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Art of Buying Suspenders
AST fall, when returning from a hunting
trip, I stopped at the town of Lawton
over night. For some time I had been
promising myself a new pair of suspend
ers, and I dropped into a large, indus
trious-looking store to keep my promise.
After the clerk had sold* a man four
pounds of ehese and a lantern to go with
it, I stepped up to the counter and in-
formed him what ailed me. The clerk proved to be a good
sort of a fellow, pleasant and agreeable and full of informa
tion on the subject of suspenders. He said if I hadn't culti
vated a taste for any particular brand, he would like to
recommend for steady use and staying qualities "The Boose
velt" suspenders he had used a pair himself for two years
and they had never failed him. His brother also used them
and enjoyed them very much. During a lull in the conversa
tion, occupied by the clerk in putting a dog out, the farmer,
who had bought the cheese, offered his testimonial. He had
used "The Roosevelt" continually for four years. He al-
ways found them willing and ready to do all that was re-
quired of them. They were the clear thing for pitching
bundles or shocking grain, taking up the slack quickly and
letting go of it gracefully. Before he used.themshe was
troubled with in-growing pains under his shoulder blades,
causing him at times to quit work and -sit around for days
in a rocking chair. If he could not get another pair he would
be obliged to rent his farm and live in town. The proprietor
of the store, who was also the postmaster, stopped pound
ing stamps and made a short pointed address on the subject
under discussion. He confirmed my suspicions that "The
Eoosevelt" suspenders were what I was loking for, and I
hastily purchased a pair and set them to work. I have had
no occasion to regret my choice. I am using them daily, and
iwhile I have not pitched any bundles with them, I ata con-
fident that they would last as long as I would at the work.
Grafton Record.
SOME RECORD GET-RIOH-QUICKS.
OTHING in real life is more grim than the way in
which Fortune, sought or unsought, will suddenly smile
upon an individual, and then with equal suddenness with
draw her favors. Such cases, of course, are to be seen by
the scores at gambling resorts like Monte Carlo. Quite re-
cently a young Austrian officer won 23,000 at the table in
five days and lost every penny of it on the sixth.
The vicissitudes of fortune were never more vividly illus-
trated than by the evidence given recently in a bankruptcy
case in the Sydney court.
The bankrupt, a mining engineer, had won and lost no
fewer than six fortunes in his lifetime. Once he made 7,000
in a single week by buying a mine and selling.it again. So
soon as he was paid the money he went to Wyoming and
invested it, and some three thousand besides, in purchasing
an interest in anothera coppermine. Before night came
the news that the copper lode had suddenly "pinched out."
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iThe investors were beggared.
THE'TARKER
OFFERED J1JJ
TEJTIMQNY
Here is a story of a very different type. "We are accus
tomed to think of the Tichborne claimant as the record
swindler of the past century. He was, howeverto use an
'Americanism"not a circumstance" to James Addison
TReavis, who spent more than twenty years in building up a
1 fictitious claim to 12,500,000 acres of land in Mexico and
'Arizona. This enormous territory, which is, roughly speak-
$ ing, ten times the size of Devonshire, was originally granted
I to Don Miguel, a grandee of his court, by Philip of Spain,
and is still belonging to his heir, if one could be found.
Reavis invented one in the shape of a beautiful Mexican
girl. There is no space here to detail the ingenious forgeries
i of birth and marriage certificates, the false miniatures, and
I other evidence which this brilliant swindler prepared in or-
der to bolster up the claims of the girl.
Fortune smiled upon him. The' great Peralta claim was
brought before the United States courts. John Mackay, the,
millionaire, financed it. A verdict was 'given for the girl,
who was by this time Reavis' wife. Reavis was. turning to
I Receive the congratulations of his. friends on his enormous
inheritance when a telegram was handed in. It contained
I the news that a second examination had proved that the
original deed of gift to Don Miguel was a forgery. The
yerdict was revoked, Reavis was tried and sent to prison, for
I a long term.
s, Maximilian Hershal, a wealthy miser, was found one day
in his wretched room dying, and carried to the hospital. At
1 once he asked that his adopted daughter might be sent for.
Oh her arrival he told her that he had left her all his
wealthover 300,000. Breath was failing him fast, but after
a short pause he began to speak again, in low, broken whis
pers. Suddenly he fell back and expired. He had not re-
vealed the secret of where his bonds or cash were hidden.
Search proved useless, and the poor girl, wealthy for a min-
ute, went back to work for 15 shillings a week.Answers.
&- INTOXICATING FOODS.
JAG from a dish of liver was once my portion," said
i an Orientalist.
"It happened in the Sahara. I was spending the winter
At El Kantara. In February I made a caravan trip over
the desert along the great caravan route that runs from
Biskra to Timbuctoo.
"The third day out we reached an oasis of date palms.
We got coffee at the baked-mud cafe. An Ouled Nail, or
dancing girl, danced the hand dance for us. We dined on
red fish and gazelle steak, and for an entree was served
this infernal liver.
"It was liver powdered with kiff. Kiff is hasheesh. It
is made of hemp, and it makes you drunk. The Arabs mix
it with their tobacco, and they bread liver with it, and they
drop it in coffee.' Thus they eat, drink and smoke their
jjooze.
sf- I ate their booze and .imagined my arm to be a mile
long|fuI
thought my foot was as big as a mountain. My
voice,*when I spoke, sounded in my ears like the roar of a
thousand thunders. In a word, I was kiff-drunk, an it
was two days before I was
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Exercise No. XV.
The Cleaning-Up Exercise.
(To Free the Conscience.)
If you d6 nof already know this movement, your wife
will teach it to you. Work at it regularly, morning and
evening, until she is satisfied with results. After it is aU
done yon will find that yon can breathe more freely.
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What the Market Affords
steak, shoulder, 15 cents a pound.
Rice, 10 cents a pound.
Bermuda potatoes, 7 cents a pound.
Chowchow, 20 cents a quart.
Oatmeal crackers, 10 cents a pound.
Hot "cross buns, 20 cents a dozen.
Hot cross buns are to be found at most of the bakery
and delicatessen shops, altho Good Friday is still some days
aw#y. If you would rather make them yourself, put two and
a half pounds'of fine flour into a wooden bowl and set it be-
fore the fire to warm then add half a pound of sifted sugar,
some coriander seed, cinnamon and mace powdered fine
melt half a pound of butter in half *a pint of milk When it
is as warm as it can bear the finger mix with it three table
spoonfuls of very thick yeast and a little salt put it to the
flour, mix it to a paste and make the buns put them oh a
tin, set before the fire for*a quarter of an hour cover dver
with a flannel, then brush them with very warm milk mark
a cross on the top and bake them till a nice brown in a modr
erate oven.
The "beef that was left from yesterday's roast may be
chopped and made into balls. Put two tablespoohfuls of
butter in a hot fryingpan, brown the balls on both sides and
then add a teaspoonful of Worcestershire sauce, and half a
cup of tomato sauce well seasoned with salt and pepper and
onion, and serve as soon as the sauce is hot.
ENGLAND'S LOSS, AMERICA'S GAIN.
OXFORD," said a Rhodes student, "when I hap
pened to use one day the sentence, 'He favors his
mother,' meaning 'He resembles his mother,' a smile went
round the room.
'What an odd Americanism!' everyone said. And I felt
sheepish. I felt that I had made use of a piece of provincial
and incorrect English.
"But in the Bodleian, the next day, I looked the matter
up, and I found that this use of the word 'favor,' in the
sense of 'resemblance,' or 'appearance,' is an ancient and
good use. The ^cattle in Pharoah's dream are called 'well
favored' and 'ill-favored,' and in the 'Spectator' I found
Addison saying, The porter owned that the gentleman fa-
vored his master.'
"Those Oxonians thought that the correct use of 'favor'
limited its meaning to a kindness,' a 'particular generos
ity. It seems that they were wrong, while I was right. The
English have lost a good use of the word 'favor' that we
Americans still retain."
-*C THE ENGAGEMENT RING:
The FianceeYes, Percy placed it on my finger last night
isn't it a beauty?
'$' Her Dearest FriendYes but in about a fortnight you'll
find* it will make a funny black mark on your finger. It did
on mine.Bystander
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RS. S. T. RORER, the famous cooking expert, paused in
the midst of a lecture on game $0 smile and say:
."And that reminds me"of a young English girl Iiised
to know. She got married last year in London, and had
only been^keeping house a week or two when a cousin in the
country sent her*a brace of pheasants. ^'V
"Some people like to /hang' pheasantBto.keep them a
week or two, letting them get 'high,' on the ground that the
fresh flesh is tough and stringy. The cook knew thj, but
her young mistress ,knew nothing, positively nothing, of
cooking.
'Please, ma'am,' said the cook, when the pheasants ar-
rived, 'do you like the birds* 'igh?'
~J* 'The birds' eye?' said the mistress, puzzled.
'*'What I mean, mum,' the cook explained, 'is that
some folks likes their birds stale.'
a rnh tail?' repeated the mistress, more puzzled than
ever.
"And then, in order not to appear ignorant in the cook's
eyes, she smiled brightly and said:
'Prepare the birds, please, with the eyes and the tail
both.'"
-A SHOOK.
AN unexpected interruption in an after-dinner speech,
Senator Hale smiled.
"These words," he said, "surprise and confuse me. They
come with a shock. They come with a shock like that which
a young girl of Lode received one night.
"This young girl sat in her bedroom with a novel. Her
hair was down and her feet were in red slippers. Now and
then, extending her white arms, she yawned.
-'*You see, it was very late, and downstairs in the parlor
her older sister was, entertaining a young man. She, natur
ally, felt a deep interest in the entertainment. She was
waiting to hear how it would terminate.
"And at last there was a sound in the hall, a crash as of
a closing door, and it was plain to the impatient girl that the
youtig man had gone. 1
"She threw down her novel, and, running forth, peered
oveFthe balustrade down into the hall's intense blackness.
'Well, Maude,' she said, 'did you land him?'
".There was no immediate reply to her question. There
was a silence, a peculiar silence, a silence with a certain
straiifted quality in it. Then a masculine voice replied:
"'She did.'"
HE FELT FOOLISH.
THE Players' club in New York a rather ill-natured
story was told the other night about Nat Goodwin.
"Goodwin's opening in London at the Shaftsbury theater
with 'A Gilded Fool' was, you know, a frost," said a
tragedian, smiling gladly. "The piece didn't go at all.
Goodwin had "to make a quick change to 'An American
Citizen.'
"Goodwin was staying at the Cecil, and one evening he
got into a- hansom to go to the theater. Shaftsbury avenue,
in front of the Shaftsbury theater, is usually crowded with
cabs and hansoms and motor-buses, and, to make better
time, cabmen usually approach by means of a little alley on
the west.
"^Shaftsbury theater,' said Mr. Goodwin to the cabman,
'ancL to save ime, take the alley.'
'No need^to take the alley tonight, sir,' said the cab-
man, grinning, 'Goodwin is playing A Gilded Fool,"
Isir.'"
DIDN'T KNOW HIM.
DALY, the actor, was talking about George
Bernard Shaw.
"Mr. Shaw is a vegetarian," he said, "and I once at-
tended a vegetarian banquet in London at which he was the
guest of honor. The fare was excellent.
"Mr. Shaw, of course, had to make an address, and I
well, remember one thing he said. He said that they who
persevered in vegetarianism soon became as fond of vege
tables as a certain aged Scot was fond ofwas fond of
"He faltered and said that this Scot was one day ob-
served to limp painfully. A friend stopped him and said:
'Whatf LameV
'Temporarily,' the Scot replied. I went home sober
last night, and my faithful dog grippit me by the leg.'
S OLGA NETHERSOLE, at a reception given in
a her honor, told a quaint little story
about actresses.
"There was a country'girl," she began, "who laid down
her knitting with a sigh one night, and said:
"'Ah, mother, how I'd like to be one of those great
actresses or singers on the stage.'
^oul you?' said the mother, uneasily. I don't
know. It's an unhealthy business, ain't it?'
"'Why? Is it?' asked the daughter.
"'It must be,' said the mother. 'Don't you always see
their names in the papers, telling how they've been taking
tonics and patent medicines and so on.'"
DR."UneducatedOSLER,saproposno
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WILLIAM of heroic remedies, said:
person have faith in the subtleties,
of medicinesin tiny pills, in diet, in exercise. When they
are ill they want large, strong, black, bitter doses. They
want heroic measures to be applied to them.
"Thus there was an English physician who sent some
leeches to a patient, a miner.
Calling the next day, the physician inquired, before
starting upstairs for the sick room, if the leeches had ar-
rived.
"The miner's wife, with a contemptuous laugh, replied:
'Yes, sir bur what on earth be the good o' pending
them little things for a great chap? I just took an' clapped
a ferret on 'un.'
THE RECORD FOR COST.
costliest horse is Ormonde. He brought $150,000.
The costliest modern painting is Meissonier's "1814,"
which sold for $175,000.
JThe costliest building is the Milan cathedral.
-The costliest cigars are the Vuelta Abajos, which some
times retail at $4 apiece.
The costliest government is the French. The governmental
salaries aggregate $3,750,000.
u-
The costliest diamond is the Imperial, for which he
Nizam of Hyderabad paid $2,150,000.
The costliest dog was a St. Bernard, Plinlimmon, who
sold for $21,250.,. -',_'..,
The costliest pipe belongs to the Shah of Persia,
a jeweled bookah, and its value is put at $400,000.
THE WELCOME HOME.
the trust magnate, had come back to his native
village, the little,
lonelye
said I'd never be rich. jTou lost out on that prophecy,
didn't you?"
I never said you wouldn't be rich," the squire retorted.
I said you'd never have any money of your own and, by
cfJhuCT still say so.'
It is
burg the hills.
VTh old squire was among th first tamong .shake the returned
wanderer by the hand: i^J-g'^i^gl ^Ml^''.i'^.f^i
"Aha, squire,'* Billions joviall^ cried, I thought you
April 9, 1906.
Easter
Gloves
Daily Puzzle Picture
To be had at the
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Special offerings in all the
new styles In the latest
shades.
Children's Gloves
pair, the best in
OamoBsi Glove Orders
Easter Presents.
610 Nicollet.
April 9, 1895.Eleven years ago today native chiefs of India offered their
support to England.
Find a rebellious chief.
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