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—~ T ~ <# HEAP SMELL.” Tie Indian Knew What He Wutd and Where to Get It. Some Indians from Buffalo Bill’s Wild W-est, arrayed in bright colored blankets and an exceptional amount of face paint, were taking in the sights of the city one afternoon. They stroll ed down Walnut street, single file, and, headed by a buck who now and then gave a grunt of satisfaction when some thing that pleased him caught his eye, they halted in front of a drug store and gazed at the window display for a moment. Then the band filed into the establishment and began to look around. The clerk thought the place was go ing to be besieged and that he was like ly to lose his scalp, but when the “big chief,” who acted as spokesman, ad dressed him with, the customary Indian greeting of “How!” the clerk regained his composure enough to ask the Indi an what he wanted. “Heap smell,” was the reply. Directed by the Indian’s finger to a showcase, the clerk produced a bar of soap. The brave took it gingerly, re moved the wrapper, smelled it and bit into the toothsome looking article. With a deep grunt of displeasure he handed it back to the drug clerk. With a disgusted look he remarked. “Heap smell!” The clerk began to tremble, and the Indian pointed to a perfume bottle in the showcase. The bottle of perfume was handed to him. The Indian held it in both hands for a moment, closely scrutinizing it. He slowly removed the stopper, closely watching it as if he expected it to explode, and took a long sniff at the bottle, gave a grunt of satisfaction, handed the clerk some money and led his band of braves out of the store, to the delight of the fright ened clerk, who had not been in the practice of waiting on real Indians.— Kansas City Journal. Dangerous Economy. A paragraph about an economical merchant in Broadway saving the backs of old envelopes for scratch pa per reminds an old friend of this story: A New York dealer, who left about $2,000,000, for a long time kept up the practice of tearing off the fly sheets of the numerous foolscap letters he received and sticking them on a spindle for scribbling purposes. Envelopes were not yet in use. A lawsuit arose, and the merchant thought he had won his case when defendant’s letter, duly signed, was produced. Counsel for defendant examined the letter and, turning it over to look for the super scription, found that it was missing. He immediately saw his advantage and said: “This letter is incomplete, your honor. A sheet is missing. I claim that there might have been a postscript on the other sheet which would entirely change the character of the order.” The court so ruled, and defendant won the suit. The practice of utilizing fly sheets in that mer chant’s office was at once discontinued. —New York Press. ANECDOTES OF FORREST. Why the Confederate Leader Declin ed to Correct HI* Spelling:. “General Forrest of the Confederate army,” said an ex-Confederate officer, “was a military genius of the first rank. Without previous training or any developed taste in that direction he went Into the army from a place as overseer and attained commanding rank absolutely by merit. Rough and uncouth at first, be became in later life a courtly gentleman whom it was a pleasure to meet and to know. I re member on one occasion some time aft er the war coming up the Potomac with him I wanted to introduce a young woman who was under my es cort He said he was flattered by the request but that he could not megt her unless she knew perfectly well who he was and that he was not held in high esteem by the northern people chiefly on account of the Fort Pillow affair. I assured him that she was ful ly apprised of his record, and then he went with me to meet her, and she told me later she had never met a more at tractive man. “Earlier in his career —that is, be fore he had learned to spell—he was asked by a young lady to put his auto graph in her album. He wrote his name as requested and under it his title, ‘ma jor general of calvary,’ as he spelled it The lady called his attention to it in a very delicate way, and he looked at it a moment, and with a full conscious ness that he was lacking o in that regard and with a beautiful and scarcely to be expected humility he said, ‘Let it stand to show how ignorant General Forrest is.’ There are not many men who would have done that I imagine, and it was the little things that showed the man’s true greatness.”—New York Sun. “As Mad as a Hatter.” Probably very few persons who fre quently use the expression “As mad as a hatter” have any idea as to what it means or why a hatter is necessarily any more subject to fits of anger thaii a plumber, a blacksmith or a carpen- j ter. The expression is said to have j come into use half a century ago, when j the manufacture of hats was done wholly by hand. The most striking thing about the process was that of the beating up of the felt. The hatter first dipped the mass of wool and hair fre quently into hot water; then, seizing a stick in each hand, he belabored the mass most vigorously, stopping now and then to get his breath, until the material was matted together in a rough sort of felt. The lively beating administered to the felt as if the work man were actually incensed, gave ris to the familiar simile. An Apology and a Settlement. When the theater crowd was at its thickest on Broadway on Saturday night, a well set up man of medium size, wearing a glossy silk hat, hurried along. In dodging through the throng the handle of the cane he carried caught the arm of one of two burly persons who were going in the same direction. He half turned as if to apol ogize, but before he could do so one of the pair smashed his silk hat with a heavy stick. “I beg your pardon, sir,” said the man, blandly taking off his battered tile. “My rudeness was unintention al.” Putting back the damaged hat on his head, he dropped his cane and said, “Now I propose to settle with you for a blackguard.” Those on the spot saw a flash of fists. The big man went flat on his back from a clean smash on the jaw. “If you want any more, I am ready to oblige you,” said the other. The other apparently didn’t. The smaller man picked up his stick, took off his damaged silk hat, brushed it and continued on his way down Broad way. And the crowd of spectators, who had gathered as if by magic, broke up with the feeling that they had seen as neat a bit of work as it would ever be their good fortune to encounter.— New York Sun. METHODS OF SUICIDE. How Desperate' Person* Adopt Pze- Talling Style* of Destruction. “The remarkable methods several sui cides have adopted in this city recently call attention to the fact that methods of self destruction are largely matters of suggestion,” said a doctor. “When a man gets in that condition where hje wants to die, he has little inventive ability and adopts the method that has been brought to his mind. You will no tice that after one person kills himself with acid there follows a long list of acid suicides. It is the same with any unusual method. One person gets up an original way, and that inspires the next one to try his hand until we have a whole series of such grewsome nov elties. “I have proved this theory. Several years ago I was discussing this feature of suicide with several friends, includ ing the coroner. They ridiculed my theory. I offered to prove it. It hap pened that shooting and hanging were popular, just then. I wrote an article for a newspaper on the horrors of strangulation and pistol wounds and explained tht? ease with which one could kill himself with prussic acid. Death from prussic acid, you know, is absolutely instantaneous and, many be lieve, painless. There had not been a suicide with this acid for more than a year, but within a week after the arti cle was published there were four, and one of the unfortunates had clippings of my article in his pocket. “Of course I was accused of killing these' four by suggestion, but I was never arrested and do not feel guilty, for when once a person has decided to kill himself the method is a slight mat ter. No person in his right mind will commit suicide. We all know in our sane moments of easy ways to end life, but when in the suicidal frame of mind nature seems to rob us of our reason in this direction, as if in a desperate hope of preventing.the sacrifice.”—New York Mail and Express. Divining: Rods. The only trustworthy divining rod that has ever been made is fortunately cheap. It has a steel head and a wood en handle and is shaped something like an anchor. Any man who wants one should go to a hardware store and ask for a pickax.—Youth’s Companion. ise An Uneven Contest. “They had a lively boxing match at Splinter’s the other night.” “How was that?” “Splinter came home late, and as he passed through the hall his wife’s tall- Mnch of Little. The stranger in any city half a hun dred years old, if he knew nothing of the city’s history, would learn from many of the signs that the second and third generations had succeeded to the business of father and grandfather. It is especially true of New York. The New York Tribune mentions some pe culiar signs and relates the following: A Londoner who had strolled about the streets of the city with a New Yorker who called his attention to some of the signs of sons agreed that in this respect New York was very like London, but in neither city was there any such sign as he saw in one of the old English towns a few hours’ run from the world’s metropolis. The sign reads, “John Littlejohn’s Sons & Little (Little Littlejohn, Doolittle Littlejohn & John Little). According to the Londoner the first Littlejohn and Little were partners. The former gave his first son his part ner’s family name, and Little gave his boy his partner’s Christian name. Lit- A fool forms an alliance with the straws driven by the wind; a wise man forms an alliance with the wind.—Chi cago News. The first savings bank in the United States was established in 1816. C ASTO R IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of AND ENCYCLOPEDIA. <A Statistical Volume of Facts and Figures Containing Over 600 Pages, OVER i,ooo TOPICS. OVER 10,000 FACTS. est palm touched him on the cheek. , , „ „ ^ Splinter was in an excited condition 1 \ ec0 » d so * f °l 3 and thought it was somebody’s fingers. I mothers fa “ J l y ’ + K ^ re . e So he struck out wildly with both fists and sncceeded in knocking over two palms and severely bumping his own head.” “But why do you call it a boxing match?” “Because Splinter, put up his knuc kles against his wife’s palms.”—Cleve land Plain Dealer. sons succeeded to their fathers’ busi ness; hence the sign is entirely correct, and the Londoner was right in saying that the successors had no intention of being “funny” when they had their sign written as it appears. Why His Life Was a Failure. 4 ‘Yes, I consider my life a failure.” “Oh, Henry, how sad! Why should you say that?” “I spent all my time making money enough to 5 buy food and clothes, and the food disagrees with me* and my clothes don’t fit.”—Life. There is always danger in using iounterfeits of DeWitt’s Witch lazel Salve. The original is a afe and certain cure for piles. It s a soothing and healing salve for ores and all skin diseases. H.M. Toltzclaw’s Drugstore. To The Deaf. A rich lady, cured of her deaf ness and noises in the head by Dr. Nicholson’s Artificial Ear Drums, gave $10,000 to his Instute, so that deaf people unable to pro cure the Ear Drums may have them free. Address No. 1474. The Nicolson Institute, 780 Eighth Avenue, New York. Census statistics show that every religeous denomination has in creased in the last ten years ex cept the TJniversalists, which church shows a decided falling off. Subscribe for the Home Journal. SPECIAL FEATURES.— The census of 1900. National and State elec tion returns. Fourcenturies of American prog ress. 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