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GUARDING THE COAST.
Work Performed by the United States Life-Saving
Service on Ocean, Lake and River.
The work of the life-saving service
of the country during the past year
has been so creditable as to be highly
to the governmental officials
here. There have been fewer dis
asters nnd more lives saved on the
coast in the last year than ever before
in tho history of the country. With
out question the life-saving service of
the United States is the superior of
that of any Nation in the world. This
is demonstrated every day.
Many stories are told, and many
novels written of the hardy and sturdy
Volunteer life savers of England, but
these veterans do not compare with
the trained, brave life crews of our
own country.
During the fiscal year 1695-’96 there
■were 4620 disasters on the coasts of
the British isles. Despite the efforts
of the life savers 458 lives were lost.
Along the immense coast of this
country, including also the great
lakes, there were, during the same
period, 680 disasters and only twenty
lives lost. The figures of rescues are
not given, but the lives saved by
American life savers are far in excess
of the number saved by the English.
There are 25G life-saving stations in
ihi? country. Of these fifty-five are
on the lakes. There are only fourteen
stations on the Paoific coasts and these
do comparatively little work. Few
disasters are credited to this coast.
The Cape Cod district of this country
is the worst of any section, furnishing
more disasters than the same stretch
of any other part of the United States.
From the eastern extremity of the
coast of Maine to Race Point on Cape
Cod, a distance of 415 miles, there are
but sixteen stations, ten of these be
ing located at the most dangerous
points on the coast of Maine and New'
Hampshire, which, although abound
ing with rugged headlands, islets,
THE SURF BOAT.
rocks, reefs and Intricate channels that
would naturally appear to be replete
with dangers, are provided with nu
merous harbors and places of shelter
in which, upon short notice, vessels
an take refuge. The portion of the
Massachusetts coast included, al
though less favored with safe resorts,
ienjoys the excellent guardianship of
the Massachusetts Humane Society—
a venerable institution, operating un
der the volunteer system. On account
of this protection, the general govern
ment has deemed it proper to place its
stations within this territory only at
points where wrecks are unusually fre
quent; at least, until other dangerous
parts of the coast shall have been pro
vided for.
The life-saving stations upon the
ocean beaches are generally situated
among the low sand-hills common to
such localities, sufficiently back of
high-water mark to be safe from the
re*ch of storm tides. They are plain
structures, designed to serve as bar
racks for the crews and to afford con
venient storage for the boats and ap
paratus. Most of those upon the Long
Island and New Jersey coasts have
been enlarged from the boat houses
put up to shelter the boats and equip
ments provided for the use of volun
teers before regular crews were em
ployed. Those built later are more
comely in appearance, while a few,
located conspicuously at popular sea
side resorts, make some pretensions to
architectural taste. They are all desig
nated by names indicating their locali
ties.
In the majority of stations the first
floor is divided into four rooms —a
boat room, a mess room (also serving
lor a sitting room for the men), a
keeper’s room and a store room. Wide,
double-leafed doors and a sloping plat
form extending from the sills to the
ground permit the running out of the
heavier equipments from the building.
The second-story contains two rooms;
one is the sleeping room of the men,
the other has spare cots for
people, and is also used for storage.
The more commodious stations have
two additional rooms —a square room
find a kitchen. In localities where
good water cannot be otherwise ob-
THE MOTtTAH.
tained cisterns are provided for water
-taught from the roof. There sur
anounts every station a lookout or ob
servatory, in which a day watch is
kept. The roofs upon the stations on
those portions of the coast exposed to
view from the sea are usually painted
dark red, which makes them dis
tinguishable a long distance off shore.
They are also marked by a fiagstall'
sixty feet high, used in signaling pass
ing vessels by the international code.
The stations (other than the house
of refuge) are generally equipped with
two surf boats (supplied with oars,
life boat compass and other outfits), a
boat carriage, two sets of breeches
buoy apparatus (including a Lyle gun
and accessories), a cart for tho trans
portation of the apparatus, a life-ear,
twenty cork jackets, two heaving sticks,
a dozen Coston signals, a dozen sig
nal rockets, a set of the signal flags of
the international code, a medicine
chest w'ith contents, a baromoter, a
thermometer, patrol lanterns, patrol
cheeks or patroi clocks, the requisite
furniture for rude housekeeping by the
crew and for the succor of rescued peo
ple, fuel and oil, tools for the repair
of the boats and apparatus and for
minor repairs to the buildings, and
the necessary books and stationery.
At some of the stations the Hunt gun
and projectiles are supplied, and at a
few the Cunningham rocket apparatus.
To facilitate the transportation of
boats and apparatus to scenes of ship
u’reck a pair of horses is also provided
at stations where they cannot be hired,
and to those stations where the sup
plies, mails, etc., have to be brought
by water, a supply boat is furnished.
All the stations on the ocean coast
of Long Island, tweuty-niuo stations
on the coast of New' Jersey, nine sta
tions on the coast between Cape Hen
lopen and Cape Charles, and all the
stations between Cape Henry and Hat
teras inlet are connected by telephone
lines.
The station buildings upon the coast
are all constructed with a view to with
stand the severest tempests. Those
located—as many necessarily are—
where they are liable to be undermined
or swept from their positions by the
ravages of storms and tidal waves, are
so strongly put together that they may
be overthrown and sustain but trifling
injury. There are instances on record
where they have been carried a long
distance inland—in one case a half a
mile—without sustaining material
damage. This substantial construc
tion also enables them to be easily and
cheaply moved when threatened by
the gradual encroachment of the sea,
which, upon many sections of the coast,
effects in the course of years great
changes in the configuration of the
coast line.
At Louisville, Ky., are dangerous
falls in the Ohio Kiver, across which
a dam has been constructed. Naviga
tion there is dangerous, and a station
is established. The floating station at
Louisville is a scow-shaped hull, on
which is a house of two stories, sur
mounted by a lookout. Besides the
housekeeping furniture there are but
few equipments; tw-o boats, called life
skiffs, and two reels, each with a ca
pacity to hold a coil of five-inch man
illu rope, and so placed in the boat
room that a boat can be speedily run
out from either, or, if desired, that
THE BREECHES BUOY.
they can be run out of tlte boat room,
with the lines upon them, for use else
where. The station is usually moored
above the dam at a place which will
afford the readiest access to boats
meeting with accident, but it can be
tottedfrom place to place when neces-
as was the case in the
i|||g||j|j|b<ls of 1883-’B4, when it was
service iu rescuing
W from the upper stories and
roofs of their inuudated dwellings,
and in distributing food to the famish
ing. On these two calamitous occa
sions the crew of this station rescued
and took to places of safety over 800
imperiled persons—men, women and
children—among them many sick and
infirm—and supplied food and other
necessities to more than 10,000.
The number of men composing tbe
crew of a station is determined by the
number of oars required to pull the
largest boat belonging to it. There
are some five-oared boats in the At
lantic stations, but at all of them there
is at least one of six oars. Six men,
therefore, make up the regular crews
of these stations, but a seventh man
is added on the first of December, so
that during the most rigorous portion
of the season a man may be left ashore
to assist in the launching and Reach
ing of the boat and to see that the sta
tion is properly prepared for the com
fortable reception of his comrades and
the rescued people they bring with
them on their return from a wreck;
also to aid in doing the extra work
that severe weather necessitates.
Where the self-righting and self-bail
ing boat, which pulls eight oars, is
I used, mostly at the lake stations, a
corresponding number of men is em
ployed.
The crews are selected by the keep
ers from able-bodied and experienced
sWrfmen residing in the vioinity of the
respective stations,
Each station has a keeper who has
direct control of all its affairs. The
position held by this officer w ill be
recognized at ouce as one of the most
important in the service. Ho is,
tlierefore, selected with the greatest
care. The indispensable qualifica
tions for appointment are that ho shall
be of good character and habits, not
less than twenty-one nor more than
forty-five years of age; have sufficient
education to be able to transact the sta
tion business; be able-bodied, physi
cally sound, and a master of boat-craft
and surfing.
Upon original entry into the service
a surfman must not he over forty-five
years of age, and sound in body, being
subjected to a rigid physical examina
tion ns to expertness in the manage
ment of boats and matters of that
character by the inspector of the dis
trict.
Only Nine Years Old and Swam tlic Ten-
Lizzie Hagar, aged nino, is now tho
prido of Hill City, near Chattanooga,
Teun. She swam the Tennessee River
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LIZZIE IIAGAR.
one day recently. At the point where
the feat was performed the river is
three-fourths of a mile wide, and she
was in the water nearly half an hour.
The feat was made more remarkable
for so young a swimmer by the fact
that she accomplished it without rest
ing, and almost wholly by straightfor
ward swimming. She changed her
position by floating occasionally, but
she kept on progressing.
The feat was performed on a wager
made by her father that she could ac
complish it. He followed close in her
wake in a skiff, so as to be on hand if
she took swimmer’s cramp or met with
any accident. Lizzie learned to dive
and swim before she was seven years
old, and is never happier than when
indulging in her favorite pastime.
“Pa’s” Orders.
A ludicrous episode of the Civil War
is told in a Southern paper:
During the early months of the war
a certain brigade was being drilled in
Virginia. Brigadier-General —— was
a Louisianian, and his son, also of
that State, was his Adjutant. The
General’s voice was not as strong as it
might have been, and his son often re
peated his orders for him. On the
occasion in question the brigade was
marching in fours, and the Brigadier-
General gave the order, “Head of the
column to the left.” His son, the Ad
jutant, dressed to kill, galloped for
ward, and when he reached the head
of the column shouted in his powerful
voice, “Fa says head of the'column to
the left.” Discipline had not been
perfected then, and what “Pa”
wanted very nearly broke up the
ranks, hundreds of men laughing as
they marched at the Adjutant’s infu
sion of domestic relations into mili
tary tactics.
A Musical Mousetrap^
Acting upon the idea that mice are
very sensitive to music a Belgian manu
facturer lias substituted a musical
mousetrap for the common trap. In
stead of baiting the apparatus with a
bit of cheqpe or lard the inventor lias
hidden in a double bottom a small
music box, which plays automatically
various popular airs of the country.
The mice, lie insists, are drawn irre
sistibly toward the music box, and in
order to hear better they step into the
trap and find themselves prisoners!
According to recent Government
tests by Lieutenant Vladimiroff, of the
Russian Navy, pure caoutchouc should
stretch seven times in length without
breaking.
Five and a half ounces of grapes are
required to make one glass of good
wine.
TRICYCLE PATROL FOR TAKING PRISONERS TO THE POLICE STATION,
It is in active use by the Dayton (Ohio police department, and affords a quick and
j convenient method of handlingan arre9t.
TINIEST HORSE IN THE WORLD.
A Shetland l*ony That l no BiKß*r Than
a St. Bernard l)og.
The tiniest horse in the world is
only twenty-one inches in height, and
is the property of the Marchese Car-
SMALLEST HOUSE COMPARED WITH A DOO.
cano, a celebrated nobleman horse
fancier, whose four-in-hand of small
Shetland ponies have taken first prizes
at every horse fair in Europe for four
or five years.
The Marchese Carcano told the Rome
correspondent of the New York World
that he is about to make a tour of the
world with his team of Shetland ponies,
and will also take with him his smallest
horse, Leo, which has won the gold
medal at the Milan.
Leo, the smallest horse, is a full
grown animal which has been reared
on the stock farms of the Marchese,
and is the surprising result of a num
ber of interesting experiments. The
smallest Shetland poqies are never un
der eight hands high, which is equal
to thirty-two inches, and is eleven
inches taller than Leo. The latter is
no less remarkable for his perfect
symmetry than for his minute propor
tions. He is a beautiful chestnut,
with shaggy tail, which reaches almost
to the ground. His neck measures ten
inches, and his head from his face is
just about six inches. From his fore
legs to the hindlegs Leo measures just
as much as his height, and his chunky
legs are exactly ten inches long.
A BrifjTit Retort.
Sergeant Harrow once had an archi
tect in the witness-box and thus in
terogated him:
“You are a builder, I believe?”
“No, sir, fam not a builder; I am
an architect.”
“Ah, well, builder or architect;
architect or builder; they are pretty
much the same, I suppose.”
“No, totally different.”
“Oh, indeed! Perhaps you will
state wherein this great difference
consists?”
“An architect, sir, conceives the de
sign, prepares the plans, draws out
the specifications—in short, supplies
the mind. The builder is merely the
machine; the architect the power that
puts the machine together and sets it
going.”
“Oh, very well, Mr. Architect, that
will do. Avery ingenious distinction
without a difference. Do you happen
to know' who was the architect of the
Tower of Babel?”
“There was no architect, sir; hence
the confusion there.”
What Some Plates Cost.
The plates that are most popular
among multi-millionaires are of Min
ton ware. They cost 82740 each. A
plate of plain gold costs just about the
same sum. They are very handsome,
as they well might be at the price.
These gems for the tables of the rich
have an exquisite painting in the cen
tre of each. They are painted by the
celebrated Boulliniere, and the de
signs are taken from old miniatures.
The coloring of these little pictures is
simply exquisite, and every tiny detail
of the face, hair and costume is worked
out w'ith the daintiness of perfection.
The picture is surrounded by a lace
like pattern in raised acid gold. The
edges of the plates are open w'ork in a
lace design, decorated with a running
pattern in gold.
The Binltop and His Bun.
The Bishop of Worcester, England,
once had occasion to travel through
Banbury by rail. Being desirous to
test and at the same time to encourage
the far-famed industry of that town,
and the train having stopped for a
short time at the station, he beckoned
to a small boy standing near at hand
and inquired the price of the cele
brated buns. “Threepence each,”
said the boy. The Bishop thereupon
handed him sixpence and desired him
to bring one to the car, adding: “And
with the other threepence you may
buy one for yourself. ” The boy shortly
returned, complacently munching his
Banbury, and handing the threepence
in coppers to the Bishop, exclaimed:
“There was only one left, guv’nor.” —
Baptist Union.
There is a little corner in kersey
cloth this year, one New York house
having bought up about the whole
available supply.
A FORTUNE IN SNAKES.
MINNESOTAN WHO CONDUCTS A
SUCCESSFUL REPTILE FARM.
Clrviifteii His Mainstay—Handles Rattle
snake. With Impunity—Ho is a Natural
Snake Charmer anti Ills Little Daiigh
ter Has Equal Power Snakes’ Food.
Along the warm and honeycombed
limestone bluffs that line tho quiet
Zurnbro River in Minnesota are the
homes of snakes by the million, and in
the early days of the settlement of tho
Northwest there w r ere myriads of all
sorts of tho deadly reptiles known to
North America to lie found in this
neighborhood. To-day there are more
snakes caught for circus companies
and other buyers here than anywhere
else in the country except in some of
the lower counties of Florida, All
along the Mississippi and tributary
streams where snakes are to he found
they arc caught for the Rochester farm
and sold to O. W. Estes, the bright,
keen-eyed young man who runs the
snake farm, and who for several years
has been making a success of tho ven
ture.
Mr. Estes also carries on a snake
hatchery, something after the manner
of a hennery, but considerably more
exciting. The eggs produced by liis
stock are gathered and laid in the sun
; on the sand, .where, in the coifrse of
time they hatch, and there are
youngsters fully as lively and venom
ous ns their parents. So far this year
several hundred have been hatched,
and all have thrived on the treatment
given them by Mr. Estes and his as
sistants. Many of these young snakes
are raised for sale and others are used
for foed for the king snake and others
that eat only their own kind.
A chief part of the business of this
Minnesota farm is in rattlesnakes, as
they are more plentiful than any
other variety of the valuable reptiles.
All this region used to be overrun
with them. A single day’s receipts of
diamond backed and other rattlers
often runs up to several scores, espe
cially when someone or more of the
outside catchers for the farm brings in
his sacks full and sells them to Mr.
Estes. These snakes vary from three
to six feet iii length. Among the
other varieties received and grown are
the spotted adders, blow snakes, the
beautiful turtle heads, the sullen bull
snakes, the gentle blue racers, the
spreading adder, and many kinds of
water, grass and water snakes. .They
are sold to the leading circus aggrega
tions, such vas Barnum’s, Ringling’s,
Foropangb’s, Sells’s nnd many others,
while the lesser concerns take the less
expensive, because less harmful va
rieties. Alligators from Florida and
crocodiles from abroad, as well as
some foreign snakes, are constantly
kept in stock for customers.
Estes is a natural snake charmer,
and never, unless requested by his
customer, takes out the fangs of the
reptiles in which he deals, nnd to this
fact he attributes considerable of tho
success he has had in raising them.
He will, without fear, fondle a rattler,
a bull or an adder, force open its
mouth, and with his finger nail deftly
expose the poison sacs and fangs. In
ail his long experience in this sort of
thing he lias never been bitten.
His favorite method of capture is to
grab the rattler by the tail and dex
terously swing him into a sack, but
when one is found lying at full length
Estes grasps it tightly back of the
head. Though he has many assistants
among the farmers of his vicinity,
there is no other man, in that part of
the United States at any rate, who
dares to open their jaws with bare
hands, as he does fearlessly. His lit
tle daughter, Hazel, who is only three
years old, seems to have the same
power over the reptiles, and can often
be seen handling the most deadly
snakes and allowing them to twine
over her arms and about her neck.
So far this year about 600 snakes of
the more valuable varieties have been
shipped Jrom this farm. Not alone
are circuses and menageries customers
of Mi 1 . Estes, but many cigar stores
and saloons whore the reptiles are dis
played as an incentive to custom or a
horrible example purchase from the
Rochester farm. A few days ago a
rattler, six feet long, eight inches in
girth and with twenty-six ratties, was
sent to a Minneapolis saloon keeper
for exhibit in his window. They are
inexpensive things to have about the
house, for a healthy reptile taken in
the spring will need no food for a year.
The rattlers become blind when they
shed their skins, which they do every
summer, appearing in about ten days
with new, bright, diamond backs. The
food given these pets consists chiefly
of gophers, while frogs, rats, squirrels,
birds and rabbits are added occasion
ally. The small boys in the vicinity
derive quite a revenue catching and
selling snake food to the farm. A
stranger scene can scarcely be wit
nessed than a cage full of snakes mak
ing a meal of fifty or one hundred
frogs. In their greediness they often
swallow each other, and it is no.un
usual thing for a snake to back out of
a companion’s stomach, where it has
pursued a tempting frog or gopher.
The trade of this farm has not been
influenced by hard times, but has in
creased materially the past year.—
Chicago Chronicle.
A Wonderful L,amp.
It is prophesied that present meth
ods of illumination are to be super
seded by a lamp nearly perfected by
Puluj, of Vienna, one of the earliest
experimenters on cathode rays. For
fifteen years he has been working
upon it. Not only does it generate
intense Roentgen rays, but it also
transforms nearly all of the energy of
the electric current into light. Pro
fessor Ebert’s experiments prove that
a single horse power of electric energy
would be sufficient to operate 46,000
Puluj lamps. Professor Lodge, head
of the department of experimental
physics in Universal College, Liver
pool, says that “if mechanical energy
j can be converted entirely into light
alone one man turning the crank of a
suitable machine could generate
enough light for a whole city.” Puluj
claims that his lamp fulfills this
dition.
Kuuning Up si Mountain.
Ted Battersy, a Liverpool (F-ngland)
athlete, ran to the summit of Mounl
Snow-don from Llanbevis in fifty-three
minutes and back in thirty-eight. This
is the quickest time ever made, and il
was made in the face a strong wind.
COOD ROADS NOTES.
Creameries and Good Komis* .
o Tlie Mankato (Minn.) Free Press
says that the establishment of cream
eries is becoming a potent argument
for good roads. The daily trip to them
with the milk must be made regardless
of mud and wet or if the mud be ankle
deep,—for milk is a perishable product.
Then, even when the road is dry, the
milk, of course, is injured by the
churning received on the journey over
the rough roads. The farmer is,
therefore, beginning to perceive the
direct money value of road improve
ment. The Free Press adds that the
creamery is becoming the focus at
which better roads centre.
Stool Country Hoads.
The steel country roads with which
the United States Department of Agri
culture is now experimenting, accord
ing the Engineering News, will practi
cally he constructed as follows: The
design calls for an inverted trough
shaped steel rail with a slight raised
bead on the inside and an eight-inch
tread and seven-sixteenths inch thick.
These rails are to bo bedded in gravel
laid in well-drained trenches and the
rails are to be tied together at the
ends and at the middle. On grades
the rails will be indented to prevent
the horses from slipping. The ad
vantage claimed for these steel roads
is the reduction of traction from forty
pounds per ton on macadam road to
eight pounds on the steel rails. The
materials for the heavier type of steel
roads of this design will cost $3500 in
small quantities. The amount of ma
terial required is less than 100 tons
per mile, and the lines can probably
be built for $2OOO per mile. The
lighter types only cost about $lOOO per
mile, but this does not include laying
of grading or road bed.
Practical Good Hoads.
A Good Roads convention was held
at Cannon Falls which was notable for
the practical manner in which the sub
ject under consideration was handled.
No city speakers were imported to en
lighten the farmers upon the theory of
road building and to suggest legisla
tion looking to future large expendi
tures for costly roadways; but the
neighbors assembled proceeded to
show how the roads could be greatly
improved with the means already
available. The main point brought
out was the necessity of thorough
surface draining by effective ditching.
The roadbed must be rounded so that
the water will run off, but the best
material for surfacing depends upon
the locality and the character of the
soil. If the road surface can he kept
dry, any locality may have good roads
at comparatively small cost all the
year round.
Incidentally, the subject of wide vs.
narrow tires was taken up, and David
Valentine, a practical road builder,
stated that he had used both wide and
narrow tired wheels, and his experi
ence was such that if he were to pur
chase anew wagon he would not take
a narrow tired vehicle if he could get
it at half price, as he could haul dou
ble tbe load, with the same expendi
ture of power, on a wide tire. Where
the roads are dry and hard there can
be no doubt of tbe superior economy
of a wide tire, not only in tbe matter
of hauling the load, hut in preserving
the roadway.—Minneapolis (Minn.)
Tribune.
'lnexpensive Hoi.ul Improvements.
The farmers of the country are grad
ually going over to the belief that good
roads are for their personal benefit and
there is a decided change of sentiment
along this line in many of the States.
One of the chief obstacles to reform
has been the fear of the farmers that
the cost of highway improvements
would fall chiefly on them and as they
feel that, they are already burdened
heavily enough they resist the passage
of good-roads laws with their local in
fluence and their votes often to the de
feat of these worthy projects. New
Jersey has a law now in force, how
ever, that illustrates how properly this
burden can be divided between the in
dividual and the community so that it
falls lightly upon the farmer. This
law apportions the cost of all road im
provements as follows: One-third is
paid by tbe State, one-tenth by the in
dividual beneficiary of the improve
ment, the owner of the abutting prop
erty, and the remainder by the county
in which the improvement occurs. Re
duced to a scale of thirtieths the State
pays ten parts, the individual three
parts and the county seventeen parts
Stated in still another way the various
burdens are more easily appreciated.
The average cost of repairing a road
with a macadam finish is about $3OOO
a mile. Of Ibis sum the county would
pay .$l7OO, the State $lO9O and the in
dividual $3OO. It is to be remembered
that the $3OO in this case is usually
divided among several persons, as few
properties in this section of the coun
try extend for much more than a quarter
or half a mile along a highway, and
tax is assessed on the owners on eaeh
side of the road. Thus it will fre
quently occur that the individual will
pay directly for a first-class road in
front of his property and for a mile
adjacent such a small sum as $4O or
$5O. To be sure he pays as well his
3hare of the county tax and in less
proportion his part of the State tax,
but these burdens are comparatively
light and easily borne. These im
provements in New Jersey are under
taken on the petition of the owners of
the abutting property. Such laws as
this, if copied in other States would
probably result in an immediate bet
terment of the country roads in every
section, an improvement of untold
benefit to millions of people.—Wash
ington Star.
A Country Without a ltailroad.
To railway builders out of work
Alaska offers a great if not an inviting
field. With a territory ten times as
large as New York State, it has not a
mile of steam road or of any other
kind of road. Thousands of citizens
of the United States are ready to emi
grate thither long enough to pick up
what gold they want, and yet our
Government has not built a single
railway for their accommodation. The
only transportation line into the gold
fields is owned by selfish capitalists,
non-resident at that, who expect tc
make a profit out of the indigent gold
seeker.—Railway Age.
The most dangerous waters in the
world for the passage of ships lie off the
east coast of England, CapeUshant, in
France, and Cape Finisterre, in Spain.
How to Lanmti'y Fancy Linen.
To wash embroidered linens so ns not to
fade the colors, fill a tub half full of warm
water, to whioh add a little Ivory Soap.
Wash each piece through the suds care
fully, rinse in blue water, to which n little
thill starch is added. Hung 111 the shade
to dry. Iron on the wrong side, press
ing down heavily to bring out the stitches,
thus restoring their original beauty.
EI.tZA It, PAHKLII.
Chances of l.ife.
The following table is one that is
used by the London assurance com
panies, showing the prospect of lift at
various ages. It is the result of years
of careful calculation, and is said to
seldom prove misleading or incorrect.
Of course sudden and premature deaths
as well as lives unusually extended,
occasionally occur, but this is a table
of average expectancy of life of the or
dinary man or woman: A person of
one year old may expect to live :.}>
years longer; of 10 years, 51; of 20
years, 41; of 30 years, 34 longer; of 40
years, 28; of 50 years, 21; of (JO yearn,
J 4 more; of 70 years, 0; of 80 years,'!.
A Sheathing Propeller.
At a recent yachting exhibition in
London one novelty was a “sheathing
propeller 1 ' for yachts, merchant vos
sels, fishing boats and launches. From
a tube in the ship’s stern the propeller
works. It is supplied with blades
which fall into a horizontal position,
come together at the tips or expand,
as desired. The propeller, when not in
use, may lie drawn into its tube sheath.
When a ship is becalmed it can bo
kept, on its course by the use of a
small electric motor, which furnishes
sufficient power to operate the auxil
iary propeller, which can also lie used
for steering purposes. In case of use
on fishing vessels it does not foul the
nets.--Boston Transcript.
Almost Inside Out.
The stomach that is not turned thus by a.
shaking up on the “briny wave” must be •.
well fortified one. The gastric .apparatus •• u
be rendered proof against sea siekness ••
that stomach i- so popular among travelers by
sea and land Ilostctter’s Stomach Bitter-. (
defends the systc in against malaria and rheu
matism, and subdues liver complaint, consti
pation and dyspepsia.
,\ glass of hot milk and n feu peanuts me
a good luncheon before retiring.
Deafness Cannot 15* Cured
by local applications, as they cannot reach tr.o
diseased portion of the* ear. There is only <>r:e
way to euro deafness, and that, is by constitu
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an ie
flamed condition of the mucous lining of tho
Kustachian Tube. When this tube gets -
Uameil you have a rumbling sound or imper
fect hearing, and when it is entirely clo.-w-f
Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam
mation can be taken out and this tube re
stored to its normal condition, hearing will be
destroved forever. Nine* cases out of ten no*,
caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in
flamed condition of he mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for a’ ;,'
case of Deafness <caiisedb> catarrh/thai can
not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Ser.d
for circulars, free.
F. J. ' ’iif.nk v *& Cos., Toledo, O
Sold I>y Druggists. 75c.
Hall’s Family Pills are the best.
\ Prose Poem.
EF-.M. Medicated Smoking Tobacco
And Cigarettes
Are absolute remedies for Catarrh,
Hay Fever, Asthma and Colds;
Besides a delightful smoke.
Ladies as well as men, use these goods
No opium or other harmful drug
Used in their manufacture.
EE-M. is used and recommended
By some of the best citizens
Of tliis country.
If your dealer does not keep KE-M.
Send i:*c. for package of tobacco
And tv;, for package of cigarettes.
Direct to the F.F.-.M. Company,
Atlanta. Ga.,
And you will receive goods by mail.
Fits permanently cured. No tits or neryoi.A--
ness utter first dav'suseof Dr. Kline's Groat
Nerve lies tore r. rial bottle andtreatiseiv 1 .:
Du. K. H. Ki.ink, Ltd., kl Arch St., I’hila.. ID.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for child r. i
teething, softens the gums, reduceshiflamma
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c. a bott!
1 am entirely cured of hemorrhage of hit *.:*
by Piso’s Cure fpr Consumption. Lori.n\
Lindaman, Bethany. Mo., Jan. •*, ’M.
If afflicted with soreej e>usc 1 >r. IsaacThomp
so lrsEye- w A tc r. Druggists sell at. 35c. per bo tt •
A GRAND WORK
HelpingTireci Mothers find Giving Rob.v
Cheeks to Children.
Thousands of tired, nervous, worried
women have found strength, health and
happiness in Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which
purifies their blood, strengthens their
nerves and gives them good appetites.
Pale and. puny children .are given rosy
cheeks and vigorous appetites by the great
blood enriching qualities of Hood’s Sar
saparilla. it is indeed the mother’s friend
and it may weM have a place in thousands
of families. Be sure to get Hood’s.
Usod’s Pills wnhH SC*
If EK F AM) THKIiE.
The new Chinese mint at Canton
turned out more than 14,000,000 to
cent pieces Just year.
It is computed that 20,000 tons •
canned salmon are .consumed an
nually in this country.
The annual coal product of /Mon
tana has shown an uninterrupted in
crease each year since 1877.
New Bedford is investigating with i
view to the establishment of a textile
school there, following Lowell's et
ample.
Earrings have never been so fast:
ionabie in England as in foreign con."
tries, but they are worn more now
than at any other time in the lijsto: :>
of England.
Modern Chivalry.
Awkward Miss (with an umbrella
Beg pardon!
Polite Gentleman —Don’t mention
it. I have another eve left. New
York Weekly.'
HAIR renewer;
(%% Drives off old age; a7!\|
restores lost color
) to the hair; gives it
j the richness and gloss of
-rrs youth; prevents bald
ness. No dandruff.
t
LOOK AT THESE
n.iu* (mr f.ink.
I. y JBKr Tjv-ifl 8 <•< ui-in Sump' O*
DU mb bell links. M. Watkins &Cc
CATALOG lli I'B/ L. I'BOVIUF.Sf’F.. It. I.
ST (JURISW HEkEAL LtLS EfAILS. Ej
KH nest Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use R?
in time. Sold by druggists. El
