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Whore Work ID Pleasant

"a0T0 "OFK IL xxo80SuCs
Neglected Wife-Why don't you so to
work?"
Husband u ne'er-do-welD II amt
got no tools.
Neglected Wife-Deacon Smith Of
fered you five dollars to fix his fence,
and you have saw, plane and ham.
mer and nails. What more do you
want?"
Husband-The saw amt no good, and
I amt got no file to sharpen it. Ole
Smith kin fix his fence hisself.
Same Husband (ten years later)-
Hist! Say, wife, I've escaped from the
penitentiary. Gimme some other
clothes, so kin light out ag'in.
Wife-My! my! How did you get
out?
Husband-1 dug 40 feet underground
with two-tined fork and then cutmy
way through two feet of stone wall and
ten inches Of boiler iron with saw
made out of tin dinner plate.-N. Y.
Weekly.
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Tho Lov1ble Woman.

Very lovely and lovable is the woman
who has cultivated disposition angelic
enough to see the good and not the evil
side of human nature, who can be severe
with her own failings, and excuse the
faults Of others. We are told that she 10
dull, uninteresting creature. and if ws
take the trouble to look into the matter
we find that she does not laugh at her
neighbours pet weakness; she does not
enjoy hitting out right and left at the
world at large, and is always ready with
a plea for unseen and unsuspected
reasons, which, If they could be re-
vealed, would go long way towards
modifying harsh Judgment. Our low
able woman may not be witty, she may
be little prosy; but she it is to whom
we go when in trouble for sympathy,
and confide with a feeling that our
secret will not be torn to shreds as soon
81 our back il turned.-Detroit FREQ
Press
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CARE OF THE EARS.
Some Things That Should Not b
Done

Some Things That Should Not BE
Done
Never wear cotton in the ears if they
are discharging pus.
Never put anything into the ear for
the relief of toothache.
Never attempt to apply a poultice to
the inside of the canal of the ear.
Never drop anything into the ear until
it has been previously warmed.
Never use anything but q syringe and
warm water for clearing the ears Of
pus.
Never strike nor box childs ears;
this has been known to rupture the
drumhead and cause incurable deafness.
Never wet tho hair il you have any
tendency to deafness; wear an oiled
silk cap when bathing and refrain from
diving.
Never scratch the ears with anything
but the finger if they itch. DO not use
the head of pin, hairpins, pencil tips
or anything of that nature.
Never let tho feet become cold and
damp, nor sit with the back toward the
window, as these things tend to aggra~
SoI> 1Ay OAASAAS A0AAAG@oS VI AAN<A~ 49,
Never put milk, fat nor any oily sub
stance into the ear for the lelief of pain,
for they soon become rancid and tend
to excite inflammation. Simple waIm
water will answer the purpose better
than anything else.
Never be alarmed if a living insect
enters the ear. Pouring warm water
into the canal will drown it. when it will
generally come to the surface and can
be easily removed with the fingers. A
few puffs of tobacco smoke blown into
the ear will stupefy the insect
Never NEEDLE with the ear if for.
eign body, such as bead, button or
seed enters it. Leave it absolutely alone
until physician can attend lit. More
damage has been done by the injudi-
cious attempts at the extraction OF q
foreign body than could ever come from
its presence in the Chicago Chron-
icle.
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formed q strong contrast to the perfect
~ calm demeanor Of the witness, then
tegan to question him.
beg pardon, sir, but are you Cap'n
Sharpe, Of her majesty's ship Wultur?"
eyes, I am Capt. Sharpe, and I did
command tho Vulture before she was
paid off,"
"Was you, sir, in command Of her
last spring on the Gold coastP'
II was"
"And wasn't one Of your crew."
Certainly not; I never saw your face
before in my life"
The prisoners disappointment was
painful to witness, but he continueds
"But, cap'n, don't you remember that
big Arab dhow that gave yer 80 much
trouble; don't yer remember boardin'
of her?"
Eyes, I remember capturing = big
slave dhow."
"And you yourself led the boarders?"
eyes; but all this has been in the
newspapers, where you have probably
read it, for am. certain you were not
one of my crew."
"What! Cap'n Sharpe" cried the
prisoner, almost in a roar, II wasn't
one of your crew! Don't yer remem-
Der who came between you and the big
niger that was just a-goin' to cut yer
down; and don't yer remember what he
got for it? Don't yer remember this,
Cap'n Sharper"
And as he almost shrieked out these
words the prisoner pulled aside his full
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1896-08-20
Blacklight.


Such is the name given by NJ. Gustave
LIE Bon to certain dark and mysterious
rays which are capable of penetrating
opaque bodies as do the tx rays" of
Prof. Roentgen's vacuum tube, but
which are found in ordinary sunlight
and lamplight. N. LIE Bon has no diff
Guilty in taking photographs with these
rays when the sensitive plate is covered
by a metal plate, preferably Of iron OF
copper, provided the exposure is suffi-
GENTLY long-say, three hours. A bet
ter effect is got by placing the sensi-
tive plate on sheet Of lead and putting
the negative photograph to be copied
over it, then laying an iron plate over
all and bending up the edges Of the
lead plate 90 as to overlap the iron and
form a closed box of iron on the top
and lead on the bottom and sides. When
this box with the sensitive plate inside
is exposed for three hours to the light
of a petroleum lamp or to sunlight,
a distinct image of the negative will
be found on the plate. NJ. LIE Bon is
of the opinion that if our eyes were
but slightly modified, we should be- able
to see through brick wall.-Public
Opinion.
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MRS. BILLINGS MAID.

After Her Last Day Ont She Nay Hsve
Fewer Holiday. 4@
Mrs. Billings of-let US say the North
side-has ordered her landau for tho
customary afternoon drive. E
Janet, her own trusty maid, had gone
for her Afternoon out" for it was the
fatal Thursday belonging to the old
fashioned regime Of tho Chicago house.
hold.
Mrs. Billings was too settled in her
ways to dismiss the old servitors, who
chung like barnacles to this weekly holt
day aud substitute end-of-the-century
domestics, who had their good time in
the basement.
Looking lakeward, Mrs Billings saw
white caps, which meant that q veil
would be needed with her new master
piece in hats, not q month over from
Paris. It is not wise woman who puts
on her veil first, but Mrs. Billings adj
justed hers with elaborate care and de-
scended the stairs, without even part
ing glance at her mirror, because she
knew she looked well.
Her coachman sat like sphinx on
VIC IVA oAA 'SAy PAotSAAy MN ASSAAAAA6
more on receiving orders than to say:
Eyes, madam" and make the salute Of
his profession. The carriage fooled
down the avenue. Mrs. Billings was in
fine frame of mind and issued series
of bows in which there was everything
from the II believe we have met be-
fore" inclination to The II am glad to
see vou'' RECOGNITION.
Then she saw speeding toward her on
bicycle Mr.. Algerron Billings, who
waA escorting charming Cincinnati
belle. As was most unusual, Mr.. Al
gernon affected not to see his own
mother, certainly out in a great deal of
glory, Judging from the attention Of
the people on the walks and the smiles
of acquainta nces.
Presently Hawkins, the coachman,
turned into I. business street as direct
ed and drew up with flourish in front
Of the great house of Billings. Indeed,
there was Mr.. Billings just returning
from a late luncheon. Mrs. Billings
smiled and waved and smiled at her
co,sort until he reached the carriage
and family CALCULATED:
"Great Scott, Maria, did you know
you had forgotten your bonnet?"-Chi
cago Tribune.
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COLONIES ARE BURDENS.

England's Circumstances Bring Her Com
pensstions, However.
Colonization and territorial extension
are burdens, not gains. Great civilized
states cannot avoid these burdens. They
are the penalty Of greatness because
they are the duties of it, No state can
successfully undertake to extend its
jurisdiction unless its internal vitality
is high, so that it has surplus energy
to dispose of. Russia, as already men
toned, is a state which has taken upon
itself tasks of this kind beyond its
strength and for which it is in no way
competent. Italy offers at this moment
tho strongest instance of state which
il imperiling it's domestic welfare for
a colonial policy which is beyond its
strength, is undertaken arbitrarily and
has no proper motive. Germany has
taken up q colonial policy with great
eagerness, apparently from q notion
that it Is one Of the attributes Of q
great state. To maintain it she must
add a great navy to her great military
establishments and increase the burdens
of 4 population which is poor and heavily
taxed and which has not in its terri
tory any great natural resources from
which to draw the strength to bear its
burdens.
Spain is exhausting her last strength
to keep Cuba, which can never repay
the cost unless it Is treated on tie old
colonial plan az q subject province to
be exploited for the benefit Of the
mother country. # this is done, how
ever, the only consequence will he an
other rebellion and greater expenditure.
England, as penalty of her greatness,
finds herself In all parts Of the world
face to face with the necessity of main
tanning her jurisdiction and Of extend
ing it in order to maintain it. When she
does so she finds herself only extend
ing law and order for the benefit of
everybody. It's only in circumstances
like hers that the burdens have any
compensation.-Forum.
-Eo,,p Ahoraan6 6o1on frooa ~npa
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shock hair and showed white scar
extending along the whole of the scalp.
A silence as of death reigned through
the court, as Judge, jury and spectators
looked with breathless excitement at
the prisoner, and witness. Capt. Sharpe
stared hard at the interrogation; q
strange, puzzled expression came over
his face, then he slowly muttered:
"Heavens! Is it possible? Why, you
must be Tom Wilson, my old boat
swami"
"Tom Wilson," exclaimed the pris-
oner, triumphantly. I'm course am;
and now, Cap'n Sharpe, you won't say
as you don't rememb Der me-"
Capt. Sharpe said nothing, but hastily
leaving the witness box he made his way
across the court to the dock; then he
seized the prisoner by the hand, and,
turning to the judge with tears in his
eyes, he said:
my lord, there is some terrible mis-
take here. This is certainly Tom Will
son, my old bo'sun; but he's SO
changed, suppose, by the anxiety and
imprisonment he has undergone, that
I did not recognize him at first. My
lord, he was the best man on board my
ship; he saved my life, and Providence
has sent me here, as by miracle, to
save his. He could have had nothing to
1o with this burglary in April, for the
ship did not reach Plymouth till May
1. He had no moro to do with the bur-
glary than I had. You can't hang the
old bo'sun Of the Vulture, my lord, un-
less you hang his captain with him."
The scene which followed has prob
ably never had a parallel in any court
Of Justice. The spectators gave vent to
their pent-up emotions in ringing
cheers, which the Judge made no at
tempt to check. Indeed, he was him
self so affected that the tears were run
ninng down his cheeks. When silence
was restored his lordship turned to the
jury and said:
"Gentlemen, I think this is a case in
which you may well reconsider your
verdict"
"We have, my lord" promptly re-
piled the foreman, land we find the
prisoner not guilty"
This was the signal for fresh out
break of enthusiastic cheers; and, not
content with this, as soon as Tom Will
son and Capt. Sharpe with difficulty
made their way out Of court they were
seized upon by some irrepressible spir-
it's and carried shoulder-high in tri-
umph to the Lion hotel.
About ten o'clock that night Capt.
Sharpe, accompanied by his faithful
boatswain, left Chester for London.
Had the Judge and jury overheard the
conversation that passed between them
they would probably have been more
astonished than by anything which had
transpired in court
"Well, old pal" Capt. Sharpe was
saying, I'VE pulled through that busi-
ness pretty well, I think. That was q
good idea Of Willy Bob's, waiting for
the verdict. We could never have
touched that evidence"
EYES," Tom Wilson answered, "and
you acted it perfectly. If you had cot
toned to me minute sooner believe
they'd have twigged it. S'help mel I
thought 1 should ha' burst when I saw
the old beak Observation-Disclosures.
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At Nankaaket Beach.

Hicks-Les's see; what shall we have7
Wicks-Tm going to have some blue
fish. A bluefish, you know, isn't worth;
a cent unless it is Just out Of the water.
When I'm at the shore I always eat ell
the bluefish can get
IF you want bluefsh sir, you'll have
to wait until the train gets in from
the city. It's due in about ten minutes"
Boston Transcript.
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1t is a remarkable fact that since
the dawn Of civilization there has been
steady flow of gold and silver, espe-
cially of the latter, to India and China,
and none of it has ever come back. In
the absence of banks and places Of Sc
curity the inhabitants hoard their gains
and earnings, and the soil of India and
the Celestial empire II thus veritable
gold and silver mine,
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i
NAVY"
lnent at the man who thus coolly urged
the Judge to hasten his execution, while
at the same time protesting his inno-
cence. The Judge was evidently touched
ind perplexed, for after a moments
pause he said:
''But, prisoner, the court has no wish
to hang a man who may be innocent.
Is there no one who could speak for
you?"
Thomas Wilson looked in hopeless
sort Of way round the court.
s.Not likely" he began, but sudden
ly he stopped short, look of astonish-
ment came over his face, he leaned
eagerly forward, his eyes seemed start
ing from their sockets. Everyone in
court instinctively turned and gazed in
the direction in which the prisoner was
staring. Slowly Thomas Wilson raised
lis arm, and, pointing solemnly to the
stranger from the Lion hotel, who sat
TN the bench, said, in voice half ohoked
by emotion:
"Ye-es, there's gentleman there who
might speak for me, If he would"
The Judge turned sharply round. "Do
you know the prisoner" he asked.
mo, my lord" was the reply. II
never saw him before in my life."
A deep groan burst from the prisoner,
and it was echoed by something very
like a sigh of disappointment from the
people in court.
"Well, Cap'n Sharpe, if you put the
rope round my neck, I give in. Go on,
my lord, I'm ready for the yardarm."
"Stay," said the Judge, turning again
10 the stranger, q slight, active, wiry-
looking person, whose yellow visage
showed that he had seen service in
1ropic climes. "Are you Capt Sharpe"
Eyes, my lord" was the reply.
"Well, the prisoner seems to recognize
you, and though it is undoubtedly ir-
regular, yet, under the peculiar circum-
Atances, I will ask you to step into the
witness box and be sworn, in order that
the prisoner may ask you questions"
Capt. Sharpe stepped into the witness
box. Thomas Wilson, whose agitation
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At Work on tho Skeleton

I'll just bet, Mariar," said Mr.. Marsh
hollow, pridefully, shat our son Hi
ram is a-goin' ter do big things up ter
tibet medikil college. I heered him
awhile ergo a-tellin' Their hired man that
when Their other boys played Their banjo
he worked Their bones."-N Y. Press.
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should like very much to get into court
Il possible.
II am captain in the royal navy"
he added, land perhaps that may ena-
BILE me to gain some favor"
The landlord offered to help his guest,
and was successful il; obtaining for him
q seat on the bench.
The first case on the list was one OF
burglary. The prisoner, who gave his
name as Thomas Wilson, denied all
knowledge of the bnrglarious charge
upon which he was arraigned, and
stated that he was sailor, and had
just been paid off.
When requested to explain how GER
tain articles came into his possession,
he said that he had purchased them
of a poor man. This explanation was
childish in the extreme.
His answers to other accusations were
equally simple and unsatisfactory.
The evidence against him was ever
whelming.
After q brief summing up from the
Judge, the jury found a verdict of guilty
without leaving the box. Then the
clerk of arraigns put the formal ques-
ton:
"Prisoner at the bar, you have heard
the verdict of the jury. Have you any,
thing to say why sentence of death
should not be passed upon you?"
The prisoner, who was a tall, power
full, fine-looking man, drew himself up
erect-he was evidently suffering from
great emotion-but, hastily brushing
his coat-sleeve across his eyes, he
turned to the judge, and said, in a gruff
but not unpleasant voice:
'Well, cap'n, it's hard to be hung for
nothin', but can see this yere is yard.
arm business. I knows no more o this
ere burglary nor babby; but these
witnesses ha'n't told no lies, I s'pose.
And what can say agin 'em? When
this thing came off I was fighting the
slavers on the Gold Coast. But you We
got no call to believe that, so there's
an end Off,
There was something bluff and manly
about the prisoners manner which i'm
pressed the judge, who said, not I'M
kindly:
'But surely, prisoner, if your story
is true, you must have friends and COM
rades with whom you could have COM
municated? If you had thought they
could do you good, you would have
done this. 1t is too late now"
you're right cap'n, it is too late.
But it's all very we'll to say let 'em
know when a man is,locled up in Jail
and can't read nor write, and don't
know where they are. They may be
in Ameriky, and they may be at the
cape, and how could / let EN- know ?
Leastways, not in time. No, it's no use,
cap'n, and you'd better order me to
be run up to the yardarm at once"
Everyone in court stared in amaze
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The Beginning Of tho End.

Something whizzed through the air
at distance of about ten feet from the
head Of William the Conqueror. Wasn't
1T went rather too wide for q mar
row." said the court jester, and from
that moment his Office began to lose in
importance and respectability.-1n.
dianapolis Journal.
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Ashes Of coal from the mines Of tho
Transvaal coal trust and other COM
panies in South, Africa have been Ana
iyzed recently and FOUND to contain
nine pennyweights Of gold to the ton.
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The clover seed OF this country y
held in high repute in Europe, q, eoo,e7s
pounds of it being sent abroad last year:
for use there and $2,124, eo7 returned IN
exchange.
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Wanted to He Excused.

Wanted to he Excused.
He latter the second act)-Well, IT
you'll excuse me guess I'll go out and
get a breath of fresh air.
Shelf it's the same kind of breath
thnt you went out for when was here
with you before I'd rather you wouldn't
bring it in with you.-Boston Courier.
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AN ALTERED VERDICT.

n the days long ago,
when minor Of
lenses were pun
ishable by death, q
stranger who was
otaying at the Lion
hotel, Che 9 t Q r,
hearing that a
somewhat remark
able trial was to
come off at the as
size courts. said he
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"A bronze cent was issued in accord.
ance with law passed in 1887, and it,
coinage was begun in 1864
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o.; Switzerland has in circulation an
equal amount Of gold and silver, or
t15, 000, 900 in each kind OF metal. -
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-Four thousand dozen frogs were
last year exported to France.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1896-07-09

by local applications AS they cannot
reach the diseased portion OF the ear
There Is only one way 20 cure deafness,
and that ~ by constitutional remedies.
Deafness Is caused by an innaned con.
ditiOn OF the mucous hpnQ Of the Eus-
tachian Tube. When this tube Is in-
famed you have n rumbiiuu sound or
imperfect bearing, and when 10 Is en-
tirely closed. Deafness is the result.
and unless the inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored 20 It's
normal condition, hearing will be de-
strOyed forever nine cases ont Of ten
are caused by catarrh. which is nothing
but an jnhamed condition Of the mucous
surfaces
We will give One Hundred Dollars
FOR any case Of Deafness (caused by
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Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars; free.
r. T. CHENEY g. co, Toledo. o.
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