PE
: THE AVERAGE MAN,
yo Rent man is the mar. of the mill,
man of the vallev, or man of the hill,
win at the thrcttle, the man at the
ow
The man with the sweat of his toil on his
row,
Who brings into being the dreams of the
ew,
Who works for himsel!, and for me, and
for you,
hare 18 not a purpose, a project or plan
t rests on the strength of the average
man.
growth of a city, the might of a land,
nd on the fruit of the toil of his hand;
road, or the wall, or the mill, or the
mart,
Qull daily to him that he furnish his part;
pri e of the great and the hope of the
ow,
toll of the tide as it ebbs to and fro,
reach of the rails and the countries
they span
Mell what is the trust in the average man.
The man who, perchance, thinks he labors
alone,
The man who stands out between hovel
and throne,
The man who gives freely his brain and
his brawn,
Is the man that the world has Leen builded
upon.
The clang of the hammer, the sweep of the
saw,
The flash of the forge—they have strength-
ened the law,
They have rebuilt the realms that the wars
overran,
They have shown us the worth of the av-
erage man.
80 here's to the average man—to the one
0 has labored unknown on the tasks
he has done,
Who has met as they came all the prob-
lems of life,
Who has helped us to win in the stress
and the strife,
He has bent to his toil thinking neither of
fame
Nor of tribute, nor honor, nor prize, nor
acclaim—
In the forefront of progress, since progress
began— 4
Here's a health and a hail to the average
man!
—Chicago Tribune.
ARSON
A NARROW SQUEAK.
Fighting a Black Leopard
Without Weapons,
NJE I was a member of a
wild animal hunting ex-
pedition that worked
through the southeastern
: = foothills of the Himalaya
Mountains in the endeavor to collect
fine and rare specimens for a great
zoological park in the United States.
(We were not after tigers or elephants
or other well known game of that
kind, but were looking particularly for
such specimens as snow leopards, black
leopards, wild dogs and the queer rac-
coon-bear and other similar beasts, of
which there are very few specimens in
captivity.
Owing to the fact that we were try-
fng to take cnimals alive there was a
gen>ral order against carrying firearms,
and only we leaders of the expedition
were allowed to go into the jungle
with weapons. The result was that
even the white men soon got into the
habit of entering the thickets without
arms—not a wise thing to do, as it
turned out.
One hot afternoon while Jim Char-
ters and I were sitting in front of
the tent we both saw the gaudy body
of a fine boa donstrictor gliding away
into the jungle, and we both jumped
up and followed at once, Jim Char-
ters stopping only to snatch a lasso,
which was just the thing for him, as
he had been a cowboy in the West
fcr many years.
‘We had taken several fine snakes
with the lasso, and. did not expect any
trouble with this one, so we pressed
into the jungle without a second
thought.
‘We were doomed to disappointment,
however, for the snake had disap-
peared entirely, and all out search
proved unavailing. The pursuit led
us pretty deeply-into the jungle, and
at last when we gave up the chase we
found ourselves in a little amphithe-
atre of rock and bamboo. We sat
down on a fallen tree to admire the
beautiful spot, when suddenly Jim
€harters laid his hand gently on my
arm and said in a whisper:
“Don’t move, Captain, but just squint
toward your left; we're in a box.”
1 did as he directed and saw some-
thing that gave me a start, crouching
closely to the ground and sauirming s1-
lently and swiftly as a serpent, was a
huge black leopard. Each eye was like
a flat green disk, and his tail was quiv-
ering and writhing in that wizked,
snaky way thau a big cat has when it
fs mad. The brute was thin, and a
mere glance was enough to show that
he was desperately nungry. No doubt
our hunting had spoiled the hunting
for n’m, and now he was starved into
perfect fearlessness.
~#PHis is nice, this is,” whishered
Jim, without moving hezd or eyelash.
“He's coming on steadily. Now he's
stopped. Now he's coming on again.
Now he’s stopped. At this rate he’ll be
within springing distance inside of ten
minutes.”
“Haven't you any weapon at all
about you?” muttered I, trying to speak
pvithout even moving my mouth.
“Oh, yes I have,” sald Jim. “I’ve
got ~ bea..y of a weapon to fight a
- black leopard with. It's a penknife
that my littie sister gave me when I
visited the folks in New York. I guess
that it will hurt that 12opara a lot, cap-
tain, won't it?’ And I heard Jim
chuckle even in the face of the immi-
pent danger.
“Here he comes crawling again,”
whispered Jim after a moment or two.
“There's only one thing to do. Be
ready when I give the word. We've
_ got to be quick’and not miss a single
trick.”
“What are you Suing to do?” asked I.
“Just this,” said Jim. “It's a wild
experiment and may only hurry things
up for us, but if it works wo may win
out and get the leopard too, and he's
n
1
worth Maving, not to mention the joke
on him, I'm going to jump up in about
another minute when the beast makes
another crawl, and I'm going to chuck
the noose around his neck. The min
ute I do we must both tail on and
pull like mad, running as fast as the
beast'll let us.”
“I'm afraid that the beast won't let
us run more than about an inch, Jim,"
said I, “before he'll be on us and get
one of us sure. I don’t think that you
can noose leopards the way you can
coyotes.”
“What I'm figuring on,” said Jim, “is
that the brute will do what would seem
to be a natural thing. When we start
to pull him toward us, he'll pull back
instead of leaping at us. Now he's
coming on, In a moment I'll
Whe-e-e-e.”
Jim jumped up and cast his noose
with a fierce whoop and I scrambled to
my feet instantly and caught hold of
the line with him. The leopard was
holding back with his Luge claws
spread to their full dimensions
every one of the talons digging deep
into the soft earth while he tried to
ling him.
“Off we go and yell like sin for help,”
panted Jim, as we started to drag the
snarling brute from his foothold. Once
we had succeeded in doing this, we
bling but never relieving the steady
strain on the line.
I don’t suppose that we were hauling
more than a quarter of an hour before
our shouts brought our men to help.
But it seemed to me to be a month.
All the time I expected to feel the im- |
pact of the great furry body, because.
I felt almost certain that the leopard |
would get sense enough, sooner or |
later, to stop pulling back on the lasso |
and to leap on us. Jim afterward told
me that he could feel his shoulder |
being laid open by the terrible claws!
and the warm blood running Cown his
back during all that wild scramble
through the jungle.
But Juck was with us. The black
leopard never once ceasec. to pull back.
ward against us, and when the men ar
rived he was so wild with rage and so
nearly worn out from the choking
strain ‘hot he could not put up any
sort of .n effective fight, but merely
hit nut blindly; and snapped his jaws
without any result
Two of the men had brought a great
net of grass rope along. In a jiffy
it was thrown over our enzmy and he
was rolled up in it before he knew
what had happened.
Then a dozen natives danced around
here and there, passing ropes all over
the net and cleverly avoiding the claws
that were stuck through the meshes,
until they had the beast absolutely
woven in a great mass of twine. A
huge, long bamboo was passed through
the meshes, and the leopard was car- |
ried into camp, where he was soon
safely encased in a strong bamboo
cage.
He turned out to be a beast of quite
exceptional size and in maguificent
coat. We got him to the coast safely,
and landed him all right in the end
in the Zoo that wanted him. |
I have always thought it a ty that
the thousands who admi e him now
cannot know the strange way he was
caught. But though our way of hunt:
ing big cats had turned out to be such
a success, neither Jim Charters nor I|
have ever cared to try ic again. We |
shall never forget thet quarter of an
hour in the jungle with the brute in
tow.—New York News,
Condemned by a Pronoun,
There is now being rectified In|
France, after nearly forty years, a mis-
carriage of justice which in its origin
is probably the strangest in the crim-
inal annals of the whole world. It
may be said to have been caused by a |
pronoun. A young fellow named Gauth-
ier and his mother were in 1867 con-
demned to penal servitude for life for |
the murder of the woman's second |
husband, a worthless drunkard, who |
was drowned one dark night by falling
into some deep water as he made his
way home late, badly intoxicated. The
evidence which mainly convicted the
two accusel was that of «= witness who
swore to having heard the dead man
shout: “A moi; on me moie.” The
convict's mother is long since dead, and
the convict son, now an old man, has
managed to interest men willing to as-
sist in his rehabilitation. In the pres-
ence of a past and of the present Min-
ister of Justice and of criminal experts
the whole scene of the tragedy bas
been reconstructed after thirty-nine
years. Strangest fact of all, a villager
has been found, a woinan, who though
not called at the trial, deiared ‘hat she
heard the cry of the drowning man,
and that his words really and clearly
were: “A moi; je me noie”—a pronoun
that made the difference of almost life
and death.—London Globe.
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Australia’s New Jerusalem,
“New Jerusalem,” in its celestial
sense, is a phrase familisr to the sing- |
ers of hymns and the hearers of ser- |
mons; but it may not be generally
known that there is a terrestrial “New
Jerusalem” within the bounds of our
own empire. It isa settlement in west:
ern Australia, and has just been ofii- |
cially inspected by the local minister
of lands, the Hon. N. J. Moore. It was
founded three years ago by a converted
Jew named Solomon Fisher. He es:
tablished the “Church of the First
Born,” whick is apparently a combina-
tion of Christianity and Judaism. He
obtained a grant of 10,000 acres of land
from the western Australian govern:
ment, and there located his settlement,
which has now a population of sixty.
one, who all profess the peculiar faith
of the founder.—Londcen Chronicle, {
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There re nearly 23,000,000" horses
in Europecn Russia. No other country
in the world has so many lorses as
Russia,
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draw his evil head back and free him- |
self from the noose that was strang-|
scrambled along, floundering and stum- |
land mature early.
Hauling Manure to Field,
While it is admittedly the better plan
to get the manure to the fields as soon
after it is made as possible, the plan
has its greatest value when the ma-
nure is spread as soon as it is placed
on the soil—that is, do not put it in
heaps to spread at some later period,
but, if possible, load it from the stable
directly into a spreader, so that as soon
as it reaches the field it can be put on
the soil, where it will leach in dur
ing the winter, The idea of carting
the manure direct to the field is to
have it improving the soil instead of
letting a portion of its virtue go into
| the air, as is the case when it lays in
the barnyard all winter,
Poultry Yards and Shrubbery.
The best poultry yard for fowls
| that have not free range is the one
with plenty of shrubbery in it and
one in which grass may be sown to
allow the birds plenty of green stuff
to eat. It is advisable to have two
vards, and while the birds are living
in one sow some seed in the other. It
is also a good plan to turn the soil in
| the yards and the birds will get many
worms and insects. If there are no
| trees or shrubs in the yards it is very
| little trouble to plant a few there. The
| hens, and little chicks, especially, will
appreciate them on hot days. It is not
| a pleasant thing for a hen to be com-
| pelled to remain ont in
the broiling
sun, with a flock of little ones, trying
to keep cool. And then so many per-
sons forget to give plenty of fresh
water to their fowls in hot weather.
There is nothing that is more of a
drawback to the health and comfort
of the birds than to be forgotten
when the days are so warm. They
get run down and their systems are
in a condition to get all the diseases
that are around.—Mirror and
Farmer.
going
at mrt
An Early Start,
Whether for hay or pasture, the land ] one treated in ‘the former way and the
should be deeply plowed and well har-
rowed, so as to have the soil in the
finest possible condition. This is cs-
sential, for the reason that the young
plants will have better facilities for
feeding and will rapidly increase in
root growih before the warm days of
July and August. The more early the
growth the grass can make the better
it will be able to endure a dry spell,
If manure is used it should be thor-
oughly decomposed in order that all
seeds or weeds may be destroyed, as it
is difficult to get at weeds growing on
a grass plot. The safer method is to
apply fertilizers. Wood ashes are ex-
cellent, but a mixture of 100 pounds
of acidulated ground bone (or phos-
phate rock), 125 pounds of sulphate of
potash and fifty pounds nitrate of soda
per acre, if the land is in moderate
condition, will give the grass an early
start and enable it to become well es-
tablished before meeting with lack of
moisture. The main point in the grow-
ing of a grass crop is to get an even
and uniform stand at the beginning,
for any gain at the start will be of ad-
vantage at later periods of growth.
While mixed grasses should be pre-
ferred on a pasture field, it is better to
grow hay crops singly—unmixed—the
mixing of the foods to be done at the
barn when feeding the animals after
harvesting the grass crops. It is bet-
ter for the farmer not to depend upon
a single kind of hay crop, as a pro-
longed drought may destroy it. In-
stead of growing clover and timothy
{ only, there should be ficlds of cowpeas,
Hungarian grass and fodder corn,
which can if necessary be seeded late
and mowed at any stage of growth,
according to circumstances.—Philadel-
phia Record.
The Mating of Fowls,
Few things are more worthy of care-
ful attention than the proper mating
of poultry. If one, for instance, has a
flock of common hens, it is possible,
by placing them with a thoroughbred
male and securing a new cockerel of
the same breed each year, to change
in three years’ time all the common
blood to that which is pure and thus
have a flock of pure bred of the male
variety. The way to bring it about is
to select, according to the egg-record,
the best two-year-old hens one has and
then purchase a thoroughbred rooster,
nine or ten months old, of such breed
as he desires. The chief point in doing
this is to keep in mind that the weak
characteristics in the females should
be the strongest in the males. The
next year the most promising pullets
from this mating in shape, color and
other points, should be selected and
placed with another cockerel as be-
fore. The pullets then obtained will
be likely to grow fast, feather rapidly
Accordingly, they
{ should be mated, not to a young rooster
but to a thoroughbred cock two years
old of the same breed, though not from
the same breeder as the others were
purchased. Any reliable breeder who
understands his business ean furnish
the right kind of a bird if the would-
be buyer will only write him, designat-
ing the shape, color and general charae-
teristics of his pullets. The results of
this mating should be a lot of very
fine poultry, including valuable cock-
erels, all of which will find a ready
market anywhere at good prices. Thus,
by selecting the nearest standard pul-
lets in color, shape and characteristics,
one may carry the grading up still
further year by year and ultimately
have the finest birds that it is possible
to breed.—The Epitomist.
Lime in the Dairy.
There Is no better purifier, disinfect-
ant and germicide for use in the dairy
than ordinary lime. It is so cheap as
to be within the means of every dairy-
mani Unlike so many disinfectants,
it is non-poisonous, while at the same
time it is thoroughly efficient and easy
of application, whether as a wash for
the walls or as an addition to water
used for cleansing vessels which con.
tain milk or cream. There is no rem-
edy which will sweeten a badly cone
taminated churn. Before it gets to
that stage it should be destroyed, but
to prevent a churn “going off” or rather
to always maintain it in a sweet and
wholesome condition, it should be filled
once or twice a week up to the top
with lime water and allowed to stand
overnight, The water may be used
again to wash the walls, floors, ete
The following is an excellent method
of making lime water: Put a quantity
of unslacked lime into a tank or barrel,
fill up with water and stir well. After
settling, the water will be clear and a
gseum (carbonate ‘of lime) on the sur.
face. Use clear water without dis.
turbing the lime at the bottom. When
emptied fill up again with water and
stir; then leave to settle and so on.
The quantity of lime first used wil!
serve for many fillings of the vessel
with water. As long as the carbonate
of lime appears on the surface after
settling, it may be considered of suf-
ficient strength. Every dairy or fac-
tory should have a tank placed in a
high position, with taps laid on to re
quired places. Lime water should be
used by all milk suppliers to rinse
buckets and milk cans after they have
been cleansed. The cause of milk
turning sour so quickly in cans, is
often on account of the bacterial start:
er left in the vessels previously used.
A simple experiment will demonstrate
this to be true. Rinse one can after
cleansing with lime and after leaving
the cover on for some time, compare
with another can that has not been
rinsed with lime water and has also
had the cover left on. There will be
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a noticeable difference in their appear:
ance and in the aroma arising from
them. Again, if two cans are taken,
other in the latter, it will be found
{hat the milk will keep much better
in the one that was rinsed in lime
water. There is very little extra trou.
ble involved in observing this simple
precaution to secure cleanliness and
the expense is not worth mentioning.—
W. R. Gilbert.
Poultry Notes,
The best breeds will not be profitable
if they are mismanaged.
The smaller the poultry quarters the
cleaner they must be kept.
Provide nests where they are handy
for hens and handy to gather eggs
from.
Poultry is the cheapest and most eco-
nomical and best meat raised on the
farm.
Are you giving your poultry the at.
tention you give the other stock or just
allowing it to shift for itself?
Coarse food promotes digestion and
helps to keep the fowls in a healthy
condition. Feed as much of it as pos-
sible.
Do not simply throw the water out
of the drinking vessels and put in
fresh water, but wash the vessel thor-
oughly every time you change the
water. }
We suspect that in a good many
cases where the egg yield fails to come,
though all due attention is said to be
given the pouliry, the fault is due to ir-
regular care.
If market poultry is chiefly desired,
begin by killing off all the two-year:
old birds. Discard, also, all the late
hatched stock, as breeding from these
tends to decrease the size of yuor
stock.
An experienced farmer poultryman
says that the best way to keep poultry
droppings is to put them in a barrel
and keep them slightly moist, using
dishwater or soapsuds where available.
When fenced away from gardens and
flower beds fowls cause but little ane
noyance on a farm. They do an im-
mense amount of good in the protection
of crops by the destruction of injurious
insects, larvae and worms.
Poultry may be raised with the great-
est economy on large farms, where
there is unlimited range, and exhaust:
less supply of insects and worms and
abundance of seeds and grains going
to waste which poultry alone can
utilize.
Where one habitually allows other
things to interfer with his work with
his poultry, irregularities become sc
numerous that his poultry keeping is
likely to be remarkable chiefly by long
periods of unproductiveness, and al
most constant losses,
Too often the only thing a farmer
does toward selecting breeders is tc
obtain two or three big roosters, size
being their only merit. But it is more
important that they have vigorous con:
stitutions, symmetrical forms, right
color of skin and plumage.
If the fowls the farmer has on hand
are of large size, and it is desired to
improve their laying qualities, purchase
pure bred Leghorns, white or brown
as fancy dictates—cock to mate with
pullets and cockerels to mate with
yearling females. Or, if_the size is to
be increased, Brahma blood will do the
work effectually.
! Abraham Lincoln,
Feminine Terrors,
The middle-aged spread is one of the,
troubles which stares us in the face.
when youth is cruelly deserting us. It,
comes slowly; one is hardly conscious
of it as first. Maybe some morning in
the glass you think your face is fatter;
in a month or so you know it is, and]
that the hips at the back have taken a
fresh development.—The Queen,
LIVE WITHOUT STOMACHS,
—
Impertant Organ is Not Absolutely Necese
sary to Existence,
Although the stomach is a valuable
organ, it Is perfectly possible to get on
along without it, as was set forth re-
cently by Professor I. J. Paterson, I,
R. C, 8, in a lecture delivered at the
Royal College of Surgeons, of England,
at London. During the course of his
remarks the lecturer discussed the re-
moval of the whole stomach as a rad-
fecal cure for malignant disease. The
lecturer, observed, says The London
Standard, that while the value of a
good stomach is undoubted, fortunately
Nature is able to dispense with this
organ, as most of its functions can be |
performed vicariously by other por-
tions of the alimentary canal.
Nature has duplicated three of the
four functions performed by the
stomach, although the loss of the gas-
tric secretion cannot altogether be
compensated. “Those who have lost
it,” says one authority, “have one
weapon the less in the struggle for ex-
istence.” It has been shown that
dogs may gain in weight and remain
in perfect health after removal of the
entire stomach, while the elaborate
observations made on a patient prove
that the same holds good of human be-
ings. These observations record that
the absorption of albumen was unaf-
fected, and no putrefactive changes oc-
curred in the intestines, which shows
that the absence of the gastric juice
does not lead to decomposition in the
intestines.
Until some other cure for cancer is
discovered, wide removal is the ideal
operation.
WORDS OF WISDOM ,
Inspiration is might'2: iban exhorta-
tion.
Kaith in God makes some hope for
man.
Flashy people give the world little
light.
The strong man never crushes the
weak.
Big conceits often go with small re-
ceipts,
The best offering is that cf our obe-
dience.
Hatred breaks the .eart in which it
is born.
Religion is more than a get-rica-quick
system.
Death breaks the shell to set the
kernel free.
A man is not called pig-headed be-
cause he is greedy of intellect.
You do not win a front seat in Heav-
en by taking a back seai in church.
The great objection some men have
to the sun is that it shines on others.
It akes more than a irotherly man-
ner to,make up for a lack of business
method in a religious work.
Many mer think they would obey
the Ten Commandments if they could
just clip off one or two.
If life is a voyage, ite cargo and the
port arc of much more importance than
the iish that may be caught on the
way.
When the cracked choir sings, “O,
for the wings of a dove,” they can
be sure of the congregation being with
them on that.—Ram’s Horn.
. Not “a Foolish Struggle.”
An Indiana girl of seventeen recent.
ly took her own life, leaving a note in
which she described life as *‘a foolish
struggle” adding ‘‘the sooner we get
out of it the better.” How can any one
so regard life? Ask the patriarch who
sits amid the falling shadows and re-
counts the achievements of the well-
spent years; ask the matron whose de-
clining days are made glad by the com-
panionship of virtuous children and
grandchildren; ask those who, strong
in faith, are devoting themselves to
the world’s work or ministering to the
needs of thogze who require assistance—
ask any of these and the answer will
be that life instead of being “a foolish
struggle” is a glorious drama in which
pain and pleasure, joy and sorrow are
so mixed that the love of a Heavenly
Father shows forth with increasing
clearness as the facts and scenes suc-
ceed each other.
Only those can look upon life as a
“foolish struggle” who view it from a
celfish standpoint and, pursuing false
jdeals, are blind to its splendid possi-
bilities and its great rewards. Be-
cause so much depends upon one’s con-
ception of life—upon one's ideals—it is
the duty of the parents, the school-
teacher and the religious instructor to
set before the people—and especially
the young—ideals that will inspire to
noble endeavor.—The Commoner,
A Large Family.
McDonald Hall and his wife, of
Champaign County, claim the honor of
being the most notable supporters of
President Roosevelt's anti-race suicide
doctrines. Mrs, Hall has just presents
ed her proud husband with their thir-
tieth child. The latest was a girl, and
was named Margaret.
The parents honored many great
characters in the selection of names
for some of the thirty. Among them
are George Washington, Thomas Jeffer-
son, Patrick Henry, Victoria Regina,
Lucretia Borgia,
Victor Emanuel, Susan B. Anthony,
Ulysses Grant, William T. Sherman,
Phillip Sheridan, Cassie Chadwick,
Gover Cleveland (the latter subsequent-
ly changed to Benjamin Harrison for
political reasons), William McKinley,
Henry Ward Beecher and Shields
Blaine.
The others are only able to boast of
commonplace cognomens, Mr. Hall
is a laboring man of Champaign Coun-
ty, and but for the assistance of his
older children might have some diffi-
culty in feeding the hungry mouths
of this remarkable family.
What's in a name?
A croquette,
after all, 1s only hash. ‘
CAN'T STRAIGHTEN UP,
Kidney Trouble Cnuses Weak Backs and
Multitude of Pains and Aches.
Col, R. 8, Harrison, Deputy Marshal,
716 Common St. Lake Charles, La,
says:
“A kick from a horse first
weakened my back
and affected my kids
neys,. I became very
bad and had to go
about on crutches,
The doctors told me
I had a case of
A chronic rheumatism,
but I could not be.
lieve them, and fin.
ally DLegan using
Doan's Kidney Pills
for my kidneys. First the kidney se-
cretions ‘came more freely, then the
pain left my back. I went and got
another box, and that completed a
cure. TI have been well for two years.”
Sold by all dealers. [0 cents a bos,
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. ¥Y.
Census of India.
According to the latest Indian cen-
sus, that of 1901, the population of
India was 294,361,056, and the total
number of people employed in var
ious capacities by the Government
was 1,490,276. Of these, 245,803
were partially agriculturists, and
about as many more were employed
in occupations mot strictly official,
thus leaving about a million who
could be called Government officials.
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DOWIE'S DOWNFALL
He Is the Only Modern Prophet Dis-
carded by His Followers,
Among modern prophets John
Alexander Dowie has the distinction
of being the only one who has been
discarded by the sect which he
founded. After building his zion up
to astonishing proportions, he finds
himseif denounced as a hypocrite and
charged with many serious offenses,
and, worst of all, his wife and son
are against him. The accusations
are damaging enough to an ordinary
man, and so much the worse for one
claiming to be a reincarnated prop-
het, but they ccme from his follow-
ers who ought to know what they are
talking about.
The infidels as touching Dowieism
have not said anything worse, if
quite so bad, about him. The wond-
er is that his own flock has been so
slow to fiad him out or to frankly
say what they must have known for
sometime.
Hardwick Crawled Back.
While traveling in a Pullman car
not long ago Congressman Hardwick,
of Georgia, the smallest man in the
House, found himself fellow passen-
ger with a well-dressed, quiet-looking
negro. his was not agreeable to the
Georgian, who was further riled on
seeing the colored man in the dining
car. He and the darky returned to
the Pullman about the same time,
and then Mr. Hardwick went to the
conductor and asked that the negro
be put out of the car. ‘“We cant do
that, sir,” the conductor answered.
“Well, if that fresh niggar gets near
me I'm going to wipe up the car with
him,” declared the Georgian. “I
won’t have him around me. Who is
the black rascal?” ‘“That’s ‘Joe’
Gans, champion lightweight pugil-
ist,” answered the conductor, and
Mr. Hardwick concluded 6 not to
‘wipe up the car” with his quiet-
looking fellow passenger.—Cleveland
Leader.
A BUSY WOMAN,
Can Do the Work of 3 or 4 If Well Fed,
An energetic young woman living
Just outside of N. Y. writes:
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work of a dairy farm, caring for 2
children, a vegetable and flower gar-
den, a large number of fowls, besides
managing an extensive exchange busi-
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my regular avocation as a writer for
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and was even in worse condition men-
tally, he would have been a rash
prophet who would have predicted that
it ever would be so.
“Prior to this great grief I had suf-
fered for years with impaired diges-
tion, insomnia, agonizing cramps in the
stomach, pain in the side, constipation,
and other bowel derangements, all
these were familiar to my daily life.
Medicines gave me no relief—nothing
did, until a few months ago, at a
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over, and I repeat, I owe it all to
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Mich. :
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