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dinkum Clankum. Clinkum Clankum lives In a tower, Lives in a belfry airy and cool, And every morning he rings the boar for little children to go to school. dinkum Clankum lives in a tower, Greenly clad with a whispering vine, And every noon he rings the hour For little children to go and dine. Clinkum Clankum lives in a tower, And the stars are beautiful ?.ver his head, And ever}' evening he rings the hour 7~.>r little children to go to bed. -Youth's Companion. Origin of the Name "Puss." A great many years ago the people of Egypt, who had many idols, wor shipped the cat among others. They thought she was like the moon, be cause she was more active at night, andi because her eyes changed like the moon, which is sometimes full and at other times only a light crescent, or, as we say, a half moon. Did you ever notice pussy's eyes changer So they made an idol with a cat's head and named it Pasht! The same name they gave to the moon, for the word means the face of the moon. The word has been changed to "Pas" and "Pus," and has come at last to be "Puss," thc name most of us give to the cat Puss and pussy cat are pet names for kitty anywhere now. Whoever thinks of the name as given to her thousands of years ago and peopl9 thea bowed down and prayed to her.-Washington Star. The Cricket and the Lion. One day the lion was out walking in the wood. As he was stepping near an old rotten log, he heard a tiny voice say: "Oh, please, don't step there! That's my house, and with one step more you will destroy it" The lion looked down andi saw a lit tle cricket sitting on the log. He roared: "And is it you, weak little creature, that dare, tell me where to step? Don't you know that I am kins of the beasts?" "You may be king of the beasts, but I am king of my house; and I don't want you to break it down, king ot- no king." The lion was amazed at such dar ing. "Don't you know, you weakling, that I could smash you and your house and all your relatives with one blow of my paw?" "I may be weak, but I have a cousin no bigger than I who can master you in a fight" "Oh, ho! Oh, ho!" laughed tho lion. "Well, little boaster, you have that cousin here tomorrow, and if he docs not master me I'll crush you and your house and your cousin altoether." The next day the lion came back to the same spot and roared, "Now, boaster, bring on your valiant cous in!" Pretty soon he heard a buzzing near his ear. Then he felt a stinging. "Oh! oh!" he cried. "Get out of my ear!" But the cricket's cousin, the mos quito, kept on stinging and stinging. With 3very sting the lion roared^_ -Sed TscraicuerT ms eay^^Mf?pt on around. But the mojjpgcricket sat stinging and stinkugBTon. At last he on the log, and^^re you satisfied to said, "Mi^rinse alone?" "Yes, any leave Anything," roared the lion, "if ?u>*will only get your cousin out of 'my ear!" So the cricket called the mosquito off and then the lion went away, and never bothered them any more.-Good Housekeeping. The Art of Stilts. The best stilts are made to fasten to the legs, so that the hands and arms are left free. Any boy with a few,tools can make a good pair of stilts in half an hour. Two plain straight strips of wood, strong enough to bear his weight will make the standards; they should be long enough to reach to the top of the shoulders when mounted. For a beginner the footpiece should not be more than 14 inches from the ground-a small boy might do well to put them lower still, for one finds it necessary to step off and on a good many times in learning to stilt. The footpiece is nailed or screwed to the standard, from which it pro jects at riht angles on the inner side, just far enough to give a comforta ble rest to the foot. It should be sup jects at right angles on the inner side, In mounting stilts of this kind., rest . the ends on the ground, grasp the handles so as to bring them behind the shoulders, set the left foot in place and spring up, bringing the right foot into its rest while in the air. Hold the. standards close to the shoulders all the time with the hands against the hips. It is necessary to move forward at once after mounting, because it is easi er to walk than to stand still. Smooth, hard ground is the thing for these early exercises. After a boy can go freely and) far and fast with these stilts he may be graduated into the use of stilts that are strapped firmly to the legs, leav ing hands and arms free. With these the footpiece can be put three and four feet from the ground. To carry a long light pole will be a great convenience; it is a help in fording streams and on rough ground and for resting. The French peasants in Germany are the most celebrated stilt walkers in the world. Stilts are as common as shoes in the marshy country there, and many a peasant mounts his stilts from the roof of his house in the morning and does not take them off till he goes to bed at night.-New York Press. Tommy's "Thinking Trips." It did seem good to Tommy to be In the convalescent ward. There was more to see, and there were visitors. One ot these, a blue eyed girl, had left a zrrap book and it was almost Tom my's turn to have it. He had asked to have it last When he tokUjtiss Clara, the eurse, that he ''mh^MH^nt to take some trips," shejfl H?and smiled. She and Torn^B Bbb fast friends. At lajfl K turn to take th&jM?? HB Miss Clara as possible jwn eyes beauti es and see! Two children come out of the house and cry, "Oh, there's a love ly butterfly!" And they chase the butterfly creature out across the soft lawn and into the field beyond, all spangled with daisies. And the little girl says, "Let's pick the daisies." So the butterfly rests on a big sway ing blossom, then flies on, on, into the grove, where the sunshine makes patchwork on the needles instead of the needlese making the patchwork, and where a little brook sings to it self. But the butterfly loves sunshine and away it sails over into the blue berry pasture, and ever so many chil dren, picking berries, call, "Did you ever see a prettier butterfly?" And one of them-O dear! Tommy started up, forgetting for the instant that it was only a think ing trip, and then he really laughed when he saw the pretty picture but terfly safe on the scrap book page. The next picture was a locomotive. Tommy shut his eyes again. There were high buildings now, and the train was going by some back yards where children played and clothes were drying in the sun. "Tommy!" The brown eyes opened with a smi!e in them. "My mother has come and wants to see my little friend Tommy," Miss Clara was saying. "She has the book I told you I'd ask her to bring. I'll read out of it some day." "Oh, I thank you," cried Tommy, feeling overwhelmed) with riches. "Tommy," she said, peeping into the scrap book, as she took that, too, "I see an elephant!" * "Oh, there will bc jungles!" cried Tommy in delight-Youth's fompan ion. Birthday of Miss Hartley. Miss Hartley sat by ner sunny win dow, her lap full of pretty girlish notes. Her dim eyes were full of tears, as she looked wistfully out on the old-fashioned garden, which had marked so many springtimes for her. It might be the last spring she would ever see it again. S'he was growing feeble, and was no longer able to teach, as she had done lor so many years. There was nothing to live upon if her hands and brains were idle, so the house had been sold the day before. She .was quite alone in the world, without kith or kin; but the dear, quaint old lady was beloved by gener ations of pupils, whom she had taught ir* the little town. The piles of notes in her lap were birthday greetings, a day aher.d of time, to be sure. Her girls had in vited themselves to luncheon, and a day was scarcely a long enough no tice. In spite of the pleasure their coming would give her, Miss Manley could not help some anxious specula tions as to ways and means to pro vide for 12 hearty, happy, hungry girls, whose delight had always been -"a spread' at Miss Hartley's." She could not longer afford "spreads," but she would do the best she could, trusting to the girls' offer ings to eke out her scanty supply. Meantime, the girls were in quite a flutter of excitement, and their mam j mas, who had also been "girls" once, ? were almost as excited. _ By half-past twelve on Miss Hart ley's birthday, a. flock ot bright-faced sweetly dressed little maidens pre sented themselvese at the well known front door, to be welcomed by an eager, smiling hostess, who looked quainter- than ever in her gray silk gown and beribboned cap. Thc girls' Otterings proved substantial Indeed, so that when they sat down to lunch eon it was at a groaning table, and laughter and talk flowed merrily, while the dear old lady forgot her worries, and joined in the fun. "Now tell us all about the house," said Alice Dent," who, being the oldest of the dozen, was naturally the spokes- j man. "There's nothing much to tell, my dear," said Miss Hartley, with a lit tle quiver in her voice, "it was sold yesterday." . "Sold!" they echoed incredulously. "Yes, the business was concluded yesterday, and the sum paid for it will make me comfortable for the rest of my life. I ought to be very hap py, but-but it's hard to get used to a new place at my age. I'm 65 today." "A health to 65!" cried Alice, rais ing her glass of water. Every girl enthusiastically followed her exam ple, and the old lady's eyes filled with tears. "And now," said Alice, "I'm going to make a speech." "Hear, hear!" cried the others, and they settled themselves to listen. "Once there was a dear, sweet lady, whom everybody loved," here Alice bowed to Miss Hartley. "Sae had spent long years in teaching, and at the close of every school year, there had been a great time, for diplomas j and medals and prizes of books, were awarded for excellence in standing. All the graduates, of course, received diplomas, and . though they drifted away, married-and had daughters of their own-they kept their diplomas carefully, for they loved their dear schooi teacher, and remembered her gentle influence and sent their daugh ters to her in after years. But one day a queer thing happened; the ta bles were turned-for the teacher de cided to graduate; so at the time she appointed there was a grand luncheon and her 12 pupils who were invited or rather who invited themselves, de cided to present her with a diploma. Elsie bring it in." Elsie, who was the youngest, and, therefore the messenger, ran out, re turning in a few moments with a joy Interesting looking box^_M^|^#k off the cover-and *Jpj^B^ediplo ma-rolled as ^nplomas are, and tied with a huge white bow, with 12 lond ends-one for each girl. At a signal from Alice they all arose, and each taking her end, car ried it in state to Miss Hartley, and placed it in her hands. "You are to open it," said Alice. "There may be some mistakes; you know we never made out a diploma before. Miss Hartley smiled and obeyed, drawing off the complicated bow with old maid precision. But as her eye? fell upon the con tents of the paper-she gave a cry which was as girlish as any of her pupils, and stretched out her hands. "Oh, my girls!" she- cried. "What have I done to deserve this?" They could not answer, because of such a queer feeling in their throats; they could only cling to her as one by one she held them close-for the "diploma" was the deed to the dear old home. and. the hames of every pu pil she had ever taught were signed to the gift.-Pittsburg Dispatch. The farmers o' Russia own 35,000/ acres out of 267,000,000 acres. A KAILBOAD WRECKER. ALWAYS ON CALL AND HAS THE RIGHT OF WAY. . . When the Siren Squeals and Screeches the Crew Starts on a Run-Many Wrecks Which the Public Doesn't Hear About. "We give them a clear track and a 70 or a 75-mlle-an-hour engine and the wrecking master does the rest," iiaid the yardmaster, knocking the ash es out of his pipe and leaning com fortably in his old revolving chair. "All the wreckmaster knows is that at such and such a po.'nt on the road such and such a train, so and so many cars, bas been smashed. It's his business to get to the place fast as steam can carry him and to clear the main line quick as Providence will let him. "See that siren sticking up just over the roof of the engine house next to the repair shops? When that begins to bray and squeal and-screech three long, unearthly toots there is trouble some where up the line. Ever hear one of those new-fangled whistles? You'd never know it was turned on by the hand of man. At night it would make your skin creep the first time you heard it. But you're apt to hear it for miles around and that's what it's there for-to collect the wrecking crew on a run. "Wherever there's a repair shop along the line there you're sure to find a wrecking train. The crews are picked men from the shops, for a rea son I'll tell you presently. It's a hard life they lead and a strenuous one, but they get paid well and they like the work, just as I've yet to see the first man in a city fire department who is not in love with the excitement and uncertainty of his job. In time the strain on the wrecker tells. "While the work lasts it is heart breaking, and men age under it and after 10 years' service on the crew are rarely fit to continue in that part of the service. Every member of the crew has to live within hearing dis tance and running distance of the wrecking train. During the daytime the men are at work in the repair shops and if anything happens they have merely to jump aboard while an engine is made fast and starts on a mad race for the scene of the trouble. But at niglrt-and most wrecks happen nights-the men must bc prepared to i tumble out of bed, to run through wind and weatner and to be prepared to work anywhere from 24 to 36 hours without a break. "A wrecking crew consists of 16 or 18 men, which is exclusive of a con ductor, a pair of brakemen and the two men in thc engine. Thc wrecking train consists of only four cars. Every thing that would add to the weight cf the train without being absolutely nec essary is left behind. The first car is the one in which the wrecking crew I travels. In this part of the country this car ls not so important; but on the long stretches of road in the west the car is fitted up completely for the living accommodations of the men. The car is painted red, and, in general, is a huge caboose. In the front part of it the kitchen is located. A cook ac companies every wrecking crew on the modern railroads, just as a cook ac - companies our long distance palace trains. Everything of the ' best is chosen for the wrecking crew's meals during its long siege of work. Ice is provided on which things that should be kept cool are placed and continually a stock of provisions is on hand as ready for instant use as the train it self. "The rear section of this car is fitted up as a living room. No carpet is on the floor, but everything is put up in comfort and shipshape. Bunks are pro vided; chairs and folding tables stand ready for use. In short, everything that men want when they require hu moring to do good work is ready and waiting for them. "The second car of the train looks like an ordinary box car, but is really a huge toolbox on wheels. In it every thing is arranged in order as neat as the silver implements in a high-school girl's first manicure set. You cannot mention a tool that might be required in wrecking but what you will find it here, exactly in its place, where men can run in the dark and pick up what they want without having to spend a minute to search for it. Axes, crow bars, shovels, saws, picks, sledges, ham mers, blocks and tackles, ropes, chains, jacks and 100 tools you never heard of are to be found in the car. "The third car is an ordinary flat car loaded with several trucks. Often in a wreck the body of a car escapes damage, and only the trucks are brok en and bent and twisted. In a case like this all that is necessary is to raise the body of the car by means of jacks and to put a substitute truck under it and couple it fast so the car may be hauled to the repair shop for permanent fix ing up. Besides, the flat car is used for taking home iron work and what ever is and is not worin saving, but would look bad and suggestive lying beside a railroad track. "The last car of the train is the most important of all. It is the derrick car. This car is built exceptionally strong. A short, stout derrick built on a r?chet turntable stands in the middle of the car. This is capable of wonderful lift ing power. Once the little steam winch on one end of the car begins to squeal and puff, anything fastened to the der rick just-comes. A derrick of this description could raise on end the big gest locomotive ever built, and set it back on the rails as neatly as you would set a chess figure on its proper square. "The wrecking train stands ever ready on a siding especially allotted to it. This must not be used by any other train under any conceivable cir cumstances. If a wreck occurs the track must be cleared, from three to Ave minutes being the time usually al lowed for a crew to get under way dur ing the daytime. An engine ready to haul the train to a wreck stands al ways walting. The water tank in its tender is always full. Its coal supply is a heaping tenderful. Steam is con stantly kept up, and an engineer and fireman are ever ready to jump to work at a minute's notice. "As soon as a disaster occurs the wrecking train is given the right of way over all other trains. At a speed ranging anywhere from 45 to 75 miles an hour the engine chases, shrieking her whistle like a frightened cat. The one object is to get the track cleared so the main line of the road can be op erated. No wreck ever happens but what it piles over the main line-that goes without, saying, for it is within the law of cussedness of things. And what it means to have a main line blocked only an experienced railroader can appreciate. There are the thou sands of cars filled with perishable stuff. A score of freight trains and coal trains are held up, many of their loads intended for outgoing steamers that cannot afford to wait. Thousands of persons are inconvenienced and put | oat Many of then miss connection* which they hoped to make with othef railroads. "Wrecks scarce? We fellows wisl? they were! It isn't only every wreck, you hear about that happens on a rail road. In the first place, a wreck with out loss of human life attracts mighty little attention nowadays, and so it de pends what sort of lives are wiped out whether a newspaper thinks It worth the interest of its readers to print an account of the trouble. Smash a couple of tramps on a coal train and they don't coust. "No work on a railroad ls harder than that of a wrecker. And aside from everything a man is constantly on duty. If he wants a day off or wants to be excused from duty for a Sunday or for an evening he must give notice and an other man must be appointed in his place. To fail to respond when the wreck siren blows means discharge from the crew, unless previously ex cused. The wages paid men while on wrecking duty vary with the different roads. One railroad pays as much as 50 cents an hour from the time tho train pulls out to the time it is back on its siding. This is tremdous pay for the wreckers and it stimulates them to do good work and creates a competi tion on the part of all hands to hold their appointments and to keep new men out of them. Frequently the run to a wreck is a long one and for some hours there is little to do but lounge lazily and enjoy life. On the way back there is another breathing spell for those who are in condition to enjoy it But why not come out with us some time when you hear the siren snort and. you can see for once in your life what work is?"-Philadelphia Public Ledger THE ELEPHANT'S TRUNK. Recent Discoveries Reveal Just How He Got lt. The recent discoveries of fossil re mains of ancestral proboscideans in the tertiary deposits of the Fayum dis trict of Egypt, combined with a care ful study of the skeleton of certain species of mastodon known to science for many years, have enabled Dr. C. W. Andrews (Procedings of the Royal Society) to indicate very clearly the manner in which the trunk of the mod ern elephants has been gradually evolved. The ancestral proboscideans were comparatively small and short-legged animals, which had, of course, no dif ficulty in putting their mouths to the ground As the successors of these primitive forms gradually Increased in bodily stature, and more especially in length of limb and size of head, it will bc obvious that in order to be able to obtain food or water from the level of the ground they must either have in creased the length of the neck or have developed a special prolongation of the muzzle. But in the case of large and heavy-headed animals, whose successors were destined to car ry thc enormous tusks of the extinct mastodons and modern elephants, it will bo further manifest tthat an in crease in the length "of the vertebrae of the neck, and hence of the neck it slf, would, from mechanical considera tions, have been impossible. Accord ingly, the only practicable course was the elongation of the muzzle. In the earliest forms the lower jaw was short and heavy, with the union between the two branches (Symphysis) very massive. On the other band, in many of the early mastodons the lower jaw had become very long, and ter minated in a long trough-like Sym physis. To accord with tills prolonga tion of the lower jaw it is quite evident Uhat the upper lip and nose must likM* wise have been elongated, and thj^;. probably formed a kind of proboscis, d?* which the tip was most likely more or less prehensible. For some reason or other, no sooner had the prolongation of the lower jaw attained its maximum development than the length of Ita trough-like Symphysis began to dimin ish, till the structure culminated in the short snout found in the later masto dons and the modern elephants. Dur ing these changes the length of the proboscis must have continued to in crease, while its flexibility and tactile power were likewise al the same time augmented, till the structure attained its full development in the elephants of today. In this connection it may be noticed that the trunk of the African elephant differs very markedly in structure from that of the Indian species by its segmented structure, so that it has the appearance of being composed of a number of distinct pieces, one of which slides into the other, like- the joints of a telescope. The Indlati ele phant's trunk, on the other hand, is uniformly elastic throughout, and may bc compared to a tapering India-rubber hosepipe. It is evidently a more high ly specialized structure than IS the proboscis of the African species. Dur ing the time that thc lower jaw and trunk were being gradually developed into their present form the tusks and cheek teeth were likewise undergoing a process of development which has culminated in the condition obtaining in the Indian elephant. Since, how ever, the later stages of this develop ment will be found described in zoo logical text books, it need not be further referred to on this occasion. Till the Egyptian discoveries the ori gin of the proboscidea was a problem that had baffled palaeontologists, while evolutionists were equally at a loss to account for the mode of origin o? hat most marvellous structure, the elephant's proboscis. Thanks to Dr. Andrews, both problems have been sat isfactorily solved, and we are thus able to add one more fairly complete pedigree to tho history of animal life. -London Field. Great Consumer of Ice. Americans are great consumers of ice; it is a luxury in almost every other part of the globe. The city, in distinction from the rural districts, is also a great consumer of ice the year around, due doubtless to the complete warming of the modern house-and apartment. In old times many rooms in every house were unheated in the winter, and these furnished a natural cold chest for butter and other things perishable that needed to be kept cool, just as the market mau usually has a heatd office in wlntc iori ils own con venience, but lets his supply benches remain in the natural temperature. In the country, and especially In the south, the people have long habituated themselves to use wells and caves for refrigerators.-New York Post. She Wanted a Masher. A pretty young body entered a hard ware store on lower Sixth avenue yes terday and said to one of the clerks: "I want a masher, please." The clerk stared at her for a mo ment in astonishment Then It dawned upon the young woman what she had said. She blushed and explained that she only wanted a 15-cent potato masher.-New York Press. "She's All the World to Me." "My ideal man," said Nancy, "Is one of power, a knight Of. strong right arm I'd fancy /Far reaching in his might." |'"Behold this arm," I vaunted. '"Twould reach around all the world!" '.'I'd like to see," she taunted, With lip disdainful curled. I put my arm about her Ere she had time to flee. 'Tis thus 'tis done, fair doubter You're all the world-to me!" -Truman Roberts Andrews, in July Smart Set. OPPROBRIOUS FirBt Insect-I have a good mind to have that professor arrested for libel." Second Insect-"What did he say about you?" First Insect-"He called me an An thia Duodeciraapunctata."-Woman's Home Companion. FITS permanently cured.No tits or nervous ness after first dav's usc of Cr. Kline's Groat NervoRestorcr. Serial bottle and treatlsefroo Dr. R. H. KLINE, Ltd.. 031 Arch St., Philo.,Pa Yale professors will hereafter be retired from service, except in special cases, at sixty-eight years of agc. Ask Sour Dealer For Alton's Fot?r-E:iso, A powder. It rosts thc feet. Cures Corns, Bunions. Swollen, Soro.Hot, Cal lous.Aching Sweating Feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. .*t all Druggists and Shoo stores, 25 cents. Ac cent no substitute. Snmpio malled FREE, Address, Allon S. Olmsted. LcEoy, N. Y. One good turn deserves another, but that is generally all it does. UmsurePlso's Curo for Consumption saved my life tliroo yoars ago.-Mas. THOMAS ROB I1KB, Maple St., Norwich, N.Y., Fob. 17, IMO. A man never quits being a boy until hie mother dies. Hal "I tried Ayer's Hair Vigor to* stop my hair from falling. One half a bottle cured me." J. C. Baxter, Braidwood, 111. Ayer's Hair Vigor is certainly the most eco nomical preparation of its kind on the market. A little of it goes a long way. It doesn't take much of it to stop falling of the hair, make the hair grow, and restore color to gray hair. 81.00 a botttt. All druggist-. If your druggist cannot supply von, send us ono dollar and wo will express you a bottle. Bo suro and give tho name of your nearest express office. Address, J. C. AYER CO., Lowell, Mass. GOOD SUGGESTION. Stubb-They advertise for a teacher at the young ladies' cooking school. Penn.-Does thc teacher have to sample what is cooked? Stubb-Of course. Then they had bettr.r engage an ostrich-Chicago News. STUART'S GIN and BUCHU To all who snffer.or to the friends of those , who suffer with Kidney, Liver, Heart, Bladder Jj or Blood Disease, a sample bottle of Stuart's B Gin and Buchu, the croat southern Kidney ar.d ' Liver Medicine, will be sent absolutely free of cost. Mention this paper. Address STUART DRUG M'FG CO., 28,Wall St., Atlanta, Qa. Stands for Union Metallic Cart..riges. It also stands for uniform shooting and satis factory results.. Ask your dealer for U.M.C. ARROW and NITRO CLUB Smokeless Shot Shells, The Union Metallic Cartridge Co., BRIDGEPORT, CONN. Ripnns Tabules are the best dyspepsia j medicine ever made. 'A hundred millions of them hnve been sold In the United States in a single yeur. Every illness arising from a disordered stomach ls relieved or cured by their use. So common is it that diseases originate from the stomach It may bo safely as serted there ls no condition of ill health thnt will not be benefited or cured by the occasional use of Rtpans Tabules. Physicians know them and speak highly of them. All druggists sell them. The live-cent package is enough for an ordinary neenslou, and j the Family Bottle, sixty ceuts, contains a household supply for a year. One generally gives relief within twenty minutes. Endowed Colleges and I Correlated Schools Ertu -iV.ca men and women, boys and giris not together tnt In Five Separate iBotttuuooa una tr ont manage aunt. Tb? comMnaUon enable us to oiler Ute bett Advantages nod to Savo Time And Money For particulars, address, stn'ing age and sex of student. Chancellor WM. W. SMITH, A.M., LUD, OOIIORO Park, Lynchburg, Va. SMassassjssaasa'iussssass'isss! NERVOUS HEADACHES, B And SOOTHES Ihe NEBVE8 H IO, 25 and 50c at Driiesloros. [jj SAWMILLS Our Latest Im proved Circu lar Saw Milts, with Hege's Universal LopHeatns.Rectllln ear. Simultaneous Set Works and the Hea cock-Klnji Variable Feed Works aro nnex-| celled for ACCURACY, SIMPLICITY, DOBABnv ITY AND EASE OF OPEBATION. Write for fulll descriptive circulars. Manufactured by tho! SALEM IRON WORKS.Winston-Salcm,N.C.; P"~Glve the name of thia pa^er when wrltlnff to advertlsera-(At. 30, '03) STABLES OF THE WEALTHY, every Convenience and Comfort for the Horses. A glimpse into the interior of one of the many handsome buildings in New York set apart for lodging and feeding horses wculd delight all lovers of tho Intelligent equine. The total cost of stables which embody up-to-date scien tific fittings, sanitary flooring, perfect ventilation, and correct style, varies from $50,000 to $150,000. Instead of wcoden flooring or earth, which is very injurious to the animals' feet, small bricks are now used, making a stand ing place that is easily cleaned, and insures perfect sanitation. The stalls are massive and handsome, the sides being of teakwood with a two-inch dado; thc wood extends upward about four feet, or as high as a horse might be expected to kick under ordinary cir cumstances. The oat and water man gers are on opposite sides, which is an advantage, as the animal does not slop his dry food; the hay u put in a division of the manger with a wire screen over it, so t'hat it can be got at easily, while undue waste does not result, as in the days when it was placed In a rack over the horse's head, where it could be pulled down and trodden under foot. The doers of the stall are fitted with ingenious devices which necessitate the insertion of the finger and thumb to open, and the tricky horse is thus debarred from opening the door and going for a stroll without as much as "by your leave." There is a profu sion of racks, with burnished brass fittings, for interchangeable name letters, brooms, shovels and forks, and telescopic suspensory racks to hold harnesscleaning tables, with drawers to hold polish, chamois and everything needed to keep things bright and shin ing. Thc New York mililionairc takes as much pride in his stable as in any of the principal rcoms in his own dwell ing house. When any new specialty is put on the market whereby the sta ble can be improved or made more or nate he hastens to test Its adequacy. He is particular about hiring a stable groom as he would be in engag ing a secretary, and thc men he picks out to care for his animals must be diligent, untiling, progressive and in telligent. There are at least 50 stables between West Fifty-eighth and Ono Hundred and Twenty-Fifth streets which.are marvels ot' comfort and con venience. On entering any of these the visitor is struck by the neatness, order, and even elegance which per vades the place. Plenty of light, fresh air with no trace of the fum?s usually associated with stables, lofty ceilings, and animals whose coats shine with satiny lustre are found in profusion. New York Times. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. The highest speed which matter has been known to reach is that attained by the eruption of hydrogen and oth er gases from the sun, which is at times several hundred miles a second. That "magic wand" which locates suitable places for wells has turned up again. This time it is in Germany that the little hazel twig ls being used with success and much discussed. The farmers of India, when fuel Is scarce, cook an egg without fire. The egg is placed in a sling and whirled around for about five minutss, until the heat generated by the motion has cooked it. The tail of a fish is his sculling oar. He moves it first on one side and then the other, using his fins as balances to guide his motion. If the fish ia moving fast and wants to stop he straightens out his fins just as the rower of a boat docs his oars. A woman in Paris is said to be the largest specimen of her sex in the world. Being unable to enter the door of a railway carriage, she takes her train journeys in the luggage van. An infant in Missouri is said to be the smallest human atom, weighing only a pound. A remarkable sea monster was re cently caught i'n Port Fairy bay by some fishermen. It measured nine feet six Inches in length, had a tail like that of the screw tail shaft, no teeth, a nose like a rhinoceros, a head like an elephant, two dorsal fins, four side fins arid two steering fins. The skin was black and very soft. The most experienced fishermen say the speci men is new to them. They cannot hazard a guess as to the species. The fish has been sent on to the Melbourne museum. In a certain office at an Australian railway station there may have been seen a very long list of names of wo men who have at various times begged the booking clerks to let them have, without payment, tickets to various places. They have forgotten tho' purses, or lost them, or spent -"?eir last penny on a new pair of gloves ;inu various reasons. They will call the "cry next day and refund the mone* without fail. But there the narai? and addresses lie, with tho amount of the borrower, money writ ten opposite. Where Emerson ls Buried. Emerson's body lies in Sleepy Hol low cemetery at Concord, which was purchased by the town in 1855, and laid out according to plans furnished by Morris Copeland. A tree bee waa held on April 19, 185G, on which occa sion over one hundred trees were set out in a single day by the citizens, each one of whom thus brought his own memorial. The women of Concor.l held two festivals in the same year to raise money for seats and decorat ions. Emer son delivered the oration at the time the burying ground was dedicated. Many of the most marked graves arc on The Ridge. Here lies the body of Hawthorne, surrounded by a low hedge of arbor vitae, his epitaph being mere ly his own name on a white stone. Just behind Is the grave of Thoreau, and by his side lies the body of his brother John. On the. opposite of The Ridge path is the gravi= of Emerson, to whicn thousands of visitors come every year, and which will doubtless be seen by ad ditional thousands this centennial year. A great pin? stands near thc head of the grave, which is now marked by a monument of beautiful pink quartz, in its native state as it came from thc quarry, and near by are thc graves of nis mother and his son.-New York Tribune. Quite Capable. "He's a remarkably frank man." "How so?" "Why. the heiress asked him if bc was sure he could take care of her when he proposed, and ho said he wai eure he could if he had her money ta do it with."-Chicago Post. PE-RUNA ES BE? Says Dr. M. C. Ga ACONSTANTLY increasing number of physicians prescribe Peruna in their regular practice. It has proven its merits so thoroughly that even the doctors have overcome their prejudice against so-called patent medi cines and recommend it to their patients. "I Advise Women to Use Pe-ru-na," Says Dr. Gee. .Dr. "iii. C. Gee js one of the physicians who endorse Peruna. In a letter written from 513 Jones street, San Francisco, Cal., he savs: "There is a general objection on the part of the practicing physician to advocate pat ent medicines, but when any one medicine cures hundreds of people it demonstrates its own value and does not need the in dorsement of thc profession. "Peruna has performed so many wonderful cures in San Francisco that I am convinced that it is a valuable remedy. 1 have frequent ly advised its use for women, as J find it insures regular and pain less menstruation, cures leucor rhoa and ovarian troubler, and builds up thc entire system. I also consider it one of the finest catarrh rem edios I know of. I heartily indorse your medicine."-M. C. Gee, M. D. Mrs. VJ. T. Gaddis, Marion, N. C., is one of Dr. Hartman's grateful patients. She consulted him by letter, followed his di rections, and is now able to gav the follow ing:^ "Before I commenced to take Peruna I could not do any hard work without suffer ing great pain. I took Peruna, and can say with picasure that it has ?lone more for mc than any other medicine I have ever taken. Xow I am as well as ever; I do all my own work and it never hurts me at all. I think Peruna is a great medicine for womankind."-Mis. E. T. Gaddis. "VA omen are especially liable to pelvic ca tarrh, female weakness as it is commonly called. If you do not derive prompt a use of Peruna, write at once statement of your case, and ho valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, Prest tum, Columbus, Ohio. Revolving Fans. I noticed something new in electric fans yesterday, and it struck me as ol sufficient novelty to mention here. Tot know that heretofore the wind-makin? contrivance has occupied a fixed posi tion, with the current, always propelled in one direction. Now this has beet improved upon, with a sort of ruddei attachment projecting from the far in front. The fan itself is on a pivot As the current strikes the rudder fin it causes the whole thing to revolve slowly, thus distributing the air cur rent in all directions with each r?volu, tion. As all-round wind jammers, how ever, I know some fellows who would talk a revolving fan back the way it came, but perhaps I had better nof go into that.-Pittsburg Dispatch. HIS WOE "He's forever complaining cf his hard luck. I wonder what's his idea of hard luck, anyway." "It is merely his inability to fall ato a soft snap."-Philadelphia Presa CONTAMINATED. "What a pure, serene face Miss Fair child has!" 3^1 "Yes, she does look as though she had never Nen to thc theatre in her GET WE?X Tho thousands ofpeople who arc every day being mado well by Donn's Kidney rills and tho freo trial herewith offered malic', further delay, " Kidney neglect." They correct urine with brick duse sediment, high colored, pain in passing, dribbling, frequency, bcd wetting. Doan's Kidney Pills remove calculi and gravel. 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