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A BABY'S LOOK. Oft 1 Eit and try to conj ure Up the fancies, The old memories that he Must be heir to when he rests bis Worldwise glances, As he cf ten does, on me. Are there dim old recollections Of another. Of a fairer place than earth That come trooping in upon him Of the 211 ot her Who forsook him at his birth? Who shall fathom the deep meaning Of the look That is often m his eyes ? is his mind surcharged "with wisdom From some book That he studied in thc skies? Does he have his dim old memories Of a clime That is fair and far away, As I've had them, as you've had them In your time As we still-do? Who shall say? -S. E. Kiser in Cleveland Leader. DIVA EVE?A. Far from the haunts of men, in a lonely spot near the dense forest, lived a peasant He had one daughter. He call-' ed her Evina. His hut was built on the banks of a lake. No other habitation was to be seen for miles, save a little Souse on the other side of the lake. That was the home of an old couple, who, by cultivating a small piece of land, managed to eke out a precarious existence. They had a son, known as Vennund. Trout and other fish abound ed in the lake, the forest was full of birds and game, but, excepting an oc casional woodchopper, no human being had ever appeared there. ' 1 5 rem early childhood Evina had found great pleasure in singing. She learned to imitate the notes of the birds, and in tune her songs surpassed these of all the bird's in the forest. Whenever Vermund heard her sing he dropped his ax or rested in his boat Then he began to think how nice it would be to have Evina in his own hnfall the time, so he should not miss her voice and song when the storm drowned every other melody. Then he began to go to the vil lage. He sold fish and he bartered birds. He received money for his wares, and never did he return without some sweets for Evina. He had heard in the town that people marry, and he told Evina that they, too. ought to get married. All that was necessary, they had told hint, was to sell some more birds and some more fish and then to give the money to the priest, who would publish the bans. And Evina agreed. The leaves of the trees began to turn yellow and red. Only three more weeks were to pass before they would have the marriage ceremony performed. During the clear and still autumn evenings Evina sang and sang. Never before did she sing as well, never before had she been so happy. In three short weeks she would be housed on the other side of the lake Then she would not have to call to Vermund over the water. She had been singing all the after noon. Her happiness was complete, and her voice sounded more birdlike than ever before. Then out of the forest came several fine gentlemen. * "We have been listening to you. We have never heard a voice like yours. ' said the one who was tallest. "That is quite possible, " said Evina, "for the dense forest is the best place to sing in. It is so wonderful in there. " They asked who she was, where she lived, and they went with her to see her father. - Among themselves they talked in a language she could not un derstand. They looked at her; they made signs to each other ; they talked loudly and excitedly. In the hut they found Evina's father busily engaged in making brooms. He had seen fine gentlemen before, and he knew that they did not come to order I brooms. Ho ordered his daughter to keep still, for he wanted to hear what the visitors had to say. He was almost frightened when the tall man put a hundred kroner bill on the table and told him that Evina must come to the j city and sing there. In one year, so the tall man told him, she could earn money enough to bsy a large farm for her fa ther. Evina was amazed. She did not know what a city was She had once been to the village, and she thought the things she saw there very wonderful. But she was ready to go to the city and willing to sing there. ! "One thing only, I beg of ycu, " said t she "Wait until I have married Ver mund. " No: that could not be. After she had earned riches" she could return home, if she chose and marry Vermund. but now she must go with them-go that very hour. On her way she sang. She said good by to Vermund in a song. The gentle men stood and listened. They wondered and looked at her with admiration. The one who looked the noblest, he who gave the money to her father, wiped his eyes with his handkerchief. He was crying, yet he had not even seen Ver mund. Never before ?ad Evina slept in so eoft a bed as was given her in the city She had never even thought of such beautiful things as those that surround ed her Only the air seemed to te close and heavy She felt an impulse to go ont into the country. So in the midst of the night she got up. She would run home. But the door was closed, securely bolted There she lay and cried until morning Came. They brought her coffee, they brought her cake, but she could not eat. Later kind men came and taught her what to do when she should sing before many people. They gave her beautiful dresses, they took her to a large house all aglow with brilliant lights. They taught her how to bow. how to retire, how to return and bow again. Then came the night when the people were to listen to her When she appear ed on the stage she saw many heads close together: they reminded her of the tree tops in her forest. She thought of Vermund. She began in a clear, silvery voice. Those who heard her seemed to bear the lark as she rises in the air. More and more joyful did it sound : her voice increased in.power: she sang as she used to sing when she sont greetings to Vermund across the lake. When she had finished h^r song the wholo sea of upturned faces remained immovable. There was no applause, and hurriedly she retired. Then an uproar broke loose. "Evina! Evina."' they shouted. They clapped their hands, they stamped with their feet, they reminded her of the hobgoblins in her forest. Louder and louder did they shout and greater and greater did the aoDlausebo corne attei ea?n song. Finally she < sing no more. She picked up a ? part of the dowers they showered her, she bowed ch ce more and reth Early next morning ;i man can her and handed her a purse foll of ? He told her it was hers for her songs night. Then she wanted to take i with her and go home to her Verm The man smiled. "This is only the beginning,' said. "When you have learned to more correctly, we will travel thrc many lands, and you will get mi enough to luv great estates. " Then came a maestro who taught how* to read music. Another taught how to walk, how to stand and ho' carry herself gracefully. Then c tailors and modistes. They brot dresses and bonnets, and all told she must buy jewelry. She learned she sang. She traveled with a : whom they called an impresario, went from city to city, from conntr country. She acquired foreign guages. she cultivated a taste for ch pagne and other dainties which \ distasteful to her at the beginning, sang in operas. Kings and empe listened to her. Diva Evina had come an idol. Wherever she appei she was overwhelmed with flowers presents. Money came fast and w rapidly. She knew not its value, ordered that some be sent to her fat and was notified that he had died. I ing the summer she used to live in country house in the mountains. Time flew. Years passed in this m of living, and she had nearly forgot her youth as a poor girl on the lake. One night she sang again. The ho was filled from top to bottom. The perial box was occupied bytheempei the empress and the princess, and highest court functionaries were ab them. At the most sublime part of song she involuntarily looked np. H np in the topmost gallery she sai face that was bending down tow; her. She beheld a pair of eyes rive upon her. Her blood rushed to '. heart. Something made her think Vermund. "Perhaps this youth o: resembles him, " she thought. But the rest of the time she was on i stage she was unable to take her e; from this face? She must needs look him, at him only. That Verran should be sitting there appeared to 1 as impossible as if the lake itself shot have come to the city. The longer she looked the more str ing became the resemblance. It .mi be Vermund. He carried his head ways in that way. No one else cot disten to her so eagerly. Her voice 1 came thrilling, powerful, grander th ever before. She saw the 'yoong m pull out a blue checkered handkerch: and wipe first one eye, then the oth< Now she was positive that the strang was Vermund. Her blood went rushi: to her head. She felt jubilant. She r, np close to the footlights, and she beg in her native tongue : "Vermund, Vermund: Come, o come I Come over-over-over-to me The emperor rose and applauded. Ti whole bouse shook with the acclain tions. , Seven times did' they recall he and while they were still clamoring f her appearance she had gone. She bj found Vermund, and she took him wi' her in her carriage. He told her how he had longed fi her. How he thad-patiently waite? waited and waited till he could endu: it no longer. Down in the village the had read in the newspapers that Evil had become a great singer. They to! him so., and he went from city to eil in search of her. Questions came thic and fast, and they talked about thinj at home of which Evina had not thong! for years; She wanted to ask him abor thousands cf matters, when the earring drove up in front of her hotel. She ii sisted upon Vermund's coming up 1 ber rooms, so that they could gossip. . stream of prominent people swept ur ceasingly through her apartment. The found no time to be alone. She aske him to come early next morning. Sh would be free then. . Evina spent a sleepless night. Sh thought of all the news she had hear about the home of her childhood. Sh thought of Vermund, and she wishe for the dawn. She was anxious to sho\ hkn all the wonderful and beautifrj things she now possessed. She wantd to tell him about how she lived. As sh lay on her couch she fancied herself a home again lying flat in her boat an gling for trout. She felt as if she wer rowing and rowing, but could make ni progress. Her line was caught in th reeds. She had never noticed them be fore. , When Vermund came on the nex morning they began to talk. They talk ed about old things new at home, when the two huts yet stood on the oppositi banks of the lake. She had forgottei nothing, her recollection wa3 as vivie as if she had left her old home only or yestereve. She was ready to begin t( sing "Vermund, Vermund. corni over." when she suddenly remembered where she was. He felt that there coult now be no question about marriage ant such things. She tbok him out in bei carriage, she showed him the wild ani mais, the lions, the tigers and tin snakes. She pointed out to him all ob jects of interest in the city. Wherevei they went people bowed to her. When they returned to Evina's hote! they found the table adorned with glis tening silver, rich cut glass and fra grant flowers. The waiters brought ir delicacy after delicacy. There they sat and talked about tho honey cake Ver mund used to brina from the village and they had eaton in Evina's hut. So j engrossed were they that they forgot tc ' eat the good things set before them, j Evina had made np her mind tu gc j next summer to the lake; she must see herold home again. She gave Vermund some money to put her father's hut in order. She would live in it as in ti ines gone by. Their parting was affectionate. Vermund went home. The fish dealer in the village shrugged his shoulders when Vermund told him of Evina's plans for the summer. But come she did. During the first week she walked and sang in tho forest, on the lake and in all the places where she used tb sing when a girl. It sounded well. She went rowing with Vermund. and they cast their lines as of yore. The self caught trout had a delicate flavor of its own, and tho herries which she picked tasted far better than any dainty served in tho best hotel. And Hi" air was so pure, so fresh, so invigorating. She awoke one morning and found it raining. Everything was gray. A dense fog hid the forest. The weather did not . ?imrove. Ou the next day it was rain ing and raining. The Jake was icmpes tuons. She found it tedious, dismal, dreary and lonely to sit around all day long while the rain was pattering at the windows. She departed suddenly. She went to the village and thence to the city as fast as swift horses could take her. Her impresario was awaiting her. She be gan to travel again. Years passed. She earned money rapidly. She squandered it with equal celerity. She spent her summers in watering places. She had to undergo treatment to keep her voice from failing. Once in awhile the news papers hinted that her impresario should see to it that she took better care of her voice, which had lost some of its clearness. People who demanded money fi.om her became more pressing. She had to travel more to earn funds to meet these demands. The treatment of her throat became mere and more diffi cult. "Voices of such intensity never last long, " said the experts, and hers ought to have been carefully husbanded and scientifically treated instead of being squandered and neglected. A few more years rolled by. To hear a world famous singer was still inter esting enough for many people; but the unstinted applause, the flowers, the presents, became rare. Evina's income, too, diminished rapidly. The time came when the critics became fretful and an noying ; they began to call her an organ with pipes broken and tunes missing. Her jewelry had found its way into the pawnshop; her country place became the property of her creditors. She her self had become superfluous to the peo ple who once looked upon her as a bril liant star. They withdrew from her and began to avoid her. Her recollec tion of the lake became vivid to her. She saw it plainly before her eyes. It was still blue, and it beckoned a wel come to her. Yes, she still could sing there. Out there was no newspaper to sneer at her, no impresario to annoy her, and the old hut was not valuable enough to attract creditors. One morning Vermund saw smoke rising from the hut across the lake. He had taken care of it for a long, long while. He kept it in order for her, for he knew that she would return some day. He felt it to be his duty to row across and see what had happened. Bending over the fireplace he found Evina preparing her breakfast. She had arrived the evening before, she was not richer than on the day she left her home years agp. But to Vermund it appeared that this was well, for the less she pos sessed the surer he was that she would remain there. And for her maintenance he thought he could provide. He came across every day. He put the hut in good condition. He brought fish, and he brought game. He brought sweets from the village, which they shared. Both felt satisfied. They went out fishing together till the cold weath er set in, and the ice made it hard to cross the lake. One day Evina stood on the shore and made sign3 with a scarf. He understood that she had tried to call I him over by song, but that her voice had lost its power-he could not hear her. He cleared a way for his boat through the ice, and when he reached the other shore she told him that there was no food in her house. He thought that the best thing for her to do would be to go back with him to his hnt in the boat. They rowed across that very day ' Snow covered the ground ; the winter had arrived. People in the village thought it curious that she, who had been a celebrity in the world, should again have become plain Evina, and that she should haveraarired Vermund. In their hut Evina used to sit in front of the fire, watching her pots. She would sing or she would hum parts cf her operas, and, like an old bird, she would succeed sometimes in bringing . forth some broken melody. And sometimes, when she saw the tall tree tops of the forest, her fancy pictured to her the brilliantly lighted opera house, she saw the upturned faces, she saw the swaying bodies, she heard the deafening applause, and she stooped to pick up some flower. Then she would smile and murmur softly to herself. "Old ago dreaming of youth's pleas ures. "-From the German For New York Commercial Advertiser Did us Ile Was Told. The Rev. Dr. Meredith, a well known Brooklyn clergyman, in a talk to his Sunday school urged the children to speak to him whenever they met. The next day a dirty faced urchin accosted him in the street with: How do. doc?' The clergyman stopped and cordially inquired. "And who are you. sir?" "I'm one^of your little lambs. " re plied the boy affably. "Fine dayl' And, tilting his hat to the back of his head, he swaggered off, leaving the worthy divine speechless with amaze ment. Turkeys Tracked by DORM. The wild turkey in the Ozarks is now hunted with a slow tracking dog, and whole flocks are often killed in this way Till the trained dog was employed to follow up the wary bird this game fowl could baffle the most skillful hunter. Now, when a flock of turkeys is found, tho sportsman has little difficulty. A good dog will follow a turkey track that is threo or four hours old and set the birds when overtaken, just as the pointer does the quail. After the turkey has been chased awhile it hides in a tree or under a log, and stays there un til the hunter, guided by his dog. comes within close, range. It is astonishing what fine instinct a good turkey dog will develop after a few mouths of training in the woods. He will follow a flock of turkeys for hours just ahead of the hunter, and in dicate by unmistakable signs when the game is near. After a turkey has re ceived a fatal shot it may fly half a mile or more A trained dog will go straight to a wounded or dead turkey with the same precision with which he tracks the ira me.-Ch i ca 70. .Record. Kev. Iv. Edwards, pastor of tho English IJaptist Church at Miners ville, l'a., when suffering with rheu matism, was advised tn try Chamber lain's Tain Kahn. Ne .?vs: "A few applications ol' this liniment proved ol great service lo me. J; subdued thc iutlammatioii and relieved the pain. Should any sufferer profit hy: gi vi nu Pain Hahn a Ilia! it will please nie. For sale hy Ilill-Urr I ?rug Co. - lt pays better to he a dentist thai an ' .erulist. A niau l?as t h i ny-1 wi teeth and only two eyes. THE PAINTING HABIT. SHUN THE CRAZE IF YOU ARE NOT ALREADY A VICTIM. Tin? Story of One Unfortunate Dupe's Ci fe Shows to "What an Untamed Thirst For Taint May Jirina the Most Kesriectnble ot' Men. Of nil thc vices to which tho head of a family can ho addicted the.paint craze is probably the most devastating in its effect upon tho mind, clothing and purse. Unlike drunkenness and playing on brass instruments, it is a vice which can be practiced without publicity, and this is doubtless one reason why it is so awfully prevalent. There seems to be something wonder fully fascinating in the private paint brush and the cans bf prepared paint that are extensively advertised as com bining the twofold mission of preserv ing and beautifying objects npon which applied. The man who has once allowed him self to paint the kitchen chairs or the dog kennel takes a step which he can rarely retrace. His thirst for paint, grows with indulgence, and he soon comes to feel wretched unless he has a brush in his hand. Among private painters there exists a strange and.morbid unwillingness to al low a particle of paint to be wasted. The man who buys a pound can of blue paint with which to paint a table, and finds that after the werk is done he has a quarter of a pound of paint left, in stantly tries to find some other article of furniture on which to use it Thus he is constantly led on from one article of furniture to another and re duces himself to poverty, madness and despair. The story of a man who was once a respectable and worthy ratepayer of an adjoining municipality presents a fear ful illustration of the misery caused by private painting. The man in question was induced by an indiscreet friend to buya pound of red paint with which to paint a small dog kennel. Without re flecting upon the danger to which every one exposes himself who takes the un hallowed brush in his hand, this man painted the dog kennel, and with the quarter of a pound that was left under took to paint the bathtub, in order, as he told himself, that the paint should not be wasted. Ho found that when the bathtub was not more than half painted his supply of paint was exhausted, and he there fore bought another can. With this he finished the bathtub and Lad this time three-quarters of a pound left. It was, of course, impossible for him to allow so much paint to be wasted, and accordingly he began to paint the six kitchen chairs. There was enough paint for five chairs only, and the wretched man saw that he could not help buying a third pound, nearly all of which was left after the sixth chair was finished. With hungry eyes and excited air he now roamed through the house seeking what he might paint, and finally de cided to paint the woodwork of his study. Two additional pounds were used before the woodwork was finished, but he found that in his anxiety to finish the work without buying a sixth can of red paint he had laid on the paint so lightly in some places that the result dissatisfied him. As a remedy he resolved to run a nar row bar of black paint around each panel, and therefore bought a pound of the best prepared ivory black. Not more than half of it had been used when the work .was finished, and it became neces sary to find something on which to use tho remainder. The unhappy man now realized when it was too late to save himself that he was a confirmed painter and that he had not sufficient strength of will to cast the accursed paint brush from him no matter if he did thereby waste near ly a pound of ivory black. He pursued his downward course with great rapid ity. Heedless of the tears of his wif and the entreaties of his daughters, lie painted everything in the house un which a paint brush could be laid. His wife and daughters could not go into thc street without showing by their involuntary patches of black paint that the head of their house was a private painter. His money gradually found its way into the pocket of the storekeeper who sold the paint, and his health eventually gave way under the influ ence of painter's coiic.-Montreal Ga zette. Flailing: For Anchor?. One of the queer occupations of man kind is that of dragging for lost anchors. It is carried cn in bays and rivers, and even in the open sea along the coast. Several sloops and schooners ure engag ed almost exclusively in this pursuit The bunters are as familiar with the ground where anchors are to be found as fishermen are with the favorite haunts of the living inhabitants of tba 6ea. The matter of fishing for lost anchors is most simple. A chain is let down in a loop long enough to drag along the bottom, and the vessel goes on her way, with all hands on board alert fora bite, and a bite usually ends in a catch. The recovered anchors are generally sold again at a price of abcut 5 cents a pound, which is a penny under the market price for new anchors. A big anchor will weigh (5.000 pounds, so that tho fishermen make $250 out of it. More often, however, tho anchors fished up weigh from 1.000 to 2,000 pounds. A Curious Fi.fh. Thero is a tish with four eyes along the sandy shores of tropical American seas. It is the anableps and is unique among vertebrates on account of the division of the cornia into upper and lower halves by a dark horizontal stripe and the development of two pupils to each orbit Ono pair of these appears to be looking upward, tho* other side wise. -IB . - mm - Biliousness and constipation are seeds out of which spring many ol' thc surious diseases that afflict the human body* Sound judgment would demand the immediate removal ol' this condi tion before it develops something more troublesome and difiicult to cure. Prickly .V>li Bitters is a reliable cure for constipation and disorders ol' simi lar character. It not. only thoroughly empties and purifies thc bowels, but, strengthens the bowel channels ami regulates thc liver and stomach, hence it perin rm s a radical cure. Sold by Ivvans Pharmacy. IMITATION JEWELS. PASTE DIAMONDS AND OTHER FALSE PRECIOUS STONES. A Regular Trude In ihe Alleged Gems That Gleam and Glitter-Who Invented Them and IVherc- Th Ls Clus? of Glassware Is Mnde. If the proverb "All's not gold that glitters" were amended to read "All are not diamonds that glitter.' it would be equally true and perhaps more apt; for there's fully ns much glitter about jewels, real and false, as there is in gold and its imitations. It is by art fully turning and twisting in the light his tastefully mounted bit of glass that the flimflam dealer in the goods of the famous Dazzle Jewel company is able to catch the fancy and tempt the vanity of the gullible customer, who buys for 20 cents an article which if it were what it purports to be would cost from $100 to $500. To be sure, there are people who purchase paste diamonds knowingly. Occasionally an actress who cannot af ford such a luxury and whose admirers have not yet bestowed real diamonds upon her wears paste on the stage. In this case she knows exactly what she is. about in making her purchase. It has been asserted with some show cf truth fulness that actresses and singers who have amassed wealth and are the pos sessors of genuine and valuable jewels have duplicates made which are imita tions. The originals are wore only un der circumstances where . detection would be easy and where the danger of accidental loss is reduced to a mini mum. But on the stage and under other conditions where there is more or less danger of carelessness or mis chance the paste substitutes are used. It is even alleged that women in pri vate life, harassed by fear of burglars and tired of having detectives follow them about on occasions when they wear precious stones whose value amounts to hundreds of thousands of dollars, also resort to this device, secur ing peace of mind by sending their real jewels to a safety deposit vault and wearing clever imitations at receptions, theaters and balla To the jeweler the word "paste' means glass. Sometimes one hears this material called "whitestone' or "strass. " but these are terms employed by the trade alone and not in talking with a customer They apply only to imitations of diamonds. The business of making jewels is at least two cen turies old. Some of the accounts of the invention of strass say that it was known in Strassburg as long ago as 1680 One authority attributes the name to the city where it first made its appearance and another to the man who devised it. Josef Strasser The word "rhinestone" is also employed to describe the same article and is an al lusion to the great stream on which the paste diamond made its debut. How ever, "rhinestone" is applied to large specimens, such as are suitable for clasps and buckles, and are so enor mous that no one could possibly mis take them for diamonds, whereas ? 'paste" is used to designate an imita tion jewel, cf about the same composi tion as the rhinestone, but small enough to look like a real stone. A number of formula? have been de vised in order to produce a glass of the right hardness, brilliancy and purity The Jewelers' Circular recently gave a number of them and remarked at the same time that for a century or more no book on glass was considered com plete without a chapter on imitation jewels. Even for making "paste" there is a variety of methods and mixtures, and to produce good likenesses of rubies, emeralds, amethysts and other colored stones the composition must be different from any of these. To a certain extent the jewelry trade recognizes this industry as legitimate. That is to say. there are dealers in Maiden lane who unhesitatingly adver tise "real and imitation stones.' If yon go in and ask to see stock, you are asked without hesitation or disguise whether you want to examine the real article or an imitation. Moreover, there are numerous houses, notably in Providence and Attleboro. which manufacture earrings, finger rings, shirt studs, brooches, belts, buc kles, clasps and other articles in various grades ut' gold and set with imitation jewels. Nono of the latter are made in America. They are all imported. But the mounting is done here and without apparent intent to deceive, at least so far as the manufacturer is concerned. The retailer who buys from him is not fooled. Ho goes into tho transaction with his eyes open. Perhaps for adver tising purposes the manufacturer gives to his glass diamond a fancy name, like "The Dewey Brilliant, " "The Evening Star," "The Cigarette," "The Melba' or "The Kimberley," but he does not lie about its character. Most of the cheaper imitations come from a country famons for its other glassware. Bohemia. But the better ones are made in the Jura region of France, not very far from the birth place of strass. The less expensive imi tations are molded, like "pressed" glass tumblers or dishes. The more costly are cnt, and the quality of the cutting counts for almost ns much with the importer as color and luster. Imitations that cost from 10 cents to $2 apiece look to the uninitiated like jewels which would cost from $70 to $500, but their nature is easily detected by an expert, who has many tests at his disposal. Whatever may be said in regard to the "legitimate" trade in imitation j cwels. it is to be feared that an enor mous business is done in them by un scrupulous dealers. Such goods are often sold to persons who imagine that they are buying real diamonds. Some of the misrepresentations indulged in aro tech nically legal, but in instances one can discover cases that clearly come within the limits of "obtaining money under false pretenses. "-New York Tribune CASTOR IA For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears tho Signature of - When a girl realizes that she has been jilted she spends the next week going around among her friends and explaining to them just why she con cluded to break thc engagement An 1 ni poss i hie Wuffer. In thc year 1804 tho parliament of Dole, in France, was called upon to de cide an extraordinary wager between two inhabitants of Pasmas. One of the two had agreed that if the other would pay him *5 ready money he would fur nish him with a certain number of grains of millet in proportion to the number of children who should be born within a certain extent of country and he baptized during one year. For the first child he was tb furnish one grain, two for the second, four fur the third, and so on, always doubling the number of grains for each successive birth. The number of children born was Go. and the proportion of grains to be supplied was so enormous that the par ty bound by the wager demanded the canceling of the bet as being based on an impracticable condition. The court decided, after making the necessary calculation, that the wager was naturally impossible to be carried out, and it consequently decreed that the party who had received the $5 on condition of an event which he declared himself unable to meet should return that sum to his opponent and should pay an additional sum of $5, which was the only chance of loss incurred by the winner if the millet had been furnished. Some Famous Sallie?. Great men have been guilty of pun ning, and some of the most famous of these sallies have come down in history. There ia something melancholy about the pun of Dr. Thomas Browne, who. having unsuccessfully courted a lady and being challenged to drink to her health as had been his wont, replied, "I have toasted her many years, but I cannot make her Browne, so I will toast her no longer. " Sydney Smith's jest at the expense of Mrs. Grote had the salt of malice in it. She was famed for ill taste in dress, and as one day she swept by in an ex traordinary headdress Smith pointed her out to a friend, saying. "That is the origin of the word 'grotesque.' " N Mrs. Grote, however, had her re venge. Sydney Smith's daughter mar ried a Dr. Holland. When the latter was knighted, some one mentioned hi3 wife as Lady Holland. '"'Do you mean Lord Holland's wife?' asked the lis tener. "No. ' replied Mrs. Grote. "This new Holland, whose capital is Sydney. ' When the barrister Campbell mar ried Miss Scarlett, his friend explained his absence from court by telling the judge that Campbell was suffering from a bad attack of Scarlett fever. Hi? Only Capture. Voltaire had once taken a box at the opera and was installed iu it with some ladies when the Duke of Lauzun ar rived and asked for a box. He was re spectfully informed that all the boxes were taken. "That may be." he said, "but I see Voltaire in one. Turn him out ' In those times such things could happen, and Voltaire was turned out. He brought an action against the duke to recover the price of the box. "What!" exclaimed the advocate for the duke "Is it M. de Voltaire who dares to plead against the Duke of Lau zun. whose great-grandfather was the first to get cu the walls of La Rochelle against the Protestants, whose grandfa ther took 12 cannons from the Dutch at Utrecht, whose father captured two standards from the English at Fontenoy who" - "Oh. but excuse me. interrupted Voltair?. "1 am not pleading against : the Duke of Lanzun who was first on the walls a: La Rochelle nor against the duke who captured 1- cannon from the Dutch at Utrecht nor against the duke . who captured two standards from the English at Fontenoy. 1 am pleading against the Duke of Lauzun who never captured anything in his life but my I box at the opera. '' Lucked the Implement. Thc new hired girl was as green as spinach in its first bloom. One day the mistress asked her to make escaloped oysters for the dinner. At dinner the girl brought in the oysters on the plate. "Why. Jane. I told you to scallop them !" "Yes. ma'am, but Hi couldn't find the scalloper. "-Syracuse Herald. Discussion Postponed. She-I'm very sure you could get ivork if you wanted it. He-Mebbe so. ma'am. I make it a ?mle never to argy before breakfast. tew York World. - Thc recent census in Great Bri tain makes the population Mi),OOO.OOO. - Poverty is no disgrace, but it is seldom used as a testimonial of ability. ? Word to Doctors We have the highest regard for the medical profession. Our preparations are not sold tor the purpose of antagon izing them, but rather as an aid. We lay it down as an established truth that internal remedies are positively injuri ous to expectant mothers. The distress and discomforts experienced during the months preceding childbirth can be al I leviated only by external treatment-by applying a liniment that softens and re laxes the over-strained muscles. We make and sell such a liniment, com bining the ingredients in a manner hitherto unknown, and call it Mother's Friend We know that in thousands of cases it has proved more than a blessing tc expectant mothers. It overcomes morn ing sickness. It relieves the sense of tightness. Headaches cease, and dan ger from Swollen, Hard and Rising Breasts is avoided. Labor itself ii shortened and shorn of most of the pain. We know that mauv doctors recom mend it, and we know that multitudes of women go to thc drug stores ami buy it because they arc sure their phvs cians have no objections. We ask ? trial just a fair test. There is no possible chance of injury being the result, be cause Mother's Friend is scientific: ally compounded; lt is sold at $i a bot tle, and should be used during most of the period of gestation, although gnat relief is experienced il" used only a shpi t time before childbirth. Send fur our il lustrated book about Mother's Friend. THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR COc ATLANTA, GA. f OXTON is and will con ti nue to be ?he money crop of the South. The planter who gets the most cot ton from a given area at the least cost, is the one who makes the most money. Good culti vation, suitable rotation, and liberal use of fertilizers con taining at least 3% actual will insure the largest yield. We wiil send Free, upon application, pamphlets that will interest every cotton planter in the South. GERiTAN KAL! WORKS, oz Nassau St.. New York. Public Sale of Valuable City Property. T3Y virtue of a Deed of Trust executed to me by the Anderson Educational As sociation, I will sell at public auction in iront of tho Court House?door at Ander son, S. C., on Salesday in April next, that valuable property known as the PATRICK MILITARY INSTITUTE, Formerly Johnson Female TTniversity, containing eight acres of Land, with the valuable improvements thereon, situate on the West side of South Main, and South of West Franklin Street, in the City of Anderson, bounded on the North by lots of John E. Breazeale. Franklin Street intervening, East by J. P. Sulli van and A. T. Broylee, Main Street in tervening, South bv Mrs. Jane D. Sayre, and West by E. W. Taylor and C. W. Webb. Terms of Sale-One-half cash, balance twelve months, with interest from day of sale, secured by mortgage, with leave to pay all cash or anticipate payment at anytime. Purchaser to pay i G su rance, cost of papers and stamps ex'ra. JOSEPH N. BROWN, Trustee. March S, 1899 37 4 TRUSTEE'S SALE. BY virtue of a Deed of Trust from Mrs. M. T. Sloan, (wife of T. D. Sloan,) recorded in the office of Clerk of Court for Anderson County, in Book PPP, pa ges 60Z and ?535, 1 will sell to the highest bidder, unless sold at private sale before hand, on Salesday in April, 1899, in front of the Court House, at the usual hours of public sales, that certain House and Los on West Market Street, within the corpo rate limits of the city, containing four acres, more or less, more fully described by reference to original deed and plat to Mary T.Sloan from B. F. Wbitner, re corded in Clerk's office, Book YY, page In addition to residence thereon, which is conveniently arranged and be ing but short distance of Gradeo School, there is one two-room Cabin and one one-room Cabin, Stable and other im provement?. Terms of Sale-Cash. Purchaser to pav extra for papers. J. O. WILHITE, Trustee. March S, 1899 37 4 NOW is the time to have your Buggy Revarnished, Repainted, and new Axle Points fitted on. 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