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Why take Johnson's
Chill & Fever Tonic?
Because it cures the
most stubborn case
0fFever i'm ONEDAH.
4 Carrier Pigeon Service In Hawaii

A carrier pigeon service on a large
scale is about to be established on the
Hawaiian islands. Pigeon flying is
generally carried on as q pastime, and
is the national sport of Belgium, buta
company has Just been formed IN Hon.
olulu to utilize the peculiar traits OF
the homing pigeons in a business
which is set forth in o prospectus as
being very remunerative.
Birds have already been bought and
taken to the islands.
The proposition is to establish lofts
on all of the different islands In the
Hawaiian group, beginning first with
Hawaii, Maui, Kauai and Oahu. By
means of fast-fying pigeons messages
can be sent from Honolulu to all the
towns and plantations on the different
islands, and vice versa. 1t is believed
that not less than fifty plantations will
contribute to the scheme.
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HAYDEN BRFoRE THE PAYMENT.

treaty was arranged between them and
the Government that the freedmen
should be received into that Nation as
citizens and hold land in common
with the Cherokees. When the Cher
okee strip was sold the Indians forgot
the provisions of the treaty and wasted
all the money, but the Court Of
Claims gave. $500, 900 to the freedmen
/ and it was the distribution Of this
large sum that brought the people
together.
Hayden is twelve miles from The
railroad aud the gathering was Fall
housed in. tents, for there was no lime
to make permanent dwellings if there
had been an intention. The Indians.
and freedmen were accompanied 81 o
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yy,ter Carried the Current.

At recent fire in the basement of
a Chicago electric power-house, the
fremen had great trouble in getting
at the blaze. They had to chop holes
in the floor of the dynamo-room be-
fore they could get stream on the
blazing pile of waste. Not waiting
for the dynamos to be shut down they
crept through the black smoke and
turned a stream on the flames.
In an instant they were flung to the
ground with great violence, aud the
hose sent flying into the air. Aheavy
current had passed along the sk"alG
and had shocked them. Though I'M
conscious when rescued they quickly
recovered. Electrical Review.
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they all look alike to the stranger. The
public school is one Of the unknown
factors of Indian life in this section
and there are few who can read and
write.
The camp has been the most orderly
in the history of the Indian Territory
payments. In former cases there has
been always a larger attendance OF the
tough element which has made the
nights hideous. Here the nights be-
come wild about the midnight hour
and then the fellows" who want to
cut dash are in their element. Then
it is that the Alkali Ikes are ready to
go out and shoot few holes In the at
mosphere without warning. Girls with
red ribbons in their hair are here and
they edo" the town of tents in the
most approved fashion, while the old
folks are having q shouting prayer
meeting, after the manner of the COL
ored folks of the South. The brethren
from Oklahoma are numerous and they
are usually of the sort that has the
money-making craze well developed.
There is an attempt to keep gambling
off the grounds, but with small sue
cess.
Owe in the Usage portion Of the
terrific y ever member of the tribe /!
wealthy. The men are handsome ano
the squaws are not bad-looking. They
are few in number and are decreasing
every year. Now there are only S4i
voters in the tribe and they are th'
recipients of the bounty that NIGH
we'll make prince happy. The trlb'
has 100000 acres of land and abou
$1,000, 600 in the United States Treas
ury, on which the interest is $4OO, oO'
year. This is paid every thre
months and it amounts then to S54 10
each man, women and child in tn
tribe. Of the $4OO, 1000 one-tenth
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HAYDEN DURING. THE PAYMENT.

seem to have made up their minds that
they are on honor to behave themselves
and they do so. They keep on their
reservations and any wrong doings
that are reported are usually OF the
harmless order.
It is plain that they are taking on
the customs of the whites, and some
Kansans who went down to the terri
tory to fleece the poor redskin at one
of the pay days, taking with them
about $500, had to send home for
money to pay return fare. They made
up their minds that the Indian is not
quite such an unsophisticated individ-
ual as he is purported to be in the
pages of Fenimore Cooper.
The one thing that they cannot break
themselves of is the habit of begging
At all the stations squaws and chill
dren sit, waiting for victims. The pa.
pooses will be shown for nickel and
for quarter there will be circus
performance.
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set aside for education and the chill
dren are all sent to school. They go
to Catholic boarding schools and are
not allowed toget the apportionment if
they are not in school. The Indians,
too, have large amount of rent from
their land, which they lease to the
cattlemen for cash.
Frequently the leading men go East
on visit and travel in Pullman cars,
as do other luxurious Westerners.
They take their families to Europe and
have for their servants white men and
women who are tempted by the prince
ly wages to forget that they are the
superior race. While fullbloods wear
in the council chamber, and sometimes
on the street, the full robes of the In
dian warrior, for the most part they
are dressed in the ordinary fashion of
the whites. One of the wealthiest
men, who by the way has twelve chill
dren, lives in house that is the equal
of any city residence, having costS10,-
600. It has all the improvements of
plumbing and heating and is as COM
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mouth when he found himself thrown
violently from his feet. He cahght n
glimpse Of the water pouring up the
stairway, and then the lamp was cap
sized and went out. Next he found
himself pounding about in the water.
"Fred! Fred!" came the agonized
voice Of Polly.
"Here I ami" spluttered Fred. In
falling he had caught the edge Of the
trap-door and Polly helped him to the
roof.
eve had all we could do to hold
on" gasped Grandmother Melton.
,ssWe're moving" shouted Polly.
They rocked and scraped and
bumped along, with the water swirling
and crashing around them.
"It's our first voyage said Fred,
with an effort to laugh; 'sp'raps we'll
wind up in the Gulf of Mexico"
But Polly didn't laugh, neither did
Grandmother Melton.
A few minutes later they heard some
one shouting far out on the stream and
they saw the glimmer of Q lantern.
They shouted in return, but there was
no answer, aud presently the lantern
was swallowed up in the darkness and
the three castaways were even more
lonesome and terrified than before.
They were compelled to cling firmly
to the rope and the ridgepole all the
time, for the house was continually
humping against distractions in the
stream and careening and jolting like Q
boat in o rough sea. Besides this.
they were wet to the skin and shiver'
ing with cold and fright. Occasionally
huge forms would loom up near them
and they would see the outline of tree:
or buildings floating down the river
They were momentarily afraid lest theil
boat should bump into something ant
be broken up. IF this happened they
knew they would have small hope O
escape.
| Quite suddenly they felt the build
ing grind on something, and then, will
jolt, it came to standstill. The.
could hear the ti1nbers strain and creal
4 and the current Of the stream splashint
about it, but it did not move.
/ "Well, we're anchored" said Fred
''I suppose we're out somewhere on
sandbar in the Mississippi"
"Do you think we have reached
Memphis?" asked Polly, anxiously.
To Polly it seemed as if they ha'
been drifting for hours.
For long time they remained al
most still. Occasionally they ioine'
their voices in great shout, but ther
was no answer. Fred said the waite
roared so loud that no one could hea
it, anyway, but it eased their spirits t
be doing something.
At last they started again with ier
and q shiver, as if some of the timber
of the building had given away. The
bumped on for what seemed an endles
time, and then, after scraping alon
, for some minutes, they again stopped
By this time the rain had ceased an
the moon shone out family throug
+ the clouds.
"There's lights" cried Polly, Joy
D fully.
: Sure enough, on the hill, not such
e great distance away, they could sc
s many lights cleaning out over til
r water. Nearer, there were othe
t lights moving about, as if in boats.
: "It's Memphis" said Polly, mn
s then they all shouted at the top
their voices.
: But no one heard them. The wat'
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Dairying and Rotation.

Dairying assists in arranging the
rotation of crops on the farm and COM
pels the adoption of clover as one of
the sources for retaining fertility. The
manure made by herd of dairy COWS
is as valuable as the milk sold from
some herds, and in the rotation of
crops it is applied to the fields which
require it for certain crops. Corn, for
instance, being a crop that can utilize
any amount of manure, is given care
full cultivation, which cleans the
ground for wheat or oats, the time
during which the corn occupies the
land also permitting of the decomposi-
ton of the coarse materials. The
manure should be used on gross feed
ing crops, corn being one of the best
for that purpose.-Home and Farm.
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large number Of fakirs, who had the
most enticing devices for the money
to be paid out. They put up "Mid-
way Plaisauce," where all sorts OF
games were in progress. Then, to
swell the crowd, there we're hundreds
of business men who have been sell
ing goods to the freedmen for months
on credit, trusting in the coming OF
this auspicious time for their pay.
The total number of freedmen on the
rolls was over 1900, and each share
was worth $1SS.74. The paymentwas
made by family, and on account of the
tangled relationship of race thatwas
so lately slaves, the making of the
rolls proved to be tremendous task:
The Identification of the members OF
the families was no less operous, for
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THOs. b. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR.
SOMEWHERE.

Somewhere, know, we shall find them all.
The rose that blossonsed beyond our
reach,
The star that hid meath an fnky pail
Just as we staggered across the beach;
The bird that stified its cunning song
Just as we paused moment to hear,
The fruit ne'er ripened for which we long,
The skies that darkened will all be clear.
Somewhere, I know that the kisses wait
For which we languished In days gone by,
And smiles viii greet US alert, elate,
For which we waited in years that die.
The words unspoken coma loud and clear,
The words withheld in tie dim. sad past
Shall All with rapture our list'ning ear, !.
The hearts best pulses beat sweet and
= fast.
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AGRICULTURAL TOPICS.
Concentrating the manure.

There is no farm that makes all the
manure that its owner could proftably
use in cultivating it; hence we must
either purchase commercial fertilizers
or restrict his production to the area he
can fertilize. It does not pay to spread
an insufficient quantity of manure over
the whole farm in order to cultivate
the whole. That involves waste of
labor on land that had much better be
left in grass, though where there is q
near market for garden products buy
ing commercial fertilizers will always
pay. In proportion to their effective
ness, these concentrated manures pay
better than staple manure made on the
farm
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Somewhere, the laurel we missedwhile here
The bays our foreheads reached for in
vain, =
Somewhere the chaplet shall ne'er grow sere
= Nor loss prove victor Ger laggard gain;
The glory be real that once was dream,
The mountain be leveled TO yale below,
And bridge shall span the flercest stream,
Our feet no longer be halt nor slow. =
Somewhere, is.the rest for which We strive,
The breast to pillow d weary head.
A priest to listen and cheer and shrive,
a life Of living where naught is dead;
A peace asYA8tle as yonder cloud X
That fieek with beauty shining sky,
Shal saIl each heart, while the song-birds
FHspS music that ne'er can die. ;
.ana5g Jay, in the Florida Times Union.
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Quinine and other fe-
yer medicines take from5
to 10 days to cure fever.
Johnson's Chill andFeyer
Tonic cures in ONE DAY
WHY THE GREEKS LOSE.
A Side Light Thrown Upon Their Fanics
In Tfessaly.

1.
Aversion to mechanical discipline,
writes Professor Wheeler in the North
American Review, shows itself in the
drill of the Greek troops, as would be
naturally expected from all that We
know of them outside the army. As
people they always create the impres-
sion of disorderliness. Men who walk
together on the street do not keep
step. A Greek funeral procession pre-
sents to our eyes a most disorderly
and individualistic appearance.
The people who compose it go on
foot. and each one seems to be stroll
ing along on his own account. On
arriving at the grave there is likely to
be no fixed order OF procedure. If
there is, people do not conform to
it. Every one does what seems to
him good. Absence OF previous plan
of sense for order is apparent on every
hand. If there occurs halt In the
proceedings through any uncertainty
or lack of preparation debate may
ensue. Three out of four of the bear
ers will prove to be orators. There is
no one person in authority. Five or
six different ones are giving orders or
making suggestions at the same time.
The same popular trait shows itself
wherever masses of people are as
sembled. Any single man is poten-
tial marshal and master of ceremonies
and may develop into such without
warning. All this represents a deep
seated national characteristic and one
that renders the application of strict
military discipline in the form known
to the armies of the north extremely
difficult.
Herein lies the chief ground Of ap-
prehension regarding the fitness of the
Greek to meet the demands of modern
methods of warfare. A German
battalion is a. firmly compaeted ma
chine in which the individual has lost
the sense of autonomy. Panic cannot
resolve it into its constituent elements.
because steady discipline and persis-
tent drill have made machine action a
second nature. In the moment of
emergency Greek battalion is liable
to become "many from one"
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g BOOM TOWN OF TENTS
PICTURESQUE SCENES IN THE INDIAN
TERRITORY.

Great Increase in Hayden's Population
When the Ex-sIaves of tho Cherokee
Tribe Receive SSoo,0oo From the Cow
ernment-Riches of the Usage Nation.
The most interesting town intthe
Indian Territory and one of the xon-
ders of the year, writes a correspon-
dent of the Chicago Record, is Hay
den, where the Government has been
paying off the Cherokee freedmen: A
few weeks ago it was only postoface,
with one store and blacksmith shop.
In few days it became a busy town
of 1000 people, mainly colored. The
one intent of the population was to ore-
ceive checks from the Government Of
which they are the benefciaries.
When the Cherokee Nation liberia
ted its slaves during the Civil Waria
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Made n Curious Legacy.

A curious probate suit has come Up
in the English law courts. An ord
gentleman, lately deceased, left half
million dollars tc found and endow a
church on the condition that every
Sunday, before service, the whole OF
the thirty-nine articles shall be read
by clergyman outside the church
door. Disinherited relatives are con-
testing the validity of the will.
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HUGE ROCK OF MYsl ERY.
Connecticuts Great Bowlder, Largest IN
the United States.

tho United States.
The Connecticut Legislature has
been considering the purchase of the
State of Cochegan Rock, located mid
way between New London and Nor
wich, and said by many persons to be
the largest bowlder in the United
States. 1t is eighty feet long, seventy
eight feet high, contains about 10000
cubic feet of stone, and is estimated
to weigh 10000 tons. It is unques-
tionably relic of the glacial period,
and was deposited in its present rest
ing place very many centuries ago.
Connecticut, says the New York
Herald, has long been q famous stamp
ing ground for the geologist and
paleontologist. Almost everybody who
is at all familiar with ancient birds
and beasts remembers what is known
to science as the Connecticut sand
stone footprints, footprints of birds so
gigantic that it appalls one to think
what they must have been like. Espec-
tally around MontYille are there many
mute evidences of the glacial period,
the stone of Cochegan being the most
notable.
This stone has been studied by the
most famous geologists Of the United
States, but none of them has ever been
able to state with accuracy just what
variety it is. The strangest featureis
that in appearance and in grain it is
totally unlike any other stone found in
Connecticut or New England, this lack
of resemblance extending to other and
smaller powders, which were also evi-
IDENTIFY deposited on Connecticut soil
by glaciers.
Indian tradition says this stone was
for centuries used as council block
by the red men of Connecticut. The
first white man to own the land upon
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Il FLOOD EHHl q HELPED.
s2sssSss8sas9sasasEa:2ss8a:a:sasss

thing else, . called Grandmother Mel
ton.
eFred ran back. The floor of the
cottage was now entirely covered with
water. He splashed through it and
seized oil the clothing, coats and jack
I1ets he could carry. Polly brayeiy
wiped away her tears, and when Fred
brought the loads to the stairway she
ran with them to the bedroom where
Grandmother Melton was sitting.
BY this time the building had be-
gun to shake, and quiYer as the water
beat against it.
"She's going soon" !" shouted Fred.
sI'm afraid the water will reach us
up here" suggested Grandmother
Melton. y
Fred looked up. The ceiling was
low, and just above him there had been
an old trap-door, now nailed up. In
stantly Fred seized the ak and burst
open, Above they could see the
dark sky and the rain coming down in
steady torrents. Fred piled trunk
on top of the table and climbed out on
the roof.
He couldn't see far, but he could
hear the -oaring OF the water from
every direction. His heart sunk; he
felt sure that they would all be
drowned. Suddenly something
thumped heavily against the side of
the building, and the next instant the
front end of the room went up and
grandmother and Polly slipped down
toward the rear end. Fred narrowly
escaped being hurled off the roof.
'sWe're going! We're going!"
screamed Polly.
sWe're just off the foundation" an
swered Fred, rs bravely as he could.
Then he swung back down into the
bedroom aud helped Grandmother
Melton and Polly up through the trap
door to the roof. He covered them up
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SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.

Germany has now electric lights in
over 1000 postal cars, and Austris is
about to adopt the same system.
Among 1918 children in the Weis-
baden schools it has been found that
only three per cent. had sound teeth.
The falling waters of Kern River
have been made to-furnish the electric
power for the town of Bakersfield,
Cal.
The Japanese Government has voted
-, 800, 900 silver dollars for improve
ments and extensions in the telephone
service.
The grand total of the hydraulic
power at NiagaraFalls secured through
electrical appliances is over $4,000
horse power.
It las been estimated that an oak Of
average size, during the five months it
is in leaf eVerv wear, snets from, the
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A Religious Duty.

Mamma Hen-"Where are you go
in'?"
Hortense-"oh, just for a little
spin, mamma" -
Mamma Hen (reprovingiy) -'I
should think you would stay at home
and help your mother scratch up that
new onion bed that Neighbor Peaseley
set out this morning"
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prob'ly won't be back till late"
Fred and Polly drew up their chairs,
and Grandmother Melton brought a
steaming bowl of ,mush from the stove
and dished It into two smaller bowls.
I'm as hungry as abear, observed
Fred, between mouthfuls. sI think
it's shame we have to 60 so far to
school. There isn't single boy or
girl in Springville that has to go half
SO far as we do.''
sT don't see why fatler doesn't
move down there, complained Polly,
pouring more of the rich yellow milk
over her mush; she could get to his
work just as well, and it would be
ever SO much pleasanter than this
lonesome place."
You must remember that your
father isn't d rich man. answered
Grandmother Melton, gently. "He
owns this cottage, aud il, he moved he
would have to rent another home, and
perhaps he couldn't sell this one.'
The Meltons had only been in their
hew home since the summer before.
Eoth Fred aud Polly had enjoyed it
very much indeed during ths pleasant
warm weather of August and Septem-
bsr. Then the wide, swift Mississippi
had cleaned through the willows, and
there had been unlimited. boating aud
swimming and fishing. But with the
coming of winter the roads choked full
oissnow and ice, and the winds swept
up the river sharp andecod, and twas
a dreary, lonesome walk of four miles
to school Eat Springville. AS the win
ter progressed .hey had complained
more and more, and now for o week,
owing TO the spring freshets Poly had
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Portable as could be desired.

The Usage nation is ruled by a coun.
Gil of fourteen members which is
chosen once in two years and which is
in continuous session. 1t meets when
ever there is anything for it to do. The
present council wants to draw from
the fund in the national treasury
sum equal to $500 for each member OF
the tribe and spend it in identifying
the lands of the nation, in building
roads and in erecting public buildings.
They promise that the money shall be
used to, good advantage, but it is
doubtful if it will be allowed. The
elections are like those of other states,
except that the electors go up to the
Judges and announce their choice of
members of the council. No ballots
are used. The lands of the Indians
are separated by a.strip of public do
main about quarter of mile wide
and this cannot be titled. This tends
TO keep the Indians from quarreling
and makes the courts of the nation
comparatively free from business.
The ambition of many Of the from
~ si..s. - !. = hecnme rich has led
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murv,. uao auiiiiat ii,tsvVoi Al AZ iiooi, "a
quite as important as the bone phos'
phate. If we had big pile OF bones
that we wanted to apply to land, we
should cut or break them In as tlne
pieces as possible, and spread them
over an orchard or vineyard, then
plowing them five or six inches be-
meath the surface, taking care not to
put them below the vegetable mould.
In contact with this, enough carbonlo
acid gas would be developed by the de-
composition of vegetable matter to dis
solve the outer portions of the broken
pieces of bone. These would be very
quickly covered with fine feeding roots
from trees or vines. Wherever roots
are feeding, more carbonic acid gas IS
developed. The result is that after
two or three years the bone would be
hcneycombed and filled with roots:
Even large bones can be disposed OF
this way without loss. Placed any
where in the soil of an orchard the
roots will be sure to find them.-Bos-
ton Cultivator.