___— Beautiful home That Can Be Built far Camparaiively Little _____ - A beautiful home is not necessarily a matter of lavish expenditure of money with the modern principals of Imitative art governing the production of art, metal and stone work and with the assistance of the wonderful wood working machinery we are enabled to reproduce from original designs re sults that a few years ago would have been thought of only by the wealthy. Yet you secure the same results, the sublime purity of the designs, the lack of any attempt at undignified ornamen tation, the fascinating repose of the simple outline, have a quiet, restful, homelike feeling that at once enrap tures us in admiration of the taste and appreciation of the beautiful. This is a square plan, yet a most beautiful, dignified and chaste eleva tion. The first story of huff Voman brick iu white mortar and buff stone a “peculiar squeamishness” to pa29 over one. “Now. the singular part of the whole thing." he continued, "was that every man who held that coin in his hand had a long spell of sickness afterward, and some died. 1 saw Griffith a year or two later, and he said he had never fully recovered, and never expected to. “Griffith got interested in that coin when he heard what it had done, and began to trace back its history. He remembered Cal Davis had paid it to him, and asked him where he got it. Davis had got it from a man named Holt, and Holt got it from the guerrilla chief, Sam Hildebrandt. “Hildebrandt got the coin from a Spaniard In a stage robbery. The Spaniard told him the coin had been cursed by the Pope, as it was part of conception of the value of athletics will add dignity, interest and standing, making it a factor second to none in i the development of our civilization. | It will be a mighty influence in the ; creation of a new end “uperior typo ! of men and women. That women are j growing more and more to realize this is evidenced by the athletic tendency of the modern girl. If she will com bine therewith an intelligent effort after well-balanced and harmonious development, the results are bound to be satisfying in the extreme. Decline of German Jews. A statistical return of the religions professed in the German Empire, based on the census of 1900, has re cently been issued. It appears that the number of Roman Catholics has increased in a greater proportion than [XlicRobThefircKf. IMaero'mflffonJngf. trimmings. The second story, old oak Umbered work, with buff cement pa aels corned. The roof is of red Span ish tile. The hall and three main rooms are finished in mahogany with wood mosaic floors. The walls are bur •apped and decorated in oil; divans, oook cases, buffets, etc., built in; sec ond story finished in native hard woods. Plate and art glass, hot water heat and modern plated plumbing. As good as a house can be built, complete out side of hot water heat and plumbing. 13,800. THIS COIN WAS “CURSED." Misfortunes That Befell the Persons Who Happened to Own It. An old resident of Carthage tells a reporter for the Press a strange story of a cursed coin. Among some money turned over to Dick Griffith, treasurer of Jasper county years ago, was a |20 gold piece with a singular design eut in it. The design represented a fross with snakes coiling around it. The “old resident" says that when it was passed across the hand it caused an American booty captured by pir ates in Chinese waters and sent to Rome as a peace offering. The coin was stolen from Rome by a Spaniard, and he, fearing to pass it. gave it to his friend, who was coming to Amer ica. Hildebrandt nearly died of fever while carrying it. and Holt died from some peculiar ailment which baffled the doctors. “What became of the coin I do not j know, but every word of this story is { as true as anything l ever told.”—Car thage (Mo.) Press. Art and Athletics. The universally increasing attention now being given, especially in Anglo Saxon countries, to out-of-door sport3 and to physical culture is a sign of the best omen. No class can have a greater solicitude for the further ance of this movement than the art ists, for they cannot create beautiful forms without having beautiful forms around them from which to draw in spiration, says a writer in Outing. The art of a nation is a mirror of that nation’s Ideals, and faithfully re flects their slightest change. The new the number of Protestants, while the increase in Judaism as compared with the Christian professions has been very small. The Protestants num bered 35.231,104 in 1900, as against 31,026,810 in 1890, or an increase of 13.6 per cent; while the Catholics numbered 20,327,913 in 1900, as against 17,674,921 in 1890, or an increase of 15 per cent. The number of professing Jews has only increased from 567,884 to 586,948, which gives a percentage of 3.4. Of every 1,000 persons in the German Empire 625 are Protestants, 361 Catholics. 10 Jews, and 4 of differ ent or undetermined religious creeds, A Queer Test. An old lady applied at a registry office for a maid. “I want a little girl, between eighteen and twenty-two years of age, who is fond of mushrooms.” "Fond of mushrooms?” inquired the agent. "That is something I never inquire about from my applicants. I don’t understand.” “Well, I am very fond of mush rooms myself, and there are so many mistakes made. The idea came to me several years ago, and it was a dis pensation of Providence that it did, or I should have been killed. I make my maid eat a portion of all mush rooms brought to my house before any are served to me. I always re quire it,” replied the old lady. “I have lost two excellent maids from toadstools during the last five years, and, of course, I could not. think of taking the risk of eating mushrooms unless I had a maid to test them.” Cure for Ingrown Nails. Tardlf says that he has been able to cure all cases of ingrowing nail without recourse to the knife. He proceeds as follows: With a flat probe or a match lie slips a bit of cotton be tween the edge of the nail and the inflamed flesh. Another strip of cot ton is put along the outer margin of the ulcerated area and the space be tween these two strips of cotton, and which is occupied by the ulcer, fs thickly powdered with nitrate of lead. The whole is covered with cotton and the toe is bandaged. The dressings are repeated the following day, and every day until the incarcerated edge of the nail is plainly visible. Then, with patience, the edge of the nail is lifted away from the flesh and a bit of cotton is introduced under It to keep it up. As it grows it will gradu ally take its proper position above the flesh, this having meantime shrunk and shriveled by reason of the appli cation of lead nitrate. A dishonest man suspects every honest mtJi he encounters. HORSE STEALING A LOST ART. Decadence of a Crime That W.ts Cevti mon in Illinois. “Horse stealing has become almost a lost art in Illinois,” said a sheriff. Twenty-five years ago the crime was ine of the most common, but it grad ually became unpopular on account of the measures taken to suppress it. “in the first place, the sheriffs of the different counties formed an asso ciation. held meetings, and made plans to act in harmony. Farmers and stock dealers organized anti-horse-thief asso ciations, and dealers in horses became more cautious in their purchases. rts suuii as a norse was stolen me members of the association in the neighborhood started in pursuit of the thief, and, there being so many of them, every road, cartway and bypath was followed, and it was a smart thief who escaped thorn. In the meantime the sherifT of the county, having been notified, sent out telegrams and postal cards to brother sheriffs, chiefs of po lice and village and township con stables, and the description of the stolen horse was soon in the hands of so many watchful people that it was almost certain to 1)* seen and recov ered. “Sometimes the pursuing parties re turned with the horse, but without tho thief, and then dark rumors spread abroad as to the fate of the criminal. Stories of a grave in a lonely creek bottom or of a body found floating In the river became current, and thus a certain horror was added to the crime “The punishments for horse steal ing were made severe, and, what was of more importance, were rigidly en forced. Legal quibbles never saved a man, and it became a common saying that a man found with a halter in his possession was certain to be convict ed. The juries, made up largely of farmers, might be fooled into acquit Ing a murderer, but a horse thief could not escape conviction at their hands. So it was that the business became unprofitable, and the number of horses stolen these days is comparatively small.” HAD THE BUTTON SEWED ON. Mother’s Solicitude Over a Missing Attachment to Her Sen’s Vest. ^t 6 o'clock in the morning of the wedding day in a town up York state a postofflee messenger rang the door bell at the home of the bride-elect and handed a special delivery letter to the servant who responded. It was addressed to the best man. who had come 400 miles to second his best friend in the ceremony, and was. with several others, the guest of the bride’s parents. The best man was still asleep, but he was promptly awakened, on the supposition that the letter must con tain something of importance. It did. indeed. Rubbing his eyes in an ef fort to understand he tore open the envelope and was astonished to find a sheet of letter paper, with a large needle of the sort men always choose when emergency compels them to sew, thrust through it, nad a foot of double black thread trailing in a loose tangle down the page. The best man thought it was a Joke, but he couldn’t see it; and he was about to become resentful when, up on turning the sheet over, he found this hastily written note: “Dear Brother—Mother says there is a button off your dress coat. It i3 in your right-hand vest pocket. Sew it on.” Crawling out of bed the best man examined his coat and laughed to see that the situation had been accurate ly described in the letter. “Just like mother.” he said. “I’ll wager she lost a whole night’s sleep thinking about that confounded but ton.” Later In the day four bridesmaids gleefully assisted in making the re pairs, and this telegram went to moth er: “Button sewed on. Don’t worry.” Human Lives Longer Now. Timid j>eople and pessimists are in clined to fear that the progress of invention is increasing the dangers of accident and disease to such an ex tent that human life must necessarily be shortened. This fear appears to be groundless. Collected statistics show 4ha«t the average duration of human life is steadily increasing. Soma interesting and striking facts along this line are presented in a recent report of the Chicago board of health. The average duration of life has increased in a third of a century from 14 years to more than 31 years. Exclusive of suicide, deaths from vio lence have decreased 6.3 per cent. Deaths from railway and car accidents have decreased more than 5 per cent. Since the partial abolition of rail ways on grade and the introduction of fenders on cars, six years ago, deaths from this source have de creased 12.6 per cent. A Futile Mercy. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals means well by its distribution of a couple of thousands of bonnets for horses. But there will be no real diminution of the aggregate suffering of the world as long as the society contents itself with giving bonnets to horses. A horse cannot talk at night or go through a rnmi'c pockets when he sleeps of exhaustion in the gray dawn. Nor can a horse obtain credit at a milliner's, to the despondency of the man who has ac quired the right to pay some one's bills. What is needed is a Society for Distributing Bonnets to indignant Females. A mere horse has not sou' enough to know if its hat Is or straight. The sun that bleaches sanctity whiter tans sin darker. Novel Education for Indians. Charles F. 1 .urnnils, the authur, who Is intensely Interested In the Indian race, always has two Indian children ai his home near Los Angeles, Cal. He chooses two children from one of the neighboring tribes, keeps them a year and then exchanges them for other children. He intends that the little Indians will learn more in one year of family life in a civilized home than in many years of attending school and living among their own people. • IOO Steward tsioo. The readers of this paper will be pleaded to Fam th»-< there Is at least one dreaded disease that, srettee hits been able to euro in all Its stages, and that Is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitu tional disease, requires a constitutional treat ment. 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In some cases persons predis posed to the malady are seized with the symptoms of intoxication if they pass a field where the bean plant is in flower, the odor alone sufficing to affect them. Old Ship Broken Up. What is stated to be the oldest ship In the world has recently been sold at Teneriffe to be broken up. This is the Italian ship Anita, registered at the port of Genoa. The Anita, which resembled Christopher Colum bus’ ship, the Santa Maria, was built in Genoa in 1548, and effected her last royage at the end of March, 1902, from Naples to TelerifTe, six or seve.n weeks ago. The Anita was of tre mendously stout build, and had weath ered countless storms and tornadoes in all parts of the world, but she was also the slowest ship afloat. Messrs. English & Irish. The firm of English & Irish is in Washington street, Buffalo, N. Y. Frank G. Du Hois, who is well ac quainted with both members, says: ‘‘English is Irish and Irish is English. 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