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When Bedelia Emerged She
Last Wednesday Rickshaw Phipps,
who has been living in the old boat
house on the river two miles south
of Betzville. came up to town to see
Dr. Tropp, and the doctor sent him
back home with two quarts of nerve
restorer and a box of small yellow
pills that taste like all-get-out. When
seen by a reporter of the Betzville
Times, Rickshaw was standing on the
corner by the Betzville hotel, with
tears running down his face and some
thing that looked like 200 feet of yel
low garden hose wrapped on an old
hose reel. It was evident that Rick
shaw was a nervous wreck, and that
he had recently been under a terrible
strain.
Rickshaw said that nothing he had
ever undergone in his life had so
upset him as what happened last
Wednesday night It seems that about
a year ago Rickshaw found a brand
new litter of pigs in his pig-pen, and
thought nothing of it, exsept that he
was lucky to have such a large clean
litter; but suddenly he noticed that
one of the baby pigs was cleaner and
handsomer than the others, and
ceemed to avoid the society of its'
brothers and sisters.
He said he thought little of it, how
ever, and might have forgotten it, but
that when he went back to his house
boat he happened to look down, and
there was the little clean pig at his
feet. The way that little pig rubbed
against his legs showed him at once
that it was a case of love at first
sight, and the pig would sit and look
at Rickshaw with love and admiration
in its eyes, seeking to tell Rickshaw
as best it could that it thought he
was about the wisest and handsomest
and best man in the whole wide
world. It touched Rickshaw to the
heart, but he said he felt that he
should not show any favoritism, so he
put the little pig back in the pen.
The next day the same thing hap
pened. The minute he got back to
the house-boat, there was the little
pig, rubbing affectionately against his
ankles. So, just to show the little
creature there was no hard feelings,
he named it Bedelia, but, in order to
show Bedelia that certain rules must
he observed, he took the little pig
Lack to the pen. Very well, but
when he got back to the house-boat,
there was Bedelia!
Rickshaw said he was puzzled, but
he went back to the pen, and there,
in one corner, was a little round hole
no bigger around than his fist, and
that was where Bedelia had squeezed
out. He said he would have filled
up the hole then and there, but he
knew how fast little pigs grow, and
he felt that by the next day Bedelia
would probably be too big to squeeze
through that hole, anyway, so he let
it be. But the next day Bedelia was
out again. Out, and snuggling up
to Rickshaw, and making sheep's eyes
! at him.
j By the end of the week Rickshaw
felt that Bedelia must be a stunted
pig. for no ordinary pig of her age
could have got out of that hole, and
about then was when he noticed some
thing peculiar about Bedelia. She
looked more like a dachshund than
any well-shaped pig; long and thin
and low were her general character
istics. Rickshaw thought about it
awhile, and then he took Bedelia and
locked her in the boat house and left
her there for a week, and she grew
and grew, and then he took her and
locked her in the pen again, and hid
behind a tree and watched. For
awhile she looked mournfully at the
locked gate and then tears ran down
Milk From Beans.
The Japanese have discovered a
icheap substitute for the milch cow
In the form of a tiny bean. The juice,
which Is extracted by a special pro
cess from the bean. Is said to he an
.excellent vegetable milk, the proper
(ties of which render It highly suitable
tfor use in tropical countries. The
.preparation, according to the Java
iTimes, is obtained from the soja bean,
a member of the leguminous family of
plants and a popular article of food
amonc the poorer classes of Chinese
Was at Least Ten Feet Long.
her face, and then she summoned all
her love for Rickshaw, and all her res
olution, and made a bolt for the hole
in the pen. She was about twice as
large around as the hole was, but she
stuck her head into the hole and
pulled and pushed and wriggled and
squirmed! Rickshaw said he would
never have believed it if he hadn't
seen it with his own eyes, but that
pig actually squeezed through that lit
tle hole! Of course the effort per
manently elongated the pig. When
Bedelia emerged she was at least ten
feet long, and not over 12 inches in
circumstance; but she was happy.
Rickshaw said that after that he
saw that Bedelia had a love that
would overcome all obstacles, and he
hadn't the heart to close the hole
in the pen, and as the days, and
months went by, and Bedelia grew
and grew, she naturally had to have
her growth in relation to the size of
that hole, and Rickshaw fed her so
well that she became one of the heav
iest weight pigs be had ever seen, but
the weight bad to run to length be
cause Bedelia couldn't be any bigger
around than that hole in the pen. The
result was that the first thing Rick
shaw knew, Bedelia was 40 feet long,
and had a waist and chest measure of
exactly 12 inches. She was so long
that she could put her head on his
knee in the boat-house, while her tail
was wagging with joy in the pen, 40
feet up the river bank.
All would have been well, however,
for Rickshaw had come to love Be
delia as Bedelia loved him, if the big
flood had not come on last Wednesday
night. Rickshaw had put Bedelia in
the pen and bad gone to bed in his
boat-house, and was asleep when the
cloud-burst came, about 2 a. m. The
first thing he knew was the rocking
of the boat-house, and he sprang to
the deck to jump ashore, for if the
house-boat ever broke loose and
dashed Itself over the dam he would
have been drowned. But he was too
late. Already the cable had parted,
and Rickshaw gave himself up for
lost, when, with a squeal, Bedelia
made a leap and grabbed the main
mast in her teeth. The current car
ried the boat on, but more slowly,
and then Rickshaw noticed that Be
delia had not come entirely aboard
her tail was wrapped around one of
the trees 20 feet up the bank.
The force of the current was ter
rific, but Bedelia held on. The
strain on Bedelia was awful, but she
held on. Eighty feet, 100 feet, 200
feet, the river bore the houseboat
down stream, and then Bedelia's body
refused to stretch any more. Would
she break? But no! The houseboat
swung slowly shoreward, touched the
bank, and Rickshaw sprang ashore
and tied to a tree. Then he gathered
up Bedelia. Poor, faithful little pig
she was stretched into a length of
200 feet, and one inch through.
Rickshaw Phipps walked to town
and borrowed a hose reel, and reeled
the 200 feet of Bedelia on it, and
as he did so she smiled lovingly at
him. It was her last smile. On the
road to town she lapsed into uncon
sciousness, and Dr. Tropp could do
nothing for her. He said her consti
tution had been stretched out too
long and thin.
(Copyright. 1909. by W. G. Chapman.)
Elemental.
"Sly mamma says that rice is a bet
ter food than wheat."
"Why is it?"
"Because of the food elephants it
contains."
and Japanese. In making the vege
table milk the beans are first of all'
softened by soaking and boiled in wa
ter. The resultant liquor is exactly
similar to cows' milk in appearance,
but is entirely different in its compo
sition. Wealth in Swedish Bogs.
The bogs of Sweden, it is now esti
mated, would yield 10,000 million tons
of air-dried peat. Compared with pre-,
ent coal Imports, this would supply
the country with fuel for 1,500 years.
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Wfor a chateau besieged
by royal ghosts, vainly
haunting the scenes of
their old loves and
crimes?
The ghosts are dread French kings,
from Francis I. to Charles IX., with
beautiful but cruel Diane de Poitiers
and Catherine de Medici, the terrible
queen-mother. Even the unhappy
Mary Stuart knew the lovely scene.
The .scene is outside wondrous
Chenonceau, said to be again for sale
unless already sold in the division
of the Terry estate.
Ir you can pay the millions, take the
ghosts as an extra attraction. They
cannot harm plain Americans. Here
is a mystery. The ghosts cannot en
ter the chateau so long as plain, un
titled folks live in it The potent in
fluence or its builder an untitled
business woman of the renaissance
will keep the royal robbers out in the
park!
Go back a century. Claude Dupin,
plain tax-farmer, purchased Chenon
ceau in great dilapidation for 300,000
francs in 1733 and spent 100,000 francs
in restorations. Here the Dupins held
a brilliant literary court, with Button,
Voltaire and Rousseau; and the
chateau went peacefully to their de
scendants from whom Wilson's
daughter bought it.
For the strong business woman of
old days, who built the unique pal
ace: Catherine Briconnet descended
from a small shopkeeper's family of
Tours, fostered to greatness like so
many other "little people" Barthe
lots, Pouchers Bohiers by democrat
ic Louis XL Behold Catherine Bricon
net, daughter of a banker who died
archbishop, married to Thomas Bo
lder, a farmer, general, and rich
enough to buy the marques' fief.
While Thomas financed the armies
of two kings Catherine left at home,
built Chenoneau.
Catherine's husband. Bohier, died in
the rout of the French army in Italy.
Catherine died a year later. Francis
L. finding his treasury emptied by
Italian wars, brought suit against
all the crown's financiers. The ob
jeet was not to judge, but to grind
money.
In five years the rich family of
Bohier was ruined and Catherine's
son, Antoine. was glad to humbly of
fer Francis I. his chateau of Chenon
ceau at a valuation of 90.000 livres
as a quit claim. (It had cost his fa
ther 60,000 livres, or $120,000 in our
money. Some 40,000 livres remained
of the king's claim. The Bohiers
were sucked dry.
Francis visited Chenonceau twice,
an ill, melancholy man, and died a
nasty death. But Diane de Poitiers
had seen and liked the chateau of
the waters.
Diane de Poitiers, celebrated in
French history for her beauty, grace,
crookedness, wickedness and unlimit
ed influence over King Henri II.. was
married at 15 years to the hunch
backed Louis de Brezy, grand senes
chal of Normandy, who was 60. Two
years later her father, implicated in a
plot, was being led off to the Place de
Greve, Paris, to have his head cut off,
but youthful Diane was talking with
the dauphin. The father was re
prieved at the last moment, and Diane
became a political figure.
On the death of Francis I., her first
act was to have the dauphin become
king, dispossess her old rival. Duch
ess d'Etampes, of all her property.
Finally, by letters patent. Diane ob
tained "our chateau of Chenonceau."
Here is one of the crimes of Che
nonceau. A young gentleman. La
Chateigneraie. knew too much about
Diane. Another De Jarnac, married
the sister of her old rival. Duchess
d'Etampes.
"Ask De Jarnac how he dresses so
well?" said Diane to La Chateigneraie.
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Lands Restored to People
More Than a Million Acres Unlawfully
Inclosed, Again Made Public
Domain.
The extent to which fraudulent en
tries of land has been carried is but
suggested in the past 17 months' work
)f the special agents of the general
and office, who have released from
jnlawful inclosure more than a mil
ion acres of public land, and have
!orced 94 convictions, leaving more
man 1,000 cases set for hearing and
trial before local land offices.
Added to these there are pending
in the department of justice and in
the United States courts more than
1,000 more; and before the special
igents are 30,000 additional cases re
fuiring investigation. To this must
be added the obvious truth, that there
ire too many cases of successful fraud
to every one that is detected.
Now that our national resources
save largely passed into private
hands, at the beginning of this twen
tieth century we have for the first
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"My mother-in-law helps me out,"
explained the unsuspecting De Jarnac
On which Diane caused the hateful
whisper to go round:
"Do you know what La Chateign
eraie says about De Jarnac and his
mother-in-law?"
They fought with swords and dag
gers in the presence of the court.
Like Iago. "Which one kills the other,
I care nothing," thought Diane; but
she felt safer when, to everybody's
surprise, De Jarnac suddenly seemed
to slip, fell to one knee, and ham
strung his superior adversary with a
back pull of his sword. La Chat
eigneraie bled to death. To-day a
"coup De Jarnac" means almost a
foul; but the maneuver was perfectly
regular, if new!
Here is another crime of Chenon
ceau. Diane, having finished the
bridge-wing at a cost of 9,000 livres
($18,000 to-day), built Italian gardens
in the style of Passelo de Mercogliano.
The archbishop of Tours lent her a
remarkable young gardener, Nicquet,
to train up her fruit walks. Nicquet
was handsome, distinguished, seduc
tive, innocent; the court was at Blois;
there was a passing escapade of a
summer's afternoon or two; and then
the handsome young gardener died of
alleged cholera.
Of all Diane's crimes, this one stuck
most. The victim was a servant; and
the vengeful clan whispered the tale
to their masters far and wide. Later,
when Henri II. lay dying it became
the pretext on which Tavannes offered
the queen to go and cut off Diane's
nose. Instead, the philosophical Cath
erine De Medicis offered to spare the
fallen beauty's mutilation on condi
tion that Diane should give her Che
nonceau. Catherine de Medici got Diane's
clear title to Chenonceau by the os
tensible trade of mortgaged Chau
mont. (An American woman, Esther
Alexander, legal French wife of Rob
ert de Broglie, is. with him, co-heir-apparent
to the latter historic chateau
at this moment)
Her first great fete at Chenonceau
was a triumphal entry for the new
king, her son, Francis II. and his
young wife, Mary Stuart Arches,
obelisks, columns; statues, fountains,
antique altars, fireworks, music and
300 cannons made a wonderful effect
These were the happiest days of Mary
Stuart
A dowager duchess of Vendome dy
ing without children in 1718 "killed."
says Saint-Simon, "by abuse of strong
liquors" long abandoned and neglect
ed Chenonceau passed by inheritances
to the Prince de Conde, who sold it to
the plain, untitled business man, Du
pin. A business man, an untitled middle
class man, at last again owned the
fairy chateau of the water for which
kings, queens and favorites com
mitted crimes.
The ghosts of Chenonceau fled the
interior.
Voltaire, visiting Dupin, saw Diane
de Poitiers kissed by La Chateigneraie
in armor, in thicket by the river.
Grevy, president of the republic,
visiting the sister of his son-in-law,
sat in the park at midnight watching.
He beheld a rabble of pale shades be
sieging the chateau. They could not
enter. STERLING HEILIG.
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time taken stock of our resources and
find that they are not inexhaustible.
On the contrary,, they are extremely
limited as compared with the proba
ble future needs of the nation.
Charles R. Van Hise in Collier's.
Fair Warning.
"You are a likely looking chap,"
said the glib-tongued proprietor of the
summer hotel, "and there are lots of
pretty girls around here. Why not
spend your time love-making?"
"I may," responded the young sales
man on a vacation, "but there is just
one thing I wish to impress upon
your mind."
"And what is that?"
"I am not one of those chaps who
would rather make love than eat"
Fish Eat Mosquito Larvae.
There is no malaria in the Barba
dos, because of the absence of mo
squitoes, which are eaten while still
larvae by the beneficent profusion of
little fish called "millions."
Powdered charcoal and coarse sand
are good for ducks.
Lime Is a purifier and makes an
ideal wash for the coops, perches and
nests.
Ensilage provides a good food to be
ased as a variety during the winter
months.
Keep all of the late plants well cul
tivated, stirring the soil to the depth
of only two or three inches.
The cattle market for thin grassy
steers has not been satisfactory for
sometime and prices have been de
clining. Heifers accustomed to the milking
machine from the first do much bet
ter than old cows that have been
milked by hand.
Some who grow sunflowers for
chickens advocate gathering the heads
and thrashing off the seed and stor
ing it for winter use.
Corn stalks on the ground over win
ter will decay more quickly than
where allowed to stand, and flat on
the ground they will hold the soil from
irosion on sloping or hilly land.
Save the painful process of dehorn
ing by preventing the horns from
growing upon the calves. This can be
done by clipping the hair off the little
knobs and applying a preventive.
In large gardens and on fine estates
the fashion of the day runs to color
ing planting out broad masses of
simple flowers where the carefully
studied effect is intended to be in the
so-called natural style.
In pruning raspberries first observe
how many canes there are in the hill,
and cut out all over three or four. The
number of main canes should be gov
erned by their size and the number
and strength of their laterals.
There are few farmers who could
not profitably keep a few sheep. The
difficulties that stand in the way can
be easily overcome, and it is well
worth while to make the effort when
one considers the benefits from sheep.
On one farm where pure bred poul
try is the pride of the poultry-yard and
where the heavy laying strain is the
prime object greater layers can be
produced and the flock can still be
among the top notchers as pure
breeds.
Many varieties, especially of the
peach, have been brought from the
south and have done well in the
peach-growing sections of the north.
Among these will readily be recalled
Elberta, Thurber, Belle of Georgia and
others. But quite as many of them
have been disappointing.
Corn is too fattening to feed to the
hens in any great quantity. It causes
a large number of ailments, such as
liver troubles and digestive derange
ments, resulting in loss and low egg
yields. Gluten, meat, beef scraps,
wheat bran and hulled oats should be
fed regularly to promote health and
egg production.
If at all possible, get the drove of
pigs out on a field of clover or cow
peas. The hog by nature is a grazing
animal, and it will make the most eco
nomical gains when allowed to forage
for a part of its living. Hogging off
peas and clover ao has the advan
tage of fertilizing the land and spread
ing it evenly over the surface.
The earlier ground is plowed for
fall wheat the better, as it allows
more time for the soil to settle before
seeding time. Soil In which wheat
and all other grasses are sown must
be worked down very fine and com
pact in order that a large per cent of
the seels may germinate and the
young plants make early and rapid
growth. Extra time and labor spent
in this way will be rewarded in next
season's crop.
An excellent mixture to keep worms
and other parasitic affection from the
hogs is as follows: Six bushels of corn
cob charcoal, eight pounds of com
mon salt, two quarts of air-slaked lime
and a bushel of ashes. Thoroughly
mix and then take one and one-quarter
pounds of copperas, dissolve it in
hot water and with an ordinary water
ing pot sprinkle the solution over the
whole mass and again thoroughly mix.
Place this solution in a self-feeder
where the hogs can reach it at pleas
ure. There is no difference in the whip
ping qualities of gravity and separa
tor cream. When any difference is
experienced it is due to other factors
and not the method of getting the
cream. Cream for whipping purposes
should contain at least 20 per cent
butter fat The best results are ob
tained with cream containing 25 to
40 per cent butter fat Pasteurized
cream may be whipped as easily as
unpasteurized if it is thoroughly cooled
and held at 35 to 45 degrees Fahren
heit for at least two hours before
whipping. Cream should whip in
from 30 to 60 seconds. When a long
er time is required there is danger of
some of the butter fat separating or
churning.
The catch crop will prove a laad
fattener. Do not ruin your horse by com
pelling him to pull too hard when
young.
Crocus grown in grass dies down so
easily that it does not interfere with
the lawn.
Shippers of cattle that show any
fitness for a fat stock market have no
cause to complain.
A value in hogging down corn at
maturity in the fall is the enriching of
the soil with the droppings of the
animals.
Select medium-sized, full ripe toma
toes for seed. No crooked or small
sized fruit should be taken if the best
seed is wanted.
Sunflower seed Is good poultry food,
and a few rows of the plants near the
poultry yards are also good for sum
mer shade and protection.
To keep the boy on the farm, enlist
his interest give him something that
he can call his own. and let him have
the profits realized from its sale.
Do not keep either the young or old
horses stabled for several days in suc
cession, because they need daily ex
ercise for bone and muscle develop
ment A Kansas farmer makes a practice
of hogging down corn by the use of a
portable fence, and last year made his
corn thus fed net him 41 1-2 cents a
bushel.
One man claims that for the cost of
harvesting a 40-acre field of corn a
hog-tight fenee can be built around the
field where a cattle fence, barbed
wire, is already there.
Raw farm land should have a dress
ing of long manure plowed under in
the fall, and a thick dressing of fine
rotted manure spread broadcast in
the spring and well harrowed in.
The custom of hogging down ccrn In
the fall of the year has been practiced
for a great many years on American
farms, but it is only of recent years
that farmers have come to know its
definite value.
The value of humus is emphasized
where an old barn, or house has been
left standing in the middle of a field,
as the crops are usually much superi
or to those on the surrounding por
tions of the field.
Feeding animals need exercise, but
not so much as should be given breed
ing animals. It is best to promote the
tendency toward laziness, allowing
just enough exercise to maintain the
health of the body.
If the pasture is short In the fall
the Iambs may be turned in the corn
field to pasture. They will eat grass
along the fence rows and the lower
blades of the corn, but they will not
injure the corn in the least
Land intended for fruit or vegetable
garden should have a heavy dressing
of long stable manure spread evenly
over the ground and deeply plowed
under. This should be done in Octo
ber, or before the fall rains set In.
Where there are bare spots In the
lawn sod. sow a little new crop grass
seed and rake it in. Before winter sets
in a thick dressing of fine, sifted, rich
manure should be spread over the
grass; rotted manure Is the best fer
tilizer. In selecting stock to be bred for
layers the male birds are quite as
important One must be careful that
the males are descendants from pro
lific layers. The best layers are also
obtained where the sires and grand
sires are also from stock noted for
their exceptional laying.
The apple maggot is a larvae which
hatches out into a moth during a pe
riod after the apple has fallen to the
ground with a maggot contained with
in it The presence of hogs in the or
chard in sufficient numbers to con
sume the fruit as it falls means the
extermination of the pest.
In the eastern half of the Unite
States black rot has proven a serious
drawback to grape culture. Humidity
is favorable to this disease. More
than 20 years ago spraying was intro
duced as a means of combating this
and other fungus diseases of vines and
fruit trees, and bordeaux mixture has
been the standard fungicide from the
first.
The age of farm abandonment is
parctically at an end, for the farm
er has solved the problem of how to
make a living for himself and family,
and at the same time accumulate a
good bank account from the products
of a small tract of land. New condi
tions require new methods, and this
applies with greater force to farming
than to any other form of productive
industry.
The earlier ground is plowed, for
fall wheat the better, as it allows more
time for the soil to settle before seed
ling time. Soil in which wheat and
all other grasses are sown must be
worked down very fine and compact
in order that a large per cent, of the
seeds may germinate and the young
plants make early and rapid growth
Extra time and labor spent in this way
will be rewarded in next season's crop.
Cowpeas make an excellent soiling
crop. . They should not be planted un
til the soil and weather are warm.
When available for feed they fill a
place in a well-planned system of soiling
and furnish an abundancee of succu
lent green feed. When used alone the
cowpeas do not make an exceptionally
good quality of ensilage, due to the
large amount of water in the green
vines, that keeps poorly and is not
relished by the stock. When com
bined with corn fh the proportion of
about three-fourths corn to one-fourth
of cowpeas, it makes a very good sil
age that keeps well and is liked by the
stock. It makes a well-balanced ration.
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bathing ain't allowed! Ally Sloper.
PUBLIC LAND DRAWING
"Lamar, Colo. The price fixed by
the Colorado State Board of Land
Commissioners for land and water
rights, under the Two Buttes Carey
act project, Southeast of Lamar which,
will be allotted by public drawing Oc
tober 21st is $35.50 per acre. Only
$5.25 per acre has to be paid at time
of making entry. The settlers being
permitted eleven years' time to com
plete the payments. Any adult citi
zen of the United States may file on
40, 80, 120, or 160 acres. Final proof
may be made at the end of 30 days'
residence. The soil on this tract is a
sandy loam of great depth and fertil
ity. The altitude is 4,100 feet The
growing season 150 to 180 days, and
the climate ideal. A new townsite has
been established and a town lot sale
will be hehi on October twenty-second.
Both the land drawing and the
town lot sale win be held at the new
townsite "of Two Buttes, which is
reached via Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe R. R. to Lamar, Colorado,
from which point transportation will
be provided at reasonable rates."
And There Are Others.
The cook had been called away to a
sick sister, and so the newly wed mis
tress of the house undertook, with the
aid of the maid, to get the Sunday
luncheon. The little maid, who had
been struggling in the kitchen with a
coffee mill that would not work, con
fessed that she had forgotten to wash
the lettuce.
"Well, never mind, Pearl. Go oa
with the coffee and I'll do it." said tha
considerate mistress. "Where do they
keep the soap?"
The extraordinary popularity of fine
white goods this summer makes the
choice of Starch a matter of great Im
portance. Defiance Starch, being free
from all injurious chemicals, is the
only one which Is safe to use on fine
fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffen
er makes half the usual quantity of
Starch necessary, with the result of
perfect finish, equal to that when the
goods were new.
Reaching Life's Goat.
If you want to be somebody In this
world you must assert your individ
uality and, assert it in the right direc
tion, so that it may lead to a goal of
honor for yourself and be an example
for others. Find out what you ought
to do. say to yourself: "1 must do it
then begin right away with "I will do
it" and keep at it until it Is done.
A Rare Good Thing.
"Are using Allen's Foot-Ease, and can
truly say I would not have been without1
It so long, had I known the relief It would
give my aching- feet. I think it a rare good
thing for anyone having sore or tired feet.
Mrs. Matilda Holrwert. Providence. R.
I." Sold by all Druggists. 25c. Ask to-day.
Many a young man starts In to
work fired with a noble cmbltion
then the ambition exaporates and he
gets fired.
Clung to Melancholy Mood.
"One peculiarity of melancholia."
said the specialist, "is that the vic
tim of it actually enjoys 'the despond
ency and often doesn't want to be
cured: I once told a young woman
who had this disease that she must
be careful of her digestion and eat
nothing frieid. After that she tried
to eat only fried food. Not only did
she insist on having her potatoes and
meat fried, but didnt' want to eat
bread unless it had been fried in a
lot of grease."
Home of the Wild Bee.
A wild bees' home, as we all know.
Serves the puropse of a storehouse as,
well as of a place for the young to
grow and develop. The entrance used
by the bees is often very small, but'
always leads into a Injge room. The
wax for their honey and brood cells
Is the only thing in the least like fur
niture which they require. The firm
er and more bare the walls and floors,
the better for them. St Nicholas.
Bought by King George in 1771.
The old house standing on the cor-;
ner of Batavia and Roosevelt streets.'
New York, one of the few buildings
left intact as a relic of colonial times,
is about to be torn down to make way
for an apartment house. The house,
a bit altered, has been standing since
the middle of the eighteenth century.
It is one of the landmarks of the
Fourth ward. In the year 1771 Kins
George III. bought the house and'
property for the sum of 75. The
deed of sale, with the signature of
the king attached, is now in the pos
session of the present owner, Thomas.
Farrell, of 72 West One Hundred and
Thirty-seventh street An option oa
the property has been given for about
$10,01. Exchange. 1
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