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HEAD OF THE SI CHIEF JUSTICE MELVI L Ship With a Hundred Paddles. An entirely new idea in the propelling mechanism of vessels has been patented by a Massachusetts man. A glance at the illustration will suffice to show the theory of his invention. Many such schemes look good on paper, but a practical demonstration j | I lj*^j I ,1 V*J One Hundred Paddles. 31a always necessary to prove their 'worth. This mechanism is located ^amidships in a vessel and below the ft 1 J i-4? I I . *W1, auu. CUUSISIS Ul UUUlCllfUB pauviles working in sprocket wheels. These paddles do not extend at each side of the vessel, but are located within the interior in pairs. To se? x cure the greatest efficiency of propulr .^pn, the paddles are set at an angle '? ? with' the bottom of the boat, so that 1 when'they are doing service in the water their submerged partion3 will Incline toward the bow of the vessel. This will tend to raise the bow as the vessel is propelled, the paddles leaving the water freely and with less tendency to retard the progress of the vessel as they leave the water. The great number of paddles engaging the water at the same time, the Inventor claims, will give such constant and advantageous hold upon HOW CO I First Precarious Person (to Sec o I'll 'it yer wiv me 'amruer."?Sketch. ! UPREME COURT. np LE WESTON FULLER. the water that the propelling power -.'r- * ~ + T-.~ ^ r.^r. < Q^vontqcra , Id CAC1 ICU IV tU^ VU WOl. Mvt VM&?VM0V and attainment of speed. A Certain Sandwich Man. At the noon hour a prominent Wall Street banker was hurrying out of his office when he suddenly stopped upon noticing a man across the street, and tipped his hat very respectfully. The man was carrying a sandwich board emblazoning the merits of a near-by quick-lunch parlor, and looked altogether seedy. A friend of the banker, who had observed the momentary performance, started to guy him. "Who's your friend?" he asked. "He is a man I have considerable respect for," was the reply. "He was once a prosperous citizen down here, and worth sev- , eral hundred thousand. He lost everything, and finally had to come to this. Even the best of us are liable to go the same way, you know, and that is why I am not afraid to be respectful to a once brilliant man."?New York Correspondence Pittsburg Dispatch. Lost Arts of Egypt. Analyses of weapons and tools, dating from very ancient times in Egypt, have convinced the American members of the Anglo-Egyptian Archaeological Expedition that the old Egyptians used pure copper in the manufacture of such objects. They displayed much ingenuity in manipulating that metal. A chisel was made by folding thin strips of copper over one another and then forging them into a sona Diaae, wune uuuun needles were formed from copperleaf by a method very similar to that employed at the present day In making heliacal tubing for bicycles and automobiles. The Proper Editorial Spirit. The Connecticut Valley Advertiser says: "We want all the legitimate local news, and to learn all the good that can be said of your neighbor, but if you want to give him a 'rub' or 'roast,' please attach your name to the communication and?we'll hand it to him." JLD HE? * nd Ditto)?"Le'go me legs, Bill, or MILLION MOLES IN TOWN. Folks Set Up Such a Howl They All March Out. If a million blind mice, or moles, didn't invade the sparcely settled district to the north of here recently j the farmers declare that the number reached so close to the million ihark that the round figure gives a pretty fair idea of what they have had to j suffer. Accent is placed upon the word ' suffer." For a couple of days the folks I were so busy trying to get rid of the invaders that they didn't have a chance to find out whence they came. When they did investigate it was discovered that forest fires were responsible. Moles can smell smoke further than a deer, and when some campers set a Diaze going cue moies ueauou for the windward, spreading the alarm as they proceeded and picking up scores of colonies of every variety. There were star-nosed, peeked-nosed, silver-nosed and plow-nosed members of the talpine family, and when they struck civilization they hadn't the slightest notion of how to appear in polite society. They invaded barns, butteries, cellars, corn cribs and outbuildings, and dug, burrowed, wormed, sneaked and butted into all kinds of places, where they made themselves unwelcome, obnoxious, disagreeable, intolerable and impossible. They scudded from beneath the feet of alarmed housewives, harassed hired girls until they threw up their jobs, made men swear, and frightened horses, cows and sheep by getting into their fodder, and sometimes into their noses. It was distressing, aggravating, maddening, disgusting and demoralizing. When the moles arrived the mice fled?they couldn't seem to stand the society of their woodland brethren? and the house cats fell to feeding heavily. Moles are easier to catch than mice, and soon the cats got full, fat, heavy-bellied and stupid. The farmers despaired. They kicked, cuffed and b?at the cats, but this had no effect, so ihey got after the invaders with brooms, hoes, rakes, pepper, mustard, hot water, traps and rat poison. All these little devices had no more effect than a summer's breeze. Finally one farmer hitched up to a covered hay rick and set off to collect a fresh supply of hungry cats. "I want 5000 cats to kill moles," he told the first man he met. "That number would kill all the moles in the world," said the astonished man. "I know it," swore the other. "But we've got 'em all over our way." The new cats took one look at the job, huddled in the barns over night and fled at sun-up. Now they are chasing over the countryside trying to get back home. Some are said to have gone crazy from the experience. What would have happened to the community if the moles hadn't gone off of their own volition can only be rphAtf 4*? gucsacu. iuc? ncui uio&ppcaicu m one night?and now the district may be' said to be convalescing.* What took 'em off no one knows, but it Is suspected that they didn't cotton over much to civilization, and, the fires having died out, returned to their burrows.?Patten (Me.) correspondence of the New York World. Rlpon Postman's Record. Mr. Richard Adamson, who has been postman for thirty-four years and seven months, has just retired. Mr. Adamson has on his uniform six stripes, each of which represents five years of good-conduct service. For twenty-two years Mr. Adamson had the Grewelthorpe and Kirkby Malzeard round, which covers something like twenty miles per day, 120 miles per week, 6240 miles per annum, or a total of 127,2S0 miles for the twenty-two years. For the last twelve and a half years Mr. Adamson has had rounds in Ripon. He is the oldest among the Ripon postmen and officials, and has the longest service.? London Tit-Bits. Postoffice Two Thousand 3Iiles Off. The most remote mission station in the world, is on Herschel Island, in the far northwest corner of the Dominion of Canada. The nearest postoffice is 2000 miles away. Consequently the packets are few and far between, seldom more than two in the year. The island is a most uninviting place for a residence. No sun for more than two months in the winter, and not a tree to be seen anywhere. Under the teaching of the missionaries many of the Esquimaux are becoming more civilized, and are greatly improving in their manner and habits and there is a growing de on t; iui mo Li u\,iivu. Pastor and Bridge Builder. A bronze tablet has been placed in Groesweb Chapel, near Caerphilly, to the memory of William Edwards, who, during the forty years he officiated as pastor of the Groeswen Independent Church, built a number of bridges in Wales, including that at Pontypridd, which at the time of its erection had the largest stone arch in the world. To his trade of builder William Edwards united the occupation of farmer and minister of religion.?London Tit-Bits. Male Teachers Decreasing. The male teachers in the United States are steadily decreasing, as shown by statistics, in IS70 the proportion was forty-one per cent.; in 1872 it had increased to 42.8; in 1889-90 it fell to 34.5; in 1900 it dropped to 29.9, and in 1903 it had reached twenty-five per cent. There were in the States 455,242 teachers, ! and of these 113,744 were men and | 341,498 women.?St. Louis Globe- 1 Democrat. ' MERCY FOR BOYS i i Necks of Milton and Jessie Rawlings are Saved. | SENTENCES COMMUTED i I I Decree of Death Revoked and Life Sentences Imposed by Governor Terrell On Recommendation of State Prison Commissian. The Rawlings boys, Milton and Jesse, did not die Friday on the gallows erected for them in the Valdosta, Ga., jail?the same gallows from which their father and the negro, Alf Moore, were swung into eternity. Twenty-four hours before time for their execution, the state pardon board 1 recommended that their sentences be commuted to life imprisonment, and Governor Terrell promptly signed the order, which saves the lives of the two young boys. Sheriff Passmore was immediately notified of the action of the chief executive, and on Friday, the day they were doomed to death, they were, instead, sentenced to begin their terms of imprisonment for the rest of their natural life. At the same time that the sheriff of Lowndes county was notified to stay forever the gallows sentence, Attorney Cooper of Macon, who has fought for their lives with such determination, telegraphed the two boys in the Valdosta jail that Governor Terrell had saved their lives from the gallows and also wired the brokenhearted old mother in Coffee county, who had just returned from the burial of her husband, J. G. Rawlins; who had been hanged with Alf Moore. The recommendation for a commutation of death to life imprisonment was made at a quiet meeting cf the state pardon board Thursday morning at 10:30 o'clock. They had as their evidence the influence that old man Rawling3 is said to have exerted over the boys?the youth of the two defendants who were 15 and 17 years old when the /Carter children had been murdered, and the overwhelming expressions of public sentiment that had come up from all parts of the state asking that the boys' lives be spared, because they believed that justice had been meted out when old man Rawlings and the negro, Alf Moore, paid the death pen rilty on the scaffold. The opinion of the pardon board in commuting the sentences was drawn by Judge Turner, and give3 the reason for the decision, in part, as follows: "The father of the defendants, Leonard Rawlins, their brother, and Alf Moore, the negro, were all convicted of the same crime and all sentenced to be hanged with the exception?of Leonard, who* received a sentence of life imprisonment in the penitentiary. "The defendants (Jesse and Milton Rawlins) were, at the time the crime was committed, aged 16 and 15 years, and were doubtless completely dominated by their father, whose will would brook no opposition from any one, much less his minor sons. "Their participation in this atrocious crime must have been at his intlgation and command. Since the execution of their father and Alf Moore, public sentiment seems almost universal that the ends of justice have been satisfied and this clemency is urged by more than two thousand citizens of the state and from every portion thereof and of every station | of life. "They are represented by more that two thousand telegrams and-letters besides the petitions. More than 500 citizens of Lowndes county have urged this clemency, among whom are seven jurors, who convicted the defendants, lawyers, bankers, newspaper men, ministers of the gospel, city and county officials, and numbers of members of the house and senate of the state legislature." GREATER ELASTICITY URGED. Secretary Shaw Re/ers to Weakness of Our Cuprrency System. The annual report of Secretary of the Treasury Shaw submitted to congiess Wednesday reflects the prosperous condition of the country, shows that the same healthy tone is manifest in the status and operations of the treasury, and dwells at length on the weakness of the nation's currency system with the necessity of provisions for greater elasticity. VOTE OP FARMERS' UNION Is Overwhelming for Adoption of the New Constitution. The counting of the referendum vote hy the directors of the Farmers' Educational and Cooperative Union, upon the new constitution, as submitted at Texarkana in September, was completed in Little Rock Wednesday, with the result that it was adopted by an overwhelming vote, and thus becomes the union's organic law. i i . ... . ; . *{ -' : } * /* - .v ) ; j $9909999090909909000990909 I ? ! : household Matters. ? Care of Matting. Mattings never should be subjected to an oversupply of water. Care should be ecercised towards keeping it unstained. When it becomes soiled, however, use a soft cloth well wrung out in a suds made of bora* soap and water, and air thoroughly by leaving a window open until the spot is dried. Dampness must be removed from matting as speedily as possible. Use a pliable, not too stiff, broom for matting. Always sweep well first any flooring or floor covering which may, be spotted or soiled and needs a damp application. Safe Red Coloring Matter. To a correspondent asking for a safe red coloring matter for cakes and sweetmeats, The Druggists' Circular (September) recommends the , color from red beets as easily obtained and economical. Says this paper: "It is said that a good way to obtain this coloring in permanent form Is to heat the beets in an oven until quite soft; macerate with about an equal quantity of vinegar; express; evaporate the resulting liquid to one-half its original volume and then make up to the original value with alcohol. For extemporaneous use the liquor from 'pickled beets' as ordinarily prepared ( for the table (that is, boiled in water, sliced, and then covered with vinegar) would presumably give a deep enough shade. Canned "beets are in uiai.ti.ta ami win answer as wen in the latter case as the fresh article.". Care of Flatirons. Many people have been annoyed at finding their irons quite rusty after they have been put away a few days. The way to prevent this happening i3, before you put them away, to rub a little warm grease over them and then wrap them up in brown paper. When you take them out to use dip them into hot water that has had a small piece of soda dissolved In it, rub dry, and then put them to heat in the usual way. When they are ready to be used on the ironing board have a piece of brown paper with a little powdered bath brick on it and rub the surface of your iron with this. It seems rather a lengthy process, but it really does not take long , to do, and housewives1-will ^ be re-.', warded for the trouble they have taken by finding the irons delightfully smooth and easy to use, and when they are like this the ironing can be done twice as quickly.?Mas' sachusetts Ploughman. Home-made Lamp Shades. These lamp shades are easily manufactured, and add a pretty effect to the room; as well as shade the light to the eyes. Cut a piece of stiff paper in a circular form and of the depth desired, and glue the two ends together {a piece should be cut out of the circle' < to make the shade "funnel-form"), \ thus making a foundation. Cover t this neatly, inside and out, with < crinkled tissue paper of any desired ] shade. Then cut inch-wide strips < and make the shade by looping and fastening these upon the founda- ] tion. The loops are graduated in . length, with the exception of the small ones at the top, which are formed to resemble a ruching. A row of narrow crystal fringe sewed around the bottom of the foundation makes a pretty finish, and a few sprays of artificial maiden-hair fern disposed among the loops adds a finishing touch. The shade, if for a lamp, must be placed over an asbestos foundation; if for a candle, mica should be used. Paper foundation is only for use when the object is ornamentation only.?The Commoner. |tfINJS FOR, THE tI HOUSEKEEPER^ If a bottle of the oil of pennyroyal is left open in a room at night not a mosquito will be found there in the morning. Mud stains may be removed from tan leather shoes by rubbing them with slices of raw potato. When dry, polish in usual way. When selecting fish for the table choose only those in which the eyes are full and prominent, the flesh firm and thick, the scales bright and stiff. Teapots that are made of metal, if unused for some time, will often give a musty flavor to the tea when next used. This may be prevented by . placing a lump of sugar in the teapot before putting it away. In washing woolen goods they should never be rubbed, but cleansed by drawing through the hands up and down. wring as dry as possible, and rinse in a tub of hot water in which a little soap has been dissolved. A practical housewife has discovered that empty pasteboard cracker boxes and the clean white wooden boxes lined with paraffin paper, are excellent to bake sponge cake in. They will not burn and the paper prevents the sticking. It Is useful to remember in cooking potatoes that after the water has been strained off the pot should be given three or four sharp jerks so as to toss the potatoes. This has the efTect of making them white and floury. ' ' ' - ' . 't ' . . Z>. > * / - W * --.Ji ". y'^ v'?5,i J&S1 i ?!'' y DOES YOUR RACK ACHE? * Profit by the Experience of One Who Has Fonnd Relief. * ' James R. Keeler, retired farmer, ] of Fenner St., Cazenovia, N. Y., says: "About fifteen years ago I suffered (TTi > with mj back and ft \ kidneys. 1 doctored - ,-'r> 3a and llse<i many renie- rl dies without getting relief. Beginning wIth i^aa'3 Kidney I found relief m3B88S5I5* from the first box, and two boxes re-^^^C;:^ 7/ stored me to good, ; sound condition, idy wife and many | of my friends have used Doan's Kid- ~ & ney. Pills with.good result; and I can earnestly recommend.them." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. f Foster-Milburn Co., Euffalo, X. Y. - ^ French horticulturists have appar- * v-^ ently been very successful of late in . raising dwarf trees, and one of jth?r? features of dinner parties among"tne rich now is to serve the fruit upon the tree. * . Catarrh Cannot Be Cored J with local applications, 38 they cm1- . not reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, ^ and in order to cure it you must take inter-V' nal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken''-' internally, and acts directly on the blood V and mucous surfaces. Hah Catarrh Cure . is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years and is a regular prescription. ' U It is composed of the best tonics known, ; JT* combined with the best blood puri&crs, acting directly on thw mucous surfaces; The . ; , y perfect combination of the two ingredient? '?-/ 13 what produces such wonderful results in, curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials free. V F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, price 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation, It is now the custom in New York ||j City, with few exceptions, for girls . ? At. ?t-.i- ?i?.i. 10 atiena iae pusmu scuuuto w wearing hats. On pleasant days thera is only one hat to about twenty . An Old Medicine! "Ground oyster shells." said the ^ physician, as he squeezed a lemon over his blue points, "were used ftt a medicine by the mediaeval doctors ;'rr?a medicine for the rickets * and > "How absurd!" "Absurd? Not at all. Oyster sheik \ contain lime, nitrogen, iron; sulphur, magnesia, bromide, phosphoric fadjX; and iodine. Those are all excellent "You know how hens eat ground v' oyster sheila and thus produca eggs } with good, .thick, strong Shells? as the oyster-shell powder "acts en," egg-shells eo I have no oouot it ed in the middle ages on the bending, / crumbling bones of the rickety, pi& lag strength and firmness into tbeifc ;i ^ ^ "Ground oyster shells, I eonvinced, would be good things frail children today. They would strength : '' en the frame, increase the appettt*. and have a splendid effect on thti. teeth."?Philadelphia Bulletin. " ^ Isolation of Nichola* II. , y The Czar lives alone, wfth;' Czarina and their children, in a.lltiv tie maisonette at Peterhof, apart from he immense palace. It U the houm < of a bourgeois on holiday, qufte ated under great trees -by the sen- * / shore. No guards i9 visible. Thun tfcf a, master of Russia lives retired jfwiifc.; ^ lis empire, and'even from his CXmgE^^BB ?Le Revus de Paris. J WHEN HE WANTED HER. " ,1 Motfier (to convalescing boy)? Now, Bobbie, in case you should wtnjt - ' 'Ag me, just ring this bell. Bobble?But, mamma. I'm not strong enough to ring it all the tima NO MEDICINE But Change of Food Gave Final Re- -W liof. Most diseases start in the oilmen* tary canal?stomach and bowels.J" A great <ieal of our stomach-and }:'e ' bowel troubles come'iromjeating. toflK much starchy and greasy food. The stomach does not digest any of. ; the starchy food we eat?white bread, pastry, potatoes, oats, etc.?those , thing3 are digested in the small testines, and if we eat too much, as * most of us do, the organs that should digest this kind of food are overcome by excess of work, so that fermenta? tion, indigestion, and a long train, ot ails result. Too much fat also is hard to digest and this- is changed into acids, sour stomach, belching gas, and a bloated, heavy feeling. ^ In the*?. conditions a change from Indigecs^A foods to Grape-Nuts wttl" work wonders in not only relieving the distress, but in building np l ?* "loo. Viroin /strung UlgCSL/uu, V>LU1 ___ steady nerves. A Wash, woman writes: "About five years ago I suffered with bad stomach?dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation?caused, I know %v now, from eating starchy and greasy"'" P* food. "I doctored for two years without . any benefit. The doctor told ma there was no cure for me. I could Sjg not eat anything without suffering severe pain in my back and sides, and % .. j I became aiscourageu. "A friend recommended Grape Nuts and I began to use it In than two weeks I began to feel bettar and inside of two months I war n. ^--Jewell woman and hare been ever since. - V "I can eat anything I wish with ' pleasure. We eat Grape-nuts am ; ^ cream for breakfast and are vary fond of it." Name given by Postura Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read tie little book, "The Road to WeU*ffle,^|v Sf? tn okas. _ "There's a reason." . S, S . A;v|l mmmmmmrn