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One Way of Making n Living.

There seems to be no limit to the variety
of ways in which dollar can be earned by
a sharp witted man. know one who
makes a comfortable living by attending
auction sales of furniture. He is not in
collision with the auctioneer; in fact he
will only attend such sales as are genuine
and peremptory, where every article is sold
for the highest figure bid, no matter how
low that may be. My friend simply trades
on the weakness of human nature, espe-
cially of the feminine variety. Many
women attend these sales, and are really
DESTROYS of securing certain articles, but
shrink from the publicity of trying to out
bid some other would-be purchaser.
They prefer to give two or three dollars
advance on the price paid by the successful
bidder. This man secures all he can Of the
best bargains offered, and then disposes OF
them at small advance upon his outlay
to one or other of the disappointed bidders.
1t is not unusual for him to clear from ten
to twenty dollars day. There is no loss,
for even if the articles are left on his hands
he gets his money back by sending them to
a general auction room.-New York Tele-
gram.
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The growth Of the olive is to be, it seems
to me, one OF the leading and most per-
manent industries of southern California.
1t will give us. what it is nearly impossible
to buy now, pure olive Oh, in place of tho
cottonseed and lard mixture in general
use. 1t is most wholesome and palatabls
article Of food. Those whose chief expert
ence Of the olive is the large, coarse and
not agreeable Spanish variety, used only
as an appetizer, know little of the value Of
the best varieties as food. nutritious as
meat, and always delicious. Good bread
and dish Of picked olives make an ezcel-
lent meal. The sort known as the Mission
olive, planted by the Franciscans a century
ago, is generally grown now, and the best
fruit is from the older trees.
The most successful attempts in Guilt
waiting the olive and putting it on the mar
ket have been made by Mr. f. A. Kimball
and Mr.. Ellwood Cooper. The expert
ments have gone far enough to show that
the industry is very remunerative. The
best olive oil have ever tasted anywhere
is that produced from the Cooper and
Kimball orchards; but not enough is pro-
duced to supply the local demand Mr..
Cooper has written a careful treatise on
olive culture, which viii be of great sery-
ice to all growers. The art of picking Is
not yet mastered, and perhaps some other
variety will be preferred to the Old Mis-
sion for the table.
A mature olive grove in good bearing is
fortune I feel sure that within twenty
five years this will be one of the most prof.
table industries in California, and that the
demand for pure oil and edible fruit liz the
United States will drive out the adulter-
ated and inferior present commercial
products. But California can easily ruin
its reputation by adopting the European
systems of adulteration. Dudley
Warner in Harper's.
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Great Antiouitv of African Pygmies.

Great Antiquity of African Pygmies.
There has been no change or progress Of
any kind among the pygmies of the forest
since the time of Herodotus. AS the bird
has buildt its nest, the bee its cell and the
ant its new colony, the pygmies have sur
vived the lapse of twenty-three centuries,
and have continued to build their beehive
huts after the same skilless fashion as they
built them in the days when Herodotus re-
cited the story of his travels before the
council of Athens, AS years before the
birth of Christ. The reason for this is OBJ
vious from my point of view, which is that
the same causes which operated before the
time of Herodotus to drive them out of
their original lands continue to operate to-
day to keep them in the low. degraded
state they are now in.
Africa, more than any other continent,
has been subject to waves of migrating
peoples, who have been continually dispos-
sessing their predecessors. Many centuries
before the Asiatics came to lower Egypt
the ancestors of the pygmies must have oc-
cupied the delta of the Nile, possibly while
the cave men inhabited Britain and west
ern Europe.-Henry NJ. Stanley in Serb
uer's
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Fire and Flood.

At the Little Guinea Debating club not
long since the following question was up
for discussion: sob de two great c'lami-
ties, fire an flood, which am de mos clam
itoUs?"
The club debated the question at great
length, and it was finally referred to Uncle
'Rastus for settlement
II tell yo' what am de fac'," said Uncle
iRastus frankly. "Yo' speakers done dis
combobberated me so dat cayn' tell which
am de bes' at argufyin', but 1 can tell
which am de mos c'lamitous c'lamity, an
de reason amt been teched on by de Gray
tors OBJ de ebenin'.
''De fac am dis: De flood am de mos
c'lamitous, ease ye can put de fire out by
pumpin' de flood onter it, but We cayn't
put de flood out by pumpin' de fire onto it
MISUNDERSTANDING.
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nrr. parnen aa a plaxurIrht.

Mr.. Parnell is known to good many
Australians in character in which he has
never figured on the northern side Of the
equator-that Of dramatic author. For
more than five years aplay, entitled "Sham-
rock Green. BY Charles Stewart Parnell,
Esq, NJ p" has enjoyed prodigious favor
among provincial audiences in the colo
MES. The lucky exclusive proprietor Of
this piece boasts Of having already Melted
$4,000 by it.
Its proprietor--an Irishman, by the way
has never yet venturned to produce 1t in
Melbourne or Sydney, doubtless from a
shrewd suspicion that the dramatic critics
of these capitals would want to know
something more about its history and an
tecedents than the bald announcement on
the play bills that "Mr. Parnell wrote this
play when young man at college."-Pall
Mall Gazette.
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Quickly Popular.


In the book entitled Famous English
Authors of the Nineteenth Century,
Mrs. Sarah K. Bolton gives some facts in
regard to the instant popularity of the
poem "Marmion," by Sir Walter Scott.
In less than a month after ''Marmion'i
was published the first edition of 2,00(
copies was sold. 1t went rapidly through
many editions. The people read and re-
read it. The following story told by Hut.
ton is not at all improbable:
Two strangers met on dark night in
London. Both were repeating the last
lines of the account of Flodden Field.
One man exclaimed Charge, Chester
charge" when suddenly reply came
out of the darkness son, Stanley, onp'
whereupon they finished the death Of
Marmion between them, took off their hats
to each other, and parted, laughing.
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Among the latest attempted solutions of
the cheap fuel problem is the method of a
German inventor, who proposes to manu-
faeture gas by dropping stream of crude
petroleum through blast of cold air from
a force pump. The gas thus obtained will
be confined in a regular cylinder open at
one end, where it will be lighted. This
produces an intensely hot flame of several
feet in length. By means of this flame the
inventor proposes to heat boilers, and he
maintains that the heating of large blocks
can thus be reduced very considerably
New York Commercial Advertiser.
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A photometric balance has been invent
ed by NJ. Lion, who uses for this purpose
the dangerous explosive substance iodide
of nitrogen. If this is obtained, he says,
by allowing ammonia at % dogs. to act upon
iodine, it may be managed without danger
if kept in the liquid. 1t yields supply
of nitrogen which is proportional to the
intensity of light which falls upon it. The
evolution of the gas begins and ceases in
stantly with the luminous impression
PHILADELPHIA Record
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Cold Weather in History,

The year 1912 is famous in history as that
of the terrible retreat of the grand army
from Moscow, in which Napoleon's forces
were weakened by the loss of 100000 men.
This year saw some exceptionally severe
snow storms in the southwest of England.
Bray, a local magnate of Tavistock, return
ing from Exeter by way of Dartmoor,
found the snow so thick at Moreton Hamp-
stead that it was impossible to proceed
farther on his homeward journey. At
Moreton Hampstead he was obliged to re-
main for no less than three weeks until
the snow had cleared off sufficiently for
him to resume his travels.-London Tit
Pits
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Religion is necessary and irdis-
pensable element in any great human
character. There is nothing living
without it. Religion is the tie that
connect man with his Creator and
him to His throne. If that tie be all
sundered, all broken, he floats away
a worthless atom in the universe, it's
proper attractions all gone, its DIES
tiny thwarted, and its whole future
nothing but darkness, desolation and
death.
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Venus and Mercury.

The planet nearest the sun is Mercury
which is on the average about IS, 400, OOt
miles away from that orb. Venus is nearer
to the earth than any other planet. When
both these bodies are on the same side OF
the sun, and when Venus is nearly on the
same line with the sun when viewed from
the earth, it is only 26,O00,0OO or $4,000, OOC
miles away from us. The fixed star near
est to the earth, so far as known, is the
Centauri, which is about 10000, 0O0, OOO, OOC
miles off.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
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HEALTH IS WEALTH

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Headache, Nervous Prostration caused by
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Mental Depression, SofteDing of Brain, re-
sUlting IN insanity and leading to misery,
decay and death, Premature Old Age Bar
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Bread Consnnnntinn.

The weekly consumption of bread per in.
habitant in the United States is only five
and one-half pounds, or about three pounds
less than the general average for all coun.
tries of Europe. At the rate of only five
and one-half pounds of bread weekly per
inhabitant in the United States the an.
nual consumption represents the enormous
amount of 17,160,0OO,0OO pounds.-Ameri-
can Market and Critical BUYER.
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when slarohinr was rIr.I raurht.

Starching was first introduced into Eng
land in 1864 by Mistress bingham van den
Plasse, who came from Flanders. She
taught starching publicly, and charged
four OF five pounds for teaching her pro
fession, and an additional pound for teach
ing how to make the starch.-Cloak and
Suit Review
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rate Of ths caudal Appendars.

Naturally Mr.. Ashton's book begins with
man, and of course with tailed men.
Peter Martyr says that in Inzaganin-wis
Peter Martyr; for who Is there that lived
in Inzaganin that would contradict him2
Where Is Inzaganin, by the wayi Well,
In Inzaganin there are men with tails
which were inconvenient, and there had to
be holes in their chair seats to accommo-
date the caudal appendages. No wonder
they did as Lord Monbaddo says-wore
them of by sitting on rocks.-C Chicago
Tribune
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TO 4 FRIEND.



In the dim and distant future,
With its fieeting ebb and tide,
May no shadow OF earth's darkness
Mark its presence by thy side.
May home ties, once sadly broken,
Link by link be welded fast,
Till the chain by love cemented
Binds the present With the past.
May thy children learn to bless thee;
May they guard thee with love
That the angels pure and holy
Only know and feel above.
Drifting down times changing river,
May its banks be flower lined,
Cloudless skies and birds and blossoms
And bright sunshine intertwined.
May thy bark be doubly frefghted
With a wealth Of joy and love;
All thou lowest sailing with thee,
And thy port be heaven above.
Mrs NJ. A. G. Hemstreet in Brooklyn Eagle
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The following extraordinary advertise
ment appeared recently in West Coast
paper. Its good faith there is no doubt
ing, and therein lies the fun:
81 want to let my furnished House shoot
able for Legations or any other man. And
II it does not shoot the Legation, can shoot
himself elsewhere. Apply to -."--Pana-
ma Star and Herald.
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He Didn't Reflect,

A clerk in Michigan postoffice goes to
prison for two years for stealing letter
containing IS. Had he stopped to reflect
he would hardly have disgraced himself
for life for that beggarly sum, but he
didn't stop. A prison cell is great place
70 strike the balance between debit and
proft.-Detroit Free Press.
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MMAAAAYEARi

N AAA a YEAR, undertake to briefly
VEUEEN teach any fairly intelligent person Of either
AEEEENHsex who can read and WRITE and who,
after instruction, will
80 ~ ~ how to Three Thousand Dollars a
earn their Localities wherever they ive will also
the situation remploymenta which amount
No money for me unless above Easily quickly
learned desire but district or county
have already taught provided employment large
number whe are making over $4,000 each It's NEW
and SOIL ID Full particulars FIR ZEE. Address once
Il. c. ALLEN. Box 42O, Augusta, Maine.
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couldn,t no Worse.

81 have here" remarked the long haired
man as he laid bundle Of manuscript
upon the editors desk, "two poems. Which
Is the betterf"
With a weary sigh the editor glanced
over the first he came to, then laid 1t down.
"The others the BETTER" said he, resum-
ing his interrupted labors.-Kate Fields
Washington.
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Guarantee Six Boxes

To cure any case. With each order received
by US for six boxes, accompanied by SIS 90,
we win send the purchaser written guaran-
tee to refund the money if the treatment does
not effect cure Guarantees issued only by
McLAIN Brothers, Druggists, sole agents,
McLain Block, corner Market and Twelfth
streets, Wheeling, W. Va. aug q 80, ly
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"You are limping So" she said, glancing
downward at his new and narrow "patent
feathers" with plying eyes, ''Tm afraid
there is something in your shoes?"
$50 Aere is" returned he, in agonized
tones. sits feet. Kate Fields Washing.
ton.
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Epoch.
I.xIaIIett az I

The transition from long, linger-
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health marks an epoch in the life of
the individual. Such a remarkable
event is treasured in the memory
and the agency whereby the good
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G. Williams, Jr. & Cos Drug Store.
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John Randolph, of Roanoke, lies buried
In the famous Hollywood cemetery at
Richmond. In the same Enclosure are the
graves Of James Monroe and John Tyler,
and Of A. P. Hill and Prittchett, the noted
Confederate leaders,
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$500 REWARD.
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Price rs cents per box at r O. Williams, Jr.
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~ REWARDED are those who read this and
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Is wing to work Either young old; capital not
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Address stinson Co.. Portland. Maine. Dec. 24-lyS
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0MEssss 'i 80 ssss..s w y g.: -.
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CONSERVATIVES.

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Snug little fortunes have been made at
" %9SsA work for us, by Anna Page, Austin,
Ey TflS9 Texas aud Juo. Bonn, Toledo Ohio.
See cut Others are doing aswell. Why
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90, 2z@zt1at home, wherever you Even be-
y01ENN2|3y ginners easily earning from % to
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NJ 49, and start you. Can work in spare time
Y E#2 or all the time. Big money for work
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az Co., box y SO Portland, Maine
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Mn LEN. Why, AdGle you needn't CRY about
I'LL only said Mrs. Allen was a very we'll
Informed woman, aud wished you would follow
her example,
wished could mana c to lsok as stylish as Mrs
Allen,-and she makes ali her own clothes But
Mn. LEE. .W WA I / hints. ss
MRS. LEE. X ell. rile gets all of her informa.
efon from the Marsz lii Il rs take l admit thak
She knows al. th.t j. gning on. and is bright and
entertaining in conversation but could do a.
well as she does II had the game source 81
Information, She lent me the last number Of her
Magazine lar iy. AID esiissed more in one hours
reading, about variA IS social matters and the
topics Of the day. t,aa would pick upin amonth
by my occas.onl s.l.i-s with friends 1t certainly
the day down to the datails OF housekeeping:
and everything is so beautifully illustrated. too.
Every tiEie Me.se GOES over to the Aliens she
comes back And leases me to get you to take
Demorest'- Fesiiiy Nh azine, as the stories ara
so COOL. - to hays watch for it every month.
place Is fo.sn,i i7 EN- also in its pages: and
Mr.. Allen .ters by I. 1t is really wonderful
how it suits tsefy iiI,'i.lssr Of the family /"
MK LIZ IN ,icf.ia.,s had better send for q
Specimen Coy, fssr. il Il s anything like what yoll
say j. al Instruct the whole Of ts 70
Mas .s g" i'it y Jennings Demorest.
the pHb;i-aar = - Ia Street. New York q
oaer..s ad copy for 10 cents, 20
We cen I To-, ~ iiisa4 eati number contains
iattcra uf isg the holder to- any
Pattern lie nay clue ,sid in any size-Which
alone makes e..eii r., worth 81 ceuts and inst
want JACKET pa ssn ike Mrs. Allen's The
sul,srription pri c is only 20 60 year: and
unist say can't zee how thcy can publish =
''s@nt Ma aIin. for - fftie taouey.' -.
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,e4Ir $4,000 90 year Is being made by John r.
y Goodwin, Troy MY ,at work Header,
4 fAAl1-D NM you may not make much, but
E@ teach you quickly how earn from IS TO
- .RFf3 $40 day at the start, and you go
4 Il ~ M&SE Both sexes, all ages In any part Of
NmAmefea, yau eau commence e home Civ
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ROOFING.

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only $500 per loo square feet. Makes q
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on. Send stamp for sample and full particu'
lars.
GUM-ELASTlC ROOFING CO.,
80 and Al West Broadway, New York.
Local Agents Wanted.
rem H.