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too 1. to get ol, the -oi uo numan Intruder tv*an into It. But there are a few famous, or Infamous, exceptions, and the mamb*?one of the largest of the cobras, and a native of Africa?Is said to be fhw most dangerous reptile In tho workl. It will fly at anything and anybody; goes out of Its way to pick a quarrel with every passer-by, and lias even been known to come down Crom a tree where It was resting, apparently fast asleep, to try conclusions with a man armed with a gun. The only snake that at all approaches tho mamba in ferocity Is the great &lng cobra, or hamadryad of the east, which is larger than the mamba and generally quite as ready to Interfere with any living creature that comes within Its ken. It has been knowu JO chase a man on horseback, and so fast yhn It travel that it is said none ui /a. Kwin-rooiea animal has any hapce of escape. Tho poison of both 'se snakeg 1b bo powerful that, aa je one once stated In an examlna paper on reptiles, "even a sclentnn bitten by either of these creatures, ceases to be lntermatter after tho space of s." Among the Austra... the pitvipers of America, *1*0 great West African vipers, Qore are certain specleB that prefer ?he offensive to the defensive method, and In most cases It is the aggressive varieties that carry the most poisonous fangs. Snake-baltlng Is an amusement that w persons would care to Indulge In. t it appears that this hazardous occupation Is an actual business in certain parts of Australia. The poison <aid to be invaluable In the preparaof particular medicines, and Is onch sought after by scientists xperimenters. Its value Is such, ad, that the snake poison coljfc by the natives of New South les has been *old for as much a SOVerelcn tn twontir -Willi vj -u V o BllllilUgb aln, which works out at the amaz"<gure of $30,000 per pound troy, mtslness of snake-catching is v exceedingly dangerous, but the \ustralian snake hunters hat they can take their no other weapon but their .aile one attracts the rep^ attention another creeps up be.md and grasps the snake by the neck, and so holds it until it can be transferred to a cige or bag. The Teptiles are then taken to their permanent cages, where they are at internals "baited" with a specially prepared instrument, upon whose end Is a rubber band encircling a small ??heet of glass. The snake bites through the rubber and deposits its venom on the glass, wjjieh is then scraped into a phial and the contents sealed down. The snake, once captured without injury, is a constant sovirce of revenue, as the poison is quickly secreted afresh, ready for the tnext "baiting." Thus, at last, the enake, whose reputation has hitherto - been mainly earned in its capacity for nit;, hih> now no paid to bo impor "" "Ut In its preserva<n, Off to the Arctic. Atlanta Journal. The departure of the Stefansson expedition from Nome, Alaska, for a three-year journoy through arctic lands is an event of rare scientific as woll as human interest. The purpose of this enterprise is not so much that of discovery as of a more thorough survey than has yet been made of the natural phenomena and the people of the polar regions. The party includes specialists in geoigMMxhl', zoology, anthropology, nie\^OxiOgy and other sciences. It is particularly well equipped for research in all these fields and will doubtless bring home many fresh treasures of knowledge. The discovery of both the North and the South pole, far from having dulled the explorer's or the student's zest In arctic exploration, has only heightened it and given It a more fruitful bent. It has been truly said that had interest in the Western anHoH rtr IftfTifPfi flftPT* thp voyag?s of Columbus, civilization would have profited little. Peary and Amunsden are likewise the great ' azers who will be followed by 'nother expedition to turn >neer service to practical ac Itefansson party Is supplied eless apparatus by means of expects to establish commu etween remote arctic points itposts of civilization and ,sh warnings of approach, or tempests, a service that prove of great value. It ? furthermore that this exthrow new light' on questions of science, nave already changed of the earths' propor and water; and it may me other views now held y will thus be modified. improbable. Have you submitted this eTe else?" ?"No, sir." Then where did you get ye?" " i k ?> . .. RIDES. rtuileil to Nightly. New York e, Is probin all the oeen accorded * a uniformed er specially depolice of one of ;arry him home :er night after is day's work, john Murphy is quite John is 12 years old lives at 829 Victoria street, i which is on top of the hill about a i mile from the car line iu Ocean | View. John has sold gum at Fifth ' and Market streets for several months. He has one bad leg and he gets around on crutches. About the first night that .John got off the car six months ago, after an initial experience in selling gum, he saw a big mounted polcieman seated on his horse looking at the . i people get off the cr.r In Ocean View. . This policeman- was August G. Harry, and he said to little John: "Where are you going, my son?" "Tq the top of the hill over there," replied John. "Whht, on those crutches and up that dusty, rocky road?" "Yes. Mr," answered little John, "I'll give you a lift," said Harry. Whereupon he swung the frail little chap to the saddle and thus carried him to John's very doorstep. Thereafter night after night Mounted Policeman Harry waited for the little cripple boy to get off the car and every night carried liitu horseback up the hill to his home, j Presently an order issued out of i the chief's office and this order transferred Mounted Policeman Harry to I another part of the city. Therefore, ! when Wednesday night came and John got off the car there was no i mounted officer to meet him. He ; was obliged to climb up the hill and he was a very tired boy that night, i Thursday night came and Friday and ' still no mounted policeman. Then I little John learned that a Strang ? .. ?? . i? ? ? n ,.i I iiiiMi iiit'u wmvri ? aa uciaucu ai | Ocean View. John decided he would find out why his big friend was sent away. ; He went first to Captain Kelly, who 1 referred him to Chief of Police White. Yesterday little John appeared before Chief White in the , latter's office In the Hall of Justice He told Chief White all about the long. dusty, rocky walk up the hill and about his friend Harry. "I can not make any more transfers out there at the present time." said Chief White gravely, after listening to the story of the little lame hoy, "hut I will have this matter attended to right away." Then Chief White took up his desk 'phone and asked central to give him the Ingleside station. "Is this Captain Kelly?" asked the chief, while John's eyes grew wide with attention. "Say, captain, have a mounted man go to the View at 7 o'clock every night after this and take little John Murpliy from the street car up to his home on the hill. If the hoy is not there at 7 o'clock have the officer wait for him." "All right." said Captain Kelly. A Story of String Bonn-.. Rural New Yorker. The price of string heans caused Dr. Samuel E. Earle, Jr.. 14 31 Kinden avenue, to conduct a little investigation into the high cost of living yesterday, and the results of his labor are interesting. Dr. Earle said he was beginning to understand why there had been so much agitation of this question lately and remarked that it really was "fierce." A trucker brought lrt bushels of string beans to town yesterday to sell Tie figured out before the sale that it had cost him 1 f> cents a hushel to plant, cultivate and harvest the I crop. With this in mind he began to get estimates of what lie was goi ing to get for the load and was some' what sad when the middleman agreed to pay 30 coats a bushel and no more. Mrs. Earle was then requested to find the market quotation for the day and she learned that beans were selling: at retail for 15 cents a quarter peek. "Now. why the difference?" was Dr. Karle's question. Incidently the farmer let it he known that he would allow the remainder of the crop on his farm go to rot before he will bring it to town to receive such small prices. The above from The Baltimore Sun shows that the grower's dollar is often a good deal less than the 3 5 cents. And if that grower had stopped his wagon alongside the market house and gone to selling his [ beans to consumers for half the* money they were asking in the stalls, i the police would have been after j him quickly for selling without ped- j dler's license. The city ordinances I tVio mld^lomon nnH I/oon Hi o . consumer and producer apart.?W. F. Massey. This man would have heen legally justified in selling his own produce without a license. If he bought and sold again he could not do so, but a man has the right to .sell his own produce anywhere provided he does not "obstruct traffic." Probably the police would have had him on some other charge. The Difference. Kansas City Journal. "What's the wrangle about In i Plunkvllle?" "Some of the community want to maintain mudholes and swell their private fortunes bp hauling automobiles out. Others want to improve the highways, pinch 'em for speeding and apply the proceeds to pty"*c works of ail kinds." I To Prevent Blood Poisonin at once the wonderful old relin PORTKRS ANTI3EPTIC HEALING O (gical dressing that relieves pain and the same time. Not a liniment. 25cJ / > THE lAKfDASTKR NEV MATCH FOR THE BILLY GOAT ,. School Teacher Smatj |n Stature, But 0 8he Wae Decidedly the Victor ut " the FlnlU . I ?\ b (Standing In the lo^rer corridor of the Crescent scttoeft;at Frankstown it avenue and Standard street, a shaggy, dirty, litamelllng, evil-eyed Billy goat. 'r the hero of a hundred battles, bleated out a challenge to Miss Flora Denniston, as she gently stepped Into the hall with a basketball net in her hands. ? (laving cleared the school of all the <; children, placed Henry Long, the janl- | tor, hors du combat with a few well- c directed "butts," and so disarranged o' and ripped the clothing of ^Officer Is James Warrenton as to force tilm to ?: retire from the field to make repairs, 1 the defiant old buck looked at (the pretty. Blight, young ninety-pound' p Bchool tencher with disdain as sht essayed a chal' ve. w Stepping fiv behind the door, li Miss Dennlston taunted "Old William" until suddenly hunching, he hu/led ? himself at her like a rocket. Quickly stepping behind the door, the Courageous girl deftly threw the basketball net over "William's" head a ad horns. ^ Then the trouble begam The old s, hero of many battles attempted to 7 hunch again for a spring, but each 0 time his feet would become entangled w III the net, and down he would go, a snorting and bleating like mad. tl "Old William," after a period of vain '1 11-.. ? > 1 U I - - VUUl I, iiuxillj 411 IV II U V* IfU^t'U UIO 11113" tress and lay down on all fours. Se- J! curing a strong pope, Mies Dennlston waived over to the vanquished battler and tied him up. I] Speaking about the battle later, Miss p Dennlston said: "Hilly goats are no ' trouble to handle. It was merely a ( battle of wits, and I won."?Pittsburg ' dispatch to the Philadelphia Record. s I 1_ n lleing a Gentlewoman. ^ Harper's Ilazar. . w Most women are ambitious to be thought women of the world, and it o is quite amazing how many go di- ti rectly the wrong way to work. They are so apt to think that a haughty D manner, an aloof and uninterested spirit proves worldllness. Savoi lc faire, writes a great lady, is after all nothing else than consideration for hi others. Long ago Confucius set it hi down, "It is all one to a gentleman; few* or many, high or low, a gentle- K man never slights any man." The n< truth is unvarying, and the distinguishing mark of a great lady even &' today is the power of setting people q< at their ease, of summoning the best and most interes * of their qual- 8' ities to the surface, of making the to best of every situation and every P> person she meets. One can hazard es a very safe guess at the amount of y< breeding a lady possesses by the amount of security, ease and gen- ! ialitv she educes from those sur- ' rounding her. I ? Never dream that things make ele- J gance. Tennyson entertained the j Prince of Wales (who called unex-1 , pectedly just as the poet's house- J hold was moving) on packed goods boxes, hut apparently the torn up room and hard seats did not inter- 1 i fere with easy and interesting con- 1 jverse. * The groat lady if she who makes ; all who come into her house, from the scullery maid to the queen, feel , at ease and secure and happy ho- ; cause they know they are In the house of graciousness and benignity, i To hurt, to slight, to wound, to make others uncomfortable betrays crudity and awkward breeding, and shows i that one is not to the "manor horn." Nor does this mean that witty retort is not justifiable when called for. Nothing could have been more swift and graceful than Lady Randolph Churchill's reply to George Bernard Shaw, who replied to her lunch Invitation: "Certainly not. Why should you try to encroach upon my well known habits?" She retorted hv wire immediately: "Know nothing of your habits. Hope not quite so had as your manners." But for ordinary uses nothing so swiftly proves our citizenship of the great world as the power of moving gracefully through the world without treading on toes or knocking chips off shoulders. Return to the Rag Carpet. Christian Science Monitor. * J-- it ti ? -t nf?/S,l Ill line lllllf, 11 If Mini, ill I s. n vnnirow Wilson Is to bo presented with a rag carpet woven by two women of Elkin, N. C. They are working on the fabric now and it Is expected that they will have it ready by the time the President's family gets back to Washington. Report goes even farther and says that the rag carpet is to be accompanied by handmade druggets and portieres. This recalls to a Ratavla, N. Y., man a similar lnchident during Mrs. Cleveland's residence in the White House, when, so he tells. The Washington Post, she was presented by a woman of Wyoming county, X. Y.?who got up a bee for the purpose?not only with rag carpets and rugs, hut also with a four poster. old-fashioned rocking chairs, a whatnot, a secretary, a spinning wheel, etc.. In sufficient number to furnish a room In the Cleveland country home, Red Top, on the Tennallytown road, out of Washington. Suffered Eczema Fifty Years?Vow Well. Seems a long time to endure the awful burning; itching, amartlng, skln-dlsease known as "teter"?another name for Eczema. Seems good j to realize, also, that Dr. Hobson's | Eczema Ointment has proven a per feet cure. Mrs. D. L. Kenney writes:?"I I cannot sufficiently express my thanks to you for your Dr. Hobson's Eczema ?m iimMii. 11 iicin curou 1117 w?ncr, 1 Mch has troubled me for over fifty \ rs." All druggists or by mall ' Pfleffer Chemical Co.. 9t. ) , Mo., and Philadelphia, Pa. I i1 ^ \ S, AUcli'ST 1.1913. Drawback of Insurauce. liicago Record-Herald. Auxlous Inquirer in Insurance (flee?I understand that for $5 I in insure my house for $1,000? Clerk?Yes, madam; if your house urns down we pay you $1,000. Inquirer?And do you make any tquiries as to the origin of the Are? Clerk?We make the most careful iquiries, madam. Inquirer?Ah! I thought there as a catch in It somewhere. Subscribe for The News.' i ood Itpason For liis Enthusiasm. When a man has suffered for sevral days with colic, diarrhoea or ther form of bowel complaint and i then cured sound and well by one r two doses of Chamberlain's Colic, holera and Diarrhoea Remedy, as Is ften the case, it is but natural that e should be enthusiastic in his raise of the remedy, and especially i this the case of a severe attack hen life is threatened. Try it when i need of such a remedy. It never ills. Sold by all dealers. MONEY IN DIRT. The nice 6-rooni Elite Chance ' ouse and lot on Market street, for ale at a bargain. 0 Acres, John Hammonds, a mile r two north of Pleasant Hill and est side of Rocky River road, 4 5 eres worked, one live room and two | liree room houses and three wells, resh land and a fine farm. See me. 166 Acres, Mary Jane Clinton, 10 liles north of Lancaster and by mds of Allle Heath and John EstIdgc. 84 Acres, Allio Wilson, right at ilxle, good farm, house, water and lenty of woods. See me. 50 Acres, It. C. Helms, near Camp reek church and on Hay road, nice -room house and a good plantation. 4 5 an acre. 18014 Acres, B. 1j. Parker's, three | ice houses, three and fouf rooms, bout 100 acres worked, on both 1 Ides new Tabernacle road, four 1 ells. $3 5 an acre. ] 11 Acres bottom land just north ' f town, suitable for alfalfa and uck farming. Half dozen lots in corner by L. C. azenby and Mike Johnson, easy avments. Prices $350 to $600 a >t. See me quick. 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