The Syracuse Journal, Volume 5, Number 24, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 10 October 1912 — Page 3

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ADVINTURt or im RED CIRCLE (Continued.) “Well. Mrs. Warren, I cannot see Ibat you have any particular cause for uneasiness, nor do I understand iviiy I, whose time is of some value, ihould interfere in the matter. I *y have other things to engage me. ’ So spoke Sherlock Holmes, and turned jack to the great scrapbook in which se was arranging and indexing some - ,»t his recent material. But the landlady had the pertinacity, and also the cunning of her sex. she held her ground firmly. “You arranged an affair for a lodger jf mine last year,” she said —"Mr. Fairdale Hobbs.” "Ah, yes—a simple matter.” “Rut he would never cease talking jf it—yo.ur kindness, sir. and the way ;n which you brought light into the Harkness. I remembered his words ivben I was in doubt and darkness nyself. I know you could if you only would.” z Holmes was' accessible upon the side of flattery, and also, to do him justice, upon the side of kindliness. I’be two forces made him lay down lis gum-brush with a sigh of resignation and push back his chair. “Well, well, Mrs. Warren, let us hear about it, then. You don’t object io tobacco, 1 take it? Thank you, Watson —the matches-! You are uneasy, as I understand, because your new lodger remains in his room and you cannot see him. Why, bless you, Mrs. Warren, if I were your lodger you often would not see me for weeks an end.”“No doubt, sir; but this is different, it frightens me, Mr. Holmes. I can’t sleep for fright. To hear his qpick step moving here and moving there -from early morning to late at night, snd yet never to catch so much as a glimpse of him—ft’s more than I can stand. My husband is as nervous over it as I am, but he is out at his work all day, while I get no rest from it Whnt is he hiding for? What has he done? Except for the girl, I am all r_ alone in the bouse with him, and it’s more than my nerves can stand.’ Holmes leaned forward and laid his long, thin fingers upon the woman’s shoulder. He had an almost hypnotic power of soothing when he wished. The scared look faded from her eyes, nnd her agitated features smoothed Into their usual commonplace. She sat down in the chair which he had Indicated. “If I’ take ft up I must understand every detail,” said he. “Take time to consider. The smallest point mgy be the most essential. You say that the man came ten days ago, and paid you for a fortnight’s board and lodging?” “He asked my terms, sir. I said fifty shillings a week. There is a small sitting-room and bedroom, and all complete, at the top of the house.’’ “Wefl?” “He said, ‘l’ll pay you five pounds a week if I can have it on my own terms.* I’m a poor woman, sir, and Mr. Warren earns litt.le, and the money meant much to me. He took out a ten-pound note, and he held it out to me then and there. ‘You can have the same every fortnight for a long time to come if you keep the terms,’ he said. ‘lf not, I’ll have no more to do wlfh you.’ ’’ “What were the terms?” ' “Well, sir, they were that he was to have a key of the house. That was all right. Lodgers often have them. Also, that he was to be left entirely to himself, and never, upon any excuse, to be disturbed.” “•Nothing very wonderful in thatj surely?” “Not in reason, sir. But this is out of ail reason. He has been there for ten days, and neither Mr. Warren nor I nor the girl has once set eyes upon him. We can hear that quick step of his pacing up and down, up and down, night, morning and noon; but except on that first night he has never once gone out of the house.” “Oh, he went out the first night, did he?”“Yes, sir, and returned, very lateafter we were all in bed. He told me after he had taken the rooms that he would do so, and asked me not to bar the door. I heard him come up the stair after midnight.” “But his meals?” “It was his particular direction that we should always, when he rang, leave his meal upon a chair outside his door. Then he rings again when he has finished, and we take it down from the same chair. If he wants anything else he prints it on B slip of paper and leaves it.” “Prints it?” “Yes, sir; prints it in pencil. Just the word, nothing more. Hene’s one I brought to show you—SOAP. Here’s another—MATCH. This is one he left the first morning—DAll/Y GAZETTE I leave that paper with his breakfast every morning.” “Dear me, Watson,” said Holmes, •taring with great curiosity at the slips of foolscap, which the landlady had handed to him, “this is certainly a little unusual. Seclusion I can understand; by why print? Printing is i clumsy process. Why not write? What would It suggest, Watson?” “That he desired to conceal his handwriting.” •'But why? What can it matter to hkn that his landlady, should have a word cf his writing? Still, it may be as you say. Then, again, why such laconic messages?”

“I cannot imagine.” ’“lt opens a pleasing field for intelligent speculation. The words are written with a broad-pointed, violet-tinted pencil of a not unusual pattern. You will observe that the paper is torn away at the side here after the printing was done, so that the ‘S’ of ‘SOAP’ is partly gone. Suggestive, Watson, Is it not?” “Os caution?” “Exactly. There was evidently some mark, some thumb print, something which might give a cletv to the person’s identity. Now, Mrs. Warren, you say thatsthe man was of middle size, dark and bearded. What age would he be?” “Youngish—not over thirty.” “Well, can you give me no further indications?” “He spoke good English, sir, and yet I thought he was a foreigner by his accent.” “And he was well dressed?” “Very smartly dressed, sir—quite the gentleman. Dark clothes —nothing you would note.” “He gave no name?” “No, sir.” “And has had no letters or callers?” “None.” “But surely you or the girl enter his room of a,morning?" “No, sir; he looks after ’himself entirely.” “Dear me! that is certainly remarkable. What about his luggage?” “He had one big brown bag with him—nothing else.” "Well, we don’t seem to have much material to help us. Do you say nothing has come out of that room — absolutely nothing?” The landlady drew an envelope frbm her bag; from it she shook out’ two burned matches and a cigaretteend upon the table. “They were on his tray this morning. I brought them, because 1 had heard that you can read great things out of small ones.” Holmes shrugged his shoulders. “There is nothing here,” said he. “The matches have, of course, been used.to light cigarettes. That is obvious from the shortness, of the burnt end! Half the match is consumed in lighting a pipe or a cigar. But, dear n' all® ■ 'I ; lbw o' “There Was Evidently Some Mark, Some Thumb Print.” me! this cigarette stub is certainly remarkable. The gentleman was bearded and mustached, you say?” “Yes, sir.” “I don’t understand that. I should say that only a clean-shaven man could have smoked this. Why, Watson, even your modest mustache would have been singed.” “A holder?” I suggested. “No, no; the end is matted. I suppose there could riot be two people in yojir rooms, Mrs. Warren?” “No, sir. H’e eats so little that I often wonder it cah keep' life in one.” “Well, I think we must wait for a little more material. After all, you have nothing to complain of. You have received your .rent, and he is not a troublesome lodger, through he is certainly an unusual one. He pays you well, and if he chooses to lie concealed it is no direct business of yours. We have no excure for an intrusion upon his privacy until we have some reason to think that there is a guilty reason for it. I’ve taken up

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Gander With Fishing Line Tied to His Leg Has Lively Time With Pickerel. A Wisconsin gander was so upset by experiments made o upon and through him by a mischievous boy that lor a long -time he would not go into the water. The gander’s determination to abstain froht water as a means of bathing grew cut of the following circumstances: - ' ’ The boy thought he would tie a fish-ing-line to the gander’s leg and with a hook properly baited turn the bird out into the water. The bait was a frog. The gander, went into the mill pond, where he swam around for half an hour, turning “flip-flaps” and diving for food. Suddenly he felt a pull at his leg and looked as surprised as the “lone fisherman” when he caught a whale. The gander concluded that there was something the matter, and he looked to ascertain the cause. The pickerel on the hook gave several jerks, whereupon the gander decided that he wanted to go home. He at once started for the shore, but the pickerel on the hook wanted to go the other way. The gander

the matter. and X woftl lose sight of it. Report to me if anything fresh occurs, and rely itpon my assistance if It should be needed. “There are certainly some points of interest in this case, Watson,” he rfr marked, when the landlady had left us. “It may, of course, be trivialindividual eccentricity; or it may bo very much deeper than appears on the surface. The first thing that strikes one is the obvious possibilitj that the person now in the rooms may be entirely different from the one who engaged them.” • “Why should you think so?” “Well, apart from this cigaretteend, was it not suggestive that the only time the lodger went out was immediately after his taking the rooms? He came back —or someone came back—when all witnesses were out ot the way. We have no proof that the person who came back was the person who went out. Then, again, the man who took the rooms spoke English well. This other, however, print! ‘match’ when it should have been ‘matches.’ I can imagine that the word was taken out of a dictionary, which would give the noun but not the plural. The laconic style may be to conceal the absence of knowledge of English. Yes, Watson, there are good reasons to suspect that there has been a substitution of lodgers.” “But for what possible end?” “Ah! there lies our problem. There is one rather obvious Ime of investigation.” He took down-the great book in which, day by day, he filed the agony columns of the various London journals. “Dear me!” said he. turning over the pages, “what a chorus of groans, cries and bleatings! What a rag-bag of singular happenings! But surely the most valuable hunting-ground that ever was given to a student of the unusual! This person is alone, and cannot be approached by letter without a breach of that absolute secrecy which is desired. How is any news or any mes sage to reach him from without? Obviously by advertisement through a newspaper. There seems no other way, and fortunately we need concern ourselves with the one paper only. Here are the Daily Gazette extracts of the last fortnight. ‘Lady with a black boa at Prince’s Skating club’ —that we may pass. ‘Surely Jimmy will not break his mother’s heart’—that appears to be irrelevant. ‘lf the lady who fainted in the Brixton bus’—she does not interest me. ‘Every day my heart longs—’ Bleat. Watson —unmitigated bleat! Ah! this is a little more possible. Listen to this; ‘Be patient. Will find some sure means of communication. Meanwhile, this column.—G,’ That is two days after Mrs. Warren’s lodger ar-1 rived. It sounds plausible, does it not? The mysterious one could understand English, even if he could not print it. Let us see if we can pick up the trace again. Yes, here we arethree days later. ‘Am making successful arrangements. Patience, and prudence. The clouds will pass.-—G.’ Nothing for a week after that. Then comes something much more definite: ‘The path is clearing. If I find chance signal message remember code agreed —one A, two B, and so on. You will hear soon.—G.’ That was in yesterday’s paper, and there is nothing in today’s. It’s all very appropriate to Mrs. Warren’s lodger. If we wait a little, Watson, I don’t doubt that tha affair will grow more intelligible.” So it proved; for in the morning I found my friend standing on the hearthrug with his back to the fire, and a smile of complete satisfaction upon his face. (TO BE CONTINUED.) Simple Faith of Bretons. There is probably no place in France where the peasantry are more inclined to believe in the so-called hidden forces of nature, and where the unscrupulous charlatan ftas so good an opportunity of deceiving his listeners as in Brittany. Whether in sickness or in health, the people of Brittany look for an answer to their demands in the mysterious kingdom of the sui>ernatural, and with a faith which, to the educated, is sometimes almost unbelievable. A curious instance of this widespread superstition is cited by M. Paul Geniaux, a wellknown French folklorist. The inhabitants of Muzillac and district, in the Morbihan, firmly believe tlrat ,the only effective method -of curing their chil- i dren of the colic is to carry them to j a certain chapel, that of St. Mamers, j ■and deposit them on the altar. There they mumble a short prayer, the text j of which you can never get them to I confess—and the cure is immediately ; effected! Artist Regains Drawings. M. Bucas, the French artist whose \ paintings when bought by M. Quittner j and signed by him, wtm their new < owner honors at the salons where the i original painter failed even to get i them accepted, has succeeded in ro- j gaining 29 of the pictures.

! seemed frightened at first. Then ba i evinced signs of anger and tried to [ fly to shore, but the pickerel pulled I him back. i After half an hour of the hardest i work he had ever done, the gander j came ashore dragging a six-pound ; pickerel up the bank. I The boy took off the pickerel ana i baited the hook with another frog. He j tried to induce the gander to go in i for another swim, but no amount o- • persuasion could get the bird to do so. > He simply could not be driven in. For many weeks the gander would not go into the water. He would proceed witn the rest of his flock to the water’s edge, but there he would stop. He would seem to be arguing with them with reference to the danger they were courting. Not in the Dictionary. A teacher was reading to her class and came across the word “unaware.” She asked if any one knew its meaning. One small girl timidly raised her hand and gave the following definition: “ Unaware’ is what you take off the last thing before you put your nightie on.”—Harper’s Monthly.

SOCIAL SERVICE By REV. J. H. RALSTON, Secretary of Correapondencc Department. Moody Bible Institute, Chicago

TEXT: I Cor. 15:3, 4—“ Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and he was buried, and rose again the third day according to the Scriptures.” Never ■were men more confused than today respecting almost every matter of concern.

The unrest in the w orld of business, education, scientific investigation, politics, and no Jess In religion, is universal. The confidence of the former , days as to dependence on Christian experience, the certitude with reference to Christian doctrine, h av. e - gene, and there is great confusion in many minds as to

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what the gospel message is, and this tonfusion is making many Christians jnhappy .as they contemplate their mission as bdarers of the gospel to :he world. The most cordially accepted interpretation of the gospel is •hat it is social service. Save others physically and ethically, and you save rourself. { Belief in ethical culture or ;he work of moral and •spiritual evoludon working the gradual elimination >f evil as new going on successfully, s with many the gospel. But who should be the most trusted spokesman of such a subject? Would it not be one who is very near to the great teacher, Jesus? It would seem so, and we believe the Apostle Paul was iust such a person, and that in the ;ext he answered the question, “What ‘.s the Gospel?” He said he was declaring the gospel which he had jreached, and immediately follows, this statement; with the text. There are just iwo things here —the death of Christ, and the resurrection as Christ. The second of these is pre; sented without elaboration or comment, “Christ r<£se again from the lead;" but in the first, we have the death of! Christ with the occasion of that death: the expiation of our sins, and the .confirmation of the death by burial. Died for Our Sins. 1. Christ died for our sins. The fact of the death of Christ on Calvary is generally received, but with most persons that death was simply that of an unfortunate young man who had lived a wonderful life, had manifested Unselfishness to a degree never equaled' by man. but who made a mistake by letting hiihself fall into the hands of his enemies and being put to death. The first cause for the death of Christ was our sins. With some persons the death of Jesus Christ has no possible connection with man s relationship to God, it is merely inspirational and of moral influence towards a better life, beautiful to behold if you could shut your eyes to the physical agony and the grewsome blpod;Shedding. But such is not the of the death of Christ in the purpose of God, nor have Paul or the other J apostles so thought. The death had immediate connection with man’s relationship to God —every man who is joined to Christ vitally, there died to the world and world died to him—there was the shedding of blood without which the Scriptures' plainly teach there is no "remission of sins.” The brief clause, “He was buried,” has far niore significance than most think. It is a confirmation of the death which must be perfectly authenticated. The story of the death is quite complete, even before Joseph of Arimathdh appears on the scene, and the taking of the body, its burial with all the details given in the gospels, is quite full. The sepulcher was ‘sealed, a guard of soldiers was placed over it. thus doubly confirming the burial of a dead body. Risen With Christ. 2. The burial paves the way for the second main proposition—the rising again of Jesus from the dead. Paul preached to the Corinthians that Jesus rose again from the dead. We must read here between the lines, and we do not question but that Paul presented the fullness of this doctrine—using it first to enforce the necessity of the new. life —for "you have been risen with Christ.” This refers, of course, to the spiritual resurrection, very forcefully represented in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But Paul also was preaching a gospel to secure a man- spiritually resurrected against all future contingencies. Man must die physically, and even to the Christian the passing into the unknown hereafter is something disturbing to contemplate, but Paul gives him the glorious hope that he shall rise again from the dead even as Christ, who was the first-fruits of them that sleep, rose from the dead. The Gospel of the'death of Christ and of the resurrection of Christ is not narrow, in fact, offers the only platform broad enough on which can be built the doctrine that man needs to deliver him from the curse of sin which is now upon him, a curse hereafter infinitely greater; and, to enable him to have the positive blessing of resurrection.

Admirable System. There’s no denying that it is man’s inalienable right to strike while the temper’s hot, so perhaps it’ll be about as much as we can expect if, when the millennium rolls around, the ice men have learned to strike only in winter and the coal men in summer. . High Cost of Living in Madrid. Living is costly in Madrid. Even * modest "apartment” costs $750 » year. Servants, however, cost much i*. tha United Stat**.

ONE TOUCH OF NATURE WHEN THE “MINOR POETESS” CAME INTO HER OWN. I Though at First It Seemed Somewhat ■ Surprising That Writer Really Was Only an Ordinary Woman Like the Rest. The door latch rattled and Elinor ! Grahame, writer by profession, sometimes described as a “minoi - poetess,” but just now a vision of flaming wrath, burst into the room where her sister was peacefully sewing. “Dora, does it stick out all over demanded. “What?” asked Dora, puzzled. “The fact that I’ve published a slim volume of sonnets, and that two or three times a year my name appears in the magazines. I was out just now I in the garden, weeding the 1 lettuce ' bed. and that silly Elsie Farley came and leaned over the fence and asked if I didn't ‘love communing with the flowers dressed in Mother Nature’s own hue.’ ” and she~4ooked down at i her grimy green dress. [ “What did you say?” inquired Dora, I placidly. I “I asked her for that recipe her ; mother promised me, and she said, i reproachfully, ‘O, Miss Grahame, I ' eftn't talk pickles with you!’ and ; "stalked off. In the city I walked un- ; molested: only three people ever i asked me for my autograph, and 1 i here—” “Here they can't help being a little ! proud of you because years ago you | were a tiny girl in the district school,” answered Dora. T think it’s dear of them.” “Well, then, why don’t they treat me like a human being? Why must I always walk toward the sunset and commune with Chaos? Mrs. Elkins has invited me to the ‘Ladies’ Society.’ I’m to speak a few well-chosen : words concerning the ‘lnfluence of i Poetry on the Higher Life.’ I think j I'll advise her to read Edward Lear i and cultivate humor. She said, ‘Of course you won’t have any sewing to bring, you’re so literary.’ I’m going to dress frivolously and take my most : intricate embroidery.” That afternoon Miss Grahajne sat in an inconspicuous corner, stitching as- ! siduously and talking briskly to a demure little woman at her left. Both were enjoying themselves, and the air was charged with domesticity. Into this paradise walked Mrs. Elkins. “Are you ready to inspire us, Miss Grahame?” she. asked, pointing to a seat of honor at the end of the room. Next, looking at Elinor's “frivolous”, gown. “What wonderful embroidery!” she exclaimed. “I did it myself,” answered Miss Grahame, a little shortly. "May I just; catch these last threads, please, before T begin?” The demure little woman was staring at her. “Are you ‘the Miss Gra hame’?” she asked. “I thought you must be your sister. You're —why, you’re just like the rest of us.” Elinor Grahame rose. “I am,” she said, “ and you're a dear, and the only one who has understood.” She wok the woman’s hands warmly in hers, then added, “ Y’ou won’t forget to send me that gingerbread recipe, will you?”—Youths Companion. Ichtheyol a Kind of Asphalt. In a report on asphalt by the United States geological survey the following interesting remarks about ichthyol are found: “A peculiar form of ashphaltic material foy.nd in Austria finds application, after appropriate chemical treatment, as a medicament under the name ichthyol (and used for erysipelas, eczema, etc.). It is not prepared in the United States. The raw material from which it is derived is a fossiliferous deposit which is found near Seefeld, in the Austrian Tyrol. The material mined at this place is carefully selected as to grade and is subjected to dry distillation. The distillate thus obtained is then sulphonated and subsequently neutralized with ammonia. The finished product re suiting from this process is the commercial article known as ichthyol. The exact chemical composition of ichthyol has not been determined.” French Customs. There are many customs assocl ated with the French wedding which American brides might copy. One concerns the duties of the maids o honor. An American who attended fashionable wedding in the Madeleine, in Paris, recently was impressed with the following little ceremony: The maids , passed through the as sembly of guests making a silent ap peal for alms for the poor. At a wedding where no money has been spared and untold extravagance exhibited nc one could begrudge the offering ol silver expected to be dropped into the dainty "aumorieiv,” or receptacle oi filmy lace, ribbon and flowers, which when not in use, was hung on the arms in lieu oi a bouquet. Net a Latin Scholar. "The man who prefers bill-board to newspaper advertising is usually uninformed,” said Reginald C. Browning, the advertising expert, at a press dinner in Duluth. “Such a man,” he continued, “is tpt to be of Turner’s type. “Turner was a shoe dealer, and icross the way from him flourished a rival. The rival put up a billboard one flay headed with the Latin motto. Men’s consia rectit' —A mind concious ?f rectitude. “Turner, ignorant alike of good Latin ind good advertising,- put up next to his rival’s a bigger billboard on which was printed: “ ‘Men's and Women's Conscia Recti t.’" Make Use of Scorched Timber. The great forest fires which unfortunately occur almost every autumn leave vast quantities of “fire killed timber.” This is now being used extensively for many purposes, being preferred in some cases to-green timber. Fruit growers, for instance, are said to prefer it for packing boxes because it is almost odorless and does not impart an unnatural flavor to the fruit. Telephone poles and railway ties are also niade to advantage from fire killed timber.

AROUND THE CAMPS&a fire aga RELICS OF GENERAL CUSTER Interesting Collection Secured by National Museum From Widow of Noted Indian Fighter. An interesting collection has recently been installed in the hall of history in the National museum, consisting of articles donated and lent by Mrs. George A. Custer, widow of Brevet Maj. Gen George A. Custer, U. S. A. General Custer is probably best remembered by his achievements in the many Indian fights in which he pariticipated, and by his record as an Indian scout. The collection includes a memento of this phase of his career ■in the form of the white buckskin coat in which he has been most often ■pictured as a plainsman and scout. .This coat is in excellent condition, 'and looks as if the general had just removed it and hung it up. It has deep collar and cuffs, and is heavily fringed with slashed buckskin trimiming. The pockets are made much as iin modern sporting coats, while buttons are of the regular army pattern ■of the period. This coat calls to mind the services which General Custer rendered to the government in the campaigns against the Sioux in 1875 'and 1876, in the last of which, the 'battle of the Little Big Hom, he met his death. • Accompanying the coat is a yellow plumed cavalry helmet and a buckskin’ gauntlet, both worn during his active service against the Indians from 1866 to 1876 while lieutenant colonel Seventh cavalry, U. S. A. There is also a blue regulation army officer’s coat, with two starred straps, ;piush collar and cuffs—the coat which he wore on his marriage to Miss Elizabeth Bacon, February 9, 1864. A straight cavalry saber of tremendous size is also included in the collection. It was a spoil of war captured by Major Drew, who presented it to General .Custer, since he knew of no other man able to wield such a large feapon. ,It has a Toledo blade, on which is engraved in Spanish. "Do : . * /jraw me B*#bout cause and do hot sheathe me without honor.” i A Virginia state flag, a prize of the general's personal prowess, captured by him in 1861 when a lieutenant, is -also on display. One object of great historical significance, though rather of an unro'rantie nature, is half of a white towel which figured conspicuously in the .’battle just preceding the General Lee at Appomattox. It seems ■ that while General Lee .had gone to 'the rear oi' the Confederate lines to 'secure an interview with General Grant, leaving General Longstreet in ‘command, General Gordon’s division ’became bard pressed by the enemy and called on Longstreet for assistance. Not being able to furnish asjsftftance a| this time, Longstreet sent hirt- inspector general, Major R. M. Simms, to suggest to Gordon the lending of a flag of truce to the fed'erals requesting a suspension of hostilities pending the interview between Lee and Grant. Following this suggestion, Gordon at once dispatched ; Simms to the federal commander. Sheridan, with this request. As Major Simms galloped toward the lines of the federals he searched his haversack for something white to cover his advance, but found only a towel. This he drew out and waved above his head i'as he, approached the enemy. The Union soldiers caught sight of the ;white towel, held their fire, and under this improvised flag Simms was allowed to entei’ the lines where he ■was met by Colonel Whittaker and taken to General Custer, who was in command of that part of the field. Neither of these officers, however, cared to declare a temporary cessation of hostilities just then, feeling that they had the advantage of the fight and held the southern army at their mercy. So Simms was obliged to return to his own lines without accomplishing his purpose. He left the truce towel in the hands of Colonel Whittaker, who took half of it and gave the other portion to General Custer. It was only shortly after the incident just mentioned Jhat Sheridan and Gordon met and established a' temporary truce which held until the conference between Grant and Lee terminated the war. Most important among this collection of war relics is a little oval table of wood, much battered and. scarred, on which General Grant wrote the letter containing the terms of surrender of General Lee, at the home of Wilmer McLean. The collection also Includes a pin’ made from a piece of conch shell,, once a button from the coat of General Washington, presented by a relative of the general to Custer. Later .Custer had it mounted In gold for his. wife, who wore it for many years as‘ a brooch. Effective Joke, but— A young contraband, servant of a junior staff officer, wa*s ignorant of the’ fact that his master had a cork leg,i and the first night the officer had the darky pull off his boots. “Now, look sharp,” said the officer. “Don’t pull too hard.” * •. The officer loosened the straps about waist, and off came the leg. The colored boy gave a groan, turned ashy white and fled, knocking over a picket in his mad flight. The officer lost a servant, for he ran straight into a rebel camp.

Novel Boudoir Clock. Among curious clock novelties is be shadow boudoir clock. With it ffiere is no need of getting tip to strike a light or turn on the bulb. AD that la uscessary is to touch a button and the time is flashed on the wall, after the same fashion that signs are lashed on the sidewalk. When the swner of the clock retires he turns a alght dial to the ceiling and when he wesses a bulb the electric light reject# from the dial through the lens jnd appears, giving the correct time , W shadow on the celling.

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