THE CAPTAIN'S BOY. My papa come borne yesterday and said to mamma he Had just not word to start away and help art Cuba free. My mamma looked at him awhile and went up to his aide, 'And took hia hands and tried to smile, but couldn't so ine cried. My papa's captain of the Blues they're soldier boys, you know, 'And so we're been expecting news that be would hare to go, And every night my mamma tried to show she didn't care; But through the day she cried and cried, when papa wasn't there. And so when papa saw bow bad she felt, he kissed her then. And told her not to be so sad, for he'd come back again. And then we all sat there awhile, and pupa looked at me I wisht they was some other style of set ting people free. "Why must you go away to fight? my mamma said, at last; "I don't believe that war is right the day for that is past I Why must they call on you, for oh, what wrong have you to battle for? Why don't they just hare people go who got the country into war?" "I haven't anything to say about the wrong or right," My papa said, "I go away, when they tell me to, and fight; I'm not supposed to think or know all I have got to do la take up arms at once and go, when others tell me to." My mamma covered up her face and had to cry again. And everything about the place seemed kind of solemn, then. And so we all sat there awhile, and papa looked at me. And I wisht they was some other style of setting people free. Cleveland Leader. THE RETURN OF ULYSSES. JOSEPH BIXX3 walked rapidly away. Excitement reddened his cheeks. ills eyes glittered. Gradually the mood worked off, his Btcps slackened, and he sighed hard from Lime to time. lie and his Anne had married too young, ile acknowledged the wrong to his wife, and when earning good wages across the seas sent money home to her. Hut his letter came back through the dead l.-tter office. He walked along the winding lane, not heeding his way. He never thought of Anne as an old wo man, nearly as old a-s himself. He could see her in his mind's eye as she ap peared In their, courting days. A prut tier l.i sh there had not been in the whole country side. Fleet as a deer, timid as a fawn, with soft blue eyes, and such pretty fluffy hair. Sweethearts had plagued her enough, but she flout ed them all for Joe's sake. Then how pretty she had looked when her baby came. He had taken off his boots and crept In on tiptoe to see them. She was lying back on her pillow, her arm round a little bundle of clothes. Her face was white, but lighted with such a lieautlful smile, he could think of nothing but a picture he had once seen of the Mother Mary and the Holy Child. The peevish moods, the fretful baby were all later developments, and he had not been patient, Ood forgive hinil the girl was only 20 when he loft her! What a fool he had been! The night advanced. One by one the stars came out and the glow-worms shone in the grass below the hawthorn hedge. All nature seemed nearer to the heart of God. The old man felt himself drawn into ehe mystery of that magic stillness. A soft, an overwhelm ing sense of something he had missed through all his life took possession of him. He lifted his wliite, lined face to the starlit sky of the summer night. "Our Father," he whispered, "Our Father which art in heaven, so help nie I will find her anil do my duty by her till I die." He went on talking to him self under his breath for a few minutes, 'then he gripped his stick, squared his shoulders like an old soldier, and marched steadily ahead Into the dark ness. A few days later Lucy Haws set out to pay another visit to her uncle. She walked slowly as she approached a tiny cottage standing back from the lane behind a low briar hedge. The diamoud-paned casements were bare, the door nailed up, the garden gate broken on Its hinges. An air of neglect and desolation pervaded the little dwelling place. Peering over the hedge with keen curiosity was a man, whom Lucy at first glance took for a tramp. She could have vowed he was crying when she first looked at his side face, but when he turned at her approach there was such eagerness and hope in his whole mein that she thought she was mistaken. "Can you tell me who lived here, miss?" he asked, touching his hat po liteJy. "Yes, certainly," said the girl; "old Widow Jones. Poor thing, she's in the Union now, and there's none to look after her bit of garden. It's In a bad state. She'd fret awful to see it" "Is It maybe the Widow Jones that was once known as Anne Binns?" be asked, after a quick look over the hedge at the bit of garden. "Tes, but that was years ago, before 1 was born; but folks have been talking a great deal nlxiut her lately." Again the man stared over the hedge. Lucy liked the look of him, and waited for hitu to siak again. But he seeiiici, to have forgotten she was there, s after a last speculating look at hi white hair and tall figure she went o: her way. Joseph Biuns walked up the path an round the cottnire. peepintr In at th "!!!!. iv. I. 1 f"l i' He !!-, v the neglectefr garden, and thought ham for some time. Then he proceeded to the Tillage and hired a small bedroom for a week. When he was going to bed that night he pulled his blind down, and looked carefully to sec there no chink or crack through which his movements could be observed. Then he began to undress. He wore a moleskin waistcoat, bare with age but still warm and thick. He put the garment across his knee and ripped the lining up the center. After this he thrust in his hand and drew on: some rustling papers, which he flat tened out and fingered separately wltl tender care. Joseph Binns bad beet, wise In his generation. "My poor old girl she shall hare 'em all," he muttered. "I'll do the thlnf proper and pretty. My word, little Anne won't know herself." It was pathetic how he still cherished tlio idea of youth In respect to the wo man he was seeking. The village had delightful food fo; gossip during the next week. A stranger took possession of WIdov Jones' empty cottage, and each da; brought with it some wonderful tram formation. The garden was laid on. the window cleaned and decorated, tiit I gate mended, the room eor ebbed us) colored. The climax was reached when a big cart of piled-up furniture drew tap In the lane. Then the neighbors came flocking with offers to kelp, bnt Joseph Blnni admitted no one into his house but Lucy Haws. He had to make g con fidant of some one. and Lucy bad taken his fancy. At last all was ready. The cottage was fit for a bride to enter, Lucy clapped her hands with delight oe heart swelled wlttt proud exWtaiqoa and anticipation. A hare of rent fot the waning years of his Mfe With tn old sweetheart of his youth. Not a cloud should mar their happiness. "And now go right away, as quick as ever you can, and fetch her home," said the girl, with a catch In her voice, as she helped the old man Into hia coal and gave him his hat The old man was trembling with emo tion. A pony and cart were waiting In the lane. He got In and drove quietly away in the direction of a large gray building standing out against the hill some three miles distant from the Til lage. The porter came out from the lodge. "This isn't visiting day," was the gratuitous remark before Joseph Binns in his excited mood could frame a re quest. "I've come to fetch some one" ha brought out the words with difficulty "some one who doesn't need to have to stop here any longer. I'm her lawful husband and want to take her away. Anne Jones is her name Widow Jones, that was Anne Binns." Again the porter stared at the old man, then he looked away and said In an even voice Told of expression: "Anne Jones, known as Widow Jones, died at 6 o'clock this morning.. Cor oner's inquest 'morrow at 'leven, f un'ral at 3." The old man stood quiet and motion less. The sun beat fiercely down on the white gates. The clock In the tower began to strike, and each stroke rang out like a funeral knell. The horse be tween the shafts turned Its head and stared with almost human eyes on the statue-like figure of the aged man. And when the clock stopped striking there rose from the golden corn across the road the thrilling song of a soaring lark, which flew towards the sun tin only a tiny speck showed darkly against the blue of heaven. The Englishwoman. OLD-TIME ENGAGEMENTS. Sonne Woman Moat Always Wear the Picture of Her Future Huaband. For Helen Livingston there remained hardly one more year of happy girl hood, free to go and come, dance and be merry. In the old innocent girlish fashion; for at that time betrothal was gs sacred as marriage itself, and much more restrictive of privileges. That is, the freedom of girlhood was lost, and that of the matron had not come. If the lover were present, of course these restrictions were not felt, but in his absence the poor girl had little more lila-rty than a Hindu widow. She must not accept even the most ordin ary attentions from any man, must dance with no one except her father or brother, and she must always wear, conspicuously displayed banging from her neck, face outward, the miniature of her future husband. These miniatures were often skillful ly painted in Ivory, and were usually oval in shape, and about three and a half Inches by two and a half In size, without counting the gold frames, which were sometimes quite heavy. The broad remarks which It was con sidered in order for even the chance ac quaintance to address to the fiance upon sight of this badge of appropria tion were intolerable to Helen Living ston, and rather than subject herself to tbem she resolutely refrained from accepting an invitation even to her loved "Cousin Chancellor's" during the few months of her engagement, which ended in a happy marriage In the spring of 1809. On one occasion, when a large and most interesting company of American and foreign guests was expected at Clermont, Helen vainly sought her mother's permission to attend without wearing the tell-tale portrait. Finding that this would not be allowed, and realizing that her sister's disappoint ment would be great, "Sister Patty," only 13, but already taH and stately, heroically volunteered to wear the ob noxious picture, personating Its right ful owner. But the innocent fraud was not permitted, and as Helen would not go If obliged to wear the miniature she was compelled to relinquish the covet ed pleasure. Of course the boy lover he was barely 21 was In no way re siionsible for this custom, which he subsequently often, and Justly, charac terized as odious; and I think that h never liked to see the miniature which had been the means of depriving ol ever so small a pleasure the woman whom he Idolized through a long life. "A Group of American Girls Early In the Century," by Helen Evertson Smith, In the Century. The White wanaa." In some parts of Germany, particu larly in Bohemia, some most extraordi nary tales are reported of the "white woman." This celebrated ghost Is sup posed to represent a woman of very modest appearance, excessively tali, and her dresa entirely white. She Is never seen without a very long Tell reaching nearly to her ankles, and which is of such an Impervious natu that no person has ever been able to obtain a glimpse of her features. On one single occasion, however. It Is re ported that she condescended to lift up her veil, when such a blaze of beauty burst upon the astonished beholder that he was actually rooted to the spot for a considerable time. The lady never leaves her subterranean or her celestial abode bnt for the charitable purpose of Informing an Individual of ap proaching death. Thus It Is very com mon to say In some part of Germany "the white ' womaV has visited him, meaning thereby that all hopes are vanished of a recovery, and there are not a few In that country who pay lit tle or no attention to the declaration of the physician respecting the immediate dissolution of the patient until It has been ascertained whether the white woman has paid her foreboding visit. , A Narrow Beoape. "Doctor," said the substantial citi zen, as he rushed up to the young phy sician, "I owe you my life!" "Ehr "Yes. I was taken suddenly 111 two days ago and my wife sent for yon and you were not In." The average man's head contains ibout 128,000 hairs. A woman often has more, but many of them are not indigenous. One of the surest ways to make tistake is ; permit an "agent" to our name In his schema, THEY -VANT TO TELL Tb.030 Grateful 'Woman Who Have 2 jca Ltolpod by Mrs. V'r ;:hftm. Women who have suffered severely snd been relieved of their ills by Mrs. Tinkham's advice and medicine are constantly urging publication of their statements for the benefit of other wo men. Here are two such letters: Mrs. Lizzib BaVEnxv, 25s Merrimac St, Lowell, Mass., writes: It affords me great pleasure to tell all suffering women of the benefit I have roccived from taking Lydia E. Pink hain's VeetableCompouud. I can hard ly find words to express my gratitude for what she has done for me. My trouble was ulceration of the womb. Iwasun dor the doctor's care. Upon examina tion he found fifteen very large ulcers, but he failed to do me good. I took sev eral bottlesof Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound, also used the Sanative Wash, and am cured. Mrs. Pinkham's medicine saved my life, and I would recommend it to all suffering women." . Mrs. Amos Tjomblbat, Ellcnburgh Ctr., N. Y.. writes: " I took cold at the time my baby was born, causing me to have milk legs, and was sick in bed for eight weeks. Doctors did me no good. I surely thought I would die. I was al to troubled with falling of the womb. I could not cat, had faint spells as often as ten times a day. One day a lady caine to see me and told me of the benefit she bad derived from taking Lydia E. Pinkham's medicine, and ad vised me to try it. I did so, and bad taken only half a bottle before I was able to sit in a chair. After taking three bottles I could do my own, work. I am now in pcrfeet health." RAM'S HORN BLASTS. V.'a ilas Note Culling the Wicked te Kcpentance. DVERSITY has sharp teeth. Talent Is un minted gold. Society smiles are counterfeit. Meditntlon Is a tonic for poor memory. Gosiel bullets never reach the ! mark without fire ' behind them. About the best 1 tvater-proor ror an ainns oi earner is a clear conscience. Make your trials stepping stones to a higher Christian life. The man who confesses his Ignorance Is on the road to wisdom. To say no to self is a very good way fo put the devil behind us. Do your best to-day and you will be aide to do better to-morrow. We must live for Christ here If we n-ould live with him hereafter. When every shirker becomes a work er, the devil will soon be on the run. To murry for money may turn out to be like going to the hornet for honey. The tears of genuine repentance are ho sparkling dewdrops of life's morn ing. It Is a great accomplishment to know how to make the best of life as lt- iomcx God can only bring those Into a large place who are willing to go by a nar row way. The devil's claws are as sharp undet white gloves as they are under black mittens. More good will le sure to come If we are grateful for the good that has al ready come. Call the devil by his right name any where and you will soon have a fuss on your bunds. Human nature Is about as sure to rrop out in a collection as It Is In a horse trade. The man who prays, "Thy kingdom oine" with his heart, will have to pray it with his life. THE OLD CLOCK RAN DOWN. It Had Stopped but Twice, om Two Very tad Occasions. He bod sent for his old mother to come and spend the holidays with him and bis fashionable wife in their fine city home. After much urging she had consented to a week's visit, telling hlia she would explain why she limited the time wnen she saw him. It was a queer excuse, and it made him laugh, but it was very real to her. "Maybe you don't remember, Dan'l," she said, "'but the old clock has to be wound up every eight days, and no other band but father's ever wound that clock. Since he died I've never once neglected it. Now you see I couldn't possibly stay." He wanted to say, "Let the old thing run down," but something la her face slopped him. He felt as if It would be talking disrespectfully of his father. He gave bis mother the choice ef all the gticst chambers and she chose the plainest "It will be more like home," she said. It dawned upon him the third day of her visit that his mother was not hap pythat she missed something. "It can't be the clock," he thought. "It doesn't need winding yet." But it was the clock, and when he taxed her with undue affection for that antique piece of furniture she acknowl edged how much she missed It. " 'Specially at night. Daa'L When I hnur the clocks striking here 1 think of that poor, lonesome thing striking the hours with nobody to hear. It does make me homesick, I'm afraid." Then she told him what he had for gottenthat she could tell when the sun and moon rose and what day ef Via month it was by the self -regulating cal endar of that clock, and hew It ex plained the whole solar system, and that the deeds to their property and all his father's letters to her had alwaya been kept In the bottom of the dock, and It had never in all their united Uvea stopped but once, and that was the night father died. No one could tell how It happened, for It had been wound up. And then she cried softly, and her grown-up boy comforted her. The next morning when they went tn call her she lay asleep with the sweet est smile on her tranquil face, bnt she never responded to their calL The clock had ran down. Chicago Timea-HeraldV Written- osi Trains. The rolling stock of German state railroads has been provided with an appliance which wW enable passengers on board a train to write without diffi culty, and regardless of the motion of the train. The new appliance consists f a board suspended tram the celling of the car by strong bat elastic cords, which win prevent the vibration of the i moving train mm nuensrag with the NATIVE COREAN COSTUMES. i hey Wear Tlttckly Tedded ! tockinse All Miitmrr. Cores Is the land of white garments ttnd black hats. All the men In this iuntry, except coolies, wear either white or blue long flowing gowns. Cot ion and silk goods are worn la winter tud linen and hemp In summer. Dur ing the last several years a great deal of silk has been Imported, both from China and Japan, the nettre article be ing of little value. The ordinary street gown generally lias three broad flaps, one ef which hangs down the back and the other two In front overlap each other, then are tied with a pair of leng ribbons of the same material. The flaps reach within a few Inches ef the ground. The gown has very wide and long sleeves, In each of which one might carry a baby without Its being noticed, and they are long enough to conceal the Land completely, while an extension ef the sleeve reaches almost as low as the flaps above mentioned. Another gown ef the same pattern, except with short er and narrower sleeves, Is always worn under the first. But persons In the Government service. Including all uemltera ef the nobility, wear a gown having from one to three large flaps, which are broad toward the ends. This gown, with the exception of its sleeves. Is more like the dress of an American girl of 12 or 14. It Is alwaya mado of fine goods, well starched, and on Windy days Its flaps sod sleeves create quite a fluttering and rustling noise In the streets. The winter coats and trou sersthe latter always white are very large and heavily padded with cotton. A most singular thing Is that the hose worn J)y Coreans are always thickly padded In summer as well as In Winter; consequently, every one seems te have thick and large feet, although quite the contrary is true. The ordinary street hats have broad brims and high crowns. They are made of fine bamboo splits and are cov ered with flue linen cloth and then lac quered with black. Hats Covered with silk are worn by people of rank. Per sons in inoiirning for 'their parents wear hats as large as umbrellas and of similar shape. They are made of coarse bamboo splits without any covering of cloth. It Is customary for every mourn er to carry a little hempen screen at tached to the ends of two bamboo sticks held up conveniently In front of his face. These uncomfortable trap pings arc Intended to Indicate his re gret that be did not make his parent or parents happier while they were liv ing. So It Is that for a period of one or two years he is ashamed of seeing the heavens and of looking upon the beau tiful objects of nature. There are a great many other varieties of hendwear by which one can tell conditions and to a great extent positions In society.- Itoanoke Collegian. . ' HE FLED IN FRIGHT.' 'Remarkable Experleace ef a Hotten tot with the Geratan Language. If any one in speaking to you used the word Hottentoteustrotlertiotter-niufrterattcntaeterla-tten gltterwetter kotterbeutelatte, its harmonious sound would assure you that it was German, and such It really Is, belns taken from a Dresden paper, Der Weidmann. Here Is the explanation of It: Among the Hottentots (Hottentotten) the kanga roos (beutelratte) are very numerous. Many of them roam about the country, free and respected; others, less fortun ate, are caught and shut up In a cage (kotter) furnished with a cover (latten gitter), which shelters them from Dad weather. These are then called. In tier man, lattengltterwetterkotter, and the kangaroo, once imprisoned, takes the name of lattengitterwetterkotter beutelratte. One day an assassin (at tenlaeter) was arrested, who had killed the Hottentot mother (Hottentotenmut ten of two children, one half-wl' ted, the other a stammerer (strottertrottel). This mother, in the German tongue, Is designated by the word Hottentoten strattertrottelmutter, from which It fol lows that the assassin takes the name of Hottentotenstrotertrottelmuttcrat tentaetcr. The murderer was shut up la a kangaroo cage tbeutclrattenlatten gitterwetterkotler), from which he shortly escaped. But, fortunately, he soou fell into the hands of a Hottentot, who went Joyous ly to the mayor of the village, exclaim ing: "I have caught the beutelratte!" "Which oue?" asked the mayor; "we have several." "The attentaeterlattengifterwetter ketterbeutelratte." "Of which attentaeter are you speak ing r "Of the nottentotenstrottertrottcl mutterattentaeter." "Then why couldn't you say at once that you had caught the Hottentoten strottertrottel mutterattentaeterlatten gltter wetterkot terbeu telratte T' It Is said that the Hottentot fled In af fright. Critic BWaatjr la Blood Deep (lean Mood means a clean skin. No beauty without it.Cascarets.Caniiy Cathar tic ilea a your blood and keep it clean, by stirring up the len.y liver and driving all impurities from tito body, begin to-day to banish pimples, bolls, blotches, black heads, and that sickly bilious complexion by taking CarcarctK beauty for tn cents. All druggists, salisfactioou guaranteed, lee. 5 6c. 60c. Never borrow trouble. If you do, you will find that the interest you "have to pay for the accommodation is excessive. Five Cants. Everybody knows that Dobbins' El eo trio Faun is the best in the world, and for 33 years It bas sold at the highest rrlce. Its price is now S centa, same as common brown soap. Kara full site and quail ty. Order of grocer. Ad Nature makes no blunders; if yon have doubts what hornets were made for, pinch them, and you will soon discover- He-T-Bac Per Fifty Casta. Geareateed toheeee habit care Btakat warns: an streas, blood para. Me, $1. AU dructbu. A truly accomplished knave is one who?e first thought is to help himself, and his second to do so in a way that will muke you think he is he'pin? you. Cure Guarantees by DR. . B. MATKR, IOI1 ARCH IT. 1'HILA. PA. Kass at onoe: ao operation or delay from business. ConsnllaUea ITee. Endorsements of pbvslotans, ladles and Eromlnent elUsens, Bend ior cuculas Office oon A. M. Wl P. M. Good resolution ere like vines, a mass of beauty when supported on a frame of f ood deeds, but very poor things when sl owed to lie unheeded and untrained on the ground Seat Tesaees Spit sac laiaks Tear Life Away Te qalt lebaeee easily and ferever, be aug aetle, fall ef Ufa, aerve and viger, take Ne-Te-Bae, tka weader-werker, that saakes weak am (treag. All druggists, lee er l. Cure guaran teed. Booklet aad sample free. Address ti tar ling Hearady Co.. Calcage er Kew Xerk- Rheumatism, like many other things, is easy enough to cure in some one else; but when we undertake to cure our own, then business begins. Ve Caw Ceewtspatiasi feiaseei Take Casearets Caadr Gataartta, We er Ms, If O. a 6. fall U care, dragglats recaas sasaey. To let yourself down to any man's level is easy enough, but to get back to where Tea come from, and Sot tear yoor clothes, A Startled Mother. From U.e Frteport (U.) Bulled. While busy at work la her home, Mrs William Shay, corner of Taylor and Has sock Avenues, Free port. III., was startled by hearing a noise just behind her. Turning quickly she saw creeping toward her hot fear-year-old daughter, Baatriae. Thai ewer the aVwvf, with an effort,, but seemed Had with ley at finding her mother. The rest of the oe'sTtoTd la UrLSKayWatSUvile the mother's own worda. She aaldi "On the ittta of Rapt.. 1896, while In the bloom of health. Beatrice was suddenly and severely afflicted with spinal menin gitis. Strong and vigorous before. In Bve weeks ah beaaaae feeble aad suffered from a paralytic stroke which twisted her head baek to the side and made It impossible for her to move a limb. Her speech, how ever, was not affected. We called la our family doctor, one ef the moat experienced and successful praotitleners In the eity. Be ooualdered the eaae a very grave one. Before long little Beatrice was compelled to wear a plaster parla Jacket. Prominent physicians were consulted, electric bat teries were applied, but no benefit was no ticed until we tried Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. "Busy la my kitchen one afternoon I was startled by the cry of 'Mamma' from little Beatrice who was creeping towards me. I had placed her on an improvised bed in the parlor comfortably close to the fireside and given her some books and playthings. 8he becametlred of waiting for me to come bock and made up bor mind to go to me, so her story, 'My Pink Pills mnde me walk,' which she tells everyone who comes to our house, was then for the first time verified. She has walked ever since. She has now taken about nine boxes ot the pills and her pale and pinched face has been growing rosy, and her limbs gained strength day by day. She sleeps all night long now, while before taking the pills she eould rest but a few hours at a time." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are sold by all druggists. MAMMOTH NESTS. MarvelouaMonnda Built by the Mallee Bens of Australia. The mallee hen of Australia lays its eggs in a huge nest. The nest Is really an artificial mound of gigantic propor tions for the size of Its maker and the purpose It Is to serve. This artificial mound Is a co-operative Incubator. It is built by many pairs of birds, male and female working alike to construct it. These same pairs of flocks of birds annually repair and enlarge the queer looking cone, which rises up like a tur ret dome from the level prairies. Sometimes these tunnels attain a height of fully fifteen feet In the per pendicular, with a radius of equal measurement. Many of these nests have measured as much as fifty yards, or 150 feet, around their base. That would give the largest one measured a diameter of about fifty feet. .These mound Bests are entered through a sort of tunnel cavity at the top of the cone. The hens ef all the building and re pairing pairs lay In this Immense nest. The eggs are deposited about six feet below the surface. Whllo each hen lays her eggs in the family mound, no ben drops her egg closer than twenty inch! to that of her neighbor. Each egg Is deposited In a cavity made for It wherein it Is placed la a vertical posi tion, carefully covered, and the sur face smoothed over by the hen before she quits the nest. Contrary te the usual practice of the bird and fowl species, these mallee bens lay at night, Instead of in the day. Several days elupse also between the dropping ef two eggs by the same hen. The eggs of the mallee hen are out ef all proportion to her size. They are as large as those of a goose, and of large hens are very much lnrger. The eggs thus laid and covered in this great sand oven In the hot districts are never again disturbed by the hens. The eggs are hatched by the heat tho sun bakes into the soil where they lay. It has never been known bow tho young chicks are excavated from their egg grave, for the eggs are deposited fully six feet below the surface, and the hardening rains do not aid their exit very much. The hen is so very shy and vigilant that no one Is able to study her ma ternal and domestic habits with satis faction. As she lays her eggs at night and transacts most of her affairs In the algbt watch, so that no naturalist or curious Individual can ferret her out, possibly she steals to her expected brood under cover of night also, and gives them the parental unearthing which they must surely need after the pipping of the eggshell. Bush naturalists have been curious to know bow this peculiar fowl builds that nest. The birds have been seen working at rt and the mounds have been inspected, but the piling of the dirt Is not from the Immediate vicinity, for that Is undisturbed. Small sprigs and the like enter into the plastic ma sonry, which stands storms and heavy rains, when they do fall, without seri ous Injury. These huge cones stand for years, to be annually nested In by the same flock which originally constructed the fam ily Incubator. When detected the hens emit a pitiful little cackle, and flutter away like a wounded Innocent The young of a covey either root under the sand or hide behind some mound or object ef a friendly color. Pure for Consumption relieves the most obxtlnate coughs. Rev. D. BtTCHatrai LBB, Lexington, Mo-, February 24. 18Ws My experience loads me to believe lliat the supply of poetry, or ver-e assume 1 to be poetry, is more egregiously in excess of the demand, than uuy other de scription of lileruture. Kd.calc Tear Bowel. Wltb Caararefe. Candy Catfeartia, rrtrm oos.tlp.tioB forever 10c, JSC, If Cv C. C. fail, drugtisU retund mo try To-morrow you have no business with. You steal if you touch to-morrow. It i . God's. Every day baa enough to keep every man occupied, without concerning himself with the things that lio be yond. Wrs. WlnslowttlootblngByrnp tor ctul.lren teething, softens the gums, reducing lutUiuma tion, allays pain, eurn wind colic, 2jc a bottle. Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unaltainub'.e; however, they who im at It, und persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and depnn !oi:cy make them give it up as una! tai uuble. Conductor E. D. Ixwmta. Detroit, Mlotu, says . The effect of Hall's Catarrh Cure Is wonderful." Write htm sUmut it. Sold by pjnggfau, 16c. t'ertain wri'er fefni to think that they are cutting blocks from nature's "arryl while all the time they are only trying "to squeeze mud into marble. To Cure a Cola iu One Day. Take Laxative Btomolji inine Tablets. Al Druggista refund mon t jif it fails tocore. Sit At the beginning of the cask and at the end take your fill, bnt be saving in the middle, for at the bottom saving comes too late. as nos OUR BOYS AND GIRLS THIS 13 THEIR DEPARTMENT OP THE PAPER. Qual.t Say!-- Ct. Bel-.- ' Uttle Folk. Everywhere, -h" ..4 Printed Here for All Other W Us Oaee te Read. Prince Tetters. Little Prince Tatters has lost his cspl Over the hedge he threw it; Into the fiver it fell "kerslapr Stupid old thing to do It! Now Mother may sigh and Nurse may For theUgay little cap with Irs eagle plume "One cannot be thinking all day of sues matters! Trifles are triflesr says little Prince Tat ters. ' Little Prince Tatters bas lost his coat Playfiag he drd not need H! . Ift ft rtgfit there, by the nanny-goat And nobody never seed It!" Now Mother and Nurse may aearch til night For the little new coat with its button bright; But "Coat-sleeves or shirt-sleeves, hoe tittle it matters! Trifles are trifles!" saya little Prince Tat ters. Little Prince Tatters has lost his ball! Boiled away down the street! Komebody'll have to find it, that's all, Before he can sleep or eat Now raise the neighborhood quickly, do? And send for the crier and constable too "Trifles are trifles; but serious matters, They must be seen to," says little Princt Tatters. St. Nicholas. Clever Kate Grecnaway. People who wouldn't know a Rosa Bonheur from a Bnphael or a Leon ardo da Vinci from a Watteau know Kate Greenaway. That may not mean that she Is greater than all four, but she Is certainly more popular. She began making her quaint little long-skirted, short-walsted damsels, who have been the styles for children ever since their first appearance, about twenty years ago. She was the daugh ter of a well-known wood engraver la London. She was trained In the South Kensington schools. Ruskin admired her work from the first. She lives In Hampstead, London, in the most picturesque quarter. Many of her backgrounds are taken from scenes that lie before her windows. She has made quite a tittle fortune with her drawing pen. Oar Little Gray Helper. Myrta Lockett Avary under the above title tells In the St. Nicholas of the work done -by the humble earth worm. The author says: We have a little gray helper who cannot bear, nor see, nor make any noise. He wears a little gray coat and he lives In tiny caves which he bur rows out for himself. Our little gray helper has no feet eo he crawls. He works busily for us all day In the ground under our feet, coming out chiefly at night to get his food. Then he does not take anything which any one wants, but only fallen leaves and bits of stuff which no one cares about and which are out of the way. Although much less fortunate than we, having neither legs, nor feet nor hands, nor eyes, nor ears, he has all that Is necessary to the performance of the work he bas to do; and since our little gray helper has all he needs, and does his work, and does It well, we may think of him as being quite content and happy. And since the work that he does for us is very necessary and Important work, and since he docs It excellently well, we need not regard him with less than respect. He has a system of blood vesels, a nervous system, and yes, a brain. When you come to consider him under a microscope and In relatio'i to the work he has to do, he Is quite an Inter esting and exquisite bit of mechanism. He uses his brain, and has wisdom to know what to eat and how to get It. Though he has neither eyes nor ban Is, before taking anything Into his cave, be examines It carefully by menus of his one sense (touch), and with his lit tle upper lip, which the scientists call prostomlum. This Up Is very sensi tive. He Is prudent and thrifty, always dragging Into his little house enough to secure him against the coming day, f"or blind and deaf as he Is, he knows l Is not wise to be out In the day time, for the birds and their babies like htm entirely too well. He also knows that being of a chilly nature, he will need to be wrapped up a bit when he goes to sleep In his cave, so he makes his own little bed of blades of grass and bits of leaves which he has dragged In with the little lip that does so much. He seems to like fresh air when he can get It so he rests with his head near the mouth of his care; and Mother Nature, realizing that this might give Robin Redbreast an uufalr advantage of him, provided him with a head-covering darker than the rest of his coat and very nearly the color of earth. Out of the Mouth of Babes. ens little fellow, and bis mamma told him one day that if he didn't quit being so naughty the "boogie" man would get him. "Oh, I'm not a bit afraid," he re plied. "When I see him coming I'll re form right quick." The little 4-vear-old daughter of a clergyman, after listening to her father preaca one ctunaay morning lor quite awhile, finally became restJons and climbing up on the seat ahe exclaimed: lyome on, papa, you ve said enough; let's go homer' Ethel, aged 5, was learning to sow, and one day, after vainly trying t make the preliminary preparation with a needle and thread, ahe asked: "Mam ma, dont they call the hole In a needle an eyer "Yea, dear." was the reply. "Well," continued the little miss, "I'll bet this okl needle's cross-eyed." Little 4-year-old Harry was not feel ing well and bis father suggested that be might be taking the chlckenpox, then prevalent Harry went to bed laughing .at the Idea, but early next morning he came downstairs looking very serious, and said: "You're right papa; It la the chlckenpox; 1 found a feather la the bed." -fcfS iBWaLhaaJ OB kirst $g T HS CH I E X 8 A BTIST. - I LLL pill Maybe the grocer is "just out of Ivory Soap but has another just as good." No other soap is just as good. Insist that he get Ivory Soap for you. A WORD OF WARNING. There are many watte soaps, each represented to be -lust as good as the 'Ivory';" they ARE NOT. but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkable ouaUties ef the genuine. Ask for - Ivory " Soap and Insist upon getting H Csy .rtal. TWt, ay 1U Q- O-. I lit at school he came home and, throwing I his books down In disgust exclaimed: I "I'm not going back to that school any more." "Why, Tommy, what's the troubler asked his mother. "Oh," he replied, "they want to teach me a whole lot of etuff I never heard of before, and I ain't going to waste my time learning them." '. Little 5-year-old Kettle, who had bee brought ud In the city, was spending a few days in the country. "Grandma, what are those funny little green things r she asked, as they were pass lug through the garden oue day. "Why, those are peas," was the reply. "Pea nothing!" exclaimed Nettle, "I'm 8'prlzed at your Ignorance, grandma." "Why, dear, what do you mean?" ask ed the old lady. "I'd think." replied Nettie, "that a woman of your age ought to know that peas come In tin cans." Pretty Well, Considering." Old Mrs. I'arlln had reached the age of 03 years, and her two daughters, both women of nearly 00, were often heard to say that the old lady "took as much comfort as anybody." Their un changing affection failed to sec the changes that were so pathetically e narent to others: "Juno Ann and I don't get about so , much as we would like to, on account of ( Bnotner, sirs, fatten remarKeo, in re sponse to an Invitation to visit a rela tive In a neighboring town. "You see Juno Ann, living next door as she does, takes about aa much care of mother a I do, so it sort of ties us both." "Isn't you mother well?" "Yes, land sake, mother's as well as can be; or she would be. If 'twa'n't for ! her age. I tell 'em mother enjoys as much as most of 'em. She can't see as well as she used to, of course; fact is she can't see much of any; but she's real well." "Mother don't seem to hear so well as she did," ventured Juno Ann, "but I s'pose that's no more than natural." "She's a dreadful smart woman. If she Is my mother," rejoined Mrs. Pat ten; "and It's wonderful for a woman of her age." "I suppose she enjoys going about to see the neighbors?" suggeeted the vis itor. "Pity sake! Mother hasn't set foot out of the house for more'n two years; we wouldn't dare trust her. The rheu matism has sort of crippled her up; but besides that I don't see but she seems about as smart as ever; don't you think she does, Juno Ann?" "Yes, she seems real well, considering her age. Her food don't agree with her, and she don't relish her meals as well as she might but beyond that she gets along real well," replied Juno. "I suppose, she likes to have people run In and visit with her as well as ever," remarked the visitor. "Well, she would like to see people as well as ever, mother would, if she had her faculties; but you see, she don't seem to sense much, most of the time; if It wa'u't for that she'd take a sight of comfort seeing folks. But she's able to sit up In bed considerable, and she seems comfortable except when her rheumatism sets In, or when she has one of her sinking spells. Juno Ann and I are real thankful that moth er keeps as well as she does." Zulu Traveling. The rate at which the Zulus can travel upon emergency Is astonishing. Some will cover as much as fifty miles in six hours. Eight miles an hour is an ordinary pace. There can be no harm in the asser tion that some paintings are works ol art and that a great many women paint. Having to work very bard every min ute Is as good for a man's soul as re ligion. It's a pity that some men can't even hnna to have brain fever. ' Can These Be True? lie "These shoemakers are pretty . well up to the vanity of women I have It on reliable authority that tbt-y j bit on tie trick of putting smaller num bers In women's shoes." j She- i-e8 and It Is also said that the ! hatters are numbering men's hats a .....,... mcrei Cincinnati En i nuirer. Hono tns the Profession. An editor In the South w.ta trat-oiin. u n men m i .-out, and having been j shaved, naturally offered to pay. j "We never charge editors nothir.' saa,'' said the barber, grandiloquently. "But how can you carry on your business?" . i "Dat's all right, bossr was the In-' dulgent reply. We makes It tip ofTo gentlemen." Bear in Hind That " Tks Ksasuff w Ksip APOLIO V Time Not So Lone;. "Lord Brougham used to tell," saya the Birmingham Post "how he had conversed with an eye-witness of the execution of Charles I., and, as the for mer did not die until 1868, this repre sented a space of 218 years, with only one life between. Within the last few years there was to be met in Loudon a gentleman whose grandfather had told him of a talk he once bad with an old Devonshire laborer who had seen, when a child, the landing of William of Orange in Torbay. The writer of these lines has met at dinner one who had talked with a hostess of Dr. Johnson, in the person of Sirs. David (Jarrick; whdle Mr. Gladstone's earlier niemorlie Include an Interview with Hannah More, who was the great lexicogra pher's flatterer and friend, and an ac quaintanceship with Thomas Grenvllle, who, not far from 120 years ago, ar ranged the terms of separation between this; ountry and the United States." Fertilixins; 'or fStrawberrlee. Nitrate of soda is a valuable fertilizer for strawberries and raspberries, and should be applied with powdered phos phate of lime. This application to strawberries will sometimes treble the yield. The berries are larger in size, handsomer In color, more solid and finer in flavor. Ordinary manure will not produce such results, as It Is not converted Into plant food until after the demand of the fruit. Nitrate of soda and powdered phosphate of lime are assimilated by the plant at once, ' and appropriated at a cost of less than flO per acre, using 400 pounds of the mixture which contains the three In gredients considered necessary to use for feeding plants; nitrogen, phosphoric acid and an alkali. Meehan's Monthly. "About the only difference between a rich and a poor man Is that the former bas to take more money with him when he goes around to pay his bills. The assessor's visit often account for a shrinkage In values. No matter how good a bluffer a man may be he has to give In when his money gives out "Ianfrred thetortoreaofthe damned wltb protruding piles brought on by constipa tion witb which I was aflllrted for twenty years. I ran across your CASCARKTS in the town of Newell, la., and never found any thtna to equal them. To-day I am entirely free from piles and feel like a new man." C H. Keitz, UU Jones St., Sioux City, la CANDY vaaoi sua Pleasant, Palatable, fotent. Taste Good. Do Good, Ke.er Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. lie. due ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... UrUas Urmr4f , Otam, iMtrnl, fat. Sit MTfl Dlft Sold and guaranteed by all drog lU'DAu situ to CI! St E Tobacco liablk FOR FIFTY YEARS 1 MRS. WINSLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP bas been used by alomef mothers for their cniidieawhU TdrlnUii torour Fifty Yeart It at that the child, toifns the sun- aur II aae. caret wimt coUe, aad la the feasl a Tweaiy-ave cents a nettle. Vlia)iHWw.vasvwywwftw STOPPED FREE ParmafMBtly Cared. lataany Preventts by DR. KLINE'S GREAT KERVE RESTORER m mmdSi. Frttti1 ace. ilst fwt..cs-ee flaw IrM flH'taat sr J fei-:.iL..t1a free) FH ilsjjlav, thee ajif cireae cl.argva on If whem reoelvexi. rtt Dr. Kltnr. l.f i, H- irevo iMltuaef Medleiitc. tm Arch St.. rUnsuicUUue,, faw w Successfully Prosecutes Claims. Lett, Principal Fxamtnr U.S. Pension Burma M 3yriulaet wr, KiaiUutUcalniSvl11, A Kleptomaniac's SpotlM. The record in kleptomania may cer tainly be claimed by a Frenchwoman named Catherine, who was recently ar rested In a grocery shop on the Boule vard Sebnstopol, In Paris. Mrs. Cath erine Is 40 years old, and she lost her husband only a few days ago. When she was searched at the police station it was found that she had fixed to her waist by thick thread, under her man tle, a turkey, two chickens, four pig eons, four pnrti ldges. three pounds of fresh butter, twenty-four sausages and two loxes of preserved mackerel. Put this was not alL Under her Ixxlue she had concealed an astrakhan cape, two Jackets, a walstemit a pairs of stockings, two rolls of riblw.n and fifteen yards of satin. It hardly seems credible, but she declared It was 'lie first time ahe had tried to steal. Gods Help Those W io keif snesia Tea& Yoa to Use POLES
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