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Too scaIy to Believe.

Miss Maria Wilde, an authority on
ceramics, told this little story recent
ly Of her early days as collector:
81 was buying some pieces of Be-
leek one day when the salesman
asked me If knew the secret of the
high glaze Of the Irish Beleek. On
my replying in the negative he said
he had it from good authority that it
was obtained by putting powdered
fish scales in the mixture.
"The next time l saw j. Hart Brew
er, the Trenton potter, who succeeded
In making American Beleek superior
to the original Irish product. told
him with some citation that had dis
covered the secret of the glaze and
related the powdered fish scale story.
AS Mr.. Brewer listened look of
amusement overspread his counte-
nance, and when l had finished he
said:
"'Miss Wilde, that's fish story"
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If we draw a line through Tarsus
due north across the Peninsula OF
Asia Minor, and another through
Smyrna directly east, the two lines
will intercept in the volcanic region
Of Mount Argaeus, where the cone
pyramids and pure cliff dwellings of
Cappadocia are found, writes j. r.
Sittington Sterrett, an English trav-
eler and artist, who has recently Wis
tied that out of the way country. The
whole region is of volcanic formation,
which covers a vast area extending
west to Seine and south to Soghanlu
Dere, and is composed of deep layer
Of pumice stone, tufa or peperine,
overlaid in the region of Tatlar by
rugged lava fields. The pumice or
tufa is of almost incredible thickness,
but the overlaid layer of lava is COM
paratively thin, not more than three
feet at any point. The tufa is so
soft that it can be dug away with the
lhumbnail, so that only time and
patience were necessary to eXcavate
1t into chambers of any required size.
1t is known that a chamber 25 feet
long, 10 feet broad, and 10 feet high
was excavated by single workman
IN the space Of thirty days.
In this region the troglodytes of
Cappadocia have the wonderful dwell
lngs which were first described by
Paul Lukas, who Travelled in Asia
Minor on the commission of Louis
XIV. His story was discredited, but
it is correct in every vital particular,
and he perhaps understated the truth
when he estimated the number of
cones at $4,000. The region was Wis
tied in succession by Texier, Hamil-
! ton, Tschichatscheff, Ainsworth
Barth and Mordtmann, but it Is still
virtually unknown. The height of
the cones varies greatly, ranging per-
haps from so to 800 feet. The tall
est cones usually stand in the center
of an eroded valley, but not always.
The process of disintegration by the
solvent action of water still continues,
of course, and in many cones the ex-
terror wall has been worn away to
such an extent that the chambers are
laid bare. Such exposed chambers,
IL they lie fairly in the sun, are used
for drying grapes and other fruit,
as they are safe against invasion by
animals. Often the cones are almost
perfect in shape and originally all of
them were crowned by caps of lava,
which were the primal cause of the
cone formation. The caps maintain
their position as they form one inte-
grail conglomerate mass with the cone.
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AMMUNITION FOR THE PASTOR.
sinners Alone Need Have Feared Con-
tents of This Box.

The Rev. Edward Lloyd Jones, a
Manchester. England, minister. tells
story of his experience in Fenian
days. He was travelling from Welsh
village to Brecon, and had with him q
strong wooden box filled with heavy
fheological books. At Shrewsbury
the detectives who were on the look
out for explosive machines and the
like suspected this heavy box and
word was sent on to Brecon. When
the young minister stepped out Of
the train he was astonished"to find a
sergeant and several constables
awaiting him. II think you have
box with you." said the sergeant.
Quite right" said the preacher, who
began to scent joke. Out came the
box and its weight excited fresh sus-
picion about its contents. This is
your box?" Eyes" 1T contains am
munition?" 1T does" VERY we'll,
consider yourself in charge. Open the
box" The company stood away while
the sergeant found it contained moth
Ing more explosive than Adam
Clarke's Theology" he expressed his
Indignation freely to the minister. All
thst he got back was the soft ans
'wer: why. bless my soul, man, YOU
asked II the box contained ammuni-
ton. That is my ammunition. am
e Methodist parson. and that's what
shoot with"
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screams. These they continued to ut.
ter, regardless of their own individual
safety, until l began to make prepar.
atoms for receiving the approaching
bird. could already see that it was
a beautiful adult specimen, and 1 ex.
pected in few moments to have it
in my possession, since l was not
very far from the waters edge.
While matters were in this position
| beheld to my utter establishment
two of the unwounded terms take hold
of their disabled comrade, one at
each wing, lift him out of the water
and bear him out aeaward. They were
followed by two other birds.
After having carried him about six
or seven yards they LEI him gently
down again and the two Who had hith.
erto been inactive took him up.
In this way they continued to carry
him alternately until they had con-
veyed him to rock at a considerable
distance, upon which they landed him
in safety.
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Very often the doorways are quite
elaborate, and display an attempt at
architectural and decorative effect,
more especially in the case of cones
that have been turned into temples,
churches or chapels On entering
the doorway of any of these cone
dwellings we find ourselves within a
spacious chamber, about the walls of
which inches and shelves for the
storage of small household effects
have been cut into the stone. The
stairways leading to the upper stories
are like wells or round chimneys, and
one ascends to an upper story by
means of ladder holes cut in the rock.
The floor between the stories are usu-
ally thick enough to withstand any
weight that might be put upon it, but
occasionally the excavators miscalcu-
lated the thickness of the floor, and
so had to make one lofty chamber in
stead of two. AS many as nine stories
may occur in one cone, but most have
only two, three, or four stories, which
can be counted by the windows.
Great numbers of the cone dwellings
are used to-day as dovecotes for hosts
of pigeons, the eggs and flesh OF
which are used by the cave jewellers.
The windows of such pigeon houses
are always walled in, holes being left
for the passage of the birds.
The natives of this region are still,
to all intents and purposes troglo-
dytes, but If we leave out of consid-
Grafton the fact that their dwellings
are at least partially underground,
they differ in habits and custo,ns in
no whit from the ordinary Turkish
villagers with ordinary humdrum sur
roundings. Sometimes the front of
the house is built of blocks of pum-
ice stone, while all the rest of the
abode is subterranean, the cone or
cliff being used as an annex; but in
most cases a modern dwelling is ex-
cavated, not in cone, but in the face
of the bluff, and thus becomes a cliff
dwelling, properly so-called. This
is true of the business street of the
town of Urgub, where the front room
or facade opening on the street, is
the only room in the dwelling into
which the light comes The other
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houses offered for sale near New York
The noble pile with the sloping roof
known as the Chateau de Villandry
can be bought for $4,000. 1t was
built toward the close of the sixteenth
century and is regarded as a very
pure specimen of that period.
The wings of the house enclose a
beautiful court of honor. There are
ornamental gardens in the French and
English style done by experienced
landscape gardeners toward the close
of the last century.
A lake lies in the woods Of the large
park surrounding the house and there
are Conservatives, terraces in the
front of the chateau and several
islands in the River Cher that belong
to the property.
Older still is the chateau near
Druex which was put up in the days
of Louis XIII. and is called perfect
specimen of the architecture Of that
period, having undergone no alter.
atoms or changes in any other style
since it was first built. There Is a
court of honor, and the lake, as the
picture shows, stretches almost to the
windows in one wing of the house.
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TALE OF BIRDS DEVOTION

Stories of affection and apparent
reason among wild animals have d.
vided the "nature-writers" into two
schools. One believes that animals
act merely from instinct the other
holds that the dumb brute feels and
reasons. In THE Life of Scotch
Naturalist" M Smiles quotes from
the journal of Thomas Edward the
story Of how a little flock of terms
rescued a wounded companion which
the naturalist had shot.
| fired, and he came down with
broken wing, screaming as he fell in
to the water. The report of the gun,
together with his cries. brought to-
gether the party he had left, in order
that they might ascertain the cause
of the alarm.
After surveying their wounded
brother round and round, as he was
drifting unwittingly toward the shore
with the flowing tide, they came fly
ing in a body to the spot where
stood, and rent the air with their
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FACIAL PARALYSIS
Marcus Distortion Of Face Cured by
Or. Williams Pink Pills.

What appears to be slight nervous
Sttack may be the forerunner of a severe
tisorder. No nervous sufferer should
Neglect the warning symptoms, but
,hould see that the starved nerves are
hourished before the injury to the deli
bate Organism has gone to an extent that
tenders cure a difficult matter The
eirnourishmentt through
thc blood, the same as every other part
bS the body, and the best nerve tonic and
Rood is DR.. Williams Pink Pills. The
Experience of Mr.. Harry Bemis, of
Washington county, N. Y,
bubstantiates this.
~ had been feeling badly for long
kime," said Mr.. Bemis, land i'll the
oarly part of September, 1902, l was COM
|belled to quit work on account of my i'll
health. Ny trouble was at first ex-
creme nervousness, then my sight be-
|calne affected and consulted all oculist
|who said was suffering from paralysis.
lie treated me for some time, but got
|no Benefit. / tried another doctor and
again failed to obtain any relief. My
increased. Slight noises
would almost make me wild. My mouth
Sas Drawn so / could scarcely eat and
|one eve was affected so could hardly
|see. l had very little use of my limbs,
lin fact was almost complete wreck.
- am all right now and am at work.
That is because followed my wife's adj
vice and took DIR. Williams Pink Pills.
|She had used the same remedy herself
with the most gratifying results and she
persuaded me to try them when it ap.
peared that the doctors were unable to
help me. They acted very surely in my
case; my face came back into shape and
| in lime I was entirely we'll"
Dr. Williams Pink Pills are sold by all
druggists or by mail by the DR.. Williams
Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. A
booklet on Nervous Disorders sent free
| on request.
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ON A MISSISSIPPI STEAMBOAT.
Struggle for Wealth Almost Equal to
Wall Street Frenzy.

A young fellow, a fellow passenger,
was leaning upon the rail beside me,
looking upon the scene below. He told
me to watch and he would show me
some sport. He drew a dime out OF
his pocket He waved his arm to at
tract the attention of the negroes
down upon the lower deck, and then
he flung the coin. 1t fell tinkling, and
rolled between two cotton bales. With
Wells. the negroes rushed at it tumul-
tuously, piling over one another,
tangled mass of waving arms and legs,
whence issued muffled groans and
grunts. Then, suddenly, the mass dis
solved again into a mob of rousters,
gaping up at us with rolling yellow
eyes, and heaving chests and dilated
uostrils. Another piece of silver
twinkled in the air and fell among
them. Leaping and grabbing, the
negroes snatched at the falling coin,
then plunged again into heap.
BY this time others of the passen-
gers had heard the noise and the
scuffling, and soon quite crowd was
gathered along the rail. A shower
Of change began to fall upon the deck
below and into the crowd of now
half frantic blacks.
1t was a comical spectacle. A
little while before the negroes had been
quietly busted about their own affairs;
handful of cheap silver had fallen
among them. and in less than a min
ute their small world was transformed
Into a pandemonlum. I have heard it
said that the same phenomenon occurs
sometimes on the stock exchange
Harpers Magazine.
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Castles for Sale
Former Homes of the Aristocracy
of France Offered in Open Market
Especial correspondence.)

Castles In Spain are probably the
cheapest in the world, for a person
with sanguine temperament and a
little imagination may build them at
any time. In this respect they have
an advantage over the chateaux of
France shown in the illustration.
But some of these French chateaux
are wonderfully cheap-are, indeed,
almost in the class of abandoned
farms. Castles on the Rhine used to
be within the reach of moderate for
.unes, but they have greatly increased
II price lately. In the same way there
nas been an increase in the price of
italian palaces.
Neither the Rhine castles nor the
Italian palaces are so numerous as the
2hateaux of France. There were many
of them built many years ago, some
of them dating from the days of Louis
XIII.
That these places should be pur-
chased at small prices is due to the
Capitalization in the life of France
which has taken so many of the popu-
lation to the cities. Young men in the
families that owned these houses in
the past had usually enough to live on
and possibly maintain the chateau in
a meager fashion that was strange
contrast to it's early grandeur.
Sometimes wealthy marriage
helped the owner to hold on to the
chateau. These conditions all existed
until the time came when these places
were offered for sale.
This was the result of the feeling
among young Frenchmen that it was
not beneath their dignity to work
Nowadays men of the oldest families
are anxious to make name and a
fortune just as II they had not long
line of titled ancestors behind them.
Heirs Are at Work.
They enter all professions. They
are lawyers. engineers, architects and
scientists. These professions take
them to Paris If they do not lead them
far beyond the borders of their own
country.
Such houses as those shown in the
pictures are little more expensive than
the best of the own your own home
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Chateau De Farguette.

for $4,000, although 1t was put up in
1860 by one of the most noted archi.
tects of his day. Then there are sixty
two acres of wild and ornamented
ground about the house.
Another chateau more modern but
beautiful can be had for $4,000, along
with its twelve acres. 1t has existed
for about century and years ago re-
ceived the name of lie Chateau des
Penitents because of its rather ecclesi-
astical aspect The Seine runs at the
foot of the lawn and the views from
the windows stretch through the valley
to Paris.
There are many other chateaux of
the same kind offered for sale. but
these are typical and show that next
to Spain France is an easy country to
acquire a home in.
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Told of Kinq Alfonso.

The king of Spain is young and
likes to have good time; yet he is
often obliged to work twelve hours or
more a day. Not long ago he handed
his prime minister a sealed petition,
with the request that it should be
granted Internationally. When it was
opened it was found to be in the
kings own handwriting, He demand
ed for himself an eight hour day and
no work on Sundays and holidays. On
another occasion his automobile was
stopped by a policeman who did not
recognize him at once, but who pres.
entity began to apologize profusely.
why was the automobile stopped
anyway" said the king. Because
motor wagons are not allowed on
this street" every WELL" reterted
Alfonso; "then shall have to be
more careful in future"
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rooms are in midnight darkness all
the year round.
The owner of such an abode can
extend his dwelling indefinitely into
the bowels of the earth, a feature
which is not without its advantage in
a land where the wise man conceals
the fact that he is wealthy. The in
terror chambers are used chiefly for
granaries and storage; even their
chaff, which is made to take the place
of our hay, is safely slowed away in
these dry and dark chambers.
The landscapes amid which the
modern troglodyte dwells are never
tame, and are often startling. The
modern troglodytic usages add to
rather than detract from the general
weirdness of the prospect. The soil
is fertile and produces vegetables and
fruit, chiefly apricots of superb quail
ity. Indeed, one of the old travellers
claims this region as the original
home of the apricot. Garden and
desert are often close neighbors for
the reason that the garden flourishes
wherever the stone hats rotted suf-
tici ntly whereas the adjacent but
naked and unrotted stone Is the most
barren of deserts. The real center of
these cones and troglodytic abodes is
the region about Udj Assaru, a huge
mass of pumice stone rising in the
midst of many branching valleys.
The Turkish name means the Castle
of Udj, but it is not known whether
Udj was the name of some princeling
or of district 1t is a mere shell,
honeycombed to the very pinnacle
with chambers sufficient in number
to satisfy even the wealthiest troglo.
dyte.
1t is very difficult to fix a date for
the origin of these cave dwellings.
They are mentioned by no classical
author, except perhaps Cicero; but
there is an allusion in the works of
Leo Diaconus, who fourished about
$50 A. d. Prof. Sayce, however, be.
lieves that the cones of Cappadocia
were we'll known and inhabited In
the Hittite period about 1900 B. c..
a date beyond which we cannot and
need not try to go.-New York Times
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tiquity. although that would not en-
dear 1t to many persons who seek for
more beauty in home. To those
who want a castle that not only is
really old but also looks old the UNI
adorned exterior would not be repel-
lent.
For 100000 there is beautiful cha.
teau in the style OF Louis XIV, that
possesses a park of twenty acres and
facade of stone columns from one
end of the house to the other. There
are also beautiful woods and architec-
tural gardens attached to it.
Another chateau, that looks as big
as a railroad station, can be bought
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Neon lie Constant.

The old idea that CHANCES are TAX
|ng Mace on the moon carefully has
been Investigated by M. Puiseux, a
French astronomer. Going over all
ecords, from the earliest observations
10 the latest, he concludes that the
ieaIity of the supposed changes has
hot been proved, and that the varying
jensitiveness of the retina to faint OBJ
'ects Is sufficient to account for differ
Snces seen, while different conditions
bf Exposure might explain all appear.
knces In the photographs.
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TRICK EASILY SEEN THROUGH.
Mine Promoters Not Sharp Enough
to Deceive Hannah.

Mine Promoters Not Sharp Enough
to Deceive Hannah.
Hannah, can't make this out"
said the old farmer, as he looked up
from his paper Here is a company
out west that advertises a gold mine.
1t has 100000 worth of ore In
sight. 1t estimates the amount of
ore on the claim to be at least $780,
oo0, 900. Its -shares ara 500 par value
and worcestershire. 1t offers shares
at one cent each to the first 1000
people who apply. 1t reads straight
enough, but"
Samuel, what an old blockhead
you are" exclaimed the wife. "Why,
even a blind man could see through
that trick"
Wall, what's the trick?"
why, they want to make you a
shareholder, and as soon as that's
done they'll send on a begging letter
asking you to contribute S. toward
steeple for some Baptist church
somewhere. You just let that stock
alone. We have been Methodists
for over thirty years, and we have
got along without steeple to our
church, and If the Baptists can't do
the same let 'em sell off their cows
to build one"
81 guess you're right, Hannah.
What tricks they do invent nowadays
to make man think he Is going to
get something for nothing and then
find himself fiipfopped." -Baltimor
American.
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Man and Wife.

The snow was falling The day
was still and gray and cold. DR..
Parkhurst shaking the white fakes
from his shoulders, said:
Il have just witnessed an instruc-
tive happenings happening that
might teach us why some marriages
do not succeed.
"a man and his wife were walking
down back street. The man had his
hands in his pockets. The woman
carried basket filled with cabbage
and beets.
"A group of boys danced like imps
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on corner. They had snowballs in
their hands. AS soon as the married
couple had passed them they let
drive.
But only the woman was struck
She got two heavy blows about the
head and face Every SNOWFALL, some.
how missed the man.
He looked at his wife as she brush.
ed the snow out of her ears and hair,
and then he shook his fists at the
boys and shouted:
cts a good thing for you, you
young rascals, that you didn't hit
me-"
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and bloating of the chest choked
be and threatened the heart | had
little hope, but to my untold surprise
boan's Kidney Pills brought me re
Iaf and saved my life. | shall never
orget it."
Sold by all dealers. so cents box
Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo. n. Y.
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Just as IL Was Built.

The principal building is two and
half stories high and is accounted re-
markable both in original beauty and
in its present state Of preservation.
There are kitchen and fruit gardens,
Conservatives and a very old chapel
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RulIt in sixteenth Century.

bullt IN oNteentH SeHtuTy'
The Chateau de Farguette stands
near palace famous in medieval days
The castle is medieval in architecture,
having been built in the sixteenth cen
fury. 1t is in good preservation, how
ever, and has been occupied until re-
Gently, when 1t was put on the market.
The cost of this house and its twenty
acres is but $4,000.
The severe and forbidding architec-
ture of tbs house is proof OF its an
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when l began
using Doan's Kid
ney Pills | was so
weak ! could
hardly drag my
self across the
roo m. | W a S
wretched and ner-
vous, and had
backache, bear
ing-down pa | n,
headache, dizzi.
ness and weak
eyes. Dropsy set
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Would Brand Criminals.

kmiable suggestion that criminals
tau8ht committing crime under an
klias should be branded with their
teal name
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DEsPAiRINe WOMAN.

Feak, Nervous and Wretched From
Wasting Kidney Troubles.
MRS Henry A. Reamer. Main and
|arst SITS, South Bend, Ind, says:
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Louis XIII. Castle.

antedating even the building of the
main house. The park was laid out
by the famous LIE Notre.
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Some mothers save slipper soles and
spOl their children.