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._w? ANTARTIC MYSTERIES. Retctoq grnnwei? Key®* $wilca i^irt Np Explorer Goes. The Antartio is a region of eternal svinter and of uuroelting snow, where— go far as is k$evn—not a single plant jinds life within the circle and where never a living creature roams. The zoologist is not drawn to the southern pircle as he is to the northern, and yet the attractions for him are great, he pause they have all the charms of the unknown. It is believed that only a few of the hardiest birds build in a few of the sheltered corners of the Antartic, but who knows? Who can say that deep within those awful solitudes may not be revealed the mystery of the life of the fur soal when he vanishes from the waters of the north Pacific? Or that on some Antartic continent or island may not be found the p" oeless remnant of the great auk tribe? We know not, at any rate, what riches or poverty may be there until we go to see. And nobody has yet gone to see—beyond the fringe. It is a curious fact that no one lias ever wintered within the Antartic. many as have been the expediaioiiR and ships, companies which, compulsQi'iiy pr voluntarily, have wintered in the? Arctic. There has been no need to do go, for there has been no possible goal beyond, such as India, which first led pur mariners into the Arctic no scien tific romance such as has character ized the quest for the northern pole. And yet another thing differentiates the Arctic from the Antarctic. In the uorth there is—unless Dr. Nansen is grievously mistaken—a pole surround ed by water. In the south there is a pole surrounded by land—a polar basin its opposed to apolar continent. Wbil^ the books and essays, the theories ar.a journals, which have been published ponceruing the Arctic region, would fill a library, a handful of volumes con tains ail that has ever been printed of records of the Antarctic. THE SQUIRREL HUNTERS. A Strange People Who Uive in the Mississippi Pine Woods. "I have been among the squirrel hun ters," said the gentleman who had just returned from his vacation. "The squirrel hunters are a peculiar people inhabiting the southwestern counties pf Missisippi and adjoining Louisiana parishes. They have been living there for generations and preserve the primi tive customs and habits of their fore fathers. The squirrel hunter is less a descendant of Kentucky setr ?rs, for they are all tall stately pec-^Ie, and great lovers of the hunt. "But there is now little large game to be found, and so they spend their time hunting the squirrel, which is Also scarce. The squirrel hunters are farmers, but raise little except corn. 'The pine hill region where they live is not penetrated by railroads, and there are hundreds of such people who have never seen a steam engine. I saw p. great many of the oldest squirrel hun ters of the country, and -found them to jbe very strange looking' people!" They alf wear long hair, which often reaches down to their belts. "They wear homespun pantaloons p.nd homemade shoes. Their shirts are oftentimes made from the skins of squirrels, which they wear in the win ter, while in the summer they wear an open blouse shirt, also of home make. Their houses are made of pine logs, between which mud is placed as a plastering. These houses are covered with pine boards sjilit from the woods. There are never any inelosures about their homos, their yards opening out into the pine forest. These squirrel hunters, while they have no churches, are a very roligous people, though a groat deal of .superstition is connected vrttit their worship. Their churches are made of boughs of pine, placed up on scaffolding, to keep out the sun. Now ana then a country revival is held in these arbor houses, but this is (Seldom." A Typewriter for Book-Keeping. A new typewriter is announced that differs from the standard Instruments in being available for use on books of record, insurance policies and other *ar.-« documents of varying sizes. It .vill receive a book of any required width or thickness will write a line Song or short and is so devised that -.he distance between lines may be scal ed to suit the amount of space at hand the fancy of the operator. While ii is essentially a book-keeping ma chine, it can be employed for every Ascription of work done by the or :nary typewriter, and it is as effective •1 a single 3heet of note paper as on a mble-entry ledger. Its construction is simple and compact, and it weighs Lnt 10 pounds. It is provided with rib bons of various colors, and one of which can be instantly inserted or re ,1, placed. It has an excellent arrange ment for manifolding a platen of brass can be quickly substituted for the hard, rubber platen used for single copies, and a hard, unyielding surface is thus provided for the type to strike against, and as a consequence the last copy of a dozen or fifteen duplicates is as dis tinct as the first. Three Subs and an Inverted Rain bow. 'Hie following is taken literally word tor word from a rare copy of the Brighton (England) Advertiser of Juno 8. 1797: '-A rare phenomenon is re ported from St. Malo. Recently dur ing the afternoon, between the hours of 4 and 5, three perfect suns were tieen all in a row above the western horizon. The sky was very clear at fcb? time, and there was no one who saw the unusual sight that believes it to have been a mirage or other atmos pheric Illusions. The central sun seem ed more brilliant than his two lumin ous attendants, and between the throe there seemed to be a communication In the shapes of waves of light com posed of all the prismatic colors. At about the same time a rain bow made •Its. appearance at a short distance Hbm-e the central sun, upside down h*t is to say, the two ends pointed off- rd the zenith and the bow's neck jWxrd the horizon." W l\ would hardly be proper to sav that use iura?r®r who is hanged is treated with cord-ialitj. POINTS ON ADVERTISING. How It Is Done «n«l How It Pnys— Merchants Are Interested in Thlx. The customers attracted to the store of a merchant who keeps an "ad" run ning usually keep him running. The- man who never reads the ad vertisements in the papers doesn't read the editorial or news matter ei ther. The value of a display ad, like that of a good suit of clothes-- or a hen—de pends a good deal on the set of it. Whether the advertisemnts of the future will be r.cad by more design than by accident depends upon the men who writes them. It has been noticed that the most persistent solicitor of advertising pa tronage is frequently the newspaper publisher who refuses to make a detail ed statement of his circulation. the "situation wanted," ad-:' had as mapjf interested readers as those in tliQ "help wanted" columns, the num ber of men out of employment in all of the large cities would be consid erably reduced. Advertisers who frequently change their mediums and methods should remember that a constant dropping will not wear away the stone, to any ap preciable extent, when the drops fall on different parts of it. When an advertiser who seeks pub licity for his goods through the med ium of almanacs and pamphlets wants a little complimentary notice printed in rugard to the same he does not ap ply to the publishers of othei- almanacs and pamphlets, but to the editor of a regular newspaper. As the newspaper advertising of pro prietary medicines is prohibited in Germany any person in that country who happens to be afflicted with a dozen or more diseases is compelled to remain in total ignorance of the fact. —Printers Ink. NAPOLEON'S READY ANSWER He Compare* His Parchment Thin ness to a Fat Woasnn, After the thirteenth Vandemaire, when Napoleon Bonaparte was really in the position of Dictator of Paris, he had to contend against a famine that made public distribution of bread necessary. Naturally the scarcity of food was liable to become a serious ele ment in the politics of the time. It was essential to look carefully to the state of feeling in the mob, which had so often proved itself capable of over throwing an administration. Napo leon was walking along the street, With a part of his staff one morning after the distribution of bread had'been in sufficient, and tumultous scenes were occurring in front of the doors of the bakers. As the officers passed the crowd je .-ed at them. One woman, monstrously big and fat, made herself conspicuous by wild gesticulation. "Ail that crowd of epaulet wearers are making a laughing stock of us!" she exclaimed bitterly. "If they can eat and grow fat it is all the same to them if the' poor people are starving." Napoleon stopped aud interrupted her. "My good woman," he said, "look me over carefully and tell me which of us two is the fatter just now." Napoleon at that time was as thin as a rail. He says himself. "I was like a sheet of parchment." The crowd took in the situation at once and broke into laughter and cheers. The story was told all over Paris, and had avery ap preciable influence in calming the irri tation of th populace. Cnn liliots be Cared? Dr. G. E. Slmttleworth writing in an English medical journal, takes a very sanguine view of the effect of system atic training on idiots.In reviewing the statistics oi: one of th? largest training institutions for 'mbeellea in Eu.L'land,he shows that idiots have been improved, educated and even cured not one in 1.000 has been entirely refractory to treatment not one in 100 has wot been madejmore happy and healthy more than 30 per cent have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and of working like the third of a man more than 40 per cent have become capable of the ordinal'* transactions of life under friendly control, of under standing moral and social abstractions, of working like two-thirds of a man and 25 to SO per cent have come near er and nearer the standard of man hood, until some of them have defied the scrutiny of good judges when com pared with ordinary young men and worren. It was found after systematic inquiry from year to year as to the ca reer of pupils discharged on completion of their seven years' course of training, that 10 per cent were, or bad been,' earning Tvacrps 5 pGr c^nt wwe r^mun eratively employed at home, and 3.5 per cant were (in their friends' opin ion) capable of earning wages if suita ble positions could be found for them. 4.bout 22 per cent were reported to be more or less useful to their friends at home, while another 22 per cent were reported as of little or no use 29 per cent had gravitated to work houses and lunatic asylums, and the remaining 8.5 per cent had died. Married Jockeys. Horsemn always hear with evident regret the announcement of tne in tended marriage of their jockeys. To be sure, it has a tendency to steady them, but then turfmen claim marriage cowers a good boy. This terras to be the turning point in his career, and no matter how courageous and u&ring he may have been before, a great *iange is always noticed after his marriage. Reckless rides around tarns and dar ing rashes through big fields are sel dom attempted by married jockeys. They leave the dangerous work to the more experienced youngsters. An owner doesn't like to roe his hoiv.e pocketed or cut off, and that is why he prefers to have up an unmarried jock ey, who is not bothered «tvith wifely warnings before going to the rost to be careful, for her sake at least.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Ideal- Wl ARE tr New We pound it out anjlearnit lovely Jaclc—I suppose you had a time in Philadelphia. Jess—I should say we Hi pro was scarcely a morning th-jt ve didn't 'ro out of town for the duv. ATTENTION! BBS as NOW READY ..FOR BUSINESS. 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