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. -
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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-
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rrebaCW there Is seats Astasia
wits ytow eeaeral tin afheea
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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.
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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.
Where birth Is beyond reproach, dig
nity may be above display; a defect In
the first demands an example exhibi
tion of the second.
Are You Using Allen's Foot Ease?
It is the only cure for Swollen,
Smarting, Tired, Aching, Burning.
Sweating Feet, Corna and Bunions.
Ask for Allen's Foot-Kase, a powder to
be shaken into the shoes. Sold by all
Druggists, Grocers and Shoe Stores,
25c. Sample sent FREE. Address, Al
len S. Olmstead, LeRoy, N. Y.
Most of our misfortunes are more
supportable than the comments of our
friends upon them.
There Is no crime so common, and at
the same time so very detestable, as
Ingratitude.
Beaatr Is Bleed Dee.
Clean blood means a clean skin. 17a
beauty without it Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keen it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, beauty for ten cents. Ail drug
gists, satiafaction guaranteed, 10c, 30c, SOo.
If there Is a man who thinks it Is an
easy job to be strictly honest Just let
him try It
rnre Onarantred by DR J. sj. MAYBR.1013
ARCH sr.. PHILA.. PA. Ease at onoe; ne
eperaunn or deUjr from bwiinaa. Consultative
lice. Enilomemeau of phy-Uctani. ladlea and
prominent cttlsens. .Send lor circular. Umu
lours A. si. to 1 P.M.
The man who can say all he has to
say In a few words Is an ugly customer
to handle.
Mte. Winatowa Soothing Byrap for children
teething. oftena the gums, reducing innamma.
tion. sllays pain, cures wind colic, 2m a bottle.
You can go up hill, young man, as
fast as you please, but go down bill
alow.
ltf permanently cured. Meats er nervoei
jew alter first ear's nse of Br. Kline's Great
Nerve He. to, er. trial bottle sad Uesust Tfrls
1K. K. H. Klimc bid. V81 Area at. rluK. rI
There la a kind ot courage that la
nothing more than drunken bravery.
T. J. Cnnnav A OQ Tntedn. Q.
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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Sold and giurnntoell W
Slsu to CVJtEI'obacco HWl-
ARE YOU DEAF??
Kvervlctnd of hard-hearing now carible:
only deaf-mute" are incurable. New ani nop
method. Nt-ise- cease t mweJiatf.'v. State y
case, we invest gate and ami advie ire
charRe.
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