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" ? A JNovol Experience with a TIcco of
t Ordnance IJ.ire to Do Itlcht ; Dare to
Ho True Aunt Mary's Message The
Capybara.
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STPOOR , sweet Piccola !
4 r _ \ \ Did you hear
( f X What happened to
( -J ) * ) Piccola , children
J r TfBgdear ?
" ; -J jJ F "Tis seldom Fortune
Mi r OT Siix - such favor
W feTlSlfllll As feH t thls little
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If fMmWK'Twas
- 'Twas Christmas
In ' A < r ( f ' parents poor
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! * fL ' Could hardly drive
Im the wolf from the door ,
- . Striving : with poverty's patient pain
I Only to Mvc till summer again.
I No gift for Piccola ! sad were they
"When dawned the morning of ChristI -
I mas day ;
Their little darling no joy might stir ;
I' St. Nicholas nothing would bring to
I But Piccola never doubted at all
That something beautiful must befall
I .Every child upon Christmas day ,
And so she slept till the dawn was
I And full of faith , when at la3t she
I Bhe stole to her shoe as the morning
broKe
Such sounds of gladness filled all the
I | 'Twas plain St. Nicholas had been
there.
I In rushed Piccola , sweet , half wild
Never was seen such a joyful child
"See what the good saint brought ! " she
cried ,
I And mothe * * and father must peep in-
I side.
Now such a story I never heard !
There was a little shivering bird !
A sparrow that in at the window flew ,
( Had crept into Piccola's tiny shoe !
I ( i "How good poor Piccola must have
J been ! "
H , She cried as happy as any queen ,
H While the starving sparrow she fed
i and warmed ,
H ; And danced with rapture , she was so '
| charmed.
Hi Children , this story I tell to you ,
I Of Piccola sweet and her bird , is true.
I In the far-off land of France , they say ,
; ' Still do they live to this very day.
Celia Thaxter.
H | Dare to Do Kight ; Dare to Be True.
H Dear Boys and Girls : Some of you ,
H I know , like to read , perhaps better
Hi than to jriay , but youth is the play-
g time of life , so you do not want to
B spend too much time out of school in
H | reading. Keep out in the open air as
Hj much as you can so as to grow strong
H and muscular. What , girls grow
Hi strong and muscular ! Yes , I think
HI girls should play out of doors as well
B as their brothers and so have strength
Hj to accomplish much good bye and bye.
H Of course you will let your mother
H , ' know what you read so that she can
H decide if it will be what is good for
H you. Never read anything that you
H : would not be willing to show to her.
Hi If you are just a little bit ashamed to
k have her see the book or paper you
H ' may be sure it is not safe to read
E I presume some of you boys have
Hi read becks written by J. T. Trow-
m bridge. He is getting to be quite an
Hj elderly gentleman , with white hair , but
H he still writes stories to please the
H | boys. He has a pleasant home in Ar-
H | lington , Mass. , and has a wife and
Hj two pretty daughters who make the
n boys and girls and every one who calls
B .very happy by their kindness. The
H | grammar school class chose him for
B their favorite author last year , and he
H wrote this verse for a class motto :
1 "Encounter every ill , ,
H Fees great and small ;
H | With courage and good will
m And conquer all. "
H | This is a good motto for us all. is it
K Yours ever ,
H Aunt Mary.
Hj The Capybara.
H The capybara , which is shown in the
H accompanying illustration , is about the
largest of all the rodents. The only
species which has yet been observe !
measures three feet in length , and a
foot and a half in height. This animal
possesses a massive body , a large head ,
sbcrt and rounded ears , moderately
long legs , semi-webbed toes , and rough ,
scanty hair , which in generally of a
brown color. It lives gregariously ,
on the banks o * lakes and rivers , feeds
on grass , and hollows out burrows to
sleep in. At the appsparance of dan
ger they plunge into the water , in
which they are perfectly at home.
Carnivorous animals , such as jaguars ,
cougars , etc. , destroy them in great
numbers. They are also hunted by
man for the sake of their flesh , which
is said to be very good. This rodent
is of a very docile disposition , and be
comes quite tame if taken young. It
is very numerous in Guiana , end most
j ; of the tributaries of the Amazon.
J * A Novel Experiment.
The most curious experiment ever
made with a piece of ordnance was at
Portsmouth , England , says Invention.
A stage was erected in the harbor
within the tide mark ; on this an Arm
strong gun of the HO pound pattern
was mounted. The gun was then
loaded and carefully aimed at a tar
get all this , of course , during the
time of low tide. A few hours later ,
when the gun and target were both
covered with water to a depth of six
feet , the gun was fired by means of
electricity. We said "aimed at a tar
get , " but the facts were that there
were two targets , but only one was *
directed for this special experiment ,
the other being the hull of an old ves
sel , the Griper , which lay directly be
hind the target and in range of the
ball. The target itself was placed
only twenty-five feet from the muzzle
of the gun. It was composed of oak
beams and planks , and was twenty-
one inches thick.
In order to make the old Griper
invulnerable a sheet of boiler plates
three inches thick was riveted to the
water logged hull , in direct range
with the course the ball was expected
to take if not deflected by ths water.
On all of these the oaken target , the
boiler plates and the old vessel hull
the effect of the shot from the sub
merged gun was really startling. The
wooden target was pierced through
and through , the boiler target iron was
broken into pieces and driven into its
"backing , " the ball passing right on
through both sides of the vessel , mak
ing a huge hole , through which the
water pcured in torrents. Taken al
together the experiment was an entire
success , demonstrating , as it did , the
feasibility of placing submerged guns
in harbors in time of war and doing
great damage to vessels which an en
emy might dispatch to such points for
the purpose of shelling cities.
His "rattle Feller. "
How the thought of the little ones at
home , and the joys their presence
brings helps to sweeten many a toil
worn life , is effectively told in the fol
lowing story which we copy from the
Watchman :
I was opening a barrel of apples
when the big , dust covered and nec
essarily untidy man came back with
'rthe j empty ash barrel , I picked up an
apple and held it out toward him ,
saying as I did so :
"Won't you have an apple ? "
He took it eagerly , saying , as he did
so :
"Thank ye , sir ; I've a little feller at
borne who'll be tickled to death to git
it. ' I most always find something or
other in the ash barrels to carry home
to 'im at night , but it ain't often I git
anything equal to this big apple. I tell
ye the little feller's eyes will shine
when he sees it. "
I don't know how many times that
day my thoughts were of that big ,
rough handed fellow , with that apple
put away so carefully in his pocket for
that "little feller. "
When evening came I thought of the
"little feller" who was on the lookout
for the big , dust covered father , with
the calloused and soiled hands.
These "little fellers" glorify and
beautify many a home in which pover
ty abides. But human affections can
sweetly and patiently endure toil and
rags and poverty when there is a "lit
tle feller" to meet and greet the fathei
when the long day is done.
Windmill Turned Into a Chapel.
A picturesquely-situated old wind
mill , which stands on the highest point
of Reigate Heath , in the county cf Sur
rey , England , is now known as the
chapel of St. Cross. After the ancient
mill had stood empty for many years
it was turned to a good and useful pur
pose , and has for the last sixteen years
been used as a chapel of ease to the
parish church of Reigate. The interior
of the mill is no bare room with sim
ply a few chairs and a reading-de3k ,
but has been converted into a perfect
little chapel ; the walls are artistically
decorated , and the altar is furnished
with candles and vases , and covered
with an embroidered frontal. A full
choral service , with surplicr-d choir , is
held here every Sunday , and is chiefly
attended by the cottagers living upon
the Heath. The chapel seals between
thirty and forty people and the first
service was held in it on the l'ith of
September , 1880.
An Ideal Citizen.
The ideal citizen is the n-an who
believes that all men are brotlfers , and
that the nation is merely an extension
of his family , to be loved , respected ,
and cared for accordingly. Such a man
attends personally to all civi'j duties
with which he deems himself charged.
Those which are withia his ovn con
trol he would no more trust to his in
feriors than he would leave the edu-
tion of his children to kitchen serv
ants. The public demands upon his
time , thought and money come upon
him suddenly , and often they find him
ill prepared ; but he nerves himself
to the inevitable , knowing that in the
village , state and nation any mistake
or neglect upon his part must impose
a penalty , sooner or later , upon those
whom he loves. John Habberton.
Ages of Trees.
Some German scientists have recent
ly furnished information in regard to
the ages of trees. They assign to the
pine tree 500 to 700 years as the max-
imus , 425 years to the silver fir , 275
years to the larch , 245 years to the red
beech , 210 years to the aspen , 200 to
the birch , 170 to the ash , 145 to the
eider , and 130 to the elm.
Steamer on the Jordan.
"Jordan am a hard road to trabble'
is no longer true , a steamboat having
recently been placed on the riverwhich
makes the trip from Jericho to Tibe
rias in live hours.
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TALHAGE'S SEBMON.
"A QUEEN'S REIGN" LAST SUN
DAY'S SUBJECT.
Trcaclicd at lloatrlce , Nebraska , from
the Dlble Test , "What Wilt Thou
Queen Esther ? " Esther , Chapter V.
Verso III. Victoria Has Done Some
Good Things.
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iW&mi k are tlli3 day ascms
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Wi" " fir j "What will thou
&Ls J have of honor , of
'Wv&BjF reward , or rever-
/vyU\ ence , or service , of
national and inter
national acclamation ? What wilt thou ,
the Queen of the nineteenth century ? '
The seven miles of procession through
the streets of London day after tomor
row will be a small part of the congratulatory
whose multitudinous
gratulatory procession
tudinous tramp will encircle the earth.
The celebrativo anthems that will
sound up from Westminster Abbey and
St. Paul's Cathedral in London will be
less than the vibration of one harp-
string as compared with the doxologies
which this hour roll up from all na
tions in praise to God for the beauti
ful life and the glorious reign of this
oldest Queen amid many centuries.
From five o'clock in the morning of
1837 , when the Archbishop of Canter
bury addressed the embarrassed and
weeping and almost affrighted girl of
eighteen years with the startling
" " until this sixtieth
words , "Your Majesty ,
tieth anniversary of her enthronement ,
the prayer of all good people on all
sides of the seas , whether that prayer
be offered by the three hundred mil-
liras of her subjects or the larger num
ber of millions who are not her sub
jects , whether that prayer be solem
nized in church , or rolled from great
orchestras , or pcured forth by military
bands from forts and battlements-and
in front of triumphant armies all
around the world , has been and is now.
"God save the Queen ! " Amid the in
numerable columns that have been
printed in eulogy of this Queen at the
approaching anniversary columns
which , put together , would be literally
miles long it seems to me that the
chief cause of congratulation to her
and of praise to God has not yet been
properly emphasized , and in many
cases the chief key-note has not been
struck at all. We have been told over
and over again what has occurred in
the Victorian era. The mightiest
thing she has done has been almost
ignored , while she has been honored
by having her name attached to indi
viduals and events for whom and for
which she had no responsibility. We
have put before us the names of potent
and grandly useful men and women
who have lived during her reign , but
I do not suppose that she at all helped
Thomas Carlyle in twisting his in
volved and mighty satires , or helped
Disraeli in issuance of his epigram
matic wit , or helped Cardinal Nev/man
in his crossing over from religion to
religion , or helped to inspire the en
chanted sentiments of George Eliot and
Harriet Martineau and Mrs. Browning ,
tfr helped to invent any of George
Cruikshank's healthful cartoons , or
helped George Grey in founding a
British South African Empire , or
kindled the patriotic fervor with which
John Bright stirred the masses , or had
anything to do with the invention of
the telephone or photograph , or the
building up of the science of bacteriol
ogy , or the directing of the Roentgen
rays which have revolutionized sur
gery , or helped in the inventions for
facilitating printing and railroading
and ocean voyaging. One is not to be
credited or discredited for the virtue
or the vice , the brilliance or the stu
pidity , of his or her contemporaries.
While Queen Victoria has been the
friend of all art , all literature , all
science , all invention , all reform , her
reign will be most remembered for all
time and all eternity as the reign of
Christianity. Beginning with that
scene at five o'clock in the morning , in
Kensington Palace , where she asked
the Archbishop of Canterbury to pray
for her , and they knelt down , imploring
Divine guidance , until this hour , not
only in the sublime Liturgy of her Es
tablished church but on all occasions ,
she has directly or indirectly declared ,
"I believe in God the Father Almighty ,
Maker of heaven and earth , and in
Jesus Christ , his only begotten Son. "
I declare it , iearless of contradiction ,
that the mightiest champion of Chris
tianity today is the throne of England.
The Queen's book , so much criticised
at the time of its appearance , some
saying it was not skilfully done , and
some saying that thf private affairs of
a household ought not so to have been
exposed , was nevertheless a book of
vast usefulness from the fact that it
showed that God was acknowledged in
all her life and that "Rock of Ages"
was not an unusual song in Windsor
Castle. Was her son , the Prince of
Wales , down with an illness that baf
fled the greatest doctors of England ?
Then she proclaimed a day of prayer
to Almighty God , and in answer to the
prayers of the whole civilized world
the Prince got well. Was Sebastopol
to be taken and the thousands of be
reaved homes of soldiers to be com
forted , she called her nation to its
knees , and the prayer was answered.
See her walking through the hospitals
like an angel of mercy ! Was there
ever an explosion of fire damp in the
mines of Sheffield or Wales and her
telegram was not the first to arrive
with help and Christian sympathy ? Is
President Garfield dying at Long
Branch , and is not the cable under the
sea , reaching to Balmoral Castle , kept
busy in announcing the symptoms of
the sufferer ?
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I believe that no throne since the
throne of David and the throne of Hezekiah -
ekiah and the throne of Esther has
been In such constant touch with the
throne of heaven as the throne of Vic
toria. From what , I know of her habits ,
she reads the Bible more than she
does Shakespeare. She admires the
hymns of Horatio Bonar more than
she does Byron's "Corsair. " She has
not knowingly admitted into her pres
ence a corrupt man or dissolute wo
man. To very distinguished novelists
and very celebrated prima donnas 3he
has declined reception because they
were immoral. All the coining centur
ies of time cannot revoke the advant
ages of having had sixty years of Chrid-
tian womanhood enthroned in the
palaces of England. Compare her
court surroundings with what were
the court surroundings in the time of
Henry VIII. . or what were the court
surroundings in the time of Napoleon ,
in the time of Louis XVI. , in the time
of men and women whose names may
not be mentioned in decent society.
Alas ! for the revelries , and the worse
than Belshazzar feasts , and the more
than Herodian dances , and the scenes
from which the veil must not be lifted.
You need , however , in order to appre
ciate the purity and virtuous splendor
of Victoria's reign to contrast it some
what with the gehennas and the pan
demoniums of many of the throne
rooms of the past and some throne
rooms of the present. I call the roll r.
the queens of the earth , not that I
would have them come up or come
back , but that I may make them the
background of a picture in which I
can better present the present septenar-
ian , or soon to be an octogenarian , now
on the throne of England , her example
so thoroughly on the right side that
all the scandal-mongars in all the na
tions.in six decades have not been able
to manufacture an evil suspicion in re
gard to her that could be made to
stick : Maria of Portugal , Isabella and
Eleanor and Joanna of Spain , Catha
rine of Russia , Mary of Scotland , Maria
Tersea of Germany , Marie Antoinette
of France , and all the queens of Eng
land , as Mrs. Strickland has put them
before us in her charming twelve vol
umes ; and while some queen may sur
pass our modern queen in learning ,
and another in attractiveness of fea
ture , and another in gracefulness of
form , and another in romance of his
tory , Victoria surpasses them all in
nobility and grandeur and thorough
ness of Christian character. I hail her !
the Christian daughter , the Christian
wife , the Christian mother , the Chris
tian Queen ! and let the Church of God
and all benign and gracious institu
tions the world over cry out , as they
come with music and bannered host ,
and million-voiced huzza , and the bene
dictions of earth and heaven , "What
wilt thou , Queen Esther ? "
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But as all of us will be denied at
tendance on that sixtieth anniversary
coronation , I invite you , not to the an
niversary of a coronation , but to a cor
onation itself aye , to two coronations.
Brought up as we are , to love as no
other form of government that which
is republican and democratic , we , liv
ing on this side of the sea , cannot so
easily as those living on the other side
of the sea , appreciate the two corona
tions to which all up and down the
Bible you and I are urgently invited.
Some of you have such morbid ideas
of religion that you think of it as go
ing down into a dark cellar , or out on
a barren commons , or as a flagellation :
when , so far from a dark celler , it is
a palace , and instead of a barren com
mons it is a garden , atoss with thp
brightest fountains that were ever rain-
bowed , and instead of flagellation it is
coronation , but a coronation utterly
eclipsing the one whose sixtieth anni
versary is now being celebrated. It
was a great day when David , the little
king who was large enough to thrash
Goliath , took the crown at Rabbah
a crown weighing a talent of gold and
encircled with precious stones and the
people shouted , "Long live the king ! "
It was a great day when Petrarch , sur
rounded by twelve patrician youths
clothed in scarlet , received from a sen
ator the laurel crown , and the people
shouted , "Long live the poet ! " It was
a great day when Mark Antony put
upon Caesar the mightiest tiara of all
earth , and in honor of divine authority
Caesar had it placed afterward on the
head of the statue of Jupiter Olympus.
It was a great day when the greatest
of Frenchmen took the diadem of
Charlemagne and put it on his own
brow. It was a great day when , about
an eighth of a mile from the gate of
Jerusalem , under a sky pallid with
thickest darkness , and on a mountain
trammeled of earthquake , and the air
on fire with the blasphemies of a mob ,
a crown of spikes was put upon the
pallid and agonized brow of our Jesus.
But that particular coronation , amid
tears and blood and groans and shiver
ing cataclysms , made your own corona
tion possible. Paul was not a man to
lose his equilibrium , but when that old
missionary , with crooked back and in
flamed eyes , got a glimpse of the crown
coming to him , and coming to you , if
you will by repentance and faith ac
cept it , he went into ecstacie ? , and his
poor eyes flashed and his crooked back
straightened as he cried to Timothy ,
"There is laid up for me a crown of
righteousness , " and to the Corinthians ,
"These athletes run to obtain a cor
ruptible , we an incorruptible crown. "
And to the Thessalonians he speaks of
"the crown of glory , " and to the Phil-
ippians he says , "My joy and crown. "
The Apostle Peter catches the inspira
tion and cries out , "Ye shall receive a
crown of glory that fadeth not away , "
and St. John joins in the rapture and
says , "Faithful to death , and I will give
thee a crown of life , " and elsewhere ex
claims , "Hold fast , that no man take
thy crown. " Crowns ! crowns ! crowns !
Ycu did not expect , in coming here to
day , to be invited to a coronation. You
can scarcely believe your own ears ;
but in tba name of a pardoning God
and a sacrificing Christ , and an omni-
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potent Holy Spirit and n triumphant
heaven , I offer each one a crown for
the asking. Crowns ! Crowns ! How
to get the crown ? The way Victoria
got her crown , on her knees. Although
eight duchesses and marquises , all in
cloth of silver , carried her train , and
the windows and arches and roof of
the Abbey shook with the To Deum 6f
the organ in full diapason , she had to
kneel , she had to como down. To get
the crown of pardon and eternal life ,
you will have to kneel , you will have
to como down. Yea ! History say3
that at her coronation not only the
entire assembly wept with profound
emotion , but Victoria was in tears. So
you will have to have your dry eyes
moistened with tears , in your case
tears of repentance , tears of joy , tears
of coronation , and you will feel like
crying out with Jeremiah , "Oh , that
my head were waters and mine eyes
fountains of tears. " Yes , she was dur
ing the ceremony seated for awhile on
a lowly stone called the Lia Fail ,
which , as I remember it , as I have
seen it again and again , was rough and
not a foot high , a lowly and humble
place in which to be seated , and if you
are to be crowned "king or queen to
God forever , you must be seated on the.
Lia Fail of profound humiliation. Af
ter all that , she was ready for the
throne , and let me say that God is not
going to leave your exaltation half
done. There are thrones as well as
crowns awaiting you. St. John shout
ed , "I saw thrones ! " and again he
said , "They shall reign forever and
ever. " Thrones ! Thrones ! Get ready
for the coronation. But I invite you
not only to your own coronation , butte
to a mightier and the mightiest. In
all the ages of time no one ever had
such a hard time as Christ while he
was on earth. Brambles for his brow ,
expectoration for his cheek , whips for
his back , spears for his side , splke3
for his feetv contumely for his name ,
and even in our time , how many say
he is no Christ at all , and there are
tens of thousands of hands trying to
push him back and keep him down.
But , oh ! the human and satanic inipo-
tency ! Can a spider stop an albatross ?
Can the hole which the toy shovel of
a child digs in the sand at Cape May
swallow the Atlantic ? Can the breath
of a summer fan drive back the Medi
terranean euroclydon ? Yes , when all
the combined forces of earth and heil
can keep Christ from ascending the
throne of universal dominion. David
the Psalmist foresaw that coronation ,
and cried out in regard to the Messiah ,
"Upon himself shall his crown flour
ish. " From the cave of black basalt
St. John foresaw it , and cried , "On his
head were many crowns. " Now do not
miss the beauty of that figure. There
is no room on any head for more than
one crown of silver , gold or diamond.
Then what does the Book mean when
it says , "On his head were many
crowns ? " Well , it means twisted and
enwreathed flowers. To prepare a
crown for your child and make her
the "Queen of the May , " you might
take the white flowers out of one par
terre , and the crimson flowers out of
another parterre , and the blue flowers
out of another parterre , and the pink
flowers out of another parterre , and
gracefully and skillfully work these
four or five crowns into one crown of J •
beauty. So all the splendors of earth
and heaven are to be enwreathed into '
one coronal for our Lord's forehead
one blazing glory , one dazzling bright
ness , one overpowering perfume , one
down flashing , up-rolling , out spread
ing magnificence and so on his head
shall be many crowns.
Up Was Alive.
The grenadiers of the famous "Old
Guard" will never be forgotten in
France as long as the memory of brave
men shall live in the national heart.
But some of them , at least , were as
bright as they were brave , as the fol
lowing trustworthy anecdote bears wit
ness : One fine morning , after peace
had been concluded between France
and Russia , the two emperors , Napol
eon and Alexander , were taking a short
walk , arm in arm , around the palace
park at Erfurt. As they approached
the sentinel , who stood at the foot of
the grand staircase , the man , who was
a grenadier of the guard , presented
arms. The emperor of France turned ,
and pointing with pride to the great
scar that divided the grenadier's face ,
said :
"What do you think , my brother , of
soldiers who can survive such wounds
as that ? "
"And you , " answered Alexander ,
"what do you think of soldiers that
can inflict them ? "
Without stirring an inch from hi3
position , or changing the expression of
his face in the least , the stern old gren
adier himself replied gravely :
"The man who did it is dead. "
lie Got the ' * oJcl.
Banks are so well able to protect
themselves that most readers will f n-
joy the following account of how an
unsophisticated customer secured a
slight advantage over one of them. We
borrow the story from an English pa
per. A poor Irishman went to the of
fice of an Irish bank and asked for
change in gold for fourteen one pound
bank of Ireland notes. The cashier at
once replied that the Cavan bank only
cashed its own notes.
"Then yculd ye gie me Cavan notes
for these ? " asked the countryman in
his simple way.
"Certainly , " said the cashier , handing -
ing out the fourteen notes as desired.
The Irishman took the Cavan notes ,
but immediately returned them to the
official , saying , "Would yie gie me gold
for these , sir ? "
And the cashier , caught in his own
trap , was obliged to do it.
If the landed surface of the globe
were divided and allotted in equal '
shares to each of its human inhabitants -
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ants , it would be found that each would I
get a plot of 23 % acres. ]
DlKCMtlhllltjr or Chooae. H
The digestibility of cheese has been fl
carefully tested by a German chomlat. H
who placed the samples In an artificial H
dlgestlvo fluid containing n consider.1
able proportion of gastric juice. Che- * - *
ohlro and Roquefort cheese took four H
hours to digest , Gorgonzola eight hours , j k
Romadour nine hours , and Brie , Swiss , M
and ten other varieties fn hours. M
NEW DEPARTURE H
For the Walmuli Itallrond. 'jM
Commencing Sunday , Juno 1.1 , the I
Wabahh , by lease of the Grand Trunk M
( Great Western division ) , will extend fl
its line from Detroit to Buffalo , naming * M
its own trains Sjolid from Chicago. Thu M
only line running reclining chair M
ears free , Chicago to Buffalo and New
York ; St. Louis to Niagara Fulls und M
Buffalo , with Wagner bleeping cars
from Chicago and St. Louis to NewS
York and Boston. All trains run viii ' V
Niagara Falls , with privilege of htop- AW
ping over on all classes of tickets. For M
tickets und further information , or a 4H
copy of "To the Lake Resorts und He- Mt
youd , " call on agent of connecting H
line , or at Wabash cilice , 1415 Farnam M
street (1-axton ( hotel block ) , or write
G. N. Clayton , N. W. Pais. Agent ,
Omaha , Nebraska. m\ \
Aliv.iyit the Cii < h' . M
Figg Yes. I know ho took lessons M
from Liszt ; but I never heard that ho H
wan lAH'/.Va favorite pupil. ' M
Fogg Did you over know any man MM
or woman whom Liszt taught for B
even u single hour that wasn't Liszt'a
favorite pupil ? m
Burlington ICouto Only. S * .CO to San ] H
KrmicofK'o H
June 29 to July 'I , account mtional
convention Christian Ijndcavorvrs. Wd
Special trains. Through tourist und
palace sleepers. Stop-overs allowed nfc
and west of Denver. Return via Port- - *
lend , Yellowstone Park and Black J
Hills if desired. J
Endeavorers and their friends who
take the Burlington Route are guar-
an teed a quick , cool and comfortable
journey , line scenery ( by daylight ) and H
first class equipment.
Berths are reserved and descriptive m
literature furnished on request. See H
nearest B. & M. R. R. ticket agent or j
write to J. Francis , G. I' . A. , Burlington - M
ton l"outc , Omaha , Neb. H
ill ) Jioy Stopped. UM
Little Boy While I was rid in' the
pony he took the bit between his J
teeth and ran under a tree that had 4fl
limbs hangin1 way down low. H
Mother Did he stop then ? H
Little Boy No'm ; but I did. 1
IOWA FAttMS Fcr Sale on cron pavracnt , M
81 per acre cash , balance / crop yearly until
paid for. J. y.ULHALL , Waukegaii , III. M
The cheapest tiling in the world is a I
compliment. < fl
Wo-To-Kac for Fifty Coots. sMM
Guaranteed tobacco oablt cure , Tialccs freak H
men strong , blood pure. C0c.ll. All druceiatx. H
The less energy a man has the easier4H
he drifts into matrimony. H
Dr. Kny's Renovator is perfectly safe , M
mild and yet certain in effect. Sooadvt. M
, 'Mm
It is easier for water to run up hill M
than for a selfish man to be happy. . H
Soon succeea weak- 1
-
BJpiSf"H . -
B"Cdi 1.1 B nessand languor when fl
Qtypncyth Hood's Sarsapariila is 9
OiBung IB B taken to purify.enrichi M
and vitalize the blood. Hood's Harsapa- M
rilla expela the germ3 of scrofula , salt M
rheum and other poisons which cause so M
much suffering and sooner or later underfl
mine the general health. It strengthens H
the system while it eradicates disease. JH
rfOOCl S parifia I
Is the Best in fact the One True Blood Purifier- M
Honrl' Dili * Cre , I'vor Ils ! * eayto /W
* * ;
11 JJU > * Ills tHktMMsytooyerate.iDC
dlC JJS2 > ani health making M
05T = % 'iZsffiiFf arc included in the iH
Nk JJg malting of HIRES /J
\ k.3Rootbeer. ( . The prcpa- M
\JV / ration cf this greattcm- M
# jl * peraucc drink is an event / H
| { ? jj | of importance in a million
0-231 well regulated homes.
pjlwjk Rootbeer m
mi4wk is ful1 of seed hcaUh- * * W
? ui , j tfltfj5 | Invigoratijg , appctiz- W
rf'lig3 | inS. satisfying. Put y J
13 < ' ' * $ some up to-day and M
tI | 'i " ? ! • * lave * t rca ° y to put w\ \
rJ 't- ; • ' * down whenever you're . M
| j 'JU ' ? thirsty. m
yW J Charles E. Hires Co. , I
ISwffi Philadelphia. A pack- J
5g8MS2S | age makes 5 gallons. 1
rSg&gL0' Sold everywhere. 1
S75 S SO j M
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