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Vermont Cad to liar Clrensea. Not until twenty years ago were cir cuses allowed to exhibit in Vermont, but the circuses used to skirt three sides of the state closely, and it was most gratifying to the proprietors to cee the way In which the men, women and children of the Green mountains used to troop acrcss the border into New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire to enjoy the feats forbid den them at home. Two billion passengers and 930.000, 000 tons of goods are carried in a year on the warld's railways. Don't forget fish will no, keep un less it is cleaned. Are Ton Cslr Allan's Foot Ease? It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting. Burning. Sweating Feet. Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad dress, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Don't forget to add salt water when you want to boil anything. IF YOU USE BALL BLCE. Get Red Cross Ball Blue, the best Ball Blue. Large 2 oz. package only 5 cents. Overwork kills fewer men than ex cessive leisure. Hall's Catarrh Care Is taken internally. Price, 75c The man who hates another has an ingrowing grudge against himself. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lunpa. Was. O. EM'SLlT, Vacburen, Ind., Feb. 10. 1900. Fundy bay, in Novia Scotia has a tide of CS feet. Ktbratka BailowiiDd Shorthand College, Ilojd Building. Omaha, Neb. $3,000 expended last j-ear in type writers. $2,500 in actual business and banking furniture. It is the most thoroughly equipped institution in the west. Send for catalogue. A. C. Ong. A. M., LL. B., Prest. The world owes every man a living end every woman a loviug. GREATLY BEUICED KATES ' W A HASH II. R. $13.00 Buffalo and return $13.00. $31.00 New York and return $31.00 The Wabash from Chicago will sell tickets at the above rates daily. Aside from those rates, the Wabash run through trains over Us own rails from Kansas ity, Pt. Louis and Chicago and offer many special rates during the pummer months, allowing stopovers at Niagara Falls and Buffalo. Ask your nearest Ticket Agent or ad dress Horry K. Moore?. 5eneral Agent, Pass. Dept.. Omaha, Neb., or C. S. Crane, G. 1. & T. A.. St. Louis. Mo. If modesty was the fool-killer most women would die of old age. Ask your grocer for DEFIANCE STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for 10 cents. All other 10-cent starch con tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded. Money to the wise and good is the best of all servants. BEYOND THE HEAT BELT. Bloantaln Breeze! and Mountain Sports Available for Those Who Would Escape tie Sizzling Beat. Out beyond the plains of Kansas, where the snow capped peaks raise their heads in Cnlnrnrln Is th Miroi for sweltering residents of the Hot Belt. There has not been such a sea son of torridity for more than a third .of a century, and it is beginning to veil upon the powers of the people. Their minds are less active, and their bodies are tired, and their systems de bilitated. The best remedy is closa ac quaintance with nature, fair, and robed in cool greens, and swept by in vigorating breezes and fortunately the opportunities are at hand and may be taken advantage of by everybody. The Missouri Pacific Railway with its tystem resembling a net work of lines in the great southwest, runs fine trains of palatial cars by a direct and agree able route to Pueblo, and there con nections are made with America's most popular scenic route, the Denver and Itio Grande Railway, in whose cars the pal lie are carried into the very heart of the great mountain range, through canyons of dizzy depth and along the busy sparkling waters which came from Snowland and brought its coolness with them. There are very many delightful places in the Rockies and plenty of sport for the hunter and fisher. He displays excel lent judgment who steals some time from his business and uses it in the pursuit of a favorite sport and for the benefit of his health. The Rio Grande Western is a natural connection .of these two systems already mentioned, carrying their passengers still further toward the western outposts, into still ivore remote sporting country, and where forest and canyon wear their natural beauty the longer, and so, to fcre Desert City by the Great Salt Lake. There is no more delightful short tour and It can be accomplished with com paratively small expense. Sizzling over a desk in the heat of summer is unprofitable and unremunerative self sacrifice and should not be endured when coolness and health are so near at band. These railway systems make travel a pleasure, and nature, ever kind, is the great restorer. If you have not yet decided to taice a summer trip, decide now to do so. and get out of the heat into the coolness of Colo rado and Utah. Unappreciated Flower. The New York Times tells a story about a distinguished gentleman of that city who came home from a pub lic dinner the other night and woke ur bis wife by exclaiming: "Got boo' lul bouquet for you. darling: right off the gov'nor's table boo'ful, boo'ful flowers." "Well, put them in some water on the table and get to bed, dear," said his sleepy wife. Next morning, when his wife examined her husbands "boo'ful" floral offering she was shocked by the discovery that it was a big bunch of artificial flowers, been rudely snatched from some girl's Hat. Wfddlac Garment for Hire. There are three or four shops In Philadelphia where costumes for wed dings and funerals may be hired at a reasonable rate. The renting of mas querade costumes and of men's even ing clothes is a business as old almost as pawn brokering, but this renting of wedding and funeral ciotbes is said to be something new. A LIFE OF HARD SACRIFICE, Louisiana's Melancholy Leper Colony on the Bcni:. cf the Mississippi. There is a place behind the levee on the east bank of the Mississippi eighty miles above New Orleans that the river boats pass in the early morn ing long before the passengers leave their berths, so it is not pointed out as one of the sights of the river. Per haps it would not be pointed out. any way, as it could hardly be expected to enhance the attractiveness of the route. The lazy plantation negro, passing it on the river road, "gets a gait on" his mule, because of a super stitious dread, and to those even, who fear only the material, the eerie at mosphere brings a shudder. The char acter of the place is little known, ex cept to the Creoles of Iberville, the parish Id which it lies, and to the steamboatmen who bring supplies to it. An uninformed person would suppose it was only one of the several deserted plantations to be seen along the Mis sissippi, relics of Louisiana's " 'fo de wah" glory, though a larger and grand er ruin than the others. Such it wa3 until 1S94. when put to its present use. THE LEP It is now a leper colony, the only in stitution of its kind in the United States. The identity of those confined at the Institution is maintained a profound secret and few outsiders are allowed to enter the place. A permit, by no means easy to obtain, must be pre sented before a visitor is admitted. The most tragic cases at the institution are two young girls, both of them beautiful, cultured and members of prominent Louisiana families. Not a mark has yet appeared upon the face of either but they wear gloves, al ways. When the writer visited the inclcsure these girls were sitting in the garden reading to several children and old men. A sister introduced the writer to the girls without mentioning their names. Both talked cheerfully FRONT VIEW OF A and without reference to their terrible fate. Their cases are, of course, hope less, all leprosy cases are. Life in the settlement is by no means as terrible for the most of the lepers as one might suppose. Many of them are perfectly able to do a good day's work, but no labor is required of them. What work they do is done of their own free will. Many of them take a great pride in their gardens. For recreation the liveliest of them play croquet and even lawn tennis; while those who are partly incapacitated carve wooden ornaments and crochet. They have all sorts of indoor games, and friends keep them supplied with reading matter. Complaining, petu lance or rebellion against their fate HOW A HORSE STEALS HIS COMRADE'S OATS. There is a clever postoffice horse in Brooklyn which for some time past has been getting double rations, and will probably continue to do so until the postoffice men discover his trick. From the substation at the corner of Ninth 6treet and Fifth avenue are sent out a number of mail collecting carts through the surrounding district. When the horses drawing these carts come in they are driven up in front of the station to stand until it is time for another collection. While thus stand ing they are fed. On the curb in front of each horse is placed a bag of oats. None of the horses are tied, for stand ing is a part of their business. This is when the horse with a doti ble appetite has his opportunity to per form a skillful maneuver at each meal. He waits until all the rations are dis tributed, then, paying no attention to his own allotment, he begins slowly to back. Slowly but surely he backs into the horse below him. which in turn pushes back further .Ld further until HI 111 ! iff j errs pp "I is almost unknown among th?s unfor tunates. They await the inevitable end with a quiet and touching patience, treating each other with unfailing sweetness and tenderness. They are a devoutly religious body. Marriage, of course, is not permitted among them. The children of the settlement were all legally assigned there with one or the other of their parents. Though leprosy is mere prevalent among the negroes than among the whites, there are but seven negro inmates of the colony. There has been but one es cape from the inclosure; that of a lad who scaled the fence and got Bafely away. About a month after he had gone the sisters received a letter thanking them for all their kindness and informing them he was on his way to the Sandwich islands, where there was more scope for those of his affliction. Product of Ireland. Potatoes have ceased to be the prin cipal root crop of Ireland, if they are ER HOME. to be compared with turnips by weight of yield last year, for example, only about 1.S42.000 tons, against 4,426.000 tons of turnips. Nor was the potato acreage, though twice as great as that of the heavier root, nearly the largest given to any crop. That of oats was larger by 450,000 acres. The Irish prod uct of oats was much greater than the Scotch and Welsh put together, anl amounted to 504.000.000 bushels, against 73.500,000 bushels raised in England. What has to be deplored nowadays in Irish agriculture is not dependence on a single crop, but a general tendency to a shrinkage in area of all areable land. In spite of an Increase of 4G.O0O acres devoted to mangel wurzel and beet, this shrink age has been one of the 32 per cent since 1855. The distinctively Irish crop LEPER COTTAGE. of flax has lost ground since 1870 to the extent of nearly 75 per cent. Land either becomes meadow, or more large ly, goes out of cultivation. In these cir cumstances it is gratifying to see that a rally to flax last year was rewarded by an exceptionally fine harvest. As compared with the year before, the area given to it was 35 per cent great er, and the yield 42 per cent greater. Much more than as much honey was also produced as the average weight for ten years back. Scotland's Friend, the Salmon. It has been said that more laws have been passed for the protection of the salmon tfcan for that of any other liv ing creature save man himself, says a in a few moments the clever horse in front who started the backward proces sion is standing in the place of his neighbor in the rear with his head at the animal's feedbag. Then he be gins to eat ravenously, finishes his neighbor's oats as soon as possible, and steps nimbly back to his own place, eats his own oats, and settles content edly for a stand-up nap with a well fed air of placid innocence. But the horse at the end of the line suffers. That is no affair of the clever Inventor of the scheme, however. The Composition of Ua Mantel. The mantel used In the Welsbach light is made of a combination or mix ture of two rare earths, known as thoria and ceria, and to produce the proper effect they must be combined in a definite proportion, says the Phil adelphia Record. If combined in equal quantities they give practically no light, the mantel merely becoming red hot. The effective combination is 99 per cent of thoria and one per cent of ceria. Why this very slight addition of ceria to the thoria should so enor mously increase the light Is not yet thoroughly understood. It has been found that a mantel made wholly of Dundee newspaper. But. then to Scotland the salmon is worth a good deal. The rental of the Tay alone runs to over 20.000 a year. Imbed, the amount paid to Scotland lairds for the privilege of catching the salmon, and his lesser kinsman, the trout, is believ ed to be considerably over 100,000 a year. And the benefit to Scotland doa3 not end here. Sportsmen must live. They usually live well, and have to pay well. NECKLACE OF NUGGETS GIVEN TO A DUCHESS. In commemoration ct her visit to the West Australian court of the Glas gow exhibition the Duchess of Fife Las been presented with a necklace of vir gin gold nuggets. The necklace, which was presented by H. W. Venn, president of the royal commission of Western Australia for the Glasgow ex hibition, is inclosed in a sandalwood casket inlaid with Australian woods. The nuggets are of flake gold and to the necklace is added a pendant of gold-veined crystal. The inscription on the box runs: "Presented to H. R. H. Princess Louise, Duchess of Fife, on behalf of the government of West ern Australia, by the West Australian royal commission to the Glasgow In ternational exhibition. 1901. as a souvenir of the exhibition, and of the visit of her royal highness to the West Australian court on May 3, 1901." LADDER WITH A PLATFORM IS INVENTED FOR WOMEN. That the ordinary stepladder is neither safe nor convenient for women can readily be seen, and for this rea son a new ladder has been invented. Its merit lies in the fact that it is provided with a platform and a balus trade, the platform opening automatic ally as soon as the ladder is placed in position, and a fall being rendered im possible by the balustrade which sur rounds the platform. Furthermore, this ladder can be fitted with a large table board on which can be placed kitchen utensils or other articles necessary fcr cleaning purposes. If windows have to be washed or walls to be cleaned the work can be done with perfect safety and convenience. In other respects the ladder is con structed in the ordinary manner, and it is so light that it can easily be trans ported from place to place. The nntton-Ifook Hat VanUhecl. What has become of the button hook? Once upon a time every other man you met would have a button hook on bis key-ring, and few careful chaps would have one in some handy place in his desk for emergencies. That was because men were wearing button shoes. But that day is past and the button-hook has vanished, presumably because button shoes are no longer popular. Washington Star. either earth will give only about one eleventh as much light as one made of the proportions just named. LET HIS CROPS ROT IN THE GROUND EVERY YEAR. The Atlanta Constitution reports the death of L. N. Calvary, a curious char acter, near Fayetteville. N. C. Cal vary was found dead of heart disease in his home. His age was 70. He lived alone. His body was found sitting in a chair. He was the most eccentric man in all North Carolina. He came there thirteen years ago from New burg, N. Y.. bought 100 acres, started a vineyard, built a large house, which he handsomely furnished. He worked on his vineyard and truck farm steadily, but never made a shipment. Each year's harvest was allowed to rot. He worked ten hours a day, tim ing himself as if working for hire. He recently returned from New York, where he had his bank account. In his house is much fine silverware. He had $300 on his person when found. He sold a twelve-acre vineyard on the Hudson River for $12,000. HQN0UIIS(x A HEEO. GRAND OLD MAN OF THE FIRST AMERICAN NAVY. I'. 8. War Vessel to Be Cbrlstered In Memory f Commodore Trozten Won Maoy Victories Over the British in the War of Independence, The hof.or of christening a war ves sel of the United States navy, which is to perpetuate the fame of a revolution ary hero, Commodore Thomas Trux ton. belongs to the beautiful grand daughter of the celebrated fighter, Isa bel Truxton of Norfolk, Va. The craft, a torpedo boat destroyer, was put afloat a few days ago. Commodore Truxton was born on Long Island, February 17, 1755. He be gan seafaring life when 12 years old and soon after was impressed into the English service. Obtaining his dis charge, he entered the merchant ma rine and quickly rose to command. In 1775 he had charge of a vessel in which large quantities of powder were brought to Philadelphia. In the latter part of that year, his vessel was seized and condemned under the restraining act. Making his way to Philadelphia, he was made a lieutenant on the Con gress, the first private armed ship fitted out by the colonies. In 1775 he was given charge of the Independence, with which he made a brilliant record, and later he commanded the Mars, the Commerce and other vessels which did great service for the American cause, he being uniformly successful in hi.s many engagements with British ves sels. Upon the organization of the U. S. navy, June 4. 1798, he was named as and was appointed with a squadron un der his command to protect commerce THOMAS TRUXTON. in the West Indies. He passed success fully through several brilliant engage ments, for one of which, the worsting of a French (through the machinations of a pro-British secret order the Unit ed States had lately been drawn into a war with France, which, when the truth became known, was ended by consent of both countries) frigate of 50 guns after a desperate fight. Con gress voted him a gold medal and its thanks. In 1802 he was appointed to command the squadron fitting out for the Tripolitan war, but through a mis understanding was retired from the service. Subsequently he resided on a farm in New Jersey and later he re moves to Philadelphia where he was sheriff f the county in 1819-21. His death occurred in Philadelphia May 5. 1822. Tiie record made by Commodore Truxton stands out prominently in the early history of the country and his memory has been handed down in the navy as one of its most brilliant offi cers. The Old I-ady and Her Fro. There ?s the well-known medical story of the old lady who imagined that she had a frog in her stomach. Her doctor, after vainly trying to per suade her that it was only imagina tion considered a little deception justi fiable to prevent this idea becoming fixed in her mind. Having administer ed an emetic, he managed to adroitly introduce a frog Into the basin, as if it nad just arrived from the old lady's stomach. The patient's Joy was great, as there was proof positive that she had been right all along as to the cause of her illness. Her joy was as soon overclouded, as the idea struck her that, although there was the old frog, there might be little frogs left be hind. The doctor, however, was equal to this sudden emergency, for on a rapid examinaiton of the frog he im mediately assured the patient that her feais were groundless, as her late guest was a gentleman frog. Notes and Queries. New Englaud Women at Buffalo. The national secretary of New Eng land Women has established registry headquarters at the Pan-American Ex position at Buffalo. From the 1st ol July the office will be in charge of a clerk who will engage on order, at spe cial rates and privileges agreed upon by the management and committee, rooms with or without board, at hotels, boarding houses or in private families for all women of New England ances try. Those interested can obtain fur ther information by addressing the secretary at the New England atates building. Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, N. Y. Made 49.0W0.000 la a Tear. Capt. A. F. Lucas, the discoverer of oil in Beaumont. Tex., who is said tc be worth $40,000,000. was practically penniless a year ago. Though a min ing engineer and geologist by profes sion, he was a railroad conductor for a number of years. After losing his place about two years ago, he drifted about and finally went to Beaumont. He succeeded in interesting some cap Italista in the region, and the cele brated Lucas gusher was soon struck. Pnblle Expenditures In Mexico. The Mexican army of more than 25,- 000 men is supported upon a trifle more than 1,000,000 Mexican dollars a month. The Mexican congress does not cost 51,000,000 a year. The cross of the rYen&a Legion of Honor has been bestowed upon thirty eight women. Ignorant PophmoiM. The professor of English at Williams college reports that he put test ques tions to forty sonhmores of that insti tution to ascertain the extent and character of their reading. He found that ten could not mention six plays of Shakespeare, that thirty-four could not tell who Falstaff was, that thirty five could not name a single poem of Wordsworth's or Browning's and that fourteen could not tell who wrote "In Memoriam." The darkness of night throws a herce light on many of our deeds. Of the inhabitants of IJuda-Pesth 23.0 per cent (100,193) are Israelites. 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S0Z0D0NT for the Teeth and Breath 25 At all Stons, or by Mail for tho prict. HALL & RUCKEL, New Tort. A Blow at His Pride. Two Spaniards who had leen absent from Cuba for several yeais recently sailed up the harbor of Havana and walked through Its renovated streets. "Does it not give you pain." one trav eler was overheard inquiring, "to see the stars and stripes waving over Mor ro castle?" "No," replied the other, looking earnestly at him. "What pain me to the quick is to see that the Americans have in two years done more for this island than the Span iards did In almost 400 years." He who succeeds is reputed wise. Ask your grocer for DEFIAN"R KTAKCH. the only 16 oz. package fur 10 cent!. All other 10-cent March in talns only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded. Don't forget scap to wash tho dishes. BNCBUESTEK and REPEATER" The BEST starch is Defiance. The EIGGEST package is Defiance. Quality and quantity mean Defiance Starch. 16 ounces for 10 cents. 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