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Show Eastern Coffee the Best ACROSS LAKE ERIE IN ICE. EXPERIMENT IN AQUATIC TRAVELING COSTS LIFE Up to 1690 the Bole source of the nearer the coast of a yellow tinge and much larger. The wild trees of Liberia, which flourish in lowlands, prol of the island, and duce tho largest beans known, which the governor-generahowever, inferior in quality, as is was found to be so well are, case the climate with the majority of the Afthe adapted to It that cultivation was be- rican product. Eastern coffee genergun on a large scale. One of tho first ally may be distinguished by its yelplants grown in Java was sent to the low color and large beans, as combotanical gardens at Amsterdam, and pared with the smaller green berries and South American seed from it was sent to Surinam, re- of Central sulting in its introduction into that growth. In its wild state the coffee tree is country in 1718. Ten years later it found its way to the West Indies, and slender, reaching a height of twelve to from that time its cultivation has been twenty feet, but under cultivation it Is general throughout the inhabited por- pruned to grow not more than six or tions of the tropics. The regions best eight feet high. The leaves resemble those of the laurel, though not so dry adapted to its culture are mountain slopes, varying from one to and thick, and are evergreen, while four thousand feet in altitude and be- tho flowers are somewnat like the Jastween the parallels of 15 degrees north mine. The trees are completely covered with blossoms, which perfume and 15 degrees south latitude. It which at to the whole countryside. The fruit realtitude the According Is grown, the coffee bean varies in sembles the cherry very much, especsize and color, that from the high- ially when ripe, when it Is a dark lands being small and light green, and coffee supply was Arabia, but in that 7ear it was introduced into Java by well-watere- ,i ' it goes, their complaints of the way in which many of them are worked up; a complaint that is often made by many lawyers, who say that perjurious testimony is increasingly encountered in the trial of cases and particularly those in which the foreign ele- One late afternoon, writes Robert Harper's Weekly, the big head forester appeared on the stream where I was fishing. He carried a huge bamboo pole in one hand, a little tin pall in the other. For a while he stood watching me land one or two good fish. Then a peculiarly polite expression came over his face, and be begged to know if it would Inconvenience me if he fished. "No, indeed," I said, quickly. "Where are you going to begin?" "There," he replied, pointing to an incline over which the water rushed like lightning. "Ycu can't catch fish there," I said; for I did not believe it possible that a fish could maintain Itself in such an avalanche or water, or that he could Veep his bait from being swept to the bottom of the shute. However, he tied on a chunk of lead, hooked a live minnow to the end of the rope which served as a line, and W. Chambers in with the probmay be more to Lazarus. If this life, what Lazarus In of state Is the spectacle a specWhat the slums of New York! unfortunate the of life the Is tacle hisgenerally! What a spectacle Is not this that tory! Schopenhauer said, was the worst of all conceivable, but that It was the worst of all possible world, and could not bear another Is grain of eviL There has been and huthe of a terribly large proportion man race which might think that the Philosophic dalliance lem of a future state congenial to Dives than there Is nothing beyond pessimist told the truth. "Immortality" Is Inconceivable. We must discard the term. The question is whether our hopes and responsibilities extend beyond this world and life. Conscience says that science tells us that this world. Its awards and its Judgments are not all. they do. Con- OT TOQUnLLOS" 3EC77eW&: JXXXXff Peter Nissen, who sacrificed his life reach the north pole. Nissen was years an attempt to roll across Lake born in Denmark forty-threa to while came this but ago. country own In of a his craft Michigan strange He was was here. and educated youth for of deeds a record had Invention, a novelties In 1900 he twice shot the the inventor of number of e o self-sacrific- of Man e Lament of Uncle Hiram We'vo bin a durned bravo naabun. We've nt a lot of An' Je becstmo t we're lucky. still soars Our old efl n aoartn V AM 'U .!"n31 Till eome wwhiifi wet kin boot quick. Will put v out b,r"8 And swipe a lot of loot. wr, the tineuseof our manuvrln't wgt'i of rune an drill? Wat's the shootln' of the naahun Wenaothe HIT rank It makes youcaboodle la hull dnpKon'd "Wn thesome on the team 'Optt hit a fellers bl ham door ST Codn Even In their wildcat dreams. we fit fur lndpttdlte, Wn shoot & Tun Ev'ry nian c'ud An' the pickln' off the redcoat fun. Was a moat amaxfn'1S12. fit In An' Wen we wan the rifles Wen We duhblPd op the British troops And mom went home real tame. rm, Then In the war with M ex Icy Mont all of us Cud shoot The man who c'uln't hit the mark Wa cll"l a darned retool But w'en we had our lambty fight An lota of Mood waa ahed To kill a mm it tuk about Three hundred pound of lead. 81n.e then we're rrowln wiiseer An In that war with Ppaln. hlu. Wert cllmbtn' up that Joo-aWe mist a mtss of pain: hev" shot If e'ud Fur the dagoes Wed Mn put on the bom An Mr. fihafter by himself W'ud had to sail fur horn. Wet's the tie of ammnnlhn? ! e Wat's the use of wlnd-ace rift1"? Wet's th use of Wat's the use of 'em fur ffrhtaf We might Jy?t as weii ue pick forks Kr a lot of jfxxi b) oers Then per'ape wd lick the ernrty Like the British lickt the Bore. Ain't I rite? Unci Hiram. 'i: n loner-rane- 0rfOOHZLZ? In e State Future COURSE daring. rapids of Niagara Falls In boats of bis own make, and had he succeeded in the adventure which cost his life his hurled bait and sinker into the foam. purpose was to make an attempt to The sinker was carried a few yards down the incline and finally stuck REACHED SHORE ONLY TO DIE. among the stones. "Now the gracious gentleman shall see what he shall see," observed the Man Who Crossed Lake Michigan in Ball Killed by Exposure. head forester; and the next moment, With a forty mile gale piling up a to my horror, he lifted bodily from the torrent a huge trout. The fish fell on heavy sea. Peter Nissen. in his aquatthe stones, bouncing like a football; ic balloon "Foolklller No. 3" disapthe forester calmly gave It the coup peared In the mists of Lake Michigan de grace, and lifted it on my pocket at Chicago Nov. 23 In a rash attempt miles of scales five pounds, less an ounce, to roll across the sixty-fivwater to the Michigan shore. and 21 Inches long. To see a noble trout of that size The "Foolklller No. 3" Is a canvas Jerked from the element with a young bag, thirty feet long and twenty-twtree for a pole and a cable for a line in diameter, tapering to blunt ends, is peculiarly painful to any angler, where there are glass port holes. InDut I said nothing; the good forester side the whole length of the bag exOne tends a center shaft, around which would not have understood. thing, however, was certain no trout revolves a hub st each end and from of that size had ever even winked his each hub radiates 120 cotton cord eye at any fly I had thrown on the spokes fixed in tho canvas, which pools of the Red Valepp. Let the serve to hold the bag In shape and reader draw his own conclusions and carry It around the center shafL Bepoint his own morals if he has any. tween the spokes, suspended from the shaft. Is a basket or seat In which the "rolling traveler" sits, steering by sliding the basket from one end of the shaft to the other. His only view of but that as we do well or ill In this the outside world Is through the small life. It will be well or ill for ns in portholes at each end. Two days after his attempt to cross the sum of things. What question can be more practical Even taking It on Lake Michigan the dead body of the the lowest ground, what would our so eccentric navigator was found on the cial state be If vice and wickedness lake shore near Stevcnsvllle. Mich., had only to bilk human law? Would seven miles south of 8L Joseph. A few be folly and martyr rods away was the battered and not wrecked "windbag.' dom Insanity? From all Indications Nissen bad reThat physical science has nothing to mained in his aquatic balloon until the ay to this matter Is true. But Is physical science our only sura source of knowledge? Are our mortal Instincts less trustworthy than our physical sense? As I have already said, I af firm nothing; but I call attention to the apparent fact that there Is In man something of which the materialist still owes us an account. All may be, and In a sense no doubt Is, the out evolution. That come of physical does not seem to me to close the In quiry. New York Sun. Trout an Easy Captive and hardly a winter has passed without some such disaster. A man so lost will often trust to the instinct of the dogs to find a way home through the bewildering storm and gloom. Sometimes, however, even the animals have been at fault. In a recent case a fisherman with three dogs was overtaken on the homeward way by a sudden tempest of wind and snow. To see even a few feet must have been impossible, and o even tho doga must have been with fright or found that they were unable to guide themselves in the right direction. Still, though two were loose, they did not desert the man. When the searching parties found him on the following day he was dead, frozen to death, but the dogs with him were alive. One dog, which had not been unharnessed, was' mad, however, and had to be killed at once. Harper's Magazine. Reads Like a Miracle. Moravia, N. Y., Dec. 12th. (Spe cial) Bordering on the miraculous Is the case of Mrs. BenJ. Wilson of this1 place. Suffering from Sugar Diabetes, she wasted away till from weighing 200 lbs. she barely tipped the scales at 130 lbs. Dodd's Kidney Pills cured her. Speaking of her cure her hus band says: "My wifo suffered everything from She was sick four Sugar Diabetes. years and doctored with two doctors, but received no benefit. She had so much pain all over her that she could not rest day or night. The doctor said that she could not live. "Then an advertisement led me to try Dodd's Kidney Pills and they help Five ed her right from the first boxes of them cured ber. Dodd's Kidremedy to ney Pills were a God-Seus and we recommend them to all suffering from Kidney Disease." Dodd's Kidney Pills cure all Kidney Diseases including Bright's Disease, and all kidney aches, including Rheumatism. over-coni- Perjury in the Courts ment is concerned. This state of things Is encouraged by the success which, as in the case cited, is secured by perjured testimony in the suits brought, but not by that alone. It receives its chief encouragement from the immunity from prosecution and punishment given to perjurers and suborners of perjury through the neglect of the authorities to follow up the evidence and the clews that would often lead to the conviction of the guilty. This prevalence of perjury is, indeed, a matter of such consequence to the community even more harmful, perhaps, than murder-t- hat it deserves the most vigorous and rigorous attention of those who have the power to effect a general reformation in it. Brooklyn Citizen. Certain to Traveler Who Loses Direction. No landmarks can be seen there 13 nothing by which to- direct a course on frozen Lake Erie.' A man may easily bo lost and wander until overcome. Too often this has happened, - d An interesting contribution to the proof of the prevalence of perjury in court proceedings Is furnished by a recent story of the restitution of $550 to a street railway company of this city by the priest of a Polish churcha in Manhattan, acting on behalf of woman who confessed to him that she had obtained it as ber share of a verdict in her suit for damages against the company by false testimony. According to the story she testified falsely by the advice of her lawyer, who told her that if Bhe presented nothing but the truth in court she could recover nothing. So she perjured herself. Of course the priest could not be bound to reveal her Identity and he did not, holding that he had done his full duty to both the woman and the company in securing the restitution of the money fraudulently obtained. The story exemplifies the difficulties so often met with by the railroad companies In answers to the frequent damage suits, and Justifies, as far as Death' Almost last. Perhaps he perished In a final frantic effort to escape, as his craft was dashed upon the beach by the high surf the afternoon before he was found. Death, according to physicians, was due to exhaustion and exposure. A note found In the pocket of his coat threw the only light upon the last moments of the navigator. It Indicated that Nissen had experienced dif- - labor-savindevices, and once conducted a business college in Chicago. He was a graduate of the Indiana State Normal College at Valparaiso. Nissen was unmarried. and g Her Share of the World's Work. years ago Mrs. Sadie Shiver of southern Georgia had 235 children, and grandchildren more were and seventy-fivdead. The old lady lived to see 319 of her descendants. A few great-grandchildre- e Acuities In obtaining an air supply. The note ran: "In the chair. Cannot use hose." By "hose" Nissen referred to the pipe and valve In the end of the "wind bag" through which he breathed. It was found to be broken and useless. Those who first examined Nlssen's body and the "Foolklller" believe the Inventor accomplished his prime object crossing the lake in his device. He died, these persons assert, after touching the Michigan shore. TIME SIGNALS AROUND WORLD. Washington Naval Observatory Plans to Eclipse Records. The naval observatory at Washington will make an effort to send time signals of the new year around the world. Last year the Instant which marked the beginning of the new year was transmitted over 300.000 miles of telegraph and cable wires, reaching pearly every Important point, even the interior of Alaska. This year It will be sent out at midnight on Dec. 31, and at I, 2 and 3 o'clock a. m., seventy-fift- h meridian time, to announce the exact Instant of the beginning of the new year to each of the great standard time belts of the United States. It has also been proposed that at the session of the International Railway Congress In Washington In May next, the observatory send out to the world, as far as telegraph and cable will carry them, a special series of time ignals In celebration of the meeting. The authorities at the naval observatory also intend to collect Information relating to the kind of time In actual use In the various countries of the world. Cupid Resented Interference. Lord Kitchener's objec tion to his officers getting married Is said to have led to the breaking of his leg. The story goes that the In dian commander In chief heard how one of hli most trusted subordinates. a man whom he regarded as a confirmed bachelor, had fallen victim to the fascinations of a girl Just out from England. He was Informed also that the two were In the habit of quietly meeting at a certain place In the morning. Kitchener set out on horseback next day to Investigate and when on his way to the alleged tryst Ing place met with the mUhap which resulted In a broken leg. well-know- n Mayor McClellan Shows Fairness. Mayor McClellan of New York Is fair In his distribution of honors There devolved upon him the respon sibility of selecting seven members of the board of educatlm. He ap pointed three Democrats, three Re " was UbIoi publicans and IsL Catarrh Cannot aaBe Cured A L APPLICATIONS, they cannot reach . f tbedleeewj. Catarrh I a blood or cnnalK (he luUunal dleeaae. and In order to cure It jron mut lake Internal remedlee. 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Get one to-da- y. Railway Revenue From Grain. American railways handle about 112.000.000 worth of grain year. TEA We don't mind the money the moneyback ere money-th- isn't much of it. Bkascauimr ;miw BMwry If Baet- - r aVaal French Railroads. The French provincial railroads are among the poorest the world. Some of the cars are several decades old, and on one line, not long ago, the floor gave way and L:e car literally fall to pieces. TEA Your grocer and you hare common interest good for you both. , Tea is SalCllr Undertakers Form a Trust. Some Melbourne undertakers recently formed a ring and bought near ly all of the vacant Ms la the general When this was atone they cemetery. raised the price of funerals. Wk a oranAJVTitKO crni? ron rnrs. . XT TtcblM. Silnd, Plee-ltwill refand mrxter If PAZO tmitm e awro la M U daye. a I'1"-- T nitlUMMt English as It Is Spoken. When told te take a back most any maa win taka a fron. aV |