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STORY OF ETHEL GILLIAN. William Gray, of Palome City, Vouches tor Its Truth. Walls Walla, Jan. 19. William Gray, of Palouee City, who is in Walla Walla undergoing medicinal treatment, recently told the Statesman the story of Ethel Gilliam, a girl who lives with her parents ten miles east of Palouse. The family is poor but honest and reli able, the parents being devout mem bers of the Methodist Episcopal church. Last August this little girl was taken ill, and after three weeks, apparently died, so the story goes. For three hours she had every appearance of death. She then slowly revived, but was totally blind. She told her pa rents that she had been in heaven and seen Jesus and the angels and many friends who had gone before. There she saw a tree of life and a river of life. There were little children in the tree eating the fruit. Each inhabitant wore a crown bearing his or her name. The little girl saw a crown with her name on it, hanging up, and reached for it, but Jesus told her she would have to go back to earth and fulfill her mission. He wanted her to teach his people. Although blind this girl can read by passing her fingers over the printed or written page, and can describe persons whose pictures were handed to her. The latter power was first discovered by J. B. Cawthorn, a photographer, whose mother lives in Walla Walla. He told the marvelous story to a Sun-1 day school in Palouse City, and Mr. Gray and wife, hearing it, drove out to the home of the girl to see for them selves. Mr. Gray first handed the sick girl his watch, and she told him that it was a gold watch, and the time of day, by passing her fingers over the glass. To make sure that her power was gen uine, a paper was held between her face and a photograph that Mr. Gray handed to her, and she described the picture perfectly as that of an old gen tleman with gray whiskers, wearing a dark suit and oravat. She read f rom books and papers handed to her by the use of her fingers. Mr. and Mrs. Gray tell many other wonderful things in relation to this child. She has now been ill 100 days, and has not been ablo to digest any food. As references for the truth of the story, Mr. Gray gave he names of Rev. A. Y. Skee, pastor of the S. M. E. church, of Palouse; . Rev. J. G. Kerrick, of La Grande, , Or.; H. A. Gray, Thomas Cox and J. B. Caw thorn, of Palouse. AT THE INAUGURATION. What It Will Coat Spectator to Set the Ceremonies. Washington, Jan. 19. Washington ians who are making an effort to ar rangeieWthaugural ceremonies of Mr. M trk that none can complain, .""tSteimi by statements circulated xfegg&Mi parts of the country to the fTj effect that extortionate fates are to be "J exacted of those who come here to wit ness the inauguration ceremonies. Speaking to an Asociated Press reporter today, Chairman Bell siild: - " - " "If the people insist on making their own arrangements, the inaugural com mittee cannot be held responsible, but I can assure any one who will address Colonel L. P. Wright, chairman of the committee on public comfort, that he will secure for them the best of accom modations at reasonable rates. He has listed already accommodations for from 20,000 to 80,000 persons, mostly in private houses, which are well located, aud which are supplied with all mod ern conveniences. The list is daily increasing. The rates will average about as follows: For lodging only, $1 per day for beds and 75 cents for cots; 11.25 to $1.50 for lodging and break fast, and $2.50 per day for lodging and meals. .Good horses for the parade .wats- lI3red for from $5 to $10. If iJJ jfeopCave equipments it will be N()sf,l;Jri-fring them, although such as " they may not possess will be supplied by the committee at moderate cost." Earthquake In Oakland. Oakland, Cal., Jan. 19. An earth quake this afternoon was productive of a remarkable scene at the Tenth-avenue Baptist church. Rev. C. M. Hill, the pastor, was just closing an eloquent sermon. Just as he asked the congre gation in an impressive manner what account they would render of their stewardship, the building began to quake until it seemed that the roof would fall in. In a moment all was confusion. Some of the congregation ran for the doors; others fell on their knees to pray, while others, with faces pale,stood waiting for what seemed to many to be certain death. Deaoon Jo seph Plaw attempted to calm the asem- blage. He asked why there should be fear, if they had heeded the words of their shepherd, and were ready for the end. He said that they should rejoice if the end came and found them pre pared. The speaker quickly restored quiet, and when he had finished, all joined in prayers of thanskgiving. Dervishes on the Move. Rome, Jan. 19. Massowah advices are to the effect that a body of Der vishes, believed to be the advance guard of the entire Dervish forces, has entered the Kedaref district, and is moving on Agordat. The Italian gov ernment is concentrating all the troops available near Agordat, which is well defended - Cleaned Out a Town. Perry, O. T., Jan. 19. Late last night robbers took in the town of New kirk, north of here. Saloons were rob bed of all the money and quantities of whisky and beer. Residences were en tered and many things were taken out. The officers think the robbers came into town yesterday under the guise of tramps. Five tramps were arrested here yesterday for highway robbery. They are supposed to be members of an organized gang. Will Prevent Premature Burials. London, Jan. 19. A dispatch from Vienna to the Chonicle says: Profes sor Freiderich, of Elbing, has notified the Vienna academy of his discovery of a new kind of Roentgen ray, which will infallibly determine in a subject ' whether death or catalepsy has inter vened. 1 London, Jan. 18,--TJMj Chronicle this morning publishes' Jin interview with Professor Ilerron,' of Iowa, in which he declares that the people gen erally tftroflghout the United States ap prove &e arbitration treaty LAND FOR EVERYBODY. The Free Bomeetead Bill Hat ranaed the Senate. Washington, Jan. 16. The sortate today passed the measure known as the free-homestead bill, which has been under discussion since the holday re cess. It is a measure of far-reaching importance, particularly to the West ern states, and the interest in it was Bhown by the fact that a plank concern ing it was a feature of the several na tional platforms. The effect or1 the bill is to open to settlement au the pnblio lands acquired from Indians, free of payment to the government, be yond the minor office fees, and to re lease from payment those who have heretofore settled on those lands. The number of acres involved, according to an estimate made by the commissioner of the general land office, is 83,207,541, which would have yielded the govern ment, at the prices heretofore estab lished, $35,848,006. To offset this statement it was brought out during the debate that the lands were mainly arid and that those who had settled upon them were unable to make pay ment by reason of the scanty products of the soil. The Western senators in the main favored the bill as an exten-1 sion of the general homestead policy of ! the government. The opposition was j direoted mainly by Piatt of Connecticut j and Vilas. As the bill passed in the j house it covered only lands acquired , from Indians in Oklahoma but as j passed today the bill inoludes all In-' dian lands. The final vote taken by , agreement at 4 P. M., showed a decisive j majority in favor of the measure. Following the dispoisiton of thifeitt; j which had held the advantageous posi- j tion of the unfinished business of the senate, Morgan sought to have the Nica- j rauga canal bill made the unfinished j business. This precipitated a vote I whioh to some extent was a test of strength of the bill itself. On Mor gan's motion to take up the bill, the vote was 83 to 6, or less than a quorum, so the motion did not prevail, although it disclosed the strenght of the measure. During the day Morgan secured the adoption of a resolution for an inquiry by the judiciary committee as to whether the properties of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific companies now belong to the United States, by reason of alleged defaults in payment of bonds. A resolution by Cullom, calling on the oivil service commission to explain the delay in making annnal reports, was adopted. Grout Bill In the House. Washington, Jan. 16. The house spent almost the entire day debating the Grout bill, whoh was under con sideration for a time yesterday, to sub ject oleomargarine and other imitation dairy products to the laws of the states into which they are transported. The advocates of the measure took the view that the states should be allowed to regulate the sale of a product sailing under false colors, and the opponents argued that the bill would establish a dangerous precedent and invade the power of congress to regulate interstate commerce. Those who supported the measure were Messrs. Northway, Morse, Lacey, Hainer, Willis, Grosve nor and Henderson. Those who op posed it were Messrs. Cooper, Tucker, Cannon, Boatner, Clardy and Williams. The bill is as follows: "That all articles known as oleomar garine, butterine, imitation butter or imitation cheese, or any substance in the semblance of butter or cheese, . not the usual product of the dairy, and not made exclusively of pure and un adulterated milk or cream, transported into any state or territory, or remain ing therein for use, consumption, sale or storage, shall, upon arrival in such state or territory, be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of such state or territory, enacted in the exer cise of its police powers, to the same extent and in the same manner as those articles or substances that had been produced in such state or territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by rea son of being introduced there in origin al packages or otherwise, provided that nothing in this act shall be construed so as to permit any state to forbid the sale of oleomargarine except in such manner as will advise a customer of its real character." Will Not Surrender. Washington, Jan. 18. Mr. Quesada, of the Cuban junta, today received a long letter from his uncle, Salvador de Cisneros, president of the Cuban repub lio, who, by inference, gives a denial to the reports that the insurgents are willing to negotiate terms of peace on any other basis than absolute inde pendence. The letter says, in part: "We will renew our offensive cam paign in a few days. Gomez has left me to enter Santa Clara with reinforce ments and munitions of war. He will go further west. Our situation is most prosperous, and if we had plenty of ammunition, not only for rifles, but for cannon, and in Camaguey a dynamite cannon, the railroads would ' be de stroyed and the few garrisoned inland towns would be abandoned by the enemy, and they would be confined to the coast. As I expect to receive these war materials from abroad, we very soon will drive them to the sea and be In a position to tell them, when they depart, our last good-bye." German Syndicate In Japan. London, Jan. 18. It is reported in a Berlin dispatch that word has been received from Tokio that twenty Ger man firms of engineers and shipbuild ers in Japan have formed a syndicate to contract for the work of the military and naval equipment to which Japan will devote the war indemnity. Of the 800,000 fossil insects collect ed from all over the world it is said that only twenty of these are of the butterfly. The Army Appropriation Bill. Washington, Jan, 18. The army appropriation bill was reported to the senate today from the committee. The committee restored the provision for the support of the hospital t at Hot Springs, Ark, which the house struck out. To ClaMlfy Postofflco Clerki. Washington, Jan. 18. Senator Cul lom today introduced in the senate a bill heretofore represented in the house of representatives by Mr. Sperry for a classification of clerks in the first and second-class postoffiees. WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. ftownins. Hopkine Comnanv'e Helew of Trade. The past week has proved an un rteady one in the wheat markets. While there has been no weakening in die basic position of wheat, and while, indeed, the position today is stronger 'Jian a week since, the bears have upon ;wo or three occasions raided the mar iets and broken prices. To our minds these fluctuations prove nothing against the deal. We don't know but prices aill be lower, and are not talking about what will be the results, but we write jf the foundation of the markets, and iealers must manage the rest. The winter wheat, usuallly two-thirds of the aggregate crop, is depleted to smaller remains in farmers' hands than for years. Consumption must soon re sort to spring wheat, and that reserve is undoubtedly small. We are break ing away slowly from foreign prices and before harvest it will be a home iemand aud supply.' According to expert testimony many of the believers in wheat who have been watching the upward march of values for the past two months have been rather doubtful of its stability, in view of the cheapness of other cereals md their product. The fact that oom lias entered the list as a competitor for bread consumption led to a halt in the advance and many traders were greatly influenced by this circumstance. The argument is made that flour is being adulterated to such an extent with corn meal, and the call for corn meal is in sreasing at such a rate that the demand for cash wheat will gradually become curtailed, and, with a lessening of the demand, perforce a decline in price. One writer in discussing this phase of the wheat situation asserts that such a use for corn meal and other substitu tions for wheat must be only credited to restricted areas. The theory ad vanced is that poor people who would most likely use this adulterated article as a human food do not buy flour, and hence the first argument falls to the ground. Market Quotation!. Portland, Or., Jan. 19, 1897. Flour Portland, Salem, Cascadia and Dayton, $4.50; Benton county and White Lily, $4.50; graham, $4.00; su perfine, $3.80 per barrel. Wheat Walla Walla, 8384o; Val ley, 8687o per bushel. Oats Choice white, 4042o per bushel; choice gray, 3840o. Hay Timothy, $13.00 per ton; clover, $8. 00 9. 00; oat, $8.00 10; wheat, $8. 00 10 per ton. Barley Feed barley, $18.00 per ton; brewing, $20. Millstuffs Bran, $15.00; shorts, $16.50; middlings, $26. Butter Creamery, 8540o; Tilla mook, 40c; dairy, 2280c. Potatoes Oregon Burbanks,65 70c; 'Early Rose, 8090o per saok; Cali fornia river Burbanks, 55o per cental; sweets, $2.00 2. 50 per cental for Mer ced; Jersey Red, $2.50. Onions 85c per sack. Poultry Chickens, mixed, ' $2.00 2.50; geese, $6.00; turkeys, live, 10c; ducks, $4 4. 50 per dozen. Eggs Oregon, 17J18 per dozen. Cheese Oregon, 12)c; Young America, 13 ffj'c per pound. Wool Valley, 10c per pound; East ern Oregon, 6 8c. Hops 9 10c per pound. . Beef Gross, top steers, $2. 75 3. 00; cows, $2.252.50; dressed beef, 4 4o per pound. Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers and ewes, $3. 00 3. 25; dressed mut ton, 5J6o per pound. Hogs Gross, choice, heavy, $3.25 3.50; light and feeders, $2.503;00; dressed, $4. 00 4. 50 per cwt. Veal Net, small, 6c; large, 5c per pound. Seattle, Wash., Jan. 19, 1897. Flour (Jobbing) Patent exoellent, $5.25; Novelty A, $4.75; California brands, $5.60; Dakota, $5.50; patent, $6.25. , Wheat Chicken feed, $27 per ton. Oats Choice, $24 25 per ton. Barley Rolled or ground, $22 per ton. Corn Whole, $22 per ton; cracked, $28; feed meal, $23. Millstuffs Bran, $16.00 per ton; shorts, $19. Feed Chopped feed, $19.00 per ton; middlings, $24; oilcake meal, $28. Hay Puget sound, per ton, $9.00 10.00;. Eastern Washington, $18. Butter Fancy native creamery, brick, 24c; select, 23c; tubs, 22c; ranch, 18o. Cheese NativeWashington, 1 2 Q. Vegetables Potatoes, per ton, $16 18; parsnips, per sack, 75o; beets, per sack, 60c; turnips, per sack, 60c; ruta bagas, per sack, 75c; carrots, per sack, 3545o; cabbage, per 100 lbs, $1.25; onions, per 100 lbs, $1 1.25. Sweet potatoes Per 100 lbs, $3.00. Poultry Chickens, live, per pound, hens, 8c; dressed, 1013o; ducks, $2.003.50; dressed turkeys, 1516o. Eggs Fresh ranch, 1 60; Eastern, 19c per dozen. Fresh Meats Choice dreBsed beef, steers, 6c; cows, 5oj mutton, sheep, 6c per pound; lamb, 5o; pork, 60 per pound; veal, small, 60. Fresh Fish Halibut, B 6; salmon, 5 6; salmon trout, 7 10; flounders and soles, 8 4o. Provisions Hams, large, 12c; hams, small, 12c; breakfast bacon, 10c; dry salt sides, 6c per pound. San Francisco, Jan. 19, 1897. Potatoes Salinas Burbanks, 70 80c; Early Rose, 70 75c; River Bur banks, 5075o; sweets, $1.501.60 per cental. Onions 60 85c per cental. - Eggs Store, 2123o; ranch, 2427. Butter Fancy creamery, 25c; do seconds, 1820c; fancy dairy, 17c; seconds, 14 16c. Cheese Fancy mild, new, 11 11 c; fair to good, 8 10c; Young America, ll12c; Eastern, 1814o. Wool Choice mountain, 6 7o; pool do, 4 5c; San Joaquin plains, 85c; do foothill, 6 80 per pound. Hay Wheat, $8.00 11; wheat and oat, $8 10; oat, $6. 00 8. 00; barley, 5. 00 6. 50; alfalfa, $6. 00 7. 50; blover, $6. 00 8. 00; stock, $5. 00 6. 00 per ton. Tropical Fruit Bananas, $1.00 2.00 per bur;b; pineapples, $24. Citrus FrSt, Oranges, naval, $1.50 2. 50; seedlings' do, 75c1.25; Mexi can limes, $6. 00 6. 50 common lemons, ,$1.001.25; good to choice, $1.60 8.00; fancy, $2. 50 8. 00 per box. Apples Fancy, $11.25 per box; eommondo. 40(875 Tea is better fresh if it isn't, what does the grocer mean by telling you that he has some tea just come from abroad? Fresh doesn't mean just picked; it means just roast ed. Schilling's Best is roasted as fast as your gro cer wants it no faster in San Francisco. A Schilling It Company ban rrimclK 403 Gladatone'a Advice to Toons Men Be sure that every one of you has his place and vocation ou this earth, and that It rests with himself to find it. Do not believe those who too lightly say: "Nothing succeeds like success." Effort, honest, manful, humble effort, succeeds by Its reflected action, espe cially In youth, better than success, which, Indeed, too easily and too early gained, not seldom serves, like winning the throw of the dice, to blind and stupefy. Get knowledge, all you can. Be thorough in all you do, and remem ber that though Ignorance often may bo Innocent, pretension Is always despica ble. But you, like men, be strong and exercise your strength. Work onward and upward, and may the blessing of the Most High soothe your cares, clear your vision, and crown your labors with reward. A certain youthful curate was taken to task by the new Archbishop of Can terbury for reading the lessons or the service In an Inaudible tone. , .Where upon the young man replied: "I am surprised that you should find fault with my reading, as a friend of mine In the congregation told me that I was beautifully heard." "Did she?" snap ped the bishop, and the fair young curate collapsed. His lordship had once been a young clergyman himself, and he knew a thing or two about the "friend." . MOTOR ANU M19KHY. Compressed air as a motive power for street railways will in time supersede elec tric wires and the trolley. Necessity and invention make rapid changes, but some old, sure, unfailing methods will hold good for all time. The nerves are the electric wires of the human system, and often "jangle out of tune," as when neuralgia slips the trolley of the system and it grinds and groans with pain. The old motor for the cure of pain, ft. Jacobs Oil, will always act as electric, influence on the pain stricken nerves, aud will send a current of cure through the disordered wires, and bring about a perfect restoration. Nothing new can improve upon what is known to be the best and surest in the treatment of pain ful diseases. William B. Phillips, of New Madrid, Mo., is credited with a total of 1,350 squirrels in three days' hunting on Lit tle river. t ONE SKCRKT OF LONGEVITY. Those anxious to prolong this rapid transi tory existence of ours beyond the average span, should foster his digestion, negatively by ab staining from indiscretions in diet, and affirm atively by the use of that peerless stomachic, llostetter's Stomach Bitters, when he experi ences svmptoms of indigestion. The Impair ment of the digestive function is fatal to vigor. Subdue with the Bitters, also, fever and ague, biliousness and constipation. Typhusantitoxine is the latest medi cinal discovery. It is alleged to be a sure preventive for typhus fever. For lung and chest diseases Piso's Cure is the best medicine we have used. Mrs. J. L. Northcott, Windsor, Ont., Canada. CATARRH CANNOT BK CURED With LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a blood or constitutional disease, and tu order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, and acts di rectly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and Is a regular prescrip tion. It is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. The perfect combination of the two ingredients Is what produces such wonderful effects In curing Catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, price 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. The light of the moon is only about one-six hundred thousandth that of the sun. Gladness Comes With a better understanding1 of the transient nature of the many phys ical ills, which vanish before proper ef forts gentle efforts pleaHanlefforts rightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge, that so many forms of sickness are not due to any actual dis ease, but simply to a constipated condi tion of the svstem, which the pleasant family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt ly removes. That is why it is the only remedy with millionsof families, and is everywhere esteemed so highly by all who value good health. Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that it is the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness without debilitating the organs on which it acts. It is therefore all important, in order to get its bene ficial effeots, to note when you pur chase, that you have the genuine arti cle, which is manufactured by the Cali fornia Tig Syrup Co. only and sold by all reputable druggists. If in the enjoyment of good health, and the system is regular, laxatives or other remedies are then not needed. If afflicted with any actual disease, one may be commended to the most skillful physicians, but if in need of a laxative, one should have the best, and with the well-informed everywhere, Syrup of Figs stands highest and is most largely Jbed and gives most general satisfaction. I INDISPENSABLE TO ANY Pint SMOKER, "AWAY WITH MAKESHIFTS." Dealers' Beit Seller. SAMPLE, IOC, ' ONE DOZEN, 800 ECLIP8E MFC. CO. By Mall. A emits Wanted. Portland, Or., I). 8. A. SURE CURE for PILES Iwhing 4BiiDd, Bleed) biot protruding fllw ritld at Dft.BQ-aAN-KO edinu or protruding ritld at mm to 'SPILE REMEDY, stop, iioh. ftiUlvv cure. Circuit! Mat rrM. Trim uSL MoaAftk. rill. r wkii ua tumor.. A p turner, a p0il THE BETTER NEW YORK. Reform that Hv Hern Adopted la the Metropolis. ' Upon the road which New York Inn been treading this half-score years there Is at last uo turning back. - The street evacuated by the trucks have beeu 01s cupled by tUe chlldreu, the truckman's with the relt, for the want of better playgrounds, aud the truckman has abandoned the tight; aud where they crowd thickest, playgrounds of their own are being fitted up for them lu school and park. "Hereafter uo school house shall be constructed lu the city of New York without an opeu play ground attached to or used lu connec tion with the same," says one of the briefest but most beueflceut laws ever enacted by the people of the State of New York. It Is all there Is of It, but It stands for a good deal. No child of New York, poor or rich, shall hereafter be despoiled of his birthright a chance to piny; aud ns for the streets, does any oue Imagine that New . Yorkers will ever be persuaded to barter away their clean aud noiseless pavements aud pure air for the whirling dust-clouds, the summer stenches, aud the winter sloughs of old, sensoued with uo mat ter what mess of political pottage? If so, he Is grievously mistaken. Col. Waring has ohowii us that the streets of New York can be cleaned, and any future city 'government, uo matter how corrupt or despotic, will have to reckon with him. Aud right well the enemy knows It; he may not refralu from picking our pockets lu future, but tie will at lenst have to do It with due re gard to the decencies of life. Mulberry Bend Is gone, find lu Its place have come grass and flowers aud sunshine. Across the Bowery, where 3124,000 human beluga were ehowu to live out of sight and roach of a green spot, four of the most crowded blocks hnve been seized for demolition, to make room for the two small parks de manded by the Tenement House Com mission, Bone Alloy, redolent of llltli and squalor aud wreteheduess. Is to go, and the children of that tecmlus neigh borhood nre to have a veritable little Coney Island, with sandhills and shells, established at their very doors. Wtio can doubt the Influence It will have upon young lives heretofore framed In gutters? I question whether the greatest wrong done the chlldreu of the poor In the past has not been the esthetic starvation of their lives rather than the physical In jury. Against the latter, provision ha been made by strlngeut tenement house laws, by the vigorous warfare upon child labor, by the extension of the law's protection to stores as to factories, and by the restriction of the sweat-shop evil. In the park to be laid out by the Schlff fountain, lu the shadow of thu Hebrew Institute oue of the noblest charities a great public bath Is to rise upon the site of the present rookeries, harbinger of others to come. All about, new school houses are going up, on a plan of structural perfection and archi tectural excellence nt which earlier school boards would have stood aghast. The first battle for the schools has been fought and won, and though there be campaigning ahead without stint 011 that score, the day Is In sight when every child who asks Mini 11 tlnd a scat provided for him In the public school, and when that scandal of the ago, the mixing of truants and thieves In a jn.Il. shall have finally ceased, even us It is now forbidden by law. Century. Quick Profits. "Business" Is the watchword of the day, and the small boy Is developing on that line with a rapidity which as tonishes the previous generation. But the practical side of his nature has not obscured the poetry of childhood. The fairy tale Is as potent as ever, and there was a smile of pleasure on the face of the lad who remarked at breakfast: "I had a beautiful dream last night." "What was It?" his father asked. "I thought I was 'out in the woods and I saw a most gorgeously dressed lady coming toward me." "That is a good deal like some of the stories that you have been read ing." , "Yes. It doesn't get very different until the end. I knew by her looks that she was the fairy queen, and I made up my mind that I wasn't going to lose chances like some of the boys In story books, who didn't know a good chance when they saw it." "Did she offer you three wishes?" "Yes. And I called to mind how she sometimes took advantage of a mortal's being excited and nervous when he wished, In order to make him waste his opportunities and have a good laugh at him. So, when she said, 'Littls boy, I'll give you three wishes,' I didn't Jump at the chance. , I said, 'Will you give me whatever I ask for?' She answered, 'Yes; you may havo three wishes.' " "What did you do?" - "I wished for four." Uses of Fruit. I have eaten apples all my life, but never learned how to make the best use of them till last winter, writes a correspondent to American Gardening. Now we eat apples half an hour before breakfast and dinner Instead of after ward. The action of the acid is then admir able In aiding digestion, while If eaten after meals the apple Is likely to prove a burden, We follow the same line In using grapes, pears, cherries and berries, If disturbed by a headache or dyspepsia In summer, I climb a cherry-tree and eat all I can reach and relish. In order to have cherries all sum mer, I cover a dozen trees with mos-qulto-netting to keep off the birds. Currants and gooseberries I flud very wholesome eaten raw from the bushes before going to the dlnlng-tablu. Na ture has prepared a large amount of food already cooked, exactly fitted for all demands of the human system. I am by no means a vegetarian or a fruitarian, but I am convinced that we have not yet measured the value of fruit as a diet, with milk, eggs and vegetables. "' Entirely Natural. James Payn recently declared that "Oarlyle was free from affectation of any kind; he had not even manners." It Is clearly evident what' Is expected of a young man when members of her family invite him to a family reunion. MIRACLES m MEDICINE. " The Wonderful Progress Made Within the Past Few Years. Diseases That Our Mothers Thought Incurable Now Cured by Palne'a Celery Compound. It Is difficult, almost Impossible, to poisons- are not aware that any such overestimate the importance o, recent J advances in medicine and surgery. t,mt pvery other pftrt llm,g not iBtant- In surgery there is the application of y "jtnow of." . The cloneness of this the X-ray in determining complicated sympathy is "familiarly illustrated by fractures. I headaches, indigestion, rheumatism, In medicine there ! the serum-treat- nouraliga, etc. About every case of ment for germ diseases, and more im- aloeplewmeiu!, nervousness and dyspep portant still, the extended use of sia is a "sympatctlo strike by brain, Paine's celery eomponud in the treat- nerves or stomach, induced by the low ment of the many diseases that arise ering of the general health, from a faulty or impaired nervous sys- People who think to get rid of these jenli troubles by some medicine that dlsre- This class of ailments causes more gards tlie general health of the body suffering and earlier deaths than all are on the wrong track. In getting others, and that is whv so much pub- such diseases as neuralgia ami rheuma lie prominence was at once given to timn out of the system Paine's celery Paine's celery compound when its dis- compound proceeds at once to restore a covery was first announced by Prof, normal appetite and regulate the Phelps of Dartmouth college. nerves, as the foundation for building The rapid and sure way that Paino's up the health and vigor, celery compound cures neuralgia, rheu-1 It "regulates the bowels without delay, mutism and nervous debility is marvel- and sees to it that the poisonous hu ous even in the eyes of this wonder-. mors that are bursting through the working quarter of the century. skin, in what are, for purpose, of Ancient miracles were contrary to classifying, called skin diseases, are natural lows, whereas the remarkable ' given a ready outlet. 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