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House Elannels.

Cut off the feet of old stockings. cut the legs open and sew them up, two together, for rubbers. These will be found to make excellent house han- nels" and useful polishers for furniture The cutoff feet opened out, are handy for applying the beeswax and turpen- tine or other polishing medium.
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,...edino Chapters.

PreCeuiHS
 Ann Rupert and her 1 Louis, the latter an enthusiast on western New York for the he Peabody, who loves l of. Ann dislikes the Louis gozto visit the Barnett, their cousin $ l Louis are received at |ob Raymond, the fore bd has a dispute with  |ouis takes an enthusi- ,.h While his men bmond is shot. lie Anrl.=
 |rings aid to Raymond Inded man is taken to
 He has fallen in eo1d towards Raymond Inc Barnett home. Lou h Ann and runs away pd.
 the new mining ond forms a partner kelly, prospector, and hto the Kelly home.
 Tn, which is disturbed lion, Rob meets Jack acquaintance. skytown |ings, the latter being
 mine owners =(among hate each other.
 6nds Raymond and is alley Springs. Louis
 he with Raymond and gn.=
 ytovn miners run lg superintendent, out
 miners turn back the goes to skytown to lis.. Adm ssion to the
 to Barnett by.Munro,
 of the miners guard.
 oye with Ann.
 d opposes violence'by
 n..Annz zplans=a a visit
 ghboring town, with
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Hanged and Tnrred.

An English custom of not so long ago was to hang smugglers on gibbets ar ranged along the coasts and then tar the bodies that they might be preserved q long while as a warning to other cul- prits. As late as 1899 three men thus vanished could have been seen hang ing before Dover castle. Sometimes the process was extended to robbers, asSassins, incendaries and other crimi- nals. John Painter. who fired the dock yard at Portsmouth. was first hanged and then tarred in 1716 From time to time he was given fresh coat of var nish and thus was made to last nearly fourteen years. The weird custom did not stop smuggling or other crime but no doubt it worked some influence as a preventive.
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Old Time FIOgSingS.

An act of the time of Queen Eliza beth ordained that vagrants were to be stripped from the middle upward and whipped till the body is bloody" Four pence each was the recognized charge made by the 'whipman' for every male and female vagrant who passed through his hands, but on special occa- sions this sum was exceeded. Says the cOnstable's account of Great Staughton Uuntingdonshirc: May. 1G91.-Paid in charges taking up q distracted woman, watching her and whipping her next day, s shillings 6 pence" After whip ping people according to the statute the authorities sometimes gave them a letter recommending conStables and others "to be as charitable as the law permits"
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HIGHLAND CHOPPERS,
How They Lived In the Middle of the
 Last Century.

In the middle of the last century
 the crofters i'll the west highlands seldom saw money and never needed 1t. They erected for themselves huts mostly built of turf. fioored with clay and roofed with heather They kept a few cattle. goats and sheep, which grazed at will on the open hillside and provided them with milk and wool They lived q truly simple life, oats for their own food and potatoes, which formed t!eir other chief article of diet Tea was all unknown lux urS. It Was hy no means uncommon to find persons who had never tasted 1t. Whcaten bread Lad never been were made from the hccces of their own sheep, siEn and woven by the good wives su!.ii4,. the long winter nights and dye! f Fl tEe simple dyes made from the lifllrlts which grew oh the stems of tees CT on tie powders of rock in the leishhorAootl 'Ihs whisky they drank came from &en@e; stills on the hillside and had never paid excise The nearest parish church was often many miles ;lW;E No school was there for the children Very few of them. indeed. could read or write Still fewer had eyer heard word of English spoken. Their *pir- itual needs. however. were not neg lected, for they received constant wis its from the men as they were call ed, who had constituted themselves the spiritual guides of their eighhorhood. $ Magazine
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THE BOOMERANG.
Che of the Most Peculiar Weapons of
 War Ever Invented.

The boomerang k "N instrument used both In war and iH Inc chase by the aborigine> of Australia. It is usually about two feet il length. made of hard wood bent into curve resembling an obtuse angle iiGt on oHc side ali rounded on the oiht.r. The method of using this curious WcHIon is very be culiar. The throWcr takes it in one hand, holding the bent side downward and hulls il forward aS if to hit some object twenty or twenty five yards iB advance. Instead of continuing to % directly forward ill accordance with the NeWtonian law it slowly ascends ill the air, whirlng round and round. describing q beautiful and geomctlical curved line till 1t reaches q considers ble height when it begins 10 retro grade, finally sweeping over the head of tue protector, striking the object for which it was intended, which is al- ways in the rear.
 An English officer has this to say of the singular weapon: The boomerang is one of the most curious weapons of war ever invented. at least by bar barous people, nor is it easy to compre- hend by what law of projectiles 1t Is made to take the singular directions that it frequently does. I have seen a native throw one so as to make it go forty or fifty yards horizontally and not more than four feet from the ground. It would then suddenly dart into the air to the height of fifty or sixty yards, describe very consider able curve and finally fall at his feet. In all cases, no matter how thrown, the boomerang keeps turning with great rapidity, like as If on q pivot, making a loud whizzing noise all the while'
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RIVERSIDE CHURCH BENEFIT
 November 2 at Y. M. C. A. Hall.

The ladies of Riverside church, as sisted by Mrs J. $. Hawkins, will give an entertainment for the benefit of their church at Y. M. c, X. Friday. November ?.
 l. Brownies Filtration - Eight Brownies and eight Wax Dolls.
 ?. Duet; trombone and clarionet- Chas. Arnold. C. H Smith,
 3. Reading-Miss Bessie Leverett. 1 Reading-Miss Esther Hunter ,. Old Kentucky Home: clarionet soo-C. IT. Smith.
 (. eadng-Miss Eva McClintoek |. Eastern Temple Drill-SiNteen little girls.
 S The Message; trombone solo Chas Arnold.
 9. Reading-Miss Pearl McComb.
 10 Reading Miss Elizabeth Led better.
 II. Japanese fantastics- Twelve young ladies.
 12 Presentation of medal Misses Ryland and Broadstreet accompanists. Admission 25c.
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"TOuchinx Wood"

Can any reader explain the origin of touching wood after boasting of ones exemption from ill fortune?-a species of absit omen practised in Shropshire and Cheshire and probably in many other parts of England. The procedure D ef sAiE ka34. '1'2 tes:kfd c. ss;; I never broke bone or even had d bad sprain ill my life-well, I'd better touch wood,' and chair or table or anything near that is wooden is touch ed. Can the custom come from some lingering memory of the veneration at tached to relics of the true cross :- London Notes and Queries.
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TILE ENEp CONEfC
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Some sul,cr>ti,ie.n> :.nd odd ue,iefs

CoHr':-utrt= !3otss.
 Ng.u... ,.;.-...-=.- 'a,. ..=t.....5 l!5r:... ne>~, he eyebrows lsr"-n nrep t4e ey'. ter Of q rcrs4lIl .4-L,Ht oI lore aW. e1ea suregsfu,eu Em thc chief point at which superstition or folklore i~ foufa tI this ~7d5@'.on iS ii those ease. Hot aIrc4ueif, where the eye. bro75~ Hr11. Everl 8uere tIi~ meet of thc bov> Aa> been GcId to be cal nous .n one way ov another.
 Iii some of eur southern counties folks say t!.4t I i> good to have suc!. broW>, for the pu->c>sor will never have trouble. h}tt tliis is rare inter pretati"n. AS d rule, the meeting broWS are held to l,e of evil omen. RcadcrS of Charles kingsIcy's Two Years tso'' NH remember Mrs. liar yey,s face. which had been handsome and Was still clever; but the eye broWS.' continues Kingsley, "crushed together downward above her nose and, rising high at the outer corners, indicated as surely as the restless down drop eye q character self con scious furtSe, capable of great incon- sistencies, possibly of great deceits.,'
 In the lcelanaic sagas a man with meeting eyebrows is said to be one of the dreadful creatures known as were wolves, and the same belief has been traced in Denmark and Germany; while in Greece. says Mir. Barring (N0lllI fhp,. q Si. -),Dt jc vampire. In horror there is little to choose between vampires and were wolves. X faneiful reason which has been given for these suIie9SttionS is that the meeting brows resemble a but terfiy, the familiar type of a sgul ready to fly off and enter some other body This seems tolerably far fetched.
 In Hungary gypsy women and men whose eyebrows grow together are sup posed to have in special degree the power to entertainment, and as illiterate folk have q great dread of such lnys- terious powers. especially as they may be supposed to be directed against the we'll being or happiness of their chil- NiC1. It icta utttuIN Dc SiIu lllil a lldD whose brows meet is not popular person. Even now there are parts of England where a belief in Witchcraft still fingers. and not so very long ago in Northumberland there were people who regarded a person whose eyebrows met aS a witch or warlock.
 Ill the north of Aberdeenshre. ac- cording to the late Rev. Walter Gresor. who W;ts very competent authority on Scottish lore and customs, a "closebroot man that is, one whose eyebrows meet-was regarded as being immoral. Elsewhere in Scotland one with "close broos' was regarded as unlucky to be met as first fit while other folk went q good deal further and regarded the unlucky posSesSor of "close broos" as one fereGooHed to be han getl oAdou Globe
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St, Valentine.

St. Valentine. prcsbytcr and martyr. unlike many saints who are specially remembered. did nothing which could have suggested the manner in which his day is celebrated. It was his for tune to suffer martyrdom he was beaten with a club and then beheaded) at d time when the heathcns of south ern Europe were accustomed to observe the return of spring. The quick eyes of those dependent upon sunlight for warmth learned to note and welcome every indication of the approaching season. They watched the birds, and when they saw them mating and mak- ing love they were minded to do the same, and so strong was the habit that, as with Christmas day. the good fathers did not attempt to root out the custom, but to connect it with some holy name, and St. Valentines day of martyrdom fitted very nearly to that time.
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Touching d Button,

Wife-I've just been reading an ar ticle on electricity, John, and it ap- pears that before long we shall be able to get pretty well everything we want by just touching a button Illus band-You'd never be able to get any thing that way. Wife-Why not, John: :: Husband-Eeca1lse nothing on earth would ever make you touch q button. Look at my shirt.
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I0PEN LETTER TO COUNTY JUDGES
Secretary Hawkins oi Arkansas Good Roads Association Asks Judges To Lend Ad

Through Xour paper l would like
 to say a word to the county judges of Athe state. and through them q word
 to the road Overseers.
 Under the existing laws of Arkan-
 sas by far the most important officer
 as relates to road building, is that of
 county judge But when the convict Elease system is broken up, as it will
 be, and the convicts are put on the gpublic roads, he demanded by all la
 bor organizations and the platform tof the Democratic party in Arkansas. Sthen the sheriff will become all inter- Rested factor in road building
 @ Realizing the importance of the Ncounty judge, the Arkansas Good 4Roads associate four years ago in the very beginning of the association ilnade the county judges eXofficio mem Esbers of the association, The differ- Bent conventions have been made up Dargely by the county judges selecting Fdelegates and having them represent their respective counties.
 M Now that the voters of every county in the state except nine, have demon strated decided interest in the road question by voting the three mill tax by the handsome majority of more than 61,000 in the state. certainly we shall find in the new county judges, coming into office November 1, a live set of good road advocates < From our state headquarters we morial address to our next legislature intended to be rapidly signed as a 4spetition, coming up from the people. If all the judges would act upon the plan suggested by Judge w. A. Briant Of Hope, Hampstead county, the work Of securing fifty thousand petitioners 8would be done within thirty days Here is a quotation from Judge Briant's letter addressed to me as sstate secretary: Il received the pc stition today. Please send me about ten of the headings to this petition, as I want to send them to different bparts of the county. Please attend sto this as soon as possible. as I want tto get 5000 signers. Yours for good roads, W. A. Briant
 # Let me say to the voters of Arkan- sas, give Us more judges like Judge l,.;o snames l could give you and soon Ar kansas will be known as the most Progressive state of the great south- +West.
 s Let every county judge join us in SOrgainZing the counties, a work we 5are now pushing as rapidly as possi- kble. Soon winter will be on. soon the sJanualy convention will be here May i've not make hay while the sun shines? There are good men in every lcounty who will gladly give a few Inot the judges, all of whom have these l petitions. secure a good man to start | the petition? If you are an interest led citizen and live close to your lcounty judge see him about circulat- l ing this petition. Write me for a petition and I will mail you one di- rect. We want every wide-awake | man in the state to write us concern ing the work. Respectfully.
 J. s. HAWKINS
 Secretary Arkansas Good Roads E 
 Gleason's Hotel. Little Rock
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The Minds Eve.

It will probably be news to most people to hear that rudimentary traces of q third eye exist among all verte- brateS. including man. In the human race the third eye forms part of the pineal gland. q small mass about the size of a pea in almost the very center of the brain. Possibly, therefore, there was more actual truth in the well known expression the minds eye" than its originator dreamed of.
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A Dispenser.

A street preacher in il west of Scot land town complained to a passing po- liceman about being annoyed by q part of the audience and asked him to re- move the obnoxious ones. "Weel, ye see" replied the cautious officer, Tit would be !, hard job for me tae spot them. but I'll tell yc what I'd dae If were you" What would you do?' eagerly inquired the preacher. Just ga round wi the hat
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Finance.

Many words of most august sound prove to be of quite commonplace an cestry when traced to their origins. Finance" is really only settling up." Literally, it is just ending and was formerly used in that very simple sense in the English language Then it came to signify settling up with a creditor and acquired the special sense of ransom.
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EJosire For Food
 Is Important
Appetite Is Necessary II Order I,
 Digest What We Ut.

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 Tarre, l- oat-. .a.h safr sur as Iabst F.. E.a5 !. :..zr t5.<afa i>,.i t@ fore or wlla >ut... h.. .>. -anG l; i- aH almost ahsu. lie gj.'r..',trC CT rcrfH digestion. l., lilr k tunie aud food
 Dr. Joset. |. az1 E, of the North w Stcrn lhl|'tIs.,tE y of Chicago. in CoI3- tueHtinS GHuu this said: "l fully be nCve that tAc moderate use of good beer at meal tfDes acts as Il tonic and is therefor. ustful.'
 profession and his words must carry great weight with those seeking health.
 pabst Blue Ribbon is such a beer as Dr. FelSl"r recommends. It is d prod uct of eight day malt, choicest hops contains all the valuable food elements of the barley in prcdigcStcd form. It gives PahSt Beer it's rich nutrition and the fine mellow flavor which distin- guishes it from other beer This to- gether With sixty years of scientific brewing, is what has put Pabst Beer far in the lead. No food that comes from the cleanest kitchen can be cleaner, purer and more wholesome than this celebrated beer.
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Mexico City, Mex. One way second class colonist ticket, S25.3o. Destina- tlons, Mexico City, Toluca, Queratero, lAquascolientes, San Luis Potosi, Sal Itillo, Monterey, Torrean and interme- diate stations. On sale August 31 to October 31.
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Atlanta, Ga, account convention of Retail Druggists; rate s21.1U for round trip; on sale Sept. 2S, % and 30. Re turn limit October [, 1906. Extension
 lon payment fee soc, until October 22,
 t9o6.
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A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong It is but saying in other words that ie is wiser today tl4an yesterday.
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cry DeeD,

Flatter-Your boy. I hear, is a deep student. Popley-Ile's always at the bottom of his class, if that's what you mean.
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Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation.

Women suffering from any form of femal le weakness are invited to promptly communicate with Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass. All letters arc received, opened, read and answered by women only. woman can freely talk of her private illness to woman; thus has been stablished the eternal confidence between Mrs. Pinkham and the women of America which has never been broken. Out of the vast volume of experience which she has to draw from, it is more than possible that she has gained the very knowledge that will help your case. She asks nothing in return except your good will, and her advice has relieved thousands. Surely any woman, rich or poor, is very foolish if she does not take advantage of this generous offer of assistance.
 If you are i'll, don't hesitate to get 8 bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham' sVegetable Compound at once, and write Mrs. Pink. ham, Lynn. Mass, for special advice.
 When a medicine has been successful in restoring to health so many women, you cannot well say, without trying it, " do not believe it will help me-"
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Home Visitors Excursions.

Illinois, northwestern part. Return limit 30 days from date of Sale. For full information call OH ticket agent. Rate one and one-third fare. Minimum rate $10.00
 TeXarkana, Ark, account State Bap- list convention (colored.) Round "trip rate $5.o5. Tickets on sale November l? to 23, inclusive. Return limit Nov ember 2S, 1906.
 Little Rock. Ark, Grand Lodge of Masons. Round trip rate $1.70. Tick cts on sale November 17 to g, in elusive. Return limit November 24, 1906.
 Chicago, H., round trip rate $2f.1o Tickets on sale December 1 to ,, in elusive. Return limit Dec. 10, 1906. Poe fee for executing tickets to return
 $. NJ. DICKEY. Agent.
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FtnL 6LUFF IRON WORKS

FthL 6LUFF IRON WORKS
 General Founders and MachinIata.
 Brass and iron Castings anu A:a chine Repairing. Stock of all ataud. ard goods and cast,aas carried in stock all tAe time. Locomotives, gn- zines and Boilers Repaired. L.onx distance teIePhoncs. day. i7G; utKbt, PA. Pine Bluff. Arkansas. Vote: We operate our macdine shoo bots day and night
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY

Some of the Leading Wholesa,e Nd merit d liberal share Of ycar T7.
 ". J. BLAIR.
 Dentist 401 1-2 Main St New phone Ne 250
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-01-08

Tor The Liberals in Great Britain and for Mr. Glad
stone as being imbued with much more friendship
Ior Russia than the Tories. Indeed, Mime. de Navi-
Aon' aVoWedly an agent for the Russian Crown,
spent months together in London, busily engaged
III naAag propaganda in political circles. and es-
peclaS In the English press for Russia. and like
wise using all the influence at her disposal in be
mar OF the Liberals. and especially Mr.. Gladstone.
whose return to power she, and ipso facto her gov
eminent, considered of inestimable value to Mus
covite interests.
during the CHARACTERISTIC of Prince Bismarck
one important London evening paper noto-
rously maintained by him in that capital not only
Tor the purpose of representing his views. but also
for combating the English political party, which
was looked upon at Berlin as inimical to the Bis
MARKHAM policy while the relations of Napoleon
III with one Of the great London dailies were
equally well known, his ambassadors being to such
an extent open partsans of the Wings Of the
Tories, of the Liberals of the Conservatives that
1t was found necessary TO appoint a French
envoy nearly each time that there a change
of Ministry in England
From this it will be seen that even if President
Roosevelt had unoffcially expressed at the White
House. when receiving friendly visit. his SYM
pathy for the Liberals in England, he would have
been doing nothing more than scores Of foreign
rulers have done before in connection with Eng
llsh party politics. and certainly rothng to call
for any demand by the London Times for an
explanation denial.
MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.