— FRIENDSHIP. 1t's not in the new found friends you meet ; ! It’s all in the friends you hold: For an honest friend up to the end Is worth his weight in gold. Perhaps it’s true that faces new Some passing joys impart, But the steadfast friends are the ones who stay With a mortgage or A selfish world at the So whenever you strike a friend, Hook on and get a Nelson lock And hold him to the end; For you’ll find it true in this world of "ours Since ever old That an honest friendship, Sai Is God’s best gift to man. —Harry S THE DOL GERS. ir heart. hest it is; ime began, and tried . Chester. I wandered to the eity, Tom, And watehed the folks a while; And, say, the things I heard and saw Just made me want to smile. Why, everybody's dodging, Tom; s dodge. d g Oh, such af vhere; ALASKAN DOGS HALF WOLF, Invaluable to the Inhabitants—Serve as Draught Animals. The native Alaska dog is known as the “huskie’” or 'malamoot‘ and is a mongrel-—one-half timber wolf, says a writer in Leslie's Weekly. He has characteristics which especially fit him for his work—he is heavy set, with a thick coat of long hair, im- pervious to cold, and with just enough wolf in his nature to make him restless, eager to go, and with a sufficient mixture of dog to temper a flerceness and . treachery which dangerous. It Is a rare occurrence for them to bite a human being, but they will fight among themselves on the slight- est provocation, and it is not an un- common sight for half a dozen “huskies’’ to hold a pitched battle. A bucket of cold water will generally put them to flight, but in the major- ity of cases the miners pay no atten- tion to the melee and allow the dogs to fight it out. The wolf nature manifests itself in their thieving propensities, and all food must be ‘‘cached” out of thelr reach. A hungry ‘“huskie’” will open a box of canned beef with ease by biting through the tin. He will lie before the door of a tent or cabin, pretending to be asleep, when in They beat Of course, t! Tom— The wealth) The poor o! That runt And John! Pat in mi At dodging Who hun tay by day. | may ‘Alotofp Have busy {imes of late 3 | mont To dodge «1 That cries; ‘Inv And several men are dodging, The stern demand. “Resign!” It’s dodge. do lodoe Jodus dodge— Dodge all along the line. estigate !” Tom, and dodge, IPTION. Ark. WILL CURE A. A. Herren, “Foley’s 1] preparati trouble. sumption never lear Honey inti Soild by I'inch, writes: colds it has cured cone stages.” Using ath. Cy. & darerof rattie- snake ¢ nedy for rhiet- the t. ferocious matist nents, Mos Oakland, rors of | temper: nts, wasn week. ! town ble habi in. of see his ‘other Onk- land, for « fow days visit Cy. called at the editorial sanetam and informed unfavorable Mountain to SHRI gy who lives near us that snake weather. which must be warm _ and sultry. been few eral of then able to get thi at dem ‘ . ilthoush he has trailed sev- yto their dens, bat was un- out of the racks reports n and for snake oil, and says the demand by no means ean the ing of migrating to Oakland think be met dy, and he is by sUp| SeClio another Journal, LEE simpurii y do Foley’s | IASON IN from the se the this] rio=sible vind kidneys n will positively care all forms of k disease It strengthers Sal bv nll good Ward tire Kidney ( and bladder tne whole system Drug- s 2:4 8 7-1 eo Poison the English Sparrow. rist “Poison all of the English sparroas | is the text of a bulletin just | issued by the Department of Agricul- ture of National Government to | the farmer of the country. | object in view is to check the “ravages | of the boll weevil. The English it has been found, drives: owt insedtiverous, you can,” the The special | spar | “the row; 1 swallows, which are feed upon the weevil which injures the cotton crop. Now that the Govern- ment has taken up the matter of Eng- | lish Sparrow, it is hoped that it will be | checked in its villainous career. ! Another Germ Discovered Medical science is making great prog- | ress these days. Dr. Langdon, of Cin- cinnati, comes along to explode the old theory that “wine, women and worry” were the cause of paresis. Te says it is not due to dissipation, but to the existence of a bacillus. He calls the new found bug, “bacillus paralyticiaus.’ The Detroit Free Press proceeds to discuss it thus: “It is no fool of a bug. It doesn’t sound a warning upon arrival at its destination and urge its victim to re- form. Nor does it invite trouble from a man with health and strength to fight. It simply lies in the system and waits until riotous living has under- mined the constitution, and then gets busy. Paresis is the result.” It is a cheering thought that this Cincinnati physician gives us, and a new one. If you live a decent and sober life, the paresis bug may dwell in your system forever. While carousals and protracted sprees have nothing to ° oh the disease, they are good to discontinue if you want to be certain you won't get it.—The | New York World. | the best | and lung You | tersL last | from his hum- | hig victories for this season Have Fle i ,+| put the {| the and |- | turpentine | trees i than stumps of the pine trees, | orignially | redlity he is waiting for a chance to ransack the kithchen | One day I saw a miner's dinner | wrecked by his own dog, a splendid | big, wolfish fellow, who overturned | a pot of beans, and in the most un- | concerned manner walked off with fthe hot bacon in his mouth. | No matter what depredations they commit, severe punishment, so | as to cripple or kill them, is out of | the question on account of their great value in. the transportation of supplies: It is an inferior dog that is not worth $40, and many of them, say ‘their masters, are not for sale. Two good dogs can haul a man forty or fifty miles a day on a good trail or carry from 500 to 600 pounds of freight about 20 miles in 6 hours. Weather Forecasts No Joke. A large majority of the residents | of the inland cities look upon the | forecasts of the United States Weather Bureau in a spirit of fore- | bearance if not of levity. They ac- cept the jokes of the paragraphers about the unreliability of the predic- tions as practically true and if called to pass a serious opinion on would ‘in most cases de- designed | upon the bureau cide that it was primarily to furnish sinecure jobs to army offi- | | cers for whom no better employment | and | | could be found. At the ocean | Take ports, however, where millions | of dollars are invested in shipping, a different view is held. too numerous in which the averted the loss or | and cargoes of exceedingly i we. Here it is recognized that | forecasts are not invariably correct and the officials themselves make no pretense that they are, but in the I. main they strike so near the | that, Jhe man who has life and wealth that is subject to menace by { weather conditions cannot and not take chances. No shipping surance is so cheap as the free ad- i vice furnished by Uncle Sam. Rail- { roads, too, appreciate the value weather service especially in | Northwest during the blizzard | son and in the Southwest during the freshets. At these { transportation officials keep a close watch on the bulletins of the bureau and the movements of their trains accordingly. The avoided frequently are balance on the ledger. large val- the sea- Spring gauge losses sufficient to right Utilizing Pine Stumps, denuding of the American to m odd re- the deficiency. The announced that in which The .foests is rees leading any SON to supply government recently owing to the rapid manner forests are being mowed down to secre wood pulp for paper making a small army of experts were work, hunting for some abundant material like swamp or prairie grass that would be suitable for paper niaking. long ago the nut- lumber for tically exhausted ly taken its place. some time the makers have been puz- zled to find raw material to meet the growing demands of their trade which threatened to make inroads on the pine forests. were being they could be grown meant disaster. Then turned to the refuse already used and made which demonstrated furniture and For was oak has large- of the forests been passed over as not worth the trouble of digging out, were ‘saturated with raw turpentine. These stumps immediately took on a commercial value which will fur- nish small fortunes to the men who own them. In some cases the inter- esting question has been raised as to whether the stumps were a part of the original timber right sold by the farmer to the turpentine maker or reverted to the owner of the land after the trees had been cut. Rapid Trestle Building. The rapid reconstruction of a trestle was recently carried on at Galveston, Texas. Fire destroyed 400 feet of the long railroad trestle which extends from the mainland to the city and stopped trafic. The con- struction froces and materials were Immediately started to the work, [| by midnight of the same day th trestle was sufficiently repaired kllow traffic to be resumed. or Hive. -anthorities forever. might, and sometimes does, become | writing than reading, and, Instances are | heeded | warning of the weather observer has | damage of ships | the | truth | does | in- | of the ! seasons | thus | side of | { fCure at | supply of wal- | + prac- | serious | The | used much, faster | and this | attention was | experiments were | that the] which had | -~ NATURAL DETBOTIVE FORO: Why Man Who Oommits Crime in Alaska Cannot Escape. “We have a better detective force in the cold country than there is in the States,” says Gov. H. P. Hoguart of Alaska, in the Washington Post. “That detective force is nature. When a man commits a crime in ‘te States he has many places to hiie, and he often manages to evade-t' If one of oir people who does something wron.: believes the climate of some other country will better suit his healt end he makes for that countr: undertakes the impossible. All! we have to do is to sit and waft. "rh ra Iz -only one way out of Alaska. : is by coming to the coast. ha that ail _When the criminal comes to the coast be'ls sure to be caught. ‘So well has the United States Siznal Corps done its work in Alaska that we have .a telegraph ln» to every mining camp of import «nd when a man takes leg bail theres is to do is to telegrag coust towns, and the authorities wilt for the man. It would be iripossi I= for the poor fellow to try to get awa, by any other route than the becanse he would never live to re- late his experience. “On the other side of the cogs range of mountains are vast plains, stretching - for many hundreds of miles, wholly uninhabited.” nl On ac- count of the haste with which crimi- | £ with nals generally leave there is no time in which to provide an adequate out- fit, if such a thing were possible. “But: itis seldom that it is neces- | sary to make use of this natural de- -tective force to track. wrongdoers. I will venture to sas-that there is no country in the world where the peo- ple are as orderly as they are in Alaska. All the tales of lawlessness of the mining camps of the forty- niners are not repeated in Alaska: From the very first the people have been orderly, ‘and they make it so uncomfortable for the criminal who comes among them that he is glad to leave. To Avoid Nearsightedness.. Theoretically, the guard for the eves shown in the illustration pre- sents a very good idea. Whether its use is practical is an open question. It is well known that children as a rule are inclined, while reading, to hold the book too close to ‘the eyes. This habit is still more marked in undoubtedly sightedneéss. is responsible for near- Statisticians claim that the: poor eyesight prevalent 2liildren of all countries can {ributed to this cause. A German ha d this guard especially to pre- holding the head too low reading or writing, It is wire ork which to the aniong lesigne vent simply: a can he book. The bar does framew reac itv clamped tion of the upper the view in: the least, child would experience diffic rting the head in the frame , vis oat all events a commendable and, if not practical in so in another. posi- not ol hut i T1 ‘orm, is certainly A Fruitarvian Diet. A fruitarian diet consists of the ol trees (like apples, oranges, and olives), the fruits cif (like strawberries and and beans and cucumbers), fruits of: grasses (like wheat and and maize and oats), cuits of nut trees (from filbert to cocoanut), together with some earth fraits (like potatoes), and a moudi- of may be and roduction is contamination ton as is the with of the vegetable kingdom and t! world of fruits. Grown under health, onditions, with diseased specimens casy to detect and remove, it more possible to live healthily and well upon a fruitarian dietary than upon the products of the slaughter house.—Westminster Review. lrallasS ants melon cniils Lariey vegetables added butter, mili, althougzli the sO’ free fron ris! nies product Sui these oney cheese, not animal the and case is far Average Speed of Clouds. A member of the staff of the Blue Hill Observatory; near Boston, has reported that observations made there show: that the average speed with which clouds, between 8,000 and 9,000 feet high, move is sixty miles an hour in midsummer and one hundred and ten miles an hour in midwinter. The swiftest flight of a cloud yet measured was 230 miles an hour. China's Mania for Railroads. Hardly a province of China has es- caped the recent mania for railways, and if all the lines projected are carried out some of the remotest parts of the Empire will be renderad easy of access by the iron road. yh to tha! | Cricket coast, | froin | between the window in time, | same house grav | self one | Paul. { upon one side and | out | Thomas, i that be at- | the parrot. ul was pre whi. | [ self I Thomas’ ;ulty Pad | when he this | upon 7) | ons into the cat's fur: | to | beak. | of fur air. | fairly | was | good and salads. To | . South,” | One eve ralitble " Fthe | he Cricket’ s s Sunbeam Cricket’'s mamma was ill. At this thought the child often grew grave In the midst of her play and asked when mamma would be better. Before Mrs. Flitner was well enough to- go about freely again there came a week of sharp east winds and rain. She felt that every day indoors was a'loss to her, and it was at legst a cheo : She complained, perhaps too nitions ly, of not having been able to drive out for so long a time, never guess- ing how her little child suffered in sympathy. “If it rains to-morrow,” she cried, at last, to a friend, *'I certai divide myself and go to buff: She. lying upon the twiii when she { 21 loss~of was 1onnge ai foots sat on a at her side with hand in hers: How could the little five yen: know that this was only a Shakespeare? She tones, but SHE that -the quotat heard impatient Bt i understand words. im { something bad for her sick me: At bedtime the nurse found leaning out of an open wind the rain beating ag little face. When spoken to she i up her head as a signal for si and then after a moment allowed the window to be closed. Dut could not learn why she was The next morning she Mrs. Flitner’s room. “Mamma, mamma! go to buffins; you can See what a nice day you.’ “I need not go where, Cricket. And you have brought me a nice day? Is it you, my little one?” “Yes, mamma; it is me. Because last night IT asked God to send uc sunbeam to-day; and the vind toc! my voice way up. And: there's sii beams all over the sky: but that's for me and you, mamma,’ ainst SO -(quie he et tne: vurst. mu Need Ti to - rid bron vou £20 I’ve and. she pointed to a flood of light pouring in 1angings. Dear little Cricket, your love faith sent the sunbeams to mother's heart. if not to her And it is true. that God at some time sends sunbeams to us all. If we were only childlike enough to know they were meant for us. oid dau your eyes. Paul and Thomas. Harry’s who lived in t Harry, ‘had a big made himself ve and considered fii His nan aunt, with parrot who at home, of the much family, Harry would sometimes lift ta parrot high in the air upon ger. Then Paul would cock talk way one fin- his head down in his throat. Harry was playing thus with Poul one day when some one called him He set Paul upon the floor and ra of the room to see what w: wanted. In a few: minutes in walk the hig house cut Thomas had had his eye on Pun for a long time, and when he cg upon him thus, walking upon the floor, he said here was his chance. slunk around behind a ¢! began to slowly black about alo to ] hime} He and creep tow: red tail and seemed to be attention. Thomas suddenly and then ’ with claws Panl ech the bi gathei fo1 ane oil as the cat made up into the air. n he lande black head his long, enrving came dow romas’ He gripped and then he his hoo! out with strong, pulled work He and whole bunch caltered them in to (1 Thomas squalled and meowoed wrenched himself free, when tore out of the room. “Squawk!” “said = Paul, a sign that he ha time. he Harry's Chickenes. lived ‘way do: just as full of mi thirteen could b Le came home -afte through the woods river and. said to his Harry, who was eight years than himself: “Harry, you Sammy Brent and chief as a boy of was ning and brot! young take these threo eggs and put them in a: box of sand and set it in the sun, and after a while you'll have three of t! fun- niest chickens you ever saw.” Harry followed his brother’s direc- tions, and morning, noon and night might be seen watching for brood to poke their bills out of the sand. At last, one hot day just before noon, the sand began to move and the gqueerest kind of a chicken came out. It had a long horny bill, a long flat body without feathers or wings, four feet and a tail nearly as long as its body. As soon as Harry’s excited eyes could see clearly he exclaimed: ‘Oh! Oh! It’s a alligator! It’s a alli- gator come out of an egg!” That was the way Harry learned that the alligators bury their eggs in the sand and wait for the sun to hatch them, and as saon as the young alligators appear the mother con- ducts them to the water. his ‘Why chine ed back the 1 be running me will stage. Gladwys, never thij Judy. No Use fp “You'll tal course. We'r 8 poor cripple ’ “None fou know w! One, n’t eripnle if I wo Johny S50 Why are niany buying from ‘the dler? Tommy holidays in it anac Shi. it a school than ore any other al- Pre oce enpicd. ean 1} nian of the and for- the on the cultivation I and he's gone away got-to pay m 1 can't for Ine reni¢ to- Go, Not Ilcady Mother (at end of story) —-Anu wa .angel came and fetched him away, dear. Dear (who is going to a party that evening) —Well, if an angel should happen to call for me this afternoon, please tell him I'm out.—The Tatler. iid: ped- 1e fellow's name.” “PAIN Pain in the head—pain anywhere, has its cause. | Pain iscongestion, pain is blood pressure—nothing else usually. At least, so says Dr. Shoop, and $0 prove it he has created a little pink tablet. That tablet—called Dr. Shoop's Headache Tablet— coaxes blood pressure away from pain centers. Its effect is charming, pleasingly delightful. Gently, | though safely, it surely equalizcs the blood circa. | lation. | If you have a headache, it's blood pressure. If it's painful periods with women, same cause. If you arc slioepless, restless, nervous, it's blood congestion—blood pressure. That surely is ' certainty, for Dr. Shoop's Headache Tablets stop it in 20 minutes, and the tablets simply distribute the unnatural blood pressure. | Bruise your finger, and doesn't it get red, and swell. and pain you? Of course it does. It's con- , gestion, blood pressure. You'll find it where pain fs—always. It's simply Common Sense. We sell at 25 cents, and cheerfully recommend Dr. Shoop’s Headache Tablets ELK LICK PHARMACY. A PROMPT, EFFECTIVE REMEDY FOR ALL FORMS OF RHEUMATISM Lombage, Sciatica, Neuralgls, Kidney Trouble and Kindred Discases. GIVES QUICK RELIEF Applied externally it affords almost in- stant relief from pain, while permanent results are being effected by taking it in- ternally, purifying the blood, dissolving the poisonous substance and removing it from the system. DR. S. D. BLAND Of Brewton, Ga., writes: “I had been a sufferer for a number of years with Lumbago and Rheumatism in my arms and legs, and tried all the remedies that 1 could gather from medical works, and algo consulted with a number of the best phy Atoiane but found nothing that gave the I ned from ROPS, I shall pres be it in my practice for rheumatism and Lina red disease DR. C. L. GATES Hancock, Minn., writes: **A littlegirl here had such a weak back cansed by Rheumatism and Bidney Trouble that she § i could not stand on her fee The moment they | put her downon the Hoor sho would feream with paing. [treated her with *5-DROP 5 and today she runs aro: as well and ! as can be. 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