V )i;i !CJAL directory sTATtc. _Lorenro Crounse . T. J. Majors . J. C. Allen . J. S. Hartley George II. Hastings Eugene Moor© : «"r , nnViimrs..George liumuhrey ;:;^!,nnl'on ■ ■•■■•A-K'doudy ,, Vloveruor. ‘,,f stsite.... i-un-r....** I uMU'I'tll. • • • :,‘..vr< , Allen Brown 1 Uoim Enright. UFAM RELIEF COMNISSION. meeting first Monday in Febru •;tch yeur, and at such other times as • 1 necessary, ltubt. Gallagher, Page, :m; Wm. Bowen, O’Neill, secretary; ■‘irk Atkinson. ATIUCK’8 CATHOLIC CHURCH, ruccs every Sabbath at 10:30 o’clock, wv. Cassidy, Postor. Sabbath school uately following services. IIIOIIIST ClIUItCH. Sunday ices—Preaching 1U:H0 a. m. and 7:30 10:31) a. m. Class No. 2 (Ep L..auuei(i::io i>. M. Class No. 3 (Child i*. m. Mind-week services—General * meeting Thursday 7:30 p. m. All will W-welcome, especially strangers. E. E. HOSMAN, Pastor. KSii p08,Ti,No-8o-The Gen- j°h p«st’N°. Department of N j';-";!*:'"'Ill meet the flrst and thii ,'vliti of eHckl month in Mason MUJ S. J.Smiih, Com. K VALLEY LODGE, I. o. Wc Sat. at .Thure RdJrt at. . M*lI,.-.LANDr^. d Sitt' M. a” *«d. and Friday8^; k During the summer months the temperature usually ranges from 35 to 65 degrees, says a writor in Home and Country, and on some days the heat is such that one might bo par doned for believing that the burning rays shining down upon the traveler, are those of a tropical sun. The val leys are carpeted with a mantle of green, the grass in many places grow ing knee high, while dandelions, pop pies, saxifrage, and other wild Howers are found in profusion and the air is full of insect life. Marine birds and garishly colorod butterflies dart hither and thither, while the less pleasing mosquito amply demonstrates that arctic existence does not impair its fiendish persistency or rapacious appetite. The upper air resounds with the confused voices of the feath ered tribe, which range from the quick twitter of the swallow to the hoarse “quonek quonck” of the eider duck. Snow is only visible on the high elevations. Indeed, there is the “brawling brook," or “babbling brook,” if you please, the leaping mountain torrent, and all the other ac cessories proscribed by poets and art ists to complete a beautiful panorama. The picture is more striking on ac count of its bold contrasts. Forbid ding black cliffs and lofty rock-ribbed mountains rear their Htatoly heads far above the verdant valleys, while far beyond, the green soa is softly caress ing some tall iceborgs that are glisten aces. To-day we travel to Bermuda or across the ocean to Switzerland in search of health or pleasure. Why not go to Greenland? It may be a rash prediction, but I feel confident that before many years have passed the north will become a favored if not popular summer resort. Then the man of business, the. student, the art ist and their wives and daughters as well, instead of going for the summer to some place they are woll acquainted with, such as insipid watering places or the corresponding fashionable sea side resorts, will sot sail for Green land, the new Eldorado of nature’? gifts. POOR MARKSMANSHIP. Flrlog In Both Army and Navy Leas Ac curate Than Formerly. The training of navy artillerists has, in recent years, been given a good deal of attention, and no end of pow der and shot has been expended in target practice designed to serve a more telling purpose in actual war fare should the occasion present it self. It would seem, therefore, that the floating equipments of naval pow ers of to-day ought to givo good ac counts of themselves in point of marksmanship if called into action, though, according to Cassier’s Maga zine, it would be presumptuous to un dertake to foreshadow possible re sults. If, on the other hand, past experi ence counts for anything, there would seem to have been a notable deciino in accuracy in naval gunnery, growing with successive improvements in naval architecture and naval armament. It was estimated some years ago from data furnished by target practice at sea, that a heavy gun must be dis charged fifty times to make one effective hit. The old smoothbores were credited with killing a man by the discharge of the gun’s weight in shot; in otuer words, three tons of 82 pounder shot are required for the purpose. Actual service tests with modern high-power guns, however— guns weighing twelve tons—has, within the past ten or twelve years, shown that it took about sixteen tons of projectiles to accomplish the same thing. It is interesting to note from what statistics are available that the introduction of rifled muskets into the armies has had a somewhat sim ilar result. The old-time muskets, it is said, killed a man by firing at him his own weight in lead bullets, but the modern rifle in the hands of the aver age soldier, so it has been figured out, does not effect a fatality until it has discharged twice the man’s weight in load. Both here, as woll as in naval shooting, therefore, there has been shown to be an important demand for greater skill and care. Whothe r this has been met in any measure, fu ture hostilities only will tell. The Difficulty. Dramatic Author — Mr. Manager, may I venture to ask whether my three-act play has been accepted? Manager—Well, you see, the three members of the reading committee have gone through it, and they have come to the conclusion that one act will have to be struck out. Author—Oh! there is no difficulty about that; it is not so bad after all. Manager—No, but unfortunately each of the membors wants to strike out a different act! lie V jiMi’t Particular. “Sir,” remarked the rich father to the suitor, “after the investigations I have made into your character I can not give you my daughter Emma.” “All right,” answered the persist ent suitor, “than how about one of the others.”—Fliegende Blaetter. Z.o*t Laurels. First Express Train Robber—Say, this here paper says detectives have been sent out after us. Second Robber, disgustedly—Oh, pshaw! Now they’ll get all the credit for the beautiful escape we made.— Chicago Record. A Delightful < b&nge. “Well, Jennie.” said one actress to another, “how do you like your new part?” “Oh, for goodness’ sake," exclaimed Jennie, “don’t let us talk shop.” “All right,” said the other, “let us talk shopping.”—New York Press. Dr. Priee’s Cream Baking Powder World’s Pair Highest Modal and Diptwna. QOWN3 COST $JOO EACH. Thoa* Worn on OQolal OooMloni bjr ,J ci ties* of the Inpnma Court. A justice pays as much for his robe of office as he would pay for a very handsome suit of clothing', says the Washington Star. There is a fixed price for the gown—a price which does not vary with the fluctuations in the duties on silk. One woman has mado all the justices’ gowns for forty years, and her invariablo price for one is f 100. Like the tailors who make a specialty of outfits for officers of the army and navy,she knows just what are the requirements of a justice's gown, and all her customer has to be con cerned about is its fit. The gown must sot well across the shoulders, and it should reach from the neck to the hools; but it should not drag on the floor. 1 say floor, because, except on inauguration day, the justice does not wear his gown out of doors. When he attends an official dinner or reception at the White house, he wears tho garb of everyday life; even when ho calls on the president on the opening day of the court's Session, he goes in tho clothes he would wear at the break fast table. If you visited one of tho justices at his home of an evening, you would find a pleasant, rather oif hand man, in a frock coat, with none of the solemnity of manner that cloaks the justices when they are on the uduuii. supremo court justices are by no means unapproachable. They are, in fact, considered very jolly after-dinner companions and they are in great demand in social Washington. The justice wears his robe only when the supremo court, as a body, is participating in somo official ceremony. He may go gowned to a funeral, if it is an official funeral. He wears it at the inauguration of a president, but ordinarily he puts it on in the robing-room in the morning and takes it off in the robing-room at dusk. He does not wear it even in the consulting-room, so there is very little wear and tear on it, and one robe will outlast several • suits of clothing. According to the technical descrip tion of it, the judge's robe is made of large, straight widths of silk. It is three and a quarter yards wide at tho bottom. It has a narrow hem around the bottom and a broad hem down the front. It is guaged at the top to a yoke, which is short on the shoulders and forms a deep scallop at the back. The flowing sleeves are a yard and a quarter wide and reach to the wrist. A justice usually accepts his ftrst gown without question; but as he grows a little older on the bench ho is as fussy about the fit of the garment as a young woman with her first ball dress. Having donned their robes with the aid of the old attendants— and they are old enough to be con spicuous even in this city of long ser vice—the justices, at a few minutes before noon, cross tho hall to the ante-room of tho court. The transit of the justices is a matter of daily in terest and wonder to the visitors at the capitol. It is the signal for a raid —a very subdued, dignified raid—on the door of the courtroom, where a doorkeeper sits, solemnly manipulating the swinging door with a cord. Only so many people are admitted to tho courtroom, and the number is small. There are but a few rows of benches outside the inclosure reserved for tho members of the bar. No crodwing of the courtroom is permitted. An impntKlhle llouflo. The man and his wife called on the architect, and the architect was glad to see them, for business was ex tremely dull. “We want you to build a house for us,” said the man by way of introduc tion. “Thanks,” bowed the architect, “I shall be only too glad to do so, and I am quite sure that I can give entire satisfaction.” “Well, you ought to,” remarked the lady, “we don’t want much.” “What kind of a house did you wish?” inquired the architect. “We want a good plain one of about eight rooms,” explained tho man, and we will leave the design to you. All we expect is that when you have finished it will suit my wife and my self. I mean on tho inside; we are not so particular about the outside." The architect heaved a deep sigh. “I’m very sorry,” he said, “but you will have to go to somo other archi tect. We can’t design an impossible house in this office.”—Detroit Freo Press. A Deep*LaI(l Scheme. “Yours is a perplexing ease,” said the oculist. “You call red ‘purple’ and referred to Nile green as ‘Turkey red.’ ” “Yes,” replied the visitor, with a contented smile. “I guess I was born that way.” “It’s the most aggravated case of color-blindness I ever encountered in my professional experience. “That's it. I want you to write me out a statement to that effect. Never mind what the fee is. You see, my wife has a lot of samples sho wants matched, and she'll ask me to take the job some time next week, sure.” And then the oculist had his suspicions.—Washington Star. Down-T rodden of Corea. In Corea every unmarried man is considered a boy. though he should live to Iks 100. X'o matter what his age he follows in position the young est of the married men, despite the fact, perhaps, of having lived long enough to be their father. For > urpiMo of CoinparUon. “Early rising is. a great thing," said the enthusiastic man; “a great thing.” “Yes,” responded the sluggard. “It makes you appreciate the chance for a nap in the morning when you get it.” i FORTY niLLlON CAKES YEARLY. For flour, corn, bran and all kinds of teed go to the O’Neill Flour & Feed Co., J.L. Mack Manager. S8-tf FAST STEAM LAUNCH. A ThaniM 1’lensura lloat Salit to Ha tlia Nwiftoat Small Host A lloat. 'Die Hibernia, a small boat which piles on tho river Thames, England, is said by tho Now York Advertiser to be the fastest boat of its slzo aflout, and a trip in it is an exporionco. At ordinary speed tho Hiborniu behaves like an ordinary boat, cutting her way through tho water and leaving a mod erate impression in the form of shoro waves. With a slight touch of the regulator she leaps forward, and as the spoed increases she gradually sinks a little by the stern, rises a little by the head, until ut u certain speed the bow rises clean out of the water, and the boat flies along at the top of it, throwing a double wall of spray, bo tween which she ilios at a speed of about twenty-nine miles an hour with the stream and twenty-six and a quar ter miles against tho stream. Some idea of the power of this boat may be gathered from tho following statement of dimensions and engine power: The length of the boat is 48 feet 8 inches over all; breadth, 7 feet 8i inches; draught 1 foot 41 inches, and depth of propeller below the water line L‘ feet 5 inches. The boiler is of steel, locomotivo pattern, with barrel five-sixteenths inch, thick, quintuple riveted in longitudinal seams. The engines are two-cylindor, both high pressure, 71 inch diameter, stroke 6 inches, revolutions about 750 per minute up to 1,050 revolutions per minuto when doing the liighost speed. The propeller has three blades of hammered double shear stool, with carefully propared surface and knife edge, keyed in a wrought steel boss and accurately balanced. Tho en gines are of small dimensions, except in the wearing and hard working parts, and hero tho dimensions are very large, and at first glance dispro portionatelv strong. Every detail has boon most care fully designed, and carried out with equally careful workmanship and ex cellent finish. The boat was built chiefly for umpire work at regattas and coaching university crews, and has run over 3,800 miles without the touch of a spanner. Plaintive. “A human life,” said the senti mental young man, “is a poem— tragic, comic, sentimental, as the case may be.” “Yes,” sighed Miss Passeigh, “and so many of us are rejected manu scripts. ” Heart Disease 30 Yrs! Short Breath, Palpitation. Mr. G. W. McKinscy, postmaster of Kokomo, Ind., and a brave ex-soldier, says: “I had been severely troubled with heart disease ever since leaving the army at the close of the late war. I was troubled with palpitation and shortness of breath. I could not sleep on my left side, and had pain around my heart. I became so ill that I was much alarmed, and for tunately my attention was called to Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure I decided to try it The first bottle made a decided improvement in my condition, and five bottles have com pletely cured me.” G. W. McKIXSEY, P. M., Kokomo, Ind Dr. Miles Ilcart Cure Is sold on a positive guarantee that the first bottle will benefit. 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