Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1897 — Page 3

A Miner’s Luck.

Montana’s Erickson is a miner living near Hassel, the mining camp located in the vicinity of Diamond Hill mine. Last Friday, while passing through a dry— gnjch that branches from the main or St. Louis gulch, he found a nugget of gold that, as nuggets go, was a regular Jumbo. His foot struck a yellowish object lying on the dry Band bar. It emitted a dull sound, different from that made when one’s toes collide with a small rock. The nugget was weighed and the estimated value was $442.

Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O!

Ask your grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-0, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children nay drink without injury as well as the adult. All who try it like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha and Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the aiost delicate stomach receives it without distress. Ouefourth of the price of coffee. 15c and 25c per package, sold by all grocers.

The Bee Egg.

The egg of a bee when magnified a hundred times, is a beautiful object. It has been compared to a tiny pearl, covered with what ladies call “blonde,” many hundreds of the meshes of which are required to coat it completely. This netting is in a radiating pattern, something like the cordage on a balloon; but the meshes, except at the ends, are hexagonal.

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WHAT PUZZLED MR. M’DONALD

He Hart Only Seven Pisa, but Coanted Eight Pair of Forefeet. Oldham & McDonald, a firm of Richmond, Ky., have a fifty-pound pig which had a whole lot of fun out of them recently. It was one of a lot of seven. which were placed In a board pen, the bottom board of which had been removed. Mr. McDonald knew that they had seven pigs. He happened to observe the pigs through the crack of a fence as they stood at a trough. He counted eight pairs of front feet all in a row.

M'DONALD THOUGHT HE COULDN’T COUNT

He looked over the fence and counted seven pigs. He walked back a few steps and sat down on a log. Presently he found himself counting the pairs of feet through the crack, and, remarkable as it may seem, and even downright puzzling to him as it was, there were eight pairs of feet; Nearing the fence that there might be no mistake, he carefully counted the pairs of feet and there were eight. He climbed upon the fence, counted the pigs, and there were seven. A chill of superstition seized him and he got somewhat stampeded and began a homeward retreat in wild disorder. But in his demoralized condition he met Mr. Oldham and related to him his trouble. The two returned and counted the pairs of feet through the fence. There were eight. They looked over the fence and counted seven pigs. Then they resolved unanimously to catch the pigs, one at a time, and examine their feet. This they did and found that one pig had two well-developed sets of front feet, or six feet in all.

Current Condensations.

The otter is the favorite animal pet among the Chinese. The street accidents of London amount to about 3,500 a year—nearly ten a day. Pearls or emeralds in combination with jet can now be worn for mourning in Paris. An umbrella covered with a transparent material has been invented In England, enabling the holder to see where he is going when he holds it before his faee. Tao total exports of iron and steel manufacturers for the first eleven months of the last fiscal year, as compared with the corresponding months for the preceding fiscal year, show an increase of over $8,200,000. Only 11 per cent, of the larger and 5 per cent, of the smaller English gold coins bear an earlier date than 1870. clean appearance of British coins is always a delight to a foreigner. This is true as well of Canadian coins. Man? of the oldest of the Roman bridges, especially those erected for strategic purposes, were built partly of wood and partly of stone, such as that erected by Caesar across the Rhine, and described by him In his commentaries.

There are 1,771 breweries in the United States. Two hundred and eightynine of them are in New York, 251 in Pennsylvania, 174 in Wisconsin, 122 In California and 100 in Illinois. Arkansas, Maine, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, Vermont and Wyoming have no breweries. Current Literature gives the amounts of money spent yearly by twenty of the leading libraries in the country. The Boston puollc library leads, with an income of $170,000, and Chicago Is second with $125,000. After these two leaders there is a great gap, and Minneapolis comes third with $55,000. While Frenchmen grumble that they still have to pay taxes in order to make up the war indemnity exacted by Prussia twenty-five years ago, the town of Konlgsberg, in Prussia, has only this year paid the last installment of the loan contracted to the war contribution imposed on it by Napoleon I. It is not generally known except by certain persons whose office it is to learn of such matters, that the immense sum of $9,500,000 is annually expended in charity in the city of New York. That, at least, is the approximate amount, est’mated as closely as circumstances permit or on the part of experts. There are about 5,000 families who are listed “givers” to charity. A popular work on railroading estimates the ordinary load for a ten-ton freight car as follows: Whisky, 60 barrels; salt,7o; lime,7o; flour, 90; eggs, 130 to 160; flour, 200 sacks; cattle, 18 to 20 head; hogs, 50 to 60; sheep, 80 to 100; lumber (green), 6,000 feet; lumber (dry), 10,000; barley, 300 bushels; wheat, 340; apples, 370; corn, 400; potatoes. 430; oats, 680, and bran, 1,000.

LIVING IT DOWN

CHAPTER XXVIII. The whole of that next year I spent in exploring South America. From time to time I still received letters. The lawyer, the nurse, and the governess, Mrs. Gray, were my correspondents. It was in the autumn of that second year that the accounts of Joan began to improve. She had grown much stronger—she began to notice places and persons—to ask questions —to interest herself onee more in things that were passing around her. One day I received a letter from Darby herself. The large, strangely formed words had an odd look. She said: “Dear Sir Ralph —This is the first letter I have ever written, and I write it to give you good news. Joan is so much better. Soon, I think, she will be quite well. I have a fancy, dear Sir Ralph, that one tiling weald make her that, and very soon. It in you. I talk to her about you often and often, and she says: ‘I know him. He was very good. I think he was the best man in the world.’ So, you see, she must remember you. We are at Nice again, and—is it not funny?— papa got the very same house for us that we had before, when you and Jo were married. I think she remembers it Every day she asks more questions, and seems thinking out things for herself. Oh, I wish you would come! You have been away such a long, long time, and I miss you very much. Papa is not a bit like you. He is always writing. Do please come. Your loving little “DARBY.” As I read those simple words the hard crust about my heart seemed to be broken up. I looked back on those two years with a sense of wonder. How lonely they had been! How devoid of anything like love, or comfort, or sympathy! Yet even now, if I obeyed this summons, and went back to my wife’s side, what would that life be like henceforward ? However well I might hide the fox, its teeth would gnaw at my heart beneath the cloak of indifference. I told no one I was coming. I resolved to take them by surprise. It was close on sunset when I arrived at Nice, and leaving my baggage at the station, I drove at once to the villa in its sheltered nook of the Bay of Villafrauca. Keeping behind the sheltering laurels and arbutus, I made my way slowly to the house. The door stood open. I met not a single soul; I passed in. On the right of the hall a door stood ajar. From the room within came the sound of voices. I listened. Only too well I knew them. The child’s sweet plaintive tones, and those of my wife. I crept up to the door and looked in. The room was half dusk. There was a couch drawn up by the fire, and lying on it a little shadowy figure—the child’s figure. Joan sat beside her on a low chair. “I am sure he will come,” Darby was saying. “You will be glad, dear, will you not?” “Very glad,” came the answer in quiet, even tones—the tones I remembered of yore. “Because he will take care of you, and be good to you,” the child went on. “Only, Joan, you must promise to tell him everything. He will not be angry. He is too kind and good for that.” “He" was always good,” said Joan softly. “And you! What should I have done without you all these years? You heM me back from sin and from despair. You gave me strength when I was weakest, and hope when I was hopeless, and patience when I was well-nigh desperate, and love when all other love failed. Oh, my child—my blessing! It is heaven’s mercy that gave you to me! I see that every day I live.” The next moment I entered the room.

CHAPTER XXIX. For a moment we looked at each other in silence. I had thought of her, prayed for her, pleaded for her a hundred times in hours of solitude and pain. I heard her low cry, and saw the warm blood flush her cheeks. I lost sight of all the sorrowful and torturing past, and for a moment remembered only that she was my wife. A sort of constraint came over me. The fond words that had longed for utterance were frozen on my lips. Darby came to the rescue with a torrent of questions and remarks, and a few moments afterwards Mr. Templeton entered. We all sat down then, and the conversation became general. They would not hear of my going to the hotel; so my luggage was sent for, and I did my best to return the cordiality of my welcome, and to seem at home and content once more. Joan was very quiet. Each time I looked at the slight figure in its soft gray dress, or the pretty head with its clustering curls, a strange feeling came over me. A woman, no doubt, would have found relief in tears. I—man-like—was only conscious of a pain that tugged at my heart-strings and sometimes choked the words in my throat. She looked so fair, and sweet, and fragile. There was such a delicate, tender womanliness about her that I seemed to lose sight of that awful time of doubt, and the torturing years that had followed. When she went away with Darby and Roger Templeton had left, I fell into deep thought. My eyes rested on the burning logs, but I don’t think they saw much of them, for my heart was heavy. A soft, rustling noise roused me at last. Joan had come in, and was standing close beside me. “I hope,” she said gently, “that you are not sorry you came back?” “Why should you think so?” I asked abruptly. For a moment she was silent. Then a sort of desperate appeal came into her face and voice. “Everything is changed,” she said, “since you were here before. I most changed of all. I think sometimes that when I was a girl—when you knew me years ago—that,tjiiere must have been some good in me, or you would not have loved me. Oh!” and she clasped her hands and looked at me with soft, wet eyes, “if I could only go back and be that girl again!” Her voice thrilled to my heart. I dared not look at her. “To go back,’ I said presently, “is impossible. That is the worst of it. With all its mistakes and follies, it pushes you on—on remorselessly. You cannot stayson cannot return—yon can only go for-

By "Rita"

ward, bearing the pain and the regret aa best you may." “We,” she said, humbly, “have had to bear both, I fear.” Then she rose and stood before me. Her face was white and anxious, her hands were clasped tight, and hung before her; the folds of the soft gray dress caught light and shadow from the flames. “There was something,” she said, and her eyes looked at me piteously, like a child's. “It was about—about myself. I have tried to remember, but I cannot I can remembe.' the girl you met here. I know every walk we took. I know the very tracks of the sea. I —do not think I was bad then,” and her voice grew anxioux. “I did not mean to be, I know. 1 was happy, too, in a way, and I had faith and hope, and life did not seem so hard and sad a thing. Now,” and she put hty hand to her brow and pushed the loose curls back, while her eyes grew clouded —“now it is all so different. Yet I cannot tell why—l only feel as if my life had all gone wrong —as if, somewhere on its road, I had missed happiness; and, when I long for it there is a gulf between—a gulf I can never pass.” The words, and the young, sorrowful voice, smote me to the heart. “My poor child,” I said, brokenly, “I would it were in my power to give it back to you!” “Why should you care?” she said, and half turned away, "I was not good to you. I have thought of that Very often. And I never cared about your feelings—my own seemed to fill up everything, and when I did—” Again the cloud came over her face, her eyes drooped, her little hand moved with restless touch among those soft white curls. “When I did,” she said, “it was too late.” I was silent I seemed to have too many words to speak, yet something kept me from speaking even one. “In all my thoughts and dreams of you,” she went on, “I always knew how good you were. I —l hope you believe that. There are things I have told you that I felt you did not believe. Sometimes it is so hard for a woman to speak, and when we feel we are misunderstood it makes it harder. I—l have often tried to tell you of my feelings, but you chilled me. You did not mean it, I know; but always I felt, as I told you just now, that you were so good, and so true, and so strong. Oh, always—always I felt that! And if I could have come to you and told you everything, I know I should have been happier.” “Perhaps,” I said, huskily, “you can tell me now.” “I cannot,” she cried, piteously; “I cannot! It has all gone from me. Often and often I have tried to remember, but it is all dark.”

“The light may come yet,” I said, eagerly, for I knew well enough that, until perfect confidence drew her heart to mine, my dreams of happiness would never be more than dreams, nor she, my wife, be more than the shadow she had been for those two years of suffering. Her hands dropped. She looked at me again. “You are my husband," she said. “I remember you and I remember what you told me about love and trust. I—l lost both, did I not?” I was silent. For a few seconds the room was still as death. “Yes,” she said, as I did not speak. “I know it. But why have you come back?” “I have come back,” I said, and my voice was unsteady as her own, “because, after all, you are my wife; your sorrows are mine; your troubles, too. I have left them too long unshared. I have been selfish ” “You!” she interrupted, and looked at me with eloquent eyes; “you selfish! Ah, no, no! you never were that!” “Yes,” I said, “I was; and I have much to reproach myself with; but there is still a future for us, and we must make it as happy as we can.” “One can’t call back trust," she said sorrowfully. “If it goes, it goes forever. And even if you loved me ” “I do love you,” I said earnestly, touched to the heart by the piteous sorrow in her eyes. She looked at me for a moment as if in doubt. “Until you love and trust me, too,” she said very low, “we shall never be happy. Between us, like a cold ghost, there is always that something——” I turned aside, sick at heart, but recognizing only too plainly the truth of her words.

I went to my room, but I was too restless for sleep. I was racked with doubts and fears, and all the sorrowful events that had freshly come to my knowledge. For long hours I sat there buried in deep thought, when a slight noise aroused me. The door opened softly, and on the threshold stood a little white figure, with something clasped to her breast. She looked so unearthly in that dim light, that for a moment my heart stood still with fear. Then suddenly she glided forward, and went straight up to my bed, and laid on it the book she held. The action gave me speech and courage again. I sprang to my feet. “Darby!” I cried. She turned her startled face to mine. “Do not be angry,” she said beseechingly. “I thought you would be asleep, and I wanted—oh, so much!—to bring you this.” “What is it?” I said, coming forward, and taking up the volume from the bed. “It is to makg you happy again,” she said, “you and Joan. She is very sad, and you do not understand even how she loves you, but I do! And this," pointing to the book, “this will tell you. I used to make her read it to me sometimes, and I thought often, oh, if you only knew!” “But what is it?” I asked in growing bewilderment. “It is Joan's journal,” she said, and vanished. “Heaven forgive me,” I said, “if I have misjudged her!” I took up with trembling hands the journal that the child had brought to me. The record of those years of anguish lay there, yet I feared to read it. It seemed to me dishonorable to pry into the secrets of a woman’s heart—to take advantage of her helplessness, and tear ruthlessly the veil from fier simple confidences, meant as they were but for her own eyes. I had respected Yorke’s—how much the more, then, should I respect those of my wife—my other self? The girl who had held my heart, am! shared my life, whom still I lovde and fain would have believed. As I thought of these things I resolutely put the book away. I knew very little of women; but I thought that no woman would respect the man who wrung from her ignorance and helplessness the secrets of her past, whether the past were innocent or guilty. “She told me she has always trusted me,” I said; “I will not fail her now. If confidence is to unite us again it shall be a voluntary gift from her heart to mine —not a rifled treasure, stolen in the dark, as if my hands were those of a thief.” cTo be

PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND.

LATEST APPORTIONMENT OF REVENUE TO COUNTIES. Per Capita Distribute 1 Throughout the State la Sl.43—Total Reaches • 1,072,290.80-Marion County Pays In More than She Gets. Report in Detail. The superintendent ot public inatruc tion hits prepnted a set of tables -allowing the appoitionment of the eonuuon school revenue, the amount ready for apportionment tn each county and the distributive shares apportioned to each comity. The following summary shows the condition of the fund: Amount collected from counties, $1,073,576.07; amount in treasury from all other sources, $17,837.04; total on hand, $1,091,414.01; amount apportioned, $1,072,299.80; balance now remaining in treasury, $19,114.21; per cap ita, $1.43. The following table shows the amount apportioned to each county: Number of State Amount chll- school apporCountles. Oren. tax. tioned. Adams 7,752 $ 6,706.98 $11,085.86 A lieu 23,353 27,791.88 33.394.70 Bartholomew .. .7.420 9.052.23 10,619.18 Benton 4.128 7.204.58 5,908.04 Blackford 5,048 4,707.80 7,213.04 Boone 8,202 9,538.38 11,728.86 Brown 3,585 1,349.80 5,123.09 Carroll 0,434 7,362.10 9,200.62 Ca»« 10,225 12.437.17 14,621.75 Clark 9,495 8.291.05 18,577.85 Clay 11,700 8.363.84 16,816.80 Clinton 8.524 10,207.32 12,189.32 Crawford 5.207 1,870.73 7,446.01 Daviesslo,o4B 7,301.09 14,868.64 Dearborn 7,180 0,508.1)0 10,207.40 Decatur 5,992 7,426.09 8,568.50 De Kalb 6,942 9,315.76 9,927.00 Delaware 12.045 14,814.10 18.082.35 Dulatls 7.380 4,885.09 10,553.40 Elkhart 12.355 14.494.50 17,067.05 Fayette 3,546 5,805 44 5,070.78 Floyd 8.810 8,127.72 12,598.30 Fountain 0,404 (1,925.68 9,243.52 Franklin 5,434 5,869.72 7,404.01 Fulton 5,669 6,723.07 8,106.67 Gibson 9.495 9,215.45 13,577.85 Grant 13,817 13,241.00 19,758.31 Greene 9,113 0,399.30 13,031.59 Hamilton 9,223 10,152.98 13,203.19 Hancock ~..,.6,064 7,871.62 8,671.52 Harrison 7,313 4,281.98 10,457.59 Hendricks 0,461 8.691.27 11,239.23 Henry 7,437 9.738.45 10,634.91 Howard 8,744 9,383.08 12,503.1)2 Huntington ... 8,958 10,318.81 12,809.84 Jackson 8,386 7,207.81) 11,991.98 Jasper 4,734 5.761.84 6.709.72 Jay 8,802 7,889.41 12,580.86 Jefferson 7,342 7,239.42 10,499.06 Jennings 5,057 4,181.21 7,231.51 Johnson 0,030 7,802.79 8,622.90 Knox 10.573 11.007.43 15,119.39 Kosciusko 8,843 11,194.51 12,645.49 Lagrange 4.847 5,980.79 6,931.21 Lake 9,940 19.007.95 14,214.20 Laporte 12,725 16,238.52 18,196.70 Lawrence 0,060 5,454.25 9,952.80 Madison 18,318 19,314.72 26,194.74 Marlon 44,118 88,880.98 63.088.74 Marshall 8,263 9.049.05 11,816.09 Martin 5,164 2,573.59 7,384.52 Miami 8,454 8,919.93 12,089.22 Monroe 6,430 5,449.20 9,194.00 Montgomery ...8,533 12,830.21 12,202.19 Morgai 6,158 5,950.29 8,805.94 Newton 3.273 5,015.98 4,680.39 Noble 6,815 9.377.60 9,745.45 Ohio 1,428 1,219.00 2,042.04 Orange 5,598 2,937.78 8,005.14 Owen S,KM 3,1134.27 7,341.62 Parke 6,460 7,212.40 9,250.67 Perry 6,815 3,017.94 9.715.45 Pike 6,819 3,940.40 9,751.17 Porter 5,945 9.262.26 8,501.35 Posey 7,231 7,758.51 10,340.33 Pulaski 4,864 4,171.30 0,955.52 Putnam 6,536 10,221.23 9,346.48 Randolph 8,586 10,444.00 12,277.1)8 Ripley 0,621 5,385.86 11,468.03 Rush 5,201) 9,744.34 7,534.07 Scott 3,067 1,878.31 4,385.81 Shelby 7,982 11,119.1)9 11,414.26 Starke 3,436 3,295.18 4,913.48 St. Josephl4,7l6 18,779.57 21,043.88 Steuben 4,466 4,986.15 6,386.38 Sullivan 7.985 8,121.56 11,418.55 Switzerland ~..3,681 3,180.18 5,2113.83 'l'.ppeeanoe ~ ..12,178 19,560.11 17,414.54 Tipton 6,304 0,041.08 9,014.72 Union 1,770 3,451.03 2,539.68 Vnnderbnrg ...20,843 24.197.41 29,805.49 Vermillion 4,754 4,000.03 6,540.82 Vigo 17,682 21,521.44 25,285.20 Wabash 8,1)09 10,804.69 12,739.87 Warn* 3,427 5,554.27 4,1)00.61 Warrick 7,837 4,487.70 11,206.01 Washington ... 6,487 5,050.21 9,276.41 Wayne 10,372 10,952.(11 14,831.96 Wells 7,000 7,776.36 10.868.00 White 5,882 7.577.83 8,411.26 Whitley 5,719 7,370.12 8,178.17 RECAPITULATION. From State treasurys 17,837.94 Balance In treasury 19,114.21 Number of children 749,860 State school taxs 860,375.18 Amount apportioned 1,091,414.01

State Items of Interest. Gus J. Beck, it business mnn of Waterloo, was held up while going home and robbed of nearly SSO belonging to KnlghtH of Honor Lodge, of which he was financial secretary. There wen* two robbers, and suspicion rests on local men. Beck saved s2(l from the robbers by dropping it on the ground. As a result of celebration the Chicago and Grand Trunk lost its passenger depot in Valparaiso. Some girls were shooting rfirecmekers and threw them on the porch of the building. The loss was SA,(XM), insured in the Phoenix of London for ,$5,000. M. L. Baum, owner of the eat-ing-house, lost $2,000; no insurance. At Jeffersonville several persons were prostrated by heat and are in a precarious condition. Mrs. Virginia Buddell, who lived near Utica, and Casper Seibert, of Jeffersonville, died from the heat. At Fort Wayne Mrs. Eliza Miller, Miss Eliza Wing and Frank Huxley were prostrated. Mrs. Miller, prostrated Sunday, died. Mrs. William Pollock was prostrated while in it cherry tree and fell to the ground. Both legs were broken. At South Bend Thomas Farrington, of Chicago, a stone cutter, was overcome and died a few hours later.

D. C. Bruce, aged 35, committed suicide at Shelbyville Sunday afternoon by shooting. He went home in his usual good spirits, went upstairs to his room, took a bath, dressed, and sitting on the side of the bed placed a 32-caliber revolver to his temple and fired, the ball ploughing through the brain to the upper angle of the skull. He left no word of explanation, and the cause remains a mystery. Five years ago while acting in the capacity of city marshal he was shot three times through the right lung by Charley Hawkins, who was on the same day hanged by a mob, and it is claimed that Bruce’s mind has never been right since. At the prize drill of flie Indiana Knights of St. John and the Catholic Knights of America at Crawfordsville the purse was awarded to the Indianapolis Commandery of the Knights of St. John. In the zouave drill the Indianapolis Commandery and the Peru company tied for the honors. The 7-year-old son of Amil Helbig died at Greenfield from hydrophobia after suffering twenty-four hours of violent convulsions. The child would bark and snap like a dog when in spasms. He was bitten by a mad dog thirty days ago mid was taken to a Pasteur institute for treatment four days after receiving the wounds. A Baltimore and Ohio freight train struck and instantly killed an unknown man at Stoner. He was walking on the track. A month ago the Bev. Milo Nethereutt, pastor of the, Christian church at Anirews, tendered his resignation, stating that his wife had left him and he could aot continue to preach, broken-hearted is he was by domestic trouble. The congregation declined to acept the resignation, and a week later the pastor sued for iivorce. The case was tried and divorce refused. Now Mrs. Nethereutt has, filede i suit for divorce. The church is in an iproar and has accepted the minister’s 'estimation.

The Doctor Are Right.

All the progressive doctors now days pronounce against the use of alcohol as a medicine as well as a drink. The human body has no use for rum in any Conn or for any reason. The same with coffee. Society can afford to hold a Jubilee when we are aid of both of thertf. Stimulants are always bad—never good. In place of coffee use Graln-O, made from pure grains. It looks like coffee—rich, brown and luscious. No sense of being dosed and drugged. A hot cup of Grain-O warms, enlivens,feeds, nourishes; but it doesn’t excite you or set the nerves twanging. Old coffee and tea drinkers will soon prefer Graln-O for its taste as well as for its good effects. Packages 15 or 25 cents. Ask your grocer for it.

Lire Mouse in a Gamecock's Craw.

“I always knew that game roosters were thoroughly up to date in everything and always ready to fight anything, whether It be a circular saw or a bald-headed eagle,” said Chief Clerk Rooms, of Assistant Manager Fay's office. In the Southern Pacific building yesterday, “but It was a revelation to me to see a gamecock act the part of a mt terrier. I saw a black-breasted red a day or two since wide luto a covey of mice that Dr. Mercier had corralled for the bird's amusement and Inside of six minutes the rooster had killed sixteen of the rodents and had eaten eight of the covey. The doctor says that bird has a particular fondness for mice and never seems to get enough. “Some time ago, after a diet of mice, the rooster grew sick. He lost his appetite and seemed about to give up the ghost, and the doctor was greatly worried because of this fact After treating the fowl for a couple of dtiys he chloroformed him and dissected his craw. To his astonishment he found three mice in this portion of the bird's anatomy, oue of them still alive. The mouse had gotten its tall Into the small entmil leading to the bird's gizzard, and eoneequently had put a stop to the digestion of the rooster. The mouse must have realized this, and that it was ills sole chance of life, for when the doctor attempted to withdraw the tail the mouse set up an awful squeaking and feebly objected to the process. To make the matter more luteresting, he gizzard had gripped the end of the mouse’s tall and would not let go. “Between the two, the rooster came very near dying, but upon the mouse and tall being removed and the craw sewed up again the bird speedily' recovered, but now It runs from n mouse ns If it were a bull terrier.”—New Orleans Tlmes-Deinocrat.

Shake Into your shoes

Allen’* Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smarting feet, and Instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Alien's Foot-Ease makes tight-fitting or new shoes feel easy. It Is a certain cure for sweating, callous and hot, tired, aching feet. Try It to-day. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. By mall for 25 cents, Ln stamps. Trial package FREE. Address, Allen 8. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. A French scientific writer points out that a mere gain Ln weight should not, In Itself, be token ns nn Indication of Improved bodily condition. It Is, according to Mm, rather n question of the density than of the quantity of tissue that covers the bones. When increase of weight results from increased density, then the health is retilly Improved,

To Colorado Springs and PuebloBurlington Route via Denver.

A through sleeping car to Colorado Springs ami Pueblo, via Denver, is attached to Burlington Route daily train leaving Chicago 10:30 p. m. Office, 211 Chirk street. Ammoniated tincture of qulniije, according to Nature, is a more effectual antidote to bee stings than ammonia alone.

S mt Questions. man Throw Away Her Good >oks and Comfort? Why will a woman drag out a sickly, half-hearted existence and miss three-quarters of the joy of living, when she has health almost within her grasp ? If she does not value her good looks, does she not value her comfort ? Why, my sister, will you suffer that dull pain in the small of your back, those bearing-down, iragging sensations in the loins, lat terrible fullness in the lower wel, caused by constipation prof from the womb lying over and gon the rectum ? Do you know ese are signs of displacement, and m will never be well while that . a woman needs who is thns ass to strengthen the ligaments so they will keep her organs in place. There la nothing better for this purpose than Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The great volume of testimony which is constantly rolling in, proves that the Compound is constantly curing thousands of just such cases. The following letter from Mrs. Marlow is only one of many thousands which Mrs. Pinkham has received this year from those she has relieved—surely such testimony is convincing: “My trouble commenced after the birth of my last child. I did not know what was the matter with me. My husband went to our family physician and described my symptoms, and he said I had displacement and falling of the womb. He sent me some medicine, but it did little good. I let it go on stout two years, and every time I did any hard work my womb would come down. Finally a lady friend advised me to try Lydia E. Pinkhn,m> Vegetable Compound, which I did. The first bottle helped me so much, I continued to take it right along. My back was almost the same as no back. I could not lift scarcely any weight. My life was just a drag to me. To-day I am well of my womb trouble, and have a good, strong back, thanks to Mrs. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.”— Mbs. L. Marlow, Milford, 11l “Thoughtless Folks Have the Hardest Work, but Quick Witted People Use SAPOLIO

fill I I -J fl 11 home. It Is harmless. ■ • ' ■ ■ ■ “ ■ ■ V All druggists. or Write Ta CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Ed tod Best Cough Syrup. Totes Good. Use IS

Sawlog from Feud Region.

A log was converted into lumber at the Southern Lumber Company’s mill at Valley View, Ky., which caused considerable comment among those who were present. It wag a poplar log, sixteen feet long, and as the saw cut its way through it and the boards began to fall on the receiving table it was found to be filled with leaden balls, in size from .32 to .45. Upon investigation and inquiry it was learned that the mill company had purchased it near Hazard, Ky., on Big Creek, near .where Joe Eversole and Combs were killed from ambush by the French faction. Eversole was killed outright and Combs fell mortally wounded, when a ball from a pistol in the hands of “Bad Tom” Smith corroborated the oft-re-peated statement that “dead men tell no talcs." The number of bullets found In the log was over 200, and it is believed to bnve been used In a barricade during the long and bloody feud between the French and Eversole factions in and around Hazard.

Two Mighty Continents,

North anil South America, besides Guatemala, the West Indies, Australia, and even Europe, are the fields of usefulness tn which Hostetter's Stomach Bitters has demonstrated Its value as an antidote to malaria, and as a remedy for dyspepsia, constipation, rheumatism, neuralgia, biliousness, nervousness, and loss of appetite and sleep. Ths Inhabitants, the medical men of these countries, have spoken In no uncertain tones concerning the efficacy of the great household remedy.

Doctors and Death.

The old traditions which represent the doctor and death ns always hunting in couples still survive in Spain. In ah well-to-do families the house of death is always deserted immediately after the funeral, and the bereaved ones retire and pass eight days in inviolable seclusion. Children are buried in coffins of gray, pink, or blue color, which are carried open to the grave. A luxury of grief consists In shutting up the house where a death has taken place and never suffering It to be opened again.

Over a Ton a Day.

lAist year 425 tuns of steel were used by the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven Ct., in the manufacture of riflVs and shot gtuis. Thia enormous amount represents a consumption of over a ton a day. This information may surprise people who are not familiar with the great demand for Winchester gun*, but It will not anyone who has used a Winchester, for they appreciate the excellence and popularity of thia make of gun. Winchester guns and Winchester ammunition are unequalled for their many points of superiority. Uniformity and reliability are watchwords with th* Winchesters, and the results their guns and ammunition give show the great care taken in manufacturing them. Send for a large illustrated catalogue free. The steam yacht of Ogden Goelct. of New York, which Is now building on tho Clyde, will be an epoch-making vessel. Her combined engines will bo capable of 4,500 horse-power. Mr. Goulet's private stateroom will be 4 palatial apartment—4o by 40 feet.

Hall’s Cuturrh Cure.

Is taken intcroally. I’rlce 7s cents. The most remarkable impostor was George Psalm ana zar, who invented * language and wrote a literature in IL Every man having a beard should keep It an even and natural color, and if it i* not so already, use Buckingham’* Dy* and appear tidy. Last year about $31,(XX),000 worth of tobacco was smoked In Spain—an average of SI.BO per head. We will forfeit SI,OOO if any of our published testimonials are proven to be not genuine. THE PIBO CO.. Warren, Pa. A crust with an appetite Is better than a feast without. Mrs. Winslow's Boothtmu Sthut tor Chttdrsa teething: sottens the sums, reauoes inflsmmstto*, sllsys pein, cures wind colic. cants a bottle.

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