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PITH AND POINT.

"A play is over, or done, when it Is
finished. 1t Is frequently over-done be-
fore it Is finished.
"A woman may not be able to find hea
p0oket. but she never has it filled with
letters she has forgotten to mail.-El-
mira Gazette.
Worldly pleasures seem to be about
equally divided after all. Dogs have
their days and cats their nights
brakes Magazine.
in Church. should think
that Dudley would be careful not to
drop his voice in singing" She-"Why
SOP" He-"Because it is so cracked now
that 1t would not take much to break
it"-Lowell Citizen.
Preventing Its Spread. johnny
Amt yer going ter school, Jim?"
Jimmie-"Naw, we got the scullet fever
at our house, and de doctor SEE can't
go ter school I'm going to der dime
museum dis aft So long. boston
Herald.
-''Mv wife is getting to be too ex-
travagant," growled Dodgers. Here
she has gone and spent e3 for new
bonnet, when she knew 1 had ac-
cepted an invitation to go driving with
Pudgers and it would cost me at least
80. Newcastle Chronicle.
Woman in Business. -Brown-s'You
were nice time getting that book ~
Mrs. Brown-.I had to ride across
| town" Brown = How was that?'
Mrs. Brown-'I heard of place where
I could get it two cents cheaper
Harper's Bazaar.
He Knew.-"A man paid So for =
barrel of apples. He sold half of them
for So 80, and the rest decayed on his
hands How much did he lose?" asked
the teacher. He didn't lose nothin', :"
brawled out farmers boy in the class
HE worked EN- up into cider. Chi
cago Tribune.
When loon sees any thing bright
"a red scarf, or looking glass, or a
lantern at night-he swims toward it
and wants it. He could not do any
thing with it If he had it, only to spoil
it-but he wants it all the same. The
family exists in great variety, aquatic
and terrestrial, literary and political,
secular and religious. Chicago Interior.
"A Benedict's Opinion. Ashley
Prof Potterby ls little the most
absent-minded man ever heard of. He
actually met his own wife down town
the other day, and didn't know her at
all" Wickwire-'T don't know wheth-
or that was Observation-Disclosures or not.
A woman looks heap different down
town from what she does at home."-
indianapolis Journal
Thirteen wears apo a Boston man
lost trunk on railroad entering Chi
cago. The officials asked for week to
hunt it up, and then they wanted a
month and a year. The loser didn't
want to seem captious about it, and he
kept still and let the good work go on,
and the other day he received a pair of
socks, collar and the lid of his long
lost trunk, together with note stating
that there were no charges for storage.
Detroit Free Press.
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KANSAS CITY STAR
DAILY AND WEEKLY.
LEADIRG PAPER OF THE WEST
DAILY CIRCULATION 10000.

The Star is the acknowledged leading new s.
paper published in the west.
1t contains in a concise form all the news of
the world up to O'Clock p. m of the day pub
iished. giving It's patrons the freshest news
from twelve 10 twenty hours in advance OF
morning contemporaries.
1t publishes the produce markets and com
world, and the full and complete live stock
and grain market, including the closing re-
ports from New York. Chicago, St Louis ana
Kansas City.
The Star controls and publishes exclusively
the fall associated press reports anu a large
amount of special kilograms.
The star is not controlled by any set of poll
ticiaHs and is devoted to collecting and publish
ing all the news of the day in the most inter-
csting shape and with the greatest possible
promptness
1t VIII enjoy your confidence If you appre-
ciate an honest, fearless and bold newspaper
The Star has the largest averge circulation
of any newspaper published between Chicago
and San Francisco.
Never before in the history of journalism
has so much first class newspaper matter been
given torso little money we are giving in
the columns OF the weekly edition OF the star.
Terms for the Star, by mail, postage paid:
Daily, one mouth. 50 cents; three months 81;
one year, 81; weekly, one year. p cents. Write
for sample copy. Address, The STAR,
Kansas City, Mo-
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THE cowARDLY COYOTE.
An Instance Proving That They Some
: times Fight.

An Instance Proving That They Some
: times Fight.
/ A fighting coyote is something Of q
curiosity, but Cheyenne man met one
20 his sorrow. He was riding across
the prairie when his horse went lame,
10 be dismounted, scraped out the hoof
and bound IL up in a handkerchief to
keep out the alkali dust He had halted
on the edge of . thick clump of trees.
and, lettering his horse, pushed his
way through the underground in search
of water. Suddenly he heard . growl
and snap, and, looking down. saw q
coyote with litter Of cubs. Thinking
that II he shouted at the beast she
would SlEulk away, as is the habit Of
coyotes. he shouted ct the top
OF his lungA but the coyote
anarled, showed her teeth and
never budged. Then the man drew
his revolver and fred, but Just as his
Anger touched the trigger she new at
his threat The revolver was knocked
out Of his hand and the coyote fastened
her ugly claws into his clothing and
buried her teeth In his shoulder. In
fact her attack was any thing but COW
Ardly, and for Q time the man was toe
astOnished to fight, but he recovered hil
senses wAen the furious animal began
bltinG and scratching like fury. The
kOVolV0r was ten feet away In the brush
and IL took . most desperate struggle
before he could reach It. The coyote
aowued him moro than onOe, but finally
he got the revolver, placed the muzzlC
against her ear and hRed, Then hC
tainted from pain and loss of blood
and It was . month before he fully ro
severed from the encounter. Now b.
advises his friends to be not too bold
when they meet the 'cowardly" coyOte.
Golden Days.
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AMERICAN FORESTS.

The Rapid Rate at Which the United
States is Being Stripped of Trees.
At recent meeting in Berlin of the
Geographical Society, Chief Forest
Master Kessler called attention to the
extravagant waste of timber in the
United States. Among other interest
ing details Mr.. Kessler spoke of the
tremendous destruction of forests in the
United States during recent decades of
years. Quoting from the tenth census.
he stated that in 1880 the %, 70S saw
mills then in operation converted $780,
900, 900 worth of raw timber stock into
various kinds OF lumber, and he as
serted that at the same rate there would
be no gOod-sized timber left ! in forty
years He spoke of the enormous waste
Of wood through forest fires, which
are the result, for the most
part of carelessness or a desire
to clear land for cultivation,
and declared that the planting of new
forests, which has of late years received
some attention in the Eastern States
can not begin to offset the waste of for
ests He said that there is every reason
to fear that America will soon be coun-
try impoverished for tree property. Mr.
Kessler made the striking comparison
that, while the United States had but
IL per cent of it's area covered by for
ests, the empire Of Germany has % per
cent. of its entire area so covered. Mr..
Kessler said that the reckless destruv-
ton of forest trees in America and the
Indifference manifested by Americans
In the restoration of forests is menace,
not alone TO the wealth of the Nation,
but threatens serious deterioration both
to climatic conditions and the fertility
Of the soil-Soientif1o American.
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BUzFuz AT HIS BEST.
How . Philadelphia Lawyer Paraly1Od an
InOffensIVe Jury.

How . Philadelphia Lawyer Paraly z0d an
InOffensIve Jury.
A lawyer named Flowers, who has
just come to Philadelphia from the
rou'try, Is paralyzing every body by his
100000 style of eloquence, which even
Dan Dougherty couldn't initiate. Here,
for instance, is how he defended a
woman who was up for common scold:
Gentlemen Of the jury, you have
probably heard the words:
At midnight in his guarded tent,
The Turk was dreaming of the hour
When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent,
Should tremble at his power
Loud Cheers
Yes, gentlemen Of the jury, we are
to strike for our affairs and our fires
strike It'll the last armed foe expires. -
lCries of Demos Themes" Cicero"
"Clay."] Then, like Nero of old, we
shall have to weep for shame that
there are no Observation-Disclosures to con.
quer. 1 ask you in the name OF com.
mon sense and decency, gentleman Of
the jury, to acquit my client She is
no common scold. She does moi
make might hideous' with bowls and
bedlam noises. birds of a feather
flock together" but she is not the kind
of bird to flock with this feather
CHEERS Gentlemen of the jury, this
woman's liberty is at stake, 1 ask YOU
to Acquit her.
Yonder floats the ensign which has
for years floated DER land and sea llou6
oheering] as the emblem of the land OF
the free and the brave. Long, long
may she continue so to wave! Cheers.
May her protecting folds encircle no
only we assembled here, but this, my
client, cen as the hen gathers hel
chicks under her wings in time of storm
wild outburst Of applause. l-Philadel
phis Record.
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pounds for the neglect by shouting in
cessantly the name of the god and texts
in honor of his power. If the poet
Ovid's Indian parrot finds its way, as
he hoped, TO the paradise of birds.
1t must surely meet the mynahs there
also.
Another bird, which talks better than
most, and whistles better than any. is
the Piping Crow. 1t is lively black
and-white bird, as large as rock, but
far more elegant in form. Several
specimens inhabit the Geological Gar
dens, but the best is in the western avi-
airy, where he whistles 'Merrily
Danced the Quaker" in tones like q
fute.-The Spectator.
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SCOT AND ENGLISHMAN.
Education Helps to Keep Alive a Species
of Antagonism.

Education Helps to Keep Alive a Species
of AntagOnism.
II has taken nearly two centuries to
make the truth very clear; and even
now there is among few an attempt
to deny it. and TO declare that the spirit
of Scotch nationality would be purer
and better without being tied to the
clay of the British body. Education it,
self helps to keep the feeling alive.
Just as every boy in the United States
hates England when he reads at school
of the American war OF independence,
and considers Bunker Hill as an I'M
doubted victory, so every urchin in
Scotland reyels in visions of the
heroic feats of Wallace and
Bruce, and of the day when the
dead Douglas won the fight at Chevy
Chase, and thinks how he, too. would
enjoy such days, and how easy it would
be to whip 100, 600 English with 3d.
600 Scots, as did the good King Robert
on that morning under the hill of
Stirling in 1874
And he knows from those far-away
times onward to those of which he may
have heard his great-grandfather speak
LnCIC WOlO UChHO0n OCOOCu dEU1-
les and English armies, in which the
Southron did not come of best without
Scotch help, and he very rightly thinks
that he could fight three Englishmen
at least. That old border line was
made good against the weather. ma
ton for thousand years, and it could
again be held if necessary. So his pride
swells, aud he, at all events, is not
among those against whom Walter
Scott wrote:
Breathes there a man with a soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said:
''This is my own, my native land?'
Is it necessary to hold that border
line? Some people think nowadays that
they will emulate Bruce and Wallace;
and because they can't get all they
want in agrarian disputes and social
equality. and this and that in local
wrangles, the work of the eighteenth
century is to be revised and the great
union is to be debased and annuled for
the elevation of their little selves
Marquis of Lorne, in North American
Review.
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Anancerons C,rrn.

A cargo of lime is a dangerous one.
When fire, as it frequently does, catches
in spite of the greatest precautions
against the admission of any water into
the hold, it is almost impossible to ex-
tinguish it. The only method that ever
avails is to stop up every crack in the
vessel with soap so that no air can
reach the lime Someti times this stops
the fire. They have been known to
burn for several months. When a YES
sells cargo is thus af1re it is instant
death to go inside of her. Some time
ago the lime in a schooner off Mon
hogan caught afire, and she was sealed
up as tightly as possible. The captain
and his two sons were the crew. One
day the latter went to sleep on the
deck, and their father, imprudently
entered the cabin, shutting the door
after him. He sank down lifeless on
the stairs. The boys awoke, missing
their father, and supposing he had
fallen overheard, sailed the schooner
home, unconscious that they were bear
ing his dead body with them.
This excluding the air from vessel
to stop the fire suggests the method
employed to free vessel from rats. A
fire is built in the cabin, and also in the
hold, from some infiammable material.
Then all air is excluded, and as the
fires use up the oxygen, drawing it from
the remote parts of the hold, the rats
leave their holes and follow the precious
life-giving gas to the fires which greed
lily devour it for their own existence
and when they go out the poor rats are
found dead around the stoves. Portland
Argus.
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A man who lives on Brush street sent
. small boy to neighboring saloon after
= quart Of amber liquid. The small boy
GA returning sat the pail on the side
poEah and called to the man to announce
EhO arrival Of the beverage. The latter
was inside the house and did not
Bsspond immediately. A tramp of the
most pronounced type, saw the small
boy deposit the beer on the porch, went
IN and was in the full enjoyment Of tho
loamy whom the owner emerged tron
Che house.
What do you mean BY drinking my
hesr2" shouted he.
The tramp lowered the growleR from
his cavernons mouth, blew the froth
GsDm his nnksmpt mustache, and, with
. surprised look, replied:
"Beeri Excuse me. sir, thought u
MAS water"
The man who had paid for the beer
tainted, and the tramp went joyfully on
hiS way. Detroit Free Press
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another OF the 1oois OF the past mas
been shattered J. Guthrie Watson, an
EnglisnmaD, denies the beauty of Cir
cassfan women. They have long been
additionally the most beautiful women
of the world, but their beauty. he de-
clares. from long acquaintance with
their land, to be only for the native eye.
What are called Circassian beauties are
to be found not far from Batoum, in the
small towns and villages and in the
north of the Caucasus, but they are not
beauties at all, and nine men out of ten
would travel through those districts
without noticing them. They are most
ly poor peasant girls They have lovely
eyes, but without expression. Up to
the age of fourteen they have nice
features but after that age they become
very coarse looking
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DRUNKEN TURKEYS.
! Queer Thanksgiving Custom Formerly
Observed in Central New York.

Queer Thanksgiving Custom Formerly
Observed in Central New York.
The opening ceremony of the festivi-
ties connected with Thanksgiving Day
in a part of Central New York used to
be, and perhaps still is, making drunk
the turkey that was to be the most i'm
portant feature of the holiday feast.
When the bird that was to occupy the
place of honor on the table had been
selected it was taken to one corner of
the farm-yard and cup of brandy was
placed before it The turkey would
drink this eagerly, and would then give
first-class exhibition of being on a
tear" of the funniest kind He would
staggeringly strut up and down, his
wings trailing on the ground. At one
time he would seem to look ex-
tremely wise, and then would APP
pear to be overcome with the
hilarious aspect of his condition.
In the meantime the other fowls would
look on with gravity and wonder at the
curious capers OF their companion as he
toddled around, sometimes gravely
swinging his head from side to side and
sometimes lifting it high in the air.
All the members of the family, and
the relatives and friends who had come
to spend Thanksgiving with it would
gather in the yard and enjoy the sight.
Finally, when the poor fellow was ex-
hausted and overcome with drowsiness.
he wss killed.
The good housewives imagined that
it increased the flavor Of the turkev
| fifty per cent to kill it while If was
drunk. Families that would not allow
a drop of liquor 70 be brought into their
houses ut any other time, except as
medicine, would not think it wrong to
make their Thanksgiving turkey drunk.
Perhaps it was thought that the bird
would feel less worried over it's fate Il
the hesdsman's Ratchet was put to i,
while it was in q state of blissful igno-
rance.--N Y. Tribune.
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Ivory may be bleached by placing
it for an hour in solution OF alum; then
polish it with piece of wooden and
wrap it in linen to dry. Another meth
cd is to take peroxide of hydrogen, and
to one pint of it add one ounce of aqua
ammonia Warm it and soak the ivory
in it for twenty-four hours; then dry and
polish with chalk.
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You ARE II A BAD FIX.

But we viii cure you II YOU will pay us. Our
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BY count and estimate. it is said
that shrimp would every year pro-
duce about 6, 500 eggs, a prawn 8, 500 q
lobster $1,000, a founder 1873, 4O7 a
mackerel 1916 herring SO, 900, a
cod $3.50, 100, ling 1928, e25. The
swarm of enemies to which the eggs OF
Ash are exposed renders necessary the
production of much larger number
than are Matched and come to maturity,
otherwise any species must soon become
axtpnt
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DUMAS. LITTLE JOKE.

The Playwright c. uses Considerable Ex-
element Ia theatrical Circles.
In the theatrical circle~of Paris there
is just now considerable excitement Du-
mas has been credited with tremendous
practical joke. In Paris. as in Lond on,
perhaps even more than in London,
managers are besieged with Ms. plays.
AS rule they are very wary, prefer
ring established regulations, and new
author is rare bird. Dumas has es-
tablished his reputation beyond all pos
sibility of overthrow, and he has more
over amassed immense wealth. Neither
his fame nor his balance need suffer If
he rides his hobby and plays his joke.
This is the joke: He has confided to q
friend-to friend who believes that
speech Is golden-his belief in the in
competence in matters of judment of
managers, and even of critics. The
confession seems at once both I'M
generous and audacious, and he Is
said to have made it and
to abide by it. Nor does he fear his
fate too much to put it to the test He
has written play. He has had it copied
with the timid manuscript OF unsuc-
cessful, nervous authorship. and he has
left it furtively with the concierge of a
well-known Paris theater. There Is no
possible clew except the literary style
of the work. and that, of course, can
not be disguised. If the MS is re ected
and returned it will be sent on to an
other manager, and thus commence the
tedious circuit of the Paris theaters so
we'll known to obscure playwrights. If
! any manager should decide to accept 1t
and should produce it Nj. Dumas de-
clares that as reward for his perspi-
cacity he shall have the play for moth
ing. Twelve hundred pounds sterling
is M. Dumas price for play of this
kind. Moreover, he is said to have de-
clared that the managers may consult
the critics.-London Daily News.
Sounding in the Black sea shows that
beyond depth of six hundred feet the
water is so impregnated with sulphur
cited hydrogen gas, emanating from de-
caying animals and vegetable matter.
that living organisms are not. found
there.
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--Asan illustration of the remarIa-
BILE suspension of vitality known among
some of the microscopic organisms. it
is said that microzmes may lie during
entire geologic periods in snch rock
as chalk, and yet retain the power OF
development
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lit Is stated that since the ACCESSION
Of Gar Alexander (IsS1) e7o. 600 Jews
have been expelled from Russia.
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S p e ClFIC s !.

nAs .Pd, and and ssa o.. s.. y . hoe
.I@E W. - iher young old. and IN their
UWN #NNN localities wherever they live. Any
80 - y - DO the work. Easy learn
We furnish everything We you. No risk Yoa devote
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entirely brings wonderful worker
BeFinnes earning from szs to SO week and upwsrds
and amer ttie We furnish tbe
ployment and teach fREE 70 explain here. F
Information PEBk TRUE q CO., AUGUSTA. nAlAk,
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WhbJINEH teach fairly nteiiires PsFson 81 ether
- AIIHft sen, Who read ana write, aud whos
Alb Hill Naaer instruction, viii work ndusthonsly,
wv ~ ~ how earn fbvse fhsasand Dolisrs
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and SOLID. Faif particulars y y y y. Adrrss
e. &, ALLEN. L30x A2O, AueGstas Maine
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He Liked the Whistle.

Going to Spr ngfleld, the other day,
there was seated in the car one of
Holyoke's legal lights, accompanied by
his wife and six-year-old son and heir,
whose sole ambition in life at present
is to learn to whistle The window was
open, and the boy had been holding on
to his hat with one hand for fear it
would blow away. The conductor COM
ing in slammed the door, and for an in
slant the boy let go his hat. II father
reached round through the window and
whisked it off his head The boy was
disconsolate.
Look straight ahead and whistle for
it and it will come back" said the
father.
Il can't whistle, Tn too mad"
''Well, then, I'll try;" and the digni-
hed lawyer whistled a few bars of AN
ME Rooney, and shortly afterward
placed the hat on the boys head, whose
tears were now turned to smile Then
he stood up in the seat, and snatching
his fathers new eight dollar tile from
his head, deliberately threw it out of
the car window, say ng, Whistle for 1T
again, papa - Northampton journal.