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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.
Ladies Can Wear Shoes
One size smaller after using Allen’s Foot-
Ease, a powder. 1t makes tight or new shoes
easv, Cures swollen, hot, sweating. aching
feet. ingrowing nails. corns and bunions. At
all druggists and shoe stores, 25¢, Don’t ac-
cent anv substitute. Trial package FREE by
mail. Address, Allen 8. Olmsted, LeRoy, N.Y.
There is more steel used in the manu-
facture of pens than in all the sword and
gun factories.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, soften the gums, reduces inflamma-
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25¢.a bottle
A man knows less after marriage than a
woman does before.
. Piso’sCurefor Consumption isan infallible
medicine for coughs and colds,—N. .
SAMUEL, Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900.
A machine for condensing sea fog into
drinking water has been invented.
reer.
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-
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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
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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
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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
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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. They
are the things with whom she failed
or succeeded, from lover and husband
down to her youngest son. And, how-
ever much she remains dependent up-
on them; she is no longer related to
them in the same way. She has sur-
vived them and returned.to her own.
—Independent.
Professor Flinders Petrie recently
told an audience at Owens €ollege,
Manchester, England, that one spet:in
the ruins at Abydos, in upper Egypt,
tells a continuous story running back
cessive temples have been unearthed.
Tamarisk -timber 4000 years old has
.been found in perfectly sound condi-
tion in ancient Egyptian temples. Eg
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