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Seneca County Courier=Joum DEVOTED TO THE TEUE INTEEESTS OF THE PEOPLE OP SENECA COUNTY. THE COURIER, Esfd 1837. Vol. 65 . 1 r„j,soi 4 fl 3 ted Au? 21 1002 THE JOURNAL, Esfd 1884, vol. 18 J SEJSTEOA F A L L S , N . Y ., T H U R S D A Y , A U G U S T 2 1 , 1 9 0 2 . N U M B E R 22 The Cottrier-Jonrnal. PU B L ISH E D EVERY THURSDAY BY THE JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. (LIMITED) PARTRIDGE BLOCK,, SENECA FALLS, N. Y. 'I'M a M S : 0>unty Bubsorlbers, $1.50 when paid in advance; SobsorlberB outside the county, $2.00 per year, postage prepaid; Subscription for six months, $1.00 in advance. R A T E S O F A D V E R T I S IN G : S i : ISS $4 00 $5 00 $800 6 00 8 00 12 00 25 00 36 00 eOOO 35 00 60 00 10000 1 regular rates. Political, Charitable, Religious o be charged at regular rates addition to and like notices, B U S IN E S S C A R D S . ERNEST Q, GOULD, \ TTORNEY AND COUNSELOR. Rooi /■y 13 and 15 King block, Seneca Falla, N . X W ILLIAM H. M ARPST. A UCTIONE-iR. Auction sa’es carefully con- ducted .and satisfaction guaranteed. Post Office address, Seneca FalP, N, Y. FRED A. SEIQREST, BARBER. CIRST-CLASS WORK ONLY. Same old r stand, opposite the Exchange National Bank, Seneca Falls, N . Y. L. FOSTER CROWELL. BBHBOA F alls , N. T. ^A J X D GRA.VEI. .AJST> T.O,AJM delivered at O reasonaWe prices, Orde.'s Oy mail will re- ce^ve prompt a ttention. SH E L D R A K E HOUSE. »nd for pleasure partiei jomfortB guaranteed. A , GOODMAN, P rop. Sheldrake, Seneca Co., N. T KELLOOQ’S LIVERY. p v M. KELLOGG has one of the finest liveries • in the county in his new building on State St eet, next to the Hoag House. Everything in the lin c-of horses and carriages to he found in a first class livery. C. B. HOWE, M. D. DHYSICIAN AND BURGEON, Medical Ex- t amlner and Specialist. General Agent Mutual Reserve Fund Life. Office, first door east of the exchange National Bank, Seneca Falls, N. Y. DR. WEYBURN. pH Y S IC i eca Str< vous and Consultation Free. Nigl place. Telephone. jS K W Y O R K ( e n t r a l & HUDSON RIVER R. «, i m FOUR-TRAOK TRUNK U H t Fifteen Magnificently E quipped P assenger T ralne dally traverse the Empire State between New York, Bufialo aud the West. T h is is the Only Line entering the City of New York. All trains arriving at and departing from Grand Central Station. 4th Avenue and 42d Street— the very center of the city. On and after Sunday, June 15, 1902, trains will pass Seneca Falls as follows ; : I S ; : ; : I F ; f S p . ; ; f S S ; ; f | t ; : B^^ffalo Ex ; : ss?:;: ■iSS : S S ; . : ♦Syracuse to Genev.. only ^ G e n . ^ T n t , Buffalo, N . Y. GEORGE H. DANIELS, Gen. Pass. A g t., New Y o rk. ^G e n ^Supt., New York. isro A t R y a n ’s F u rniture Store. Our large stock was purchased \\before the manufacturers raised their prices. For that reason we can give you better value for your money than can be had else where. Come and see our Veranda Chairs, Carpets, Rugs, Pictures, Mattings, Window Shades, Hammocks and Oo Carts. E. J. RYAN, 27 STATE STREET. J.H,McDonald Successor to William Hills General Fire Insurance And Real Estate Agancy. Seneca Falls, N. Y. “ I i Foster, Ross & Baucus - 5 ^ THE B /e STORE. EXCELLENT BARGAINS IN Lace Curtains We have separated from the regular stock all the ONE, TWO, THREE AND FOUR PAIR LOTS OF LACE CUR TAINS and will close them out at ONE-THIRD TO ONE- HALF LESS THAN REGU LAR PRICES. 4 lots of Nottingham Lace Curtains, 2 pairs in each, regular price $3, to be closed out at $1,98 ^ pair, 3 lots B russels L a c e C u rtains, 4 p a ir s each, and worth $8.50 pair, to be closed out at $5,9 0 a pair. 4 lots Irish Point Lace Curtains, 3 or four pairs of a kind, originally $8.50, to be closed out at $5.90 a pair. 4 lots of A rabian Curtains, 3 and 4 pairs each, value i pair, to be closed out at $6.48 a pair. 2 lots Renaissance Curtains, 4 pairs each and worth $4,50, to be closed out at 2 .9 8 a pair. A number of 2, 3 and 4 pair lots of various grades equally good values. Single pairs o f Nottingham, Arabian, Irish Point, etc., to go at half the regular price. COME SHOP WITH US. Foster, noss & Bauous .1 Auburn, N. Y. Qo5ii7§OiJt5al^ Only a few more days left to procure these goods a t less th a n m a n ufacturer’s cost. A ll goods m u s t go a t some price. C LOSIIMQ O U T , STDWELL'S MILES FITZSIMONS The Reliable Boot and Shoe Dealer has a fine line ot Boots, Slioes and Rubbeis for summer wear which he is selling at prices that defy competition. All the latest styles and shades in Tans. Agent for the Douglas celebrated shoes. F a l l S t . , S e n e c a F a l l s , N . Y . ' ' MEAT ONCE A DAV: ....... Tlieory Tliat Average Family’s Food Is Too Heavy For Healt'U. Our mistakes in eating begin^ witlj our breakfast. In many families, per haps In most, this ineal commences with fruit and cereal, goes on to chops and potatoes, hot breads and coffee and concludes with gi’iddlecakes and sirup. At noon, when a man’s stomach is only beginning to rest from all this, he has a steak, more potato, bread and but ter, coffee and pie, while at home h^ wife has a slice of cold meat, a cup of tea and a piece of cake. At night the two sit down to dinner, with roast beef, potatoes and bread and butter as the staples of the meal. Now, no one tout a woodchopper or a hunter can possibly eat meat—above all, red meat, such as toeef and mutton uric acid to come and take up its dwell- lug in his system. Nor can bread, potatoes and pastry dthout inviting dysi toes and pastr day after —three times a day without inviting el lite fter day without inviting dyspepsia. One has only to let a doctor trace hack these diseases to their source to toe quite certain on these points. But if we decide to give up these things, determine to have meat and po- only once a day £ >nce a week:eek; iff wee only once a w i w taboo j>astry, :e bread and. heavy sweets, w.hat have we left for the family meals? “Nothiuj t of all, chicken, which is the starchy vegetables, the whit( heavy sweets, w.hat have ’ the family meals? “Nothing,” distracted housewife will exclaim de spairingly at first thought, but really the matter is not as difficult as It seems. In planning the meals on this basis there is, first of all, chicken, which is invaluable, for it may be cooked in a dozen different w a y s and seem a new dish each tim e, and turkey, duck and goose as well. Tlicn there are the wh-ite meats, Iamb and veal; fisb in its multitudinous forms; there are gainG|ii] its seasoHj vegetables and fruits, with numberless varieties of soups, and the simple sweets, which are made prin cipally from milk and cream, ant forms of breads.—Harper’s Bazar. A PLEASING FRENCH TRAIT. Marked Cliaractcrlstlc union of French family life shows it self is the great affection of brothers One of the ways in which the close for each other. There is an intimacy between them In good and evil fortune which one does not find in other coun tries. A brother who takes a high po sition h r • talents loses no.opportunh ty to forward the intei-ests of one of lesser ahilitj- or of no ability. He never perhaps scarcely Married brothers often like to live in treats the ;er as a drag on him, and s feels that he is one. the same house, on different floors, and to hire summer villas in close prox- Most of the famous Frenchmen whom I knew had each a brother to whom he was devoted. Louis and married to women who other, were, morally speaking, Siamese twins until death severed the bond. The same might be said of the Garnier- Pages, of Jules Favre and his brother Leon, of E r n e st and Arthur Picard, < ' Puecli, the sculptor, and his brothi the deputy.deputy. Paulaul amnd ;hehe painters,ainters, wereere knownno^ in their P a Hippolyte Flau- drin, t p w k student days as the Siamese twins. It not infrequently happens that broth ers go into literary partnership. In stances that occur to me are the Gon- courts, the Rosnys, the Marguerittes. It w o u ld be im p ossible to discern the work of one of any of these brothers from that of another. What is very curious, each brother, as in the case of Charles and Louis Blanc, Ernest and Arthur Picard, Jules and. Leon Favre, differed strikingly in every characteris- ither. The dis tie from the other. Tlie dissim ilarity o f the Marguerittes is so great that one wonders how brothers could be so un like. Alphonse Daudet tvas not a bit like his brother Ernest, an accom plished novelist also.—London News. Fire Superstitlona. “If a fire does not burn well,” says the old household superstition, “and i want iAo draw, you should set the :er across the top bar of the grate.” This is supposed to placate the gnomes, whom it was formerly believed were very jealous of the robbery of their un derground country of its coal treasures ffnd were very apt to take their venge ance out In preventing the fire from burning. It was the mystic form of the cross thus made which was sup- sed to drive them away. Neverthe- 8 it would not do to use the shovel In this charm or the fire w o u ld be sure to go out. _ _______________ An. Adroit Answer. The celebrated physician Zimmer man attended Frederick the Great In his last Illness. One da^, as the story Js recorded in “Salad For the Social,” “You have, I presume, helped many a ipaaii intp another world.” VTihis w a s rather an unexpected thrust fop^h-edoeter, but the dose he gave the king is retUiTU iJias a judicious mixture of trutfi a n d fiattery; f “Not so many as your majesty nor ulth so much honor to myself.” A Man and His Heart. (Once upon a time there was a rich ,»ia oian w h o had a heart so w e a k that iits faint beatings could hardly be Leaid; yet, in the metaphor of our ithat same heart was filled with love for Si faii’ lady. The lady heard <0f her wooer’s physic al and financial .condition and looked upon his suit TVitJn m reroe favor. The result w a s th a t tlm y w ere married. Moral.— Faint heart sometimes wins fair lady.—New York Herald. Advice. \What would you say,” began the voluble prophet of woe, “if I were to itell you that in a very short space of time all the rivers of this eountiy {ivould dry up?” “I .would say,” replied the patient ina‘n. \'Go thou and do likewise.’ ”— Boston’pbristian Register. Fatal to Dolls. Aunty^TYhere i s that pretty doll you had w h e n 1 .was h ere last? Little Girl—It’s gone—died of the ■f’Tffaegrip. eh?” “Yes’m; b a b y ’s grip.” P e r h a p s It W a s . Mrs. Richmond—What lovely antique furniture! Mrs. Bronxborough—Yes, and, do you know, we got it almost as cheap as If it had been new!—Judge. The Shoeman’s Cleric. “I never,” said the illiterate shoe clerk, “forget a man’s face that I have fitted shoes on.”—Los Angeles H m lC BUS'lNESS AND*HOMES.' The Cause of. the Trolley Car oitd the Street Railway. On one point the American is deter- inined—he will not,live near his work-, says Charles M. Skinner In the Atlan tic. You shall see him in the morning, one of sixty people' in a car built foi tw’enty-four, reading , his paper, cling ing to a strap, trodden, jostled, smirch ed, thrown’ into harrowing relations with men who drink whisliy, chew to bacco, eat raw onions and incontinent ly breathe, and after thirty minutes,ot this contact, with the roar of tka streets in his ears, with languid clerks and pinguid market women leaning against him, he arrives at his„ office. The problems of bis homeward joKrney in the evening will be still more diffi cult, because, in addition to the work ers, the cars must carry the multitude of demoiselles who shop and go to matinees. To many.men and women of business a seat is an undreamed of luxury. Yet they would be insulted if one were to ask why they did hot live over their shops, as Frenchmen do, or back'of thorn, like Englishmen, easy instinct .of Americans,, of their families to separ: and social life, that makes the use of the trolley car imperative, aad the strek railway in this manner widens the life and dominion of the people. It enables them to distribute themselves over wider spaces and unwittingly to ■mbolize the expansiveness of the na- It is this un- QS this desire ■ate industrial Heroic Courtesy. A French writer on “The Revolution, tbe Empire and. tbe Restoration” cites lusing instance of what hejcalk courtesy. Fercy, Lord Befeiiy, Irrs-ited to dine witb him a marquis who was one of the most valiant sol diers of the army of Conde. Wishing to honor his guest and the cause whi >r ordered his., butler t of the French kinj he served, that E n g lish peer ordered his butler to bring him*'a bottle'of fine' wine 100 years ago, “a ray of su n ‘shut in crys tal.” ^ H e opened it carefully and of- deein it worthy the honoi tal.” ^ He opened it carefully and of fered a glass to the marquis, saying “If you — —- - -- ’ ------- you dri the king?” The marquis tasted the -nfine. “How do you like it?” asked the host. ’“Ex quisite,” replied the marquis. “Then,” said Lord Beverly, “finish the glass. Only iii a full glass can one drink the health of so great and so unfortunate a king.” Without hesitation the marquis did as he was.bidden. Only when the Englishman tasted win^ did L.: lea-rn that what he Gad forced on his guest was castor oil. [rink in this wine the 1 The Belief In a Bevll aaldservant belongiag to the women’s colleges had been out •with her lover without leave from her mistress a-ud was returning late along my road, at the top of which lived the lamented Professor Nettleship. Now, the latter had a large yellow dog that took the usual canine delight in seeing cats scatter and fiee, and, the better to pounce on them when they were stealthily crossing tlie street, he would perch himself on the top of the pro- isor’s garden -si'aH, surrounded a^nd foliage, lassed beneath lie caught sight of a cat in the middle ir’s gar half hidden in the foliage. A s the ti’u- aiit maidserv he caught sig of the road ai aiit maidservant passed b him and, making a spring at it, ith her and knocked her down. She picked herself up and ran screaming home, almost mad with ter ror, because, as she said, the devil had jumped on her back and thrown her down.—International Monthly. At JoliBL K mox ’ s Grave. Thehe guidebooksoks unitenite in tellingeiimg the( T guidebo u in t tu visitor in Edinburgh to see the grav< of John Knox. It is situated in Parlia larked by a stone sunk : Jol lent square and’is marked by a small rectangular slab of ston e spn k in the cobblestone paviug‘ of tbe street, ivith inscrijitii tourist tliat he finds the great reformer the chiseled inscrijitiou, “J. K. 157.3.” But it is odds against even the acute at once, for only fl-ve feet away froi th e 'h o ly ground there is a similar II slab, and many times a day parties of tourists may be seen ap proaching on tiptoe the' second stone and bending over it^with keen interest only to read, “Wilking Patent Hy drant,” and find themselves face to face with the water\supply system of a modern town instead of the hones of the eminent clergyman. He Overdid If. Beggem hat rich o (to himself)—I’ve got around 'old great-aunt of mine a t last She’s,interested in benevolent schemes, and I ’m helping her night and day'to search out -worthy objects. Today,she said I ’d have cause for rejoicing when her will Avas read. . His Great-aunt (to herself)—I had iK )hew -was so good. It nost sick to see so rpuch in the world. ,H©w delighted be to find that all my money is Idea my grandnephe-w -was so good, worries him almost sick to see so rni misery he will to'go to the support of the poor friend less orphans!—New York Weekly. Dodging a Tip. Polite Diner—You have -waited upon aeeeptably, ^yed my. meal thoroughly. You have behaved like a gentlem an, and me very accep and I ba-ve en- You ' tieman-you certainly aa-e, notwithstand ing your humble occupation. W a iter—I hope, sir, th a t I am gen tleman. I always try to be one. Polite Diner-It i's as I suspected, and, being a gentlem an, I sha81 not in- eult you by offering you money. Per haps a t some time I may be able to re ciprocate your courtesy. Till then farewell. CondltloiMt So Simllai!. “Does that moon remind you of any thing?” he asked, his m ind roverting to their court-ship days. “Yes,”’she answered. “What?” he asked. “You,” she said; -\on club nights.” He looked again. Yes, the moon was in that condition,—Chicago Post Negative -Virtae’s Poov Re-ward. “Why, papa,” she argned, “you know Arbuthnot n ever drinks, chew s, smokes, jfambles or swears.” want a chap i ly doesn’t do things.”—Chicago Eecord- TUe Charge. Blobbs—I hear you lost your su i t Was the judge’s chai'ge unfavorable? Slobhs—Oh, I’m not kicking about th a t What makes me sore is my law yer’s charge.—Philadelphia Record. Wrinkles\ come, the face fades, the soul speaks just as eloquently 1 the eye where hope has conqu core.—Schoolm aster. A BARGAIN IN HATS.' W hile Another One Mourns. A Philadelphia woman mo-virig in )od society has been cured of a for attending rummage sales, but lok a heroic treatment to effect the cure. The other day she went to. a sale of the description named in aid of a worthy charity in which she is inter ested and came aivay minim a twenty- five dollar hat. It happened this way: A feature of the sale was a counter filled with' untrimmed hats, advertised “Your choice for 50 cents.” Now, the North Thirty-third steeet woman didn’t want an untrimmed hat at 50 cents, but there -was one that caught her fancy by reason\ of its odd shape, and she simply couldn’t resist the tempta tion tojtvy it on. So she took off the handsdme hat she^ -was wearing, plaeed it on the counter and picked up the un trimmed one. Then she looked around for a mirror. There was only one, and that was away at the other end of the long room. ^le pushed her way through the crowd, and in the meantime a fat col ored woman’s eyes were glued to\ the hat she had-left behind on the pile marked, “Your c-hoice for 50 cents.” It was a,golden opportunity not to be missed. Counting out 50 cents In dimes, nickels and pennies, she shoved them at the innocent young attendant and made good her escape with the fash ionable Avoman’s hat.—Exchange. The Q,ueen Bee. IK)SS6sses the p o w e r of which of h e r o f f s p r i n g shall be d r o n e s She iK)SS6sses the power o choosing and which thought'-that this s. Some have automatic and tnought'* that tlie naiTower workei* cell touebefl th e button,\ so to speak, th a t bi-ought forth a fertilized egg. B u t the queen will lay worker eggs in drone cells if she thinks I f the dr Irone is male and the queen female, what is the worker? The new Sii( USi la: mother, but no father. If the queen’s her motherhood for a business career, it is sti-ictly true to say Som etim es, though, she lays eggs, but they always hatch out drones, of which \ have a wings are crippled so that she cannot make her marriage flight, her children are all drones. An Italian queen in a “hive of black bees ^ will beget work ers of mixed blood, but hor sons are pure Italians. Drones are useful as fathers of workers, but they cannot col lect the honey they eat. Their tongues are too short.-Ainslee’s. C laddagh Rings. Tbe old “‘poesy Tings” are a much sweeter souvenir than more modern ones. A friend has one which had be- longad to her great-gi’andmother, such a narrow gold circlet. The motto, en- gi-aved inside in old lettering, w'as as follows: “God above increase our love.” The “Claddagh” rings of Ire land ai’G now very difficult to procure— that is, the genuine specimens, of course. There are many imitations. These rings were heirlooms with the people of the Oladdagh, a distinct gyp sylike race of fishermen, and were handed down from mother to daugh ter as a wedding ring,' a marriage be ing scarcely considered legal if an or dinary ring were substituted. They were made of massive gold, decorated ■with a heart, bearing a crown snp- )ed bands, signify- lendship. ported by two claspi ing loyalty, love, fri« Tlie -Ciiattainefl. , Tlte quickest -way.to m ake any m an weary of his life is to give him all his heart’s desire. The struggle for the unattained is the secret of joy. Here is a man who has been giving his years to a reckless round of pleasure. Now you see him waking up to find that the deepest needs of his soul are still -an- tbuebed. Oi’ there is another man who has given twenty-five years' to the ac cumulation of knowledge, and at last we see him, like Dr. Casaubon in “Mid- dlemareh,” dying with the stores of knowledge all around him, which he does not know how to use. lilvins One Day at a Time. met with a serious ac id 'a very pain ful operatioii and many months’ con- A certain cident, which' necessitatec finement to' her bed, says one of our exchanges. \When the physieian had finished his tvork and was about tak ing’liis leave, the patient asked, “Doc tor, how long shall I have to lie here helpless?” “Oh, only a <3 cheery answer. And ‘Oh, only a day at a time,” was the the poor was not only comforted''for the mo- man; ‘ ” ir sufferer lent, but many times through the suc- jeding w e a r y w e e k s did the-thought, “Only a day a t a time,” come back with its quieting influence. feast Of flags,'for lioys; seventb of sev enth month, the day for the god and of Early Printing and Ill-nstrafing. The first printing press in the United States began its civilizing '-work at Cambridge, Mass.,\in Harvard univer sity in 16.30. The first American made illustration, it is still believed, is in Tully’s Almanac of Boston in 1(598. The first A m erican copperplate portrait published in tliis country was in In crease Mather’s ‘“ichabod,” published In 1703. .T h e first three engravers w e re Paul Revere, Benjamin Franklin and Isaiah Thomas, w>ho distinguished him- self at t h e battle of Lexington. ' Japaneses Festivals. T h e Ja-panese f e s tivals are_ e a s ily re membered: First of first month, the new year; third of third month, feast of dolls, for'girls; fifth of fifth month, ' '■ ■ flags.'for boys: soyentb of ^ ninth of ‘escape to the tain,” th e fea s t of chrysanthemums. The. latter is not now generally ob served. ______ ^ ________ ■ Anniversary* Thonghts. “Hubby, dear, do you know that \WO will’have been married ten years next Tuesday?” , “Yes; I realize that we are getting along and should begin to ’economizfi fo r th e needs o f the future.” < “I t is not the future that I am thinK- lug about, but the present'.”-N e w York How A-boat T h o s e t “If\ you -want to improve your mind,” said the sage, “assoelate only •with persons who kno-w more than you do.” - . “B u t i f th e y follow th e sam e rule,” said one o f those w h o w e re learning wisdom a t h is feet, “w h a t are w e to do?”-^Chlcago - t r ib u n e . > HI* Position. A-n aafchange tells of a godfather -who when asked in the course of tbe serv ice if he believed what ail Christians hold a s the essentials of th e faltfi an- *wered with emphasis, “I renounce them all,” to the consternation of '|he parson and all the -witnesses. A FISHERMAN’S LUNCH. 'or His Noonday Meal.- In the deep shade of the tree the bas kets am laid, and now a fire is started hearby, one of Yan Dyke’s little “friendship fires,”- which shall also cook a few trout. “Get two flat stones, friend—and they’ll be hard to find in this bowlder country, but they are sometimes! worn quite flat—while I gather some sufficient wood.” Into the fire the stones go, and the wood is heaped about them. Soon the intense glow of live wood embers indicates that the time has come. The trout, a sliver of bacon in each, are plaeed on one stone, first w e ll dust ed of its ashes, and^ the other stoue is laid upon them . N o w the hot embers are raked about and over the stones, and the lunch is spread on the big rock near the spring. O ye epicures, who think nothing a Sherry, go ye low a brook for half a day, get wet and good unless served by a Delmonico or into the mountains, fol- tired and hungry, sit down by an ice k trout cooked ms bread and ith clover hon- dined.—“Trout Philosoxihy on a Vermont Stream” in Outing. ingry, ! cold spring and eat brook trout cooked ;er libe ey. N o t t ill then have ye c and Philosoxihy on a Veri Id spring ai the spot and delicious bread and butter liberally spread with clover hon- m have ye dined.—“Trout A “Lot” of Land. A Hartford lawyer is of tbe opinion that the term “lot” as applied to a par cel of land is an American product, not derived from any other uses of the word. He says: “I have been reading up some of the old histories of my State, of Long Island and other colo nial sections recen \ - _ _ - . from other uses of the word. It origi nated from the custom of dividing Lilts for townships, etc., into parcels jmberiiig each pa [and and then numbering each pai eel, liuttiug the numbers into a hat or whatever was used aud then having them drawn out by those -w-ho w e r e to occupy the land. Each man took the .reel corresponding to his number, so ime, is aiic-ient history, icient enough to have been forgotten iiy, hence tbe use of the term. This, I pre- , is ancient history, but perhaps by most real estate dealers and other people who deal in land and not lan guage.” _______________ Lis-Utnins and -WatcUes. “An electrical storm seems to have a peculiar effect on some ti\-icr>io-’esy’ remarked the junior parlner”bf'a big downtown jewelry firm. “Every time lightning aud thunder get active in this vicinity one of the results is that our watch repaii-ing department Is overworked for several days t-here- ight^ “'Vt^hen business gets dull with us,” le j quire all our employees to pray for a thunderstorm. Failure to comply with this order is considered sufficient cause for discharge. I am unable to make clear the whys aud wherefores, but it is an established fact that after the lightning has frolicked awhile in come the watches with mainsprings wreck ed.”—Washington Star. after. The damage wrought chiefly added the’ jeweler jokingly, “wo consists of broken mainspri] 1 dull ■Wauted Raiavpater. “Boy, bring me a large pitcher of rainwater and a sm a ll pitcher of w e ll water,” said the wom an from the coun try wlio just bad been assigned to a hotels. “Yes’m,” said the boy, with an air of “Now, Avbat kind of a drink’s that? It’s a new one on me.” At the bar they tiirn.ed him do-wji. “It’s no mineral waters she wants. Just draw two pitchers of Croton from the faucets aud pass ’em up to her. Rainwater! I ain’t heard of it since I was a boy and lived in the country,” said the bartender. “Yon couldn’t use it if you could find it in New York.”— New York Press. Soei-ety's Right to Confiseate. Wbat shall become of a man’s prop erty after he is dead is a matter for so ciety to determine. If it seems ine.xpe- dient to allow a rich man to leave a child reared in luxury without means of'*support or to leave a quarrel ou the hanfls of his heirsi it is entirely within society’s right to restrict his license in that particular. The whims of testa tors are a good deal of a nuisance and not by courts.—Li “specte Life. Snpci-sfltlous A-bont Bees. The superstitions which connect bees w ith the death or sickness of the mem bers of the particular family in which they are kept are-interesting. In Scot land and Ireland the entrance of a bee into a cottage, more particularly If it be a bumblebee, is look( !bee, is looked upoi of the death of sor g there. In in swarmin,g dead wood it is regarded as cqn: certain sign of the death of some one then residing there. In other locali ties if bees in swarmin settle upoi •ded as cqnall; G e n n iue Sun Tess—I told that old beau of yours that you were married. Jess—Did you? Did he seem sur prised? Tess—Yes, indeed! H e said, “H o w on earth did that happen?”—Philadel phia Press. Acenstomed to Luxuries. Mr. Courting (exhibiting penknife)— T h is handle is pure silver. W h a t do you think of that? Little Girl —Hub! Tbat’s nothing. Sister’s teeth is on a plate of pure A .Subtle Distinction. W h en a person of w e a lth indulges in unusual taste or hobbies, he is de scribed as being eccentric. If be is a poor man, he is merely called a crank. —Exchance, ____________ _ Just tlie -Word. Youngwed (on bridal tour)—I would like rooms for myself and trife. Hotel Clerk—Suite, I suppose? Toungwed-Tfaat’s what. She’s the greatest thing that ever happened.— CSiieago News. Paying tlie Teacliei', He—There is nothing like experience, after all. She is our greatest-teacher. She—And there is no holding hack her salary, either.—Brooklyn Life. The Motto That Snlted. “It would be helpful to you,” said the prison visitor, “if you could take some motto and try to live up to it.” ' “ThA’s right,” replied the convict. ‘.‘I’d like to select, for instance, ‘We are here today and gone tomorrow.’ ’’ F lattery is often a traffic o f m u tual meanness, where, although both par ties intend dec^tiou, neither is celved.—<;3olton, - A HONEYMOON CLOUb.'T; ffliy the Brill© Feared Her HnaBand Not Love Her. “It was pretty hard to have the hon- lymoon clouded before we had been jaarried two hours,” complained a new- “Fact i excitement of the wedding day .took ly married man. t is, though,\ the away the little sense I had remai “We were married a t noon and, dodgingdodging thehe customustom aryary riceice t c r and old shoes, left for the station. 'We ha^ barely time to catch our\ train, and I rushed np to the ticket window at once. Then, once more, we had to run the gauntlet of friends, who think It smart to throw rice do\wn one’s collar and have i t sift dow n into one’s shoes. “We got into the train at last, and when it started I heaved a sigh of re lief. When the collector came round for tickets, I handed mine over. After looking at it for a jnomend^ he asked me if the lady was trayi^iil^ \witii'nie. “That was the Japt straw, 'a'nd I snapped out for hiin, t o m ind h is own business. “ ‘That^ is what I am trying to do,' he answered coolly. ‘One more ticket, please.’ “Then Lurry ai lad fOl’^otten “Then it flashed upon m e th a t in the [’gOttG the look that my wife gave me will hurry and excitement of the moment I had forg I had a wife. I paid the other fare and tried t o laugh i t off, but :r with me as long as I live. It took me two hours to argue her out of the impression that I didn’t love her any more, and she isn’t fully satisfied yet”—Kansas City Independent. The of fSie Bohin. Let us hide behind th a t elump o f blackberry busbes and watcb tbe par ent birds as they come to feed their young. There comes -the father robin now. You can distinguish him from r plum a g e, that in coming with alights on a particular the mother by his darker itice You will the food twig, hops along a particular branch id alights on a particular side of the If you w a tchi nest. I f yo u w a tc h e d him for a w e ek, you would probably see him approach the nestis'in precisely the sam e w a y each tim e. N o w here com es the m oth er, a lighter colored bird, w ith gray on the back of her head. You see th a t she reaches the nest by quite a differ ent route and alights upon the other side of it, and she w ill do this over and over and over again. Like m e n and women, birds acquire habits which, they rigidly adhere to unless s o m e thing prevent them .—E r n e st Ha^r B a y n e s lit W oman’s H o m e Gom- old^I panion. Honest Mfstalce. The story is told- of a little New Bi land girl the workings of whose Pi tan conscience involved her In diffi culties on one occasion. She was studying mental arithmetic a t school and took no pleasure in it. One day she told her mother, with much depression of spirit, that she had “failed, again in mental, arithmetic,” and on being a,sked wbat problem had proved her undoing she sorrowfully, mentioned the request for the addition of “nine and four.” “And didn’t you know the answer, dear?” asked her mother. “Y e s’m,” said the little maid; “b u t you know, we are to write the answers ou our slates, and before I thought I made four m arks and counted ’leven, twelve, thirteen,’ and then, < course, I kuew that wasn’t mental, i I wrote twelve for the answer to be fair.”—Youth’s Companion. Hats In CUnvcIi. “Time was,” says the London Chron icle, “when men wore their hats in church, and Pepys evidently consid- d it an unnecessary piece of he has the entry, ‘To church ai ness to insist ^ aring their hats on in church.’ ipt. 28 following he went to ered it an unnecessary piece of strict- head in ary for Nov. 17, 1661, ‘To church and heard a simple fello|^ upon the praise of church musique^lud exclaiming against men’s wearii] “On Sept, the French church at the Savoj where ‘the minister do preach with his hat off, I suppose in fuilther conformity with our church,’ “Probably it was about this date that the custom of removing hats in the church began.” Glad There \W'as Something. “There are not a few people who take a pitiable and morbid delight In believing that they are assailed by an incurable disease which must shortly close their careei'S,” observed a doctor. “I am sure there is somet'hing the matter with my lungs. Please tell me saidaid a veryery anxious old the truth,” s a v i tion and lady to her physician the other day. The latter made a careful examina- a replied, “I 1 normalormal condition.” ‘ find that your lungs are in a n c The patient, w ith a deep sigh of res ignation, asked, “And about how long can I expect to live w ith them in that enndit-inn?’^ ______________ _ “John,” said t h e m a n w h o w a s domi nated by his mother-in-law, “do you believe there is any sense in a man marrying a w h o le fam ily?” “I do,” said John. “I believe a man w ith seven charm ing daughters w o u ld be a fool i f he didn’t seize the first op portunity to do it,” it.—Baltimore News. Which goes to show that we are misunderstood when -sve least expect TLe Difference. Coming out of a woman’s club: “The difference between my bnsband’s cluD| and mine,” said the pretty Woman ini the turquoise colored toque, lookli at her watch, “is that mine lasts from 2 until 6, and his lasts from 6 un* Mammon’s Acrobatics. j “A financial crash, and, poor fcjlqi^j he went under.” • -> “Aud then she thre-w him over, I hear-”-Baltimoro'llerald, Mlsimaerstood. \And we have one baby,” said the m e ek m a n w h o w a s applying for board. “Will you mind it?” “Mind It?” snapped the thin faced landlady. “Of course not. Do you’ think I’m a nurse?”—Chicago News; E e x e m a Ho-sv it reddens the skin, itches, oozes, dries and scales i Some people call it tetter, milk crust or salt rheum. The suffering from it is sometimes in tense; local applications are resorted to— they mitigate, but cannot cure. I t proceeds from humors inherited or quired and persists until these have be«i xemoved*.
