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Madame kuki,

The japanese legation, writes a
Washington correspondent, is a promi-
nent one in social way since the
coming of the present minister, accom-
panied as he was by pretty wife and
an ability to speak good English. His
entertainments since his arrival have
been elegant and very largely attended.
Mime. kuki, though she had never left
her country before coming here, and
was then wholly unacquainted with our
language, which she is now rapidly ac-
quiring, from the first was very socially
disposed towards the ladies who called
upon her, talking to them through the
japanese gentleman who is the inter
prefer for the legation, and showing
her interest when She could not master
enough English to otherwise enter into
the conversation by wonderfully mu-
steal laugh, never too loud, but always
merry. In returning calls, which she
did regularly as long as her health
would permit, and attending parties
she looked about her at the new people
aud the new mode of life with the
greatest interest. She promptly adept
ed the style of dress usual for fashion
able ladies here both on the street and
indoors, but while her ball dresses
were very elegant both i'll material and
style OF making, none of them were
made to show neck and arms. She
carried herself wearing the new (to
herr style of dress as gracefully. as if
long used to it. She is the mother of
three children. The japanese legation,
which is located on n street, in the
fashionable quarter of the city, is ele-
gantly furnished, the walls being deco
rated with a very large number of
silken banners painted by japanese
artists of high rank.
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go T,OR' HIT I'M AGAINi"

In the early days of Methodism in
Scotland, certain congregation, where
there was but one rich man, desired to
build new chapel. A church meeting
was held. The old rich Scotchman rose
and said: Brethren, we dlnna need
new chapel: I'll give e5 for repairs y
Just then bit OF plaster falling from
the ceiling hit him on the head.
Looking up and seeing how bad 1t was,
he said: Brethren, its worse thon l
THOUGHT; I'll make it 30 pun"
sob, Lord" exclaimed devoted
brother on back seat, shit i'm againi
There are many human tabernacles
which are in sore need of radical building
over, but we putter and fuss and repair
in spots without satisfactory results. 1t
is only when We are personally alarmed
at the real danger that we act lndepend
emily, and do the right thing. Then 1T
is that we most keenly regret because re
did not sooner use our Judgment, follow
the advice born OF the experience OF
others and jump away from our periIs.
Thousands of persons who will read
this paragraph are in abject misery to day
when they might be IN a satisfactory
condition. They are weak, lifeless, full
of odd aches and pains, and every year
they know they are getting worse, even
though the best doctors are patching them
in spots. The origin of these aches and
pains is the kidneys and liver, and if
they would build these all over new with
Warmers safe cure as millions have done,
and cease investing their money in m ser
ably unsuccessful patchwork, they would
be we'll and happy and would bless the
day when the Lord chit 'em" and in
dicated the common sense course for
them to pursue.-LOnd0aP Press
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Professional Flatterers.

AS society advances with an advanc-
ing civilization, new wants call out
new powers, and fresh ayocationS are
provided for INDECENT. mortals. II
seems to us that now the time has
come when want which has long been
felt should be provided for. There
have from tine to time been some at
tempts made to supply the demand for
personal admiration which is so mark
eddy developed, but the matter has
never been properly formulated and
systemized. The great and the wealthy
seldom lack for tiatterers and admirers,
but there are numbers of persons of
both sexes who are miserable for the
want of proper amount of Difference
and praise, and who are made
wretched by Nngratitied vanity, who. if
things were better ordered, might De
satisfied with no great outlay of either
trouble or money. Married people may
succeed in eliciting the necess ary
praise from each other, but the unat-
tached persons of both sexes with
whom society nowadays abounds really
need some one TO minister to their ma
tural desires for commentator, aud
as marriage is said to be going out of
fashion, it will soon be little less than
measure of mere preservation of
peace that society should encourage a
class of upper servants fitted by nature
and by training skillfutly 10 accord to
their employers an amount of admira-
ton nicely adjusted 10 the eases with
which they have TO deal and the wages
which they are paid.-Goston Courier.
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Li9nun Vitae.

Lignum vitae stands first among our
native woods in power to resist linden
tation, which means in the census tests
compression in line perpendicular to
the fiber. A punch one centimeter
square was used, and the force required
to press this into the wood to a depth
of 1.27 millimeters was recorded With
lignum vitae this force was 703 kiIo-
grams. The next ten species arranged
in order of their power of resistance be-
long, as does the first, to semi-tropical
Florida, and the first wood on the list
which is commonly known in the Mid
die States is the perSimmon, ranking
No. 80. The hardness OF persimmon
wood as compared with Iignum vitae,
however, is only as 324 to 1913. Usage
orange offers a resistance of 363 kilo-
grams; mahogany, 800; snagbark
hickory, 271; sugar maple, PSI; black
birch, 226; white oak 2lj; black walnut,
1876; black ash, 1914; white maple, 1871;
white ash, III; American elm, 10;
liquid amber, 1872; tamarack, 112;
Douglas tir, 100; hard catalpa, Sc;
tulip tree, 80; aspen, 50; redwood, Il;
white pine, Il; Eastwood, IS.
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A Piece of Newspaper Enterprise.

Henry j. Raymond. the founder of
the New York Times, whose refined
culture and brilliant achievement as a
journalist became proverbial long be-
fore ne died, mastered every branch of
his profession. writes a correspondent
to the Hartford C0tsrant. He was an
excellent type-setter, a good shorthand
sketcher, thorough reporter. and
superb editorial writer. He was a per-
sistent worker, and gathered about him
corps Of reporters and writers OF ahe
same caliber. One of the most brilliant
feats he ever accomplished was the
following: 1t was given out that GER
tain New York senator was to make a
speech on a certain important subject,
which at the time, was exciting univer-r
sal interest. 1t was before Geographic
communication was opened between
New York and Albany, and when all
legislative reports were forwarded from
the capital by mail to the different
newspapers On the occasion referred
to Raymond determined, if possible, to
''beat" all his metropolitan contem-
poraries in the early publication of the
forthcoming speech. With this end in
view, he quietly chartered a swift little
steam-tug, which was to 60 to Albany
on the day the speech was delivered.
A worthy foreman of the composing
room was taken into the editors con-
fdence, and one day the tug steamed
up the river for the capital, this fore
man, with small complement of COM
positors and complete little printing
office on board was the only thing she
carried. Raymond had preceded the
little craft to Albany. and during the
day was busily employed in taking full
notes of the senator's speech. When
the tug-boat reached the capital these
notes were all nicely reduced to reada-
BILE copy" which Raymond himself
carried to the craft, which immediate
" set out on the return trip. As soon
as her nose was pointed to New York
the copy was given out to the compost
tors, and the work of setting up" the
great speech was begun. Raymond
read and revised all the proof, the mat
ter was left on the galleys and laid
carefully away as it was completed,
and when the tug touched the pier an
hour or two before daylight the speech,
all in type and ready for the forms,
was hurriedly transferred to the Times
office, where. after it was properly ad
justed, it was soon being impressed on
the pure white sheets, to be perseud
with delight by multitudes few hours
later, as well as to startle and aLash
the editors of rival sheets, who were
forced to print the speech twenty-four
hours afterWard.
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Inventor Edison's Wealth,

How hluch is Edison worth? | do
not know. But he is what most peo-
pie would call rich man, even in these
modern days. He has a regular annual
income from the Western Union Tele-
graph Company of $50, 900 in royalties
on old patents. He is the principal
stakeholder in five manufacturing com
panies that bear his name, with an ag-
gregate of $500, 900 capital, and all of
them paying large dividends every six
months. He has put $4,000 in cash
into the Downtown Electrical Hlumi-
mating Company, which has earned a
dividend, Notwithstanding the large
expenditures such experiments requir-
ed. Since the death of Mrs. Edison he
has moved with the three children into
q flat on Eighteenth street, near Broad
way, where the inquisitive could proba-
bly, ascertain that he pays his rent
with scrupulous regularity. In fact,
Edison has very practical side, and
probably receives an income of from
SO, 600 to Sl00,000.-A. Y. World.
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Old Jasper's Luck.

Henry Christian, Cuba's partner in
the barber business, tells story on a
venerable relative of his who lived down
in Mississippi Jasper was his name
and a few years ago he drew a $4,000
cash prize in the Louisiana lottery.
That sum was measureless wealth.
The word millions conveyed to the
guileless mind of old Jasper no idea
of greater wealth than did the sight of
his 50, 900. He was wood-sawyer by
occupation, and his first act after get
ting possession of his money was to
throw away his sawbuck and saw. He
next placed 5000 in the hands of a
trusty white man of business and with
the remaining $4,000 he resolved to
buy the universe-the earth alone be-
ing quite too insignificant to engage
his attention more than passing mo-
ment.
well, sah," said Chris, ode way
dat ole man did lope and fro hisself
beat all. De fus' thing he did was to
buy his ole woman silk dress an a
red wooden shawl. Then he went fish
in'-wouldn't carry no wums in his
mouf no mo- but got box to tote 'em
er did shu'. Didn't have no luck fish
in, no how, so he hired a double team
from livery man and went out ridin.
Co'se he took his ole woman long, and
when he got back he jest give de hull
rig away to Teller he seen comm
long de street and paid de livery man
out-an'-out full value, an didn't never
see it no mo-.
Mex day he bought a dave and
then bought a collar for it an de col
lar was SO heavy an big it choked de
dawg to death.
ION count of dat onlucky play he
took his ole SOW an tied her to a DOS
an walluped her till he couldn't res.
Every time he'd fetch down de raw
hide he'd say, III show who's yo'
boss-who's yo' masr. I'll let yo'
know own yo', does. Didn' | pay
TO yo'?'
But the po' ole man got lef' soon
after that. Yo' see he bought yacht
and went out sailin' on Mobile BAY.
His ole woman tried to get him to let
up on sailin'-tole him squall was
comm up an he'd 90 down.
"'Never yo' mind, honey SAYS Jas
per, 4 pay for de squat. an Use gwine
to hab it. an no niggah amt gwine to
stop me-
He went, an shu 'nough the squall
fetched him. Over went his boat in
plain sight of de po' old woman, an
down to de bottom went Uncle Jas
per.
But when his drownded body was
toted ashore nobody down Mobile way
never did see no sech big funeral as
dat ole woman got up 70 her ole man"
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ReyOnd the Veil.

The sun. as it fingered on the edge of
the fredericksburg so slowly that one
might say it regretted to leave the
world in darkness-lighted up his face
until the grandchild asleep on his knee
would hardly have recognized him had
she opened her eyes.
Old and feeble and gray-ready to
bid farewell to earth-he was a child
again, and his mind had the thoughts
of child. The sun had gone down
and the dusk had come on for him tens
of thousands of times without question,
but this time he felt afraid and whis-
pered:
"Oh! sun, do not leave me just yet.
Wait until | am a man. and l shall
care not whether it is day or night"
And the sun whispered back to him:
Il have seen you pass from child
hood to manhood and back. You can
not travel the path again.
''But wait little longer. When /
have grown to be a youth the coming
of night will have no terrors for me-"
ALAS! old man." answered the de-
clining sun, "a grand old tree cannot
become a shrub again. 1t may be
VI piOOtCo ny lHC
cane. but it must die as tree"
Then remain with mer' pleaded
the old man. my limbs are feeble,
and your light will safely guide my
footsteps"
That l cannot do, but 1 will send
the moon to cast her rays upon the
earth and soften the darkness of
night"
And when the moon came the old
mans locks were changed from the
gold of sunset to the silver
evening, and the burrows of age were
melted and softened until they could
no longer be seen. And he whispered
to the moon.
"Do not leave me tonight, for | am
old and afraid of the darkness of night.
Il cannot stay beyond my fixed
time, answered the moon, "but when
l 60 will send the stars to keep you
company"
Il had a -children-friends.
Bring them back to me from the mys-
FERROUS unknown"
"Alas! but the dead are deadr' And
the moon went away and the stars
came, and the old man pleaded:
Il am old and lonely. Bear me COM
pany during my brief stay on earth"
And one bright star answered for all
the rest:
"A hand greater than mans controls
our movements. Look beyond us"
And the stars drew aside the mystic
veil, and the old mans eyes looked be-
hind it. They lighted up with the fires
of youth-of hope-of anticipation-of
deep satisfaction. His aged face grew
young-his limbs regained their
gth-his blood coursed as in the
veins OF a man in his prime. The stars
held the veil aside but moment, and
yet he had seen enough.
We child slept on, but the arms
around it gave up their strength.
The night-winds toyed with the old
mans gray locks, but he gave no heed.
A hand was laid on his shoulder and a
voice whispered in his ear, but he gave
no sign. The grand old tree had given
up its life on earth to begin anew be-
hind the veil.-Detr0H Free Press.
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Lets see," unused B. F. Butler,
turning to his private secretary, what
business was | engaged in last fall?"
Last fall?' said the secre tary, re-
ilectively. 80! why, you were rum
ming for president.
president? President of what?
"Why, president OF the United
States"
80, pshaw! get out. You're dream
ing
hen the private secretary procured
an old copy of the New York san and
called Buffers attention to several ed
itorials.
"Well, blame my hide" exclaimed
the General; you are correct, but the
incident had entirely slipped my men,
DRY. ! was laboring under an impress
sion that | was on yachting eXcur-
sion to the Sandwich Islands last fall"
-NOrriSLOIO2 Herald
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In the United States some $50, 900
miles of railroad track are now laid,
and this rests on 1916, 600. 600 ties, the
product of $3.50, coo acres. an AREA
larger than the State of Connecticut
and Rhode Island. Thirty years are
required to grow trees of suitable size,
and the average life OF a tic is seven
years; therefore 16,971,4 20 acres of
growing forest are needed to supply
the annual demand of the roads that
now exist. This forest area is larger
than New Hampshire, Vermont and
Massachusetts. And, inasmuch rs the
miles of railroad are growing every
year, this calculation shows III an i'm
pressive way the demands which our
forests will be called upon to meet for
this one item alone.
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A Boys Confession to Leo XIII.

A friend of mine lately had a private
audience of the holy father. writes a
Rome correspondent of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle. He took his son with
him-a most intelligent, original little
fellow of years of age. Leo NH. is
very fond OF children. He is a nerv-
Gus, cold, reserved man to grown-up
persons, but delightfully."- accessible and
kind to little folk. Claude, my friends
son, was soon mounted upon the holy
fathers knee, perfectly at ease, with
all that divine Inconsistencies OF chill
dren; moreover, he is accustomed to
clericals. His best play-fellows out of
the nursery are a certain learned dis
tinguished Thomist Dominican and a
scholarly Benedictine father. So
Claude played with the pope's cross,
and listened, half-comprehendingly, to
the conversation on the difficulties and
responsibilities of parents, and the pre-
disposition to good or evil of children.
The pope looked tenderly down on
dear little Claude and said, II hope
you are always a good boy" Claude
temples, but answered, bold rs a little
llou, oH no. plI hdIle yesterday.
''What!' cried the pope. Bit
whom?"
Marie, my sister," said Claude.
''She called me a little pig and bit
her hard on the arm"
That was too much for the pope's
self-control; he burst into a hearty peal
of laughter, then said; at was not
nice in your sister to call you names,
to be sure; but you ought not to have
bitten her, you know"
''Of course notr' exclaimed Claude,
with delightful agreement, ''for you
see | am neither pig nor a dog"
Again his holiness went off into an
other good laugh. The boys naive
courage and frankness were delicious,
and the pope had the true heart to en-
iOy it.
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Only Fractions Of Lives

How many persons live only a fraction of
average human life because they neglect to
take the commonest precautions against sick
ness. 1t is disease in its maturity that kills
and maturity implies growth A slight indis-
position is usually sighted. They who avail
themselves of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
know it to be effcacious in chronic cases of
disease, but the process of cure is a far easier
one if it is used in early stages of dyspepsia,
malarlal disease, rheumatism, constipation
and liver arrangement. Let those who would
avoid the peril which even the most potent
remedies cannot avert, steer clear of the rock
upon which so many constitutions split-an
1t will not do to omit care and recourse to
medicine when health is affected. If debili-
tated, or nervous, or dispeptic take it for
granted you are in want of a remedy, use the
BtterS.
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OUT DOOR SPORTS.

With the opening of the season Of out
door sports comes the time of trouble for
the poor victims of Hay Fever and Rose
Cold. For them flowers have no odor,
and the summer little or no beauty. To
snuff, sneeze and wipe their weeping
eyes for three or four successive months,
this is their pitiable portion. There
is no help in sea-voyages. there is no help
in high mountain air But there is a
positive cure in Ely's Cream Balm. Try
it. If you continue TO suffer it is because
you neglect remedy as sure as it is
cheap and pleasant. 80
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-07-30

GILBERT Bronson, aged Is years, died
at Neenah on the 18th from blood poison
ing. A pimple on his lower lip swelled
and spread ali over his face and throat
Death resulted from strangulation. 1t
is supposed chat the pimple on the young
mans lip was poisoned by something in
the water of the river, in which he bathed
just previous to the malignant develop
ment of the sore.
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VERY REMARKABLE DISCOVERY

Mr.. Geo. Y. Willing, of Manchester,
Mich, writes: "My wife has beel almost
helpless for five years, so helpless that
she could not turn over in bed alone. She
used two bottles of Electric Bitters. aud
is so much improved that she is able now
to do her own work" Electric Bitters
will do all that is claimed for them
Hundreds of testimonials attest their
great curative powers. Only fifty cents
bottle at Hinrichs' drug store. 2
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-07-30

Phallas, the stallion owned by Case of
Racine defeated Majolica in three straight
heats at Fleetwood Park, New York, on
Friday last.
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BsS-BuEs. Flies

Quick, complete cure. all Kidney, Bladder and
Urinary Diseases, Scalding, Irritation, Stone
Gravel, Catarrh of the Bladder. 81, Druggists
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The tramps are complaining that
the business is lamentably overdone.
There are hundred men now where
there was one fifteen years ago.
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BAvABIA's king has been squandering
more money of late in various ways, and
his long suffering subjects now want him
deposed.
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Cures Piles or HemorrhoidS. Itching, Pro-
truding, Bleeding, Internal or other Internal
and External Remedy in each package. Sure
cure, soc. Druggists.
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"EoueL On Cams

Palpitation Dropsical Sweliia-s, Dizziness,
Indigestion. Headache, SleepleSsness cured BY
wells Health Remover"
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Rough On Pain

wells Health Remover restores health and
vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Headache, Nervous
ness, Debility. 81.
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Cures cholera, collie, cramps, diarrhoc9 aches,
pains. sprains. headache. neuralgia. rheumatism.
2oe. Rough on Pain PlaSters. l5c.
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Flies, reaches. ants, bed-bugs.ra mice, goph-
ers, chipmunks, cleared out by Rough on
Rats" l5c-
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Lite PreSer-er

Ifyou are railing. broken. worn out and ner-
Vous, use wells Health Remover" 81. Drug
giSTS.
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SICK HORSES

are cured the quickest by the Horse
Medicines prepared by Henry Hinrichs.
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though on Itch" cures humors, eruptions
ring-worm, letter, salt rheum, frosted feet
chiliblainS.
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The Hone Of the Nation

Collects offensive OdOrS at once, Complete
cure of W Orst chronic cases, also unequaed as
gargle for Diptheria, Sore Throat, Foul Breath.
soc
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'-Buchu-Paiba."

Ask for Wells though on Corns." lie. Quick
complete cure, Hard or soft cornS,wa bun
ions.
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Singing, irritation, inflammation, all Kidney
and Urinary complaints, cured by "Buchu-
Paiba." 81.
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PARIS GREEN, nowhere better and
cheaper than at Hinrichs' drug store.
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ssRousl- or Rilss-

Ii you are losing your grip on life, try Wells
Health Remover" Goes direct TO the wea X spot
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Children, slow IN development, puny, scrawny
and delicate, use Wells Health Remover"
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Pretty Women.


IIstCy W C1I1eL.
Ladies who would retain freshness and vi
Tacity, don't fail to try Wells Health Renew er
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Water Bugs, Reaches
Rough on Rats" clears them out, also
Beetles, Ants.
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Eeak Pain s.

Rough en- Rats
Clears out rats, mice. reaches, flies. ants, bed
bugs.