Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1898 — Page 3

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Decline of Mortality in Prussia.

A German observer has shown for northern Germany a remarkable decline in the mortality from typhoid fever and diarrhoea, and in the Aaathn after surgical operations In hospitals doubtless influenced by antiseptic methods and by new and sanitary buildings, which lias been observed in Prnssla and in Germany generally,, since the sanitary awakening of twenty years ago. In the successive quinquennial, from 1875 to 1894, the death rates per 10,000 living from typhoid fever were 6.17, 4.99, 2.78 and 1.86, and those from diarrhoea, 1.63, 1.59, 0.45 and 0.3.

No Wonder.

“I hoard that Thompson once saved Miss Babb from a serious runaway, but when I spoke to her she seemed disinclined to talk about It.” “No wonder. He saved her from running away with a nobleman who turned out afterward to be a valet out of a job.”—lndianapolis Journal.

Mean Old Man.

“No, father,” the fair girl said, “Mr. Allingham may not be rich, but his heart Is in the right place.” “Humph!” retorted the crusty old doctor, “you’ve had your ear against it, eh?”—Cleveland Leader.

NO WOMAN IS EXEMPT.

Regularity is a matter of importance In every woman’s life. Much pain is, however, endured in the belief that it is necessary and not alarming, when in truth it is all wrong and indicates derangement that may cause serious trouble. Excessive monthly pain itself will unsettle the nerves and make women old before their time. The foundation of woman’s health is a perfectly normal and regular performance of nature’s function. The statement wo print from Miss Gertrude Sikes, of Eldred, Pa., is echoed In every city, town and hamlet in this country. Read what she says: “ Dear Mrs. Pinkham: —I feel like a new perspn since following your advice, and think it is my duty to let the public know the good your remedies have done me. My troubles were painful menstruation and leucorrhoea. I was nervous apd had spells of being confused. Before using your remedies I never had any faith in patent medicines. I now wish to say that I never had anything do me so much good for painful menstruation as Lydia £. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound; also would Gay that your Sanative Wash has cured me of leucorrhoea. I hope these few words may help suffering women.” The present Mrs. Pinkham’s experience in treating female ills is unparalleled, for years she worked side by side with Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham, and for sometime past has had sole charge of the correspondence department of her great business, treating by letter As many as a hundred thousand ailing women during a single year. All suffering women are invited to write freely to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lyiw, Mass., for advice about their health.

A Way of Escape.

“AVlien I get off a Joke I never smile,” “What is your reason ?” “If nobody sees the point I ean prove an alibi.”

Coughing Leads to Consumption.

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End of a Romance.

“I wish l bad uevep met her,” “Why?” “I asked her to write to roe, pnd here's a letter of forty pages.”

Hall’s Catarrh Cure,

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A Dangerous Secret.

By FLORENCE MARYATT.

CHAPTER V. Mr. William Moray, knocking at the door of his brother’s lodgings, at about eight o’clock the same evening, is received by Mrs. Timson with a face of such portentous gravity that he is fain to observe it. “Anything the matter?" he inquires, curiously. “Matter enough,” is the answer. “I’ve kept a lodging ’ouse now, on and off. for the last two-and-thirty year, hut never in all my horned days did I ’ave such a disgraceful scene on my premises as took place ’ere last night.” Then she tells him the whole story, winding up with the statement that Delia’s left her husband. Almost before she finishes Mr. Moray has reached the third landing. He turns the handle of his brother’s door and walks in. James is seated at the table, only partially sober, with his head bov. ed down upon his outstretched arms. “Hulloa!" exclaims William Moray, “why, what’s the matter now,-Jem? The old woman down stairs has been giving me a garbled account of your wife having run away from you—but it isn’t true, surely?” “Cursed if I know,” rejoins the other. “She ain’t here—that’s very certain.” “How did it happen? Tell me all about it.” “I don’t know how it happened. She aggravated me to that extent last night that she drove me to take a drop more than was good for toe, I snppose, and 1 didn’t wake till this afternoon, tTnd then she had been gone for hours—so the old cat tells me.” “She can’t intend to remain away ” “Can’t say, Pm sure! I think she threatened me with something of the kind last night. Didn't you hear her?” “Yob; but I never imagined she was in earnest. Women say so many things they don’t mean when they are in a passion. She’s gone off, probably, to try and frighten, you. She’s sure to come back again, if it’s only to see the child ” “But she has taken the child with her and every one of his clothes and nil her own, besides-every shilling we had in the house. It’s cruel of her,” says James, relapsing into the tearful state which so often succeeds drunkenness, “to leave, me all alone here without a blessed coin in my pocket, and no one to see after me. 1 didn’t think she could be so cruel!” William Moray whistles suggestively. “Listen to me, Jem,” he then says; “1 want to speak seriously to you. Toll me the truth. Is that woman your wife or not ?” “Of course she’s my wife!” “I see no ‘of course’ in the matter. After that terrible scrape you got into at Glasgow you disappeared altogether from society, apd. never communicated with yonr family for four or five years. Then you suddenly turn up in Lpudop, and I find you living with a lady who you say Is married to you, bpt who is not in the position from which men of opr standing usually choose their wives,” “Well! how could I help it?” grumbles James. “I couldn’t get any employment after that cursed business in Glasgow, and Delia can make money, and how are we to live else? You wouldn’t have me starve, would you? or break stones? If the governor hadn’t been so beastly unforgiving, and cut me- out of his will, 1 suppose we should have been living like other people. But anyway we were married fast enough at Chilton, in Berwickshire, apd we’ve got the certificate of it—at lopst, Delia has, for I suppose the jade has takpp it with her.” “Do you think tlmt she cap have got an inkling of where we took the boy last night, and carried him off in consequence?” “How ean I te|l? These women have ears all round* in my experience. l ’ “Because that is rather an important matter to decide. You see, the case is, James, you can’t afford to part with this woman just yet.” “How do you mean?” “Well, to speak plainly—you -won't support yourself, and I can’t support you. Therefore you must use every possible means to make her come back to you.” “But suppose she won’t come buck?” Whines James. “How can I make her? She earns enough money to support herself, and she knows how ill I am, that I am unable to do any work or to stand any fatigue; and if she stays away and you won’t make me an allowance, I shall' starve or go to the workhouse, for there’s nothing else left for me!” “Hush! dpn’t talk such nonsense,” interrupts his brother, authoritatively. “We piust force Mrs. Moray to return to yon ppd we piust dp it by means pf the philfl.’ “But she’s got the child.’’ “She has no claim to him. I think you told me he was seven years old on his last birthday. Ypp can legally take him from her agaip.’’ “Rut thpn f shall have to support hiip—and how pm I tp support myself?” “1 do wish yop would hear me tp the pnd, and not keep on interrupting so. The first thipg we must do is to find out your Wife’s present address. That is easily accomplished by having her followed home from the theater. Thep you pipst claim and take away the child. The mpther is certain to follow it.” “But suppose she doesn’t follow it?*“Then I am prepared to carry out what I proposed to you last night, though l cannot say that my wife fell ip very readily with my views. She considers the boy so plain. And lam sure sjie would never consent to receive hiip if she knew his mother was an actress, or even alive. I have represented him to her, therefore, as a motherless child of yours by an early and imprudept marriage, whom I am desirous, in the event of your death, of adopting as my son; and if she allows me to carry opt iny own views concerning him, it is as much as she will do. She's a good woman, but her opinions are decided; and as she has no children of her own, she is apt to be a little jealous of ray npproaching the subject. But it is very premature to talk of these things. Your wife appears fond of the child, and I believe you have only to claim him to secure her return to yop.” “Well, what am I to do till she comes back ? She’s taken all the money she had with her, and she'll draw her salary topiorrow evening, but not a cursed halfpenny of it shall I see. It’s cruel of her to leave a fellow jn such a plight!”' “Here! hold up, man! Don't snivel! l am going to settle the rent for you this week, and there’s a sovereign to go on with,” throwing It down on the table, “But for heaven's sake, Jem, don’t go and get drunk again to-night; for the woman of the house declared she’d turn you out Into the street if you did, and she looks every inch as if she’d keep her word!” The poor wretch makes some sort of promise to do as he is advised, and subsides again into his old despondent attitude. As William crosses the threshold and looks back at him, he thinks he has seldom seen a more pitiable object. CHAPTER VJ, On the fourth day after Mrs. Moray left her husband, she rushes suddenly into Mrs. Horton’s room, apd without preface or apology for the intrusion, gasps out: “They" have stolen my boy from mo' They have come by njght and stolen away my boy out of his very bed! Tell me how I can get him bock agalu, or be revenged upou them, for mercy’s sake, or I shall go mad!”

The woman looks as if she were going mad, as she paces up and down the apartment, choking with anger and emotion; her hair hanging down her back, her hat half off her head, and the rest of her clothes thrown on anyhow. “Della Moray, how can I or anybody else understand what you have to say, while yon keep trotting up and down the room in that fashion? Come and sit down like a good child, and tell me all about it, and then perhaps I may be able to advise you on the subject.” “I can’t sit down. I have not sat down since I went home last night and found he was gone. The cruel, heartless wretches! After all I have suffered, couldn’t they have left me my poor sickly child? Oh, Mrs. Horton! I wish I could die! I wish I could fall down on the carl»et this moment and remember nothing, and nobody ever again!” “That’s a sensible sort of wish to have when you know your boy wants a mother more than most boys. You’re talking in riddles to me, my dear, and it seems tik.-m” I shall have to unravel them ns I best may. However, I know so f.'.r that you made an effort to free yourself from that man, for as you didn't come here to learn what news I had for you from my solicitor, I walked round to your place on Friday and heard the whole story from your landlady.” _ The mention of the solicitor arrcstß Delia’s attention. _ ‘Oh, what did he say?” she inquires, eagerly. “Is there any hope for me? Shall I be allowed to live in peace with my boy?” “He’s over seven years old, and that old fool Bond tells me that after that age you have no legal claim to him.” “No legal claim to my own child that I brought into the world! No claim! I —his mother. No right to supply him with the necessaries of life which his father won’t work to do. Oh. Mrs. Horton! it cannot—cannot bo true!” 1 It is true, Delia Moray, nnd a more infamous law was never enacted. But Mr. Bond was clear enough on the subject. He says no law in the calendar is more stringent or binding In its effects. A married woman has no right to the custody of her child after it is seven years old.” “A married woman fit- Why a married woman?” cried Delia, quickly. “Because, if you were not married to that inhuman brute you might take your child away from him to-morrow, and no one would dare to say you ‘nay’; because if you were not married, yon would have the sole right to keep, pnd lovp, and project him, and you might imprison thp father for not contributing to fiis support. That’s the lpw of England, Dplip Moray] pnd you may take 4 and make whpt you like of it, for I am sure that po ppe with any sense would desire to dispute she possession with you. When that old fool Bond made it plain to me, I could have torn every hpir out of hjs hpad wjfh tfie greatest pleasure.” Meanwhile Dejip Moray, haying sank into a chair, is repeptiug in a stupefied manner to herself: “Not mine! My Willy not mine.” “Mrs. Timson told me that from what she could gather of the conversation that took place between that drunken husband of yours and his brother, the day you left home, she thinks when they took Willy out with them the evening before, it was to William Moray’s house —and I expect that is where you will find him pow.” - “At Brixton?” “Yes, at Brixton—if thnt is where thp man lives. What is the address?*’ “I don’t know. I have neyer been thcpc. The William Moraj'H don’t think me good enough to visit them.” “It is easily found! Jnst hand me down that postoffice directory. Here it is: ‘William Mprny, Esq. the Fjrs, Gqdalmipg Park, rfiad, Brhxr top, S. J3.’ *’ “But*do yop really thipk J pap gq ther o '-” asks Delia, jopking half planned at thp idea. “Go there! Of course! Whpt js so prevent you? You’re not afraid of the wqql merchant’s wife? Go there boldly pud demand your child, and if you don't get him, you will at pH events get the chpuce of telling your qwp story.” “Put you spy my husband hps the law on his side.” “Quite true; but you have a greater power on your side unless, which I strongly disbelieve, Mr. William Moray Intends to charge himself with bis brother’s future support. He has the law, my dear-, but you have the money!” ,

CHAPTER YH. As Pelia, fortifipd by her friend's last words, speeds upqp hp'r way to Brixtoq, she feels a different creature. After many inquiries and several wrong turnings, she arrives at last before the large stuccq building standing back frqm thp road, with a earripgp sweep ip frqpt of jt, qn the gates of whjefi are inscribed, in bqld characters, “Thp Firs.” It is Sunday, pnd there are nqt many shpbbily drpssed ppoplp about. De|ia fancies she sees the Jace curtpin pt thp window of ope pf the lower rooms ffIOYP, as though sqmebftdy wpre wptchipg her pppropch from within; but she marches bravely up the steps, pud gives a bold, determined double knock. A footman answers It, and she asks for Mrs. Moray. The man expminps hpr inquisitively pnd ushers her into the drawing room, which is on the same flopr. An interval pf five qr tea minutes occurs while Mrs. William Moray is arranging her laces apd ribbons nnd wiping the effects of luncheon frpm her ample bust where the crumbs will settle, and the mother in thp drawing room is wopdeying how much lqnger she ip to be kept in suspense, But then the dining roqm doqr opens pud closes, pnd }n another minut» the drawing room door has followed its example, apd the lady qf the bopse, arrayed in a plain colored satin and velvet dress, enters. Delia glances at her sisterrin-law apd fepls her heart sink and her hopes of sympathy vanish. There is nothing ip Mys, Moray’s facp but hardpess apd vulgarity. She is p wonian pf abopt fiye-and-thirty, stout pnd ungrccefpl, with small eyes, coarse features and limbs and p complete absence of good breeding. The elder Mrs. Moray is completely taken. pbpek as Delia tells who shp is.

“I don’t kpow ip the least what you're talking pbout,” she says, looking Delia steadfastly in the face, “There hain’t such p person as Mrs, James Moray—leastways, not connected With hour family.” “Ilavp they dared to tell you that story, then!” exclaims Delia, excitedly; “dared to say I am pot married to him? Oh» Mrs. Moray, it is a falsehood—a wicked, cruel falsehood! I have my marriage certificate at home, apd can prove to you that I am James’ wisp. Where is your husband? He knows me well enough. Let him cpmc and say to my face thpt I pm not his brother’s wife.” “Oh, that is hcasily settled, young wcun* an,” says the other, edging toward the door, pnd to’lng not to look uncomfortable; “for Mr. Japies Moray’s wife has bepn dead for hover so long, as I cap tOS* tify. However, If you wish to spe my bitsbpnd, I think it will be the best for hail parties, for I am quite buneqqal myself to contending with so hextraordiuary p ldnterruptkra. And hon the Sabbath, l ‘I am sorry I should have bad to disturb

tress of mind about my boy. I cajbe borne from the theater last- night him gone from toy takes* swaystolen—and not a word even To Jet me know where, he is.” . “Yon came bom? from where?’ demands Mrs- William Moray, horrified. ‘•From the theater where I {day—the Corinthian. lam an actress. I support myself and Willy, and have supported my husband for years past by my own labor. It is hard that the only requital he can make me is to steal my child, and that his brother helps him in the robbery !” “Willgum; WillgnmP’ calls Mrs. Moray from the open door. She has drawn her purple satin skirts closer around her as the awful truth of Delia’s profession is made patent to her sensitive understanding, and now she summons her husband at once to her aid. Her ears must have deceived her. It cannot be true. The mother of the child now /sitting at her luncheon table, and the wife df her husband’s brother, an actress! and actually standing within a few yards of her. If Mrs. Moray were good at fainting, which she is 'not, she would certainly drop down now. But she grows red as a peony In the face instead, and bawls, “WiHgum!” at the top of her voice, and in another moment William Moray answers the summons. (To be continued.!

GREAT DEMAND FOR PENNIES.

Philadelphia Mint Tarns Out 4,000* 030 a Month. The most useful and hard-working member of the coin family consists of 95 per cent, of copper and 5 per cent, tin and zinc, and bears on its face the legend “one cent” It doesn’t require a person of advanced age or long memory to recall the time when the'humble coin was practically unknown west of the Mississippi. Now its use is wellnigh universal, and the demand for it is increasing: so rapidly that the Philadelphia mint is compelled to turn out 1-cent pieces at the rale of nearly 4,000,000 per mouth to keep up the supply. Two recent devices have been largely responsible for the increased use of our only copper coin. One is the penny-4n-the-slot machine, which has spread over the land like the locusts of Egypt within the past two or three years. A single automatic machine company takes In 500,000 pennies a day. As there isn’t a cross-roads village in the country that hasn’t a <?hewing-gum, kinetoscope, music or weighing machine operated in this way, the number of coins required to keep them- all going is enormous. The other invention responsible for the rise of the cent is the “bargain counter,” The craze'for 49-epnt and 90-cent bargains makes work for a lot of pennies. A sulntreasury official says: “All through the summer the pennies accumulate on our hands, but when cold weather comes and the children get back to school and retail trade revives there is a great demand for them. The holidays demand a lot of pennies, and with the approach of Christmas our cept pile pelts away amazingly: There is no'better indication of lively trade conditions than the cent. During periods of dullness they always accumulate pp our hands, and when trade revives they begin to circulate rapidly again.” The figures of distribution kept by the mjnt are interesting as showing the localities where pennies are most }n use. bast year the demand was greatest from Pensylvahia, which took over 11,000,000 of them. New York Was the second largest customer, adding 9,000,000 to her supply.—Philadelphia Press.

A Bit of History.

The terra, “ra'iddle of the road” Populists, had its* origin in Williamson Oounty, 'fespas. The year 1802 was the first ths populists, or party, as It v/as thep ppljed, became a fat tor in TCxafi politics. In that year William Phaw, pf Qpprgetqwn, conceived the notion of becoming a candidate for justice of the pepce. “Uncle Bill,” as he was palled, avoided a direct expression of opiniop cohcterning the new, party, but in the heat of the canvass .a mass ipeeting was called, at which the candidates were expected to declare themselves. Unclp Billy indiscreetly attended the meetipg, fin'd as it, was drawing to ft .close was oftUetl.to the platform. Be made ft few brief wp-commKtal remarks. bttt some secret enemy- called: What's your politics?” This was the fated question that he had wished to avoid,-but there was no escape pow, so, facing the people, he said: ‘‘Gentlemen, you will always find Uncle,Bill In the middle of rhe-road/’ His happy evasion caught the people, and he was triumphantly .ejected as the middle of the roader- When tlsp St. Louis Populist convention nominated Bryan, Marion Wdliama, editor pf a populist paper In Georgetown- the action o f. his party, find through his party advocated the cftUlttg of ft convention and the, naming of another candidate who would be, as he expressed it, ‘Uike Uncle Billy Shaw, strictly in the middle of the road.” The sobriquet as applied by Williams was taken up by the press and very quickly became a well-defined term in current politics.

Contributory Negligence. 1

Thp answer to a complaint that the owner of a cistern had negligently alloweda boy to fall into it rt%.mtly set UP tfe fact that When the plaintiff fell in v l# and a pegrp bpy were trying to drojvn a stray cat'in the cistern after they had removed the cover, “making a. fine opening for. the cat, also for ;the plaintiff.” The plaintiff’s own negligence is alleged as follows: “The plaintiff was guilty pf gross and willful neglect ip thus tackling that pat by himself on the top of said cistern near to said opening without having first put the pat in a bootleg, head down, according to the established and recognized rules of procedure among all intelligent boys engaged in the honorable enterprise of drowning stray eats in the wells and cisterns of the neighbors nud their parents. The. defendant says the plaintiff was guilty of gross and willful neglect in not letting the negro boy first try his band on the pat, and the defendant says the negro boy was guilty of criminal neglect ip this, that be saw the great danger to which the plaintiff was exposed in his fight with the cat on the top of the cistern In time to haye avoided danger, but negligently failed to take a hand against the eat.*’—Omaha Bee. The eligibility of a woman to election as a county clerk Is sustained in State, Crow vs. Hottetfer (Mo.), 38 L- R. 4- 208, where the Constitution provides that no person shall be chosen to office “who Is not a resident of the United States and who shall not have resided -in this State one year,” although masculine pronouns are used in respect to the subject of. officers. The annotation to this case makes an elaborate review of the decisions as to the right women Htr hold office. The memory Is a treasure to whom we must give funds, if we would draw the assistance we need.—Rowe. ■. —J Pon’t dp things so you’jl, ha VO to do them over to-moirow.

A WONDERFUL ALASKAN FISH.

Dried, It May Be Used •• a Candle, and the Remains Are Eatable. Those , men who are engaged in the profitable business of seal fishing in the Behring Sea and Pacific Ocean, along the shores of Alaska and British Columbia, hare found that a species of fish of the smelt family inhabit- these waters. These fish, in much the same way as the herring, by the irresistible force of Instinct, are annually led to approach the shores for the purpose of depositing their spawn in the shallow wafers. They arrive in vast shoals, keeping closely together, and are caught by the fishermen with nets and lines. Each of these nets is 150 feet long and 20 feet deep, and along the upper edge is fastened to a series of cork floats. When the net is to be shot a large buoy is attached to the end of the drit rope, the buoy is thrown overboard and the sails set. As the boat dashes away from the spot the nets, which have been attached to the drift rope, are thrown successively overboard, until all are paid out and hang in the water like a net wall. The strain of the buoy at one end of the drift rope and the boat at the other keeps the rope straight and the net upright As the fish come swimming along they are arrested by the net which they can not see on account of the thin twine of which it is made, and of the large meshes, which are about 2% inches in diameter. The head slips through the meshes, but the middle of the body is large and can not pass. When the fish attempts to recede, Its open gill covers become hitched in the meshes, and so retain it in that uncomfortable position till the uet is drawn In. The fish Is also a voracious biter : and can be caught almost as soon as the line can be baited and thrown overboard.

On being examined, the fish are found to be of a rich green on the back, variegated with a deep blue, while the abdomen Is silvery white, with golden reflections. The fish are so extremely fat, that on being held up to the light they are almost transparent, the backbone of the fish being seen to stand out perfectly against the light. The fish live for some considerable time after being taken out of the water. After the fish are caught they are dried and stored away until the long winter months arrive, when It gets dark early and the Alaskan Is snowed up. Here comes an opportunity for using them. Not a bit at a loss for light, the Alaskan takes one of these dried fish, Inserts its tail Into a crack in his rough wooden table, and lights Its nose. The fish burns with a bright and steady flame of about three-candle power, giving a clear, white light and a very considerable amount of heat, A fairly large fish will burn for a period of three hours. The scientific explanation Is extremely simple. The vertebrae which form the backbone of the fish are found to be largely formed of phosphorus, which not only causes It to ignite easily, but also accounts for the strength of the flame and the heat developed. The substance of the fish, which consists so largely of fat, acts as a retarder to the rapid burning of the vertebrae In precisely the'same way as the tallow acts in an ordinary candle. The fat of the fish Is largely composed of stearine, which Is also the chief chemical constituent of the tallow used for making candles, and which gives them their firmness and consistency. Valuable as is the fish for its lightgiviug properties, it also has Its value as a food. If necessary, It can he eaten after having been used as a candle, It then being simply smoked, or It can be boiled or cooked In the ordinary manner, In whichever way it is treated, to a hungry man it servos as a very welcome and appetizing dish. In flavor it is much like the smelt, having the same sweet taste, but Is much fatter. Still another use to which It can bo put Is as a substitute for cod liver oil, which, }f taken in sufficient quantity, by aiding the natural heat of the body, proves an excellent protective against the severe eold. The oil Is obtained from the fish by Immersing them In cold water and squeezing, the product obtained being almost equal In quality to the genuine cod liver oil.—New York Herald.

Starving Out a Debtor.

Many queer stories are told of the persistence and clever devices of the collectors of bad debts;'but even a professional humorist would find It hard to invent anything, more absurd than the method actually in use among the Mahrattaa—at least, if travelers’- tales are to he trusted. In their country—so they say—when a creditor cannot get his money and begins to regard the debt as - desperate, he proceeds to sit “dhurna” upon his debtor—that Is, he squats down at the door of his victim's tent, and thereby, in some mysterious way, becomes master of the situation. Nq one can go in or out except by his sanction. He neither himself eats nor allows his debtor to eat, and this extraordinary starvation contest Is kept up until either the debt is paid or the creditor gives up the siege, and in the latter case the debt" is held to be cancelled.

The laws by which the “dhurna” Is regulated are as well defined as those of any other custom whatever. When it Is meant to be very strict, the claimant takes with him a number of his followers, who surround the tent, and sometimes even the bed, of his adversary, to make sure that he obtains no morsel of food. The code, however, prescribes the same abstinence for tbo man who imposes the ordeal; and, of course, the stronger stomach wins the day, A similar custom was onee so prevalent in the province and city of Benares that the Brahmins were sometimes systematically put through a course of training in order to enable them to endure a long time without partaking of food.

The Captain’s Company,

A wealthy lady, living near a garrison town, sent an officer an Invitation to take tea with her. The note began, “The pleasure of Capt Armstrong’s Company Is requested,” and the answer ran accordingly: “Enlisted men Jones and Lee have been detailed to do guard duty, but the remainder of Capt, Armstrong’s company accept with pleasure.”

Safest Lightning Rods.

Electricians have lately been experimenting on the efficacy of lightning rods, thare being a difference of opinion whether a thin or a thick lightning rod should he employed. But according to actual observations made on rods during the heavy storms, a stout rod, one having a large diameter of metal, is considered to be the safer. When a beer saloon Is not taken care of, it soon smells as bad as a dirty grocery store. i . The titled foreigner who courts an American heiress usually talks bronfiUMkit i■ * e. • £•* - ' ... awsuy. *

PUT LIFE INTO WAX,

Making Colli Demands Skill In An* atoipy, Drawing and Modeling. “How long does it take to -make one of these?” said the manufacturer in response to an inquiry. “Well, it depends entirely upon circumstances. It is a mechanical operation, the finishing ofT of a wax model, as true of life as this,” and he pointed to the bust of a laughing child, whose rosy neck and bright eyes were framed by clustering curls. “To make these one must have studied anatomy as well as drawing and modeling. We begin In the same way as a sculptor would to make a statue. After the wax has cooled the eyes are put In, the face is ‘made up,’ as theatrical folks say, and the wig is fastened on, and the wooden body is shaped. We make all our hands and feet from life, and they cost about $lO. “If we have an order for an entire figure we always model it from life. The life-size wax figures of infants are among the finest things we manufacture, and they add much to the attractiveness of a show window, as wqs illustrated last winter, when a Washington street retail dealer displayed one during the holiday season. The head and shoulders, such as are seen in the milliner’s windows, cost from S4O to $45. The wig makes considerable difference In the price, as we use the best hair, and It is expensive, especially the natural blond, which is scarce. The children’s heads cost S2O, or thereabouts. “All the finishing off imaginable,” he continued, “would not make a figure stand the test of a season behind the glare of a glass unless the wax has a natural pink tinge. The reason some of the models look so deathly Is because the wax is bad and not properly colored. We use beeswax, slightly colored, and flesh tints are put on In addition.”—Boston Transcript.

Held a Burglar by Sitting on Him,

George Kuntz of 486 Grove Btreet, Jersey City, found a burglar in an adjoining room one morning, on hands and knees turning over the contents of a drawer in a sideboard. Before the fellow could rise Kuntz placed a chair over his head and shoulders, pinning him to the floor. While he sat on the chair his wife threw open a window and shouted for a policeman.

Sanitary Reform In Bombay.

The Indian Government has formulated an Important scheme for the sanitary* reformation of Bombay City. The lands will be vested in a nominated body, which will be empowered to lay new streets through crowded localities and to erect dwellings at low rents for the poor. The scheme involves an addition to the municipal rates of not more than 2 per cent.

Shake Into Your Shoes

Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smarting feet aud 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, nervous, aching feet. Try U today. Sold by all druggists and Bhoe 6tores. By mail for 25c lu stamps. Trial package FREE. Address Allen 8. Olmsted, Le ltoy, N. Y.

Excusing Him.

“I must confess,” said Willie Wlshington, “that I often waste time worrying about nothing.” “Well,” said Miss Cayenne, benignly, “self-preservation is the first law of nature.”—Washington Star.

Lane’s Family Medicine

Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acta gently on the liver arod kidneys. Cures sick headache. Price 25 and 50c. * Persons residing in the District of Columbia have no vote there, but they may vote in the State in which they claim a legal residence. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Sranr for Chlldrm teething: sol tens the gums, reauoaa inlaaamatioo. allays pain, cures wind colic. % oaatfi a bottle. WANTED.— Case of hart Health that RIP-AN-S will not benefit. Send S cents to Ripans Chemical Oo_ New York, for 10 samples and 1.000 testimonials.

Ml A Beautiful Ml 8 Present 1381 free for a few months to aH users of the MofflßlfffifSlHK HH Celebrated ELA STIC STARCH, (Flatiron IKjHI Brand). To induce you to try this brand of 9 starch,#o that you may find out for yourself Mm that •“ dAiras for itß “periodty and econGEO my we true * the makers have had prepared, expense, a series of four SB Hr GAME PLAQUES exact reproductions of the 9*0,000 originals by MariOe, which will be gives you ABSOLUTELY FREE by your grocer eo conditions named below. These Plaques are 40 Inches in circumference, are free of any suggestion of advertising whatever, and will ornament the most elegant apartment. No manufacturing concern ever before gave away such valuable presents to its customers. They are not for sale at any price, and can be obtained only in the manner specified. The subjects are; American Wild Docks, American Ptisas—t, English Quail, English snlpe. The birds are handsomely embossed and stand out natural as life. Each Plaque is bordered with a band of gold. ELASTIC STARCH IhovTo Set Them: has been the standard for 33 years, AH t mrrh>nnTn W ttiras m cent or TWENTY-TWO MILLION packages of this brand were sold gjvf.ter £ e l r 08, O B, 0 * last year. That’s how good it Is. pl*qo*» wluTot be wot by‘mail. They can be obtained only from yonr ASK YOUR DEALER grocer. to show you the plaques and tell E?d*y Grocer Keeps Elastic Starch, you about Elastic Starch. Accept ~- no substitute. I '

Lazy Liver **■ have been trouble* a great deal with a torpid liver, »nieb produces eonstlpntion. I found CASCARETS to be nil you claim for them, and secured such relief the first trial, that I purchased another supply and was completely cured. I shall only be too glad to reoommend Casoaretn whenever the opportunity Is presented.” J. a Smith. 29n0 Susquehanna Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. IS-TO-BAC JL > > , ~ «*,*£? . 4

The Enormous Gold Product of 1898.

From South Africa, the Klondike and Australia gold is being shipped in large quantities. This year’s output will nearly double thatofaoy previous twelve months. The sales of Hoetetter’s Stomach Bitten •re also increasing very fast. This famous remedy will case dyspepsia, indigestion, constipation, nervousness and weakness.

The Light that Failed.

“Now,” said the young man, as he crossed the room and seated himself by her side, “we arc all alone, and you surely will not refuse me just one little kiss, will you?’ “Oh,” she timidly replied, “I can’t, see it in that light.” Then he stepped over to the chandelier, and with a simple twist of the wrist—presto! change! and the light had disappeared.

G. A. R.—Cincinnati Encampment.

The Monon Route, with its four traina daily, is the best and most comfortable liue to Cincinnati. The rate will be only one cent a mile. Tickets on sale Sept. 3,4, 5 and 6, good to return Sept. 6to 13, inclusive, and by extension to Oct. 2. Send four cents in stamps for the Monon’s beautifully illustrated book on the Cincinnati Encampment. Frank J. Reed, G. P. A., Chicago. L. E. Sessions, T. P. A., Minneapolis, Minn.

Strangely True.

“It hardly seems meet, said the cornfed philosopher, “yet it is undoubtedly' true that many a young woman is willing to trust with her heart a young man that no butcher will trust for a pound of liver."—lndianapolis Joyroal.

Wheat 40 Cents a Bushel.

How to grow wheat with big profit at 40 cents aud samples of Salzer’s Red Cross (80 Bushels per acre) Winter Wheat, Hye, Oats, Clover, etc., with Farm Seed Catalogue for 4 cents postage. JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO., La Crosse, Wis. O N U

How to Become Famous

Ambitious innocent—What la the first thing you would advise me to do In gaining the attention of the public? Sophisticated pessimist—Bribe some cigar manufacturer to name a brand of rank five-centers after yon.

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