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- A H.qulio f.truitlun. OliliT day a ftmall box rnvrrrA III! gauze and labeled "four hundred iiiuwiuiuj whs siiippnq iiom at nmall elation in South Carol loa to the Acad my of Natural Science, al Washing ton, The iUKectfl were quite lively when they arrived, and were apparent ly In as good health as when they tarted on their jouruey.Tbe mosaui toes are, of course, to be used la sci e.Uile investigations. Tlrrhow'i Queer Injury. Wbm Professor Vlrchow was out walking the other day he was blown by a very high wind against a tree and sustained an injury to the head. Happily, assistance waa quickly ob tained and the professor, who was un nble to walk further, was taken home In a carriage and the requisite surgical aid rendered by his medical attendant Profesor Vircbow Is approaching his JmJiu anniversary. Clvrtlanrt'a "Ankla Huj." Cleveland Is suffering from an "atikle bug," that promises to rival the "kissing bug" In evil notoriety. It is partial to low shoes and opeii-work hosiery, and Its bite is said to be so evee that the swelling sometimes ex tends to the knee. In some cases the victim has been crippled for a week or more. The local scientists have not yet discovered the Insect that causes the mischief. Johnson at Work Again. rtacloe, Wis., July 22nd: John Johnson of No. 924 Hamilton street, this city. Is a happy man. For years he has suffered with Kid ney and Urinary trouble, lie was so broken down that he was forced to quit work. Everything he tried failed, till a friend of his recommended a new remedy Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr. Johnson used them, and the result sur prised him. He Is as well as ever he was, completely cured, and working away every day. His case Is regarded by those who knew bow very bad he was, as almost a miracle, and' Dodd's Kidney Pills are a much talked of medicine B(o diluting at 7. Sim Martin Conway, the famous mountaineer, who has Just been elected Slade professor of fine arts at Cam bridge university, England, made his first ascent of a mountain at the age of 7. Plao's Cure for Comumptlon Is an infallible medicine for coughs ana cold. N. W. SailU, Ocean Orove, N. J., Feb. 17. JfciO. No man e'er was glorious" who was not laborious. flail's Catarrh Cv Is a constitutional care. Price, 75a. God heals and the doctor has the thanks. ALL I I'-TO-UATE llOimEKKEfRIta Tae Ked Crow Ball Ulue. It makes clothes tluaii and sweet as when new. All grocers. To Kirp Their Traaanrea at Home. If the precedent establibhcd by the Goldsmiths company of London be generally follewd by Engllshment, it will not be so easy In the future for American collectors to steal away the Kfgiish treasures that come under the hnmmor of the auctioneer, his com pany paid $00,000 for the celebrated I'ojcwell library of economics to pre vent It from falling Into American fcneda. 8lf nlflrance of "Lnclle" Furchaa. "See that young fellow buying that handsome edition of 'Uiclle'?" asked one of the salesmen In a prominent hook store the other morning. "I ll wager anything he has cither Just be come engaged or is Just about to pro pose to some girl. There sees to be an unwritten law that an engaged man must give his fiance a copy or 'Luetic.' Outside of this trade there Is absolute ly no demand for the book. I really believe that nobobdy ever buys It any more except the engaged young man, and nobody ever reads It except the engaged young girl." Wide Variance In Pnplla' Agei. There are 1,100 Chinese pupils In Queens college, Hong Kong, varying it. age from 9 up to 23, and many of tbrm have family cares in the shape of a wife and children at home. Each year sees a decrease In the proportion of married school boys, and the aver age ago becomes less every year. In Its early history boys of all ages were to be found in the school, and It was quite possible to find father and son run a dead heat for the first prize. Cray Frorks Made Them Croat. Matrons of Infant asylums say that a young infant will lie cross all doy if dressed In a gray lock, but content ed and happy If dressed In a bright red frock. Children from 2 to 4 are much 1p affected by the color of their diesB. It Is commonly observed in kindergar tens that the younger children prefer the red playthings, while the older children prefer the blue. Clark l-nlrd It. The late Milton Clarke of Hoston ile l.ted shortly beforo his deaih the wide ly circulated story that It was his re lation to Mrs. Htowe of his own and his brother's adventures that Inspired that author's "Undo Tom's Cabin." Chirm Hanknotra 0O Venra Old. The Chinese havo on show In Jjii don, in an exhibition of eaily printing from Japan and China, a bank note Issued In the course of thu relgn of Emperor Hungwu, 13C8-99. This Is SOO years earlier Than the establish ment ot Stockholm of the first Euro pean bank which issued nots. This w.rllmt of banknotes measures eigh teen Inches by nine. The man who packs water on both shoulders Is liable- to stand tu the mud. Aik your grocer for DEFIANCE BTAKCH, the only 16 ot. package for 10 cents. All other 10-cent starch con tains only 12 ot. Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded. An agricultural school for women is to be opened In Berlin. lite From the window of the chapel softly sounds an organ's note. Through the peacaful Sabbath gloam ing drifting shreds of music float, And the quiet and the firelight and llie sweetly solemn tunes. Bear me dreaming back to boyhood and Its Sunday afternoons; When we gathered In the parlor, in tho parlor stiff and grand. Where the haircloth chairs and anfaa stood arrayed, a gloomy band, Where each queer oil portrait watched us with a countenance of wood, iAnd the shells upon the whatnot In a dustiest splendor stood. i Then the quaint old parlor organ, with the quaver In Its tongue, Seemed to tremble In its fervor as tho sacred songs were sung, As we sang the homely anthem, sang the glad revival hymns Of the glory of the story and the light no sorrow dima. t While the dusk grew even deeper and the evening settled down. And the lamp-lit windows twinkled in the drowsy little town, Old and young we sang the chorus and the echoes told it o'er In the dear, familiar voices, hushed or scattered evermore. From the windows of the chapel faint and low the music dies, And the picture In the firelight fades before my tear-dimmed eyes, But my wistful fancy, listening, hears the night wind hum the tunes That we sang there In the parlor on those Sunday afternoons. A Jest of Fate. BY MAUDE E. LEONARD. (Copyright, 1901, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) The man was in a brown study. Ap parently he was engaged In a diffi cult experiment In his laboratory for his hands moved automatically among the chemicals. Liquids met, min gled and were separated deftly, but In reality he was entirely Ignorant of what his sensitive fingers were doing, for his mind was busily engaged oth erwise. He was a well-built man, and his profile spoke of strength, with Its slightly aquiline nose, deepset eye, and closely trimmed beard. That the mouth hidden by this same beard held doubtful curves and a curious droop was a fact naturally unknown to most persons. When Dr. Packard chose to address a meeting of scien tists his auditors always were aroused and listened. For he had a brain. Whether be was troubled by a heart was something women liked to spec ulate about Those who had solved the question discreetly hid tbelr dearly bought knowledge, for women do not parade their hurts. In the face of this, It Is somewhat remarkable to understand that at the moment when be was so aimlessly puttering about In bis mechanical work with lackluster, Introspective eyes. Dr. Packard's brain was In re ality entirely occupied with a woman. She had come out of tho past so far back that the halo of mystery was beginning to adorn her memory, and because he was a son of Adam Dr. Packard found this uniquely attrac tive. She needed some such softening The other held poison. nimbus, he reflected, with a touch of sardonic humor, for she must be forty years old It was over twenty years since be had left that miserable small town in the west when opportunity had stretched out a finger to his rest less grasp. The tumultuous and fast following years had cluttered his mind, and It came to him that this was the first time he bad ever so seriously and leisurely contemplated his act. He set down a siphon smartly and (mashed It as he reflected what a fool ho bad been. At nineteen he had married Bessie Crowcll. She was a waitress in the railroad restaurant and alone in the world. She had been pretty, of course, and she was good. A to her spelling he was not so sure. Carefully he pieced out his boyish recollection of her. He knew precise ly what her typo would have degen erated Into In the time which had passed. With the uncompromisingly accurate knowledge of the mature man he could see her as she undoubtedly was after the I a pee of twenty years. She was fat and wore broad, flat shoes with the buttons off. Her gowns were of the dreary, nondescript wools stu pid women affect, and her waist went by courtesy. Her hair it hai been brown and roughly curly was thin ning and shiny and screwed Into a tight knot. Her complexion was coarse ana ony, and she was gross, stolid and entirely repellant to a man ct fastidious tastes. Her mind J ad never risen above the gossip of the store and corners. As this picture grew, so correspondingly faded the Idea which as a Just man had attacked him, that he had done wrong In run ning away from her. It was with a sort of pride he recollected In all these years he bad never failed to send reg ular remittances back to her and the child. For there had been one, but It had not appealed to his restless youth and still slumbering emotions of fatherhood. His lawyer relieved him of the delicate task of forwarding She bad never heard such a laugh, the allowance to Bessie, Mrs. Abbott. When be ran away he had changed his name to Packard and she bad nev er traced him, though his iiiYaiUuuie legal man had once carelessly con veyed to him the Impression that a vindictive and spasmodic search for her strangely missing husband was now and then made by bis client's ben eficiary, Mrs. Abbott. Packard had thanked his legal man gravely with out vouchsafing any information con cerning the recalcitrant husband to his expectant legal man, and had gone to his club to offer up thanks that his trail was covered. Dr. Packard, the scientist, the fa vored, the admired by the lovely and gracious women of society and by men of affairs what had this man in common with the hot-headed boy of a quarter of a century before, whose name was Abbott and who had been a fool? She could never find him. With a short sigh Dr. Packard set down the retort ho held and reached for the glass of water he had drawn some moments before. The day was warm and he was thirsty. He drank every drop before he emerged from his mental wanderings and stood blinking as one whose sleping eyes have opened suddenly on a glare of light Then he stumbled, sat down, and stared stupidly at the empty glass. Two feet away from where it had stood was another glass similar in shape, filled with a colorless liquid. One of those glasses had held water, the other had been filled with a solu tion he had made of a peculiar, color less, tasteless poison. And he bad drunk one of them. . There was a dampness on his fore head. If It was the poison he had swallowed he was a dead man Inside an hour. Then of a sudden he squared his shoulders and laughed harshly with relief. Hastily he reached for the other glass he could test Its contents and the suspense would be over. As he grasped It his trembling hand shifted, the glass slipped into the sink and the contents disappeared down the drain. The man groaned. ' It had come on him so suddenly, he had awakened to the everyday world so abruptly he had not had time to get his balance. He was not In a normal condition to face such a catastrophe and he sat clutch ing the table edge with starting eyes and a ghastly face. He did not want to die be would not! A blind panic had him fast as he realized there was no use calling for help. No one could save him. With nerves tingling he sat waiting for the first twinge of pain, his Imagination lending hideous aid to reality. In a few minutes everything would be ended for him It It was the poison he had swallowed and some- thing of his old, dominating will came back as he rapidly adjusted his point of view. Stubbornly his thoughts re turned to Bessie Abbott but not with contemplative llestire this time. She loomed a solemn fact in the life he had suddenly become separated from and the Idea of a full expiation seized him and was Insistent .With the odd notion growing he rose and wavered toward his desk In the next room and wrote hurriedly. There was really no one else with so good a claim on his wealth and the child, young man by this time he still thought of him as an alien, disinterestedly might pos sibly make some use of prosperity even as he had done. With livid face he glanced over the unblottcd letter. "You could -never have found me living," it ran, "but It is my whim you should profit by my death. It will give New York something to talk bout and wonder over. I do not ob ject adding to the gayety of nations for I know the devil of ennui. Come to the address at the top ot this sheet and take possession. Everything Is yours. I must confess I rarely remem bered you till today when strangely enough you have beeq much In my thoughts. They say the mind of the aged reverts to scenes of youth pos sibly In my case forty Is old. It Is evidently sufficient In fate's Judgment for In halt an hour I shall be deaf. Qoodbjr." The brutality of the few word seemed to revive him and stop the dull pricking that was stealing over his body. Methodically be sealed, ad-2-esaed ana stamped the envelope, walked out and handed It to the pont man who at that moment was unlock ing the mailbox. Then be came back to the laboratory and shut the door behind him. There was no longer In bis mind any doubt as to which of the glasses he had emptied fur his hands were cold, he trembled as with an ague and numbness stole over bis brain. He could not think. He wan dered around tho room with protest ing despairing tread and when his knees gave way beneath him he fell gasping to the floor and the wavei swept over him. e e e e e Hours later those working over Dr. Packard who had been found on the floor of his laboratory were rewarded by the flicker of his eyelids and pres ently he spoke. It was the usual Inane question of those coming out of the depths. "You are In your own room," brisk ly answered the physician at his right, a personal friend. Dr. Packard was trying to think as the waves which had submerged him receded. "I was poisoned," be breathed in a puzzled way. His friend's face broke into the humoring smile given remarks mada by the feeble and incompetent. "Non sense," he said soothingly, "you've been in the most extensive and all pervading faint I ever saw but you weren't poisoned, man what put that Idea Into your head?.. You're dream ing! And what do yoj mean by keel ing over in such a reprehensible way? You were working too long without food and rest, that's what ailed you!" It was some minutes Utter that Dr. Packard remembered the letter. He laughed once, shortly, abruptly, before he turned his face toward the wall. But the trained nurse at his side Jumped. She had never heard quite such a laugh In all her experience, And she never wanted to Var it again. Davlea Too Much for tho Bora. A gray-haired alumnus of Columbia, on from a western state for the gradu ating exercises, chatted of the days when he was at Columbia, "There was Prof. Davies," said the old col legian. "We fellows used to like him as well as It was possible for a col lege boy to like a professor of mathe matics. One winter, I recollect, the members of my clasa, myself among the rest, had found considerable amusement and relieved ourselves of class work by burning as; fetida, pep per and other unpleasant Milngs In the various class room3. we tried the trick with Professor Anthon, who taught Greek, and with Prof. Nairne, who occupied the chair of moral phil osophy. At last some of the bolder spirits suggested that we transfer our attentions to Prof. Davies. Well, I remember that morning. It was bit ter cold, and all of the outlets of the room wero closed to keep the warmth within. We were on hand early, and had several fat lumps of asafetlda smoking away when the professor came. He walked to the desk and laid his hat and coat on it. Then the odor struck him. He hesitated a mo ment, and then walked slowly to the door, locked it, and put the key in hie pocket. 'Now, gentlemen, we will en Joy this together,' said he, a3 he re turned to his seat. Then he got back at us. The mathematics he threw at us would have filled a set of mathe matical books from the primary arith metic to the calculus. And all the time the asafetlda was smoking, for he would not let us remove It. When we got out of that room after two hours we were wiser and more discreet boys, and you can bet we played no more tricks on the author of Davies' Legendre." New York Times. Cluba Hae Their Alvantagea. I think It must be owned that the de partures from the old order of home life have greatly ameliorated the con dition of the weak, the timid, the less self-assertive writes BLshop Potter in the Woman's Companion. In any given homo circle it is not always the clever est or the strongest who claims and exercises the mastery. A shrinking and sensitive nature will not fight for its precedence In the home any more than out of it A gentle, modest woman will often be overborne by her loud, push ing and vulgarly modern children. A man of refinement and real force will often let himself be bullied by a brawl ing woman because his very nature makes him "no brawler." Now, In the old days, so far aa social Intercourse was concerned, it was largely a ques tion of the home or nothing. If there was no bright talk, no diverting rec reation, no songs and laughter there, there was none anywhere. Rfforaas That Ware F.ipennlv. About three-quarters of a railroad's receipts come from the freight depart ment. The passenger department sup plies nearly all the rest, the income from mall, express and other privileges being comparatively small. Carrying passengers is a simple matter, or would be, If state legislatures did not now and then take a hand in prescribing added specifications for railroad pas senger service. In Ohio a law was passed decreeing that the height be tween the platform and the lowest steps of passenger conches should not exceed 12 Inches. This cost the rail roads nearly $100,000, and the reform led to the abolition ot a number of flui stops where the passengers had been quite willing to scramble up off the ballast AInslec's Magazine. Women buy things they do not want at bargain crushes to prevent women who may need the articles from buy lng tbejBK a innnRT'c She Suffered for Years and Felt Her Case Was Hope lessCured by Pe-ru-na. Mm. Judge McAllister writes from 1217 West 33rd st, Miuneapolis, Minn., as follows: "I suffered for years with a pain In the small of my back and right side. It interfered often with my domestic and social duties and 1 never supposed that I would be cured, as the doctor's medicine did not seem to help me any. "Fortunately a member of our Order advised me to try Peruna and gavo it such high praise that I decided to try ( . lian,ik T ... ... -J 1 1 . i. 1 : . . , - .... An.MlUU i filftt icu 111 Willi illtlO faith, I felt so much better in a week that I felt encouraged. "I took It faithfully for seven weeks and am happy indeed to be able to say that I am entirely cured. Words fail to express my gratitude. Perfect health once more is tho best thing I could wish for, and thanks to Peruna enjoy that now." Minnie E. McAllister. The great popularity of Peruna as a catarrh remedy has tempted many people to imitate Peruna. A great many so-called catarrh remedies and catarrhal tonics are to be found In many drug stores. These remedies can be procured by the druggist much cheaper than Peruna. Peruna can only be obtained at uniform price, and no druggist can get it a cent cheaper. Thus it is that druggists are tempted to substitute the cheap imitations of Peruna for Peruna. It is done every day without a doubt. .We would therefore caution all peo- Fiak'a Profundity. In college the late John Fiske took up such unusual courses of study as Gothic, Icelandic, Danish, Swedish, Dutch and Roumanian; then he delved in law and was graduated from the law school at the age of 22. Such a list of achievements makes him an Admirable Criehton of extraordinary profundity. BKb CROSS BALI, BLUE Khould bo in every homo. Ask your grocer for it. Large 'Z ox. package only 5 cents. Who Is In the right fears, who Is in the wrong hopes. Nxbraeka Bnalnena and Shorthand College, Iloyd llulldlriC, Omaha, JJeb. $3,000 expended last year 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 reign of money is here; other events will come with the years. Mm, W Inflow a Mouthing 5yrop. 'For children leetr.ing, ioften rhe Kiim, reduces tu BaiDDiatlun, allay t pain, euro wind colic. 20c a bottle. You cannot take the road without the end, nor the end without the road. Ask your grocer tor DEFIANCE STARCH, the only 16 oz. package for 10 cents. All other 10-cent starcn cou tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded. Oreclan Frlnce a Drama tint. Prince Nicholas of Greece, third son of the king of the Hellenes, was re cently designated "laureate." in a dra matic congress organized by the Uni versity of Athens. The work which obtained for him this distinction was a comedy entitled "The Reformers," pnd was Judged on its merits, the com petitors having to send in their compo sitions under pseudonyms only. lot the TEETH Niw Slzt S0Z0D0NT LIQUID . Niw Pitint Box S0Z0D0NT POWDER Largi LIQUID and POWDER . At the Stores or by Mail, postpaid, for the Price. ' ' A Dentist's Opinion: "As an antiseptic and hyeienlo mouth wash, and for the care and preservation of the teeth and gums, I cordially recommend Sozodont. I consider it tho ideal dentif rieo for children's use." Name of writer upon application.) HALL & RUCKEL, NEW YORK. Has No Equal. REQUWE5W COOKING PREPARED FOB LAUNDW(HJRP05E50NLf rlATNCTIcSTAetl,S.C 5 fSAMI 11 in nil?!? cured of PELVIC CATARE1 pie against accepting these substitutes. Insist upon having Peruna. There is no other internal remedy for catarrh that will take the place of Peruna. Allow no one to persuade you to the contrary. If you do not derive prompt and sat isfactory results from the use of Pe runa, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratia. Address Dr. Hartman, President ot The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Q. He who would relish his food must not see it cooked. Ask your grocer for DEFIANCal STARCH, the only 1C ot. package for 10 cents. All other 10-cent etarch con tains only 12 oz. Satisfaction guaran teed or money refunded. Who has never done thicking never begins doing. Sure to be arrested! Any acne or pain by Hamlin's famous Wizard OIL Your druggist trails n. He who blows upon dust fills bla eyes with it. UTS Permanently Ciirwi. ffcftiormrrTooanenafta rut dy' e nf Dr. Kline Orpat Nerve Keitorer Hi. i,l for FItKE MS.OO trial battle end traeltae. Lis. U. H. Kline. Ltd.. 3i arch St.. WUladelehli, fa. An Atchison man is so economical that he will not blow the foam off hie beer. NEW EQUIPMENT FOR Til F. WABASH. Effective July 10th. The Wabash la placing the first of the large order ot equipment, consisting of twe baggage, 8 combination pasenger ard baggage, 30 coaches, 10 chair cars, 3 cafe cars and 2 dining cars into service. The trains running from Chicago leaving at 11:00 a. m., 3:03 p. m., 9:15 p. m. and 11:00 p. m., respectively, will carry this new equipment. Much comment has been made upon the elegant broad vestibule chair cars in this service. Ia addition to this extra equipment, the Pan-American Special, running be tween St. Louis and Buffalo, leaves St. Louis at 1:00 p. m., arriving at Buffalo 8:20 a. m. Returning, leaves Buffalo 3:30 p. m., arrives St. Louis 7:56 a. m. This train has been equipped with the large broad vestibule chair cars and cafe library and observation care, something entirely new, an innovation in the passenger service. He who would be long an old mu must begin betimes. mi. ' I ' I 1" FRAGRANT and BREATH . . . , . . 25o . 25c 75o Oncthifd more starch a better starch that is the whole story. Defiance Starch, 16 ounces lor 10 cents. Don'l forget it better qual fly and onc'third more of il. BUY BOTH EES nflEAY Infnrmntinn. Ortlnrg In 1, 0(10 bu. Iota 1 I IllllCZ. Ill anil upward. Hank referential. 0.1. X-mJ UaJlSarkl LI rlnfhaac, CMMitn:altf.,Ch)cifa, " " "