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FREAKS OF THE MIND.
Some of the Strange Powers 1t Often
VuSTT

Some of the Strange Powers 1T OFTEN
Has over the Will.
Did you ever think how often you eat
and never stick your fork in your eye?
You always stick your fork in your
mouth. If you ate In the dark, it
would be the same thing. You would
never put out your eye by putting your
fork in it. Whyt Because your sub
conscious mind is doing it's automatic
duty and knows very well that you eat
with your mouth and not with your
eye.
Many other actions are automatic.
For instance, 20 people have gathered
on q street corner to board a passing
car. The very fact that they are there
means that the car will stop. The first
man has already signaled the motor
man. So do the other 10. And the
same thing happens If ten people
gather to descend in an elevator. The
first conner rings the bell. So do the
other nine-merely automatically. The
sign says ring" so each man takes
this sign to himself and rings.
A shoemaker once had a shop in the
basement Of a large building down
town. The shoemaker worked with
his back to the door. Every time the
door opened the shoemaker turned his
head to the left to see who entered.
For ten years the shoemaker worked
and turned his head almost every hour
In the day. Before many years had
passed the shoemaker's head turned
automatically, and now that man has
spent all the money he has ever made
trying to be cured of this automatic
habit. But his head still jerks, SO that
he looks over his left shoulder con-
stantly.-New York Herald.
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by the neck He figured It an out be-
fore he went his way. and he came to
the conclusion that he hadn't been In
It. He wrote It down on his shirt col
lar In red ink that his having had a
high old time was all mistake and
that the farmer who had stuck to corn
and potatoes was ahead Of the pirate
business. 1 see before me bald
headed, broad backed man, who is evil
IDENTITY itching to become a pirate bold.
call on him to pause ere 1t Is too late
Let us take a still more historical
case. Behold the picture of Judas Is
CARROT. It is q sketch made OF him
while he was a young man, and you
see that he holds the pillow behind an
OK. Judas was tiller of the soil for
many years. He was naturally good,
and daily contact with nature added to
his goodness He came to be known
far and wide as a man who always
shoyeled the snow off his sidewalk
clear up to the line, and If he had a
lawsuit about a line fence he didn't
drag in the whole country. When he
went up to Jerusalem, he was honored
and respected of all men, and his daily
life was without a blot. No one has
tried to explain why Judas suddenly
made up his mind to change and give
things away. He was rewarded with
"a pieces of silver, but he had no note
coming due and was not hard up for
cash. But change he did, and he no
doubt expected to have high old times
and lead the band. His career, as you
all know, was brief and rocky. Things
didn't turn out as he hoped for. He
was Stunned of men, lodged Of dogs
and died without having enjoyed HIM
self for a day. l am now looking at
man in this audience who closely re-
sembles Judas Iscariot and who may
be planning to sell out and cut loose
If so, let my words sink deep into bis
heart when say that the result Of
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BLIND AS A BAT.
But That Fact Wasn't Mentioned
when the Horse Was Sold.


But That Fact Wasn't Mentioned
When the Horse Was Sold.
David Harum was a good horse trad
or. but a recent transaction in horse
flesh which was made by well known
Memphian shows that there are others
who know how to get the long end OF
a horse trade Several weeks ago this
Memphis man saw fine buggy horse,
which he thought he wanted. He To-
Gated the owner and asked the price.
zone fifty" was the reply. After look
ing the animal over closely and trying
her speed he concluded it was good
trade and without more ado wrote
check for the amount. The next day
he found that the mare was as blind as
bat, but this did not hinder her speed
or detract from her general appear
ance. He drove the animal for several
weeks and succeeded in attracting the
admiration of another lover Of horse
flesh, who made q proposal to pur-
chase.
"Well," said the Memphian, II gave
$50 for her, but will let you have
her for $165."
The prospective owner looked the
animal over and concluded he had a
bargain. He paid over the money and
took the mare. When the animal was
unhitched, the first thing she did was
to run against post and then by way
of emphasizing the fact that she was
blind fell over a barrel. The next day
the buyer came back to the Memphian
with blood in his eye.
''Colonel, you know that mare you
sold me-" he began. "Well, she's stone
blind"
81 know it." replied the colonel, with
an easy air.
! sYou didn't say anything to me
about it." said the purchaser, his face
reddening with anger.
"Well, I'll tell you," replied the colo
mel. "That fellow who sold her to me
didn't tell me about it, and just con-
cluded that he didn't want it known"
The newcomer took his medicine and
is now on the lookout for friend on
whom he can even things.-Memphis
| Scimitar.
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The man who invents cure for worry
has his fortune made.
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Americans are known as a dyspeptic
people The extent of the disease may be
inferred from the multitude of so-called
medicines offered as remedy. They are
often in tablet form and have no value
except as palliatives of the immediate
effects of dyspepsia, The man who uses
them may feel better but is surely getting
worse. They do not touch the real cause
of the disease. DR.. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery is a medicine specially pre-
pared to cure diseases of the stomach and
organs of digestion and nutrition. 1t is
not made to give temporary relief but to
effect permanent cure. In ninety light
cases out of every hundred it cures per
fectly and permanently
1t has cost DR.. Pierce $4,000 to give
away in the last year the copies of his
Peoples Common Sense Medical Adv User,
which have been applied for. This book
of 1908 pages is sent free on receipt of 81
one-cent stamps to pay expense of mailing
only. Address DR.. R. Y. Pierce, Buffalo,
N. Y
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champagne aid race horses and going
a-fishing; but, alas, 1t is also full Of
blighted souls.
Let me herewith present you the
picture of Captain Kidd, the pirate.
He was a man who had honor and
fame and the respect of the world
within his reach. He had only to keep
on being good to arrive at that point
where men would doff their hats to
him and women fall over each other to
get a view of the back of his neck.
Then he suddenly changed. He flung
his goodness to the winds and went In
to be screaming old pirate. He was
d hummer from Hummersville. he
Knocked seven bells out Of everything
he came across and had money to
bury on every island he came across.
He thought he was having high old
time and that 1t would last to his
sighty-hfth year and that he would
then give $4,000 to an orphan asylum
and die In his bed All Of you know
how he ended. He was still prancing
and cavortiBg and high rolling when
the. law seized him and be was hung
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CALLED HER SON.
By Mistake She Communicated with
the Wrong Institution.

By Mistake She Communicated with
the Wrong Institution.
A Pittsburg woman tells this story
on herself: She had son attending a
preparatory school near Sing Sing. She
went to New York not long ago to pay
him a visit. She stopped at the Fifth
Avenue hotel on her arrival and she
desired to call up the school by tele-
phone to inform him that she would be
up the following day. She asked the
young man in charge Of the hotel ex-
change to call up Sing Sing for her
and get telephone No. H. He did so,
and she sat down to talk.
"Hellow she said. ''Is that Sing
Eingw
at isl
"Well, I want II. I'm Mrs. High
land, and want to speak to my SON."
what number did you say, madam r.
"No IL"
"Your son. you saidY'
Eyes, my son-Harry Highland"
"Hold the telephone a moment"
She waited a minute or two, and then
Sing Sing said:
'Sorry, madam, but we can't allow
you to talk to him over the telephone y
whats that? Can't allow me to
talk to my son? What sort of an In
stitution is that, I'd like to know?"
"You must come here in person on q
visiting day with the proper pass be
fore you can see him."
Indeed! Well, I'll just come VI
there on the next train and take hin
right away with me-"
mo use to come, madam. He's got
81a years to serve yet"
''To whom am talkingT
'HThis is the Office of the warden Of
Sing Sing prison"
"Ohl Ring of, pleasep'-Pittsburt
News.
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ARnsinean Epitaph.

81 was hunting for odd epitaphs,'
said Tennessee newspaper man, "and
in a cemetery in my own state came
across one that was inscribed upon a
neat granite monument and read in
this way: Sacred to the memory of
John Smith, for 20 years senior partner
Of the firm of Smith & Jones, now ]. }.
Jones & Co.
"Of course the names weren't really
Smith and Jones, but don't want to
hurt anybody's feelings, and they Will
answer for the purposes of the story
l met Jones later, and he gave me
frank explanation of the inscription.
"'Smith was a bachelor without rel
atives,' he said, but he knew a ire
mendous lot of country people. and II
any of them happened to see his grave
they might think that the old house
had closed up and gone out of bust
ness. So / thought it no more than
right to let them know that the firm
was still alive
81 complimented him upon his good
Judgment"
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The Gira1Fe,n Timidity

A giraffe is very timid on hearing
slight sounds, but is Indifferent to loud
ones. A writer in The Leisure Hour
says:
Noisy sounds, like man walking by
with hobnail boots, it does not notice,
but lady coming in with hardly more
sound than the rustling of her dress
makes it start, with pricked ears and
eyes distended.
We remember well, after a terrible
explosion of gunpowder on barge on
the canal, asking the keeper Of the gi-
RATES. of that day how they had taken
II, and he said he was surprised how
very little notice they took. They
Jumped to their feet, but almost al
once lay down again when they found
nothing happened
"But," he added, ''if were at night.
time to creep along that gallery in my
socks they would be so scared that
believe they would dash themselves to
bits"
They fear the lurking foe, and bling
bang scares them less than faint
rustling sound. They are in that re
spect very deerlike.
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NERO. TILE wH1rEwAsHER.

ingly, SO long as you give. A nDefal
spirit on your part will still further en-
courage me, but If there is one single
knockkneed, slab sided son of father
in this audience who conscientiously
feels that ought to be sat down on,
then let him hang on to his nickel. The
collection is finished and the proceeds
counted. The $50 enlightened and cul-
tivated people before me have Clipped
in about half cent apiece, and my
labors can be continued in other fields.
MY dear people, l want to say few
words to you this evening about the
badness of human nature. 1t is easy
to be bad There is also a good deal
of fun in 1t. 1t is the bad man who has
fur lined overcoat in winter, duck
suit in summer and champagne and
ice cream In the intervals. AS l turn
the stereopticon light on the canvas
you behold the picture Of Nero. Up
to the age of "a he was good man.
While other young men were off to the
circus or races he was at home helping
his mother cut carpet rags or white
wash the cellar. He retired to his
couch at 8 o'clock at night instead of
whooping things up at the Tivoli. He
rose with the lark, and he rose without
head on him, no swearing, no smok-
ing, no drinking-just goodness. One
day, after young Nero had been saw
ing a cord of hickory wood in two, he
sat down to rest his back and figure
bit. The result was that he decided
to make change. He had come to the
conclusion that goodness didn't pay.
That's where he made mistake
weighing ton, as all the world knows
History has told you his career. He
walked right into the house as a first
move and kicked over the churn and
upset the flour barrel and then de-
manded q quarter of his astonished
mother and went off on spree. From
that day on he was a cuss on wheels.
He painted the old town red every
night in the week and got up next
day to paint her blue. His mother died
Of broken heart, and he sold her fat
irons and quilt frames to bet on a
chariot race. His father was found
dead with tears in his eyes, and young
Nero sold off the chickens and pigs and
the old homestead to back gladiator.
There was no holding him down except
when the Roman constables sat on
him. He became sort of holy terror
to the whole Roman empire, and when
he finally died there was such general
satisfaction that the factory whistles
footed and the wages of the hired girls
were advanced a dollar month.
During his career Nero swan in
champagne, reveled in quail on toast
and wore the best toga in the empire.
He had money in every pocket, admir-
ers on every corner, and high rolled to
beat the band. And yet what did it all
amount to? He died poor and disgrace
ed, and history hasn't got through
abusing him yet. He had traded off
an orange grove for cabbage patch.
I say to you all, and 1 say to that
squirt eyed, lantern jawed man in the
third row in particular, that whoever
figures that badness is a good invest
ment Is going to get left 1t Is full Of
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1t Met Requirements.


Charles Hoyt. the farce writer, once
invited a friend to go to the theatel
with him.
what playa" queried his friend.
NAT Goodwin in Nathan Hale
said the playwright.
I'm very sorry" said the friend
but you'll have to count me out"
whats the matter" asked Hoyt II
surprise.
well, to be frank with you, l dom
like Nat Goodwin in anything. l hate
him personally and can't enjoy him as
an actor, and, as far as am concern
ed, wouldn't mind seeing him dead"
''Then this is your play" slyly added
Mr.. Hoyt in his peculiar Yankee dia
lect. you don't want to miss 1t. They
hang him in the last act."-News Let
fer
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THE FUN IN BADNESS.
IT IS POOR COMPENSATION FOR !
CAREER OF CRIME

The Famous Lecturer, @. Hope Jones,
Cites Some Noted Cases In History
to Prove His Contention That Cuss-
edness Doesn't Pay.
copyright, 1900. by C. B. Lewis.l
Fellow Citizens of Oshkosh-Permit
me to say that am proud and grateful
for this large attendance this evening
Although the admission is free and
everybody came expecting chrome
as free gift, 1 am grateful all the
same. Before beginning my lectures ii
is usual for me to take up a collection,
and I will now proceed with the task
This collection is not necessarily an
evidence of your good faith in any
thing particular, but is intended to
pay my back rent and laundry bills
and assist me to reach Beaver Dam
1t doesn't matter to the undersigned
whether you give cheerfully or grudg-
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Is much simpler than is sometimes sup
posed Health depends chiefly upon per-
feet digestion and pure blood, and the
problem is solved very readily by Hoods
Sarsaparilla. You may keep well by tax
ing it promptly for any stomach or blood
disorder. Its cures of scrofula, salt rheum,
catarrh; dyspepsia, rheumatism and Other
diseases are numbered by the thousands.
The favorite family cathartic is Hoods
Pills
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We give no rewards. An offer Of this
kind is the meanest of receptions. Test
the curative powers of Ely's Cream Balm
for the cure of Catarrh, Hay fever and
Cold in the head and you are sure to con
tinue the treatment. Reliefis immediate
and cure follows. 1t is not drying, does
not produce sneezing. 1t soothes and
heals the membrane. Price so cents al
druggists or by mail Ely Brothers, 81
Warren ST., New York
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Daffodil is a corruption of affodilly,
which is derived from Asphodelus. Its
other name is narcissus, and the leg
end of the latter name is well known
how Narcissus, for whom nymph
died, was punished by seeing his own
face in pool of water and becoming
so infatuated with it that he was spell
bound to the spot till he pinned away
and died and was changed into the
flower that bears his name today.
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mnAs AT THE PLoW.

badness is inevitable. 1t may prosper
for short time, but the bad man Is
busted and laid low when his pride is
greatest. 1t may not pay above 8 per
cent to be good, but with clear con-
science, a good crop of potatoes and Q.
sure interest on your money you can
fall asleep on the cellar stairs or the
kitchen roof and know that all will be
well with you when the cows come
home to be MIXED. M. QUAD.
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Mixed.

"Henry," she said, did you get those
shoe buttons for me todayT"
"Yep," he replied.
'sWhat did you do with them|
He felt in his pocket and presently
fshed out little round box. Then a
scared look oyerspread his counte-
nance, and the lady wanted to know
what was the matter.
ibid you take any of those complex
ion pills you asked me to bring home
for your he asked.
eyes, one" she answered. "WhyT
'That was a shoe button. Here are
the pills. Chicago Times Herald.
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at all times to attend to the comforts Of
your family. Should anyone of them
catch slight cold or cough, call at once
on Wells 6 Son, Columbus; E. D. Prick
lit, Mount Holly; W. c. Jones, New Egypt
Edw w. Rossell, Pemberton, and ]. H
Leeds, Rancocas, sole agents, and get &
trial bottle of Otto Cure, the great Ger
man remedy, free. We give it away tc
prove that we have sure cure for coughs
colds, asthma consumption, and all dis
eases of the throat and lungs. Large sizes
SOC. and 25c.
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Doe. SNAKE or solder Bites.

Mosquito and all insect bites, wounds OF
stratches by any animal cured by Wells
'sMiracle of Healing" Powder; Kills Ivy
Poison; Itch, Salt Rheum, Eczema
Miraculous in healing power. Cures I'll
GERS, skin diseases, felons, boils, burns
scalds, eruptions. Disinfectant, cleans
ing. Cures any sore on man or beast
25c bottles at druggists, or sent by mai
promptly on receipt of price. E. S
WELLS, Chemist, Jersey City, N ].
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He Won.

"How is your brother, Tommy"
sill in bed, miss He's hurt himself"
GLOW did he do that?"
eve were playing at who could lean
farthest out of the window, and he
won"
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Too Primitive.

mo. Maria; can't go to church until
possess a high hat and frock coat"
Nonsense. Think of the primitive
fathers of the faith and their humble
AFFAIRS"
IT should think you'd blush to men
ton them, Maria. If went to church
as a primitive father, they'd send me
home in an organ pipe. cleveland
Plain Dealer.
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Miss Sentiment-W Were you ever dis
appointed in love?
Eligible Widower-Two and half
times.
Miss sentiment-T and a half
times?
Eligible Widower-Yes; twice mar
ried and once ejected..-Omaha Bee.
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Nothing teaches patience like gar
den. You may go round and watch the
opening bud from day to day, but it
takes it's own time, and you cannot
urge it on faster than it will. If forced,
it is only torn to pieces. All the best
results of a garden, like those Of life,
are slowly but regularly progressive
Weekly Bouquet.
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And san He Failed.

He fiattered himself that he was
clever man, and he decided to propose
In q clever way.
''The use Of shall and will always
puzzled me-" he said refectively. q
never know just which is the correct
word to use."
"The rule is very simple" she re
piled innocently. "Just remember
that
"Oh, never mind the rule" he inter
rupted. "Just tell me which Is cor
rect-T shall marry you or I will mar
~ your"
Neither" she answered promptly
Cincinnati Post.
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Ants, cockroaches, Bed Bugs.

Mix, say, a CSC box Of 'Rough on
Rats carefully with a pound or SO OF
mashed boiled potatoes or with a loaf of
finely crumbled dampened bread, or two
tin cups of fine powdered sugar, and
place about their haunts, out of reach
of children or pet animals. Even the
harder Black Cockroaches, Beetles,
Wood or Water Bugs, in one or two APP
plications will be completely annihilated
''R ough on Rats is the only thing that
will effectually and permanently annihi-
late Bed Bugs, and it stands unrivalled
the world over for the prompt and effec-
tive determination OF Rats and Mice.
IS and rs boxes at druggists.
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brings on distress after eating with heaviness
and readiness OF the stomach, sick headache,
weary and tired feeling that is not relieved
by rest, unhealthy eruptions on the skin, con-
stipation, loss of appetite, pains in the sides
and back etc. These are but few OF the symp-
toms of indigestion and dyspepsia TO null
titudes who thus suffer MOTHER SEIGEL's CUR.
ALIVE SYRUP has proved a help and blessing.
Price soc and soc bottle. 1t will cost you
nothing to try it. Sample tree. Address A. j.
White, No. 1877, l6S Duane ST.. New York.
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DOQy Is WOIn out Win
constant, unremitting toll Just about the
time man stops to take account of things,
he finds the dollars have come, but health
has departed. Then he reverses matters
completely. He devotes the rest of his life
to spending his dollars to regain his health.
What a man with worn-out body and
tired brain needs most of all is good
stomach. DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery is the proper remedy to set the
stomach right This medicine will make
his appetite good, make his weak stomach
strong and help it to digest the food he puts
into it. Good digestion makes pure blood,
and pure blood vitilizes the whole system.
This great remedy also cures those who
have sore throat, persistent cough weak
and bleeding lungs and bronchitis, all of
which often arise from weak stomach and
consequent indigestion. 1t is cleansing,
strengthening, purifying invigorating al
terative tonic. 1t puts life into the blood
and nerves, into the brain and body. 1t
cures every form of indigestion, makes the
sleep sound and nerves steady. There is
nothing so good, and you should refuse all
substitutes offered by dealers.
II had catarrh for four years and also liver
and kidney trouble writes John A. Galloway,
Esq, of No. 7I8 goth Street, Columbus, Ca,
when 1t would commence troubling me, I
would have slight aching a little below the
when these left the skin peeled off. took six
bottles of DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery,
two bottles of his Pleasant Pellets and / be-
iieve am sound and we'll. I have good appe-
tite; before ] commenced treatment had no
appetite at ALL