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The Cry of "Fire" is Dreaded.

A general agent can secure control for this territory handling PYRO- CIDE, the dry chemical fire extin- guisher. Adopted by the World Fair and largest corporations. Highest merits. Cost one-tenth that of others. Manufactured by the WESTERN FIRE APPLIANCE CO.,, Inc., 916 Market Street, San Francisco.
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Her Ignorance His Bliss.

cribbles-Glumly has q snap.
 Dribbles-So? What's he doing?
 cribbles-Writing jokes for Il pa. per that is edited by woman.
 Drubbles-Huh! Glumly can't write jokes.
 Scribbles-Of course not: but q woman doesn't know joke from a patent medicine testimonial. - Ex. change.
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Unnecessary.

Men are apt to fret and worry,
 But what's the use? If they're late they often hurry,
 But what's the use? Just to keep the business boomin' Men do lot of things inhuman- They even argue with woman;
 But what's tbe use?
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The Burglars Joke.

Burglar-There goes detective. Pick his pocket, and bring me his knife.
 Pickpocket-Wotd dye want his knife fer?
 Burglar-The nex' time I'm attacked I'll defend meself with 1t, an then leave it behind for him to find when he's hunt in fer clews.
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Whyness of the Wherefore.

q suppose" said the scanty haired man, 'you have never given marriage a thought"
 "Oh, yes I have," replied the bach elor.
 "Then why are you still single?" ask. ed the other.
 Because l gave marriage thought answered the advocate of single blessed. ness.
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Fixing the Blame.

He-Miss Buddington is awfully shy, isn't she?
 She-Yes. I wonder if she inherits her shyness from her mother?
 He-No; from her father, l imagine. He used to be'a great poker player.
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Druggists Come Handy.

Young Lady-Have you a city direc tory here?
 Druggist-Yes madam.
 Young Lady-Please look through it and find Mrs. Sewseam's present loca- tion, and address this envelope to her. Here's two cents for the stamp.
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Merely a Reminder.

"Yes," remarked young DeBorem as the clock chimed the hour of II p. m., absent minded, doncher know? I'm always forgetting something that I-aw-should wemember."
 "I have noticed that" rejoined Miss Caustique. "You even forget how to tell time by the clock"
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More in His Line,

The Farmer-I want yeou to turn my grinding stone.
 Gritty George-No. Tbere'n be bum actor along soon.
 The Farmer-What of that?
 Gritty George-Why, he Is better able to do a turn than l am.
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Absolute Rest.

Physician-Your husband must stop all work, all thought, everything.
 Wife-He would never consent to ab- solute idleness.
 Physician-Then we must fool him into imagining he is busy. I'll get him appointed member of the board of health,
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No Appetite

Means loss of vitality, vigor or tone, and is often a pre- cursor of prostrating sick ness. This is why it is serious. The best thing you can do is to take the great alterative and tonic
 Hood'sSarsaparilla Which has cured thousands.
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Harmonious Doctors.

"They have called two doctors In for consultation"
 And do the doctors agree"
 q believe they have agreed upon the price. e."-Philadelphia Ledger.
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Then They Dined.

You are sweet enough to eat." said the very young man who imagined he had the love market cornered.
 "Thanks," rejoined the matter-of. fact maid. "There's small restaurant just around the corner"
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Clever.

Clever. "Talk as you please" said Harvard Hashen, "but it takes practice to be a real genius" Oats right. an lots of it," replied Ragson Tatters. "Dat's wat made my brother de cleverest in his line." "What's his specialty?" "Breakin' out O jail."-Philadelphia Press.
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ETC Permanently Cured. No fits or nev- ss'O ousness after first days use of Dr. Klines Great Nerve Restorer Send for FREE s2.0O trial bottle and treatise. DIR. R. H. KLINE, Ltd, 931 Arch St., Phila- delphia, Pa.
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Special Inducement.

Prospective Purchaser-I see you ad. vertise special inducement in engage ment rings. What is it?
 Jeweler-Well, we guarantee to re. purchase any ring we sell within six months.
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The number of cotton spindlcs in use in the United States increased last year from 15,500,000 to 20,000,000, owing principally to new factories in the cotton belt.
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Mothers will find Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup the best remedy to use for their children during the teething period.
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Nothing to Boast Of.

G>OthAhS tO DOdet OAs Bifkins-I don't think much of Mrs. Googoo's ability as manufacturer. Mifkins-Why, what do you mean7 Bifkins-Googoo told me the other day that his wife made him what he is.
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Piso's Cure Is a remedy for coughs colds and consumption. Try 1t. Price 25 cents, at druggists.
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Whats in n Namcp

Larry-Who's thot in the picture, Denny?
 Denny-Shure. thot's an Oirishmon. Larry-Arrah gowan! Phoy, thots Gineral Kuropatkin, tn Russian.
 Denny-'Tis not. No mon wid Pat in his name could be Russian.
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trely within the apartment, and with win
dow and other ample means of ventilation.
And so through the entire list of evils.
Fit to Live In.
All the East Side streets-Hester Baxter
Canal, Delaney Essex, Grand and all the
other well-known ones-now boast of their
scores of tenements fit for occupancy Dur
ing the year and a half following the en-
actment of the new law SO dwellings, esti-
mated to cost $50, $4,000. were built under
its provisions on the Island of Manhattan
alone. OF these 260 buildings, or 45 per
cent Of the whole. were on the lower East
Side.
This was the record Immediately following
the enactment Of the law, when builders
and land owners were bitter in their denun-
citation of It, declaring, among other things,
that 1t would be impossible longer to build
or operate at any profit. These men have
discovered their error in judgment, and as
result. from July Of last year to the
present day over three hundred more new
tenements have been erected on the lower
East 6ide scores are In process of con-
struction and hundreds are being planned
for the near future.
Tho tenement jewellers themselves have
had lot to do with causing the builders
to change their views. When the first of
the new tenements began going up some
one noticed that 1t had no air shaft and
that In its stead there was wide court.
which made every room opening upon II
light This strange circumstance got noised
about. and the Ghetto folk and the jewellers
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possible as in the past, for filth to accumu-
late and threaten the health of thousands.
Neither is it possible for penurious land
lords to let their property get into an in
sanitary condition. If the plumbing is
found to be bad the landlord is compelled to
put in new plumbing. If his cellar is de-
clared to be damp he must make IL damp
proof at once. But If the house is found to
be beyond all redemption 1t is declared unfit
for habitation and vacated and then 1t is
up to the landlord either to let his invest
ment bring him in no return at all or re-
place it with new style house. To his
business credit let it be said that he inva-
riably chooses the latter alternative
But while the new tenement house law is
the principal factor in the rebuilding of the
East Side and has given it houses that are
as comfortable to live in and are as free
from the evils of overcrowding as the aver
age apartment In the better residential Sec
lions of the city, 1t has not been the only
factor operating for a new and better East
Side.
While the tenement house department has
been seeing to 1t these past three years that
the people get fresh air inside their houses
the park department since 1897 has been see
Ing to 1t that they get fresh air outside
their homes. During this period block after
block OF tenements has been RACED to get
space for parks and Fairgrounds. Hun
dreds OF houses, sheltering thousands OF
families, have oeen cleared on of eighteen
acres of land, and In their place today are
Mulberry Bend Park Corlears Hook Park
Hamilton Fish Park, William H. Seward
Park, Grand Street Park and one or two
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WOMEN EASY TO WAKE.
Hotel Men Have Greater Trouble in
Rousing Men From SAUNDERS.

From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
ut is immeasurably harder to awaken
men in the morning than ii is women
hotel proprietor informs me. "A tap or
two at a woman's door in the morning Is
sufficient. No matter how late she may
have retired, no matter how exhausted she
NAV have been no matter how faint the
YES that comes from the bed in answer to
the knock you can bank on it that within
a half hour or so that woman will walk
into the dining room. bright-eyed and
cheerful but with a maxwell, it's differ
ent.
"A man may leave call for O'Clock in
the morning, with the warning that ne
must be up at that hour. A few minutes
before Z you detail boy for the purpose
and tell him not to stop pounding until the
man awakes. The room may be on the top
floor, but you can hear the thump. hump
thump on the door way down in the Of
flee. Does the nan wake with faint yes
and scramble ont of bed?. NOT ne. Inc
boy knocks until his knuckles are sore, ana
then suddenly a stentorian voice roars from
the room. Yes, yes, What in blazes is the
matter with you? Do you think m dead
The boy retires. turns in his report at the
office and goes to ease his hand IN coIu
water.
yidual with wrinkles in his brow, walks up
to the desk L thought / left a call here
for O'Clock in the morning. You dld,
and the bellboy woke you promptly at I.
That's little too strong. Is the answer,
and after you've argued with him for halt
an hour you haven't convinced him that ne
was actually awakened as he had ordered
So it goes day after day. The women get
up promptly in response to a call, while
the men invariably turn over to have an
9TH
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in Little Italy went around to investigate
the astonishing news for themselves. They
found every word of it true, and more
strange things, besides-stairs that were
fireproof and not so steep that they broke
a woman's back: halls that We're actually
light and wide enough to allow two
persons passing each other with comfort
and. something they had not breathed in a
room in many a year-fresh air.
In Great Demand
They marveled greatly; then it occurred
to them that here was mighty good
house in which to live. Straightway the
agent was bombarded with queries as to
apartments and rents, and the upshot of
the matter was that weeks before the
building ready for occupancy every
apartment in it had been rented
That has been the history of every one
of the tenements erected on the East Side
under the new law, and because of this
fact and the other one, that for every
apartment offered for rent at the slightly
increased rentals that have come in with
the new tenements there are ten applicants.
the builders and real estate people are
hurrying along the new East Side as fast
they know how They are not only re-
placing with new buildings those tenements
that have been declared unfit for habita-
ton and vacated by the tenement house
department; on their own hook they are
tearing down row after row of the now
discredited dumb bells and other old
fashioned tenements, in order to make
room for the style houses that their
tenants are clamoring for in no uncertain
manner
Another important factor in the rebuild
ing of the East Side is the structural inn
provement of the old houses. Under the
law the $1,000 tenements of this sort in the
entire city, of which about 30 per cent,
and by far the worst examples, are situated
in the East Side, are being remodeled as
far as possible along the lines of the new
law tenements. Yard sinks are giving place
to private bath rooms, rooms that had no
windows are being provided with large
sash ones; light is being let into the thou
sands of dark halls and bath rooms; sinks
and bath rooms being removed from
the halls intakes provided for air shafts
and means of ventilation installed where
ever needed.
Regular Inspection.
In addition. under the tenement house de-
partmenI's administration all tenements are
regularly inspected, so that it Is no longer
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Plants for Winter Bloom.

From Good housekeeping.
1t is important to prepare plants early in
September so that they may be well estab-
Ished in pots and growing nicely before
winter closes in. Palms which have done
good service on the veranda all summer
and which will be required for indoor deco
ration the coming winter should be potted
into larger sized pots If they require 1t. and
the drainage of all ported plants made per-
feet Cuttings of coleUs and geraniums
should now be made. and inserted around
the edges of four-inch pots filled with light.
sandy soil. These root in a few days. when
they may be potted singly-
oxaIis bulbs of which the best two species
for home use are the large. Powered pink
oxaIis BOWEL and the oxalis iava. must now
be potted at once, as must also the tubers
of that we'll known delightful South African
plant freesia refracta. Six eight of the
tubers in a five-inch pot filed with light.
rich soil is perhaps the best way to grow
them. Both these and oxalis must be placed
under conditions where they will receive
plenty of light and air. and yet will be pro-
tected from cold winds and frost until the
weather demands their removal indoors.
Roman hyacinths and paper white mar
cissus should be planted now, to have them
in flower for Christmas. The potting of
Dutch hyacinths, tulips. narcissus and GRO
cuses may be deferred a month. these
should never be forced before Janaury. All
of these bulbs must be rooted before they
can be forced, SO that after potting they
should receive good watering and then be
stored away in the very coolest part of the
cellar for about three months (Which is the
roofing period before bringing them into
the light and warmth of the rooms. We
prefer named varieties of these Dutch bulbs
to mixtures. and the kinds we have found
most satisfactory among hyancinths are
Gertrude and Roi des Belges. pink; LIN
nocence and La Grandesse, white. and Car
Peter and King of the Blues. blue Some Of
the best varieties of tulips for home forcing
are Albion and lie RENE. white: Mon Tre-
SCR and chrysolora, yellow: Rose Grisdelin,
pink, and Due Van Tholl. scarlet. The Won
Sion, double and single. are, perhaps the
most satisfactory narcissus, while the large
yellow and Madam Nina (purple and white)
crocuses are the best for forcing. or. indeed,
for any purpose.
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JOHN cH1NAMAN At HIS EASE.
Celestial Dignihed When He Casts Off
the Cares of the World.
From the Shanghai Times

From the Shanghai Times.
With the summer weather the Chinaman
comes before us prominent In his artstic
silks and in his native nakedness. His tenn
perament also becomes a noticeable feature
to the observant foreigner and the manner
in which he takes his pleasure contrasts
narvelously with that of the energetic occi-
Dental human being.
In the early hours of the morning. when
the rays of Old Sol are tempered with the
fascinating dews of night. the wealthy ma
tive as well as the worker of low degree,
may be seen carrying the cage containing
his favorite singing bird to the natlVe gar
dens or other tree-embowered spot ana
listening in contemplative ecStacy TO the
iovous greeting which his Gagged friend
pours forth to the coming glory or the DAY.
AS soon as the golden beams become OPP
pressive he retires to his domicue, Whether
to labor or sleep it's hard to tell. In any
case he is wise, for has he not caught the
beauty of the grandest part of summers
day, the majesty of dawn? Again, When
sunsets glow has fallen dead In the west,
the Chinaman pours forth to his diversion.
To stand for hours with waving fan on the
curb of our city's thorOughfares watching
the procession of vehicular and pedestrian
traffic brings him apparently the delight
which Londoner can obtain from lord
mayors show daily repeated, while vol
unteer parade brings him forth in numbers
proportionate to the metropolis myr1ads
called out by royal pageant.
Thus, in dignified, contemplative manner
does the Chinaman display his idiosyncrasy
of pleasure-taking. Again the native Of
younger blood, imbued with tinge Of for
eign taste. PUSHES madly through the streets
on the whirring wheel or drives, luxuriously
reclining in his smartly appointed carriage,
behind the fastest trotting pony, steered by
a reckless native jehu which his means are
able to procure. oe1G
The visitor to the various public resorts
of the Chinese In the settlements will in
variably gain an interesting insight into the
Chinaman and his pleasure taking. and one
striking feature cannot pass unnoticed.
Whether coolie, merchant office boy or
mandarin, in public the Chinaman at play
is invariably respectable. One hears much
of the native immortality, but decorum when
in the public eye, and absolutely moral be-
havior characteriZes even the biggest rake
among the Cinnamon OF our settlements.
Drunkenness is a vice which is usually kept
within doors, as are all other reprehensible
practices.
Quarreling Is almost an unknown thing in
public resorts. Never does one witness any
thing approaching the college student of
Europe on the rampage or, AIRY and Ar
riet on bank 'oliday tear.n The Chinaman
takes his pleasure as he takes his business,
with calm. calculating philosophy. which
constitutes one Of his greatest variations
from the habit OF mind of the vivacious
European.
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Reading a Book.
the Atlanta Constitution.

from the Atlanta Constitution.
IA curious way to read a book was what
saw the other day coming up from New
Orleans" said J. T. Simpson Of Chicago.
TT was In q Pullman sleeping car. ana
we had pretty good crowd Of north-bound
tourists. Among them WAS a uueer-IooIxfnr
Frenchman; at least. judged he was such.
On ms seat noticed dozen paper-backed
novels. Shortly after breakfast he began
seaang one OF these at the open window
by his seat. AS soon az ha finished a page
ne tore 1t OF neatly and threw 1t out the
Window. The books were all in French.
ana before we got to Atlanta he had read
tnree and scattered the French printed
pages for. hundreds Of miles,
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lesser breathing spots of a triangular ma
ture at the intersection of certain streets.
The land for these parks was secured az a
cost to the city of s6.tiD7. 1S3. ~, and tens OF
thousands of dollars have been spent fitting
them up with Fairgrounds, gymnasia. baths
and pavilions where mothers can take their
children and keep them out in the fresh AIR
the whole day If they choose. Other parks
are still to be constructed.
Fine School Buildings.
Not to be outdone by the other city de-
partments whose duty it is to make life
more bearable on the East Side, the de-
partment of education has been erecting
there during the last three years some of
the finest public school buildings in the
world. There was high need for them; the
buildings they replaced were notoriou sly
unfit in every respect, and "A constant mem
to the health of the thousands OF CHI
dren attending them. In 1902 $l,SI9.O0D was
appropriated for new schools on the Island
of Manhattan alone; of this amount 81 -26l,-
931 was set aside to be spent on the East
Side This proportion holds good for
1861. Indeed, the East Side is getting
more new school buildings. and finer ones,
than any other section of Greater New
York. and the residents of the East Side
know ii full well. An old man STOPPED the
writer as he was passing through William
II. Seward Park. Pointing to big steel
and stone building that was being reared
on the north side of the park. he said, as he
rubbed his hands contentedly together:
"Ah hal The finest school house in
Greater New York! And for u.s. All. haf
So. with new tenements springing up over
night by the hundred old ones being made
over or torn down, great plazas and parks
claiming their blocks of houses, and mod
ern and artistic school buildings taking the
place of insanitary barns, it is indeed time
for you to hurry up If you want to catch a
glimpse of the East Side of song and story,
the East Side of gloom and death. that IS
fast giving away to the East Side of light
and life.
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Yofatmner TIT Seras aetD1n1dt.

Die SriscueS pftem 2anbs Sunni.
aratiUns : IifociatiDn lenft bereits
ibren geil Der Ginuanoerung nah
gerasH
Dreibunoertunbfinfaie Mgenten
oieler Nfociation bonn Often uno
RDroen haben ineben cine Tuur ourd
Eegas Seenoet unb fid rad ben 6ulfss
queuen oes Staates &c. erfunoiat.
I'M Die Eatiaden ben SeimitdtteIu-
hern Der dlterert Staaten better pprs
fiihren 81 fDnnen.
Dieie GfOciatiun tit Die mirf,
latnfte. Die eS eiebt; fie bat Ieenten
in cen gansen 8er. Staaten. BoQt
Sbr @uer gieentum. auf Dem 2anoe
Doer in Der Staot, perfaufen, mfnIdt
Sbr 8apitaf fir Sabrifen Doer
iraeno cine Suouitrie, idreibt an
&. g. 2emon, SefretGr oes Sns
miarations : Bureaus, Dept. U.
Srisc0 8ebGuoe, ct. Souls, SEQ.
g. u. Sugbe 8,
Generals mmiaratiuns= Noert,
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Die 8eaieruna pDn 2ippe=
Detmolo bat elm Teleeramm bon1
&aiier @ilbelm an @raf 2eppulo,
Sobn oes Herftnrbenen Reeentei1,
@raf @rnit CUR 2ippe . 8ieferfelo,
pnbltsiert, morin Der Safer benz
@rafen uegen oes Nblebens ieines
Taters conoDliert uno ibrn mitteilt,
oaB, Do Die leaate Situation niHt ge=
fldrt iei, Der Safer ben @rafen Seq
polo al8 &eeenten nibt anerfennen
tonne unb oaB Der @nrniisn oesbalb
nidt oeitattet meroen piiroe, @raf
2eOpOlo ben 9reueio gu GeiIen. Die
9ippe'id 8egieruna maht ben gors
idlag. oaB Der STREET betrefs Der
NabfOlge an oa5 Eei6sgeribt poer
elm anoeres @eri@t pertpieien peroen
SDne, anftatt an ben 8unoesrat.
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YeuantHe eines Qrtefters.

&ep. Sobn g. @or BON @afe, 9rf.
i6reibt: ZIP Sabre lang lit i6 an
@elbiu6t. Sd eoniuItierte eire gattse
@nsabl bon @er3ten utlb periu6te ale
er6enfli6en Mrten bon Mebicinen
aber obne ieglt6en @rfolg. Damn
fling i6 an, ben ,,@leftric 8itters" at
gebran6en nnb iebt fible ib, baB i6
BON Dem 2eiben befreit bin, bas mid
II Sabre lang in iei1en &lauen bate.
Wenn Sic cine suDerldfige Mebiein
fir Nierenz unb 2eberleiben, Magenz
bef9merben pber aQgemeine S6pQ9e
baden DOlen, 6ann perI6afen Sic
1t6 ,@leftric SitterS" IS mirb gaz
rantiert BON BEN Ipptbeten BON 6. s.
s. S6mibt unb @bOlpb SreiB. Sur
so @ertS.