OH, WOULD I WERE A BOY AGAIN. Oh. would I were boy again, Yhen life seemed formed of (1111117 fears. And all the heart then knew of pain, Wm wept away ia transient tears, When every tale hope whispered then, tlj fancy deemed was only truth. Oh, would that I coo Id know spaln, The happy visions ( my youth. TIs Tain to mourn that years hare shown, How false these fairy visions were. Or murmur that mine eyes hare known, The burden of a fleeting; tear; But still the heart wfU fondly clln , To hopes no longer prised as truth. And memory still delights, to bring The happy Tlsions of my youth. Mark Lemon. THE BUEGLAB AND THE PUBLIC HOUSE. FINE pnhlic house," said Blanco Watson, the humorist "Yes," I re plied, looking at the building we were approach- .lng, "but a Mtrange position 'away from the hish ronrt, and surrounded by villas." "A very strange position. We 'will rest in the puldic house, and I will tell you how It came to be built in such a very strange position." I smiled, and followed him Into the saloon bar. We sat at one of the tables, and were silent for a time, he thinking and I watching blm. "The story losins," he said present ly, "with a burglary committed by a certain Hill Jones one night long ago. "Bill was a young member of his pro fession. Hitherto he had not attempted anything very big. but continued suc cess in small things had made him bold. Ou this night he broke Into the country house of a well-known actress, in the hope of carrying off her jewels. "lie succeeded In getting the Jewels and was leaving with them when he found that the. slight noise he had maile had attracted attention. A ser vant girl met him at a turn of the stir way and began to shriek. He rushed by her and to the window through which he had entered. As he passed through it again he heard doors being opened, and knew that the house was fully aroused." "I understand," I said. "Bill escaped. The actress employed a detective. The detective built this public house In an out-of-the-way place, hoping that BI1L as an tuit-of-tlie-wiiy young man, would call in one day for a drink. Curiously enough. Bill did." Blanco Watson frowned. 'I'lils is an intellectual story," he said; "it does not depend on coinci dences. "I will continue. Bill avoided the first pursuit by a long run across coun try, uud then walked toward his home, not daring to use the railway. lie kept to the by-roads as much as possible, and at the close of the next day had reached the neighborhood of London. "A spade lying inside a field gate suggested to him the advisability of hiding the Jewels until be had arranged for their sale. After making sure that he was not observed, he entered the field and picked up the spade. A tree of peculiar growth stood Just beyond him. In the manner of fiction, he count ed twenty steps due north from the tree, and then dug a deep hole, placed the jewels in it. and filled it up again. "lie arrived home safely that night, bnt was arrested In the morning. The servant girl hud given an accurate de scription of him to the police, and they had recognized It. "In due course he was tried. The evidence against him was very strong. The servant girl swore that he was the man she met on the stairs; some of the villagers swore that they had seen him near the house previously to the burg lary, lie was found guilty and sen tenced to seven years' punal servitude. ' "Bill behaved very well In prison, and at the end of five yeare was re leased on a ticket-of-leave. He decided to wait until the ticket had expired, and then to get the jewels and leave the country. But a day or two after his release he walked out to look at the field. "There was no field. During the five years ho had been In prison the estate of which the field was part had been built upon. He wandered about the houses in despair. But, as he turned a corner, he saw something which sug gested hope. Behind some railings was tree of curious growth. "It was the tree twenty steps due north of which he had buried the Jew els. He recognized it Immediately, and ran toward It. Again he was In despair. A yard or two north of the tree was a chapel. He leaned against the railings, covering his face with his hands. "It happened presently that the bead deacon of the chapel, a kindly old man, came down the road. He saw Bill standing like one In trouble, and fctopp.nl and asked what was the mat ter and whether he could help. "For a few momenta Bill did not knew what to reply, but then he spoke well. He said that once he had been a burglar, but that he had learned In prison that burglary Is wrong; that now he was trying to live an honest life, but that, as ho had no friends, It was not cany. "The old man was touched. He had found Bill leaning against the chapel railing, and Bill had said that he had no friends. Was it not his duty as bead dencon of the chapel to bo a friend to Bill? Clearly it was. "He took Bill home with himi he was bachelor, and there wag no one to restrain his benevolence. They had supper and talked together. The dea con found Bill intelligent and fairly well educated, and offered blm employ ment. He was a builder In the neigh borhood, he explained, and had a va ' fcancy ia the works. Bill gratefully ac tepted the offer, and began his new career on the following Monday. "Months passed. Bill bad changed wonderfully. He had forgotten his old habits and learned new ones. The dea con was delighted. Not only was Bill the best of his workmen, but he was the most regular attendant at the chapel. "Bill longed for the Jewel, and he worked hurd because he knew that money would help him to get them. He attended the chapel because while 'iiet-e he was near the jewels, the seat he had taken being just twenty steps 1i:e north from the tree. At first he had meditated digging down through lie floor one night, but the chances of detection were great and he had given up the idea. "Years passed. The deacon had be come an invalid, and Bill practically managed his business. He was an Im portant man at the chapel, too, and was often Intrusted with a collection box. One day the deacon died. Soon afterward It was known that, baring no near relatives, he had left his prop erty to his friend William Jones." I see!" I exclaimed; "Bill " Blanco Watson shook his head. !IH was BI8 B9 longer." be aaid. "He had become a nu f wealth. A the next election of deacons be was nt of the successful candidates. Ia future we must refer to him as Mr. Janes, anc sot as Bill. "Mr. Jones was a most energetic dea con. He Introduced new members and he persuaded old ones to attend mors regularly. He started a young mcn'i literary society asd a series of Satur day entertainments. He made the chap el the most popular In the district; and then, at a New Year's business meet ing, he struck boldly for th Jewels. "The ekapol 'was -too smsilr tw said In the eouree of an eloquent speech. They must erect another on a target site. There was bat one such site In the neighborhood. They must secure It before others did. He himself would undertake the building- operations, charging only what they cost him. He would also purchase the old chapel. The net expenditure need not be very great "The proposal was well received, and a committee, with Mr. Jones as chairman, was appointed to Consider the details. Their report was Tery favorable, and at another business meeting it was decided to Carry" out the proposal. "The necessary funds were sub scribed or guaranteed. Contracts were made with Mr. Jones. Id the spring of that year the building operations were commenced, and by the autumn they were finished. The congregation re moved to the new chapel. Mr. Jones purchased the old one at a high price and entered Into possession. , , ,,,' ' " j the Jewels t Blanco waison laugneo. No," he said, "ho did not He brokt up the floor himself, counted the steps due north from the tree again, and dug. He did not find the Jewels. He counted the steps again and dng deep er. He did not find them. Then he tried other places, but, although he kept on until he had tried everywhere be neath the floor, he never found the Jewels." "Why, what had become of them 7" "I cannot say. It Is possible that when the foundation was being laid a workman had discovered and appropri ated them. Again, it Is possible that there were two trees of similarly cu rious growth, and that the one outside the chapel was not the one Mr. Jones first saw. Again " "And what has the story to do with the public house? But I can guess." "Of course you can. Mr. Jones was very angry with the chapel members. He considered that, by false pretenses, they had led him into buying the old chapel dearly and building the new one cheaply. He resigned his deaconshlp, and then sought a way to be revenged on them. He found one. On the site of the old chapel he built a public house this public house In which we have sat so long." Edgar Turner, In The Sketch. Stitched a Fractured Bone. John Gordon, 3!) years of age, found by the light of the X-ray that he was recovering the use of a fractured leg, the bone in which bad been sewn to gether with silver threads. This man owes the saving of his limb to one of the most remarkable surgical opera tions of the age, performed by Profes sor Reginald Sayre, the eminent spe cialist, at Beilevue hospital. Gordon sustained a compound frac ture of the femur, the largest bone in the leg and the longest In the entire body. It was the result of a bad fall. Amputation seemed Imperative, but he pleaded against the loss of a limb, and bis sister had him removed from bis home to Beilevue hospital. There Dr. Sayre and Dr. A. W. Will iams decided upon a daring operation, jnlting the bone and tying It In place with the silvet films. The greatest fear was that blood poisoning might result Gordon began to Improve at once, how ever, and for a month past has been able to walk about with only the as sistance of a cane. In order to ascertain whether the ex perimental operation was a success or not Dr. Sayre and Dr. Williams had Gordon removed In a carriage to the studio of Professor Martin, where the limb was observed in the glare of the X-ray. The fractured bone was found to be knitting together and fast heal ing. The silver strands were still in place and those he will have with him always. New York Journal. Household Economies ia Crinoe. An article on "French Wives and Mothers," written by Miss Anna L. Blcknell, and illustrated by Boutet de Mouvel, appears in the Century. The author says: The pot-au-feu, or meat soup, is in fact a festive meal; more often the mother has made soup with dry crusts soaked In the water which has boiled vegetables, and the addition of pea-pods or some such delicacy. If ! they live near the Holies Centrales, or j principal markets, the mother goes j there late in the afternoon' and looks , out for articles of food which would not bear a day's delay, and pounces up on these because they are sold at any nrle Tn tliA ease of old bachelors or ! widowers, "lone and lorn," who are not I so expert at bargaining, there is the j characteristic resource of what are : called les bijoux, namely, the remnants ! sold by cooks of large establishments ; and by first-class restaurants. These I are collected from door to door, and ' tumbled together In no very appetizing j fashion; but the retailer sorts and ar ' ranges the various articles, which are j than properly adorned (pares), scraped, : and cut into neat pieces, nicely garnlab ! ed, and set out on clean plates. Custom j ers who are brave enough to forget tb . antecedents of such dainties may thus i purchase for a trifie portions of the choicest game or the best fish served on i high-class tables, with many other dell ! cades of tempting appearance. Many j old rentiers, so called, living in garrets, , and sunning themselves all day on j benches In the public gardens, where 1 they talk politics with their fellows, I get really good dinners In this way. 1 I All's "Well that Enda WolL I Physician Two- of your ribs are I 1 1. .i,h arm 1a fractured. iriuac n, juut ,au. - one of your ears Is missing and three fingers gone. Patient How Is the wheel? "Without a scratch." "Thank heaven. Think of whal might have happened? j Xt Belle and Oherley seem t be : cwther sweet on one another. Maud j Bwt? Why, they were ou playing ! soli ail til afternoon. Kate But that loean't signify. Maud It does to their sase. They forgot to take the clubs ! urlth them when they went ant Boa- loo Transcript A visitor to the British Museum re ports that he saw a countryman stand ing before the bust of a woman In a col lection of statuary. The woman was represented in the act of coUlng her hair, and, as the visitor cam up, the countryman was saying to himself: "No, sir, that ain't true to nature. She She ain't got ber mouth full f haU pins." Tld Blta. OOQ OPENED FATHER'S EYES, Experience of Mmm hs Had Bew era! Growing- Da Borate ra. . "It Is quite interesting to be the fath er of several (rowing girls,'' said one of a group of family men In the smoker sf a suburban car. "Yes," answered another one with a shrug of his shoulders, "especially when they all want new gowns at the same time.'' 1 wasn't thinking of that," said the first speaker, "bnt af a way they hare of toUtw th win act at raw w sails. It never occurred to ma until the other rooming that It was not to see me that young fellows kept dropping in to play Cards and make themselves agree able. I tumbled at last, but It was my hunting dog Jack that opened my eyes." "Tour hunting dog I" echoed the crowd. "Yes. I had heard af nearly every kind of a' plan ' coromqnleation of lovers except a dog. In this case Jack became Cupid's messenger. Thee boys borrowed the dog ostensibly to go hunting, but I have learned since that thev didn't know a run from a no- handle. They tied Jack up over night. and as soon as he got out in the morn ing he mad a bee line for home. If I hadn't seen the corner or a paper suca Inc from under his collar I should never have suspected the eagerness with which those girls tried to head him off from me." "He had a letter for them?" "No, just a note asking the privilege of seeing dear Miss Kate or Miss Sue - -,.11, anf a .hat! Vice idea. Kmploytug the dg or the ramny n ft ciandthie correspondence. I n- ri that note mvself and the two haTeB.t Bpbken to me since. Jack Is tied up and I d watcning ine cat now, for I have no doubt they'll find a way to circumvent me. "Chicago Times-Herald. A most curious and sluggish creature to the tautawa. a nine-Inch ' lizard, whose home is In New Zealand. The little Imitation saurian has the reputa tion of being the laziest creature ever created. He is usually found clinging to rocks or logs along the shores of riv ers and lakes, and has been known to remain In one position perfectly mo tionless for many months. How the creature manages to exist Is a mystery. ,ie filibustering expedition conducted A naturalist who has given many j by an equally imaginary and impossible years of study to some of the smaller : young woman, on behalf of the suffer forms of Insect life has discovered that , lug Cubans. But the absurdity of Un certain sorts of spiders are possessed of j conception does" not prevent the nana orgnns for which there Keems to be no f tive from being racy and Interesting, use save to create sound. They are j jbsen Is not 80 thoroughly wedded t mostly used when the little creatures : nls r0an9tic art that he has not his dnj are alarmed, although the opinion is jre(UUs with the rest of us and a ban held by some that this is their means Bering for travel and luxury. To . of calling to their unites. The alarm ! young lady who asked hlin what h. idea, however, lias some support in the wouu uo If lie hud a million, lie said, case of the rattlesnake, which Is pro-' .. should buy nn elegant steam yacht vlded with the means of making its . witu electric lights and all modern com presence known whenever an enemy fortRi with a crew of 120 and a gram; approaches. Whether the possession j orPhestra. Then I should invite twent.i of organs for creating sound Is design- j sooi frlen.ls to travel with me. W, ed merely as a protection or warning Is i gu0Uld visit many One regions, but our a point to which naturalists are glvlug principal goal would be the Island of careful and enthusiastic attention. j oylon, which must be, from all I hare "It Is common to hear people speak beard, the most beautiful spot on ihout poisonous serpents, writes a zoologist "Serpents are never poison- aus; they are venomous. A poison can not be taken internally without bad ef fects: a venom can. Venoms, to le ef- fectlVe, hnvo to be injected directly into of a thin, flat metal plate, adapted for '.he circulation, and this is the manner "a as a cutter, with slots In the surface In which the snakes kill. Their venom to allow the passage of vegetables taken inlernnlly Is Innocuous. Another when the tool Is used as a masher, a popular error is the supposition that a curved handle being attached to one snake bites. Probably no creature In end of the plate. the world provided with teeth and Jaws A New York woman has patented an bus so little power of biting. The Jaws educational device In the shape of a are not hinged, but are attached one ' sand-board which has flanges around to the other by cartilage. Thus a snake j the edges and is provided with a glass 'an have no leverage In opposing one j cover to protect a design when once Jaw to the other, and could not In this . formed, the board being useful iu illus manner pierce the skin. The fangs are j tratlng geography. Jrlvcn Into the flesh by a stroke, and j Bicycles can be steered automatically not by a bite. A snake Is harmless un- i,y a Dw head, w hich has the ball rac less tn coll. From Its colls It throws its ways slightly depressed In the front head and body forward, and strikes or and rPar to form a seat for the coues books Its fangs into the object aimed when In alignment and tending to r at The entire work Is done with the , turn them to that position when out of upper Jaw, the lower Jaw having noth-1 place, ing at all to do with It A man strik-1 ing a boathook Into a pier furnishes an I C'?"; blea,c ,be bortd by, V example of the way In which a snake Kto1' which lias a straight spin- , ' die with a screw tip and a pivoted For Working Men. A winter garden f, hl -h the tired workingman may take his ease Is among the at.ractlve features of the , V ' ... i,-...ic.. e..,!iel pivoted on a "T , ,TT7 vZw V.. w'lh tubes extending to the ears to the people, erected tn New York by!. . f .... r A knb, oj ,iiu..t hrrif I transfer the sound, which becomes The house is built In two parts, each In ! the form of a hollow square, with a courtyard in the center of each part Each courtyard Is fifty feet square and floored with heavy glass, which Is the skylight for rooms below. Palms will lie placed about these courtyards, and there will be seats and tables. Above the glass floor rise nine tiers of win dows, and over all is a great skylight The walls rising above the courtyard j front of the truck, provided with a cen are entirely white, and at night are i tral concave portion, which has teeth starred with electric lights. There are - along its outer edge to catch the barre' over fifteen hundred bedrooms In tbe building, the uniform rate per night for each being twenty cents. This in cludes the privilege of reading and lounging rooms, writing tables, hot and cold water baths, and tables where games may be played. Each room has at least one window looking either upon the street or into on of the courts. Windows looking on the court are provided with grilles and lace curtains, no window glass being used. The rooms oo the outside of the building have win dows and curtains. The various floors are reached by means of elevators. The rooms are Just large enough to contain a bed and a chair. They are all separ ated, however, and are lighted over tb partition, there being no light In th rooms. Lockers in the basement allow for the storage of the effects of tb guests. The building la heated through out with steam and lit by electricity. A laundry Is provided In the house, and the men may, if they desire, wasb their own clothes. The dining-room il In the basement and is Intended to fur nish cheap meals of a good quality. Mr. Mills wishes It to be understood thai men who become guests of the hotel pay well for the accommodations thej get He declares that he expects tin Investment to pay financially. His ob Ject Is to show that self-respecting men of small means can be given fine accom modations at surprisingly low prices. In Italy. Poor young girls In Italy are provided with a marriage portion from a Gov smuient fund. The sum annually dis tributed In this manner amounts to no ess than $25,000. To obtain a dowry the applicant has to produce witnesses ts to her good character, and she has Uso to prove that her sweetheart has t trade, and that sh herself has a tti Mme. Sarah Grand is writing a coo pie of essays under the titles of "On t!i Choice f Wife" and "On th bole of a Husband." A copy of the first estttlan f Shelley' "Queen Mao," which wa hMMed I the rhllllpps collection, was sold I London the other day for somethln; over a hundred dollars. Mm. Laura de Manpasaaat; who 1 living a secluded and quiet life at Nict continually receive from authors n quests fr permtssin to drahtatiae tb novel f her dad son, Guy d Ma:. paesasA. Heine can have no statue at Dussei dorf in this generation at least Thougl the citlsens subscribed far the purpose th Emperor Interfered, not caring t. hav th poet of the revolution honored in Ma empire. The vicarage of Dean Prior, when Robert Herriek lived, has bean partial ly modernized and added to, but th. main structure is the sam as in tin days when the poet wrote his "Hesperi dea" within its walls. M. Jules Claretle, French academi clan and manager of the Cemedte Fran calse, is writing a novel, dealing wlti the siege of Taris. He served as a Nn tional Guard during that period, anc his experiences will play a part in tin book. Rudyard Kipling's new English hoiu is at Rottingdean, a quiet little Sussex village near the sea. It Is called "Tut Elms," and Is surrounded by beautiful elms and Ilex trees. Here be leads au active life in more than one way, foi he is said to ride three hours every morning and to walk from five to six miles later in the day. Sir Walter Besant proposes to hart the first volume of his "Survey of Lon don" ready early next year. Every street in the County Council area hue been walked through by Sir Walter 01 one of bis assistants, one of them 11 young lady, and every building of an: importance is duly descrllied, and a great many are Illustrated by phot-.i graphs. Winston Churchill, author of "On-.-Celebrity," has a short story In the Cen tury, entitled "By Order of the Admlr al." It Is described In the sub-title ii a story of the times ou the strength, np parontly, of an Imaginary and Impossi earth. RECENT INVENTIONS. 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Few old miners have not heard of the egleg mine, located in the vicinity of 'oath Valley, which has been a legend i mining circles for nearly fifty years. umerous expeditions have been or anhted for the rediscovery of this fa ;ious lost mine. The originator of the tory J? njaVtelousIy rich mine locat d In, the terra Incogni to of which Death 'alley Is the central point was Peglcg imlth. a famous pioneer lag befars he discovery of gold In California. In its earlier career his operations were onflned mainly to the overland trail -u which he was employed as a frelght r and guide. Th circumstances which gave rise to he sobriquet by which he was univer sally known was a most thrilling epl ode. While hauling a load of freight etween the widely separated posts of .hat early day he was Jolted from his tvagea, and falling under its wheels uid his leg so badly crushed that it was evident that his only hope of life lay u amputation. But he was alone on the ran in the heart of the mountains, and he nearest surgeon was at the military Mst of Fort Laramie, hundreds of .n lies away. He was a man of iron aerve, however, and did not hesitate an instant after he had learned the extent t his injuries. With bis Jackknlfe and saw he per formed the amputation himself, ban luged the stump as best he could, and in his crippled condition built himself I shelter and subsisted on the provi sions in his wagon until he was found CUTT1UB OFF HIS OWK LEO. by some friendly Indians and taken to a surgeon. The oiieratlon was a suc cess, and in a few months he resumed his old calling. When the late Gov ernor Gilpin visited Oregon in 1840-'43 Smith was employed to guide him, and i he Governor In his narrative records the incident After the discovery of gold In the mountains of California, I'egleg turned prospector aud traveled through the mountains from Oregon to Arizona until he liccame noted as the most daring and most thoroughly post ed prospector aud guide. A FATAL SPOr. !ace Where Marjr Queen of Pcota Lost Her Crown. Three hundred and fifty years ago on lie 13th of May Mary Queen of Scots Mood on a grassy knoll near the Village ;f Cathcart watching with feverish Interest the movements of three bodies if troops about a mile off tn the fields round Langslde. Kleven days liefore she escaped from the castle of Lochlev en and now the day had dawned which was to decide whether she would ever rule Scotland again. What the fates had decreed Is written at large In the pages of history and that story throws a glamour of pathetic romance round the spot on which Mary learned her doom. For many years "Court Knowe," MABT LOST niB CROWK HIKE as the knoll Is called, was marked by a throne tree and when that decayed Gen. Sir George Cathcart, who fell at Inkermnn, replaced it with a rough field-gate stone, on which he carved with his own hands a- crown, the queen's Initials and the date of the bat tle. Later still, the General's nephew. Earl Cathcart, built this memorial, which Is of red granite and repeats the Inscription of its predecessor. It may be that Mary's life was a failure, but she has her recompense now. Her story still greatly stirs the hearts of men and draws the sympathetic pilgrim to such shrines as this; Elizabeth, success ful in Ufe, Is regarded afar off with emotionless respect .Burned Them. Kitty What did she do with those adoring love epistles he wrote? 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I look so much better and have some color in my face." Mrs. Pinkham invites women who are ill to write to her at Lynn, Mass., for advice, which is freely offered. .Before and After. "Mydear," said Mrs. Wederly, "what Is the difference between idealism and realism?" "Idealism," replied Wederly, "Is what we experienced during our en gagement" "Yes," said she, "and realism?" "Oh," he replied, "that's what we are up against now. Farther Information Needed. "I want yon to understand that I'm as good as my word, sir," declared the man that was looking for a small loan. "All right sir. I'll tike a look around and find out wbnt your word's worth." A Real Grievance, Visitor How's business! Boatman Business! Why, there aln" no business since these 'ere blcyclei come Inter fashion. Why they cornel down 'ere, takes our fresh air as w'n celebrated for, and pumps It Intel blooming wheels and take It awaj with 'em. Phil May's Summer Annual One Way of Looklnsi It. "It has been openly asserted," ex claimed one citizen, "that that politi ;lan accepts money for his Influence." "Well." replied Senator Sorghum, "he isn't to blame for that If people I ;hoose to advertise his business fot I aothlng he can't help It" Washington Star. Bulr la Blood Deep Clean Mend Tncn a clean fkln. No beauty without it. CapcaretR .Candy Cathar tic clean yonr Mood and keep it clean.by stirring the lazy liver and driving all inipuritie from the body. Pegin to-day to banish pimples, boils, blotches, blaek lieade, and that 8i(kly bilious complexion by taking Carcaretf beauty for ten cents. All drupcists. cutUfactioon guaranteed. 10c. ?5c, 50c. Of all teachings, that which personts a f:ir-ilitant Jod is the ne;irettiahurUty. Tiilier there is none, or lb? is nearer to every one of lis tlmn our nearest 'con sciousness of self. IOO Howard. SIOO. The rwwlere of thia papr will be pleased to learn that there la at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure In all its atae9, and that la atarrh. Hall's Catarrh ( are la the only positive cure known to the modiral fraternity. atarrh being constitu tional cllaeaao. requires a constitutional treat ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure ia taken internally, actinit directly on the blood and mucous sur faces of t'ae system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and Kivinif the pa tient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing Ita work. The proprietors have so much fa th in ita curative were that they offer One Hundred Dollars or any case that It rails to cure. Be no. tor list of teatlmnnials. Address F. J. riir.sBY & Co, Toledo, 0. Sold hv Drtlirirlsta. 75o. Hall's Family Pllla are the bot. Life is a train of moo. Is, like a strinz of beads, and as we pass throuph them thev provn to be many-colored lenses which IKiint the world their own hue, and eac h shows only what lies in its focus. JVoTo-Bac Por Flrtjr Cento. Guaranteed tobacea habit eoro makes w.ik oieu ftrung, blood pure. 50c, $L All druucltt. Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity and controls youth and delights old aye. Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup r children teething, softens the gums, reducing Inflamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic Zjc. a bottle. The firt of the conditions on which de pends our nearness to the Deity is sin cerity. W nnist have a hearty love for the truth in everv person and subiect nnd in every place. To Car Constipation Forever. Take Casrareti Candy Cathartic, lOo or 25e. If C C C. fail to cure, drueghitt refund money. One of the illusions is that the present hour is not the critieal, decisive hour. write 11 on your heart that every nay if tne resi aay oi ine year. Pirn's Cora for ConaumntJrm kaa m as a Cough medicine. F. M. Aswnf. tt a Buffalo. N. Y Mar 8. 18M. The eoustant duly of every man to his fellows is to nseert'ain his own power? and sneeial gifts and to strengthen for tl help of others. toa't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Toar lift Away To qnlt toreceo easily aad forever, he nat retlc, full of life, nerve and vlitor, take No-To. Pac, the wonder-worker, that Bakes weak an tron. All droEKlsta. Me or SI. Curoeoaraa leed. Booklet and sample free. Addreat Star lins kemedjr Co.. Chlcwo or New York. Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it is the e fleet of idleness intemperance, prodigality and folly SS 1110 ,-gTkutaifT.fM.? cttwi pw qtTlggttfL TV m FACTS ABOUT THE HAWAIIAN. . w. rhrlarlan -Their Hawaiian, all .becom J"-" " . " i process of an tbrougn iu r--- nid -kapoo of one oi iu ' . KamXmehas. That worthy King, observing that It was eaeier km an enemy with a rifle than wltto a club. ZTLt th rifle, was the'7Uf ttans A he auaea ui . . . " kS to th head any who objected, fhe thing w. do,e a fast a. his cour iers could deliver his message to his loving subjects. , All nativ. women ride, fnll-blood. half-caste, and white, and WJ but in Honolulu ride men's saddles Th low-caste ride t,u''" -areless, slovenly manner, but the . hlg caste and whites, sitting astride an American horse-the possession of which Is almost a mark of rank-ride with a dash and style that ne to gee. On all the Islands but Oahu. and !' ,. outside of Honolulu. where fashions from "the States"! pre- 0. ...n w,nen all dress In a gown a V 11.11, lue , w... -- - falling straight from the "".f In this garment, called a holoku. they -mo man-fashion, the skirts being so very full they need not be divided. Pol, the staff of life of the native Hi wailans, is made of an esculent root called tarn, much resembling a big . The tara. raw, is pound ed into a thick, stiff pate In wooden j troughs, packed in matting, ana anuw ed to ferment When it is to be servad this is thinned to any desired consis tency in a calabash, ana c r - j the mouth by tne nngera. - blu in color and slight ly J ! but foreigners soon acquire a liking for It, especially when thinned with milk tat It , t J rrTb inhahlr Thest Wlti the? (vay). The ni.ssionane - . teenth. t but the natives won't have It, and continue to prouuuutr, v itance, the uame of the root from which pol Is made "kara," although the mis sionaries have it "tara." Every vowel In a word Is distinctly sounded, except that the vowels "al" are sounded "1," as in English. Waikikl, the beach where our soldiers take an ocean plunge during their stay In Honolulu. Is property pronounced -wKeeaee. There Is a great difference in the speech of the high and low caste natives. The first call their island group "Ha-va-ee-ee," and the latter begin It all right with "Ha," but conclude with a gut tural grunt; and tho word heard most, "Aloha," sounds soft and beautiful on the Hps of the first, but is a lazy, good natured grunt as the latter speak it Aloha is, in their limited vocabulary, at once a greeting and farewell, a formal expression of regard and of deep love. In tho latter case It is in creased In warmth and depth of mean ing by modifying adjectives annexed Instead of prefixed, as "Aloha nul," "Aloha nul loa," or even "Aloha nul loa kea!" and then it is time to speak to papa.' Our soldiers, so say the reports from Honolulu, were greeted with "Alohas" tnd "lels." The latter are wreaths of flowers made either to fit around the hat of a man or head of a woman, or more generously to hang over the neck and shoulders. The native women dis play much art In weaving the abund ant flowers into lels of much beauty. No matter how many men may leave i a ranch or plantation-house, nor how j early it may be In the morning, the I mistress has been busy with her maids, ! and every guest Is decked with a lei. A popular man departmlng on one of the little lnter-island steamers Is bade fare well by a hundred friends, who rub noses with him until the gong sounds, and then load him with lels so that he ran scarcely stagger up the gangplank. -New Tork World. Trials of teotares. TJader th title of "Some Reminis cences of a Lecturer," Dr. Andrew Wilson, the well-known writer on popu lar science, gives many amusing anec dotes of lecturers and their audiences. Most irritating to the former is a pro vincial habit of turning heads "en masse," when a door creaks, to ascer tain who Is coming In. Dr. Wilson tells a story of a lecturer who, when any one happened to com in lata in tho usual clumsy fashion, was In the habit of stopping short and watching the in truder to his seat generally with the effect of making him look sheepish and disconcerted. It happened, however, one day, while he was lecturing In a provincial town, that he was Interrupt ed by gentleman coming In late with a particularly Irritating pair of creak ing boots. The lecturer stopped, ac cording to his custom, and stared at the intruder, who seemed to be not in the least conscious that all eyes were upon blm. At length, getting out of pa tience, the lecturer, In an Icy tone, said: "I am watting for you. sir." Appar ently quit unmoved, the offender spent a few seconds in arranging his coat In his chair. Then, sitting down, be turn ed to th lecturer with a charming smile, and said: "Now. air. I am ready If you are. Pleas proceed r A Friendly Warnlns). "I have." said th traveler, "pene trated into the very heart of Africa's burning desert, and now I propose to go In search of the north pole." "WeU," replied his friend, "a an African explorer you may be all right but when you strike the arctic regions you'll find you're not so warm. Half the people can't write legibly, or pell, yet we continue to spend a great deal of money on "higher education." AritDian Iloraea i Arau,an norse can A good Arabian horse can canter In desert for twenty-four boura In summer and forty-eight hours In win ter without drinking. Natural Color of Sealskins Sealskins are originally of a lipht drab color, but as found in the market are always dyed. T. a me Proceaion. Maud!"n0 USe: WC an,t kLH'p up wlth nat s the matter now!" "She's got engaged by cable." Some artists know as little about a work of art a they do about the t of Tea teK, Tbl Tto. w nit tsi Us. APOLIO THE STEAMBOAT. An Old Enarlneer Vpeaka HI Ms Freely on an Interesting 6nbjee. u ,k. aM anlHnMf1! M4 ".das he looked up from his hi- tory book. "In what year did Mr. Ful ton Invent the steamboat?" "H didn't" responded grandpa, with a snap of his Jaws. Thia book says he did," protested the youngster. "W can't he.JP that, my lad, but comb vej br and let m tell yy some real history." Tb boy obeying by gladly firing hi book into a crnr and climb ing Into tb old gentleman' lap, the grandfather proceeded "AWay back yonder only about fifty years after Co lumbus discovered America, that la to sny, In 1648, when Charles V. was King of Spain, a Spanish captain named Elas co de Guerere put a two-hundred-ton steamboat on the water at Barcelona that made a record for Itself In no time. There was an exhibition run before the King and all his court and there wasn't a hitch in the whole trial trip. The se cret of the propelling power was un known, but there was a Wg tank of boil- - . jmtJW Ua L'nl. ing wnter and steam on ooara, ana there were two wheels visible on the outside of the hull As I said, she was success, and the King was greatly pleased and wanted his treasurer to buy the whole thing from Captain Guerere and build some government steam vessels, but the treasurer was away behind the times and poked around until Guerere took the engine out of the hull and let the boot rot in the water. As for himself be died from disappointment taking his secret to the grave with him. Spain had dlseovcre.1 America, and t. e effort had bi?en too much for her in the progressive line. r ; anJ kllled hlm. u n Simmy lam uu u ' h flred years after that the duISm as dull as It Is awamo on a Jeaternr CoRtecame Zo France from Normandy with an engine that would propel a vessel on the -- - . - much j, that was claimed for it and was without question quite aa successful as its suc cessors, yet the best Richelieu could do for de Cost was to shut him up in a mad-house for his persistence, where in good time, I suppose, the poor fellow died. Franca wasn't any better than Spain In the navigation business, and the steamboat interests languished for another hundred years, when up on the Potomac at Shepherd stown, Va., James Ramsey bad a steamboat that that highly respected citizen, George Wash ington, thought was a good thing, and advised him to push It along. Mr. Fitch ran in one about the same time, and poor Ramsey bad such u hard row to hoe with his invention that at last he gave it up In despair. Two hundred years wasted, my lad, and still no steamboat doing a regular passenger and freight business. The next trial we made by William Symington on the Forth and Clydo canal In Scotland, with the tug Charlotte Dundas, and nobody said then that steam navigation was a new thing. The Dundas towed for a while and was laid by because her wheels washed the banks of the canal. This was In 1802, and there was anotb er lapse until 1807. when the Fulton you mention shoved a little steamboat call ed the Clermont out on the Hudson Riv er and made a trip to Albany in her. He bad failed on the Seine and would have done It in America, but he had the money behind him this time and he got there exactly as Captain Guerere would have done three hundred years ahead of him if he had only had the backing. That's history, my child," concluded the old gentleman, "and whenever any body talks to you about Robert Fulton Inventing the steamboat you tell him what your grandfather tells you. Do you hear?" Detroit Free Tress. Unfortunate Patriotism. Patriotism has Its disadvantages. 8. X.i thistles grew In Australia till a Scots man planted some seed out of love for bis old country. It was a very natural but foolish deed, as now the thistle has multiplied Into millions, and gives a great deal of trouble. tlSflO AC 'Both my wife and myself have been uelus CASOAKkTS and thev are the beat medicine we have ever had In the house. Last week my wife was fruntio with headache for two days, she tried some of your CA SC A RETS, and they relieved the aia fa her head almost immediately. We both recommend Cascareta." Pittsburg Safe & Deposit Co., Pittsburg. Pa. CANDY a" Atfl A n-awa am TKAOS MASH RCOtSTIMD Pleasant, Palatable. Potent. Taste flood. In. Oood, i.over Sicken. Weaken. or Griie. 10c. ale, ... 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"Is thnt so? - Well, send over and tell I j Rcribbs I'm skk, and will have time to read that new novel be has Just written." A man is apt to suffer less from a cold than he Is from Innumerable remedies suggested by his friends. b Sctese. b neibetf.
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