a Choice Occupation. , .They were making out the dance list tor prospective ball and were put ting down lancer, waltsea, two-steps, arte., when they were Interrupted. "What are you doing?" tald the new comer. "Don't you tee?" replied the wit ef the family. "Picking hops." North (American, Even Wont than I.atfu '"Why are the Doshlelgb girls In pwurnlngr "An unrip of theirs was accepted as I Juror last week." . Ok, Whst IplendU Coffta. ! Mr. Goodman, Williams Co., III., writes: "from one package Raiser's German Coffee Berry costing ISo 1 grew too tba. of better coffee than 1 caa buy In stores at SO cents a IK" A. C. 6. A package of this coffee and big seed and plant catalogue Is sent you by John A. Baiter Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., upon receipt of IS cents stamps and this notice. Poor Baby Will not strangle and die with Croop it Ho, tie's U. 0. C In used No opium to stupefy, no Ipecac to nauseate. 60 conta. Tits nemanentl T en not No flu or nerve. Dim after AnI dar's una f rat day's use of Dr. Kiln.'. Ureal Verve Raatorar. M trial bottle and treatise frea Dm. il n. Kuan, Ltd. ui Area au'uua.rt. The rate of the growth of human hair Varies. In some caeca It has been known to exceed two Inches per month. The average for man and woman la about halt an Inch every SO days. . T Cars A Oald la Oae Day. "Fake Laxative Rmnn QninlneTableta. All braggtste refund mon.y If it fail, to oare. Mo. ' .The cat was considered a sacred ani mal by the ancient Inhabitants of Hell opolls, Egypt. When one of these ani mals died In a private residence, the occupants shaved off their eyebrows. Chew Star Tobacco The Best. Smoke Sledge Cigarettes. Great Voters. Britain has 135,000 Illiterate BloodHumors Spring la the Cleansing Season Don't Neglect Your Health , You Heed to Take Hood's Sarsa parllla Now Spring is the season for cleansing and renewing. Everywhere accumulations ol waste are being removed and preparation! for the new life of another season are betng made. This Is the time for oleanslng your blood with Hood's Sarsaparllla. Winter baa left the blood Impure. Spring Humors, Bolls, pimples, eruptions, and that tired feeling are the results. Hood's SarsaparTlla expels all Impurities from the blood and makes It rich and nourishing. It ballets up the nervous system, ereatee an appetite, gives sweet, refreshing sleep and renewed energy and vigor. It cares 1 prlng humors, bolls, pimples, eruptions. Hood's Sarsa- parllla Is America's Greatest Medicine. II; atx for IS, Prepared by O. I. Hood Co., Lowell, Mam. Unnrl'a. Pills. " the only Pllli to take . W V M W ...W 1 with Uood'a Sarsaoarflla. WlWWIHMt FOn 14 CENTS Wt wf.b U si. 1W.0M a tat i rW liu.r nultia, . It. Btnurek O.o.sib.f, let & Vtetori. Utlaat, Uo Ilvadrk.Mtlta. U JaaiW OUat Oaio., .ti " BrUU4atrTwwSMda B Warlh SI., IW1 Mttv k Akfra IS akt awMk tl wa frill WU ye frM, toaMkw aiti gnat Plus ui CWMM iina lMt t aoMM sat Ut. aiwag.. Waiafli.iM.tiea. aad a ta man try tlM I I I I B.w ika maa try tlMf- HOMMONIIOr BINOHAMTON.N.V PATENTS O fiiriint Fftnwr vltI a worldV-lds WrepaiauoB. iuaj.&naMisMMuMiMsi. g?iu:.i and Llqaor Habit euied la uusv oaya no iy cm ru rod. Dr. J. It. Htenheaa. Dept. A, LatHUMB, Ohio. r j - Ladies Wanted. at aoaltioa . $4t yc BMath abd ftU ipuM4 ENSI0N8, PATENT8, CLAIMS. y- TttLKI!3 KACHIKESilUMratlriars aSHriai TalMng Macmaa Cq. ayracuaa. M. Y, n I M r j i GSED OALOIMO FUG CCO TIN TO rMun nut n 1 .saaaawsaa.aaMaaaawaasssaaaaaaaaaas flHl n "1 from proest or palat dealer and do your owa kal- VwaiWtwW toaaii Ihls saatarial is made oa aeienttao ia Waarty-foar tints aad la superior to ey eeoooeMen of Olna aad Wbtt it (at eaa possibly be made by band. Xo m mxih wrm Oox Wxmm.1 LJXZXn VOn Altri.E COIXa CARDS and if you eaanot rarehsae this material fro a your tooal dealarf Utjaa know and va tUl j -J yoi the way of obtaining it. . -, ," V 7 1 nC3ALO CO., MEW BaUCnTOBf, 1., HEW TOBtt. or r z'l r:1 C.'f TCI T.c:rre (i Cst!:i ef To Dxy." - One Woman's War. ' Mr. Bklnner Oh, but I wish I was a man. Mr. Skinner "Why so, my dearf Mrs. Bklnner I was Just thinking to day if I was only a man, how happy I could make my wife by giving her a diamond necklace for a birthday pres to.!.. The Proper Way to Do. Drown How Is your friend Green getting along In the grocery business 1 White He's not making his salt. Brown wffy, what'e the troublel White Oh, nothing: he buys It. , k liQe or rrosssoianoa, It la always diverting to watch bow a ware of small Intellectual reform will from time to time sweep over a "set" or a community, or, Indeed, an etrtlrt locality, says the New York Bun. II Is so catching, so Inevitable, Every body goes down before K. Anything novel or out of the way In expresaioh Is the popular Infection Just now. Foi example "half after four" Instead o "half past four," "keen" for "quick" or 'eager and "delectable" for any thing from "nice" to "Just too perfectly lovely for anything." Thla fashion haa, however, less to commend tt that K M not so much a tribute to good English as to silly Americana namely, the An atomaniacs. Pronunciation affords a fine Instance of tbe way that women afl follow suit like a row of bricks or a Dock of Sheen . or anything also that symbolize hi mony and accord. Just let a club preal dent or any acknowledged leader atari In by saying eppendlcytle or co-quetry, or anything else foreign to the eppen dtceetts, or coquetry that they have all been saying for so many years, and prestot tbe eletght-of-hand maa couhtnt make quicker work of ft, Al) this lirat eaylng that It isn't highly . laudable and well tnteirtloned. Lis everything else culture Itself baa to harem start) and: not unlike everything else If apt to be funny While K a ad refreahlrigly new. B.vn worav man xfeatn. Jack Potts What will you charge ts make a good stout poker trunk? Trunkroaker What do you mean by "poker" trunk? jack Forts one um bolds four trays. It Is often a hard matter to convince a brass bond that tt isn't the entire pro cession. Thiw. hiwnm Cbirrti In thla aectfon of the nwnhw Him Mil other dlflttAae. nnfe trareth.r. anaunoi iireiaacrew years wn.upnnsenoDt incWKVnv rnr a grrnt many years nociora r-Tnn-UTe.T-0 It a mrsi disease ana preernoea oral IV Vrumfhtfi. and by ooDatnntly fnlllnit te vitui local treatment, pronounced It ln ifrinll In. rlnlenoe haa prown catarrh to be a onnourntionat illeeBas ami uicrcrcire rwrairca cooBtltoitlonaltrratiiieiit Hall's Catarrh Uura, mnimftu tiirtMl by F. J. rhrntty Co.. TolediK Oil hi, t tba only eonntitutlonal cure on the market. It l taken Internally In dneea from (itrofi to a nwnpnonriu. it acts oirecuy on the blood and iiiucoufl snrfaiwa of the system. They olrer one ininrimi dollar for any caaa It fallatoonra. Kend for clrciilara and textl inonluK Add reus F.J. CnsNSYdt Ca,Toledo, (X (oui by DrnRKiKrn. ioc. Hall's Family l'llla an the best mm. Wlnlow' Poothins Ryran rover leethlng. aorteu the (Pim,rdQcfnilnfli (ion. allays pain, sores wind oolicSkxe foraMMrsa lnnamma4 After phyioHans bad Siren me np, I was area oy 1'ito e cure. kaltb KBisat wu utHMpon, i Btur. ks, inu, ST0EIE8 OF RELIEF. Two Letters to Mrs. Ptnkham. Mrs. John Williams, EngHshtown, ct. J., wrttcsi " Dbar Mrs. PrsmiAMt I caonot be gin to tell you how I suffered before taking yonr remedies. I was so weak that I oouklhardlywalk across tbe floor wrtftoat falltno, I had womb troubM and such a bearing-down f eoltng t alM suffered with my back and.Rmba, pain In womb, Inflammation of the bladder, piles aad indigestion. - Before I hod taken one bottle of Lydla E. Plskham's Vegetable Compound I felt a great deal better, and after taking two and one half bottles and half a box of youi Liter PUla I wo cored. If mora would take your medicine they would not have to suffer so much." , Mrs. Joseph Peterson, MS East 61 Warren, Pa., writes: v "Dsab Mas. PrxKnAx: I have suf fered with womb trouble over fifteen years. I had inflammation, enlarge ment and displacement of the womb. I had the backache constantly, also headache, and was so dizzy.' I had heart trouble, it seemed as thoajrh mi heart was in my throat at timea choir ing me. I could not walk around and I could not He down, for then my heart would beat so fast I would feel a though I was smothering. I had to ait up In bed nights in order to breathe. I was so weak I conld not do any thing. "I have now taken several bo ti tles of Lydla E. Pinkham'a Vegetable .Compound, and used three - pack ages of Sanative Wash, and can say I am perfectly cured. I do not think I could have lived long if Mrs. Pink- ham's medicine had not helped ma, tturi j prineislea by aaaehinery and milled s "THE RIOOLE OF THINC3 THAT ARE.' We walk In a world where no maa reads i The riddle of thins that are. From a tiny fera In the valley's heart To the light of the largest star, Tot we know that the pressure ol lite nsrn And the stlenne of Death Is deep. As we fall and rise on the tangled wa) That leads to the gate of Hleep A mother's In a darkened -room, where the 1 shutters were closely bowed and tied with broad black riblxins, a Indy was unfolding and stroking with tender hands the contents of a small trunk. Mot packed for a traveler's comfort, the trunk contained only the posses sions of a babe a year old, who had "gone before" to the heavenly home. For six months the bereaved mother bad made a weekly visit to the trunk, unfolding and refolding every baby garment, packing carefully the baby toys and stroking tenderly every tiny object endeared by the touch of the little one she had lost. Yet, on the day when the sixth month had rolled by, her tears fell npou tbe dainty em broideries, the worn socks, tbe broken toys as fast as on the day when she first put aside the clothes Baby Willie would never wear again. Her dress of heavy black, loaded with crnpe, suited well her pale, tear-stained face, heavy eyes and grief-drawn month. While she was yet busy at her mournful task the door opened softly and two beautiful boys of four years old, her twin sons, Eddie and Charlie, came into the room. Heeing their mother busy, they softly stepped to her side and stood quiet until Eddie spied a tin horse and wagon on the floor. A moment later he had grattned it and was pulling it down from the sumluit of a pile of little garments. Down toppled the whole pile, the cart rattling noisily. The mother looked around with a quick frown. You naughty, heartless boy I" she cried, sobbing. "How can you touch your poor, dead brother's things? I think yon are old enough to know poor line is gone, never to come back, and mamma is so sad so Here the sobs choked her, and the children, terrified, began to cry, too. "Eddie sorry," one sobbed; "don't kv, mamma." "Is Charlie bad boy, too?" asked the other, with a piteous wait in his voice, that should have gone straight to the mother s heart. "Go to the nursery," she sold, ami the little ones trotted off, hand iu hand, vaguely conscious thut they were in disgrace anil ready to be com forted by rosy-cheeked Nannie, their nurse. "Ami, dear known," said that warm hearted individual to the cook, "it is a shame for the poor dnrliugs. It's not blaming Mrs. Aiken I am for cry ing her eyes out for the beautiful bov ahe lost. Didn't I love every curl of his hair, the pretty pot. But look at the two that's left. . Wouldn't they be a comfort to anybody, aud Mrs, Aiken only speaks to them now to set them crying. Hure she can't expect babies like them to remember their brother more than six months, and if they were downright wicked she couldn't be harder than she is if they laugh or romp. Klie 11 break their spirits en tirely." And the mother, rocking to and fro. with the picture of her dead boy clasped to her heart, was thinking: "Everybody is forgetting Willie but me. Jint I will never forget. I will never, never cease to mourn for my tuning, un, wuuei wiiiiel" Breaking lu upon her sobs came a whistlers merry whistle of a popular tone, aad the door of the darkened room 'opened again noisily. "Where are you, Busy? Oh!" Voioe and face fell, and Mr. Aiken stood, silently at the door, his eyes slowly garnering tbe mournful expres aion suited to the funereal aspect of tne scene before him. "I was hoping yon had gone out when I did not find you in the sitting room," lie said, "but Nannie told me yon were upstairs. I wish you would not spend so much time in this room. ousy. 11 is wearing away your neaitn." "Oh, Fred," the mother sobbed. "how can you whistle) I don't expect sorrow or sympathy from the children. but you I thought yon loved Willie so dearly. "So I did, Susy, but I made a most fortunate investment in business few weeks ago, and today I was able to pay off the mortgage on the house. I did feel light-hearted when I thought 1 haa secured a noma for my family," "Oh, Fred! how can you think of money and houses wheu onr beautiful boy lies dead!" The young hnsband stood shame faced and penitent. In tbe shadow of the darkened room, with Willie's picture on ths wall, Willie's clothes revealed by the open lid of the trnnk. Willie'a toys standing on the floor, it aid seem cruel and heartless to think of anything bat the lost child. And Fred had loved hia baby boy with all a father's fondness aad grieved for bim deeply and truly. So be stood aileutly watting while Snsy dried her ayes and "came to his side.- Carefully closing tha door of the ' room where she kept tha preoious souvenirs of her bov, she followed her husband to the dining room. Everywhere the Dowea suuiters sept out Uod't sun light, and the house was as dark and gloomy as if a corpse awaited burial tnare. Awed by tha father's grave face, tha mother's look of woe, tha ehildren ate silently, gladly scrambling down and soaping to Nannie aad tha n artery waeu tue uiitasr was over, "Coma, Easy," fred laid, nX r7e know that ths problems of Bia and 1'aln, And the pssnlont that lead to ertms, Are the mynterlna locked from age to age In the awful vault of Timet let we lift onr weary feet and strive Through the mire and mist to trope And And a ledge on the mount of Faith In the morning land of Hope. William H. Hnyne, in Harper's Weekly. flistake. afford to take a few leisure hours to day. I will get a carriage, and we will take the children out. A run on the seashore will do us all good, for the westher is getting hot." 'Oh I Fred, drive me to Greenwood. It is nearly a month since we were there." 'Well, as you wish, "said Ffed.pity- ng the pale face and really fearing that he was growing heartless. "We can take the children down to Bath afterward. " Nearly a month after the day de scribed, which was a fair specimen of tbe days preceding it 'for six long months, a silver-haired old lady sat knitting in a cheerful sitting room. In a sleeping room beyond a lady lay upon the bed,' resting after an excit ing talk, weary with crying and half sleeping. While the old lady plied hrfr needles tth her sweet, placid face clouded by some troubled thought, Fred Alkeu came into the room. "Ohl" he said, kissing her fondly, 'you always look cheerful here, mother." "I am glad you still love your old home, Fred," was the reply. "Yes. Have you seen Susy to day!" ' iSlie was here this morning, and "Hoe she told you I am going to accept Russell's offer and take the California branch of the business?" "Hhe said yon thought of it. But, Fred, I hoe you will think' better of it. Yon are doiugwell here, and your first duty is to your own home." "I have no home. "Fred, yon shook ine!" "There in a , funeral ' vault np town where I live," was the reply, "but the home I' had there ia gone. I have been patient, mother, as yon advised me. I have not said one harsh word to Hnsy. I rexpeoted her sorrow and tried to comfort her, lint I toll you frankly that I shall become innnue if I do not get away. It is useless for me to tell you that I loved my boy, my little Willie, as fondly as ever father loved a son. I grieved for him sin cerely, but after my first shock of pain wofl over I thought of him safe in God s care, happy, released from all the sorrows of this life, and was com forted. God has left me my wife, -my two noble boys and my own home, health and strength. It seemed to me monstrous aud wicked to see no light or hope in life because a babe had returned to Heaven pure and spotless. But Hnsy would not see the loss in this light It became her religion to mourn for her baby ceaselessly and hopelessly, Hhe hugged her grief to ber heart till the whole world was dark, and would hear no word of com fort." "Have you told her what yon have just told me of your own source of comfort? "Over and over again, but she only sobs more pitifully because I do not share her feelings. You advised me to be patient, to lot time carry its healing to her. I have been patient, bnt I am losing my own powers of usefulness in the dreary atmosphere of my once pleasant hbme.' 'My boys are gtpwing pale and thin in the un natural suppression of their baby spirits. Busy hus actually persuaded them that it is a sin to romp, to make a noise or laugh, and I have seen Ed die put his finger on his lip and say to Charlie: , " 'Don't laugh! You forget baby bruzzer.' " "Fredl" "I assure yon I do not exaggerate. The house is like a prison. Every room is kept darkened, and the whole atmosphere is heavy and actually chilly in this glorious summer weather. Busy nurses her sorrow till it is be coming a monomania." "Cannot yon coax her out?"' "She will go nowhere but to Green wood, and the last time we were there she fainted on Willie's grave. " "She is not strong." "Because ' she - shuts herself up olosely in the house, dark aud gloomy at a vault, destroys her appetite anil weakens her whole system. I cannot use any sternness, exercise any strong authority, for it seems like actual bru tality and want of feeling for her sor row. But I must escape. I am be coming unfit for business, and Mother, I have actually been tempted to Join bachelor parties to get rid of tbe neoessity of returning home to meet only darkness, tears and repiu ingl" "Ohi Fred, yon frighten met" "I frighten myself I It is because I am losing my strength to resist auch temptations that I am considering this California oner. Busy will then have no one to oousider, and I will have at least air and light out of business hours. - Mother, advise met What can I do? If it is cowardly to ruu sway, shirk my duties as husband aud father, I will stay; but I tell you frankly I am afraid I shall be driveu to negleot home, wife and children it I find nothing there but gloom and dark nets." There was a rustling noite in the sleaping room aa Fred ceased speak ing, and tha door, which had stood ajar, waa pushed open. Busy stood apoa tha threshold, bar heavy black draperies ttill clinging around her, bnt her face lifted with a look npon it that went to Fred'a heart. - It waa the expression of so much penitence, snob, heart-stricken remorse, that he held out both hands, to gather her closely in hie arms. Then she spoket "Forgive me, Fred, and stay with met I did not mean to be an eaves dropper, bnt I heard all you said, and I see how wickedly selfish I have been. You were so kind, so tender, that I did not realize what I was doing in my neglect of yon and our boys. , Do not go away, Fred!" "Never, Busy, if yon bid me stay." "I do. Mother,you will help me to keep him." "Not nowl I must give my answer this morning. I am off now, bnt I will be home to dinner." It wss still daylight ou the summer afternoon when Fred Aiken came home. Before he entered the house he drew a deep sish of relief, seeing the shutters of every window opened ana the light shaded only by inner curtains. Iu the sitting room Eddie and Charlie, long banished because they were noisy, were building block houses. Their dress showed ptaihly that Nannie bad no longer sole con trol of their appearance, end on each little face was a serene happiness, as if some long-felt restraint was gone. Husy.in a dress of black, thin goods, had pnt snowy rufOes at wrists aud throat and, for the first time since her baby died, had arranged her hair fashionably and becomingly. Upon her face, still pale and thin, was a smile of welcome for Fred, and tha kiss of greeting he gave her was cor dially returned. - "Papal" the boys shouted, "see ub tumble' down the tower mamma built." And down the rattling blocks, without any qnick cry of restraint for their noise or the gleeful shouts of the little ones. It is nearly seven years now sinoe Baby Willie was laid to sleep in Greenwood. Two little girls are playmates for Eddie and Charlie in Mrs. Aiken s nursery, and another little grave marks a second bereave ment. But the mother has learned well the lesson impressed upon her heart when the selfish sorrow so near ly blighted her home. The little ones God has taken can never be forgotten. Tears still fall over their pictures, the silent souve nirs of their brief hves.but the duties to the living are never forgotten in sorrowing for tbe dead. What God has takeu to His own care the mother has learned to resign submissively, thanking Hiin for the blessings spared, shutting out no sunlight He gives and treasuring gratefully the memories of brightness with the sorrow of the little lives euded. New fork News. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Indian ink comes from China, and consists of lampblack and glue. A partridge with white wiugs has been eluding the best English sports men about Ledbury. The longest continued cataleptic sleep known was reported from Ger many in 181)2. It continued four and one-half months. Cnrnpay is a Paraguayan wood of reddish color and extremely hard. It lasts for years under ground or in water and is chiefly used for railway sleepers. The Good Habit society now has 2000 members. It was started by Harvey Prentice, a Chicago school boy. Its chief pledge is to treat everybody with kindness. In the jnngles of Sumatra the larg est spiders are found. Home of the largest specimens measure eight inches across the back and have seventeen inches of leg spread. What is probably the most venera ble piece of furniture in existence is now in tbe British Museum. It is the throne of Queen Hatsu, who reigned in tbe Nile valley some 1600 years be fore Christ. Temper lamp chimneys by putting them in a pan of cold water on the range and bringing the water to a boil, letting the glasses oool in the water after being removed from the heat. If the brass catches are not too tight, breakages will be few. A female towncrier fulfils her duties in the Scottish town of Dunning, Perth shire. Hhe is a hale, hearty old dame of seventy, locally known as the "bell wife," and is very proud of having proclaimed the Queen's birthday for fifty-three years running. Formerly in India, Biam and other Eastern countries, Malay men driven mad by opium hasheesh or other di ugs, would run about frantically, sword in hand, striking at any one they might happen to meet and crying, "Amok, amok," kill, kill. The phrase "to run amuck" comes from that. Fred Bird of Quitniau, Kan., hat brought suit against Jamea Glover of tha tame town for 5000 damages. Bird alleges that in a publio place, with crowds to see and multitudes to laugh, Glover did, with intention and malice aforethought, pull a chair from under him at he was about to sit down. The joke resulted iu a broken leg, and Bird wants pay for the leg. Three Dollar, a Head tot Cuyotes. The people of western Kansas are organizing to exterminate the coyotes, which have multiplied by the thou sand. Hundreds of sheep and young calves have beeu killed by them. The commissioners of Pawnee comity of fered a bounty of $3 for every scalp brought to the county treasurer, Sportsmen are organizing to join in the fight against tha coyotes, which are simply a speciea of prairie wolf. At IS a head hunters can make good wages.- Dogs are of no value, because cm coyote can whip three dogt. NO.' 088. This BleVv Pol. Ithed solid oaks drawer Chiffon ier measures M Inches high, M Inches wide. It inohct deep, tach drawer It furnished with the belt looks, and 83.00 'buys this esaat f pleee of furni ture which re tails for 18.(10. (Order now and avoid d!anpontmnt.) Drop a postal for our lithographed Carpet Catalogue which shows all colors wltheiaot distinctness. If carpet am ple, are wanted, mall ut (0. In samps, why pay your local dealer BO per cent, more than our prices when you can buy of the mill? The great household educa tor ournew 118 pago special catalogue Of Furniture, Draperies, Lamps, Stores, Crockery, Mirrors. Pictures, bedding, Refrigerators, Raby Carriages It also yours for thea.klng. Again we ask, why enrich your local dealer when you can buy of tha maker 1 Roth cata logues cost you nothing, and we pay all postage. JuliusHines&Son BALTIMORE, MD. Please Mention This Paper, Ijookltig Daokwsrd. "You must feel very happy In thla lovely cottage you call your own?" "How can I when I think of my fam ily that owned an estate of thousands of acres, with a castle and a whole reg iment of servants 7" ' "Why, when did thoy lose It?" "During the eloventh century."-! Brooklyn Life. A writer says that brains will tell. Sometimes they do, and sometimes It la brain that keeps a man from telling. SITTING DHURNA IN INDIA. The Mahretta Method ef BettHng Debts. Many queer stories ' are told of tha poralstence and clever devices of the, collectors of bad doms; hut even ajpro feesloW-humorist would find it nardt to irivent anything mora absurd than, the method actually in use among the Mahrattaa at least, if travelers' tales, are to be trusted. ..v-iJ In that countryso 'they say when a creditor cannot get his money and begins to regard the debt as desper ate, he proceeds 'to nit "dhurn'a" upon Ms debtor, that Is, he squats down at' the door of his victim's tent, and there by, In some mysterious way, becoinee mostor of the ffltuatloh.' No one can go In or out except by bis sanction. He neither hlmrfvlf eats nor allows his debtor to cut, and this extraordinary starvation contest Is keit up until either tho dolrt Is paid or tbe creditor gives up the siege, and In the latter case the debt Is held to be canceled. . However strange It may appear to Europeans, this method of enforcing a demand Is an established and almost universal usage among the Mahrnttas, and teems to them a mere matter of course. Even their "Sclndiah," or chieftain. Is not exempt from it. . , The laws by which the "dhurna" la ' regulated are as well defined as those of any other cus-tom whatever. When. ' tt Is meant to be very strict, the claim ant takes with him a number of h followers, who surround the tent, and sometimes even tho bed of his adver sary, to make sure that he obtains no morsel of food. The code, however, prescribes the same abstinence for the man who Imposes the ordeal; and, of course, tho strongest stomach wins tbe day. After all, we have little right to ridicule ila absurdity; for our own laws provwe, nominally at least, for starving a Jury into a verdict. A similar custom was once so prey aleot In the province and city of Be nares that Brahmins were sometimes systematically put through a course of training to enable them to endure a long time without food. They were then sent to tbe door of some rich per son, where they publicly made a tow to remain fasting until a certain sum of money wee paid, or until they per ished from starvation. To cause tha death of a Brahmin waa considered to he-tnoua an offense that the cash was generally forthcoming; but never with out a resolute struggle to determine whether the man was Hlcely to prove stanch, for the average Oriental will al most as soon give up his Ufa aa his money. The Hotbed. Glass gives more warmth to hotbed than any other covering, but whert plants are desired to be grown that art somewhat hardy, such as lettuce ot early cabbage, a light frame covering made of oiled muslin answers well and Is cheap. It can be prepared by stretching the muslin and painting It on both sldot with boiled linseed oil. II Is claimed that cheap frames, covered In this manner, can be successfully need for forcing strawberry plant. If a warm hotbed la required, f rrth ho rat ' manure-should be placed at tbb bottom ef the frame and covered with rich soli that haa been sifted. VERY MANY KNOW ST. JACOBS OIL CURES SCIATICA TkMall aaaat kaaw haw esuUr aad sarsly U CUKES ALL, r AIMS, BIMtt. MATIOi' HBCUAI.G1C, OB LUM- aTAGiO. FN 0 10 ta, re C if mm
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