emnltnre. bnt ft A HUNDRED VCARS FROMrrftft. Tfcs muring sea st human llf 'JoTOTIt onward roUn. And bean to ths eternal ahore Its dintj freight of souls. Though bravely tails onr bark to-day, paV deatn uti at the orow. ad few shall know we ever lived a hun dred years from now. O, mighty haman brotherhood! why fierce ly war and strive. While God's great world has ample space for everything alive? , Broad fields, uncultured and unclaimed, are waiting for the plow Of progress that shall make them bloon a hundred years from now. i Why should we try so earnestly In life's short, narrow span On golden stairs to climb so high abovt our brother man? Why blindly at an earthly shrine In slav- Ish homage bow? Our gold will rust, ourselves be dust, a hundred years from now. O, patient heart, that meekly bears yoni weary load of wrong! Or earnest heart, that bravely dares, and, striving, grows more strong! Press on till perfect peace la won; you'll never dream of how Ton straggled o'er life's thorny road, a hundred years from now. Grand, lofty souls who live and toil that Freedom, Right and Truth Alone may rule the universe, for yon is endless youth; When 'mid the blest, with God yon rest, the grateful lands shall bow Above your clay In rev'rent love, a hun dred years from now. Newark Advertiser. I Recalled to Life. S BLAZING noon inthe dog days. A steady, unwinking glare of sunlight blisters the paint on the railings of Cavendish square. A band som pulls up at Dr. Caffyn's house in the hottest corner of the square. A tall man alights, rings, and Is forth with admitted. There are only three persons before him. An elderly lady, with a small boy, who wriggles uneasily in his chair, and a young girl, who sits alone at the table, turning over a volume of John Leech's drawings. Burton seats him self by one of the heavily curtained windows and falls Into a reverie. The preternatural silence which fol lows does not last long. The door opens. A servant bows In the direc tion of the pair, and the boy Is borne off shrinklngly. Again the door opens the girl looks out interrogatively, then rises and goes. Only one prisoner left now in the condemned cell. Burton yawns, with an air of relief, and saunters to the table. He Is bat tling with an uncomfortable feeling of having been in this room, with the self same people, at some remote stage of his past life. Wonders if this con pos sibly be one of the symptoms of his Illness? At this moment the opening of a door in the hall, a faint murmur, and a light footfall warn the last victim that his hour has come. He rises and follows the servant. "Quite so," remarks Dr. Caffyn, a thin, weasel-faced man, after exam ining his patient. "Quite so! You are er er " vaintly hunting for his card. "Burton Is my name. Middle Tem ple barrister and journalist." "Quite so!" repeats the physician, with the air of one arriving with some difficulty at the truth. "Hard-worked la your profession, Mr. er Burton?" "No; not very much. I have not been able for much lately, owing to that faintness I told you off. Would I not be the better for a change of air to brace me up a little. Dr. Caffyn?" "The fact Is," says the physician, leaning back In his chair and fingering his eye-glass; "the fact is, my dear sir, I can give yon only a poor report of your health. Nothing that I or any ne else can give you will do you much good." "Plainly speaking, Dr. Caffyn," he says, rousing himself at last, "how long have I to live?" "Not more than a few months, I fear," returns the other, feelingly. "Five or six at most. But you may find some temporary relief from this," banding the prescription, and rising. "Come and see me, Mr. Burton, when you like. Avoid worry, excitement, late hours, and er good morning." He passes through the still hall into the blazing sunlight once more the life-giving sunshine which will never again minister health and strength to him. A letter awaits him at his chambers. Mechanlcnlly he opens It. What does It matter? What does anything matter now? It is from Kite & Prabblc, the pub lishers, to the effect that the first edi tion of Mr. Burton's novel, "Thothmes," having been exhausted in three weeks, they purposed going to press with a second edition. In view of the unpre cedented demand. Meanwhile they in closed a check for $2,500, in terms of contract, and remained his obedient ly "Too iatef he exclaims, bitterly. "Too later "So you really like the book?" "Tea, very much," she replies. "I have never read anything which touched me so deeply." They were walking In a Devonshire lane, the niece of the rector of Dalilng tou and Burton. The people at the rec tory were old friends of his family, and It was there that he had met EmlHe Conyers. The book they had Just been discus sing was "Thothmes," his own acon riuous novel, but he had not told her lie was the author. Not worth while Bow, he thought to himself. "Tell me something you like In Thothmes, Miss Conyers. I I read it lately." "O, well, there Is that fine passage about recognition no, recollection, rather. I liked that about remember ing what is happening now as having occurred at some far back date of one's life. By the by" this with a vivid blush "that reminds me! Do you know, Mr. Burton, I am quite sure that I have seen yon somewhere before wo met here? I can't remember where, though I have tried somewhere, not long ago." "I am sure I can't say,' be says, quietly, looking down Into her frank, brown eyes. "I don't think we have met before, and yet ah. well! perhaps It Is only the same curious feeling you were Just speaking of, and to which I allude I 1 mean the author of Thothmes' alludes In your favorite passage. Do you know that the physi ologists tell us new that all that sort of thing arises from a mere twisting of eur nerve fibrin T Of ovens, before their stroll ended. be kad confi ft rl-foc though he may hare only a few montHs to live. And be also told her gently of his asrjroachlna- f at. . ! She was only a young girl, bat'iffia had a woman's heart, and as be ton his Sad story and bow fame was com lng to him, an too late, her eyes were wet with sympathetic tears. "One word with you, Barton, ToefoFe yoa go out," quoth the rector of Dftl- lington a few days later. "Ton "re member telling me about that L6ttArVJh physician yoa consulted and who yon sucn a Daa account oi-your n What was his name? "Caffyn Dr. Caffyn CWeMtiisn square. "Ah! X thought so. DldaVapSeb ed him?" "No; not at all. I went to him by'a friend's recommendation.'' "My dear fellow," said the rector, effusively, putting his bands on the other's shoulders, "I have something to tell yoa. Take It easily, now don't get flurried." Here he whispered something. -"Ton don't say so?" "Yes, it Is a positive fact. Why, my niece here was nearly frightened out of her wits by the same man, not many weeks ago. 'He told her she had only a month or two to live. I fancy Dr. Caffyn has a mania for passing deatn sentences on people. In fact, they say he is dying of some incurable malady himself, and this colors bis diagnosis. It is the same Devonshire bine la which they nro walking a trifle closer together than before. "You gave me a new lease of life, darling," he whispers. "Why, It was Sir Percival who did that," she answer, roguishly; "or was It Kite & Prabble?" "You arch tease! No, Mllly; If It had not been for you I would, by this time, have died from the fear of death." "Don't be foolish! By the way, when are you to begin the new novel your publishers are writing for?' "O, soon. Whenever a certain cere mony is over," he replies, laughing. "Have you got a hero for It?" "No hero in It! Only a heroine." "What is her name?" "Milly! And the title of the book, 'Recalled to Life.' "London Evening News. NAMING OF MEDICINE HAT. Sneer A ppellatlon of the Ch epton Cold Weather Town. "Tes, sir, I can tell you bow our town came to get its queer name," said George W. North, of Medicine Hat, a guest at the Palmer. "Poor Lo Is re sponsible for the name. Now, the In dian is the most superstitions chap alive. Nobody believes in luck half so much as he does. 'Good medicine' with him is anything that brings him good luck, and 'bad medicine' is Just the re verse. Every Injun that amounts to anything has his 'medicine.' It's his 'lucky penny,' so to speak, and be de pends upon It largely for good luck. Often he carries it in a little buckskin bag around his neck, and Just as like as not he won't tell you for love or money what it Is. Again be will make a fuss over it and Insist on letting ev erybody know all about it. I knew one buck whose 'good medicine' was the top of a tomato can which he wore on his breast "Well, to get back to Medicine Hat, thjre was a famous Blackfoot chief who lived somewhere around in that part of the country. He divided his time between hunting and making war on the Crees. This chief's 'good medi cine' was a most gorgeous headdress of feathers. He called it his medicine hat, and It was the luckiest 'good medicine' in all the region around. Well, one day he fell upon the Crees Just about where our town now Is, nud he smote them hip and thigh. He was in a fair way to wipe the Crees out of existence when along came a gust of wind and lifted the magic bat off his head. That was bad enough, but worse was to fol low. The wind whirled it np on high, carried It faster than he could chase it on his pony, and finally dropped it in the Saskatchewan River. That was too much for Mr. Blackfoot. He lost all confidence In his luck. Instead of re turning to the flpht and pressing home his victory he turned tail and ran for dear life, followed by all his tribe. "That's how our town on the south fork of the Saskatchewan got its name. Personally, I hope It will never be changed. It's a hundred times more desirable than the one thousand and one inane names that one runs across all over the continent" Chicago Inter Ocean. He Dl I Not Understand. Mamma I hope you have not been quarreling with your little cousin from New York. Little Waldo It was impossible to avoid it, mamma. He Is such an un truthful child. He promised faith fully not to do a single thing to me If I recited Browning to him, and when I did he beat me most unmercifully. New York Journal. - Enforcing the Rales. "The gentleman from Squedunk Is a thief, a liar, and "Bang!" went the gavel, and the pre siding officer exclaimed: "The gentle man will please address his remarks to l he chair." Philadelphia North Amer Van. - Insurance Against Adverse Verdicts. Lloyds underwriters are now doing a new form of insurance. A litigant In the Supreme Court, who is an appellant or respondent in an appeal from the verdict to the court of appeal, can in sure against an adverse decision. The rate of premium depends on the legal reputation of the Judge whose decision Is questioned, and ranges from 00 per rent, in the case of a Judge, who m appointed solely for political serrfcrs and is a bad lawyer, to 10 per cent in the case of Lord Chief Justice Russell, who has the smallest percentage of re versals since his appointment There is a fixed rate for every Supreme Couit j nitre. 1 ased on information supplied liy leading lawyers practicing before Mm. Strange Salt In Oklahoma. A suit at Oklahoma City has brought out a most curious train of circum stances. A woman secured a divorce from her husband, together with a large amount of alimony. The divorced husband then entered Into an agree ment with a good-looking young man in the neighborhood whereby the young man was to pay court to the woman, marry her, get control of ASX her prop erty and divide It with the divorced husband. The young man carried oul his agreement to the letter and thee fied the country. The salt Is now brought by the woman to recover the property of which she waa dafraaded by the eownng - In UfAjf lkxtA T. e brmnjr babe, tossed blithely to an) rro -Rests en Amanda's apron white as snow In LapUind. Full well he fares, no epicure is he. Upon a diet that would frighten me In Papiand. Anna h? 1.1 an urchin and most learn "Globes" with "geography" and take his turn In Mapland. If he is idle and his books will flout. There is a ruler, and he'll have a boat In Rapland. Or. it may be. his fate is harder yet. And he will spend a time he won't forget In Strapland. But like the longest lane, the laggard' day Will end at last and Tom will snore 'away In upland. A COUNTESS AS A GAIETY GIRL. Divorced Wife of Earl Raasell Creates a Sensation la London. One of the social and dramatic sensa tions of London was the appearance daring the season of a real live Count ess as a "gaiety girl." The Countess Russell furnished this sensation, and Incidentally she has raised more than one" furore during her dramatic life. Countess Russell Is the daughter of the late Sir Claude Scott, a well-known London banker. Mabel Edith Scott was young and pretty when she mar ried the grandson of the great English statesman. Lord John Russell, In 1SU0, and became the Coun'ess Russell They had not been married a year before there was an estrangement which grew from a family affair to a public scandal. After a few months of mar ried life the Countess sued for divorce and made disgusting charges against the Earl. She could not prove her charges nor obtain her divorce, but a a man whose name she had dragged Into the scandal sued the Countess fr Ubet and obtained damages against her to the amount of 115,000. Earl Russell got a divorce from his Countess, and for a time the public heard no more of the nnhappy pair. But the Countess and ber mother. Lady Less, Scott began soon to circulate most horrible stories about the Earl, and finally. In 1896, the Earl had Lady Scott arrested for criminal lib.;!. After a trial which brought out many sensa tional things concerning the family. Lady Scott waa convicted. In the evi dence produced at the trial was a tetter from Lady Scott to a bookseller, who bad prepared, at her order, the printed libels which she clr?ulated. She said In this letter: "I want yon to flud me a rich American gentleman to help me bear these expenses, with a view to marriage. I have had plenty of good offers, bat I must have riches.' Though no "rich American gentleman" waa found to furnish funds for Lady Scott she got enough English money to enable her to continue ber fight against her son-in-law and to send her scandal broadcast Lady Scott and those arrested with her for the libel utterly failed to prove the enarges which they made against the EarL Lady Russell was always fond of dancing, and some years ago appeared at the Royal Theatr. London. She is now determined to remain on the stage and earn her own living by her wit and her beauty. .. " -- o a wan a van ity mere than the discovery that some m. mu uii-nei on: oc him. V ith a man of SO, the raffle Is over, and he knows he hasn't won anything. But a young man of 10 or 20 is Just snaking the box for bis first throw. If yoa are young you nat urally appear so. If you are old, why ap pear so? Keep young InwarHIv; we will look after the out wardly. You need not worry longer about those little streaks of gray; advance agents of sge. Aprs will surely restore color to gray hair: snd it will slso give your nlr all the wealth and gloss of early life. Do not allow the falling of I' 'our hair to threaten you onger with baldness. Do not be annoyed with dandruff. TPs will send you our book on the Hair sad Scalp, free upon request. Welt to fa Ooetor. If rou sm eetais ail teeveae- Us vtnr, write tea eeeiat itul tt rrebaCW there Is seats Astasia wits ytow eeaeral tin afheea COUNTESS BUSS ELI. Ivor I RAM'S HORI1 BLASTS. mlnB Notes Collins tie Wicked e Kenenteace. UR seeming fail ures may be vic tories. Love is the liv ery of heaven. We would not see so many faults In our fellow-men If we did not look for them. Prayer will not make things easier for the tasy man. Destiny Is God's son ripening the harvests of our sow ing. Morning prayer Is the rodder of dally duty. The devH seldom misses the church sapper. Religion begins where charity does, at borne. There are many branches, bat only one vine. Man never makes troth: he only dis covers It Don't trim your finger nails on the buzz -saw. A draft of the water of life hi the best liquor cure. Company Is the die In which char acter hi cast The terrors of death are due to the errors of life. A man is known by the company he keeps away from. Wealth Is not in having much, but in depending on little. A man Is known by the books be reads and re-reads. Patience Is good, but It will not start a fire without kindling. We pave the way for a nappy future by living a sjlameless present. When men hide their sins they usu ally pot them In an Incubator. Christ makes bard things easy, and Satan makes easy things hard. Yon cannot love God supremely until you love your neighbor equally. The way to find more light Is to search for It with what you have. Some people appear to be good who are only good In their appearance. Innocence may grow In Ignorance, but holiness comes out of the fire. The self-made man always spends a great deal on advertising his work. The longest days of sorrow grow often out of the moment's bitterness. Many a man cannot see the devil be cause he is hiding him down his throat Your position at the end is deter mined by your purpose at the begin ning. f b'AMSTERS STUCK TOGETHER. Baa Fate of Detective Who Tried to Arrest s Criminal. A group of old-time Westerners were swapping stories In the corridor of the St Charles. Twenty-five years ago, said one of the party, "I was working for a big overland freighting company In their headquarter offices at Bis marck, X. D. The concern operated a number of 'outfits,' each consisting of a doren or so large wagons, attended by some thirty-live or forty men, under ommand of a boss teamster. The work was hard and dangerous in the ex treme, and nearly all the freighters were typical frontier desperadoes. Naturally enough each outfit stuck to gether to a man, and to molest any one of Its members was equivalent to picking a quarrel with the crowd. "One day a stranger walked Into the office and introduced himself as a de tective from a town In New Hampshire, said that he was after a fugitive from Justice who he understood was In the employ of the company. He gave a very minute description of the man and the superintendent admitted at once that he was one of our freighters. ' 'He went out yesterday,' he said. on his regular trip, but If yoa take the stage this afternoon yoa can overtake him to-morrow. I am merely giving you tbe facts,' he added, 'and you may do as yoa please.' 'The detective was a very self-confi dent chap and keen after the reward, so he derided Immediately to make the trip. Four days later the return stage pulled In and I was surprised to see a curious-looking bundle strapped to the roof. It was corded with rope and looked like a roll of carpet or matting. " "What's that you have up there T I called to the driver. " That's a detective,' he drawled. 'He 'rested Poker Bill In K outfit 'toth- er day and 'fore he could get him back some of them pasky Indians come along and killed him.' 'That's all we ever knew of the fate of the rash gentleman from New Hampshire, and as long as I lived at Bismarck no further effort was made to arrest a teamster. The peace officers generally agreed that the redskins were too bad la Dakota to risk serving a warrant" New Orleans Times-Democrat A woman boasts of what she expect to be and a man boasts of what ha used to be. THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS is due not only to the originality and simplicity of the combination, bnt also : the care and skill with which it is manufactured by scientific processes known to the Camfobnia Fig Svbcp Co. only, and we wish to impress upon all the importance of purchasing the true and original remedy. 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But now, thanks to your remedies, those feel ings are aU gone." Mna. Emus SCBNUDBB, 1844 HBLEX A VS., DSTSOIT Mich. FOB LITTLE FOLKS. A COLUMN OF PARTICULAR IN TEREST TO THEM. Snaietklas' that Will Internet the Jn Tenlle sfessbers of Every Hoascaold Qnalat Actiena and Bright Baying af Btaav Cats aad Cunning Children, When Teddy Smith first put on pants, He felt so very grand He wouldn't mind his mother. Or be wouldn't hold her hand. - But on the street he walked ahead, And tried to whistle some. He thought perhaps he'd go to war, -And fire an awful gun. He wouldn't ride his hobby-horse. He called Jack Spratt "a fib!" ' He sat at meals in father's chair. And scorned his gingham bib. His mother mustn't spread his bread. Nor cut things on his plate; She mustn't say, "No more, my dear!" No matter what he ate. She mustn't kiss him when he fell And bumped him on the stones. And she must say, "Dear air," just as She did to Mr. Jonea! So hard to please this gentleman His loving mother tried. It quite enlarged his dignity. And swelled his lofty pride. And all was brave, and all was well, Cntil that mother said, At eight o'slock, "Of course, dear sir. You'll go alone to bed!" Ah, would you have me say what then Befell the great big man? For if you undertake to guess I hardly think you can! He turned the corners of his month Most fearfully awry. He rubbed his grown-up fist awhile Across his grown-up eye. Then burying in his mother's lap Both pride snd manly Joy, He said in Just the littlest voice, "I guess I'm just a boyl" Youth's Companion. A Letter from Manila. A letter written by an officer hi Ma nila to his daughters, describing his life in the tropical land where Ameri can soldiers are now stationed, Is print ed in the St Nicholas: Dear Myrtle and Ethel and Louise You wrote me three letters all in one en velope, and I will wrhe yoa three letters all in one. I have a native servant whose name is Lionardo, who has a yellow skin and straight black hair. Lionardo apeaks no English, and I speak little Spanish; bnt he is willing to work, and I am willing be should, so being of one mind we get along verj well, as why shouldn't we? Lionardo is only 18 years old, and doesn't know much, and the most charming thing about him is the utter absence of all pre tensions to knowledge, and his desire to learn and give satisfaction. Lionardo blacks my boots, gets out mv linen, mops the floor, keeps my desk tidy snd yoa know what a Job that is un makes and makes my bed, gets out my towels for my bath, waits on me at table. and makes it his business to anticipate my wants. There are five of as st onr table, and we have three native servants to psss out food, so we get slong very well. They have already learned to coide on one's left side with the dishes they are passing, and it is amusing to see them guess at things when we ask for them in English. They keep picking up things until they find the right one. They already know "butter" and "bread," and will soon pick up enough English so that we won't harre to bother with Spanish. The weather here Is very relay : It rains some every day, and the soil and air are saturated with moisture. I start to nut an my shoes in the morning and find them covered with mold; pat on my belt and It will be moldy; as I put on my can I sec that the sweatband Is moldy. I band them over to Lionardo, who makes them clean again, but in a few hours mold re appears. We nse condensed milk or Highland cream at table. We did buy milk, until I j rode into the country one day aad found the natives milking the row of the water buffalo. I went a little farther and found drove of them lying In the mad and ooze of the swamps, and some, coming out were plastered with nasty, ill-smelling mud all over their bodies. We re turned to canned milk on short notice. I have a room overlooking the Paaia river, and I frequently sit st the window snd watch the ceases and cascos aad oth er qnaiat-looktag craft passing up and down. We have a water gate where one can enter a boat and where our supplies are landed. We have a Urge garden In front and another In rear of the palace, and ea the ground floor are several dark and gloomy dungeons, where prisoners have been con fined. The walls of the rooms are cov ered with msjlfkent mirrsia, asd we did feet la else, wun - i room, wlta a enow. m mosaotto net over " thooKeaten alive, the nu-qultos are s. thick. Teacher Wda't Know Father. Teacher-One should be thought nl ta dispensing favors, .r example, sup pose your mum, . 7.1. Crowded street car and twoUdle,one old and the otner young, " of them would ho give b seat so 7 Johnny-Ooess yoa don't know dad. He wouldn't give tt to elther.-Boston Transcript A Irfrrelr Mate turn Willie. -Oh. we just bad a lovely time, mam mait what do you think WUlledW? He got to fighting with Jlmmle Tod gers. and most had his ctothea all torn to rags." "Willie, I'm f of you. Do you can that having a good timer "Yes. ma'am; rag ttaer-OeTeland Plain Denies. Dog with Good Teste. "Mrs. Salmon's got a dog that Ukef me," said Mttle Emily, coming home from a visit to her aunt -How do you know be likes your ber mother asked. " 'Cause he tasted me and then wagged his tall," answered the little girL-Tit, Bits. He Probably Did Not Ask. 'Ma, Mrs. Smith gave me a big piece of cake." "Jimmy, I've often told you not to ask for anything to eat when you are over there." "But ma, she gave me tbe cake because I told her who was here to dinner last night" Chica go Becord. Met Kasl'y Pnt Oat. "How did you like the band concert Johnny r "Say. that was great Wasn't It funny to see that man stand In' up ta front of 'em, makin' motion, with a stick an try In to queer 'elnl He didn't put the players out a bit, did her' Chicago Tribune. A Cnrtata Thlasv Grandma Newcomb (bearing that bet son after breaking his leg had come down with measles) I wonder what will come next? Dorothly (sleepily) To-morrow, I dess, grandma. J udga. Tbe Doctor's Dog Reformed. A story relating to the moral nature it dogs Is told hi the Portland Ore ronlan. It seems that Monte, a cocker panlel residing with Dr. Robert Pllk Ington. In Eastern Oregon, had ac quired disgracefully Intemperate hab its. He was accustomed to go from saloon to saloon, and to beg for beer with most unfortunate success. For three years, so the tale runs, "Monte went home every night soaked to the syes, and making frantic efforts to con :eal bis disgraceful condition by walk ing straight But never was be able to jvercome bis reeling and unsteady gait and would stagger shamefacedly In to bed, fully conscious of his disgrace. Dne day he suddenly resolved to mend ills ways, and from that day to this has not touched a drop. Whether he saw some dreadful example on his rounds Df the saloons, or heeded the warning Dr. Pllkington had often repeated to htm, cannot be learned, but he la as straight as a string, and no one can In duce him to take a drink, even for auld long syne." Bxcoaable. There being no rhyme for Funston the poet of the war may be obliged to substitute something like this: Then all to onceton TJp rose Fred Funston, And swift did runaton, With ready gunston. And one by onceton. The Kansas sonston. Saw how 'twas donestun And then 'twas wonston Hooray for Funston! Cleveland Plain Dealer. Bent Telatce 8 ame Sae Tear Life Away. To quit tobacco easily snd forever, be mac se tie, roll of lire, nerve aad vicor, take No-To-uae, tbe wonder-worSrer. that makes weak mea strong. AU druggists. Mo or tl. Curecuaraav teed. Booklet and sample tree. Address Sterling Semsdy Co, Chicago or New York. 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Your personal history doesn't have to repeat Itself; your neighbors will at tend to that Soma girls get married fust to 1st others know that they can. It doesn't always take the raffle of a man'a temper to iron him. i ont The housewife keeps, with greatest care, Her dainty glass and linen fair. Her china and her tableware. As sweet as she is able; And Ivory Soap's her greatest aid, Because 'tis pure and cleanly made Of things which none need be afraid To have upon the table. IVORY SOAP IS. MADE OF SWEET CLEAN MATERIALS. SLUMP IN HORSE VALUE a Oacreaae of 500,000,000 ta fix Years, Males Haw Beiaat Worth More. Jan. 1, 1883, there were, according to official figure 16,200,000 horses In the United State, representing a total val ue of a little more than 11,000,000,000, er $l,007,583,6Sa, to be exact. At the same time the number of mules In tbe United States waa 2,815,000, represent ing a total value of 917S.OOO.OOO. Since then conditions hare operated to flimm lab tbe commercial value of horses, the total number of which In the country on Jan. 1 but was 13,700,000 and the estimated value of which was less than t500.000.000. a decrease of more than one-naif In six years. Tbe horse has bad to encounter the ruinous competition of tbe bicycle, the electric car, the cable car, the auto motor and much new and improved farming machinery; but these forms of competition, which have reduced so largely the number and value of horses in the United States have been of small effect npon the number of mules, though In reducing the demand for them tbe new conditions have dimin ished the value. At the present time, taking the whole country, tbe average value of a horse Is $35, and taking the whole country, except the New En; land States, where mules are very few In number, the value of a mule Is $42. Mules are worth more than horses a pecuniary degradation for the "prince of animals' and a marked distinction for tbe patient humble, long-suffering, unmusical American mule, tbe butt of the paragrapher, the accepted type of stolidity and the time-wasting quadru ped of many parts of the country. The decline In the value of the horse compared to the mule is due to a varie ty of causes, tbe first and most Import ant of which Is that the demand for higher-priced horses has visibly dimin ished, while the borse of all work of tbe farm and of the highway remains In great demand. Agitn, horses have always been In largest demand in level parts of the country. It Is in these that the use of mechanical contriv ances has become more general, while mules. In greatest demand In hilly re gions, remain in demand in these. A J reason for tbe greater average value of mutes compared with horses Is to be found In tbe question of forage. A horse Is very much more expensive to maintain than a mule and, moreover, horses are more numerous, relatively, ta those parts of the country In which the climate to rigorous and severe than In tbe milder regions of the country, 4n wmcn mules are cheaply housed and :heaply fed. In the State of Minne sota, for Instance, there were at the time of the last count 400,000 horses and only 8,500 mules, and Minnesota is confessedly one of the States ta which winters are very severe. In South Caro lina, on the other hand, there were on i Ian. 1 65,000 horses and 100,000 mulen, nd ta Georgia there were 110,000 j horses and 105,000 mules. 1 First among the States of the coun try In the number of mules Is Texas: next comes Missouri, and then Georgia ana lennessee. California has a con siderable number and Kansas and Arkansas a large number too. The leading States for horses ta respect to their total number and the hay and oat crops to maintain them are Illinois and Iowa. Two States which have, rela tively, no mules to speak of when com pared with the number of horses, are Vew York and Michigan. Pennsylvania, because of its coal and Iron mining In dustries, haa nearly ten times as many mules as New York. The American mule, as has often been truly said. Is worthy of much bet ter and higher recognition than popular estimate awards It The American mule is an animal of endurance and an Important factor ta tbe wealth of the agricultural States, more particularly In tbe great cotton belt, where "ten acres and a mule la the measure of the ambition of many of the negro tenant farmers. New York Sun. Blaok Lions of Sahara. to the collection of animals ta the Jar- r "". in rans. Lions of this color are found only in the tatertoTor the Sahara, and are scarce even there! Te Cere CeneUpnsleai TsraissL Time hourh n flz-tln- I .. Thought aloe"mernaLm n0.Ua It In vain. WOTlldatam'?i? Lheap of troub,e 1 the tacoSebertVey STftr Cents. ksbttj rare, mskes weak !. auarajfwt Fortune will not bear chldlnw must not rr,..K C:" cniaing. We " or she shuns II IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUC CEED," TRY APOLIO e ev thc eeoena a saimi ce. cmcmnuti SOLDIERS STOOP UNDER RRf, J remptatlon to Raw Kecrntta I, I most Irresistible. "The temptation lo stoop when amis Ore Is aluio.U ir.e-iixiililf," said a ts eran, talking over the recent hot wort ta the Philippines, ' and that accomm for so many of the wounds recelnl bj raw troops. You kic, when a mas hi) pens to be hit In a stooping poitore, t chances are that the bulict plowi rlSu through his body, from end to end. Oi the other hand. If he Is standing ertet the prolrubllitles nie In favor of tl wound being silent, anyhow not mot- taL Old soldiers are well aware of tho, and while they will drop Bat and but trover every chance they get, they nre toop. After a soldlt-r has been In I Tew engagements lie learns such trkkt, tnd as far as the rest of It la coo ;erned, he become simply a tatalla. There is nothing strange about It, tot tlmost all hLs experiences appear k end color to that doctrine. For b stance, he never dodges, be ause he bu seen men dodge and get killed, wtwtH really seemed as If they had retchsl for the bullet In fact, the stringe things are continually happening, d apparently the pure whim of chance. I remember near Petersburg a commit of mine, as brave a fellow as ever lived, took refuge behind a little hut He vu worn out under fire and wanted to pt S moment's breathing space. Twenty feet In the rear and a little to one aide was a pile of cross-ties full rf wronfbt Iron nails. A bullet came ainng, split tered a tie, and drove out one of tht nails at right angles. The jagged Ins struck my chum in the side, penetrant his kidneys, and killed him. That'iu blind chance of war, and after gettlaj k few such object lessons a fellow h Dt to acaulre a sort of sang frold oat Is Immensely Impressive to a result (t isn't because he has a contempt f langer; he has merely learned the foaj it trying to evade it" New Ortessi Times-Democrat There is no Injury that s woman tt gards ss too great to be fixed up by u apology. A man Injures himself every time W wrongs another. Naples Is to have an electric road. ' A railway curve might be proper!) termed a scientific crook. DVSrH "For six rears I was n victim of P pepeln In Its worst form. 1 could rat noun but milk toast, and at tiinefl my stomach ou not retain and dlci-st even that Last Muni tww.n t.Lln.f riul'llIb-TU nnd fiinre thell have steadily linnroved. until 1 am si wtllul ever was In my life." David H. Murphy. Newark. 0. CANOY CATHARTIC Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Tt Ooot Good. Never Slvkcn. Weaken, ur Gripe. Wc SC. " ... CURE CONSTIPATION. 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