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CHAPTER XIII. ( Continued. )
"And risk bringing back the infec
tion here ? No , thank you , " crlen Ru
by , hotly. "I shall ask mamma to for
bid you. "
"My dear Ruby , " Interposes Mrs.
Wilden's voice with unusual firmness ,
"if Shell thinks It her duty to go I
shall certainly not try to stop her. I
shall feel terribly anxious , but it will
only be for a day or so ; and I believe
the disease In ita first stage is not very
infectious. "
"Do you mean that you would take
her back here amongst us after being
with the children ? " asks Ruby , aghast.
"Of course che will return when the
nurse arrives. There is no need to run
unnecessary risk. If you and Violet
feel nervous , we'd betted return to the
Wilderness , and Shell can stop here
until the doctor warrants her safe. "
"I have such a horror of small-pox
that I really think that would be the
better plan , " remarks Ruby , with a
sigh of relief. "What do you say , Vi ? "
"Oh , let us start for Mudford by all
means ! I am not particularly timid ,
but I feel that I ought to go for Ed
win's sake" Edwin is her fiance "it
would be such a sell for him if he
V came home and found me disfigured.
Shell , dear" pressing a hasty kiss on
her cousin's cheek "you are a hero
ine ; but the world is made up of all
sorts , and I am the sort that runs
away. "
"I am not a bit heroic. I should run
away too if I felt afraid , " laughs Shell ;
"but I don't , and therefore I shall take
no harm. "
So it is arranged. Shell , aCter gath
ering a few necessaries together and
receiving a tearful embrace from her
mother , hurries back to her sleeping
charges ; and during the afternoon Ru
by and Violet take their departure ,
while Mrs. Wilden is left to bemoan
the fact that she over allowed herself
to be worried into taking a cottage on
the moor.
CHAPTER XIV.
Two days and nights have elapsed ;
no answer has been received to the
doctor's hastily-despatched telegram ;
and Shell , sitting patiently beside her
charges , begins to think that tha ad
dress given by Piper must have been
in erroneous one. Nor has a profes
sional nurse put in her appearance
the children are going on so favorably
that the doctor deems the services of
one unnecessary , since Shell is de
termined not to quit her post , and in
deed has given a promise to that effect
to her little patients.
She is quite isolated from the rest of
the household. The children are in
stalled in a large room at the end of
the passage which on their arrival was
fitted up as a night-nursery. Shell is
with them all day ; at night she occu
pies the roomy old sofa , in the adjoin
ing room , leaving the door of com
munication open.
All intercourse with the outer world
is carried on cautiously round the sat
urated sheet which cuts her off from
the household in general. Yet some
how Shell has no feeling of isolation ;
she has books in plenty to occupy her
when the children sleep , and during
their waking hours she has work
enough to keep them amused.
She is sitting at the ivy-wreathed
casement on the third morning , look
ing out for the doctor's visit , when a
hired carriage drawn by a pair of hors
es , turns suddenly into the front yard.
She cannot see the occupants as it
passes beneath the window , and the
front of the house is also out of sight.
She rises from her seat with a
strange feeling of confusion and nerv
ousness ; she would give worlds to be
come invisible ; she even glances out
of the window , as if meditating escape
in that direction.
Then steps are heard down the pas
sage , the door-handle turns , and the
JL next moment Robert Champley enters
the room , followed by the housekeeper
at Champley House.
"Papa , papa , " shriek two shrill lit
tle voices ; "and Tolley dear old Tol-
ley ! "
The children are caressed and quiet
ed , whilst Mrs. Tolley delights them
with a huge bunch of flowers which she
has brought with her.
Then Robert Champley crosses over
to the window where Shell is standing
in the background. The girl looks
pale and almost stern , though a very
unusual thing with Shell she is trem
bling visibly.
"Shell , how can I ever thank you for
this ? " says Mr. Champley , in a tone
broken by emotion.
"There is nothing to thank me for
that I see , " answers Shell coldly. "I
like nursing if mamma would only let
me I should like to enter a hospital. "
"No young and beautiful woman can
like nursing small-pox cases , " rejoins
Robert Champley.
It is the first time in her life that
Shell has been called "beautiful , " and
a quick flush rises to her white skin
which really renders her so for the
moment. Then she breaks into a
laugh.
"It is chicken-pox not small-pox , "
she says quickly.
"Are you sure ? " asks her compan
ion , whilst a look of relief lights up
his whole face.
"Yes , quite ; for the first twelve hours
the doctor feared otherwise , but there
is no doubt whatever now they are suf
fering from chicken-pox in Its mildest
form ; only as Mrs. Pcmfret's children
have not had it , we are taking every
precaution. "
"And you have you had it ? " asks
Robert Champley anxiously.
"Yes , three years ago , " laughs Shell ;
"so you see" with a satirical little
smile "I have been rurining no great
risk. "
"As It has turned out , " answers her
companion , regarding her steadily ;
"but I can never forget that you nursed
them during those twelve doubtful
hours when all others turned and fled. "
"That is nothing , " returns Shell care
lessly ; then , advancing to the little
cots drawn side by side , she says to
the children , "Now you have got kind
Mrs. Tolley , I am going to run away. "
"No , no. Sell you stop too , " lisps
Meg , catching Shell's sleeve in her hot
hand. "Tolley can't tell about the fairy
princess. "
"Oh , yea , she can ! " hazards Shell ,
with a laughing glance at Mrs. Tolley.
"Besides , I'll find out about more prin
cesses to tell you when you are well
again ; " and she bends down to im
print a farewell kiss on the fevered
face.
Suddenly a gray-coated arm is inter
posed between Shell's red lips and
little Meg's white brow.
"I can allow no kissing ! " says Rob
ert Champley decidedly.
Shell draws herself up rigid as a
grenadier , whilst Meg fights feebly with
an intervening arm.
"You have run risk enough without
courting it , " explains Mr. Champley al
most angrily.
Shell merely shrugs her "shoulder ? .
"Mrs. Tolley , " she says , turning to
the housekeeper , "i you will come
into the other room with me I will
explain about the medicine , et-cetera ,
and the doctor will be here shortly , so
you will have full directions from him
about the children. "
Mrs. Tolley dees as she is asked , and
from that "other room" Shell slips
away home without any further inter
course with Robert Champlay.
* * * - * *
A fortnight has elapsed. In the rus
tic porch of Gorse Cottage two figures
are seated a laughing-eyed merry girl
in spotless white , a tall , stalwart man
in gray tweed. The house door is
closed , and the interview is consequently
quently a private one.
"I shall call you 'Pearl , ' " the gen
tleman is saying , with laughing de
cision.
"No , I won't be Pearl ; my old name
suits me much better. I am rough ami
uneven and hard in fact , thorough
oyster-Shell , " pouts the girl rebellious-
ly.
"You certainly conducted yourself
like a Shell when I hrst knew you ;
but adversity opened the Shell , and
then I saw the treasure inside , and
pounced upon my Pearl , " laughs the
gentleman.
"I hope I may really prove a treasure
to you , but I sometimes doubt it , " says
Shell with comic'candor. . "You know
I have a good many faults I am quick
tempered and blunt , and some people
think me eccentric. "
Robert Champley indulges in an
amused laugh.
"You will perhaps be surprised to
hear that neither am I perfect , " he re
turns. "I can be obstinate , and even
grumpy at times. "
"Really ? " asks Shell in a tone of un
belief.-
"Yes really and truly , " laughs the
gentleman. "And now , Pearl I told
you I was obstinate I want to know
what induced you to be so particularly
uncivil to Ted and me when we first
returned to Champley House. "
"Was I very horrid ? " she asks evas
ively , flushing.
"You snubbed poor Ted so unmerci
fully that I doubt if he .will ever re
cover his normal state of placid oa-
ceit. " . / >
"Well , you see , it was this/ - " . ex
plains Shell in self-justiiication "I
knew that you were rich , and that ev
erybody would be particularly gracious
and officious , so I made up my mind
to be an exception to the rule. "
"Which you certainly were. Meg
was one of the first to find/you out , "
laughs Meg's father , as that little dam
sel , soon tired after her recent illness ,
comes creeping into Shell's lap. "That
little dress reminds me of the day I
caught you working at the window , "
pursues Robert Champley , touching his
daughter's pale-blue skirts.
"Does it ? " says Shell , with a shy ,
pleased laugh.
"Own the truth , Pearl ; you ma.-le that
dress ? "
"I certainly had a finger in the pie , ' '
answers Pearl demurely.
"Do you remember , I told you then
that the turquoise was your stone ? "
touching her left hand , on which
flashes a circlet of. diamonds surround
ing a turquoiae , almost unique in col
or and size.
"I remember , " assents Shell dream
ily.
"Tell me a tale , Sell , " at this moment
interposes .Meg , laying her tired head
with a restful sigh upon the girl's
plump shoulder.
"I'll tell you a tale , Meg , " says her
father , bending down to kiss the child's
white brow. "Shell has promised to
come to Champley House and live with
us always what do you say to that ? "
"I say she's a brick , " remarks Bob ,
who has joined the circle.
Robert Champley gave an amused
glance at his promised wife , and then
they both break into a hearty peal of
laughter.
( THE END. ) ' j ' '
A MUSICIAN'S YOUTH.
It was by a devious path , some steps
of which were painful , that Verdi be
came a musician. When he was seven
years old , his mild and somewhat mel
ancholy temperament attracted the at
tention of the parish priest , and he
received the appointment of acolyte at
the village church of Le Roncole. One
day a priest was celebrating mass , with
Verdi as his assistant , when the boy
became so carried away by the music
that his duties were entirely forgotten.
"Water ! " whispered the priest , but
Verdi did not respond. Then , think
ing his request had not been heard ,
the celebrant repeated "Water ! "
Still there was no reply , and , turn
ing round , the priest found the server
gazing in wonder and delight at the
organ.
"Water ! " demanded the priest , for
the third time , accompanying the or
der with such a weil-directed move
ment of the foot that the little Verdi
was pitched headlong down the altar
steps. In falling he struck his head ,
and was carried to the vestry quite un
conscious.
Perhaps it was this incident , to
gether with the child's unbounded de
light in the organ music he heard in
the street , that induced his father , who
was an innkeeper , to add a spinet , or
pianoforte , to his wcrdly possessions.
But it was several years after this
that his vocation was temporarily de
cided for him , though fate afterward
stepped in and undid the decision.
"Why do you want to be a musi
cian ? " asked his confessor. "You
have a gift for Latin , and must bo a
priest. "
Meanwhile , the lad became an of
fice boy in Brezzl's wholesale grocery
store , and for a little over seven dollars
lars a year played the organ in the
church at Roncole ; but one day it
happened that Father Seletti. who had
decided that the boy should be a monk ,
was officiating at mass while Verdi
played the organ. The priest waa
struck with the unusual beauty of the
music , -and at the close of the ssrvico
expressed a desire to see the organist.
Verdi appeared , and the priest recog
nized him as the pupil whom he had
sought to turn from music to theology.
"Whose music were you playing ? "
asked Seietti. "It was beautiful. "
Verdi said , shyly , that he had
brought no music with him that day ,
and had been improvising.
"So I played as I felt , " said he.
"Ah ; " exclaimed Seletti. "I advised
you wrongly. You must be no priest ,
but a musician. "
After that the way was easier. The
priestly influence on his side opened
many a door to him.
Sword and Share Combined.
Yankee hands forged the swords with
which all Cubans are armed. The
machete pronounced "rnachetty"
which is the implement for all needs
throughout Spanish America , has long
been made by the thousand at Hart
ford , Conn. , and sold to all Ameri
can Spanish speaking neighbors. This
blade is first cousin to the saber of cur
cavalry , but while the saber serves
only one purpose , the machete serves
many , and is as useful in peace as in
war. Almost every Spanish-American
male above tha age of childhood carries
a machete. The laborer has it , be
cause with the machete he cuts sugar
cane , prepares firewood , and trenches
the ground'for his crops. The horse
man wears the machete because with
it he cuts his way through the wood
lands during journeys over rough
country. It is sword , spade and hedg
ing bill , axe , hatchet and priming-
knife. The hidalgo wears it with sil
vered hilt and tasseled scabbard ; his
humbler neighbor is content to carry
it bare and hilted with horn , wood or
leather. The machete may be had in
nearly thirty different forms. The
blade , which varies in length from ten
to twenty-eight inches , may be either
blunt or pointed , curved or straight ,
broad or narrow. The favorite witli
the laborer is the machete of medium
length , with unornamented handle and
broad , straight blade. - The Spanish-
Am'erican hidalgo bears a scabbarded
machete , long , straight , or curved , as
taste prompts.
Orljjlii of Cor tain Surnames.
Surnames were introduced into Ens-
land by the Normans and were adopted
by the nobility about 1100. The old
Normans used Fitz , which signified
non , as Fitzherbert. The Irish used 0
for'grandeon O'Neal , O'Donnell. The
Scotch Highlanders used Mac , as MJC-
clonald , son of Donald. The Welsh
used Ap. as Ap Rhys , the son of Rhys ,
Ap Richard. The prefix Ap eventu
ally was combined with the names of
the father hence Prys , Pritchard , etc.
The northern nations added the word
son to the father's name , as William
son. Many of the most common sur
names , such as Johnson , Wilson , Dy
son , Nicholson , etc. , were taken by
Brabanters and others , Flemings , who
were naturalised in the reign of Henry
VI. , 1435.
DAIEY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOH
OUR RURAL READERS.
IToTr Sacccngfnt Farmers Operate This
Department of the Farm A Fe\r
Hints as to tlia Care of Lire Stock
and Fool try.
Enforcing the MIchlcim Olco. " [ MTV.
The Dairy and Food Commissioner ,
In a report says : The law as it now
stands on our statute book provides :
"That no person , by himself or his
agents or servants , shall render or
manufacture , sell , offer for sale , expose
for sale , or have In his possession with
Intent to sell , any article , product or
compound made wholly or in part out
of any fat , oil or oleaginous substance
or compound thereof , not produced
from adulterated milk or cream from
the- same , which shall be in imitation
of yellow butter produced from pure
unadulterated milk or cream from the
same : Provided , that nothing in this
act shall be construed to prohibit the
manufacture or sale of oleomargarine
in a separate and distinct form , and in
such manner as will advise the con
sumer of its real character , free from
coloration or ingredient that causes it
to look like butter. "
The statute does not prohibit the
manufacture or sale of all oleomargar
ine , but only such as is colored in im
itation of yellow butter , produced from
pure unadulterated milk or cream from
the same. If free from coloration or
ingredient that "causes it to look like
butter , " the right to sell it "in a sep
arate and distinct form and in such
manner as will advise the consumer
of its real character" is neither re
stricted or prohibited. The statute
simply seeks to suppress false pre
tenses and to promote fair dealing in
the sale of an article of food , com
pelling the sale of olemargarine for
what it really is and preventing the
sale for what It Is not. We believe
that the state , in the exercise of its
police powers , may protect the public
against the deception and fraud that
would be involved in the sale within
its limits for purposes of food of a
compound that had been so prepared
as to make It appear to be v/hat it was
not.
not.As has been held by tha United
States supreme court , "If there be any
subject over which it would seem the
states ought to have plenary control ,
and the power to legislate in respect
to which , it ought not to be supposed ,
was intended to be surrendered to the
general government , it is the protec
tion of the people against fraud and
deception in the sale of food products.
Under the policy of the department in
the administration of the dairy and
food laws , as sustained by our supreme
court , every dealer is held strictly re
sponsible for the character of the
goods he sells , without regard to
whether he knows them to be adul
terated or not , and a guarantee of
purity received from the manufacturer
or jobber -will not relieve him from
that liability. Until a court of com
petent jurisdiction declares the anti-
color oleomargarine statute unconsti
tutional we shall strictly adhere to the
above rule in our efforts to accomplish
the results intended by its enactment.
In the administration of the affairs of
the department , we do not believe it
our province to ignore any law on the
statute books with the enforcement
of which we are charged , and in pur
suing the policy above set forth we
adopt the only course open for the
proper conduct of the duties of the
office.
Trottlnsr.
The trot is essentially an English
pace ; that is , Englishmen invented the
practice of rising in the stirrups , by
which the trot can be performed with
the greatest ease to the horse and the
rider , says a writer in the Book of
the Horse. Never begin to trot until
you arc quite at home in the walk ,
and feel that you can do nearly all in
the saddle that you could sitting in a
chair. Begin trotting on horses easy
in their action and obedient to the
reins , without being too light-mouth
ed. There are exceptional horses with
so smooth and even a pace that it is
not necessary to rise in their trot , or
at any rate perceptibly. The conti
nental and military practice is not to
rise in the stirrups , but to try to sit
close to the saddle , relieved a little
rups. No doubt there must be good
reasons for this practice of bumping
( which was universal with all Euro
pean horsemen , civilian as well as
military , until steeplechasing with
English horses and riders was Intro
duced Into France and Germany ) , be
cause It is retained in the British cav
alry in which the most distinguished
officers have been and are hunting
men , who adopt the English style of
riding when they appear in plain
clothes or hunting coats. The military
horseman uses the curb rein in trot
ting , although he receives his first les-
oy the support of the knees and stir-
sons on a snaffle bridle without stir
rups. Trotting and rising in the stir
rups should be performed with the
snaffle rein only ; the feet so placed
in the stirrups that the heel can be
kept well down without strain , the leg
from the knee downward falling
straight and moving as lit.tle as pos
sible ; the rise and fall to escape
bumping just as little as the action of
the horse will allow. Some horses ,
and particularly English horses , are
much more impressive In their' trot
than others. The elbows should be
close without clinging to the sides of
the rider , and the snaffle rein should be
held firmly , at the proper length , in
each hand , and not be allowed to slip
a hair's breadth as long as the trotting
continues ; in.this respect differing
from the mode of regulating the reins
In the canter or gallop. In the trot
the rider appears to support the horse
on the snaffle bit ; of course he does
not do so ; but the well-trained horse
relies on the rider to hold him to that
pace. Horses may he 'trained to trot
with a loose rein ( the fastest trotter
I ever possessed did this ) , and also to
slacken their pace and halt as soon
as the rider with a soothing word sits
down and loosens the reins. Perhaps
more vulgarity is displayed in trot
ting than in any other pace by hard
riders of the sporting publican class ,
their admirers and imitators. It is a
pace in which , with a free goer , it is
very easy to acquire bad habits. On
a really good trotter it is , for a man ,
one of the most pleasant and healthy
forms of exercise. So thought Lord
Palmerston , who might often bo met ,
In his seventieth year , going down the
Green Park from Constitution Hill , or
by Birdcage Walk , to the House of
Commons , on a hot summer's day , trot-
ing at the rate of twelve miles an hour.
"Twice in 1SG4 Lord Palmerston , be
ing then In his eightieth year , rode
over from Broadlands to the training
stables at Littleton , to see his horses
gallop on Winchester race course
starting at 9 o'clock in the morning
and not getting back until 2 o'clock.
It was his maxim that 'no other ab
stinence would make up for abstinence
from exercise. ' No member ever trot
ted harder with his own hand , and his
rule was daily horse exercise. " If
George Grote , the historian of Greece ,
had not given up the horse exercise
which for a long period was his fa
vorite outdoor amusement , his life and
valuable literary labors might have
been prolonged many years. The
young rider should bear in mind that
there is a limit to the speed of a hack's
trot it may be at the rate of eight
miles , ten miles , twelve miles or four
teen miles an hour ; within the limits
of that pace he will travel farther ,
more safely and with less fatigue to
his horse , than at a canter ; but press
ed up to or beyond the limits of your
horse's trotting powers , It becomes
most exhausting. It is also dangerous ,
because , at full stretch , the horse on
making a mistake has little chance of
recovering his balance. Tightly and
firmly held , at about eight or ten miles
an hour , or whatever be the pace of
the slowest of the party's horse on a
fair road , trotting is a very conversa
tional pace.
Llqnlct Food and the Milk Yield.
According to the British Dairy
Farmer , M. Dancel , principal of one
of the dairy schools in France , reports
his experiments to determine the ef
fect of the quantity of water cows
drink upon quantity and quality of
milk. He says that , by inducing cows
to drink more water , the quantity of
milk yielded can be increased without
injuring its quality. He asserts that
the amount of milk is proportional to
the quantity of the water drunk. In
experimenting upon cows fed In the
stall with dry fodder that gave only
9 to 12 quarts of milk a day , when this
dry food was moistened with from 18
to 23 quarts of water daily , their yield
of milk was increased up to 12 to 14
quarts a day. Besides this water taken
with the food , the cows were allowed
to drink the same as before , and their
thirst was excited by adding a little
salt to the fodder. The milk was of
good quality , and the amount of butter
satisfactory. He found , by a series of
observations , that the quantity of wa
ter habitually drunk by each cow was
a criterion to judge of the quantity of
milk that she would yield. A cow that
does not drink as much as 27 quarts
of water a day is a poor milker , giving
only 5Vz to 1 quarts a day ; but all
cows which drink as much ax 50
quarts of water daily gave from 18 to
23 quarts of milk daily. He believes
the amount of water drunk by a cow
is a test of her value as a milker.
Tropar Foetllnp-
An Eastern poultry raiser says :
Leghorns will by nature take a great
deal of exercise , if not confined In too
close quarters. They should have
something always In the coops to
pick at or scratch for. Brahmas and
Plymouth Rocks , on the other hand ,
if given a full meal say in the morn
ing , will sit around and mope In the
sun with no intention of laying an
egg. It is best to give them just suf
ficient to arrest the cravings of hun
ger and make them scratch and ex
ercise for the rest of their breakfast.
Exercise means eggs ; therefore , any
thing which will serve to keep your
hens moving during confinement will
promote laying. It is a hen's nature
to be busy from early morning until
sundown. She hunts the fields dili
gently all day , gradually filling her
crop until at roosting time her crop
is full and she passes a comfortable
night. If you go contrary to nature
and fill a hen's crop before ten o'clock
in the morning , j-ou simply induce a
fit of Indigestion , to which all yarded
and cooped fowls are more or less sub
ject , and this Is the forerunner of al
most all the'diseases to which fowls
are heir.
JJutter Called Danlxh.
Referring to the large increase in
the total exports of butter from Ben-
mark in 1397 , which were no less than
11,000,000 Ib. in excess of the previous
year , the Smor-Tidende says : About
4,000,000 Ib. of the exported butter was
packed in tins ; the remainder , 128,000-
000 Ib. , in casks of the usual type. Of
this quantity more than 102,000,000 Ib.
were produced in Denmark , 5,000.000
Ib. were transshipped in Danish ports
without being landed here , and 21,000-
000 Ib. were landed here and reshipped
to foreign countries by Danish ex
porters. About 18,000,000 Ib. of these
foreign butlers were of Swedish origin
and 3.000,000 Ib. of Finnish. The in
crease In the exports of actual Danish
butter was thus 4,666,000 Ib. as com
pared with the preceding year.
The strawberry is a fruit suscepti
ble of wider cultivation than perhaps
any other.
11'
From the Wae
Bring the ccrnis of malaria , fevers and
other diseases , which may prove contagious
in their own families. Hood's Sarv\parllla
is a special boon * to soldiers , because It
eradicates all disease germs , builds up the
debilitated system and brings back health.
Every returned soldier and every friend
and relative of soldiers should take
Hood's Sarsaparia ! !
America's Greatest Medicine. $1 ; six for $5.
Hood's Pills euro sick headache. 25 cents.
She Draws the Line. Lucy I see
they are not going to muster any more-
men out of the army. Mildred Well ,
that setues it. I've kept faith with
Tom all summer , but I'm not going to
stay away from the theaters this win-
er even if they make him a major gen
eral. Chicago News.
Kocently Patented Inventions.
An application in the Iowa Patent
Office for a mail bag adapted to be re
tained distended when open to facili
tate filling it , to be made flat and rigid
at the top when closed and locked and
means for enclosing and fastening a
flexible label to the locking bar , was
filed at Washington September 15.
189S , and after one amendment was
allowed October 15. In view of the fact
that some of the examiners are be
tween seven and eight months in ar
rears the inventor of said mail baer ,
G. R. Howard , of Neola , Iowa , may be
congratulated.
Ten patents were issued on the ISth
Inst. to Iowa inventors , as follows : To
R. Ches'ut of Spirit Lake , for washing
machine ; to J. A. Cooper of Adair , for
an animal trap ; to C. M. Hinsdale of
Newton , for a checkreinr-holder ; to H.
Kelly of Waterloo , for a grinding mill :
to Wm. Kelly ct al of Clinton , for a
tufting apparatus for upholstering ; to
W. S. Knox of Conesville. for a churn ;
to F. O. McCaskey of Ogden , for a
picture frame ; to D. S. S. Naber of Le-
Grand , for a railway-tie plata ; to Ed.
Troy of Lacey , for a hay-rack ; and to
Wm. E. Dippert of Des Moines , a de
sign for a trace-carrier.
Address IOWA PATENT OFFICE ,
THOMAS G. ORWIG & CO. ,
Proprietors ,
Des Moines , October 21 , 1898.
It has hitherto been the custom of
the children attending the pu&lic
schools in Austria and Hungary to
kiss the hands of their teachers on ar
rival and departure. This has been
now forbidden by a ukase issued by
the imperial board of education , which
bases its decision on a declaration of
the sanitary council.
The secret of Gladstone's long life ,
the Lancet thinks , "was doubtless due
to the fact that he was not only able
to sleep easily , but tnat he was al
ways ready to abandon even the most
important , the most urgent task , and
to lie down and sleep , then and there ,
whenever he felt really fatigued.
The oldest surviving officer of the
confederate army at 92 years of age.
hale and hearty and in full possession ,
of splendid mental faculties. Gen. M.
J. Bulger of Alabama , made the jour
ney from Jackson Gap to Atlanta. Ga. .
to attend the great reunion of con
federate veterans.
A great many Episcopal clergymen
probably would sympathize with the
English bishop who said recently :
"The two things of which I am mo'st
tired are "i he Church's One Founda
tion' and sold chicken. The hymn
seems always to be chosen wherever
I go , and kind hostesses , with quite
extraordinary unanimity , provide cold
chicken for luncheon. "
Rev. Edmund Dowse , of the famous
old Pilgrim church at Shcrbcrn , Mass. ,
has just celebrated the sixtieth year
of his pasto-rate. a term unecualed in
New England , if cot ra. the United
States.
His Good Guess. "No , " she declar
ed. "I will never marry for love or
money. " "Ah , " he returned , "you
are looking for some foreigner with a
title. " Cleveland Leader.
The largest and oluest chain bridge
in the world is said to be that of King-
tung , in China , where it forms a per-
The same food that stupefies the
brain by day keeps it unduly active at
night.
Some men are too stubborn to ac
knowledge the corn until you step on
their toes.
feet road from the top of one moun
tain to another.
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Don't be fooled w.lh a mnddntosh rs , -
or rubfcor coat. If you war.tacoatg
thet will keep you dry " the haJs"t
est storm tuy the Fish BranJ" ( l
Slicker. If not for sale In yocr
town , write for ciaosue ! to
A. J. TOWER. Boston. , Ma .
$2 $ WORTH MUSIC FOR 10 CIS
For a short tfme we will send TWO DOL
LARS' WORTH OF MUSIC FOR 10 CTS.
post-paid to any address upon receipt of
price. We los-e money on every order , t-ut
doit to advertise ourselves. Fend at once ,
stating whether you want Vocal , Instru
mental , or both.
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