THE POOR OF BERLIN HOW THEY ARE SUPERVISED BY THE CITY AUTHORITIES. Ht-KKinst 1» •" Seen ou the %4rrrlt of the < ll.v. and IIIIUN and >ltipri Unre Not He About In the I'arkx «•><! I'ubltc I'laevn, "What." I exclaimed iu Berlin, "are there no pour iu this city V Are you al together without rags and wretched ness?" "My dear friend," said the German, winking a heavy eyelid, "we are a very clever people. We do not show our dust bins." Berlin is ruled by municipal experts. It has its wretchedness and its despair, 'out these things are not permitted to increase. To be out of work in Berlin is a crime, even as it is in London, but with this difference—ln Berlin the mu nicipality legislates for labor in a fash ion which makes idleness all but inde fensible. The laws to this end may not com mend themselves to English minds, for the Germans are not soft hearted in such matters, but they have this en gaging recommendation, they succeed. Let a ragged mau make his appear ance in friedrichstras.se or the Lindens or in aiij of the numerous open spaces, and a policeman is at htm In R min ute. "Your papers!" demands the man of law. The beggar produces his docu ments. If it is proved that he has slept in the asylum for the homeless more than n certain number of nights he is forthwith conducted, willyuilly, to the workhouse and made to labor for his board and lodging. Now, the workhouse in Germany is not a prison, but the vagrant would as leave goto the one as to the other. The administration of the workhouse is conducted with iron severity. Ev ery ounce of bread and every drop of thin soup consumed by the workhouse man Is paid for a thousandfold by the sweat of his brow. So it cornea about that the man least disposed to work, the born vagabond, finds It more agreeable to toil for his bread in the market than to fall into the hands of a paternal government. Berlin takes advantage of the sys tem in Germany which numbers and tickets every child born in the father land. .No man can roam from district to district, changing his name and his life's story with every flitting. He is known to the police from the hour of Ins birth to the hour of his death. For a few pfennigs I can read the history of every person iu Berlin. Therefore the municipality has an easy task. Ev ery citizen's life story is known to them, and every vagrant is punished for his crime against the community. Moreover, every person of humble means is insured by the state. Even clerks, shop assistants and servants are compelled to Insure against sick ness and against old age. This insur ance is effected by the pasting into a book of certain stamps every week, and It is the duty of each employer to see that this contract is faithfully obeyed. And the state has at Beelitz an enormous sanitarium costing 10,- 000,000 marks (£500,000), where the In valided citizen is sent with his pen sion in order to expedite his valuable return to the ranks of the wage earn ers. It pays the city of Berlin to nurse its sick and cherish Its Invalids. The whole object of the municipality is to secure the physical and intellectual well being of its citizens, and on this task it concentrates its labors with amazing energy. Berlin has a huge building resem bling a factory where the unemployed, whole families, are received and pro vided for, but no one must take advan tage of this hospitality more than five times in three mouths. Consider this point of view. If you are homeless five times in three months you are dubbed a reckless creature and packed off to the workhouse. Private enterprise has provided another asylum where the homeless may come ti\e times In one month and whe e the police are not al lowed to enter at night. I have visited this place and seen the people who at tend it, some decent enough, others criminal in every line of their faces. There are many of these desperate men iu Berlin, many of these dirty, ragged and unhappy wretches, doomed from the day of their birth, but they dare not show themselves iu the decent world as they do In London. They slink into these asylums at 5 o'clock; they have their clothes disinfected; they cleanse themselves under shower baths; they eat bread and dripfc: SOUD. ana men tney goto bed at so CIOCK like prisoners to their cells. Now. this system is a hard oue, for when once a man gets down In Berlin it Is almost impossible for him to rise. But it has this clear advantage—every body feels that it is better to work than to fall into the hands of the law. Hags and misery dare not lie about iu the parks or scatter disease through the crowded streets. If there is any virtue in the unemployed the state will certalnt} develop it as well as it Is pos slhle to do so. There is a central bu reau for providing men with work, and when a man knows that not to work means the workhouse he solicits em- j ploymeut here and elsewhere with such I a will as almost compels wages. In one year the state has secured employ ment for fiO.OOO men. The citizen Is provided with sanitary ; dwellings, with unadulterated food, j with schools and technical colleges and with Insurance for sickness and old age For a penny he can travel almost from oue end of Berlin to the other by electric tramway or electric railway. Ills streets are clean, brilliantly light ed and noiseless; bis cafes and music halls are innumerable. He lives In a palace. And all this is the result of municipal government by experts In stead of by amateurs London Mail. >lor<' Tlao ft Senator Joe Blackburn, who was quite a dandy in his younger days, once ordered a pair of trousers from ■ his tailor, and as the fashion then was to wear tight nether h bllameuts he emphatically demanded that this par ticular pair be skin tight Indue time the trousers were sent home and tried on. whereupon the senat >r sent for the tullor and proceeded to open fire "What in the blankety blank blank have you done with these trousers?" he demanded ' ou told me to make tbein skin tight, sir." faltered the tailor "Yes; bat, by the great born spoon, ym overdid it." roarcl lb • senator "I can sit down In nr. s' iu. h'lt 1 can't in these trousers." She V.«» (.<>jf>K. Hoax .My wife we: I out to shop to dsn and I a pocket b »ok containing s2o. Jdar Did she lose it going to the stores or c . ilng back Hoax Going. I said there was ui m* > in It, didn't I? Philadelphia Record One of the striking p ilnts of human nature is that a man usually can see how aptly < l itlclsm tits some one else —lnsurance Press I THE CURVED BALL. * <1 IN (lie A tin ON ii here Which C'aune* IIM Krcentric Shoot*. E ; Most any ten-year-old youngster can I curve a ball, even though he does not know why he can do so except that the leather must he held in a certain J way. Possibly a half dozen of the e major league twirlers know something about the science of the curve, but e comparatively few understand why I- they can produce their "benders." The I Scientific American gives the follow ing as the scientific explanation of the i, matter y "The pitcher in the field tells us that r the ball curves because he gives It a twist, but scientifically this will not do. Why will the twist make the curve? If a ball were thrown in a certain di -1 rection and if the force of gravitation J were not at work the ball would con i tinue on In a straight line forever, t Some force of resistance Is then at - work when a ball is made to deviate In . a curve from its straight course. If a . feather is dropped in a vacuum in an exhausted receiver of an air pump It . will drop like a shot, but if it is drop r ped out in the air It will go down ir , regularly and slowly, shifting from . side to side. "It is the atmosphere which causes _ the ball to curve. Bearing in mind that the atmosphere is a compressible, elastic gas, we find that when the ball leaves the hand of the pitcher with a , rapid rotary motion It 'lmpinges upon a continuous elastic cushion,' and . this moderate resistance, or friction, changes its course In the direction , which is given to the rotary motion. , Take an outshoot of a right handed . pitcher, for instance. He Impresses upon the ball a rapid centrifugal ro , tary motion to the left, and the ball ! goes to the left because the atmosphere, compressible and elastic, is packed into , an elaslic cushion Just ahead of the bail by the swift forward and rotary ■ motion, and the friction, which is very , great in front of the ball, steers it in , the direction which it is turning." A NOTABLE MEETING. , Held In the Intereat of ••Woman*. Hlghlt" In 1701. | The first recorded public meeting in the interest of "woman's rights" was heM In the town of Medford, Mass., in 1701. The gallery of the church was occupied by the young unmarried peo ple of the congregation, one side and one half the front gallery being given to the young men, the other side and the other half being given to the young women. But iu the seating in this eventful year the young men were glv ' en the entire front of the gallery as well, and the young women were only allowed one side of the gallery. Then it was that things began to happen. Treatment like this wasn't to be tolerated even for a moment. The blood of the future mothers of the Revolution was fully aroused, and the : young women made such an uproar and commotion that it speedily became a town matter, and a town meeting ' was called to restore to them their rights in half of the front gallery. The young men of the day were bit terly opposed to extending any new ' privileges to women, and the fight ex tended beyond Medford. Shortly after i the introduction of "pues" into the churches, by which families were sep ! arated from the remainder of the con i gregation, the selectmen of the town I of Newbury gave permission to a group i of young women to build a "pue" in I the gallery of the church upon their i own side of the house. Tills extension j of privilege was resented by the young bachelors to such a degree that they broke a window of the church, forced an entrance and hacked the pew in pieces. For this act of sacrilege the young men of Newbury were fined $lO each and sentenced to be whipped or j pilloried. But they were manly enough to confess their folly and ask pardon, so this part of their punishment was omitted. So you see the "woman's rights" movement isn't a modern one.— Boston Herald. The Ken I Shlllalah. The shlllalah, accounted Ireland's na tional weapon of defense, was original ly a common blackthorn stick, but in modern times it has been replaced by the more wiry ash sapling. The real shlllalah is u young shoot of the sloe shrub or blackthorn pulled by the root from the crevice of some rock. After being trimmed it Is placed in the smoke of turf peat, which softens the hard fiber, and when it has reached a con dition as pliant as rubber it Is straight ened. When cooled in the air it be comes as strong and firm as iron. The trimming process is then continued, and when it Is desired to make a par ticularly handsome weapon the spus, so effective in a melee or faction tight, are ornamented with small brass nails. Natural Preference. Miss Violet had made a rapid tour j oi the European continent and found ; little to impress her, either favorably or j otherwise. "You say you saw all you wanted to j >f Italy," said u friend on Miss Vio let's return to her native heath ID J Kansas. "What did you think of the j j lazzaronl?" "Don't talk to me about It," said Miss Violet briskly. "I'd rather have ! ; a good dish of plain American maea- ■ ronl baked with cheese anv time." - I Ml*tnk«*ii KlndneNN, Jack— Hello, old man: Awfully glad ; to see you. Here, take off that coat and put on this smoking jacket and make yourself comfortable. Dick Deuce take it! Do you mean to insinuate that I . don't feel comfortable in a dress suit? ANIMAL STRIKERS. Holh llirils iiit(| llt'HDln Occanloiiitll y Hefllne to Work Both birds and beasts occasionally go >ll strike, according to observers. A herd oi horses will bunch together, neg lect their food, become restive, neigh j and rub noses when iu a field. The I outcome is that the herd will not allow ■ ihen.-el ves i .« lie saddled or harnessed i and will chase and attempt to kick the i attendants Female bints take tan | trums and refuse to do the housework. They ('<■ eri ilieir nests and leave their i cxgs to ber une cold and barren. The I male naturally becomes greatly con | < enied but with the bird and beast i creation the male will never attack the female i there is no remedy. War blers and «tarllngs fire given greatly to I lie e -! i il.es. A S" cs .if black anis have little j vellow ant v hieli do most of their | work lor 1 1 ci Oce;iMn!)ally the yel low species will in on a strike Their foul sir ; v cu: but if that does not avail tl.e >• inkers are attacked or another I>t • yell.»w ants are secured I:veil I'.e : libit is a hardened --trik er In rabbit colonies the stronger rab j lilts do mod of the bin rowing, and as often as ] erhaps once iu two years these become discontented and refuse to work. j AN AFRICAN INCIDENT. t A I'ython. *on*« (aoati and a >t «-* I Tliut V\ a* ItellahrJ. i "During several years spent in cen tral Africa we were for the greater part of the time dependent on goats for our fresh milk supply," writes a traveler. "The gout kraal was made very strong, proof against lions, leop ards and other carnivora, but a python entered between the poles, though they were spaced three Inches apart, one night, killed all the goats in the com partnient by strangling them, swal lowed two and was found gorged I shurglsh and self trapped within the kraal in the morning The swellings of bis body where the two goats were 1 prevented him from escaping between the palings, as he had come in. To look at the snake's small head and slender neck it seemed impossible for him to swallow anything larger than a rat, but b.v dislocating his jaw and stretching his skin he accomplished the apparently impossible feat of gns tronomy. The goats were cut out of him Intact by our boys, who evidently considered that premature bulla! in the python did not affect the edible qualities of the meat, as within half an hour it was all rousted and eaten with cons' 'emMe relish." Wh*r« Time 1. lotklnf. Miss Marj E. Dunham in her book of travels through th* Balkan *tatea says she found that the Idea of women traveling without a male escort in those countries struck the |ieople whom she met . most singular. A Montene ; u v - ids i astonished at an expend iit'!» of ut-Hiey upon travel which seemed to him without an adequate put j; »se. T. •• Envlisli. he had been told, want I'd to sec ami Know everything. They traveled everywhere. It must be a very expensive habit. It had perhaps cost me £B. be suggested, to come this distance. 1 admitted that It had, nnd ho expressed great astonishment at the lavish expenditure. "And it takes not only money hut ! time," said my companion. He laughed merrily. "Time! What is time? Time is nothlug. You live, nnd then you die." The Idea of reck onlng "time" amused him vastly "Time," said a Hungarian who was of the party, in order to show his su perior knowledge. "Is thought ver.v much of by the English. I have i*«ii told that they have a proverb which says, 'Time Is money ' " We corroborated this report, to the astonishment of both men, for even the Hungarian thought this was going rather far The Montenegrin thought It oue of the wildest statements he hau ever met with and shook ptiirled head. ENGLISH CRIMINAL LAW. Tit** Difference Betweeu Hard l.abar and I'evial Servitude. The difference in Ureat Britain be tween hard labor and iienal servitude Is one of perils! and treatment. Hard labor varies as to period from a few days to two years, arid however well H prisoner behaves himself the sentence is never shortened. There are two classes of hard labor. In the first class the punishment ad ministered consists of six to fen hour* work nt the treadmill, the crank or the capstan, or at stonebreaking or shot drill. In the seeoud class the hard la bor really consists of such punishments as may be decided by the Justices in session. Penal servitude is the modern sub stitute for transportation beyond the seas. A term of penal servitude begin* with nine months' hard labor in a probationary prison, and after that the convict is employed on public works In a penal settlement. The work Is comparatively light, and In most prls : ons a well behaved man gets off pretty easily. In addition to this, by virtue of a system of marks for good be havior. he has always before him the possibility of reducing his sentence by ut ni"*" 4 " bout one vear in five. AN ODD PUZZLE. The Cryptic Inscription That Oraa nienta a Svrlaa Church. A picturesque tower is the oldest part of the Swiss church at Champery, a village which lies In a valley under the shadow of the towering Dent da Midi. 1 >edicated to St. Theodule, this church was built In 1 TUt» on the site of an an cient chapel. The tower, with Its ' unique pierced crown, carries a gilt statuette of the putrou saint, a quaint old clock and the following cryptic in scription, which has puzzled many travelers: QUOD AN THIS MULCE PA GUIB Tl DINE VIT HOC SAN CHRIS DULCE DA By taking the syllables above and b* | low with those In the middle it reads: iyiwd angnis trtsti mulcedlne pavtt. Hoc sanguis Chrlsll dulcedlne lavtt. which may be freely rendered; j That which the serpent with sad charm Imbued | The blood of Christ with sweetneas baa r.'newti —i.ondon Telegrupb. AS A WOMAN LUNCHES. Mfiil* lit H I Are Ordered MERELY BY Forte of Nuigeitlun. Lots of women order luncheons ! merely by force of suggestion. If you don't think so, watch the wavering 1 ones sit down, l»ok on the card, glance at their nearest neighbor's plate and then order whatever the latter happens |to be eatlrig. In a crowded luncheon I room on matinee day one little round , table seating four women bore out this i statement. Two of the women refresh- 1 oil themselves on cake and coffee. The third was putting away a savory clam chowder A fourth came In, observed the cakes, CM zed appreciatively on the chow tier and requested the latter. The tir-t chowderer finished and departed, and the woman who immediately took her place looked around the table and . ordered cakes and coffee. l'.\ this time the first two cake and j coHcojies hud linlshed, and an uncer- j tain looking woman sat down ou that j side ol the table She look*-d at the I two opposite, glanced at the card and i said, "Britu me a clam chowder." 'I his is a fact, and there is ever}' rea son to suppose that nothing but coffee and cakes and chowder was served at that table all the afternoon or at least as long a> wavering ladies sat down at it.—Philadelphia Bulletin Her Hint. The Maiden I hs\e;i fluttering about my heart, and I have no appetite, doc I tor The Doctor Oh. you're In love; 1 cau't do any thing for that "You can't, doctor'.'" I'ertninlv 1 can't." Why, doctor. } m're not married No HI iticr how stupid, uuinterestlug and tiresome a man may be. there is always some sentimental woman ready to make a hero of him ('till ago Kec i ord Herald PANAMA HATS. Thrr trr Mailt Front tlie I ii«l«-T»*lnp rd l.nvm of I lie lioiitliouu Jr. The panama is a leaf liat made ia Colombia, Ecuador and l'eru from th« undeveloped leaf of the "bombonaje," which Is a screw pine rather than a palm. The trunk of the plant Is only a yard in height, but the leaf stalks are two yards long. The leaf before It has opened Is pre pared for (lie manufacture of hats. It then consist* of a bundle of plaits about two feet long and an Inch In di »meter called a "cogollo." The green outside Is stripped off, and by means of :t forked Instrument It Is cut into i narrow strips of uniform size. The cogollo is next boiled to toughen the fiber and hung in the sun to dry and bleach, when the strips shrivel into | cordlike strands ready for use. It takes sixteen cogollos for an ordinary hat and twenty-four for the finest, and a single hat Is plaited in from four days to as many months, according to Its texture and quality.—Mexican Herald A I'tarr of (irriit llf«l. i The largest of the Aval Islands, which are scattered over a considera ble area In the Persian gulf, is Bald to j he earth's hottest place. The mean tem perature of Bahrein, ns It is called, is degrees for the whole year. No Eu ropean ran endure the heat, which at midnight rises to 100, in the morning Is 107 or His and by 3 lu the afternoon reaches the phenomenal height of 140 degrees The island is inhabited by Arabs. The following high tempera tures are also experienced at the places named: Parts of Algeria, 127 degrees; Agra, 117 degrees, and Lahore, lt>7 de grees Tb«- Jiikr Turned. Quiet Traveling Man Call me at r, 30, please. Smart Hotel Clerk —What shall I call you at r>:,'!o? Quiet Travel ing Man Call me a poor, misguided Idiot for letting myself get roped Into stay all night here!— Baltimore A mart car. FRENCH CONSCRIPTS. WHrkfl •»>" Bud I and hii tb •rnce of llnKsraiie. "They are a curious crowd," says a writer describing the conscripts of the French army, "these boys of twenty and of twenty one, in various stages of sobriety, as they throng oti to the plat forms of the railway stations and, un der the tire of gentle and superior sar casm from the young men in uniform who have already done a year or two, ' limb into the third class cattle pens which are to take them to the threshold of their lives in barracks. The sons of wealthy men elbow the scourings of the street. "All wear their worst clothes, except those who do not possess a second suit. The chief peculiarity about the whole of them is an entire absence of luggage. A young friend of by own was one of them. His luggage for the two days of his tirst > Isit to Paris consisted of a comb and an extremely aged tooth brush, and before leaving Paris he ask ed me to keep his overcoat for him till he returned. "They will only spoil it, and it is a new one.' was his plea. "I counted the valises of a whole train load of conscripts who accompa nied my Mend, and they numbered ex actly four. 'Those four will have their lives teased out of them tomorrow,' was the verdict of a private under • rm» upon the platform." THE DICTIONARY. If* Ma? I hi It I'lot, but If la De ridrdly lii 11* rr * ll rt k . Whoever says ' dull as a dictionary" cannot be very familiar with one. We may sympathize with the old lady who remarked of the dictionary that she "didn't think much of the story," but nevertheless no one can use a good una bridged edition with any frequency and not attest to the fact that it is full of the most fascinating reading. Indeed, notwithstanding the old lady's opinion, the dictionary often exerts a charm not unlike that of an exceeding ly interesting novel. To be sure, the narrative lacks conseeutlveness, but the work is full <>f most interesting ttorles. When we goto look up a word we ate In doubt about we are attracted to other words in its neighborhood; they enlist our curiosity; we are impelled to find out their meanings, too, and to make ourselves acquainted with their life histories. Very strange things, most unsuspected things, they often tell us. Occasionally a very familiar word that we thought we knew all about reveals most remarkable quali ties—much us some commonplace neighbor who for years we have nod ded to in passing to and fro, regarding him as an excellent but rather dull in dividual, may chance to Join us In a walk down the street or sit beside us on the train and casually betray traits, Interests, qualities of mind or heart that entirely change our opinion of him. So we may read on and on, per haps forgetting all about the word that we set out to look up, and finally have to turn to It again to reassure ourselves as to the precise points we were in doubt about —Boston Herald. A TALE OF THE COMMUNE. One IJttlc I linp Who lOnoipcil the Vltillr-tn of the Soltllrr*. A writer in the Cornhill tells of a J scene that Charles Austin witnessed j when the Versaillais entered Paris, lie saw one day roaming about Paris—a not uncommon sight a group of men and women put against a wall to be shot. Their hands were supposed to be blackened with powder. Among them was a lad of twelve or fourteen, who, before the order to shoot could be given, stepped forward and begged to be allowed to take back the watch his mother had lent him. He ! produced a huge turnip of a watch and j proinis<*d faithfully to return Mr. Austin said It was a moment of anguish. None could be sure that the chilil was telling the truth, but the offi cer commanding, giving him kick, said, "Be off with you!" The child ran away, tlif* order to shoot rang out, but [ the horrid business was hardly over j before the clatter oft Vet was heard, and ! the boy reappeared round a corner and, j putting himself against the wall, pre- | pared for death. It was Impossible to kill that heroic j little soul. "It renews one's faith In human na- I ture." said Mr. Austin. *oon ti» B*> Older. After other amusing replies to his questions, an examining physician con- ■ nected with a big life insurance com j panv relates that of a sou of Erin who, 1 when asked his age. declared lhat he j was thirty-three years old and added. "But In two months I will be a year older V Vol Janr'a a> . Mistress (excitedly) .lane, Jane! The house Is on tire! Jane (calmly)— Yes, 1 know, li s the first fire in this house tba' I hav h'« • ••ti.vl %• light. THE WET TABLECLOTH. ft I'ntilFil tin- Shlp'n I'lHengrr 1 ntl) Ii \Y»* Kz|>l»iaed. The understeward in setting the ta ble poured a half glass of water on Un clean white cloth and placed a dish of : fruit on the puddle he had made. He ! made another puddle and placed on it the carafe. On a third puddle he placed ! the butter dish, and so on. "Why do you spoil the cloth with all k ; that water?" asked a passenger. , j "Because the weather's rough, sir.'' | fiuld the steward, and then, making an ( | other puddle, he went on. . "We stewards on ocean liners must. } not be merely good waiters—we must be good wet weather waiters. And we , have a number of tricks. , "One of our tricks Is to set the heavy } dishes upon wet spots. If we were to , set them on dry spots in the ordinary r way they would slide to and fro with l every lurch of the ship. But If the , cloth Is wetted they don't slide. They , adhere to the wet place as though glued to It. "One of the tirst thlugs a steward learns is to set a stormy weather table —to spill water on the cloth at each \ place where a heavy dish Is to stand This water serves its purpose thor oughly, and It doesn't look bad, either for the dish covers it. No one knows of the wet spot underneath."—New York Press. Beggars who feign diseases are no new thing in the streets of London. They existed in Charles 11.'s time, only then the beggar was called a "rufller," a "huff" or a "shabbaroon." If he was deaf and dumb he was called a "dum merer." The woman who sung hymns and led borrowed children by the hand was called a "clapperdozen." Vagrancy . is no new thing, though it practically . did not exist In mediaeval times. It was when the cities ceased to be con- ; [ fined within their own walls and long , before the days of policemen that the people got beyond the control of the aldermen and their officers and va grancy became a regular profession. The first English law against beggars was made by Henry VIII., who gave licenses to beg to the old and Impotent and ordered that all other beggars should be whipped and sent back to their narislies Carinas SnntfhoiM. "Lawrence Kirk" snuffboxes, first made at a place of that name la Kin cardineshire, were the ingenious inven- j tlon of one Sanday, a cripple, who mad' his own tools. Instead of taking out a patent he confided the secret of cutting them, hinges and all, from the ; solid wood to a joiner In the village, 1 who in a few years grew rich, while Sanday died in poverty. Special tools are of course required for this work, I and the mystery of their formation Is 1 carefully maintained. Those curious snuffboxes are generally made of plain wood, and the actual cost of the mate rial. with paint and varnish, Is about threepence. In early times they sold readily for £2 l"s. t;d. anil ladies' work boxes of similar construction for £2. r >. — London Chronicle I Hint to Smoker*. In an article on the hygiene of smok- j ing published in the Munich Medical Weekly by I»:-. .1 Bamberger he says the Injury that may follow the use nf tobacco differs with the manner of smoking. Those who use a mouthpiece. I or. if not. are careful not to keep the end of the cigar saturated with saliva, are much less apt to suffer from the absorption of the various products of the burning tobacco. "I»ry smokers" run much less risk of harming them selves than those who chew the ends of their cigars. I <r. Bamberger sug gests that a bit of absorbent cotton saturated with chloride of iron be plac- , ed in the holder, and he claims by do ing this some of the harmful products i>f combustion are rendered Innocuous MisrrnMf < rcnturcM. "Talking <.f matrimony." said the sage, ' there are two sorts of men who are equally miserable specimens." "And they are?" "The fellow who says he's sorry he i ever married and the fellow who says he's glad V.* never did."—Philadelphia Press i I The Home Paper . of Danville. ; Of course you read J i mil is., Ji' i I THE PEOPLE'S I i-'qpular I APER, Everybody Reads It. - i Published Every Morni«n* Except Sunday r.' J No. ii E. Ma h. neSt. i ! « I ■ Subscription 6 cc» .'~r Week. 1 L - J WHY DON'T YOU? Whj don't ,i ><i answer your friend's lei ier at on: > Why i| m't you make the promised ■ Sit to Hi; l . t : I'd'.' She is looking for yoii day al er day. Why don't you send away that little git \ i've li. I, planning to send? Mere kind intent never accomplish any g »i. Why don't \ oa fry to share the bur d< ii of that ■ rowfu! one who works de you Is it because you are i:/owing selfish Whj don't \ ' eak out the encour aging words that you have in your thoughts? l u'e s you express them they are of no use to others. Why don't \ hi take more pains to he >elf • i. iJi. in; and loving In the every day h line life'.- Time is rapidly pass Ing. Your dear ones will not be with you always. Why don't you create around you an atmosphere of I 'ippiness and helpful ness so that ail v. !.o come in touch with you may be made better? Is not this possible?— Class Mate. Knrly Tulinrro. According to John Aubery, who wrote a celebrated work on"the very queere Indian weede," there was a time when tobacco was worth its weight in silver. Among other things Aubery says "Sir Walter Raleigh was the first that brought tobacco into Eng land, and in our parts—North Wilts it came in fashion through Sir Walter Long. They used silver pipes, but th« commoners used a walnut shell. It was sold then for Its weight in silver. I have heard some of your old yeomen neighbors say that when they went to | Chippenham to market they always culled out their shillings to lay In the scales against the tobacco. Now the customers of it are among the greatest that his majesty hath." A Teat of Sobrletjr. (lentlemen who have put an enemy into their mouths are recommended to try a very simple test for the purpose of finding out whether their brain* have been stolen. They must stand erect with their eyes closed, and If they can perform this feat for a brief period they may come to the conclu j sion that tliev are all right. Two in- I dividual* who were accused of drunk enness at Pontefract proved that they had honorably stood the test, and the cases against them were dismissed. I The great merit of the plan is that it ! can be put into operation anywhere and at any time.—London Tit-Bits. I ' J J. BROWN THE EYE! A SPECIALTY. I Eyes tested, treated, fitted with <lass ,s Mid artificial eyes supplied. Market Street, Bloomsburg, Pa. Hours—lo a. m.to sp. m. HI NEW! A. Rella ble TIN SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofings Spouting and Conoral Job Work. Stoves. Heators, Ran«ea, Furnaces, oto. PRICES TOE LOWEST! QIILITY THE BEST! JOHN HIXSON NO. 116 E. FRONT BT. KILLTH. COUCH ' AND CURE THI LUNCS Dr. King's New Discovery /Consumption Prict FDR I OUGHt and 50c & SI.OO Fret Trial. Surest and Quickeat Cure for all THROAT and LUNG TROUB LES, or MONEY BACK. T A.CK.A WANNA KAILRUAU. * BLOOMBBURG DIVISION WM', A. 11. A M. A. M. P. , N* w Vork . .iv 200 .... low ill I'. M 1 nr 817 lit P. si. tiuffaio IV 11 :iU 215 A M. ; Moron ton ar >SB 10 Ui .... \. M. A. M. P. M. » ScranH.n IvtbSb *lO 11; tl f>». *6 S5 Bellevue ! 'l';«yl«>r . 644 1017 ij : «« ' l.ifkHWHnna t; 50 10 24 2 1'- 6-MJ liuryeu »6.5 i 0 it ia, ii PilUton 658 10 88 317 657 Sii-"|i]ChnunH AVe ;01 111 17 2 I.* 6 Wt-st Pittston 706 1011 gd- 7ov Wyomitig ;iu lu 4' ii- 7 O'l Forty Fori .... ~ 2JI iirnneli Tl7 10 hi ;Hi 714 Kingston ,ar 7 <!4 10 5h 2 4'. 7 2ti Wilkes I'arre ar 71( lilt 25i 7 m ki tiarre IT .1' 10*' 2 71(1 ng • i. l v r24 it > . * 7» Plymouth J QUO . 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Htopn on signal or on notice to conductor a Mtops on signal to take on passenger* for I New York, Blnghamton and points west T. E. t'LAHKK T. W. LKK CTPII H'l l'erlntendent. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD, TIME TABLE t In Effect Nov. 20th, 1903. A M. A.M. P. Ml ] Scranton(l»SiH)lv 112 6 H; is 47 1 1* 28 j I'lttston " •* 705r'1158 2 10 5 63 A.M. P.M. P.M J W'tlkesbarre... It a. M. §lO 35 112 2 41 ifi oo Plym'th Ferry " 725f1042f2 52 ft 07 i N auticoke " : M 10 50 8 m fl 17 j Mocanaqua .... " 742 11 07 £2o 837 ; W apwailopen.. " 801 II 16 381 B*7 i Nescopeck ar 8 lOj 11 26 3427 00 a M! A.M. P M- [ Pottsville lv 5 5 r .! 611 55 I Hatleton 705 ..... 245\2 45 Tuintiicken " 722 305 305 Fern Olen " 724 315 315 ...... Kock <>len .... "i 7 5i 3 22 3 22 Nescopeca . .ar i OS! i Catawlssa j j | 4 00 * 00 . . . j \ VI ix. M P.M. P M Nescopeck... .lv 4 8 Creasy -18 3 11 3ti 3 :>2 1 09! tepy Ferry... ' fn4: i 11 46 ! 402 7 2'M t. 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Scrantou " " 10 08 108 52 J .... Weekdavs. { Daily. 112 Flag station. Pullman Parlor and Steeping Cars run on through trains between Surbury, Wllllamsport and trie, between Sunbnry au-J Philadelphia and Washington and between Harrlsburg, Pitta burg and the West Kor further information apply to Ticket Agent W. W. ATTERBURY, J K. WOOD General Manage r, Pan. Traffic Mu GEO Vf. BOYD, Oeu I'uHengvr Agent. I I I MYHil'I PJtliL ffe want to Jo all 1 1 Ms (if Prill I I ■! it's mm. 'II 111 PIK. | j ITS Rtßilt. y A well prii tasty, Bill or W I ter Head, I 1;; A) A Ticket, Circnin Program, State nient or Card (V ) an advertisement for youi business, n satisfaction to you New Type, lew Frew, ~ Best Paper, * m fort, " Premititess .All you can ask. A trial will make you our customer. We respectfully ask that trial. nil 11 #*• _ No. 11 H. Mahoning St.. F-Ai F-Ai
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