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Lett in the Lurch. { Simultaneously a young Cornish lady had three suitors, representing Ihe churoh, the army and the navy. The reverend gentleman had a great I advantage over his rivals, being always "on the spot.? Referring to his rivals in conversation with the lady on one occasion, he made the highly interesting observation that there were "land rats and-water rats." "And cu-rats," retorted the lady. Needless to say the parson had to look elsewhere for a wife.?London News. Tona of Steel For Needle*. A German paper calls attention to the fact that at Aachen alone 800 tons of steel wire are used up annually in the manufacture of needles?4,500,000,000 in number, valued at $1,500,000. A Parisian chemist announces that . ft solution of one part of picric acid to seventy-five parts of water will remove the pain from burns and scalds almost instantly and prevent blisters or sores. A Sensation. That the world is coming to an end suddenly at a given time is not what is here referred 10. xnere are ainerem &iau? m ecusauuiui as very many people know who feel sharp twinges of pain'in the big nerveof the thigh, flolatloa Is a very painful sensation, and the torment of it makes one think something is eome to an end. But just at the first sensation or twinge is the best time to use St. Jacobs Oil. The less pain the more easily It is cured, and the Oil prevents its development by soothing the nerve. At any stage v it will cure. Famine Threaten* Germany. Famine conditions confronts a large proportion of the population of Germany. Bcvan of Ointment* for Catarrh That Contain Mercury, as mercury will surely destroy the sense of 1 . smell and completely derange the whole system when entering it th rough the mucous surfaces. ,8uch articles should never be used except on \prescriptions from reputable p&ysicians,astne. damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh i Cure manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co.. ' Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting dlrectly.npon tho blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's < 'atarnh (*ure be sure to get the genuine. It is taken internally, an I is made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. < heney (ft Co. Testimonials free. B^Sold by Druedsts: price, 75c. per bottle. Hall's Family Pills are the best. There la a CIam of People "Who are injured by the use of coffee. Rej eeritly there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called Grain-O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee The most delicate stomach receives it withoul distress, and but few can tell it from coffee It does not coet over one-quarter as much. Children may drink it with jrreat benefit. 1,' cts. and 25 cts- per package. Try it Ask foi t Grain-O. ' Dreydoppel. The only original and genuine borax soap; ' 81 years In use. Full pound bars; all kind of stores selling it. Beware of imitations. Get Dreydoppel soap. Fits permanently cared. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2trial bottle and treatise free Db. R. H. Kbinn. Ltd.. 931 Arch St..Phila.,Pa. To* Core A Cold In One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All Druggist* refund money if it fails to cure. 35c. ; Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c. a bottle. Piso's Cure for Consumption relieves the most obstinate coughs.?Rev. D. Buchuuel' ub, Lexington, Mo.. February 24,18&L j CATARRH CUBED Troubled Tor Two Tears and Health. Very Poor. k . "I was troubled with catarrh for two years and my health became very poor. I heard so much about Hood's Sarsaparilla that I decided to try It and after taking a few bottles I was entirely cured." A. H. McDermmot, 85 Bolton St., Marlboro, Mass. HOOdV parma The best?in fact the One True Blood Pnrlfier. Ila*il's Dill* cure nausea, indigestion, nOOll S "HIS biliousness. Price 25c. / A Cooking Box of Wood. The various experiments made with solar engines by the French in Algeria, where the sun shines at all times and with great power, have Vionn o+tondod in snmn in if an fpn -with marked success. The best apparatus is stated to be a simple arrangement of boiler and concave mirror, the steam generated being condensed in ft coiled tube rurrounded by -water, this heing intended for distilling . water merely. But in India an inventor named Adams has contrived some machines by which more varied results are accomplished. One of these is what is termed a cooking box, made of wood and lined with reflecting mirrors, at the bottom of the box being a small copper boiler covered with glass to retain the heat of the rays concentrated by mirrors upon the boiler. In this contrivance any sort of food may be quickly cooked, ' the result being a stew or boil if the * steam is retained, or,. if allowed to I escape, it is a bake. The heat, with ui1d ucyit'oj ivloj uc augmcuicu iuuqunitely by increasing the diameter of the box.?Philadelphia Ledger. ^ i Slaves at Cape Town. Although the slave trade is not tolerated in the British Empire, it would appear from statements in the Cape Times that something very like a "slave mart" has been definitely es- i tablished at Cape Town. The Bechuana prisoners are offered their freedom on condition that they will work on farms, and consequently these prisoners are examined just like bales of goods or herds of cattle, and the farmers quite enter into the spirit of the thing and go around the market scanning the men, and "sorting out those of the larger size." Telegraphing to Ships at Sea. Experiments in wireless telegraphy liave resulted in messages being transmitted from shore to ships afloat, at a distance of twelve miles, and the United States Government have decided to adopt the system for nse in the Navy. W HALL'S 11 f W Vegetable Sicilian t k PAIR RENEWER I* . ? #i ? t i u LI ^ CI " floesn'i cost mucn, yci it ? '->* II aids wonderfully to the f Q looks. It is youth for a few Ji Kk ^ cents* No gray j?g? hair. No dandruff. . i . m OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR LAUGHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOF LOVERS OF FUN. I Her Frown?Left by the Wayside?Th< Quarrelsome Fellow?A Bleak Pros pect?Deep Grief?Valid Excuse?Bus! | ness Expedient?Fully Explained, Etc I kissed her on the peachy cheek; She frowned, as I could see; "Oh, maiden," said I, prithee, speak And say you pardon me!" [ She turned her pretty face away j And bit her finger tips, And then I beard her sweetly say: "What's the matter.with my lips?" ; ?Chicago News. Left by< the Wayside.' "Is Miss Passay single fron choice?" "Yes; all the men she knows hav< chosen other girls."?Chicago Record The QnarreUoxne Fellow. Mrs. Prye?"Tell me, dear, do yoi quarrel -with your husband?" Mrs. Lamb?"Never! But he oftei quarrels with me, the hateful thing!' ?Boston Transcript. A Great Advantage. "The horse has another point o superiority over the wheel." "What is it?" "When a horse is getting ready t< shy at anything you can tell it by hii ears."?Chicago Record. Should She Expect Them ? "You never bring me lovely flower.1 and candies as you used to when w< were engaged,"pouted Mrs. McBride "No dear." replied her husband. "] didn't buy ?15 bonnets and $60 dressei for you then, though."?Judge. Stlmnlag to Exertion. "Yes," said the man, "I realize tha' cycling is a great thing. I used to b< sluggish before the cycling craze, bu1 now I'm spry and energetic." "I didn't know you rode." "I don't. I dodge."?Philadelphit Eecord. Good For the Health. "My wife's health is'excellent now.' "What has cured her?" "I told her I would allow her b< much a month to pay her doctor's bil and buy her gowns; she'is now dodg ing the doctor right along."?Chicagc Record. A Bleak Prospect. Bill Collector (authoritatively)?"] wish to see Mr. Neverpay immediate' iy." Shrewd Servant?"You can't set him now. He's gone to bed, so wt can wash his flannels."?New Yort Weekly. __ While Shaving. The Wife?"The baby has been jabbering away there for about an hour, and I can't understand a thing she says." The Husband?"I've noticed, dear, the little thing grows more like yon every day." They Had Her Congratulation. Old Mr. Bentley (reading the paper] ?"I see that in the recent storm al sea a shin loaded with passengers wenl ashore." Old Mrs. Bentley (placidly)?"How fortunate. I can imagine how glad th? passengers were to get on dryland.' -Tit-Bits. A Frightened Fugitive. "That escaped criminal seems tc have had rather the best of it," re marked the talkative friend. "Not at all," replied the detective, drawing himself up haughtily, "We'v< gotten him so frightened he doesn'1 dare show his face where we are."? Washington Star. Those Klondike Stories. Eagerly?"And these stories aboul the fabulous wealth of Klondike?art they exaggerations?" Klondike Liar?"Believe me, yes. Why, you can travel two or thret hlonks without seeincr cold, except o few nuggets here and there."?Phita delphia North-American. Baiinets Expedient. Superintendent?"Mr. Centum, J don't know what we are going to do with that last lot of stockings. We've marked them down again and again, but nobody seems to want them." Merchant?"Just mark them up ter per cent, above the original price anc put them on the bargt in counter."? Boston Transcript. , S Fully Explained. "You passed me yesterday withoul a word," he said reproachfully. "Forgive me," she murmured. "And have you no word of explana tion?" "Two," she answered. "And they are?" "A borrowed wheel and a mouthful of gum."?Cleveland Plain Dealer. Valid Excuie. She?"How is it you were not al Westend's reception?" He?"I staid away on account of e personal matter." She?"May I ask what it was?" He?"Will you promise to keep i secret." She?"Yes." He?"Well, they failed to send m< an invitation."?Collier's Weekly. Deep Grief. "I never saw a man so cut up ai r?lrl Tiny is ov?r tha death of his book keeper. And yet you have always said that he had no heart and regardec his employes as mere machines." "I'll tell you something on th< quiet. The bookkeeper was abou $3000 behind his accounts, and olc Rox was keeping him on and making him work it out."?Cincinnati En quirer. Leading Up to the Explosion. "No," explained Lycurgus Bojkins "I positively refuse to sanction this You are worthy of a better man, Lydia Why, this fellow never earned a dollai in his life. He has no idea of busi ness!" "You wrong him, papa," the fail girl replied. "He has a first rate idet of business. He knows exactly hov tt/mi rt ?n on/1 gottq lV?nf v I ULIUUU Vuu tt vj. vuj auu o?jo vuau i. you would only consent to put som< young blood into your firm it would be'a great thing all around."?Cleve land Leader. Oversensitive. Recently an author was ashed t( write a brief history of the life of i man who had done service to hie State Like Lincoln, this man had been 8 ' wood chopper, a fact to which his historian gave prominence. ? "Don't say he was 'a wood chopper,'" said the spokesman for the family. "That will nevei- do." "What shall I say then?" asked the . author. "Say?let me see, now; just say thai . he was connected with the lumber business."?Boston Post. WORDS OF WISDOM. It is always a mystery to a woman why her husband doesn't seem to pity old bachelors more. The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber. i TTfllr> Rnmehodv worse off than your self, and * you will find that you are ! 3 better off than you imagined. Civic virtue is a good text for the preacher always, but a better thing for j every citizen to guard in his daily life. A good life is the best philosophy; i a clear conscience is the best law; ' honesty is the bestpolicy, and temperance is the best physic. Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine, and whoever * breaths its air and works by its light has found the lost paradise, j Consciousness of error is to a certain 3 extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery. We can never see this world in its 3 true light unless we consider our life J in it as a state of discipline, a condi. tion through which we are passing to L prepare us for another state Deyona. 3 A life in any sphere thai is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel ^ only of God and itself, will be certain i to be a life of beneficence in the best l possible direction.?J. G. Holland. We should ponder the particular characteristics which are needed to t encounter manfully all failures in life, and secure from them whatever benefit they are capable of bestowing, for these are very different from the quali' ties which enable a man to ride triumphantly on the tide of success. } There is no quality, however admira' ble it may be, which does not need " some other quality to balance it. ' Humility and self-respect must join hands, or the one will degenerate into pusilanimity and the other into pride; [ justice and kindness must qualify each . other, or the one will be stern and the other will be weak. Prices Paid to Modern Authors. J Rudyard Kipling commands the ' highest price of any living author, according to the Pall Mall Gazette, which says that it paid $750 for each ' of his "Barrack Room Ballads," and i that "The Seven Seas" brought him 1 $11,000. He has received fifty cents a word for a 10,000-word story. Anthony Hope charges $150 for a maga! zine story, reserving the copyright; Mr. Gladstone's price for a review is $1000. Conan Doyle received $35,000 for "Rodney Stone," Mrs. Humphry ' Ward $40,000 for "Robert Elsmere," ,J $80,000 each for "David Grieve" and "Marcella," $75,000 for "Sir George Tressady," and $15,0l)U for ".Bessie Costrell." Ian Maclaren has made $35,000 out of "The Bonnie Briar Bush" and "Auld Lang Syne." Rider Haggard still asks from $75 to $100 a column of 1500 words and will not ( write for less than $10,000. The highest price ever paid for a novel is $200,000, which, the Pall Mall Gazette says, was handed over to j Alphonse Daudet for his "Sapho." Zola's first fourteen books netted him . $220,000, and in twenty years he has made at least ?375,000. Buskin's sixty-four books bring him in $20,000 a year. Swinburne, who writes very t little, makes $5000 a year by his poems. > Browning, in his later years, drew ^ AAA a waa? fwAin a aola nf Vila ^pii/jV/uu a juai nv/ui vuv uuiv w*. u?w , works, and Tennyson is said to have ) received $60,000 a year from the Macl millans during the last years of his life. Mr. Moody is believed to have beaten all others, as more than $1,350,000 has Jbeen paid in royalties for his ^ hymns. , Nicety of Etiquette. , A true gentieman usually feels that it is as essential to be courteous to the least as to 'the greatest, but etiquette , does not always recognize this. The [ famous Talleyrand is reported to have . used a graduation of politeness in asking his guests to take beef at a dinner party that he gave. The grade ran thus: t To a prince of the blood: "May I have the honor of sending your royal highness a little beef?" To a duke: "Monseigneur, permit me to send you a little beef?" To a marquis: "Marquis, may I send you a little beef?" I To a viscount: "Viscount, pray have a little beef." To a baron: "Baron, do you take beef?" ^ To an untitled gentleman: "Monsieur, some beef?" 1 To his Private Secretary: "Beef?" But there was yet an inferior personage present, and to him Talleyrand 1 uttered no word. He simply looked aA inf/JWAnPofivO Ul UlULI) UUU uiauo UU auwaav^mvat V gesture with the carving knife. But ; if the meat were good, some of us would not trouble much how we were invited to it.?Tit-Bits. An Ancient Chinese Invention. Many things have been deemed new j inventions which have been afterwards 1 credited to the Chinese. And an Anglo-Chinese paper now claims that 1 watertight bulkheads in ships were j invented by the Chinese centuries 1 ago. Long before the idea struck the ? West the trading ships of the Celestials were divided into compartments, separated by bulkheads of three-inch r\lo*>lro nonl Iro/1 Trrtfli onKofonnA f"""40! ...... ening on contact with water, and which was a gum mixed with lime and threads of bamboo. I p Modern Samson's Domestic Pupils. Sandow's devotion to physical culture had an amusing result the other l day. He insists that all his employes, J from seoretary to charwoman, shall j try his Bystem. A new charwoman j KiCKea againsi tne aumooen ezercioea [ and was dismissed. The present holder of the post is now able to lift eightyfive pounds above her head with one hand. A pleasant look-out for the next employer of this invaluable ) creature should they disagree on the i question of perquisites J?Loudon J News. ~ <1*" Planting Peach Pits. It is a good plan to plant all peacli pits when it is known that the frnit has been grown on trees free from yellows. If the peach is an extra good one, it may well be left to frnit on its own stock. Some kinds of peaches reproduce themselves for seed, and all kinds of this fruit are more likely to produce something nearly like themselves. If the native fruit proves to be worthless, a few bads inserted higher up after it has grown large enough to show what it is, will change it to whatever variety may be desired. Tiatnral Blue Grass Land. Blue grass, which is a close cousin to what is known as June grass in the East, is one of the most nutritious of all the grasses. Its roots are straggling and run near the surface, there. fore it is rich in early spring, when the sun's rays do not warm the soil deeply. Some land seems to grow up in June or blue grass whenever left uncropped. It will run out most other grasses as the latter fail. One reason why this grass is nutritious is, perhaps, explained by the remark an old farmer made, that he had always noticed that the natural blue grass land was a strong limestone soil. ?Boston Cultivator. Strawberrieii. \ Nitrate of soda is a valuable fertilizer for strawberries and raspberries; it should be applied with powdered phosphate of lime. This application to strawberries will sometimes treble the yield. The berries are larger in size, handsomer in color, more solid and finer in flavor. Ordinary manure will not produce such results, as it is not converted into plant food until after the demand of the fruit. Nitrate of soda and powdered phosphate of lime are assimilated by the plant at once, and appropriated at a cost of less than ten dollars per acre, using four hundred pounds of the mixture, which J. iL _ 11 J i_ f J contains me mree lngreuienis consiuered necessary to use for feeding plants?nitrogen, phosphoric acid and an alkali.?Andrew H. Ward. Apple* For Evaporating. There is a great difference in the amount o? solid matter that the differtnt varieties of apples contain. Some are extremely tender and juicy to eat, but when evaporated they leave a very small amount of dried fruit. The Basset is probably the ntost solid apple grown. But if grown in a dry climate the Baldwin is not far from it. The apples grown in New England are more tender and juicy than those grown farther West. It may be, however, that the latter will prove beet for evaporating, .at least so far as quantity is concerned. But we have always noticed that the poor green fruit always auects tne quality 01 tne dried product. It is likely, therefore, that Western evaporated apples will only sell where those from New England cannot be had. . Rheumatism In Hog?. The hog is. less protected by hair than any other farm animal, and is therefore more liable to rheumatism than any other. This disease iB known by producing stiffness in all the joints and a general indisposition-to come to the trough to feed. If the hog has been where its bed was damp from rains move it at once to a better shelter and give plenty of dry straw or leaves. Then for medicine we have found nothing] better than two ounces of cod liver oil mixed with its feed and given two or three times a <?ay. Generally this will restore the unimal to health, and the cod liver oil -will, besides its medicinal value, help to improve the hog's condition. A dose of of oil, either vegetable or from animals, iB good for making hogs thrifty. They are always fed on concentrated food, and need an occasional dose of physic to clear their stomachs, and thus improve their appetites. Oil can be given to hogs more easily than other medicine, and will do no injury, even if it does not help them. Frozen Tnrnlps. Turnips are so hardy that the light early frosts do the crop no injury. In fact, a9 these frosts generally kill many weeds that interfere with the turnips, the latter grow all the faster when they have the whole ground to themselves. We have often thought that after the tops of turnips were lightly touched by frost that the roots were sweeter and had less of the harsh flavor than oeiore. xsiu it is not a gooci pian 10 leave turnips long enough to freeze up in the ground. They may be there a long time before a thaw comes to make it possible to harvesf them. When the thaw does come it makes the ground wet. and the gathering of the turnips becomes a dirty and disagreeable job. But worse than this may happen if the turnip itself be frozen. The part above the ground will rot if it be at all touched by frost. The rule with frozen turnips is never to handle them while the frost is in them. If they thaw out in the soil the root may look all right, but it will turn pithy much sooner than a root that has been kept from frost and covered with damp earth. Whole Corn Fodder For Cows. As corn is the principal crop in Illinois, I last winter put the cows into a feed lot adjoining the barn, writes Ralph Allen. Three pigs for each cow were also placed in the lot. The cows were taken into the barn twice a day. fed ear corn broken, and after being milked were turned into the lot and given unhusked corn fodder. In this tvrv #>aeh c.ow received li bushels of ear corn per week, and one bushel of corn in the fodder. The pigs, in addition to what they picked up, were given buttermilk and some skim-milk. In return for this feed I received 4} pounds of butter and ten pounds of pork per week per cow, or about two pounds of butter and four pounds of pork per bushel of corn. The cows were provided with a good shed and a thick layer of straw to lie on. They crrew a thick coating of hair and from PBBBB35SB afiif '?v ' ?' '-w-'.-i.-.iJP i all appearances were more comfortable 1 than those kept in a barn. The pigs did remarkably -well, living npon the droppings of the cattle, refuse from the mangers, buttermilk and part ol the skimmilk. This plan I believe to ! be as proflltable as any which can be 1 adopted1 in the corn-growing section ' of the State, and certainly has the merit of eliminating a large part of the drudgery usually connected with dairj farming.?American Agriculturist. Barn Versus Outdoor Feeding. In making a comparison between indoor and outdoor feeding, it is necessary to state that there are two kinds of indoor feeding, says R. M. Allen, of Nebraska. In feeding gentle cattle in a stable where they can be tied up in such moderate numbers as to admit of easy handling, there can be no question of the advantage of indoor feeding, and a farmer with a small number of cattle can get the perfection of results in this. With several Tioad nf natt.1 a if moc nnt be so easy, but still can be accomplished with dehcrning, as the cattle can be managed so as to allow them some freedom. But with several thousand head of cattle it is impossible to feed in a barn without confining the animals to an absolutely stationary position, and the difficulty of puttiug cattle in the barn and taking them out again is so great that one naturaily shrinks from it; besides which there is too much disturbance to the fattening of the cattle by shutting them up in this manner unless it is offset by the saving of feed in a win; ter of great scarcity and high price of feed stuffs, or in the use of some waste product. I ought to say that I would prefer in our -climate to develop a kind of barn feeding that I believe from experience would prove to give the best economy in the production of beef, but it will probably be many yearB before I am able to realize this, if I ever do. My plan would be to divide the interior of a barn into pens, for cattle to be dehorned, and to construct it of fire-proof material. This would give the cattle movement enough to prevent the effects of. too strict confinement, and I think secure the greatest possible economy of food. I should wish to bed the cattle and save the manure, and so far I have not got over the difficulty of doing this for a large number of cattle under one roof. Thoroughly good, smooth cattle give very good results when tied np and fed in a barn, but cattle that are inclined to be rough do not, and the result is a rather low average gain for the cattle. I do not know that I should consider any plan at all for feeding large numbers of cattle in a barn unless it were part of a plan to feed a waste product. I have such a plan in my own mind, and if I am ever able to put it into. operation, I expect to make beef at less cost than I have ever done up to tne present time. Barn feeding should undoubtedly be practiced where cattle oan be easily handled, so that they can be fed when tied up in a stall and turned loose to get exercise, but where there are large numbers of cattle to be fed, so that they must be kept for six or seven months stationary, it is not desirable when feeding an ordinary fced of grain and hav, and only justifiable when a waste product is fed. It. is of course a satisfaction to have the animals under cover in Bevere weather, but this advantage is not enough to make it worth while to tie cattle up to feed with grain and hay unless it is a season {of scarcity and feed stuffs aro vnrjf uctu* mc outiu^ AU feed, feeding as much as the cattle will properly clean up every day, amounts to from twenty to thirty-five per cent., which, if grain is high enough in price, is enough to offset a less rapid gain in weight. Barn-fed cattle sell well, in any event, and the carcasses dress well.?Orange' Judd Farmer. Under His Own Grapevine. A. Hospe, Jr., who lives at Seventeenth and Davenport streets, has a unique roof garden attached to his residence. Several years ago he built a brick one-story addition to his home. J Afterward he planted a sprig of wild grapevine at the southwest corner of I the house. The vine grew and con- j tinued to grow until* the growth be- j came wonderful. Itcovered the south ' side of the house, including the brick addition. It then sought to continue its meanderings over the roof. Mr. Hospe put some frames on the roof of t,li? addition and covered them with lattice wire, forming a canopy eight to ten feet high. The vine took advantage of the opportunity offered it and covered these wires with its thick verdure, leaving vacancies only where the wire has been arranged to accommodate entrances to the bower and to furnish light. The vine is so thickly entwined over the frame that it furnishes shade and a cool resort in the warmest of weather. Mr. Hospe put a slat floor over the tin roof of the addition, placed a cot, rustic chairs and other comfortable seats within the bower, fixed up a nook for his pet parrot and other birds, and has almost Babylonian comforts on his own homestead.?Omaha (Neb.) Bee. Caro of the Teeth. It is certainly injurious to the teeth to subject them to an extreme of temperature, and, although most persons --i -e r t?,1 A -.'..I. eabUi lru^eii 1UUUD ttuu unun itcu v? atci freely, it lias become a question wliethei hot water, so often recommended foi dyspeptics as an ante-breakfast bever- j age, may not hurt the teeth. It can, at any rate, do no harm to take it ( through a tube or a straw. ] A Novelist's Storehouse. I The way Sir Walter Bcsant pro- ' ceeds when he wants to write a novel ' is to consult the pages of his large J nf nntpVinnlfR in -whirtb hp has jotted down his best ideas for , many years. He is, therefore, never j at a loss for what is technically called i "matter." I e ' ' . ' ' - . > The Honest Eskimo* Bev. Dr. Stevenson, who, In 1890, trent to Point Barrow to establish a in school and missionary station under ce the auspices of the Presbyterian board lit )f home missions, returned from the te North recently and is stopping at the ns Cosmopolitan Hotel. He is accompanied by three native children he is de making East to be placed in a school m for advanced education. th "The school was established the bi tirst year l arrived nere,- saia ut. to 3tevenson, "and it has continued with th the most gratifying results. The na- th iive took a great interest in it and, in ea fact, in everything we tried to do for th them. They are an intelligent people hi ind it did not take them long to real- 16 ize that our efforts were for their benefit and they beoame attentive and apt dc scholars. The school had an average th attendance of forty daily. Along with d< the school religious services were held te and on Sunday mornings from 160 to ps 170 were at the meetings that were m at the meetings that were held in a ni room not over sixteen feet by twenty- ar five feet. At the evening services th there would be about 100 of the na- al tives, and at the Wednesday night hi prayer meetiugs from 125 to 140. "The Eskimos," he continued, "are to the most honest poOple that can be fo found, Locks are unknown among ty them, and, in fact, such articles are en ' . 1 i* TP .J1 l.il ? not wantea tnere. x oneu ieu my or house for days at a time, leaving the door wide open, and, though the natives walked in and out as they pleased1 and examined articles that were valu- be able in that country and lying about, to none of them were taken. I was al- It ways well treated by them, even by in the tribes that were said to be cruel ca and fierce. I carried no weapons and ta never had ocoasion to use one."?San th Francisco Chroniole. th It is pleasant to know that the man who discovered the American Beauty b< rose is worth $50,000, all of whioh he ac made out of the peerless flower, which T unites all of the qualities of a perfect or rose. x ce m" MEN CALL T So She is to T1 ? hod's Knowledge I voman undents For this reason ,, now known a set to work to After long an confirmed her eighths of the orders of the u she saw that t down, was a alone on the : ' This was why she prepared her ex< has been such a boon to thousands anc headaches chiefly at the top' of the head, a tion, dizziness, sleeplessness, backache, a: E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will tc D. Ebbbbt, 330 Wood St., Beading, Pa., great power of the* Compound. " Mrs. Pinkham?I can say that your me me of the pains and troubles which I had. a very bad one, and puzzled the doctor, fallen and I had terrible pains in my back I could hardly walk. 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