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li The Uninhabited Earth. Whila engaged in the hunt for the north role und the exploration if Af rica it ia generally overlooked that no body bis yet traversed Australia from east to west. At the London Geo graphical oongress Mr. Logan Lobley read an interesting paper showing what portions of the earth remained unex plored, and according to him the ex tent of these is 29,000,000 square miles ; 15,000,000 equaro miles in Af rica, 2,000,000 in Australia, 2,000,000 in Amarice. 2,000,000 in Asia and 400,000 in islands in the JBsolflo aro absolutely unknown. Besides in the artic regions there are 3,500,000 and in the an ti-rt ic regions 5,300,000 square miles that are unexplored, but which, being uninhabitable, are of scientific rather than of practical interest. Philadelphia Inquirer. Kipling's View ol lt. "The Englishman," said Mr. Kip ling, "will die for liberty, but he doen't care a straw for equality. The Frenchman, on the other hand, doesn't really know what liberty means, but he must have equality. As for the American, he is both indifferent to liberty ind equality, and goes in heart and soul for fraternity. This is really tho banu of tho American nation ; BO long as a man is a 'good fellow' he can do anything and people will approve, or, at least, will tolerate." ~~ A Golden Beginning. Gilhooly-Thic is a little peculiar? Hostetter McGinnis-What is pecu liar? "Young Freshy has really married that rich old widow he has been court ing." "What is there so funny about that?" "Nothing, except that he begins with his golden wedding. "- Texas Sifter. "PERKINS has resigned from the Im proved Order of Red Meu ?" "Yea, ho is getting up an organiza tion called the Improved Order of White Men."-Chicago Record. Travel with a Friend Who wlil protect you from those enemies musca, iadigestlon, malaria and the sickne-s produced hy rocking on thc waves, and some times by inland travel ns over tboro-igh beds ol ill laid radroad-'. Such a Jricnd ls Ho3 tctU'r> Stomach bitters. Ocean mariner*, yachtsmen, commercial and theatrical agents and tourists tcstl'y to tho piotet tlve potency of this offer tl ve .-afenuorJ, wliic'i conquers al ec rheumatism, nervousne s and biliousness. / Don't ferset that the summer hotel veranda is the happy hunting ground of thu must mir ileas gossips on earth. Buy il.oo worth Dobbins Floating-Borra **?P of your procer, aond ~Toppers to Dobbins Soap iWg Co., Philadelphia, Pa. They win send you ire? of charge, postage paid, a Worcester Pocket Dic tionary, 886 pa?os, bound in clot!', profusely U lnitrated Offer seed until Auirost 1st only. No matter how fast a good wheel may go, it is always tiro il. "Put mo down as a warm friend of TRTTEII INE. I have a child three yean oil who has been afflicted from its bin h with tho worst case of eczema I over t-a-r, lt bel?g ono mass of sores from its feet to Us crown. It has been treated by nlno of 'he most oiu'nent physicians in this and adjoining Staten with out tho slightest benefit. Several months nco we oommenced the use of TKTTKKINK on the child. and to-day, thank (Jod and tho manu facturers o.' TLTTCKI.VK, tho child is cured. My wife and I will ever feel grateful to you for ?ending us thia blessing." Yours truly. CUAS. A. CAMBELL. Druggl-t. Dallas N. C. I box hy mall for 50c. In stamp?. J. T. SHUPTIUNE, Savannah, Go. FITS stopped free by Un. KLINE'S ORBAT NKRVK RESTORER. \O lltsafter first day's use. Marvelous cures. Treatise and $2.H0 trial bot tle free. Dr. Kline. 93i Arch St.. Phlla.. Pa. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething,softens the gums.rednces inft-uom i Uon, allays paln.curos wind collo. 25u. a bottle. 7 Piso's Cure Is a wonderful Cough medicine. -Mrs. W. PICK ern. Van Sidon and Blake Aves., Brooklyn, N. Y" Oct. 26, 'W. 8t. Vitus' Dance. One bottle Dr. Fonner's Specific cures. Circular, Fredrika, V. Y. If afflicted with sore eyes use Ur. Isaac Thom; - son's Kve-watcr.Droir?lf?t? sel 1 a 125c per Imtr.l?. Best Results prove Hood's Sarsaparilla the best blood purlfler.appc t Izor and nerve tonic. lu f act Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists, fl Hood's Pills cure all Liver lils. 25 cents. Immense Fortune in Troes. The timber wealth of the United States gives a yearly product of over a billion dollars, or twice tho vuluo of the entire output of all tho mines put together-gold, silver, coal, iron, cop per, zino and tho rest. This is a re source worth keeping, and yet we are cutting i ato our capital at the fearful rate of 75 per cent each year, as only about 25 per cent, of the timber mar ket is represented by new growth. As for losses from tho fires that are started by locomotives, cattlemen, berry pick ers, hunters and incendiaries, it gives a sufficient idea of what they oust us to be told by the forestry commissioner of Pennsylvania that his state alouo probably suffers to the extent Of 33 J, - 000,000 annually from this ono cause. Not only tho trees are lost in these mighty conflagrations; the vegetable mold, which would supply fertility to tho soil for future agricultural pur poses, or food for tho roots of a second growth of forest, is burnt, and the first step is taken on that'easy descent to a landslide or flood bcd.-Scribner's Mtigazine. A MOTHER'S DUTY. i Your daughters are the most pi^e ci<JUS legacy possible in this life. The responsibility for them, and their future, is largely with you. The mysterious change that develops the thoughtful woman from tho thoughtless girl, should find you on the watch day and night. As you care for their physical well Compound" is the sure reliance ha this hour of trial. Thousands have found it the never-failing power to correct all irregularities and start the woman on the sea of life with that physical health all should have. Womb difficulties, displacements and tho horrors cannot exist in company villi Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Compound. Two WOMEN T'S a peri'ect day for a ride," said the young matron as sho poured -5 her husband's coffee at breakfast, "and if you can't stay at homo from business I'm going to telephone in for some man to come out and go riding with us." - Her husband couldn't stay, but he would meet them at the Saddle and Cycle Ulub at 5 o'olook for dinner, then I bey could all xido home to gether by moonlight. Then the city guest came downstairs and smiling apologized for being late, tactfully alluding to su 2h a comforta ble bod, and to the soothing influence of rural stillness. Whea the young matron's husband, who was the bluest-eyed, blondest haired, mildost-maunerad "bear" in all of natural history, hud gone, thc city guest played with tho baby in the the hammock and t ho young matron excused herself to hold her regular momie g session with the cook. But in the early afternoon the domestic machinery was running smoothly, the baby had been perambulated off by a freckled faced nurse who was "keep? ing steady company" with a private at Fort Sheridan, the young matron had telephoned for a. man, and the city guest was putting on her bicycle clothes. "We'll ride to Glencoe and meet him there, and then go on to tho club. The roads aren't very good yet, but it will be fun if you don't mind, rough riding. I don't, for it's more excit ing." So, after oiling up and pumping up and tightening up, they rolled out of tho little town into, thu fresh, early green cf tho country, with the mead ows and fields on one side and the luke on the other. Tho roads north of the city Ho moro or less near the lake, being, without doubt, tho most attractive to wheel men, and on fine Sundays they are traversed by many bicyclists. During the week there aro portions of theso roads which are lonely and deserted. While pedaling through 11 bit of woods, with the oity guest looking into thom on either side in search o? ..violets, the young matron said, suddenly : "My dear, isn't that .a tramp Jyin? there by that fallen tree ahead of us?" The other looked apprehensively at the indicated bundle of flittering tat ters an i discovered ono noso visible among thom-such a rod, red noso-a stubbly chin, three ragged black boots and ona ragged tan shoe. "No," she said, hopping off in or der to prevent the collapse of her slow moving wheel, "it's two tramps, and they're woree than they are in the funny papers. There 1 I knew you'd go over if you didn't get off!" "Lot's go back," tremulously sug gested "ho young matron, pushing in several loosened hair-pins aud raising her wheel. She was nervous and a lit tle pale, but she asked tho city guest if her tat was on straight. Tba city gnest was frightened, too, but she had such a happy fuoalty of disguising it that she had the reputation of being unusually brave and ready in an emer gency. . "No, let's go on and make a rush for it. We can pass so quickly they'll nover know till we're gone." But the passable part af tho road was narrow just where tho wayfarers wero taking a siesta, and nould per mit of only one girl passing at a time. So the plan seemed hardly feasible,for neither of the riders could make up her mind to gp last. Just then there was a movement of the tatt ors, boots and nose. Ono of tho men roso on his elbow and stared. His nos3 was less red than that of the other, but his chin was more stubbly. Now, the city guest had a secret pas sion for all things histrionic, and she noticed with a thrill of quick pleasure that thii godless man wore a bright handkerchief about his neck. This one artistio touch instantly trans formed him from a common tramp to something akin to the stage brigand, while tho background of trees und grass aad yellow road disappearing below the crest of a little hill in the distance made as effective a setting as she had ever seen. Her fear was lost in this new emotion and she laughed, exclaiming under her breath to her companion : "Oh, isn't it picturesque !" The young matron turned her hea l and looked at tho city guest's faoe, her dread rising to terror when sho saw tho radiant expression it wore. Suddenly she was eeized with the fear ful conviction that fear had tem porarily unhinged hor friend's mind, leaving her in the hands of a maniac and of two unscrupulous villains. She hid her faco in her hands and sunk down by the now forgotten bioycle and wept quietly till sho heard tho voice of her poor deranged friend mingled in the most cordial converse with those of tho two men ; then she lifted her head and gazed at them aghast. The three were exchanging friendly remarks about tho weather, after which they amicably discussed bi cycles and their respective merits, in spite of tho shrouded intelligence con cerning both the subject and tho Eng lish language as .displayed by two thirds of tho party. But unfortun ately the eyes that accompanies tho red, red nose wandered toward the young matron and discovered several valuable rings on her small, bare hands. "I'll take those party rings, lady, don't get scared, but just hand 'em over, quiet like and we'll bo mo v in' on." . The city guest turned sharply around at that. For i J an instant she hoped that the other ?ion would inter fere and nobly dissuada his friend from his purpose But he only winked at her cordially and said to the other : "lt's too risky, ain't it, Tobe?" Tobe's only reply was to thrust into hi? pocket the glittering things which the young mWon had, with trem bling reUef, drawn from her fingers and given him ; the next moment they were bath striding off through thc wood. Again that sense of adventure stimu lated tho city guest with a desire to live up to the occasion, ON WHEELS. .Toa. musin't loso your rings that way ; get up and rido as fast as you eau back to Highland Park and tell everybody about it, and PU go on to Glencoe and do tho samo.'' Hor dirootions were somewhat vague, but there wad nothing for tho young matron to do but obey them, for already the city guest had reached the top of tho little hill. Just then the young muiron saw the man who had boon telephoned to come out and ride to town with them com ing up on hia wboel rupiilJy. Hid bi oyclo stockings were of euch brilliant and remarkable design that she rec ognized him immediately. When they wero still'some distance apart she be gan her story at tho very top of her voice. "Don't get off!" sho shontod warn ingly ; "there's no timo to lose !" He was interested at once, and he was angrily excited when she had finished. "I'm going tho wrong way," ho said ; "I'll go back and not .let tho beasts get away while you go on and get 6orae other fellow to help," and he was tearing swiftly along ov jr tho road they had just come, whilo she, in her turn, did as she was directed. Just boforo reaching tho woods where tho encounter had taken place the young man turnod on" on a disused wagon track skirting the south side of the timber. Just whore tho road ceased to become a road ut a grassy meadow a man with a stubby chin and a bright handkerchief knottod be low it stepped out from among tho trees. "Wo seen her moot you nu' here's the stuff that belongs to the lady. I told Tobe it was too all-fiery risky, au' ho guesses it is hisself. ?o long, mister, and ho ran rapidly into the thick underbrush and disappeared. Dinner at the Saddle and Cycle Club was a success, nevertheless. Tho young matron recovered sufficiently to enjoy the evening, but sho abso lutely refused to join in tho toast pro posed by the city guest: "To tho Gont With the Bandana Handkerchief. ' -Washington Pathfinder. Crippled, But Lively; It is a well known fact that naturi makes partial amends for the loss of ouo faculty by strengthening those left to us. Tho logs of sight is fol lowed by an extraordinary acuteness of the sense of sound. There are severul blind mcu well known about New York who thread tho crowded sections o? Broadway with apparently as much ease a3 thoso who can 'seo. They go about fearlessly, ignoring tho dangers of cable cars, trucks and trolleys without even the assistance of the traditional dog, trusting wholly in the sound of tho staff on tho pave ment. Thoro. is a cripple who haunts the vicinity of Seventy-first street and First avenue, propelling himself on a crude little board on wheels by means of his hands. His withered Hmb3 aro twisted np beneath him, useless from birth. But his powerful urms take tho place of both legs and feet. Ho can roll along through the crowded thoroughfares, across the streets, and dodge tho trucks aud trams with astonishing celerity and certainty. He is known to tho entire neighborhood, and ho is practically tho boss of tho ward. Peoplo seem to have much re spect for his judgment on their various affairs, and ho is consulted as ofton as a Tammany leader. Sometimes tho street urchins attempt to tako liberties with him. They never do it twico. He has u way of suddenly hopping oil his board on his hands, with a leap like that of a kangaroo, and grabbing a boy by thc leg and shaking all tho courage out of him, which has earned him the respect of the knowing ones. Ho can whip a man of twico his eizo and weight. All he wants is to get his enemy within reach, and it is done. Being high strung audquick tempered, his fighting qualities havo been fre quently tested. The young roughs of tho neighborhood aro in deadly feur of those arms. Thero ia not much sympathy wasted on that cripple, you may readily imagine.-New York Herald. Tho Industrious Yellowhammer. William B. O'Neill, of tho Paoifie vinegar factory, rotiood ? ycllowham mer industriously ut work ono day re cently on tho siding of tho factory building. Mr. O'Neill watched tho bird for somo time, and iusido of an hour it had cut a round bolo two or three inches in diameter through thc inch planking. Mr. O'Neill is not u mean man, and if the bird cared to make its home in his vinegar factory, why, it was all right. Next day, how cvor, he noticed that the yellowham mer was engaged on another hole. "It's for a back door," thought tho owner of tho building. But after it had finished tho back door it cheer fully went to work on the other holes, probably for windows. By the timo there wero fifteen holes in tho side of the factory Mr. O'Neill coacluded]that the yellowhammer was taking liberties with his property. So ho obtained permission from tho Chief of Police to shoot it. For a wholo day tho office boy and Mr. O'Neill's brother banged away without feazing tho littlo bird, and it was finally nocessary to omploy an expert marksman to bring it down. Tho marksman charged fif ty cents for his services, and Mr. O'Neill also lost tho best part of a day nailing boards over tho holes in tho planking.-Port land Oregonian. 31 u in-ii y Manufacture. A moihod of mummifying tho dead by absorption of humidity aud gases after the body is placed in tho coffin has boen devised by an Italian named Vercelloni. Tho body seems to be preserved as if in lifo, ccept that tho color is the yellowie copper tint peculiar to Egyptiun n mies. Phonographs iu tfies. The new watch is to h a phono graph cylinder hidden : jr, and nt tho hour and at each q:: .?ter of an hour a tiny voico will be heard giving you tho exact time. You will simply touch a spring, hold tho wcitcb to your car, and the little fairy on the insido will whisper the hour. BUDGET OE FUN. H?310ROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. "Love Will Find the Way'*-The Girl for Him-The Size of It-The Re tort Courteous-Worse Than the Heat, Etc., Etc.,. Ho plodgod his heart, ho pledged his love, Ho plodgod his promise sweeter, And thon, to bav the engagement ring, IIo pledged his gold ropeater. -Puck. THE GIRL FOR HTM. Fred-"Ho scorns bent on matri mony." Arthur-"Well, if he marries hei she'll straighten him out." EXTRA HAZARDOUS. "Accident insurance agents class bicycling as extra hazardous." "Who payB the extra rate-oyclists or pedestrians?"-Pucli. TUE SIZE OP rr. "I should think it would take all yon conld make to pay for so much adver tising." "It would tako mo:ro than I could make to pay for loss."-Puck. ADMIRATION. '"What do you admire most about Snobbe's literary work?" "Tho compensation he manages to get for it," replied tho person who is chronically envious. - Washington Star. A SAFE DEDUCTION. "lam almost suro that Jenkins is going to leavo Mrs. Toptloor's flat." "What makes you think so 1" "Ho gavo Mrs. Toptloor's little bey a toy drum the other day."-Ohioago Record. SEASONABLE. Professor-"When is tho best time for gathering apples?" Young Student-"Please, sir, when the farmor'a back is turned and there is no dog iu tho orchard."-Boston Transcript. TERRIRLE MEN. She-"I am so afraid cf you news paper men 1" He-"Why? Aiewesobad?" , She-"No; but thero's no telling when yon are going to press. "-Hart ford Times. AN ESSENTIAL OMITTED. "Tho author of this article on 'A dollar dinner for four* loft out a very important direction. "What did-ho leave oat?" "Instructions for obtaining tho dol lar."- Judge THE RETORT COURTEOUS. Dyer-"What is your business, moy I ask?" Boorish Stranger-"I'm a gentle man, sir. Thut's my business." Dyer-"Ah! You bavo failed, !. see. "-Truth. ? HIS ARTISIIC LIFE. Art Professor (to pupil minus tal ent)- "You huve tried charcoal, water colors and oil without success, and your attempts at landscapes and casto are a failure What can you draw ?" Unabashed Pupil-"My breath, air.'.',, ... I _ EASILY EXPLAINED. "I presume you corry a momonto of some sort in that locket of yours?" "Precisely. It is o lock of my hua-, band's hair." "J3ut your husband is still alive." "Yes, sir; but his hair is all gone." -Hartford Times. A CASE OF HEREDITY. Smith-"Old Dr. Pill's son is mak ing ducks and drakes out of the for tuno that his futher left him, so I hear." Jones-"Well, what else could yon expect ? The old man was a quook, wasn't he?"-Judge. WORSE THAN TOE HEAT. Hoax-"I've got a groat schemo for tho warm weather." Joax-"Lot's havo it." Hoax -"I'm going to keep a smail boy near mo sharpening slate pencils, lt always makes my blood run cold." -Philadelphia Record. A TRUE GENTLEMAN. Guest (of summer hotel, to proprie tor)-"Your head-clerk is one of the most accommodating man I ever saw." Proprietor-"I'm glad you think so. What ho3 ho dono for you?" "I put $100 in the safe, and he let mo have $5 of it book. "-Life. A GOOD OPENING. "I'm going to move my business to Greenville," said Pawl, the undertak er, to a friend. "isn't tho town woll supplied with undertakers?" asked the friend. "I think not. There aro only two there now, whilo tho place has twelve physicians. "-Puck. CLOTHES AND THE MEN. Van Arndt-"I bought a golf oap yesterday. " Fonilworth-"What links are you going to play on?" "None. I'm going bicycling. What ore you doing with that oyoling ?wenter ?" "Going out Ashing."-Truth. FLATTERING. Funny Man (who has been imitating animals)-"Well, what do you thiDk of my proficiency?" Jinks-"Ton can't fool me." "What do you mean?" "I mean that braying like a donkey. There was no imitation about that. That was the real article. "-Detroit Tribune. A SOLEMN WARNING. "Now, Josh," said the old man to his eighteen-year-old son, "we allow to board a lot of oity gals this sum mer, and you want to keep out of fullin' in love with 'em, sure. It ain't been moro'n twenty year ogo that I fell in love with ono of our city board ers, and when sho jilted me," he con tinued, lowering his voice and looking cautiously over his shoulder, "it made mo feel so bad thet I rushed right off and niarrit your maw before 1 thought what I was doinV-Cincinnati En quirer. TURNED THE JOKE. Ho was a delicate young man in a pink shirt and duck trousers, both of which ho wore in a pompous and con ceited mannor. Ho was seated in the train dangling his tennis racquet, and busily""amiusifig* n number of bright young ladies and g?utkmen of his ya?ty. ^\ . "Ah, how good I Here's 'tbe coo ductor, Watch we astonish Iii , .*lTioket, air," said the conductor. "My dear man," said the young man, "my-er-face is my ticket." ' The conductor smiled and looked around at the young man's friends, and then, in a polite and apologetic manner,- said, "I beg your pardon, ladies and gentlemen, but my orders are to punch all tickets, and I'm afraid I might destroy this tioket so much that I can't turn it in at the end of tho run." Here tho young man colored reddoj than his shirt, and hastily produced his ticket amid shouts of laughter from his friends.-Hurper's Round Table. WORDS uT WISDOM. Tho most preposterous thing in lif ) is honesty in love. In too many cases marriage Is sim" ply a polite serfdom. Truth is a virtuo, but a mighty awk ward ono in a horse trade. Death is a eauce without which life would be barely palatable. Death is a whip, and with famous persons it has a cracker on tho end. Death is co swift that it overtakes everybody and yet so slow that anyone can catch it. When a woman is engaged to be married she thinks that life has just begun for her. Life is an oyster that very often turns out to bo bad just as wo get ready to eat it. Every girl of sixteen has contempt for tho patience old women havo for their husbands. Tho office never seeks tho man be cause it can't push its way through the crowd of politicians. Some men aro so mean that they have to bo dead a loug whilo beforo they are well spoken of. A girl always worries more about the lint on a man's coat beforo sho marries him than sho docs afterward. When ajnan is engaged to bo mar ried ho spends most of his timo won dering if ho hasn't mado a big mis take. A monopoly is a good doal like a bnby. A mon is opposed to it on gen eral principles until ho has ono of his own. Somo persons win a certain social recognition by claiming to bu tired of strawberries whilo thoy aro yet high priced. Those who attain any excellence commonly spond lifo in ono common pursuit, for excellence is not gained upon easier terms. The political orator is as jealous of a brass band as a preacher is of a splendid choir. It is a stand-off as to who draws tho most people.-The Sonth-West. _ Too Strongly Epigrammatic. "Epigrammatic sentences arc inter esting, but thoro is such a thing as ho ing too strongly epigrammatic," said R. F. Barnett, of Louisville, at tho Shoreham. "I waa going into Louis ville from Memphis. On tho train wes a whito haired old lady, with whom chance drew mo into conversation.' Wo became quito friendly, and sho' told mo that she was going to visit her son, whom eho had not seen for two or three years. Ho had written a few weeks before, a?king her to visit him at Louisville, naming a certain hotel. She arranged her aflairs as quickly as possible and went. At the depot she was greatly disappointed not to meet her son, and I accompanied her to tho hotel, it being the ono I was in the habit of patronizing. I took her to the parlor and volunteered to find her son. The clerk had not eeen him, but gavo me a letter for the lady. As soon os she read tho first lino sho fainted, and I hurriedly sent for a physician, picking up tho letter. Tho first para graph was : 'My Dear Mo thor : I am now in the penitenti-ry.' I was shocked, but read further. Tho next paragraph said : 'I have a good posi tion with thc contractors, and it is im possible to get away. Como on to Frankfort I havb already rented a house for us to livo in.' It took ns three hours to bring tho mother to consciousness. "-Washington Star. Transportation ot Bank Soles. United States Treasurer Morgan has issued a circular revoking that of November 17, 1893, which required: the charges for tho transportation of National bank notes to tho Treasurer of the United States for redemption, under tho act of Juno 20, 1874, to bo paid by tho senders. In explanation of this action, it is said at the Treas ury that, under tho presont arrange ment, tho banks at tho Eastern money couters. aro constantly receiving re mittances in National bank notes from the country banks, and as those noto-] cannot bo used as lawful reservo, tho Eastern bankers are compelled to send them to tho Treasury for redemption at.their own expense. They complain that this arrangement entails au, un just burden, which should bo distrib uted among the banks of issue. This view is shared by the Treasury officials, and boneo tho now order. Hereafter, at tho end of tho year tho cost of transporting National bank notes to tho Treasury for redemption will be charged against each bank of issue, according to tho amount of its notes redeemed during thc year.-Washing ton Star._ A Bacillus Hidden Town. It has long been a cause of contro versy among physicians as to whether consumption is contagious or not, and ono of thc strongest arguments that it is that has yet been produced is the story of tho fate of tho villagers of Mentone. * Forty years ago this placo was ono of tho healthiest villages in Franco, whose inhabitants wero of superb physical development It was discov ered about this time that tho climate of Mentone was remarkably b?n?ficiai in cases of lung diseases, and pcoplo afflicted in this way flocked thither from all pa:rts of Europe. Tho natural result was that tho peo ple who had hitherto been engaged in farming ono and all betook themselves to ministering in various ways to tho throngs of invalids. Tho strong and healthy women of Mentone becaino laundresses, and washed, without tak ing the least precautions, tho con sumptives' clothes. Tho place is now described a3 being a "bacillus ridden pest hole." The very soil and air aro said to bo contaminated.-New York Journal. * Mowers Grow on un Island's Cinder. When tho island voicano Krakatoa, at the northwest end of Sumatra, blew up thirteen years ago, destroying over a hundred thousand lives, every vestige of vogotable lifo was de stroyed. An obsorvor after tho erup tion found that what was left of tho island was red hot. Four years later a naturalist found that tho ashes had cooled enough to allow plants to grow and that 210 different species of plants had started up, tho soods for many of ,whioh must havo been blown across th.e surrounding water, '????-^a*, A. WELCOME VROM THE WQQ?gf j Zn the silonoo of thcir.'shadow3, In {hoir rohes of green and brown, The woods h?ve euch a welcome ^ For a foi\qw off from towni The trees-they bow "Good morning," In a captivating way, And tho brooks that foss the lilia V 8eom to say-Seem to say; . ? / "Your busy life ls folly'-^ How sad your cities loo!},. But tho life I load is jolly Bait your hook, bait y?urhook!". In tho Bilenco of thoir shadows, In thoir blossoms raining down, The woods aro so inviting To a follow off from townl Tho broad oaks wavo thoir banners, Whilo airy Oddlcs play, And you let your soul go loafing Whoro the honeysuckles say: ? ' "Your city lifo is folly- ! A blossom ou a brook; But tho lifo wo load is jolly Bait your hook, bait vourhook!" -I: lt. Stanton, PITH ?ND POINT. "All well at your honsc?" "Yes; times are eo hard that not a sod in the family has been sick for a year." Possibly : Tcacbcr-"Why did free dom shriek when Kosciusko feil?" Tommy-"Mebbe he fell on her new hat."-Indianapolis Journal. "Did you have a good spiD, Kath arine?" "No, tho road was so rough it jostled all the beets and radishes off my new hat."-Chicago Becord. "George Washington married a widow, didn't he?" "Yes." "What a snap a widow must havo had with a man who couldn't toll a lie!"-Puck. Ob, had tho power tho ?litio jju'on us, To soo ouHoi's as Ithors soo U3; What awful sights we'd Hud wo arc; I LWo'ro bettor Ignorant by fur. -Philadelphia North American. Yeast-"I heard that Bcasloy said he would trust me with his pocket book. What do you think of that?" Crimsonbcak-"I don't think thore's anything in it." Mabel-"And so he had the assur ance to demand that you marry him. What did you say?" Ethel-"I told him tho supply was not equal to tho demand. "-Truth. Crace-"I am going to seo Clara to day. Have yon any message?" Dora - "I wonder how you caa visit that dreadful frump! Give her my love." -Boston Transcript. "Bo mine," ho implored. "No," she answered. "J won't tako 'no* foi an answer," he shrieked. "Nit, then," sho responded. And ho took his hat and sadly went.-Scruuton Truth. "Could you eparo me a little money this morning, dear?" said she. "Beally," tho brutal husband replied, with a harsh dyspeptic laugh, "judg ing from tho biscuit?, I thought you had more dough to burn."-Cincinnati Enquirer. Merchant -"You say you aro ai orphan?" Applicant for Position "Yes; I haven't a livia? relative.'' Merchant-"Well, I'll tako you. I ought to got a lot of work out of you during .tho baseball season."-Phila delphia Becord. . "Papa," said Willie, "Jimmi? Tompkins scratched my faco all up.,: "What had you dono to him?': ! "Nothing." "Then why didn't you hit him?" "I did; and, papa, I got 'my lick in before ho scratched me." Harper's Bazar. "Yon have a very complete estab- j llBhment here," eaid tho customer to' ;the proprietor of ono of the large New York dry goods ?toros, whilo waiting for his change; "but I think you might improve it by tho introduction of a few lightning chango artists." In South America : Tourist-"Why can't you put a stop to these continua! insurrections?" Native-"We are con sidering a measure now which may have a tendoucy in that direction. It is proposed to reduce tho President's term of oflico to three weeks, and to pr?vido that ho shall not be eligiblo for a second teim."-Puck. Cat Skius in the Fur Market. According to somo authorities tho time is not so far distant when the im perial sable, tho royal minnivcr and tho commercial sealskin will become so scarco that thoy will be within tho attainment of millionaires alone; but, us the reports upon tho fur eales show, thcro is no fear of this state of things coming about next season. The sup plies of all kinds aro still ample, and, indeed, are in several instances exces sive, with tho reault that,although tho general demand is very fair, many de preciations in value have been re ported. By tho way, tho cat skin appears to hold an important place in tho fur market. During last week G86?" "com mon cat" skins woro offered, as com pared with 80G9 last year, but tueso were of rather indifferent quality and realized very low prices. In the mat ter of "house cat" skius 2-1.190 wero offered, against 13,038 lust year, there being in this class, in addition to the usual American collection, a large parcel of dressed Bussian skins ; tho whole woro howover disposed of cheap ly. Tho domestic pussy of this country may, therefore, at present prowl around in peace. The time has yet to como when a premium will bo set upon her skin for purposes of wear. Indeed, the city cat everywhere, in every laud, may laugh at furriers to eternity, perhaps,- because it is not ber skin that is valued as fur. It is too thin and its fur is very inferior. Tho thicker coat of tho country cat is what is worked up into seal and bea ver, sable and no ono knows how many kinds of imitations for tho30 who want fur, but cannot afford tho genuine high-priced article. - Philadelphia Ledger._ mm-" -i Electric Plows. Tho mott popular forms of electric plows oro tho small tilting plows adapt ed for private farming purposes. Thceo aro provided with two plow shares on either side, whilo in front of these is a forccuttor, which pre pares tho ground. Tho plow is mado entirely of steel, and is GO sbrong that it is powerful enough to cu?\ furrows to tho dopth of ono foot in tho)hardest kind of soil, 'ibo plow is also pro vided with an ingenious' arrangement of underground loosenors, which fol low tho plow and loosen tho sub-soil to a depth of sixteen inches, biri with out turning it over. An electric mo tor is mounted on the plow?i'rame. Tho speed of thoso plows may \bo in creased indefinitely merely by - turn ing the switch on the electric motor to a higher pog. In ordinary soil these plows havo devcloped>*fho speed of a littlo moro than 258 feet per minuto. _ _ Edward Licklederer, of Atchison, Kan., was coasting down u steep hill in that city whon ho lost control of tho machine and was shot through a plato glass window of a store, and smashed UP against the opposite wall. Wonderful Things That Are Near. Flying is solved. The principle is known. A mechanical expedient is all that is now needed to make it success ful. Practical flight is today not more than five or ten years off. A glowworm makes light with about one three-hundredth part of tho forco used in ordinary artificial light. When mon know how to make light as cheap, street and homes will be as light as day for a mere fraction of what light now oosts. This is near. Vacuum illumination without incandescense is already in full operation,and in a year or two should cut down the price of light to a sixth of its current cost, and in five or ton years light in a city may bi, like water, turned on in every house at will. Compressed air has long been known to be the best way, theoretically, tc slore force for use in transportation. There is no waste and no deterioration. The need is a cheap and efficient motoi to apply compressed air to city trans' portation. If this can bo done, lirai tho trolly poles and wires will com? down, next the horseless, air-com pressed motor carriages will do all th< work of tho city delivery. When theso changes como tho onlj use for gas will bo for cooking-if thii ie not done by electricity. Factories a?.so, before many years, will be rai by transmitted electric power. Thi has begun to bo done and in five oi ten years will be completed, and th factory fire and boiler will be a thinj of tho past. Tho city of the future, anil no ver distant future, will havo no trollop poles or wires and no horses. Al movemonts will bo on rails by silen air motors or by horseless carriage equally silent. All pavements will bi asphalt. Unlimited light will bo a cheap as unlimited water is today. Xi coal will bo delivorod at private house and no ashes taken from them, Will no horse, no coal and no ashes, stree dust and dirt will be reduced to ; minimum. With no factory fires am no kitchen or furnace fires, tho ai will be as puro in the city as in th country. Trees will havo a chance Houses will bo warmed and lighted a easily and cheaply as they aro now sup plied with water. A city will bo a pretty nico place t live in when the first twenty years o tac twentieth contury are passed. Philadelphia Press. Musical Item. Thc minister, Parson Downycouch was nt dinner with the Chaffie family Johnnie spoko np and said : "Can a church whistle?" "Why do you ask, Johnnie?" aske tho clergyman, kindly. "Because pa owes $12 back po1 rent, and he says he is going to let th church whistle." After tho clergyman had taken hi departure, there was a vocal solo b Johnnie.-Texas Sifter. When lt Hurts. Sho looked at his new bicyolo wit considerable interest. "It's not very high," she said. " should think it would hurt to fall froi that." '"It doesn't," ho ropliod, terselj ' The falling off is perfectly harmlesi but it's different when you reach th pavement."-Chicago Post. A Helpful Coterie. "So you enjoy belonging to the Ft Men's club?" ? "Oh, yes; it's delightful." "What aro some of the pleasures? "Why, every fat man in the olu discovers at once that all the othc men in the club are iatter thuu hu is. -Louisville Courier-Journal. The Wheel. "Aro you riding your wheel nov Gilhooly?" "No." "Sworo off?" "No, fell off. "-Texas Sifter. How Old You ncod not ansv for in your case ago is will always bo true 1 aa sbo looks." Noth so deeply upon worn; It is natural, therefo: .anxious to preservo 1 abundance and beaut; tho crowning gift of to possess it. Nothin to this gift or to possessed. Ayer's I or faded hair to its oi by simply aiding n nutrition necessary There is no better than AYER'S fi Drink HIRES Rootbeet when y oil* re hot; when ?youyre thirsty; when callen come. At any and all tima drink HIRES Rootbccr. ?. Vide -=l T by Thr Charin E. Him Co., FhlltlflphU.' A tte. p*ck*go mallei i gillon*. Hell ercrrabrro. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Tulane University of Louisiana. Tts nd vantage.! for practical Instruction, liol in ample laboratories ami abundant hos pit materials arc unequale 1. 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A N. D .Thirty, 'I SO'S 'CURE U?RlS WHLHE Alt ELSE 1AILS. I Oedt Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. In time. Sold by drn^KlM*. Law and Longevity. IQ an address before the St Louis Law school, Chauncey M. Depew said: The law promotes longevity. It is because its disoipline improves the physical, the mental and the moral conditions of its practitioner. In other words, it gives him control over him self, and a great philosopher has writ ten that he who could command him self is greater than he who has cap tured a city. The world has been seeking for all time the secret of lon gevity and happiness. If they can be unitod, then we return to the conditions of Methuselah and his compatriots. Whether I may live to their age, I know not, but I think I have discovered the secret of Me th usa lek's happy continuance for nearly 1,000 years upon this planet. Ho stayed hero when ho had no steam and no electricity, no steamers upon the river or the ocean propelled by this mighty power, no electric light, no railways spanning tho continent, no overhead wires and no cables under tho ocean communicating intelligenoa around the world, and no trolley lines roduoing tho redondant population. Ho livod, not beoauso ho was freo from tho excitements incident to the age of steam and electricity, but because of tho secret which I havo discovered, and it is this : Longevity and happi ness depends upon what yon pnt iu your stomach and what gets in your mind Balzac on Color Influence. Balzac's curious speculations suggest thc extont to which color influences our human lifo. He had noticed that a woman who had a taste for orange or green gowns was quarrelsome; one who woro a yellow or black apparel, without apparent canse, was not to bo trusted; preforoneo for white showed a coquette spirit; gentle and thoughtful women prefer pink ; women who re gard themselves as being unfortunate prefor pearl gray; lilac is the shade particularly .iffectod by "over-ripe beauties:" wherefore, tho great author held, lilac hats are mostly worn by mothers on their daughters' marriage day and by women more than 40 years old when they go visiting. These theories aro founded upon tho principles of color, ns already laid down-namely, that red and yellow excite; green, tempered by blue, is bilious; orango is flory; gray is oold and melancholy ; lilac is a light shade of purple, tho most retiring color of the scale.- Popu'ur Sc.'enoe Monthly. In Doubt. "Do my vocal lessons disturb you?" asked the young woman with musical ambitions. "Not that I know of," replied the truthful young man. "Why, I should think vou'J know if they did." "No. Since tho dentist took the front room on tho first floor for an cfGce I can't tell whether you're prac ticing music or ho's practicing his pro fession." Perfectly Safo. Mamma-I don't like tho idea of r? j that young Harris hanging around ?? Jenny so much. He hasn't a cent ex LC j ccpt his little salary. Papa-You needn't worry. They aro both too busy talking about bioy oles to have any time for lovo-making. -Indianapolis Journal. Tho Child Enjoys The pleasant flavor, gentle action and sootft* ins effect of Syrup of Figs when in need of a laxative, and if the father or mother be costive or bilious, tho moat gratifying results follow its use; so that it is the best family roraedy known and every family should hare a bottle lt Don't form lifelong friendships iq three days. A'birt Uurob, West Tole lo, Ohio, says: " Ilatl'd Catarrh Cure saved my iii?." Writo him fur particulars. 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Custom has made them believe the only hope of relief lies in the exposure of examina tion and "local treatment." Take ten cases of "female weakness" and in niue of them "local treatment" is unnecessary, There is no reason why modest, sensitive women should sub mit to it. McELREE'S ? NEOFCARDUI is a vegetable wine. It exerts a wonder fully healing, strengthening and sooth ing influence over the organs of woman kind. It invigorates and stimulates the whole system. It is almost infallible in curing the peculiar weaknesses, irre gularities and painful derangements of woman. Year after year, in the privacy of home-away from the eyes of every body-it effects cures. WTYE OF CABDUI ls sold flor ?1.00 . bottle. Dealers In medicine sell lt. Itv* bottles usually cure the worst ease?. flDlllll*1"* WHISKY habits cared. Baokwnl UT 1UHI BL*A 5n AIL m^rri, Gj,