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UNCLE WILLIAM'S PICTURE.
Uncle William, last July.
Bad bis picture took. .
"Have it done, of oonrse," eaya 1,
"Jess the way yon lookP
(All dressed up, he was, fer the
Barbecue and jubilee
The Old Settlers helt.) So he
Last he had it took.
IJde she'd coaxed and begged and plead,
Sence her mother went;
Bnt he'd cough and shake his head
At all argyment;
Mebby clear his throat and say
What's my likeness 'mount to, hey.
Now, with mother gone away
From us, like she went?"
But we'd projlck'd round, tell we
Got it flggered down
How we'd git him, Lide and me,
Drivin into to town:
Bragged ho w well he looked, and fleshed
Up around the face, and freshed
With the morning air; and breehed
His coat collar down.
Ail so providential! Why,
Mow he's dead and gone.
Picture 'pears so lifelike I
Want to start himon
Them old tales he ust to tell.
And old talks, so sociable.
And old song-) he sung so well
'Fore his voice was gone! - '.
Face is sad to Lide, and they'a
Sorrow in the eyes
Kisses it sometimes, and lays
It away and cries;
I smooth down her hair, and 'low
He is happy, anyhow.
Bein there with mother now
Smile and wipe my eyes.
i Whitcomb Riley.
JUL!) WATER CURES All
KNOCKING
A UNIVERSAL PANACEA FOR SUFFER
' ING HUMANITY. ;
His
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Coolneas in m Mixed College.
There is a cQolnesa':between. the boys
and the girls of the Stanford university,
It all came about from a question of pro
priety. The boys gave a ball in their
,1rTYrvr linll nn Mondav nicht - to
which they invited all the girl students, i story:
i aa wm I as tup nroressors. jLaaoorara .
i n n,AVA mafia on ,1 fViA wrtnna bcilU. X
OUT " A JEHlX
Eneatment of the Insnlts of Big Stage
Driver Dy a Little Dude.
Colonel William Greene Sterrett, of
the Galveston-Dallas News, tells this
The Abbe Sebastian Kneipp" and
Power of Healing A Patient
th trt.liml of Mi, Priest's Treat'
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ment Cold Water Used Externally. ' " nient. They hired a band, and had the ; snort or
; vu,.r,Kfnitv ,iv,rat ! the pram
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village of Woerishofen, between Mem-
One or two of the more modest and re-
iningen and Atlgsbourg, in Bavaria, and rXL?,:ZZ.
vet for the Dast four or. rive years this
little burg has attracted as many visitors
as Bayreuth and Oberammergau. Voer
ishofen is celebrated not for its mineral
waters," not for its .bracing air, but for
its marvelous cures performed by the
priest of the village, the Abbe Sebastian
Kneino. Each vear at least 30,000 in-
toi-y "were shocked at the avowed inten
tion of some of the girls to attend the
ball, and called a meeting of the girls, at
which there was a long discussion or the ;
affair. j
Many of the fair students said they t
could see no harm in going to the ball as '.
a good many years ago," he
was traveling in a stage in
western Texas.- It was long before the
the locomotive was heard on
prairies or that region, over wnicn
the buffalo yet roamed." At one of the
Stations a young . Englishman and his
wife got in. He was a little fellow and
dressed as a typical Englishmanwhat
we now call a dude. The driver was a
big, raw boned six footer. He was a
noted fighter. He had never been whip
ped and was a regular terror. He
seemed to take a dislike ' to . the little
Englishman from the start. "Presently
he stopped the stage, got down, came
Ions as the professors were willing, but
casb ov.vw in- - , ,im, fw,,1T ; UC Bwyii in,
,m1i.lft ma.M !1ilQ-riinareto Woerishofen " ,uul" f"""" "rt hack and threw ODen the dOor.
x---a- a- iai4n mi tnn criM nt fincn aoint?s. ana. i . s ,- ,
.v -- -- y - " -Here, he saw to tne Hingusnman,
on a vote there was a majority m favor , and
of not attending the ball. So none of , ' ... . r,
CK3h1 W1L11 inc. . ui.v w j vu
in there.' The Englishman didn't move.
order
How the Indian Prays.
"Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
mrattered or expressed.? And the man
ner of expressing desire may differ wide
ly. The Indian may be as religious as is
the Presbyterian, yet he never kneels
when he prays. He never addresses the
deity by word of mouth at all. Yet he
asks for the blessings he needs, and asks
for them with as much faith and as
much reverence as does his whiter broth
er. They want a good corn crop and
they gather a handful of green twigs or
grasses, bind them together with a rev
erent faith that the deity is willing and
able to help them; they lay the emblems
or hang them in a place where the sun
will shine upon them and leave, assured
that their prayer lias been heard.
It may not be answered. The corn
may not prosper right away, but they
are in no wise discouraged. They bind
. together another emblem and offer it in
another place. Some places have partic
ular favor. It is believed the deity sees
them place them there better than in
soma other places. It is simply the
Christian's idea of sanctuary in another
form. Chicago Herald.
Commercial Women aud Husbands.
There are a number of commercial
women traveling with their husbands,
most of them for Chicago business firms,
although a few represent houses in this
city and Boston. The lines of goods
they carry vary from stationery and
snaps to hardware and jewelry.. One
coaple are traveling through the coun
try with a horse and wagon, dealing in
sewing machines, while another couple
are employing the same method to carry
lines of gloves, mittens, etc One wom
an said that the number of women who
had taken to commercial traveling with
in the last year was four times as great
as in the previous year.
"And why shouldn't women go into
tola basin ens as Well any other?" abe
demanded. And why shouldn't they?
New York Tribune.,
Why Sunsets are lied.
A shower of a remarkable character
occurred in Sicily on April 24, 1781. Ou
the morning of that day every .exposed
place within an extensive district was
found covered with a gray water, which
being evaporated left a deposit nearly a
quarter of an inch in thickness. It was
determined that this solid matter must
have come from Mount .33tna. It is cer
tain that vast quantities of solid sub
stances are constantly afloat in the at
mosphere. The sunsets all over the
world are redder to this day on account
of the dust from the mighty eruption in
the Straits of Sunda years ago, which
has not yet entirely settled. Washing
ton Star.
French Bread Laws.
The French baker is not only required
to conform to laws regarding weight,
but he is also told at what price be must
'sell his bread. He is further required to
deposit a certain sum of money in the
hands of the municipal authorities as
surety of good behavior. In the -large
fortified cities he has to keep a specified
quantity of flour on hand to provide for
warlike emergencies.
In Germany laws of similar import are
in existence, and are enforced with such
Beverity that no baker ever dreams of de
fying hem. Baker's Helper.
A Halloween Experiment.
Halloween is sometimes called "nut
crack night," because nr.ts have always '
taken a conspicuous part in its observ
ance. Two nuts placed in the fire on
Halloween are named for two. lovers.
Should they lie together and burn to
gether, John and Tillie will be a happy
husband and wife, but should , the nuts
bounce and fly asunder, the sign. is. a
' bad one. New York Herald.
and endure all inconveniences in
to be cured by the Abbe Kneipp.
The Abbe Kneipp is a celebrity in
Germany. He is called a genius, a
savant, a benefactor of the human race.
Everything in the village is named for
the wise priest. For- instance, there is
Kneipp coffee, Kneipp bread, Kneipp
linen, etc. Always at least a dozen
physicians are present at the consulta
tions of the priestly healer, and these,
after thoroughly understanding his sys
tem? will found Kneipp Anstalten at
Stuttgart, Munich. Wurtzbourg, etc
This good abbe believes that water
will care all the ills to which flesh is
heir. A friend who went from Paris to
consult the Abbe Kneipp has told me of
her experience at Woerishofen, and of
her great admiration for the abbe's wis
dom.
THE ABBS.
In the village there are only three or
four primitive inns, but most of the in
valids lodge in private houses no less
primitive. The abbe has been compelled
to build a large house for the benefit of
the clergy, for priests alsoask.to be cured
by their confrere.
The abbe receives at the presbytery,
and begins consultations at 8 o'clock in
the morning. The great physician sits
in a large room ou the ground floor, snr
rounded by pupils. Thi abbe is a fine
looking man. His regular features and
fresh complexion denote health, and his
broad, high forehead, hardly touched by
a wrinkle, is framed in white hair.
His eyes are the bluest and brightest I
have ever seen, for his soul seems to be
concentrated in these eyes, and they pene
trate you through and through in fact,
to make a diagnosis, the abbe only looks
at a patient and in diagnosis he never
errs, soine wno went to tne priest witn
despair in their hearts left him buoyed
up by courage and with the assurance
that their diseases were not incurable.
Although the abbe says "I cannot de
stroy death," still he has cured many
whose diseases baffled the skill of others.
A man whose face was disfigured by a
horrible cancer asked his advice. Calm
ly the priest said, "It, is easily cured,"
and after several weeks of lotions and
baths the cancer disappeared. The blind
have recovered their sight and the lame
have walked.
According to the Abbe Kneipp every
disease originates in the blood; there
may be a disturbance in its circulation.
where may be a derangement of its composition.
WHAT WATER . DUES.
Water alone can act thoroughly ou the
blood, and water produces four notice
able effects. It dissolves the injurious
principles of the blood, eliminates that
which has been dissolved, restores regu
lar circulation to the purified blood and
fortifies the debilitated organism. In a
talk with the abbe after consultation
hours, he said that fifty years ago people
did not take cold as at the present time.
Why? Simply because the body was more
hardened to changes in temperature.
Water makes the body capable of en
during all climates, and the best way to
begin the treatment is to walk barefoot
in the wet grass. After a quarter of an
hour's promenade without drying the
feet, one must put oh dry shoes and
stockings aud exercise until the feet are
very warm. "If you can hnd no dew,
no wet grass," said the abbe, "walk on
cold, wet stones, or even on the snow.
That is my remedy for those who are al
ways taking cold, .
The abbe's treatmeut varies according
to the malady. For some he. prescribes
vapor baths, for others wet compresses.
for others baths with oats or hay added
to the water, etc The water must be
as cold as possible, and in winter snow is
preferred. But a cold bath must never
last more than five minutes, includin;
the time required for dressing and un
dressing, and the b .ther must never use
towels, but always exercise . for fifteen
minutes after 1 the bath. Friction only
causes unequal circulation, but exercise
produces a uniform heat.
Warm baths should always be followed
,by ,' a plunge in cold water. . The good
abbe says one must never dnnk too mucn
water, and the least possible during re
twsts. ."Drink a little water before eating,-
very little while eating, and two or
three hours after drink as much as you
wish." Paris Cor. New York World. . .
them went.
xne Doys waneu long iur me m.ug , . , the driver.
hnf thfiv pjiiiir rtrvr,. , At ' . . ....
'. . J i The Enelishman just Bat still. ; "it you
nana trfim vcrv anpr. 1 . - . . .....
don't come out, I'll haul yon out by the
less.' shouted the Jehu. Then the rest
of the fair ones
first the collegians were very angry.
Then they took the dancing floor them-
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selves ana maue a w . . ns e tulated with the driver. 1
They say, however, that for future f es- , fi M d conldn,t t at
tvities they willed no invitations to , expostulated along
tne gin stuueuis. iu, uu . . regt We tol(1 the driver there
mouest among tne laner out lui . f ingid that the Eng
girls feel crushed. San Francisco ?;J ,, v,t
Chronicle.
A Trememluus Barley Farm.
"We have now secured 250,000 acres
of land in North Dakota for barley
farms, and next spring we will . send
thousands of German emigrants to that
state from Ohio, West Virginia and In
diana," said Colonel O. M. Towner as
he discussed the future of this great
northern state. Colonel Towner is man
ager of what is best known as the Barley
syndicate of Chicago. During the last
two or three months the company has
succeeded in securing 250,000 acres of
land in North Dakota, on which it is
proposed to place German farmers to
raise barley for malt purposes. ' These
lands have been purchased in Nelson,
Norman; Towner, Ramsey, Steele and
Bottineau counties.
It is the opinion of the managers of
this company that barley can be most
successfully grown in that state, and
they have the conviction of their belief
sufficiently to purchase these lands and
to send out emigrants from other states.
The Germans are chosen on account of
their knowledge of barley culture for
this purpose. These emigrants will not
be tenants, but owners of the land, it
being sold to them on easy terms. The
crops will be bought by the company
and shipped to all points where there is
a demand for barley. St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
) lishnian was not crowding us, and that
if he (the driver) insulted or injured any
of his passengers he would be discharged
by the stage company. ' The driver by
this time was wild..-He swore he was
in command of that stage and that he
To Celebrate the Marseillaise.
Another effort is being made by the
inhabitants of Choisy-le-Roi, outside of
Paris, to observe with much solemnity
and ceremonial what is vaguely i called
the "Centenary of the Marseillaise."
Choisy-le-Boi claims to possess the, dust
of Rouget de l'lsle the composer of the
hymn who was buried therein 1886,
his birthplace being Lons-le-Saulnier, in
the department of the Jura. On this ac
count the members of the borongh -coun
cil consider that they have the right to
take the initiative in organizing s Right
Republican festival this year, aa the Mar-
seillase, under the title of "Chant de
Guerre de l'Annee du Rhin." was first
heard in 1792. .
President Carnot is to be asked to be
come honorary president of the commit
tee of the fete, and appeals for funds
will be made to all the cities, and also
to communes which possess more than
4,000 inhabitants. No date as yet has
been fixed for the celebration of the cen
tenary, to which it is presumed that
every patriotic Frenchman will give his
sentimental and sympathetic if , not
practical and . pecuniary support.
Pans Cor. London Telegraph
Delicacy of feeling is not confined to
gentle people, commonly so called. It
is well known, for example, by those
who have to do with men confined in
prison, that such convicts never speak
the hated word "prison," bnt invariably
use some euphemistic substitute, "this
institution" being f perhaps the , one- of
tenest adopted..-! -' . , : -
proposed to run it to suit. himself, and if
that blankety blank cuss didn't come
out he'd pull tym out.
" 'All right,' said the Englishman, at
last. 'I will come Out, and when I am
out I will whip you soundly.' '
"He got out slowly. We all felt sorry
for him and sorrier for his wife. . She
didn't 6eem scared or worried, though,
and all she said was:
' 'Charley, don't let him scratch your
face.' '
"Well, when the little Englishman
got pnt he took his coat off and handed
it back into the stage. Then he started
toward the driver and the driver started
toward him. . We heard a sound a good
deal like that made by hitting a steer in
the head with, an ax. Down in a heap
went the driver. He was up as quick as
a flash. Down he went again. Actually
that little Euglish dude knocked that
burly six foot driver clean off bis feet a
dozen times. How it was . done none of
us could tell. . The big fellow would
rush at the little 'nn with his arms go
ing like flails. Suddenly the little fellow
would make a dash, his right arm would
fly out, an down would go the driver.
After the dozenth round that driver
called out: --
"'Hold on, stranger hold on! Tm
whipped and throw up my hands. You
kin ride anywhere on this stage yon darn
please, outside or inside or on the hosses.
You re the boss , now; bnt, he added,
glaring savagely at the rest. of its, 'I kin
lick anybody else on this stage. - . -
We didn't expostulate. The English
man climbed back - into the stage as
quickly as he got off . His wife was sat
isfied, for 'Charley's' face wasn't; even
scratched. At the next station the driver
explained that if he'd only bare got hold
of the little fellow he'd have hugged him
to death like a bear; '"but,' he exclaimed,
'every time .just as I was about to lay
hands on him. the grounded fly up and
hit me on the back of the head.'. ;
"Who was the little fellow? Oh, a
graduate - of Cambridge, and. the best
boxer of his time at the university.";
Washington Post.: ; - . t--- -
The Brilliant Student's Dilemma. -
A Harvard- student told me an am us
ing story , about himself the other day.
It seems that recently his mother had a
young lady gnest at their home on the
Back Bay, and when he came from col
lege in the afternoon he was introduced
to her. At dinner also she sat opposite
him at the table. He paid little . atten
tion to the fair visitor, as his mind was
engrossed with a problem in his lessons.
However, his brothers were as assiduous
as possible in entert ining her. As it
happened, the latter had engagements
out that evening, and, as Mrs. A. had
promised Miss B. to have one of her sons
take her to' the theater, it fell to the lot
of my friend George, the Harvard man.
He accepted the situation gracefully,
and in due time the young couple set off
for the theatre. Arriving, George left
his companion at one side ' of the lobby
while he stepped up to the box office and
purchased the tickets; then,, turning
about, he looked toward the place where
he had parted from the young lady, and
was surprised to see half a dozen there,
and ye gods! is it possible? he could
not tell which was his precious charge!
Here was a dilemma.
George said he immediately decided
that, rather than risk speaking to the
wrong person, he would stand still till
the young lady spoke to him. So he
gazed at his tickets for what seemed to
him an age, but was probably only a
minute, when Miss B. came up and said,
"I fear you did not recognize me. "Oh,
yes yes " stammered George, equivo
cating "yes, I did; I thought they had
not given me the seats I asked for, and
was considering what was best to do in
the matter." Boston Herald.
A Chance for a Fortune.
There survive in this city a few hand -cork
cutters who still contrive to make a
sort of living in competition with the
cork cutting machines and the peasants
of Catalonia. One of these men hangs
out a curious sign in an east side street.
It is a glass case containing the model of
a house all of cork. It is possibly the
house that Jack built, for there are bits
of cork to simulate bags- of grain. Tht
factory is a shed in the rear of an ordi
nary dwelling house. Here, with the
aid of some simple machinery, the cork
cutter manages to eke out an existence.
HiS chief grievances are the competition
of machinery and the problem of dispos
ing of the waste.
Light as cork is, tons of clippings ac
cumulate, and although various uses
have been discovered for this refuse, it
brings little or nothing when sold, and
constantly accumulates to the embar
rassment of the corkcutter. There is a
comfortable little fortune for the man
who shall devise some really profitable
use for cork clippings. New York Sun.
'- When a Chinese compositor sets type
he places them in a wooden frame twenty-two
by fifteen inches. : This frame has
twenty-nine grooves, -each for a line of
" type; and the typi ireats in elay to the
depth of a quarter of an inclu - The types
are of wood, perfectly square, and the
compositor handles them with pincers.
The first electric telegraph at all de
serving"'' the name was. invented by
Messrs.- Cooke and Wheatstone, and was
laid on the London and Blackwell rail
way in June, 1837 r; : :':'' .
' Proceeds of a Jackknlle.
The champion horse jockey belongs in
Belfast in the person of Lije Walker.
Just to give his boy an idea how to get
along in the world Lije started away
txum home one day on foot and nothitig
in his pockets but a jackknife. He was
absent just one week and returned driv
ing a pair of horses harnessed into a top
buggy., Hitched to the rear axle was
another horse and a cow,' while ahead
was a dog. "See how your pap does it,"
said Lije to his son, as he gazed rat the
time of day from a handsome watch.
For a fact he had got the whole turnout
for his Jackknife, and swapping the pro
ceeds into one thing and another. tsal
fast (Me.) Mail.
A Moth Traveled Voluuio.
In opening a package of books wrapped
in tin, the custom bouse inspectors cut
with a knife the binding, by Kuban, of a
"Poor Richard Almanack." The import
er made no claim for damage from the
government, paid the duty, returned the
book to Paris to be rebound and wrote
an ode to Diana of Poitiers, goddess of
book lovers, in gratitude for the miracu
lous escape of the text of his Almanack.
The .book, rebound, came back fifteen
days ago.' The owner supposes that it is
intact, but he does not -know, and he
cannot learn even' . by paying the duty j
again, for the official wants a new in
voice, and the importer is naive enough
to think that he can persuade the official
that the first invoice, which is filed at
the custom house, accurately describes
the book on its fourth voyage across the
Atlantic New York Times.
A Kusso-Chlnese Railway.
A Russo-Chinese railway, is reported
as the objective point of negotiations
now., going,' on between'. Russian' arid
Chinese representatives. . Russia wants
the right to build a railway from Yladi-
vostock, the Pacific terminal of the pro
posed Siberian railway, across the north
ern boundary of Corea to Tien-Tsin, and
thence to Shanghai. The alleged ob
ject is quick transit of Chinese : tea and
talk to Europe. The Chinese, however,
are very jealous of Russian influence
in the. east, and will probably decline
Russian .aid in railway . building. En
gineering News. - ' J " -V---V -;-
"It's
Hicks.
'"Ye-es,
. One Little Thins;.
little things that count,"
Said
.. Dr. John Piente, the amateur telescope
maker, is now finishing a 80$ inch silver
on - glass mirror for Alleghany college,
which, when nimmted- will eive that in
stitution the largest reflecting telescope
in this country. ' -- :- ;.
s ' . -. - ' .l
An immense flume is being, construct
ed near Fresno. Cal.. which wM not
only furnish water for irrigating pur
poses,' but will be used to transport lum
ber needed by farmers living near by.
Blunders of the Teachers.
A friend, . himself for many years a
teacher, writes: "The blunders of teach
ers of English literature are sometimes
more amazing than any ' that are told of
their pupils, I heard the other day of a
woman at the . .west who, when a class
was reading . Tennyson's 'Day Dream,'
explained to them that ths happy prio
cess, in following her lover "deep into
the dying day, went to America! The
laureate would be - tickled to .know of
this. A vear or - more aero there was a
discussion in a leading educational jour
nal as to the persons meant in Longfel
low's lines 'To the River Charles,' where
he says:. . r '.. -.: , . :
.. "More than this -thy name-reminds me
Of three f riendsall true and tried, etc.
"One writer suggested that they were
Professor Cornelius C. Fulton, Nathaniel
Hawthorne and Charles Sumner. An
other thouarht that. Louis Agassiz's name
should stand in -the place of Haw
thorne's, and this was finally accepted
by all concerned. Neither the editor nor
anv of his correspondents or readers ap
peared to see the absurdity of making
the name of the river suggest friends
whose names were other than Charles."
Critio . " ,'..-' - . '
-' ' Making- the Bight Shade,
;' Those who have sought in vain for
laces to match the color of silk on lamp
shades and other decorative articles may
be able, to produce the right -shade by
usintr some of the French tapestry ayes.
One should, experiment on a bit of lace.
first .to see if the dyes are properly
thinned, so as to get the desired shade.
Any of the thin laces in silk or cotton
take the dyes nicely. Point d Hispnt and
German Valenciennes looking very well
when treated with the yellow shades.
In the Valenciennes several delicate tints
may be used on the light and the heavy
part of the lace, bringing out the design,
with excellent effect. In preparing lace
for the dye; brush and press it carefully,
then stretchit upon a board, laying sev
eral thicknesses of paper underneath.
A Story from the American Indians,
Many years ago a boy found a beauti
ful snake, so an Indian legend runs. He
kept it in a bowl of water and took no
tice that small feathers dropped into the
receptacle became living beings. He
experimented and discovered that what
ever he put into the water became alive.
He rubbed some of this snake water oh
his eyes and found that he could see
things that were actually hidden in the
ground. Concluding that he would
make the liquid more powerful by put
ting more snakes into it, he hung up a
number of serpents so that .their oil
dropped into the water. By putting
some of the solution thus obtained into
his mouth he could breathe fire, and by
placing some of it in his eyes he could
see in the dark.
- At will he could transform himself
into a serpent, could become invisible
and could travel at an incredible rate of
speed. An arrow dipped into the liquid
and shot at any living being, even if it
did not hit its object, would neverthe
less kill it. A feather dipped into thi
snake water and pointed at any game
would immediately start for the latter
and slay it. This boy became in this
manner a great wizard. Washington
Star - -
The Amateur Actress.
We had rather throw aside this pen
forever than to write a word to discour
age any woman who is conscientiously
striving to earn a position on the stage;
but there are other women some in the
profession, some; in the audience to
whom it is grossly unfair to put forth an
inexperienced amateur as a . star. . Con
sider, ladies and gentlemen, what a poor,
miserable art that, of acting would be if
anybody could acquire it , in a few les
sons, in a year or so, from a private box
across the footlights f o the center of the
stage. It takes a longer time to learn to
be a carpenter or to play a piano, to be
a dressmaker or to paint a picture, to be
a typewriter or to cut hair properly,
than amateurs .who are now willing .to
bestow upon the art which includes, em
ploys - and dignifies . all other. , arts from
statuesque posing to ; wig wearing. If
acting could be taught in a day it would
not be so well paid nor so highly esteem
ed, and good acting would not be so un
common. Stephen Fiske in Spirit of the
Times. .-
How They Got AI0115.
A Nantucket woman tells of the an
noyance to which the Mitchell household
was subjected, after its daughter, Maria
Mitchell, became famous, at the hands
of two importunate tourists. Its privacy
was so persistently and unwarrantably
invaded that its members felt occasion
ally that politeness ceased to be a virtue.
One persistent woman, who got herself
admitted on a shabby pretext, so wearied
a sister of Miss Mitchell, into whose
hands she fell, that . when the woman
after a series of searching questions
wound up with, "And what do yon do
in this dull town after the tourists are
gone?" the other replied, with a drawl
natural to her, "Oh, we cut off our cou
pons." Exchange. '
r I PAT I ON,
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prv cat r-U:ru. W il
; E:k"::;-; Y2t avmsI A veim, San .'"rnut-isco;
J. i. i.Mwii, IVtuiiiimi; U.S. Whin. Cenxy Court,
Sun i n: . i'5:o, ml l.i.iulrct.s (lf-otiierbttholinvo
I ni.k cunslii'Ution. One letter is a sample of
liv.ii'livtls. Klkitiitfoii, writes: 4I have been for
yearn subject to bilious iicai:iehes aud constipa
tion. Have been fo bad .for a year bank bavo
had to take a physic every other night or else I
would hare a headache. After taking one bottle
of J. V. S., I am in splendid shape. It has done
: wonderful things lor me. People similarly
troubled should try it and be convinced." -
Joy's
Moil nnwic.-i:, hi i fi'.is. tiv. iu.-gi-kt bottla.
Mine price, l.CK(. ; iW t.V.ki. ;
For Sale Toy SNIPES &. KINEBSLY
TH E DALLES. OREGON.
The Evolution of ths Sword.
As men in early times fought hand to
hand, the oldest specimens of , the sword
are short? in fact, the sword is probably
but an -evolution of the club, which at
first made of hard wood was gradually
sharpened on one and then on both sides,
so as to inflict a more deadly wound.
Even today we find some savage races
employing wooden weapons. Wood
gave way to stone, which in turn: was
displaced by bronze, iron and.-finally
steel. .
The sword increased in length as men
became more civilized and showed a dis
position to fight farther away from each
other, which required more dexterity in
the use of the weapon. Some specimens
we have of swords of the Middle Ages are
almost if not quite as long as the war
riors, who wielded them. During the
Fifteenth century the science of fencing
was invented, when the . sword in the
form of a rapier . reached the highest
point of development. Kate Field's
Washington.
Unasked Sympathy.
I cannot touch a piece of velvet with
my fingers or permit the furry side of a
peach skin -to touch . my lips without ex
periencing, immediately a sort of cold
chill all over my person. It is not bo
very severe,- but it is unpleasant. Still I
would prefer to living forever under the
ban of such a chill than to be compelled
to meet once a day one of those oleagi
nous bundles of insincerity and pretense,
the unctuous and effusive chap . who
thinks you are not properly treated and
never loses an opportunity to tell you so.
Of : course I am aware I am not properly
appreciated, but I detest being told of
the fact by another person, who never
lifts a finger in my behalf, and who only
Vegetable
arsaparilla
REAL MERIT
PEOPLE
Say the S. B. Cough Cure is the best
thing they ever saw. We are not
flattered for we known Real Meeit wii,i.
Win'. All we ask is an bonest tual.
For sale by all druggists. ,
. S. B. Medicine Mfg. Co.,
Dnfur. Oregon.
Uiv a small Dristie Drusn-in tne aye ana ,. " - - , x -
UyVc freely.; When;nearly. dry, lay WZtiSSZ ffiSSfifflliS
r..
the lace on - j padded board and
with a hot iron. New York Post.
returned Ma weon." "Butvery i
, It is pretty hard to be told at the be-
inaccurately. My boy Can't count eleven ; ginning of a long, cold winter that goa
without making about forty mistakes.'- j table services are coming in. It was
Harper's Bazar.- . hoped that they bad gone out to stay.
A Toillig Diplomat.
Mrs. Brown I'm afraid to let you have
a bicycle. .
Little Johnnie Don't feel that way,
ma. Even if it did kill me, remember
that it would be the last thing I ever
asked you for. New York Epoch.
Helplns; One Another.
"A seventh ward man rises in the early
dawn of Monday morning and does the
family washing, because his wife has an
organic heart trouble. After he goes to
his daily toil, with the consciousness of
having performed his duty, sue goes over'
and does the washing for the minister's
family. Springfield Homestead. ;
Severe Law.
The Euglish peo
ple look more closely
to the genuineness
of tfaeie staples than
do. In lae", they
have a law under
which they make
Beiznres and de
stroy adulterated
j- r products that are
no' what they are represented to be. Under
till , Ma'ti'te thousands of pounds of tea have
bei::i burned because of their wholesale adul-
U:ation. ...
" Tea, by the way, Is oae of the most noiori-
0:1 !ya-lt:ltcrnted articles of commerce-. Not
aiiinc are the bright, shiny green teas artifl-ci!H-
colored, but tli-i'.i'anrt-s of ponnc's of
ul-:; :ii-M iir tea leavt-s aro iiscd to swell
tlie of chve tea ; .ash, aloe., and willow
'e.-n-es bnin.r ihose most commonly, uwvl.
. A-'--'', sweepings fr.iu tea wareh- tws are
colored and wild as t.-a. Even rjcfcansteil tea
leaves Kaiheicd fromtho toa-h:m-eiire tcpt,
diiuii.and jnadeovermid fliid Ibeir way into
the licsp tea " . ,
' TUc E-.igah government otlempls tn'atainp
this, out by coafl-r!.ii n; but.no tea i rou
poor for nr. and the res'.iU K 'hat probubiy
. the p:wrn t lent lined by any uuiiou are lhi e
eonsv.med fu America.
j:i-v:h'a Tea is rresntd with the guar
anty that it is uut-olorcd and unadulterated;
in fact, the snti-eutea- tea leaf pure and. sim
ple. Its purity insures superior atrencj-.'
bout one third less of it being required
an Infusion than of the artificial teas, and its
fragrance aud exquisite flavor is at once ap
parent. It will be a revelation to you. In
order that its purity and quality may be Knar-,
anteed, it is sold only in pound packages'
bearing this trade-mark:
BEECTEV,
'Pore AsGBiiahood,t
Price 60o per pound. For sale at
Leslie Butler's,
THE DALLES, OEEGOWO-