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10 " KELP GATHERERS. THE IRISH PEOPLE WHO DWELL ON THE ISLAND OF MYNISH. Bude Cabin. Which a Rude and Uatutor . ed Folk Call fiMM-Tteelr Vocation Ndt Strong tedpaAvUen. Right on the western borders of the land, and upon the numerous islands and peninsulas which are the common natural features of this broken part of the Irish coast, the kelp gatherers live. In a certain sense they seem to be an amphibious sort of folk and draw their sustenance, apparently always more or less scanty and precarious, from sea and land alike. Let us picture their exist ence for a moment, such aS we may see it on the island of Mynish, not far from Roundstone bay, off the Galway coast. Imagine an island, about 12 miles in circumference, connected with the main land by a kind of viaduct recently con structed by government, low lying and wind swept by the numerous gales of ocean, but crowded with a popnla tion of several hundred human beings Every little cove or bay will have its cluster of cottages, with their fishing boats anchored close by, ready to run down the bay for mackerel or to fetch a load of kelp from the neighboring rocks when wind and weather permit. The surface of the island itself, which w shewn with huge granite stones and bowlders, is parceled out with the most, exact and scrutinizing jealousy, and if you attempt a short cut across country from one point to anoth er your way is blocked by a continual succession of loosely constructed stone walls serving as partitions between an innumerable series of diminutive plots. So intricate and puzzling is the arrange ment of these plots that you are not at all surprised to hear that they are a source of litigation between the owners ■iot the cottages, who are very fond of invoking the law in spite of their pov erty stricken condition. ' "Cottages” we call them, for the sake of courtesy, but whereas the word “cot tage” calls up in the English sense some ■bright and picturesque surroundings and some appearance of comfort these cot tages or cabins of the kelp gatherers suggest every kind of discomfort. The walls are built of the undressed granite blocks picked up from the surface of the island and loosely put together ac cording to the rules of a very primitive masonry But the roof is sometimes of sod, and more often of reed. The absurd contrast between the strength and sta bility of the walls and the feeble char acter of the roof strikes the eye immedi ately The floors are of very unsatisfac tory character, as they are simply un even pavements with muddy interstices and calculated to retain every kind of filth and abomination. It would be al most impossible to sweep these floors clean even if there existed the will to do it. If there is any glass, it is simply mor tised into some little chink, and win dow frames are unknown—partly be cause wood is scarce and expensive and partly because the fisher folk do not de sire a window that will open. As far as accommodation is concerned, there are only two rooms on the ground floor —one to be used as a kitchen and sitting room, the other to sleep in, no matter the number of the family party. Sometimes there is a kind of loft over head on the kitchen, where some of the occupants can sleep. Outside there is no pigsty or cowshed or any other “office” which we are accustomed to connect with the ideas of comfort and decency. In cold and rough weather the pig and even the cow are admitted to the hospi tality of the hearth, and this accounts for their very friendly and sociable character. As far as “rint” is con cerned, the kelper cannot complain greatly, as it is a judicial "rint” and he cannot be ejected, no matter how he liyes, as long as the rent is paid. . CONDEMNED. When an innocent man is condemned for any crime he doesn’t lose hope. His law- yers appeal from one court to another. They are bound to save him, if he can > be saved. It is the A same way with a fJS good doctor when bis patient seems condemned to death I by disease. | But doctors make Ji mistakes some- /ff times; they lose f' /j heart too soon. / // / After they have I /// tried everything 11 >/s they know and the patient is . /s' no better, they j think there is /~~S nothing more to /? be done. They / don’t always B get at the root f of the disease. / » They frequently give a patient up to die of con- sumption, and ” are afterwards surprised to see him get strong and well again. Mrs. W. B. Duncan, of Arlington, Phelps Co., Mo., writes: “My husband took four bottles of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery when he was (as he thought) almost into consumption, and we were very thankful that such a medicine could be found. I wish all persons troubled with cough would take it. Long may the • Golden Medical Discovery ’ and * Favorite Prescription ’ be made. I shall always recommend and praise these medicines.” All lung and bronchial diseases are cured by Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, because it supplies the system with healthy blood. It puts the vital forces into action and fills the circulation with the life-giving red corpuncles which builds up solid, mus cular flesh and healthy nerve-force. As a medical author, Dr. Pierce holds an eminent place in his profession. His great thousand-page illustrated book, “The Peo ple’s Common Sense Medical Adviser” is one of the standard medical works of the English language. Nearly 700,000 copies were sold at $1.50 each. A paper-bound copy will be sent absolutely free foi the cost of mailing only, ai one-cent stamps; or, cloth-bound for 31 stamps. WorM’a Dis pensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N.Y. 'Scmefimee a "kelper has a right to a common adjoining and can run a few black, faced sheep and some of the black cattle of the country, and whenever be is in a position to save money he prefers to put it in stock rather than to commit it to the keeping of a savings bank. Hera and* there on the island you may chance across a little Circle of stone in a retired nook. Yon need not puzzle long over; it as if it were sosoji archteological find, for it is simply the foundation of a kelp stack that has been piled up inside it, and the calcined appearance of the stones, together with the ashes around them, will immediately reveal its use to you. Far away along the windings of some distant cove you will often see the smoke of these kelp fires rolling heavily out to sea, and the kelp stacks them selves are among the common objects of the seashore, with the long trailing kelp weed drooping down their sides These have been won with much labor from the deep, and the yearly wage paid to the Mynish islanders by the kelp com pany is nearly £2,000 Kelp is, indeed, the main source of their wealth, and many a voyage has to be taken before a ton of kelp is procured. The weed burns down to a viscous, ge latinous mass under the actiou of the fire and then cools down to hard and rugged blocks The kelpers live on fish, milk, tea, bread and eggs chiefly, but seldom on butchers’ meat and bacon, for the pig is really the “jintleman that pays the rint ” Still, in spite of hardships, the kelpers are strong and healthy men. They would make splendid recruits for the navy, but if they leave their native rocks they find their way to the United States or our colonies —St. James Ga zette. J. M. Thirawend, of Grosbeak,Texas says that when he has a spell of indi gestion. and feels sluggish he takes two of DeWitt’s Little Early Risers at night, and he is all right the next morning. Many thousands of others do the same thing. Do you? For sale by Curry-Arrington C . The “Gallery Goda.” The frequenters of the lofty gallery of any theater have a good deal to do with the making or marring of any new play Yet that is not how they acquire their title of "gods. ” As a matter of fact, the origin of the expression is this: Years ago Drury Laue theater had its ceiling painted to resemble a blue sky with clouds, among which white Cupids were flying in every direction. This ceiling extended over the gallery, whose occupants thus appeared to be very near heaven. Hence the expression arose of "gallery gods.”—London Answers. WARNING:—Persons vho suffer from coughs and colds should heed the warnings of danger and save themselves suffering snd fatal results by using One Minute Cough Cure. It is an infallible remedy for coughs, colds, croup and all throat and lung troubles. For sale by Curry-Arring ton Co. CASTORIA Tor Infants and Children. A GREAT PROBLEM’. The Missing Link -Between Inorganic and Organic Life. One great life problem remains which the doctrine of evolution does not touch. The origin of species, genera, orders and classes of beings through endless transmutations is in a sense explained, but what of the first term of this long series? Whence came that primordial organism whose transmuted descendants make up the existing faunas and floras of the globe? There was a time, soon after the doc trine of evolution gained a hearing, when the answer to that question seem ed to some scientists of authority to have been given by experiment. Recur ring to a former belief and repeating some earlier experiments, the director of the museum of natural history at Bonen, M. F A. Pouchet, reached the conclusion that organic beings are spon taneously generated about ns constantly in the familiar processes of putrefac tion, which were known to be due to the agency of microscopic bacteria. But in 1862 Louis Pasteur proved that this seeming spontaneous generation is in reality due to the existence oV germs in the air Notwithstanding the conclu siveness of these experiments, the claims of Pouchet were revived in England ten years later by Professor Bastian, but then the experiments of John Tyn dall, fully corroborating the results of Pasteur, gave a final quietus to the claim of “spontaneousgeneration” as hitherto formulated. There for the moment the matter rests. But the end is not yet. Fauna and flora are here, and, thanks to La marck and Wallace and Darwin, their development, through the operation of those "secondary causes” which we call laws of nature, has been proximal ly explained. The lowest forms of life have been linked with the highest in unbroken chains of descent. Meantime, through the efforts of chemists and biologists, the gap between the inorganio and the organic worlds, which once seemed almost infinite, has been con stantly narrowed. Already philosophy can throw a bridge across that gap. But inductive science, which builds its own bridges, has not yet spanned the chasm, small though it appear. Until it shall have done so the bridge of organic evo lution is not quite complete, yet even as it stands today it is the most stupen dous scientific structure of our century. —Henry Smith Williams, M D., in Harper’s Magazine. When bilous or costive, eat a Cascaret, candy cathartic, cure guaranteed, 10, 25c. 3; S » w nn I / J I® Tttl€ HOME TKIBUNE SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 14. Mart ARMORED PLANTS. Thorn, and flple. That Protect Plante Proa. Their Knemiea. "Plants and Their Enemies” is the title of an article by Thomas H. Kear ney. Jr., m St. Nicholas. Mr Kearney says: There sire a thousand things that threaten the well, being and even the life of every tree and shrub and lowly herb. Too much heat or too little works great harm to plauta Then there are all manner of wasting diseases caused by other tiny plants called fungi and bacteria. Many large animals, as horses and cows and sheep, live by grazing the herbage and grass or browsing the foli age of trees and shrubs. Os course they greatly injure the plants they feed upon and therefore many plants are in one way or another protected against such attacks Did you ever stop to think why this tles are so well armed with sharp prick les or why the ugly roadside nettles are furnished with stinging hairs? Notice cattle grazing in a field where thistles or nettles grow See how careful they are to let those disagreeable plants alone. That is the reason for the stings and the spines See this honey locust tree bristling with its horrid array of three pointed thorns. What animal is brave enough to try to rob it of its leaves or great pods? Hawthorns, too, and rosebushes and blackberry briers all have their sharp little swords and daggers to defend themselves against browsing animals Out on the wide, hot deserts of Ari zona and New Mexico those odd plants, the cactuses, grow in great numbers. Some of them take strange shapes—tall, fluted columns, branching candelabra or mere round balls, like the melon cactus They are almost the only plants that grow in some parts of that country, and there is always plenty of sap inside their tough skins. To the hungry and thirsty crea tures that roam those dreary wastes m search of food and water they are very tempting Were they not in some way protected these cactuses would soon be entirely destroyed, but nature has made them to be like strong forts or great armored battleships among plants. They are guarded by all sorts of sharp spines and prickles and tine hairs that burn when they get into the flesh Notice. I want every man and woman in the United States interested in the opium end whisky habits to have one of my books of these diseases. Address B. M. Woolly, Atlanta, Ga., Box 362, undone will be sent you free. Copper Tempered by Mound Builder*. Ed A. Schloth has received from a friend in Savannah, Ills., a long and small spearhead, a small knife, an awl and a needle taken from one of the pre historic mounds near that city. The tools are all of tempered copper, and when suspended by a thread ring like steel. They have been hammered out and tem pered, and after having been buried in a mound for no one knows how long still retain their temper. The mound builders, who had disappeared from the face of the earth before Columbus dis covered this country, knew how to tem per copper, an art which no man on earth has now, although many have en deavored for years to discover the proc ess. Such specimens are found in but few of the mounds opened, the imple ments found being generally of stone Mr Schloth has a tine collection of rel ics of mound builders and of the aborig ines of this coast and values these tem pered copper articles above them all.— Portland Oregonian. J. C. Berry, one of the best known citizens of Spencer, Mo., testifies that he cured himself of the worst kind of piles by using a few boxes of DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. He had been troubled with piles for over thirty years and had used many different kinds of so called curss; but DeWitt’s was the one that did the work and he will verify this state ment if any one wishes to write him. Cur ry-Arrington & Co. FORMING A Cl-ÜB. They talked of travel art and books, Gave politics soipe rubs, Os music spoke and drifted last To the theme of woman’s clubs. ‘l’ve joined my sixth,” she said, with pride. “Each seemed so a choice.” And on the word he courage took His treasured hope to voice. ■‘Oh, Phyllis, dear—forgive the name— But will you make it seven And join a club 1 know about? Its charter corners from heaven, Its fee is drafts on Cupid’s bank. Its dues are kisses sweet, Its membership is limited, But not its times to meet. •‘Already half the numlier’s got. A single smile from you Will fill the list and found for aye This happy club of two Nay, sweet, look up! You think you’ll joint Oh, bliss that crowns my Life! You shall be all the officers And be. besides—my wife!’ Harper’s Bazar. YOUNG LADIES who suffer from Profuse, Painful, Suppressed or Ir . regular Menstruation are \ soon restored to health by J Bradfield’s f Female Regulator. 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