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It removes the languor of morning;, sus- tains the energies of noon, lulls ', the weariness of night. u jijuljl Beer' delicious, sparkling;, appetizing. Don't be deceived if a dealer, for the salce cf larger profit, tetls you some other kind is "just as Bood" 'tis fals. No iaiitation is as good as the genuine HiRrs'. T E D AGENTS to sell our choice nursery ctnrlr M.mv fine snecialties to offer w riteqtiick and secure choice of territory MAD DDOC XURSERYMEX. IliHIl U11UO. Rochester, X. Y i te iv.ricjr's (iinfcer X'onio. it nti the usl Oiuh, . -. i- : ...... I i. ; i ; . .. T...J . ...... D:., T,k inlini. .4tpf vv A COSMOPOLITAN 6CHOOL, A Queer Miztnrn f Chlhlre-n In One cf New York's It 1 1; K hool ItuittliiiKa. Until nliout a year ago t lie principal of ward bcIkkjI No. 2:, New York, did not realize what a queer lot of pupils lie had, although he had noini'tiines laughed over the Kt range collection of names nxn the rolls. A year ago he took a census and carefully traced out the exact part of the earth from which the parents of each of hi pupils had come, lie found that there were in his school no less than twenty-neven' different na tionalities, FjK'aking about twenty-fivie . languages other than English and ifs dialects. lit) found that of these sixteen were in the primary department alone. So not long afterward he "arranged a novel feature to one of the school enter tainments. At a certain place in the programme each child aro.se, holding in his or her hands two flags. One was the American Hag, the other the flag of the nation from which the father had cojne. The visitors to the school were astonished. They recognized half a dozen flags well known as the banners of European nations Italian, German, Spanish, French, Swiss and the like. Then they saw nearly a dozen others, recognizable from their shapes and colors and designs s the banners of barbaric or Bemibarbaric countries, known to us in a vague way as heathen. When these children, none being un der five years of age, first come to this school they are foreigners to the very core. They speak the language of their fathers, and perhaps have never even heard the sound of an English word; They are of the country from which their parents came both in customs and ideas. Their clothing alone bears the stamp of America, and that so out of ac cord with their faces and expressions that they seem ill at ease, and even more poorly clad than they really are. They enter the primary department.' And here it may lie said that, although the youngest are five pears old, the ages of many extend upward toward eighteen and twenty years. It is the 1 ,iness of Miss Rose O'Neill and her seven assistants to teach these children the English language; and then to make American children out of them. (3o into the -school at the beginning -of the school year, and you will tldnk the task hopeless,- impossible. Come liack at . the "end of six months, and if? you close your eyes and listen to the reading exercises you will not be able to dis tinguish Chinese child or Arab child or Tunisian child from the' few pure blood ed 'Americans who form the curiosities of the school. Then you will wonder how the miracle has been performed. Harper's Weekly. , . Educate Children to High Ideals. We are too ready to impart instruc tion to children from low moods and on a low plane, because we do not ourselves habitually dwell in the latitude of the uplands. . Motives of nolicy, of vanity, of seeming instead of being right, enter into our own lives and, alas! poison the lives of the little ones at the fountain. A grand life, a brave example, a splen did instance of fortitude, of self abnega tion, of courage against odds is never in vain. It is an object lesson that flames out from the 6ky, as the planet amid the host of lesser stars. Whether it be an arctic or an African explorer, the leader of a forlorn hope, the missionary living among the island lepers, or the army nurse, leaving home and luxury to min ister to the wounded and soothe the dying', the noble ideal is uplifted before the eyes of those who are yet in the in itial stages, and whose characters are not yet iff the mold of destiny. This thought of the lofty ideal gives the chief value of our annual Decoration Day, giving us pause amid the pomp and ease of peace, that we may think not of the pageantry of war, but of its suffer ings, its fever and thirst, its rigors of cold and furnace heats, its weary marches, fierce battles and the patriot ism which alone condones its bitter woe and the mourning that follows in its track. Harper's Bazar. Powerful Indian Air Guns. The Indians along the Mirida river hunt with blow guns made out of the young stalks of a. certain kind of palm, from which the pith is removed. The arrows employed as projectiles are sim ply splinters of reed, sharpened at one end, the other end being wrapped with enough silk cotton obtained from another kind of palm to fill up the bore of the blow gun. The arrows are about ten inches long and very light. They are tipped with the famous and deadly "woorari" poison. Used by one of these naked savages the blow gun is a weapon of great accu racy and effectiveness, even a small bird on a treetop being brought down by the skilled shooter with reasonable certainty at the first try. Interview in Washing ton Star. A Carious Salvage Case. Perhaps the most curious salvage case on record is that of the ship Two Friends, which stranded on the coast of Cuba and was abandoned by her crew. Another ship, the John Blake, met a similar fate, and her crew, in attempting to find a landing place, came across the Two Friends, which they managed to get off and to navigate to England without fur ther mishap. The judge who tried the case decided that salvage services had been rendered, but of only ordinary diffi culty and merit, inasmuch as the crew of the John Blake salved the Two Friends in order to save their own lives. The owners of the John Blake of course got nothing, but the salving crew re ceived 350 out of the total value of 1,237. New Orleans Picayune. The Art of Conversation. "Conversation," says a brilliant Amer ican humorist, "is, in this generation, a lost art." It was an art which our grandfathers Btudied perhaps more than any other. A gentleman, in the beginning of this century, was usually more ambitious to tell a story well or to state his argument clearly than to understand science or statecraft- Youth's Companion. Prayer Unanswered. A missionary had taken bis wife with ; him to India. There she died, and ths brokenhearted widower received pennis sion from the missionary board of his church to come home. Here he promptly consoled himself, and -with his second spouse returned to the field of hia former lalior. But fate was still unkind and at the end of a year he was once more be reaved. Again he besought the permis sion of -, th board to return home, but this time they gently but firmly de clined, saying that they did not feel justified in the expense of giving him two vacations within two years. They suggested, delicately, however, that if hia desire was to recoup himself for hia recent loss it was possible for him to deputize a friend to secure for him a new partner of hia joys and sorrows. This he accordingly did. The day the steamer was signaled the bridegroom elect went down to meet it, accompanied by a married friend. When the latter returned he was pounced upon by his own wife, who demanded all the particulars of the meeting. "Did Dr. Smith seem much overcome when he saw Miss Brown?" was the first ques tion. "Well yes a little." "Wasn't he overjoyed?" "Well overjoyed is not just the word, perhaps." "Why, didn't he say he was delighted?" "Well no net exactly." "But, at least, he seemed pleased?" "Well I don't quite know." "For mercy's sake, tell me juBt what he did say and do." "Well" with evi dent reluctance. "When he saw her she was at the other end of the deck and she was pointed out to him by the friend she had traveled with. Smith looked at her for a minute, and then he passed his hand over his eyes and I heard him murmur, 'Red hair for the third time and after bo much prayer t' "Pittsburg Dispatch. '. . ' His Rebuke. Much of the music sung in city churches would scarcely be character ized, as "sacred" if it were heard any where except in the house of God. And there are some odd people who even in this age of progress consider that such music belongs rather to the concert room than to the church. Parson Snow was one of these people, and when he "exchanged" one Sunday with an old college friend who was set tled over a large city parish he was both amazed and shocked . by the vocal dis play the anthem with which the members of the choir electrified the con gregation. "They had fine voices, my dear," he explained to his little wife when he was safely back in his own home, "and I presume they wanted to show them off, and so took advantage of a time when their pastor was away. I thought at first of rising and requesting them to desist. Then I felt that perhaps it would be my duty to report the matter to Doctor Green. "But I finally concluded that, as it was undoubtedly a first offense and caused by an almost pardonable vanity, I would deal gently with them. So I waited until they had finished, and then I rose and said, 'We will now begin the religious services of the morning.' "And I feel sure," concluded the sim ple minded pastor, "that they felt my rebuke and will not let such a thing occur again!" Youth's Companion. The FIrst Edition" Craze. Is this hankering after first editions but a mere craze or fashion? in which case I would venture to predict that when the book loving and book buying public once begins to consider seriously what it is that really constitutes the value of any first edition the ridiculous and artificially enhanced prices of such issues will fall. Upon this public weakness, whether fostered by sentimental or any other feeling, the booksellers are now trading and are in the habit of calling attention in Roman capitals in their catalogues to first editions of almost every conceiv able book of course at the same time adding a correspondingly increased price to books which are hardly worth purchasing in any edition. For the present great demand for first editions the keen competition among English speaking peoples from abroad for any book of special value How offered for sale may be in a great de gree responsible, aided by a large class of unreasoning beings who buy books merely because they are first editions, and who by dint of their long purses are able to "rush in where angels fear to tread." These are they upon whom ordinary book lovers look with dread, and the booksellers not always with approval. Notes and Queries. A Bit of Correspondence. A remarkable correspondence has been published, ending in a true Irish fashion. It begins: "Mr. Thompson presents his compliments to Mr. Simpson, and begs to request that he will keep his doggs from trespassing on his grounds." "Mr. Simpson presents his compli ments to Mr. Thompson, and begs to suggest that in future he should not spell 'dogs with two gees." "Mr. Thompson's respects to Mr. Simpson, and will feel obliged if he will add the letter 'e' to the last word in the note just received, so as to represent Mr. Simpson and lady." "Mr. Simpson returns Mr. Thompson's note unopened, the impertinence it con tains being only equaled by its vulgar ity." London Tit-Bits. . Yentilation by Windows. It is always proper to resort to window ventilation if no other means of ventila tion is attainable. Lower the windows from the top; if possible open one win dow from the bottom, but choose a win dow the opening of which will not create a draft. Heated air rises and will escape through the lowered windows, while the fresh air will enter through the raised windows. New York Sun. Professional Pride. "Why do you children wear such dreadfully long hair?" "How are folks to know that our father is an artist?" Ulk. A KENTUCKY MULE. A Gray If aired Old Fellow Treed s ll,4r and Finally Killed It. Sara Parson's gray mulo Zeko is eld and gray, but ho possesses great strength, both of understanding and of liody. Saturday old Sam concluded that he wouldn't work, and accordingly ho Bhouldered his muzzle loading rifle and went hunting. But before departing he turned Zeke out to graze. Finding the grass around the parson's cabin rather scanty, Zeko wandered down the edge of the creek next to the mountain side. There within the shad ow of the woods he struck a nice, ten der clump of grass and immediately be gan to eat it with great delight. While engaged in this congenial task a large black bear came down the mountain side and approached Zeke. Zeke had probably never seen a bear before, aa the ursina tribe has long been scarce in these mountains. Nor is it likely that the lieni had ever on any previous occasion look ed upon a, mule. But this bear was hungry and, while Zeke was biggoi game than he had bargained for, he evidently thought it worth while to take a look at him, for he came a little nearer. Zeke was not a bit afraid. He had never stood in awe of manhood, not even Old Sam, his master, and it was not likely that at this late period of hia life he would be afraid of any four footed creature that walked the earth. Zeke calmly went on with his pleasant task of eating grass. The bear edged up another yard. Zeke switched his tail and cleverly knocked a fly off his back, and being relieved of the burden of the insect still munched the grass. The bear began to grew inquisitive. He evidently did not understand what kind of an animal Zeke was, his studies in zoology being limited. He stood upon his haunches and growled, not as a threat, but as a kind of friendly salute. Zeke did not raise his head, and still munched the grass. The bear stopped growling and walked in a respectful cir cle around Zeke, studying him from every corner. He might have been a hundred miles away for all the notice Zeke took. The bear was puzzled and uttered another growl of interrogation. Again finding himself unnoticed he be gan to grow angry. The bear went around behind Zeke and came very close, evidently deter mined to try by touch to arouse the strange animal. Suddenly Zeke doubled himself up in a knot and leaped high in the air. Two legs flew out of the bunch like piston rods and caught the bear in the side, whirling him over in a com plete somersault. When he struck the ground he righted himself and rushed away with a growl of pain. But Zeke was hot after him, and the bear, seeing that he would be overtaken, scrambled np a hickory tree, barely missing a terri ble drive of Zeke's hind heels. Noon came and still Zeke was under the tree. The afternoon passed. It was almost sundown, but still Zeke was there. The bear could stand it no long er. Zeke was about twenty feet away from the tree, apparently taking no no tice, and accordingly he crawled down the trunk as quietly as possible, intend ing to slip away in the forest. Barely had he touched the ground when Zeke turned with a snort and leaped upon him. So fast did his hind legs flash back and forth that they looked like the driv ing rods of an engine. In a minute the bear was dead, every bone in his body broken. Mrs. Parsons, who saw it all from the door of her cabin, says that the bear didn't even have time to growl. When asked why she hadn't taken a gun from the house and shoot the bear in the tree for she is a girl woodsman and bold as a man sh replied: "I knowed Zeke didn't need no help, and besides I didn't want to spile the fun." Pond Creek (Ky.) Cor. New York Sun. A Pitiful Sight. "I was at Sioux City during the rise in the Big Muddy," said T. P. Sinclair, a prominent farmer and stock raiser of South Dakota, "and there witnessed a sight that haunts me. Pretty much everything that would float came swirl ing down the angry river wrecks of buildings, household goods and gods and among the drift was, what do you think? a cradle! One of the old fashioned, wooden sort, and in it sat a white headed little tot, apparently about a year old. "There was not a boat within hailing distance, the cradle was fully 30Q yards from shore and the river was running like a mill race. I started on a dead run down along the bank, hoping to find a boat of some kind, but before I had gone twenty-five yards the cradle tipped over, spilling its little occupant into the mud dy waters. I am pretty well seasoned, let me tell you. I walked over rows of dead men at Donaldson and Shiloh, have shot Indians and helped hang cow thieves, but that sight at Sioux City broke me. I just sat down and cried like a woman." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Entirely Satisfied. A suit had gone against the defendant, who arose and gave his opinion of the judgment and was fined f 10 for con tempt of court. A bill was handed to the clerk which proved to be $20. "I have no change," said the clerk, tender ing it to the offender. "Never mind about the other $10," was the retort. "Keep it; Til take it out in contempt." Black and White. At a Fashionable Dinner Party. Gent (on the right) The weather, I have already discussed that subject with my neighbor on the left, Gent (aside) The mean scoundrel! We had arranged between us that he should talk about the dinner and 1 my self about the weather. Humoristische Blatter. Forests oi Greece. In ancient times Greece possessed about 7,500,000 acres of dense forest, and she was comparatively rich in timber until about fifty years ago. Much of it has, however, now disappeared. Phila delphia Ledger. 1 Every Month many womea Buffer from Escrsalvs or 8cant Menstruation; they don't know who to confids la to get proper advice. 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Corner Locust and Eighth Ht-rvlces morning and evening, fclder Galloway pastor. Sunday School 10 A. M.- Xi aJT J n r i A. O !. JUJV r VllUltll, 'S ill-a A a. J and Vine. Kev. H H. Hu.resH. uaxtor. r 17 nvo a r C 1 i.bAla . .ia.Mli T vices : 11 A. m. at.d 7 :30P. M. Sunday Sch at 2 :30 P. m. (iKKMAN MKTHomsT. Corner Sixth St. tj Granite. Kev. Hlrt. Pat-tor. Services : 11 A" and 7 :30 p. m. Sunday School 10 :30 A. M. . Pbehhyteriaj.-. Services in new church, ffl ner Sixth and Granite st. Kev. J. T. Ha pastor. Sunday-school at 8 ; 3C ; Preact at 11 a. m.asd 8 p. m. The V. K. S. C. E of this church meets e' Sabbath evening at 7 :15 in the basemen the chucrh. All are Invited to attend tl meetings. First Methodiht. Sixth St., betwen and Pearl. Kev. L. F. Britt. D. D. oa. Services : 11 AM.. 8 :00 P. M. Sunday Scl e 9 :30A. m. I'rayer ineetiLg W ednesday In 5 sf js- a r It iru wi v d i j Pria ILf In M vx xv xv a m -.rr m m nniA vvi au Ninth, liev. Wttte. pastor, hervlcei u It rki i rti Kunil'i v hrh in A O alA A M , Sweedish Congregational. Granite; inccu K illlt ouu oijiiu, etV II. UUWJir.viMrimi. iH vine, waa, wt:i pj ........ ... nw..m . f 1 1 . A . I 1 V. r.. Teuth and Lleventh, Kev. A. Ho well. ! tor. Services 11 a. m. and 7 UXJ p. m. Pr meeting Wednesday evening. . tTfl pel meeting, lor men only, every Sunday" ternoon at 4 o'clock. Kooms open week from 8:30 a. m.. to U : 30 p. in. Pnnmi In W uterrnun hlrwlr M jtin St rMt J South Park Tabernacle. Rev. J. jOa. in. : Preaching. 1 1 a. m. and 8 p-f f rayer meeting Tuesday night ; choir f ice Friday night. AU are welcome. r " V '" . M ' ' m mm - ' -mimmmmmmmamammmmmmmmmammmmammiJ