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BLIND MAN AT THE RACES.
As Interested and Excited as Thoss
 sFho Can See.

As Interested and Excited as Those
 Who Can See.
 T was out at the race track one day last winter, said a merchant, when 1 was aecosfed by man who was holding the hand of a little boy. It was former friend, whom I had not seen for years and who had become totally blind He told me that he rec ognized my voice. and while We stood there talking tue bell rang from the track. They're going to start! he ex- claimed, excitedly. Come! Let's get into the grandstand as quickly as we cani After we sscured seats I couidn't help expressing surprise at his eager ness. Oh. that's all right he replied abstractedly. I bet I'll get nearly as much out of It as you do,' and after watching him through the next race l became convinced that he was telling the truth To begin with, he fired a Yolley of short, sharp questions at the boy, and in that way obtained good general idea of the situation. Then he leaned forward like a man about to spring. I never saw such an attitude Of fierce and concentrated attention To say that he seemed to be listening doesn't begin to express it. He seemed to be literally absorbing everything that was going on around him. His chin was lifted, his lips were little apart, a red spot came and went on his cheeks, and I could see the big veins in his neck throbblng like aE engine. It was an uncanny spectacle. I couldn't get rid of the feeling that be was exercising some unnatural, super human faculty. After the race was run he dropped back, relaxed, and sat there listless and inert until the next 4 tap of the bell. Later, when we were gin the street car, tried to learn some thing of his experience. He smiled good-naturedly, but found difficulty in making me understand. T get lot of pleasure out of the races, he said, and can follow some of them almost as well as if 1 had my sight I can't tell ex- actly how it is done. I suppose my brain has become trained to catch hun dreds of little cues-tha shouts of the people on the track, the eXelamations of the crowd, the cheers and laughs and groans and curses, the chance re- marks of passersi yes, even the clatter of feet-eyerything means something to me, and although it builds up pie ture in my mind. I feel it somewhere in the air, and I get so excited that I for Eet all about being blind. Oh! mo- he said, T wouldn't miss the races for anything. New Orleans Times. Democrat.
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4oW CLOVES ARE GATHERED.
More Used in 4 meriea Than Any Other
 Country.

Country.
 Moro cloves are said to be used in America than in any other country. England and France following in the order named. In this country and in Great Britain they are used almost wholly as a eondiment, b1t in France they are used largely in the manufae ture of certain liQueurs. To some de gree they are employed in medicine for their tonic properties. The name c1oYe is from the French elou, meaning q nail. The tree is an evergreen, grow ing from forty to fifty feet nigh, with large, oblong leaves and crimson flow CTS at the end of small branches in clusters of from ten to twenty. The tree belongs to the same family as the guava, the pomegranate and the rose apple. The cloves are at first white, then light green, and at the time of gathering bright red. Pieces of white cloth are spread under the trees at the harvesting time, and the branches are beaten gently with bamboo sticks until the cloves drop. They are dried in the sun, being tossed about daily until they attain the rich dark color which proelaims them ready for ship ment. A clove tree bears at the age of about ten years, and continues un- Ill it reaches the age of 75 years. There are two crops a year, one in June ant the other in December Hot weather is favorable to the crop, although little fog is said to improve the flavor. New York Press.
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Cook Stove as a Monument.

William McKillip, at an early day s citizen of Traverse City, but for many years a resident of Mnskegon, tells 8 curious coincidence which came in the list of his experiences. Mr. MeKillip is native of Washington county, New York, leaving it in 1846, and in a ceme- tery there with which he was familiar in early life there were deposited the remains of the wife of one Aaron Gros- by As a monument to her memory there was placed over her grave a common castiron cooking stove, on the top being a marble slab, with the ap- propriate inscription of name, etc. The peculiarity of the cook stove mOnu, ments naturally impressed itself upon his mind, aside from the fact that he was acquainted with the man who sought in this manner to perpetuate his wife's memory, but he was des- tined to see another monument of the same sort Happening to be i'll Spring field, H., in 1852, he found the Sab bath somewhat lonely among stran- gers and to kill time wandered out to the cemetery. In looking about he came upon the counterpart of the cook stove memorial, and, upon reading the inscription on the slab, found that wife No. , of Aaron Crosby was rest ing below. No doubt both ladies were excellent cooks, and the appreciatiye Aaron knew no more appropriate way to perpetuate this great qualification Traverse City Eagle.
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4 .en~ar.u7e7 1uaorno

During the performance of the drama When London Sleeps at the Broad way theater, Deptford England, an unrehearsed incident Of a sensational character was witnessed by the audi enee. When the performance had reached the stage at which the villain attempts to stfangle the girl whom he has wronged and drown the child someone in the gallery apparently ear- ried away by the situation, threw a knife at him as he stood in the center of the stage. The knife missed its aim, but struck the musical director ia the back of the head. who staggered from bis seat in the orchestra, and proceed ed underneath t1e stage where his in- turles were attended to. The sensa- tionaI incident passed nnoticed by ths actors, but was Eotieea oy the audi eaee.
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SPECULATE IN HISTORIC SPOTS
What the Birthplace Of Tssmous Men
 Are worth as n Business.

Are Worth as Business.
 Last year no fewer than 36, 900 pea pie passed the turnstiles which guard the entrance to the little room in which Burns first saw the light. h 1896, the centenary year of Burns death. the number reached 38. GOO, and as : pence is demanded from each wis itor very simple calculation will show what a large sum of money is annually obtained by this means. The cottage is very humble, one-storied little erection, with thatched roof, and the poets father, when he first vert to live there, would have opened his eyes pretty widely had anyone been able to tell him what a sum was one day to be received for it. The place was bought from him (after the poets death) by corporation of shoemakers, who afterward sold it to the present trustees for $30,000 Another famous birthplace which attracts large mum. Der of people is that of Thomas Car. lyle at Ecclefechan, which is twenty or thirty miles north of Carlisle. There is no fixed scale of charges for visiting this cottage, but as 1,205 people climbed the stairs last year and each probably left something with the caro- taker it Viii be easily seen that here. too, is nice little property. There are other places, Lsore or less well known, scattered about in different parts of England and Wales, which she tourist often visits. Shakespeare is still yeritable little gold mine to Stratfordon-Avon. People from all parts of the world make pi1grimases to the little Warwickshire town in order to see the famous poets birth place. The charge for admission te the house is pence, but as an interest ing museum is usually visited at the same time. for which an extra pence is demanded, few persons leave the building without leaving shilling be. hand them. Then there is Ann Hatha ways cottage to be also seen. This fs 9 mile away from Stratford, at the pretty little village of Shottery, and il is where the poets wife was wooed and won. The writer during a recent visit to it, was informed that on an average 100 people a day all the year round came to see the cottage, and as each Ffsitorz pays 6 pence $500 oI 5000 g wear must kR made aut of it
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An Anc.snt Custom ohserred.

The ancient custom of presenting ( fitch of bacon to each of those mar ried couples who could swear that "in q twelqamonth and day they had re- pented not in thought any Waye ot their married state was observed. with all the old ceremonial, at the small village of Dunmow, in Essex. England. Tke ceremony was held inside maq4 qHee erected in a field. There were two couples for trial by the jury of six maidene and six bachelors The jury returned verdict in favor of the claimants, who were accordingly awarded. amid cheers, a fitch of bacon, gaiIy deeked with ribbons and rosettes. After the trial The couple were chaired and carried in proeessions, aad the at. tendant fun and feasting were majn- taiped until late hour.
 chief Justice of New Zealand an Atheiat
 Sir Robert Stout. the new chief jus, tice of New Zealand, is singular among occupants of high judicial office in be- ing an ayoWed atheist. He was for merly known as the aBradlaugh of the Antipod6s. and he once presided oyer a secularist congress in Melbourne. He was born in the Shetland islands fifty, five years ago, emigrated to New Zea, land in his nineteenth year, became d schoolmaster, studied law after school hours, and secured the right to wear a wig and gown at 27. At 31 he was an NJ. P. and at 34 attorney general in the government Of Sir George Grey In 1884 lie became premier of a coalition government in association with Sir Julius VoGel
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-03-22
cbnnk of Wisdom.

The bicycle girl who doesn't know how to use a brake frequently gets one" said the wise man in the repair shop.
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History In Knottod Cords.

Tying knots in the handkerchief ta jog ones memory had it's origin in China thousands of years ago. Be- fore writing was invented in that coun- try, which did not happen until 5000 B. G., memorable and important events were recorded by long knotted cords. The most ancient history of China is still preserved as told by these knots. When Emperor Tschang Xxi invented writing, t,se entire system of knotting was abandoned And today the mem- ory knots made by us in handker- chiefs are the only surviving descend- ants of that ancient and curious euse tom.
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THE LONGEST STAIRWAY.
# Is in the Tower of the Philadelphia
 City Hall.

&1by kHatt'
 A novel diversion is about to be in- . stituted at the Philadelphia city hall Within few weeks this noble pile. already distinguished as being the highest municipal building in the world. will contain. according to the Press, the highest continuous stair way in the world, and tourists who have hitherto boasted of their mus eular ability in climbing the stone steps of the Bunker Hill monument at Charlestown, the Washington monu- ment or the monument to Gen. Brock, near Queenstown, Ont, will tell their friends cf their feat in ascending the 699 steps which lead from tho seventh floor of the city hall of Philadelphia to the landing about the feet of Will liam Penn. Tower climbing is one of the fad, of tourists. Hitherto the Bunker Hill monument, with it's 400- odd stone steps, and the Washington monument, which has a few more, have represented the acme of oppor- tunity for tests of physical endurance Ascent or descent of these steps has been boasted of, and though both so tramp tho muscles of the leg that the climber for an hour afterward is hard ly able to walk upright, the distinction has the requited pain. The building commission. adds the Philadelphia Press, is pushing forward the work on the tower stairway. and within two months it is expected that it will be in readiness for climbers. It will extend from the seventh to the sixteenth floor and will contain just 598 steps of trop arranged about a square, central shaft, in which will run an electric elevator To reach the tower stairway the climber may mount the 245 granite stairs in the hanging stairways at the northern end of the building, thus making a total climb of 743 steps,
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-05-31

4 man with a genealogical record not
easily matched is Moses Chamberlain,
of Milton. Pa, born in 1872, the TWEEN.
ty-third child of Col. William Chamber
lain, who commanded New Jersey reg.
iment in the revolutionary war. lie
was married iour times and had seven
children by the first wife, four by the
second, four by the third and eight by
the fourth. Only one survives, though
their descendants number over thou
sand. The life of the survivor and that
of his father reaches back to 1876, when
Washington was four years old.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-05-31
THE BEST OF ALL.

For over ffty years Mrs. WINsLow's SooTH-
ING SYRUP has been used by mothers foi their
chi ldren while teething. Are you disturbed Mt
night and broken Of your rest by sick child
suffering and crying with pain OF cutting teeth
II 80 send at once aud get bottle of "Nlrs. Win.
slows Soothing Syrup" for Children Tcething.
Its value Is incalculablc. IL will relieve the poor
little sufferer Immediately. Depend upon It,
mothers. there is no mistat e about il II cures
diarrhuj,. regulates the Stomach aud Bowels,
cures Wind Collie, softcns the Gums reduces
inflammation, aud gives tone and energy to the
whole system. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Sy-
run Tor children tccthing il p,rasant tc the
taste and il the prescription OF one OF the old
est and best female physicians and nurses in the
United States and is for sale by all druggists
throughout the world. Price, twenty-five cents
a bottle. BE sure and get "NRs. WIN-Lows :
SOOTHING SyRUP. 5S-lv.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-05-31

a New York superintendent of
schools says: I'VE have had more cases
of corporal punishment to investigate
this year than usual. Our boys seem
more than ever given to fighting. |
think it is due to the way in which most
of the newspapers exploit the doings of
prize fighters. Not only is great deal
of space devoted to prize fights, but
the pugiIists and scenes at the ring
side are fully illustrated. Now, all this
has bad effect on the boys, and is the
cause of most of their disordcrly acts. -
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-05-31

The legal right Of 4 baby to yell in
New York city's limits, whether the
neighbors object or not, seems to have
been definitely established by the
holding, under heavy bail, of a can
tankerous old bachelor who assaulted
a woman living in his flat because her
infant made such vocal disturbance
that he was unable to think" and
then caused her arrest as the mother
and maintaincr of a nuisance. Inas-
much as the average baby will yell
when it happens TO want to, whether
it has any legal right or not, the in
cident is not important except as it
calls for an explanation from those
New Workers who are always crying
aloud the praises of their city as to
why Il baby born and nurturcd amidst
the delights of fiat life in the great
metropolis should ever want to yell.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-05-31

a young woman whose home is with
in a few miles of Augusta, Ga, makes
Il comfortable living for herself and
her mother by growing bulbs and sell
ing them to northern seed houses. She
inherited about so acres of land which
the ncighbors said was too poor to
sprout cowpeas. She bought Il mule
and went to work clearing up and fer
tilizing. Now she has beautiful bulb
and flower farm.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-05-31
Too Grcnt u Contrast.

Father don't see why you can't
c>ccllrut. He doesn't drink or smoke
or play the races. What's your objec
ton?
Daughter (who loves anothcr)-Oh
I'll ! don't know. CSuddcnly bright
cniugD I'd be 50 awruIly homrsick
with aim, papa; he's 50 unlike you.-
y. \. Wor,d
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-05-31

John the Baptist, the greatest OF
the prophets, gathered together the
scattered rays of Old Testament pre-
diction into these two sayings, which
will be forever associated with his
name: Behold the Lamb of God, that
taketh away the sin of the world!"
and He shall baptize you with the
holy Ghost, and with fire." Tho first
Us the Gospel of atonement; the second
Is the Gospel Of regeneration; and
both together give comprehensive
summary Of all that Jesus brings to
@en.-William M. Taylor.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-05-31
A Commercial Suruc.,iop

Customer-Look here, | want to
chpnge this coat | bought yesterday.
My wife doesrr<Aske it,
Heidelberg-Change that coat? You
must be crazy! That's the finest piece
of goods you ever wore. l tell you
what, my friend, you'd better kee?
that coat and go home and change
your wifs!-Tit-B
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-05-31

y young woman has had the color
of the pupil of her eye restored by
tattooing with India ink at the Miami
CO., medical college. Years ago an
ulcer involving the cornca. en-
croachcd upon the pupil, leaving an
unsightly white scar. The patient
suffered three days ordeal during
the process of tattooing.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-05-31

In the Illinois house of correction the
women prisoners are to be set to work
at flower culture for the market in
three large greenhouses recently added
to the institution. An expert horti.
culturist will direct the training. The
prisoners seem pleased with the new
departure.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-05-31

"Are You married?" asked a n,agis.
trate in Dublin police court of man
charged with committing an assault on
another man.
mo, your worship" replied the man
in the box.
That's good thing for your wife,
said the magistrate.--The Green Bag
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-05-31
More Gum and Less Guam,

Postmaster-There is great demand
from collectors for the Guam postage
stamps. I presume you'd Like q set Of
them, wouldn't you?
Customer-No; l don't know that !
care particularly for any Guam post.
age stamps, but I'd like little more
gum on the ones I do get.-N. Y. World.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-05-31

Prairie dog meat is now said to be
"white, tender and delicate" with a
"rich, toothsome flavor" superior to
that of spring chicken or quail.
There has always been a theory that
the prairie dog must have been Gre
ated for some useful purpose, but the
information as to its food qualities
comes late.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-05-31

Women as train porters are an in
novation that is fast becoming pop
ular. The woman who wishes her
shoes laced, her dress fastened, ETC.,
is wondering how she managed to
travel before without such aid.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-05-31

pcarl-So your friend is from Key
West?
Ruhv-Tcs. and he must be wealthy.
pcarl-Why, dear?
Ruby-liccause he told me when
home he was rot accustomed to bathc
in anything but Florida watcr.-N. y.
World.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-05-31

Mrs. Tanque-Don't YOU get awfully
tired waiting for your husband to come
home evenings?
Mrs. Lushe-Oh, | never sit up for
him. | have a phnonograph in the hall
which starts talking as soon as he opens
the door-N. Y. journal
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-05-31

An eastern Oregon exchange reports
that cattleman of that section lately
sold q car load of steers right off the
range that averaged $4s per head.
None of these cattle had been fed
pound of hay or grain.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-05-31

"Why do men stay away from
church,"
well, sometimes | don't go because
| haven't got new shoes, and then.
again, don't go because have new
shoes. Indianapolis journal.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-05-31
I'm counting up the totals Of European
migration during the century, the New

In counting up the totals Of European
migration during the century, the New
AC.ptury York Sun finds that
the movement is
Of Migration. the yreates, of the
kind recorded in history. In the first
20 years Of the century only 100000 Eu-
ropeans came to this country, but be.
tween 1920 and 1922 more than 17OOO,.
900 migrated to the Americas. In the
last-named year alone the United
States received 100000 immigrants.
Since 1882 the European outpouring to
various parts of the world has been
over 100000 souls. Trustworthy
data indicate that during the century
Europe has been drained of 30,0OO,O0O
persons seeking to better their for.
tunes in other lands. This number is
equal to three-fifths of the total popu-
lation of Europe at the time of Angus
tus Caesar. 1t represents third more
people than Great Britain and ireland
gained in the first 30 years of the cen
tury. 1t is greater than the total num-
Der of inhabitants of the United King.
dom in 1860. and only a little less than
the total population of the United
States in the same year. Yet this trc-
mendous loss seems to have strength
ened Europe rather than weakened it,
This unprecedented migration seems
to have been healthy expansion move
ment on the part of the civilized races.
Probably this remarkable phase of his
tory will never be repeated, for there
remain no more such vast and fertile
wildernesscs in the temperate zone as
the United States was at the beginning
of the century.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-08-14

high school, "a simple building costing
only about $3.50 900 to adjoin the Board
man Manual Training school, Mr..
Wheeler spoke in favor of passing the
order His motion to concur with the
aldermen was passed and then he NOV
ed that the committee from the coun-
cimen consist of Messrs Hewitt, Hos
ley and Donnelly, but this motion was
not seconded and he withdrew it. Mr.,
Wheeler was evidently under the im-
preston that the aldermen had referred
the matter to a committee, but instead
of this the aldermen voted to table the
whole matter, and the vote to concur
makes the same disposition of it.
Concurrent action was taken in re-
gard to the appropriation for the Bush
nell memorial, Alderman AtWater's res
olution concerning outhouses erected on
the streets by contractors, the resolu-
ton for filing fire reservoirs and on
the committee report on the compensa-
ton for members of the fire depart
ment.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-08-14
Committee on Licenses.

The Committee on Licenses will meet In
Rooms 10 and II, City Hall, Wednesday,
August 10, 1000, at 2. n1., when the follow
Ing matters will be cons:dcrad:-
Petition Of a. A. Elsele for license to
slaughter FOR his own retail trade Mt corner
OF DlxweD avenue and Henry street.
Petition Of Fred Pomncr for license to
manufacture soap at 26T Atwater street.
notified TO attend and DO heard thereon.
Par order. JOHN H. ADAMS, Chairman
Astest: JAMES 3. MARTIN
aulA ct Assistant City Clerk.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-08-14

WANTED, I'd
WORK by young man % years of age.
s me r 2faranted in the city and with
w This OtYion