied that bis or
ders were to ask $1(1.000. The captain
general then turned to an official and
bade bliu write a document, and then,
turning again to Carter, said: "Shall
we not make It $30,000 T But Carter
obeyed orders and accepted only $16,
000. It Is quite evident that this high of
ficial, the captain general of Cuba, was
attempting to get the Confederate
naval officer to ask for $100,000 to pay
off his crew, when he needed only $16.
000, the dlfferer -e to be divided be
tween them. When the Confederate of
ficer absolutely refused to accept either
$100,000 or $.V),000, but only the exact
sum needed. It Is evident that the cap
tain general concluded thnt the Ameri
can was a fool, and charged up $KH),
000 to the Spanish Government and
put $84,000 in his pocket. This throws
a strong light on Spanish fluauclul
honor.
The New York Public Library.
It Is stated In the bulletin of the New
York public library that the total num
ber of periodicals and transactions of
societies to which the library Is sub
scribing for the year 1SI8 Is 2.502. Of
these 4S3 are American, 4!7 British,
5!5 French, 000 German, 125 Italian, 3(5
Scandinavian, 27 Belgian, 10 Dutch and
12 Russian. During the calendar year
ending Dec. 31, 181)7,- the total number
of volumes received by purchase was
16.098, and by gift 10.123, making a
total of 26.226. The total number of
volumes catalogued and accessioned
during the same period was 20,71)2. Tb
number of pamphlets actually received
during the year, by purchase, was 10,
a50; by gift, 40,247, and the total num
tier catalogued and accessioned was
13,274. The total number of cards writ
ten during the year was 156.U25. In
addition to this, 15,404 slips from the
printer were written, and for each of
these slips five printed cards were ob
tained. The total number of cards In
the index catalogue, which was open to
readers, on the 31st of December, 18S7,
nt the Astor branch was about 80.000,
at the Lenox branch It was 27.800.
The total number of readers during the
year was 103.384, and the number of
volumes called for by readers' slips,
outside of those taken from the free
reference shelves, was 304,460. Scien
tific American.
Qnrer Bequest of a Gambler.
A citizen of Kbarkoff, Russia, re
cently purchased a statue of Apo'lo
Belvedere, which one of his children
soon afterward overturned and broke.
Out of Its hollow interior rolled a little
bundle which, on being opened, was
found to contain Russian bank notes
to the value of 3,000 roubles, together
with a declaration of one Chevalier
Irlonun Prokheroff to the effect that
the monev contained in the handker
chief was the proceeds of his gambling
transactions, and was designed to build
a church. The slip bore a date in the
year 1840. It Is supposed, therefore,
that the owner died suddenly and thus
was unable to carry out his pious de
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According to the Atchison (liolie
VlH-kn (Kan.) physician recently sent u
-ill to a private at Camp lee for
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-lunge was for damages to his clothes
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Nearly 40 per cent, of the population
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Asia is the largest continent, having
16,000,000 square miles.
Fiso's Cure cared me of a Throat and Luna
trouble of three roars' standina. 1C CADX.
Huntington, Ind., Nov. is, ISM.
Ostrich eggs weigh about three and a
half pounds each.
. & Parker, Frwlnnta, V. Y., says: "Shall
not call on you for tits (101 reward, for I be
lieve Hull's Ctttarr't Cure will cure any ea-ieot
eatarrh. Wae very bad." Write him tor aar
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let Down Bass'.
CHerk I bare been In your employ
now going on five years, and I am get
Ing the same salary I started with.
Proprietor 1 know it, but every time
that I've made up my mind to cut yon
down or discharge yon something baa
reminded me of your wife and little
ones at home, and so I Just couldn't do
H. There, my man, yon aee I have s
heart as well as a head.
A man isn't always to blame fot
thinking more of kls typewriter than
aa 6am at his wtfiK he csa Oftst U
tM UfwwlUsst
; eggjgMMT!'na
Wotne la Baalaeas.
front the Frte Prt, Detroit, Mich.
A prominent business man recently ex.
pressed the opinion that there Is one thing
that will prevent women from completely
filling man's place In the business world
they can't be dapended upon because they
are alok too often. This Is refuted by Mra.
O. W. Mansfield, a business woman of 68
Farrar St., Detroit, Mich., who saya:
"A complication of female ailments kept
ma a wake nights and wore me oat. I could
get no relief from medicine and hope was
slipping away from me. A young lady la
my employ gave me a box of Dr. Wi llliama'
Pink Pills for Pale People. Itooktbem
and was able to rest at night for the first
time In months. I bought more and took
them anf they cared me as they also eared
several other people to my knowledge. I
think that If you should ask any of the drug
gists of Detroit, who are the best buyers of
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills they would say the
young women. These pills certainly build
np the nervons system and many a young
woman owes ber life to them.
"As a business woman I am pleased to
recommend
them as
they did
more for
me than any
physic lan
and I can
give Dr.
Williams'
Pink Pills
for Pal
People'
credit for'
mv mineral
irood health 4c
to-day." fiuoviraly FrottraUd.
No discovery of modern times has done
so mnoa to enable women to take their
proper place In life by safe-guarding their
health as Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale
People. Acting directly on the blood and
nerves. Invigorating the body, regulating
the functions, they restore the strength
and health to the exhausted woman wnen
every effort, of the physician proves una
vailing. For the growing Klrl tbey are of the
greatest benefit, for the mother Indispensa
ble, for every woman In valuable.
For paralysis, locomotor ataxia, and
other diseases long supposed Incurable,
these pills have proved their efficacy in
thousands of eases.
British Admiralty Red Tape.
Every one who bas to do with the
admiralty la familiar with amusing
tales of the glorification of red tape.
Here la the rery latost. Some time ago
a workman in one of the dock yards
lost a government candlestick, valued
at a few pence. This was considered
sufficient excuso for a report by the lo
cal officials to Whitehall. A long cor
respondence of the approved govern
ment office type ensued, and It Is esti
mated that not less than five pounds
was spent In the officials' time, ink and
paper. After every aspect of the case
had been weighed, the workmaii was
directed to puy the local officials the
sum of five pence, being the value set
upon this particular candlestick. Of
course, if the man had been In private
employment, little or no notice would
have been taken of such a triviality, or,
at most, lie would have paid his fore
man the value, without any red tape
Ism. Brawty Is Blood Deep
Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it.Cascarets.Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean.by
stirring up the lar.y liver nd driving ail
impurities from the body. Ilepin to-day to
oaiiiMl ihi'itb, "1...-.. ' -------
heads, on, I that sirklv billons complexion
by takingCarcaret lieauty for ten cents.
All orupRISlS, Hlisia-wimiii uui . w,
Kf, '6c, 60c.
The Taris Temps says thct tt the last
ineeiiiti; - ...
Sciences M Masi-art announced, on toenail
... .: ..r I vni.iii ai-fltipniv oi
i.f the lliissian tieneral enukoU, tna. a
in: g ietic xl had been discovered at
koichetova.. a village in the province of
Kiuii-sk. in ltussia. At a certain spot in
the village the dipping needle takes
vertical position.
k . rf .awa A .11
cus dlteaae retanaiM-ntly cured by the ae
.r. kill." Great Naive Kesterer. Send for
1 KKK tt. trial bottle and trealtfe te Dr. a- ta
klma. Lid., Ml Arch Street, fblla Pa.
I liiim h Sweden's first railroad was
-lientil but forty three years ago, that
....iifiii-v now lias more ntiiwua, to t-.v
portion to its population, than any other
country in r.uroH. i ney "-
,artly ly tlie Slate ami p.imjr i.j j.i
corporations.
Toa't Tobacco Slt sal Smoke Toar Lift Away
To quit totiarro easily and forever, be aa
relic, full of life, nerve and ior. take Ro-To-
. . 1 ,!.. an.k . . K .
f-ac, IIW , (.nun i . -
Uronf. Alldrumtists. Slicor l. t ure suaraa-K-cd.
I'ooklel and sample liee. AdtlreaJ tiler
ii.f Itemed jr Co.. Ihit-ailo or Ne York-
, i .... I.. I,. lu, tli, most densely
populated city in the world In certain
....... lut. ,,f itiliuliitattts is 7ti'
.ireas urn hi- --- .
to the acre, and in these sections the
:trAt area onlv occupies one ioui in ui
the whole.
Mrs. Wlnslnw's Soothing 1-yrnp for children
tcethlnc, soHens tlie funn reducing Innainni; -tlou.
alfayt pain, cuies wind colic, it, a boltiu
Cermanv-s debt lias Increased from
lUiinO.OOO "marks in 1S77 and nearly 50,-
non.l'iKi marks m iw to i,hi.iw v-v m.j
it the present time, inn inoeoieune!-
itill steadily going np. and the country
will soon lie" aide to point with pride to a
national debt of the highest class, scien
tiiically ad justed to the capjcity of the
H-ople to bear it.
No-To-Bac For Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure makai weak
men" ufVblood pure. 40c. 1. All drufglstt.
The Germans are now making artificial
teeth of paper. The ne grinders are
aid to le not brittle, tojretain their
color and to be lighter than china teeth,
.ind they do not melt in the mouth.
lot lire a Coin in tine I ay.
1 ake Laxative Bromo Q' inine Tab'ets. AI
IiruKKtsta refund mom y if Itfailstocnre. X
. , i r . ..nnalt, .mnrtMl
.Spain nas nereioiuin ...i.....j . -- -to
this country about $2,000.00" worth of
.ranges, nuts, raisins and wines. tins
year this trade will be supplied by the
people, of California and Florida.
Kdocate toar Bowel. With Caacarats.
l dv Cathartic, rare constipation forever
, :;. If C. C. C. fall, druMlats refund money
Thoughtful to the last "Didn't your
ibscoiiding cashier leave you any mes
sane?" "les; ne ien ..... ...
I...X transferring to me oi uo.u-k "
U-rship in a Don't Worry club." Chicago
Hecord.
Ban Distilled Water.
M. Mouchon Is said to hare con
structed a really practical solar ma
chine for the purpose of distilling wa
ter In regions where a supply for
drinking cannot easily be obtained.
The apparatus Is portable, being car
ried en the back of a man without
trouble. It will distill two and a half
quarts an hour, or two gallons a day,
enough to supply six or eight men. In
Egypt, India and certain other parts
of the world campaigning Is rendered
much more difficult by lack of drink
ing water, and a contrivance of this
sort Is likely to be of the utmost value,
furnishing the essential fluid In a
healthful state and enabling the sol
diers to cook their food rapidly. In
some countries It Is out of the ques
tion to get good drinking water.
Never Seen There.
She And what business are yon In,
Mr. le SkuIUon?
He I am a poet
She Oh, how lovely t But I wondet
how It happens that I bare never seen
any of your poems In print 1
He I write only for the magazines.
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CHILDREN'S C0LU11N.
A DEPARTMENT FOR LITTLE
BOYS AND GIRLS.
Boaaethlnx that Will Interest the J
weaUe Vlaaabera of IT vers- uaaw.
-QsuUat Actloa aad Brlcht Baylnc
mt afaauy Cats aad CaausUw ChUdreav.
trtum mv na comes home feelin' good.
An after splittin' np some wood
Bets down beside the Are an' smokes.
An' talks about "Elvlry's folks"
Elviry's ma "an" good ol days,"
I jest sneaks np to him an' says,
"Say, pa, I've been a wlshin'
'At you would let me go a-fiahin ,
Well, he laffs then an slaps his knee.
An' says: "That boy is Jest like me;
I'd rather fish 'en eat, I guess
00 on a fishin' sonny, yes;
Fore breakfast, though what luck 1
had
Say, boy, yer can't ontfish yer dadr
An I says, then, "Well, I guess not.
But I jest think I'll try a lot.
Well, then, I go to bed right smart
To wake np fer an early start;
An' oh, what dreams 1 have that nlghtl
1 fish an' fish, an' every bite
Rrinira nn a whale, until my string
Of fish is Just the longest thing!
An' then I get a railroad train
To haul them fish back home again.
Sometimes I dream of ketchln' tons
Of giugerhrend and sugar buns,
Er hshin' from a slippery bank
Of 'lasses candy by a tank
Of lemonade; an' so, 'y jing,
I dream I ketch jest everything.
An' then pa wakes me up with, "Say,
It's 8 o'clock no fish to-day 1"
Chicago Itecord.
Bread and Point.
"I wish you'd go around by the gro
cery, Mattie," said Mis. Gray, "and
ask Mr. Brown to send up three pounds
of butter."
"I dou't believe Sarah will want to
go that way," thought Mattie, as he ran
off to meet her schoolmate, who was
waving to ber from the opposite cor
ner.
"Let's hurry," said Sarah at once,
aud we'll have time to play hop-ecoteh
before the bell rings."
Therer exclaimed Mattie, "I knew
you wouldn't want to go to Brown's."
"Can't you go there on the way
home 7" asked Sarah.
"Yes, I guess It w 111 do Just as well."
And Mattie kept on toward school.
At noon her mother asked If she for
got her errand.
"I have just been to the store," said
Mattie.
"The butter won't be sent up till af
ternoon If you didn't go before school,
and there Isn't enough for lunch," said
her mother. "I'm afraid you'll have to
eat great-grandmother's bread and
point, because you didn't do what I ask
ed you."
When they sat down to the table the
potatoes were baked to a turn, and the
muffins looked so brown and crips and
tempting that Joe exclaimed, "Spell
clous! This Is better than geometry I"
"Joe, you may have what butter there
Is," said Mrs. Gray, "and Mattie may
have the butter-knife."
"What do I want of the butter-knife,"
said Mattie, crossly, "If I can't have
anything on my muffins, and only salt
an my potatoes? I'd rather have great
grandmother's bread and point. I
s'pose that's some kind of jam. Isn't
It?"
Mrs. Gray smiled, "When great
grandmother was a little girl," she
said, "and didn't do as she was told.
I've heard that her mother used to give
her ouly bread for supper, and point the
butter-knife at it."
"That's a queer dish," said Joe, aa h
buttered his second potato; "it wouldn't
do for boys."
But Mattie didn't say one word,
Youth's Companion.
Little People of Other Day.
Since the beginning of time much In
terest has been manifested In little peo
ple. By "little people" Is not meant the
small boys and girls, but those men
and women upon whose growth nature
has placed an embargo and turned
them Into dwarfs.
When speaking of dwarfs American
children naturally think of Tom
Thumb, but there were many noted
dwarfs long before Tom's time, bow
ever. Perhaps the most illustrious of
these was Poupee, a great favorite of
Peter the Great This remarkable lir
tie woman was about three feet tall,
and was bright, lively and vivacious.
The great emperor was not above the
plebeian game of matchmaking, and
he arranged a marriage between Pou
pee and another of his well-known
dwarf subjects. The wedding, histor
ians tell us, was a brilliant affair. A
fine feast was prepared, and all th
dwarfs In the empire were gathered to
gether and Invited to be present Pou
pee lived to be 102 years old, which li
a great age for a dwarf, moat of whom
die young.
Another mucb-noted dwarf was
Amies Clows, an Englishman. Clows
was three and one-half feet high and
lived to be 103 years old. Jeffrey Ilud
son, who belonged to Queen Henrietta
Maria and King Charles I., also
achieved much notoriety during the sixty-three
years of his eventful life. Up
to the time he was 80 Jeffrey was ex
ceedingly smalL After that he began
to grow, and In a little while reached
the height of three feet. Mr. nudaon
was as blustering and daring as any
gentleman measuring six reet or more
might be, his hardihood even going so
far as to lead him into fighting a duel.
This feat he performed sitting on
horseback, that he might be the same
height as his opponent The dwarfs
hand was steady and his eye was true,
d he fatally wounded hia antagonist
A former duke of Milan made a fad of
collecting dwarfs. He kept a number
of them In his palace, and had little
rooms six feet high and eight feet
square built for their especial use. Per
haps the smallest race of people now
known to ns Is the bushmen of Aus
tralia, whose average height Is four and
one-half feet
Children's Cote Sayings.
"Do you like candy, mamma r asked
4-year-old Bessie. "No, dear," was the
reply, "It Always makes me sick." "I'd
awful glad of it," said the little miss;
"you're Just the woman I want to bold
my candy while I dress dollle."
"Why, Freddie," exclaimed the moth,
er of precocious 8-year-old, "aren't
you ashamed to call auntie stupid? Ga
to her nt one and tell her yon are veW
sorry." "Auntie," said the Mttle fello
teir nammta later, "I'm awful som
j oo are m tonioV'
m ag th fa.
I Arajfc
The "Ivory" is a favorite shaving soap because it
makes a profuse rich lather, which softens the beard to
be removed and leaves the skin unharmed.
It costs about one-fifth as much as the so-called
shaving soaps and many who have used it for this pur
pose for years, will not have any other.
The vegetable oils of which Ivory Soap is made, fit it
for many special uses for which other soaps are unsafe or
unsatisfactory.
a WORD OF WARNING Thara an auay wane soaps, each represented to be
-tat a. good as th. Ivory';" y ARE NOT. but Ilka all cm.erfelt. Uck th.
pulUanTrU-rkaN. quaWS of . !. Ask for "ivory" Soap ana ln,l,t
end little Mabel, aged 4, who had been
playing with some neighboring chil
dren, rushed into the house and throw
tag herself across her mother's lap, ex
claimed: "Oh. mamma; take off some
of my clothes! I'm a whole petticoat
too hotr
"Now, children," said the Sunday
school teacher of the Juvenile class,
"our lesson to-day tells ns of the pow
ers possessed by kings and queens.
Can any of you name a still greater
power?" "Tes'm; I can." replied one
little fellow. "What Willie T' asked
the teacher. "Aces," was the unexpect
ed answer.
Jennie, aged 4, had been poking at
the grate fire and burned a bole In her
dress. "You must not do that, Jennie."
said her mother, "or you'll catch fire
arid burn up, and there will be nothing
left of you but a little pile of ashes.
Then what would mamma do?" "Oh,"
replied Jennie, "I suppose you would
call Bridget and tell her to sweep up
the ashes."
Little Harry was in the habit of end
ing his prayers every night witB a re
quest for a baby brother to piny with,
but nt last he gave up In despair. A
few weeks later his mother called hhn
and showed him twin babies. He looked
at them In wonder for a moment and
exclaimed: "Well, It's a mighty lucky
thing I stopped praying, or we might
have got thrcef
Stock Rnlalna and Beeta.
In all countries where the sugar beet
made a specialty much considera
tion is given the value of the beets as
cattle food; that Is, the residuum, af
ter the sugar is extracted. By feeding
stock In connection with the growing
of the beets for sale to the factory, car
rying home the pulp for stock food, the
farmers' opiortunlties from the grow
ing of beets are Increased. Experi
ments In Pennsylvania show that the
yields of beets range from ten to fif
teen tons per acre, and the average
amount of sugar to exceed 12 per cent.
The farmer will have to contend wtth
wet and dry reasons, and his profits
will be more some years than during
others, but It is believed that farmers
have neglected the beet as an Import
ant food for cattle. Independently of
its use as a source for procuring sugar,
not that the beet Is as valuable as
grain, but because farmers will find a
larger increase In production from
cattle by reason of the feeding of suc
culent food, and although there Is
some preparation required for all
kinds of roots before feeding them to
stock, such labor Is unnecessary when
the beet pulp from the factories Is
used, the combination of the pulp with
grain giving better results than when
beets or grain are fed separately.
Philadelphia Record.
When the pot calls the kettle black it
time for the kettle to demand an In
vestigation aa to the color of the pot.
lewey'a Suit.
I hey say Admiral Dewey Is a regu
lar dude, and that he has fifty different
suits of clothes."
"Yes. I read about them somewhere
but I guess he must have 1,-rt all but
Ms fighting st.lt behind when he start
ed for Munila."
A fas tYiam TlT.JJt
"Why did yon say no the first time 1
asked you to be miner'
"I wanted to guard against the dan
ger of becoming the wife of a man who
had no perseverance.'
Some men are never sntlsfle
main at the bottom of the ZTer
always try to get farther dott '
Some orators are given to natural Kail
balloon ascensions. "
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A Montana Herd of Buffalo.
A. B. Hammond, of the Astoria rail,
road, has presented the Oregouinn with
a photograph of a band of bufTulo
which are the property of a couj.le of
half-breed Indians on the Flathead res
ervation, near Missoula, Mont. The
original herd eleven years ago consist
ed of a couple of buffalo calves. It
now consists of 125 bead and is about
all that are left of the vast numbers
which a few years ago swarmed over
the Western plains. These men have
gone into the buffalo raising buslw-ss
as a source of profit and are making
money.
Mixed.
She How are things in Manila, any.
way?
Ue What do you mean?
She Oh, excuse me. You sat thve
silent for so long that I got to thinking
you were with Dewey and that the
cable was still cut
The shower that spoils a woman's
new bonnet Is a rain of terror.
Lazy liver
I have been troubled a great deal
With a torpid liver, wblrb produces concilia
tion. I found CASCaRETS to be all you claim
fortbem.and secured such relief the first trlaj
that I purchased another supply and waa con
pletely cured. I shall only be too glad to rec
ommend Cascarets whenever the opportunity
la presented." J. A. Smith.
2920 Susquehanna Ave., Philadelphia, Pa
CANDY
vaaoiauMa
Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste GoM. Dc
Good, Merer Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. KV. 20c.au
... CURE CONSTIPATION. ...
Wnnas aaiaj Calnea. Haatml. K Tt. n
W. Til. RIP Sold and rnaranteed by all 1ra
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MRS. WINSLOW'S
SOOTHING SYRUP
baa been awfl by villtciia of mother fortbclr
children wbila Teetatna (or oa fifty Tiara
It aootbea the child, aortena the fum. allays
all pain, cures wind ooUe, aod la tae best
reme.1v fardlorrhnsa.
Twenty-eve casts a Bauis.
THE BEST PLACE TO BUY
Fine Singing Canaries, Mock 1 tig Prda,
Talking i'mrrota aad mil other Fancy
Cage Birds, Fine Bred Foh-1s. fancy
Pigeons, GOLDFISH tnd lobes. TM
largest and best selected stock of Brut
class Goods st low pricesy send for Cat;
lognes. Birds can he delivered to all
parts safely by express.
N. W. VftHLC. IIS Market St., S B. Sth tt,
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Late Principal Ex&mlner U.S. Penaion Hurr.u.
J jrraiu but war, Ua4juuicaiuigclauus, atu uuca,
The Love Affair of a Diplomat.
Ah, yes," said Mrs. Ilauitms. "war
Is dreadful. How well I remember tl
gloomy days we had whenever our
brave soldiers lost a bnttle during the
reliellion. Why, it was as if every fam
ily uau neen personally nnllctcU."
"I'm surprised to hear you say that,"
exclaimed William Wimbledon. "I ilhlu'l
i suppose you were old enough to rcim-ui-ber
nnvthinir iiliont tlie civil war."
I lp to that time Willie's attention to
. Oernldlne Hatnlius had not been looked
upou with favor by her mother, but tu
j young man has won out
Ferguson It says here that no for.
elgner is allowed to be forty-eight
your on iiirKlsli territory without a
.pass. Nixon It must be tough on the
niruaus mat Have to Issue them.-
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