THE HERMIT
By C. E. HUGHES
(Copyright.)
Probably there was never in the
world a more solitary man than Dickie
Fergusson. It was not that he had
no friends. The fact that he was al
w-ays known as Dickie, and that most
of his acquaintances had forgotten
what his. surname was (if they ever
knew it > is sufficient to prove that he
was not solitary in that sensa. He
knew scores of men—women he
rather looked down upon—and they
all liked him. Yet he never seemed
altogether at ease in their presence.
He had a distinct dread of display
ing anything that might suggest senti
ment. and vet. if the truth were
known, he was perhaps as sentimental
a fellow as any healthy Englishman
that ever lived. Nature had made
hint one of the best companions pos
sible. and habit, which had aimost be
come second nature, tried hard to
make him a hermit. And, on the
whole, it succeeded.
Dickie lived in a castle on the
Xeckar. It commanded a very fine
view, hut it was not in itself a pic
turesque castle. He had found it by
chance during one of the lonely rides
which he was wont to take from
Heidelberg, on his motor-tricycle. Be
fore he had found the castle he had
seldom stayed long in one place. Pos
sessed of independent means, he was
accustomed to saying that his father
had done him one bad turn by help
ing him into the world, and one good
one by providing him with enough to
live upon until he was comfortably
out of it. He spient the best part of
his time in traveling. The occupant
of the castie was a baron whose dis
tressed circumstances had induced
him to let Dickie a suite of four
rooms on the second floor. His ar
rangements were tnat ne snouia ap
pear at meal times and take his food
with the baron and baroness, but at
all other times he was to be left to
himself. The baron allowed him to
play the hermit to his heart's content,
and for some weeks Dickie declared
himself as happy as a king with his
gun. his motor, his camera, and his
supj’v of books and magazines.
So things went very well until one
day the baron, who liked Dickie, and
was a little perturbed at his eccen
tricities. announced at lunch that he
intended to have some more guests.
Dickie protested strongly.
The baron looked amused and
waved his hand with the air of one
who. having lived long and seen
much, is well able to select or reject
in a matter of comfort.
Dickie became a trifle apologetic.
“Well.” he protested, “a throng of
visitors means noise.”
"I shall have, as hitherto, the great
est possible care for your sensitive
nerves,” said the baron with a dry
smile.
' I think I'll take a holiday till the
hurricane blows over." said Dickie.
"Why not wait and see?" asked the
baron. "Perhaps they won't be so
bad after ail.”
In point of fact, the baron had se
lected his guests with some skill. He
had no intention of opening his house
to anyone who might turn up. Of the
eight members of the party, two were
personal friends of his, and the rest
were friends of these.
Dickie awaited their arrival gazing
savagely from the window of his sit
ting-room. There were two Germans,
five Americans, and one Englishman.
Four of the Americans were of the fair
sex. and these constituted the fem
inine element of the party. The baron
had not led Dickie to expect any fem
inine element, so their advent excited
little emotion in his breast other than
that of fierce resentment until he
caught sight of the last figure in the
group. It was one of the American
girls; but it was not the girl herself
that attracted Dickie’s a'tention. Be
hind her. towed by a lead, flickered a
white fox-terrier puppy. t
Now Dickie had no dog of his own
and he wanted one. He was. more
over, particularly keen on having a
fox-terrier. Accordingly, he deter
mined to make friends with it even
if that entailed making friends with
its mistress.
And so it happened that when the
Crowd—that was the name by which
they called themselves—came in to
dinner that evening, they found Dickie
ready to make himself completely
agreable. He laughed and jested and
told anecdotes, and finally invited the
lot of them, dog and all, to his rooms.
He accompanied them on their pic
nics, photographed them, gave them
the run of his books; opened his
rooms to them. And he undertook the
training of the dog, Bobs.
Bobs was a thoroughbred, with no
markings excepting two brown and
black spots which covered his eyes,
and spread on either side to his ears.
When he arrived at the castle he was
entirely uneducated, but under Dickie’s
tuition he rapidly picked up the rud‘
ments of canine politeness. After a
week or two he would answer to his
name, lie down, or come to heel; and
he was beginning to take quite a prom
ising interest in rat-holes. Then he
mastered the intricacies of sitting up
on his hind legs with a lump of sugar
balanced upon his nose until he was
assured that it was paid for. After
that he went on to the “dead dog”
feat, and finally lie learned to talk.
Bobs had, in fact, been cleverer than
even he thought himself. Without
knowing it, he had awakened in
Dickie an interest—half-suppressed, it
is true—in that mystery, the heart of
a woman.
By degrees Dickie began to realize
that he rather liked this American
girl. He was. of course, not in love
with her. No notion, despite the fact
that he himself suggested it, could be
more preposterous. It was, he tried
to convince himself, her sense of hu
mor tnat appealed to him.
They became the best of friends,
and Dickie—Dickie who hated senti
ment—began to be in mortal fear of
showing it. He would even withhold
from her the ordinary civilities which
are every woman's due rather than let
her think she had the least power to
influence him.
At length the day came for the
Crowd to depart. Dickie accompanied
them to the station, and as the train
came in the American girl handec
Bobs to him.
"You'll set more fun out of him
than I shall," she said. "Besides, he's
more your dog than mine, anyway.
You've taught him all the stunts he
knows, and he won't do them for
me.”
So Dickie and Bobs returned to the
castle together, and there was a pair
of hermits.
Months sped by, and Dickie drifted
along the solitary stream of his ex
istence. To his friends he appeared
the same as heretofore. Only the
baron, who saw him constantly, no
ticed that his intervals of unrest be
came more frequent and of longei
duration. He was often absent from
the castle for five days or a week at
a time, and once he took a flying
visit to America which lasted time
months. On his return he told the
baron of his travels, and explained
with insistent elaboration, that he
had gone to the cotton country be
cause he had heard that the scenery
there was excellent for camera work.
The event, he said, had proved dis
appointing. He had taken very few
good photographs. The baron listened
with intelligent interest, but inwardly
he smiled, for he knew that the Amer
Strode to the Window and Looked
Out.
lean girl dwelt ‘down south." And
suspecting other things he felt a Iit
j tie sorry for Dickie.
The Hermit, however, settled down
! once more into the old groove, and
months again sped by until on a cer
tain day he received a letter from one
j of the members of the Crowd. It told
him of the marriage of Bob's mis
: tress.
Dickie dropped the letter, strode to
' the window, and looked out. He could
not have explained exactly why he did
! it. except, perhaps, that he recalled
| the occasion on which he had first
J seen her with Bobs zigzagging behind,
i He gazed for a long, long time upon
the fields and orchards that stretched
1 belo«r him, and then threw himself
with a sigh on a low couch.
Bobs heard the sigh, and with ears
thrust forward he peered into his
master's face. There was no response,
and the dog scrambled up to hi?
knees. Dickie pushed him away and
set his teeth together as one who suf
fers physical pain. Bobs was puzzled.
A situation in which his attentions
were altogether undesirable was new
to him. It was not, indeed, within
j the limits of possibility. Doubtless
he had gone to work in the wrong
] way. •
Dickie stared with eyes that saw
across two continents and an ocean,
and Bobs had no place in his line of
vision. The dog pondered awhile,
and then decided to play his last
and best card. Looking wistfully up
at his master he opened his mouth,
and made, with an effort, the sound
that was neither a bark nor a growl.
It was successful.
In a flash Dickie’s thoughts had re
I traveled those thousands of miles, and
they were hack again in the sitting
room at the castle. Bobs sprang upon
: him and tried to lick his nose. A
I smile of satisfaction lit the man's face,
j a smile of companionship.
“Speak, Bobs, old man!” he said
Speak, Bobs!”
Seizing the Opportunity.
A little gin and her aunt went for
a walk the other day, and as they
walked the aunt caught her skirt on
the sharp edge of her shoe heel, and
I tore off several inches of lace.
"Will you tear it off for me, dear?”
she asked. "I cannot mend it now."
The accommodating little girl
dropped on her knee, and for several
minutes there was a sound of tear
ing—really much more tearing than
j was necessary to remove a piece of
lace several inches wide.
"Haven't you finished yet?" finally
asked the aunt.
"Yes,” said the little girl, rising,
wearily. I was taking all this off. I
wanted enough for my doll’s skirt
while I was about .it, and the little
bit you tore off wasn't enough.”—Il
lustrated iBts.
Serves as Fly Paper.
Flies are said to hate mignonette,
and a few of these fragrant plants in
a room w ill answer all the purposes of
fly paper and be much less objection
able in every way. Seeds may be
sown early in the .spring, and plants
for every room in the house obtained
at a very small expenditure.
OZJ) rASHIGMED FFAP FROG
The principle of “all work and no
play makes Jack a dull boy" is per
meating the educational idea of Amer
ica and in all of the large cities of
the country there are developing
definite plans for providing the school
children with places and apparatus
for having a jolly good time. It is
perhaps fitting that Poston, that city
where the rights of th school child- a
were first championed and the f:ei -
doni of Boston Cerumen was forever
established, should take the advanced
step in this matter of public play
grounds for children and set the pace
for the other cities of the country.
When Boston's elaborate scheme is
fully carried out she will be entitled
to the claim of being the school chil
dren's paradise. Under the authority
conferred by the legislature in April
of last year the Boston school com
mittee takes full control of and fos
ters school athletics and the piay of
the children.
The act was put through the legis
lature mainly through the efforts of
Joseph Lee of Boston, who has been
called “the father of the playgrounds
in the TTnited States." This act puts
under the school department all play
ground activities and provides ample
funds for the work, with provision
that such funds may not be used for
any other purpose. The drafting of a
detailed program of the work has been
done by Dr. Thomas F. Harrington,
director of school hygiene, and has
been approved by the school commit
tee.
The 2S school yards of the city are
to be specially fitted and equipped for
the school children under 12 years of
age and will he open the year round.
The middle-sized boys, from about 11
to IT, will be specially provided for
by a dozen larger playgrounds, where
football and baseball and other sports
can be indulged. These playgrounds
will have regular superintendents,
while during school day afternoons
and Saturday mornings additional
supervision will be had from sub
masters.
In addition to these 40 playgrounds
there will be four larae central on^-s,
namely : Charlestown playground, Char
lestown: Cottage street playground,
East Boston; First street playground,
South Boston, and the Columbus ave
nue playground. Such playgrounds
as Boston Common, Franklin Square,
Savin Hill, Franklin Field, Franklin
Park, Chariesbank, Chestnut Hill
reservoir, Wood Island Park, Marine
Park and Fenway are not included,
but they go to swell the unparalleled
facilities which Boston is prepared to
offer for the enjoyment of her school
children.
Careful calculation has estimated
that this work will cost something
like $58,376 the first year. According
to the legislative act. the school de
partment is allowed for the work five
cents on each $1,000 of valuation in
the city. This amounts to $56,791.39
for the present year, not including the
separate appropriation for nurses,
which now’ comes as an additional as
set for the playground activities.
Thus the school department already
has assured something like $10,000 in
excess of its estimated requirements.
Mr. Lee, who, as we have said, was
largely instrumental in securing the
legislative enactment which makes
this elaborate scheme of playgrounds
possible for Boston, is very enthus
iastic over the outlook, and is special
ly hopeful of that feature of the plan
which brings the teachers upon the
playgrounds as a factor and sharer
in the sports of the children. "Some
people feel as if this employment of
schoolmasters on the playgrounds
were almost the same as depriving the
boy of his play,” commented Mr. Lee.
"They think it hard that he should
have the master over him during the
best hours of the day five days in the
week, and that then, in his own pre
cious, free time, on the playground
where if ever he is going to have a
; chance to carry out his own ideas, he
encounters the same old pedagogue.
“But these people have misconceived
the master. He will not meet the same
old pedagogue. The pedagogue, he
meets will in the first place be young;
and in the second place he will not
be the same. From the boy’s point of
view, he will not be made over by this
new relation. Playing with the boys
is going to have as good an effect on
these young submasters as it does on
the boys themselves; and it is going
to entirely modify and recreate the re
lation between them.
' I believe that this new acquaintance
of the children and teachers is going
to be one of the most valuable results
of the new plan. A man who knows the
boys on!\ in school is like a naturalist
who should study animals only in a
menagerie. Tc know the boy you have
get to know him in the wild state. You
mm ' follow him to his natural habitat
and see v. hat he likes when he is most
himself. You must see how he reacts
is most, vital i it is
surely ( n the playground that these
have their fullest swing.
"The masters on the playground will
get to know the boys, and the boys will
get to know the masters, to see, even,
that they have some human traits—
though, perhaps, at fi:st in an ob
scured and undeveloped form—that
they can | lay bal! and do other stunts
of an interesting description.
"As a result of this better under
standing of each other, and of the
warm and loving sympathy that comes
from playing together on the same
team and being interested in the same,
games, great things will come both to
the teachers and the boys. As the
head of one of our best boarding
schools once put the case to me: .
When you play with the boys on the
playground, the problem of discipline
disappears.'
"The idea, though new in Boston, has
been tried elsewhere, and has indeed
probably been the practice of enthus
Playground-Studded Boston.
iastic schoolmasters ever since the
days of Charon, the Centaur, who had
the bringing up of Jason, Hercules and
other promising Grecian youngsters
quite a spell ago, and who, as Haw
thorne discovered, used to give them
rides on his back and otherwise teach
them the game as it was played in
those days in Greece.
“On three of the playgrounds, where
the bigger boys will have their special
chance, there will also be children's
corners, with tilts and swings and tee
ter ladders and sand boxes for the
smaller children, carried on in the
same way as the school yards. These
will be true neighborhood play
grounds, where all the children, in
deed the whole family, can go togeth
er, the sort of playgrounds that all
our larger ones ought to be and must
eventually become.
“Then there is the coaching of the
high school boys and the impressing
upon them, if Dr. Harrington has his
way, that winning is not the only thing
—that the great American virtue of
get-there is after all not the final
word in matters of sport nor of an>>
thing else, whatever the fashion in our
more popular colleges may teach upon
this subject.
“And a very good feature of the plan
is that the high school girls also are
by no means left out of it. They are
going still to be taught dancing and
gymnastics as under the existing sys
tem. These same big girls constitute
the great unsolved problem of the
modern playground.
“At the top of the system there will
remain, under the control of the park
department, Franklin Field (our play
ground university, the place where the
teams graduated from the local
grounds go to show their proficiency
and complete their education) and the
golf links, tennis grounds, etc., on the
various parks.
“The system, taken as a whole,
makes Boston the leading example in
the country of play and physical edu- j
cation placed fairly and squarely in !
the hands of the school committee. !
And that is where it should be j
nlaced.”
When Time's Flight is Marked.
One of the difficult things to real
ize,” said the middle-aged man, ‘is
that certain people have grown up.
They are the people you used to know
as children, whom you have not
seen for a number of years, and who
then come again into your life. I had
a case of just this sort the other day,
and 1 haven't yet. overcome the un
real feeling it gave -me.
"The person in question was one
of my boyhood companions in the lit
tie country town, where I was brought ■
up. I hadn't seen him for a quarter j
of a century, when he walked into my
office and introduced himself. Maybe
I wasn't glad to shake his hand
again! But it all seemed like a kind ;
of masquerade; it wasn’t at all the
right thing for him to be so old, and
as for his being a trifle stout and
having a beard, why .that was simply
ridiculous. Of course, he should have
appeared in the somewhat thread- |
A CHINESE PRISON
NEW YORK MAN WAS FALSELY
ACCUSED OF MURDERING
HIS COMPANION.
BUCK CHOLERA CAUSED DEATH
L. C. Stewart Thrown Into Dungeon
That Was Dark, Wet and Dirty
— Food Was Scant and
Nauseating.
Denver, Col. — Homeward bound
from China, L. C. Stewart, of New
York city, has reached here and will
remain for a few weeks in the hope
of regaining his health which was
broken by three months' confinement
in a prison in the celestial kingdom.
"It seems like a nightmare to me
now," said Stewart, as he told of his
experiences. "Up here in God's coun
try where the air is clean and the sun
is bright one can scarcely imagine
that this world contains such hell
holes as that horrible Chinese dun
geon. As 1 look back upon my three
months' living death it almost seems
as if I owe my life to some miracle.
"I had been in the British customs
service for about eight months. It
was my duty to go hundreds of miles
into the interior and collect revenues
at different points. My starting place
was Canton and 1 deposited my col
lections at Rangoon. It was an awful
trip made on foot, on horseback, by
canals and by coolie trains.
"In a little Chinese town, whose
name I have forgotten, far in the in
terior. I ran across a young English
man named Charles Frank. I met him
3t the house of a French padre. Frank
was 'broke' and was anxious to get
out of the country. He begged me to
take him along. 1 had a well equipped
coolie train and plenty of provisions
and, as 1 felt sorry lor the poor fel
low, I agreed.
"The trip started favorably enough
and Frank seemed to be in good
health and overjoyed at the prospects
of getting back into civilization again.
We safely reached the mountain pass
between Rangoon and the river front,
whose course we had been following,
and were about half way to the sum
mit. We were riding, as is customary
He Was Fed Once a Day.
in the mountains, in chairs carried on
the backs of big coolies.
“Frank and I were chatting togeth
er when he suddenly screamed, and,
throwing his arms about me, fell. The
black vomit poured from his mouth
upon my white coat and told me in
stantly that he had been stricken by
the deadly black cholera.
"The coolies fled panic stricken at
the sight, but 1 covered two of them
with my revolver and forced them to
return. Frank was dead within 15
minutes after he fell. We made him
a rough pine box and buried him,
marking the spot with stones. Then,
with my two coolies, I started for Ran
goon, expecting that I myself would
be stricken any moment. The coolies
knew the black vomit had fallen upon
me and were afrrid to come near to
me. To my surprise I was not strick
en. and reached Rangoon after a ter
rible trip.
“My other coolies had reached there
the day before, and when I arrived I
was at once arrested and, without a
hearing, thrown into prison, charged
with having murdered Frank. The of
ficials would not accept my explana
tion and I could not get them to make
an investigation. Then began three
months of the worst torture a man
could endure and still live. 1 was in a
foul, dark cell, dripping with mildew
and decay. Once a day a guard would
bring me a bowl of some filthy concoc
tion that only nauseated me. For days
I went without food, lying on the
damp floor of my dungeon.
“At last I received a call from the
British resident, and after that was al
lowed to have a loaf of bread and a
pint of water a day. I became deliri
ous with fever and in my conscious
moments was sure I was dying. After
seemingly endless weeks of suffer
ing an expedition was sent to find
Frank's body.
“It was at last brought to Rangoon,
and there an autopsj' showed that he
had died from cholera, as I claimed.
I w-as released in almost a dying con
dition. tV hen I had recovered suf
ficiently to travel I went to Singapore,
Sent in my resignation and went to
Manila. I never care to see Chin:
again.”
| SIR ROGER, LARGE BUCK
BOAT, LIKES HIS BEER
It is Found Necessary to Cut His
Allowance Down to Two Schoon
ers a Day,
Clinton. Miss.—Sir Roger, a large
j buck goat, the property of James R.
| Eustace, has been causing another
' sensation.
Roger is black and white. He has
! large horns and a well-cultivated
bunch of chin whiskers, which wave in
| the breeze when he starts to do a but
| ting stunt. Except to his owner, he is
• not credited Vith being at all amiable
I to human beings.
A few months ago he caused a com
1 motion among the young folks who
happened to be going home from
school one day and espied him in the
j rear of the Eustace block. Church
street. Sir Roger came from a sheep
Sir Roger Is Fast Becoming a Toper.
farm in Lebanon X. H.. his job being
to keep the doss away from the sheep.
Within a few minutes he made the ag
gregation of children keep their dis
tance.
Roger caused his sensation a few
days ago by drinking beer at the Eus
tace bar. He had the mahogany tc
himself as he was getting away with
the amber fluid which he seemed tc
i relish. Xow Sir Roger has started out
to drink up all the beer he gets within
reach of. and is being put down as a
toper and a bad actor when he has
tanked a few ales.
When the bucko made his way in tc
where they were drinking at the bar
the other day chain and all followed.
There was a scattering when he en
tered at the back door, and these who
didn't drop their beer in fright forgot
they had a thirst for the rest of the
day.
.Roger lost no time getting his fore
feet up on the round railing at the top
of the bar. Then he winked and
bleated to Anthony O'Malley, the bar
tender. A four-masted schooner of
ale was shoved over and Sir Reger
gulped it. It was great fun, and the
goat tucked away another in quick
time, never once looking up.
Finishing the second, he was ordered
off the bar and walked slowly to the
back yard. Twice a day he calls for
his ale, but lest Roger might start a
rough house some time, his potions are
limited to two.
GIRL IN AUTO BEATS EXPRESS.
Risks Life and Imperils Passengers,
But Wins Five-Mile Dash.
New York.—Imperiling her own life
and the lives of scores of passengers
on a Long Island railroad express
train, Marjorie Bourne, daughter of
former Commodore Frederick G.
Bourne of the Xew York Yacht club,
in an automobile engaged in a five
mile race with the train between Islip
and Oakdale, L. I.
In response to her urging her chauf
feur drove the high power auto with
such reckless disregard of the speed
laws that he beat the train to the
crossing at W. Bayard Cutting's place,
four miles from the start, and dashed
across the track at breakneck speed
only a few feet ahead of the locomo
tive.
Passengers on the train said it was
one of the most reckless feats in
which they had ever known a woman
to engage, and if anything had hap
pened to retard the automobile, even
slightly, when it reached the crossing.
Miss Bourne and her driver unques
tionably would have been killed and
the express train might have been
thrown off the track, bringing death
or injury to many passengers.
Sells Rat Tail as Rare Flower.
Warsaw, Ind.—A tramp went to
the home of Arthur A. Saunders, in
the south part of Kosciusko county,
and, in the absence of the head of the
family, sold Mrs. Saunders what he
represented to be a rare plant, but
which subsequently developed to be a
rat with its caudal appendage pro
truding from the earth in a pot in
which it had been placed by the man.
The tail of the rat had been cleverly
attached to a stick with thread. Mrs.
Saunders, desiring to place the • plant'’
in a more presentable receptacle, was
about to transplant it when she dis
covered that she had been swindled
to the extent of 50 cents.
Cross Between Cat and Dog.
Findlay, O.—A little fox terrier of
E. Shabanow recently gave birth to
three little animals that are a cross
between the feline and canine tribes.
They have faces like a dog, paws like
a cat, while their tails and hair are a
cross between the two. They whine
and meow just like a cat and dog.
bare coat and knee b-eeches in which
he had always been enshrined in my
memory. I have had the hardest sort
of work to get it into my head that
he is the fellow with whom I played
years ago. And I suppose he has had
the same mental straggle over me.”
Alligators in Ecuador.
A new minor industry that is devel
oping in Ecuador is the killing and j
sitinning of alligators. This industry
was launched in 19t)3 by an American,
who went to Guayaquil for the pur
pose of hunting down the myriads of.
alligators which abound in the River
Guavas and its tributaries. He was
markedly successful. The business
was temporarily interrupted in the
early part of 1905 by the untimely
death of the American, who had start
ed the fun. but it has recently been
resumed. The total value of the alli
gator skins exported during the years
1903, 1904, 1905 and 1906 was $35,000.
The skins shipped from Ecuador to 1
this country last year weighed 57,000
pounds, and were valued at $4,873.—
X. O. Times Democrat
VETERAN OF THREE WARS.
A Pioneer of Colorado and Nebraska.
Matthias Campbell, veteran of the
Civil War and two Indian wars, and
a pioneer of Colo
rado, now living at
218 East Nebraska
street, Blair, Neb.,
says: “I had such
pains in my back
for a long time that
1 could not turn in
bed, and at times
there was an almost
total stoppage of
the urine. My wife and I have both
I used Doan's Kidney Pills for what doc
I tors diagnosed as advanced kidney
! troubles, and both of us have been
■ completely cured.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box
1 Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
REAL HARD LUCK.
Hp—Then I am to understand 'hat
you absolutely reject my offer?
She—There is really nothing else
for it.
He—Well, I think it very selfish of
you. Here, I've actually gone and
i urchased a guide for our honeymoon.
Laundry work at home would he
much more satisfactory if the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces
sary to use so much starch that the
beauty and fineness of the fabric is
hidden behind a paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear
ing quality of the goods. This trou
ble can be entirely overcome by using
Defiance Starch, as it can be applied
much more thinly because of its great
er strength than other makes.
What the Fox Really Ssid.
The fox that Aesop made looked
. up at the grapes.
“Grapes sour!” hooted the old owl
far up in the vines.
"They may be,” yawned the fox, in
differently, "or they may be preserved
sweet by some chemical process. You
know the pure food laws are not as
strict as they might be. Anyway, i
don't care for them because I am
afraid of appendicitis."
And sly Reynard darted away to en
joy the sport of *a fox hunt.
Deafness Cannot Be Cured
i by local applications, as they cannot reach th» ifr
eaaetl portion of the ear. There is oniy one way to
rure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian lube When thin
tube s in flamed you have a rumbling sound or im
perfect hearing, arid when it is entirety closed. Deaf
ness is the result, and unless the Inflammation can
taaen out and this tube restored to its normal ndi
tion. hearing will be defitroyed forever nine raises
out of ten arc caused by Catarrh, which is nothing
but an Inflamed condition *>! the mucous surfai“s
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any cas»- of
Deafness i-itused by catarrhi that cannot be cured
by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Bend for circulars, fre«
F J. CHEXLY & CO.. Toledo. CX
Bold by Druggists, 75c.
TaXe Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.
Days of Bohemia Ended.
Bohemia has ceased to exist in the
Paris Latin quarter, according to Al
fred Capus, the playwright, who may
be regarded as an authority on the
point. In a lecture delivered on be
half of the "Maison d'Etudiants,”
which is to be the headquarters of
the General Association of Paris Stu
dents, he remarked: “We must not
he afraid to acknowledge that our stu
dents are no longer Bohemians.”
People Talk About Good Things.
Twelve years ago few people knew of
-such a preparation as a Powder for the
Feet. To-day after the genuine merits of
Allen's Foot-Ease have been told year after
year by grateful persons, it is indiapeiis
able to millions. It is cleanly, whole
some, healing and antiseptic and gives
Test and comfort to tired aching feet.
It cures while you walk. Over 30.000
testimonials. Imitations pay the dealer
a larger profit otherwise you would never
be offered a substitute for Allen's F< ot
Ease. the original foot powder. Ask tor
Allen's Foot-Lase, and see that you get it.
Canada's Extensive Fisheries.
The fisheries of Canada are the most
extensive of the world. The eastern
sea coast of the maritime provinces
from the Bay of Fundy to the Straits
of Belle Isle covers a distance of 5.GOO
miles, more than double that of Great
Britain and Ireland, and the salt water
inshore area, not considering minor in
dentations nor the great lakes of the
west, covers more than 1,500 square
miles.
Sheer white goods, in fact, any fine
wash goods when new, owe much of
their attractiveness to the way they
are laundered, this being done in a
manner to enhance their textile beau
ty. Home laundering would be equal
ly satisfactory if proper attention wa3
given to starching, the first essential
being good Starch, which has suflicient
strength to stiffen, without thickening
the goods. Try Defiance Starch and
you will be pleasantly surprised at the
improved appearance of your work.
Some Men’s Luck.
His Wife—This afternoon I called
on the family who recently moved
into the flat across the hall.”
Her Husband—Well?
His Wife—The man is so deaf he
can hardly hear a word his wife says.
Her Husband—It does seem as
though some men have more luck
than sense.
Important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
Eears the
Signature of(
In Use For Over MO Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
Jersey Legislation.
“That was a disgusting slap the gov
ernor took at our bills,” ^said the New
Jersey legislator.
"Seemed to irritate him as much as
mosquito bills,” admitted the disgrun
tled colleague.
Lewis’ Singfe Binder straight 5e cigar
made of rich, mellow tobacco. Your deni
er or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, 111.
Some farmers are smaller potatoes
than they raise.
