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FORTY-FOURTH YEAR ST VIRGINIA. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1906. NO 35 Cures Biliousness, Sick Headache, Sour Stom ach, Torpid Liver and Chronic Constipation. Pleasant to taKe ?RIND Laxative Fruit Syrup Cleanses the system thoroughly and clears sallow complexions of pimples and blotchef It is guaranteed Trustee's Sale UNDER and by viitue of a trust, deed exe cuted i j the uudersigoed trust* e by Rob ert Stephenson and L. M. Stephenson, his wife, on the 30th day of March, 1903, and of record in the office ol the CI rk ol the County Court of Mason county. West Virginia, in Trust Deed Book No. 27, page 125. etc.. to se ure to C. C. Hogg the payment of a certain negotiable promissory note of even date therewith, for the sum ol eight hundred dol lars. with iuterest from date; default having been made in the paynentol said note, upon re<|u< st of the said C. C. Hogg. I will sell at BUbilc auction at ihe front door of the Court louse ol Mason County, West Virginia, On the 21it Day of April, 1906, at one o'clock P. M., of that day, the rea estate so conveyed to me as aforesH-d, by said trust need, being a tract of 175 acres, more or less, situate in Cooper District Ma son Coun?y. West Virginia, and being the same land conveyed to Robert Stejibenson by W L Curtis and wife by deed dated Feb ruary si, 1891. andol record also in said office. Terms of Sale:?CASH. ? , '""7 CHAJS.J. HDoa.Tra*?c Mch 28 4w NOTICE OF SALE. BY virtue of the authority vested in roe by deed of trust bearing date 28th day of December, 19H0. executed by Levi Rousb and H?rah K Loush. his wife, to James B Men age r, the undersigned trustee, to secure the payment of one promissory note for the sum of seven :een hundred and seventy-Rlx dol lars, bearing even date therwith, executed by the said Levi Koush nd payable U the or tier of M. 8. McCullocb, with interest there on from date; and the said note being now due and payable; *nd wnich deed of trust is recorded iu the Clerk's office of the County Court of Mason County, West Virginia, in Trust Deed Book >o ?f. page 324; the under signed being re quested by the bo der of said note so to do, will offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder, at the front door of the Court House On the 27th day of April, 1900, at 11:30 a. m., the following real estate: J hree tracts or parcels of lu.au lying and being In Mason County. West Virginia. Tne first tract containing one hundred acres more or less, and is the same tiact or parcel of l?nd conveyed to the said Levi Rousn by lieotge itousu. Sr., and wife by deed dated November 5,15d7, und of record 111 the Clerk's office of the county Court of >l*s<?u County, West Vlrg nla, in Deed Book No. 21, folio 131; the second, tract contains flfiy-lour acres more or less, and is the came tract or parcel of land conveyed to me said Levi Koush by Jacob Knopp *nd wife by their deed bearing date Ktbiuary 12th, 1883, and of record in the Clerk's olhce aforesaid in Deed Book No.:J7 folio??r&c ; the third and last tract containing lUirty-e'ght acres more or less, and being me same tract or parcel of land devised to the said Levi Koush by the will of George Koush, Sr., which is of record in said Clerk's office iu Will booK No. 1, page *Sc., to wnich deeds and Will reference is hereny made for a more particular descript ion oi tb - three tract* or panels of laud by said 11 ust deed couvej ed. Sal J sale will be u ade upon the following teruis: cash on the uay oi sate. JAMES B MANAGER, april 4.4w. - Trustee. NOTICE OP SALE. BY virtue of the authority vested in me by deed ol trust bearing date ou the itth day of February, 190-1, executed by Jas. K. stover and c.ula J. Stover, his wife, to the under signed J a ues B. Meuager, Trustee, to secure the payment of one promissory note paya ble to the order ol S. P Mover, Sr., wiLh in ter^t thereon, in the sum of <?ne hundred and eigbty-uiue (109) dollars, bearing even date with said trust ueed. and which is now held and owned oy Maria S. McCullocb; and the said note being now due adtl paya ble; aud wnich deed ol trust is recorueti In the Clerk's office oi the County Court of Ma son County, *> e?jt Virginia, in a rust Deed Book No. 27 at page 1U9; being so requested by said holder of said note so to do, tne un dersigned will offer tor sale at public auct ion to the highest bidder, at the front door of 1 the Court Mouse ol Ai?sou Couuty, West Virginia, On the 27th day of April, at 11 o'clock a. m., tne following described real estate: A tract of ia?id lying ana being on the waters of Thirteen Mile Creek, a tributa ry of Hie ureal Kanawha Kiver, and in the State oi \\ est Virginia aud County of Ma sou, and uisiriciot Union, containing seven ty ana tbree-lourth* acres; ana more fully described iu the said deed ol trust, to which reference is hereby made. Said sale will be made upon the following terms: Cash ou tne day oi sale. J AM ES B. 31 EN AGER, april 1, iw. Trustee. Hotice of First Meeting of Creditors In the District Court of the United States for the Souiuern District of West Virginia. In the matter ol Wm. D. Armstrong bank rupt. To the creditors of Win. D. Armstrong, of Point i'leai-aut. iu the County of Masju, aud District aloresaid, a bankrupt. jfeotice is hereby given that on the30th day of March, A. D., 190b, the said Win D. Arm strong was duly adjudicated bankrupt; and that tne first meeting of his creuitors win be held at my office in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, on the 14th day of ^prli. A. D.. l9Ui, at 10o'clock in the forenoon, at wbich time the stud creditors may attend, prove their ciaims, appoint a trustee, examine the bankrupt, aud transact sncb other bus.ness as may properly come belore said meeting. CHAS. E. HOGG, april 4 2w. Referee in Bankruptcy .Harred JPlymouth. Bocks Jb]xclu.sivelv. We have the renowned E. B.Thomp son Kinglet Strain purchased direct lroui Mr. Thompson last Spring. Eggs for hatching, $1.00 per setting of thirteen. A few choice cockerels at $2.o0 each. We can ship by rail or boat on abort notice. We guarantee our stock to be pure, and as good as can ka found any where. Address JACKSON POULTRY FARM. feb 28-4 uio Xew Haven, W. Va. Attention Farmers! We hare just received a oar of extra fine seed oats, whioh we will sell at a reasonable price for cash. Piaoe your order at onoe. 2 21if. Stortz Blazer Co. DI RECTORY. CITY. Mayor H. R Howard City Clerk W. C. Whaley City Marshal John W. Love City Solicitor L. C. Soiuervilie City Treasurer P. B. Tlppett Pres. Board of Health, Dr. E. J. Moseman Health Officer C. B. Smith City Council?Regular meetings, first Monday of each mouth. J COUNTY. Ju-'ge of Circuit Court W. A. Parsons ?Point Pleasant Clerk of Circuit Court, A. It. BoggB^s Clerk of Co. Conrt. .J. P. R. B Smith Co. Coinin'rs .. .J. H. Johnson, Pres't ?Hartford " Bird Stone, Leon ....W. H. Vanght, Point Pleasant Sheriff J. O. McDermitt Prosecuting atty L. S. Echols Assessor 1st Dist R E. Musgrave ?Point Pleasant " 2d Dist.. Walter E. Sturgeon ?Mercers' Bottom County Surveyor Geo. E. Childs ?Point Pleasvnt Supt Schools C. A. Green ?Ashton Circuit Court?Regular term be gins on first Tuesday of March, J une, September a"d December. County Court?Regular term be gins on first Monday of Jauuary, April, J uly and October. * KANAWHA St MICHIGAN KAILWA7, (Central Standard Time.) Time Table io Effect April 30th, 1905. NORTH BOUND. TOLEDO EXPRESS. 8:10 a m. For Uallipolls, Middleport, Ath Dally Ex. ens, Columbus, Toledo, Detroit. Sunday. Chicago and all points, North and West. EXPRESS AND ACCOMMODATION. 1:04 p.m. For Galljpolis, Middleport, Ath Daily. ens, Columbus, Toledo and all points North and West. Through Sleeping Car, Charleston to Chi cago. ACCOMMODATION. 4:23 p.m. Between Gauley Bridge and Mid Daily Ex. dleport. Sunday. f ACCOMMODATION. 6;19p. m. Between Charleston and Middle Sunday port. Only. SOUTH BOUND. ACCOMMODATION. 6:15 a m. Between Middleport and Oaoley Dally Ex Bridge. Sunday. EXPRESS AND ACCOMMODATION. 2:24 p. m. For Charleston, Washington Daily. Richmond, Newport News, Nor folk and all points South an l East. Through Sleeper, Chicago to Charleston. THROUOff EXPRESS. 5:42 p. m For Charleston, Richmond, Wash Dally Ex. ington, Newport News. Norfolk Sunday, and all points South and East. ACCOMMODATION. 7:05 a m. Between Middleport and Charles Sunday ton. Only. Nos. 3 and 4 rnn dally between Charleston and Middleport. L. P. KUHN, Agent. The Connecting Liak Between the treat Lakes and the South and Southeast LOOK AT THE MAPI ONLY SLEEPING CAR LINE ?marcs* Chicago, Columbus, and Paint* South to Charleston. Parlor Cars ZSH ?CTVUN Toledo 6l Columbus Shortest Route Between Toledo, Columbus,sa4 the Virginias tMtm Vta Ohl. Cntra! Lloes ihnriuliiru lb?toVM< Write for Tlw C?rdm, F.Mcra, KjtM, Etc. M00LT0M HOLT. On. Plinnr lit. TOUOaOmO An impediment in the epeeoh is worth two in the memory. Huntington Business College Hantington, - W. Virginia For ten years (he Ripley School, now incorporated as Hantin^ton Business Col* Ktfe. has been engaged in preparing and placing in positions real live young men and women. Many of these now hold fine positions at $80. $90 and ? up to $150 per month. We give a thorough course in Book-keeping, Telegraphy. Shorthand and Penmanship. Use of Typewriter free. Businessmen know us and frequently apply to us for office help. $100 and four or five months' time has started hundreds on the road to success. Enter now. Write the Principal for information. Box 228, Huntington, W. Va_ UNDERTAKING. We Hare a Large and Complete Stock of Burial Cases, Robes, Etc. Prices Low and Satisfaction Guaranteed J. B. TIPPETT CITY VS. COUNTRY. I The Washington Post has fallen ' in'o the bad hbbit Bet by other me | tropolitan newspapers and is just : now engaged in printing retraots from country papers. This is done for the pnrpose of having fun with the oonntry editors by oopying what the metropolitan joarnalist too often looks npon as a sample of "oonntry journalism." The Wash ington Post should be above that sort of thing. We venture the a? sertfon that We flaity print more of what they are pleas ed to oall "rot" than the oonntry papers do. If a oonntry paper de votes six or eight items to one fam ily, the oity j ournalist copies it with great glee and chuckles over the humor of it all. And yet the metropolitan papers recently print ed more insufferable "rot" about one or two particular families than a hundred oonntry newspapers oonld possibly print in a year. The metropolitan papers take themselves too seriously They seem inolined to the belief thBt they are "it," when the faot of the matter is they wield comparatively little influence as oompared with the oonntry weeklies. And they are by no means free from the faults they so joyfully point out in their oonntry contemporaries. Only a few days ago the Washington Post said: "The program opened with a greeting song by the whole vooal olass, oalled 'The Little Bird Tells." We refuse to believe that any part of the vooal olass was call 1 ed "the little bird tells." The oity journalist should re move the beam in his own eye be fore pointing ont the beam in the country journalist's eye. "The Sun" is a new evening paper in Pittsburg, the product of the offioe of the old established Pittsburg Post. It is not an eve ning edition of the Post, but a new and different paper entirely, and in the matter of exoellenoe and news features is fully up to the standard of any evening daily paper published anywhere. It has any where from a dozen tc twenty or thirty pages every day, is illustrat ed acoording to the modern news paper fad, and contains all the latest news from all parts of the world. Its growth in oirculation has been terrific, and it eDjoys al ready the distinction of an attempt ed boycott from the other evening papers of Pittsbnrg, because of its snooess and popularity. About Friday. In view of the faot that Friday is always considered an nnluoky day, a few of the "luoky" and hap py events whioh have taken piece on that day are given here: George Washington was born on Friday. America was disoovered on Fri day. Shakespeare was born on Friday, j The Bastile was destroyed on I Friday. Tue Mayflower Pilgrims landed on Friday. The Battle of New Orleans was fonght on Friday. The Declaration of Independ ence was signed on Friday. Pointed Paragraphs A full moon is more attractive than a full man. It's easier for some people to ao quire money than manners. Every dog isn't a bird dog, but every oat is a bird oat. Fortune is always fortunate for the fortune teller. Marriage is never a failure, but often the oontraoting parties are. No, the starboard of a steamer is not reserved for star boarders. Beauty is worse than livuor; it intuxioates both the bolder and the beholder. A man is not justified in taking an eye>opener because he iB blindly in love. The average man displays a lot of enthusiasm when he gete a ohanoe to talk abont his tri ubles i Tnere is now a splendid pros pect for a wholesale dry goods company being organized. 1 "Maw, when did you drat get ao 1 qnainted with paw r ' "Several years after I married him, dear." WHAT A D: CE. I dreamed that I dwelt on In the midst of a lake of Where bloomed the mint jc Amid showers of lithia i of cracked ice, impagne, in meadows of green, I reclined on a divan of Iag? With a pillow of froth for While the spray from a fot Descended like dew on beer foam, ay head, tin of sparkling gin fizz ' head, From far-away mountains of ^crystaline ice A zephyr, refreshing and cool, Came wafting the incenso ot sweet muscated That sparkled in many a pool. My senses were soothed by the soft, pnrling song Of a brooklet of pousse caf That ripyled along over pebples of Bnow, To a river of absinthe frag Then, lulled by the music of tinkling glass From the schooners that?danced on the deep, And languidly floated to sleep. And than I awoke on a bed full ot rocks, With a bolster as hard as a brick; A wrench in my neck, a rack in my head, And a stomach detestably sick. With sand in my eyes and grit in my throat, Where the taste of last evening clung, And felt a bath towel stuffed into my mouth, Which I afterward found was my tongue. And I groped for the thread of the evening before, In a mystified maze of my brain, Until a great light burst upon me a last. DOG GONE KANSAS. How a Texas Editor's Dream of Joy Was Broken by a Kansas Cold Wave. Wasn't yesterday a joy! Sunshiny as a bride's face an swoet as a baby fresh from the bath. It wasn't a spring day for there was a lingering feel of frost, but there was a challenge of spring in the smeil of the air. You could almobt hear the sap starting in the peach trees, and the mother rose seemed to be trying to pro claim the borning bad. The housewife went out and looked at the sweet peas and hum med a song under her breath. The farmer man examined his seed corn and whistled a tune. The small boy tarried by the window of the sporting store and examined the fishing tackle. The weather wise had predict ed rain, and therein soaked, mnd be-spatted people who are early in bed went to sleep frowning. The dry goods man groaned and the millinei wished she were a man so she could say what she wished. Only the shoe man chuckled and wished he had a bigger stock of rubbers. The| school children were glad and wished for a saaker to keep them at home. The all-nighter knew better. lie had got home in the wee small hours with a clear moon and bright stars lighting his wobbly way. When the folks waked up it was a little cloudy, the day seem ed doomed. Breakfast glum and sour. The biscuits were soggy, and the coflee was droggy and the milk was sour. It was all slush and bad words getting to the cars. Then the miracles. The sun climbed over the fog bank in the east and it was re- j solved into sweet vapors. The washerwoman hung out the clothes, the rooster crowed and the dog chased his fail. The housewife turned the hose on the front steps and let the fire in the grate die down. The bird sang and the whole of creation thrilled. Down town the dry goods mer chant grinned. The milliner put away the winter hats marked down and brought out the spring confections marked up. The shoe man threw the rubbers in a box and put spring slippers in a box and put spring slippers in the show window. The butcher tele phoned to the packing house for lamb and wondered where he could find some mint. The ha berdasher got out his ties and white vesta and the tailor tacked up his spring style sheet. A young lady came tripping along and the clerks got busy with parasols and flufty stuft. The afternoon fairly sung itself into a delirium, and the night came down like an intangfble fleece that was golden with sun set and then silver with the moon light* pinned against the aky with a million diamonds. Love walked abroad, naked and unashamed and sent swift ar rows into throbbing hearts. Lullabies and kisses filled the cup of joy and God smiled His benedibtion. Oh, it was glorious! And then by 8 o'clock a how ling norther came swooping down irom Kansas. Dog-gone Kansas.?Fort Worth Record. Meet After a Separa tion of 45 Years. Huntington Dlnpatcb. After the passing of abont 45 years' duration, a long time it would seem to the average youth there was a meeting of one of the younger men on the repertorial staft of the Dispatch and an aged ^tfomwwuuty citizen down at the County Court House the other day which to them, at least, was , rather an interesting incident. i Luke Adkins was the Boone county man. He was one of the victims of the alleged John Mea dor, the noted pension crook, who was sent to the pen by Judge McDowell. The Dispatch repor ter was interviewing the witness in the Meador case and, approch ing the Boone county man, ask ed his name. "Luke Adkins," was the reply. The name was in stantly remembered by the repor ter and after a good look at the man he was recognized as the same Luke Adkins, known by the reporter in 1861, when he? the reporter?was not more than forty years old himself. Adkins was a Union man at the opening of the war of the re bellion and refugeed in Gallia county, O., in company with the late Rev. Robert Hager, where the latter had a brother residing and it was there that he was met by the one who recogniz >d him at their meeting the other day. He is now past 70, but was not yet old enongh to have learned some of the world's ways, especially those of pension attorney John Meador. He?Isn't dinner ready yet? 8he?No, dear. 1 got it accord ing to the time you set the clock when you came in last night and dinner will be ready fn four' hours. Thir is the time of year when the premises should be aiven a general overhauling and cleaning up When this is done, lime or other nisinfectant, should be sprinkled freely. Remember the old adage: "An ounce of preven tion is worth a pound of cure." The 8pring term of the Buck hannon University opened last . week and about *-540 students are reported in attendance. A revi val closed at the school and and . fifty students were converted. Missouri declares that it doesn't , wrnt Rockefeller's testimony. If . that is the case, Missouri should . be snid for inflicting such a scare r on a kind old grandfather. There will be rascals in the ' world just as long as there are ? fools in it. Washington Colony Live In The Pen. About Four Hundred Pritoners ? from the Seat of Government Cared for at Xoundsyille. There are at present in the MoandsviUe penitentiary about four hundred prisoners from Washington, the national capital, paying the penalties for their mis deeds of varying character and this aggregation is what is known as the Washington colony. A trip throngh the prison reveals a gloomy pictnre of the consequen ces of ill-spent lives, hot where the perpetrators of crimes may have occasion to learn some very dear lessons from the. past, real izing the difference between good and evil by comparing the lives of the law-abiding and law break ers. The prisoners dare not step beyond the walls of the. prison house while their sentences last, being permitted to mingle only with their kind within the prison walls. But there are three ex ceptions to this rule, owing to circumstances, and the native ability of one of the men con cerned. These prisoners are Aug ust W. Machen, Samuel A.Grofl and Diller B. Groff, sentenced to two years hard labor for conspir acy against the United States gov ernment. Machen is in the clerk's office of the penitentiary, keep ing books or studying French; James M. A. Watson, Jr., the dis trict building embezzler, lifts heavy boxes around, and while the Groli brothers are lounging about reading magazines and passing time as best they may, the great masses of the district offenders bend ceaselessly over the machines in the shops. Machen fills his position be cause he is an expert book-keeper and a finished business man. He is considered by Warden liaddox the most valuable bookkeeper ever sent to the penitentiary. When his duties with the books become light from time to time he is permitted to fill the hours studying French. These three prisoners do not have their heads shaven and do not wear the stripes like other convicts and are known by their names instead of i by numbers. Neither do they < take their meals in the common dining room- Machen has a cell to himself. Every Sunday Diller Groft may J be found at the services in the prison chapel and Machen, being a Catholic, is present at the ser vices whenever a priest goes to , the chapel. The visits of the priestf are few, however, as there are few Catholics in the prison. According to the guards, Mach en's best friend is Jas. M. A. Wat son, who was given 10 years for embezzling $73,000 from the Dis trict government. Both Machen and Watson are great rebdersand make it a point to see all the mag azines issued, which are of con siderable value. Watson's life is a horror compared to the lot of Machen aud Groffs. He works nine full hours nailing up boxes, which are packed with whips. Machen has two years to serve and Watson five years, while the Grofts will be released from im prisonment some time next fall i A Republican's Dream. Romney Review. Recently I had a dream in which there was an immense meeting, there were present Gov. Wm. M. O. Dawson, ex-Governor White, the editor of the Review, &c. After song and prayer 1 ex pected politica speaking but lo! and behold the speeches were for the salvation of the souls of men. I suppose as these were the only things left untaxed, the conten tion was as to whether they too should be taxed, or perhaps the prayer was for the salvation of son Is from taxation. The dream was a reality. The American citizen who sings with ardor, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee," aud then fails to give his home town his support and sends his money away to build up some other place lackB one of the im portant qualities of good citizen ship. Show your patriotism and love of home and county by as sisting in the support of every lo Jcal industry.?Pathfinder. A Trite Saying. It to a trite saying that no man It Stronger than his stomach. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery strengthens the stomach?puts it in shape to make pure, rich blood?helps the liver and kidneys to expel the poisons from the 1 body and thus cures both liver and kid ney troubles. If you take this natural blood purifier and tonic, you will assist your system in manufacturing each day a pint of rich, red blood, that is invigo rating to the brain and nerves. The I weak, nervous, run-down, debilitated | , condition which so many people suffer from, is usually the effect of poisons in I the blood; it is often indicated by pimples or boils appearing on the skin, the face becomes thin ana the feelings "blue.* Dr. Pierce's "Discovery" cure* all blood humors as well as being a tonic that j makes one vigorous, strong and forceful. 1 It is the only medicine put np for sale through druggists for like purposes that contains neither alcohol nor harmful habit-forming drugs, and the only one, every ingredient of which has the profes sional endorsement of the leading medical writers of this country. Some of these endorsements are published in a little book of extracts from standard medical works and will be sent to any address free, on receipt of request therefor by letter or postal card, addressed to Dr. EL V. Pierce, Buffalo. N. Y. It tells jqst what l)r. Pierce's medicines are made of. I The "Words of Praise ? for the several ingredients of which Dr. Pierce's medi cines are composed, by leaders In all the several schools of medical practice, and recommending them for the cure of the diseases for which the "Golden Medical Discovery" is advised, should have far I more weight with the sick and afflicted than any amount of the so-called "testi monials" so conspicuously flaunted before the public by those who are afraid to let j the Ingredients of which their medicines | are composed be known. Bear in mind that the "Golden Medical Discovery " has | the badoe of honestv on every bottle wrapper, in a full list of its ingredients. Dr. Piorce's Pleasant Pellets cure con stipation. invigorate tho liver and regu late stomach and bowels. Dr. Pierce's great thousand-page Illus trated Common Sense Medical Adviser will be sent free, paper-bound, for 21 one cent stamps, or cloth-bound for 31 stamps. Address I)r. Pierce as above. Lost Sight is Restored, i Portion of a Babbit's Eye is Grafted to the Papil of Blind Han. Wrshington, D. 0., April 14.? Partial suooess has attended the efforts of the surgeons to restore sight to Wilton Heinard by graft ing the membrane and oornea of b rabbit's eye to hie. He oan now listinguish between daylight and darkness. Mr. Heinard was operated on in the Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital two months ago. He has undergone several minor opera tions sinoe, and when the bands <es were removed from his eyes he oould see faintly. The surgeons today deolared themselves satisfied with the re unite of the operation. They sa> that if Mr. Heinard'e sight oontin ilea to grow stronger, as it has done lately, be will be able within a year to walk abont withont an attend ant. Mr. Heinard Tost hie sight more than a year ago when a negro joitohman threw lye in bis face. Henry oonnty, lndiania, boasts rf a yonng Miss who bids fair to <row up a regular Hetty Green in the business world, tbongb we Hope she will prove a better model in some respeotB than the oelebrat ad millionairess. When seven years aid a neighbor gave this obi'd a tiny pig, which she reared witb oare and sold it at maturity for $7 60. Of this money she invested in a full-blooded Jersey oalf and during the past seven years her original investment has netted her property worth about five hundred dollars. She now owns five head of first ol iss Jersey oows, whiob were all pnrohased with the money obtained from the sale of the pig, and it is pleasing to look fcrward to t*ie time when this bright little girl will own and oontrol one of the largest and best appointed dai ries in the state ?American Farm er. The Missouri Pacific Bailway Co St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Bailway Co. Offer special inducements in the way of very low round trip Summer Tourist rates from St Louis to Mexioo City, Mex., San Franoieoo, Los Angeles and San Diego, Oal. Portland, Oregon, Se. attle, Taooma and Spokane, Wash., also the Phoenix and Prescott, Ariz , Oot. 31st, liberal stop overs and variable routes. Speoial round trip rates to Mexica Oity, tickets on sale daily April 25th to May 5tb inclusive, return limit of July 31st, one fare for the round trip Qoiok time and elegant service via The Missouri Paoifio Iron Mountain System; dining oars, meals a la carte; tbrongb Standard and Tour, ist Sleepers; free reolinlng chair oars, etc. Greatly rednoed round trip tickets on sale daily to Paeblo, Colo, Springs and Denver, Colo. Boand trip Homeeeeker's Exour-1 sion Tickets on sale first and tbird . Tuesday of eaoh month, limit of twenty-one days, liberal stop-overs. Fur rates, berth reservations, gen eral information and deeoriptive and deeoriptive literature, address A. A Gallagher, D. P, A., No. 419 Walnnt St., Cincinnati, Ohio. H. O. Townsend, G. P. & T. A., St. L>onis, Mo. A Good Story From Texas Here is a sample of the richness of the soil down In Tezaa. We olip the following item from a pa I per published down there. I Last Friday the writer passed by the home of Harry Bullbrook and notioed bim diligently poking his finger around in a bo* of rioh al. ?nv al dirt whioh looked for the world like it might have been dng from the valley of the Nile, bat Harry assnrred as on his word of honor that it hadn't. The dirt oame from his fine farm southwest! ?f tomn, and he was going to use t to fertilise bis bed of Jonny jampops and Sweet William.. lh,<l lacd U^aa rioh -Harry ~n't, io any good at all raising pump kins on it. beoaaae toe vines grow *?. fafct th?y draK the young pomp kins to death in two or three days. I his dirt fooled Harry bad the first time be went oat there, bat he knows tetter now. He was stand iog around oa one foot like a lame ginderin the son when he Boon lisoivered the ieg he was standing m had grown about three inohes longer than the other. He was puzz'ed as to how to remedy saoh *n unfortunate defect, when it waa sugg sted that he stand on the other leg until they both became eame length. He tried the remedy and it worked likeaoharm, lut when be is pyroutting aronnd' 3n that land now he is very oa re fill to keep both feet on the {round at the same time. *VESf~ViRGlNIA" MAN WHO HAS MADE HIS MILLIONS Tco Chicago millionaire pork sucker. E C. Swift, who died laat *eefe, left a fortune of $20000000 -000,000, leaving to his only laughter. Mrs. Clarence Moore, he sum of about $15,000 000. He eft to bis son in law, Olarenoe Moore, the neat little sum of S3 . M30.00J ' Clarecce Moore, who married Wt'9 only daughter, jn a native )f this at Clarksburg. Moore is a ion of Col. Jasper Y. Moore, who or years was olerk of the United Mates Distriot Court of West Vir jiois, and did not leave this state intil about 1890 when be went to Washington. There he met Miss Swift, afterward marrying bar. Selecting Wife by Her Feet. Time was, when a young man lought a wife, be looked for a girl *ho was modest, pretty, peasant iod domesticated, and in arriving <t a^onolusion be was content to irost to bis own intuition on gen ?ral appearanoes Now be is ad need to get at ber real oharaoter From her eyes, the color of her t?Bir, ber handwriting, her manner of walking Latest of all devices for gauging characteristics, he is told to look narrowly at ber feet. Be is warned to beware of the hoay foot. It i. liable to indicate bad temper. On tbe other hand, ?? plump foot almost sorely signi. fiss amiability, a jivial tempera mmt, and an etsy going disposi Mon. if the lady love has a noticeably high instep, then rest a/sored that ner oharaoter is sedate and digni fied. Perhap., unless the wooer has come to know ber well, she will ippear at first rather oold and un approachable. In all likelihood e 18 Pr?ad, but it should not be taken for gran ted that she is haugh ty or unamiable a) heart. And you, damsel fair, says this acute observer of pedal extremities, yon ?ro contemplating matri mony, keep tbe same ideas in mind ? for they apbly to men as to wo men. And remember in particular t?at a flit foot is likely to signify a reliable husband. That sort of foot goes with tbe everyday kind of man, aboat whom there is no frills, and who is plain and open id his speech. He says what he means and does not tell fibs. There is more in tbe phrase, "To oome out flatfooted" than is oommonly supposed. | Is there anybody who would not understand the phrase "a stupid foot ? ' The idea oonveyed to tbe mind, obviously, is that of a clumsy and shapeless foot, inexpressive of any thing, whatever exoept the dulneas and laok of intelligence of its owner. >? hanl for some people to ac quire enough horse sense to keep from passing for moles.