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OURAY,
With the Long Bow
"By nature's wvifcs, snoo folly mm ft
All About the Little Girl Who Used to Stick Out Her Tongue
and Wrinkle Her Nose at You.
WAS asking one of the Young Ones the other day if they
still sang those old pieces about eyes with "kraeliglit
shining there," and all that agreeable, comfortable old
nonsense. And she thought that they did. They used to
look up at you sideways from the piano when they were
whooping it up on:
Lift your eyes to mine, my darling,
Let me see the lovehght there
For you know I love you dearly
And to me there's none so fair
And at times I often wonder
Would you sorrow if I'd dare
Tell you that my love had vanished.
Tell me, sweetheart, would you care?
And the way they threw the wiggly voice into that "Tell
me, sweetheart," would just break you all up, and you'd lean
over the piano and remark, "You bet your old shoes, I'd
care," and she would reply, "Now, don't be silly."
Yet this "lifting your eyes to mine, my darling," is
not the only wav they do it. But it is the only way it can
be expressed in song. It would not do, for instance, to sing,
Stick your tongue out at me, darling,
nor to warble:
Wrinkle your nose at me, my darling,
jet you take a pretty girl and let her stick out her tongue
and wrinkle her little foolish nose at you, and she has you
going just as quick as she does by hanging out the lovelight
in her lamps. But who would sit up at the piano and sing:
Wrinkle your nose at me, my darling,
Let me see the wiggles there
Stick your little carmine tongue out
And you have me gone for fair.
Vnd at times I often wonder,
Would you sorrow if I'd dare
blap you on the wrist, my darling.
Tell me, sweetheart, would jou care?
Say, but weren't we the village cut-ups in those davs?
But we had to have the songs about the lovehghts and not
about the nose wrinklings, tho the latter occurred just as
often as the other. Perhaps they went together sometimes.
The best place to hang out the lovelights may have been
at the piano, but grve us the good old front steps for having
her wrinkle her little pug nose at you. Do you remember
how they used to sit around and tee-hee and giggle at
nothing whatever for hours together until mamma did a
speaking turn at the upstairs window just as the lamplighter
wasjputting them out on the streets?
And there are people who kick on tins world and say-
it isn't any good. The universe ought to stick out its tongue
and wrinkle up its nose at them, and it usually does. Don't
abuse a good thing.
The McBnde, Mich., Review has an aiticle of protest on
the part of a man whose shade trees have suffered from too
fierce "courting." The Review sa\s:
W Shannon requests the oung gentleman who ties his
hoise to his shadetrees "Sunday nights and some other nights"
to hereafter bring a bag of horsefeed, or find another hitching
post. Sa\s Mr. Shannon. "We have no objection to a fellow
courting seven nights a week, but have a serious objection to
our shadetrees being chewed up by a hoise while his master is
in the 'fairvland of first love,' or any other place."
What's the use of getting a crust like that 311st because
a horse eats up a few of your shade trees. The old fellow
who, in the propei spirit, recalls his'own riotous youth ought
to provide a hitching post and perhaps a little breakfast
tood for the horse who gets nothing out of it anyway, ex-
cept a chance for meditation.
The great joy of motherhood has come to Slippers, the
famous six-toed cat at the White House, and the strange
thing aboux it is that Slippers' six little kittens all have six
toes on each paw, just like mamma. The president confided
this great secret to Representative J. Adam Bede yester
day. He called the representative to one side, whispered
earnestly to him and then slapped him on the back. The
door of the president's room was open and other membeis
of congiess saw this.
Representative Bede came out, looking mysterious, and
as he reached the door he turned and said to the president:
"Can I have one of them?"
I think it can be arranged," the president replied.
"Grabbing off something, aie you?" asked several of
Mr. Bede's colleagues of the house, who were jealously
watching him.
"Oh, I guess I'll get one," Mr. Bede said.
There was much speculation what office Bede was after.
A Kansas woman some yeais ago mamea one of those
uncommunicative men who never says anything. People
wondered how it came about. One day she told somebody
that she said the sweet things and then told him what he
should anwer. as tlie-y do in storv books. He sort of smiled
as if to say, "Consider them said," and she was satisfied.
But it turned out that a woman of any spunk at all could
hardly live with this man, for he wouldn't quarrel either,
so she thinks of all the mean'things to say herself, and then
his mean answers, and then heis, etc., etc., carrying the fuss
to a full and satisfactory completion all by herself. Some
times she tells him of their- little quarrels and makings up
and if he feels any interest them he does not express it.
Dain a man who ne\er sajs anything' I would be a
relief sometimes if he would only find fault. A. J. R.
What the Market Affords
is the time to begin the plentiful use of green salads
and irevh vegetables if one would avoid the lassitude
usual later in the spring. Whether Lent is observed as a
religious penod or not it is suggestive of plain living, and at
the veiy opening of spring a change in the rich diet of the
strenuous winter season appeals to every thoughtful person
of healthy appetite as a provision which is in line with
common sense. The debilitation of the first days of fervid
sunbeams would lose half its terror were one to get one's
body into trim to meet it.
It's not half so much the weather, humidity and heat,
notwithstanding, which "wilts the populace as soon as the
warm days set as the prevailing physical conditions in
which the weather finds the people. Plain living and high
thinking for Lent, whatever the creed, for the sa"ke of com-
fort in May and June. Dress the salads plentifully with
oil, be generous with the olives, cut meat out of several of
the weekly meals, use fruits for dessert, drink plenty of
cold water, and the family doctor will have less money this
year than usual for his summer outing.
DUG OUT BY HIS FAITHFUL DOG.
COL.Edward Panavau, a miner, was dug from
a snowshde by his dog after being buried for ten
jninutes.
Panavan was, climbing his way over Mount Hajden when
he was caught by a snowshde, which swept him down the
mountainside 100 feet into a gulch. The toe of Panavan's
boots was all that remained visible, and the dog, which had
ibeen following 50 feet behind, jumped into the gulch and
began pawing the snow away. When Panavan's face was un-
^overed he was unconscious.
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Evening,
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EGGS,
THE GOAL STRIKE EXTENDING.
Mr. HomebodyWell, this coal shoveling is pretty near over
for another season. Fourteen tons isn't bad for
one stretch.
Curios and Oddities
HENS LAYING HANDLES.
with handles for convenience in eating them, are
being laid by White Leghorn hens on a north Jersey
farm, according to authentic testimony of Orange citizens,
and a Greenwich street dealer, who has one of the curiosities
on exhibition at his place here.
The egg that has so excited local mafket men is normal
in size and general appearance, except that on the smaller
end there is a protuberance, or rather a continuation of the
shell formation, measuring half an inch at its base, tapering
for nearly two inches, and ending two points, which re-
semble the tail of a fish. The form of the excrescence is a
curve, the smaller end resting near the middle of the shell
and having a perfect resemblance to the handle of a teacup:
The opposite side of the eggshell is flattened, so that the
structure will stand alone.
The hens, it is said, have laid several eggs of similar
conformation, differing in size, but each furnished with a
well-defined handle.Philadelphia Public Ledger.
NO OZONE IN LONDON.
HERE is no fresh air in the heart of London, according
to the conclusions of a recent investigation. He says:
"No evidence of ozone was anywhere apparent, except at
Brownswood park, in the northeast. It was from the north
east quarter the wind -was blowing and the air had lost all
trace of ozone before it had reached Hyde park at Bushey
park, altho practically a country district, no ozone was pres
ent in the air. London had not only abstracted the goodness
out of the air that swept over it, but had added to it the ex-
halations from the breath and bodies of millions o human
beings and of tens of thousands of animals. Persons living
within a one or two-mile radius of Charing Cross cannot
have fresh air entering their dwellings at any time."
ARE WE UNDERWEIGHT?
HIS world is to be weighed once more, doubts being en
tertained by scientists as to the accuracy of previous
estimates: but whether the error be a case of short-weight
or overweight has yet to be settled. An expedition is to set
out to Egypt, where the great pyramid will be utilized by the
investigators. First, the weight of the pyramid will be as-
certained, and then the weight of the earth estimated from
its proportionate size. The swinging of pendulums will be
the gage. From the force exerted by the pyramid in pulling
the swinging pendulum from its natural course the weight
of the pyramid can be estimated, and that of the earththe
exact size of which is knowncan then be calculated easily.
WHAT THAT HEADACHE COMES FROM.
4"C VERY headache is not due to indigestion," said a
C* doctor. ''There axe no less than fifty kinds of head
aches, each due to a different cause.
"The more frequent headaches are:
A dull headache across the forehead, due to dyspepsia.
A pain in the back of the head, due to the liver.
A bursting pain in both temples, due to malnutrition.
"An ache on the top of the head, as tho a weight pressed
on the skull, due to overwork.
"An ache between the brows, just above the base of the
nose, due to eye strain."
FISH THAT SPIN SILK.
YSSUS, of which fine, iridescent stockings and shawls
are made in Sicily, is a silk made by a fish.
The puina is" a Mediterranean shellfish that has an odd
little tube at the end of its tongue. Out of this tube, spide/*-
fashion or silk-worm-fashion, it spins a silk thread, with
which it fastens itself to any rock that it wishes to ad-
here to.
When the puina moves on, its fastening, its silken cable,
remains behind. This cable, which is called byssus, the
Sicilian fishermen gather. Byssus weaves into the softest,
finest, sheeniest of fabrics, but it is very rare and expensive.
Some of the screws used in the works of a watch are so
small that 307,000 of them are required to make a pound.
IHE MINNEAPOLIS JOU
'Tis Pattiast Straagel"
OFFICIAL OAT ABSENTS HERSELF.
BABU in charge of the documents of a certain town
in India found that they were being seriously damaged
by rats. He wrote to the government to provide him with
weekly rations for two eats to destroy the rats. The re-
quest was granted and the two cats were installed, one, the
larger of the two, receiving slightly better rations than the
other. All went well for a few weeks, when the supreme
government of India received the following dispatch: I
have the honor to inform you that the senior eat is absent
without leave. What shall I do?"
The problem seemed to baffle the supreme government,
for the babu received no answer. After waiting a few days
he sent off a proposal: "I re Absentee Cat. I propose to
promote the junior cat, and in the meantime to take into
government service a probationer cat on full rations." The
supreme government expressed its approval of the scheme,
and things once more ran smoothly in that department.
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younger
at that
Babies-and Snakes
the man to the little
woman, taking a seat
near her.
"Isn't it enough to
make One cry," sne re
plied "Oh," con
tinued she, "if I had
money enough, so that
I could spend my time
working among those
people I am sure I
could do some good.
As it is, my business
brings me into contacl
with something of the
seamy side of life and
so forth.
lunch.
was a blustering sort of a morning some
where around about 2 o'clock, and the
Third avenue car, as it went on its up
town way, had only four passengers when
it passed Coqper Union. One was a be
draggled woman of middle age with a
shawl over her head, and the second was
a baby, crying peevishly, which she carried
in her arms and threatened to drop at every
lurch of the ear. The third passenger was
a neatly and modestly dressed little woman,
who sat opposite the drunken woman. She
had such a sweet little faceit seemed to be
all goodness and kindness, like that of a
Sister of Charity, and made a sharp contrast
with the bloated and besotted features of
the older woman across the car from her.
One felt that there was something bizarre in
woman being out in a Third avenue
hour, alone and unattended. Yet one
felt that she could have gone anywhere and been safe from
insultthere was that about her which precluded any but
respectful thoughts. In her lap she held a well-worn hand
bag, of which she seemed very careful. The fourth pas-
senger was a manhe who writes these linesand be looked
at the two women and thought of the strange sights one
sees in a great city. The difficulty which the bedraggled
woman had in keeping the baby in her arms evidently made
the little woman nervous, for she suddenly deposited her
handbag on the seat, crossed over and sat down beside her
degraded sister.
"Oh, what a pretty little baby," she said. "Let me
hold it a minute. Won't you, please?"
The bedraggled one looked into the eyes of the little
woman and "what she saw there caused her own eyes to fall
and a look of sullen shame to show itself even upon her
swollen features. Without a word she resigned the filthy
mass of rags to the woman at her side, and leaning out at
the car door, muttered to the conductor the number of the
street she wanted to get out at, sank back in the corner
and" went to sleep. The little woman held the baby lovingly
in her arms, crooned to it gently and gazed long and wist
fully down into the dirty little face. The child, with a deep
sigh of satisfaction* stretched one soiled, little pudgy fist^
out on the woman 's bosom, turned its face to her and slept.
After a while, "Here you are," said the conductor,
shaking the drunken woman by the shoulder "next street's
yours. Wake up! The bedraggled one roused herself with
difficulty and, as the car came to a standstill at the next
corner, got staggeringly to her feet and reached out her
arms for the baby.
"Wait until you get out," said the little woman. I
will hand you the child."
It took the conductor and the man in the car to steady
the woman to get her off the car, the little woman following
with the baby. In the
cold rain of the street _%ri%y
it was raining now //*^%^///4
the mother seemed
to partially regain
command of herself,
the baby was placed in
her arms and the car
went on.
A sad sight," said
'LET ME HOLD IT A MINUTE."
I am ablethat is, I try to do something for the unfor
tunate and the desolate."
The man*s curiosity was excited. What could this little
lay Sister of Charity be anyhow? Somehowhe did not
exactly know howthe man gathered in the course of the
conversation into which they entered, that the little woman
was late in getting home from her business that night and
that her invalid husband would be worried. Tomorrow
was payday and she had stopped down to help the pro-
prietor with his books, for he was "not much of a hand at
figures.J'
What sort of a business and what sort of a proprietor
was it that kept a woman employee up so late, he won
dered! He thought of the theater, but, clearly, if she had
been an actiess she would have used some technical term
which would have betrayed her, and then, somehow, she did
not seem like an actress. Women of her calibre who are
actresses are not often found on Third avenue cars at 2 a- m.
"Ah, that poor woman," said the mysterious one, re-
verting to the subject which had opened their conversation
"and that poor child! What a mysterious fate it is that
bestows children on such a woman as that and denies them
toto-others" she ended lamely, and with a look of deep
sadness. Then, bughtening at once with a smile that was
like the sun breaking thru a cloud, she said with a little
laugh, "Here are my pets," and, on the word, opened the
handbag which she earned in her lap.
The man bent over, glanced in and started back with
an exclamation of horror. There, coiled close together, was
a mass of serpents which almost filled the bag. The woman
gave a silvery little laugh as she snapped the mouth of the
bag together again.
I know," she said, "that most people don't like them,
but lo me they are just as dear as can be I don't know
what should do if I didn't ha\e my pets. And my hus
band is just as fond of them as I am. I take them home
with me every night and they sleep under the kitchen stove
as peaceably as can be. You have no idea how intelligent
and cunning they are. I am a snake charmer, you see, in
one of the Bowery museums. I get off here. Good night."
~Ne York Press.
THE QUICK OR THE DEAD.
WO congressmen were talking about the late Jerry Simp
son.
"He was a level-headed man," said the first. "He was
a foe to fads. He had a shrewd humor.
"He and I and a clergyman one day lunched together.
The clergyman was a faddist of a marked type. He carried
a pocket microscope, wore health underwear, and so on and
"This clergyman wouldn't drink any water with his
I "wouldn't dai-e to do so," he said solemnly. 'It is so
full, TOU know, of animalcule. I never drink water unless
it has been boiled.'
"Congressman Simpson emptied his glass, and looked
at the clergyman with a quizzical smile.
','^1 drmk my water raw,' he said. 'I'd rather be an
aquarium than a graveyard.
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March" 31, 1906: N
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Daily Puzzle
March 31, 1814Ninety-two years ago today the allies entered Paris.
Find Napoleon.
ANSWER TO YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE.
Upside downbetween men.
Picfure~m
If you are suffering from impure blood,
thin blood, debility, nervousness, ex
haustion, you should begin at once with
Ayer's Sarsaparilla, the Sarsaparilla you
bave known all your life. Your doctor
knows it, too. Ask him all about it.
We have ao secrete! We publish
the formulas of all oar medicines.
Imitation Makes Its Bow to
Barrington Hall.
Imitationthough often annoying to the originalis only
one of the tributes paid to Barrington Hall, the steel-cut cof-
fee. A Philadelphia" of national notoriety read the booklet
we are sending out freely explaining the steel-cut process,
and telling other facts about coffee in general and Barrington
Hall in particular. Under another name instead of Barring
ton Hall, our ideas and in some respects the very language of
our booklet were copied, and it looked as though we had a
lawsuit on our hands to protect us against his buccaneering
tactics. But buccaneering In business as on the high seas
seldom lasts, and the sheriff closed down the imitator.
BarrirvgtorCHafl
A -Af AT*\ -m+t.
The ^c*S C-XJlTB others are mere pretend
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drunk by many people who feel that they cannot drink any
other coffee. The tannin-bearing, yellow skin, the astringent
principle, found injurious by some, is taken out of Barrington
Hall by the steel-cutting process. You will never know how
good coffee can be had every day of your life until you use
Barrington. HalL
Roasted, steel-cut, packed by machinery in sealed tins and
guaranteed by Baker & Co., Importers, Minneapolis.
For sale by the better class of grocers at 35c per pound.
When the Sea Is Calm
All Boats Alike Snow Mastership in Floating.
During the past year there has been a stoim of criticism of
insurance companies
But not even a breeze has troubled the STATE MUTUAL LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY OF WORCESTER, MASS. It manage
ment and results have been appro\ed and last \eai*s business ex-
ceeded any pievious vear's It is great to sustain such a reputa
tion in ordinary timesmuch greater now
The State Mutual"s experience it easily explained
It operates under the Massachusetts law, which makes a com
pany management properls responsible to its pollc-v holders
Its management Is extremely economical The total Home
Office expense for 1905 was only |77 061, covering the salaries
of all the officers and the entire Home Office staff of clerks
The State Mutual has no affiliated trust or promoting com
panies and makes annual distribution of surplus on all participating
policies so that all profits go to the policy holders, and ea bv
year the actual results of its management are known and pub
lished
If you want insurance send your name and age to a State Mutual agent
and do It now. Delay cannot benefit you and may deprive your family of the
amount of the policy which you would take.
C. W. VAN TUYL, General Agent, 408-14 Loan & Trust Building.
Augustus Warren, Geo. A. Alnsworth, F. W. Woodward, R. S. Thomson, Solon
Royal, O. D. Davis, Ezra Farnsworth, Jr., Delbert R. Rand.
"The lives of all your loving complices lean upon your health" and health does
not last. If you need insurance, take It now.
Old
Underoof
Rye
has an earned reputation for
superior quality.
which we own. All
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CHAS.DENNEHY & COMPANY,
Chicago.
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is the only steel-cut coffee
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