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Y*. ' neither did the comet strike .is. it is with many calamias that pie foolishly anticipate. \ iglu 4140 Niontrr. By ROBEPT C. BAILEY. incase, MONTANA. The X rays may prove the new wo- nan has a marble heart. The best corks come from Algeria. There are 2,500,000 acres of cork forests In that country. After thirty yeatly of secrecy Keely is to have the motor patented. Look out for vibratory engines. Two thousand bicycles ,were de- stroyed In a Boston conflagration the smother day. Scorchers, Indeed. The ivorld didn't COMP to an end and Thus p00 - In Mr. Astor's case Lady Henry Som- erset has demonstrated that she is \enough to make a man &ad.\ while proving that she will not \drive him mad.\ Mr. John Jacob Astor has \sworn off\ paying taxes this year to the ex- tent of a trifle over two millione. That's the kind of leap year John Jacob says It is. With the approach of warm weather It does seem as if Mayor Sutro was right when he said that Collis Hunt- ington would not carry away anylicety'e red-hot stove. Bismarck is superstitious; but we are not likely to hear that he is keeping any extra number of black cats in order to insure the success of the young Em- peror's new navy. The weather bureau service costs the government $900,000 a year. Of ceurse, it is a good thing, but ic sometimes seems as if we ought, to get better weather for the price. It is perplexing to learn that the Turkish Government has promised safety to Americans until Minister Ter- rell returns from his trip to the United States. Why should the promise not continue after that? The Tennessee centennial exposition to be held in Nashville next fall, while celebrating the 100th anniversary of the admission of the state into the union, will be national and international in its character. Every state and foreign country is invited to take part, and every inducement is offered them for the Ynaking of exhibits and the erection of special buildings. Recently a newspaper in Louisville published the pictures of several young lady clerks. A wealthy young man was very much taken with the face of one of them, and lost no time (knowing that delays are dangecous) in obtaining an introduction. It is now announced by telegraph that \the parents of the young lady have found that he will make a desirable husband and have -consented to the match' Girls, get your pictures in the paper. Some idea of the terrors of a burst- ing volcano may be gained from the account of the last eruption in Hawaii. The crater of the volcano was filled from 600 to 1,000 feet deep with molten lava, which finally forced its way through a subterranean passage. It was forty miles from there to the sea, yet this avalanche of molten rocke reached the waters in less than two days, destroying every thing in its track. It continued flowing for three weeks, heating the sea water twenty miles from shore. In 1891 the legislature of Nebraska passed a law forbidding the ownership of red propeety in that state by any corporation not incorporated under state laws, and ordering all property to held forfeited to the state. The first suit under the law has been brought against the North Platte Land and Wa- ter company, a corporation whose stockholders are principally English- men, and which has not a Nebraska charter. This company holds about 20,- 000 acres of valuable land, and before they give it up the supreme court 01 the United States will probably be asked to rule on the validity of this Nebraska law. A floating mining camp is now being fitted up at,Ellensburg, Wash., and next spring will ply up and down the Snake river. The camp will he perfectly ap- pointed in every way with a full bat- tery of mining appliances and quarters for the miners. It is being constructed on an Immense flatbottomed boat es- pecially built for that purpose. On the boat is a big stationary engine and boilers, dredgers, and pumps of various sizes, and all the appliances for extract- ing gold, endle boarding and lodging house that will accommodate at least ltiO miner.. The camp is an experiment by a Chicago syndicate, and it will be molted up and down the river, working the banks and bed of the stream for gold A wealthy Japanese; gentleman who came to this country a few weeks ago to study Its civilization has seen one lynching, watched a football game, at - tiled a meeting of the Chicago City Irich, witnesweri an afternoon Bes- sie!' of the Kentucky Legislature, and then started back to Japan. The De Castellanos heve nqt parted The controversy between George Gould and the New York tax departnient over the size of the estate has been explained netisfactorily, douleissits, to Mr. Gould's French brother-in-law. DANBURY'SGIANT. SIXTEEN, SLIT SIX FEET NINE INCHES TALL. Who (au Match His Inoheist -Fm-t 11710 port. hit the theme Mate, Had a rho- s...tonally Big Young Yellow I.tst leer, but U. Died. bring Ids growth New York World. Not yet sixteen years old he is, it Is needless to say, an object of wonder to all who see him for the first time, and invariably attracts the greatest at- tention whenever he appears on the streets. His name is Herman Johnson and he Is exceedingly proud of the notoriety that his Immense height has brought to him. The writer had a conversation with him the other day, in which he said: \I believe I am the tallest boy of my age, not only In New England, but in the whole country.\ Johnson is very anxious to be en- lightened on this subject and at his request his picture is sent to The World in the hope that, if there Is any one who can size up with him, he will make himself known. No man or boy in Danbury comes anywhere near him. Boys of his own age look like midgets when they stand beside him. His case recalls that of Patrick Casey, the young Bridgeport boy, an aocount of whom was published in The World In October, 1895. In the middle of August that year Casey, who was then five feet high, began to shoot up- ward and kept at It until he was about the middle of the following October SIR feet three inches. This was an aver- age of a quarter of an Inch a day or nearly seven feet a year. His ago then was seventeen years. Casey, however, was unable to with- stand this enormous strain upon his constitution and he died the following November. Before his death his hair turned from red to jet black. The physicians accounted for the change on the theory that the tincture of iron that had been given to him as a tonic bad entered into his 'blood and acted upon the hair. His case puzzled the doctors, but no autopsy was held on the re- mains, owing to the objections of the family. ANBUItY, (70NN., counts among its population a boy not yet oat of his \teens who tow- ers up to the mag- nificent height of six feet nine inches and who has not yet made up his mind as to the point where he will to a full stop, Bays A Slasher Mashed. A masher's a being with \cheek\ like a mule, And brains light as feathers or chaff, Who studies vain glory Ids vanity's school, And thinks of politeness he knows ev- ery rule, And dresses up well—to dispel ridi- CUle— Yet knows that he's of the riffraff. Maids, matrons, and mothers, who hap- pen to go Through the town unprotected, all feel The sneers and the jeers of this mascu- line foe Who stands 'it a lamp post, as if for a show, And language immodest at lone females throw, Enough to make decency reel. I saw one one day sidle up to a maid— A daughter of Erin's green isle— Who knew his intentions; so, nothing afraid, As quick as a soldier e'er handledla blade, She raised her umbrella and stopped his tirade I3y smashing his stove -pipe silk tile. That hat was soon wrecked, and he looked rathor cheap, And growled through his teeth with a hiss. Again she went at him, and with a full sweep, And down quick as lightning he fell In a heap. \Young man, as you BOW you are cer- tain to reap,\ Cried she; \and take this and take this.\ Whack whack! the umbrella came still on his head As gazed he bewildered and mute, Until a chance offered; away then he fled, With face from discomfiture perfectly red; And as he \skedaddled\ this heroine said, wish I'd my big brother's boot.\ —M. C. McMahon, The New Photography. If Roentgen and Edison can upon their sensitive plates photograph the inner man, how much more can lie who knows', understands and controls all the laws and forces of nature! I think of the Great Eye that reads every thought and emotion, and records unerringly upon the sensitive plates of His great Book of Remembrance human deeds. How can a man remain impure and un- true in the light of modern aelence, Whose rays are focused ripen the fact of (iod's omniscience and upon the judgment day ?—Rev. L. W. Allen. The Anthony 'Mo.) Bulletin has an 3Mett crib to acrommodato readers' who wish to ply their Subscriptions in corn. A LESSON IN BUSINESS, The Illa•is on Which the Selling Irrie• Is Arrived At. \Now my son,\ said the old mer- chant, \while you are applying your- self to the details of this business. learning how to buy and how to sell, how to guage the taste and needs of the ereat public, how to avoid mistakes, how to seize opportunities—while you study these things keep always before you the fact that the basis of all true business success is absolute, uncom- promising honesty.\ \Father said the young man, \your business has always been one of largo sales and small profits, has it not?\ - You know what I advertise, my son; I buy everything direct from the manu. lecturer, and I sell to the consumer at exactly seven and a half per cent ad, vance from cost. Such a business believe to be as beneficial to the public as any philanthropic Institution. The people should purchase the necessities of life at a margin above first cost sulli s dent only to pay for the actual hand- ling of the goods. That is a fixed prins cdple of mine.\ \But said the boy, in a puzzled, hesitating way, \you had an Invoice of lace curtains to -day at $3 a pair, and X heard you give Instructions to mark them $4.69.\ The old man leaned back in hie leather -cushioned swivel chair, sallied blandly, and told the boy to take pencil and paper. \The expenses of this business last year,\ he said, \were ten per cent of the sales. Add ten per cent to your N. - \Three thirty.\ \There is always possible a shrinkage In value of stork, always a percentage of bad debts, always a hazard of un- foreseen contingencies. Add ten per cent more.\ Three sixty-three.\ \Do you know how much It costs your father to maintain himself and his family? Have you any idea of the expense of educating and dressing three boyseand three girls, paying their way in society, providing them and their mother with a country home and a city home, with servants and carriages and everything they desire?\ \I am afraid I have no idea, father.\ \Well it is simply frightful. It is, In fact, twenty per cent of the entire sales of the house. Add twenty per cent. Never mind fractions.\ \Four thirty-six.\ \There. You have arrived by a pro- cess as clear and open as day, and by the use of simple business rules at a cost of those curtains billed at $3. Now add seven and a half per cent profit.\ \Four sixty-nine.\ \That's what I'm going to advertise them at; and you will see a great run on them te-morrow, for the public has learned that all my announcements are absolutely reliable.\—Kansas City Packer, Rittriatiiree. Here and there in Scotland and Eng. land are out ruins and houses which have window panes which have been written upon in idle or fanciful mo- ments by celebrated people, and not very long since a small pane upon which Robert Burns had inscribed a verse and which had been brought from Dumfries, sold in a London auction room for 70 guineas. Dickens, who made his presence felt wherever he wandered, sometimes wrote upon window panes and at a spelndid old coaching inn—now al- most a wilderness—on the Great North road, not far from Pontefract, is a very clear signature of his on the dining room window pane, this same signature having been written, along with scores of others, in the presence of the late landlord. Other signatures on the same window are those of David Rob- erts, Mediae, Warren of \Ten Thousand a Year\ fame, Brunei and G. V. Brooke, the actor. In an old heathery in Felte lane at one time a Dickens window sig- nature was highly prized and often sought out by strangers and on this same pane some wag—said to be the late H. S. Leigh --had written: \Should you ever chance to see A man's name writ on the glass, Ile sure he owns a diamond— And his parent owns an ass.\ Near Bately, in Yorkshire, a poetical lament written on a window pane Its a lady woo was kept locked away from her loves many years. was sold to a cus- tomer introduced by the late Lord Houghton for a sum of £20, this being at the rate of more than a sovereign n linp; and Mr. Woods, the celebrated auctioneer, In 1890, sold a w indow sig- nature of Tom Moore, the poet, for E50. —Exchange. PEOPLE OF THE PEN, Charlotte Bronte manuscripts have been bought from her husband and other persons and will be prepared for publication. La Revue des Deux Mondes will send Paul Bourget to Japan. Pierre Lott to Persia and India and J. Chailly Bert to the Dutch Indies this year. They will write their Impressions of these coun- tries. Robert Louis Stevenson told a Wash inp,ton writer that his story of \Dr. Jek )11 and Mr. Hyde\ haul for Its fotpda- thin an Ineldent related to him by a London doctor who made ulisertaes of the brain it anecialt) None of his work wee absolute ertion and most of It had a heals in actual experience. \I do not believe,\ he said. \that any roan ever evolved a really good story from his Inner eonecintianema onalded by some personal experlancri Or incident of life.\ Cornelia Week , a. widow of a Brook- lyn undertaker, died on Saturday, Feb 8, at her home In Brooklyn, aged 70 years On the fo!low Inn day Henry I. Eluiert her brother. 74 years old, died at the 11111ITIP place Mr. Weeks. and her brother had been invalid. for rt than ft year and ea. -h Mel from heart failure THE LOUD SILL. roil Text of th• MW to Amend Second. class Mall Matter Law. There is now before congress a bill to amend the postal laws which is meet- ing with some disfavor among publish- ers of country newspapers. The full text of the bill is as follows: Ile it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, That mailable matter of the second class shall embrace all newspapers and other periodical publication which are issued at stated intervals, and as fre- quently as four times a year, and are within the conditions named In sec- tions thre and four of this act: Pro- vided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to admit to the second class rate publications purport- ing to be issued periodically and to subscribers, but which are merely books or reprints of books, whether they be Issued complete or in parts, whether they be bound or unbound, whether they be sold by subscription or otherwise, or whether they purport to be premiums or supplements or parts of regular newspapers or period- icals, Sec. 2. That publications of the sec- ond class, except as provided in sec- tion twenty-five of the act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy- nine, when sent b ythe publisher there- of, and from the office of publication, excluding sample cojiles, or when sent from a news agency to actual sub- scribers thereto, or to other news agents, shall be entitled to transmis- sion through the mails at one cent a pound or fraction thereof, such post- age to be prepaid, as now provided by law: Provide. nevertheless, That news agents shall not be allowed to re- turn to news agents or publishers at the pound rate unsold periodical pub- lications, but shal pay postage on the same at the rate of one cent for four ounces. Sec. 3. That all periodical publica- tions regularly issued from a known place of publication at stated inter- vals as frequently as four times a year, by or under the auspices of benevolent or fraternal sdcieties, trades unions, or orders organized under the lodge sys- tem, and having a bona fide member- ship of not less than one thousand per- sons, shall be entitled to the privilege of second class mail matter: Provided, That such matter shall be originated and published to further the objects and purposes of such society or order. Sec. 4. That the conditions upon which a publication shall be admitted to the second class are as follows: First. It must regularly be issued at stated intervals as frequently as tour , times a year, bear a date of issue, and be numbered consecutively. 'Second, It muse be Wired from a known office of publication, which shall be shown by the pubication itself. It must be formed of printed palirr sheets without hoard, cloth, leather or cfPher substantial binding, such as distinguish printed books from preservation front periodical publica- tions. Fourth. It must be originated and published for the dissemination of in- formation of a public character, or de- voted to literature, the sciences, arts, or some special indut try, and must have a legitimate list of subscribers who vol- untarily order and pay for the same: Provided, That noting herein contained shall be so construed as to admit to the second class rate regular publica- tions, or any particular issue of any reguar publication, designed primarily for advertising purposes, or for free circulation, or for circulation at nom- inal rates: And provided, That all ex- tra numbers of second class publica- tions sent by the publisher thereof, acting as the agent of an advertiser or purchaser, to addresses furnised by the latter, shall be subject to pay postage at the rate of one cent for every tour ounces or fraction thereof; And pro- vided further, That it shall not be per- missible to mail any given article or articles, or any part o any particular number of a newspaper or periodical, segregated from the rest of the publi- cation, except at the third rate cation, except at the third class rate of postage. Sec. 5. That publishers and others, whose publications shall be admitted as mail matter of the second class un- der the provisions of this act, shall be required, before depositing such mail matter in the postoffice, to separate the same into United States mall sacks or brindles; by States, cities, towns and counties, as the postmaster -general may direct. Sec. 6. That the act of congress in regard to second class all matter ap- proved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Sec. 7. That this art shall take effect and be in force from and after July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. Divorce. If the relations 4,1 man and wife were such as they ought. Iii divorce would be unknown. To prevent separation and divorce true love must be given a new and practiral formula when the novelty subside/4. Instead of Ice cream and caramels. let it mice the form of bread, butter and meaL—Rev. W. W. Morton. THEIR FAVORITES. Futile Zola likes best \Pot -Bonilla.\ Stanley WPy Mall says he considers the \Illentlenian o , France \ his strong- est work. Robert Lou Is St even stun's favorites were two parts of David italfour's ad- ventures. Margaret Deland prefers \Philip and lila Wife\ to her ' John Ward, Preacher.\ Marlon Crawford's preference is a surprise lie rates \Zoroaster\ ahoy, al his later works, tot du &iu1J it,, Ma Could Throve hose. **Several years ego,\ remarked Oliver L Westbrook of New Haven. Conn., -I knew a man who lived on the outsstrts of my town who could throw a stone with more accuracy of aim than is displayed by most sports- men with a rifle. The man was a perfect giant physically. He was a good deal of a hunter, and used stones as his only weapon to bring down tije game. He had a large leathdr pouch attached to one side of hie coat, in which he always car- ried a good supply of carefully se- lected IIIISSI108. With these he bag- ged kvery year no small quantity of game, such as quail, rabbits, and squirrels. He could kill a bird on the wing or a rabbit at full speed almost as easily as at rest. One of his favorite methods for displaying his skill was to set up a oythe-blade with the edge toward him at a dis- tance of about 100 feet, and by throwing potatoes against the edge siut them in half, lie could almost exactly halve two out of every three potatoes he threw.\ — St. Louis Globe -Democrat. • Plenletng In the Adtrondaeks. An Adirondack picnic, is perhaps the least trying form of that some- what uncomfortable entertainment. The guide does much of the hard work and the absolutely delightfully atmospheric conditions that prevail in the Adirondacks rob the affair of the pains attendant upon the ordi- nary picnic. The conveyances are the light and beautiful Adirondack boats, the scenery is novel and charming, and the impossibility of catching cold relieves everyone of uneasiness that attends picnicing elsewhere. The return home at evening amid the fascinating sights and sounds that belong to dusk in the wilderness is a fitting close to such an entertainment. Raved from Destruction. This Is what happens when the 'kidneys are rescued from Inactivity by Hostetter', St >rii- ach Bitters. If they continue inactive they are threatened with Bright's disease. diabetes or some other malady which wOrks their destruction. Malarial, bilious and rheumatic ailment and dyspepsia are also conquered by the Bitters, which is thorough and effective. Many women are overworked by visitors and society who,e husbands get time blame. Mothers Anxiously watch declining dealth of their daughters. So many are cut off by consumption in early years that there is real cause for anxiety. In the early stages. when not beyond the reach of medicine, Hood's Sarsa- parilla stfil restore the quality and quantity of the blood and thus give good health'. Head the following letter: \It is but just to write about my daughter Cora, aged 19. She was com- pletely run down, declining, had that tired feeling, and friends said she would not live over three months. She had • bad Cough and nothing seemed to do her afiy good. I happened to read about Hood's Sarsapa- rilla and lied her give it a trial. From the very first dose she began to get better. After taking a few bottles she was com- pletely cured and her health has been the best ever since.\ ME8. ADDIE PECK, 12 Railroad Place, Amsterdam, N. Y. \I will say that my mother has not stated my case in as strong words as I would have done. Hood's Sarsaparilla has truly cured me and I am now well.\ CORA PECK, Amsterdam, N. Y. Be sure to get Hood's, because ood's Sarsaparilla Is the One True nlood Purifier. All druggists. $1. Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. Hood's Pills are purely vegetable, re- liable and beneficial. 25e. WE HAV NO AGENTS. E but sell direct to the con- sumer at wholesale prices. ship anywhere for examin- ation before sale. Every thin s warranted. 100 style, of Carriages, 90 styles or Mame., Si styles Mang as* dim Write for catalogue ELKHART C11111116111 • Has 1918.9 ara. CO.. ILKNAST, W. B. PRATT, Secy. CRIPPLE CREEK Write for what you want to THE ItECHEM IN- VESTMENT CO., Mining Exchange, Denver, Cola The nervous system Is weakened by the Neuralgia Torture. Every nerve Is strengthened In the cure of It by e-11111vilh-111--11frAlle , 11.1 ,1 11. 1 110.1.1. 11 1 11 b. ,11 11 , 0 ,111 1fralle , NWI 'depti ALAWAST I N E. IT WON'T RUB OFF. .• Oil TEMPORALLY, ROTS, BUDS OFF AND eit'ALEN. Wall Paper Is Unsanitary. 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