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Mrrttrral Necromancy.
There is another marvel performed
by those liav&l. of whom I havo been
wpertkinp as' ktiowini.' so miny enchant
incuts. For when the great Kuan Is
(it Ms capital nml In his great palace,
sealed nt his tuiilu which stands upon a
platform miiiii right cubits ubnvc tho
cround, his cups arc set beforo him on
u great buffet in the middle of tho hall
pavement, at a distance of some ten
paces fi-'itu his ttiltic. and filled with
wine, or olher food spiced liquor such
a they use. hen the lord desires to
drink the enchanters cause the cups to
move themselves from their places to
the emperor without being touched by
anyone. Ibis everyone present may
wltne.s. ' lit n truth and no liol and
bo will tell you the sages of our own
country, for they can perform it Oc
tober bt. Nicholas.
No Tim Should bn !.
Ilv thmo troulilrd wlth.ronstlpntlon lnieok
Ini: relief from lUntottor Ftomnch Hitter
Tho (lle:ic I eusllv rclluved In Its eurllel
stnjrc. and n It N ut'orly subversive of tin
general lieMltli.poMpuiiemantof tho reroodj
U utitvlso. Tho same hold Jfooil of deltiy to
en0H of fever ami ae no, kidney complaint
nervousnusH. riehlllty nnd rlioumutisni. all'
wants to which tho Millers IK particular!)
adapted.
Ilevlxed Vernlon,
From Fibre und Fabric.
Yesterday there wus a few old wom
en and A cluster of girls in one of tho
stores here. Somebody spoke of Sun
day school, and tho storekeeper, for
the fun of it, said he would glvo n. bag
of candy to the one who could tell him
how lonp it took to create the world.
One of tho old ladies said sho didn't
know. The girls looked at each other.
My second oldest daughter slipped out,
ran home and was back in a jiffy with
this answer: "Tho Lord tuado the
world in six days and got arrested on
the seventh."
STATE OK OHIO OITY OP TOLEDO.
IiOOA COUNTV, as.
Frank J. Ulienoy makes onth that ho ts
tho senior partner of tliollrm of K.J. Olio
nor & Co., doing business in tho city of To
ledo, countv and state aforesulil, and that
Mild firm will nay tho sum of uN'K 11UN
DICKL) DOIiLAIia for ouch and every case
of catarrh that cannot bo cured by tho uso
of Hall's Catarrh Cure.
FItANK J. OIIKNEY.
Sworn to before mo and subscribed In my
prcsonce, this Oth day of December, A. 1),
IHM.
(Seal,) A. W. OI.EASON.
Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh Ouro Is taken internally
and acts directly on tho blood nnd mucus
surfaces of tho system. Sond for tcstlmo
Dials, free
F. J. onENF.Y & CO, Toledo, O,
Sold by druggists, 75c.
What tho Nails Indicate.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
It has long been known to doctors
that tho shape and appearance of the
finger nails form important factors in
the diagnosis of disease. Thus, long
nails indicate physical weakness, and
a tendency to consumption. Where
the nails are long and blueish they in
dicate bad circulation. The same typo
of nail, but shorter, denotes tendency
to throat affections, bronchitis and the
like. Short, small nails often indicate
heart disease; Where they are short,
flat and sunken, you may look for ner
vous disorders.
That Joyful Feellne
With the exhilarating sense of renewed
health and strength and Internal clean
liness, which .follows the use of Syrup of
Figs, is unknown to the few whq have
not progressed beyond the old-time
medicines and the cheap substitutes
Dometlrr.es offered but never accepted
by the well-Informed.
Mental Workers Must Sleep.
Someone says of sleep: The amount
of Bleep one needs depends on the
amount of mental work he docs while
awake. Men whose brains are never
busy can get along with live or six
hours sleep a day, even though their
hands are always employed during the
waking hours, but the mental worker
must have more sleep or no will go in
sane. When bilious or costive, eat a cascaret
candy cathartic, cure guaranteed. 10c,
'-'3c.
Mrs. Mary Svabck, 1235.South 14 th
St, Omaha, Neb., writes: 'I have been
sick threo years with headache, pain in
the stomach, dizziness nnd no uppctite.
I tried three doctors nnd all kinds of
medicines, all of which failed. I have
since used two 25-cent boxes of Dr.
Kny'B Henovator and 1 have no more
headache; good appetite and stomach
In good order as well as my whole sys
tem." Sold by druggists at 25 cents
and SI. See advt
Cascarets stimulate llver.kidneys and
bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe.
Unequal Distribution.
"It seems," remarked Uucle Allen
Sparks, "that Dr. Nansen failed to dis
cover tho north polo because he hadn't
enough dogs. And what countless
thousands of dogs we could have spared
him from this neighborhood! Chicago
Tribnne.
THE ADVANCE
AGENT OF HEALTH
UBKl.SUsBBfiSEBBmLH
Wulaturo Fao-Siaile
WWej?W
N ARTIST'S LOVE.
ARMICHIEL'S s!g-
11 UUIUIU 111 uuu tui-
K ner causes a ow
ls vas to bo scram
-"' l.lwl trtr In fliwan
countries n o w
adays, mid there
arc Uiobo who say
that It looks
equally well at the
bottom of a check.
Carmlchlel himself
Is brown nnd bony nnd a little Inclined
to bo bald. Ho is a trifle cynical, too,
and has accumulated a miscellaneous
assortment of strango little ways that
must bo awfully annoying to his wife.
In fact, she says bb much In her lan
guid, complaining way.
Carmlchlcl'B work ha always been a
puzzlo to tho critics. Lately they have
decided that ho bolongs to tho Impres
sionist Bchool, nnd perhaps thoso blg
Jolntcd, green-oyed,. women, for which
ho had occasionally" been responsible,
do lndlcnto a tendency In that direc
tion. Thoro Is nothing of tho Impres
sionist about Carmlchlcl'B earlier
paintings, however, and yet you would
know that they were his; Just as you
would know that tho Indifferent, bored
looking Carmlchlel whom you meet in
every plnce worth going to Is Identical
with tho threadbare but always de
lightful fellow who used to pnint
BtudlcB of the Creole girls In the winter
of 73.
Perhaps, though, you were not
among tho fortunate number who
know him before he had painted his
way Into the very heart of Philistla.
We were only a small coterie, but our
lack of oven a bowing acquaintance
with famo was a sad trial to most of
us. Carmlchlel was different, little as
you would think it when you seo him
today. Ho never seemed then to have
tho least ambition only to do his work
as well as ever he could, and If now
and then a sketch was sold, why, there
were plenty of friends to pat him on
tho back and to help him cat and drink
the proceeds.
And tho sketches eold well after a
time, for that wild artist colony In tho
quaint French quarter was a happy
thought for a crowd of out-at-elbows
boys, to the most of whom Paris re
mained a dream for more years than
we caro to think about. There waa
plenty of local color there, and any
number of saucy girls who were al
ways willing to pose for us, and who
considered themselves well paid if they
received the first rough sketch of what
the sanguine artist Invariably assured
them was sure to prove "the plcturo of
the year!"
Carmlchlel has several of the3e glow
ing things In his studio now, nnd
through them all you can trace a like
ness to the drab-sklnnd water nymph
that hangs in the drawing-room of
Hastings, the porous-plaster man. It's
another method and a different subject,
hut It's tho eame Carmlchlel.
We nover knew exactly how It was
that he camo across Carita. She was
one of the dancers at the littlo French
theater or at least they called It a
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WITH A BLAZE OF WRATH,
theater It was a sort of cross between
a low cafe and a second-rate concert
hall. We used to go there occasionally
and throw roses to the dancers, though
Carita was the only one that It paid to
look at twice. She was really a beauty
and quite Spanish In her ways, al
though some of ub fancied that there
might be Just a trace of darker blood.
Of her husband there could bo no ques
tion. He was a greasy, low-browed fel
low, and wholly a villain. He used to
beat her when his shop wa3 raided
or so sho told Carmlchlel. Carmlchlel
had never been In love before, and he
lost his head rapidly. So when one
morning Carita came Into our common
etudlo the Commune we called It
with her forehead hound up, and tho
contour of one -pretty check almost ob
scured by a Hvld, straggling bruUe,
Carmlchlel upset his colors over the
"peasant's bridal" he was at work up
onthey painted Etich things In thoso
days and declared that Carita was
done with her brute of a husband for
ever. It really made very littlo difference
to any of us. Carmlchlel was tho tame
Jolly comrade as before, and worked
away furiously in the queer little house
which Carita had furnished to suit her
self. Sho figured in most of his pic
tures that year, and after a time came
tho little JuMcn, and Carmlchlel turned
his attention to a hitherto neglected
branch of nrt, and his canvases begun
to gloam with tho pinky flesh of dark
eyed babies. The little Jullen was a fas
cinating model, and his father proved
himself a genius by the facility with
which he Interpreted the baby graces.
All of which would have bbon very well
had not Carita suddenly grown Jealous.
Her temper was never of the best, and
In her silly lltle heart sho considered
herself highly aggrieved and neglected.
Then they quarreled, and matters grew
worse and worse, until Carita actually
threatened to go back to her villain
eu husband, who had never ceu3ed
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drasv A-SE- -
chuckling over tit ood bargain ho had
mado with tho great artist. Carmlchlel
was never mcok at any time, but yet
the matter might havo ended differ
ontly had not tho old undo who gave
him his start in life chosen at this time
to Introduce himself. Dut tho fateful
letter camo nnd Carmlchlel went to the
big hotel across tho river, nml thcro
was an lntorvlow. It waB lato when he
returned, nnd Carita met him with a
hlnzo of wrath. Ho had not told her
where ho was going, and sho wae diffi
cult to plcaso those days. Sho thor
oughly understood the nrt of making
herself exasperating, and for a moment
Carmlchlel caught himself envying his
predecessor his enormous biceps and
big stick. What ho had to say was
spoken In a few words, and with a last
good-by to the littlo Jullen and a mock
ing mcsBago to tho womnn, CarmlchUl
turned his back upon IiIb threadbare
past, and upon Carita.
He slept at tho Commune that night,
and when wo opened tho door In re
sponse to a gcntlo tap next morning,
we found no ono In view except tho lit
tlo Jullen, who beat his tiny fingers
against tho door panel nnd laughed
gleefully up In his young father's face.
Little Jullen had come to stay.
About Carita? Tho city Is large.
PerhapB sho went back to tho ruffianly
husband, or, if notwell, it would not
be tho first time that the turbid yellow
river had been Intrusted with a secret.
Jullen Is a fine young fellow, an up
per classman at Tulane, and occasion
ally ho pays a short visit to his guar
dian's home, although strangely
enough, Mrs. Carmlchlel Is not fond ol
him. Whether sho BUspccts what a
few of ub know Is uncertain, but come
of us have wives, and Mrs. Carmlchlel
possesses moro than the usual quota of
feminine frlonds. L. M. W.
THE FUNNEL TRICK.
An Inlercntlnc 1'roblem DoTlseri
uj
sportlTO Cnliroriilann.
Jerry Lynch has finally learned the
funnel trick. He took It In two dosea
ono on ono evening and tho other
the next. Tho senator sauntered up
to the Bohemian club tho other day and
siw two or three of the younger mem
bers attempting a now feat, and h
watched them with Interest Ono of
them stuck a funnel In tho top of his
trousers, throw his head back, placed
a fifty-cent piece on his forehead nnd
tried to drop It into tho funnel by
slowly lowering his head. After all
had failed Jerry Insisted on trying It,
though all had tried to dissuade him
from attempting a feat too difficult for
them. Tho funnel was placed In tho
waistband of his trousers and he
threw back his head to recelvo the
coin on IiIb expansive brow. At that
Juncture a pitcher of Ice water was
emptied into the funnel, and by the
tlmo Jerry got through dancing tho
Jokers had vanished. Tho senator's
temper improved with dry ralmont,
and the next night at tho club he start
ed in to show a couple of friends tho
funnel trick.
"It's this way," he explained, "you
put tho funnel In tho top of your pan
taloons, so, then throw your head
back, so, and wow!"
Again Jerry was forced to change his
raiment, and ho is not showing people
what ho knows about the funnel trick.
San Francisco News Letter.
THE FAMILY'S MAIN SUPPORT.
Tho old Umlertuker Dcp'nre ih Kconu
mle lit) Hail to 1'rvctlce.
From the San Francisco Poet: "Now,
now, now; there, there; don't criticise
those white gloves because they've been
darned. Don't Jump on these poor old
black rosettes because they're a little
rusty," pleaded the country undertaker.
"For fifteen years they have been the
mainstay of a large and interesting
family. Yes, I know those gloves have
been washed and darned and stitched
till they look more like salt sacks than
gloves, but they still sell at the same old
price $1 per pair. Crape rosettes for
the pall-bearers still go on every bill
at $5.
"When I first went Into business fif
teen years ago now this, of course, is
on the dead quiet I bought half a
dozen pairs of white cotton gloves for
25 cents, and I think tho crapo for
those robcttes cost 50 cents. Every
funeral brings me In ?G for gloves and
V for rosettes for the pall-bearers, and
in tho last fifteen years I think I have
realized about $6,500 on them, and I'vo
still got them almost as good as new.
Some day. when I can afford it, I'll buy
some now ones."
KIlliiK'4 Worht Tour.
Just before tho steamer Lahn sailed,
Itudynrd Kipllns' talked with a report
er. Ho said that, leaving tho Lahn at
Bremerhaven, ho and Mrs. Kipling
would spoud somo time on tho con
tinent, going from thero to Eng
land. How long a tlmo he would
spend thcro he did not know. Event
ually ho would go to India, ho Bald,
the country of his birth, and possibly
he would visit Samoa and other of tho
Islands of the Southern Pacific.
"Will you return to America, and if
so, when?" Mr. Kipling was asked.
"Oh, yes, I expect to como hack
again, when I get ready. I- have not
tho slightest notion as to when that
will be."
"Do you call America your home?"
"That is my home where I chooso to
live." New York Advertiser.
Diplomacy, Thr N'tnm In llrlilcrt.
Bridget (applying for a situation)
"Oh, yis, mum, Ol lived In my last
place t'reo weekB, mum." Mrs. Van
Nobos "And why did you leave?"
Bridget "Ol couldn't get along with
her, sho waa owld and cranky," Mrs.
Van Nobbs "But I may bo old and
cranky, too." Bridget "Cranky ye
may be, mum, for faces aro eometimea
deceiving; but owld, niver!" And Drld
get cot the place. Philadelphia Time.
SHE RObfc A WHEEL,
tl Clot the Meal nnl Then Mi Ilrnt
lllm from tu llnii.f
"Madam," ho began, as tho lady ol
tho houso opened tho door In nnawer
to his ring, "you rido a blcyclo, do you
not?"
"I do," eho anBwered, proudly, ac
cording to tho Now York Telegram.
"I thought as much," snld ho with a
Bad flickering smile lighting up hip
features.
"Your bright eyes nnd ruddy encoks,
tho glow of health that mantles your
brow proclaimed that fact oven hcroro
rou had spoken. But what 1b ono per
son's meat Is another's poison and tho
lamo toy, plaything or vehicle, call It
what you will, that haB lured tho roses
to your cheeks, madam, and sent tho
blood bounding through your rcjuva
nated veins has driven them from
mine, dried up my llfo's Juices and sont
mo forth a broken down, hopolersa
wreck and wanderer on tho faco of tho
earth. Yes, madam, that la unfortun
ately what blcyclo riding haB done for
mo."
"Why, my poor man!" sho gushed,
with a look of tender pity In hor bluo
eyeB; "tako this half dollar sorry 1
can't glvo you moro, but It's all the
chango I have. Then Bit right down
and rest whllo I got you eomcthlng to
eat."
Half an hour later, when ho had eat
en all ho could hold and was proparlng
to travel on, eho sympathetically ob
served: "Poor fellow! You muBt havo suf
fered a great deal. Wcro you laid up
long?"
"When?" ho asked, with n puzzled
took.
"Why, when you wero Injured bicy
cling." "Injured bicycling? Why, I never
mounted a wheel In my life."
"Never mounted a wheel!" Bhc fair
ly shrieked. "I thought you said bi
cycling was what reduced you to your
present stnto?"
"Correct, madam," ho responded,
hastily backing down tho stepB. "Tho
bicycling of others Is what did It. I
used to bo tho proprietor of a livery
stable!"
oho dlvrd behind tho door, but a sec
ond later when sho emerged with a
broom it was loo lato. Her caller had
disappeared.
Mnklnir It 1'Uln.
"This hero piece in tho paper makes
ago o' tho word 'superfluity' several
times," remarked tho man who was
sitting on tho empty soap box. "Now
whnt do yo tako superfluity to bo?"
"I dunno's I kin exactly tell It,"
answered tho man with tho twine sus
penders. "But I senso it all right
enough."
"Kin ye illuBtratc it?"
"M yes. I reckon I kin. Superfluity
ts a good deal tho samo thing ez a fel
ler's wcarln a necktlo when he's go!
a full beard." Washington Star.
Unmutl Iro!llli).
Unusual facilities for matrimony are
offered at Amerlcus, Ga. Justlco Gra
ham, while walking on tho street ono
evening lately, was approached by a
negro man and woman, who asked to
bo united, and ho Joined them in tho
solemn bonds then and there.
I'uizleit.
"Paw," said the littlo boy, "did you
know that tho housefly, lays moro'n a
million eggs?"
"Maybe sho does, Willy," answered
his baldheaded parent, "but I'll bo
eternally dinged If I can tell when sho
takeB tho time."
Ha Stoppoil SmnklDir Clcrette.
Charlie Parsons, aged 19, for "noro
than a year smoked threo packages
of cigarettes a day. Ho died a ahort
tlmo slnco at his home In Kokomo,
Ind., after being In convulsions for
four days.
BITS OF KNOWLEDGE.
The horse, of all animals, is
quickest to succumb to cold. ,
People who wore shoes In Italy dur
ing tho fourteenth century had to pay
a tax for tho privilege.
In Germany the men as well as the
women wear wedding rings. When
cither dies tho survivor wears both.
Fashion plates containing designs for
clothing for pet dogs aro regularly
issued by some of the Parisian tailors.
Tho longest Unnel In tho world. Is
St. Gothard, which Is 48,840 feet. Tho
noxt longest ore Mount Cenls, 39,850
feet; Hoosack, 25,080 feet; Severn, 22,
092 feet; Nochistongs, 21.C59 feet; Sutls,
21,120 feet.
Tho following aro said by a Swiss
hunter to havo been found near tho
nest of an eaglo recently discovered
In tho AIpb: A hare, 27 chamois' feet,
4 pigeons' feet, 30 pheasantB feet, 11
heads of fowls, 18 heads of grouso and
tho remains of a number of rabbits,
marmots and squirrels.
A careful examination of tho 'trees
that are struck by lightning shows that
over half of them are whlto poplar, i
From this fact scientists conclude that
tho poplar has some value as a con
ductor of lightning. This being tlie
case, agriculturists nrc advised to plant
these trees In tho vicinity of their farm
buildings.
Ono of tho big steamship companies
Is about to make a novel departure. It
has ordered a steamship to be built for
the
tho "solo uso of invalids." It Is to be I
a vessel of tho largest class, fitted up
With a lux .'y hcrcloforo nover attempt
ed, to be dovoted entirely to tho ser
vice of tho wealthy Btifforors of that
i class who aro afflicted with
jffhnonary
troubled, and who can
prolong
- , f6 jn j cry, ealub
climate of
t perpetual sumnicr,
jsr
vZS
Kat t be Canghi Knpplnt
On a recent Sunday evenlnr In Bel
fast, Me., a younr man ip churoh
looked frequently at his watch during
tho sormon. Just an he was doing bo
for the fourth or fifth time, tho pastor,
with great earnestness, wnn urging the
truth upon consclcnco of his hearers.
Young mnn," Bald ho, "how Is It with
you?" Whereupon the young man
with tho gold repeater brawled out in
tho hearing of tho whole congregation,
"A quarter past eight" Now York
Tribune.
Just try n. loo box of Cascarets, tho
finest liver and bowel regulator ever
made.
The Iteasoti Why,
A man whoso circumstances of trav
eling caused him to sit In tho samo seat
with a young lady who was unusuullv
frlondly for a stranger said, as ho left
tho car:
"I thank you for a very pleasant
chat but I am afraid you would not
havo been so kind to mo had you
known that I am u married man."
"You haven't any advantage of mo,"
promptly responded the yonng lady.
"1 nm an escaped lunatic." San Fran
cisco Argonaut.
Men leave trouble to others when thov
ran. as readily as n girl loaves dirty dishos
ior ucr nioincr.
Tho good advho peoplo give away so
chcorfullv, is usually something they tau't
uso tbemso.ves.
A man may wear roUghm as n cloak and
yot iroezo his soul to death.
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PLUG
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It is man's ideal tobacco. It protects his
purse from high prices. It protects his
health from the effects of injurious tobacco.
It's the biggest and best there is nothing
less, nothing more.
An investment of 5 cents will prove
this story.
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old enemy breaks out anew.
The fault Is the taklncr uf
medicines that suppress, In-
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purify your blood, if you nsc
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