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Wftt Finger Nails Tef?. In days when superstition was more _revalent than it is now, the shape and appearance of the finger nails were considered to have reference to one's destiny. To learn the message of the -finger nails it was necessary to rub them over with a compound of wax and soot, and then to hold them so that the sunlight fell fully on them. Then on the horny, transparent sub stance certain signs and characters were supposed to appear, from which the future could be interpreted. Persons, too. having certain kinds of nails were credited with the possession of certain characteristics. Thus a man with red an<%potted nails was sup posed to hai hot temper, while pale, lead colored nails were considered to denote a melancholy temperament. Narrow nails were suppose to betray ambition and a quarrelso nature, while round shaped nails wLe f*ie dis tinguishing marks of lovers-of-lknowl edge and people of liberal sentiment. Conceitecd. narrow minded and obsti nate folks w(!re supposed to have small nails, indolent people fleshy nails and those of a gentle, retiring nature broad nails. Laborbaving Device. "Are you the nian who answers the questions?" "Yes, sir. What can I do for you?" "I would like to ask how you pro nourc the word 'sacriticable":" "that is easily settled. May I trou ble you to hand me that dictionary? Thank you. I am a trifle rneumatic will you please open it at the right place?" "Certainly.... Why, it's accent ed on the crif,' isn't it?" -'Yes." "low curiousi I could have hunted It up at .. ne, I suppose, but it's so much trouble,to look through the big dictionary when you want to find out about a word. Ever so much obliged to you." 'Not at all. Good day."-Chic!gc Tribune. Last yca- 4.700,000 cubic yards of ma terial was dredgcd out of the Duluth Superior harbor. From Washington How a Little Boy Was Savo:f. Washington, D. C.-"When our boy was about 16 months old he broke out with a rash which was thought to be measles. In a few days he had a swelling on the left side of his neck and it was decided to be mumps. He was. given medical attendance for about three weeks when the doctor ~aid it was scrofula and ordered a 'palve. He wanted to lance the sore. 'but I would not let him and continued giving him medicine for about four months when the bunch broke in two places and became a running sore. Three doctors said it was scrofula and pach ordered a blood medicine. A heighbor told me of a case somewhat like our baby's which was cure ' Hood's Sarsaparilla.. I decided it o n bo an ina Rhort wh medicine. The sore broke out again, however, whereupon I again gave him Hood's Sarsaparilla and its persistent use has accomplished a complete cure." Mais. NErEm CEASE, 47 K St.. N.EB.. The Boers 'AIm Low. It is the testimony of all the corre -spondents at the front that the Boers bave'a knack of hitting our men about -the legs and .lower part of the body. The fact is brought startlingly into p prominence by 11.e enumeration of the wounds received by 300 officers and men treated by the field hospital witha General Hart's brigade. Of the whole only cerht- received shell wounds: the others were hit by Mauser bullets. sev -enty-six in the upper extremity, and 118 in the lower extremity. It is little consolation to know that the wounds "were humane in the extreme," they AVere small, and there was very little r hemorrhage. S3o that the number of men totally disabled -may in the end prove to be comparatively small. The practice of the Boers seems to be .to aim low, no doubt with the object of taking advantage of ricochet shots, which are accountable for a good deal * of the peculiar mischief done to our troop" whe have been relieved of painful menstruation by Lydia E, Pinkham's Vege table Compound, are con stantly writing gratefuI Leters to Mrs. Plnkkam. I.ydia E. Pinkham's Vgetable Cmpeund auredl them. it always relieves painful periods rd no woman whqsuf Vers should be wtout this knowledge. dearly all the is of -women result from some :resagement 'of the -7emale , organIsm, Mrs. -!Inkhiam's great medi Jemakes women s !eakky; of this there is ~jye~ lDlmiDUproef. ~I0on'texperime~nt. It 2 i e geithis medi hinered get Mrs,.Pink. M@&1iW'fMe advi,e~ Hler -adre 18i Lynn, Ma&s. GODS OF OUR RED MEN. rHE HOME OF ALL INDIAN DEITIES IS IN THE BLACK HILLS. The Great Spirit Sits Upon the Highest M1ountain, Supposed to e Uarney's Peak-Aicribe Supernatural 'owers to What They Don't Understand. HE Indian has many deities. To him everything is "Wakan." The mysterious and unknown is ruled by the gods or deities of greater or lesser "Wakan." Anything that is super natural, mysterious or superhuman is "Wakan." The Black Hills of South Dakota, from an Indian point of view, is the home of tho gods, from whom all power originates. The wind and the lightning are sent forth from the dark recesses of the mountains and the very fcundations of the hills are made to tremble, when the Great Spirit gives vent to his anger. 17he old In dian tradition says that the Great Spirit sits upon the highest mountain in the Black Hills, supposed to be Harney's reak, and from this exalt ed position, he directs the move ments of the lesser gods and his own people. In his pleasant moods, he causes the sun to shine, the grass to grow and the Indian tribes to be at peace with one another. In his an gry moments, he lets loose the winds aud lightning and the world is made dark and the children of the Great Spirit are punished by famine and death. Many years ago the Great Spirit kept a white man chained be neath the big mountain. The man tresspassed upon the chosen hunt nig ground of the children of the Preat Spirit and he was forthwith captured and made example of before 11 other -respassers of the palefaces. Tfhe white man was a giant, whose Aootprints in the sands were twenty eet long and he was so powerfal in is right arm that he could break the puffalo' ~back and could twist from its roots the lofty pine; yet the Great Spirit ruled him. PP.DIITIY DAINMAKER. The Great Spirit had a good many lesser deities, wo were given power pver animals and things. Onkteri vas the god of wat(r. This deity in putward appearance resembled an or, being much larger. A great part of the religion of the Indians came from the wakan influence of this god. There are both male and female, the former having control of the water and the earth beneath the water, and the latter having an influence over the land by the side of the water. When the god of water wants rain to fall he lifts~his tail and horns to the clouds and immediately the rain falls. Onke tri assumes an important part in the juggling and superstitous beliefs of the Indians. The medicine men ob tain their supernatural power from this source. The god and goddess arc rmortals and can propogate their~ kind. They have power to impart am their bodies a mighty wakan in ence. 'a-o-ter-dah is the god of the for hi, .. of'the time in. tres' on the n:ountai panions are the birds of the act as guards and sentinels: 3Vhe wants anything he flies to his perch in the tree-top, which is as smooth as glass. He calls together his friends and ser.ds them hither and thither. HeII is in constant war with the god of thunder, Wah-keen-yon. When Wah keen-you passes over the mountain top, casting here and there his bolts of lightning, Cha-o-ter-dah, the godl of 1he forest, enters the water at the footf of the tr-ee and the lightning cannot touch him. TLo the Indian, Wah-keen-yon is at mighty bird, and the noise that is made, which shakes the foundations of the mountains, is caused by the big bird flying through the air with is young ones. The old bird will not injure the Indians, but the yonng birds are foolish and do all the harmin they can. The name Wah-keen-yon siguifies a flyver. There arc four varieties of the gods among the Wah keen-yon. The image of the first one is that of a great bird, black in color, w ith a very long beak and four joints in each pinion. The second variety is yellow in color, beakiess, and also bats four joints in its pinions. The I ourth god has remarkably long wings, e-ch of them containing eight joints. [t is scarlet in color. The fourth god is blue in color, and has no face, eyes r cars. Immediately above where the face should appear is a semicircu ar liue, resembling an inverted half moon. The Wah-keen-you gods live n the top of a lefty mountain at the western end of the earth's surface. uards stand at the open doors, which ook out to the four noints of the com pass. A butterfly stands at the east door, a bear at the west door, at the nrth door a reindeer, and a beaver at the south. The Wah-keen-yon are estructive and are at war with most f the other gods. The Indians be icve that the fossil remains of the mastodons that are found so fre-' luently in the bad lands are the bones f the fallen god of water, and the burial places are held as most sacred. When the white man discovered these remains and, knowing their origin, :ommenced excavating them for rare relics, the Indians resented this in rasion of the burial ground of their ods. GOD OF GRASS AND wEEDS. Whitte-ko-kak-gah is the god of the rass and weeds. The word, trans ated, means "to make crazy." The od is a weed himself and he has the power of giving whomsoever he will its which make them crazy. The god as the figure of a man. In .his right and, he carries a rattle of deer hoofs with sixty-four deer claws. In his: left hand he carries a bow and arrow. From his cap streams of lightning fow, so bright that they dazzle the wild animals. In his mouth he has a whistle. which is used in the dance to invoke the assistance of the Great Spirit when the Indians have had bad lck in hunting. We-huin-de-dan is the goddess oi war. She is always invoked when the Idians go to battle. She is repre sented with hoofs on her arms and as many 'of these as she throws at the eet' of each warrior indicates the iumber'of scalps that will be returned' party is to have poor luck, the g(" dess will throw to the ground as maly broken arrows as therewill be warrio:1 wounded and killed. One of the greatest and most rever enced gods is Tah-koo-shkan-shkan, who is invisible, but all prevading. He is in the spear and the tomahawk, in boulders and in the four winds. He delights to see thn warriors fall in bat tie. He is the most dreaded god of ihe Indians. He directs the move ments of the for, raven, buzzard, wolf al other animals of similar nature. HAVE MANY (1oDS. The Indians have as many gods and goddesses as there are imaginative minds in the tribe. Anything that is out of the ordinary or that anpeals to the imagination is a god. Contrary to the opiniou so gener ally hcld, the Black Hills were never the home of the Indians. Influenced by the ever-present superstition, th. Iudian tribuns .eld in reverence tYe pine-covered mountains and Aep canyons, believing them to 1-- the home of deities. The early pioneers in the Blaok Hills found evidence that the Indians fre-uently came to the Loot-hills for tepee poles and firewood, but beyond an imaginary IiHe the tribes rarely ventured. It is not to be wondered at, perhaps, that the Indians fought so bravely to retain possee.,ion of the Black Iills. To- them the country was as sacred as the white man's heavel. The Indian battles in the '70s around and in the Black Hills were battles ot a nation against a for eign people, who sought to dethrone and destroy a religion. Many of the Indians of to-day. surrounded as they are by the civilization of the whites, Ftill hold in reverence the lofty peaks and the deep canyons of the "Ia-Ha Sap-Pa." AS STRANCE AS "FAKETION." An Old Fake story at Last Paralleled by an Actual Occurrence. The story of how a pickpocket stole a pocketbook, and lost $200 at the same time, to a young wrman from the country, is being related by peo ple living in the vicinity of Goodell and Oak streets as one of the oddest of happenings. Recently a young woman friend of Mrs. GeTrge J. Lutz, of 463 Oak street, came from Springville to visit her. One day she accompanied Mrs. Lutz downtown on a Main street car and, as it iappened, the car was crow d ed. They got seats, and a few mo ments later, at Chippewa street, a well-dressed man, disp!aying cousider able jewelry, including a fine diamond ring, found a seat beside them. He had been eyeing the two women from the rear platform, and Mrs. Lutz had noticed that after he got a seat he re ineind only until after the car had reached the next corner. She felt that the man was a thief, and warned the young woman from the country that she should be on her guard for piipockets in crowded cars. Her suspicion was hardly strong enough to warrant asking her friend if she had been robbed, but the question was unnecessary for the young wem an instinctively reached into her~ pccket and withdrew her hand with a agat thing fromt p was, she brought it to was astonished to findsn mend. There had been no in the purse; in fact it had co ittle except $10, and a few trin~ Mrs. Lutz recalled that the stran ha worn a diamond ring, and it need ed only a second look at the stone found in the pocket to show thit it as of the same size. The explaua ioa at once ogercd itself that the ell-dressed man with jewelry was a ickocket. Iice had reached his ring ed~cked hand into the pocket of Mrs. utz's friend and removed her purse. Eis diamond had caught in the cloth nd came loose from its setting. If ie noticed the loss of the diamond he ared not mention it, for that wonla have shown him to be the thief. The hances were that he had not noticed t in his haste to leave the car.* Mrs. Lutz and her friend went at omce to T. C. Tanke's jewelry store at ain and Eagle streets, to learn the alue of the diamond. There was a hance that it was paste, although both omen knew enough of the value of dia ands to guess that the cne that cameI o oddly into the Springville woman's ossession was genuine. Mr. Tanke, fter examining the stone, removed all oubt by announcing that the diamond as genuine and worth at least $200. The young woman from Springville ad the stone set in a ring and went ack to the country $1010 ahead of the aan who robbed her in the car.-Buf ao Courier. ___ Th~e Meaining of the Thistic. Do you know why the thistle is the ntinal flower in Scotland? The story s a pretty one, and very characteris ic of the Scotch. It is said that cen uies ago the D)anes were making an nroad into Scotland. They were ad ancing cautiously at night. But, un ortunately, they were barefooted. hey had got close to the Scotch camp, hen one of the men at the head' of heir column stepped on a thistle. Did you ever put down your foot quarely upon a real Scotch thistle? f you have, you will not be surprised o hear that that man gave a scream of ain. His screa:n awakened the cotch. They sprang up, perceiving heir enemies, fell upon them and de eated thenm. And the brave little histle was made the Scotch flower. A New Theory. Again attention is called to those ssentially feminine habits of putting ins in the mnouth or moistening a | encil with the lips. A pin swallowed eaus only a surgical case, but the ;reater danger lies in the contagion hat miy be lur-king in the pin itself. Ender the head of the pin, or in the point of the pencil, all kinds of malig aant germs may be located, which wvill be transmitted by the. mouth qicker than any other way. It arly seems possible that any one eeds to be cautioned against holding mncey bet ween their lips, yet a person a scarcely go a block on a street car ithout noticing some one indulging - T GOOD ROAD OF Will Not Increase Taxation, N her travels and missionary work . to promote the sentiment for good -roads in Illinois, Miss Harber Jaims to have been very success4 ful i enlisting the co-operation of commcial bodies in different towns. Amon. farmers, however, she had some ufficulty in explaining that the associafon she represented was workng not for hard roads but for good':oads. The average farmer, she found'easily became frightened at the propolor hard roads, for that makes them tink of macadam, which would mean iLr-eased taxation. In a recent address 'iss Harber said: "On- solo aim at pent is to mked good soft roads, whi in years to come wiil furnish fodl\ations for good hard ifoads. As an 41 gation regar our work as experin L I n1 educa tional. We aim to have at each of our conventions manufacturers and ma chines for constructing sample pieces of road, that farmers may see ia a practical demonstration how a ron,l should be built to be of value to the community. The object lessons show how a road should be built so that water will draiU ofi; how calvert should be constructed and arranged in order properly to fulfill their mis sion, and-how really inexpensive it is to make good roads when the work is done intellige-tly and systematically. "We do not intend to increase taxa tion one penny, for we know that tue $4,000,000 annually expended by Illi nois is sufficient to build good roads throughout the State. But we do ask that the farmers will let the State do the work, according to an approved system, and not work out their poll i2X by pretending to build good roads. Not that they do not mean to do their best s,> far as they know or have the ability, but they have not the facili ties and cannot do the work as it should be done. We know that under the proper system a good rural road can be made for le:s money than it now costs. We want, if possible, to see the poll tax reduced to $1, but want the farmers to pay that dollar into the State treasury, instead of working it out, as is now the case, and we expect to convince him that it will be to his advantage to do it." The State and Interstate Good Roads Association, represented by Miss Har ber, embraces twenty-two or more States, and is the outgrowth of a State convention held in Missouri in 1897, at which 700 delegates were present. Miss Harber and six men were ap pointed a committee to travel over the country and organize county associa tion3. At the end of one year, when the first interstate convention, at tended by 2500 delegates, was held in St. Louis, seventy-two counties had been organized, and as Miss Harber had organized sixty-six o.f the total she was unanimously chosen general secretary and organizer. The MIovemnent in Neil York. Governor Roosevelt received at the Executive Chamber over i hundred delegates from various rts s State who ~ e attend ors to dis under the ws enacted y was mar 's presence who intro ,of West colleagues, 1 an appro good roads, *e refused to make pria ion, he believed the ed to be driven from telieved that the Gov espouse their cause, as - ad the cause of everything jus ight. The Governor, in reply, said he was glad to meet so.many earnest chamn pins of the good roads movement. le thought it unnecessary to assure thema of his hearty sympathy with their cause. This State must have good roads and we must improve our methods of communication, especially in the rural districts. The Governor said that he thought thai., as a rule, the members of the Legislature would respect the wishes of those whom they represented when the people got those wishes properly formulate d. He, there fore, urged them to organize and make the strength and sincerity of their pur.poses apparent. When this is doue, the Governor said, the difliculty of getting appropriations would end. The Governor said he thought the delegates were getting the movement in good shiape by such meetings as the one they were now holding here, and he hoped the convention would bear fruit in practical results. The Good Roads Convention adopt ed a resolution that it was the sense of the convention that there should be no amendment of the Higbie-Arm strong bill this year. The delegates decided to ask the Legislature for an appropriation of $1,000,000, which is considered the amount necessary to be paid by the State for a proper inaug uration of the work. A proposition in favor of the employment of convicts on the ro..'. was approved. A Home Example. Otto Dorner, Chairman of the L. A. W. Highway Improvement Commit tee,who is considered one of the best informed good roads- meni in this country, says: ."We are not obliged to go to Europe for illustrations of good roads, for we have, fortunately, a few localities in our own country whiich furnish s ch examples. Mecklenburg~ County, . C., not long ago began the construction of a system of mac aam roads. It was customary there to load up two bales of cotton on a wagon to be hauled by a mule team. The mules could draw this load all right. After a raio, when the roads were soft, the load was too much for even a pair of tough mules. . When the country had built a few roads it was four.d that the same mules were able to haul as much as twelve bales, or six tons, in place of their former ied, which amounted a only a single ton. And more-the improved roads rado~ it possible to haui this load in ed and dry weather alike, for, being proporiy built of stone, they were it for use immediately after a heavy rain." There ar-e 10,000 miles of railway now i:n oneraition o' undler construc tion in Afric. AN TH2 nWAIXT Wr4'u. tie t. S. S. Wilmington Crilses CP Ike Amazon River. The cruise of the "Wilmingtoi" 2,300 f.iles along the Amazon is the subject )f a very readable article in Ainslee's: "The dreary solitude and monotony if the interminable stretch of low >anks and the knowledge that back of hese shores lay hundreds of miles of inexpbred, almost impenetrable for Ist s-wampy, stagnant, fever-breeding Ad stilent, gave the journey up the great river a weird, mysterious tone. "Passing craft were few and far be. -ween. Now aid then rafts, or "bol ms,' as they are locally termed, would be discerned near the shore. These bolsas' are peculiar to the Amazon, Lnd are lashed t.gether with vines, i "non this platform is erected a omal am house, with thatched .oof. Several illes equipped with provisions will bark upon one of ;hese queer era and drift with the rurrent until a de!rable place for set Ring is reached. "As the 'Wilmingon' progressed It .mas noticed that th- character of the vegetation changed somewhat. The forests grew more dent. and the lux uriant hues of the tropM were pro aounced. During the da7y the heat was oppressive. There was a moist, humid touch to the atmosphere, and an ever-present odor of decaling plants assailed the nostrils. Late in ;he afternoon, however, cooling rains invariably set in, rendering the night .omparatively pleasant. "About five hundred mfles from Pars, at the 'tnction .of the Tapajos River with the Amazon, a town was reached which proved extremely in teresting to the gunboat's crew. Its name, Santarem, gave no evidence of the fact that it was originally colon-. Ized by Americans. That was in 1866, and the pa;sing of thirty-three years has removed all traces of the Yankee settlers. It did not require this result Df an attemr.pt at Anglo-Saxori colon ization to prove to the 'Wilmington's' people that the tropics form no favor ble hone for their race. Despite the gorgeous panoramas of flaunting colors In forest and sky, the evidences of na ture's most lavish hand in flowers and fruits and mineral wealth, and a cli mate eloqnent of perpetual rest and JoIce far niente, not a solitary officer )r 'jackie' of tho gunboat would have even harbored an inclination to ex :hange his home land for this. "At Santarem were seen several ty pical Amazon River steamers. They ivere of various sizes. and looked not 3nlike the craft familiar to the Missis ;ippi. The mon pretentious were so :onstructed ,4s to furnish two decks >pen at the sides, the upper devoted to irst-class passenger and the lower re tricted to those travelling second :lass. As cattle, mules and freight are tlso carried on the latter deck, it can rasily be understood that this location s not entirely desirable. 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