Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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W . TIMES CO BY TURNS. j The lopped tree in time may prow apain; | i Most naked plants renew both fruit and I flower; ' Die sorriest wight may find release of pain. ^ The driest soul suck in some moistening shower: Times go by turns, and chances change by course. From foul to fair, from better hap to worse. at The sea of fortune doth not ever flow; She draws her favors to the lowest ebb; W Her tides have equal times to come and go; j Her loom doth weave the line aud coarsI est web; No joy so great but runneth to an end, ^ No hap so Lard but may in tine amend. Not always full of leaf, nor ever spring. jNor endless ingnv, yet not eternal uayj ^ The saddest birds a season lind to sing. L. The roughest storm a calm may s-oon ? \ Thus, with pueceedinc turns, God temperJ eth all. F That man may hope to rise, yet fear to j fall. 'A chance may win that by mischance "was lost; i The net that holds no great takes little fish; In some things all, in all things none are , * eross'd; Few all they need, but r.one have all they wish. "Unmingled joys here to no man befall; {Who least, hath some; who most, hath sever all. ^ ?Robert Southwell, K jli faqs. ij I Singlr-Hanrirri a TOaman field <| I Ifcs ^riskins at Eag. I ROT |l=?|N the southern slope of a i (0J HSJ hillside, about tifty-five || miles west of St. Louis and ! midway bctveen the MisII El ouri a id Mississippi riv' ers, is the ruin?and even > that has almost disappeared?of a quaint, heavily built log: structure, known in the early days of the white man's advance iuto Missouri as Fort Kennedy. This outpost of the westward march of civilization was the scene of a battle waged on one side by a party of marauding Indians, on the J other by a woman, and the result of which was the woman's victory. It I was tne battle of a woman ror ner borne and little ones and for lier own life, too. Tie fort was years afterward superseded by a substantial farm house, the forest has given way to the ax and what was once thick woodland is now divided into pasture and grain fields. A railroad runs across one corner of the farm, and in sight of the house has grown up a thriving Missouri town. The descendants of the woman who fought and won the battle still own, but do not live on, the farm. It was autumn and the Osages, the tribe of Indians that inhabited the teri ritory at that time, were roving about in bands hunting, the game season being at its zenith. The red men were not friendly with the ever-increasing palefaces, and, in fact, looked on them as their inveterate enemies. The .whites returned the sentiment with interest, and collisions with hunting < parties of Indians were frequent. At fho time mpntinneil mnvfliirtincn find murders by the Indians had been more V frequent than usual. It was not strange, therefore, that Mother Kennedy, standing at the front door of the fort, should feel apprehensive as she peered down the vista in front, flanked upon either side l?y long files of giant oaks and hickories. She and her three small children were the only persons at the fort. Her husband had gone out that morning with his dogs k and rifle in quest of game, salted and dried venison having become a tire* some diet. He had said he would return in the afternoon, but had not come. Musing on the probability of her husband's return, fearing what might lisve happened.'yet daring not to think on what she feared. Mother Kennedy began doing the chores that evening I brings about a farm house. She noticed as she went about the work that the hogs and cqws had come up from the range earlier than usual and huddled about the pens and feeding .places in a manner not usual with thcrn. The two ponies followed her about impatiently. It was almost dark when Mother Tvonroiiv evening's work and entered tii~ fort. I W .The evening meal over, the anxious S .woman stepped outside to listen. She 1 thought she might be notified of her A ) husband's approach by his singing or V -whistling, for he was a cheery man, or the barking of the dogs. She waited jag -until It grew quite dark, and then sud denly the cry of a panther broke on 8^^ the still night air. It seemed a long v?ay off and was plaintive as the wailing of a child. "Painters?" she said. "Thar ain't been nary painter 'round this settlement all this summer," and again she listened. Tlie cry was reIbL peated. Her trained ear. this time expecting the sound, told her that it was n counterfeit of the crying of that |jp animal. The cry this time was nearer, 8| too. In an instant it was repeated on the other side of the house, some disKtg tance away, but still nearer than the sBS first. "Injuns!" said the hardy woman. Ha "I reckon I better get things ready for Sri the varmints." [jm So she groped her way through the HI darkness to the woodpile in the yard and secured her husband's ax, re?g turned and re-entered the fort.. First, she barricaded the door and set the ax against the wall, to be ready for emergencies. Thou she looked over her rifle and saw that it was well BE loaded. She leaned it against the wall Bear a small aperture set at an angle gg@ to command a view of the fort. Then, Bp without saying a word, she put her gflgj little ones to bed. This done she looked, or, rather, felt about for somegKp 'thing else to do. There seemed nothH ing. She listened. The false panther BH cry grew very close to the fort. PeerJng through the porthole of the fort, 9 Mrs. Kennedy fancied she could see Bra forms of Indians gathering on the edge the clearing, a few rods from the 3|?^^5uilding. She raised her rifle. If it I .were a pantner, to are wouia irigaten *he animal away. If the forms she thought she saw were real, a shot would warn the Indians that the inmates of the fort were aware of their presence and prepared to receive them. If, indeed, none were hit, which Bhe hoped might be the case if she fired,'as it would prove to the fffdn that it naiplit h* tnfor tn r away than to attack. She was almost on the point of pulling the trigger, when it occurred to her that, the fort In iug dark?she had not lighted the tallow dip?tlie Indians might condude. after re?-onnoitering, that no one wvtc 1 .'liui would ?ro awav airain. But this was not to be. The forms drew nearer until she could distinguish one from another. She raised her rifle again, aimed and fired. A form leaped into the air, there was a shriek of pain and hurrying of footsteps back to the shelter of the trees. Mrs. Kennedy quickly reloaded her rifle, and, knowing the tactics of the Indians, made a circuit of the room and looked out of the portholes?there were four, one on each side' of the fort?to see if an approach was attempted from any other j point. She could see nothing. Another contingency now presented itself. She no sooner thought of it than she emptied the mattress on her bed /->< :+? cfnffiinofc nf rre>p<z(* nn<l turkey feathers into the fireplace. Th&n, to he prepared for an emergency, she awakened her little ones and made them stand near the door, ready to run for the timber if it should he necessary to attempt to save herself by flight. Another circuit of the portholes "was made, but nothing was developed. After a few minutes shots were fired in front of ihe fort. Mrs. Kennedy rushed to the porthole on that side and raised her rifie. But she did not fire. She waited for one of those dark forms to appear, so that she might tire effectively. None appeared, but the ruse of the Indians was effective, and one or two of their number reached tlie j fort from the rear and scaled a pole to ! the roof. Hearing the clatter on the j roof, Mrs. Kennedy understood what it meant, and the fact that the reds \ were daring enough to attempt the feat i also convinced her that they knew her husband was away. She sprang from i the porthole to the fireplace, flint and j steel in hand. There was a flash and j flames and pungent smose irom intleathers rolled up the chimney. Howls of disgust and a quick clnm< bering from chimney to roof told that the movement had t>een successful?the Indians who had started down the chimney retreated from the heat and sliSing smoke. Mrs. Kennedy struck a light to the tallow dip, so that if the Indians broke into the fort she might escape into the darkness with her little ones, while the assailants were temporarily blinded by the light. She had just set the light on the table in the centre of the room when there came a battering at the door of the fort. The Indians in front of the fort had taken advantage of the opportunity offered by the ruse of the reds on the roof to secure a large timber and charge against the door in an attempt to batter it in. At the third blow the lower half of the plank in the centre of the door gave way, leaving an aper- j ture large enougu iu jjchuji. u ?hu?j | crawling through. Mrs. Kennedy I sprang to one fide of the door and j stood with upraised ax. A painted face appeared at the aperture, but as Mrs. Kennedy stood close to the wall and on one side and the children on the other, all keeping quiet, the little ones obeying every sign of their mother, and, like young partridges, ready to run and hide at her signal, the warrior saw nothing. The painted face was thrust further into the opening, and, seeing nothing, the Indian started boldly through the broken door. Mrs. Kennedy compressed her lips until blood was forced from them, and when the Iudian had got well within the room and was about to draw his tomahawk, sli? brought down the ax with crushing force on his skull, then hastily pulled him aside while death quieted him. The Indians, thinking that there was no danger, their comrade having uttered no sound, started anntiiof tlipir number throucli. But lie caught sight of his predecessor in death agony and started hack uttering a wild yell. Mrs. Kennedy struck at. but only wounded him. He ran off yelling at the top of his voice. Shots from another quarter at this moment caused a stampede of the Indians to the timber. A moment later there was a signal which Mrs. Kennedy under stood, and she gave one in return. In J a few seconds her husband was at the ! door of the fort, which opened, and j although sev. ral shots were fired by , the Indians from the euge of the clear- 1 ing none was effective, and the master of the fort entered unharmed. Hastily i barricading the door and putting his children to bed. husband and wife took station at portholes on opposite sides j of the fort and watched till morning, j but the Indians did not return. Next j day the dead Indian was taken to the I forest and buried. The wounded ones were carried away by their comrades. Tin U'onmulve ctvonvtlionprt their for tifications, but never again was tlieir fort molested.?St. Louis RepublicHonest But Tactful. In a little New Hampshire town there is a fruit store the presiding genius of which has a gift of tactful and politic speech which would grace a court. "Have you r.ny good oranges this morning?" asked a customer. "Are these juicy?" "Well, ma'am, as to that I couldn't J say certainly," replied the little woman, with an engaging smile. "They're juicier than some, I know, but I make no doubt they'll bear a little squeezing before you have the best of tliem." "And these apples," said the cus- I tomer "now are these sweet, Mrs. Mol- 1 loy?" | "Well, now. when you're speaking ~? " coi/1 tho tirn. U1 lliU5?e iljjjjivi?, iu* uui, K-uiu I*.V X" v prietress of the store, with another disarming smile, "they're what I should call just enough sweet to be a pleasant tart, ma'am." . Defying the Lightning. The man who has invented a lightning-proof suit would do well to give the rules in etiquette that are to govern its use. A man would feel queer to find himself th& only wearer of this new garb in a fashionable gathering. Perhaps the first rumble of thunder would indicate the time for removing it. It would be planned, too, to fulfill ~ " nnnroniotlf TllVllt mllP : IUC Ul U V.VU 1 V.UIVUI for some of our severest thunder 6torms visit us during the silent hours j 'twixt sunset and dawn. And, above all, it should be of a beaming styie and warranted to go well with any com^ nlPTtnn?Cleveland Plain Dpalfir. I v W?v.' New York City.?Eton jackets are becoming to almost all women and are much in favor because of that fact This one includes the fashionable stole ETON JACKET. with sleeves that are both novel ant satisfactory to the wearer. The orig inal. by May Manton, is made of th( Sicilian mohair, stitched with corticell pilk and trimmed with fancy braid, ant1 makes part of a costume, but the jackel is equally well suited to other suitin; materials and to the odd wrap as wel as to the coat which matches the skirt The postillion is optional, and can b< used or omitted, as preferred. The jacket is made of fronts anc back and is finished with a belt tha passes under the elongated fronts, a the darts, and is closed beneath them The sleeves are snug above the elbows but large enough below to allow o: Troarinif nvpr those of the ITOWn Wlti comfort and ease. The stole is a nota ble feature, and is shaped to fit exactly its edges meeting below the bust. The quantity of material required fo the medium size is three and seven eighth yards twenty-one inches wide Iwo yards forty-four inches wide, o TASTEFUL AND BE one find three-fourtn yards ljfty-tw< inches wide. Woman'* House Gown. IIor.se gowns that are comfortable a the same time that they are tastefu and becoming are always in demand The one by May Manton, shown in th< large engraving, iuinus an iut incuts and is suited to a variety of rua terials. The bertha with stole ends ii a feature and a most stylish oue, bu if a plainer garment is desked it cat be omitted, as shown in the smal drawing. The model is made of flow ered dimity with the yoke and berth; of white, banded with pale green ba tiste and is un.';ned, but woolen fabric are more satisfactory made over tin titted foundation. The gown consists of the lining, th> fronts, back, under-arm pores, yoke oerlha and sleeves. The liniug is titted but the gown is gathered to the yoki and falls in long, unbroken lines to tin floor. The bertha is shaped to form ex tensions over the shoulders and to giv< the fashionable stole effect at the front The sleeves are made to fit snugly a their upper portions, but form ful puffs at the wrists. The quantity of material required fo the medium size is eleven yards twen ty-seven inches wide, niue and one-hal yards thirty-two inches wide, or fivi and three-fourth yards forty-four inehe wide, witii three-fourth yards*for yoki and bertha. A Shamrock Green Parasol. Out of compliment to tlie Erin am the gallant Sir Thomas I-ipton, ou< pees and hears of shamrock grem ii ribbons, sashes. cravats and veilings Green and white make a cool-Iookin: summer toilet, and it requires littlt persuasion to prejudice good Ameri cans in favor of shamrock color. At any rate a yrrent deal of it is now seei along the Massachusetts and Itlicdc Island coast. Shamrock green silk parasols m.ik( vtvy acceptable sunshades. The tru< shamrock purasol has a teakwood 01 ivory handle with the pretty little era blems of the shamrock carved on the flattened handle. This is much easie: to hold than a perfectly smooth, round handle, which is apt to slip through tli<? flnprrs on occasions. The Yard-and-a-Half Veil. "Yard nnd a lm!f" measurement ob' tains in veiling for autoinobiling women. A shorter ve'J may be ions - ^ LATEST | r&RK.WIWNS t | enough for othe:- occupations, but it t will scarcely do for motor car touring. 1 when the wind created by rapid mo- c ! tiou draws the thin tissue away from 1 its mooriugs, snugly tied at the back of tlffe neck. The "yard-and-a-half" ve>i! nprmrts thp fhiffnn soarf to be t drawn around the hat and face, and 1 then be again brought forward under 1 the chin, and firmly knotted or tied in a t bow knot. Nothing less than a scarf < of such dimensions will answer the i purpose. ] i A Millinery Novelty. 1 Among the novelties in milliher> ] which are eyed with favor at our coast < summer resorts is the soft plumage of the Japanese duck. One docs not know if this is only the trade name of an ar- j rangement devised by a cunning mil- 1 Jiner, or whether it be a species. At any rate it is stylish, whether used as ( soft breast plumes or the stiller wing i feathers. The general law in summer ] millinery favors flat or horizontal ef- ; fprts nnfl mo?t of the feather trim- 1 1 mings "whether curling ostrich plufhes. i stiff wings or curved breast feathers i J mounted on crinoline, are trained in ! i this direction. ] ! t A Motoring Convenience. I The latest convenience from Paris 1 for motor-car touring is a strong loop < . of firm material made in a few sizes - to fit the crown of your automobile har. Your chiffon veil, which always : 1 displays "fly-away" and "blow-away" t tendencies in the auto, is drawn ; 1 through the loop before being sewed to 1 [ the hat crown in two places only; leaving room for the veil to pass withc out crumpling the soft silky fabric. 3 Dark Shtules in Manlint. Dark shades in thin silk muslins are considered very stylish for develr oping morning gowns. Many charm ing flowered effects, blue figured in red, gray with black, are seen among them. r To add to the novel effect they are I . I . ICOMIXG HOUSE GOWN. > | often made up over a colored silk lining. Materials Most Favored. t Soft silk, erep de chine, sheer voile 1 or delicate muslin are the materials . most favored for dinner gowns for J formal occasions. Woman's Co (fee Coat, s Tasteful house coats, or breakfast f inr-k-Pt? nrr .minn?r the essentials Of a i satisfactory wardrobe and are offered 1 in uiany materials and designs. This - pretty and graceful one. designed by i May Manton. is made of ring-dotted . lawn, with trimming of lace that forms s a stole, edged with beading threaded with narrow ribbon and deep frills, but the model is suited to the entire range e of available materials. Cotton and linen fabrics arc charming for warm I. days, such wools as albatross, challie, e cashmere and French flannel for cooler e weather. The coat is made with fronts and s back that are gathered at their upper . edges and joined to the stole, the shap- , t ing being accomplished by means of 1 shoulder and under-arm seams. Over the shoulder.", meeting the neck porr tion of the stole, is* a frill that gives . a cape effect and is exceedingly becomf ing. The sleeves are snug, with deep e l'rllls that are graduated iu width anil s form points that fill over the forearms. i?! The quantity of material required for t!ie medium size is three yards twenty ?'vpu inches wide, three yards thirty .vn inolios \vidi\ twc yards forty-four I v ? CCFFKK COAT. inches wide, with cue yard of all-over lace for stoic, and four and one-liaif ; yrtrds of lace nine incfcps wide for 1 ; ftHis. IP81B. KV| mprt]MDMiw\ T!ie life of a dime is only four or ive years, because it changes hands <n times while half a dollar is moved juce from one person's pocket into he till of another. jij-.- The fabled mermaid is probably a valrus with its head out of water; in bis position it resembles a human jeing and has a most unearthly and lemonical appearance as it rears its lead above the waves. Two tiny grass seeds having prouted in his left eye, Michael Cosello, of Ardmore, Pa., -was tafcen to he Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, ufferins with a cataract that might lestroy it. Costello was mowing grass iome weeks ago, when the seeds lodged in his eye. At first they merely inuoyed him for a few days; then, ivhen he consulted a physician, the tatter found that the seeds had sprouted, with the result above stated. The juice of the green pineapple is i(-credited in Java, the Philippines and -Hio TJVii* R?iet cpnemllv with being a blood poison of a most Joadly nature. Health mentions It as. the substance with which the Malays poison their kreeses and daggers, and is the "fingernail" poison formerly in use among aborigine Javanese women almost universally. These women cultivated a nail on each hand to a long, sharp point, and the least scratch from one of these was certain death. Lhasa, the sacred city of Tibet, is built on Mount Potala near the mouth of the river Indus. Tradition says it had its beginning in the seventh century; but until recent years almost nothing was known of the city and its people, save that foreigners were rigidly excluded from within its walls. To Ushe Narzumof, a Kalmuk pilgrim, who twice cleverly managed to elude the vigilance of the guards, the world is indebted for pictures of this forbidden citv. and for much valuable information concerning it. The people lining in summer homes at Muskegon, Mich., were recently surprised to see what appeared to be a veritable city, with its fine buildings and wide streets, in the clouds, with the base resting on the placid waters of Lake Michigan. The city's inner limits were a few feet from shore, while the western terminal was lost on the horizon. Report of the phenomenon soon brought hundreds to witness the mirage. Some of those present easily recognized the principal buildings and distinctive features of Milwaukee, which is nearly opposite Muskegon. The mirage lasted for about two hours and gradually faded away. Officers' Homes. The proposition that every officer of the cavalry be required to own his own horse and that each officer be privileged to buy any horse in his troop has been made to the Secretary of War and will be referred by him to the War College Board for action. The regulation requiring cavalry officers to own their mounts has not been enforced within recent years owing to the uncertainty of the service and the possibility that the officer might at any time be ordered to the Philippines. The proposition that officers be allowed to purchase any horse in their command is said to have been opposed by the board on changes in the army regulations, although approved by the eavnlry beard. It is claimed that by adopting such a regulation dissatisfaction would ensue among the men, who could never be certain that they would retain their individual mounts. There will be much interest in the recommendation of the Army War College Board in regard to this matter.?The Army acu :\avy joiuuuj. Not a Clear Title. The word "furlough" occurred in a reading lesson of a primary grade iu one of the public schools, says tbe Philadelphia Ledger. The teacher asked if any boy or girl kuew the meaning of the word. One small baud was raised and shaken vigorously in the eagerness of the urchin to display his knowledge. When he received permission to speak he rose and with the greatest assurance said: "Furlough means a mule." Not a whit disturbed at the teacher's "Oh, no, it doesn't," the small boy confidently answered: "I have the book at home that says so." Then the teacher told him he might bring the book to school and show it to her. The next morning he came armed with the hook, and triumphantly r.t,I,/,* ntntnra nf nn AmPl'lPflll DUU ?? tMl uri Uic pit.tw>v v. Eoldier astride a mule. under whicli was printed, "Goiug home on his furlougli.'' Youth o' the World. Wo may adopt as an approximate figure for the age of a man a period of two hundred and fifty thousand years.! which is believed to have fair claims J to provisional acceptance. Furthermore, calculations based on the rate of solar shrinkage and upon other data seem to suggest a period of about three millions of years during which animal life will continue to be possible on the earth. Assuming these two figures fairly to indicate the facts we may take it that the human race has only completed one-thirteenth of its history. In this sense, therefore, the world is youug.?The Academy. " Real Indians." A young woman recently received instruction in the art of Indian basketry, and had made several copies of Indian baskets of which she was very proud A. friend, who had been living in Arizona, called upon the young woman, who showed the baskets with considerable pride. "They are really very well done," commented the visitor, "but of course they are not the real Indian baskets." "Why. Mrs. Sawyer," indignantly exclaimed the maker, "how can you say that, when I just told you thQt I made lhf*m JUT self." ^j\uu.; uukuc, Snail Cure Risky. The snail cure for a corn may cause Miss Clara Hogue, a farmer's daughter, residing in Blackford Count}*, to lose her foot. She was suffering with a corn, and her father, following an old tradition that a snail could remove , the growth, obtained one and applied it. Her foot is now swollen to twice ( its natural size and it is feared amputation may be necessary. Physicians say there i3 nothing poisonous about a snail, and are unable to account for the result.?Chicago Inter-Ocean. More About lladiuui. Radium does not get its energy from air, as some scientists seem to suppose, but very probably from changes within the atoms of which it is composed. It is believed that these atoms are the heaviest in the universe. It is possible that, after hundreds of thousands of years, radium may devolve into simpler elements, and so pass right through the series to hydrogen. Scientists do not now believe that the "elements'* are really elemental. There is really only one element. But radium is its most remarkable form. Great curiosity is being manifested in the specimens now being publicly exhibited at the London Natural History Museum?three tiny grains in a watch glass, shining as they have done since before man appeared on the earth. The camera exhibit seems to give the most satisfaction. In it some sulphide of zinc has been painted with radium, and in the dark it glows with a soft green light. This part of the exhibit will not require renewal for 30,000 years. Other inter-* estlng metals in the exhibit are thorium and helium. Thorium is the main ingredient of the incandescent mantle. Helium is so licht that the earth's revo lution has whisked nearly all of it off into space. What remains is probably new formed by the breaking down of the atoms of radium?if the word atom can be applied to wbat has at least 150,000 parts.?Harper's Weekly. Wore H1b Hat In Ciar's Presence. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is hung a massive painting of the Court of Russia at the time Caseins M. Clay was the representative of this republic tliereat. The scene is one of unusual brilliancy and portrays the Czar in his imperial robes, with feathers flying from his headgear, while around him are stationed aH foreign Ambassadors attendant upon his court. In the picture, Clay and the Czar are the only two standing with their heads covered. It 19 said that Clay was requested to remove his hat in deference to being In the presence of the Czar, but this Clay refused to do, saying: "I only take off my hat to 1 * - ? AU^.. Urs + r. TV. O * Tliose WUO x:nie Oil. tuen uam iu ??*.. Had the Czar uncovered his head, it Is to be presumed, says the Lexington (Ivy.) Democrat, that Clay would have followed suit, but so long as the Russian monarch kept his head covered before Clny the latter would not uncover before him. The Life of a Seed. The United States Department of Agriculture is making experiments for the purpose of determining the extreme vitality of seeds. Over a hundred species of plants have been packed in a soil consisting of dry clay enclosed in pots, and buried at varying depths underground?eight sets at a depth of six inches, twelve at a depth or twenij', ana a iujiu act ut at a depth of three and a half feet. At the end of one, two, three, Ave, seven, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty, forty and fifty years, a set l'rom each depth will be exhumed and tested. The results of the experiment are likely to be of extraordinary value to agriculturists, both commercially and scientifically. Incidentally, it may bt recalled that authentic cases are on record which prove that certain seeds I have the power of sprouting after having been buried for long periods of time, reliable tests having shown that twelve out of twenty-one species have the power of germinating after twenty years,.?Harper's Weekly. Keeps the Food Warm. A Bavarian named Wegmann has invented an apparatus which cooks food and keeps it warm for from ten ! to fifteen hours. There are four millionaires in Britain to one iu France. N. Y.?32 FITS permanently cured.No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great NerveRestorer.S2trial bottle and treatisefree I Br. R. H. Klixe, Ltd., 931 Arch iU., Phlla.,Pii Thermometers used by physicists show .1 ! change of a millionth of a degree. Ladlea Can Wear Shoe* One size smaller after using Allen's FootEnse. a powder. It makes tight <ji new shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot. sweating, aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and bunions. At i al) druggets and shoe stores, 25c. Don't acI cept any substitute. Trial package Fbee by ! mail. Address, Alien S. Olmsted, Leiloy, N.Y. The art of glyptics, engraving on precious stones, is l>eing revived in France. I Mrs.WlasIow'sSoottengSyrup for chlldrea | teething,soften tbo gums, reduces inflsmmaI lion,allays pain,cures wind colic. 25e. abottle Italy uns 95.701 acres of orange and lemon groves containing 16,739,907 trees. I'iso'sCure is the host mediclno we ever used lor alJ directions nf throat and lungs.?Wm. O. Exusi.ex. Vanburcn, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. Klcctric railways kill 100 persons a month. Liver Pills That's what you need; something to cure your biliousness, and regulate your bowels. You . need Ayer's Pills. Vegetable; gently laxative. ' Want your moustache or beard a beautiful brown or rich black? Use BUCKINGHAM'S DYE ram cn. or drboouts ok k. p. ball oo.. waihpa, w. b. a;;:-.An Old House Unearthed. Some university students making a geogoligcal survey along the Kaw i River a few miles west or Lawrence discovered an old stone bouse which had been uncovered by the flood on the farm of Henry Collins. The house had been completely covered, a field of corn "being above it, and its Vails and the chimney are in a fair state of preserva- i tion. Within the house, which has been i partially excavated, was found an iron i stove, showing that it had been^the i abode of civilized people. ? Lawrence "1 /T.** \ , Bed BlindneM. Inability to see "red light" Is the main form of color blindness from which sailors suffer. Last year thirtyfour officers and would-be officers of the British mercantile marine failed to pass the color tests, and of these twenty-three were more or less com- ' [iitifjy ruu uiiiiu, me rest iiiuic ui ?coo y ^2j unable to distinguish green. The 4600 candidates for certificates were also submitted to a test for form vision, and twenty-one ol' them failed to distinguish the form of the object submitted.?Tit-Bits. The Fish Cume Back. Recently a man named Saunderfl^ while fishing in the River Axe, near Weston-super-Mare, hooked a fine jack, -which broke away, carrying in its interior three hooks and a portion of the tackle. Some three weeks later Saunders' son, while fishing in the same locality, captured the identical. " , jj fish, hooks and all.?Tit-Bits. Codfish Taken in Millions. Last year's codfish catch weighed about 500 million pounds. Thirteen new theatres to cost $8,000,? 000 are building iu New York City. What to Do In Case *f Illness? That is the problem which frequently confronts everyone?especially parents with small children. A slight illness treated at once often saves a long period of sickness and expense?sometimes prevents death. 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