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OffioKon Mill St., Opposite the Post Office.
Operative anil Mechanical Dentistry * Carefully
performed, Teeth positively extracted without
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lug and Killing toeth aSiieeinltv.
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THE EYE A SPECIALTY
Eyes tested, treated, fitted with glass
es aipl artificial eyes supplied.
, ;jll Market Street, Illoonisburg, l'a.
Hours—lo a. in.to ."i p. m.
Telephone 14315.
THE ALPHABET'S MEETINQ.
The alphabet met awl said that "they
Were not arranged In a proper way."
A had stood at the head too long; •
It was not right ; it was utterly wrong,
"For you all know and can plainly se» ,
That place belongs to me," said Q.
"You take the head, indeed!" said J;
"That plare is meant for my dear K."
"Tut, tut, tut! Well, well, well!
I'll stand there mvself then," said L.
"Excuse ua, please, we think that we
Have a word t«> say," said H, C, D.
•'Suppose you have," said F as he
Soft!}' whispered a word to E.
"Who'll prevent. I'd like to know.
Standing head M, N or O?" j
"We've listened in silence to aU of yon
And now will 'head' you," said I' and Q.
"Our impression is, you had better try,"
Then angrily spoke both 11 and I.
i "How rode and coarse!" said R, 8, T. .
"Tlie 'airs' o( some!" said U and V.
"Would drive i nc mad," said W, X, Y, t
But, after aU, the letters still stand
A at the head, at the foot &.
Brooklyn Eagle.
TALK OF MARRIAGE.
It In Proper Knr the Man, hnf Jfflt
For the (ilrl. Apparently.
A man may remark on his intention
to marry at some Indefinite future time,
when prudence or other considerations
may make it possible or advisable,
without having, as a rule, to run the
gantlet of a chorus of impertinent and
stupid would be witty remarks. Hut
should a girl be bold enough, or, rather,
natural and simple enough, to say the
same thing what would be the result?
Why, every one knows that she would
be promptly sneered out of counte
nance.
And why? Is It immodest for a wom
an to express a determination to enter
Into a state which we are being contin
ually reminded is a natural and honor
able state, while it Is modest and prop
er for a man to do so? Such a distinc
tion would never be drawn except for
the "cheapness" to which reference has
been made.
If a man wants to marry, he can mar
ry. If the lirst woman he asks refuses
lilin, he has only to ask a second or per
haps a third or fourth. It would be
safe to guarantee that within a month
any man of fairly respectable life and
position and appearance who cared to
make the experiment could marry in
his own class, could marry probably a
woman much superior to himself.
But what about the girl who intends
to marry "some day?" Is she not In a
very different position from the man?
Here Is a girl of good character—much
better than the man's, probably—aver
age Intelligence, average good looks.
Theoretically she Is free to marry
whom she will, but is she" If she re
ceives one distinct offer marriage,
she has had more than her share, ac
cording to the probable average.
The fact that by an unwritten law a
woman must not take, and, Indeed, does
not want to take, the initiative has very
little to do with the extremely limited
Choice which modern conditions impose
upon English women.—Nineteenth Cen
tury.
Swallowed Two founds of Stone.
Stones do not form part of the rec
ognized diet of the cormorant, but one
of these birds In the National Zoolog
ical park in Washington had a craving
which could be satisfied only by eat
ing two pounds of stones. The keep
er's attention was attracted to the bird
because after having once sat down
it couldn't get up. He was picked up,
and then the stones were heard rattling
Inside of him. An official connected
with the park decided that something
must be done, and lie promptly cut the
cormorant open and relieved him of Ills
burden. One of the stones, of irregular
shape, was 3% Inches long. The In
cision was sewed up, and for five days
the bird got along all right, tho wound
healing finely, but at the end of that
time the cormorant grew restive and
pulled out the stitches with his hooked
bill. As a consequence of open'''g up
\e wound he died.
PERT PERSONALS.
Mr. Rockefeller now controls salt and
oil. With a vinegar and a lettuce trust
he could get back to his salad days.—
Detroit Journal.
Mr. Schwab asserts that he objected
to being paid $1,000,000 a year. Mr.
Schwab is reaching his funny stage.—
Baltimore American.
If the widows of the country con
tinue to make googoo eyes In the di
rection of Mr. Depew, his only recourse
will be to wear blinders.—St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
Emperor William resents complimen
tary reference to Bismarck because it
suggests that the Ilohenzollerns did
not create the German empire unaided.
—Detroit Tribune.
Sarah Bernhardt says the idea of her
playing Borneo to Maude Adams' Juliet
was a joke. Only half a joke. It is
admitted that Maude Adams can play
Juliet.—Louisville Courier-Journal.
Do not darn fine woolen undergar
ments with wool. It will shrink and
pull out a hole larger than the original.
Use for darning winter : i wear the
loosely twisted
loosely, and when washed the new *ex
ture has almost the same thickness as
the knitted goods i elf. Good House
keeping.
HOW TO INDUCE SLEEP.
Callrtfr Prmldfiit'* Plan For liver
roiii i iiu litMoiania.
Assume an easy position, with the
hands resting over the abdomen, lYesi
dent Hyde of Bowdoin suggests in The
Outlook, discussing the matter of sleep.
Take a long, slow, but easy and natural
breath in such a way as gradually and
gently to lift the hands outward by the
action of the abdomen. At the same
time slowly and gradually open the
eyes so that at the end of the inspira
tion they are wide open and directed
upward. Let the breath out easily and
naturally, letting the hands fall inward
as the outward pressure of the abdo
men is withdrawn. At the same time
let the eyes drop and the eyelids natu
rally fall by their own weight so that
they are closed at the end of the expi
ration. Do all this quietly aud natu
rally. Do not make too hard work of it.
Repeat the inspiration and expira
tion, with opening and lifting, dropping
and closing of the eyes, ten times. Then
take ten breaths in the same way, al
lowing the eyes to remain closed. Al
ternate ton breaths with the opening
and closing of the eyes. When the eye
lids begin to feel heavy and you feel
tired and sleepy, as you will very soon,
go through the motions more and more
easily and lazily until you merely will
the motions without making any effort,
or hardly any effort, to execute them.
At this stage, or more likely in one of
the intervals of breathing without any
motion of the eyes, you will fall asleep.
Nervous persons will have some diffi
culty at first in the gradual opening
and closing of the eyes. They will tend
to fly open and then snap together; but,
as putting *alt on a dove's tail is a sure
rule for catching the dove, so ibis grad
ual and easy opening and closing of
the eyes in rhythm, with quiet, natural
breathing, once secured, are almost
equivalent to dropping off to sleep.
This rule induces the respiration that is
characteristic of normal sleep. It tires
the set of muscles, the tiring of which
is one of the favorite devices for pro
ducing hypnosis. It produces and calls
attention to certain sensations in the
eyes and eyelids which are the normal
precursors of sleep. Finally persons
who have had difficulty ingoing to
sleep report that this method puts them
to sleep and puts them back again
when they wake up too soou.
Him to Remove a Ttuht Rlnic-
To remove a tight ring take a needle,
flat in the eye, aud thread it with
strong but not too coarse thread. Then
very carefully pass the head of the
needle under the ring in the direction
of the wrist. By soaping the needle
beforehand you facilitate matters.
Having done this, you pull down a few
inches of the thread and withdraw the
empty needle. Then wrap the long end
of the thread round the finger toward
the nail and take the short end and
unwind it. The thread, pressing
against the ring, gradually works it off,
no matter how tight it may be.
How to Make Frown Souffle.
Soak one-half box of gelatin in one
half cupful of cold water. To one pint
of any fruit Juice allow about one pint
of sugar. Beat four egg yolks till
creamy, add half the sugar, then add
the fruit juice and remaining sugar.
Strain it into a pan set in water. Dis
solve the gelatin over the fire and
strain it into the mixture. Stir con
stantly, and as It begins to thicken add
one pint of cream that has been whip
ped. Turn it Into a mold and pack in
ice and salt for two hours.
Eating by Prescription.
Most people who are in good health
know in a general way what ails them.
Some of them know what kind of food
they ought to eat in order to overcome
their bodily Infirmities and prevent a
recurrence of them, but people who
have good health usually consider only
their taste or their poeketbook when
they order a meal.
An experiment which one of the Bos
ton hotels is making shows that others
besides invalids are beginning to un
derstand that it is important to have
the right sort of food as well as to have
It properly cooked.
The cafe of this hotel provides not
only a bill of fare, but a diet list made
out by a physician and intended as a
guide to the patrons of the house. It
prescribes the food best suited to vari
ous physical conditions. To the fat
man it offers a variety of dishes that
tickle his palate and at the same time
check his tendency to grow fatter. The
thin and amende can procure the things
which make blood and tissue and build
up an enfeebled system.
The new way of looking at the food
question puts health first and prefer
ence afterward. It considers the needs
of the individual and makes practical
application of the old saying that "one
man's meat is another man's poison."
It tries to make the diet like a well
stocked wardrobe, offering plenty of
variety, 3 - et designed for and fitted to
the person for whom it is intended.
How one can fit his diet to his own
needs Is a matter which the physician
can best decide. It is certainly easier
to preserve health by the use of proper
food than to regain it by taking medi
cine. and the prescription filled In a
restaurant is pleasanter to take than
one compounded by the druggist.—
Youth's Companion.
The Snnlrrel Honter'n Wenpo».
The cream of squirrel hunting Is en
joyed by the man who uses a light rifle
of small caliber and medium power.
The".22 long" as now turned out by
our leading makers Is an excellent
weapon—in fact, the best in the world
for the purpose. Though not of suffi
cient range to be dangerous to people
or stock at a distance. It throws lead
with surprising accuracy to the tops of
the tallest trees. Good rifle shots al
ways aim for the squirrel's head both
to add to the difficulty of the sport and
to avoid spoiling meat. And be It
known that a squirrel's head at a range
of 40 or 50 yards Is no easy mark. If
a reader doubts this, let him goto the
woods for a day, keep all empty shells,
and at the end of the day let him try
to make the dead squirrels and the
empty shells tally.—E. W. Sandys iu
Outing.
Flarly Iltriln.
The green finch is the earliest riser.
It pipes as early as half past 1 In the
morning. The blackcap begins at half
past 2. It is nearly 4 o'clock before
the blackbird appears. It is heard half
an hour before the thrush, and tho
chirp of the robin begins about the
same length of time before that of tho
wren. The house sparrow and the tom
tit take the last stage of the list.
What A Tale It Tells.
If that mirror of yours shows a
wretched, sallow complexion, a jann :
diced look, moth patches and blotches
on the skin, it's liver trouble; but Dr.
King's New Life Bill regulate the liver. 112
pnrify the blood, give clear skin, rosy
cheeks, rich complexion. Only at j
Banles & Co. drug store.
HELPED THEMSELVES.
Ilovr the < it 1/.en* «»f an llliuoi* Town
<*ot u Lilirur).
Greenup, an Illinois village, merits a
library gift from Andrew Carnegie, not
to awaken interest in library creation,
hut as a reward for what tlie citizens
have done in meeting the need of such
an educational center. They haveshown
how a village of i.ooo population can
establish a practical library without a
bequest and without the aid of public
funds.
The scheme originated w'th t'-e wo
man's clubs, and soon t \. ' nt
was interested. A "hook shower at
one of tlie churches brought in 2H2 de
sirable books as a nucleus, and a call
for subscriptions in books or money
brought the total up to 1,000 volumes.
A second call added 500 more, and con
tributions are still coining in, no one
person, however, giving more than .$lO.
An unused room in a new schoolhouse
was assigned for the library, the local
carpenters putting up the shelving as
their contribution, and the librarians
serve without compensation.
This is only one illustration of the
way in which this village takes hold of
an enterprise with popular accord. It
owns the waterworks plant and an
electric lighting system.
Tlie Coiiiliik City.
The time will conic in the history of
civilized communities when the two
most important departments of a Vity's
government will be recognized as those
of health and education. I believe that
the health of the community can be
materially improved by a regular Hush
ing of the surface of the streets by salt
water, by the consumption of all refuse
by tire and by personal cleanliness, to
be secured by the working classes iu
public baths, the number of which
should be largely increased.—Randolph
Guggenheimer, President of New York
City Council.
Advertlnlnj; Jlnulm*.
We want the very tip toppest dressed
man iu town to see these neckwear
Bilks.
Not cheaply made, but of materials
and workmanship equal to the expen
sive kind.
Reasonable profits, reliable goods,
rigid treatment, are three It's of this
house.
Good—or they wouldn't be here at
all; low priced—or we wouldn't be tell
lug about them.
A MODEL VILLAGE.
Power of lUampl« >lnilc n Town WL
Gnrdeii Syot of Ileaaty.
Flow to establish a model village is
illustrated in Loclaire, located about 18
miles from St. Louis and begun by a
manufacturer ten years ago. It differs
from Pullman in that Its residents en-
Joy tlie lll>rrtl**s permitted to dwellers
in any municipality, and therein is be
lieved to lie the secret of its success.
There is no boss in any form. No
resident has ever been asked to cut his
grass or togo to church or keep sober.
The opportunity was created, and
then the people were allowed to work
out their own material salvation. It Ik
a park village, with winding roads, an
abundance of trees and about a third
of an acre of ground with each cot
tage. These cottages are sold to those
of the employees who care to buy, the
monthly payments being about equiva
lent to city rents. Each houso has run
ning water and electric lights, and with
each cottage the corporation furnishes
a lawn mower and plants from a green
house established for that purpose.
There area bowling alley and a billiard
room, a clubhouse for unmarried men
and a lecture and dance hall, schools, a
baseball tield, tenuis courts and skat
ing ponds.
"At the start scarcely any of our peo
ple made any gardens; scarcely any
planted tlowers," says the creator of
this bit of earthly paradise. "They did
not know how to do It or care for It.
By infectious example they now all
have gardens and handsome yards.
For three years I have lived in the cen
ter of the village with my own family
and my daughter's family."
VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT.
What a Womun'* Soclfty llan Ao
eoinpllMhed In a New York: Town.
In a town in central New York tho
Ladies' Village Improvement society,
has purchased opera chairs for the Til
lage theater and a street sprinkler.
Five of the women have been desig
nated the "firemen's relief," and they
make coffee and provide refreshments
for the firemen at fires. The society
has exercised its influence against the
prevalent habit of the male population
of expectorating tobacco juice on the
sidewalks and has had a gratifying
measure of success. It also brought
about the enactment of a village or
dinance which provides for the arrest
of tramps if found within the limits of
the village, and notices to this effect
are posted along the highways near the
town and on the trees in town.
The society fosters town pride and
public spirit, and through its untiring
efforts the village stands out as a
model to be followed. Since its or
ganization the society has completely
changed the aspect of the town, and
where neglect and carelessness were
formerly the rule neatness and tidiness
now prevail. Fences and sidewalks are
kept in repair, lawns laid out, the
streets cleared of rubbish, and flowers
and shrubbery have taken the place of
weeds. The women's influence has ex
tended to the neighboring farmers,
who, patterning after what they have
seen in the village, shave their lawns
and make their cottages and fences
neater. The society, it should be add
ed, religiously abstains from politics.
Wit up a* Mr Hand.
In the early days only a few schol
ars, priests and clerks knew how to
write. It was then customary to sign
a document by smearing the hand with
Ink and impressing it upon the paper,
accompanied by the words, "Witness
my hand." Afterward the seal was in
troduced as a substitute for the hand
mark and was used with the words
above quoted, the two forming the sig
nature. This is the origin of the ex
pression as used iii modem documents.
JfiMt iin Had.
Educated Egyptian You have no
wonderful hieroglyphics in your coun
try, sir; no mysterious inscriptions, no
undecipherable relies of an ancient llt
(Tature whose secrets tlie wise men of
the world have tried for ages to dis
cover.
Tourist No, we haven't any of those
things, but (brightening up) we've got
our "railway guides " London Fun.
To Save Her Child.
From frightful disfigurement Mrs.
Nannie (Jalleger, of LaG range, < »a., ap
plied Bucklvn s Arnicc Salve to great
■;ores on her head and face, and writes
Its quick cure exceeded all her hopes
it works wonders in Sores, Bruises, Skin
Eruptions, Cuts, Burns, Scalds and
Piles. "I'll-. Cure guaranteed by I'aules
fc (Jo druggist.
*Oft Ai_A_ INVESTORS.
I'ntJenee «•«« -»unh the Sure Whj to
A l'roOtuble Poultry
Poultry and egg raiting is eminently
adapted to the person with small capt
i tal who is anxious that the Investment
pay without running too great risk.
One may begin in the most humble
way In poultry raising, and then gradu
ally increase the siy.e of the plant as
conditions warrant. It is really a ease
of learning a business while slowly in
venting capital in it. And this is really
t' • • best and most sensible way of ap
l>t• . iiiug the business. To start in
with all the capital invested at first,
bill i en learn later by bitter experi
i eiw, is just the way to get discour
aged and find that there is no money
in the business.
With the smallest amount of capital
one can go into the business, especially
if there is a suitable place at hand for
the work. One can rent a small poul
try farm ami then learn by experience,
even raising fruits and vegetables the
lirst few years to help pay the expenses
of living. Ultimately, however, the
ambition should be placed on chicken
and ej:g raising for the purpose of mas
tering it as a specialty.
Let one begin with 50 hens and find
out the first season what can be done
with that number. From this stock he
can prepare his next season's Increase
without further calling upon his capi
tal. Ity method of exchange of eggs
with neighbors near or distant new
blood can be introduced, and there will
not be much danger of close inbreeding.
In many places there is a regular
system of exchange of eggs in this way,
and at very little expense new breeds
are constantly being added. From the
50 hens of the first season the flock
can lie increased to 200 for the second.
1 112 you have been successful with the
50, you are probably prepared the sec
ond year to handle 200, especially if
proper houses and yards have been pre
pared in advance. That is very essen
tial, and throughout the whole devel
opment of the business never neglect
to increase the quarters of the hens
and chickens in proportion to their ln
, crease in numbers.
With plenty of accommodations and
' fair success the second year the begin
ner might well increase his stock to
500 for the third year. The fourth
■ year he might go up to 700 or 800 and
! the fifth season round out the business
with an even 1,000. When you have
reached that number, the plant is a
pretty good sized one, and its further
j increase must be made gradually. There
are poultry farms of 5,000 and 10,000
hens, but the owners have learned by
careful experience how to handle such
numbers in the most economical way.
Any beginner, of course, can grow up
to such proportions if he has the push
and go and the good business common
sense which enables him to raise and
sell to the best possible advantage,
concludes an American Cultivator cor
j respondent.
_
ririmiiiK Oil ruJntiiiKß.
An art journal suggests raw potatoes
| to clean oil paintings. Have a few po
tatoes at hand, each <nt in halves. The
fresh surface is dampened slightly with
I cold water and used to rub the canvas.
| As the potatoes show soil the surface
is sliced off and the rubbing continued.
This process will create a little lather,
which should be wiped off as fast as It
accumulates with a clean, damp sponge.
When the whole canvas is cleaned, it
should be washed over lightly with
clean water from which the chill has
been taken and finally the water
carefully wiped off with an old clean
silk handkerchief. Haw potatoes to
clean paintings are frequently in hear
say >vldi :n i, but this description, of
the process may be of value. It is sug
gested by way of reasonable caution
that the experiment should be tried
i first upon a canvas of trifling value
j and upon one corner of that.
The Collection.
While lecturing his congregation
rather strongly on a recent Sunday
about slack attendance and small col
lections a minister of a church in an
English city used the following elo
quent and forcible sentence: "Yes,
brethren, our collection of a little over
£3 last Sunday Included no fewer than
500 halfpennies. We all know about
the widow's mite, and I am sure we are
very glad to receive it; but I don't
think there an* 500 widows in this con
trreirationl"
Patronise Home Indnntry.
The woman who won't use home
made flour does the town more harm
than half a dozen perpetual cases of
smallpox, says the Emporia Gazette.
The woman who buys her dresses in
Kansas City has a hammer knocking
at the temples of her own town. The
woman who patronizes a "mail order"
house hurts her own town more than
a saloon. She sends money out of
town that should keep home people at
work; she breeds Illness, the mother of
crime. The woman for whom nothing
In this town is good enough is a worse
enemy to Emporia than the plague. It
has always appeared to The Gazette
that the tilings sold by the merchants
and manufacturers who support a wo
man's husband ought to be good
enough for the woman's back and her
stomach and her parlor. If it isn't
"good enough, site should take the old
man to a town where things suit her
better.
PITH AND POINT.
Very few people want to know the
truth unless it fits their prejudice.
Every one who doesn't like you is
looking for a chance to laugh at you.
A great deal of nerve is sometimes
necessary to keep from being cranky.
You know a whole lot if you know
enough to know you don't know any
thing.
When a boy is not Invited to a party,
he hangs around the outside to see how
things are going.
When a dressmaker makes a quilt
out of silk scraps, the women begin to
look at her with suspicion.
Every one is some kind of a sinner.
The employee too honest to take a post
ago stamp will steal his employer's
time.
He sensible with your children. Whcu
you want them to do a thing, toll them
why. I »on't toll them they must do It
or take a boating, or that they must do
it because you say so. Atchison Globe.
Astounded The Editor.
Kditor S. A. Brown, of Bennettsville,
S. (' , was once immensely surprised.
"Through long suffering from Dys
pepsia. ho writes, "my wife was great
ly run down. She bad no strength or
vigor and suffered great distress from
her stomach, but she tried Electric
Bitters which helped her at once, and,
after using four I Kittles, she is entirely
well, can eat anything. It's a grand
tonic, and its gentle laxative qualities
are splendid for torpid liver." For In
digestion, Loss of Appetite, Stomach
and Liver troubles it's a positive guar
antoe«l cure. <>nly •Ve at Panics Co. 's
drug sotro.
FOR LI RI LK FOLKS.
I.ittle PrlneeisM «nil the Teaenp.
When she was a little girl, a very
pretty story was told of Queen Wil
helinina of Holland. Her father was
presented by the oily of Amsterdam
with a beautiful set of nips and sau
cers. So highly did he prize them that
he at once issued ord.Tf that any one
in the palace who should be so unfor
tunate as to break one should be dis
missed.
Not long after this order little Wil
lielmina was surprised to discover her
favorite footman weeping bitterly. It
seemed that he had been so unfortu
nate as to break one of the cups in
carrying it from the room in which he
hud been serving tea.
The princess was deeply grieved at
the accident; but, having discovered
that the pieces were quite large and
could easily be glued together, she said
to the footman:
"If you will do exactly as I direct. I
will try to help you out of your trouble.
You can easily glue these pieces togeth
er. This afternoon when you are serv
ing tea bring this cup to me filled with
cold tea, ami 1 will see what I can do
about it."
The footman obeyed his directions
exactly. A moment after the princess
had received her tea she managed to
let it fall so that it broke into thou
sands of pieces. The king was furious
ly angry.
"Goodliy, father!" cried Wilholmijia,
her arms about his neck. "I'm going.
You said whoever broke a clip should
be banished." Of course the father
forgave her, and some little time after
ward she confessed the whole affair,
only she would never reveal which of
the footmen had been the guilty cul
prit.
VontiKent Kentucky Colonel.
This is a picture of the youngest
Kentucky colonel. lie is Austin Nel
son Edwards, son of Mr. and Mrs. Nel
son J. Edwards of Newport, Ky. Lit
tle Colonel Edwards was born Jan. 3,
\ >n
COT.OXEIi EDWAKDS.
1808, so you see he Is only a little over
?, years old. quite young to bear so
proud a title. However, he hoars his
honors handsomely, lie was appoint
ed colonel by Governor W. S. Taylor
of Kentucky.
I.IK* 1% Cuuu'N to tlie llellboy.
"Luck," said a man who believes in
it, "comes to different people in differ
ent ways. 1 know a man who is now
about as well fixed as most men would
want to be whose luck came to him in
helping a mail on w ith an overcoat.
"Ho was a bellboy then in a hotel,
and one day a big man, who was big
and prosperous financially as well as
physically, and who hail just gut his
overcoat out of the ooatroom, turned
to him and said:
"'Here, boy, help me on with this
coat,' at the same time tossing the big
coat over to him and turning away.
The boy didn't begin to bo big enough
to do it, and, asking bin to was just
the big man's little joke, for he was a
good natured man, but the next minute
the big man felt the coat going up on
his shoulders all right. Turning round,
he saw the youngster stepping down
from a chair which had been standing
near and which he had grabbed onto
the minute the man turned his back.
"This tickled the big man very much,
and he took the small boy into his of
fice, and practically the boy's fortune
was made from that minute, for be had
the stuff in him to make good as well
as the brains to meet his luck half way
when it came."
•' NEW YORK ROADS. ~
KnSs»ntlon to Employ Convicts In
PreparliiK MuteriiU.
The chief question concerning good
roiuls at the present time Is the finan
cial one, says the New York Tribune
in a recent editorial. How much money
cau bo raised for them? There is no
longer a question as to the desirability
of building them. No rational man
nor. opposes them. The fanner who
usea them in the laborious task of mak
ing a living from the soil the year
round is as eager for them as is the
rich man from the city, who uses them
only for pleasure for a tew weeks or
months in the summer. There is no
difficulty either in getting enough
money locally. Towns ami counties are
ready with their appropriations. The
only drawback Is that the state is not
ready to do Its full share In duplicating
the local appropriations, and so the
progress of the work seems to depend
upon the rate nt which the state can
follow the lead of the counties.
In connection with this phase of the
case a suggestion made by Mr. Bond,
the state engineer, is of practical in
terest. He would have the state ac
quire a trap rock quarry in Rockland
county and set the convicts of Sing
Sing prison to work lug It. This would
provide roadmaklng material at a con
siderable lower price to the state than
that which Is now paid for It, and the
state could thus do its share toward
road building at a decided advantage,
for there seems to be no good reason
why the state's contribution to the fund
should not be in material at market
rates as well as In cash. The scheme
has of course these obvious elements
in its favor: That trap rock Is one of
the very best road iuotals In the world;
that the convicts would thus be pro
vided with one of the best kinds of
labor for their well being; that the
quarry would be close to the prison,
and that being on a bluff directly above
the river the product of the quarry
could be transported to many other
parts of the state at a minimum of cost.
They Struck It Rich.
It was a grand thing for tiiis com
munity that such an enterprising firm
as Panics & Co. secured the Agency
for Dr. King's New Discovery for Con j
sumption, the wonderful remedy that
has startled the world by its marvellous
cures. The furor of enthusiasm over it
has Itooined their business, as (he de
mand for it is immense. They give
free trial bottles to sufferers, and pos
itively guarantee to cure Coughs, Colds,
Bronchitis, Asthma, Croup, and all
Throat and Lung Troubles. A trial
proves its merit. Price ">Uc and SI.OO
SIGNALING TO MARS.
The Difficult y <>l DniinMt So by Mean#
of
The very largest oily that this <'arth j
h:ts ever known would be altogether |
too small to bo visible to a being 1
dwelling on the planet Mars, even if ;
that being were endeavoring to see it ]
with a telescope as powerful as the
greatest and most perfect instrument
in any observatory <>n this globe.
If the whole extent of Lake Superior !
was covered with petroleum and if that
petroleum was set on fire, then, I think,
we may admit that an inhabitant of
Mars who was furnished with a tele
scope as good as that which I'ercival
Lowell uses at Flagstaff might be able j
to see that something had happened, j
Hut we must not suppose that the <
mighty conflagration would appear to
the Martian as a very conspicuous ob- j
ject. It would, rather, Ik? a very small i
feature, but still 1 think it would not j
be beyond the reach of a practiced ob-1
server in that planet.
On the other hand, if an area the size j
of Lake Superior on Mars was to be |
flooded with petroleum and that petro- j
leum was to be kindled, we should ex- i
pect to witness the event from here not
as a great and striking conflagration, ,
but as a tiny little point of just dis
cernible light. The disk* of Mars is
not a large object, and the conflagra- j
tion would not extend over the three
hundredth part of that disk.
It is sufficient to state these facts to j
show that the possibility of signaling j
to Mars is entirely beyond the power of ]
human resources.—Sir Robert S. Hall
in Independent.
BLUNDERS IN FICTION.
The <i»fer Mistakes Thnl Are Some- !
timet* Mutle by Author*.
We smile as we read and pass swiftly j
by the stories of maidens that wander 1
In "lonely woods" at unearthly hours j
of night, always clad In "a soft, white
clinging gown." Now, every girl knows
that the average maiden is too much |
afraid of tramps and snakes to wander
in "lonely woods." The weather, too, \
appears to perplex our novelists, for j
not Infrequently they begin a chap- j
tcr at dawn, there are a few mo- ;
ments' conversation, and then the "sun j
sets in lurid banks behind the distant '
empurpled mountains."
I am reminded at the outset of an
English story written by an author of j
repute where the heroine in one scene j
was made on one page to stoop down
and tie her shoestring, while three
pages farther on, directly following, it
was said of the same girl that she had
remained barefooted the entire day. In
another story a blind woman is made i
to view the hero through spectacles be- j
fore the tale is ended. j
In a French novel—and we generally
consider French such literary masters
a heroine is clearly made togo direct i
from her bed to the breakfast table,
out shopping, to an afternoon tea and
to dinner in her robe de nuit! Cousins
suddenly transformed into brothers
without a moment's warning are nu- j
rnerousin this detective's library. Thus
one is amused to linil the most mar- !
velous mistakes in books which we
think we have carefully read.—Modern
Culture.
SEVEN DEVELOPED
GOLD MINES.
60 ACRES OF GOLD ORE.
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦
THE ARENA
Gold Mining & Milling Company
CRIPPLE CREEK, COLORADO.
♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦
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.
fey" I )ivi<led into Shares of SI.OO Each, Full l'aitl mid Koii-As«essal)le.' i,^c«B
The Arena Company offers 50,000 Shares at 50 cents each
in a Property that is Worth over §1500,000.
For I In- purpose of raising money to purchase tlic necessary machinery
In make the mines produce daily fully Three Thousand Dollars in Uoid.
thus enriching every individual shareholder according to the shares he holds.
You can buy any number of Shares you Wish,
and make more money than can he made in any other line of investment. The gold ore is in
these seven developed mines. There are 3.000 feel of ore in a vein, and these veins are true
mother veins, held within walls of granite, placed there bv nature. The Company has already
dc\t loped I his property to demoiiNtrale that il is one of Ihe large*! gold properties of the
Cripple Creek District which is the greater-old-producing camp on earth, ils output lasl
year aggregating JBM.UWMJUUor nearly double the amount produced in the whole State of Call
torn in.
At ~>(l cents per share the Company is giving you a discount of 1(1 cents per Share to start
with, making-il cents on the dollar. "As already slated. I his is done for Ihe purpose of rais
in... (KHI lo purchase improved iiiachinnry, air-compressor drills, and electric plant. He
luvve lvv o large hoisting engines on t Di- properly,a com modious shaft-house,otliee buildings,
hoarding house for the men. stables, :i powder-house, a large <juant it,\ ol tools, etc. Ihe re
ports on these mines. made by one of the best mining engineers in tiie state, succinctly de
scribe these improvements.
NAMKS 01-" MINKS.
AZTKC, 210 feet in depth, with shaft-house, boiler and engine for hoisting, well timbered all
the way down.
lit i.\ DID MTIKIt, -liu feet deep, hoisting engine and boiler, large iron shaft-house.
M l-LX HO and !\1 A.\ll A I T;\ N . IK'lb o\ i r 1(H) feet di cp, on same vein as Ihe Aztec mine.
CK YsTA .1 Asl'KH and < i HKAT KAs'l i:ii N. on the same vein as the Bondholder and open
ed in depl h too\ er l(*l feet, and developments alr» ad \ inaili show ov< r 4,1**1 feet ol ore.
If von wanl lo make money out of nature, become a producer of gold out of her treasure
vaults. Ihe Ar«m group of mines vv ill do il for you.
We can furnish the best of references bank and miningengineers and our title in the
property is perfect, coming, as it does through a patent from the (ioverinent. With more liu
proved maelilm rv, from ii;,l*lo to :"i.(**i per (lav vviil In a const i vat ive est i male of the output
of these mines.
Keincmber that only 'U.IICO Shares of this Stock are for sale at Ml cents on the dollar,
orders tor t lie nuniher of Shares desired, accompanied by Draft, Money orders, K\press or
Cash in Registered Letters, can he sent lo
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.
TACKS DO NOT HURT HIM. 112
Anatomical Cnrio*lty Which I* l*vs-
KIIIIK I'U L'h> NICIUIIM.
i The human pincushion walked into
i the Hahnemann hospital a few nights
| ago and startled the doctors by asking
! them to take two needles out of his
heart. He is Hugh Gloster, about 2"J :
years old, who gave as his residence
1018 Wood street and told the doctors j
i he makes a living lty swallowing nails, !
j pushing pins and needles into his chest j
and hammering tacks Into his cheeks |
i at a dime museum.
I "You see, tonight, doc," said he when
| the medical men had recovered their
I breaths, "I was givin my regular show,
1 but I got careless when it came to the
pincushion act. I had just hammered
' a dozen tacks into my face and was
proceed into jam a couple of big nee
dles into my chest when they slipped in
too far, and 1 couldn't get them out."
"Are they in there yet?" asked the
doctors seriously.
"Yes," replied the human pincushion.
( "I tried to jack them out with a darn
j in needle, l>ut they're stuck in some
: thin hard and won't come out. I
! thought meblie youse gents might like
to take a shy at the job and get them
I out for me."
j Cluster was then laid out on the op
| orating table, but considered it a huge
joke when the doctor asked if he want
ed ether.
"Me ether?" he reiterated in scorn.
"Why, say. doc, give me that big
| butcher knife of yours there, and I'll
j jal> it into any part of me and laugh
at the same time."
The doctors set to work and in a few
minutes found two good sized needles
sticking into the edge of the fourth
j rib. They had slipped under the skin
j and caught in the cartilaginous matter
1 around the bone. The doctors took
j them out with some little difficulty,
Gloster laughing and directing their
j movements.
! When he had been served, the hu
' man pincushion sat up and entertained
j the doctors in return "for their little
I kindness." He drove tacks into his
1 face until his features looked like
I those of a man with smallpox. He
; likewise ran long nails into the calves
I of his legs. Then he said he "had en-
I joyed the evening immensely."—Phiia-
I delphia Press.
Good RomU Benefit*.
Good roads pay from every possible
point of view. They save the farmer
money, both in the improved market
.ng facilities of his products and in the
wear and tear of vehicles and teams.
He can draw bigger loads, get to mar
bet quicker, travel more miles daily
j with less fatigue and put his products
j an the market In a great deal better
| condition.
The value of land is also greatly en
i hanced by the Improved conditions, as
are properties in the town. It would
be impossible to state in a brief inter
view the pecuniary benefits to be de
" ed from good roads, to say nothing
ilie comforts and pleasures depend
-1 upon the same.
ood roads are absolutely essential
the prosperity of any agricultural
I.v iimunity.
Pr<»i?reftN of Good Roads.
As a result of a good roads conven
tion recently held at Jackson, Tenn., a
[ood roads association has been formed.
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So wait to io all
kinds of Priming
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IIS Bat
112 I*
A welt printed,
tasty, Bill or i,t«
\ / ter Head, P. ter
A)L Ticket, Circular,
>V< Program, Rtate
inent or Card
LV > an advertisement
for vour busi ness, a
satisfaction to you.
lei Tir
Now Presses,
Best Paper, M:
Skilled fork, A
Promptness
\ll you can ask.
A trial will make
you our customer.
We respectfully ask
that trial.
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No. it F. Mahoning
i 1
For Beauty
style and finish our Hats
are unsurpassed. The low
prices on our trimmed
goods will make them
move out in short time.
We are offering trim
med hats at prices which
can not be duplicated.
See the shirt-waist hat,
the latest stvle out.
,n ip ,( ! mi npv
OUHIWUii 0 mllLmill
i i»2 ASII Street.