HAWAII A TRAMP PARADISE.
Native Trees, Which Can Furnish
Food, Shelter and Drink.
Since the recent agitation of the Ha
waiian question in this country Fred.
W. Job, the Hawaiian Consul in Chi
cago, has had innumerable questions
asked him and plans proposed. He
was in his office the other day when a
man came in who looked a little the
worse for the lack of ready money.
The man piled the consul with queries.
First, he wanted to know about the
bread tree.
"There is such a thing," said Mr. Job
"and it is common In Hawaii. The
tree bears a pithy fruit that is pleasant
to the taste and is very nutritious. It
somewhat resembles light bread." ,
The visitor then said he had heard
of a tree called the traveler's tree there
in the country. To this the consul al
so assented. He said the leaves on
this tree grew a great deal as on a
palm, and that the hollow between the
leaf and the trunk was filled with wa
ter, sometimes as much as half a gal
lon. The banana tree was the next
topic, and when the stranger learned
that they also grew on the islands he
heaved a sigh of relief.
"Well," he said. "I can get an army
that will beat Coxey's. I'm going to
get a gang of my friends and we are
to emigrate to Hawaii. Then we are
to transplant some of these trees till
we have one of each near together,
then we will hang a hammock and
there we will stay. Nature will fur
nish our food and the climate is such
there that we will need but few clothes,
and what we take with us will last
almost indefinitely, and if we do no
moving about we will not wear them
out."
Mr. Job admitted that the man had
an inventive mind, but said that his
plan was hardly feasible, though it
might be carried out to a certain ex
tent.
A Horse Club.
"What's a horse club?" asked the
man In the silk hat.
"Didn't you ever hear of one?" re
sponded the man doing the bulk of the
talking.
"I think not. Go ahead and tell
us."
"Well, you know It costs more than
a good, many people want to spend to
keep a horse and vehicle, whatever
kind it may be. Indeed, in the cities
it is quite beyond the means of most.
In the smaller towns of the country
It is more nearly possible, for a horse
may be boarded at any country livery
stable for $lO a month, and sometimes
even less if done by the year. But
even in such favorable circumstances
there are many people who don't like
to own a horse and board him at a
stable, where he may be badly treated
or he may get sick and die, or keep
him at home, where he is liable to be
worse treated than In a livery stable.
That being the case, I know of a
liveryman in one of the towns I visit,
a place of six thousand inhabitants,
who is enterprising enough to make
the effort to meet the wants of that
kind of people. This man went around
among his acquaintances until he
found twenty-five who were willing to
pay him $lO a month each for the t:se
of a horse —just what they would pay
for the board of one if they owned it.
But they did not want livery horse 3,
so he agreed to give each patron the
same horse always and not let it go
to any other person. Then he began
buying up second-hand buggies and
phaetons and good, serviceable horses,
until he had $2,500 invested In the
private livery plant, as he called it.
He had to hire only one extra hand,
and he had room In plenty; so the ad
ditional expense, beyond feed, was not
much. He had been running his
plant a year when I saw him, and he
told me that the entire expense was
$l5O a month, and that he took In
$250 cash every month, leaving him a
net profit on his $2,500 investment of
$1,200 a year, and every member of
the horse club was so pleased that he
had booked for another year, and there
were a dozen applicants for member
ship.
"Of course he lost something by
putting some of his good customers
into the club, but he got them for a
year that way and he was willing
to lose one $2 drive to pick up forty
60-cent ones. Now," concluded the
drummer, "that you have learned what
a horse club is, perhaps you might
suggest It to your friends in the
country and let them try it once."
Life of a Fire Engine.
The life of a Are engine in New York
city In its first use Is ten years. It Is
then rebuilt and is good, either in
regular service or as a reserve engine,
for ten years more. After twenty years
of service the old engine is sold at
auction.
It may be bought by another city or
town for use as a fire engine, but this
happens very rarely. The engines are
heavy, and they must be drawn by
horses, so they are not adapted for use
In smaller cities. The old engine is
oftener bought by a contractor, for
us**, for Instance, in pumping out cel
lars. In such service a steam pres
sure of fifty pounds might be ample for
tha work, while in fire service a pres
sure of 150 pounds might be required.
In such work as this the old engine
might last three or four yearß more.
Sometimes the discarded Fire Dep
partment engine is bought by a junk
dealer, who break:; It up for the metals
it contains, and this Is what they all
come to at last.
Rad Country for Novelists.
Tho Koran forbids the reading of ro
mance, and hence popular tales are not
printed among the Mohammedans, but
raited by story taller*.
SLAUGHTER OF PiEDCKINS.
"Stood OIF" Three Thonaand Indiana
For Three Day*.
Charlie Gates is an old-time Indian
fighter. He used to reckon his dead
Indians by the cord. He has fought
more Indian battles than any other
man on the earth or under it. He has
just returned from a trip to the north,
and said:
"The most interesting part of it was
that I went back to the place where
Bill Hanks and mo stood off three
thousand Indians for three days one
time back in the late sixties. There
was seventeen of us at first, but only
three of us lived to tell the tale. The
spot Is some thirty-five miles from
Blaclcfoot, Idaho, near where the road 3 •
fork. The Indians sailed into us one j
afternoon and made things lively, I tell '
you. We dragged the wagons together |
in a circle, killed all the horses and |
strung them around for breastworks I
and bade the painted fiends come on, j
and they came. Why, it fairly rained
Indians. We kept shooting, and so did
they, until night came on, when we
discovered that Bill Hanks, myself and
Jim Defoe were all there were Felt of
us. We knew we could not hold out,
so we drew lots to see who would go
for help, and Defoe won and crawled
out He told us when he got back that
he crawled nine miles through the
darkness before he dared rise up."
"Why did he crawl so far?" asked
Dan Nickum, who was a listener.
"Because he didn't get through the
Indians for nine miles," answered
Gates, with digni y. "There were more
Indians there at any time than was
ever gathered together at one time be
fore or since. Well, sir, for three days
me and Bill sat there in that circle and
mowed down Indians. When the sol
diers did come we were mighty glad, I
tell you. After the fight was over they
counted, and found ine and Bill had
killed exactly two thousand of the
three thousand which first attacked us.
The soldiers killed the balance."
"How could you tell which ones you
killed and which the soldiers killed?"
asked Nickum again.
"Simple enough," said Gates. "By
the freshness of the corpses. When a
corpse was over a day ol'd we credited
him to our account."
"But how did you tell the freshness
of a corpse?"
"Oh, that's dead easy. Of course,
you have to know, and so long as the
Indians are not likely to trouble us
again, there's no use in telling you
now, for the information would not do
you any good. But a man that Is used
to killing Indians can tell a corpse any
time, and just how long it has been
dead. Even if that wasn't the case, we
had another method, for we never shot
an Indian except right through the
head. Didn't want to spoil the hide."
"What on earth would you do with
an Indian's hide?" asked Nickum.
"Cut 'em in slices and make razor
strops of 'cm; that's what we always
did with Indian hides. We used to
ship bales of Indian hides to Europe
every year. That's where I got my
start."
"That must have been as hard a
fight as you ever Lad, wasn't it?"
"Yessir. All but one. Was in a
harder fight than that down in Arizo
na one time. Lost more men. The In
dians came on us by surprise and killed
every darn one of us. Not a man es
caped to tell the tale." And then Gates
engaged himself In a foot race with a
street car.
A Iloom in the MOOCIIHIII Trude.
As a result of the movement toward
Alaska, the leather dealers report great
activity in the manufacture and sale of
the "yellow-legged moccasins." The
government has recently ordered large
supplies of these articles for troops
who are to be sent to the gold fields of
Alaska. It is declared that no other
footgear would suit the soldiers so
well, because the moccasin is the
warmest clothing for the foot in the
world, and easier than a silken san
dal. The manufacture of moccasins In
shoe factories began away back In
1851, and the business grew rapidly,
until at one time soon after the war
there were four large factories and
several smaller onea, employing about
six hundred hands and turning out
hundreds of thousands of pairs of moc
casins every year. The moccasin is
made of common leather, as a rule,
tanned in a peculiar way. Salt and
alum are used in the process. This
makes the leather soft and pliable, and
there is a way in which, at some ad
ditional expense, it may be made wa
terproof. Ihe secret of the process is
known to only a few, and the tanning
Is carried on for the most part in
Rhode Island. Leather thus tanned
was first used for mill belting, and it
was years before it was discovered that
it was good for boots and shoes of the
easy and bulgy kind fit for lumbermen,
who like to wear two or three pairs
of stockings when they go into the
woods and start on a three months'
campaign with snow. The original
moccasin was a baggy and unsightly
thing, but now they have some pret
tense to symmetry and style.
A "Gold Brick" fur a Foot Warmer.
Because he can tind no other use for
It Samuel Petro, of Indianapolis, iB
using a gold brick which he recently
purchased from an accommodating
stranger as a foot warmer. It is a
trifle expensive and does not give the
same satisfaction as a thick blanket
or a couple of young puppies, but Mr.
Petro is bound to get at least part of
the value of his money. The plated
warming pan cost $1,600, and the own
er stands ready to swap It for a mule.
Progressive HiiMwla.
Without a pass no child can goto
school in Russia or adrlt make a short
trip. The Governmant derives a big
revenue from passes.
WHAT mimics EAT
RATIONS ISSUED BY THE GOVERN
MENT FOR A CAMPAIGN.
Uncertainties of Army Fare on the March
—The Emergency Ration tor Forced
i Journey a— Details of the Work In th«
| Quartermaster i» Department.
I The Government hau made ample
provisions for its defenders, and the
commissary department has on ltt
books regular bills of fare for the sol
diers which are looked after as care
fully as those of any hotel, although
the list does not suggest anything thai
might come under the head of dain
ties.
For troops on feast or In garrison
where cooking is practicable, the regu
lations provide the following: For ev
ery 100 men 125 pounds fresh beef 01
125 pounds fresh mutton, or 75 pounds
I pork, or 75 pounds bacon, or 137 pounds
salt beef; when none of these can b«
procured, 87 pounds dried fish, or 112
pounds pickled fish, or 112 pounds
fresh fish.
The same number of men also re
ceive 112 pounds of flour, or, in lieu ol
flour, any one of the following: 11S
pounds soft bread, 100 pounds hare
bread, or 125 pounds cornmeal and 4
pounds of baking po.vder.
In addition to the bread and meat ra
tions the 100 men receive 15 pounds
beans or, in lieu of beans, any one ol
the following: 15 pounds peas, 1C
pounds rice or 10 pounds hominy. For
every 100 men 100 pounds of potatoes
are furnished, but this may be varied.
Instead of the full amount, the Depart
ment sometimes cuts the potato rations
down to 80 pounds and issues in addi
tion 20 pounds onions, or it Issues 70
pounds potatoes and 30 pounds canned
tomatoes, cabbages or beets.
The same number of men receive
either 10 pounds green or 8 pounds
roasted coffee, 2 pounds tea, 15 pounds
sugar, or, in lieu of the latter, either 2
gallons molasses or 2 gallons syrup.
Among the sundries which are supplied
are 1 gallon vinegar, 4 pounds salt, %
pound pepper, 4 pounds soap and lVa
pounds candled.
For troops travelling otherwise than
I by marching or when separated for
j short periods from regular cooking fa
j cllities, another class of rations is is
sued. These incl'ide for the same
I number of men, and proportionate
amounts if the bodies are larger or
smaller, 75 pounds corned beef,
pounds soft bread or 110 pounds hard
bread; 34 pounds baked beans, 100
pounds canned tomatoes, 8 pounds
roasted coffee, 15 pounds sugar, or, if it
can be purchased by* the commissary
officer, 300 pints of liquid coffee.
"But the rations of men on a march,"
said an officer connected with the Com
missary Department, "or what is
known as field rations, cannot be des
ignated exactly. Hard bread, bacon,
coffee, and salt are suDoosed to
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netlc, full of lift:, nerve and take No-To
I3ac, the wonder-worker, that makes weak mci
nrong. All druggists, f»oc or f| a Cureguarat!
teed Hookicb and saiupio free. Addrcs
Sterling Co . Cnu-nro t.r Nfnv Yorl'
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| Children! j
* They do not complain of;*
anything in particular. They
eat enough, but keep fliin and *
a,; pale. They appear fairly well, 3
jjl but have no strength. You -J
{£ cannot say they arc really .«
k side, and so you call them *
{£' delicate. j
Whatcan bedone forthem? <*
a; Our answer is the same that x
the best physicians have been £
giving for a quarter of a ccn
tf tury. Give them X
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%• phosphites. It has most re- <5
markable nourishing power. *
J" It gives color to the blood. It*
ti brings strength to the mus- n
J? cles. It adds power to the £
* nerves. It means robust *
a* health and vigor. Even deli- «
J cate infants rapidly gain in
* flesh if given a small amount
a* three or four times each day. '<*
ft. soc. and $1.00; all druggists S
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is a
GOCMI THiltg}
to bo rid of, because bad blood is |
the breeding place of disfiguring I
and dangerous diseases, la your \
blood bad ? It is if you are
plagued by pimples or bothered by
boils, if your skin is blotched by !
eruptions or your body eaten by |
sores and ulcers. You can fcavo i
good blood, which is pure blood, if j
you want it. You can be rid of >
pimples, boils, blotches, sores and •
ulcers. How ? By the use of
Ayer's
Sarsaparllla
It i3 the radical remedy for all dis- j
eases originating in the blood- ;
Read the evidence :
"Ayer's Sar3aparilla was recommended
to me"by my physician as a blood purifler. ;
When I liegan taking it I had boils all over I
my body. One bottle cured me." —Bonnes
CHAFT, Wesson, Miss.
"After six years' suffering from blood
poison, I began taking Ayer's Karsapa- :
rilla. and although 1 have used only three |
bottles of this great medicine, the sores j
have nearly all disappeared."—A. A. Man- 1
mno. Houston, Texas. j
De in the possession of all the men, but
I have kiiown many days when we had
nothing, with bad water, to live on.
The bread, bacon and coffee are some
times reduced to bread or bacon, and,
on the whole, the supply depends on
the proximity of the men to the base
of supply."
For bodies of troops going away
from the Army proper to be gone six
or eight days, who must depend for
supplies on the country to which they
are going, there are what Is known as
emergency rations, m the German Ar
my the emergency ration which was
used In the Franco-German war was in
the shape of a sausage, and consisted
of hashed beef, peas and bread, all
tightly pressed into a parchment cas
ing, and known in the army as "Erba
worst." This casing was removed and
the contents thrown into boiling water,
where it broke into fine particles and
made a thick or a t nln "stew," accord
ing to the amount of water used. The
emergency ration for 100 men is at
present 62 pounds of bacon packed in
paraffine paper, 100 pounds hard bread
In stout little bags, 55 pounds peameal
In heavy paper, and 12 pounds of cof
fee, also packed to occupy the least
possible space. Four pounds of salt, 4
ounces of pepper, 15 pennyweights of
saccharine compound and 3 pounds of
tobacco are also contained In the emer
gency kit.
Women im Teuclicra.
There are in the United States,
roughly speaking, 350,000 school teach
ers, and of this number 120,000 are
men and 230,000 are women. In other
words, there are nearly twice as many
female as male teachers, and the dis
parity is increasing year by year. Ac
cording to the last official census of
Prussia there were CB,OOO school teach
ers In the kingdom, of whom 9,000 were
women and 59,000 men. It is evident,
therefore, that the Prussian preference
is for male teachers, and In a way as
marked as is the American preference
for female teachers. In all Germany
there are, including the Government,
Church, and private schools,- 135,000
teachers and the number of pupils Is
nearly 10,000,000. There are 140,000
teachers in France, of whom 05,000 are
men and 75,000 are women, the num
ber of each being subject to about
same ratio of increase. There are, it
is supposed, about 100,000 teachers In
Great Britain, but authentic figures
are lacking.
Round the Eartli.
The time required for a journey
round the earth by a man walking day
and night, without resting, would be
428 days; an express train, 40 days,
sound, at a medium temperature, 32*4
hours; a cannon ball, 21% hours; light,
a little over one-t?nth of a second;
and electricity, pas;ing over a copper
wire, a little under one-tenth, of a sec
ond.
Something to know!
Our very large line of Latest patterns of Wall Paper
w :th ceilings and border to match. All full measure
ments and all white backs. designs as low
as $c per roll.
Window Shades
with roiler fixtures, fringed and plain. Some as low
as ioc; better, 25c, 50c,
Elegant Carpets
rainging in prices 20c., 25c., j;c., 45c., and 68c.
Antique Bedroom Suits
Full suits $ 18.00. Woven wire springs, $ i ~75.
Soft top mattresses, good ticks, $2.50.
Teather pillows, $1.75 per pair.
GOOD CANE SEAT CHAIRS for parlor use 3.75 set. Rockers to
match, 1.25. Large size No. 8 cook stove, $20.00; red cross
ranges s2l. Tin wash boilers with covers, 49c. /fin pails
14qt, 14c; lOqt, 10c; Bqt, 8c; 2qt covered, sc.
Jeremiah Kelly,
HUGHESVILLE.
Onr Declaration of War
Has been in effect for a number of
years and our
| Bombardment of High Prices .
*
Has created havoc of late in the sale of
MOWING MACHINES, DRILLS, HARROWS,
PLOWS, LUMBER WAGONS, BUGGIES,
and ROAD WAGONS
all at the lowest cash price.
PHOSPHATE, ThiJty tons of different grades will be
sold at a low figure.
W. E. MILLER, Sullivan County, Pa.
grand spring
Shoe Stock
Comprising Correct, Stylish, Comfortable Shoes for every mem
ber of the family.
We are now ready to show you as fine a line of footwear as was
ever shown in town before.
We are constantly adding to our stock a higher and better grade
of shoes and at prices decidedly less than others.
That the public appreciates our efforts in this direction is attest
ed by our daily increasing sales of high-class footwear.
You are cordially invited to call and examine our stock and we
are positive that the styles and quality, combined with our usual
low prices, will please yon.
Elegant Spring
Shoes for Ladies
Our showing of Ladies' Shoes for spring wear will be more fully
appreciated by those who desire Stylish, Comfortable Shoes, with
out paying extravagant prices for them, and we trust to increase
business to make up for reduced profits.
A stylish, up to date, tan, cloth top, lace shoe, Bold everywhere
for $1.75, our price $1.25. The same redaced prices prevail on
onr $1.75, 2.00, 2.50 and 3.00 lines. We guarantee a saving of
from 25 to 75 cents on each pair of shoes.
Our line of Clothing, Gents' Furnishing Good*, Ladies' Capes,
Skirts, Corsets and Shirtwaists is complete. Come and see for
yourself.
The Reliable Dealer in Clothing
UfI.COM I Cr Boots and Shoes.
HUGHESVILLE. PA.