Plymouth Tribune, Volume 8, Number 39, Plymouth, Marshall County, 1 July 1909 — Page 6

EARLY STRUGGLES OF THE WRIGHT BROTHERS

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6 vi or Wholly unspoiled by the many honors which royalty had heaped upon them fand a3 modest and unassuming in manner as they were before their splendid triumphs In aviation, the "Wright brothers came back to their Dayton home. A year ago, and they were practically unknown. Now their name is familiar to every civilized section of the globe. For untold centuries man has dreamed of some day flying through the air. Those who best know the men who have made thi3 dream a reality know that phantasy and romance have no place in their sober and matter-of-fact minds. The work they have done ha3 been performed under the most orosaic conditions and in the fare of adversities whki would have appalled any but the most resolute. The faith of the father in the abilities of hl3 boys to solve a problem which had only excited derision is one of the most striking features of a triumphant history. Father a Clersrymsm. Bishop Milton Wright Is a minister of the United Brethren Church, and , began his ministry in 1836. He served as a missionary In Indianapolis, and, two years later, in Oregon. He married Miss Susan Katherine Koerner in 1S39. and continued in an itinerant Dastorate for several Tears, drawing a - w , meager salary but frugally putting by a few dollars against a time of need. Of a family of seven children, all were born In different parts of the country except Miss Katherine and OrTllle, whom the stork brought to Dayton, where they have lived and worked til their lives. During the early years of the bishop's residence In Dayton he was editor of the Religious Telescope, the official publication of Ll3 church. In 1SS9 a dissension arose and the church was divided. The bisLop retired from the management of th paper, and has lived In retirement since, drawing a meager income from sone land In Iowa, which he had acquire? when land In that State was very cheap. When mere schoolboys, the now famous brothers shewed a special aptitude for analytical reasoning along mechanical lines, but displayed little taste for the mathematical and literary branches of the school curriculum. They abandoned their studies in the public schools to take up the mechanical pursuits which so strongly appealed to them, and they entered their chosen field together, having worked conjointly ever since. Soon after their abandonment of the schools, the bicycle business sprung up and they found in that line a calling peculiarly fitted for their talents and Inclinations, which led them to open a repair shop, rvhich later was turned , Into a small factory In which wheels embodying their Ideas of what a bicycle ought to be were constructed cn a small scale. They failed to reap the harvest which was tho rpward nf en many bicycle makers, hut they managed to make a comfortable living, and. In their spare hours, began to think of aerial natigation. In speaking of this embryonic Idea, Wilbur aid: "The matter occurred to both my brother and myself at about the same time, but, while both of U3 yearned for an opportunity to make some experiments along that line, each was reluctant to mention the matter for fear of incurring the good-natured Jocularity of the other, but the ideas finally fouad expression, and we stealthily set to work to build our first small modal, which differed from that with which the public is now fairly familiar. - ATCHISON GLOBE SIGHTS. Why do people enjoy being mean? Saf what you please, we all like foolishness more than we should. Every man must b henpecked a little, or be ch-.ssed as No Gentleman. It la nearly always said of the mother of the family: "She never eats anything." Refuse to worry, and you have accomplished one of the greatest things In the Toild. There is not much demand for people with abnormal nerve, except as book agents. If you are at all "touchy " do not ! have any friends; they will always be hurting your feelings. Whenever a .new widow comes to town to viit. all the old bachelors take a little longer to dress. A little girl loves to take care of a baby. But how a little boy loathes it! Should the boy be whipped? Every man hates the thought that his wife's patletce 13 the outgrowth of trying to get along with him.

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"The first model was crudely built. rnd. when completed, my brother an I iny.;elf stele out in the dusk one evening for a demonstration. It was a rather shamefaced rair of lads who carried the ( on tri vane e to a secluded .-pet. and it was anything but a spectacular performance that rewarded us for cur work, but we could see that the principle of the machine was correct and we .eturr.ed not a little excited over the result of cur first experiment. Learning to I'ly. "The first model was abandoned and we began work on a larger machine, in which we embodied changes suggested by our few minutes' observation of the first one. This machine performed much better, but, of course, was still far from perfect, as for that matter is the present aeroplane, but it showed a marked improvement over its predecessor. From this time we continued to build model after model, each a little different from the preceding one, and at length made a machine without motive power in which we decided to attempt a flight. This was about as much of a success as was the first small model, but from it we learned the things which we had lacked in order to make a practicable aeroplane." At this point the experiments had reached a stage which required the in-

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vestment of some capital, and the boys took their father into their confidence. He unhesitatingly turned to his only resource, and sold his Iowa farm, which had, till that time, been his only means of support. This money he gave to his sons for use in their undertaking. Had the machine proven an ultimate failure it meant ruin for the aged bishop and his family, but the boy3 carefully invested the nuney and. with the more pretentious ma'hine which they were enabled to build, they started for the ,sand dune3 of the North Carolina coast. XeeHjr of Secrecy. During the early years of experi ment the two brothers had carefully read all the literature they could find touching on the subject of aviation, and one of the result3 of their investigations was the discovery of the fact that many others were working with the same end in view, and, if they were to reap the friuts of their labors and Insure the safety cf their father's all which was invested in their enterprise, the greatest secrecy was required in these, the crucial tests of the series. The inventors and a machinist, who had worked with them from the beginWhat a lot of insulting things you'd say to people if you dared! A busy body never has any time to attend to his own affairs, and la always unsuccessful and shiftless. Even a woman weighing two hundred pounds, with good health, money and happiness. Iike3 to be called a "poor little thing." When a man lives all alone the people who mention it usually make this cheerful comment: "Hell be found dead some day." Nearly every smoker say3 he can quit, but you will observe that very U-w of them make good the assertion. About the only difference between a city and a country town is that the people of the city take to the word "gange" more naturally. It pleases a woman reader to have it said of the heroine that "her surroundings are not in keeping with her air of refinement and culture." You are always hearing that children should behave. The same thing applies to men and women. We grownups do a lot of fool things.

- SHiP ring of the experiments, established a camp near Kitty Hawk, X. C, on a spot from which they could command a view for a long distance in every direction and which offered no obstruction to a flight a short distance above the ground. Xo motors were used in these first tests, which were conducted along the lines of gliding, one of the brothers taking his position in the machine with his feet on the ground and the other two men running along with the ends of the p'ane held above the sand until sufficient momentum had been attained to permit the aeroplane and Its passenger to rise from the earth for a short distance. The result of these tests was the arrival at the proper angle at which the planes should be set and the amount of surface required to sustain the weight of one passenger. It was in these tests that the inventors acquired the art of balancing in the air and the skill which they haAe since Imparted to others in European countries. Lnt Mbkc of Development. Having reached this point, they then installed a motor, and the last stage of the development of the aeroplane principle was entered upon. This engine, while demonstrating the feasibility of propulsion by such power, proved Inadequate to the requirements, and the boys were required to design a motor of special pattern, which took much time to build, but which answered the purpose and Is in use now with several improvements suggested by observation since the North Carolina trials. The brothers now found themselves with an almost perfect machine, but the capital from the sale of the Iowa farm was nearly exhausted, and their bicycle business, which they were compelled to neglect, was bringing In almost nothing, and. in their hour of need, their sister Katherine, who had saved a small sum WITH THE SAGES. Undertake deliberately, but having begun, persevere. Wren. Everyone has hi3 place and vocation on this earth. Gladstone. Life has one great purpose, the growth of character. Wesley. No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt. Henan. The greatest help to overconing mistakes is acknowledging them. Burrows. It is right to look our life accounts bravely in the face now and then, and settle them honestly. Bronte. Bride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts not to hurt others. George Eliot. Let us not seek to alter our destiny, but let us try to make the best of our circumstances. C. U. Sp'trgeon. We lose money and comfort and even temper sometimes, by not learning to be more careful Dickens. He who speaks honestly cares not, needa not care, if hi3 words be preserved to the remotest time. Carlyle.

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from her salary as teacher In the Day ton public schools, came to their a? distance. Stories of the aims of the brother' had appeared in Associated Pres3 dispatches prior to this time, only tt avvaken the risibilities of the acquaint ances of the inventors, and the faci somehow leaked out that Miss Wrigh: was risking her laboriously hoarder money in the venture. This movec her companions to well-meant remon strance and pitying commiseration Those doubting friends were verrauch in evidence when the cheerinr crowd gathered at the Union station In Dayton to welcome the men and woman who had just returned from re ceiving the congratulations and honors heaped upon them by the rulers and scientists cf Europe. In that foreign field aviation bad been given se rious attention for several years only to furni?h the s.-ene in which a pair of quiet Yankees suddenly appeared and. at one stride, forged ahead of the bright minds which had been backed by the treasure of entire nations. The history of those triumphs is fresh in the public mind.

1 AN UNWILLING PIRATE. S & t & C- & & C- e Some time last October the old ship Dessoug foundered at sea. It had a long career, beginning with its launching in Scotland about 1SG4, and ending in the humble capacity of a coal transport. Its great feat was the bringing to thi3 country, at the expense of William II. Vanderbilt, of "Cleopatra's Needle," which the Khedive of Egypt had presented to the city of New York. A writer in the Brooklyn Eagle tells the story of this famous voyage. Nobody had ever heard of the Dessoug when Lieut. II. H. Gorringe was commissioned to go to Alexandria to bring home the obelisk. Twenty-five thousand dollars bought the boat from a steamship company In the eastern Mediterranean, Two plates were removed from the bows, and the gigantic obelisk was rolled right Into the in?'.de. where it was made secure, and the plates replaced. Although the Dessoug met with a terrible storm while on the way across the ocean, and although the machinery was disabled, the vessel rode it out in safety, and brought the priceless cargo Intact to port. The real romance of the trip, however, lay In quite a different direction. When Lieutenant Gorringe decided to buy the Dessoug, commercial complications arose. He wa3 warned that if he applied for clearance papares a score or more attachments would be placed on the boat because of debts owing to English and Greek merchants by the Khelive. Accordingly, a3 soon as the obelisk was aboard, and ' properly fastened, the ship was put to sea without any formality. Congress did not allow the American flag to fly over the craft which had been built abroad, and the captain did not dare to raise the Egyptian colors because he had not officially "cleared" from the Alexandria custom-house. Therefore the Dessoug was literally a piratical boat, and fair prize for any civilized nation that captured It. The lieutenant took the precaution to write to the governor of Gibraltar, the only port at which he intended to stop, stating the exact facts, and asking that he direct the officer who came aboard to make a very superficial examination. Just before leaving Alexandria the name of the boat Dessoug was painted on the quarters and on the bows in letters a yard high. This was In order to enable the Identity to be fixed by any vessel which meditated firing a shot across its bows. Arriving at Gibraltar, Lieutenant Gorringe called upon the governor and explained the situation. The governor comprehended the absurdity o? the case, and allowed the nationless craft to coal and provision at his port. Had he chosen he could have seized the Dessoug and sent the treasure in the hold to be erected on the Thames Embankment. RAT ATTACKS CfHILD IN BED. At Middletown, N. Y., Emma Dunlap, S years old, aroused her parents early in the morning with her shrieks, when a big rat attacked her in her bed. The parents rushed to the child's room, and the rat, covered with the little girl's blood, ran across the bed and disappeared in a hole In tha floor. The rat had bitten the child twice In her left cheek. The wealth of the United States in 1830 was $7,000.000,000, speaking in round terms; in 18C0, $16,000,000,000; in 1S70, $30,000.000.000; In 18S0, $43,500.000,000; la 1890, $65.000,000.000; In 1900. $83,500.000,000, and In 1904, $107,000,000,000. For the year ending December 31, 1903, 32.94 miles of electric railway track were laid in Canada, as against 72.27 during 1907. The United States annually produces more tobacco than any other country in the world C90.000.000 out of 2,201.000,000 pounds. In u recently built Italian man-of-war are sixvial arrangements for n dentist. Nearly H7.0XV)0O tons of coal are consumed in England ev.ry yrar. The victims of sleeping sickness in Uganda now number a quarter of a müliou. Archaeologists have discovered the marble quarries which supplied the material for the famous Temple of Diana of the Kih'sians. The Jordan is the mo.it t rooked river known, winding 1M3 miles In a distance of sixty miles. One of the latest curiosities In labor, circles is the formation of a Tallbearers' Union in Alexandria, Va.

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figures which the government experts gather in huge volumes for the information of anyone who cares to know exactly what we are doing In the matter of trade and commerce, writes H. B. Chamberlain in the Chicago Record-Herald. It is axiomatic that hard times strike at the luxuries first of all, while Prosperity's genial smile is made known by the demand for those things not essential to comfort. In the national capital, where the statistical sharps garner and collate all manner of figures, the return of Prosperity 13 always scented when there is a spurt in the trade between the United State3 and France. Trade may boom with England or Germany, but usually the nrticles purchased in those countries are classed as necessities, excluding, perhaps, toys and pictuie cards from the realm of the Kaiser, while the principal imports into this country from France are manufactures and luxuries. In view of the reiteration that money is not particularly plentiful, notwithstanding the fact that the banks are anxious to loan at a low rate of interest, it is interesting to drag forth from the mass of figures compiled by the United States Bureau of Statistics the information that Imports Into this land from that of which Taris is the capital increased CO per cent in the months of February and March. During the same period the increase from all Europe and the rest of the wcrld showed a gain of but 45 per cent In other words, the total value of imports from France in February was $10.000.000, as against $G,750.000 for the same month of the preceding 3'ear. In March last the imports were $11,S23,000, against $C.500,000 a year before. To convey an idea of the sort of goods purchased in France recently, it will not be impertinent to examine the listed things as they appear In the interminable columns, taking those only that aggregate large sums and are commonly considered luxuries. The first big item that arrests attention and suggests comparison 13 "Diamonds." The imports of this precious stone from France in March last totaled $591,717, as against $51,224 during the same month of the previous year. Simply stated, more than ten times as many diamonds were brought into this country from France last March as was the case a year previous. Evidently somebody is prosperous. Diamonds are not rated as necessities by many people not In the glazing trade. Using March last as the month with which to compare the values of French imports received a year ago, it is found that $4S1,943 worth of other precious stones were bought, as against $9S,424. In the matter of cotton laces, edgings, embroideries and similar goods, the difference is $1,054.293, as against $005,714. Silks jumped frcm $1,173,1S3 to $1.907,497. Champagne was sold to the extent of $SS7,S92, as against $203,523, evidence that the anti-liquor crussde has not affected that drink materially as yet. Last Marca we bought $333,3SG worth of kid gloves, while our purchase from France a year before was the mere bagatelle ot $27S,914. Of olive oil we required enough to cost $140,057, while we worried along with $S4,10G worth In March, 1908. During 190S we paid France $101,999,541 for goods purchased. But the balance of trado was in our favor, as we received $113,802,055 for our exports.

KATE GHOST HOUSE. Workmfn Tear Down Residence Long Given Over to "Spirit." Hyde Park, a Chicago suburb, has lost the abode of one of its choicest legends and the only reminder of one of its bloodiest mysteries, as well as its most ancient landmark. In the tearing down of the old three-story brick house kncti a3 the Atkinson homestead at the northeast corner of Calumet avenue and 51st street. For nearly forty years the old hoise with the "haunted tower" has stood there, and for more than half that time It has been the center of all the 1 ; v ':.',: - I L ' . V . .. .',;. ' , HAUNTED HOUSE ghost stories of the neighborhood. Little children quickened their pace and took the opposite side of the street on their way to school when they came to the deserted bui'ding, where, according to report, the ghost of a joung woman was frequently seen, and even older persons have avoided it at night. Thirty-two years ago there was a mysterious death in the old house a murder according to the gossip of the day, and since that time no one has lived in the building for more than a few weeks at a time. For nearly twenty years the site has been advertised for sale or lease, but even now there are no bidders for It. The ancient structure that stands there has been neglected and crumbling to ruin for years, and the city authorities finally ordered it torn down. The old mansion about which cluster tales of murder, of moans, and screams and of strange, green lights at night, was built la 1871 by John Atkinson, a pioneer stone contractor. At that time it was the most stately PItOVEBBS OF PEOPLES. The bones for those who come late. Latin. Eat at pleasure, drink by measure. French. A common danger produces unanimity. Latin. Who judges others, condemns himself Italian. When flatterers meet, the devil goes to dinner. French. Who are ready to believe are ready to deceive. Dutch. That pilgrim is base who speaks ill of his staff. Spanish. When it rains porridge, the besser has no spoon. Danish. If we pay for the music we will join in the dance. French. Silks and satins put out the fire in the kitchen. Danish. A clay that i3 not thine own do not reckon it as of thy life. Arabian. The first torpedo was made in 1777.

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mansion in the Hyde Park district. A large section of what is now Washington Park was the orchard of the grounds and the garden of the estate occupied several blocks, extending as far as the present corner of 50th street and Indiana avenue. Two years after it was built, Mr. Atkinson met with business reverses and turned the property over to creditors. It was later sold to a family of the name of Brady, who lived there until 1S7G, when the house again changed hands. It was at this period that the old house began to fall on evil days. It became the property of a corporation and was rented to a woman who kept . V .' - -fa BEINQ HAZED. a rooming house there. One day in 1877, a young woman who was living in the building was missed. Her name, according to the story of the neighborhood, was Myrtle Read, and she was an exceptionally pretty girl of about 22 years. Other inmates of the house admitted that Read was not her real name, and said that ,she came to Chicago from the country. Her disappearance came to the knowledge of the police. An investigation was started and three days after the young woman's disappearance her body wa3 found in a small room in the tower of the house with a bullet through her heart. The case became another unsolved mystery. After this tragedy the police closed the place and it stood empty for several years. About the end of the first year of its desertion strange stories began to be told about the old house. Late pedestrians told of hearing screams in the deserted rooms and of seeing strange flickering lights at the empty windows. These stories grew with the telling until the building became, in the popular mind, a veritable haunted house, and it became almost impossible to rent It. Thereafter several tenants tried to live in it. but, according to the neighborhood stories, none could stay longer than a few weeks, and some only a night or two, because of the cries and screams coming from tha tower room. Some of the tenants are reported to have declared that tha, ghost of the murdered girl appeared before them weeping, wringing her hands, and begging for mercy. Within the last two decades there have been only two years when the wheat crop of France did not cover the home demand. Stockholm, Christiania, Berlin, and London, in the order named, have the lowest death rate3 among the European cities. Oysters live in water which contains about one part salt to twentyseven of water. Egyptians in ancient times had cenK eterics for their pet dogs. J

Iunular I'oliey and Ionomtri, For the present there can be no alternative for a somewhat arbitrary government of our insular posoessions. Nevertheless, it is not mere coincidence that the Porto Ricans are found protesting against the strong hand at the very moment when the Filipino are dismayed by the Payne-Aldrich bill's threat to throw thjir ports open to free American trade. President Taft correetly diagnoses the Porto Rican malady ind prescribes the proper remedy of less self-government. He also loves the Filipino, and holds his interests at hef.rt. But there is something wrong. We fancy th blame rests on Congress, which has steadily neglected the strongest recom mendations of Judge Taft throughout his whole career, and which now pro poses without so much as the formal ity of a particular inquiry to opeq the Philippine ports to all our products free. Establishment of order and justic in the dependencies does not exhaust our duty. When Japan took over turbulent Formosa she realized that thf, little island must be furnished witt an economic chance before the popula tion would cease from discontent, llet civil commissioners accordingly stud led tbo economic situation and devisei? policies to fit that situation. We may pacify the Philippines b) force and set up the most perfect law and order in the islands. Our courts may give them justice, our admlnistra t'on may be lily-white in purity. But unless we consult the economic ncces sities of the archipelago and offej profitable markets somewhere to theii products, our rule will be a failure If we do not wish to merit the curse? of the islanders. Congress must inves tigate and then tmust legislate wltJ an eye to Insular prosperity. Our acquisition of Porto Rico an the Philippines operated to deprlvj both of the Spanish market. Has ant substitute market been, contrived fot them? Is our economic policy for th Philippines well deviled for an Asiatic country, however well fitted for nn American community? Minneapolis Journal.

The Foreign Lobby. German merchants and manufactur ers are maintaining a lobby at Washington for the. purpose of aiding in the reduction of the duty on import. Germany Is the one great ambitious, industrious manufacturing country of the world. The Germans have been making desperate efforts to battel down the American tariff system, while at the same time they are boycotting American packing house products and American hog3. In their boycott they attempt to put up scientific reasons rather than those of finance. But at Washington, the foreign lobby has been furnishing ammunition for those who desire to attack the tariff. A few days ago the entire matte: was exposed in the United States Seaate by Senators Aldrich and Depew. It seems that circulars, quoting prices of wages and products in Germany had been circulated around the Senate, the circulars bearing no signatures. In relation to the matter Senator Depew said: "I am told Prince von Buelow has sent to this government an anonymous statement, so in detail that it has gone even into the question of razors. Then, I am told that It has been put by the German government into the hands of importers and they have put it into the hands; of Senators with free trade tendencies. The question is one which arises far above that of political party, as the information was sent to the State department under the seal of the German government." Our readers must know that if Ger many could capture and conquer the American market, Germany could afford to cease all her efforts for an enlargement of her trade in China and Japan. It would be interesting, if some of the other foreign lobbies could be exposed in the same manner. When the foreigners and Importers are at Washington with their alleged facts, their influence and their champagne, we do not hear about them because there are so many people who want lower priced goods without regard to foreign lobbies or any other thing. Des Moines Capital. Not Difference Over Principle. Tbfi differences between the f ramers of the housp bill and the framers of the senate bill are not differences over principle, but differences over disputed statements of facts. No Republicans, in congress or out of It ar contending for a revision down and out. We have frit that the housa bill I more In harmony with the trend of our Industrial development tbnn the senate bill, and reflprtB more satisfactorily the views and Winnes of the great mass of the Republican voters. It l a moderate and reasonable revision downward a 1p In advance In the application of the protective theory to Industrial conditions her It is more in accord with ihe best Republican teaching, for fbe Renale In, its extreme conservatism ha practlei ally ignored ihe crowth of the a?t twelve years. n,ud wants to treat oqr industrial disabilities as permanent and Irremovable. Iniead of vlewlna them as temporary and capable of appearing as difference? In the cost of production here and abroad ar gradually minimized New York Trü une. The I,nteat. Sandy Pikes Yes, mum, I used to be de star wire walker in de days of Barnum. Couldn't you loan me a quarter to join the show In de next town? Housewife (suspiciously) Where is you wire? Sandy Pikes Don't carry it any more. I'm a wireless walker now. The waves which sorrow lashes up iround us, stand high between us and .he world, and make our ship solitary in the midst of a haven full of vessels. Cannot one do like the fair sun, and ;o under the waves and yet come back again. And jet after all, if you look upon his going down rightly, there is no such thing in reality. Richter. The population of men in the United States, from statistics compiled from the reports of the census of 1900, is C9,0öi),2I2. The population of women is 37,244,143. There are nineteen American colleges with an enrollment of more than 3.1XX) students each.

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The Lest Rtoanch und LiTcr P1I! ktiotra Smy and a positive and epcedy cure for Con4 rVtV1 V Btipation, Ingestion, Sour Stomach, Ileadaefce. and all ailment a -j arising from a disorlaereu eiuLuntu ilnczlsh liver. They i'jeontaia la concertrat7Jed form all the virXAltues and values of Munron'8 Taw-rawr tonic dJ are mada raw-raw fruit, i nntesltatlngiy recommend these pills at being tne test laxative and cathartic ever compounded. Get a 25-cent bottle and If you ar. not perfectly MtJfled I will refund yolr money. MUNT ON. 53d and JeHerson Sts.. Phfladclctia. Pa C01IEDT OF FEEIiCII STEZETS. Diversion Kver to Be Foond om th.m Itoolevards of the Capital. For the streets of Paris are a stage set sometimes to a melodrama, or to I page&nt such as Nodier's fantasy, or our3, has figured; more often to a romedy wherein the unities are outraged and the mob amused, saj-s Warren Barton Blake In Scribner's. As in some Elizabethan piece, we who sit to it may be spe-.tatcrs and players too; it Is from our cafe table cn the pavement if we stay not too long that the piece Is best followed and Is best enjoyed. In London, where the play is more spectacular, with less of human interest and more emphasis upon the "properties," we prefer to take a 'bus-top seat. Here we may face the 'bus stand, if we like; the 'bus stand, where they pre watering their cattle and calling tiie numbers for another circuit. A handful of copper buys us all this: with our bock thrown In. And if the play which Paris Improvises for us fall to amuse, there !i the beer at least; and the cafe newspaper, and the stationery to write a letter home on If not this article. All these small perquisites come with our fauteuil d'orchestre In the open-air theater of the boulevard. The dialogue was better it Furetiere's cabaret or In Voltaire's time; but the music of the comedy the orchestra wears tight red coats is well enough today; so, too. the action. Even in the quarters of the poor Paris Is not all holiday nor all boulevard des Italiens the street sends up accompaniment to the piece that is always playing: the comedie humaine. The glazier calls his Ho! vltrier, Lo! the vegetable women cry their potatoes and watercresses; the fish wife plaintively comments. Ah, qu'il est done bon, le maquereau! . "Hiere Is ever a diversion on some penny whistle. WHET YOUE BACK ACHES. It la a Warntnar That the Kidneys Are Sick and Need Help. A bud back makes e-ery day a dull round of pain and misery. It's a sign . the kidneys arc sick and cannot keep t-p their never-ending task of filtering the blood. Lame back, backache, dizzy spells and urinary disorders are warning that niu?t not be overlooked. John M. Burwlck, u v r iit-f I I i m A- . I'll," ivu, 'II Temu, says: "Three ill years ago kidney disf j ( ease fastened itself ' J on me. I failed rap idly until I had hard ly enough strength to totter about. My back pained terribly, the urine passed scantily and .with pain, and my legs seemed almost Ufeless. I lay for three weeks in mortal agony, wishing death would end . my sufferings. At this time I began using Doan's Kidney Pills, discharging the doctor. I grew better and in a month's time was out again. In two months I was as well as ever In my life." Sold by all dealers. r0 cents a box. Fcster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. A Iteal Hurglnr l'roof Safe. A curious modern Invention is to be teen by a favored few ia the Bank ol England. It 13 claimed to be an ab colutely burglar proof safe, because at night It 13 lowered into a sub-vault ol heavy masonry and concrete. When the safe reaches the bottom ol the vault, it is fastened down by masBive steel lug3, operated by a triplt time lock. Until these lugs are re leased automatically at a fixed tim no human agency can raise the safe, - for breaking through the subvaulr end walls of stone and concrete teq feet thick, even with dynamite well, the burglar must shake hiä head sor rowfully and admit that he has met his Waterloo In that safe. "In a pinch use Allea's Foot-Ease," remarked the tramp, as he threw a package of white powder into the eyes of the policeman who was about to arrest him. The Harvard Lampoon. . Great Writer' l"otly Pen. An English firm of collectors hat just sold for 598 the last pen used bj Charles Dickens, but thi3 was less than half the sum received years ago for th pen which the great author used la writing his "Sketches by Boz." 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I t-eüere I inherited the disease, as my mother died from effects ol diabetes. 1 tried almost every thin; I could grt to take, in a am endeavor to cure mvseil cf the awful disease. The Gold Medal Haarlem Oil capsults effected a complete and radical cure in less than three months alter I began using them. Yours truly, C. J. PUDLONG Phoenix, Kent Co., XL L, April 5, l?li9. 25 and SO cents per boa for caps lies. 15 fcnd 35c for the bottles, at aU druggists. HOLLAND MEDICINE CO.. Sole Importers Scranton, Pax If your Dru pfeift cannot supply yo write tu direct.

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