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0m. AAAAAAAAAA ....THE.... i RACKET DRUG STORE 1 ?T BEENO. -Old Dr. Poppitz never had an assis ant till about six months before h died. Then Harold Updike, one of th "town boys," came back from th city a graduated, full-fledged pharmi cist and. Dr. Poppitz employed hil in the drug store. "The Racket Dru Store, Beena, Ark.," that was the sig over the door, but on a little tin sig near the side entrance was the legem "Herr Poppitz, Apotheke." The a, vent-of Harold Updike lent new glor to the drug store. He wore a pin shirt and silk garters to hold up - sleeves. He parted his bair in th middle, and kept it drooping, man? like, over his eyes after tne manne of-the college football hero. He wa the envy of all the young men in towi because he ruled the soda fountair an<i~every girl In town called hir "HaCran^Lqujt buying stamps at th postoflic?..'Meanwhile Dr. Poppits whOj-Ay* the way, wasn't a doctor a all, was disabled almost entirely b accelerated diabetes, and Haroi came pretty near "running things" i the store. '.Would you like a cooling beverage Miss Sue?" asked Harold one evening when pretty Miss Clayton, who hai got into long dresses within the yeal had bought a box of note paper am some stamps. "'With me, you know My treat." And while she was nibbling daint ily at lt ho eyed her admiringly ant stammered: "Two years have mad< quite a change in you, Susie." "They've changed you, too, Hal We're all glad to see you back-then aren't enough boys 'round, you sec and-you know Dan Atterbury-?" t^Oh, that's so. I forgot about Dan Where is he?" "He hasn't -come back from th? anny yet," she said, getting deepei into the confection, but blushing, too "I-that is, we, have been expectinj him. He said he'd be hero for th? Fourth, and I'm hoping-" "Aha, Miss Susie," simpered Updike "so he's been writing to you, eh? H< always was a little sweet-" "He was schoolmate with us, witt you too," she said frowning, with quit? a serious attempt at severity, "anJ I think you ought to be glad to see him too, Hal. He's been wounded and sick, and suffered ever so many things over there In the Philippines. And he was in China too!" But Updike didn't care whether his old schoolmate ever came back, for he had some plans of his own with re gard to Susie, and he knew that even a pink shirt and football hair are not special advantages over s blue uni form and a bolo wound. But Dan came back, just the same, and the girls made quite a hero of him-for a few days. He had some presents too, principally for Susie, but he proved his generosity with gifts of a Filipino mat and a Chinese ring to Updike. He brought a great carton cf Manila cigars for old Dr. Poppitz, and they lay open on the little table by his bed the night the good old apothecary died. * After the funeral was over and the good old doctor was forgotten Har old began to cut quite a figure in ', Bee no circles. .The store owed money to the Hot Springs wholesaler, and Hal was acting manager for its creditor. . Meanwhile he waa paying the most ardent court to Miss Susie. She mighfc^ave,bathed in costly perfumes and feasted-interminably on bonbons and ice cream soda without infringing an inch upon Updike's grandiose hos pitality. He sent her presents of every kind of note paper, fancy toilet articles, soaps, novelties, combs, brushes and the rest of drug store fancy goods. Dan rAtterbury's star, on the con trary,"-^was on the descent. He had put aside his weather-stained cam paign suit and was loafing. A soldier out of hfe regimentals and out of a job is not usually a heroic spectacle. Some of the good people of Beeno be gan to hint that "soldierin' allus did make fellers no 'count,'' and Atterbury was commencing to be aware of his questionable position in the commun ity, when at her gate one night Susie, fixing a poppy in his buttonhole, said: "Danny, what are you going to do?" 'I don't know yet, Sue," he hesitat ed; "I've got over two hundred saved up, I told you, and if I sell that loot I brought home I'd have a pretty good stake-perhaps eight hundred or a thousand. We could get married on less than that, Susie." "No, we couldn't, Dan. Not unless you had a position, or some business or something ahead. It doesn't take long to spand.a thousand dollars, Dan." "Welt what Would you do?" he asked*, felike; " 1*0} willing to do any thing. Would you go to the city and study law, or medicine, or-or-" "Pharmacy?" she laughed, helping him out, "no Dan> don't study phar macy if it's going to make you like Hal. He's-" "I don't think you ought to backbite him, Sue. You ought to send back his presents or at least tell him to stop." "Oh, I don't know. He gives them . to all the girls the same as to me." "I know, Sue. But he's beginning to talk like he owned you. I don't like lt" And Updike wondered that Susie quit b?yiig trifles at the tore and Le became quite enraged when she asked him, kindly, to send her no more gifts. "The drug store is ifor sale, Sue," Dan was saying one night a few weeks later. "I heard the man from Hot Springs telling Hal to look out for a purchaser. Seems it hasn't been mak ing money, or they don't want to be bothered with it. Too bad, isn't it. Hal will lose his job." "Why don't you buy it, Danny?" It was a bold idea and they looked at each .other silently in the moon light. But he went to Hot Springs next day with all his money and a little that she had been saving since she could remember, and-he bought the Racket drug store. But when he came back to Susie with his bill of sale and the list of notes that he had agreed to pay, he was worried. "Whatll I do with Hal, Sue?" "Let him run it for you. You can go' to Chicago and study pharmacy on the profits. I'm sure he won't mind working for you. Dan." It was quite a blow to Mr. Updike, but he swallowed his chagrin and the matter was fixed. Dan went to the city and in a year, when he came back with his diploma, Hal greeted him with a stern smile and said: "The jig is up, Dan. Iney're going to sell us out." And so it was. Susie wept and Dan grieved, but neither of them knew what to say when Harold Updike bought the place. Where did he get the money? His father, who kept the dairy, was poor. Susie supposed it was all right, but why had ho been I so quiet, so sneaking about it. 'Tm going to ask him for a job," said Dan, sullenly, "I gave him one and he ought to do as well by me." And Harold's small soul swelled with pride when he saw Dan behind the counter pounding away with a pes tle, or slobbering among the sirups. His eyes gloated over the new sign "Harold Updike, Pharmacist," which gleamed above the entrance. He bought a "stepper" and got "sporty." Sometimes he even cursed his clerk. He borrowed money from Tom Kelly, who kept tho saloon, and the business went on. For a while it seemed that the place was a small mint, tn.. at last the salesmen quit coming. iJuns be came frequent, the bank grew "grouchy" and, finally, a 6mall, fat man in a brown suit, came up again from Hot Springs, "to take charge." . "I don't see how it failed." growled Hal as he and Dan sat in the dioOr dercd store at midnight after the in ventory was made and the dreary work was done. "I don't see how it failed when I owned it," said Dan. They were quite silent for a minute. "What are you going to do, Up dike?" " Waat are you going to do?" "Oh, I'm going to buy thc store back again." said Dan, laughing. "You? Where did you get the money?" "Susie's dad. Hal," answered Atter bury, "we're going to be married." There was a tap at the window and a merry voice called, "Are you there yet. Danny." 3ut Updike la'd his hand on Dan's arm as he started for the door and said, ' Will you f ive mo back my old job. Dan?" "N-no, Updike. Not this time. I think I'll run it myself." And afterward, as he walked homo with Susie and her father, he ^aid, "Well, my conscience ls easy, anyway. Turn about ls fair play."-John H. Raf t?ry in the Chicago Record-Herald. ALL ABOUT BUTTONS. Their I! i m or v Truced ft-om Time Wlion Woollen 31 <>]<1 ri IVero Usrd. The original button was wholly a product of needlework, but was soon improved by the use of a wooden mold, over which a- cloth covering was sew ed. From this it was only a step to the brass button, which was introduced by a hardware manufacturer in Bir mingham in 1689. It took 200 years to improve on the method of sewing the cloth on the covered button; theu an ingenious Dane invented the Ce vice of making the button in two parts and clamping them together with (he cloth between. In 1750 one Caspar Wistar set up fhe manufacture of orass buttons in Phil adelphia, and soon afterward Henry Witcman began making them in New York. The buttons of George Wash ington and most of the continental army were made in France. Connecti cut presently came to the froat and began making buttons of pewter and tin at Waterbury, the present center of the button industry. Buttons are now made of almost ev erything fromseaweed and cattle hoofs to mother-of-pearl and vegetable ivory. Excellent buttons are made from potatoes, which, treated chem ically, become as hard as ivory. T.argc buttons factories make their entire product from variou ixtures of gutta percha, skim milk ; .dood; others from celluloid and . . The patent office has issued li patents for making buttons. The most important branch of the button industry in the United Ctates is the making of pearl buttons, ino material being obtained from shells gathered along the Mississippi river. The industry has practically grown up within the last ten years, and its introduction is due entirely to J. F. Eoepple of Muscatine, Iowa, a native of Germany, who had learned the Trade abroad. He saw that millions of dollars were going to waste in the shells Known as "niggerheads," of which tons were piled up on the banks of the river. Thousands of people are now employed in turning these shells into buttons, the little plants being found all the way from Minne sota to Missouri. Muscatine is still the great headquarters of thc industry. It has forty factories. The value of the shells has risen from 50 cents to $30 a hundredweight. And yet Amer ican buttonmaking is in its infancy, 'tis said.-Rehoboth Sunday Herald. PEARLS OF THOUGHT. Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.-Disraeli. Aspiration sees only one side of ev ery question; possession many.-Low ell. Do what you can, give what you have. Only stop not with feelings; carry your charity into deeds. Do and give what cosjts you something.-J. H. Thom. By rooting out our selfish desires, even when they appear to touch no one but ourselves, we are preparing a chamber of the soul where the divine presence may dwell.-Ellen Watson. No man can learn what he har, not preparation for learning. Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face until the hour ar rives when the mind is ripened. Emerson. Think of yourself, therefore, nobly, and you will live nobly. You will realize on earth that type of charac ter and faith which is the highest ideal alike of philosopher and hero and saint-Charles W. Wendtc. To him who has an eye to see, there can be no fairer spectacle than that of a man who combines the possession of moral beauty in hi6 soul with out ward beauty of form, corresponding and harmonizing with the former be cause thc same great pattern enters into both.-Plato. Progress is without doubt the law of the individual, of nations, of the whole human species. To grow to wards perfection, to exist in some sort in a higher degree, this is the task which God has imposed on man, thi i lc the continuation of Goo's own work, the completion of creation.-Demo geot An Ha 7> tho Diflerenc o "What is the distinction between a politician and a reformer?" "A politician," said Senator Sorg hum, "is a man who is frank enough to confess that he is running for office. A reformer wants to make people be lieve that the office is running aftei him."-Washington Star. Although 125 years old, a watch owned by a man in Gloucestershire England, still keeps excellent time It was worn at Trafalgar, during th< Peninsular war, at Waterloo, througt the China war in 1840, and finally ii' the Indian Mutiny. OUTLAW TRACY'S GAKEES MOST REMARKABLE MAN HUNT '.? THE ANNALS OF CRIME. A Life and Death Chase Acrota Country Which Lantod fifty-eight Woy? and Ex tended Over Two State? - A Powerful Alan Though of Very SI Ic lit Bulli. The death of outlaw Tracy by 3?K? own hands ends perhaps the mosV ft* inarkable man hiint In the annalf .of crime, and closes a lifo and death chase which lasted without cessation for 58 days and extended over the greater part of two states. Since June 9 last Tracy, hunted by Indian trackers, bloodhounds, hun dreds of authorized officers of the law, the state troops of Washington, and unnumbered volunteer bands of vigi lantes, with a price on his head that amounted to a fortune, traveled over about fifteen hundred miles of wild country, and defied capture to the last. From the moment of his daring es cape from the Oregon state peniten tiary to his last stand in the swamps of Lincoln county, near the eastern border of Washington, he killed six officers of the law, slew his fellow fugitive, David. Merrill, in a duel fought while men and hounds wero on his heels, wounded nearly a dozen other officers of pursuing par ties, and terrorized the people of two states. Living on the country he passed through, Tracy rode down stolen horses without number, robbed farm ers of food, clothing, and money need ed for his flight; crossed, and re crossed rivers, hiding when he could and fighting when too hard pressed. Six times he shot his way through pursuing parties which surrounded him, and struggled on in his desperate race against death for liberty. The criminal exploits of Frank and Jesse James, th3 Younger Bros., Mur rell, and all the horde of desperate outlaws of rho west pale beside tho determined daring and recklesb cour age of the Oregon convict. On the morning of June 9 Tracy, then serving a sentence of 20 years' imprisonment for robbery and shoot ing a sheriff's officer who ned attempt ed to arrest him, made his successful dash for freedom from the Salem pris on, aided by his fellow-criminal, David Merrill, who was serving a term of 13 years for complicity in thc robbery .f which Tracy was convicted. That there was aid for the two des perate men from the outside is cer tain, for on the morning of the d?.y of their escape, two repeating rifles were left in the jail corridors, where Tracy and Merrill easily could reach them as" they marched with the other pris oners from their cells to their day's work. Tracy believed all along that Mer rill, who first was arrested for the rob beries they both committed at Port land in February, 1899, had betrayed him to the officers of the law, but nev ertheless he consented to plot with Merrill to break prison, and their plans were carefully made. As they passed the guns left for them each seized a weapon and made a rush for tho walls around the peni tentiary. The guards attempted to stop them, and Tracy, a dead shot, killed. Guard P. B. Farrell and wound ed Frank Ingraham, a life convict who attempted to aid the guards. Then, in the face of a heavy fire from other guards, Tracy and Merrill raised a ladder and escaped over the wall, stopping long enough to return the fire directed at them, a third shot from Tracy's rifle killing "rtiard S. B. T. Jones. Then the escaping des peradoes made a rush for the prison outer gate, where they encountered two other guards, whom they made prisoners, meaning to keep them aB hostages should tho other guards not cease firing. The latter, however, kept up the hail of bullets, and Tracy, who had 'compelled his captives to walk before him. shot dead B. F. Tiffany, while Merrill fired at the second captive, who dropped, and, pretending to have been hit, esc?'ped. Then both escaped. Twenty guards from the prison were sent in pursuit, and from that begin ning grew the famou; chase which closed with so dxamatu \ setting. Eiuding their pursuers, thc two out' laws captured an Involuntary host, J. W. Stewart, whom they made ex change clothes with them, and also pressed into service an expressman whose attire they likewise appropriat ed. Both Stewart and the expressman were held captive until tho next day, when after having spent a comfortable night and been well fed, the fugitives stole two horses from another Salem resident and started for the north. On the second day of thc pursuit bloodhounds were pressed intb service and the chase grew hot Within a day there was set on thc heads of the fugi tive pair a price of 88000. Neither of the bandits was heard of for some days, till, at a place called Gervais they further altered their attire by robbing a man named Roberts of hie clothing. A cordon of several hundred men were thrown around Gervais, but Tracy and his companion easily broke through after an interchange of shots. The fugitives next were heard of six days alter thc escape, on June 15. when they held up a boatman and compelled him to row them across the Columbia river. The impressed boat man landed the runaway convicts In Washington near Vancouver, formerly the home of Merrill, Where they un doubtedly expected to find friends and shelter. Again bloodhounds were put on th? trail, but, as before, the outlaws threw the dogs off the scent by taking to the water of the swamps and doubling back on the trail. It was at this point lu the man hunt that another victim fell, this time one of the pursuing party being shot by his own friends in mistake for one of the outlaws. While the pursuit still was making a dragnet search through the swamps, the fugitives, traveling with incredible swiftness, mode their way 100 miles north to the line of the Northern Pa cific railroad, which connects Port land with Puget Sound. At this point in the flight Tracy and Merrill were known to have been to gether, but when Tracy next was heard of he was alone and In the close neigh borhood of Ol pm pi a. A few days later thc dead body of Merrill was found further back on the trail with a bul let wound in his back. After this discovery, thc facts of thc killing of Merrill came out in the boasting of Tracy, who said he had killed him as he had suspected Mer rill of having betrayed him at Port land. They had agreed, he said, to duel, the strange conditions of which showed in a striking manner the na ture of the outlaw. According to Tracy the quarrel arose over the fact that Merrill was rated as his equal In newspaper re ports of the escape and flight, and as he held Merrill to be the inferior, thjey had come to words and agreed to fight. They were to walk, back to back, a certain number of paces and then turn and fire, but Tracy, fearing treachery on Merrill's part, stopped short of the agreed number of steps, and, turning, deliberately shot the oth er in the back. At Olympia Tracy visited a fishing camp in the neighborhood and held up the camp, making five men prisoners and pressing irto his service a naph tha launch which lay at anchor there, leaving two of his prisoners tied up on tho shore while the others were compelled to man the launch and take him out toward Tacoma. The launch crew gave the alarm as soon as he departed, and Tracy within a few hours was trailed to a clump of tim ber. The sheriff of the county, Edward Cudihce. a noted man-hunter, was ab sent, but his chief deputy, "Jack" Wil liams, took up the pursuit, and with & ?osse surrounded Tracy's retreat, only to have tho outlaw slip through his fingers, after having added one more murder to the list hy the killing of Detective Frank Raymond and wounding Williams himself. When Tracy renewed his flight bloodhounds again wore put on his track, but the crafty outlaw had pro vided himself with red pepper, and this he strewed over the ground as he passed, with the result that the dogs had their noses filled with pep per and were thrown off the scent, until Tracy lind time to get to water, where he obliterated his trail effec tually. Cudihee took up the hunt when he learned of tho disastrous defeat of his deputies, and promptly with thc return of the Sheriff. Gov. McBride of Wash ington ordered out thc Washington National Guard and set 200 soldiers on the chase in addition to thc numer ous banda of county and state officers who already were hot on the murder er's heels. Tlie story of the pursuit of thc out law after this is a long and exciting one, only a few incidents can be giv en here. Tracy was run to earth on July 10 in a thicket near Covington on Green river, but when the pursuers were sure tliey liad him he burst through the lines, and after two in terchanges of shots slipped away, leav ing one wounded deputy behind him The trail then was lost for twe days, and when picked up called for another outing for the bloodhounds and Indian trackers, but with ths same results. Then Tracy was lost for four days, till an old-time criminal seeking a share In thc reward in formed tho sheriff's .officers that Tracy had submitted to.a surgical operation performed by one of his companions with a razor, but the nature of the wound that was so treated was not known. There was a long break in the hunt thereafter, and lt was but a few days ago that he was heard from moving toward, the point in eastern Washington where ho was run down at last. Tracy's real name, or at least the name of his father, is said to have been Garr. As a hoy of 12 years in 1890 he was arrested In Dillon, Mon,, where he spent his boyhood for steal ing a keg of beer, and his record ever since has been criminal. In 1897 he appeared in Cache county, Utah, In company with a robber named Dave Lant, and the two together commit ted many thefts, the burglary of a store in Cache county finally causing' the arrest of both and their conviction and sentence to the Utah penitentiary for terms of eight yeai Tracy escaped by u ga revolver away from a guard and marching the guard out of the lines of the prison work before he released him. He next was connected with two notorious bands of young robbers in Colorado. In a fight between officers and the Robbers Roost gang, headed by George Curry. Tr?cy and a companion shot and killed a deputy sheriff named robberies committed in Portland in February of the same year. When he began his sentence of 20 years in Salem prison he was registered as 25 years of age. Tracy was a powerful man, though of rather slight build. Horno Ti lth a Tasio for NeWS. A horse feeding complacently on a diet of old papers was a sight see/i at Eleventh and Grand avenue. A stonecutter drove a horse up to the Star office and left it standing in front of one of the city's garbage cans. The horse had a well-groomed appearance. No ribs were visible or would its appearance have attracted tho attention of the humane agent. The animal moved up to the garbage can and began nosing its contents. The can was. filled to the top with papers. There were newspapers, wrapping paper and paper of various other kinds. The horse began nib bling on a piece of old gray wrapping paper. It appeared to be palatable. A bite followed the nibble and soon the horse was eating the paper as voraciously as an Angora goat. A newspaper followed tl - wrapping pa per. The horse appeared to relish the different pieces of news. When the owner finally appeared thc old roan was just pulling from the bottom of the can a luncheon piper with a pink dring. Thc driver did not seem to mind or notice the purloined meal of the horse, for he drove down the street with the horse clawing the pa per. The horse appeari-d to relish the breeze.-Kansas City Star. Rooster In linnieT. A Minnesota paper tells of a giant buff cochin rooster, owned by a Mr. Plumason, of Luverne, Minn., says the Youth ti Companion, "which has been trained to trot in harness, pulling a tiny cart in which rides the baby son of Its owner. Golden Duke ts tho name of this strangest of fowls, and It is a prize winner in its class as well as a freak. Thc big bird was broken to harness by the boys of the Plumason household, and now seems to enjoy Its work. It wears a little harness and is guided by reins, which lt carries in its bill. It is tlie master cf several gaits, and at the word of command given by the small child who is driving it will walk, run, trot or come to a standstill. At home in thc country the big rooster often pulls the cart and its occupant for half a mile or more without stop ping." Quite True. It Ia well enough to take things a9 they come, but there are a good many of them that you might just as well pass on.-Puck, B. B. B. SENT FREE. Caril Blood and Skin Diseases, Cancers, Itching Humors, Bono Pains. Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) ourcs Pimplos, scabby, scaly, itching Eczema, Ulcers, Eating Sores, Scrofula, Blood Poison, Bone Pains, Swellings, Rheuma tism, Cancer. Especially advised for chronic cases that doctors, patent medicines and Hot Springs fail to euro or help. Strength ens weak kidneys. Druggists, Si per large bottle To provo lt euros B. B. B. sent freo by writing BLOOD BALM CO., 12 Mitchell Street, Atlanta, Ga. Describo trouble and free medical advico sent in scaled lettor. Medicino sent at onco, pre paid. All wo ask ls that you will spca!; a good word for B. B. B. When the fire of ambition turns to ashes of despair there is but little need of hope rekindling the Hame. ?HE SURGEON'S KNIFE Hrs. Eckis Stevenson of Sait Lake City Tells How Opera tions For Ovarian Troubles May Bo Avoided. .'DEAR MRS. PIHKUAH:-I suffered with inflammation of the ovaries and womb for over size yoars,cnduring aches and pains which none can dream of but those who have Lad the same expe MRS. ECKIS STEVENSON, rlence. Hundreds of dollars went to the doctor and the druggist. I was simply a walking medicine chest, and a phys Ical wreck. My sister residing in Ohio wrote me that bhe had boen cured of womb trouble bv usinjr Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound, and advised mc to try it. I then discontinued all other medicines and gave your Vegetable Compound a thorough trial. Within four weeks nearly all pain had left me ; I rarely had headaches, and my nerves were in a much better condition, and I was cured in three months, and t his avoided a terrible surgical operation."-MRS. ECKIS STEVENSON, 250 So. State St., Salt Lake City, Utah.-$C000 forfait If about testimonial ls not genuine Remember every woman is cordially invited to write to Mrs. Plnkham if there is anything about lier symptoms she does not understand. Mrs. Plnltham's address is Lynn, Mass. in DratlUb Genuine stamped C C C. Never sold In balk. Beware of the dealer who tries to sell "something just as g cod." UUIItS WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Uso | In time. Sold br druwrlsts. HOW MOUND BUILDERS LIVED. Interesting Discoveries by an Ohio Archaologlst. Dr. C. W. Mills, curator of the Stato Historical and Archaeological Society, has just completed the exploration of a large and important village site of the Mound Builders near Bourneville, aqd ha3 made a number of discoverle. which throw light upon the lifo and cii3toms of that ancient people. These discoveries have tended to show that the mound builders did not fe together in one Indiscriminate Ntl group, as had been commonly )posed, but that they lived separate jln family groups, each with Its own ?liing and private graveyard, [he other thing which Is no longer \& doubted ls that the mound build had a more or less perfectly pr ized system of trade which cover "almost the entire continent. In recent excavations ornaments have been discovered fashioned from ocean shells, mica and copper, all foreign to Ohio. The village site which Dr. Mills has Just explored has proved to be ono of the richest ever opened by archaeolo gists. The skeletons, pottery, orna ments and Implements found formed the basis of the archaeological exhib it at the Buffalo exhibition. This year, In completing the work, Dr. Mills found thirty skeletons packed In a space of thirty-five square feet. Others, evidently those of chieftians, were buried separately, and many of them besides the usual ornaments had at tho head a bowl of beautiful pot tery. There were one or more spoons of tortoise shells In each bowl and the bowls had evidently been filled with food at the time of the burial. In one of them a handful of parched corn was found. NOT KEEPING UP. Mr. Upjohn-I wish you would tell Kathleen sho cooks her steaks too much. Mrs. Upjohn-You are three girls late, John. Tho name of the present cook is Mollie.-Chicago Tribune. A live wire contains moro death than anything else we know of. We will ^Ivo !?100 reward for any caso ot catarrh that cannot be cured with Hall's Catarrh C'IIP*. Taken Internally. ,T. J. CmcxEi ?V Co., Props., Toledo, 0. It shouldn't he difficult for the much abused poet to write h ia wrongs. riso's Curo cannot be ton highly spoken ol ss n cough cure.-J. W. O'Bninu, 322 Third Avenue) X., Minneapolis, Minn.. Jan. 6,190) The Pope hus thirty-five scoretaries io answer his daily average of 22,000 letters. HOW LAKES BECOME LAND. Process of Drying Requires Years, But is Ever lr? Progress. This continent abounds in rich agrl cultural fields and meadow lands that but a few years ago were brood ex panses of limpid water. How these lakes have been transformed was re cently explained by Professor Greg ory, of Yale. In the course of a talk to the stu dents of his class he spoke of the way lakes are filled on one side and drain ed on the other by rivers, and called attention to the rapidity with which these lakes are filled up by the bring ing down of sediment of various sorts. Rivers running into lakes are quite dark, but those leading away are clear -showing that much has been left be hlrd. The Mississippi carries yearly to tho gulf over 13,000,000 tons of matter. It would take about a day's portion of the burden to convert any one of the many ordinary lakes into broad mead ow lands. Some idea of thc rapidity with which lakes die under this process is shown in thc fact that seventy-three out of 140 lakes in thc Swiss region have disappeared since 1873. Lakes die by either being filled up or drain ed off. The draining off results when a river has worn a gorge bao!; so deep that tho water all runs out. Tho Niagara river is doing Its best In this draining by cutting as fine a trench as could be made by an engineer. It is cutting back toward Lake Eric at thc rate of over four feet a year, and in time will kill the lake. Unfortunately, however, the lake is destined to bo drained through Chi cago. Lake Tahoe, a beautiful lake in tho Sierra Ncvnda Mountains, ia al so one of those destined in time to bc killed as a result of the draining pro cess. Peat Is one of the greatest fillers and works more rapidly than ?any other form of deposits. It ls estimat ed that one-tenth of Ireland io peat and over one-tenth of the State of In diana was once a peat bog. The speaker called attention to thc Dismal Swamp in Florida, which was once a vast lake, but is now a groat area of bogs and swamp, with only a little lake in ono part. So rank is the growth of this peat in that hot land that the surface of the lake is fourteen foot higher than the level of thc surrounding bogs, showing that it has been literally forced up into thc air. Lakes, swamps, bogs and then gar den lands represent thc stages in thc process of dying. Filling, draining and encroachment of vegetation repre sent the process that kills tho lakes in warmer climes, while the force.3 of the air are agencies in the cooler por tions of the country. Prof Gregory closed his lecture with an interesting account of the way the lukes have disappeared in the regions of thc western part of the Uni ted States where only desert land is now found.-Chicago Chronicle. TPIE UNGUARDED GATE. Hato sets his censorship upon her lip, And in her heart lie mounted sleep less spies; And yet, sh? let thc guarded secret slip Ah, Love had spoken from her kindly eyes! -New York Commercial Advertiser. The Frisco System Offers to thc colon.sts the lowest rates with quick and comfortable ser vice to all points Vu the west and northwest. Thirty dollars ($30.00) from Memphis. Tickets on sale daily during September and October. Cor respondingly low rates from all points in the southeast. For fud information address W. T. Saunders. G. A. P. D.; F. E. Clark, T. P. 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