s%hS'-B«‘«» Way of PhMIaf Baiba. V After ordering’ your bulbs set about getting a compost ready in which to pot them. As good a soil as any is one composed of ordinary garden loam, sands, and well-rotted cow manure in equal parts. One-third sand may seem like too much of a good thing, but it isn’t. Nowhere in the world are bet ter bulbs grown than in Holland,whose soil is nearly all sand. Better bulbs can be grown in clear sand, properly fertilized, than in the richest of soil without sand. Mix your compost well and have it fine and mellow. It is very important that the manure should bo old. Fresh manure is harmful to all bulbous plants, out or in doors. I should advise the growing of several bulbs in the same pot.—Ladies’ Home Journal. An Egg Cocktail to Begin the Day. The man who wants a cocktail in the morning which does not contain any alcohol and which acts as a bracer can now'get one if he applies at any well regulated cafe for an “egg cock tail.” An egg cocktail is a very sim ple and harmless concoction. It is well known in certain sections of the city already. Here is the way it is made: Take an egg and break it into a glass, put in pepper and salt, squeeze the juice of a lemon into the glass, and your cocktail is ready. The lemon juice is credited with the ability to re move any unpalatable taste the raw egg may contain.—New York Times. Left Destitute! Not of worldly goods, but of earthly com forts, is the poor .wretch tormented by ma laria. The fell scourge is, however, shorn of its thong in advance by Hostetter’s fetomach Bitters, its only sure preventative pnd remedy. Dyspepsia, biliousness, con stipation, rheumatism and nervousness and kidney complaints are also among the bodi ly afflictions which: this tenUicent medicine overcomes with certainty. Vse it syste matically. The Best Work. Generally good, useful work, whether of the hand or head, is either ill paid or not paid at all. I don’t say it should be so, but it always is so. People, as a rule, only pay for being amused. For being cheated, not for being served. Five thousand a year to your talker and a shilling a day to your fighter, digger and thinker, is the rule. None of the best head work in art, literature or science is ever paid for. How much do you think Homer got for his “Iliad?” Or Dante for his "Paradise?” Only bitter bread and salt and going up and down other people's stairs Pleasure Still to Be Bad, From Indianapolis Journal. “By gosh, Bill,” said the farmer with the square jaw, “to my own knowledge you have changed yer campaign but ton four times, accordin’ to the speaker you heerd last. What you goin’ to do when the campaign’s over? “Wai,” said the farmer with the straggling yellow whiskers, ‘‘what’ to prevent me goin’ to protracted meetin’ an’ getti’n’ religion, same's Ive done ev’ry winter fer fifteen years?” Mrs. H. C. Ayer of Kichford, Vt., writes: “After having fever I was very much debilitated and had dys pepsia so bad I could scarcely eat anything. A little food caused bloat ing and burning in the stomach with pain and much soreness in my side and a great deal of headache. My physician seemed unable to help me and I continued in this condition until l took Dr. Kay’s Benovator which completely cured me.” Sold by druggists at 25 ets. and 81. See advt. Wasps as Paper-Makers, Not only do wasps make paper, but even card-board; In South America there is a species of wasp that manu factures a card-board so smooth and firm that it may be written or drawn upon and it is in one way superior to the article made by man, as it is water proof. The heaviest rains will not dampen the interior of the cardboard nest made by these wasps. A Copy of The Companion’s Art Calendar for 1897, which rivals ilio famous “Yard of ltoses’’ published by Thk Companion a few years ago, Is given free to every new sub scriber to Tub Companion for I8u7. To new subscribers the paper Is also sent free from the time the subscription is received till January, IV,C. Thug new subscribers will receive, free, a handsome four-page folding calendar, lithographed In twelve colors, The Companion free Every ween to Janu ary, 1897, and for a full year to January.1898, by sending the publishers $1.7.5, one year's subscription. Illustrated prospectus for 1897 free. Address The Youth’s Companion, 203 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Muss. The New Woman Paradise. The new woman should take her way to Burinah. There, travelers say, is the only place on earth where true equality exists between the sexes. In spite of this, it is claimed that no wom en are more womanly than the Bur mese women, whose good sense en ables them to see the line where they -Ought to stop. In the higher classes she always has a trade, and runs her business on her own responsibility. The man who gives help to another, learns how Lest to help himself. THOUGHT *%%%%«* i ^ 1 THAT KILLED A MAN! He thought that he could trifle 4 with disease. He was run down In health, felt tired and worn out. complained of dizzi ness, biliousness, backaches and headaches. His liver and kidneys were out of order. He thought to get well by dosing himself with cheap remedies. And then came the ending. He fell a victim to Bright’s disease I The money he ought to have in 2 vested in a safe, reliable remedy went for a tombstone. is the only standard remedy in the world for kidney and liver complaints, it is the only remedy which physicians universally prescribe. It is the only remedy that is back ed by the testimony of thou , sands whom it has relieved ; and cured. THERE IS WOTHIMO ELSE THAT CAW TAKE ITS PLAi I | MY BURGLAR! | When X went to bed that night my hair was as black as it used to be. When the day dawned It was light. So you may see how badly I was fright ened. I was paying the penalty for over work at the time by taking a health trip, and I carried along $475 to pay it with. I also took a fish pole and a northwesterly direction for the Michi gan woods. When” I was leaving Detroit on the steamer I wrapped up $400 in a rubber band and stowed them away in the in side pocket of my vest, and I soon ac quired the habit of touching myself every time I thought of it to see wheth er my cash balanced, or, to speak more accurately, to see whether I still had the bulge on my vest. As soon as X found this nervous ha bit fastening itself upon me I was sorry that X had not always carried large sums of money and got used to the sen sation, but it was too late for vain re grets, an^. I determined to make the best of it. But I decided that I would always in the future have plenty of money. It was a little too early in the season for the summer run of schoolma'ams on the lakes, and there were only a few passengers on board the steam boat. These were made up mostly of commercial travelers and a fair as sortment of those dusty-booted, slouch hatted, shoddy-clad men who travel on trains and boats everywhere without any apparent reason or object. There was one lady on board. A uci t* was aisu UJUlUtU paoncusci a red-headed man with a sinister eye and a smell of horse about him so pro nounced that the lady passenger asked for “the radish” at dinner, thinking to avoid hurting his feelings by saying horse radish in his presence. If I had not been carrying a wad of money into a lonely country I should have paid little attention to this ill favored person; but I was carrying a wad of money, and I suspected that he knew of it. For the life of me I could not help pressing that wad with my Angers every time I met him or heard his voice or smelt horse. I was cer tain that he noticed this involuntary action and that he knew the reason of it, and I came to believe that he was on the boat because I was and that he would get off when I did. He did get off when I did, at 11 o’clock at night on the lonely dock in the town of Gravelton, and no one left the boat there but us two. I saw him disappear in the darkness and I took my seat in the hotel bus. The Gravelton hotel was one of those large, cheaply built houses which one will And in all the lumbering towns of the west where land is cheap and pine is cheap and regular boarders are cheap and numerous, but my room was clean enough and reasonably secure. The window had no fastenings, but the sash had swelled and the casement held it in a grip which all my strength could not loosen. The door was pro vided with a bolt and lock, and the transom was too narrow to admit the body of a man. I felt pretty secure, but I was made nervous by the fact that the curtain failed to cover the lower part of the window. I was morally certain that my ugly fellow traveler stood outside in the darkness, watch ing me with hungry eyes. I did not feel sleepy enough to go to bed, neither did I And it particularly THERE WAS A BURGLAR. IN MY ROOM. cheerful to sit In the one little wooden chair which the room afforded, and gaze at the cheap wall paper covering the pine partition, or the “skied” pic ture of a flaming red, long tailed bird of paradise with his head set backward on his neck. My books were in my trunk and there was nothing at hand to read except an old newspaper which was doing duty as a cover to the wash stand. Glancing at this paper I saw that the page exposed to view was made up of "syndicate” matter and that the prom inent article was by a startling coinci dence the story of an adventure with a burglar. I began reading it. The narrator told how he found him self in a strange room seeking for a safe place to bestow his money for the night; how he determined to place it between the leaves of a dictionary, and wishing to remember the exact place he thought he would open the book at the word money, but behold, when he opened it the first word that he saw was murder. Here the narrative was broken by a soap dish, which adhered firmly to the paper in spite of my careful efforts to remove it, and I read no further. I arose and shook myself. "Pshaw!” I said, "what a fool I am. He’s proba bly just an ordinary hostler come up here to work, or perhaps to see his old mother. No doubt he's as honest as I am. I wonder what word he would have found if he’d opened the diction ary at Cash,” I soliloquized, and out of mere idle curiosity I took from my handbag the nearest approach I had to a dictionaiy—a little paper covered book of synonyms, and opened it at C Clutch—grasp—lay-hold-on—catch— seize. This was the last line that met my gaze. I laughed, threw the book on the table and began to undress. "If any one enters my room tonight,” I thought, as I folded up my vest and placed it under the pillow, “I’ll clutch him, grasp him, lay hold on him, catch him, seize him, and yell for help.” When I went to sleep I dreamt that 1 was wading up a trout stream fishing for black bass with a wad of money for bait and that as fast as I caught Bsh I was robbed of them by a red headed horse. From the number of fish I had :aught I judge that I must have slept :wo or three hours; then I found my self suddenly awake, listening intently, ind anxiously snuffing the air. I was :ertain of two things. Some one was moving in the room, and I smelled lorse. It is easy to write of this thing now n a spirit of levity, but I had no such feeling as I lay there straining my :yes to no purpose in the inky dark less, but hearing that fellow move ibout the room boldly, without caution, is though it mattered nothing to him vhether I slept or wakened. “If I move,” I thought, "he is ready vith his knife or club to silence me ’orever.” i um not Know wnetner or not no had already taken the vest from under my pillow and I did not care Just theD to Investigate. I moved not a muscle, but when the first tumult of sudden fright had subsided I tried to think— to reason. "I am here for my health,” I thought “Now won’t it be healthier to lie still and let him take my money than to move a linger and let him take my lire —what little I have? How did he get in here? Ah, of course! the window I couldn’t budge It, but he is muscular. I should have thought of that.” What was the man doing? The sounds he made were exactly euch as a man makes in dressing. Heavens! would he exchange clothes with me, leaving his horsey old suit in the room? He was at the washstand pour ing out water—washing his hands. My fright was giving way to anger at the cool impudence of the man. Doubtless he had on my clothes now, Including the vest, with the wad of bills in the inside pocket. Coward that I was to lie there and let him take my prop erty. I hesitated no longer, but sprang from the bed and with the cry of “Help!” rushed with resistless fury slam bang against the partition over where I thought the man stood. Some one tried to open my door, then knocked on It for admittance. Backing toward it so as to guard myself from an attack by the burglar, I found the bolt and lock and threw the door open. A flood of light filled the room; the win dow waB closed and the only persons present were myself and my visitor—a gentleman fully dressed, with a lighted lamp in his hand and a trout basket 3lung over his shoulder. “There was a burglar in my room,” I began. “I couldn’t see the scoundrel, but I heard him washing his hands and putting on my—” I stopped, for I saw my clothes hang ing where I had left them. “I think you must have heard me washing and dressing,” said the gen tleman, "and I must ask you to pardon me for disturbing you. I should have remembered that the walls between these rooms are very thin.” That is my burglar story. I might devise a better ending for It if my im aginative powers were equally distrib uted, but they seem mostly to center in my olfactory nerves. I could have sworn that I smelled horse. C. H. AUGUR. The Mother of Seven Soldiers. When Col. Knok, of the duke of Cornwall’e light infantry, acquainted the queen with the fact that Mrs. Ke veth, of Garrow, St. Bernard, Corn wall, was the mother of seven sons, all in the army, her majesty caused the following leter to be written to Col. Knox: “Her majesty considers the fact of seven sons of one family serv ing in the army, all with exemplary characters, reflects infinite credit on themselves and the parents who have brought them up. The queen desires that you will congratulate Mrs. Ke veth, give her the £10 and framed print of her majesty, which I send herewith, and tell her how glad the queen is to think of this fine example of good and honorable service to their sovereign and country from the sons of a single Cornish family. Her majesty has kept the photograph of Mrs. Keveth which you sent me, and would be glad to I have one of the seven brothers in a'j group, but if this cannot be obtained of separately.” The photographs have been framed together in an oval frame, that of Mrs. Keveth beiflg in the mid dle, and sent to the queen.—London Graphic. To Dorothy. Ah, Dorothy, I love you well! Why do you scorn me so? Why did you ring our friendship’s knell And order me to go? Why, when the merest friendship ends. And Love declares himself, Comes there a rift which nothing mends? Oh, Love, thou art an elf! Sweet Dorothy, be friends again* And smile as oft of yore; And, though it be the direst pain. I'll ask for nothing more. Not Yi»t l>Act FAUNA M STS. Street curs pass the door to and from both depots; in business center of cif*. Headquarters for state and local trade. Hates S'.* and S3 per dav. PAXTON* DAVKNPOKT, Props. Chose Hie i,enat Kvil. Indianapolis Journal: "Happened to see your wife on a wheel yesterday. If l remember, I beard you declare you wouid uever allow her to ride'.’-’ "Yes, I know, but she had a chance to trade off her pug dog for a wheel and I thought I would choose the least evil." Just try a 10c box of Cascnrets, the finest liver and bowel regulator ever made. Cheerful giving alv ays makes the giver i rich. I Excitement Kills ■ Monkey. It is believed the monkeys in the zoo knew they were to be removed into better quarters before it occurred, says the Philadelphia Times. They had, no doubt, heard the now monkey-house talked about as the finest in the world by visitors and keepers, and realized that there was to be some great change in their condition. This naturally in terested them and kept them on the tiptoe of expectation. For several days befor the removal their excitable na tures were all wrought up, and on the day of removal their excitement was almost uncontrolable, showing plainly they had kept posted regarding the eventful day. When the hour arrived a favorite monkey and splendid speci men of his kind was taken by his keep er from the old house to be quartered in the new one. It was seen that he was in a highly excited condition, and on the way to his new homb he sud denly expired in the keeper's arms. - It was a clear case of heart ^disease, brought to a fatal termination by the excitement. A Suspicion •‘I wonder why so many telephono, operators are women?” said the : man. who cultiuates an idle curiosity. , "I don’t know,” replied the misan thrope, ‘‘unless it’s becauso the occu pation puts them in a position to have the last word every time”—Washing ton Star. When bilious or costive, eat a cascaret candy cathartic, cure guaranteed. 10c, 25c. _ The volcanoes of Vesuvius and Etna are never Loth active at the same time. Coe's Cough nnliRm Ii* the oldest and beat. It will break up s cold quicker than anything else. It Is always reliable. Try it. After a man {Hisses fifty he never hopes to be out of debt. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup For children teething,soften* the gum*, reduce* inflam mation, a I lay e pain, cure* wind colic. JiB cents abottlu. Amateur painter** bate each other nearly as much as young doctors. Sian tin dlcular Writing. “We’re going1 to have an entirely new kind of writing in our schools this year,” said Tom to his mother. “It’s all to be perpendicular after this in* stead of slantindiculsr. I guess it’s because the slantindicular looked so lazy.”—Harper’s llazar. ’ Con't Tobaceo Spit end Siriska Your Lila Away. If you want to quit tobacco using easily and forever, regain lost manhood, be made well, strong, magnetic, lull of new life and vigor, take No-To-Bae, the wonder worker that makes weak men strong. Many gain ten pounds in ten days. Over 400,0U0 cured. Buy No-To-Ba- from vour druggist, who will guarantee acure. Booklet and sample mated : tree. 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