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\ Jewish Tradition.

Tradition has long divided the Jew ish people into two distinct branches the Sephardim, or southern, and the Ashkenazim, or north, European. Me dieval legend among the Jews them selves traced the descent of the first from the tribe of Judah; the second, from that of Benjamin. The sephar- dim are mainly the remnants of the former Spanish and Portuguese Jews. They constitute in their own eyes an aristocracy of the nation. They are found primarily to-day In Africa; in the Balkan states, where they are known as Spagnuoh; less purely in France and Italy. A small colony in London and Amsterdam still holds it. self aleef from all communion and in- tercourse with It's brethren. The Ash kenazim branch is numerically far more important, for the German, Russian and Polish Jews comprise over nine tenths of the people.-Prof William z Ripley, in Appletons' Popular Science Monthly.
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9ood's Pills cure all Liver HIS. 25 cents
FOR PoDUNK'S HOTEL.
Some valuable Points About Putting Up a Cheap But Attractive
 Menu.

He winked familiarly at the landlord as he paid his bill and in a confidential tone remarked:
 inq of going into the hotel business myself for a change. Yes, sir. that's so! I've bought the biggest place for sale III Podunk, and mebbe you wouldn't mind telling me few things about keeping hotel-seein' you're right in the business. There's the menu, now; some little points on that might work. We don't know everything down in Podunk.
 brow and thought moment.
 There's chicken eroeuettes," he said; chicken comes high this time of year
 Not one in thousand can tell the dif. ference between veal and chicken
 "Geewhillikens There's a pointer to Fried chicken costs money. Fried rabbit tastes like 1t, and the difference goes into
 "Golly. I'm gettin' rich already"
 "Quail on toast reads fine on the menu. You don't suppose we folks in the city pam per our guests on real quail? Baby owls taste go much like quail you can't tell one from t'other. And out your way owls must be thick as pumpkins. Then there's beef. Of course you've heard of the hippophagous theory?"
 "T-h-e-the w-h-a=t?"
 feCliek! click Yes, old racers. You can buy them by the bunch of hundred for
 The man from Podunk turned pale. T guess I've got all the points 1 can remember at once, and If you ever come our way give me call. Good day. Fried rabbit? O#ls on toast! H-i-pp-ep. l reckon I'll call the line there. Great business, this hotel.keep- ing, anyhow. ."-Chieago Times-Herald.
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piled the individual addressed. This is cigar stand"
 It was not hard to reach the office and as they passed through the corridor leading that way, Aunt Martha's spir- it's rose. She observed that all the peo- pie she met, except the uniformed em- ployes of the house, might have been born and bred in White Plains. This was agreeable but surprising, for the lady was unaware how many persons outwardiy resembling Georgie Perkins and inwardly actuated by the same motives, may be found in New York at all times. If the guests of ..swell' hotels in the metropolis were obliged : to live six months upon that scale not one in hundred of them would es- cape bankruptcy; and conversely, if these magnificent caravansaries were limited to the patronage of the rich, they would not get along very well l When the Stevens family reached the cffce, the ladies of the party were af- ficted by that same sense of confusion that had oppressed Mir. Perkins. All things were doubtless well ordered, but there seemed to be altogether too much going on. Experience in the stores had hardened the ladies considerably, yet 1t was not quite the same thing. The
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Reward for Hnneatx.

In a small village just outside Nottina ham farm laborar went to the general store, which was kept by an old woman not oyerstoeked with brains, and asked for "a pahnd Q baeon.9 The old lady produced the bacon and cut a piece of, but could not find the pound weight. "0h, never mind t pahnd weight said hes me fist just weighs q pahnd, so put ther bacon in [, scales" The woman confidently placed the bacon into one side of the scales, while the man put his fist into the other side, and of course took good care to have good weight. While the woman was wrapping the ba- con up the pound weight WAS found, and on seeing 1t the man said: Nah you see If me fist don't just weigh a pahnd." The pound weight was accordingly put into one scale and the mans fist into the other, this time only just to balance. The old woman on seeing this said: s.Wha, l never seed aught 50 near aforel Here's a red herrin' for thee honesty, me lad. .'-London Spare Moments
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page after page. and chapter after chap ter of half dime literature is no more. Deadi and oh, such deathl That he should have died lying supinely on his bed, cut down by the prosaic scythe of Father Time; it is too much.
 I did not read the Post; no doubt it dealt gently with the hero of my boy hoods days, but that edition should have been suppressed; 1 had years ago killed Bigfoot Wallace; killed him in such q manner as gave me great satls- faction and redounded to his undying glory. Often in the dead of night have 1 followed him, barefooted and clothed only in my nightie; onward and ever onward we have pushed our way into the very camps of hostile ahorigines; through gloomy forests whose every tree trunk concealed a lurking red- skin; where the twanging bow string. the hurtling tomahawk and the blood curdling warwhoop have walked the shuddering echoes.
 How I have gloated over whole tribes of painted savages left wallowing i'll their gore. as the big-footed avenger pursued his course; how l have held my breath as he softly stole into vii- lage after village, slew guard after guard and rescued maiden after maiden from captivity which the narrative confidentially assured me was worse than death.
 How we'll I recollect the deep aver sion my brother had for reading, while remained indoors absorbed i'll the thrilling adventures of my hero, he was out in the vacant lot playing game which he designated as stink by Cool, but which I now believe to have been Stick by Goal or Prisoners Base.
 About the time my eyes would be rin to clos- I would hear his sibilant whisper ill my ear:
 sOh, Dick.
 But I would snuggle deeper amid tht sheets. and endeayor to palm off home made snore on him.
 .sThat don't go, better wake up, would be his threatening reply to ms attempted deception.
 .Aw, voucher mant?''
 Tell me s'more O whut that big footed guys bin doin'.a
 -Aw, I'm too sleepy"
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THE SPELL OF THE SEA.

 Over the rocks, and backward slipping Back in curling line Of spray Leaving the seazweeds drenched and irip-
 ping
 Toll the waves through the iiveiong day watch them falling, eddying, shifting. Borne by the tides resistless surge, Until tho ground at my feet seems drifting Out 10 the far horizons verge. Under the spell of the sea and silence, will drift. In my fancy, still, Beyond the rocks and the purple islands. Wheresoever the light waves will. Far and far from the landward shadows, Over the shimmering leagues of blue, Until the fiowery fields and meadows Of lotus-islands rise in view. Safe in their calm. no care shall grfeve me From the dead past no ghost shall stray, The years like days shall pass and leave me Free as q careless child at play A touch on my shoulder-a light word
 spoken:
 Close at my elbow stands friend- so-the spell of the sea is broken The drifting stops, and the daY-dreams
 end
 Helen c. Hawthorne, in chautauaaan.
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when the Stevens family approached the Waldorf-Astoria along Thirty fourth street from Broadway They had been down into the shopping dis triof, in the interests of the girls, be- fore making the call.
 The Thirty-fourth street sidewalk in front of the hotel is covered by bal eony, presenting the appearance of an arehed passage. painfully ornate.
 This is most too magnificent for me- said Aunt Martha, T wonder if there ain't a back way that We could get in just as well.''
 So the party took cut through the alley to the west of the hotel, and reached Thirty-thfrd street. but the entrance on that side, though not so gaudy, was even more forbidding.
 II saw q door on the alley" said Uncle Billy. "but I suspect it's used mostly by the servants. I guess we'd better go around to the front and try our luck"
 I'm just as nervous as I can be, 3 replied Aunt Martha. Suppose we try the alley again?''
 They did so; but the entrance on that end of the house did not look invit- ing. One of the girls thought it might be used by people who came in car riages, and she feared criticism. They finally entered from Thirty-fourth street, and Uncle Billy, perceiying a counter to the right, inquired of the person behind it whether Mir. Perkins was in.
 You'd better ask st the office," re-
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Easily Cured.

\ correspondent thus tells how a man addicted 10 the spitting habit was cured: The captain of an Atlantic steamship was at loss how to induce q passenger 10 desist from the filthy habit of spitting on deek. Among the passengers was gentleman well known in Toronto 10 years ago, who undertook to stop him if a quarter master were placed at his disposal. The captain closed with the offer and the man was directed to fetch bucket of water and mop, and to follow the of fender up and down the deck, The re suit was completely satisfactory. = London Speetator.
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The Comforts of the Wealthy By Howard Fielding
 Drawings by Frank VerBeck
By Howard Fielding
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the others would like to try it once, just to see. .how it would seem.
 On the following day Uncle Billy otherwise known as Uncle William Stevens, of White Plains, N. J.-re- ceived a communication, the substance of which has already been given to the reader. The letter created a mild sen sation in the family. Aunt Martha said it looked as if Georgie was really getting along; but Uncle Billy re marked: T dunno. Georgie was al- ways a reckless little euss, as remem- Der him.~ The girls were principally interested in the question of clothes.
 It was Friday. the 18th of January, and about Il o'clock in the forenoon,
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pompl should say to them: "Oh, yes; Mr. Perkins is stopping with us Johnny, show the ladies and gentlemen to Mr. Perkins apartments"
 Moreover. he shrewdiy guessed that so pretentious an inn would carry fine line of stationery; and surely it would be a pleasure to indite upon it such notes as this:
 Dear Uncle Billy: I am in New York on business, and want you and Aunt Martha and the girls to call. Come in and take dinner with me. Any day about noon. You will find me at the Waldorf-Astoria. Affectionately, etc.. etc"
 Mr. Perkins business in New York was to buy a good-sized, secondhand coffee grinder for the store in Canton, St Lawrence county, N. Y, in which he had recently acquired an interest through faithful service as clerk, SUD- plemented by little money which his father had loaned to him. The pur- chase of the coffee grinder would hard ly have justified him in making the journey, but he wanted to come, any way, and had been saving up money with that end in view.
 He had anticipated some trouble in selecting room, and had resolved to be suited even if he made the servants show him every vacancy in the house; but when he came into the office there was so much going on, and so many people in uniform were chasing each other around, that he became confused, and wisely decided to surrender him
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How He Writes Them.

T am surprised to learn that the young man to whom l have been talking writes those brilliant and profound articles which have caused so much comment" said the fair stranger to the native.
 ,.Does he claim that he writes them?" asked the native.
 He gave me to understand so. Isn't 1t
 "Oh, yes, it's true enough" replied tha native. "He writes them-from dictation He's private secretary and amanuensis to the man who composes them. ''-Chieago
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Ah. me; the iconoclastie years play sad havoc with the idols of our boyhood had almost forgotten Bigfoot Wallace, but the knowledge that he has died, and in bed, comes as severe shock even after all these years.
 M LEWIS
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NVNV to New York he put up" at
 e S the Waldorf=Astoria, partly because he desired to enjoy, for brief period, the comforts of the wealthy, but principally because he expected that several of his relatives who dwelt in the suburbs of the metropolis would come to see him.
 Mr. Perkins was doing well, and he wished these people to know it. Some of them, as he was aware. had expressed the opinion, in the days of his boyhood, that he would never amount to any thing. They would change their minds when the clerk of the Waldorf-Astoria, diamond-nedeeked and surrounded by
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douhtedIx.

\ Girl--Y Yes. I'm cloak model.
 Another How do you like the Iifea .'Well enough, but still it's very try ing ou one. IN. !. Journal
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B scare head in this mornings Post. "the hero of many sanguinary eneount- CTS with the Indians is no more,
 The man who, in my younger days, took for | model of all that was manly; whose tracks [ have followed breath lessly through column after column.
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HEN young Mr.. Perkins came to New York he put up' at
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-29
Another Company Fails.

Philadelphia, Nov. 29.-The doors of
the home office Of the Investors Trust,
1921 Arch street. doing business exclus-
lively with patrons outside the city and
promising large profits on investments,
have been closed. Efforts to find Lip
man Keene, the president; Charles l..
Week. secretary, and Miss NJ. c.. Carson,
cashier. were ~unavailing. The company
began business here four years ago. It's
plan was to invite the investment of cap
ital, the inducement being held u of in
terest ranging from 100 to 200 per cent.
In explaining why UGH large gains are
made. the company asserted in it's litera-
ture, that it was in the confidence of stock
m~anipulators and therefore in a DO
sition to know the way stocks would go.
AS a result of these statement cash fol-
lowed in a steady stream. The force of
employees was constantly augmented and
the correspondence grew to great propor-
tons. Agents were placed in all parts
of the United States. To the company's
numerous patrons were sent the first day
of each month their dividends in the
shape of a check. 1t is thought that the
firm has over 500, 600 invested for their
patrons in various stocks. Almost daily
five big sacks of mail matter have been
sent by wagon to the poStoffice. 1t is
said the company's postage expenses
alone AVE amounted to 5000 a week. All
mai is being sent back to the postotfices.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-29
Heavy Demand For Steel.

Now York, Nov. 29.-Judse r. Fl. Gary,
president of the Federal Steel onlpan
returned to this city last night from Chi
cas- go. where he has been for several
weeks. When questioned about condi-
tions in the iron and steel industry in the
west, he said:
'In our lines the demand continues as
heavy as ever. IN some departments of
the trade a rather quieter market is re-
ported. However, / do not consider this
significant. The price of ore has just
been fixed at $3.50 per ton base, at Lake
Erie and LAKE Michigan ports for next
season. This is about the time that the
large consumers make their ore contracts
for future delivery. The new schedule
indicates an advance of from - to 100 per
cent over the prices a year ago and points
to a continued strong market for finished
products. The new figures about cores
pond with present prices of finished ma
terial. There is d general feeling that
ore is going to be rather scarce mex year,
and the demand active"
When questioned about the matter of a
dividend on Federal Steel ommon Judge
Gary said that nothing had been decided
yet, but that a meeting of directors would
be held soon, when this question would
be taken up. The neXt dividend on the
preferred will be three per cent, making
up the full six per cent for the year.
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0fFour Battles Being Fought
simultaneously.
GEN. METHUEN'S MARCH
Has Led Him Away From the Rail-
way Which He Found Very Much
Damaged--Advance of the British
at GraS Pan Was Glorious

London Nov. -29.-5 a. m.-Absolutely
no fresh news from the front was con-
tanned in the dispatches of General For
ester-Walker to the war Office. The
cables continue silent, presumably be-
cause of Genera Buffers desire to pre-
vent leakage regarding important moves
now being carried on. 1t seems clear,
however, that Lord Methuen is continue
ing to advance rapidly and that finding
the railway much damaged, he left it be-
hind him. When Geographic commune
cation is resumed it is quite possible
that news may come of four simultane-
Gus battles at Modde river, Arundel,
Stormburg and Colenso.
AS the Beers according to General For
ester-Walker's advices. We're leaving
Kimberley for the south, it is regarded
as not impossible that Colonel Keke-
witch is already marching with 1000
troops to meet Lord Methuen. 1t is be-
lieved that after the relief of Kimberley
Lord Methuen will proceed to the relief
of Mafeking, about which considerable
anxiety is felt.
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May Continue the Offer.

New York, Nov. pa special to the
Journal of Commerce from Washington
says: Secretary Gage will probably not
make any announcement as to the con-
%tinuance of the offer to retire the four
and five per cent bonds at the prices fix
ed in his last call until after the close
Of business Wednesday night. This will
leave a holiday to intervene between the
announcement and any possible effect
upon the money market. The secretary
has refused to discuss the matter with
visitors, but there is apparently no OBJ
lection to continuing the offer for an
other month The secretary offered at
the outset to redeem bonds to the
amount of S25. 000,0 0 in face value. call
ing for total disbursements of about $685.
OO0, OGO. The offer is not likely to be en-
larged in any case, but might allow an
other month for the completion of the
original sums. was
made that the treasury would mail checks
Wednesday for interest due Dec. 1. on the
two per cent bonds. These checks ag-
gregate $11, 663. The principal of all the
ponds thus paid for advance in interest
has been $So, $50, $50 and the interest paid
s.. G15. 6S4.
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Officials Are Surprised.

washington, Nov. 29.-War depart
ment officials are surprised at the in
rmatio in the Manila dispatch con-
cernlfg the condition of the transport
Manuense. They are at a loss to ac-
count for the deplorable state of affairs
which is said to have existed on he
ship. The only information received
here concerning the Manuense is that she
arrived safely and that there were no
casualties aboard The ship was under
charter by the government and no at
tempt was made to purchase her. Sec
rotary Root expressed himself emphat-
ically as disbelieving the accuracy of
the reported condition of the vessel when
she arrived at Manila taking the state
meEts to be largely imaginative and
growing out of the talk of some of the
men who probably We're unused to ocean
hardShipS,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-29
Farmers Were Sufferers.

New York, Nov. 2S.-A dispatch re-
ceived here from Boston that
there is much satisfaction among con-
Germs in that city who are engaged in the
importation and manufacture of hemp,
because of apparently imminent collapse
of the insurrection in the Philippines and
the probable raising of the blockade of
ports of those islands. Since the mill
tary authorities established a blockade
1t has been inaccessible to ship Manila
hemp and as a result the price, it is said,
mas increased AGO per cent in this coun-
try. This heavy increase has been par
tlcularly severe upon the a~griculturalists
and s~hiDbuilders in this country. 1t is
calculated that American farmers will
have to pay for Irvine made from the
present crop from SIS, 900, 900 to $40, 900, 900
more than before the blockade was es-
tablished.
AT the New York office of Henry w.
Peabody & Co, hemp importers and
manufacturers OF Boston, it was said
that with the expected raising of the
blockade of Philippine ports an immense
financial burden would be lifted from
the shoulders Of American farmers.
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Immediate relief. 1t was said, would not
be afforded in the matter of prices, be-
cause some time must elapse before ship
ments of hemp from the Philippines
could reach the United States.
Flint, Eddy & Co.. are heavy importers
of hemp and sisal. They say that there
is every probability of Manila hemp GO
ing even higher than it is at present,
unless the blockade is raised at once.
The estimate of $4,000 900 as the in
crease of price of hemp since the block
ade went into effect was regarded as
rather excessive and from $12, 600. 900 to
SIS, OOO,O 900 would more nearly represent
the increase in the cost. The increased
activity in ~shipbuilding IN this countr
and in Europe, it was said, was also
partly responsible for the greater cost of
hemp. While 400 per cent represents the
increase in the price of hemp, the ad-
vance in twine was said to have been not
more han 100 or $50 per cent up to the
present time, owing to the fact that
much of the Irvine was contracted for in
advance of the establishment of the
blockade. 'i
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B0er Position StOrmeQ.

Orange River, Monday, Nov. 27.-The
British arms have achieved a brilliant
victory. The enemy. strongly entrenched,
held a range of hills commanding both
sides of the railway at ROOF laagte, near
Gras Pan. The Larcashires. under
Levi reconnoitered in an armored train
on Friday. The Beers shelled the train,
killing Lewis and a private.
General Methuen then advanced. His
column made a detour and ~bivouacked
for the night at Swink's Pan, three miles
from the Boer position. AT ~dayhreak
the began, the guards forming
the reserve. The column debouched on
the plain eastward of the Boer kopjes.
The Boer guns opened fire. The bat
teries of the British artillery. posted on
each side shelled the Beers, practice
being good on both sides. The Beers
stuck tenaciously to their positions, fir
ing steadily and accurately. The duel,
which constantly became hotter, lasted
for three hours. The Beers shells
wounded several men of the naval
brigade.
Finding it impossible to displace the
Beers by artillery, Genera Methuen re-
'"i' "poAA oh A"AA Xxx a. l.
gade of infantry. including the York
shires, the Northanlptons, the Northum-
berlands and the Lancashires. with the
naval brigade on the right, CALAMITY
stormed the Boer positions, in the face
of a whitening fire and carried hill after
hill, the brigade under Colonel Mony
capturing the main position against a
terrible fire but suffering terribly.
Many Of the Beers voluntarily surren-
dered. The Beers We're shelled during
the final retreat and must have lost
heavily, but they succeeded in getting
away northward with their six guns.
The British We're badly in need of more
cavalry. The bulk of the fighting was
on Free State territory and the engage
ment was admirably planned.
Thirty Boer wounded are under treat
ment here. At the close of the action
Lord Methuen conplimented the naval
brigade upon their splendid behavior and
expressed regret at their losses.