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J SMKIMORT.
SURGEON DENTIST.^TfBfIS
or pick on Mill St., Opposite the Post Office, j
Operative anil Mechanical Dentistry Carefully
pei lortueil, Teeth positively extracted without
pain.Willi <!as, Ktlier arnl Chloroform: Treat- |
liii uuti filling lectli ii.Sueciuliv.
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A TTORNEY- AT-1. AW,
Ollice over I'aules' Drug Store
MONTUOMEKY BUILDING,
lI.LSTKKET. - - DANVILLE. PA
J. J. BROWN,
THE EYE A SPECIALTY
Eyes tested, treated, titled with glass- j
es aud artiiicial eyes supplied.
SI 1 Market Street, liloomsburg, I'a. j
Hours —10 a. 111. to ft p. m.
Telephone 143t>.
A RECEPTION
FOR NEW PASTOR.
The members of the church and con- j
gregatiou of Wesley chapel attended in '
large numbers, the reception tendered
Thursday night to the new pastor. Rev.
B. F. Dimmick. D. D. The reception
was held in the church parlors, which
were tastefully decorated for the occas
ion, and during the evening Dr. Dim- t
mick had an opportunity to see and
speak with nearly all of the members (
of the church, for very few stayed
away.
Dr. Dimmick was born in Pennsyl
vania and educated at Ohio Wesleyan
university graduating in the class of '74.
He received his doctor 's degree as an in
ternational courtesy from Toronto uni
versity, Canada. Dr. Dimmick has serv
ed many churches during the past years,
and in all of them has made a fine re
cord. The members of Wesley Chapel
have taken 011 new life with his appear
ance here, and say every effort is to be
made to regain lost ground.
During the evening, chocolate, coffee
and wafers were served and Bouelli's
orchestra furnished the music.
HOLD UP A PAY WAGON.
Mount Pleasant, Pa., Oct. 31. —Four
Hungarians held up the South-west
Cjnnellsville Coke Company's pay wag
on about a mile west of this place yes
terday afternoon. With double team
and wagon, in which was a safe con
taining some sft,ooo for the Alverton
workmen, were the paymaster, Will
iam Hosier, a brother of Secretary-
Treasurer C. H. Hosier and Harry Bnr
gass, the colored driver, both armed.
The Huns were in ambush and open
ed fire, killing the paymaster. The col
ored driver returned the fire, killing one
of the foreigners and wounding another.
The three would-be-robbers then ran
toward .Scottdale, without securing the
money.
Armed posses are scouring the whole
country and their capture seems prob
able. Young, Mr. Hotler came here
from < 'hicago three years ago and leaves
a widow and one daughter. He was
aliout •>(! years old and was one of the
company's most jKipular officials.
TISSOT PAINTINGS.
The famous Tissot Paintings of the
Life of Christ will be produced at the
Opera House Tuesday evening, Novem
ber, 13, under the auspices of the Shiloh
Reformed church.
One hundred of these famous pictures
will be exhibited in all the beauty of
their original colors, by means of the
ELectro-Stereopticon upon a mammoth
Mcroen, containing four hundred square
feet of canvas. Admission 2ft cents.
Reserved seats 3ft cents.
Arrested for Murder of A. Goodling.
Liverpool, Pa., <X-t. 31.—Absalom N.
Barnard, a surveror living pe«r the vill
age of Oriental, was arretted yesterday
charged with having murdered Adam
Goodling, his neighbor. This brings to
a focus the story of a wanton crime,
planned and executed with peculiar
malice, (ioodliug was an inoffensive
German struggling at the age of 6ft to
make a bare living, and was sitting in
the kitchen of his house when he fell
over dead, Some one standing outside
of the one window in the room had
carefully aimed a shotgun and fired.
This was 011 the evening of October 2,
and since then the Commissioners of
•Tnniata county have spared no effort to
unravel the mystery, which seemed to
defy a solution.
THREE LITTLE RUNAWAYS CAUGHT.
Connellsville, Pa., Oct. 30.—Three
little boys from the .Tmnonville Orphan
School wandered into New Haven hat
lew, coatless and dressed in tjuaintover
alls and shirts. They are 12 years of
age. Last night Constable William Ro
land, of Dunbar township, completed
arrangements for taking the boys back
to the mountain home tomorrow.
HIGHWAYMEN GET SIOB.
1 nioniown, Pa , Oct. 30—John Muz-1
zelle, an Italian, was waylaid Sunday
night near the Fry Glass Works on his
way home and robbed of SIOB by negro
highwaymen. He was stabbed by the
robbers.
FIRE INSURANCE ON WEDDING
GIFTS.
I»ell'*foT>t». < 31. —Fire insurance
o! A.dI.UHO ha >• 'i placed on the wed
ding • ifrs o! ,\i 1 I. ■■■■. I). Hicliok (nee
Ilastiii: 1 I • nt'.rliler of F: Governor
Hastings.
Ft: mm. mcEiiv
Nli.tK WILKtSBAKHIi.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct. —80 —Joseph
White was shot and instantly killed
and James White, his cousin, fatally
wounded yesterday. Josiah White, an
uncle of the two men, is alleged to have
done the shooting, which it is claimed,
was the result of a family quarrel.
Ths Whites are farmers and their
home is in Sweet Valley, near here.
They were engaged in a lawsuit last
Friday. This is alleged to have precipi
tated the tragedy. A posse is in pur
suit of Josiah White, who, it is claimed,
fled immediately after the shooting. j
When you goto vote keep in mind
1 the conditions that existed in business :
I affairs during the last Democratic ad
j ministration.
STRUCK IT RICH.
Scranton, Pa., Oct. 30.—Word was
received here yesterday that Daniel 1
Meiss, formerly a tailor of this city, had
struck it rich during the past week in j
Montana, having acquired possession :
for a trifling sum of a mine which lat- ]
er develoyed into a bonanza.
His strike is said to lie worthsloo,ooo. !
1
For Jury Commissioner vote for .J. j
j F. Patterson of Perry township.
KILLED HIS LITTLE SISTER.
Carlisle, Pa.. Oct. 30.—Herman j
j Kntz, 18 years old, of near here acci- I
! dentally shot and killed his three-year
| old sister yesterday.
| Kutz had returned home with a gun ;
which had just been repaired, and, not
knowing it was loaded, pulled fbe trig
ger. The entire charge of shot took
effect in the tot's head.
An honest conservative Associate j
| Judge is what we want. You can have*
an official of that kind by voting and |
working for Robert Adams.
DEATH CLEARS A MYSTERY.
McKeesport, Pa.. Oct. 30—Word has
bern received here that Otto Seaholm,
aged 20 years, son of Erick Seaholm, a
| prominent resident of this city, was
killed in a battle in the Philippines last
Tuesday. He was a member of Com- !
pany F, Seventeenth Infantry.
Seaholm had been mysteriously miss
ing from his home for two years. The
notice of his death was the first heard
of him in that time.
John (». Brown of Danville, who is
running for Register and Recorder, is
worthy of the support of all voters re
gardless of party affiliations.
Great Cure of an Editor.
"For two years all efforts to cure Ec
zema in the palms of my hands failed,"
writes Editor H. N. Lester, of Syracuse,
Kan., "then I was wholly cured by
Buckleu's Arnica Salve." It's the
world's l>est for eruptions, sores and all
skin diseases. Only 25c at Pit tiles &Co
Sheriff David Ruckel sounds well.
Elect him and you will have a man in
office that is worthy of the honor.
TWO MORE VICTIMS.
Wilkesbarre, Oct. 31.—Two more
dead bodies were taken out of the ill
fated mine at Edwardsville, at 11
o'clock last night. Their names are
Michael Galawehuiis and Adam Way
nales' Both were married and leave
families. All the missing have now
been accounted for.
Send James C. Foster to the Assem
bly. He is an able man and one that
will represent the interests of his con
stituents.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
The following financial statement of
the Salvation Army for the past eleven
months will be of interest to many peo
ple. The salary of the officers has been
very small, but Ensign and Mrs. Ileift
say they have gotten 011 very well.
Quite a sum of money has been ha/idl
ed in this work, and the Army lias ac
complished a great deal of good
Following is the financial statement:
INCOME.
Collections from meetings, churches
etc $904.49
Donations 374.18
Profit from publications 42.41
Stable and scales sold 7ft.00
Self Denial work £>B 20
Harvest festival 00.00
Total, $1584 28
EX I'KN DITt'RES.
Officers,salary and help $2t>0.33
Kent of Armory and house 128.S!!
Light and heat 42 98
Henevolent fund, Indian famine,
etc 102.4 ft
Divisional fund 71.36
Funeral fund 4.80
Organ rent 10.50
Janitor for winter 13.50
Specials 97.29
House furnishing since opening 22.55
Traveling 60 45
Postage anil stationery 13.28
Junior w0rk....,,..,,., 15.84
Opera house rent and printing. 47 04
Purchasing and remodeling hall 485.22
Opening expenses, including
house furnishing, hall fur-,
nishingand one months rent
paid in advance for house
and hall 19(155
Sundries 11.19
Total $1584.28
Opening expenses $257.20
Paid 190.5 ft
Balance owing ~. $00.05
W. H. liKfKT, Ensign.
Montour county will have some
very important interests before the leg
islature this winter and it is very nec
essary to have an experienced repre
sentative at Harrisburg to care for
these interests, one who can lie a real
help to tfre county. Hon. Jas. Foster
has the experienoe ami the ability to
render excellent service and lyt» should
lie elected bv a good majority.
AMERICANS MORE RATIONAL.
We Are FalHely ( linru<>«l by Euro- (
p<»jtiiM With nclnK l ndifciiitied.
Our crowds may and do have rip
roaring times \vl*'ii tlie occasion de
mands it, but surely they do not he
come asinine as do European crowds.
Our crowds may stand around news
paper offices looking iit bulletins, but
even on election night they don't rush
away in mad, screaming hordes, every
few moments yelling hysterically "a
has" something or somebody, as they
do in Paris.
In London wherever crowds gather
for any purpose, from an unveiling to
an excursion, street hawkers are 011
hand with two things that they call re
spectively "teasers" and "ticklers."
The "teaser" is an empty bladder tied
to a stick, and the "tickler" is a long
feather. The "teaser" is affected most
by the male representatives of English
dignity, and the "tickler" captures the
fond feminine heart. The male goes
into raptures of joy when he succeeds
in hitting somebody—a respectable el
derly gentleman preferred—with his
toy. The female trips gayly through
the streets, tickling the ears of mascu
line persons to whom she has not been
introduced.
And among our "lower orders," who
are as undignified as are the coster
mongers of London? We have no class
that delights in wearing grotesquely
bell shaped trousers with huge pearl
buttons down the sides and coats with
Immensely broad braid bindings and
also profusely covered with pearl but
tons as big as trade dollars. —New York
Press.
HtiKe Modern Cliraraimury.
"The modern hotel," said the manager
of one of Washington's big hostelries,
"has developed into a municipality in it
self. The business has undergone a great
change within the past 15 years, and
buildings and methods then in vogue have
been greatly enlarged aud niodiiied. With
the Waldorf-Astoria it was considered
that the limit in hotel construction and
management had been reached, and there
are now few hotel men who will venture
a prophecy that this immense structure
will ever he relegated to second place. I
have 110 doulit, however, that within 50
years the metropolis will have a hotel as
large again. I believe that within 20
years the older hotels of Washington,
which is one of the best 'hotel cities' in
the United States, will all he rebuilt.
Most of them have recently been im
proved.
"Brooklyn, a city twice the size of
Washington, looks like 30 cents in com
parison with the capital 011 the score of
hotels, and for years it enjoyed the dis
tinction of having but one hotel, on the
Heights, and that was a small affair.
Commercial travelers and others went to
New York to sleep. This sounds far
fetched, but it is true. Recently a couple
of modern structures have been put up,
but the City of Churches will never be a
'hotel town.'
"Washington has several Cue shelters
for strangers and in a few years will !
have a couple more big fellows. But !
without jealousy hotel men all over the
country accord the palm to the Waldorf,
and what is accomplished under that sin
gle roof every day is fairly monumental. !
"It operates a postoffice, doing as much i
business as an office in a good sized |
town, handling about 0,000 lettrt-s daily, I
reijuirng the services of four men who
act as postal clerks exclusively. Callers
send up 5,001 J cards daily to guests
through pneumatic tubes to the respect
ive floors, where they are received by
the hallboys. There are GO telephones,
with a switchboard requiring three op- ,
erators. All communication between the 1
different departments, sections and hotel
employees is done by telephone. There
are enough clocks in the building to stock
a large store, the number being 1,200,
and two men are employed to keep them
in order.
"If you say a 'regiment of employees'
you speak the truth, as the total number
of employees on the pay roll is 1,400.
There are in addition about 1,500 guests
daily in the hotel during the winter sea
son, arid 2,500 people sit nightly at din
ner in the two restaurants, two palm
gardens, gentlemen's cafe and private
banqueting halls. It requires the serr
ices of !M> cooks to feed these hungry
folks, and the kitchen force alone is near
ly as large as a battnlion of troops, the
number being over 300. They consume
150 tons of ice a day, and no one knows
how many highballs, giu rickeys and
small and large bottles.
"There are 19 elevators and 180 hall
boys and pages. A hotel which has a hall
boy force of 12 or 15 is a large one. As
many as 400 guests will arrive from the
ocean steamers iu one day and as mauy
more will depart for Europe. From 2,'>00
to 2,500 pieces of baggage are handled
and accounted for every day. The ofbee
clerical force consists of 20 clerks, of
whom six are room clerks. A 3,000 horse
power electric plant supplies the power
to burn every night 20,000 incandescent
lights, more than in many good size<|
cities. Nine boilers for steam copsume
100 tons of coal a day and heat 1,500
rooms." -Washington Sw
STAGE GLINTS.
There are five acts to Otis Skinner'*
new play, "Prince Otto."
"The Parlor Match" is to be known
in England as "The Matchboard."
The Abbe Perosi has written eight
oratorios in a few years and is now at
work 011 another, entitled "Moses."
Carl Milloecker left behind him a for
tune of $300,000, besides a number of
{Compositions not performed in public.
May Irwin next season will employ a
vaudeville farce called "Mrs. Black Is
Black," written by George V. Ilobart.
W. S. Gilbert's "Comedy and Trage
dy" has been translated into French
for Sarah Bernhardt'* use during
tour in this country.
Edmund Edmunds, who died a few
weeks ago in London, was an actor as
early as 1822. He knew Edmund
Kean, and George IV was one of his
patrons.
Dan Daly's catch phrase in"The
Cadet Girl"—"Peculiar, isn't it? Very"
Hs being repeated *ery generally and
bids fair to become a very popular col
loiJUililiSM).
The author of ''Swept Nel} of Old
Drury," the play in which Miss Julia
Neilson has just made such a success
in London, is Paul Kester, a young
American playwright.
It is not generally known that Schu
bert. though he lived only 31 years,
wrote in addition to his GOO songs and
numerous instrumental works also a
considerable number of operas.
Edmoiul Itostaud is said to tie enjoy
Jng an income of SSOO a day from
"L'Aiglon" and "Cyrano de Bergerac."
Sarah Bernhardt's daily receipts In the
first are said to be $2,200, while Coque
lln with the other has drawn an aver
age of $2,000 for every performance,
A little borax sprinkled on a clotb
and rubbed lightly on the face Is a
good remedy for blackheads. Care
should be taken to rub lightly, or It will
make the skin smart.
In general anything that tends to dry
the skin should be avoided, such as bay
rum. alcohol, camphor and ammonia.
If used In great moderation, they are
all good.
That Throbbing Headache
Would quickly leave yon, if you used
Dr. King's New Life Pills, Thousands
of sufferers have proved their matchless
merit for Sick and Nervous Headaches.
They make pure blood and build tip
health. Only 2ft cents. Money back if
not cured. Sold by Patties &Co . Drug
gists.
IS TEA A POISON?
One of ltN Element* Kill* ('«(« nnd
IlithhitM.
Dr. J. "i. Kellogg declares that tea is
all active poison that its active princi
ple, a substance called tliein, which
can !>e v tilled from tea in a dry re
tort. is fi.T.il to life.
The tliein in tea is about <i per cent
of the total bulk. Experiments have
proved that oiie-eiglith of a grain of it
will kill a t':og. grains will kill a rab
bit, and 7'-.. grains will kill a cat. In
a pound of tea there is an ounce of poi
son. enough to kill 50 cats.
Ten grains of tliein will make a mat, >
ill. and a half ouuee of tea contains
from 10 to HI grains.
Professor Lehiuanu, a German physi
cian, gave several men from eight to
ten grains of tliein each by way of er
perinient. None of them was able to
work for two days.
There are tea drunkards. There have
been cases of delirium tremens from
tea drinking. By chewing tea leaves
people can become thoroughly intoxi
cated.
The woman who is tired takes a cup
of tea and is relieved of her weariness.
But the sensation of weariness is a
danger signal. Under the Influence of
a stimulant she does not know when
she goes beyond the limits of safe ex
ertioii. Tea is a drug, not a food.
Not only does tea contain no nourish
ment, but it interferes with digestion.
The craving for it is not natural, as is
the desire for food. Taste must be
come vitiated by its habitual use be
fore it becomes an apparent necessity.
Children drink it for the cream and
sugar, older people for the effect.
Every one knows that tea contains
tannin. Add a little iron to tea, and it
becomes black. Tea made in an iron
kettle is as black as ink. Even stir
ring a strong cup of tea with an iron
spoon will make it turn black. The
combination of the tannin of the tea
with iron makes ink. Leather is made
by soaking hides in a decoction of bark
which contains tannin.
A man who eats a beefsteak and
drinks a cup of tea. starts a leather
manufactory in his own stomach, for
the tea, combining with the connective
tissue of the steak, soon transforms it
into strong leather.
Cb!eKei'n on Turkeys.
The question confronting most tur
key raisers at present is "How can I
manage my turkeys so as to reduce the
death rate of the young flock?"
Most people can raise turkeys to
three or six weeks. In this there really
has been a change since we raised our
first turkeys. If in those days we
brought young turkeys to <> weeks old,
we considered them safe at least until
the late fall, when we usually lost a
few and never could tell why they
died. Last year and the year before
the report was prevalent that after the
turkeys were 0 weeks ohl they seemed
to grow thinner day by day and finally
died without any apparent cause. Many
of them were examined and no disease
revealed. This was mentioned several
times in The Reliable Poultry Journal,
and a correspondent of The Journal
wrote the following, for which he will
please accept our thanks even at this
late day:
"Tell Mrs. Mackey that the trouble Is
the poults are killed by the chiggers.
They do us more damage than any
thing else."
We presume this is the little grass
chigger which buries itself in the flesh
—at least it does on people—and is very
hard to exterminate and very painful
to endure. We had never thought of
this. The only remedy known to us is
grease, and too much of that is fatal to
the poults. If the gentleman meant
mites, which often infest poultry build
ings. liquid lice killer and whitewash
will exterminate them. The houses or
coops must be whitewashed early in
the morning and well aired during the
day. It is dangerous to use the liquid
lice killer for the little ones, as they
might be smothered by the fumes.—
Mrs. B. G. Mackey in Reliable Poultry
Journal.
The Oregon bred cayuse, which, at
$2.50 per head, went to the canneries on
the coast and from there to France as
choice canned corned beef, is now be
ing shipped to the central states and
sold to good people who jeopardize
their lives and their eternal happiness
by trying to break them into do the
work of decent horses.
The federal courts have recently held
that a farmer cannot be forced into
bankruptcy by his creditors, as may a
merchant or men in other professions.
The courts seem to wisely recognize
the fact that a farmer's ability to meet
his obligations is more subject to cli
matic conditions than is the case with
other lines of business.
Observation leads us to the opinion
that when three Inches of rainfall oc
curs within one hour and a half, as
sometimes happens, not more than half
of it will find Its way into the ground,
the surplus running off into the natu
ral drainage channels of the locality.
This explains why the effects of a
heavy summer rain are often transient.
COHMPTIOB CIK
BE CURED.
T. A. Slocum, M. C., the Great Chem
ist nnd Scientist, Will Bernl Free, to
the AiHictetl, Three Bottles of
his Ncwlv i lisi'ovt,rwl Keme
dies to Cure Consumption
and All Lung Troubles.
Nothing could belairer, more philan
thropic or carry moie joy to the atllict
ed, than the oiler of T. A. Slocum, M.
C., of New York City.
Confident that lie has discovered a
reliable cure for consumption and all
bronchial, throat and lung diseases,
general decline and weakness, loss of
flesh and all conditions wasting, and to
make its great merits known, he will
send, free, three bottles to any reader ot
the AMERICAN who may be suffering.
Already this "new scientific course oi
medicine" iias permanently cured thou
sands of apparently hopeless cases.
The Doctor considers it his religious
duty—a duty which he owes to human
ity—to donate his infallible cure.
He has proved the dreaded consump
tion to be a curable disease beyond an v
doubt, and has on file in tiis American
and European laboratories testimonials
of experience from those benefitted and
cured, in all parts of the world.
Don't de' ty until it is too late. Con
sumption, uninteimped, means speedy
and certain death. A'ldress T. A
Slocum, M. C., its Pine street, New
York, and when writing the Doctor, give
express and postothee address, antl
please mention reading tli's article in
the AMKUICAN' March 4 9
FALL PRESERVING.
Ichh Snunr \ow Im il With Fruit*.
rultiiiu ! i> I'eai'lios mill I'ears.
Spring and ■ i.iiiuirr preserving is
important, l»i:t autumn's possibilities
are the richest of tlu* year. The pre
paring of peaches, pears, plums,
quinces, blueberries (the one fruit
which is as pooil cooked or preserved
as raw), besides all the pickling and
relish making the list of delicacies the
housewife can make is irresistibly at
tractive. There is nothing radically
new in methods or results, but there
are always variations of the common
ways of making the old specialties. In
these days of rich and varied living we
feel a digestive recoil from old fashion
ed pound for pound preserves, popular
up to a decade ago. "Preserves" today
means or should mean one-half to
three-fourths of a pound of sugar to
one pound of fruit. Canned fruit
should be just "sweetened to taste,"
which should never mean more than
one-fourth of a pound of sugar to one
pound of fruit. Even jams and mar
malades are better if made in the pro
portion of two-thirds or three-fourths
of a pound of sugar to one pound of
fruit instead of pound for pound. Jel
lies alone must keep to the old propor
tions to give them proper consistency.
For any and all preserving, canning
and jelly and jam making use only a
porcelain lined iron kettle and wooden
or silver spoons, says a writer in Wo
man's Home Companion, who gives the
following among other recipes:
I>o not waste time, sugar and jars on
fruit that is inferior. Fill a wire bas
ket holding a couple of quarts with
selected peaches and plunge it into a
pot of boiling water, letting it remain
from three to five minutes, according to
the ripeness of the fruit. Remove now
and roll out on a platter. Skin and if
to be canned drop into hot jars, as no
more cooking will lie necessary, then
cover with boiling hot sirup and seal.
Make the sirup of pints of sugar to
a quart of water, boiling 15 minutes.
Peaches are best when canned whole,
because of the flavor the pit gives
them. If halved, four or five pits
should be put into each jar. In pre
serving peaches lirst weigh the skinned
fruit, then get three-fourths of its
weight in sugar. Make a sirup of this
sugar in the proportion of one pint to
one-half pint of water. As soon as it
boils skim until clear, add the fruit,
which should be halved, and cook, nev
er allowing it to boil violently, until
transparent.
The Duchess is perhaps the finest
flavored and best pear for putting up.
It ripens very late and is of handsome
shape and size. There are of course
other pears which are excellent for
preserving. In either canning or pre
serving lirst wash the fruit, pare, halve
and neatly core it and then lay it on a
platter under a wet cloth to prevent its
discoloring. Put all the parings in the
preserving kettle and more than cover
them with cold water. Fit a steamer ■
over the kettle, putin two layers of |
fruit and steam till tender. Repeat this ■
operat-ion until all is done, adding boil- i
ing water to the parings as it wastes !
away. When the fruit is cooked, put ;
the parings in a jelly bag and drain off
all the juice. Measure this juice and
return it to the kettle, adding for can- i
ned pears one-half as much sugar as j
there is juice in the kettle and for pre
served pears twice as much sugar. As
soon as the sirup has boiled enough to
be skimmed clear drop in as much fruit
as can be managed without crowding. !
Cook ten minutes for canning and until
the fruit looks somewhat transparent
for preserves.
Cuenmlier I'irklon.
Wash and wipe a half peck of small
green cucumbers. Pack them in a jar
or large bowl, pour over a brine made
with one-half a pint of salt and two 1
quarts of boiling water. Let stand for ,
three days, drain off the brine, heat to
boiling, pour again over the cucumbers
and let stand for three days longer.
Repeat for the third time. On the i
ninth day drain and wash the cucum- j
bers thoroughly. Cover with four i
quarts of boiling water in which is dis- j
solved one level tablespoonful of alum j
and let stand for half a day. lioil to- j
getlier for ten minutes four quarts of
vinegar, one tablespoonful of broken
stick cinnamon, two tablespoonfuls of
whole allspice, two tablespoonfuls of (
whole cloves and four small red pep- 1
pers. Keep one quart of this mixture j
on the fire and in it cook for ten min- ■
utes as many of the cucumbers as it |
will cover. When all are done, put J
them into a stone pot or jar and strain |
over them the remainder of the spiced
vinegar.—Table Talk.
Xcvv ricealilll.
The old fashioned, ever popular pic
calilli is much improved by the addi
tion of corn. Add full grown sweet
corn cut from the ear during the last
hour of cooking, using less green toma
to to allow for tliis addition. One-third
or one-fourth as much corn as tomato
should be used, according to Woman's
Home Companion.
Mitryland Chicken.
Roll a disjointed chicken in flour,
then salt and pepper, fry until tender
and brown in hot pork fat and butter,
then drain off all surplus fat and pour
MARYLAND CHICKEN',
one pint of cream over t lie chicken,
boil up once, arrange chicken on a hot
dish, pour over the cream gravy, sur
round with boiled new potatoes and
garnish with parsley, says Woman's
Home Companion.
Hardly Thnl,
Oumji—So you have gone out of poli
tics?
Slump—Yes.
Gump—Retired to private life, I sup
pose?
Slump—Oh, no; not quite that. We
live in a flat.—Detroit Free Press.
Force of lltthlf.
Miss Gush.v—Mr. Tipps is so impul
sive. He carries everything before
him.
Miss Cabby—Yes, of course he does.
He used to be a waiter. —St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
I lor rl<l I Vnr.
He—Well, tiie miners have finally
gone on strike. That means a coal
famine.
She—Gracious! I wonder if it will
affect the tire sales?— Philadelphia
Press.
Easy to Cure a Cold.
if you go about it right. Take two or
three Krause's Cold ('ure Capsules din
ing the day and two before retiring at
night. This will insure a good night's
rest and a free movement, of the bowles
next morning. < 'ontinue the treatment
next day and your cold will melt away.
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Pharmacy.
DEATH AT A WEDDING.
A Pathetic Trntredy of tlie War Be
tween (he Slate*.
Peealli::g the historic incidents clus
tering about South Carolina's execu
tive mansion. Mrs. Tliaddeus Horton
writes In The Ladies' Home Journal
of the sh M-king tragedy that occurred
there toward the close of the war. This
was the diath of the daughter of Gov
ernor Pickens immediately after her
marriage to Lieutenant Le Rochelle.
"tin the afternoon preceding the even
ing of the marriage the northern army
began shelling Columbia, but prepara
tions for the wedding continued.
"finally the guests were all assem
bled. and the clergyman was proceed
ing with the solemn ceremony and had
just joined the right hands of the hap
py pair when suddenly there was an
awful crash, and a ball from the ene
my's cannon penetrated the mansion
and burst in the middle of the mar
riage chamber, scattering Its death
dealing missiles in every direction.
There were screams and a heartrend
ing groan, mirrors crashed, the house
shook, women fainted and walls rock
ed to and fro.
"When the first confusion was over,
it was discovered that in all the crowd
only one person was injured, and that i
was the bride herself. She lay partly
on the floor and partly in her lover's
arms, crushed and bleeding, pale, but
very beautiful, her bridal gown drench
ed with warm blood and a great cut in
her breast.
"Laying her on a lounge, the frantic
bridegroom besought her by every
term of tenderness and endearment to
allow the ceremony to proceed, to
which she weakly gave consent, and,
lying like a crushed flower no less
white than the camellias of her bridal
bouquet, her breath coming in short
gasps and the blood flowing from this
great, angry wound, she murmured
'yes' to the clergyman and received her
husband's first kiss. A moment more
and all was over.
"She was laid to rest under the mag
nolias. and the heartbroken bride
groom. reckless with despair, returned
to his regiment."
THE IRISH PEASANT.
He 1M the Gnyeat Fellow In the
World I'nder Difllcnltle*.
The Irish peasant Is still, thank
heaven, what Sir Walter Scott called
him after the visit of the great novelist
to Ireland in the early thirties—he is
still "the gayest fellow in the world
under difficulties and afflictions." He
has a cheerful way of regarding cir
cumstances which to others would be
most unpleasant and disheartening. A
peasant met with an accident which
resulted in a broken leg. The neigh
bors of course commiserated him.
"Arrah." he remarked, with a gleam of
satisfaction in his eye as he regarded
the bandaged limb, "what a blessing it
is that It wasn't me neck."
Yes. the irrepressible Irishman has a
joke for every occasion. Two country
men who had not seen each other for a
long time met at a fair. They had a
lot of things to tell each other. "Shure
it's married I am," said O'Brien. "You
don't toll me so!" said Blake. "Faith,
yes." said O'Brien, "an I've got a fine,
healthy bhoy which the neighbors say
is the very picter of me." Blake looked
for a moment at O'Brien, who was not,
to say the least, remarkable for his
good looks, and then said, "Och, well,
what's the harrum so long as the
child's healthy?" And yet a peasant
to whom a witticism thus spontaneous
ly springs may be very simple minded.
The peasants' passion for rhetoric
still induces them to commit to memo
ry imposing polysyllables which they
often misapply, with the most amusing
and grotesque results. I heard a nurse
maid exclaim at a crying child in her
arms, "Well, of till the ecclesiastical
children I ever met you're wan of
tliim." A landlord in the south of Ire
land recently received a letter from a
tenant in the following terms:
Yer Honnor—llopin this finds you in pood
health, as it laves me at present, your bulldog
Bill has assassinated me poor ould donkey.
_vinotoenth Century.
NO TIME FOR FRIENDSHIP.
Thnt Old r-'awliloned Quality la Said
to i:» Out of Dnte.
Friendship is said to be out of date.
We certainly have not much time to
spare nowadays, even to reflect on
what the rush and hurry and bustle of
modern life are costing us. Now and
again, however, there is borne in upon
us the sad realization of the losses we
sustain as we tear and scramble
through what we now cail life. And is
not one of these the power of establish
ing close friendships?
It is a sad reflection, but the more
we think of it the truer we shall find it
to be, that we no longer have time to
knit together these bonds of true
friendship and affection which bound
our predecessors together and made
life sweet to tin m.
We are always in a hurry, rushing
here and there. We meet and know
many people in crowds and yet never
have time to understand them, to give
them or gain from them sympathy. Wt
can scarcely spare an hour that is un
connected with some form of enter
tainment or some business matter to
those we call our closest friends.
Letter writing has been reduced to
its least common denominator as time
presses on us heavily, and we have no
pursuits that we can share with our so
called friends that enable us to study
each other's characters. Friendship, in
fact, has become a mere term with the
general run of people.—Chicago Rec
ord.
All the bows for the hair have been
infected by the gold microbe, and a bit
of gold gauze ribbon is twisted into
the black velvet and the white satin
bows that are so practical for ordinary
dinner and home wear.
Iloods which are much like fitted
yokes turned up around the edges and
lined with a contrasting color are be
ing used on many of the coats and
tailor gowns. Occasionally the turned
over flap is buttoned to the liuing with
gold buttons.—New York Sun.
sure Enoogh.
A busy merchant who had not taken
a vacation for years, in which time ev
ery other member of his family had en
joyed an annual outing, concluded to
give himself a rest of a week or two
and started for the mountains.
When about a day's journey from
home, he received a telegram from his
wife to this effect:
T>r\a —Our house was entirely destroyed
bv tire last night. The children and 1 escaped
unharmed. Come home at once. MARIA.
To this, after reflecting a moment, he
replied as follows:
DEAR MARIA Wliat is the use of cominu hom#
when there is no home to come to? Take the
children to mother's, stay there with them till
I join you and d< n't worry. Affectionately,
K&ANK.
—Youth's Companion.
Tor Shattered Nerves.
A remedy that will soothe, build up
the wasted tissues and enrich the blood
is indispensable. Liclity's Celery Nerve
Compound has been wonderfully suc
cessful in cases of nervousness, as thous
ands of grateful people will testify.
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DON'T WORRY.
WTicn things fo contrary, is often the? do,
And fortune seems burdened with spite.
Don't give w»y to grieving all dismal and blan—
That never set anything right!
But cheerfully face what the day may reveal.
Make the best of whatever befall;
Since the more that you worry the worse you
must feel,
Why waste time in worry at all?
We all have our troubles, some more and some
less.
And this is the knowledge we gain—
It's work and a brave heart that lighten the sum?
Of a life's share of sorrow and pain.
Then face with this knowledge fate's crueleat deal.
Too plucky to faint or to fall;
Since the more that you worry the worse you
must feel,
Is it wisdom to worry at all?
—Kipley D. Saunders in St. Louis Republic.
LONSDALE A GOOD LOSER.
He Had Dren I'j Against a Hard
liame, bat Ke Didn't Sqneal.
Said a Washington man who does a lot
of transatlantic voyaging: "No man can
pat himself on the back and say to him
self that he is too wise to be 'dona' by
card sharps. I've seen some pretty clever
men get theirs at cards on the ocean
liners. One of them was Lord Lonsdale,
about as clever an all around man as ever
climbed over the gangway of a ship, and
nobody would ever have fancied that he'd
prove himself a 'mark' for professional
gamblers.
"At the time Lonsdale first came to th»
United States he was in the full tide of
his rapid career. Amid the uproar over
his landing in this country the fact did
not leak out that Lonsdale was plucked
of SO,OOO on the trip over by Georga
Sampson, one of the most notable of the
older clique of steamship card sharpers.
He has since died in Australia, I believe.
"I think Sampson had it in mind to do
young Lonsdale when he got aboard at
Liverpool. Sampson had been working
the steamers for 15 years, and at thia
time he was a man of 40 or thereabouts.
The two men struck up a friendship from
the very first day of the voyage, and it
was Lonsdale himself who first suggest
ed—as he afterward acknowledged, for
he was a manly young chap—the game of
draw. Lonsdale had only recently learned
the hands at poker, and he had the poker
initiate's enthusiasm for the game to an
exaggerated extent. Before going any
further I ought to say that Sampson al
ways maintained afterward that in hla
play with Lonsdale he was perfectly on
the level.
"Lonsdale and Sampson started the
game on the first day out and kept it go
ing almost until the steamer plowed past
Sandy Hook. Of course Sampson beat
him right along. He made no effort to
let young Lonsdale win from him at first.
He simply played poker and raked in the
young man's money and checks. A lot
of us aboard knew Sampson, and those
of us who had met young Lonsdale in
England got him aside on the second day
out and diplomatically put it to him that
he was engaged in a pretty difficult en
counter—that, in brief, Sampson was a
professional player of cards. For our
pains we were told that we were too
confoundedly officious.
"At any rate, when the steamer was
drawing near the shore, Lonsdale decided
that he had had enough. Several of us
were in the cardroom when the last hand
was played. Sampson took the pot, and
Lonsdale scribbled a check on his Ameri
can banker for the amount he had lost
at the sitting. Then he looked up at
Sampson for a moment and said:
" 'Some of my friends here estimate
you a bit unkindly, Mr. Sampson.'
" 'How's that?' inquired Sampson cool
ly. He was a man who never betrayed
surprise.
" 'Well,' said Lonsdale, 'they maintain
that your skill at cards affords you some
thing better than a livelihood.'
" 'I never denied that,' replied Samp
son calmly.
" 'ln playing with me on this voyage
you have employed skill alone?' inquired
Lonsdale courteously.
" 'At your suggestion,' replied Samp
son, with careful emphasis, 'I have play
ed draw poker with you far Bevea days.
I understand the game of draw poker,
and I have SO,OOO of your money. Do
you want it back?'
"That was a magnificent bluff on
Sampson's part, you perceive. The
young chap, he well knew, would not
squeal.
" 'Oh, if you elect to be insulting'—
said Lonsdale, flushing hotly, and ho
rose from the card table and left the
room.
"Well, a couple of elderly Englishmen
on board who knew Lonsdale and his fa
ther before him went to the young fallow
and told him that it would be perfectly
proper and right for him to stop payment
on the checks he had given Sampson,
who, they told him in so many words,
was nothing better than a swindler.
44 'You will be good enough to mind
your own business,' replied the hotspur.
'l'll do nothing of the sort.' And that
was the end of it."—Washington Post.
A Light and a Burn.
In one corner of a smoker sat a heavy
swell whose exterior was faultless, even
to the aromatic Havana which he was in
the act of lighting. Opposite to him sat a
workman who had just filled up his
"nose warmer" with black plug and,
bent on economy, exclaimed, "After you
with the light, guv'nor!" The swell care
fully and painfully lit his cigar and
when the match had about a quarter of
an inch to burn held it carefully between
his thumb and forefinger and, with a po
lite smile, offered it to his neighbor. The
workman, wrapping his huge hand
around that of bis benefactor, held it
rigid while he leisurely lit his pipe, the
match doing its double work of service
and chastisement, and then, regardless of
the tortures of the other, calmly said,
"Thanks!" —London Globe.
Keeping Cool In Peking.
There are few places on earth where
the art of keeping cool is so successfully
cultivated as in Peking. In every house
of any importance there is a cooling gal
lery, from which the sun is effectually
shut out, while there is the freest access
to air. The ceiling, walls and floor are
built of bamboo, through the interstices
of which air, specially cooled and per
fumed, is wafted. Add to this cunningly
concocted cooling drinks and the airiest
of raiment, and the man who cannot keep
cool in Peking should sit on the north
pole. _
Many Chinese temples have windows
made from the white mother of pearl
found in oyster shells. The material is
perfectly transparent and looks like opal
glass.
One swallow may not make a summer,
but a pin maliciously inserted in a chair
will make one spring—Chicago News.
THE GLASS OF FASHION.
The flare at the skirt bottoms is dis
tinctly modified, and the full gowns
hang rather limply around the feet.
ltrouze shoes are creeping back into
favor, and iuany fancy shoes and slip
pers show bronze In combination with
pastel colors.
Pale gray stockings embroidered in
silver are in demand to match the
dainty cloth of sliver slippers that
have just appeared.
The new fluorescent silk Is a change
able silk under a new name, but It has
n new beauty as well and obtains color
effects never before achieved In
changeable materials.
Next to the white cloth gowns In fa
vor stand gowns of light blue and of
mushroom pink cloth, and the indica
tions are that this is to be pre-emi
nently a season of pale tinted cloths
for reception wear.
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dont' waste a minnte but goto yonr
druggist and get a lx>x of Krause's
Headache Capsules. They will prevent
pain, even though your skull were
cracked. They are harmless, too. Road
the guarantee. Price 25c. Sold by Ross
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We keep no half-way papers, they
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