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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
'
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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
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Or call on
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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<horses inn.] cuttle out
*ert. bdt they have little v.rtys ot their
own. l'or instain e. a broken horse out
west has points of difference from a
broken horse in the east. Some of the
saddle lioi-es caused me most unaffect
ed misery when 1 had to title and it
was the same thing with the driving
horses. 1 used to spend my w inters in
the east, and when I went back to the
ranch I would of • -6ur.se want to heat
the latest news about my neighbors—
who'd been hanged and the rest.
My foreman had a grievance against
n professor from Ann Arbor who
wanted to see the Had Lands and had
hired a team, which ran away, smash
ing things up and breaking the profess
or's arm He .-aid that tile professor
had made a remark which made him
hot. He didn't mind his saying that In
had fallen into a den of' sharks be
cause he knew • h.-u l.s didn't lia\e"d«n~,
and.l i.<idi s, lie d dn't char e the pin"*'
fessor for the use of the team: what
made liim hot was the remark that ho
had foisted on the profi ssor a team of ;
runaway horse
"lie had no right to call tliern that,"
said the foreman. "One horse had only '
been driven twice, and could-hardly be
called a continued runaway, and the
other well, there were lets of times ,
when In hadn't run away." lonst
titul Stream.
Wtios of tli«* (irooor.
It was an uptown grocery which a
little girl about five year-- of age enter
ed the 1.1 her ilay, raying "1 want a
spool of cotton!" "Yon won't get that
here," replied the groeei jokingly.
"You'll have to gn to the blacksm ill's
shop for thai." 1 want a spool of
cotton," the 'hild repealed, clutching
soi net 11 ii •; ver\ liirhtly in her right
hand Ami she continued to reiterate,
the i'i ijiiesi fur a long lime before
quitting tlie store
l'rcseiitlj her mot her ]>]•< 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
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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-. <ltil i: 1 which time there was n
| marked decrease 11 the r> < 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.
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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 London bridge. Only
two. or at tii.'si three, perfect copies
nre known the book collector, one
Is in the British museum. This par
ticular copy, it- brown morocco piti
fully faded. ! a: - >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.
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•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'.
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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<i< of bacteria t
than are wholesome. What, then,
should we look for In a kitchen? First, ~
light enough to see dirt— light over the
sink, light near the stove, light flood
ing every corner—sunlight, too, from
one window at least; windows or ven- 1
tilators so placed at th<' top as to let j j
out bail air. steam odors, etc. The
odors of buriii'd food, boiled cabbage,
etc.. are far le-s noticeable if there Is
I'll iity of fresh air to oxidize them.
Then, if the kitchen Is large, u sink in
the middle of the room so that more
il .in one i>< 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
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