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Show &e INDEPENDENT. D. C JOHNSON, r.blls-ar. PRINGVIULE. . . . UTAH i fhe trotter Red Pepper outfit to t- a few heats down the circuit. Wireless telegraphy we haye now. Shall we ever have wireless political V. K. Vanderbilt s new yacht tha Tarantula is saii to be a racular stinger. The tailor-made woman la often more or less ashamed of her husband the self-made man. King Edward Is rapidly losing flesh, so henceforth a Blender form will be good form in loyal London. The name of the new cup defender appears to have been selected from a hat by some blindfolded person. Spain would like to raise the Maine in order to ascertain the cause of the explosion. Better let sleeping dogs lie. A tax on bachelors would only eren things up. The married men already have their tacks on the bedroom floor. Even if yon are not a Christian Scientist, you may find the absent treatment a pretty fair cure for kre sickness. War is threatened between Guatemala Guate-mala and Salvador, but the American consuls may succeed in separating the combatants. Somebody asks: "Can the universe last forever?" That's another one of the things that we propose to let posterity pos-terity worry over. A revolution has broken oat at three different places in Uruguay. It Is understood un-derstood that two men and a boy are involved at each point. This is not the first time the Turk has heard the powers talk of tying s can to him a fact -which may account for his present lofty calm. By means of an "acousticon" the deaf are now made to hear. The new age of miracles wrought by science promises to rival those of the "age of faith." . That St. Louis get-rich-qnlck man who carelessly left $246,000 where the courts could get possession of it must have been a new hand at the business. - Mr. Marconi promises to send messages mes-sages across the ocean for 1 cent a word. Wireless telegraphy is going to be a big thing for the down-trodden millionaires. According to vital statistics, the baby born in 1903 has nearly three times a better chance of living than it would have had 50 years ago. Now la the time to get born. It Is said that the Czarina is largely responsible for the reforms that have been started in Russia. If this Is the case it is to be hoped that the lady will keep on talking to him. Mrs. Madeline Wynne's theory that a woman should forget she is a woman may be a good thing, but it Is one of those good things of which It would be very easy to get too much. It is pleasant to be able to announce that by the action of Assistant Secretary Secre-tary Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Hagob Avi-dian, Avi-dian, nee Ouchgaradashien, and Asa-dor Asa-dor Avikian are once more "in out midst." The c!vil war in Honduras was started by a girl who was jilted by the president-elect. Yet some of the reformers re-formers think woman isn't playing a large enough part in the affairs of the nations. A singular feature of the turf syndicate syndi-cate investigation is that nobody seems to have made any money In the tiansat tions.- The Investors lost heavily and the syndicates claim to be bankrupt. Andrew Lang complains that the world isn't reading anything but newspapers. As the world has pat-nized pat-nized liberally Mr. Lang's prodig ious output the complaint .seems a lit- ; tie unreasonable. Patient waiters are no. losers. The Btate of Vermont is to become namesake name-sake cf a new United States battleship battle-ship bigger than any now afloat. At this rate what witl Rhode Island get a few years from now? J. Pierpont Morgan, throwing confetti con-fetti and serpentinas from a balcony at the carnival masquer aders In Havana, Ha-vana, makes a pleasing picture. He has not been hitherto regarded aa a playful, sportive character. Prince Henry of Prussia suggests as a motto for the automobilisU: "Love thy neighbor as thyself." We might add: "His children, his manservant, man-servant, his maidservant, his ot, hia ass, his dog, his chickens and all that are his." King Edward and Queen Alexandra, Alexan-dra, with three of the children of the prince of Wales, went to see Buffalo Bill's wild West show Saturday, Just like other people, not because they cared for it. you know, but so aa to take care of their grandchildren. Actor Henry Miller is the Inventor of a machine for making artificial applause ap-plause in theaters. By means of this invention the audiences will know when they are up against real acting. A French physician tells how wicked people can become good by "auto-suggestion." 5"ow let somebody tell how they can be induced to try his method. A cauliflower trust has been formed by Long Island cauliflower raisers. The sauerkraut business is still being carried on in a haphazard way.. There was always a feeling In Missouri Mis-souri that chicken stealing was improper, im-proper, and now the Missouri legislature legisla-ture has confirmed this view by characterizing char-acterizing the action as a; crime. No more oceau giants will be bui' it is said, until there are larger por to accommodate them. By and ; ! the ocean will need enlarging. Perhaps it would be , too much t say that the old woman who lived i; a shoe is President Roosevelt's idea of what a woman ought to be. LOOK FOR BABY "HIPPO" "Miss Murphy," Pride of the New York Zoo, I Soon to Gladden the Hearts of Her Keepers for the Seventh Time Means Much Financially. N the region over the long, narrow buildings of the Central Park menagerie me-nagerie a mighty stork - is hovering, picking a . soft, spot on which to deposit bis burden. ponderous, homely, in teresting,' amiable baby a young hippopota mus, says the New York Press. Aa yet you cannot discern the busy bringer of babies even on a clear day, but Menagerie Director Smith saya that by the time the naked branches of the Park's gray trees and bushes appear In full garb of early summer green a forty-pound, pink little pig will appear in the limelight of the pretty setting and become the star attraction of the city's zoo. Director Smith ought to know. He got his information trom three and a half-ton Caliph, whose mouth is too big to hold a secret, and who got the news direct from his faithful two and a half-ton spouse. Miss Murphy. But while the prospective domestic Jbys of the Caliph-Murphy baby family fam-ily axe Interesting, there remains another an-other phase. Infinitely more important to persona who study wild animals and those concerned in the ' successful building up of the zoo. Every animal In the Central Park menagerie has been presented to the city directly or Indirectly by Caliph and Miss Murphy. NeTer before or since in the history of zoology have "hippos" been known to breed in captivity. Next to a giraffe and a two-horned rhinoceros, ' hlppo-tami hlppo-tami are the most expensive luxuries In which a menagerie can invest. A full-grown hippopotamus is valued at ? 7,000, and a baby at least at half that amount. Six times have the ponderous ponder-ous hearts of the big couple been gladdened glad-dened by the antics of a pink one. The first two youngsters died, i To raise a young hippo was too much of a problem prob-lem even for experienced animal men. It was necessary to experiment so as to learn how to handle the "tots" properly. But once the problem was solved It was easy to trade young hippos hip-pos with Hagenbeck and other animal ani-mal men. ' " To, prepare for the advent of a young hippo was one of the things that puzzled puz-zled the animal men when Miss Murphy Mur-phy first decided to show she was opposed op-posed to race suicide. Not in animal literature was to be found information which might throw light on how to proceed. In a wild state the pink youngsters enter the world while under un-der water, where, likewise, they nurse until weaned, at the end of about a year. In the Central Park zoo the hippos are kept in a huge tank,, five feet deep. There the first baby was born. It was t Mitral jm.-HM& ABE $5 J80M "THE YflN6S IATHER iw a lusty youngster, with a pink head and a pink belly and sides and a slate-colored slate-colored streak running down the back. Like most wild animals born in captivity. captiv-ity. It was tame from the day of its appearance. It came readily out of the tank when called, to have a closer iew of the great thing, Man. A hideously homely little" brute it was, fourteen inches high, with a body like a young pig's, a mouth as big as all outdoors and tiny ears which constantly con-stantly were wriggling. The baby was homely enough to become the pet of everyone that saw it. Only Miss Murphy Mur-phy thought the newcomer pretty. In her own awkward fashion she caressed ca-ressed the young one, nosing it and even standing over It to make sure that no harm should befall, , The huge beast, ordinarily peaceful, became even vicious in her solicitude for her baby, and only Keeper 'Billy" Snyder could go near her. Then came the fatal mistake. The experts did not know that a hippopotamus hippopota-mus takes its young one into deep waO" to nurse it.. Long spells there were when the baby disappeared under un-der the surface in the tank. Only when too late it was realized that all this time the homely old mother was performing her maternal duties. All feared the baby could not thrive without with-out proper nursing. Therefore mother and baby were separated, and the little lit-tle one was put on a bottle. J livetl ten days after that. Now her homely little ladyship stands, properly stuffed, In a nook In the Museum of Natural History. With the first attempt at raising a hippo recorded as a dire failure, it was feared the experiments would result in defeat. Fatima. the female .hippo which afterward became famous in natural history as the first hippo to be born and raised in captivity, was the second arrival. The stork dropped Fatima unexpectedly one night. It was the only time when Caliph managed man-aged to keep a secret, and the first intimation in-timation the keepers had of such an eventxwas when they saw the plump youngster rising gravely out of water and looking surprised out of his little brown eyes. Fatima's little brother, who was next in line, was crushed to death accidentally ac-cidentally even before he could be named, but he was the last of the baby hippos lost to the Zoo. Lotos,, your. gest child of Caliph and his wife, is now iv the menagerie, a bulky, awkward, .telligent young beast that likes to be petted by her keeper and shows surprising knowledge knowl-edge for a brute so stupid-looking. Lotos Lo-tos Is 2 years old and weighs a ton. From her parents she has learned the trick of standing at the bars of her cage awaiting , with open mouth " the coming of Aything that is good. When wide open it would readly be possible to put f wtr bucket into the ma ITtrS "jXyq 5KEET "TTWL KBJ & Ordinarily a hippopotamus Is not a vicious animal, but there are times when they become dangerous. Miss Murphy at present is not in an over-amiable over-amiable mood, and her temper is communicated com-municated to her husband, who ia in the cage with her. When aroused the method of attack is wholly with the head and the wonderul jaws. The animal an-imal is provided with two separate sets of teeth. Those used for the mastication mas-tication of food are down near the throat. The other set consists of five m ' I. e J- tusks in each of the upper and lower jaws, and these are the beast's weapons weap-ons of offense. MUCH POISON IN PERFUMES. Power to Intoxicate and Benumb Proved by Experiments on Frogs. Though it is popularly believed that strong perfumes have power to intoxicate intox-icate and benumb, and though workers in perfume laboratories are occasionally occasion-ally so much affected as to need medical medi-cal aid, little attention has been paid by physiologists to the effect of odors. But now a German physician has made a series of experiments which fully confirm the popular belief. The experiments ex-periments were made not 'on human beings but on frogs which were put under glass bells with sponges saturated satur-ated with various essences. " The effects are similar to those of chloroform. There is a brief stage of excitement, followed by partial or complete paralysis. Although many odors were used they were found to' differ only in rapidity of action, and the notoriously heavy and "heady" musk was found to be one of the slowest slow-est Camphor, peppermint, lavender and cloves are also slow, while aldehyde, alde-hyde, turpentine, elder flower, ylang-ylang, ylang-ylang, "peau d'Espagne," ': asafetida, bieulphurlde of carbon, mustard, and nicotine act quickly and energetically. In some cases the effect was instantaneous. instan-taneous. The frog would jump about in a lively manner, but would soon stop, close his eyes, and rub his nose with his paws. His breathing and heart action became slow and labored' and he perspired profusely. If he still' tried to spring he often fell on his back and had hard work getting on. his feet again. If the action of the fume was continued the frog's breathing breath-ing became convulsive, his head fell forward, and his only response to an external stimulus was a spasmodic attempt at-tempt to breathe. , His eyes turned outward out-ward and his heart beat more and more slowly until it stopped altogether. RUSSIA'S GREAT SALT MINES Inexhaustible Stores Found in the Khirgiz Steppes. In the Khirgiz steppes of southern Russia is a strange settlement named Hetzk from which 24,38 tons of salt comes every year. This salt, it has been shown by recent borings, extends ex-tends to a depth of 630 feet below the surface of the earth. At present the workers have dug down to a depth of 399 feet, where they are taking the salt out of an immense im-mense and beautiful chamber that is 784 feet long and 175 feet high. When seen in the radiance of the electric lights this underground cavern shines like a fairy palace, for walls and roofs and pillars are snowy white and beset with myriads of crystals, t each of which gives a reflection of its own. -The great pieces of salt are blasted out, with powder just as if the mine were a stone quarry. It is very hard to use metal in the mines, for the salt eats it away quickly. quick-ly. On the contrary, wood is hardened harden-ed and preserved beautifully by it. Horse Eats " Eggs.. "Our wife owns a horse and a dozen-chickens. dozen-chickens. She has owned the chickens chick-ens since last Christmas, but up to ihis week the hens apparently had not laid any eggs. The other day she discovered that when a hen cackled - the old hor6e would immediately imme-diately wake up, go to hunting for the egg, and eat it. Now she has a foot race with the horse every time a ben cackles in the barn lot. Sometimes Some-times the wife wins - and sometimes the horse wins. But the funny part of it is, sometimes a neighbor's hen cackles, and when the wife rushes oui to the barn lot the old horse stands demurely until she makes a futile search for the egg. then he gives her what is known as the horse laugh." Anthony (Kan.) Bulletin. . - Got Something Anyway. "Fannie Brown drove twenty miles to see an old mahogany bureau that belonged to some farmer's family." "Did she get it?" "No. She found it was ' stained pine with a warped front and a broken leg." ... . - "So she had ber ride for nothing." "You are wroiir. She broke the carriage, car-riage, the horse 1' st a shoe and th honest farmer charged her $2 for a glass of milk and Vie horse feed."- Gold from Meteors. That meteors contain gold has been demonstrated before the Royal Society Soci-ety of New South Waies. This suggests sug-gests that the thousands of tons of meteoric dust which fall upon the earth each year deposit gold every where. - . Russian Education for Koreans. Ten young Koreans are being sent by the Emperor of Korea to finish their education in Russia, the first of regular parties whose expenses the Emperor will pay. Pepper Causes Blood Poisoning. Using pepper to deaden the pain of toothache has caused the death of a man at Mid riles bo ro through, blood poisoning. Market for Italian Cauliflowers. Thirty tons of cauliflowers from Italy are now being landed daily at Folkestone for the London market. Richest Mile Strip ol Land at Kalgoorlie, Australia, Has That Distinction In the Midst of Waterless Region, In Which There Is No Sign of Vegetation. Water sells for $2.50 to IS.25.peT hundred gallons at Kalgoorlie. There is not a sign of vegetation at Kalgoorlie. Kal-goorlie. - To all appearances the "Jumping off place" of the earth is at Kalgoorlie. And yet the richest square mile in the wot Id la at Kalgoorlie. Kal-goorlie. Ttda barren desert of treasure is 400 miles inland from the town of Perth in western Australia. Seven years ago gold was discovered there a rush for the desert territorjrwaa started and now there is a town of 35,000 people built up in the waterless water-less region. This square mile of treasure bearing bear-ing desert is called the "Gold Mine' because of Its reputation as being the richest" gold bearing ' territory of Its size on earth. Its reputation has been brought to this country by Bev. E. Gordon Savile, who is now on his way east from Vancouver. "The district was discovered some years ago," he aai. "and now th? are twelve gold miles at work oi large scale and about forty othj doing a little. Yh output is $2,2uS, 000 worth of gold every month. The miners live In Kalgoorlie. The gold Is found In a reef of quartz formation. Some of the mines -are now being worked at the 2,000 foot level and the gold , is found to be just aa rich as It was at the top. "In 1895 some miners prospecting near Kimberley in the north of the western Australian desert started south and found the reef. The news Horace Greeley's Life a Failure Senator Depew Says the Great Editor So Regarded It-P , thetic Scene at the Close of a Most Brilliant Carear, When His Great Heart Broke. - The character and career of Amos J. Cummings were not formed in the parsonage, par-sonage, nor in the counting room, nor in the association with his friends, the compositors, nor with the adventurers in Nicaragua, nor with his comrades in the army. They were built by the overmastering influence of. two men of extraordinary genius, whom he worshiped one Horace Greeley, the other Charles A. Dana. No proper appreciation of the life and services, of the ability and character, char-acter, of Horace Greeley has ever been written. There was a time and at that time Cummings was with him when there came every day from the Tribune office a paper with those editorials edi-torials written by that pen which influenced in-fluenced the judgment of millions, which controlled the action of parties and dominated the legislation of the country. ' I have seen many a deathbed in my life; I have seen life go out umUm- conditions con-ditions that were sad or sweet, hopeful hope-ful or despairing. I never but once saw a man die of broken heart, and never do I wish to see such a tragedjJ- again. I made a speech with Mr. Greeley in his Presidential campaign, just before be-fore its close. , We spoke from the New Light on Race Problem Writer in the World's Work Claims the Outlook For tha Negro Is by No Means Disheartening Good Work Done by Real Leaders of the Negro, In most of the discussion of the race problem little is said of the negro's own point of view. He is the chief figure of it all. He is at once the innocent cause of it and the chief factor in Its solution. There has not been time enough nor work enough nor money enough nor opportunity for the great masses of them to be built up to responsible citizenship, but the leaders of the race the real leaders show a steady growth in thrift, in responsibility and good citizenship. A study of the result of the work done at any of the great schools where they are properly trained will give the most despondent man high hope. In fact, the record of the best men and women who have gone out from Hampton and Tuskegee and other such training places make one of the most remarkable chapters in human ;NOT SAFE FOR; ANGKL. Little Jack Knew There Was Danger in Such Work. 'The' woman with the enameled tea cup sipped and told this story. She said the incident' happened in Brooklyn. Brook-lyn. "A little boy stood at the window watehing the snow falling upon the pavement and blowing together into duaty patches. ' :. - . ? "'Aunt,' he. said,do the angels send the snow ?' " 'Yes, dear,' said aunt, without looking look-ing up from her book. . "There was silence for a ',, while. From out the house across the way a white-capped maid came with a broom an swept the sidewalk and the steps. She was the maid of Mrs. 3., a very fastidious, fussy old lady, who had a'strong dislike for children and dirt. Indeed, she seemed to regard re-gard the words as synonymous. Only that day she had sent little Jack and his chums away from her side of the street. "Jack watched the maid for. awhile," continued the narrator, according ac-cording to the New York Times, "then he startled his aunt with this statement: "'Well, then I'd , pity the angels if Mrs. S. catches them putting snow on her steps!' ; v SPLITTING UP THE NICKEL. Practice of New Orleans Stores and Markets With Small Purchasers. "You would be surprised to know the vast number of children among the poorer classes in New Orleans who do not clearly understand the value and " function of the nickel," said a storekeeper downtown, "and It all results re-sults from the popularity of the quar-tie quar-tie system which, has always been so much a part of life in this city. They are the small buyers, who run' all kinds of errands for the little family to which they belong. I "Purchases, amounting in individual eases to less than 5 cents,! daily: amount in the aggregate to thousands of dollars. . It is no small part of the retail traffic of the city. The children on the Earth of the find spread, and there was a rush for the new territory. Miners poured in at the rate of 2,000 a week and soon all the available land was staked out in claims. "For the entire 400 miles from Perth there is not a sign of vegetation. vegeta-tion. There is no water except that which may be found standing In the gnamma holes or basin like formations forma-tions in the stones'. The prospector fills his water bag from these and then strikes out over the country. When they have found a placer mine they have no water with which to work it and they use a shaker. That is a series of sieves arranged one above the. other, with the mesh, smaller at the bottom. When the dirt has been put through the shaker It is tossed in the air and the wind blows away the fine dust. The gold then can be picked out. "All the water we have is what is taken from the mines and condensed ' and this sells at from $2.50 to $6-25 a sav&dred . gallons. . A pumping system cigar being put in which will bring pted rom Perth, 400 miles away, to Kalgv in. There will be ten relay stations in the line. The system will be in operation next year. "During the greater part of the year the thermometer stands at 115 in the shade and should a prospector get away from the gnamma hole without with-out water his sufferings are apt to be something awful. There is now a line of railway, from Perth and also a telegraph line." same platform, and both of as knew that he was to be beaten. We went back to his home, and he was jeered upon the train and at the depot when we arrived. We went into his study, which was littered with those famous caricatures of Nast. representing him as the embodiment of all that was evil or Tile in expression or practice in life. . Mr. Greeley glanced them over for a moment, and then said: "My life is a failure. I never hare sought to accumulate a fortune. I never have cared for fame, but I did want to leave a monument of what I ' had done for my . fellow-men, in lifting them up and j in doing away with the curse of slavery and the curse of rum, but here I am, at the close of this campaign, so represented to my countrymen that the slave will always look upon me as having been one of his owners, and reform will look upon me as a fraud." Then, his head falling upon his desk, he broke into uncontrollable soba. I sent for his family. The brain that' bad done such splendid work "snapped. The next morning he was taken to an asylum, where he died. His heart literally broke. From a speech by Chauncey M. Depew In the progress. The negro conferences that are held at Tuskegee show year after year, growth of character and of economic eco-nomic efficiency among large masses of them ; and the .: reports of .the Negro Business Men's league and other such bodies tell of remarkable progress. The negro's children, too, will be wiser than he is; and, after all, this whole problem is not one that we who are now living shall see the eat of. If we pass it to the next genera- tion In a better shape than we found It that is all we lcan hope to do. And no man who knows southern life can for a moment doubt that It is now in very much better shape than it was twenty years ago. So much better bet-ter is it that the aspects it now presents pre-sents are not discouraging to those who , know what has been done. From the World's Work. split a nickel up : into very small pieces, buying a penny's worth of this and a penny's worth of that, until they leave the store or the market with an armful of little packages which will represent the day's supplies. sup-plies. "Sometimes they will spend only a part of the nickel, and will get a ticket, or tickets, or maybe pennies, in change. Frequently the purchase will amount to 2V4 cents, and then they get a pasteboard check for the other 2 cents, which is legal tender at the place issuing it for ita face value. Checks or tickets of this kind are extensively used in this city, and they have added greatly to the circulation circu-lation of a sort of crude subsidiary money. . ; "One of those checks is as good as gold at the grocery or market stall where it is issued. It is predicated on and gets its value from a redemption fund, just like Uncle Sam's money, except ex-cept that instead of beiag redeemable in gold on demand, it Is exchangeable at the grocery at its face value for any of the things in stock, or good at the vegetable stall . at the market place for 2 cents' worth of anything on hand when it Is presented. It is always good for what It calls for oa its face." New Orleans Times-Den craL Strange Company of the Dead. In the near future- the almoners ot Christ's hospital, London, will carry into effect their intention to remove the human remains that are interred within the precincts of that ancient institution. A strange crowd four, queens, lords and ladies, knights and monks, and many persons of high and low degree rest there, where once the Gray Friars placed their dead and many old Blues sleep beneath the cloisters, having been buried there, so was the custom, by torchlight Also there lie the body i of Isabella of France, the wife of Edward with her murdered husband's heart upon her breast. Her ghost was always said to haunt the cloisters. 8o also do two rapacious, favorites of Richard II and Dame Alice Hungerford, who brutally murdered her spouse in the year 152.- THE INVENTOR OF VALENTINES. New England Spinster Who First Cut Fancy Paper Hearts. Miss Esther Howland of Worcester, 'Mass.; invented the modern valentine in 1849. She never married, and died about ten years ago. She was a graduate of Mount Holyoke seminary, and her father had a small book store and bindery. Wishing to add a new feature of ' the business, she took Stiff letter paper.scalloped and fringed the edges, cut heart-shaped holes In the corners, glued on colored pictures that came with raisins, tea, etc., put around the pictures borders of the lace paper that was used on the inside in-side edges of fancy boxes, and head-painted head-painted a little verse on them. The valentines found a ready sale; business busi-ness men In New York and elsewhere began to order them for the next year, and it soon appeared that Miss How-land How-land had developed a real business. - Anxious to Help Rockefeller. Report that John D. Rockefeller had said he would pay a million dollars for a new stomach, or a healthy digestive diges-tive apparatus, has resulted In deluging delug-ing the Standard Oil millionaire with thousands of letters.' ' Statk of Ohio, Citt or Tot-eoo, I Lucas County. ( ss- Frank J. 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Allen's Foot-Base make new or tight shoes easy. At all Druggists and Shoe stores, 26 cents. Accept Ac-cept no substitute. Sample mailed Fasa. Address Allen 8. Olmsted. LeRoy, N. Y. Our Fastest Torpedo Boat. The fastest torpedo boat destroyer in the United States navy, the Stewart, Stew-art, made a speed of 33.8 miles an hour on her official trial. 1ao' Cure for Consumption Is an Infallible medicine for coughs and colds. N. W. Bahitil. Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. IT, 10)0. Added to British Empire. Three hundred and fifty square miles have been added to the British Empire Em-pire by the ratification of the frontier between India and Thibet. Mrs. Wlnalow'a SoottMns; lyrap.' For children teething, softens the gums, reduces In Oammetlon, allays pain, cures wind colic. 3Sc a bolUe. American in Oxford "Eight." D. Milburn, son of the well-ljnown Buffalo lawyer in whose house 'President 'Presi-dent McKlnley died, is a member of the Oxford boat crew this year. His almost- equally athletic brother has missed the "eight." Money refunded for eacb package of PUTNAM FADELESS DYES If unsat-. unsat-. isf actory. Queer Abyssinian Currency. A peculiar "coin" Is employed for small charge in Abyssinia This is no other than bars of hard crystalized salt, about 10 inches long and two and a half inches square, tightly tapering toward xne ena. reopie are verypar ticular about the standard of fineness of the currency. If it does not ring like metal when struck with the finger nail, or if it is cracked or chipped, they will not take it. It is a token of affection when friends meet to give each other a lick of their respective ""coins," and In this way the value of the bar is decreased. Smaller change than a bar of salt is sometimes needed, need-ed, and then the natives have re-curse re-curse to cartridges. Three cartridges pass for one bar of salt. A Resourceful Bride. Her first venture at cooking dinner in her own home had passed successfully success-fully and they sat in silence at opposite oppo-site ends of the table wondering at the novelty of it all and gazing at each other. Honestly, honestly (cross your heart did you like it, Fred?" she asked finally. "Never en-Joyed en-Joyed anything so much in my life," he . said, and swallowed a lump. "Everything, everything from soup to pudding?" "Every mouthful, from soup to pudding." he said, bravely. "Oh, I am so relieved, then," she said, as a huge sigh escaped her. "You see, I forgot to order the syrup for the sauce for the pudding, and I had to have something, so I took the cough syrup, and I was so afraid you'd taste it." New York Times. Priest Has Champion Terrier. The Rev. Father O'Oorman's cham-pian cham-pian Irish terrier Celtic Badge took three blues in the novice, open and winner's classes at the annual exhibition exhibi-tion of the New England Kennel club. PRIZES TO COOKS. $7,500,000 In Cash to Be Distributed. Between now and July 1st, family cooks, whether employes or the mistress mis-tress of the household, will be following follow-ing the plan laid down for improvement improve-ment in cooks In a contest for 735 cash prizes ranging from $200.00 to $5.00 offered by the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd. The winners must show improvement improve-ment in general cookery s clearly stated in the rules for the test. No one has to buy or pay anything whatever. It, is simply an earnest effort ef-fort on the part of Mr. Post to stimulate stimu-late the household cook to more careful care-ful and skillful cookery. To have light, sweet bread and cakes instead of heavy, sour and indigestible in-digestible things. To have no more greasy, burned or dried-out meats. To have properly made Coffee. Postum and tea. To have delicate and digestible, diges-tible, toothsome desserts and a table, clean, tasty and a pleasure to look upon. And so $7,500.00 in actual money will be spent to encourage the cooks of the country to better effort. And you housekeepers, please forever abandon the term "hired girl." Teach your cook the dignity of her profession, call her the cook. , . If her duties include other services, well and good, but don't detract from her professional title by callin;'; her the "hired girl." That term doesn't fit a good cook. A certificate bearing the large seal of the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., will go to each of the 735 winners In this contest. These certificates, cer-tificates, or diplomas will be as valuable valu-able to the holders as a doctor's sheepskin sheep-skin is to him. A postal card to the Cookery Dept. No. 349 of the big pure food factories of the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., at Battle Creek, Mich., will bring a sheet of plainly printed rules for the contest ; CLOSE TO Oosn's Kidney Pills have leaped into Public te tne makers ana secure a trial tree. . .and largest sale known to any Kidney Ccktice, O. I had such severe tmin in my back that 1 could not walk. I used the sample sam-ple of Doan's Kidney Pills with such good results re-sults I sent to Toledo for another box, and they cured me. Sarah E. Cottrelx, Cur-ttee, Cur-ttee, O. . FilMOCTH, Yi. I suffered over twelve months with pain In the small of my back. Medicines ana plasters gave only temporary relief. Doan's Kidney rills cured me. F. 8. Brown, Falmouth, Vs. ! West Haven, Coss. Eight months ago I took a severe pain in my back. The sample box of Doan a Kidney Pills helped me so much I purchased two boxes ; am on my sec-tnl sec-tnl box. My heart does not bother me as it nsed to and I feci well. Sarah E. Bradlet, No. 877 Elm Street, West Haven, Conn. HorrroN. Tex. I took the sample of Doan's Kidney Pills with such great benefit I bought a box at our druggist's. I'sed over half and stopped, because ray urine which before had only come dribbling, now became to free. 1 bad medicine enough. I bad lumbago lum-bago and the pills rid me of it. I should have written sooner, but you know how soon a well person foigeta about being sick. Mr. C. II. HOENCKS, No. 2319 McKenny Ave., Houston, Tex. ; For terms and literature, address .... I THE KEELEY INSTITUTE. 102 aasr rissr south st.. salt lks oitv, utm. WESTERN SEEDS jSmm New Eighty-Page Illustrated Catslogue Free. Write To-day. BARTELDES G CO.. 1521 Fifteenth St., Denver, Colorado. ECZEMA Psoriasis, S called Head, Milk Crust, Tetter, Ringworm, etc. Speedily, Permanently and Economically Cured, when All Else Fails, by The agonizing, itching, and burning of the skin, as in eczema; the frightful scaling, as in psoriasis; the loss of hair, and crusting of the scalp, as in scalled head; the facial disfigurements, as in pimples and ringworm; the awful suffering of infants, and anxiety of worn-out parents, as in milk crust, tetter and salt rheum, all demand a remedy of almost superhuman virtues to successfully cope with them. That Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Resolvent are such stands proven beyond all doubt. No statement is made regarding hemjthat -is -.not justified ,by the strongest evidence. The purity and sweetness, the power to afford immediate relief, the certainty of speedy and permanent cure, the absolute safety and great economy have made them the standard skin cures, blood purifiers and humour remecfies of the civilized world. Mete External and . Internal Treatment , Bathe the affected parts with hot water and Cuticura Soap, to cleanse the surface of crusts and scales, and soften the thickened cuticle. Dry, without hard rubbing, and apply Cuticura Ointment freely, to allay itching, irritation, and inflammation, and soothe and heal, and, lastly, take Cuticura Cuti-cura Resolvent to cool and cleanse the blood. This complete treatment affords instant relief, permits rest and sleep in the severest forms of eczema and other itching, burning, and scaly humours of the skin, scalp and blood, and points to a speedy, permanent and economical cure when all other remedies and the best physicians fail. As evidence of the wonderful curative properties of Cuticura Remedies and of their worldwide world-wide sale, we quote from The Hon. Mr. Jnsttce Finnemore's Letter. "I desire to give my voluntary testimony to the beneficial effects of your Cuticura Remedies. , I have suffered for some time from an excess of uric acid in the blood ; and since the middle of last year, from a severe attack of Eczema, chiefly . on the scalp, face, ears and neck, and on one limb. I was for several months under professional treatment, but the remedies prescribed were of no avail, and I was gradually becoming worse, my face was dreadfully disfigured, and I lost nearly all my hair. At last, my wife prevailed upon me to try the Cuticura Remedies, and I gave them : a thorough trial with the most satisfactory results. The disease soon began to dissappear, and my hair commenced to grow again. A fresh growth of hair is covering my head, and my limb (although not yet quite cured) is gradually improving. My wife thinks so highly of your remedies that she has been purchasing them in order to make presents to other persons suffering from similar complaints, and, as President of the Bible Women's Society, has told the Bible women to report if any case should come under, her notice -when a poor person is so afflicted, so that your remedies may be resorted to." ROBERT ISAAC FINNEMORE, (JuJft tk NaiaJ Sfrtmt Cnri.) Pietermaritzburg, Natal, Oct. 19, 1901. ' CUT1CCRA REMEDIES are sold throughout the civilized vorld. PRICES: Cuticura Resolvent, Resolv-ent, 50c. per bottle (in the form of Chocolate Coated Pills. 25c. per rial of CO) ; Cuticura. Ointment, 50c. per box, and Cuticura Soap. 23c. per tablet. Send for the great work," Humoura of the Blood, Skin, and Scalp, and How to Cure Them," 64 pages, 300 Diseases, with Illustration. Testimonials and Directions in all languages, including Japanese and Chinese. British Dpot, 27-28 Charterhouse Sq., London. E. C. 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