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Show HIS Adulteration of Coffee. I IDEA OF A GENTLEMAN. German review contains an article ty Bertarelll on a new adulteration The roasted beans are coffee. plunged In a five per cent solution ol borax and then left to dry. The borax makes them shine and absorbs water, thus adding to the weight of the coffee. The way to discover this Ingenious fraud Is to dry the coffee and If It loses over 4 per cent In weight there as been a fraudulent absorption of water. London Globe. A Cardinal Newman's Estimate Is Well Worthy the Attention of All, Cardinal Newman's definition of a gentleman has probably never been surpassed. Here It is: "It is almost the definition of a gentleman' to say he Is one wbo never inflicts pain. He has his eyes on all his company; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant and merciful toward the ubaurd; be can recollect to whom he is speaking; he guards against unseasonable allusions YELLOW CRUST ON BABY or topics which may irritate; he is i Would Crack Open and Scab Causing seldom prominent in conversation and never wearisome. Terrible Itching Cured by "He makes light of favors while ha Cuticura. does them and seems to be receiving 'Our baby had a yellow crust on his when he is conferring. He never head which. I could not keep away. speaks of himself except when comWhen I thought I had succeeded in pelled, never defends himself by a mere he has no care for slangetting bis head clear, It would start der orretort; is gossip, scrupulous in imputhis of crown the crack head, .again by and scale, and cause terrible itching. ing motives to those who Interfere I then got Cuticura Soap and Oint- with him and interprets everything Is never mean or litment, washing the scalp with the soap for the best. He and then applying the Ointment A tle In bis disputes, never takes unfair few treatments made a complete cure. advantage, never mistakes personaliI have advised a number of mothers ties or sharp sayings for arguments to use Cuticura, when I have been or Insinuates evil which he dare not asked about the same ailment of their say out babies. Mrs. John Boyce, Pine Bush, Doing Great Work. N. Y. Ward, Ark., March 6th. (Special.) From all over the West reports Eggs Easily Digested. of cures of different forms of come Eggs are very easily digested. Raw Disease by Dodds Kidney Kidney than more are digested quickly eggs and this place is not without Pills, cooked eggs. eggs, roasted evidence of the great work the Great easmore are and eggs poached eggs American Kidney Remedy Is doing. hard-boileily digested than fried or Among the cured here is Mr. J. V. eggs. The stomach will digest a raw a well known citizen, who, two to Waggoner, half a and one from in egg In an interview, says: "Dodds Kidney Fours. Pills have .done wonders for me. My kidneys and bladder were badly out of order. I used many medicines, but nothing to cure me till I tried Tea thoughts are like dream got Dodds Kidney Pills. Two boxes of thoughts, not tied to our them fixed me up so that I have been well ever since. cares and sorrows. "Tell the poor kidney and bladder diseased people to take Dodds KidGives Credit to Wife. Prince Mlrsky, Russias reform ney Pills and get well. No case of kidney complaint Is too statesman, attributes much of his success in public life to his brilliant wife. far gone for Dodd's Kidney Fills to cure. They are the only remedy that A Fine Distinction. has ever cured Bright's Disease. Twa twins! The doctor laughed "ah! ha!" Dog Watch. And the father laughed "lie! he!" Dog watch Is a corruption of dodge-watcyou 1 note; In the laugh difference A Now wherefore should It be and is the name given to two Ha! ha! Is the proper thing to laugh short watches of two hours each on ' At Its bill and Joys; of the thoughtIs the laugh pronomenal her shipboard one from 4 to 6 p. m. and When It's twins and the twins are the other from 6 to 8 p. m. The dog boys! t. New Orleans watches were introduced to prevent the same men always keeping watch at the same hours of the day; hence on these occasions the sailors are said tea if to dodge the routine, or to be doing You can have f Soft-boile- d d TEA CHAPTER TWO Continued. course, he began practice In Boston, Prince growled. John looked up the and his success was instantaneous. For ten years after the death of his road. There's someone coming, he said. wife, Peter Burt conducted the farm Jessie turned and saw Miss Malden of his forefathers. One after another She looked at her mud- of his sons and daughters, as they approaching. her dy feet, bedraggled hat and her became of age, left the old home, never to return. One night after supsplattered blouse and skirt. "Ill get an awful scolding," she per Peter Burt informed the remainsaid, half to herself and half to the ing children that he was going to sea. boy. Then for the first time she He had bought an interest In a whalscrutinized John Burt. She noted ing vessel, and would sail from New that he was well dressed; that he Bedford In a week. To Sarah the was not barefooted, like most farmer eldest of the children he gave three boys, and that he was handsome and hundred dollars, together with Instructions concerning the manage"Do you belong to the riffraff?" ment of the farm. He did not know asked Jessie, lowering her voice so how long he would be gone it might that the approaching governess be a year or It might bo five. With some tenderness ho kissed the weepshould not hear her. "Never heard of It," replied John ing orphans, and tramped down the Burt In a puzzled smile. "What road In the direction of Hlngham. Five years later the Segregansett is It?" "I don't know, said Jessie; but dropped anchor at New Bedford. None my papa dont allow me to associate of the crew that went ou w ith her rewith the riffraff, and I forgot until turned. Peter Burt sold the cargo, dust now to ask you if you are a riff- paid off his men, disused of his interest In the ship, and on the followraff." A look of pain came to the honest ing day walked Into the Burt farmface of the boy. Before he could house. He was greeted affectionatespeak Jessie turned to meet Miss ly by his son Joseph, who for a year had lived alone In the old house. A Malden. "Why, Jessie Carden, what have week later the boy waa sent to school you been doing?" With a cry of dis- In Boston, and Peter Burt began his may the governess dropped an arm- solitary occupancy of the ancestral ful of flowers and surveyed the wreck home. of the sailor suit. Shortly before Peter Burts return, Jessie looked penitent Indeed as Robert had married, and the old man she gazed at the muddy shoes and the was delighted when the young couple torn stocking; but contrition is a fee- made a visit to the old farm. The ble flame In the heart of a child. following year John Burt was born, "Never mind tbe old clothes, and Peter Burt Journeyed to Boston Watch me catch to witness the christening. Govle, she said. Two years later Robert Burns Burt a crab! I can do it Just splendid!" Jessie, lay that pole down and and his wife were Instantly killed In come away with me, said Miss Mal- a railroad accident. The train crashed den sternly. "How dare you play through a bridge. It was winter, and with a strange boy! What would bitterly cold. Of the fifteen your father say? Come with me at gers in the car occupied by Robert' Tlmes-Democra- TEA good dodge-watc- )you want it, wherever you are. Tour grocer returns your mousy if you don tils t Schilling s Best. a Lucky Stone. The Orientals have a proverb, That f, turquoise given by a loving hand carries with it happiness and good fortune; and another. "That the turof quoise pales when the the giver Is In danger." Who, then, would not be the possessor of a lucky Turquoise , well-bein- g turquoise? TEA This is a better country because we are in it tea country. And that isnt all. Wilis fnronr Knowledge Company, Sen t'rsnclwo. Hook, A. Schilling Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with IOC h APPMCATIONS. s thjr cannot reach blood or cnutf the aea.of the dlese. Catarrh l tutfonal difteaite. aud In order to cure tt you niut take Internal remedies. Halls Catarrh Cure Is taken to temallf, and acts directly on tbe blood and mucous surfaces. HaU'sCatarrh Cure Is not a quszlc medicine. ItWtt prescribed by one of the beat physicians In this country for years and u a regular prescription be- -t tonic icuown, combined it Is composed of with the het blood purifiers, acting directly on the niuooue surfaces. The perfect combination of the two tmtredlenu la what produces such wonderful tr Suits U-- curing catarrh. Send for teatlmonlals, free, F. J. CHKNEY CO., Props., Toledo, U Sold ot PruKtt, price V'. Take Halts Family Plus for constipation. Celery Culture A few years back In Florida. Mother Gmyi Sweet rowder for Children. Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse When a husband and wife art botb in tbe Children's Home in New York, cure f one mind it isnt a difficult task to Constipation, Feverishness, Bad Stomach, the figure out which originally owned tbs Teething Disorders, move and regulate Over 30,000 Bowels and Destroy Worms. mind. Philadelphia Inquirer. testimonials. At all druggists, 25c. Sample FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. A Foregone Conclusion. TEA The indulgence in tea is so very slight, that the pleasure escapes attention, unless one waits a bit. Writ for our Knowledge Compeny, Sea Fraudero. Book, A. Sohtlllng Save the Bulbs. Do not throw away bulbs after they Holman Hunt's First Portrait One day when Holman Hunt, In his office boy days, was alone In the office, a gentleman called and asked for the principal on business. On the principals return poor Hunt could not remember the caller's name, hut he said: "i cant remember the gentlemans name, sir, but this Is what he was like." And he promptly drew a picture of the visitor which was so striking a likeness that tbe principal forgot his annoyance In his astonish- have flowered In the window. Take a little care of them until you can ment plant them out doors and they will flower In the garden. All you have to Important to Mothers. do Is to see that the bulbs get thor- Exemlne carefully every bottle of CA8TORIA, oughly ripened. The Garden Maga-cin- a Mfe end ur remedy for Infante end children, end eee that It ltrere the TEA Signature of conFine tea brings-ou- t versation if anything will; it compels to a little leisure. Frightful Capacity. My little sister Marlon, when four years old, was feeding some greedy hens In the Imck yard one day at noon. She was 'called to dinner, and, on taking her chair at the table, exclaimed: "Oh, mamma. I'm as hungry as a chicken with a hundred tongues.' TEA One lingers long over tea, It is a good time and place to linger. if the tea is fine. In Cm For Over 30 Years. The Kind Ton Have Alway Bought, Comments on the Wildcat A wildcat was caught In a trap In Rosshlro, Scotland, recently, and Is to he carefully stuffed nnd preserved. The Westminster Gazette says a wildcat Is "beautifully remarked," and adds that "it Is more dangerous for game or man than the fox. ""tea A trillo of tea in a dninty rest enp 1ms in it n world of or of stimulant what ia the time odayt Where a Lady Telle Her Age. When ladles go to buy a dress In Mistake Was. Fatal. Japan they tell the shopkeeper their A Uverpool man who hud been part- age. and whether they are married, ed from his wife fur some years because there are special designs for thought he recognized her among the the single and double relations of life, ballet girls on the stage of s theater. aa well as for ages. The consequence He sprang up, pointed to her, cried of this custom Is that you can tell the "M Minnie" and fell dead. But he age f every lady you meet, and bad made a mistake. The woman waa know whether she Is married, precisenot bis wife. ly as though ah were labeled. well-forme- "Hello! "Hello!" answered John Burt. "Flshln'? "No; swimming," replied John. "Thluk youre smart, dont ye? responded the strange boy as he baited his hook. Crazy Burt's boy, aint ye? No objection to my flshln, have you? There was a taunting sarcasm in his voiceband defiance in his air. Without waiting for reply he cast his line into the water. You can fish as long as you please on your own side of the creek," said John sullenly. For halt an hour no word was spoken. John caught four bass during that time, while Jim hooked only eel grass. Then he cast his line across the pool, dropping it a few feet from John's line. John Burt's face flushed angrily. "Keep on your own side! he commanded. I'll fish where 1 darn please! This Isn't your creek! retorted Jim Blake with a defiant grin. "If It is, what are you going to do about It?" As he spoke John brought his hook near the surface, and by a sudden twist "snagged" Jim Blakes line. With a Jerk he whipped the rod from his opponents hand. Young Blake was furious. John calmly towed the rod across the pool, unsnarled the lines, and threw the rod on the bank. Obeying a boys first Instinct, Jim looked for a stone, but found none. Then he Jumped for the log. Dropping his rod, John Burt also sprang forward, and they met In the center of the bridge. v (To he continued.) Spool Building. nothing more interesting for an ingenious boy or girl. Given a lot of eikioIs aud a ball of florists wire, so much can be done that It is impossible to give a detailed description. To collect spools Is a much easier Job than the practice of colOld buttons. buttons are lecting sometimes valuable in piecing out a set, but empty kimjoIh are usually thrown away. A person of enterprise can always collect them, and the smallest and most inslgnlfleant is not A coming architect to be despised. can plan a house, and the builder of a suspension bridge can string his sjHtols securely on wire and produce a complete and steady structure. Strong little taborets may be made of them, if there Is solid wood for the table part; the spools may be used for the legs and supports. A trash basket may he made of them, strung one on top of the other, with a wooden lxtt-toand lined with gay cretonne. The smaller spools make pretty picture frames, especially If painted white or green. They may be used In a hundred ornamental ways, they may be collected from a dozen different sources, and they are sure to provide amusement for Innumerable rainy days. There the low, wet lands ot the state that now produce thoufor the sands of dollars annually planters of celery, were deemed utterly worthless and could have been bought for a song no sane man would have paid $5 an acre for it, while at the present time the Improved land, peculiarly adapted to celery culture, will bring from $3t)0 to 11.000 an acre, the unimproved $25 to $125 an acre. Florida Tlmes-Unlon- . elder Blake had purchased the old Leonard farm, and so had become the nearest neighbor of Peter Burt. There were several children In the Blake family, but this narrative has concern only with James, the eldest, a boy of John Burts age. The two farms were separated by a creek, which, at a place called the Willows, widened to a pool, famed as a fishing and swimming place. One June morning John was seated on a log spanning the narrow nock of this reach of water. He had landed a bass, when the cracking of twigs and the' swaying of the underbrush on the farther side of the creek attracted his attention. A moment later a boy emerged from tho thicket. He surveyed John with an expression more of contempt than of surprise. The now comer was a tall, lad, straight aa an arrow, quick and graceful in his movements. He also carried a rod, which he rested against the log; and for a few seconds he calmly gazed at "onn Burt. Burt, but one escaped. A child, two years old, was found warmly wrapped In its traveling blanket, uninjured, on a cake of Ice, a few minutes after the car plunged beneath the water. It She gathered up the flowers and took Jessie by the hand. Good-bye- , John Prince! Good-bye- , Burt! Jessie waved her hand gaily her fishing companion as Miss Malrj den turned into the path leading through the woods. "He was real nice, and youre awful good, Govle, not to scold him!" were the words that reached John Burt as he carried his basket of crabs to the wagon. once!" CHAPTER THREE. John Burt's Boyhood. For two hundred years the Burt house had withstood the blasts of winter and the withering heat of sumTime had worked upon the mer. rough exterior until It seemed like a huge rectangular rock, weather-worand storm beaten. The Hmall plateau on which it stood sloped northward to the sea. Rugged rocks to the west stood as a wall, frowning at the quiet beaut ies of salt marsh and cedar swamp below. To the south were patches of meadow wrested from wood and rock by generations of toll. Through this fairer section a brook n wandered between banks festooned with watercress. Old settlers knew the locality by the name or Rocky Woods. When Hezekiah Burt died, Peter Burt Inherited the hold homestead in Rocky Woods. He was a young giant with the shoulders of a Hercules. At the ago of thirty he took to wife the fairest maiden of the surrounding country, and to them a son was born and christened Robert Burns Burt. A year later the mother sickened and died. Tlio grief of Peter Burt was terrible as his strength. For a year he remained a prisoner In his house; then returned to work, and for two years labored with the energy of a demon. His second nmrrlngn followed. Ho led to the altar the daughter of a poor farmer, and of this prosaic union seven children were born. After fifteen year of work nnd sorrow the patient wife folded her tired hands, closed her weary eyes and sank Into that sleep which awakens not to toll. If 1e'er Burt loved Ills second wife, he never told her so. If he loved her children, his express!! n of affection took a peculiar form, lie mnde no secret of his favoritism for Robert Burns Burt, the only child of his first wife. Robert was a bey of whom ary father would be prnnd. At twelve he was sent to school In Hlngham. At nineteen he entered Harvard, graduating In four years with honors. Af- ter two more years devoted to a law j was John Burt. In the opinion of his neighbors, Peter Burt was crazy from the hour the news came to him. Strange stories were whispered concerning Captain Burt, as he was then called. Belated travelers along tbe lonely road saw lights burning through all hours of the night. They heard the old man talking or praying in a loud voice. Upon the death of Robert, Peter Burt went to Boston and burled his dead. With tearless eyes he saw the pride of his old age lowered Into the grave. Robert Burns Burt was a careful lawyer, and his will covered every contingency. It appointed his father executor ot his small estate, and intrusted him with tho care of his son. Peter Burt placed the boy In the keeping of a competent nurse, and returned to his farm. Save for the occasional smoke from the chimney, there was no sign thnt Peter Burt existed throughout the threo months that followed. His son Joseph called at the house, but was not admitted. At tho end of this period tbe old man emerged and was seen in Hlngham. For the first time In years ho spoke to his neighbors, who noticed that his hair was as driven snow, and that his fueo shone with a strange light. In the calm mnnner of one cont rolliul by an unalterable conviction, lie stated that he had made ills pence with God, and was Inspired by Him. lie had received tho gift of prophecy and of understanding. When John Burt was seven years old Ms grandfather brought him to With tho boy the old farmhouse. ome his nurse nnd her husband, William Jii .er, the latter charged with the duties of hired man. Thus John Burt began ills life on tho farm. When John lind mastered his letters and primer lie was sent to school in li'ngham, taking the regular cotirso for fl.e years. Then a private tutor camo from Boston. Five days in tho under this week the boy studied young mans direction, nnd made rapid progress. With his stern old face lighted with Joy and pride, lcter Burt would listen to the recitations. CHAPTER FOUR. James Blake. John Burt was fourteen years old when he first met James Blake. The is Luxurious A THE MOOR AS A SERVANT. Mighty Picturesque, but With Hosp'b ab i Notions of His Own. An artist In Now York has a Moor for a servant. The artist found him. dancing in a side show at the fair, am! they had a little chat between dances. It was a chat for the Moor knows little English, though he knew enough English or human nature to say that he had been a servant of the Sultans. Before the Moor danced again the artist had asked him to be his servant. The Moor could not say, modestly, "What, In this attire? for his scarlet robes and turban were gorgeous; but he did murmur something about being diessed differently from American servants. The artist wanted him as be was, and said so. So as he Is, In scarlet grandeur, he waits on the artist's studio apartments. The guests hold their breath a little when tbe enormous man In red enters the room to do the tea chores. The artist, however, Oreatheii evenly. The Moor has a trick of hospitality toward his employer's guests of which, perhaps, It would be well for the artist to break him, as It proves nerve shattering to the unitiated. He solemnly takes It upon himself to greet each guest, as he or she arrives, with proffered hand and the plaintive murmur, one-side- friend." Perhaps the artist thinks It is better not to correct the Moor, He Is a very big man, and the artist treats him My BEWARE Indian Remedy for Coughs. decoction of cherry bark and spruce bark, boiled and strained. Is an old Indlnn remedy for coughs, which has been largely sold under various names for years by venders of patent medicines. The white trapper nowadays dissolves spruce gum In alcohol, adds a certain proportion of the spirits to the bark mixture and sweetens the whole with maple sugar. Perhaps the most experienced chemist: could not prepare a better cough syrup than this makes. THE TRICKS. ' "WheqI was a young girl I waa a lover of coffee but was sick so much the doctor told me to quit and I did but after my marriage my husband begged me to drink It again as he did not think It was tbe coffeo caused the troubles. "So I commenced It again and con- tlnued about 6 months until my stomach commenced acting bad and choking as If I had swallowed something the size of an egg. One doctor said it was neuralgia and Indigestion. drive with my "One day I took husband three miles In the country and I drank a cup of coffee for dinner. I thought sure I would die before I got back to tow n to a doctor. I waa drawn double In the buggy and when my husband hitched the horse to get me ont Into the doctors office, misery came up In my throat and seemed to shut my bresth off entirely, then left all In a flash and went to my heart The doctor pronounced It nervous heart trouble and when I got( could not sit' home I was so weak , i with bouquets These maidens liavo movable eyes, and their only ornament Is a gold bracelet round one arm, which waves over the sleeper a head either a fan The furor a yak's tail fly flapper. ther enjoyment is heightened by an Ingenious arrangement In the mattress, which, ns soon as any one lies down, plays a selection of Gounod's airs. Ohio State Journal. X up. "My husband brought my supper to my bedside with a nice cup of hot coffee but I said: Take that back, dear, I will never drink another cup of coffee if you gave me everything you are worth, for it Is Just killing me. 11a and the others laughed ut me and said: Steepest Mount It,-na- n ir Dogs " That Smoke Pipes. These two dogs, Dewey and Ruth, are the pets of a Minneapolis man. Their skill at balancing pipes between their teeth Is but one of tho many clever tricks Ihey have learned. In Justice It should he said that the pipes are never lighted, but tho dogs enjoy them, all the same, and anybody who tries to Interfere with the smoko trust watch for a fight. after-dinne- r Coffee Playe on Some. It hardly pays to laugh before you are certain of facts, for it Is sometimes humiliating to think of afterwards. ot roses, pink and corn, tbe rajah's eoat of arms being placed at the head. At each corner stands a statue of a girl one French, one Greek, one Spanish and one Italian. Each Is tinted according to the complexion of her race, and wears a suitable hued wig, either black, blond, chestnut or auburn. bn--e- SHELTER. A Bed. of Mountains. McKinley Is known to he the steepest of till the great mountains of the world, nnd It is unlike most other print peaks from tho fact that arctic conditions begin at its . The prospective conquer-i- t very of this immense uplift must pick his path over broken stones, icy slopes, sharp cliffs nnd an average slip of 45 degrees for at least feet. EASY Refuge There an Important Step To ward Old Age. Years are but a fool's measure for youth, which Is divine; they bring caution more often than wisdom, and a certain belief in the unreality of Joy. A man Is quickly disillusioned, which commonly means that he has aet up his own Idea of what things should be by the side of what things are, and eulks forever at tbe result. He then commits the folly of becoming old, and piefers existence to life. He clambers Into one or other of the many shelters that line the way, curls up within and imlles pityingly at the young of all tges pressing on to some end, no matter what, alive to the beauty of the iky and the clouds and the birds and the trees, alive even to the beauty to be seen In one another, breathing deeply of the air of strength, living and loving and beloved, until at last they are made one with nature. But the heart, like the liver, grows torpid without exercise; a gradual decay comes to the man In the shelter, a decay from which he Is released, much againRt his will, by death. There are too many shelters. Hugh de Selin-cour- t. An Indian potentate recently ordered from Paris a bed which will rival the rajah's bed In the Arabian Nights. It Is of satlnwood, richly carved, and ornamented with silver plates In re- pousse work, adorned THE i "Tho idea of coffee killing any, body. Well,' I said, It Is nothing else but coffee that is doing it. "In tho grot cry one day my husband was persuaded to buy a box of Dostum which he brought home and I made It for dinner and we both thought how good it was but said nothing to tho hired men and they thought they had drunk coffee until wo lnughed and told them. Well we kept on with lostum and It was not long before the color came back to my chocks and I got stout and felt as good as I ever did In my life. I have no mere stomach trouble and I know I owe U all to Postum In place of coffee. "My husband has gained good health on Postum, as well as baby and 1, and we all think nothing Is too good to say about It." Name given by Postum Co, Battle Creek, Mich. |