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Show CAPTURED A TURKEY. Aro Not Going to Alaeka. A story was told on the dock recent- Wby AND THE RAMROD OP A MUSKET WAS THE TOOL. Billy Edward Bright Srbeme A Soldier Hoy Improved a Tempting Up portnnlty No Inveetlgntlou Wu Ever the close of the year 1861 the Vy 75th New York vol- k unteera, a newly recruited regiment from Cayuga and ijy Wayne counties, ,7 waa put on board a steamer in New York Harbor and Bailed for Santa Rosa Island, at the mouth of Pensacola bay, says the New York Tribune. The boys had got somewhat used to army fare by this time, but it was not what they were accustomed to at home and it is not to be wondered at that they occasionally hankered after the fleshpots of Egypt Time hung rather heavily on the hands of these young warriors for a few days, because there was no guard mounting, drill or dress parade on shipboard. They wandered about curiously, so far as the discipline and usages of the occasion would allow; closely observing the architecture and other naval features of their floating abode. There was a mischievous fellow in the regiment who, for convenience, may be called Billy EdwardB, although that was not his name. One day, while prowling about on deck, Billy and some of his companions detected an odor pleasantly suggestive of viands in process of preparation for the table. Following the clew afforded by their noses they soon ascertained that a turkey, designed for the officers, had been roasted in the cooks galley. Pursuing their investigations still farther, they found that this and glistening bird was exposed to view almost directly under a skylight in the deck on which the soldiers were at liberty to stroll. Whereat their mouths watered and covetous impulses inspired them. Then an idea took possession of Billy. Dashing away with such haste as was possible, he rushed down the companionway to the quarters temporarily occupied by the men, got possession of the ramrod of a musket, adjusted to the end of It the screw employed In drawing a charge from a loaded gun, and then returned to his recent post of observation. He had not long to wait for his opportunity. The turkey still reposed, in blissful unconsciousness of the impending change in its destiny, where it had been a few minutes before. A close watch was kept on the cook. Suddenly, just as the latters back was turned, the ramrod was thrust down at arms length. Inserted in the breast of the bird and given a vigorous rotary wrench, which entangled it in the hot, savory flesh. Gently at first, and then more rapidly, the rod was drawn upward, bringing with it the precious load. The turkey was enveloped in an overcoat and Edwards and his escaped without interference. The meal which they enjoyed in private that day was a memorable event in their careers. The capture of Port Hudson was nothing to it. What the cook said when he diecaver1 that the bird had flown is not on record. He may hare bad his susiclons, but he could not trace the thief. And it is probable that neither the officers of the regiment nor of the vessel deemed it judicious to investigate the affair thoroughly. OWARD - If ed fellow-conspirato- rs Alwar Fall on Their Foot. Why does a cat always fall on its feet? This is a question that has recently absorbed the earnest attention of the French Academy of Sciences. The problem is clearly a difficult one, for that learned body of savants has so far failed to offer a final solution. M. Marey, a distinguished professor who has made a special study of animal movements, claims that the body ol! a cat is composed of two parts, one of which acts as a pivot for the other. Upon dropping the cat, it appears, paws upward, and then by a series of convulsive movements, it gradually rights itself and reaches the ground in an upright position. The whole process of turning is accomplished before the animal has fallen a yard. Without a fulcrum, without something to lean against, the cat certainly would not accomplish the feat. Mr. Marey declares that the animal's limbs act upon a fulcrum which its own bddy provides. Why Cut A Dried I'p the Boy Uk lake near Morrilton, Ark., dried up a couple of years ago, leaving a rich deposit of soil ten feet deep. A portion of It was planted with corn this year and it will yield 200 bushels to the acre. The corn, so the story goes, A was sown broadcast, like wheat, am same up so strong and thick that a coon which recently tried to make Rs way through the stalks was unable to extricate itself, and was captured. Decent D!covry That 1 Marking Wonder. The most prevailing afflictions that for a century have been engaging the most scientific skill of the medical world are rheumatism, neuralgia, catarrh, asthma, la grippe and their kindred allmeats. The country is full of sufferers from these complaints. Although the most learnod experts of the medical profession have labored for a century to produce a curative, until quite recently no positive results were effected. To the Swanson Rheumatic 9 Dearborn street, ChiCure Co., the credit for having cago, belongs produced the new remedy. It is being under the advertised extensively The trade mark of Five Drops. Five trade mark is drops make a dose. The effect is magical. In days gone by other alleged cures have been marketed with the promise to take effect in thirty days or more. Five Drops begins to cure at once. Immediate relief is felt In order to more effectively advertise its merits the company will for the next 100,000 of their thirty days send out of this positive bottles sample cure for 25 cents a bottle by mail pre1 (for paid. Large bottle, 300 doses, 3 bottles 12.50.) Those sufdays thirty advantfering should take immediateand write age of this generous offer y. them 1 167-6- To-nig- ht 2000- ETC. ly in Seattle of three young men who were cured of the Alaskan fever in a very practical manner, says the They had concluded that l, would and had go on the they Now, you purchased their berths. boys," said the aged adviser, want to remember that it's pretty cold up there. It's pretty low temperature here today, jut nothing to what youll find on the Yukon.' Now, let mo advise you. Before going to that country you would better have some experience. You may not like it, and then you will want to come back. promises to be pretty cold. I have a tent at my house that I used when in Alaska. You boys take the tent out on Queen Anne hill anf sleep in it tonight It is now 10 oclock. Dont eat anything until 8 oclock this evening. Then about mild a fire in your tent cook some leans and bacon, fix up some unsweetened block coffee and make a meal. Until bedtime sit around the fire smoking and chewing tobacco and playing cards, and then fix up a rough bunk on the ground and sleep until morning. If you enjoy it,' go to Alaska; if not stay at home. The hoys caught up with City Man This most be a very healthy the idea enthusiastically, and promised (ilaoe, judging from the number of old peoto carry out the programme. Whether ple I have seen here! Native Healthy they did or not is not known, but yes- its 0 blamed healthy that I guess a good terday morning three miserable look- many of em will have to be shot on the ing boys canceled three tickets on the tudgment day Puck. l, and as they humbley left the for Fifty Cant. steamship office one was heard to say: Guaranteed tobacco halilt cure, makes weak cold Do you suppose it really gets that men strong, blood pure. 60c. tl. All druggists. In Alaska?" Babies are helpless little things; every woman that comes along can grab them up DINING AND FEEDING. lud kiss them. N. Y. Press. American Table Manner Not So Open Beauty Is Blood Deep. to CrltlrUm a Formerly. Clean blood means a clean kln. No It has been conceded that the degree beauty without!! Casrarets.Caudy Catharof civilization a people has reached tic dImsi your blood and keens it clean, by tha lazy liver and driving all immay be accurately measured by its (tirring up to from the body. Begin purities dietary, says the Womans Home Com- -' baniKh pimples, boils, blotches, black beads, panion. Now, some one has said that and that sickly bilioiiscomplexion by taking beauty fur ten cents. All drugthe American feeds, the Englishman Cascarets, gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 2oc, DUc. In dines. Frenchman the devours, view of this statement one wonders Tampcranaa Notaa. what the English have been doing When Victoria ascended the advancQueen have to centuries the through ed so 'ittle. We do not pretend to an- throne there were not more than a swer tor them, but would say for our- hundred abstainers among the minisselves, we have been hewing our way ters of the various religious denominthrough forests, pioneering in every ations In the United Kingdom, no direction, in every sense ample apol- bishops and only about a dozen memogy for feeding instead of dining. But bers of the medical profession. Today of course it was a Frenchman who there are, according to returns just ismade the declaration, and of course sued, two archbishops, fourteen bishhe made it long ago, when, mortifying ops of English dioceses, many thousand though it be, honesty compels us to clergymen of every denomination, and acknowledge that we may have been eighteen hundred physicians who are guilty. Times, however, and condi- total abstainers. Moreover, one man tions have changed, and not even the in every three in the army is a teemost bigoted Frenchman will refuse to totaller. admit that when the American has reached the dining point he will have Rudyard Kipling has written one o the more to dine upon than any other best stories for the ISiW volume of Tus The Burning of man In the world. The culture of man Youthb Coufaxiox. is its Sands the Sarah demand in America will title, and it is a all the art in his cuisine that France has by study stirring tale of heroism in the ranks. evolved, with the added merit of hon- Those who subscribe to Tim Youth's Comesty In his food, the disguises Incident panion now will receive the paper free for to poverty of material not being a ne- the rest of the year, and Tus Comfakiokh twelve-colo- r calendar for 181)8. The Comcessity. There 1b no department of calendars are recognized panion's yearly we adnot which in have the supply vantage and we are learning to use oui as among the richest and most costly exmaterials as rapidly as we have been amples of this form of art. Illustrated Prosjiectus of the volume for obliged to learn all other things. 1808 and sample copies of the paper sent on Address BIG TEACUPS FOR THE QUEEN. application. Tbe Youth's Comfaxiox, 207 Columbus, Ave., Boston, Mass. Former Brooklynite' Dearrlbe How Victoria Drink the Beverage. Mr. Gilbert Parker's new story is to bo Brooklyn is as eager after royal anecdotes as even the Four Hundred over called The Battle of the Strong. It is to the bridge, and here is a good one culled appear as a serial la the Atlantic Monthly, from a Brooklyn girls letter. The the first Installment in the number of JanPulestons, formerly of Remsen street, uary, 1898. It will be remembered that the near Hicks street, had two only chil- Atlantic printed Mr. Parker's successful n the Mighty. With Mr. F. dren pretty little dark-eye- d girls, so Scats of serial now Caleb Smiths West, alike in size and appearance as to pass for twins, and were among the bright- running, and Mrs. Wiggins Penelope's Atlantic is now, and prom est of the little folk who played togeth- Progress, the ises to be, particularly rich in good fictia er in that quiet neighborhood. Mr. lOO Reward, B100. and Mrs. Puleston, while their daughThe readers paper will be ters were still in short frocks, went to S leased to learn efthatthis there is at least one disease reeded that science has been able live In England and became Sir John to cure in all Its stages and that Is CaThe little girls have tarrh. Halls Catarrh and My Lady. Cure le the only cure now known to the medical grown up and are among the most pop- positive fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutionular of the smart set in London. al disease, requires a constitution 1 Halls Catarrh Cure is taken One of them in writing lately of the treatment Internally, directly upon the blood acting mucoua and surfaces of the system, queens garden party In connection thereby destroying the foundation ef the with ubilee, says: We were fortunate disease, and giving the patient strength the constitution end asbuilding up enough to be standing near the old by nature In doing Its work. 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He has eight children liv- 8100 to tho PAT maUnu. ASIA bObTn Rich IIOMKSKKKKKS' Ul.IDK. Howto Bet - BMe,, (Ukas. Ilunry Guorgo memorial fund. in all. II ing, making twenty-seve- n is a shoemaker, and is about 70 yean AAAAAAA-.AAAA-AA.- A AA-- A. old. The wife just buried was 4 HtwM t Ht A Beet Cough Syrup, TamwGoud. Us years old. In lima Filial tiv druggist. hi Earrings have never been so fashion- : able in England as in foreign countries It's because you dont cure It with 6T. JACOBS OIL, which pen- but they are worn more now than ai N. U., Salt Lake No. 47, 1897 etratoe to the seat of the pain and subdues, soothes, cure. in of , W. other time the history any Wkia kisverlag Advertisements Kindly. Mention 1 bin Paper. Twenty-Tw- o g.-- I fr-- L KnsS b, Lumfeago? wHwiaia if. |