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THOS. 1 ADAMS. PROPRIETOR. EDGEE?ELD, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1892. VOL. LVII. NO. 13. ' Juvenile crimes have increased in France from 16,000 in 1860 to 31,600 in 1890. The Baltimore News believes that there is nearly $150,000,000 of Balti more money invested in Southern securities. One o? the important matters to which the New York Sun is directing attention is whether to say "tooth brush" or 'teeth brush." According to the Paris Kevue Hor ticole, the largest forests in the world nrein Central Africa, Southern Siberia, North and South America. Iti8 reported that there are 780, 000,000 pennies in circulation in this country, or about one hundred pen nies for every man, Woman and child. Pnblio Opinion thinks it is matter for congratulation that the teaching of English in our schools and colleges is at last beginning to get a modicum of the attention that it has long de manded. The Russian workmen spends very little for food, lodging and dress as compared with the foreign artisan. In V Moscow, for example, the board of a workman amounts to not more than $2.50 per month. The Allahabad Pioneer, the princi pal journal of British India, and the one on which Rudyard Kipling began his literary career, recently contained a paragraph in the "want" columas as follows : "Situation wanted as snake charmer in respectable family. P. S. -No objeotion to looking after the camel **_ The increase of nearly 50,000 in im migrants for six months excites the apprehension of some, but it is gener ally regarded as the surest indication of increasing activity in business. The:re is no doubt at all, maintains the New York World, that it helps to re store and steady values. All values depend on the oonntry's proBpeots of growth, and increasing immigration insures the certainty of growth. That it costs something to launoh a big battleship is shown by the state ment th at the e^penee of getting the Victorious, the latest addition to Eng land's fleet, afloat was about $10,000. ^?k?ti?.^S*ihf ihifi tin rho M-ignifrwfc and the Majestic, and is 390 feet long, seventy-five feet beam, and 27} feet draught. There were used up on the ways over which she slid into the water 7000 pounds* of Russian tallow, 160 gallons of train oil and 700 pounds of soft soap. The gross weight of the ship, equipped and ready for sea, is 15,725 tons. Rev. Dr. Talraage, in a recent ser mon, speaking of our near approach to the twentieth century, said: "Only four summers more; four autumns more ; four winters more ; four springs more, and then the clock of time will strike the aeath of the old century and the birth of the new." lt is easy to forget, recalls the Pathfinder, that there are still five more years before dawn of the twentieth century. The nineteenth century will not end, re member, till midnight of De:ember 31, 1900, not 1899. You must spend your 100th cent before your dollar is gone, and it is so with the years of the century. The Atlanta Constitution remarks : Out in Indiana an old lady ol seventy four offered S20.000 for a yonng hus band. An enterprising fellow of twen ty-six came forward, bat the woman's family sued out a writ of lunacy to prevent her from marrying. The jury pronounced her eane, and she eloped with her purchase and married him. The Chicago Record in commenting on this case makes the point that a short time ago a young woman in New York wanted a husband with a title, and got him after a big cash som of several million dollars had been settled upon him by her relatives. Nobody hinted that the New York girl was insane. On the contrary society thought that she had distinguished herself. Our Chicago contemporary thinks that it makes- a difference ^hen the pur chased husband is an imported article with a title. If he is a home produot the woman who offers a good price for him is supposed to be crazy. The Italians imported by Austin Corbin to become land owners at Sun nyside, Arkansas, are represented in the New York Post to be superior in morals and intelligence to the Italian laborers with whom people in other parts of the country are more or less familiar. They are reporte 1 to have been carefully seh cted from a very re spectable and prosperous class. At home they were small farmers, gar deners and fruit growers, and the methods of farming and careful culti vation to which they have been accus tomed are expected to bo great aide to them in their new surroundings. They have strong religious inclina tions, and their first act after arriving at their new home was to conduct re ligious exercises in thanks to God for the kindness bestowed upon them. They were heartily welcomed at Sun nyside, and at once announced their intention to become citizens. Other ship loads ol immigrants are expected to follow this first importation. GOWNS IN SEASON, ! - WHAT LKAP YEAR IS PRODUC ING IN WO SIAN'S G AK .MEN Ti . I _ Happy Combinations In Materials for a Rasque- Waist for Women and a Misses* Norfolk Rasque Cape Collar and Muff. j - ILLUMINATED serge in a stylish mixture of golden brown and delft blue is charmingly com bined with brown velvet in the two-column illustration. The attrac tive-looking waist is provided with g'.ove-titting linings that olose in centre front, the fullness of the ma ! terial being disposed in overlapping ! plaits of the lc wer edges cn front and back. The fronts are slashed in "V" LADIES' BAS chape from shoulders to bust, expos ing facings of. vol vet plaoed on the lining, the edges being finished with the sequin trimming, A long "V" Bhaped vest is exposed between the front edges, the vest being sewed to the lining on the right and hooked in visibly over on the left. The stook collar ends in loops at the back, two Paquin points of velvet, edged with sequins, flaring wide1v ?wart in front. A roll of velvet with the back finished t! basque. The fashioi .have the fullness ii gathers at the top, t falling gracefully on . handsome combinat ' fabrics or coloring < tttft.nuyB, ^'?-H> - J or decoration, for crape or cropon, dui. terie furnishing the The quantity of 44 i al required to make this basque for a lady having a 52-inch bust measure is 3? yards; for a 36-inch, 3} yards; for a 40-inch size, 8} yards. MISSES' NORFOLK BASQUE. Illuminated serge in brown and tan is happily combined with golden brown velvet, making the stylish basque pictured in the second large cut deservedly popular for school, cycling, best or general '..ear. The adjustment is glove-fitting to the waist line, below which it fal.; with a slight ripple to fashionable length over the hips, the box-plaits being graded and applied from the shoulders and the centre of fronts and baok to lower edge of basque. Taro styles of collar are provided,a high close-fitting collar ?nd a low-cut revers collar, both of which are made of velvet. A belt of velvet is* worn around the. waist. The fashionable full mandolin sleeves are shaped in three sections, each seam being piped with velvet. The top is gathered and arranged over comfort able linings, the wrists being finished with a velvet piping. Simple in con Btrnction and dressy in effect, this style of basque requires neither decora tion or trimming, and can he made all of one material, if so desired. Cheviot, serge, camel's hair, vienna, covert and ladies' oloth and all varieties of smooth and rough-faced suitings in plaid, striped, mixed or MISSES' NORFOLK BASQTJ checked designs develop stylishly by the mode. The quantity of 44-inob wide ma terial required to make this basque for a miss tweh e years old is 3 yards ; ior a fourcecn-jear-old size is 3* yards ; for a sixieen-year-old size ie y ar de. SASHES AND GEMS. A pretty fashion revived is that of sashes. They are generally-that is, the artistic ones-rolded so as to give an impression of breadth in front, and tie in the back in a butterfly bow, '.vuicu boasts long ende. Sometimes . he satin sashes have the ends heavily embroidered, the Dresden sash bein j especially picturesque. The oma* mental accessories of costumes ara more and more on the artistically pie* tnresqne order, and trimmings share the fancy. Many of the new evening gowns show' lavish decorations of jeweled trimmings, and some of them are really exquisite, while others border too much on barbario magnifi cence to suit thoroughly refined tastes. A lovely trimming consists of pearls embroidered on white silk gauze, while another pretty fanoy is that of spangles in the most delioate tints combined with pearls, the spangles imitating small blossoms. USING OP SLEEVES. All sleeves are lined with stiff and crackling material, and when in thea* tre or opera house, the audience arises to go-and a thousand obedient escorts tuok 200*0 sleeves into the sleeves of IQUE WAIST, wraps the crackling thereof drowns the orchestra; LADIES' CAPE COLLAR AND MUFF. This stylish cape collar and mufi, in Marie Antoinette style, is here pictured in ermine fur, but astrakhan* plush, velvet and cloth are the ma terials usually selected to make up thesj comfortable accessories for or dinnry wear, an edging of fur being a lining and the outside. The pattern will be found of value in remodeling old-lashioned fur capes, and great ex pense is saved when this can be done at home. These cape collars oan be worn over basques, jackets, coats, and will impart a stylish and comfortable air to tho plainest top garment. The quantity of 27-inch wide ma terial required to make the collar for a medium size is 2? yards; to make the muff, I yards. GOWNS AND ETES. A famous dressmaker has ventured on a new idea. Let the bright sun light shine directly in your eyes, and the predominant color disoerned there in w?'l be the color to choose for a gown, irrespective of hair or complex E OP SERGE AND VELVET. j ion, when you wish to look most be j witchiDgly and becomingly arrayed. In brown eyes shines a sort of grayish hue, in blue eyes a watery azure, and in certain eyes a greenish shade. However, all the tints are purchasable, and, with the promised results, there i is no reason not to be beautiful. FDR TAILS AS ZBQZMCTC. Fur ic used extensively as a trim ming for cloth gowns. Aails ara more m favor than bands, and they are everywhere, even outlining in part the gores of some of the new walking skirts. tue flake of rook cocoa is tbs cak? made from the ground ces.ls, SPONGE FISHING. A THRIVING INDUSTRY OFF TIIK FLORIDA COAST. Hundreds of Men at Work-SenTcn in- lor tue Spouses in a Saillus Vessel-Methods Employed lu Otbor Places. VTTIM WALLAS, with his back to the stove in a warehouse on the river, was telling the ??" gronp of lai?e sailors how he had fished for sponges off the Florida Keys. "You see, boys," said he? "you stick your head in a bucket over the side of the dingy, and you can seo the sponges hard fast to the bottom. Then you'put down your hook and bani away, and pet . beauty." "How c you see through a baoketj Tim?" a^cd one of his friends. "Becans?j d'ye see, the bucket has ? glass bottom to it, and that's ho lie. When the light is on the water you Can't see below the top? can yoa, be cause the water is a sort of a looking glass, but you can see under water, unless you are blind, if you keep your eyes open. So what do those chaps do but clap a piece of glass in the bottom j of a bucket after knocking ont the wood; and then they stick their heads in the buckets, with the bails around their necks, and shove the buckets un til the glass is Under water; and they can ree down ten fathoms or more," "I mind the time when I was sail SPONGE FISHING OFF ing on a fruiter in the Mediterranean* seeing some Greeks diving for sponges," said another sailor, "But tho" /iivnrl fbo\r <\\A onrl AiA TI nf. Rah the finest sponges in the world come from that coast and hundreds of men are worked there. We coasted up and down in a thirty-ton schooner-rigged craft, with a broad beam and drawing but little water. We carried ten men, including the cook, and four dingies, Which, you know, are small yawls. Two men to a dingy was the way we Were told off, one to skull and one to hook. The dingies were eighteen feet long and five feet beam, light and strong. They are made light because two men handle them, and they must be strong and seaworthy because we worked sometimes in a heavy sea. "The sculling notch was to one side of the centre of tho stern, and it was cut in the end of a short bit of plank which could be taken off if it was in : the way. The sponge hooks are made j of iron, have three prongs and are : curved. They are about six inches I wide, and a long pole fits into the I socket. Ono man, as I said, sculled ! the boat Blowly along, and the other hunted for the sponges. He used the I sponge glass and motioned to the man i in the stern to go this or that way. When he saw a good sponge he shoved the hook down over it and fastening the prongs of the hook in it palled it from the bottom and into the boat. "When wo got a boat load we sculled to the schooner, and the sponges were piled up on the deck un I til the 'gurry' ran out of them. The LOOKING FOB SPONGES. dricd-up sponges that are sold in tho drug stores are the skeletons of the sponges. When they are pulled from the water they are covered with a glue-like stuff and filled with slimy matter. This slimy matter is the gurry and the sponges are kept on the deck until this gurry runs away. Sometimes they are kept aboard two days, and the man who cannot work in a smell which is worse than any down at the stock yards will never be able to make a living fishing ior sponges. "But you get used to it in time, and you get so you can tell just when the spopges should be taken to the sponge crawls. A sponge orawl is made by 8takingout a space about twelve feet square in shallow water. The partly oured sponges are put to soak in the ; crawl and are beaten with clubs and thns washed out. The water of the crawl is only two or three feet deep, ! i'ound, the old method of diving is j and the men who wash them use flat clubs. Then they are taken out, strung j on strings, packed in bales and sold. Sometimes sponges are bleached. i That makes them white, but hurts tho : sponge. "The sheep wool sponge is the best ! sponge, lt is soft, just like velvet, and strone. Sheep wool sponges nre sold for natu sponges, but most of them are nsed ior washing carriages. The yellow sponge is a good sponge, but it i? not PO sn rt and strong as the nbeep wool, and tb? -rass sponga if . oortst and ch'.':s;^s':." . The sponge belongs to one of the lowest orders of animal life. Its skele ton is a strong fibrous substance, and th? f"* imal part of it is a gelatinous matier which fills the pores and cov ers the entire surface. If this mattel is not removed within a few hours af ter the sponge has been torn from th? rock or stones to whish it was fas tened it is almost impossible to purify it. The hooking or harpooning meth ods used in the Florida and Cuban fishing grounds are useless when the sponges lie in deep water. In-some parts of the Mediterranean Se?, where very fine sponges are used. The diver fastens a stone to his feet and with a long rope in his hand goes down feet first. Some divers can remain Under water for three minutes at a time. They snatch tho sponges from the bottom, working rapidly as possible. If lucky the diver fills the little basket he carries* tugs hard a* the rope and is drawn to the surface. Another method employed in sponge fishing is dredging. The dredge is a strong, heavy net, from six to eight ya^ds long and about one yard high. It ls made of hair cords, with the meshes about four inches square. This is dragged along the bottom by a rope attached to the bowsprit o? a small sailing vessel. As it passes over tbs bottom it tears the sponges from th?ir anchorage and they fall into the net. Of late years divers clad in armor have become common ofi the Greek coast. They descend in thirty and iotty fathoms and bring ap the finest jk' -* ?V THE FLORIDA COAST. surgeon, nursery and toilet sponges and rare cup sponges. After the sjjpnges are brouerhr. 'ind they o*A Kn?-' - * $100 a uczen. 'lue prices ot sponges have doubled in the last twen ty years, and sponge experts declaro thftt they will be still more expensive. As sponges are sold by weight, dis honest dealers frequently fill th(* sponges with sand to inorease the weight, but this practice is dying out. Tte practical value of the sponge lies in its great absorbing capacity and also is due to tho fact that water soft? ene the tissues until they become soft and pliable. Although sponges are found in all tropical or semi-tropical waters, the commercial sponges are confined almost exclusively to the waters of the southern and western coast of Florida, the Bahaman archi pelago and to the Mediterranean and Bed Seas. The;'sponges, as they are found in their native waters, vary in form; some are cup or vase shaped, others half round, others globular, some are fan-shaped and some cylin drical. A Royal Marriage From Tique. An interesting Btory is being told as to how the King of Portugal became engaged. Prince Curios, who was known at that time as the Duke of Bragknza, was on the way to Venice to celebrate his betrothal to the Arch duchess Marie Valerie, daughter of the .Austrian Emperor, when, upon his irjrivu! ?*?< Paris, he reoeived news thatf Her il^ Highness had changed her miuu nni,e Prince was unwilling to return ** a bride, and sought the advice aeevm Mar quise] de la Ferronay, an ^ of the fiunily. Her Ladyship o~ * him jihe picture of a young girl, who she said was rich, talented and his equal in rank. "I will have her, who ever Bhe maybe," exclaimed Carlos. "Where can she be seen?" "Accord ing tt this morning's paper," replied the Ilarquise, "Her Boyal Highness, the Princess Amelie of Orleans, ar ri vea yesterday in Nice." Three day? laterjthe Duke and Princess met for the first time, , d shortly afterward then] betrothal was announced.-Ga ligndni Messenger. ! Blackbirds With Appetites. If any one has just cause to desire the total extermination of destructive birdi E. D. Smith has just ground? to detest the blackbirds, as he has lost through them at least 81000 thia year. Mr. Smith had probably the best crop of Egyptian corn this year ever grown in Britte County. He planted fifty acres, during the proper season and almolt every hill came up, and the cornjgrew and flourished until it was as high as a man's head, and every stoe? producod fine heads; in fact, good judges claimed that the yield wont! average forty bushels to the? acre. Ml. Smith waited patiently for the orop'to mature, well pleased with th e prospects of a bountiful yield. But judg? of his chagrin when he went out to viaw the corn a few days ago to find the ??eld the feeding ground for my riads of blackbirds and the whole field deva|tated. The birds had taken the entire crop as completely as if it had bc^rnn through a threshing machine. Biggb (Cal.) Argus. mi?? - l);al aud Dumb Couple Converted. It seems to be a striking compliment t? fjrvent eloquence, or some othei peet iar power of persuasion, that ! arno !g the converts made by a revival j ist H Tekonsah, Mich., recently, were twoleaf and damb persons, a man and h? life.- New York Sun. WEIUIIS 715 l'UUJ?BS. Leo Whitton, With a Seven-Foot Waist,CI:iims to Bo the Fattest Man. "The fattest man in America" is the way in which Leo Whitton announces himself. Up to a year ago Leo had been growing broader, rounder and moro uncomfortable for the past thir ty-seven years. He weighs 715 ponnds. Daniel Lamber!-, the Norfolk giant, tipped the beam at 729 pounds, scor ing the world's record. Mr. Whitton had only just arrived in town when he wa3 met by a Re corder reporter yesterday. In ap pearance he is remarkably like Grover Cleveland. Whitton's tremendous girth is not so apparent when he stands, but when he sits he is startling. His measure ments are : Height, 5 feet 10 inches ; neck, 26 inches ; biceps, 28 inches ; chest, 6 feet ; waist, 7 feet ; thigh, 49 inches j calf, 26 inches. He comes of a stock noted for fleshiness. He was born in Northumberland County, On tario, Canada, of English parents. Up till tho age of twenty-one yuars he worked on the farm at home. Then he went into the butcher business at Brighton, Ont., which he attended to up to three years ago, when his extra ordinary girth rendered it impossible for him to handle the chopper. When asked if he had endeavored to avoid growing so fat Mr. Whitton re plied that he had tried all remedies. He has never tasted alcoholic drinks in hil life. He loses from ten to fif teen pounds during the summer, but1 A"nn ?nt feel much relief from the au u tttAiUet.u.cb O l?JUUUW ?U JJUUUI son street a pair of antlered deer heads are displayed. The taxidermist says they.form the greatest curiosity ever seen in that linc. The antlers aro in terlocked, and, he says, it is the only pair in existence with thc heads well preserved. Other pairs of antlers have been fonnd tangled together but he says it was after tbe animals to which they belonged had long been dead and nothing but the whitened skeletons remained. The theory has always been that the animals had died thus fighting. The deers of which this exhibit originally formed a part were discovered in combat, and with their hoi ns inseparably tangled. H. L. Brown, of Albion,' Mich., was hunting near Bismarck, North Dakota, November 15 last, when he carno upon two Virginia deer bucks locked in a mortal tangle. How long they had been thus he could not say, but it must have been some time, because they had plowed np about two acres of ground in their struggle. They could not run away and Mr. Brown ended their struggle by shooting them. Ho. cut off the heads and sent them to this city to have them mounted as he found them. N. Slotkin, tho taxider mist who prepared them, say the horns could only be untangled by breaking them or loosining them from DEER WITH HORNS TN DEADLOCK. tb.9 skull, and this was never done, so they remain as the hunter found them. The deer were young bucks of about the same age, prob ibly two years old. The taxidermist said if they had been mounted full figure they would have been worth more than ?5000. As they are now, he says, the pair of heads is worth $500. They belong to the man who killed them, aud who will keep them as a trophy of his rare good luck as a sportsman.-Chicago Chron icle. The Sawdust Industry. A growing industry in this city is the sawdust business. There are at least five hundred men who make a living selling sawdust. They have in vested a capital of over two hundred thousand dollars and aro now doing a business of $2,000,000 annually. Forty yearB ago the lumber mills here were glad to have sawdust carted away; twenty-fivo yearB ago it conld bo bought for fifty cents a load ; now it brings $3.50 a load at the mills. It is used in hotels, eating houses, grocer ies and other business places. It is wet and spread over the floor in order to moko tho sweeping cleaner work. Plumbers use it a great deal about pipes and buildings to deaden tho walls and floors. Soda water men and packers of glass and small articles of every kind use it, and dolls are stuffed with it?-New York Advertiser, LEO WHITTON'. "HEAD, BOD! AND LEW*.< A Winter Night's Game That Will Af ford Amusement. Good games, the Washington Path finder thinks, are always worth know ing about, especially those innocent winter-night games that, with their funny consequences, offer such real relief from tho day's cares. No one wants to make a business of playing games, bnt the greatest minds are not above simple diversions, nay, they must have them. One of the best pastimes of the kind is the old English game of "Head, Body and Legs," the origin of which is lost in the past. Get a slip of brown paper about two inches Wide and four inches long, say. Let the first player draw at the top of the slip a head, using only the upper third of the paper. This head may be that of any imaginable or unimaginable creature. If its something mongrel and absurd it's all the funnier. The first player then folds the paper down so as to cover up what he has drawn, bnt leaving the neck extending just below the fold. He then passes the slip on to the next player, who in turn draws a body on the middle third o?. the paper, joining it to the neck and then folding the paper just so as to leave enough of the body showing to indicate where the legs should join oe. A third player then adds legs and f sei to the strange being, to snit his fanoy. It will add to the fun to have a fourth player name the portrait. Finally the paper is unfolded. To say the least the company will be sur prised at the queer composite. It may be that the head and the legs will dis agree over the direction the creature is supposed to be fronting. Often times one of the members will he so ont of proportion with the rest as to make the whole effect very ludicrous. The best way to see the possibilities o2 the game is to try it. You needn't be an artist to make a success of it, since the most awkward hand will frequent ly prodnce the most laughable result?. The combinations may not always be so comical, but out of half a dozen anu ihe larger variety of portraits wm j increase the entertainment Moving a Uonse by Water. A remarkable feat of engineering has just been successfully accomplished by a Pacific coast firm. An attorney named Ernest Sevier is the owner of a two-story hon so at Arcata, twelve miles from Eureka. Owing to a de cline in the value of property at Ar cata Sevier determined to have the house moved-to Eurekn, where he in tended having :it set np on some land that ho owned. A firm of contractors undertook to remove the house intact and set it up, uninjured, for the sum of 31200. In THE HOUSE AFLOAT. case it was unfit for occupancy upon its arrival they were to receive the dwelling as their compensation. The trip was made principally b^ water. To remove the house to tho edge of the bay was the first difficnlt' to be overcome, as it necessitated tak ing the building over "a large dyko and a marsh. This was accomplished satisfactorily and the house was trans ferred to two railroad lighters thau had been lashed together in readiness for tho trip. 'Ihe journey by water was com pleted with the aid of a tug without accident, and an immense 1 crowd assembled at Eureka to welcome tho strange craft. Amid the cheers of the spectators and the tooting of steam whistles tho lighters were mace fast and the house transferred to land once more, xt was a comparatively easy matter zu convey it to its new site and thu strange engineering feat was accom plished without any more damajr-> being done to the house than a slight; cracking of the plaster. Digestibility ot Apple^^k^^ There is great difference in the cM gestibility of different kinds of apples! Some are very rion with hard and solid pulp, while others are juicy and digesc easily. The Spitzenberg apples has a very fine flavor, but it cannot be eaten by some who can eat at will of varie ties like the Fameuse. Most of the sweet apples are hard to digest. Even when cookod they are tough and do not break down as sour apples will. Boston Cultivator. ?Respect Old Age." The Rochester (N. Y.) Union tells of a seven-year-old boy of that city who recently got even with his gover ness. She was obliged to punish him, ui'*>- which she administered a solemn sermon for the youngster's benefit. "Now, Willie," she said, in conclud ing the lecture, "you must remember this-that at all times you should re spect your teacher." Yes'm," sobbed Willie; "I b'pose I'd ought to respect you on acooant of your age." j REGULATOR Are you taking SIMMONS LIVEE REG ULATOR, the "KING OF LIVER MEDI CINES?" That is what our readers want, and nothing but that. It is the saiae old friend to which the old folks pinned their faith and were never dis appointed. But another good recom mendation for it is, that it is BETTER THAN PILLS, never gripes, never weak ens, but works in such an easy and natural way, just like nature itself, that relief comes quick and sure, and one feels new all over. It never fails. Everybody needs take a liver remedy, and everyone should take only Sim mons Liver Regulator. Be sure you get it. The Ked Z is on the wrapper. J. H. Zeilin & Co., Philadelphia. MOTHERS READ THIS. The Best Remedy. For Flatulent Colic, Diarrhoea, Dysen tery, Nausea, Coughs, Cholera In fantum, Teething Children, Choierai Morbus, Unnatural Drains from J the Bowels; Fains, Griping, Loss of. Appetite, Indigestion and all Dis-, eases of the Stomach and Bowels. ' PITT'S CARMINATIVE . Is the standard. It carries children over tho critical period of teething, and is recommended by physicians as Lthe friend of Mothers, Adults and Children. It is pleasant to the taste, and never fails to give satisfaction. A\ A few doses will demonstrate its BU-v pcrlative virtues. Price, 25 eta. pex# bottle. For salo by druggists. ? Wi!! Not Borrow Again. There are two brother? tn w?~>~?.? uis new overcoat out In such beastly weather. His brother had a mackin tosh, and when the first young man spied this hanging on the hat rack he decided to appropriate it for the night and so save his new overcoat. Without saying a word to his brother he put on the waterproof and sallied forth into tho rain, calculating that ho would save his new overcoat at least three months' wear that night. When he came home he found his brother In their roora. "Say, old man," ho said, "I used your mackintosh to-night" "That was all right," said the broth er, "I got along very well without it." "You didn't go out this evening, did you?" asked tho owner of the over coat. "Yes," answered the owner of the mackintosh. "Then what did you wear?" "Your new overcoat." Badger Dog for His Pet. At the foot of the middle butte of the Sweet Grass Hills in Montana lives a miner named Byron Banner. He ls practically a recluse, seldom associating with any neighbors or even talking to them. He works his claim all alone, and no one knows whether he is rich or poor. Like most recluses he has his pet, but Banner's pet is so uncommon, even unnatural that it deserves to be put on record. This pet, says the Dupuyer Acantha ,is a badger-dog. The animal is small and has the feet and legs of a badger while the body resembles a dog. Its claws have to be trimmed every few months, as they grow out of all proportions to the foot. When it walks lt has the peculiar waddle of the badger. Its bark is somewhat similar to that of the lapdog. It will bite savagely when teased, but is otherwise perfectly docile. A cross between a wolf or coyote and a dog Is not uncommon, nor is it so much of a freak, since they belong to the same family. But a cross be tween different families, as the dog and badger, is something for natural ists and evolutionists to think about The Danger of Bread. A Boston dentist tells the follow ing story: Within tho past year he has had come to him for professional treatment four Swedish girls. The teoth in each of those young women wkBve really crumbling away. And Hkj- ? In their native country,where ^^Swedish bread is baked at inter vals during tho year and hung on poles to dry and harden, the teeth had their proper exercise. But when these girls became subject to "Amer ican civilization, " and were obliged to eat the pap and pastry in homes whera moro ti ?no is devoted to cater ing to the taste than to linding out the needs and requirements of the body, tho masticating of food was no ?longer a necessity, and the teeth, finding they were of no moro service, decided to fake themselvesoutof the way. There are seven surnames in Ashan tee corresponding to tiie days of the week, as follows: Ivwasie indicate* a man born on Sunday, Kudjoe on Mon day, Kwabina on Tuesday, Kwaku on Wednesday. Yao on Thursday, Kofi) on Friday, and Kwandoa on Saturday. These are all accented on' the liuaj syllable.