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Castle of Clyc.es.
In Ithaca there are ruins which are
generally known as the castle of
Ulysses. Although cyclopean walls
with gate openings are found, and the
site, which at 400 feet above the sea,
was adapted for the residence of a pi?
rate chief, many archaeologists have
been doubtful whether the Identifica?
tion of the place should continue to
be accepted. Dr. Dorpfeld has been
provided with funds to undertake a
more thorough exploration of the
ruins that has hitherto been attempt?
ed. Several years ago he examined
the island of Ithaca and fixed on a site
la another part of it. He has sine?
ccme to the conclusion that the resi?
dence of Ulysses is not to he founJ
lhere, but In the island of Leucadia or
t-anta Mora and near the town of Leu
i as, which some have identified as the
Homeric Nericus. Leucadia, it will
le remembered, has poetic associations
for from one cf the cliffs Sapho com?
mitted suicide. She was passionately
In love with a beautiful youth namel
Thaon, and as she failed to obtain a
return of affection she is said to have
thrown herself from the promontory
under the belief that those who tcok
that leap would be cured of their love.
Il not destroyed.
Phosphorescent Sea Monster.
In the aquarium of the Calcutta zoo?
logical society is a monster crab, re?
cently captured in the Indian ocean,
that is attracting the attention of the
scientists. The huge crustacean was
caught a mile from Bhore. Its body is
nearly two feet in diameter and i:s
flaws are more than a yard long. It
has enormous eyes that protrude ii
:uch a way as to give lt a very fero
i ions appearance. The habits of the
creature justify its looks, for on being
placed in a large vessel filled with sea
water and which contained fifty crus?
taceans and other fishes it devoured
the living contents in about two
boara. The most remarkable thing
-bout the giant crab, however, ls tha..
r.t night it emits phosphorescent
^arks of milky whiteness which make
bright the entire vessel.
mystery of the Horseshoe.
In days gone by there was a little
fishing village of the name of Mavi
scun, near Nairn, .where the native*
wara thought to be foolish folk. One
cay one of the inhabitants, found an
cid horseshoe on the shore, and, as
? hey had never seen such a thing be
fora, no one knew what it was. Some
.ne suggested that it was the now
moon, but the oldest and wisest fisher?
man declared that if that were so, it
would be in the sky. He had long
wondered, however, what became of
the old moons and he thought afte:
his discovery the mystery was solve,'
-that after the old moons were done
with they fell to tho earth and horse?
shoe was one of th?m.
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News from Pekin is telegraphed to
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
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Two Kau?RS Railroads Sold.
The Salina Southwestern and the
Solomon Valley railroads were sold
under the hammer recently, and were
purchased by Union Pacific interests
for $4,000,000 each. The former runs
from Salina, Kan., to McPherson, Kan ,
and the latter from Solomon to Beloit.
The sales were made under an order
or tho federal court. !
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about officially, and expects all officers
to appear similarly attired. On arriv?
ing at a certain town to inspect the
?nops a dinner party was given in his
donor, to which the officers were in?
cited. One of the officers inquired if
?)?-> was to dress as "an officer or a
Gentleman." He was ordered to dress
il an officer, whatever else he might
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REY. DR._TAL.MAGE.
rgl SM1MKNT DIVINE'!) SUNDA!
DISCOURSE.
*ul>.ieci: An Exile From Howe ? ForDs
That Reset tho Young Man Seeking
Fortune ? Dangers nnd Temptations
That Surround Him.
[Copyright mun. I
Wakhixotov. D. C. ? Dr. Talmage
staid in London to occupy the famous
Wesley pulpit in the City Koad chapel,
?where be preached several times beiore,
always reeerrini hearty welcome. Thence
lie went to Ireland, preaching in Belia't
.'?nd Dublin. The discourse lie has ?ent
this week describes the behavior of a
young man nway from home and suggests
practical lessons for people of every age
nnd class. The text is Daniel i, 5, "And
the king appointed them a daily provision
of the Icing's meal and of the wine which
he drank, so nourish inp them three years,
that at the end thereof they might stand
before the king."
My text opens the door of n college in
B.ibvlon and introduces you to a young
student seventeen years of age. Daniel hy
name, lie not surprised if in the college
you lind many hilarities. Put a hundred
voting men together and they are sure to
have a eood time. There is no harm in
that. Qod does not write out the trpes.
and the grass, and tho blossoms, in dull
prose. Tlie old robin does not sit moping
in the pest because of the 'hiinings and
the lively adventures of the fledgelings
that have just begun to fly. Do not come
into an orchard looking for winier apples
on n May morning.
But Daniel of our text is far from being
tay. What oppressive thoughts must
have come over him ns lie remembered
that he was a captive in a strange land!
The music that came into his study win?
dow was not thc song of Zion, but the
sound of flute, sickout and dulcimer in
thc worship of the heathen god. More?
over, be bad no hope of ever getting back
home agn<-> and meeting those who had
missed him long and missed him bitterly,
wondering il he Mere still alive and Und?
ina many s luxury tasteless because they
did not know bul Daniel might be lacking
bread.
When you and I were in school or col?
lege and thc ra cation approached, we
wore fall of bright anticipation, and we
could not studv thc last night. The lexi?
con and the philosophical apparatus were
transparent, so we could see right through
them into thc meadows and tho orchards.
Not so with poor Daniel, He did not
know that be should ever escape from cap?
tivity, or, escaping, be did not know but.
when be gol home 'lie loved ones would
be dead and he would go. wandering and
weeping, among the sepulchers of his fa?
thers. Besides that, the king tried to
make him forget his home and forget his
country and for that Purpose actually
changed his name. The Icing wanted him
to be ? prodigy in personal appearance,
and so he ordered meat and wine sent
from his own table lo Daniel, but Daniel
refuses all this and puts himself upon the
humblest diet, the poorest ol' all herbs,
called pulse, and plain water. His attend?
ants cry out against this and tell him he
will perish under such a di;t. "No," he
says: ''you try us for ten days, and if al
the end of that time we are not full
cheeked and robust as any it will be sur?
prising." Ten days pass along, and the
students come np for examination, and all
declare that none arc so ruddy and robust
as Danni and his fellow captives, The
days of industrious pupilage and the years
pass by, and the day of graduation has
?onie, and Daniel gets his diploma, signed
by the king and reading as follows: "In
all matters of wisdom and understanding
that the king inquired of them lie found
them ten times better than all the ma?
gicians and astrologers that were in all his
realm." And so Daniel took the first
honor, and here thc story ends, for Daniel,
the student, hereafter will be Daniel; thc
prime minister.
The next thought suggested to me by
this subject is that young men may be
carried into captivity by their enemies.
There is a captivity more galling than the
one in which Daniel was transported. It
is the captivity of evil habit. Men do not
go into that wittingly. Slyly and imper?
ceptibly are the chains forged upon them,
and one day they wake np to find them?
selves away down in Babylon. Cyrus after?
ward consented that some of his captives
should return, and 50,000 of them accepted
the opportunity. But tell me what evil
habit ever consented to let a man go. Ten
plagues made Pharaoh consent to the de?
parture of God's people, but tell me what
Pharaoh cf evil habit ever cheerfully con?
sented to let any of its victims go. Men
talk of evil habits as though they were
light and trivial, but they are scorpion
whips that tear the flesh; they are spikes
more bloody than thc path of a Brahman;
they are thc sepulchers in which millions
are burned alive. The young are in more
peril because they are unsuspecting. The
lions are asleep in their soul, and their
power is not suspected. The time when
a ship's company makes mutiny is when
the watchman is off his guard. When a
spider meets a fly, it does not say, "Go
down with me to the place where 1 murder
insects." No; it says, "Come and take a
bright morning walk with me on this sus?
pension bridge of glittering gossamer."
Oh. there is a difference between the
sparkle of a serpent's eye and the crush of
its slimy folds! There is a difference be?
tween the bear's paw toying with a kid
and tho crackling of the bones in the ter?
rible hug. Pike's peak looks beautiful in
the distance, but ask thc starved travelers
by the roadside what they think of Pike's
peak. Are there those around whom sus?
picious companions are gathering? Do
their jests and their entertainments make
the hours go blithely by when you arc
with them? Have you taken a sip from
their cup of sin or gone with them in one
path of unrighteousness? Turn back.
From Babylon they came, and to Baby?
lon they would carry you. If so many
plague stricken men would like to enter
your companionship before any one is al?
lowed to pan into the intimacy of your
heart put on them severest quarantine. ?
My subject also impresses me with the
fact that early impressions are almost in?
effaceable. Daniel had a religious bring?
ing up. From the good meaning of his
name 1 know he had pious parentage. But
ns soon as he comes into the possession ot
tbe king his name is changed, all his sur?
roundings are changed, and now, you say,
will begin the demoralization of his char?
acter, before his name was Daniel, which
meant "God my judge;" now his name is
to bc Belteshazzar. which means "thc
treasurer of the god Bel." Now you ex?
pect to see.him overthrown amid all these
changed circumstances. Oh, no! Daniel
started right, and he keeps on right. When
I find what Daniel is in Jerusalem I am
not surprised to find what he is in Baby?
lon.
I wish I could write upon all parents'
hearts the fact that early impressions arc
well nigh ineffaceable. When I see Jo?
seph, a pious lad, in the house of his fa?
ther, Jacob, I am not surprised to see lum
acting so nobly down in Fgypt.
When I find Samuel, a pious lad. in the
house of his mother, Hannah. I am not
surprised that he gives a terrible smiting
to idolatry as soon as he conics to man?
hood. David planned the temple at Jeru?
salem aud gathered the materials for its
building, but Solomon, the son, came and
put up the structure, and that goes on in
all ages. The father plans the character oi
the child and its destiny for time and
eternity, then tlie son completes thc struc?
ture.
You might as well put down a iounda
tion ten feet by five and expect to rear
on it a great cathedral as to put down
a contracted character in a child's soul and
.vet rear upon it something extensively
grand and extensively useful.
Let me say t<> those Christian parents
who are doing their best in the education
of their children: Take good heart. Your
sons this moraine may be far away from
yon and in a distant city, but God. to
whom yon dedicated them, will look after
them. Tlie God of Daniel will take care
of them tax away bi Babylon. "Train up
a child in the way he should go. and when
he ir old he will not depart from it." He
may wander away for awhile and fall into
sin and bresk your heart, but before he is
done with, bis life, yon, having commend?
ed him lo Godi lt* will come bick again,
for I pnt t h?j emnhaai* in the right p'nee
and on thc- word "old" when I renent that
pMMM "nd say, "Train up a child in the
ma Ue-skiuUl (to. uniLadien be is old he
will not "depart from it.""
Are you fond of pictures? Here is one
drawn by Solomon: "Who hath woe?
Who hath sorrow? Who hath conten?
tions? Who hath babbling? Who hath
wounds without cause? They that tarrv
long at the wine, they that go tg seek
mixed wine. Look not thou upon the wine
when it is red. when it movetb itself aright
in the cup. At the last it biteth like a
sernent and stingcth like an adder."
"Do you know what you are doing?"
said a mother who had broken into a res?
taurant, the door locked against her, her
son inside. She came np to the counter
and saw thc man ol the restaurant min?
gling the intoxicating cup for her own son.
She said to the man behind the counter.
"Do von know what von are doing?"
"No," said he; "I don't." Says she, 'You
are fattening gravey.->'-d-.''
I was told at D?s Moines of a train of
cars going through a very stormy night
over one <<f Ute western prairies. The
young man who was present told us the
?tory- In the night there was a little child
in the sleeping car fretful and worrying
and crying hour after hour. A man on the
opposite side ot the enr lost his patience
and Slid. "Fithpr make that child shut
up or take it to its mother!'' Then another
man on the opposite side of the sleeping
car. a man with a broken heart, pushed
back the curtain and looked ont and said.
"Young man. that child's mother is dead
in thc baggage car. and the little thing is
wailing for her." Then the man who had
committed the affront rose and offered his
services for the night and took care of the
child until the morning, and all the pas?
sengers in the car were broken down with
emotion.
Oh, if thc cry of one child could arouse
so many sympathies, what ought to be the
effect of the ten thousand voiced shriek
of orphanage ii nd widowhood from the ine?
briate's grave! God save this country
from the perils of strong drink.
My sub'cel abo impresses nie with thc
beauty of youthful character remaining
incorrupt away from home. If Daniel had
plunged into every wickedness of the city
of Babylon the .dd folks at home would
never have heard of it. If he had gone
through all the rounds of iniquity, it would
have c;ist no shadow on his early home.
There were no telegraphs, there were no
railroads. But Daniel knew that God's
cy:* was on him.
Tnat was enough. There are young men
not ?o good away from home as at home.
Frederick tending his father's sheep among
the hills or thrashing rye in the bain is
different perhaps from frederick, on the
Stock Exchange. Instead of i he retiring
disposition there is bold effrontery. In?
stead of an obliging spirit there is perhaps
oppressive selfishness.
Instead of open handed charity there is
tight fisted stinginess. Instead ol' reason?
able hours there is midnight revel. I speak
to many young men on this matter?you
who may have left your father's house and
others who, though still under the par?
ental roof, are looking forward to the
time when you will go forth to conflict,
alone in this world, with its temptations
and its sorrows, and when you will build
Up your own character. Oh, that the God
of Daniel might be with you in Babylon!
I think the most thrilling passage of a
young man's life is when he leaves homo
to make his fortune. The novelty and tho
romance of the thing may keep him from
any keen sorrow. Icu thc old people who
have seen thc destruction of S'j many who
have started with high hope cannot help,
but b<> anxious. As long as he WU in his
lather's house his waywardness was kindly
chided.nnd although sometimes he thought
the restraint rather bitter and rather se?
vere in his; calmer moments, he acklowl
edged it was salutary and righteous.
Through the influence of metropolitan
friends tlie father has obtained a situation
for his son in the city. Thc comrades of
thc young man come the night before his
departure to bid farewell to the adven?
turer. Tbe morning of his going away he
walks- around the place to take a last look
at things, perhaps Comes upon some ob- j
" ject that starts a tear, some old familiar
place, but no one secs the tear. The i
trunk is put upon the wagon, tlie young I
man is off for the city. He is set down I
mud excitements and amid associates who
are not overcareful about their words and
thoughts and actions. Morning conies.
N'o family altar. Babbitt] comes. Xo
rural cjuiet. Tho sanctuary comes, but all
the faces are strange, and no one cares
whether he comes to church or does not
come. On his way noni the store he sees
a placard announcing a rare and a vicious
amusement. (Ie has no greeting at thc
door of thc boarding house. He has no
appetite for the food. Xo one cares
whether he eats or does not eat. Bather
he would not cat. It is cheaper. After the
tea he goes into the parlor, takes np a
hook, finds it dull, no sister to look over
it with bim. (iocs upstairs to his room
in the third story, finds it cold and unin?
viting, and in despair he rushes out, caring
for nothing but to get something to make
him stop thinking Ile is caught in the
hrs! whirl of sin. Ile has started out on
the dork sea where thc gleam of the joy
is the flashing ol' tlie pit and the laughter
is the creaking of the gate of the lost.
Oh. how many graves there ore in the
country churchyard which, if they could
speak, would tell of young men who went
iff witli high nopes and came back blasted
and crushed to disgrace the sepulcher of
their fathers.
And yet this exodus must go on. As
from distant hills the rivers are poured
down through tunnels to slake thc thirst
Of our great cities, SO from distant coun?
try places the streams of incorrupt popu?
lation must pour down to purify our great
cities. To-morrow morning on all the
thoroughfares, in every steamboat and in
every rail car will bc young men going
forth to seek their fortunes in our great
towns. 0 Lord God of Daniel, help them
to be as faithful in Babylon as they were
rit Jerusalem! Forget not, O my young
friend, in the great seaports the moral and
religious principles inculcated by parental
solicitude, and if to-day seated in the
house of God you feel the advantage of
early Christian culture forget not those to
whom you arc most indebted and pray
God that rs old age comes upon them and
the shadow of death the hope of heaven
may beam through the darkness. God for?
bid that any of us through our misconduct
.should bring disgrace upon a father's name
or prove recreant to the love of a mother.
The dramatist r ade no exaggeration when
he exclaimed, "How sharper than a ser?
pent's tooth it is to have a thankless
child!" Oh, that God would help you as
parents and as young people to take to
heart the lessons of this important subject,
and if we shall learn that there is danger
of bcin^ 'tarried inUi captivity and that
early 11 press.ons aro almost ineffaceable
and tha'. there is Something beautiful in
Christian sobriety and thal, there is great
attractiveness in piety away from home,
Mien it will be to you and to me a matter
of everlasting congratulation that we con?
sidered how Daniel behaved when he be?
came A college student at Babylon. .
NEWSY CLEANINGS.
Thc Germans will winier S000 men
in Fekiu, China.
There lins been another outbreak of
smallpox at Cape Nome.
The Quakers are preparing to estab?
lish many missions in Coba.
The British linc; hus been raised over
the Porcupine District in Alaska..
The scarcity of salmon now in the
Columbia River is pronounced abnor?
mal.
White blackberries and green roses
have been produced in Louisiana this
year.
The University Of Chicago has de?
cided to give free tuition to ten Porto
Ricans.
All the Swedish bonds (several mil?
lions) offered In the United States have
been sold.
Chicago public school children have
contributed $4380 to thc relief of the
Galveston sufferers.
New Soutb Wales bas protested
against the annexation of the Cook
Islands to New Zealand.
Two Indians have started In an at?
tempt to go from Old Town, Me., to
Washington in a bark canoe.
The annual report on public works
In Cuba plans for new roads in the
leland at a cost Of $13,000,000,
saw
MODOCS PASSING AWAY.
TRIBE THAT MADE THE LAVA BEDS
FAMOUS FAST DYING OFF.
It Will Be Only a Few Years Until They
Have All Become "Good Indlans"
IIow They Became the "Boxers" of
the Kl:tmsith Tribe.
The Modoc Indians are rapidly pass?
ing away. It will be only a few years
until they hare all become "good In?
dians" and their tribe will be extinct.
The Modoca, at one time, were the
most troublesome nnd bloodthirsty
savages that this Government ever
tried to govern. Long before the White
man put in an appearance on the
shores of the Pacific they Avere seekers
for gore, They were always in trouble
With other tribes. That is the way
they got the name of Modocs. It
means "Enemies." It was given them
by the other tribes on thc Pacific,
against whom they had waged war.
But now things have changed. The
Modocs no longer thirst for war. They
are a slovenly, indolent and dull set
of beings, with no ambition. Prom n
strong tribe of brave warriors they
have dwindled down until there are
only thirteen bucks left in the tribe.
The total population of the tribe is
Beventy-eight, mostly women and dis?
eased children. In recent years the
Modocs have died off like sheep, and if
the ratio keeps up in less thuu a de?
cade a Modoc Indian will be one ol' the
curiosities of a practically extinct race.
They are now quartered on a small
reservation in the Quapaw country, a
few miles south of this city, under
guard of the Government, for they are
still considered prisoners. The few
members of the tribe are growling be?
cause they cannot go back to the Pa?
cific slope and spend the remainder
of their days.
The Modocs once were; a part of
the Klamath tribe in North California
and Southern Oregon. They became
the "Boxers" of tlie Klamatbs. They
broke nway from that tribe and set
up a government of their own and
then waged war against their motlier
tribe, just ns the Boxers are doing in
China. They also tackled outsiders
just like Um Boxers, and finally locked
norna With Uncle Sam just like thc
Boxers did and with thc same result.
Before they were subdued they would
make slaves of their prisoners of war
and buy and sell them among each oth?
er aft er the fashion of the ancient Rom?
ans and Ca rt hagen ia ns. They bad a
peculiar religion in which a mythical
deity whom they called Kamoose stood
in the pince of a god. In 1847, after
having licked all the tribes ou the
Pacific Coast, until it was no longer
any fun for them, they brushed up
against the Federal troops. That was
the first mistake they made. They
got licked. But they didn't get enough
to satisfy them and broke out again
two years later and massacred a lot
of whites. Then they got whipped
some more and hundreds of them were
murdered by tbe regular army.
In 'GS they put their blankets on
and left their reservation again, squat*
ting on some land on Lost River
which did not belong to them. The
Government ordered them back to
their own reservation. They refused
to go aud another war was on. The
Modocs retreated to the "lava beds."
where they withstood two attacks by
General Wheaton aud General Gillam.
The Government then appointed a com?
mission to arrange for a settlement.
The commissioners met the Modocs
on April ll, 1873, aud also their fate,
because the Indians treacherously am?
bushed them, killing General Cunby
and Dr. Thomas and wounding A. B.
Mitchell, so that he was left on the
field for dead.
The war was again renewed. The
Modocs desperately resisted the Feder?
al forces, but were finally starved out
and compelled to surrender. General
Jeff Davis court-martialled Captain
Jack, chief, and three others who
planned the massacre of the commis?
sioners, and they were executed. The
rest of thc tribe, as prisoners of war,
were transferred to the Indian Terri?
tory and placed on a small reservation,
under guard, in the Quapaw nation.
At the time of their removal they were
told, so they say, that they would be
held prisoners for twenty-five years
and would then be permitted to return
to their old hunting ground in Cali?
fornia. The twenty-five yet?rs were
up in '98, but the Modocs, or what is
left of them, are still here and they
arc liable to stay. The Indian Com?
missioner has no notion of sending
them back to the coast.
The "hlef of the fast vanishing tribe
now is Yellow Hammer. He is a strap?
ping big young Indian, six feet three,
and weighs probably 220 pounds. He
looks as strong as an ox, but he isn't.
He is sick a great portion of the time
and he hasn't many years to live.
Lung disease is getting away with
him. That ls what has killed the tribe
off so rapidly. It seems that all are
afflicted with it, except one old In?
dian. Chief Yellow Hammer has his
"hammer" out knocking on the way
his tribe is being treated. He says
they will all soon be dead unless the
"Big Chief" at Washington lets them
go back to California. His tribe has
petitioned the Presidents to bc re?
turned. Recently he visited Kansas
City with his motlier. He had a good
time. In speaking of the town he
said: "Heap big town; heap lots peo?
ple; heap good whisky. Had heap
good time. Goin' back again."
What seems most remarkable in the
face of the rapid manner in which
thc Modocs are going to their "happy
hunting ground" is thc fact that there
is in the tribe au Indian buck 100
years of age. Ills name is Sam Boll.
He was one of the original "Boxers"
who first left the Klamatbs and organ?
ized a tribe of their own. He still luis
his "dander up" and wants to take
the warpnth again. He is as spry *.s
a cat and participates in all the dances
of his and neighboring tribes.
The thirteen surviving bucks arc
the laziest mortals on top of earth.
They would starve in sixty days if it
were not for the Government. Even
the squaws won't work unless driven
to it. And the children are so badly
afflicted with various sorts of diseases
that they can't do anything. While
prisoners of war the Government al?
lows them considerable freedom and
the only money which they make is
what they take in by exhibiting them?
selves in a tent, at reunions and carni?
vals io Southern Kansas towns, Their
show Ia entitled 'Thc Last of the
Modocs," nnd the thirteen bucks still
living are the "performers." The per?
formance consists of a couple of
dances, a war whoop and a request for
a quarter.--Kansas City Journal.
CURIOUS FACTS.
Among Hie aborigines of Australia
the most common form of punishment
less than death is the spearing of the
offender through different parts of the
body.
A postman in Brussels, Belgium,
who had sent several offers of mar?
riage to the Queen of Holland, and no
fewer than 780 offers to a Brussels
girl, was examined aud scut to au in?
sane asylum.
There is a different name for thc
collection iu a body of almost every
different kind of animals or fishes.
Whales form a "school," as do por?
poises and dolphins; herrings come in
"shoals." The origin." I word was
shoal, according to the dictionaries,
school being a corruption.
The Russian cruiser Askold, recent?
ly launched at Kiel, Germany, pre?
sents a very unique appearance. She
is an ariaored cruiser, and is exceed?
ing long?413 feet?and sets very low
In the water. She is the only vessel
in existence that has five funnels. She
will be armed with thirty rapidflro
guns of different caliber, r"d can
steam twenty-one knots an 1. ar.
M. Edmond Gain's studies of wheat
and barley from tombs dating (rom
the lifth to the twenty-first dynasties
result in the conclusion that while tbe
body of the graiu is often well pre?
served, tbe embryo is so transformed
chemically that it cannot germinate.
This confirms the suspicion that thc;
natives have used recent grain tts an
imposition on travelers.
A Montreal girl was eager to obtain
from an eminent oculist a certificate
attesting that she was Mind, in order
that she might secure charitable aid.
He made au appointment with her.
and, after an assistant had bandaged
her eyes in an ante-room, she was lcd
into the presence of the doctor. He
held a living mouse by the tail, and at
signal the assistant suddenly removed
the bandage. Tbe pretended blind girl
uttered scream after scream, and
dashed in fright from the room.
Some Tricks or Fortune Telling.
"If I lia?l room to describe all my
experiences with these modern witches
and wizards, I should like to tell you
about thc amiable old fraud that cast
my horoscope. Ile luis been to State's
prison for swindling, but bc adver?
tises in thc Sunday papen just, thc
same as usual, and bis office is full
of people whose dollars burn in their
pockets. I should like to describe thc
doctor with throe framed diplomas,
two medical books, and n half-pint of
pills, that went into ti trance for me
hardly distinguishable from tbe early
stages of a fit. His wrist shook, like
a fiddler's playing Schubert's 'Sere?
nade,' and bis eyes rolled up till they
looked like hard-boiled eggs with the
shell off. I should like to tell about the
'psychic medium1 that did a little mir?
acle for me in the way of reading the
answers to my questions through thc
envelope in which they were sealed.
1 could explain how he gave me a
dummy to hold while he opened the
real envelope under cover of wash?
ing bis hands. I should like to tell
bow wrong in every particular was
the lady that read my palm by thc
light of pure science. 'Xo fortune?
telling about it, oh, dear, no.' 1 should
like to tell about the 'true and reli?
able fortune-tellers' that ran the cards
for me, and saw trouble from a dark
man and luck in the lottery with the
number 8, or 8<H), or 8000, and bow
there was money coming to me in a
letter from across the water. (It has
to come to me that way or I could
not pay t'4 grocer, for I live in Brook?
lyn, aud Brooklyn is on Long Island,
and my little girl has just come home
from school with the information that
an island is a body of land completely
surrounded by waler. I had suspected
tts much."?Harvey Sutherland, iu
Ainslee's.
Lemon Market tn Chitin.
I know ol' a rancher who is engaged
all these days in shipping lemons to
China. The market is at Canton, and
the fruit is sent out from San Fran?
cisco by the regular steamers. It was
a new experience to me to talk with
a man who h selling his fruit regular?
ly and profitably after its having
half-girdled the globe on its way to
the consumer. The grower told me he
received an average of $3 a box since
the initial shipment was made thc
first of last March. Advices from the
receiver of these lemons at Canton
state that they are smoother, juicier
and thinner skinned than the Italian
fruit received at Canton. They further
state that there was only one com?
petitor in the market?au Italian deal?
er. This indicates the undeveloped
condition of the oriental trade nnd the
ignorance of the market demands of
the Chinese ports.?Los Angeles Times.
Sarapei as Bedspread*.
The Mexican embassy, at Washing
Ion, luis informed the Department of
Foreign Relation!, ann the latter the
Department of Finance, that Mexi?
can serapes will henceforth bc consid?
ered by the customs authorities of
the United Slates as woolen bed?
spreads, nnd they will be assessed for
duty accordingly. This ruling is
based on the fact that though tbe
Serape is used as a piece ol' clothing
during tbe day, it is used as a bed
cover itt night and ought to be class?
ified its such. Yet the fact remains
that tills is not tho principal uso of
thc serape.?Mexican Herald.
Coals to Newcastle.
In St. Wolfgang, a charming little
place in the Austrian Alps, a charity
lottery was held recently, where the
great prize was :t season ticket for
that unique little railroad which
climbs up to tbe sinumit of the high?
est mountain in the vicinity, thc
Schafberg, twice a day. You get si
fine view from there, overlooking a
cluster of lakes and miniature glaciers
that nestle in the Austrian Alps. Who
do you think won that great prize*
Who should but the only conductor of
that little railroad,?Vienna Xeu Freio
Piesse, -
RHEUMATISM, CATARRH ARE BLOOD
DISEASES-CURE FREE.
B. B. B. cures deep-seated cases after
all else falls. If you have aches In
bones, joints of back, swollen glands,
loose control of muscles, tainted breath,
ringing in ears, mattery, slimy dis?
charge, sores on lining of thc nose or
throat, or thin blood, then take B. B. B.,
which cures to stay cured by mak?
ing the blood pure and rich. Over 3000
positive cures to perfect health. Try.
B. B. B. Druggists, $1 Trial treat?
ment free by writing B. B. B. Co., 23
Mitchell street, Atlanta, Ga. Describe
trouble, and medical advice free.
Quail are destroying the crops of
the Colorado farmers and have been
declared a nuisance by various town
and county boards.
We refund 10c for every package of Pct
ham Fadflf.ss Dtp. that falls to tri ve satis?
faction. M aros DffUf Co., Unlonvllle, Mo.
Sold by all druggists.
Goshen, a small city in Indiana, has
a lower water rate than any other city
tai the United States. The plant is
owned by the municipality, as is also
the electric light plant.
statk ok ohio, tim ok toi.kdo, i
Lucas Comm, i
Frank J. CHBtncf makes oath that he ls the
senior partner of (dbe firm of V. J. CUSni &
Co., doini* business In the city of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, anet that said firm
will piij thesuniof onk iiiNDHKi* oom. a ks for
each and every case of catakkh that cannot
be cured hythe useof Hall's* 'atarrh critic.
kkank .i. Cammy.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In my
. -~?? presence, this 6th dav of December,
J SRA I. > A. I). WW. A. W. (Jf.RAHON.
' -,~ ' Notary Public.
Hall's Catarrh < tire ls taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the svsteui. Send for testimonials,
free. I'. J, cmknkt k Co., Toledo, O.
Bold liv druggists, 75c-.
Hall's Family Fills are the best.
About 7000 people in Paris are em?
ployed in the preparation of human
hair for the market.
Best For thc Unvsls.
No matter what alls voa, headache to a
caucsr, you will never Ret well until your
bowels ar* put right. Cancar?.ts help
nature, cure you without a grips or pain,
produce easy natural movements, cost you
just 10 cents to start getting your heaiih
bick. Cascarkts Candy Cathartic, the
genuine, put up lu metal boxes, every tab
1st has C.C.C. stamped on lt. Beware of
imitations.
On the Island of Madagascar then;
are three miles of thc Tamatave-Tnnn
narivo Railway completed.
Salesmen Wanted.
Two honest, reliable men; experience not abso
luttdy uecessvy: salary and expenses paid.
Peerless Tobacco Works Co., Bedford city, Va.
On the Island of Reunion a line of
75 miles of railroad connects St.
Pierre St. Denis and St. Benoit.
To Cwfi a Cold in One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Qcinivk Tablets. AU
Araeal-U refund the in .n?y if it fails tn cure.
E. \V. (Jrovk's signature U ou each uox. Ita
In 24 hours nearly 700 trains pass
in and out of New Street Station, Bir?
mingham.
Tiso's Cure for Consumption is an Infalli?
ble: medicine for coughs aud colds.?N. W.
Bakobx, Ocean Grove. N. J., Feb. 17, 1000.
A division of the wheat crop in Ellis
county, Kansas, would not give each
resident more thau 1,333 bushels.
Happiness cannot be I ought, bat ono of the
great hindi auces to Its attainment cnn bo rc
mOTtd by Adam's Pepsin Tutti Frutti.
The fall term of the Circuit Court
in Kansas City. Mo., opened with 300
suits for divorce on the docket.
Under rational treatment the aver?
age yield of a bee hive in Palestine is
10 rounds.
HELP FOR WOMEN
WHO ARE ALWAYS TIRED.
"I do not feel very well. I am so
tired all the time. 1 do not know what
is the matter with me."
You hear these words every day; as
often as you meet your friends just so
often are these words repeated. More
than likely you speak the same signifi?
cant words yourself, and no doubt you
do feel far from well most of the time.
Mrs. Ella Rice, of Chelsea, Wis.,
whose portrait we publish, writes that
she suffered for two years with bear?
ing-down pains, headache, backache,
and had all kinds of miserable feelings,
all of which was caused by falling and
inflammation of the womb, and after
doctoring with physicians and numer?
ous medicines she was entirely cured by
Mrs. Ella Rick
Lydia E. Pinkham? Vegetable Com?
pound.
If you are troubled with pains,
fainting spells, depression of spirits,
reluctance to go anywhere, headache,
backache, and always tired, please re?
member that there is an absolute
remedy which will relieve you of your
suffering as it did Mrs. Rice. Proof
is monumental that Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound is the
greatest medicine for suffering women.
No other medicine has made the cures
that it has, and no other woman has
helped so many women by dntct advice
as has Mrs. Pinkham; her experience
is greater than that of any living per?
son. If you are sick, write and get
her advice ; her address is Lynn, Mass.
The ribs of tobacco leaves are aniong
the substances out of which paper is
made.
FITS permanently cured. No fl ts or nervou t
rossiter first day's useof Dr. Kline's Ore lt
Nerveltestorer Atrial hottleand treatise frea
Lu. lt. li. Klink. Ltd.. Kil Aron st.. Pliila., Pa.
A married couple living near Throop,
Pa., who were childless, have adopted
14 children.
H. H. GKRKN'sKoNs.of Atlanti. (ia., are tho.
only SOOOtsafaJ Dropsy BmoUulsts in thu
world. Seo their liberal offer in tdvorttSO*
nient in another column of this paper.
Incurable insanity is not. a ground
for divorce in any State except North
Dakota and Idaho.
Carter's Tnk has th<> endorsement of th?
r ni ted States govei nincnt and of all tue
IssditW r^.i'i...! . \\ .i-i uur ;?iorc evidence?
Last year Germany imported {14,119
metric tons of potatoes and 1,370,8V)
of wheat.
A nursery near Mexico, Mo., contains"
250.000 young fruit, trees, pruned and
cultivated to perfection.
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Sudden and Severe
attacks of
Neuralgia
Si-- many of us,
^7 but however
bad the case
St.
Jacobs
Oil
penetrate*
promptly
and deeply,
tooth'is sad
strengthen*
the nerves
.ind tirings
a sure cure.
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UNION MADE ^
If yon have been pay?
ing 84 to #.1 for shoe-,
a trial of W. I.. Doug?
las *.'* or U3..Vi shoes
will convince j ou that
thf-y are jn?t as good
in aVOSy way and MSt
from SI to *?l..->0 le--.
Over 1,000,000 wea reis.
We are the larjrest makers of men's J*3
and *.'l .~>0 shoes In the world. Wo make
?nd sell more *.{ and Sf3.i>0 shoes than any
other two manufacturer* in tho U- S
BEST
$3.50
SHOE.
BEST
$3.00
SHOE.
The reputation of W. h.
Douglas 8.1.00and H.*)shoes foi
?lyle, comfort, and wf:iri< known
everywhere throughout tlieworld.
They hive to ci ve better ?ati?fac
tion than other m?k? beeau?e
the standard hn? alway! been
placed so high that the wearers
expect more for their RMMf
than they can pet eliewheie.
THE IS EXES .\ nmre VV. L. Douglas ll find 81^0
shoes are sold tiian ?ny other make it bwauw 'I'll K ?
AUK THE Bl BOT. Your denier should keeji
them i w? give one dealer exclusive mle in each town.
Toke no ?uhatitiite! Insist on having W. I..
Douglas shoes with name and price stamped ou bottom.
It vour dealer will not get them for you, send aired to
factorv, enclosing price and ft*, extra for carrisge.
State kind of leather, size, and width, plain or csp tot.
Our shoes will reach you anywhere. Catnlw tr>r.
W. L. Do.u.1.i. Shoe ?.'o. ISrovkfou, Mum.
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