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MUNYON'S EMINENT DOCTORS AT YOUR SERVICE FREE. Not a Penny to Pay For the Fullest Medical Examination. If you are in doubt as to the cause of your disease mail us a postal reQuesting a medicalexaminationblank, which you will fill out and return to tis. Our doctors will carefully diagnose your case, and if you can be cured ycu will be told so; if you canrcot oe cured you will be told so. You fk^e not obligated to us in any way, for this advice is absolutely free; you are at liberty to take our advice or not as ytm aOe fit. Send to-day for a medical examination blank, fill out and return to us as promptly as possible, and our eminent doctors will diagnose your case thoroughly absolutely free. Munyon's, 53d and Jefferson Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. Marvelous. "More than 5000 elephants a year go to make our piano keys," remarked the student boarder, who had been reading the scientific notes In a patent medicine almanac. "For the land's sake!" exclaimed the landlady. "Ain't it wonderful what some animals can be trained to do?"?Chicago iCews. A SURE SIGN. When It Appears Act at Once. Trnnhlo iHf-h tVio IrMnov conrotlnni Is a certain sign that your kidneys are deranged?that you should use Doan's Kidney Pills. They cure all t irregularities and annoyances, remove backache and side pains and restore the kidneys to health. Robert G. Miller, 315 Ferry St., Danville, Pa., says: "Kidney complaint made me a cripple. I was stiff, lame and sore ana had to endure terrible suf ferings. I was threatened with Bright's disease and was refused inBurance by the examining physicians. I was nervous, weak and run down. Doan's Kidney Pills helped me, and In a short time I was entirely cured." Remember the name?Doan's. For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. In three years San Diego, Cal., has erected three large school buildings at a cost of $182,000, one of them, a building of twenty rooms, being the finest grammar school building in California. There is also a high school building costing $220,000, besides additions to two other buildings, doubling their capacity. ITPHFn FOR TWELVE YEARS. Eczema Made Hands and Feet Swell, Peel and Get Raw?Arms Affected, Too?Gave Up All Hope of Cure ?Quickly Cured by Cuticura. "I suffered from eczema on my hands, arms and feet for about twelve years; my hands and feet would swell, sweat and'itch, then would become callous and get very dry, then peel off and get raw. I tried most every kind of salve and ointment without success. I tried several doctors, but at last gave up thinking there was a cure for eczema. A friend of mine in gisted on my trying the Cuticura Remedies, but I did not give them a trial until I got so bad I had to do something. I secured a ?et and by the time they were used I could see a vast improvement and my hands and feet were healed up in no time. I have had no trouble since. Charles T. Bauer, R. F. D. 65, Volant, Pa., Mar.Jl, 1908." hotter Urug & cnem. corp., ooie rrops. of Cuticura Remedies, Boston, Mass. Hollow Log a Fish Trap. Last week Mr. Castleman, of the Sixth District, caught from a hollow lofc in the river near his mill a thirty pound catJsh. About a year ago from the same Jog an eighty pound catfish was trapped and several months later one that weighed thirty pounds was taken. ? Trenton Correspondence Nashville American. CONFESSIONS OF A CLOWN. At Last, There is on Sale a Book Brimful of American Humor. Any bookseller will tell you that the constant quest of his customers Is for "a book which will make me laugh." The bookman is compelled t? reply that the race of American humorists has run out and comic literature Is scarcer than funny plays. A wide sale fs therefore predicted for the "Memoirs ot Dan Rice," the Clrwn of Ou. Daddies, written by Maria Ward Brown, a book guaranteed to make you roar with laughter. The author presents to the publlo a volume of the great jester's most pungent jokes, comic harangues, caustic hits upon men and manners, lectures, anecdotes, sketches of adventure, original songs and poetical effusions; wise and witty, serious, satirical, and sentimental sayings of the sawdust arena of other days. Old Dan Rice, as proprietor of the famous "One Horse Show," was more of a national character than Artemus Ward, and this volume contains the humor which made the nation laugh even while the great Civil War raged. This fascinating book of 500 pages, beautifully illustrated, will be sent postpaid to you for $1.50. Address Book Publishing House, 134 Leonard street. New York City. . Out of Doors. Live out of doors as much as possible. For the woman who is in the country this advice is not difficult tc follow and the time she gives to her garden is not wasted. The stay-in town woman will find it profitable tc take little trips out of the city, if it be only for the day, or use trolley lines which stretch for miles through the country. It is so much better than sitting at home complaining of the weather.?Green's Fruit Grower. The Union Spirit. At a public school not long ago the children were training for the annual Flag Day celebration. One boy, in order to show good reason why he should take a prominent pari In the ceremonies, said that he hat? a real gun; another had a pistol; a small girl had a flag, and so on. Finally one tow-haired lad of sii came up to the teacher and stood waiting for her to see him. "Well, what is it?" she asked. "I has a union suit," he said.?* fouth's Companion. BURLED TREASURE. For me is buried treasure By many a misty coast: But ah! its tale and measur* Long, long ago I lost/ Or if Phoenician mintage, I Or crusted bowls divine / That held Alcinous' vintage Or late Falernian wine! If Egypt's jewelled scarab,Or moonlight gleam of jade; Or magic dirk of Arab, Or Scythian idol-blade! Or painted scroll or quiver, Or Inca's gold-in-cave; Or pelf from diamond river; Grisamber from sea wave; i Or. from Varangian barrow Some amulet uncouth; Or but this flinthead arrow From hilltops roamed in youth; I count my treasure buried By many a misty coast i The vanished lives, as varied. That long ago I lost! Whereof a cloudy token Across my memory drives; But no spell lifts unbroken My manv sunken lives.. ?Edith M. Thomas, in New York Sun. I |OgOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOg^g I ADRIFT. ?| o By CHRISTIAN NIELSEN. O 00000000000000000000000888 I could not sleep; my. thoughts wandered back to my boyhood and a schoolmate of mine by the name of Rudolf, one of the most noble characters I ever met. Both of us chose the sea as a way of earning a living, and often shipping together I had many proofs of his devoted friendship. The last .time we shipped together was in 1879 with the bark G., of our home town. I remember Rudolf's mother and his sweetheart standing I on tne quay bidding good-Dye. Turning to me his mother said, "You two must stick together." So we did, and his noble character had a good influence on me. By his friendship I was often kept out of .the j saloons and' dance houses. I took sick and was sent to the hospital in Hull, and I heard no more of my friend. On a visit to my home town some years ago I called on Rudolf's mother in her home. With her was his sweetheart, working at dressmaking to support his mother. "Rudolf is dead," said his mother; "nothing but death could keep him from coming home to us." I cannot account for It, but I connected with this memory of the past a miserable looking wretch, who on the night before had asked for a ticket for a night's lodging at the Salvation Army's lodging house. I determined to find this fellow, so the next day I went to the lodging house and found him in the reading room. When he saw me he tried to leave i the reading room, but I caught him | and asked him his name. After hesiI tating a moment he replied, "Ernest ! Johnson. Why do you ask?" I was : surprised. I could give no reason for j asking the question so abruptly. I | held his hand for a few minutes look, ing for something that would connect him with my friend that would ac! count for my rudeness. I remem; bered that while in the port of DanI zig Rudolf had the letters R. J. tatj tooed on his left arm. I took his left j hand, pushed up the sleeve of his coat, and there was the "R. J." in red ! and blue ink just above the wrist. I pass over the first two hours affar f /Inf AnHnn Knf ttt V* rtr* T f him of my sleepless night he broke down and told me .the following story: "I was discharged from my ship in Liverpool, and with the intention of going home I took the train for London, and went to the old boarding house. There I got in company with a number of former shipmates and we had a game of cards. : For the first time in my life I played for money and lost three or four games. I was about .to take the cards for another game when a woman said, 'I would not play that game; you know nothing about it.' "I threw down the cards and turned to thank her tot her advice. She was j a good looking girl, neatly dressed j and in her behavior so unlike the girls . we used to meet in the boarding ! houses, that I got much interested in i her, and when she asked me to go with her to a dance I was quite willing. This was my first step to a ruined life. "I lost the boat the next morning, but I had money saved, and thinking that no one need know anything of 1 what had happened I wrote home that j I would arrive by the next steamer. | "A day or two before the steamer i sailed I was told by the doctor that , my blood had been poisoned. I canl not tell what I had to endure the 1' lowing weeks. I took the boarding | house master into my confidence, and i at his advice I wrote home that I had I got so good a chance that I would not j come home for a month, but I gave I no name of ship or address. My sick! ness went on from bad to worse, the ; month turned and my money was ! gone. | "Then a letter arrived from my mother to .the boarding house master asking for information of ship and destination. The reply was that I had given him no information whatever. By his aid I got a ship for San I Francisco. 'You take this chance,' I he said, 'and from that port you can I /\ Am a Vi o n r? n rrAA/^ f A?? j WilVC JUVSUUC, UUV1U5 Ck 5WU CAIUDC IUI j not writing sooner.' "It was a nine months' voyage, with the worst officers and crew that I had ever been with. The habits I got into then have never left me. 1 could not stand it on that vessel, and i T hplifnrp that thp rnntnin tvnrkpri it sn that we should desert. So we did, and under the name of Ernest Johnson I shipped on an American ship. I intended to return to my home, but | somehow I could not save enough money so I could go home as a gentleman. "In Newcastle, England, that happened which forever killed the intention to go home. I used to go to the | sailors' reading room to read the I newspapers, and one day the missionary asked my name. 'Ernest Johnson,' I said. 'Is your name not Rudolf?' 'No, sir; what make3 you think so?.' I asked. "He took a letter from his pocket. I It was in my mother's handwriting. Someone had told her that under the | name of Johnson I was seen at the reading room. She would not believe it, but to satisfy the girl to whom I j was engaged she had the letter writ- I ten. I succeeded in convincing the { missionary that I was not the person | asked for in the letter. But when I I left the reading room I made up my mind that it was best for all at home | to believe me dead." *? * ** M heart was made sick and sore a3 he told me his story, and I found no relief until I knelt beside my unhappy friend and wept with him and poured out my soul in prayer for him j. to our heavenly Father. n *? There was some Qf the "Rudolf of ^ old" when I saw him .the next day. ? There was will an& determination in ti his eyes. He had been on board a I a German steamer that was taking cargo for Australia and seen the captain. Unrrr miiflVi nf hie otnrv ho tnlrl him T don't know, but he should be permitted to work his passage to Aus- ^ tralia. "Give me your promise," he t, said, "that you will not communicate g with anyone at home about me before ^ you hear from me, and I will, by the help of God, make a now effort." h Last summer I was in my home town. The house where Rudolf's g mother lived had been torn down. I Q tried to get some information, but only learned that she had taken sud- ^ denly ill and died at the hospital, and j that Rudolf's sweetheart had gone to' i friends in Australia. ? Seamen's | Friend. | ^ WOMEN'S HATS SAVE LEVEES, j C ______ " A Style That Has the Approval of i * Lower Mississippi Planters. j "Women's Hats are doing mucn 10 | c save the levees along the Mississippi j c River In Louisiana," said Henry R. | a Lewis, In the Planklnton. "This j j statement sounds fantastic, but of the J is fashionable fur hats it is certainly ! n true. . i o "Muskrats, which for years have v* cost the State no end of trouble and thousands of dollars through their , depredations in the levees, are now most eagerly sought by the millinery ^ trade throughout the country, and tl hunters In Louisiana are hunting g them in lieu of other game. "For years the muskrats have bur- y rowed in the levees, and In nearly i y every case where there has been a j B crevasse along the river front the j B; cause was traced to a muskrat hole, j y The State has tried several times to e get rid of the pests, but without sue- j a cess. | "During the last winter the millinery stores In New Orleans bought several hundred muskrat furs from hunters in the different parishes and i placed them on turbans, which now I so resemble a cat curled up on mi- j lady's coiffure. Ever, since then rats ' have been popular upon as well as in j the pompadour cr 'psyche.' "Several of the more progressive j hunters quickly realized that musk- | rats were marketable and gave up j the pursuit of ducks and other game, j One hunter alone in February killed j 6000 rats, fof which he received twenty cents apiece. e "Other hunters have followed the v lead of this mighty nimrod, and it ^ begins to look as if the State will \ ? soon rid Itself of the industrious ro- ; dents whose burrowlngs have for 1 many years endangered the cities j and towns along Louisiana's river ! fronts."?From the Milwaukee Sentinel. ; 8 h Not Instinct, Bat Jiabit. If anything in the entire animal i c kingdom would seem to be a matter ^ of pure instinct, that thing is the tra- ' f ditlonal antipathy of cat and mouse. [ j] Yet a recent study by C. S. Berry, j v made in Professor Munsterberg's la- j c boratory at Harvard, shows pretty i p clearly that a cat has no instinctive i t impulse to kill and eat mice?nor the j j, mouse any instinctive fear of cats. t Berry finds that a mouse may smell j g the nose of an inexperienced cat, or s even perch on its back, and be quite ^ safe, so long as it does not run away, j n For the instinct of the kitten is to ? chase any small moving object?ball, , spool, tail, mouse?indifferently. It 1 is not the mouse that interests it, but the mouse in motion. Some day, of- : ten by accident, the kitten plays too B roughly with its captive, and discov- j * ers that there is meat inside. It is ; " well known that cats specialize their j * hunting, some catching mice, some j E squirrels, some birds. It seems, in ; c each case, to depend on accidents of a discovery. A good mouser, then, is ^ not a cat with a strong instinct for 3 catching mice, but one with a strong F habit of doing so.?McClure's Magazine. P - a Vox Populi. f "Where do you get your papers, E little boy?" y "I buy 'em from Jimmy Wilson." y "And who is Jimmy Wilson?" "He's a newsboy?he buys 'em at s the newspaper office." F "How much do you pay him for them?" "Two cents." j "How much do you sell them for?" 1 "Two cents." y "But you don't make anything at that." 1 "Nope." 3 "Then why do you sell them?" b *'- ... - i - 1 11 ? TT? "Un, just to get to aoner. ?narper's Weekly. Trials of Atchison Youths. The average Atchison young man t gets possibly $60 a month. If he J dances, is fairly good-looking and * pleasant, the girls lay siege to him, f and he has to join a half-dozen s<?- 5 cieties, go to parties, etc., or be ? hated. He tries to reciprocate oc- s casionally, but it is beyond his means * to take every girl to the theatre who * Invites him to her house. He is stuffed like a turkey before Thanks- ! erivins. and because there isn't enough of him to go around is called stingy. A young man must either f be a little stingy or get his name on ; the dead-beat list.?Atchison Globe. ' New York street cars killed 44 4 persons ia 1908 and injured 35,060 others. ' 7f \v6/V\^ On Weddiiig Invitations. For a large church wedding invi- * ations are usually sent to all whose J anaes are on the visiting lists of the ( wo families. Only when these invi- 8 ations are accompanied by cards for t be reception or wedding breakfast ? a follow are acceptances or regreia ecessary.?New York Tribune. ? 8 Warns Girls Against Chinese. Mrs. Radford, eighty-seven years Id, has been superintendent of a Ihinese mission in New Orleans for wenty-flve years. The mission haB a unday school and evening classes or secular study. Mrs. Radford has ad the opportunity to obsferve many undreds of Chinese, and she is rigIly opposed to their being instructed 1 any way by white women or girls, he has no patience with the woman r girl who seeks to teach the Orintals out of a desire to "uplift the eathen."?New York Press. Cupid's Dart With Cigars. The cigar box now comes to the rout as an auxiliary to Cupid. Mrs. ( lorinne Raleigh, a Richmond, Va., 'idow, in order to support herself j rent to work as a packer in a cigar t ictorv. "I am lonely," she wrote T ne day on a slip of paper and in- t losed it in a box of cigars. In the ourse of time the box reached Nome, 8 Jaska. It was purchased by Cyril j . Worthington, formerly of Newport j Tews, and now a wealthy mining j lan in Alaska. Worthington is now j n his way to Richmond to make the j idow his bride.?New York Press. ? Girls Graduated as Boys. Girl students in the University of ? [innesota are taught in the construc- ' Ion and general direction of play- t rounds for city children. The co-ed c raduating class in the university this ? ear had 200 members, and all the i oung women were nettled by a | trange error in their diplomas. The l heepskln awarded to each young t roman is written In the masculine 1 OT..J 4 moo nnf until mdn. f CilUCl f dUU ib n UO UVW UMV*? g* I m tion day that the error was discov- 11 2? ]! Deviled Eggs?Boll si 5" '[ cold water; when cold, ch( O o ful butter, add one tables ? add one and a half cupful* ^ S" I whole peppers, half teaspi H move bay leaf and peppers g to < teaspoonful English musts i > J1 pepper and one tablespoon 4-* c In six table shells, sprin 3 i[ grated bread crumbs and 1? / brown in hot oven. Anol spoonful grated cheese ov ^ J' butter, and bake.?Mrs. G red. The young men in the uni- < ersity had great fun over the slip, 1 ut the girls were not a bit pleased. I ?New York Press. < Can't Bear Arms. Many people hold that the inabilty of women to "bear arms" is a onclusive argument against female uffrage. A certain individual who as a fondness^ for information asks j E it has been proved that women annot defend their country as soiiers. He has observed that in fiction tie girl who masquerades as a fightng man, however bold she may be in i rords, proves to be an arrant little oward when she feels a sword or ( Istol in her hand and 9ees another hreatening her. But he has read listory as well as fiction, and areerts ^ hat some of the women who, disuising their sex, have actually erved for years in the army, have 1 >een distinguished for bravery and J nartial qualities.?New York Tribine. / j Be Cheerful, When your companion Is out of J ort, either be quiet or say something ' hat will call his attention to the righter side of the 'circumstances. ] Je more loving, more tender and ( Qore sympathetic, and mean it. Be aim and bright yourself, and go < bout your work as if all was right. ( Jhoose your words wisely and aim to uggest only that which is full of , iromise. The atmosphere will soon J warm up," but if it doesn't, Just be iatient; you can afford to wait .while If necessary; the victory is * or you. And as for you, never per- ' ait yourself to feel out of sort; If 5 ou are on the verge of feeling that eay, begin at once to think and ? peak of those things that suggest 1 unshine, and the clouds will shortly 1 iass away.?New Haven Register. { Golden Threads. 1 "Do you intend to have a transfor- 1 nation made, that you preserve all ' * ---a- ? 1 our golden tnreaas bu uaicimv ; , "No, I'm not going to have any- < hlng made," answered the woman 1 .ddresscd, who had been brushing ipr hair and was now removing every j tair from her brush and putting.it 1 nto an envelope, "and it's very like- ] y these golden threads, as you are (leased to call them, will before long ( ie consigned to the flames. But I j ras once so foolish as to let about ) lalf of my hair fall out. After I be- j ;an a course of treatment with a calp specialist I kept the combings if each week in a separate envelope, .nd compared them from time to ime to see what efTect the treatment ' was having. My hair is as thick as 1 :ver now, but I still keep up my 1 watchfulness to be sure it's not fallng abnormally without my knowing ( t. It takes so lor.~ for hair to grow ] f von once lose it that it's much ( viser not to lose it." ? New York 1 Tribune. s Husbands Own Wives' Clothes. A married woman in Louisiana 1 ioey not own her own clothes. Judge i i mLi*m y. W. Ferguson, of New Orlens, repealed that fact the other day in an iddross to the women of the Era 31ub in that city. He said this was in inequality which should be recifled, as a husband had the power at iny time to seize his wife's wardobe and sell it or bestow it as a rift. The same law prevails in Deliware, and a Wilmington Judge has >een guided by it in a ruling to the listress and humiliation of a womin well known in that city. Followng a divorce the husband demanded lis former wife's wardrobe. She inlignantly refused, and he appealed o the courts. The (decision was in lis favor, and the woman had no ecourse, except to deliver her slothes to him. It was decided unler the law that, even if a husband jave money to his wife and she inrested the money in clothes, he renained ownel* of every garment.? *Jew York Pres3. Modern Eves. "If anybody doubts the emancipalon of the modern girl just let him valk down some street where sportng bulletins are shown between 4 md 5 o'clock in the afternoon and he vill mighty soon be convinced," said he man with the red mustache. "There are mobs of women abroad it that time who seem almost as deepy interested in baseball and racing lews as the men. Nice, proper-lookng girls they are, too. They do not lang around the corner where the nen congregate, but slide oft into a itationery or confectionery Btore lear by where they can loaf around ind peer out every few seconds to lee how the game is going. "There is one Broadway drug store ;hat has become the favorite haunt >f these athletic young women. Ev ;ry day a squad of them comes troopng in for the ostensible purpose of juzzling soda water, but in reality to earn whether the Cubs are beating ;he Giants or whether a favorite lorse is getting to the post on time. Strange to say, they dc not do much talking?for women. Their educas eggs ten minutes, put them in [ >p them fine; melt one tablespoonpoonful flour, stir a few minutes; 3 milk, one-quarter bay leaf, eight Donful salt; cook six minutes, rei, add the eggs, seasoned with half ird, one-quarter teaspoonful white ful fine chopped parsley. Fill this kle over each one tablespoonful a little melted butter; bake light :her way is to sprinkle one tableer the eggs, then the crumbs and esine Lemcke. :ion in outdoor sports has had a soaring effect, and when they do talk their remarks are almost sensible enough to be made by a man."?New Fork Times. Large sailor hats are abundant. Shirrings are on their way back. Lace shoes seem going out oi rtyle. China silk waists are too pre4ty ted serviceable to fall into disuse. Pansies, wisterias, lilac, clusters jf rosebuds and laburnum appear on lowered crowns. Russet leather and bronze calfskin sandals for little tots suggest coolless and comfort. The two piece linen suit has a ?reat vogue, especially for traveling ind automobillng. Ribbon runners of mother-of* ?earl are among the novelties. They nay be had in all sizes. Hat brims seem to get lower and ower. Unless they cover almost the entire head, they are not modish. The furor for shoulder scarfs is still on, and they are worn with inexpressible art by graceful women. One of the newest things this season is the net or gauze princess ;unic, braided or spangled all over. There is an inclination to desert :he Mme. Recamier coiffure styles ind a continued movement toward greater simplicity. Net is not usea so much now as sheer batiste, finest tucked organdie ind thin lawn, combined with fine Jluny or Irish lace. For coat and tailored suits white serge has no rival in woolen goods, lor it may be worn at any hour, from sreakfast to midnight. There is a vogue for more or less plain skirts worn with bodices of ill-over embroidery, or trimmed with ace or braid, or both. The new sleeves are sufficiently full :o take away the stick-like look of :he arms In the very tight ones, that nade tham look like jointed wood. The modified kimono, which is the )ld wrapper with a Japanese touch v. the sleeve and banded edge around :fc" neck and downward, remains a !avorite for bedroom wear. The soft Persian coloring and the :olorIngs seen in the old East Indian shawls, when produced in their satjral designs, are especially effective )a tne neuirai gruuuu vi me ueavim longees. Some of the outing hats are made )f the sort of canvas that looks like natting. They are edged with colled straw braid and trimmed with i band and bow of ribbon of the ;ame color. The prizes now being contested for by aviators number thirty-eight md are valued at $300,000. The Vanity of Criminals. | By CHARLES SOMERVILLE. Criminalogists speak of the braggart vanity of the criminal. It is true of erotic offenders, perhaps. But the thief will tell of the number of times he has fooled the police merely by way of self-justification. He admits the premise that he was a fool : ever to become a criminal, and he j recounts his triumphs only to indi- i i cate to you that, at least, he Is not j an absolute idiot. Also, criminologists point out the j childish vanity of the criminal who bedecks his person with jewels when he Is prosperous. In this the criminal is no vainer than his honest brother. But jewels are about the only sort of property that he can ; safely possess, as was the case with j , ho Tows in the nld davs when they I 1 were the driven race. The criminal I may not with any safety become a ( bank depositor, and he is usually too much of a spendthrift to carry a roll of cash; but he finds that if he is arrested and can show some handsome I diamond ornaments and a valuable watch, he will have no difficulty in securing a good lawyer and a bondsman, and will have a fighting chance for acquittal at his trial. But always, be it understood, the crook is peering Into the windows of : the House of Respectability with j wistful eyes. A1 Adams, with more than a million dollars, earned from his despicable policy gambling, which J robbed children of their pennies and | caused starvation in tenement homes, ( found himself an enforced hermit in a crowded city. Even his family did not live with him. In a suite of ( rooms at the Ansonia, with a Japan- j pop sprvant who had no nersonal feel ing for him, the man lived alone. He ' craved human association. Some- | times he got it on false pretenses . from chance acquaintances. But he would shortly be identified, and again , there was only utter loneliness for him. He shot himself dead.?"How | Thieves Live," in Everybody's. Destructive Sand Dunes. Shifting sand dunes are causing ] trouble on the borders of Lake Mich- ] igan. The dunes are formed by the onshore winds, which sweep the j beach sand beyond the reach of the , waves. The sand accumulates in low | mounds about any obstructions, such ( as stones or bushes; thus started the , dune is sufficient cause for its own , growth. The wind keeps piling the | sand up from behind, the dune grows, and the sand on its crest is blown , over to the leeward side of the ( mound, so that the dunes gradually ( march inland. On the ea3t side of , Lake Michigan the dry west winds have heaped up numbers of dunes, ranging in height up to 200 feet. In Indiana the dunes have moved Inland across a forested area, burying and killing the trees, leaving the dead ! trunks as skeletons behind them in their mVrch onward. A famous in- , stance of dune migration is that of ' the Kurische Nehrung, a long sandbar off the coast of Germany, where , a dune ridge marched over a church, burying it for thirty years, at the j end of which time it was gradually | uncovered by the progress of the I dune.?Philadelphia Ledger. The Sleeping Sickness. Pere Beauchene, the missionary ( priest, has died at the Pasteur Institute, in Paris, of sleeping sickness, contracted in Africa. Fourteen other patients?missionaries, officials and colonials?are undergoing treatment ' for the same disease at the institute. In all twenty-six cases have been ' under observation there, several of which have terminated fatally. The [ treatment has been so far for thfe j most part experimental. Among the 1 J remedies tried are atoxyl.'a chemical preparation containing arsenic, which 1 has afforded marked, but only tem- 1 porary relief. 1 The immediate effect of atoxyl was i to kill a large number of the trypan- ' i osomes, as the sleeping sickness mi- 1 crobe is called, but by a sort of pro- 1 cess of selection another species of i the germ, which is refractory to ar- | 4 1 J J1 ziorrrlncr rift 1 I seme, ra[MUiJ UCYCiupsu, uui;uj3 i the patient. i Other serums are being tried, but according to experts engaged In this branch of research, an effectual thej rapeutlc agent against the malady | has not yet been discovered.?Chica! go News. v 1 Curly Hair and Obstinacy. 1 The curly-headed man uttered an exclamation of amaze. < "Strange," he said. "I have been ] j drawn for juries time and again, but I I have never served. They always challenge me. I wonder why?" 1 I "It is your curly hair," said a law ! yer. "A curly-headed man kills a I 1 j jury. He always causes it to disa- ' J gree." ' "That is not true. You must be crazy," said the other. 1 "It is the gospel truth," the lawyer ' persisted. "Curly-heads are as obsti- 1 aate as mules. They think they kco^v 1 it all. They disagree with everybody. 1 1 "It is because," he hastened to add, 'their curly-hair makes them so good looking. In childhood they are 1 spoiled by their parents, and in ma- ( i :urity women spoil them, falling in J j iove with them on every side. So ' they become conceited. They disa- 1 : sree with everybody. Lawyers the ! world over recognize that as jurymen ! j they would never do."?Philadelphia > I Elulletin. j How to Inclose a Stamp. ! j "There's only one decent way to i 1 inclose a stamp for a reply," said the ] I head of a large business, "and that is < to use one of the stamps from the i I outside rows of a sheet with a blank i ) margin that can be stuck upon the t letter and leaves the stamp ready for i use. Any other way either loses the s-.amp or else spoils it for use. But I i found to-day a trick that is pretty ( good. Most people inclose the stamp f by sticking it down at one corner, s and then you have to paste that cor- ( ner down when you use the stamp, j The new trick is to wet the stamp in a little space in the centre and stick i it there. It pulls off easily., yet when you use the stamp all the edges have ( , gum enough to stlclV?farm Ma- ' chinery. | ? Hearts are hard to win when one's complexion is marred by pimples, blackheads ana blotches. Strengthen your charms, by keeping your complexion clear, with Glenn's Sulphur Soap Sold by HHP* Hair id Whfabr Dr. drugjiita. bkck or Wtira. Sic. Suicide? Slow death and awful suffering Follows neglect of bowels. Constipation kills more people than ponsiimntinn. It n^rl? a cure and there is one medicine in 1 all the world that cures it? CASCARETS. * Cascarets?10c. box ?week's treatment. All druggist*. Biggest seller in the world?million boxes a month. Meaning of a Famine in China. On account of heavy export of alee during the winter and now for months a severe drought, rice can hardly be had at all, and other kinds af eatables are very expensive. The Magistrate has raised the price of rice several times, but the higher it becomes the less is forthcoming, as those who have any to sell are keeping it in the hope of still higher prices. Great flocks of women and children are dally to be seen search* Ing the fields and hillsides for herbs and roots to eat. Tmn srhnld famdioo In tho hoira taken their lives for want of food, rhey killed and ate their last ihicken, then, beginning with the little ones, each swallowed opium and lied. But for a few wheelbarrow loads no attempt worth mentioning Is made to import rice. The people ire very active in praying for rain, and a general fast has been ordered. Mo meat, chickens or fish are to be bad on the street. There is a hill having an excellent, perennial spring sixty to seventy 11 south of here which is supposed to be the home of a dragon. The poor distressed people are flocking there to seek his* help by incense burning and Drostratlons at the foot of the hill. The Provincial Treasurer Chu, who for many years was Taotal at' this place, has sent a deputy to help ? the people pray for rain. This he is iolng in the City Temple.?Sinyangchow Correspondence North China Herald. Half a Mile of Roses. Half a mile of roses! There is such a sight at the Payne Whitney estate, Manhasset, L. I. It is composed mostly of single wild roses like the Caro- ~ Una and prairie rose, and is therefore attractive in winter as well as summer by reason of the red stems and hips.?Garden Magazine. The Burning Question. A Baltimore teacher was trying to explain the meaning of the word "re cuperate. "Charley," she said, "when night comes on your father returns home 1 tired and worn out, doesn't he?" "Yes, ma'am," assented Charley. "Then," continued the teacher, "It being night, and he being tlrei, what does he do?" "That's what ma wants to know," said Charley.?Success Magazine. Opened New Avenues to Women. The women are moving In the raising of a fund to erect a monument to Francis E. Spinner, former Treasurer dI the United States. He was the first man In an official position to recognize women in Government employ. This was in 1862, and the move was such a daring one that It caused disturbance and heated discussion, Mr. Spinner was denounced and the character of the women employed aspersed. But Mr. Spinner stuck to It and kept adding to his force until Several hundred were employed. THE NEW WOMAN Made Over by Quitting Coffee. Coffee probably wrecks a greater I percentage of Southerners than of H Northern people, for Southerners use I It more freely. B The work It does Is distressing I enough in some instances; as an 11- I lustration, a woman of Richmond, B Va., writes: n "I was a coffee drinker for years, I and for about six years my health was completely shattered. I suffered I fearfully with headaches and nerv- fl Dusness, also palpitation of the heart and loss of appetite. "My sight gradually began to fall, I and finally I lost the sight of one eye'M altogether. The eye was operated I upon, and the sight partially re 3tored, then I became totally blind in the other eye. H "My doctor used to urge me to give I up coffee, but I was wilful, and con- I tinued to drink it until finally in a I :ase of severe illness the doctor in- I jisted that I must give up coffee, so I >egan using Postum, and in a month [ felt like a new creature.' H "I steadily gained in health and I strength. About a month ago I be- I ;an using Grape-Nuts food, and the H jffect has been wonderful. I really "* ~ ~ On/4 VtOTTO H :eel line & new wuiuau, auu uoiu K ;alned about 25 pounds. H "I am quite an elderly lady, and I 1 Art/4 nronO.\Illffl jerore usmg i-uoium <uju _ [ could not walk a square without B exceeding fatigue; now I walk ten or I ;welve without feeling it. Formerly B n reading I could remember but lit- I .le, but now my memory holdB fast B vhat I read. H "Several friends who have seen tho B emarkable effects of Postum and B 3rape-Nuts on me have urged that I B jive the facts to the public for the B ;ake of suffering humanity, so, al- B ;hough I dislike publicity, you can B publish this letter if you like." B Read "The Road to Wellville," In B ikgs. "There's a Reason." B Ever read the above letter? A B aew one appears from time to time. B rhey are genuine, true, and full of B luman interest. fij ?< 3 )?i . . ? _