How Does Your Watch Co? NO OVERCOATS Says It Is Not Safe tu Army Officer Wear Them There. THEY PASSED ON. THEN ALASKA. IN FORT FOR CITIZEN SOLDIERS Lurid Pun Marked End of Conversation Between Poets. them for very little that "You do not find anyone wearing "My son." asked the aged Virgil, as are guaranteed timekeeper. overcoats in Alaska, even in the win- they paused to rest in a sunshiny spot We sell ter," said Maj. F. M. It Beail, recentreturned from that territory. "The principal thing to be careful about Is keeping the head, hands and feet warm. In that part of Alaska where I have been the only land transportation is by dog sleds and to follow them one has to drop into a dog trot beside the sled. "An ordinary suit is plenty thick enough to keep you warm and an overcoat Is dangerous In that temperature. Trotting alongside a sled wearing an overcoat would make you perspire and the bitter cold would freeze the perspiration. "The men there wear a fur cap that covers every part of the head and face except the eyes and there is only Wool-linea little peep-holfor them. mitts are worn on the hands and moccasins with woolen stockings on the feet" Maj. Beall has been three years in Alaska, commanding Fort Gibbon, the garrison consisting of two companies of the Third United States infantry. He Is now on leave of absence. "Fort Gibbon is 900 miles up the Yukon rivsr and 75 miles south of the ly 'MiGrMAlN ST. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Coal Under a School. seam of coal has been found under a portion of the East Council school, Nottingham, England, and it has been decided by the Notts educational committee, subject to the approval of the board of education, to sell this to the Butterley tolliery for 65. The liability for any lettlement of the buildings In conse-luenc- e of the taking of tte coal will, la stated, lie with the company. A Kirkby-in-Ashflel- Foolish Finance. dar's Brudder Squallop!" typercriticaily said old Brother Brown-back- . "Dat man don't 'pear to have no mo' sense dan a mussiful Providence nginerly 'stows on young wheelbar-rers- ! He beats his wife Lawsuzz! f ain't sayin' she don't need it, she do! But dat ain't de p'int, and de blame fool beats her so bad dat he baa to hire a doctor for her 'moat every time! What kind o' financiem' arin dat, I axes you? Yassah! what kind?" Puck. "Now, e order to avoid meeting so many shades, "my son, looking back over what you have beheld since coming to this place, which do you consider is the worst Canto you have seen?" "Number nine and a half, series B. Dat.'s de sausage," answered Dante without hesitation. "Tho sausage'.'" inquired Virgil. "I mean de wurst." hastily corrected the poet. "And why, my son?" further nosied his guide. "Well, dat's here de ghost of Bill de barkeep wouldn't stand me off fer a couple o' drinks. He said me face was can't owe dat house any-t'ln- '! dead, an' But wot's dat place over dere, where dey make so much noise? me of de boiler shops back o' Lafferty's caffy." "That," explained Virgil, "Is called the three L resort." "De wot?" gasped Dante in short meter. "The three L's; it stands for the Lurid Liars' Lair. All liars are put to work here for a season," said Virg. "Wot dey doin'?" Forging lies,' 'answered Virgil, and in 1 SUCCEEDS SIR MORTIMER DURAND. JmmS' ' Judge Worthy of the Bench. In the court of Judge Klamroth, ot Pasadena, Cal., the other day, when a cross-examinin- Greyhound's Historic Lineage. The Eastern greyhound has beet from time Immemorial the hunting log of the Eastern plains, and, making allowances for the artlctlc attainmenti of those early periods, we find repre Mentations of him which are almost identical with the dogs of ob he monuments and tombs of ancient Mgypt It Was a Nugget. Workmen were digging a drain neai the city hall of Bendigo, South Africa, when the pick of one of them re bounded after having struck some ihlng hard. "That must be a nug set," remarked a Jocular bystander "I'll look," said the workman, and th 'text moment he had a lump of quarts hlckly studded with gold In hit nands. Said by the Observer. Clever women are always greatly vlmired. but the silly ones get mar riod. Scheduled All Real Estate. The tax collector of Adelaide. South Australia, officially reports the conscientiousness of a taxpayer who, In setting up a statement of the real es 'ate he owned, for taxation purposes, put down a place of laud of his raeas 'jrlng nine feet by six feet In " cemetery," and under that column, Name of Occupier." gave that of his departed wife. Budding Newspaper Men. The smallest newspaper printed in Main is the North Wayne Star, published twice a month for the past two three years by two young boys. The pages are only 4 4x6 inches, but here are 12 of them and they are vlways fill.d with InteresUng local 'It'Wh Many Ways of Cooking Bananas. Bananas are served in the same way ?in plantains 1a the West Indies, and the Americans anxious to find a new Mid delicious addition to the dairy "lll of fare cannot do better than try fried or baked green bananas, or, boiled and pounded, they can be fried M bulling grease. n - five-yea- , ! i "Star-Spangle- Famed Yosemite Valley. James Bryce has accepted the, appointment of British ambassador to the United States In succession to Sir Mortimer Durand. It is understood that Mr. Bryce's appointment will not take effect until the reassembling of parliament in February. UNDER THE PROTECTCARE OF FEDERAL GOV then after wondering whether poe license would be likely to be found the three L's, they passed the r Toledo Blade. ERNMENT. Generations Will Thus Be As of Beholding the Wonders of Nature's Strange - Hoffmann and Cathedral peak, the the valley, party finally reached whose wonders they were first of civilized human beings to behold. They killed some of the Indians and made peace. Nevertheless, not long afterward, In 1852, a party of miners was attacked by redskins in the valley, two of them being slain near Bridal Veil meadow. Another expedition followed, more Indians were killed, and the rest driven out. being compelled to take refuge with a tribe of Monos on the east side of the But trouble followed: the Sierras. fugitives stole horses from the Monos, fled to the Yosemite, were overtaken, and in a battle were almost entirely exterminated. In 1856 the first pleasure travel to the Yosemite began, and a trail entering the valley from the south side was opened. The first house was built in that year, opposite Yosemite falls. The whole region was originally part of the public domain belonging to the government of the United States, but the government gave the valley to California, though retaining possession of an extensive area, which, together surrounding with the valley, has been known for many years as the Yosemite park. The word Yosemite means grizzly bear. In the valley when the whites first came, there were, it Is said, nine villages, comprising about 500 souls. These people were of the who were much the largest nation in California, their ancient dominion extending over a consirerable portion of the state. The mountain valleys in those days were thinkly peopled, and along the rivers, which were full of fish, numerous villages But they were very were scattered. primitive savages, both sexes and all ages going entirely naked. Their are commonly known as Digger, and every autumn they gather, in and about this valley, quan- titles of acorns, which are their chief food supply, and which they store In curious cylindrical receptacles of basket-work fastened on posts or in the forks of trees Didn't Like His Tombstone W. W. Mayes of near Thomps Moods. who is In his eighty-eightyear, h sued his daughter, Mrs. Eliza Givens for $97.50, which he claims he loaned IT Future generations who will visit he Yosemite valley and marvel at her, to be returned when he requested he wonderful beauty and grandeur It, says the Columbia Herald. Mrs. Givens acknowledges that the )f this garden spot will be grateful o the federal government, by whose Too Rapid Growth. money was paid to her to purchase a ct In the year 1906 this spot in the son Is of tombstone and to meet her father's The minister's eat state of California was preeerv- a very critical, literal turn of mind, funeral expenses at his death. The as a perpetual government reser- and his father's sermons sometimes money was given to Mrs. Givens years tion. With the taking over of the fahis He hlni was in gold. Recently Mrs. regards ago, and it sorely. puzzle ther as the embodiment of truth and Givens bought a monument for her mysterious valley," as it used to e called, new boundary lines have wisdom, but he has difficulty in har- father for use when he should die, en surveyed, and within three uttermonizing the dominie's pulpit paying $60 for it, and her father saw it tedious stage ances with the world as It really is. and approved of the bargain. But lonths the hitherto His parents sncourage him to express lately he changed his mind about the ourney over the mountains will have iven place to the crolley line which his opinions, and clear up his doubts matter, and the action was recently nters the valley through a canyon as much as possible. So one Sunday taken into court. The jury awarded at dinner, after a long period of plaintiff judgment in the amount of t its western end, and next spring the tourists who visit the wonderful thought, they were not surprised when $50, defendant to pay the costs. place will be able to make the trip he said gravely: "Papa, you said one An Conductor. I wmfortably by trolley the requisite in sermon Energetic that your thing Charles Santley, the English tenor, electricity for which will be furnished don't think Is so at all." water power. "Well, what's that, my boy?" asked who celebrates his jubilee as a singer; next year, relates an amusing story.' the clergyman. The reservation, as now officially "I was singing at a provincial town rlitlined. Is 32 miles In width, from "Why, papa, you said 'the boy of when the conductor gave me a sharp uast to west, and 40 miles long from of Is tho man That's too soon." rap on my head. A few minutes later north to south. But the valley itself he again hit me. He afterward be- lajonly six miles long by half a mile stowed his attention on the lady voHonest. It is sunk just about one width. e vertically below Guest Walter, what do you mean calist, whose chignon ho contrived, the general el ofithe adjacent region, resettl by this? You bring me the fish first with a single flourish, to detach from her head, much to her annoyance and and the soup after. ing a gigantic trough of irreunilar Waiter (confidentially) To tell you Inconvenience, as she had to continue hape, hollowed out in the mountains, the truth, sir, the fish would not keep her solo holding the chignon In its .'early In the center of the slate of tllfornla, the Yosemite Is 155 miles any longer. Translated for Transat- place with one hand and her musio with the other." lantic Tales from Fliegende Blatter. fom San Francisco, as the crow flies 4 a little south of eaal in early days the whites in that CONGO FREE STATE TERRITORY. part of California had a good deal df trouble with the Indians, settlers '"I MaMWMBW '.. SS I .," .; w. ft.' tng murdered occasionally, and va- It w:s ious outrages committed. .unod that the savages had some iirt of retreat far dp in the moun ilns a natural Stronghold, in which L hey deemed ihemsi Ives safe from irsuit or attack and. curiosity on jyu j he Bi.bjoct being excited, a military Inheritance. was organized to explore Mr. Oadd Does your boy lake after xpeditlon m hfr region and drive out the Indians. you, or his father? w m-- . v Xijr rMrs. Gabb He takes after bis Cnder the guidance of an old chief, Tenaya, whose name Is perpetuated father. You never can believe a word In a beautiful lake between Mount be says. N. Y. Weekly. h y to-da- mmm I rrmmmm ., Mvy -V am "I Progressive. 11 red your old hear you've stenog-ipher?- "Yep." "What for'" "So I could employ a Houston Host In This Is he tei rltot over which such a fierce dispute is raging over the conduct of the fovei tuneiit and the demand that a concei t of Europe inter--. st of tuimanltv in the all Located. Brute. "Did you hear tlta! there wa: a Knlrker When do you take sKelctoh In .Jones' family?" You don't say so!- Whe-e"heavy meal of the ila ? Boekei wife cooks When "Inside of Jones" Mlwaukei mm tlnel. i. y. auu. tho - i ' oung one.' Unable to lecify. Ituggiea How are the heating ar rangements in your flat'.' Kamage Heating arrangements? i here's a mitigating circumstance or t i In the basement, I believe, but I don't know of anything as definite as an arrangement- - ChicaKo Tribune. 111 I lt- .- FORTY-EIG- PE-RU-- M HT CURED NA Cold Affected Head and HIM. Throat-At- tack was Severe. Chas. W. Bowman, 1st Lieut, and 4th M. S. M. Cav. Vols., writes from Lanham, Md., as follows: "Though somewhat averse to patent medicines, and still more averse to becoming a professional affidavit man, it seems only a plain duty in the present instance to add my experience to the columns already written concerning the curative powers of Peruna. "I have been particularly benefited by its use for colds in the head and throat. I have been able to fully cure Adjt myself of a most severe attack in forty-eighours by its use according to directions. I use it as a preventive whenever threatened with an attack. ht "Members ot my family also use it for like ailments. We are mending it to our friends." recom- Chas. W. Bowman. itsJt Your Druggist for Free Peruna Almanac for 1907. Invention Long Looked for. A Paris paper devoted to scientific announces the discovery of method of shielding watches and clocks from all magnetic Influences. It is said to be the work of a watchmaker named Leroy. subjects a practical Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTOUTA, t children. a safe and sure remedy for infanta and see that it Bears the Signature of In TIb For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought Long Sight. The longest distance ever compassed by human vision is 183 miles, being the distance between the park, In Colorado, and Mount Ellen, in Utah- This feat waa accomplished by the surveyors of the United States coast and geodetic survey, who were engaged, in conjunction with representatives of other nanew measurement tions, in making of the earth. e Prevalence of Suicides. The Clvlllta Cathollca draws a distressing and melancholy picture or the epidemic In Europe. Within fmtcide 30 years not less than a mil ioe sulrldoa have been committed In Wurope. and In this total Germany tlOM Bgnrei with :to.noo. Crowded New York. Packing of the poor population of New York City Ik shown by the fact that the moat thickly setiied tenemeal house block ii cased In wpu latloa 84 per col la the last Ave year MILITIA. 1 arctic circle," he said, "and the river is frozen up most of tho year. In that time dog sleds are used, but when the river opens steamers come up frequently. Sometimes the rough characters traveling around the country take possession of a river steamer and It's part of our work to restore order and recapture the steamer. "The chief work of the soldiers at Fort Gibbon is to keep the telegraph lines going." BOWMAN. TO BE USED M'HENRY honey-combe- Shoot Fish With Arrows. In the South seas and In various groups of islands In the Indian ocean the aborigines shoot fish with the bow and arrow. The art Is extremely iifflcult, as in taking aim at an object ander water the archer has to allow Cor refraction. If he were to aim directly at the fish as he sees It, ha would, of course, miss. Long practice has, however, made the natives expert (n this sport. witness had testified that she was married and a attorney asked her: "Will you swear thai you are married?" the Judge stopped Slim and made him apologize, remark ng: "Never, in the eight years have held court have I allowed r woman to be Insulted." subscription, a great five star fort of brick, cement and earth was erectBY MARYLAND ed, whose dungeons in the civil war became the prison of some of the most prominent citizens of Baltimore of Place Lease Secure Guard National whose loyalty to the union was susWhich Is to Be Deserted by the were whose activities and pected Next April. Federal Forces feared. For more than 130 years the stalIt is so often the privilege of citi-sewart ramparts of the fort have kept soldiers to come into possession a tireless vigil. In limes of peace of a fort and parade grounds which in resplendent they have gleamed fairly thrill and pulsate with historic tlieir cloak of green. In times of war memories of loyalty and devotion to they have frowned defiance at the the country's hag ami the nation's foe. The old fort is not so close to Balsafety and honor, but such is the that an invading force, safetimore, the of case with the national guard easstate of .Maryland, which lias through ly out of reach of its guns, might New will. at Baltimore bombard ily the efforts of the citizens of Haiti forts more suitably located and with more and Adjt. Gen. Clinton U Riggs. modern have been conequipments of the militia organization, secured to cope with the great warstructed r lease of tort McHenry a after it is abandoned by the war de, t 'J 7 Thus will partment on April I. in the made famous song the Old fort d Banner," of of the Francis Scott Key, be preserved, and the stars and stripes will continue to float from the old ramparts as they did on that memorable September morning of 1814, when the rising sun, piercing the smoke of battle during the bombardment of the fort by the British, disclosed them to the delight- i ed view of Key, imprisoned on one Entrance to Old Fort McHenry. of the British warships, and inspired Banhim to write "The ships of the day, and the usefulness of the old fort, even as an inner dener." The land of which Fort McHenry is fense, has passed away absolutely. a part was taken up in 1661 under But it will live in history, linked with the name of Whetstone Point, under the national song. On September 13. 1814, after the patent by Charles Gorsuch, a memIts sacking of Washington, the British ber of the Society of Friends. Importance as a military fort was fleet came up the bay, having on early recognized, and in 1775 It had board the troops under the veteran been strengthened It was the latter's boast by the construc- Gen. Ross. tion of a water battery, then im- that he would eat his supper "in Balmaga- timore or hell." He never got to by pregnable, zines and secret underground killed at Baltimore, having been This battery still stands North Point, where he landed in the lntaat, facing the water approaches of early part of the battle. The the lity from the south. Francis Scott Key, a distinguished year, In preparation of a son of Maryland, had on the evening visit Ifrom the British, a boom was before the bombardment gone on the constructed between Whetstone Point American cartel ship Minden under a and, tie Lazaretto, and a great chain flag of truce to effect the release ol He and his suspt'i .ueej uy n smitten uay vessels some captured friends. was s retched across the entrance to vessel were detained in order that The fort remained un- he might not take back information the h ,rbor. der th ; control of the state until 1793, of the lively preparations he witnesswhen it was turned over to the na- ed for the bombardment. The Mind-ein was anchored in sight of the tional government, and named honor of Col. James McHenry, of fort. While the bombardment raged In Maryli ,nd, who was secretary of war in Washington's cabinet. the night and early morning, he beIn rl94, with funds raised by public gan to compose the inspiring lines. HISTORIC in All Now Wear Shoes. Of the making of shoes there may be said literally to be no end, for praci Ucally all the 86.000,000 people In this eountry wear them. The days when a considerable portion of the population went barefooted, or only wore foot coverings on special occasions, or when the weather was inclement, hava long passed away. Kven In the most rural regions the "barefoot boy with cheek of tan" has come to be a thing of the past LIEUTENANT Want Overshoes Made to Order. "One peculiar feature of the shoe trade this season is the demand for overshoes made to order," said the manager of a shoe store. "Many women are wearing shoes with rather narrow, pointed toes and the broad rubbers now on the market are certainly not a very good fit What our customers want is an overshoe that doesn't look like a gunboat, hence the frequent orders for overshoes with graceful lines." N. Y. Sun. THE FIRST TWINCE Of Rheumatism Calls for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills If You Would Be Easily Cured. a well known citizen of Portland, Ionia Co., Mich., was cured of a severe case of rheumatism by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. In speaking about it recently, he said: "My body was run down and in no condition to withstand disease and about five years ago I began to feel rheumatic pains in my arms and across my back. My arms and legs grew numb and the rheumatism seemed to settle In every joint so that I could hardly move, while my arms were I was unable to useless at times. sleep or rest well and my heart pained ma so terribly I could hardly stand it My stomach became sour and bloated after eating and this grew so bad that I had Inflammation ot the stomach. I was extremely nervous and could not bear the least noise or excitement One whole side of my body became paralyzed. "As I said before. I had been suffering about five years and seemed to be able to get no relief from my doctors, when a friend here In Portland told me how Dr. Williams' Pink Pills had cured him of neuralgia In the face, even after the pain had drawn it to one side. I d cided to try the pills ami beg.m to see some Improvement soon after using them. This encouraged me to keep on until I was ant rely cured. I have never had a return of the rheumatism or of the paralysis. The pills are for sale by all druggists or senl, pttpUl on receipt of price, r.n rents per box. six boxes Mediclaa by tor Hi V ;'ihm Company, Schenectady, N. T. Mr. Frank Little, '