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SUNDAY MORNING.
Suspicious Characters
of the Woods.
By William S. Rice.
1 1 til ILK you are In tile coun-
Wtry ami roaming through
fluids nn<l thickets Ittdis
crlmina tely, on your limit
ing or fishing excursions,
let IIIC UttlT 11 WOl'd of
caution against the diin
****** jjeroUH characters you are
* liable to encounter.
No, I do not refer to tramps, bears
or snakes, hut to much more sly and
dangerous foes, the poisonous plants
and shrubs which lurk in every nook
and cranny, and then • He in wait for
tlicir victims -by every fence post,
woodland path, pile ofboubfbf-v CIV
perhaps, on the same premises where
you are staying
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If you will come alonif with mo this
beautiful summer mo/uiiiK I will give
you an introduction' to these villains
Df the plant kingdom. ltut in ease wo
accidentally exta'se ourselves to their
Influence It wbuld be wise If wo ob
served some precautions. I,et us carry
with us a dusk of cold water, into
wbiolx wo have dissolved a heaping
talvl*'-’Willful of halting soda-tills is to
ottr antidote for ivy poisoning. The
-■'.tu Is getting higher in the sky and
we had better he off before tin* heat
becomes too great; so come along, and
wo will take Ibis shady lane bordered
with locust trees, that lends to the
dream which Hows through Helmet’s
Hollow.
‘•I’ooli, I can hoar someone exclaim,
4 1 have often touched poison Ivy and
lever took It.” That's all right. Some
persons are susceptible, while others
ire not. By its Irregular, coarse
toothed, oval pointed leaves, which
ire always grouped in threes, and the
flusters of small greenish white berries
you shall know it.
Hints toxicodendron the learned
botanists call It; and isn't that a high
sounding name for such a reprobate?
l-ook at that aged specimen about the
fence post, like a highwayman lying
In wait for the barefoot youngsters
*s they climb the fence to take a short
cut to the swimming hole! In tills form
botanists have given it a special name,
Hints rad ion ns. The country people
of California call this form of it
“poison oak.” Now .as we approach
the thickets of aider which line the
streams on both sides look sharply
shout you, for there is another sus
picious character which belongs to the
Hints family, hiding among innocent
shrubs and waiting to brand his trade
mark upon you, if you happen to come
too closely in tomb wish him. lie is
really‘a dangerous enemy of mankind,
and his effects are similar to those of
his relative, the poison Ivy, only much
worse.
This is the Hints venenata, commonly
known as “poison sumach," and it is
a sturdy shrub from live to twenty
feet in height.
At the base of these alder hjiriJes
grows another three-leaved ivy; 'Toison
ivy. sure!” my eompattlon exclaims.
Bur look ' ■■n-.'fyHy and see for your
self. Tmg, there are the three leaves
In a group, almost a counterpart of the
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ßEAN VINE • gi—l ~*^L**'
poison ivy itsolf; but where, oh where,
are (he stout hairy stems ami the clus
ters of whileish berries? Instead you
will notice clusters of purple bean blos
soms or. what follows later, some miu
lature limas dangling from the slendet I
wiry stem.
Dig this plant np by the roots, for It
lias a secret hidden from most of us
and I want to tell you about It. Afralt
to? Why, It isn't poison at all; it i:
only n wild bean vine. Besides thi
fact that if hears green pods abovi
ground, it has an underground l'ruit
or "hog peanut,” as it is called ill somt
localities. These peanuts are small,
one-seeded pods, and few persons know
tills plant’s secret. They' are the seeds
for next year's plants, produced by
queer underground blossoms.
“There on that boulder is a poison
ivy with five leaves; be careful!” is the
sage advice my companion offers me
as we proceed to investigate tile new
find. A five-leaved poison ivy! Why,
didn’t 1 just tell you that the poison
Ivy's leaves are always found arranged
In threes? “Yes, hut it looks just like
It,” lie persists. Now look closely.
Thin' are five leaflets all springing
fromNJie same point of tlie stem. They
have n regular saw tooth edge, and
thi* berries are bluish, almost black.
No, tliis is no relative of the Rhus
family, lint is closely allied to the
grape, anil its botanical name is Atn
pelopsis quinqtlefolln, or, commonly,
Virginia creeper. It is perfectly harm
less, and one of our most beautiful
native climbers.-Harper’s Bazar.
Pine House 800 Years Old.
This is one of tiie buildings called
“stnhtifs," which are to he seen in Tele
mark, In Norway. They are built of
pine wood, and most of them date from
the eleventh or twelfth century. They
arc storehouses for provisions to be
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ttsed during the long winters, and con
tain among other tilings quantities oi
the peculiar hard, flat, Norwegian
bread or biscuit, which is as thin as a
pancake and thirty Inches in diameter.
Many of these buildings are adorned
with artistic wood carving and painted
bright red. There are wooden churchc!
of equal autiqui y.
Tlie Art of Hi-ciiUiliic.
It is possible to exercise one's whole
body, to keep it strong and well, sim
ply by breathing properly. Children
should be taught to breathe end to gd
into ihq, habit of tilling the wJjtjf 0 lung
space at eaell inhabitlojuusJ 0 f empty
ing it completely;rt each exhalatiou.
There is no.U,,Utter way of getting to
riecjyJkvon after going to bed than by
JJit'nthmg properly. Push away tlie
pillow and lie flat upon the back with
the muscles relaxed. Slowly draw iu
the deepest breath possible, hold it for
four seconds, then slowly expel it until
the chest and abdomen have collapsed.
Repeat this process until you are tired
or fall asleep. There are scores of
ways of varying this exercise. Rut this
ia the essential. Of course, it is as
sumed that one sleeps with his bed
room windows opeu.
A NOTED FRONTIERSMAN
HISTORY CF SIMON KENTON, MOST
FAMOUS PIONEER OF HIS DAY.
The Kentucky Settler'* Many Iteinarkable
Escape. From tile Indians-. Miracle of
the Fipe and the Kurning-Gtass—Hts
Bast Hays Were I'ittful In the Extreme
The greatest novelty to the Indians,
those connoisseurs in scalps, has al
ways been a red-haired man. Red
haired Indians there are none, and a
red-haired white man, when
prisoner, was always a subject of v„ m
rious regard. They were often kfi jli
to dispatch such a captive, prefacing,
if possible, to keep him as a flovelty,
of which they would be envied the
possession by other tribes,
Tite fact that Simon Kenton, the,
most noted frontiersman of his da®£'
second only to Danel Boone. had 4 *;,
shock of red hair had no little icj do
with tiie saving of his scalp. iv'jiLer
things are, of course, to he tainto
account, sue.l as a cool \irjf l under
hie fiery l'/ks. and a pair cyfieet feet
under hi/cool head. y
Keniyn, in file prime l 3T r jjfe, v ,- as
six feet one inch high in ii*l[ njoceasins,
aid straight as a ramroAf jp, walked
with his toes directly /L t!le front in ;{ .
nn Indian. it soft, tremulous
voice, slupPlna- tigs letter “r” much as
the moumagfi tneu of West Virginia
and Kcntywky do to-day. lie had, say
those wjrto knew him, a laughing gray
■ye, lUoliintneii by reading tine print,
hut .yfmirably suiled to tine sight along
a pTtlo barrel. He liked fiddling and
dancing, and was the hero and leader
j it log-rollings, but best of all liked
bunting Indians through the thick for
ests of Kentucky and Ohio. Some
times he found the red men; at other
times they found him. He was of fair
complexion, good humored, but when
in anger raged like a tornado. His cre
dulity was great, and he was only
shrewd when his wits were engaged
against the rod men.
He was the hero of more remarkable
’scapes from the Indians than any man
of his time or any other, lie was eight
times exposed to running the gantlet,
and three times were the fagots piled
to roast him. His escapes were at
tributed by the pioneers to “Kenton’s
luck,” but Kenton's vivid thinking and
his ready selecting of the least chance
for escape should also he taken into
the reckoning.
Once, when a captive and held at
Detroit, an Knglish officer became in
terested in him as a line specimen of
manhood and untuto.cd son of the
forest. He saw that Keutin was fond
of smoking a pipe, the howl of which
was probably made of a corncob, and
gave him a burning-glass, showing him
how lie could light tobacco by focusing
the sun's rays upon it.
Kenton was delighted with this
gift, which amused him us a toy
amuses a child. When the sun shone,
lie had no need of flint, steel and tinder
to light ids pipe.
Two or three years later Kenton was
again a prisoner in the hands of the
red men. Bound hand and foot, he
was about to be burned at the stake.
Asa last request, lie called for his
pipe. His hands were loosed, so that
he might use the flint, steel and tinder.
He waved away the savage who was
bringing them. Extending his hauu
toward the sun, lie made an Incanta
tion. The glass, unseen by tin' sav
ages, was circled by bis thumb and
forefinger. The tobacco in the bowl
began to burn. Great clouds of smoke
were soon rolling from Kenton’s
mouth. The Indians were amused.
Never had t.iey seen a pipe lighted
without fire.
Smoking.oat the pipe the wily necro
mancer again mysteriously lighted it.
One of the Indians, holder than the
others, approached for the purpose of
making sure of the deer thongs that
tied the fleet footed Kenton. As
he bent over the captive to do this the
burning glass was focused upon iiis
head. There was a smell of burning
hair and flesh. The Indian jumped to
his feet, rubbing his head Meanwhile,
again using the glass, Kenton set the
leaves at his side on tire. He strtjffjjled
to his feet and beckoned to an Indian
to unbind his ankles,- The frightened
savage dared mtf refuse , 1;o - lV>ilK ,< t ot
this wonjjotnti medicine man.
Hfihfon approached the heap of
; fagots prepared for his roasting. The
Indians quickly got out of his wav.
They hid themselves, shuddering, tie
hind the trees to watch this worker of
magic.
Waving his arms above iiis head, he
picked up a powder horn that had been
dropped by one of .the savages. He
trailed some of the powder along the
ground. Again the burning glass. Fo
cused on the powder, there came an
explosion and the bora was blown to
pieces.
This was too much for the red men.
I* earing that worse was coming, thev
gave a wild shriek and fled. Kenton
did not tarry to see the course they
took. Ho ran through the bushes and
took bis way unopposed to the white '
settlements.
When the Indian wars were over,
Kenton, brave and generous back
woodsman that he was, experienced
much the same treatment at tins hands
of his countrymen that was given to
Daniel Boone. After the Indians were
gone a yapaoious set of land grabbers
uui speculators came in. I.auds which
Kenton had bought were lost to him
through technical flaws of title. He
was even imprisoned for debt near the
place where he had raised the first
cabin, planted the first corn, and where
he had met the savages in many a
fight.
This was in Kentucky, which he had
long considered his home. Beggared
by lawsuits and losses, he removed to
Ohio about the year ISOO.
THE BRUN3WICK DAILY NEWS.
In Ohio for a time be/^. as heM
much regard, notwltktj^ dlllg his pov .
eriy. He was a so!dL, ir Jn tlle yy ar 0 f
1812, and for atwas a Brigadier-
General in the militia. After the
"Vlar of 12, was called, he re
turned to bis in t jj e woo( j g near
Urbana, yggo he rtioved to Mad
Itiver, iujflgbt of the old Indian town
ot " "RJpatomlca, where he had once
to a stake.
here the poor old man was
P'jaTou,! by judgments and executions
A, f Kentucky courts. He still had
•s, of mountain lands In that
;•# ™ e fbut they had been forfeited for
t|lpK chough the amount of such taxes
to-day be considered ridieulous
nail. He tried boring for salt.
T'cseVventures were failures. His last
T'SpWiretf was to apply to the Kentucky
c Legislature to release his forfeiture.
In IS2-1 a broken old man of seventy
years, mounted on a bony old nag,
started southward from the little cabin
in tile Mad River woods. At last he
reached Frankfort, the capital of Ken
tucky. There, in what he had known
as an unbroken wildwood, stood a city,
with towering church steeples, busy
factories, and the ! omes of a thriving,
happy people.
He rubbed his eyes as he looked at
this scene of enchantment. As he
rode into the city hi silt ran go appear
ance and ragged at.ire. the shaky, bony
old horse, whose ribs were so strongly
outlined against the hide, brought
hundreds to the doors to see tlie aged
wanderer. *
There was not a face he knew. There
was none who recognized in the broken
old man the hero of whom all had
heard, the Simon Kenton of the laugh
ing gray eyes, tlie curling red locks,
light of heart, ready of hand, fleet of
foot. At last one in the city of stran
gers recognized lilm. It was General
Fletcher, wito iiad been a companion
in-arms in tlie War of 'l2, He grasped
the veteran by tlie hand with a gener
ous warmth that brought tears to tlie
wan and wrinkled cheeks of the old
man.
General Fletcher saw to it that the
second man of the early history of the
State, Boone having been the first,
should have a true Kentucky welcome,
lie -made the old man the lion of the
day. Kenton was taken to the State
House. He was given the place of
honor, seated in the Speaker's chair,
and here legislators, distinguished
judges and citizens were introduced
lo him.
He had been “fixed up” by General
Fletcher to meet this company, the
General having bought him a suit of
new clothes, anew hat, and a shirt
with ruffles. Better than this, iiis lands
were released, and shortly afterward,
by the exertion of a number' of men
of influence and position, the Congress
of the Halted States voted him, in rec
ognition of his great services to the
country, a pension of 82.10 a year,
enough to secure his old age front ab
solute want.
The simple-minded old man during
tiie ten or more remaining years of
his life, wore, it is said, the same
clothes and hat that he wore when the
guest of the people of Kentucky, and
lie always declared that his visit to
Frankfort was tlie greatest and hap
piest period of iiis life.
He died in IS."o at the age of eighty
one years in iiis little cabin in the
woods, surrounded by his family and
in sight of the very spot where, nearly
sixty years before, he had saved him
self from the torture tire by means of
his wonderful burning glass.—lndian
apolis News.
Site l-'or tlie Kind's Sanntorlnm.
A site of 120 acres at Lords Com
mon. near Mldlntrst, Sussex, Ims been
selected for the King's Sanatorium, the
erection of which was made possifilo
by the munlficenceof Sir Edward Cas
sel It would be difficult to find a more
healthy place. The elevation raagfiy
from 100 to 000 feet aCo vc
level, and is in the liiiilsHlf charming
scenery and iiji kle forest. In the
spring rinnjmiiunl rons flourish here
in-ouaitjy-better than in any spot in
Jirfllunl. With the South Downs in
the distance, and the pretty River
Kotinr ,:i the Inn tom of the volley, it
makes an ideal site for a sanatorium,
1 in* contract for the water supply lias
been intrusted to Messrs. Duke and
Dckenden, of I.ittlekampton and Lon
don, who are commencing operations
immediately. The plans for the sana
torium itself, we understand, have not
yet been selected. It is intended that
ir should be the most scientifically eon- v
striicted and equipped building far its
purpose in existence.—London News.
Heaviest Tonnage Kver Hauled.
Anew tandem locomotive, recently
completed for the New York Central
Railroad by the Schenectady works,
drew los loaded freight ears from Dc-
Witr. near Syracuse, to Albany, last
week, iu eleven hours. This is the
heaviest tonnage ever hauled by a
s 'r.gle 1 u.: -c. Tlie Ids cars con
tained aheiS tl.OOd.OtXl pounds of
freight. On a previous occasion the
s.-itue locomotive hauled 100 loaded
cars between the two points named in
nearly an hour less time.
Curiosities of Knglich Insurance.
The English insurance companies do
not require a medical examination of
the person to be insured. They will is
sue a policy to any one on the life of
any other person, provided the appli
cant will pay the price asked. And
they insure many things besides life.
They have insured the voice of a singer
and tlie permanence of the gold filling
of a tooth. And they will guarantee
that the gate receipts of a cricket
match or a football game will not fall
below a certain sum.
Magazine rifles will soon be issued
to the Moorish army
i A Loiig-TajiSu BrsßEi
ol japs Fowls
( Br Walter L. Beasley.
1
THE first specimen of the re
markable long tailed breed of
fowls from Japan to be seen
in this country was recently
received at the American Museum ot
Natural History. The magnificent tail
feathers of this creature measure near
ly twelve feer, and are strikingly set
forth in comparison with the six-foot
figure shown in accompanying illustra
tion. Mr. John Rowley, the taxider
| mist of the institution, will mount the
I new acquisition in a characteristic at
titude, after which it will lie installed
in Bird Hall, where it will form one
if the most interesting exhibits of that
lepartnient. Professor Bashford, Dean
af Columbia University, last year vis
teil the locality of the long-tailed fowls
mil had one grown for the Museum.
I Tlie introduuetion of the breed is
j -aid to have been brought a lion t by a
i wince of Japan, whose imperial ( rest
| was a feather. Yearly he offered a
j uize to the subject who would tiring
\ o him tiie longest feather. The great
j >st skill and effort were therefore eni
j Joyed by the breeders to produce the
i 'reatesf length of tail feathers possible.
At present only a few old fanciers
! Know the secret process of successfully
| breeding these fowls. A few atitlien-
J ic details have, however, been obtained
in regard to the method of their breed
j Ing. The particular breed is confined
to a region in and around Kochi, tlie
I capital of a province of Tasso. The
breed is about a hundred years old
,
tarn 7
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A LONG-TAILED JAPANESE
and is fast out. j s
to lie no of making
tlie feat All is done by' se-
one must know how
jG—freat the birds during the various
stages of tail growth. The body feath
ers springing from the shoulders attain
a length of four feet. Two years is the
time necessacj* to produce a full
growth of tail. The tail feathers grow
from four to seven inches a month,
and continue to increase as long as tite
bird lives, which is usually from eight
io ten years. The hens lay about thirty
eggs in the spring and autumn, which
are hatched by other fowl. The liens
are kept housed up. and sit all day on
a flat perch, and art* taken out only
once in two days and allowed to walk
half nn hour or so, a man holding up
the tails io prevent them from being
torn or soiled. The birds are fed on
uuhtilied rice and greens, and secret i
food known and prepared by the old
fanciers themselves. They demand
plenty of water and are wonderfully
tame. The ordinary number of loiiufl
tail feathers possessed by each bin
is fifteen or sixteen. A lion t twice ;
day they are carefully washed in warn
water, and afterward dried on souk
high place, usually a roof. The pres
cut price is 810 for a bird having i
tail over ten feet long. There are fom
varieties of the breed: White head anc
body f athers and tall black: second
white :all over, with yellow legs: third
red neck and body feathers; fourth
reddish color mixed with white oi
body. All these, with the exeeptioi
of tlie second variety, have black tail
feathers.—Scientific American.
Oldest. Love Letter.
The oldest love-letter in the world
is in the British Museum. It is a pro
posal of marriage for the hand of au
Egyptian Princess, and was made
3500 years ago. It is in the form of an
inscribed brick.
The Family How.
The longest way home is the shortest
road to a family Vow.—New York
Press.
Religious instruction is not given ia
Japanese schools.
THE SURGEON’S KNIFE
Mrs. Eckis Stevenson of Salt
Lake City Tells How Opera
tions For Ovarian Troubles
May Be Avoided.
‘‘Dear Mrs. Pineham :—I suffered
with inflammation of the ovaries and
womb for over six years,enduring aches
and pains which none can dream of but
those who have had the same expe
irßS. i.CKIS STEVENSON,
rience. II nr-.dreds of dollars went to the
doctor and the druggist. I was simply
a walking medicine chest, and a phys
ical wreck. My sister residing iu Ohio
wrote me that she had been cured of
womb trouble bv using Ly(li;t K.
Piiikhnm’s Vegetable Com
pound, and advised me to try it. I
then discontinued all other medicines
and gave your Vegetable Compound a
thorough trial. Within four weeks
nearly all pain lmd left me; I rarely
had headaches, and mv nerves were ia
a much better condition, and I was
pured in three months, and this avoided
a terrible surgical operation.”—Mr3.
F.ckis Stevenson. 250 Mo. State St.,
Salt Lake City. Utah.— (COOO forfHt t)
ebco* tastinionlal h not genuine.
Remember every woman is
cordially invited to write to Mrs.
Pinkbam if there is anything
about her symptoms she does not
understand. Mrs. Pinkiiam’s
address is Hewn. Mass.
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I was troubled with indigestion
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member. 1 had no appetite, and the
little I ate distressed me terribly.
All day long 1 would feel sleepy and
had no ambition to do anything.
Since taking Ilipang Tabules I feel
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tin fresh and sound and my appetite
has Improved wonderfully.
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The Five-Cent packet is enough for an
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