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Against the names of four well
known women authors, the notice
“Withdrawn from circulation” appears
in the Enoch Pratt libraries of Balti¬
more. This action was taken by Ber¬
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ground that the works are of a harm¬
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writers are Bertha M. Clay, Ann Ste¬
vens, Dora Rusell and Mrs. E.D.E. N.
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who has been a life-long resident of
Washington, was advised of the action
of Librarian Steiner, she said: “The
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»W I have tU«r l.ea.■.» »n<1 that
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A MOTHER’S EFFORT,
A Molhav S*es Her Danc'bter in a Pitiful
Condition, lmt Manases to Rescue
Her.
From the New Era , Greensbuyg, Iwl.
The St. Paul correspondent for the New
Era recently had an item regarding the case
of Mabel Stevens, who had just recovered
from a serious illness of rheumatism and
nervous trouble, and was able to be out for
the first time in three months. The letter
stated that it was a very bad case and her
recovery the was considered such a surprise to
neighbors that it created considerable
gossip.
Being anxious to learn the absolute facts
! n ease, a special reporter was sent to
some distance H?.™
away. A message W8S sent
to Mr. Stevens, asking him to write up a
full history of the case, ami a few days ago
the following letter was received from Mrs.
Stevens:
“Sr. Patx, Ind., Jan. 20 , 1897 .
Ne r w Aro Greensburg, Ind.
Dkau L bias: Your kind letter received
an d i !im t0 have the opportunity to
tell you about the sickness and recovery of
Wo don’t want any newspaper uo-
toriety, but iu a case like this where a few
words of what I have to say may mean re-
covary for some child, I feet it mv duty to
tel * you of her case.
7 " y r Ar3 a «° t h,s wtntor Mabal began
complaining pally , of pains . m her limb 3 , prmci-
in her lower limbs. She was goingto
school, and had to walk about three quar-
? milf! ‘ ,acJl day, going through all
kinds of weather. She was thirteen years
old and doing so well in her studies that I
disliked to take her from school but we had
to do it.
“For several months she was confined to
v lf! house, and she grew pale and dwindled
! down to almost nothing. Her legs and
arms were drawn up and her appearance
was pitiful. Several doctors had attended
•• «•«*“*' ««»»»•«
ber any good. They advised us to take her
to the springs, but times were so hard we
could not afford it, although we finally
managed to get her to the Martinsville
baths. Here she grew suddenly weaker,
1 and it seemed that she could not stand it’
Lilt she became better. aDd it seemed that
j she was being benefited, but she suddenly
grew worse, and we had to bring her home.
“.dhe lingered along, and last winter be¬
came worse again, aud was afflicted with a
nervous trouble almost like the >St. Vitus’
dance. For some time we thought slio
would die, and the physicians gave her up.
When she was at her worst a neighbor came
in with a box of Dr. Williams’ Pink Piils for
Pale People and wanted us to try them as
they were advertised to be good for such
eases, and her daughter had used them for
nervousness with such good results that
she thought they might help Mabel.
“We tried them. .The first box helped
her some, and after she had taken three
boxes she was able to sit up in bed. When
she had finished a half dozen boxes she was
able to be out and about. She has taken
about nine boxes altogether now. and site
is as well as ever, and going to school
every day, having started in again three
weeks ago. Her cure was undoubtedly
due to these pills.”
(Signed) Mas. Aminda Stevexs.”
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contain, in a condensed form, all tbe ele¬
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after effect of la grippe, palpitation of the
heart, pale and sallow complexions , all
forms of weakness either in male or female.
The Pink I’ills are sold by ail dealers, or will
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HOOF OF THE WORLD.
The Vast, Lone and Desolate Plain of tho
Pamirs.
Just, over the mountain wall from
Chitral lies the vast, lone and desolate
plain of tho Pamirs. “Going north
eastward from Wakhan, where dwell
stout warriors and good hunters, and
travelling by a road which asaends for
three whole days together, you eome
to an exceeding high mountain, than
which there is said to be none higher
in the world. Here also between two
mountains is a great lake, and run¬
ning over tho plain is a very fine
river. The plain is twelve days’ jour¬
ney in length, and is called Pamere.
Onward the road leads to Kashgar,
which is tributary to the Great Khan. ”
Such was Marco Polo’s account of the
“Roof of the World,” and it tallies
well with all men known to-day of
that forbidding region. It is about
120 miles by 250 miles in extent, and
is a region of broad valleys, each
three or four miles wide. Most of the
country is bare, but parts of it in the
summer yield good grass, on which
the ivirghis nomads pasture theii
flocks, the “wandering Kirghizzes,
who come on shaggy ponies from
Pamere.” Besides the valleys there
are huge bare mountains rising more
than 20,000 feet above the sea, while
the bottoms of the valleys are at an
altitude of from 13,000 to 15,000 feet.
Winter begins in August and ends
in May, and the temperature is often
from 15 to 20 degrees below zero. The
latter half of June and the first two
weeks of July contain the only really
warm weather. Heavy frosts begin
with the first of August.
The only resident population of the
Pamirs are the wandering Kirghis.
Of these there are in the whole region
not more than a hundred families, with
five or six persons in a family. They
live in tents, and for their living de¬
pend entirely upon their flocks. They
come down from the mountains to the
nearest towns occasionally to buy
flour and grain, and to self their cat-
tie a^l hides. As a rule they are well
clad and robust, prosperous-looking
men. A few of them carry firearms,
which they use for shootiug game for
food. They are a friendly, amiable
people, well disposed towards the
British, but regard the Chinese as the
real lords of the world. In religion
they are Mahometans. They have no
temples or mosques, but pray at sun-
set looking toward the West.
a DART taking tea at a small com¬
pany, being very fond of hot rolls,
was asked to have auother.
“Realiv, I cannot,” she modestly
•*>« "»»r I
have eaten already.
“I do,” unexpectedly exclaimed a
juvenile upstart, whose mother allow¬
ed him a seat at the table. “You’ve
eaten eight ”
fcHEN POLLY WAS MY SWEETHEART,
fahen Polly wm my sweetheart
The days weft dancing by
As Hermockiny, lightly as her laughter, her sigh; j
’lie or
She brought sunshine with her*
A dawn of §ew delight,
And left me Vhen we parted
To dream, of her all night.
■When PolV"*& sordid s m V sweetheart
I knew *0 oare;
What gol* could keep Its lustro
Beside her glinting hair?
And whe was I, to envy
The p-oudest of the land,
That fe4t but lately on me
The touch of her dear hand!
Behind a Closed Boor.
wtz*
By W. J. LAMPTOXi
OLONEL HARRY
Ford was the presi-
dent of a big bank
in a Western State
and the colonel and
I wereatthechron-
icling of this tale
in New York,
whither we had
gone as chance traveling companions
on a train from the West. It was ou
Sunday morning, and as we took it
easy iu the handsome apartments he
brought was occupying, a messenger boy
him a telegram. The message
was from his wife, and the boy being
a bright-eyed youngster, the cheerful
colonel chatted with him pleasantly a
moment and gave him a quarter as he
departed.
“Doesn’t ^ that make telegraphing
the come pretty high?” I inquired, with
true Yaukee spirit of thrift.
“Iused to be one myself,” he said
in explanation, “and now whenever I
see a bright-eyed kid like that I warm
up to him and give him something,
though not always a quarter. Being
Sunday, and the telegram being from
my wife, I do a bit better than usual
aud part with all of 25 cents.”
“Do you really mean that you w-ere
once great a surprise, messenger boy?” I asked in
as I looked over the
elegant man of the world, every inch
a gentleman born, who sat in the big
chair by the window gracefully pois-
ing a cigar on his thumb and finger.
“Really and truly,” he laughed,
“and if you can stand a reminiscence
this morning, I’ll tell you the story of
my life. Journalists,” and he bowed
over the arm of the chair, “I believe,
are always on the lookout for interest-
ing facts in history and fiction, aren’t
ikey?”
I hastened to assure him that they
were, and after making me swear that
I would keep awake at whatever sacri-
fi °f’ n° be gan-
When I was a youngster of ten,”
he said, “I was a messenger boy earn-
mg the luxurious salary of three dol-
lars a week, all of which I gallantly
turned over to my mother, who was a
bankers daughter, though she had
been turned out of her father’s house
because she had not married to suit
mm and her stepmother. Indeed, she
had gone farther and married the man
who had suited her, and after that,
while her heart was never empty, she
and her husband and only son were
often so, and life was not quite as rosy
as it might have been. We were brave
people, though, and with my three
uollars a week we managed somehow
to get along. I improved after a year
or two and incidentally picked up te-
fegraphy, so that when I was fifteen I
got a place at a small country station
a U< * to °k 1U ' r ™ ot ber there
i u , e on my salary of forty
1 father havm S
a 01
“At ‘ siTioor, m .y mo ,, ,)■ died, ,. , leav-
: n(y . i • ^>
1 6 wor a * m y
innilipi-’c 6r /i i g rau dfather
lenfpJ snffi ' re-
J ’ ! 11C ^. t0 P 10 Propose P 0S ai I that accept- he
„ ] an j „ j , ° , a *c a f?c°d business
- °
i.- J
j’ le iaie ^ ftS twen-
i n T j graduated,
ceil and my
b»nk 1 me a Position in a
>p nvr-r. 1D pleasant in-
tfirinr e 8 b° we d such
titrufo th-rf > i gentleman ap-
fnrirftvo his^icinhofL'oTG ma i.° been the entirely of
son
ter andtold me
tn or* fliiAo/i ^ ' 8 lou be partner
dav a
some
“Thonov* mos t . n “ t " ral t j in tbe
, iin 8
T, as to . fa in Iove and 1
rh i 1 1 j, in >
heWt wai’nroifnL G r! re ’ tt ' aS1 ? my $ ^ hrobbing the day
thAanl? T I J b ? cas biership of
tviS r a Kate V f, rnon to be
mv urandfiw r ni-i. a ™ edl D to for
mv marrTe^hewiilJ i , °>
f Z* * e an ^ « lgbth l
interest in it ti'f f “I I 6 ™ 11
the rp«L b fU / ir h eye
forced of man eve, l t°w a t\ eveu x 1 T as
much i to confess hrl f 6 tOQ
SEALS’ wMohmadoup tora "
"Daring „H the time of my expert.
fatere”, in Llepophy eS 7 np„n.‘rftft,t ,ad after P k 2
and I bad S
relationship, I had connected her
house with my room at the bank and
whenever her and I had the chance I c’alle
up talked love to her between
meals by electricity. I don’t know
how much of that kind of talk we in
dulged in, but I do know tW
Kate became almost an expert haveSade telegraph
operator, and could easfiy
her necessity! living at it had there been t,een such such a a
“One'of the other customs of that
charming time of love in the fore-
ground was a drive that Kate and I
took two or three times a week in a
trap she owned, leaving I the bank Sh!
after closing time o’clock
ing house, for a couple of hours t-o’endstW I
where I took sunner -a-ith ho
On the days when she would
down that she mLL was enrolmr 8 Z t W ° ° uld
lock nn inside the i, ,’ pap f
in the S
doors of ^
the nf!h hi- von I t ° Pe fu
last man ont anVwk^tb L v C0 °‘ d pnt th ®
book* ' awav h™ UP agam . f
fire r tLl8 "a"? 8
'
and wavs a whS wiw ignitor rnlhJH ’ If if k ° n e
dav day, when I T had shut w up the inside - , ;
sale and gone out to join Kate in her !
friend about a church supper they
were interested in Old Jock, as w*e j
called him was not at his desk when I
came hack, though I had said good-bye
to him as 1 went out, nor was there
anyone in the bank, and as I sat a mo-
ment at my own desk I noticed a pa-
per that that had been left there by j
mistake I got up at once to put it;
where it belonged m the safe, and as I j
Ihal.JUhe' lilks'tad olddoel a**!.) £ 8
Uioughlcould heat in
When Polly wag my sweetheart
And vowed she loved me true,
I had not guessed the lurking
Of guile In eyes so blue;
Or that a cheek can offer .
The same delicious rose
To greet a wooer’s coming,
And speed him when he goes.
IVhen Oh, Polly time was and my blind! sweetheart—
idle
Its memories blow backward
With every April wind
Until, If I could suffer
I should’not The joy and pain of yore,
mind her making
A fool of me once more.
—M. E. W., in Life.
little room back, telling his boy about
sweeping out-.
“The paper belonged in a pigeon-
hole far back in the vault and high up,
; so that I was compelled to go up a
stepladder we kept there, and about
the time I had got myself hid away in
the shadow the big outer door swung
to and I could hear old Jock tun* the
combination out of joint. I yelled
out, but it was too late, even if the old
man’s ears had been sharp, aoid I
found myself in the disagreeable pre-
dicamenfc of being shut up in my owu
safe and no visible means of escape.
At first it struck me as ludicrous;
then it became serious, and in a few
moments I had gone to thinking as
those people think who are confronted
with tremendous moments in their
lives. I soon decided that my only
hope of getting out was through Miss
Vernon, who, when she returned,
would naturally inquire for me and in
this way old Jock would in time dis-
cover that he had shut me up in the
vault. How long it would be until
Miss Vernon returned, or what chance
of the old man still being there when
she came now began to demand dis-
cussion in my brain, and for a minute
or two I stood still in the thick dnrk-
ness and listened to my heart beating.
Then I remembered that we always
kept a hammer in a pigeonhole near
the door, and groping around I
found it and at once began to pound
on the door. Immediately a response
came, but, of course, I did not know
who was giving it, though evidently
the boy, as the old man could scarce-
ly have heard. This gave me hope,
at once, and I set up a regular tattoo
on the door with my hammer, to all of
which came the responses from the
outside. But it was not getting out
of my prison, and confinement was be-
coming irksome.
“For the first time now I hoard
faintly the sound of human voices call-
ing to me, but it were as if they were
miles away, and I could not distin-
guish whose they were, though I
thought I knew Kate’s. I answered
back, but the place was so thick and
heavy that my voice frightened me,
and Tused the hammer instead of call-
iug. Up to this time I had not tlior-
oughly realized what my entombment
meant, but now it came upon me that
the only man in town except myself
who knew the combination had gone
away for a vacation to the seashore
and that with the door air-tight or
practically so, I could not live a very
great while in the vault. Certainly
not long enough to hear from either
the clerk on vacation or from the peo-
pie from whom we had bought the safe
in St. Louis. Indeed, if I stood it for
two hours, I felt I would be doing
well, for my pounding had filled the
little air I had with dust, and it was
nearly suffocating me. The pounding
from the outside increased the dust,
*°°’ a ? cl whi le 1 could prevent myself
from doing . it, . and did stop, the very
fact of my stopping made those on the
outside pound harder as if to encour-
age me, when, as they thought, I was
losing hope.
“This thought came to me with a
shook so great that I almost collapsed,
I caught at the sides of the vault in
the inky darkness and for a minute
I became deathly sick. Following this
came almost a frenzy to yell and howl
and claw at the door and scratch at my
face and tear at my hair. I had heard
of people doing-that w-ay and going
mad when lost in caves and such places,
and I felt it coming on me in that
dreadful hole. To add to the horrors
of situation, the air was growing
rapidly worse and I could not stand
u P inthe Vftult without a feeling of
the most P rofound nausea. It was the
nausea of despair, if anybody has ever
anal y zed i nst what that is. At inter
vals > notwithstanding the harm of it, I
g ™ pe a ron i ld for the hammer
a °d pound on the , door, only to choke
more and to hear the muffled thuds or
tb ^ es P oases / f om *e outside.
rw °i rf T air and
, r an t! aUd C ter -S Shut ° ff from
D
IMtZyltrl ^~ “gtt^ofag’.Ta
Slowly
ete“ oltt?^SfTd’ aVw'L?* 7 Tft a^Tf’’ as t res Pr d 8 '
Sth I ? S t0 ^
mv bJtween' bead 1 ,u° d 8tee
Ind wall tSe Z-lo * ® A r gh * ° f ? 0rld
there the beatin^ panting I heard thCdulf thJdof 1 f
°h on th« ^ mt+cin outs * de aDl ^ l 8 °on
>
came eSX as sleenCfn^ \ n ° t Z of “ tun u ® ®’ lc ° to r s rather oot be
CioCsnC,?;,, me to ' l « eemed 1 8a » Vu to t0 dreaming. aemi . -« 0 “-
“Ynn You know, bn they say that when
dyin a
ia g » ndar unnatural or vio-
W ^uuistances all his past life
on™ ? Tt^dH “ minute de
*
tail ^ qUltea PP! ar to me
that all mv y We bfo passing m review .
w* befwe - dungeon, but it did
6em v? 9 tbe y ou ^ b of ii fe had
eome ba( ; w k *° ™ e ’ aI }d I thought I was
?- UCe agau 1 m tbat llttle telegraph sta-
tion on the , , Missouri River catching
the clickity-click-click of the instru-
ment °. n table > and wbich always
® ee “ ed to me a ® important as a ship’s
de °h 18 to an admiral. I seemed to |
h? alo hearin the bne g the ‘calls’ of operators all
? g ’ but 1 S ave no response, j
and then , the scene changed, as it does
T Snddenl / * ud ^accountably »
dream8 ’ andIwa8 T my instrument in
the bank listening with all a lover’s
eagerness for the first call of Kate
£wf ,oTw ^ 1 h
“It was verv faint and far off, ben? and I
think I must have smiled asl my
ear closer to the instrument to catch
the sound, having in mind my sweet-
heart at the other end of the wire es-
saying her first attempt in handling
the lightning. For a moment it v. i!
vague enough, with its modest little
clickety-click-click, but all at once if
seemed to sav something to me
ptlliLuj ft and’?’ iTlS b "i
waa the letter K, repeated over and
over again, ‘just as all operators do
when they want some other operator
who is not at his desk to respond
promptly. Then it ivaa the clickety-
click-click of the letters that formed
my name, and I smiled to think that
as a child learning to tolk aays ‘mam¬
ma’ first, so Kate was saying first iij
this new language of the wires that
she was learning the name of her
teacher.
“But there was something more
than a dream in the sensations I was
experiencing. I could feel that it was
! something more than a dream. I
knew that some sound must be shaping
my dream for me, and without knov-
ing what I was doing and with an odd
feeling of the very peculiar key we
had put on our instruments I took U P
the hammer and sounded my ‘call’ to
Kate, in response to what I was hearing.
Instantly the ‘call’ was repeated and
my name followed. Now I seemed to
throw off the nightmare, and I roused
myself. Striking with the hammer on
the door I called to Kate by name, and
then distinct enough, though muffled,
I heard the clickety-click-click telling on the in
outer door, and Kate was me
the mysterious manual of Morse, a
message of courage and hope. is
“And what a wonderful strength
hope. Now that I had established
communication with the outside world,
I took great courage immediately,
though I did not understand just what
or how I was going to do to be saved,
for I confess that I was not very cleat-
headed at this time. I thought only
of telegraphing to St. Louis for the
combination, and had actually sig¬
naled to Kate to do so at once, and I
would try to keep up until word was
received, when to my indignation, she
laughed at me over the wires, that is
the door plate, and told me to telegraph
right then and there to her what the
combination was and she would do the
rest.
“How plain and simple that was,
and I had never thought of it. Neither
had I thought of telegraphing to her
from my prison, audit was only be¬
cause she was a woman that she ever
thought of sending word through that
dull door to me with a hammer. She
has since told me that some men never
will learn anything unless it is ham¬
mered into them, and I never say a
word. Anyway, when three minutes
after I had told her what the combin¬
ation was, the door opened and I fell
forward into the fresh air of the world
of sunshine. Kate caught me in her
arms, and it was her voice I heard
faintly and far off as I had heard the
clickety-click-click of her tapping that
led me back to lite and light and love
once more,”
“And you lived happily ever after?”
I inquired, after so long a silence that
I was surprised at myself.
“My boy,” said the banker, earnest¬
ly, “she has saved my life a hundred
times since that, and I wouldn’t trade
her for all the other women in the
world. And when she sees this story
iu print,” he added laughing, “I’ll
need to have my life saved again, but
she won’t do it, I’ll bet a horse and
harness.”
“She must draw the line some¬
where,” said I.—Washington Star,
CURIOSITIES OF LIGHTNINC.
If You See the Flagh Never Be Alarmed,
For Danger Has Gone.
There have been numerous deaths
from lightning near New York in the
last year, says the New York World.
In some instances the electric current
played peculiar pranks, and thus
demonstrated that a bolt of lightning
is something beyond the knowledge of
the scientist. It is impossible to fore¬
see the conditions that may prevail
during an electrical disturbance, and
when a bolt of lightning is of great in¬
tensity there is no telling what it may
do.
When Benjamin Franklin determined
the character of lightning and invented
the lightning rod he made a great dis-
covery, but since then other investiga-
tors have added much to the store of
knowledge on the subject.
The matter of lightning rods has re-
ceived a great deal of attention from
scientists in recent years, and a num-
ber of popular fallacies have been ex-
ploded. Various mystifying char-
acteristics of lightning havebeenex-
plained and other freaks of electric
current are more or less understood,
Some years ago there was an interna-
tional conference on the question of
lightning rods in England, and the re-
port of that gathering, based on the
observation and experience of the
members, is the most valuable contri-
bution to the literature of the subject
ever made.
While it is generally conceded that
lightning rods offer protection to build-
ings, it is admitted that under certain
conditions the most carefully erected
rods will prove unavailing. There are
many instances in which buildings have
been struck by lightning though pro-
vided with lightning rods. Inmost
of these cases the rods were not prop-
erI ? constricted and connected,though
iu otber cases the rods were as nearly
** ““ “ d “*
‘^Secretary From a ^port iaaoed by direction of
that the Agriculture it seem,
avera S e daa *b ™te from
h g htnin K in th e United States is a
trifle more than 20 °- Practically all
°\ o{ *5® A P ril > Ma y> o^ur June, in July, the months August
and , September. The maximum death
rate occurs in June and July. There
have been a few people killed in No¬
member and December, but the
Weather Bureau has no record of a
death from lightning in January or
February,
The financial loss from fires caused
b y lightning for eight years averaged a
trifle more than $1,500,000 a year,
Lightning has a preference for some
soils. Thus when the soil is of a
chalky formation lightning will strike
but one-seventh as often as when the
soil is sand. Clay soil will be struck
twenty-two times to once in the chalky
formation.
The bolts also have a preference for
certain trees. Oaks are struck more
frequently than anv other tree. It
does not seem possible that oak trees
are struck more than fifty times to one
beech tree, but the Weather Bureau
reports show such to be the case,
Pines are struck about one-third as
often as oaks.
The dans-er from Hahtni i
Ink IU
a Hghtnig record of on? eighteen deaths ins^ f
was k^ed a
building eleven were outside and sir
were under trees,
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OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR.
LAUGHTER-PROVOKING STORIES FOR
LOVERS OF FUN.
Waiting For the Wagon—Tho Interesting
Kind—The Sting of It—Taking no
Chances—Getting in Cine—And Then
Not Imcally—Social Graces, Etc., Etc.
Her eyes were filled with glad delight; her
face was bathed in smiles,
seen for six
or seven miles; sigh from out her lips
Anon a merry little
would ooze, her
And thrills of joy would shake up irom
Pysche knot to shoes*
it sound of every vehicle ehe*d to the win-
Then sigh with disappointment if ’twould
rattle swiftly by, wait again for the
Then seek her seat and
express to come— if d
Her dad had promised her a wheel sue
swear off on gum. Post.
—Denver
Getting in line.
“What does Biller mean by riding
around every day in an ice wagon?
“He’s in training for the new gold
region.”
_
The Interesting: Kind.
Tom Barry—“Can you keep a se¬
cret?”
Perdita—“Yes, if it is worth repeat¬
ing.”—Truth.
Taking: nd Chances.
Mrs. Bonham—‘ ‘Why don’t you get
in earlier nights?”
Benham--“Not much; a man was
found dead in bed the.other day.”
The Reason.
She—“Woman’s mind is cleaner
than that of man.”
He—“Certainly. She changes it
oftener.”—Indianapolis Journal.
Qualified Denial.
Morgan—“Do you believe a woman
will lie about her age?”
Shetland—-“About it? Oh, dear,
no; nowhere near it!”—Boston Tran¬
script.”
Social Graces.
“What a favorite that homely young
Mulligan is with you girls!”
“l r es; he knows how to fan us so
our frizzes won’t stand on end.”—
Chicago Record.
A Goal for the Traveler.
“Never marry a woman unless she
will follow you round the world.”
“If I had money to go round the
world I wouldn’t marry until I got
back.”—Chicago Record.
And Then Not Locally.
Bobby (admiring the Iudia ink tat¬
tooing on Dickey’s arm)-—“Did it
hurt much?”
Dickey—-“Not till my mother saw
it. ”—Boston Transcript.
Bohhy'g Pleasant Day.
“Well, Bobby, have you had a
pleasant day?”
“Yes’m; me and Jack took our three
pups an’ went over t* play with Billy
Perkins’s four cats.”—Detroit Free
Press.
Unfortunate Simile,
“You must make allowances, oi
course, for Joskin’s manners; he’s a
rough diamond, you know. ”
“The roughness I admit, but I’m
afraid the diamond is only pasta after
all.”—Judy.
The Sting oflt.
“Poor Jones met a painful end
yesterday.”
“Dear, dear! What was it—heart
disease?”
“Oh, no. It was the end of a wasp. ”
—Pick-Me-Up.
Displayed Her Courage.
“Madge has more courage than
any girl I know.”
“How does she show it?”
“She sticks the stamp on the envel¬
ope before she writes the address.”—
Odds and Ends.
Out of Place.
“That new cook from the country
that the Blueberries have been boast¬
ing about, insisted on sitting on the
porch last night when they had com¬
pany.”
“Didn’t she feel out of place?”
“She did afterward.”—Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Precautions.
Wallace—“I didn’t know you rode
a wheel,”
Ferry—“I don’t.”
“Then what are you wearing knick¬
erbockers and a sweater for?”
“To keep the fool bicycle riders
from running over me. They think
I’m one of ’em.”—-Cincinnati En¬
quirer.
Practical.
Mr. and Mrs. Billus had quarreled.
“This thing has become unendura¬
ble, Maria!” announced Mr. Billus.
“If I can’t live m peace in my own
family I can live somewhere else. I
am going to Alaska!”
“Will you buy a return ticket,
John?” asked Mrs. Billus, in a clear,
metallic voice.
“I don’t see that it makes any dif¬
ference to you whether I do or not.”
“But it does. If you buy a return
ticket and anything happens to you,
the money will be wasted. Don’t do
it, John. Put the money in a life in¬
surance do policy. Think what it might
for me and the children.”
The upshot of the matter was that
John didn’t go.—Chicago Tribune.
The Place for Him.
He was suffering from a severe
shock occasioned by a stroke of light¬
ning.
“Your vocal organs are badly para¬
lyzed, but you will learn to speak in
time,” said the hospital surgeon, as
he looked up from a rigid examination
of the stranger’s injuries. “The very
best thing for you to do is to go where
you can hear a great deal of talking.”
The patient motioned for a writing
pad and when it was handed to him
he wrote in a firm, clear hand:
“I am a married man.”
The surgeon looked at the pad and
smiled in sympathy. Then turning
to his assistant he said:
“Get the gentleman’s address and
send him home.”—Cleveland Plain
Dealer. **
Breaking the Ice.
The beautiful girl came into the
room and pulled a chair up so close to
her father’s big armchair that he
looked up from his newspaper to see
what was the matter.
“Mr. Wilkins likes you, father,”
she said, as soon as she saw that she
had his attention.
“Likes me!” he exclaimed.
“Yes. Ho thinks a great deal of
you.”
“Well, I’ve been under the impres¬
sion for some time that he liked some
one here,” remarked the old gentle¬
man, but I’ve never seen any indica¬
tion that I wa3 the one.”
"^Vell, yon will the very next time
jou see Mr. Wilkins,” said the beauti¬
ful girl with conviction.
“What’s he going to do?” demanded
the old gentleman.
“He’s going to ask you if von will
consent to be his father-in-law,” ex¬
plained the beautiful girl.—Chicago
Post. °
POPULAR SCIENCE.
At tlie la9t congress of German vine-
yardists Professor Wortmann reported
that he had found living bacteria in
trine which had been bottled twenty-
live to thirty years.
It is said that the patterns on the
finger tips are not only unchangeable
through life, but the chance of the fin¬
ger prints of two persons being alike
is less than one chance in sixty-four
billions.
Among the animals which surpass
man in the ratio of brain weight to body
weight are the following: Among the
Rodentih squirrels and mice, among
the Primates many old and new world
monkeys.
Air can not be easily liquified, but
according to the American Machinist;
tile difficulty of putting it to any prac¬
tical use lies in the fact that it must be
’stored and transmitted at a tempera¬
ture of more' than 200 degrees below
zerd.
It is reported that commercial oils
are to have another addition. In China
it is stated that a successful extraction
of tea-seed oil has been obtained. It
is said to be slightly pungent but edi¬
ble, find also of a consistency which
makes it a valuable lubricator for fine
machinery.
Colonel Davidson, of Edinburgh,
who, besides being tlie inventor of the
elongated bullet with oonalures, of
telescopic sights for sporting guns, and
of the method of laying guns and mor¬
tars by the collimator, was an officer
of distinction in the East India service
and the father of the Edinburgh Rifle
Volunteers, has had to wait till he was
eighty-six years of age before receiving
a K. C. B.
Bulgaria is thinking of substituting
the reformed Gregorian calendar for
the Russian orthodox one, a bill for
that purpose having been drawn up at
Premier Stoiloff’s request by Siguor
Cesare Tondini de Quarenghi, an
Italian mathematician, and Dr. Shish-
manoff, President of the Bulgarian
court of cessation. It is hoped that
after the Bulgarian sobranye has
adopted the reform it may spread to
all the countries that use the Roman
calendar.
Soldiers to Guard Buffalo,
The Secretary of the Interior at
Washington has under consideration a
project which will hereafter furnish
some of the Fort Logan cavalrymen
with a novel variety of active duty iu
the summer and fall seasons. It is
that a detail of Regular Army troopers
be told off to guard the herd of buffalo
jwhich 'There exists still iu Lost about Park, forty Colorado. of these
are
(rare beasts alive, but if some immedi¬
ate precaution is not taken to protect
.them against the depredations of pot¬
hunters they will speedily be exterm¬
inated. Late last fall one buffalo was
found dying at a remote distance from
its fellows, having been wounded a
number of times by rifle bullets. It
was put out of pain by a deputy game
warden, and its stuffed frame is now
among the collection of rarities in the
rooms of the State Historical Society.
This incident led to the discovery
that several others of the herd had
been killed during the i>receding sum¬
mer. No trace of the marauders who
did the killing could be discovered,
nor could any effective means bo de¬
vised by the State Game Warden to
guard against them in future. A good
deal of indignation was aroused thereat
among sportsmen and others who are
interested in preserving Colorado’s
rapidly dwindling buffalo. As a re¬
sult the scheme to use cavalrymen was
concocted, and James A. Miller, clerk
of the Supreme Court, was delegated
to communicate with Congressman
Shafroth on the subject. This action
was taken by Mr. Miller on May 5*
and yesterday he received from Con¬
gressman Shafroth a letter, inclosing
a statement from the United States
Adjutant-General’s office to the effect
that the military buffalo warden pro¬
posal was under consideration by the
United States Department of the In¬
terior.—Denver Republican.
Living Crate of Egg?.
A successful shell game oi a new
brand was worked on Cleveland (Ohio)
Jegg (honest consumers Ohio farmer, the who other lives day down by an
on
the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus
road, seventy-five miles southeast of
this city. This time the farmer came
all near victimizing his city cousins, and
but succeeded.
A case of eggs reached a commission
house, and when opened it was found
that one of the eggs had hatched, and
fifteen minutes later, when the eggs
were exposed to the air, a dozen chick¬
ens The were peeping.
eggs in the first two layers con-
- tained chickens, most of which were
dead. The commission merchants re¬
ported that as soon as the eggs were
exposed to the air chickens were
hatched. The temperature in which
the crate of eggs had evidently been
since the shipment will not be changed,
and all the eggs will be given a chance
to hatch.
The commission merchants decline
to give the name of the consignee, and
agree that now they have a good start
in the poultry business. The eggs
which are hatching must have been in
a temperature of ninety degrees for
the last three weeks.
Progress of the Telescope.
Fifty years ago an eleven-inch re¬
fracting telescope was the largest in
the world. The lens of the Yerkes
telescope has a diameter of forty inches.
It required great care to grind such a
lens. It consists of two disks of opti¬
cal glass, one of crown glass and the
other of flint glass, the former double
convex, the latter concave on one side
and nearly flat on the other. The
nicety of curvature is what is startling
When the late Alvan Clark received
the rough slabs of glass for the Yerkes
lens from Paris, before him lay the
task of grinding until every ray of
light passing through the great circle
of glass should be bent and brought to
a focus at a point sixty-one feet dis¬
tant no larger than a small dot. It
took him five years to accomplish his
task. A fault of 1-100,000th of an inch
would be serious. The crude casting
of glass is first treated with sand, to
remove roughest projections. Then
coarse emery and down to the fin¬
est, Rouge is used in polishing.
The last stages of treatment often take
an optician two years. Sometimes the
amount to be removed is so infinitesi¬
mal that a little rubbing with the finger
on the hard glass will do what is neces-
sary.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The Shah of Persia.
The Shah of Persia is in search of a
sanitarium. A Tiflis paper reports
that a. Russian . doctor, who was tem¬
porarily resident in Teheran under or¬
ders to prevent the spread of the
plague, has seen the Shah and pro-
nounces him to be suffering from dis¬
ease of the kidneys and gout, which
will compel him to resort to a foreign
watering place for c-ure. A Russian
place, Borzhom, which is half way be¬
tween Tiflis and Batoum, is being
strongly r ecommended to the Shah.
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I have now taken several bottles of
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