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HEALTH HINTS.

Small doses of salt will check hem
orrhage of the lungs or stomach.
Dirt, debauchery, disease and death
are successive links in the same chain
Mold and decaying vegetables in Il
cellar weave shrouds for the upper
chambers.
Light gives a bronzed or tan color
to the skin but where it uproots the
lily it plants the rose.
Rubbing warts night and morning
with a moistened piece of muriate of
ammonia is said to cause their disap,
pearance without pain or scar.
Sufferers from certain common
forms of indigestion forget the effects
of loading the stomach with cold
liquids. "Cold drinks are often de-
pressing" says the Lqacst, "and the
peculiar form of indigestion just now
very prevalent, in which food is re-
tained an unreasonable time in the
stomach, is in a large proportion of
instances the direct effect of persistent
chilling of the gastric organ by copious
draugnts of cold drink"
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The COuntry's Quarries.

The compendium of the tenth
census, recently issued, contains some
figures which will serve to give an
idea of the magnitude of the quar-
rying interests of the country, which
in 1890 gave employment to 80, 723 men,
8,059 horses and S5l mules had 339
machines for quarrying, 1920 ma
chimes for hosting, 1908 machines
for dressing, and used Sl92,l75 worth
of explosives. The capital invested
is given at S25,4l4, ,497, and the value
of the product in the census year a.
1886 055, there being l,525 quarries
in all. Marble aud limestone lead the
list with 65,523,965 cubic feet, fol-
lowed by the andstone quarries with
24,776,930 cubic feet; crsytalline
silicious rocks, with 5,l1s,99S cubic
feet /; and slate with 4j7,267 squares,
or 4,572,670 cubic feet.
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The Downward Path.

Ten years ago Seleucus Garfielde left
Congress and became professional
gambler; recently he died in little
room over cigar shop in Washington.
The story of Garfelde's life, says a
Washington letter, is that of man
who surrendered absolutely to the
temptations of Washington. He was
born sixty-one years ago in Vermont,
went to Kentucky when he was boy,
was graduated from Augusta college
in that State, and began his active life
as IA lawyer. When he was thirty years
old he was a member of the Kentucky
legislature, and a few years later he
was commissioned to codify the laws
of the State. In 1860 he was receiver
of public moneys for Washington Ter
ritory, and in 1869, after serving three
years as surveyor-general, he came to
Congress as delegate. He was here
four years, and when his congressional
career was over he was moral wreck.
He had lost his ambition, and was as
dissolute a gambler as lived in the Dis
trict of Columbia. Cards had come to
be the passion of his life.
1t is said that he left Kentucky and
wandered off into Washington Terri
tory, because he saw his doom if he re-
manned among the genial poker players
of his adopted State. Hefought against
what he feared would become his rul-
ing passion, even to the extent of Civ
ing up what promised to be an excep-
tionally bright future, but his surround
ings in Washington finally overcame
him completely. His fellow Congress
men ruined him, and he lived for the
rest of his days on the vices of public
men. No life in Washington was
lower than his. The men and women
who were his companions were of the
lowest stratum. For years the man
who had once promised to be one of
the cleverest public men of Kentucky
had not single intimate associate
who did not belong to the dangerous
element of society. He was always.
however, leader among the people
with whom he lived.
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them. In the pineries the ak is used
for nearly every purpose for which a
cutting tool is required. With
it the chopper trims his "boot-
packs" cuts lacing thongs, "buckets"
horse and cattle feed-boxes, pins up
his sheds, shanties and Out-houses.
constructs his bobs and "go-devilS,' y
and even whittles his toothpicks. He
cutters chips for drinking cups, fixes
tobacco for his pipe, throws flying
bridges over winter streams, whittles
out the checkers for his evenings
amusement, and caryes the checker
board. In a word, it is a part and
parcel of himself, and its song is the
music of life to his ear.
After leaving the pineries the AK has
long ramble to new life upon the
Pacific slope. In California, on the
coast range. it enters the famous red
woods. The:e noble trees, the Goliaths
of the forests, are fast disappearing.
But their gigantic stumps still remain
to tell of their departed greatness,
And enormous stumps they truly are.
SO much so indeed that the AK has to
climb in the world to overcome them,
and the chopper assumes a position
which he is not compelled to attempt
anywhere else. To surmount the
enormous swell at the base of the tree
and commence operations where the
average diameter of the trunk may be
said to begin, he builds platform
made of stakes with crosS-piecei OF
rails, sometimes six or ten feet high,
around his vict and chops from
that, cutting above the dubious swell.
Or, if an expert, he will simply
"bucket" hole in the trunk, and
driving a stout stake into 1t, stand
perched upon that slender foothold as
he dexter0usly swings his blade. The
size of the redwood giants is world
famous, and it is a legend of the coast
that wood'man having chopped for
a week on one side of a tree, walked
around it and found another chopper
who had been at work for a month on
the other side.
But it is not until the cypress
swamps of the southland are reached
that the AK takes the water. In those
dark-shadowed and moSs-draped
lagoons the chopper becomes amphib-
ious, and performs his work while skill
fully balanced in one of the most
treacherous of all aquatic contrlvances,
a dug-out. OF the AK in the oak-lands
of the Southwest, where it labors for
France and Spain, sending them an
nually thousands of dollars worth of
slaves, and also of its desultory
existence in cordwood chopping,
grubbing," misunderstanding, hoop
pole-cutting and kindred industries
little need be said save that it does
its share of the work honestly, and has
a settled policy that no man shall
hold intercourse with it with his coat
on. This Difference it eXacts from all
with whom it enters into business
relations, whether among the ice
locked lakes and rivers of the white
pine. the laurel-scented canons of the
Coast Range or the magnolia-hannted
Iagoons of the mournful, moss draped
cypress. There is no healthier, cleaner
and mere en- oyable exercise in the
world than swinging an AK.
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A Naval Oflicer's Prank.

The secretary Of the navy lately sent
a note to naval officers asking them for
suggestions as to a change of uniform.
This puts some old-timers in mind of
similar request made by Jefferson
Davis, when secretary of war under
Franklin Pierce. Lieutenant Derby,
alias John Phpnix, the first great
American Joker, was so fortunate as to
get one. In reply he sent PROPOSE
ton for having a two-inch iron ring
appended by stout piece of leather to
the seat of each enlisted mans tr0u-
sers. Long and formal specifications
emonstrated the rtility of this ring,
the use of which would incontestably
place our army at the head of the mill
tary bolies of the world.
Each officer, inst Fad of sword, was
to carry a long white ash pole, with a
hook Mt one end. by hooking this pole
into the trousers-ring of the private he
could be held in line of battle, or caught
when he tried to run away Men in
the artillery service could, by means of
the ring, be usel for draught purposes
and in the cavalry could be locked to
other rings in the saddle and kept from
falling Oft. Lieutenant Derby was a
good draughtsman, and he illustrated
his proposition. Officers were pictured
catching infantry stragglers and fore
ing them into the ranks, dragons as
padlocked to their saddles and artillery
men with cannon-prolongs hitched to
their rings and drawing huge pieces
up steep heights.
This sextraJrdinaryproposit caused
considerable fun among the war de
partmpnt clerks 1t finally reached
Secretary Davis, who regarded it as an
insult. At his instance charges d
specifications were drawn up and a
court martial was ordered. Then
Marcy, secretary of state, heard of the
ma ter and advised Secretary Davis to
let it drop. Mr.. Davis aw the wisdom
of the advice and Derby did not have
to sufr,r for his joke His PROPOSE
ton and specifications for change of
uniform" are yet among the archives
of the war ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ReDublicdn.
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For Thick Heuds


DURING hs rembles this season, our Mr.. M. has
taken upon himself the task Of satisfying our num-
erous readers that whatever goods manufactured
in our goody city of Roger williams. are OF as high
grade and as fine in quality as can be produced IN
any spdt ON the globe. Especially is this 20 when
the skilled Pharmacist of many years experience
resolves to extract from the finest botanical speci
mems Of the vegetable world the most potent cure
for some special disease In proof OF his assertion
that Providence r. L. affords the best, he reiatos an
interview with an acquaintance, given him while So
journing temporarily at her residence. She says;
about year suffered severely with Rheumatism
in my limbs, and Neuralgia in the head. which en-
dured two or three months with as much patience
as possible being under the treatment OF an excel
lent doctor, and trying many kinds Of metNctEe
without any marked effect At last medical friend
advised me to try Hunts Remedy. because he at
ributed my severe suffering to the bad condition o.
nv kidneys, which were not performing their proper
functions, and commenced taking it, and in few
days the neuralgia had departed, my headache had
entirely disappeared the swelling in my limits and
Joints had gone. and have not had q touch oft
since. More recently l was troubled with impurity
of the blood. which showed itself in severe eruptions
on NV face. Iagain rcsorted to Hunts Remedy.a and
after tsking It short time completely cured oil
that complaint. Hunts Remedy has proved very
beneficial to me in attacks of sick headache, which IL
ALWAYS alleyiates and notice the Improvement a.
soon as I take the Remedy. This Remedy has
strengthening elements, for 1t has made me feei
much stronger, and has been very beneficial to my
general health 1most heartily recommend 1t to
all sufferers like myself Mas. L. g. TANNER, NO. l&
paarl Street "
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SELECT SIFTINGS.

February and January were added
to the calendar by Numa about 713
B. c.
A Kentucky farmer has a duck
which lays eggs that have shells nearly
black.
Darwin says that hornets were not
invented until the world was 100000
years old.
Optic nerves were discovered about
1888 by n. Varole, Bolognese physl-
clan and surgeon,
Four barrels of water from the
Great Salt Lake, after evaporation,
will leave barrel of salt.
A French Investigator finds that, in
proportion to its size, bee can pull
thirty times as much weight as a
horse.
In Algodones, New Mexico, lives a
Pueblo Indian over 100 years old, and
he earns his own living by working on
a loom POO years old.
The diamond mines of Brazil were
first opened in l727. 1t is estimated
that since that time they have pro-
duced at least two tons of diamonds.
The sacred black stone of the Caaba
was venerated by the Arabs long be-
fore the Christian era Mohammed
defeated its guardians, the tribe of
Korish, and abolished its worship.
A Danish tradition makes the moon
cheese formed of the milk that has
run together out ofthe Milky Way! In
the Pyrenees a hailst0rm may be
averted by frightening black cloud
with the sight of its own face in a
mirror held up to it.
1t is said that the ostriches upon ar
irving at the corrals in Anaheim, Cal,
manifested their joy by indulging in
the most ludicrous antics. For over
half an hour they kept up an incessant
waltz around the corral, and in other
ways exhibited their delight at escap-
ing from their pent-up quarters in the
car.
Professor Treadwell, of Massa-
chusetts, found that half-grown
American robin in confinement ate in
one day sixty-eight worms, weighing
together one ounce and a half rs much
as the bird himself, and another had
previously starved upon a daily allow
ance of eight or ten worms, or
about twenty per cent. of his own
weight.
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The First BOWie.Knife.

James Bowie and two younger
brothers emigrated from Maryland and
settled in Mississippi, near Natchez,
in 1925. They were men of means
and well educated. But James Bowie
was naturally of a rowing disposition,
and was particularly fond Of hunting.
Ia those days it was no trouble to lind
game, and consequently James was in
his element. He whitfield out of a
piece of cypress what he thought
would be good model for hunting
knife and had a blacksmith named
Allison, in Natchez, to make him one
from this model. This was his first
bowie-knife. This | believe to be
true story of this noted knife. lie
thought it so perfect for what he in
tended it that he took out patent for
it, and sold the right to a Philadelphia
firm, who flooded the country with
these knives.
The celebrated fight in which four
men were killed, including a brother of
James Bowie, which occurred on the
Willow bar, and in which tradition
says the bowie-knife was so freely
used, happened in 1923, two years be-
fore the knife was invented. James
Bowie was killed at the taking of the
Alamo, San Antonio, Texas, in 1886.
-COurier-.I0u1ndl.
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returned to his home in New York the only
cloud cast upon the happiness of the reunion
with his family was caused by the continued
illness of his eldest son, a young man OF
twenty -four, whose disease, when the ad-
miral sailed from Montcvedio, had been re.
ported as succumbing to tho treatment OF
the family doctor. But his father thought it
otherwise; the unfortunate young man was
suffering severely from chronic disease Of
the kidneys and bladder. Before leaving
Boston the admiral had purchased copy Of
DR.. Pierce's book, ''The Peoples Common
Sense Medical Adviser" He read this val
liable book thoroughly, and upon his arrival
home had made up his mind as to the future
treatment for his son. The latter was sent
to the famous Invalids' Hotel, at Buffalo, N.
Y, conducted by DR.. R. V. Pierce, and his
competent staff of specialists, where, under
skillful treatment, the sufferer soon found
relief and n permanent cure.
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A REMARKABLE STORY.

The following narrative is self-explanatory.
The letter which precedes il is true copy OF
the original, and was sent to us, together
with the details, by an officer now in the
United States Navy.
United States Flagship Nomad,
Navy Yard BosToN, Mass,
January 10, 1SS-.
My dear Ffiend-Your kind favor con-
tanning congratulations on my restorauon 10
health is before me. When we parted thirty
months ago little did we imagine that either
would be brought near deaths door by dis
ease which selects for its victims those who
present an internal field of constitutional
weakness for its first attack, because you and
l were in those days the personihcation OF
health-and can claim this to-day, thank Goa!
Why can do so will be told tomorrow, ,when
we meet at your dinner, as you only know
that have passed through terrible Illness:
my delivery from death being due to the
wonderful discovery in medical science,
made by man who to-day stands In the
front rank of his fellow workers-unequaled
by any in my own opinion. That |, who
heretofore have ever been the most orthodox
believer in the old school of medicine, It's
application and results, should thus recant
in favor of that which is sneered at by old
practitioners, may startle you, but seeing IS
believing and when l recount the attack
made on my old hulk, how near came to
lowering my colors, and the final yolley
which, through the agency above mentioned,
gave me victory, you will at least credit me
with Just cause for sincerity in my thankful
ness and belief. l will also spin my yarn
anent my China cruise, and altogether, ex-
pect to entertain as well as be entertained
by you. With best wishes,
Sincerely yours,
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Unsaiisned.

"Well, how do you like the new
minister z" she asked, rs they came
out of church together.
"0h, hardly know yet"
"But wasn't that splendid sermon?'
"Yes, | suppose so, but l am not
entirely satisfied yet. l sat so far
back that | couldn't see him very well.
| did so hope we would get minister
with long eyelashes and a Grecian
nose P-Free Press.
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ErenI I,rnise.

ALBERT G. MANN, of Cottage Home ILL.,, says: i
have been Frustrated for three or more years with
kidney disease at times was not able to put ON my
boots my wife has often pulled them on for me. 1
was not SO bad as that all the time but never knew
what it was 10 be without pain in my back untl
commenced using Hunts Remedy. Since i began
10 take Hunts Remedy have been frc from all pain
and take pleasure in saving that il is the best ned.
cine that ever knew for Kidney and Liver disc tsss
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The AIight of The Pom.

Fairfield, Iowa.-Dr. ]. l.. Myers says
browns Iron Bitters is the best iron prepar
alton have known in my 30 years practics.1
The Night of the Pen.
On, the orators voice is mighty power
As il echoes along the green,
Rnt The fearless pen has more sway Ger men,
10 sound the praises of Carboline.
For Thick Heads.
Ueavv stornachs, bilious sconditions-Welis'
NAV Apple Pills-antibiious,c ,cathartic. 10 25o
Use st. Patrick's Salve, and learn its great
value. One trial convinces.
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Canada is having a larger emigra-
tion this year than last, the United
States less.
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In Cincinnati the telephone has 130
villages within speaking distance of
the city.
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Mrs. Cole, of Windham, N. H., declares
that her life WIS saved by Hoods Sarsaparilla.
She had thirty seven terrible scrofulous sores.
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A ARemarkabIe Cure OF scrofuin.

william 8. Baker. Of Lewis, vego countys lnd.'
writes as follows "My son was taken with scrofuls
In the hip when only two years old. He tried sew
era physicians but the boy got relief from theii
treatment Noticing your Rosadals recommended
SO highly. bought some Of it of you in the Sesi
1862, and continued taking 1t till tho sores nnany
healed up. He Is now twenty-one years oil age ana
being satisfied that your medicine did him 80 much
good when he used it, we want to try 1t again IN an
other case and now write to you to get some more
Off,"
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Ladies', buy for your husbands, brother,
and sons Chrolithion collars and cuffs, sud
save trouble in washing.
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At ALL HAZARD

Drive away that tired feeling and soul WEAKNESS wss
h,.,e e dii-eni and oaIewom In the spring No oths,
sols takes hold Of ths syss and hits EXACTLY
IKE Hoods SArsapArnla, which Oombinss tns 60
remedies Of the vegetable kingdom, and In socn ~
portion a. to derive their greatest medical ene0~ WI"
the least disturbance To the whole system
.'Hood's sArsapsrilA cured me. can eat anything
,v,.hou, that awful distress, and have tremendous
snpetits U-PAnK PATTES. Gardiner. Me, .-----
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JOPLIN, Mo.-Dr. J. B. Morgan says: 81
find that Browns Iron Bitters gives entire
satisfaction to all who use it.n
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THE hygiene of quackery has done more to
nrg avaie dyspepsia by self-inhicted starya-
ton than gluttony ever did. GAsrRlNE cures
the worst forms of dyspepsia.
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LYONS Patent Metallic Heel Stiffeners
keen new boots and shoes from running over
Sold by shoe and hardware dealers.
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Rheumatism, disor lered blood, general de
bility and many chrt nic diseases pronounced
ineurable, are cured by Browns Iron Bltters
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Don't Die in the House.
"Rough on Rats" Clears out rats, mice,
reaches, be d bugs, flies, ants, moles, chip
munks, pophers. 15c.
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Bakers Pain Panacea cures pain in Man and Beast.
Use Externally and Internally.
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prefer LIllCh UllS, SOllIt lllllly ObliNlo lV-
quire a soft, easily whetted bla lie, and
others a hard, lasting one. In helves,
from the extreme crock to the perfectly
straight, the whims are as various as
the owners. A good chopper always
likes to make his own handle, and the
ak that one swings in graceful dexter
ity another throws away as Il eless,
White pine, in fact all pines used
for lumber, arc cut from the ground,
leaving usually a stump of about three
feet. Other American evergreen tim
Der trees, the cypress and red wood,
are generally cut at distance up the
trunk high enough to overcome the
dubious nature of the | ase. In regar
to the temperature in the tinbers it is
a curious fact that, while a chopper
would hardly ever think of building a
fire near his work to keep him warm,
he frequently builds one to keep his
AK warm. A cold, frost filled AK
head has a positive dislike fer enter
ing wood that can only he overcome
by coaxing and keeping the frost out
of it. The dexterity and precision
with which a frst-class chopper
handles his AK are remarkable. Trees
three feet in diameterare oft n cut en-
tirely through and still rstain theirper-
pendicular position until ! reele tr
iome slight shock topples them over.
The two gaps on either side meet in a
straight line. Tothe novice there are
many strange things within the PROV
ince of an Ak. In cl1aring a pieceO of
farm land II Is frequently stipulation
that the chopper shall bucket" his
stumps to hold a pail of wat r; in
ether words. leave Il eoncaye bowl on
their tops to catch rainwatcr and rot
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-27
FOREIGN FACTS.

Alexandria: Cholera has reappeared
in Fayroom on the west side of the Nile,
and at Ziftch.
London: The arbitrator decide that
the South Stafford Golfers are not en-
titled to an advance in wages.
London: Copeman and four others
crossed the Echannel from Dover to
Calais in his seat raft in six hours.
Rome: 1t is stated that the pope will
declare it a pantheon pagan temple if
the monument to Victor Emanuel is
erected in the centre as intended by
King Humbert.
Lisbon: The Geographical society
has addressed a circular to similar So
cieties abroad, protesting against the
tone of Stanley's letters relative to
affairs on the Congo river offensive to-
wards Portugal.
London: The Irish informers
Michael Kavanagh, Joseph Smith, and
Joseph Hanlon, have arrived in Cal
cutta. They were shipped as grooms
on the steamer which took horses from
Melbourne to the former port.
Panama: William Schell, a planter
on a very extensive scale. 1t is ru.
mored tLat lie is on.his way to Europe
commissioned by the Iglesias, to effect
some arrangement which will enable
some of the paper money with which
Peru is swamped to be withdrawn.
st. Petersburg: Owing to jealousy OF
foreign enterprise the newspapers arr
6~ercely attacking an establishment fay
ored by the government. 1t is a mixed
company of American, French aut
Russian capitalists, with a capital o
25, ZOO, 900 roubles for the erection OF
American grain elevators Throughout
the empire.