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Show 1 All In a dd a good W T"' t.inute. SCYTHES AS ORNAMENTS. In a auywothings are whirled MSI? Minute. For Instance, the outside of the earth just thirteen miles, and hare gone around the 1,0 S3 miles; a ray of light has traveled 11,100,000 miles; the lowest eoand your ear can catch has made 96 vibrations, the highest tone 1,228,000 vibrations. Twenty four bar rele of beer have .gone down 12.098 throats; 6.67 3 cigars have been made; tM tons of coal hare been mines aud worthof gold has been extracted from mother esrth. u I (Special Correspondence.) At dawn we eaw the highlands of Miquelon r'ring out of the sea before us. and presently we raised the little Island of St. Pierre. Then, running before a brisk easterly breeze, we swung by lie aux Chlena, swept up the road stead, where a couple of stalely men of war lay at their moo- tt MEN TAKE SECOND PLACE. Women of Abyssinian Tribe ' Are Really Emancipated. In the valley of the Barca. In Abys etc la. there la ji community where ring. and entering a snug harbor, rounded to and Same to anchor a crowd of nno";-,- t onfft from various quarters of the world lumbering old barks, ancient brigs, dapper little trim, smart Pxiklng fore from Gloucester and Lunenburg, and scores of smail-- r flhlng boats. The town of St. Iberre Is situated on an Island of the same name having An area of only nine square miles. Its settled population Is less tlan 4,000, but being the baiQ of the French fisheries, Its population during the summer Is augmented by about 6, non fish Its harbor is ermen from France. accessible to the largest ships, but is rot very wel sheltered from northeast anils of St Pierre storms. The and Miquelon have a united area of the women, without holding meetings ar agitations of any klnd.bave emanAll the women cipated themselves. work hard, while the men are Idle; bit by way of compensation the Jiouae end idl It contains belong to the wife At the least unkln word she turns In storm or the husband out at rata. end he cannot come back until he makes emends by the gift of a cow. The wife considers It a duty to abnss the husband and if she were weak enough to show any love for him In Ufa or grief at his death she would be withaoorned by her tribe. The out any reason, may strike brr tent of end go, taking with her the joint possessions. The husband unless he is traveling, may not live out of hla tent. s ard-after- s oce-tbir- 3 ONLY RUSSIANS MAY FISH. Waters Around Vladivostok Aro Jealously Looked After. In the great fishing grounds of the sen of Okhotsk, north of Vladivostok the Russian government sells concessions annually, but all the vessels employed must oe Russian, sail ualer that flag and have Russian crews. No fishing Is allowed in the rivers, nor nearer than one mile from the mouth of the river. A revere penalty Is Imposed ou any Japanese found working - In A Russian fishery. Neither can u Japanese sell fish to a Russian. The Russian Seal company, the Fast Siberian Fishing company and one other company have the exclusive right to In September last ore ship fish. brought in a cargo of thirty seven tons of salmon from Okhotsk to the Vladl vostok market. One firm sent 20,100.-Mpounds of salmon to Hamburg; another firm supplied 6,480,000 pounds to tbs Japanese government Device for Killing Rabbits. As Injurious Implement for use In ' the perpetual warfare which the Australians are tarced to carry on against the swarms ot rabbits which Infest that country baa lately been experimented with at Victoria. It consists . of a cylinder filled with poisonous liquid, with a foot plate attached to it, which la placed In any thickly Infested apoL As soon as s rabrnt presses the plats It opens a valve which sprinkles tbs animal with some c&the poison. The animal then llckku poison off Its fur, and the faralr Is relieved ot one more of tie pests. Eteam Traction Anniversary. Feb. IS was the centennial cf the see of steam traction on railroads. moving engine It was only a five-torunning over tho Merthyr Tydfil course. 4ta Inventor was Richard It could Trerlthlc, a Comlshman. draw flfteon tons at a rate of -- fits miles an hour. It bad an eight Inch cylinder and toothed wheels, which caught In notched rails and helped It orer hard places in the track. Only few trips were made by It, for the experiment was net commercially profitable. t Dust Packages. The municipal regulations of Berlin Insist that refuse, ashes and all that is generally though inaccurately sum marlxed by tbe term "dust" shoutff be carried through the streets In air tight receptacles. n Alr-Tfgh- EMPTY NOW. t 1 How One Woman Quit Medicine. "While a coffee user my stomach troubled me for years, says a lady of Columbus, O., and I had to take medicine all tbe time. I had what I thoiurat was the best stomach medicine I could get, had to keep getting It filled all did .the time at 49 cents a bottle. aot know what the cause of my trouble was but just dragged along from day to day, suffering and taking rnedi-cinall tbe time. "About six months ago I quit tea and coffee and bogan drinking Postum and I have not had my prescription filled since, wLlch la a great surprise to me for It proves that coffee was the eaaae ef all my trouble although I never suspected it "When my friends ask me how I (Cel since I have been taking Pwtum I say, To tell the truth 1 don't feel at all only that I get hungry and eat everytblrg I want nnd lots of It and It never hurts me and I am happy aud well and .contented all the time.' "I could not get my family to drink Postum for a whlie until I mixed It in a little coffee and kept on reducing the . amount of coffee urtil I got It sa Now they all like it and the. never belch it up like coffee. We all know that Postum Is a sunshine maker. I tic It helps one grcit-lfor we do not have to think of acht-and pains all the time and can ue ocr mluds for other things. Nam given by Postum Co., Battle Creek 1 L V-- --V pt;i j it v- - Fog j ,: ! Mich. The one who has to bother with eoffee aches and pa. ns Is badly hard) capped in the race for fame and for tune. Postum is a wonderful rebuild er. There's a re? sop. Look In each package for tho fam ns little book, "Tbe Road to Well ! vflle." ; f'V- - V- Whittle on Miquelon. square miles. pons sts of Greater and Lesser Miquelon formerly separate islands All bui now united by a sandbar these Islands are mere rugged masses of granite, and at several points are over 600 feet high. A thin covering of soil Is found In some places, but agriculture does not extend beyond vegetable gardens. In 1898, the settled population of all the islands was 4 700, of whom 1.G11 were men, 1,494 women, and 1,593 children. The great resources of the people of St. Pierre are fishing and smuggling In 1900 the exports ot St. Pierre amounted to 22,400,(00, corsistlng of fish, fresh and dried, fl.940000. cod oil. 2206,000, lobsters 280,000. The fisheries are largely in the hands of fishermen from Old France, who land their chtch.es in St. Pierre during the summer to be cured. -- To France, her St. Pierre posses shins, situated as they are In a great trade highway, have Immense strategic Importance as a possible basis ft r commerce destroying operations, as well as being valuable as a fishing depot, and a nursery for her navy; and If she parts with them at all. it will only be for valuable considerations. St. Pierre has In the past, however, changed hand many times. In 1713 It was ceed to Britain, but op the British conquest of Canada was assigned to France as a fishing depot. In 1778 It was selz.d by the British, and In 1783 again ceded to France. In 1793 It was Uejoi ubjed by the British and In 1802 recovered by France. Again In 1803 the British captured It. but it was again ceded to France In 1816, slnee which time the Island has remained a French possession. St. Pierre has long been the center rf a well i rganized smuggling traffic, and, though the vigilance of the cus toms authorities of Canada and the United States has done much to check It of late years, a large, contraband business is still carried on. The following story told by a sea captain, who was a tew years ago In command of a Canadian revenue and fishery protection cuter, illustrates the audacity and resource if these The cutter, a smart contrabandists. sailing schooner, was then stationed at Souris, a port at the eastern end ot about d ninety-thre- e The Canadian fiahing boat tande It at a proper time and place near the home port. came to anchor In Souris, the green pink came round the breakwater and Hello, Cap, passed in to her wbalf. got a prize, hey? Smuggler, eh?1 hailed h r shipper. "If I come aboard l by w ill you give me a drink of gin?" At that moment the green pick had a first class cargo of St. Pierre liquor In her hold. While the cuttir had been following her second wiidgoose chase, she had kept ou to windward, met the smuggler from St. Pierre, thrown out her ballast, and taken In liquors in its stead. Of course the cutti r. having searched her once that dav. was not suspicious. And that night the audacious pink discharged her conti aband cargo within two hundred yards of where the cutter lay, without trouble, A few years after the captain heard how he had been duped, but he wasn't interested In the smuggling trtffle suppressing then. Naming the New Book. One of the pesterings to which men are subjected is the persistence with which lady canvassers with rew books urge the purchase of their v orks. One of these, having overtaxed the patience of a gertleman. was disposed of in the following manner; "Madame, the partnership of which I am a member has lately been so Im prudent as to Issue a tew work of their own, which in consequence of tho enormous expense attendirg Its ilbi trnfor- - embellishments, etc., haa Placed There to Commemorate Peasants Defense of Their Faith. At first sight the scythe Is a strange ornament for a church, but there la nothing Incongruous In these curious agricultural implements aa seen in the parish church of bt Marya at Horn-castlIn Lincolnshire. Thirteen of these blades are nailed above the door in the north chapel. At one time the blades numbered forty jor fifty, but owing to rust and decay mr.ny of them cave been loaL Each of the scythes Is about a yard in length. The general belief la that these blades were placed In the church In commemoration of the seal of peasants who wielded them In defense of their faith In the rebellion known as Thi Pilgrimage of Grace, which had Its rise at Louth In 1536. When tbe people saw the ruins cf their churches and abbeys, they rose In revolt, and arming themselves with the Instruments of husbandry, such as scythes they went forth to encourter the enemy. They were beaten and dispersed, but in the eyes of tbelr countrymen they were heroes, end the rude Implements with which they fought were deemed worthy of an abiding place in the old church where the peasants had worshiped. Christian 4 fie. . - , o ? J con ; eteh i r ppled us.'1 Lobster Fisherman cf Miquelon. 'Tiir. itraais replied the lady Price0 Edward Island. One dav thp we could procure you ived word from a secret Tie suVeribors. captain rie W.bat do you dall aeint In St Pierre that a notorious work?" smuggler bad openly boasted that he "Well, we have not yet determined; would land a cargo of liquor In Sturls but 1 goes-- , 111 let my have her the following night, despite all he o.rn way and call it after me CLarjes cettirs in Canada The captain gave Henry. j out that he had been ordered to the smith shore of Nova Scotia, and next Hard on Shoulder Straps. morning, bright and early, got under "What was the loss? Willie Coll: er way and stood over towards the Gut asks In his new play. The DictatoK of Canso till he bad run the Island when told of a battle with Son out of sight behind him. Them after American revolutionists. making a traverse towards Cape BreOh, twenty-threofficers and ope ton, he put out his long boat, to make man wounded, Is the answer. A y-- tir e e TO ETRENGTHEN THE EYE. FACE. System ef Athletics Said te Be sf Much BeneflL-Thathere should he special dses for the eyes Is perhaps s serel Idee to many. But U Is said (hat ons way to strengthen the eyes Is to tom them alternately upward sad downward aa far as possible twenty times in succession. Do this slowly. Next turn the eyes en the level from right to left, repeating as before. Torn them to the upper left eorner and then to loger right corner. Then at ternate the motloa from 'the upper right corner to the lower left cornet and repeat. Conclude these exercises by rolling the eyes around, first ta tbe rlghL then to the left, la the ea treme Until-f- if Abe muscular exten., Iona Be very careful when perform lug the exercise not to strain thi Now Interest Attaches to Maines Broken Coast Line at Owls Head. Along Malnea broken coast line there is no point more eonsplcucua tnan Owls Head, where a new attraction has been discovered by William F. Norcross, a Rockland business man. Clambering to a seldom frequented part ot the government land, he saw outlined against tbe sky a remarkably clear profile. A few weeks ago a photographer visited the scene. Tbe result cf his snapshot la seen in tbe accompanying picture. Some who have seen the photograph have remarked t et? muscler Hows This? raw Oh Huolirf TUin Emri for ray caaoi I cur4 fc W y k - i '. - of tftwrxh lia4 Uurrl Cue. tor ibt w Capturing a Sea Bass. Royal Bliven of Pleasant View, R. I., captured a striped sea bass a few days ago on the beach. Mr. Bltven was walking along the beach when he saw the fish floundering tn the shallow water and succeeded In landing tt on tt sand. The striped sea bass is not uncommon on the New England coast In the fall, but are extremely rare at this time of year. d Owes Life to Oddities of Great Ven. Shelley could spend an entire day float. "g llt'io paper boats on any Poo wrter he chanced to be rear. oddiJes and eccentriciGoldsmith's ties were chiefly dandyisms, and tbs story of his peach blossom coat Is known the world over. Mortaigne had an aversion tor Friday, and, while he preferred odd numbers, he would not alt down to a table with thirteen persons. The Meeting cf the National Irrigation Congress. To be held at El Paso. Texas, this fall, proinites to be of great interest to dwellers in country, and addresses will be made by American and foreign Irrigation authorities. An Interei-tinprogram, Including a genuine Mexican bull fight, will bs given by tho citizens. For further Information regarding date of abov meeting, railroad fares, etc., address C. F. Warren, room No 411, llooly block, Balt Lake City, Utah. Inter-Mountal- To Strike Cornu Medal. provisional committee. Including more than fifty matchers of :he Institute of France, has been formed with the object of commemorating the scientific v ork cf the late Prof. A Cornu by mears cf a medal struck foi that purpose. A Kef her Gray's Sweat Powder forCtilldron, Succe(nl!if used by Mother Gray, uur&s H ths Children's Home m New York, cur Constipation. Feverisbn s, Bui S omach, Tetihing Diso ders, move and regula e the Bowels and Destroy Worms Over 30 Oofl tevimonials At all drngsiMs 2.8c. Sam-il- t FREE. Address A.S. OIiuslod.Le Roy.N. Y. Carnival of Venice.. The carnival of Venice, which cmee waa crlrbrat'-by the whole popu.aca of that c ty, has now become a monopoly cf the chddri n. VF nulow's Soothlnt? For rhll iren teetLmjs, lAiRinutu,iUjrsua,c;Ar the k nr.b, re lura tl c a buteta. wlaticoitte. Tirst Almanacs. The first aluaDac was published ta 1472 by Martin Ilkus at Buda, oUnd, and tn 1473 almanacs were compil'd r.eariy in their present form b' John uhe; otherwise Reg!mnnta"us, a TLe first printer at printed in England was itich-ar- J whi-- b PyriFo- appeared tn 149T. y twenty-fiv- e feet, une con ver.ient use to which the Instrument may be put by machinists is in pieas-Brinthe surface speed of the work In a lathe. It is only necessary to put the measuring wheel tn contact with the revolving surface for a fraction of a minute, when the length of surface covered will be found indicated on the dial. runs to g F!o Cure cannot be too highly epokea ef s icoujfli cur. J. W. O Bhlbn, 323 Tmni Ara, Minneapolis, Uuulv Jan. ft, lUOQt Interferes vith Matrimony. Tbe head ot a Berlia firm, finding that one of his young women clerks had become engaged to another member of the staff, discharged her. Tha young woman thereupon sued fiW former employer for the amount of her salary for tho remaining mbnths of tbs year for which she liau been engaged, and Judgment was given In her favor on the ground that neither the betrothal no any slight caress could ta regarded as just cause for disml saL Market Price of Skeletons. The price of skeletons rurs from 100. Tr.e difference has lit19 iotle to do with the condition of the In the cheap subject when alive. skeleton only the framework is preserved. Cheap second hand ones can or C4. The often be had as low as nervous the have and ot.es expersive circulatory s stems preserved Some of the French skeletons are rovels of ingenu. ty In this direction, each nerve To Core a Cold In One day. or muscle being fitted with an at'aeh-men- t Take Laxative Bromo (Jnmfne Tablets. AQ connecting it with a spiral spring druggist rotund money if it foils to cure- or wire. Lands of Russian Peasants. Staiist.es compiled by ths Zemtroa What Next Tin Cans? of forty-ninof European It has been discovered by ranchmen Unssia showedprovinces that 891,000 peasant Canada of that the some in parts pulp families, representing a population ot To the edge of the platform are atot a sugar factory Is fine food for an a. p- -i only nine acres 7,q tached mechanical devices with re- sheep. Never before was such a cheap i . x.id to the fam.ly, and that 2.219,-44- 4 volving pulleys and little belta. The provender thought of. even though it peasant households, representing man places his foot on the rest In oiust be combined with grain and hay front of one of these little machines, to make a good fattener. The pulp a populatione of about 18,090,000, had twenty-onacres each, although and the apparatus begins to get busy. wnlch the sugar manufacturers are only of such houseof hundreds thousands He does not move bis foot until the delighted to sell, posts but fifty cents holds consisted of from eight to twea " shoe is shined. a ton. e members. shoe-sHne- r. - '3 j i tr-flv- I bf Martin Tcoslnt sod Ttlliion Ho'lar Onm The two greatest fodder plants on good for 14 tons hay and the esrth, one other 50 tons green fodder per acre. Grows everywhere, so does Victoria Rape, yielding 60,000 tbs. sheep and swine food per acre. zest srSD 10c is STiieps to tun John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, WIs.. and reietve tn return their hlg catalog ard lots of farm seed samples. fW. N. U.) Mr, Automatic Shoe Shiner. Is electricity to oust tbe bootblack from bis livelihood? A Chicago Inventor answers "Yes. The indention Is called an "automatic electric There Is an elevated platform, on which are arranged stools and around which Is a brass railing. O Peculiar Jspanes Custom. Tho foreigner should beware of making presents to any Japanese girl unless he U bent upon matrimony. To present her with any sort of a gift, even though It be only a posy, will be regarded as a proposal of marriage, aad to accept the present, though not a word of love or matrimony be pans-ed- . Is a sign that she accepts you. Gallant Americans have got into serious trouble and found it necessary te leave the country at night to escape a which they binding engagement thoughtlessly Incurred by giving to e . maiden some tnfie. Sweetheart A Romance. A farewell kiss given by his sweetheart, Miss Hrttip Curran, aroused Thomas L. Carter, a Pittsburg glass woi ker, from a trance and saved him from burial alive. lie was engaged to be married to Mhos Curran, and was visiting at her parents home in Somerset, Pa., when he wan stricken with typhoid fever. The fever ran Us course and It was thought he was recovering when he suddenly sank in a stupor, and when the physician arrived he pronounced him dpad. The relatives were notified aud arrangements made for the burial. When the undertaker arrived Mis? for one last look bo Curran begg-'fore he was turned over to the hanrf? of that Individual. tho pallor ot It was noticeable-tha- t death had net spread over his face, and as she stooped and kissed his lips an eyelid fluttered. Immediately steps were trken to resuscitate him, and It kingdom which he deliver at the Is now thought he will recover. New house. To save expense, large busi- York Journal. ness houses send to the postoffice for their mall. Letters from abroad are Handy Little Measure. This device, a r ckot measure, Is delivered free. constructed so that it will Indicate distances from one eight of an inch to Bribing Mr. Dan Cupid. Durban was lately greatly excited 25 feet wTen simply drawn over the The hand by the Information that a woman of surface to be measured. foreign origin, who had arrived by traversing the outer dial reads up to steamer, and who for some reason twelve inches, while that on the Inner and was treated as an "undesirable refused permlss on to land, was offering 300 to any one who would marry her and thus enable her to evade the law which prohibited her from going ashore. Very soon some threescore men, mostly out of works, made a bee line to the vessel, but even those who got there first were too late. The ship stayed only a short time, and the hopes of Immediate possession of funds were destrojed, as the leading beteh of aspiring husbands saw the prize borre away to sea. St. James Gazette. Eels Sold by the Grab. London possesses a curiosity In the Southwark eel market, which is saiu to have been held regularly for over It is little known except 300 years. In the neighborhood where It Is held viz., near Blackfriars Bridge Orlgn-allthe eels sold were caught off Blackfriars Bridge, but now they come mostly from Holland and Scotland. They are not sold by weight, as Is usual, but by the handful, the price being "4d. the grab. CO., Toletl botamla Dnnnrisui. Tulodo, O Hair Catarrh Cura U taaea tnurmaUf, arttef dtroetiy UfHX) (bo btoud acd mucous uirfacoo 4 too ystefo. Towilimaiala mi Ire jHrho ? wail pot bottle, bold hv ail lniAKlu. Toko Rail's f auilij FUU I jr oaosUpafloOb BY A KISS. Pittsburg Glass Worker tb aajr obUgatiiM crrjr Haudivd. KfAV VI upon its striking resemblance to the late Gen. Benjamin F. Butler. Owls Head played an important part In the Indian wars. Here waa fought the last battle between the Indians and whites in that part of Maine. It Is an ancient Indian tradition that ail of the savages killed on the neighboring coast were buried on Tax on Letter. tne Head, and the Smithsonian InstiIt Is part of a Spanish postmans tution sent Lculs Francis, an Oliltown duty to collect a ta of a cent apiece a few years ago to locate on every letter sent from within the Indian, there the old cemetery. Tbe rocky acres divulged no secrets, however. WAS SAVED F. J. CHESET but kauw J tu )st IS Yor, od believe blai perfeotlft'Hxy orubM In all usmows trasrUH and ftaaudaujr afe id out bt ftna W, bnsl-nes- Pas-tom- t close-haule- - e . look like a selnet score pf which were icruising about the East North Bay, and stood backtwo In afternton Point. the Along pinks appeared coming down font the northeast, but when about fi miles to windward off the cutter, tbey hove to and started to fish. j "That green fellow Is the lid were looking for. declared" the taplaln. "The other the Hack lad jubilantly is the one that was In Soars when we left this morning. Underthe Impression that we were going ihrough the Gut, he's met the smugglr up to windward and told him the east waa clear. , The cutter began to make kisurely lacks towards the pinks, but jipsntly the green lad crowded on jail ana stood away to til northeast. The cutter gave Chase, and In an hour or so overhauled and karded her only to find an lnoffens!t fisherman. Then the captain bethobjht him of the black pink, and looklpfto leeward, saw her bear awjay said run down the coast, evidently ijent on getting In among the Islam i above Georgetown by dark. "Hang It! This fellowa d us a wild goose chase, said the eptalm "Theyve transshipped the stiff- Up elm and wing her out. Wql catch the rascals yet. The cutter stood after the flying black pink, and a while beftie sun-on came In hall of her. Tip pink pa'd no attention to the drier to heave to. j I'll run you down. declard the captain, "If you donL I w.nt to I board you. The cutter swqoped down upn the little Jink, but still she paid tu heed. And when at last the cutter arerved aside to pass her. The pink ywd the same way, and next moment tie cut-tir-s big main boom swept theplnks spars out of her as if they hiu been pipe stems. The cutter eendei boat aboard of her, but tbe pink - arrled no contraband goods, so tha rutter, truing dismasted the chased lad to ake her In tow and beat pick to Souris. And you may lmagle the captains feelings werent impftred by what the crew of the pink saldabout his seamanship and the aclo for damages they proposed to taka gainst As the cutter, with he tow, him. the cutter GENERAL BUTLERS , |