Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, June 27, 1901, Image 2
RAILROAD TIME TABLES. Pesn'A K. K. EAST. W EST 7.13 A. M. 9-U A. M. 10.17 •* 1-. lo P-:M. •L2l P. M. 4. Vt " ti.U!) '• 7.51 " SUNDAYS. 10.17 A. ML 4.58 IV M. U. L. A W. R. K. EAST. W EST. 6.58 A. M. 9.UW A. M. 10.1# " 1- 17 r. M. 2.11 P. M. 4, t". " 0.10 " H.-tl " SUNDAYS 0.58 A. M. 1i.47 P. M 0.10 P. M. « Pill LA. A ItEAIUNG U. K. NORTH. SOUTH. 7 •'« A. M 11.J"> A. M. 4.00 P. M. 0.05 I'. M. MLOOM STUEKT. 7..H4 A. M. 11.21 \. M. 4.ltt P. M. ">.i)l P. M. J. (iWEIHFOKT, SURGEON UENTISI.^U^^* OmcK on M ill St., <>ppo«ite the Post Office. Operative ami .Meohnuicsil iientistry t'arefully performed, Teeth positively extracted without pa!n,wit!i tlas, Ether and Chloroform: Treat, lug and Pilling teeth aSiieoialtv. YY». HANK WKNT, ATTORN KY-AT-L A W, Office over Panics' Drug Store MON rOOMEKY HUH.KINO, bt> STKEET - - HAN VILI.E, PA J. J. BROWN, THE EYE A SPECIALTY Eyes tested, treated, fitted with glass es aud artificial eyes supplied. 311 Market Street, lilooinsburg, Pa. Hours —10 a. hi. to 5 p. lit. Telephone 14:iti. Little Perry"* Awful Tlirent. 1 won't ever live in this house no more, And I'm goin away, 'way off somewhere In the dark woods, and mebby a bear Or something nobody ever saw before Might come and eat me up, and then, 1 bet you, when My pa has no little boy he'll be Berry he punished met And I'm goin to starve and not Krer eat anything again at all, And when I'm up with God and got Wings and can Jook at my pa and he i Comes home and sees my coat in the hall And looks all around everywhere And 1 ain't there, 1 bet he'll be sorry he punished me I And when I'm far away And nearly starved and can hardly stand They might be a big, bad man come along and 5 say He'd take me off to Some strange land, And then, when the people told my pa How cruel he was, I bet he'd bo ttie saddest person you ever saw And sorry he punished mel And when they had no little boy no more Hamrna would cry all day. And when no little boy would open the door For pa at niglit and say, "Hello!" I bet That's when he'd be The saddest yet, And I'll stay this time, hut ho B-b-b-b-better quit punisl.in me! —Chicago Times Tlerald MEDICAL NOTES. Dr. T.as Casas of Rio Janeiro says he Las discovered a cure for tuberculosis by injecting patients with a vegetable extract. For the first time in 18 years a new kind of ether has been discovered. The new compound is yellowish or orange In tint, is made from bresol or thonitre brombenzine. It has been found tliat tlie blood cor puscles are greatly increased when h person from a low altitude reaches n higher one, but this effect, with tlie powerful stimulus Involved, is only transitory. The apple is nn excellent brain food, beca use it has more phosphoric acid in easily digested shape than other fruits. It excites the action of the liver, pro motes sound and healthy sleep and thoroughly disinfects the mouth. Cabbage, cauliflower, brussels sprouts and broccoli are cooling, nutritive, lax atlve and purifying to the blood and al *o act as tonics, but should not be eaten too freely by delicate persons. Celery Is good for rheumatic and gouty per sons. FeodinK tlie iliihy. In modifying inilk for iiif«nts writer Is usually the diluent, hut cow's milk, even when diluted with water, will sometimes form tough curds in the stomach, and It .often becomes neeesary to use something else. In tills ease gruels may he used—in fact, during the siiuimer gruels are to he preferred to water. Barley, wheat, rice or oat flour may he used to make gruel. Mix fr. >m two to four teaspoonfuls of the flour In a little cold water and rub into a smooth paste, then pour slowly into a quart of boiling water. Hull for 15 min utes, stirring constantly to prevent scorching. The gruel should be perfectly smooth; if at all lumpy, strain through a coarse piece of cheesecloth or fine wire eWvu; add a pinch of salt. It should he made fresh every day. If whole or flak ed cereals are used, it will need to cook twice as long. Gruel can also be made in a double boiler by cooking longer. When the food Is to be heated for the infant, do so by setting the bottle in a pan of hot water for a few moments. The plug of cotton should not be removed until the food is ready to be given to the baby. As soon as the food is taken the bottle and nipple should be thoroughly rinsed and the bot tle left standing full of cold water. The nipple should be placed in a cup contain ing a little borax or soda bicarbonate and water. Bottles should be thoroughly washed In hot soap ami water and boiled once a day; also thoroughly scalded just before filling with the food.— Marianna .Wheeler in Harper's Bazar- TT"~ Hlmdelf to Ft lii rue. In one of Bret Harte's clever parodies •112 the French he told a story in words something like these: Three gamins were playing in the streets of Paris. A priest passed by. "There goes a priest," cried one; "look out for your eggs and your chickens!" Then the priest, hearing the words, knelt down and prayed for the boys. But upon reflection he was con vinced that It was not the fault of the boys, but of their parents, lie knelt down the second time and prayed for the boys' parents. On another thought he saw that it was not the fault of tlia boys' parents, hut of society. He knelt down again and prayed for society. As he rose from his prayer he said to him self: "My friend, who is society? You and I are society." So he knelt down the last time and prayed for himself. Thlera' Fulfilled Prophecy. In January, 1871, M. Thiers made the following remarkable prophecy; "When ever England is lu contliat with a for eign power Europe will see her colonies rally and co-operate with her. Without the slightest expense to her they will equip their soldiers, thel only ambi tion being to show their close union with her and to demonstrate that their strength and energy are at her dlspo sal, Just as hrr resources are at theirs I predict this lu spite of your smile of Incredulity and although perhaps none of us will live to witness it." rnited Australia. Kratise's Cold Cure, for colds in the head, chest, throat or any portion of tb body, breaks up at jold in 34 hours without interruption of work. Will prevent colds if taken when first symptoms appear. Price 25 c. Sold by Rossman and Son's Pharmacy AFTER THE BATTLE.! A VETERAN'S STORY OK A TASSELED TURKISH FEZ. The OrrtTmiinp Incident In WlilcU He Psrtlplpnled at the Second Battle of Xtnanani —V Ilrave Hoy and lila DyiiitC It « <| ue»t. "Whenever I see a tnsseletl Turkish fez." said a Confederate veteran whose attention had been attracted by a smoking cap of that pattern in a Canal street window, "I am reminded of a curious and rather grewsome incident of my campaigning days. It was on the morning after the second battle of Manassas," he continued in response to a request f<p the story, "and several of us from my company had gone over to the field in tlie hope of picking up a few tilings that we badly needed and for which the dead had no further use —waterproofs, for instance, and sound canteens. "During the previous day's engage ment you may remember that a regi ment of freshly recruited New York zouaves held the crest of a hill and were charged and almost annihilated by Hood's brigade. They were mowed down like ripened grain and fell so thickly that their corpses literally car peted the earth. I dare say it was as awful a slaughter, considering the number engaged, as occurred anywhere in the course of the war. "Well, we hadn't gone very far when we came to this hill and began to get among the dead men. The poor fellows had been mustered into service less than a week before, and they were said to be the most gorgeously uniformed military troop ever organized. They wore scarlet Turkish trousers, blue Jackets embroidered with gold bullion braid and purple fezes with long pend ent tassels. "Being just from the outfitters, all this fine regalia was perfectly fresh anil new, and somehow or other it added to tlie ghastliness of the specta cle on the hillside. The corpses were in all sorts of strange postures, and their fantastic costumes gave them an air of horrible grotesqueness that I couldn't begin to describe in words. "However, to come to my point, I had picked up a fez to carry away as a relic and was about to leave the spot when I happened to notice a much handsomer specimen on the head of a little zouave stretched out, stiff and stark, a few yards away, with a hand kerchief over his face. I stepped up to make a 'swap,' but had barely touched the tassel when a low, sweet toned voice under the handkerchief said, 'Please don't!' "For a moment," continued the veter an, "that unpleasant protest, coming from what I had supposed to be a corpse, made my hair bristle on my head. Then I lifted the handkerchief and was shocked to see the delicate, refined features of a boy not over 15. He was jfale as death and evidently desperately wounded, but he looked at me calmly. 'My God,' I exclaimed, 'what a lad you are to be here!' 'l'm afraid I'm dying unless I have help,' he replied. 'Do you think the surgeons will be around pretty soon?' 'The Lord knows!' I groaned, for the boy's cour age touched me to the heart. 'Your surgeons have all run away, and we only have a few, with more wounded than they can attend to.' Then I guess all I can do is to lie here quietly and die,' he said in the same gentle voice. 'Can you get me a little water before you go?' "I took his canteen and hurried down to a branch at the font of the hill, where the first thing I saw, by the way, was the corpse of a zouave float ing in a pool. I went up the stream far enough to get out of the horrible death zone, filled the canteen with pure wa ter and was soon back at the boy's side. I gave him a drink, and lie thanked me. 'ls there nothing else I can do?' I asked awkwardly, because I knew our com pany was under early marching orders that morning and that it would be im possible for me to linger much longer. 'Nothing at all, thank you.' he replied. 'No message to anybody?' 'No; noth ing, thanks.' "I turned away most reluctantly and had gone only a few yards when I heard his thin voice calling me back. 'Excuse me,' he said, "but I want you to accept this as a present,' and he handed me his fine purple fez. 'No, no,' I exclaimed, greatly embarrassed; 'I couldn't think of taking it. When I started to a little while ago, I thought you—you'— 'Thought I was dead, of course,' he interrupted. 'Well, I soon will be, and that other fez will do me just as well. I'lease put it on my head and take mine.' I saw that he would be hurt unless I did as he desired, so I took the fez and went away. "In less than half an hour our com pany was 011 the march, and, needless to say, I never heard anything more of the little child zouave. He was badly wounded and undoubtedly died where I left him. I kept the fez a long time," added the veteran, "but It was finally lost, with other odds and ends, in the general confusion following the war. I'd give some money for it today."— New Orleans Times-Democrat. The Good CVerla of Apple Gating. The apple is such common fruit that few are familiar with its remarkable efficacious properties. Everybody ought to know that the very best thing they tan do Is to eat apples just before re tiring for the night. is an excellent brain food, because it has more phosphoric acid in easily digested *hape than any other vegetable known. It excites the action of the liver, pro motes sound and healthy sleep and thoroughly disinfects the mouth. That is not all. The apple agglutinates the surplus acids of the stomach, helps the kidney secretions and is one of the best preventives known of diseases of the throat.—Journal of Agriculture. How to Serve New Cabbage. I'or most appetites cabbage can be Improved by parboiling it In two wa ters before the final boiling in order to remove some of the flavor. It Is a good idea to put a small piece of soda in the first water. New cabbage Is especially delicious If cut Into large pieces, cooked In this manner and served with a rich cream sauce. Miss Rebecca Stoneroad has been su pervisor of physical training in the public schools of Washington for years. Nine assistants, carefully trained by her, help to keep this work up to a high standard of excellence. Colored tissue paper is better than white for wrappiDj; up laces and ribbons to be laid away. White papers so used rt'ill cause white articles to turn yellow. Didn't Marry For Money. The Boston man, who lately married a sickly rich young women, is happy now. for he got Dr. King's New Life Pills, which restored her to perfect health Infallible for Jaundice, Bil iousness, Malaria, Fever and Ague and all liver and stomach troubles. Gentle but effective. Only Usc at Paules and Co s, drug store. ' COLORADO HIGHWAYS. (low Improved Koadi W»nld the State. Discussing the work now being done by the National <»ood Roads associa tion, t le Denver Republican says: Thai the Invention of the bicycle would result in a movement among the American people for the construction hf good wagon roads was probably not so inu«'h as dreamed of when wheeling was first introduced as a sport and means of exercise. It ifc a fact, ho\. • ever, that wheelmen and Hy the League of American Whet . been a potent factor in starting Just Buch a movement. Ilori.tio Karle, president of the league, is doing a great public work at the same time he in promoting the in terests of members of the league by his efforts in behalf of good roads. At the expense of the association he sends a crew of road builders to different parts of the country to construct a mile or half a mile of sample road to show the people what may be accomplished and to illustrate the advantages of main taining highways of that kind. It is expected that in course of time his cr ?w will reach Denver and that a strip of good road will be laid from the city out into the country. When built, it will be tirm and substantial, and it will 1 e available as part of any pro jected highway that the public may in tend at some later date fo construct. Too niuch praise could hardly be given an association which enables this to be done. The fact that our roads rarely get muddy, like those in some parts of the humid region, suggests that the good roads problem is not one in which Col oradoan's are deeply interested. But that is a great mistake. There Is us much need of good roads here as any where else, though the expense of mak ing them may be less. Colorado is a tourist state, and circumstances there fore demand that it have better high ways than states to which tourists rare ly go. Driving over the highways of certain European countries is one of the delights of a foreign tour to that part of the world. Hut in the United States such pleasure is almost un known. Absorbed in building railroads with wonderful energy, the Americans have paid too little attention to wagon roads. But, fortunately, the wheel men and others are bringing about a better condition. IOWA ROADS IN SPRING. Mud Cannes Great Inconvenience and I.auu to Farmers. Business in most of the country towns in lowa during this spring has been ut a standstill on account of the almost unprecedented bad condition of the roads. Not since the great flood in the spring of 1892 has there been as much water in lowa as there is this spring. It is a serious and dangerous undertaking for a farmer to start to town with an empty wagon, and to haul a load is out of the question. They either goon horseback or on foot when it is absolutely necessary togo to the postofllce or on some other er rand to the nearest town. The three snowstorms in the month of March added very much to the mois ture that was already in the ground and that failed to soak in because of the frost. When this snow melted, it washed out many culverts and made dangerous places in the roads. In some parts of northern lowa, where the soil is thick and sticky, the mud clogged upon the wheels so that they could not turn, and whoever started out to drive with any sort of vehicle usually carried a spade or an ax with ■which to dig the mud off. Big heaps of it may be seen alongside of the road where people have stopped to unload their wagons. Nearly every line of business has felt the effects of these conditions. Farmers could bring nothing to town to sell, and they did not come to buy. If they happened to bo out of coal, they either burned cobs or cut down a few trees or burned up some old posts. In many parts of the state all sorts of farm work has been suspended be cause the fields are covered with water and are almost impassable, even by a man on foot. The streams and ponds are filled as they have rarely been, promising unusual plenti fulness of game during the spring and fall. Chinese Roads. The Chinese road is private property, a strip taken from somebody's land. This is done much against the will of the owner, since he not only loses the use of it, but also still has to pay taxes on it. One consequence is that it is wide enongli for only one vehicle, and carts can pass one another only by trespass ing on the cultivated land. To prevent this the farmers dig deep ditches by the roadside. As the surface wears away and the dust blows off It gradu ally grows lower, and after awhile it becomes a drain for the surrounding fields. A current forms in the rainy season, which still further hollows it out, and thus has arisen the proverb that a road a thousand years old be comes a river. Develop the Coontry. I am heartily in sympathy with the good roads movement. I do not know of anything that will more materially benefit the country. Good roads will create a base of supplies for the towns and cities. They will reduce the cost of marketing the produce of the farm and thus turn thousands of dollars Into the channels of trade every year that are now spent for wear and tear of teams and vehicles, aud the loss of time in getting to and from market By reducing the cost of marketing they will enable the farmers to diversify their crops, thus developing the coun try along all lines. No country can be thoroughly prosperous without good public highways.—Rev. J. B. Lawrence. Rpul For All Concerned. Com«ily—l noticed you in the audience last night. What did you think of my part? Criteek—lt suited you. Comedy What did you think was the best thing I got off? Criteek—Tlie stage.—Philadelphia Press. The Testimonial AM**. Drug Clerk—This remedy lias cured t«n congressmen, eight senators, six prima donnas — Customer—Hold on, young fellow. 1 ain't none of thein. Just lay that asid« and show me something that has cured a few common people.—Chicago News. Hi* Shortcoming*. "Mrs. Newbride Isn't at all satisfied with her husband's salary." "No. She says it isn't nearly so good as her father used to make."— Philadel phia Bulletin. Head Feels Like Bursting. Maybe you were ont late last nighfc? If you had taken a Krause's headache Cap sule l>efore retiring your head would be 000 land clear this morning Take one now and you will be all right in a half hour. Price ~- r » c. Sold by Ross tnau and Son's Pharmacy. I NAMES OF OUR RAILROADS. Carloui Chunge* 111 Titles Brought About hy the Public. The fashion of naming railroads has : changed considerably in the last quarter j of u century. The three and four word titles have about gone out of style, and one word name* succeed them. For in stance, the Santa Fe is no longer referred to us the Atchison, Topeka und Santa Fe. although this is the corporation title. The old Chicago, Burlington aud (Juin cy has been contracted to simply Burling l t. : by the public decree, and the title | Ro< k Island has replaced the Chicago, Ro< k Island and Pacific. Many towns otherwise practically un known are kept before the public be cause they bud the luck to be worked into a railroad title. For instance, who knows the real name of the Monon railway? As I a matter of fact it was organized as the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville road. The little town of Monon, Intl., gave it its popular name. The Wabash system does not take its name from the river, but fnfm a station of this name on the line. One of the most sensible railroad names was selected for the combination of railroads organized in the south and now known as the Southern railway. The Southern is very fitting, as it enters nearly every southern state. It is also an economical name. Another name that strikes you is the Cotton Belt. This is how the St. Louis Southwestern railroad has been mod ernized. As it passes through one of the largest cotton producing regions of the United States It is very appropriate. Because a little road up in Nova Sco tia with the ponderous title of the Domin ion and Atlantic reached the land made famous in Longfellow's poem tourists have given it the title of the Evangeline road, and perhaps this is more appro priate than the other. It is certainly more picturesque. A change which must have shocked the directors was in the case of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis. This was altogether too muck for its patrons and the railway men, and some one thought of the size of the cities named and called it the B*j Four. Down in Texas and the neighboring states they have a habit of handling the railroads without gloves when it comes to giving names. A favorite plan is to take the principal initials of a road and spell them out. Only a native of the southwestern ranches would know Pee Gee stands for the Kansas City, Pitts burg and Oulf railroad. Another Texas road, the Kansas City, Beaumont and Gulf, is merely called Kaysee, cutting off the last part of it. Sap is short and sweet. It has been contracted from S., A. P., meaning San Antonio and Aran sas Pass, one of the principal lines in Texas. The New York capitalists who built another road thought that Mis souri, Kansas and Texas would be a suitable name, but the Texas people re duced it to Katy. Including nicknames, the shortest name of any railroad in the United States is the Sap, which has already been re ferred to. It is G37 miles in length. A little road in Mississippi, the Chester, Perryville, Sainte Genevieve and Farrn lngton, has the longest title of any in America. This contains no fewer than 48 letters, but two other lines are close to it, the Richmond, Nicholasville, Irvine and Beatyyville and the Southwestern Arkansas and Indian Territory. Ths Chester line is ouly 27 miles long.—Chi cago Inter Ocean. LONDON COSTERS. Itinerant Street Veadtn Who Make Falrlr Good Income*. It is difficult, if not Impossible, to cal culate with any decree of accuracy the amount of money turned over collectively In the course of a year by the costers, but interesting figures may be supplied by placing on record the gross receipts of Borne street traders. Many will be surprised to learn that a coster in the fruit or vegetable line will make a turnover of anything between £S and £l2 per week, a full third of this be ing profit. The figures vary much, nat urally, with the Reason of the year and the state of the markets, but he is reck oned a poor fruit coster who cannot make an average of £2 10s. to £3 weekly profit. Despite this income, which many a clerk would envy, tales of distress are frequent among them, owing to their uni versal improvidence. Fish Is not so profit able a line of business, partly owing to the more perishable nature of the stock, and a fish coster who is a "£2 man"aft er reckoning up on Saturday night has no cause to grumble at his week's work. The profits of venders of penny toys, puzzles and other articles so famllinr in the Strand aud elsewhere vary according to their cost, which ranges from 4d. to 7d. per dozen. A pound to 255. is reck oned a good weekly earning, but during the recent button craze energetic workers had no difficulty In clearing double this amount in some instances. The gutter oilcloth merchant calculates upon a profit of Gd. to Is. a piece, accord ing to 6ize, and can dispose of 40 or 50 pieces In the course of a Saturday even ing alone, to 6ay nothing of slacker busi ness done during the rest of the week. A street bookseller recently admitted that he had "never cleared less than £2 a week," and on further inquiry that does not appear to be much above the aver age. UTie proprietors of those miscella neous stands to be found chiefly in the East End, where everything from a violin bow to a saucepan lid may be purchased, have a difficulty In telling their profits, as, owing to the nature of their stock, some things sell rapidly while other ar ticles lie on hand for months. That there is money to be made at this trade is evi dent from the fact that many of its fol lowers are pointed out by their less fortu nate brethren as being the owners of the houses in which they live.—London Mail. Elizabeth Resented It. The reign of Victoria has often been compared to aud contrasted with that of Elizabeth, and it is one of the curious coincidences of history, as well ns anoth er illustration of the continuity of life in England, that each great sovereign at an interval of 300 years had for her chief minister of state at the close of her reign I Robert Cecil, Lord Salisbury. When Queen Elizabeth had sunk into her melancholy stage, refusing food and sitting up day and night, supported by pillows on a stool, Burleigh's son veu tured to tell her she must goto bed. "Must!" she cried. "Is 'must' a word to be addressed to princes? I.ittle man. little man! Thy father, if he had been aMve, durst not have used that word Thou art so presumptuous because thou knowest I shall die." Powerful Yeast. The veteral editor of the Golden (Colo.) Transcript, who hates a liar ua he hates a delinquent subscriber, nnd who uses only the old reliable George Washington brand of truth In his business, fathers this strange story: "A Larimer county farmer lost a cow In a very queer manner last week. The animal in rummaging through a summer kitchen found and swallowed ah old umbrella and a cake of yeast. The yeast, fermenting In the |>oor beast's stomach, raised the umbrella, and she died in great agony."—Denver Post Saves Two From Death. "Our little daughter had an almost fatal attack of whooping cough anil bronchitis," writes Mrs. W. K. Havi land, of Armonk, N. Y. "but, when all other remedies failed, we saved her life with Dr. King's New Discovery. Our niece, who had Consumption in an ad vanced stage also used this wonderful medicine and to-day she is perfectly well. " Desperate throat and luug dis eases yield to Dr. King's New Discovery as to no other medicine on earth. Infall ible for </onghsand Golds. 50c and #1 00 bottles guaranteed by Pan leu and Co. druggists. Trial bottles free. | USEFUL |1 I CLUBS || \\ FOR || p WOMEN || <> ♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ A A A A AAA A AAA AAA AAA AAA 44 VIE members of the clubs I have In mind never quarrel, so far as they — have been heard from, and they are almost the QGutißl only clubwomen of whom this can be said. The reason is they are working for the helping of their fellow citizens and the beautifying aud Improving of the lo calities in which they live and uot to get themselves elected presidents. The clubs I mean are the rural im provement societies among women. The old style rustic village and railway sta tion were blisters on the face of the earth. The horror of them comes over me now as I sit and write this. I see still the piles of ashes, the foul rem nants of the tobacco habit, the deso late, weed grown grounds, the vacant lots covered with things unspeakable. It was a credit to the young women and men of such a town that they got away from it as soon as they could. In that old style town children ran riot, and brutal drivers beat horses at will. These are the things the women's village improvement societies are changing. Let us take one, as an ex ample, in an eastern state. Here are some of the things that club has done: It has brought about that vacant lots are no longer to be used as dumping grounds for rubbish ami disease breed ing debris. It has made the railway station in particular as clean aud pret- IMPROVED VILLAGE STREET, ty as a private house with a flower and shade tree lawn about it. It has at tended to the beautifying of public parks and walks, to the cleaning and paving of the streets aud the drainage and general sanitation of the whole place. Wherever In the vicinity there was natural scenery of an attractive character those women had It preserved and cared for. They divided themselves into committees, each one taking a par ticular work to itself aud attending to that. The farms about the village have caught the Impetus and are cutting away the weeds from their fence lines and removing the pigsties from their front door vistas. The earth is becom ing a thing of beauty for miles around where these blessed women live. They have created a public sentiment for bet ter things. There is a women's improvement club in the far south, at Lake Charles, near New Orleans. Here 18 ladies took on themselves the task of redeeming the rural aspects. They planted splen did live oak trees along driveways; they placed flowering shrubs along park walks. Attached to their village, as there is to most country places, was an abandoned cemetery, with Its yank weeds, sunken graves and broken tombstones, a dank, nightmare spot, suggestive of suicide and ghost riding. The women had a bard task with that —one which tried all their powers— but they reconstructed the frightful old place, aud they see that it Is kept In order. They turned their attention to the schoolhoußes. They cleared up the grounds about them, planted trees and made the grass grow and taught the young ones to take pride in having a beautiful lawn around the building outside and artistic wall and other decorations Inside. Besides that they obtained by subscriptions some valua ble books for the public school libra ries. It Is well usually to have men as members of these village Improvement societies, to assist with their experi ence and money. But the business work of the organizations must in nearly every case be done by women, because men cannot spare the time for it Whether farm life and village life shall be made attractive depends on the country women. If they do what is In their power, they can so improve and beautify the landscape as to raise the price of real estate In their neigh borhoods. What is more, they can pre vent to some extent the deplorable ex odus of young people from the country to the cities. JAJTE STORY. "I like women," said a clear headed man of fhe world, "they are so finish ed." They finish society, manners, lan guage. Form and ceremony are their realm. They embellish trifles.—Emer son. Too Cwnimonplnee. Little Jack—Oh, mother, I do love cake! It's awful nice. Mother (reprovingly)— You should not say you "love" cake—say "like." Do not say "awful"—say "very." Do nut say "nice"—say "good." And, by the way, the word "oh" should be omitted. Now, my dear, repeat the sentence cor rectly. Jack—l like cake. It's very good. Mother—That's better. Jack (with an air of disgust) lt sounds as if I was only talkiug 'bout bread.—London Tit-Bits. Seven Years In Bed. "Will wonders ever ceaseY" inquire the friends of Mrs. S. Pease, of Law rence, Kan. They knew she had been unable to leave her bed in seven years on account of kidney and liver trouble, nervous prostration and general debil ity; but, "Three l»ottles of Electric Bit ters enabled me to walk, " she writes," and iu three months I felt like a new person." Women suffering from Head ache, Backache. Nervousness, Sleepless ness. Melancholy, Fainting and Dizzy Spells will find it a priceless blessing. Try it. Satisfaction is guaranteed. Only 50c at Paules and Cos. drug store. VERDI'S FIRST LIBRETTIST. The SiiiKiiliir Life ot Adventure of Teuilatocle Soicro. Verdi's fii\st librettist, Temistocle So loro, liail so adventurous a life that it reads like a romance of IMimas He was lti a military school in Vienna, placed there through the direct influence of the Austrian emperor, when, tired of the confinement, he ran away and joined a gypsy band, going with them into Hun gary, where he was eventually found by the police. As he was being marched oft ho met his brother, an officer in the Aus trian army, who took htm under his care, putting him in a college in Milan. From there he was graduated and made no acquaintance with Verdi, poor and lonely as himself, for whom he wrote the libret tos of five operas. He afterward went to Spain ns direct or of the orchestra. One evening at the theater, hearing an officer insult Queen Isabella, who was present, he turned and boxed his ears. Upon this ensued a scene of confusion. The queen, hearing of Its cause, desired to see and speak with her defender. Bolero, a handsome man of most prepossessing manners, soon became first favorite and had all Spain at his feet. One day he discovered a con spiracy against her majesty, led by Don Francesco, her cousin. After that Solero's life was no more safe, as seveial at tempts were made to assassinate him, so that even the queen advised him to re turn to Italy, which he did. after spend ing everything he had. He settled in Milan, earning a precarious living by writing, but a true Boheine, gay and starving. For a few months he returned to Spain and had his pockets well re llned with gold, but on the homeward journey by sea a storm arose, auU the passengers escaped with only their lives, so that he landed in Milan without a penny. Eighteen hundred and fifty-nine saw him in Paris, confidential agent of Napo leon 111, and on returning to the penin sula he was sent against the brigands, whom he dispersed. In 1809 he was found in Egypt organizing the police, but his restless temperament again inter fered, and it was not long before he was again in Milan, speculating with the for tune which he had ntude. He new lost everything and fell into extreme peverty. From that moment the goddess of for tune deserted him, and he died in 1873 in Milau. Silk goods arc said to take dyes more readily than any other fabric. SEVEN DEVELOPED GOLD MINES. 60 ACRES OF GOLD ORE. THE ARENA Gold Mining & Milling Company CRIPPLE CREEK, COLORADO. I This Property is Estimated to be now Worth More than SIO,OOO per Acre and will be Worth over One Hundred Thousand Dollars per Acre,with Proper Development CAPITAL STOCK, $1,000,000. | Divided into Shares of 81.00 Each, Full Paid and Non-Assessahle.lfaß The Arena Company offers 50,000 Shares at 50 cents each in a Property that is Worth over 8(500,000. lor tlie purpose of raising money to purchase t lie necessary machinery to make the mines produce daily fully Three Thousand Dollars in Gold, thus enriching every individual shareholder according to the shares he holds. You can buy any number of Shares you Wish, I I and make more money than ca 11 he made in any ot her line of investment. The gold ore is in : 1 liese seven developed mines. There are H.OOO feet of ore in a vein,and these veins are true mother veins, held within walls of granite.placed there l>\ nature. The Company has already developed this property to demonstrate that it is oue of the largest gold properties of the Cripple Creek District which is the greatest gold-producing camp on earth, its output last year aggregating KI.UOiyHK) or nearly double the amount produced in the whole State ofCali tornia. At 5U cents per share the < 'ompany is giving you a discount of 1U cents per Share to start with, making 20cents on the dollar. As already stated, this is done for the purpose of rais ing S2">,(JUO to purchase improved machinery, air-compressor drills, and electric plant. \Ve have two large hoist ing engines on this.property,a commodious shaft-house,office buildings, hoarding house for the men. stables, a powder-house, a large quantity of tools, etc. The re ports 011 these mines. made by one of the best mining engineers in the state, succinctly de scribe these improvements. NAMES <>F MINKS. AZTEC, 210 feet in depth, with shaft-house, boiler and engine lor hoisting, well timbered all the way down. lit »N I'll' il.liElt, J'ill feet deep, hoisting engine and boiler, large iron shaft-house. MEX ICO and MA N HA'I TA N, both o\ i r Km feet deep, 011 same vein as Ihe Aztec mine. 1 'U VST A 1., J ASl'Elt and t i HEAT FAST EH N. 011 the same vein as the bondholder and open ed in depth to over KKi feet, and developments a I ready made s how over -4,Htm feet or ore. If you want to make money out of nature, become a producer of gold out of her treasure vaults. The Arena group of mines will do it for you. We can furnish the best of references hank and miningengineers -and our title in the property is perfect, coining, as it does through a patent from the < ioverment. With more im proved 'machinery, from Stf.lHH) to S~>.UOU per day wi.l be a conservative estimate of the output of these mines. Remember that only fitl.tltlO Shares of this Stock are for sale at 50 cents on the dollar. < irders mr the number of shares desired, accompanied by Draft, Money orders, Express or Cash in Registered Letters, can be sent to The Arena Gold Mining & Milling Company, 501 Equitable Building, DENVER, COLORADO. PLANING MILL? HOOVER BROTHERS MANUFACTURERS Of Doors, Sash, Shutters, Verandas, Brackets, Frames and Turned Work of all Kinds. Also Shingles, Roofing; Slate, Planed and Rough Lumber. RIVERBIDE, NORT'D COUNTY. ■ —■ I - IB- '-I*** FOE nRSTJLASS. WORK OIL? 00 10 Danville Steam Laundry, No. 20 Cana St Lore and Kase, Proj BILL OF THE PLAY. •'Betsy Ross" will be rewritten for next season. Richard Golden is to make a fare well tour iu "Old Jed I'routy." Archie i'.oyd will star next season in u New England drama called "Yer inont." Rev. Charles M. Sheldon of Kansas < ity will dramatize his novel, "Edward Blake." A Sir Arthur Sullivan scholarship is to In- endowed in the Royal Academy of Music. Ellen Terry's biography is being writ ten by T. E. Pemberton, whom she has supplied with all the facts. .Tames Horan has just completed his dramatization of "Gulliver's Travels," which will lie seen iu New York. Maude Adams will lay aside the much diM-ussi d "I/Aiglou" and will be seen next season in a new production. Henrik Ibsen, the Norwegian poet and dramatist, is suffering from paral ysis. He is scarcely able to walk or talk. Julia Marlowe expects to appear in three important plays. One is a new drama, another is a play of modern life and tlie third a Shakespearean tragedy. Dion Boueicault, one of the sons of the playwright, is reported engaged to Miss Irene Yanbrugh, the actress asso ciated with John Hare in"The Gay Lord Quex." It became known lately that Clara Morris, who has recently turned her attention to writing, with considerable success, is the author of a play which in all probability will be acted next fall in New York. Mr. Richard Mansfield says, referring to the report that he may possibly ap pear in a Shakespearean revival next spring with Miss Julia Marlowe. "It is not my intention or policy to make a combination at any time with any star." ■ The Benedictine distillery at Fecamp produced last year 1,081,000 bottles. One hundred and forty tuns of thla liquor, valued at £IO,OOO, were exported to Hamburg. HWI lffiJ|L IKB want to flu all Ms of Priming til" 11! ITS 111. 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