The "Way tm Inn.
W11. I think that I would sit there)
deliberately, as yoa did, And say I didn't
kaow a simple thing -'like that! The
ioea! It's perfectly ridiculousl" a would-be-smart
young lady -declared to a
natron with whom she was on very inti
mate terms.
"What would you do, my dear?" said
the other.
"Do?" was the reply. "I would keep
(till if I didn't know, and not frankly
confess my ignorance.
"Well, that's where you and I differ,"
said the elder lady. "I never expect to
see the time when I will be too old or too
wise to learn some new thing every day.
I think, of all the follies in life, the most
foolish folly is to think one should know
everything. I have frequently heard
elderly men, with a great reputation for
wisdom, declare that they often felt
humiliated when they realized how little .
they knew. I assure you, my dear, that
if your life is spared until you are three
quarters of a century old,' you will often
find yourself covered with , humility at
the thinss you don't know. The wisest
way is to learn early in life that no hu
man being can know everything; there
fore, never be too silly or too proud to
ask what you wish to know, and frankly
to confess yonr ignorance of things with
which you are not familiar. No sensible
person will respect you less for it, and
wise people will value your opinion
much more when they find that your ut
terances are based upon actual knowl
edge, and that you are not afraid or
ashamed to admit that you do not know."
New York Ledger.
Waters Denser Than the lead Sea.
A wonderful lake named Alia Paakai
has been discovered on the Hawaiian
islands. The waters are more salt than
those of the Dead sea. Samples of the
water have been analyzed in the labora
tory of Oahn college, with results of pe
culiar as well as scientific isterest. The
water, which in dry weather deposits
salt abundantly, is of course saturated
brine, yet differs essentially from the
brine obtained by evaporation to satura
tion of ordinary sea water. The differ
ence is strikingly shown by merely mix
ing the two clear fluids, when a copious
deposit immediately forms of sulphurate
of lime, so that the mixture almost so
lidifies. The sea water contains sulphate
of magnesia in abundance, but scarcely
any lime, while the salt lake waters con
tain chloride of calcium, lime salt, with
only a trace of sulphate.
In composition the water of Alia ap
proaches closely to that of the Dead sea.
The specific gravity of the water, even
at a temperature of 80 degs. Fahrenheit,
is 1.256; at standard temperature it
would of coarse .be higher. The water
of the Dead sea is considerably lighter,
its specific gravity having been found by
different observers to range from 1.13
(Lynch) to 1.2400 (Lavoisier). The most
remarkable peculiarity of the water is
the excessive quantity of the lime it car
ties. This should give it peculiar med
ical, virtues. Cor. Cincinnati Times
Star. 1
Typical New York Xlier.
' A sunken eyed old man whom I meet
very night that I stroll op Fifth avenue
ome where Between Washington square
wad Twenty-third street I must have
known a good fifteen years. He lives in
a garret within a stone's throw of the
square, and is the owner of much val
uable property. In the early days of
oar acquaintanceship I used to encounter
him strolling in the park munching a
French roll, crumb by cramb. This was
his breakfast. If he eats another meal
His probably of the same order. His
dress is that of a vagrant, but his con
versation is that of an educated man.
He is especially happy in recounting
reminiscences of the New York of two
generations ago, ana uas traveled a
couple of miles at a time with me to
point out vanished landmarks in which
I happened to be interested. I won his
regard early by giving him car fare
after each of these jaunts. - He pouched
the money and walked back. This man
is a true miser, but not a beggar, though
he does not scruple to misappropriate
my car far. New York Cor. Pittsburg
.Bulletin.
Where He Belonged.
A clergyman not long since observed a
horse jockey trying to take in a 'simple
gentleman by imposing upon him a
broken winued horse for a sound one.
The parson, taking the gentleman aside.
told him to be cautious of the person he
was dealing with. The gentleman de
clined the purchase, and the jockey,
quite nettled, observed, "Parson, I had
much rather hear you preach than to see
; yon privately interfere in bargains be
tween man and man in this way."
"Well," replied the parson, "if yon had
been f(Wre you ought to have been
last Sunday yon might have heard me
preach." "Where was that?" inquired
the jockey, t'ln the state prison," re
turned the clergyman. San Francisco
Argonaut.
A Blow to Enthusiasm.
The desire to volunteer evidenced dur
ing the Chilian excitement recalled the
story in a naval wardroom of a certain
the big Cuba trouble of a dozen or fifteen
years ago broke out. Thirsty for battle
-and glory, he cabled his services to the
proper authorities. He learned nothing
from his action till the next pay day, when
no found that the amount of the cable tolL
which in his enthusiasm he had neglect
ed to pay, was deducted from his check.
Sew York Times.
The Accidental DlsrVarge of a Pan.
A capital pun may arise by pure acci
dent, as recorded in Backe's ."Book of
Table Talk." A Mr. Alexander Gun
was dismissed from a post in the cus
toms at Edinburgh, for circulating some
raise rumor. The dismissal is said to
have been thus noted in the customs
bookB at the time, "A. Gun discharged
for making a false report."
The ruby is the most expensive of all
stones. They vary from $100 to $7,000
per stone. The finest pair of diamonds
are worth $13,000.' Single stones range1
from $1,000 to $3,000.
KEEPING BOARDERS.
The Boarding House Woman's Side of a
Much Mooted Question.
A woman, driven by the vicissitudes of
life to throw her home open to boarders,
finds the experience, as most other wom
en who try it do, difficult, to say the least.
But she says philosophically: "I am
learning human nature. I have discov
ered that the soft voiced, refined look
woinaa often .carries tigerish claws
beneath her velvet, and that the frank
looking, well dressed man may develop
into a 'Meddlesome Hatty' before my
eyes. I don't know why humanity should
become brutal when it essays boarding,
but it seems to. A -.woman called re
cently, liked my apartments, and re
turned to the parlor to 'talk business,' as
she said, with an engaging smile.
" 'Business' meant a series of search
ing, relentless questions ami exactions
which set my cheeks aflame and filled
my eyes with hot tears of mortification.
Did I intend purchasing a new carpet for
the parlor? Were my stairs and halls
usually kept somewhat cleaner than they
appeared that day? Were my beds clean?
Did I have two kinds of meat for dinner?
Use homemade bread entirely, and, fin
ally, did a maid open the front door as a
rule? Tins was a gratuitons imperti
nence. -
"I was taking the letters from the
postman as she came up the steps, and
naturally received her. And then she
went away, after taking three names as
references. . I insisted in turn that she
should give me one, that of a former
landlady, and it was one of the- small
compensations of my lot, when she wrote
me a week later that she found my refer
ences satisfactory and would take the
rooms, to reply that I had found her
reference must unsatisfactory and was
sure I could not tolerate her exactions.
"A man came to me the other night.
and after forcing my price down as low
as he could, asked me if my husband
was a Christian, if my family attended
church and Sunday school, if my other
boarders were God fearing people, and if
Sunday was observed with religious
quiet by everybody in the house.
"People ask me to take tliem cheaply
because they are saving to buy a home
or because the husband has extra office
expenses or, as one gushing creature told
me, 'because we want to go to Europe
next summer.' The mora they want the
less they want to pay. Look at the ad
vertisements for 'board wanted,' 'every
thing unexceptionable,' and 'terms mod
erate.'
"Would these people think of going
into a shop and saying, 'I want your
most expensive goods at a low price?'
Yet tliey do precisely that with me. Sur-
oundmgs, appointments and service that
mean a serious outlay they demand and
are not willing to pay for. They cannot
afford to keep up an establishment to
their liking, and they ask me to do it for
them without adequate compensation.
The average man or woman 'seems to
part with his courtesy, sense of justice
and humanity when he starts out to be
come a boarder." Her Point of View in
New York Times.
The Neglect of the Feet.
Far too little has ever been said ' or
written regarding the proper treatment
of the feet, when we consider the amount
of suffering that may be occasioned by
their abuse. As the health of any and
all parts of the . body depends upon the
care taken or each, either voluntarily or
unconsciously, it is a marvel that the
feet are not even more frequently dis
figured by growths that injure the entire
system and, perhaps, permanently cripple
the limbs. . Races that live in a state of
nature have almost invariably (except ia
case of accident or natural deformity)
shapely and serviceable feet in proportion
to their general comeliness and physical
perfection; therefore, it must be the cov
erings placed by civilized man upon his
pedal extremities which cause all his de
fects in this direction.
If our hands were thickly clad in firm,
tight fitting skins and fabrics for eight
een hours in every twenty-four they
would soon become, to quote Ruskin,
"as ngly as the naked feet of prosperity."
When thus surrounded by coverings that
are well nigh impervious to the air, the
pores of the feet do not act properly
aud become unhealthy, while the feet
themselves grow callous and develop
those ill natured and wondrous painful
excrescences' known as bunions nl
corns. Delineator.
One-third or a Dollar.
Handed down ,for generations in the
family is a curious and valuable relic of
Colonial days now in possession of Mrs.
Lizzie B. Link, a niece of the late Judge
Stites and a clerk in the general delivery
department of the postoffice. On a small
sheet of brown paper, 3 by 2 inches in
size, are the characters, which pronounce
it a legal tender for one-third of a dollar.
One side bears the inscription, "Accord
ing to the resolution passed by congress
Feb. 17, 1776," also a dyspeptic looking
sun dial, beneath which is the terse ad
monition, "Mind yonr own business."
On the reverse is a circle of "thirteen
links, each representing one of the states
of the young Union, in the center of
which is the motto, 'We are one." It is
an interesting and valuable relic of the
good old days of , the forefathers, and
their fractional currency, some of which
would prove very convenient at the pres
ent day. Louisville Commercial.
Product of the Clove Tree. ;
The limbs of the clove tree being very
brittle, a peculiar four sided ladder is
used. As fast as the bods are collected
they are spread in the sua until they as
sume a brownish color, when they are
put into the storehouse ready for market.
A ten-year-old plantation should pro
duce twenty pounds of clove? to a tree.
Trees of twenty years frequently pro
duce npwards of one hundred pounds
each. Exchange.
It Turned Her Head.
"Why did Lot's wife look back?
asked the pretty Sunday school teacher.
"1 suppose a woman passed her with
a new bonnet on," replied Johnnie
Cninso. New York Epoch.
PARIS BATHCARTS.
Queer Way lu Which the Average French
- man Makes His Ablutions.
An American familiar with the fact
that every house or ' apartment, renting
as low as $300 per year in the United
States, has its own bathtub, with hot
and cold water supply and waste to re
move the contents of the tub, is amused,
if not amazed, when on a visit to Paris
he gets an idea of the custom still pre
vailing in that metropolis of luxury and
Slegant buildings. ' ' '.
The large hotels, some very costly pri
vate mansions and apartments, and the
public bathhouses have their bathrooms,
as is the custom in the United States,
though the French bathroom is really
much larger, and is elegantly furnished
with rugs, lounges, dressing tables, etc.,
the idea being that if one takes a bath
one must-lie down and take a nap after it.
People living in apartments costing as
high as $1000 a year, and in the new
quarter of-Paris in the neighborhood of
the Champs Elysees, when they wish to
bathe, other than take a sponge bath in
a small portable tub, either go to the
public bathing establishments or send
to them to have a bath brought to their
apartments. Sunday morning one sees
a strange looking two wheeled cart like
a very high dog cart, on which there is
a framework built over the wheels.
This framework can hold three bath
tubs. Thej are made entirely df copper
and are about 5 feet long, 20 inches deep
at the end and 18 inches on the side. -
The driver of this vehicle is perched
up high on a small seat in front, is bare
headed and wears a blouse. On each
side of him an iron ring encircles a cop
per colored vessel, holding about three
gallons of hot water, which rests on a
little shelf. He also carries a supply of
dry towels and sheets. The bathing es
tablishments have these carts, and when
a patron sends word that he wants a hot
bath at a certain hour the bath is put on
the cart, the kettle filled with hot water,
and the cart with its strange load is
rapidly driven to the building in which
the apartment is. '
The driver carries the bathtub, as an
Adirondack guide carries a canoe, on
his head and shoulders, from the first to
the fifth floor, as the case may be, and
after spreading a sheet to protect the
carpet, he spreads also a clean sheet in
side of the tub, so that the bather does
not touch the metal. Then he carries
up the kettle of hot water which he has
brought from the main establishment.
The necessary cold water he gets on the
premises, eil her on the same floor with
the apartment, or in the courtyard.
When the bather has had his bath, the
attendant removes the soiled water by
dipping it out, wipes out the tub and
carries it with his kettles and soiled
tovel3 down stairs to his cart. Ths
charge for all this is about sixty cents,
with the usual additional tip to the man.
Engineering Record.
, Montana Sapphires. -The
only locality in Montana' which
has been at .all prolific of sapphires is the
six or seven miles of placer ground be-,
tween Ruby and Eldorado bars on the
Missouri river, sixteen miles east of He
lena. Here sapphires are found in gla
cial auriferous gravels while sluicing for
gold, and until now have been consid
ered only a by product. Up to the pres
ent time they have never been systemat
ically mined. In 1889 one company took
the option on 4,000 acres of the river
banks, and several -smaller companies
have since been formed with a view of
mining for these gems, alone or in-connection
with gold. v ...
The colors of the gems obtained, al
though ITeautiful and interesting, are not
the standard bine or red shades generally
demanded by the public. The stones
embrace a great variety of the lighter
shades of red, yellow, blue and green.
The latter color is found quite pro
nounced, being rather a blue green than
an emerald green. Nearly all the stones,
when finely cut, have an apparent metal
lic luster which is strikingly peculiar to
those from this locality. Neither red
rubies nor true blue sapphires have yet
been found. Omaha Bee. "
Curiosities in Egg-s.
We' met our old friend,' Mr.' Jesse
Eaton, on the street the other day, and
he told ns of a wonderful egg his daugh
ter came across a short time ago. On
breaking it she discovered another per
fectly formed egg with a shell inside f
it. It was about the size of a partridge
egg. Another gentleman standing by
told of a curiosity in the shape of a
double chicken that had been hatched
on his place. The backs of the twins
were united, and while one would be
standing on his feet the feet of the other
would be pointing upward. . When
growing tired of this position it or they
would flop over and stand on the other
feet, the positions being reversed. He
said the chickens lived several days.
Farmington (Mo.) Times.
Animals and the Peanut Habit.
There is now said to be no animal or
bird in the Central Park menagerie that
does not eat peanuts. Many species in
the cages were at first much averse to
peanuts, but the persistence of the chil
dren in forcing them upon every creature
there has . had such an effect that even
the lions and pelicans, and everything
except the snakes, have f6lt obliged to
acquire the peanut habit New York
Son. -
Growing Celery. '
There have been many ways suggested
for blanching. It is said that in the Old
World, where first class celery . is de
sired, instead of burying up the plant in
the earth they simply tie up the eaves
and then wrap them in coarse brown
paper. It is aid that much . better cel
ery can be obtained this way than by
any other methofl of blanching. Mee
han's Monthly.
' The November of 1861 will ever be
famons in our political history, because
in that month, for the first and only
time, two presidents were elected within
these United StatesAbraham Lincoln
to rule in Washington, and Jefferson
Davis in Richmond. ' ' - '
- - Excuses.
A man who attempted to raise some
money on a subscription paper for a nec
essary church relates his experience
thus: " , .
"The first man I went to said he was
very sorry, but the fact was he was so
involved in bis business that he couldn't
give anything. Very 6orry, but a man
in debt as be was owed hi3 first duty to
his creditors..
- "He was smoking an expensive cigar,
nd before I left his store he bought of a
peddler who came in a pair of expensive
cuff buttons. i
, "The next man I went to was a young
clerk in " a banking establishment. He
read the paper over, acknowledged that
the church was needed, but said he was
owing for board, was badly in debt and
did not see how he could give anything.
"That afternoon as I went by the base
ball grounds "I saw this young man pay
fifty cents at the entrance to go in, and
saw him mount the grand stand where
special seats were sold for a quarter of "a
dollar.
"The third man to whom I presented
the paper was a farmer living near the
town. He also was sorry, but times
were hard, his crops had been a partial
failure, the mortgage on his farm was a
heavy load, the interest was coming due,
and he really could not see his way clear
to give to the church, although it was
just what the new town needed.
"A week from that time I saw that
same farmer drive into town with his
entire family and go to the circus, after
noon and night, at an expense of at least
four dollars." Youth's Companion.
Grounds for a Pass.
"I was down in Kentucky," said the
drummer at the Cadillac, as he slung his
foot over the writing table, "and one
day I was in the 'store of a merchant,
who was also the secretary of the County
Fair association. Kentucky's a great
place for county fairs, you know. We
were sitting there, chinning about trade
and one thing another, when a long
legged chap with a woman and six chil
dren at his heels filed in.
" 'Air you Mister Simpson? he asked,
coming up to the merchant.
"Simpson nodded.
" 'Don't you give out passes for the
county fair?
" 'Not very often, -replied Simpson,
hedging.
" 'But you air the man that gives
them out when they air give out?
"Cornered this time, the secretary had
to say yes.
" 'Well, I want one for me and my
family here,' and he threw his thumb
over his shoulder at the interesting
group at his heels.
" 'On what grounds? inquired Mr.
Simpson, in a businesslike way.
" 'On the fair grounds, in course,' ex
claimed Mr. Huckleberry, in such an
undisguised tone of innocent surprise
that Simpson forked over the tickets be
fore he could recover his equanimity."
Detroit Free Press. . .
' Something: About ' Prices.
' Here is one of the "tricks of druggists
that their customers may well be on the
lookout for: A man -went into a drug
store and asked the price of a certain
remedy of the class known as -"proprietary"
articles, . .''Forty-five centa,", wag
the answer. t "Bnt," said the customer,
who Was in the habit of dealing with the
druggist to a considerable extent, "I
have never paid more than f orty at
s," mentioning a druggist in another
part of the city. ' "Well, now,'' said the
good natured druggist, ."I could let yon
have it for forty, but I like to act on the
square, and I shouldn't want to charge
yon five cents extra the next time you or
some of "yonr family come here to get a
prescription done up."
The man paid oyer ' forty-five cents
and went out, wondering how many
times he and other men had been com
pelled to make -up. "on . one thing what
they had saved on another. The inci
dent is mentioned in the. hope of putting
others on their guard against a neat lit
tle trick that would probably have never
been discovered had not the druggist in
question, in a moment of unconscious
frankness perhaps, given the thing away.
New York Tribune.
- Use and Pashlon.-
Use is' hardly more than another name
for fashion. It is the mode of the day
that determines this. To wear the small
clothes and full bottomed wigs of our
grandfathers today would be most tin
grammatical, and yet in the old. time it
would have been equally an error to ap
pear without them. This is a constantly
fluctuating rule of which it is true the
principle remains the same, bnt of which
the application varies constantly. Every
body recognizes it, and everybody is
more or less influenced by it. It is need
less -to point out that to be too far be
hind or too much in advance of the
changing fashion is to be deplored, but
it is just here, it may be remarked, that
this principle passes into that of ele
gance. Boston Courier'. " ; ' . . . .
How Indians Prepare Grasshoppers. ,
When grasshoppers are very abun
dant and in prime condition the Indiana
dig a hole, build a fire in : the bottom of
it and drive the swarms of insects into
it from all directions. Then they cover
the opening with blankets. ' The hop
pers thus killed are taken ont and put
into bags with salt. Afterward they are
spread out to dry in the sun. - The wings
and legs are removed before eating.
Washington Star; T .. . , .
"How'tlsle Thread Is Made. "
Lisle thread is .made of superior cot
ton treated in a peculiar manner- ...The
waxy surface of the cotton fiber, is im
paired" by carding, but : preserved " by
combing. The spinning of Lisle thread
is done under moisture, forming a com
pact and solid yarn. Exchange.
Coffee was introduced into Constanti
nople in the early part of the Seventeenth
century, and writers of that time inform
ns that the inhabitants of that city drank
it as hot-as could be endured, the decoc
tion being as black as soot, as Purchos
puts it, "not much nnlike it."
i'HE E00MS OF A QUEEN.
GRAND AND GORGEOUS, BUT EX
CEEDINGLY UNHOMELIKE.'
Victoria's Huge Palace In Windsor and
How the Dreary Waste of Stately Room
After Koom Impressed an American
Woman Who Visited It.
The Scotch moors, as I saw them in
July, are already fading in my memory
into a soft harmonious mingling of rus
set and green, for the heather was not
yet purple; but the sun caught the spray
of a mountain rivulet tumbling on its
rocky way, or turned more vivid the in-
tense green of those patches of verdure
in the midst of the brown of the heather,
which we think seem so unnatural when
artists who paint in the highlands trans
fer them to canvas. These high lights
stay by one when the hills and all the
ordinary features of that charming Scot
land melt into the dimmest of memories.
One of these summer's high lights was
a visit to the queen's private apartments
at Windsor. I don't know what red tape
and long waiting and diplomatic refer
ence it took to get the permit. I only
know that the thoughtful American girl
who remembered me and made me one
of the four who were to invade the
sacred precincts conferred much pleasure
on me, and even though we were all so
disappointed in what we saw, it was hu
man, was it not, to be delighted to "go
where few enter?
We looked upon the herd of common
ers who filed by us in the wake of the
cicerone, who every hour takes throngs
of sightseers through the main part of
Windsor castle. Their hands were red
with Baedekers, bnt we loftily ignored
guidebooks for one day.
There were but three high lights there
to remember. One -was General Gor
don's Bible, before which I could have
knelt, for it was the well worn book of a
soldier who took it into the tented field
as his companion.
There is no mistaking a book that has
been read, the very way it lies open, the
invisible marks of reverential fingers,
the color of the paper which the open air
produces.
It disturbed me to see it in a hideous
little glass casket all ornamentation and
filigree. Very fine in its way, I suppose,
and taking many pounds out of the
hero's sister's pocket, who gave it to the
queen, but so inappropriate to the sim
ple life of that heroic soul, that martyr
to the mistakes of his country.
TWO MARBLE STATUES.
The second high light in the queen's
own domicile was the view from the
state drawing room windows of the
avenue stretching miles and miles away.
It was sunny and bright, for some far
back English sovereign or his wise gar
dener had, perhaps, evidently believed
that with all his possessions there was
nothing quite equal to the God given one
of sunshine, and so there was a wide
strip of the greenest turf in the world on
either side of the drive. There were no
parterres, no fountains or statues, sim
ply this broad open, sppce, where her
majesty could '"Talk or flrive for miles,
hiddep. by the forest trees on either side
from the staring eyes of the public.
The third high light in those drearily
magnificent palace corridors was the life
size modeling of the queen and the prince
consort, made since bis, death. The
marble was scarcely pure enough to
represent as perfect an ideal of wifely
love as any sculptor is ever likely to
give. The queen's face turned toward
her husband reveals the utmost devotion,
the most tender entreaty, as she leans
against him imploring him not to leave
her. . Whoever has not understood wifely
adoration before, must go away from
this exquisite exemplification of it with
a new knowledge of what its possibilities
are.' I do not even know if it is good
modeling. I only know that, intract
able, ' cold and inexpressive as marble
is supposed to be, it speaks in the face
and attitude of the queen as no painting
I remember to have seen. (
I wish I could feel such genuine ad
miration of the prince, bnt ue is so Eng
lish, so handsome, so far away. TTi
head, is turned quite from bis wife, and
as she clings to him he coldly points ' to
distant' lands.
NO TRACE OF HOME.
, There was nothing else in these gor
geous rooms that stays by me. There
seemed to me miles of corridors, draw
ing rooms, little and big; dining rooms
and boudoirs, all glitter and glow. The
usual gilt and ormolu, marble and onyx,
gloss of satin and rich stuffs, the dazzle
of luminous glass, pervaded the entire
suites of apartments. We kept looking
for some room where there might be a
trace of homeliness.
We longed to see a workbasket, even
if her majesty doesn't do needlework,
and a sitting room where there might be
an ordinary writing desk, a bookcase
with some well thumbed volumes or a
chair an American rocking chair even,
in which a loving woman had rocked
her babies to sleep.
The doors were closed on the queen's
and prince consort's bedroom, but in
genious inquiries caused the old house
keeper to give np their secrets. There
was no difference. They lived, in there
in state, and I began to think my child
ish ideas that kings and queens slept in
their crowns was not far wrong. Eliza
beth B. Custer in New York Sun.
Chance for a II est.
Mrs. De Fashion Is Mrs. De Style at
home? :
Servant No, mum.'
"Will she be back soon, do yon think?"
"No, mum; shell be away all day, I'm
thinkin. Ye see I've given her notice,
an she's gone ont ter find a gnrrel good
enough ter fin my place. . Yes might
come in an rest y'rself. There's none o'
til family home to talk ye to death."
New York Weekly.
-" A Pitiable Case. '
Judge What is the charge against
this man?
Policeman He stole a street car horse.
Judge I will decide tomorrow whether
to send rrfm to a lunatic asylum or the
poorhaose. Good News.
Game Galore in Maine. - '
Moose are so very plentiful in north
ern Maine that, as a sportsman can
legally kill but one in a season, it is
something of a disappointment to throw
away the only chance, on an undersized
or lean animal, or one with poor antlers.
The boss hunter of Med way, Llewellyn
Powers, is a man who wastes no powder
on inferior game, and when he started
out after his annual moose the other day
he was determined to get a good one.
He rolled his old slouch hat into a horn
and called a moose to the water at Pock
wockamos lake, but the bull did not suit,
being too lean anil carrying small an
tlers. Another and another came in re
sponse of the hunter's call, and finally
the ideal monarch of the woods ap
peared. This bull fell before Powers'
rifle. He weighed over a thousand
pounds and carried a perfect set of
antlers that spread five feet. No fault
can be found with a hunting ground
which affords such opportunities as this
for taking one's pick of big game. Al
most anybody can get a moose in the
upper Penobscot region. The other day
a twelve-year-old boy named Hathaway
went into the woods alone, called a big
moose and dropped him at the first shot
Louisville Courier Journal.
A New Way to Throw Bice.
A practical joke which the best man at
an autumn wedding perpetrated was to
deliver to tha porter of the parlor car in
which he saw them off a sealed telegraph
envelope with instructions to deliver it
at a certain station. The darky duly did
so and the groom broke the seal to have
a small avalanche of rice pour through
his fingers. New York Times.
.'. :s !::!:f the Aim-: Ic hm !. yet there is
-.' ' !" ' of .Sn.-snroiriiln ihi.t nr-t3 on
i;:.-it U Joy's Wsri-n..; ! sn -lio. It ru
l:i ii-s it i:i L'l Imuia. ::ii! .;n occasional dosa
prevents return. "Ve refer lv I-;! mission to c. K.
l!:h:::r'"'., VS 1-ocnst Avenue, Sail I'raucisco;
J. ... ..i- .i-.-n.I i-tuliinm; II. S. Winu. cJeary Court,
Sum !"i a .. :si o. :n hundreds uf others who have
use.: it i:i constipation. One letter is a Kumplo of
hundreds. Eikiugtou, writes: "I have been for
years subject to bilious headaches anil constipa
tion. Have been eo bad lor a year buck hitn
had to take a physic every other night or else I
wouia nave a neaaaenc. After taking one bottle
of J. V. S., I am in splendid sbape. It has done
wonderful things for me. Peoplo similarly
troubled should try 15 and be convinced."
Joy1
q Vegetable
O Sarsaparilla
Most moik-rn, :ri :i... largest bottle,
same price, Jl.o. :.. v .. v. n
For Sale by SNIPES & KINERSLY
THE DALLES. OREGON.
- BEAb MERIT
PEOPLE
Say the S. B. Cough Cure is the best
thing they ever saw. We are not
flattered for we known Real Merit will
Win. All we ask is an honest tiial.
For sale by all druggists.
S. B. Medicine Mfg. Co.,
Dufur, Oregon.
A Severe Law.
The English peo
ple look more closely
'to the gennineneis
of these staples than
we do. In facr, they
9 J
haye a law under
r' which they make
seizure aud de
stroy adulterated
J- r products that are
not what they are represented to bo. Under
this (aime thousands of pounds of tea have
been burned because of their wholesale adul
teration. '
Tea, by the way, is one of the most notori
ously atTultcmted articles of commerce. Not
alone are the bright, shiny green teas artifi
cially colored, but thmifnnda of pounds of
ub.-t: ute for tea leavis are used to swell
the b:;'.U oi t-Iiap tea:; ash, rcc, and willow
!pav- being those most commonly used.
Again, sweepings f r. m tea warehouses re
colored and sold as tea. Even exhausted tea
leaves gathered from tho tea-houses are kept,
diieu, and madcovcrnnd find their way into
the cbrnp teas.
The Eus'.Ih govf mmcut attempts to stamp
this, ou; by coiil'jsiaU sn; but no tea is too
poor f ir n i, and the rcsul. is, that probably
the :.;;.-,t teas used by any nation are those
consumed ia Americc
Bench's Tea Is presented with the guar- -auty
that it is nncolortd and unadulterated;
in fact, the sun-cureo. t?a leaf pure and sim
ple. Its purity insure superior strength,'
bout one third less of it being required for
an infusion than of the artificial teas, and its
fragrance and exquisite flavor is at once ap
parent. It will be a revelation to you. In
order that its parity and quality may be guar
anteed, it is sold only in pound packages
bearing this trade-mark : . .
BEEtm TEA
rPure As Wdhood
STIPATION
Price 60c- per pound. For sale at
Xjoslle Butler's,
THE DALLES, OREGON.