WONDERFUL BEDECK
THE ORIGINAL SPOTLESS TOWN IS
IN NORTHERN HOLLAND.
A Neatness and a Brilliancy Thai
Are Absolutely Painful Pervade the
"Whole Place?Rules Which the Inhabitants
llnst Observe.
Far up in northern Holland among
the dikes and canals of the little kingli-eve.
fV?A APitrino 1 Cnr.tlocc
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Town. The palings of tlie fences of
Broeck are sky blue. The streets arpaved
with shining bricks of many colors.
The houses are rose colored,
black, gray, purple, light blue or pale
green. The doors are painted and gilded.
For hours you may not see a soul
in the streets or at the windows. The
streets and houses, bridges, windows
and barns show a neatness and a brilliancy
that are absolutely painful. At
every step a new effect is disclosed, a
new scene is beheld, as if painted upon
the drop curtain of a stage. Everything
is minute, compact, painted,
spotless and clean. In the houses of
Broeck for cleaning purposes yon will
find big brooms, little brooms, toothbrushes,
aqua fortis, whiting for the
window panes, rouge for the forks and
spoons, coal dust for the copper, emery
for the iron utensils, brick powder for
the floors and even small splinters of
wood with which to pick out the tiny
' bits of straw in the cracks between the
bricks. Here are some of the rules of
this wonderful town:
Citizens must leave their shoes at the
door when entering: a house.
Before or after sunset no one is allowed
to smoke excepting with a pipe having a
cover, so that the ashes will not be scattered
upon the street.
Any one crossing the village on horseback
must get out of the saddle and lead
the horse.
A cuspidor shall be kept by the front
door of each house, where it may be accessible
from the window.
It is forbidden to cross the village in a
carriage or to drive animals through the
streets.
In ac$ition to these established rule9
it is the custom for exejry citizen who
sees a leaf or a bit of straw blown before
his house by the wind#to pick it
up and throw it into the canal. The
people go 500 paces out of the village
th dust their shoes. Dozens of boys
are paid to blow the dust from between
the bricks in the streets four
times an hour. In certain houses the
guests are earned over the threshold
so as not to soil the pavements. At
one time the mania for cleaning in
Broeck reached such'a point that the
housewives of the village neglected
even their religious duties for scrubbing
and washing. The village pastor,
after trying every sort of persuasion,
preached a long sermon, in which he
declared that every Dutchwoman who
had faithfully fulfilled ber duties toward
God in this world would find in
the next a house packed full of furniture
and stored with the most various
and precious articles of use and ornament,
which, not being distracted by
other occupations, she would be able
to brush, wash and polish for all eternity.
The promise of this sublime
recompense and the thought of this
extreme happiness filled the women
with such fervor and piety that for
months thereafter the pastor had no
cause for complaint.
Around every house in Broeck are
buckets, benches, rakes, hoes and
stakes, all colored red, blue, white or
yellow. The brilliancy and variety of
colors and the cleanliness, brightness
and miniature pomp of the place are
wonderfuL At the windows there are
embroidered curtains, with rose colored
ribbons. The blades, bands and
nails of the gayly painted windmills
shine like silver. The bouses are
brightly varnished and surrounded
with red and white railings and fences.
The panes of glass in the windows are
bordered by many lines of different
lujes. The trunks of all the trees are
painted gray from root to branch.
Across the streams are many little
wooden bridges, each painted as white
as snow. The gutters are ornamented
with a sort o? wooden festoon, perforated
like lace. The pointed facades
are surmounted with a small
weathercock, a little lance or something
resembling a bunch of flowers.
Nearly every house has two doors,
one in front and one behind, the last
for everyday entrance and exit and
the former opened only on great occasions,
such as birt is, deaths and marriages.
The gardens are as peculiar as the
houses. The paths are hardly wide
enough to walk in. One could put
his arm around the flowerbeds. The
dainty arbors would barely bold two
persons sitting close together. The little
myrtle hedges would scarcely reach
to the knees of a four-year-old child.
Between the arbors and the flower
beds run little canals which seem made
to float paper boats. They are crossed
bv miniature wooden bridaes. with
colored pillars and parapets. There
are ponds the size of a bath, which
are almost concealed by lilliputian
boats tied with red cords to blue
stakes, tiny staircases and miniature
kitchen gardens. Everythiag could be
measured with the hand, crossed at a
leap, demolished by a blow. Moreover.
there ari? trees cut in the shape
of fans, plumes and disks, with their
trunks colored white and blue. At
every step one discovers a new effect,
a fresh combination of hues, a novel
caprice, some new absurdity.
The rooms are very tiny and resemble
so many bazaars. There are porcelain
figures on the cupboard. Chinese
cups and sugar bowls on aud under j
the tables, plates fastened on the
walls, clocks, ostrich eggs, shells,
vases, plates, glasses, placed in every
corner and concealed in every nook,
cupboards full of hundreds of trifles
and ornaments without name, a crowd.
ing disorder and utter confusion of
Culors.?Public Opiuion.
A RESTORATION BEAU.
Daily Programme of a Dandy In
England During Charles' Time.
The history of an ordinary day of a
restoration beau was something like
this: From about 10 till 12 lie received
visitors in his sleeping chamber, where
lie lay in state, with his periwig, thickly
powdered, lying beside him on the
coverlet. Near at hand, 0:1 his dressing
table, the curious visitor might j
have noticed some little volumes of
amatory verse, a canister of Lisbon or j
Spanish snuff, a smelling bottle and j
perhaps a few fashionable trinkets.
As soon as he deemed proper the
beau arose and with incredible diiii- !
culty proceeded to put 011 all his I
charms, to perfume his garments, to
soak his hands in washes for the sake |
of producing whiteness and delicacy, j
to tinge his cheeks with carminative j
in order* to give them that gentle |
blush which nature had denied them, j
to arrange a number of patches upon j
his face so as to produce the effect of I
moles and dimples, to dip his pocket j
handkerchief in rosewater and to powder
his linen so as to banish from it
the smell of soap, to consume a quarter i
of an hour in the attempt to fasten j
his cravat, so long again in the en- >
deavor to adjust his wig and to "cock" j
his Lat, as long again in the contem- j
plation of his charms' in the looking
glass and as long again in the practice
of such smiles as would display to the j
best advantage the ivory whiteness of j
his teeth?these were the processes j
through which he who desired to fig- j
ure as a beau of the first magnitude !
was compelled in that age to pass.
The character of the beau, so far as j
his outward and personal appearance
was concerned, was now complete, and
as in those days fashionable gentlemen
used their legs to a much less extent i
than they do now our imaginary beau j
would have directed his valet to order |
a sedau chair without delay. Into j
this he stepped and was borne to the
fashionable haunt?to the mall In St. 1
James park or perhaps to the more I
ceremonious parade in Hyde park? j
where, like a butterfly, he delighted to
flutter in the train of some jilting j
beauty, who gloried in nothing so j
much as *4an equipage of fools" and j
who was perfectly willing for the \
nonce to furnish him with an excuse
for toasting her in a tavern at nightGentleman's
Magazine.
APHORISMS.
You never lift up a life without being j
yourself lifted up.?Emerson.
To ease another's heartache is to forget
one's own.?Abraham Lincoln.
It is ever true that he who does noth- 1
ing for others does nothing for himself. j
?Goethe.
'Tis far better to love and be poor i
than be rich with an empty heart.? j
Lewis Morris.
God doesn't care for what Is on the
outside; he cares for what is inside.? |
Rev. M. Babcoek.
Fruitless is sorrow for having done :
amiss if it issue not in a resolution to
do so no more.?Bishop Horne.
The next time you are discouraged j
just try encouraging some one else and i
see if it will not cheer you.?J. R. Mil- \
ler.
Sin is never at a stay. If we do not
retreat from it. we shall advance in it. ;
and the farther on we go the more we
have to come back.?Barrow.
Kind looks, kind words, kind acts
and warm band shakes?these are secondary
means of grace when men are ,
In trouble and are fighting their unseen
battles.?Dr. John Hall.
j
Qneen Elizabeth's Amulet.
j Queen Elizabeth during her last ill- j
ness wore around her neck a charm j
made of gold which had been be- |
queathed her by an old woman in
Wales, who declared that so long as
the queen wore it she would never be \
ill. Hie amulet, as was generally the |
case, .,r^ved of no avail, and Eliza- i
beth, notwithstanding her faith in the j
-i ^ 1? ,1 U..4
Ciiarm, Liel uniy siuh-eueu, uui uicu. i
During the plague in London people j
wore amulets to keep off the dread de- j
stroyer. Amulets of arsenic were worn |
near the heart. Quills of quicksilver j
were hung around the neck, and also
the powder of toads.
The Absentminded Professor.
At a session of the German reichstag
an absenrminded member, Herr Wichmann,
created no little amusement.
He was calling the roll, and upon
reaching his own name he paused for a :
response. Naturally none came. Then
he called the name more loudly, waited j
I a few seconds and roared it out at the ;
top of his voice. The laughter of his j
colleagues finally aroused him to a
[ sense of the ludicrousness of his act,
and he joined in the general hilarity.
Misdirected Philanthropy.
"Ah got no use fo' de man," said j
f Charcoal Eph in one of his philo- 1
sopbical turns, "dat donate e*- thousan' j
; dollabs t' de heathen fund ob de fash- j
ionabie church wid one han' an' raise !
de rents on his tenement houses wid ;
ue uouer. An spec ue ueuau uegin ;
practicin' crawlin' fro' de eye ob er ;
needle, Mistab Jackson!"?Baltimore ;
News.
Quite Amicable.
"Why did you quit your job? Did
you have a disagreement with the i
boss?"
"Oh. no: net at all. I told him I had
to have more money or 1 would quit, j
tnd he said it was mutually satisfac- I
[ tory."?Indianapolis News.
When there has been a death in the !
family, the house seems terribly large, j
?Atchison Globe.
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Benevolence is to love all men; I
knowledge, to know all men.?Confu- |
I cius. |
MMffl?M??an?i ii ivm
it's impure ?M.
" What is it ? " asks the mother as she
notices the smooth skin of her child
marred by a red or pimply eruption. It
is impure blood, and the child needs at
once to begin
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^or
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?Dr. Pierce"' medicine has not only benefited
me greatly, but it has done wonders for
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from the lung3. It troubled him for o-.er
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sores on his neck; had two lanced, but has not.
had any since he commenced to take your medicine."
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FOOD AND THE SEXES.
The Male Hainan Needs to Eat More
Than the Female.
According to a writer in the Lancet,
the male human needs more food than
the female not only on account of his
larger stature, but also because he is
the more katabolic of the two. The
man tends to expend energy and the
woman to store it up in the form of
fat; he burns the faster. This sexual
difference shows itself in the very
blood. The man has a larger percentage
of chromocytes than the woman,
showing that he needs a proportionately
larger quantity of oxygen in order
to maintain his more active combustion,
a fact which one may associate
with his comparative freedom from
chlorosis. Moreover, weight for weight,
his pulmonary capacity is greater than
that of the woman, whose smaller respiratory
need is further shown by the
facility with which she can without
discomfort 1 diminish her breathing
power by means of the corset.
"The great contrast between the
metabolic activity of the two sexes,"
^ntinnps tliA wrifpr. "was forcibly
brought home to me by a military display
given by a troop of dusky amazons,
with whom were also a few male
warriors. The women, in spite of their
daily exertions, were all rounded and
plump, seme very much so, no single
muscle showing through the skin, and
it was noticed that their movements,
though full of grace, lacked energy
and 'go.' The men, on the other hand,
were spare, their muscles standing out
plainly under the shiny skin, and they,
in further contrast with the women,
displayed a truly amazing agility,
bounding about and whirling round in
a most astounding fashion. The women,
in short, were essentially anabolic,
and the men were katabolic. 1 may
here draw attention to the fact that
men are apt to be larger meat eaters
than women, just as they are. possibly
in consequence of this very fact, more
prone to drink alcohol and to smoke
tobacco."
The Best Liniment for Strains. j
Mr. H F. Wells, a merchant at
Deer Park, Long Island, N Y, says:
4kI always recommend Chamberlain's
Pain Balm as tbe best liniment for
strains. I used it last winter for a
severe lameness in tbe side, result
iDg from a BtraiD, and was greatly
pleased with the quick relief and
cure it effected." For sale by J. E
Kaufmann.
SLEEPING HEROES.
Mighty Men of the Pa?t That Are
Expected to Retnrn.
Is there any race that has not its
sleeping hero? A correspondent recently
pointed out that the time for the
fulfillment of the prophecy that the
tenth of Krishna will restore to India
her independence is near at hand, and
every nation has some such savior to
whom the people look. West country
rustics still believe that Arthur did not
die, but sleeps in Avalon, and that in j
the hour of Britain's uced he will
awake, deliver the land ana restore j
the golden age. In Germany it is a j
popular belief that Charles V. will j
some day wake from his enchanted j
sleep to reign over Germany, Spain. !
Portugal, Denmark, Belgium and IIol- |
land. Thousands of French peasants ;
hold that Napoleon is only sleeping j
and that at some future time he will j
reappear and rule. And Mr. Xewbolt i
has enshrined the Devon legend that
Drake is only listening for the drum, j
The Irish peasantry steadfastly re- :
fuse to believe that Mr. Darnell is i
really dead. They assert that his death i
was a ruse, that he was an interested '
spectator of his own funeral and that ;
when the time coines he will emerge i
from retirement to give Ireland her in- !
dependence. Every true Moslem be- j
lieves that when antichrist appears j
Mohammed Mohadi will awake and j
conquer him. A Moorish legend de- j
can rs mat nDnaun t*i nau sleeps
spel Iboiuul near the A! bam bra and
that one day he will awake to re-establish
the Moors as rulers of Granada.
The Servians look to Kin# Lager,
slain by the Turks in 13S1), as their
final hope, and should Switzerland be
again threatened by tyrants Swiss
folklore declares that the three members
of the Tell family who are sleeping
at Untili. near the VierwaldStaton-Sec.
will rise from their enchanted
slumber and maintain the
freedom of the land.?London Chronicle.
Hopi Conrtshlp.
When a Ilopi maiden decides which
of the eligible young men of the tribe
she wishes to marry, she goes and sits
o n/1 rrrhwlc /**rtT*n nnf"il
I Li iiJO ilWU.^V Uliu ^ i mu.j v vji ii uum. ?. ^
is sufficiently impressed by her industry
to marry her.
After the ceremony, which is an
elaborate one, the couple go to live in
the wife's house. If she tires of her
husband, she can obtain a divorce by
merely throwing his saddle out of the
house. After marriage the house, fields
and all their property except the herds
belong to the wife.
The Hopis are indulgent parents.
The right of the children to do a?
they please is never questioned.
IIotf a Woman Gets a Seat.
"I will tell you how to work it," said
a woman, whose figure showed she
would be tired by standing, to a companion
in a Broadway car. "When
there is no vacant seat, watch for two
men who are in conversation and
stand right in front of them.
"Each one will want his friend to
think he is very polite, so both of them
will jump right up and offer their
seats. That's the way I do, and it never
fails."?New York Herald.
An Effective "Way.
"They say," said the young dramatist
"that I shall have to cut my play
1 x T llr?
UOWII, UUl 1 1'UilUJ uuu t auuu d uu\.
to begin."
"Why not start at both ends," his
ctindid friend asked, "and work toward
the middle?"?Chicago RecordHerald.
Opposite Meanings.
"Cleave" is the best instance of an
English word with two opposite meanings.
"Nervous," "let" and "propugn"
are other instances.
Summer complaint is unusually
prevalent among children this season.
A well developed case in the writer's
family was cured last week by the
timely use of Chamberlain's Colic,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy?one
of the best patent medicines manufactured
and which is alwayB kept
on haDd at the home of ye scribe
This is not intended for a free puff
for the company, who do Dot advertise
with ue, but to benefit little
sufferers who may not be within easy
access of a physiciaD. No family
should be without a bottle of this
medicine in the bouse especially in
summer time?LansiDg, Iowa,
Journal, For sale by J. E. Kaufmann.
AUTHORS' BLUNDERS.
Some Mistake* In Which the Moon,
Sun and Wind Figure.
The moon proves a terrible pitfall to
most writers. Wiikie Collins once performed
the marvelous feat of making
it rise in the west. Rider Haggard, in
"King Solomon's Mines," relies for the
effective rendering of one of his most
thrilling scenes upon an eclipse of the
new moon.
Coleridge placed a star between the
horns of the crescent moon, forgetting
that to be visible in such a position the
ftar would have to be between the
earth and the moon or, say, 2^0,000
miles away only.
Next to the moon perhaps the sun is
responsible for more glaring errors
than any single concrete cause. At
the beginning of a certain famous novel.
the title of which a few years back
was in everybody's mouth, an invalid
character's room was said to have
been lighted by one window looking
directly toward the cast. Yet at the
end of the book, when the invalid dies,
the author, wishing to make him depart
this life in a flood of glory, suf:
fuses this eastern windowed room with
"the red glare of the setting sun."
Kingsley, too, made one of his heroes
row out into the eastern ocean after
the setting sun. But even this glaring
absurdity has been capped. In a novel
published by a well known firm there
occurs the following passage, the scene
being laid on board a big sailing ship:
"'How's the wind?' asko? the skipper.
'East-northeast,' replied the mate,
glancing at the masthead pennant,
which was streaming blithely in the
direction indicated." So that in the
world, according to novelists, we
should not only And the sun setting in
the east, but pennants would "stream"
against the direction of the prevailing
wind.
Envied the Other Boy.
Johnny?I wish I was Tommy .Tones.
Mother?Why? You are stronger
than he is, you have a better home, j
more toys and more pocket money. I
Johnny?Yes, I know, but ho can !
wiggle his ears.?Men of Tomorrow. j
Kxporieace the Only Teacher.
She?There's really no reason for I
married folks to quarrel
He?No. except that they generally
need a few quarrels to find that out.? j
Brooklyn Life.
j
The man who has the most to say j
about charity beginning at home is
generally the one who thinks that reform
ought to begin on the other side
of the world.
MOST POPULAR FOOD STUFF FOR j
CATTLE
"
Pointers That Are of Vital Interest to the
Up-to-date Farmer. Money in Dairying.
What has cotton to do with dairying:?
Cotton seed products have hecome
the most popular food stuff for j
cattle, because of the low price and |
the most excellent results. They are
the natural cattle feed for the cotton
region, on account of saving in freight
and the easy and convenient access.
Strange to say, the value of these products
was not first discovered in their
native home. It remained for German
scientists to point out their great
value. German agriculturists are always
standing ready to make use of
- - i? n V> LW t V"T ?V \' !
tne discoveries 01 ^leutc, ,
imported vast quantities of cotton se<d i
meal from this country and used it lor
cattle feed in their dairies years before
our own people woke up to the great
possibilities in cotton seed meal as a
feed stuff. But it is now very well
known that cotton seed meal, in connection
with cotton seed hulls, make
the most valuable cattle foods that are
available, especially that offered by
the Southern Cotton Oil company of
the Carolinas and Georgia, at any of
their mills or at their headquarters at
Columbia, S. C., Savannah, Ga., Atlanta,
Ga., or Raleigh, N. C.
There is one fact in connection with
ca. "> feeding on cotton seed products
that is not generally given the prominence
that its importance demands.
This is the value of the manure.
Most exhaustive experiments have
been made, both in this country and in
Europe, with a view to finding the
relation between the feed and the resulting
excrement from cattle. A
most important and far-reaching conclusion
has been reached, and it is
one which does not admit of any
doubt. This is that practically all of
* ' f /\ f tin fn _
tii6 nitrogen mm ia icu iu vmuv.
appears in the excrement: about, halt'
in the solid and half in the liquid.
Nitrogen is the most expensive ingiedient
in all food stuffs, and in all fertilizers.
Hence, this discovery is a
most important one, leading to the
astounding fact that the present commercial
value of cotton seed meal as a
feed stuff is but half its real value,
when properly understood. It means
that the full value of the nitrogen in
the meal may be utilized in feeding,
and then, if sufficient care be taken to
save solid and liquid manure the whole
of the nitrogen may be collected and
used again as a manure. There is a
further value in this, in that the form
of the nitrogen in this manure, taken
with the other elements, chemical and
mechanical, makes the manure a better
fertilizer than the original meal.
The general statement that practically
all of the nitrogen fed to cattle
reappears in the excrement might lead
to the conclusion (which would be
easily self-contradictory) that nitrogen
feeds are of no value to cattle, and that
it is in no way assimilated or made use
of by the animal economy. Nothing is
more firmly established than that nitrogenous
feeds are most important, in
producing both beef and butter: but it
is not yet well understood how the animal
uses the nitrogen and then excretes
it. It may be that the nitrogen
from the air is utilized, or it may be
that through some transformation in
the system the nitrogen does its work,
nnrl is thp>n rejected.
There is a perfect analogy in the use
of nitrogen in making sulphuric acid.
It is necessary to supply a certain
amount of nitrogen to make the process
operative, and yet ail of this nitrogen is
either recovered or lost,' none of it
actually being retained in the sulphuric
acid.
The cotton plant requires a large
amount of nitrogen, and this may be
supplied with the manure from dairy
cattle, which themselves feed on cotton
products, and in the interim, turn out
large amounts of valuable milk cream
and butter. Then dairying on the cotton
farm becomes a logical occupation.
There are now many cotton seed oil
mills of the Southern Cotton Oil Co. so
v. idely scattered that it is easy for any
cotton farmer to trade his cotton seed
fcr meal and hulls, and thus provide
himself with valuable feed stuffs for
dairy or beef cattle, and incidentally
procure the very best fertilizer that is
known?the manure from cattle maintained
on nitrogenous feeds.
Aside from all considerations of manurial
value, the relative feed value of
cotton seed meal and hulls is shown
iwOmir in nnnnooHnn with rplativp vnlnp
of other feed stuffs in the following extract
from a table in the book "Cotton
and Cotton Oil" by D. A. Tompkins.
Relative Nutritive
Feed Value. Ratio.
Cotton Seed Meal. . . .$24.16 1 to 1.2
Linseed Meal 21.18 1 to 1.6
Cow Peas 21.20 1 to 2.S
Alfalfa Hay 15.24 1 to 4.3
Oats 17.72 1 to 5.9
Clover Hay 12.S4 1 to 6.5
Corn . . . 22.72 1 to 9.0
Timothy Hay 14.12 1 to 15.7
Corn Stover 10.16 1 to 17.0
Cotton Seed Hulls. . . . 9.96 1 to 70.0
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A TOPSY TURVY ROOM.
A Frenchman Who Plays Practical
Jokes on His Guests.
A "topsy lurvy room," writes a correspondent,
not illusory, but actually
so built, existed near Paris some years
ago ana may still exist. One who saw
it thus describes it and the use to
which it was put: "I was the guest of
the owner of the house," he says,
"from Saturday to Monday. He was a
bachelor, very convivial in his tastes,
and we were a very jolly party of men.
When we woke up, about 2 o'clock on
the Sunday morning, one cf our number.
sound asleep on the couch in the
billiard room, was "carried out like a
log by a couple of servants. My host
gave me a solemn wink and told me
that if a sudden summons came I was
to rush from my bedroom or else I
might miss a sight worth seeing, i.
wanted nothing but sleep and was relieved
when the summons came to find
that it was broad daylight.
"Yawning, I followed the valet and
found myself, with four others, silent- j
ly peeping through little holes in the
wall. The scene was absurd, ridiculous.
A dazed man slowly waking to
full c< isciousness was lying on a plastered
floor, looking up in h >rror at a
carpeted ceiling. Two heavy couches.
Jin easy chair, chairs and tables securely
fastened stared down at him
from above. The man's eyes at last
rested on a flowerpot directly over his
head, from which a flaring rose, apparently
real, was blooming. lie gave
a cry and. rolling over, grasped with
frenzied hands the stem of the chandeliei.
which came up through the floor.
The lmst burst into the room, with a
loud laugh. 'They all do it.' he cried.
'They fear they will fall up to the ceiling.'
"
A si,200 fire has been caused in
Union by thi blowing of burning
straws under a barn into a hen's nest.
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Stevens
Ideal Rifle. !
No. 44. {
Price Only $10.00.
v Made in all the standard cali*
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Weight about 7 pounds. Stand- M
ard barrel for rim fire cartridges, M
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inciies. r or center-lire cartridges,
26 inches.
If these rifles are not carried in stock
by your dealer, send price and we will
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Send stamp for catalog describing complete
line and containing valuable illformation
to shooters.
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COLUMBIA, S. C.
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