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Show T HORSES THAT WOULDN'T DROWN Remarkable Deeds Recorded by Two Veracious Chroniclers. An Albanian who has Just returned from the east, where freshets have been the rule, tells the following about a horse which had been attached to a foot bridge crossing a brook, to keep the structure from going adrift The flood Anally swept horse and bridge down stream. Later, the bridge was discovered lodged against the bank, with the horse sitting quiet ly on the former. A bystander who had listened Intently to this tale, remarked quietly: "I see suthln, simllyar oncet." Indeed? What was asked the tory teller. "Ye see," was the reply, arter the boss I see was took down stream, nobuddy ever spected to see him alive agin. But he was a pow'ful sort o' brute, an bout a hour arterward we see him a cornin' up a stream the blame ole bridge arter him!" Albany Evening Journal. BY- - CLYDE.- - ALISON. MANN1 Itr BLACK, ITCHING SPOTS ON FACE. Physician Called It Eczema in Worst Form Patient Despaired of Cure Cuticura Remedies Cured Her. "About four years ago 1 was afflicted with black splotches all over my face and a few covering my body, which produced a severe itching irritation, and which caused me a great deal of Buffering, to such an extent that 1 was forced to call In two of the leading . After a thorough physicians of examination of the dreaded complaint they announced it to be skin ecaema In the worst form. Their treatment did me no good. Finally I became despondent and decided to discontinue their services. My husband purchased a single set of the Cuticura Remedies, which entirely stopped the breaking out I continued the use of the Cuticura Remedies for six months, and after that ever splotch was entirely gene. 1 have not felt a symptom of the ecaema since, which was three years ago. Mrs. Lizzie E. Sledge, 540 Jonea Ave., Selma, Ala., Oct 28, 1905." NOT TO BEAUTIFY. Capt. Riley was intently watching window the approach from his net-loof his biggest fishing tug, the Alice Riley. Even In tbn ianer harbor she was pitching ana rolling in the December seas and was sheathed in Ice from bobbing timber head to the overhang aft. Not a boxful, not one, he groaned, seeing the nested fish boxes still lashed to the deckhouse roof. But the boys '11 get their pay, somehow; they'll get It, if I have to slap a mortgage on all the outfit." No one else should know It. but the truth was Christmas cheer was not in Capt. Rileys heart as he turned grarely to the twine-reelinhe had busied himself with since he broke his ankle and Billy Noonan had proudly taken out the Alice Riley, the most powerful tug that fished off Skllllgalee in the Straits of Mackinac. The tug tied up to the dork with a bump, there was some shouting, heavy footsteps clumping on the icy wharf, then up the shaky stairs and the door flew open letting In a blast of raw north wind and an being in oil skins who presently shed his chrys alls and became a crestfallen skipper, a rurly-halrealert young fellow, who almost hugged the roaring stove, for he was drenched and shivering, Not a pound, capn," was his greeting. "Breezed up so we couldnt touch the nets," he added. Old Michigan must be cuttln' up considerable, the old man answered Never mind, boy, ye'll get cheerily. 'em next time. But Billy Noonan knew how bad the fishing had been all year, and could figure as well as his employer how bad matters must be. Not a man of them ft g ice-coat- Mrs. Haymow e What do you wear that mask for? I Chauffeur Well, 111 tell you. wear it so that the people I run over won't be able to recognize me. Ways of William Penn. Simeon Ford recently said at a banquet in the course of a eulogy on William Penn: "Penn was a man of peace and always got the biggest one. He believed In doing right by the Indians, and when he did them he did them right "The Puritans extinguished the Indian title by the simple expedient of extinguishing the Indian; but the pious Penn, instead of Bhooting them, got them half shot and accomplished the same result Hence the saying, Penn la mlghter than the sword. " Point of History Cleared Up. The Dentist Now, open wide your mouth and I won't hurt you a bit The Patient (after the extraction) Doctor, 1 know what Ananias did for a living now. Illustrated Bits. mm (tked is a to is dais PAR) MKH ayr tsmswgsrt SBfHW Fiat Blind. of to Mdartocauioey refunded. Me. Justice, it would seem. Is both blind and deaf. pilot-hous- e Got a Line to Her. all but loved the grizzled old man, and marveled at him. for he knew the lake bottom from Point Betsie to the great log railway that scarred the bluffs north of Waugoshance light, as most men know dry land. Billy Noonan, however, also loved the old captain's daughter, Mary, and had hoped how he had hoped! to bring in a big catch of whlteflsh when he was given the big tug to lift the last nets of the year. boooo-ooNow a lean Christmas, a very lean "AH right!" Christmas, seemed certain in the Riley Again, deep, full and growing lesr borne a home for all homeless lads the whistle Bounded, "All right" faint, at Christmas time. Mary's laugh had That means a Christmas for all of been infrequent of late and her merrius. Mary, in spite of the fish! ment had been forced. Then there came a succession of Here she was herself in the doorshort, sharp toots and tbe captain way as the crew clumped In. Billy stared perplexed. With a twinkle be Noonan, she called, don't you know turned to Mary. you'll swamp the tug with the fish Do you know what that means, Jammed to the gunwalls, so? There Mary?" be asked. was a note in her raillery that cut him Sbe flushed crimson, but before she to the quick. How queenly she was, her arms about her father with put blue-eyethis straight, brunette, wrap- a hug that he understood she flashed ped In the captain's oilskins, flushed her answer from the bow window with from facing the storm! a lamp. Ths captain, smiling, for a Billy Noonan lay awake that night, long time sat looking at a picture over notwithstanding the long day at the the mantel, the picture of her mother. wheel of the lurching tug. Through Merry Christmas," he said to the pichis window he stared out at the black- ture, very softly. "I knew it would ness, and he listened to the wailing come." wind; walling, It seemed to him, comBilly brought It and Billy bad it. plaint at the year of misfortunes and an nnforgetable Christmas with the pitiful catches of fish, walling comRiley's. When at last he "roiled in plaint at the wages and prices of fish with Kelly, the fireman would have his fixed by the union that made the lot Joke he called it "Mary Christmas." of Capt. Riley ao hard in an off" year. Copyright, 1907 by Wright A. Patterson. Far out on the Charlevoix pier no white light shone, up and down the angry lake the lighthouses and lightships were nowhere else on watch, the fog signals were silent, although belated barges still stumbled up and flash In down the lake. Suddenly-the north, and another and another, the flash of rockets, brought him out of bed. This side o Waugoshance, about "Bad White Shoals, he calculated. place with this wind." He shook his Ah Old English Custom. Kelly, the fireman, and finally roused him. The old country Englishman never Get out Kell, someone's In trouble fails to nnbar his door at 12 o'clock near the straits and maybe the Alice New Year's eve to let the old year RUev can get a line to her first out and the new year in. red-eye- Boo-oooo- d A TERRIBLE jytured MAN'S LACK OF GALLANTRY. CONDITION. by Sharp Twinges, Shooting Pains and Dizziness. Biram Center, 618 south Oak Street City, Minn, su;. a: "1 was so bad Ut with kidney trouble I could not straighten up after stooping without sharp paina shooting through my back. I had dizzy spells, was nervous and uy ay sight was affected. The kidney secretions were irregular and too frequent. 1 wa In a terrible condition, but Doan's Kilnvy Pills cured me and I have perfect health since. Sold by all deale's. 50 cents a box. that en-Jof- ld Foster Mllburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Highball? Did you ever exercise with Yeast Or, as You May Look at It, Womans a medicine ball?" Crimson beak "Weil, Ive taken something for snake bites. Unreasonableness. If that's wbat you mean." H. J. Conway, of Chicago, president International Of tho Retail Clerks union, advocated at tbe recent convention in Bt. Louis tbe same pay for women as for men clerks. "When women," said Mr. Conway afterward, "do the same work aa men they should get the same wagea. Aad anyone wbo argues that this la impossible seems to mo at once as ect- Cleanses tke System and as Illogical as the famous husband of Faint Rurk. u ally, Dispels Colas an "This husband was returning homo due lo Constipal! from market late one Saturday night Acts naturally, acts Truly as with hla wife. The wife was burdened with a huge market basket, a broom, Laxative. a kit of mackerel dear knows what 13est forMenVknum and Child' alL Aa for the man, he carried nothing. onJ un . "Coming to a steep hill, the wife rp-VoiTs paused and said reproachfully: lienJicialiLjtetis gel Jack, if you were a real man, Alwavs buy tke Genuine vvkitk youd help me carry some of these lias Hie jolt name oj ike Com- parcels. Jack glared at her in disgust and d Syrup fnd mr nt enua arlies a 0IJ. "CALIFORNIA scorn. Aw. how can I? he growled. 'Aint I got goth hands in my pockHvhobuth Sunday lleruld. ets?' Fig Syrup Co. Builds Church for Hia Own Use. George Smith, who, a few moalha ago, created a sensation in the district court at Reno by kneeling in prayer in tbe midst of a murder case and asking God for light on the evident in the case, and who later severely criticised the Judge for passing the death sentence on four convicted men, has built himself a church on the crest of a high hill, several The miles northeast of this city. rhurch is right by two large roads, constructed at much expense. Tbe building Is small, but artistic. It stands in a country unsettled, and Smith, who lives nearby, la the oujy person within mllea of tbe church. Tonopah (Ner.) Sun. h . Would Not Compromise. A German traveler who tried to pass n meal ticket on the train was told by the conductor that he would have to pay the regulation fare of 35 cents. The German argued and refused to pay more than 25 cents, whereupon the conductor stopped the train and put him off. In n twinkling the traveler ran ahead of the engine and started to walk on the track. The engineer blew his whistle violently, but the irate German turned, shook his fist and called out: You can vlssle all you vant to; I vont come pack.' Rehoooth Sunday Herald. Kelly knew what that would mean, at least 400 a day fur "the old man," and he knew the need. Everyone said tha Alice Riley had an uncommon crew; two boura later the tug's whistle blew four booming blasts In tha darkness "strong ahead and five more that were Billy's farewell to Mary If she was awake or cared. She saw from her bedroom window the tug steam through the channel, sparks flying weirdly In the wind, out to the open lake where no light shone to mark the way for the SO miles of desperate tussle with waves that now at times buried the very deckhouse roof. Again the five abort bleats as the starboard light turned north beyond the pier, then was gone. "Here's hopin', growled Billy as he whirled the wheel over. He was hanging on grimly, for at times tha tug stood about on end. A aea smashed one of the windows and he fixed It as best he could by the dim binnacle light. He lashed the wheel to a course two ioluts east of north. In the blackness he could see only the white crests of waves. The panting of the tug's exhaust told him Kelly was stoking like a fiend and that ONeil was squeezing the last ounce out of hla big engine, 16 square. Ahead waa blackness. the maddened waters and the infrequent flash of rocketa. It waa still dark when Ililly saw, aa the tug topiied a great wave, a ship's light ahead twinkle a moment where the whltecapa marked White Shoals. At dawn be had a line to the derelict and the great seven-inchauaer was an hour later to her overside; going they were fast by tbe forward towing post. It would be easy in such a sea to trip on the bauser and "turn turtle,' or to be matched by a great wave and have the bauser break. The barge on the shoal was su ore freighter loaded to the water's edge, a heavy tow. With bis hand on the bell cord to signal to O'Neil, Billy muttered Here's for Mary and better" He rang, the engines started, then, crash! Billy's Christmas wishes were cut short; the tow post was gone and water poured into the hole In torrents. It was hours later when they got that bauser again, when the tugs hoarse whistle roared, Ail right, and the bellow of the stranded barge replied. It was dreary work and Billy and tbe crew were gaunt with hunger and weariness. Again slowly in the teeth of the wind they went ahead, Jerked tremendously at Intervals when the waves snatched the tow. When they were getting into deeper water O'Neil's engines suddenly stopped, and ten minutes later the barge had drifted back to the shoal. The eccentric had slipped; the tug was but driftwood; bad business in such a sea. Billy Noonan and O'Neil kept her afloat someway, and all the time Billy, still clutching the wheel, was muttering of Mary and Christmas; he had strange vagaries, but was still sane aa a skipper. When at last the frantic hammering in the engine room ceased, near evening of the next day, they were still near to the barge that was pounding on the shoals. The son broke through the clouds, a red sun near to setting beyond the tossing waters, the sunset of Christmas eve. It was never clear bow they got the slow steel barge to move so fast once they got her off again. But In the midnight hours when SL Nick, Kris Kringel and all the Christmas fairies were abroad on land, when the last embers of the yule logs smouldered cosily under lines of stockings in many, many homes, the Alice Riley's deep whistle sounded off the Charlevoix pier. Capt Riley still Bat before bis fireplace, waiting hopefully as was hla nature. But for the hundredth time he looked about the room at Mary's pitiful efforts at Christmas decorations. Suddenly he heard, faint but unmistakable, the bass call of tne Alice Riley. Instantly he picked up' his crutch and rapped on tbe door of Mary's room. So quickly did she appear, susbut smiling, she piciously must have been awake, too. "Listen, he cridd, holding up bis band. by tonus it it manufactured .prWdea on ttie front o( ri-- y put-kaft- SOLO BT ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS one size only, regular price 50f yr Luill. SICK HEADAGHE Positively cured by these Lillie Fille. 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