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The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
HInts For Smokers.

Here Is good tip for a smoker: The best pipe grows foul sometimes, and the various patent cleaning devices are of little use in making 1t fresh. But if you pack the bowl tight with grass or hay and lay the pipe aside for a few days you will have 1t as sweet as when 1t was new. Talking about smoking, here is good idea for lighting match es: Don't light them on your trousers. for you'll burn slits in them, nor on your shoe soleS. for you'll rub the heads off. The plan is to rub them on piece of paper-a folded newspaper. an envel- 67e. q ticket. The silica in the paper acts like sandpaper.
 Many people can't smoke a dozen cigarettes without getting a sore throat. Inveterate cigarette smokers are ire quently troubled with a perpetual cold in the head. It Is not the smoke that Is to blame, but the dust. Now, if you use a cigarette tube-amber. cherry or cardboard-a tiny bit of cotton wool in the bottom of it will. catch every par ticle of dust Try this, and you'll have no more sore threats But you may not ~njoy the sm0ke.-Exchange
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
ca,e in the Old nars.

Centuries back golf was pastime c the royal family. though then usuall. played in Scotland. The Stuart famil. was very fond of the game, and thu first English club was established al Blackheath ill 1908 by James l. His eldest son. Henry, frequently played and on one occasion nearly struck by accident his tutor with a club, where upon he coolly remarked, Had done so had but paid my debts." Charles I was playing golf when he received the news of the Irish rebellion. James, duke of York, afterward James II, was another ardent player. Golf Is ire quently mentioned in ancient Scottish records and in the fifteenth century was prohibited because 1t interfered with the practice of archery. Strut considered it the most ancient game at ball requiring a bat.-London Chron- iclQ
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
S1oo REWARD S1oo

The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all it's stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Halls Ca tarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de- stroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and as- sisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith In its curative powers, that they offer one hundred dollars for any case that 1t fails to cure. Send for list of testi- monials.
 Address, F. J. CHENEY & CO., To ledo, Ohio. Sold by all druggist, 75 cents. Halls Family Pills are the best.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
SICK CALLS.

Only call at the door unless you are sure your friend is able to see you with out harm
 Enter md leave the house and move about the room quietly.
 Carry cheerful face. Speak cheerful, pleasant words.
 In order to cheer you need tell no lies.
 If your friend is very i'll, do not fan into gay CT careless talk in the attempt to be cheerful.
 Don't ask questions, thus obliging your friend to talk.
 Talk about something outside and not about the disease and the circumstances of the patient.
 If possible. take something with you to please the eye and relieve the monotony of the sickroom-a flower or even a pie ture which you can loan for few days.
 If desirable, some little delicacy to tempt the appetite will be we'll bestowed.
 Stay only moment, or a few minutes at the longest. unless you can be of some help.-Week!y Bououet
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
"Prince Georgie."

The Duke of Cornwall is devotedly loved in loyal Bermuda, where as a growing boy he once passed happy winter. One of his favorite comrades there was a little girl whose great grandfather had fought side by side with Wolfe upon the Plains of Abra- ham. She used to push her little rock ing-chair close beside that of the prince, and laboriously time her small rockers with those of his larger chair.
 ''We rock together, Prince Georgie," |" she used to chatter, always together" thrusting difference of rank into that limbo reserved for sophisticated adults
 Another favorite of the prince was a young American girl who discovered him in the admiraIs hallway one day, tugging at his gloves.
 q hate to wear them," he admitted, as he looked at her bare hands; 'only promised grandmother that would. |"
 A letter from Queen Victoria gave the royal boy much pleasure, but on being asked if he would sell it for two pounds, he eagerly accepted the offer. Where upon he answered the letter with com mendable prompmess, urging his dear grandmother please to write again"
 The death of his older brother, some years later, and the recent death of the queen materially changed the career of the youth to whom the American girl said you, and he said you to me-" On his return from the tour of the Brit ish colonies he will receive the honored title of the Prince of Wales, with its pregnant motto, 'Tch dien''-I serve.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
TO ouTwIT THE JANIToR.
FIat-DwelIers Fear of Ogre Has De
 veIoped New Industry.

FIat-DweIIers Fear of Ogre Has De-
 veIoped New Industry.
 "All right" said the locksmith, who keeps a little shop in Amsterdam ave nue and does odd jobs of no great im- portance in themselves for the resi- dents of the neighborhood, "all right, sir, I can fix this key to suit you, think"
 'You see," he explained to visitor, according to the New York Herald, when the customer had retired, 'he wants me to give him janitor-proof key, and I'm just the boy to do it. guess you don't know what a janitor- proof key is, because know you live in house If you lived in a flat you'd know.
 "When a man moves into a new apart ment-that is, an apartment that is new to him-the first thing he begins to worry about Is the key proposition. I'll take my oath that New York people are the most suspicious set of citizens that ever saw in all my life. Why, they don't trust their relatives. After the man of the flat gets his string of two or three keys from the janitor he begins to let his suspicion loose.
 ''He thinks, of course, that the janitor Is predatory by nature. Maybe he is right, but I believe the law holds all persons innocent until they are proved guilty, and 1t would be a pretty hard thing to do to prove a janitor guilty. Anyway, the man of the flat gets ner- yous. He has received so many keys. What Is to prevent the janitor from having kept a duplicate key of the apartment? Nothing at all. It would be the easiest thing in the world for the janitor to hold out, turning over all the keys but one and making use of that to enter the flat whenever he saw good opportunity in the absence of the family.
 That's the way the householder fig ures the case out to himself. Then he comes around to some locksmith in the neighborhood and gives one excuse after another to account for his wish to have the lock changed on his front door. It doesn't make any difference to a locksmith what the reason is, so long as he gets paid for the work he does. but the 'flatters' seem to think it necessary to spin him a fairy yarn. Anyway, the matter ends by the lock smith going around to the fat, taking a
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
Duke of Norfol!s.s Clothes.

The Duke of Norfoik's indifference to the niceties of dress has led to many mistakes, which, as a man of humor, he always enjoys. During his long term of service on the London County Coun- cil he was often mistaken for a labor member, one reason being because he always sat on the same group of seats as the labor men. Not so long ago he put some soYereigns in the plate at the door on leaving the Roman Catholic Church off Lincoln s-inn-ields. The doorkeeper. feeling that the plainly dressed man must have made mis- take. hurried after him to explain. The departing visitor. smiled quietly as he replied: s'.We'n let the mistake pass this time."-London Chronicle.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
A Rook Hunter,s Worry.

The worry of finding that book is incomplete is often to be expected. Often most respectable looking books have page missing somewhere. One cannot trust even folio that has been connected with religious houses all it's life. It may be invincibly bound in the strongest calf; it may have passed all it's quiet, unread days behind glass and be as clean as on the day on which 1t was issued, and yet page 341 may have vanished.
 We once knew a man who had firm belief in the devil and for this reason: He said that he could hardly count the imperfect books by which he had been misled in his time, and in nearly every case these books had a highly respect able past. They had grown mellow in monasteries or had been carefully tend ed in great libraries, where they were never touched except to be dusted. It seemed morally impossible that harm could have come to these books, and yet each one had a page missing some where. Therefore he was reluctantly forced to the conclusion that the devil was in it. He supposed that when the devil was in need of more quotations he abstracted a page from some little read book, choosing it both in order that he might obtain a reputation for wisdom and also that he might not be found out.
 We do not uphold this theory, but we do recommend the book hunter, so far as possible, to collate every book Of any importance which he may con- template buying.-Maemillan's Maga- zine.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
Feat In Shooting.

eve seen good deal of sharpshOoting in my day." said civil war veteran of Broome county. ''but I've never seen equaled a feat performed often by a neighbor of mine. He was a man with a marvelously quick eye, and he could shoot quicker and straighter than any man in our neighborhood. His best trick was shooting two swallows with one bullet He would make bets on this, and when feeling right would win the money nine times out of ten. It is hard enough to shoot one swallow on the wing, and to shoot two of them with one bullet in- creases the difficulty tenfold. He would stand by the side of the pond, and when two swallows crossed each others aerial paths he would shoot just as they would intersect. He seldom missed killing them the first shot, and when he did miss he paid up like a major. Usually the other fellow was stuck, though. ."-New York Tribune.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
AN OPTICAL ILLUSION.
One of the Tricks Performed by tn
 Ea.i=s of India.

One of the Tricks Performed by the
 Fa.i=s of India.
 The faGirs Of India perform some re- marSable tricks. Tie following one was witnessed by an Englishman who was himself an excellent prestid:gi- tsteur:
 Tie apartment being filled. the ma gicians began their performance. The audience sat on the focr about the fakirs, so that they had no way of con- cealing themselves or of hiding any thing. At their request I examined them and satisfied myself that they bad nothing about them. Then one of the women stepped into the inclosure, the rest remaining behind the spec tators, who formed close ring about them. The light was now turned down a little, and in a moment the woman's face began to be illuminated by ghostly light that extended quickly over her entire body.
 She then began to move around and around, uttering a low, murmuring sound the while, gradually quickening the pace until she was whirling about like top. A moment of this, and the light that had clung about her seemed to be whiried off by centrifugal force and assumed a pillarlike form beside her. As soon as this was accomplish ed she stopped, turned and began to mold the light with her hand, and though could distinctly see her hands move through the light as if it were q cloud. it began to assume human form We saw the arms, hands and legs all nodded and finally the face and head gear. She next called for a light, and the candles being rcIightcd. there stood an utter stranger, native seemingly evolved out of cloudland He stepped forward and grasped me by the hand His hands were moist. as if with per spiration, and he was very healthy spirit.
 After he had talked and drunk a glass of arrack he took his place beside tue woman again and began to whirl about. The lights were dimmed, bur not so that We could net see and in 8 few minutes the figure began to fade soon assuming tEe appearance of pillar or form Of light and then attach ing itself to the woman and seemingl- being absorbed by her. All this wa done in very short space of time bt fore the eyes O. at least 50 people ant not ten feet from myself. The girl al peared greatly exhausted afterward.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
MAGIC MIRRORS OF JAPAN.
How the Ancient Buddhist Priests
 Preyed Upon the Susceptible.

Some time ago I read in The Weekly Times of Tokyo. Japan, about an old steel mirror that when held to a strong light was said to reflect the image of Buddha. This was attributed by the editor to su perstition, if I am not mistaken. An old steel Japanese mirror has come into my possession which when held to a strong light distinctly reflects the image of a child Buddha, full length, with arms ex- tended upward over the head.
 There is no mistaking this, for 1 am neither sentimental nor superstitious. This, think, has been produced by some old time Japanese artist. l think that steel has been inlaid into steel after the manner of damascene work, then the whole face Of the mirror polished. The grain of the damascene work, being diff ferent from the body of the steel mirror, reflects the figure as inlaid, while the mir TOT shows only q clear, polished steel sur face. The object of this is quite clear to me. When such a mirror was shown to the people, it would be to them mystery and could be palmed off as a miracle" and would draw them closer to Bud dhism. Of course there is no such thing as miracle To him who has attained Ruddahood all things are clear. What ignorant people do not understand design ing men palm off as miracle and draw people closer to their form of ''belief."
 Since writing the above have consult ed s. Nomura, from whom got the mir ror AIr. Nomura is president of Benten x Co. of IIioto and informs me that he secured six mirrors in exchange for em broideries from the pr.est or priests of one of the temples in KiOto. They were very old and very dirty. The priests in charge knew nothing of these mirrors, except that tEey were old mirrors, brought to the templc before their time. MT. Nomura supposed them t0 be old common steel mirrors and gave them to one of lis serv. ants to polish with white powder and silk cloth. As he polished each one he laid it on the floor face up. When the sun struck the mirror, the man noticed in the reflection on the ceiling the form of child Buddba, and that was how the dis covery was made. have all the six mir TOTS in my possession and have tested each one and found that each reflects child Buddha, but not always the same, and some of the mirrors cast a different reflection from others These mirrors are round have loops to hang them up, and on the back are Buddhist characters Open Court.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
Witness Nv unnd

Tn the early days only few schol- nrs. priests and clerks knew how to write. It was then customary to sign a document by smearing the hand with ink and lmpressing 1t upon the paper, accompanied by the words, Witness my hand" Afterward the seal was in- troduced as a substitute for the hand mark and was used with the words above quoted. the two forming the sig nature. This is the origin of the ex- pression as used in modern documents.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
Conveying a mIId Rebuke.

''That is ungrammatical. said Mir. Up- perby, smart young man much given to criticism. "What is?" asked his business partner, an elderly. blue eyed man of a sly humor but unfailing good nature.
 "That sentence you just now uttered"
 "Perhaps it was. l did not notice how I spoke it. By the way. suppose you look In Webster's Dictionary and see if you pronounced that word 'ungrammaticaP correctly"
 ''I am quite certain 1 did" returned Mr. Upperby. taking the volume down from the shelf and opening it.
 "Why." he exclaimed, after moments search, ''I can't find it in Webster!"
 "I thought perhaps you couldn't" re joined his partner. with twinkle in his eye.-Yonth's Companion.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19

Mrs. Mathilde ..iehter, DOniPhan. Neb., says:
 q suffered from catarrh for many years, but since have been taking Pc ru-na I feel strong and we'll l would advise all people to try Pu-re-na- As used Pe-ru-na and Man-a-lin while ! vas passing through the change Of fife, l am positively convinced your beneficial remedies have releived mS from all my ills
 Pe-ru-na has raised more women from beds of sickness and set them to work again than any other remedy Pelvic catarrh is the bane of woman kind. Pe-ru-na is the bane of eatarrh in all forms and stages Mrs Col Hamilton, Columbia, O., says "I rec ommend Pe-ru-na to women, believing it to be especially beneficial to them
 Send for a free book written by Dr. Hartman. entitled Health and Beau ty." Address Dr. Hartman, Columbus. Ohio.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
FALLING HAIR STOPPED.

Badness Cured by Destroying the Para
 site Germ That Causes It.
 Badness follows falling hair, fall ing hair follows dandruff; and dand- ruff is the result of germ digging it's way into the scalp to the root of the hair where it saps the vitality of the hair. To destroy that germ is to prevent as we'll as cure dandruff, fall ing hair, and, lastly, badness. There is only one preparation known to do that, Newbro's Herpicide, an entirely new, scientific discovery. Wherever it has been tried 1t has proven won derfully successful. It can't be other wise, because it utterly destroys the dandruff germ. "You destroy the cause, you remove the effect
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
A Cur.fng Contest.

A professor of languages some years ago on returning from India remarked upon the paueity of objectionable phrases among the British working classes when compared with the abun- dance supplied by the Orientals Of sim liar rank. To prove this he gives a case which came under his own notice dishonesty. and the next morning at o'clock he sought an interview with hls former master He fouriShed a carv- Ing knife, with which he plainly in tended to emphasize his remarks When he found it impossible to gain admission, he sat under the window. and the swearing" process began Hs cursed the professor along the gene alogical tree back to the first ancestor of his race. Then he dwelt upon every detail of his anatomy, from the top or his head to the end of his toes For three consecutive hours he sat thers and swore," says the professor. with out once repeating a phrase"
 While travelling on the underground railway in London a party of working men entered the same compartment .:nd interSpersed their remarks with the commOnest forms of swearing
 The professor politely asked them 10 desist, whereupOn he was told to mind his own - business He at once com menced to translate into English some specimens of eastern OathS which he had heard a Calcutta merchants serv- ant use to a missionary's servant The men sidled from him as if he had the plague and at the next station sought another compartment.-LiverpOOl Post
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
Ths Collection.

While Icciuring h:s congregation rather strongly cn recent Sunday about slack attendance and small col, leciions minister of a church in an English city used tue following elo- queni and forclble sentence: "Yes, brethren. OUT collection of little over f3 last Sunday included no fewer than 500 halfpannies. We all know about the widows mite. and am sure we are very glad 10 receive It; but I don't think there arc 5CO widows in this con greeationr'
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
This letter should carry Faith and Conviction to fss0H0aPfo nf zH Sick Women.


 '' I suffered with inflammation and falling of the womb and other dis agreeable female weaknesses. I had bad spells every two weeks that would last from eight to ten days and would have to go to bed. 1 also had head ache and backache most of the time and such bearing down pains 1 could hardly walk across the room at times. doctored nearly all the time for about two years and seemed to grow worse all the time until last September 1 was obliged to take my bed, and the doctors thought an operation was the only thing that would help me, but this 1 refused to have done.
 ''Then a friend advised me to try the Pinkham medicine, which I did, and after using the first bottle I began to improve. I took in all five bottles or Lydia E. Pinkham's Blood Purifier, four boxes Of Lydia E. Pinkham's Dry Form Compound, three boxes of Liver Pills and used three packages of Sana- tive Wash, and l am as well now as ] ever was l am more than thankfui every day for my cure. "-MRs. FRANK CARTER. Merrill St., Amesbury, Mass. &E0Nf3 vSlTE bc paEs # 6EsEs fesfInsc. &S - - = 1Ezf Ea 7of ge70s72s
 Ly0E1 E. Fi7f7taH,1 Medicine Co.,
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
Early HfrdA

The green finch is the earliest rise-. It pipes as early as half past 1 in the morning. The blackcap begins at half past 2. It is nearly o'clock before the blackbird appears. It is heard half an hour before the thrush, and the chirp of the robin begins about the same length of time before that of the wren. The house sparrow and the tom lit take the last stage of the list
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19

There are people who can see something attractive even in the most unusual places. I don't know of a more pleasing sight than my cellar presents in the early fall.
 What kind of sight?"
 Anthracite of course. ."-Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19

Browne: Whenever a woman be- comes reasonable it's attributed to her nerves. Isn't that singular?
 Towne: Yes, but the unreasonable ness of man is attributed to his nerve, and that's still more singular. Press.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
Just ns Bad.

Educated Egyptian have no wonderful hleroglyphics in your coun- try. sir; no mysterious inscriptions, no undecipherable relics of an ancient llt- erature whose secrets the wise men of the world have tried for ages to dis cover.
 Tourist No. we haven't any of those things. but N)Tightcnng upl we've got our railway guides. ."-London Fun.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
xnn KNoM WHAr YoU ARE rAKING

When you take Groves TastsIess ChIn T5n3c because the formula Is plainly printed on every bottle showing that it Is simply Iron and c11- nine in a tasteless form No cure. Ne nay see-
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19

Mother: Sir, hope my little boy doesn't worry you by his fretting and crying; he isn't well, or he wouldn't act so.
 MT. Man: Oh, no, all children act that way; I'm used to it-in fact I haven't seen a we'll child for twenty years.-Chicago Record-Herald.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19

For pimples, sallow complexion, inn pure blood and poor digestion, use Adams Sarsaparilla Pills. They i'm prove complexion and cure constipa- tiOn. 10 cents, 25 cents. Druggists.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19

'Why is Richmann adding so many new designs to that house he is build ing?
 "So that he will have an excuse for calling it Baltimore. Chicago Rec Herald.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
Regulate the Liver

Irregularity kills. At the first sign take Gas caretS Candy Cathartic. Keep a box handy at home; in your pocket, in your desk. All drug gists, 10c, 25c, soc.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19

Adams Sarsaparilla Pills cure sick headaches, constipation, billiousness dyspepsia, purify the blood, 10 cents 25 cents. Druggists.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19

Patience: Is your preacher sensa- tional?
 Patrice: I should say so! Why, he preached a sermon last Sunday and he took for his subject Its Hard to Keep a Good Man Down."
 "Well?"
 "Oh, 1t was all about Jonah and the whale. .'-Yonkers Statesman.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19

Lots of men who preach charity wait for other men to practice it-ChieagO News.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-10-19
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY

Take Laxative Bromo Cuinine Tablets. All
 druggists refund the money if 1t fails to cure B. w. Groves signature is on each box. 25c