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ing Experiment.
Have your friends the ability to
hold their attention, or does It become
quickly fatigued? A simple experi
ment will show you, writes Hugo
Munsterberg in the Youth's Compan
ion. Give each person a column from
a newspaper, and have each one cross
out with a pencil every letter A and
•very letter R. Keep an eye on your
watch, and when half a minute has
passed, say “Now,” as a signal for
inch experimenter to make a mark at
the word that he has just reached.
Keep this up for five minutes, and
then count how many A’s and how
many R’s each one marked in the first
half-minute, how many In the fifth,
and how many in the tenth, and see
how many each person overlooked In
each half-minute.
Some persons will do well at the be
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look many. Others will do better in
the second and third half-minute than
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•harper at the end than at the begin
ning.
Where It Made a Stir.
“That speech did not make as much
of an impression as you expected."
“No,” replied the candid orator.
“The only real stir It created was the
rattle of the typewriter while It was
being dictated.”
Afraid of It.
“Truth lies at the bottom of a well.”
“I suppose that Is the reason why
there is so much suspicion of wells.”
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Under a Different Court.
“Judge Livingston Howland, who
was Judge of the Marion common
pleas (succeeding Solomon Blair, pro
moted to the superior court in 1870),
and who succeeded me as judge of the
Seventh circuit after the election of
1872, was listening to the argument
of George K. Perrin, when he inter
rupted the attorney, saying: ‘Mr. Per
rin, you have repeated that statement
of the law now three times. If you
have any other point to discuss I will
hear it, but no more of that, if you
please.’
“To which Mr. Perrin replied: ‘Why,
f it pleases the court, I have repeated
the Lord’s Prayer, I suppose, a thou
sand times, and the Lord has never
rebuked me.’
“ ‘Ah, yes,’ responded the judge, ‘God
is said to be long suffering and kind
and may have suffered your vain repeti
tions, but I am not God; no, not by a
long sight.’ ” —Case and Comment.
Virtue of Disingenuousness.
In a school I once attended the most
popular girl was the most tactful one.
As far as I knew only one girl disliked
her. That girl was spiteful, cross and
therefore not very well liked. Do sou
know what she used to call our idol?
A hypocrite. The word bothered me
not a little, and I spoke to my chum
about it, but she answered in her
thoughtful little way;
“Well, I guess that maybe Betty is
a hypocrite, if being a hypocrite
means saying little kind things based
on small pretexts and leaving unsaid
the unkind things no matter how good
a reason there is for saying them;
but she’s a mighty comfortable per
son to have around. I wish that the
world was full of such hypocrites!”—
Christian Herald.
Hennery’s Love Token.
A young colored woman, tall and
slender, was standing at the northeast
corner of Washington and Illinois
street when two women acquaintances
stopped and addressed her.
"My, my, ’Liza, who done black yo'
poo’ eye dat-a-way?”
“Who done black my eye?” said the
tall, slim one. “You want to know
who done black my eye? My Hennery
done black my eye, dat’s who!”
“I wouldn’t let any man black my
eye,” said one of the acquaintances.
“Ah, yo’ don’ know my Hennery. Dis
black eye jes’ shows how he loves me.
an’ dat’s de kinder man I likes.” —In-
dianapolis News.
Loyal to His “Granny.”
The grandfather of a boy or six or
seven years is a man of a great deal
of prominence in the world of letters
and affairs. A lady calling at the
home of this gentleman was being en
tertained for a few minutes by the
little grandson and the caller said:
“You ought to be very proud of your
grandfather. You know that he is a
great man.”
“Huh!” said the boy. “If you think
that my grandfather is a great man
you just ought to know my grand
mother!” —Woman’s Home Compan
ion.
Busy Hangman.
“I want you to put up some wall
paper I have bought,” said the country
clergyman, meeting the local man of
all works. “When can you do it?”
“Well, sir,” he exclaimed; “you see.
I'm rather busy just now. I hung Mrs.
S yesterday; I’m hanging your
church warden today; hut if It's con
venient I'll drop around and hang your
reverence on Wednesday.”
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Even the miser is willing to share
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Certain theories are perfect, ex
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Not all women are as bad as thej
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V^^ONEMENT
MBBllaigwWßalßisaff if * v
Exterior of sing Sing
and interior ,shoving cllls
YOB can see it from the river,
or you can see it from the
road; either way it looks very
much the • same. If you
brought to look at it an Eski
mo from the northern seas or a na
tive of th? Tonga Isles and asked him
what he thought It was he would
say:
“A prison!”
Every ntone in the long, low, dark
building spells prison. Every nar
row slit of a window, every grill of
iron bars, every foot of thick wall,
every glint of a sentry's gun—they all
spell prison.
Sing Sing is its name, and when It
passes and is succeeded by a new
prison the new one's name will be
Sing Sing, too. So long as New York
endures and men are wicked, there
will be, somewhere, a Sing Sing.
Some baildilJgs grow old gracefully.
But Sing Sing, at the end of a hun
dred grows musty in every
stone andi at every angle. It is grim,
repelling, suggesting all the horrors
of its mediaeval prototypes—if, in
deed, it fs not actually mediaeval it
seff.
Has Special Function.
Yet. to the city of New York,
which has most to do with it. Sing
Sing is not only a prison. It Is the
cold gray palace of atonement. It
has a special function for the metrop
olis. It Hays the city’s slayers.
New York furnishes the stage set
ting for any crime. It provides the
principal and his victim. Its laby
rinths serve as a place for the crim
inal in his flight. Its police make the
pursuit and. usually, the capture. Its
lawyers make the pleas, for and
against. Its juries find the verdict.
Its judges pass the sentence. But
when the sentence is death, the city
turns to the old gray dungeon In
Westchester county and says: “Take
him; he is yours —to kill.”
And so the last the man sees of
the city is at the moment when he
steps from the carriage to take the
train. His lawyers have told him
they will appeal his case. He knows
that he will not die the next day, nor
the next week, nor the next month.
He still has money and the lawyers
are sanguine. Surely they will win
for him.
1 On the train he sits, with his law
-1 yer, in the smoking car, and the two
guards sit behind them, very placid
and pleasant, but with very serious
revolvers in their pockets.
1 They get out at Ossining station.
It used to be Sing Sing station, but
the people of the village got it chang
ed because they did not like to say.
when visiting in other towns, that
they came from Sing Sing. People
1 laughed, and Ossining is a serious
• town.
At the Ossining station, whenever
a train arrives, there is always a
line of old-fashioned, two-seated car
riages. The town Is a hilly one, and
' it is a steep walk either to the busi-
I ness section or the prison.
Brooks No Delay.
1 Then he sees the cold gray palace
of atonement that squats square and
! flat, its western edge touching the
Hudson river. A door is open and
the carriage stops in front of it. The
‘ prisoner goes in.
Sing Sing begins to grind its ma
chinery.
1 It brooks no delays and stands on 1
no formalities. The guards from the
city surrender their man to the
guards of the prison. He is led into
the office at the left. A clerk takes
his name, age, place of birth, occu
-1 pation and what else is needed for
> -
Fashion.
' She’s a jade.
; She misleads many.
She makes dictations.
’ Her followers are blind.
Perhaps she announces contrasting
coats. i
That doesn’t mean any old coat wilt’ ;
do.
i Just because odd gay little silk coats
| are worn with black or white satin
skirts one shouldn’t court ridicule by
wearing some old suit coat with any
iklrt. i
1 Moral: Those who spend economical
ly should usually beware of extreme*.
I Initial Inset.
An initial worked in filet crochet •
with the thread and a very fine cro- ■
s chet hook can be inset into a hand
kerchief with good effect. This Is
something new and is especially at
tractive with a fine crochet edging.
• The handkerchief should first be hem
stitched with a narrow hem. Draw
cnly three threads and take four
threads for the stitch if you wish a i
r rjrtily finished edge. 1
the record. Opposite this record is
put down his number. His pockets
are emptied and a careful inventory
made of everything in them. If he
leaves Sing Sing his watch and keys
and money will be given back to him
—or to his heirs and assigns. No
more does the property of the felon
revert to the state.
He is shaved by the prison barber,
and if his hair is too long to be con
sidered sanitary, from a prison point
of view, it is cut, but not shaved.
He is photographed from both sides
and in front and his measurements
are taken for the Bertillon system.
Stripes went out of use at Sing
Sing years ago. The prison garment
is of dark gray. If the cloth were
fashionably cut any man could wear
a suit of it. The prisoner dons a
suit pf this, shakes hands with his
lawyer, who has been fidgeting about,
and is led away.
One rainy afternoon, as he lies on
his cot, a keeper with no stomach for
his errand comes to the door of his
cell. He has his little speech ready
and fires It quickly.
“Sorry,” he says, “but the court of
appeals sustains the finding of the
lower court.”
When his last morning comes he is
ready,/ and the clergyman is at his
side, talking so earnestly that he
does not notice it when the keeper
slits* his trouser leg from bottom to
knee. He pays little attention as the
prison barber quickly cuts the hair
from the crown of his head. He is
ready when the cel' door swings
open, and he follows the priest and
his flaring candle.
From the curtained cells come the
last goodbys of the rest of the con
demned company, some of them to
follow him that very morning. He
walks bravely through the black
door.
And now he is out of the gray walls
and in a little brick house of one
room. It is about twenty-five feet
square. Its woodwork is oak, brightly
varnished. Even the back of the
black door is yellow. The walls and
ceiling are as brightly blue as the
bluest sky of spring.
No furniture is in this room ex
cept the chair, the chair of atone
ment, made of yellow oak and leath
er straps. He sees it and knows its
purpose, but the priest Is still talk
ing and he listens. The talk is car
rying him far away from the room of
blue and, oak. It is little to him, now
that they are fastening the wet elec
trodes to his head and to iris leg
where the trousers were slit. It is
even less that the pipelike fixture
above him is lowered so that its
wires fasten to the electrode.
From the lethal stores of energy’s
most mysterious realm, liberated by
a hand unseen. 1,800 volts of light
ning leap down the pipelike fixture.
Sing Sing has done what the law
bade it do.
t
Great Poet Not Methodical.
Tennyson, like Mrs. Browning, was
careless regarding his manuscripts.
Some weeks after leaving his lodg
ings in Mornington place, Hampstead,
he wrote from Bonohurch, telling
Coventry Patmore that he could not
find his “book of elegies—a long,
butcher-ledger-llke book.” and asked
him to make inquiries. Patmore went
to Mornington place and, being al
lowed to search the poet’s old rooms,
found the book in a closet where Ten
nyson had kept his tea and bread and
butter. It was the unpublished manu
script of Tn Memoriam ”
Belt Modes.
The best way to describe the man
ner in which belts are now worn is
to say that they are hung about the
waist, says the Philadelphia Times.
This description is quite correct. Many
of the belts actually are hung. They
are fastened at the waist line for a few
inches in front and hang down the
back. This method of wearing the
belt gives a strange dowmward and
backward slope to the figure which is
seen in many of the lately imported
gowns from Paris.
Practical Flower Pot.
A new flower pot holder or frame
is made of galvanized iron. It stands
on feet, which prevent the pot from
coming in direct contact with the sur
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lects in the bottom of the jardiniere
It also prevents worms from entering
through the draining hole, and by
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I Only A Touch I
|> By REV. PARLEY E.ZARTMANN.D.D.
X Secretary of Extension Department X
<s Moody Bible Institute, CKicsao <•>
TEXT—Who touched me?—Luke 8:45,
The story of
this nameless
uses In describing
the work of
Christ Of all the
characters in the
gospel this nameless woman is the
most touching, and her attitude
toward Jeeus. his treatment of her, and
the gracious results serve as encour
agement to anyone who doubts his fit
ness for approach to Christ or his wor
thiness to receive anything from
Christ.
It Is the story of a miracle by the
way. Jesus had been requested by
Jaime to come to his house and heal
his daughter. As he was going on his
way and much people followed him
and thronged him, a certain woman,
seriously 111 for twelve years, suffering
many things of many physicians, and
growing worse Instead of better, came
in the crowd about Jesus and touched
the hein of his garment. She was a
great sufferer from her disease and
disappointment, and probably now she
was In despair. To her Jesus maj
hay 4 been nothing more than a great
doctor who had healed many people
and o * whose fame she had heard. Her
great need made her forget the Im
modesty of her act, the uncleanness
of her presence, the improbability of
attention, and drives her to Jesus. Her
superstition was not unmlxed with
faith, “For she said, If I may touch
but his clothes I shall be whole.”
Recognition.
Jesus noticed her touch; "And Jesus
Immediately knowing In himself that
virtue had gone out of him, turned
him about in the press, and said. Who
touched my clothes?” He knows the
slightest movement of the soul toward
himself, he feels the burdens we bear,
for he Is touched with a feeling of our
Infirmities. Like the father In Luke
15 he goes out to meet the returning
wanderer. What an encouragement It
Is to the sinner to realize this ap
proachableness and responsiveness of
the great Savior. Sometimes we are
in doubt about the character and love
of God, but every revelation of the ten
derness, compassion and thoughtful
ness of Jesus Is also a revelation of
the fact that God Is like him. He
knows our reaching out after him; let
us be sure of that. "I waited patiently
for the Lord, and he Inclined unto me
and heaxd my cry.” Get close to Jesus
In love and faith, and touch him. His
heart and love and power will respond.
"The healing of his seamless dress
Is by our beds of pain;
We touch him In life’s throng and press
And we are whole again."
,Jesuß rewards the woman, though
ehe had mistaken Ideas about his
character and his work; but one thing
she knew —she was sick and there was
a healer; she touched him and that
brought blessing and benediction. Je
sus did not stop to raise questions as
to her character or criticise her for
her conduct He responded to the
weak faith and the earnest deelre of
the woman, “And said unto her.
Daughter, thy faith hath made thee
whole; go In peace, and be whole of
thy plague.” The story shows that
faith Is personal allegiance to a per
sonal Christ Many of us need sim
pler Ideas and teaching about saving
faith. Christ saves, not a creed;
Christ saves, not a church; although
creed and church are Important and
must find their place In the life of the
saved sinner. The woman got more
than she asked; the experience of
every believing, loyal, trutlng soul is,
“My cup runneth over.”
Confession.
Who touched me? Christ waits for
the answer, although the disciples said
unto him. “Thou seest the multitude
thronging to thee, and sayest thou,
who touched me?” And Jesus waits
until the woman tells him all the truth
and goes away not only with a healed
body but with her sins forgiven and
the affectionate approval of Jesus.
There Is a vast difference between
thronging about Christ and touching
him; the supreme thing la to get at
him. Having received blessing from
Christ It is our duty to make his will
our life and to confess him before ©th
ere, because we love him and because
we want to help dthers.
Has there been disease, disappoint
ment, despair In your life? Reach out
and touch Jesus. Think of his power
until you say, God can save; think of
his love until you can say. God will
save; then the touch of faith will
bring a change—conscious, complete,
confessed. Jeeus meets the peculiar
need of each soul: pardon to the peni
tent, Justification to the guilty, cleans
ing to the Impure. You should come
to him waiting for nothing; so coming
Christ will receive you. <sod’s mercy
Is greater than all the sins of the
world; there Is salvation for you if
you will have it.
"She only touched the hem of hie gar
ment
As to his side she stole;
Amid the crowd that gathered around
him.
And straightway she was made whole.
Oh. touch the hem of his 4 arment.
And thou, too, shall be free:
His saving power this very hour
Shall give new life to thee."
“All the fitness he requires
Is to feel your need of him.”
Enjoy the blessings of this day If
God sends them, and the evils bear
patiently and sweetly. For this day
only Is yours, we are dead to yester
day. and we are not born to tomor
row.—Jeremy Taylor.
If You Are Weary.
If you are halted by any weariness,
lift up your eyes to vaster and finer
things, consecrate yourself to the high
calling of God and once more you shall
stand erect and your burdens will roll
from your shoulders as did Christian’s
when he stood before the cross and
the sepulcher.—Rev. Gaius Glenn At
kins.
Let us be very gentle with our
neighbors' fallings; and forgive our
friends their debts as wa hope to be
forgiven - -Thackeray.
1
CAT DIDN’T COME BACK
AT LEAST NOT TO DOMICILE
WHERE IT BELONGED.
Its Disappearance Something of a Mys
tery to Mr. Jones, Though He Is
a Roast of Beef to
the Good.
It was found necessary to do away
with the family cat because she had
developed germs and the doctor said
It was dangerous for the children. But
this cat was the children’s particular
pet, so It was decided simply to have
her disappear, with no funeral or flow
ers or juvenile tears or a tombstone in
the back yard. Accordingly the animal
was chloroformed and then Mr. Jones
did the remains up in a neat parcel of
convenient shape and took them along
when he started for his place of busi
ness in the city in the morning, intend
ing to drop the package in the river.
In the train before the river was
reached Mr. Jones saw the package re
posing in the rack above his head and
determined that was a good place to
leave it. So when he started to get out
of the car he did not take the pack
age down.
“Hey, there, Jones! You’re leaving
your package,” called out a friend. So
Jones turned back and got the pack
age.
On the boat he was surrounded by a
number of friends and realized that to
drop the bundle overboard In their
presence would require a lot of expla
nation and doubtless result In more or
less joking at his expense. So he took
the package to his office with him. He
saw the impossibility of disposing of
it there and determined to get rid of
It on the boat during the trip back
home.
But there again he was surrounded
by his friends of the morning trip and
took the package to the train with him.
Arv attempt to get off the car without
It resulted just as It had In the morn
ing. Mr. Jones thus found himself
returning to his home with the bother
some bundle and he knew the children
would meet him on the front porch and
Insist on knowing what It was. Accord
ingly he made his way home across
the back lots, deposited the bundle on
the kitchen porch and finally got to
the front of the house without detec
tion. Fifteen minutes after he had
seated himself on the front porch with
the solution of his great problem the
cook appeared.
“Mrs. Jones,” said ehe, “what’s dat
extra roast of beef out on the back
po’ch?”
Mr. and Mrs. Jones both went back.
Sure enough the bundle contained a
six-pound roast of beef.
It only remains to say this story is
a true one. The thing happened as
here written.
Mr. Jones Is still wondering whether
the man with whom he somewhere ex
changed bundles had much difficulty In
disposing of the remains of the dead
cat.
Many Like Smith.
Robert C. McCready, a well known
life guard of Long Branch, recounted
some of his experiences as, brown and
sturdy, he paced the wind-swept
beach.
“No, no,” he said, "the average per
son you rescue doesn’t give you a
check for a million or offer you a part- 1
nership in his firm. The average per
son you rescue is like Smith.
“A Philadelphia watchman saved
Smith’s life one winter nli-ht when he
fell off the Race street wharf. The
watchman plunged into the icy water
after him and only, got him out after
ten minutes’ terrible work amid the
floating ice. But Smith took the thing
as a matter of course. ‘l'd a’ done all
right alone If I’d ’a’ been able to swim,’
he said.
“A month or so later the watchman
asked Smith to help him move a pack
ing case. t
“ ‘Nit,’ said Smith. ‘I ain’t no
horse.’
“‘I done more for you,’ said the
watchman, ‘one night when you were
drowning.’ „
“ ‘Yes,' said Smith, hotly, ‘and you’re
no gentleman to cast it up to me
now.’ ”
How Cobb Got Fired. >
Many years ago Frank Parker was
the telegraph editor of the St. Louis
Chronicle. One of his valued corre
spondents was Irvin S. Cobb, who then
added to his Income by putting a Pa
ducah date line over his fiction. One
day Cobb sent in a particularly good
story. Parker printed It. That night
the boss came In swinging his head
like a semaphore.
“Look’ut," the boss said, skipping a
syllable here and there. “Lookut this!
What suborned perjurer had this sort
of a pipe dream?”
Parker told him.
"Fire him,’’ said the boss, passion
ately. “Don't wait for a letter. Fire
him by wire. Do It now.”
So Parker did it. By and by he re
ceived a reply from Mr. Cobb. In
which the latter was somewhat plain
tive.
“I'm not complaining about being
fired,” Cobb wrote. “But I’ve been
working for your sheet for six months
—and I think it's hard luck to be fired
for the only true story I ever sent
you.”—-Kansas City Star.
To Segregate “Stupide.”
Addressing the convention of alien
ists In session at Chicago, Dr. Henry
H. Goddard of Vineland, N. J., de
clared that slow and weak-minded chil
dren should be segregated and receive
a special education. He asserted that
the average stupid child recruits the
criminal class when he is brought up
among normal children, whose educa
tion leaves him still ignorant.
“Often the stupid child Is the fa
vored and petted one of the family,
and many parents do not, or will not,
recognize that a child of theirs is
mentally deficient,” asserted the
speaker. “The child thus becomes
spoiled, and becomes a dangerous fac
tor In society.
"Twenty-five per cent, of the crim
inal class belong to the mentally back
ward; 60 per cent, of the prostitute
class and 70 per cent, of the persons
in reform institutions are mentally de
ficient —stupid.’’
Predestination.
Elder —If you believe that every
thing that takes place Is foreordained
why did you wallop the man yo“
caught stealing your wood?
Deacon —Because I couldn't help it
I felt that It was foreordained that 1
should wallop him.
Explained at Last.
Gibs—l suppose they serve wine al
banquets to make the speakers witty
Dibs —No; they serve It to make the
other people think the speakers are
witty. |
BROKE HIS OWN STAGE RULE
Henry Irving’s Little Pleasantry That
Spoiled Effective Death Scene
In "Othello.”
The note about actors, who try to
"queer" other actors on the stage,
writes a correspondent, reminds me
of a story of the only time when Hen
ry Irving was guilty of such a thing.
He was acting Othello, to the Desde
mona of the late Miss Bateman and
every Saturday night the perform
ance was followed by a very pleasant
little supper party. Desdemona was
strangled on a bed at the back of the
stage, and part of Irving's “business"
was to leave the bed, and then, going
back to it, draw the curtains slightly
aside and peep in at the body, after- j
wards turning a face of inexpressible |
anguish toward the audience. His ,
face, his shudder and the deep-drawn
sigh which he gave were among the 1
most Impressive parts of one of his
greatest creations. As a rule he stern- i
ly suppressed any levity on the stage,
but one Saturday night, as he drew i
back the curtain, he said, in a sep
ulchral whisper, “What have we for
supper, Desdemona?" Alas! Miss
Bateman was unequal to the strain
and a merry laugh from the dead rang
through the house. Never again, I
believe, did Irving break his own rule
of seriousness on the stage. It was
told me (adds our correspondent) by
my father, who was at the supper par
ty on the night It occurred.
HOW TO TREAT PIMPLES AND
BLACKHEADS
For pimples and blackheads the fol
lowing Is a most effective and eco
nomical treatment: Gently smear the
affected parts with Cutlcura Oint
ment, on the end of the finger, but
do not rub. Wash off the Cutlcura
Ointment In five minutes with Cutl
cura Soap and hot water and continue
bathing for some minutes. This treat
ment is best on rising and retiring.
At other times use Cutlcura Soap
freely for the toilet and bath, *> as
sist in preventing Inflammation, irri
tation and clogging of the pores, the
common cause of pimplee, blackheads,
redness and roughness, yellow, oily,
mothy and other unwholesome condl
tlons of the skin.
Cutlcura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free,with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card “Cutlcura, Dept. L, Boston.” —Adv.
Apt to Land a Fortune.
Alexander Graham Bell, one of the
pioneers of flying, said recently In
Washington that he was surprised to
see aeronautics still at a stage where
the aviator has to risk his life in every
flight he makes.
"We have not advanced as I ex
pected,” continued Mr. Bell. “Indeed,”
Mrs. Blank’s i*eply to her friend, made
ten years ago, is still timely.
“ ‘So your husband is working on a
flying machine?’ asked Mrs. Blank's
friend. ‘Don’t you think he is wast
ing his time?’
“ ‘Oh, I don’t know,’ Mrs. Blank re
plied. ‘He’s got his life well insured.’ ”
Burial by Installments.
A well- known local character of
Townsend, Mont., lost a leg in a
switching yard on the railroad.
The railroad boys raised a little
purse for the victim, who was rather
down on his luck in other ways aside
from the accident. After paying his
board and hospital bills he went down
and bought a coffin and a lot in the
cemetery and had his amputated leg
buried in good style.
“Now,” he said, "when I cash in,
all they will have to do will be to dig
up the coffin and put me in with the
leg!’’-—Saturday Evening Post.
Kindness Appreciated.
The other day I was in a drug store,
when a woman came in and handed
the druggist a little package, and
said:
"Ever so much obliged to you for
measuring off those doses of medi
cine and putting them in these little
things.”
The druggist looked surprised, won
dering when he had ever measured
the medicine. On opening the pack
age she had given him, he found it
contained empty capsules.—Exchapge.
Not on the Map.
Joan is a conscientious little girl of
eight. During a recent school study
period her teacher noticed her' study
ing a large atlas with a most puzzled
expression. After a few moments she
asked the child what she sought.
"Why,” was the child’s naively in
nocent answer, “Miss Kane said we
were to find all the places spoken of
In the history lesson on the map, and
It says that Columbus was at the Point
of Starvation—and I can’t find it any
where at all!”
Dead Man’s Address.
Yeast —The Eskimo gives his doc
tor a fee as soon as he comes. If the
patient recovers, it is kept; if not, it
is returned.
Crimsonbeak —Bui how does the doc
tor know where to send it if it is re
turned?
Durable.
Blx —My laAyer tells me I have a
strong case. •
. DIx —He probably means that it is
one that will last for years.
fmr SHIMMER HEADACHE*
Hicks' CAPUDINE Is the best remedy
no matter what causes them-whether
from the heat, slttlnit In draughts, fever
ish condition, etc. 10c„ 28c and 80c per
bottle at medicine stores. Adv.
Feminine Amenities.
Amy Tooer —I’ve a great mind to
ask some manager to give me a trial.
Sou Brette —Don’t, dear; you’ll be
condemned, sure.—Boston Transcript.
“Seek and y© shall find,” but not
necessarily the political office de
sired.
Look not upon the wine when it is
red—nor the rum when it is bay.
The love of money proves that the
world is full of rooters.
Don’t Poison Baby.
FORTY TEARS AGO almost every mother thought her child must have
PAREGORIC or laudanum to make it sleep. These drugs will produce
sleep, and a FEW DROPS TOO MANY will produce the SLEEP
FROM WHICH THERE IS NO WAKING. Many are the children who
have been killed or whose health has been ruined for life by paregoric, lauda
num and morphine, each of which is a narcotic product of opium. Druggists
are prohibited from selling either of the narcotics named to children at all, or
to anybody without labelling them “poison.” The definition of “narcotic”
is: “A medicine which relieves pain and produces sleep, but which in poison
ous doses produces stupor, coma , convulsions and death." The taste and
smell of medicines containing opium are disguised, and sold under the names
of “ Drops,” “ Cordials,” “ Soothing Syrups,” etc. You should not permit any
medicine to be given to your children without you or your physician know
of what it is composed. CASTORIA DOES NOT
CONTAIN NARCOTICS, if it bears the signature
of Chas. H Fletcher. s -i‘ a -
Gennine Castoria always bears the signature /-C6Cc*u44
BLUE AND
DISCOURAGED
Mrs. Hamilton Tells How She
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__ _ _ 3 and was not regular,
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WmTJSm bad weak feel
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\ll // I i B me to walk any dis
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*' I began taking Lydia EL Pinkham’s
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good health. If it had not been for
that medicine I would have been in my
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MILTON, R.F.D. No. 6. Warren, Ind.
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I hope that many suffering women will
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Nine times in ten when the liver is
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HAIR BALSAM
A toilet preparation of merit.
Helps to eradicate dandruff.
For Restoring Color and
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60c- and 61.00 at Druggists.
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Waterproof damp baeements brick and con
crete walls with Coleman’s Waterproof Filler.
It will rainproof mohair tops, etc. Virginia
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sample free. Greenville Mercantile Co., 51
N. Front St.. Greenville. Pa.
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RE A fiCDfi of this paper desiring
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