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LOWS
liver
It will pay you to take good care of
3tjur liver because If you do your
liver -will take good care of you
Sick liver putsyou alKout of sorts
-makes you pala dizzy sick at the
stomach gives you stomach ache
headache malaria etc Well livf
Isesps you well by purifying your
Iood and digesting your food
There is only one safe certain and
-reliable liver medicine and that Is
Pnr wer 60 vears this wonderful
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2a tftWSanas oi nones ana is ity
Sao favorite liver BMldne id tno worm
at acts eentlv on the liver and
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at cures constipation relieves con
gestion and purifies the system from
a overflow of bile thereby keplng
5ha body in perfect health
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A MOHAMMEDAN FUNERAL
Certsnionle With Which n Body In
Conlnod to the Grave
When the life of a Mohammedan Is
ebbing away a distinguished reader of
the Koran Is summoned to recite aloud
Its chapter on the resurrection so that
the spirit of the person on hearing it
may have an easy death The Mo
hammedan believes that the vital prin
ciples of the whole system are
trated in the head when death is tne
result The watchers at the bedside
also read some passages and then a
drink of sherbet is given to the pa
tient to lessen the pangs of death As
soon as the spark of life has lied the
two great toes are tied together with
a thin strip of cloth the mouth Is
closed and incense is burned near the
body I
The interment follows a few hours
after death The washers are men j
and women who wash and shroud the j
bodv and dig a hole In the earth to
5 hold the water so that It cannot spread
very much as it is considered unlucky
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A Sound Argument
The one that blows without any
minr fr himv ahmit wastes time and
to tread on this water The washing is
a great ceremony and when finished
the body is shrouded with even more
ceremony If there is a widow of the
deceased she returns the dowry her
husband had given her If the deceas
piTs mother is nresent she says The
I milk with which I suckled thee I freely
bestow upon thee Thus she resigns
the debt of the deceased to her When
flowers have been placed on the body
it is carried to the grave on a bier or
if the relatives can afford it in a cof
fin At the grave four creeds are re
cited and the body with the head to
the north and the face looking toward
Mecca is laid on its back in its tomb
The grave is about seven feet long for
both sexes but the depth for a man is
measured by the distance between his
feet and chest for a woman between
her feet and waist If the body is too
long for the grave it is believed that
the deceased must nave been a great
sinner
Before the body is covered the Mo
hammedan takes a little earth and
throwing it into the grave says We
created you of earth and we return
you to the earth and we shall raise
you out of the earth on the day of resur
rection Then a mound is built to
keep the earth in the grave from crush
ing the body and water is sprinkled
on it in three lines Special prayers for
the safe voyage of the deceased are of
fered after the burial As in the case
of a Hindoo funeral the poor are not
forgotten both remembering the needy
by distributing money salt rice and
wheat among them after the funeral
Tlie rragnc Clock
Since the middle of the fifteenth cen
i tury the city of Trague has possessed
a remarkable clock the machinery of
which is most complicated The dial
which is between six and eight feet
across lias a number of hands which
mark not only the minutes and the
j hours but also the days months years
and centuries Of this clock a poet
j tells us
j At the left of the dial a skeleton stands
And aloft hangs a musical bell In tne
tower
Which he rings by a rope that he holds In
his hands
In his punctual function of striking the
hour
But the funniest sight of the numerous
sights
Which the clock has to show to the
neonle beiow
Is the holy apostles in tunics and tights
Who revolve In a ring or proceed in a
row
Wonders About Sltin Pores
Each square inch of the human skin
contains no less than 3500 sweating
tubes or perspiration pores Each of
these tubes although wonderfully ml-
nute is about one fourth of an inch in
length Each of these sweat tubes may
be likened to a tiny draintile We find
that the average adult has about 2000
square inches of skin on the surface of
his body Each square inch of tills
outer cuticle is as we have said liter
ally permeated with its 3500 quarter
inch perspiration ditches If we could
put each of these little tubes end to
end we would find that they would ex
tend a distance of not less than 2011GG
feet Had you ever before stopped to
consider the fact that the aggregate
length of the tile ditches for draining
the human body is almost forty miles
I Sehliemanns Lnclc
It is told of Schliemanu the exhumer
1 of buried cities of the ancient world
j that he was pursued by ill luck in his
earlier undertakings Mentioning the
I fact to a friend the latter asked him
j which leg and arm he first inserted in
I trousers and coat Schliemanu said
he habitually inserted the right That
is the cause of your misfortunes said
his friend You have offended the
left hand fairies and they take out
their vengeance on you Reverse your
habit and see And said Schlie
manu in telling the incident in his later
and prosperous years you see now u
I changed my luck
Klcotlana Afllnls
Nicotiana affiuis the border flower
which opens about G oclock end gives
a powerful and pleasant fragrance dur
ing the night takes its name from the
botanical term for the tobacco plant
nicotiana which was named In honor
of John Nicot of Nismes ambassador
from the king of France to Portugal
who procured the first seeds from a
Dutchman who had them from Flor
ida
His Finns
Did the architect carry out your
plans
Guess he must have I havent been
able to find any of them about the
house Cleveland Leader
We never see the target a man alms
at In life we see only the target he
hits Jordon
j Cash Coronets
In Anna Goulds
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quel to the mar
riage of Anna
Gould daugh
ter of the late
Jay Gould to
Count Paul Er
nest Boniface
d e Castellane
brings to mind
the fact that in
recent years
s e v e r a 1 rich
American girls
who have wed
ded titled for
eigners h a v e
rued the day
that saw them
so mated When
the marriage of
Miss Gould to
the French
count took place
t h e re were
many who crit
icised the choice
made by the
daughter of the
American rail
road king for
the counts ca
reer was alleg
ed to have been
a lively one If
French caricature the present
of count boni countess honed
that after marriage her husband would
settle down to a life of domesticity and
quietude her hopes have been disap
pointed for in spite of repeated warn
ings from her he failed to conduct him
self as she desired and in consequence
she recently left him and began pro
ceedings in the French courts to obtain
a separation
The case of the Castellanes is by no
means the only one of the kind But a
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COUNT DE CASTEIjIiANE
short time ago the marital troubles of
the Count and Countess de Perigord
were aired in the public press The
Countess de Perigord was Miss Helen
Morton and her father Levi P Mor
ton has been minister to France vice
president of the United States and gov
ernor of the state of New York The
marriage of Miss Morton to the scion
of an ancient and noble French house
was one of the chief matrimonial
events of the autumn of 1901 The sup
posed happy pair went to France to
live and with Mr Mortons money the
count purchased the old Chateau de
Vaiencay and assumed the title of Due
de Vaiencay his bride becoming a
duchess But if ever true happiness
was the lot of this presumably fortu
nate pair it was shortlived
The Chateau de Vaiencay is said to
have cost about 000000 The demands
of the duke upon the fortune of his father-in-law
caused the young wife
much embarrassment and finally she
found life with him unbearable and re
turned to her fathers home
Another international match that
turned out unhappily was that of Miss
Sarah Phelps Stokes daughter of An
son Phelps Stokes and heiress to 10
000000 who married in 1890 Baron
Hugh Colin Gustave George Halkett
scion of a Scottish family dating back
to the time when Scotland had its own
kings and wars with England were the
customary thing She left him in 189b
and obtained a divorce on the ground
of cruelty and unfaithfulness and tes
tified in her suit that the baron had
kicked her and otherwise subjected her
to ill treatmnt
The marriage of Miss Mary Wheeler
daughter of the late Charles Wheeler of
Philadelphia to Count Maximilian Pap
penhelm of Bavaria was a notable
function of 1690 The couple were not
happy and three years after their mar
riage the countess secured a divorce
On account of the prominence of the
Gould family in this country the case
and Dan Cupid
use 22 Winers
of the Countess Castellane has attract
ed a great deal of attention
The count came to this country about
a dozen years ago and at once began
fomllv worn JnvitPfl It WilS tllOll that
loug in developing an admiration for
the daughter of Jay Gould The court
ship was a brief one and In about six
weeks from the time of their first
COUNTESS DE CASTELLANE
meeting their engagement was an
nounced The marriage took place at
the residence of the brides eldest
brother George J Gould on Fifth
avenue on March 7 1SD5 and the of
ficiating clergyman was the late Arch
bishop Corrigan There was also a
civil ceremony before a judge The
wedding was one of the most impos
ing ceremonies of the kind ever wit
nessed in this country As soon as the
count and his bride reached Paris they
began spending the fortune of about
1SOOO000 which Jay Gould left his
younger daughter The income from
her share of the estate was 000000
but this proved insufficient to pay the
bills incurred by the count For his
home in Paris he built a palace repro
ducing in most respects the famous
grand Trianon at Versailles The ball
room of the palace considered the most
1 regal apartment in France is built en
tirely of Parian marble and is fmihea
in gold The whole palace is said to
have cost about 3000000 The count
gave a housewarming that cost 100
000 He spent several hundred thou
sand dollars for yachts bought a 10
000 coat which he wore once and then
threw away spent about half a million
dollars in a canvass for a seat in the
chamber of deputies and lost over a
million dollars in speculation in stocks
Five years after his marriage he bad
spent 3000000 and was over 4000
000 in debt His creditors pressed so
hard that the Goulds had to take the
matter up and as a result a settlement
with creditors was effected but the
count had to agree that 400000 from
his wifes income of 000000 be ap
plied annually to the extinction of his
debts This left the Castellanes but
200000 a year upon which to live
Though the amount would seem ample
to many persons it was not so in the
case of this couple and the count has
managed to keep head over heels in
debt in spite of the efforts of the
lip I1
wmmy Ma
GEORGE J GOtJLP
Goulds to hold the family purse strings
tighter and restrain the counts spend
thrift propensities
It is said that the count and countess
had many stormy interviews in conse
quence of his extravagances and that
his fondness for favorites in the the
atrical world caused her no little an
noyance but no open break between
them is known to have occurred until
recently when the countess thought she
had discovered that he had been pay
ing altogether more attention than was
proper to a woman who was a member
of her own set The count and coun
tess have three children Bonl George
and Jay If a separation occurs It is
said the count will be left penniless
unless his wife chooses to pay him ali
mony
THE MAELSTROM
Moiv It Feds to Me on the EdRC of
the Grcnt Whirlpool
Off the coast of Norway between
two islands of the Lofoden group is
the largest whirlpool In the world Its
name Maelstrom menus whirling
stream and the title is well earned
The great Maelstrom Is no longer
held In superstitious fear and mari
time charts have taught the saillors of
the world where the danger lies and
how to avoid it so that accidents rare
ly occur never except through Igno
rance or a previous disaster that has
paying attentions to various member rendered a vessel unmanageable
of the Newport set He was rebuffed
by Miss Virginia Fair who later be
came Mrs William K Vanderbilt Jr
and by Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt who
is now the Duchess of Marlborough
There were plenty of ambitious mam
mas who regarded the count and his
title with favor however and on
Christmas eve of 1894 he gave a party
to which several members of the Gould
Several years ago the captain of a
Bailing vessel desirous of seeing tho
famous whirlpool at close quurters
was assured by his Norwegian pilot
that he might venture near enough for
examination without danger And here
is what the captain saw
I went on the main topsail yard
with a good class I had been seated
but a few minutes when my ship en
tered the dish of the whirlpool The
mn i t n winpitv of the water altered her
ne utsl iuui Jiiss aiiiiii u i
course three points towaru uie cumui
This alarmed me extremely for a mo
ment I thought destruction was in-
evitable But she answered her helm
nobly and we ran along the edge tho
waters foaming round us in every
form
The sensations I experienced are
difficult to describe Imagine an im
mense circle running round of a diam
eter of one and a half miles the veloc
ity increasing as it approximated the
center and gradually changing its dark
blue color to white foaming tumbling
rushing to its vortex very much con
caveas much so as the water in a
funnel when half run out The noise
too hissing roaring dashing all press
ing on the mind at once presented the
most awful grand and solemn sight I
ever beheld We were near it about
eighteen minutes and in sight of it two
hours It is evidently a subterranean
passage From its magnitude I should
not doubt that Instant destruction
would be the fate of a dozen of our
largest ships were they drawn in at
the same moment The pilot says that
several vessels that had become un
manageable have been sucked down
and that whales have also been de
stroyed
THE SHOW WINDOW
Dont neglect the upper part of the
window
Dont stick to one style of trimming
Branch out
Dont skimp on elbow grease in clean
ing the glass
Dont wait till a trim is fly specked
before changing it
Dont overlook the utility of a cer
tain number of fixtures
Dont be afraid to try something new
In the way of a display
Dont fill a sunny window with goods
that the sun will discolor
Dont let the window stand too long
A week is about the limit
Dont be afraid to spend a little mon
ey on the trim It will come back
Dont fail to call the local newspa
pers attention to each nice trim that
you make
Dont prolong the trimming unneces
sarily A quick change will impress
the public more
Dont copy But you can elaborate or
change some one elses ideas without
being open to the criticism of copying
Exchange
A Wonderful Fncnlty of the Triton
The triton a spotted lizardlike rep
tile found in almost every state In the
Union has a most wonderful power of
reproducing amputated parts Bon
uot the great French naturalist ex
perimented on the little creatures by
amputating their legs and tails and
by so doing found that their powers
of reproduction were almost unlimited
In one instance an amputated leg was
reproduced twelve times in three
years and In another an eye was
gouged out and reproduced in less
than twelve months The loss of a tail
does not appear to discommode a trl
ton except to give him a sort of un
balanced gait Tails clipped from the
specimens Bonnot kept to experiment
on were invariably reproduced in from
five to nine weeks
The Donjon
The donjon or keep of the castle
was a tower within much stronger
than the rest of the structure and de
signed as a last resort for the garrison
when the Avails and other portions of
the fortification had fallen into the
hands of the enemy The donjon was
generally provided with a secret exit
a tunnel being constructed often many
hundreds of yards in length leading to
some concealed outlet through which
the besieged could receive succor or in
time of necessity escape
Rather Mixed
Say Jack what have you that string
tied around your finger for
Oh that Is to remind me that I for
got something my wife told me to be
sure to remember Baltimore Ameri
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A Sure Slen
The honeymoon may very properly
be said to be over when the wife sug
gests to her husband that hed better
have his trousers pressed by a tailor
Detroit Free Press
In MethtiHelahH Time
Kind Old Lady What ails the baby
He looks healthy Im sure The Nurse
Oh he Is the little dear But hes
peevish today on account of cutting his
whiskers ruck
A small teaspoonful of powdered gum
arable with the same amount of glyc
erin stirred into a tumblerful of cold
water and drunk slowly will often
work wonders In quenching thirst
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