HERALDRY ON {THE PLAINS.
Tlio Social Hearing, or Cuttle.ltrnncling in
tlio Western States.
Alice MaaGowen in McClure's
Magazine: The subje tof the brand
dis overs itselt sooner or later, in one
way or another, iu most of the affairs
ol' cattle-country life. The unac
companied children of lonely und
remote ranches play at roping and
branding each other. Tho wife of
the kindly, liberal-hearted cattle man
will early be given her own brand;
oltcn Ills little girls as well.
These brands may begin in a little
bunch of cows or a few brood mares;
hut willi no demands upon tlio "in
crease" tlioy soon glow to very re
spc. tabic herds of cattle or bunches
of horses.
It so .rids wonderfully picturesque
and Western to hear a dainty little
ninety-pound woman, speaking of
some loiniilo or artistic luxury re
mark. "Well, I can have it if I can
soil off some beef this fall;" or to
have a bright girl, discussing tlio
relative desirability of a course at an
art school or an Eastern pleasure
irim assure vou that she can easily
meet the expense of whichever she
decides upon by selling her 18U0 crop
of colts, which are now 4 years old
and just broken.
\ou would not suppose that tho
small, blind, insulliciently-clad deity
of the how and quiver would ever
neglect 11is classic weapon to concern
himself with so gruss and barbarous
utensil as a branding iron. Yetsuch
things have been.
1 have heard the talc how that,
away hack in tlio'ih's, there appealed
(along with tho rest of her family),
in one of the far-out piaiu counties
of the Texas rattle country, a fair
one by the romantic and me liflous
name of Lilyliel l'lunkett.
Eur the capricious and uncertain
favor ol this, the only marriageable
young lady in tho district, all the
susceptible and unattached cowboys
(ol vvii.ch class the population almost
wholly consisted) strove together
eagerly and without ceasing, maver
icking right and lort everything they
could lay their hands on, with a run
ning brand L. 1. 1., until, when the
tenderfoot she had all along been en
gaged to came out and married ber,
she brought Dim great herds of D. I.
L. cattle with which they gayly set
up a ranch beneath tho noses of tbo
forlorn celibate community.
Also, there was Ruck Redmond,
who, when lie had quarreled with his
sweetheart (old Drake's daughter,
known facetiously as "the duck";,
proceeded to singe upon the hide of
ail incidental maverick his burning
resentment of tho s< orns, gibes, and
indignities she had heaped upon him
in the heat of her anger and the im
munity of her sex.
It was a del irate example of cow
boy repartee, the retort hu olic, to
catch iip this un.orlunatc third
party, brand it a I over its helpless
limine side iu great sprawling let
tors, D I C K, and turn thecipering
Don mot loose where it could not fail
of meeting the cjes of the c uel fair
one.
The performance served its purpose
of deadly affront, the Drake boys
holding for some time that the ohli
gatiori was upon them to kill some
body about it, as no tluid loss expen
sive than heart's blood could properly
wash out such an Insult And [
think they did shoot to death—be
fore an. thing like a reconciliation
could he brought about—the calf.
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j THE GARDENER'S BURIAL,
This Is tho grave prepared; rot down tho bier:
Mother, a faUbfuf kou wo bring tlieo hero
In loving case to lio beneath thy broast,
Which many a year with loving toil bo arest,
rlis wan the eldest craft. I he simple skill
That Adam plied, ore good wan known by ill;
The throt-tlo s song at dawn his spirit tunod:
He set jiis ecods in hope, bo grafted, pruned,
Weeded and mow'd, and with u true son's care
Wrought t her e. in.mil.' ..f omhi-oj.l. i y num.
The snowdrop and tho winter uconito
Canto to his call ero frosts had ceueed to bite.
Ho La-Jo tho crocus flame as with a charm ;
The nestUug violets bloom d and fonr'd no harm,
Knowing that for their aakos n < hampion meek
l>ui bloooloss bnttlo with tho woutlior bleak ;
But when tlio wealthier 'months with largoeS
IHs bl .zoned buds put heraldry to shamo,
And on the Hunuuer air such p. rfuiiio runt,
As Saba nor the hpico Isles ne'er surpassed.
'lhe birds all loved him, for be won <1 not shoot
Lvon tho witig'd tbievos that. Htole li s fruit;
And bo lov'd them—tbo little foarloss wren,
,L r dl"onst. curious in tho ways of uicn,
The pilgrim swallow, and the dearer guest
'I hat bet j beneath our oaves her plant ered nest ;
The merry white throat, bursting with bis song
Flutter d within bis lea li and fear'd no wrong;
And tbo mute ilycatcbor forgot lior dread.
And took her prey beside bis stooping head.
Koc oiyo him, rdottior Kartli. bis work is done.
Blainoloss bo liked, and did oPonse to none;
Blsnieloss bodiod. forbiding us to throw
Mowers on bis grave, because he lov'd thorn so;
Hut bio.mi among the grasses on liis lnotiud.
He w0,.1d nt)t have tli m stiilo under ground,
Wo that hu\o loved must louvo him; Mother
ko p
A fiit hint watcli about him in his sloop.
—Linden Spectator.
MI ST TASTING.*'
Jane Cragin put down the morning
paper with a laugh. I wish Mrs.
Kcnworthy would read that story.
Head it Cy. I think there's a hint in
it for us..
"Hav'nt time; hut give us tho
pint on't'n'let tlio rest go. What
Is it?
' "Why, tlio jeweller when he
stepped into his gr cer's just tasted
whatever he could put his hands on.
The gro cr got tired of that and the
llrst chance he got lie went into the
jewellers to look at some unset dia
monds and picked up tho Dost look
ing one and threw it into his mouth,
exactly as Mr. Jeweller always picked
out the best, strawberries and tossed
them into his mouth. Of course,
that made a rumpus, and when the
gro 'er put hack the diamond, lie gave
the jeweller to understand that he'd
nay for his tasting after ttiis or he'd
know the reason why."
Cy. laughed. "That's all right for
a storj; hut what you goin't' dew in
lieiry tirno to keep folks from catiu'
a handful every time they go by? I
can't stop 'em. There is that old
man Hawkins that'll conic along any
time 'n' claw into a tray o' borr os 'n'
take a half ot 'em at a grab—he's got
a hand's big's the hand o' Providence
-—'n' what he don't take he'll mush.
Eay anything, and in half an hour
it'll lie all over town that we luade a
fuss because Dawkins picked up one
or two huckleberries while he was
doin'some tradin';'n' Dawkins aint
the only one that does it, by a long
shot!"
"Well, 1 should say not!" Jim
took the roar. 'Old l ady Walker
came balancing in here yesterday
with her nose op 'n thu air. "Ilahve
vo i a-ny su-pa-ri-or-proones?" the
fellow imitated exactly the woman's
tone and manner, ' some-thing a-bove
the aver age?" V she stuck up them
speck's o' hern with Iter left hand 'n
squinted at the prunes, 'n' her right
hand somehow got all tangled up
with them tib top strawberries that
Wilcox brought over. It took her
the longest time to make up her
mind about the prunes, 'n' after
she'd el a dozen o' so of the biggest
berries she didn't want the prunes.
Then sh happened to sec the straw
berries; "U-oh: what love-ly straw
ber-ries." 'n' that hand o' hern
hove ed over the tray like a hawk
over a chicken coop, 'll' then that
thumb and lore-linger gave a swoop,
'n' I'll he (log-gone If she didn't take
the biggest three berries there was.
She smacked her lips as tho last one
went down, "f low much are these
re-ally line berries?" Fifteen cents,
and mighty cheap't that. I'p llcw her
hands'a' down bobbed her bean like
an old lien turkey and she yepped
out: "O my! I nev-or could think
of paying that price for straw-ber
ries and these arc not quite sweet
yet! an' oil she tecteied with berries
enough in 'er maw to keep her alive
for a fortnit! l'uy anything? Of
course not. Mie was full as a tick;
what should she buy anything for?"
"Well, that's taking them one at
a time, sai I Jones; but when Mrs.
Kcnworthy comes in w.tli the twins
and the (log I confess I'm ready to
give up, I think wo shall have to
draw tho line right there. We sim
ply cannot afford to let this thing go
on. The other day Mrs. Kcnworthy
came in to look—she didn't want
anything—and, of cours\ the other
three came too. Zippy was promptly
put out: for a dog in a. store i can't,
abide and won't The tw ns howled
aud the (1 g howled, but they soon
got over that Mrs. Kcnworthy
wanted an apron—that is, she said
she did —and while we wero busy with
the prints the twins were making the
most of th ir advantages. Amelia
likes sweet things and Pnmella hank
ers after the sour; so while one was
up to her eyes in sugar the other was
trying to It ok up the biggest pickle.
I kept looking over at them, that the
mother might see that th y were an
noying me Finally, 1 said that 1
was afraid' that if l'amclia should
100 iier balance, she would go head
lirst intu the pickles; and that wo
man with a 1 guess not," never
so much as looked around. tVell, 1
stood it awhile longer aud throwing
on the counter a new print, I took
Amelia from th 1 sugar and covered
the barrel tight, and wiped Pamelia's
hands on her apron and covered the
pickle barrel, and then went back to
the mother. 1 got there about the
time the twins found the peanuts.
They ate what the> w intcd and filled
their pockets and then began to tease
to go home, or course where they
are right in the village here we can
charge up their tasting on something
else and its ail right; but take such a
case now as Deacon Phelps, lie
doesn't have any charges. What he
brings from the farm Is always good
and iusr what wc want In every wav;
and yet that man always goes for tho
crackers and cheese the minute ho
strikes the store. 1 wonder how he'd
like it If wo should start in on his
butter and eggs or anything else that
he brings in?"
"You can try, Miss Cragin, for
here he comes. 1 dassen't I tell yc
that 'fore hand. • Why not let Cy.
■see what ho can da Come now.
You're the boss, Cy., just R'out 'n'
most eternally do 'in. up!"
Into dane Crairin's face crept that
little spot of pink—the unering tell
tale of things to come—and slipping
from the hißb stool, she Rave that
portentous little flirt to the immacu
late apron and with a cheery Rood
mornior went out to attend to wants
ot her thrifty farm customer. Al
ready tho screen cover of the cheese
box was turned back and a Rcnerous
slice was in the hands ot the deacon
who was peerinß over his spectacles
(or the crackers.
"The Hll-fa m folks are all well
this morning. I hope."
The deacon manaKed to say with
his mouthful of dry crackers und
cbceso that "they was putty wal.' "
"What have we here?—some of
Mrs. Phclp's Dutch Cheese? Well,
ain't that nice." ■ and reachinß
for tho clieese-knlfc, she cut the big-
Rest Dal 1 of snow in two and took a
Rcnerous mouthful. "Well, that is-
Rood! Here Cy. you and dim may
have that half. This is mine. As
lonß ,iRo as 1 can remember, I used
to tease for gingor-snups and Dutch
clicose. When I have crackers
these arc rather nice—don't you
think they are, Deacon?—l ust like
11 dip into a jar of Mrs. J'help's but
ter and spread it on thick. Tho
l'helps butter—l call it—is just salt
enough to go with the o liuicy white
crackers in the box here: and if any
body is cracker hungry—Cy. says
1 always am—and will slice the
butter oil like that—she suited
the action of the word—by the time
it gets melted in the mouth with the
cracker, it's what 1 call good eating.
Alia! what have we here? Well.
Deacon those arc the llnest radishes
we've seen yet. Hero Cy. just try
that. Want one J iiu' J M-iu! Are'nt
they good!" And three or the host
disappoa - in a shower of praise.
"Here! 1 guess I'd better get these
things out of sight before they are
all gone, dim take the nutter in and
weigh it and weigh the cheese, too,
and I'll count, the radishes. Cy. i
wish you would wait on the Deacon
for 1 must get on with those hooks.
You must remember mo to Mrs.
l'helps and just tell li r from me that
we want all the iiidishcs and Dutch
cheese she can possibly spare."
A minute later Ihe high stool was
occupied by the book-keeper, Cy. was
tilling the Deacon's orde;s and dim
was sampling still further the rad
ishes uiid the butter in the hack
store.
Deacon Phelps? O, yes. Ho didn't
say anything: hut lie never alter in
the Milltown store helped himself to
the crackers and cheese.—lf. M.
Streeter in Tri-.state Grocer
The Uasliful Ray.
What pangs the bashful boy suf
fers! How lie Hushes when lie is
obliged to address a stranger, and
how his limbs tremble under him
when he is introduced to some one!
Hut the climax of Ids trials Is reached
when he is called upon to do the in
troducing himself.
Shrinking from such tests may
perhaps he natural (torn one who is
constitutionally shy, but there are
phases of liashfiilness that seem not
only inexplicable hut closely allied
to pride rather than modesty. Tim
idity of this sort is that displayed by
a youth in his teens who dreads toen
ter a dry goods store much frequented
by ladies. He knows no one there, no
one knows him, and yet forsooth he
imagines that he is going to be
singled out from the crowd of pur
chasers as though he were an
Adonis.
After all, when one comes to an
alyze the trait there Is not as much
vanity as sclf-doprecintton in the
hoy or man who is always wondering
what people arc thinking of him.
Time to Stop.
Under the machinery of the law as
at present administered a lawyer has
groat advantages over a witness.
Recognition of this fact is probably
the reason why people always enjoy
seeing a witness get the hotter of his
examiner.
Au exchange reports a case in
which the plaintiff had testified that
his financial position had always
been good. Tho opposing counsel
took him in hand for cross-examina
tion, and undertook to break down
his testimony upon this point.
"Have you ever been bankrupt?"
asked the lawyer.
"I have not," was Ihe answer.
"Now he careful; did you ever stop
payment?"
"Yes."
"Ah, I thought we should get at It
finally. When did that happen?"
"After I had paid all I owed."
A Doctor's Dilemma.
A bachelor physician, who main
tains a splendid establishment on
Diamond street, is in a dilemma,
lie bought the house in which he
lives several years ago and made a
ten-year contract with a widow, with
children, to furnish tho house and
Don -<1 him and his man servant for
the free use of the dwelling. Since
then the widow has married. Now
the doctor wants to wed. The erst
while widow reins s to vacate the
house: tho bride to be refuses to
move in until the other woman moves
out, and the doctor is boarding else
where, while the man servant and
the widow are in supreme possession.
The contract has live years to run,
and the doctor must either get an
other house, another, woman for a
wife or buy the housekeeper off.—
Philadelphia Record.
[THE UNSEEN GOLD SUPPLY,
IT MOVES IN A STEADY STREAM
TOWARD THE MINT.
Keepsakes and Jewelry It lay He
Hoarded, Hut the Mint Gets
Thein—How Gold is Melted.
££ / \LD Gold and Silver Bought
f 1 Here," was a sign hanging
V J in front of an Eighth ave
nue shop that attracted
tho attention of two passers-by a few
days ago. One of tho passers was a
Sun reporter, the other was Mr. J.
Robley Dunglison, Registrar of De
posits in the Philadelphia Mint, who
probably knows more about the un
seen supply of gold than any other
man in this country. The "unseen
gold supply" is a term tho mint peo
ple use to describe the tons of gold
and silver that lie in tho half-forgot
ten boxes in bureau drawers—old gold
pencils, old watch cases, neglected
pocket pieces, broken chains, specta
cle rims, and a thousand other bits of
metal that have intrinsic value. Most
of these things arc sure to find their
way to tho mint sooner or later, and
when they do it is Mr. Dunglison who
makes an entry of their weight in the
mint's big books.
"There is one of our feeders," Mr.
Dunglison said, as lie read the sign.
"You would be surprised to know how
much of the gold and silver that we
turn out in coin comes to us through ;
such places. There arc thousands of
buyers of old bullion in this city, and
tens of thousands of them throughout !
the country. In tho aggregate they
send us a great many tons of bullion
every year, and so put a great deal of
money into circulation that would
otherwise lie idle.
"There is no piece of gold or silver \
so large or so small," ho continued, j
"that the dealers will not buy it. Do \
you know that gold filling out of ex
tracted teeth make a considerable item
in the mint's gold? They do. When
a dentist extracts a tooth lie is sure to
extract also any gold that may bo iu |
it, and these tiny bits after a while
make a little boxful, which is sold to
a dealer. The idea seems unpleasant,
but it is not, when you know how
thoroughly nil bullion is refined and
cleansed in the mint before it is
coined.
"You will find that all those dealers
would a little rather buy old silver
than old gold, because there is more
profit in it. The price of silver fluctu
ates so much that they can always buy
it for considerably less than its real
value; but tho prico of gold never
varies. An ounce of gold is worth
$20.G7 always, iu all civilized coun
tries; and this is so well understood
that tho dealer must pay pretty near
ly that much for it. lie generally in
creases his profit a little by paying in
goods instead of in cash. The dealer
must be able to do a little crude as- I
saying himself, or ho is likely to make
mistakes. Gold jewelry, for instance,
is rarely made of pure gold. Our
mint standard for pure bullion is 1000,
and wo rarely get a watch case or a
ring or a chain that assays more than
500, showing that it is half gold or
silver and half alloy. You think you
are carrying a gold watch, but the
chances are ninety-nine in a hundred
that the cases arc half copper. The
cases will reach the mint some day,
almost to a certainty, aiul then the
copper will corao out.
"Tho How of old jewelry to the mint
is almost as certain and steady as the
How of water down an incliue. Tho
old trinket is broken and useless, and
you lay it away. Perhaps it is an heir
loom, or for Homo other reason you nro
attached to it, and you Would not
think of selling it. But a rainy day
may come, and youaro glad to sell it.
In any case, you are sure to die some
time, and your heirs will not care for
the chain ; then we get it and turn it
into dollars or eagles.
"Wo do not buy bullion in small
quantities at tho mint—nothing less
than §IOO worth of gold or silver at a
time, and then wo do not pay lor it
until it has been assayed. If you
bring us SIOO worth of metal that you
suppose to bo gold, wo weigh it and
give you a receipt for it, and three
days later you can call and receive
the money for whatever gold wo find
iu it. No mutter if the lot only con
tains a dollar's worth of gold, wo will
receipt for the weight and extract the
gold for you and pay you for it. But
you lose all tho base metal, because in
the refining everything but the gold
and silver is destroyed. That is, it is
practically destroyed, because our
work is with gold and silver only, and
wo do not make any effort to save the
base metals. It could easily be done,
but it would not pay ior tho time and
trouble. We could separate not only
the gold and silver, but the copper
also, and tho lead and whatever else
is present.
"Whim you take a quantity of oH
gold to tho mint to sell, your metal is |
not mixed with any other metal. Each |
lot is kept sepnrato until it has boon
assayed. Your gold is jmt into an iron j
box with two looks, and when its turn i
comes the box is taken to tho melting j
room, where it is opened by two men,
each of whom has a key to ono of tho
looks. The metal is put into a cruei- I
lile, with a little borax to prevent its I
sticking. The crucible is put into a j
furnace, and when the metal is melted I
it is moulded into a bar. That bar
contains all the metal in your lot, |
whether it bo gold or brass, and it is '
the assurer's business to find out bow
much gold it'contains. While it is in
the crneiblo it is stirred constantly
anil thoroughly, so that all its metals
may be distributed equally through- j
out tho bar.
"When the bar is returned to the
weighing room the assayer chips from
it a tiny piece that must weigh just
half a gramme, or 7.7 grains troy, j
The bar and tho sample are numbered j
I to correspond, and the bar is Inched
jup in the iron bos again. But the
' chip is taken to the assaying room,
| where it is put through one of tho
j most delicate mechanical processes in
: the world. No danger of visitors fol
lowing the chip to the assaying room,
| for a mail who is working with scales
that will weigh the thirteen-hundredth
of u grain cannot be talking to visitors,
i "You are not familiar with the bone
ash cup, J suppose, that we call tho
cupel'* To the uninformed that is
one of the wonders of the mint. It is
simply a little, shallow cup made of
bone ashes moistened and pressed,
but it docs some wonderful work. It
will absorb any metals that, are melted
in it, except gold and silver. That
sounds a little doubtful, but it is a
' fact that can readily be accounted for
j 011 scientific principles. You melt a
lump of mingled gold and copper in
this little cupel, ami every particle of
the copper disappears, leaving the
gold alone in the bottom of the cup.
That is the first step in assaying gold,
taking no account of a dozen miuor
operations that merely lead up to it.
"This melting in the cupel does not
! give pure gold, however, for gold is
often alloyed with silver. After the
tiny button that remains in the cup
has cooled sufficiently, it is flattened
with a hummer and run between
rollers till it comes out a little spiral
j that we call a cornet. This is put in
I a little vessel like a thimble with a
•slit in the bottom, and is boiled in
nitric acid. The acid dissolves tho
silver, which runs out through the
slit, but it cauuot dissolve tho gold.
TJio tiny chip that remains in is pure
gold."—New York Sun.
SEiiKcr sirmus.
i Water lilies are unusually large this
j year.
| Tracts are published in 201) lan
guages.
Overeating is the greatest cause of
disease.
Dramas in India arc played in the
open air.
Phoenicians invented the first alpha
bet about 1500 B. C.
A sixty-pound boy hauled in a fllty
pound catfish at Wiufiold, Kan., a few
days ago.
One of the largest sassafras trees
in this country is in Central Park,
New York City.
A recent Berkshire (Penn.) funeral
was graced by the xircsence of a
mourner on a bicycle.
The elephant is the chief beast of
burden in Siam and Afghanistan. An
"elephant load 'is estimated ufc two
tons.
Roasted coffee and ground coffee
beans mixed with honey are, it is
stated, used to restore broken-down
horses in Germany.
Salvator Rosa's remarkable skill in
painting brigands was due to tho fact
that in his youth he associated with
tho biigancls of Southern Italy.
A New York undertaker displays,
among other funeral emblems, a clock
made of immortelles. The timepiece
bears tho inscription: "The sad
hour."
Three widowers at Marvoll, Ark.,
have married again. They h ivo made
love to and been accepted by three
! sisters. Their first wives were also
1 sisters.
i Phil Hubbard, of Palmyra, Mo., is
■ eighty-five, and began hunting sixty
i nine years ago. Ho has averaged
, from forty to sixty foxes a year, be
sides other game.
' In each wing of the ostrich twenty -
| six long white plumes grow to maturi
ty in eight months. In the male these
are pure white, while those of the fe
male shade to ecru or gray.
There arc forty-eight different ma
terials used in constructing a piano,
laying no fewer than sixteen different
countries under contribution and em
ploying forty-five different hands.
In Gladeville, Va., a party of lioney
I hunters treed a bear recently. They
; had no guns, but chopped tho tree
down and pitched into the bear with
axes. lie was killed after chewing ouo
| man awhile.
Tho rushlight, or rush candle, which
I has been the "poor man's light" for
: many centuries, was prepared by
' stripping a dried rush of its bark, ex
-1 copt one small strip, which hold the
| pith together, and dipping it ropeated
j ly in the tallow.
I One,of tho curiosities of the Stink
ing-water Canon, Wyoming, is the
alum cave. The cave appears to be an
extinct geyser, ami is about fifteen
feet across and easily accessible. The
alum is along tho side and about six
feet in thickness.
How Thermometers Arc Mule.
A small glass tube, blown into a
( lmlb at one end, is partly filled with
; mercury ; the mercury is boiled to ex
pel air and fill the tube with mercury
i vapor, and then tho tube is hermeti
! cally sealed and allowed to eo'ol. Tho
! gradations arc found as follows: The
instrument is immersed in ice water,
and tho freezing point is found and
marked; then it is placed in water
which is allowed to reach tho boiling
( point, and so 212 degrees is found,
j L'lio spans between are marked by
' mathematical calculations.—New York
I Telegram.
Way to Please an Author.
Mark Twain says there ar3 throe
"infallible ways of pleasing an au
thor: J. To tell him you have read
one of his books; 2. To tell him you
have read all of his books; 3. To ask
liiin to let you read the manuscript of
his forthcoming book. No. 1 admits
you to his respect; No. 2 admits you
to his admiration; No. 3 carries you
j clear into his heart."—Chicago lier
, aid.
'W THERE arc any house- jl!
&4 1 keepers not using ROYAL ea
H 8 BAKING POWDER, its g
£j:l .M. great qualities warrant them in ®
j&j making a trial of it. 32
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W takes the place of soda and cream of gi'
tartar, is more convenient, more ceo- ®
fiia ' '
Eg nomical, and makes the biscuit, cake, |o~
eg pudding and dumpling lighter, sweeter,
ijjj more delicious and wholesome. iM
jj*£ Those who take pride in making the
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When You Arc Strongest.
Vauehan ITarley agrees with Dr.
i.omhard in considering that the
amount of work done by the same
set of muscles at different times of
the day undo:goes periodical varia
t ons; so we may accept as a fact,
says the Journal of Physiology, that
there is a diurnal rise and fall in the
power of doing voluntary muscular
work, in the same way as there is a
diurnal rise and tall in ho lily tem
perature and pulse, ft is remark
able, however that instead of the
greatest amount of work being done,
as might have been expected, on ris
ing m the morning, after a good
night's rest, it is found that at u
a. m. the smallest amount of work is
accomplished, the powers of doiug
muscular work in Pr. Parley's case
increasing each hour up to 11 a. m.
Immediately after lunch there is a
marked rise, lollowed an hour later
by a fall, while again an hour later, '
orabout 1! p. m., the amount of work 1
accomplished reaches it.s maximum.
Then, from some unexplained cause,
there is a noticeable fall at 4 p. m.,
which is succeeded by a rise at 5 p.
in, after which a progressive fall
takes place during each successive
hour until dinner. Even during a ;
prolonged fast more work was capa
ble or being executed from 11:30 a. |
ui to 4:30 p. m. than at 0 a. m.
Wonts His Anatomical Scrap.
Seven years ago, in Chillicothe,
Ohio, George Berner got into a dis- I
pute with a man, and the latter cm.
phasized his argument with the aid of
an ax and chipped off a piece of Hor
ner's skull. This little piece of l one
was used by the court as evidence !
and marked "Exhibit .A." How
Berner is searching the court records ]
tor the missing bit of skull.
THE undertaker has been suspected
of a silent partnership in cure-all i
remedies.
BEECHAM'S PILLS
(Vegetable)
What They Are For
Biliousness indigestion sallow skin
dyspepsia bad taste in the mouth pimples
sick headache foul breath torpid liver
bilious headache loss of appetite depression of spirits
when these conditions are caused by constipation ; and con'
stipation is the most frequent cause of all of them.
One of the most important tilings for everybody to
learn is that constipation causes more than half the sick
ness in the world; and it can all be prevented. Go by
the book.
\\ rite to R. F. Allen Company, 365 Canal street, New
\ork, for the little book on CONSTIPATION (its causes con
sequences and correction); sent free. If you are not within
reach of a druggist, the pills will be sent by mail, 25 cents.
"Good Wives Grow Fair in the Light of Their
Works," Especially if They Use
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HQ ma, should ttso IMao's Cure for QD 1
MR Consumption. It hug careil ['|4
Qui thnusmids. It has not injur- Hffl
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Etiquette of the Hand.
A lady never extends her hand to
a man whose acquaintance she li
making. She may or may not shake
hands with a lady who is introduced,
but she must not give her hand to a
s range man. A cultivated woman
will not shake hands with any man,
no matter how long acquainted with
him, unless she respects and admires
him. A gentleman never extends
his hand to a lady first. To do so
would be presumptuous, and subject
him to a snubbing. A man shows
his breeding the way he eats his din
ner; a woman shows her breeding
the way she receives people.
Origin of "Book."
The Anglo -axon word bnc slgnt
.les a beech tree. Before paper came
mo general use the wood of this
tree, being close-grained, was used to
write upon, and from this fact comes
the word book.
PIERCE—CURE
OIL PION33Y IS REFUNDED.
Disnaso follows a run-down system with
the livor inactive and the blood disordered.
Pimples, Boils, Sores, Carbuncles, Ulcers,
andliko manifestations of impure blood,
fbould bo driven out of the system with
Dr. Pierco's Golden Medical Discovery.
state> t) i at'? hid, a run -
ohnngo * Dr.
funis'. behind his car; he tried
your medicine, and one bottle cured him. I
chftll always recommend your medicines.
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