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there is some foreign substance in the wa
ter or salt.
A torpid liver is one of the concomitants
of spring. Some people find great relief
from the gone feeling experienced on
rising in the morning, and caused by
torpid liver, by drinking the juice of one
lemon in glass of cool water in which is
just sprinkle of sugar. An orange eaten
before leaving the room is another remedy.
If you want to make pretty little pres
ent for your newly married friend, set of
holders will probably be acceptable. That
for the dainty teapot for a ; o'clock tea,
may be of cream brocade, embroidered with
pansies, OR some other pretty design, and
bound with ribbon. Or you might work on
it, UNLESS the teakettle boiling be, filling
the teapot spoils the tea" Four inches
square will be quite ample size. The holder
fer the coffeepot will be quite pretty made
of crazy" patch. For the crate, to handle
the poker and shovel, velvet holder will
not be cut of place. For the ironing table,
make two or three holders of narrow
striped bed ticking. which you may work in
leather stitch, and bind with tape. Put in
three or four thicknesses of flannel, well
basted together, so that it will not slip and
make wrinkle under the hand, for that
will blister it, sure.
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ON THE COLORADO,
Features Of n Steamboat Trip ON Mud
md Water.

md Water.
Pomona, Cal, Letter " Y Sum-
Among the winter attractions Of southern
California Is trip to the mouth of the
Colorado river. The navigation of tine river
at lew water is alone worth seeing Ii ts
western river navigation of the extreme
type.
No river in the country changes its cham
mel SO often as the Colorado. 1t leaves the
famed Missouri in the shade. 1t changes
not merely by the day, but by the hour A
Mississippi, but runs by the appearance of
the water. Even this is so often deceptive
that the boats are built to run almost as
well on mud as on water. The Mojave is
40 feet lor by 81 broad, with three decks,
three boilers and two engines, "A fat bot
tom and big stern paddle wheel, ana can
accommodate sixty passengers. Now she
slides at full speed down a long reach Of
timbered banks, then suddenly strikes bot
tom with heavy jar. But there IS no CAM
ger and little delay. She may stop entirely
but the engines keep putting, you feel the
boat move again, and after a few hundred
feet of crawling, she goes again at full
speed. She simply rides the shifting mud.
Perhaps at the next bar she has to swing
around sideways and w.ggle over but she
Is equal to the emergency. At times bar
is reached v here this device fails and then
she swings around, stern to the Gifii:ulty,
backs water with the big wheel. and in q
short time washes out channel through
which she rides with ease into The next
stretch Of good water. Thus, with erolu-
tons to meet the various emergencies OF
the cranky stream, she threads its winlinK
course amid ever-rary.ng scenery.
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Nothing to Say.
rom the Helena Independent.

FROM the Helena Independent.
District Attorney Purcell defended cou-
pie CT fellows acc Used of horse stealing in
the district court of Choteau courty four
years or so ago. They deserved some where
in the neighborhood of ten years apiece,
but they got off with a sentence of three.
After the sentence had been pronounced
the toughest Of the pair, believing that The
sentence could not be revised after it had
left the lips of the court, addressed himself
to the judge.
Il just want to say he told Judge Du
Bose, that when get out you will be the
first man FL come here to kill"
IF that is the case" said Judge Dr. Bose
It'll make it ten years, and then you won't
trouble me so quick Turning to the other
prisoner, the judge added: rs there some-
thing 70" would like to say?"
Not a blessed word," replied the other.
The mGE who had nothing to say is now
out Of prison. His partner is still behind
the bars. and is likely to remain there for
some time.
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JEWISH CALENDAR ERROR.
A Universal synod Suggested for Ii
Needed Correction.

A Universal synod Suggested for It's
Needed Correction.
From the American Hebrew.
In a lecture recently delivered under the
auspices of the Grsetz College, in Philadel-
phia on THE Jewish Calendar" DR.. Cyrus
Adler called attention to an error in the
calendar which may occasion some surprise
to persons who have not investigated the
subject.
1t is a fact well known that the Jewish
calendar in it's present form was promul-
gated by Hillel ii, about $50 c. E. This
calendar is bound lunar calendar-ie., a
lunar calendar with correction to solar time
At the time that the calendar was estab-
ljShed it was much more accurate than
any in use. 1t was universally accepted by
Jews even by the Karaites. and has af-
forded an important outward bond Of union
among rcattered Israel
Graetz has voiced the ordinary opinion
as to the accuracy of our calendar in the
following words THE method of calculat-
ing the calendar introduced by Hillel is SO
simple and certain that up to the present
day it has not required either emendation
CT ampliication, and for this reason is &C
knowlelged to be perfect by all who are
competent to express an opinion on the
subject, whether Jews or non-Jews."
This statement, however, does not agree
with the Astronomical facts. Our calendar
makes the average lunar month twenty
rine days twelve hours forty-four minutes
| three aid one-third seconds, whereas the
| true value Is Twenty-Five days twelve hours
forty-four minutes O2.Si1 seconds. Again,
our calendar calculates the solar year at
1865 days five hours fifty-Iive minutes % 439
seconds. whereas the true value is 3G5 days
| five hours forty-eight minutes 46O69 sec
| ends. 1t is plain, accordingly that there
is double source Of error, amounting to
more than eight minutes per year. As
sCming the lunar and solar year to have
been co-oriinated at the time of publica-
ton Of HillePs calendar the Jewish year
has In the 1910 years Intervening advanced
forward from the vernal equinox SOM What
over seven days.
The Importance Of the correctness of the
calendar is so great that 1t would appear
advisable that a universal synod be called
to devise q plan whereby the error may be
olivia ted. Such a synod once assembled
might be able to take action in other di-
recticns Of the highest Importance for the
Welfare Of Israel
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HIS APRIL FOOL JOKE.
1t Is Harmless and He Has Worked Il
Many Years.

Many cars.
From the Lewiston (AIe.) Journal.
James F. Moses has been landlord of the
good old-fashoned Bucksport tavern known
as the Robinson House for thirty-six years
Just how far back in history he conceived
his ingenious April foor' joke is uncertain,
but gray-haired citizen was caught by it
on April for the twenty-third consecutive
year, according to undoubted authority.
The hotel is Of the old-style hospitable
| front, with a piazza running the whole
length, from which open two large doors.
In winter these are protected by portable,
box-like storm porches, about the width of
the doors and four feet Deep The door
opening into the Office Is in constant use,
and 1t Is here that the trap for the unNary
is set.
the veteran hotel keeper has the porch at
the office door moved along the piazza to
the left. so that it faces the blank broad
side Of the house. Projecting sufficiently
to hide the office door from a person APP
preaching from up street, it makes the de-
fusion more effectual.
The snare is hardly set before, perhaps,
up comes one of the grocery delivery wa
gons. The driver leaps from his seat, grabs
two or three baskets and bundles, stumbles
up the steps, kicks the door open, and goes
into the trap "all over" as the heavy
weighted door slams behind him.
Next probably, comes along one of the
leisure population. who thinks to drop in
and look over the paper and have a chat
He opens the porch door deliberately and
shuts 1T behind him, carefully wipes his
feet and fumbles over the cold white ella D.
boards for the door latch. and then remenl-
bers the old, old, but ever new joke
The train is in, and along comes a pha-
ianx of tile knights of the grip. The leader
acutely recognizes the plot as one which
cost him many cigar year ago, and he
resolves to make a wholesale slaughter of
the rest of 1.-THE boys" There are half a
dozen or more, and by shrewd tactics he
gets them in group. Now, boys" says
he, lets all get in bunch and pile into
the office all at once and boiler Hdiio, old
Jed! All agree to it. Now, charger
There Is rush, and in second all but
enc are foundering in confused heap in
the four by six box, while the cause of The
commotion slips into the best room and is
well settled before the confused contingent
gets untangled and with battered hats and
wrath iii their eyes swarm in.
And so 1t goes all day long, Landlord
Moses, from his chair in the reading room.
chuckles and haw-haws at the success of
bis little scheme, although it is Whispered
that he was BY very deep-laid plot In
weighed into his own trap himself, and that
he had to go down cellar and bring up
something to square matters.
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1t Was IL Fine Stream.

From the Portland Express.
There is professional gentleman" in
Portland who would make successful
horse snapper. Having a farm to sell, re-
Gently this descendant of the Pilgrims ad-
vertised it, and soon afterward gentleman
called on him to speak about it.
well, judge" said he, Il have been over
that farm you advertised and find it all
right except the fine stream Of water you
mentioned"
1T runs through the piece of woods in the
lowest part of the meadow" said the Judge.
What! that little brook? Why, it doesn't
hold much more than spoonful. am sure
If you would empty bowl of water into it,
it would overflow. You don't call that a
fine stream, do your
well, If 1t were much finer you couldn't
see it at ALL" said the Judge, blandly
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Highest Of all in Leavenmg Powes-Lae U. Govt Report
R0&!a!l! R RakiaHs
ABSOLUTELY PURE
A SHY DANCER.
Stories Told by Westcrners of the An
tics of the Sand Hill Crane.

Stories Told by westcrners of the An
d. tics Of the Sand Hill Crane.
The sand hill crane is a very bright bird.
Recreation writer says that its very
anne is synonymous of vigilance and alert
ness. 1t feeds on the treeless plains or in
the barren wheat stubble. where IL can see
long way beyond gurshot. Or one Of q
flock is posted as sentinel, and this bird
stands with bill half open, ready to give
an alarm. 1t can be killed by decoying IL
with pasteboard figures cut to proper size
and shape and painted, but mounted birds
are better. A pit Is dug deep enough to
conceal man, the decoys are put out and
the cranes are shot as they come over. The
best region to shoot them is in the Column
bia river watershed and south of It in the
Pacific coast states.
When one shoots bird Of the size and
build OF crane in midair 1t collapses like
card house or a tent. But such apparent
coliapses are sometimes deceptive, as for
instance:
Before could reach him he SCARED OF
INTO the air with wheeling flight. Again he
nit the ground with fearful violence, but
again he got on his feet. Running up
thinking to get him alive for q decoy I
tried to tap him on the head and stun him.
He showed fight, and 1 used my gun as
backed Off. and he took to his wings
The sand hill crane is something of q
tighter of men IL wounded, and the only
sale crane is dead one. Their bills are
long and sharp. and are capable OF putting
out a mans eye.
The sand hill crane has some curious
habits that make him OF more than passing
interest to the student of BIRDS Out on the
prairies parties Of them have balls in the
spring, to which the select birds seem to be
invited. These balls are picturesque affairs
from the human standpoint. There are
curious dances, which are sort of solitary
wa!tzes or pretty slow jigs. Sometimes the
blrds leap over one anothers backs and
mop their wings, giving their peculiar cry.
Sometimes rival birds have fierce duels,
using their keen bills like lances, battle
axes and swords
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principle Is to rule In 1906, 1t would seem
for alongside Of the simple browns and
grays of mems suitings for April, '06, un-
marked as they are by such loud checks and
extravagances as past years have seen, wo-
mans garb shines more rainbow-like than
ever.
1.-THE republic is opportunity" its chief
justice says; and the fashion opportunity
widens it's horizon every month, for every
month fairly pretty fabrics are cheaper and
more plentiful, and every month, too, fab
RIGS of more beautiful designs, more brilliant
colorS, more cunning weaves, and especially
more fabulous prices, are spread before the
bewildered gaze of the woman who hest
tStes, and, hesitating, is lost. The evoiu-
ton of the flower tint and cobweb filament
garbing of today out of the dun cold webs
the butterfly from its chrysalis.
The rainbow glory of the April streets
when the sun glintS warm against the
brown stone walls impresses the beholder
somewhat as a waving field of flowers.
There are in 1t seen in the mass the bril-
liancy of the tulips, the delicacy of violets,
the grace of lilies, even the lines of cool
ferns and frontage, all swaying, changing,
passing. repassing, until the street becomes
like a kaleidoscope which is never at rest
and in whose magic mirrors each tone pic
ture breaks, even as 1t is forming, INTO an
other as beautiful and as evanescent.
Shall we try to pluck from this garden a
tiny handful of blossoms?
There is the emphasis of cardinal flower
in August in short red cloth jacket, it's
seams outlined in gilt braid and buttoned
with five gilt buttons.
There is the tint of violets in a purple
Tuscan straw hat whose straight brim.
narrower behind than in front, is covered
all with purple and lavender tulle, and
culled from the garden of the modiste,
JacqUemiLot roses peep from their green
leaves and from big puffs of tulle.
There is the ,reenish yellow or yellowish
green of the grass of a sunshine study by
Chase in the material of grass linen cos
tune, whose plain full skirt falls like gos-
samer over an old rose silk foundation
The waist is embroidered in old rose, the
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LONG FLIGHTS OF BIRDS,
N shore Bird Which Goes Two ThOus
and Miles Over an Ocean.


and Miles Over an Ocean.
The distance which birds travel is mar
velous the naturalists say, and laymen are
inclined to believe them. w. Herbert Pur-
Wis writes to the London Field that every
spring great numbers of golden and ringed
plover arrive in the Hawaiian Islands and
leave the first week of May.
The nearest points Of the American coast
to which they go are in southern Cal;fcr-
MIA and the Alaska peninsula, respectively.
about 1000 geographical miles, and there
Is no intervening land. 1t may be that the
birds drop into the water to rest occa
sionally, as ducks do, during such long
nights, but 1t is not probable. This is the
longest regular flight known to shore birds
over the water but it is known pretty GER
tainiy that some sea birds fly as a regular
tning much further than this during their
are said 70 nest in Siberia, and to fly north
over the Arctic ocean and south again to
cape Hatteras, OR thereahouts and beyond.
every year.
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From Harper's Weekly.
The President and cabinet are all law.
yers except Mr.. Lamont and Mr. Morton
" no are editors.
The vocations followed by Senators are
indicated as follows: Lawyers, "a; business
men, 13; farmers, B; doctors, 1; clergymen
l; editors, .: no data given. g.
The occupations followed by Representa-.
tives are as follows: Lawyers, 24S; bust.
ness men, IL; farmers. ID; editors, 8; doc.
tors, g; preachers, 4; printers, 3. Five
give no data as to vocation. More than
three-quarters of the Senate and more than
two-thirds of the House are lawyers.
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A Dance ON Wheels.

From the Philadelphia Press.
The bicycle reel is very pretty, and when
the music is played in fast measure it is
much more exciting than the ordinary reel.
The dancing cycles range themselves in
two lines along the hall. The two end
couples ride toward each other, and in the
center make a sharp turn to the left, and
with their wheels at hair-raising angle
circle around one another and ride back
again to their respective places.
While this is going on the other couples
done very rapidly, and the sharp turns
made make the uninitiated spectators
catch their breath. Each couple in turn
goes through the figure until all have
made the dance.
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Through English Eyes.
From st. Paul's.

A telegram says that Mark Twain is
seriously i'll at Jeypore. Let US hope We
shall soon have a more cheering account of
him, for we could Ill afford to lose so ad-
mirable humorist, and withal so kind and
genial n man. Although his works are
known and admired by almost all English
speaking people, Mark Twain does not ap-
pear to have brought his goods to SO re
munerative a market as the late Bill Nye,
another American humorist, whose income
for several years before his death attained
the large sum Of $4,000 a year. His quality
Of wit was peculiar to the American soil,
end probably would not have had such a
success hod he been born elsewhere
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From the New !

From the New York Weekly
Husband-"Did you get that ten-dollar
check your uncle sent you cashed YETI"
Wife-"No; I haven't been out"
Husband-"WelI, I am sending an order
to cigar dealer for two boxes of 81 cigars,
1 don't want to send money in an envelope.
You take this $40 and give me your check"
Wife-"Certainly."
Husband "a day later)-"More money,
Why. my dear, what did you do with the
SO your uncle sent your
Wife Gn a huff)-"You took it for cigars.
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1t is a popularity which the philosophers
have long noticed that. when woman will,
man will not. A famous caricature in the
old days of "a represented two contrasting
styles; in the one woman with scanuy
skirts. hugely distended sleeves and Gains
borough hat of monumental area stood be-
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A SOrllfd View of Il,

From the Chicago Tribune
There's great difference between Pfsh-
er's two boys. He gave each of them So
600. Silas has invested his money in real
estate. Julius is spending his in fine
clothes"
Don't you worry about Julius He's
spending his money in buying cut flowers
for the rich Miss Boodelle. Itll pay him a
bigger interest some day than ever Silas
will get.''
Up. SIT did
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beats the SKY scraners

Ftom tie Chicago Tribune.
Ever seen anything like it?" said the
man who was showing him around
Anything like itH' contemptuously an
swered the western populist, who found
himself for the first time among the high
buildings In Dearborn street. Say, was you
ever in Kansas corn field?'
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II is impossible to mention every article nj,
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VS. BROADWAY. 21ST AND ED SIS.
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Fabrics of Beautiful Design and Bril-
liant Color Bewilder the Shopper.
RAINBOW GLORY OF APRIL STREETS
Purple is the Predominating Color
in Many Hats.
SOMETHING ABOUT SLEEVES
NN JONAH

yOMAN, VARIABLE
though never incon-
slant, takes up with
delight the Persian
p a I t e T n s in dress
goods, just as sterner
and not less variable
man, having for long
used such airy and
beautiful designs liz
his neckwear, discaris
them for the paler
and more Intellectual
drabs and sickly hues
of that sort
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Racial Pride.
From Truth.

The Briton-"Pooh! There's many girl
in England who is the daughter of a hun
dred earls."
The Yankee-"Pooh! That's nothing.
There's many a sirl in America who'll be
the wife of hundred earls, If they keep
On mixing up divorces and foreign mar
riages much longer
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folds each time. being cut and fashioned to
fit the saddle In the front this skirt usu-
ally has broad box pleat to admit of the
free action of the knees while pedaling.
Some Of these bicycle skirts are surprising
ly full around the bottom, being stitched
down in bLx pleats from the top, and then
allowed to flare for about fourteen inches
The girl who wears diamond frame
gets no advantage from this Louis skirt, as
it is called, because Of the undivided front.
Nothing but boomers or wholly divided
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perpendicular stripes and dotted with clus-
tiers OF tiny flowers, and which Is far more
enlphatically marked across the upper
sleeves and across the vest front with bars
of dark ribbon, from each of which falls
narrow frill of dotted lace. The jacket
of such gown has the inevitable outward
curve at the hips, curve more decided
than that upon golf stick.
There is a pretty fashion this year in
cheaper ready-made dresses, as well as in
more expensive ones. The serge outing
suits, whose skirts and jackets have been
for long of the same color and material,
may now be-should now be, perhaps-of
related but different color; and the skirt of
the two is the lighter. For instance, a
plain skirt of blue and white checks. just
the size of a baby's finger-nail; over which
a wide lapelled jacket, all of dark blue.
matching the checks in the skirt and
trimmed with several rows of little silver
buttons, three in a row, down the skirt be-
hind, and with silver braid.
New sleeves, it may be noted, have not
yet achieved suzerainty, or even extended
their sphere of influence over the coat or
wrap. Here the big squash or mandolin
sleeve is as much in evidence as ever, even
upon the smartest of the smart gowns
those, you know, with the cunning fitted
backs and the loose. straight folds down
the front, and heavily embroidered.
ELLEN OSBORN.
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sleeves are full and stop at the elbow,
decked at the shoulder with old rose taft
feta silk in such form that one would think
butterfly had lighted upon the roses in
the Sreenish yellow grass; and the silk,
combined with passementeric of white and
gold, forms the yoke. Need one add that
grass linen gowns over silk foundations of
each hue Of tie rainbow are foremost in
favor?
There are flowers again of delicate pink,
scattered over white gown of Persian
silk wherefrom one dainty tea gown is
fashioned with its Vatican back ending in
| a deTii train, and with its sleeves finished
with wide cream lace, which is brought
! ever the shoulders and falls full TO the
knees.
! There is the tint seen only in soue eyes
that are fair to look upon and in the tiny
t.uets which dot the Cry side hills Of sum-
mer, in blue brilliant!ne with full skirt
and short jacket. whose wide reyers open
over white vest embroidered in gold, and
whose wide rolling cuffs are brave with the
same gilt prettineSs.
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Tickle your palate by smoking Sweet Moments
cigarettes. They are the best.