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|
Bleed Humers
Are Cu red 2y
ood’s
“I was troubled with
lotches on my face,
ard began taking
Hood’s Sarsaparilla.
After taking onebottie
I was entirely cured.”
Miss ETHEL MIXER,
Clark share, Mass, |
brother had a |
bumor in his blood |
which bLroke out in |
frightful cores. He |
began taking Hood's
Sarsaparilia and it per- |
munent
It Purifies
the Blood.
Cures
All Eruptions.
E
N.J.
“My little boy had a
L: rurel,
are 28 ofula sors on
Vis Le I purchased
Eradicates a bottle of Hoots Seer
saparilia and it cursed.
Scrofuia. I take Hood’s as my
tonic.” Mes.
Spear, Parish-
y.
Suils
COUGH SYRUP
Curzs Croup and Whooping-Cough
Unexcelled for Consumptives. Gives
quic’ are results. Refuse substitutes.
Dr. Bull's Pillscure Biliousness. Tvial, 20 jor 5c.
ft a— - RS ——
spring
a
ant Eneonragement.
—‘ ‘Does Le ever objec:
1g so much?’ Hersel?—
“I don’t know whether to call it ob-
jection or encouragement. He told mo»
the other nizht he hoped I would gu
ghead and talk my head off.” —Indian-
apolis Press.
ligne is more Catarrh In this section of the
ntry than all other diseases pu
ane ra the last few years was s
fncarable., For a great many years doctors
ronounced it a local discase and prescribed
ocal remedies, and by constantly failing ta
treatment, pronounced it in.
tarrh to be a
» and therefore require
a nt. pons Copal Curs,
¥3
£3
iar x J. Cheney 0., Toledo,
Ohio, i constitug nal cure on the
market, in doses from
er n
2 aieots directly on
the blood e system.
They rs 2 any casg
14 rails to a ars and testi.
mot Huds a RE v& Co. Toledo, O.
wd Constantinople the
ping-birth costs sixty |
es; and forty cents second |
cents drs
y tweive hours,
class for ev
Som-thing For Nothing.
What wiil the inventive brain of wn de
poxt? J. “0. Hu “Tae Starch
King,” is now introducing by his new and
original 10d, the Endless Chain Starch
book, which enables you to get fro your
ger,
|
|
|
1
|
|
|
grocer ono large 10c. package of “Red
Cress” stareh, one large 10c. package of
‘““Hubingor’s Best” starch, with the pre- |
miums, two Shakespeare panels, printed in |
twelve beautiful enlors, or one Twentieth |
Century Girl calandar, embossed gold, |
all for 53. Ask your grocer,
fn
A Counter Proposition
A Memphis young lady who is very |
fond of her sister's little child, a boy
of 2 or 3 years, who is visiting her |
pow, was tiping yesterday to get him |
to let her ‘fix nile wp” to have his |
photograph taken. She got her curl-
ing tongs and was trylng to coax him |
to let her curl his hair. But with true
boyish disgust at the idea of having
his hair treated like a girl’s, he re-
fused to submit to the process, She
insisted, however, and offered him
every kind of bribe, but in every in-
stance he refused to allow her to do
what, she wished, and finally, becom-
fng tired of her attempt to get him to |
submit, he sat down, crossed his legs, |
and looked up at her very seriously
end said: “Auntie, I teil you what I'll
do. 1 won't take a dollar to let you
curl my hair, but I'll give you a dollar
{f you just go away and let my hair
alone.”—Memphis Scimitar.
1
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{
Working
Wasmen
ara fmviied do wrife {0
Piss. Pinkham for free
advice boi their health
Flies. Plplcham is a wo-
Mi&its
If you have painful
pericds, backaches or
ay of tho more serious
is of waoean, write fo
> FRinlelr 253003 she has
helped selfiftucdes. Your
fetter wi fra sseredly
eonf identi
Lydia £. Pinikham’s
Vegotadis Sompeound is
known wherever the Eng-
lish fzagusge is spoless
Nothing cic can possh-
bly Be so sure 2 ely suf-
fering waosnnen, Ko other
medicine has belived so
MAY.
Rememiey § fis when
somotiing eiso fs sug-
gested,
Mrs. Pinkbam’s ad |
dross is Lynn, (Fass,
Hor bBeolpfny Hand 8
always outsiratehed £9
sufforing Wangs
Try Grain-0O1
Try Grain-Ol!
Ask your Grocer to-day to show
you a package of GRAIN-O, the nev
| would
| day in
i mecessary.
coop
“AND EVIL.
Long the waiting—many the tear!
Dull the sight—alive the fear!
Weak the will—the effort faint!
Deep the sigh—low the plaint!
Yet never a goal —but ends a way!
Never a dark—but bears a day!
Never a strong —but feels a pain!
Never a fall—but brings a gain !—
—James Mark Baldwin,
For felt the evil—born the right!
Dense the darkness—keen the sight!
Grieved the weakne: gained thestrength!
Strained the distance—home at length!
God is in us—this the strife !
Victory through us—this is life!
The will to do—is virtues done!
The grief to lose—is goodness won!
in New York Independent.
a,
$
5
“But I may count on you?” Tom
asked. “You know you promised.
“Yes,” I replied, “I promised, and
[ll keep my promisa. I'll be your
best man. Not that I wouldn’t like
to get out of it,” I went on; ‘‘but you
tnsist, and I suppose that—"
“Oh, come now,’ said Tom,
go in for cynicism; that’s cheap. Of
course, I'm willing to admit that
from your point of view, perhaps, Dor-
othy Melton may have treated you
badly enough, but I wouldn’t curse
the whole sex and rail at matrimony
and all that. You'll get over it in
time, you know.”
Tom is an oll friend, and allows
himself liberties. 1 kept my head,and
replied calmly:
“I am not cynical, I'm not
‘railing’ at matrimony. Moreover,
that little affair with the young woman
you mention, w.ich I have quite for-
gotten —’
Tom smiled in a peculiarly trying
manne:
“Which I have entirely forgotten——"
I repeated.
“And will forget anew every day
you live,” said Tom.
“Has had nothing whatever to do
with my dermination to devote myself
autirely to my profession. I have al-
ready fritteredaway entirely too much
of my life on what we are pleased to
call ‘society.’ But of course I'll keep
my promise to you.
“Now look here, old man,” Tom
began; but he saw, I suppose, some-
thing in my face which warned him
that I was not to be moved. At any
rate he laughed and shrugged his
shoulders, and then said:
“Well, I'll count on you for best
man. June seventh is the day, and I
| hope you won't find it such an awful
| bore as youn seem to expect.”
The marriage was to come off at
Riverton, and I congratulated myself
that the guests, with few exceptions,
be Riverton folk whom I did
not know, I could do my duty by
Tom, take a last farewell of butterfly
society, and then settle down for good
upon the career which I fondly hoped
would end upon the supreme bench.
[ would work,and work hard. Dorothy
Melton, witht whom I quarreled six
months ago, should never think that
she had broken my heart, or shattered
my life, or anything of that sort, for
she hadn’t. She simply had revealed
| to me the fickleness of her sex and
brought me to the realization that a
career, after all, is the only thing that
can really satisfy a man worth any-
thing.
As the time of Tom's wedding ap-
| proached I wrote him that I should
| cun down to Riverton 24 hours in ad-
vance in order to attend to all the
thousand and one duties which de-
volve upon the best man; but at the
last moment my one realiy good client,
a man rich and cranky, succeeded in
getting so hopelessly involved in an
injunction suit that nothing but im-
mediate and earnest personal attention
could keep him from going to jail for
contampt of court. I saved him from
| that ignominy, but only after spending
the entire morning of the wedding
court, and barely caught the
*‘don’t
and
| fast train by which I could reach Riv-
orton in time for the ceremony. Tom
and his friends would have to look
after the details of the wedding which
[ was compelled to neglect.
T had forgotten that Uncle William
Clarkson lived at Riverton, or I might
have bzen prey rared for him; but Te
fore the train had fairly stopped at
the station Uncle William was at my
side, grasping my hand and reaching
for my bag. “Here you ave at last,”
he was saying. ‘I've been at every
train that came in today. You've got
to go up to the house with me and get
a little snack of something to eat be-
fore the wedding.”
“But Tom—" T interposed.
“Oh, that's all right,” said Uncle
William. ‘‘I've arranged it all with
your friend Tom, and V’il have you at
Christ church in pienty of time for
the wedding. So come along; your
aunt’s waiting for you.
Really, w hat could I do? T looked
about helplessly, hoping that Tom or
some of his friends would appear and
lay claim to me, but Uncle William
had evidently impressed upon them
that he was going to have his own
way with me, and they came not.
Of cot I shoul d have been very
glad to dine w Uncle William and
Aunt Margaret, but when a fellow is
going to be be:t man at his lest
friend’s wedding, and bas only two
hours and a half before the ¢
he is not exs
ing even his u
tives. i tried tos
kind to Unele W
“Oh, pshnw,
thing to do,and whe
going to the hote
Iriends’ house
running over w
at all. Your A
you a nice
you can get on your
got to the church in plenty of time
without any of the fuming and fussing
the others will go through. There's a
‘phone’ in the hous
know you ave here,and that’s
hing of the
orted:
sS0me
Mate
’s the use
1 or to one of
where they are already
will give
1er right
all that’s
Ireme nberei that I did not espe-
cially care to meet more
was necessary, bud still it was with
some misgivings that I followed my
| chipper, and I am afraid somewl
| officions, uncle to his new town hou
| At five o'clock I found myself in Aunt
| Margaret's front parlor,
2999002 VVVVVIVN
IN THE NICK OF TIME. §
Tom's |
No use |
away, |
ved ling togs aud |
3; you can let Tow |
people than |
in her ara
i terly
BY MARCO MORROW. :
ANAS 233A esa ests YA AaB aNd
“It's five minutes of seven!” he ex-
claimed.
I couldn’t say exactly what I wanted
to say,so I contented myself by giving
the cravat a vicious twist. Three
minutes later I dashed down the hall,
threw a good-by at Aunt Margaret and
hurried into the yard.
The coachman was driving away.
“Hi, there.” shouted Uncle Wiiliam
from the front steps. ‘‘Hold on there,
driver! Wilson, stop that hack!”
Wilson was evidently Uncle Wil-
liam’s next-door neighltor. He was
leisurely proceeding from his frout
gate to his own domicile. He turned
around slowly and looked at the car-
riage and then at Uncle William.
“What for?” he asked. ‘‘What’s
the matter with it?”
“Hi, there, driver!” shouted Uncle
William again, as I tore down the
path.
The coachman drew in his horses
with an air of impatient expectancy.
“What in the world do you mean?”
cried Uncle William, puffing in anger,
behind me.
‘Yes, what do you mean,” I echoed,
‘‘driving off without me?”’
“Why, sir,” said the evidently
greatly puzzied coachman, with a nod
of his head toward Mr, Wilson, ‘he
said for—-"’
“Well, well, well!” cried Mr. Wil-
son, joining us on the sidewalk. “What
does all this mean, anyway? What
are you holding this carriage here
for?”
Uncle William bagan saying some-
thing under his but
breath, was
checked by a feminine voice from the
carriage.
“Driver,” it asked, ‘‘what’s the
matter?”
“Oh!” exclaimel Uncle William, a
light breaking in upon him, ‘‘you’ve
made a mistake here, Wilson. This
is a carriage I ordered to take my
nephew to the wedding.”
“Oh, I guess not,” said Mr, Wilson,
bristling up more than ever. ‘‘This
is a carriage I ordered to take my
niec: to the commencement.”
The two men glarel at each other
like wild animals, and I turned from
one to the othe in hopeless perplex-
ity.
“Drive on!” cried Mr. Wilson, and
the driver drew up the reins,
“Hold on!” cried Uncle William,
and the driver loosened the reins, He
evidently enjoyed the situation.
The two men moved toward each
other, and then Aunt Margaret came
down the path, hastening to the un-
tangling of Uncle William’s mistakes,
she
had been
life.
v muddle,” she said to Mr.
Wilson in her sweetest tones, ‘The
stablemen have probably got the two
orders confused.”
“I don’t know about that,” said
Mr. w ilson, “but I've got the car-
riage.’
“But see here,” put in Uncle Wil-
liam, ‘““Dick’s best man,aud he mustn’t
Le late at the wedding.”
“I can't help that,” retorted Mr.
Wilson, ‘Jy niece mustn’t be late at
the commencement, either.”
“1’1l tell you,” cried Aunt Margaret,
with sudden inspiration, ‘‘why can’t
doing thronghout
they go together? The seminary is
only a little ways beyond Christ
church. I know your niece won't
0
Aunt Margare shed out into the
street toward the carriage, and I fol-
lowed, wiping my moist brow, bewail-
ing my wilting linen and consumed
with impatience.
In the next few seconds I heard
Aunt Margaret making a hurried ex-
planation whic h concluded with ‘“‘Aw-
fully good o! you, I'm sure, but I
knew you ’d consent under the cir-
cumstances;’’ then the door was flung
open, Uncle William gave me a push
irom behind, while Aunt Margaret
murmured introductions, and I found
myself stepping into a carriage which
seemed filled with flowers and fluffy
white stuff, from the midst of which
peered the face of —Dorothy Melton!
“Why kK — My.—" she cried,
half vising from her seat.
I started back with a confused at-
tempt at «n apology, but Uncle Wil-
liam hastily slammed the door, and
with a commanding ‘‘Drive lively
now!” motioned the driver to stat.
The hors s were off with a jump, and
1 sank inte the seat opposite the young
womanb wom months ago I had
sworn never again,
t was.the early
been a perfect Juneday. The
jamps weirs not yee lighted, but the
bright moon shone in at the carriage
windows, and [ knew Dorothy could
see my hot, Hushed face und my nei-
six
to see
Yous and embarrassment.
elton, [ began, feeling
that I must say something, “I’m ex-
tremely sorry to intinde upon you in
this manner. I had no idea—"
“Oh, pray do not mention it,”
Dorothy. *‘I am, of course,
ly glad to be of any service
to Mrs. CiarkSon,
bad for you to
ding 2
Pp otothy w ns auite mistress of
sel, Shel i
said
extreme-
Le too
at the wed-
and it wonld
be late
hei-
:athered them up
; the color, which
face for
was I who
returned;
into her carriage, |
{ sparkled, and never had she looked so |
her
fove'y. bit-
to quar-
What a fool, 1 thonght,
, what a fool I had been
rel with her.
“It's to be quite a large wedding, I |
dusk of what had’
street |
whatever
‘ge bunch of roses |
an instant
climbed |
eyes
Sor In the abk of time, ud dashed
away again to leave Dorothy at the
| young ladies’ seminary where she hal
been teaching for a few months.
|
I found Tom in the vestry, so su-
premely happy that he had not ever
noticed my tardiness—but, for that
matter, I walked in the clouds all
| evening, and noticed nothing what-
| ever that happened nt his wedding
“ so we are quits on that score.
Dorothy and I will be married in
| September, and Uncle William, who
| insists that his ‘‘good management’
brought it all about, has promised tc
set us up with a carriage of our own
on the day of the wedding, — Woman's |
Home Companion. {
SABLE
ISLAND PONIES.
| Resembie Those Found on the Sculpture: |
| of Nineveh, |
A writer in Ainslee’s Magazine says
“The story of animal life on Sable
Island, Nova Scotia, is strange
Roaming the sandy wastes are herds
of wild ponies guarded by patriarchal
stallions. These ponies resemble the
horses of the sculptures of Ninevel,
and approach the beholder seemingly
out of the framework of antiquity.
| They are stocky and remarkable fos
their long manes, which in instances
have been known to grow to the
length of three yards. The ponies
are the remnant of a stock thought to
have been left by some Portuguese
fishermen—‘Portingalls’ the old rec.
ords quaintly call them —who touched
at the island on their fishing expedi-
tions at even an earlier date than the
Marquis de la Roche. At one time
there were from 400 to 500 wild ponies
on the island, but their number has
been decreased by exportation, the
severity of the winters, and, some
people think, by the importation of
improved, domesticated stallions,
which have made the stock less hardy,
and consequently more susceptible
to death from exposure. There are
now between 80 and 100 wild ponies
and about 30 for domestic use.
Mounted on ponies, the life-savers
gallop over the dunes and among the
hillocks on their long patrols, and the
lifeboats are drawn to the scenes of
shipwreck by teams of five ponies,
three at the shaft and two leaders.
Some of the wild ponies are sent to
Halifax every year or two, and are
sold at auction at an average price of
from $15 to $18,
‘‘The Portingalls also stocked the
island with cattle, which increased so
rapidly that people from the mainland
made expeditions to the island and re-
turned with enough live stock to make
their trips most profitable. At one
tims the island was quite overrun with
rabbits. Then two rat-infested Nor-
wegian vessels were wrecked there
and the rats, swimming ashore, began
to exterminate the rabbits and to at-
tack the government stores. Cats
were then imported from Halifax to
kill the rats, and alter a while the cats
increased so in number that dogs weve
imported to kill the cats. Latterly
the island was again overrun with rats
from wrecked vessels, and another
cargo of cats was imported from Hali-
fax. Once there were pigs on the
island;
minated
ghouls
castaways.
forms is always
Island's story.’
because they had become
feasting on the remains of
Death in its most horrid
the burden of Sable
QUAINT AND CURIOUS,
The whistling tree which is found
in the West Indies, in Nubia and the
Soudan, has a peculiarly shaped leaf
and pods with a split edge. The wind,
passing through these produces the
sound which gives the tree its name.
Thirteen old horseshoes wer» hang-
ing last spring on the back of « garden
wall close to an old boiler which work-
men were removing and 1eplacing by
a new one—a very noisy piece of work
—when, in no wise deterred by this,
a pair of wrens built their nest in the
midst of the cluster of horseshoes and
then brought up their young. The
mother bird, having been found one
day drowned in a pall of water, stand-
ing near, her mate tended aud cared |
for their young until they were fledged
and flown. The horseshoes containing |
the nest still hang on the wall at Ever.
thorpe Hall, Brough, East Yorkshire, |
England.
In the Bay of Plenty, New Zealaud,
ands in the world. Tt is called White !
Island, and consists mainly of sulphur
mised with gypsum and a few other |
minerals. Over the island, which is |
about three miles in circumference,
and which rises between 800 feet and |
300 feet above the sea, floats continu-
ally an immense cloud of vapor, at
taining an elevation of 10,000 feet.
In the centre is a boiling lake of acid-
charged water, covering 50 acres, and
swrrounded with blowholes from which
steam and sulphurous fumes are emit-
ted with great force and noise. With
care, a boat can be navigated on the
lake.
| been made to procure it Sysiematt
cally.
One of the most remarkable of al)
China seas, and an account oi its ac
tions has been given by Tieutenant
W hite of the British navy. He was
engaged in some special work at the
| entrance of a river, and came to an
| chor one night in shallow water. P’res
ently strange sounds began to be hearo
| coming np from the bottom, They
were described as resembling the clang
ing of bells and the beating of drums,
The men were demora'ized and attrib.
uted the noises to spirits, it being said |
had gone down |
that a crew of pirates
there, but the officers were ¢>ni
that th > noise was caused by so
animals, and investigation sho ed thay
it came from a school of fish thai
made the sounds by elapping their
teeth together,
One of the most peculiar accidents
ever heard of happened toa colored man
near New Store, Va., a few days ago
Id Jones took his gun and set out for
a day of
sport. He was not looking
but they have been exter-
is one of the most extraordinary isl- |
The surphur from White Island |
| is very pure, but little effort has yet
the sound producing fishes is found in |
|
i 3
Sood dL that tshes the pines of Uncle William called up Tom by believe?” she said, turning her face for large game, but he had not been | iatiss ar cu Jone d arn i iy oo :
tn | telephoue, and plier a few minutes full upon ae. : : | in the woos long hsfore Lhe saw an |C i 4 you oho oO C S$ consi 1g the pr
The children may drink it without HB | | chat w pn It somewhat reas The driver was evidently intent upon | immense deer coming a tr emendous bo i : Spans r “pe $35 into a - Sasi
tis coll ns ilo aanls. Allwho BB (sured. Dinner wa: announced very reac the church in tin Heturned | rate of speed immediately toward him, | 8a1C the fa mon - 3e11-0, the New Dessert, |
Any ae ; | early, and was soun over. As the a corner so sharply that just as 1 was | He at once fell upon knees, pre. | ‘But think,” said the ma ses all the fam Four flavors:—
try it, like it. Gaal 20 ns that !tlock chimed six I went upstairs to | about to stammer ont a commonypl | pe a shot, and when the deer | ‘how foolish you would look Lemon, Orange, Ra rry and Strawberry
rich seal brown of Mlochy or Java, | make a hurried toile. But where was | about the wedding we both were near- 24 feet of him fired ani, arcund town on a cow.” Al yeus gro
but it is made fiom pire grany, aad 4 | my bag? TI Lurried downstairs again ly thrown from our te. Dorothy | missed his aim. The deer had ac-| | «Oh, I don’t know,” said the farmer, ot the coast line of Grea
_ | thomost delicate stomach receives 1% | and put the question to Uncle Wil- | threw up her hand, her roses fell in | quired such tremendous momentun | no more foolish perhaps, than 1 the rate of one to every 1
without distress. § the price of coffee, i liam. confusion, and as I bent forward her | that it could not check itself, an 1a! would milking a bicycle.” —ilansas
15 cents and 25 cents per package. | “By Jove!” he excluimed, ‘‘we must dainty fingers lightly brushed my | with the next leap landed upon the | City Journal.
Sold Ly all grocers. i have left it at the station!” | faca— "| hunter. Tt kn ked him down and |
Tastos like Coffes | He hurried down town to fetch the “Oh, Dorothy! Dorothy!” I cried; | brnised him lly upon the breast! Poculiar Australian Fish
Locks iike Coffeo | bag, promising to return ‘‘before yon and then | with one hind toot, the other going | Australian lung fish, so called be.
Insist that your grocer gives you GRAIN-O know I'm gone;” but the minutes 1m sure that I couldn’t tell what I | into the negro’s mouth, knocking out | cause when under water they breathe
Accept no imitation. slipped away, and the carriage drove said. [I only know that the words I | a number of his teeth, tearing a pari ! by their gills, and when out by their
EASE ap to the gate before he got back. He | hail been holding back, the love that | of his gums sway, and passing down | air bladders, utter sounds that have Stans Shall We Mave For Dessert
DS os | finally came, however. i had been ving » {to sti'e for six | his throat. The whols thing was over | sta: tled men. + The fish, whic h attains : Wk
91 200 | Here you are,” he said, as he sioethe, burst {from me, and before we | in an ins’ant, hut when he came tc | 8 length of ix or
44 58 handed me the bag. ‘Now you want reached the next corner Dorothy lifted | the deer was gone, | singul: 1 habit of leavin
5 Ee a Bbl.¢ to hurry, young man, or you'll be her shining eyes, and through tears -—— i times and crs ayithg over
A Soa i: late.” said: . 1t Do penda, Sli
Seods.Semdfulimsucn 8 d | I fairly jumped into my clothes, #0", Dick! Dick!” and fkiew every- “Don’t you love an old fashioned ag aah
s CL. ERY "trusting fo luck for appearance. As 1 he : right, and wished that Snowstorm, Pauline?” sonaunce f :
0., LA CROSSE, WIS. A.C. tied my cravat Uncle William t church was 20 miles away. “Yes, if the man who takes me cu | & luag dis very much a
° tapped
a a po a a dl i on the door. i
carriage pulled up at the church | has a new-fashioned sleigh.”
THREE STAGES.
ACT I.
- a furnace,
in love,
cation
iy's glove !
girl was ever
o sweet as she,
she’s an angel,
Expects you to agree.
ACT IIL
Moping and repining,
Gloomy and moros
Asks the price of po
Thinks he'll take
Women are so
Love is &
la
Marriage is a failure
Like a broken dam.
ACT III.
Whistling, blithe and cheerful,
ys bright and gay,
inging, la L
All the livelong day:
Full of fun and frolic,
aught in Fashion's
Thinks no more of poison—
Got another girl !
HUMOROUS.
fin-
can
Nell-—Anyone can see she’s a
ished musician. Belle—Yes; I
see her finish.
“I could die for love of you,” said
the rich old suitor. “‘Yes, but "would |
you?” querried the practical maid.
Stubb—There goes a man who says
he doesn’t believe the world is round.
Penn—Well,
it is not ‘‘square.’
“Freddy, did you see the rubber
man at the museum?” “Yes, Uncle
Bill, but he ain’t no good; he didn’t
squeak when I punched him.”
“Do you think a man has a right to
open his wife's letters?” We 11. he
may have ihe right, but I don’t see
bow he could have the courage.”
“Did your young clergyman give
you a good sermon?’ ‘I thought so,
but my wife says he preached as if he
hadn’t been intited out to dine.”
“It is deplorable that walking is
becoming a lost art.” ‘Lost art? It’s
a mighty good way of getting home
when your bicycle breaks down.”
The man won't be in it
He can’t make it pay—
Who works by the minute
And talks by the day.
Mrs. Hiland —- Did you ever see any-
body so proud of her conservatory as
Mrs. Shadyside? Mrs. Halket—No,
she is a regular hanghty-culturist.
“Is Perkins an honest man?” asked
Fangle. “Indeed he 1s,” replied Gaz-
Lam,
who would refuse to lend him an umn-
brella.”
Tommy Wagg Pa, what
“M. D.” after a doctor’s name
Mr. Wagg— Perhaps it »
oatients, my boy, and
‘many dead.”
does
mean ?
5 to
stands
hin
for
“Your wife,”’ remarked the visitor,
preparing a compliment, ‘‘has a liquid
voice.” “Liquid!” repeated Hen-
peck, musingly. ‘Oh, yes!
uever dries up.”
“I would like to kaow,’
gruff old father to the
said the
nan who
young
had been calling with considerable
frequency, ‘‘whether you are going
fo marry my daughtes 50 would
* answered the diffi dent young man.
“Would you mind asking het?’ 2
They tell of a Chicago physician,
S
tation room, asked, ‘“Who has been
waiting the longest?”
said, ve,
your clothes
doctor; I de! ivered
to you thre: years ago.
Paul Jones's Body,
When Paul Jones died in Paris in
i August, 1792, his body was placed in
| a leaden coftin, appa: ently at his own
| request, in order that it might be
easily transported to the United
States, in case his country, which he
dearly loved aud for which he had
such important service,
for it. With the pro-
atitude of 1epublics, his
ected th's duty until 1851,
when some effort v made to find
{the hero's reinains and bring them
| home, but the place of burial could
not be identified and the search for
| them was soon abandoned. Now a
| French architologist, M. de Ricaudy,
i thinks he has disc ‘overed the exact
| spot where Jones’ body was buried,
performed
should send
verbial ingr
country neg
|
|
land resolutions have been introduced |
ve e
in both houses of Coungre
ss looking to
| NEAR THE PRESIDENT
he is old enough to know | “©
“There isn’t a wan in the oftice |
it-—er— |
who, opening the door of the consul- |
A tailor, who |
| had called to preeent Lis bill, vose and
27 1
THE DOORKEEPER AT THE
WHITE HOUSE.
(apt. Loefier Has Enjoyed the Oonfl-
dence of Beven Chlef Magistrates—
Began Message Bearer fo:
Lincoln—German by Birth.
as a
One of the most interesting charae-
ters about Washington is Capt. Charles
Loeffier, the confidential messenger and
doorkeeper of the president. Capt. Loef-
fier prebably knows more famous men
than any other person living, because
h Stood at the entrance of ths
end everybody Who hes Cote od the
nce of the chief magistrate of
nation during all that time has
hanged a card to him. Capt. Loefiler
is a native of Germany, but he came
to this country when a child, and en-
| listed in the army as soon as he be-
came of age. He rose from the ranke
| to be a sergeant before the civil war
| broke out,
serving as a trooper under
and was detailed for
ty with Secretary Stan- |
ton at the war department. During the
| entire war he served as a messenger
and bearer of dispatches for President |
| Lincoln and Secretary Stanton to the |
mmanding generals in the field, and
a
CAPT. LOEFFLER.
assassination of
was detailed as a
Secretary Stanton
the day after the
resident Lincoln
| bcdy guard for
That was not a very plea
| at that time. The president had been
murdered,
at ths point of death because of the
attack of an a
ber of the administration, it was be-
lieved, was marked for a similar fate.
Secretary Stanton was the most of-
fensive of all the officials of the gov-
ernment to the conspirators, and many |
attempts were made upon his life.
Joefler was with him night and day.
He gnarded the door of his office and
slept in his bed-rhamber.
The day after the inauguration of
Cen. Grant Capt. Loeffler was de-
tailed as an orderly for the president, |
| and took charge of the door at which |
| he now stands. He has been there
| ever since. President McKinley made
| him a captain in the army.
floly Rits Depended en Toss of a Penny.
| By the toss of a penny it was under-
| taken a while ago to decide on the
! consecration of a cemetery in England.
The town was Stow Market, a place
| of about 5,000 inhabitants, in Suffolk
county. The district council of the town
met to decide upon what parts of the
burying ground should be consecrated,
and, as no agreement could be reached,
W. C. Ransom, one of the councilors,
met the chairman at the cemetery and
with him flipped a penny. Ransom
won and chose a strip at the left side
| of the ground to be consecrated. The
two parties to the flip reported the re-
sult of the choice to the council, but
the rest of that honorable body re-
fused to accept this means of arriving
at a decision. In the meantime the
church authorities made up thelr
minds to apply to the courts for a
mandamus to compel the rite of conse-
cration to be carried out decently and
in order.
Value of Soap as a Disinfectant.
| soap is an important health factor.
onto v it “nosed. that. Ii the | ore claimed to destroy cholera germs.
bo dy can be fond, it can Le identi- | In all germ dispoves copious uss of
| fied as that of Jolin Paul Jones be- | soap in washing is recommended by
yond a doubt. The coffin itself, if | physicians. Ly 18 not anly the Temoya)
{ ioerd, will be a means of .identifica- | of dirt and effets matter by the use ‘of
|
[tion and it is thought probable that
some of the decorations which Jones
was known to wear were buried with
him and have survived
dition as to be recognizable, If the
remains of of this country’s
one
| charac tors can be found, they should
be brought to the United S
guitable monument erected over them.
—Philadelphia Leger.
Turning the Tables,
Professor Q—— , a well-known man
"at a well-known university, was very
unpopular with several students. One
night, for a joke, they put a good
door. Next morning cn leaving his
room he got his hands and clothes in
an awful mess, and immediately sum-
moned the one he considered the ring-
| leader, who, as it happened, was one
{of the culprits.
{ ‘Do yon,
fessor,
ini?”
“Yes, sir,” 1 know who had a hand
r asked the pro-
“know what pei dh done
=
“Who?” eagerly rejoined the for-
mer.
“Why, you, sir,” lied the delin-
quent, pointing to tar-stained
hands,
The professor langhed
let him ge. — London
Leartily and
Answers.
Six of One.
A farmer drifted into a hardware
store at Mulhall and was askel by the
manager:
“Don’t you want
to buy a
| xe that of the California drumfish,
in such a con- |
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States and a |
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bicycle
eoap, but the destruction of microbes,
parasites and germs of disease.
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is the I eabody Medical Institute, 4 Bulfinch
stiect, established nine years before the
death of the great philanthropist, the late
Mr. George Peabody, from whom it takes
| its name. During the past thirty years it
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| and today it is the best of its kind in this
i
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| TRAITS OF KAFFIR CHARACTER
| fallen foes is now pretty generally
| known.
A simple and safe way to clean costly and easily=
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A Russian correspondent sends us
details of a very interesting and amus-
ing tale told by a Russian veterinary
surgeon who was sent into the Ural
district to buy horses and hay for the
peasants of the famine-stricken prov-
Some Customs of a Race Now Greatly
in Evidence in South: Africa.
The Zulu custom of disembowling
Few are aware, however, that
| such mutilation is not practiced on ac-
count of innate cruelty, but in order to
liberate the spirits of the deceased war-
riors. It is maintained that if the slay-
| er inadvertently cmit to perform this
| last act of charity he will be haunted
and eventually driven into his grave
inc He had to do mostly with the
natives (kirghis), who are half-savage,
but who, nevertheless, were found to
be extremely honest and absolutely
trustworthy in all buying and selling,
some of them even offering to give
horses for the starving peasants. Quite
ant duty just i
the secretary of state lay |
ssin, and every mem- |
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The following is a quaint custom: | gf the Ural Cossacks, who did their
After a battle all the surviving war-| Jevel best to cheat him in the most
riors are carefully decsed with mutl| parefaced manner, and on whom no
(medicine) brewed from herbs by ths
witch doctors of the tribe. This is to
{| purify and fortify them against any
sinister designs on their welfare that
{ may be entertained by the spirits of
| thelr slain enemies. A pleasing featurs
in tho character of the Zulu is his gen-
| erosity and willingness to share with
| his immediate friends and companions
| any of the good things of life that may
happen to-come his way. Frequently | -
the writer, in order to test the disposl-
| tion of various natives, has purpose- g
reliance was to be
these Cossacks are very religious and
so simple in certain respects that a
swindler succeeded in selling them
quite a number of tickets for—para-
dise. The veterinary surgeon saw sev-
eral of these tickets which were
marked “First rows,” ‘and sold for 28
rubles, back seats bringing consid-
erably less.—Commercial intelligence.
placed. And yet
ly chosen one kaffir out of a number,
and, without permitting the remainder
to observe, has presented the favored
| individual with some article of con-
such as a piece of cake, a
NONE SUCH
Nothing hobbles the JRuscies
and unfits for work lik
fectionery,
| few chocolates, or a handful of biscuits,
| Never once, however, has he noticed a
kaffir secrete his treasures from his
comrades, although every opportunity
for so doing was given. No; the re-
cipient, in every case, after profuse ex-
pressions of thanks, invariably shared
whatever edibles he had obtained
equally with all his companions, in
many cases leaving the merest “bite”
tor his own delectation.—Chambers’
Journal.
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and
STIFFNESS
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