In many places of Greece a cream
colored water jug or Jar is made which
so porous that when filled with
water the moisture keeps continually
exuding to the outside and there evap
orating, which wonderfully cools the
contents, especially when the vessel
etands in a draft. These cheap "water
coolers" are used by everybody, rich
and poor, and great numbers of them
are manufactured and sold every year.
Ladles Can Wear Slines
One aizo smaller after using Allen's Foot-
Ease, a powder for the feet. It makes tight
or new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot, sweat
ing, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and
bunions. At all druggists and shoe stores,
25c. Trial package Fiike by mail. Address
Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y.
More aluminium than ever is being used
for the caps of fruit jars for ail classes ot
goods.
• J. 8. Parker, Fredonia, N. Yf, says: "Khali
Dot call on you for the §<loo reward, for I be
lieve Hall's Catarrh Cure will oura any case
of catarrh. Was very bad." Write him for
particulars. Bold by Druggist#;*7sc.
When a fellow has no bank account to
draw 011 it doesn't do him much good to
draw on his imagination.
FITS permanently cured.No fits or nervous
ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerveßestorer.s2trial bottloandtroatisefreo
Dr. R.H. Kline, Ltd., 031 Arch St., Phila., Pa.
A man never forgets how good he is to
others.
Mrs. Winslow's Scothjng Syrup for children
teething, soften the gums, reduces iuttamma
tiou,allays pain, cures wind colic. 20c. a bottle
A man may know his own mind and not
know very much at that.
Plso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible
medicine for coughs und colds.—N. W.
Samukl, Ocean Grove, N. J., Fob. 17, 1900.
The fellow who borrows fifty cents ia
cqptcnt to do things by halves.
Your Hair
"Two years ago my hair was
falling out badly. I purchased a
bottle of Ayer's Hair Vigor, and
soon my hair stopped coming out."
Miss Minnie Hoover, Paris, 111.
Perhaps your mother
had thin hair, but that is
no reason why you must
go through life with half
starved hair. If you want
long, thick hair, feed it
with Ayer's Hair Vigor,
and make it rich, dark,
and heavy.
SI.OO a bottle. All droKKkts.
If your druggist cannot supply you,
send us 0110 dollar and we will express
you a bottle, lie sure and give the name
of your nearest ox press oflleo. Address,
H J.C. AV ER CO., Lowell, Mass.
Cross?
Poor man! He can't help it.
It's his liver. He needs a
liver pill. Ayer's Pills.
Want your moustache or beard a
beautiful brown or rich black ? Use
Buckingham's Dye
50cti.of druggistsor R. P. Hall &Co., Naihua.N.H.
W. D. Douglas shoes are the stan
dard ol' the world. This is the reason
W. L. Douglas makes and sells more
men's $:!.00 and $.'1.50 shoes than any
other two manufacturers.
W. L. DOUCLAS $4 SHOES
CANNOT BE EXCELLED.
Best imported and American leathers. Heyls
Patent Calf. Enamel, Box Calf, Calf, Vicl Aid. Corona
Colt, Nat. Kangaroo. Fust Color Eyelets used.
Cniition f ,rhe genuine have W. L. DOUGLAS*
Caution I name and price stamped on bottom.
Shoes by mail, 20c. extra, lllns. Catu log free.
W. L. DOUGLAS, BROCKTON, MASS
SIO,OOO vs;
.Agents Want d—T argent real estate firm In the
grorld ia establishing agencies throughout the
[united States for the sale of its New lork 'lty prop
erties on instalments of jd toglUper month, carry-
In* a life insurance.
I Besides an enormous local business the outside
demand for an opportunity to share In the *rowth
Of the Imperial City of the World hue been so great
the past year nndg half that we. have sold nearly
IKKI,UUO worth of property from Alaska to Bouth
riea. Our airents are making from SI.OOO to SJfi. oue
I* A*busiriess conducted as honestly and cmtnerva
tkely as ours Is capable of as great development as
the National Life Insurance Company with infinite
ly greater ease, with a compensation live times aa
great and the opportunity for en rgetlc. honest, In
telligent and resi-onslbls men to build up a perma
nent business for thorns- Ives and share in the subse
quent growth which is sure to come to us. We want
no representative who is not willing to work ener
getically, or who hus not sufficient capital to visit
New York to see our property and be taught the
most effective method of doing business; to all who
meet these reqniieuiauta and can give references as
to probity we will tuake most liberal terms, spend
ing more money In instruction and equiyment for
the work than their New York trip has cost.
Address
WOOD, HARMON & CO.,
fcfPt. T-i, 256 Broadway, New York Cltj.
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A Hero in the Life-Saving Service.
THE heroic light of W. W. Gles
ser nloue against a terrific,
driving sea on the shore of
Lake Erie and his successful
rescue of a man given up for lost, a
deed that won him a gold medal, stands
first in the records of the United States
Life-Saving Service of brave deeds
done last year.
Tale after tale of courage and hard
ship, as dramatic as anything In fiction
are told in this report, but Glesser's
spleudid achievement stands us the
greatest.
The hero is the keeper of the Buffalo
station. A gale was sweeping across
tlie harbor of Buffalo one afternoon.
Two large scows with several men
aboard broke from their moorings un
der the tremendous strain of lashing
seas and were drifting steadily toward
the breakers.
A life-boat was launched with Gles
ser in command. Nearing the point of
danger, tlie boat was driven before the
wind just outside the line of surf.
Anchor was dropped and it was in
tended to slack away till the scows,
which were now in the breakers, could
lie giveu assistance. But the anchor
dragged, a big wave snapped the haw
ser and another upset the boat. All the
occupants were thrown out and had a
hard swim in the pounding seas for a
quarter of a mile to reach the land.
There they heard that a man who
had been 011 one of the scows was in a
perilous position among gome old piles
standing nearly a third of a mile from
which Glesser then was.
Mounting his engine Glesser, with his
crew, rode to a spot opposite. The
half-drowned man was clinging to the
slippery piles 400 or 500 feet from
shore, the seas constantly breaking
over liini.
The use of the hunt was impractica
ble, and the situation of the unfortu
nate man was such that he must perish
unless aid should reach him. There
was little time for deliberation, and
Glesser. in spite of all protests, quickly
resolved to try to swim out with a
line, lie called upon Surfman Green- j
land to accompany him. They were
warned by experienced men that they
could not live to accomplish it, but
with solemn resolve Glesser replied:
"Wait until we try; the man cannot
come to us; we will try to get to him."
Then, making one end of the lino
fast about his arm, lie dashed into the
surging waters, accompanied by Green
land. Tlia two bad not proceeded far
when thoj' were thrown back upon the
beach. Again they set out, but when
about fifty yards on the way a particu
larly heavy sea hurled Greenland
against an old pile and then swept him
back to land, considerably injured, so
that he had to give up tTv attempt.
But Glesser was undaunted by the
loss of his companion and bravely per
sisted. He was repeatedly driven
ashore, but gradually gained ground
until he reached a pile standing about
sixty yards from shore.
There he rested for a few moments.
This was the only pause he made dur
ing the entire operation of rescue,
which consumed three-quarters of an
hour.
After recovering his breath Glesser
renewed the battle, and although se
verely buffeted about and driven back
sometimes 100 feet or more, he kept up
a stout heart, diving under the worst
breakers.
At length, getting sufficiently near.
Glesser threw to the man the end of
the line, instructing him to make it fast
about Ills body and then to let go his
hold of the piling niul drop into the
water. He had only sufficient strength,
however, to secure tlie line about his
wrist, aud before lie could leap the
waves and fouled the bight of the line
among the piling.
Glesser was thrown nearly 100 feel
away. To the people 011 the shore if
seemed as though both must certainly
perish. Glesser still persisted, regain
ing his lost ground, and at the end of
fifteen minutes of dangerous work
cleared the snarl. Thou upon his sig
nal the man let go of the piles, while
scores of persons at the other end of
the line pulled him with a rush to the |
beach, where he was picked up uncon
scious.
Then Glesser struck out for the land,
which lie reached without aid, but so
exhausted that he could not stand. Xot
till then was it found that he was coil
siderably injured by a floating tele-'
graph pole, which had passed over
him two or three times, inflicting heavy
blows upon his back. New York
World.
Hie Hoed of Wilson Mo Field.
From the records of the Royal Hu
mane Society a writer in McClures
Magazine draws tin* story of an ob
scure negro seaman whose brave deed
was discovered and honored by two of
the great nations of the earth. One
tropical night the schooner Dolphin
rested almost motionless off the Cay
man rocks in Nicaragua. Crew and
passengers, some twenty in all, were
asleep about the deck, for it was too
hot to go below. Then came such a
squflll as comes only in those southern
seas. The sails, all set, furnished am
ple leverage. Within ten seconds the
Dolphin was bottom up, her passengers
and crew struggling in the water.
Wilson McField, a negro and a sub
ject of Great Britain, Avas the first to
come to the surface. All his twenty
seven years of life lie had known these
waters, and he swam like a fisli. He
soon succeeded in climbing upon the
bottom of the vessel. Then he shouted
to the others, and one by one pulled up
five of the crew.
Fortunately the squnll was soon over,
although the sea was high. After they
had drifted two hours the men heard
strange sounds, like pounding within
the vessel. Some thought they heard
voices. The more superstitious were
afraid. The night dragged on, and by
daylight the sounds had grown fainter.
The crew concluded that men were im
prisoned within the boat, but none
could devise away to save them. Then
the negro proposed to dive under and
Into the ship. They assured him he
would never get out again, but carry
ing between his teeth one end of a rope
that had beeu drugging from the vessel
McField dived, passed under the gun
wale and rose in the hatch.
It was pitch dark, and the interior of
the vessel was full of the floating
cargo, hut he kept on steadily. Finally,
concluding that he had reached the
cabin, he rose, and in an instant his
head was above water. Yet so foul
was the air and so narrow the space
between the water and the ship's bot
tom that lie could hardly breathe. He
could see no one, hut lie heard the
knocking again and called out. Then
came voices, faint but familiar.
Swimming in tho direction of the
sound he found two men braced
against ihc cabin sides and holding
their heads above water. One was a
yoting rubber cutter, mimed Mallitz,
the other n native Spanisli-Xicarnguan
called Ohando. Botli were panic
stricken. and McField was obliged to
threaten them with instant death if
they did not. obey him. He fastened
the rope round Mnllilz and gave the
signal to pull. McField (lived into tho
water along with his man. In his
fright Mallitz entangled himself in (lie
hatchway, and precious time was lost
in freeing him. AVucn they reached
the surface Mallitz was unconscious
and McField more dead than alive.
They pulled Mallitz aboard, but .Mc-
Field would not follow. As soon as
lhe rope was free he took it in his
teeth and went under, l'ouud the hatch
and entered t lie cabin. Obaudo was al
most uncontrollable with fear and ex
haustion. but McField finally secured
him with the rope, and gave the signal
lo pull up. This time the trip was
made without accident, and both men
were drawn on board. All the men
were saved.
The United States Government
awarded McField a medal and .SSO in
gold, and the Itoyal Humane Society of
Great Britain gave hiin a silver medal.
Desert. Ills Heath Trap.
J. P. Fay has returned to San Ber
nardino, Cel., from a trip across the
Colorado with news of the death of J.
A. Adams, Deputy County Surveyor of
San Bernardino County, and n grand
sou of John Brown, Abolitionist.
"We were out on tho desert prospect
ing lor gold," said Mr. Fay. "An In
dian whom wc had employed to show
ns where lo timl water oa the desert
caught Ids foot in tho stirrup while
mounting his horse and fell on his
hack. The horse started to run, drag
ging the Indian by one foot.
"As the ground was covered by
jagged rocks the Indian would have
been killed had not Mr. Adams run up
and seized the horse by the hit. Tho
animal, wild with fright, reared and
plunged. Mr. Adams was twice
thrown upon the rocks, and once the
horse's hoof struck him, but lie still
gripped the bit until my companions
and I succeeded in releasing the Indian.
"After all the danger was over
Ailams sat down upon a rock and be
gan laughing, and when asked if he
was hurt replied: 'Ob, no; I'm only a
little tired, but I guess you will have to
help me set this arm.'
"We then started for Yuma, Adams
riding some twenty-five miles that af
ternoon and never once comxilainiug,
though we could sec by his drawn feat
ures that lie was suffering intense pain.
"At dusk we camped for the night,
and within an hour the man was deli
rious and raving like a maniac. Some
time during the night he left camp. As
soon as we discovered that he had gone
we made every effort to find liiiu, but
could not do much until daylight, when
we found his tracks in the sand.
"We followed the tracks all that day
and until about i) o'clock the next day,
when we came to a hard, rocky place
at the foot of some rock hills. Hero
we lost the. trail, and try as we might
we could not liml it again.
"For three days we searched tho
hills, but not a trace of the man could
we discover, though we well knew
that somewhere within a radius of
twenty or thirty miles lay the body of
one of tho bravest men that ever lost
his life in that great death trap—the
Colorado Desert."
Adventure With Iluttlcanakc.
Fred Harris, an express messenger
en the Illinois Central, had an expe
rience which he does not care to re
peat. He was on train No. 29, and just
after leaving Centrnlln, 111., settled
hack into his eliair and dropped into a
doze. He was awakened shortly by a
tickling under his chin, and drowsily
opened his eyes to discovered the coils
of an enormous snake lying across his
breast, its restless head waving under
his chin. It is hardly necessary lo
state that Mr. Harris made all former
records for instantaneous and lightning
moves in that car look like six counter
felt nickels. He also awoke to the fact
that while one snake is bad, several are
worse in a geometrical proportion, and
he was soon on a pile of baggage sur
veying a don of rattlesnakes. The rep
tiles were a 'consignment from Tampa,
Fin., to Chicago, and had made their
escape while Mr. Harris slept.
It takes the constant labor of GO.OOO
people to make matches for the world.
Why Not?
If Bet bedecks herself with gems, bestirs
herself when bid,
And feels benumbed when very old—be
wails her lot when chid,
Why shouldn't she bedress herself with
garments, and befeed
Herself with food, and feel beglad a nice
book to beread?
_ -Life.
Digging For It,
"When a man is ■working hard why
do they say he is digging away V"
"Because, my boy, he is after t lie root
of all evil, and how else can he reach
It?" Chicago Post.
Severe Measures.
"Can't you stop your little brother
from crying?"
"No. I've been er punchin' him fer
der last five minutes, and he won't
stop."—New York Journal.
Extremes Meet.
"Were you positive enough when you
told the old mail you intended to marry
bis daughter?"
"Yes, hut he was negative."—Cincin
nati Commercial-Tribune.
An Epigram.
"Is there any difference between 'eco
nomical' and 'stingy?'"
"Oh, yes. People call an economical
man stingy, and a stingy man calls
himself economical."—New York World.
A Practical Conclusion.
"Did your investigation of volcanic
phenomenon leud to any practical con
clusion?"
"It did," answered the popular scien
tist.
"What was it?"
"A check from a magazine."—WaslF
ington Star.
A Doubtful Compliment.
Mistress—"Now, Jane, there is no
use of further argument as to how this
dish should he prepared, hut our ideas
on the subject are so different that it is
evident one or the other of us is crazy."
Jane—"True for you, ma'am, an' it's
not the likes of me as would be aftber
sayin' the likes of you would have 110
more sinse than to keep a crazy cook."
—Chicago News.
The Six O'Clock Dinner.
The G o'clock dinner is not a mere
fad; anyway, not extremely mere.
The 0 o'clock dinner obliterates the
appetite for breakfast. But for the G
o'clock dinner there would probably he
'but n meagre demand for breakfast
foods, and that which is now a great
Industry, employing ninny hands and
advertising liberally, would hardly ex
ist.
The G o'clock dinner kills a man soon
er or later; usually not until after he
lias amassed a fortune, yet before he
has had time to queer Ills wife and
daughters socially with his chin "whisk
ers and had grammar.
The G o'clock dinner keeps one awake
nights, thus nearly doubling the nuui
her of Ids business hours.—Puck.
Shocked Him Into It.
Kitty-—'".So you managed to get Fred
to propose at last? How did you bring
it about?"
Bertha—"l borrowed Mamie's engage
ment ring and had it on the third
linger of my left hand when Fred
called last evening."
Kitty—"And what did lie say?"
Bertha—"He saw it the moment he
got into tho room. lie looked as though
lic'd go through the floor. Finally he
mustered up courage to ask if it was an
engagement ring, and 1 said 'Yes.'
That was no lie, you know. It was an
engagement ring—Mamie's, you know."
Kitty—"And then?"
Bertha "Then he gasped and I
thought he would faint. But the up
shot of it was he proposed."—Boston
Transcript.
Unpleasant*
*j~" ~ ~~~~
■>
(Aunt Harriot lias lived in fear and
trembling since Willie had u white rat
given him as a birthday present. He
lias just lost it).
Willie—"Don't move, nunt, the beg
gar's under here somewhere."—Moon
shine.
VENTILATING COAL MINES.
The Presence of Fire Damp Adda to
the Cost.
In Great Britain the coal lies at very
great depths. In America a shaft of
200 feet is considered fairly deep, while
one of 200 yards in England is but a
shallow pit, and some few workings
are nearly 4,000 feet deep. The result
of this is that the cost of hauling the
coal out ami the pumping of large
quantities of water from great depths
make coal mining very expensive in
Great Britain. A drift mine is more
cheaply ventilated than a shaft one,
and the mines are much more fiery in
England than they are in America.
The presence of fire damp in British
mines greatly impedes the rapidity of
working and adds to the cost in many
ways. There are many stringent reg
ulations to be carried out with a view
to the prevention of explosions, which,
nevertheless, occur only too frequent
ly, and when they do they are usually
ot a very serious nature, causing large
loss of life and property. Frequently
several months elapse before the mines
are in complete working order again
after such an accident. The cost ot
this loss of life and property naturally
is veiy great.
Centenary of Trcusers.
Most people will be surprised to hear
that trousers, as at present worn by
the male portion of humanity, have
just celebrated' their centpnary, but,
according to fashion, such is undoubt
edly the case. They "came in" on ac
count of the high living prevalent in
England a hundred years ago. This
produced a good deal of gout, whose
twinings the tight-fitting costume in
use at that period made unbearable,
llcnccc tho invention of the wider
form of garment, which soon became
popular, and was adopted by many
royal personages at home and abroad.
Among tho "dandies" of tho period,
however, the new stylo was regarded
with contempt, and when Almack's
self was once refused admission he
srii't the great Duke of Wellington him
sell was once refused admission be
cause ho presented himself in trousers
instead of the (for that time) orthodox
nether garments. So far has their
sway now extended that they threaten
to supplant even the Scottish kilt.
The 8010 and the Bayonet.
The chief of ordnance has ordered
100 bolos as a tentative substitute for
the regulation army bayonet. The bolo
of the Philippines and the machete of
Cuba are essentiallly the same, and
iiave been used with such deadly effect
that,troops operating against guerrilla
ftrces armed with them were, on the
whole, less afraid of the indifferently
handled riffles with which a part of the
enemy were supplied. The lance is al
most out of date as a cavalry weapon,
tlie saber is in disfavor, and- now the
bayonet is under investigation. The
bolo is a cutting as well as a thrust
ing weapon; it is serviceable for troops
in seach of kindling and is handy in
the camp kitchen; it is useful for in
trenching. Tho Ghurkas and other
British troops are armed with a sim
ilar weapon.
Berlin's Horseflesh Steaks Popular.
The consumption of horseflesh among
the poorer classes of Berlin has been
steadily growing from year to year.
There exists a private establishment
in the Greifswalder street where 12,000
horses, to the value of £125,000, were
slaughtered last year for the purpose
ot being turned into steaks and sau
sages. The Berlin Town Council is
now considering the advisability of
constructing additional buildings at
the place where the public slaughter
house is situated. They will provide
accommodation for many hundreds of
horses at a time which are destined to
find an inglorious death at the hands
of the city butchers.
An Owlish Belligerent.
I.ast year a pair of large brown owls
had a nest in a wood, close down to
the shoro on Milford Haven, with a
road passing through it. On several
occasions the cock bird violently at
ttacked dogs pasing through the wood.
This year the male bird lias has not
only attacked dogs, but has several
times flown down most viciously ill
daylight at people walking along the
:oad. He tore a boy's ear, and his
last performance was to knock a man
down with the suddenness of his swoop
and injure his face so badly that it is
feared he will lose his eye. The bird
has since been shot.
Titled Clergymen.
By the accession of the new Earl of
Chichester 6 British secular peerages
arc now held' by clergymen. They are
the Marquis of Normanby, the Earls of
Chichester, Devon and Strafford. Baron
I'onsonby, who is also Irish Earl of
Bessborough, and Baron Scarsdaie, the
lather of I.onl Curzon, Viceroy of India
Another Irish peer, Viscount Moles
worth. is also a clergyman. The Earl
of Devon, 97 years of age, is the second
oldest peer in England.
Found In Arctic Ice.
The steamer Centennial, which ar
rived at Port Townsend, Wash., from
Nome, Alaska, reported that on June
17 a whaling ship had sighted in the
ice pack 80 miles north of Cape Prince
of Wales the steamer Portland, which
was blown into the Arctic ocean with
144 persons on board. The revenue
cutter Thetis was standing by the Port
land and would bring her in safely.
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