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All people who possess-jewels hare certain trinkets which they regard with almost superstitious affection. Sarah &-rnhardt pin* her fnltb to a necklace iT old nuggets, a gift from the California miners, and the Docbesa of Orleans to a set of sapphire* which belonged to Mary Antoinette. The aapphlre la the Queen - * favorite stone. She wears as a brooch one of great sise. gteen So her by She fate Duke of Coburg. But old Egyptian jewels are considered the most potent gunrdlans of fortnne. Mr*. St. John Brodrlck owns Bgyptian grins of priceless ralne. Mrs. Clarence Mackay ha* a weird carnellan necklace which bung once upon the neck of a daughter of the Pharaoh*. Mrs. George Keppel wear* a pendant of emeralds, the most beautiful In the world.—Loudon Tit-Bit*.

Oenaa's **•>» Xa**l Battte. In the far We*t they do thing* on a pyrotechnic plan whsat they start In. There was a sham naval battle at the Lewi* and Clark Exhibition planned, when several dummy warships would grapple In the waters of Guild - * Lake. One vessel would be sunk—actually. not theoretlcallr and all the other* were lo spit Are enough to engulf ■ navy. The ships were to also attack a land fort, which were to reply from

A ►»■*«*■ Graft. “I want you to put In your 'Lost and Found - column an adrertiaement like this: -Wallet containing considerable sum of money and papers. Finder will keep money; mums papers.’" said the man "Don’t you think.” suggested the clerk, "you bad better add ‘No question* asked r"No. but yon may say ‘So questions answered. - I'm the finder. -- —Philadelphia Press. WRONG SORT

"Last spring I became bedfast with serve stomach trouble acromgaaled by sick headache. I got worse and worse asm I became sn low I on Id scarcely retain any food at all. altbongh I tried every kind. I bad become completely discouraged, had given up all hope and tbought 1 Was doomed to starve to death, till one day ray .bustand trying lo find something I could retain brought home some Grape-Nut*. "To my snivels* the food agreed with me. digested perfectly and without distress I began to gain strength at mtr. my flesh lwhich hod been flabbyi grew firmer, my basKb improved In ever/ way and every day. and la a very

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KINDNESS TO INSECTS. Children, il you meO » cnckvt, Pieaar remember sot lo kick it; Not a youth shoar nature'a meet"! Strike a ladybof or beetle if a daddy Ion*leg* paaarr. Do not alay it l^a aiaal w Oltcn done by n icked urchin*. Who deterve the soundest birchin’*). When a fnat—that lively hammer. Which you'll hear when it u aunmier. Comes a-buzsiug round your hat, it la wrong to thro* a pebble at it.

A CVRIOI’S PERCH. A pigeon rooatlcg on the minute hand of the town clock In the Gaaa County Court House tower stopped the clock at precisely 020. and caused many people In Logs in port to be an hour late, say* the Chicago Chronicle. The electric light Was turned on In the tower, and, altbongh the dial was suddenly illuminated, the pigeon was not In the least disturbed, and refused to move. A janitor was obliged to climb the dixxy height and "shoo” the bird away. It was 7.15 o'clock when the mechanism was again In motion. HOW SWALIiOWS DRINK. Of course we know that swallow* drink as they skim over the surface of water. We have seen bow here and there the water ripples on a pond when swallows are gracefully skimming to and fro. One day I aat down beside a small pond where, every evening. many barn swallow* came to bathe and drink on the surface of the glassy water. With sketch book and pencil in hand. I closely watched the birds; and you may I gamine my delight to see just bow they managed to touch and dip up the water aa they came within a few steps of me. Tori see. the swallow takes up water In its lower bill. Just as you would dip up a little water in a spoon or In the hollow of your hand while you glided over the surface In a boat- Only the under half of the open bill touches the water; if the upper half were also to touch, the water would be forced out on eilber aide Instead of being scooped op Into the bill.—St Nicholas. BEEHIVE IN HER PARLOR. In the heart of London over half a hundred weight of honeycomb baa Just been gathered, says the Montreal Herald. The bee* resporslble for this rich harvest belong to Miss Baden-Powell, sister of the hero of Mafeklng. These wonderful bees are the subjects of aa Interesting experiments. They had been removed from an old residence In Piccadilly to Miss BadenPowrll's new home at Prince's Gste. During their fifteen years In their old quarters the bees never failed to store up large quantities of honey, and were quite content to Uve In the drawing-' rooth where th.lr specially constructed hive, invented by Miss Baden-Powell, stood on a table near the window. "The mystery U where they fed in Order to make honey so excellent and In inch quantities. - said Mioa BadenPowell. "far there was no garden attached to the house." In their new home at Prince - * Gate the bees eome and bo through a passage In the wall as before, and Miss Baden-Powell 'la watching anxiously for aigiu of discontent which the hopes will not be ESKIMO FOLK LORE. The mort striking feature of Eskimo folk-lore la Its thoroughly human character. says a writer In the International Quarterly. In a strict sense of the term the bulk of Eskimo tradition la not mythology,- but bero-tal**. wfelch rtfleet with remarkable faithfulness tkq’social condition and religious beliefs of the people. They tret', of visit* of fabulous tribes, of murder and revenge. of mercy and recompense, of fra Is of shamanism and of witchcraft The supernatural enters Into them, but only as It enters Into the every day life of the people to whom witches, guardian aptrtts of shamans, giants and dwarf* are existing realities. In thifVuse most of the Eskimo talas are true tales taken from life, and show a great lack of Imaginative power. Bet lag aside this group of hero-tales them remain only a few entirely disconnected myths. One of

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run to the fence and ray: “Good morning! Good morning l” But one flay a very sad thing happened. Alice and Bertha bad a quarrel • Alice wanted to play that her house was under the pink rose bush by the fountain. But Bertha wanted to play that her house was under the pink rpae bush -by the fountain. So Alice said that she wouldn't play at all And Bertha’ said neither would she. They each walked around the garden alone. It was sad. . They thought the sun did not aecm bright, and they thought the flowers were not pretty, and they did not-llke the little fountain, and they were very miserable, and did not know what to do. * So Alice walked back to tee what Bertha was doing. And what do you suppose that was? Why. Bertha was walking back to see wbat Alice was doing. Just then a little bird flew down and took a bath In the fountain. He splashed and splashed and splashed. Alice clapped her hands apd laughed. And Bertha did, too. Alice and Bertha looked at each other and kept right on laughing and laughing. ••Too may have your bouse by the pink rose bush. Bertha, - ' said Alice. “Oh, no! Ton have yours there,” said Bertha. "I tell you what.’' Alice said. "We will have our house there together." The dreadful quarrel was over at last and the two little staters were happy again. CANDLE CURIOSITIES. Get for your experiments a targe tallow candle wljh a thick wick; this will give better results than the ordinary candle with a slender wick. Too know that In the dark spot In the middle o' a candle flame there la no fire; that the spot constats of nnburnlng gases. Here la a way for yon to look right down Into that space, an empty space .with the flame surrounding It Take a piece of wire netting, such aa la used for window screens or for making strainer*, and hold It down over the flame. It might be supposed that the flame would rise through the meshes of the wire, but Instead of doing that

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it will spread out beneath It allowing you tq look down the space in‘the middle. Th# reason is that the wire carries the brat away to rapidly that the flame is pot out This principle ta used In the miner'* safety Jamp. For your second experiment let the candle born until the wick ta quite long, having placed It where there ta no draught Now blow the candle out, and a stream of smoke will rise from It Thta smoke ta the gas. the burning of which makes the flame. To abow that It ta gas put s lighted match to it immediately after blowing out the candle. apd It win ignite apd run down apd. flight" the candle. The match ffibld be held about half an-Inch above the wick. Again letting the candle burn until the wick ta long, and quickly blowing out the flame as before, bold the wire gauze down over the wick to that the smoke wlH rise through the meabe*. Apply a lighted match to the smoke half an Inch above the gauac. apd the

will at one* Ignite, but the fftme will not go below the pause, for the reason that baa already been given. 8U11 experimenting with that dark spot In the middle of the candle flame, take a good match and thrust the bend of It tato the spot If yon do lt quickly enough the match will not Ignite as It enters the Basie, and when It gets Into the dark spot the brad will melt it thera to no air la

to kasp it la a straight line, ap and down. Too will find oa tbo bottom of the plate a Hag of spat the esatr* being dear, because that part of the lame leaves bo deposit of soot By ■ota* a lame plate aod a aamB ifladta you may make the outUaoa to a grotseqtM face with nags to sast. op# far rash ey*. aafl Nr Base asfl amuth.

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Brooklyn. N. T.—Sunday morning. In Strong Place Baptist Church, the pastor, the Rev. A. H. C. Morse, bad as hi* subject, ‘Towarful Promises." The text was from II Peter IM: "Whereby ar# given unto ns exceeding great and precious promisee; that by these we might be partaker* of th* divine nature. having escaped tbe corruption which ta In tbe world throngh lust."

Mr. Morse said:

At any rate tbe Bible ta frank. It says the plainest things about man’s •In. Bat It atoo bolds before him a wonderful boa*. To-day be ta mired In corruption. To-morrow be may have escaped from thta and become like God. Tbe whole gospel ta found la

the** few words.

We have here a statement of tbe fact of sin sod Ms origin. Tbe feet ta "corruption” end the origin ’•through' htat.” I know that there ara worldly-wise mm who sneer at th* third chapter of Genesis. But this 1 hare noticed, that they are uniformly unable to give os a simpler solution of tbs mystery of evil. Somewhere sod at some time (he race must have sinned. Tbe stream of Ilf# has been poisoned, and this must have taken place at Its fountain head, for w« cannot find any divisions which do not hire the entire .characteristics of the whole. The Bible says tbe event took place In the first man. before a single son was bora, and be lotted after something which was forbidden to him, and that by his disobedience be fell from a primal Innocency. and lurched the race, sad entailed a condition of corruption. And that we have aggravated thta calamity by repeating sin and deepening the ruin. But I am not so much concerned today about the origin of the condition. We can leave that with a single word. But there are certain facta that cannot be brushed aside. A man may question tbe story as It ta written in Scripture. but be cannot deny it, tor It dors not come within tbe region of dental. Neither can he deny tbe story as n ta rapnodoced la life today. Have yon never plncked forbidden fruit? Hare you never lusted tor plesiure which has been distinctly forbidden? And aa a consequence of transgression, have you never experienced a repulsive sicker** and an intolerable loathing, so that you have known what ta the meaning of thta phrase, “tbe corruption which ta In the world through Inst?” Do you not know'anything at all of the lashings of remorse? Let me ask you another question.' How does It happen that the heart ta so constantly "running down?" Why must It be repeatedly wound up and fastened with ratchets? Why do we have to make and renew resolves, and lash the will to the "sticking place?” Why ta It that

Into holiness? Why cannot we take off the brakes and find ourselves gliding into the highest moral living? Everything. we ar* told, tends to move in th* Hne of least resistance. Do we find that we arc drifting toward charity and holiness and benevolence and virtue? Nay. but to all of ns tbsae 8 icss ara th* fruit of serious toU.

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precious than gold and sparkling gems, but they ara gotten only by straggle and privation and srif-dentaL And that word “arir-dentaP contains a fossil history of primal sin. It tells ns of an evil self that must be constantly denied, because Us desires are wrong. But whence this evil self, and whence

But let us come s little closer to thta subject Let me hint at tbe thlngsJhat we cannot spread before the public, oor secret thooghts and faults which era hidden. The thoughts flhat creep Into the heart and nestle there. CM you tell me whence they come? Tell mr. for Instance, whence cqme the envy and jealousy and malice and evil desire, and Uk lust for gold that makes the thief, and tbe thirst for blood which crimsons the hand of murder? Do yon not think these things arise In human Ilfs as malaria and pestilence from a death-dealing bog? Do they not btopeak wbat this Scripture calls a “corruption which is In •be world throngh last?" I suppose that the angels before the throne of Hod would shirk from haring their thongbta proclaimed with the trumpet of Gabriel I know that Jesus bat torn open HI* heart and flung out a challenge which no man can accept “Which of yon convlneeth Me of slur said He. But we cannot do that. We hide our thongbta and cover our faults with a crimson blush, and 'walk among oar t friends with a coward's step. ' rfalien mu?' If God nt—snd nobody ques- * have bap- . _fflhW sud so black that he stands in dread of the day for which all other days 1 —*- —

«Paak, for — eonsdeoce" acd ft# “Dignity of human nature." snd to the/fatherhood of God." and the ‘‘Brotherhood of man" as If these terms war* true sad meaningful. Take the first of these and see what comfort there ta In tt. “Tbe majesty to - - - -

fora ns. And this ta done by s tingle act. Man fell, we are told, by reaching after the divine attributes. ”T# •hall he as God” was tbe lying promise of the tempter, ahd by listening to that we w«ye cast,to tbe level of bcasts Bat now God returns to us with the promise that after all we sbnll be as Himself, sharers in His nature and conformed to Bis Image. It eeems strange to you that for a single sin so serious consequences s bo aid be entailed. This could only be because the stream was poisoned at its source, and the race sinned In its first man. But bere.ta something which U qnlte as great. The Lord God 1s making to Himself a new creation. He has begun It in one new Man. who kept His life without spot or blemish. And In HU life and federal headship we share by a single act of faith. The consequences of faith are quite as great as the consequences of disobedience. “He that believetb on Him bath everlasting life." And that does not mean that hta life Is prolonged In endless time, bnt that It ta endowed with an Immortal nature. It 1* received the Instant he belle res. as by a new birth, and has passed from- death nolo lift. He hath been already delivered from tbe bondage and corruption of tbe kingdom of darkness and has been colonised In tbe kingdom of Hta Son. He ta born of God. a ton of the Most High, a citlaen of heaven. A single sin has stained the rare. We laid hold on death and spite of tears and cries and straggle, we have not been able to loose tbe band. One single act of faith takes hold on eternal life, and In spUe of sins and falls and fallore that prise can never be wrested from our grasp. And thta ta sll by faith. Men have said to me that tbe scheme of salvation ta arbitrary. It ta vain, they aay. to shut the world up to faith. But, my frieud, do you not know that thta entire universe Is arbitrary? There ta nothing more arbitrary than the laws of mathematic*, or of health or of gravitation. It ta not strange that every son of Adam is sbnt np to the mnltipUcation table? Is it not strange that If a man wants to compute numbers in China he must use tbe Identical system that we use? That three and two make five there aa they do here? No, there ta bnt one law for tight or heat or electricity or numbers, or gravitation in all tbe earth. And there ta but one way of salvation for all the earth. Here It ta said "throngh these promises." which only means that a man believes in Christ. A promise ta nothing except for the vslue of the person- who makes It. Borne men may make their promtaes, and no man gives them heed. But If.one promises whose character you know, then yon count on them aa yon coant upon the rhlnlcg of

the sun.

We hear a good deal In these days about education into tbe kingdom of God, about tbe natural development to righteousness. But development ta only unfolding, and that the race baa been doing In all tbe centuries, and each age surpasses the last In the enormity of Bin. Education ta drawing out, but how can you draw holiness from a heart that ta "deceitful above aR things and desperately wicked T' Education can never do the work. 1$ ta like putting a new bandit <m th# pump and leaving the dog In the well. Ton may wonder at the fancy of bringing In a new and supernatural life by belief In precious promises. But all questions are answered by the experiences of history. Great men have been regenerated by single words of Scripture. This was true of Augustine and Luther and Spurgeon aod score* of other* whom time fail* me to mention. - They were not only new men. but mighty sens of God. Wonderful was this? Aa great as the wonder of all forma of life. Look into the acorn and tear Its halve* apart, and tell me If you can ace therein tbe stalwart oak. Analyse the seed ot wheat and tell me if you can see therein the waving fields of grain. “Well." said Jesus, “the words which I speak unto you they are spirit and they are life." You cannot see the spirit you cannot see the life, but can you aay they are not there? I hold np to you these great and precious promtaes, and there are taints and missionaries and noble lives and giant ebaritlea and mighty revoludont there. There are heaven and an eternal weight of glory wrapped up in that. And our growth In grace and tbe likeness of God ta not a process of mending and Improvement. Bnt It ta a new. re*Uon by which we become like God. And dot I havFTlBtabed. I know I have borne down hard on tin. I with I did not have to do so. I wish with you that the word were not In the language because It was not in the heart. If one of those phantom friend* of the astronomers should oome to thta

to mo “I Is a beautiful place, but for one thing. I understand it ta filled with sin and rebel Hoc against the rale to God.” I wish I could aayto? “My friend, you have been" nflBhfOrmed. There is do sin." But I ten you frankly, I could nor aay that to him., I would have to aay to him? "Ala** 'Us true, 'ttaplty. and pity ’tit. 'tie true.” But 1 could also aay to him that sin cannot hold us In ita cruel grasp. I would point him yonder, and aay. “Do you aee that golden splendor? That is,the gospel of Jesus Tt ta filled with sweetness, and by that we.fTO restored and bare,become partaken of the divine natnke." And isn’t that more than the fact to

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In Mesopotamia God said: “I will abow thee the land.” In Canaan; "I will give thee aD the lend, and children henumsrabte aa the grains to aand.” It is thus that God allures us to —Not giving ua, anything till we have dared to set. fbR He may teat us. Not giving everything-at first, that He may overwhelm us, and always barptag In hand an taflalta reserve ot bleating. Oh, th* aaarplaruil remalaflm to God! Who ever asm His teat atar?—Rev. T. B. Merer.

THE TURN OF LIFE A Time When Women Are Susceptible to Many , Dread DUeasee—Intelligent Women Prepare for It. Two Relate their Experience. The "change of life" Is tbe most critical period of s woman’s existence, and the anxiety felt by women as it draws near ta not without reason. Every woman who neglects the care of her health at this time Invites disease snd pain. When hcraystem ta in a deranged condition, or *8% ta predisposed to apoplexy, or congestion of any organ, the tendency ta at this period likely to become sc tire —and with s boat of nervous Irritations, make life a burden. At this time, also, cancer* and tumors are more liable to form and begin their destructive work. Such warning symptoms as sense of suffocation . hot flashes, headache* backaches, dread of impending evil, timidity, sounds In the ears, palpitation to the heart, sparks before the eyes.

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Two sons of Mr. Henry Phipps, the well-known millionaire, who la at present occupying Beaufort Castle, observed a boat on tbe River Beauty on a recent Tuesday evening, and thinking tbe occupant* were poachers, une of them fired hta gun In tbelr direction. The boot wa* rowed lo tbe shore, snd three of tbe men decamped, but tbe other, who proved to be n- “gUlle," was wounded In the face snd seriously Injured. The-Injured mnn was taken to the castle, and medical aid summoned, when It was found necessary lo remove one of his eyes.—London Mali. LI Mr Sma Trass am th. Way. That the Government Is slow sure Is evidenced by the fact that Grandma Jones has Jnst received a letter from Miss Minnie'Royer mailed In n postoffice In Southern Oregon seven years ago. Misa Boyer, who la now a resident of Gresham, remember* writing tbe letter while vtalting friends in the southern part of the State- The envelope Is yellow with age. bnt In good ■’condition. Why It baa been so long on the road cannot be told.—Gresham Record. The locomotive whistle was Invented by George Stephenson, tbe great English engineer. N. Y«—SI.

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tUwhos anoiiusl tor oougtis oil oolds.—Jow* FBorsa, Trinity fipetar*. led., Psb. Ifi. IMP. Worth th. Mommy. A Brown County girl recently sent fifty cent* to a Chicago advertiser for a recipe to whiten and keep tbe hands •oft. She received the following reply: “Soak them tlrfee time* s day In dish-water while your '• — rests.”—Kanasa City Journal LOST 72 POUNDS.

Dr. Mstvta M. Pag*. Pag* Optical Co, Erie, Pa, writes: "Taking too many teed drinks In New York In USB

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Treble Ahead. “I see the Germans are going to mine coal extensively In Wales.” "Indeed! Well, yon wn-k my word*, there la going to be trouble Jnst as soon as one of those seventeen-syllable Ger-. man word* collide* with a bunch of Welsh consonants."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. RAW ITCHING ECZEMA

SpradT Car. by CoUcara. "Thanks to Ccticura 1 szc now rid of that fearful pert, werpmg eorms, for tbe tint time in three years. It Hit: appeared oa my hand, a tittle pimple, growing into several blotches, snd thru oa my exn snd ankles. They were exceedingly paiufol, itchmc, snd always raw. After tbe first days treatment with Ccticttrs Sosp, Ointment and Pills, there wsa very - little of tbe burning snd itching, snd tbe cure now seems to be complete. ttHgned) S. B. Urge, Passenger Agent B. L O. K. K, Washington, D. C." Missionary Cbjeel. <o PewUr Caps. One of our missionaries in a distant field writes that he has strong prejudice against the use of pewter and other base metals at tbe Holy Communion. “1 have always tbongbt that it was a mean thing to send pewter

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