UNITED STATES SENATOR
f ROM SOUTH CAROLINA
PRAISES PE-RU-NA.
tx-Stnator M. C Butler.
Dpupepiia It Oftrn Cauicd Ity Catarrh
tf the (stomach I'eruna Itrlicvci Ca
tarrh of tht Htomach and It Thertlora
Remedy For Dytprptia.
lion. .M. u. nutir. i;x-u. . sen-
Itnr from Sinn I h Carotins for two
, terms, In letter from Washington,
4 I). C, writes to the I'eruna Medicine
J Co.. as follows :
I "I can recommend Peruna tor
dyspepsia and stomach trouble. I
, have been using your medicine
tor a short period and I feel very
j much relieved. It Is Indeed a
wonderful medicine, besides a
good tonic."
CATARRH of the stomach Is the cor
rect name for most canes of dyspep
sia. In order to cure catarrh of the
toraach the catarrh must be eradicated.
Only an Internal catarrh remedy,
urn at reruns, ia available.
I'eruna exactly meets the indications.
Criminal Biters In sr.
Great public Interest Is being mani
fested In the) core of a man who has
been prosecuted for sneezing In a pub
lie street The hero of the Incident Is
one Johnnn Furtmann, a resident of
Muhlhausen, a small town In rrusslaa
Saxony. Furtmann, who la highly re
sisted by his fellow citizens, sneezed
somewhat loudly In tuo main street of
Muhlhausen. A polleomcnn arrested
Mm on a charge of creating a disturb
ance. The local police authorities
tproKecuted Furtmann on a charge of
.gross misdemeanor and rendering him
self a public nuisance. After a lengthy
trial Furtmann waa tterpiltted. Tho
police authorities appealed against tho
- decision, and a new trial U necessary.
iFufUnann announces t?iat he will call
i medical evidence to prove that a poly
t pus In the nose prevetifod him sneezing
less loudly than was tho case when the
isrrcst occurred.
No I'r.
"Po you notice what a lot of women
rare going la for science?"
"Yes. My wife's got the fever, too."
"What's her line?"
"Mechanics. She's an Inventor."
"Indeed? What has she Invented?"
"Why, she's Just perfected a stair
step that makes me register the time
I get homo In the morning as soon as
J put my foot on It."
"Can't you beat It some wayT
""It's no use. She's always) awake
any way and waiting for me on the up
per landing." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Dlfflcalt.
In a spirit of bravado the defeated
spogiliat went to a photographer's to have
kls picture taken.
"You can retouch tbe mouth so as to
snake it look natural, can't you?" said
trainer.
"I don't know about that," answered
the photographer, dubiously. "Suppose
you ask him to open his mouth a little, so
J can tell just where It Is located."
Noialaar Dola.
'"Why don't you go to work?" queried
the, kind lady. "A rolling stone gath
era no moss, you know."
"Dat's all right, ma'am," answered
the busty hobo, "but I ain't got no am
iblshun t' be a mosslmek. nohow,"
"a food convert
Coo.l Food (ha Tr Hon J la Health.
The pernicious habit home persona
still have of relying ou nauseous drugs
to relieve dyspepsia, keeps up the pat
eut medicine business and helps keep
up the army of dyspeptics.
Indigestion dyspepsia Is caused
by what Is put Into the stomach In
the way of Improier food, the kind
that so taxes tbe ktreugtti of tbe dl-fit-nlve
organs they are actually crlp-
led.
When this state Is reached, to resort
to stimulants Is like whipping a tired
horse with a big load, fcvery addition
al effort he makes under the lash In
creases his loss of power to move the
load.
Try helping the stomach by leaving
off heavy, greasy, Indigestible food
and take ou Grape-Nuts light, easily
digested, full of strength for nervea
and brain. In every grain of It Tbere'a
no waste of time nor energy whea
Jniie-Xuts Is the food.
"I am an enthusiastic user of Grape
Vuts and consider It an Ideal food,"
Vritc a Maine man:
"I bad nervous dyspepsia and was
nil run down and my food seemed to
do me but little good. From reading
an ndv. I tried Grape-Nuts food, and,
after a few weeks' steady use of It,
felt greatly Improved.
"km much stronger, not perrons
now. aud can do more work without
feeling so tired, and am better every
way.
, "I relish Grape-Nuts best with cream
and use four heaping tearpoonfula at
a. meaL 1 am sure there ara thou
anda of persons with stomach trouble)
-who would be benefited by using
Grape -Xots." Name given by Poston
Co., Battle Creek. Mich. Read tbe Ht
le book. "The Road to WellTllle," la
gikga. "Tbere'a a reason."
Prisoners and Captives
By II. S.
-BBSS,
CHAI'TKR XXIV.
There are many pronle win ro through
life without ever knowin; what it is to
ftjht a gale of wind.
There is a breath of heaven of wliifll
the sole messngo Is death. It Is a wind
with no fine-sounding name, for It bo
longs to the north, viliere men endure
things and hare no thought of naming
them. It blows for six months of the
year. It veers from south-southwest o
northwest-hy nortli, and it Is born upon
the gray IcrfiVids round the pole. For
many hundred miles It raves across the
frown ocean, gathering deathly coldness
at every league. On Its shoulders It car
ries tons of snow, and then striking land,
It rages and tears, howls, moans and
screams across northern Kurnpe Into far
frozen Asia. In passing it clothes all
Russia In white, and still has plenty to
spare for bleak Siberia, northern China
and Japan.
A few northern rais manage to live
on In such numbers as to save extermina
tion, and that is all. More than a third
of them are partially or wholly blind.
Their existence is a constant and unequal
struggle against this same wind and its
pitiless suxlllaries snow snd frost. The
earth yields no Increase here. A little
sparse vegetation, sufficient only to nour
ish miserable reindeer and a few horses :
a scattering cf pine trees, and that is all.
Although no aancfifying spirit can be
said to walk upon the waters, tho sea
alone sustsins life, for men, dogs and
reindoor eat fish, not dried but frozen,
when they can get It.
It was serosa Ibis country, and In face
of this wind, that a pnrty of men an 1
women made their way In the late sum
mer several years ago. By late summer
one means the first fortnight in July In
these high latitudes. These travelers
were twenty-one In number sixteen men
snd five womeu. One woman carried a
baby a Jail bird born In prison nn
baptized. It did not count, not even as
half a peraon, to any one cxeept Its
mother. Men and women were dressed
like la good fur clothing, baggy trousers
tucked Into felt boots, long blouse-like fur
coats, snd caps with earflaps tied down.
Roots, trousers, coata and even capa bore
signs of damage by water. When north
ern Siberia la not frozen np it Is in a
state of flood, and traveling, except by
water, Is almost Impossible. These peo
ple had come many miles by this compar
atively easy method at Imminent risk,
for they had traveled north on the hosom
of tbe flood. Since then they have liter
ally burned their vessels in order to cut
off pursuit.
The men dragged light sledges, three
to a sledge, and four resting. The wom
en carried various more precious burdens
delicate Instruments, such as com
passes snd snerolds. Uencath the fur
caps throbbed some singular brains, from
under the draggled brims looked out soma
strange faces. There was a doctor among
them, two army officers, a Judge and oth
srs who had not been allowed time to be
tome anything, for they were exiled while
itudents.
The whola party pressed forward In si
lence with tight-locked lips snd half-clos-(d
eyes, for the rushing wind carried a
5no blinding snow before It., Only one
person spoke st times. It was the woman
who carried tbe bahy, and she Interlard
id ber Inconsequent remarks with
snatches of song and bursts of peculiar
tackling laughter. Suddenly she sat
town on a boulder.
"I will sit here," she said, "in the
arm sua."
The wkole party stopped, and on of
the women answered :
"Come, Anna," she said, "we cannot
-alt here."' Still speaking, she took her
trm and urged her to rise.
"But," protested she who had been ad
dressed as Anna, "where Is the picnic to
be?"
"Tbe picnic, Anna ravloakl," said a
small, squarely built man, coming for
ward and speaking in a wonderfully deep
and barmoalons tone of voice, "Is to be
held farther on. You most come at
ence."
"I think," she said gently, "that I will
wait here for my husband. I expect him
home from the office. He will bring the
newspaper."
Tbey were all grouped round the wom
an now except one man, snd he stood
spsrt with his back turned toward them,
lie had been dragging the foremost sledge,
snd tbe breed band of the trsee was still
across his shoulders. He had been lead
ing tbe wsy, and seemed la some subtle
msnner to be recognised as chief and
pioneer.
Again the woman who had Brat spoken
persuaded; again the broad-shouldered
man spoke In bis commanding gentleness.
It was, however, of no avail. Then after
a few moments of painful hesitation, he
left the group and went to where the
leader stood alone.
"l'avleakl," he said.
"Yes, doctor." lie never turned his
head, but stood rigid snd stern, looking
straight before him, scowling with eyes
from which the horror now wonld never
fade, Into tbe gray, hopeless distance. No
marble status could reproduce the strong,
cold despair that breathed In every limb
and feature.
"Something." said tho doctor, "must be
done. We are behind our time already."
"I suppose it is my duty to stay with
you?" said Tavloskl. "I cannot leave
the party? I cannot stay behind?"
Tbs little man aiade no snswer. 1IU
silence was more eloquent than any
words could have been. A dramatic
painter could scarcely have found a sad
der picture than these two friends who
dared not to meet each other's eyes. And
yet, la a moment, It wss rendered infi
nitely sadJer by the advent of a third
person
Swathed as she waa In furs, It wax
difficult to distinguish that this was a
woman at all, and yet to a close observer
ber movements, the manner in which she
set her feet upon the ground, the sugges
tion of graceful curves In limb snd form,
betrayed that she was Indeed a young
girl. Her face confirmed It gsy blue
eyes and a rosebud mouth, round cheeks
delicately tinted despite the wild wind,
and little wisps of golden bslr straggling
out beneath the ear-flaps, snd gleaming
against the dusky face.
"I." said this little woman, "will stsy
with her. Serglus, I will try snd take
ber bark. We will give ourselves up. It
does net matter. Now that Hans Is desd,
I have nothing to live for. 1 hare uo
buaband."
The little doctor winced. He waa not
a uihllist at all, aad never had been; but
In personal appearance he bad resembled
one. There waa something horribly real
la tbe words that came from tbe girl's
rosy lips. Ssrglus Psvloekl shook bis
bead and moved a step or two toward
the group half hidden by a fine driving
snow.
"No," he answered. "We arranged It
before) leaving Loadon. There ie only
one thing to be done."
Tbe doctor and the girl exchanged a
MERI2IMAN
look of horror, and hesitated to follow
him.
"It was a greed," h" continued, nio
clianicall.v, "ihat th lives of all wers
never to he endangered for the sake of
one. Tyars slid tliit."
Slewly the two followed him. As they
approached the group some of these step
ped silently buck, snnn walked away a
few paces and stood apart with averted
faces.
"Can you tell me," said the woman,
looking up suddenly and leaving th
baby's face and throat fully exposed to
the cruel wind, "whether I can find a
lodging near here?"
Slio Hddressed I'avloskl, who was stand
ing in front of her. lie made no answer,
hut presently turned away with a cop
vulsive movement of lips and throat, as If
he were swallowing with an effort. Then
he raised his voice and, addressing his
companions generally, he said, with th
assurance of a mao placed in a position
to exact obedience:
"Will you all go on? Keep the same
direction, north-by-west according to the
compass. I shall catch you up before
evening."
lie stood quite still, like a man hewn
out of stone upright, emotionless and
quile determined awaiting the fulfill
ment of his commands. All around him
his companions waited. It almost seem
ed as if they expected the Almighty to
interfere. Even to those who have tasted
the bitterest cup that life has ever brew
ed, this seemed too cruel to b true too
horrid! And the wind blew all around
them, tearing, raging on.
At last one man had the courage to do
it. It was he who had spoken to Fav
loskl, the man whom they called doctor.
He went toward one of the sledges and
proceeded to disentangle the traces thrown
carelessly down when a halt had been
called. The men stepped silently forward
and drew the cords across their shoulders.
The women moved away first, stepping
softly on the silent snow, and like phan
toms vanishing In the mist and windy tur
moil. The men followed, dragging their
noiseless sledges. The doctor stsyed be
hind for a moment. When the others
were out of earshot he went toward I'av
loskl and laid his mittencd hand upon his
arm.
"Serglus," he said, with painful hesi
tation, "let me do it I am a doctor it
will be easier."
I'avloskl turned and looked at the
speaker in a stupid, bewildered way, as
If the language used were unknown to
him. Then lie smiled suddenly, in a sick
ening way: it was like a cynical smile
upon the face of the dead.
"Go!" he said, pointing to windward,
where their companions had disappeared.
"Go with them. Ixt each one of us do
his duty. It will be a consolation, what
ever the end may he."
The doctor was bound in honor to obey
this man in all and through all. lie
obeyed now. nr.i left Serglus I'avloskl
alone with his mad wife and bis helpless
babe. As he moved away he heard the
woman prattling of the sun and the birds
and the flowers.
He turned his face resolutely north
ward and pressed forward into tho Icy
wind, but a muffled, gurgling shriek broke
down his strong resolution. Without
stopping, he glanced back over his shoul
der with a gasp of horror. Serglus Fav-
lokl was kneeling with his back to the
north ; but be waa not kneeling on the
anow, for the doctor saw two fur-cld
srms waving1 convulsively, and between
the soles of Favloskl's great snow boots
he caught sight of two other feet drawn
up In agony.
"Oh.. God I" exclaimed the man, aloud.
"forgive him!"
And with bloodshot eyea and haggard
lips he stumbled on, not heeding where
he set his feet. He fell, and rose again,
scarce knowing what he did. Despite the
frcexing wind, the perspiration rsn down
his face, blinding him. It froze and hung
there la little icicles on his mnstscbe and
beard.
And In the sgony of his strong mind
his brain lost all power of concentration.
Ills lips continued to frame those four
words over and over again until they be
came bereft of all meaning and lapsed
Into a mere rhythmic refrain, keeping
time with the awing of his sturdy legs.
(To he continued.)
OLD MAIDS A3 MOTHERS.
Host Spinsters Dlsplar Farentallam
When la Charge ot Children.
A woman may not be especially de
voted to children, or feci any acute de
sire to possess them, and yet nine
times out of ten, If she lias to take some
email boy or girl shopping or walking,
she will, liulf unconsciously, begin play
ing mother.
There are certain ways of pulling
down little skirts and settling caps that
are distinctly parental and possessive,
a manner of grasping small hands and
answering shrill questions that pro
claim to all tho world, "This Is my Jew
el." Few parents can avoid a trace of
self cousclons prldo when treating tho
community to n sight of tbelr offspring.
Rut let a spinster tuke a small relative
In charge, and she will outmother tho
most demonstrative mother of them all
In her airs and gestures.
Her "dear" Is n masterpiece of Indul
gent parentallsm, and If the unappre-
dative youngster shouts out, "Aunty,"
a look of sharp mortification comes
across her face. She buys little shoos
and socks with an air of mature delib
eration teniered by a half humorous
tuudemess, nud the clerk, If she knows
her business, asks questions about tho
r.ge and size and smiles sympathetically
over the small garments.
A woinun may restrain herself from
obviously muklng believe In the struct
but before a counterful of frilled caps
or Dutchy little trousers she Is a moral
coward and cunnot resist the alluring
mantle of motherhood. She may love
her splnsterhood and exult in ber free
dom, but down beneath tbe eternal fem
inize Is awake and clamoring for Its
birthright Chicago Tribune.
No llMIlillllt,
Nell You don't mean to say you're
going to marry blra?
Belle Yea.
Nell Tbe Ideal Why, you aald yen
wouldn't marry him if be were tbe last
man on earth.
Belle (snapplly) Well, my gracious)
bo isn't. Is be?
Nasi j.
'I ilnfTr fppl HWa mvsAlf liwltH
- - - . . - .
"Lot me congratulate you." Clevo-
tauu Lauer.
. '
Within a few weeks the Pacific has
yielded two stories of pirates, at a time
when piracy was generally In-lieved to
hava become one of tho lost professions.
Developments have shown that tho
black flag, metaphorically speaking,
still files over craft In the Pacific ocean,
although the times of those captivating
gentry who, scoured the Spanish Main
of the Atlantic have Indeed passed
awny forever.
Compnred with tho Pnclflc Ocean,
the Atlantic Is n narrow body of water,
but tbe Pacific, the romantic old South
Sea famed for financial "bubbles" and
for the adventurers who have sought
It for their country's good, Is almost
bcundless In Its extent. The combined
navies of tho world could not properly
police the great sen, nnd It has Innu
merable Islands, charted nnd unchart
ed spots of land which appear nnd
dlsnppenr In tho Immense depth of Its
waters In tho most erratic and unex
pected manner.
Rut the commerce on the Pacific !s
considerable and constantly growing.
Great ships, some of them the equal of
tho trans-Atlantic "greyho.unds" with
tho regularity of a suburban train, ply
between the continents. Rich materials,
bullion, money are coming and going
In tho ships. Millions of money are
always being conveyed upon Its waves.
Here, then, Is the scene prepared for
tho pirates. All that la necessary Is the
NEW ENGLAND ECONOMY
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1 Oyl,a0.Vfttr. lirfriHgv' V E '8' '
H?b0l" rTd Apr.l . 1840. VI A :&ni 7. 1870. , J.
f, lit -; cva- iyears . I I KSOr JJ t-.- - f V&'zihS.Ur tf'irj;
fc-V'VT- -. Af aons44.i ; if ;A rtf. Alys
wr-v i mm- ;
In a cemetery at Granny, Mass., stands n curious tombstone. It was.
erected by Gad C. Preston, nud he had to use both sides of the stone to re
cord the names of his dead wives, of whom" 'there were sis. The Inscrip
tions are as follows:
ON FRONT OF TOMBSTONE.
Erected to the Memory of
Electa Barton, died March 14, 1S24, aged
20 years.
TheodocVi Church, died April 2, 1810,
aged 45 years.
Mary Wood, died Sept. 20, 1S43, aged
45 years.
Lucy W. Alden, died Aug. 20, 1844, aged
40 years.
Olive L. Arnold, died Sept. 19. 1848, aged
35 years.
All Wives of Gad C. Trcston.
Ephraim A., son of Gad C' and Olive L.
Preston, died July 25, 1847, aged 0
months.
DOOM OF THE FARM HORSE.
Aa-rlcnltaral Motor Car Mar Super
rde Dobbin In the Flelda.
Good-by Dobbin, tho faithful nud
sturdy old furui horse. No longer will
"the plowman homeward plod his
weary way." Instead he will simply
turn on tho second speed of his agri
cultural motor ear and go dashing up
the lane to the farmhouse at the rate
of twenty miles an hour.
Iu the enrly months of 1902 what
proved to bo the first successful gaso
line agricultural motor appeared, con
testing t nearly nil of the great agri
cultural competitions of the senson In
England nnd carrying off the gold med
als from the horse In every contest.
Plowing proved to bo the first phase
of farm labor to which tho agricultural
motor was Introduced and nt which
four years ngo It made Its Initial repu
tation. Steam engines had proven too
heavy for tho soft land being plowed
nnd here tho agriculturists expected to
mire the Internal combustion motor,
but they slanally failed. For a plowing
test among horses, steam power nnd
the gusolluo motor two and three-quarter
acres of very heavy clay soli were
selected. It was a condition that tho
furrows wero to be nlno Inches wldo
and six Inches deep. In doing tho
work nluo horses, three to a plow, with
three drivers and three boys, did the
work at a total cost of $8.25, or at the
rato of $3.08 an acre. By steam power
the total cost of plowing the same area
amounted to $9.80, or at $4.08 an acre,
and with the gasoline motor the cost
totaled $4.44, or at $1.07 an acre. For
plowing purposes a thre-furrowed
plow la Invariably used except In
ieavy clay soils where a couple of fur
rows prove sufficient Technical
World.
Dotlla Afloat 39 Tear.
Buffeted about by tbe wavea of Lake
Superior for almost exactly thirty-two
years, a bottle containing a communica
tion from the crew and passengers of
the old steamer High Wind was fo.und
a day or two ago In the bottle heap nt a
local bottling establishment by William
Clark, a 12-year-old boy. Tbe lad was
washing bottles and happened to notice
LA tX-
ItlKf'iltircr ItllliM'if. t'.v. t...
Generally spe.ikltii. Ie W -l 11,-sa
I'.ut there nre nwn frm Hie tVv'v' t
willing "to take a ha.t" t u V
golden flo.od rolling their ay.
Almost every port on the lwi(V h
Its quota of adventurers. Mvt of IVm
must have grown tired of their w
names, for they use other, nnd uv.ul
ly their means of support nre not os
tentatious. . These human w rinks arc
to. be found from San Francisco t.
Sydney. The Hawaiian Islands are
not free from their presence; they can
bo found upon the beach nt Apia, but
In tho treaty ports of China they con
gregate In numbers.
At Shanghai Is collected the flotsam
nnd Jetsam of the world. There are
many mysterious Kngllshmen, Ameri
cans nnd others stranded there. The
secret of their means of existence Is
shown occasionally In the cejisular po
lice court. They keep dives, they league
themselves with notorious natives In
smuggling transactions, nnd now nnd
then during o dispute with n Chinese
whom they were endeavoring to cheat
In a dubious business scheme somebody
Is murdered. The lawless, tbe embez
zlers, the welchers who have been
forced to abnndoji connection with their
home towns find n refuge In Shanghai,
where "something always Is turning
up" for n man who rises superior to
bis conscience.
These modern buccaneers are "cap
tains e.f Industry." They organize raids,
plan piracies, but It Is the wily native
who Is entrusted with the execution of
the schemes. Most of the master minds
do. not care to risk their precious lives,
while there arc plenty of disreputables
In the nntlve quarters willing for n Tew
dollars to cut a throat or lead nn at
tack upon n liner. Some of the' adven
turers live by blackmail, others by giv
ing tips to native pirates and robbers
of where loot may be found. Hons
Kong. Macao. Nagasaki and Singapore
all have their quota of these cosmopo
lites. DISPLAYED ON TOMBSTONE.
ON BACK OF TOMn.STONE.
Gad Clark Preston, died Feb. 14. 1S7G,
aged SI.
Mary B. Dimlck, died June 7, 1870, aged
CO (a wife).
Clarissa rreston, died Nov. SO, 1859
aged 21.
beer battle that was corkeil nmi ,n!.
ed. His curiosity was aroused and he
opened It nnd found n tl
wrapping paper on which the following
was written with lead nencll. nil ti.
words but one bo-lug iorfoctly distin
guishable :
"Whlteflsh Point, Mich.. Aug. 17,
874. This bottle was thrown nir
boat High Wind nt the alove named
place. Crew and passenaers : E.I I'.it.
i-ln, captain: Harry Uroussein ..hi..f.
Arthur Putvln, fireman. Passengers:
.virs. i.d rntvin. Broussoau and
children. Whoever finds this little
return It or let It be knc.wn."
It Is supposed that tho
found Hoatiug In the lake by some of
the iisiiermen who put out from Duiuth
und that It was sold to the bottling
concern along with other buttles Unit
had boon picked up.
Iuuulry was made of sevecii nt ti...
old-timers In Duiuth as to Inform,. i....
of the steamer High Wind and her mas-
tor, but If the vessel ever nm.io im
port she seems to have been forgotten.
It Is supposed that tho boat was n small
one nnd that she operated between
pojnts on the north shore of Michigan,
t. ........ .,
I'UIUIU 111TUIU.
Mlraraluua Mallliillralloa,
A lady who recently nought a dinner
service consisting of fifty-four pieces
for 1 3s. was Informed by her house
maid the next day that the bargain
had become still more wonderful, for
it now consisted of 1,123 pieces..
Punch.
Kot Dinar la It.
First P.urglar Did Illll git much out
uv dat last burglary? Second liurglar
No; he got so little that bis lawyer
advised him ter plead guilty. Judge.
The average woman so exaggerates
ber Uluees that she has a grievance
against her doctor because when ho
was aent for be didn't come racing.
When the time comes for every ouo
to wish you Joy, half the people are
laughing because you Imagine you have
cause for congratulation.
druggist a surely bw-ouia "Doc"
as a lawyer becomes "Judge."
DISASTER IN ANTVILLE.
reat loss of I I fe Ihat Bielf4 the
Small I'esele.
OY je. i feel well enough, but I'm
not lu my inual spirits, msybe." Tbe
vru.iu spending the summer In the
vatiii ou the hi!) rtnppcd lu to see the
lout dwelh-ra la tbe orchard.
' ou ku w 1 i-jiu't bear to kill any
tMitj, bat Utvl.T the anta have been
gvttlisg o nu'iierou In the cabin that
I tv.':udt Jjit must. The anta
tvtv.dj quite eu'lted, naturally, but at
first I dulu t notice anything lu partic
ular, thi'usb of eour I'd always
kiuiwu tttit they're intelligent.
"last su'iimer ve had wa?vs, and
aomebody told i to leve tho slain
ones arotr.ui u view it would neip to
make the other wasps t elsewhere to
build. Wny wouldn't ants take the
me h'ut? 1 thought. So I collected
a lot of dead auta and decorated the
wlndow-slll.
"Pretty sooa I happened to remein
tw, and bless your heart! perfect
multitudes of nn'5 were coming In pro
cessions to my morgue.
"Do you understand? They wero
Identifying the bod'es of friends nnd
relations. It was no time before every
Ingle dead ant had been carried away
Cor decent burial, no doubt by the
fathers, mothers, brothers, husband
and wives that I had made mourners
of!"
"How Interesting!" commented one.
"Such nn opportunity to study natural
history !"
"Yes," limply assented the cabin
dweller, "but In studying natural his
tory, give me some bencvoic.it role
the part of San Francisco earthquake
and eruption of Vesuvius Isn't condu
cive to the scientific nttituoe.
"Then," she continued, thought fully,
"while I didn't actually see the note
books, yet after tbe bodie of the vic
tims" she shifted uneasily In he
chair "had been removed, a lot of
atrenuous, Inquisitive ants went dash
ing about on the scene of disaster, and
I'm positive from their manners I was
once Interviewed myself that they
iwere reporters."
"You'll probably receive a copy of
the San Ant onlo Times," suggested a
sympathetic hearer.
"Don't believe I'd care to read the
account from that side," said the cabin
lady, ruefully. "Doebn't anybody know
some powder or something that drives
ants away without killing them? Iden
tifying friends and relations! Think
of that, will you?" Youth's Compan
ion, Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local applications, as they cnuiiot reach
tbe diseased portion of the ear. There Is
only one way to cure deafness, anil that Is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness Is
caused by an Inflamed condition of tbe mu
cous lining of the Kustarhluii Tube. When
this tube Is Inflamed you hare a rumlilln
sound or Imperfect henrlne, nnd when It N
entirely closed, Deafness Is tbe result, nnd
Unless tbe Inflammation enn lie taken out
and tbls tube restored to Its normal condi
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nine esses out of ten are caused by Ca
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There's a newsboy hi Hyde Park
who shows such a well develop?'! abil
ity to bunko folks that those who oonio
In contact with him think ho'll be n
real promoter some day. He boards
Ithe trolley cars on Cottage Grove ave
nue soon after the morning newspniwrs
are out, and every morning he yells
; the same bulletin :
i "Polper, morning polper; all about
the big fire!"
! It doesn't matter whether there's
been a fire or not. He yells about tue
I fire every time. Hyde Parkers are In
terested in fires, and they buy and
don't realize that they've been bun
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prising youngster who fooled 'em.
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Per feel ly Clear.
His Coachman Professor, why is It
that the moon alius shows the same face?
The Professor That is due to the cir
cumstance that its revolution upon its
axis Is coincident with the revolution it
makes In its orbit.
The Coachman Thankee. I thort It
waa somethin' like that.
A Dlplomatlo Dinar.
During General Sherman's residence
In New York he was In great demand
for dinners, and seldom refused to go
forth and do battle with his digestion.
A lady once asked him how he man
aged to attend so many elaborate din
ners without committing "gastronomic
suicide." His biographers give the old
warrior's answer:
"I do not touch fifteen per Cent of
the dinners I go to," said the general.
"I go to see tho diners nnd enjoy their
enjoyment, which I never could do if
I was foolish enough to treat my stom
ach disrespectfully. You see, It has
been too stanch a friend to neglect.
"I eat to live, and I am satisfied with
the plainest kind of food. Then I take
great pains to give hunger a show, nnd
while I believe most thoroughly In the
value of regular meals and rest, I have
learned to go through a dining-room
without eating a morsel, without being
detected and without hurting the feel
ings of the h.istess."
Not a llarMin.
"Put, surely, Miss Roxley knew when
Ihe accepted the count that ho was
worthless."
'Yes, but he proved to be twice as
worthless as she thought hlui."
"I low was that?-'
"She thought she was gilnjr to ct
hint for a million, but he cost her two
million." rhllsde:phla Press.
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