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Exeter Times, 1900-12-6, Page 2PAwnen LIT I len (IELl_. I'm Papa's. beetett Ilttie gala 'Cause he ain't got but me. "AnI thiult lie's the Wiest lean That 1 did ever see; 'And evaty tlay 1 take his Innen, A. imag riee 1 know well. Ile gees tee coming an' hi eays, -God blee.s my little g ea" I set betide him while be eine The good thingt nett tote An' wateb the raindrops poirn OUt }fie fereaeaa ano. nee.- • ween Lies dene hleitseee Mern fete efee ntran ele eantee and s.ays, earetut pee (loci Ness my Utile gen." tie I rile torte 1 -tient to nee The angels evvilitine nteeinefig toe. tentieing slow Ara ening an the air; , catamount owe e :lent suit, eaten,. ' tug the paetiter sitneieg along, and I ' /loped be would get Rear enough to COMMENTS ;. telte the ban becau:se you anew, the , i 'feline kind are not huntees by scent axed, want to see their prey. Di you , ever see a cat lose a mouse in tee grass, end uot be able to end it till see se.w it Met*. though it wasn't a foot front her . nose? I was afraid the panther woe , going by the bait, but there was a little water in his path, and he came over toward the cabin to pass it. 'The chauge o cure breught him face to faee with the ie of juicy Iamb 1 haa set out as a late lunch for a cartuneent, genee he mita have been pretty hue. cry, tor he pquitted and leaped fo° and he didn't wait for aay cat patyieg, but guleed it right down. "He hadn't mere then swallowed it wben he realized that all was not ex - as it should be, and he lay eat oa his belly and began to look warily around, as if be suseeetee the presence of an easel:tee The cheat to the bait • bothered him. ten for he could uet get 414 azd st111 illant on it dowie Ills throatneither could be get weeee eeve ee it out ef hie nittettb, and be began duelt- \\thee papa knee me az :eve. lug Ins tend between Ids paws line a "God Nees my litine gene' cat does wheit slie gets a steng tangled --nate i n be mouth. I Repit etill, and didn't interfere with his ntedizatious, for I tninatinente -tannin itoid td ineneen !mew I would see ef him before W e parted cempauy, The bleatiunt g a p an ri neene the siseep moved him presently, adbo ite Ui ' UUV1. get up, sbantug his head awl pane alit neetinentedentiendendeddi,ddeddhd Ms nice and month to get the chain ewe, meet, away. He stinted fOr the shed again. 204ew,111,,,u6et°,,,reri.,%,",.. ",77, `-ef,-.,,-7; but the rope pulled on hint. end 1 v. - - ei "a -- ---- --in. --- reaceed mit tor Triv end of i- end eere Wig t° the /74411 wil9 W35 ;et' it a pod 'hard Jelin, to se the books in - reedy. e side M hint. You ()eget es nave ;nee "Xehnistieheiren feitillillagerti'itv. litteroltanid-; that panther jiiirtri, but he jumpee in hut eshingtIol. 1-.t.h ret the direction it the pull. and not thine.' f4/. P;IIV' ei• against it. for I guees wiiiin tbe Intake eave butt bine -non pdndiedd, atddit the other teak bold they must man. opeeieg a, lentle lif tette. Ile Pereeebed as it they did. anevely. 1 iliftelitvtuthetefItc• atbe tytob au tliswaa Ile; Talltebele4unnociaa:tartuttibeedrortl°01ePtleh.:uouivdeitni I: os fir ebtieuar:ag'i.itieglii. Paelebeee:" ineisted the othee man , :nil! busy with ttte lunch. el newt. held) ,...whewiredlilieeddnbtalp!;tt oarwmayt: trulitinat of suen a thing. 1 tIzeugbt they intuited but gritt"4tgto puiredlen that 1 eeagged fer tie:Attlee" him up toward the deer. theugh wino '1"41regtettlic'lha4T'is Ilt?I'''473-114/71jivir-9e 114. MI T'aite.a:tea,dreieulteenithraer: tibto'aung1141tutifetwelu. diet; "Well." Find the otter men, boreiess s he muleup reine;netly revnuto rae pull, fon witb a yell. the repo sleeted, au il he came at the window ae if tete weulti get me in spite of everta thing. I dropped the rope and Weave over into the comer of the cabinwhile Ite re at the doer with bis claws like miner with ee pion. Not itelug able do any harm. be keened away an lay down abaut a dozen feet frem the deter. where he once more began his trY Of Aritaitine. unelen farm wet' attempts to get the chain oet tit his grew on trees, nuil we bad a let cf tree- to the rope again. and. began playing and teem Off the elte:T. we had ority lug than any trout playing you ever altent a un rt tied ettutdan afford saw• for that panther was a terror to tete cute. ziat we axed up a log eabin when be tried to get away, anti worse near the silent sheds. and / wed to when be trled to elaW bis waY through , of getting direene at the welter, "seat eoMit tauten end get etvait witb eintr peter ot tbie tintea, and white you et ;retain tartlet hew teaul it telltan =e tow to eth ter Slather.- nate peether flaelenall drew ea 1.0 Cite feett, and as he at tallied - "Whoa I wee a bey cif sixteen or , • thereetiouttna he vent. "toy father thed Termettete..erid I went to live with • tutele in the Ceara meantain arm - In n muted eindte the eatamountd Mouth or down bis throat I came up plc nth than due othed nun:ninth doein him once mere, and it was more cult- eleep tbere with a, gun hands^ for tine „ the door. I let him rest awhile. Ana Maraudere that mi,e,ht Kane alone. a4-tly he got up and tried to Make . Cataount b a mighty :tarp mantal. seren mak for the woods. I never mid mad that never get a shot at one at ilia word, but when he got to the end of the any eitend uo began to wady up sinetine and the laooks began tO pull on Platt tet get a scalp, and I linaln- con- cluded to try Lining. en got three big sturgeon hooks -you IMONV what they are liltenfae.tened to a Sue steel chain about sax feet long. that ;was strong enough to haul a baystaelt Ninth. a.nd to the chain I tied about fifty feet of new hemp rope. My uncle made fun of me, and wanted to know iZ was going to use a reel, and what kind. of fly did I use. but I tied Win te a Atmene ell the struggles. diearr •net meats, serraWs and bittereesees 01 life, the late Heary A. Chittenuen gelato a temper so. Se -ilea, a disposition go Gunny, that if be did not naelte all wIto knew him belteve in the gOOdneSe of earth he at least tuclined them to be in the reality of heaven WhIelt cuglat to be mh ore onoren, the perh the greatest uumber 01 eelebrated ancestors, or the persee wIth the greatest number of. celebrated de- scendauts? Or is there 'so question or honor, since a man caunot be held re- sponsible for 'what ancestors did, and, ought not to be held responsible for tyliat his posterity may do. Any one may join the new Matta, menial League in Chicago who has a good moral character, a legal right *0marry, a belief in the Deity, and three dollars. When it is added that them echee has awakened such sttspicion that the Chicago poliee are inveetigat- tug It. wen may it be asked wbetber any one pos,sessing these quallecatious would wish to siabseribe? Those wbom God bath tinned together have met each other under circumstances more favor- able to future happinese than a league which premotes matrireeny by throwi nag oUt financial baits. It ie seta that in future no lIcenect ntfl be granted in Hugland for the marriage of any divorced person. The Metres nitabolds her benediction from any Minh marriagen BM So malty mar - ave unbappy in spite at the Cluireds benedietion tbet no one der siring remarriage would expect to be happy because of 'net tae Icings dote of heaven Is within you" applies especlally to the married state. wIth thts modiecation, that in a bappy mar- riage, each tbinks that his ar her neaven Is in the other. Why sh01110, a ceateuarian pride hint - telt on his age, since it is an aelatevet, moat in which the tm.oisti exceeds him? On the other hand. way ribould he not tie so. wben he remembers hoer one stands awed before a cedar of Lela Manua SCIENCE AND INVENTION An, Italian Mikan Colonel Corner eas discovered that If wattr be sub - Retest to great compression and then decompoeed by meaus of an electric current Into its elements, oxygen and hydrogen, It will explode during the operation with great force. He hat es- timated that Its power is forty -eve times greater than gunpowder. The name at Cosmos has been given to Me (Lew explosive, and a Company has been organized for tbe purpose of ex- ploiting the invention. It can be han- dled witb absolute aafety. In the copper district near Houghton, filicbigan, a new ore of nickel, to welch the name efolmwaite Is given, has been discovered, says the Youth's Compan- ion. It emaciate arsenide of copper his insides he looked around in WI arsenide ot nickel, and int coraposi-- .elutniefatied kind of Way and la,y down non is such that it is seld to comprise at the end of Ids tether. * Well as an. alloy of copper and Melte "This seemed to be an auspicious oc- i the „ne for which. e. demand :already exists it; easion for me to get out and go *0 the • — n'n" house for help, and I opened the door i It used to be believed that rams real easy and started to slip out. But fived lenger than any other stenies el he was watching, and I had no mare birds, and it was said that their age than showed myself when he came at i frequently exceeded a century. Recent me with a terefic sereech. and I , studies of the subject indteate that no dodged back again with eta, tli le authentic instance of a raven surpas mind hie own business and give me haste. 1e He tore at the doer far tevetal ing 70 years of age is on record. But thence. When 1 bad my taekle really minutes after that, and I tircw the line parrots have been lmown to live 100 T teak a pieee of fresh meat and burl up taut and held bine snarling and ti the hooks in it just deep enough to clawing and snapping. 'leak Wont The Swiss are going to try the elect eatch held easy when it was time fer fishing! Well, you don't know any. tee furnace on a. large scale for emelt- them to begin businezs. Then 1 ears thing about it till yorn have hooltea a Ing Iron are in the Alps. Hitherto ried the bait out toward the woods Panther. just how long I would have meet ef the iron used in Switeerlerel front the cabin the fun length of the to play him before he was tired out wo has been imported from Germany be- nne. ana slipping the other etui I was. or how I would have eventually cause of lack of coal in Switzerlaud to through a ten by twelve window we landed him, I don't know, but the rem- smelt the native ores. The river Awn* had in the dor, I looped it over a poet pus going on about the cabin had will furnish the electric power re- in: the cabin for =entrap. awakened my uncle, and he came down quired. . "It was about 9 °Week when I had to see what was the matter. When he The Zoological Garden la leublin, everything in shape, and the moon was have In sight around the corner of the has a remarkable specialty, namely, the shining like a big silver plate in the sheep shed the panther was lying about raising of lions for the trade. Mere sky. I lay down with the old shotgun twenty-five feet from the cabin, and than 200 lions have been. raised in the when. he saw him I thought the beast tries capital city since the first expri- would get away even 11 he had to tear inents were made, mare than 20 years his vitals out doing it. I held onto the ago. rope like grim death, and yelled to my The council of the American Chem - uncle to get out of the way, which he cal Society has adopted resolution's did by skinning up a post to the roof tavoring the establishment of a bureau a the sheep shed. He had a gun when of chemistry, which should have power he started, but he left it on the ground to enforce pure -food laws throughout when he went up the post. the country. "We now established communica- . The establishment of a hydeographlt tions, and I told him that I had the i division in connection with the United panther hooked all right, if he would , States Weather Bureau is contemplated bO kind enough to get a dip net and foe the purpose of giving warning of by my sine, thinking how I would crow over the untie if I caught a catamount. and before I knew what bad happened I was asleep. How long I slept I don't Imo% but I was awakened by a screeeh in the weeds that I knew did not come from a catamount. It was a panther, for I had heard them before, and I was on ray feet in an instant and wide awake. Catamounts were bad enough, but panthers were a lot worse, and the few times we had had them come around they had stirred up the coun- tryside like an election. I was so land NM. Hie said if I would hold the , floods. wrought up that I forgot all about my Named brute steady he would come off ' -catamount bait and 1 ranged up along- the roof and go back to the house and HERE AND TH it RE side of the window slit in the door- finish his nap, because he didn't like to ' we had one on each side of the cabin to command all approaches -with the ing on the roof awhile and acquiring shotgun clenched in my hand on ff it mare confidence in in fishing tackle, were something alive that was trying he slipped down to the ground and got to get away from me. Inedy but I was his gun, but he hadn't the courage to scared and shaky on my pegs; and not face th,e panther and shoat him I scared either exactly, for I was per- didn't blame him a bet for that either, featly sate in the cabin, but a sixteen- because I knew what kind of a temper year -old -boy facing a hungry panther that panther had. I told him to bring even when he is behind a wall, is liable the gun around to the back window of get up so early anyhow. After roost - to be agitated, and I was that to such an extent that I could hardly keep my face to the window long enough to look aut. I heard another screech in a min- ute ar two after I got to the window, and the sheep in the sheds began to bleat low and to metre around in fear. ;You know if there is anything that scales a sheep it Is a panther. "I located him by his next screech, and he came slipping out at the thicket and actress the open with his whole mind fixed on the shed where the sheep Were. I could see him as plain as day, and he was a sight to behold. Not a very big one as panthers go, but as graceful as an angel and as smooth as a serpent as he crept through the grass with the very motion af a snake, and not as if he had legs to walk on. I was not a hundred yards from him when he alma:wed, and WI he 1aad to pass close to the cabin to get to the sheep shed entrance, I laid in wait to surprise bit. Blamed if I didn't think any heels would knock holes in the puneheon Roar, I was, shaking so, and if the panther hadn't been so intent on mutton chops for slipper he could have heard me. When be -was within thietY yards I raised the gun toward the win- doW, Slict for the erat time noticed, that I 'had been too excited to cock it. I was in a hurry now, of course, and I grabbed at the hammer and throw it eta with a reels.' ten t_ thing went inside the lock, and the dropeee tire ee dishrag. I had broken the mainspring'. That left tee helpless az far ate offen- sive waie'are was eOncerned, and, 'being Oil the defensive now, 1 recalled the the cabin, and hand it in to me, and maybe I could make it useful. It was easy enough ta do that, with the cabin between him and the panther, and I soon had the gun, with his assurance that he had put a handful of slugs in each barrel for greater effectiveness. eThe panther was getting pretty tired now, and when my uncle disap- appeared from Yie:W he lay dawn again, and began his occultation of pawing at the ehain in his mouth and rubbing his faee an the ground. I pulled on the line to stir him up a bit and get hira to come my way, b•ut he had beeu played until he was stubborn, and though I jerked him pretty hard he telly growled and snapped at the chain. He had gone off as far as he could get, and I thought I would be safe in invit- ing him personally to come neateer, so I opened the door and let him see me. That set him wild again, and I soon had aill 1 could do to take in the slack as he came up. I was safe behind the door whea he lit an it with all his claws out, and hauling in, the line as fast as I could I drew him close to the win- dow. As I stunk the gun through to end the battle, he caught it in bis moeth, and jnet then I pulled both. trig- gers. I guess my uncle had put in ,a HIGH LIGHTS whode coil of lead pipe, for the gun The biggest orchard in South Dakota is owned and managed by Mrs. A. Al- derman. It covers 150 acres, and con- tains 8,000 trees, besides currant and gooseberry blishes and grapevines, and three acres of strawberries. According to the latest issue of the Name Gold Digger to react the United States, "tacks have advanced to $8 a pound; eggs to $2 a dozen, though ef- forts have been made to raise the price to $2.50. There are plenty of them. Elam was long since out." The Gold Digger is printed in red ink and sells for 25 cents a copy. The famous Blue Grotto of Capri hart zloty a. rival in the State of Mintesota. It towers ill .fl lake on the 'shore of which there is a cavern of white lime- stone flooded with water. A swimmer entering the cave and turning to loots outwards sees the mostbeaittiful shades of green and blue in the water, and a silvery sheen overhis submerged limbs. London waiters and waitresses have oeganized themselves into a sort of union and new demand 25 cents an hour for regular work, 35 cents an hour for all aver eight hours and 50 cents an hoar between 1 and 6 o'clock in the morning, and no waiter toework ,aver 10 tiours a day. An ultimatum protests against "the degrading and demoraliz. Ing system of tips titian which the wait. ers have te depend. It is a system of cadging which des roys our manhood, is an unfair tax t1on the public and places the eater man at a disadvantage in y• -' places." kicked me clear acroSe the cabin and piled me un onthe cot in the corner, eeid it didn't leaVe enough of the pan- ther's head to make his skin orna- mental when we tanned it. `"That," concluded the story 'teller, • "is panther fishing, and that is veley I say thiS kind • o; fishing will do when there's none el the real thing.** , noel luck is simply having the ann. ity to get on a car that is, going you'll way. The cheerful life is lite all other en- tertainments; we have to iseelt it out and pay to get in. It is well occasionally to put yoursell In the ether man's place, even, feel yetirseittOo 'big to be agilod fit.- teenage wdetne, • ' ' FACTS t The Turldsh, mother loade her child with omelets as soon, as it is bora, and 'a email eit of mud, steeped In hot Water. Prepared by previoue °harass, etecit on ite forehead. The Innsbrucit Inotor Company will run automobiles in the Alps. See lions, seals, walruses and pelts. cans are fed ea tish when in celebrity: nototaeys, young lions and bippopota. anus ciente milk --a full-grown hippo- potamus will Absorb fifteen quarts of roilk in a .day, Polar bears live ou bread; monkeys like fruit as well as milk; snakes require rabbits, chick- ens and deceit, A kangaroo eats near- ly 200 pounds of bread it week. Flowers bloom, in the Sandwich Islands all the year rotted; therefore It is believed that that ct tntry is more deserving taut Japan of the title "Flowery Kingdom." In Zululand the atmosphere is so erniez.that oblects Can be -anent!' seen by starlight at, a distance ot seven ' The names euggeeted to replace that of America for this country baste been Columbla Aileghenia, ApPalaciain atee, peria, Freeland, Fredonta, Cabernet ,Vinelattd. Astronoreers are ext the lookout for Stvitne comet (1894 Mt. Which is now due :according to Its "search epher- later's" should mane its appearance In the cortstellation of the Scorpion. This comet was discovered by Swift, at tbe Lien Observatory, Caltforala„ Novem- ber 20, 1894. It was then iu die ton - Mellen= Aquarius, moving dowlY astward. It was a very faint oniect. 4 prize has been Offered by a German oetety for the best design for an elect trio railway upon widen trains can travel at the rate of 125 miles an hour. Ostricaes are not the only swift -mi- ning atiimais that can outstrip the speed of it terse. There is a late' crab in Cuba that can rival the °strict. and go much, faster than it Innen Publisbers say books on the litepaue. nenerican war do not sell, The authors w rite too much about strategy and too little about individual acts of heroism. Felix flopnmiller taught =boot I tbe same room at Ste. Genevieve, Mo for more than fitty years, The authorities of Cologne are de- termlued tbat there sball be no Inarac- tions of the fast -driving laws In that city. Oue of tbe previsions of it re- cently enacted ordinance limits the speed ot motor vehicles to twelve kilo- meters (about seven and One-half miles) an liver and requires that each Machine be fitted with an apparatus preventing a transgression of the rule. A citizen of Lawrence, Kan., ven- tured into church the other evening and had a long -cherished belief rudely shattered. "I never knew until I 'went to caurch last night," he mid uext morning, "that :S000m and Gomorrah were towns. I alwaye thought they were husband and wife. Funny liow a man can gat things wrong once in a -while." The Internal bone of the cuttlefish is used in the manufacture of tooth -pow- der. Strange to say, Turkey and Greece are without telephones. One-fourth of the inbabitante of tho Argentine Republic are Italian izami- grants. Mrs. Mary Yeardley, 710 West Mon- roe street, was told by the doctors she would die young. She Is now 105 years old. -Chicago Journal. The largest stock farm in Iowa is in Ida county. It consists of 1,300 acres, and has 1,500 bead of cattle and 500 hogs on it, nearly ready for market. Moscow has the largest hespital in Europe, with 7,000 beds. There are 96 physicians and 900 nurses, and about 15,000 patients are cared for enenually. During the past five years the Pres- byterian church in the southleasgained about 15,000 communicants, -while the annual contributions have increased nearly poo,000. If all the money in the wetted were divided equelly each person would get about $20. , So useful are toads in gardens that they are sold in France by the dozen for stocking gardens, to free thsea trot many injurious insects. LEFT OVERS Summer squash will sour before morning, and is not worth warming. Winter squash can be made into pies. Sliced cucumbers may be kept a few hours in ice water, but if wilted should not be used. Whole leaves of lettuce will keep fresh and crisp in the 'ice chest for a tew hours only. Raw tomatoes, after they have been ecalded and peeled, spoil quickly, and they shouict De steweu directly after the meal; then they can be used in soups, gravies and made dishes. Potatoes, beets, peas and string jbeans may be served cold, with a salad dressing; also asparagus, spinach, cabbage, celery and canlifiower, if they have not been 'served with white sauce. Green peas, shelled beans, string Beans, stewed tomatoes and onions, if served again hot should be warmed quickly, adding a little water. 11 neces- sary to keep them from burning. Green earn should be scored, scraped from the ear and warmed quickly in milk to cover, seasoned with salt and butter. MAXIMS Thue flies like an arrow. days and months like a weaver's shuttle. The teacher should not leave his books or the poor man his Pigs. For him who does everything in its proper time one day is worth three. The truth which we least wish to hear are those which it is most to our Attend to your farms and mulberry trees, that you mayhave sufficient food! and clothing. Let every man sweep the enow from tefere his own doors and not trouble himself about the frost on his neigh- bor's tilee. When the eword le rusty, the plough engin, the prisons empty, the greeter.. full, the steps of the teum tple 'war Gown and those of the law cotirte gratis - ' grown, when doctors go afoot, the baka ers on hoesebaelie and the men onlet- ters ie their ow carriages; then the eigpire zovermed. BRIEF NOTES There are always 1,200,00e people ; Mittel oa the seas at the world. In the county gt Kent, England, it has long been usual for farmers to lose Atamense quantities of fruit tor lack of railroad transportation. They now en- gage a,ueoreabile caret watch they load io, the evening and take to Landoll dur- ing the night This arrangement is working well, and railroad officials ere busy devising plans to head soft what may develop into serious rivalry. There is More melody in Andreas - barge Prussia, in te Hartz mountains, than in any other town in the world. Titore 250,000 canaries are annually reared, and fourtettas of them are sent to the United States. A visitor who returned from Brazil says that the whole country is perpet- nally intoxicated by coffee. It is brought to the bedside the moment one awakes and just before going to sleep, at meals and between meals, an goenn, out and coming in. Men, women and children drink it with the same liberal- ity, and it 15 10(1 to babies in arms. Tho effeet 1$ apparent in trembling hands. tWitehing, eyelids, Yellow, dry eltia, and a chronic excitabtitty worse than that proaueecl by whiskey. There is alintlallY an excess Of 1,1100.- 000 births over deaths in Russta, qua Siberte is the natural outlet et this Onerflaw. .A, nurse visiting ber patients in a Cape Tacna leaspital ward found her fa- vorite exadier feet asleep, Plunee to his coverlet was a Kral) of paper on winch he had scrawled: "To 11 to be named today, respectfully J. M." In France it tax is levied upon. all 1 doors and windows opening ainin etreets, courts and gardens in nousen mills or faetortes throughout the na- tion. The revenue from this source for the year 1899 aggregated $13,694,394. Aceordieg to a medieal anthoritY there is tiow in the Vatted States one physician to every COO people -propor- tionately twice as many as in Great 13riMin, four times as many as France ban live times as many as Germane has, and six tenace as many at Italy There are two baboons in the Lin- coln Park, Chicago. wine -so the keep, re declare. can whietie tunes as fectly as any boy can, nne of the keep- ers insists that the animals recently wbistled the air of "Wearing of the Green." This keeper is a eon or the Dinerald Isle. Another keeper, a Brit - !slier, avows that one of the baboons Whietled "Soldiers of the Queen." A man charged, yesterday in London wita want Inciting at the Crystal Palace on Bank Holiday made an in- geuious defense. Ho called Ms sweet- heart as a witness, and she said the accused had his right band around her waist all the time be was passing the turnstile, and could, therefore, not hone been exploring the packets of stran- gers. The man was given it good char- acter by his employer, and, being al- lowed "the bonen, of the doubt" WaS discharged. NEWS OF INTF.RF ST The finest church in Posen, an the eastern border of Prussia, was built by Frederick the Great. For centuries It bas done duty as a. place of worship, and yet had it not been for a war horse it would never have been built. Close by a. bloody conflict occurred between the king and the Rustdens, and the former, always in the thick of the fight, had his chaeger killed under him -it sturdy animal that had borne him tbroughout many battles. He felt the joy of victory to be modified by the loss of the horse, and put up to its memory the famous church in. ques- tion. The largest time ball in the United States is being erected in Philadelphia on the roof of the Fourth street end of the bourse. The ball, which is four feet In diameter, and weighs 60 pounds, will be hoisted to the top of an hem column 190 feet above tidewater, five minttice before noon each day, and dropped elec- trically 40 feet to an air cushion exact- ly at noon by the naval observatory clock in Washington. The abjeet of the. time ball is to enable all the mari- ners in the Delaware and Schuylkill river to regulate their chronometers be - far sailing The Germans a,nd Russians flavor their bread with cinnamon, and while this may give a fine flavor it can hard- ly be called a good practice. Cinna- mon contains tannin, and too much of It in the stoanacli must have evil re- sults. All through Southern Europe a little ground cinnamon is used for fta- voring chocolate, sauces and whipped cream. A little cinnamon is good for the stomach, and will sometimes cure disorders af a simple nature. Cintia- inon ball ts considered by some as a good remedy far persistent diarrhoea. A Chicago lecturer wha has bee', tail.. ing college students that people can live on .fifteen cents a day, advises fe- male experimenters with her theory to use grea,t care in the selection of their husbands. Would any American girl look far a husband who, wauld live on fifteen, cents a day? The average American girl is leaking for the bus band who is willing and able to make it fifteen dollars a clan-Savannab News. Each section has its own slang 'Which works its way into the vocabula- ries of the people almost unconscious- ly. The president of the board of re- gents of the University of Oklahoma Is a cattle man named Bolton, and as Such he has the power to appoint the teachers in the territorial schools. Not long ago a young woman of Guthrie applied for a position, and enclosed several good recommendations. Mr. Bolton examined them with. care, and tient tthe papers to the secretary with this endorsement: '7 don't know this heifer peesonally, but her endorsein en ts are good, and you'd better turn her into the bunch." The most prosperous bootbleckin New York has long since given up any active share in the work that made him a wealthy man, lout he began in the customary wa,y, and worked for HOMO years before the tide of fortune set so strongly in his favor that he became the owner of a rading stable. He con- ducts half a dozen establishments in various parts of the eity, brut direet Su. pervieion of them has rescently been handed over to a superinten.dent, and the visits of the boss in these days are rare. His earnings last week on one ce won by altars° from kis own stop ble were $40,00a. THE STRIX FAMILY 1Professional Treunte to irbeir NeIrati) Or 0 ..,•••••.,-* One en of the most serious disturb- M ances in the records of animal Suris- it „ri.„,e is that ot "the New Yorlu ztortolaieraeiny, soetieen.t tyu , lz”diord, versus tllo e , Tb.e gentle fallow deeri waose ramp lies directly east of and next to the, owls' roast, congratulated theinseivee when they heard that they were to, have the Strixes for next door neigh- bors. "Suoh nice, quiet, orderly people, and so intellectual too," they thought, "What if we had been obliged to live next doer to Mr. and Mrs. Lion, or Mr. atuttoceros, or disagreeable old Mr. Elepitant? Well, we simply couldn't have stood it at all." And then the Owls moved in. The gere an enormous family, pretty near- ly twenty altogether, "married and in- termarried in rather promiscueus" fashion, thought wise and prudent Alm Peen but nevertheless a learned aud intellectual faratiet and as seen deserving of due respect. In the first place there 'Was OM Nebulose, Stria, the great-gtasal. Maher Of them all, whom people call the "Barred Owl," because et the green Plaid patclme au her wings. Teen there was A solitary white cvtl er barn awl, Viso called 'himself etre FlateMea Stele, mad wbo is reputed to be one ef the wisest of his very wise titiUUY. Mr, and Mrs. Virginian Stria, and eight sons and claugaters were the next important taction of the family, and are known to the neighbors as the great Horned Owls, for obvious =aeons. And last, but not least by anal Means, were the Screech Owls -a whole aggregation Of little brother:: and sisters. The Owls hadn't spent one night la their new home before the etorkie ansi he pelicans and other respectabet birds over iu the flying cage and the gentle fallow deer In the :urge were uttering all sorts of imprecations against the new tenants. Untocial, re - =veil and exclusive in daylight. they Made the night one long, hideous orgy With thein demoniacal boatiiig. "Waugh Hoot Waugh, Hoo!" awoke the slumbering echoes in all the Ioe- ly wilderness from the Bronx river to ve This dismal and ominous hooting at the owls begbas stortly after night-, fall nor ceases until the first PeeP od name And as a consequence the ul- tra -respectable storks aud pelicans and the gentle and quiet loving fallow deer are giving their keepers no end ot trouble. Instead of dozing In their eomforiable quarters as all well fed tend cared for birds and beasts of their apecies ordinarily do, they have grown nervone and restless, This ean, be readily understood. by any one who will spend part of the night witted hearing of the dismal "Waugh, lion! Waugh, Hoo!" of these wise birds. Such a person will readily sympathize with the long suffering storks tind pel- icans, but most of all with the gentle, fallow deer. The l'cm 21 *as Carl at College. " Enumerating upward of fifty meth- ods by which it girl can work her wadi through college, a Cornell graduate 'rites in the Ladles* Home Antral: "A college educatdon is possible for any one who is determined to have it. It may happen that the prospective stu- dent is obliged to stay at home and work several years before entering, but intensified desire brings compen- sation. It is not advisable, however, to defer entering until every cent nec- essary for a four years' course has been earned. Many girls perhaps give up the idea of going at all because they cannot go soon after leaving the htgh school, but nowadays it is not unusual to find in attendance at uai- versities, open during the summer Quarter, teachers, well along in the fifties, who iu their youth were denied a college education." Neer Danger From Bottles. It has been discovered that many ot the prairie fires that have destrovele the grass on the ranges in Montana and in, the western part of Dakota, have been started by the concentrat- ing of the rays of the sun upon bron- en beer bottles that are scattered free.. ly along the cattle trails and wagon roads, which offers a new argument for the use of the temperance folk, Numerous fires have started far away from human haunts 'and habitations, miles beyond the reach of sparks frem the smokestack of a locomotive, and the farmers and ranehmen have been, so mystified as to their origin that several investigations have been. ana.de. When a fire has been traced to its source, in almost every instance ns broken bottle has been found with evidences around it to convince the investigators that it was the 'cause of the mischief. ' The curved glass was found in such a position as to focus, the rays of the sun upon a tuft of dry hunch grass and start a flame. -Ban- gor News. 'Vile Squirrel's Arithmetic. High on the branch of a walnut tree A bright-eyed squirrel sat; What was he thinking so earnestly? And what was he looking at? He was doing a problem o'er and o'er:, Busily thinking was he How many nun for his winter's store Could he hide in the hollow tree? lie sat' so still in the swaying bougli You might have thought him asleep; 0 no; he was trying to reckon now The nuts the babies could eat Then suddenly he frisked about. And down the tree he ran; 'The best way to do, without a doubt, Is to gather all I can -Normal Instructor. Ought not the place wbere new -spa- per articles are lulled to be called the decomposing rocim? It's the ocinstant strains and worry under wb.idh the professional man labors, the irregularity of habits and loss of rest, that makes him peculiarly sus- ceptible to kidney troubles. )Wirst it's backache, theia urinary difficulties, then_ unless it's attended to - right's Disease and - death. DOAN' KIDNEY PILLS Strengthen and invigorate tbe kidneys -never fail to give quick relief and cum the MOSt obstinate,eases. Rev. M. P. Campbell* pastor of the , Baptist Church, Essex, Ont., says; From my personal use of Doan's Sidney Pills, which L got at Sharon's drug store, I can eav they are A Most excellent xtonedy to Wetter trophies, and I recouuneua, Omit° waterers from suck eolup1siots.0 Bal.& Makes Blood Pure. If the blood is pure the whole body will be healthy, If the blood is impure the whole system becomes corrupted with its Impurities. 1 Burdock Blood Bitters trans - 1 forms impure and watery blood into 'rich pure blood and builds up the health. Disease germs cannot lurk in the system when B.B.B. is used, • Miss Effie McDonald, Liscorab MUTE, Guy Co., leaS„ writes: I bare Amain, • B.B.B. au excellent remedy for purifyieg the blood mad curing sick headache. bad tried many remedies but none of them did rae emelt good. made me so well that I feel like it noVir woman and I am constantly recoraMend- Lug it to my friends:0 St. Marys Creamery The annual meeting of the share- holders and patrons of the St. Marys Orcamery Wil.9 held in the town hall there Wednesday afternoon. Finans cially the creamery has not. paid ex- penses during the year. This is because there bas been a falling off in rough figures of abaue teerenimillionenounde of milk received. Tittatefalling %Iris largely due to the local price of dairy butte antl the high price of cheese. .A. change is now to be made in the pay- ment made to the creamery for mak-. ing, Formerly it was a, sliding scale which varied directly with as the price of butter. The annual meeting has passed a resolution,which the directors will follow, to revert to the first year's system of charging a, fixed rate not to exceed Se cents a pound on all butter made. A by-law was passed enlarging the directorate of the company so as to actinit a representative from each skimming station. The new board was elected as follows: -Dr. Matheson, R. Dickson, J. D. Moore, S. Fraleigh, Sas. Donald, Se. Marys; J. Beattie, Kirktort ; J. Fotheringlam, Metropoli- tan ; F. Mr.Master, I31a,nshard and Nis- souri ; R. Gleason, Murray's ; J. Alder- son. Kintore McBuorkadale, Ben- nington ; It Palmer, Thorndale ; N. J. Chase, Cherry Hill ; if Rigney, De- vizes. It is hoped that these changes will prove beneficial to the creamery.. A WOMAN'S AWFUL .PERIL. "There is only one chance to save ycur life and that is through an opera- tion" were the startling words heard 0 by Mrs. I. 13. Hunt of Lime Ridge, g Wis. from her doctor after .he had a , teddy tried to cure her of a frightful case of stomach trouble and yellow jaundice. Gall stones had formed and she constantly grew worse. Then shei began to use Electric Bitters wangle . wholly cured her. It's a wonderful Stoma,ch, T.Avez and Kidney remedy. . Cures Dyspepsia,Loss of Appetite. Try itt Only 50 cts. Guaranteed. For sale by all druggists, Usborne BRIEFS.—Sydney Wilson is danger- ously ill with inflammation. -- nintie the oldest, dang-eter of Mrs. Stephens is ill et typhoid fevett--S.Peart has re- turned from Guelph where he spent six weeks • platting on the farm he purchased jast spring. -A. lare number of our fartners intense ete ," ding the eqoumanintrty8Otifiniirilat'tre' Ofatl'erdhav on Henry Ilern intends moving aptl rais- ing tes barn, and e AVM build a \brick fontulatione ieetnes Kyle nill put a jb.rinckell:notawnhiliitbite:inl"ditalnci)erxicili:ehtoettlesee: while Airs. elibbert, Bock. Newburn, N writes '"I was in bed for weeks with Rholimalism and I coeld notmove without help, 1 bogan using, - Milburn's Rheumatic Pills and °'5l) oz relieved the pain and six boxes complotell cnied. me. Children Cry for ASTORIA., Children Cry for CAST 1 -STOR1 For Infants and Children. tee face eagle 51 signature every virtlitert.