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STOBTBTTB*.
Ambassador Chonte recently had an
amusing' experience in a London book
shop, where he went to buy a copy
of Dante's "Hell." The clerk departed
to seek the book, but soon returned
to remark: "I am very Borry, but we
haven't got 'Hell,' by Mr. Dante.
/We've got 'Twenty Years in South
Africa,' by Cecil Rhodes( if that would
do." "And feeling," concludes Mr.
Choate, "that that was practically th»
lime thing, I took the book."
A ccrtain colonel on the staff of one
of Grant's generals was much given
to novel reading, and went about with
his saddle-bags stuffed full of thrill
ing romances. For weeks he had been
devouring, an English translation of
Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables." One
day while passing through a confed
erate town, he saw a young lady seat
ed on a porch, and, stopping his horse,
bowed to her with all the grace of a
Chesterfield, and endeavored to engage
her in conversation. Before he had
cone far he took occasion to remark:
"Have- you seen 'Lees Miserables'?'
mnglacizing the pronunciation. Her
i. black eyes snapped with indignation
aa ahe tartly replied: "Don't you talk
to me that way they're a good deal
better than Grant's miserables, any
how."
From War to Fence.
Two cannon from the civil war are
to be melted and cast into a statue
representing peace. When a contrast
—as great in a way as the chaujje
Hostetter'a Stomach Bitters will bring
about in the health of any who use it.
It cures .constipation, dyspepsia, or
weak kidney's.- Try it.
The nurse maid accepts more or less
'hush money.
Ban for the Bowel*.
No matter what ails you,, headache
to a cancer, you will never get Veil
until your bowels are put right
CASCARETS help nature, cure you
without a gripe -or pain, produce easy
natural movements, cost you just 10
cents to start getting your health back.
CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the
'genuine, put up in metal boxes, every
tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it Be
ware of imitations.
The rich man has troubles of which
the poor man knows nothing.
PAVKZR'S HAITI BALBAK keeps the batr soft and
plentiful and restores tbe color when
...
IUVDBBCOBNB,
gray.
the best care for coma. IScts.
Singapore now has two rival golf
dubs.
Indigestion Is a bad companion. Get rid of It
tw chewing a bar of Adams* Pepsin TutU ITruttf
after each meal.
A pistol is doubly dangerous when
the owner is loaded.
Mra. Wlnslow'a Soothing Syrup.
or children teething, aofMna the guma, reduces In
flammation, allay* pain, caret wind colic. 23c a bottle.
A wise man never .covets a thing
lie can live without
BUM' Bleaching Blue makes Brown muslin
•white In a day: All grocers sell the genuine
Refuse Imitations. Sold by all grocer*
The proprietor of a hotel resemble?
multitude,- being a host in himself.
Important to Mothers.
Xxunlne carefully every bottle of CASTORIA,
a safe and snre remedy for infante and children,
and see that it
Beats the
Signature of
Use tat Over SO Tears.
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
-,NQ man is truly good who is only.,
.^fco .for the.'sake-.of praise.
bdlu Van Wear Shoes.
One size smaller af terusingAllen's Foot
Ease, a .powder. It makes tight or new
shoes easy. Cures swollen, hot,
sweating,
aching feet, ingrowing nails, corns and
bunions. All druggists and shoe stores,
'25c. Trial package FREE by mail. Ad
dress Allen'S. Olmrftefl/ lie Roy, N. Y.
Even insane persons will get the'l
fcensus this year—perhaps.
Each package of PUTNAM FADE­
LESS DYES colors either Silk, Wool
or Cotton perfectly.
It has been truly said that more
men fall in love than in war.
I do not believe Plso's cure tor consumption
has an equal for coughs and colds.—JOBN
JBOTIH, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15,1900.
When a man is a little mellow lie
Imagines he is ripe for anything.
IBENNE PLANT FOR CHILDREN.
A Specific for Summer Complaint.
During these warm days of midsummer,
parents cannot be too watchful. It Is
the safe thing to have this well known
family specific always in the house to
check the flrst appearance of any bowel
trouble In the children. Get a bottle of
EXTRACT OF BENNE PLANT today.
It m.-'. save the life of your child.
Erf ared by THE J. & G. MAGUIRF
MEI/1CINE CO., ST. LOUIS, MO.
Thje ship carpenter often indulges
In see saw.
THE DOUGLAS SHOE.
The best advertised and consequent
i. ly the best known shoe in the world
today is undoubtedly made by the W.
L. Douglas Shoe Co., of Brockton,
Mass. The one idea of this company
has always been to sell a shoe for
$3.50 which equals in every way the |5
shoes of any other concern. They are
able to do this on account of there be
lng no middle man's profit, as the
goods are sold direct from the factory
to the wearer. In 60 of the principal
cities of the country they have their
own retail stores. The goods are made
In all sizes and widths, and'few shoes
equal them for style and di^»*-""
The factory at Brocktot
over 1,100 hands, and all 'jj/V. trou
bles are settled by the state board of
arbitration. Nothing but union labor
Is employed, and pay about the best
average wages of any shoe workers in
the United States. The factory pay
roll amounts to $17,435 per week. This
company makes shoes for men only,
and it is their proud boast that over,
'one million men wear them.—Denver
{Colo.) -Post.
Money talks when you drop a nlcke
into a.phonograph
If you wlfih to hove beautiful, clear white
plothes ask for RusV Bleaching Blue. Refuse
Imitations, Sold by all grocers.
thorn in the bush is worth two
the flesh.
JOSTON INSTITUTION.
jue institutions of Boston
gtltu'e, No.'4Bul
pre the
Library 4-.000 years Old.
Professor Herman V. Hilprecht of
the University of Pennsylvania has
just added another to his many dis
coveries in the archaeology of Baby
lon. He has dug up a library of 17,000
tablets which belonged to the great
'temple of Nippur. Not one of these
tablets is of a date later than 2280
1). C. Prolfeajtir Hilprecht says that
live years will be consumed in un
earthing the remaining treasures of
the temple. For ten years the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania has been ex
cavating the ruins of ancient Babylon,
and its collection of those antiquities
is the finest of its kind in the world.
Nippur was one of the oldest seats of
religion and civilization in Babylonia.
PROF. HILPRECHT.
-Its great temple, upon whose library
Dr. Hilprecht has just come, was co
eval with the beginning of Chaldean
history. This temple was sacred to
Bel, the god of which the Bel, more
generally known, was a later modifl
cation. The date of the founding of
this old temple is now conceded to be
7060 B. C., or earlier by 8,000 years
than the time fixed as the beginning
of the world, according to the biblloal
translators of Genesis. But long before
the building of this temple civilization
ruled in Babylon. According to Pro
fessor Sayee, "for the beginning of
Babylonian writing we will have to
search among the relics of centuries
that lie far behind the foundation of
the Temple of Nippur."
The Fifth United States Infantry is
just about to sail from San Francisco
for service in China. The Fifth is
one of the oldest and best regiments
in the regular service, and it has one
of the best records for active service
in the entire army. The Fifth was or
ganized on July 16, 1798, and after sev
eral consolidations with other com
mands again became the Fifth in 1869,
and has so re-:
mained ever since.
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The Ancient Fifth.
Colonel Richard
Comba, the com
mander of the reg
iment, has been in
the service longer
than any other of
ficer now engaged
'in active duty. He
entered the army
in 1855 and has
been in it ever
since. Notwith
is more than 63
Capt. Hackney,
standing that he
years old and that he will be retired
next year, he is as anxious as any of
the young men of the regiment to get
to the scene of the conflict in the ori
ent. Capt. Hackney will have charge
of the Fifth after it lands in China.
He has been in the service for 35
years.
The Hard Worfi Care.
Dr. Pye-Smith,. in an address before
the British Medical association, pre
scribed hard work as a remedy for
many ills. He declared that regular
and steady work is tne best cure for
a thousand nervous aliments, and that
this is true is shown by the fact that
the hard working people are not those
who are affected by these Ills. He de
clared that nervous prostration, worry,
and brain tension are too often syn
onyms for the effcet of gambling and
drink. There can be no question that
hard work is healthy, for it is those
who work hardest that live longest,
and the lazy die young. One advan
tage of Dr. Pye-Smlth's prescription
that it is easily followed and that
the remedy is cheap.
ft® Hero of Amur
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ujric
fotvers TO rite* a Letter.
The sentence of life imprisonment
hanging over Caleb Powers, who was
convicted of .complicity in the murder
of William Goebel, does not seem to
weigh heavily upon~ the prisoner's
spirits. He has hope of a releasel
from confinement or a mitigation of
his sentence through a new trial or
an appeal to the higher courts on a
writ of error.
Powers still maintains that he is
Innocent of the charge against him, and
has made public the following state
ment:
'To the Public:—I am asked my
opinion concerning my trial and the
verdict of the jury.
Could I have but
one opinion? Can
any fair-minded
man or woman of
this state have but
one? That one of
the .greatest judi
cial farces known
to history has been
enacted here in my
trial, under the!
forms of law, no
well informed man
can doubt. Innocence is no shield
with $100,000 and the methods o(
Campbellism against you. The recti
tude of one's past life counts for
naught. They say Taylor is guilty
because he was at his oflice, and that
I am guilty because I was away from
mine. I have never had, and I now
have no apology to make for being
true to the trust imposed upon me by
a majority of the voters of this state.
History will draw its dark lines
around those who have outraged ma
and disgraced the judiciary and black
ened the history of the state."
Caleb Powers.
TV alder see's Wife.
Countess Von Waldersee, the wifa
of the famous German field marshal
(whom the emperor will probably send
to China as commander in chief of tha
forces there), is an American princess
not by marriage but in her own right.
She is one of the most successful
women of America who have married
abroad. Her flrst husband was Prince
Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein. To
marry her on terms of equality the
prince sacrificed his title and royal
rights. Then the emperor of Austria
made him Prince of Noer and his wifa
Princess of Noer. The princess wat
Miss Reade of New York, daughter of
a wholesale grocer. Her husband waa
very old at the time of'the marriage,
and died during the honeymoon, leav
ing his immense fortune to the widow,
who at the end of two years' mourn
ing, married the Count Von Walder
see, then a young officer. Countesa
COUNTESS VON WALDERSEE.
Waldersee is one of the most brilliant
courtiers in Europe.
young and UratOe.
Major Waller, lae commander of tha
American marines in the fighting be
fore Tientsin, Chi
na, whose report
was made publio
by the war de
partment Aug. 17,
recommends Lieut.
A. Eugene Harding
of the marine corps
for promotion for
conspicuous a 1
lantry in action.
Lieut. Harding
was born and
raised in Quincy.
A. E. Harding.
He was a captain in the Illinois na
tional guard, but resigned about a year
before the Spanish war broke out.
When war was declared the troops
were called for. Harding enlisted as a
private in the 5th Illinois. Col. Culver
made him a captain, and he was given
the command of the Taylorville com
pany of that regiment. He served
through the Spanish war and in 1899
was appointed by the president a lieu
tenant in the marine corps.
Justice FredericK Smyth.
Justice Frederick Smyth of New
York died last week at Atlantic City,
N. J., of pneumonia. Justice Smyth
was known from
one end of the
country to the
other, especially as
Recorder Smyth,
for as recorder he
presided over some
of the most re
markable criminal
as a
ever tried in an
American court.
His rulings were
rarely reversed. Recorder Smyth.
He was born near Galway, Ireland,
in 1822. His father left no Inheritance.
Young Smyth came to the United
States and was a clerk in John Mc
Keon's law office when McKeon he
me a marine court justice. As a
.icing lawyer, while he was Mc
assistant, he was engaged in
celebrated casea, He prepared
nee on which cbie Briti^jnln-
TALMAGF/S SERMON.
SPEAKS ON GLORIOUS HERIT
AGE OF GOD'S CHILDREN.
Thoughts Suggested by His Contact
With the Imperial Splendors of Euro
ropean Capitals—Christians Members
of the Royal House of Jesus.
(Copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.)
In this discourse Dr. Talniage, who
during his journey homeward has seen
much of royal and imperial splendors
in passing through the capitals of Eu
rope, shows that there, is no higher
dignity nor more illustrious station
than those which the Christian has as
a child of God text, Judges viii., 18,
"Each one resembled the children of a
king."
Zebah and Zalmunna had been oft to
battle, and when they came back they
were asked what kind of eople they
had seen. They answered that the peo
ple had a royal appearance. "Each
one resembled the children of a king."
That description of people is not ex
tinct. There are still many who have
this appearance. Indeed, they are the
sons and daughters of the Lord Al
mighty. Though now in exile, they
shall yet come to their thrones. There
are family names that stand for wealth
or patriotism or intelligence. The
name of Washington among us will
always represent patriotism. The fam
ily of the Medici stood as the repre
sentative of letters. The family of the
Rothschilds is significant of wealth,
the loss of $40,000,000 in 1848 putting
them to no inconvenience, and within a
few years they have loaned Russia $12,
000,000, Naples $25,000,000, Austria $40,
000,000, and England $200,000,000, and
the stroke of their pen on the count
ing room desk shakes everything from
the Irish sea to the Danube. They
open their hand and there Is war, they
shut it and there is peace. The Roman
offs of Russia, the Hohenzollerns of
Germany, the Bourbons of France, the
Stuarts and Gueiphs o£ Great Britain,
are houses whose names are intertwin
ed with the history of their respective
nations symbolic of imperial author
ity.
But I preach of a family more poten
tial, more rich and more extensive—
the royal house of Jesus, of whom
the whole family in heaven and on
earth is named. We are blood rela
tions by the relationship of the cross
all of us are the children of the
Kin*.
First, I speak of our family name.
When we see a descendant of some one
greatly celebrated in the last century,
we look at him with profound interest.
To have had conquerors, kings or
princes in the ancestral line gives lus
ter to the family name. In our line
was a King and a Conqueror. The
Star in the East with baton of light
woke up the eternal orchestra that
made music at his birth. From thence
he started forth to conquer all nations,
not by tramping them down, but by
lifting them up. St. John saw him on
a white horse. When he returns he
will not bring the nations chained to
his wheel or in iron cages, but I hear
the strike of the hoofs of the snow
white cavalcade that brings them to
the gates in triumph.
Luster From Star and Spear.'
Our family name takes luster from
the star that heralded him and the
spear that pierced him and the crown
that was given him. Ic gathers fra
grance from the frankincense brought
to his cradle and the lilies that flung
their sweetness into his sermons and
the box of alabaster that broke at his
feet. The Comforter at Bethany. The
Resurrector at Nain. The supernatur
al Oculist at Bethsaida. The Savior of
one world and the chief joy of another.
The storm his frown. The sunlight his
smile. The spring morning his breath.
The earthquake the stamp of his feet.
The thunder the whisper of his voice.
The ocean a drop on the tip of his
finger. Heaven a sparkle on the bosom
of his love. Eternity the twinkling of
his eye. The universe the
flying
dust
of his chariot wheels. Able to heal a
heartbreak or hush a tempest or drown
a world or flood immensity with his
glory. What other family name could
ever boast of such an illustrious per
sonage
Henceforth swing out the coat of
arms. Great families wear their coat
of arms on the dress, or on the door of
the coach, or on the helmet when they
go out to battle, or on flags and en
signs. The heraldic sign is sometimes
a lion or a dragon or an eagle. Our
coat of arms,worn right over the heart,
hereafter shall be a cross, a lamb
standing against it and a dove flying
over it. Grandest of all escutcheons!
In every battle I must have it blazing
on my flag—the dove, the cross, the
lamb, and when I fall wrap me in
that good old Christian flag, so that the
family coat of arms shall be right over
my breast, that all the world may see
that I looked to the Dove of the Spirit
and clung to the Cross and depended
upon the Lamb of God, which taketh
away the sin of the world.
The Royal House of Jesus.
You cannot see a large estate in orn,
morning. You must take several
walks around it. The family property
of this royal house of Jesus is so great
that we must take several walks to
get any idea of its extent. Let the flrst
walk be around this earth. All these
valleys, the harvests that wave in
them and the cattle that pasture them
—all these mountains and the precious
things hidden beneath them and the
crown of glacier they cast at the feet
of the Alpine hurricane—all these
lakes, these islands, these continents,
are ours. In the second walk go
among the street lamps of heaven and
see stretching oft on every side a wil
derness of worlds. For us they shine.
For us they sang at a Savior's nativ
ity. For us they will wheel into line
and with their flaming torches add to
the splendor of our triumph on the
day for which all other days were
made. In the third walk go around
the eternal city. As we come near it,
hark to the rush of its chariots and
the wedding peal of its great towers.
The bell of heaven has struck 12. It is
high noon. We look off upon the chap
lets which never fade, the eyes that
never weep, the temples that never
close, the loved ones that never part,
the procession that never halts, the
trees that never wither, the walls that
never can be captured, the sun that
never sets, until we can no longer
gaze, ani} we hide our eyes and ex
ilgiin: "fiye hiath not seen, nor ear
grediiatp the
hath prepared for them that love
him!" As the tides of glory rise
we have to retreat and hold fast lest
we be swept off and drowned in the
emotions of gladness and thanksgiv
ing and triumph.
What think you of the family prop
erty? It is considered an honor to
marry into a family where there is
great wealth. The Lord, the bride
groom of earth and heaven, offers you
his heart and his hand, saying in the
words of the Canticles, "Rise up my
love, my fair one, and come away."
And once having put on thy hand the
signet ring of his love, you will be en
dowed with all the wealth of earth
and all the honors of heaven.
The Family Homestead.
Almost every family looks back
io
a
homestead—some country place where
you grew up. You sat on the doorslll,
You heard the footsteps of the rain on
the garret roof. You swung on the
gate. You ransacked the barn. You
waded into the brook. You thrashed'
the orchard for apples and the neigh
boring woods for nuts, and everything
around the old homestead is of inter
est to you. I tell you of the old home
stead of eternity. "In my father's
house are many mansions." When we
talk of mansions we think of Chats
worth and its park nine miles in cir
cumference and its conservatory that
astonishes the world, Its galleries of
art that contain the triumphs of Chan
trey, Canova and Thorwaldsen, of the
kings and queens who have walked its
stately halls, or, flying over the heath
er, have hunted the grouse. But all the
dwelling places of dukes and princes
and queens are as nothing to the fam
ily mansion that is already awaiting
our arrival. The hand of the Lord
Jesus lifted the pillars and swung the
doors and planted the parks. Angels
walk there and the good of all ages.
Thelpoorest man in that house is a mil
lionaire and the lowest a king, and the
tamest word he speaks is an anthem
and the shortest life an eternity.
It took a Paxton to build for Chats
worth a covering for the wonderful
flower, Victoria Regia, five feet in di
ameter. But our Lily of the Valley
shall need no shelter from the blast
and in the open gardens of God shall
put forth its full bloom, and all heaven
shall come to look at it, and its aroma
shall be as though the cherubim had
swung before the throne a thousand
censers. I have not seen it yet. am
in a foreign land. But my Father is
waiting for me to come home. I have
brothers and sisters there. In the
Bible I have letters from there, telling
me what a fine place it is. It matters
not much to me whether I am rich or
poor, or whether the world hates me or
loves me, or whether I go by land or
by sea, if only I may lift my eyes at
last on the family mansion. It is not
a frail house, built In a month, soon
to crumble, but an old mansion, which
is as firm as the day it was built. Its
wall3 are covered with the ivy
of many ages, and the urns
at the gateway are abloom with
the century plants of eternity. The
queen of Sheba hath walked in its
halls, and Esther and Marie Antoinette
and Lady Huntington and Cecil and
Jeremy Taylor and Samuel Rutherford
and John Milton and the widow who
gave two mites and the poor men from
the hospital—these last two perhaps
outshining al lthe kings and queens of
eternity.
The Family Reunion.
A family mansion means reunion.
Some of your families are very much
scattered. The children married and
went off to St. Louis or Chicago or
Charleston. But perhaps once a year
you come together at the old piace.
How you wake up the old piano that
has been silent for years! Father and
mother do not play on it. How you
bring out the old relics and rummage
the garret and open oldscrapbooks and
shout and laugh and cry and talk over
old times and. though you may be
forty-five years of age, act as though
you were sixteen. Yet soon it is gooi
by at the car window and goodby at
the steamboat wharf. But how will
we act at the reunion in the old family
mansion in heaven? It is a good while
since yon parted at the door of the
grave. There will be Grace and Mary
and Martha and Charlie and Lizzie
and all the darlings of your house
hold, not pale and sick and gasping for
breath, as when you saw them last,
but their eye bright with the luster
of heaven and their cheek roseate with
the flush of celestial summer.
What clasping of hands! What em
bracings! What coming together of
lip to lip! What tears of joy! You
say, 'I thought there were no tears in
heaven.' There must be, for the Bible
says that "God shall wipe them away,"
and if there were no tears there how
could he wipe them away? They can
not be tears of grief or disappoint
ment They must be tears of gladness.
Christ will come and say, "What, child
of heaven, is it too much for thee?
Dost thou break down under the glad
ness of this reunion? Then I will
help thee." And with his one arm
around us and the other arm around
our loved ones he shall hold us up in
the eternal jubilee.
While I speak some of you with
broken hearts can hardly hold your
peace. You feel as if you would speak
out1and say: "Oh, blessed day, speed
on! Toward thee I press with blister
ed feet over the desert way. My eyes
fail for their weeping. I faint from lis
tening for feet that will not come and
the sound of voices that will uot
speak. Speed on, oh day of reunion!
And then. Lord Jesus, be not angry
with me if after I have kissed thy bless
ed feet I turn around to gather up the
long lost treasures of my heart. Oh,
be not angry with me. One look at thee
were heaven. But all these reunions
are heaven encircling heaven, heaven
overtopping heaven, heaven com
mingling with heaven!"
I was at Mount Vernon and went
into the dining room in which our
first president entertained the promi
nent men of this and other lands. It
was a very interesting spot. But oh,
the banqueting hall of the familyy
mansion of which I speak! Spread
the table, spread it wide, for a great
multitude are to Sit at it. From the
Tree by! the river gather the twelve
manner of fruits lor that table. Take
the clusters fromr the heavenly vine
yards a,Ad press (them Into the goldj
tankards for thit table. O
carry in the bread of wh.
eat he shall never
the shoBtpm flags,
and intljne the:
Let DavWicome
with the timbrel, for the prodigals are
at home, and the captives are free, and
the Father hath invited the mighty ot
heaven and the redeemed of earth to
come and dine.
FAMOUS BRIGAND
Of Italy Killed by a Peasant Whom Ba
Threatened.
Rome correspondent New York
Times: News has come to Rome of the
death of the famous brigand, Fiora
vanti, who for so many years has
eluded every attempt on the part of
the Italian authorities to capture him.
His body was found last Saturday in
a wood near Grasseto, in the Tuscan
Maremma. It seems that the cele
brated bandit was shot by a peasant,
whom he had threatened with death
because or his refusal to take a letter
of Fioravanti to a certain well to do
person, demanding the immediate
payment of a sum of 5,000 francs. Lu
ciano Fioravanti may well be said to
have been the last of the old race of
brigands which once infested the Ma
remma and the neighborhood of Rome.
For a long space of time he was the
companion of the terrible Tiburzi.who
was shot by the gendarmerie, near
Sapalbio, in the Merema mountains,
some three or four years ago. Since
the death of his friend and companion
in arms Fioravanti had led a compan
atlvely quiet life in the Ciminian For
est and the neighborhood of Viterbo,
eluding every effort made by the po
lice and guards to capture him. Late
ly he seemed to have returned to hia
old haunts, nearer Grasseto, where in
an unguarded moment he met his end
at last. For some years a reward of
4,000 francs had been hanging above
his head for his capture or death. The
news of his shooting has caused a deep
sensation throughout the country, and
the South Tuscan Maremma and the
country between Lake Balsena and
Rome is now virtually free of all real
ly desperate disturbers of the public
peace.
SANDGLASSES
Slill Used to 3Iear*iire Varying Periods of
Time.
Strange to say, the sandglass is still
used to measure varying periods of
time. The size depsnds upon the pur
poses to which they are to be put.
The hour glass is still in use in the
sick room and in the music room, in
both places affording a sure and si
lent indication of the progress of time.
Half-hour glasses are used in schools,
and fifteen-minute glasses are used for
medical purposes, and the sandglass
also goes into the kitchen as an aid
to exact cooking. There are also tenJ
minute glasses, five-minute and three
minute glasses, the two latter being
used to time the boiling period of eggs.
The three-minute sandglass is called
an "egg boiler." Sand-glasses are also
used for scientific purposes and on
shipboard. The sand is carefully pre
pared by a thorough cleaning, includ
ing boiling. It is then baked dry, and
then ground into the requisite fineness
and uniformity, as sharp sand would
be likely to become wedged in the
opening between the two sections of
the glass. The sand is then intro
duced into the glass through an open
ing left for that purpose in the"end of
one bulb, the opening then being^
sealed, the right quantity in each sa
glass is gauged.by actually tim
flow from one part of the glass t* fie
other, and every glass is individually
treated like a good thermometer. The
glasses are usually mounted in cylin
drical frames or holders, so that th*
twin bulbs can be seen at all times.
Greit Men's Love Letters*
Napoleon's letters to Josephine were
remarkable for their ardour, and for
a man who was said to have no heart
he expressed an extraordinary degree
of love and devotion. Swift's letters
to Stella are his complete autoblo
graph, and at the time when he pos
sessed his greatest power, when he
was courted by the rich and great,
when ministers of state consulted him
on every question, he took time to
write her daily. And he no sooner
sent off one letter than he commenced
another, thus, as Thackeray says,
never letting go her dear hand. Ht
told her everything that was goinj
on in the great world, and what was
said and done by every person worth
knowing, from the queen down. But
there was a curse connected with
everything that Swift did. After woo
ing his Stella for year and years, and
breaking the heart of Miss Vanhom
righ as well, he finally married Stella,
but refused to live with her. They
parted at the altar, never to meet
ai:ain.
Sing Without Opening Mouths.
Many birds form their sound with
out opening their bills. The pigeon
is a well-known instance of this. Its
cooing can be distinctly heard, al
though it does not open its bill. The
call is formed internally in the throat
and chest and is only rendered audible
by resonance. Similar ways may be
observed in many birds and other
animals. The clear, loud call of the
cuckoo, according to one naturalist, is
the resonance of a note formed in the
bird. The whirring of the snipe,
which betrays the approach of the bird
to the hunter, is an act of ventrilo
quism. Even the nightingale has cer-.
tain notes which are produced Intern
ally and which are audible while the
bill is closed.
Why We Are Like the Crow.
Aside from the special question of
profit and loss, we have a warm side
toward the crow, he is so much like
ourselves, said the late Henry Ward
Beecher. He is lazy, and that is hu
man he is cunning,and that is human.
He thinks his own color is best, and
loves to hear his own voice, which are
eminent traits of humanity. He will
never work when he can get anotheV
to work for him—a gfenuine huma
trait. He eats whatever-he can get
claws upon, and is less
Ten
Y»
Pain
"I am a school toaohar,
havo suffered agony
monthly for ten years•
"My nervous system
was a wreck. I suffered
with pain In my side and
had almost every III
knownm I had taken treat"
ment from a number oi
physicians who gave me
no reliefm
"One specialist said no
medicine could help me,
I must submit to 'an
operation.
"I wrote to Mrsm Pink
ham, stating my ease,
The Best
Saddle Coat.
,mischie
with a bellyfull than when
and T&ke off
wi
and
received a prompt reply*
I took Lydia Em Plnkham's
Vegetable Compound and
followed the advloo given
me and now I suffer no
more. If any one cares
to know more about my
oase, will oheerfully
answer all letters*"—
MISS EDNA ELLIS, Hlg
glnsport, Ohio.
Many little sins are committed be
cause they have high sounding names.
Are Ton Using Allen's Voot-Kaae?
It is the only cure for Swollah*.
Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet,
Corns 'and Bunions. Ask for Allelic
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dress Allen S. Olmsted. LeRoy, N. Y.
A woman's sweetest smile may hide
en aching heart.
There is no time for hair-splitting
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Substitutes will
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Tuesday, Sept. Iltti, 1900,
LOW RATE8
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