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The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-10-06
Ready for
Duty.
This IS an episode Of a soldiers life. One of the
first to g0A0ateerj he fought JzihEilzLv and zOe, but
returned a physical aoyenh To-day he lands the sbe-
czfc aOEsoE made him hale and hearty

81 talked the matter over with my wife
and decided to try the pills. Before the first
box was half gone was much better.
" ] eagerly purchased more boxes.
continued to steadily improve as con-
tinued taking the pills.
1--WE were ali astonished at the marvel
ous change for the better IN my health.
1t didn't seem possible, after ali the years
Of suffering and expense to which had
been pa, that such remedy could cure me
so readily.
Altogether I used nine boxes of the
pills. ...
IL lean now walk miles without exeftion.
"The rheumatic pains have not bothered
me since.
"Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale Peo-
pie cured me and / have the utmost conf
dence in their merits to alleviate Suffering
and cure disease"
Many brave heroes who returned from
the war found the battle against the unseen
foe Of disease harder to fight than the con-
f1icts IN war, until they commenced to use
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People.
Many have found these vegetable pills to
be speedy health restorers.
They act directly upon the impure blood,
the root of disease, by restoring the requisite
vitality to all parts of the body, creating
functional regularity and perfect harmony
Throughout the system.
Druggists everywhere sel1 these pills.
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Emmy roothaOl,e Cures.

Before the days of t.e:. lists, and when
people generally believed in the value
of charms, there were ever so many
mysterious ways of preventing tooth
ache.
One of these was to dress the right
side of the body first-right stocking,
right shoe, right sleeve. right glove. A
favorite plan in Scotland was to draw
tooth, salt it we'll aud burn it i'll full
view on glowing Goals. In Cornwall
many save their teeth by biting the first
young ferns that appear.
The custom of catching a common
ground mole, cutting off the paws while
the little creature still lives aud wear
ing them, is traced to Sta1fordshire,
England. Some people who are fond of
exercise believe that walking IL miles
no more, no less-to get splinter of
the toothache tree that grows particu-
larly we'll in Canada and Virginia will
drive away the worst ache and pain
that ever tortured poor tooth.
The be lief that toothache is caused
by worm at the roots is prevalent in
many parts of the world: hence this
cure: Reduce several different kinds of
herbs-the greater variety the letter
to powder Put Il glowing cindvr into
this powder and inhale the incense
Afterward breathe into Il cup of water
and the worm will be gone forever.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-10-06
ALASKA.

Six sleeps lm a sleeper from Montreal
And a moon or so from the end of the line.
And you stand at the foot of the great white
wall
That is, white with the SHOWS that fall and fal,
Der the cedar dwarted and the drooplng pins
That grow at the feet of Alaska
Old and wrinlkled and cold and gray,
With her white pail pulled DER her stony
breast,
Browning and frigid and far away.
She has ever stood, as she stands today,
In the desolate wastes of the wide northwest
Stands this hoary old woman, Alaska.
Unmolested for thousands of years,
Isolated, remote and lone,
Her hard face glacial with frozen tears,
While over her shoulders and in her ears
The winds of the north land wall and moan
In the ears of old Mother Alaska.
A party Of prospectors passed that way,
And they thought the old face had forgotten
its frown,
And, pausing, they pulled her white robe away
And found her treasure 'Ah, q'est que c'est ~
Said the French Canadian, kneeling down
At the feet of old Mother Alaska.
They told their story, and men went wild
And pawned their chattels and Joined the
race.
The old Groom jingled her gold and smiled,
And the gold mad men of the world beguiled
With a promise of fortune in that far place
At the feet of old Mother Alaska.
But, oh, the rivers are wide and deep,
And the north wind breathes with killing
breath,
The old dread reaper shall come and reap
The rime old reaper that men call death
Shall reap the white fields of Alaskai
-Cy Warman in New York Sun.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-10-06
1linNoult Co Infiict Pain.

The doctor smoked slowly on his
cigar. It was plain that he had some.
thing to say.
II was thinking of my early college
days" he said, "and of a peculiar in
oident that happened very soon after I
began my studies. The professor was
instructing the class one day on the
corpuscles of the blood. In order to get
some fresh blood for microscopical ex-
animation each student was ordered to
tie rag around his forefnger and strike
the top of the finger suddenly with a
needle with sufficient force to draw
blood. Seems easy, doesn't it? Do you
know there wasn't man in the class
that did it at the first attempt. 1t was
funny to watch some of those embryo
surgeons poise the needle with q deter
mined air and launch it to within a
hair space of the flesh and there stop
dead. Others tried to force the needle
in slowly, but paused very shortly,
with an expression of pain common
surate to that of an amputation. l my
self gave it up as a bad job. and hacked
cavity in my thumb with penknife,
and found it easier.
''The fact that we were very young
and inexperienced is no explaPation for
this popularity, as I have since found
by personal test. Almost every body ex-
hibited the same repugnance to infiict-
ing pain in that manner. Try it your
self
The other man tried and succeeded on
the fourth trial. New York Sun.
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/ "You are doubtless aware that Miss
I.anp.on is my ward?' he observed
when he had appeased the Teuton
sphinx.
~ learned It, replied. Permit
me I'd congratulate You"
"a nd YOU will also learn now," he
retorted, shutting his pocketbook with
q snap, ''that ! wish the acquaintance
to end here.
son what grounds?" said l.
''If on no other than that of the pres
ent-er-disgraceful scene, should be
iustified,' - he answered, 'but I forbid
it observation-disclosures grounds. -
Then he began to talk, "as one man
of the world to another, :" about Arbus-
cula and her sisters. He was illogical,
but convincing.
"What is the amount OF the bill?"
asked shortly.
He handed me the receipted slip of
paper. l put it in my pocket. He
smiled sardonically, and gathering up
his black bag went out to Miss Langton.
while the waiter hailed cab by whis-
thing through his fingers in most tai
ented way.
Beyond the glass door could see
Turnbull talking to Miss Langton as
she rearranged her veil. Some girls at
an adjacent table put their heads to-
Rether, whispering and tittering. The
chariot pulled up at the sidewalk with
a flourish, and Turnbull touched Miss
Langton's arm. She made a step for
ward, but looked round and paused ir-
7 70 hoTs nd
taking. the little warm hand she gave
me pr Jed it to my lips.
"I ain so sorry you were inconveni-
enced, H she said. IF had only known"
and she actually laughed!
81 shall easily get over the recollec-
ton of the inconvenience in the recol-
lection of the pleasure have had"
replied
She blushed.
"But why did you not tell me?' she
murmured.
''It would have been commonplace, ~
replied. IT preferred to be a paladin,
though comic one.
''I don't think it comic at all, z" she
replied, trying hard not to smile.
"What stupid people!'
Miss Langton, as this gentleman is
rather richer in time than /, perhaps he
will excuse us if we economic, " re-
marked Mr.. Turnbull. Here is the
cab. Get in, please"
She threw me a bright look and went
with him. Recollecting that was with
out my hat, returned for it and found
on the ground hard by little black silk
glove. picked it up, intending to re-
turn it, but when reached the street
the cab was already several yards away.
Then the lawyer talk came back to me
with diabolical distinctness, and said
to myself that, after all, he was right.
went straight to my bankers, sent
him the amount of the bill, answered g
perfumed, badly spelled note had re-
ceived that morning, locked the glove
with the photo away in drawer an6
took the next train for Paris. William
Buckley ins Black and White.
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The principal export from Catania is
snow, i'll which a most lucrative trade
is carried on in Malta and parts of
southern Italy. 1t is collected during
the winter in hollows in the mountains
and covered with ashes to prevent its
thawing. 1t is brought down in pan
niers on mules to the coast at night.
The revenue derived from this source is
immense and renders the Prince of Pa
terno one of the richest men i'll Sicily
Snow is the universal luxury from the
highest to the lowest rank and is sold
at the rate of cents for 80 ounces
The poorest cobbler there would rather
deprive himself of his dinner than of
his glass of "aqua gCl..ta.
1t is extensively used in hospitals and
scarcity of it would be considered al
most as great misfortune as a famine
and would occasion popular tumult
To guard against such accidents the
government at Naples has made the
providing of it a monopoly, the con-
tractors being required to give security
to the amount of SO, 900 ducats, which
sum is forfeited if it can be proved that
for one hour the supply has not been
equal to the demand
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-10-06

When President Lincoln called for vo1un-
teers to suppress the Rebellion, S. R. Hon
Ter, blacksmith IN South Serbia, N. Y,
Immediately left his forge and was one of the
first to respond.
Enlisting IN Co. X, Ninety-fourth New
York Volunteers, he participated in many
fierce battles, escaping death In innumer-
able instances.
The conflicts which he encountered IN
war were nothing, as compared with his
conflict with disease since.
The hardships Of army life left him a
physical wreck.
Sciatic rheumatism developed.
For years he doctored and spent hun-
dreds Of dollars without obtaining relief.
Three years ago his limbs became para
fyEed and he was unable to walk.
He got about only by dragging himself
from place to place by his arms.
1t was no trick to run a common darning
needle into the muscles Of his limbs with
out feeling the slightest sensation.
Physicians gave him no relief.
He believed that he would never be any
thing but hopeless invalid.
He says;
81 read IN a newspaper how DR.. VIII
hAms' Pink Pills for Pale People had ef-
fected a cure In a case similar to mine.
81 had very little money left to expert
msnt with new medicine.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-10-06

OF the many extraordinary drinks
regularly consumed the blood of live
horses may perhaps be considered the
most SO. Marco Polo and Carnini were
the first to tell the wo2.I IF H., practice
of the Tartars and MongolS opening the
vein in their horses neclzs. taking a
drink and closing the wound again As
far as can be seon this has been the
practice from TIM immemorial.
There is wine hubitually consumed
in China which is made from the flesh
of lambs reduced to paste with milk or
bruised into pulp with rice and then
fermented. 1t is exceptionally strong
and nutritious and powerfully slim
ulating to the physical organism.
The Laplanders drink great deal of
smoked snow water, and one of the ma
tional drinks of the Tonquinese is ar
rack favored with chickens blood. The
list would scarcely be complete without
mention of absinthe, which may be call
ed the national Spirituous drink of
France. 1t is horrible compound of
alcohol, anise coriander, fennel worm
wood, indigo and suIphate of copper. 1t
is strong nasty and Il moral and phys
ical poison
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-10-06
A Musical Sentry.

The author of with Plumer In
MatebelelanH' tells of some humorous
sentry incidents
A trooper had gone down to a water
hole after the sentries were posted. On
returning he was challenged, but, not
knowing the oountersign, the sentry re"
fused to let him pass.
"Hang it all, you know me well
enough! What's thu use of playing the
fool at this time of night?' pleaded tho
soldier.
Cant be helped. You know the Or
deIs, and unless you give the counter
sign there you are, and there you will
remain p rotor ted the sentry. And he
did remain there until the visiting off,
Ger admitted him in the small hours of
the morning.
On another occasion the countersign
was 'Nordenfeldt, the name of GER
tain kind of gun. A soldier. on ap-
preaching the picket, had hazy recol-
lection that some sort of q gun had been
mentioned as the countersign and in an
swer to the challenge gave "Maxim.
"That's not it, " replied the sentry.
"Oh, we'll, the other kind OF gun T.
hazarded the man.
"Well, that near enough. Pass in, +"
said the sentry.
An orderly officer, on going his
rounds, was astonished TO find the SEN
t1y singing at him in this fashion:
Hi fiddle dc hi ii! Who goes therei"
"What do you mean, sir. by chal-
longing in that fashion," asked the off
Ger.
"The last time was on duty, sir,
was told to challenge in a more musical
voice, and that's the only tune ! know,
siI, " replied the sentry.
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A STRANGE SENTENCE.
Punishment For = Murder That Was MOI
Cruel Than Death.

Punishment For Murder That Was More
Cruel Than Death.
In 1901 a man died i'll the Catsl ills
who had been condemned by one OF the
strangest sentences Oh record. Ralph
Sutherland was born in 1901 and lived
in stone house near Leeds. He WIS a
man of violent temper and morose dis
position, Stunned by his neighbors and
generally disliked. Not being able to
get an American servant he imported a
Scotchwoman, and, according to the
usage of the times, virtually held her
in bondage until her passage money
had been refunded.
Unable to endure any longer the rag
ing temper of her master, the girl ran
away. Immediately upon discovering
her absence the man set off in an angry
chase upon his horse and soon overlook
her. The poor woman never reached the
house alive, and Sutherland was indict-
ed and arrested on the charge of murder.
At the trial he tried to prove that his
horse had taken fright, run away,
pitched him out of the saddle and dash
ed the girl to death upon the rocks, but
the jury did not accept the defense, and
Sutherland was sentenced to die upon
the scaffold.
Then came the plea of the INSULT
cheney of circumstantial evidence and
the efforts of influential relations. These
so worked upon the court that the judge
delayed the sentence of death until the
prisoner should be 80 years old.
1t was ordered that the culprit should
be released on his own recognizance,
and that, pending the final execution Of
his sentence, he should keep hangman' s
moose about his neck and show himself
before the judges of Catskill once a year
to prove that he wore his badge of in
fanny and kept his crime in mind. 1t
was more cruel decision than the SEN
tence of immediate death would have
been, but it was no doubt in harmony
with the spirit of the times.
Thus Ralph Sutherland lived He al
ways lived alone. He seldom spoke. His
rough, imperious manner had gone.
Years followed years. AT each session
of the court the broken man came be.
fore the bar of justice and silently
showed the moose that circled his neck.
At last his ninety-ninth year came,
the time when the court had ordered
that the utmost penalty of the law
should be executed. For the last time
the man tottered before the judges
bench, but new judges had arisen in
the land, new laws had been made, old
crimes had been forgotten or forgiven,
and there was none who would accuse
him or execute. sentence. Indeed the
awful restriction that had bound his
life SO intimately to the expiration OF
his crime was now legally removed.
But the spirit of self punishment con
tinued, and when Sutherland, after hi
had passed his hundredth year, was dis
covered dead, alone in his house, hii
throat was found to be encircled by the
rope which had been placed there nearly
three-quarters of a century before
Youths Companion.
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Value of . Constitution

It happened in the spring of 1860,
when Garibaldi was pursuing his expe-
dition in Sicily and when the words
Constitution and Liberty were on ev-
cry Neapolitan's lips. "Why are you SO
anxious for a constitution asked for
eign tourist of his guide and donkey
driver. while they We're travelling
through the mountains of Sorrento.
"WeIl, you see, your excellency," was
the answer. because think we shall
be all the better for it, 1t is now close
upon 30 years that am letting out my
asses to visitors from all countries
English, French, Americans; all of
these have constitution, and they are
all rich. '-Argonaut.
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THE BEAUTY.

HALT Now she speaks
The roses ope their ruddy hearts to lise.
The breezes cease to coax the lily bells
To sound their voiceless chime.
The nightingale is mute.
And when she smiles
TITS like the break of day
Ger Persian valleys faint with odor@ sw@sA
Or like enhancing melody
Coniured by master hand from strings
Aglow with heavenly fire.
And when she laughs
All, then, the ripping music Of her mSrth
Awakens sleeping joy, deep toned and full
OF love as bells enriched with gold
On MOscow's towers swungl
Ernest Jarrold in Yellow Book.
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RoRRnp rHE GnAvE-A atartling incl

RObBED lhh OkANE.-A startling INCL
dent, of which Mr.. John Oliver of Phila-
delphia. was the subject, is narrated by
him as follows 81 was in a most dread
full condition. My skin was almost yell
low, eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain
continually In back and sides, no appe-
title gradually growing weaker day by
day. Three physicians had given me up.
Fortunately, friend advised trying EIec-
trio Bitters;' and, to my great joy and
surprise, the first bottle made a decided
improvement. continued their use for
three weeks, and am now we'll man.
know they saved my life. and robbed the
grave of another victim" No one should
fall to try them. Only 90 cents per bottle
at e. K. Taft's Drug Store. 6
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-10-06

The Golden Penny tells an amusing
stoly-some readers may think it inn
probable-concerning the examination
of a young man who desired to be APP
pointed membea of the Hampshire
county (England)4police.
He put in an appearance one morning,
accompanied by his mother and was
taken in hand for examination by the
inspector. This progressed satisfactorily
until the inspector observed:
"Of course you re aware you'll have
lot of night work to do? You are not
afraid of being out late, l SUPPOSED"
Before the candidate could reply his
mother electric Il the amazed official
with the statements:
''That'll be all right, sir. His grand
mothers going round with him the first
two or three nights until he gets used
to itp'
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-10-06
TIE ROSES oF SEATTLE.

o roses of Seattle,
That bloom in June and May,
You are perfect as the poet dream,
Fair as the golden day;
You scatter waves of fragrance
On the sleeping air of night;
Your rainbow painted petals
Are the glory Of the light
Fair is Niles storied lotus
And the rose of Gulistan,
And pleasant is the poppy seed
That lulls the soul of man,
Rare are the lights and shadows
In the pansy's purple eyes,
But the roses of Seattle
Are the flowers of paradise.
o roses of Seattle,
That bloom in May and June,
Deep hearts of gold and crimson
That light the summer noon, . ..#
The cottage of the lowly ...
You paint with Gods own plan;
In the mansion of the lordly -
You shame the art of mani
hold them fast in memory
Wherever may roam, ....
These blossoms from the garden
OF the gods, dropped down from home
The cruel years take from us
What years cannot restore,
But the roses of Seattle f... ...
They bloom forevermorei
Eliza Archard Conner in Seattle Post-Intel
HCencer,
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One Cancellation.

There is one consolation in being on
the shady slao of life. When a man
gets to be SO years or so and he says Of
a young woman, "Confound it, if ]
wasn't married already I'd marry the
girl myself" he actually believes she
would have him. This is as good as get
ting her, better perhaps Boston Tran.
EcriOt
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1898-10-06
HIa BemSnninw.

The wild young man decides to settle
down and become serious. To begin his
reform he has counted up his debts and
found the total l45, OF francs 80 Gen.
| times.
"What are you going to do about it?"
asked his friend.
'Pay the II francs and 30 confines
at once and make arrangements for the
rest. ''-Gaulois.
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OLD MESA LIFE.

The Pueblo Woman Was Always the Head
of the Household.
When the men went down to the
fields, the pueblo was really in control
of its rightful owners, the women. In
these old communities the woman was
the important partner in the household.
She was the owner of the house and all
it contained She built it and furnished
it with its utensils of daily use. The
children traced descent through the
mother and took her clan name The
mans position, other than mere pro-
wider, was that of an honored guest,
and if he presumed disagreeably on his
position more likely than not he was
sent back to his own home. Far from
being the general slave and pack animal
that is her sister of the plains tribes,
the Pueblo woman S duties were purely
domestic, and if she ever worked in the
field it was for the common good, to
save the scanty harvest in time of need.
The grinding Of the many colorcd
corn for bread, the weaving and the
making of pottery were her principal
occupations, and are to this day. The
Pueblo Indians are par excellence the
confessed that they come fairly by the
title, as an examination of some Of the
old time ware will prove, although in
this case, as in some Others the evolu-
ton has not been for the better.
In the small house cell or in the white
sunlight the potter sat, and, with
scarcely any tools at all, fashioned such
specimens of the potter's art as to chal-
lenge admiration from us with all our
appliances The use of the potter wheel
was unknown, and the throwing" Of
shape by this means out of the ques-
ton; but with hollow bit of basket
ware or piece of broken pot for a sup
port all the forms from a simple food
bowl up to the largest and most elabo-
rate water jars were built up by coil on
coil of clay, smoothed or modelled in
pattern as the vessel grew, and when
one examines some of the ancient pieces,
notably those excavated by DR.. Fewkes
of the Smithsonian institution, one can
but marvel.
Then came the decorating, and in ev-
cry case, from the simplest to the most
elaborate and intricate symbolic design,
one must confess that the Indian uses
the truest inceptive and fundamental
art principles. There never is any waste
of energy in "effect. - The design al
ways means a concrete thing, which
appeals to the understanding of the In
dams for whose use the utensils are.
Through these same pottery forms and
their DECORATION runs one Of the stron-
gest chains binding the old to the new
Near me are two tinajas, or water jars.
One is many generations, perhaps cen.
turies old, the other perhaps five years,
and yet in shape and general decoration
they are much alike, and if the newer
one was properly toned" they would
pass as of the same period.
Lungren in Century.
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An Unexplained Point.

Peter Lombard points moral in the
English Church Times with this story
MRS Proudie, the excellent wife OF
the bishop of Copeminster, down in the
midlands, does admirable work by 60
ing among the poor people and talking
to. them out of her own experiences and
giving them wholesome advice. She did
SO the other day at Mudbury, near Cope
minister. Next day the rector's daughter
at Mudbury said to one of the audience
of the previous evening, Well, Mrs.
Toddle, what did you think Of Mrs.
Proudie's address, oh, it was very
good; but, you see, she only went half
way Whatever do you mean, Mrs.
Toddle?' said the young woman. Well.
miss, she didn't tell us what she does
when Mr.. Proudie comes home drunk.
We should like a little advice on that
ERE point, ~