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CURBS catarrh at the stomach.
Joke On General Miles.
General Miles was standing In tlic
lobby of the Arlington the other night
and happened to overhear a remark
made by a small, thin young man who
was standing near. -‘During the
Spanish war,” the young man nad said,
"I took five Spanish officers without
any assistance from the army or
navy.” ‘ What’s that!” asked Genera]
Miles, turning upon him abruptly,
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cers without the assistance of the
army or navy!” “That’s exactly what
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“by myself and without any loss of
blood. It happened at Boston. Here
is my card. I am Smallsmith, the
photographer. Now, if you will allow
me to pose you, General —
but the general had flea.
Mexican Minister’s Promotion.
It is said that Senor DeAspiroz. the
Mexican ambassador, is to be recalled
probably in June. It is understood
that it is the purpose of the Diaz gov
ernment to appoint him minister for
foreign affairs. He will succeed Senor
Mariscal, who is a candidate for vice
president. The latter office is a new
one in Mexico, created to relieve
President Diaz in part of the onerous
responsibilities of his office and to
prepare the way for his retirement.
Mariscal is expected to succeed Diaz
as president in due time.
It Is no use being better than others
unless we are better than our old
selves.
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How Toads Undress.
For a marvel of economy you will
lover beat the toad. He eats his own
liotlies, says a devout lover of that
larmless and slimy creature. At cer
,ain seasons he begins to undress. He
oegins by rubbing his elbows hard
against his sides, and pressing down
ward. In a second the old suit bursts
ripen along his back, and he keeps on
•"ubbing until he has worked it all in
folds on his sides and hips; then he
seizes one of his hind legs and begins
to haul off one leg of his trousers, and
next the other leg is served in the
same way. Of coarse a brand new
suit is discovered by this disrobing
process. Before he takes off the rest
of his old clothes he folds his trous
ers up quite neatly and swallows
them. Then, by raising and lowering
his head, and swallowing little by
little, he hauls off his coat until he
comes to the sleeves. Grasping one
of these with the opposite hand, he
drags it off, wrong side out, and swal
lows it also, rubbing his neck at the
same time, so that his collar, cravat
and, in fact, every vestige of his old
suit, disappear altogether.
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Target Shooting.
, Figure 1 shows the target cut out
of cigar box wood. A circular piece is
first cut, about one inch in diameter,
and eight small round pieces of card
board with the numbers 1 to 8 on
tuem are mounted on toothpicks and
grouped around it at even distances;
the other ends of the toothpicks are
then inserted in the sides of the circu
lar piece of wood. The target itself
is fastened to a stick of wood about
eight inches long, fastened to a stand,
as shown in the picture. The gun con
sists of a paper tube, which is made
by winding cardboard, well covered
with glue, around the stem of a lead
pencil. When it is dry a piece about
five inches long is cut off. At 1%
inches from one end we make an in
cision about two inches long, cutting
down to about half the thickness of
the tubes. (See Fig. 2.)
Figure 2 shows how a piece of
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whalebone about six inches long is in
serted. acting as the propelling power
of the gun. You shoot with a wooden
peg about 1*^ inches long, fitting
loosely into the barrel of the gun. To
give it more weight and strength we
insert a carpet tack as shown in Fig
ure 3.
To shoot, hold the gun with the
right hand, pulling the whalebone
back with the index finger and insert
ing the peg. As soon as the index
finger releases the whalebone it
springs forward and forces the peg
out. To aim well hold the tube in
such a way that the whalebone spring
points downward.
Tricks for the Tongue.
Try to read the following sentences
aloud and quickly, repeating the short
er ones half a dozen times in succes
sion:
Six thick thistle sticks.
Flesh of freshly fried fiying fish.
The sea ceaseth, but it sufflceth us.
Give Grimes Jim’s great gilt gig
whip.
Two toads, totally tired, tried to
trot to Tedbury.
Strict, strong Stephen Stringer
snared six sickly, silky snakes.
She stood at the door of Mrs.
Smith's fish sauce shop welcoming
him in.
Swan swam over the sea; swim,
swan, swim; swan swam back again;
well swum swan.
A haddock, a haddock, a black spot
ted haddock, a black spot on the black
back of a black spotted haddock.
Sukan shineth shoes and socks,
socks and shoes shineth Susan. She
ceaseth shining shoes and socks, for
shoes and socks shock Susan.
Fox After Chickens.
“Fox after chickens,” is a rather
good game. An older person is the
fox, and her position is to run about
pretending to pick up sticks. The
“hen,” who is the mother of the chick
ens, should also be an “elder,” and
should have a long train of chicks
behind her, all standing one behind
the other, holding on to each other’s
frocks; the one next the hen should
take hold of her. When the hen sees
the fox she asks him what he is pick
ing up sticks for.
“To boil a pan,” is the answer.
“What is going'to be in the pan?’*
“A chicken.”
“Where will you get one?”
“From you.”
Then the fox tries to capture one of
the chickens, while the hen tries to
dodge the fox and guard her chicks.
If the fox catches a chick he takes it
to his den. This is continued until all
the chickens are captured.
The Cat that Went to a Fire.
The other day in Boston an alarm
came in from box 9. for a blaze in
the tenement house at 410 Commer
cial street, caused by an overturned
lamp. A strange sight was witnessed
as water-tower No. 2 rolled in upon
the scene from its headquarters on
Bristol street. A black-and-white cat,
the pet of the repair shop, had been
taking a comfortable nap on top of
the tower when the alarm came In.
Before he woke up he was on the
way to the 'fire, and like a good fire
man, he stuck to his post. On arriv
ing at the fire he was furnished com
fortable quarters, and when the tower
was ready to return home he was
given a seat beside the driver.—Men
of To-morrow.
Aquarium ink Trick.
There are many tricks which may
be done with ink, b tt perhaps the sim
The Trick Explained.
pk-st and one of the most interesting
is the ink aquarium trick.
Present a glass full of ink to the
view of the spectators, then prove
that it is ink by dipping a visiting
card in it and showing the card. Now
announce that there are live fish in
the tumbler that just thrive on ink,
and you will prove they are there by
changing the ink to water so that the
onlookers may see them.
Throw a handkerchief over the
glass so as to entirely envelop it, re
peat an incantation and then suddenly
whisk the handkerchief away.
The audience will be very much as
tonished to find the glass filled with
water, clear as crystal, with several !
fish swimming about in it.
The trick is performed in this way.
Get a piece of thin black rubber cloth
and line the inside of the glass with
it. then tie a black thread to the up
per edge of the cloth. Attach a little
button or bit of cork to the end of the
thread overhanging the tumbler, as
shown in the drawing.
Fill the glass with clear water, and
introduce several fish, live ones if
you can possibly procure them, but
if rot, toy fish will serve, though the
trick will hardly be so effective.
The ink test with the visiting card
is accomplished by means of a con
federate who is in the audience and
who hands you a card which is mark
ed with ink on one side. As you dip
the card into the tumbler you con
trive tf# turn it around, and the audl
ecce then sees the black side, think
ing naturally that it has just been im
mersed in the ink. The startling
change from ink to water is effected
by pulling out the rubber cloth by
means of the attached thread and
button when the handkerchief is
whisked away. Some practice is need
ed first in order to do this without
spilling the water in the glass, but
after you have tried it several times
you will find that the cloth may be
removed without spilling a drop, and
that you are in possession of a very
clever trick.
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Some Indian Names.
Kakagos—A wood raven.
Musquash—A muskrat.
Cheokhes—The mink. t A.*'.’
K’dunk—The toad. V Qfl "
Hawahak—The hawk. ,
Malsnm—The wolf.
Moween—The bear.
Kagax—The weasel.
Killooleet—The white-throated spar
row.
Meeko—The red squirrel.
“The Power of Prayer.”
A pretty story is told of two child
ren, who were, as they thought, chased
by a cow in a field. “ Oh, Johnny,"
said the little girl, “ say a prayer.”
"don’t 'member any!” “Say any
thing,” persisted the little girl.”
** AH I know is what papa said at
breakfast.” “Well, say that.” So
Johnny cajj “ por what we are about
to receive, may the Lord make us
truly thankful.” The cow ceased to
chase them, and they returned home
and told their mother that they had
“ been saved by the power of prayer.”
In the Firelight.
The fire upon the hearth is low.
And there is stiilness everywhere.
Like troubled spirits, here and there,
The firelight shadows Muttering go.
And as the shadows round me creep,
A childish treble breaks the gloom.
And softly from a further room
Comes: “Now I lay me down to sleep."
And, somehow, with that little prayer.
And that sweet treble in my ears.
My thought goes back to distant years,
And lingers with a dear one there;
And as X hear the child's amen,
My mother’s faith comes back to me—
Crouched at her side I seem to be,
And mother holds my hands again.
Oh, for an hour in that dear place!
Oh, for the peace of that dear time!
Oh, for that childish trust sublime!
Oh. for a glimpse of mother’s face:
Yet. as the shadows round me creep,
I do not seem to t>e alone—
Sweet magic of that treble tone.
And “Now 1 lay me down to sleep!’’
—Eugene Field.
Balancing Cup on Knife Point.
If the subject of too much coffee
drinking making one nervous and un
steady ever comes up at your break
fast table, here is a little trick by
which you can prove, with your own
coffee cup, that you are not nervous
and have got a steady hand.
Get a cork; srpieeze it within the
handle of your cup as shown in the
drawing. Then take a fork and stick
it into the cork so that two of its
prongs are on either side of the han
dle, being sure to fix the fork in such
a position as to insure its handle com
ing under the cup’s bottom.
You have now fulfilled one of the
laws of gravity which will permit you
to balance your cup on the point of
a knife if you are careful about one
thing—find the exact place on the
cup's bottom on which it will balance.
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The Balanced Cup.
Your hand should be very steady
| and must not tremble a particle or
the cup will slip off. because its bot
tom is usually glazed and very
smooth. The same result may be ob
tained by using two knives instead ol
the fork. \
It would not be wise to try this bal
ancing feat with any coffee in youi
cup on the first attempt.
The Way to Succeed.
The very best way to succeed in
anything Is-to learn how to think
, quickly. One of our most famous
American actors started out a very
pcor boy. Applying for work in a
Chicago store, he was tested by a few
questions. Taking down a box of lace
from a shelf, the proprietor asked
“What w'ould you do with this?” Thjs
boy replied, tracing with his fingers
on the box lid, “Dust it.” He got the
position and it led to far better things
than he dreamed of.
ODD SMOKE PICTURES.
Showing Smoke Pictures and Hew They Are Made.
If you can draw even a little bit
you can make pretty pictures of a new
and interesting sort in a very easy
way. The picture is made on any
flat surface that you can hold in a
gas, lamp or candle flame without
burning or cracking. A piece of tin
I or sheet zinc will do, or a china plate,
earthen pie dish or pane of glass. If
you use tin or zinc, take care that you
do not burn your fingers, as a piece of
metal gets hot all over, though only
a part of it is in contact with the
flame. On the other hand, if you use
porcelain or glass, especially the lat
ter, you must pass it quickly through
or just above the flame to avoid crack
ing it by heating one spot too strong
ly, and repeat the operation until as
large a spot as you need is blackened
evenly.
Draw your picture with a pin or a
pointed stick, which will scrape away
the soot from the white china or
bright metal so that you cannot draw
very well is simply this—you can
alter tjie picture until you get it right.
Every pencil line that is drawn
wrong has to be rubbed out, and if
you use the rubber too much you
make a soiled and spoiled picture,
but if you make part of your smoke
drawing wrong you merely have to
smoke the part again and do it over
and you can make as many changes
as you wish. When the picture is as
good as you can make it, lay on it a
dampened piece of paper, press the
paper lightly and take it off. You
will find the smoke picture trans
ferred to the paper and you can keep
it from rubbing off by spraying it with
thin gum water as artists do with pen
cil drawings.
If you cannot draw at all you can
still make smoke pictures by cut
ting out animals and human figures
from illustrated papers, wetting them,
sticking them on the plate, smoking
the latter and then remove the paper.
In this way you get white figures on a
black ground. You can make black
figures on a white ground by using
the picture out of which you cut the
figures instead of the figures them
selves.
Shad and Their Bones.
A genius who invented a machine
for removing the bt aes from shad is
promoting a company with a capttatl
of $1,000,000 to rush the apparatus on
the market before the end of the shad
season. He says: “I have counted
in a singled shad of five pounds 3,000
bones and 147,000 eggs. I have eaten
500,000 eggs at a meal. I have eaten
2,500 bones at a meal, for bones do not
hurt me, but they are a menace to the
world at large. My machine is sim
ply a powerful magnet which is passed
slowly over the fish from end to end.
The small bones leap right out of
the flesh in handfuls. You can use
the invetnion either before or after
cooking. 1 prefer it after, because
the fish is sweeter if cooked with the
bones in.”
An “Angry Tree.”
There has just been discovered in
the far east a species of the acacia
tree, which closes its leaves together
in coils each day at sunset and curls
its twigs to the shape of pigtails.
After the tree has settled itself thus
for a night’s sleep, if touched the
whole thing will flutter as if agitated
or impatient at being disturbed. The
oftener the foliage is molested the
more violent becomes the shaking of
the branches, and at length the tree
emits a nauseating odor, which, if
inhaled for a few moments, causes a
violent dizzy headache. It has been
named the “angry tree.”
A Sure Protection.
Barton, N. Dak., May 9th.—Many
cases are being published of how dis
eases have been cured and lives saved
by Dodd’s Kidney Pills, but there is
a family in this place who use this
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“My brother had diabetes and the
doctor told him he could not live until
spring. I got some Dodd’s Kidney
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several years ago, he has lived
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since and is still living. Dodd's Kid
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The four biggest fools in the world
are the fellow who thinks he knows
women thoroughly and three other
fellows just like him.
A man loses all respect for a wife
who thinks she can select his cigars.
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clean and sweet as when new. Ail grocers.
Embarrassed Her Father.
Some ten or fifteen years ago, Ju
lian Hawthorne visited a jail in order
to write a, magazine article on prison
life. On returning home he described
the horrors he had seen, and his de
scription made a deep impression on
his daughter, Hildegarde, who was a
little girl at that time. Mr. Hawthorne
and Hildegarde, a week later, were in
a train together, which stopped at a
station near a gloomy building. A
man asked: “What place is that?”
“The county jail,” another answered.
Whereupon Hildegarde embarrassed
her father and aroused the suspicions
of the other occupants of the car by
asking, in a loud, shrill voice: “Is
that the jail you were in, father?”
Port Arthur's Name.
Since the war in the east began a
good many newspaper readers have
wondered how Port Arthur came to
get its name. The first foreign ves
sel to enter that bay was a british
w’ar vessel in charge of Lieutenant
Commander Arthur, who modestly
gave his own name to the place. That
was about fifty years ago, and as Port
Arthur it has been known ever since.
Rich Man Turned Hermit.
Henry J. Ackerman has Seen liv
ing in a dugout near Pueblo, Colo., for
six years. Formerly he was a well-to
do resident of Brooklyn. In 1898,
while cruising in his yacht, he met
and fell in love with a young woman.
She married another man, whereupon
Ackerman left his home and took up
his abode in his present quarters,
where he has lived a hermit’s life ever
since.
To he truthful and polite at the
same time sometimes puts a rubber
attachment on your conscience.
A man does not have to be con
gealed to be a clam.
IN AN OLD TRUNK.
Baby Finds a Bottle of Carbolic Acid
and Drinks It.
While the mother was unpt ^king
an old trunk a little IS months' old
baby got hold of a bottle of carbolic
acid while playing on the floor and
his stomach was so badly burned it
was feared he would *aot live for he
could not eat ordinary foods. The
mother says in telling of the case:
' “It was all two doctors could do to
save him as it burnt his throat and
' stomach so bad that for two months
after he took the poison nothing
would lay on his stomach. Finally I
took him into the country and tried
new milk and that was no better for
him. His Grandma finally suggested
Grape-Nuts and 1 am thankful I adopt
ed the food for he commenced to get
better right away and would not eat
anything else. He commenced to get
fleshy and his cheeks like red roses
and now he is entirely well.
“I took him to Matamoras on a visit
and every place we went to stay to
eat he called for Grape-Nuts and I
would have to explain how he came
to call for it as it was his main food.
“The names of the physicians who
attended the baby are Dr. Eddy of
this town and Dr. Geo. Gale of New
port, O., and any one can write to
me or to them and learn what Grape
J Nuts food will do for children and
grown-ups too.” Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
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could do nothing to save me. My
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kidney secretions were so frequent as
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The limit of patience is reached
through the single sentence, “I told
you so.”
AN ILLINOIS FARMER IN WEST
ERN CANADA.
A recent issue of the Shelbyville.
Illinois, Democrat contains a long and
interesting letter from Mr. Elias Host,
formerly a prosperous farmer of that
state, who recently emigrated to West
ern Canada, taking up a claim for
himself and for each of his three sons.
From Mr. Host’s letter, which was
written Feb. 3, 1904, we publish the
following, believing it will prove of
great interest to those who have con
templated settling in the Canadian
Northwest:
“I had in August, 1902. secured a
claim for myself, and filed on three
quarter sections for my sons. My
claim is one-half mile south of the
Edmonton and Lake St. Anne trail.
“Coming so late in the season we
had little opportunity to break and to
prepare ground for a first year’s crop,
still we raised over 100 bushels of
very fine potatoes, and sowed a few
acres of barley, but the season was
too far advanced for the barley. How
ever, we secured good feed from it,
and on rented ground 18 miles east of
us, raised a fine crop of oats, so that
we will have plenty of feed for horses.
We cut about ,60 tons of hay and thus
will have an abundance. We have, all
told, about 240 acres of hay meadow,
which would yield the past year over
three tons to the acre, and in an or
dinary season the meadow would fur
nish 600 tons of hay. The grass is
very nutritious, and cattle on the
ranges become very fat without be
ing fed a pound of grain.
“On the upland the grass grows
from eight to ten inches tall. This is
called range grass, and is suitable for
stock at any time, even in the winter
when the ground is not covered too
deep with snow. Horses subsist on it
alone, at all times, provided they are
native stock. The grass in the hay
meadows here is called red-top, and
grows from five to six feet in length,
and when cut at the proper tlmo
yields an abundant crop of nutritious
hay.
“Our cattle have not cost us a cent
since we came on our homestead, only
the small outlay for salt and labor in
putting up hay and shelter. All cattle
have been doing well this winter, and
feeding up to the first of January was
unnecessary, as there was good range
up to that time.
“All the snows up to that date were
followed by winds from the north
west that melts it very rapidly; these
winds are called Chinook winds, and
are always warm. In one night a
Chinook wind may take away three
or four inches of snow.
“We have built on our claim a com
fortable house of hewn logs, 20x26
feet, one and one-half stories in
height, with a good cellar. During the
latter part of June we rafted logs
down the Sturgeon to a saw-mill, about
eight miles away, and thus secured
5,000 feet of good lumber which was
needed for the house. I^ater in tbo
season a shingle mill located six
miles away. To this we hauled logs
and had shingles cut for the roof.
“We had an abundance of wild fruit
the past season, consisting of goose
berries, strawberries, raspberries, eye
berries, blueberries, cherries and sas
katoons. The latter are a fine looking
berry, red, and quite pleasant to tho
taste, but not much to be desired in
cookery. The strawberries are tho
same as those that grow wild in Illi
nois. Raspberries are red in color,
large and equal to any of the tamo
varieties, and so are the gooseberries.
The cranberries consist of the high
and trailing varieties. The latter aro 1
most sought and contiguous to the y
swamps. The ground Is literally cov
ered with them as with a red carpet,
but the best and most sought is the
blueberry, so called by the Indians.
This is the famous ‘huckleberry’
(whortleberry) of the Blue Ridge
Mountains in Pennsylvania, and can
not be excelled for excellence by any
fruit cultivated. It is found here both
on the prairie and ia the timber in im
mense quantities. •
“Game is very plentiful so far as
prairie chickens, pheasants, ducks of
all kinds, and geese are concerned.
We have taken nearly BOO chickens
and pheasants, also a great many
ducks.
“An occasional deer Is seen, but are
not plentiful, only one having been
taken during the season in this settle
ment.
“Fish are very plentiful at all sea
sons of the year. Fish wagons and
sleds are passing almost daily along
the trail with heavy loads of fish, des
tined for St. Albert and Edmonton.
From the latter point they are shipped
south on the Calgary and. Edmonton
railroad to points along the line. anC
also to Assinlboia, on the Canadian
Pacific railroad.”
For further information apply to
any authorized Canadian Government
Agent whose address appears oiao
where la this paper.
