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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 ■*■ r Ay i ini ■iM-wiuk inn mm—n■—n tpi i nuiifi iiimiioim ii 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 if I 1 pSfeT J - % • ibv < v ,-.w. hil/L is I W -Mm I /Hr"*—^fVlgaiNlA 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 lilllir . -r. .. . ■ .. . -'.".-it-W,- 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 w ' it jj * )■ 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. 500 YOUNG MEH Address Johnson** Practical it silt* ay Institute. Iniiiattapoh.-i. Ind, Avery & McMillan, 51 and 53 S. Furyt.h St, Atlanta, (la. ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY Reliable Frick Engines. Boilers, all Sizes. Wheat Separators, ail Sizes. BIST MPIOVED Silt MILL ON EARTH. Large Engines and Boilers_ - promptly. Shingle MiJJ* r -'Corn Miltef Circular Teeth, Patent Dcgs, fr u |l lino En- Mill Supplies. Send for Catalogue. I was troubled with indigestion and dyspepsia as long as I can re 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 decidedly better. In the morning I tin fresh and sound and my appetite has Improved wonderfully. At druggist*. The Five-Cent packet is enough for an ordinary occasion. The family bottle, 60 cents, contains a supply for a year. FREE ELECTRiS BELT OFFER Li SUtC!?*?" Ui irc.afn. and only HkIUkLRLP.G ii riBIUISB (I KfISVT FI.EI.TSIC BELTS to any i-arfer of this paper. So n0... la sd..—; ~rj low ecSTS almost HOTHiitoro H p.rw, Wsttt most all otlier treatments, fare* when allether •!<*. trlr b*!u, mBWN ®d rrKtxßea Tail. QUICK CURE for nor* tkMB 60 atlarMU. Only sore rare Tor all nerroaa dUea"**, d** o ™*™- Fop complete scaled eoI e * this ad. out aad mall to us. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., CHIGABO. Genuine stamped CC C. Sever sold In balk. Beware of the dealer who tries to seß “something jnst as good.” NEW PENSION LAWS SI Apply to NATHAN Bit ItFOKD, 914 F su. Vt oshtnctoß, O. C, _ FISQ'S CUR^na to I fr— I o Lol CVJ LJ AU tIS£FA*S. “ CONSUMPTION OCTOBEIi S I i ■hi ■ o k