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PROFESSIONAL MouRNERs.
Curious Calabrian Customs Which May Be
Observed In New York.

Curious Calabrian Customs Which May Be
Observed In New York.
In the Italian quarter I found myself
the other day in a home which had been
darkened by double misfortune A lit
tie Italian boy had fallen from fire es-
cape to the street and been instantly
killed His widowed mother, when she
came upon the body of her son, went
mad with grief and attempted to take
her own life. She was taken to the hos
pital.
The boys body lay upon table, and
blazing candelabrum stood at it's head.
At the side the boys foster father and
his wife knelt in prayer. Seated about
the room was group Of women chant
ing an Italian death wall. One of the
women raised her face, and her quaver-
ing voice filed the room:
Happiness has departed from us for
everl''
And the others droned the refrain:
Forever u
"He will never be absent from our
thoughts'
Never from our thoughts II
And so on, strophe and antistrophe,
the chief waller leading and the chorus
echoing the dismal refrain. 1t was a
sight and sound to move even the
tardy sensibilities of reporter.
Such scenes are not uncommon in the
italian quarter, though they seldom
come under the eye of visitors. The pro-
fessional mourner is an institution in
some of the provinces of southern Italy
She-the Office belongs entirely to the
softer sex-is analogous to the Irish
"keener," but with the difference that
her wall is more musical than weird,
whereas the "keener" is weird, pierre
ing-almost anything but musical
The Italian wailers-they are called
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THE RETIRED BURGLAR.
Work Easily Prosecuted In the TumuIt of
Thunderstorm.

Work Easily Prosecuted In the TumuIt of
Thunderstorm.
Speaking of cinches, I" said the re-
tired burglar, the easiest, softest,
smoothest snap ever struck was in a
house in small town in Rhode Island.
There was thunderstorm coming up
as went along toward this house, and
just as got there it began to sprinkle.
By the time I'd got inside it was com
ing down pretty hard, and l was glad
to be under shelter, for hadn brought
any umbrella with me. | hadn't had
any supper either, and wien got into
the dining room I thought I'd get some
thing to eat The sideboard was locked
and the key carried up stairs, but lit
tie jimmy opened the door as easy as a
knife would open pie. | set out lit
tie snack on the table and sat down and
ate it comfortably, with the rain pour
ing down outside. If there's anything /
like, it's to hear storm a-raging outside
when you're settled down all snug and
comfortable within.
"But here was something l hadn't
counted on. The thunder was roaring
and plunging like dozen earthquakes
busting down through the sky, and it
kept the house in tremble all the time.
I knew nobody could sleep i'll that thun-
der. They'd be sure to be all awake,
but here was, and | hated to lose a
night, and after I'd waited little and
the storm didn't show any signs Of let
ting up thought I'd so ahead an see
anyhow. The very first room / looked
into up stairs settled the whole bust
ness.
"Over in one corner of this room, be-
yond bed, saw woman standing in
front of an open closet door. Two chill
dren hoped out of the bed, and the
mother pushed them into tins closet, and
then crowded in herself and pulled the
door shut tight. 1t was all very simple.
Husband away, no help; two children
sleeping i'll another room, woke up by
thunder, come into their mother room,
all scared; mother puts children in
closet and gets in herself, as lots of folks
do in thunderstorms. And then | walk
over and turn the key in the lock, and
there you are. No danger of their COM
ing out till the storm is over anyway,
but just as well to be sure about it, and
then I just quietly go through the house.
1t isn't big, and it doesn t take long, and
! come back before the storm is over and
unlock the closet door again and skip,
and that's all there is to it, New
York Sun.
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It Didn't Prove suitable.

"We can let you have the bridal
chamber, " ventured the genial hotel
clerk as he rubbed his hands and looked
confdentially across the register at the
youngish couple.
"That is very kind Of you, +" replied
the young man as he drew nervous
flourish beneath the abbreviation land
wife" and laid down tho pen. but VIC
contemplate remaining ten days or SO,
and you might need the /"
"You shall not be dist#bed. ] assure
you," continued &elefgs and the
apartment is a lovely one. Z
"Airy?" asked the young man.
"As to that, and CLEAN of intense
pride surmounted the clerks face, 81
will say that the room contains sever
windows, all opening upon tiny veran
das +"
The young couple looked at each 9th
or. Then the young woman spoke.
81 don't think we shall care for thai
room. You see, our three children viii
be here with their nurse in the morning
They can all climb like goats, and Tn
sure they would be falling off those
verandas inside of 10 minutes.
'FRONT.'" murmured the clerk in /
voice that betrayed deep emotion, "shov
this gentleman and this lady up to thu
sky floor and have the maid put til,
nursery in order. Truth.
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Domestic Arch,tecture n Cb,oaro


The inhabitants of Chicago are the
least curious and observing people in
the world. According to their own news
papers, they permitted one H. H. Holmes
to construct In their city o house so ex-
traordinary, so full of hidden doors and
secret passages and acid proof watts that
1t would have attracted thousands Of
curious visitors had it been built any
where else. But the guileless Chicago
ans suspect nothing. Neither the man
who issued the building permit nor the
men who did the building saw anything
unusual about the house. What is the
matter? Is all Chicago slind, or are
acld proof watts and secret passages part
and parcel Of the ordinary Chicago
dwellingf Perhaps there is an interest
ing chapter to be written about domestic
architecture in Chicago. - Milwaukee
Sentinel.
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lDAIRY aQREAMIERY:l
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mo. A."


Portrait of Professor Conn, Who DiscOv-
cred the june Butter Bacillus.
Our readers will be pleased to see the
picture of Professor FL. W. Conn Of Wes-
leyan university, Middletown. Conn,
the man who is sure he has found cul-
ture which, if stirred into cream and
allowed to ripen any time of the year,
will produce in butter flavor like that
given by June grass. The portrait is re-
produced from The Creamery Journal
Professor Conn found the germ in some
butter that came from Argentina.
Undoubtedly in a few years dairy sci
ence will have progressed SO far that by
the culture in cream and milk Of flavor
germs careful factory men will be able
to produce at all times butter and cheese
of any kind desired We are rapidly ap-
preaching that period.
Bacillus No. Al is now in use in over
100 creameries, Professor Conn says In
an article in The Creamery Journal on
the use of pure cultures in cream he tells
us:
''The ripening of cream is process
quite similar to the fermentation of
malt and seemingly is undergoing very
much the same kind of history. Like
the fermentation of malt the ripening of
cream is simply the growth in it Of mi
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presldent polk,. Nashville Home.

The old Polk place on Vine street, the
home of President James K. Polk, and
the scene of many brilliant gatherings i'll
former days, is viewed with interest by
many visitors to Nashville. Many ex-
pressions of regret are heard from those
who view the picturesque Polk place for
the first time that the historic old home
stead should have been allowed to fall
into such state of dilapidation. They
think the old place should be maintain
ed in good repair for the sake of the
memories that surround it. 1t has been
suggested more than once that it would
make an ideal home for the official resi-
dence of Tennessee's governors. The
excuse that can be very properly offered
by Nashvillians for the present condi-
ton of the Polk place is that they have
nothing to do with it, the property being
in litigation. 1t is feared that ultimate
ly, in the division of the property, the
old place will be cut up into lots, and
II that is done the home of Polk will
become only a memory. Nashville
American
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CHINESE SNAKE STONE.
Curious Oriental Product Which Is Said to
Isosn

Curious Oriental Product Which Is Said to
Cure Poisonous Bites.
Ben r. Spradley, a attache Of the st.
Louis sanitarium, at 1886 South Grand
avenue, has in his possession one of the
most curious and what he asserts to be
one of the most useful and valuable of
articles. 1t is what is known as a Chi
nese snake stone, and there is said to be
but one other in the country. Indeed
the one in Mr.. Spradley's possession is
but half one, the original having been
cut in two by Mr.. Spradley and half of
it given to friend. In appearance the
stone looks like small piece of oblong
shaped camel coal and is about one
eighth OF an inch in thickness, three
eighths of an inch wide and half an
inch long. 1t is as light in weight as
piece OF cork, possesses a polished sur
face and can be easily cut with knife
It is not stone, in the proper sense of
the word, but is a manufactured article
and is of porous texture,
To cure snake bites or poisonous
wounds of a similar nature with the
stone" the wound must first be scarf
fed. Then the stone is applied to the
wound. Each morning and evening it
is taken off and put into glass of luke
warm water to remain few moments
until it discharges the poison it has alb
sorbed. Then, after the wound has been
washed in strong solution of salt wa
ter and again scarifed, the stone, which
in the meantime has been rubbed in
warm ashes until dry, is again applied.
II this treatment Is kept up for nine
days and the patient abstains during
that time from spirituous liquors cure
is assured
n secured the stone, said Mr.. Sprad-
ley, "from my father more than 80 years
ago He got it from James J. Parker,
the man who made it. From 1874 to
1877 was with the party which was put
ting through the Texas Pacific railroad,
and during that time cured several Of
the party who were bitten by rattlers
and other poisonous snakes. have fire.
quently loaned the stone to friends, and
/ cut the original in two, giving half of
it to particular friend of mine. / have
not used the stone for some time, but
am ready to give test Of it's merits at
any time.
1T is, you see, not properly stone,
but is manufactured substance of por-
GUS nature. The theory possessed by
many that SO called 'madstones' are
found in the stomachs Of animals is all
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THEY DEVELOPED YOUNG.
Two Famous Poets, Oliver Wendell Holme
and William Cullen Bryant.

Two Famous Poets, Oliver Wendell Holmes
and William Cullen Bryant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes received the
degree of doctor of medicine in 1886,
being then 81 years old, and in that
year he also published his first volume
of poems. Nothing of DR.. Holmes has
been more popular than "The Last
Leaf, !" contained in this early collec-
ton, and none has more richly deserved
to please by its rhythmic beauty and by
its exquisite blending Of humor and
pathos SO alphabetically intertwined
that we feel the lonely sadness of the
old man even while we are smiling at
the quaintness SO feelingly portrayed.
Dr.. Holmes was like Bryant, who
composed "Thanatopsis' and the
"Lines to Waterfowl long before he
was 90, in that he early attained full
development as poet. Although each
of them wrote many verses in later life,
nothing of theirs excelled these poems
of their youth. In their maturity they
did not lose power. but neither did they
deepen nor broaden, and "Thanatopsis"
on the one side and "The Last Leaf'' on
the other are as strong and characters
tic as anything either poet was ever to
write throughout long life, What Bry-
ant was, what Holmes was, In this, his
first volume Of poems, each was to the
end of his career.
To neither Of them was literature
livelihod Bryant was first a lawyer
and then journalist. Holmes was
first a praetieing physician and then
teacher of medicine He won three
prizes for dissertations upon medical
themes, and these essays were published
together in 1888. In 1889 he was ap-
pointed professor of anatomy and phys
iology at Dartmouth, and the next year
he married Miss Amelia Lee jackson.
Shortly afterward he resigned the posi-.
tion at Dartmouth and resumed practice
in Boston. He worked hard in his pro.
fession and contributed freely to its lit
erature, and in 1S47 he went back to
Harvard, having been appointed pro-
fessor Of anatomy and physiology, a
position which he was to hold with
great distinction for 35 years.-St
Nicholas.
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Consider the great multitude of Chris
tians who are constitutionally incapable
of believing that there can be good in
any other religious system than their
own. How many Protestants are there
who hold it incredible that any good
thing can come out of Rome? Can you
number the Romanists who are without
faith in anything the Protestants ever
did?
A similar popularity is seen in races.
There are many Irishmen who can be-
heve in nothing but Saxon ''perfdy, :"
many Poles who can believe in nothing
but Russian "wickedness, many Be-
hemians who can believe in nothing but
the German 'brute," and many Eng
ishmen who can believe in nothing but
the "unspeakable" Turk -All the Year
Round
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Glad She Lives In America.

"I'm glad live in America, . said a
pretty young woman, talking to Phil
adelphia Inquirer reporter, because
am never afraid to travel by myself.
Last year I was in London and went
around with friend who is married,
and we were spoken to in an insulting
manner every time we went out. Paris
was still worse. Pesr1e-speak of the
French politeness, but it is only a
veneer. The men would get in front
OF us on every street corner and smirk
and ogle and chatter like monkeys. I'm
glad didn't understand anything they
said. There are no men like the Amer
lean men, and never was SO fully able
to appreciate it as l am, now have
seen those of other nations in their
own lands. Besides, the girls are
treated better here than anywhere else
on earth, and don't want to cross the
ocean any more. y
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Mothers, READ This Gil
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a general regulator for the
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Elmer d. Prickitt.
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-prencheT. IN unelr native rong1o-are
doubtless descendants of the profession
al mourners of ancient Rome. They are
most common, and their office is most
clearly defined in the provinces of Abruz-
20 aud Calabria and in Sicily There
they are regularly retained and reward
ed with fee. In other provinces rel
alive of the afflicted family may assume
the Office and lead the chorus, or the
function may be of wholly miscellane-
GUS character, all the mourners joining
in a song of woe. New York Herald.
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Send your address to H. f. Bucklen &
Co.. Chicago, and get free, sample box Of
DR.. Kings New life Pills. A trial win
convince you oftheir merits. These pills
are easy IN actiohiandasre particularly ef-
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and to be purely vegetable. They do not
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tone to stomach and bowels greatly invig-
crate the system. Regular size 25c. pei
box. Sold at Elmer D. Prickitt's drue
stores, Mount Holly and Lumberton.
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county of Durham. Durham county Is
the native home of Shorthorh cattle, and
they were originally called Durhams.
The Royal show at Darlington this year
was the first one ever held in Durham
county. The exhibits were fewer than
usual, but exceptionally fine in quality.
Shahzada Nazrulla, the ameer of At
ghanistan's hopeful heir, visited the
Darlington show and did not like the
animals at all He declared they were
one and all too fat. That criticism is
not one that can often be brought
against beef animals, particularly in
America The trouble with our beeves
is that they are not fat enough. Fatness
in animals Of the COW kind makes the
flesh tender and juicy.
Although the fair was in the native
home of the Shorthorn, some Of the
handsomest animals exhibited were
Aberdeen The bull in the pic
ture was the one that took first prize,
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Fishermen have queer customs. A
few years ago the fishermen of Preston,
Lancashire, used actually to go fishing
on Sunday. 1t seems incredible, but
they did. A clergyman of the town used
to preach against this Sabbath desecra-
tien and pray that they might catch nc
fish. And they did not But they found
out how to make his prayers of no avail.
The fishermen used to make a little
effigy of the parson in rags and put this
small guy" up their chimneys While
his reverence was slowly smoked and
consumed, the fish bit-like anything r
London Fishing Gazette.
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The fact appears that there Is very
marked difference In the way tempera-
ture is borne by the eyes when it is be-
low 1000 degrees +. and when above
that heat. Up to such a degree man
can look at the metal in furnace with
comparative ease, but before it reaches
5000 degrees he is compelled to wear
colored glasses.
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The market if full OF cough mixtures
but one trouble with most of them is that
when they do little good the patient has
to take SO much that he gets to loathe the
taste. The Pineola Balsam is superior
to other cough remedies because it is
agreeable to the palate and its good ef-
fects are Immediate. In a few days an
ordinary cough is gone altogether. Bron-
chitis and asthma are more stubborn, but
they too are cured by Ely's Pineola
Balsam. A remedy worth trying. Twen-
ty-fve cents is all it costs.
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A Reminder.

II do not hesitate, Mr.. Stalate, 4" she
remarked gently, "to say that you are
a young man Of excellent habits, but
am very much afraid that you would
spend too much of your time away from
home"
"Why do you think so2''
Because, and she yawned a little.
s'you spend SO much time away from
home now. Washington Star.
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A LITTLE CHILD.

Bright golden curls and innocent white brow,
And lips like red rose petals blown apart,
And laughing eyes of bluel pray you now,
Come yet little closer to my heartl
Nay, fear me notl Thy child heart under
stands
Love that trusts all and knows not to con-
denim,
Give me to hold thy tiny, tender hands,
That / may warm my withered soul with
them
Oh, let me feel-since in my memory
No earthly love upon my life hath smiled
That heaven in mercy hath reserved for me
The kisses and the clinging Of child.
Atlanta Constitution.
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PRIZE ABERDEEN-ANaUs HEIFER

F1sIlE MISUNDERSTANDING % HEIF EIs
and fine fellow he is. A late number
of the London Graphic speaks of the
excellence of the Aberdeen-A Angus cattle
at the shows this year and of their
'steady march southwark. +" It seems
that they are growing rapidly in favor.
These admirable hornless Scotch
beeves are making their way into the
very heart of the country of the Hereford
and Shorthorn. In the second illustra-
tion is shown the Aberdeen Angus fat
heifer that took first prize Both the
bull and the heifer were the property Of
the same breeder, Mr. George Smith
Grant.
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The cbrysanthemum is about due.


Last spring my husband was laid uE
with Rheumatism and could not move
without terrible pain in his back and hips
| procured a bottle of Hoods Sarsaparills
for him and after he had taken 1t BIZ
could 90 out doors and do light work,
Hoods Sarsaparills has also benefitte
me-" Mrs. Ida II. Stevenson, Pointville
N. j.
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nonsense. They are all manufactured II
a manner similar to this, and it is SIM
ply their drawing powers and thelr
porousness and consequent capacity fol
absorption that renders them valuable. "
st. Louis Republic.
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Bucklen.n Arn,ca na1ve.

The best salye in the world for cuts
bruises. sores. ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter. chapped hands, chilblains
and corns, all skin cru ptions, and positive
ly cures piles, or no nay required. 1t il
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, OF
money refunded. Price % cents per box.
For sale by Elmer D. Priekitt, Mt Holly
and Lumberton.
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Mrs. T. s. Hawkins, Chattanooga, Tenn.
says, "Shiloh's Vitalizer SAVED MY
LIFE consider it the best remedy fol
debilitated system | ever used" Fol
Dyspepsia, Liver or Kidney trouble it ex.
cells. Price rs cts.-sold by R. c. Barring,
on, druggist, AZ Main street.
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Single nfsn r,l;as.i.aa.

Plato condemned the single men to a
nne' and In Sparta they were driven at
stated times to the temple Of Hercules
oy the women, who there drilled them
in true military style