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Dog Hypnotized The Fowls.
From the Pittsburgh Post. •
Jt is an easy thing to hopnotize
a chicken by drawing a circle of
chalk on the ground, then laying
t he chicken within the ciicle and
placing its beak on the chalk line,
but it remains for a Staten Island
setter dog to exert upon a number
of chickens a mesmeric influence,
compelling them to form them-
se lves into a circle and stand
transfixed as long as he wills.
This dog, which is owned by Rob
ert Cartwright, of Newdrop, S. I.,
is the cause of complaint by the
neighbors who own chickens.
The other day a neighbor came
running over to the setter’s own
er and requested him to take his
dog home.
“You don’t tell me that he has
killed any of your chickens?” Mr.
Cartwright queired.
“No,” replied the neighbor hot
ly, “but he has cleaned bewitched
and demoralized every fowl on
the place. Come over and see for
yourself.”
The two men made their way to
an open field, where a strange
sight presented itself. From twen
ty-five to thirty chickens were
ranged in a perfect oircle, each
poised on one leg, with necks out
stretched and eyes fixed on a
large setter dog that stood point
ing them, fifty feet away. The
dog stood on three legs, with fore
foot raised and doubled under.
His heard was trained forward,
nose pointing the circle of chick
ens and tail rigidly extended be
hind. The feathered bipeds were
clearly under a hypnotic spell,
and remained immovable in the
circle until the dog was called
away.
Mr. Cartwright has since learn
ed that his setter plays the
same trick on the poultry of all
his neighbors with the peculiar re
sult that the output of eggs has
rapidly diminished.
Ho Didn’t Want “Any Aigs.”
Au exchange tells this story of
a Chattanooga merchant who in
stalled a telephone near the front
door of his shop and one morning
stepped up to the transmitter to
answer a call. Just at that mo
ment a north Georgia farmer, who
had never seen a telephone before,
came into the place and inquired,
“Wanter buy any aigs?” The
merchant, who was intent upon
getting his message, gazed ab
stractly at the farmer and told the
telephone, ‘T can’t hear youl”
“Wanter buy any aigs?” shouted
the farmer in a voice that made
the windows rattle. Still unable
to hear the man who was calling
him, the merchant again remark
ed, this time without looking at
the farmer, “I can’t hear you!—
speak louder!” For the third
time the farmer spoke, roaring
out his previous question so loud
that people stopped and asked
what the trouble was. This had
the desired effect. The merchant
left the telephone, forgetting the
call, and turning savagely on the
intruder, remarked: “No!d—n
it, I don’t want any eggs I” The
farmer smiled, and as he went out
was heard to remark softly, “I
never did see one o’ them deaf
fellers but whut I could make ’em
hear me if I only let myself out.”
The Stomach controls the sit
uation. Those who are hearty and
strong are those who can eat and
digest plenty of food. Kodol Dys
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and allows you to eat all the good
food you want. If you suffer from
mdigestion, heart burn, belching
or any other stomach trouble, this
preparation can’t help but do you
good. The most sensitive stom
ach can take it. H. M. Holtz-
claw. druggist.
:
The 29th volunteer infantry,
* ykich has many Georgia boys in
ifs ranks and which has been
serving in the Philippines for
nearly two years past, .will sail
from Manila for San Francisco on
the 25 inst, according to official
announcement of the war depart
ment.
To Cure A Cold In One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine
Tablets. All druggists refund the
money if it fails to cure. E. W.
grove’s signature is on each box.
2o/.
A Prince for South Africa.
Nsw York World.
It is J shrewd decision of King
Edward a ministers that the Duke
and Duchess of Cornwall and
York shall visit Durban. The
seaport of Natal has suffered ter
ribly by the war in the Transvaal,
anb it is a Maxim in British poli
tics that a dissatisfied people may
Joe placated, when remedies are
impossible,by permitting the sun
shine of a royal countenance to
tall upon them. Even in Ireland
the visit of Queen Victoria in the
last|year of her life won friends
when, owing to the war, they were
badly needed.
The journey of the Duke to Aus
tralia and New Zealand was plan
ned to give a social and political
“boom” to the new Australian
federation at a time when the
mother country was drawing heav
ily upon the colonies for troops.
After the death of the Queen the
idea was dropped. But the neces
sities of the case have called it into
being again and caused South Af
rica to be added to the route.
Everything has been done to in
sure the safety of the Duke. His
trip is to take place in our sum
mer, the winter of the far south.
The arrival in Durban is timed for
the cool, dry weather of August,
when the worst of the winter is
past, and before the summer heats
—which have slain so many of
King Edward’s soldiers, but to
whicn an heir to the throne may
not be exposed—have begun. It
is possible that the trip to Durban
may be followed by a brief stay in
Cape Town, if the people show
themselves worthy of royal favor
by falling in with the British
plans for their re-construction.
The Duke is well used to such
ceremonials. He and the Princess
Louise are the most travelled
members of the royal family. In
many a distant colony the coming
of the Duke when he was a jolly
sailor years ago, the visit of Prin
cess Louise and the trees she plan
ted and the hospitals she opened,
and the more recent stays of Mark
Twain, and three staples of con
versation as unfailing as the
weather. Now that the Duke is
heir to the Kingdom, his coming
is an even greater honor.
His visit to South Africa will be
an occasion for feverish patriot
ism among colonials of British
blood. How it will effect the
Dutch in Natal and elsewere is
another matter.
Strikes A Rich Find.
“I was troubled for several
years with chronic indigestion and
nervous debility,” writes F. J.
Green, Lancaster, N. H., “No
remedy helped me until I began
using Electric Bitters, which did
me more good than all the medi
cine I ever used. They have also
kept my wife in excellent health
for years. She says Electric Bit
ters are just splendid for female
troubles; that they are a grand
tonic and invigorator for week,
run down women. No other med
icine can take its place in our
family.” Try them. Only 50/.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Holtz-
claw’s drugstore.
It will be noted that when a
man does not want to respect a
law, he begins to insist that it is
a falure.
Learned and Lived.
nengion may be learned on Sun
day, but it is lived in the week days’
work. The torch of religion may be
lit in the church, but it does its
burning in the shop and on the
street. Religion seeks its life in
prayer, but it lives its life in deeds.
It is planted in the closet, bnt it
does its growing out in the world.
It plumes itself for flight in songs of
praise, but its actual flights are in
works of love. It resolves and med
itates on faithfulness and it reads its
Christian lesson in the Book of
Truth, but “faithful is that faithful
does.” It puts its armor on in all
the aids and helps of the sanctuary
as its dressing rooms, but it com
bats for the right, the noble and
the good in all the activities of prac
tical existence, and its battle-ground
is the whole broad field of life.—
John Dougherty.
The Lincoln (Neb.) Journal says:
“The Kansas Senate the other even
ing, amid the rustling of thousands
of skirts in the galleries, passed a
complete woman suffrage bill, giving
women the ballot in presidential and
all other elections. The next morn
ing, when the women were away,
thinking themselves perfectly safe,
they reconsidered the vote and kill
ed the bill deader than a herring.
Nobody will complain hereafter when
the Kansas dames seize their axes
and go out to war. They have prov-
o cation.
The Fifty-seventh Congress wil
ba more strongly republican than its
prdecessor, the 56th, just ended. In
the House of Representatives there
will be 198 republicans, 151 demo
crats and 8 of the other parties. In
the Senate there are 53 republicans,
29 democrats, 4 populists, 1 inde
pendent republican, 1 silver and 2
independents. The responsibility
for legislation during the next two
years will rest upon the shoulders of
the party of the administration..
Off Sabine pass in the Gulf of
Mexico there is a well-known oil
pool of considerable extent, which
has in times past been a sought-for
refuge in tempestuous weather. The
explanation of its perence is that the
oil, coming perhaps from the same
level as that which spouts from the
great well at Beaumont, Tex., works
its way thrpugh the sands at the
bottom of the Gulf and so rises to
the surface of the water.
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.—Ex.
>> —
Another of the Ah Fong sisters of
Hawaii has married a white man.
These girls are half Chinese, one-
quarter Portugeuse and one-quarter
Kanaka. They are finely educated,
and have a dowry of $1,000,000
each.—Exchange.
See that you get the original
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve when
you ask for it. The genuine is a
certain cure for piles, sores and
skin diseases. Hottzclaw’s Drug
store.
CALDER B. WILLINGHAM, JR,,
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