RAILROAD TIME TABLES. Pexs'a K. R. EAST. VEST 7.18 A.M. 9.14 A.M. HU; " 1\ M. 2.21 P. 11. »•" T.i " ti.uy " 7.."> i " SL'N-iiAY^. tj 10.17 A, . .. , 4,iS P.M. D L. A W. R. R. EAST. WEST. 0.57 £. M. 909 A. M. 1U.19 " 12.47 P.M. 2.11 P. M. «.H5 " O.lti " $.40 " •SUNDAYS 6.57 A.M. 12.47 P. M. u.i»;p m. S4u M * FfllLA * READING R. R. NORTH. SOUTH. 7.32 A. M 11.24 A. M. J.UU I'. M. 6.05 P. >1 BLOOM STREET. 7.54 A. M. 11.2.: A. M. 4.02 P. M. tau r. m J. J. BROWN. THE EYE A SPECIALTY Eyes tested, treated, fitted with glass es and artificial eyes supplied. 11 Market Street, Bloomsburg, Pa. Hour*—lo a. in.to 5 pin. Telephone 1430. the SPORTING WORLD Ckiuipiun Wiiiunu (ioltrr. Miss Genevieve Hecker, the new woman champion of the United States Golf association, has won interna tional reputation by reason of her ac complish ments oil tiie links. She lias for several years held a prominent niche In feminine goltiug circles, hav ing won many minor championships ■t various times. Her recent victory in MISS OESEVIEVE HKCKKIi. the national tourney, held on the fa mous Baltusrol course at Morristown, N. J., fulfilled predictions that she would one day corral the highest hon ors in her class. Miss Hecker is only nineteen years old, but she is engaged to be married. She is the daughter of John V. Hecker, a millionaire tiour manufacturer. Miss Hecker early developed a penchant for golf, and placed herself in the hands of the famous Scotch professional. George Stahl, who taught his apt and comely pupil all the tricks of the game, including his famous St. An drew swing. The picturesque links at Wee Burn, Conn., have been her fa vorite course, and she twice wou the Metropolitan championship. Miss Hecker is a blond, has blue eyes and is very graceful. She is a thorough athlete and can ride, sail and swim almost as well as she can play golf. The showing of the western golfers was a great surprise to the spectators at the tourney at Raltusrol. They play ed remarkable golf and barely missed carrying the coveted title away with theui. Miss Anthony, the champion of the west, was slightly out ol" form, but Miss Lucy Herron qualified for the finals and made \liss Hecker play her best Oriitli'ul Home of (ioir. The Scotsman contends that gull' is a Scotch sport to which poetical refer ence was made in Adamson's "Muses Threnodie," published in I'erth as long ago as 1*538. The terms used in the sport ore for the most part Scotch. Hut the Dutch assert that It was first play ed in Holland on the ice, and before 11538 the Dutch poet Bredero described how "the golfer, with ice spurs on, stands ready to smite with ashen club weighted with lead or his Scottish cleek of leaded box." l'.ut while this may be tlie earliest poetical reference to the game it does not show that Hol land is the original home of golf. The reference to the "Scottish cleek" seems at first sight to point rather to Scot land. Ilnhlln lln« n T fin per. Guh Ruhlln, the Akron giant, who is 1 training to fight Jeffries, recently tried [ to knock out Tim Heggerty, the clever Australian featherweight, who was visiting his quarters. Madden induced Heggerty to put on the gloves with Ruhlln. and Heggerty landed some hot ones on Ruhlln's face and wind which made the big fellow angry. Then Ruhlln started Into punish his oppo nent and In the third round floored hini twice. When time was called, he re fused to stop, and a friend of Heg gerty's, who interfered, was knocked down twice by the Infuriated pugilist. Madden expressed sorrow for Knhiin's act. California I'layrra For llrimkl) n. W A. Lange of San Francisco has j exhibited two signed contracts he had j received from Ned Hanlon of tin j Brooklyns for two of the best players j of the California league. Hanlon has Lis eyes set on Henry Krug of San Francisco and has instructed Lange to get Ivrug's signature to one of the con tracts. The other player wanted by llanlon is an outfielder, and he has de termined that George Hiidebrand will fill the bill. Lange will make an effort to engage these two players for the Brooklyns. Ituhlln In Poor Form. Report has it in Los Angeles that Gus Ruhlin has showed such poor form in his only public appearance In months that his prospects for winning the bout with .Jeffries are counted light Ruhlln boxed with Jim and Ben Trim ble and was clumsy and slow. He was to have met "Denver Ed" Martin, but It was announced that that lighter had uprained his thumb. California sport h *ay that Ruhlin "won't do" in a tight against Jeffries. Slow Traveler*. Great Ideas travel slowly and for a time uolsHessly as the gods whoso feet were shod with wool | " NERVES. The mod.m malady > 112 love is nerve*. | Love, one— a timjile madness, uow observes The stage of his passionate di^eas.* Ami fa twite h.rrowful, i uiw 1' Inch by Inch entering, the fatal knife. ■ O health of simple minds, give me your lUe ' ■ Ana let me, for one midnight, cca=i to hrar •L. tk- ir ir.«vtr ticking in.tny ear, ••• j _ The dock that tell* the minutes in my brain! 1 It 19 cot love nor love's despair, this pain I That shooti a witless, keener pang aoro=« The simple agony of love and lo«. ! Nerves, nerve*: Oh, folly of a child who dreare* ' Of heaven and, waking In the darkness, scream*! | Arthur Smotn in Saturdav Review ' OoOoOoOoOoOoOOoOoOoO^OoOoo Priscilla's I Peculiarity I OoOoOoOcO 0000 OoOoOoQoO O •*Odd to hear from him again, after all these years! I wonder what made him write directly he reached Soutli i ampton!" Pclsellla Baberley glanced inquiring i ly front the open letter in her hand to j the mirror over her drawing room j mantelpiece as though her reflection j might possibly answer the query. The wistful melancholy of her ex j pression was due to jin Illness which ; had left her almost totally deaf; though ■ i the fact was scarcely noticeable,thanks I to the knowledge of lip reading she | had acquired, and when this means ! failed she resorted to the use of an ear r trumpet, or an ingeniously constructed i fan. . j "Oh, dear! If only 1 hadn't been . | deaf: men have a horror of deaf old • maids! But. I needn't let him know just at first—he always spoke distinct ly and w as clean shaven, which means , a great deal to me now. I'm sure I can i | manage it." she resumed meditatively, j "I will set him talking of Ills eam j paigns." She crossed the room and touched ' the bell. "Catherine." she said io the maid. ! "Major—l mean Colonel Ewart will he here presently. Send up hot toast with ♦he tea and extra cream." A moment after the maid held aside the heavy plush portiere and a tall, military looking man, with a flowing gray beard and mustache, filled up the doorway. "Good gracious- a beard as well!" Miss Baberley murmured, horror stricken, as she caught up her fan and went to meet him, holding it graceful ly to her lips. "Ah. major—colonel, I mean"—she corrected herself agitatedly—"delighted to see you! It's like your good nature to call so soon. How you have altered! I should scarcely have known you." "You haven't changed in the least degree," lie said gallantly, shaking her | hand between both his. "Why, it I seems only yesterday that we said •goodby' at your sister's garden party." His tone was gruff, but hearty, and | somewhat above the normal pitch, and i the managed to catch a word here and there as she watched his lips anxious ly, holding the fan to her own. "Yes—-er—l have a little garden here," she rejoined hesitatingly. "But come and sit down. I want to hear all I about yourself and your campaigns. I Of course I learned a great deal from the papers, but it Isn't the same as a j personal narrative, so you must just ' tell me from the very beginning." She j seated herself opposite him, her eyes ; still fixed on his face, j "Really, Cella—l may call you the old i name, may I not?—there Is nothing to tell, just the usual changes from hill stations to the plains, and vice versa; ! then the outbreak, which we quelled I after some sharp lighting and losing I some of our best fellows, and that's j I all. You don't suppose," he resumed i ! In a lower tone, "that I've come here, I directly I set foot In the old country, j to talk about my campaigns''" She heard the note of interrogation ' and dropped her eyes rather discon i certedly, murmuring an unintelligible monosyllable. "I want to talk something far more j interesting," he continued softly —"that | concerns you as well as myself. You've I no Idea what pleasure it Is to see you I again—and to find that yon— that you j are not married." "Really?" she exclaimed after a slight pause, cleverly simulated sur -1 prise in her tone. ! "Y*-i, It has always been in my i thoughts," he rejoined eagerly, his i courage rising. "I should have spoken before I went away, but do you re- [ member remarking once that you never intended to marry unless the man who asked you had something more to his I credit than a banking account. That ' was why I exchanged and went | abroad. 1 did think of writing when I j was out there, but until these frontier i affairs were quite settled I thought it j fairer not to ask you to tie yourself to ' me, as if I'd been lilt It might have been a blow to you. Of course that was taking for granted you cared a lit tle for me." And he concluded smiling rather shamefacedly. "Indeed!" She smiled also, feigning astonishment. "Now, confess, « elia, this Is not alto gether a surprise to you. Even if It is | --you do not find it disagreeable?" "Dear me—how strange!" she ex claimed hesitatingly, after a slight pause, still keeping her eyes fixed on his face, while she bit the tip of her fan nervously. She broke the silence at lost with a little regretful sigh. "Is that all? It Is most interesting.'' "Ah. Celia," he sighed, "you are jtist as tantalizing and stand-offish as ever but I like you ail the better for it." And he leaned forward with an admir ing glance at the fair face and shapely head, crowned with neat dark t>ro wu coils. "Yes, may people have told me the same," she replied complacently, catch ing the end of his sentence, and, noting the appreciative glance, she concluded that he alluded to the modern style of j halrdresslug she had adopted. "But you needn't lie stand-offish with |an old—er admirer." lie added quietly j ami reproachfully. "1 l beg vonr pardon—what did yon say?" "Oli, nothing, nothing," he respond ed hastily, fearing he had been too pre « elpltate "What a charming room this is!" "Now you must have some tea," she said, after rather an awkward pause, laying down her fan, and moving to the table. "Being an old maid I'm rather fussy, so you must not talk while I'm making It—lt distracts my attention," she added with h forced lit tie laugh. lie watched her with growing pleas ure as her hands busied with the cups, the lamp rays touching the gold in her hair "It's like old times, watching you moke tea, Celia. 1 wish It would be my privilege always." "1 told you not to talk." she saiip with playful severity. "But 1 must. Don't be so tantaliz > Ing, dearest. I'm not to touch tea till I've hod your answer, till you've prom- I Ised, in fact " his voice dropped to an I earnest whisper, and he crossed thfc ' tv.orn io iier side, "to be mv wife." She glaiieed :it him bewildered "Kr ei in i.i. T...1 course, scarcely | in theory," she -aid vaguely, i "t 'elia." In- exclaimed, "what on i eartli do i»u mean ?" A dead sib-nee followed. She saw by I' his I'aee thai something was wrong. and her agitation increased when lie , commenced to pace restlessly about I the room, muttering to himself in an ! undertone "Ever since I've been abroad I've j lived and worked in the hope of one I day winning von, but now it seems as 1 though" She looked up puzzled. What did i you say?" she asked desperately. "I did not quite catch it. but it Is your i own fault. I told you not to talk while ! 1 made tea two lumps of sugar, isn't I it? You see. I've remembered the cor rect number—and half the cream jug— you were always terribly greedy, col onel! There!" She handed hint the enp anil caught up her fan. "Now you must begin all over again. 1 don't think you've lost the spice of humor." And she flashed a nervous little smile over the top of the fan. "Celia," he said slowly, raising his : voice till it rang through the room, "this is not a time for joking." The anger in his tone and his hurt expression frightened and bewildered her; with a gesture of despair she turn ed away. "If only it hadn't been for the mus tache!" she murmured, half audibly. "Mustache!" lie exclaimed eagerly, hopefulness staring into his tone. "Is that your only objection? llow I wish I had known before 1 came! But I'll I have if off directly." He was standing beside her again, and now he rested his hand on her shoulder; but she shrank from liis touch and turned away, half crying and wringing her hands. "I thought I could have managed, but I shall have to tell. I can't goon like this." she sobbed. Tell me what? That there is some one else?" lie turned abruptly away, and Hung himself In the armchair, burying his face in his hands. "Just my luck," he said brokenly. "But it's hard after all this time, and now when it seemed all plain sailing to hear that—that—l have a rival. Bur." reproachfully, "you needn't have kept me so long in suspense, Celia." A moment's silence followed. Then she left her seat and walked to the fireplace and stood looking down at him, toying nervously with her fan. "I can't hear what you say," she said at last desperately, flinging the fan from her. "I should have told you—l am deaf, but I couldn't bear to use my ear trumpet Just at first, because I thought you would regret having come. I know men have a horror of deaf old maids." She laughed hysterically as she pro duced the triimiiet from the little l>ag at her side and adjusted it. "It was just my silly pride," she con-1 tinued quickly, "and 1 thought I could manage with my fan. You see, it has this tube In the center, which carries the sound through my lips and then— -1 understand lip reading if it hadn't been that your mustache conceals yours"— "Is that all?" he interrupted eagerly, starting up and placing his hands ou } her shoulder. "There isn't anybody ! else?" "Anybody else, where?" she asked, bewildered. "1 mean any one you care more for than me—whom you intend marrying?" "N—no—" she faltered, the color rush ing into her cheeks; "hut what an odd question." "Not at all," he answered delighted-1 ly. "Can't you guess, Celia, what I have been asking you, or—" and his | eyes twinkled merrily—"shall 1 begin all over again?" But It was scarcely necessary, for j though she blushed still deeper she did ; not now resist when he took her hands j In his. - Mainly About People. 1-ni; la nd'» Knrly < oinn. When England was being made into mincemeat and blocks of real estate ! by the Saxons and Danes, silver and brass were In use as currency, but the j Normans subsequently Installed the j aristocratic metal and left the demo- i eratic brass to take care of Itself, j Gold was first coined by Henry 111 and copper made into British coin in j I<>72. Tin was used for coinage In : lWu, and the national farthing was < made of this Cambrian product, with a stud of copper set in the center. In 1090 and li) 91 tin halfpence were is- j sued in considerable quantities. The j only pure gold coins issued in Hug- j Ush history were those of Henry 111 Happy Thought of n Man In a i'lx. An operator for a western railroad who had served his company long and well was called into the office one day and asked if he thought he could hold down the job of night dispatcher. He promptly replied that he could and was told to report for duty that night, and his chief instructed him in what he was to do. Just after the chief left the office it began to blow and snow, and the trains commenced to run late. The new night dispatcher soon had develop ed a bad case of "rattles" and almost cried. He did not want an accident, and he could not handle the traius. So a happy thought struck him. As fast as a report came in he replied, directing the conductor to take a siding and wait for orders, and it was not a great while until he had every train on the ■division sidetracked. Then he took a book, lighted his pipe and sat down to wait for daylight. In the morning the •chief appeared with anxiety written all over his face. "Any accidents, Johnny?" asked the •chief. "Not an accident. I've got 'em all on the sidetrack, snowed in and wait ing for orders, and you will have to get 'em out. 1 am going to blow tlt I • job." It took the chief and his force nearly all day to get the trains straight eued out and traffic resumed on th« road.—lndianapolis News. For Tired Eye*. Eyes will be greatly strengthened by putting the face down into a glass ol oyecup of water the first thing In the morning and opening them under wa ter. This is somewhat difficult to do at first, but if the water for two or three days be tepid and gradually made colder by imperceptible degrees until It is no shock to pin the face into quite cold water It will soon become quite easy mid N *-iy invigorating and r< freshing If done regularly every day, this treatment alone "ill preserve the sight Into quite old :lg' . There is n right and wronu wax • ■!' wiping the eyes after this, too. and the right way is to pass the soft towel vet\ gently from the otiiei angle inward toward the nose. If aftci a long day the eyes feel so hot and tired llial fhey seem dim when one tries to read or in do a little neees i sary >«>wiin: for oneself, they should be bathed with cold tea from which the leave,, ha vi been reuiov ed tiob 'l. 0. ft • Goj.jd,iM,'l*>i,t>) Uf UoilUij Coapaaf. j| 'isaar^KSSßEWii^ ||p to get into a business office I yLAiMB i ay. T "JSkIJ for a salaried position as I Uy Stucty at Home earn voiir living at tins | I work we can teach you in I I 1 AA«|t s P are timc book-keeping, I LSaiEi letter writing, etc., and I I vanced office position as I Cl|Jfi Cl|Jfi Jr accountant, or private sec -1 unci Busiosss scnd for ik,okkeepi,,g ■ and Stenography circular. wj" *a We prove our plan prac- I oSßlflwf tical by referring to suc ® cessful students in your I LEARN THE PRACTICE] locality. By Work in the Office j We tench tiy mult M«ch»nlf«l, — Strain. Illcvtrlcal, 41% 11, Simltury Send fur fr«-rircutar, stating subject El B OFC P'- A - THE INTERNATIONAL 1 CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS, T/ r ( SCRANTON, PA. Or call on Martin Schweitzer M intonr House Dai ville. Pa. HOYT'3 JOKE ON M'KEE. lion the I'lnyivrlKlil llad ti ISIt of 1" 1111 Willi lli* Mutineer. On one occasion Manager McKeo w.'is watching a performance from a l> >x, where la- was seated wiili some friends. During ilic lirsi act an usher came to liiiii with ilie information that a gentleman wa« waiting at the door to si i * him (ill iii'p-t imp ii-:a nt liii-ilies.-. "Tell him 1 can't come otit I'm very busy," was the answer. The usher rettum .1 in a inotncut to say tJiat I In* man insisted mi seeing Mr. Mi Kee. who again -nt out word that ii was iin |.<.s~.ilil«- to M'C him. The man outside then -etu in the message that he was an author and had a pia.\ t.it iv. -iicd Mi Kee to lead i 111 111 <-«1 ::it el\ . This iitceii-i d the manager, who said to the usher: "Tell that fool out there that this is no time to bring a p .iv to be read. Get him out of tin- place—l won't see him. 1 won't read h s play." A few minutes later the usher < nine back and informed McKee that the man lit ti rl\ n I'us. d tu without see ing h ii.and that he must In granted an interview, al-<> that lie was quite sure that tlie manager would not only : read his play, but he would also pro duce it, and added that he would bet sl,tMMt tliat Hoyt McKee would be only too glad to g< t the play. At that MeK.ee became furiously angry, and. excusing himself to his party, left the box with the intention uf persona 11\ inviting the persistent author to big .ue. "Wht re's that idiot who insists on seeing me'.'" ! • asked the treasurer at the box olli.-e. Then the treasurer pointed tit a man standing in the shad ow with a roll of manuscript under his arm. It was Hoyt, with 1 is newly liuished play, which he handed to MeKee, who said t<» tiii.se present "It's on uit what'll you have, boy*'.'" New York Clipper. ■What IN n ItiiuuiMiy Home? They have ni]•< a red in tin door, with a \er\ irate countenance "I»'yoii mean totell me that yoll haven't in>t a nutiiw - sla imiuiied indignant ly "Was that what tin-child wanted'*" exi-lalnH-d 1!i. , "She asked for a spool of cotton." <'ouldn"t you M. the inn in in her ii ami retorted tin umthcr. 1 saw something in ln-r hand but I ilidn ! know what ii was." \S"• II all you had to do w • i<> smell it," Wie the tilial -hot with v. -i the t Hi on departed. Witnesses to this v,, m> !ia\e niie- d themselves ever since, aslilll- the gro cer why In doesn't < xeroise LT< ater tie tcetlve skill in linding out wt■ ar h customers require when they don't know t hoinsi'h es. Philadelphia !!c ord Th" ' -i ' aoi; pruned in Minnesota i was a Mil.!. li was printed in 1 Soli, about 13 y- ars before the ti.'-st issue of H newspaper in St Paul AN OVERWORKED PHRASE. I !»«• rtprcKNion *'lle Took III* I Ife In His lliiikln.** "The expression 'be took his life In his bauds' always struck me as being very foolish." said a bright young gen tleman. "and 1 have often wondered why -o many persons persist in using it when they want to speak of extraor dinary dangers. Now, extraordinary danger is one thinz and the simple, comnn npla.ee thing of taking one's own life in one's bands is an entirely differ ent tiling. "I work in a big building. There are a steam engine aud a mammoth boiler In the ba-euiciit. Whenever 1 enter that building, if they sire running the engine in the basement, I take my life iu my bands. I get on the elevator on the fifth lloor; I take my life in my hands I out of town; the car may tumble over a trestle somewhere. I walk along the street; a sign may fall 'll me. I make my way across the thoroughfare; who knows but what a strct t car or a vehicle of some sort may not run me down? I cross the riv er; may I not suddenly find myself in the swirling stream and sinking for the ia-t time? If 1 walk along the street, may not a brick or a loosened cornice come crashing down upon me? There are a row and a shot or two on the curlier; may not a stray bullet wing me? And so on. "Pes-imism? No. Logic. That's all. it just shows the difference between taking one's own life in one's hand and the matter of confronting extraor dinary danger. These risks are ordi nary. plain, old. everyday risks. The fireman who dashes Into a burning building to rescue a child, the fellow who grabs the bridle of a runaway horse, the hero who will plunge Into the river to save some person who is about to drown these are the persons who confront what 1 would call ex traordinary dangers, and the worn platitude of saying of one of these 'lie took bis life iu his hands' would not lit the case because there would be in the act an element of heroism which would place it much above the com monplace."—New Orleans Times-Dem ocrat. Mm- Win Looking Foi* u Jott. An Englishman who was staying for a short time at Nice decided one morn ing to have a dip in the sea. On proceeding to the shore he began to look out for some secluded spot where he might undress. At last he got clear of every one except some old women who followed him everywhere and whom he could not manage to shake o!V. He walked and walked un til at last there was only one left. Finding it impossible to shake her off and through Ignorance of the language being unable to ask her to leave, he decided to begin undressing In the hopes that she would withdraw when she saw what he was about. As lie removed his coat he was hor rified to see her making a rush for him. lie did in it know what to do, when, to -Ids relief, she rapidly undid it huge bundle, she carried and began to erect a portable tent round him. Then lie iieiVeivcd ii was for this the women had been following him all the time. " v - Miee s!a» f'ntise K tltlness. A I arbor had been giv tig the writer much information about the hair, and then remark) d that M>t long since quite a young man had come into his shop who had lost all his hair. It had come off vi ry suddenly and for no ap parent reason. The barber said. "You have a cat?" "No." lie replied "We have not a cat in the house." "Then you have a terrier that catches mice, and it comes in contact with your head?" "Yes," -aid the man."l have, and ii> favorite scat is on the top of my annehait. close to my head. Tl • old barbi r tin 11 explained that Ids sudden baldness was a disease be longing to mice, that could be pascd on to human beiirj by contact with an animal that touched them. Whethci there is anyth ng iu thi- or not I can not say. Spectator. Tile Waiter WJIN Wise. "I'll gi\e that waiter." said Rivers, ••'in older that will paralyze him." "What w II you have, sir?" presently asked the waiter. "P.rinu me." r< plied ltivers, "some verulain and ova " "Yes. sir." The waiter, a seedy looking man In spectacle- went it way with a sua.me gleam in his eye and returned about fifteen minutes later with a large plat tcr contain nt. something hot. "Here .von arc. sir," he said, "lhicon find egijs. in ordinary English it v.onhl be twenty live cents. 111 classic form It will be forty live cent- Culpatn pcona premit cones, as we used to -ay at college. Anything else, sir?"- Chi cago Ti'ibunv I AN EFFECTIVE REMEDY. } Herieii of Ordcrn Tlml l<• Jnvfnotv4 lll(> \ i 1111 A "-l-'IV I'll. A corn .'spoilt! .11 -i IH! the following story of on old Yiru.nia gentleman: 1 Somt i *-T''.Ti • bffort the war .1 gentle- t i' j man of lar-< landed 'in» r ;ts counted | 112 among his p< ■■ • dons a plantation on 1 112 ' the James river, an estate of consider- ' j I able dimensions. Othei interests kept j t I hhn away from the old place foi -nine 1 year-. < nie . I pon his return to the plantation he discov- 51 j tied thai many of the slaves were laid ' 1 tip with rheumatism and other miser- c ] ies, the tanning Implement-; were in T ' had order ind tl- Id lioni- -toad was , • fa-t >i 11 ii 1.1 .... 1; and ruin < 'ailing , his ovei seer he said: I "Anderson. 1 notice a meat many old ■ wagon plows and harrow- about I I the place. Have them brought and j piled in front of the house, and on | ( Monday next order ail j the place to be present." At the appointed time they came. The pile was set on lire tind the imple ment- destroyed, the following week he called the overseer's attention to the sick and Infirm lior-i s. hoi; and cattle and gave the same order. When the negroes had assembled all the animals j were knocked in the head. The Fri- ' day following the landlord again called j bis overseer. "Anderson. I see a great many sick niggers around hot< many who seem j to be lakl up with rheumatism and are | j good for nothing. Civo orders that on j Monday morning at lo o'clock they all appear in the front yard." The effect on the slaves was magical. On Saturday men who had been till able to walk were skipping around like children; the side grew well suddenly, and from that time on the plantation was most prospen 11s. Exchange. I FOOD OF AMERICANS. An Kim!i*li Woman Toll* of (lie j Strnnui' Thing'** slie Uo Here. An English woman who visited Amor- < J lea a short time ago has been telling : iier country women about the "strange 1 food.across the water." Of course she i I discovered green corn, but she had been j prepared for that. Oyster crabs were i quite new to her. ' "They look like Boston baked beans," j she explains, "but they taste much bet- j ten" j An oyster cocktail filled her with awe ' and enthusiasm. She tried it at Del- j mouico's and thought it was soup. Of J course In England one didn't serve 1 soup in a r !a--; but. then, neither did the English serve boiled ea~- In a glass. One could never be sure of Americans. Of canvasback duck she has a poor i opinion, but think she might like it ; better if Americans would have if cook- : ed or even wanned \- for terrapin, i she sings its prai e she found it much ■ like calf's head, and site always liked I calf's head. Shades of Maryland gour- ! mets. what a slur is there! ' All the puddings in America are pie | or ice cream," she says, but it must be 1 understood that pie does not mean game pie. The Yankee pie is a tart | and is übiquitous, she explains. j She sat next to an American man who ate a lump of cheese with his strawberry pie and turned a plateful of ice cream over both, but she doesn't know that that is a general custom. ! The oysters were good, but had most impossible names, and the cockles j (meaning dams) are excellent. On the j whole, Yankee food and cooking ate good, but there is too much of the food on the table at one time.—New York Sun. 1 Portrait of Cocker. Edward Cocker, who lived in the j reign of Charles 11.. is chiefly known to the present generation by the say ing 111 common u-e. '"According to Cocker." which means in accordance j with arithmetical rules. I -aw the oth er day atiiid the trcasurt - of a private collector a copy of the lirst edition of Cocker's immortal work on arithmetic, published by T. Passenger at the Three Bibles n as title page the Inscription. •Cocker's Arithmetlck, perused si nd Published by John Haw -1 kins l>\ the ,athor'- Correct Copy." It contain- what purports to be a it portrait ef 'ingenious Cocker." Ex -- perts. however, shake their heads over the authenticity of this work of art. n There are many engraved portraits of >t the epoch, but there was only one e Cocker. The British museum copy has d no portrait, and there is too much rea e pon to fear that this embellishment o was added by some ingenious owner '■ of an earlier century. Cocker died ii t. 1075. This rare relic of the pact bear* T date 107^.—Scotsman. Mapcr.-oii Just hick at lb; e.ui greyhound Merman Yes I wonder if some .>e.» urchin iia-n t tied it tin can i" its tail. Detroit Journal. \ol I Sit' K i in!. 112 111 ..!<:• 1 : ' ' • •the I I.«:':<• 1 Su. Ih. at'- .1 •s» I "li-, 1 ■ =,.. i.- . 1 . • . ■ta i. ice.' 0 -Out a • 1 As a Food ;j For the Skin. To Make It Smooth, Healthy and Beautiful, Dr Ch.se's Ointment-i» 1 j Hailed by Thousands of Fair Women Every woman, no matter how bcautifui her (kin, tinds need at times of some preparation to overcome the redness and ; Caithness, and to cure the pimples. b!a, khead- and -kin I Irritations. r Powder* may wover up the disfiguring wuption- but can tu-ver curt thein .ir.d a;r iieut>: the\ cl Ij; ft - • ,|k up tlu pore-of the . Wf*P'|BWßr skin Dr. Chase'• 2T' lif (lintment is a fooJ tor the • '.in it it Te..Jily absorbe'. ' ' OI '' * making the sk:n j Si-*-'' siiU'oth, soft anJ < 'ear. - •' No woman • , 'oilct :s C'.inpleti without I'r t'ha c's Oint ment, for besides benii; tl e most perfect sk.n beautitier obtainable ii e ui be 11-ed 111 .* score different »:ns It ab-elu;ciy rures eczema, 1 ult riieuni and the itching to which women > »re especially subject. [ When the feet are soie and chafed with walking an application o( I'r. Chase's Ciint ment takes out the -niartiej, .nd allays the Inflammation in a surprising v short time. Then for burns, scalds and every sort ol ' chafing irritation or eruption of tin -kin I)r. 1 Ch ise's Ointment affords a safe and certain 1 cure. llt has come to be indispensable in j • (cores of thousands of homes in the Uni'ed States, so cent a box, at all dealers, or Or, jA. W, Clu'je Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. | FOR THE HOUSEWIFE « 111 )hr Kitoheil. I'M in the kitchen ooines tlie life of ! j the household, litcrsilly, and in that tiiere must be good cheer and conven ience This is really most material; for a bad tempered cook may sour the j food, and a dark kitchen will most cer- j tainly breed more kiu< rsori can conveniently get at it, but not of the inclosed variety, nihi'l you, the horrible dirt trap! At the expense of a few more steps a cold pantry on the outside for fruit, vege tables and many such things as are better kept cool and dry than cold and dump, as in the Icebox or refrigerator. Kitchens are often too large, requiring too many steps. This is due to a tnls taken idea that unless large they will be hot and stuffy. Not so with proper | air titles and proper methods of cook- j ing. \s evidence, look at a ship's gal I ley everything at hand and all irn- | maculatel.v clean. The paths of work should not too often cross or interfere, in a factory the raw material never , goes back upon its path from the time j it enters until it leaves the building, j The kitchen should be made as sani tary as the hospital or the dairy. The passion for woodwork which led buihl er< of tit'ty years ago to box up the kitchen sink Induced them to uiake ' drawers in the kitchen and pantry closets These, set in their thin frames ! under the stairs, in closets, anywhere, j are responsible for much of the misery j caused by waterbugs and bacteria. K ileaxiirinu Funnel. The average housewife would dearly like to have a funnel that will measure liquids which are poured through it j into bottles or jugs. A citizen of Chi- ! cago. Gottlieb Neudecker, lias patented j just such a contrivance, which will act ; i incidentally as a strainer if desired j 1 It has a valve in the lower part and j ihe upper part is divided into four sec- ! | tious, each of which represents so many Kr.NXKL MEASURE AND STRAINER. j ! gilts. Supported by its handle, the funnel holds tight whatever fluid may j be put into it until the measurement is adjusted. Then, upon being allowed 1 to rest upon the neck of the bottle or j jug, the weight of the upper portion j bears downward and opeus the valve, i permitting the contents to escape into ! ! the receptacle below. You can till it as many times as you like, of course, and as you continue the process it measures for you with ac- | curacy each portion of liquid con | tributed. Scrret ot IHMMI Ten. l'ew housekeepers remember, as they i should, that when it is necessary to ; dilute strong tea it should be done with water at the boiling point. The poor | flavor of tea made strong at first and then reduced, such as is too often serv -1 ed at receptions and "at homes," is us tially caused by the addition of hot. uot , boiling, water to the first infusion. A I lesson in this matter may be had from the Russians, who serve the most de- , lieious tea in the world, and who pre pare it first very strong, making it al most an essence of tea. 1 his is diluted to the strength wished with water kept boiling In the samovar. This water is not allowed to boil and reboil, but is renewed as needed. Freshly boiled water is insisted upon by all con noisseur-- in teamaking. rr<-|iitri»K S|»niiittli Onion*. Spanish onions cooked or sliced raw for a salad are an appetizing viand. A delicious way of cooking these onions i> to boll litem in milk. One large j onion is sufficient for four persons when served as a dinner vegetable. First peel the onion carefully, then let it soak for two hours in cold water ! well salted, then place it in a large saucepan, pour in enough milk to cover the iiiiion to the depth of an inch, stand ■ it over a slow tire, put the cover on the ' saucepan and let the onion simmer gen ' tly for three hours. Then serve it in a deep vegetable dish with plenty of melted butter. Season with pepper and salt and a little finely chopped parsley. Kreneli Frown I'mldlnn. Scald one quart of milk; mix one cup ! ful of sugar, one-fourth of a cupful of flour, two eggs, all well beaten togetli i er; turn this into the milk, stir well and i cook twenty minutes; let this get cold : and then add one quart of cream, one ' cupful of sugar, one dessertspoonful of vanilla, two ounces of port wine, one half pound of French fruits; freeze and serve with"one pint of whipped cream Odor* Tti n I Perm rate KoodatnlYa. A lisli dealer in one of the most styl i-11 parts of New York was deeply hurt and badlj worried one day by the com plaint of one of his big customers that a tine salmon which he had sent to.the house for a big dinner had proved to be entirely uneatable when served ow | ing to a most penetrating taste of creo sote that pervaded it. The fish dealer ; realized, although the charge was not made dirc tly, that he was more than suspected of having sold a stale fish that had l een washed or brushed with an antiseptic preparation t<> hide its condition, lie knew that ihe salmon liail been perfectly fresh when he sold it.and for Jays lie puzzled in vain over the problem. Hut suddenly he remem bered that on the day the fish was sent j out a tank wagon full of creosote had ; stopped before his place and that his i cart, into which the fish was being I placed, was directly alongside of the j powerful stutl". That appears to have j been < itotigh to permeate the delicate j flesh of the flsil.— New York Press. Two u( a Kind- Guest—What a splendid dinner! I ; don't often yet as good n meal as this Little Willie (son of the host)-We : j don't either )() I||l I HiL ♦ He jam to Jo al ♦ \ Ms of Printing til: 8 J ' it's 1 i 11! MM t 1 A we 1 ' tasty, Bill \) / ter Head, A) A Ticket, ! y # x Program, f>l ment or C. 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