DOVE : ROCK : DAY.
THE girl had never been to Lake
George before, and it was hardly
her fault that she irretrievably in
jured her social standing before she
had been at Horieon Ferry two hours.
Grace Wright was an actress who hid
entered the theatrical profession as a
chorus girl. She had now reached the
rank of an ingenue in one of the popu
lar theaters.
Everybody at Horieon Ferry goes to
the landing to inquire for mail and to
see what manner of people are going
up the lake. The morning and evening
steamer arrivals are the two incidents
of the day, and John Treadwell was as
curious as the rest of the little colony
which dwelt on the point of land which
juts out into the upper lake. He was
holding a flaring red parasol over the
head of his richest aunt, when he saw
Grace Wright hastening over the gang
plank. Before he could beat a retreat
the girl had nodded to him, and he ivas
compelled to acknowledge her saluta
tion with a perfunctory dip of his hat.
The next moment the girl had given
her baggage to a porter, thereby pro
claiming her intention of becoming a
guest of Horieon Ferry's one hotel.
"I did not know," said Miss Jemimah
Fettiugill, sister of John Treadwell's
mother, recently deceased, "that you
had any acquaintances among the ho
tel people."
"Well," replied the young man, ner
vously twisting his mustache, "a ftllow
who is a reporter on a New York news
paper, .is I am, is bound to meet a few
persons who are not eligible to the tiaru
let set at Horieon Ferry."
"I trust, nephew," said Miss Fettln
gill ,"that you will remember that it 13
decidedly improper to mingle your bus
iness and social acquaintances. She is
rather handsome, too. Has her moth
er with her. Evidently makes some
pretense to respectability."
"Aunt Jeremiah," said the young
man, "the young woman is a member
of Mr. Fayson's company. She Is a
girl of sterling character. She has been
on the stage almost from childhood."
From that day John Treadwell had
no peace of mind at Lake George. He
was at Horieon landing principally be
cause his aunt had told him to come,
and incidentally because the family of
his fiancee, Agnes Shelton, had a cot
tage there. He thought rather guiltily
of the evenings when he had called on
Grace Wright, and of the talks they
had had upon literature and the uplift
ing of the stage from Its present sor
rowful plight. They had read the same
book, and had spent many an afternoon
at the picture galleries. That was In
the days when he was struggling for
bare existence upon a paper whose
principal stock in trade consisted of
niggardly pay to Its reporters. He was
glad in those days when the weekly
payday arrived, and brought with it
the blessed raice that he might
have "urcistrWr!. with green peas,
for at least one dinner of the week.
Then somebody discovered that he
could write, and he found himself upon
a paper whc.3 his weekly space bills
ran above the three figure mark, and
he was hailed by that proudest of Park
Row titles, "a good man." Then he fell
Into the good graces of his aunt Jemi
mah. That meant receptions and af
ternoon teas, and an introduction into
one of the "smart" sets of New York.
That is how he met Agnes Shelton.
She thought that his life was "so inter
esting," and 'so fascinating," and he,
who had almost forgotten the days
when he was a drudge and a pa;k
horse, never told her anything to the
cuuirarjr. one nau money enougn Tor
two.
He saw his opportunity and
availed himself of it.
They were en-
gaged
Grace Wright saw him once or twice
after his rise In fortune. It was very
easy for him to tell her that he could
find no time to call upon her, for men
who are under the beck and call of a
city editor have little time that they
may call aeir own. She saw him for
the first time in months at the landing
at Horieon Ferry.
The principal occupation of the so
called "society" element at Horieon
Landing consisted in making life unen
durable to the majority of those who
came there. There were three distinct
estates the hotel set, the Justin set,
and the Hamlet set. Anybody who had
either owned or rented a cottage for
three years in succession was entitled
to the rank of'Hamieteer." He had
the right to snug anybody who came
within sight of the little cluster of cot
tages at the end of the point. There
was also an overgrown country farm
house, not far from the Hamlet, kept
by the venerable Mrs. Justin. A few,
and only a few, of those who stopped
at Justin s were recognized bv the
Hamleteers. Those who stopped at the flames. A pine log rolled from the side
botel were considered beneath social i of the vofcano of wood and fell, suap
reeognition. They belonged to a class ping and snarling within six inches of
that never came to Uoncon Ferry for
more than one year,
After the strictest sect of Hamleteers
was Miss Jemimah Pettingill, a cot
tager. It was her pride that in all the
ten years she had been coming to Lake
George no hotel guest had ever dark
ened her threshold. By right of senior
ity, she was t'-ie social law giver of Hor
ieon Ferry, and Grace Wright had not
been at the hotel more than three days
before she was obliged to assert her 1
authority. One of the Hamleteers, who !
had once seen the young woman ip a '
minor Shakspearean role, insisted up
on inviting the girl to give an open-air
reading. There was a brief, sh:. i)
struggle, and the project was aban- .
doned.
Grace Wright and her mother were I
permitted to go their own way. They
did not seem even to be aware of the
fact that they had been socially ostra
cised. They cared not for Hamleteers,
the Justin set, nor the guests of the
hotel. A young dry goods clerk, who
was spending a week's vacation at the
Ferry, smiled upon the young woman,
but received a look which was a Sibe
rian winter. Grace Wright spent her
days in rowing her mother about
among the islands of the lake. There
Is an amiable tradition that In this body
of water there are 365 Islands, one tor
every day in the year. In leap year, are granted for all sorts of business,
so the story goes, an additional island People bay the exclusive privilege of
appears, which is again lost to view c i doing things here that .everybody else
the last day of December. There were J has the right to do without permission
Islands enough for everybody, and the 1 in other countries. For example, chim
mother and daughter managed to steer j ney sweeping Is a monopoly, and the
clear of the aristocracy of Horieon , man who controls It has to be paid for
Ferry. j sweeping your ebtolBey twtee a fpnr
John Treadwell saw the two occa- ' whether he sweeps It or not, t oh may
cJonally and greeted them bjr touching euijploy somebody else, or you may not
the rim of his hat. It is the unwritten
law, at Horieon Ferry, that a Ham
leteer must be greeted by removing the
hat and describing with it a considera
ble arc; one of the Justin set may be
greeted by raising the hat; and a guest
of the hotel is to be ignored and
snubbed. Treadwell's salute was a fee
ble compromise.
"You needn't trouble yourself to
speak to me any longer," said the girl to
him one day. "I think that I can adapt
myself to the present situation. I sup
pose that if I had gone to Justin's you
might have treated me with ordinary
civility."
In her heart she said: "I can hardly
blame him. He has a career before
him. If I loved him less I would have
married him when he asked me two
years ago.
There was one day In the calendar
when all differences of social standing
were forgotten. That was Dove Rock
lay. On that day the great rock,
which rose from the middle of the bay,
near Horieon Ferry, was piled high
with driftwood; it was the funeral pyre
of the season which was gone. The
material for the conflagration was
gathered from the islands and from the
wooded shore. The Hamleteers, the
boarders at Justin's, and the guests at
the hotel all joined In transporting the
"DRAGGED THE PROSTRATE FORM INTO THE BOAT.'
supplies for the last spectacle of the
declining year.
John Treadwell that year was master
of ceremonies, directing the move
ments of the navy of transports, which
all day long was busy conveying logs
and packing boxes to the rock. In the
center of the pile were trunks of giant
trees, placed on end and held In place
by smaller logs. In the center was a
pocket filled with light kindling wood,
covered with pitch and tar. This was
the mine from which was to ascend a
tongue of flame. Hamlet and hotel
viewed Dove Rock with pride when the
work of the bonfire builders was done.
The night was falling when from the
point a flotilla of boats swept towards
the rock. There was a clanking or row-
lock chains, and the oars rattled against
cedar-sheathed hulls. Craft which for
weeks had been dodging each other,
were moored side by side. The slow
beating of the oars kept the half moon
of boats from drifting toward the rock.
A single boat shot out from the swing
ing group and grated upon the edge of
Dove Rock. A gleam of light shone
from beneath the shelter of n cap; then
the flame from a torch flared high in
the air. John Treadwell, his face il
lumined by the Jet of fire above his
head, turned to the crescent of boats
and bowed. He hurled the torch into
the center of the giant tinderbox and
turned to go. But his foot caught upon
a root and he lurched forward. In try
ing to save himself he half turned, then
fell upon the rock. From the top of
the piie of timbers burst a blinding
flood of light. Beneath its glare those
who sat in the half lune of boats could
see that a thin stream of blood was
trickling down from the right temple
of the man who lay stretched upon the
rock.
The pile of timbers began to settle. A
blistering heat compelled the specta-
tors to pull back from the nest of
i Treadwell's feet.
"Why doesn't somebody pull out to
the rock?" yelled a voice far back in the
semi-circle.
"Why don't you do it yourself?"
came the response in half a dozen keys.
A light shallop shot out from the
landing near the hotel. Some one close
ly wrapped in a cloak dragged the
prostrate form into the boat and slow
ly rowed out of the zone of blistering
heat.
"It seems strange to me," remarked
the dramatic critic of the Daily Har
binger to the night editor of the Morn
ing Rainbow, who had Joined him at a
late supper In a restaurant, "that news
paper men have such a predilection for
marrying actresses. I suppose that we
shall be bearing of Treadwell's seeking
a divorce scnetime within the next six
months. He was married this evening
to Grace Wright, who used to be at
Payson's."
"Well," said the night editor, "from
what I know about It that divorce
won't come very soon. She saved his
life at Lake George last summer. De
troit Free Press.
Municipal Monopolies In Germany
Arnong the odd things about official
, life la Germany are the monopolies that
hare your chimney swept at all, but he
and he alone has the legal right to do
the business, and he will call upon you
every spring and every autumn for his
fees. He never does any work him
self. He is an important, and usually
a wealthy individual, and in Nurem
berg is said to enjoy a revenue of $7,
500 a year from his privilege, but out
of this total he Is compelled to pay a
gang of boys who do the sweeping for
him.
The number of drug stores In every
town is limited by law one to every
1,000 of population and they have to
pay a heavy license to the city. There
fore they charge high prices for pre
scriptions and get rich.
One of the restrictions upon the drug
business and it is an excellent pro
vision requires all drugs and medi
cines intended for use internally to be
put up in round bottles. All drugs and
chemicals which are not used internal
ly as medicines must be placed in hex
agonal bottles. Thus It is impossible
for any man who is in his right mind
to poison himself by mistake. Berlin
Letter to Chicago Record.
DISEASES IN COURT BIBLES.
Microbes Poison the Books Kissed by
file Thousands of V itnesses.
Queen Victoria's magistrates are rgi
volving the question whether or not
the Bibles used in administering oaths
can carry infection and spread disease.
The matter was first brought up by a
physician summoned to testify in a
London court. When the clerk hand
ed him the Bible he kept for the admin
istration of oaths, he refused to take
It He explained that in his judgment
the cover of that book, long in use in
the court and having been kissed by
thousands of lips, was pregnant with
thousands of microbes and thus might
be the means of conveying infection.
He asked permission to disinfect the
cover and then expressed his entire
willingness to take the oath in the usu
al manner.
The magistrate was at first startled
at this novel proposition, but finally,
seeing that the witness was a sensible
man of science, he consented. There
upon the physician took from his satch
el a small vial of phenic acid, opened
it and poured some drops therefrom on
the dingy leather cover of the Bible.
He then spread the liquid over the en
tire cover by means of his handker
chief and, having rubbed it well In, he
took the required oath.
The incident created widespread com
ment and the physician was bombard
ed with letters and queries on the sub
ject. He made a public statement in
which he maintained that the time
honored custom of administering an
oath in courts of law was contrary to
the elementary principles of hygiene.
and that it was, In fact, one of the most
dangerous practices of modern times.
"No one," he Insisted, "would consent
to drink in a public house where only
one glass is used, and why, then.
should anyone consent to kiss a book
which thousands have kissed before
him?"
Naturally, many persons have fol
lowed his example. Almost dally some
witness asks the judge if he may dis
infect the Bible before he puts his lips
to It, and vials containing disinfect
ants are becoming quite a common
sight in English courts. Some magis
trates refuse to grant the desired per
mission, claiming that every article In
the court Is clean and as it should bej
others, on the contrary, grant permis
sion, though they grumble a little at
what they consider a wilful waste of
time. Scientists approve of the phy
sician's conduct, and the general pub
lic is so worked up over the matter
that a league is being formed with the
object of purifying all the court Bibles
in England. Chicago Chronicle.
Accuracy Carried Too Far.
A ship once went on a cruise, and
the captain determined to keep an ac
curate account of the voyage in his
logbook. One morning the first mate,
who had been on a lark the day be
fore, looking over the logbook, found
this entry: "The first mate was drunk
all day yesterday."
He at once appealed to the captain,
saying to him: "Why in the world
did you want to write that in the log
book?" "Is it not true?" questioned the' cap
tain. "Yes, but there was no use to state
It."
"Oh, yes, there was. I intend to keep
a full and accurate record of what
goes on on board this ship during the
entire voyage."
The first mate was compelled to sub
mit, but his turn came. Next day he
was In charge of the ship, the captain
taking off a day.
When he turned up the next morn
ing, he found written on the logbook:
"The captain was sober all day yester
day!" Of course, he entered a protest.
"Well, weren't you sober all day?"
asked the mate,
"Of course, but there was no use of
stating it."
"Oh, yea, I was merely carrying out
your instructions and keeping an ac
curate record of what occurred on
board." Glasgow Weekly Mai.
Abbreviation.
A little Quakeress, so quaint,
So modest, and so sweet,
She looked a veritable st
While walking down-the st
Indianapolis Journal
If a "good friend" is a pleasant ac
quaintance, that Is about all you caii
reasonably expect.
0oige people who are only malic1"
tills' tbey m wiitfi
The Value of Good Roads.
There is all over the country a deep
and growing interest in the subject of
good roads. The people generally have
learned that good roads pay and that
bad roads are terribly expensive.
There is not a State In the Union
which has not done more good road
work in the past Ave years than it ever
did before in an equal period of time.
Some of them have done ten times as
much.
Professor Latta, of the Purdue Uni
versity, Lafayette, Ind., estimates that
the annual loss from bad roads in Jef
ferson Couuty. Kentucky, in which
Louisville is situated, is fully $1 an
acre. This means an annual loss of
$250,000. The loss for one year due to
bad roads would pike every mile of
road in the county.
In attempting to convince the farm
ers who are opposed to large expendi
tures for roads, President Latta gives
the following as some of the good ef
fects of good roads:
1. Economize time and force In trans
portation between farm and market.
2. Enable the farmer to take advan
tage of market fluctuations in buying
and selling.
3. Permit transportation of farm
products and purchased commodities
during times of comparative leisure.
4. Reduce the wear and tear on
horses, harness and vehicles.
5riEnhance the market value of real
estate.
President Latta says of the Increased
value of land from road improvements:
"As already stated, this increase is
estimated by the farmers consulted at
$9 per acre. This would enhance the
value of each section of land 5,700,
which Is more than double the estimat
ed cost $2,292) of the two miles of im
proved highway, which constitute the
quota for the section. Just here the
objection may be raised that the im
proved roads would not increase the
productive capacity of the land, while
the 'enhanced commercial value would
Increase the taxes. Let us, for the sake
of argument, grant this plausible but
fallacious objection, and then find
what it amounts to. Let us suppose the
Increase in appraisement for taxation
to be $4 per acre and the tax rate 11-4
per cent. This would mean an annual
Increase in taxes of five cents per acre,
or $5 per hundred acres. Would not our
objector, after enjoying the benefits of
goodroads.be very willing to give there
for the extra $5, if necessary? Would
he keep the money and go back to the
thraldom of mud roads? If so, he has
the option of selling his farm at an ad
vance, according to the average esti
mates of his brother farmers, that will
more than doubly reimburse him for
his expenditure on highway improve
ment; and he can then remove to some
native wild whose quiet waters have
not been 'troubled' by the spirit of
progress."
The gospel of good roads is being
preached by newspapers in every State
and in almost every county. Let the
good work go on. Atlanta (Ga.) Jour
nal. CHARLES A. DANA AS AN EDITOR.
He Was Very Punctilious as to Typo
graphical Details. -In
all matters of detail, in literary
manner, in the use of words, in gram
mar, punctuation and typographical
method he was the most careful and
exacting of editors. One time an edito
rial contained two lines of poetry in
type of the same size as that of the
text, and, as I was the author of it, the
familiar signature: "Reason, Revela
tion, Science, Philosophy and Esthetics
all require that these lines should have
been put in small type." Upon another
occasion, when he thought a verb had
been improperly used in a manuscript,
he wrote an admonitory sentence: "To
say 'there are' in this passage would
be unpoetic, and consequently disgust
ing." He took the blame whenever an error
escaped his eye. "I take shame to my
self," he wrote one time when the au
thor of an editorial had confounded
Boston brown bread with Graham
bread, "for having printed this thing
without scrutinizing It The Sun is ig
norant and wrong."
One day a man in California had sent
an inquiry to the editor of the Sun,
"Will you please tell me how to become
a Christian?" and as I often dealt with
religious questions at the time this ap
peal was received, Mr. Dana blue-penciled
the back of the man's note with
.these words: "Why not give him a
ripping answer? Give him the socialist
side of Christianity."
When the writer of a book review
had italicized eight or ten of his worns,
Mr. Dana commented thus: "This re
view is the best in the whole lot, and is
very good; but why In thp world an ex
perienced writer like wants to pep
per his manuscript with nasty little
Italics, I can't imagine."
- When the writer of an editorial para
graph In the Sun wrote of "Govs. Cam
eron and Crittenden," the ever watch
ful critic in the sanctum got after him
in a note left for me: "The term
'Govs.', 'Gens.', 'Capts.', etc., is disgust
ing. The titles have no plural as at
tached to any Individual name; they
should be repeated, or a circumlocu
tion should be used."
In an editorial article printed in bre
vier type there had appeared an ex
tract in agate type; the grammatical
subject of a sentence was in brevier,
while the verb for it was in the subse
quent agate line. Mr. Dana wrote for
my benefit: "This passage from big
type to little is contrary to all sound
principles of typographical elegance.
Greeley used to make the passage, and
country newspapers still make it; but
it is wicked."
When a writer for the Sun once de
scribed a man as "too condemn
emart," the phrase was highly offens
ive to Mr. Dana, who wrote a caustic
comment upon it in three words, which
need not be here printed. John Swin
ton in the Chautauquan.
Born at Waterloo Battle.
Last year a man died at Birmingham,
England, who had through life the sat
isfaction of knowing that his birthplace
was of a unique character, jnaiimupb as
he was born on the battlefield of Water
loo. He was the descendant of a family
of soldiers, and hi? father, who was
with the Ninety-seventh Cameron high
landers, ffas killed In flje memorable
engagement at Houg otsont. The sol
dier' wife had followed her husband
out and thus It happened that the little
stranger made its appearance amid the
din and roar of battle.
London Telegrams.
Thirty years ago about 10,000 tele
graphic messages were sent from Lon
don daily. To-day the number of daily
dispatches Is 140,000.
FAMOUS TREES OF HISTORY.
The Palm, the Oak and tbe Ash Have
Long Been Held Sacred.
The palm, the oak, and the ash are
the three trees which, since times im
memorial, says the Deutscne Rund
schau, were held to be sacred trees.
The first among them, which figures on
the oldest monuments and pictures of
the Egyptians and Assyrians, is the
date-palm (Phoenix dactylifera), which
was the symbol of the world and of
creation, and the fruit of which filled
the faithful with divine strength and
prepared them for the pleasures of im
mortality. "Honor," said Mohammed,
"thy paternal aunt, the date-palm, for
in Paradise it was created out of the
same dust of the ground."
Another Mohammedan tradition of a
later period says that when Adam left
Paradise he was allowed to take with
him three things a myrtle, because it
was the most lovely and the most
scented flower of the earth; a wheat
ear, because it had most nourishment;
and a date, because it is the most glo
rious fruit of the earth. This date
from Paradise was, in some marvelous
way, brought to the Hejaz; from it
have come all the date-palms in the
world, and Allah destined it to be the
food to all the true believers, who
shall conquer every country where the
date-palm grows.
The Jews and the Arabs, again, look
ed upon the same tree as a mystical al
legory of human beings, for, like them,
it dies when its head (the summit) Is
cut off, and when a 'limb (branch) is
once cut off it does not grow again.
Those who know can understand the
mysterious language of the branches
on days when there is no wind, when
whispers of present and future events
are communicated by -the tree. Abra
ham of old, so the Rabbis say, under
stood the language of the palm.
The oak was always considered a
"holy" tree by our own ancestors, and,
above all, by the nations of the north
of Europe. When Winifred of Devon
shire (680-754 A. D.) went forth on his
wanderings through Germany to
preach the gospel, one of his first ac
tions w:as to cut down the giant oak in
Saxony, which was dedicated to Thor
and worshiped by the people from far
and near. But when he had nearly
felled the oak, and while the people
were cursing and threatening, the
saint, a supernatural storm swept over
it seized the summit broke every
branch, and dashed It with a tremen
dous crash, to the ground. The heath
ens acknowledged the marvel, and
many were converted there and then.
In the abbey of Vetrou, in Brittany,
stood an old oak tree which had grown
out of the staff of Saint Martin, the
first Abbot of the monastery, and in
the shade of which the Princes of Brit
tany prayed whenever they went into
the Abbey. Nobody dared to pick even
a leaf from this tree, and not even the
birds dared to peck at it. Not so the
Norman pirates, two of whom climbed
the tree of Saint Martin to cut wood
for their bows. Both of them fell
down and broke their necks.
The Celts and Germans and Scandi
navians, again, worshiped the noble
mountain ash (Fraxinus), and it is es
pecially in the religious myths of the
latter that the "Askr Yggdrasil" plays
a prominent part. To them it was tha
holiest among trees, the "world tree,"
which, eternally young and dewy, rep
resented heaven, earth and hell. Ac
cording to the Edda, the ash yggdrasil
was an evergreen tree. A specimen of
it (says Adam of Gremen) grew at Up
sala, in front of tbe great temple, and
another In Dithmarschen, carefully
guarded, for It was connected with the
fate of the country.
Always on Horseback.
When Darwin asked a gaucho of the
pampas why he did not work, the re
ply was: "I cannot I am too poor!"
The great naturalist was astonished,
but the reply was a perfectly natural
one. The man had no horses, and a
gaucho never worked except on horse
back. On horseback, no matter if sev
enty years of age, he always appeared
young. On foot he waddled like an al
ligator. Whether herding sheep or cat
tle, marching, hunting, drawing water
from a well, the gaucho was always on
horseback. He even drew a net on
horseback, or churned butter by gallop
ing about with a hide-bag of milk tied
to the end of a lasso. On the march
he slept on horseback, never falling off.
In death, too, he was often on horse
back, the sinewy legs maintaining him
seated in the saddle as if in life. The
beggars, what few of them existed,
begged on horseback, extending a si
lent hand as you passed by them. In an
alarm at night every one ran to his
horse, and, mounting, was ready for
what might betide. A paternal gov
ernment sentenced murderers, horse
thieves and other miscreants not to
death, but to serve so many years with
infantry, and miserable enough that
infantry sometimes was.
The Gentle Japanese.
"There is one peculiarity about the
Japanese tha t Is not particularly known
--they never utter an oath," said Col.
R. W. Gruber. "The reason for this Is
that there is no word In the Japanese
language which is equlva;.t to an
path. Even the vast number of for
eigners who have gone to that country
during the last ten years and the thou,
sands of new words added to the lan
guage have not in the least affected
the Japanese in swearing. In this re
spect the Japanese stand alone, for all
other Inhabitants of earth can, when
they step on a tack, use a stronger ex
pression than the one used in general
conversation."
Five-Foot Soldiers.
The minimum height of the Mikado's
army Is a fraction of an inch over five
feet, that In the Italian army five feet
one inch. As the height of individuals
in Japan does not often exceed five
feet four inches for males, it follows
that there Is wonderful uniformity ob
servable in the physique of the Japa
nese troops, and this fact operates bene
ficially In long marches, very few fall
ing out of the ranks. What one can
do all can do. The Emperor is himself
much above the average stature, and
the Empress Is just as tall as the Prin
cess of Wales. Both are of spare
build.
Men and Women.
Men find it easy to take in clever
women, and they in turn are easily
taken in by silly women. Every woman
dearly loves a hero; if a man has the
art to appear one she find him as Irre
sistible as the genuine article. A man
Invariably loves the woman who makes
a fool of him. A woman is often
obedient to the man she hates, and ob
durate to him she loves. All women
have hearts; a few have intellects. A
sincere man loves, a fickle woman loves
to love, and a selfish woman loves to be
loved, r
An Atchison man believes that If he
should go to war, and be shot in the
back, he would receive a back pension.
About the best thing you can say
about a man Is that he works as well
alone as when be is watched.
Electrical Novelties.
Electrical exhibits at the Trans-Mississippi
exposition will jmbrace dis
plays of all the important practical dis
coveries that have been made in tfc
field during the past few years. They
will include a special exhibit of ap
paratus and inventions of Thomas A.
Edison, various vacuum tube exhibits
of Lieutenant Squire and Professor Cre
hore in rapid synchronography or syn
chronoscope. The system of military
telegraphy, and telephony employed in
the regular army will also be shown.
Tesla's oscillator, which was described
at the international congress of electri
cians at the World's Fair, will tie an
other rare exhibit. The various systems
of wire telegraphy that have become
associated with the names of Marconi,
Rhigi and Lodge will be exhibited and
shou'd prove opportune, as nothing
much lias Veen done on this side of the
Atlantic in this promising field. Vari
ous forms of third rail railways will be
shown. This type lias been adopted on
the elevated lines in the city of Chi
cago, and on several New England
roads. It will probably be still more
extensively employed in the future.
Then, too, there will be an exhibit oi
alternating current motors adapted foi
street railway work, which experts
assert will eventually supplant the
present continuous current type.
The very inteiesting results obtained
by applying electricity to the forcing oi
plants and the rapid germination ol
seeds by the stimulation of electrical
currents will be demonstrated. Kite
flying with electrio recording instru
ments for determining the electrical
oondition of the atmosphere will be a
striking feature of the electrical section.
Witty, but Hitter.
Dr. Thompson, master of Trinity col
lege, Cambridge, was a scholar and an
administrator; but his fame rests on
his sharp, witty and often bitter epi
grams. He said of Ely, where, as a
professor of Greek, he held a canonry:
"The place is so damp that even the
sermons won't keep dry there;" and at
a college meeting where some of the
young fellows were treating with very
little respect the opinions of their
seniors, he said, "None of us is quite
infallible, not even the youngest."
Of an amiable and excellent scholar
he said, "The time he spends on the
neglect of his duties he wastes on the
adornment of his person;" and of an
eminent professor, whose first lecture
he attended, "I little thought that we
should so soon have cause to regret his
piedecessor, Professor ."
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Beware of " cheap" bak
fng powders. Alum makes
good medicine but bad food.
Ask your doctor. ca
Io Islands Grow?
Incredulous has heard that islands
sometimes grow up out of the water,
and as he does not believe it, he writes
to the New York Ledger to ask if
such things can be true. Answer:
Scientists tell us that in the year 1877
an elevation appeared in the group of
Friendly Islands. It was evidently of
volcanic origin, as it was smoking hot,
and had the appearance of lava. It
grew and lifted until it became a
clearly defined island, and after years
of increase was over 300 feet wide, and
nearly two miles long. It is supposed
that its origin was the outpouring and
uplifting of some submarine volcano.
Within the past few years the action of
the water seems to have affected it, and
it is rapidly crumbling away. It is
believed that it will soon disappear
entirely.
SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES.
Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet.
It cures painful, swollen smarting feet and
instantly takes the sting out of corns and
bunions. It's the greatest comfort discov
ery of the age. Allen's Foot-Ease makes
tigbt-litting or new shoes feel easy. It is a
certain cure forchilblains, sweating, danm.
callous and hot, tired aching feet. We
have over 10.000 testimonials of cures. Try
it today. Sold by all druggists and shoe
stores. By mail for 25c. in stamps. Tria
package FREE. Address Allen S. 01m
sted, Le Hoy, K. Y.
The spiders that spin webs are in an
infinite minority compared with those
which do not. Ground spiders, as the
non-spinners are called, abound every
where, and depend on agility and swift
ness of foot to catch their prey.
In Paris the trees in the public
streets are treated with as much at
tention as are the plants in botani
cal gardens. Officials look after
their welfare, and as a result the
streets are beautiful and comfortable.
HO.M K ritODKCTS AXI) 1'UKB FOOO.
All Eastern Syrup, so-called, usually very
liglit colored and of heavy body, is made from
glucose. "7'ea Garden Drive" is nutde from
Sugar Cane and is strictly pure. It is for sate
bv rirst-ciass grocers, in cans only. Manufac
tured bv tbe Pacific Coast Sykup Co. All gen
uine '7Va Garden IrivF" have the manufac
turer's name lithographed on every can.
Experiments with locomtives on the
Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad show
that a slight addition of graphite to the
oil used for lubricating purposes pro
motes economy.
SlOO REWARD SIOO.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to
team that there is at least one dreaded disease
;hat science has been able to cure in all Its
tages, and that is catarrh. Hall'aCatarrh Cure
is the only positive cure known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dis
ease, requires a constitutional treatment.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally, acting
directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system, thereby destroying tbe founda
tion of the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work. The pro.
prietors have so much faith in its curative
powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to core. Send for list
of testimonials. Address
F. J. CHENEY CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
As iron expands with heat, the Eiffel
tower is said to be five inches taller
when the temperature is high than it
is in the cool of the day.
riTe Permanently Cured. N o fits or nervousnes
II 10 after first day's use of Dr. Kllue's Great
Nerve Bestorer. Send for IRhE 8S. OO trial
bottle and treatise. DR. B. H. KUN-K, ltd., 930
Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa,
In 1816 the value of a bushel of
wheat in England was equal to that of
a pound of nails. Today a bushel of
wheat will buy 10 pounds of naijs.
After being swindled by all others, send us stamp
for purliculurs of King Solomon's. Treusure. the
ONLY renewer of manlv strength. . MASON
L'HKMIC'AL CO.. P. J. Boi 747. Philadelphia. Pt.
I know that my life was saved by Piso!s
Cure for Consumption. John A Miller;
Au Sable, Michigan, April 21, 1895. 1
One of the German cities boasts a
street laid with rubber.
In the spring cleanse your system I
using Dr. Pfunder's Oregon Blood Plirifiei
There are nearly 19,000 hounds main
tained in tbe United Kingdom exclu
sively for hunting purposes.
CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS,
t Cough Syrup. Tastes Good,
in tlmft. Sold bv drufnzista.
Luxury of tha Current.
Electricity can be applied to In
numerable uses about the house, sup
planting the less convenient devices
and contrivances, but, unfortunately,
the new ones using the current almost
always cost more than the old. Where
money is no object and luxury and con
venience are supreme considerations
everything conceivable can be done by
electricity. For instance, on the yacht
Niagara, built for George Gould, and
recently launched, the electric plant is
employed to furnish light for 440 16-candle-power
incandescent lamps, and
storage batteries are provided capable
of supplying energy for 80 more. The
dynamos are so designed that as many
as 900 lamps can be illumined for pur
poses of display, besides a powerful
searchlight on the bridge. There are
also electric heaters, curling tongs,
smoothing irons, ranges, warming-pans
and electric elevators. Electricity
will operate the laundry and drying
room, it will heat chafing dishes and
bring out the music of a big orches
trion. Call bells, telephones and such
minor electric devices are also provided
in profusion.
Cement Admixtures.
For the past three years the cement
trade section of the British board of
t'ade has been making investigations
into the question of cement admixtures,
and the result is that the board an
nounces that "Portland -cement be de
lined as a mixture of two or more suit
able materials intimately and artificially
mixed in the requisite proportions, and
aiterward properly treated, to which
nothing has been added during or after
calcination except that an addition not
exceeding 2 per cent of gypsum is per
missable." If anything more be added
the article so produced shall not be
called Portland cement. The worst
adulterants for Portland cement are
decided to be ragstone and blast-furnace
sl.vg, the latter by far the more
objectionable.
There are four millionaires in Eng
land to one in France.
B'.D PAY AND HARD WORK.
The bad pay and hard work of trained nurses
has often been made the subject of benevolent
rsn-oastrance by eminent medical men and
nonprofessional philanthropists. It is well for
un invalid, before he gets so bad as to need a
nurse or doctor, to use Hostetter's Stomach Bit
ters if he has chills and fever, constipation,
rheumat s n, dyspepsia and nervousness. Use
it regularly.
In France there have been found
only two criminals whose measure
ments by the Bertillon system coin
cided. Meteors rush through space at the
rate of 25 miles a second. They are
not usually larger than a pebble, and
on striking the earth's atmosphere they
immediately dissolve into gas.
For use in place of toe clips on a
bicycle a plate is attached to the shoe
having a recess in which a projection on
the pedal fits to hold the rider's foot
in place.
While the bishop of Sodor and Man
was watching the cutting down of one
of his trees recently, the tree fell upon
him, knocking him down. It catching
on a railing saved his life.
AN OPEN LETTER TO MOTHERS.
We are asserting in the courts our right to the
exclusive use of the word "CASTORIA," and
"PITCHRR'SCASTORIA," as our Trade Mark.
I, Dr. Samuel Pitcher, of Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of " PITCHER'S CASTORIA,"
the same that has borne and does now bear the
fac simile signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on
every wrapper. This is the original " PITCHER'S
CASTORIA " which has been used in the homes
Of the mothers of America for over thirty years.
Look Carefully at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind yon have always bought, and has the
signature of CHAS. H. FLETCHER on the
wrapper. No one has authority from me to use
my name except The Centaur Company of which
Chas. H. ltcher is President.
March S, 1897. SAMUEL PITCHER, MJX
In the British lord chamWlain'a de
partment the position of chimney-sweep
is held by a woman, and the office of
statuary mason is also filled by a mem
ber of the fair sex.
"A Perfect Type of the Highest Order of
Excellence in Manufacture. ' '
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Delicious,
Nutritious.
( ..Costs Less maq DH CENT a Cup..
Be sure that you get the Genuine Article,
made at DORCHESTER. MASS. by
WALTER BAKER & CO, Ltd.
ESTA BUSHED 1780.
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Plain or with Cutter. Tbe best needle In tbe mar
ket. Used by all sack sewers. For sale by all gen
eral merchandise stores, or by
WILL & FINCK CO.,
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Price, only $185.
FIBROID TTJMOB
Expelled by Lydia E. Pinkham's)
Vegetable Compound.
Mas. B. A. Lombard, Box 71, West
dale, Mass., writes: " I have reason to
think that I would not be here now if
it had not been for Lydia E. Pink h am '3
Vegetable Compound. It cured me of
a fibroid tumor in my womb.
' Doctors could do nothing for me, and
they could not cure me at the hospital.
I will tell you about it :
" I had been in my usual health, but
had worked quite hard. When my
monthly period came on, I flowed very
badly. The doctor gave me medicine,
but it did me no good. He said the
flow must be stopped if possible, and
he must find the cause of my trouble.
" Upon examination, he found there
was a fibroid tumor in my womb, and
gave me treatment without any benefit
whatever. About that time a lady
called on me, and recommended Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
said she owed her life to it. I said I
would try it, and did. Soon after tha
flow became more natural and regular.
I still continued taking the Compound
for some time. Then the doctor made an
examination again, and found every
thing all right. The tumor had passed
away, and that dull ache was gone."
It can be truthfully stated that
such a result can be accomplished by no
other remedy upon the market, and
forcibly proves the peculiar virtue ot
the Vegetable Compound . ,. .- i
Good
Health
Its the working capital
of humanity. He who
loses that is wrecked
Indeed. Is your health
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wasting away ?
When others fail con
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RATCUFFE,
For the speedy, safe and permanent cure of all
Nervous, Chronic and Special diseases, even
in their most aggravated forms. There is no man
in the world who has effected so many permanent
cures in both Men and Women of troubles which
other physlcana of acknowledged ability had given
up as hopeless as this eminent specialist.
NERVOUS DEBILITY and allits attending
ailments, of YOUNG, MIDDLE-AGED and OLD
MEN. The awful effects of neglected or improp
erly treated cases, causing drains, weakness of
body and brain, dizziness, failing memory, lack of
energy and confidence, pains In back, loins and
kidneys, and many other distressing symptoms,
unfitting one for study, business or enjoyment of
life. DrRatcliffecancureyou.no matter who or
what has failed.
WEAK MEN. . He restores lost vigor and vi-
tality to weak men. Organs of the body which
I have been weakened through disea. overwork.
excesses or muitwrtriiuiis are iphi ureu tu iuu power,
strength and vigor through his own successful sys
tem of treatment.
VARICOCELE, hydrocele, swelling and ten
derness of the glands treated with unfailing success.
SPECIAL DISEASES, inflammation, dis
cbarges, etc., which, if neglected or improperly
treated, break down the system, cause kidney and
bladder diseases, etc.
DISEASES OF WOMEN. Prompt and es
peclal attention given to all their many ailments.
WRITE . If you are aware of any trouble. DO
NOT DELAY. Call on Dr. Ratelirtetoday. Ifyou
cannot call, write him. His valuable book free to
all sufferers. CONSULTATION FHEE and confi
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THE NEW
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(20th Century Train.)
between Minneapolis, St. Paul
and Chicago, is entertainingly
described in an illustrated
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YOUR LIVER
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Get it Right
Keep it Right
Moore's Itevealed Remedy will do it. Three
doses will make you feel better. Get It from
your druggist or any wholesale drug house, ot
vrom Stewart A Holmes Drug Co., Seattle.
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