J Plead 1til he money nce of \rmer, diana enter- Mr. bloyed mand- ) gave . was lding. At se- Mr. 1g his rning n the Armer cash bbers ment- silver- lables sed it s for - that asked d the t. Mr. ved a . was Un- infor- n the N. rence nited Vhite the that, id to Ss 0ob- . was use 1anu- d by ents fisca- usur- the tax . and f the ~ the ower the the ount 5 be- g re- uan- long 180Y ered nni- ome tire Pat- “on- Vest 25, 7 of The and S of inct ded ,000 t to ion fa ern ont car nto and to sid- the ck. jht tie zh, er- n- nd he Slips of the Pen. The best writers are not free from slips of the pen, and some such slips are very curious, says the Liverpool Post. Wilkie Collins, in some myste- rious way, makes the moon to rise in the west. Rider Haggard, in “King Solemon’s Mines,” contrives an eclipse of the new moon for the diversion of the natives ana the entertainment of his readers. Coleridge places a star between the horns of the crescent moor rising in the east. Shakespeare makes a clock to strike in ancient Rome at a period 2,000 years before striking clocks were invented. Robir- son Crusoe, on abandoning the wreck, strips off his clothing in order to swim to shore. This, however, does not pre- vent him from filling his pockets with biscuits. ¥ And Anthony Trollope de scribes Andy Scott as “coming whistl- ing up with a cigar in his mouth. Doing One’s Best. This habit of always doing one’s best enters into the very marrow of one’s heart and character; it affects one’s bearing, one’s self-possession, says London Answers. The man who does everything to a finish has a feel- ing of serenity; he is not easily thrown off his balance; heghas nothing to fear, and he cam look the world in the face, because he feels conscious that he has not put €hoddy work into anything, that-he has had noth- ing to do with shams, and that he has always done his level best. This sense of efficiency, of being master of one’s craft, of being equal to any emergency, the consciousness of possessing the ability to do with superiority whatever one undertakes, will give satisfaction which a half-hearted, slipshod worker never knows. Twenty-one husbands who reside in Bayonne, N. J., have met and organiz, €d the married men's Anti-Euchre and Home Preservation Society. They declare it is high time their wives and other men’s wives were cured of the progressive euchre habit, and pro- pose to use ‘all their efforts to estab- lish such a cure. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous- ness after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great NerveRestorer, &2trial bottle and treatise free Dr. R.H. KLINE, Ltd., 931 Arch 8t., Phila., Pa. It’s an awful handicap for a girl to have a younger;sister who is a real beauty. 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Commercial Geographical , Union, of Beriin, in a recent issue. says: “If England is to maintain supremacy even in her own markets against the United States, Belgium and Germany. she will have to emulate those coun- tries in their scientific methods of manufacturing and doing business.” Nine-tenths of the external trade of the Bahamas, which amounted to $1,- 275,000 last year, is with the United States. islands are pineapples and sponges, and the imports: flour and earthen glassware. : Cost of Hauling Freight. The cost of hauling a ton of freight a mile on Great Britain's greatest rail- way is 1.45 cents; on the Pennsylvania, forty cents, and on the New York Cen. tral, forty-one cents. t $100 Reward. $100. : Tho readers of this paper wiil be pleased to learn that there is at least ono dreaded dis- case that science has been able to cure in all itsstages, and that is Catarri. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive eure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con- stitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall’s CatarrhCureis takeninter- nally, acting directly upon the blood and mu- cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy- ing the foundation of the diseass, and giving the patient strengtn by building up the con- stitution and as ing nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hun- dread Do s fore case that it fails to cure, Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 752. . Tako Hall's Family Pills for constipation. The Teacher Interested. “Miss Biggs is interested in you, pa.’ “How so?’ “Why, to-day, afier she had told ime seven times to sit down and behave myself, she said she wondered what sort of a father I had.” Beaten in Our Own Field. Philippine imports of iron and steel and manufactures thereof for the cal- endar year 1903 show an increase of approximately 10 per cent over those of 1902. The figures are $2,102,915 for 1903 and $1,509,679 for 1902. Of the total for the two years the United States secured only about 23.7 per cent. More than three-quarters of the trade was captured by our English and European competitors. Dogs in the Army. The ‘ dogs of war” in these days assist in field hospital work. In Ger- many and Italy St. Bernard dogs have been trained for years so as to aid, after an engagement, bearer parties in their search for the wounded, es- pecially at night. Russia, apparently, has no canine corps, and Major Rich- ardson of Carnoustie, England, wha has made a specialty of training am- bulanee dogs, has received a communi- cation from St. Petersburg asking him how many he can supply for service The principal exports of the | | CHILDREN’S DEPARTMENT, LIGHT HEART. Little Paul Spry new how to fly Into his clothes in the morning. Little Paul Spry Always said ‘“I'ry,” And was up with the birds at the dawning. —M. R. 8, in Christian Register. TO MAKE A WIND HARP. ‘A great many of our readers are very clever little musicians, and some of them play several kinds of instru- ments, the violin, banjo, mandolin, ete., but there are still more of them who do not play at all, although they are Just as fond of music as the rest. Here is a way in which you can have all the music you want and music of a very high order, too, which none of your little friends can produce on their favorite instruments, no matter of the very oldest musicians in the world playing for you, and you may lis- ten to the very same melodies that the anicent Greeks used to hear and which they thought so beautiful that they said the spirit of musie, which they called the Great God Pan, was playing for them. This music is nothing but the wind, and it is ready at all times to play for you if you ‘will provide the instrument. 3 Take. two 3meéoth strips of board, each about two feet long and two inches wide, and join them together at angle, like two sides of a square. Now drive a row of tacks in each stick, having each tack about two inches apart, and your instrument is com- how hard they try. You may have one one end so that they will form a right- A huge fish, with big, grinding teeth dwells in salt water, and is found all along the United States coast from Massachusetts to Florida. It is called the drum, because of the deep, boom- ing noises that it makes. The drum feeds by preference on oysters and mussels, and when a school of the big fellows is gathered in a shallow bay on the oyster beds it often is possible on a still night to hear their deep booming plainly. Another salt water fish, the beauti- ful trout-like squeteague, utters a croak, extremely musical, much like that of a big bullfrog. squeteague, known as a ‘croaker. has magnificent crimson fins as big as a bird’s wings just behind tt» head, is another fish with a voice. He ut- ters a deep; loud: ‘quawk” when he is caught and repeats it-every time he is touched. . 7 The litter puffer, or swell fish, which has the ability to puff itself into a perfectly round ball, makes a hoarse, chucking sound as lie docs it. At the samé time he grinds his sharp “teeth ‘so that "it can be. heard four or five feet away. ’ The rabbit fish, the trunk. fish and the cow fish, ail armed with promiugnt teeth, grind and gnash.them dike. the swell fish. Lh The ugly skate curls itself up after gasps like a human being. The porpoise, which is not a true fish, but looks exactly like one, is PICTURE a — ve PUZZLE. CATE TIN orm ay . 33a Aa S THE FOREST AN Two woodmep were working when one of them broke the handle of his D THE WOODMAN. Another croaker is a fish allied to the The sea robin, so called because it being caught and grunts, groans and’ ax anil was unable to find a shaft suitable for a new handle. The woodman prayed.to the forest for the branch he sought and promised to go to another ‘land and spare the gracious fir and oak, and fell them no more. His prayer was granted; the woodman forgot his vow and the forest soon found her gift brought death to her. Find the other woodman.—From Brooklyn Daily Eagle. plete, all but the strings. For the strings get some long rubber bands, or, better still,. three violin strings. Stretch these very tightly across the angle formed by the two sticks, De- ginning at the two tacks at the little end of the angle. When you have fas- tened each string to the tacks so that it stretches tightly across the angle formed by the two sticks your work is finished and yeu have a harp which will look like the illustration. To hear it play you have only to fas- ten it outside of your window so that known as puffer, and puffing pig, be- cause of his ability to puff so loudly that a school can. pe heard for miles when the day is calm. A Carp and goldfish often make a curi- ous noise, but it is not uttering sounds in the meaning of the term used hegre, because they do it merely by approach- ing the surface of the water and blow- ing out air in bubbles till a rippling noise is produced.—Indianapolis News. WIIEN BIRDS HAD NO FEATHERS Did you know there was once a the wind will blow across the strings. TEE WIND HARP COMPLETE. As the wind strikes them they will hum as if struck by the fingers of a musician, and the notes will rise or fall as the wind blows strong or soft- ly, and wild, unearthly melodies will result from every gentle puff of the breeze. Do not put your wind harp out in damp weather, as the moisture in the air will spoil your strings.—Indianapo- lis News. FISH ARE NOT DUMB. The fishes are generally known as creatures that are completely dumb, but as a matter of fact there are a great many that utter loud sounds, in the Far East. time when birds had no feathers and no such beaks as now serve their pur- pose? According to naturalists and scientists, birds were oniy bat-like creatures thousands of years ago, with scales like fishes or lizards and webbed wings. © As these wings, however, had to be more and more depended upon as a means of escape from the in- creasing horde of their ground ene- mies, and the air surrounding the earth gradually grew cooler, the scales, generation after generation,, slowly turned to feathers, with light, air filled quills to aid in fiying, and soft, fluffy ends, to keep the bodies beneath them warm. Little by little, too, the great, savage looking, big toothed mouths that birds of thousands of years ago used to have changed to the small, pretty beaks that most of the feathered folk of to-day find sufficient for all their needs, The reason for this is similar to that for the exchange of scales for feathers. The food that they gradually grew to live on after they made their homes in. the world of air was not the sort that needed ferocious jaws, and so the muscles of their wings and claws grew stronger as those of their mouths grew smaller and their teeth disap- peared altogether. Theatre fires are to be studied ex- perimentaly in Austria by building a theatre one-fifth the normal size and subjecting it to various tests, FINANCE AND TRACE REVIEW CONSERVATISM A FEATURE. Manufacturing Firms Prepare for a Quiet Season—Many Workmen Laid Off. R. G. Dun & Co.'s “Weekly Review of Trade” says: Interruption of in- dustrial progress by the holiday labor conflicts and inclement weather again produced a somewhat unsatisfactory trade situation. Yet the money mar- ket is easy and accommodation read- ‘ily obtained in legitimate business channels. Liabilities. of mercantile failures are comparatively small, in- dicating that most concerns have pre- pared for a quiet season and are able to withstand a period of diminished sales and tardy payments. This con- semvative attitude is the fundamental- ly strong feature of the situation, and when business revives there will be no pressure to dispose of heavy stocks ‘of. undesirable goods. More manufac- turing plants have reduced hours or wages, and several strikes have added to the arnmiy of unemployed. No defi- nite’ change is reported in the iron and steel] industry, quotations being bare- ly. maintained and new contracts placed with great, More. machinery has stopped at some concerns ‘and running time is reduced at others. The impression is gaining ground that the declines in quotations will not go much further, and there is less dispositicn to secure new con- tracts by making concessions. Small orders for structural material are be- ment in pipe-and- plates, but the -de- railway equipment is distinctly un- satisfactory. In several .departments of the industry prices have declined syfficiently to attract business from abroad, and this increasé in exports is the best feature: of the situation. Little change is noted -in textile man- uiacturing conditions. Improvements is maintained in woolen goods, the demand showing greater diversifica- tion. Wholesale clothiers exhibit more confidence by making better pro- vision for their needs during the bal- ance of the season. Commercial fail- ures _this week in-the United States are- 220, against 226 last week, 236 the preceding week and 182 the cor- responding week last year. Failures in Canada number 26, against 17, last week, 12 the preceding week and 24 last year. MAREE EBETS. PITTSBURG. Grain, Fleur and Feed. WN heat—No. 2red.. 100 Rye—-No. 2... 32 Corn—No. 2 yellow 61 No. 2yeliow, sh 60 Mixed ear,...... 56 57 Oats—No, 2 white. 16 47 No. 8 white............ 45 46 Flour—Winter patent. 50) 515 Straight winters. 4 50 4 55 Hay—~No. Itimothy 5 14% er 11 75 26 00 23 50 23 00 12 00 11 00 Dairy Products. Butter—Elgin creamery 8 20 21 lio creamery... ae) Funcy country rol 13 14 Cheese—Ohio, new. . . 9 9 ew York, new... 8 9 Poultry, Etc. Hens—perty................;.... '&a | 15 Chickens—dressed . eda 10 17 Turkeys, Nive. ......)...0 0... raise 20 2] Eggs—Pa. and Ohio, fresh ......... 18 19 : Fruits and Vegetables. Potatces—Fancy white per bus...... 12 130 Cabbage-qrer bbl .... .......... L220 R00 Onions—per barrel .... 325 Bind Apples—per barrel......... au. 30) ©DJ BALTIMORE. E Flour— Winter Patent ................$490° 520 Wheat—No. 21ea 3 104 C ixed 58 C «18 es <1 PHILADELPHIA . Flour—Winter Patent $515 535 Wreat—No. 2red.. 104 1 Lorn—No, 2mixed 50 >: 51 Outs—No. 2 white. ... 48 | 49 Butter--Creamery, 2 22 Eggs—Pennsylvania firsts A7-, +18 NEW YORK.’ ¥lour-rlatents,,......................3500 55p Wheat—No, 2req. Corn—No. 2..,........ 0 ats—No, 2 White. . = utter—Creamery ............ ee 20) 20 Eggs—Stateand Pennsylvania... 1 LIVE STOCK. Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg. Cattle, Prime Leavy, 14010 1606 Ibs. ..85 40 550 Prime, 1500 10 1400 lbs. .... 585 585 Medium, 1200 to 1300 lbs. 500 525 Fatheflers.... .. 300 4 9. Butcher, $00 to 1000 ivs. .- - 360 440 toternon 10 fair... 00 300 370 Oxen,cominon to fat... ..... . .. 2@ 100 Common togood fat bulls and cows 250 35) Milch cows,each...... ..... 259) 800 Hogs. Prime heavy hogs......... 500 505 Prime medium weights. .. 50) 505 Best heavy yorkers and med 505 505 Good pigs and lightyorkers..... 495 5 (0 Pigs, common togood......... 40. 47 Kohghs! =. >. 40) 440 Stags 3 00 33 Sheep. Extra,medium wethers ............ $52 53 Good to choice .......... 46 510 Medium... |... 425 475 Common to fair. ses: 25) 350 Srring Lambs, .......... 500 800 Calves. Nealoxtra.......................... 425 50) val, good to choice. 350 425 Veal, common heavy. 30 35) The cinematograph is being used by Paris surgeons in teaching students how to perform various surgical] opera- tions. Edward Passwaters was instantly killed near Zanesville, presumably by being struck by a Zanesville and West- ern train. There is a strong belief that he was killed and thrown on the tracks. A gash across his abdomen which appears to have been inflicted with a sharp knife is the only ground for the belief. He was about 40 years old and leaves a wife and child. J. H. Ulrich, president of the Ohic Coal” Dealers’ association and for two years president of the National asso- ciation, died at Springfield of biood discrimination. - ing placed, and there is a fair move- | mand for rails, rolling stock and other .|. : g 2 Women After Middle Age. After middle age the average wo- man begins to carg¢ more for women than she does for men. Her allegiance undergces a psychic change, her eyes are opened, her judgment cleared, ana she learns to appreciate her own sex fully. The characteristics that seemed to her hateful frailties long ago, are defended now as their poetic distine- tions. She sees in évery girl the fair mirage of her own youth; in the pa- thetic, care-worn face of the young matron, the gentle heroism of her other years; in the mother of a grown family her own queen days when sons and daughters suddenly grew tall and proclaimed her. And for them all she has a chastened affinity. Men have passed out of her calculations. 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