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Webster's Trout Bill.

From the Century.
With each increase of Webster's fame as
a lawyer and an orator, friends and ad-
mirers grew more and more urgent that he
should once more return to public life. He
did, indeed, consent to serve as presiden-
tial elector, and for ten days sat in the
Massachusetts legislature. Many years af-
terward, in the course of a speech Webster
referred to this service, and told his hearers
a story quite characteristic of the man. 1T
so happens" said he, that all the public
services which I have rendered in this
world in my day and generation have been
connected with the general government l
think / ought to make one exception. L
was ten days a member Of the Massachu-
setts legislature. and turned my thoughts
to the search for some good object in which
1 could be useful in that position; and, af-
ter much reflection, 1 introduced a bill
which, with the general consent of both
houses of the Massachusetts legislature,
passed into law, and is now a law Of the
state, which enacts that no man in the
state shall catch trout in any other man
ner than in the old way, with an ordinary
hook and line"
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political organization even in these early
davs.
Games We're played by the royal hands.
and probably by the people. for a reed
used in a game of chance has been found
in the tomb of Ga. Small objects in gold,
bronze, copper, ivory and stone We're found
IN great number. An ivory toilet dish,
carved In two halves out of a single block
OF ivory, each in the form of q half duck
must have stood upon the toilet table of
the consort of one of these early monarchs
while her mafdens decorated her face with
the colors beftting her rank
This was found In one of the earliest
tombs with pottery Of the most primitive
form Another toilet institution which re-
celVes the stamp of ancient lineage from
lhese discoveries Is the hairpin. One Of
THESE utensils Of beautifully carved ivory
was found in the same tomb. A pair Of
copper plncers Is remarkable tool for so
early a time
Wonderful Pottery,
The pottery ranges all the way from the
coarse, Uniformed bowls and jugs, made
simply by putting a lump of mud into a
hole scooped out of the ground and trim
ming and wiping the vessel with the hand.
up to those formed with the art of the pot
ters wheel, the earliest invention made by
man. The art of the potter made randi
strides, and was succeeded by that of the
sculptor, who cut crystal vases and hard
narDle into artistic shapes. Alabaster
bowls and jars of almost classic shape, pro-
duced at very early period, were found.
one of the most astonishing facts in con-
nection with the inscription found at Abv-
dos, dating from the first dynasty is that
dlI1erlnS as they do from the later script,
the principles and many of the characters
seem to be already generally established.
This Is additional proof that with the CIV
illzation even of the remote first dynasty
we have not yet reached the dawn of civ.
iliZation although We have come nearer to
1t by lew Thousand years
That Mr.. Petrie could come after the
French eXcavatOr and find so much of
value, reading many of the inscriptions
which baff1ed the earliest investigators and
nnding places for all the kings in lists
which have been known but never corrob-
grated, is great triumph for English
scholarship. Instead of number of tombs
of unknown persons, We have now a new
chapter in early history extracted from the
sands of ancient Egypt
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and has other warnings of the de-
velopment of disease, but he still
tries to work. Some day he col
lapses, drops down perhaps at his
task and when he comes to himself
in bed he is seriously i'll. He is pay
ing the penalty for his heedlessness
of natures warnings. Whenever
there are undue fullness after eat
ing, sour or bitter eructations, belch-
ings, and kindred symptoms it is the
sign that disease is fastening on the
stomach and digestive and nutritive
tracts. Disease unless checked is al
ways progressive, and it is only a
question of time in such cases, when
the health and strength will be seri-
ously undermined.
TAKE NO RISKS.
The wise man or woman will take
no risks, but will attend to the first
symptoms of disease of the stom-
ach. Doctor Pierce's Golden Medi-
cal Discovery which has cured thou
sands of people who were suffering
from the most aggravated forms of
disease of the stomach and its al
lied organs of digestion and nutri-
ton may be relied on quickly and
permanently to cure such diseases in
their earlier stages. Its action is
prompt and efficient. Its effects are
lasting. The whole body being fully
nourished is built up with sound
flesh, not with flabby fat.
For about two years I suffered
from a very obstinate case of dys-
pepsia," writes r. E. Secord, Esq,
of I3 Eastern Ave-, Toronto, On
tario. Il tried a great number of
remedies without success. | finally
lost faith iii them all. l was so far
gone that | could not bear any solid
food on my stomach for long time !;
felt melancholy and depressed.
Could not sleep nor follow my oc-
cupation (tinsmith). Some four
years ago a friend recommended
your Golden Medical Discovery
After a weeks treatment | had de-
rived SO much benefit that l con-
tlnued the medicine. i have taken
three bottles and am convinced it
has in my case accomplished a per-
manent cure. [ can conscientiouslv
recommend it to the thousands of
dyspeptics throughout the land
HOW STRENGTH Is RESTORED.
People as a rule have somewhat
vague idea of the manner in which
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A Bold Surgical Operation.

From the New York Tribune.
A remarkable story is told in a Danish
medical periodical relative to the treatment
Of a patient who had become asphyxiated
from the administration of chloroform The
operating surgeon was a certain DIR. Mag,
but the method which he employed had
previously been suggested by DR.. Prus CT
Lemberg.
A laborer, twenty-seven years old, who
had suffered from sciatica, was to be op-
Grated upon to relieve that trouble Chlor-
oform was given and the operation begun.
The patient struggled, however, and when
the process Of anaesthesia was carried fur
ther he stopped breathing. Several exped-
tents We're resorted to in order to restore
respiration, but in vain. And there was
no longer any pulse.
In this emergency DR.. Mag opened the
chest. detached portions of the third and
fourth ribs two and half inches long,
and turned them back with a flap of flesh.
Through the opening thus made, he thrust
his hand. The heart was firmly grasped
and compressed rhythmically. After few
sQueeZes that organ began to beat natur-
ally. 1t was necessary to employ compress
sion again at times, and also to initiate the
lungs artificially. But by these means the
patient was kept alive for eleven hours and
half, and DIR. Mag is inclined to believe
that the man would have recovered were 1t
not that one of the pleura was accidentally
punctured
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GIVEN AWAY.

hands huge basket Of coal, and then,
shooting her, 1.-THE arms upward, tossed il
laughingly to the girl above her i'm the ever
ascending chain. And all the while there
was heard, as one passed along from one to
another of these chains of living elevators,
a clear. rhyShmical sound, which L sup
posed at first to have been produced by
some bystander striking the metal string
of something like mandolin, but which
discovered. after a little, was series of
notes produced by the lips of these young
coal beavers Observation-Disclosures, precise,
melodious and stimulating
At this task these girls continued. unin-
terruptedly and blithely. from 10 O'Clock in
the morning until 4 O'Clock i'm the after
noon, putting on board in that time, j was
told, more than 1000 tons of coal. j am
quite free to say that do not believe that
there is another body of work-folk I'm tie
world who could have performed the same
task in the same time and with the same
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GIRLS AS COAL HEAVERS,
Japanese Load LOCO Tons of Coal in
Six Hours.

Japanese Load 1,OOO Tons of Coal in
Six Hours.
From the Century.
Bishop Potter paints this realistic pic
ture in paper recording his impressions
Of Japan:
If We're asked to say, of all that /
saw in Japan, what that is that lives most
vividly in my memory 1 should probably
shock my artistic reader by saying that it
was the loading Of a steamship at Ma
gasaki with COAL The huge vessel, the
Empress of Japan, was one morning, soon
after it's arrival at Nagasaki suddenly fes-
tooned-I can use no other word-from stem
to stern on each side with series of hang
ing platforms, the broadest nearest the
base and diminishing as they rose, strung
together by ropes, and ascending from
the sampans, or huge boats in which the
coal had been brought alongside the steam
err until the highest and narroweSt plat
form was just below the particular port
hole through which it was received into
the ship.
There were, in each case, all along the
sides of the ship, some four five of
these platforms one above another, on
each of which stood a young girl. On
board the sampans the men were busy fill
ing long line of baskets holding, 1 should
think each about two buckets of coal, and
these were passed up from the sampans
in a continuous and unbroken line until
tney redcned tneir oeseiiidtioi, eaSh youne
girl as she stood on her particular plat
FORM passing, or rather almost throwing,
these huge basketfuls of coal to the girl
above her, and shes again to her mate
above her, and so on to the end.
The rapidity, skill, and above all, the
rhythmic precision with which, for hours.
this really tremendous task was performed
was an achievement which might well fill
an American athlete with envy and dismay.
AS I moved to and fro on the deck above
them, watching this unique scene, took
out my watch to time these girls, and again
and again l counted sixty-nine~ baskets
they never fell. below sixty-passed on
board in this way in a single minute.
Think of 1t for a moment. The task-I
ought rather to call it an art. so neatly.
simply and gracefully was it done-was
this; the young girl stopped to her com-
panionI below her. seized from her uplifted
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Song.

Farewell! FAREWELL! Adown the ways of night
The red sun sinks, and with him takes the light;
over the dull east the gathering shadows grow,
AND turn to gray the western afterglow.
FAREWELL FAREWELL But Day shall come again;
vain?
Our faithful hopes outlive the feetng day;
Stronger than Life and Death and Time are they.
An! see the last faint ray has ceased to fame,
Courage! our parted souls are still the same
Round is the earth and round the estranging sea,
And Times swift wheel which brings thee back
to me.
Como back! Come back, climbing the eastern sky.
Winged are our thoughts, and fash forth swift and
far :
Beyond the faint light Of the furthest star.
Come back or II we meet in some strange place,
On some dim planet, shall know thy face;
By some weird land, unimagined sea,
shall not be afraid, dear, having thee.
SIR LEWIS M0RRR
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Giant DemijOhns,

From the New York Sun.
1.-The giant demijohns that you see oc-
casionally outside Of liquor stores?" said
the gasketmaker. "Why, those are made
sometimes Of willow, oftener of rattan;
sometimes over wooden bottle forms, in
some cases not over a form. but with the
basketwork strengthened and braced by
cross braces inside, but they are never
made over real bottles.
This big demijohn is mounted on a low
pedestal, to raise 1t from the ground and so
help to keep 1t dry. Whether 1t is of will
low or of rattan it is always finished paint
ed, because it is sign that remains out OF
doors permanently.
'"These demijohns are made in various
sizes, ranging in height from six feet up to
demijohns of truly gigantic proportions
measuring ten feet in height. A six-footer
costs about $25. q ten-footer demijohn
somewhere about $50. These great demi-
johns are not kept In stock by anybody
but made only to order. The demand for
them Is, of course, limited, but, still, there
there is more or less call for them in cities
here and in Europe.
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TREES.
Our Acquaintance With Them Should
BE Much More Intimate.

Our Acquaintance With Them Should
BE Much More Intimate.
From the New York Commercial Advertiser.
Apart from their humble office as givers
of shade and preserVers of streams, trees
minister more than We can guess to our
hourly pleasure. Yet we are so thoughtless
of them that we take their benefits without
a word of gratitude, for the most part. If
you have seen wooded hillside in winter
you will remember how lonely and bleak it
looked. Only the bare skeletons of the trees
spread over the mountain, and all the great
primitive strength and ruggedness and sor-
ry age of the earth exposed to sight-the
ribs of the world. These are the same hills,
perhaps, that you knew in summer, so green
and so luxuriant-bare now and stern,
showing all their scars, bitter evidences of
their strenuous, enduring history The
calm, unimpassioned whiteness of the snow
has folded them in it's chilly oblivion. 1t is
impossible to believe that spring can repeat
her ancient miracle; surely here is the
verieSt desolation, the mere geology of life
inorganic dust, the inert mass of the firma-
ment given over to the stealthy depreciation
of elemental Time. No hope nor assurance
anywhere.
And yet, in contradiction of all the prob-
abilities of sense, that desolation win grow
vivid and lovely as the sun comes north
All these gaunt specters that now seem so
ghostly will put on their gala attire the
April orange and the Maytime green That
soft, purplish mist of the far spring woods, |,
1t means the oranges and reds and yellows
of the maple blossoms and the paler yell
lows and silver of the willow catkins. 1t is
the first flush of reviving life that comes
before the green of the leaf. And carefully
as you may watch, the green banners will
seem to be flung abroad suddenly at last.
If you single out one tree for your care,
and observe 1T every day, YOU may think to
trace the gradual assumption of its full
robes for June. You will be disappointed.
There viii come day of rain or a night ol
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Important Relics Recently Found at
Ancient Abydos,
I'm TOMBS OF EARLIEST KINGS
Show a Developed Civilization
Many Centuries Ago.
INTERESTING INSCRIPTIONS

Copyright, 1901, by @. Fl. Levy.l
Written for The Evening Star by G. II. Levy.
If ancient mOnarchs made history, mod
ern explorers are creating it anew by their
discoveries, and the most notable triumph
in this direction is one just achieved by
Prof w. NJ. Flinders-Petrie, the explorer
of the Egypt exploration fund at Abydos
in Egypt famous in the Inscriptions as
one of the most ancient settlements In
that land of remote dates. Abydos has
been visited before, and so late as 1895
by NJ e Amedineau. a French explorer,
who claimed to have swept the ground
clean and found whatever was worth find
ing. Mr.. Petrie was struck by the impor-
tance of the Frenchman's discoveries, but
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bounds the design viii at once be carried


bounds the design will at once be carried
out.
Miss Georgine Campbell has just finished
strikingly fine portrait of DR.. Rixey. 1t
Is three-quarter length and the standing
pose is easy and natural. The background
dress uniform lends it a picturesqueness
that is pleasing and difficult to get with
simple citizens dress.
x X
Mr.. Victor Mindeleff has some exceeding
ly interesting water colors to show for his
play hours. In fact, none of the local art
lists paint flowers or still life with greater
accuracy or Skill The flowers he does
mostly in clear, transparent washes, and
are fresh in color and full of natural grace
and truth. His still-life studies are exc
cuted with equal fidelity, and are very
charming in composition. With all his
work there is a distinctly decorative ele-
ment that in its clearnSSs and simplicity
rcnilndS one of Japanese styles. A panel
of the lotus lilies made from nature but
adaptable for architectural ornament,
which Mr.. Mindeleff painted quite lately,
is now on exhibition in Chicago, with the
circuit drawings of the Architects League.
4
Miss Daisy King held an exhibition of her
work in Boston last week. at which some
twenty pieces of sculpture were shown.
The majority of these We're portrait busts
loaned by their owners the others, studies
of children and ideal compositions. Miss
King was student of the Corcoran school,
and for some time had studio in this city,
where she early won recognition as a
sculptor by her strong, original work
X
Mr.. James Henry Moser has been invited
b. Mr.. Coffin, the art director Of the Pan
American exposition, to send to it his two
pictures which were sold at the water color
exhibition in New York this winter. This
is decidedly a compliment, for though
about 600 pictures will be hung at the Pan
American, only those that are thus special
ly invited do not have to go before the
jury.
The weekly meeting of the Columbia
Heights Art Club was held at the home of
Mrs. Mayfield, 1885 Columbia road. Thurs
day evening. Mrs. Hayden read a paper
on The Conquest of Mexico. Mrs. Seip rem
dered several selections on the piano.
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Freak of a Cyclone.
From the London Chronicle.


If a cyclone be blown over a pond, at
mospheric pressure will force the water,
together with any frogs, fishes or insects
it may contain, into the rarefied portion.
An authentic example may serve to con-
firm and explain the working of this Gu
rious effect. Prof. Smythe, while at Ten
eriffe. experienced a small whirlwind.
which passed close to his tent, and, seiz-
ing upon the end of roll of blue cloth
that was hanging out of chest, unrolled
it, although it was forty yards long, and
looked like a piece of ribbon. There It
sailed slowly round in a circle, accompa-
MED by other light articles of attire sucked
out from the tent; after which. descending
leisurely, all fell about 400 yards away.
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In Sweden mourning clothes are some
what peculiar, according to our way OF
thinking For women a long veil is abso-
lutely necessary, as are also a black dress
and crepe bonnet, but Jacket or mantle
of any color may be donned with these,
and it Is by no means unusual for widow
to wear the regulation weeds In conjunction
with brilliant red jacket. Men also will
dress in black trousers and hat and a coll,
ored waistcoat. or possibly even colored
coat
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Origin of Blanket

From Letter of Seyer's, 1885, Notes and oueres
Now an enterprising burgess of Rristo,
began to introduce into Bristol a new man.
u1acture, which eventually gave him a
name and immortalized his fame. Thomas
henceforth known as Thomas Blanket
(blanchette, white cloth), set I'D looms
In his house and hired weavers to make q
better kind Of fabric q. e., superior to
bluett, russet faldings and striped cloth
Tor servants called Bristol cotton), bleached
In the wool, close woven, almost like felt.
and fairly waterproof AS a matter Of
course, there was outcry against this.
the authorities, and the weavers in partic.
ular, not liking to see foreign and better
skilled artisans brought into their town.
so the mayor and bailiffs levied a rate
upon them for setting up their machines.
The King, however, had more perspicacit
than they, and by the following letter re-
heved the young manufacturers of the i'm
polio (sic) burden. 1t is addressed to the
mayor and bailiffs. Here it Is given in ex-
tenso) At considerable length it DEGREES
that no let or hindrance is to be given to
Thomas Blanket and Others Burgesses of
the said town Of Bristol; that they shall
erect such machines as they like. and
there shall be no hindrance nor reproach
calumni0 given them for thus doing'
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L spit up my food all the time and it
seemed sour as vinegar. | would
have a bad sick headache every
other week; in fact, my head never
felt clear, and | was perfectly broken
down under the strain of losing nv
food constantly. | was not able TO
have physician attend me, but had
read great deal in your books of
what your medicine had done for
others, so | wrote you and got your
advice. Bought two bottles of Col
den Medical Discovery and the first
dose L took | felt better When I
had finished taking the two bottles
the splitting UP had entirely stopped
and my head was much better. / do
not say it has yet made an entire
cure of me, as it required more than
that for me, as | was SO very bad,
but believe your medicines are Just
what you have said of them.
Il carefully read the books YOU
sent me and shall always speak
good word for the Golden Medical
Discovery whenever | have
chance.
"You can publish this if you think
it worth while. 1t might induce
some one else to try your medicine
who was suffering as | did. 1t was
by the testimonials of others that |
was induced to try it. | shall al
ways rely upon your advice and feel
safe to do as you tell me-"
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery cures diseases of the stomach
and other organs of digestion and
nutrition. 1t cures through the
stomach diseases which seem re-
mote from that organ, but which
have their origin in disease OF the.
stomach and its allied organs.
If the dealer offers a substitute for
Golden Medical Discovery" re-
member that the sole motive of sub
stitution is to enable him to make
the little more profit paid by the sale
of less meritorious preparations.
GIVEN AWAY.
DIR. Pierce's Common Sense Medi-
cal Adviser containing more than
thousand large pages and over 700
illustrations, is sent free on receipt
of stamps to pay expense of mailing
only. Send 81 one-cent stamps for
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life is sustained and supported.
They know they must eat TO live. But
they do not consider that when the
stomach and digestive and nutritive
tracts are diseased, the object of eat
ing, which is the nutrition of the
body, cannot be perfectly attained.
Only part of the food eaten is con-
verted into nutrition, and the body
is but partly nourished Yet the
body is required to do as much daily
as if If were being fully nouriShed.
The result is the wasting of the flesh.
loss OF weight which goes hand in
hand. with loss of strength, and gen
eral debility. When the diseased
stomach is cured by Golden Medi-
cal Discovery" the food is digeSted
and assimilated and in the form of
nourishment restores the strength
and vigor of the body, the proof of
this being written in the pounds and
ounces of lost flesh which are rapid
ly regained. The only way in which
physical strength can be made is by
food, digested and aSSimilated.
When the stomach and its allied
organs are diseased the digestion is
imperfect, the assimilation partial.
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TUCK.
Casey-"Corrigan's got tn grip and won't
be out for MONTH
Conroy-"Are yez sure?'
Casey-"Dead sure! TIL judge gev him
thirty days yistherday fer thryin' to cure
ut be gittin drOonk.'
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consequently there is a
daily loss of strength.
When DIR. Pierce'S Golden
Medical Discovery cures
the diseases OF the stomach
and other organs OF diges-
ton and nutrition, the food
eaten is properly digested
and assimilated, the body is
adequately nourished, and
thus Its strength is re-
stored.
t will express my
thanks to you for the kindly
advice you have given me
in regard to my case"
writes Miss Carrie ]. Whar-
ton, of Dunavant, SpottSyl-
vania Co, Va. when |
wrote to you last spring ]
was in a terrible state of
health.i Had given up all
hope of ever being better.
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Mamma-"What makes you so sick? 1
hope you haven't been chewing tobacco
Tommy-"O-boo-hoo No, a'am."
Mammal am glad to hear that, but
what
Tommy-'I was goin' to chew 1t, but
boo-hoo-I seen you comm an 1 swallow
ed 1t who1e."-Philadelphia Record.