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BACKACHE A SIGNAL 0" DISTRESS Pain In the back Is the kldnf'a signal ofdistrr ? If this timely warning Is ig nored.there Is grave dariper of dropsy, gravel, uric poison ing, or Brlght's dis ease. When you have reason to suspect your kidneys, use a special kidney medicine. Doan'a Kidney Pills relieve -weak, congested kidneys cure backache? regulate the urine. Good proof in the following state ment. CONVINCING TESTIMONY Louis Johnson, Main St., Carrollton, Ky.. says: "My whole body was bloated from kidney trouble and I was In bed four months, hardly able to move. The kidney secretions were scanty and pain ful. Four doctors failed to help me and I was In despair. Finally I used Doan'B Kidney Pills and they made me well. My trouble has never returned." Gat Doan's at Any Drug Store, 50c Box DOAN'S kJ?lnl!y FOSTER-MILBURN CO.. Buffalo,New York Might may overcome right, but it can never destroy it. Mr*. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens the gums, reduces intlamma tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle. Adv. The principal difference between a cur dog and a thoroughbred Is that the cur can pick up his own living. Regular practicing physicians recommend end prescribe 0XID1NE for Malaria, be cause it is a proven remedy by years of ex perience. Keep a bottle in the medicine chest and administer at first sign of Chills and Fever. Adv. Literal. "My good woman, do you scrub with avidity?" "No'm; with soap." For SUMMER HEADACHES Hicks* CAPUDINE Is the best remedy no matter what causes them?whether from the heat, sitting In draughts, fever ish condition, etc. 10c., 25c and 50o per bottle at medicine stores. Adv. One occasionally meets a man who gives a direct answer In reply to a ! simple question. But most bf them : want to make a speech. A Rreat majority of summer ills are due to Malaria in suppressed form. Las situde and headaches are but two symp toms. OXIDINE eradicates the Malaria germ and tones up the entire system. Adv. Appointed Day of Judgment. A horse dealer In an English town had lent a horse to a solicitor, who killed the animal through bad usage, j The dealer insisted on payment, and | the lawyer, refusing cash, said he j would give a bill for the amount, but it must be at a long date. The law- i yer drew a promissory note, making j it payable on the day of judgment. An action was raised, and the lawyer asked the sheriff to look at the bill. Having done so, the sheriff replied: "This is the day of judgment. I decree you pay tomorrow." Nothing More to Live For. ' *- tl iV ~ WllQOUi yuesuuii, tut) owu vuuu of whom Lord Lyveden tells In Fry's Magazine, placed the proper value on his sport. During a recent curling-match in Switzerland, the skip of one of the teams, who happened to be a Scots man, was so delighted with the accu rate shot of one of his team, that he was heard to address him in the fol- i lowing manner: "Lie down and dee, mon; lie down and dee. Ye'll never lay a finer stane nor that if ye live to be a hundred." SMILING MARTYRDOM. ^ *<? ?;?-J Although the Iceman brings to you A lump exceedingly small, You don't complain, for if you do He may not come at alL HARD TO SEE. Even When the Facts About Coffee are Plain. It is curious how people will refuse to believe what one can clearly see. Tell the average man or woman that i the slow but cumulative poisonous effect of caffeine?the alkaloid in tea and coffee?tends to weaken the heart, upset the nervous system and cause Indigestion, and they may laugh at you if they don't know the facts. Prove it by science or by practical r?r? Bf*?n i Inn 4r? tho ro^ATTorv af I UCUiViiOki uiiuu lu. tuo Vi vwi i fee drinkers from the above condl- ! tlons, and a large per cent of the hu* i man family will shrug their shoulders, take some drugs and?keep on drink ing coffee or tea. "Coffee never agreed with me nor with several members of our house- : hold," writes a lady. "It enervates, depresses and creates a feeling of languor and heaviness. It was only by leaving ofT coffee and using Postum ! that we discovered the cause and way i out of these ills. "The only reason, I am sure, why Postum is not used altogether to the exclusion of ordinary coffee is, many persons do not know and do not seem willing to learn the facts and how to prepare this nutritious beverage. There's only one way?according to directions?boil it fully 15 minutes. Then it is delicious." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read the little book, "The Road to Well ville," in pkgs. "There's a reason." Ever rend the above letter* A new one nppenn* from time to time. They re genuine, true, and full of human interest. Adv. OB PARALLEL STORIES sf FAMOUS CRIMES I i By HENRY C. TERRY (Copyright bj THE CRIME WITH THE NEEDLE STILETTO. HE man who follows thievery for a living,", . said Jack Pendergast, "often gets pretty hard Bhocks, but It does not do for him to take any O notice of them. I read In some newspaper the argument of an old preacher, who ought to have lived in the days when they used to break a thief's body on the rack, that the thieves are the nat ural enemies of mankind and ought to be exterminated. "Well, if thieves are the natural en emies of all the world, the other side of the argument must stand also, that the rest of mankind are the proper prey of thieves. With this notion in view, I say that it is a wonder that in every house which is visited by thieves there is not left a trail of blood. But actual experience and sta^ tistics will show that fewer murders are committed by thieves when en gaged in their work, in proportion to their number, than are committed in the ranks of persons who go around with a label of honesty on their fore heads. "Speaking of shocks that a fellow is liable to get in any business, re calls a remark made by old Jimmy Hope when he first started out as a crook in Philadelphia, to the effect that the bravest people on earth are the thieves who work in the night. Perhaps you never thought of it in that way, but just think for a moment. The common notion pf a crook is that he goes about his work fcrmed to the teeth and ready to shoot or stab at a moment's notice. To disprove this be lief let us look for a moment into the mind of a thief who is about to enter a dwelling house in the night? "First he must satisfy himself that no one is awake in the house. The first evidence of this is the ab *i-i--i._ -rrr_.il *1 sence ci ngu^a. wen, meu, an wo lights being out, the thief goes about hia work as quietly as possible, but taking into consideration the fact that thievery, or, rather, burglary, is es sentially a breaking Into a place, it cannot be done without more or less noise. ' "A thief knows that In nine houses out of ten there is some ready means of defense, usually a revolver or a gun, and if any one is disturbed, his entrance will be met with a shower of lead. He Is liable to be killed, and thieves appreciate this better than any one else. He must face a secret and silent enemy. I have been in houses where the first intimation that we were discovered was the report of a flrearm and tne singing 01 me ieaa around our ears. "It is only the foolish men who Jump out of bed and strike a light when they hear an unusual sound in their houses. That puts them at a disad vantage, and the crook is apt to get in the first shot as a caution to his prey to keep out of eight. Not one thief in a hundred will will shoot to kill, and, on the other hand, not one person in a hundred, in dealing with thieves, but what will shoot to kill every time. A crook has no right to complain of the vigorous defense set up by any man in his castle, but a shot in the air or fired out of the window will start a gang of crooks on the move Just as quickly as if a thief's heart were tak en as a target "Perhaps a thief's bravery is wasted in an unholy cause, but that does not alter the fact that only the bravest of men can be good thieves. The or dinary housebreaker takes his life in his hands every time he enters a house, and he is cautious about tak ing the lives of othars, because he knows that murder done in the com mission of a felony has no defense in a' court of law. "It's quite a bit ago since I was known as Black Jack, and was the leader of as tough a gang of rangers as ever flashed a bull's-eye. Every mother's son of them came out of the old Fourth ward, and from the time we were kids we were out for the dust and were the sworn enemies of the old Market Gang, which turned out such a desperate lot of crooks as Abe Coakley, Paddy Reynolds, Billy Por ter and Long John Garvey. But our fights were our own fights, and not a man in either of the gangs was ever known to lay down information to the police. There were plenty of oppor tunities to do each other when it meant money and perhaps the saving of a term of five or ten years in Sing Sing. "The Black Jacks made the best tour on Long Island ever known among thieves. We went from Fort Hamilton to Riverhead, up one side and down the other side of the island, with only the loss of two men, both of whom?Paddy Gillan and Shorty Far rell?were shot by a woman in Oyster Bay. During this trip we used a black sloop part of the time, but most of the traveling was done by horse and wagong, and it was usually the horses and wagons of farmers. "We visited ovor 600 houses, and divided about $80,000 worth of stuff. It was a trip of pleasure, for the lo cal police did not bother us at all. This was easily explained. It was on account of the lack of money. In no small place can you find the men who have control of the public money will ing to spend anything to chase thieves, and, even when murder is committed, there Is never a willingness to put up money to hunt for the assassin. "When we got back from this trip we were in high spirits, and the Bow ery was painted red from one end to the other with the deepest red, and every gambling house in the town got a bit of our coin. When we reach ed the end of our rope, Teddy McCor fHE CRIMINAL Tells How He Planned the Deed and Sought to Close Every Avenue of Knowl edge Leading to His Guilt. The Detective Shows How Futile These Efforts Were and How the Old Adage, Murder " A " TV 111 VUl, AlWQjroiiuiugyvuu. r F. L. Nelson mlck came to me with a story that he got from a butler in Banker Ro chot's home. They met in Bill Mur ray's gambling house on Broadway, and Teddy staked the butler who had lost his money in the game. The in formation that Teddy got was that Ro chot carried a big bank roll in a safe in his house, which was in 65th street, near Madison avenue. "I thought maybe it was a ghost story put up by the butler to give Ted dy an idea that he was secure in his loan. But it was worth investigation, and I went to look the ground over with Reddy Ward and Bill Hendrick. "The house was a dead easy one to beat, and I saw from the outside that the safe was there. I learned that Rochot was a very heavy dealer in for eign securities. There was also a bit of a scandal connected wun ma meiu ods of doing business, which gave a color to the story told by the butler. I decided to work the game, and fixed upon a Saturday night for the trick, which Is the night that all honest folk sleep the soundest. "We entered the house through the bathroom and reached the office, which was in the rear of the parlor, on the first floor. In the gang was Ted dy McCormick, Reddy Mack, Bill Hend rick, Abe Moses and Billy Rellly. Mack and Rellly were to do the safe work, Mose6 was left outside and Mc Cormick, Hendrlck and myself were down to make a tour through the house to pick up anything that was lying around loose. It would not do to blow the safe, bo the drag was used to force out the back of the strong box. Thlc took about two hours. "We eot the stuff together, and start ed to leave the house. "Suddenly, without the slightest warning we were met by a shower of lead. Everybody jumped for himself. When we lined up on the outside Rellly was missing. I concluded that he had been shot. We hauled a big boodle, but a million would not pay for the loss of Rellly." DETECTIVE REYNOLDS' TALE. "It was rather strange," said De tective Reynolds, "that I should be given the robbery in the house of Banker Rochot to work up, inasmuch as I had something of an Inkling into his method of doing business, through workftig up a case of alleged forgery against his son, Emll?which, by the way, was proved easily enough, but was ended by the old man putting up considerable money to square the bust ness. I imagined when the report of the robbery came in tliat It would prove to be an ordinary housebreaking job, but I soon found a condition of affairs which started my wits humming for all they were worth. "I was aroused from my bed to turn out on the case shortly before daylight on a Sunday morning, and went up town, not feeling any too well pleased. I found all of the Rochot family up and laboring under great excitement. They were not so much worried over the robbery as they were over the fact that there was a dead man in the house. He was found in the hallway of the basement. "Rochot told me he had been work ing quite late, following a set of com plicated books belonging to a mining company In which he was largely in terested. When he retired for the night he was in a very restless state or?/1 nnf cloon T-To nnonnforf n room on the top floor. While he was tossing in his bed he heard a peculiar noise. It sounded to him as if some one were scraping a piece of metal against a pipe. His Idea was that the noise was In the street, and was made by some workmen who had been at work repairing a leak in the water main In 6oth street, 'near his home. The sound annoyed him, but did not make him suspicious. It continued steadily, and he would, perhaps, not have known that the sound came from the turning of a ratchet drill Into his safe by thieves for several hours if he had not heard the stairs leading to the second or third floor creak.1 "He was startled, but did not make any outcry. He was a plucky old fel low at that. Instead of shouting to see if any member of his family, all of whom were sleeping on the two floors below him, was up, he got quiet ly out of bed to see who It was. In the dim light which came from a can dle he could barely see the forms of two men, moving slowly in the hall toward the front room door. Their step was noiseless, and he saw them disappear Into the room occupied by his wife. He reasoned, from their movements, that they were thieves, bent upon stealing without awaken ing any one, and knew that his wife would not be aroused, for she was slightly deaf. "Rochot came down from the top floor to his own room, where he had several revolvers. He took the larg est one and then quietly aroused his son, who was a bit of a hunter and had two shotguns. It so happened that the son had a friend with him, which made it a shotgun for each of them. They crept down the stairs to the second floor, and in the hall they could hear the thieves talking in a whisper. "The three men took a position where they could shoot without en dangering their own lives. They had only a few minutes to wait when the crooks came through the hall, evi dently with the intention of going out through the front door. One of them carried a candle. When they got in range the three men fire*. The thieves replied with a couple of shots and made a dash for the basement. The Rochot party rushed to the windows to fire on the men when they left the house, but were a moment too late, as the men had turned the corner. J "My first business was to take a look at the dead crook. I knew many of them, but I had never seen him before. He was a sturdily built fellow above the average height, wore good j clothes, and had a black mustacle and dark, curly hair. Rochot claimed the credit of killing him, and said he was the man who carried the candle. I j looked instinctively at the fellow's I clothing, to see where he had been hit. I could not find any blOod marks on , his head or shirt near any vital part. I did not think this was strange at the time, and I went upstairs to look 3 through the house for clues. "A rope ladder had been left hang ing from the roof of the back Btoop. | borne scratches on the paint showed that the thieves had forced the bath room wfndow after reaching the roof, j This was only the sort of work that ] tip-top crooks deal in. The method of ( bursting the safe also indicated that j there were some genuine bank opera- | tors in the gang. The drag, wftich in , the most powerful tool used by bur- ( glars, bad forced the bacit out or me { safe as if it had been made by paper. The crooks were rewarded by getting j $90,000 in money, securities and jewel- | ry. They had left nothing but the j dead crook as a clue to their identity. , "His body was taken to the Morgue. Every detective in the city took a 1 peep at him, but no one remembered , having seen him before. This was ex plained later by the fact that' he had just finished serving a twenty years' , sentence, which meant, with "good f time" twelve years and six months? j in a Connecticut prison. The usual , form of inquest was held upon the j body. "Then came a startling piece of in- ] formation. Deputy Coroner Boldte, i who made the examination of the body was unable to certify the cause of ( death. The police had reported that ( the thief had been shot, but there was ( no sign of a bullet or any other wound { in any part of his body. "No autopsy had been held, and one ] was immediately ordered. The organs { were found to be in a perfectly healthy i state. The only abnormal condition < was a small clot of blood near the 1 heart. The Burgeons, after a long hunt to And where this came from, found a puncture in the heart so min ute, that it could hardly be detected by the naked eye. Corresponding to this was an opening through the chest over the heart, so small that not a drop of blood had escaped from it. The hole that closed when the instru ment which made it was withdrawn, and all the external evidence was a little red spot not much bigger than a pin point. "Dr. Boldte's opinion was that the wound had been made by what is known as the needle stiletto, a weap on much used by the Cammora of Sl ciclly. He had never seen one or heard of one being used in this coun try. "Who killed the thief? , 1 "The mystery aroused public Inter- c est. A large crowd attended the in quest. Among the spectators was a woman. She sat in a secluded place and paid deep attention to the testi mony. No one had claimed the dead man's body. I studied all the facess 8 carefully. I saw this woman wipe a c tear from her cheek when the Jury E brought in a verdict that the thief had c Been Kiilea oy an uniaiown person, i ~ followed her from the coroner's of fice, and spoke to her when we got out" c of the crowd. ? "I asked her what Interest she had In the dead man. She parried my ^ questions for a while and wept. I worked upon her sympathies so well that she finally admitted that the man ^ was Billy Reilly, her husband. "The ice was broken. She said that when Reilly was in jail she had tak en up with Bill Hendricks, an English crook. When Rellly's term waB ended she deserted Hendricks and returned g to her husband. This made Hendricks insanely jealous. "She atended the inquest to find out s how her husband was killed, if he had f not hoon shot 9he knew immediate- _ ly that Hendricks had put Reilly out of the way, because he had a needle stiletto. "She told me where Hendricks was, and gave me the names of the crooks who robbed Rochot. Hendricks, I learn ed, had skipped, after following Mrs. Reilly to the coroner's office, but I caught Pendergast, McCormick, Mack and Moses, and recovered a large por tion of the stolen goods. Old Rochot buried Reilly and gave his wife a re> ward." Polar Discovery. One of the strangest dramas in the whole story of exploration has just been played to a finish, says an ex change. In two and a half years both the north pole and the south pole, after centuries of effort and sacrifice, have been reached. We all know what is meant by the poles. There is no aotual pole, noth ing protr ding from the earth. The earth is constantly revolving, and we say that it revolves upon Its axis? that is, an imaginary line running from north to south through the cen ter of the earth. The two poles are the points at the earth's surface where this imaginary line, or axis, is supposed to terminate. As the sun's rays strike the poles at a considerable nnn-io their heatine nower is less than at other parts of the earth, and so the regions round about the poles have the characteristics of extreme frigid ity. Corsica's Last Bandit. Corsica has got rid of the old fash ioned brigand, and the "last of the Sicilian bandits"?perhaps a disputed title?was lately laid by the heels and is now facing the ordeal of his trial at Aquila. He is Giuseppe Salomone. He is a dandy, and has always paid particular attention to his clothes. He has an expensive taste in perfume and in gloves. He is a poet. His time in prison has been spent in writing a poetic drama of his life's experiences, and he has written a good deal of commendable verse. He is said to have made a fortune in brigandage. Doing His Part. "What part are you taking in tht war on flies?" "I do sentry duty at the breakfast table over the milk pitcher e>ery morning." flHEN CABINET E SOW the globe, we reap the corn, We build the house where we may rest; And then, at moments, suddenly. We look up to the great wide sky, Inquiring wherefore we were born? For earnest or for Jest? ?E. B. Browning. DAINTY DISH FROM LITTLE BITS. When a large amount of bread has been sliced, do not allow It to dry out, but pack in a jar and cover with a iloth wrung quite dry out of hot wa :er, then place a plate over them and ;he bread will keep fresh. Sandwiches raay be made and served at luncheon jr supper and are always a welcome iddition to the meal. u you nave a on or oonea rrosung left, add a few nuts and chopped rais ins and drop on wafers. Bake in a lot oven until brown. These are nice ivlth a salad. Fondant left from French candies will keep indefinitely if kept in a cov 2red dish, and may be melted over water and used for cake icings. A few tablespoonfuls of preserves may be used as a garnish for fruit mlad, like pear or apple. Or it may oe used as a filling for tarts, having nore than one kind-to use up odd jits. A custard or chocolate ice cream nay be used as a sauce for pudding if lsed within a short time. Dainty pies may be made from left over pie crust in the fcrm of turn overs, of which children are very fond, )r baked in gem pans and made like i grown-up upie. Take your convalescing friend a jaked apple prepared thus: Wash ind wipe the apple but do not peel, jcoop out the core with an apple :orer, beginning at the blossom end >ut do not make a hole way through 'or the small well Is to hold a bit of jutter, a tablespoonful of sugar and a jrating of nutmeg or a bit of lemon >eel. Surround with water if the ap ples are not juicy, and bake until thor mghly tender. Apples that .do not ceep their shape during baking are lot so attractive baked in this man ler. Left-over icing or fondant, when ma ting candy, the scrapings of the bowls, :an be used to stuff dates. ?*y\=; ml' 1 'Tin f|l HERE Is abundant evidence iU. that all classes of vegeta ns and fruit may be held In a sound con lltlon without the use of preservatives." ?Jordan. SAVORY FISH. Any fresh or salt' codfish may be lerved in a chowder, making a very ac :eptatrfe dish. - If salt fish is uqed, loak and shred it, then add to the :howder the last few moments of its :ooking. Fry a piece of salt pork cut n dice; a slice or two will be suffi :ient for a family of four or five. Fry t golden brown, add a sliced onion or wo and a half dozen of sliced potat oes; just cover with water and cook intll the vegetables are tender, then idd the shredded fish (a half pound is iufflcient), a, quart of milk and half a lozen milk crackers which have been icalded in boiling water. Serve a tracker in each dish of soup. Flaked Crab Meat Fricassee.?Cook tne small green pepper, finely ihopped, two small onions, four table ipoonfuls of butter slightly browned, >ne and a half cupfuls of crab meat, ind cook five minutes. Add five table poonfuls of flour and when well mixed iour on a cup and a half of chicken tock. Season with two tablespoon uls of orange juice, two of lemon uice, a half teaspoonful of paprika, salt md pepper to taste. Just before serv ng add a third of a cup of heavy ream and the yolks of two eggs di uted with two tablespoonfuls erf ream. Savory Fish.?Cut a two-inch cube if fat salt pork into dice and try out. ?o three tablespoonfuls of salt pork at add the same amount of flour and tir until well blendfed; then add a up and a half of milk; boil and add , cup of flaked halibut or haddock, hree-fourths of a cup of potato cubes t'hich have been cooked, then the ork cubes and the yoiKs 01 iwo eggo. ieason to taste. Oyster Fricassee.?To a cup of oys ers, reserve the liquor, and heat holi ng hot; add the oysters, and when ilump remove, add enough cream to tiake a cupful, thicken with butter nd flour blended, add an egg well eaten and pour all over well buttered oast. Sprinkle with finely chopped elery. Siberian Land Threatened. Extensive tracts of land in Siberia re threatened by the encroachment f the great Gobi desert, and a plan as now been drawn up for a series of orest ramparts to hold back the salt nd drift. The only effective defense, ccording to the report of agrono ilsts sent to survey the region is in ree belts at least two miles broad, t is proposed to plant, one of these rom Samara to the Caspian sea, rhile others are recommended ex snding in intervals of about 40 miles ight up to the Chinese frontier. The Whole Bunch. "Sir, I wish to marry your daugh er." "Are you making enough to support family?" "Why?er?certainly, if there should appen to be a family." "Then, take us, my boy, p-td be appy." One Acre for Each Inhabitant. If the land of England and Wales tire equally divided, there would be little more than an aero for each erson. IDEAL FOR THE FISHERMAN Gunnison River, Colorado's Famous Stream, Has Reputation That Is World Wide. Denver.?The Gunnison river flowa, or rather leaps, down the western slope of Colorado and Is famed for its trout. Enthusiastic anglers frequently journey there from England to whip its turbulent waters during the fish ing season, as the trout in this ice cold stream are celebrated for their exquisite flavor, and for their fighting qualities as well. This picturesque stream after flow ing placidly through a beautiful broad valley, hemmed In by snow capped peaks, suddenly breaks its leash and nlnncraa InfA o onrioa nf no nl H a flllH cascades where it enters the Black Canon at Sapinero, whose granite walls rise on either side to a perpen dicular height of from twr* thousand to three thousand feet abov* the foam 'ng stream. It continues it? tortuous In the Black Ganoft. course through this chasm for upward of thirty miles before It emerges Into another valley at State Bridge, three thousand feet lower than where it en tered the canon. The trout fishing Is along the upper half of the canon, which Is traversed ay a narrow gauge rauruau. x uo iun er half of the canon Is impassable. Only three men ever' made the trip through it. They were government engineers who were reconnoitering for a location for the Gunnison tunnel to irrigate the Uncompahgre Valley. Their strong raft was wrecked, their instruments and clothing were lost and they were rescued in an exhaust ed condition. Below the canon so much alkali and soil are discharged into the stream by the irrigating ditches that trout cannot live in it, but sucKers nourisn there, often attaining a length of from eighteen to twenty Inches. During the latter part of May the suckers go up the small tributaries to spawp. After spawning they return In schools, tail first, to the river. These small .streams are rocky and swift, and if the fish did not slacken speed by swimming against the current they might be biulsed against the rocks. In the pools where the water was two or three feet deep the fish were so numerous that It was no uncom mon occurrence to throw out three and four fish with each thrust of the fork. The fish were weak and slug gish after spawning and did not make much effort to get out of the way. The old woman brought out two washing tubs, a washboller and a large dish pan, all of which were filled within half an hour with fish from twelve to olchtfipn irichPH in lencth. which she skinned and salted down for future use. She lamented that the flsh were "a-gettin' skeercer every year." "Why, at comin' down time three years ago me and my Old man got nigh onto a wagon load In no time," she said. BEAR IS UNINVITED GUEST Enters Sleeping Room, Whose Occu pant Vacates Instanter Without Waiting to Dress. Hood River, Ore.?The citizens ot the Oak Grove district, armed with the family weapons and followed by i all of the dogs that qualified for the event, are passing the time in a bear ; hunt. A big brown bruin came down out of the Green Point hills a few days ago, raided a raspberry patch at the ranch of Esquire C. C. Lemmon, de stroyed the apiary of another rancher and entered the kitchen of the Apple- ; del. Robert Shinn, a graduate of the Oregon Agricultural college, who Is caring for the Appledel tract, keeps bachelor's hall there. His slumbers of the early dawn were disturbed by the noise of the bear raiding the culi- 1 nary department. In a few seconds the bear had en tered his sleeping apartment. Shinh left hurriedly through an open window by his bed. The flapping of his night shirt waving an adieu so suddenly in ; the cool morning breeze frightened j the bear, which turned over a cup board of jams and canned fruits in its hasty exit thrdugh the par try. The bear is said to be one of the largest ever seen in this region, and 1 the ranchers fear that unless it is ' killed it will begin to raid barnyards. SCHOOL BOARD BARS CUPID; Applicants for Positions at WiiKes? < barre, Pa., Must Make Written Promise. "Wilkesbarre, Pa.?Before successful ' applicants for positions in Hazleton township schools are permitted to start work they must submit in writ ing a promise that they will not fall victims to Cupid's darts during the school year. Some of the teachers who refused to give the written promise have been informed that their services will not be required, \t is understood that the new rule has delayed a few midwinter weddings. The school board made the demand to prevent a scarcity cf teachers after the term was under way. WISE YOUTH. The White Boy?Humph! Why don't you flght? ThefMoke?'Cause I draws de white line, dat's why. ???????? As a stimmer tonic there is no medicine that quite compares with OXTDINE. It not V* only builds up the system, but taken reg ularly, prevents Malaria.'Regular or Tsster less formula at Druggists. Adv. 8weeplng Statement. "Scrlblets la going to quit being a % press humorist" "uia ne leu you mai: "No, but he said he was not going to write any more jokes about mothers In-law)*, bald-headed men, women's hats, intoxicated husbands and family write any more Jokes about mothers fights." A Household Remedy. Which works from outside. CHES* TOL (Chest Ointment) will relieve quickly. croup, coughs, colds, pneu monia and all affections of chest and thrpat. Use freely "and RUB! BUB! BUB! Now sold by all medicine deal- , era. Should be in every home. Burwell j & Dunn Co., Mfrs., Charlotte, N. C. Adr. ^ Seizing the Opportunity. She?Old Mr. Steiner told me he would marry me at once if he were .J.; twenty-five years younger. He?Why, that would Just be mjr age! She?Ach, this is so sudden.?Ex change. Important to mother* . Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for Infants and children, and see that It Bears the Signature of i In Use For Over 30 Years. 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