High Ijatitude Not lienoficinl. More people over 100 years old are I found In mild climates than In the |j higher latitudes. According to the last census of the German empire, of a population of 55,000,000, only seventy- ! eight have passed the hundredth year. France, with a population of 40,000,- 000, has 213 centenarians. In England there are 146, Ireland 578, and in Scot land 46. Sweden has 10 and Norway 23, Belgium 5, Denmark 2, Switzerland none. Spain, with a population of 18,- 000,000, has 401 people over 100 years of age. Of the 2,250,000 Inhabitants of Servla 575 people have passed the cen tury mark. It is said that the oldest person living whose age has been proved Is Bruno Cotrlm, born In Af rica, and now living in Kio Janeiro. He is 150 years old. A coachman In Mos cow has lived 140 years. To Ward OtT IJoas. In a recent lecture the German trav eler Prof. Peehuel-Eoeschke declared that the danger from attacks by wild animals In the African deserts and elsewhere was greatly exaggerated, and that the best weapon against at tack was an umbrella, which would ward off any lion or tiger. CURED HIS CATARRH Getting Better Very Soon Alter Taking Hood's SitrmiparlUu. "My son had catarrh very badly and wo could get nothing to do him any good. He was much run down. I decided to give him Hood's Karsnparlllft and after ho began taking it he was soon getting bettor and fo now well." Mrs. J. M. W. Hills, Antrim, N. H. Remember HoodVpariiia I* the bed —in feet theOneTrue ßlond Purifier. Hood's Pills Some men are never satisfied to re main at the bottom of the ladder; they always try to get farther down. A Sensation. That the world L coming to an end sudden* lynt a given time is not what is lieie referred to. There are different kinds of sensations, as very many people know who feel sharp twinges of pain in the big nerve of the thigh. Hciatlca is a very painful sensation, aud the torment of it makes one think something is come to an end. But just at the llrst sensa tion or twinge is the best time to use Ht. Jacobs Oil. The les wain the more easily it is cured, and the Oil prevents Its develop ment by soothing the nerve. At uuy stage It will cure. Fits normsuent,ly cured. No fits nr nervous ness after llrst day's uso of Dr. K'ine's Great Nerve Restorer. $5 trial bottle and treatise free Du. It. U. Ki.t nk. Ltd.. U3l Arch St..Fhila..Pa. A Workman's Idea of tho Drams. Walter A. Wyckoff, in Seribner's. tells In his narrative, "The Workers," what one of them thought of Slink speare: "When 1 go to the theater I go to laugh. 1 want to see pretty girls and lots of them, and I want to see them dance. 1 want songs as I can understand the words of, and lots of jokes, anil horse piny. You don't get [ me to the theater to see no show got I up by ShaUspenre, nor any of them fel lows as lived two thousand years ago. I What did they know about us fellows j p.s Is living now? Pete, you mind that : Tim Healy In the union, him that's full of wind In the meetings? Onct he give I me a book to read, and he says it's a j theater piece wrote by Shakspeare, and the best there was. I read inore'u an j hour on that piece, and I'm d—d If I there was a joke into it, nor any souse I neither." Child Sent by Post. A novel parcel for delivery by exprest post was recently handed in at a Bir mingham postofllce. A worklngman. who had been out of town with his 3-year-old child, arrived at Birmingham In time to reach his place of business but not in sufficient time to take his child home, lie therefore walked Into j the nearest postofliee and tendered the youngster ns an express parcel. The authorities, under the rule regulating ' the delivery of live animals, accepted the child and delivered it at a charge of uiuepeuce.—St. James' Gazette. It Is said that half the people born die before reaching the age of Iff. Some others we know wouldn't be missed very much. Some people save all their sympathy until a man is dead; they they make his grave sloppy with their tears. IDEAL GRANDMOTHERS. Women Who Know the Laws of Nature and Oboy Them May Live to Green Old Age. Mrs - J'lnliliam Says When Wo Violate Nature's f.airj lOur l'utilsliment Is Pain—lf Wo Continue to Neglect tho Warning Wo Dio. Providence has allotted us each at least seventy years in which to fulfill our mission in Dcc 'd building up at once! To build P woman's nervous system and re store woman's health, we know of no better or more inspiring medicine than Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Your ailment taken in time can be thrown off, if neglected it will run on into great suffering and pain. Here is an illustration. MRS. LUCY GOODWIN, Holly, W. Va., says: " I suffered with nervous prostration, faintness, all-gone feeling and palpi tation of the heart. I could not stand but a few moments at a time without having that terrible bearing-down sensation. " When I commenced taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I only weighed 108 pounds, and could not sit up half a day; before, however, I had used a whole bottle, I was able to be about. I took in all about thrqe hot tics of the Compound, and am entirely cured; now I weigh 131 pounds and feel like a new woman, stronger and better than ever in my life." So it transpires that because of the virtues of Mrs. Pinkham's wonderful Compound, even a very sick woman can be cured and live to a green old age. i f ' ~f(i_ Kssl this SHJ desk. S (Mailorders filled promptly.) B Wo will mail anyone, tree of all H charges our IIW ll'.'piiuo Bp*ciat I'wa- R logtie, containing Furniture, Draperies, R I,amps, St'ivo-, Crockery. Minors, R Pictures, Holding, Refrigerators. Baby | Carriages, etc. T i* i 9 the most, c iu- I plete book ever published, and wo pay ull postage. Our lithographed Carpet Ca alogue, showing carpets in colors, is 1 also yours tor tho asking. If carpet samples are wanted, mail us Bc. in stamps. There is no reason whv you should pay your local dealer GO per cent, prolit when you can buy from the mill. Drop a lino now to tho money-save i s. JULIUS HINES & SON, } Baltimore, Md. Please mention this paper. [ MBpBBBPP DESTROYS A MILLION DAILY. Uncle Fnm Grinds Bank Notes and Greenbacks Into Pulp. "Every working day in the year Un ci© Sam destroys n million dollars; de- . liberntely tears up and grinds to pulp one million dollars' worth of paper money—genuine banknotes and green backs," writes Clifford Howard in the Ladies' Home Journal. "A million dol lars In one, two, five, ton, twenty, fifty, one-hundred and one-thousand dollar notes are dally punched full of holes, cut Into halves and thrown into a mi dline that rapidly reduces them to a mass of mushy substance. "Whenever a piece of paper money becomes soiled or torn It may be pre sented to the United States treasury and redeemed. Sooner or later every note that circulates among the people becomes unfit for further service, for It Is bound to become dirty or mutilated by constant handling, and the United States government stands ready to give the holder of such a new note in exchange for it; or. In other words, tho government will redeem It. "The majority of the clerks employ ed In this Important department of the government are women, many of whom are the most expert money-counters and counterfeit detecters In the world. In fact, only experts can proprely per- \ ,s : GRINDS UP A MILLION A DAT. 1 form the work that is required; for 1 not only must the soiled and mutilated ; money be accurately and rapidly eount ! Ed, but all counterfeit notes must; be 1 detected and thrown out. When we consider that some counterfeiters can so cleverly imitate genuine money that their spurious notes will circulate through the country without detection, and are not discovered until they are finally turned Into the treasury, some ; idea of the proficiency of these experts can bo gained, especially when we bear in mind that these notes are often so worn that the imprint on them can scarcely be deciphered. It not infre quently happens that these bad notes are detected simply by the feel of i them, which, in some cases, is the only way of discovering the fraud; for while a counterfeiter may occasionally suc ceed In so perfectly imitating the de sign of a note as to mislead oven an ex pert, It Is next to Impossible for him to counterfeit the paper used by the gov- I eminent." s LOVE J BEAR. Daytimo or nighttime, Duty or leisure, Weary with labor Or heartsick with caro, Sleeping or waking, In sadness or pleasure, My life is possessed Of this love that I bear. No blessing so joyous, No sorrow so saddening, No memory so fond, And no hope is so dear, No cups so embittered. No comforts so gladdening, As those that I know In this love that I bear. Intermingled with all That touches my being, The fabric of life Has been woven so fair By the shuttle of thought, That forever is flying. Propelled by this merciless Love that I bear. Summers have budded And blossomed and faded, The fruit of rich autumns Been garnered with oarc, The treacherous ice Of winters invaded, Ami bright Easter springtimes fcjiuco love that I beur, Strange! Strange the power That with hunger possesses A soul with such longing That life is a prayer For love of its own, That none other expresses, "Welling up from a heart With such love us I bear. So on through the time Of allotted probation. No hope of a olesslng, So precious to share, Can ever be found, Except in relation To One that I love With such love as I bcr.n God in Thy goodness Teach me the meaning Of all that environs And kindly declare The way I can live In patience, not weaning My heart from this terrible Love that I bear. "Dear days" of the past, I remember with gladne?:3 •"When love's golden halo Hhono bright everywhere. Oh! why should a heart Have to suffer such sadnes3 As days that turn love Into doubt und despair. Angels of mercy, Bring messages gleaming With hope, that the future Will kindly prepare An earthly inheritance, Bright with the beaming Of love, in return For the love that I bear. -J. H. Mack. § THE SILVER BULLET. $ ODCJOOOOOOOSGOOaOOOOOOOOOOy f. HIS silver bullet V three times has saved my life, and I it had a history when it came iuto my possession. Ho j you wonder that I wear it as a talis man ?"*Baid Senor Don .Faustino Or tega, of Sinaloa, Mexico, talking with two friends in the reading room of an uptown hotel. He speaks excellent English, and as he said this he held up to view the battered silver hall which he carries always strung by a gold wire to his watch guard. "It weighs just an ounce," the Senor Don continued. "It was given me by my grandfather, who told me the story of it when he put it into my hands 011 his dying bed. He was clear of mind, and I could not doubt a word of his f-tor>', strange as it may sound to you. 'lt was more than fifty years ago,' my grandfather said, 'that a monster wolf appeared at my ranch on the San Ysidro and destroyed many sheep and calves and colts. My herders chased the creature witji lassos aud fired at it to no purpose; it was so fierce that it would not retreat before one man. My major domo sent word of these things to me, and I went to the ranch. Three different times I fired at that wolf, feeling sure every time that I must have hit the creature, but it trotted away with no sign of hurt. When after my third trial I found the flat tened bullet at the place where the wolf had been when I fired, I gave up trying to kill the beast with powder and lead, and I rode 100 miles to con sult with a man who was learned in such matters. He heard my story. " 'Make a bullot from the first silver you find,' he said. 'Soratch upon it a Christian cross, aud try the wolf with that. If your aim be true, the bullet will not fall fiat like the other.' "The rest of the story I will tell in my own words. My grandfather made the wise mail a present and started back for the ranch. Crossing the channel of the Sau Ysidro,' at that season of the year nearly dry, his horse stumbled, aud where its hoof had disturbed the sand aud pebbles there lay exposed a nugget of pure silver, such as ofteu is found in the bed of this stream, washed down from the mountains. Dismounting, my grandfather picked up the nugget, and after his arrival at the ranch hammered it into the bullet you see. The next night he watched for the wolf, which came with the rising moon, and he killed the oreature with thi silver bullet. His flocks aud herds were troubled no more by any wolf, and he kept the bullet until the last day of his life. " 'Keep it, my dear grandson,' were his last words to me concerning the bullet. 'lt has been lucky for me, and it may succor you in some bad time.' "For six years I carried the silver bullet in my pocket before the chance came to demonstrate that it was a lucky piece for me. The house at my hacienda, like Mexican houses in gen eral, is of one story, so that all its rooms are ou the ground floor. My sleeping room opened upon a long, narrow hallway, with a door opening upon the courtyard. I had occasion one morning to go to the further end of this hallway to get some business papers that I kept there on a shelf. A snake must have crawled into the hallway the day before when the outer door was open. I passed where it lay without seeing or arousing it, for the first I knew of its presence was the loud buzzing of its rattle behind" me as I rummaged among my papers. I turned to see a six-foot rattlesnake coiled between me and both the doors. It was thoroughly angry and was ad vancing upon me after the fashion of a rattlesnake that means to attack— lunging forward a third of its length and then bringing its coils up the same distauce—while its rattle in the closed and narrow passage filled the narrow place with its sound. "I was clad only in nightshirt, trousers and slippers, and there was nothing in sight with which to defend myself. The reptile was all the time drawing nearer, and had covered half the distance to me before I thought of the silver bullet in my trousers' pocket and realized that my one chance of stopping the snake lay in striking its head with the bullet. I was in my boyhood very skilful in the throwing of a stone, and the art has never left me. A thing that made my chance a little better than it might seem in telling, is the rattlesnake's manner of meeting an attack. It does not try to avoid, but confronts whatever threatens it, always turning its head so as to face the object. I chose a time when, after a forward lunge, it drew forward into coil and, at six feet away threw the bullet at its head with all my force. It struck true, and as the snake half straight ened its coils and writhed upon the floor I stepped safely past it into my room. After that of course it avas easy to make an end of the snake with my pistol. "The silver bullet had certainly been my salvation in this cose. It was less than two years afterward that it was the means of saving my life in another and very surprising way. I was in Chihuahua visiting the Las Quesndas mines, in which I held an interest, and on the day after my ar rival rode in from the hacienda six miles away, where I was staying, to see tho mine superintendent. Ho was in the magazine where the explosives used in blasting were kept. It was a stone house, or dugout, built in the side of a hill, and was reached from the foot of the slope by a steep path. I started there to find him, and had climbed the hill to the very step of the house, when, in taking my handker chief from my pocket I pulled the sil ver bullet out and it fell and rolled down the slope. I turned and ran back after it, keeping my eye on it as it rolled, for I knew if I once lost sight of the bullet my chances of find ing it were small. , "I followed it to the foot of the hill and saw it roll into a ditch that once had been used in draining a mine working. The ditch was about four feet deep, and just as I jumped into it and stooped to pick up the bullet there came a roar like the bursting of a hun dred cannon and a shock that sent me flat on my face, stunned, in the bottom of the ditch. When I came to my senses I found myself half buried in dirt. I got clear of that and upon my feet, so that I could look around to see what happened. Where the maga zine had been there was a great hole in the hillside, with smoke floating about it, and not so much as ona stone of the building to be seen. "The wreck was caused by the ex plosion of half a ton of giant powder that had been stored there. What had set it off could not be known, for not a trace of the superintendent, the fore man, and two Mexicans that had been with them, was ever found. The shock and flying rock wrecked half the buildings at the mine camp, and sev eral persons there were hurt. You can judge for yourself what my chnnce would have been of ever telling this story to you if I had gone on into the magazine—if the bullet, falling from my pocket, bad not been the cause of my turning back down the hill and going into the shelter of the diteh just as the explosion came. "This Bilver bullet is the bullet that killed the bandit Tomas Viejada, who, for several years following the fall and banishment of President Lerdo, ter rorized Sinaloa and several of the ad joining States of the Mexican repub lic. lie had been one of Lerdo's par tisans and was very bitter toward who ever was prominent as a supporter of the Diaz Government. The best that one who was so unfortunate as to fall into his power could hope was to be held for ransom. I was ou my way t.eph Juneau, found ed the town of Juneau, Alaska, now equated as the leading citizen of the famous territory, has an interesting story to tell of the dark shle of life on the Upper Yukon. Mr. Juneau spent several years In Alaska, and helped lay out the streets of the town which now bears bis name. In speaking of his early experience In Alaska, Mr. Juneau said: "I helped lay out the town in ISSI, and have been there several times since. We first named the place llar risbtirg, but the people changed the name after a year or two. I have found the country full of disappointments, and I don't want to paint the picture too bright. Enough has not been said of the dark side. "It is no place for men of weak con stitution. The hardships to he encoun tered require the strongest hearts and sinews, 11s well. "I have seen nothing published of the fact that a large portion of the country is covered with a moss and vine which contains sharp thorns, like porcupine quills, with saw edges. These will penetrate leather boots, and when once in the flesh nothing but a knife will remove them. These are worse than the mosquito pest. "Along the son coast Alaska presents i grand and picturesque view for miles In extent, from an ocean steam er. It Is a good idea to get acquainted with Alaska and enjoy its scenery. It is a grand country to visit, and its scenery surpasses any mountain scen ery in the world. Travel on water can be provided for in comfort, and be en joyed without great risk or danger. "Alaska Is a country on edge. It is so mountainous. Basins are mainly filled with ice. The weather is always hard in great extremes. When there Is no ice there is moss and devil's club, the la,tter a vine that winds about ev erything it cau clutch. Persons walk ing become entwined in a network of moss and devil's club, and passage is extremely difficult and 'torturous,' as well as tortuous." —Detroit Pijee Press. A Drummer's Mistake. The Kennebec Journal tells of a Ban gor "drummer" who tried to save a lady from leaping from a rapidly mov ing train. After he had thrown his arms around her and dragged her baca Into the car she recovered from her surprise enough to call him all the names in the feminine vocabulary and explain that she went out on the plat form to wave her handkerchief at some friends. The passengers appreciated it all. but the "drummer" didn't seem to enjoy the situation. 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