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Hay rum o'er Mouth and can and eyes ho sopped, l'annul mc till the moisture slopped, Then some baby powder slopped On galore. Then he tapped me oa the palo With his comU ilttnlng ma to sit up straight As at home: "Hair wants cutting, sir," he said, " Over me a gown he spread, Then his scissors on my head t . 'Can to roam. Z Eaid he, having clipped with speed, 'A shampoo pForyour dandruff, sir, you need. Tonic, too." With more towels 1 was bound. Then in soapy suds was drowned, While his nimble fingers found Work to do. O! how nice that scratching seemed On my head; I just shut my eyes and dreamed. As in bed. Soon, too soon, it stopped, and I, minded with the dripping lye. To a marble basin nigh Straight was led. -- - Incw! came water hot and cold On my crown, WMle the artist, taking hold. Rubbed It down. Then returned I to the chair. Where he oiled and brushed my hair So to hide the spot that's bare From the tawn. On his comb my mustache Iono Then was laid, , And he waxed It till it shone With pomade; i ' 'Then he, to my looks assist, . " Gave the ends a stli--h twist, ' ' Which the ladies can't resist, I'm afraid. J ' " Next!" he grandly called as I, Scented sweet, Fcelingyoung again and spry. Left my seat. While my hat and coat were brushed In the glass I gazed and blushed Then a dollar paid and rushed Down the strict. IL C. Dodge, in Detroit Free Press. HIS STRANGE BRIDE. How Max Rutherford Married, Lost and Found a Wife. It was a dinfjy, scantily furnished room in a second-class boarding-house, and as Mas Kutherfonl glanced around a sense of disgust filled him. "Will it be like this, always?" he bighed. "Will I ever reach the gal? Here I am head over heels in debt wish some good fellow would advance Je a few pounds until I finish this brief. If I could only win this ease I believe I could see my way clear. However, I'll hope for the lcst." And he lit a cigar and prepared to enjoy it. Max Kutherford was alone in this world, as far as near relatives were con cerned, although he could count his friends by the score. lie was educated for the bar, but be fore that education was completed his father died, bequeathing his little fort une, a few thousands, to Max. As Max was an uncommonly generous fellow, as his friends were fond of saying, and being somewhat extravagant in his tastes and mode of living, he did not find it at all difficult to spend those few thousands in a very short time. And so, at the age of twenty-five, we find him hanclt-onic, honest, good-hearted, and bravely striving to reach the pedestal of his ambition, but poor. "Now for the clul-room. I don't want to stay here longer than necessary," and he picked up his hat. The landlady met him at the door. "A lady to see you, sir. She fc in the parlor." "A lady? All right; I will go down immediately." At the parlor door, which was wide open, he suddenly stopped. There, sit ting beside a table, back to him, was the slight, black-robed form of a wom an. Her head was bowed low and her hands were tightly clasped. She looked the very picture of grief and despair. As he crossed the threshold she arose, and with a quick, girlish grace moved toward him. Then Max saw that she was heavily vailed, and she made no movement to throw the vail back. "You are Max Kutherford, are you not?" Max started as the low, musical tones fell on his ear. "I beg that you will pardon me for this intrusion, but truly," and the voice grew, more earnest, "I felt obliged to come, my trouble is so great. Kay, I was driven to it, and no one but your self can aid me. Will yon listen to my story?" "Certainly. Pray be seated." "I am Helen Castlcton, and an orphan, and, doubtless, a stranger to you." "You are? 1 have never had the pleasure of meeting you before," he answered. "For ten years I have lived with my uncle, my mother's brother. He is immensely wealthy. I am supposed to lc his heiress. Hut my life for the past three years has been most unhappy. I am not of age, and snail not be lor a year to come, and my uncle is deter mined to persuade mc to marry a man old enongh to be my father. He, too, is worth, his millions, and for that reason my uncle bids mc marry him. This man follows me wherever I po, pro fessing to love me, bnt those professions fill my soul with disgust and fear. I hate him! I'll die before I consent to wed him!" and her voice trembled so that Max longed to snatch away that vail and gaze on the possessor of that pleading, tearful voice. "1 ran away f nun home two years ago," she continued, "but my uncle and the one who claims to be my lover found and brought me home. Home! ah, heaven! whaC a home! All the home I have had since I was a child; yet it is little better than a prison. I have never had any girl acquaintances. He would not allow me to sec any one excepting his own friends, and they were old money-seeking men. I dis liked them all. "To-morrow morning my uncle says I must marry this man that I shall be forced to do it. I can not! oh, I can not! Heaven let mc die first!" And with a piteous movement she held both hands out to Max. He clasped them in his, and as he did so, a pitying yearning tenderness filled his heart for this vailed stranger. "Tell me how I can help you," he xttBTBtixred. "Yob can help me, and yon only." -Max'Xatberford, will you marry -ar nMKeWidy ashamed, ske (turned from him, clasping her Land over her eyes. As for Max, if a bombshell had ex ploded vt his leet he could not have felt more astonished or bewildered, but before he could articulate a word she turned to him again. "Listen, please. I have seen you day after day, as you passed my uncle's house. You looked so honest and kind that somehow I felt that you could and would help me. Am I right or wrong? You arc only a struggling lawyer." He smiled bitterly at that. "I have many thousands in my own right. My father willed it to me. They can not touch that. I have drawn it alL Here it is," and she laid a roll of bank bills on the table beside him. "I ask you to accept it. It may help you. You w oniler w hy I do not take it and flee. I do not because my uncle and that man would follow mc, even to the end of the world, so it would be utterly useless. I have turned to the only ref uge left me. I have crushed my priile and begged j-ou to marry me. 1 was spurred on by my uncle's last threat. I realize what I have done only too well realize that I ha ve abased my w oman hood by coming to you, a total stranger, but oh, be pitiful!" and then, completely exhausted, she turned to the table and bowed her head on it, and sobs, deep and bitter, convulsed her form. Max hesitated, but for only a moment, then laid his hand on her head. "I will do as you ask; but I can not accept your money. Xo, keep it. Hut why do you not allow me to see your face?" She lifted her head and eagerly clasped his hand. "You must accept the money," she said; "and I do not remove my vail, be cause it is best for you never to bee my face. I was unwomanly, unkind enough to ask you to marry mc, but I can not and will not ask you to link your life with mine, except in name. Xo, we will part at the church door; then if we should meet in the far future, you will not recognize the face of your wife." "I shall never forget your voice!" he exclaimed half passionately. ''Life will not be very much changed to you, unless you love another. Tell me, do you? It is not too late. I'etter far better that I should wed the other rather than tear you from your love." "Xo, I have no love," and his quick, frank answer reassured her. "I am perfectly free and my own master, therefore I am yours, because you wish it." "Thank you," she said, simpVy but earnestly. "Then follow me now, for to-morrow will be too late." He did as she bade him. There was a closed carriage at the door, and as Max stepped inside he heard her order the driver to proceed to St. George's parsonage. "If you are willing," she saifl to Max in an humble tone, "we will have Rev. Janues marry us. You will ask him to follow us to the chnrch." Then, as if it had suddenly dawned on her that she was asking this man to give up much for her sake, she clasped her hands appealingly. "Oh, how you must hate me!" she cried. "Truly, I am frightened now at the step I have taken! Shall we turn back shall I marry the other?" "Xevcr! You shall marry me. You wish it, and yes I wish it also." He could not see the glad light that flashed into her eyes. They soon reached the parsonage, and a few minutes later were on their way to the church, accompanied hy the pastor a kind, benevolent looking gentleman, who gazed in silent wonder at the vailed girl. It was over at last. Max took- his mother's wedding ring off his own fin ger and placed it on Helen's, and thus the bonds were scaled. Helen Castle- ton and Max Kutherford were husband and wife. At the altar, as they were turning to go down the aisle, Max bent low and whispering said: "My wife, will you not allow e to see your face? once just once." Without a word, she tore the vail from her face, flung off the long, black cape that encircled her form, then, throwing back her head with a proud, graceful movement, she faced him. Max gave a faint cry of astonishment when he saw the glorious face that was revealed to him a sorrowful face, as white as marble, large, dark, jjaintive eyes that looked at him frankly yet pleadingly eyes that thrilled him through and through. It was a face that Max Kutherford never could for get. He. made a movement as if to clasp her In his arms, but she started back, and, with a frightened cry,tnatched up her cape, then turned and fled down the long aisle. And before Max could real ize it she was driven away. Nothing was left now for him to do but to return to his boarding place. Three years have passed and Max Kutherford has reached the goal at last. He has made for himself a name and has attained a position to be proud of. He won not only that one case, but many more. His briefs were concise yet eloquent, sharp yet trnthful and powerful, and success crowned these fearless, untiring efforts. London society now greets him with extended arms, yet he turns away and shuns all such advances. He is not happy or even satisfied there is something wanting. He yearns with all his soul to make one other plea longs to win one other case, and then he will rest content. He has never seen or heard one word from his wife since that strange mar riage occurred. His search for her has been untiring but fruitless. Not a penny of her money did he touch, but carefully treasured it, hop ing to be able to restore it to her ere long. One day he was called to the bedside of a dying man, who wished to make his wilL As Max entered the room the attendants were sent out. It was not an ill-looking face that Max gazed on, but it was aged by suf fering and there was a haunted expres sion in the eyes pamful to see. "Before the will is drawn up," he said, "I wish to make a confession. You have a good face, and I have heart! of your merited success as a barrister. Perhaps you can help me." "I will endeavor to do so." "Three years ago my niece, Helen Castlcton, was living with me. She was a gooa girl ana i aia not ap preciate her. I tried to persuade her to marry a man old enough to he her father, but a man worth even more than I am, and I can count my wealth by the millions. She refused tp marry him. At last I said she should be forced to it. I remember that she replied that she would sooner die. And that night she fled. We found her the next morn ing, just outside of London. She proud ly held up a folded certificate, saying that we were too late, that she was al ready married. Then I wicked sinner that I was and am I cursed her, add ing that I never wished to see her un grateful face again, and I never have. May Heaven forgive. I would give much now to see her once more little Helen, my dead sister's child!" and his eyes glistened with tears. He con tinued more slowly: "I wish yon to search for her. Find her, and I leave the sum of ten thou sand dollars to you. The remainder is Helen's. If she be dead I bequeath it to her husband and her heirs. 1 wish to sign a will to that effect. haste! Send for the housekeeper to witness. Quick! I can not lire much longer." And the dying man gasped for breath. The will was drawn and signed. "You wiU search for her?" he pleaded. "Yes, and Heaven helping mc I will find her," and Max turned away strug gling to master himself. As he did so, the door opened, and a woman's form flew to the bedside. "Uncle!" she cried, "they told mc you were dying. Uncle! uncle! do not die without taking back that terrible curse for mother's sake bless your niece." "Helen, thank God! I bless you for give your uncle. Pray for pardon!" and with that last word his soul passed away. Kor a moment longer she knelt in silent prayer, then pressing a kiss on the closed lips she arose, and turning noticed Max for the first time. He stood there with outstretched arms. "Helen, my wife, come to me!" With a pitiful cry she tottered to wards him, and he folded her in his arms pressing warm, passionate kisses on her face. "Let me go. Max," she pleaded. "You shame me! Think what I did I " "I do. You asked mc to marry you, ray precious love, now I ask you to strive to love your husband. My wife, I love you! I have loved you from the moment you unvailcd your face to me." "Max! YdH can not mean it! Don't, for you torture me!" and she strove in vain tolree herself. "Listen," she said. "After I left yon I traveled as companion to a lady. Lately I heard that my uncle was dying, and that curse troubled mc so that I re turned to London, just in time to re ceive his blessing. I was hoping that I would not meet you. Let mc go and hide my face from your sight." "Never! I have mourned your loss more that you can know. Now that I have found you do you think I caifgivc you up? No, my love shall hold j'ou. Darling, try and love inc.' An incredulous joy shone in her fair face. "Is it true, Max husband; do you mean it do you want me mc?" and she flung her arms around his neck, and he saw the glad love-light beaming in her yes. "res, I want you my wife." Lillian May Leslie, in Jioston Globe. SCHOOLS IN THE SHAN STATES. Where Rnrmcse Uoda Are Sold to Curios ity Seekers. The Shan States, as the country lying between Ilurmah and China is called, have been explored by Europeans late ly for the first time. In "A Thousand Miles on an Elephant in the Shan States," an English traveler, Mr. II. Hallctt, gives an account of the places where the Shan boys, or such of them as arc fortunate enough to receive any instruction at all, go to school. They are taught by the monks and abbots of the Ituddhist monasteries, and sleep, with the acolytes and some of the priests, in the rooms where they are taught. The monasteries consist of a hall divided into two portions; one part level with the veranda, where the scholars are taught, and the other part, where the monks receive their visitors, two feet above the rest of the bailding. In the larger buildings the monks sleep in the cloisters; in the t.maller ones, their beds may be seen rolled up, with those of the acolytes and school boys, round their pillows against the walls. A conspicuous object in these halls is the row of images of Buddha on a raised stand against the wall in the back ground. Before them, are offerings of taper candles, flowers and prayer-flags. Perhaps the largest image is made of alabaster, in which case it has becD carried a great distance, from the quar ries in Burmah. Standing about this image, or on a lower shelf, will be other images, some of wood or clay covered with gold leaf, some of silver having a core of hard resin, others of soapstone, and some oi terra cotta, the last greatly resembling the images of saints in their niches sold in Italy. One who has an eye for curiosities is naturally attracted by these images, and seeks an interview with the abbot, who is teaching a class of boys. Aftet he is asked-many questions, he will very likely say that his eyesights, much impaired, and will more than hint that a pair of spectacles would be acccpta, ble. When the visitor hints that he would like one or more of the images of Buddha, the abbot is very greatly shocked, and declares that he can not think of parting with one, because they have been offered by the people. Bui if the bargainer pulls out a hand ful of silver, the abbot will probably, give the boys a recess, and with much haggling about the price and a show of reluctance, will sell some of the gods. He is sure, however, in order to salve his conscience, to exact a promise to treat the image with respect, declaring that if he did not, evil things will hap pen to you as well as to himself. Youth's Companion. The Average Man. One of the most galling tyrannies of modern life is that of the average man. Did you ever see the average man? No. Are you acquainted with any one who ever did? No. Have you any reason to believe that the average man ever ex isted? No, again. The fact is he is a myth. He never did and never will ex ist, ne is a philosophical abstraction, a stage property of the metaphysician, a straw man, set up to be worshiped or reviled, as the case may be. And yet we all bow down to him and talk in hushed whispers about his thoughts, deeds and desires. We are rejoiced when he is supposed to smile, and tremble when he frowns. Statisticians burn the midnight oil In order to do sums about him. Statesmen give up their lives in his service. Political econ omists look solemn as they take his measure. Physicians tell us how he may keep well, and preachers adjust the messages of the Gospel to his com prehension. And yet, of all the myriads of men who have ever lived, every one differs more or less from the supposed average man. Who will deliver the Trorld from the tyrannical rule of the average man? N. Y. Tribune. When They Ate With a Jaekknlfe. The use of forks was introduced into France with many other refined meth odsof living by Catherine de Medici, and from France was introduced into En gland, where Ben Jonson ridiculed their use as a beggarly fashion, imported from Italy "to the saving jof napkins." The first person who isTecorded to have used a fork was a daughter of a Greek emperor, who married a doge of Venice, and whose luxurious way of living was the scandal of the city of the sea. "She ate her food," says the Venetian chronicler, "with a golden fork." The knives and forks did not come into com mon use among the nobility in England till the seventeenth century; and as late as the eighteenth century, gen'Jemcn in traveling carried their knives and forks in a case, as inns did not often furnish such luxuries. Previous to the time of Elizabeth the only article to as sist in eating was the jackknife which r alsoservedfor sundry otker purposes. ' Boston Globe, FOREIGN GOSSIP. The Emperor of Germany is a pho trjrapher, like the Princess of Wales. Sixty thousand people are said to be out of work in the city of Berlin. Ninety thousand are out of work in the East End of London alone. The Duchess of Northumberland has just been buried in Westminster Abbey as a Percy, the only family in England retaining the prescriptive right to the honor of interment there. The Koyal Commission appointed to examine Westminster Abbey in its re lation to luturc burials, report that I there is comfortable room for forty ' or fifty more; but space can be made for seventy-eight more by devoting every available spot for the purpose. The present rate of Abbey funerals is i about one a year. The architect of the ' Abbey, Mr. PicaOn, recommends the l addition of various new chapels, for which some outside houses would have to be pulled down. There is a peculiar gambling club of working women in England, having thirty-four members. Each woman de posits a small sum of money as her entrance fee, and the winners pay the rent and the woman in charge of the rooms. The gambling is done by means of bits of paper containing the numbers, passed around like refresh ments on a plate, and each woman draws a piece in turn. The highest and lowest numbers win the pile, to ward which each woman contributes her share. N. Y. Sun. The Montadi Picta at Borne, which has existed ever since the year 15S3, is certainly the most lenient pawnbro ker's shop in the world. Any person who brings a pawn may borrow from 812 to S20 without paying any interest, but all that is lent above that is paid for at the rate of two per cent, per annum. At the end of two years if the pledge be not redeemed nor interest paid the pledge is sold and the over plus of the debt is laid by for the owner, who has it in his power to de mand it within one hundred years. The Imperial German census of De cember 1 gave these results: Population of Berlin, 1,547,483; Dresden, 207,000; Munich, 340,000; Cologne, 282,000; Ham burg, 570,000; Magdeburg, 202,000; Frankfort, 179,000; Strasburg, 135,000. Leipsic, which had 293,000 inhab itants, by .enlarging its limits on January 1, has 352,000, and is the third city in size in Germany. Heligoland has 2,0St inhabitants, 85 more than it had just ten years ago. The popula tion of Berlin shows an increase of 452,000 in the last ten years, and of 250,- 000 in the last five. The average annual increase for the last five years is about 52,000. The census takers found in Eibing a man forty-nine years old with 22 children. A characteristic instance of railroad management is reported from Tiflis. r reiglit train Xo. 30 nrrivedfrom Bakoo and Astafa. The superintendent of the station examining the train before al lowing it to start, heard people talking n a car for combustible materials. He decided that there must lie stowaways or thieves there, and ordered the car to lie put on a side track and closed up tightly. The inmates begged to be let out, but the -natchainik (station super intendent) was deaf to their prayers. The car was boxed up tightly for thir teen hours. At last, when it was opened, nine innocent Armenian passen gers, one of them a woman, were found in it half dead from want of air, for tne cars for c :lmstle materials arc air tight. The passengers had been put in the car for want of better accommo dation. OLD-TIME FAITH CURISTS. Paracelsus and Ills Wonderful IleMIna; Ulntment Koyml Ikying On or Hand. Some marvelous faith-cure reccipes of the middle ages were recently read be fore the American Folk-Lore society at Hamilton Hall, Columbia college. The title of the paper was "Faith Healing In the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Cent uries," and the author showed that the laying on of hands the curing of the absent, and other of the schemes of the modern faith enrists were in vogue sev eral centuries ago. In the dark days of the middle ages there were different ways of curing toothache. One way was to rub the gums of the afflicted person until the gum bled with a certain root possessing supposedly magical qualities. This having been accomplished the root was to be buried in the ground with the blood on it. The burial of the root with the blood upon it was be lieved to afford immunity from a second attack of toothache. Another method was frequently employed in sealing with this ailment. The gum was pricked nntil it bled with a black thorn or willow splint, which latter was then grafted on the parent bush or tree. There flourished in the sixteenth ccnt nry a wonderful quack named Paracel sus, whose funic as a curer was world wide. He pretended to be able to cure every disease under the sun, and his :hicf medicine was called by him a "sympathetic ointment." It was com posed as follows: Moss from the skull or bones of a skeleton that had lain for some time in the open air, man's grease, mummy's blood, man's blood, linseed oil, oil of roses, bole armoniack. These cheerful ingredients were to be mixed in a mortar, in the proportion of three drachms of each, and, after being compounded into a "pure and subtle" ointment, were to be inclosed in a box and set away, like a jar of preserves, for future use. Whenever a person came to Paracelsus af flicted with a grievous cut or other in jury the learned quack would gravely jab a stick into the blood of the patient. As soon as the blood was dry on the stick Paracelsus would thrust the stick Into his sympathetic ointment. This proceeding caused the wound or injury to speedily and permanently heal. Like all great men Paracelsus had a horde of followers, and when their leader departed his life some of his Imitators introduced a new ingredient into the sympathetic ointment, or, rather, they substituted an ingredient. Whereas, formerly it had been deemed sufficient to take moss from any skull or skeleton exposed for a time to the air, the second generation of quacks gave it out that an ordinary skeleton had no virice. Only moss, they de clared, that had come from the skull of one who had been hanged was effica cious, their reason for this being that hanging produced strangulation and strangulation drove the "vital spirit" of the victim's body up into his skull, where they remained for a period of six years, so that moss of this descrip tion maintained its mysterious remedial properties for six years. From rare chronicles of those days was read a number of quaint accounts of cures of wounds by the use of the ointment and the strange sympathetic power that came into use later. There was a laborer in Kent who cut his ankle with an axe. The axe, with the blood on it, was carried post haste to a "faith curer," who dressed the implement with the ointment, whereupon, by uni versal testimony, the wound on the an kle began to heaL But the carer, ac cidentally scraping' the ointment from the axe with hip sword, straightway there came a man running from the patient's house t say that the wound wasworae. The axe was bathed once, on i oiatssentaad the wonad la- stantly healed and the man was soon able to be up and about. On another occasion a gentleman had his wrist severely cut in a duel. Ho went to a faith curer, who put his sym pathetic powder on the ensanguined rag that had been bound around the wrist. Nothing was done to the wrist itself, but the application of the pow der to the rag cured the wound in a few days. These and other veracious talcs culled from obscure sources served to illustrate the prevalence of faith cure practices in Europe a long time ago. The most conspicuous faith curist of his time was Charles II. of England, who performed his so-called cures amid solemn pomp and ritualistic pagaent. From 1CG0 to 1GS2 the King laid "his hands" on no less than 92,107 of his sub jects afflicted with long's evil, rheuma tism and every variety of disease and ailment. In addition to the laying on of hands the royal doctor hung amulets of gold strung on silk ribbons around the necks of those brought ipto his au gust presence. Many who were car ried to the palace sprang up and walked away cured and great was the fame of the King. His courtiers proclaimed that the cures were evidence of their ruler's Divine right to the throne. N. Y. Times. AN OVER-RATED BEAST. The Klnjr of the Forest Is More Kanlly fuelled Than Is Generally Thought. A reporter asked Prof. Darling what truth there was in the general theory that a lion can be kept in subjection by the mere power of the human eye. He said it was all nonsense. Lions, he averred, were held in subjection through fear. They are afraid of a human leing. A lion born in the jungle stands in greater fear of man than a lion born and brought up in captivity, for the reason that to the captive lion the human figure becomes familiar, and the element of fear springing from a strange anil un usual appearance does not operate. Darling turns his back on the lions in the arena without any hesitation and the lions are just as well-behaved when his back is turned on them as when he Is looking at them. It is all right, how ever, he says, to keep you eye on a lion, just as it is entirely proper and neces sary to keep your eye on any dangerous enemy or opponent, simply because you want to know what an antagonist pro poses to do. He says, however, that there is nothing of the sneak about a lion at all. If he means to attack you he gives you fair notice. The ferocity of the lion, he says, is founded on fact. It is pretty dangerous for a lion to bite you, even by accident. I asked him also if it was usual among lion-tamers to cut the claws of lions or to pull their teeth. He said that the old-time lion-tamers used to cut their claws occasionally, but it was impossi ble to pull their teeth without breaking their jaws, as the teeth were so long and so strong and so firmly imbedded in the bones. He had never attempted to cut their claws, for tho reason that the lions did not like to lie disturbed by manicuring, hated to be mastered, as al ready mentioned, and the effect of such proceedings was to make them more fero cious than otherwise they w ould lie. He said he had no doubt that lions suffered occasionally from toothache, because he had found decayed teeth in their cages that had dropped out of their jaw s. But he had never known of lions undergoing dentistry of any kind, or any steps ever having been taken to preserve their teeth. As to their health, the measures ho took were rather preventive than curative. They were subject to lung troubles and did not live to be more than eight or nine years of age when in captivity. When at liberty they possi bly lived to be twenty or twenty-fivo years old. Chicago Journal. SHATTERED BY SCIENCE. All the Romance of IIoc-KIUInp; Time Has Passed Awsj . An old-time hog-killing is hard to find now. Meat is bought too cheaply from the West. The prairie farms where corn is burned as fuel, raise hogs too easily to allow Southern fanners the luxury of killing and curing their own meat. You go to the packing-houses of the West and drop a porker into the slot. In fifteen minutes he comes out clear-ribbed and sugar-cured lots with a can of pure lard thrown in, and all the hoof, hide and tallow present and accounted for. The poetry and plenty of the old plantations have given way to the steam packing mills with their millions of pounds a month. Farmers used to make their hams from necessity. Now they put them up as a luxury. It has gotten so that none but well-to-do farmers can afford to raise their own meat. In those days of the steaming Gypsy pot, the hickory ashes, the fat pen and the crisp sward dyed in purple, wc heard nothing of trichina) or pork corners. The only meat futures were when the shote was marked in July for killing in December. Sometimes a mild winter robbed the farmer of his meat. Occasionally his pig-sty and smoke-house were raided between the suns; but there was grease and plenty in the hog killing on the plantations. It was a fact that the Southern slave enjoyed as large a pro portion of the products of his labor as any class of hired labor in the world, and statistics show that the slave was a larger consumer of animal food than any class of laborers in Europe, and larger than any other laboring popula tion in the United States. You rarely see that rare spectacle of a roasted pig shipped upon the table en tire, like the peafowl in all its glory on the tables in Florence. There was the mellow apple in his mouth, caught in his expiring effort, and there, preserved with culinary skill is the ecstatic twist of his tail. Now the railroads and steamships have brought about a divis ion of labor. Your hogs are steamed in Chicago, your cows pastured in Michi gan, your turkeys dressed in Vermont, your sirup boiled in Cuba, your ice cream frozen in New York, your cuff? washed in China, and your cotton by and by will be grown in India and Africa. Then there will be nothing left in this solid and sunny South but to cultivate melons in summer and million aires in winter and write about the good old times. Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. Easily Answered. "It is 90 76-100 miles from Philadel phia to New York," said the teacher. "A cat crawls into the hollow wheel f of a freight car in Philadelphia; the wheel is thirty-one inches in diameter; how far docs the cat travel while the train goes to New York?" "About twenty-eight feet,"repliedthe smart boy at the foot of the class. "It was our cat, and she climbed out of the wheel and got run over before the train pulled out half a car length. When the train got past she looked like a map of theTur-producing region of the Hud son Bay territory, spread out over" But the morning hour having expired, and it being the teacher's day to faint, and the time having arrived, she took up the business on the speaker's desk and proceeded with the regular order. Robert J. Bnrdette. Xot Surprising. "Yon say Brooks hasn't been able to pat one foot before the other since he was caught in that wreck. Were his legs cut off?" "Ttey weren't injured at alL" 3nen it's strange he can't- use them." "Not a bit of it His head was cot a." Jury. QUEER aUFEHSTmONS. I parts of Scotland If a pedestrian,) on first seeing a new moon, will stop1 Instantly, Was his hand three times and bow he Is quite sure to find something of value within the next thirty days, Tex coasters of the Fiji Islands wiU not eat until they can sit flat upon the ground directly over a triangle made of three small fishbones; then they only handle the food with the left hand. The first visitor in a shop or market of Paris is believed by many to de termine the fortunes for the day. In, some cases the tradesman crosses him 6olf with the money received and says: "uoa Diess the hand who pays it." Tins jettatura, or evil eye. Is one of the most common superstitions of Italy. To guard against this charms are worn almost universally, as they also are in Spain, Portugal, Austria, Kussia and other countries to prevent disaster and bring good luck. Ix Co: awall a piece of money is ex hibited to the new moon when first be held; i' this money is "the first taken on market day," is duly spit on and turned three times toward the person who shows it, good luck is almost sure to follow. Tut inhabitants of the interior of the Fiji islands will not partako of food while a cloud Is in sight, especially if the cloud lies in the west, fearing thai the "Great Air Whale," whose bellow ing (thunder) Is often heard in that country, will pounce upon and utn tcrly annihilate them for such irrever ence. i Mrs. HmroERFORD, the "Duchess" of, current fiction, Is a brown-haired woman with merry eyes and a youthful disposition, though she is the mother of six children. She has written twenty seven novels, besides countless maga zine articlr- THE GENERAL MARKETS. KANSAS C1TT. March 4. CATTLE Shipping steers... . 3 35 a Butchers' steers... 2 SO u Katlvecons 2 it HOGS Good to choico heavy 3 23 it 175 37S 333 8G0 12 ec to U 7(! 230 2 13 10 U) 23 10 13 11 di c 1 (0 4 r 3 -i id W1IKAT Xo. 2 red d No. 2 hard n v COBS No. 2 IS OATS No. 2 ii tl RYK No. 2 7J FLOUU ratcnts, per sack.... 7 Fancy. 211) UAT Baled '. W BUTTEhV-CboIce creamery.. 23 a CHEESE Full cream H;a EGGS Choice. 12 a BACON Uams 10 kt Shoulders i d Sides 7 a LAKD. : t t2' POTATOES- 75 a ST. I-OUIi. CATTLK Shlpplnj; stier4.... Z e Butchers' stecn... 4 0) W HOGS racking 3 2 9 SHEEl' Fair to choice 4 ' a FLOUK Choice SK a WHEAT No. 2 red. W(J COISX No.2 VT-iJ OATS No. i fi d BYE No. 2 W Z G u;rii w JCtl si BUTTEK Creamery u il FOBK noa e to u: C1IICAGU CATTLE Shipping steer.... .1 0J e i it HOGS racking and shipping E0) 'a aw SHEEP Fair to choice 4 uo e 10 FLOUIt Winter wheat 49 a 4 S) WHEAT No. 2 red !' I7t COKN No. 2 ISid SJ OATS No.2 fi"'i9 17 RYE No. 2 M.ir b! BUTTElt Creamery a r.z l-OUK JC3 a 9 70 NI.W lOISK. CATTLE Common to prima. 8 M f 31 HOGS Good to choice 3 il i ;j FLOUIJ Good to choice ...... Ill kt bin WHEAT No 2red llCUiS 112!- COKN No.2 ir. rt (ZU OATS Western mixed &.: tt ' W, BUTTKIS CrtMimry n it 3H POEK !)13 an .s Let's reason together. Here's a firm, one of the largest the country over, the world over ; it has grown, step by step, through the years to greatness and it sells patent medicines ! ugh ! " That's enough ! " Wait a little This firm pays the news papers good money (expen sive work, this advertising!) to tell the people that they have faith in what they sell, so much faith that if they can't benefit or cure they don't want your money. Their guarantee is not indefinite and relative, but definite and absolute if the medicine doesn't help, your money is "on call." Suppose every sick man and every feeble woman tried these medicines and found them worthless, who would be the loser, you or they ? The medicines are Doctor Pierce's "Golden Medical Dis covery," for blood diseases, and his " Favorite Prescrip tion," for woman's peculiar ills. If they help toward health, they cost $1.00 a bottle each! If they don't, tltcy cost nothing "August Flower" How does he feel ? He feels cranky, and is constantly experi menting, dieting himself, adopting strange notions, and changing the cooking, the dishes, the hours, and manner of his eating August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel ? He feels at times a gnawing, voracious, insati able appetite, wholly unaccountable, unnatural and unhealthy. August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel ? He feels no desire to go to the table and a grumbling, fault-finding, over-nicety about what is set before him when he is there August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel ? He feels after a spell of this abnormal appe tite an utter abhorrence, loathing, and detestation of food; as if, a mouthful would kill him August Flower the Remedy. How does he feel ? He has ir regular bowels and peculiar stools August Flower the Remedy. g JSScales KLRUUM Btviitklitot 5-TON 60.00. IMHrt-.l ftg. , IsTnllS, I. T. AHaaatac or halili anil itmirth renewed and of and comfort follows the -use of Syrup of Figs, aa it acts in harmony with nature to effectually eteanse the system when costive or bilious. For sale in 50c and 00 bottles by all leading druggists. Totm uninitiated It Is hard to under stand ho w a fszae of whist can be honest and still be woo by a trick. Blngbamtoa Republican. Sxilax "8o Wantrox didn't marry for beauty!" Brodlz "No; be married for booty." Epoch. Mast people think that tho word "Bit ters" can Le used only in connection with an intoxicating beverage. This is a mis take as tho best remedy for all diseases of the blood, liver, Mdneys, etc., is Prickly Ash Bitters. It is purely a mclicine and every artielo used in Us manufacture is of veget able origin of known curative qualities. Ay empty larder ought to be enough to keep the wolf from the door. Texas Sift inrrs. If. von want to bo cured of a cough use Halo's Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike s Toothache Drops Curo in one minute Tnr expenses of an electric company may be summed up in current expenses Law rence American. The reason most poets think to co pnr pose is that theirthoughts are idyl thoughts. Philadelphia Press. How sad it makes a man feel to observe a five dollar straw hat on a seven cent bead. Kearney Enterprise. The crockery dealer knows better than to sell his wares by cracking them up. Binghamton Republican. A good text for a baseball sermon "where are the nisei" liurUcrton Free Presa. IIcst, easiest to use and cheapest Piso's Remedy for Cttarrh. By druggists. 23c. HOW TO GET WELL is a question of vital importance, but it is equally important that you use some harmless remedy; many people completely v-eck their health by taking mercury and potash mixtures, for pimples and blotches, or some other trivial disease. S. S. S. is purely vegetable containing no mercury or poison of any kind. And is at the same time an infallible cure for skin diseases. Treatise on Blood and Skin diseases free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga. "fhmay beh-ue wh&frsonre men say. Ilrn&un beueawha.belmen say." endorsesgSapoIio. .I is a. solid c&ke ofcourin soa.p For many years SAPOLIO has stood as the finest and best article of this kind in the world. It knows no equal, and, although it costs a trifle more its durability makes it outlast two cakes of cheap makes. It is therefore the cheapest in the end. Any grocer will supply it at a reasonable price. Koch's Discovery and Pise's Cure for Consumption. 1. Under Koch's treatment many have imoroved, 2. It can only bo used in the early stages of Con sumption. 3. It Is dangerous, and sometimes fataL 4. Only n few can obtain tho lymph. 6. V iyaician90nlycanusett,evenwithgTeateare. 6. It la EAldtbat byltsute disease ta sometimes transicxrod to sound ors"-uifl- iBSOKLY ASH OTTERS One of Ihs most Important organs of lbs human bod islhoLIVE.X When it fails to properly perform its functions tho entire system becomes deranged. The BRA1H, KIDNEYS, STOMACH, BOWELS, all refuse to perform their work. DYSPEPSIA, CON STIPATION, RHEUMATISM, KIDNEY DIS EASE, etc., are the results, unless some, thing is dono to assist Nature in throwing off the impurities caused try the inaction ol a TORPID LIVER. This assistance so necessary will bo found In Prickly Ash Bitters! It acts directly on the LIVER, STOMACH and KIDNEYS, and by ilsmild and cathartic effect and general tonic qualities restores these organs to a sound, healthy condition, and euros all diseases arising from these causes. It PURIFIES THE BLOOD, tones up the system, and restores perfect health. II your druggistdoesnot keep itaskhimte order it for you. Seed 2c stamp for copy ol "THE HORSETRAINER," published By BS- FIUCKLY ASH BITTEBS Ct., Bole Proprietor!, ST. LOUIS, MO. The Ghastly Record of dcaHutbatrmilt from malaria I fright, fnl. Tlirro is no disease tliat is noliMidioofl In its attack. Its approach Is stealthy and. It permeates etery libra of tlio body, and remedies, irhicii if applied at the ontset. by delay lose their power. Dr. Tntfs liwr Fills have prorcn the most valuable mala rial antidote ever discovered. A. noted clergyman of Now Torlc pronounce them "tho ereaiest blessing of the nineteenth century." and (ays: "in these days of defec tive plumbiugr and sewer iras, no family should be without them." They are pleas ant to take, belug covered with a vanilla sugar coating. Tntt's Liver Pills, SURE ANTIDOTE TO MALARIA. 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