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cTaEEr CARS iN HUNGARY.
The Poetry of Motion on Wheels and
Smooth as GondoIa.

The Poetry of Motion on Wheels and
Smooth as GondoIa.
Then came the rush for the underground
electric railway, one of its stations being
almost opposite the main entrance of the
exposition. These stations are small
houses, Is by 20 feet square and resting
ON the sidewalk. Once inside, you de-
seend flight of stone steps leading to an
underground room, lined swith white
tiles, the frieze and dado of majolica
in rich colors There are comfortable
seats against the wall for waiting pas
sengers, and double gates, of spiral
~ turned iron with brass ornaments, pro-
tecting the farther end. Across the double
tracked road is another tiled room pro-
tected by similar gates. These two sets of
double gates make q kind of pound, in
which 80 passengers are corralled, as it
were, or q less number ii some of the car
seats are occupied. When a train stops,
the middle door Of the car slides back and
the contents of the pound walk leisurely
aboard. There is no crowding and no
iostling. There are no bent elbows aimed
at your waistband, no hanging to straps,
no making half parenthess of your body
that a stout woman with basket may
pass while you still keep tight hold of your
overhead brace. Every passenger has a
wide and comfortable seat, cushioned with
velvet. The cars themselves are Of mahog-
any or hard wood, the lights are brilliant,
the roadbed as smooth as floor. Each
car starts as gently as yacht with loos-
ened sails and slows down without a
tremor.
The movement known as the "Third
avenue cable jerk, with the passengers
shot into one end of the car like the con-
tents Of a steamer trunk on rough night
ut sea, is unknown. The ventilation is
perfect, for there is no smoke, and oonse-
quently no smell In fine, it is the poetry
Of motion ON wheels, smooth as a gondola
and almost az noiseless.-F. Hopkinson
Smith in Harper's
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Specimen Gases.

s. Fl. Clifford. New cassel. Wis.
was troubled with Neuralgia and
Rheumatism, his stomach was dis
ordered, his Liver was affected to
an alarming degree, appetite fell
away, and he was terribly reduced
in flesh and strength. Three bottles
of Electric Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg,
H., hid q running sore on his leg of
eight years. standing. Used three
bottles of Electric Bitters and seven
boxes Of BuckIen 8 Arnica Salye, and
his leg is sound and well. John
Spea xer, Catawba, o., had five large
Feysr sores on his leg, doctors said
he was incrrablc. One bottle Elec-
trio Bitters and one box Bucklen's
Arnica Salve cured him entirely
Sold by L. G. Matthss !. Druggist.
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How They Prepare Their Sermons


Henry Ward Beecher once said
that he was constantly preparing
his sermons-on the street cars,
walking along the streets, and
wherever he happened TO be. He
rarely put pen to paper until few
hours before the time for the deliv-
cry of the sermon.
Bishop Phillips Brooks spoke al.
most entirely without manuscript or
even notes. He selected the topic
and pitched upon the text, then
gave himself up to careful mental
study, sometimes sitting for hours
in an easy chair with closed eyes,
while thus engaged. Occasionally
he jotted down few Of the SER
mons subdivisions on paper, but
not often.
DR.. Talmage dictates his sermons
to a stenographer and then memo-.
ICES them.
Archbishop Corrigan constructs
his sermon mentally first, then die.
tates to stenographer and revises
carefully, eliminating all superfuous
words. He has it recopied, some
times two or three times after
which by reading 1T over once or
twice, he learns it by heart SO that
he seems to deliver it extempora-
neonsly.
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LONDON SOCIETY.
A DecIarasf6n That 1t Is NOV Permeated
by vuigarfty.


In the course Of fierce diatribe against
London society, the London society week
~, Vanity Fair, says: London society
exists no longer. Proof Of this assertion
confronts us at oyery step. in every one OF
cur principal streets, even at our royal
parties. Vulgarity in all It's hidcous glory
holds the high place, and ancient birth,
honored titles, fall down and do it hom-
age Where once men and women were
proud of their blood and of their family
they would now lay claim to no higher
honor than that of being smart. Where
once they rcjoiced in Wholesome exclusive
ness they now reyel In bonhomie which
threatens to become disastrous. They are
bourgeois gentilhommes indeed. In Rome,
in Vienna, even In republican Paris, Lon
don society is becoming laughing stock,
very byword. 1t is looked upon as the
receptacle for continental refuse, the rub
bish heap on which many dusty charac-
ter can be shot. No one can deny this, for
half the world knows that men and won-
en- of vast wealth and no antecedents
have been ousted from continental society
only to be received here with open arms,
to be even petted and oaressed and made
much of.
nowadays? Money and, above all, the will
ingness to entertain, entertain, entertain
these are the pass keys to what was once
fortress to be stormed by birth, and birth
. alone. Even good character is not essen
tial. Women with pasts and men with
nothing but very shady presents-are they
shunned9 Not if they entertain, not if
their table be ever ready laid, the wine al
ways flowing. He docs You so WE'LL
that is the password. A bank note will
break open almost any door. The rich
paryenu can gaze upon entertainments
which should be to him as hallowed mys-
teries, can put his vulgar feet on carpets
that should fade under his tread. Even
royal gardens have become the Fairgrounds
of Plutus and his satellites. Royal wine
is taken into stomachs meant for plebeian
beer, and pate de foie gras Is munched by
mouths created for Dutch cheese and good
red herring.
''True it is that there are still few--a
very few-to whom the champagne of
Mrs. Van Pork is as rank poison in their
mouths, but these are SO small in number
that they scarcely count, and they are
compelled to suffer for their good taste by
dull seasons, few parties and the jeers of
even their equals. Soon they, too, may
be swallowed up in the vortex, for daugh-
tiers have to be married and even sons
have to be considered, and in their own
diminished set there is little left to be
gained. They, too, will become smart
and with their fall the last foundation of
society will crumble away. Then the tri-
umph of King Bourgeois will be com
plete.
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Pungent Paragraphs.

The true wife always acts like a
" man poses ssed.
A mat usually gets turned down
while waiting for something 10 turn
up
II is twice as easy to deceive ones
mother as it is any other woman.
Some women spoil lot of na-
tlfe's foe work by trying to turn
wheat into breed.
The average man spends a lot OF
bis money in trying to get some
thing for nothing.
A doctor seldom gives his patient
up as long as he is able TO settle his
bill.
A white girl spends as much time
curling her hair as eolored girl
does in combing hers straight.
1t is sometimes better for a man
to get the marble heart than to mar.
~ the girl and have to eat her mar
BILE cake.
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"As if brick were lying in my
stomach" is the description by q
dyspeptic CT his feeling af.er eat
ing.
This is one of the commones,
symptoms of indigestion. II you
have it, take Shaker Digestive Cor
dial.
Not only this symptom, but all The
symptoms of indigestion are cured
by Shaker Digestive Cordial.
SO many medicines to cure this
one disorder. Only one that can BE-
called successful, because only one
that acts in simple, natural, and
yet scientific way. Shaker Digts,
i've Cordial.
Purely vegetable, and containing
no dangerous ingredients, Shaker
Digestive Cordial tones up,strength,
ems, end restores to health all the
digestive organs.
Sold by druggists, price 10 cents
to sl.00 a bottle.
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RUSSIAN OFFICIAL ORDERS.
SoIno of the Queer Things That Occur
Through Their Infiexibility.


The inflexibility of Russian official or
Gers has resulted in many queer and need
less fixtures in the official system. The
story Is well known of the sentry who was
put on guard over a rose in bloom in the
imperial garden in the seventeenth CEN
fury. The rose and its bush disappeared,
but every day for hundred years a sentry
mounted guard over the spot, because no
one had ordered the service discontinued.
A story quite as ludierous is now told of
discovery made by the Empress Catha
rine, mother of the Emperor Paul, who
was assassinated in 1901. Catharine at
one time was inspired by some passing
whim Of economy to sorutinize the i'm
perial housekeeping accounts. In them,
among other things, she found that Zone
bottle of rum daily was charged to the
naslednik, or heir apparent.
As her son, who was then young man,
had never given any sign Of incorporate
habits, the empress was greatly astonish-
ed. She went over the accounts to see how
long he had been addicted to this practice,
and found, to her still greater surprise,
that the expenditure went back to the day
of his birth, and indeed, far beyond it.
The heir to the throne had not only been
charged with drinking over 30 dozen bot
ties of fine Jamaica rum yearly ever since
he was born, but for long time before
that. The empress, it is hardly necessary
to say, made thorough investigation of
this strange matter, and with the aid of
an antiquarian she at last reached the
original entry.
A century or SO before the imperial ply
stefan had prescribed, for the naslednik
of the period, "on account of a violent
toothaohe, teaspoonful of rum, to be
taken with sugar" This dose was given
for several days in succession, and the
nurse or steward in charge had deemed it
more fitting to tho imperial dignity, as
we'll as more profitable to himself or her.
self, to purchase new bottle of rum every
day. No one had ever given the order to
discontinue this purchase, and it had gone
on for a century, the rum having consti-
tuted one of the perquisites of the court
steward
The empress submitted the discovery to
her husband, who at once declared that
the method of keeping the accounts should
be thoroughly reformed and such abuses
ended. He carried out his threat. Youth s
COMPANION
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How many varieties of paper do you
think they manufacture in Japan? Over
60 kinds arc made from the fbers of yari-
Gus grasses and plants paper" says
Miss Bird in her interesting record Of
travel in japan, "is used for walls, win
dows, cups, pocket handkerohiefs, Ian
terms, string, wrappers, cloaks, hats and
baggage covers and is used domestically
and professionally for all purposes for
which we use lint, bandages and cloths.
1t is SO tenacious as to be nearly untear-
able, and even the finest kind, an exquisite
and nearly diaphanous fabric. soft as the
most delicate silk Grape, in which fine gold
lacquer is usually wrapped, can only be
torn with difficulty"
The same writer tells about the fine
varnish or lacquer which we see on the
beautiful japanese trays and bowls. 1t is
natural varnish, the product of a tree,
from which the sap is taken in the early
spring. When it comes from the tree, it
is of the color and thickness of cream, but
it darkens when exposed to the air. Lac
quer is used for all kinds of purposes,
from the golden shrines in the temples to
the rice bowls in which the humblest
cody takes his meal.
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Sitting Bull.

The eastern papers picture him as a
mighty warrior, leading hosts to battle,
performing prodigies of valor and melting
his followers to renewed deeds of daring
heroism. He was not warrior at all,
but shaman--a priest or medicine man.
His mission was to make medicine" for
the other Sioux before the beginning of a
fight. When they wero successful, the
crafty old chief was not slow to make it
known about the village that all this good
fortune was to be attributed to the virtues
of the medicine he had furnished His
following was found only among the In
dians of the northern tribes. Those locat-
ed in the region about Pine Ridge had but
little respect for him. Even in his own
village his people never accorded to him
the Importance to which he pretended and
to which he perhaps considered himself
fairly entitled. He loved to pose as great
man-one to whose counsel and bravery
the tribe owed its success in battle or on
raids. He was always to be found in the
lead, and his voice was always loudest in
urging any measure until the danger lire
was reached. Then he prudently betook
himself to safe retreat. -Antiquarian.
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A GOOD INDIAN.
ne Hired . Hearse In His Savage Days
In Which to Take D Ride.

In Which to Take D Ride.
Jack Stillwell, SO well known to Kansas
plainsmen, is now sober and well be-
haved citizen at the little town of Anar-
darko in Oklahoma. Stillwell got his first
fame by passing through the Indian lines
surrounding the position of Forsythe on
the Aricaree in 1868 and getting to Fort
Wallace for re-enforcements. Later he
served through Clusters campaigns and
still later appeared as one of the great
cards in Buffalo Bills Wild West show.
When Oklahoma was opened to settlers,
Stillwell located at Ell Reno, where for q
term he was police judge. The lawlessness
in the territory took many of her citizens
up to Wichita to the sessions of the federal
court When Jack Stillwell went up, the
people of Wichita usually knew that he
was there. He, with some of his friends,
was in the habit of Hyening up the town
by various kinds of freakish sport.
On one occasion he hired hearse and
they were going to take drive over town
when the undertaken learned that there
was no funeral and vetoed the thing just
as Jack was crawling into the body of the
vehicle. Jack tried to argue that they
had paid for the use of it and could ride In
IL II THY iSDOsNf DdU bASy AztsSA W 6AfO uR
the ride.
One evening, after they had been in
town several days and were feeling tolera-
bly, good, Jack and some of his friends
were walking down the street when they
came to bright, newly painted barber's
pole.
Jack sought out the proprietor, found
what the pole cost and bought it on the
fAno nd hniefod ff,r,% l,osr
shoulders and went on down the street.
They had not gnne far before they "met
up' with patrolman, who, thinking they
had, of COURSE stolen the pole, arrested
the crowd and took them to the city has,
tile. There they put up q small cash bond
and were released until morning. When
morning came, they appeared for trial,
md Jack explained that the pole was his
and he had paid for it; that he was going
to take it to Oklahoma, where the natives
had never seen a barber's pole, and it
would be an object of curiosity and wonder.
Then he sent fer the barber from whom
he had purchased the pole, and the result
was that they were all released.
Whereupon they shouldered their pole
and marched down the street again, to be
arrested by another policeman and brought
up peiofe INC JucSe again. AS SUN ds eno
judge saw them he ordered the officer TO
let them so. They started out in another
direction, only to be arrested for the third
time. In the end the chief Of police was
obliged to issue general order stating
that the pole belonged to Stillwell and he
should not be molested At the same time
he intimated to Jack that they had had
sport enough and it would be well for him
to take his pole and return to his native
wilGs.-Guthrie Leader
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Health and strength carry US
through dangers and make US safe
in the presence of peril. A perfect
ly strong man with rich, pure blood,
has nothing to fear from germs.
He may breathe in the baciIli OF
consumption with impunity. If
there is a weak spot where the
germs may find an entrance to the
tissues, then the trouble begins.
Disease germs propagate with light
ning-like rapidity. Once in the
blood, the only way to get rid of
them is to kill them. This is what
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
coyery is for. 1t puri6es the blood.
That means that it kills the germs,
but that is only part of what it does.
1t assists digestion by stimulating
the secretion Of digestive fluids, SO
promoting assimilation and nutri-
tion purifies and enriches the
blood and SO supplies the tissues
with the food they need. 1t builds
up strong, healthy flesh and puts
the whole body into disease-resist-
ing state.
Send 81 one-cent stamps to cover
cost Of mailing only, and get his
great book, The Peoples Common
Sense Medical Adviser, absolutely
free. Address, Worlds Dispensary
Medical Association, No. e63 Main
Street, Buffalo, n. 7.
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Chewing Gum.

The habit of chewing gum is not mod
ern one by any means. 1t appears that the
soft eyed Hindoo maidens, as far back as
in the time of the Vedas, were in the habit
of chewing Kashnir gums, if stanza In
an ancient Sanskrit poem is to be believed.
These gums We're said to sweeten the
breath and redden the lips, and If the
almond eyed, indolent daughters of the
east ehewed in the dreamy fashion of their
climate and temperament, perhaps the
effect was not so irritating to the nerves
nor offensive to the taste as the vigorous
and audible mastioation of the modern
American girl
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What is Blood Poverty?

Blood-poverty is want of red cor
pu8cles in the blood, due to defective
nourishment of the blood, brought
about by imperfect Or bad digestion.
A positive cure for this ailment is DR..
John w. Bulls Pills, a surprising di-
gestive tonic and an excellent blood
maker. DR.. Bulls Pills come sixty in
a box; cost but IS cents; trial box, 10
cents, sold by all dealers, or by mail.
A. G. Meyer s. Co., Baltimore, Nd.
Accept only DR.. John w. Bulls Pills.
Fog sale by NJ. A. snodgrass, u N. Queer
street.
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Hamlet, my bonny Prince, = said
Garrick, encountering the melan.
eholy Dane on the staircase of the
Stygian Academy of Music, tell me
were you mad or were you not ~
mot until saw you play, Dav-
i'd replied Hamlet. II was crazy
over 1T for several days. But / have
forgiven you.'-Harper's Bszar.
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Grave mistakes are made by ply
slcians in treating Heart Disease.
The rate Of sudden deaths il daily
increasing. Hundreds become VIC
tins of the ignorance of the rLysi-
clans in the treatment of this dis
ease. One in four persons have a
diseased heart. Shortness of Breath,
Palpitation and Fluttering, Irregu
lar Pulse, Choking Sensation, Asth-
matte Breathing, Pain or Tenderness
in Side, Shoulder and Arm, Weak
or Hungry Spells, are symptoms Of
Heart Disease. DIR. Miles New
Heart Cure is the only reliable RENE
dy. Thousands testify to its won.
derful cures. Books free. Sold by
A. M. Gilbert.
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Down in Whitsett, Ala, q travel
ling spiritualist gave performance
recently. In the course of the even,
ing, when The room was darkened be
said:
II have been requested by some Of
the mea present to recall the spirits
of their wives, Bho have gone before
Keep perfectly quiet, friends-in one
moment they will be With you.
John whispered an old man in
the audience, "Gimme my hat
quick / don't mind meetin' Molly
in Heaven, but I'll be burned et
want her to resume business on this
EARTH
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What is

sassra Is DR.. Saisl.l Pitchers prescription for
and Children. It ec.-airs neither Opium. alst.
other Narcotic substance. It Is harmless as ,te
for paregoric Drops Soothing syrup and Castor Oil
IL is Pleasant. guarantee is thirty years use By
Millions Mothers casora destroys Worms and allays
feverishness prevents soEniiiEg Sour Curd.
cures DiarrIieea and Wind Cello. Castoria relieves
teeting troubles constipation and hatulency.
Castoria assirates the foads regulates the stomach
and bowels giving healthy AMI natural sleep. Cass
toria is tho Chiidren's Taacsa the rzcthers Friend
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Parson-John. | have not seen
you a! church for few Sundays.
John-No, EUR; but I've been go
in to tn chapel.
Parson-Remember, John, roll
ing stone gathers no moss.
John-Ay, Eur, but it takes q
tetherei sheep long time ter git
fat.-Sketch.
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A Story of Jean IngeIow.

An amusing story is told of the late
Miss Jean Ingelow, "Once," says the
Philadelphia Record, "when she was stay
ing with some friends in the country it
transpired that, although she often wrote
delightfully."- of nightingales, she had never
heard one sing. So one night the whole
household went ont in the moonlight espe-
cialIy to hear them, and after, by an effort,
holding their tongues for five minutes
while the nightingales sang divinely, they
were startled by Miss Ingelow asking:
Are they singing? don't hear anything.
With Londoner's dread of drafts, the
poetess, before going out in the night air,
had filled her ears with cotton wool. A"
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The French.

The French were first mentioned as the
Franks, tribe of warlike Germans, in
the northwestern part of the region now
known as Prussia. They came into notice
about 240 A. D., and with other German
tribes invaded the Roman empire in the
fifth century and settled in the country
now known az France. The word Frank,
or Frapkman, means freeman. After their
conquest of Gaul they named the country
Frankenric, or Franks kingdom
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Many people have an idea that coun-
try has only one national flag. This is
wrong For example. Great Britain and
her colonies and dependencies own us, an
easy first, Russia coming next with 80
and the German empire third with g.
The German emperor, who is SO fond of
trappings, should see to this. The United
States is content with II, Spain with g.
Turkey with 8 and Uruguay with 2.
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WROTE Els own Proverbs.

''He gives twice that gives quickly, !"
urged the collector earnestly.
True, responded Snagge calmly, "bat
I've often noticed that he that gives slowly
very frequently doesn't have to give at
aii "-Harper's Bazaar.
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"Cellini,' observed Phidias one
afternoon at Mrs. Caesars tea,
"when did you first discover that
you were sculptor
"When | was child, said Cellini.
"When my father was away from
home | had to do the carving for the
family"