"He That is Warm
Thinks All So."
Thousands are 44 c01d" in
that they do not understand
the glow of health. This im
plies disordered kidneys,
liver, bowels, blood or brain.
Hood's Sarsaparilla makes
44 warm" because it gives
all who take it perfect health.
Hood's Pills cure liver ilia; the non-irritating and
only cathartic to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla.
112| fg Goto your grocer to-day
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It takes the place of cof
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Made from pure grains it
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Insist that your erocergUesyou GRAIN ■(>■
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Wonderful Achievement* With Telephos
The telephone is a very handy thing
to have in the honso when such storms
prevail as have swept over our country
during the past weeks, and I;hear that
more people than ever before used it
to call up the butcher and the baker,
or talk to their snowbound friends.
But there are ether uses. The other
week I saw the news that a young
couple ir. New York State got married
by telephone, with witnesses at each
end of tue lino and a clergyman "on
the wire." When our troops landed
in Porto Rico, a sorry young officer
went to the telephone in a lighthouse
and called up the nfilitary governor of
the nearest city, telling him to surren
der. The govornor obeyed meekly.
Now a change has been effected by
telephone in the government of Salva
dor, tho Central American republic.
A. revolutionary general went to the
telephone, called up the president, and
aud told him that as all the troops
wore in rebellion, the ouly thing left
was for him to resign. The president
resigned at once—over the telephone
—and the new dictator took office
without a blow.—The Great Round
World.
SALESWOMEN understand what torture Is.
Constantly on their feet whether well or ill. Compelled
to smile and be agreeable to customers while dragged
down with some feminine weakness. Backaches and head
aches count for little. They must —-
keep going or lose their place. ————.
To these Mrs. Pinkham's help is
offered. A letter to her at Lynn, m-aw
Mass., will bring her advice free WHO EARN
of all charge.
Miss NANCIE SHOBE, Florence, TMFIB9 S 11/lAfli
Col., writes a letter to Mrs. Pink- m
ham from which we quote: ~~ ~ ~
"1 had been in poor health for some time, my troubles hav
ing been brought on by standing, so my physician said, caus
ing serious womb trouble. I had to give up my work. I was
just a bundle of nerves and would have fainting spells at
monthly periods. I doctored and took various medicines, but
- IIT-a>a,&J9 JPJW S ot no relief, and when I wrote to you
> ~jy I could not walk more than four blocks
112 "u, at a time. I followed your advice, tak
i i n S Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier
T * n connect ' on with the' Vegetable Com
-3 P an d began to gain in strength
"T pm .rllT rom *ke ® rst * * am getting to be a
' ""V SGML stranger to pain and I owe it all to your
j'' iS medicine. There is none equal to it,
;» JIIIII * or * ave tried many others be
f°r« using yours. Words cannot
? 112 y'l to ° stron f? > n praise of it."
ISS OLLY FRAME, Meade,
> E* "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM — I feel it
IH / ■>" <; rxrnl my duty to write you in regard to
' ■if w your medicine has done for
V / enough. Since my girlhood
had been troubled with ir
'lit/In 7 |'nVV\ had ovarian trouble, the
left ovary being so swollen and sore that I could not move
without pain. Now, thanks to your wonderful medietas, that
tired feelinz it all gone, and I am healthy and strong."
Goufl» Lead to Consumption.
Kemp's Balsam will atop the eougb at
onoe. Goto your druggist to-day and get
a sample bottle (ree. Sold In 35 and 59
cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dan
gerous.
An internal revenue tax of $200,000 on a
single estate was recently paid in Boston.
Beauty Ii Blood Deep.
Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, —beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 60c.
A fortune awaits the man who can in
vent an available substitute for rubber.
M. I/. Thompson & Co., Druggist*, Couders
port, Pa., nay Hull's Catarrl) Cure is the best
and only sure cure for catarrh they ever sold.
Druggists sell it, 7oc.
The selentiflc principle of the survival of
the fittest was known to the ancient
Greeks. *
Campbell's Itlalurlal Specific*
Guaranteed cure for all Malarial diseases.
At all druggists, or seut on receiptor 25cents.
J. B. Cami'bh.i,, Suflfern, N. Y.
The gold-ftnch is nearly extinct in Eng
land.
Mrs. Winsiow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c.a bottle.
There are about 8,750,000 persons in Lon
don who never enter a place of worship.
Vo-To-Bae for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cures makes weak
men strong, blood pure. 50c. 11. All druggist*
The Baptists have arranged to buy a lot
and build a churoh at Santiugo, Cuba.
Piso's Cure for Consumption has no equal
as a Cough medicine.— F. M. Aiiiiott, 353 Sen
eca St., Buffalo, N. V., May 0, 1894.
In the German army nearly 10,000 carrier
pigeons are used.
Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free
DB. K. H. KLINE, Ltd., i«l Arch St..Phlla.,Pa.
Cause and Effect Wltli the Indian.
It should be saiil in the first place
that cause and effect, as we use the
term and apply it to natural phe
nomena, are absolutely incompre
hensible to the Indian mind. He
can form no conception of medicine,
for example, which even remotely re
sembles ours. To his mind all dis
eases and disorders are the work of
evil spirits, and the remedy is to
exorcise those spirits and, if possible,
induce them to pass into some sub
stance, such as a magic stone, where
they will be under the control of the
medicine man, who is, in fact, the
priest, for he merely sings over his
patient and never thinks of giving
him anything but prayers. Eveu in the
case of a person bitten by a rattle
snake the pi.lpable cause of injury is
entirely overlooked, and resort is had
to songs and prayers until the patient
dies. In that case, death is attribu
ted to his own evil spirit or to the
lack of skill on the part of the priest
singers, never to the poison of the
serpent.—New York Post.
A Purely Pergonal Fire.
There was a smell of fire in the
house, the deep gray odor of burning
cloth. The man of the house began
nosing about to find out what caused
it. He prides himself upon his keen
ness of scent. He went across the
room.
"Hum! It grows stronger," he
said. When he had his nose flat up
against a brick and plaster wall it was
stronger than ever. He backod off.
"No, it's somewhere over here." At
the door to the hall tho odor was very
pronounced. He rushed downstairs
into tho dining room. Tho odor was
there too. He hurried down cellar. It
was overpowering.
He put his hand into his coatpocket
for a match. He found the fire by his
sense of touch and went upstairs and
poured a glass of water into his pocket.
Since theu he carries his matches in a
box, and is disposed to be incredulous
when stories of incendiaries are nar
rated. He says conflagration, like
charity, begins :at home. —New York
Commercial Advertiser.
THE POET'S PILEMMA.
I've an ending for a poem
That I cannot seem to start)
It would please a Hoosler poet
To the bottom of his heart.
I havo tried and tried to work It,
But It's clearly no avail;
It's "the drumming of the partridge
And the whistle of the quail."
You can fanoy how he'd take it.
And he'd marshal all the bird 3
For their yearly journey southward
(How he'd And the fittest words!)
And hß'd say that they were flying
Over hill and over dale,
To tho drumming of the partridge
And the whistle of the quail.
But for me the lines are useless,
80 I'm going to take my gun.
Aad I'll hasten to the woodland—
It's a duty to be dono.
There I'll quickly make an ending—
As to start I seem to fall—
To the drumming of the.partridge
Aud the whistle of the quail.
—Charles Battell Loomis, iu Harper's
Weekly.
| LIGHTHOUSE NANNIE.
i
♦ BY HELEN FORREBT ORAVEB. < ►
"It's very hard!" said Nannie Nairn,
with a pout. "All the other girls are
dressing for Katie Stanbury's charade
party, aud I am here, all alone, like a
wretched little mouse, with no pleas
ure, aud uo prospect of any."
Miss Nairn was rather an exceptional
youug person. Her boudoir was a
little square room of hewn stone, with
a bull's-eye window of glass, so high
up that she had to clime on a stool to
look out of it. ■ Her prospect, once
safely mounted on the stool, was of
rolling green waves, with here and
there a silver-breasted gull darting
athwart the heaving surface; and her
sole companion iu the circular tower
of Loue lighthouse was an old man of
sixty-odd, who read "Blair's Sermons,"
and amused his leisure moments by
working out an unlimited series of
chess problems, which were contained
in a dogs-oared "Chess Manual."
There ho sat by the window, where
tho stormy rod of tho sunset streamed
iu like splashes of blood against the
wall, musing intently over the black
and white squares of the board he
himself had painted on tho deep win
dow-seat, with tho ocean dashing in
sheets of foam at tho foot of the light
house, and the wind shrieking around
its iron-railed top.
"Uncle!" said Nanuie, timidly.
"Well?"
Ho spoke without looking up from
the board.
"May I goon shore tonight?"
"Ou shore? What do you wnnt to
go 011 shore for?" he demanded petu
lantly.
"I haven't stirred out of this dis
mal place for a week!" pouted Nannie;
"and Kate Stanbnry is to have a
charade party tonight, and she has in
vited me."
"Pshaw!" said old Moses Nairn,
with one crooked linger hovering over
an ivory castle, like "Fate" personi
fied.
"But can't I, uncle?" pleaded
Nannie.
"No, yon can't. Michael has gone
to see l'.is mother tonight," shortly
answered the old man,"and he'll not
be back before morning."
"I could row myself easily enough,"
pleaded Nauuie. "I've douo it before
now, many and many a time."
"I don't choose to be left alone,"
said Moses.
Nannie oponed wide her bright blue
eyes.
"Why, uncle,you've been left alone
here often," she said.
"That don't siguify," snarled
Moses. "I'm getting older uow, and
I tell you I dou't choose to be left
alone."
"I shouldn't be gone long, uncle."
"Will you leave off teasing me?"
suddenly demanded the old man.
And Nannie retreated, only to fling
herself on one of the circular stone
steps without, where she burst into
tears.
"And Charlie Coteswortli is to be
there," she sobbed, "aud that young
officer from Leesborough; and I did
think so much of Katie Stanbury's
charade party."
And the shriek of sea-winds, and
the thunder of breaking billows
against the solid stone foundations
of Loue lighthouse was all the answer
that returned itself to her piteous
plaint.
Nannie leaned out of the narrow,
slit-like casement, her dimpled face
and red-brown curls framed quaintly
iu by the jagged stone edges, and
looked down to where the newly
painted boat, secured by an iron chain,
rocked to and fro in the surf.
"Half an hour to laud." she said
to herself, "and half an hour back
agaiu, and an hour to stay. 1 could
enjoy all the best of it, and be back
before uncle could possibly miss mo.
He thinks, because ho likes chess
problems and stuffy old books, that
every one else must. And he's eiglit
aud-sixtv, and I'm only eighteen; and
I've mended all his stockings and
ironed all his shirts, and there's noth
ing ou earth to do but to sit and twirl
my thumbs. I will go."
Softly the little rebel crept up the
stone stairs almost like a moving sha
dow, in the gathering dusk of the dim
old tower —softly sho brushed out the
glistening spirals of the red-brown
hair, and put on her prettiest dress
and freshest ribbons, shrouding them
all with a gray serge cloak.
And before old Moses Nairn had
studied out the "Problem sixty two
—white to mate, in four moves," to
his satisfaction, the little boat was
rocking far toward land, a moving
speck upon the surface of the deep,
with his niece, Nannie, resolutely
leaning to the oars.
As she drew the .jrating keel upon
the shingly b.-ach, and flung the chain
over a liugo wooden bulkhead to
| secure it, she turned aud looked back
word, where Lone lighthouse reared
its slender shaft against the deep
crimson of the dying sunset.
"Uncle will be lighting the lantern
soon," she said to herself.
And away she fled, up the shelving
shore, to the little settlement of houses
which was by courtesy denominated a
village.
Katie Stanbury's house was all
ablaze with cheerful lights. They
welcomed her with a unanimous cry
of delight, and gathered around her
declaring that she had come just in
time to help them out with "Othello
and Desdemona" The lieutenant
from Leesborough wrote her name
down for the first waltz, aud Charles
Cotes worth whispered to her to keep
at least three dances for him.
"We've boirowod Mrs. Leslie's
white satiu wedding dress for Des
demona," whispered Katie Stanbury.
"Come up stairs quickly and dress."
The room which they had assigned
to Desdemona, as a tiring chamber,
was intolerably warm. Nannie threw
open the window, and looked out to
ward the sea.
There, still outlined darkly against
the sullen red of the stormy western
sky, Lone lighthouse seemed to lift a
warning linger to her, its crystal eye
dim and dark as that of a blind man.
She looked once again, more intently
than before, and began to tremble
violently.
There was no light iu the lantern at
Lone lighthouse.
And when Katie Stansbury came
up to tell Desdemona that the audi
ence was waiting and wondering, she
found the white satiu dress lying in
a crumpled heap on the floor, the
candles guttering iu their sockets,and
the door wide open.
"Goodness me!" she ejaculated,
tragically, "what has become of
Nannie?"
Nannie, with a strange foreboding
of evil at her heart, had flown swiftly
down to the beach, heedless of the
lieutenant's waltzes and Charlie's dis
appointment, unfastened ths boat,and
was shooting out to sea with long,
regular strokes.
A storm was coming up. The red
scowl of the suns6t had been no false
prophet, as it seemed, for the wind
muttered low, and the distant seuline
was edged with trembling white-caps,
while the nearer waves breaking
against the shore, made a muffled roar,
and there was a curious, lurid light iu
the piled-up clouds against the western
horizon.
But of those things Nannie took
little heed, as she rowed steadily to
ward the lighthouse—the lighthouse
which looked so strango without its
usual eye of tire.
"It is not dark yet —not quite dark,"
she kept repeating to herself. "Uncle
may light the lantern at any minute.
He has most likely foi gotten himself
over those chess problouis."
And, springing out of the boat at
the foot of the lighthouse steps, she
ruu through the shower of salt spray
that made them so slippery at high
tide, and, opening the heavily-nailed
door, hurried up the winding staircase
to the lanternroom.
It was but the work of a moment to
light'the huge lamp. The crystal re
flectors grew radiant at once, and the
long white banner of light streamed
out, like magic fires, athwart the sul
len surgo of darkening waters below;
and then, with a long sigh of relief,
Nannie turned to her uncle's apart
ment.
The low fire was burning in the
little coal stove; there was no light
in the room,but by the glimmer of the
red embers she could see her uncle's
figure, still bent over the black and
white squares in the window-seat. He
did not turn at the click of the door
latch.
"He is asleep," thought Nannie.
"He often falls into such brief, heavy
sleep of late, I'm afraid he is not as
well as ho used to be."
She advanced to his side,laying her
hand lightly on his, with a smile.
"Uncle!" she said, slightly raising
hor voice.
But the shriek which she uttered,
as she snatched it back, rent the air
like a dagger.
For old Mcses Nairn's hand was
cold as marble, and he himself sat
there, with his head sunk down upon
his breast, quite dead.
All night loug she sat there, tend
ing the light in the lighthouse, shud
dering at the wail of the storm, and
the war of the waves, and still more
at the ghostly stillness in the room
below. And when the moruiug broke,
wet uud windy, and she saw herself
reflected iu an opposite glass, she
perceived that the one tress of hair
which drooped over her right temple
had turned as white as snow.
By the next day's sunshine,a richly
freighted ship rode gallantly into port,
with a half hundred passengers, who
would have been food for fishes if
Nannie Nairn had not stood valiantly
to her post.
But 110 earthly consideration could
ever induce her afterwards to enter
the dreary stone walls of Lone light
house; and the silver lock, shining
out from among the golden curls of
lier hair, bears an everlasting testi
mony to the night of terror which she
passed among the winds aud the waves,
with Dea'h for her only companion.
Aud the new lighthouse-keeper has
made a store-chamber of the apart
ment where Moses Nairn died of heart
disease.
"I've no superstitious notions,"
said he; "bit all the same, I'd rather
occupy some other room myself."—
Saturday Night.
A Great Ifelft.
"Yes," sighed the man off the Ger
manic, "we had au awful cold voyage
two-thirds of the way."
"What did you do theu?" inquired
the sympathetic listener.
"Well, about that time we got a
boat stove in and that helped a lot."—
Yale Pecord.
HELP 3 FOR HOUSEWIVES.
Cabbage fur Salad.
When it is desired to use the head
of a cabbtrge as a receptacle from
which to serve salad, the core should
be cut out by marking a circle around
the" centre of the cabbage aud cutting
down with a sharp knife. If some of
the cabbage is needed to use with the
salad, as much as will be required
may be shaved out from the centre.
This leaves the shell intact to boil at
another time, or use it any way.
Fried Chicken.
This is a delicious dish, especially
for lunches. Cut up four fowls (the
old ones are the best) and place in
cold water. Then boil slowly uutil
the bones are ready to come out. Then
season with pepper aud salt aud dried
celery leaves (pulverize 1), if you have
them. When the bones will come out
easily, pick tlieni out and chop the
pieces of meat, theu add the rich
juices in which it has been boiled,
mix well together aud pour into an
earthen dish to become cold. Then
slice and serve.
Apricot Fritters.
Drain the syrup from a can of apri
cots, bring it to the boiling point, add
one-half of a cupful of sugar and one
tablespoonful of cornstarch dissolved
in a little cold water. Stir until clear
and thick, drop in an inch stick of
cinnamon and simmer for five minutes.
Peat together the yolk of one egg aud
one-quarter of a cupful of cold water;
add one-half of a cupful of flour,one
quarter of a teaspoonl'ul of salt, one
teaspoonful of powdered sugar and
one-half of a teaspoonful of olive oil
and beat until smooth. Whip the
white of the egg to a stiff dry, froth,
stir lightly into the batter and set
away in a cool place for at least two
hours. Have ready a kettle of smok
ing hot fat. Dip each piece of drained
fruit into the batter, drop into the hot
fat and cook golden brown. Drain
for a moment 011 unglazed paper and
serve with the sauce.
The Use of Nuts.
As a diet, nuts ore very wholesome.
In cookery, all of our native nuts
have their particular uses. Even our
despised peanuts are now employed in
a variety of ways. Crushed and rolled
to a flue powder, they can be used al
most the same as flour. In parts of
Europe where the chestnuts are com
mon nuts, the natives grind them to a
powder, aud bake bread and cakes out
of it. These cakes could bo imitated
in this country with good results.
Both peanuts aud chestnuts are used
for sandwiches in afternoon teas and
luncheons. The nuts are ground to a
powder, and then mixed with mayon
naise dressing. The paste thus pro
duced is spread over the thin slices of
bread. A lettuce leaf is sometimes
added to make the effect more tempt
ing.
Nut souj) is made by roasting them
to bring out the aroma, aud then after
they are pulverized with the rolling
pin they are boiled to a mush. Then
strain through tine cheese-cloth, and
use the li juid as soup stock. The
soup can be flavored with a little lem
on, onion, leek, or other articles, but
the flavoring should never be so strong
thai, the nut taste aud aroma are dis
guised.
Value of Buttermilk.
Tlio housewives who always use
sweet milk aud baking-powder iu ar
ticles where such ingredients or their
equivalents are called for little guess
the superior results which may be ob
tained from the use of sour milk or
buttermilk and soda. If sour milk is
used it must be freely soured, not
stale; hence, the best time to use it is
in the summer time. Buttermilk is
preferable all the year round. Bis
cuits, griddle cakes, waffles, corn
breads, mil ffins, gems, gingerbreads,
cookies, etc., are all of them more
tender, delicate and probably more
wholesome if they are made of butter
milk and soda. A general rule is one
level teaspoonful of soda to 0110 pint
of buttermilk or freshly soured milk.
The soda must be first pulverized by
rubbing with a knife ou the table or
bread-board, then added to the flour,
to be sifted with it. It is even well
to sift tho flour, soda and salt togeth
er two or three times to insure an even
blending. Iu a very short time one
learns to guoge the soda exactly to the
acidity of the milk to be used.—Wom
an's Home Companion.
Household Hints.
Invalids should eat lightly, and rest
immediately after meals.
A coffee-pot should be thoroughly
washed, seal led and dried every day.
Soft newspaper or filling is one of
the nioest things to clean lamp chim
neys with.
A saltepoonful of salt, added to a
quart of coft'ee, when made greatly
improves the flavor.
To give a flue flavor to corned-beef
hash use good soup stock for moisten
ing, with a pinch of salt, sugar and
cayenne.
Hemstitching for table linon is not
now considered so desirable as a nar
row, hand sewn hem, one as nearly
like selvedge as prudent.
To brighten furniture aud remove
spots, take two tablespoonfuls of sweet
od, one tablespoonful of turpentine.
Use with a bit of flannel.
The pillow craze still rages nnabated,
putting forth new fads and fancies
with each passing moon. The latest
wrinkle is to collect pillow covers from
as many different cities as possible, so
that the cozy corners shall become a
bit of cosmopolis.
One of the most successful English
breeders of cats says that frequent
change of djet benefits the animals.
Boneless fish and rice are good for
them; so is condensod milk, and iu
warm weather vegetables should be
freelr mixed with their food.
Educate Yoar Howell With C««eareta.
.Candy Cathartic, cur® constipation forever.
10c, 25c. If C. 0. C. fall, druggists refund tnone*.
Only one mun In 203 Is over six feet In
height.
Pneumonia may be warded off with Hale's
Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pike s Toothache Drops Cure in one Minute.
Spain Inst year exported to the United
States 3,000,000 pounds of raisins.
To Care Conittpatlon Forever.
-Take Ciiscarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
u c. o. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money.
In London there la one blind person to
every thousand of the population.
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The I'iano a Cause of Disease.
In a recent number of a French
medical journal a Dr. Waetzold de
clares that he is of the opinion "that
the chloroses and neuroses from which
ao many young girls suffer may be
largely attributed to the abuse of the
piano." The author of this learned
disquisition goes onto say it is neces
sary, in his opinion, that the deadly
custom of compelling young girls to
hammer on the keyboard before they
are fifteen or sixteen years old should
be limited in the application. Even
then these exercises should be per
mitted only to those who are not alone
talented, but possessed of a robust
temperament.
Dr. Waetzold further shows that out
of 1000 girls studying the piano before
the age of twelve <ioo were afflicted
' with nervous troubles later in life,
| while only 100 were affected among a
j similar number who had never touched
this instrument. The study of the
[ violin, Dr. Waetzold declares, pro
! duces even more disastrous results
than those attributed to the piano.—
New York Mail and Express.
lJor© til A Loss In Silence.
The following episode happened at
the recent brilliant charge of the
Twenty-first Lancers, at the fall of
Omdurman:
One of tlie men got his thumb cut
off, and turning to his chum, au Irish
man, ejaculated:
"Whatever shall I do? I'm done
for life."
Pat, taking things somewhat coolly
and thinking his chum was making a
fuss over a mere trifle, responded,
solemnly:
"Begorra, that's nothin' to make a
fuss about; here's poor Jouea wid his
head cut off, an' not a word is he
sayin'."
Deepest "Wells.
A enriosity, at least, is this com
pilation of the deepest -wells in the
world: In Europe, one at Passy,
France, depth, 2000 feet; at La Chap
elle, Paris. 2950; at Grenelle, Paris,
1798; at Neusalwerk, near Minden,
2288; at Kissingen, Bavaria, 1787; at
Sperenberg, near Berlin, 4100, which
is said to be the deepest in the world;
jit Pest. Hungary, 3182. In the United
States there are wells located at St.
Louis, depth, 3843 feet; at Louisville,
2086; at Columbus, Ohio, 27751; at
Charleston, S. C., 1250.
Traded For Badge itt and"Was Killed.
Sergeant W. P. Steele, of the Law
rence Company, relates a singular
circumstances in connection with the
death of Lieutenant Alford in Manila.
Identification badges with numbers
on them were given out to tlie Kansas
troops. The man who got No. 13
made such strong objection to the un
lucky number that Lieutenant Alford
exchanged with him, and the Lieuten
ant had it on his persou when he wa.«
killed.—Kansas City Journal.
TITO Uood lteaftou*.
"She's only marrying liim for his
money," said one of her dear friends.
"Oh, that's where you are wrong,"
answered the other dear friend. "Sho
told me herself she had two reasons
for marrying him."
"What are they?"
"One is his moutfy and the other i>»
the fact that he is too old to live very
long."—Chicago Post.
Wheu a kid shoe has worn purple
or white at the seams and toes it may
still be kept in active service by using
a mixture of equal parts of olive oil
and best black ink. Apply with a
sponge and polish with a soft, duster.