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Winter Homo of the Wild Duck.

winner hOm0 Oh tuo "llu OuCAs
The long low coast of the Gulf OF
Mexico is the winter home of the wild
duck. He is there in millions. This
This coast is lined with fresh water
ponds, little way back from the sea,
and in these ponds grows the "sen.
ma" weed. It bears small black
bean that is the ducks delight. The
ponds will average a mile in length by
q half mile in width. Sometimes in
their middle grows q clump of live
oaks. Their surfaces not infrequently
are literally covered with wild fowl.
If frightened by the down-swooping
hawk they rise with a sound like
thunder, audible more than mile
away. If camera were focused upon
one of these ponds and the birds
flushed the resulting negative would
show only solid black wall. On a
sunshiny day have lain in the grass
at one end of q sheet of fresh water
when the ducks were frightened by
the report of gun fred at the other
end. They have stresmed over me at
q height of 200 yards in such masses
that was as completely shaded as if
T had held an umbrella. In these
brilliant streaming crowds were all
the colors that ever came to the vision
of painters very riot of hue, once
seen never to be forgotten.-Chicago
Times-Herald.
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Proeurine Tortoise Shell.

The tortoise shell of commerce is
not, as generally believed, the horny
covering or shell proper of the turtle;
it is the scales which cover the shield.
These scales are thirteen in number.
eight of them being fiat and the other
five somewhat curved. Four of those
that are fiat are quite large, sometimes
being as much as twelve inches long
and seven inches broad, nearly trans
parent and beautifully variegated in
color with red, yellow, white and dark
brown clouds, which give the effects
30 fully brought out when the shell is
properly polished. A turtle of average
size will furnish about eight pounds of
these an eighth to q quarter of an inch
in thickness.v York Post.
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The Founder of New York.

In a letter sent by the mayor Of
New York some time ago in answer
to request from Vienna, Austria, for
the name of the founder of the city,
the following staten msnt is made:
"All authorities agree that Peter
Minuit, concerning whose nationality
there is difference of opinion, arrived
in New Netherlands on the Sea Gull,
Skipper Tienpont commanding, on
May 4, 1923. He was a director of
the newly formed and powerful Dutch
India Company. There is also no diff.
ference of opinion that it was the re-
doubtable Peter who purchased
Manhattan Island from the Indians
and founded in the same year, 1928,
New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam
afterward became New York. If the
city ever erects monument in
memory of its founder, Peter Minuit
will come in for that honor.
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The Dangers OF Lap Dogs.

The death of Mile. Santasiero, Of
Paris, is reported. She was the
daughter of the former chef of Queen
Isabella, who keeps well-known res
taurant in Paris. The young lady was
only twenty years of age, and had a
bull terrier named Bob, of whom she
was very fond. Two months ago Bob
became i'll. His mistress nursed
him and lavished caresses on him. He
showed his gratitude by licking her
hands and face. One day he ran away
from her and howled if she went near
him and. attempted to bite her foot.
Mile. Santasiero became ILL; fever
supervened, and then convulsions.
For two days her convulsive state was
dreadful. The third day she was
quiet until toward the end, when con-
gestion supervened and she died. No
trace of any bite was found on any
part of her body, but the doctors
think that the dogs saliva must have
been absorbed as he licked her face.
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Planted the Tree For Their Cofans.


Mr.. and Mrs. Jarrett Haynes arrived
in the city Wednesday from Marshall
County. Mr.. Haynes and wife are
over ninety years of age each. They
were on the site now occupied by the
thriving city OF Paducah as early as
1929, when the town was wilderness.
Nearly fifty years ago the aged couple
planted a walnut in the yard, from
which sprung tree. 1t grew to be a
large tree, and a year or two ago was
cut down and sawed into timber. The
lumber is now at the Haynes home,
and is being saved to make the cofins
of the eccentric couple when they die.
-Paducah (Ky.) Register.
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Meek Lion,

The lamb viii soon have TO retire to
a secondary place among the meek L
many lions display the disposition Of
the ones caught recently by B. Car.
ruthers Smith in South Africa. Speak.
ing of some lions he caught, he says.
''The young lion sleepsin my room.
Last night I had three dogs and the
lion all loose in my room, the lion
sleeping in my bed. I have just been
up to the hospital showing the lion to-
the sisters and Mr.. Roodes's brother,
as also to q whole school Of boys and
girls. They were all greatly pleased
with it I,only lent him for yesterday
morning to be exhibited; he realized:
altogether $685." .ars s
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FEATHERS OF GREAT PRICE.
Rare and Curious Plunder from Birds
Atprettes Worth 6,2S3, 800 Reis.

Rare and Curious Plunder from Birds-
AiErettes Worth 6,es3,eoo Refs.
Many curious things go through the
appraisers stores, and some OF the
most interesting through the fifth
division, where millinery goods are
examined and appraised. All sorts OF
birds and feathers are examined by
this division. Within few days
several large boxes were examined,
each containing something like 500
stuffed paroquets. A box was opened
this week in which it was estimated
there were nearly 5000 Japanese
swallows. These little birds are
caught by the Japanese in immense
numbers by means of nets. Their
plumage is very plain, but their wings,
which are extraordinarily long, make
them especially valuable to milliners.
The birds when imported are rudely
stuffed with cotton, and each one is
made up into q little roll about the
size and shape of an ordinary cigar.
Before being used they are twisted
into various shapes and dyed, the
wings spread and new feathers added,
and they are made into gay and fancy
birds.
The most valuable kind of feather
goods that passes through the ap-
praisers' hands is undoubtedly the
aigrette. This feather is worth more
than its weight in gold. The aigrette
is obtained from a bird called the
egret, found in China, Japan, Egypt
and South America, and sometimes in
Florida. Some of these feathers come
directly from South America, where,
along the upper waters of the Amazon,
the Indians shoot the birds with blow
tubes and small arrows. But Paris is
the market of the world for aigrettes.
just as London is for ostrich plumes,
and the greatest part Of the imports
come directly from the French capital.
Within the past two months aigrettes
to the value Of $50, 600 have been i'm
ported.
There are two varieties of the
aigrette, the long and the short, and
their value is in inverse proportion to
their size. The short variety, which
is obtained from smaller bird, is e1-
tremely delicate and fine, and is worth
from $22 to $25 an ounce. Only q
few feathers on each bird are valuable,
and it is estimated that fifty or sixty
birds would have to be killed to obtain
an ounce of the shorter sigrettes.
The long aigrette is worth not much
more than half as much. a.. SO.
These feathers are looked after as
carefully by the appraisers as are pre-
cious stones. They are imported in
soldered tin boxes, and are locked up
and guarded until they are examined.
They are invoiced in the Brazilian
unit of value, reis, which is very small,
so that the figures giving the values
Of the imports are often. startlingly
large. One importation of these
feathers was recently invoiced to the
value of 5,2S3, 800 reis, an amount
which in American gold is equal to
about $100.-New York Mail and
Express. ..
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The South Sea Islanders.

I The Rev. B. -Waralaw Thompson,
the foreign secretary of the London
Missionary Society, Nho has paid a
lengthy visitation tour among the
South Sea Islands reports that in New
Guinea, where the society has had
missionaries at work for twenty-five
years very satisfactory progress has
been made. He eulogizes the Gov
ernor, Sir William McGregor, for the
splendid way in which he has reduced
the country to order, getting the vari-
ous tribes to live in peace, and open.
ing up and developing the interior.
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times week teaspoonful of sulphur.
This will assist materially in the
growth of the new feathers. The drain
caused by feather forming used up
the food that would otherwise 60 to
the making of fat, and in consequence
they can consume much more corn
and other fattening rations, without
the least danger of injury. It has
been my custom for years, at the be-
ginning of the moulting season, to feed
more literally and also to use such
foods as we are usually taught to be-
ware of during hot weather, my object
being to get the fowls into the pink Of
condition before the height of the
molt, in order that they may pass
through that critical time without bad
effects. With the first sign of molt, I
reduce the green bone rations until,
at this time, they get them only once
week. I keep this up, according to
seasons and the age of fowls, until
about the 18th of October or the first OF
November, when I resume the feeding
for eggs.
It is now more important than ever
that the young chickens be kept separ.
ated from the fowls, for as they are
not molting, but on the contrary grow.
ing, they require much animal food
and an abundance of oil feed in order
to rush their growth as much as posi-
BILE. Give growing chicks plenty Of
room and there is no danger whatever
of overwhelming them, but if you wish
to obtain the best results, give them
such variety of food as will induce
them to eat, for the more they eat the
quicker they will grow, provided they
are in ordinary good health.
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BOO Reward. 500.

The readers Of this paper will be pleased to
1earn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure in all its
STAGES. and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure Is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being const1tq-
tional disease requires a constitutional treat
ment, ,HalFs Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces Of the system, thereby destroying tho
foundation Of the disease, and giving the pa
tient strength by building up the consaeuTTSn non
proprietors have SO much fa th In its curative
powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars
Tor any case that It fails to cure. Send for list
of testimonials. Address
F. J. CHENEY & Co.. Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall,a Family Pills are the best.
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The Worry Of It.

The world has como to know that tn
muscles have much to do with the healtf
Of the system, and the era Of athletics hsf
SO developed them that the whole man Is
stronger being than in former years. But
the worry of 1t all is that the muscles ar{
Of the flesh, feshy. A little twist, or slip
or jerk-these happen In all work-a1S
then q sprain. Sprains disable and an
costly in time and money, but not II st,
Jacobs OIL is used, for 1t cures surely and
promptly and the worry Of It Is over.
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whoopins Cough Quarantine.

A French physician has proved to a
certainty that the"contagious period in
whooping cough comes previous to the
appearance of the 'whoop." Now the
questions arise, How are children to
be guarded against the contagion?
and, Of what use is it to quarantine
them against going to school after the
"whoop"h has made it evident that they
have the disease? Physicians are now
studying these new problems.
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Chance for O Reign.

A West Africa king has just had On
umbrella made for him twenty-one
feet in diameter. When he use this
umbrella, which opens and closes in
the usual way, it is fixed in the ground,
and there is room underneath it for
the king and thirty guests to take
dinner.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Dangerous Crop Pests.

A reader thinks we would do we'll to
,all attention to the method now pur-
sued in North Carolina under the pro-
visions of chapter 264 of the laws OF
1897 of that State-'An Act to Pre-
vent the Introduction or Dlssemlna-
ton of Dangerous Insect, Fungous and
Weed Pests of Crops" This act con-
stitutes special unsalaried commits
sion consisting of the State Commits.
sioner of Agriculture, the Director OF
the North Carolina Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station, and the President OF
the State Horticultural Society. 1t is
the duty of this commission to "adopt
regulations not inconsistent with the
laws and constitution of this State and
the United States, for preventing the
introduction of dangerous crop pests
from without the State, and for gov
erning common carriers in transport
ing plants liable to harbor such pests
to and from the State, and such regu-
lations shall have the force of laws" !"
The act goes on to say that ''ao per-
son, firm or corporation shall know:
ingly and willfully keep upon his or
their premises any plant infested by
any dangerous crop pest listed and
published as such by said commission,
or permit dangerous weed,pests to ma
ture seed or otherwise multiply upon
their land, except under such regula-
tions as the commission may prescribe;
every such infested plant and premises
are hereby declared public nuisance.
Acting under this authority, the com
mission declares the following insect
parasites and fungous diseases Of
plants to be dangerous pests of crops:
San Jose scale, greedy scale, West In
dia scale, gloomy scale, scurfy scale,
oyster shell scale, enonymus scale,
walnut scale, plum scales, peach yel-
lows, peach and plum rosette, fire
blight and black knot.-Country Gen
tleman.
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How To Learn To Cook.

Cooking is fine art which must be
learned by study. Good books on the sub
ject are necessary. Among tie best now
published Is little work containing four
hundred recipes from the best authorities.
It can be had free of cost by sending
stamp to the Cleveland Baking Powder Co.,
New York. ELIZA r. PARKER.
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Tho Madagssear Parrot.

A rare specimen Of q Madagascar
parrot, called ''coracopsis vasa," " has
been added to the Geological Gardens,
London. These birds are rarely seen
in captivity, and for the last ten years.
no specimen has been on view. The
bird measures eighteen inches in
length, has q white bill and beautiful
plumage of dull grayish black color.
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Ancient Relics Discovered,

Professor Cushing has just made an
examination of the Pine Island Keys,
in Florida, and discovered the remains
Of villages and numerous relics Of an:
oient lake dwellers whose ancient affini-
ties are still unknown. Judging from
their steel and copper implements or
weapons, their pottery, masks and
modes of sculpture, they appear to be
akin to the ancient Mexican people.
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Astonished Him.

The gentleman with the aggressive
odor of alcohol handed Mr.. Wallace q
card that read: sa
"Deer friend, could you be SO kind ,".
To assist a felIow-man deef, dunn and
blind7" q,
"By guml" exclaimed Wallace, in
real surprise, sis it possible you dia-
lect poets have been reduced to this
sort of thing?"-Indianapolis Journal.
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OUR BUDGET OF HUM0R.
LAUcHTER.PRovoKINc STORIES FOR
LOVERS OF FUN.

Song, Anyway How 1t Happened-
Rushed-The Final Touch-A Custom
Changed-A Sly Dog-sized Him Up
Was a Lucky Man-Economical, Etc.
Love is grand sweet song,
Fen in the case OF her
Who can't love to the tune OF anything
less
Than ten thousand dollars per.
Detroit Journal.
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There - q Glass of People

Thek6 u VIAss Ok eoPHo
Who are injured by the use Of coffee. Re-
Gently there has been placed In all the grocery
stores new preparation called GRANT o. made
OF pure grains, that takes the place Of coffee.
The most delicate stomach receives It without
distress ard but few can tell 1t from conee.
1t does not cost over one.Quarter as much.
Children may drink it with great benefit 10
cts. and Is cts per package. Try It Ask Tor
Grain-O.
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How 1t Happened.

IT wish," said the young man. "that
you would be less informal and call
me by my first name"
"I'd rather not" replied his fair
companion; "your last name suits me-"
A few minutes later they were dis
cussing the merits of the different
firms that supply furniture upon the
instslment plan.-Chioago News.
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During the last twelve months the
retiring Lord Mayor of London, Sir
George Faudel Philips, has raised
S3, 500, 900 in charitable funds.
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During temperance revival at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, young man who was con
yerted confessed that he was guilty OF a
robbery for which another man has been
imprisoned since last fall. He was ar.
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Rushed.

"Do you never take day Oh,
Hustler?" -,.
"Take day off? No; I am lucky IL i
I don't have to put an extra day on"
Chicago Record.
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How It Happened.

''Did you ever catch your husband
firting?" =,
eyes; that's the way I caught him."
Pick -Me-Up.
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Her Woman Instinct.

"She refused to marry him year
ago but after trolley car cut his feet
off she nursed him to health and then
accepted him."
eyes, that was the woman OF it.
She could not refuse him after he had
been marked down. The Yellow
Book.
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Sized Him Up.

An Irishman, who had jumped into
the water to save a man from drown
ing, on receiving a sixpence from the
rescued man, looked first at the six
pence and then at the donor, saying:
"Be jabers, I am overpaid for that
iob. Tit Bits.
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Reason For Agreement.

"He agrees with me that my make
of wheel is the best in the world.
"That's strange"
"Well, not so very. You see ne
has q wheel just like mine. The
Yellow Book.
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Know Where the Rocks Are.

Jollyboy-"I should think the women
would have the greatest success at
mining in the Klondike.
Pumpernickel-"Why so?"
Jollyboy-'They're 30 good at 60
ing through pockets.
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ABorax Soap, "Dreydoppel's,"
Cures chapped hands, dandruff, cleanses fin
est clothes. Be sure get Dreydoppels, the
only genuine: full pound bars. Dreydoppers
borax soap.,
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Was q Lucky Man.

spriggs-'.H Hello, old man, I'm
awfully glad to see you out again. 1
heard that the doctors gave you up.
Bowles-"Yes, I guess I'd have died
if they hadn't" ."-Cleveland Leader.
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Broke Him.

Kittie-"I heard to-day that you
married you husband to reform him."
Sarah-"I did"
Kittie- -"Why, I didn't know he had
any bad habits. 3"
Sarah-"He had one-he was a
bachelor. ."-Pathfnder.
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Economical.

-s'The tailor said he couldn't
make the gown for less than 1925, 80 I
told him to go ahead"
Husband-"Why in the world didn't
YOU consult me frst?"
1T didn't want to spend the carfare
for two visits, dear" Life.
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Invoking the Law.

'sKitty has sued Jack for breach OF
promise.
"Breach of promise? Why, they
are married."
"I know, but he promised to buy
her a wheel and he hasn't done it,
Chicago Record.
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Sounded Familiar,

Della -"Professor Monograph is
visiting you, I understand. Doesn't
be find the sights and sounds of the
city odd?"
Amelia "Not at all. Somepeddlers
passed the house to-day crying their
wares and the dear old man asked me
what college they belonged to. Puck.
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Not Quite Useless.

Teacher-"So you've forgotten al
ready what T told you yesterday.
What's the use of your head, Johnnie
Miggs?" :,
Johnnie Miggs-''Please, sir, to
keep my collar on. "-Pick-Me-Up.
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A Sly Dog.

She (coldly)-'I hardly know how
to receive your proposal. You know
T am worth million, of course?'
He (explosively)-"Yes, worth
million other girls!"
She (rapturously)-"Oh! Tom"-
-Tit-Bits.
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A Custom Changed.

ga unique gavel was presented to
our literary club this afternoon.
"What was unique about it?" =.
"It wasn't made of historic wood. !"
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Iinoo Of the Trade.

"Here are some of the finest i'm.
ported trouserings," said the sales
man, "and our suitings-"
"I came in" interrupted the patron,
"to look at some vestings and under
shirtings. Chicago Post.
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Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous.
ness after first days use of DR.. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. So trial bottle and treatise free
Dr.. r 81. KLINE, Ltd. Bl Arch St, Phila., Pa.
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The Final Touch.

"Hello, Jerry; got your new fiat
all fitted up?"
"Not quite. Say, do you know
where I can buy a folding tooth
brush?" ?"-Chicago Record. a..
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A Cleansing Process.

Rover-"Towser is awful fastidi.
ous."
Nero-"In what way?"
Rover-"Why, he always runs
tramps through the pond before he
bites them" New York Journal.
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Entirely Too Generous.

"What's that?" exclaimed the deaf
individual, who was held up by a foot
pad. ''Money or my wife? Take
her, my boy; take her."
"Not on your life," said the foot.
pad as he dashed around the corner.
-Tit-Bits.