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fl . Our Continent lias Been Tilted Up and Down O. Fredrick Wright In Chicago Record- '',':.'' - Herald. . . .The level of the ocean is more constant than that of the land The expanse of the ocean Is ; three times as great as that of the land, and Us depth more than 10 times as great. If all the land should be sunk In the ocean. It -would raise the general water level only about 100 feet - In general we may Bay with perfect confidence that the ocean beds represent portions of the earth's' crust which have been sinking from the earli est, geological limes, wnue tne continents represent those portions which, -with many oscillations, have on 'the whole been rising. It probably Is not ' true, . . as is often stated, that the areas of land and water tiave shifted places in past time,.; so that t continents . were found and. oceans swept - without . interruption ovef the continental areas. - Still there is thefbest of evidence that large, portions of the existing continents were at vari ous, times below the level of the sea. v y'--.-A ' '.'-.y'-.--r .;i;;v But, 'while" this is true, it seems equally 'certain that during the. subsi dence of these areas below the sea level. they., existed-' either .as shallow water borders Of , the .main continental areas tor as internal i' seas. For example, the great depth ;of sedimentary rocks which cover the Mississippi basin, ' extending from the , Allegheny . mountains to the Rocky mountains, are shallow water de posits. So shallow, ' indeed, ! was : the water during long periods that ' it 'was little more, than a swamp-in which the vegetation .tha f ornjed . the numerous seamsof coal could' grow and flourish. But the level wad not constant. After a large accumulation of vegetable matter that could be turned into coal bad taken place, there was a slight and very gentle sinking -of the whole area, 'so that mud and sand . were brought in from the neighboring higher lands to form a com plete 'covering for the ooal; so that when': it was ; turned into rock it was able to protect it, and preserve it for future ages.1-This process of slow but irregular sinking ' of t the Mississippi basin continued :,until thousands of feet of. sedimentary ' material . had been washed Into It, ' the Mississippi ; is .carrying sediment -into the Oulf of Mex ico at the present tlme ' These succes sive strata, like the leaves of a book, record the various downward movements of the long coal period. In other coun tries,, especially in England and China, there is the same record of long-con-: tlnued ' downward movements of - con tinental areas during the .coal period. - If this downward movement had con tinued always, the coal would- have been inaccessible beneath the depths of the sea, where. Indeed, much- of it does still remain. - In Nova Soot la the best seams of coal in mined manv mllea and at a depth of many hundred feet below the bottom of the sea. In England ' also some of the best - seams of coal are followed out underneath the Sea, and it is supposed that coal veins are con. ttnuous from southern England to the continent far beneath the bottom of Dover Strait.-, But fortunately the down .ward motion of the coal area was in duetime arrested, and the contrary movement begun, which has brought this priceless material within easy -reach of men in the mountains- of Pennsylvania and China, in the hills of England and in the plateaus of the central and i west rn states of America. Other illustra tions of great changes In land levels are too numerous to be -mentioned in detail. In Colorado there was a gradual subsidence of land below sea level dur ing i the carboniferous and : cretaceous .eras until from 12,000 to 15.000 feet of sediment bad accumulated over the sink ing area. But at the end of that period the area began to rise, and this rise has continued until the present time, when it stands many thousand feet above the level of the sea. -r i-. .'.. Similar witness of such changes of level Is borne by extensive sedimentary rocks containing abundant, sea shells of late geological age, which are found at height of 10,000 feet above the sea on the Pyrenees, the Alps and the Caucasus mountains, and at a height of 14.000 feet upon the mountains of central Asia, A map of the eastern continent during .the early part of . the tertiary period shows a great Mediterranean sea cover ing al( central Europe and extending into Asia, submerging the highlands of Thi- het.and most of the mountains of Turk stan. But that 'this was not a general subsidence of the continents is evident from the simple fact that these areas o r Mnml with aarilmantnrv at rut A- ' If mud and sand and gravel are deposited in water; there must be some area not far away from which they could ba de rived. ..." : ; .. .',v"hlle these general facts concerning changes In land level in ancient geo logical times beyond all question are very Impressive, less attention . than they merit has been given to the facts showing that corresponding changes are till going on, and have produced strik ing results within recent times, and point ' to interesting .conclusions with reference to the future.' In connection with the glacial period, which- is the most recent 'of all the geological epochs, .these changes of level are very' evident and 'connect themselves ' with the early nl&lory of mankind. At the close of the tertiary period, which culminated in the glacial era, the central and northern part of North America stood at a level of 2.000 or S.000 feet above that it at pres ent occupies.' This Is proved by the ex istence of innumerable channels now deeply burled by glacial debrlsv or ex tending out into the ocean across the shallow,, submerged shelf of the conti nent both upon the Atlantlo and Pa ciflo coasts. In Illinois, in Ohio and in central New York these hurled channels are found down below sea level, showing . that the land must have been very much elevated to allow the streams which crossed these rocky gorges to make their way-to the sea irom -these' distant in land points.' The cities of Cleveland, O. Open Sores cart De cleaned out, the" sunpura- tion stopped, and a cure effected - by the use of , , . f , Only morbid matter is destroyed by this marvelous germicide, which allows Nature to build up healthy tissue. Absolutely harmless. ; r Used and endorsed by leading physicians everywhere. - ' , Sold by leading druggists, or trial bottle sent, prepaid, on receipt of a$ cents. ' - - ''".' t, The genuine bears my signature on every bottle. Address -rl I ,62M Prince 51 few York. fgl H tstaakl Rwklvl ta Maw to Trail tlaiat rf ,'777: ' , - . - ; :.:-. .i .,, ' , ' 4 W- '''' - fe i!? Japanese making a landing in Askold, near Vladivostok, under the fire of their guns in warships to the rear. Conflicting reports actually' unknown as to' whether the Japanese still Jiold this island. r ' 1 ' . (Drawn v from cabled ' desenption and Syracuse, N. TV, are built over such buried gorges. The Delaware, the Hud son and the St Lawrence rivers then emptied' into the sea 100 miles or more east bf ' the , present , shore, running through deep gorges or canyons, which crossed a level coastal plain.. The flords of Oreeland and of Norway' and of the Pacific coast of North America bear sim ilar testimony, since they probably, in most cases, mark the lines of ancient rivers which coursed through them to the sea when the land was so much elo vated that what are now the bottoms of these channels were occupied by rushing mountain torrents. In short, these fiords are drowned river valleys. But at the close xf the glacial period the land levels in all, this northern re gion were much lower than at the pres ent time.- Oh the southern coast of New England sea beaches were thrown up about S feet higher than those which are formed now. - Along the southern shore of Maine the land had sunk so much that sea shells are found in clay de posits 250 feet above the present sea level. The Champlaln and St Lawrence valley was so much depressed that whales sported in salt water over the site of Middlebury college, Vermont and seals ventured into an arm of the sea extending far up. Into the Ottawa river, while at Montreal modern sea shells are found 600 feet above present tide water upon the top of the mountain which gives the city its name. ; Oolng farther north the indications are that upon the shores of the Arctio sea post-glacial sub sidence amounted to 1,000 feet Every where across the continent there is cu mulative evidence that this post-glacial subsidence was as extensive as the glaciated region, and that it Increased in amount from south to north. This is a very important consideration to be kept in mind fn working out glacial and post-glacial "problems. This differential northerly depression at the close of the glacial period caused the great lakes to flow at first into the Ottawa river across Lake Niplsslng over the site of North Bay into the Mattawa river, and so into the Ottawa along the line through which the Canadian government is talking of building a ship canal, and which is al ready utilised by the Canadian Paclflo railroad. . This pass is now less than 100 feet above the level of the lakes. xxfest ornrxoirs o wab. "There never was a good war or a baA peace." Benjamin, Frankllni "A wicked tyrant 1 better than a wicked war." Martin Luther. "Necessity makes war Just" Blaa, "War is the sink of all injustice. " Fielding. - , . ' "To lead an unlnstructed people to war ia to throw them away." Confu cius. '' i . , :v- :'.;''.' -': ' "War is the faro table of govern ments,, nations ;the dupes of the game." Thomas Paine. : "The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly, distresses his subjects most cruelly." Dr. Johnson. "War is hell, and you can't refine it or civilise it" General Sherman, - ,The existence of war always implies Injustice In one at least of the parties ooncerned." Slllua Itallcus. ' v "Let war- be so carried on that no other object may seem to be Invlew except - the acquisition of peace." Cicero. " - ..''." '': -.: : 'I.-' "War is the trade of barbarians, and consists in the art of bring to bear the greatest force upon a given point Napoleon 1. :,.:.' '..... ,'; . Prloe of Japanese "Help. - From the New York Sun. Japanese cooks - are demanding from 40 to. $50 a month, and those of special skill get a good deal more, A yacht cook expects at least fit a month, and when the yachting season opens thoy will be hard io find even at that price. The only Japanese coachman in town gets $50 a month. Tou may still have a general housework Japanese who" 'will do everythfng .for a small family but wash at from f 3S to $40 a month. If the family Is larger than three or four,' the Japanese general housework man will have none of you. .- " To cut a foe, yea to the core, may be . A thing with joy to contemplate and u . . dwell on - But, on the other hand, it seems to me That I would rather cut a watermelon. Probably the most innocent-looking liar in all the' world Is a tombstone with the usual laudatory epitaph. The blll-of -fare of Fplly begins with truffles and ends with horse meat. Advice is free. Perhaps that's why we never use it . ; and; photographs 'of scene.) . HOW RUSSIA TREATS FINLAND Washington Correspondence New Tork Evening Post "It may not be that the domestic dis turbances in Russia during, the eastern war will amount to an armed revolution; but I believe that Russia will .not be al lowed to 'come out of this war' without a harness laid on her autocracy. ( The people, who have suffered oppression so long, will take advantage of the situa tion to demand eome guarantees which cannot be ruthlessly violated at the whim of a despotic minister of state." Thus spoke Count Carl Mannerhelm, formerly a banker in Helslngfors, Fin land, but now an exile under the ban of tne Kussian government "We Finns were happy and contented up to the time that the Russian tyranny began," he went on. "Although we had suffered some lntrenchment upon our constitutional rights prior to 1809, we may fix that year as the date of the dis tinctive changes. . It was then that Rus sia began to show her hand, by sweep ing aside ; the constitutional guarantee given by Czar - Alexander .. L and re spected by his successors, that three of the lour orders composing tne es tates of the realm the nobility, the clergy, the burghers and the peas antsshould always agree upon - the adoption of any fundamental meas ure of-4aw discussed in the , diet he fore it ceuld receive the sanction of the sovereign. There wasonly one mean ing to. this that the last defense of Finland from arbitrary and violent Rus slflcatlon had been broken down. How the Finns regarded it is shown by the record of emigration, which between 1892 and 1898 had averaged about 8,000 souls yearly, but sprang in 1899 to 12, 000. and by 1902 had reached 22,000." . "Are your r people homogenous or mixed r . . "We are a mixed people, the upper and more highly educated classes being of Swedish origin, while the peasantry are literally of the soil, though they can read and write. ' There is a strong national feeling among us, however, and a sympathetic bond uniting, all classes. Ours was an excellent type of popular government in which the humblest participant understood his rights and Cherished them." "Do you look for an uprising among the Finns while Russia has her hands full in the east?" your correspondent inquired. ., ' : V ' - - "I should not wish to say 'that Tou must understand that our people always used to;regard Russia as their friend, as well as their colleague under the crown. The czars, at their . accession, have regularly subscribed afresh to the 'act of assurance pledging the inviola bility of the Finnish constitution, and have ascended the . throne as grand dukes of Finland as well as emperors of Russia: and not until the renewal of the guaranty have the Finnish officials taken their oath of allegiance. The rad ical change in Russia's attitude came to the Finns with a distinct shock. They were hurt by it . They are a peace-loving people. The greatest ef forts have been made by the Russians to goad them-Into riotous conduct hut in vain. A passive resistance Is all they have offered, but that has been very pronounced. , "Why you would be astonished at the lengths to which the Russians have gone in this goading. , I have seen, with my own eyes, unoffending citlsens of Helslngfors whipped in the streets by Cossacks, A new conscription law, ut terly at variance with our constitution, had been promulgated, f Our courts re fused to recognize It, and again In de fiance of the constitution the honorable Judges were ' dismissed. ' Pastors of churches who refused to read the: law to their people -were driven from their ministry, Thenjeame the conscription. It waa a beautiful, bright day In April, 1902, and a crowd Of people had assem bled in a public square to witness the function. ' There was not even a show of violence or disorder, and the crowd was dispersing, when, by order of the governor,, a troop of Cossacks- swept down upon the scene. The people, out of curiosity to see what the v Cossacks had come for, .turned around and came back. This was the signal for a charge upon them, and the cruel CosBack whips descended upon every one within reach the aged and crippled, little children, helpless women, all were treated alike ill every one who saw the affair waa sickened at heart" -:' "To. what, do you attribute the Rus sian determination to crush Finland f -. "To two causes. Primarily, the bureaucracy of the empire needed more off ices,, more salaries, more authority to distribute, among its supporters. As long as Finland was governed by the Finns this . expansion, was , out of the question; but the csar was able, by the mere exercise of his despotic power, to sweep aside- our constitutional - reserve- tions ana puti Kussians into our nign places, till six out of the nine provincial governors in Finland were Russians, and the three Finns left were mere minions of the autocracy. . - "The second cause is, I suspect a de sire on Russia's part to use Finland as a base of operations against Sweden, She doubtless thinks that the BwedlBh affiliations of our higher classes, , who number perhaps . one-eighth' of our pop ulation, would militate against her am bition, and Is determined to strangle our authority.' "I was visited on the 231 of -April. 1903, at 7 o'clock-In the morning, by the chief of police, who brought as his war rant a letter from the governor, saying that the czar had oonferred upon the lat ter the right to order out of the coun try any person whose presence there was deemed by him perilous to good or der; and that tinder this edict I was commanded to depart within five days, never to return under pain of deporta tion to. eome place in Russia where I would be"-compelled to stay under con stant police surveillance. . , "Tou were not the only auffererT" '"There were scores of others, but X was the first exile. Some were ban ished in like manner; others were ue ported. Of late banishment has been quite superseded by deportation,, which the government regards as safer for it self. Anf exile, you see, can go where he pleases outside of the csar'a domin ions and talk as freely as I do. He can wnlte for the press. He can also stir up affairs at home in a manner some times i disquieting to ? the , authorities. For example, at Darmstadt In Germany, When the csar waa there last fall, a com mittee of exiles, with myself at the head, drew up a memorial to him, setting rortn tne racts of the Finnish situation. We did not obtain an audience with the csar himself, but a minister of the court accepted our memorial for presentation to him, and I have reason to believe that it was duly delivered. Our paper was an answer to misrepresentations, which M. de Plehve, the minister of the interior, who happens now to be at the front of affairs, had made In a recent publication. We feared that he had made the same misrepresentations to the csar directly and wished to counteract them - while there was still an opportunity. - "Tou must not suppose that the three men Plehve, Bobrlkoff, and Kouropta kin who 'now are carrying everything with so high a hand represent the in telligence and real weight of the Rus sian government Their Influence has overcome for the moment the Influence of a large a very large majority of , A BIT 01 A XiOVB 80HO. Uo- (ByH. R. R. Hertsberg.) ATblt of a love song, a wee little bit To hold in your heart for the gladness of it To stick in your mind as a bud In your coat. To hum, without audible sound, tn your ; throat r, .-... ,..,. . : -. y A bit erf a love song, tho' tenderly still. 'Tls heard, let the city rage on as it will. The rumble of trains and the shouts of the throng , Can't hush it this wee little bit of a . .. songl ... t : A bit of a lov song you'll find, if you test . r The music by which you'll be marching your best. To eld you to conquer in battles of life, A bit f love song beats trumpet and fife! . . , .- ' Managers tan make "stars." But they can't make them shine. -.- ... ; the .imperial council; but there are plenty of wise and intelligent men in the Russian government who . feel no Sympathy with the machinations of this trio. They know, aa we do, that this man Plehve is not a statesman, but merely a big policeman, who believes In controlling the whtle empire by ter rorism, as he has hitherto managed un ruly communities with his secret police and bis gendarmes. -1 "-.' '""There is nothing In the form bf the lettre de cachet to allow for the state ment of a charge. Tou are simply sus pectedvaguely, perhaps, and of noth ing in particular and the first thing you know you are visited by a function ary with one of - these orders, or a guard comes, and carries you off to the place in Russia or Siberia to which you have been condemned without notice and with- out a hearing. ' i ' "In a certain case of deportation two good and , law-abiding citlsens were snatched away from their homes and carried over into Russia, where they could net communicate with any one, as they were ignorant of the language, Here they were Imprisoned a long time, with a soldier locked in the same worn with them day and night and never letting them out of his eight for an Instant And all on mere unvoiced bus picionl Think of that you who live in a free country where, as In ours be fore this era of tyranny began,' a man has to be accused and tried before be can be punished even for the: most ter rible crimes! ; "Tou asked me about my own offend ing. As I said,. Io not know what it was. But I was a member or tne juaio lary committee of a diet which refused to sanction certain arbitrary ana un constitutional measures. Also, my wife gave a private concert In aid of a fund for popular education, two years before my banishment Into the midst of our guests strode the governor with an or der that the assemblage disperse. I re fused to submit tamely to the insult and drove him out ie was Kagorlkoff, a Russian, who had no constitutional right to his governorship; and this was his public rebut after taking his chair. Possibly the Incident ' was cherished against me, and nursed for two years I do not know. , It was the same Kagorl koff ooncerned in this who ordered the whipping of the people' by tne Cossacks a year later. He was sued for that last performance; but the only satisfaction thrown to the victims of his brutality was ah Imperial edict which forbade any appeal against the acts of such a functionary except by permission of his superiors in office, ' and even that rule was made retroactive so as to protect this ruffian. , ; : "Are such things still going on In Fin landr w-v, - "Evejy day. Summary arrests, depor tations on - mere suspicion, domiciliary visits in the midst of the night these are what my unhappy, countrymen are enduring. No man can -guess, from one hour to another, whether he is", safe. How do X know what ta happening there? Here is a tittle newspaper as you see, without a title or a heading, simply the date and the news printed in small type on a Si.eet so soft and thin that it can be smuggled into and out of the proscribed communities with out much danger - of detection except through- treachery. Patriotic citizens find it in their houses without knowing where It comes from; it reaches me regularly through channels known only to the publishers.. This keeps all parts of Finland Informed of what- is going on In all other parts, and tells us who are now without a country what is happening at our old homes." ' - ' In the opinion of Count Mannerhelm, there will be no change in present condi tions till the people, through their atti tude toward the : Russian government in its hour of trouble, wrest from its authorities 'some .permanent reforms. In that case, he hopes ehat- the exiles and the victims of deportation may be allowed to return. Meanwhile, he thinks It a duty , to warn the people of other countries against placing their faith In the newa dispatches from Russian sources, representing the popular feeling as enthusiastically with the government in its war with Japan. Of Russia gen erally he has reason to believe that these stories are false; - in the pase of Finland he knows them to be. have been received, but it is ' i S9 Some Real . Conversations . From the Chicago Tribune. ' One trouble with our modern novelists is that their dialogue is impossible. Real people never use the stilted Ian- guage which present day authors put into their characters. There rematnr an opportunity for the realist to utilize the conversation of living men and women B render Matthews. , The tall young woman In the black skirt and silk waist hurried into theT halrdressing emporium. - One of the at tendants looked up from-the novel she was reading. , , "Why, hello, Sadler . "Hello, Mayme! : - Where you been keepin' yourself r v . They kiss noiselessly.' ' "Now, hurry up, Sadie and wash my hair, i m going, down to New York on the 8:20) and I've got scads to do before then." .': '.. .'.. "Must be a hurry up call?" M'd say It was. I- got to get a hat too.' Went up to see that Smathera girl in the millinery to get one Just now. I wanted one of them little nobby felts. I told her a week ago to .save one of them for me. I told her X had plenty of tulle bats. ' "' Another young woman puts her head into the door. She is dressed in black and without any head covering. "Why, hello Mayme!, . What you do- in 7" - , . ' The three giggle In unison. "Say, did you hear about ' Julius Smith? Tes, he is, too. To the widow, Next time you see Julius you tell him a lady friend of yours seen him out cut ter riding with, her." , Wild and ecstatic giggling In chorus. "No, I didn't see him myself, but a lady friend of mine did, and she tole ma Why, we used to live In the flat right over Julius' folks when he waa a little boy. Julius always used to call me mother." Giggling chorus. -,- "And I used to write notes to his teacher, excusing him from school, and sign bis mothers name. Used to hitch the -notes on to a piece of thread and- let it down out of the window until Julius got It Then ' I'd wind up the spool again. Once Julius' maw caught me at it and she said she'd have me pinched if I ever signed her name again. ' So I had to stop. Say, Mayme, that's a swell waist you ve got on." . . . " Mayme makes a wild clutch at her face with both hands. "What you tryin' to do to me, anyway. Sadie? Putting put my eyes with soap suds, and the last time I waa up here you most combed one of my ears off." . The three joined In a prolonged and Joyous giggle. 'That's right, Mayme, you make her do a' good lob.". --, "If she don't she knows I'll quit her old joint Say, how do you like this waist? No klddln' now." "It's just lovely." v "My shirt waif ts don't cost me' hard ly anything. I got a gentleman friend ibuys all the wash waists for Anderson's. ie lets me nave 'em ror almost noth ing." v-,v ' -:.- ;'.k.' .-. The three giggle. . , ' "Say, girls.. You remember that Black girl in the perfumery? Well, sir, she's engaged to a gentleman " named Free land, and they're going to live In-New Tork." "Not that homely, little . pockmarked Black girl?" . "Tes, sir. that's what she is." "Well, then,' there ought to be 'some hope left for us, eh, Badle?" Unrestrained mirth retgna for a mo ment ' ' .... ' v.;-. - ., "Well. I must chase myself or Mo Carthy'll be if ter me. , He's got it In for me, anyhow. . Have a good time in Noo Tork. Mayme. : Tal : Ta!" "Mayme, how's Aline getting along, anyhow?. Doing any good for herself?" "She's doin' all right Next to the IiaaiI ' In -tha rlhhhna . nrtw . . T.iva Aiif there la them Law Peteet flats. They're swell flats, too foe the,- money. Only pays thirty for hers, put they're kept up . swell. 1 never seen a : mop or a broom around the place. .And they got a hall boy, too-i In uniform. Allne's all right She's likely to be buyln' by next year.: Then she'll get to go to Eu rope twlct a year. Bay, AHne ain't any body's pretty birdie, though, is she?" The two giggle. '.'Bay, Sadlo, who 4ias that gentleman T . ...... I 1 . T. I . . ever" - v "MeT ,Wherer. -.'..;.';: "Who? Which? What? Poor little Sa die! She ain't over six. ia she?" "Tou quit or-I'll flu both your eyes with soapsuds." "Tou better not or X'U knock you ta the manager.", -,.- ,,;..;,'-;. ,' They giggle. -. , 1 "What's the matter with him. any- how? Wasn't; he a swell looker, ell right? Did you pipe the long brown checked ulster, with the belt?" On A of them 18 umnli mat frnm our base bargain stock, eh, Sadler "Don't - you believe it. He's the real goods. Evervthlnr made ta order from : the pike." . ..v'-'fV --'.v-; The third young woman reappears in the doorway. - i r ; -f: "weii. for goodness sake! Are you here yet: You must be out on a pass." "Huh! I'm the boss. Don't need no PaSS." t "Bay, did Mr. Jenklnson come round to you today with a subscription T' yes. sure be did. ' He's tryln' to raise enough to eend that Cary girl to the hospital. They raised thirty in the white goods and eighteen over . in the handkerchiefs. ." X coughed up one my- . "Say, Aline, how do you like the new usher in, your' alsle?": - "He's ail right ' That's a swell mus tache he wears, all right" "I think he's real fine looking." f They giggle, .iy xw-. ;;,:.fy'v.W,r'-:-- "Who do you think come in' today? Come right up to my counter and said. 'Show me some of that extra width gros grain ribbon'? Welt sir, I looked right at heitfor a minute before I could place her. ; Who do you think it waa? Do you remember that tall gawky Irish girl that was in the soaps year before last Miss Gavin was her. name? It was her, dressed just as swell. How de do, Miss Gavin,' I said, and she gives me the .icy eye and says, Tou have- th' advantage of me. I'm Mrs. Forsyth,'" "Well, for goodness sake!" "Tes. sir. and X watched when " she went out She gets right into the swell est little coop and drives away." "well, wouldn't that Jar you!" -" , "Say, May me, you ought to have one of them new blouse waists to wear down in Noo Tork. I'm having one made by Madam D. Frants out on Indiana avenue. She's swell. Only $9." "What cplor is yours?"- a " "Blue.". " "To match your eyes?" -. Prolonged giggling. "Ain't you through yet?" , v. "I feel like I was scalped. ' My dea young woman : (with affected haughti ness), please make haste. I have an en gagement to try on my diamond necklace in ten minutes." , More giggling. ..- v v,V "Say, Mayme. when you get down there don't forget to remember me to him." "Who?" ' "Aw! Tou know who. But mebbe you won't see him?" - "Don't you believe it. If be want to hold his Job he'd better be down to the station to meet me." "Well, good-by, Mayme." , "Oood-hy." ' H. M. H. Dr. W. Norton Davis. IN A WEEK We Va successfully all private ner vous and chronic diseases; also blood, stomach, heart, liver, kidney and throat troubles. We cure Syphilis without mercury lo stay cureu lurever, in imn.j to sixty days. We remove Strlotnre, without operation or pain, in mieen daya. . 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