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1 t of al hi ....> ;.-- >a:cst U. S. Gov. Report. CAan ABS'RTEf PUR AMOI QJhL REPrFOOF IN LOVZ. Because -e are -,u: o.lut 'r.," (lpht, Each of thl,wlr,. took anut tmilst '4tan" ethe" ri o 'll al1d!i'" t..h Itl Becan1- thi dnwn that jit has trotulht L:riti. n~, i. 1It rti aints or pain. Nothing for ao ;tilm tie tt I :.-ht The righti to live our li\re In vain. Takte notat ni) the ii. ltret That 1 ad mte tn mty i .rtrly way To knlo: yu tnmoblec. sweet and pure. GIreat in least serv-ie day by day. -Wives alti DUtughters. How a Saber Cut Feels. "I hardly know how it feel. to Ie shot, but I well realize how it feels to be cut," said Mr. 0. 1). I .eves of Inilianapolis at the Lindell. "1 enlisted- in c:tvalry regiment when I was 16 and put in four years for Uncle Samt. Do you see this sear? That was dote ait Nashville," and be held up his left haul, which was al most Encirt hid iby a deep scar. "Tihe boys were, tre:l.red to charge. and I had empti.l t:y ,;t,,l antd had just drawn my salber whtenl I -,t. bhearinlg twtii upogi me one of thei lar "-t nitt I tever a:Lw. "Our hor-es w-.re both going at full speed. a:!l ' \V' ,i I hladled directly for me.. litn iluncht lI his blow first, and I instincttiveiiy 11 row up lny harl4 and lowered my hit; .1. The saber struck im y hand, wh ith f . I helplesly by myb sy idt The man flow ,st mte, and I turned imy horse to one -ide aind rode far enough awaF to exar :ne mny wounll. No blood escaped, nei'.:er did I feel any pain until the wound , as drrssiad a hlalf hour later. The renacti, -i et in. aind the strongest opiates we. tt u-dl for days to give rme re lief from 1i.lin."-St. Louis Republic. The Thumnb. Thumbs have been appreciated ever since the world began. The ancients used to call the thuiinb the other hand Barbarous kings used to swear and make comparts by their thumbms. In Rome it was a sign of favior to wring and kiss the thumb, and if ,lisfav-r or disgrace to lift them upil or turn them u otward. A man who was hurt in his thumbs was exrcut'd fr..i -ri\ing in the Runoman wars. onlme of the -t.ll uthnrlly citizens used to cut off thit r tlhumbs, so as to remain home and g,'t ri:' . Teachers used to punish their pupils b1y biting their thumbs. The thumll is a great and influential member. I can look at the thumb of a young womnol and describe her figure. I can tell wh talihr .-te is thin and bony, or plump and round; whether her joints are large and ill shalx.n. or small and perfectly It,.lxtrti-nle,. By examining a man's thumb I can itll what ought to be his vocation.-Ne-w York Tribune. Its Son Is Likthe eiling of a Saw. (if the Acadian owl. one of the rarest of New En.,lanl blras. Audubon avys. "This little owl is known in Massachu setta by the utame of the 'saw whet,' the sound of its love notes bearing a great resemblance to the noise produced by filing the teeth of a large saw. These notes, when coming. as they frequently do. front the interior of a deep forest, produce a very peculiar effect on the traveler, who. not being aware of their real nature. exptets as he advances on his route to meet with shelter under a sawmill at no great distance. Until I shot the bird in the act I had myself been more than once deceived in this manner." The Restles.s Man. Of all tiresome things a restless man is the worst. A restless woman cannot be gin to come up to a restless man. She gets physically tired out after awhile a;:d must sit down. But a man-he can go on and on forever. In cafes, railroad trains, theaters-in fact, wherever men do congregate-there also is the restless man, driving every one distracted with his ceaseless tramp ing. He goes up, and he goes down, but he is never weary.-New York Herald. ahs agerd Weel HseIs. The comfortable, well clad citizen was going along Woodward avenue home the other evening when a big, burly tramp stopped him and asked for a dime. The ctisea looked him over and asked: "Do you have no more regard for yourself than to beg on the streets?" "That's just it, boss," was the reply. "It's becsause I have regard for myself that I do. There's too many dogs in the back yards."-Detroit Free Press. In V.Utt s It I "Pall." From the Hopeful Young Man to the Pa1r--As I stend in the broad avenue leb I ad so many closed door I know aot which one to open. How can I tell wMhi will lead mae to eccss? Fro. the Practical Pastor to the YoTeam an-There' only one, nd yo'll Lad i labeled "Pak."-dCebsgs. "I sed up p.08 las year." sead Wal lis pgrdly. "And I suppose you spet t ao pres as for your pap and smamma?" asked te visitor. "Yes," aid Walls. "hat is, all but * eit."-Brp~s Brar. aoes asses Oase ed A Portland lawyer rps tt not long ap a a came into isese through y--s m usaly all when they Spen sack eurands. ehadesed upon a d er ad askd dints pemeliy ter tihe gpm , a I p. adsd lr been gg sa ls ear ohe wanted \fiti tt r "No t ,., ." .i th i c li.nte. 'I tho(t cm if r.ti. . t ,it a e; ,. , ,. o !-,,Lit ais that fllhow has t, p,:y it." l. the i .-' it wiii .it the debtnor a lt ter. anho in d te tho !at er aPI yardit in hiaskedh ,. . H, dt,!nt owe any ..The. lwyr a, Obin .i to. it. Oh.ry well,.'" said the lawdeetor, "'then my instructions are to sut". But I hard ly thinerk it will pay you to sand a sgouit for s, small a stun." Whllo get itget the money if i to ay it? asked the man The lawyer was obliged to confess that he should. "Oh, well," said the debtor, "that's another matter If Mr. - isn't going to get it. I am perfectly willing to piy it." The debt vwa, paid, the lawyer pock eted the amounlt, and, what is very un nsual, all parties to the suit were per fectly satistied.-Portland Argus. Medinlluls In Japan. Spirit ralpping viation for women in Japan requires little apparatus. Rap ping is lirhaps not the correct word, for there is raily no "rapping" at all--the Sclents are simnply put in colllmuniniion with any spirit with whom they desire to speak. It i.. not icies.-aryv that Ithe spirit should be tltit of a diead lperon, but the medium always iqulires whether the spirit whose presence is d-siriei is living or dead. The mnedimn.is always carry abolaut with them a Inysterious wooden ibox, alboullt a foot or less square. Like the medicine bag of the Indian medicine man, its con tents are a secret to nemnllrs of the saune profess ion. These women usunallyi have a bow of soft wood strung with a single string, and this they twang on the edge of the box like a caricature of violin playini If the spirit required is that of a dead person. a leaf plucked from a graveyard is used to splash some water out of a small cup that stands in front of the inedimtn. If the ptrs, n is living, a siu ilar ceremony is performed with a piece of stick instead of a leaf. Then follows an incantation. and the spirit proceeds to spealt. thrlough the ntediu.ll The medintu cl.iarges sonatihnes as hilgh as 13 or 20 cents.-S-uo Francisco Call. What the ('olleg.e tlynainum elun tihw. The culle- ginalnirllnllll is a place not for the prodllction ,cly of studious ath letes, but of athletic students. A place~. where an hour's variedl exercise, a run. a spray andll a irub down can be had regn larly, and where a man may turn his thoughts wholly from books and studies for awhile by a bout at fencing, or box- i ing, or by a game in the bowling alley, or in the handball court, from which he can get increased capacity for greater and better endeavors. Kept within its proper sphere. it is as necessary 'for the symmetrical and complete development of the young "scholar in politics" as is the mathematical recitation, the histor ical lecture or the debating society, and it is as legitimate.--Harper's Weekly. Drawbacks la Acting. It is soantimes hard work to be an actor, for the thumping and pulling and hauling that a person may have to em dare in an exciting scene are sometimet more than a mere show. Miss Seina Fetter had to give up her lprt in "The Henrietta" Lecause she was injured by the fall required of herin every perform ance of that piece. A young leadinggman who has been playing Orlando in "As You Like It" for three nights is raw from wrists to elbows in consequence of the thumps, slides and falls endured at the hands of a brawny athlete In the wrestling scene.-New York Saun. Toe .ed Out YTer natere. .shand. At bedtime, having fasted since noon, two girls who wish to obtain a sight of their future husbands boil an egg. which must be the first egg ever laid by the hen, in a pan in which no egg has ever been boiled before. Having boiled it until it is hard they cut it in two with Ssaething that has never been useed as s knife before. Each girl eats her half sad the shell to the last fragment, speak ing no word the while. Then, still in slence, they walk backward to bed. "to sleep, perchance to dream."-"English F Folk Rhyme." As Aeeoamnodattg Seett Catr lws. The street car system of Tallahaees, Sconsisting of one car, is operated by a S"nigger and a mule," both of whom live ronly to please the people. It the car Shappens to be going one way and a pas senger wants to go in the opposite direo n tion, he has only to my so, and the mule I mmediately hitched to the other and and the car stietsd i- the desired direo tioe.-New York Tribeus Talkin Away Vr the kSledet. When Frederick Robertson of lrigh ton, the great preacher who had wmritm I much about Tennyson's poems, and for whom the poet had a high regard. frst t called upon him, "I felt," said Tenny son, "as it he had come to pluck out the heart of my mystery, so I talked to him about nothing but beer.' Men of sense often learn from their ea r e . It is from their foes-not their frisds-theh cai learn the leso of bWudig high walL and ships4 war, aad this emson saves their children, their l hses and their pwels and shsiwetph. aims THI'IE HItI ) OF' TIlIAY. -LEME\T'; OF CtHARACT.,TT WHIC:-I A'~TF . MAN TO THE FO2'E. San. , ; ItTil 1. 1 ti.n 4 ;r;t uin ed·l h the len re t ldt t i ttre- t Nitin it the I in l ofb t6 1e ni 1:;b ' c ouriti Is lot the Only its sl itit :i ,, I its .i t-r, i. t h iral t. 'the ,,tt' who "Iatb ~l t rf' , ,n- au in , b I i l d , , , nrn I - ltolnr ith hiw i.t twid hlinf. , I- Ia l ion tier peats nt reardmed. i heo antil whoatevr iatnt a ht t heo eciv equatl llt' h ito .hematr who; o; es ch e'e ci ftll t the ,' tit , le n t tt ::t lrora"e , tloru 1 an . i th. l lt fd or1 tr. "it a - ý-.l}t'. t, , l "1.-t,i:. ,' h i :.il e I,,t 1', " .!sy hoalds. the duitlist who holds his life cheapor than hi fancid o honor, have all in timed r ast teen regtardtl its heroes, ond whateer estwhich mate they now recei oe no one denies tl hiir ourage. -en i Equally so. the imartyr who goes cheer fully to the stake; the man who braves obloquy and contempt for truth as he holds it: he who risks his life to save an other, or devotes it unreservedly to the good of mankind: one who can bear and endure, and another who eanr dare an<; dorm all are. in turn lhek roes to those who appreciate theut, andi all are distin gluished by tihe t.me element- courage Whatever be the virtue or the tice; what ever the cause engagedt in: whatever the motives which govern the life-lno one hers ever beets made it er co.ragev in thought. unitess in some way he tins shown strength and bravery. (.owardice and weakness. pusillna nity and fear. We haep posbe in their very esso cre allte heroi it, and ne merits. however great, canll form a cori nnce ting link higtw heren them. Thleasure or ist however, which haor long gnlning to the rrecut is that courage alone an ake mptati hero To some exrsists int we have given up this notion. Our present heroes are no longer seekingnibals or roe benn or duelists. however courageous such tnzhter may have beenold. We have cotrepi to admit that sorething eloe must be united to bravery to create heroism. And what is that something else? Is it not som noble a epurpose outside of self and its interests. The glad and willing sath crifice for somw hing higher than pleasure or interest, comfort or ease. united ot the courage which scorns all mean temptations and persists in the truth and right, as far as it is seen, spite of all otacles-that is the true heroisces which we are vaguely seeking and be ginning to appreciate. The prtzel wa hter may be old and own lotrepi nd i giving ani receiving blows: but. except to a few like himself, he has ceased to be a hero, for his purposes are low and selfish. The suicide may have tof hise courage to throw away his life, but tbe has not that heroic courage which lives on. enduring, hoping and working, in spite of all the adverse circumstances of his lot. Tee great conquerors of this mp, and we world who have plunged their nathe list into cruel wars for the ne of their own glory and aggrandizement were pre-emi fiently the true eres of a past age but we thare gradually learning thte othe and the of his country is the man who seeks her best welfare. who defends her rights and consults her interests, and who for this gorth purpose is ready to take praise o blame to govern or to for love bear, to liveor strdie. ur own Washington and Lin coln were h en of this stamp, and we are justly plro d to have them head the list of our country a's f heroes. Not. however. only in public life and withnder the gaze of the multitude do we find the true hero. In the home and in the schoolroomd ain the office and the workshop, in the crowded street aind open field. he may be d biscovered by those who can appreciate what heroism really is. Whoever thas a high and worthy purpose at heart, whether of truth or duty or love, and also has the dee and to auther, hisf need be for its ake. io worthy of the name. One quietly denies himself pleasure or comfot or eabut infor the aged parent or the sek child. Anotheri gives up tchr iheds plas because hey wroilmd into erftendre with the clas of a depeallydent famly. O f aces taught to rdispleaeogn rie and revere soety sooner than forsake his principles: another employs all his power in detense of the wedak aond agaof eint theild oppreeor. Ourwithin hm t be troue and wobrave, but he mot ahoiso and enimous and an in the notl romatin the cost, in his great desire to further his noble purpose. such rmen and women are always amo , but g inr er gain, will do drin to a few. The fesw, a physicaloweraver, yhould t1m it a eit feru vile t and duty to ishim a true andworthyrid od aToo ttm hia only idesmple.-Ph of it is founde h ILd _r. DMi't Kew It AI. Boy-1 en a card on y'r winder wid "Boy Wanted" writ on it. (Jot one yet? Mechant-l have not found one to ott me. Have you had any eiperience in our bmineei? Boy-No. not much, but I spree you'll be around yourself some o' th' time. (ood News. nIUist s. b.stseubbh. kIklna-I your friend an English an tbort Wilkins-No; he's only a dyspeptic. New tlrk Weekly. A FRONTIER FAriM J. WIFE. Her Incrdnus Ae ":n al t.r I' ,,.ure A1 r I, t.. It _ r , ' . i. "b ma ' i n tI :%c ' liar i., : "*I' t la y p, . ' . 4:. 1 1. try ''4 514'. , l.: l ,1 , ' t I:; tl ," ', ' " f·." " lt .IL' :i : .1 4 1.4s ' '4 1i., but is l 't jtlunpic , l alit tw1 1":i ,,. 1 ,hn Ti r ll o i : , ,a:r chi,,l io,. It io -ift'en aIji'=4ti4n ti strlug *rs (h4 visit col tie fro.:'tiear if she evi.r gets a chulc4' te ('4t 44t all. TI _i the cilil s rei are to be started off t4, ciln ,l, andt though the cred it of their d.c:atios fall. to the father it is the mother who does extra work that they may go. and who pulls thlem out of bed and starts them off in time lv'ery morning. The milk is to ibe strainedl and put away, crocks tcalded, butter churned, and the dishes and Jlchalmber work still wait. Dinter and snppl'r and afternoon work take uip her day. Theru in their turns throughnout the week there are washinlg, ironing, biking every other day, scrultbimng, sweeping, sewing and menlldilng. Inl harvtst tillt sheit will have as uIlitny as I I to rook for anlldl dt14s it all alone. It is sIt t4ll that a farmllter feels that he cal. afford to hire help ill the kitchenl. Shel iltas the v,,l.ltatble ga;r tll to s.e Ito. To brighten the dlrariness of her life she ha- close to the selhlonll oItnleol front doolr a 1,.d of half starved ll I ,kiw,. flowe\rs-old fahltionotd ,oxc.omb, felu: 'tc'lh'ks. grnas.. pinks adI t a few other cheerful looking Iplants that will thriv under neglect. Slhe m1aklls everything that her family wears exep,'t hats tllsd shoes. She has no time to tlink of rest or self. It is in mlost c.ases her lIt to welcolnme a new Ihay every other year. anld the o ly time when helpl is etnpllyed to assist h,.r is for a periTli of two ,r three weItks whenl the little stranger arrives. Tll-. births of the hlabies are about all that vary the monllotony of her life. (cee.a sionally deatth ralls and takes frImtn her tired arms a little life and leaves in its place all dtlhll lpain in her helart. Shelis old and tired out at :ol. WhelnI her daughters reachtl tile age at which they could assist her. the drer"y prospect of a fronti'er life appalls them. and they seek emtl1oyullt in town. Nothing in her house is of late improve ment. Her washlboardis of the kind l.i hl mother used, and her churn in its heavy, clumsy build shows that it belongs to the same date. Imllprovement stalks all o er the farm and leaves no trace in the kitich en. Her pleasures are few. The satis faction that she is doing her best seems to be all that rewards her. She is a hero ine in a calico dress, wrinkled and stoop shouldered-a- woman with a burden who never complains. Late at night, when all the members of the family are in bed, a light will shine out across the prairie from the family living room. It is by this light the farmer's wife is doing her muending and sewing, and it will 'shine out long after the occasional travel that way has stopped, and no one but the one who blows it out knows at what hour the patient burden bearer's labort cease.-Baltimore Herald. Drylag Brewers' Oras. A special machine has been devised for effecting the drying of brewers' grains in vacuum at a low temperature. "*Brew eras' grains" are now largely employed for feeding cows and horses, but the high nutritive value of the spent grains knovi by that name is not generally known. The desicated product of the new pro eas has proved to be of a highly satis factory character, being free from the pecliar bitter taste so often possessed y brewers' grains and showing on anal yss a very high percentage of proteids and fat producing material. The advantages claimed for the vac uum drying process are: The lowest working expenses with greatet capac ity, rapid drying at lowest tempera ture and consequent excellent qualit; of the dried grains; no loss of material or nutritive properties, as the grains ar' not pressed before drying; a clean and simple process. and the avoidance of vapor in the drying rooms or vicinity. New York Telegram. Dleeptse. of was nlrd.. Falcons, hawk--the largest specie- can compress their feathersand look very slim, if they think it necessary to do so. As to the owls, they can hump up into any position the think most suitable. It is useless to look for theseself preserving traits in any of the family kept ino zoo logical oollections. for the birds are so accustomed to see large numbers of peo ple paesing and rewlasing, or standing in front of them, that they treat the whole matter with perfect ndifference. They know that at a certain time their food will be brought them, sad that they are otherwise perfectly se,. Then the rap. tores in a wild state have a bloom an their plumage like the bloom on a bcmeh of grapes, which is not often sela wle in captivity.--oruhill Magazine. A party of farmers he Wales once set out in earch of a bear which had e esped fron a traveling menagerie and rusmed their lands with considerabl detriment to their live stock. In ti. course of their quest one of the farmers, observing a brown animal of coidmr able als lying apparently asleep uier a tree, discharged his gun at it with fatal ecaet. The victim of hi seal, however, turned out to eacosmmas doay. stI beer was ultimately tebedl, 'yales A San Francisco Paper Would Form an Interesting Addition to Your Winter Reading. 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