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Show TRUTH 14 The Lighthouse. 'Neath a canopy of night. Girt by foamy seas. AZTECS AS MEDICAL MEN. Stands the lighthouse, spectral, white, Firm to every breeze. Be the weather foul or fair, Far its beacons show. To the world rim billows where Freighted sea ships go. And the pilots heed and sail By its far off gleam, As it glitters, small and pale, Like a star abeam. So the Union towers white. So its beacons shine. So its stars illume the night With a gleam benign. And the stately nations all Sailing fast and far, See beyond the sea mists tall Freedom's guiding star. Henry F. Thurston in "Telemachus and Other Poems. . ; -- Q Telephonic Fences. Barbed wire fences are being utilizcommunication ed for telephonic among the farmers in the neighborThe hood of Woodland, California. of of lines consist the greater part wire fences running along the sides of the roads or dividing the farms, poles and elevated wires being supplied wherever necessary. Branches or loops are added extending to the residences of the farmers living along the route. The undertaking has proved so successful that the original promoters have induced others to Join them, and the line is to be greatly o Bull Fighter Made Much Money. The emoluments of a Spanish matador of the first rank appear to te quite equal to those of an English jockey of equal prominence. The famous matador, Louis Mazzantini, retired from the bull ring after a professional career of twenty-thre- e years. His total profits, without including living expenses, amounted to' 160,-00- 0, but he lost 80,000 in unlucky speculations. He looks forward, however, to enjoying his otium cum digni-tat- e 80,000 remaining. Altoon the gether Mazzantini has killed in the ring 3,500 bulls. London Globe. o , Sage Advice. Draw the curtain of night upon injuries, shut them up in the tower of oblivion, and let them be as though they had never been. us com MUSIC COMPANY 39 Next MAIN STREET Door Z. C. M. I. Have the most complete line of musical instruments in the city. ib PIANOS, ORGANS Sheet Music, Music Books, and Band Instruments And our prices are always the lowest 10,000 pieces of Sheet Music at 10c per copy. NEXT DOOR Z.C.M. 1. Court Ladies Dishonest. Mme. de Crequy in her memoirs has a good deal to say about the want of common honesty displayed by the great ladies of the old and luxurious French court in the matter of relics. The Duchess de Noalles, a very great lady indeed, was a sad offender in this respect. "Once she annexed part of the arm of St. Jeanne de Chantal, which she had borrowed from the nuns of the Visitation, and which she Ancient Race Believed to Have Seen Advanced in Healing Art. According to a recent medical writer the ancient Aztec race cf Mexico was far advanced in the practice of medicine. The native Mexicans practiced massage, splints were used in the dressing of fractured bones, inflamed gums were lanced with obsidian knives, aching teeth were extracted, salt was used as an antisep- had refused to give back. It was distic, and ground obsidian as a dusting covered that she had caused it to be powder. Stiffness of the muscles and pounded in a mortar and mixed with joints were treated by the sweat bath, some drug for her son, the Due wounds were sutured with human dAyen, who was suffering from the hair, the actual cautery was applied measles. It was qiute true she had to the edge of the wounds, and venom stolen a piece of the true cross, for was drawn out of poisoned wounds by she told the archbishop that a stolen sucking, while bleeding was practice! relic was always .more efficacious. in obstinate headaches. ' o ' ' The hygiene of the teeth was well Poachers Shrewd Trick. looked after, very .hot food being A poacher, writing in the Country avoided, as. was the use of cold water after eating hot food. Wooden tooth- Gentleman of London, says: When picks, clean water, and powdered left home at night to go poaching . charcoal served for dentifrice. In always left an end of a candle burn short, the practice of medicine amonj Pig in a saucer of water in my bed these early Mexicans compares very loom; this was arranged so that i. out about 10 oclock favorably with that in vogue at the would splutter time of the landing of the pilgrim just as if I had extinguished it anc retired for the night This I did be fathers. cause I discovered that the keeper: o were given to watching my house foi Great Country fc Wheat. signs of my leaving, and it was a long The delta of the Tigris and the time before they found that a candle Euphrates, now partially a desert and could go out without human agency o partially a swamp, contains over reno of Fair acres of land. Perhaps Beaucalre. An is of earth unsuccessful all effort has been the the of gion regions more favored by nature for the pro- made in France to revive the fair of duction of cereals. It is claimed that Beaucalre on a scale comparable to wheat in its wild, uncultivated stat? that of the good old times. These fairs has its home in the semi-ariin the thirteenth century, regions, began and that from here it has bssn trans- and gradually rose to such proporported to every quarter of the g!6be. tions that in 1790, for instance, the business transacted amounted to o francs. Before the middle of tne last century the railway changed London's Little Italy. all and y the fair is a mere this, Reporting upon the "Little Italy of one of Londons most crowded dis- shadow of its former self. o tricts, the health, officer of the district says that the Italians are "genTrue Friendship. to perthe English erally superior The good friend is the friend that sons who are their neighbors. They knows, not thinks, or fancies, or imagalso take more care of their children, ines, or hopes, but knows that he can among whom the death rate is low, tell us what he thinks and how he and they are sober. feels with perfect freedom and . . d 40,-000,0- 00 l- r- Source of Petroleum.. Until recently it was almost im.! versally believed that petroleum was like coal, derived from fossil, vegetation or possibly from animals or fishes of some long past age. Now it is ag. serted by many scientific men that It ' may not be of any organic origin but may he due to subterranean chemical action. o ' Virtues of the Amethyst. The amyethyst, in days of chivalry, was believed to have great power for good In battles. The wearer was reng and honorable. dered brave, The amethyst was also said to destre" the craving for liquor, which was as prevalent in those days as it is in this. far-seein- o . Popular Taste Changed. Two generations ago an author could not make his heroine successful without constantly calling the slenderness of her waist to the attention of the reader. For certain small mercies let us be duly thankful. The eighteen-incwaist is no longer the basic motif of the popular novel. h o Year of Ocean Disasters. . The worst year on record for tragedies of the deep was 1881-8when the list of missing was swollen by the enormous addition of one hundred and forty-seve- n ships, with an aggreof 41,977 tons; and the gate tonnage loss of life was terrible. 2, Law of Sacrifice. The law of sacrifice is this that to those who win, to those who pay the price, the sacrifice is no sacrifice; that is to say, the element of pain is not present. to-da- CUT RATES EAST Remember that I am selling east bound excursion tickets at greatly reduced rates. Low rates to all points east Travel now while tickets are cheap. GROSH ELLS TICKET OFFICE o 221 MATCH FOR HIS LANDLORD. One Who Objected to Children Is Cleverly Outwitted. Landlords in Paris ,iie becoming day by day more absurd in the restrictions they put on their tenants. Some will not allow a dog to be kept; others will not permit any pet whatever, and some even will not allow children to be in the house. A clever individual has just managed, however, to overcome this last objection. He had seen an apartment he liked and well knowing that the landlord objected to children, he said nothing of the existence of his only child, a hoy of two years, hut simply had the lease made out in the infants name. When he came with his family to take possession the proprietor flew into a passion and objected most strongly to the child. Pardon me, said the astute diplomatist, but it is my child and not myself who has hired the apartment You have made no objection to his asking his parents to stay with him. So here .we are! o - Church on Mountain Top. It is proposed to build a small concrete church on the top of Croagh Patrick, County Mayo, Ireland, for the celebration of the rfnnual pilgrimage mass. ..The church will be almost 2,600 feet above the sea level. . o As a Rule. A New York ghosi, after creating great excitement, proved to be merely the frolics of mice in a piano. When ghosts are finally discovered they are Invariably so commonplace! Buffalo Courier. o Established 17 Yean Main Sired. YEARS DEFORM THH PUBLIO TWBNTY-P1V- B Young Bros. Co. art nit iMts wall for tha tollwtaf hum PIANOS Vim & Sms They Know Better. Very few men, although they talk so much about wanting to live again the happy days of childhood, would put in much of the time eating green . apples. oGambling in Panama. A Jamaican newspaper correspondent at Panama says: There are more gambling hells in Panama than in any other city of its size on earth. Better Late Than Never. Fortunes are lost nightly, and suicides After kissing a pretty girl for the are ro common that receive no first time a young man always re- notice either from thethey public or the grets the opportunities he has wasted. press. -- Fergus Coalter ' 1 . i Croon Riekmond Dayal OlHlU AND PAOKARD ORGANS DOTTOM PRIOBO. BAOY PAYMHNTO. 38 MAIN ST. |