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»PHONE GIRL SAYS "0." Ko, Shs'a Not SurprUed, Bat la Draw InK Wearer to Naught—<'Ongl>t w Orates on Sensitive Bara. The telephone girl is progressive 1 . For years and years in repeating a num ber which had a zero included she would always call it "ought." For instance, i£ a subscriber called for "twenty four thirty," the telephone girl would repeat; "Two-three-four-ought." When some subscriber who had a little feeling of compassion for the king's English, which was being so cruelly murdered right before his ears, would gently ob ject and say: "Two-fou r-three-naught,'" the girl would again repeat, "ought," and tell the subscriber to "look in the dictionary." But the world moves, says the New York Herald. The "naught" is com mencing to be realized in the most ex clusive telephone circles. It could not. be expecti,. that the telephone girl would surrender all at once. She has fought for that "ought" too long to drop it immer iately, and thus confess that she had been wrong. So. while she has dropped the "ought," she has taken up "o" instead. So now sb" repeats 2340 in this manner, "two ti.ree-four-O." I : is a splendid victory for English un defiled. Optimists can now sec dawning that glad day when the telephone girl w.-. say "naught" right out loud. PERSONS WHO LIVED LONG. Bien nnd Women Who Henelieri Year» of liemurkuhle LenKth—Nuu y C'en te nur tun». The late Pope Leo had a long life, but compared with the ages of others who had gone before him he was compara tively youthful at his death. Thomas Parr and Henry Jenkins are, respec tively, credited with the ages of 152 and 169. Jeanne Serimphan was married when she was 127 and died when she was 128. Dr. Dufournel married at 116 and became the father of two children and died at 120. Marie Priou reached the age of 158. A woman of Metz, the mother of 24 children, died at t.)ie age of 100. Surgeon Politman celebrated his or.e hundred and fortieth birthday. Pat rick O'Neil buried seven wives and died at 120, and a Norwt :ian peasant Is re corded as dying at 100 and leaving two sons, one aged les and the otter only nine summers. Kober: Taylor lived to be 124 and died of excitement on receiv ing the picture of Queen Victoria signed by herself. An Irishman named Brown, who was a habitual drunkard, lived to be 128, he had a daily jag for 90 years. Durond d'Estivel. of Oahors, lived to tie It'S. A woman of 124 drank strong cof fee in great quantities all hi rdays, while a man of 114 lived on fruit, chiclly mel ons, and chewed lemon peel. ROYAL RULERS OF JAPAN. Present Kelttnlnit lliiuae Date* Hack SI* Centuries llefore Opcnlutf I of Christina lira. His majesty, Mntsuhifo, or emperor, and Edward VII , k ng of Great Brit ain, are the two ideal prototypes of the constitutional sovereign. Seated firm ly a ^ they are in the hearts of their subjects, who should be su: prised at their ever-growing glory and popular ity? The mikado is of the long and un broken line oi 1°0 ancestors who sat before him on the throne, wh eh was set up COO years before th« Christian era, says Niroku Shinpo. Just think of it! The oldest of the royal families in Europe is that of Capet, which, however, is comparât > a- '-o"-tg, as it dates no further back than i.io ninth century. And it remains now in the Parisian society as a rare relic of a bygone royal family. The Savoy, the Brunswick, the Baden, and so forth, go back only to the eleventh century. But our imperial line, as already men tioned, started long before the battle Of Marathon was recorded, long be fore the songs of Homer were recited. Since then no foreign conqueror ever set foot on the soil of Japan. RADIUM IN MEDICINE. GiptcUd to Work Marreloo* Hsaalta In tke Treatment of Caneer And UllndneH* The Anglo-Indian Review sum marizes an Interesting account of the possible future applications of radi um. The area where success is prac tically assured is at present not very large, but in the medical field it is al ready fairly extensive. In the work ing of X rays and in the marvelous re sults achieved in the treatment of can cer and blindness we have every hope for great and universally benefiting results. In its industrial applicaton we are somewhat restricted by the extremely limited supply ( >f radium available, but It is stated that a small fraction of an ounce, properly em ployed, would probably provide a good light sufficient for several rooms, and would not require renewal during the present century. It has been calcu lated that the energy stored up in one gramme of radium is sufficient to raise 500 tons weight a mile high. An ounce would, therefore, suffice to drive a 50-horsepower motor car at the rate of 30 miles an hour round the world. The Hydrophobia Microbe. Dr. A. Negri, at Pavi, announced last March the discovery of the specific mi cro-organism of hydrophobia. He now states that he has examined more than 100 dogs with natural or laboratory hydrophobia, and has never failed to find the specific micro-organism in the nerve centers. On ihe other hand, he has never found It in other dogs. Throack th* Sue*. The civilian passengers through the Suez canal last year numbered 92,000, and the pilgrims, emigrants and con victs, 40,000. k .IERICAN ANCESTRAL HOMES }Br Shrewder Millionaire* Promis« ho Build Then* In Their Own Country. Now that the American millionaires lave had time to look about them and xave contracted the habit of visiting Europe, where they are received by •oyaity, it is not surprising that they should be taken with a desire lor an cestral homes, says the Philadelphia Record. In the first impulse several of .hem have bought up the ancestral homes of impoverished English aris tocrats and attempted to enjoy the emo tions which are commonly ascribed to .he man who inherits baronial halls, oil jortraits, tombs and vast game pre serves. It has been noted, however, that after a very brief experience most of them have turned up again in the neighborhood of Wall street, where their most exciting and happiest days have been spent. The met :s that life in the foreign ancestral home is too like a pioneer existence to please the Amor can millionaire for long. To equip the place with electric lights or even with gas; to install a hard coal furnace anil hot air pipes, and ail such modern im provements as hot and cold water, cut: b waiters, electric tells, swift-footed young servants, telephones, soft car pets and whatever makes living to- - fort able-—the things for which the ionaire labored in his most active <.. . r. —would he ridiculous. No man can i x pericnce or pretend to experience the -date of mind of a born aristocrat in his :i::ccstral home without submitting to ancient conditions. h he shrewder American millionaires propose to build their own ancestral tomes in their own country within easy reach of the busy cities and where no traditions bind them to the life o: - .ion which is the lot of the foreign a. .li teracy. WANTED QUEEN'S COURIER. Itlch AUM-rl<-un Held Out I'lnanclnl III due cm eilt to Ihr Servitor of Victoria. "Whan your American millionaire vants anything he wants the best," ob served an Englishman, who was a 'queen's messcngi r ' in Victoria's reign. 'He's willing to pay well for it, too. "1 know this from an experience I once hud in Constantinople. Aft r ray signature on the hotel register i acred, tor reasons of my own, 'queen's courier.' "The next day I was surprised to rc ■eive a card hearing the name of a vi.il knuwn wealthy American. 1.1 uuldn't re member the gentleman, but. thinking ttiat I'd probably met him on a steamer or on a train somewhere, 1 told the serv ant to show him up. "A few minutes later a short, fat mail who conveyed the general effect of too much diamond stud and watch chain was ushered in. "I rose to meet him. "'How are you?' he started off in a business-like voice. 'You're the queen's courier, ain't you? Well, now. I'll tell you. I'm here with iny family—been tourin' Turkey, y' know—and our cour ier's left us. Now I know you've got a pretty comfortable job with the queen, hut I don't care how much it is: if you'll come with us, we'll give you a darn sight moren's she's payin'. What d'yersay?" The Bust Liniment. "Chamberlain's Pain Balm is con sidered tile liest liniment on the mar ket,"write Post & Bliss of Georgia, Vt. N.i other liniment will heal a cut or bruise so promptly. No other affords such quick relief from rheu matic pains. No other is so valuable for deep seate pains like lame tiack and pa'ns in the ehest. Give this lin iment a trial and you ivi'l never wish to be without it. Sold by Corner Drug Store. *The Love of Eating, IS THE AMERICAN BECOM ING A GOURMAND ? JJ In our largest cen ters of population, such as New York and Chicago, we daily see more attention given to the inner man. Cafes and lunch-rooms are filled with men and women who seem to give all their time and attention to thoughts of properly or improperly feeding their stomachs. "It is of course best to eat slowly, but not too much," says Dr. Pierce, chief consulting physician to the Invalids' Hotel and Sur gical Institute, of Buffalo, N. Y. In this 2oth century people devote so much time to head work that their brain is fagged and there isn't sufficient Wood left to properly take care of the other organs of the body. The stomach must lie assisted in its hard work—tlie liver started into action—by the use of a good stomach tonic, which should be entirely of vegetable ingredients and without alcohol. After years of experience in an active practice, Dr. Pierce discovered a remedy that suited these conditions in a blood-maker and tissue-builder. He called it Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery —an alterative extract ttiat assists in the digestion and assimilation of the food in the stomach—so that the blood gets what it needs for food and oxidation, the liver is at the same time started into activity and there is perfect elidiination of waste mat ter. When the blood is pure and rich, all the organs work without effort, and the body is like a perfect machine. ' Free ! Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stamps for the book in paper covers, or 31 stamps for the Cloth bound volume. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce. Buffalo, N. Y. FEEDING SHEEP ON WOOD. Great Damaste Worked In Many Sec tions by Close Grsilus ou loans l'iue Mioots. With the rapid multiplication of great flocks of sheep in the far west has come the grave question of prov.dir.g the wool bearers with sufficient prov ender. Many sheep ow nei s in the \> esi arn mountain regions where there is lit tle or no grass to apeak of have parti} remedied the difficulty by feeding theii sheep on wood! Not cordwood, to be sure, but on the young and tender pine shoots which abound in the fooitiills and approach!. of the mountain reserves, says the Non Y ork Herald. Tne sheep of the western mountni: regions, generally of those varieties known as "grade" merinos and coai r wools mixed, are run in llocl- s. or "bands," of 2,000 to 3,000 head, in carp in of a herder, who is assisted by a "c..:.'p tender," "packer" or "camp rustic-r,' whose business it is to look up range, move camp and "pack" in supplies, in cluding salt for the sheep. In the journey to the mountains the sheep are usually obliged to follow cer tain natural highways, and their prog ress and the work of handling them are largely governed by the surroundings, in all cases of razing on the pine .--hoofs the range is cut close, and this close shaving of the only vegetable cover, to gether with the loosening of the soil, is working damage in many sections, much to the alarm of residents not interested in wool growing. THE SULTAN'S PLAYERS. Member* of Thi* Theatrical Company Mast Be Read y ta Go on Stn^e Blffht or Day. The sultan keeps a theatrical com pany of his own, at the head of which is an Italian, Arturo Stravolo, of Naples. All the members of the com pany, says the London Express, are re lations, by blood or marriage, of the director. Being the sultan's own com pany, ail the male members wear a uniform and hold military degrees. Tl-.e tenor nas the rank of a general, the baric, ne that of a major, the first violinist is captain, and the horn play er merely lieutenant. The company do not perform on fixed days, but only when the sultan wishes it. They are ofien awakened at midnight, and have to bo ready, dressed and "made up" within 40 minutes to play before the sultan, who generally is himself the •ole audience Abdul Hamid follow the play attentively, and if anything is not quite clear he stops the per formance and has the passage ex plained to him. Sometimes, however, 'he sultan, in a fit of melancholy, leaves abruptly, and the nlayers have to stop and go home. The sultan does not permit children to appear on the stage. In a recent production of "A Doll's House" two stalwart Albanien guardsmen acted the part of the chil dren. Arturo Stravolo, who is a born comedian, is the sultan's favorite. HOW SARDINES ARE CURED. Shonld Be Prepared Immediately After Capture, Then Plunged In to BollInK Olive OU. "It Is in the spring," said a fish dealer in the Philadelphia Record, "that the sardine netting begins. Gen uine sardines are the young of the pil chard. Their name conies from the fact that they are most numerous off the coast of Sardinia. They swim in shoals containing millions—fish-shaped shoals ten miles long and a half-mile wide. The sardines are netted and taken at once to the shore. They are washed, scraped and sprinkled with salt. The salt is soon removed, the head and gills cut off and there is an other washing. Then, on beds of green brushes, the fish are dried In the sun. Next they are boiled in olive oil till cooked thoroughly. "The packers—women always-take them now and pack them In the tin boxes we all know, filling up each box with boiling oil, fitting on the lid and making the box air tight by soldering the joints together with a Jet of hot steam. Sardines are more or less per fect. according as they are prepared more or less Immediately after their capture, and according as the oil they are packed in Is more or less pure. RULE WORKS BOTH WAYS. It Cost* to Go lato the Baaluea* ot Horae Raeln« and It Coat* I to Get Oat. ! - E. R. Thomas, the owner of the horse Hermis, talked one day at Saratoga about the expense of racing, says the New York Tribune. "A racing stable is like a newspaper," he said. "At the beginning it requires a good deal of money. You know what Charles A. Dana used to say about newspapers—that it costs a lot to start them, but they would stop of themselves? Well, that is equally true of racing stables. Only, as a rule, even to give a stable up costs money. "Once, when P. T. Barnum was tak ing tickets at the entrance of his cir cus, a man asked him if he could go in without paying. " 'You can pay without going in.' said Barnum, 'but you can't go in without paying. The rule doesn't work both ways.' "Now. in racing." said Mr. Thomas "the rule does work both ways. It costs to go in racing, and it costs to get out, too." Nitrogen In Radiant. One mystery seems to have been re moved from radium. Sir Michael Hug gins. the greatest authority living on the spectroscope, with the aid of bis wife, has discovered that the lines at tributed to helion in the radium spect rum are really the liues of nitrogen. . Dizzu? Appetite poor?*/ Bowels constipated? Tongue coated? Head ache? It's your liver! Ayer's Pills are liver pills, all vegetable. Want your moustache or beard • 'bWMitlful brown or rich black? Use '$ DYE ,g!ILgg^P*P<MIgT9 OR R. P. HALT. *• CO., NASHUA. N. H. OCTOGENARIAN'S HOPE. Buffalo Merchant of Four Score Yearn Contemplates Return to Chl c«lto "In n Few Years." Admiration for Chicago, amountli: almost to love for the western metrt. ; olis, is seen daily in people who hr. made their homes elsewhere, says tlr Chicago Tribune. This was Illustrated the other day in Buffalo, when - ;— 80 years old lauded the city in which ' had been a pioneer, and which he hai not seer, since he was a youth. Two Chicago women, waiting for r train ir. Buffalo, entered aqueeroli r era! store near the river. An ole n puffing a clay pipe, ordered his clcr! to bring chairs, and sat down to enter tain his visitors. "Do you live in Buffalo?" he asked. The women answered that their home? were in Chicago. "Well, I declare!" said the merchant, joyfully. "That the finest place o. earth. I used to live there 60 years pro; had a store in South Water street. ! tel! you it was a gre~.* pin"!' for a yet:..... man! Ferdinand Jones owned a lot : ; the north side, and you cork' buy a big chunk of State street for $3,000. "I'm coing to sell out here in a few years and go back and open another store there. There's a lot oi money to be made there yet." The visitors hurried away to catch their train and left the merchant of four score years contemplating his return to Chicago "in a few years." Curious Action of Radium. A Russian doctor named Loudon. <ff St. Petersburg, has published some in teresting observations relative to the action of the Becquere! rays on the nervous system am! on the eye. fk found that when a box containing h-c - mirle of radium was placed in a cage to which mice were kept the animals hr - came paralyzed and comatose, and dm 1 in five days. He also found that persons who are either totally blind, or have only th° feeblest possible perception e r light, are peculiarly sensitive to the Becquerel rays, and are able to form visual conceptions of the contour of ob jects the shadows of which are shown on a screen by means of the rays. Cured oe Pii.es After 40 Years. Mr. C. Haney, of Geneva, O., had the piles for 40 years. Doctors and dollars could do him no lasting good. DeWitts Witch Hazel salve cured him permanently. Invaluable for cuts, burns, bruises, sprains, lacerations, eczema, tetter, salt rheum and all oth er skin diseases. Look for the name DeWitt on the package—all others are cheap, worthless counterfeits. Sold by Corner Drug store. Market Report. The quotations given below are the prevailng nrices Wednesday morning and are subject to change at any time Butter, Ranch 25c per lb.. Creamery, 30c per lb Eggs, 40c doz Potatoes, $0.50 per 100 lbs Hay—Mixed, $8.00. Timothy, $10.00 Baled. Oats, $1.10 per 100 lbs. Wheat, $1.10 per 100 lbs. Apples, 75c. Cabbage, $0 85 per 100 lbs. Onion $1.00 per 100 lbs. HAVE YOUR MEASURE TAKEN for your new Fall garments. It is the only proper and sat isfactory way of buying your clothes, being that "GOOD CLOTHES ARE ALWAYS MADE TO ORDER." Make your selection from the tail oring line of STRAUSS BROS. Chicago, Est. 1S77 Good tailors for over a quarter century You'll find a world of pleas ure in wearing the clothes made by Strauss Bros.,— faultless in style, fit, finish and materials. They're so much better than the ordi nary run of clothes, yet prices are astonishingly low, and your perfectly safe in or dering, because if garments are not satisfactory, yon needn't take them. WE WILL BE PLEASED TO SHOW YOU OUR GREAT LINE OF SAMPLES— CALL ON Victor E. Lanstyak a Is APPETITE AND MENTALITY. Kations of Intel!laenee and Eacrgy Are the One* That Spend Moat Monoy on rood. It has been demonstrated by those who have investigated the subject that the people who eat are the peoples who get on and do things. People who have large appetites. It says, have become the chief nations in the world and the nature of the food consumed bears a relation to the character of the con sumers. The argument expressed in tabular form indicates in pence the amount ex pended a head each day for food and the annual exports in pounds sterling: United Slates.................. 29 2P9,lKX>.f<X> United Kingdom...............28 JfO•'fO/iro Germany .......................21 221.090.000 France .......................... 19 on Italy ............................ 9 S4.000,000 The American leads the world as a meat eater, with three pounds a week; the Eriton follows a close second, with a little more than two pounds and a half; the German consumes a little less than the Briton and the Russian con sumes one pound, while the Italian must perforce eke out his scant half pound with large supplies of macaroni and black bread and garlic. The argu ment has a plausible look, says the Chicago Chronicle, but let us not for get that the finest speciments of physi cal strength in the whole world, with the exception of one hardy savage tribe few in numbers, comes from a spot in the Emerald isle where the diet is potatoes and milk, chiefly skimmed, and black bread, and very little of any of them. And there is the sturdy Scot, who scarcely knows the taste of meat, but makes his way in all climes and under all conditions, though he springs from an ancestry that subsisted on oat meal. HOW A TRAMP SAWED WOOD. Sounds of Hard Work Isauad from Shed But Sticks Were Left Intact as Before. Harry Sanderson, manager for Tony Pastor, who lives at Cranford, N. J., not feeling particularly well, took a day off recently and remained at home. From the window of his library, says the New York Herald, he observed a tramp entering his gate and he walked down to the rear door to meet him. It was the old story—a request for a meal. Having a load of unsawed wood in the shed, he told the fellow that if he got to work and performed on the sawbuck for a brief period he would have something prepared for him. The tramp went to the shed and im mediately the sound of vigorous sawing was heard, stick after stick parting un der his energetic efforts. Calling the tramp into the kitchen, Sanderson com plimented him upon his energy, and the tramp replied with a modest air tha' whenever he had anything to do he gen erally paid attention to it. The meal was eaten and the tramp expressed his thanks and departed. Shortly afterward Sanderson went out to the shed and was surprised to find every stick of wood intact. Upon in quiry in the village he ascertained that he had been entertaining a stranded ven triloquist, who was working his way back to New York from Easton, Pa. The mean chap had simply gone into the shed and given his imitation of sawing wood. DRINKING AND SMOKING. Physician Declares They Are No* Companion Vices—Ineliriales Find Little Comfort in the Weed. "The prevalent idea that drinking and smoiving are companion vvees is al together wrong," saiu a pig.s.uan, who has made a special study ol uii..- ..mania, accoruiug to the i J uiladei 1 ....a t.euu'd. "I find, on the contrary, tha. the habit uai uruxn.ard is not abnormal)} .indicted to the use of tobacco. He ma> use the weed as a ,esser stimulant w hen not strongly under the influence of alcohol, but when the drm.. gets firmly in trenched in his s}stem he cares noth ing tor tobacco, for then it has last its force and its influence upon his nerves. Of course I mean in extreme cases. "On the other hand, it is a rather curi ous fact that in the case of the moderate drinker, who also smokes, the cutting off of his supply of tobacco will in crease his appetite for alcoholic bever ages, and while at first the liquor will not affect him nearly so much as when he is smoking, in the end it will do him up. Consequently, it is safe to assume that the man who always used liquor and tobacco in moderation will. If he gives up tobacco, take more strongly to liquor. In fact, this is no assumption; it has been demonstrated on numerous occasions." Teles:raph in Cipher. Chinese cannot be telegraphed, and to meet this difficulty a cipher, system has been invented, by which messages in that language can be transmitted over the wires. The sender of the mes sage has no need to trouble himself about the meaning, and. in fact, may be telegraphing all day without the slight est idea of the information he is send ing. for he transmits only numerals. It is very different, however, with the re ceiver of the message at the other end, as he must have a code dictionary, and, after each message is received, must translate it, writing each literary char acter in the place of the numeral that stands for It. The Only Titled Mate. Sir Evelyn Arthur Fairbairn is the only subject of King Edward who bears a hereditary title and was born deaf and dumb. A tall, handsome man, with a peculiarly winning smile and attractive manner, he gives no outward sign of a misfortune which would have shadowed a temperament less bouyant than his own. Sir Arthur is a famous globe trot ter, a great part of his travel having been undertaken to study means of amel iorating the lot of those afflicted as he Is himself. TIME CARD TRAINS. RITTER ROOT BRANCH. Passenger—Daily except Sunday. North Bound STATION. South Bound Lv. 6:35 a. m. .....Hamilton... 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