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No Purchase Required.

Guess free Of charge on the number
Of seeds in the pumpkin by placing
your estimate together with date and
name in an envelope and deposit same
in the box in our store in person.
Everybody il invited to guess.
Morris b Honeyman.
1886. The Jewellers.
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The Hardware Merchant

Hundreds of useful household
and kitchen articles that women
sppreciate. Call and ses the
stock and let him suggest a pre-
sent that would be appreciated.
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THE WONDERFUL JAPANEsE.

The evidence that the Japanese knew what they were about when they went to war increases. One of the most won- .derful things about them is their deal Iings with the terrible, tarry, hairy Cos sacks. They don't seem to have read the historical and unhistorical novels in which the Cossacks figure so gorily and successfully, or if they have they don't seem to have been duly scared by them. It now appears that with their usual prudence and efficiency they have been ready for the Cossacks for some time. It is asserted that the Japanese military chiefs made preparations some years ago for dealing with the peculiar fighting tactics of the Cossacks. A spe- cial light machine gun invented by a Japanese engineer is carried on pony accompanying each detachment. It has a greater range than the Nordenfeld and can be operated by four men. It is with these deadly weapons that the Japanese are wiping out the Cossack sotnias whenevels they meet them.
 Soldiers who can wipe out 3 Cossack sotnia are all right. Very likely the Japanese soldiers could also wipe out a Tartar chambul if they felt like it.
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Unconfrmed.

A coolie just in from wang-cheng- Says the Japs are dying by thousands Strange bugs that kill whatever they Like dense black clouds are filling
 the air. Reports from Fi-Fo-F Fun. Foo-Chin, Flinl- l-Flam, Fan-Tan, and Song-Woo-
 Chink Say the Japanese ranks are becoming
 thin
 On account of the water they have to
 drink. Persistent rumors are floating around Concerning fight off Wai-Hai- Wen. Six thousand nine hundred Japs were
 drowned,
 The Russians lost only eleven men. A report has come in from Woon- Wang Which says that Japanese cruiser By running against a pitchfork prong Thrust out by a Cossack upon the
 bank. Major General Przbidiskivitch Sends word that he's heard from a
 trustworthy source Of thousand Japanese smothered in
 pitch
 Poured on them by Gstzmuistoroff' s
 Russian force. A rumor is brought from Wang Dee
 Doc
 That thousands are dying from choI-
 era there, And another report from Kow-Cheng-
 Foo
 Says the Japs are retreating and in
 despair. A refugee from Chang -Fung-Low Describes thrilling and deadly
 scene; A lightning bug dealt the Japs a blow By touching its spark to a magazine. There are rumors from Frou-Frou,
 Wing -Lee-Sun, Bon-ton, Hai-Mow, KinChew, Kan They say thatthe Japs are "all in" and done,
 But the stories are unconirmed as
 yet.
 Chicago Record Herald
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membered. The Chinese are too pru- dent to dream of such a foolish enter prise. and the Japanese are too well ac- quainted with the obstacles in the way of it's execution to dwell upon it for a single moment. M. de Lanessan also holds that French Indo-China has no more to fear from Japan than has Eu- rope itself. Armchair strategists. he remarks. forget that it would take a fortnight for the Japanese fleet to reach those colonies. and ignore the difficult ties that would have to be overcome in disembarking even a few thousand men in a territory guarded by French troops with coast almost completely devoid of suitable landing places.
 This looks quite as reasonable as the other talk looks. Probably it will be some time yet before Europe will be se- riously menaoed by the yellow peril.
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CAREFUL.

Always think before you speak. Be- fore you write think a long time.-Som-
 erville Journal.
 Well, I got the happy medium that time" said the cop, as he dumped the spiritualist into the hurry-up wagon
 Harvard Lampoon.
 We've got a dandy college yell, now.' What is it?'' 'FWa give four Russian battleships, a sis-boom-ah and then two Jap generals. Pluck. Customer-"Hav you a good edition of Lamb in stock?' Clerk-"No. sir: but we have some very fine editions in calf just now. "-Princeton Tiger. Clarence-I am very sorry, old boy, that l can't bet on the boat race, but my governor forbids me taking chances on shell game.-Cornell Widow. What are you going to do this sum mer?' T think I'll go tramping.' For your health?' No. I'm trying for a roads scholarship. Princeton Tiger.
 He took his medicine like a man; which is to say that he left it lying right in front of the clock where his careful wife had placed it to catch his eye New Orleans Times-Democrat. "De man dat don't live within his in- come, said Uncle Eben, lis pretty sho', sooner or later, to have to try de ex- pertinent of Twin without it."-Wash- ington Star.
 Mrs. Ruralle-Your place is so large wonder you don't keep fowls It is so nice to have fresh eggs every day. Mrs. Civique-But fowls are such a bother. Why couldn't we keep an in- cubator instead?-Brooklyn Life.
 That fellow-townsman of yours, remarked the New Yorker, hasn't much idea Of table manners.'' "Nc, , replied the Chicagoan, T noticed that. Why, the other day seen him use the same knife for his pie that he'd used to eat his peas with. Philadelphia Ledger.
 Over in Boston, little eight-year-old Jimmy Spry surprised his school teach CT with this outburst of confidence: Teacher, my mother is away; been away for two weeks; I was out to din- ner last night; goin' out to dinner to- night-goin' where I please on Sunday: hain't had bath for two weeks.''- Life.
 A young Scotch minister, with an ex- alted opinion of his forensic powers, said one morning to his man in the kirk; T don't think, John, need put the gown on; it's only an encumbrance though some folk seem to think it makes a preacher more impressive.
 Verger John-Aye. aye, sir, that's just it; it makes ye mair impressive, an ye need it, sir, ye need it.-Sporting Times.
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4 GREAT SAYING.

1t appears that there are at least five
 thousand millions of telephone messages |sent In the United States during a year.
 These vast figures have moved the New York Times to thinking and figur- ling. The Times points out that if it is assumed that half the messages sent are sent because it is merely convenient there remain two thousand five hundred millions of necessary communications, |of consequence as affecting the busi- |ness or social activities of the Ameri- lean people. And the Times points out that if we assume, as we may safely do, that the saving of time on each neces-
 sary communication in asking the ques-
 ton and getting an answer, or on in- parting or receiving information, will average at least ten minutes by tele-
 phone over any other available agency |of communication. we find that the saving on the two thousand five hun dred millions of messages of the exigent
 and important class exchanged is twen-
 ty-ave thousand million minutes, or 416,666,666 hours, or 17,361,111 days, or
 7,S90 years. If we allow fifty years for the maximum average of useful life,
 the fen minutes saving on each of
 the messages would aggregate the en-
 tire lifetime for purposes of work of more than nine hundred and f1fty-six able-bodied men employed as messen-
 gers.
 This indicates some of the usefulness of the telephone. There are no figures available to show how many men would have to stay out of Heaven if all the ugliness and the profanity developed by the telephone were counted against them for unrighteousness.
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POINT Pup1TH HEREINAFTER.

Necessity of Extending Its Shore Arm
 for Further Protection.
 Much has been said in these columns about the great value that the Point Judith harbor of refuge will be to ship ping of all classes, and especially the smaller ones, when bad weather or acci- dents requires them to seek shelter. We shall continue to advocate this
 much needed improvement until Con-
 gress appropriates the money necessary to complete this work, which is now partially constructed.
 On the 27th and 18th of April, ac- cording to the advices of the Providence Journals wireless service at Point Ju Idith, one of the heaviest gales of the year from southeast was experienced at this point, the sea was unsuually high, and added to this an abnornally high tide made Point Judith breakwater in it's incomplete state able to furnish just protection enough jn the southeast apex to care for the few small craft that were fortunate enough to get under it before the gale set in. During it's height nothing could be seen of them by the wireless operator, owing to the Iseverity of the storm; but after it cleared the little fleet was seen riding at Itheir anchors in safety, with thankful lness in their hearts toward this great, benign Government.
 This recent southeast gale demonL |strated that which the marine interests Ihave been contending for that the shore arm of Point Judith breakwater should be extended out sufficiently to
 to break the force of the sea, that now finds an entrance between it and the outer main breakwater in gale all the |way from the northeast to the southeast land at the same time make safe an chorage for a large fleet of vessels where the holding ground is reported to
 be better. This extension will aslo en-
 able life savers to launch their boats
 direct from their station, which it Is now impossible for them to do under
 the conditions of wind and weather described above.
 It is gratifying to learn that Chair
 man Burton and others of. the river and |harbor committee will visit Point Jud-. Iith some time this summer in company with Maj. J. H. Willard the United States Army engineer in charge, where they can see the importance of extend- ling the shore arm of this valuable Fharbor of refuge. Marine Journal.
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1HE YELLOW PERIL.

Some people are not as scared as some other people. In an article published in the Paris Steele M de Lanessan dep- recates any anxiety concerning the de- velopn1ent of Japan on the ground that the latter power is bound to fail if she attempts enterprises plainly beyond the limits of her resources. He ridicules the predictions of an imminent yellow peril. A little reflection, he says, will show the impossbility of the yellow races precipitating themselves upon Europe with the object of devouring it. The apprehensions of such an invasion seem ludicrous, he says,when the diff culties encountered by Russia in the transport of a few thousand men across the immense solitudes of Siberia are re-
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sHAKEsPEAREs PROSE.

"Shakespeares prose we can afford to overlook" Whoever Professos Thomas M. Barnard may be, one is sur prised to find him quoted in the San Francisco papers as making such a statement and going uncontradicted. It is true that, among English poets, only Tennyson held so sternly aloof from prose. There are no essays of William Shakespeare" Bacon yrote them-no notes calling Ben John son to the Mermaid Tavern; no epistles glittering with the gossip of Elizabeth an maids-in- waiting, and the sonnets are our nearest approach to a volume of "Shakespeares Love Letters" Yet the plays are full of plentiful prose di- alogue, and though this can give but an indication of what Shakespeare might have done as a writer of prose, it is, one submits, of a value which we decidedly cannot afford to overlook" !"
 The aim of this dialogue, impersonal
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4 oHILIcorHE INoIpEsE

All the things which happen in Mis- souri are not happening at St. Louis. At Chilicothe the other evening a mid dle-aged travelling man was out walk ing. He was noticed by a frisky young woman, who readily took to walking with him. As they rambled on he questioned her as to the location of her home and she showed him the houses but when he asked her to take him in she refused. saying that she did not want her mother to see her with stranger. But the travelling man in- sisted on going in and before she could remonstrate he had seized her by the arm and hurried her up the steps to the front door. An elderly woman re- sponded to the summons. The travel ing man inquired if she was the mother of the girl at his side. Receiving an af- firmative reply the stranger gently led the girl into the hall, and, turning to the mother said: Madam, your daughter firted with me on the street this evening and I have brought her home to you. She doesn't look like bad girl and she is altogether too young and pretty to be on the streets alone. at night. I have a daughter of
 my own about her age and I would thank any man for doing what have done tonight, and so would her moth CT. Take good care of your daughter and don't let her walk the streets at night, and teach her the evils of f1irt- ing.''
 If this young woman can learn she has received a sharp lesson. And if her parents can learn they, too, have had an opportunity to do so. The travel ing man shone in the incident and it is to be hoped he didn't shine in vain.
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ance and antithesis-it has all these re- quirements of the model speech. And
 it be objected that this is an attempt to give us the laconic styles which Plu- tarch attributed to Brutus. and not
 such one as Shakespeare would have
 employed in general. then We need go no further than the reply of Henry V. to the soldiers who would lay at his door the private results of war. That, at any rate. is the author himself speaking, and speaking in a powerful. elose-knit, masculine style that you would recognize wherever again you found it. Very little, by the way, of the epigrammatic, slow, gray, emotion al, and sometimes pedantic, Bacon therei
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No. Professor Barnard, Shakespeare's s prose no one can afford to disregard '' More than this. the rule might be made general and applied to the prose of all poets of the first and second rank. Poe, of course, was the soul of artifice, and his letters have been rejected by posterity because the little man of Twickenham deliberately rewrote them for posterity's eye. Byron, toos failed from much the same reason, and Shell ley from the opposite one, that of the copiousness which often hurts his verse. But even Keats letters succeed, for all their authors feminine exuber- ance of emotion, and, considering the English poets as a whole, it may safely be said that at lest every rely great poet is master of prose.-Philadelphia Press.
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and dramatic. is. of course. to repro duce the conversational style of the au- thors so varying period. Apetmantus. plain spoken Kent and old Lafeu. Mas ter Page and Mistress Ford, are all as different as may be. The prose of Ros- alind. Beatrice and Orlando is distinct. individual. and if not from the over towering wealth of Falstaff's talk, at least from the polished pleasantries of Prince Hal we can guess how Shakes peare himself spoke at his best as Full Ter has depicted him.
 To be more critical and less fantastic, the famous speech of Brutus is prose classic enough to be mouthed by every schoolboy. Simplicity, terseness, bal
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Four hundred and twenty hens took part in an egg-laying competition in. sydney. extending over twelve months. In all 6S.572 eggs were laid, and the prize was won by pen of Wyandottes with an average of 21S per hen.
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his place. The ex-sultan. who is now sixty-four years Of age, has become se- riously i'll and his life is despaired of.
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Russian surgeons say that the Jap anese rife bullets, while possessing a great deal of stopping power, make small. clean holes. which can be treat ed easily, and give excellent opportuni- ties for the early recovery of the wounded unless some vital organ is pierced There have been many cases of recovery after the intestines have been penetrated. Interesting contribu- tions to surgical science will follow the ending of hostilities.
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The talk is that the Hearst boom has cost so far s2,OOO.OoO. The ques- ton is, how much is it worth?
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To save life and money, suggests Civil Engineer A. S. Dandridge of New York, the Panama canal should be chiefly built at night First build suf- f1cient electric plants to light the work ing sections and to furnish fan power, and have a good ice plant. In order that the men should secure the necessa- " sleep during the day, the sleeping quarters could be cooled by the electric fans and ice plants. Under such con- ditions any labor could be used on the work.
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There is more talk about what ''the ivy green will do to stone walls. The Boston Advertiser asserts that ''the stones in the main structure of Trinity church show the effects of the ivy to noticeable extent Where the plant has grown over the surface, the rough points have become polished and the stone covered with a fine, dust as if disintegration had begun. The green parasite appears to have already eaten into the rock, and although the results are not yet deep enough to cause any alarm, the ivy would be stripped away if 1t were not for the sentiment attach ed to it."
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Few people realize that for nearly thirty years an ex-sultan of Turkey has been kept prisoner at Kourbadji, on the Bosporous. This unfortunate man is the ex-Sultan Murad, the eldest nephew of Abdul Aziz, who came to the throne in 1876 on his uncle's death, but was allowed to reign only three months. He was in weak health at the time, and there was strong party in Constantinople which was desirous that his brother, the present Sultan Abdul Hamid, should be caliph. An intrigue was therefore set on foot to declare that Murad was insane and he was quietly deposed and Abdul Hamid reigned in
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The whales that swim about the islands which lie off the coast of Nor way and Finland, in March and April, travel immense distances. In May they appear at the Azores or even at the Bermudas and sometimes pay visit to the Antilles. They swim fast, for in June they are back again off Norway. Some of these whales have been known to bring back evidences of where they have been, for harpoons of the peculiar kind used off the coast of South Am erica have been found stuck in them.
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George Baldy was lieutenant-colonel of a negro regiment and was mustered out in 1865 a brigadier-g general by brev- ct. He settled down in New Orleans to the practice of the law. Now, at sev- enty-six, he is in the parish prison un- der six-months' sentence for embez- clement. It appears that he was em- ployed in the settlement of an estate. and that he could not account for $500 collected. It is believed that he was absolutely innocent of any purposed dishonesty. The authorities, newspa- pers and citizens are interesting them selves in his case, and pardon is con- fidently expected
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Shortly after the late Franz Lenbach had painted the portrait of Emperor Wilhelm I. privy councillor called on him to express the emperor's satisfac- ton. There was only one criticism to nake-would the professor be so kind as to paint more distinctly the buttons on the uniform which were only indi- cated vaguely, Lenbach looked at him moment over his glasses and said: Look here. MT. Councillor, I paint heads, not buttons. Tell his majesty that!" The emperor, when this answer was brought to him, laughed heartily.
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Always think before you speak. Be- fore you write think long time.-son- erville Journal.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-25

twenty years after the Introduction OF coffee IN
England there was a continued series OF invec-
tives against its adoption. both in medicinal ana
domestic views. Even in its native country the
government discovered that the history Of cof-
fee houses was often that of the manners. the
morals and the politics of people and the use
of the Arabian berry was more than once for
hidden where it grew. The same fate hap
pened on its Introduction into England. In The
WOmen's Petition Against Coffee" 1864 they
complained that 1t made men as Unfruitful
the deserts whence that unhappy berry Is said
20 be brought: that the offspring of our mighty
ancestors would dwindie into "A succession of
apes and pygmies; and on a domestic message.
a husband would stop by the way TO drink
couple of cups of coffee" In the reign Of
Charles H. 1875, proclamation for some time
shut them ali up. they having become the rem
devious of the politicians of that day. Roger
North has given in mis- 'Examen'' a full ac-
count of this move. In discussing il. Disraeli
says; 1t was not done without some apparent
respect for the British Constitution. the court
affecting not 10 act against ,aw. for the judges
were summoned to COZ sutatiOu, when il
seems, the FIVE VINO met did not agree IN
opinion. But a decision was contrived that the
retailing OF coffee and tea might be an innocent
trade, but as it said TO nOurish seditiOn.
spread lies and scandalize great men. it might
y
content, i'm consequence. as North acknowl-
edges. took place. and emboldened the mer-
chants and retailers of coffee and tea TO petit
tinn. and permission was soon granted TO open
the houses for % certain period. under a severe
admouiJiou that the masters should prevent
all scaudalOus papers books and Hbels from
being read I'm them and hinder every person
from spreading scaDdalous reports against the
government. Anderson says that coffee was
brought into England by Nathaniel Campus. q
CreJan, who made it his common beverage AT
BaIiol College. Oxford, in 1641. Another author
claims that the first coffee house in England
was kept by a jew named Jacobs in Oxford IN
1850 and that coffee trees We're conveyed from
Mocha TO Holland in 1916. and We're carried 10
the West Indies in 1926. Another account has
it that coffee was introduced into the West
Indies in 1923 by Chirac French physician
VINO gave Norman gentleman by the name OF
De CIieux, a captain of infantry. his way
TO Martinique single plant The sea voyage
was a stormy one; the vessel was driven out
scarce that it was distributed in rations. De
Clieux. with an affection for his coffee plant.
divided his portion of water with il. and sue
ceeded in bringing it 10 Martinique. although
weak not in hopeless condition. There he
planted il i'm his garden. protected IT with
fence of thorns and watched it daily until the
end Of the year. when he gathered two pounds
of coffee. which he distributed among the in
habitants of the island To be planted by them
From Martinique coffee trees in turn were sent
10 san Domingo. Guadalupe and other neigh
boring islands