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- TOO FERVENT. Poet?I left a poem here last week entitled 'The Gallant Fireman." Editor?Let me see. H'm, very realistic p-oem, wasn't it? Poet?Yes, rather. Editor?I'm afraid it went to the flve.-rPhiladelphia Public Ledger. Wild Animals in Caplivify. Cap&Jrity changes animals' nature. A liofc ^captured when it is full grown will always bo treacherous, but lions, tigers, * leopards or other carnivorous nnim&lsthat have been l)orn in captivity be tamed till they are quite as crcjitle and affectionate its poodle cogs JT w-CSrrraot Be Cored . by locS applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There Is only one wry t Ot care deafness, and that is by const! tutioifkl remedies. Deafness is caused by aa inflamed? condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tubs. When this tube is inflamed yon have ? rumblingsodnd or imperii . . feet heajflng, and when ft is entirely closed Deatnes$ is the result, and unless the inflammation $an bo taken out and this tube restored t? its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but aa inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. Wo wffl give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Efeafness(caused by catarrh) that cannot bo cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for ciroular^freo. F. J. Chicks? <i Co., Toledo, 0. Sold bV Druggists, 75c. .> u Hall's Family Pills are the b03t. H?sulne Instinct of the Horse. TVhenr Dr. Er win's possessions were jS in transit between Oklahoma aBd Morrill, Kaii., last March, a fine Arabian horse was lost from the car. The horse mrned up last week at its old home in Oklahoma and was all right.? Kansas^.City Journal. ? A Large Cotton O Lower Prices. lip--"" " It belins to appear as if the supply of cottin this year will be fully equal to all ^ equirCm?nts, and the cotton - planter* of the South will doubtless act j-v; wisely In selliag the cotton they have raised Just as promptly as it can be r:: orough| to market. * * / The F- S. Government in its report i f on the ijbotton crop, issued on the 3d of : X:. September, matfts the condition of the crop S^2. This is 17.2 per cent, better than the report at the same time last year, i nd the acreage shows an increase >f about four per cent. This is a total >f twenty-one per cent, over last .-year's indicated production, which is the eq ivalent of about 2,000,000 bales '?:* of cott n. The indicated jcrop is, there-* fore, s unewhere in the neighborhood of 33,(#0,000 bales, and while it is possible tfat an early frost or bad weather mat diminish,these figures slightly a croS of at least 12,000,000 bales or oveJseems probable. Such a crop if realize* undoubtedly means much low- i er pridfes. v' It lis to be hoped that the j > cotton (planters of the South' wifl not he rniJed by false prophets into holding thMr cotton, but that they will, on j the ccjtrary, sell it as rapidly as it comes flu. Nearly all authorities are, confirmatory of the Government figure? Mr. Theodore H. Price, the weH-kflown expert, makes the condition ejht^-tbree and the crop 12,700,CO0 bjes, and'fl&e^figures of the New Tofk journal of Commerce indicate about ftesame conclusion. The tnSlll11WWU9 W lie -4bat the abad va nM^Turi^thesprin^anasum? mer,aMoughtf^)foflted plafitefabut little, K tb^^ropC^as practically all markJd-befoje,these prices were realizedXa^^mttly*stimulated planting aiMpfn^yctioa dnjesery..-direction. Thethe romance lar cha^n in the complete novel of Llppincot? for September. It is called 3 is by^Bur- j Jk Okia., CBored of a severej casegby tydia E Pinkham's <A gpljjeat many women suffer with a fdhaV indigestion or dyspepsia which, does Sot seem to yield to ordinary j medical treatment, while the symptomsSeem to be similar to those of omix^^^in<|^estion, yet the medi cine. pi'iiHTiwyTwwwo- wo uut i seem to restore the patient's normal coaditiA* I i k| Mre.' Ptokham claisa that there is a kind ot dyspepsia that is caused by derangement of the female organ- | ism, and which, while it causes disturbance similar to ordinary indigestion, cannot be relieved without a medicine which not only acts as a I stomach tonic, but has peculiar uterine- : tonic effects as well. > Thousands of testimonial letters prove beyond question that nothing Will relieve this distress- j ing condition so surely as Lydia ! E. Pinkbam's Vegetable Compound. It always works in harmony with the female system. Mrs. Plnkham advises sick women free. Address Lynn, Mass. Gossip-Proof. Mrs. Crawford?Have they much money? Mrs. Crabshaw?Why, they're so rich that, if they preferred, they could afford to stay in town all summer.? September Smart Set. CDCC STUART'S lilCCciNand BUCHU To all who eulter, or to the friend* of those who's.iffer with Kidney, Liver, Heart, Bladder or Blood Diaeaae, a sample bottle of Stuart's ^ Gin and Buchu, the great southern Kidney and Liver Medicine, will be sent absolutely free of coat. Mention this paper. Address 8TUART DRUG M'FQ CO., 29.WalI 8t., Atlanta, Ga. -aff&ifoC Banishes Biliousness dgMB WA cures sick stomachs and achingheads. ^ It's good At Druggists, BOe. ? $1, THE TARRANT CO., Chamlsts, New York The Scholastic Mouse. Said the mouse with scholastical hat,, "I will study the subject of cat-" But when puss gave a yawn, Mr. Mousie was gone Mucfc iquloker >thito you could say "ScaP" ?September St Nicholas. | [[ MOSS HOWAR DY J* n* C^SEaRQKasBSSBBBBS & ICODEMUS SQUAB, pro! -rw-y fessor of orthography in j\I the Skunkville district school, was a man of an inj ^ ^ quiring turn of mind. uvernearing some of the scholars disI cussing a prospective coon hunt that ' was to come off the following Saturday night, the professor drew near ! and inquired if they would allow him | to join them. "Of course you kin jlue us," said j Mose Howard, who was the ringleader j in all the devilment in the neighborj hood. "Glad tu have you go 'long. We'll call for you." "Thank you," said the professor. "I vnavav tto a aaaii UnnHftrv ?n nu* lifo ; lie > ci ti ?s lvvu uuuuu^ iu 11 j j niv, j though I've always "wanted to go?just i to see how it is done, you know." According to promise, Mose Howard, Dick Miller and Joe Smiley called for the professor, who was ready and waiting, and who joined the hunters, anticipating a jolly time. After winding up the coon hunt, which resulted in the capture of five 'possums and three cocns, Mcse How-; ard proposed that they should go back by the fish-trap and catch a mess of j fish. The proposition was unanimously agreed to, and they struck off down j the creek, the professor bringing up | the rear, puffing and blowing, though highly elated at the variation that this additional act in the program promised, as well as at the prospect of a successful raid upon the tinny tribe. The queer contraption that Mose dignified with-the name of fish-trap, consisted merely of a large sack held open by a hoop, around which the mouth of the sack was fastened, and a couplo of ropes, one end of each of which was fastened to each side of the hoop, while tbe-other ends were fastened to trees on the opposite sides of the stream, in such a way as to allow the hoop to remain about half way submerged. On tlic bank of the crock was a lan tern, in which was about half a tallow candle. Producing some matches Mose lit the candle and proceeded to explain to the professor the modus operandi of catching fish with his new-fangled trap. "You Just take the lamp and wade into the trap and hold the lamp right in front of the mouth so that the fish can see how to run in, and we boys'll go away down the creek and drive the fish up and into the trap." The professor, .^-unsuspicious of any trick as a baby, shucked himself, and then taking up the lantern, wad&l intothe trap.tjhat the boys set for Sim instead of for fish, and in the construction of which they had not only-exhausted their financial resources iatiie purchase of the material out of which it was constructed, but also their ingenuity In the getting up of the same. "Ugh!" grunted the professor, ase he reached the trap and placed the lantern In the position indicated, "this water is cold as ice. I want yoii boys to make haste." <>?..; -%? ?" 1-J lb. Vim) - sir, resi/vuueu tue w,?o. "You'll hear us bollerin' as we come," said Mose, and . off they started down the creek at a trot. "All right," said the professor. As soon as they got out of sight their gait slackened to a walk, which they kept till they reached a point some$QQ yards distant from the trap, when, seating themselves on & log they began the most uproarious din of yelling and howling that had ever awakened the slumbering echoes of those old woods since the aborigines had vacatPd the premises. After about an hour spent in this way the boys got up and advanced slowly up the bank of the stream about 100 yards, when they seated themselves on another log, where they continued to whoop and yell like so many " wild Indians.' After another hour thus spent they made another advance, which brought the professor and the fish-trap within , their range of vision, thougli, owing to the darkness they were not visible to 1 r&SlW ? ] "Hurry up, boys!" he shouted. "I'm nearly froze, and the candle's nearly out" That was what they were waiting for?the candle to burn out?eo that i their failure to catch fish could be laid < to the absence of the light. < "Yes, sir!" they shouted back; "we're hurrying as fast as we can!" And re- < newing their yells they advanced slow- 1 ly?very slowly?up the stream. "Hurry up! hurry up!" again shouted < the professor. "The candle will be out < in two minutes." "Ay, ay, sir!" shouted Mose in reply, i "but you must stop hollerin' or you'll i skeer the fish." , Sure .enough, in about two minutes ( the candle gave a last convulsive flick- i er, and in the twinkling of an eye thick darkness reigned as absolutely j over the professor and the fish-trap as i elsewhere. i "Boys," said Mose, In a tone loud j enough for the professor to hear him, 1 "there ain't no use wadln' in this water any longer; le's go back on' git our < cloze." j Seating themselves on a log they sat ] perfectly silent for a while ? long 1 enough, as they thought, for it to have taken them to go back to where they I commenced their drive, dress them- ] selves and reach that point on their re- 1 turn?when they got up and resumed i their progress lip stream. On reaching the trap they found the professor on shore, and though he had completed his toilet, his teeth were chattering louder than a pair of castanets rattling off a quickstep march. "We'll have to try it over ag'in some other time," said Mose, "and fetch more candle with us. I thought "tve had plenty this time, but we didn't. I guess I'll bring enough next time." "Why didn't you fellows hurry up," said the professor. "What made you come so slow'?" the chattering of his teeth as be spoke causing him to cut the words Into more than the legitimate number of syllables to which they were entitled. "Couldn't come no faster," said % 'am A t < T X* . *?? A 4 Am M r</\ ^ h 11 '1 I n' i-V?C. xue "UlCl WUS BU UJ UiiUCim < cold the fish wouldn't drive fast." Satisfied with this explanation the professor feli into ranks as the boys filed off in the direction of home. The . exercise of walking soon brought a reaction in his system, the first effect of which was to put a stop to the music of the castanets, and on reaching home he pronounced himself all right again. Some time during the ensuing week Mose Howard informed the professor that they were going to try the fishtrap again the following Saturday night, and asked him if he didn't want to go along. The professor gave an involuntary shudder as the recollection of that protracted soaking in ice water of the previous Saturday night flashed across his mind. Discretion prompted him to give a Negative response. Curiosity, however, D'S FISH-TRAP j[ HAMMOND. got tlie better of discretion, and he accepted the invitation. "I'll be on hand." said he. "There's no fun standing in that cold water, especially when you get no fish, but if you can stand it I guess I can." At the appointed time the boys cnuie by, when, the professor joining them, they proceeded to the fish-trap.' On arriving there Mose produced a couple of pieces o? candle, oue of which lie proceeded to light and put in the lantern. It was nearly twice .as long as the one they had burned out on the previous occasion. The other piece he placed in the lantern so that it could be easily got at if it should be needed. This latter piece Mose had manufac- : tured himself especially for the occasion, and had taken some little pains in its construction. 1 After soaking the wick in water until it was perfectly saturated lie had taken a skillet and melted some tallow there- 1 in, then placing the wick in a mold, he tilled the latter with the melted tallow, ! and the thing was accomplished. i This particular candle he had care- ] fully marked so as to l>o able to distinguish it from any other candle. \ Before completing their arrange ments at the fish-trap preparatory to 1 beginning the drive the professor pro- s posed that one of the boys should take i ills place at the trap while he aecom- 1 panied the others and assisted in driv- * Ing the fish. ( "Kin you swim?" asked Mose Howj ard. "No." answered the professor. "Well, you'd run the risk ov gittin' 1 drownded, then," said Mose. "You go on, then," said the professor, * "and I'll mind the trap." 1 So off the boys started, and going ( down the stream about a mile, seated themselves upon a log, and began yell- * ing and whooping as on the previous s occasion. c Hour after hour passed, each hour seeming to the benumbed professor an ( age. ? c The yelling seem to approach slowly t but surely. f The boys had now arrived at a point 1 where everv motion of the professor ^ was distinctly visible. The piece of candle Mose had lighted r niid put In the lantern was nearly * burned out. Taking up the other piece the professor proceeded to light it. t Placing it lu the lantern it gave a * spluttttc-AndL-.^eut out. Dark! Dark c WjRfl^fio names for it- No moon, uuct; c stars, no mat^fes. jfgg ** Btrt that B<%us candle would hay0 1 beeri^, match for a whole bo^gof f matches. "What " in thunder's the natter |2 novrt^ shoujNwiFMGse. ??? a 'The candle's gone out!" shouted the a professor back. "Have you any matches?" he inquired. # * . " "Nary ranted' safd Mose. 0 "What's to be done?" inquired the c professor. a "Ruthin'," said Mose. "The thing's 0 played but. Put era yourclo2e, while J we go and "git our'n and then we'll skip ^ for home." Seating themselves on a log the boys remained quiet for a while, then rising r, to their feet they came up to where the professor was waltzing around trying to up a circulation. . ^ "Another waterhaul," said Mose. "Looks a -good deal'She lt/' said the ^ professor. . j ? "Don't know why tbe mischief some ^ of;f ns didn't* think tu bilng some ^ matches," said Mcse. > ^ J*-- {( "I don't know, either,"" responded the ^ professor In a deprecating tone, as though he entertained the idea that somehow he had been mainly instru- Q mental in producing the bad luck. "Better luck next time," said Mose, . philosophically, as he struck out for p home, followed by the others. They bad proceeded about two-thirds r{ of the way home, groping their way as best they could through the thick oj darkness, when a shrill, prolonged scream directly ahead ofand ap- f( parently at no great distance, broke j upon their startle^ears. ^ 'Painterr ejaculated Mose, in a low tone of voice, though sufficiently loud . to be distinctly audible to the profes- .} sor, at the saline tteae springing to one side, and the nest moment he was out ^ :>f the professor's hearing. * - ^ V _ ? i.,i 51 rii6 ract was ue naa oniy iukcu u couple of steps and then squatted Id the grass, as completely concealed ^ from bis* companions by the intense c darkness as though be bad been 011 the ^ opposite side of the globe. 1 "Painter!" repeated the other boys, 111 following Mose's example of springing to one side and squatting :n the grass. 0 Left alone the professor, with hair 1J on end, paused a moment to collect his 11 scattered thoughts, but only a moment. tc Another scream, long drawn out and ^ ipparently but a few yards distant, set his plump body in-motion, and the ^ aext moment lie was streaking it S across the country as fast as his duck 115 legs could carry him. - - s ; Tumbling over a log lying on the ?dge of a bank some twenty feet high md nearly perpendicular, down which lie rolled, he landed In a mud hole at " the bottom. Y Gathering himself up he began looking for his hat, which had parted com- a pany with him on the way down the bank, when another scream breaking j*1 upon his ear he struck out once more *? )n his race for life, hatlees and cov- cc ^red with mud.from his head to his ^ Peels. Coming to a briar patch he was on the point of diverging from his course ? In order to try and go around It when jnother scream precipitated the terrorstricken professor into the patch like a ;atapault. Emerging from the brier patch with ^ Ills coat-tails torn into ribbons, the nud-begrimed professor held on the ?ven tenor of his way without any alULiili U 11UJ1 Ui opccu IVi CL UUliUI^U ^ rards or so, when bis pace began to ^ slacken a little. Another scream, howjver, put him on his mettle again, but ^ is that "was the last, and as he was co lbout exhausted, he soon settled down ^ ;o a walk, and presently stumbling >ver a log, he picked himself up and ^ seated himself thereon. ^ After resting a while, plunged in :be meantime in a deep cogitation, he j inally concluded to try and seek a ti( shelter for the remainder of the night. j So, starting forward, he wandered jQ ibout, first in one direction and then ur n another, and it was not until dayight began to streak the eastern hori- qq son that he stumbled on a clearing in lie woods, in the midst of which was ot i log cabin. * th Cautiously approaching the cabin, he iad reached the foot of a sapling some tjc Ifty steps from the door, when a big log came dashing around the corner ne >f the house, barking furiously. No sooner did the professor catch ^ ;ight of the dog bouncing along in the lirection of him and the sapling, than ] le was seized with such a sudden su *L . " panic as to cause him to grasp the I sapling in his arms and start up it, j though, owing to want of practice, ! with hardly the agility of a squirrel. ! After a tremendous effort, he succeed- j ed in reaching a fork some ten feet from the ground, where he seated him- I self, and awaited the issue of events. He didn't have long to wait. The furious barking of the dog soon ! aroused the inmates of the cabin. Scarcely a minute had elapsed after : the professor had succeeded, by almost superhuman exertions, in seating himself comfortably in the fork of the j sapling, out of reach of the dog, when the door of the cabin opened and a ; huge six-footer of a backwoodsman, I somewhat airily attired, with a long rifle in his hand, emerged therefrom, j "What you got thar, Bull?" said the man, as he approached the sapling, at the root of which the dog was barking 1 vociferously. "What is it, old feller?" j he continued. "Bar, painter, ur cata- j mount?" Bull's response was an abortive nttr\ r?Uiril? tlm trr>n nrpomnauied : by a furious outburst o? barking. "Be quiet, old feller," said the man; j 'we'll . Don see what it is," at the same I time raising his rifle to his shoulder. ; "Hold 011 there!" shouted the profcs- j sor, who was l>eginning to realize tho j perilous position in which he was ! placed, and the imminent danger he j was in of being shot for a bear or a i paramount. "I am no varmint. I'm S'icodemus Squab, professor of orthography in the Skunkville district school." "Hello!" said the backwoodsman, as lie lowered his rifle, "is that so? Well, j :hat gits me. What in thunder ur you loin' up thar?" "Wait till I got down and I'll tell rou." And crawling out of the crotch j n which he had been seated the professor slid down the sapling, when he ;oon succeeded in explaining matters :o the satisfaction of that thinly-clad paekwoodsman and his savage bulllog. It was now broad daylight, and when ie reached Skunkville the sun was ;ome distance above the horizon, limbing upward toward the zenith. Of course, every man, woman and rhild in the place beheld, with wonder, iepicted countenances, the advent of he mud-begrimed, hatless professor, ind a thousand conjectures were in luiged in as to tiie cause or ins singuar appearance. ? , The professor was disposed to bo eticent on the subject, answering Inerrogatories in relation to the matter ivasively, but the joke was too good o be kept, and in less than twentycm* hours his approach toward any rowd was greeted by a broad grin verspreading the countenances of a najority of the members thereof, and lis departure signalized by a low guf! I "This conduct on the part of the citlens annoyed the professor consider- j bly at first; then it grew monotonous i ud he became disgusted. ; Finally he burst into a flame of lnignation, and after taking his revenge ut of the hides of the pupils, espeially Mose Howard and his confedertes, the irate professor shook the dust J f Skunkvllle from off his feet trad ~beopk himself to parts unknown.?New loiX Weekly. I * STRONG FOR THEIR S122. ejects Relatively Are More Powerful Thau Men. < Every one in a general way knows t the astonishing muscular power am- ' loyed by insects and of the real tours i e force which they execute either in 1 ia Vtni?n!t r>f nror nr in flofpndlnff 1 uv. ^/U(vviib Vfc i'* V Vk ? #-5, lemsclres against their enemies.. -At J jo same time one rarely has l precise lea of the strength of these insects ] ecanse> there are few standards of i Dmparison, although nothing is sim- ] ler than to make a correct valuation i f their strength. ? The wing strength of Insects is ? nown because of the work of Felix j lateao. and De Lucy, who showed c iat these little creatures could not y ilse a weight much heavier than ( lemselves, no matter what the surface l t their wings. During the course of lese experiments a very interesting j ict was discovered?namely, that the ^ ze of the whig decreases as the eight and size of the animal in eases, a fact which explains the * ow, heavy flight of the beetle and ^ le swift, light movement of the gnat. * The <mse is entirely different, bow- 1 rer, Where the creature moves on a s >Hd surface where Its six feet may { 3tain points of support. In thts case a e can approximately calculate the 1 >rcc exercised. Take, for example, I fly by the wings, leaving the leg9 t ee so that they may seize and raise a t atch. If a man wished to perform il datively equal labor he would have s > raise a beam twenty-four and a * i\? feet long by fourteen and a half c elies square. The earwig harnessed q i a small chariot drags without dlffl- ^ ilty eight matches, which for a large 0 ercheron horse would mean dragging j 50 beams as long and thick as him- ^ If. The man who leaps the 300 f. eters of the Eiffel tower is merely j?( peating the action of the flea, which p in leap 200 times its own height. ^ inally the Hercules is obliged to ^ ise eighty large focomotlves ta equal le relative strength of an oyster. f hich in closing its valves exercises a . free of fifteen kilograms. Thus it Is much more simple thing to calculate e strength of insects than to equal a , and our modern athletes have yet n 0 ng road to travel before tbey can impete with animals occupying very " linble positions In the living world. " Ji Greatest of Saving* Banks. si England's remarkable system of >stoffice savings banks, started seval years ago, have been brought Into >+'<^ lofA fin nr?pniint nf the trans rence of the prodigious clerical force hlch the systef keeps busy from the 0 g building In Queen Victoria street, jndon, which they have outgrown, to eir new home In West Kensington, q vast beehive of a place, covering five res of ground, close to the amplileatre called Olympia, sacred to the emory of Buffalo BUI, Barnum's clr- n is and such ehows. The moving day neerns 3200 clerks, the thousands of Y dgers in which are kept the accounts Q the bank's 9,000,000 depositors and 12 e innumerable documents relating ereto, s - r What has been brought out most slgflcantly In consequence of the atten>n which the "biggest savings bank the world" has been receiving of 0 te is the remarkable growth of this dque institution. The number of de- }l isits annually has jumped from 3,0,000 to 15,000,000, the number of de- ^ sitots from 2,000,000 to 9,000,000. In q her words; on every business day of e year 40,000 persons make deposits J rough 14,000 government sub-sta>ns. No wonder then that since the . V>nr?br, Octo hi lohn/l SIU1 sa viugo uauivo H v unouvu arly 500 private institutions of the d have been forced to go out of isloess. . ; v . v* j Even the wheel of fortune may 5 ffer from a punctured tire, ' ---v. ^ >?. | "CALAMITY J^NE" FEARED NO MAN. Held Her Oowrs In the Wildest Life of the West, - f f\ In the death qf "Calamity Jane," In Terry, 8. ?>., there has passed one of the most picturesque and daring characters that ever roamed the Western plains. The whole story of this Btrange woman never has been told, and now that she is dead the curtain of mystery will probably never be lifted from certain chapters of her checkered life. Mrs. Jane Burk ("Calamity Jane") was born in Princeton, Mo., in 1852, and when quite young went with her father to the gold fields of Montana, where she became inured to the roughest kind of life. Riding the wiidevet nf Virtrco.3 an<-1 nllcner HnnpT>r<5 of the most desperate kind seemed to be second nature with her. In her dashes over the plains she wore the buckskin clothing of a man, with revolvers and cartridges at her belt, and in a few years seemed to forget entirely that she was born a woman. She was fearless, asked odds of no man, white or Indian, and took care of herself in every emergency. When General Crook was engaged In the Indian campaign she served as a scout and rendered effective service, making long, arduous journeys and braving perils that would frighten a majority of men to these peaceful times. . "Calamity Jane" was carried three times, her last husband being much younger than she. ?*he was reported in dire need in Pierre, S. D., about a year ago, and Mrs. Josephine Brock, of Buffalo, N. Y., who had become deeply interested In her, raised a fund to , provide her against want. Civilized life did not agree with the woman, however, and she soon dropped out of sight and nothing had teen heard of her until the announcement of her death. During a fierce campaign against the Indians in 1872 Mrs. Burk saved the life of Captain Egan and carried him from the battlefield. It was he who rrlstened her "Calamity Jane, the | Heroine of the Plains." Mrs. Burk participated in all the fights and accompanied General Crook knd his command to the Black Hills In 1875. She made herself famous in 1876 by capturing Jack McCall, murderer of "Wild Bill," or William Hickok. At her request she was burled by the side of "Wild Bill." Trouble with the Indians having ended, "Calamity Jane" turned miner and became one of the typical kind? the kind described in a thousand accounts of her barroom battles, wild riding after robbers and grim lynching. She made money and spent it in drinking and gambling. "Calamity Jane" found herself in failing health a few years ago, and her money all gone. She would have been sent to the poor house if the ennorActtv of \Trc "Rmolr Viorl not nrrv W*. A.A.AS/* ^ A w V-iV UUVA V ^ - W vided her with a home.?New York Herald. * 7> *A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. Woman Fell Nearly 300 Feet In a ;; Crevasse While Alone. Mrs. A. S. Johns, well known to a targe circle in New York, is recoverin& according to the latest information, from the curious mishap which befell her while she was exploring in the Yosemite Valley, Cal. Mrs. Johns left her hotel, Glacier Point, Monday afternoon. She was ilone, having left her friend, Mrs. L<ewis, at the hotel. Mrs. Johns fell learly three hundred feet down the dancing side of a cliff while on a twonile walk to the fissures. The path ed -around the Sentinel Dome, back >f which is a giant crevasse, and it ras here that she met With the acciient When she did not return at light her friend became greatly ilanned, and search was instituted. Sarly yesterday morning the searchng party started out again and Mrs. 3otter, a clerk at the hotel, discov - ? " ? *- ' irea toe aimosi meiesb luiu ui iuio. tohns on a narrow ledge of rocks that utted out from the steep sides of a >recipice" that reared itself for thouands of feet. The ledge was over 300 eefc. below the narrow patch. Potter, tfujfr fruitless endeavors to reach the edge, returned to the hotel for help, topes and a stretcher were taken tc he spot and work was at once begun o extricate Mrs. Johns from her periods position. The only thing that ! aved her from death when she fell ras the juniper bushes and scrub edar trees on the sides of the cliff, 'heee had broken her fall. 1 Potter was lowered to the ledge up- 1 n which rested the body of Mrs. ohns. She was found to be conscious ut barely able to speak. A rope was astened around her waist and an efart was made to hoist her to the ath above. Because of her weight Ills was found to be impractical. Bem the ledge upon which she lay was similar ledge a hundred or more ?et below. Her body was Jowered tc Ills ledge; ' : * t i a . . A mountain guide joined Potter, and fter they had descended to the ledge n which they had lowered Mrs. Johns fcaV V?t?raori tfiom an<1 tnflHp ICJ LUW rv 11^1 Ut V TT VVli buvui MUU aeir way around the precipice and nally reached the path above. Mrs. ohns's escape from death was. nothing tiort of miraculous. SIMPLE EXPLANATION. "Yes, sir; before we accept your onation we want to ask you a serius question." "Go ahead. What Is It?" "We want to know how you acuired it.'" "Acquired what?" "Your money." "But what difference does that lake?" "It makes just this difference. If ou acquired it by what is known as uestionable means it isn't nearly j trge enough. If it was made In a i Ultimate pursuit it is munificent." :Cleveland Plain Dealer. HOWJKE QUARREL STARTED. "Of course," she said, "I'm the only i _ - 1...... o>> [ ue yuu ivyc: "Darling," he replied, "when I'm l your presence I forget all " "You do, do you?" her eyes flashlg fire. "All! How many are there? h, deceiver!" (Tears, pleadings, iplanations and the usual windup.) -Baltimore American. Why 0' Love. "Lovo fipds a way," so runs the timewdrn saying; So, when that little naked god goes straying Within the sacred precincts of the heart, Therein to practise well his subtle art, 'Twere best to capture and to closely bind him; Lest, when the morrow dawns, one cannot find him. For the 8ly rascal knows his way about, And where he can steal in, he can steal out! ?Beatrice E. Rice, in September Smart Set. Bear-Kliiing Without a Gun. An old hunter told me tnis story, which I will tel* in my own words: "Did you ever hear of the time I ' * * ? x O V/v 9 ncnea a Dear wunoui my guui nui Well, I'll tell it to you. About sundown, one pleasant afternoon, I was roaming through the woods with no weapon of defense, when, to my horror, I saw a wounded bear running toward me with open mouth and foaming jaws! I hadn't the least idea what to do, so I did nothing; I stood still, scared to death. As the bear sprang upon me I instinctively put out my arm to protect myself, and my hand went into his mouth! Then a happy thought seized me! I thrust my hand in farther, grabbed hold of his tail, gave him a pull inside out, and he ran away from me back into the woods!" ?September Lippincott's. Study Browning, Robert Browning is undoubtedly a writer difficult and obscure in perhaps the greater number of his poems. But, for all that, he has sung?sometimes in a complete poem, and more often in single verses or even a line or two ?wonderful and beautiiul things within the reach of every one, young or old. Some of his poems are even full of humor. Who of you does not know the story of the "Pied Piper of Hamelin ?' But realty to appreciate Browning you will have to study him, for &o much lies behind the mere words of his poems.?From "ALittle Talk About a Great Eoet, in the September St. Nicholas.' A new feature in Ainslee's is a oepartment of reviews of current fiction, entitled "For Eook Lovers." It is conducted in bright, chatty style by a critic who evidently has an open mind for the products of any of the schools ; of fiction. In the September issue thore is a particularly interesting statement on fiction in general, apropos of John D. Barry's novel, "A Daughter of Thespis." The department, as a whole, is a good guide for the fiction reader. Tricks in the West. One Is totally unable to conceive how it is that the greenhorns continue to give up their money every day to nothing better than the lock trick err the freight receipt gag. It is not merely that these bunko devices are hoary with age and should seemingly be as familiar as common speech, but that they had no -merit j when they were new. Even granting that the victim never heard of them before, why should he be deceived? Why should he bet that he can open a lock? Why should he lend money on a check or bill of lading when pre- : sented by a man he never saw before? Why should any human being get upon terms of such confidence with strangers whom he has picked up on the streets or in the saloons? The infinite and perpetual gullibility of man is the greatest wonder of the world.? rt uii - v-* l t_a ~ 11 _ _ _ oeaiue rosi-iiuujjigejjcer. , | FITSpermanently cured. 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Many a man acquires a good reputation on what is not found out about him. ! Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children ! teethiDg, soften the gums, reduces inflamma- ! tion,allays pain,cures wind colic. 25c. a bottle ! It is easier to run into tlebt than to crawl out. T e H. H. Gbeen's Boss, of Atlanta, Ga., arc t the only successful Dropsy Specialists in the o world. See their liboral "offer in advertise- u ment in another column of this paper. g The baker works and loafs at the same ^ time. Cn?o nnntlrtf hA ton hlfflllvSDOkeQOf X JU3U O VUAV Vfwwv KW g y -JJ bs a cough cure.?J. W. O'Bautu, 322 Third i { A.venue, N., Minneapolis, Minn,, Jan. 6,1900. diamonds have charms to soothe the lemininc heart. Putnam .Fadeless Dyes color more t goods, per package, than others. i t The smallest minds are the ones that i are changed the most. J ?====================== t BlackHair\ \ " I have used your Hair Vigor I. 8 for five years and am greatly Ij c pleased with it. 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More than worth the price. , . PRICE, 25 CENTS. _ And if yonr drwwfet hasn't it we wiH seed It ^jr, moll on receiptor 35 cents in stamps. ^ Address, CARPENTER ? tu., | ,VLoutovflltf, Ky. f?$?3E BAD BLOOD "I hsd trouble with my bowels which mads pr /'blood Impure. Mr face was entered wHh jtaM ' '"1> 2 which no external remedy could remore, I .trie* . y. your Cascarets and great was my Joy when lip pimple* disappeared after a mouth s steady uao^"-.'?.> . yflj ? I hare recommended them to all ay friend* UP ' Quite a few hare found relief." i . C. J. Patch. 9(7.Park Are.. New TorkCllr, H,f, Pleasant. Palatable, Potent, Taste OdOd. DeOeet, 3 ||- "V; Nerer Sicken, Weaken or Gripe. Wc, Sc. Me. Meyef'. . sold is balk. The genuine tablet stamped 000. Guaranteed to cure or your money back ; Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or N.Y. tot AUHH1I CUE TEEIUIIIIIftftflYlft I WHnWHh WWfch) IM DUMMM m IM , . RIpansTabulesare ^iB|5gifc the best dyspepsia ^M2^?mcd!cine ever made. A/A hundred millions of them have been ^ > V BKj sold in the United' States in a single year. Every lllsesa arising from a disordered stomach Is ' J " relieved or cured by their use. So common is it that diseases originAtt g from the stomach it may be safely as* ^ aerted there is no condition of lit : health that will not be benefited or cured by the occasional use of Ripant Tabules. Physicians know them and %< peak highly of them. All druggists ' ' sell them. The five-cent package It enough for an ordinary occasion, and the Family Bottle, sixty cents, contains a household supply for a year. One ' -??A.nii? ^traa rollof ?!th1n hrpntv fcCiiClaujr ^ w minutes. The Great East and West Cine ?1111 HO TROTJBM TO AX3WEB QUESTIONS. Thirty-five miles Shortest Route Shreveport to Dallas. Write for new book on Texaa?vais. . -v, E. P. TURNER, Gen. Paw. Aft, Dallas, Texas, . Give the name of this paper when writing to advertisers?(A138 3) ? L*' J?" -r* 4 r - r'-<A '' . --,i" - : < .