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Philosophy Oi He Had to Die to Wii And Which Was the Do They Do in Stocki Rate He Had Learned Many of Patrick Francis Sheedy's old friends called at Ifil West Thlrtv fourth street to take a last look at the dead man and say a word of comfort to his widow. There were gray haired students of chance who like Pat had turned a card in every civilized and some uncivilized countries of the globe. There were satl looking wrecks from the underworld who at one time or another liad felf P.-if irniinr. oslty. There were substantial busl- ] ness men who had learned to value his word and to enjoy his sunny j philosophy; there were curious folks I who, having missed the opportunity of knowing Shoedy livins;, were bound to see him dead, and there were Sisters of Mercy. All had a kind word for the gambler. (lis good deeds far outnumbered his bad," was the comment of one of I the sinters. .iu ucikt man ever nvou. rat was honest to th<.> core," was the reply that came from the widow as the visitors tried to say something consoling. "The world called him a gambler, but l'at and I didn't care what the world suid." she added. Sheedy wasn't, afraid to die. One of the last things ho said was: "I'll take my chanca with (ho others. 1 guess St. Peter won't bo hard oil me." oiioi'iiy mm neon expecting death almost daily for six mouths, but friends who visited him say that he kept, to the ? ud the same cheerful outlook (hat lie always had on tap in days of health, whether facing the wheel Hat. broke under the shadow of the pyramids in Egypt or laying hi? last dollar In lees romantic haunts in this city. "I'm not afraid. I know I'm uoine to ^ot a square (leal. I'll have a better chance there than I had here, and 1 don't think I've done so worse. The Maker plays no favorites," was the way Pat commented on his approaching end. The gambler didn't know whether the foci that he had confessed and had received absolution would help him much on his way or not. 'If it does, so much the better; if it does not, then there will bo no J harm done," was his way of looking i at it. Sheedy used lo argue that lie was a very much better man than some respectable New Yorkers who weren't ciasseu as outlaws. He had been through the college of experience and had learned never to turn a deaf ear to a man whose luck was down. That, as Sheedy saw the world, was what most people had not learned, and in having mastered this lesson he injured he was just so much better than they wore. I , "Circumstances make a man what he is,'' Pat has said. "We are not all pacers or trotters. Wo have our own gait, and we go that gait, and that, gait is fate. Why. ev<n tat is fate. I've never eaten more than a bird, and why am I dying of fat? It's my fate." Sheedy often told iiis friends that in all hit? ups and downs of life lie derived his greatest happiness from making others happy. That was what prompted Sheedy when lie was flu::h to give a helping hand to such notorious criminals as Adam Worth and Ed Guerln. Sheedy had no patience with tho conventionalities thai made one form of gambling a criminal offense and tolerated another as respectable. "What is the great speculator in wheat but a gambler like myself?" lie used to say. "He has owned millions and millions of bushels, but he never possessed one in his life. Only the law protects liirn and ostracizes me. I've got mv life insured for th" benefit of my wife; the company I'm insured in bets I won't die this year. That's the toughest game I ever struck, too, for I have to die to beat it, but for my wife's sake I've gone against it. If I wore to call the president of the company a gam* " bier 'bey would tar and feather me; yet 1 can't get It through my head i ha* he isn't iust as much of a gambler as I am when I step up in front of ih" whi-t'l." Shoedy before ho became an "art connoisseur" made no bones about describing his business. "I call myself a busings man because gambling my business," he aid. "I regard myself as a good business man bec;ui<o 1 am a good gambler. P'ow business m"n have devoted themselvi pi >r un'iringlj t. thoir work than I ha to mine. Hut the best of us fain ;ii tim ?, and u>- i?in> uuiiKtf n?tvi> DI'IIK '11 JIM; DH many times or more tirwv. tlian 1 have lirulvi n t.hcin. Kvcrybody who 1<nowtim* knows thai when I ?it down at tingame and the ff.vi r rom?a over mo J won't <|"i' until I'v ;;ot 'II the bank's money or it has got mine. i have none into a gambling house a t'airlj rich man and come out penniless. I have gone in poor ami come out with .1 {nighty i>iwad. I've gone for weeks without money enough to buy me a square meal. I've had men point at me and any, 'There's* Pat .Sheedy, the lucky dog,' when I didn't liavo the price of a sliavM in my pocket. T always have mana^d to keep up appearances hecau- when the money was coming in, I bought clothes against a dark day." Hheedy never lost an opportunity to declare fliftt gamblers as a lars were moro honef than other men. Home of ttheedy's friends- recalled the prediction hi' had mad" short lj after District Attornev lerorn had i ?irl (Jnnfleld'a "art palace" in \Ws I'orty fourth street. Jerome made the raid on evidence supposed to have been obtained by "Sleuth" Jacobs. Jacobs Chni'K''d thai the f'antbdd .:im?' \va Crooked, .leroine thn it< ied to cult Hhourly to lib; oftU'f t<? .plain what ho ku<-\\ about ;<aniblini in ill" cil.<, anil Slu'od.v replied: "l Mlippns" tho Distil.1! A';.'>;n?\vV roronrk;< concernl; mo \v< re brought forth by omolliin;; I -aid ibout hi.? painbki' ho ha U; <1 ini'orn. !. I imvo i) > '.ii' ?n: of Icii a in,; who I j. ' )' Fat Siieedy. | t the Life Insurance Co.'s Bet? Gambler? Said He, and What s. Cotton and Wheat ??At Any to Help the Under Dog | man is, but I never duck anything I I hnvo !?<>! Tl ? r 1 iv.-i ? ,v iiioiviurv 1 rcpfui mm I <lo not believe this informer over set foot Inside of Canfleld's, nnd I say again that Richard Canflold is the greatest gambler In the world, bar none, and that his name is as straight as a Quaker meeting is solemn." It wasn't many week3 after Sheedy had said this that Mr. Jerome discovered that Jacobs was faking and that he never had been inside the Canfield house. Tat Sheedy was discreet. He declined a challenge to got into an arirn nu'nt with Mr. Jerome on the subject] ol' gambling. "It's a great thine:, my boy, to know when you're well off," he said, i "The chap who's always in hot. water may think he's happy, but he I wouldn't know happiness by slt*ht. So long as 1 can make a living and give a ton of coal now and then of a hard winter to my mother-in-law and con my wife into believing that she might have gone further and fared worse I'm satisfied to rest easy : and not go around hunting for a eon-! 1 rfU'Olvf A K? \* * *" ' ' - ' " " " 1 iviwi v?in nice* mi j argument, but it's a wise man that I Kteers dear of it." I Sbeedy's friends said that he probably did not leave more than a few thousand dollars, enough to keep his widow for the rest of her days. He did not make this money by gambling, but from bis little art store in West Thirty-fourth street, in fact. Shewdy, iv ?a>s nuiu, t|uii Tin- namo n tew years ago as poor as when he entered it, although in the course of his career ho hart won several small fortunes, lie said that the public always had a mistaken notion about the money that gamblers make. "Pnt this down," he said, "that the Rambler has a harder lime of it than any other business man. Once In a while he gets what slow going, plodding folks might call a great deal of money, but it never lasts long. More often lio is obliged to borrow bis living pxpcnws from his l'rlonds, and. Pat Shortly is no exception." Sheody had a high regard for the English as gamblers. "Englishmen will pay their gambling debts before they will their tailors," he told his friends. "The Germans, particularly German army officers, are about as good. I wish I could nay as much for my own countrymen as 1 can for tho English, j but when Americans gamble abroad thnv anmsHnuu < v,... n i I ???'.? ?>< ii i \ i i in' r? nu uuu. IIHTW IS none of their money left in the hank at home and they aro addicted to the habit or arguing that money lost in gambling can't bo collected." Hheedy had no uso for the French as gamblers. "Don't speak of them," ho used to say. "Anything yon can got out of a Frenchman you ought to take home and have framed. And the Italians aro worse than the French." Many stories were told by Sheedy's old cronies of the hard timey ho had in miuiim ii \;:.i ce hi my tl!S money I after ho got his reputation as a "bank j breaker." "At Hot Rprirgs, Ark.," said one, "they barred Pat because he had lost. He bought. $f>00 worth of chips and dropped the entire lot. The next da> he returned to the clubhouse, asked for $f)00 more and the proprietor said: 'Mr. Sheedy, I'm an old man and I have to sleep nights; I'd rather you wouldn't play in my house.' lie tried it in two other gambling houses at the Springs, and in each place after he had lost his tirst. pile they barred Jlitr* Tllr.n )>., l..l> ,\rl?nnonu i,, -1 i gust." Another of T'at's friends 'old of an exporienco ho had had in Charleston, S. C. Ho had bought a good stack of faro ohips and was ahont $300 to the good. when the proprietor of the place hoard somebody call him Sheedy. "Ain't your name I'at Slice j " ho dealer asked. ii is ;iiui i ni proud 01 n, ::ii'i i (ho winner. "Well. I'm sorry; but \\v can't lot von nlav anv more," s: I the dcalei I "We hav n't any bank roll;? handy t" meet your hiuh rolling." Horn of Sheedy's friends used circulate reports when I'a! hit a strantfe ? it> t hat ho wanted to wreck ;i gambling house just for 11?? si orr. suicide of u; Why Scorpion or Vpnc Sting1 Rsel Th? vonomH <if KfM'pftr . fi?h?v. scoi'i i >ns. i out iportcK. . pi Ut . hoe elf . \v< II rts the blood of t!i" i i-l owe I in ir vi ru letico to the p. 1 no of 1 toxin: Intihif io those which :i ii reted by I ictoila. In both . the toxins are specific product; > f 11;< ,n tivit> of !i\ Ifitc cells. Thi \ are very i oi: onons, non-i rystnUI/.nbl' colloids, of unknown chemical ?oust It ut iOfn. I iii venom toxins are very : > nsuivo to tlie notion of heal and light. am easily dostroved by digestive ferments and consequently are innocuous when swallowed. There is a groat variety of tjiofce toxins. Snake poison alono contains half a dozen distinct toxins, eaoii of wljicli exerts a specific notion on tin n? rvous system, the rod or the ' white blood corpuscles, etc. It I o 11.!< to produce in any an: j mal an artificial condition fit immunity to the effects of any animal j v VI, . I.r./l I,if ilw. I repeal' '! injection of lho venom in do e . !ich of which is too small to fnusc deal l. \fter a la pro r fir smaller nnmlier of injo'lions the animal arquin ; the pow. r to ro-h't the nation many time ho riuanlitv of venom that would mflioe tof-an - death if It \v < i t i ii i' ' ? ? . . < ? 11?* \ ' in:-. ? ji ? ii' j " inii ill?; /.? (1 . 1. Til' l'1'infl ol I! iDiinnni/i'd > ml now contains :i now pul>st!i i . an nntito\lu \vhl( i lias tho ]?r -. t - r i y of ihmiI : dl/lnt; :: <> Inxln of 11 \ noin, nml hi hh "1 (or i rillier wm.tj . nr scrum) lu it v bo I'm ploy (l to combat tlio to:, i ? ', *vv' ' " ' of it, and they would Bit back ?nd watch every gambling housq proprietor worry for fear that Pat would select his "Joint." One man Bald that there wasn't a good sporting man In tho country who would have refused to stake Pat Slieedy at any game and without ee* curlty at that. Ho recalled an incilimit I, ?t I - ID * uvuv VUUV I - . ' T 7 , ; T , m DUSIUU. Pat bad spent somo time in Saratoga and luck was against him. Ho camo down to Boston, and the first night ho was in town ho went against a faro game that broko him. Pat walked into a certain bank whoso president had the reputation of being a good fellow. He was ushered into the preeldont's office and said: "I came to borrow $1000 from your bank." "What is your security?" was tho first question. "Simply my Word," replied Pat. "That won't do in the banking Diisinoss. wno arc your" asked the president. "Pat Sheedy, the gambler," was the reply. "After a short talk," said one of Pat's friends, "tho banker handed over $1000 from his personal account. Two days later Pat entered the bank and repaid It." It whs a loan of $2000 that Adam Worth made to Pat in John Condon's gambling house in Chicago that led to the recovery of tho famous Gainsborough painting. Pat was broke, when a stranger who had been winning heavily pushed a roll of bills ! into his hand. Shoedv dontnrrod tint t he ntranger insisted. Shoody asked | for the stranger's name, but ho | laughed and said: "You'll see me again." It was sixteen years after this that I lie two met in Constantinople, Sheedy as the proprietor of a gambling house in that city and the lender of tho money, Adam Worth, as an escaped prisoner. Sheedy furnished the money with which Worth got out. of Turkey and Worth gave him the Information which led to the recovery of the vRlnahlo n.iintimr ? New York Sun. BftWORTK KMOWlNGMi Five tons of human hair are annually imported by London merchants. Corn is our greatest crop, that of 1908 being valued at $1,010,000,000. The Austrian Government will erect five wireless stations along its coast. At List count thorn wore 1 .318.000 persons in India dependent on State aid. The per capita circulation of the United States is exceeded by only one other country of Importance?France. Leaf and twig diseases, difficult to combat, are gradually lessening India's annual production of coffee. On the shores of Cape Cod there were, during a period of twenty years following ISM, as many as 1000 wrecks of vessels carrying precious eargoi-s of human beings and of freight. Thi- first matriculation of women fudents at the universities in Prussia lias resulted in the admission of 602 students, including forty-three from the United Kingdom. The cultivation of apples in Japan lias markedly developed of late, the annual production now reaching .a value of $l,r>0ft,000. The principal centres of apple production are the Hokkaido and the northeastern prov faorinun East Africa has been raising liisai hemp since ISOli from plants imported from Florida. There is a union of hatmakers at Le Mans, Franco, in which the offices of president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer are held by one man. A record of 1f>1 miles by motorimat traveling at the rate of 27.o miles an hour tliroiiKhontthe distance has been accoinplisliecl by the Mrer Knx II., which left Cincinnati recently to make the Ions distance speed test inn to New Orleans. [ttlesnakes. imous Animal Can Not l to Death. art ion of the venom in a non-immunized animal. The ichneumon, the hedgehog and ome other animals which devour venomous serpents exhibit an extraordinary resistanc<- t<> the effect, of their bites. This natural Immunity is explained by the presence of antitoxins in the blood of these animals. Serpents ar" also little affected by their own venom. In general it is almost impossible to kill a venomous animal by Inoculating it with the venom of Its own species, of which it can support very law dose with impunity. These facts demonstrate tho absnr (!iry of thts stories of rattlesnakes and s< orplons committing suicide hy moans of their own venom. It Is as? i t? d that a scorpion or a rattlesnako. imprisoned in a circle r?f rod hot coals v. ill sting or Id to ItHolf to death, Thit a physiological impt?s*.-;il>llity.??The < ismos. Tlie Pleasure of I'overty. It is a disgrace to dio rich. Andrew ('ai noglo. it, i? v.'""J 10 i>p i" ii poor. Sir ThoniHH Lipton. It. is glorious to have lo tniggle. - John I). Rockefeller. It iniiii lie grand to ho able 1o <lespls>' money.- (ill ira^o RooonU I lorahl. No ('>nt iiinely attends poverty. - I'nbllu' s i I doii . think.-?Lot of other I-IVp ws. F /^"t Stubs Omitted, liut l'ltt*r . Imi'x'h Kl'Ch KeclusG Orenm'tcd; i^^Qttsburg, Pa.?The body of Miss White, the rich and aged re- i * jlose, was cremated, as she instructed i iij her will. The body was not | Mauueu luruubii me neart tnree times a.4 ordered. Her nearest relative. D.\ Robert White, objected to this sa strenuously that C. S. Gray, president of the Fidelity Title and Trust I Company, her executor, granted the request not to mutilate the body, but Insisted on cremation, and this compromise was agreed on. THE NOBLES' SCHOOLS. New Institution in China With 96 Very Exalted Pupils. The number of young Chinese who 1 ? uiiy? Been sent abroad to be edueat! ed since 1900 may be reckoned in : thousands. At one time there were I over 15,000 in Japan alone, but the | doctrines they Imbibed there were : regarded as dangerously advanced, | and th<? tendency now is to scud them in preference to America or to Europe. I "Amoac the oftlclals whom I mot," writes t. correspondent of the American Aslutio Association's Journal, "several were having their Bonn ed- i ucateri in iiiitilli- ? 1 UV.UUWI o in i^iigiiiuu | or America. No more striking illustration of the revolution that baa | taken place In the attitude of t'ho governing class toward this question j cau be found than tho opening In ] Pekin Itself of a public school under the highest auspices for tho j sons of oltlclals of the highest grades in the Chinese bureaucracy. "Tho Noblca' School, as it is call1 ed, is attended at present by ninetysix pupils, and new 'premises aro being built which will enable tho number to be doubled. The boys aro all boardrM'H nnH ~ w, .. > v? uttvn uuy iii\n (V | neat, Hiry cubicle, which servos also JU his private study. The class. rooms ure large and well ventilated, J and in e&oh one there are collections ready to hand for the teacher's j use iu illustrating his lectures. | "The teaching, which Is conducted 1 entirely by Chinese professors, la ; doubtless somewhat elementary, but ! it embrawH nraotinniiv oii K uuu- I j Jocts whtdb form the curriculum of i the modern ?ldo in an English gram- j : mar school. Hesides of course Chi* ! 1 iieso, one foreign language lb taught, j usually Japanese or English. Of greater Importance perhaps than the i teaching are the "healthy discipline j and the physical training which tho j ! boys receive, the Jiabfts of obedience, i punctuality, cleanliness and aelf-rell- 1 anco whidh they learn. "The director who conducted mo over the school was a Chinese naval | j oftloer trained In Engl ?.d, and he j , told me frankly that his chief object was to train them to be men of char1 ncter and patriotism. Though the boys are educated chiefly for civil | employment, they go through a daily > i course of military drill, and as their masters arc drawn ontlrplv from tlx. military, and naval colleges? the whole atmosphere tends to counteract tho old bureaucratic traditions of conI tempt for the mere soldier. Last ' year the whole scihool attended the army manoeuvres as a cadet corps, I marching some ten or twelve miles a day and bivouacking in the open. 1 "Certainly the boys I saw did ? xiii iu in*, ii iiitiiuiit;?muruy, inert and cheerful, and woll set up in their j neat kiiaki uniforms. Adjoining tho | Nobles' School, but within the same j compound, is a separate building of ! ' even greater significance. It consists I | of two large lecture rooms, in which | lectures are delivered every after- j | noon, on the one hand to thirty-two ! j young scions or the princely Manchu I I Iiouhcs, and on the other to sixteen i | youthful members of the Imperial j 1 house of China. The Prince Regent himself from time to time attends I 1 these lectures, and tho influence | which such exalted patronage must exert can scarcely ho exaggerated." I I I HAD A OH WOE TO 3AVE MONEY. ; "That man made a .million dollars While he was in Jail!" said n New ! York financier. "Yes, but his rasp was ono of the kind 'hat does not require the ex' pensc of alienist testimony."?Wash- ; j ln>jtoii Star ' Eriends are very few, it is true, out ono lutrt nerd of only a few. Others we know, nioro actiualntancos in liTe k parado, wo would not stop to iic-k liiein aid. AN'OTMHli ARCTIC HORROR. j "ll;?ve K kimos ovor Append.- itlH?" "No, l>wt ^uindropg may glv.- thorn 1'i'iii ytoii I tla." Chicago Tribuno. rxsoM n i ,\ to MiidnoHg, if Not l{emr(1lc<1 fn Time. "lSxperlments satisfied me, somn 5 years ;iko," writes a Topeka woman, , "that coffe? wbk the direct cnnse of (lie Insomnia from which I BUffer?<l terribly, as well as tho extremo nervousness and acute dyspepsia which made llf<> a most painful thin# for me. "I had been a coff<*? drinker since childhood, and did not like to think I that till) lipvornon rryrk oil ........ ...u ?... this harm. Rut it wrh, and th* time came wlion T had to faro the fact, and protect myself. I therefore Rave up ! coffeo abruptly and absolutely, and adopted Posttim for iny hot drink at I meals. "I be^nn to note improvement In my condition very noon after I took ! on Postuni The change proceeded gradually, but surely, and It wan a matter of only a few weeks before I found myself entirely relieved?tho j nervousness passed away, my dlges! five apimrntus was restored to normal i ; ofHdonry. and I hogan to sloop reatfully and pracofully. | "Tlifso hnppy conditions liavo con- ; j tin nod during all of tho r> yoara, and i I am snf<* Id saying thnt I owo thom fnllfflv fn I'rifttiim f(ir wViph I >\/?(/on to drink It I eensod to nao niodlclneg." Road tho littJe 1 if>r>k, "Tho ltorul to Wollvlllo," in pkKS. "Thorn's ti Kea[ Bon." JSvor read the nltovo letter? A new j one appears from time to time. , Thejr I nro Keniihio, true, and full of human V'ltoresf. PROOFS OF ANCIENT SURGERY I Skulls Were Trepltin:d to Allow thi ".Demom" to Escape." Dr. Herman Pomcranz, of New York City, In the courso of an article on "The Infancy of tho Practice of Medicine and Surgery," In the New York Medical Journal, says tho curativo instinct aboriginally bestowed upon man is nothing else than the eternal, the universal instinct of selfpreservation. It is highly probable that primeval giants maimed in encounters with mastodons or marauding warriors, retired to rest and to linol 1? ^ S .. K 1 - * men uiuMii lunus ni me soil' tude of their caves or beneath the shade of high mountain trees. Also instinctively and of necessity they must have abstained from food, thus assisting in a "cure." In describing some curiosities of medical and surgical practice. Dr. Pomeranz says: "About thirty-four years ago Dr. Prunieres made some curious discoveries in the Baumnes-Chaudes caves ?immense prehistoric burial grounds ?situated in the valley of the Torn,' part of the district of Lozere. France. Ho found a few hundred skeletons which revealed, upon examination,' healed fractures, trephined skulls and 111 some instances the weapon which caused the wound and the death of the individual. Dr. Prunieres a ye^r later, in an admirable report to the French Anthropological Society, in session then at Lyons, described his findings in detail. He presented from his collection one of the parietal bones of a human skull with a trepanned area, into which a disk of bone, thicker and darker than the parietal itself, had been fashioned. ? U.suna n n ivem SIJUI1 111 a 11Q in Copiapo, Chile, and in Madisonville, Ohio. Up to 1SSS over 200 of those perforated crania or portions thereof were collected by Prunieres, Broca, M. do Have and others. "The trephiniug in most cases was evidently performed post mortem, but in others the ante mortem operation did not appear to havo had any fatal effect. The edges of the trepanned area showed ovidences of having healed during the life of the indi- j vidual. Trepanning was probably performed by boring a number of | holes circularly, and then chiseling . ore... um uuues uy means oi snarp pointed flint instruments. Every part of the skull, even the frontal hone, has been found trepanned. "Various theories have been advanced to account for the practice. Tho suggestion has been made that it was performed in honor of soma deity as a religious rite. Broca gives it as his supposition that in most cases tho operation was performed on epileptics. thn insano ami i\mar. ?>.. - ? , ...... I.IUOC SUIIWIIIIK from chronic headaches. A hole was scraped in the patient's skull lo permit the supposed aetiological demon to escape. The disk of bono excised was used as an amulet. ' Self-mutilation in mourning for j relatives is carried to a great extreme ! in the New Hebrides. If a child is ! sick the parents cut off the last phalanx as an offering to the gods. For this reason, says Wood, there is hardly a person in Tonga who has not lost a considerable portion of the little finger of one or both hands. The operation is crudely performed. The linger is placed upon a Hat block of wood or stone and the edges of a | knife or axe placed on it. A terrific blow with a mallet is given. The bleeding stump is held over a lire, the Intense heat of which acts as a haemostatic. The Tongans, strange as it may seem, do not dread the operation. In severe cases of illness, instead of the amputation of a little finger, a child is strangled as an offering to the gods." Here are some of the "sure cures" of superstition: "Jaundice becomes Incurable if a yellow-legged hen Hies over the patient, but. is cured by looking into black cart grease. "Hreak a loaf of bread over the head of children who learn to speak with difficulty. ' Let. a mother go three Sundays successively out of the church in silence and blow each time into th?; mouth of her child, and it will get its teeth easy. "Blue cornflowers gathered on Corpus Christi Sunday stop the bleeding of the nose if thev are held in the hand till they aro warm. "A woman can cure her earache by binding a man's stocking around her head. "lie who has the hiccup let him plunge a naked Unite into a can of be<and take a good draught of It at one breath; ho will then be cured. "If a child fall off in ith health, bind a thread of red silk around its neck; then catch a mouse, draw a thread of the same ;;ilk through its ^kin across its back-bone and let it on ivwi>. i iii* iii<his(* wastes uway tho child will improve Wiclwrslmni Wrolc 11. Attorney-General VVickersham Is winning a reputation for good nature. A few days ago Robert J. Tracewell, the Comptroller of the Treasury, an officer who is the final arbiter of all questions involving the payment of money out of the Treasury, marched into tho Attorney-General's office, at Washington, I>. , "Mr. YVIckcrshain," Bald Mr. Tracewell, "I have called to say that some damn fool in the Department of Justice has given an opinion bore that is all wrong and for which there Is no precedent." \lr. YVickerfdiiini tunk Mw. written copy of the opinion in Ills hands, and as he perused it his face took on a grini smile. "Oh, I sec," lie remarked slowly. I am the damn fool who wrote It." And (lie story goes that the Attorney-Genera I was so much impressed v ih the Comptroller's views that, lie modiflcd tli.i opinion. New York Kun. Steel Plants llusy. At I his lime last year tin- steel car Imilflors had orders for 00,000 cars. This year, according to tho Railway and Engineering Roviow, orders have amounted to 100,000, and work already contracted for will keep tho plants busy until next Juno. ' A-\ your nerves all | HffiV v midht us well imi a [ffi ^ / i you w'?'* ^r* ^ tjgty* J an (J* niako you o differei ?5 ' j el to work. It will fuK- / . I w\ your appetite will v VI " I / " there is any tcnd< W I | it will keep that d sumption has almoi lingering cough, bronchitis, or bleedini cure in 98 per qent. of all oases. It is e of Buffalo, N. Y., whoso advice it given , great suocess luia comc from his wido c. Don't be wheedled by a penny-grabl tutea for Dr. Pioroe's modioines, reooi Pierce'* medicines are op known compc on their wrappers Made from foot forming drugs. World's Dispensary Me What Robbie Wonted to Know. He naked eo many questions thnt day that he finally woro out hi3 mother"p patience. "Robert," alio cried, "If you ask me another question 1 shall put you to bed without your supper." Robert promptly asked another and was packed off to bed. Ixiter nte mother repented. After all, asking questions was the only way ho could acquire knowledge; so sho tiptoed upataira, kn?*lt beside Robert's bed, and told him she was 6orry. "Now, dear," she said. "If you want ! Ko to Bleep, *Hk It now and I will try to answer.'' Robert thought for a moment, then Bald, "Mother, how far can a cat Bj4t."?Buoeees Magazine. A friend's praise Ib a cheery thing, and there's no reason why It should be begrudged. 5&J/0A When shown positive and Temedy had cured numerous any sensible woman conclude also benefit her if suffering wi Here are two letters which E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com fl0fflt' surterert r and could / ^tr ttmo. She can $wBI?=\ r-s |l| prootrAtlon, liud t^ V*i ^ ffa# seemed iuo I? vj Jf# two doctors but K8^ Mm kydla B. Pink Blood Purlllcr y&rfP&^-l fy^ proved ho much IIIL i<dJ( ff another girl."? ?L Irftshurff, Vei B?j * few words In praise of y< taktng tt I h?d been very Hick 1 tries on4 nerrtHw prostration, tloof Lydift I'j. Plnkham's Veffeti ^r?dUy improved. My friends i u grexit chnntfo." ? Mrs. A. H. Si We will pay a handsome r< prove to U8 that these letters ?or that either of these won their testimonials, or that the i/w - . men p^iiuiasiuii, ur uiax inc ( not come to us entirely unsol What more proof can any For 80 years Lydta E. Pinkhf Compoand has lx?on the standf (?malo ills. No sick woman < herself -who will not try thta far Mode e&eluslvelr from roots a has thousand* of cares to its crt tagflgk?Mrs. Plnkham invites r to write her for advl guided thousands to health f Address Mrs. Plnkhao PeliiK of a buoyant nature won't help yon any if you fall overboard, warnu t 'IVo ??? Light S A W MILLS LATH AND SHIN6LE MACHINES, SAWS AND SUPPLIES, STEAM A.N D GASOLINE ENQINES. 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Hi* cperienco and varied practice, ung dealer into taking inferior aubstl* timended to be "just as good." Dr. >sition. Their every Ingre^i^t printed s without alcohol. ContavJ'.xo habitdioal Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Salmon Rounded Up by Seal. While nlttlng on the Bhoro of Inverness Firth the other day a correspondent of the Scotsman observed about half a doaon seals, each at <a short distance irom tne ocner, moving lo a kind of semicircle toward a small boy. Curiosity made him follow thoir movements as the seals slowly made for the shore. Hach kept his place well, though occasionally disappearing and reappearing. To his great surprise he saw that a sfaoal of salmon were being herded toward the shore, where there was little chance of eacape and where they ultimately fell victims to the seals. What struck the correnpondent most was the Intel lLgent way In which the aalmon were chased Into the bay. reminding him of the manner in which a eollle dog brings aheep to a fold.?Tho Sootsman. wfrjt turn/ reliable proof that a certain cases of female ills, wouldn't flip cnmA tvmii/lir nw\n \A V?AV uiv??* ? vtuv^vajr ffwuiu th the same trouble ? prove the efficiency of Lydia pound. to.?** My daughter was nil run rom pains in lior side, hem! and walk but a short distance at a 10 very near having' nervous begun to cough a good deal, lanolioly by spoils. Sbp tried got little help. Sin< ^ taking ham's Vegetable Ott?iipound* and Lilver Pills she has im? that she feels and looks like i . Mrs. 0. Cole, FltcliYllle, Ohio, >mont.?"I feel It my duty to Mir medicine. When I began rrltti kidney and bladder trouI ant ft' w taking the sixth bot%blo 0 >m|?oiuid and And myself vlio call to boo mo have noticed, inborn, Iroflbarjf, Vermont. ^ward to any person who will arc not genuine and truthful ftcn were paid in any -way for letters arc published without original letter from each did icited. one ask ? im's Vegetable urd remedy for jWs. It r loeg jnstioe to Wf 4r nous medicine. / / ?. w \ <J Ad her be, and If y Jj A i twiiv wuiimii ir\\ In) Ice. Hho hor, \\)\ ([/ rce of charge. a? Iiynn, Ma*m. Advertising Ih a soothing salve. Itch cured in 30 numitee by Woolford'* Sanitary Lotion. Never failn. At drugftiata. P^ortunes ;m- mado In publications. #5DroD8vii V- Rfino'ci all writing i<* 8 to 30 1 dajr* ; effect* * permanent cure A\ in joto 6a d?f?, Trial treatment /TpIVi \ .jr W.i/tt! ? free. M?tWla?r?? be fairer ?vHEBi Write ?r. M. H. trtwi't Sons, Pax b Atlanta, fly lay Paver A. Phthisic ELIEVED IN TWO MINUTES by >U5 AftTHMA CLJ?E 11 STB ?? m*C. 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