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THE REGULARCOMMUNICATIONS : of Ligonier Lodge No, 185 F. & A, M. are held on the first Monday evening in each month. Masonic Brothers are Anvited to attend. ABE GOLDSMITH, W.M, 0. F. ERBER, Secretary. . 35 K O.T. M. Regular meetings First and ®¢ Third Tuesday of each month, Best beneficialorder in the world. . 1 : C G. KEEnyn, Com, W, G&.BrOowN, Record Keeper. 38-y1 G . R.~Stansbury Post N 0.125. Meetron * .ne first and third Fridays of each month at 7:00 p.m. AllG. A. R, comrades invited tq attend. J. E. BRADEN, Com. THOMAS PRICKETT, Adjutant. 42 %0f | K OF P. Ligonier Lodge No. 128. S * Meetsevery Thursday evening at £ % &:000’clock. All'Knights who may be - “inourtown are invited-to attend. o ; C. G. Nog, C. C. FRA} « BLAOK,K.of R. & 8. g l 0.0. t, Excelsior Lodge No, T A e 267 meets everr\i Tuesday evenRS ing. ORLANDO HARSH, N. G. GBo. MCMASTER, Sec. MARION MOOKE, V. G.

W A.SHOIE ! . PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, LIGONIER . . . - . INDIANA Office over Reed’t Drugstore - ilesidena Main Street. ~ R imokt 5.3 S RAI R 5 BT swty E W. KNEPPER. @ PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON L 3 . Will attend promptly to all calls entrustedtc him either day or night, Office over Eldred’s Drug Store Building, second floor. " Residence on South Martin street, Ligonier,lndiana. (48t E M. COWLES, ‘ : ° HOMEOPATHIC : PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office over U. S, Express. Residence. 6th and : Cavin streets, LIGONIER, INDIANA, J ‘A.SNAPP, M. D, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, ‘Office over Decker’s store. Residence in the ‘Kinney property, South Cavin street, - TRGOMIEN. & - < . . THDIANA. - (3, A WHIPPY, M. D. ' : —HOMOEOPATHIST,— ) (Successor to Dr, W, E. Newton.) Office and residence over Graves’ Grocery and p - Bakery, o LIGONIER, o e -~ INDIANA. R DENT] Rooms over Post Office, Southwest Corner of Main and Mitchell Streets, opposite the Kelly House, Kendaliville, All : Work Warrented, .y 'H. PRICKETT A & 3 ATTORNEY AT LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC 1 + Weir block over Prickett’s shoe store . LIGONIER, - INDIANA, i el ee o s PA, et YW, J. HOGUE e: 2 3 ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, ‘ - OFFICE OVER SOL. MIER’S BANK, WMGONIER, - - - - INDIANA

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i ‘Qur Albion Column BYSORIVENRK - Did you turn over a new leaf? C. A. Howard is on the sick list. Vet Mull:n was on the sick list last week. | : J. R, Bunyan was at Kendallville Sunday. :

A bappy New Year to all readers of Thne BANNER. A. J. Parks of Goshen was in the city Monday.

Editor McDonald of Ligonier was in town Monday. Miss Lizzie Miser is visiting her parents at Auburn,

~ Nell Rapp is holding down a case in the Democrat office. :

C. E. Miller was enjoying the sights at Chicago last week. . _

Master Hubert Knox is the guest of friends at Fort Wayne.

Miss Clara Parks of Goshen is visiting relatives in this city, Miss E. Kate Easly was visiting relatives in Chicago last weck. W. M. Forshey and wife visited with friends at Ligonier Sunday. E. R. Gesaman of Toledo is visiting his sister, Mrs. C. G. Kuhn. ‘Miss Laura and James Coats are visiting relatives at Elwood. :

E. 8, Bowman will move in the rooms over his grocery store.

- John Cockley has been under the wedther for the past few days. - Snow shoveling has been the occupation of many of our citizens. .

W. N. Voris has been under the weather for the past few wecks.

Rev. C. B. Wilcox was visiting in Michigan a portion of last week. - Claude Braden is counter jumper at Williamson’s new meat market. .

Master Ray Wrigley has been under the doctor’s care for several days.

W. O. Allen and wife of Fostoria are the guests of E. Walters and wife. Miss Anna-and- Willie Stroops visited relatives at Fort Wayne last week, A Mr. Thumma of Shauck’s, O, is the guest of A, J. Singrey and wife.

Harry D. Stone went to Schooleraft, Mich.. last Thursday to visit friends,

Braden Franks of Elkhart township was in town on business last Saturday. Mrs. Ellen Fleming of Lexington, 0., 18 yisiting the family of E. P. Ray. Rev. H, E. Butler preached at the Chambers school house Sunday afternoon. v

The D. of R. lodge will elect officers for the ensuing year next Weduesday mght: Ll e o

The ladies of the U. B. church of this city haye organized a [orcas society. - . ' The Albion - Lumber Co. have our thanks for an 1896 calendar which is.a iBy. G-B.'l‘eachem examination was held Saturday. Twenty-two applicants were present. _ The beautiful snow came a Week too late to make genuine Christmas weather, J. E, Niswander of Brimfield was in attendance at the -ball last Thursday evening. . .

Mrs, J. W, Greene of Newark, Ohio, is the guest of her son, J. S. Greene, and wife. : Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Ross were the guests of Recorder Miller and family Christmas.

Mrs, L. C Ingraham and daughter were visiting relatives at Bryan, Ohio, last week.

T. A. Hoffman went to Columbus, Ohio, Monday in the interest of Hoffman & Co. Turn over a new leaf—subscribe for THE BANNER and quit borrowing it of your neightor. : ; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Earle of Wawaka have been yigiting in town for the past week.

~ W. M. Griffin of Brimfield was calling on his fiiends in this city several days last week. . Miss Edna Hays was attending the State Teachers’ association at Indianapolis last week, |

Misses Joe Adair and Bessie Golden of Columbia City are the guests of Mrs. Fannie Stone.

. Rev. G."T. Butler, pastor of the U. B. mission at Chicago, is visiting his family in this city. . Miss Anna Graves was visiting with her sister, Mrs. L. W. Welker, for a few days last week. Mrs. O. J. Black has been sick . for the past week, but is improving nicely at the present time. . Miss Minnie Munger who has been in Chicago for some time is at home during the holidays. Miss Maude Lash of Kendallville was visiting her parents in this city a portion of last week. Mrs. M. D. Stanley and children of Avilla were yisiting her mother Mrs. E. J. Banham last week. Mrs. D. B. Gerber of Ligonier,K was visiting her daughter Mrs. W. H. Hart and family Christmas. Mrs. Joshua Sweet is reported to be seriously ill. Her many friends wish her a speedy recovery. : J. W. Eaton and wife of Garrett were in town Thursday eyening attending the grand ball. ‘ ~ Mr. and Mrs. Harold Franks of South Whitley are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Franks. Mrs. 8. F. Spohn and echildren of Goshen were visiting relatives in this city a portion of last week. ! ~ E. F. Coats went to Elwood Sunday eveninf. being called there by the illness of his son, James Coats. e The I. 0. O F, elected officers last LvTuesdu’y evening. We will be able to give a full account in our next. : _Seymour Poyser a former resident of this place but now living at Argos, has been the guest of relatives here, - Miss I,:%ﬁq§ie" and Cora Hart of Auburn were the guerts of their brother and family several days last week. _ Mra. John Q. Knox left Tuesdsy for

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Mansfield, Ohio, where she intends visiting relatives for several weeks. Elias Croft, the miller at the Paragon roller mills, visited his family at Mansfield, O , the fore part of this week.

Mrs. D. E. Gonser and lhittle son. of Ashley have been the guests of G. Schwab and wife for the past week. Elza Shaffer and family went to Angola Tuesday where they will be the guests of J. W. McCrory and family. Luke H. Wrigley went to Richmond Saturday eyening to visit his mother, He returned home Monday evening. Mrs. George Northam and son Burl of L.aOtto were visiting her parents, Charles Harrison and wife, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Shirk of South Bend were visiting the latter’s parents, Charles Harrison and wife, last week.

Sheriff Simons has purchased several new sleigchs and when he gets afier a man he might as well give himself up.

Miss Addie Shirk who has been visiting friends 1n Albion and vicinity returned to her home at South Bend Monday. ; [ Fitch Speuncer and family of Wauseon, Obio, have been visiting their parents D. E. A. Spencer and wife for the past week. - Miss Winnie Johnston accompanied by a Miss Seybold was visiting her parents, J. T. Johnston and wife a part of lagt week, W

James Coats who was visiting relatives at Elwood was taken seriously ill, Sunday. It is to be hoped that he will coon recover. i

‘Mrs. B. F. Croft gaye a reception.to a numbér of her lady friends Thursday that was reported to have been a brilliant and select affair. ;

- Miss Zan Welker has been visiting her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Graves, at Kendallyille for a few days during the past week. - The condition of Mrs. Harry Prentice remains .about the same. She is aftlicted with malarial feyer. Dr. Reiff is the attending physician, :

Dr. J. W. Morr has removed his office ilnto the rooms over Bowman’s grocery. Tammany now occupies the room formerly used by him. . The M E choir gave a musicale at the residence of Charles M. Clapp Tuesday evening, :December 31. A fine program was rendered.

Mrs. M. S. Foster was visiting her son Clint and family at Milford last week. Their little daughter had been seriously ill with lung fever. A

An indoor ball team has been organized and are practicing. Specta tors will soon be admitted. The games will be played in the opera house. A. Thompson and daughter of Oak Shade, Ohio, haye been visiting their motl{:r and grandmother, Mrs. John Johnston, for the past few weeks,

Mrs. P.erce Haney was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. J. W. Edwards at South Whitley last week. She was accompanied home by her son Elmer. Protracted meeting commenced at the U. B. chureh Sunday eyening. Rev. G. T, Butler will assist the pastor for a short time. Everybody inyited. The grand ball given by the Albion dancing club at the opera house last Thursday is said to have been a suecessful one; Jall present enjoyed themselves. : let A number from Albion attended the cantata given by the Sabbath school at Port Mitchell Monday night and report. themselves as well pleased with the exercises. .

All of the entertainments at the opera house last week were largely attended. The people of Albion always give a home entertainment good patronage. A very pleasant family reunion occurred at the residence of Mrs. E. J. Bonham Christmas. The children were all present and each one enjoyed themselyes hugely. Court will commence again Monday. T'here will be quite a heavy criminal docket. Probably the Hotel de Simon will lose sonie of the occupants it has entertained so long, It was rumored last week that Chas. Stoops of Toledo and Miss Irene Reed of this place were married in the former city on Christmas day, but intimate friends deny the rumor, John Buchanan who was employed in Hoffman & Co.’s last summer but who has been in St. Louis the past four mohths returned to Albion Monday and will remain here during the summer, Rev. S. L. Shirley has received a call from the official board of the Presbyterian church at Columbia City. He has numerous friends in this city who will be glad to learn that he will remain in Albion. : ; - Douglass Harvey and Miss Agnes Fried were united in marriage at Kendallville, Sunday evening by Rey. J. J. Coleman pastor of the Wesleyan Methodist of this city who unite with us in extending con gratulations. The numerous friends of Miss Grace Lash will be glad to learn that she is improving in health and strength and hope that she may be completely and permanently restored to health. She has been an invalid for a long time and confined to her room. ; Riley Smith had the knight rank conferrred on him at the K. of P, lodge last Thursday evening. The Wolf Lake lodge was present and did the work in an acceptable and efficient way, It was a very interesting meeting and all in attendance voted ita good thing to be there. - o 0 ~ All who were in attendance at the ‘Elresenta.tion 'of the operetta, “‘The Merry Milkmaids’’ given by the M. E, choir at the opera house last Saturday ‘evening pronounce it an excellent en’tettainment in eyery respect. It was beautifully staged and allpparticipant 8 acquitted themselves with credit. The follow;ing murria%e licenses haye been issued by Clerk Bothwell for the week ending December 31: Peter F. Wmok to Catherine Beck; | William H. Hardman to Mollie Wagner; Frank Rounds to mﬁfi-zwﬁ 3 Thoms G. Wilkinson. to Florenos A.

Beezley; S. Douglas Harvey to Agnes D. Fried. - -

The Lutheran Sabbath school presented the cantata ‘‘Santa Claus and the Fairies’’ at the opera house on Christmas in au efficient manner. Each one performed tbeir parts in a way that gave credit to themselves as well as the one that drilled them. The music was good and all present were delighted. : The following officers were elected by Albion Lodge No. 223, K, of I’. last Thursday evening for the ensuing term: Leshe Kingsbury, C. C.; Geo. W. Worden, V. C; Chas. I}‘ Gatwood, Prelate; M. C. Beck, K. of R. and S ; C. W. Beck, M. of F.; John Epp, M. of E.; Lee Danner, M. of A.; G. W. Smith, M. of W.;.Will Cole, L. G.; Elmer Cole, 0. G.; F-'P. Ingraham, Trustee

The children and grandchildren of J. E. Hoffman and wite assembled at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Hoyt, Christmas day. An excellent time was had by all present. A Christmas tree was one of the features of the occasion. Those present were A. Hoffman and family of Goshen, Mrs. H. G. Garmire and daugliter of Hudson, T. A. Hoffman and family, M. R. Hoyt and family and J. E. Hoffman and wife of Albion. i !

Married. at Lafayette, Dec. 25, 1895, Leonard Dane Worden to Lela Irene Brown. Mr. Worden is one of Albion’s model young men and is at present one of the instructors in the pharmaceutical department of Purdue umyersity. His bride is one of the brightes: and most charming young ladies of Lafayette and is highly spoken of by all her acquaintances. They have a host of friends who unite with us in wishing them a happy and successful journey on the matrimonial sea

The cantata “The Toymakers of Wonderland,” given by the U. B. Sabbath school at the opera house Tuesday evening was a success artistically as well as finaneially. The children showed the result of careful and able drilling due to the efforts of R 1. Butler. ‘T'hose participating are entitled to congratulation un presenting such a pleasing and refined entertainment. Many encomiums were heard in reference to its presentation, This being the first attempt: for the U. B. Sunday school it is hoped that it will not be the last :

* 8. E. Alvord is making good progress on his history of Noble county and it will soon be in the hands of the printer. Nothing will be left undone to make 1t a t?pograpbical beauty. ‘There 18 no other man in Noble county that is so competent nor that can clothe his thoughts and sentences in purer or more correct English than Mr. Alvord. It is fortunate for the people of this county that a persony so able should undertake this hard task for when completed it can be accepted as being authentic and reliable in every sense of the word. The mail that was thrown off of train No. 14 at this station Tuesday night of last week was damaged to a considerable extent. The railroad company should make some repairs on their grounds at this station as in stormy weather it is nearly an impossibility for the mail pGuch to be thrown off without alighting in a pool of water or a mud puddle. It is a disgrace to Albion, a menace to good health and is discourteous to the pub lic. A carload of cinders unloaded at this place would remedy the matter to a great extent. It should be done immediately. . {

A number of the citizens. of Albion have claimed that there was an abundance of gas or oil in the earth under the city notwithstanding the failure in putting down a well.” The odor of gas has been noticeable at divers times and that it came from the defunct well no one doubted. One day last week Harry, the son of J. D. Black, happening to be near the abandoned well heard a whistling sound issuing from the shaft. He lighted a match and applied it to the opening when a flame of good size flashed up.: We think that gas or oil could be found in paying quantities if the proper means were taken to secure it, Albien could be enjoying natural gas as well as not. . The Silversmith of Arxansas January in the central west is usually a cold, blustering winter month, and people who are sensitive to catarrhal troubles feel the weather keenly and the sufterings of some are intense. It is pleasant to assure our friends who hayé nasal catarrh in any of its many forms that a simple remedy will instantly relieye and completely cure them. It costs but 50c. and is knewn as Pretzinger’s Catarrh Balm, You cannot make any mistake in using it. It is not a secret remedv. The formula is well known. J. H. Powell, the well known silver smith of Sulphur Rock, Arkansas, for seven years was a victim of catarrh of the head and throat in the severest form yet one jar of Pretzinger cured him and he had previously used every other remedy, several guaranteed, although proyed worthless. He is so enthusiastic that he will guarantee cure to any one and he offers to return the 50c. 1f the Balm does not do all it claims. A small sample bottle of this remedy can be obtained by sending a 2¢. stamp to Pretzinger Bros, Chemists, Dayton, Ohio. Piles of people having piles, but De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve will cure them. When promply applied it cures scalds and burns without the slightest pain. E. E. Reed. - Backbone, Gimlet and Mink are three Kentucky postoffices, Dodo, Bantam and Reyenge are across the great valley in Ohio. " 1f suffering with piles. 1t will interest you to know that De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salye will cure them. This medicine is aspecific for all complaints of this character, and if instructions (which is simple) are carried out a cure will result. We have tested this: in umerous cases, and alwaén with like amlta. 1t npever fails. E. E. Reed.

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THE TELEGRAPHIC “THIRTY.” How the €jyher, Which Is Now Universal, ' Had Its Origin. o : I attended a funeral the other day where there was a lovely flower piece with the figures ‘‘3o°’ in the center. The deceased had been familiar all his life with that signal, having been connected with telegraph or newspaper business for nearly 30 years, and yet I doubt if ever he or any one who contributed to the flower piece knew or dreamed how 30 came to mean anything, especially finis, or the end. _ As a part in telegraph history I will explain how this signal, which has come to mean so much, had its origin. Like a great many other expressions, it was started accidentally, as it were. In the, infancy of the telegraph business dispatches were sent paid or collect, many of them abbreviated in telegraphing, and all newspaper dispatches were not only abbreviated, but sent: collect. ‘There were no news agencies then, as now, and papers had friends in all the towns, who were authorized to send them dispatches to be called for. Every beginner in the art of telegraphy was given a book of abbreviations and signals, which he had to commit to memory and practice till he became expert in their use. Among those signals that of 30 was found, and it meant “cﬁg}lect ‘pay at the other end.”’ Whether a news dispatch or common businesg message, if not prepaid, the signal 80 was attached. As all press dispatches were paid for where received, they all had 30 at the end. So when news agencies began their work the signal was retained, for they were still paid for where received. : This signal has come in these days to be a universal finis to all press dispatches, private, special and: general, and a secondary meaning, or perhaps, better, a legendary meaning attaches itself as ‘‘“the end’’ and is a proper and beautiful expression of the finis of a telegraph operator or any other person. It well may be a signal to the spiritual dispatch of a human soul to the great center of rewards and as a notice to estimate its value when received and ‘‘collect pay at the other end.’’—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. v

PURITANICAL LAWS.

How They Round Up Delinquent Debtors

In Cultured Boston.

‘‘Just wait till I catch him in Boston. Then I’ll make him come to the center,”’ remarked an angry man the other day while roasting a theatrical manager who owed him a few hundred dollars for services rendered. Itold him that I supposed h&"would then clap the debtor into the Charles Street jail. ““That’s just what I will do.if I ever catch him there, you bet.”” And then the mad actor explained how easy it was to get even with people of that sort in the Hub. No matter what the debt, nor where or how it was contracted, all one has to do is to enter a complaint and that settles it. If one who owses is to notoriety, he’ll hardly take th poor? debtor’s oath, which releases him for a certain number of years, but does not wipe out his obligations, but will linger in the bastile until he can interest his friends or realize on his collateral and settle. _ I know several New .Yorkers who have run against creditors in the bean burg and have suffered. Some joke about their incarceration and the questions put to them during the process of administering the poor debtor’s oath, but most all agree that the Boston law is a puritanical provision that should be materially amended. Bostonians who are dodging process servers are agitating a change that will permit them to pay up on the installment plan instead of being forced to cash in the full amount or remain a guest of the Charles street hotel. If such a law was on the New York statute books and was enforced here—well, the Tombs or some other prison would be holding hundreds who now look as if they owned the town instead of merely owing the townspeople. —New York Letter in Pittsburg Dispatch.

Poisoning by Tinned Food.

Some light is thrown by The Lancet upon the mysterious cases of poisoning by tinned food which from time to time are reported. They are believed to be due to mneglect of the caution against eating tinned foods that ‘have been exposed to the air for some time after being opened. é[’he exact manner in which “poisonous substan@gs, technically known as ‘‘ptomaines,’’ are generated so rapidly is not known with certainty, but the fact that they are produced in sufficient quantity to cause very grave symptoms of poisoning have been brought out in a multitude of instances. In one well known case the first half of the contents ‘of atin of lobster was consumed with no ill effect, but the rest a few days afterward proved extremely poisonous.. It is suggested that as a safeguard manafacturers might label the tins with some such notice as ‘‘The contents of this tin ‘are perfectly wholesome when eaten fresh from the tin: and afford good food, but the public is advised not to ‘expose the contents for any length of time to the injurious influences of the ‘atmosphere.’’ The Lancet writer even goes so far as to suggest that some such warning might be insisted on by the ‘ bgislature. —London News. Where We Are Going. I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in ‘what direction we are moving. To reach the port of heaven we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail and not drift, nor lie at anchor.—Oliver Wendell Holmes. , : One Minute Cough Cure is a pofular ‘remedy for cr‘ouﬁ. Safe for children and adults. E. E. Reed.. ; Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder

ONCE AND -TOD%‘ e S A wreath of lilies and of passion® lowers For golden days slow strung, ' A chain of memories to link the hours ) Whose knell so soon was rung; A gift of pride and love must hen rth crave To hear what death sealed lips 0O more may say, \ d Sad, widowed eyes that toward my silence stray. ) :

Ah, fading wreath, too quickly cast away, That may not mingle with my lonely dust, Ah, warm young life, that cannot near me stay, - By poverty led forth to strangers trust! Sweet, miser soul, that in life nothing gave, Yet now bequeaths great teagfin generous ~showers, o You starved my love while th, youth, life were ours! . ] 1 Oh, fairest face was seen since n’s bowers, Oh, ripe, red lip by too great scorning stung, Short, willful chin, cold; bright eyes—dearest dowers . Of woman's beauty eyer lover sung! Oh, heartless, trustless soul could ever brave The chance to grieve when rody youth grows gray— You would not hear me once—you love today. - —New Budget.

T — _—_WH ~ » ) ACTION OF THE RAIN.

The Wonderful Factor It Is In the Disin- ) tegration of Rocks.

The rain falling on the rocks sinks in-. to every crack and crevice, carrying with it into these fissures surface material which has been degraded by the weather, and thus affording a matrix sufficient to start the growth of vegetation and afterward. to maintain the plants. The fibers and roots of these plants, bushes and trees thus brought into life, growing and expanding, act as wedges to split up the surface of the rock and to commence the process of wearing away. From this quality of destruttion a large class of plants derive the name of saxifrages, or rock breakers, from their roots penetrating into the minute fissures in search of water, and 80 assisting in the process of disintegration. In winter the water collected in the hollows and crevices becomes frozen, and expanding as it changes into ice acts like a charge of blasting material in breaking up the rock. The pieces thus detached becomeé further disintegrated by frost and weather, and, being rolled over and over and rubbed against each other as they are carried away down the mduntain torrents, are ground gradually smaller and smaller, till from fragments of rock they become bowlers, then pebbles and finally sand. ~As the mountain stream merges into the river the pebbles and coarse sand continue to be rolled along the bottom of the channel, while the ragillaceous particles and salts become mingled with the water and flow on with it either in suspension or solution, L While this disintegrating process is going on inland the rocks and clifis on the coast exposed to the sea are suffering degradation by a similar process and are also being worn away by the incessant action of the waves of the ocean beating on them and attacking them, not only with the impact of the water, but also with the fragments broken off, which, dashed .against the face.from which they have been eroded, are thus used as implements of destruction.— Longman’s Magazine.

Overathleticism.

The body can be killed through one organ, and in youth and middle age mortal injury of body and mind comes usually through one organ as the primary seat of evil. It is an evil of. frequent occurrence and greatly on the increase. A man is said to ‘“‘throw himself, heart and soul, into his work.” Such a man is in danger. He has four great parts of his body to consider—his heart and blood system, his lungs and other organs associated with breathing, his muscles; his brain and rervous system. But he does not heed them at all. He runs or cycles excessively, and in a much shorter time than he has the least idea of he makes his heart too strong for the rest of his organism and endangers the finer ramifications of the vessels which are under the domination of the heart. He rows without studying consequences, and long before he is convinced of trouble he has produced an injury of the chest mechanism which may soon be permanently established. ‘ He takes to some muscular training, which puts the museular organs to an extreme of tension. Large and small muscles alike are exposed to strain, both the strong muscles that give propulsion and the delicate muscles that guide, and before he has become conscious of the error he has committed he is a strained man, from which predicament he is fortunate if he make anything like a complete recovery. Another man enters into competitions in which his mental organs are kept awake for long intervals, charged with expectations, anxieties, fears, nay, excess of satisfaction, and while he is yet young he grows old. — Saturday Review. ]

A Famous Dog.

Railway Bob is the name of a famous dog in Australia. He passes his whole existence on the train, hig favorite seat being on top of the coalbox. In this way he has traveled many thousands of miles, going over all the lines in South Australia. He is well known in Victoria, frequently seen in Sydney, and has been up as far as Brisbane. The most curious part of his conduct is that he has no master, but every engine driver is his friend. =At night he follows home the engine driver of the day, never leaving him or letting him out of his sight until they are back in the railway station in the morning, when he starts off on avother of his ceaseless Jjourneyings.—New York Tribune, : No excuse for sleepless nights when you can procure One Minute Cough Cure. This will relieve all annoy> ances, cure the most seyere cough and give you rest and health. Can you afford to do without it? E. E. Reed. Pitcher's Castorla. = |

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[VOL. 30---NO. 39.]

Calthress ‘Folklore.

Caithness (Gaelic ‘‘Gollabh’’) Catteynes, the Land of the Stranger, and Suderland, the South Land, are steeped in strange superstitions, some traceable to Norse, others to Celfic influence. The lone, wind swept home of the oclan of the Catts, with its miles of moorland and peatfields, its bold, rocky coast, this county, with Sutherland, and the groups of islands to the north are in a peculiar sense the home of folklore, legend, myth and peasant wisdom. To this day the older members of the fishing community take off their bonnets as they row past the head of Whailagoe, and thus express, in their simple way, the deep reverence which they feel for the '‘great mither’’ on whose breast they are tossed. e The lassies of Freswick dress their hair before sunrise on pain of causing their sweethearts to be -lashed with these silken tresses by the evil kelpies’ of the pool. The farmer of today lights the bonfire at midnight on New Year's eve and passes his key through the flames to “secure them from disease, ‘while the herdboys jump over the flaming peats for good luck. Changeling children are' regarded with the same awe as of old, -and witches, elfins and sprites can, it is said, be discerned around the Maiden Paps weaving the threads of fate.—Scottish Review. !

A Tough Niagara Hackman,

"Here is a somewhat new story of the Niagara falls hackman: , ' ‘Two tourists, a lady and 4 gentléman, stopped off at the falls between trains. A hackman engaged them for a' brief tour of sightseeing. The time actuall consumed was 55 minutes. The hack man said he must have s§lo. The gentle man remarked that 'it was an outrage The driver explained that he had bee of great assistance in pointing out th places of interest and stood firm. Th gentleman preparéd to pay under protest. n T & '

Unfortunately for himself he handed the man a $2O bill. (/ ‘Do you pay for the lady also?’’ asked the hackman promptly. Bf ‘Do I pay for the lady?’’ repeated the fare in astonishment. * ‘‘Of course I do. What do you mean?’’ - [\ “‘Then there will be no change,/’ replied the hackman. ‘‘My charge of $lO is for one person; $2O for two persons. The amount you have handed me is exactly correct.. Thank you, sir.’’——Dßuffalo Express. el

Salt Makes Sugar Sweeter.

Who would think of making sugar sweeter by the addition of salt? Such,

however, is asserted to be the case by Professor Zuntz at a meeting of the Physiological society of Berlin. = From his experiments he ﬁndsash’at if to a solution of sugar there be added a slight amount of salt and water so weak that it excites no saline taste, the result is extra sweetening of the sugared water. The weakest of quinine solution is said to produce a practically similar result. L

. The explanation given of the:jabove seeming incongruity is that the ever so feeble saltness or bitterness imparts an increased semsibility to the sensation of taste by the simultaneous stimuli and hence an appreciation of additional sweetness. LA :

Wales and Workingmen,

The Prince of Wales is remarkable for the tact of his bearing toward workingmen. He invited Mr. Henry Broadhurst to visit him at Sandringham. Mr. Broadhurst declined on the ground that he had no dress snit. Of course a dress suit could have been bought, but the fact of his possessing it would have injured him with workingmen. | The prince renewed the invitation, alLd Mr. Broadhurst .said he would accept if he were allowed to have a bit of diuner in his own room. This was courteously conceded, and Mr. Broadhurst went. He was shown to his room by the prince. Noticing that the fire was not lighted, the- prince took matches, went ion his knees and kindled it himseif. —London Correspondent. - i

Map of the United States,

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