MEDIOCRITY'S SOLACe. There min't any laurels a-waitin' for him; H'U never be famous (or wealth. But his smile's always bright an' his eye's never dim, He's the picture of comfort and health. Be was honest and cautions and counted the cost. He kep' his ambition well trained. He'd never wade Into a scheme an' get lost. He could always come in when it rained. Tam't mostly the fellow who struggles to seise The colors that glow in the sky Who one day finds comfort an' 11 Tea at his ease, He's apt to git lost by an by. When glory's passed 'round an' when eloquence flows I won't feel no envious pains; I'm content to be hailed as the party who knows Enough to come in when it rains. Washington Star. 1 CUPID IN A CYCLONE E8 QALASTA looked wistfully out of y her amall-paned window, deep . set In the heavy sod wall, and sighed. The piles of unwashed dinner dishes over which she was at work hardly ac counted for that sigh and the view without was pleasant, rather tl.an otherwise. It was a Sunday afternoon In the late June, hot and unusually still for that windy country, but the rolling stretches of prairie grass and the green fields of young wheat and corn still held the freshness of early spring. But the cloud, "no larger than a man's hand," is always present In some form or other. One was at that moment rising hull) on the western horizon, over the low, green hills, just a faint summer cloud, unseen by the girl, whose eyes were fixed on a nearer and, to her, much more attractive object. This, as Is apt to be the case when maidens sigh, was a young man, who, on the other side of a barbed-wire fence, some little dis tance away, was busily engaged In washing his buggy, which was rolled In front of his own little sod house. He was of middle size, dark-haired and featured, like herself, and clad In the careless costume of overalls and Jacket of blue denim, and dingy from exposure to sun and weather, and the battered sombrero of light felt, which were usual In his everyday occupation of farming. As any one familiar with that part of the country could tell at a glance, they were young Bohemians, members of that great army of hardy settlers who have made homes for themselves in the previously untitled west. But hearts will be hearts in every place and Juliet may pine for her Ro meo In ancient castle no more than in humble sod house, as did this com monplace little heroine, with her plain but kindly face. Now, by custom immemorial Sunday Is the rural holiday everywhere and it Is especially so among our foreign born citizens, who on that day sally forth, clad In their best, ready for jty between x and e.ii, ihass In the morning and a the afternoon and evening. So, considering this, It seemed that the young settler, Albrecht Hollub, should be on pleasure bent, and the signs Indicated, too, that so he was, or soon should be. Herein lay the sting which changed for her the sunshine of that glorious June day to gloom. For Albrecht was "going riding" In his new buggy going without her. and, do doubt, with some other girl when it was really her place on that seat be side him. And had she not proudly occupied it pntll that unlucky night not yet two weeks ago, but seeming half a lifetime, as a girl's short Uftime goes? Such a little thing, too, as Is gener ally the case, to have caused all this trouble. She was not sure how Al brecht felt Perhaps he was glad to get rid of her here two great tears tropped into the dishpan at the thought Just a dance at a young friend's wed dins--it being their custom for a bridal party to go to a Justice or county Judge to have the ceremony performed, and then to return to the bride's home for ft grand celebration, which usually last ed all night Then a foolish quarrel. when Albrecht heated by excitement and beer, had insisted that she danced too often with the bride's elder brother. She had refused to listen to him, of course, with the result that he had walked out into the darkness and had never seen her since. Perhaps she had sought covertly, and no doubt awkwardly, to find an op portunity of making amends, but be had Ignored or avoided her, though they lived on adjacent claims; hence, for ber, at least bitter days and nights. She felt vaguely, in ber simple fashion, the harness of the woman's code which bids her "wait and weep" in silence, a rule that has broken many besides country hearts like hers. And all this time the cloud In the west was rising. It looked much like a puff of black smoke now, and there were others, not k dark, climbing up beside It - The dishes were finished and put awnr In the kitchen "Mfe" or cud- Ooarar 'ana the' gril sat clown ty her window she was very fond of that window In those days and gazed ab sently out The landscape was left desolate to her, for Albrecht had dis appeared, probably to attire himself for his outing. Her father nodded In the shady door way over his long, curved pipe. In the Inner room her mother discoursed volubly to her second daughter In ber native tonrae. which Is never fot ten bv the "old people," at least The shouts of the numerous younger chil dren came from without where they romped among the farm wagons and machinery, and the horses and cattle grazed contentedly on the fenced-in prairie that formed the pasture. It was all homely, but peaceful, and pres ently the girl's eyes, heavy with unac- sustomed vigils, closed. She did not see the cloud rapidly swelling and tak ing on the ominous shape dreaded by the prairie dwellers, the so-called funnel form, which in this case was a much flattened one. It seemed but a few minutes later w hen Vlasta roused abruptly in dazed bewilderment A distant shout on of alarm and warning, seemed echoing in her ear. How dark it had grown And there were Albrecht and his llttlt old mother, who kept his house, stand ing before their door, exclaiming and gesticulating wildly. At the same mo ment there came a rush of furious wind, bringing the sound of a low. menacing roar, while the mass of dusky green cloud seemed to quit the horizon and start swiftly on an earthward path. Vlasta guessed Instantly the peril threatened, and sprang np with a ter riftfd cr. Sly tether, mother, quick I The cy clone! The cyclone V Then followed wild confusion, screaming children running to their parents, frantic exclamations, bustle and hurry. Whither should they fly for refuge In that hour of terror? It waa the good mother that solved the problem with prompt presence of mind. "The henhouse, children! Let as run to the henhouse!" she cried, and she crowded her stout self and her best feather bed. brought from the father land, valiantly through the narrow doorway, followed by her husband car rying his pipe and armchair, and by the others with whatever they chanced to catch np, all racing through the thick whirling dust to the designated place of refuge. In fact. It was the most suitable one within their reach, being really a low "dug-out" In the side of a small hill, the front or open side facing south and filled in with a sod wall, containing only a small, rough door and a tiny window, whose four small panes were thickly coated with dust In they rushed pell mell, causing wild ilscomfitnre to the usual occupants of this abode, which flew, fluttering and cackling wildly, from their rude nests and perches. The father was In the act of closing the door after the last one was in. when It was pushed vio lently open from without, and Albrecht and his mother, lacking such a shelter of their own, flung themselves among them. Then the door, like that of the ark, was shut and braced by the father's stout sholder. And none too soon, for the air was thick with flying debris. There were twelve of them more souls than the ark carried, and crowded Into a much smaller space, but that mat tered little at such a time. The fowl screamed, the children wailed, the big mother and little mother rocked and prayed In each ather's arms, and the father bemoaned his farm and stock; but as for Vlasta, the cyclone had given her what the fates had otherwise denied, and the uproar and danger were all dominated by the Joy that Albrecht was again be ilde her, so close that she could almost feel his deep, hurried breathing. It was but a moment, and then, with i deafening roar, a rush of darkness, a choking breath of sulphur, the storm renter was upon them. Vlasta remembered not how It hap pened, but when she was able to e illze anything her arms were around Albrecht's neck and he was holding ber to him and murmuring words of endearment, which she felt rather than heard. "My love, my little one though she was as tall as be "do not fear. I will keep thee safe I, thine own be loved." Ylasta's pet white pullet fluttered on their shoulders like the white-winged love of peace. The storm went swift ly on Its resistless way, leaving desola tion behind. Their houses were in ruins; their lit tle possessions torn to pieces or scat tered far and wide, even a large part Df the growing crops rooted up or ground Into the soil. But their lives were spared, and they are hardy and courageous. Sod houses can soon rise again, and other crops grow green on sunlit plains, and be fore long In the new home there will be "sounds of revelry by night" and another merry ' 1dlng;.dinretii tory elf-wina- that It Pays to 22 B, spectral to Old People. Perhaps the young woman who wrote his moral story had read about that lice girl who always looked pleasant it the deaf and dumb man and found lierself heiress to his large property when his will was probated. This is uly a supposition, of course. The itory speaks for itself, as the reader .vllt see: "Mabel was a beautiful girl. Just dawning into womanhood, and she ran x typewriter. She helped support hei .vidowed mother, her father having been lost at sea many years previous to :!ie beginning of this tale. Mabel could ?arn but little wages with her type writing, because she waa obliged to answer the telephone, and she couldn't expect regular typewriter wages for doing that. But she did not complain.. Every day when she rode down town In an electric car she noticed an elderly gentleman whose clothes were old fashioned and pretty shabby. He had a good face, but she could not help seeing that his trousers bagged at the knees a great deal. Other people no ticed It too, and snickered and made remarks, and even called him 'Old Baggy Knees;' but Mabel never did. She was too well brought op, for one thing, and, besides, she had a good heart Whenever she could she made room on the seat for the old man, and once when there was no room to make she stood up and gave him her seat After a while he talked with her, and found out who she was and where she lived. One day she missed him. In fact she saw him no more. It may have been a week or so when there came a heavy rap at the door. It was a man with a package. The address was 'Miss Mabel Pinkllngton, No. 972 Skidmore place,' and Mabel opened it with nervous haste. All it contained was a pair of much-worn trousers and a card which read: 'For the little wom an who never called me Baggy Knees, from her sincere admirer, John Tewks bury.' Mabel laughed, but her moth er shook out the garment and said: That's a funny present' She felt In the pockets, but there was nothing there. Then she threw the trousers across a chair and plaintively said: 'You know, Mabel, dear, that If we cannot make the last payment on this home to-morrow we will lose it' "Mabel sighed heavily and answered, 'Yes, mother, we will lose it "Just then her mother, who had been looking at the trousers Idly, said: 'I don't think I ever saw such baggy knees on a human person. They look fairly solid.' She came a little closer and felt of them. 'I declare, they are,' she excitedly said. She turned them Inside out and lo! two huge wads of $20 bills fell on the floor, one from each knee. When they counted them up they found there was $4,180 In the twe bunches. Oh, but that was a happy household! And next morning when the cruel agent came for his money h was given It before he could ask for it "All of which shows that It always pays to be good and respectful to old persons." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Man imposes on woman, but she al ways thinks he doesn't mean it. The man who never tracks mud Into the house is usually meddlesome in the kitchen. The man who can make other people put us with his eccentricities is called a philosopher. A wise rule in conversation is nev er to say anything that you know somebody else wants to say A man has to earn his dollars by himself, but anybody he knows will help him spend them. The woman who worries generally has a husband and a lot ot daughter! who won't worrjr at alL OUR BOYS AND GIRLS. rHIS IS THEIR DEPARTMENT Or THE PAPER. Qaatnt Baying and Cat Dolnsje af the Little Folk KvarrwhttCt Gatbared and Prlatad Hara for AU Other Lit Ua Oaae to Head. When I had the measles year ago Ma she said: "Now, Willie, dear, yo. know fon've got the measles, so yon must be good. And stay indoors as all sick children should." Se, I was good; the fellers used to call an' yell for me, but I wouldn't go at all. Because I had the measles. Jes' broke out As speckled as a turkey egg, about An ma she fed me on ras'berry jam. At we only have fer company, an' Sam Sam, he's my brother didn't git none. Cake An' chicken pie an' all good things she'd bake. But bread an' butter'n bacon, like Sam had. I didn't 'cause my appetite was bad. . Oh, notbim' was too good for me, yon know. When I had the measles year ago. an' sometimes, when ma said I could, I took fhe great big fam'ly Bible down to look At pictures Moses in the rushes, jes' A little baby in a basket jef, An' David choppin' up the gi-unt Then rhere was old Darnel in the lions' den. With growlln' lions, crouchin' In the dark. Ten times as many as at Lincoln Park. When I had the measles year ago 3ee, I lived high; an' one day Sam, d'ye know, 9e blubbered some because he'd had em once; an' I felt sorry. Pa says he's a dunce. But I guess not; fer thinkin' of the jam All locked up tight I quite agree with Sam Worst thing 'bout bavin' meaales is that when tou've had 'em once yon never can again. -Chicago Record. f hadowgrapha. Here are some figures that any boy r girl may make with the hands and a ight The first Is the elephant whose lead and trunk may thus be Imitated. K little practice will enable you to give, i life-like appearance to the trunk by noving the finger back and forth. Next Is a faithful representation of in old soldier, who seems to be Usten ng to the story of a campaign In which e took part; and after blm comes an ld lawyer, whose rnnnner indicates .hat he has gained a point against the counsel on the other side. And here Is your dog. hungry and tager, waiting for you to throw into his pen mouth a very nice-iooKing piece f meat Try all these figures; with a gooti ight a white wall, or screen, and a areful arrangement of your hands and Ingers, you can make them life-like ind amusing. In a Minute, Ethel was out on the long plank s harf when the dinner-bell rang. She was feeding the cunning little baby lucks with cracker crumbs. "I'll go In a minute," she said to her iclf as she broke another cracker into tiny pieces. But the baby ducks were hungry, and it was such fun to feed them that Ethel forgot all about her dinner and the big brass dinner-ttcll lust as she had done ever so many times before. She bad only one cracker left when Bruno came running down the wharf :o see her. The old mother duck spied lim as he came bouncing over the planks. "Quack!" she called loudly; and whai lo you think? Every one of those aby ducklings scrambled and scrub bed, and Into the water they went with i splash! "Quack!" said the mother duck again, md all the little duckies swam hur riedly after ber and disappeared among the rushes that grew by the edge of the pond. "Why!" exclaimed Ethel in astonish ment "They didn't wait to gobble an other piece! They minded their moth er the very first minute she called them!" Very still she stood for a second, thinking; and then she gave her basket to Bruno, and ran quickly up the wharf, across the street and Into the bouse. "Late as usual!" said Brother Hal, as Ethel came Into the dining-room and took ber seat at table. "It's twen ty minutes. Instead of one, that you waited this noon," he continued, as he ir.siK-cd nil nt the clock. Tr.t it's the last time I'll be later a:d Ethel, decidedly, " 'cause 'cause it is!" Ami Ethel kept her word. She had learned her lesson and learned It well, and nobody but the big white mothei duck knew who taught It to her. And I'm very sure that she will al ways keep her secret Because whyl She can't tell It that's all! Youth'i Companion. Rabbit Batched Thesa, From London comes a story of a rab bit that batched doves tggg and tbof To lectin the proud roster uiotner or two 1 lttle squabs. The rabbit was captured while very, young and put among the iovea because there seemed no better place for It at the time. It at once made friends with Its feathered com panions and for some reason or another insisted upon getting Into one of the aests. So the sitting dove let the rab bit attend to the Incubation of her eggs, but after the young doves came the mother bird again assumed control and attended to feeding them. Fpearlas with u.otm. Did you ever take a cork, stick through It a horseshoe nail, put on the top of the cork two or three feathers, tie a long string around the cork and then spear for apples, or potatoes? lust try it some time and see how proficiently and how straight you can learn to throw the bob In a short time. The cork keeps the horseshoe -nail In without slipping and the feathers serve to guide the bob through the air. The Escavat'on of Babylon. German archaeologists are busy with plans for the excavation of Babylon, lne late Sir Austen Henry Layard, the explorer of Nineveh, was the flrt one to do anything In the way of excavat ing Babylon, then Sir Henry Rawlin Kn followed. The excavations. It ls ;latmed by the Germans, were done In t half-hearted way, and they are de termined that their work shall be thor ough. It will be very costly, and It Is estimated it will occupy five years. It will be carried on by the Orient Society Jointly with the Directors of the Roya German Museum and the leader of th sxpedtion Is Dr. Robert Koldewey, wco has already had much experience In such work. The expeditions will start from Beirut going from there to Alep do. whence they will travel by caravan tn Rflcdad. Babylon itself Is two days' Journey from Bagdnfl. and consists of rough mounds scattereu on tne nanas of the Euphrates, under which He the ruins of a great city. The excavators will begin with the fortress, which is what remains of Nebuchadnezzar's pal ace where Alexander died. In addi tion to their excavating upon the city site proper they will Investigate a num ber of other ruins situated near. Foe Couldn't Even "Crow." A tired, sleepy, but happy group ot Ity waifs left the cars at a country itntiou, and were met by a somewhat inprehcnslve knot of women, who were to assume the care of the little risitors for a few weeks. Bringing up the rear of the group ot hildren was a boy of nine years, cloth- Mi with an air of self-confidence, but nith little else. In his arms he held t baby sister of such winsoineness that here was a simultaneous movement traoug the women, each of whom wish Mi to engage the baby. The boy refused to be separated from lis charge, and critically scanned the race of each bidder for the prize. He inally decided In favor of a plain little tvouian, whose body was hardly b! nough to hold the generous heart .vhlch had been enlarged by the care if a numerous family of ber own. One of the women who had wished to :ake the baby was a showy spinster. Although unsuccessful, she had bid llgh. In smiles and those unintelligible lttle cries and chirps with which wom- n try to win the confidence of babies. 1 When the ragged brother was asked- rhy he had not chosen to go to ber tome, he answered, promptly: "Oh, I spotted ber, right oft. She's no nother. When she was trying to talk O baby she couldn't even get the bang i' the crow." . Stories or Royalty. Prince Alexander, the son of Princess ieatrice, at the early age of 11, is giv ng evidence of financial ability. He ecelved a present of a sovereign from lis mother, and, having quickly spent t, at once applied for another. He was gently reproved for his extrava rance, but unabashed, wrote to ' his crandmamma. The Queen had prob- ibly been warned, for she replied in the lame strain of remonstrance, wbereup n the young prince wrote her as fol- ows: Dearest Grandmamma: I received rour letter, and hope you will not think was disappointed because you could lot send me any money. It was very tlnd of you to give me advice. I sold rour letter for 4 10s." A touching little story Is told of the Uildhood of the Queen of Holland. She vas brought up according to the strict tiquette of the court, which forbade ler Dlavlng with other children. She aid to her wax doll one day, "If you ire so naugthy, I shall make you Into a irincess, and then you won't have any ither little children to play with." A Valnible Find. A lad of Rhaiadr, Wales, while look tag for foxes on the bills the other day, iiscovered a gold ring, a gold armlet and a gold necklet Mr. Reed, of the British Museum, pronounfes the arti cles to be distinctly Celtic, of exquisite workmanship and of great antiquity, t least 1,000 years old. According to the law of treasureHrove, the boys will re ceive the full antiquarian value of the articles, less 20 per cent. .Vewsnapers In th- British Mane (in. The late Mr. McLean's beques t of 0.000 to. the British museum will en able the authorities to provide adequate room for tne files of newspapers, of which there are about 85.Q00 volumes already In the museum, while the year ly accessions amount to something like 1,800 volumes. 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It Waa All la with Hlaa Wfaea the Bat Players Qalt. This promising young Detrolter, six feet in the clear, and trim as a racing spar, went Into hi father's office the other day and gave him a shock. "What la there for me about the estab lishment to dor" he began, without prologue. "We'll find a place for you. my boy, when the time comes." "But nowt What Is there nowr" "See here, son. If you've been get dng Into trouble and need money, say so. Don't approach me In this round about way. I'm no spring chicken, and I've been over the course. Out with It" "I don't owe a dollar and there's nothing to conceal from you. I can see that there will be no more college for me. and I'm not going to stay around home as a deadhead." "No more college? Someone must lave misled you. The business was lever more prosperous and I have plenty. Of course you'll go back and complete yon" course. I'U swell the al lowance If you think best" "No, I've concluded to cut It all and go to work. I'm not so fickle as to take up with another alma mater. Besides, the other fellows would all be new. I would have no class memories and I'd simply be a cat In a strange garret" "Certainly you'd not change. No one thought of such a thing. Go back and finish with the boys you started In with." 'Father, you don't understand. That institution won't last three months. Four of the best foot-ball players have gent word that they must drop out It Is all up and I want a job." Save (he Nickels. From saving, eoaies having. Ask yonr grooer how yon eaa save 13a by Investing 5o. He ean tell you just how yon can get one large lOo paekage of "Bed Cross" starch, one large lOo package of "Hubin- gur's Beat" starch, with the premiums, two beautiful 8bakespeare panels, printed la twelve beautiful colors, or one Twentieth Century Girl Calendar, all tor 6c. Ask your grocer for this starch and obtain these beautiful Christmas presents bee. London Tailors Do Not Fit. The best that can be sold of the clothes Imported by American men from London Is that they are well made," said Nelson R. Huntington of New York, who has spent years abroad In the study of the hospitals. "They never .fit Indeed, the art of misfit seems to be carefully studied. The garments of both men and , women never set well, and even the actresses, who are supposed to be exacting, suf fer from the Inability or indisposition of the English tailors to lit the figure. The finish, however, shows fine and thorough workmanship. The French achieve better fits, but the work Is atrocious, making the best garments look cheap and hurried. Not evenim portant buttons are secure. American tailors and dressmakers surpass every thing in Europe In making a fit and the finish compares favorably with the English. The New-Yorkers who Im port garments made by Poole and other fashionable Londan tailors had them refitted by American tailors until a year or two ago, when the latter re fused to touch them at any price." Philadelphia North American. Tbe Last Opportunity. The late Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, the famous skeptic, told many stories of experiences which grew out of the com mon knowledge of his skepticism. One jf these related to a visit which he once made to Rev. Phillips Brooks, be fore Doctor Brooks became a -bishop. Calling on Doctor Brooks, he was re fused admission because, as the ser vant said, it was "sermon day," and some of Doctor Brooks' own home peo ple had already been denied admission. But Doctor Brooks learned that Inger soll was at the door, and sent out word that he should come In. After the Interview, and as Colonel Ingersoll was about to leave, he said "Doctor Brooks, your man told me that you had denied yourself to some f your home people this morning. Now how is it that you have admitted me, a stranger?" "Oh. that's quite easy," said Doctor Brooks, laughing. "They are my church-members, and I shall see them again, here or In heaven, but Isn't It right for me to consider your belief. and that I shall probably never meet you again!" N ' Bridegroom & nt Away. A Polynesian bridegroom Is conspic uous by his absence during the wed ding festivities. As soon as negotia tions are opened with the family of tbe bride, the young man is "sent into the bush," and there be Is obliged to stay until the wedding ceremonies are com pleted. Will Be DIapnointln. An English scientist shows that liquid air cannot do the great things expected of it as a source of power or of refriger ation. Tbe cost of manufacture Is such that it cannot pay to use tbe air pro duced by the evaporation of the liquid for the propulsion of an engine. For refrigeration a lump of Ice beats a bot tle of the liquid air. ' Style is only the frame to hold our thoughts.- It Is like tbe sash of a win dow If heavy it will obscure the light. TRUMPET CALL Bor.8...ds. War.!-. Net. to the Uaredeeaaed. --QlMIS Is ine great VH teacher. He only gets who gives. Love alone Inter prets all life. Weal and woe are the web and woof of life. The sin the soul loveth Is the sin the Lord hateth. The true church Is a giving, and not a getting Institution. God rewards not rashness, but faith fulness. Only he can truly teach who Is him self teachable. Faith takes the step from the crea tion to the Creator. The most romantic lost-treasure ex pedition Is Christ's. Suppression of honest Investigation means- retrogression. Courage without conscience la little better than cowardice. The truly refined man is be who has been purged from the dross of self. The law that be who will not work shall not eat applies to churches. The saloon Is labor's greatest foe, be cause It steals the laboring man's cap ital. Tbe hope of Immortality Is man's morning star, and Christ, bis full-orbed day. Some churches ought to put a collec tion box on their steeples instead of a cross. You cannot afford to purchase your pleasures at the price of another's per dition. The church that Is seeking the rich may get their riches, but It wUl lose Its reward. Originality biases a new track, while eccentricity runs on one wheel in an old rut True love would rather wound itself by the loss of pleasure than hurt oth ers by Indulgence therein. Abraham is an 'example of moral courage in leaving Chaldea, but of mor al cowardice In leaving the truth. If some folk spent as much time In knowing men as they do in finding out things about them, they would make a better business of life. Like Fladiag ffleaey. The use of the Endless Chain Staroh Book In the purchase ot "Bed Cross" and ''Hublnger's Best" staroh, makes It Just like finding money. Why, for only Sa yon are enabled te get one large lOo paekage ot "Red Cross" staroh, one large lOo pack age ot "Hublnger's Beat" staroh, with the premiums, two Shakespeare panels, print ed In twelve beautiful colors, or one Twen tieth Century Girl Calendar, embossed in gold. Ask your grooer for this starch and obtain the beautiful Christmas presents free How to Pnalsb Yonr Enemy. "Housekeepers in the southern part of the city." says the Philadelphia Rec ord, "have been surprised, of late years at the number of lemons thrown over the fences Into back yards. These were usually attributed to mischievous boys. Where they got so many lemons was always a mystery. On Friday morning a colored cook caught a young Italian tn the lemon-pitching act and held onto him until bis shrieks of terror brought her employer to the scene. Then It leak ed out that lemon-pitching Is a super stitious rite, designed to bewitch the party against whom It Is directed. The lemon is stuck full of pins, at the in sertion of which the worker of the spell says, 'Malo Saluta.' believeing that each pin will cause a violent and fatal pain In the head of him against whom It Is directed." Ten Weeks For lO Cents. That big family paper. The llustrattd IVetkly, of Denver, Col . (founded 18M will be xent ten we k on trial for 10c; clubs of 8, 50c; 12 for l. Special offer solely to introduce it. Latent mi-iing news and illusttations of scenery, true stories of love and adventure. Address aa above and mention this paper; stamps taken. There are people who are like per cussion caps. Energy is stored in them, but it requires the sharp, quick stroke of the hammer of tribulation or opposition to bring out the fire. Tfor Whooping Cough. Plan's Care hi a sne- eeaernl remedy. M.P. Dietbb, J Taroop Ave. Brooklyn. N. V. Not. 14, 1884. Young men take a noble stand In life's great work. The more nobly the young man conceives of this world the more noble will be his life. FHm permanently curad. No fits or aervoas ess after Stat day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Kerve Restorer, 3 trial bottle and treatise free. BK. a. H. Kiwa uu, wi area m, raia. ra. It is his own most vigorous and no ble action that man feels within him self, as it were, the verv pulse of the Divine Energy. RUPTURE Cnt Guaranteed by DR. J. B. MAYER, 1016 ARCH ST., J-HltiL. FA. Base at once; lion lice. Endorsement of physariana. ladies and prominent citiacna. acad for circular. Office hours i,a.uir. a . HISTORIC OLD BARN. lere Qaantrlll Got His Death Weanu In kiraalsh with Home Oaarda. Here Is a picture of the barn where Quantrlll received his death wound. It s situated on the farm of Mr. W. I- Heady, about a mile west of Wakefield Station, In Spencer County, Kentucky, md ts an old-fashioned building, com mon in Kentucky in ante-bellum day. The Interior contains but one apart- WHEUB QUABTTBILI, WAS S1X.LKD. ment, ordinarily known as "the cutting room." from the fact that all the feed tor tne stoca was cbopped and pre pared there. The room is about 60 feet square, with loft above It The bnrn was. In the palmy days, surround ed on all sides by sheds 16 feet la width. These sheds, at this time most ly fallen away, were used for various purposes. Qunntrlll and his men were occupying this barn when TerrlH's band of home guards surprised and at tacked them. In the sharp skirmish which followed Quantrlll received wound tn the lungs, which prostrate I Mm. virtue win catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of hon est, maniy principle wm oaily accu mulate. The laundress is sure of satisfactory results in hei work if she uses Ivory Soap. Linens are of immaculate whiteness; no dirt or streaks anywhere. There's no room for criticism in the work when brought home. Ivory Soap is cheaper than common soaps in the end. A WORD OF WARNING. There are auuiy white soaps, each represented to be "just as good as a 'Ivory';" may aas ROT. but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities ot ttw renuiaa. Ask for "Ivory" Soap and Insist upon getting It. HOMESPUN PHILOSOPHY. Ofceai satlnns eat Cosaaaoaplace Thiaace by the Atchleea Olobe Man. Everyone must run the risk of rain. Nearly all earnest-looking people are nomely. What has become of the old-fashioned boy who "bawled?" Everything Is a sign of something to the man who Is curious. Half that a man says, be begins with, "There ought to be a law " 8 tart to fix over an old house, and It will cost you Just twice the original estimate. Women begin finding fault with a boy by the time he Is a month old, and never quit it. Half the world does not know how the other half Uvea, but Is always try ing to find out. Some women who succeed in pleas ing their husbands have mighty easy husbands to please. Very few unmarried men know that they are related to great men; tneir wives make the discovery. When a woman says she doesn't be lieve In love, it is an evidence that she once believed in It too much. "I feel so mean to-day," said a man this morning, "that I could fight a preacher If he gave me good advice." Watch the children carefully when they stop blaming things on the cat, and begin to blame them on "fate." A doctor who does not believe in ad vertising, told a young reporter to-day that be wws thinking of buying an auto mobile. Married people should be more care ful to avoid the first quarrel than the first scratch . on their new furniture, but they are not. The gossips are saying a certain mar riage is nnhappy because tbe wife vis Its her mother so often. Heavens, that's what every woman does. If women would do their own work better, hired girls would be more com petent; the more competent the house keeper, the better her hired girl. If pople write love letters that would appear perfectly rational and proper in print. It means they have been pun ished for being in love before. A man's parlor life Is short at the best. When company comes, when he Is a boy, he gets his cake and ice cream In the kitchen, and when he is older, and his daughters pass "refreshments," he gets his in a back room. No Cure, No Pay, the wav Piadlev's Eve Salve is sold. Chronic and granulated lids cured in 30 days; common rare eyea in 8 daya. or money back: for tbe asking. Sold by all drug gists, or by mail, 2oc box. J. P. Kami, Decatur, Texas. Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet per haps a few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where some times theYe Is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. a or Ohio, Cm or Toum, I Loo AS OOOTTT. t Fbabtb J. Cunt makes oath teas ae la sn at-uor partner of the firm of a. J. Cataira-r Uo doing traataesain the OityofToledo.Conn.ty and State aforesaid, and that said Ann will pay the aom of ostb artm dud oouiaai far each and every ease of catarrh that cannot be tared by the sue of HAUa Catabbh crraa. run 4. ivanaTT. Swora to before me and sobacrlbad la my I presence, this Sth day of December, BBAI.VaCO.lBBi. A. W. OuRAaoa, . ) Kotarw PitbHe. HalTa Catarrh Care la taken iatarnallv. and acta dirvetiy on the blood and mvoooa rarxaeea af the system. Send for taatlmoeiale. free. r. 4. uhbhbt IO- -loteoo. u. Sold by Dronista, 78c HalTa Family HUs are the baa. Boring Ijake. About 100 miles north of Oroville, at he foot of Mount Lassen, California, there is a boiling lake covering several acres. The depth of the lake Is un known, but Its entire surface constant ly boils like a huge kettle. Between It and the mountain there are a thousand boiling, bubbling hot springs. 8outh of this lake there are several geysers that shoot up streams of hot water from five to ten feet in diameter, and eighteen to twenty feet high. There are similar geysers in New Zealand and the Yel lowstone country in North America. Labor is but refreshment from re- pose.. The first flea naranna nnMnrine th Krocer will eaeh obtain one large lOo Me package of Hbisa;er'a Beet" MUsrcIt, two Shakespeare panels, Iriui twelve beautiful colors, as natural aa lite, or one Twentieth Century Girl Calndar, finest ot its kind ever printed, all absolutely free, all others procuring the Kua Craas jmmmn Stsu-ck is something est Invention ol the Twentieth Century. It has no equal, and surpasses an oiu has won for itself praise from all parts of tbe United States. It has superseded every thing kananfnM naaul n, Vnnm .n ..Inn.. In th. !. Arm, mm Tf la mmla from whe'i riee and corn, and ehemloally prepared mpon seientlne principles by J. C. lltibingr' KcwkatfE, lewav, an expert In the laundry profession, who has had twenty-live year practical experience la fancy launderlne;, and wno was tne nrsc sucomaiu Jrlu Inveotor ot all fine grades of starch la the United States. Ask yonr grocers Btareh aad obtaia these beautiful Christmas presents irne. a ar ua aaoersa a auau oo. cmonnuir THE BOER VROUW. helpmeet of Booth African Bor.li , la Proverbially Homely. The Boer vrouw Is scarcely attrac tive, as the picture shows. AmoDg the people there are often many freib-look- BOEB HOUSEWIFE. Ing girls, almost pretty. But age doet not improve their appearance. They grow hideously fat or miserably thin as their years Increase. For utter and hopeless ugliness the aged Boer vrouv easily takes the palm. Principle flies no flag of truce True piety is like a river; the deep er it is the less nolne it makes. No time is wasted in oiling the wheels of life. If a man has enthusiasm he can get along without ability. Happiness lies in our wish to make others happy; but we want them to feel the same way about us. A woman with a heartache can show a haughty demeanor, but she has to limp when her shoes hurt. S2)ir.3ST3iiirs COUCH SYRUP Cures Croup and Whooping-Cough Unexcelled for Consumptives. Give quick, sure results. Kefuse substitutes. Dr. Bulti PilUcurt BihouSHCil. Trial, kotjc- W. L. DOUGLAS $3 &3.5Q SHOES VS Worth. $4 to $6 compared wun oiner maxes. Indorfied br over 1,000,000 wearer The Genuine have W. I. lou!eis name and price stamped on bottom. J akt no substitute claimed to bi rood. Your dealer J should keeD them 1 r , not, wta will send a pa:; nil raTarrMrst nf nnr S ! .1 1 r Kino 01 earner, size, ana wium, t"-'- cap toe. Catalogue C free. W L. DOUGLAS SHOE CO., Brockton, Hasf. 48 ill) FOR FIFTY YEARS! MRS. WINSLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP has been used by millions of mthe.-H for tbelr children while Trthlri for uvt Kitty Years. It soothes the chll.l. soucn IBs Sums, allays ail pain, ctirea wtnJ cuiic, unJ a the best remedy for dtarrui. Twenty-five Cents a Boftii ARTERSINK Makes writing a comfort. ARNOLD'S COUGH Cares Cenchs and "11 ' KILLER Prevents Consumption All Druggists. 2SC joinw.?ioBfn ewsio w v;:r.rni...n, p.. Successfully P Ltu Principal Examiner u o. ?' Jtiintf 3r in civil war, IS atli udlcatum claau,W , ROPfiV DISCOVERY:! Bou of taMinsoaiala and Illityti'lraO Free. "r- a. a. eaxsa's sons. nx a. auunvta Quick Relief female Fills 8oMXtr VmmJllmm fk.l. Cfavrh Hook ttO& tbelt paekage ot "Med Croee" Siarcb. one entirely new, and is without doubt tbe greu: . I - X ATI OK 1 u
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