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By tire Eagle Publishing* Company. VOLUME XL. 1899. H. E. ANODE & CO. START THE New Year BY GETTING IN NEW GOODS. This week we are opening up a large shipment of SHOES. To all our customers we wish to say that this year our stock of Clothing, Hats, Shoes, and Fine Dry Goods will be the largest we have ever shown. R. E. ANDOE & CO., 14 IWLain St. Telephone 9. f'l ■ Waterman, Burnett & Co., Cj EXCLUSIVE b lothiers, Tailors. GENTS’ FURNISHINGS and SHOES, I GAINESVILLE, G-JL. Time to flow. The season for sowing grain is now here, and it is to your interest to have the'very best implements. We have a large stock of 5 war) . > JT ■ -'JI F ’OH r OR% raSr -SOLARK’S CUTAWAY HARROWS,e«- Torrent Harrows. 1, 2, and 3 Horse Plows: AVERY’S STEEL, SYRACUSE, SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL WORKS, OLIVER PATENT. CsF’r i I) Tb e largest lot ever brought to Gaines- Jik L 11 vz JDILO» ville, from the cheapest to the finest. vz JL vJT U±l O» Breech and muzzle loaders. A new era in prices. Everything cheaper than ever before. Come and see us. S.C. DINKINS & CO THE GAINESVILLE EAGLE. COTTON is and will con tinue to be the money crop of the South. The planter who gets the most cot ion from a given area at the •east cost, is the one who makes die most money. Good culti vation, suitable rotation, and liberal use of fertilizers con taining at least 3% actual Potash .vill insure the largest yield. We will send Free, upon application, jamphlets that will interest every cotton planter in the South. GERMAN KALI WORKS, Lazy Liver “I have been troubled a great deal with a torpid liver, which produces constipa tion. I found CASCARETS to be all you claim for them, and secured such relief the first trial, that I purchased another supply and was com pletely cured. I shall only be too glad to rec ommend Cascarets whenever the opportunity is presented.” J. A Smith. 2920 Susquehanna Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. CANDY £ CATHARTIC trade mark rkoistireo Pleasant, Palatable. Potent. Taste Good. Do Good, Never Sicken, Weaken, or Gripe, 10c, 25c,60c. ... CURE CONSTIPATION. .J Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago, Montreal, New York. 320 Mn_TA_D*P Sold and guaranteed by all drug nU I IrDAu gists to CI'RE Tobacco Habit. —all women | of | all the pain CsW ■ andsicknessfrom which women suffer is caused by weakness Dr der a n g e ment in the organs of ' menstruation. W vt/jTI Nearly always QMMm when a woman is not well these organs are affected. But when they are strong and healthy a woman is very seldom sick. W®rdni is nature’s provision for the regu lation of the menstrual function. It cures all “ female troubles.” It is equally effective for the girl in her teens, the young wife with do mestic and maternal cares, and the woman approaching the period known as the “ Change of Life.” They all need it. They are all benefitted by it. For advice In cases requiring special directions, address, giving symptoms, the ” Eadies’ Advisory Department,” The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chatta nooga. Tenn. THOS. J. COOPER, Tupelo, Miss., says: “ My sister suffered from very Irregular and painful menstruation and doctors could not relieve her. Wine of Cardul entirely cured her and also helped my mother through the Change of Life.” Itrests with you whether you continue nerve-killing tobai <•<> habit. removes the desire for tobae-. o, with- .-rf' out nervous distress, expels tine, purities the blood, - ft . stores lost manhood, -rfs/Y ft « k hove, makes you V tjU J * 400,000 m kj <w^Jji^cases cured. Buy and filv-XOTOHAC from book. it our own druggist, who M N E vouch for us. Take it with a will,patiently, persistently. One box .*L usually cures; 3 boxes, 52. 60, guaranteed to cure, or we refund money. Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago, Montreal, New Tor*. I V II v, The most fascinating inven. \ > tionof the age. Always ready Mlsf" , \ f to entertain. It requires nq —> skill to operate it and repro duce the music of bands, or, w—d \ chestras, vocalists or instru 'JfqZ mental soloists. There is nothing like it for an even ing’s entertainment at home or inthesocial gath ering. You can sing or talk to it and it will reproduce immediately and as often as desired, your song or words. Other so-called talking machines reproduce only records of cut and dried subjects, specially prepared iu a laboratory; but the Graphophone is not limited to such performances. On the Grapho phorieyoncaneasilymakeahd instantly reproduce records oT the voice, or any sound. Thus it con stantly awakens new interest and its charm is ever fresh.' The reproductions are clear and brilliant. BrapWWsaie sola Manufactured under the patents of Bell, Tain ter KdiSon and Macdonald. Our establishment is head quarters of the world for Talking Machines and Talking Machine Supplies. Write for catalogue. Columbia Phonograph Co,, “Dep’t 30,” 919 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, - - - - DC. NEW YORK. PARIS. CHICAGO. ST LOUIS. PHILADELPHIA. BALTIMORE WASHINGTON. BUFFALO. sfa Agricultural 5 College n Main Building. DAHLONEGA, GA. A college education in the reach of all. A.8., 8.5., Normal and Business Man’s courses. Good laboratories; healthful, invigorating cli mate; military discipline; good moral and religious influences. Cheapest board in the State; abundance of country produce; expenses from §75 to §l5O a year; board in dormitories or private families. Special license course for teachers; full faculty of nine; all uuder the control of the University. A college prepar atory class. Co-education of sexes. The insti tution founded specially for students of limited means. Send for catalogue to the President. Jos. S. Stewart, A.M. EhataJblislied'iii 1860. 4 GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1899. THE SASSAFRAS PLANT. I From It May Be Brewed a. Pleuant? Tea and a. Good Macila&e. • A correspondent of the Charleston News and Courier says of the sassafrau plant: “The whole plan.t ia valuable for its medicinal properties. The roof makes an excellent tea, spicy and fra« grant, and baa alterative virtues quite aaj good as the sarsaparilla. The stalks’ have an inner pith that, although tedi-jl ous to extract much of it, when scrape® out and put into cold water and agitate® for a few moments with a spoon forma a most thick and tenacious retaining a delicate flavor of the ameljb of the sassafras and ia a bland amt soothing drink in fevers, when tha mouth is dry and great thirst exists, if is frequently retained gratefully whes plain water ia ejected. * It ia astoniahing how mucilaginous q small quantity of this pith makes q tumbler of water, which becomes thick* as gum arable water. A mere ful of the pith taken out of the small, green branches of the bush will maker three or four tumblerfuls of thick muV cilage. For inflamed eyes this mucilaginoufr water is very soothing and curative and has long been used for all forma of injj ! flammation of delicate tissues, bat is s$ simple that it is ignored by the profqgk sion. The oil of sassafras, which is madtf from the root as well as other parts or the plant, makes a splendid liniment for pains and aches in combination witJR ■ turpentine in proportion of one-third oL the former to two-thirds of the latteiL Other stimulating tinctures, such a|F spirits of ammonia, are sometimes add ed, but the chief ingredient of the ligbtr. ning liniments hawked about by itinef* ant quacks are composed principally of sassafras oil, which is really pungent* * and effective. *’ THE PRICE OF PEPPER. | It Helped to Change the History oS the Old World. In the sixteenth century all the pep- 1 per consumed in England was bought by the English merchants from the Dutch, who brought it from Indiaf- Owing to racial jealousy, the Datclq traders in 1599 raised the cost from 8 shillings to 6 shillings per pound. 3?hia petty display of ill feeling caused con£t siderable annoyance to the English * chants and aroused in them that feeling " of independence whjch has always beeir' so characteristic of our race. They determined to import their pep* per direct from India in their owa ships, and for this purpose formed ar’ company, called the Governor and| Company of Merchants of London Trad- ' ing to the East Indies, and vhich ift latter days became eventually known' as the East India company. i Their first voyages embroiled them in almost innumerable quarrels with;' the Dutch and Portuguese, and for a '■ time the venture proved a financial fail ure. It was not until 1615 that thli company became successfc} lucrative treaties, lawing cisively defeating the Portuguese. From this time on their possessions gradually increased, slowly at first, and then very rapidly, until, by the wise and beneficial management of such men as Clive, Warren Hastings and Corn wallis, they exercised sovereignty over the greater portion of India. In this manner it happened that an increase in the price of pepper momen tously affected the history of mankind. —London Standard. A Shining Mark. A lady, grievously tormented with a corn on her toe, was advised by one of her friends to anoint it with phosphorus, which in a weak moment she did, but forgot to tell her husband before retir ing at night. It had just turned 12 when the husband awoke, and was star tled to see something sparkling at the foot of the bed. He had never heard of a firefly in the locality, nor did be ever remember see ing such a terrible looking object as the toe presented. Reaching carefully i out of bed till he found one of his slip- 1 pers be raised it high in the air and j brought it down with great force upon i the mysterious light. A shriek and an avalanche of bed clothes, and all was over. When at last be released himself from the bedclothes, he discovered his wife groaning in a corner of the bedroom, but she bad not got that phosphorated corn.—London Answers Weather Forecaata. The first attempt at scientific fore casting of the weather was the result of a storm which during the Crimean war, Nov. 14, 1854, almost destroyed the fleets of France and England. As a' storm bad raged several days earlier in France Vaillant, the French minister of war, directed that investigations be made to see if the two storms were the same and if the progress of the disturb ances could have been foretold. It was demonstrated that the two were in real ity one storm and that its path could have been ascertained and the fleet fore warned in ample time to reach safety. Qualified to Do It. “Did you know,” said the tooth oar- ; penter, looking up from his paper, “that the Indians practiced dentistry in the earliest times?” “I didn't know it, ” replied the man who had once sat in a dentist’s chair, “but I am not at all surprised. The In dians have always been a brutal and cruel race. ” Then he laughed gleefully, forgetful of the fact that there was still time for the dentist to add sls or S2O to his bill. —Chicago Post. Where Our Langaage Stumbles. “There is positively the dumbest man ' 1 ever saw. Why, that fellow doesn’t know anything.” “And yet be is chief assistant in his wife’s intelligence office.”—Chicago News. Mrs. Nancy Hitchcock, Sanfordsvile, Ga., writes: My husband, Elder D. S. Hitchcock used Dr. M. A. Simmons | Liver for indigestion, and think its med ical properties far exceed Zeilin’s Reg ulator and Black Draught. Magistrate Pool of New York city has barred the bible from his court room, except as a book of reference or quotation. He will have no more kissing of tbe book by witnesses. He says kissing the Bible in court serves no purpose further than to distribute disease germs. Hereafter he will swear witnesses by making them hold up their right bands. OLD- DUELING RULES. “MUCH USEFUL ADVICE” FROM AN ANCIENT BOOK. If Hie Combatant Dies a« a Result of the Encounter, He Is Told to Go Ofl as Good Grace as Possible. Irishmen Not Good Seconds. To Englishmen dueling is happily a lost art, but three-quarters of a century ago dueling was sufficiently in vogue to induce an anonymous writer to publish a book “containing much useful infor mation, ” ironically dedicated to Daniel O’Connell, Esq., M. P., and James Silk Buckingham, Esq.. M. P., as “enter taining the opinion first promulgated by the immortal Falstaff of happy memory that discretion is the better part of valor. ” The author advises “all my country men who go abroad to use the pistol in stead of the sword when they have the choice of the weapon, as the balance of killed and wounded is now much in fa vor of the French, who, upon the ter mination of the late war, amused them- I selves by occasionally spitting some half dozen of our traveling young fashion cables before breakfast.” He recom mends “Purdey, in Oxford street, afi the maker of the best dueling pistol i* locks, ” care in the selection of a stock • which fits the hand comfortably and to •eschew “saw handles. ” Barrels should be ten inches long and half rifled, which, considering that throughout his ' volume he poses as a man of the strict best honor, is puzzling, for he admits E that a wholly rifled pistol is considered an unfair weapon, therefore one not ap pearing to be rifled should be substi tuted. On “the chances” he writes. “Many . a poor, long armed, straggling fellow ►has received the coup di (sic) coeur (or fatal stroke) who might still have been in existence had he known how to pro tect his person in the field, ” the neces sary protection consisting in standing 1 sideways and drawing in the stomach. , “Should the party be hit” —presumably because he could not draw in his stom ach— “he must not feel alarmed. ” Thia seems difficult, as a man with a bullet in his stomach can hardly be expected * oof to display some little natural anxie ty, for, as is admitted later, “a shot in the digestive organs must be particu , larly annoying to a bon vivant. ” To - aldermen his advice is “the old method of fighting—the back to the adversary and discharging over the shoulder.’ “The chances of a man’s being killed are about 14 to 1, and of his being hit about 6 to 1.” He arrives at this conclusion by dividing a man’s > body, when opposed to his adversary, . into nine parts. Therefore he says, “As ' in only three of these a wound would ■ prove mortal, the chances are 8 to 1 against his being killed, and 5 to ■1 against his being hit —that is, how- Jev^r," he hastens to add, “provided his Jantogonist has never read my work. If hqhas, the case may be different 1” combatant is told “not to allow . the idejt of* becoming a target to make him uneasy, but to treat the matter jocosely. ” He is to laugh away the evening over a bottle of port, and play a rubber of whist, but he must avoid drinking to excess, or taking “any food that tends to create bile. ’ ’ because ‘ ‘bil ious objects are not seen either distinct ly or correctly. ’ ’ This would rather be a valid reason for getting as bilious as possible. A man with an attack of jaundice should be invisible, and able to blaze at his antagonist in perfect safety If he cannot sleep on retiring to rest, he is to read Byron’s “Childe Harold. ” His servant is to call him at 6 and give him a strong cup of coffee. Then he is to smoke a cigar, and “on his way to the scene of action” he is to take a brandy and soda, as a most “grateful stimulant and corrective. ” No wonder our author recommends him at this point to draw in his stom ach. “If he dies, he is to go off with as good grace as possible!” On the other haftd, if he hits his antagonist, he is to take off his hat to him and express re- ■ gret I A challenge is not to be in rhyme, ' such as “a certain poetical, brandy lov ! ing major general of marines” wrote to a brother officer who ran off with his wife: Wounds on the flesh a surgeon’s skill may , heal, But wounded honor’s only cured with steel. An Irishman is not to be chosen as second, for nine out of ten have such an innate love of fighting they cannoi bring an affair to an amicable adjust ment, and the first duty of a second ia to prevent the affair coming to a seri ous issue. Other advice is for the sec ond to take care his principal is not in convenienced by the sun, and to get hig antagonist with something dark behind him, when it will be much more easy to hit him. As may be inferred, the author holds by dueling, for “the man who falls in a duel and the individual who is killed by the overturn of a stagecoach are both unfortunate victims to a prac tice from which we derive great advan tages It would be absurd to prohibit stage traveling because occasionally a few lives are lost by an overturn, and unless men endeavored to destroy each other they might live to a patriarchal ! age and multiply so rapidly that the . soil would soon be insufficient to sup ply them with nourishment,” with which reductio ad absurdum the vol ume may well be put back on the shelf —Navy and Army Illustrated. A Double Headed Bull. On the occasion of a public reception at Napier, Australia, the school chil dren of the town, after being duly com plimented by his excellency from Coun ty Tyrone on the hearty manner in which they had rendered the national i anthem, were solemnly assured that if ' they put their shoulders to the wheel they would be sure to reach the top of the tree! Upon which a compatriot turned to me and said, “Sure, it was an axletree he meant, bedad. ”—Spec tator. Mother’s Trusted Friend, Simmons Squaw Vine Wine or Tablets, Prepare | the System for confinement, shorten labor and make child birth easy. Dr. H. H. Carlton says if the army of Northern Virginia had been as well supplied with food and equip ment as the American army in Cuba and Porto Rico tbe southern men down about Richmond would be fighting yet. Don’t wreck a life! From girlhood to womanhood the monthly course should be regulated with Simmons Squaw Vine Wine or Tablets. MYSTERIOUS LIGHT AT SEA. Three Steamers Didn’t Underatua* It, but the Prince of Monaco Knew. The Prince of Monaco has been known since 1885 as an enthusiastic student of the sea and its various forms of Ufa He usually spends his summers in the study of oceanographic problems, and his cruises have on some occasions been extended almost to the coasts of Amer ica. He delivered a lecture before the Royal Geographical society in London in which he told this incident : One afternoon, while in the bay of Biscay, he sank the trap in which he collected specimens of sea life. It went to the bottom in over 12,000 feet of water, and as night approached he fas tened to the wire attached to it an elec tric buoy and then stood off a mile or so. It did not happen to occur to him that he was right in the track of steam ers plying between northern Europe and the Mediterranean, but he was re minded of the fact later. As he and his 14 sailors were watch ing with a good deal of satisfaction the swaying buoy with its brilliant illu mination a steamer’s lights came into view It was soon evident that the steamer was curious to know the mean ing of the illumination, for she altered her course and made for the light She knew that no fishing boats came out so far from land and so determined to solve the mystery. Up she came to .within a quarter of a mile of the buoy, slowed up for a minute, and then start ed ahead, perhaps a little disgusted at the incident that had lured her several miles out of her course. She had hardly got away when a sec ond steamer came into view, and she, too, bore down upon the lighted buoy The marines on the prince’s vessel un derstood by this time that the illumina tion was probably believed to be evi dence of a disaster. Just as the prince’s steamer was moving up to explain mat ters she was nearly run down by one of the large liners in the oriental trade, which had also left her course to render what assistance she could. The swell was very heavy, and the prince feared a collision as the three vessels approached the light like moths around a candle He therefore veered off and the other vessels, after standing by for a few minutes, went on their way and probably never learned the cause of that night’s illumination at sea. But the incident gave the prince a pointer He carefully refrained there after from exhibiting his electric buoy on any of the much traveled ocean routes.—New York Sun. FOOLED IN A HORSE TRADE. This Animal Possessed Several Re markable Traits. A prominent English landlord was one day riding across a common ad jacent to his preserves when he over took one of his tenants, who was also mounted. After the usual salutations they rode on in silence for some min utes, when the tenant slightly spurred his horse, a balky animal, whereupon it dropped to its knees. “What’s the matter with your horse?” asked his lordship. The em barrassed tenant remarked byway of explanation that his steed always acted that way when there was game to be found. A moment later, to the tenant’s sat isfaction and surprise, a frightened hare jumped out of some bushes near by. This so impressed the landlord that he at once drove a bargain by which he secured the tenant’s barebacked beast in exchange for his own fine mount, perfectly saddled. With much agility the tenant leaped to his new horse, and all went well until they came to a small stream, whereat the landlord’s new nag immediately balked. A drive home with the spurs brought it again to its knees. “Hello, what’s up now? There’s no game here, ’ ’ said his lordship. “True, my lord,” was the ready re ply, “but I forgot to tell you ’ee’s as good for fish as ’ee is for gama”—San Francisco Argonaut. The Audience Got Ansrry. There was a scene of wild excitement during the last week of May, 1892, at ’ the Gaiety, London, and all owing to the singular behavior of a policeman. Two popular entertainers were on the stage, and one of them asked the audi ence a little conundrum, “Why is a po liceman an utter scoundrel?” A gentleman in blue who was appar ently on duty in the body of the thea ter at once took offense. He jumped on to the stage and, seizing the offender, attempted to drag him off. The audience rose in indignation. Men shook their fiats and shouted, “What has he done?” One frenzied young lady in the front of the gallery ' seized a tumbler and would have thrown j it at the policeman if her arm had not i been arrested. The policeman then dragged his cap- ; tive off the stage amid the hisses and shouts of the audience. But anger was speedily changed to laughter when Mr. Policeman reappeared with his victim and stood revealed as one of the Cosmo trio, y never saw an audience so com pletely taken in.—London Correspond ence. PiKH and Witchcraft. Two women of the lower class were quarreling violently the other evening in Heavitree, a suburb of Exeter. One yelled to the other: “You wretch, yon always keep a black and a white pig, so that you can witch us! You ought to be scragged I’ ’ The one so addressed, ' it seems, has lived in her cottage some 20 years. She has during this period, it ■ is said, always kept a couple of pigs, one of each color, and her neighbors consider she does this so that she may enjoy the very questionable powers of ■ witchcraft. No butcher in the neigh- 1 borhood will buy her pigs, as if he was known to do so he would certainly lose ■ the local custom upon which he relies. I —Notes and Queries. An Honest Medicine for LaGrippe. | George W. Waitt of South Gardiner, Me., says: “I have had the worst cough, cold, chills and giip and have taken lota of trash of no account but profit to the> vendor. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is the only thing that has done any good whatever. I have used one 50-cent bottle> and the chills, cold and grip have all. left me. I congratulate the manufac turers of an honest medicine.” For sala by M. C. Brown & Co. To sweeten the breath, brighten the eye, clear the complexion and insure the natural bloom of health, use Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine. 1.00 Per Annum in Advance. FREAKS OF MEMORY. QUEER PRANKS FOR WHICH THERE IS NO ACCOUNTING. Some Instance* of the Singular Ef fects Produced I'pon the Mind by Gasing Steadily at a Crystal—For gotten lucidenta Recalled. The queer freaks of memory are a constant puzzle to those who study psychical phenomena Who has not been driven to the verge of distraction by the total inability to recall a name when an effort was made to do so and when the occasion for such remem brance was past had the missing name flash into the mind apparently of its own volition? Great minds have wrestled to find an explanation for the pranks that memory plays and have had to give up the effort In the course of a systematic at tempt to arrive at some understanding with regard to the wonders of memory a very valuable and unique body of testimony has been obtained. The fol lowing questions have been put to 200 American university students and pro fessional persons. 151 being men and 49 being women. The answers are here given with the questions Question I.—When you cannot recall a name you want, does it seem to oome back spontaneously without being sug gested by any perceived association of ideas 1 To this 11 per cent answered “No” and 81 per cent “Yes. ” Question 2.—Does such recovery ever eome during sleep? To this 17 per cent answered “No” and 28 percent “Yes. ’ Some examples given 1 This morning I tried to recall the name of a character I had read of the night before in one of Scott’s novels and failed. I taught a class, and walking home in the afternoon all the names re curred to me without effort 2. I tried to recall the name of a book. Gave it up Half an hour later, while talking of something else, blurted it out without conscious volition. Question B.—On seeing a sight or hearing a sound for the first time, have you ever felt that you had seen (or heard) the same before ? Fifty-nine per cent answered “Yes.” The action of unconscious memory during sleep is illustrated by further queries Question 4. —Do you dream ? Ninety four per cent answered “Yes. ” Question 5. —Can you wake at a given hour determined before going to sleep without waking up many times before? Fifty-nine per cent answered “Yes. ’ Thirty-one per cent answered “No.” Question 6. —ls you can, how about failure? Sixty-nine per cent seldom failed; 25 per cent often. Question 7. —Do you come direct from oblivion into consciousness ? Sixty-four per cent answered “Yes” and 16 per cent “Gradually ” Examples 1. I had to give medicine every two hours exactly to my wife. lam a very sound sleeper, but for six weeks I woke up every two hours and never missed giving the medicine. 2. I am always awake five minutes before the hour I set the alarm. 3. I had had little sleep for ten days and went to bed at 9, asking to be called at midnight I fell asleep at once. I rose and dressed as the clock stuck 12. and could not believe I had not been called. A strange phenomenon has come to light in the course of the inquiry into the mystery of memory. It has been discovered that by gazing steadily at a crystal consciousness is partly lost. In to the void thus produced those who have practiced crystal gazing find that there enter unbidden forgotten incidents and lost memories To give a few in stances ■■ A lady in crystal gazing saw a bit of dark wall covered with white flowers She was conscious she must have seen it somewhere, but had no recollection where. She walked over the ground she had just traversed and found the wall, which she had passed unnoticed. She took out her bankbook another day. Shortly afterward she was gazing at the crystal and saw nothing but the number one. She thought it was some hack number, but, taking up the bank book, found to her surprise it was the number of the account. At another time she destroyed a let ter without noting the address. She could only remember the town. After gazing at the crystal some time she saw “321 Jefferson avenue.” She ad dressed the letter there, adding the town, and found it was right. A lady sat in a room to write where she had sat eight years before. She felt her feet moving restlessly under the ta ble and then remembered that eight years before she always had a footstool It was this her feet were seeking Psychical research brings to light many cases of similar strange tricks of memory It is easy to find instances that serve to deepen the mystery It is not so easy to give an explanation. The cleverest men who have attempted to do so have had to admit defeat. —Wash- ington Post The Women of Belglnm. No one can travel in Belgium with out being struck by the extraordinary activity and prominence of the women. Over the doors of shops of all descrip tions the name of the owner or owners is frequently followed by “Soeurs” or “Veuve.” You find them proprietors of hotels and restaurants. They are often custodians of the churches. They are employed to tow the boats along the canal banks. They cut up the meat in the butchers’ shops, and they are even to be noticed shoeing horses at the forge. To Ba Avoided. Mrs. De Sour—l want you to keep your dog out of my house It’s full of fleas Mrs. De Smart—Mercy on me I Fido, come here, sir I Don’t you go into that house again. It’s full of fleas. —Jewish •Comment One of the shrewdest of modern Iswindlers turned a pretty penny in I Vienna the other day. By circula 'ting false rumors he started a run on a bank, and then when the anxious depositors gathered about the doors and were fighting for admission to get what part of their deposits they could before the money was all gone, be circulated among them and by offering cash payments bought a num ber of deposit books for trifling sums The bank, as a matter of fact, was absolutely sound, and the swindlei ‘made a lot of money. NUMBER 5. CLOTHES SPECIALS. Queer Pockets and Thlncx Tailors Have to Put In Garment!. “No special' With that remark to the assistant who took down the measurements the tailor dismissed his patron and said that the suit would be finished “sure” on a certain day “What did you mean by saying ‘no special' to your clerk ?" asked the cus tomer. “Well, that means that you want your clothes made all right and without any crank things about them. Pockets are the great specials. We have cus tomers who want, besides the regular pockets, places in their waistcoats for pencils, eyeglasses and all sorts of things Some pencil pockets are made to hold only one pencil and some for a bunch Eyeglass jMa kets are also or dered in keeping with the shape and style of the glasses, and pockets for cigars are ordered for all sizes, from the little half pencil shape to the great big perfecto. Freak pockets, inside of other pockets, are also in demand, and chamois lined pockets, which we usual ly make for the watch side of the waist coat. are ordered often for trousers by men who carry silver trinkets in them. ’ Another class of special customers are those whose garments are made with a view to the wearer’s health Many men have an inner band of red flannel put on the waist of their trou sers as a cure for rheumatism, and some driving coats are made so that sheets of stout paper may be slipped between the breast lining and the doth when driving against the wind. “On the whole.” said the tailor, “a man in my business has the best oppor tunity to find out the kinks and queer points about men. not only as to their persons, but their minds ” —New York Tribune FINERTY’S SERMON. It Brouslit Braise From the Preacher ' Who Didn't Deliver It. Before ex-Congiessman John Finerty became famous as the great American British lion tail twister he was one of the best reporters in Chicago He was on The Tribune, and one day a certain city editor (best known to fame as the man who always wore a straw hat and smoked a corncob pipe) decided that Mr. Finerty should be disciplined. It was Saturday, and some time after midnight Mr Finerty was assigned to report the morning sermon of an ob scure minister way down on the South Side Finerty was the senior, and his associates were thunderstruck. They expected an explosion, at least, but Finerty remained calm and dignified, although a trifle pale “Then he will resign,” they thought, but Finerty walked out and made no sign To the surprise of every one, he reported the next day as usual and turned in an ab stract of the sermon Every one read it on Monday morning, and it was cer tainly an eloquent and carefully report ed sermon That afternoon a man of clerical cut called on the city editor and asked to see the young man who had reported his sermon the morning before Mr Finerty was introduced The man of the clerical cut would like to see Mr Finerty alone for a few momenta Out in the hallway he asked. “Os course, you were D?t at my church yesterday morning?' “No,” replied Finerty. “Well. 1 simply stopped to thank you for the sermon It was far more elo quent than the one I preached. ” Finerty had composed the sermon in a neighboring cellar beer saloon on Saturday night —Lippincott’s Maga zine Fok In PhotoKraphr. One serious and at the same time un suspected source of fog in photography is often due to the fact that the black ing has slightly worn off the leui mount and there is a reflection which results in a loss of brilliancy in the negative Constant use and endless cleaning of the lens in time wear the blacking off, and this should be attend ed to and all metal parts kept well blacked. Where lenses are mounted in aluminium still more care is necessary in this respect, as, wherever iu such cases the blacking wears off, white light instead of yellow light is reflected into the lens. Sometimes diaphragms of the iris pattern are greatly at fault in this re spect. By reason of its construction the leaves or vanes in this diaphragm are in constant friction while being set, and thus become polished and reflective, for which reason some photographers avoid having iris diaphragms in their lenses, notwithstanding their convenience. 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