8UOOC88 OAMt TOO LATC Death Hob a eoatfecra Claiaaaat Jvt When HU Hope Ara Raallzed. "The big cotton claim which was left H a legacy to the Touro Infirmary and Jewish Orphans' home reminds me of a curious story," said a prominent New r Orleans lawyer to a Times-Democrat ' writer. "One of the many people who lost cotton through confiscation during the war was a Mississippi planter, whose name I would rather not men tion for fear of hurting the feelings of somebody now living. He had been a rich man, bat after peace was declared his bill against the government for his cotton was practically all he had left, and he went on to the capital to press the matter personally. "He fonnd It a . bigger Job than he anticipated, and eventually be became one of the great army of chronic claim ants who form Much a pathetic element In Washington life. I used to encoun ter him during the occasional visits, and he always assured me that he was on the point of securing a settlement. I think he had a small Income from the remnant of bis estate Just enongb to keep soul and body together and It was easy to see that he was desperate ly poor, but he was a gentleman to hit finger tips, and he never made the slightest reference to his straitened circumstances "Fully fiftwn years went by In hope deferred, and the old man was begin nlng to fail rapidly in health, when at last. In 1SR4. a special commission ap pointed by President Arthur ordered a compromise of his claim at $22,000 cash. That was less than a fifth of what he asked, but he immediately drew the entire amount In currency at the treasury. I suppose he wanted to feel the actral money In his hands. and if so It was the only good it ever did him, for that very evening, while he was unlocking his bedroom door In a cheap Washington boarding house, he dropped dead of heart failure. To cap the climax of ntter futility, the money for which he had waited so pa tiently and bravely for so many year was stolen In the confusion that foi lowed, and never recovered. 'Toor old fellow! Whenever I think about the case It seems to me that des tiny went to work deliberately to per petrate a grim practical Joke." BELOW THE BOILERS. The Mighty Powers of Propulsion of Transatlantic Liners. Twenty-five years ago the Engineer, Of Loudon, the recognized authority on all matters pertaining to steamship navigation, made the prediction that the crossing of the Atlantic ocean, by a steamship, at the speed of twenty five miles an hour, was one of the things impossible of accomplishment. At that time the Atlantic had never been crossed by a screw steamer at as nigh a speed as fifteen miles an hour; the Cunarder Scotia, the last of the big sldewheelers, never doing better than in average of fourteen and a half knots. Therefore the prophecy of the Engineer was not at all a wild one. But to-day then, are steamers that have reached the speed of twenty-five miles an hour, and others are In course of construc tion which are expected to surpass It The fastest liner of to-day has done more than an average of twenty -five miles. Her enormous engines and pow erful propellers, mignty powers of pro pulsion, have forced her through the roughest waters of the Atlantic at an average speed of twenty-one knots, which is a fraction over twenty-six miles In the hour. The distance of the Southampton Kew York route Is 3,060 miles, which rovers on the average in five days and leventeen hours, considerably over twenty-five miles an hour for the en tire trip; her mighty engine that throbbing, thumping heart down below revolve about eighty times per min ute, or about 672,000 revolutions to cross the Atlantic Frank Leslie's Pop ular Monthly. A Symbol of Wealth. The Joneses did not know they were rich, or even considered so, until an other tenant in the flat building said that the janitress had spread the re port of their wealth. What's more, the janitress said she was sure of their financial standing, because she herself had seen their means. She gave out this piece of gossip on rent day: "Yer see this bit av white paper with some wrltln' on ut? Yes? Phwell. that's wut Mrs. Jones gev me for the rint. and It's all rolght, cause the owner takes ut without a wurrud. That' pa per is wort' $35, and would yer be lieve ut7 Mrs. Jones has got a little book with hundreds of thlm in ut Them Joneses Is wealthy." New York Commercial Advertiser. Original Chimney Sweepers. The first people who employed boys for the purpose of clambering up chim neys to clean them were the French; and the greater part of chimney sweep ers In Paris at the commencement of the century were Savoyards. One might then see everywhere In the streets large groups of these boys, many not above eight years of age. clad In linen frocks, and who, whoa called upon, would scramble up chim neys at the hazard of their lives, with their brooms and other Instruments, often through a narrow funnel fifty feet In length, filled with soot and smoke, and In which they could not breathe till they got to the top, and all In order to gain but five sous. The custom was Introduced Into Great Brit ain, but put down by an act of Parlia ment In 1S40, In consequence of the many serious accidents which attend ed the climbing of chimneys; and, al though the use of machinery was sub stituted. It does not perform the op eration so effectively as the old mode. As long as chimneys were simply and wisely built they were easily cleaned by servants with wisps of 'straw or brushwood fastened to a - rope; but when, to y.ive room, narrow flues were made, the cleaning of them became so difficult that It was necessary to have small boys for that employment The first who thus swept chimneys were the people In the northern part of Italy, more particularly the Inhabitant of Piedmont and Savoy. Dead Languages. There are certain languages which, although they are still spoken and written in, are to ail intents and pur poess dead. For Instance, Icelandic la practically identical with the dead Norse language, out of which the Scan dinavlan tongues have grown. So, too, Provencal, the ancient language of Provincia, and the speech in which the troubadours sung, has now sunk to the level of a patois, although a certain trench Iitprorv Krhrml is molh,n . forts to revive It as a literary language. Hebrew, again, thopgb still spoken, la to all Intents and purposes dead in the sense that Greek and Latin are. Corn ish, Manx and the old, mysterious Romany tongue are also example Wfcicb should be menttozved- i 0) Mot It baa often bean said that the ty of the negro rate, for enduring beat baa never been folly tested. An lne. dent related by a dairyman living oo the outskirts of the city seams to bear out this assertion. He has a young ne gro boy. who looks after the cattle and does chores around the place. The only effect that the heat produces to his case la a desire for al amber. The dairyman had a young calf In the barn yard and as the snn was pouring In on the poor animal hla wife sent "Carllna" oat to tarn the calf loose, so that he could seek a shady spot. After wait ing an hour for hla return the house wire went to the barnyard to Investi gate. There ahe found both boy and calf curled up In the hot and stifling barnyard. The calf waa dead from the effects of the snn. bat the boy was slumbering peacefully by Its side. While a negro can stand any amount of heat on his head, he loves to cool his heels. It Is a common sight In the win ter to see a negro boy on a frosty morn ing with his head bundled up to keep out the cold and at the same time walk ing unconcernedly along the frosty ground In his bare feet. One of tbs hottest places In the city on a hot day Is at the lumber wharves of the Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad. When the men knock off for noon they frequently take a nap with their face upturned to the rays of the biasing sun; at the same time they get their feet under the shadow of some friendly (umber pile. Florida Times-Union. A Bagacloxts Elephant. O. E. Peal states that he once saw young elephant deliberately fashion a surgical instrument. He saw the ani mal in question go to a bamboo fence and break off one of the pickets; thli picket it further fractured with Iti trunk and one of its fore feet until 11 obtained a sharp fragment some ten oi twelve Inches In length. Then, leaning forward on one of Its forelegs, it thrust this fragment, which It grasped with Its trunk, into Its "armpit," and vig orously moved it to and fro. As a re sult of this operation a large elephant leech was dislodged, which dropped tc the ground and was at once ground to mincemeat beneath the horny toes ol the sagacious brute, which grunted Its Intense satisfaction! Jessie, the elephant mentioned above, had some knowledge of pneumatics. One day I tossed a peanut, which fell to the ground some eight or ten Inches beyond the utmost reach of her trunk. She stretched out this organ to Its full est extent toward the peanut, then blew through It a sudden, quick and powerful blast. The peanut was hurled against the wall, whence It bounded and then rolled beneath the feet of the Intelligent animal, which at once swal lowed. I tried this experiment several times, each time with a like result. Scientific American. The Tlmmer Market. On the last Wednesday of August every year there I a fair called the Tlmmer Market" held In the Castle Square In Aberdeen, Scotland. Soma fifty or sixty years ago nothing could be bought at It but wooden articles from which arose the name "Timmer." Stow, however. It la the Scotch house wife's last chance or getting her ber ries for preserving. Every patron ol the market knows that after thai month the only chance of fruit is gow hence the rush. Great and small rich and poor alike turn out Booths, set to the best advantage ant! numbering perhaps two hundred, art arranged In rows, ample room beinf left for the buyers and pleasure-seek ers between. Fruit stalls, old clothei dealers, shooting ranges, wheels of for tune everything to make a penny cat be found there. Schools and college! have no recognized holiday on thai Wednesday, yet the average "med" ii a regular attendant Up and down h parades, blowing his trumpet in th face of everyone be meets and looking the very picture of happiness, althougt past the age of three. By 7 o'clock the "tarry rope" lampt are lit and the fun commences. Coun try "bumklns" fetch their "lasses" and buy them candy and pears or whatevei Is wished for; provided that the cost does not exceed sixpence. The eliti of both sexes mix with the crowd and "treat," the one the other. When al Is about sold out the students start foi home with a rush, upsetting the stalli as they go. Nothing, of course, is said by the police. It being "Timmer" day Should any one be so absent-minded as to forget the months and the dayt thereof he has no doubt whatever from the head-splitting noise, of thf last Wednesday in August Tricks of Choir Singers. One of the English bishops ha been complaining that he notices about many choir boys and men a want of reverence and of attention to the serv ices that are going on, and he exempli fies this by saying that the choristers talk In song and have a sort of "volun tary" of their own wherein they drop the original words and, to sacred mu sic, chant "I am so hungry; I hope ws shall finish soon." But this. In reality, is a very old com plaint, and the average stage managei is far more afflicted by It than even are choirmasters connected with places of worship. The rows of chorus men and girls one sees on the stage carry on long and animated conversations about everything under the sun, and all to music. And all the time they Indulge In the gestures they have been taught as appropriate to the scene, their thoughts are really with the themes of their musical chat and thus it Is that these gestures seem so wooden and artificial. And It Is a fact that the great bulk of the chorus people engaged In the highest class "Italian" opera sing any gibberish they please. Old Joke Given New Twist. A man well known In professional circles was standing In the Union De pot a few days ago when a womaa came up to an officer stationed at tht depot, and the following coDversatloa took place: "Will this train take me to Detroit r "No, madam, but you can change cars at Toledo and get to Detroit" "What time will that get me tharef "Six twenty p. m." "Are you sureT"' "Well, if It's on time It will." "Are you sure I'll make connection at Toledo?" "Tes'm." The woman went away apparently satisfied, bnt came back a moment lav ter, and asked all the questions over again. When she had departed the pro- fesstonal man walked up to the officer and Inquired: How many dura fool questions do you have to answer In a day?" "It's the third time to-day," said the officer, with a twinkle la hla eye, "thai I hare answered taat etka." ClsvelaaW Plain Dealer. ty always RAWS MORN BLASTS OD'8 work never waits on the maa who la not ready. In order to show as the stars God had to give ni night Before the devD can be chained tht saloon door must be shut. Nothing but sin ever made any body doubt the di vinity of Jesus Christ. Prayer for dally bread la answered with dally strength. To nail your doctrine to the cross will not take away your sins. Good fortune sometimes cornea to aea us in a very shabby looking carriage. The devil probably dressed In white on the day the cigarette waa Invented. A man had better sleep in sloth than keep himself awake with wickedness. There can be no refinement of man ners where there 1 corruption of mor ale. It would puzzle an onion to under stand what there is about a rose that people like. - Angels weep on the day that a young man begins to spend more money than be can make. The cross corrects the pessimism of the reign of natural law by the revela tion of the reign of divine love. Many a man whose prayer were long will be kept out of heaven be cause bis yardstick was too short. When an evil thought la trying to force Itself upon your mind, the devil is knocking at the door of your heart. The man who says. "Our Father," in honest prayer, will not be found stand ing with his foot on his brother's neck. YANKEE HENS IN SOUTH AFRICA. Change Their Mature After Having Bean Acclimated In Boerdom. "One of the greatest troubles expert enced by people living In tropical coun tries," said L. T. Varden, of Chicago at the Gilsey house, "Is to obtain meal of a quality fit to eat Take the Phil ippines, for instance. The cattle then are magnificent to look at, but they cut up into mighty poor food, being fal and also stringy. Almost all the meal used by our men there comes from Australia, being brought In refrigera tor ships, from which It Is Issued thret times a week. The Australian Is as good beef as a man would care to eat There la, or rather was for it Is nearly a year and a half since I was there lack of poultry," also. No hens oi chickens can be obtained, but onlj ducks, which Is an exceedingly pool substitute for a hen's egg. In my esti mation. I understand that since then they have tried to remedy this and other deficiencies by Importing hem and other things, bnt I doubt the suc cess of the experiment for the climate, different kind of food and the like, may change the flesh of the fowl and the quality of the egg. C. A. Williams, a friend of mine, who used to be United States consul at Johannesburg, and who now lives In the Transvaal, told me that when he first went to South Africa he endeavored to raise the char acter and quality of his table supplies by Importation. The meat In South Africa was poor, but that could not be helped. American fowls, William thought would be a decided Improve ment over those of the Transvaal, and their eggs would enable htm to begin each day with an easy stomach and a satisfied mind. So he brought out flock of American-bred poultry. At first all went well; the breakfast egg was a godsend and the occasional chicken at dinner all that he bad fond ly anticipated, bat then there came i change, at first so gradual that Will iams was Inclined to attribute it to loss of appetite. The breakfast egg grew coarse and coarser In flavor until It be came wholly uneatable and the dinner chicken deteriorated In similar manner and with Identical result With tt former, however, the outward appear ance of the egg remained the same, but the poultry not only changed In qual ity and flavor of flesh, but also In ex ternal appearance as welL Without Increasing the size of the body, the necks grew longer and thinner and the legs lengthened out of all proportion, until at last the hens resembled noth ing so much as diminutive ostriches. They were unfit to eat and of no other domestic nse, and so Williams gave them away to the Kaffirs, but for some time he thought of exhibiting tbeni here at a poultry show, mainly to as certain what names competent Judges would apply to them, but the expense deterred him. He also had another scheme to get even, which was to en ter the roosters In cocking mains. Williams said they could lick anything that wore feathers, short of an eagle or an ostrich, and that there was not a dog In the Transvaal that would come anywhere near his house while tbey re mained his property, so utterly bad the few dogs which bad tried conclusions with them been routed." New York Tribune. ' Vast Cost of Imported Perfumes A recent compilation of statistics ihows that In 1803 American dealer Doiight u:ore than SfOO.OCO worth of foreign cosmetics and perfumes. The ate Kate Field ssld, a few years ago. .hat American women spend $22,000,- XX) a year In those toilet luxuries. "most of which. she said, "are poisonous.'' Porcelain Tower. This waa one of the . architectural boasts of Nankin, China. It waa reared In the ninth century before Christ bj King A-yon, and has been twice rebull once In the fourth century of thi Christian era and again In 1418 bt Hoang-ll-Tal. The tower originally at talned a height of 850 feet. It consisted of nine stories surmounted by a greai mast bounded by a spiral cage an crowned by an immense globe. A hun lred and fifty-two large bells were hunt from the roofs of the nine stories which were ornamented also with 122 lamps. The cost of the original edlflct was estimated at between $35,000,00C and $40,000,000. It was made Of white brick and the walls and roofs were brilliantly ornamented with porcelain. The great porcelain tower waa destroy ed In 1853, during the Tae Ping occupa tion of the city. Iceland's Elder-Down Trade. About 10,000 pounds of elder-down is collected annually in Iceland. 7,000 pounds being exported to foreign coun tries. Formerly the peaaanta used to receive over 21 shillings a pound for It jut the price has now fallen to hall :hat amount The peasants seldom re- elve money, and are obliged to barter 1 their down for merchandise furnished ' by the Danish merchants at the little settlements on the fjolda. Time conquers all, and we must Time obey. Those best can bear reproof who ourit praise. Vsialag MeeaeOetl How ire and have I ill Hli II lki y i.mn i iiti i t-- P V That's Spring Nearly every one needs good spring medicine; a medicine taat will remove impurities from tie system, strengthen the digestion, and bring back the old force and vigor to tie nerves. A perfect SarsapariHa is just suck a medicine: a Sarsaparilla taat contains the choicest and most valuable in gredients : a Sarsaparilla accurately and carefully made, and one that experience his shown is perfect in every way. That'sAYEl'S "The only Sarsaparilla aaade nndcr the personal supervision ol three graduates: a graduate m pharmacy, a gradvalc in cteaaistry, and a graduate la axdJctoe." $L00 a bottle. AH Drviiists. "I am perfectly confident that Ayeri Sanspsrilla sad PUk bars saved my Eft by taking them every 611 an4 sprinf. I Km kept them in the home for the part twenty yean." Era N. Hast, Buftalo, N. Y., March so, 1900. OUR BOYS AND GIRLS. fHIS IS THEIR DEPARTMENT OF THE PAPER. Quaint Sayiaaa and Case Dosavse ef the Little Folks Everywhere, Gathered and Printed Here for All Other tit tle Osae ta Rsad. A boy who Is evidently very nice tc Bis little sisters writes to the Cincin nati Enquirer a description of a lot of paier furniture he made for the girls' loll house. As he tells how the articles ire cut and shaped we reprint the ar- icle for the benefit of our little read 's: There Is nothing more cheerful than in open Are In the dining room, and a aper lady has just as much right to heerful surroundings as any one else x'ho depends entirely upon other peo ple's labor for their comforts In life. Figure 6 Is a pattern for a fireplace for FIRBPLa.CE, VASE. CLOCK 1XD CHAIR. he dining-room. The heavy black lines ihow where to cut with the scissors. The dotted lines show where to fold he mantle to give It the form of Fig ire 7. When the space In the panel above he mantel Is cut out, as shown In the liagram, paste a colored picture from wime paper on the back, so that the anel frames the picture, as in Figure '. Rend the grate back Inside the fire rifice, and fill It with crumpled piece if bright red paper to represent fire flie paper fire will be warm enough foi 1 paper doll, and prevent her from suf fering with cold feet. Figure 8 shows low to make vases of flowers, the point ed ends at the bottom being Intended to itick through the slits cut In the top of :he mantel. Figure 9 shows how to make a man tel clock. A grandfather's clock to natch the Janice Meredith chairs can e made by simply making Figure 9 hree times as long as it appears In the llustrntlon. Dolly cannot sleep upon the chairs, tnd a bed Is as necessary a thing for :he bedroom as a stove Is for the kitch n. Figure 13 tells you Just how to build a four post bed for the little miss. n. j I r er.N0 tmii ue ( J I ".. 1 e'-fiKi" 1 " J" IHO TH3 in the roua-POST nan. ut it does not tell you how to make he mattress and bedclothes. A small paper bag of tissue or some ther kind of verv llarht nnner mada tn it the bedstead will answer for the oattress cover, and If this is filled with j mull crumpled bits of tissue paper It I Mil make as soft a mattress as the most lainty paper doll could wish for a good i!?hfs rest or an afternoon nap. Make the sheets of line white tissue paper and a coverlid of soma bright col Kd Paper, Jhe bolster qafjfcp sSt if Rp CeT-avf tie cnildrea tab ipriag? Complaining good deal of lead- acaccan 1 sraav as wcu a asou, 'v easily fall asleep, and are tired all The time' svna now a a with yonrseiif is your strraet a slipping away? Doyou tremble easily, are your nerves all nstrons, do yon feel doll and sleepy. yon lost all ambition ? Poisoning a roll of soft paper and the pillows made In the same way as the mattress. White paper bags make beautiful pil low slips, and If you have some old candy boxes you can use the paper lace with which to trim your pillow shams. Dolly la now ready to go to bed and sleep a sweet paper sleep and dream happy paper dreams of pasteboard pie and blotting paper pudding. But no lady's bedroom Is well furnish ed unless It has one or more rocking chairs. Figure 14 Is a pattern for bedroom rocking chair, and Figure IS shows how the chair looks when It li finished and ready for your little house keeper to sit In and rock" white she uu her fancy work or chats with her papei friends upon the prevailing styles. Mathematical Made Made Easy. Ton never can tell what figures will lo. Of course they are truthful If prop- ?rly handled, but some of them are ca pable of the most bewildering antlca Here Is a method by which figures ma; ce made to tell tecrets In a way that will astonish those who are not inform ed about bow to do the "flgurlnau" . Ask some person to put down un known to you a number composed of three figures (say 702). Tell him to transpose the figures (making 267) and to subtract the lesser from the greater. Then ask him to tell you the first figure of the result, and you can tell him the entire number. For Instance, your first number In the present example Is 702, which transposed makes 267. Subtract tract 267 from 762 and you have 495. The only figure that you are told le 4, the first of the result. All you have to do Is to subtract 4 from 9, which will give you 5, the last figure, and the cen tral figure Is always 9. So your num ber will be 495. This Is true In all cases where only three figures are used In making np a number. The central fig ure will always be 9 when the trans posed number is subtracted from the original number, and the two end fig ures when added together will make 0. So, knowing either the first or lat fig ure of the result, you can give the en tire number. Toy Trains on tne Man. On the floor of a room of one of the leading board schools in South London is a plan of South Africa'nearly twenty feet square. Toy trains run on the rail way lines, the rivers are In white chalk. and the whole plan has been carefully constructed to scale for the Instruction of the children. POWER OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES. Misconceptions of the Force Exerted by Dynamite and Gunpowder. There la a widespread misapprehen sion in regard to the devastating effect of these high explosives, for when un confined the effect even of Urge charges of them upon structures Is comparatively slight At the naval ordnance proving grounds, so long ago as 1884, repeated charges of dynamite. varying from live pounds to one hun dred pounds in weight were detonated on the face of a vertical target consist ing of eleven one-inch wrought Iron plates bolted to a twenty-Inch oak backing, until 440 pounds of dynamite had been so detonated in contact with it and yet the target remained practi cally uninjured, while at Braamfonteln the accidental explosion of fifty-five tons of blasting gelatin, which was stored In railway vans, excavated but 30,000 tons of soft earth. This last may seem a terrible effect but the amount of explosive involved was enormous and the material one of the most .energetic that -we possess, while, if we compare It with the action of explosives wben confined, its effect becomes quite moderate. Thus at Fort Lee, on the Hudson, but two tons of lynamlte placed In a chamber In the ock and tamped brought down 100,000 ns of rock; at Lemberls, Wales, two ns and a half of gelatin dynamite imllarly placed threw out 180,000 tons f rock, and at the Talcen Mawr, in Vales, seven tons of gunpowder, placed n two chambers of the rock, dislodged from 125,000 to 200,000 tons of rock. We might cite many auch examples, but on comparing these we find that the gunpowder confined In the Interior st the Talcen Mawr was over forty two times aa efficient aa the explosive gelatin on the surface at Braamfon teln, while the dynamite at Fort Lee waa over ninety times aa destructive. Popular Science Monthly. It Looks Like It, "I think my landlord must be a chess player," said Dinwiddle to Van Braam. 3.!? 700 tWnk H m m9 K wa mT morB-" Pitts- ours vinrxr cie-xeiegrapn. nest springs from, strife, and disso nant chords beget dlvlnest harmonies. Wben the people have no other tyrant, their ows public opinion becomes oaa. T::2imrjcrY:-ai.tEa Twasa" Helped by Mrs. ' mDbab Mas. PraaHAif I am sixteen yonra old and am troubled with- any naonthly sickness. It la very Irregular, occurring only once in two or three months, and also very painful. I also aulfer with cramr- and once in a while pain strikes me in the heart and Ihave drowsy headaches. If there Is anything vea can do for me, I will gladly follow ... A ' - your advice." Miss Mast Gomks, Aptoa, CaL, July W 1S8. " Dbax Mas. PIb-kbaii: After receiv ing your letter I began the use of your rema dies, talrino- both . Lydia E. Pink-. ham's Vegetable Com pound and Blood Purifier. I am now regular every month and suffer no pain. Your medicine is the best that any suf fering girl can take." Miss Mabt QomeS, Aptoa, CaL, July . 1890. Nervous and Dizzy ' Dear Mas. Piskham : I wish to express my thanks to you for the great benefit I have received from the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound. I suffered constantly from ter rible sldeache, had chills, waa nervous and dizzy. I had tried different kinds of medicine bnt they all failed entirely. After taking three bottles of Vegetable Compound and three of Blood Purifier I am all right. I cannot thank you enough fonwhat your remedies have done for me." Miss Matilda Jesses, Box IS, Ogdensbure. Wis.. June 10, 1899. Never Admit Defeat. Never admit defeat or poverty, though you seem to be down and have not a cent. Stoutly assert your divine right to be a man, to hold your head up and look the world In the face; step bravely to the front whatever opposes, and the world will make way for you. No one will Insist upon your right while you yourself doubt that you pos sess the qualities requisite for success. Never allow yourself to be a traitor to your own cause by undermining your self-confidence. There never was a time before wben persistent, original force was so much In demand as now. The namby-pamby, nerveless man has little show In the hustling world of to-day. In the twen tieth century a man must either push or be pushed. Every one admires the man who can assert his rights and has the power to demand and take them if denied him. No one can respect the man who slinks In the rear and apologizes for being lu the world. Negative virtues are of no use in winning one's way. It Is the positive -man, the man with original energy, and push that forges to tho front Success. Belter Farm la Cabs. In the province of Matanzas, Cuba, at Celba Mocha, an industrial relief farm la carried on by a New England relief society. Its first crop was early potatoes. - Nearly all the cultivating and harvesting were done by war wld wi and orphans. During the Insurrec tion 8,000 reconcentrados were crowd ed together at Celba Mocha. Eight hundred are left Five thousand arc In a cemetery near by. Do Your Feet Ache and Burnt Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot- Ease, a powder for the feet It 'makes tight or new shoes feet easy. Cures Corns. Bunions. Swollen. Hot. Smarting and Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores, 25 cts. Sample Bent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy. N. Y. He that hath an estate, and he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor. What Shall We Have roe Ptisaertl This question arises in the family daily. Let as answer It to-day. Try Jell-O. a delicious aud healthful -ieasort. Prepared la S mln. Mo boillDKl no baking 1 Simply add a little hot water set toeool. Flavors: Lemon.Oranits, Kuspberry and Strawberry. At grocers. lOo. Kind words are benedictions. They are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings ooth to tne speaker and hearer of them. To Care a Cold ! On n... t sas UXiTi T BlniM CJ rim.. T... i -m S' & . """"r rails to ears, K. W. Qsovs's slcnatnrs Is oa each box. gfio. Tne soul is not made as the statue is. with click of hammer and chin of chisel from without, but the soul is made of its own ingrowth, as a peach is. Mrs. Windows Boothia Syrup lor children teething, softens the sums, rcducine inflamma tion, sllaya pain, cures wind colic 2oc a bottle. Let each day seem to me wasted that passes without my having spoken of help and sympathy, without having maue some one Diess my name, be it but a little child. I do not believe Pico's Core for Consumption has 40 equal for coughs and colds. JoHit F. novas. Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1MM. Changeless) Changeling. "Guess I must have been changed In the cradle." "Why?" "I've never had any change since." Cleveland Plain Dealer. Doesn't Kcqnire Jtioqneace. "I delivered an address hist night" "Ton! Why, you couldn't make a speech." "No, but I could tell a man my street and number, couldn't I?" Philadelphia Bulletin. buy a MCKA6E of FMENDS' This onlj shows a few of the premiums. We have many more. FRENCH JEWELRY. Light Gold Plated Belt Buckle. Sold Plated "Brooches. Sterling; Silver Hearts, Uerlisjg Silver Show Horn. iterlin? Silver Nail File. Sterling Silver Eraser. Sterling; Silver Darning; BalL Sterling; Silver Hair Curler. Sterling' Silver Button Hook. i?v- ifl NIS 8PIT1 TRUNK. He's Schesae to Oct Kven for a . Gradate Airainat a Railroad. Tne lengths to which a man will sometimes go to avenge a real or fan cied Injury are amusing," said a con Suctor on a suburban train one morn ing last week. "Do you see that prosperous-looking, middle-aged man in the third seat on the left? Well, sir, be must be worth at least $100,000, from tne Btyje f country place be supports np on ,0 Sound. You will find In the I. - - I 1 .A M t 1 I .U baggage car a Dig uaiu:reu-iuus.iuK u,u trunk with his name and address paint ed on It In large letters. Every morning when that man comes into New York his trunk cornea with him, and when ' be goes home at night the trunk Is on board. Between trips It rests in the baa-gage room in New York or at the station in the country where its owner reta off. That trunk has been travel og back and forth for two seasons now, ind It's an awful nuisance. "The reason for this Is: Two years ago this man was -thrown down In the car by a sudden Jolt and be sued the road for $25,000 damages. He wasn't Injured a particle, but he stated that be had been waiting to sue the road for something for a long time. Well, he waa unable to prove carelessness on the part of the road or Injury to himself, and he lost his case. He waa an angry man. and if be had not had an expens ive home on our line he would not have used the road. He looked around for some way to get even and he hit upon the trunk Idea. He found that he was entitled to the transportation of 100 pounds of baggage on each trip. He rigged up this big trunk, the largest one that he could find, and put in enough lead to make it weigh Just 100 pounds. So that every one might know that he was revenging himself he paint ed hla name In large letters on the trunk. Every morning he has It check ed Into New York and every night he checks It home again. During the trip he usually walks through the baggage car to gloat over the sight of It He gets a lot of fun out of It, but It means a lot of bother also. He must get to the station ten or fifteen minutes be fore his train leaves In order to check hla trunk. I have known htm to miss a tram rather than leave that thing be hind. Every man who rides In our train knows that old trunk now. It's a nuisance, of course, but we have got used to It and we don't kick. The owner of the trunk thinks that he Is getting even with the road, and he made out a little statement at the end of hut season showing how much bag gage he had forced the road to carry, lie sent It to the treasurer of the road. but I never heard that he received any reply. Funny trick, isn't It?" New Xcrk Sun. Take Care of the Old Newspapers. Old newspapers form an important Item In domestic economy, and are use ful for polishing window-glasses, for sleaning lamp-chimneys, for testing and cleaning flat-irons, and for a dozen other things. You will also need heaps of them when you come to pack away the winter clothing. The cloth-moth, like other evil-doers, has an aversion to printer's Ink. An excellent moth-proof bag, second only to the expensive tar paper, and costing nothing, may be made of two thicknesses of newspaper, with the edges folded as If for an inch wide hem, and securely pasted. Bags of the same kind are about the best thing you can use for keeping seeds and dried herbs. They are dust and in sect proof, and can be labeled and bung In the store room until needed. O ld Retaliatory Boycott, The young men and women of Fox Hill, Fa., have a nover conflict and a mutual boycott on hand. The young women decline to receive the attention? of yonng men who refuse to be teeto talers and the beaus retaliate by refus ing attentions to young women who wear birds on their hats. Hla Money's Worth. Oohensteln So she has broken her engagement? Dlt she gift yon back der ring? Isaac No; she said dlamonts haf gone up, but she vould glff me vot I bald for It Puck. Conacten Hons. I suppose you will vote according to your conscience in this matter?" "I will," answered Senator Sorghum. And my conscience tells me that It Is always wrong to waste good moneys Washington Star. Jell-O, the Sew Dewaert Pleases all the family. Four flavors: Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Strawberry. At your grocers. 10 els. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. Prescription for Chills na 'svesj t a bottle of OROTS'S TA8TXI.IPS Chili. Toaxo. It Is simply iron and quinine la a tasteless torse. Mo curs no pay. Price 50c, It Is better to suffer wrone than to do It, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. Carter's Ink Is the Best Ink Biade, but no dearer than the poorest. Has the largest sale of any Ink In the world. There Is nothing more precious to man than his will: there i ki which he relinquishes with so much re luctance. x. a. ipejn, Martine!. W. Ta says: trrh Care eared me of a very bad " Hall's Catarrh Cass of catarrh.' The same vices which are hugre and Insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves. OATS add find how to obtaix Valuable Premiums Free! Wi-1 SCISSORS. 5-INCH. Embroiderj Scissors. Gent's Stag; Handle Knife. Ladies' Pearl Handle Knife. Boys' Jack Knife. Razors. Bo, tor Adults, Ymag Peo,Ie His safest. Judge (to accused) You are now so. quitted of the charge of having stolen a watch and may leave the court Accused May I wear It now? New York World. (eXleluilf9g 1900 There U every good reason why St Jacobs Oil should cure RHEUMATISM NEURALGIA LUMBAGO SCIATICA for the rest of the century. One par amount reason is it does cure, SURELY AND PROMPTLY KCCCCCCCCC ALABASTIIIE Is a durable and natural cement base wall coating. In S lb. paper packages, made ready for use in white and fonrte.ai beautiful tints by mixiu? with cold water. It is a cement that goes through a process of setting, hardens with age, and can be coated and recoated without washiug off its old coats before reneniog. ALABASTINE Is entirely different from all the various kalttomines on the market, being durable and not stuck on the wail with glue. Alabaatiue customers should Insist on having the goods in packages properly labeled. They should reject oil imitations. There is nothing "Just as good." ALABASTINE Prevents much sickness, particularly throat and lung difficulties, attributable to unsanitary coatings on walls. It has been recommended in a paper published by the Michigan 6tate Board of Health on account of its sanitary features; which paper strongly condemned kalaomines. AlabeHtine can be used on either plastered walls, wood ceilings, brirk or canvas, and any one can bruh it on. It admits of m il eal changes from wall paper decorations, tuns securing at reasonable expense the laUst and beet effects. Alabastine is manufactured by the III Instructive and interesting booklet mailed free to all applicants. ao PILES If Ton have sot the PILES. run nave notuaea ua.nikl ii'Br Pile Ci hk. or you wouldnot b&vt them now. J he only Guaranteed Cure No detention from business, no operation, no opium or morphtne. 12 Suppositories fiOc. or 24 and box of ointment $l.(t, postpaid by mail. Send for book of valu able in formation on 1'iles, r'KEE,wnether you nee our remedy or not. THE DANIELS L'RE PILE CURE CO., S94 Asylum St.. Hartford. Conn. FREY'S VERMIR'GE cures children of W0KM4. Removes them effectually and witboot paiu or an noyance. 60 years' un broken record ot success. It is the remedy for all worm troubles. Entirely rege able. 25c. at druggists. country stores or njr mall. A H. FKEl't Haitiere, Ms. FOR FIFTY YEARS.' MRS. WINSLOWS SOOTHING SYRUP baa been naed by millions of mothers f r Uielr children while 1 setblng for over Fifty Veara it soothes the child, softens the cuius, allays all pain, cures wind oollc, aoj m me uw reuicay lor aiarrntes. Twanty-fiva Cents a Bottle. W. L. DOUGLAS $3 & 3.50 SHOES union Worth $4 to $6 compared . mm umvr inaKSi, Indorsed br over 1,000,000 wearers. Tkr otaslas hare W. I. I CoagUs' name and price I ramped on bottom. Take i no substitute claimed to be as good. lour dealer snould keen them if sot, we will send a naiit on receipt of price and ice. extra for carriage. State kind or I rather, sue, and width, plain or cap toe. Cat. free. W. L DOUGLAS SHOE CO.. Brockton. Uiu. STOPPED FRCB Permanently Carta kf DR. KLINE'S GREAT NERVE RESTORER Ne Vita 1W Irn dstr a un tWMfliBJ or to snail: treatise tai aft. TBI.I. RirTTI.R ITRRR afh fMvU4Qta who pmf "'praaaajf aalr an deU vary. a ia-t, srot osvy sarniporsiry rriier. tvrsui ut I Drtlllt,. Klki airp7- past ma. p.. Vlttta Pane. aVaK. K. aTl.BBVxL.iil K, BWat. ' 831 arch Street. Ptulaoslpkia. DROPSY HEW DISCOVERT: S I atiick relief and cures from SMS- Book of testimonials sad lO slays' treatment rrea. Dr. B. a. eaua SS0BS. aea a AUaata. es gmrLKA Hrfleale Mir treatment, m tk&n t CT- Addraes B. W1UGHT. Broetieu W1UGHT, HO, Broetlwar, M. T.' A Sure S-1L- KIDDER'S PASTILLES. relief for. Hi ilium. Sold by he all i IniL'm.:- Cbaxlestown. Mass. fwsiorji-xi. te1Myn8a.o91lnit lyratu civil war. li aujudlcatuia -JUmt, atty allies leyjiiaafsl: rrfS anise all flKf falia. Coae-n Syrup. Tastes Uoud. Use vuue. boic oy uroBBlsts. THE ROUND TRADE MARKS ARE VALUABLE. A Complete Premium List sent on application to FRIENDS' OATS, MUSCATINE, IOWA. Aluminum Coffee Strainer. Aluminum Combs. Silver Napkin Rings. Sterling; Silver .Coffee Spoons. Sterling Silver Cream Ladle. ; Sterling Silver Sugar Spoon. Sterling SUver Bon-bon Spoon taaSJ aT 1 n7 ,9 ITS OjMe&flfcm. JSi B I 1H j a n & J I S3i sterling Silver Olive Spoon.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers