Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1894 — Page 7

The Real Demon of the Marsh

!s not a spook, but a reality. It ia neither a “bogie” nor a 'kelpie,* nor any other of those spirits which the credulous have supposed to haunt the banka of rivers and streams after dusk. Its name ia malaria, and though invisible, it is very terrible and tenacious when it seizes yon. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters drives it away, nor will it attack those whose systems are fortified with the great medicinal .defensive agent. The miasmatic mists of early morning, the vapors exhaled at eventide may be safely breathed by those protected by the Bitters. In the tropics where every form of malarial disease threatens the sojourner, and is particularly virulent when developed, the Bitters is the best reliance of the Inhabitant. For dyepep-ia. liver complaint, lack of vigor, appetite and sleep: for rheumatism and nervousness the Bitters are a sure and safe remedy.

Undaunted.

A lively desire is a great sharpener of the wits, and it is likely enough that the boy of whom the following story i 3 toll in an exchange is no brighter than other boys when it comes to grammar and arithmetic. He wa3 cleaning hi* skates and whistling merrily when his mother remarked: “The paper this morning ha* an account of a little boy who was drowned while skating on thin ice.” The boy ceased whistling, but kept on rubbing the skate iron. “Too bad:” said he. “I wonder if he was any relation to the poor little boy who was killed the other day bv an electric while on his way to school ”

Florida’s Lakes.

Florida is one of the greatest of lake States, if the number of its lakes and lakelets entitle it to be so classed. It has a half score of considerable lakes, including Okachobee. with more than fIOO square miles, and many scores of small lakes and ponds scattered over an a v ea forty or silty mile 3 wide and several hundred miles long.

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UNITED AT LAST

CHAPTER XVlll—Continued. For some minutos—three or four, perhaps, and so brief a space of time makes a longish pause in a critical situation—Gilbert Sinclair kept silence. Sir Cyprian, stand ng with his hack against one end of the ve vet-covered mantel-pie 'e. waited with po.ite tranquillity-. Not by a wor dor gesture did he attempt to hurry his guest. “Look you here,' Sir Cyprian.” Gilbert began, at last, with savage abruptness. “If we had lived in the dueling days—the only days when'Englishmen were gentlemen-I have sent a friend to you 10-night instead of coming myself, and the business might have been arranged in the easiest manner possible and settled decisively before breakfast to -mono w. But as our new civilization does, notallow of that kind of thing, and as I haven't quite strong enough evidence to go into the divo ce court, I thought it was better to come straight to you and give you fair warning of what y, u may expect in the future.” "Let us suppose that dueling is not an exploded custom. We have France and Belgium and a few other countries at our disposal if we should make up our minds to fight. But I should like to know the ground of our quarrel before we go into details. ” “I am glad you are man enough to fight me,” answered the other, savagely. “I don't think you can require to be told why I should‘like to kill you; or, if you have been in doubt about it up to this moment, you will know pretty clearly when I toll you that I saw jump off the balcony of my wife's sum-mer-house this afternoon. ” “I am sorry that unceremonious exit should offend you. I had no other way of getting back to Marehbrook in time for my train. I should have had to walk the whole width of Davenant Park and about a mile of high-road, if I had left by the summer-house doo-.” “And you think it a gentleman-like thing to be in my neighborhood for a fortnight, to avoid my house, and to meet my wife clandestinely in a lonely corner of my parxL “There was no clandestine meeting. You insult your wife by such a supposition, and pro e—if proof were needed of so obvi' us a fact—your unworthiness of such awi e. My visit to the summer-house was purely accidental. I heard Mrs. Sinclair singing—heard the bitter cry which grief—a mother’s sacred^gt-ief—wrung from her in her solitude, and followed the impulse of the moment which prompted me to console a lady whom I knew and loved when she was a child.” “And afterwards, when she had ceased to be a child—a few months before she became my wife. Your attachment was, pretty well known to the world in general, I believe. It was only I who was left in ignorance. ” “Lou rdight easily have known what the world knew—-all there was to be known—simply nothing.” “You deny that you have done me any wrong? that I have any right to ask you to fight me?” “Most emphatically, and I most distinctly refuse to make a quarrel on any ground connected with your wi e. But you will not find me slow to reseqt an insult should you be so ill-advised a* to provoke me. As the friend of Constance Clanvarde I shall be ever ready to take np the cudgels for Constance Sinclair, even against her husband. Remember this, Mr. Sinclair, and remember that any wrong done to Lord Clanvarde s daughter will be a wrong that I shall revenge with all the power God has given me. She is not left solely to her husband’s tender mercies. ”

Even the dull red hue faded from Gilbert Sinclair's cheeks as he confronted the indignant s eaker, and left him livid to the very lips. There was a dampness on his forehead, too, when lie brushed his large, strong hand across it. “Is this man a craven?" thought Sir Cyprian, remarking these signs of agitation and fear. “ Well,” said Sinclair, drawing a long ; breath. “I suppose there is no mire to !be said. You both tell the same story | —an innocent meeting, not precon-certed-mere accident. Yes, you have the best of me this time. The unlucky hu-band generally has the worst of it. There's no dishonor in lying to him. He's out of court, poor be’ggar. ” “Mr. Sinclair, do you want me to throw you out of that window?" “[ sh uldn t much care if you did.” Thete was a sullen misery m the answer and in the very look of the man as he sat there beside his enemy’s hearth in the attitude of dull apathy, only.looking up at intervals from his vacant staie at the lire, which touched Cyprian Davenant with absolute pity-. Here was a man to whom Fate had given vast capabilities of happiness, and who had wantonly thrown away all that is fairest and best in life. “Mr. Sinclair, upon my honor, I am sorry for you,” he sail, gravely. "Sorry for.your incapacity to teiieve in a n - hie and pure-minded wife: sorry that | you should poison your own life and your wife’s by doubts that would ne .br enter your mind if you had the power to understand her. *Go home, and let your wife never know the wrong you have done her. ” “My wife! What wife? I have no wife, - ’ said Sinclair,” with a strange smile, rising and going to the door. “That's what some lellow says in a play, I think. Good-night, Sir Cyprian Davenant, and when next we meet I hope it may be on a better-defined footing.” He left the room without ano her word. Before Sir Cyprian’s bell had summoned the smoatn-htced valet, the street door shut with a bang, and Gilbert Sinclair was adfib: Sir Cyprian heard the doors of the hansom (fiapp; d to. and thb smack of the w6ary driver s whip, as the wheels rolled up'the silent street. “What did he mean by that speech about his wife?*' won Bred Sin Cyprian. “The man looked like a murderer!” Be did not know that at this moment' Gilbert Sinclair was half afraid that brutal blow of his might have bean fatal.

BY MISS M E BRADDON

CHAPTER XIX. MBS. WAnSIN'OHAM BREAKS FAITH. Christmas, which, in a c mm *n way, brings life and bustle, and tne gathering of many guests to gjod old country housrs, brought tn y gloom and solitude to Lavenant. Mr. Sinclair’s visitors had depai te 1 suddenly, at a single flight, like swallows le ore a storin';n autumn. Mrs. Sinclair was very ill—seriously ill—mysteriously ill. ‘ Her dearest friends shook t:e'r heads and looked aw,ul tnings when they talked other. It was menta', they feaiod. “Poor dear tkiig! Th.s comes of Lord Clanyarde s s oediness in getting rich husbands or all his daughters.” “The <id man is a regular harpy,” exclaimed Mr . Millanount, witu a charming indiffe -once to detail. And then these fashionable swallows skimmed away to fresh woods and pastures new—or rather fresh billiardroom* and other afternoon teas, evening part songs and morning rides in rustic English lanes, whete there is beauty and fragrance oven in midwinter. Constance had been missing at afternoon tea on the day of Gilbert s sudden journey to but her absence in the co y morning-room where Mrs. Millamount amused the circle by the daring eccentricity of her discourse was hardly a subject of wonder. “She has one of h r nervous headaches, no doubt, poor child,” said Mrs. Millamount, taking possession of the tea-tray: “she is just the k ndof woman to have nervous headaches.” “I’ll give long odds you don't have them,” said Sir Thomas Houndslow, who was lolling with his back against the mantelpiece to the endangerment of the porcelain that adorned it. “Never had headache but once in my life; and that was when I came a cropper in the Quorncountry, ” replied Mrs. Millamount, graciously. Vapors have given way to feminine athletics, and there is nothing now so dowdy or unfashionable as bad heath. When the dressing-ball rang and Miss Sinclair was sti.l absent, Melanie Dupont began to think there was some cause for alarm. Her mi-tress was punctual a d orderly in all her habits. She had gone to walk in the park immediately after luncheon, quite three hours ago. She had no idea of going beyond the park, Meanie knew, and she only wcfi - e her seal-skin jacket and a garden hat. She might have gone to Marehbrook, perhaps, in this careless attire, but not anywhere else, and her visits to Marehbrook were very rare. Melanie was puzzled. She went down stairs and sent a couple of grooms in quest of her mistress. The ga-den-ers had all gone homo at 5 o’clock. “You had better look in the summerhouse by the fir plantation." said Melanie. “I know Mrs. Sinclair spends a deal of her time th Te. The young men took the hint and went straignt off to the summer-house together, too s c’al to take different directions, as Melanie had told them to do. They had p’enty to talk about —the way their master was going it, the i ad luck which hid attended hi-; racing stable lately, and so on. “1 think there's a curse on them buildings at Newmarket,” said one of the men. “We haven't pulled off so much as a beggarly plate since they was tin shed.”

“There’s a curse on buying* half--breed colts,” retorted the older and wiser servant. “There's where the curse is. Rogers—mistaken economy.” The classic temple was wrapped in darkness, and Rogers, who entered first, stumbled over the prostrate form of his mistress. She lay just’ as she had fallen at her husband's feet,'felled by his savage blow. The elder man got a light but of his fusee box, and then they lifted the senseless figure into a chair and looked at the white face on which there were ghastly streaks of blood. Mrs. Sinclair groaned faintly as they rai-ed her from the ground, and this was a welcome sound, for they had almost thought her dead. There were some flowers in a vase on the table, and the elder groom dipped a handkerchief in the water and dabbed it cn Mrs. Sinclair's forehead, “J wish I'd got a drop of spirit in my pocket,” he said: “a sup of brandy might bring her round, perhap*. Look about if you can se.e anything in that way, Rogers." Rogers looked, but alcohol being au nnhnown want to Mrs. Sinclair there was no convenient bottle to be found in the summer-house. She murmured something inarticulate, and the locked lips loosened and trembled faintly as the groom bathed her forehead. “Poor thing, she must have had a fit,” said the e.der man. “Apocalyptic, perhaps,” suggested Rogers. “We’d better carry her back to the house between us. She's only a featherweight, poor little thing.” So the two grooms conveyed Mrs. Sinclair gently and carefully back to Davenant, and contrived to carry her up to her room by the servants’ staircase without letting all the house into the secret. “If it was a fit, she won’t like it talked about,” said the head groom to the housekeeper, as he refreshed himself with a glass of Glenlivet after his exertions.

“Master’s gone up to London, too,” said the' housekeeper; “that makes it awkward, don’t it? I should think somebody ought to telegraph.” Melanie Duport took charge of her mistress with a self-possession that would have done credit to an older woman. She sent oil at once for Dr. Webb, who came post-haste to his. most important patient. The Doctor found his patient weak and low, and her mind wapdpring a little. He wa3 much puzzled by that contusion on. the fair forehead, but Constance could give him no explanation. < “I think I fell,” 9he .-aid. “It was kind of him to c >me to me, wasn't it, for the love of o d times.” “It must have boen a very awkward fall,” sail Dr. Webb to Melanie. “Where did it happen'''” Melanie explained how her mistress had been found in the summer-house. “She must have fallen against some piece of furniture, something with a blunt edge. It was an awful blow. She is very low, poor thing. The system has received a severe shook. ” And then Dr. Webb enjoined tho greatest of care, and questioned Melanie as to her qualifications for tho post of nurse. Mrs. Sinclair was not to be left all night, and some one else must be got to-morrow to relievo Melan e. It was altogether a serious case. Gilbert Sinclair returned next meaning, haggard and gloomy, lo iking like a man who had spent a night at ths gaming table with fortune steadily adverse to him. He met Dr. Webb in the hall, and was told that his wife «vas seriously ill. ** *• “ Not in danflror v ” he a iked, eagerly.

“Not In Immediate danger.* “I thank God for that." it seemed a small thing to be thankful for, since the surgeon’s tongue was not very hopeful, but Gilbert Sinclair had been weighed down by the apprehension of something worse than this. He found James Wyatt alone In the billiard-room, and learned from him that his guests were already on the wing. Three days later and Mr. Wya t had also left Davenant, but not for good. He had promised to run down again in a week o.* so, and to cheer his dear friend, who, although always treating him more or less de haut en has. allowed him to see pretty plainly that he was indispensable to his patron's contentment. And your modern Umbra will put up with a good deal of snubbing when ho knows his patron is under his thumb. |TO BE CONTINUED. I

THE SAME GIRL.

Just Returned with HU Hrlde He Meets a Sympathetic Old Friend. “Hello, Jack, old boy! Haven't met you in a month. ” “Noj I returned from' the country with my bride.” “Really? Shake. My congratulations. C me —i’ll open a small bottle in her honor. She wasn't a Squedunk girl, where we summered last year, was she.'” "Exactly. You left in July. I lost my heart'in August.” “Ah. you old rascal! Well, here's to the bride! Drink hearty. Great town, that Squedunk; lull of awfully jolly girls; some of them great Hirts too. ’’ "Ah?” “At least I found them so. I had no end of fiancees, so to speak—sometimes meeting two or three on the same evening by appointment. It was great sport. You see, a man has to go a long way around among so many girls at a summer resort. But they were charmers—no mistake. ” “Ves; I found them so. ” “And so deuced sentimental, too, by Jove! I remember one in particular—a hazel-e.ved blonde with a bewitching air. Gad! She would actually hug herself into hysterics. And such kisses—v/aow! We used to wander ovor the lovely mountain paths by moonlight till midnight. A dear girl, too; forgptten her name. Guess you didn't meet her. Let mo see —it was Lottie somebody ” “Not Lottie Huggus?” “That's the girl—the very same, by Jove!” “She's upstairs now.” “Gad, you don’t say.” “Fact! She's on her honeymoon.’ “ Waow! Who’s the poor devil?” “1 am.’’—Boston Herald.

How Rogues Divide.

A bund of professional forgers, says Detective Robert A. Pinkerton, before starting out always agree on a basis of division of all moneys obtained on their forgery paper. This division might be about a* follows: For a presenter where the a uount to be drawn does not exceed $2,0(10, 15 to 25 per cent.; but where the amount to bo drawn is from $2,000 to $5,000 and upwards, tho “presenter" leceivos from .'ls to 15 per cent. The price is raised as the risk increa es, and it is generally considered a greater risk to attempt to pass a check or draft of a large denomination than a smaller one. The middleman gets from 15 to 2 > per cent. His work is more and his responsibility is greater, hut the risk; is less. There' are plenty of middlemen to be had, but the "presenters” are scarce. The “shadow, ” when one accompanies the band, is sometimes paid a salary by tho middleman and his exp.mses, but at other times ho is allowed a small percentage, not to exceed 5 per cent., and his expenses, as with ordinary care his risk is very slight. The backer and forger get the balance, which usually amounts to from 50 to (0 per cent. The expenses that have been advanced the men who go out on the rca 1 are usually deducted at the final division.

Odd Superstitions About Animals.

If a white pigeon settles on a chimney it bodes death to some one in the house, whi.e no one can die on a bed or pillow containing pigeons’ feathers. According to legend the lion’s whelp is born dead and remains dead three days, when the father bieathes on it and it receives life. A spider inclosed in a quilt and hung ’about the neck will cure ague, and if worn in a nutshell will cure fever. Three hairs plucke.l from the cross marked on an ass’ back will cure whooping cough. The pelican feeds its young with its own blood. If you count the number of fish you have caught you will eat.h no more that day. Applying three of tho dog's hairs to a dog bite prevents any evil consequences. To meet a frog is an indication that you are about to receive money. A cow will go dry if the milkmaid neglects to wash her hands after milking. Bees will never thrive if you quurrel with them or about them, and they will for.-ake their hive if not put in mourning at the death of one of the family.

To Drain a Sea.

The royal commission, presided over by M. Lely, Minister of the Waterstaat. which has long been studying the scheme for the draining and reclamation of the Zuyder Zee, has conc.uded its labors. Twenty-one members out of the twenty-six composing the commission i ec. minended that the projected work be carried out. - It is proposed to reclaim from the sea ab >ut -iaJ,OOD acres,, the value of which is estimated at !h!<5,0,)0,<J00 guilders. The cost of thi< immense work is computed at lK!),OOo,OGO guilders, or, with the accumulated expenditure, including measures of defense and the payment of compensation to the fishermen of the Zee. ai 315,000,000 guilders. The drainage is to be carried out by means ot a sen dike from Northern Holland into Friesland. The commission is unanimous in reopmmending that the work should bo executed by the state.—London Times.

A Boom in the Holy Land.

The East is really waking up. The railroad from Jerusalem to Jaffa is to be ex,ended to Nablus and Gaza, and there is a project on foot for the establishment of a lino of steamers on the Dead I'sea. The intention is to bring the i leh produce of Moab across the sea in a few hours instead of carrying it, now, around the north and south end of the sep by caravan, a trip of four or five days’duration. The next we hear will probably be news of an uprising on the part of the camel drivers against the innovation which is to take the bread and dates out of their mouths.

A Bridge that Has Killed 22 Men.

In Ro eville, N. J., a man named Boylan has a private footbridge over the tracks of the Morris and Essex Railroad, Since its erection it has boen the cause of the death of twentytwo mon. The last victim was George Gai rison, a brakeman, who was killed by being crushed between the roof of a car and the bridge lately. London has only one death per year where it used to have four. The great falling off in mortality is due to the better drainage recently Introduced.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

SOBER OR STARTLING, FAITHFULLY RECORDED.i An Interesting Summary of the More Im. portent Doings of Our Nrlghbora-Wed. dings and Deaths—Crimes, Casualties and General News Notes Condensed state News. Muncie has a suburb called “Minna, frists. William Riley was killed by the cars near Terre Haute, i The Monon freight othee at Frank' fort burned. Loss if] ,500. ‘ , ' There are, in Shelby County, veterans ot the late war. Anderson is thinking seriously of abolishing slot machines. Kokomo hus t ken actio 1 looking to the rebuilding of her streets. Many fish are being seined out of White River, near Columbus. A Mitncie man nearly cut his hand off while carving a watermelon. •l OR Kindle, near Anderson, killed by a Panhandle passenger train. It cost a Marion wife-boa tor $2:i.50 i tc decorate his wifo’s face a few days | ago. The Postcfflce safe at Wilkinson was blowu open by burglars, anil iflO stolen. Darlington claims to have the best and finest sidewalks of any eitv in the State. A YOUNU man namod Bartley was ; drowned in White Diver near Worth- ' ington. i _ A Muncie man is arranging to go i into the tobacco growing business, on t an extensive scale, in this State. Geo. Unger, IS, found a dynamite | cartridge rear Columbus. Ho picked it open and is now tpinus five lingers. A HANK, with $50,(10) capital, to be i known as tlio "Pike County Slate i Bank,” hus been organized at Peters j burg. I Yorktown straw board works have ; put in a largo reservoir to filter all water that is dumped into White River. Mrs. Reuben Merritt, near Avon, ! attempted' suicide with paris green, | but was brought back to this cruel world. W. T. Ripley’s home, Marion, was damaged by u natural gas explosion. Mrs. Ripley was seriously injured by falling plaster. Henry Beauchamp, employed in the Wabash [failroad shops at Andrews, was fatally injured by a bar of j iron falling on hi’s head. Edward Stallman, aged 0 years, | was drowned in the Ohio River at the lower wharf, Evansville. Ho was the son of Mr. Louis Stallman, of the Anchor boat.

At Elwood the body of Mary Gavin, a young widow, was found lying on the floor of her room, her faco terribly bruised. She hud taken an overdose of oil of tansy. Lomie Holmkr, aged 12 years, fell from a seat in the Decatur Countv Court House yard, during a convention, and was instantly killed. His spine was broken. The Panhandle north-bound train near Florida, crashed into a buggy containing a young man named H. D. Kennell, aged 22, killing him instantly. The buggy was crushed into fragments and scattered along the track for 200 yards. The body of the unfortunate young man was picked uii about 200 yards from the crossing, whore it had been carried by the engine.

Patents have been awarded to tho following citizens of Indiana: James B. Allfree, Indianapolis, clutch coupling; John J. Berry, Indianapolis, tank Hushing valve: Boy G. Jenclces,Terre Haute, hominv mill: Monroe King. Princeton, adjustible scaffold. Trade Marks Cleveland Fence Company, Indianapolis, fence wire: Harvey Chemical Company, Lafayette, polish for metal. Twenty-five Greencastle sportmon have organized what is known as tho Putnam County Fish Protective Association, their object being the ferreting out and bringing to justice of violators of tho tilth laws. Big Walnut creek is one of the finest bass streams in Indiana, but of late years it has been nearly depopulated. Tho association located and captured a sixty-foot seine and have lines out for others. The Grand Jury will have plenty of evidence to work on in September. The association has arranged for a supply of bass from the government to restock the stream.

Two burglars were caught in the act of robbing Collora’s store at Mill Creek, Laporte County. George and William Collom, the proprietors, live within a square of their store and were awakened by a burglar alarm. Arming themselves they went to the store. George stationed himself at the rear, while William went to a front window. Seeing two men in the room the latter called on them to surrender, but they made a break for the rear door. One of the thieves pulled a revolver and fired five shots at George, but he emptied a load of shot into each burglar, one of whom died almost instantly, while the other is fatally injured. The other night three masked men entered the home of Albert Kanhaus, an Omish farmer near Leo, Allen County. They threatened Mrs. Ranhaus and she called her husband, who was about to retire. As soon as he entered the room the masked men fired on him. One bullet entered his neck and two others the left breast near the heart. The intruders then left the premises and the officers have not the slightest clew as to who they were. No reason is assigned for the crime unless the men meant robbery, Mr. ■ Ranhaus is in a critical condition and there is no chance for him to recover. There is great excitement at Loo. CAKE Lee, while fooling with a rifle and talking to his sweetheart near Anderson, accidentally shot and killed himself. Fred English of Wabash, emp'oved as freight brakeman on the Michigan division of the Big Four, was instantly killed at Milrov, In walking over his train he lost his footing and fell to the tracK, five cars passing over his body. He was 2fi years old, and leaves a widow and an infant 9 weeks old. English lately gave up a position as passenger brakeman and took one on a freight, in order that he might stand a chance of promotion. Richmond was the center of a dis-‘ j astrous storm. Hail fell in large quan- | titles and the wind had a tremendous force. The chief damage was the unrooting of Weber & Holzapfel’s junk shop, the unroofing of a part of the I grand stand at the racing park, and the J total destruction of the large barn of I the street car company. The loss on the latter was $3,000, and the tbtal loss over the city is perhaps $5,000. The only injury to life was the serious injury received by Frank Dunham, who j was caught beneath the falling walls of the junk shop. It is not thought that he will die. The family of Frank tloth, residing in a portkEl of the ; street car barn, had a narrow escape

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The Dog Has No Mechanics.

Although the mental dualities of our highly domesticated dogs are singuSariy like those of their masters, the ikeness going to the point that the household pet ia apt to have acquired something of tbs general character of the people with whom lie dwells, there are many suggestive differences arising fiom failures which are in the highest jneaSure interesting to those who stqd'V the species. We note, in the first place, that although for ages in contact wjtb the constructive work which occupies his masters the dog shows no tendency whatever to essay any undertakings' of this nature. He is quiips alive to considerations of personal comfort and is particularly fond of a warm bed, yet except for a few unverified stories we may say that there Is no evidenoe whatever to show that they ever try to improve their conditions by deliberately providing themselves with warm bedding. In no wollattestod case hat a dog shown any Bonse as to the nature of any mechanical contrivance. They will learn which way a door opens, and rarely ii ever do they undlscerningly cioso it when it is slightly ajar when they wish to pass through the opening, but I have never been üblo toobserve or obtain evidenoe to show that they would pull down a latch in the way in which a cat readily learns to do. Much us dogs have had to do with puns, they display no kind of into!eatTn the arms except to far as they are tokens of sport to come. They connect the explosion with tho capture of game and with march for it in the dirot tion toward which the barrel was pointed. I havo not, however, been able to find that they know, as they might readily do, and as a orow would surolydo, when the weapon was load id and when empty. They show' no interest in it, such as monkeys readily display toward any mechanical c< ntrivance to which their attention has been directed. All these negatlv e features indicate that the mechanical side of tho canine mind is entirely undeveloped.—Chicago News.

Firepro of Wood.

Almost contemporaneously with the invention of bullet-proof cloth comos a report of the discovery of fire-proof and steel-proof woi d. Several speolos of iron wood have been known for a long time and have been widely used, on account of their extraordinary weight and ha dness, in tine manufacture of such articles as axles and plows. . These, howovor, appear to be exoelled by a certain tree found in the Northern Transvaal, regarding which M. Basiaux, at present traveling in South Africa, liuh transmitted a note to the Geographical Society of France. The wood is a sort of ebouy, and is so exceedingly hard that it cannot be cut or worked In the ordinary manner, except when green. When maturo and dry, it resists every known tool, and either blunts or breaks the finest tempered steel. It ls, k apparently, almost impregnable against fire, as it required a burning to reduce the trunk-'?? one of these trees to ashes. The wbod, although heavy, is considerably lighter than iron or steel. If ‘it Should be found to exist in any quantity paid satisfactory moans of working it dan be discovered, it is thought that l*t may find an extensive application in the arts. Hs.nhv a! PAnzan, manager of tbs John A. bat/.er Seed Company, La Crosse, Wls., ta lu Europe looking up rare novelties In und new things In the farm send line, lie will vl.lt the. Celebrated farming districts of Krancs. Germany, England, Belgium. Russia and Bohemia, and the customers of this wide-awake Hrm oan congratulate thomsslves upas bis bringing along the cream of farm and vegetable seedvthnt those foreign countries offer. Germany and Austria have about 150 cooking schools. A four years’ course is nocessiry ere a diploma is granted. Most of the hotel ohefs have diplomas from these schools.

Hull’s Catarrh Cure

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Pure Water for Drinking.

"I do not see," said a business man who travels around a good deal, “why Cincinnati can not have something like there is in St Louis. I mean a ooncern t at will supply cool, pure water at a nominal cost to the people. Over in SL Louis there is a water company that was slarted in a small way, out is now capitalized at, I believe, SIOO,OOO. Drinking water is supplied for family use in any quantity desired. It is supplied in large bottlos, which are returned. They are delivered by men in wagi ns, just as milk is supplied for family use. The water is first distilled, all the impurities removed, and then charged with something which makes the water sparkle like mountain spring water. It is a delicious drink, and is used in large quantities by families. The water is taken from the rtvor.” —Cincinnati CommercialGazette.

The Famous Flathead Valley.

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