\J p -t o - "Date ^/i rchi-tecltxre
..'his is one of the most compact
f»uns published. Absolutely no waste
space and at the same time neat and
handy. This house having a frontage
3t 23 feet may be built on a city lot.
Height of first story, nine feet; sec
ond. eight feet six inches. Solid stone
foundation. Hall and main room of
first story finished in plain oak, with
polished oak floors. Rest of rooms
finished in white wood enameled.
The large rooms and attached clos
ets make it much admired by the la- |
dies.
Furnace heat and modern plumbing.
In fact, this house is modern in every
detail.
Cost, outside of heat and plumbing,
$1,500.
John L. Nichols of Bloomington,
Ind.. is the architect.
WHERE HE WAS LACKING.
Railroad Man Makes Professional
C-iticicm of Minister.
Ministers, as a rule, are not at all
averse to telling a good story, even
«t their own expense. A Baptist min
|strr was so much amused at a witty
tritlcism of his own preaching as he
Would have been at a similar comment
*n another man's sermon.
One Sunday morning a well known
railway magnate came In and took a
seat H a pew. It was the first time
that he had been seen at the chapel,
*nd his presence created some little
•tir The minister preached his ser
mon. and then, perhaps to make the
most of his opportunity, he traveled
ovei the same ground again in lang
uage calculated to be more impres
sive. Thus the discourse was spun
out to unusual length.
When the service ended, one of the
rteaconp waited for the great man and
expressed the hope that he had en
joyed the sermon.
“Yes, it was all right,” said the vis
itor. “There’s only one drawback
with your minister’s preaching.”
, “Wnat. is that?’
“He doesn’t appear to have very
good te’minal facilities.”
Personal Acquaintance Necessary.
Governor Stone tells of an eccentric
resident of his county whose wife
died after a long illness. They had
n^t been a happy pair, perhaps; but
there was some surprise when ti e
widower, replying to the comment of
• relative that “Poor Jane’s gone at
last' Well, she’s better off!” roared:
“Yes—and so am I!’
He went to a neighboring village
to engage a tavorite preacher to de
liver the funetal sermon, and was told
that his selection was no longer there,
bat had been replaced by a younger
and equally efficient clergyman.
“No!” he roared. “I’ll have John
son or none! He knew her, and
knows just what to say! If I can’t get
him. I'll do the preaching myself!”
When Jane's relatives heard this, |
they bestirred themselves and saved
the day by bringing the Reverend
Johnson on from a distant town.
Both Were Handicapped.
On one occasion Bishop Potter was
a guest at the Storm King club of
New York. After a comfortable din
ner he sent a telegram to one of the
officials of the New York Central rail
road asking him to stop the night ex
press at Storm King station, on the
opposite side of the river.
He drove down the mountain and
hired a boatman to row him across.
Arriving in good time, he and the
boatman waited in the rowboat until
the approaching train warned them to
seek the station, only to see the
train arrive, rush by, and disappear
into the darkness.
The bishop was irritated.
“Well,” he said, "I am a bishop of
the Episcopal church and I suppose
my calling will not allow me to say
anything.”
“Wqii," rpoijeit the boatman. “I am
a Methodist and my principles will
not let me say anything.”
Mosquito's Hum Located.
The members of the Royal Society
of Edinburg, reports the Detroit
News-Tribune, were interested, at a
recent meeting, in the announcement
by A. E Shipley and Edwin Wilson of
the discovery of an apparatus, hereto
fore overlooked or neglected, at the
base of the mosquito’s wings, where
by the characteristic humming of that
insect may be produced. The species
examined was the anopheles maeuli
pennis. and the apparatus consists of
a slightly movable bar provided with
a series of well-marked teeth which,
as the wings are raised and lowered,
rasp across a series of ridges. The
structure of the apparatus is de
scribed as very complex, but the mu
sic produced, as everybody knows, is
| extremely effective.
Plan of house to be built at cost of f1,50& -
BEGGAR'S NEAT COMPLIMENT.
Certainly Worth the Small Contribu
tion Taken Up.
Speaking of beggars the other day,
Judge Lee of Trenton told a story
which is clever enough to hear repe
tition. On the night when the late
Gen. Sewell was chosen by the Repub
lican caucus as candidate for the
senate Judge Lee and two other po
litical friends were standing on a
street corner, after the convention,
discussing the nomination. While
they talked a ragged and rusty speci
men of humanity approached, and,
with a courteous sweep of his tat
tered hat and a bow that would have
done credit to a count, addressed
Judge I.ee.
"Sir," said he. "1 trust you will
pardon me for intruding, but I am in
most straightened circumstances, and
I would like to solicit your assistance
in my distress. I have a small amount
of money, sir, hut not sufficient for
my purpose. I wish to get to Newark
to see my daughter, whom I have not
beer with for many years. You are
p father, perhaps, ar.d you ran doubt
less realize the heart hunger of a man
in my position. Might I ask you in
Mite way to assist me?"
Judge Lee was struck by the man's
Ch^sterfieldian bearing and manner,
and bis hand sought his pocket. Turn
ing to his two companions, he asked
if they would rare to assist the man,
ana they both contribute! to the little
fund As the tramp bowed his hanks
and voiced his gratitude he turned to
Ju -ge I^ee again.
‘Sir," said he, "are you the gentle
man who was nominated to-night at
a candidate for the United States ser
ate?”
"No," answered the judge.
Great heavens,” replied the tramp,
"what a mistake the convention did
make." Then he ambled along.
SAFE IN FIXING DATE,
Sister Took No Chances in Predict
ing Brother’s Funeral.
Judge Pennypaeker, In a public ad
dress. once predicted a certain pop
ular movement as sure to occur with
in a given time. A friend asked the
Judge if it were not rash to make a
positive statement regarding a spe
cific date for any occurrence, arguing
that nothing is certain. In reply, the
Judge told of a Celtic cook who asked
her mistress one Monday fdr leave of
absence the following Sunday to at
tend her brother's funeral.
“Why," exclaimed the mistress,
"this is only Monday! Surely, no
body's going to keep a dead body a
whole week!”
“He’s not dead yet, mum,” ex
plained the cook.
“No? Well, he may die to-day or
he may live a month. No doctor can
safely say that a person will die at
such a time that a day may be set for
the funeral.”
“The doctor's nothing to do wid it,
mum,” was the further explanation
“Ol’m sure Sunday'll be all roight, f’r
* he’s slatinced to be hung Friday.”
SEA ENGULFS ACRES
OF ENGLAND’S COAST.
Tfl* encroaching sea is steadily eat
ing away the coast of England, says
thn Strand Magazine. It is stated that
'.ht» annual loss of area by coast ero
sion In England alone is probably not
les* than 2.000 acres. On the other
ha-id. marsh lands have been drained
and other lands reclaimed, hut these
are*»s are insignificant as compared
witfc those which have been lost.
Pa-*a of the lost lands were low
lying protected by dikes or levees,
which were eventually breached; oth
er parts were washed away by the
Moods and storms; but In many cases
the sea Is eating its way Into tall cliffs,
demolishing numerous towns and vil
lages.
The line of anchorage for ships off
Selsey, In Sussex, is still called "the
Park." having been a royal deer park
in the reign of Henry VIII., while the
treacherous choals known as the
Goodwin sands formed in early days
the estate of Earl Goodwin.
On the Yorkshire coast there are
twelve buried towns and villages, and
In Suffolk there are Mve. Submerged
forests may be seen at low tide off
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Bexhill and Wirral. and their remains
have been found at numerous points
along the coast.
Southwest from Land's End toward
the Scilly Islands, a peninsula of about
227 square miles has been carried
away, and below the sand beach is a
deposit of black mold conta ning indi
rations of trees and deer.
At Wirral is Leasowes Castle, now
on the edge of the cliff, but fifty years
ago it was half a mile from the sea.
Many historical towns, such as Hav
ensburg (mentioned in Shakespeare),
where Henry IV. landed in 1399, and
Edward IV. in 1471, having now en
tirely disappeared.
At Reculver the cliffs were gradu
ally eroded until a church, originally
two miles inland, was partly wrecked;
this church, however, had two spires,
forming a striking landmark for sail
ors, and trinity board (in charge of
the lighthouse work) therefore had a
sea wall built to prevent the destruc
tion of the towers.
Culture will never eliminate the
marks of the cross from Christ.
SURF RIDING IS THE
SPORT OF HONOLULU.
t
The best sport In Honolulu Is surf
riding. It beats tobogganing. It is I
yachting, canoeing, bathing, tobog
ganing and iceboating combined.
We invited some army officers to
the fun recently, hired a couple of
muscular natives and their handsome
thirty-foot canoe, put on our bat.iing
suits and paddled out into the break
ers. The canoe is a dugout, made of
the valuable koawood.
It has an outrigger, a fair-sized log
fastened parallel to the canoe by
means of two curved braces of beams.
Ours was at least forty years old,
had been used by royalty, and was
worth 1300,
We worked out against the stiff
breakers for about half a mile and
then turned and rested a bit, waiting
the critical time to catch a big one
and come in with its rush. That Is
the science of surf-riding, to catch the
breaker at the turn. If you are too
quick >ou find your canoe thrown
aside or capsized or running in with a
swell wave instead of the one you
were after. If you are too late the
t
big wave breaks over or rolls under
the canoe and on to its glorious finish
and you have no part in it.
But if you catch it right—and the
natives generally do—you all paddle
for dear life at the captain's com
mand, force the canoe to its top speed
just as the breaker is forming and
then come in with the great wall ot
water just back of you, everybody
yelling, the spray flying, the waters:
roaring and rushing.
You live at the rate of a mile a
minute. You seem to be going ever
twice as fast as you are. Usually
there are two or three other canoes
out and you have all the excitement ol
a race. But even without other canoes
it is a race—a race with the breaker
You are wild with the blinding
ru3b, the swish and swirl and whirl ot
the spray. The sense of a great mov
ing wall of water just back of you, the
roar of waves all about you. It Is im
mense!—Tacoma Ledger.
The bitterest rod may drive to the
sweetest comfort.
ENGLISH PRINCES MUST
JOIN ARMY OR NAVY.
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The princes of the English blood
royal have never been allowed to
saunter through life as mere do
nothings. Custom and monarchical
dignity, of course, severely limit the
number of things to which the heir
apparent and his younger brothers
may apply themselves. Practically
two professions only are open to them |
—the army and the navy. But with
at least one of these callings the fu
ture king is expected to ally himselt.
Bismarck once sneered at King Ed
ward VII. when prince of Wales as
being the only heir to a European
throne whom one would never by any !
chance expect to encounter on a bat-i
tlefield. It is true that English eti- j
quette and opinion do not exact from
a royal prince any very serious appli
cation to his profession; nor, however
keen and eapaoie he might be. would !
the nation countenance his employ- i
ment in times of war.
The duke of Connaught was vehe- |
mently desirous of serving against the
Boers, but for “reasons of state'
which the people thoroughly indorsed
was not allowed to do so. Those
“reasons of state” are not likely to
be held less imperative in the future,
and one may with some confidence
surmise that for members of the Eng
lish royal family the days of active
service are over. Their part in either
branch of the national system of de
fense must necessarily be passive and
ornamental, though not on that ac
count idle or useless. If we may ap
ply to t.iem the scorching epigram in
which an American officer proposed
the toast of a regiment that did not
volunteer for the civil war: “Wan j
like in peace, peaceful in war"—on*1
has also to admit that a prince who 1
is thrust into the strict democracy ol
the services is getting an invaluable
education in orderliness. self |
restraint and the prompt discharge ol
duty.—Harper's Weekly.
SOME TRAITS OF THE COW.
Bovine Family Has Many Human
Characteristics.
"Cows have their likes and their
dislikes,” said the milkmaid to the
summer boarder who was curious to
see every part of the farm.
"For instance, a cow admires a
horse and will stand and watch one
for a long time. She is sort of timid
about him, but she admires him just
the same. She has a contempt for a
mule, and seems to be amused by
his antics. Hogs she tolerates, that’s
all. And sheep she hates. She will
not eat grass where sheep have been.
She hates dogs, too. but will tolerate
the shepherd dog, because she knows
she simply has to, and that the shep
herd dog will not bite her.
"Cattle go wild at being let into a
fresh pasture,” added the milkmaid.
“It seems to go to their heads. Each
is afraid that the other has got a bet
ter feeding place than herself, and
tries to drive her neighbor away.
"Then there is a good deal of
human nature in the cow, after all,
mused the summer boarder, who had
studied a year or two at a university,
and was given to philosophical re
flections.
"Well. 1 should smile,” answered
the milkmaid. “A single cow with a
calf will boss a whole herd of steers,
and, swinging her pail over her arm,
she went down to the milking pens.
—New York Tribune.
Saved by Quick Wit.
In Germany recently a country
preacher was preaching a sermon,
when suddenly he lost tie thread of
his discourse, and, do what he would,
he could not find it again.
The congregation was greatly ein
barrasaed and was wondering what
the matter was when he startled it by
exclaiming hurriedly: “Pardon me, my
brethren, for pausing in my sermon,
but it seems to me that I smell Are
somewhere— and—and it might be
well to see that it has not broken out
in the church or in any of the nearby
houses."
Before the words were all uttered
the congregation was pouring out oi
the church, each family being anxious
to make sure that its home was not
on fire. It need hardly be said that
the fire existed only in the pastor’s
imagination.
HEALTHY IN OLD AGE.
How Altoona Physician Accounts for
His Longevity.
A physician at Altoona is 99 year;
of age and still keeps up his practice.
This remarkable old man car.
thread a needle without the aid of a
cane and walks without glasses.
He has voted for every president
since he was 17 years old—some oi
them several times.
He chawed tobacco for three-quar
ters of a century and then eschewed
it entirely. He also drank whenevei
Invited.
He doesn’t believe in medicine and
has no use for doctors.
“The reason I have been enabled tc
outlive all my patients," said the doc
tor. “is very simple, i live a calm,
well-ordered life. 1 am temperate ir.
all things, perhaps a little more so Ir,
some. I can take my ax to-day, sir
ard go out aud split that cord of hick
ory wood yonder into as choice a lot
of fine toothpicks as the law allows
And I can rassle the boots of any man
in the county—boys under 75 barred
Oh, yes. I can put up my prescription;
all right. 1 always put ’em up by th«
sense of smell. Of course there maj
be fatal mistakes, but in this neigh
borbood nobody is over much missed
“Eh, what’s that? How do I ac
count for my extreme age? Ask me
i something harder. My age is ac
I counted for by a continuous succes
sions of years, months, weeks and
! days."—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Not HI# Kind of Library.
The lule l/oril Aeton, whose remark- ^
able range of scholarship was little
known to the public until attention
was called to it in his obituaries, had
In his I^rndon house a collection of
some 60.000 books, many of them old
and rare. Joseph Chamberlain at one
time rented the house by the season,
and when he left to go into a house
of his own someone said to him that
he must miss that fine library. “Li
brary," replied the member from
Brummagen. 1 don’t call that a li
brary. It doesn’t contain a single book
of reference."
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
The new lord lieutenant of Ireland la
said to be the youngest man that ever
represented the British government at
Dublin castle. George N. Curzon was
called youthful when appointed viceroy
to India, but he is a patriarch In com
parison with the Earl of Dudley, who
has Just passed his thirty-fifth year.
Curzon is nearly 44. Dudley traces hia
lineage back to William Ward, a
wealthy goldsmith of London and Jew
eler to the queen of King Charles I.
His full name is William Humble
Ward, but he is not at all humble.
His father was immeasely rich, own
ing 40,000 acres of land and many
mines and colleries. ills rent roll was
returned at $610,000 a year. The
very highest education was given the
young earl, who has proved himself
one of the stanchest nobles In the
United Kingdom. In 1891. when only
24 years old, he made a speech In the
house of lords, defending that house,
that would have done credit to a Pitt.
Big Pay of Singers.
For the highest fees received among
prominent male singers. M. Jean de
Reszke, the famous Polish tenor,
stands first. His contract for sixteen
appearance during his last American
tour amounted to £7,200, and average
of £450 for every time he appeared
on the platform. Madame Patti, how
ever, can claim even a better record.
For singing at Convent Garden In 1870
on sixteen nights she received £9,600,
an average of £600 for each appear
ance. But the famous prima donna
beat this record while on her Ameri
can tour, for while in New Orleans In
the '80s she received as much as £1,
200 per night.
Unable to Rise.
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fallowing letter for publication:
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out assistance.
"1 cannot describe the pains I suf
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I began using Dodd's Kidney Pills and
very soon found that they were help
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I suffered they may know where a
cure may be found."
If you would introduce a fool to
himself his compliments would be
most profuse.
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