FROG FARMS.
Raising the Delicacy for Market is
Now a Thriving Industry.
'•'You will be surprised," said he, "to
learn that a new industry is growing up
in the North, an industry which is en
tirely devoted to frog culture.
"There are large farms at St. Joseph,
Saugatuck, New Haven, Grand Haven
and Battle Creek, where the frogs we sell
are raised. On mauy farms in the North
west there are marshy places that are ut
terly useless for agricultural purposes.
Many of these spots are being reclaimed
by their production of frogs. The
animals require very little care
and are very prolific. One man
at St. Joseph has 200,000 pollywogs in
his lake. They will soon be ready for
the market, and at the price at which
legs sell his profits will not be far from
$5,000. It would take a big crop of
grain and an enormous amount of work
and worry into the bargain to yield that
much. There are different breeds. The
best and largest come from France. They
are sent to this country by breeders over
there who make a specialty of them. You
may laugh when I tell you that it will
not be long before frogs will have their
place at country fairs and fat-stock
shows. Why, even now, pedigrees are
furnished importers, and there is a frog
at St. Joseph named Sullivan. He is a
big bull, and his voice is a caution. He
was imported from France and cost SSO.
An ordinary pair of breeders can be
bought for $5."
"Does it require much trouble to catch
the hoppers?"
"No; when they are large euougli for
the market they are surprised in the night
time while sitting on the banks of the
pond. Men with lanterns can readily
pick them up, for the light dazzles them.
After being captured they ure killed, and
the hinder parts are packed in ice for
shipment here. Sometimes, late in the
season, which extends from spring to
winter, they are sent to us alive. We
freeze them up, and in the spring tliey
sell at a good price. The big ones ore
worth about $1.25 per dozen at this time.
They need no care from us when brought
here alive. A frog will live six months
without food, but during the period of
growth care is necessary that the water
they live in be pure. They thrive best
in running water where there is plenty of
grass and reeds. Such a habitat is neces
sary for them to hide themselves in for
protection. The farms are usually sur
rounded by fences, so that the frogs can
not migrate, and so that intruders can
not molest them.
"I think the time is coming when
frog culture will be a permanent indus
try. Farmers are becoming discouraged
by the successive failures of crops of the
last few years, and they must find some
thing else to raise. I think this will be
the result, that frog culture and other
lines will increase, and the result will be
a slight reaction 011 the staples, which are
now at a low price. The raising of frogs
is a pleasant occupation and u paying
one. Chicago will eat all that can
be produced in the Northwest. We have
no trouble in disposing of all that are
sent us. Sometimes our house alone sells
100 dozen in a day, and there are many
others who sell about the same amount.
The summer resorts take large quantities
from the wholesale trade."—[Chicago
Inter-Ocean.
The Care of Rubber Plants.
There is probably no more familiar
house plant in America than the rubber
plant, unless it is the calla. They are
favorites for the same reason that many
friends are favorites, because they will
stand such an amount of abuse and be so
lovely and perennially fresh. Rubber
plants cost but a trifle if bought when
young and tiny ; and fair care will keep
them growing sturdily onward for years
until they grow so big that no place in
the house save the hall is tall enough for
them.
A rubber plant needs a good sized pot
to begin with. One with some bits of
charcoal and broken brick or pottery in
the bottom to aid drainage and prevent
the roots from becoming bound. As the
plant grows tall it is recommended that
the top leaf be pinched oil so that the
plant may sprout and grow two branches
instead of one. Every morning or every
evening the earth in which the plant is
growing should get a thorough drenching
if the plant is in tho open window.
Every week the leaves should have their
faces washed to keep their pores clean.
This treatment, with the addition, if
possible, of a summer in the back-yard
alone with nature is all that a rubber
plant asks. The calla is scarcely more
exacting. The dry root is planted in a
pot anil watered well with warm water,
the one idea being to keep the soil as much
like what anyone would imagine the bank
of a brook to be as possible. In a well
drained pot thoroughly wetted every day
with warm water, and all the sunshine
possible, the golden-tongued lily will
live and thrive to bless tho one who loves
it —[New York World.
Shetland Ponies for Children.
Ponies, little and big, shaggy and
sleek, are now so common up town, to
dog carts or under the saddle, driven by
ladies and children, or ridden by boys,
that it is a wonder where they all come
from, and a dealer,who has been import
ing them for years, told a New York
Times reporter:
"The trade in Shetlands," he said,
"has grown steadily for the last five
years. They a-e plump, hardy little fel
lows, and probably a thousand are im
ported annually. They are taken on board
the steamship at Dundee, Scotland, and,
as a rule, stand the voyage well. They
are from the Northern Islands, and they
are generally three years old or younger.
Many of them are sold by auction in Jer
sey City, and they go all over the coun
try. They are only imported between
May and December, nnd the trade now
is at its height. A good pony will bring
from S4O to SSO, though some blooded
stock is now being imported for breed
ing purposes at much higher figures. A
Michignn farmer has succeeded in breed
ing ponies so small that they are only fit
for children's playthings, some of them
only forty inches high."
A Theiapeutic Novelty.
Some English physicians appear to
adopt in their practice the honey found
in such large quantities in the eucalyp
tus trees of Tasmania, the product of a
small, black wild bee peculiar to that
country. The honey is a thick, homo
geneous, somewhat transparent, sirupy
liquid, of a deep orange color, having an
odor suggestive at once of its containing
eucalyptus principles, is very soluble in
water, in milk aud in wine, but much
less so in alcohol, and very difficult of
fermentation. In round numbers, 1,000
parts contain 011 of invert sugar, 2 of
ash, 215 of water and 17g of active prin
ciples, including oucalyptol, eucalyptene,
terpine, eymal, and odorous, resinous,
and coloring matters; its taste very
Eleasant. Taking a teaspoonful of the
oney in a little tepid water or milk.
after a few minutes one perceives a gentle,
agreeable warmth taking possession of
the whole person; at the end of half an
hour, the elimination of the active prin
ciples by the air passages having begun,
the voice becomes clearer and the breath
perfumed, the lungs also feeling more
active, more supple. Thus far, experi
ments show it to be a valuable aliment,
an efficient and palatable substitute for
cod liver oil, an anti-eatarrhal, an agent
affecting the heart in a manner compar
able to the action but free from the in
convenient properties of digitalis, a feb
rifuge, and an anti-parasitic in tubercular
and scrofulous ailments.
A FRIEND OF THE CROW.
He Is a Mighty Cute Bird, and It
Isn't Easy to Fool Him.
Farmer Lucius S. Clark of North Ab
ington township in Pennsylvania is a
great friend of crows. He declares that
the noisy big birds do a great deal more
good than harm on his place, and he nev
er allows his sons to rob their nests, or to
shoot or trap them. Consequently all the
crows that nest in Farmer Clark's woods
every summer, and sail over his broad
acres at all seasons of the year, are much
tamer than those that flock on the farms
of some of his neighbors. Even though
he is kind to his big family of crows,
Farmer Clark says that the black rascals
have until this season been in the habit
of scratching up lots of his corn as soon
it was planted, and of milling up lota
more shortly after it had become nicely
sprouted. But the cutworms and other
crawling things that the crows devoured
more than paid for the damage they did
to the corn, and that was why he cherish
ed tin- glossy birds, he said.
When corn-planting time came this
spring Farmer Clark thought he would
sec if he couldn't make the crows let the
corn alone after it had been planted. He
boiled a lot of tar in a large kettle,
dumped his seed corn into it, and kept stir
ring the mass until each kernel was com
pletely covered with a coating of tnr, and
after that lie rolled the corn iu pulverized
lime till it was white. He planted it the
same day, and the crows clawed a few
hills of it up and were in a peck of trouble
for several hours. The cunning fellows
evidently couldn't make out what the
stuff was, for they dropped the kernels as
though they were red-hot bits of metal,
and then flew away to another part of the
field and tried other hills. The corn did
not taste right to any of the crows, nnd
after they had sampled hills here and
there the whole flock met at a back cor
ner of the lot and had a noisy discussion
over the mystery. In the course of half
an hour one of the crows sailed away,
alighted on a hill, scratched into it and
suddenly started back to where its com
panions were sitting silently on the fence,
yelling out the information oil the way
that it was the same nasty stuff as the
rest. Then the whole flock jawed as
tight as they could for a minute or so,
when another crow sailed forth to a
different section of the field, tackled a
hill, took a kernel in his bill, ejected it
mighty quick, and flew over to the fence
with the same disgusting report. For
two hours the crows took turns at invest
igating finally came to the conclusion
that they had been unmercifully fooled,
and went cawing away to the woods on
the hillside. Farmer. Clark had watched
them all the time, and he declared that
the crows let that field entirely alone
from then on.
In another patch the men planted two
rows of corn that had not been coated
with tar and lime. The rows were ten
rods apart, and the cunning crows un
earthed every hill in each row and gob
bled up every kernel of corn, but they
didn't touch a single hill of the interven
ing rows, where the tarred corn was.
Farmer Clark said that their eye-teeth
had been cut in the former field, and
the birds were too sharp to be led into the
same painful experience again. Plain
corn was planted in the two rows the
second time, and the crows scratched it
nil up the next day. Then the men
put beans in the corn hills, and the beans
were not disturbed by the black rascals.
Another strange thing about tho be
havior of Farmer Clark's flock of crows
was noticed by the watchful farmer when
the cultivate was run between the rows
of corn for h first time. In the latter
field dozen- . crows followed the culti
vator, and picked up hundreds of cut
worms. W hen the farm hand turned his
horse about the flock rose up and flew to
the fence, but as soon as he had got well
started on his way to the other end of
the lot they settled down a few rods be
hind him and resumed theirwork. When
the farmer's field was cultivated not a
crow went near it, and Farmer Clark has
had to fight cutworms by hand, to pay
him, he says, for not having planted a
row or two of plain corn in it for tho
crows to scratch up undent.—[Mew York
Bun.
A Baptism in Heligoland.
After the services on Sunday, when an
infant is to be christened, a small silver
basin is placed on the brass lid; there is
110 water in it, but presently the Heli
goland children, babies of two or three
years old, flock in, each carrying in its
little hand a cup of water, which is emp
tied into the basin, and the new-born is
lander is baptised with the water brought
for that purpose by his future playfellows.
Behind the altar the light falls through
purple window panes upon an old, old
hour glass, placed in the dark ages be
fore the inveution of clocks and watches
before the clergyman when he began his
sermon. It is a marvelous chur h, this
holiest spot on "holy island," and 011 the
day when Lord Salisbury's gift is finally
handed over to Germany one of our most
interesting historical monuments will be
ours 110 more. The graveyard round the
church is nearly full, and when the last
corner in it has received its sleeper the
difficult question will arise as to where
the Heligolandcr of the future will find
his last resting place. The soil in the
present graveyard covers the rock six feet
deep, but there is hardly another spot on
the island where more than four feet of
earth covers the stony foundation.—[Pall
Mall Gazette.
One Way to Tell a Happy Pair.
There is nothing that the average
bridegroom so much desires to avoid as a
disclosure of the fact of his recent mar
riage. Not that he is at all ashamed of
it. Oh, no I But there is a shyness
about him which induces him to conceal
the fact. This is shown especially at the
bridegroom's first visit to the hotel on his
bridal tour.
The other evening a young man walked
briskly up to the desk in one of the hotels
in this city, and, with a very badly as
sumed air of nonchalance, registered "Mr.
and Mrs. ." A room was assigned
him. and when he was out of hearing the
clerk leaned over the desk, and, confi
dentially speaking to several acquaint
ances standing there, said:
"Just married."
"How do you know?" was asked.
"Oh, you never see an old married
man register 'Mr. and Mrs.' It's always
so-and-so and wife. You just notioe
now if it isn't so."
MAPS FOR THE BLIND.
Interesting Facts about their Con
struction and Use.
A map for the blind is a curiosity.
Blind people are fond of history, and as
history cannot be properly learned, or,
indeed, learned at ull without know
ledge of geography, and to learn the lat- ;
ter without a map is impossible, some
thing of the kind was necessary, and so
special maps were iuvented and manu
factured for the eyeless. They are all
of the kind known as the "dissected,
maps," and are of wood—arc really carv
ed blocks. All land stands in relief,
the mountains in ridges, the rivers are
long depressions, the state lines are ele
vated. Each state is a separate block,
and the pupil is taught to fit the blocks |
together and thus prepare for himself a ,
map of the whole country.
The name of each state is marked some
times on the back sometimes on the front
of the block, and the observer will notice,
all over the surface of the blocks, small
aggregations of what to him are meaning
less dots. These are the names of rivers,
towns, and cities. Cities are designated
by pin or tack heads, and the size and
shape of these show the approximate
number of population. In one map cit
ies of les9 than 10,000 inhabitants were
were indicated by pin heads fiat on top,
and those of 10,000 to 20,000 by hemis
pherical. Flat tack heads showed the
localities of cities having 20,000 to 50,000,
rounded tack heads from 50,000 to 100,-
000. Tack heads flat and squaro indic
ated cities between 100,000 and 200,000,
tack heads round but with depression on
| the top Bhowed cities of greater size.
"Bounding" the States is an easy mat
ter to the pupil. Taking Missouri, for
example, child requested to do the work
began by placing the hand fiat on the
block, to get a general idea of its postion;
then the forefinger found the northwest
corner, ran rapidly along the lowa line,
followed and passed to Helena, where a
pause was made, the name read, and the
mistake discovered, returned, found the
line, traced it to the west, along the south
ern limits of Pemiscot and Dunklin coun
ties, missed it again at the St. Francis
River, recovered it, went north, found the
line at Butler county, ran it to the cor
ner of McDonald county, thence along
the western boundary to the starting
point, and then gave the whole result or
ally without a moment's hesitation.
By means of these dissected maps a
fair idea is also gained by the pupils of
the respective size of various countries
and States. When asked to compare
Ohio with Texas, the boy laid the Ohio
block on the Texas map, measured it off,
turned it this way, that way, carefully
keeping the count with his fingers on the
space alroady covered, and fiually an
nounced that Texas, according to his idea,
was about five times as large as Ohio, a
calculation close enough to the truth to
excite wonder at the accuracy rather than
the crticism of its lack of exactness. Dis
sected maps of every continent are pro- I
vided, and a large globe, made on the |
principles which underlie the construction '
of the maps, enables the pupils to gain a
fair general idea of the shape and geo
graphical features of our planet. Geo
graphy, in most schools, is used as an aid
to the study of history, and is studied, not
as a collection of meaningless names, but
as a subject which throws indispensable
light on the deeds and words of mankind.
—[Globe-Democrat.
Dog-Infested Denver.
The stranger visiting Denver, Col., is
at once struck with tne enormous num
ber of dogs which everywhere abound.
In respect to its canines the queen city is
the Constantinople of America so far as
their census is concerned. There are
dogs of all ages, all sizes, all breeds and
curs of all degrees. The streets are full
of them, and when you see a front yard,
and nearly every residence in Denver
possesses one, it is a sure thing that a
"dawg" is in it, and the odds are equally
as great as there will be a mate in the
back yard. Were the dog laws here car
ried out as strictly as they are in eastern
cities the dog tax would almost equal the
revenue from real estate, for the statutes
require dog owners to pay $2 a year for
eachfuiale pup and $5 for each female,
but he law is virtually a dead letter.
Unlike the scavengers of the capital of
Turkey, however, the quadrupeds of
Denver are notable for the vast number
of aristocrats among them. Fine setters
and spaniels that make a sportsmuu feel
wickedly covetous meet one on every
street, and I venture to say there are
more greyhounds in Arapahoe county
than in any other county in the world.
Lithe, slender, sharp-muzzled creatures,
keen-eyed, graceful and fleet as the an
telope, trot unconcernedly along as you
pause and admire their beauty and re
alize that beneath the sleek coat there is
more endurance and power and unfalter
ing determination than there is in all the
rest of a canine aristocracy put together.
There is a reason for their existence in
such numbers, and that reason has four
legs, a pair of ears that are predominant,
an apology for a caudal extremity, and
a vast amount of sprinting power con
cealed about its person.—-[Washington
Star.
A Cure for Headache.
I wonder how many women really
appreciate the value of "a laying on of
hauds" in cases of nervous headaches.
There is a budding physician in nearly
every household who could be a minister
ing angel to mother and sisters if she were
conscious of the latent power within her
and had any desire for the part. All
that is necessary is sympathy, patience
and personal magnetism—of which there
is a good deal more than the possessors
usually suppose.
The patient should be stretched out at
length on a comfortable sofa or bed and
her head placed in an easy position. The
ministering angel should take her stand
behind the patient and place her hands
on the latter's forehead, with her fingers
tips touching in the centre. The hands
must then be drawn back to the sufferer's
temples with an even, regular, soothing
motion, which should be continued ton
or twelve minutes without intermission.
If the palms grow too warm they may be
dipped in water, but should be thorough
ly dried before the massage treatment is
resumed.
It is wonderful what a soothing, com
forting effect this has. Some people
possess the magnetism, or whatever it
may be called, in a much greater degree
than others, and the writer knows ot
half a dozen women who can cure a
serious case of nervous headache in fifteen
or twenty minutes. The patient usually
goes peacefully to sleep, and awakens to
nnd the pain gone and life again worth
living. The plan is at least worth try
—[New York World.
Effects of Coca Leaves.
The incroase of one's power of endur
ance by the use of coca leaves, especially
in the higher altitudes, is something mar,
velous. Aside from relieving sirroche
the distressing difficulty of breathing in
cideut to exercise in the thin air of the
Andes, it is said to completely abolish all
I sense of hunger and fatigue. It is an
I undoubted fact that an Indian, when well
supplied with coca, will travel from fifty
| to seventy-five miles a day, carrying on
j his back the load of a llama, almost witli
j out food for days together. Indeed he
considers food as of secondary importance,
I or rather third on the list of necessities,
j diluted alcohol coming next to coca. All
I the Aymaras and Quichuas, of Bolivia,
I male and female, use incredible quantities
of both alcohol and coca, while their
allowance of food is very small, the
menu befhg limited to but two or three
edibles from one year's end to another.
That the women consume even more than
the men is perhaps no more than fair,
, since the former do all the hardest work
and earn most all the money.—[ Washing
ton Star.
Rats and Cats.
Here is a story about cats, the last
chapter of which is connected with the
recent demolition of the old Halle aux
Bles in Paris. About twenty years ago
this cat colony was founded in the most
natural way in the world. One tine day
the millers became aware of the fact that
an innumerable army of rats was en
camped in the Italic. The invaders tore
the sacks and helped themselves freely
to the contents. With the view of put
ting an end to this bad state of affairs
the millers placed rat traps in all the
corners of the old building, but this
turned out to be useless. Then they had
recourse to the naturul enemies of rats,
I and a few cats were installed in the Halle,
j For some time everything went on very
i well. The cats created such havoc and
I increased and multiplied so rapidly that
j in a short time the place became uuten
i able for rats and the siege was raised.
I But in a few more years the cats became
: so numerous that they in turn were an
intolerable nuisance. The directors of
the Halle then purchased about half a
dozen bulldogs, specially trained to kill
cats; but, as the French say, the ex
pedient didn't have any suites, because
the cats took refuge in inaccessible
places and looked down upon the dogs
with contempt. Then the directors un
| dertook to starve them out, but that
J plan didn't work either, because all tlyj
j old women in the neighborhood began
jto feed them. And so they went on still
j increasing. In despair the directors sent
| to the police hcadquurters a formal com
plaint against the cats; and when all the
formalities were duly complied with an
officer was scut out with a package of
poison from the municipal laboratory,
and the poison, it was expected, would
in a few hours destroy the whole colony.
! But here again disappointment was cre
! ated, for the cunning things refused to
■ fulfil the conditions of the tempting pro
j gramme. In other words, they left the
j poisoned meat for the dogs. The latter,
i less wise, devoured it and died, while
I the Toms and Tabbys enjoyed themselves
at the feasts which the old women guve
I them. Then war was declared in dead
; earnest. Under the command of M.
| Mouqin an army of commissioned in
i spectors supplied themselves with Flo
j bert carbines, advanced upon the llulle,
opened tire upon the cats, and brought
j them down to a reasonable number. A
! great number of fugitives, however, that
had escuped from the slaughter, en- I
camped in the ruins of the old building, ,
but, now that these ruins are removed,
the cats that got away are reduced to the
condition of tramps.
Hard Riding.
During the last century when long jour
neys, called riding posts, were much in
vogue in Europe among the aristocracy
and wealthy and sporting men, a match
was made between Mr. Shafts and Mr. >
May well for 1,000 guineas, Mr. Shafts to
find a man who would ride 100 miles per
day for twenty consecutive days.
There was a great deal of mofiy bet on
this thing, principally against it beiug
done. It was well known, however, that
distances of 800 to 1,200 or even 1,500
miles had frequently bceu covered at the
rate of from 100 to 120 or even 150 miles
per diem, but the knowing ones
thought that the enormous distance of
2,700 miles at 100 per day would be like
ly to break any horseman down. Never
theless Mr. John Shafts performed the
feat without any extra fatigue or punish
ment. He used thirty horses, and rode
three or four of them each day.
In Turkey the Sultan's mails and des
patches from outlying provinces used to
be carried by Tartars riding post, with
relays of horses changed every twenty or
thirty miles, and are now in some parts
of the country where telegraphs have not
been established. The same man in cliargo
went the whole distance: these couriers
would often perform great feats of en
durance. From Bagdad to Constant!- j
nople is 1,000 miles, not over a level or
rolling prairie, but frequently crossing
mountain ranges, along precipices, across
torrents, Ac., and there is not u mile of
made road the whole way, yet the ;
ordinary time the Tartars took to perforin
the distance was a fortnight, and on ur- j
gent occasions it has been done in twelve I
days, and even in eleven days.
There is no doubt whatever about this,
because this route through Asia Minor,
from the Persian Gulf, was, in former
days, before the Red Sea route was es
tablished, often used by officers and
others who did not mind rough travel
and were in a hurry to get home or to get
out to ludia, and they often rode with
the Tartars from end to end, besides
which the British resident at Bugdad,
or, rather the residency, was for more
than a century in the habit of transmit
ting despatches from India to Constanti
nople and Europe by these same carriers.
As much as 150 miles per day has often
been done for eight or ten days by the
Tartars. They only rested four hours
out of the twenty-four, and pushed on
the rest of the time at a rate of six to ten
miles au hour.—[Galveston News.
Water and Watches.
In the recent disaster at Lake Pepin
in Northern Minnesota, when a steamer
and a barge were overturned by a storm,
causing loss of life, it was noticed that
the watch of Mr. Peterson, one of the
victims, went for about three hours in
the water. I asked one of the intelli
gent gentlemen who preside at the watch
counter of Tiffany & Co. about this, and
he said: "Water does not stop a watch
until it reaches the escapement. Water
might be in the works— that would not
stop it necessarily, until, as 1 have said,
it comes in contact with the vital parts.
I have seen heavy silver watches running
very well day after day in a glass of wa
ter, placed there for the purpose of show
ing that they are air-tight and water
tight. Of course an air-tight watch
keeps out the dust, which is essential, but
which docs not, of course, prevent the
oil in the works from drying up. When
the oil dries up, the watch must be
looked after, oven if dust has not got
into it. Of course,, the other theory
about the watoh on Lake Pepin is that it
was not going at all at the time of the
disaster (about half past eight) but that
it happened to be set at half past eleven. ''
—[Epoch 1
PADDY'S POI CABB.
Mo Plnatoua for Pol Bolter*.
Geu. 8., a one-armed veteran of the
war, was sitting in his office one day
when there came a timid rap at his
door.
"Corner called out the officer in his
prompt and military way. The door
opened and disclosed the figure of an
Irishman, shabby and ill at ease, his
clothes fitting him like a yard of can
vas on a picket-fence.
The visitor made an awkward at
tempt at a military salute, and twirling
his slouch hat sat gingerly down on the j
edge of a chair.
" What can I do for you, my man ?"
asked the General kindly, as his eye '
fell upon the army blue.
"Bedad, it ain't for mesilf Oi'm
axin' it?"
"For a friend?"
"Oxactly, sor! Yez see, it was a pe
culiar kess, sor, an' it's a pinsion Oi'm
afther!"
i " Whose pension ?"
"A pinsion for the widdy of Paddy
Maginnis— pace to his sowl 1"
"What is the trouble about getting
the widow a pension?"
| "Well, sor, some sez that Paddy's
disability was 'not incurred in the loin
av juty,' sor!"
| "State your case, and I can advise
you better afterwards."
"Yia, sor; thank }*e, Oiuerl. Here
goes, sor! It was this way: It was
whin we was layin' aroun' Frederioks
burg, sor, wid moity slim rations, sor,
that we med oop our moinds that we
mus' git soom eatables soom place or
'nuther, an' Paddy Maginnis, he sez t'
me, sez 'e, 'Mikey, Oi'm that impty that
Oi could walk t'rough a crack wiclout
techin' ayther side,' sez 'e. Paddy was
a gret b'y for his joke— was Paddy.
Will, sez Oi, let's skirmish aroun' 011
\he outskirts, sez Oi, an' mebbe we kin
strike a bonanzy, sez Oi. Will, sor, we
did. Just outside av camp we mit an i
010 crather sellin' w'at she called swate i
petafcy poi! an' Paddy guv her a dollar j
shin plaster for a oooplel Well, sor, |
tha# night Paddy Maginnis was took j
thr'„ sick wid his stomich that Oi niver ;
seen the bate av it; an' Oiwas moighty j
sick mesilf, bedad; an' by the toitn !
Paddy had lived till mornin' he was as
dead as a sardyne! Well, sor, Paddy
had a big family an' nobody but their |
Jore little sickly mother t' work for
ihim 1 But whiniver Oi sav anything
about Paddy's kess, iverybody begins t'
snioker. Wan sez, 'Thiol Southern
pois kilt more than the intire Southern
musketry!' or 'Come off wid yer poi
pinsion kess!' or 'Old man, how much
tolc do ye git out o' thim pois?'
"Ginerl, Oi tell you, sor, that no man
kin foight on an impty stomach iny
more than he kin work on it! An' Oi
insist, sor, that in thim instances poi is
just as much in the loin av duty as
rifles is, sor! an' Oi hope, sor, that
you'll oxcuse me for sayin that there is
seoh a thing ez bein' too—too—too— !
ad—adjective funny in pinsion mathers!
(Oi niver ouss in the prisince ov me
superiors, sor!")
"Have you proof positive of all this?" ,
"Oi have, sor!"
"The pies were poisoned to kill off
the hungry soldiers?"
"They was, sor!"
"Well, Mr.—Mr. •
"Murphy, soi l"
"Well, Mr. Murphy, I think your
case is meritorious."
"Yis, sor; does that mane it's O. K. ?" i
"Yes, my man! And I think it will ■
be properly adjudicated. Have you
been to the Commissioner?"
"Now, sor, they sid in Hardscrabble
that uo poi boiter would iver draw nd
pinsion!"
"I'll see to this matter," said the
General, the corner of his mouth
twitcliiug. He did, and poor Paddy
Maginnis's honest, hard-working little
widow not her iust rights.
An Extravagant Queen.
The only queen of to-day who can
match the Empress Eugenie's extrav
agance of former days is the Queen of
Portugal, who spends money in the
same reckless manner and buys by the
wholesale. Bhe does not wait to ex
amine and make her selection before
fiurch&sing. She buys all the styles of
he day direct from Paris, giving orders
for the leading houses to send anything
that is new and beautiful, wears what
pleases her and casts aside the rest.
She has good taste, and when one of
these collections of dresses, mantles,
hats, gloves, boots, laces, etc., arrives
from Paris, she makes a long study of
each article, trying on many things,
studying the combination with the lines
of her figure, the color of her hair, until j
she gets a harmony perfect in all its !
details. She is generous and loves to j
imake costly and eccentric gifts, but in j
jfchat way no one has surpassed the
beautiful Queen of Hollaud. On her
husband's recent birthday she presented
him with an enormous boquet of flow
ers, so heavy that it required several
serving men to carry it. As it was
brought close to the throne the old
King stooped forward to examine it,
when amidst the flowers the head of
his little infant daughter penned out.
The turning point
in woman's life brings peculiar
weaknesses and ailments. Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription
brings relief and cure. It is a
powerful, invigorating, restorative
tonic and nervine. It imparts
strength to the whole system in
general, and to the uterine organs
and appendages in particular.
(t Run-down," debilitated and duii
cate women need it. It's a legiti
mate medicine purely vegetable, .
perfectly harmless. It's guaranteed
to give satisfaction in every case, or
money refunded. Nothing else does
as much. You only pay for the
good you get. Can you ask more?
As a regulator and promoter of
functional action, at that critical
period of change from girlhood to
womanhood, " Favorite Prescrip
tion " is a perfectly safe remedial
agent, and can produce only good
results. It is equally efficacious and
valuable in its effects when taken
for those disorders and derange
ments incident to that later and
most critical period, known " The
Change of Life."
JAn Unprofitable Job.
Houuekeeper—Why don't you go to
work ?
Tramp—l've got a job, mum. I'm
treasurer of the Chicago World's Fair
fund, mum.
"Huh? You? Why, you're in rags
und tatters."
"Yes'm. There ain't enough come in
yet to cit me a suit of clothes." — New
York' Weekly,
FITS stopped free by DR. KUNHI GREAI
NERVE: RESTORER. NO fru after first dav'i
use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and %i ma.
bottle free. Dr. Kline. ll Arch St., PhUa.. Pa
Good fortune seldom comos p urp an( j
single, unattended by some troublesome or
unexpected circumstance.
BKKCHAH'S Pillßcure Bilious and Nervous Ills
In art, oratory, music, mere loudness or
demonstration is not a sign of strength; it
is rather proof of weakness.
, W. H. Griffln, Jackson, Mich., writes: "Suf- i
fared with Catarrh for fifteen years, Hall's Ca- I
tarrh Cure cured me." Sold by Druggists, 75c.
We may concede any man a right without j
; doing any man a wrong, hut we can favor
no one without injuring some one.
' You don't have to take, our x cord for the good
i quality of iiobhias's Electric Soap. Just Kl .t
one, bar of your grocer, let it tell you tisoum
story next Monday and be governed by tlmt,
> OO'.d or bad. lie mom bar Dobbin*' * Electric.
Emperor William will give no more jewelry
to those whom he wislieN to honor. Instead,
ho presents them with a photograph of him
self, hearing his autograph ami set in a silver
frame. U 84
ON® ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Byrup of Figsistaken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts I
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- '
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in its
effects, prepared only from the most
j healthy and agreeable substances,
its many excellent qualities com
mend it to all and have made it
the most popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for Bale in 500
Md 31 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do not accept
*ny substitute.
CALIFORNIA FIO SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO. OAL.
HBOisriui. sr. new FORK. N.F.
iPATEWTS^'S
nPPUADn""'! VINK YARDS in Florida and
UnUnAnU Virginia cheap. Send for circular.
! C. It. CD I, I, I N, >l.l, I N7 C'olcNt., i>lnron,Ga
AtllOinilO OLU HETTLBU |
PtNolUNo. .I! NDKR NEW LAW.
■ l'"lvliw Soldiers. Widows, Parents, BEAD
for blank applications ana Information. PATRICK
(I'KITUIL, Pension Agent, Washington. D. C.
nnilltl HAniT. Only Ctnala ant
IIHIIIM easy CURB In the World. Dr.
VII IWIYV J. 1.. STEPHENS. Lebanon. 0
; i DCIICinMC r
i rcliOlUliaamsrSfS?
. ' plication. Employ the old reliable flrra,
I J. 11. CRA LLF. A: CO., Washington, D. C.
CANNABIS INDICA,
The Great Bast India Remedy.
I I Imported by CHADDOCK A CO., 1083 Race street,
■ | Philadelphia, Pa. Is warranted to cure
Consumption.Bronchitis, Asthma
and Nasal Catarrh.
| And will break up a fresh cold In 24 hours. Bkeptlo.
usk your druggist for It. One bottle will satisfy vou
■■ its merits. s2.fo per pita bottle, or tlirec hi tties
| to. Hi nd for circular.
WALL PAPER
BARGAINS!
I We will guarantee all these clean new goods Just
made, and full length—B yards to the roll.
' An 8-yd, roll Wlilte bnck Paper, 3 to oc.
| An 8-yl. roll Gilt Paper. 5 to 10c.
V ii N-yd. roll Embossed € Silt Pnper, 8 to 13c.
Gill Borders, 1 to 18 Inches wide, *2 and
3c. per yard.
Borders without Gilt. 2 to 9 Inches 10. per
yard.
1 Son I 4c. In stamps for samples of the best and
great, st bargains in the country.
F. 11. CA.DY,
303 HIGH STREET,
, I Mention this paper. Providence. R. I.
| rear WATERPROOF COLLAR ' CUFF
' THAT CAN BE RELIED ON
BE UP Not to erpllt;
THE MARK Not tO DlSOOlOri
——J BEARS THIS MARK.
i^feFliuLOlD
MARK.
REEDS NO LAUNDERING. OAN RE WIPED CLEAN IN A MOMENT.
THE ONLY LINEN-LINED WATERPROOF
COLLAR IN THE MARKET.
rfhe greyest-burden* 6^?^t^esaen!
BURDEN
Ibis b.so!id coJieof-scoui-infieo&p
e jjs ed Jx>r cleejiir\£ purposes^-
What would you give for a Friend
who would take half your hard work off your shoulders
and do it without a murmur ? What would you give to
find an assistant in your housework that would keep your
floors and walls clean, and your kitchen bright, and yet
never grow ugly over the matter of hard work ? Sapolio
is just such a friend and can be bought at all grocers.
Pure
Blood
Is Essential to
Health. To Have
Pure Blood Take
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Dcuoinuc ® reat
PENSION Bill
rCPIOIUnO is Passed.
titled to •19 u mo. Fee 111) when you gel'l'our money!
blanks free. JOSEPH H. Ill.vmi, Auj, Wa.blo,tu, u , D. L
FRAZERg^fM
BMT IN Tilß WOKL9 II ft CM O C
; Qot the Genuine, Sold Everywhere.
7"1.> to 8"l„ interest
100 anil tipw.ril. Semrit.es anil In
tereet guaranteed. References furnished on appli
cation. Correspondence solicited Address.
FIRST STATE BANK, BaoimtS, NEB.
FIENSIONAVf,
<3l£jms.
Svrsin last war. 15 adjudicating i Joints. attv uui
WNI. FITCH & CO.,
102 Corcoran building, Washington, D. C.
PENSION ATTORNEYS
of over 23 years' experience. Successfully prose
cute pensions and claims of all kinds In shortest
possible time. BJfNu !• KK unless SUCCESSFUL.
nrucmuc new LAW CLAIMS.
rln oIU n 0 Ap s ,y Kilo B. Stevens &Ca
1 Attorneys, 1419 P St., Washington, B.C.
llranch OIBc, Cleveland. Detroit.Chicago*
CALIFORNIA
KXt'I'KHIONH Weekly. Lowest rates and Ifcst
accommodation* to all points West.
I..M.WALTI;KSA<'< ).,:M7 I'.r 1.1 \ IV. N- wYoikCity
■ Piso's Remedy for Catarrh Is the |H
Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest.
■ Sold bv druggists or sent by mail.
50c. K. T. Hazeltine, Warren, Pa.
I NO ONE NEED SUFFER.
J Dr, Tobias' Celebrated Venetian
Liniment acts like a charm for Cholera
Morbus, Diarrhoea, Dysentery-, Colic,
Cramps, Nausea, Sick Headache, Sc.
Warranted perfectly harmless. (See OA Til AC
COMPANYING each bottie, also directions FOK
USK.) Its SOOTHING and i'ENKTK Vi'lNU qual
ities are felt Immediately. Try it and be con
vinced. Price 35 and 50 cents, sold by all drug
gist*. Depot. 4" Murray St., N. Y.
t | EWIS' 98 <S5t. LYE
L Powdered and Perfumed.
(PATENTED.)
The strongest and purest Lye
made. Will make the best per
fumed Hard Soap in 20 min
utes without boiling. It is the
best for disinfecting sinks,
closets, drains, washing bottles,
barrels, paints, etc.
FENNA. SALT KTF'G CO.
Gen. Aorta., I'hlla., Paw
MTIOW w. L. Douglas Shoes are
*ll tflli warranted, and every pair
haa his name and price stamped on bottom.
$3 SHOE GENTLEMEN.
or~Send address on postal for valuable informatioa.
; W. 1,. BOL ii I.AS. Brockton, Mass.
CHICHESTER'S EROLISVJ
PENNYROYAL PILLS
Tor wnfc* bins'iffVk
ribton"" Takene sther. aII plU* \\y
id) NAIJii. pssubosrd Fi, pink wrsppsr*. sre VW
1/ Aaagsrs— ••■wterfetU. fed
I jj, jjt fsr Ladles,"'in Utter, by retars
— i" ID4W h. Fklls^fa
dorse Big G the
JKUAF Osrssts Xftff speclkc fortbe cartalnoara
UK TO ft of tbis disease.
O. H. INOIIA H AM, M. D,,
CXJ aialinsw Amsterdam. N.Tf
CM lira ssljr By tks Wa have sold Big G for
CksaUslOa many yesrs, and It has
aasaF^' T tbe "
S DTCHE 4 CO ilt
£ 1 .flfl. B.ld Ly Drucxlsta