1 My ImtoV a ansa. a never gvi nyjaa acnoonna; ax n. too bard sag rk I gueaa thene" trntSw i n ou lean lmplr looldn aft4 Upon the things that c' ata tanas ana come np in the areosdt There' sermons la the atpoea, tsatr nan I gum thy Ijlt at cijnt: There' lessons ia the leasee ana la the wiqii that fao.wla at alibi; There's lessons 4a the fljia' cUuss aa4 la the brook that flowf There's leseooa ia the raindrops and the os win of the crew. And the feller who don't know it better pat his books mi Ami lt ant awhile ap4iltaaeabat Ma ture has to say. I don't portend to be as wise as people who can write Big books about the distant stars that twinkle in the night; The man who's been to college and comes out with a degree Is probably more polished and far brain ier than me. Bat, still, when sicb a feller starts to make it plain and clear That everything; upon this earth jist sort of happened here Jist come all by itself without no help nor guidin' hand. From notbln' out of nowhere jist oc curred, you understand Why, then, I hare to think of things I see from day to day, - And wonder If Outdoors ain't the best school, anyway. Some folks portend they don't believe in Gotf, because, you see. They seem to think it's kind of smart to stand up and agree With educated fellers who are s'posed to be so wise, And who say a man quits bizness alto gether when he dies. But I guess, if you'll examine, you'll dis cover that the men Who have done the greatest things on earth all hoped to live agen! If Washington could go to church and praise Jehovah's name. It ain't no great disgrace for sich as me to do the same! Jist take a look around you! God's put lessons everywhere Why, there's sermons In the thistle-down that tumbles through the air! Cleveland Leader. THE LOCKET MAN. BABETTE thrust a hatpin Into Marie Antoinette's thinly-clad sawdust body. "I'm so lone some," she said, appealingly. But Marie Antoinette's classical china face re mained stolidly indifferent. "An we can't have any supper till mademoiselle gets those vests done. We didn't have much for dinner," she added, reflect ively. Mile. Cecilia, sewing by the window, smiled bravely at the childish face above the faded brown pinafore. Then she looked at the pile of heavy vests on the ohalr beside her and sighed: "Not yet, eharte," she said, "nave patience. We'll have a good supper after I got the money for them; perhaps some sweet crackers, too." Babette nodded gayly. She closed her door again and went back to her seat on the top stair. "We mustn't bother mademoiselle wbeu she's so busy, an' besides it hurts her to talk," she carefully explained to Marie Antoinette. Ah! Tee! Babbette remembered how mademoiselle used to sing In a church and at concerts, and earn such a lot of money till she lost her voice. "That's after sheMoptctTyou "anil. me. We're waifs, your. Marie." natlon. "An' she spent all ber money, an' they didn't make her voice well again. bji' now there's a big doctor come an' she's not got any money to go an' pt cured." Babette's uachlldlike. eyes grew big and solemn. "An' she don't tell os 'bout the 'locket man' any more. He's a nice man. When he was a little boy he lived right next door to made moiselle, way off in the country." 8he rocked her knees and sang part of a lullaby to Marie Antoinette, but Marie Antoinette wasn't sleepy. Babette grew tired of the stillness and the darkness. She wondered If It was too cold to go out She opened the door again and looked coaxlngly Into Mile. Cecilia's tired eyes. "We're going up to the corner, me and Marie, to see the birds," she said. Mademoiselle nodded. "All right, eherle, run along. Don't go any further, and come back soon." Out upon the streets boys were play ing marbles, their dirty hands blue with the cold, and the first hand organ of the season was grinding out a wheezy dance. Babette listened a moment, then, tucking Marie Antoinette securely un der one arm, went on up the street and stationed herself contentedly before the windows of a bird store. People smiled at the odd little figure. Some gave a few pennies, more passed. Babette took courage. Now It was a quaint Easter carol, now a lullaby, now an uneven chant She began to grow tired, and Marie Antoinette hung head downward in a dejected fashion. She was growing hungry, too, and the afternoon faded Into dusk. Made moiselle would worry If she didn't so soon; but there was so little money in the cup. A big tear splashed down the little dark face, and she wiped it away with Marie Antoinette's sprigged calico skirt Suddenly some one touched her on the shoulder. Babette looked up Into the brown eyes beat upon her. She noticed the pointed beard and curly hair, and a light came Into her eyes. "Why." she said, "it's the locket manl" The locket man smiled faintly. "Who's the "locket manT " he said. "Why, it's you It's Itichard. you know, in the locket in inad'.'iiiiiisr.. locket. You"re the little boy she us.'.! to tell me and Marie 'bout. We'rv dopted, me an' Marie." "What are you begging this way for: Mademoiselle must earn a good deal of money siugiug." he said harshly. Babette looked up Into his face. "O! but she sews vests now. an' w- dout have nice things any more, nn' b'.u- cries lots of nights. She's lost her voice, you know." Lost her voice Cecilia?" Babette uodded wearily. "An' she paid out all her money, ar' they couldn't make her well again, an' we cine to Poverty I'lats. an' there's a doctor who'll cure her, only all her money's gone an' I'm so hungry!" Babette's tired little voice broke, lie looked down at her. "Com.'." he said; "take me home with your' "Yes." he sa.d. coulidntly. "It'll ! all right now." Mile. Cecilia, sewing by the lit::, window that looked out over blacken.-;: roofs and tall chimneys, cried a lMtle u herself that afternoon. She wonderet" what was going to become f her anu Babette. r If she oulj hadn't Babette! But she wax n aaya ox prtjspsr- ttj; the little one was auch a loyal soul, asi teaWea she was French and tb poorfaons was a lonely placa for th orphan. Perhaps it would be better II ah bad let tie child go. There on iraa sure of aomethlnc to eat and i plaoe to sleep, at least, and aba wai aura of nothlnf any more. , She tbougbt of the dear old day: when her father -was aHve, teach In i French la the cooatry academy wbei Richard HeariaTway Jived jnat acroa: the garden. What good tamea they had toejetber tratll her father died. Bvery rhin waa different after tfeat. She had the taberlted Legrand pride aad lade peadesce. She would be no bulb' por tiaaJea -bride. She did not tell Richard that efaf knew he would not listen. She had slipped quietly away to the crty wHh her little stock of money, aad a friend of her father's bad helped ber oa to success. In the height of her prosper tty, after she had taken Babette, h read of Richard' departure to a West era State in the interest of a mlnlrr concern, and for awhile ber heart ba failed ber. What If he should neve; come back, or something should happe. that he would never know it waa fo him she waa singing and working fo. him, and not for fame? Then she lost her voice, aad she knev It was the end of all ber dreams. Shi fought bravely, but little by lKtie be money drifted away and her vole di not come back. The door opened and aome on stepped Into the room. She held ber work nearer the window Daylight was giving place to dusk' Shadows lurked In the low-celled co. nera. Where could Babette be? "I'm glad you've come back, eherle.' said mademoiselle, not looking op. "Cecilia, dear heart, don't send n. away!" "Dick, O Dick!" Then "she forgot her loot voice, b. poverty, her Independence, and we: Into bis arms like a child. And fro' the threshold she beard Babette sayii In her happy, tired voice: "It's the 'locket man' St' Ricbar Are yon glad, mademoiselle?" Bal: more Herald. Speller. An exchange give the story of a ma-, who Is learning to use a typewriter, ac Incidentally learning to spell. He at' mits that he Is not an apt scholar. Tli letters are bard to find, and the spaclr Is easily forgotten. But one thli amuses him. He Is learning to ape? and learning Just as he did when a bo;. Of course be could spell when he ta-. kled the typewriter, but not In the sani way. Now he distinctly enumerate each letter, and does It, too. with th greatest care. He finds himself spel. ing out the words In the newspaper and his wife says be spells In his sleep The other day the minister met him and asked him bow be was. "V-e-r-y w-e-I-L" be gravely speller out; and when the pastor looked amaz ed he realized what he bad done, and hastily explained the cause of the pe culiarity. The mluister professed to be greatly interested, and wanted to know all about It; and the speller Is worried for fear the parson will write a paper on the subject for some maga zine. When the minister went away he shook bands with his pnrishloner, and said. "Good-by." "G-o-o-d " began the speller. Then be recollected himself, and hastily add ed, "by." Hedges In time to wear out this pe culiarityTDd when he Increases his speed on lilt! Typewriter lie no doubt will. Pleasing the Fnblia. Critic You are not maintaining the high standard which you set at your theater when the season opened. Manager No; I've stopped encourag ing art to give the people wbat they want Philadelphia North American. A Safe Venture. "And do you love me for myself Myself alone?" she cried. "I do your fortune's in your name. Your daddy cannot lose the same," He candidly replied. The Hign. ' Extract ftom a letter written from college: "I am much rejoiced, dearest uncle, that you are coming to visit me next Monday. I will be at the station to meet the train. As we haven't seen each other for a long time, that I may easily recognize you, hold a 10 note In your right hand." Tit-Bits. Saying Nothing. Nellie (aged ) Mamma, yon said it was not right to tell tales about John. Mother Yes, that Is what I told you, dear. Nellie Well, then, I won't say nuffln', but I fink John ought to tell how be scratched me pretty soon. Harper Bazar. Hia Gneaa. Little Robert Papa, do you know who is was invented the phras "Weighed and found wanting?" I "a pa No; I don't remember his name, but I guess it was some fellow who put his goods on the scales after he got tbem home from the grocery. A CALENDAR THAT STATS. The calendar crop Is never short, at the post office people will testify. We always get our share, and begin the new year with a great assortment, but the one we select "for keeps" it that of N. W. Ayer & Son, the keep ing everlastingly at it advertising men of Philadelphia. This one spends the whole year in our company. It la a piece of fine printing, but its good looks do not constitute its sole charm. It is clear and plain. Utility bas been put first. He who seeks the date can find; he who writes may read. The mat ter on in Interests more people every year, but the edition la limited. While they last a copy can be obtained postpaid by sending 25 cents to the publishers. She Drew the Line. Ethel Mamma, I just can't consent to be the wife of Mr. Xewrocka. That dinner be invited me to yesterday set tled it. Mrs. Oldham Why, my child, what did be do eat with bis knife? Ethel Oh, I could stand that. He used a corner of the tablecloth for a napkin. They Worked in the Dark. "So burglars got into your bouse, did they? You don't seem to mind it much. Didn't they get anything? "Oh, yes; they took a lot of thing but they were all Christmas toys thai the children had nsed for a week.' "By jove, old man, you always wer a lucky dog." Crushed. He I have yet to see the woman who can pull the wool over my eyes. She I'm afraid yon pat It wrong, You probably have yet to see the wo man who would care to compliment you by try tag to pull the wool over yota I . - There la at times Uty. A certain representative of the Sultan of Turkey on one ore lea 'was perhaps to be excused for unbelief. tt was when the Duke of York bow the heir to the English throne, aad th commander of a battleship was a yooog midshipman, and his skip in Turkish waters. The story la ed for by Admiral Sir Frederick Bod ford, under whom Prince George served. Tb vessel called at a Turkish port to -oL and during this opera Uoa a rep--eaentatrre of the Sultan caaae to pay lis respects to his royal highness. He .ras courteously received by the cap tain, but In response said that H wa for the Prtoo bis vMt waa latoaaod. "I am la command," aald Sir Froder-;-k. "and the Prince Is aa officer, bnt lere he comes." At that moment the Queen's graad on, who waa in command of the comi ng party, and who was noted for ener y in the performance of hia duties, -ame up. That be was in command of he coaling party needed not to be ex 'lalned to the visitor. The fact was . .pparent He was a black a any of : he men. ' Tbe Turk turned away In disgust, re "uslng to believe that be waa face to race with an English prince, and left jvlth the conviction that be bad been joaxed. Youth's Companion. NERVOUS DEPRESSION. 4 TALK WITH MRS. PINKHAII. A woman with the blues is a very un comfortable person. She is illogical, anhappy and frequently hysterical. Tbe condition of the mind known as " the blues," nearly always, with wo men, results from diseased organs of generation. It is a source of wonder that in this age of advanced medical science, any person should still believe that mere "orce of will and determination tvill overcome depressed spirits and nerv ousness in women. These troubles are indications of disease. Every woman who doesn't under stand her condition should write to Lynn, Mass., to Mrs. Pinkham for her advice. Her advice is thorough com mon sense, and is the counsel of a learned woman of great experience. Read the story of Mrs. F. S. Bennett, Westphalia, Kansas, as told in the fol lowing letter: " Deab Mrs. Pinkham: I have suf fered for over two years with falling, enlargement and ulceration of the womb, and this spring, being in Buck a weakened condition, caused me to .low for nearly six months. Some time ago, urged by friends, I wrote to you for advice. After using the treatment which you advised for a short time, that terrible flow stopped. " I am now gaining strength and flesh, and have better health than 1 have had for the past ten years. I wish to say to all distressed, suffer ing women, do not suffer longer, when there is one so kind and willing to aid you." Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound is a woman's remedy for wo man's ills. More than a million wo men have been benefited by it, . RAM'S HORN BLASTS. Waralng Note Calling the Wicked to BtocnUac. w HE-N you cease to give, yon cease to possess. The "larger hope" may end In the deeper de spair. The way to watoh Is to work. Tbe Christian race is not a "go as - you - please" foot race. It requires abundant grace to with stand abundant prosperity. No man can follow Christ, and not have trouble with tbe devil. Your position In life to-morrow de pends on your character to-day. A high ideal is a standing invitation to reach a more exalted position. The man who loses his life in love, saws tbe seed of untold noble lives. Let the world mold your opinions, and It will soon squeeze all religion out The Sermon on the Mount Is hlghet than some church member care to live. The miser who is able (but unwilling) to relieve want Is truly a miserable man. Christ's p?ople have no disappoint ments: everything Is of divine appoint ment, The man who will not suffer for the truth will have to suffer for neglect ing it, Tbe exasperating trivialities of life are little lead line let down to fathom our religiu. Htra't Sama Good AdVlea. "The family doctor should din it in to the mother's head all of the time, that the health ot the ohildren lies in the feet No child should be allowed to go out into the snow or rain, or when the walking is wet, without rub bers. When children's, rubbers cost only 35 or 30 cents a pair, nobody can plead expense as an excuse. Many a fond mother who has lost a child, weepiugly lays it all to the inscrutable dispensation of Providence, when the whole trouble was the child had no rnbbers." American Journal of Health. Shaving Rates In Paris. ' The sanitary authorities of Paris iave Issued stringent instructions to barbers, informing tbem that all metal .nstruments must be plunged directly lfter use Into boiling soap water. All ;ombs of tortoise shell. Ivory or cellu loid must be replaced as far as pos lible by metal, so as to be more easily .'leaned and disinfected. Scissors, ra zors, clippers and brushes must be seated to 100 degrees centigrade, or placed In a receptacle containing a prescribed chemical solution, before ise. Shaving brushes must be dipped n boiling water. Instead of powder puffs, blowers must be used. Finally, lairdressers must wash their hands be fore passing to another customer. Tb?r Arc Slow. "I was down at New York last week and bad a queer experience." "What was that?" "I couldn't find a burlesque of 'Cyra no do Bergorac' at any of tbe theaters." Female Drummers In Berlin. Berlin bas female commercial travel- i rs who go their rounds on tricycles, to which are attached their boxes of sam ples. Uttle boats are seldom stranded. Don't shear a goat to get One wan, ,, inniiiuiiiii It is the easiest thing LUV.UAGO On LAKE ST. No remedy bas made sorer and quicker cures than , IT RELAXES THE PONTIUS PILATE'S BIRTHPLACE. Ha Was a Native of Fortlaaall, Perth antra, Scotland. One of tbe strangest links with the past which can be found In this country is supplied by the obscure village of Fortingall. ia Perthshire, which tradi tion points out as the birthplace of Pon tius Pilate, says Lloyd's Weekly News paper. Fortingall lies In a beautiful and Sequestered mountain vale some ten miles west of Aberfeldy, in a district ,'lch In memories of FingaL Wallace tnd Bruce. Near the village are the re - -.tains of a Roman camp, where, at the -pglnning of the Christian era, tbe sol iiers of tbe Empire were posted to uard tbe pasage from the Highlands (trough Olenlyon. This encampment Is robably not earlier than the time of Vgrlcola, and before he was made the Scottish king Metellanus held bis court tt Fortingall, and received an embassy .'rom Augustus. One of the ambassa lors, we are told, was the father of ?ontlus Pilate, and here tbe future (Governor of Judea is said to have been born shortly before tbe nativity of our Savior. Tbe embassy at Metallanus Is sufficiently well authenticated In the following passage from Holllnsbed. It was sent at a time when Augustus seems to have been pursuing a scheme for universal peace by means of a sort if early concert of Europe: "Ambassadors came from Augustus o Cymbellne. King of Britain, exfcort ng him to keep bis subjects in peace vith all tbelr neighbors, with tbe whole world, through means of the same Au gustus, was cow In quiet, without all wars or troublesome tumults. These ambassadors went also unto Motellanus, the King of the Scottishmen, exhorting him to acknowledge a superorltie is th Romane Emperour, unto whom the people Inhabiting in the farthest part of tbe East bad sent their ambassadors with rich Jewels to present to his per son withal. Wherewith Metellanus, being partite mooved to have a frlend lie amltle with the Romanes, he sent Into Rome certelue presents to the Em perour, and to the gods In the Capitol) In signe of honour, by which means he obtained an amltle with tbe Romanes, which continued betwixt them and his klngdome for a long time after. Thus a generall peace was then reigning throughout the whole world. It pleased the Giver and Authour of all peace to !e borne at tbe same time of that bless ed Virgin Marie, In the cltie of Bethlem in the tribe of Juda, which most blessed and salutlferous birth did come to passe In the 12th year of his reign .Metellanus) and In the 42d of Augus tus bis empire." As the old historians rect rd, Pilate's later years were clouded by misfor tunes, and, like Ovid, he was sent Into exile, soon after writing that famous epistle to Tiberius, which Is alleged to exist to this day In tbe depths of the Vatican library. He perished by sui cide at Vlenne In Dauphine, about 39 A. D., or, aa Casslodorus says, "over whelmed by grievous misfortunes, he turned hi hand agalust himself, and took away his own wicked life." Jack'a Point of View. Hi little sister pouted: ' think it was a shame For yon to get the scolding Why didn't some oae tell thee. The troth about the ball That Freddy Fearing threw it. And it wasn't you at all? But that's tbe way it always is It's just tbe same old song When any mischief happens It's Jack who's in the wrong! And other boys, I'm anre of it. - Are every bit as bad. I'm sick of such injustice! It make me bopping mad!" Tack kissed his little sister: "Oh, don't you fret!" he said. With a twinkle in his laughing eyes "And don't yon peach on Fred. I told the little beggar (He was scared to death, you see. When tbe ball went through the window) To leave it all to me. Nobody fibbed about it; Bat the fellows ran away. 'Twas just the situation Somebody had to stay. Of course I caught it heavy. Bnt bless you! think what fun For me to get a scolding For a thing I hadn't doner St. Nicholas. Cure flanranteed br DR 'j. B. M A YEH.1015 ARCH ST.. PH1LA-. PA. Eue at once: no operation or delay from business. Consultation lrc. KiutorMuneata ol physicians, ladles sod Erominent citizens. Send lor circular. UtBca ours 9 A. M. to l P. .M. Friendship is pie. a mortgage on princi- Kdaaata Voar Bowel wltn Casesnls. Candy Cathartic, cure const! pat on forever JCc, Sc. If c.C.C. fall, driiRRlsti refund money. Investigation is a cure for prejudice. Every blessing brings an obligation. Beaatr la Blood Deep. Clean blood means a clean skin. So beauty nlthouilt. 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LtJt " JACOBS OIL STIFFENED MUaOLEa. FOB LITTLE FOLKS. A COLUMN OF PARTICULAR IN TEREST TO THEM. oaaethlna: that Will Interest th fsi Tenlle Mesa be ra of vor Horns meld -Qaaint AeMona and Briat Baying of Mauay Cats and Cnnnlns Chlldroav Th ahrike's ordinary method of cap turning prey oloeely resembles tbat of the fly-oatchor, to which, however. It Is not really related. The resemblance Is merely one of those due to similar ity of habit. Every well-conducted butcher-bird has a settled perch or pitch on which be sits to watch and wait, and to which he returns after each short excursion. Files and bees be catches on tbe wing, darting down upon them suddenly with a swoop like a king-fisher's; but he also often takes them sitting, espe cially when they are seated on a leaf r-r a branch, or are eating carrion. One of his favorite bunting-boxes If a telegraph wire, and he prefers one tbat crosses the corner of a wood; there be will sit with bis head held sapiendy on one side, keeping a sharp lookout from his beady brown eyes in every di rection. If a boo light on a head of clover. If a cockchafer stir, if a mouse move la the grass, if a fledgling thrush make a first unguarded attempt to fly woo betid the poor Innocent; our butoher-bird Is upon him, with a fierce, darting beak, aad In ten seconds more his writhing body adds to the store in the shrike's larder. A good place and time to watch a butcher-bird at work is in a quiet field by a copse Just after the mowing. But you must bide carefully. Tbe short grass Is then full of beetles, crickets and grasshoppers, as well as of mice, shrews and lizards, which can conceal themselves less easily than they were wont to do In tbe long hay before tbe cutting. At such times, hawks snd owls made a flue livelihood In the fields; but their habit is to hunt their quarry on tbe oien. They hover and drop upon It. Tbat Is not tbe butcher-bird's plan; he Is a more cautious and secret foo; he sits oasnally on his branch or bis tele graph wire, with his head on one side, till his prey stirs visibly: then he rounces on him from above, making a short excursion each time, and return ing to rest on IDs accustomed position. ' When he catches a bird, and eats It at once, be begin t by spitting It on a thorn; then he attacks the skull first, breaking It through and eating the brain, which is his favorite tid bit. He also raids on the nests of other birds, and carries off the nestlings. Grant Allen. Lord Fanntlerov Ta Changed. When Little Lord Fauntleroy was a long-haired, wide-collared boy he was devoted to a ball some one bad given him, so bis faithful chronicler says. Once, wben It rolled beneath a dray, be wept to see the thin be bad loved and cherished so mangled by cruel wheels. A few weeks ago Little Lord Fauntle roy Victor Burnett was an active lartldpant in a foot-ball game. Of course, every one knows that Mrs. Bur nett was merely historian of her son when she wrote her famous book. It interested a great many persons to see bow Victor Burnett treated the ball. He kicked It so far that he came near making a new football record. He kicked It so bard tbat ho was a ber with a mob cheering his name like mad. And for the second time he was a hero this time a football hero In stead of a book hero. Where Beaaonlns; Failed. "Mamma, have I any children?" asked little 5-year-old Ella upon her return home from Sunday schooL "Why, no, of course- not! Wbat put that Idea into your bead?" replied the surprised mother. "Because," an swered the little lady, "our lesson at Sunday school to-day was about peo ple's children and their children's chil dren." Knowledge of the Abatract. "Wbat is an abstract noun, Nellie?" asked tbe teacher, of a bright little glrL "Don't know," was the answer. "You don't know!" exclaimed the teacher. "Well, it's the name of something you can think of but can't touch.' Now, can yon give an example?" "A red-hot poker," was the surprising and prompt reply. Queer Facta About China. China, or "the Celestial Empire," as tt V sometimes called. Is a land of mys tery and curiosities to most of us. From an American point of view the Chinese do many things "upside down," and even nature seems to ape this, to us, contrary system. For Instance, the Hwang-bo. or Yellow River, one of the two largest rtvers in the . empire, through a large portion of its course Is higher than the surrounding plain. An other river, the Han Keang, Is only 200 feet wide at Its mouth, but grows wider as tbe distance from Its mouth Increas es. -In the summer this river Is higher than It natural banks, with tbe result that, wore It not for walls that hold tbe water ha check, the surrounding conn try would be under water for the great er part of tbe year. An Incomplete Education. Visitor Well, Tommle, how are yon getting on at school? Tommle (aged 8) First rate. I abat doing as well as some of the other boys, though. I can stand on my bead, but I have to put my feet against the fomco. I want to do tt without being near tbe fence at aH, like some of the boss do, aad I can aftet rvo Men to AS HIS MOTHXB'S HKHO A3D AS HIS COL Ltei'll HE BO. EAtrL nraa..s-C---tot" T5m Mass, Alway of ' . at th Eplph' Sunday acnooi - JTb Church nad. nj Ths subject werterday UdelpM. i. nan uicr Wrh Christian Armor, OBOUgb to .. thaw were fortunate Droxel IbsO- hav rw MacAJiSter os . . . ahAni tne 2 , arnmT Med during th. ly kind of armor usea u"? .mm mnch day. of Christianity. to Tbe armor of -rly tlm exceedingly scarce, there brtnf w aunpve. of It in this f utry - -av hmnui. luu fi- - fastened together witn ,'ZZa t" helmet, the shield and the sworj The dashing-looking JJ our rmy officers wear are loose worn in Paul's time The, ' were tea, than two feet long. ) broad at the end. and were Wunt B-W wars been muoh beautified. Three thousonT year, ago the Egyptian, spared no pains on theirs, and down in the middle ago they made them or wild gold, in Psul's time metal ar mors were solid metal, hinged, It was In the middle ages that they had armor of steel net The specimens shown were Fersiw armor, of a later date. In damascened bronse. At this time they had armlets. The armlet goes on the outside of the sword arm. and has a piece hanging down over the hand; tne snieia, course, protects the left arm, wnicn carries It. To be a Christian then was no easy matter, when the powerful Roman empire was doing its oest (or bettor. Its worst) to stamp K out. RECENT INVENTIONS. A Texan has patented a billiard cue which is chambered at tbe end and fill ed with chalk, to be discharged through a small opening to the face of the cue as each shot is made. In a new English bicycle saddle a metallic ring, supported by braces. Is strung with straps or other flexible ma terial to form a flat seat which springs with the weight of the rider. To ascertain the size of finger rings a new measuring device has a flat base on which the finger Is placed, with graduated bars to surround the finger and Indicate the size of ring needed. In an Improved footrest for boot blacking stands clamps are provided for the sole and heel portions, which can be adjusted to Ct any foot and clamped in place by a lever at the side of the base. In a new Jack-screw for raising heavy bodies tbe spiral ribs Inside the frame are replaced by a series of steel balls which mesh in the grooves on the threaded shaft and decrease tbe fric tion as tbe shaft Is turned. A handy hitching post has a spring drum inserted in the top, on wblcb is wound a cord with a srap book at the outer end for attachment to the bridle, the spring pulling the rope into the post wben not in use. A bandy cup for drinking purposes has a weighted section formed under the flange In the bottom, so that the cup can be dropped Into the spring when not In use. tbe weUhl keenlns- it in sn upright position as It floats. Bags can be quickly fastened by an Ohio man's device, consisting of two steel members pivoted together, with a yoke on one which locks over teeth on tbe other member as they are pressed over the mouth of the sack. A Dismal Outlook. "Why should you worry? You've got a rich uncle who Is on his last legs, and you're his nearest relative." "Oh. yes. I know, but a grass widow has Just moved into the flat across the hall." Wo are glad every day that we live in a town in which the society Is too sensible to use the word "debut" A good wife maketh a good husband; the bad ones are all self-mad. .We know or notning better to tesr the lining of your throat and lungs. It is better than wet feet to cause bronchitis and pneumonia. Only keep it up long enough and you will succeed in reducing your weight, losing your appetite, bringing on a slow fever and making everything exactly right for the germs of con sumption. stop coughing and will gst well. you ?h of every kind. An ordinary cough disap pears in a sfns night. The racking coulhs of bronchitis srs seen Completely mas tered. And, if not too far along, the coughs of con sumption are completely Ask your druggist for one Of Dr. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Plaster. It win sid the notion of the Charry Pectoral. ODIaalQ. peep ' a Aprs WSfj ) ii 1 1 1 TmS? ? Too. Address. I I I 5- AYEB, LeweU. Mass. I Every farmer's wife knows how necessary it is that the milk buckets, pans, churns, and other implements of the dairy be perfectly clean and free from taint. A com mon yellow soap that smells of rosin should never be used for washing these. Such soaps are made of materials that you would not use for any purpose. Besides, they are sticky and the soap will get into the cracks and corners and stay there. Ivory Soap is pure, it is well made, and only sweet, clean materials are used. Then it rinses readily. IVORY SOAP IS 99V- PER CENT. PURE. n-..i.u ills T niiiiiHMiinii"" TTTTxj-jLa.ji tun axajErTin UNFRIENDLY TO SCIENCE. rhe Fqnatter IMdn't Like to near ine Nelathbornooa wprroa" Manv persons who are considered "well Informed," as the saying goes. have moods in which tney wisn inej harl never heard of micro oes ana um- ease germs, but the following account nf a "sauatter's" state of mind upon this point must at least be greauy over-, drawn. We And it in tne ou iu Post-Dispatch, and reprint it ior us humor rather than for it scientific or historic value. It was a squatter's cabin on the bor der of a swamp, and the squatter nim self sat smoking his pipe as tbe Colonel rode up and asked for a drink of water. One of the half-dozen children ran to the swamp with a gourd and filled it, but tbe Colonel turned away, and said: 'I can't drink tbat stuff; It's full of young tadpoles." 'Yes, they do seem to be pretty thick," replied the squatter, as he blew a cloud of smoke above his head. 'I should think you'd be afraid to swallow these things." said the Colonel. "Don't see notbln' to be afraid of. sab. Reckon It's wuss on tbe tadpoles than on us. Been drlnkin' it right along ; for twenty years, and nobody's been hurt yit" 'There must be lots of malaria around here." Mebbe they are, sab. but I haven't seen one as I knows of. Do they walk or fly?" 'Malaria Is what breeds chills and fever," explained the ColooneL "Oh, that's it? Must be round here. lnen' oouga we ain i worrym any. i out you sooumnii tiive- nrtbis nis- "Dunno wbat your miasma Is, but if she tackles this family she'll git the worst of It Wealnt takln' a bluff from anything." My friend," continued the Colonel, as he looked around, "Id you ever bear of bacteria?" "Never, sab. Does he walk or fly?" "And did you ever bear of a mi crobe?" "Never did. Is he on tbe fight?" "How on earth you can live here, con tiguous to this pestilential morass, with tbe air weighted down with malaria, is more than I can understand." The squatter looked np to the man on horseback for a long minute, as If puz zling over the words, and then queried "What's 'contiguous' mean?" "It means alongside of." "And-wbat's 'pestilential T " "Sickness and death." "And what's a 'morass?' " "A swamp." "Look here, stranger," continued tbe squatter, as be rose, knocked the flre out of his pipe, and looked very serious. "I've lived here all my life, and I've seen a thousand people go along this road, but you are the first critter who has gone at It to upset me. and make me feel discontented and unhappy." a J1 Taa "lDaDly "Peaking of the situa tion, explained the Colonel. "And so am I, sah. and the situation are Jest this: You've come along and made up faces at my tadpoles, you've throwed malaria and miasma at me you ve-talked of pestilence and morass and microbes, and you've Jest got me o riled up that I'm bound to sfy that irUn W"Dt to 8k fur Oaw of terbacker or a drink of whisky. 01 wasnt intendln' to stop and talk poll- J StE? aK,ttln, Md k-p riht ' rttL Ton ma P" all right In aome parts, but I'm dawgoned if you ain't twice too particular J ""- as we are aronnrl yere." cZ. TOtDO SB. nd by ih aaa of Haijs CaTABaa. 8wan.tob.for. m. .""SibT.". tftlMayateau Sondfor toatlmonlata riS? HaU a ramify PUlsara th beat. Law ia an esrraiiiA. i.t . never mari. it - VIOIII tous or temperate 11 T C.uS toeS! thartte, lOo or 2S& "to CDr. dnifflsis refund moaeyl v arew ones from sprouting. Dr. Sath Arnold's Cnn.1. win . msdlcln. for v.iT V nn- ba,w 4 JL WtflAtft MS.. til to be KoveTra "I " 8u?er h'elf other. or attempu to a-overn Memory Will . tT.rTlP,TiDaJ Examiner V. 8. Peis'0" "Ti " nsaaaawaaawawaasassaaaaam ' J,raluc"r,liadjudicatiui:ttoi-iis.attyiuii S. ut,i rs ... -w uUn3 uutiives Death " 8APOLIO J "" Hoboon at Sunday School. When the Sunday school of St. Pani'i Church, Greensboro, assembled om Sunday morning, several years api says a correspondent, a young man lj the uniform of a naval cadet appear and took bis place in a class of old boys. He was greeted cordially and the lea son pointed out to him. but he waa al ready prepared for the recitation. At riving from Annapolis only the da; be fore, to spend his vacation with' hia family, he had taken pains to find from a neighbor what the lissou was to be, and had prepared It with the same care that he bas since given to the study ol problems In naval construction or de struction. For the young naval cadet was Richmond P. Hobsou, churchman, scholar and hero. Reanltinar Kxpeam. "That woman tried to beat tne down on the price of quinine." "What did she say?" "She said I ought to make it 19 centi cheaper because she had to pay ber lit tle boy to take It" BETTER THAW BUTTI Batteiine la. That Is. t: is better thu tw? nswrly ail batter. '1 h beat hatter that ri -iopro-daced ia as ffood u Batterine. It isn't better. It csvu't be. And the batter is Kwd only u tru J moment It cumm from tbe churn. It doesn't tuy W: DUtivruu Duuenne rtiJiiiiu in jir-i y ouij . for few KsomAatk Tteiit,ter Ning t deieno- J, rateirnmediaselr. Tbe Bntterii:'3j-a'C" Why do on not buy Bat Term t It'e became you tvre prejudiced. Yon hire Swes told that Batter me U artificial. What dees .rttfarul mean It mean a ane:y 1 1 thin - rrtin te circumstances. Battenne in artitii-i&L trr. Batteiine is manufactured by a jirt--.-Batter la manufactured bv it pnws. One u jut as artificial as tho other, the eleuionrs ot totb in produced by nature. Both come fr m Hie u tuiim.il. And the elements are pratL-ally in.ifntVal. That's wliT bat'er can't be better 'h-vu Bat term Pure Klondike gold can't beany iwtt tbn pi Cri-ple CreaX gold, liold is po.d. Cer a ii wifUirtiu are the same whether in bat'er r Batteni whether la the milk or the fat of a co t. The diderenee between Btirt-rii.e aid the wet batter Is mostly In the prix-es- ot m. iu (t- Tl Batteraie proceed is suj erior and in a gtiarantes of Jnwlth all its merits Butteriue costs lew thu butter only 15r. per fK,und. Aid at this lu price we will send it to you .pre pre; aid. lu lt packages in 1 lb prints. M tb packages in 8 t rolls. 4u tb packages (solid . You are enjoying other modern masterpierei of science: why not this wnulesome and ecuaumical one r We want you to try it. 11 KIN Ac O.. SOS tb street, V VVawkiwgtoa. P. t , P. O. Bu PIE3I "JIT wife bad pimple on her fare. bat she has been taking CASCAUETS and tbef have aU disappeared. I bad been trouble with eoastipation for some time, but alter Is In the first Cascuret 1 bavo had no trouble with this ailment. We cannot six-ak too hili ly of Casoarets." Frkd Waiiimss. 670b Oermantown Ave.. Philadelphia. Ps Good. Kerer Slckao. Weaken, or Gripe l. w- ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... . Sttrilas Btawaj Caaaaay, Cklwsa. !"!. Sead Postal for Premium List fo the Pr. if Arnold Medical Corporation. Woonsocket. u- FOR FIFTY YEARS! MRS. WlNSLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP i asea mltltoniof motbew tot I vhtlo TeefAtof forarer rmr - minm srina ouuv. - -.. . . i BaW OUICK RELIEF FEMALK PI J Believe. 2 Days. St. 00. 1021 Soul h St.. QDQpQYl i J"1""- Sal or bo5 ot tm MEWDIBCOVEKT;i ..i.tnli.fud CO wm'i w dw. munnoiw. fl at Vrvr. s, a okEFs's boss, aum" minus asriMsa I riTKEO On. bnttie-r--..- nnCUMAIIdM relief In tanors. i-ot PJ. ' 7 M BDT Co.. 24 Green wh ' WANTKD-Caaeof liad health that H I P ' ?UI not benefit. Kend ct to Klpans ("uernWJ 'o- Now York, for 10 samples and luuo tesumoni S 1131 n a a aaa aa PATENTS WSTTWS a. 1 "i ' - - . . Pvpn You: Qhine If You Ui se IV CANDY If U CATHARTIC Jl TKADSMASa RfOiaTl'EOgsyT f aaa baea Lawyer. SOI F 31 re-'t 1 a. K. Hlrrimi (. .nr- Succesafuiiw Prosecutes Clatrns. - 1 a,i-i-ga HlSdMai.
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