Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, May 25, 1898, Image 4

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The Ballet in Russia. In St Petersburg, they take the art seriously. There ballets have a continuance of three hours, and the theater then is the rendezvous of the smartest, the most artistic and the very aristocratic sets. It has the full Indorsement of royalty. Thc ballet too, takes the place of pantomine for children, and frequently a hall of amusement is thronged with the little people all arrayed in their "best clothes." The special event of the winter sea son has been the production of The Mikado's Daughter, a ballet by Vla dimir Langammer, the general man ager of the Imperial Theatre Marie, one of the three royal playhouses of the Russian capital. It ha? been drawing crowded houses and distinguished, au diences, and there has not been such a terpsichorean success since Tschai kowsky's The Beauty cf the Sleeping Woods. The ballet ls entrancingly danced, all Russian ballets are, by the premiere danseuse, Mlle. Kchessinskaia, a na tive, educated in the imperial schools, of which she possesses all the qualities -Immense ease and facile grace. The Russians call it the French school of dancing to distinguish it from the Italian method. Mlle. Kehessinskaia, though not precisely beautiful, is something more interesting in her ele gant, attractive fragility and lends much finish to M. Langammer's clever and exquisitely conceived idea. She is as light as thistle down before the breeze, and soap bubbles do not sus tain themselves in space with more airy ease than does this charming young woman. The Mikado's Daughter is just what a ballet should be-coherent, intelligi ble idealism, based on strictly accurate realism. The music, by Baron Wra?" gel, is original, well adapted to the subject and full of tuneful, restful charm and entrancing melodies. To write the excellet libictto the author has evidently studied all the best authorities on Japan, and the re sult is a highly entertaining object les son on the habits, customs and ido syncrasies of the Mikado's subjects. A premiere danseuse is not indis pensable to this ballet, which is called "a fantastic," though it is much more a ballet of manners and character, and states that the promise of a school of i stage representation at the present | hour. A leading dramatic authority | states that the promise cf a school for pantomime in Paris, following ch-sely ! the disappearance of the school for ballet in Milan, is evidence of the way things are drifting more or less con sciously. Good For Business. "I should think that all this war talk -would stimulate the stationery business," remarked Larimer. "I don't see why it should," re plied Frankstown. "Think of all the notes which the European governments are exchang- j ing." Ead Pay and Hard Work. The had pay and hard work of trained I nurses bas often been made tbe subject of j benevolent remonstrance by eminent medical menand nonprofessional philanthropists. It I ls well for au invalid, before he sets so bad as | to need a nurse or doctor, to usc Hostetter's : Stomach Bitters if he HHS chills and lever, constipation, rheumatism, dyspepsia and nervousness. Use it regularly. A Leipsic professor delivered a lecture tho ! other day on "Darkest Eu rope"-upper Alba Bia, where the custom of blood-feud costs thc country 3,000 lives a year, nnd makes most people afraid toleavo their village. To Cure a Cold In One Day. Take Laxativo Bromo Quinine Tableta. All Druggists refund money if lt fails tocare. 25c The valuo of the ?trgs imported into the United Kingdom last year aggregated tho enormous sum of ?21,783,993. iio-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. Guaranteed tobacco haft cure, makes weak men strong, blood pure 60c. 81. All druggists. Sonth Carolina ls to have a textile school before long. 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We cannot speak too high ly of Cascareis. " KnED WARTHAS, 570S Germantown Ave.. Philadelphia, Pa. CANDY CATHARTIC TRADE MARK REGISTERED Pleasant. Palatable. 1'otent, Taste Good. Do Good. Never Sicken. Weaken, or Gripe. 10c. 25c. 50c. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. ... Bterllac Demrdj Conpin?, fbleago, Montreal, Keir York. 314 Mfl Til EAP Sold and Guaranteed by all drug HU" I U"DAw gists to C?B? Tobacco Habit. CATARRH ASTHMA- ; S K(N DISEASES SC A MONTH is A I.I. io:- consultation, ?.. craination and medicine. What a small sum t Insu' o cood health ami happiness. Write for frei symptom book. COPE1.ANU MEDICA I INSTITUTE, 315-310 Klser Bldg., Atlanta Cia CURES WHERE ALL ELSE: fAILS. _ Heat Cough Syrup. Txitcs Good. Uso In time. S<>l? by druggist." C O M.S UM P Tip OL ; OUK BUDGET OF HUMOR LAUGHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOR LOVERS OF FUN. Sect and Epicurean-SIJO Thought Ko iras Asleep-Froper Classification-Im possible-Easy to Cues;-Qualified The Pear Things-Evasion, Etc., Etc. Tbe dandelion's told now gleams So thickly o'er the meadow lot, That, to our loving gaze, it sooms A gnyly blooming garden spot; And to onr weary soul3 it means Renewal of joys long since forgot; They make tho very finest greens That over graced a dinner pot. Proper Classification. "Borrowing is a disease," said Big bee in self-justification. "And lending is insanity," replied Small, significantly. - Philadelphia North American. Sho Thought He TTas Asleep. "Papa, what is a financial forecast?" "It's the way your mother looks through my pocketbook af. night be fore she asks me for money next morn ing. "-Chicago Record. Easy to Guc9S. McSwatters-"See that man over there. He's a woman hater." MoSwitters- "Humph! anybody could tell that by the sloppy clothes ho wears."-Syracuse Herald. Evasion. "Ain't I little bow legged?" asked the dubious young man. "Bow legged?" said the tailor. "The idea! Your lower limbs, sir, are abso lutely without a parallel!"-Indiana polis Journal. Unsalable. Weaver-"Poetry is something that is born in one; it cannot bo acquired. The making of poetry is a gift." Beaver-"So is the disposing of if, BO far as I have had any experience.'' -Boston Transcript. Impossible. "How did Fakem, the hypnotist, get along on his last trip?" "First rate, until he tried the im possible. He hypnotized a tramp one day and tried II make him eaw ?wood."-Brooklyn Lifo. . Qualified. "So Blix passed his law examina jtions with flying colors?" j "Yes. tho examining committee pro ipounded one hundred principal laws Ito him, and he told how ninety-five of ;them could be evaded."-Detroit Jour nal. Still Another Order. "What's this new patriotic order Smith has founded?" "Cousins of the Fievolution. Yen see, Smith's great-grandmother prom ised to bo a sisler of a man who after ward fought in the War of Independ ence."-Life. The Dear Tilings. Ho-"You know- Jones'.'i wife, an old schoolfellow of years; tell me, is she musical?" She (her dearest friend)-"I should say decidedly not, or she wouldn't be so fond of hearing the sound of her own voice."-Punch. Sufficient Cause. "Tho blush of dawn!" commented the sarcastic boarder, who had found a bit of verso in ono of tho papers. "Why should the dawn blush?" "Probably," suggested Asbury Pep pers, "over the recollection of the night. "-Cincinnati Enquirer. Had >'o ether to Turn. Sabbath School Teacher-"Why, Petey Murphy! Fighting again 1 Did not last Sunday's lesson teach that when voa are struck on one cheek to turn the other to the striker?" Petey Murphy-"Yes'm; but he belted me on the nose, an' I only got one."-Puck. Undecorated. Mrs. Williston-"How is it, Colonel, that you have no medals? All the other officers of your regiment have lots of them." Colonel Copeton-"Well, you see, I don't belong to any bicycle club, and never made a century run in my life." -Chicago News. The Stove Went Oat, Mistress-"Get dinner to-day on the gasoline stove, Bridget." Bridget--"Plaze, mum, I did thr-y. but th' stove wint out." Mistress-"Try again, then." Bridget-"lis, mum, but it's not come back yit. It wint out t'rough th' roof."-New York Weekly. Johnnlo's Vleir. Johnnie-"Mr. Newrich, you anc sister must have had a pretty big quarrel." A Mr. X.-"What makes you think so, Johnnie?" Johnnie-" 'Cause I heard mamma say you'd been makin' up to her foi tho lust two or three weeks."-Brook; lyn Life., Little Willie Knew. Sunday-school Teacher- "Come, now, children, tell me, what house is always oten to everybody-to the rich and the poor, the young and the old, the sick and th9 well? Do you know what house I mean?" Little Willie-"Yeth, ma'am; 1 know?" Teacher-"Well", Willie, what house is it?" Willie-"The police station." Baltimore Life. Contagious. It was on a crowded suburban cai ont of Washington, one day last sum mer, that a middle-aged woman, carry ing a fretful baby, was forced to squeeze herself into a small space left vacant beside a dapper youth of possi bly twenty years. His countenance had all the expression of his immacu late white suit, except for a look ol disgust which he assumed as tho baby, in its restlessness, would touch him with foot ?r hand. Finally he turned toward the woman and inquired, iu n tone quite audible to those near him: "Ah, beg pawdou, madam, but has this child anything-ah-contagious?" The nurse was a motherly-looking woman. Glancing compassionately at him through her gold rimmed specta cles, she remarked, meditatively: "Well, now, I don't know, young man; but-ah-it might be to you. She's teething!" After this, for thc few moments be fore he left tho car, the young ma.Vs face was a study in expression.-Har per's Magazine. Hough on the Doctors. A newspaper printed in Spokane, Wash., has announced its intention to "publish the name of the attending physician in each case Avhere the patient dies." The language of the announcement is somewhat ambigu ous, yet the purpose is sufficiently in telligible to enable it to be character ized as colossally impudent.-Medi cal Kecord. The average consumption of Cali fornia wine is 22,000,000 gallons, but tho wine crop is short this year by nearly fifty per cent, AGRICULTURAL.' ? Clover nnd Grass. Wherever it is intended to let the seeding lie moro than two years be fore plowing, some grass seed should always be sown with clover. In fact, says the American Cultivator we think somo grass and seed ought to be sown any way, as failure to get a seeding somewhere else may mako it necessary to koop tho field "n grass a year longer than is intended. The only question is, what gi;ss seed shall bo sown? Timothy is ti.** uni versal standby. But it is not ready to cut when the clover is, and it also runs out after a few years, unless an nually top dressed. Orchard grass is more permanent, but it requires three or four years to fully cover the sur face. If clover and timothy and or chard grass are sown together, ?hey will cover the laud in the same alter nation we have named. Horns on Domestic Animal?. All the reason for horns un any domestic animal ceased when they came wholly under man's protecting care. It was all right for the animal to defend itself with horns while ex posed to predatory animals, like wolves and bears. When cattle run wild, as they long did in the Stato of Texas, and as they still do on the plains of South America, their horns constantly increased in length aud formidable ness. But under civilized conditions there is no need for horns. In some breeds they have already bean bred off. This will doubtless become more general, ns dishorning at least thc cows has become a quite general prac tice. Calves may be prevented from ever growing a horn by applying a stick of potash on the head where tho horns would start, and removing the hair, so that the potash will make a slight sore on the skin. Guessing Weight of Stock. It is surprising how many farmers who grow live stock which they some time expect to sell on the hoof tako so little care to ascertain its weight. Their ignorance in this matter often costs them dear, as the butcher or other person who buys of them gen erally is supplied with scales, and can generally guess within a few pounds what au animal will weigh. In the writer's boyhood, his father frequently bought cattle and sheep to be fed a while, and then butchered, to Bupply his customers with beef aud mutton. It does not take long to learn how to guess on the weight of a beef. The size alone is not always a criterion. Old cattle, and especially old cows, will not weigh so heavy ns they look, and will usually have more of their weight in side fat, now worth very little, owing to the competition of colton-seed oil and other vegetable oils.-Boston Cultivator. EJ?CS For Early Chiclccus. ?T: It is a mistaken custom of some farmers to sell the first laying of eggs m tho spring, because they are then higher priced, and also partly because unless extra care is taken of the chicks many of them will perish from ex posure to cold and wet. But this policy makes the chickens como too late to be first-rate layers next winter. What is needed is fowis early enough so that they will get their winter coat of feathers, lay a litter of egjs and have time to recover from this and get to laying again before oold weather. It is very raro that young hens begin laying during severe cold weather, and especially just after they have finished moulting. But let them be early enough to lay one setting of eggs, and they will, if fed well with the proper egg-making. food, soon begin to. lay again, .injw?utertho hens are muon less inclined to sit than they aro in spring or summer. If they do seem inclined to sit, give them lumps of ice for eggs and they will give it up. Kot even this will stop a ben in summer, when her determination to sit is stronger. . Late chickens do not usu ally begin laying until spring is fully come. It is better to trust an incu bator for thc earliest hatching of eggs, for not only is the hen's time more valuable then for laying, but she can not bo depended upon to sit steadily until later in tho season. Sowing Toas and Oats. For the northern section of the United States and south Canada, pos sibly no forage crop is more valuable than a mixture of field peas and oats seeded in the spring as soon as thc ground iain con lition to be worked. The common method of sowing is to clear tho ground, intended for the crop, of oovnstalks or other rubbish, sow on the ground a bushel of pea seed to the acre, then plow under to a depth of about four inches. Before the field is worked further sow a bushel aud a halt' per acre of oats and cover well with a harrow, continuing thc work until the ground of thc seed bed is well fined and compacted. No farther treatment will be needed un til the crop is to be harvested. Some farmers prefer to plow the ground as for oats, then make a mix ture of the seed in proportion to one bushel of peas to li of oats and sow this, putting the seed down to a depth of about 3 i to four inches. If the ground is in first-class condition, this can be readily done and possibly more satisfactorily, but in early spring thc soil is usually wet and the method of sowing on broadcast as first described is best. If this crop is wanted for the grain particularly, allow the seed of both to mature, then cut, place in shocks and thresh as any other grain crop. The grain is ground to a fino meal and is then ready for the stock. It contains a largo percentage of nitrogenous material and is excellent for balancing the ration. The crop is also an ex cellent one for soiling and for this purpose should be cut just before or just about the time the bloom-begins rn appear. By sowing a number of . ls at different dates tho feeding period may be extended over several months. Mixtures of peas, oats and wheat in any proportion desired, sown and har vested as described for peas and oats, have been found valuable, particular ly in sections where much attention is given to furnishing animals for criti . markets or for securing high grade dairy products. These crops may be harvested for hay, in which case they should be got when in full bloom, or just a little before, and thoroughly cured. Thc difficulty with this crop is that because of tho thick leaves and steins of the peas, curing is exceedingly difficult, particularly in a moist climate or during a wet sea son. If properly cured, however, the resulting hay is as valuable as well cured clover and is used on the same basis. Theso crops are receiving more and more attention and every farmer who raises stock should try a small field this season.-American Agriculturist. Wooden Pavements Condemned. Wooden pavements in' Paris have been condemned, as they serve" as a breeding place for all kinds oC danger ous germs, WOMAN'S WORLDt Most Interesting Bellos.' ' The wedding dress il Mrs. Monroe and the lace shawl of Martha Wash ington will add to the attractions of the "Virginia Table" at the Confed erate Belief Bazaar soon to be held in Baltimore. A Varied Career. The wife of the late President Bar rios of Guatemala was Miss Alge Ben ton, and was for some time an inmate of the Protestant orphan asylum ol Mobile, Ala. She afterwards became an actress, and it was during her stag? life that Barrios met her. To Removo irecklos. Yoi y delicate skin freckles easily. A few of these "kisses of the sun god" are supposed to accentuate the white ness of a pretty skin, but too manj are most harassing to the soul of $ woman. If a mask of thin muslin, dipped in buttermilk frequently, ia worn for a day immediately after the freckles make their appearance, all trace of them will vanish. Holes for the mouth and eyes must be out in the mask. An Ancient Bulo Abrogated. Tho announcement that the 10 o'clock retiring rule has been rescind ed by the management of Yas3ar Col lege will be pleasant news to all peo ple of common sense. It is a relic of the ancient time when there were no decent lights or lamps for night study and also when everybody went to bed early in order to get up before the dawn. The world has progressed so far that a person can study more safely by a good study lamp than by the light of day. In regard to early rising there is now no doubt that it is an objectionable habit. The air of the early morning is not good until it has been warmed and purified by the sun. Tho chemical quality of sun light starts every living green thing to work attacking tho impurities in the atmosphere and also breaks up many of the latter directly.-New York Mail and Express. Tho High Hat in Boston. The ladies of Boston have protested against tho ordinance which forbids them to wear hats in the theatre on the ground that sitting without any head covering at all subjects them to liability to catch cold. They desire to have tho law amended so as to permit them to wear small hats, which,. they declaro, will not interfere with the liue of sight of any person. No doubt these ladies mean well, but as usual they are illogical. Let the ordinance be amended so as to make it compulsory for the ladies to wear bonnets or hats of small size when ever they go to any place of amuse ment. That will sattle the catching cold question. Not even a Boston womau will consent to wear a bonnet or a hat in her opera box. But if she does not need it there she does not need ft auywhero-except for looks. And where is tho mau who does not know what a nuisance is the small evening headdress, with its ceaseless ly bobbing feather '!-New York Times. Tho Bachelor Girl. "She is wise in one respect, is this bachelor girl," Bath Ashmore writes in the Ladies' Hbrac Journal.- "She has learned thc art of gathering years gracefully. She appreciates, as she loses her youth, that she must pay more regard to her appearance, and that in life's picture she must always be a figure that looks well. Here the bachelor girl rise3 superior to the old maid, for with all the old maid's gen tleness she.waa a.. bit inclined toward dowdiness. Tho' bachelor girl im presses you, when you meet her, with her naturalness. Perhaps, as you grow to know her .well, you may wish that her natural manner did not tend toward brusqueness; but at least she is truthful. She is a woman of busi ness, and she is gradually learning that to succeed, alike in business and in society, she must follow tli9 exam ple of her brother and not carry her workaday worries or joys into iher so cial life. She must leam the art of being a grub or a butterfly as time and place demand. She is fond of pleas ure, and being healthy and happy she is kind and charitable." Alistan Indian "Women. Writing of the "Indian Women, of Alaska aud Their Handiwork," in the Woman's Home Companion, Olivo McGregor says: "The huge expres sionless face of an Alaska Indian woman shows but little evidence of any ambition or ability to perform even tho simplest features of domestic art, and yet tho skillful and artistic results of the handiwork of these un tutored aborigines is much sought af ter by tourists who visit their villages during the summer. Moreover, though tho women are all fat and lazy-looking, their lives are not unin terrupted ease, notwithstanding that their needs are few. Abundance of fuel is all about them, and food, which Avith them is synonymous with fish, swims almost to their doors. But the procuring as well as tho preparing of this food is all accomplished by the women. During the summer they leave tho villages and towns for the islauds in less frequented waters, where they camp for weeks at a time, catching and curing the fish for winter use, while the men lazily watch them, or paddle the canoe, or otherwise amuse themselves. ' 'If an Indian's wife is in ill health or too old to work, ho marries anoth er younger wife, usually a relative of the first one, who is expected to pro vide tho food, while the first wife cares for the house and children. Fish and berries furnishing almost the only food of these people, the women have little scope or ambition for developing culinary art, but in matters of personal adornment they take keen delight. During the long, dark winter they weave beautiful blankets and baskets for their own use and to sell. The blankets are made from the strong rough wool of the wild mountain sheep. Yet some of these aro as soft as silk, and in beauty of coloring and intricacy of de sign rival the Oriental rugs and hang ings. It usually takes a woman six months to complete one blauket, but mauy of I hem sell for prices ranging from fifty to two hundred dollars. The much-sought-after, genuine Chil kat blanket is about four feet lot g ' and two and one half feet wide at each end, but as one side is pointed, the center is a foot wider than the ends, and on this side is ornamented with a ten-inch fringe. These ave worn in I the dance, thrown around the shoal- 1 ders, with the pointed fringe side hanging down. The design is gro- j tesque, consisting of conventional- | ized faces of men and animals in pale ! green, outlined with black on a white j ground. Sometimes dull blue takes the place of tho pale green. A pe culiarity which stamps their genuine ness is a fine thread or shaving of deerskin in the center of each hard twisted strand of wild sheep's wool yarn, of which they aro rando, render? I bg them almost JudoetructiblQ," WHEN MY SHIP COMES IN. Tho sun will bo low In the Western sky, With white olouda drifting lazily by, Where the sea and borhion together Ile, When my ship come3 sailing in. Out o? tho mists o? gathering night Into the crimson sunset light, With its fading dream o? a day once bright My ship coL.es'saillng in. Across tho bay its whito salis gloam, In tho sky above tho bright star? beam, Like a shadow ship in a shadow dream, My ship comes sailing in. Over tho waves by t lie broezes fanneij, ! Loadod with gold from tho Yukon's sand. To where I wait upon tho land, My ship comos sailing in. Oh, tho man nt tho helm is good and bravo Ho hoods not tho wind nor tho tossing ? "? wave, Nor the voices that call from tho doop sea's c?vo, As my ship comos sailing In. I'll woit and watch tlirough tho weary yeara With alternate hopes and despairing fears, T?1 on tho horizon a sail appears And my ship comes sailing in. -Edith M. Church. PITH AND POINT. None but the brave deserve the fair; and they cannot always support them.-Puck. Druggist-"Here's something that will cure you when everything else fails." Customer-"Oh, I don't want to wait until then!"-Koxbury Ga zette. Edythe-"Last night when I ac cepted Jack I tkojght he would never stop kissing me." Alice - "Yes. That is the way ho always does." Standard. Mack-"I thought Higbee married anew woman." Wyld-"So did he -until he discovered her family Bible with the date of her birth in it." Standard. "Ah, my dear, of course you did .not have your sewing circle to-day, whon it was so stormy." "Oh, yes! :Edwiu, dearest. We had it by tele phone."-Puck. "You're my first and only love," he declared. "lean be?ove you," she answered with a shiver, for they /were sitting at least ten feet apart. Detroit Freo Press. Johnny-"Pa, what doe3 it mean by /unknown tongue?' " Pa-"It is the itongue of the silent woman, my sou. By the way, you needn't tell your mother I told you that."-Standard. Little Hans (to Karl in the Nursery) -"Look here, Karl; we must be very naughty to-day, so that we can promise Jon papa's birthday to-morrow that we will be better."-Fliegende Blaetter. Mrs. Theosophist-"I declare, this Laby has been crying ever since he was born!" Mr. Theosophist-"Per haps, my dear, he finds the world sadly changed since he was here be fore."-Puck. Editor-"I really don't understand this poem of yours. " Poet (relieved ly)-"Thanks. I thought possibly you were going to say you did, and that I was losing my grip as a maga zine poet."-Syracuse Herald. Daisy Peachblow-'"Doesn't Dick Daehlight look terrible this morning?" Miss Leftover-"I refused him last ?light." Daisy Peachblow-"Poor fel low! The surprise must havo been a great shock to him."-Standard. "That man Williams never lost his head in a football game, did he?" "No, I think not. He's lost an ear, part of his nose, eight teeth; but I do not remember ever hearing of his los ing his head."-London Tit-Bits. "Isn't it strange? Minnie despises Mr. Wilkins, while her mother thinks he'is the greatest person in the world. " "That's. easilx_?ccounted-_.foE._Th ft . first time he met them together he took them for sisters."-Standard. "Halloa, old man! Have any luck shooting?" "I should say I did. Shot seventeen ducks in one day." "Were they wild?" "Well-no-not exactly; but the farmer who owned them was. "-London Illustrated News. Mollie-"I wonder what is worry ing Mabel. She seems to have some thing on her mind.'" Chollie-"I don't know, bnt she had something on her head last night that worried me a good deal. I sat behind her at the opera."-Standard. Cobalt Mino Richer Than a Gold One. A cobalt mine is more desirablo than the richest golden bonanza of all of tho Pocky Mountains, and cobalt has been discovered at Grand Encampment,Wyoming, hythe French mineralogist, Charles Poulot. Cobalt is worth ?1.60 a pound, and .George Doane, the copper king of the Grand Encampment district, lins a mine where thousands of ton3 of this oro aro ?ready in sight. Cobait is the active principle that colors blue all porcelain and glass. It is the active principle of blue in oil and water painting. It is one of the rarest minerals; Norway, Sweden, and Bohemia have in tho past furnished the bulk of tho world's supply. The Doane mine yields $128 to the ton in cobalt. This is only one among hundreds of copper mines at Grant Encampment, and if they all contain cobalt Wyoming's new mining district within a year may bo producing more wealth than auy three mining districts in the world, not excepting Klondike, the Transvaal, and Cripple Creek. If cobalt exists in tho Grand Encamp ment copper ore to the extent that M. Poulot asserts from his chemical an alysis of the Doane ore Grand En campment will add to the mineral wealth of tho world $100,000,000 an nually or else the price of cobalt will be reduced to a minimum.-New York Times. Dlc3 as Ho Predicted. For nearly two years an open, yawn ing, unoccupied grave, graced by a tombstone, bearing the inscription, "James Catterson, aged 62, died March 21,1898,"has been one of the features of Pleasantville Cemetery. Monday, in this city, the climax, which the eccentric owner of that cem etery plot had foreordained carno to pass, and James Catterson, in the six ty-second year of his life, passed away. Two years ago Catterson had a dream or vision, and to his attendant and a few personal friends he an nounced that two years later, on tho 21st day of March, 1898, ho would have ceased to live. Ho drew up his will, which disposed of a considerable es tate, contracted for his grave and coffin, caused tho tombstone to be erected bearing the then advanced day of his death, and even engaged the services of an undertaker for the date which he had announced for his de mise. All was recalled when the sim ple announcement was made that James Catterson was dead. Death was due to purely natural causes. Atlantic City (N. J.) telegram to the Chicago Chronicle. When Memory Begins. From 123 answers to questions pub lished two or threo years ago, V. und O. Henri find that a person's first memory may be of an extent occur ring as early as the age of six months or as late os eight years-two to four yews being the usual age, WHERE DO THE DAYS BEGIN ? Apparently Somewhere la tbe Pacific Ocean. Where do the days begin? They must begin somewhere, and by a clev er line of argument a writer in an English weekly figures out that tho place where the days begin lies some where out In the Pacific Ocean. A straight line does not define the place, but it runs, according to this theorist, in a zigzag among some of the islands scattered over that broad expanse of water. This ls determined by the following reasoning: Seeing that, as one moves westward, the time gets earlier and earlier, so that when it is Monday noon in London it ls sometime Mon day morning in America, lt follows that, If this principle were continued without limit all the way round the world, at the . same moment lt was Monday noon in London, lt would also be twenty-four hours later-that is, Tuesday noon in London. As this is, of course, absurd, we have to look for the limit, which does in fact, exist, to the principle that as one moves west ward the time gets earlier, and as one moves eastward lt gets later. Before the circumnavigation of the globe there was no difficulty of this kind. When the sun stood over Lon don on Monday lt was Monday noon, and when lt moved westward (In the common phrase) and stood over Dub lin, a little later, it became Monday noon In that city, and then as the western limit of the known world was reached the sun dropped out of sight until the next morning when It came up over the eastern horizon and brought Tuesday morning. In this Interval therefore, the sun was passing over the place where Tuesday began. As discoverers pushed their way fur ther eastward and westward this abyss became narrower and narrower until the place where time changed and the days began, dwindled into a space no wider than a line, time jumps forward twenty-four hours, from noon of one day to noon of the day following. The situation of this line depends on the chance of whether any given place was first discovered by a traveler from the eastward or the west. As China was first discovered to Eu ropeans by travelers from the west, and America by voyagers from the east, lt ls clear the line which marks where the days begin lies between these two, In the Pacific Ocean, and in stead of being a straight lino, zigzags about, dividing islands which happen ed to be discovered from the east from those which happened to be discovered from the west. There must still *be many Islands In that ocean where it ls not yet decided to which side of tho line they belong, and where if one were put down one would not know whether lt were to day, to-morrow or yesterday. There must also be many islands there which never having been permanently occu pied by civilized people, change their day from time to time, so that a ship calling there coming from China might arrive on Tuesday, while another ship calling at the same time from America would arrive on Monday. 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Thoy aro bearing a burden la silence that grows heavier day hy day; that ls sapping their vitality and clouding their happiness. Mrs. Alexander B. Clark, of 417 Michigan Avenue, Detroit, is a typical woman of to day. A wife with such ambition as only a loving wifo caa ha YO. But the joys of her life were marred hy tho existence of dis ease. Suffering as thousands of hersjeters have suffered, she almost despaired of lite and yet she was cured. "For Ave years I suffered with ovarian tr ou bio," ls Mrs. Clark's own version of the story. "I was not froo ono single day from headache and intenso twitch ing pains in my neck and shoulders. For months at. a time I would bo confined to my bed. At times black spots would uppoar beforo ' my eyes and I would be- I became blind. como blind. My nerves were in such a state that a step on tho floor unsettled mo. "Eminent doctors, skillful nurses, the best food and medicino all failed. Then I consented to un operation. That, too, Jailed, and they said another was necessary. After tho second I was worso than over and tbo world was darker, than beforo. "It was tuen'I heard of Dr. Will lams' Pink Pills for Palo People. I hoard that they had cured cases Uko mluo and I tried them. "They cured mel They brought sun shine to my life and filledmvcup with hap piness. The headache ls gone; the twitch ing is gone; tho nervousness is gone; the trembling has ceased, and I have gained twenty-six pounds, Fleal'th and strength is mino and I am thankful to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People for the blessing." These pills are a boon to womankind. Acting direotly on the bleod and nerves, they rostoro tho requisite vitality to all parts of tho body; creating functional regu larity and perfect harmony throughout tho nervous system. The pallor of the checks is changed to the delicate blush of health; tho eyes brighten; the muscles grow elastic, ambition is croated and good health returns. 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If any of the organs just mentioned are not in perfect working order, so that impurities are retained, the blood becomes disordered and even diseased. When corrupted, ita Imparities are absorbed by the tissues, caus ing ?ruptions,fevers, lassitude and langoor. For restoring thc above organ3 to a health ful condition there is no medicine so effec tive as Dr. SI. A. Simmons I iver Siedl* ^We delight todo tm early friand J |ood turn. Tl.? working pirti of'" ANY AERMOTOR^ EXCHANCED FOR A ROLLER I BEARINC.icphyrrua. rning, ever-going., everlaatin?, power doubling, UP-TO-DATE '98 I MOTOR, 8 FT. FOR S6; 12 it. tor|l2;16-ft. tor CW. They ron like a bicycle, and aro made like a natch, every actable part cn roller?. Doubl? gee red I mill power. The Aermotor ran when all other milli stood still, and made he iteel windmill business. 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