Free State Enterprise. (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 23, 1899 Page: 4 of 10
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certainly beyond her purse, bad one of
the quarter in the slot machine put in
her flat and anticipated great pleasure
in keeping tab on her gas expenditure.
Trotter Ike, Fiddler Ike, Ten Mi’s
will be popular elsewhere.’’—Cb’cago Up^li*Aant>Bet^ *
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Aa Mwllf. Pill Bos.
Harq is a good story of the author of
“The Deserted Village:’* Hearing of
Dr. Goldsmith’s great humanity, a poor
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"i’n aft Jd Tm a dreadful talker. ••
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run through the straw, and the cigar is
made around that. The broom splint is
cut long enough so that a quarter or
half an inch of it projects dear of the
straw mouthpiece.
When the cigar is to bo smoked, the
broom splint is withdrawn. The Open-
ing through it where the splint was
makes the cigar draw freely, and the
section of straw at the slender cud
keeps the cigar open there. These
cigars, made of strong, dark tobacco,
—“> sold at retail for a cent each.—New
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^^^^^^£•£3625’'
Manager (to actressy who
MO— Brr.ro. my dear; I’ll
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Actress—Oh, how good of you—
r Manager (eontlnulng)-On the four
Are Speeislly C'eestreetrO
Oeee t ee4 la the ttaase.
Hourglaseea or sand glasses were for-
merly used for the purpose of measuring
time at chess matches, but now special-
ly constructed clocks are in general u»»
for this purpose. These clocks consist of
two eloety, mounted on a common ban-.
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Whse yso were ters. I nflr■ art
Lara Mlrat with fee half tte <iar
Th st I wm Mall nevd <4 »p»wh >a list
Bw.wt ooewaras of lh» 1>l—A»S wsj'
go* you siw soar, sad hwr by hour
I siuaa of thins. ! Ions ’«• stePe;
Thsrv's ■<>« a bud. a leaf a thru,
Bui helps iaa mis. j«u ■rary ubasu
My loarly heart anapheras tha paat
With otbac cauahl frwa hcasaa'a gold;
1 drvsm of bliss too sweat l<> last.
Aad lhaa 1 wahra, starved aad outa.
. Pur by that aoltlary path
That outward loads from mortal boo
Too walhad, aad here am 1 aad faith
t Aad jootliM arowds of sareleoa man.
I*N tonehad tha laasmt oora af pata
bi cvweptag days, aarh day a paar,
let might i all losurve tied again
If yon were bare, if you were here.
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emigrant is the result of suonam The
■me who succeeds Lioosuss American
with a facility truly predigioua, but he
who fails remame European.
Thus it is that a orrtaln part of Chi-
cagi* oxistilutaa a veritable interna-
tional sink where tha French, the
Bwadi-a. ths Gartnana, the Blava the
Italians, dwell in groups, retaining in
their «nl«>ry the distinctive marks of
jrorld has just bMB held hem Thera
were 200 of them. From embroidered
Slipper to shaven poll they were arrayed
in their beet. They wore satin- blouses
that shone in the sun with a silvery
shimmer. They wore embroideries of
Wonderful birds and beee and flowers
never seen on land or sea. Tbe little
Lavaly Little Fun Moses.
They at* distributing an advertise-
ment in Germany that runs thus:
"A studio for Improving tbe human
face.
•‘Thia studio Is highly recommended
to ladies and gentlemen who wish to
possess faces in tbe present fashion.
“This is tbe best house in the world
for Improving and changing the color
of the eyes, which can be rendered
Hashing and bright, deep as the sea or
full of laughter.
“This house must not be thought to
have anything to do with any other es-
tablishment. It possesses vast labora-
tories, and over 1,200 apparatuses are
in use to change and improve the fea-
tures.
“A great specialty is made of dim-
ples and of producing lovely little turn-
ed up nosea
“Terms are moderate, and the strict-
est discretion and secrecy are observ-
ed.”
People In Paris are talking a great
deal of this advertisement, writes a
correspondent of madame, but, except
that the establishment is In Vienna, I
have not been able to discover the ad-
dress of this most wonderful house for
manufacturing eyes and noses.
the Man |
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■hat is it,
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CyfliMui-i
—furn’ture, madam? Third door, rake , 1
the elev&ur—yfatvie, I’d like to fciow—
handkeio.'iiefs, ma’izm/ Third counter
to your Biadteto/Urf ^ighl ' ,1
beta. Wattna yc;i ta a wTotawt Hat- 1
tie, 'viU^jtf many mef!'’ -J-; 7’7
“Yes, Tom," whispered th.e Girl at
tbe notion counter, still tapping with
her peicil ou ti>e showcase. *'0a-a-a-a-
a-ashi”—Chicago Tribune.-
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Up ait Naw Haven. W. Va., there are,
maniy people munod Isgao Bandt-tha-. ,
habits of their races
On tbe other hand, the Americanise-
thm of the others is perhaps not so oom-
p^.Ae at bottera aa it la in appearance
The future alone cun tell. It remains
true mine the leas that tn a single gea-
taflhion Europe seems Io have lost all
tnfiweiMv oeir- tbe aces of tbeae who
have abandoned her to fix themselves in
tbe new worid. and who hare been able
to make any position for thenwelvea
there, however modest. There is in tbe
air they breathe, in the ItSe they live,
aotnrthiug which takes their youth,
Uw ir enthusiasm, and inoculates it in
some w with all the hereditary Amer-
typ.eal haelthy nevwiyhR BttaiRa^ *”° ”*"”*** ^ M**- *^*>*
ABs li spuds of body, and old ago «m-
Curlwee ItalJaa Clgw.3.
A curious cigar seen in ti» Italian
quarter of the city, where it is made
and sold, is about inches ta length
and very slender, being not reach big-
ger around than an all tobacco cigarette,
ami almost, uniform m sire for the
greater part of its length. At the end
that Is placed in the mouth this cigar is
made around a piece of straw an inch
and a half in length, which projects
about a quarter of inch clear of the
tobacco When the cigar is made, a
broom splint long enough to reach, gl*
Coesuseree ef the Fhllipptaee.
The commerce of these islands has
bean estimated by some authorities at
>60,000,000 a year, but it is probably
much greater, tbe chief exports being
sugar, tobacco and hemp Of Manila
cigars tbe yearly product is several hun-
dred million, one factory alone employ-
ing 10,000 bands, and of Manila hemp
the yearly product is probably 200,000
tana. One factory in Manila produces
40,000,000 cigarrttee in a single year.
The imports are also of enormous
value. Tbe United States sends the
Philippines chiefly kerosene oil and
flour, while England, Germany and
France sell them print cloths, white
drilling, hardware, canned gpods, eta
There are other large towns in the
islands, but most of the imports are
landed at Manila and are shipped to
them by local steamera One company
alone has 27 steamers engaged in local
in siae from 600 to 8,000 tons.—Isaac
M. Elliott in Scribuer'a.
ally encounters among fairly intelli-
gent people is very disheartening,” !•-
mented a physician. “Some time ago
1 was called In by an upper class me-
chanic, a man who earns |0 a day. I
found him hi a state of alarming nerv-
ous depression, and lie complained of
agonising neuralgia in the bead. I
questioned him sharply, and be Anally
informed me that be bad been ‘con-
jured* t»y an old negro servant whom
he bad discharged. It seems be had
found a small red flannel bag full of
dough hidden under his mattress, rec
ognixed It as a voodoo 'charm' and had
never been well since. He told me this
tn an awestruck whisper, and I made
no effort to conceal my disgust. 1 told
him be ought to be ashamed of himself
for allowing an Ignorant darky to play
on his Imagination, but I could see
plainly that be was unconvinced. Fi-
nally I gave him some simple treat-
ment, and in a few days be was all
right But what sickened me was tbs
dense, hopeless credulity of"—
"By the way, doctor," interrupted a
listener, “what was it that you gave
Ute man yomselfF*
"Oh, merely some bread pills,’’ re-
plied the physician. “There was no
use taking such a case seriously. What
are you laughing at, anyhow F*
“Nothing." said the other demurely.
—New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat
Wen ros rtgMsrs.
a the Londtm Chronicle: “Ad-
Dewey's interruption of the bat-
tle of Manila bay to give hie crews the
opportunity of breaking their fast re-
calls our owa 'glorious 1st of Juba*
whoa Earl Sown, before he gave tbe
Stanch such a hammering off Uahanl
hove to for an hour before attacking to
remit of his ami fortifying tbemselvus
for tbe coming fight with a good meaL>
A pause which reused much conjecture
to tbe wriuda of ths astonished French
Il has ever basa ths Anglo-Sana way
to fight, if pwsible, on s full stoamoh.
Wallington ones mid that if ever bo
trastod aa Irish — i Sootah regiment
to reach a particular poiat by a seriate
>oar all bo bad to do was to promise
■ueeees e« the Dahlia GMlavy. /
The humor of the Dublin ri^haiy bag
long boon proverbial. Maoready, in his
••Reminiacrocea,’’wlatre that oh ong
occasion when playing Otway** "Venire
“ 7 7," Jaffler’o long and rather
h was interrnpted
la a fame of great
now die at ooref’ to
Merslsw < Ska FMMOreeu,
It la alwaya with a vague regret tarn
wo read the aagaa, and are thrillesZ
tbe viking'o exploits. It aeenM «a if th.
deeds of daring had gone by
and aa if the heroes of the deep wcrTa
myth of tbe part Absorbed lu th..
Norse romance, we forget that the vik-
ings were only pirated, and that th„ .
dared for slaughter and for booty, [f
the Gloucester of today had only existed
then, what heroic saga would it
have Inspired I For to risk life for glory
or riches or rescus or love is in ths
hesrt of every man to do, but to risk
life for a bare eristance, far other p«>.
pie's profit and for an anonymous end
partakes of that common place sublimity
which does not form the favorite plot of
poeta although once in awhile it is the
subject of a daily paragraph. /
For the vikings are not dead. Fr.3.tt
Portland to New Orleans, our harbdrs
are full of them. They lounge upon 6ur
wharfs, and we do not recognize them.
They loiter on our streets, and we know
them not. Bat if there is a more mod-
' est, unconscious, or braver fellow than
Jack tbe Fisherman, our eyes have yet
to rest upon his face. He is the hardiest
and moot daring, the best sailor in the
world today. Any continental kingdom
would give its wealth to possess him for
its defensa He is the envy of every
maritime nation. Has he no value for
us, beyond the halibut and the cod, the
haddock and the ouskb—Herbert D. 1
Ward in Century.
Mrs.
Ethel I
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woman, who believed Mm to be a
physician, once wrote to him begging
him to prescribe for her husband, who
bad lost his appetite and was altogether
in a very aad state. The kind hearted
poet immediately went to see her, and
after some talk with the man found
him almost overwhelmed with sickness
and poverty.
“You shall bear from me in an
boor, *’ mid tbe doctor on leaving, "and
I shall send you some pills which I am
cure will do you good. ”
Before the time was up Goldsmith's
servant brought the poor woman a small
box, which, on being opened, was found
to contain 10 guineas, with tbe follow,
log directions: "To bo used as neo eeel-
ties require. Be patient and of good
heart. *'—Christian Work.
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lives of India miuddiw that a slight op-
eration upomthe bird’s tongue is necee-
earv before it will speak eerily.
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Tka Dabut W the Bowie Kalfe.
To the public mind duels were really
a necessity. The man who would not
fight “at the drop of a hat and drov-. it
himself, *’ WiJ soon made to feel that he
had very much better not have been.
born. r
There were progressive duel* too,
from which the popular mind no mon
revolted than it does in this era from
progressive whist or euchre. It was one
of them which gave Bowie and his -
knife to fame. In scute way there had
come to be bad blood, black and bitter,
between him and a certain Colonel
Norris Wright After long bickering,
it was agreed to meet upon the levee
opposite Natchez, Miss., each with half
a dozen friends, duly armed, and there
shoot the matter out There were a doz
‘an on each side when it came to fight
tog. The battle was arranged to begin
with threes, the rest standing by, ami
oomtag in only when those of the first
fight were dead or disabled. But they
had miscalculated their own self con
trot After the first fire there was a
general melee—the reserves to a man
gripped pistols hard, drew knife belts
to a handy clutch and went into ths
oombat to do or die.—Martha MoCul-
loch-Williams in Harper’s Magazine.
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»• Climate of the PhillpplMa.
In regard to the climate wMch a for-
eigner enoounters it is easy to exagger-
ate its discomforts. Although it b
tropical, still even in summer the cli-
mate may be called hesdthy. From De-
cember to March there are wswm days,
with cool nights and little rain. Dur-
ing March, April and May the days arc
hot, dry and dusty, while the thermom
eter rises to 96 degrees at noon, but the
nights are not .uncomfortable. In the
latter part of May and of June there are
thunderstorms every afternoon with a
tremendous downpour of rata. The
greatest heat occurs in these months,
the* thermometer rising frequently to
106 degrees in the shade. July, August
and September are tbe months of the
great typhoons, and while Manila es-
capee the greatest fury of these still
enough of their force remains to demol-
ish many bouses During October and
November storms lessen in frequency
aad severity, and the weather gradual-
ly settles into the fine days of Dscesn-
ber.—Isaac M. Elliott in Scribner’s
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which mime on a pivot, the two clocks
therefore being on the arms of a sort
ser»aw. Tbe beam or base is so con
st rue ted that when one clock is Elevated
it stands perfectly perpendicular, while
the depressed clock lies' over at an an-
gle, but aa the mechanism of each clock
is so constructed that it only moves
when tbe clock is perfectly perpendicu-
lar it follows that when the upright
clock is going the depressed clock nf ut
rest. .,
Another and more modern variety has
tbe two clocks fixed on the same level,
but with a small braM arm reaching
most to'tiM iighUng esT^ the cigaMs from tb” ‘4 one tb« toP fh,J
- ' other. This arm acts on a pivot and ate
be brought down into actual contact
with one dock at a time by a touch of
the finger. When it is thus in contact,
by an ingenious device tbe clock is stop-
ped and the desired result is attained.
The working of the clock during a
match is simplicity itself. At the oom
mencement of tbe match tbe bands of
each clock point to 12. Then at the call
of “time to commence play,” the clock
of the first player is started; then, as
soon aa be makes his first move, be stops
his own clock, either by depressing it
or by touching tbe arm referred to, the
same motion starting his opponent’s
clock. So it goes on during the entire
course of the game, each move being
marked by the NMppiug of one clock and
tbe starting other.—Leisure
It ta self evifiant that old *Nr nationality, the language and tbe
begin at any set time, we
[iriona at time drti te ths
'e. but that it has to do
with that subtle arent kneau aa the
vital force, an anqriaihtaam with which
annhlea tbe ansdytiml mind to become
proficient in pnwn<eis by weighing ta
tbe balance tbe vitality on the one rids
be pathob.wy <m l^e other
indication c< old age may he no-
(jfitaular iwpertion. The figure
stoopkahe walk is less elastic, tbe
rouefied figure gives place to the spare
? habit of body, tbe wrinkle of time
"S »ounte the cheek, while the front uf
sunny wh^tare mantles the brow. Tbe
t;. Her View :ef I*.
The conversation had flagged a little, !
end be felt it bls duty to say e<i?n®-L
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Ike, Thirteenth Vl
Aunt Casey’s Ike,
Virginia Iks, H^tford Ike, Dam It
Kanawha Ike, Sally’s Iks, HbJHkj Kfe
Trotter Ike, Fiddler Ike, Ten MUe ik* .
Mart’s Ike and AuntiBetsy’s Ike.—Gal : .
lion. Tha weakened vigor of tbe cireula-
' tfon and glandular syatem nnjutaArily / ltq
weakena tbe power of eliminating
the exaremratitioua eubetaneea, which
gives riae to pernicioua nutrition, and
that in turn is the cause of the tendency
. to develop malignant or benign growths .
in different jiarta <<f thabudv in old age.
Tha strotig tendency to^rereat and
underdrink, together with the natural
-decline of functional power, givea rise
to a condition of lithemia, which is tbe
prime cause of the majority of deaths
in old age. In the healthy state that
great glandular furtiaoe and chemical
laboratory, the liver, is capable of trans
farming an excess of nitrogenous matter,
which may result tn«u metabolism of
’tissue or exist in the food consumed,
into tbe highly soluble excrementitious
substance known aa urea. Thia excre-
ment is eliminated from the blood
mainly by tbe kidneys and to a much
less extent by the akin.
Now, in old age. with the functional .
pewer and natural vitality on the wane,
together with tbe strong tendency to
overtap thia' function of the liver, wo
find this waste is not converted into
urea, but into uric or lithic acid, a com
parati vely insoluble excrementitious and
toxic subatanoe which If it appears in
the blood in sufficient quantity and is
long enough continued in circulation
through the urinary tubules seta up ir-
ritation and inflammation, which inev- '
itably impair the function of the renal
epithelium, and we find this poisonous
an bats nee is not eliminated from the
system, but Mtmmulataa in the blood.
This explains why old people are
almost universally troubled with disease
of the liver, kidneya bladder and pros-
tate gland. Tbs unstable circulation,
ftifcdXMMbiOM cllAll£«Wi and bHttlMMI
at tbs walls at tbe blood vessels, with
the tendmmy'to overtax the digestive
apparatna are tbe cause of muiy old peo-
ple going to “that bouro from which
no traveler returns’* by tbe apoplectic
route '
Hereditary diseases naturally mani-
fest themselves when the vitality is be-
low a certain level, so we are not eur-
teiaed to find certain dysenute aitff -
latent tendencies manifesting them- ■
selves at This period al Ufa, when the
natural vitality is waning. The diseases
moat frequently found to be ths cense
M dissolution among tbe aged are pz.su- . . ~
monia. diseasesxtf tbe UVer vml urinary OTPrLP**00? in » d*rk room and the
organa, cansmnption. cancer, apoplexy eumictating the words slowly
<wTremzc«^ i m. renew, ap. pi xy j dlaf inctJy Md M.
The enamy to longevity, the author
oontinure, is self indulm-nce. l*eoplo
who have reached an advanced age may
------ «<^«ming years by
diminishing tha quantity of food ta-. .— — , ----- , ril1
|P gusted, thereby avoiding too targe a > ‘b*Ilro“da* °* '|»«pone that rose stove ths infanta*
— - --------- 1 fa tbs Unden until (he driver makee a declara-
rm of exers- Uao to central authorities who will
lood. -Jour- hlni- * loB« investigation.
authority to run upon a certain -road
: decided upon in advance. After the au-
| fhcrity is received the driver is bound
by an almost endleaa number of restrio-
tioiM.
A CBvvvr SwteAl. Wfclrb Wm »•*
•seafetlr WvrkvS M Fnrts-
Swindling to as monotonous aa ethic*
er matbematics. and the various ways
and means rfaorted to in tbe last d* ad*
of the nineteenth century for obtaining
ptMMHUion at ether people’s money were
matters of common knowledge in the
Etfypt of Rameses the Great. But tbe
Parisian police now affirm that a new
departure baa been made on tbe banks
of the Erins And this to how it was
worked
■■ An office was ‘ hired in a good busi-
ness street by the inventor of the trick,
who a warned the title of somebody and
company chemical agents. Being con-
vinced advocates of women’s rights
they employed some members of tbe
fair sex. who dreased in tbe height of
i fashion, used tbe most fashionable per
fumea and then visited singly the best
: apothecariea* shop. Ono of these fair,
false sniiMaries would stop her rah at
tbe chemists, come in and. taking out
her purse, ask for another bottle of Dr
Beaumont'a elixir. "Dr. Beauwint’s
what?” said the young man behind tbe
counter. “The elixir Don't you know ?''
“No; I am afraid I never heard of it”
“Oh, bow iireouiua. and my poo^riwuv
matic husband will bo so diaappoiutedl
Are you sure it was not here that on*
servant Itonght it before?" “No, ma-
dame ; it was not here. Where is it sold
wholesale “It is sold wholesale. I
think'*— And here the lady showed ths
ticket on the 'bottle. • • It,costs H franca ’ ’
That same day the chemist bought
tbe elixir wholfaale, laying in a fair
stock of it and meanwhile many of the
confreres were d tag likewise. But aS
nobody called any more on the obliging
chemists to buy the elixir, one of the
curious confraternity analyzed this
specific which was supposed to relieve
rheumatics. He found that it was al
least perfectly harmless, consisting of
water colored by coffee grounds. The
police w.'pre then let loose upon the la-
dies and the chemical agents, but they
had all moved on, leaving no addrem.
They are said to have netted about 10,-.
000 francs by the trick. —London Tele-
graph. ;
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now "Ffata True Child of the Desert
Goes Throaah Lite.
How dreamily that Bedouin life,
with its uneventfulnees and its fatal-
ism, fitted the time and the placet
Here was a poor Arab who did not
know how old he waa, but he could
look farther into heaven than I could.
His Brother had borne him while the
caravan waa on its way to Mecca. He
had worked as a laborer on tbe Sues
canal, and he had been a dog knacker
in Constantinople before that. He had
gone hungry ta the wadies of Idumaea,
and had run aa a cameleer barefoot in
the burning sands of Arabia Petnea.
He had vegetated into manhood on tha
lower stratum of this strange oriental
existence, content to believe that life
was an unavoidable curse, with a drow-
sy intimation of eternity in it, alwaya
associated with the tinkling of bella
the rattle of castanets aad the sweet
smell of Beirut tobacco.
But he could see some things that
were beyond my vision, and I wondered
if thia true child of the desert, born un-
der indigo skies, of a race that had been
guided since the days of Mores and
Menephtah by the pillars of fire by
night, had not preserved some powers
of vision that were common to the
primeval man. He never lost tbe true
oriental disdain for enterprise and con-
temporaneous disturbance, and he mads
fffae Orsattel Xmto to Lm« LMS te Srtf
letfelqus m Wfcr Fvepte ef ASvmm*
Ag« atMteto BBS SsMtaafs Drtea
.• IBere Fveelr.
Hnsns ntou are >0 years youngag pbys
kzJly aad mentally than others are at
ttoaipeagu.
age dove not
far aa the A
periods of lit
A Lively Barrel.
An actor tells of a tragic experience
be had while playing in a little town ta
southern Texas. In one of the scenes
of the play, in which he acts the vll-
tata, he hides himself In a barrel, that
he may listen to a conversation be-
tween the hero and heroine, whose fu-
ture well being he Is trying to destroy.
In the town hall there was little if any
“property" material. A barrel would
do to conceal himself in, so a "hired
hand" was rent out to find one. He
succeeded.
The time came for the actor to do his
part. He slipped (p the barrel with
ease. The man and the woman ap-
peared, and while they were In the
midst of an animated conversation
there came » bowl from the barrel that
fairly shook the rafters. This was fol-
lowed by the eavesdropper crawling
out with his hands to his face, and he
In turn was followed by a swarm of
wasps. Tbe wasps got among the
stage people and those ta the audience,
which created so much confusion that
the show was broken up—Galveston
News. y '
Seaalhle Srereey. -.
Once somebody called the late Fran-
cls4u« Sarcey, the great French dra-
matic Critic, “That Imbecile, Sarcey.”
. A kind friend rushed to him, waving
tbe paper. “Are you g ing to challenge
him asked the kind friend. )
‘'Certafn y hot,” rep<»ed Su rrey. “I
owe oli» thanks. Tbe public will forget
the win! imoecile and will remember
,to have read my name."
i, Earcey ires for 40 years the chief
***““«* dramatic critic of a nation that values
ffiaebtae wqulfi not style, yet he always wrote In a pLdn,
^tag light* is shed blunt fashion. He refused h.. be a
“ * * ” member of the French Academy tert
dramatists who might become
low members might wish ttni to favsyf i \
their plays. ’’7 \' y. .'7
“ • GO___ , _ f ... am, .
I to .avoid ocofnsii a they are faus^dfalpS-.^ .-
I M L ..
. - - _____ ******
remarked, “a reverend ^tteX 5°*^ Soldier Ik* Urt
greatly deplores the use of arms/* .
“Bostonians are so Cold, anyway,"
. she returned spiritedly, "that .tore-
making on that plan may satisfy them,
but be fools himself if he thinks It eve*
| i-M . J—II<n—- --------- „i ito,
«. — <mom and much tired fraternity, who had lost a leg and
shintag of green jade. A new fashion had it replaced by a wooden snbsiituta.
.ta infant headgear showed a halo of stiff stumped his wsy up ths main street of
17 v a Lansrknhire village the other day
somber eyea Others wore huge rosettes and paused at the door of the first like-
of silk on each tempfa like a joss, and ly looking dwelling. Knocking at the
one little girl had a mane of black silk door, which was opened by a brisk,
cue strings hanging down from tha businesslike housewife, tha man began
buek of her head. Bren tbe baby oom- bis stereotyped whine:
plexions had been looked after On the
Mnootb, yellow cheeks appsared tha
most lovely patch of pink rouge, put on word of bis tale tbe sharp retort came:
quite frankly ta tbs Chinese fashion. “Awrel, ye didsa lore it here!”
Tbe rosebud mouths were touched up, . And bang went tbe door ta his face
and tba narrow brows beautifully pen- j —Liverpool Mercurv
titaL -Tuaaag Qassite _______________
Mfa IM nts Ute a.
Tbe following is said to have occurred
to a distinguished but modest divine
who bad undertaken itho duty of a
brother clergyman at afatbedr
“lam come," said fie. add™
viik gowned vergerX “to tai
— ... ... . r— nine ”
th*<4
Ekt fasted, thereby avoiding too large a
ISffilfat of waste matter eitasr fa tbe
intestinal sanal or in tugjntm of exera-
SMUtitioua matter ta the blood. —Jour-
nal of American Medical Association.
ly an'teta aa
Will yon-s
sirf Hafircs*" departmen t?
do-to--Hattie, do you th’
A Grant Baenen.
Mother to Frank—How is It that
you’re late home nearly every night?
Frank-Well, no wonder; we’re got
such a big clock in our acbooL
Mother-Why, what fias tbe clock to
fl© with tt? 1 - . -
Frank—’Canoe H’s so big it takes tbe j ? place 1
hands an awful long “while to get “v’?:-11” -g---- > \
round IL If we bad a clock like papa** ‘ V*y«* ™*<WbD>wboietoreaa
little one. I’d get home M great deal t-' ia«.v«*s « tba'gentleman’ wbo i»
.-.j— -.7--'- Words™
midexn
Chicago
The United Kingdom consume* 600,-
000 pounds, or about 4,000,000 gallons,
of tea every day, which is as much a* is
ussfi by. tbe rest of Europa, North and
—
pharisee this fact by muring a paucity
of adipose tissue. /Ito tbe wrinkle of
time, after all, is kindly ta nature.
Phyriologically we- notice that •
diminution of thMphyriral energy is ac-
companied by a <xirr««eprMiding diminu-
tion of the power to eliminate waste
r material from the body. Elasticity and
strength give plare to hardnem and
, brittleness of nearly all the (iwuee of
tbe body. Tbe general health may be
good, because there ts a barmouioua
balance between the action of tha nerv-
ous system and tbe circulatory system.
However, tbe former is lees reeponrive
to external sttmulaivm, and the latter
is less vtguroua ta old sge. The vital
processes conducted by the circulation,
respiratioa and metabolic changes ta
tbs tissues are "less active. There are
■ diminished adaptability of the whole
system to changes ta tbe environment
and lees ability to meet the require-
aaenta of wirgmiia such an sudden
demands of muscular aad mental strain.
Tbe senile conditions and diseases are
numerous and obvious, ta fa* first
the light of the unperturbed stars, was,
after all, an impertinence to a true
pa fab.—“Ghosts In Jerusalem," by A.
C. Wheeler, ta Harper’s Magazine.
Mere e< the Metal Gees late Thom Than
Can Be 0e« Out.
An example of some at the queer ex-
periences people have when they are
called upon to buy a thing with which
they are not familiar and which they
have need of only on rare and unusual
occasions is thus art forth by tbs Mil-
waukee Sentinel:
A young woman who worked as a
domestic went to a dentist to get her
ilred. .He repaired them and
, of >86. He justified himself
for the charges by explaining how
much the fillings cost him. In one hol-
! low tooth, he said, he put >10 worth of
gold. Tbe bill was paid, and recently,
when the little nugget (said to be worth
>10) came out, the woman took it to a
, goldsmith and had it appraised. He
weigned it scrupulously and valued it ___
a< 48 cent* 8he no longer has faith in aD engineer feel that his work, seen in
ber dentist. “
It seems to be always good taste to
“go shopping'* among tbe dentists be-
' fore having any considerable amount of
work dona. There is considerable hum-
buggery about the business ta some
quarters. The public is told that >15 is
a fair price for a crown and stands
ready to pay it, oa the ground that
good work deserves good pay. A few
blocks away tbs same work was don*
” ItotWusfc for M, fast as will as if >1>
™ntehta These machii^^lfa way7sre feja
f*!”***™* dentist. One dentist figured quarter, and when the uuarter'a worth
on >86 for six teeth, and another 200 4 ’ me quarter a worm
yards away performed tbs service for
>80.—Philadelphia Times.
ot gas is burned they ahuv off aufoiflat-
ically.
Toward evening of the day in which
the machine waa taetai'ed she wended
her way to the slot and deposited her
money, but when an "
to light the gas-the '
register, and the evening light «’«* shed
out of lamps and candles. A wrathy
note brought th ? company inspector to
the scene the next morning, and he
thoroughly vindicated the reputation of
the contrivance when be unlocked it
boys were shaven, and the little girls and
had their hair stiO'ened and polished
and dressed aa though for ths grandest
function, with little birdoagts find
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