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THIRTY years' observation of Castoria with the patronage of
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It is unquestionably the best remedy for Infants and Children
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Castoria neutralizes the effects of carbonic acid gas or poisonous air.
Castoria does not oont&n morphine, opium, or other narootio property.
Castoria assimilates the food, regulates the stomach and bowels,
giving healthy and natural sleep.
Castoria is put up in one -size bottles only. It is not sold in ibalk.
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He Got the Pass.
. bridge carpenter on the Chicago,
Rock Island .& Pad& asked his foreman
for a pass from Goodland to Holton, say-
ing he must go there to see a lady friend
who was ill. The foreman replied that
he eould not spare him, and "guessed the
girl would keep." The following is the
reply the foreman received:
wire TEE GIRL WON'T IMP.
I was a trifle disappointed,
And perhaps 1 was too fast,
For to -day Iof a pointer
That I could get no pass.
ll'rom Goodland down to Holton
Was where I wished to go,
And the reason why the girl won't keep
A little time will show,
It seems the general foreman
The case don't understand,
And th nits that I am spoiling
To see my Mary Ann;
But I always keep my promise,
And to Raton I must go,
Se to -night I travel there
If it costs a hundred bills or so;
When everything is ready,
And a few days more aro sped,
Please accept an invitation
To see the "hobo" wed,
Of course. we like to labor,
But we know what we're about'
I couldn't work the next two weeps
Por the great Rock Island Route.
He received the pass by next mail.
A Woman's Pocket.
Autres temps, autres poches : modern
woman seems to have no pocket any-
where but far away at the back of her,
where all can see it, and what's in it—
saving herself alone. For this cause,
wise virgins carry their purses in their
hands, exciting envy but not satiety ;
or they take them for an airing in a
reticulo, which whets the curiosity, but
the ambition is not stirred. But of the
true pocket woman has no understanding
nor love, both which are left to the unre-
flecting but instinctive male. He, being
somehow conscious that in a multitude
of pockets there is wisdom, has built him-
self all over with them, and daily plays
hide and seek with himself, searching
now here, now there for something which
is neither there nor here but somewhere
else. So does he keep pereniallygyoung,
and only makes believe to his clerks in
the city that he is rotund and respectable
and old.
Good Advice.
Get away from the crowd a little while
every day, my dear boy. Stand one side
and let the world run by while you get
acquainted with yourself, and see what
kind of a fellow you are. Ask yourself
hard questions about yourself, find out
all you can about yourself, ascertain from
original source if you are really the man-
ner of man people say you are, find out
if you are always honest; if you always
tell the square, perfect truth in. business
dealing ; if your life is as good and up-
right at 11 o'clock at night as it is at
noon ; if you axe as sound a temperance
man on a fishing excursion as you are at
a Sunday school picnic ; if you are as
good a boy when you go to Toronto as
you are at home; if, in short, you really
are the sort of a young man your father
hopes you are, your mother says you are
and your sweetheart believes you are.
Get on intimate terms with yourself, my
boy, and believe, every time you tomo
out of the private interviews you will be
a stronger, better, purer man. Don't
forget this, Telemachus, and do
you good.
Their Wedding Journey.
Two families were recently greatly dis-
turbed over a telegram. .A. son and a
daughter of these families had married
and gone away on a bridal tour of three
weeks or a month, as the case might be.
Two days after the three weeks were up
the bride's parents received a telegram,
which read :
Have had a row with my husband. Am
coming home. KITTY,
To say this was not startling would be
to say what was not true, and the bride's
parents at once hastened to the home of
tho bridegroom's parents, only to find
there a similar message, except that it
read, "Have had a row with niy wife."
Messages were wired at once, but no re-
plies were received, as the couple had
evidently started home immediately
after they had sent their communications.
Then there followed an anxious waiting,
and thirty-six hours later the facetious
and happy couple turned up smiling,
with the explanation that it was a row
on the river they were talking about,
and they weren't to blame if the tele-
graph didn't pronounce words correctly.
Sow He Raises Eight Hundred Chicks.
I am somewhat interested in raising
chickens artificially, and have been
bothered more or less with first one thing
and then another until I have got where
I think it would be hard tofind any busi-
ness that required more patience and pre-
serverance, As I only raise from 400 to
800 chicks in a year, and those in broods
of 100 to 150, my chief bother has been to
get a brooder that is economical and safe.
I am now using ` something that I think
is out of the ordinary for a brooder. It
is simple, cheap, durable, and, with care,'
successful. It is on the principle of a
kerosene stove.
I make 'a box three feet long by two
feet six inches wide and about ten inches
deep. I cut off six inches of the width
with a partition six inches high and wire
over this with common screening. In
this pardon I place a five -inch elbow of
common stovepipe, and under that a lamp
of the diamond patern, and on the front
I out a hole nine inches wide by six
inches high for the chicks to go in and
out.
I have a walk through my brooder
house, ten inches below the brooders, in
notches of which I. place my lamps, two
together. The heat of the lamp draws
fresh air along with the fumes of the
light through the five -inch elbow, and
the space around the elbow is not covered,
so the fresh air from the walk is drawn in
that way also.
It was a long time before I would send
the fumes through the brooder, but 1
came to it, and my chicks will. 1 raise
more now than I ever did. The fumes do
not kill them when mixed with fresh air,
The Magic of a Face.
One is sometimes tempted to believe
that personal boauty must be the one sue
promo blessing, so many are the nostrums
advertised, so alluring and Humorous are
the invitations to try this, that or tho
other infallible preparation warranted to
restore a faded complexion, to remove fa-
eia1 blemishes or to defy Tune's dittoing
finger. "Beauty is its own exeuse for
being," but does the desire to, possess
beauty excuse these specific modes of ob-
taining it, and is it really obtainable by
any such devices? Tho longing for out-
ward 1. Wellness must be innate, for at ev-
ery period of the world moans have been
sought to make or mar the visage in ac-
cordance with the crude or artistic ideas
of attractiveness, In that oruel inter-
view where my lord Hamlet uses harsh-
est words to the artless Opiialia he says :
"I have heard of your paintings too, well
enough. God has given you one face,
and you make yourselves another." A.
gentle Quakeressl guileless of plagiarism,
once modified this aoousation in a way
that robbed it of all malice and made it a
wise and helpful thought. To a young
nieee who was bewailing her own lack of
beauty she said, tenderly ; "The good.
Lord gave thea plain features, but he left
it to thee to make thine own expression."
The girl took her lesson and learned it
thoroughly, and now that the graces of
her amiable character illumine her face,
none ever thinks of it as plain. Ilergreat
wealth—and riches too often serve as a
cloak for unloveliness of mind or person
—is entirely lost sight of in the affluent*
of noble womanly qualities, while her
cultivated intellect and intelligent dispo-
sition give to her face that charm which
is lackingin features,
"Faultly faultless, icily regular, splen-
dilly null."
The fairies who brought gifts to the lit-
tle princesses never forgot to endow them
with charms more lasting and riot less
winning than the marvellous beauty
which was to dazzle all eyes ; and while
mythology paid full homage to the power
of loveliness by inventing Venus, yet the
peerless goddess owed much of her sway
to that mysterious cestus which' gave
such lustre to her charms that envious
Tine deigned to ask humbly for the loan
of the girdle of fascination. Hence a
moral—even beauty in a deified form
needs more than perfection of face and
figure to make it truly attractive.
"Handsome is that handsome does"
echoes from childhood days, and forbids
all claim to originality for this sago bit
of reasoning. One never - quite believed
it then, but thought that beauty must be
more than skin deep, and those who did
not possess the "fatal gift" sighed for it,
in spite of virtuous efforts to attain hand-
some goodness.
THE FARM BOYS.
What Their Mothers Mav Do to Keep
Them at Home.
Close observers have for a long time de-
plored the fact that so many of the farms
of our country are passing into the hands
of foreigners. The boysborn and bred on
the farm, instead of stepping into their
fathers' place, leave the old homestead as
soon as they become able to earn their own
livings. Sometimes they drift out to the
less thicklypopulated towns, but too often
they crowd into the large cities and spend
their lives as petty clerks or under -paid,
because unskilled, artisans.
One factor in the well-being of the fam-
ily is too often ignored by the housewife,
and that is the'quality of food given to
her children. She says that it is almost
impossible to get fresh meat so far from
town, and that it is cheaper and easier to
use the contents of her "salt barrels,"
which are always at hand. I believe that
this is false economy. Unless the body
is properly nourished the mental and
moral well-being of the child suffers.
Urimes flourish on poor eating. This
very monotony of diet is one of the things
that unconsciously disgusts young peo-
ple with farm life. With little additional
expense the housewife can make her
table attractive by an intelligent use of
the materials at her command. Granted
that it is impossible for her to get fresh
meat, which is not always the case, pro-
vided that she makes the getting a mat-
ter of consequence, there are many things
nutritious and palatable at her hand if
she will only learn new ways in which to
cook and serve them. Eggs can be pre-
pared in many ways, and are excellent
bone makers. Vegetables, especially
fresh salads, are blood purifiers, and
these the farmer's wife can have in a per-
fection for whioh,her sisters in the city
sigh in vain. In milk and cream there
are infinite possibilities, and some of the
best soups are made of peas, potatoes,
beans and celery. Codfish, sturgeon and
smoked halibut, with cream, are dainties
on the hotel menu, and can lee easily pre-
pared. Even that most indigestible of
farmhouse goodies—smoked beef—can be
made appetizing by cooking with nicely
seasoned milk. Cereals of all kinds form
a pleasant variety, especially with cream,
Poultry of all kinds should be at the
mother's command, and the children
themselves can learn to care for the fowls.
The vegetable garden, also, can be placed
in charge of the boys.
The father must help in this good work.
Instead of sending all the good edibles
away from the farm, and keeping what
will not sell for family use, it will be well
for him to give as much intelligent care
to the housing and feeding of his boys
and girls as he gives to the stabling and
feeding of his stock. He tells you that
he must look after the cattle if he wants
them to amount to anything, and forgets
that his children demand the same care
if he would have them fulfill the same
conditions.
The Burglars' Rich Prize.
Mrs, Mullins shook her husband out of
a sound sleep about t,nro o'clock in the
morning and whispered in his ear :
"Harry, I'm sure there's burglars in
the house. Listen."
He listened and the two could distinct-
ly hear somebody moving about down-
stairs.
"Whoever itis he's in the parlor, and
probably filling a bag with things."
"Well," replied Mullins, philosophical-
ly, "1 suppose the safest plan is to let
him—or them, for there may be two or
three of them—take -what they fancy
without inter'ruprion."
"Harry, do you mean to say that you
are not going to drive them off with your
revolver ?"
"I'mnot anxious to tackle them.i0
"They are going into the diningroom
now. Harry, they'll get all our silver.
The knives and spoons and forks are all
standing on the sideboard, to say nothing
about the butter dishes and Dream pitcher
and the silver chocolate pot mamma gave
me last Christmas,"
"Let 'em have it all," said Mullins re-
signedly. "I only hope they won't take
a notion to come upstairs."
"Aren't you going to try to save any
of that silver, Mr. kIullins?"
"Well, 1 thought yott were braver than
that."
"My dear," replied Mullins, "please
bear in mind that my life is not insured,
and that is worth more to you than a few
paltry pieces of silver, now could I
realtlessly expose myself to the bullets of
desperate burglars and. leave you a widox,
and unprovided ' for ?"
Mrs. Mullins made no reply to this,
but both listened intently, and foetsteps
wore again heard.
"Harry 1"
"Well! Do you think they are coming
upstairs now:?"
"No, they are going into the coal cel-
lar now,"
"d'ewhill.ikens I" yelled Mullins, as he
leaped out of bed. "Something must be
done now. The villains would steal my
coal, would they? Where's my re-
volver ?'7
He burst into the hall with such an
awful clatter, banging doors and shooting
off his revolver, that the burglars thought
an entire police precinct had beenlln-
loaded on them, and decamped so hastily
that they left all their plunder in the
house, including about a half -bushel of
coal, whioh they had packed carefully in
a bag for transportation,
An Outcast.
Along one of the shady roads of Cen-
tral Park thebent figure of a man stoop-
ed and shambled. Iris clothes were old
and ragged. A faded and battered hat,
a full size too large, partly (pommeled his
grizzled, unshaven face. An uneasy pair
of watery eyes glanced furtively from
side to side, as if in expectancy of meet-
ing the threatening wave of a policeman's
club.
When halfway down the steep incline
that the road formed at this point, he
paused and stooped to pick up a cigar
stump that lay in his path.
A piercing scream a short distance be-
hind him arrested him.
As he turned, a baby -carriage shot
past him down thus incline, gaining in
speed every second, and maldng straight
for the driveway below, swarming with
heavy coaches. `
At the summit of the incline stood a
nurse -girl, the only other witness of the
scene, screaming with fright.
The runaway carriage contained two
pretty babies, who sat upright, laughing
and waving their arms in delight. A
moment more and the flying carriage
would be among the hoofs and wheels.
Faint with horror, the girl covered her
face.
For a"few seconds she heard the rattle
of the little carriage. Then came a sud-
den stop—a startled cry -and the heavy
coaches went rumbling on.
Scarce daring to breathe, the girl un-
covered her eyes.
Half upset, the baby carriage stood at
the side of the path, still holding one of
its tiny inmates. The other lay kicking
and crowing on the grass.
As the girl, pale and trembling, hur-
ried. to the spot, a man crept from the ad-
joining bushes, where he had been hurled
by a blow from a horse's hoof.
With an effort he struggled to hisfeet,
and pressed his hand against an ugly
bruise on the side of his forehead.
"Well, it was a close call fer de kids,
miss ; I didn't have no time to spare-
but aley'se all right, see ?" And, stoop-
ing, he lifted the little child that lay on
the ground.
The baby gave him a look of startled
surprise, then laughed and clutched mis-
chievously at his grizzly beard, while
one foot slipped down into his ragged,
tobacco -stained. pocket. Several carriages
had now stopped, and people were hurry-
ing anxiously to the spot.
"Quick, miss ! take de kid. Here comes
a cop." Hastily giving up the child, the
man pulled his battered hat down farther,
and slunk off among the trees.
About eleven o'clock that night a
drunken, bedraggled creature was hauled
into one of the police stations and taken
before the sergeant in charge.
"Found him in the gutter," said the
policeman. "Had to carry him most of
the way here."
• The sergeant scowled.
"Sneaky Ben again, isn't it?"
" Yes." •
"Third time this month. It will cost
him thirty days, sure. Lock him up for
the night."
The prisoner was dragged roughly
away.
"Ye' d better throw yerself in the river
when yer time is up, Ben ; you're no
good here, and you'd do society a service
to get off the earth," said the policeman,
giving his prisoner a rough shove.
The man lurched forward into the dark
room, and fell heavily on the floor. As
he did so a small object dropped from the
folds of his coat.
The policeman picked it up, and held
it toward the light.
It was a baby's tiny worsted. stocking.
HOW TO BE KNIGHTED.
The Ceremony Zis Brief and Not Too
Public—Her Majesty's Favors.
The ceremony of conferring the order
of knighthood at the hands of the Queen
is not imposing, and only those are per-
mitted to witness it who, by their official
connection with the Queen's household,
may attend her. Arrayed in whatever
uniform he may be entitled to wear, or
whatever dress court etiquette and the
time of day make proper, if he be a civi
lian, the subject presents himself before
his Sovereign and kneels at her royal
feet. Seated on the throne chair, the
Queen lays the shining blade of a sword
across his shoulders, and says, using the
title which she about to give, "Arise, Sir
So -and -So." The receiver is then per-
mitted to kiss the Sovereign's finger-tips
in acknowledgment of the honor con-
ferred upon him. In other cases when
the title carries with it a decoration, the
Queen pins the glittering and mueh
coveted bauble upon the coat of her ele-
vated subject. This is all the ceremony
connected with the conferring,of knight-
hood, but it is a great deal to be the
recipient. It may be mentioned, how-
ever, that it is Her Majesty's custom to
invite the newly -made .` dignitary to
luncheon or dinner before he returns to
his admiring family.
Corea and Her People.
Corea Jias from 8,000,000 to 20,000,000
inhabitants upon its 79,000 square miles
at area. The religion is Buddhistic if it
is anything.
The peasantry live in huts with roofs
of thatched straw. Their most lucrative
product is silk, but it is much, inferior in
quality to that produced in China. They
lie almost entirely v e rel: u on rice,and pos-
sess neither the industtry nor he cleanli-
ness of the Chinese.
Li, King of Corea, is a young man. He
wears a bell-crowned hat, held fest on
his headdb me
anaofa string
tied ti
t-
1y under his ehin, He has
a retinue of
G00 men and 100 kisang or dancing girls,
and ho is continually complaining be..
cause his retinue is too small. His out
ings are usually taken in the royal gard-
ens, on which occasions he ie carried
about'on a litter by four sta'wart sub-
jests.
Corea has more office -holders recording
to population than any other notion in
the world. The claim, is admitted that
civil service reform originated iii Corea,
but the prescribed examiziations to be
passed by all candidates for office are a
complete farce. Pull, money and family
alone unt.
Thecoflowers in Corea blossom before
they leave, whioh shows that even nature
has been turned upside clown in this
"`hermit nation." When one Careful
meets another and wishes to be flattering
he says, "Good morning, Beautiful Flow-
er."
The ,few scientists who Have travelled
in the mountains of Corea—and al) of
these have considered themselves lucky
to get back to the city alive—relate that
the monks .are fat and greasy and lazy,
with shaved heads and loose, dirty
gowns, and that they lie in the sunlight
and snooze and wink and think they are .
thinking, for they pretend to be divine
soothsayers. They are supported by the
peasantry, these monks, and get the pay
of a soldier—a certain amount of rice that
is just enough to keep a lazy man in good
oondition.
Oho Pyong Sik is the Lorean prime
minister. He is an old gentleman, whose
great delight is costly dinners, to which
he invites his political henchmen and en-
tertains them with "Sul," the national
drink, and dancing girls, "Sul" is an
infernal decoction produced from rice.
Travellers say that as a jag -producer no
drink in the Orient .equals "sul," When
a Oorean "boozer" gets accustomed to
"sul," whiskey or gin or any other strong
drink for civilized people to his palate is
tame and mawkish.
The Skittish Doctor..
Doctor S— was noted among his pro-
fessional brethren for his power of con-
centration. When once he bent his
mind to a problem he became totally ob-
livious of everything about him. The
doctor had a horse that was . almost as
famous as himself. Among her pe-
culiarities was the habit of shying. She
would not shy at things which most
horses consider fit subjects for that .sort
of digression. She would pay no atten-
tion whatever to a newspaper blowing
about the streets, but was mortally afraid
of a covered wagon. At the sight of one
of New Haven's suburban stages she
would run over the curb -stone and
threaten not only the doctor's• life, but
that of the chance passer. Of this habit
she could not be broken, It seemed as
though she could smell a stage long be-
fore it came in sight, so that the doctor
would go half a dozen blocks out of his
way rather than meet one. Early one
morning he received a telephone call to
the effect that one of his patients had be-
come alarmingly worse. Without wait-
ing for his carriage he started to walk,
the distance being about a mile. His
mind became at once absorbed in the
case, but not so much so that he did not
remember that the course of the Seymour
stage lay right in his path. He looked
at his watch and saw that he would be
sure to meet it if he went the shortest
way. He was in a hurry to get to his
patient, but there was no help for it. He
uttered a malediction over the circum-
stance, and turned off at the fust corner.
This obliged him to nearly double the
distance and the day was warm. He
walked as he never walked before, and
failed to recognize a couple of intimate
friends whom he nearly ran. over. It was
not until he had spent two hours with
his patient and came out to look for his
horse that he began to realize that he
had walked a mile out of his way so that
he need not shy at the Seymour stage.
The Seven Bibles of the World.
"The seven Bibles of the world are
the Koran of the Mohammedans, the Tri.
Pitikes of the Buddhists, the Five Kings
of the Chinese, the Three Vedas of the
Hindus, the Zendavesta of the Persians,
the Eddas of the Scandinavians; and the
Scriptures of the Christians.
"The Koran is the most recent of all,
dating from about the seventh century
after Christ. It is a compound of quota-
tions from both the Old and New Testa-
ments, and from the Talmud.
"The • Tri 'itikes contain sublime
morals and pure aspirations. Their
author lived and died zn the sixth cen-
tury
eptury before Christ.
"The sacred writings of the Chinese
are called the Five Kings, the word
`kings' meaning web of cloth. From
this it is presumed they wore originally
written on five rolls of cloth. They
contain wise sayings from the sages on
the duties of life, but they cannot be
traced further back than the eleventh
century before our era.
The Zendavesta of the Persians, next
to our Bible, is reckoned among scholars
as being the greatest and most learned
of the sacred writings. Zoroaster, whose
sayings it contains, lived and worked in
the twelfth century before Christ.
"Moses lived and wrote the Pentateuch
fifteen hundred years before the birth of
Christ; Therefore that portion of our
Bible is at least three hundred years
older than the most ancient of other
sacred writings.
"The Eddas, a semi -sacred work of the
Scandinavians, was given to the world in
the fourteenth century."
The Tests.
Of Dignity—Never forget yourself.
Of Usefulness—Never to remember
yourself.
Of a Clerk—Not what he earns but what
he spends.
Of Happiness. -The art of forgetting
unhappiness.
Of a Millionaire -Not what he spends,
but what he earns.
Of a Good. Comrade—How much you
enjoy talking to him,
Of TJnhappiness—The habit of forget-
ting actual happiness.
Of Beauty—Not that it is perfect, but
that it always attracts,
Of Virtue—Not what it does not do,
but what it does not want to do.
Of Purity—Not what it has not seen,
but what it has not touched,
Of Charm—Not how deeply you feel it,
but how keenly you remember it.
Of a Student-a'Not how much he knows,
howmuch he wantsto kn
but ow.
Of a Realist --Not that he ever depicts
idealty, but that he never depicts falsely,.
Of a Pine Man—Not the harm that he
does not do, but the good that he does
do.
Of Fascination—Not how keenly you
remember it, but how much else you for-
get.